Line #91 Characters/Sturmtruppen


1	Ze main cast from ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}''.
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3	!!Private Otto/Franz/Fritz/Heinz
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5	The anonymous, interchangeable soldiers of the battalion and usually main victims of the officers, the unseen enemy and sometimes of their own troops. Sometimes a meaningful nickname is add to the name, usually to Heinz.
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7	* BayonetYa: The infamous "Air-Headed" Franz, major cause of [[EyeScream pierced eyes]] and ripped ears in the Battalion.
8	* BigEater: "Glutton" Franz, known for raiding the kitchen during night time. When the lunch became alive and went on a rampage, "Glutton" Franz was the one who defeated it, by [[BalloonBelly eating a cauldron worth of lunch]] that had previously eaten a cross and at least another soldier with all the uniform, had been pissed on ([[ItMakesSenseInContext they had no holy water]]) and was armed with a makeshift flamethrower.
9	* ButtMonkey: All of them, some more than others.
10	* CloudCuckooLander: Usually Private Heinz. Or rather, a Private Heinz.
11	* DeadpanSnarker: They often get a chance to snark at people.
12	* DemonicPossession: "Possessed Fritz", after his unlucky sojourn in the dreaded post 666.
13	* DistractedByTheSexy: In a strip, a fierce charge is suddenly stopped when the soldiers come across a naked woman in a ruined house.
14	* DumbMuscle: "Gorilla" Franz, who's probably the only different-looking soldier.
15	* TheIngenue: Poor Private Otto, who tries to win the love of the local prostitute with flowers and chocolates.
16	* TheJinx: The dreaded ''Jonah'' Franz, from the former-Fourth Battalion. Shown to be able to cause small quakes and disasters just by thinking of a person.
17	* {{Mooks}}
18	* YouAllLookFamiliar: They look identical, except for the possible helmet variations.
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20	!!The Sergeant
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22	Old and sadistic non-commissioned officer of the Battalion, whose main purpose is to make the life of the other soldiers (and especially the newbies) unbearable, and is universally hated by the soldiers. He's a long lasting feud with the Military Cook and his dreadful food. However he's also the victim and target of the two veterans of the 27th Battalion.
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24	* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: All the soldiers in the battalion wants to fry him alive, but they're divided between using boiling oil or kerosene.
25	* AmbitionIsEvil: Shortly before being apparently promoted to officer, the first sergeant shows he wants to become general eventually. Another sergeant just wants to become an officer, but was actually content with his job until he spotted [[ManChild the lieutenant being himself]] right after a soldier asked him when he'd get promoted.
26	* BoobBasedGag: Male example: While trying to solve the above-mentioned weight problems he was put in a tiny corset which squeezed all the fat upwards, resulting in a huge, bouncing bosom which soon become the main source of humor in the following strips. According to [[WordOfGod Bonvi]], it was an homage to a female friend of his.
27	* BigEater[=/=]ExtremeOmnivore: He's known for eating a lot, and once mistook a poisonous rattlesnake in his soup for an eel, and promptly ate it.
28	* ButNotTooForeign: The two sergeants with known names are Herod Muller and Giuseppe, hinting the former has Croat or Polish blood and the latter is of Italian ancestry (the German version of their given names would have been Herodes and Joseph).
29	* TheBrute
30	* DrillSergeantNasty: Especially with the newbies. [[CatchPhrase He'll make true men out of them, or make them die trying!]].
31	* FatBastard: And his huge weight problems briefly become a trouble in a story arc.
32	* HadToBeSharp: The sergeants are invariably veterans from the previous war, and two (Herod Muller and Giuseppe) are hinted to not be fully Arians, leading to them having to get tough to survive and becoming sergeants.
33	* ImmodestOrgasm: When the new recruits are coming, ready for being tortured, he's shown trembling, growling, foaming and waving fingers. At the same time.
34	-->''Private Franz'':"[[LampshadeHanging I belief he's about to hafe an orgasm!"]]
