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* RedemptionRejection: [[spoiler:He could have taken his AlternateDeadCounterpart's place in an alternate universe where the Allied Powers won and lived the rest of his life in peace as a RetiredMonster with his son Thomas and his brother Don back in his life without the burden of fascist oppression stuck by his side and causing pain to his family, yet John chooses to go back to his universe to proceed with the Nazi cause in season 4.]]

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* RedemptionRejection: [[spoiler:He could have taken his AlternateDeadCounterpart's place in an alternate universe where the Allied Powers won and lived the rest of his life in peace as a RetiredMonster with his son Thomas and his brother best friend Don back in his life without the burden of fascist oppression stuck by his side and causing pain to his family, yet John chooses to go back to his universe to proceed with the Nazi cause in season 4.]]



* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Turning his brother Don over to the Axis Powers was regrettably his very first act of villainy, as revealed in season 4.]]

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* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Turning his brother best friend Don over to the Axis Powers was regrettably his very first act of villainy, as revealed in season 4.]]
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* FourStarBadass: Obergruppenführer is the SS equivalent of general rank, and he certainly handles himself well in fights against New York assassins and [[spoiler:Heydrich]].

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* FourStarBadass: Obergruppenführer is the SS equivalent of three-star general rank, and he certainly handles himself well in fights against New York assassins and [[spoiler:Heydrich]].
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* EvilMeScaresMe: Inverted. [[spoiler:Upon seeing the other world where the Allies won the war, and learning that this world's version of himself was never a fascist and lived a happy and prosperous life, and never lost his brother and his son, and the rift that drove his surviving family apart therefore never formed in the first place, Smith's faith is completely broken, and he falls into a VillainousBSOD before it eventually culimates in his DrivenToSuicide.]]



* NotSoStoic: Typically TheStoic, but it's possible to get a major rise out of him. Losing [[spoiler:his son]] clearly takes a toll on his mental state, as does the HumiliationConga he faces throughout the final episodes of Season 3, wherein [[spoiler:Fuhrer Himmler gets shot, he realizes the futility of Die Nebenwelt, he ends up losing his family due to his adherence to Nazism, and ends up losing Juliana to another dimension when he had her right in his grasp]].

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* NotSoStoic: Typically TheStoic, but it's possible to get a major rise out of him. Losing [[spoiler:his son]] clearly takes a toll on his mental state, as does the HumiliationConga he faces throughout the final episodes of Season 3, wherein [[spoiler:Fuhrer [[spoiler:Führer Himmler gets shot, he realizes the futility of Die Nebenwelt, he ends up losing his family due to his adherence to Nazism, and ends up losing Juliana to another dimension when he had her right in his grasp]].
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* HopeBringer: By Season 3, Frank's become a propagandist--painting symbols reflective of the oppressive state imposed by the Japanese and the Nazis and encouraging thoughts of an uprising. [[spoiler:One of his paintings ends up becoming the symbol of an up-and-coming rebellion by the end of the season.]]

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* HopeBringer: By Season 3, Frank's become a propagandist--painting propagandist -- painting symbols reflective of the oppressive state imposed by the Japanese and the Nazis and encouraging thoughts of an uprising. [[spoiler:One of his paintings ends up becoming the symbol of an up-and-coming rebellion by the end of the season.]]



* WorthyOpponent: Chief Inspector Kido eventually comes to regard Frank as such, [[spoiler:giving Frank what Kido considers an honorable death by driving him out into the desert, donning his military dress uniform, and beheading Frank while he kneels down.]]

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* WorthyOpponent: Chief Inspector Kido eventually comes to regard Frank as such, [[spoiler:giving Frank what Kido considers an honorable death by driving him out into the desert, donning his military dress uniform, and beheading Frank while he kneels down.]]down]].



* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: The downfall and subsequent execution of his father, with Joe obligated to literally deliver the shot himself, and his imprisonment and torture break him of any hope or belief that anything other then the Nazi regime would win and succeed, and begins to follow it as a cold, sociopathic and hardened killer without reluctance or questioning.]]

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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The downfall and subsequent execution of his father, with Joe obligated to literally deliver the shot himself, and his imprisonment and torture break him of any hope or belief that anything other then than the Nazi regime would win and succeed, and he begins to follow it as a cold, sociopathic sociopathic, and hardened killer without reluctance or questioning.]]



* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Joe keeps swinging between vaguely supporting the Nazis and working against them, [[spoiler:and it takes him being indoctrinated with months of torture into choosing the Nazis.]]
* KarmicJackpot: He saves Juliana multiple times which leads her to save him in turn including [[spoiler:giving him another chance when his identity as a Nazi spy is revealed and helping him escape when the Resistance wants to kill him.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:He was conceived as part of a Nazi breeding program to birth pure Aryans yet he respects and gets along with other races and hates the things the Nazis have done]].

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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Joe keeps swinging between vaguely supporting the Nazis and working against them, [[spoiler:and it takes him being indoctrinated with months of torture into choosing the Nazis.]]
Nazis]].
* KarmicJackpot: He saves Juliana multiple times times, which leads her to save him in turn including [[spoiler:giving him another chance when his identity as a Nazi spy is revealed and helping him escape when the Resistance wants to kill him.]]
him]].
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:He was conceived as part of a Nazi breeding program to birth pure Aryans Aryans, yet he respects and gets along with other races and hates the things the Nazis have done]].done.]]



* PureIsNotGood: He was part of the Lebensborn program, a breeding program that puts emphasis on racial purity. While this is subverted in the first two seasons since Joe is a reasonable protagonist, [[spoiler:this is played more straight after his FaceHeelTurn and brainwashing in season 3.]]
* RedemptionFailure: Julianna helping him flee into hiding at the climax of Season 1 would have opened the door for him to start over and redeem himself, but by the next couple of seasons he finds himself TrappedInVillainy [[spoiler:before getting tortured, then pull a FaceHeelTurn into a complete Nazi bastard villain before getting killed in self-defense by Julianna, who realized that what she suffered at the hands of the HeroAntagonist resistance in Season 2 for trying to help Joe escape was to be AllForNothing upon learning Joe's betrayal.]]

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* PureIsNotGood: He was part of the Lebensborn program, a breeding program that puts emphasis on racial purity. While this is subverted in the first two seasons since Joe is a reasonable protagonist, [[spoiler:this is played more straight after his brainwashing and FaceHeelTurn and brainwashing in season 3.]]
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* RedemptionFailure: Julianna helping him flee into hiding at the climax of Season 1 would have opened the door for him to start over and redeem himself, but by the next couple of seasons seasons, he finds himself TrappedInVillainy [[spoiler:before getting tortured, then pull pulling a FaceHeelTurn into a complete Nazi bastard villain before getting killed in self-defense by Julianna, who realized that what she suffered at the hands of the HeroAntagonist resistance in Season 2 for trying to help Joe escape was to be AllForNothing upon learning Joe's betrayal.]]betrayal]].



* StarCrossedLovers: With Juliana. Both she and he admit to harboring feelings for one another, despite being on opposing sides. [[spoiler:By the time Joe goes BrainwashedAndCrazy thanks to Himmler]], she and he end up [[spoiler:exploiting each other for information to use for their respective factions]], but it's clear there's genuine mutual affection in their interactions. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Joe's brainwashing is so ingrained within him, and Juliana's desire for freedom so strong, that LoveCannotOvercome and Juliana is forced to kill Joe when push comes to shove]].

