History Main / ApocalypseHitler

* The villains of ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' manage to successfully resurrect Hitler (or "Master D", as he's called in the U.S. version). [[YourHeadASplode You get to blow his head off with a rocket launcher.]]

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* In a multi-issue storyline in the ''ComicBook/{{Fantomas}}'' comic book in the late 70s (likely inspired by ''Literature/TheBoysFromBrazil'') a young Son of Hitler shows up, starts the Fourth Reich, takes over France, restarts the Holocaust(!!), and captures and tortures Fantômas (something no other villain in the series had ever managed to do.) His downfall only came when he became obsessed with Fantômas' follower, agent Taurus... a ''Black'' woman!
* In ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' and ''ComicBook/SavageDragon'', Hitler lived until 1952, when Hellboy killed him. And then [[KillerGorilla his brain was transplanted into a gorilla]].
** Hitler surviving was also brought up in the movie.
* Creator/{{Marvel}} has had multiple [[YouClonedHitler Hitler Clones]] running around, the most famous dressing up in a purple KKK outfit and calling himself the Hate-Monger.

* Subverted in an issue of DC Comics ''[[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders Outsiders]]'', where a clone of Hitler is decanted, shown films of the "accomplishments" of his predecessor, [[DrivenToSuicide and then shoots himself out of horror]].
* ''ComicBook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd'' pits a far-future Man of Steel against the DNA Diktators, a pair of Hitler clones who Superman declares to be responsible for all the Earth's ills just before unloading on them [[MoreDakka with the most ridiculously huge BFG imaginable.]] ([[BrokenAesop The story then ends on an anti-gun Aesop.]])

* Glemmy Toto of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ'' is a [[YouClonedHitler clone]] of Gihren Zabi, himself a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed of Hitler. His manipulations ultimately cause a [[EnemyCivilWar civil war]] within [[TheRemnant Neo-Zeon]] and escalated the rest of the conflict, causing countless additional deaths. Justified by his having been given power by the people who cloned him, and using it as a stepping stone to greater things.
** This one's actually a bit ambiguous in the show itself - while it is clear he does have Gihren's blood in him, there's just as much to suggest he's a clone of Gihren as there is to suggest he's Gihren's bastard son (with an emphasis on [[BastardBastard bastard]]).

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', a group of villains who want to resurrect Hitler (through cloning, and a dog reincarnation of him) are featured in the first episode of season four. It's {{played for laughs}}, of course. Brock kills the dog, then remarks that he can check one more thing off the list of cool stuff he never thought he'd get to do.

-->-- '''Adolf Hitler''', ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E106HesAlive He's Alive]]"

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E106HesAlive He's Alive]]" sees Hitler's ghost inspire and direct a young American neo-Nazi, eventually driving him to [[spoiler:kill a friend to make a martyr for his cause, and later murder an elderly Jewish man]]. At the end of the episode, Hitler's spectral shadow glides along a wall, seeking a new apprentice, as the narration proceeds to inform the audience that [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil as long as bigotry and racism exist, Hitler will always be alive]].

Maybe there's some nutjob who hasn't given up on the idea of the Third Reich, the Aryan Nation, the Thule Society, or any one of the other things Hitler had a hand in, or maybe they're just doing it ForTheEvulz, but bringing back Hitler for the express purpose of having him take over the world is a recurring villainous plot in fiction, and is often treated as synonymous with opening the gates of Hell and letting {{Satan}} [[TheLegionsOfHell and his minions run free]] or summoning down one of [[Creator/HPLovecraft H. P. Lovecraft]]'s many {{Eldritch Abomination}}s to destroy the minds of all mankind — that is, TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

* The cult of the Nazis who fled to Latin America in ''Anime/VaticanMiracleExaminer'' plays this trope in a rather crazy way using [[spoiler:Hitler's sperm, frozen in a cryocamera, to impregnate young girls and get "Hitler's son" (in a funny way considering him a reincarnation of the "father"), all under the guidance of Satan — who is actually a mass hallucination from the drugs they have taken]].

* Given a subtle nod in ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'', where Professor Bruttenholm casually gives a date for Hitler's death much ''later'' than 1945 — and, more concretely, establishes that Hitler had indeed [[{{Ghostapo}} used the power of legendary artifacts]] such as [[TheSpearOfDestiny the Spear of Longinus]] to cement his power base.
* DoubleSubverted in ''Film/LookWhosBack'': Adolf Hitler suddenly appearing in modern-day Germany is [[AdolfHitlarious seen as pretty damned comedic]] because [[FishOutOfTemporalWater he's not used to stuff like the Internet]]... and then he adapts, and people fall under his thrall ''[[RefugeInAudacity because]]'' they think a pitch-perfect Hitler impersonator in modern-day Germany is too stupid to be anything but some kind of politically-incorrect joke. The film ends with one of the modern-day people horrified at the fact that he's witnessing history starting to repeat.