35	* LegacyCharacter: There's actually multiple sergeants, the first clear change happening when strip 232 has him beating up his own mother and being explicitely identified as the ''new'' sergeant. The only functional difference among them is that the first(?) sergeant worships the Catch22Dilemma (and forces the soldiers to kneel in prayer at a stone where the catch had been written on) and wanted to eventually become a general, while a later one would be happy to stay a sergeant if it wasn't for [[TooDumbToLive the Second Lieutenant]] being an officer and didn't know of the catch until a soldier tried to get discharged on insanity grounds and the doctor invoked it. Most of them are unnamed, but one is identified as Herod Muller and a late one as Giuseppe.
36	* OnlySaneMan: Whenever he's paired with the [[CloudCuckooLander Second Lieutenant]], something that happens rather too often for his liking.
37	* ThePigPen: One sergeant didn't know why there's water in the bath tub and what's the purpose of soap. His attendants are forced to use sandpaper and acids just to carve throught the outer layers and when they're done with that, Is revealed that he lose something like 6 pounds of dirt.
38	* SergeantRock: Once the battle start they become true leaders, using their vast combat experience to help the troop win the day or at least come out alive. Slightly diminished by their willingness to use the bodies of fallen soldiers as human shields and improvised catwalks over barbed wire, but if it helps the rest of the troop come out alive...
39	* StoutStrength
40	* UnfriendlyFire: A few sergeants have been murdered by their soldiers at the first chance, with one escaping said fate when a soldier put a rattlesnake in his mess kit and the Sergeant [[BigEater mistook it for an eel, ate it, and asked for more]] (said soldier and his friends later hired Musolesi to assassinate him).
41	* VeteranInstructor: He's the most experienced soldier of the battalion, and always assigned to train the NewMeat. Surprisingly enough, he's very good in spite of his sadism, once making a soldier out of someone literally too stupid to wear his boots with the points forward.
42	* VolleyingInsults: With the Cook.
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44	!!The 27th Armoured Battalion (of Discipline)
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46	The thoughest and hardest soldiers of all the Battalion, they're the only guys who can force the Sergeant to crawl around and squirm in fear. Is implied that the only person they ever respected was the Drunken Captain.
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48	* BigDamnHeroes: Twice they solve a situation to the advantage of other troopers:
49	** When the Sergeant was screwing Private Otto's "girlfriend"-actually the battalion's whore-and, given he had paid to spend the whole night with her, forced him to hold his pants, the 27th stumbled on the scene, slapped silly the one trooper that was finding the situation hilarious, and gave the Sergeant the lesson of his life, hinting that if he ever came there again they'd slit his throat.
50	** The Drunk Captain had been succeeded by a GloryHound that would have got the battalion decimated in a suicide attack to have a promotion to major when the 27th showed up to pay respect to their old commander... And as they were there tricked his successor to go into a minefield.
51	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Their first two strips:
52	** The first strip during a violent shelling has two soldiers wondering if the two newly arrived reinforcements are greenhorns unable to deal with the hard life of the frontlines-and the two of the 27th (still unseen) remarking it was nice to finally get some relaxation ''in the rear''.
53	** In the second strip one of the troopers tries and have them serve their sentinel shifts... And the two just laugh. They later threatens to slit the throat of the soldier when he threatened to report them.
54	* HadToBeSharp: They often mention the Legreis Correction Center and how hard things were there, including how they took a year out of their sentences for every fifteen bombs they defused. One had been sentenced to 125 years, and the other for ''life''.
55	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: They help Private Otto with his "romantic relationship" and save the battalion from being thrown into a suicide attack, though they mainly did it to screw over the Sergeant and punish the captain that had offended their old commander the Drunk Captain.
56	* PermaStubble: Unlike other soldiers.
57	* SmokingIsCool: Almost all the time they're shown smoking from a cigarette. It doesn't help that they light them up by scratching their matches against flying shells or other soldiers' helmets.
58	* TradingBarsForStripes: They come from a penal battalion, and from the Legreis Detention Center before that.