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* StarCrossedLovers: With Juliana. Both she and he admit to harboring feelings for one another, despite being on opposing sides. [[spoiler:By the time Joe goes BrainwashedAndCrazy thanks to Himmler]], she and he end up [[spoiler:exploiting each other for information to use for their respective factions]], but it's clear there's genuine mutual affection in their interactions. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Joe's brainwashing is so ingrained within him, and Juliana's desire for freedom so strong, that LoveCannotOvercome and Juliana is forced to kill Joe when push comes to shove]].shove.]]



* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: The only reason John Smith took Joe under his arm years ago was so that Smith could potentially use him to influence Reichsminister Heusmann. It pays off.]]

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* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The only reason John Smith took Joe under his arm years ago was so that Smith could potentially use him to influence Reichsminister Heusmann. It pays off.]]



* TheBeautifulElite: Like Joe, Nicole is very pretty [[spoiler:and a product of the Lebensborn.]]

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* TheBeautifulElite: Like Joe, Nicole is very pretty [[spoiler:and a product of the Lebensborn.]]Lebensborn]].



* HoneyTrap: Joe deduces that his meeting Nicole was no chance encounter. She confirms his suspicions when she tells him that his father, a high ranking Nazi, set her on Joe to give him another reason to stay in Berlin. [[spoiler: This ends up working a little too well, as they actually start liking each other, and by the end of the second season it's implied that they've begun a relationship.]]

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* HoneyTrap: Joe deduces that his meeting Nicole was no chance encounter. She confirms his suspicions when she tells him that his father, a high ranking Nazi, set her on Joe to give him another reason to stay in Berlin. [[spoiler: This [[spoiler:This ends up working a little too well, as they actually start liking each other, and by the end of the second season it's implied that they've begun a relationship.]]



* LaserGuidedKarma: She fully supports Himmler's "Jahr Null" project, which aims to erase United States history and American identity to fully indoctrinate American youth into Nazi ideology. Then she's [[spoiler:arrested by the very regime she's serving and sent by Himmler to "re-education".]]

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* LaserGuidedKarma: She fully supports Himmler's "Jahr Null" project, which aims to erase United States history and American identity to fully indoctrinate American youth into Nazi ideology. Then she's [[spoiler:arrested by the very regime she's serving and sent by Himmler to "re-education".]]"re-education"]].



* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: After the [[spoiler:death of Equiano Hampton]], when the BCR cell leaders begin fighting among themselves over leadership issues and each threatens to go their own ways, Bell devises the plan to launch simultaneous bombings all over the West Coast to cripple the oil supply of the Japanese Empire [[spoiler: and which also lead the Emperor to order the withdrawal of all Japanese nationals from the JPS.]]

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* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: After the [[spoiler:death of Equiano Hampton]], when the BCR cell leaders begin fighting among themselves over leadership issues and each threatens to go their own ways, Bell devises the plan to launch simultaneous bombings all over the West Coast to cripple the oil supply of the Japanese Empire [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and which also lead leads the Emperor to order the withdrawal of all Japanese nationals from the JPS.]]JPS]].
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* WeaponOfChoice: Uses a Walther P38 as his sidearm.



* WeaponOfChoice: Uses a Nambu Type 14, since the Kempeitai's a part of the Ministry of War when it operates in the JPS.



* WeaponOfChoice: Uses a Colt [=M1911A1=] given to him by Don.
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** Juliana uses her Aikido moves to [[spoiler: throw an undercover SS intelligence agent over a bridge when he tries to kill her and steal the film]].

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** Juliana uses her Aikido moves to [[spoiler: throw [[spoiler:throw an undercover SS intelligence agent over a bridge when he tries to kill her and steal the film]].



* DotingParent: In the [[spoiler: alternate universe, she is shown to be a loving mother, which moves Tagomi into accepting her into his family]].
* DrivenToSuicide: She is shown [[spoiler: intentionally stepping in front of a bus]] in a flashback. When asked about [[spoiler: her hip fracture, she explains it away as an "accident."]]

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* DotingParent: In the [[spoiler: alternate [[spoiler:alternate universe, she is shown to be a loving mother, which moves Tagomi into accepting her into his family]].
* DrivenToSuicide: She is shown [[spoiler: intentionally [[spoiler:intentionally stepping in front of a bus]] in a flashback. When asked about [[spoiler: her hip fracture, she explains it away as an "accident."]]"accident"]].



* TheFettered: Juliana is big on morality and steadfastly refuses to sink to morality level of the Nazis or the Imperial Japanese, even if it risks her life.
* ForWantOfANail: In an alternate history encountered in Season 2, [[spoiler:Tagomi discovers that Juliana became his daughter-in-law.]]
* GoingNative: While her parents hate the Japanese due to the US losing the war, Juliana admires their culture and even practices Aikido. This is actually illustrated when we see [[spoiler: her alternate reality counterpart, who acts and looks much more "American" than Juliana, but still follows Japanese culture and language, and married into a Japanese-American family]].

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* TheFettered: Juliana is big on morality and steadfastly refuses to sink to the morality level of the Nazis or the Imperial Japanese, even if it risks her life.
* ForWantOfANail: In an alternate history encountered in Season 2, [[spoiler:Tagomi discovers that Juliana became his daughter-in-law.]]
daughter-in-law]].
* GoingNative: While her parents hate the Japanese due to the US losing the war, Juliana admires their culture and even practices Aikido. This is actually illustrated when we see [[spoiler: her [[spoiler:her alternate reality counterpart, who acts and looks much more "American" than Juliana, but still follows Japanese culture and language, and married into a Japanese-American family]].



* HonorBeforeReason: She refuses to abandon her comrades like Joe despite it would be more pragmatic to just leave them.

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* HonorBeforeReason: She refuses to abandon her comrades like Joe despite Joe, even when it would be more pragmatic to just leave them.



* ImportantHaircut: In season 2 she cuts her hair after [[spoiler:she defects to the GNR.]]

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* ImportantHaircut: In season 2 2, she cuts her hair after [[spoiler:she defects to the GNR.]]GNR]].



* MandatoryMotherhood: Obergruppenfuhrer Smith mentions to her that one of the requirements for a female to enter the GNR is to produce children. He expresses some concern when he [[spoiler: discovers her hip fracture from her suicide attempt]], but quickly writes it off because he prioritizes her presence under his control over her ability to give birth. It is interesting since she [[spoiler: is shown to have a child in the Alternate Universe where the Allies won the war]].

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* MandatoryMotherhood: Obergruppenfuhrer Smith mentions to her that one of the requirements for a female to enter the GNR is to produce children. He expresses some concern when he [[spoiler: discovers her hip fracture from her suicide attempt]], but quickly writes it off because he prioritizes her presence under his control over her ability to give birth. It is interesting since she [[spoiler: is [[spoiler:is shown to have a child in the Alternate Universe where the Allies won the war]].