** The ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' GameMod ''Spear Resurrection'' plays it straight, with TheSpearOfDestiny being used to resurrect Hitler (partially, you get to kill him again before he's fully corporeal).
** ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheOldBlood'' has a note from a man who writes about an encounter with Hitler, mentioning Hitler's hand being unnaturally cold and noticing a distinct rotting smell about him — the implication being that BJ killed him as in ''[=Wolf3D=]'', and the Nazis simply resurrected him afterwards.

* TheMovie of ''Film/TheBoysFromBrazil'' (in Literature below), of course.

* In ''Literature/TheBoysFromBrazil'', [[spoiler:not only has Hitler been cloned many times over, but efforts are being made to make the clones' lives more like that of young Adolf's — for example, by killing the clones' fathers when the clones are the age that Hitler was when his father died]]. Also was adapted as a movie.

-->-- '''[[LargeHam Adolf Hitler]]''', from ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "He's Alive"

* An episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' sees Hitler's ghost inspire and direct a young American neo-Nazi, eventually driving him to [[spoiler:kill a friend to make a martyr for his cause, and later murder an elderly Jewish man]]. At the end of the episode, Hitler's spectral shadow glides along a wall, seeking a new apprentice, as the narration proceeds to inform the audience that [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil as long as bigotry and racism exist, Hitler will always be alive]].

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* * Deconstructed in ''Series/{{Kessler}}'' (the sequel to ''Series/SecretArmy''). Although there's concern throughout the series that Kessler could use his [[NaziGold ill-gotten gains]] for some sort of Nazi renaissance, his fellow war criminals scoff at the idea, one draping a Nazi flag on Kessler. "Here, cover yourself with glory!" After discovering his fanatical daughter has been killed (after being mistaken for the NaziHunter protagonists), Kessler lies down on the flag and shoots himself.

* In the ''Literature/FactionParadox'' novel ''Warlords of Utopia'', which involves a war between a parallel universe where UsefulNotes/AncientRome never fell and a parallel universe where [[ThoseWackyNazis the Nazis won WWII]], ends with the son of Hitler, raised from birth to be [[UpToEleven Hitler times a thousand]], escaping to ''our world'', planning to wreak havoc. [[spoiler:He is hunted down by the protaganist, who finds him in a small villa in Brazil. He is, for all his education and pure distilled evilness, little more than just another pathetic white supremacist. He's squashed like a bug.]]

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* Averted in the non-canon ''Franchise/DragonBall'' movie ''Anime/DragonBallZFusionReborn''. A reincarnated Hitler marching through the streets of a major city at the head of a line of Panzers is played for comic relief, not horror, and is easily defeated by a couple of children. It's the reincarnated Frieza that's treated as a problem... [[CurbStompBattle for about three seconds]].

* Hilariously [[spoiler:subverted]] in ''Anime/LupinIIITheFirst''. Gerald and the Ahnenerbe organization are Nazi holdouts who believe Hitler is still alive in South America, based off a mysterious photo of him they have discovered, and their EvilPlan is to secure the DoomsdayDevice for him to use in reestablishing the Third Reich. Once they have it, an aging Hitler actually arrives at their base in Brazil and the overjoyed Gerald shows the Führer how to use it... [[spoiler:at which point "Hitler" yanks off his mask and reveals himself as Lupin, tauntingly informing Gerald that not only is Hitler obviously dead, but that photo he based his whole crusade around is a fake made by Interpol NaziHunters to draw out targets. Oh, and [[NiceJobFixingItVillain since Gerald just showed him how to control the weapon, he has set it to self-destruct]].]]

* ''ComicBook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd'' pits a far-future Man of Steel against the DNA Diktators, a pair of Hitler clones who Superman declares to be responsible for all the Earth's ills just before unloading on them [[MoreDakka with the most ridiculously huge BFG imaginable.]] ([[BrokenAesop The story then ends on an anti-gun Aesop.]])
-->"Of course! Don't you know anything about science?"
* Creator/{{Marvel}} has had multiple [[YouClonedHitler Hitler Clones]] running around, the most famous dressing up in a purple KKK outfit and calling himself the Hate-Monger.
** That wasn't just a clone; that was Hitler himself, cheating death by [[MadScientist Arnim Zola]] putting his mind in a clone body.

* Subverted in an issue of DC Comics ''[[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders Outsiders]]'', where a clone of Hitler is decanted, shown films of the "accomplishments" of his predecessor, [[DrivenToSuicide and then shoots himself out of horror]].