59	* UnfriendlyFire: They made ''very'' clear to the sergeant [[SubvertedTrope they'd never have "accidents" with their guns that would result in shooting him in the back]]... [[DoubleSubverted Not with witnesses around]]. They later told him that the area where private Otto's "girlfriend" lived was plenty of dark alleys where someone could slit his throat without witnesses.
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61	!!The Second Lieutenant
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63	A clumsy and ditzy officer who achieved his rank thanks to nepotism. The Lieutenant is young and inept, and usually volunteers for dangerous or difficult tasks which will eventually end up as an EpicFail.
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65	* ButtMonkey: Noone ever respects him.
66	* BoisterousBruiser: He tries to be one without much success. For example, during a strip when they're preparing an assault on a bunker he seems willing and ready to assault said bunker with a pick.
67	* CloudCuckooLander: His idea for a better rifle? Same rifle as before, now [[BiggerIsBetter cannon-sized]].
68	* TheDitz: Uh yeah...
69	* EekAMouse: "Don't you know zey can climb up your leg!?"
70	* GeneralFailure: Ok, Second Lieutenant Failure, but still...
71	* TheIngenue: He seems to have no clue on sex. When Helga shows him an erotic comic he mistakes the people having sex for some kind of wrestlers and a woman performing oral sex for cannibalism.
72	* ManOnFire: During the above mentioned bunker miniarc, he tries to destroy the enemy bunker with a fire bomb package, but they end up backfiring...
73	* {{Nepotism}}: When a furious captain asked him to give ''one'' reason to not dishonorably discharge him, he mentioned that his dad is a feldmarshall.
74	* RankUp: Promoted off-page to full lieutenant, much to the chagrin of the captain when he ''needed'' a second lieutenant.
75	* SelfDeprecation: Bonvi has once claimed the second lieutenant is inspired by his own experience as a drafted second lieutenant, and in particular that one time when he reacted to Yugoslav peasants trying to move the border signs by ''invading Yugoslavia with a tank platoon''.
76	* SmallNameBigEgo: He's not what he claims to be.
77	* TooDumbToLive: The soldiers openly wonder how he can survive his own idiocy.
78	** An early incarnation of the lieutenant did ''not'' survive his own stupidity, as he quickly managed to get [[UnfriendlyFire fragged]].
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80	!!The Military Cook
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82	The infamous cook of the battalion, known for his horrible food. He's often bickering and exchanging pranks with the Sergeant.
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84	* BrutalHonesty: Even he admit that he would never eat his own food.
85	** Once he was asked what there was in the lunch, and he declared it was infected with cholera. One soldier believed he was joking and ate it. It was not a joke.
86	* TheDogBitesBack: He's usually at the mercy of the antics of both officers, sergeants, and even refular soldiers... But he's also the guy feeding everyone, and at times he strikes back. It's even implied he cooks badly ''on purpose'' after dirty laundry water was preferred to his meals...
87	* IAmAHumanitarian: Choose the fattest soldier as his disciple and ends up cooking him for the Officer's Meal.
88	** It wasn't for the Officer's Meal, it was a special lunch for the soldiers celebrating his 25th year in the army. And when the disciple caught on it (while already in the cauldron) and ran away, the soldiers were disgusted by the cook... Until they were told that the disciple was the ONLY lunch available for the day. Then they started searching for him.
89	* LethalChef: From his deadly cauldron came out things like: dried pea soup (there's no water), frozen solid soup (during winter), soup made from motor oil and boiled tires, salad made from tree leaves, dirty laundry water (which was actually well received), corpses, living ferocious spaghetti, cholera, a concoction that turns soldiers into hairy monsters, a live (wild) goat and a blob-like abomination that fed on soldiers.
90	** At least once, the motor oil had been added by the Sergeant as part of his feud with the cook. The soldiers didn't see the difference until the Sergeant, who was saying the lunch looked like being made of motor oil, was asked the oil can back.
91	* TheResenter: {{Implied}}: in his earliest appearances he didn't cook that bad, but then the first story arc where he had an important role has him rant how all his efforts to prepare good meals for the troop had just been made meaningless by the soldiers liking the dirty laundry water, and from then on he becomes a LethalChef.
