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[[folder:Sigrun Engel]]
One of Frau Engel's daughters.
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* LikeASonToMe: It's not explicitly stated, but he acts like this with Max Hass. The one time he gets truly angry with B.J. is after he accidentally triggers Max's trauma by operating a circular saw near him.




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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: [[spoiler: His final words are a pep talk for Max Hass that basically amounts to this.]]
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--> '''Voiced by''': Matthew Kaminski (Return to Castle Wolfenstein ([=PS2=] version)), Peter Jessop (Wolfenstein 2009), Creator/BrianBloom (The New Order):

An OSA agent, Blazkowicz is the main protagonist of the saga. B.J. differs in appearance through various continuities (original 3D universe, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein RPG and the timeline of Wolfenstein\The New Order\The Old Blood), but the majority of his traits ramain the same.

* AndIMustScream: According to the cutscenes in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'', he was pretty conscious while catatonic.

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--> '''Voiced by''': Matthew Kaminski (Return to Castle Wolfenstein ([=PS2=] version)), Peter Jessop (Wolfenstein 2009), Creator/BrianBloom (The New Order):

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An OSA agent, Blazkowicz is the main protagonist of the saga. B.J. differs in appearance through various continuities (original 3D ''3D'' universe, Return ''Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein RPG Wolfenstein'', ''Wolfenstein RPG'', and the timeline of Wolfenstein\The the 2009 game, ''The New Order\The Old Blood), Blood'' and ''The New Colossus''), but the majority of his traits ramain the same.

* AndIMustScream: According to the cutscenes in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'', he was pretty conscious while catatonic. His narration notes it wasn't like this the entire time, however, noting things such as seasons passing in what seemed to be the blink of an eye.



* DualWielding: In ''The Old Blood'', he puts his massive size and strength to good use by carrying two versions of most of his guns -- the only ones he doesn't dual-wield are his Kampfpistole[[note]]a pistol-sized one-shot RPG-launcher[[/note]], Bombenschusse[[note]]a sniper rifle[[/note]], knife (though he's shown using two of them at once in some Takedown animations), and the [=MG1946=][[note]]a heavy machinegun normally fixed into place or used by [[SuperSoldier Supersoldatens]][[/note]]. Also technically his pipe, which alternates between unscrewed format (where he uses it like a club/dagger combination) and screwed format (where he uses it as a shortstaff).

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* DualWielding: In ''The Old Blood'', he puts his massive size and strength to good use by carrying two versions of most of his guns -- the only ones he doesn't dual-wield are his Kampfpistole[[note]]a pistol-sized one-shot RPG-launcher[[/note]], Bombenschusse[[note]]a bolt-action sniper rifle[[/note]], knife (though he's shown using two of them at once in some Takedown animations), and the [=MG1946=][[note]]a heavy machinegun normally fixed into place or used by [[SuperSoldier Supersoldatens]][[/note]]. Also technically his pipe, which alternates between unscrewed format (where he uses it like a club/dagger combination) and screwed format (where he uses it as a shortstaff).



* HeroicMime: In ''Wolf-3D'', ''Spear of Destiny'' and most egregiously in ''Return to Castle Wolfenstein''. He is SuddenlyVoiced for further games in the series.

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* HeroicMime: In ''Wolf-3D'', ''Spear of Destiny'' and most egregiously in ''Return to Castle Wolfenstein''. He is SuddenlyVoiced for further games in the series.series, though it takes until ''The New Order'' before he starts speaking outside of the occasional cutscene.



* IcyBlueEyes: Especially used to highlight his ThousandYardStare in ''New Order''.

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* IcyBlueEyes: Especially used to highlight his ThousandYardStare in ''New ''The New Order''.



* JustAStupidAccent: [[JustifiedTrope Excused]] with the fact that he knows German fluently, but can't work out accents. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in ''The New Order''. ''The Old Blood'' demonstrates that his use of verbal German is absolutely terrible and an NPC even berates him for it.

