History Characters / Sturmtruppen

Old and sadistic non-commissioned officer of the Battalion, whose main purpose is to make the life of the other soldiers (and especially the newbies) unbearable, and is universally hated by the soldiers. He's a long lasting feud with the Military Cook and his dreadful food. However he's also the victim and target of the two veterans of the 27th Battalion. According to a strip, his name is Giuseppe.

* AmbitionIsEvil: Shortly before being apparently promoted to officer, the first sergeant shows he wants to become general eventually.

* LegacyCharacter: There's actually two sergeants, the second being introduced in strip 232 beating up his own mother and explicitely identified as the ''new'' sergeant after the previous one is implied to have been promoted. The only functional difference is that the first sergeant worships the Catch22Dilemma (and forces the soldiers to kneel in prayer at a stone where the catch had been written on) while the second didn't know of it until a soldier tried to get discharged on insanity grounds and the doctor invoked it.

* LegacyCharacter: There's actually two sergeants, the second being introduced in strip 232 beating up his own mother and explicitely identified as the ''new'' sergeant. The previous one, looking exactly the same and just as cruel, is implied to have been promoted.

* TheStarscream: An early strip wants to become General eventually.

* OverlyLongName
** Ironically, his name mentions his hometown of San Giovanni in Persiceto, one of the main ''comunist'' towns in Italy and, during WorldWarII, a centre of the [[LaResistance Italian Resistance]].

* BadAss: Just to give you an idea, they're used to defuse aircraft bombs with bottle-openers.

* BadAss: It was the only person really respected by the men of the 27th Battalion.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: It's implied that he's actually made of hair, and during springtime he buds leaves.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Shown when the old general is recovered in the hospital: as soon as his uniform is removed everyone treats him like a worthless senile geezer and ignore him. However he gains all his prestige and power back as soon as he put the uniform back.

* HumiliationConga: The Old General when he gets recovered and lose his uniform.

* PetTheDog: Eventually the Jew becomes affectionate to the captain, to the point that he even keep him company when he's recovered and help him getting his sanity back. The opposite happens when the prisoner fall ill and is recovered, and the Captain look after him.

* VillainousBreakdown: Literally, as the poor captain eventually has a nervous breakdown and is recovered.

Old and sadistic officer of the Battalion, whose main purpose is to make the life of the other soldiers (and especially the newbies) unbearable, and is universally hated by the soldiers. He's a long lasting feud with the Military Cook and his dreadful food. However he's also the victim and target of the two veterans of the 27th Battalion. According to a strip, his name is Giuseppe.

** When the lunch became alive and went on a rampage, "Glutton" Franz was the one who defeated it, by eating a cauldron worth of lunch that had previously eaten a cross and at least another soldier with all the uniform, had been pissed on ([[ItMakesSenseInContext they had no holy water]]) and was armed with a makeshift flamethrower.

* VillainousBreakdown: Literally, as the poor captain eventually has a nervous breakdown and is recovered.

* TedBaxter: He's not what he claims to be.

* TedBaxter: His greatest success was curing the hiccup of the Colonel.

* TedBaxter: Big time.

A japanese soldier who joined the Battalion. He's costantly arguing with Musolesi. He's based on various japanese stereotypes, like the mania for self-sacrifice and photoes.

Ze main cast from ''{{Sturmtruppen}}''.

* TheMessiah: Parodied wirh "Messiah" Heinz, who does miracles and also appoint Galeazzo Musolesi as his own Pope.

* BabyGotLegs: Tilda, unlike the other two soldiers, has very long, well detailed legs.
* MsFanservice: Tilda, so much that all the soldiers of the battalion faint the istant they see her.

An old and badass officer always seen with some liquor on his person, he makes a brief appearence in a strip and eventually dies some times later. The Drunken Captain can be seen as an AuthotAvatar of Bonvi.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: they help Private Otto with his "romantic relationship". Though they mainly do it to screw over the Sergeant.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRate: All the soldiers in the battalion wants to fry him alive, but they're divided between using boiling oil or kerosene.

* {{Squick}}[=/=]NauseaFuel: At one point, the Sergeant tries to humiliate them by forcing them to clean the latrine pit using their hands. Not only they obey without much disgust but they also talks about that time in the Penal units when a captain forced them to clean his spit with their tongues.

* PickyEater: He's willing to eat the same lunch as the soldiers. Provided that said lunch include a series of snobbish and high-class delicacies.

* LethalChef: From his deadly cauldron came out things like: dried pea soup (there's no water), frozen solid soup (during winter), soup made from motor oil and boiled tires, salad made from tree leaves, dirty laundry water (which was actually well received), corpses, living ferocious spaghetti, a concoction that turns soldiers into hairy monsters and a blob-like abomination that fed on soldiers.

* {{Squick}}[=/=]NauseaFuel: At one point, the Sergeant tries to humiliate them by forcing them to clean the latrine pit using their hands. Not only the obey without much disgust but they also talks about that time in the Penal units when a captain forced them to clean his spit with their tongues.

-->''Captain'': "What do you mean with ''General Retrest''!?"