92	* SignatureHeadgear: He always wears a chef's hat over his head rather than his helmet. In one strip an officer has him punished for not wearing the helmet like everyone else... And the cook answered by serving the officer the cooked chef's hat, prompting the latter to forget about the punishment.
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94	!!The Military Medic
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96	A Major and medic who studied as a veterinarian, but since animals refused to be treated by him he was assigned to the closest human category: soldiers. The Medic is a quack doctor and a charlatan, often obsessed with things like vampires and the potion of invisibility.
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98	* AfraidOfBlood: That's why he has to wear a blindfold while operating.
99	* CloudCuckooLander: When he becomes obsessed with an speculated Vampire infestation, or when he becomes obsessed again with the invisibility elixir or when he mistakes a mud covered soldier who was BuriedAlive for a zombie.
100	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: He's a late addition to the cast, and before him there were two doctors: the quirky and [[TheGhost never seen]] Doktor Von Barnard and the unnamed hospital director who had to suffer the anger caused by his antics and generally practice normal cures for the troopers.
101	* {{Invisibility}}: His greatest and most memorable quirk, which ends up with him going around naked for the camp, and since he had the highest rank, he had the right to believe himself invisible as he wished.
102	* LargeHam: When revealing the identity of his greatest medical idol. Aka: Van Helsing the Vampire Slayer (complete with background lightning).
103	* MadScientist: He believes to have discovered the Invisibility Elixir without going mad. He actually went mad without discovering the Invisibility Elixir.
104	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: When he believes himself to be invisible. It backfires once when a soldier, pretending to not see him, performs a GroinAttack with a cigarette.
105	* NeverBareheaded: He always keeps a hat on.
106	* SmallNameBigEgo: His greatest success was curing the hiccup of the Colonel.
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108	!!The Captain
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110	The grumpy and mostly serious captain of the Battalion, though there are several captains, arguably he's the sanest character in the comic. Like all the higher officer he's tall and lean with hawkish nose and eyes obscured by the cap's visor.
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112	* AffablyEvil: It's easy to forget that aside for the Drunken Captain the various captains only actually care for their careers, and are willing to get the entire battalion addicted to drugs if it means preventing a mutiny without looking bad in front of the higher-ups by actually addressing the causes of the malcontent.
113	* BestServedCold: All captains suffered the idiocy of the second lieutenant without being able to properly punish him, and at one point even having to see him promoted to full lieutenant, due [[{{Nepotism}} the fool being the son of a feldmarshall]]. Then one day he was told an inspection was coming and he had to assign the inspecting officer a second lieutenant as assistant, and as they couldn't just point out they didn't have a second lieutenant anymore and make the high command look like fools the captain had the fictional officer added to the roster and ''made the lieutenant responsible for anything he did'', forcing him to run himself ragged to do his own job and that of the non-existing officer. [[spoiler:It ends up with the fictional officer being promoted... And the captain reassigning the lieutenant's tent to the newly promoted officer, throwing him out until Helga offers to share her tent]].
114	* GeneralRipper: In his early incarnations and some of the latter.
115	* LeanAndMean: Unlike the bulky soldiers and the Sergeant, the Captain is slimmer and taller.
116	* LegacyCharacter: There's multiple captains succeeding themselves without ado. They're for the most part identical in personality, with only the Drunken Captain standing out.
117	* OnlySaneMan: Most of the time, they act as the straight men to the strip's current events.
118	* PickyEater: He's willing to eat the same lunch as the soldiers. Provided that said lunch include a series of snobbish and high-class delicacies.
119	* PragmaticEvil: The captains (usually) act as the voice of reason and (usually) keep the troop in good health... Because this way it's more likely their career will progress.
120	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Not that there's much choice, mind you...
121	* UnfriendlyFire: One early Captain is implied having been shot by his soldiers thanks to a creative interpretation of his "orders" (he was leading them to an attack and shouted "If I advance follow me! If I go back shoot me!" and ''then'' arrived on the edge of a cliff, with his soldiers looking at him with grinning faces), and another was tricked into a minefield by the 27th Armored Battalion (of Discipline).