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* JustAStupidAccent: [[JustifiedTrope Excused]] with the fact that he knows German fluently, but can't work out accents. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in ''The New Order''. ''The Old Blood'' demonstrates that his use of verbal German is absolutely terrible and an a friendly NPC even berates him for it.
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* ArtisticStimulation: By New Colossus he's began to dabble in what is probably Ecstasy or LSD. Guess you don't become friends with [[spoiler:Jimmy Hendrix:]] without being a wee bit incited to try some.

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* ArtisticStimulation: By New Colossus he's began to dabble in what is probably Ecstasy or LSD.Acid. Guess you don't become friends with [[spoiler:Jimmy Hendrix:]] without being a wee bit incited to try some.

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* AffablyEvilAffablyEvil: For a sadistic monster, Engel is quite cordial and laid back.



* DragonAscendant: In ''The New Colossus'', due to the deaths of [[spoiler:Deathshead and her lover Bubi]], she's leading the charge front and center against the Kreisau Circle.



* FacialHorror: [[spoiler: She has her jaw shattered by a hijacked robot during the concentration camp escape. What happens to her face is [[NauseaFuel not pretty]] -- a visible cleft in her jawline, shattered or missing teeth, and a lolling jaw.]]

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* FacialHorror: [[spoiler: She has her jaw shattered by a hijacked robot during the concentration camp escape. What happens to her face is [[NauseaFuel not pretty]] -- a visible cleft in her jawline, shattered or missing teeth, and a lolling jaw.]]jaw]]. By the time of ''The New Colossus'', however, it's been pretty much patched up, though there some [[ScarsAreForever obvious scars that still remain]].

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* ArtificialLimbs: Gets one in New Colossus though it's a bit touchy to use.



* ArtisticStimulation: By New Colossus he's began to dabble in what is probably Ecstasy or LSD. Guess you don't become friends with [[spoiler:Jimmy Hendrix:]] without being a wee bit incited to try some.



* KilledOffScreen: He escapes the incinerator room with B.J. and [[spoiler: Fergus or Wyatt]]. A dialog in a latter part of the game reveals he joined the Kreisau Circle and died in mission at an unspecified moment between 1946 and 1960.

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* KilledOffScreen: He escapes the incinerator room with B.J. and [[spoiler: Fergus or Wyatt]]. A dialog in a latter part of the game reveals he joined the Kreisau Circle and but died in mission at an unspecified moment between 1946 and 1960.
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* EmbarrassingTattoo: Looks on his Nazi tattoos as these. He's holding on to them [[MarkOfShame as a reminder of what he's done]] until they can overthrow the Nazi regime, at which point he'll have them removed.

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* EmbarrassingTattoo: Looks on his Nazi tattoos as these. He's holding on to them [[MarkOfShame as a reminder of what he's done]] until they can overthrow the Nazi regime, at which point he'll have them removed. [[spoiler: He's KilledOffForReal before that can happen though.]]
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* ActionSurvivor[=/=]ActionGirl: She clearly manages to keep her stride despite everything going on around her. [[spoiler:Being also "Ramona" definitely helps.]] She [[TookALevelInBadass Takes A Level In Badass]] in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIIThewNewColossus'' to become a full-fledged ActionGirl.

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* ActionSurvivor[=/=]ActionGirl: She clearly manages to keep her stride despite everything going on around her. [[spoiler:Being also "Ramona" definitely helps.]] She [[TookALevelInBadass Takes A Level In Badass]] in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIIThewNewColossus'' ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'' to become a full-fledged ActionGirl.



* TookALevelInBadass: In ''WolfensteinIITheNewOrder'' she appears to have become a full-fledged ActionGirl.

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* ActionSurvivor: She clearly manages to keep her stride despite everything going on around her. [[spoiler:Being also "Ramona" definitely helps.]]

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* ActionSurvivor: ActionSurvivor[=/=]ActionGirl: She clearly manages to keep her stride despite everything going on around her. [[spoiler:Being also "Ramona" definitely helps.]]]] She [[TookALevelInBadass Takes A Level In Badass]] in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIIThewNewColossus'' to become a full-fledged ActionGirl.



* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler: Although she eventually terminated it, she kept up her serial killing even whilst pregnant.]] In ''The New Colossus'', she is now heavily pregnant with twins fathered by B.J. -- and is still capable of running around playing stabby-stabby with Nazis.

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* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler: Although she eventually terminated it, she kept up her serial killing even whilst pregnant.]] PregnantBadass: In ''The New Colossus'', she is now heavily pregnant with twins fathered by B.J. -- and is still capable of running around playing stabby-stabby with Nazis.
** When she was [[spoiler:"Ramona", she became pregnant with one of her victim's children, and carried it for a while during her SerialKiller days before terminating it]].


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* TookALevelInBadass: In ''WolfensteinIITheNewOrder'' she appears to have become a full-fledged ActionGirl.
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* [[spoiler:* MentorOccupationalHazard: At the very least Frau Engel has something really nasty happen to her in New Colossus given B.J is the one now using her power Armor.]]

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* [[spoiler:* [[spoiler: MentorOccupationalHazard: At the very least Frau Engel has something really nasty happen done to her with an Axe in New Colossus given B.J is the one now using her power Armor.]]
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!!Introduced in ''Wolfenstein: The New Colossus''

[[folder:Horten]]
A cynical resistance leader in the U.S.
* BadassPreacher: If the collar he wears is any indication.

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* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' insinuate that his government was little better than the Nazis in ''The New Order''.
* BigGuy: Bordering on HeroicBuild in ''The Old Blood''. The unlockable model for Blazkowicz in Nazi uniform notes that they had to get his uniform custom made by a tailor before they could send him off as an infiltrator.

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* BerserkButton: Do Nazis, natch. Also, do ''not'' insinuate that his government was little better than the Nazis in ''The New Order''.
* BigGuy: TheBigGuy: Bordering on HeroicBuild in ''The Old Blood''. The unlockable model for Blazkowicz in Nazi uniform notes that they had to get his uniform custom made by a tailor before they could send him off as an infiltrator.
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* AxCrazy: Downplayed but present, especially in ''The New Order.'' B.J an oddly stoic version of this-he's quite intelligent on the whole, but he is rather... temperamental to the point of stupidity in some of what he does, like interrogating someone with a chainsaw or deciding to use his knife on Deathshead because shooting would be too good a death for him. [[spoiler: True to form, Deathshead takes advantage of the latter one to disastrous effect.]]

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* AxCrazy: Downplayed but present, especially in ''The New Order.'' B.J is an oddly stoic version of this-he's this - he's quite intelligent on the whole, but he is rather... temperamental to the point of stupidity in some of what he does, like interrogating someone with a chainsaw or deciding to use his knife on Deathshead because shooting would be too good a death for him. [[spoiler: True to form, Deathshead takes advantage of the latter one to disastrous effect.]]



* DualWielding: In ''The Old Blood'', he puts his massive size and strength to good use by carrying two versions of most of his guns -- the only ones he doesn't dual-wield are his Kampfpistole[[note]]a pistol-sized one-shot RPG-launcher[[/note]], Bombenschusse[[note]]a sniper rifle[[/note]], knife (though he's shown using two of them at once in some Takedown animations), and the MG1946[[note]]a heavy machinegun normally fixed into place or used by [[SuperSoldier Supersoldatens]][[/note]]. Also technically his pipe, which alternates between unscrewed format (where he uses it like a club/dagger combination) and screwed format (where he uses it as a shortstaff).

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* DualWielding: In ''The Old Blood'', he puts his massive size and strength to good use by carrying two versions of most of his guns -- the only ones he doesn't dual-wield are his Kampfpistole[[note]]a pistol-sized one-shot RPG-launcher[[/note]], Bombenschusse[[note]]a sniper rifle[[/note]], knife (though he's shown using two of them at once in some Takedown animations), and the MG1946[[note]]a [=MG1946=][[note]]a heavy machinegun normally fixed into place or used by [[SuperSoldier Supersoldatens]][[/note]]. Also technically his pipe, which alternates between unscrewed format (where he uses it like a club/dagger combination) and screwed format (where he uses it as a shortstaff).