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* ''Film/TheySavedHitlersBrain'', of course.
* Given a subtle nod in ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'', where Professor Bruttenholm casually gives a date for Hitler's death much ''later'' than 1945 — and, more concretely, establishes that Hitler had indeed [[{{Ghostapo}} used the power of legendary artifacts]] such as [[TheSpearOfDestiny the Spear of Longinus]] to cement his power base.

* ''Flesh Feast'', the last film of poor [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Lake Veronica Lake,]] is about a MadScientist who creates a breed of man-eating maggots (under the pretense of using them for "regeneration research") and helps the bad guys resurrect Hitler [[spoiler:just so she can kill him personally with her maggots by throwing them in his face, as revenge for her political prisoner parents' deaths in the Holocaust]]. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext And that's about it, really.]]

* In the ''Literature/FactionParadox'' novel ''Warlords of Utopia'', which involves a war between a parallel universe where UsefulNotes/AncientRome never fell and a parallel universe where [[ThoseWackyNazis the Nazis won WWII]], ends with the son of Hitler, raised from birth to be [[UpToEleven Hitler times a thousand]], escaping to ''our world'', planning to wreak havoc. [[spoiler:He is hunted down by the protaganist, who finds him in a small villa in Brazil. He is, for all his education and pure distilled evilness, little more than just another pathetic white supremacist. He's squashed like a bug.]]
* The disaster spoof ''Earthdoom!'' by John Grant and Creator/DavidLangford features all possible apocalypses happening simultaneously, including an army of Hitler clones.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' Literature/PastDoctorAdventures novel ''The Shadow in the Glass'', [[spoiler:the Sixth Doctor and the Brigadier discover a Fourth Reich led by Hitler's son using alien technology (albeit alien technology that the Nazis have mistaken for a supernatural artefact), but this trope is defied as the Doctor proclaims that even Hitler Junior knows that there is no place in the modern world for his father's philosophy, justifying why he continues to hide away rather than mount his new campaign even though he is now the same age as his father was when Hitler committed suicide]].

* Deconstructed in ''Kessler'' (the sequel to ''Series/SecretArmy''). Although there's concern throughout the series that Kessler could use his [[NaziGold ill-gotten gains]] for some sort of Nazi renaissance, his fellow war criminals scoff at the idea, one draping a Nazi flag on Kessler. "Here, cover yourself with glory!" After discovering his fanatical daughter has been killed (after being mistaken for the NaziHunter protagonists), Kessler lies down on the flag and shoots himself.

* In the TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu supplement TabletopGame/DeltaGreen, the Karotechia is a [[ArgentinaIsNaziland South American]] Nazi remnant led by an "ascended" Hitler. [[spoiler:It's actually Nyarlathotep screwing with them, attempting to get their organization to worship Azathoth.]]

* In the {{Fundamentalist}} "End Times" novel ''The Fourth Reich'', Hitler ''is'' {{the Antichrist}} - [[spoiler:''and'' literally Hitler reborn. He's the Russian President, who turns out to be a clone of Hitler, and is indwelt by the soul of the original Hitler, who's been released by Satan from Hell to do his dirty work]]. This book is one of the more entertaining [[SoBadItsGood (for sufficiently twisted values of "entertaining")]] "End Times" fictions around, and is also notable for a take on eschatology that differs ''sharply'' from the Premillennial Dispensationalist viewpoint with which most people will be familiar. There is much fun to be had in watching Hitler scream "''Nie wieder! Nie wieder!''" as his evil plans are frustrated, and watching him explain each failure to a furious {{Satan}}. In other words, the work is "Christian" End Times fiction [[InNameOnly in advertising only]].

* DoubleSubverted in ''Film/ErIstWiederDa'': Adolf Hitler suddenly appearing in modern-day Germany is [[AdolfHitlarious seen as pretty damned comedic]] because [[FishOutOfTemporalWater he's not used to stuff like the Internet]]... and then he adapts, and people fall under his thrall ''[[RefugeInAudacity because]]'' they think a pitch-perfect Hitler impersonator in modern-day Germany is too stupid to be anything but some kind of politically-incorrect joke. The film ends with one of the modern-day people horrified at the fact that he's witnessing history starting to repeat.

* DoubleSubverted in ''Film/LookWhosBack'': Adolf Hitler suddenly appearing in modern-day Germany is [[AdolfHitlarious seen as pretty damned comedic]] because [[FishOutOfTemporalWater he's not used to stuff like the Internet]]... and then he adapts, and people fall under his thrall ''[[RefugeInAudacity because]]'' they think a pitch-perfect Hitler impersonator in modern-day Germany is too stupid to be anything but some kind of politically-incorrect joke. The film ends with one of the modern-day people horrified at the fact that he's witnessing history starting to repeat.