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123	!!The Colonel
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125	A even higher ranked officer, identical to the Captain except for the different coat and uniform. Unlike the Captain, Colonel/s are much like one shot characters that appears rarely and usually from outside.
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127	* BadassLongcoat
128	* GeneralRipper
129	* HiccupHijinks: A Colonel introduced in a strip was known for speaking mainly in very short sentences and only said "Hic". It was quickly revealed that he actually suffered from hiccup.
130	* OnlySaneMan: Shared with the Captain.
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132	!!The General
133
134	The highest ranked officer in the army, as the Colonel above he's usually shown as an outsider. So far, two main "generals" are shown: One looks like the typical officer and tries to assist to the "Extermination" of the Jewish prisoner, the other is an old and senile veteran who visits the troops a couple of times.
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136	* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Shown when the old general is hospitalized: as soon as his uniform is removed everyone treats him like a worthless senile geezer and ignore him. However he gains all his prestige and power back as soon as he put the uniform back.
137	* DirtyOldMan: The old general is revealed to be one when he becomes enamored with the Sergeant's boobs, to the point that he forces him to run in front of him, grope him and eventually take him home when he finally leaves.
138	* DistractedByTheSexy: Courtesy of the Sergeant's boobs, complete with a streak of puns.
139	-->''Captain'': "Ehm, General, ze troops are here..."
140	-->''General'': "Ja, ja, [[FreudianSlip magnificent boobs ehm, troops]], really magnificent..."
141	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The Extermination General decides to hide behind the extermination wall in order to avoid straying bullets. Said walls drops on him after being shot.
142	* HumiliationConga: The Old General when he gets hospitalized and loses his uniform.
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144	!!The Drunken Captain
145
146	An old and badass officer always seen with some liquor on his person, he makes a brief appearence in a strip and eventually dies some times later. The Drunken Captain can be seen as an AuthorAvatar of Bonvi.
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148	* TheAlcoholic: So much that when he's mortally wounded his blood emits alcoholic fumes that cover the whole camp.
149	* BadassBoast: "I'll crush you all like wasps!!" said to the enemy's shower of bullets all around him while standing still on the trench's border and facing them.
150	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Always drunk, eating only the olive in his cocktail, and an awesome officer that could swat a machine gun's bullets from air and in one occasion single-handedly saved the battalion from being annihilated by an enemy attack.
151	** His cocktail is strong enough that a single cocktail glass of it can be used as a MolotovCocktail... As he demonstrated on an enemy tank. It's also hinted that his constant inhebriation is part of the reason of his awesomeness, as he was so drunk to allucinate enemy bullets were wasps during the machine gun stunt.
152	* ExactWords: Apparently, he only has one martini per meal. It's never stated that it has to be ''his'' meal though.
153	* AFatherToHisMen: Greatly cared for his soldiers, casually risking his life to protect them. In one strip he even helps a sentinel from beyond the grave.
154	* GoOutWithASmile: The strip showing his demise has a row of morose-looking, genuinely sad soldiers surrounding him, helmets in hand... while he's rather cheerful about his impending death and jokes with them.
155	-->"Why the long faces? Cheer up, you get to keep my stash of booze!"
156	* KilledOffForReal: Sadly he was TooCoolToLive.
157	* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: When he's shot in the chest he's more worried about the safety of his alcohol flask than his health.
158	-->"Thank God! It's just blood!"
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160	* NoodleIncident: According to the guys of the 27th Battalion, he was their Colonel but lost his rank because "he was a bit naughty".
161
162	!!Sergeant Olga, Caporal Helga and Private Tilda
163
164	The only female soldiers and officer introduced in the comic and the camp. Olga is a large, squat woman who falls for the Sergeant, Helga falls for the Lieutenant and Tilda (the most attractive of the trio) for a poetic soldier, but none of them has much success.