* ThrowTheDogABone: At season 2's conclusion, with Juliana breaking down into a HeroicBSOD, [[spoiler:the Man in the High Castle approaches and presents Trudy, alive.]]

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* ThrowTheDogABone: At season 2's conclusion, with Juliana breaking down into a HeroicBSOD, [[spoiler:the Man in the High Castle approaches and presents Trudy, alive.]] alive]].



* WideEyedIdealist: Juliana is kind and tries to see the good in everyone, which makes her very unique in such a ruthless world. [[spoiler: The Man in the High Castle even observes this as her main advantage over everyone else.]]
* WildCard: She works with all three factions in the world at different points (the Japanese, the Resistence, and the Nazis). Curiously, this is not because she's some kind of machiavellian player, but simply because of circumstance and her WideEyedIdealist tendencies making so that she is willing to see the good in all the factions.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Juliana, through George Dixon, continues to help the Resistance after [[spoiler:helping Joe Blake escape and being blamed for Karen's death, however, once her job is done, she will still receive the death penalty nonetheless by the Resistance, who viewed her as permanently irredeemable. At the end of the second season, Juliana managed to escape the attempt on her life after accomplishing her mission]].

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* WideEyedIdealist: Juliana is kind and tries to see the good in everyone, which makes her very unique in such a ruthless world. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The Man in the High Castle even observes this as her main advantage over everyone else.]]
* WildCard: She works with all three factions in the world at different points (the Japanese, the Resistence, Resistance, and the Nazis). Curiously, this is not because she's some kind of machiavellian player, but simply because of circumstance and her WideEyedIdealist tendencies making so that she is willing to see the good in all the factions.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Juliana, through George Dixon, continues to help the Resistance after [[spoiler:helping Joe Blake escape and being blamed for Karen's death, death; however, once her job is done, she will still receive the death penalty nonetheless by the Resistance, who viewed her as permanently irredeemable. At the end of the second season, Juliana managed to escape the attempt on her life after accomplishing her mission]].



* BigBad: [[spoiler:After Himmler's death, it's clear in the final season Smith is this of the show this whole time.]]

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* BigBad: [[spoiler:After Himmler's death, it's clear in the final season that Smith is this of the show this whole time.]]



* CainAndAbel: He is the Cain to his (figurative) brother Don's Abel in season 4, [[spoiler:especially how John had Don hauled off to imprisonment.]]
* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:For regretting his servitude to the Nazi cause that even hurt his family throughout the entire show, Smith after having a VillainousBSOD HeelRealization DespairEventHorizon kills himself at the cliffside as means to atone for everything he's done.]]

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* CainAndAbel: He is the Cain to his (figurative) brother Don's Abel in season 4, [[spoiler:especially how John had Don hauled off to imprisonment.]]
imprisonment]].
* DeathEqualsRedemption: [[spoiler:For regretting his servitude to the Nazi cause that even hurt his family throughout the entire show, Smith after having a VillainousBSOD HeelRealization DespairEventHorizon kills himself at the cliffside as a means to atone for everything he's done.]]



* {{Deuteragonist}}: It's made increasingly and abundantly clear that [[VillainProtagonist he]] is intended to be this of the show this whole time coupled with being TheHeavy, [[spoiler:especially after the deaths of Joe Blake and [[DecoyProtagonist Frank Fink]], the original holder of this trope, at the hands of of his personal ArchEnemy Kido in season 3]]. [[spoiler:After his death the titular Man in the High Castle take over this role in what remains of the overall show's screen time and run time.]]
* TheDragon: In season 3 he becomes the trusted right-hand man of the new Führer, Heinrich Himmler, who is grooming Smith as his successor.

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* {{Deuteragonist}}: It's made increasingly and abundantly clear that [[VillainProtagonist he]] is intended to be this of the show this whole time coupled with being TheHeavy, [[spoiler:especially after the deaths of Joe Blake and [[DecoyProtagonist Frank Fink]], Frink]], the original holder of this trope, at the hands of of his personal ArchEnemy Kido in season 3]]. [[spoiler:After his death death, the titular Man in the High Castle take over this role in what remains of the overall show's screen time and run time.]]
* TheDragon: In season 3 3, he becomes the trusted right-hand man of the new Führer, Heinrich Himmler, who is grooming Smith as his successor.



** [[spoiler: Losing his son triggers a major VillainousBSOD for him, and remains a central feature of his personal motivation for the rest of the series.]]

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** [[spoiler: Losing [[spoiler:Losing his son triggers a major VillainousBSOD for him, and remains a central feature of his personal motivation for the rest of the series.]]



** He is stunned into stony silence [[spoiler:when he sees the remains of the three "volunteers" who did not make it through the portal, and realizes the plan to keep trying until the process is perfected.]]
** When he was told that Caroline died by killing herself, Smith said sorry to Abendsen and said that the plan is not to keep her locked up forever.

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** He is stunned into stony silence [[spoiler:when he sees the remains of the three "volunteers" who did not make it through the portal, and realizes the plan to keep trying until the process is perfected.]]
perfected]].
** When he was told that Caroline died by killing herself, Smith said sorry to Abendsen and said that the plan is was not to keep her locked up forever.



* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: He is ready to die proudly standing by Hitler, as Heydrich does his coup. A counter-coup on Hitler's part (and a well-placed sniper) save him from such end, however.]]

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* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: He [[spoiler:He is ready to die proudly standing by Hitler, as Heydrich does his coup. A counter-coup on Hitler's part (and a well-placed sniper) save him from such an end, however.]]



* FourStarBadass: Obergruppenführer is the SS equivalent of general rank, and he certainly handles himself well in fights against New York assassins and [[spoiler: Heydrich.]]

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* FourStarBadass: Obergruppenführer is the SS equivalent of general rank, and he certainly handles himself well in fights against New York assassins and [[spoiler: Heydrich.]][[spoiler:Heydrich]].



* HumiliationConga: Suffers a major, multi-layered one in season 3. [[spoiler:His wife and children leave him due to his strict adherence to the Nazi ideology ruining any chance at healthy communication between the two--any successes he obtains as Reichsmarshall become instantly more hollow as a result. Later on, the Nazis manage to create a device for interdimensional conquest, but Juliana brings up to Smith the wee fact that the Nazis clearly [[DidntThinkThisThrough aren't anticipating the apparent dangers of going to war against other dimensions]] (especially those that have [[HereWeGoAgain toppled the Nazis already]]), and are unable to choose which dimensions to invade anyway due to the limitations of the device]]. Smith remains afloat despite all these revelations, [[spoiler:then Führer Himmler gets shot on his watch, and the Man in the High Castle reveals that no one can travel to another dimension without their AlternateDimensionCounterpart being dead first, meaning that any attempt at an interdimensional invasion will likely result in mass Nazi deaths]]. And ''then'' [[spoiler:Juliana wills herself to travel to another dimension right in front of Smith's eyes, ''right'' as he shoots her in the chest, causing the once stoic Reichsmarshall to [[NotSoStoic fall slack-jawed]]]].

