History Characters / TNOBurgundy

* PlaceWorseThanDeath: As mentioned in FateWorseThanDeath, Burgundy is the crown-jewel in ''The New Order's'' status as a CrapsackWorld, a hellishly dystopian spartanist state where the life expectancy is in the 20s and a slice of apple with his bland bowl of oatmeal is a luxury are considered to be luxuries. It genuinely manages to make even [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Oceania]] look like a socialist paradise by contrast with how barbarically cruel it is, [[PragmaticVillainy as Oceania at least inverts all the luxuries to the lower class]] as to better control the middle and upper class in a brutal CultOfPersonality. Here, if you're name isn't Himmler, ''everyone'' suffers in this state. The game gives a clear perspective to how nightmarish such a place would be in actuality given among the first events features a ''[[WouldHurtAChild baby being euthanized]]'' for having "Mongoloid" features; it's damningly telling that while ''The New Order'' in general is AWorldHalfFull and can potentially get better with the right endings (and, mind you, potentially get much worse as well), there ''is'' no saving Burgundy, as the best ending for the nation is it collapsing altogether.

* FatalFlaw: Himmler has many flaws that lead to the fact his efforts are doomed no matter what he does -- [[CantTakeCriticism inability to handle criticism]], {{Pride}}, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood a sheer inability to understand basic human decency]] -- but one flaw unites them all in one supercategory: '''[[PrinciplesZealot his extremism]]'''. Himmler was ''so'' extreme politically that he was effectively ReassignedToAntarctica by the other Nazis, [[EvenEvilHasStandards when even they were creeped out by him]]; his utter dogmatic devotion to the idea of Aryan purity and Nazism causes him to be utterly refusing to compromise in any way, and either destroys Burgundy altogether in a spectacular collapse, or succeeds in thermonuclear war which in turn obliterates Nazism from the public consciousness altogether with it. Quite literally, almost all of Himmler's problems [[CutLexLuthorACheck would be solved if not mitigated outright]] if he was more pragmatic in his approach to villainy; Nazism has a ''far better'' chance of success at winning the Cold War if a moderate reformist Nazi like Speer was in charge than somebody so utterly insane like Himmler.

* HateSink: Far and away the single most vile character in the entire game, [[EvilerThanThou which is really saying something]]. He's an unrepentantly cruel fascist who organized the Holocaust and was considered too extreme even among other ''Nazis,'' and has turned Burgundy into a spartanist hellhole state on top of trying to initiate thermonuclear war worldwide, which will kill millions -- if not billions -- of people should he succeed. To top it all off, he's a DirtyCoward of the highest order and is completely unable to handle criticism. Even other similarly-irredeemable fascists like Heydrich and Taboritsky are given redeeming qualities; Heydrich for his HeelRealization and realizing that literally all he ever worked for was for quite literally nothing, and Taboritsky going insane upon realizing that Alexei was DeadAllAlong. Himmler, meanwhile, has no redeeming qualities to speak of, as his heart is as black as the Burgundian sun he claims is his birthright.

* FatalFlaw: Himmler has many flaws that lead to the fact his efforts are doomed no matter what he does -- [[CantTakeCriticism inability to handle criticism]], {{Pride}}, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood a sheer inability to understand basic human decency]] -- but one flaw unites them all in one supercategory: '''[[PrinciplesZealot his extremism]]'''. Himmler was ''so'' extreme politically that he was effectively ReassignedToAntarctica by the other Nazis, when even they were creeped out by him; his utter dogmatic devotion to the idea of Aryan purity and Nazism causes him to be utterly refusing to compromise in any way, and either destroys Burgundy altogether in a spectacular collapse, or succeeds in thermonuclear war which in turn obliterates Nazism from the public consciousness altogether with it. Quite literally, almost all of Himmler's problems [[CutLexLuthorACheck would be solved if not mitigated outright]] if he was more pragmatic in his approach to villainy; Nazism has a ''far better'' chance of success at winning the Cold War if a moderate reformist Nazi like Speer was in charge than somebody so utterly insane like Himmler.

* FatalFlaw: Himmler has many flaws that lead to the fact his efforts are doomed no matter what he does -- [[CantTakeCriticism inability to handle criticism]], {{Pride}}, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood a sheer inability to understand basic human decency]] -- but one flaw unites them all in one supercategory: '''[[PrinciplesZealot his extremism]]'''. Himmler was ''so'' extreme politically that he was effectively ReassignedToAntartica by the other Nazis, when even they were creeped out by him; his utter dogmatic devotion to the idea of Aryan purity and Nazism causes him to be utterly refusing to compromise in any way, and either destroys Burgundy altogether in a spectacular collapse, or succeeds in thermonuclear war which in turn obliterates Nazism from the public consciousness altogether with it. Quite literally, almost all of Himmler's problems [[CutLexLuthorACheck would be solved if not mitigated outright]] if he was more pragmatic in his approach to villainy; Nazism has a ''far better'' chance of success at winning the Cold War if a moderate reformist Nazi like Speer was in charge than somebody so utterly insane like Himmler.

* AssholeVictim: Even in the routes where he bites it, it's pretty much impossible to feel anything resembling pity towards the man that is complacent in the deaths of millions and has made a real-world PlaceWorseThaDeath for his people to suffer in that makes UsefulNotes/NorthKorea look like a socialist paradise.