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166	* AlliterativeName
167	* BloodKnight: Shown to be more than willing to go out and murder the enemy, even volunteering to stay at the head of an offensive just to have a better chance to kill someone.
168	* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: They're far more competent than any other trooper other than the 27th Armored Battalion (of Discipline) and ''maybe'' the Sergeant, and a trio of {{Blood Knight}}s.
169	* MsFanservice: Tilda, so much that all the soldiers of the battalion faint the instant they see her.
170	%%zce* TheSmurfettePrinciple
171
172	!!Private Humbert
173
174	A caveman-like soldier who was left alone and forgotten for 5 years in the outpost number 8. He's a weird and disgusting man apparently made of hair who also possess a great strength.
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176	* AmbiguouslyHuman: It's implied that he's actually made of hair, and during springtime he buds leaves (that [[LethalChef the Cook]] will cut for the soldiers. Coincidentally, that's the day he serves salad).
177	* AmbiguouslyGay: At one point he falls in love with another soldier.
178	* ExtremeOmnivore: He's the only ... thing who can devour the food made by the Cook. He's also known for eating flies and lice.
179	* MadeOfIron: He survived a fiendish radioactive cloud, which only managed to give him a perm.
180	* ThePigPen: Even worse than the Sergeant.
181	* StoutStrength: He's quite bulky, but he's very strong.
182	* SuddenlyVoiced: In some strips he can speak fluently and even [[HiddenDepths reveal that he went to university]].
183
184	!!Proud Ally Galeazzo Musolesi of San Giovanni in Persiceto
185
186	The buffonish and proud fascist soldier who joined the troops on the front lines. He's a cowardly and dishonest man who's always trying to making a profit from the military life and trying to seek glory with easy, totally safe missions. His name is a clear parody of both Mussolini's and Galeazzo Ciano's names, and comes from a prank letter wrote by Bonvi.
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188	* BigEater: He's a veritable glutton.
189	* CustomUniform: He took some liberties with his uniform: rather than the black shirt under the jacket and fez of [[BlackShirts the MVSN he was affiliated to]], he wears a white shirt and a [=M33=] helmet (the latter further customized by painting an anchor), and he pilfered German combat boots to replace the shoes he would have otherwise worn.
190	* TheDeterminator: He has an almost superhuman will to live.
191	* EvenEvilHasStandards: When he decided to con some gold from the Doctor he was horrified, and puked, upon realizing [[RobbingTheDead it was all dentures from fallen soldiers and exterminated Jews]]-[[SubvertedTrope not that it kept him from going on with the con]].
192	* {{Fainting}}: Whenever he's in danger or risking some real action.
193	* HiddenDepths: He's an incredibly good digger ([[JustifiedTrope thanks to his experience at digging holes to hide himself into]]), and his skills at growing plants border on the supernatural.
194	* HonestJohnsDealership: He's always trying to make money from something from every, possible, mean.
195	* LegallyDead: In one of his early antics he tripped while carrying hot coffee and started claiming he had "heroically fallen" in the course of his duty, and the bureaucracy took him at his words. He promptly lost all of his possessions (inherited by his family) and almost starved to dead before being reinstated as the "Soul of a Heroic Fallen" because the cook refused to feed a dead man.
196	* LovableCoward: Claims to be a proud and brave veteran, but he's capable of digging a several meters deep holes at the first bullet.
197	* MadBomber: Whenever he sees a train he ''has'' to blow it up and [[BlatantLies blame the enemy or saboteurs]].
198	* ''MilesGloriosus''
199	* OverlyLongName: Ironically, his name mentions his hometown of San Giovanni in Persiceto, one of the main ''communist'' towns in Italy and, during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, a centre of the [[LaResistance Italian Resistance]].
200	* PhraseCatcher: "Musolesi, what a devil!", uttered by soldiers after he successfully pulled one of his stunts.
201	* PickyEater: Volunteers himself as a pilot in order to get a special diet based mainly of birds of various kinds.