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* HumiliationConga: Suffers a major, multi-layered one in season 3. [[spoiler:His wife and children leave him due to his strict adherence to the Nazi ideology ruining any chance at healthy communication between the two--any two -- any successes he obtains as Reichsmarshall become instantly more hollow as a result. Later on, the Nazis manage to create a device for interdimensional conquest, but Juliana brings up to Smith the wee fact that the Nazis clearly [[DidntThinkThisThrough aren't anticipating the apparent dangers of going to war against other dimensions]] (especially those that have [[HereWeGoAgain toppled the Nazis already]]), and are unable to choose which dimensions to invade anyway due to the limitations of the device]]. Smith remains afloat despite all these revelations, [[spoiler:then Führer Himmler gets shot on his watch, and the Man in the High Castle reveals that no one can travel to another dimension without their AlternateDimensionCounterpart being dead first, meaning that any attempt at an interdimensional invasion will likely result in mass Nazi deaths]]. And ''then'' [[spoiler:Juliana wills herself to travel to another dimension right in front of Smith's eyes, ''right'' as he shoots her in the chest, causing the once stoic Reichsmarshall to [[NotSoStoic fall slack-jawed]]]].



** His hatred of betrayal and claims of loyalty and integrity ring hollow considering he’s a former US Army officer who betrayed his country and broke his Oath by joining the invading Nazis.
** Despite expecting and demanding honesty and loyalty from others, he frequently lies, manipulates and betrays people. This behaviour even includes his own colleagues and agents.

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** His hatred of betrayal and claims of loyalty and integrity ring hollow considering he’s a former US Army officer who betrayed his country and broke his Oath oath by joining the invading Nazis.
** Despite expecting and demanding honesty and loyalty from others, he frequently lies, manipulates manipulates, and betrays people. This behaviour even includes his own colleagues and agents.



* ALighterShadeOfBlack: He is very much a Nazi, but unlike [[spoiler: Heusmann and his co-conspirators]], Smith is opposed to war with Japan and the massive loss of life that would entail, and as an American he is far more sympathetic to the plights and needs of the Reich's territories than the top brass in Berlin.

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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: He is very much a Nazi, but unlike [[spoiler: Heusmann [[spoiler:Heusmann and his co-conspirators]], Smith is opposed to war with Japan and the massive loss of life that would entail, and as an American American, he is far more sympathetic to the plights and needs of the Reich's territories than the top brass in Berlin.



* NotSoStoic: Typically TheStoic, but it's possible to get a major rise out of him. Losing [[spoiler:his son]] clearly takes a toll on his mental state, as does the HumiliationConga he faces throughout the final episodes of Season 3, wherein [[spoiler:Fuhrer Himmler gets shot, he realizes the futility of Die Nebenwelt, he ends up losing his family due to his adherence to Nazism, and ends up losing Juliana to another dimension when he had her right in his grasp.]]

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* NotSoStoic: Typically TheStoic, but it's possible to get a major rise out of him. Losing [[spoiler:his son]] clearly takes a toll on his mental state, as does the HumiliationConga he faces throughout the final episodes of Season 3, wherein [[spoiler:Fuhrer Himmler gets shot, he realizes the futility of Die Nebenwelt, he ends up losing his family due to his adherence to Nazism, and ends up losing Juliana to another dimension when he had her right in his grasp.]]grasp]].



* RedemptionRejection: [[spoiler:He could have taken his AlternateDeadCounterpart's place in an alternate universe where the Allied Powers won and lived the rest of his life in peace as a RetiredMonster with his son Thomas and his brother Don back in his life without the burden of fascist oppression stuck by his side and causing pain to his family, yet John chooses to go back to his universe to proceed with the Nazi cause in season 4. ]]
* SanitySlippage: Really starts showing signs of this in [[spoiler:Season 4. He spends increasingly more time with Abendsen to better understand the Multiverse, and Abendsen openly notes that Smith seems to be losing it. Smith's descent into madness stems from his son's death, the Reich glorifying it, and Smith being forced to serve a regime that upholds the values that killed his son. And the fact that he knows full well that his alternate universe counterpart was a better man than him in every way can't be helping matters.]]

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* RedemptionRejection: [[spoiler:He could have taken his AlternateDeadCounterpart's place in an alternate universe where the Allied Powers won and lived the rest of his life in peace as a RetiredMonster with his son Thomas and his brother Don back in his life without the burden of fascist oppression stuck by his side and causing pain to his family, yet John chooses to go back to his universe to proceed with the Nazi cause in season 4. ]]
* SanitySlippage: Really starts showing signs of this in [[spoiler:Season 4. He spends increasingly more time with Abendsen to better understand the Multiverse, and Abendsen openly notes that Smith seems to be losing it. Smith's descent into madness stems from his son's death, the Reich glorifying it, and Smith being forced to serve a regime that upholds the values that killed his son. And the fact that he knows full well that his alternate universe counterpart was a better man than him in every way can't be helping matters.]]matters]].



* StandardFiftiesFather: With a twist. A devoted father and loving husband with a strong work ethic, who just happens to be a high-ranking officer of the SS. May be even a TakeThat towards the trope as his values are what make him so efficient as an SS officer. It also serves as a deconstruction of naziism, as Smith doesn’t indulge in any of the personal depravity that was common among most of the nazi leadership, and his family life is exactly what the nazis claimed as their ideal. Yet despite going all-in for Hitler, the nazi regime still takes away everything he loves.

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* StandardFiftiesFather: With a twist. A devoted father and loving husband with a strong work ethic, who just happens to be a high-ranking officer of the SS. May be even a TakeThat towards the trope as his values are what make him so efficient as an SS officer. It also serves as a deconstruction of naziism, Nazism, as Smith doesn’t indulge in any of the personal depravity that was common among most of the nazi Nazi leadership, and his family life is exactly what the nazis Nazis claimed as their ideal. Yet despite going all-in for Hitler, the nazi Nazi regime still takes away everything he loves.



* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Turning his brother Don over to the Axis Powers was regrettably his very first act of villainy as revealed in season 4.]]

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* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Turning his brother Don over to the Axis Powers was regrettably his very first act of villainy villainy, as revealed in season 4.]]



--> '''Smith''': (After being told that the fighter is permanently unconscious) Your orders were to flog this man until he answered your questions... Do as you're told.

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--> '''Smith''': '''Smith:''' (After being told that the fighter is permanently unconscious) Your orders were to flog this man until he answered your questions... Do as you're told.



* TragicVillain: Smith joined the Nazis when he witnessed the Allied defeat in World War II, becoming a ruthless and feared enforcer for the new regime to provide a future for his family. However, his efforts to make a name for himself only end up drawing him closer into the Nazi center of power and inadvertently making him an even bigger target for any would-be rivals. Then after all his efforts to prevent his son Thomas from being euthanized for his genetic illness, [[spoiler:Thomas turns himself in and the prospect of a similar thing happening to their daughters permanently alienates Helen from him. Even after Smith has acquired total power, he's been a Nazi for too long to suddenly stop and dies as a consequence of his own choices.]]

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* TragicVillain: Smith joined the Nazis when he witnessed the Allied defeat in World War II, becoming a ruthless and feared enforcer for the new regime to provide a future for his family. However, his efforts to make a name for himself only end up drawing him closer into the Nazi center of power and inadvertently making him an even bigger target for any would-be rivals. Then after all his efforts to prevent his son Thomas from being euthanized for his genetic illness, [[spoiler:Thomas turns himself in and the prospect of a similar thing happening to their daughters permanently alienates Helen from him. Even after Smith has acquired total power, he's been a Nazi for too long to suddenly stop and dies as a consequence of his own choices.]]choices]].