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* HandicappedBadass: Having a piece of shrapnel lodged in his head may put him out of commission, but not for long ([[TimeSkip sort of]]). [[spoiler:The damage from the shrapnel even allows him to shake off a poison Bubi injects him with!]]

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Having a piece of shrapnel lodged in his head may put him out of commission, but not for long ([[TimeSkip sort of]]). [[spoiler:The damage from the shrapnel even allows him to shake off a poison Bubi injects him with!]]with!]]
** In the reveal trailer for ''The New Colossus'', he appears to spend at least part of the game paralysed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair if not wearing the Da'at Yichud PoweredArmor. This doesn't appear to have impeded his ability to massacre hordes of Nazis much.
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* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler: Although she eventually terminated it, she kept up her serial killing even whilst pregnant.]] In ''The New Colossus'', she is now heavily pregnant with twins fathered by B.J.

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* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler: Although she eventually terminated it, she kept up her serial killing even whilst pregnant.]] In ''The New Colossus'', she is now heavily pregnant with twins fathered by B.J. -- and is still capable of running around playing stabby-stabby with Nazis.
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* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler: Although she eventually terminated it, she kept up her serial killing even whilst pregnant.]]

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* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler: Although she eventually terminated it, she kept up her serial killing even whilst pregnant.]]]] In ''The New Colossus'', she is now heavily pregnant with twins fathered by B.J.
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** Looks like ''The New Colossus'' may give players the change to give her what's coming to her.
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* MrFanservice: A tall, square-jawed soldier with a build that could rival an 80's action hero.
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* BadassFamily: It's been confirmed that William Joseph Blazkowicz II, a.k.a. "[[VideoGame/CommanderKeen Billy Blaze]]" is his grandson. And the [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doom Marine]] is his descendant in the far future.

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* BadassFamily: It's been confirmed that William Joseph Blazkowicz II, a.k.a. "[[VideoGame/CommanderKeen Billy Blaze]]" is his grandson. And And, in at least one continuity, the [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doom Marine]] VideoGame/{{Doom}}guy is his descendant in the far future.
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*UsedToBeASweetKid: In his recorded narration in the London Nautica, he says when he was a kid he had a dream to build a robot to hold his hand whenever he was afraid. He admits it sounds silly, but says that [[HiddenDepths dreams are what fuel the engine of progress and that he built the London Nautica to inspire other young boys to dream big.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: She blatantly disregards the advice and warnings of two experts on the dig all the way up to offing one of them simply out of irritation and impatience, this combined with her LeeroyJenkins attitude gets her men slaughtered and devoured by TheUndead [[spoiler: and her being gruesomely torn apart by Olaric.]] What's even more surprising is that she should have honestly known better, considering that the Holstein dig which she was a part of also included zombies being released, and ultimately gave her one less eye as a reminder.
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* HumanoidAbomination: The residents of right down to the soldiers under his command even comment that there is something unnatural about him. [[spoiler: Ultimately in his boss battle it's revealed that he's a [[EldritchAbomination grotesque monster]] related to the veil]]

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* HumanoidAbomination: The residents of right Isenstadt all the way down to the soldiers under his command even comment that there is something unnatural about him. [[spoiler: Ultimately in his boss battle it's revealed that he's a [[EldritchAbomination grotesque monster]] related to the veil]]
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* AxCrazy: Don't be fooled by the man's pseudo-grandfatherly nature, this guy is a twisted motherfucker who takes gleeful and utterly depraved joy in doing what he does.


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* TheSociopath: His enthusiasm for science is only matched by his love of [[AxCrazy torture and murder]] and he possesses absolutely [[LackOfEmpathy no empathy whatsoever]] even for his own men, regarding even them as guinea pigs for his vile projects.
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* {{Expy}}: Takes a lot from [[VideoGame/{{Borderlands}} Handsome Jack]] in ''The New Order'', as explained in {{Hypocrite}} and WrongGenreSavvy.
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