* WeUsedToBeFriends: Smith has this with [[spoiler: Rudolph, whom he considers a traitor.]]

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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Smith has this with [[spoiler: Rudolph, [[spoiler:Rudolph, whom he considers a traitor.]] traitor]].



* TheAtoner: Slowly grows to realize that she has bought her life of wealth and privilege by agreeing to overlook the murder and torture of innocents, and decides to make up for it by [[spoiler: helping the Resistance assassinate John.]]
* FallenHero: "Hero" maybe a stretch, but during the Second World War, while her husband John was an officer in the U.S. military, she was just another InnocentBystander loyal to the U.S. Government, however, by the time of the series, she is in league with the Nazi system like her husband and the rest of her family.
* HappilyMarried: She enjoys a happy marriage with John. [[spoiler:It gets tested in season 3, and seemingly falls apart by the finale. In season 4 she returns to him, but while she still loves him, she is horrified by what he's done and agrees to help the Resistance kill him.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: In the series finale, she tells the Resistance when her husband's train will be going to the portal, and then tries to beg off the trip herself by saying she's sick. However, John becomes extremely concerned, and she realizes that he might cancel the trip if he thinks she's really ill, so she backpedals and gets on the train anyway to make sure ''he'' does, even though she knows she'll probably die when the Resistance blows up the tracks. She does.]]

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* TheAtoner: Slowly grows to realize that she has bought her life of wealth and privilege by agreeing to overlook the murder and torture of innocents, and decides to make up for it by [[spoiler: helping [[spoiler:helping the Resistance assassinate John.]]
John]].
* FallenHero: "Hero" maybe may be a stretch, but during the Second World War, while her husband John was an officer in the U.S. military, she was just another InnocentBystander loyal to the U.S. Government, Government; however, by the time of the series, she is in league with the Nazi system like her husband and the rest of her family.
* HappilyMarried: She enjoys a happy marriage with John. [[spoiler:It gets tested in season 3, and seemingly falls apart by the finale. In season 4 4, she returns to him, but while she still loves him, she is horrified by what he's done and agrees to help the Resistance kill him.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: In [[spoiler:In the series finale, she tells the Resistance when her husband's train will be going to the portal, and then tries to beg off the trip herself by saying she's sick. However, John becomes extremely concerned, and she realizes that he might cancel the trip if he thinks she's really ill, so she backpedals and gets on the train anyway to make sure ''he'' does, even though she knows she'll probably die when the Resistance blows up the tracks. She does.]]



* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Her estrangement with her husband's attitude with protecting their family, coupled with her increasing mental trauma from losing Thomas drives her to take the rest of her children and run away by the end of season 3.]]
* StepfordSmiler: Resorts to it to keep [[spoiler:Gerry's murder, Thomas's condition and John's plan to save Thomas by making him disappear]] secret.

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Her estrangement with her husband's attitude with protecting their family, coupled with her increasing mental trauma from losing Thomas Thomas, drives her to take the rest of her children and run away by the end of season 3.]]
* StepfordSmiler: Resorts to it to keep [[spoiler:Gerry's murder, Thomas's condition condition, and John's plan to save Thomas by making him disappear]] secret.



** He [[spoiler: later personally (and successfully) goes undercover to locate and apprehend Frank]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's very polite and friendly towards Frank's sister and her children just before he has them [[spoiler: locked in a room and gassed to death]].

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** He [[spoiler: later [[spoiler:later personally (and successfully) goes undercover to locate and apprehend Frank]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's very polite and friendly towards Frank's sister and her children just before he has them [[spoiler: locked [[spoiler:locked in a room and gassed to death]].



* CruelMercy: He spares Frank from facing a firing squad, but after gassing his sister Laura and her two small children to death, he forces Frank to live with this fact along getting vindictively {{Misblamed}} in-universe by his widower brother-in-law Ben for their deaths and being hated by [[JerkassWoobie Ben]] because of that as well. Frank proceeds to become a massive thorn in Kido's side afterwards, plotting to kill the Japanese Crown Prince, bombing the Kempeitai headquarters with Kido inside, and spreading resistance artwork. [[spoiler:When Kido finally recaptures Frank, he admits that he erred once before and executes Frank for real. [[LaserGuidedKarma Ironically, he himself in the final season had ended up at the receiving end of this when as while he is not killed, he's forced to become a member of the yakuza that he refuses their bribe early in the show in order to save his son Toru]].]]

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* CruelMercy: He spares Frank from facing a firing squad, but after gassing his sister Laura and her two small children to death, he forces Frank to live with this fact along with getting vindictively {{Misblamed}} in-universe by his widower brother-in-law Ben for their deaths and being hated by [[JerkassWoobie Ben]] because of that as well. Frank proceeds to become a massive thorn in Kido's side afterwards, plotting to kill the Japanese Crown Prince, bombing the Kempeitai headquarters with Kido inside, and spreading resistance artwork. [[spoiler:When Kido finally recaptures Frank, he admits that he erred once before and executes Frank for real. [[LaserGuidedKarma Ironically, he himself in the final season had ended ends up at the receiving end of this when this]], as while he is not killed, he's forced to become a member of the yakuza that Yakuza (which he refuses their bribe early in the show despises) in order to save his son Toru]].Toru.]]



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Kido loves and misses his wife and kids, who still live in Japan at his insistence. In the final season, his son Toru, now an IJA enlisted soldier, is stationed in San Francisco and lives with him. Kido tries to help Toru with his combat PTSD, but is barely able to connect with him after his prolonged absence. [[spoiler:Then when Toru is kidnapped by the yakuza, Kido goes PapaWolf to rescue him.]]

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Kido loves and misses his wife and kids, who still live in Japan at his insistence. In the final season, his son Toru, now an IJA enlisted soldier, is stationed in San Francisco and lives with him. Kido tries to help Toru with his combat PTSD, but is barely able to connect with him after his prolonged absence. [[spoiler:Then when Toru is kidnapped by the yakuza, Yakuza, Kido goes PapaWolf to rescue him.]]



* HiddenDepths: First seen in the Season Two premier, when Frank begs Kido to arrest him and let Ed go. Though he composes himself after a few seconds, for a moment Kido has a look on his face revealing that he feels downright shitty over everything that he's done to an innocent man, and that he knows that whatever Frank has done since then is the direct result of Kido and the ''Kempeitei'' pushing him over the edge. An escort later raises an interesting theory about Kido: That his icy cold demeanor and detachment is not a result of sociopathy, but a way to detach himself from his work because he actually despises it and does not wish to confront it. Kido himself seems taken aback by this observation. Indeed, later on we see he can be actually friendly with people in some situations, so he's not ''all'' ruthlessness.

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* HiddenDepths: First seen in the Season Two premier, premiere, when Frank begs Kido to arrest him and let Ed go. Though he composes himself after a few seconds, for a moment Kido has a look on his face revealing that he feels downright shitty over everything that he's done to an innocent man, and that he knows that whatever Frank has done since then is the direct result of Kido and the ''Kempeitei'' Kempeitei pushing him over the edge. An escort later raises an interesting theory about Kido: That his icy cold demeanor and detachment is not a result of sociopathy, but a way to detach himself from his work because he actually despises it and does not wish to confront it. Kido himself seems taken aback by this observation. Indeed, later on we see he can be actually friendly with people in some situations, so he's not ''all'' ruthlessness.



* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Appears to hold the authority to detain, judge and execute anyone who threatens the government, at least in milder cases. Justified that the Kempeitai did this in occupied territories in the Asia-Pacific region in real life.

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* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Appears to hold the authority to detain, judge judge, and execute anyone who threatens the government, at least in milder cases. Justified in that the Kempeitai did this in occupied territories in the Asia-Pacific region in real life.



** This [[spoiler: becomes an important plot point in Season 4. Kido's loyalties to the Army and belief in the JPS make General Yamori think that Kido, even if he uncovers the Army's role in assassinating Tagomi, will cover it up. However, Kido gave a vow to the Crown Princess that he would bring Tagomi's killers to justice. The Crown Princess even points out how grateful she is, as turning on Yamori went against Kido's political beliefs.]]
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:When his son is taken hostage by the yakuza, Kido springs into action in the final season.]]

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** This [[spoiler: becomes [[spoiler:becomes an important plot point in Season 4. Kido's loyalties to the Army and belief in the JPS make General Yamori think that Kido, even if he uncovers the Army's role in assassinating Tagomi, will cover it up. However, Kido gave a vow to the Crown Princess that he would bring Tagomi's killers to justice. The Crown Princess even points out how grateful she is, as turning on Yamori went against Kido's political beliefs.]]
beliefs]].
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:When his son is taken hostage by the yakuza, Yakuza in the final season, Kido springs into action in the final season.action.]]



* ProperlyParanoid: Kido extremely suspicious of the catering staff at [[spoiler: Childan's auction]]. [[spoiler: They're all Resistance members, and are there to assassinate Japanese [=VIPs=]]].

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* ProperlyParanoid: Kido is extremely suspicious of the catering staff at [[spoiler: Childan's [[spoiler:Childan's auction]]. [[spoiler: They're [[spoiler:They're all Resistance members, and are there to assassinate Japanese [=VIPs=]]]. [=VIPs=].]].



* ScaryShinyGlasses: From time to time, when the lightning is just right.

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* ScaryShinyGlasses: From time to time, when the lightning lighting is just right.



* WeaponOfChoice: Uses a Nambu Type 14, since the Kempeitai's a part of the Ministry of War when it operate in the JPS.

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* WeaponOfChoice: Uses a Nambu Type 14, since the Kempeitai's a part of the Ministry of War when it operate operates in the JPS.



* YouAreInCommandNow: In late season 2 [[spoiler: a bomb attack wipes out most of the Pacific State Japanese leadership, leaving Chief Inspector Kido as their provisional leader until Admiral Inokuchi arrives to take command.]].

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* YouAreInCommandNow: In late season 2 [[spoiler: a 2, [[spoiler:a bomb attack wipes out most of the Pacific State Japanese leadership, leaving Chief Inspector Kido as their provisional leader until Admiral Inokuchi arrives to take command.]].command]].



* TheAtoner: It's implied his pacifism is driven by this mindset. And [[spoiler: in the alternate timeline, he tries to make up for his counterpart's abuse to this version of his family. He ultimately succeeds in earning their forgiveness.]]

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* TheAtoner: It's implied his pacifism is driven by this mindset. And [[spoiler: in [[spoiler:in the alternate timeline, he tries to make up for his counterpart's abuse to this version of his family. He ultimately succeeds in earning their forgiveness.]]forgiveness]].



* CoolOldGuy: Tagomi is an enlightened man who simply wants the world to find peace. He strikes up a friendship with Juliana, a painter, and[[spoiler:endears himself to his alt-self's family, despite being a {{JerkAss}} in the alt-world.]]

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* CoolOldGuy: Tagomi is an enlightened man who simply wants the world to find peace. He strikes up a friendship with Juliana, a painter, and[[spoiler:endears and [[spoiler:endears himself to his alt-self's family, despite being a {{JerkAss}} {{Jerkass}} in the alt-world.]]



* CultureClash: Tagomi's ideals are very rooted in Japanese culture, so he runs into problems when dealing with American culture from time to time. [[spoiler: This is even more pronounced when he ends up in our alternate reality, where he's positively alien in 1960s American culture.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:He appeared to take over from Joe Blake as the {{Tritagonist}}, alas in the final season, he is killed in his car.]]

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* CultureClash: Tagomi's ideals are very rooted in Japanese culture, so he runs into problems when dealing with American culture from time to time. [[spoiler: This [[spoiler:This is even more pronounced when he ends up in our alternate reality, where he's positively alien in 1960s American culture.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:He appeared to take over from Joe Blake as the {{Tritagonist}}, alas {{Tritagonist}}; alas, in the final season, he is killed in his car.]]



* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Conquest and power don't even cross Tagomi's mind. All he seeks to avoid the loss of lives.

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* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Conquest and power don't even cross Tagomi's mind. All he seeks is to avoid the loss of lives.



* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: As he admits, what he's doing (i.e consulting with a Nazi officer and sharing state secrets with him without authorization) amounts to high treason, but he's doing to avoid a nuclear war between Japan and Germany.

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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: As he admits, what he's doing (i.e consulting with a Nazi officer and sharing state secrets with him without authorization) amounts to high treason, but he's doing it to avoid a nuclear war between Japan and Germany.



* WhenEldersAttack: Tagmoi [[spoiler:successfully kills an elite Nazi assassin sent to kill him.]]
* YankTheDogsChain: His attempts to bring peace in season 1 only slow down the inevitable conflict escalation, and in season 2, [[spoiler: travelling to a alternate dimension where his family lived shows that he was a terrible man in that world, so his family is estranged from him, and just as he starts patching things up, he realizes he has to return to his reality to avoid a nuclear war.]]

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* WhenEldersAttack: Tagmoi [[spoiler:successfully kills an elite Nazi assassin sent to kill him.]]
him]].
* YankTheDogsChain: His attempts to bring peace in season 1 only slow down the inevitable conflict escalation, and in season 2, [[spoiler: travelling [[spoiler:travelling to a alternate dimension where his family lived shows that he was a terrible man in that world, so his family is estranged from him, and just as he starts patching things up, he realizes he has to return to his reality to avoid a nuclear war.]]war]].



* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mentions that he went to hiding after the IJA captured the western part of the United States with mass executions being a common thing.

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mentions that he went to into hiding after the IJA captured the western part of the United States with mass executions being a common thing.



* EarnYourHappyEnding: By the end of Season 4, he's found a genuinely loving wife, indirectly helped the Crown Princess' cause which lead the Japanese to abandon North America, and possibly gained the chance to fulfill his dream to emigrate to Japan. It's left ambiguous whether he got there safely.

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: By the end of Season 4, he's found a genuinely loving wife, indirectly helped the Crown Princess' cause which lead led the Japanese to abandon North America, and possibly gained the chance to fulfill his dream to emigrate to Japan. It's left ambiguous whether he got there safely.



* {{Otaku}}: Childan is a sort of proto version of the trope with his obsession with Japanese culture and tendency to lapse into Japanese terms apropos to nothing.
* PretenderDiss: Is on the receiving end of that by the Japanese people whose culture he gleefully adopts. It is obvious that he wants the Japanese people to see him as one of them and a particularly nasty rebuff from an upper-class Japanese couple he hoped to befriend is enough to convince him to help Frank.

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* {{Otaku}}: Childan is a sort of a proto version of the trope with his obsession with Japanese culture and tendency to lapse into Japanese terms apropos to nothing.
* PretenderDiss: Is on the receiving end of that by the Japanese people whose culture he gleefully adopts. It is obvious that he wants the Japanese people to see him as one of them them, and a particularly nasty rebuff from an upper-class Japanese couple he hoped to befriend is enough to convince him to help Frank.



* CharacterDevelopment: And not necessarily for the better: Frank starts as a meek, kind and NiceJewishBoy whose suffering at the hands of the Japanese slowly turn him into a more serious and ruthless man decided to bring as much suffering to the Japanese as possible.

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* CharacterDevelopment: And not necessarily for the better: Frank starts as a meek, kind and NiceJewishBoy whose suffering at the hands of the Japanese slowly turn him into a more serious and ruthless man decided dedicated to bring bringing as much suffering to the Japanese as possible.



* TheCynic: After his CharacterDevelopment, Frank became a very bitter man driven by revenge against the Japanese. But separating himself from the resistance allows Frank to mellow and become more appreciative of his lot in life, more remorseful about his mistakes, and more loving towards those around him..
* DareToBeBadass: His arc is all about learning to fight back against his tyrants. [[spoiler:In death, the propaganda images he created end up becoming symbols for fomenting a rebellion]].

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* TheCynic: After his CharacterDevelopment, Frank became a very bitter man driven by revenge against the Japanese. But separating himself from the resistance allows Frank to mellow and become more appreciative of his lot in life, more remorseful about his mistakes, and more loving towards those around him..
him.
* DareToBeBadass: His arc is all about learning to fight back against his tyrants. [[spoiler:In death, the propaganda images he created end up becoming symbols for fomenting a rebellion]].rebellion.]]



* DecoyProtagonist: He acts as the {{Deuteragonist}} of the show during the first two seasons, [[spoiler:but by the third season, he is executed by Kido.]]

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* DecoyProtagonist: He acts as the {{Deuteragonist}} of the show during the first two seasons, [[spoiler:but by the third season, he is executed by Kido.]]Kido]].



* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Both he and Juliana started off as fairly similar people, characterized by their kindness and idealism. But while Juliana's arc is about sticking to her idealism through the horror (despite gaining some cold, hard lessons in pragmatism), Frank's arc is about abandoning it [[spoiler:...and eventually recovering it by reflecting on past mistakes]].

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* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Both he and Juliana started off as fairly similar people, characterized by their kindness and idealism. But while Juliana's arc is about sticking to her idealism through the horror (despite gaining some cold, hard lessons in pragmatism), Frank's arc is about abandoning it [[spoiler:...it[[spoiler:... and eventually recovering it by reflecting on past mistakes]].



* HeroicSacrifice: He is willing to undergo a mission that will likely kill him to bring harm to the Japanese. [[spoiler: And it does result in him blowing up at the end, although he survives with heavy scarring.]]

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* HeroicSacrifice: He is willing to undergo a mission that will likely kill him to bring harm to the Japanese. [[spoiler: And [[spoiler:And it does result in him blowing up at the end, although he survives with heavy scarring.]]



* HopeBringer: By Season 3, Frank's become a propagandist--painting symbols reflective of the oppressive state imposed by the Japanese and the Nazis and encouraging thoughts of an uprising. [[spoiler:One of his paintings ends up becoming the symbol of an up-and-coming rebellion by the end of the season]].
* InformedJudaism: Justified. He has Jewish blood, but he does not practice Judaism (though he seems to still hold on to its beliefs to some extent) due the obvious fact of living close to a Nazi-occupied America. He gets a bar mitzvah in Season 3. [[spoiler:He even recites the Shema Yisrael before Kido executes him.]]
* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow: He expresses frustration at the [[{{Inverted}} inversion]] of this trope, where [[spoiler: Sarah is expected to be dominant toward him in public. One of his motivating factors against the JPS is the blatant racism they show toward whites and the subsequent societal roles he is expected to fulfill]].

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* HopeBringer: By Season 3, Frank's become a propagandist--painting symbols reflective of the oppressive state imposed by the Japanese and the Nazis and encouraging thoughts of an uprising. [[spoiler:One of his paintings ends up becoming the symbol of an up-and-coming rebellion by the end of the season]].
season.]]
* InformedJudaism: Justified. He has Jewish blood, but he does not practice Judaism (though he seems to still hold on to its beliefs to some extent) due to the obvious fact of living close to a Nazi-occupied America. He gets a bar mitzvah in Season 3. [[spoiler:He even recites the Shema Yisrael before Kido executes him.]]
* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow: He expresses frustration at the [[{{Inverted}} inversion]] of this trope, where [[spoiler: Sarah [[spoiler:Sarah is expected to be dominant toward him in public. One of his motivating factors against the JPS is the blatant racism they show toward whites and the subsequent societal roles he is expected to fulfill]].



* PayEvilUntoEvil: He even alludes to the famous biblical event of this, "bringing plague to the pharaohs."

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* PayEvilUntoEvil: He even alludes to the famous biblical event of this, "bringing plague to the pharaohs." pharaohs".



* TookALevelInCynic: Frink becomes a cynic after [[spoiler:the death of his sister, niece and nephew]].

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* TookALevelInCynic: Frink becomes a cynic after [[spoiler:the death of his sister, niece niece, and nephew]].



* UncertainDoom: The last we see of him in Season 2, [[spoiler: he was inside a building which exploded, and the explosion seems to have engulfed the place he was in, but we never see his body or any confirmation of his death]]. In season 3, it's revealed that he survived, albeit with heavy burns, and has taken refuge with an underground Jewish community in the Neutral territories.

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* UncertainDoom: The last we see of him in Season 2, [[spoiler: he [[spoiler:he was inside a building which exploded, and the explosion seems to have engulfed the place he was in, but we never see his body or any confirmation of his death]]. In season 3, it's revealed that he survived, albeit with heavy burns, and has taken refuge with an underground Jewish community in the Neutral territories.



* AntiVillain: Sympathetic and not without moral compass, Joe is definitely one of the more complex characters on the Nazis' side. [[spoiler:Sadly, when his eventual brainwashing by Himmler renders him fully subservient to the Reich's cause (and drives him insane), Juliana is forced to kill him in self-defense]].

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* AntiVillain: Sympathetic and not without moral compass, Joe is definitely one of the more complex characters on the Nazis' side. [[spoiler:Sadly, when his eventual brainwashing by Himmler renders him fully subservient to the Reich's cause (and drives him insane), Juliana is forced to kill him in self-defense]].self-defense.]]



* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:By Season 3, the Joe from the last two seasons is gone and is nothing, but a facade that hides the sociopathic and deluded fanatic he has turned into.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: After being arrested on suspicion of involvement in his father’s conspiracy, Joe suffers weeks of physical and psychological torture at the hands of the Gestapo and Josef Mengele, culminating in being forced to execute his father. He is then released to become one of Himmler’s ''lebensborn'' assassins. It quickly becomes clear that the Joe Blake of Season 3 is [[ThatManIsDead no longer the man from the last two and nothing more, but a soulless shadow]].]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:He becomes this to Julianna after his FaceHeelTurn, with Julianna finally realized it was dire mistake to spare his life and help him escape at the end of Season 1 that especially got her in trouble with the resistance in Season 2 and she should have all along carry out her original given mission to have him executed, which she accomplishes by slashing his throat.]]

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:By Season 3, the Joe from the last two seasons is gone and is nothing, nothing but a facade that hides the sociopathic and deluded fanatic he has turned into.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: After [[spoiler:After being arrested on suspicion of involvement in his father’s conspiracy, Joe suffers weeks of physical and psychological torture at the hands of the Gestapo and Josef Mengele, culminating in being forced to execute his father. He is then released to become one of Himmler’s ''lebensborn'' assassins. It quickly becomes clear that the Joe Blake of Season 3 is [[ThatManIsDead no longer the man from the last two seasons and nothing more, more but a soulless shadow]].]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:He becomes this to Julianna after his FaceHeelTurn, with when Julianna finally realized it was a dire mistake to spare his life and help him escape at the end of Season 1 that especially got her in trouble with the resistance in Season 2 and she should have all along carry carried out her original given mission to have him executed, which she accomplishes by slashing his throat.]]



* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Admits as much to Juliana in season 3. It's likely this is genuine, considering that the death of his father was a major tipping point in Joe's sanity and morality]].
* DecoyProtagonist: In the first two seasons, he acts as one of the protagonists, even after being revealed as a NaziProtagonist in the first episode. [[spoiler:However, after his father's death and getting tortured, he becomes just another Nazi antagonist and is killed by Julianna in the third season. TheReveal in the show's premiere as a Nazi mole likely foreshadowed him being this for the entire show this whole time and had always destined to be one of the show's antagonists before meeting his eventual end.]]

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* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Admits as much to Juliana in season 3. It's likely this is genuine, considering that the death of his father was a major tipping point in Joe's sanity and morality]].
morality.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: In the first two seasons, he acts as one of the protagonists, even after being revealed as a NaziProtagonist in the first episode. [[spoiler:However, after his father's death and getting tortured, he becomes just another Nazi antagonist and is killed by Julianna in the third season. TheReveal in the show's premiere as a Nazi mole likely foreshadowed him being this for the entire show this whole time and had always been destined to be one of the show's antagonists before meeting his eventual end.]]



* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Of a sort. When he's told by Smith to not follow orders from Heydrich's faction, he decides to escape from the GNR by hitching a ride to Central America. Then subverted when he's drawn back into Smith's orbit.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Joe may tacitly support the Nazi system but he tends to be very big on loyalty and helping his friends. He also detests nuclear weaponry. [[spoiler: He's also dismayed when the Nazis blow up the ship that holds him for ransom instead of paying them as they promised in "The Tiger's Cave", and is clearly disturbed when he discovers he is the product of a breeding program meant to produce pure Aryan children. In Season 3, despite his FaceHeelTurn, he cannot bring himself to kill Tagomi.]]

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Of [[spoiler:Of a sort. When he's told by Smith to not follow orders from Heydrich's faction, he decides to escape from the GNR by hitching a ride to Central America. Then subverted when he's drawn back into Smith's orbit.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Joe may tacitly support the Nazi system system, but he tends to be very big on loyalty and helping his friends. He also detests nuclear weaponry. [[spoiler: He's [[spoiler:He's also dismayed when the Nazis blow up the ship that holds him for ransom instead of paying them as they promised in "The Tiger's Cave", and is clearly disturbed when he discovers he is the product of a breeding program meant to produce pure Aryan children. In Season 3, despite his FaceHeelTurn, he cannot bring himself to kill Tagomi.]]
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* SanitySlippage: Really starts showing signs of this in [[spoiler:Season 4. He spends increasingly more time with Abendsen to better understand the Multiverse, and Abendsen openly notes that Smith seems to be losing it. Smith's descent into madness stems from his son's death, the Reich glorifying it, and Smith being forced to serve a regime that upholds the values that killed his son.]]

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* SanitySlippage: Really starts showing signs of this in [[spoiler:Season 4. He spends increasingly more time with Abendsen to better understand the Multiverse, and Abendsen openly notes that Smith seems to be losing it. Smith's descent into madness stems from his son's death, the Reich glorifying it, and Smith being forced to serve a regime that upholds the values that killed his son. And the fact that he knows full well that his alternate universe counterpart was a better man than him in every way can't be helping matters.]]
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* AdultFear:
** The very-literally cutthroat politics of the Nazi Party mean that Smith's wife and kids are repeatedly in danger from his rivals
** Congratulations, John. You've helped subdue America under the Third Reich's heel. By the way, your son has a degenerative condition, and the Nazi Party decrees the terminally-ill are to be killed.
** As the ''Jahr Null'' hysteria takes hold and children are told in school that they should inform on their own families, his daughter Jenny gets caught by her sister Amy listening to a banned jazz record. Though Smith calms them down before anyone outside the apartment finds out, the prospect of Jenny being hauled off to "re-education" (or worse) scares the shit out of him.



* AdultFear: Taking a gun to [[spoiler:be ready to kill her own children when she fears her husband has been killed by Heydrich and the rest of the family is next]], and later [[spoiler:watching as her son delivers himself to the authorities to be euthanized.]]
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* LesCollaborateurs[=/=]TheMole: [[spoiler:Kido forces him to become one and report on the Yakuza activities.]]

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* LesCollaborateurs[=/=]TheMole: LesCollaborateurs: [[spoiler:Kido forces him to become one and report on the Yakuza activities.]]
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* BrokenBird: The ugliness and horrors she finds and experiences gradually come close to breaking her. Smith [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that she comes across as being exactly this, but is skeptical whether it's genuine or an act.

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* BrokenBird: The ugliness and horrors she finds and experiences gradually come close to breaking her. Smith [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] {{lampshades}} that she comes across as being exactly this, but is skeptical whether it's genuine or an act.



* HiddenDepths: Childan pretty much even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] this about Ed.

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* HiddenDepths: Childan pretty much even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] {{Lampshades}} this about Ed.


* ActionGirl: While she is not very good with a gun, she's a very good Aikido practicioner. She becomes a very skilled shooter over time.

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* ActionGirl: While she is not very good with a gun, she's a very good Aikido practicioner.practitioner. She becomes a very skilled shooter over time.
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* SanitySlippage: Really starts showing signs of this in [[spoiler:Season 4. He spends increasingly more time with Abendsen to better understand the Multiverse, and Abendsen openly notes that Smith seems to be losing it. Smith's descent into madness stems from his son's death, the Reich glorifying it, and Smith being forced to serve a regime that upholds the values that killed his son.]]

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