202	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Is openly racist. While offering to help the SS Execution Squad could have been part of his MilesGloriosus antics, telling the Ally of the Rising Sun is "short, yellow and is bowlegged" ''to his face'' while acting like ''he wasn't there'' is not.
203	* ThePoliticalOfficer: Utterly mocked: his introduction describes him as a ''Federale'', that is either the Federal Secretary of the Fascist Party reporting directly to ''Mussolini himself'' or a deputy... But he doesn't act like that at all.
204	* {{Ponzi}}: Ran this once, but it collapsed when the soldiers, talking to each other, realized what he was pulling and stopped giving their money right after he had wasted all the money and got indebted to the battalion's murderous quartermaster.
205	* RefugeInAudacity: This man once falsified and sold ''Mussolini's diaries'' to pay his debt to the battalion's murderous quartermaster (who had already shown him [[OffWithHisHead the heads of those who had previously failed to pay their debts to him]])... And it's nowhere near the most outrageous stunt he pulled.
206	* RichesToRags: He was fairly well-off at his debut... Then he was suddenly left with only the clothes on his back when he was declared dead (see UndeadTaxExemption below).
207	* RippedFromTheHeadlines: His falsification of Mussolini's diaries is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mussolini_diaries a similar scam perpetrated in 1957]], and his brief habit of bombing trains while the authorities blamed the enemy refers to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_%28Italy%29 those years' terrorist attacks]] (and in particular the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italicus_Express_bombing bombing of the Italicus Express]] and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_massacre Bologna massacre]], both committed by neo-fascists) and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_Fontana_bombing#Deaths_of_Pinelli_and_Calabresi the attempts at misleading some investigations made by the authorities]]).
208	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He's in Mussolini's confidence (and has blackmail on him), and has no qualms taking advantage of it.
209	** ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: When he debuted he was identified as a ''Federale'' (a federal secretary of the Fascist party), thus high enough in the Fascist hierarchy he could have effectively dominated the battalion while he was there, but lost it when he was declared dead.
210	* SmallNameBigEgo: Big time.
211	* TakeThat[=/=]AffectionateParody: Of fascist soldiers.
212	* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The soldiers can't quite decide if they like how he's the one friendly officer or hate his tendency to throw them under the bus or scam them as he needs. If nothing else, they admire his will to live and the extremes he goes in his antics.
213	* UndeadTaxExemption: He's legally dead (he had tripped while bringing boiling coffee to the general and told everyone that he [[ExactWords fell heroically in the course of his duty]], and the bureaucracy took him at his word), and after losing all his possessions as his heirs claimed the inheritance and his position in the Fascist party and risking starving to death because the cook never got rations for him he managed to get reinstated in the ranks as the "Soul of a Fallen Hero".
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215	!!The Ally of the Rising Sun
216
217	A Japanese soldier who joined the Battalion. He's constantly arguing with Musolesi. He's based on various Japanese stereotypes, like the mania for self-sacrifice and photos.
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219	* CameraFiend: At first.
220	* DrivenToSuicide: Musolesi tries to persuade him to commit {{Seppuku}}. After a talk with the Captain, he realize that he doesn't need to spill ''[[ExactWords his own blood]]'' to clean the offense.... and then start chasing Musolesi waving his sword around.
221	* InscrutableOriental: Parodied.
222	* LovableSexManiac: He tries to hump the crossdressing soldier Otto even after he revealed his true sex.
223	* NoNameGiven
224	* VolleyingInsults: With Musolesi.
225
226	!!The SS Execution Squad
227
228	An execution squad, complete with Captain and a stoic jewish prisoner who should be exterminated. Not that they have much success.
229
230	* BlackComedy: Probably the best example is when the Jewish prisoner falls ill and is recovered.
231	-->''Prisoner'': "I don't want to die like this!! [[RefugeInAudacity I have an execution waiting for me!!"]]
232	* HiccupHijinks: A miniarc has the Captain affecte by hiccups and unable to order the "Fire". The soldier and the prisoner tries to cure him with a variety of methods, including sudden scares, [[ColorMeBlack painting the Captain's face black before suddenly showing him a mirror]], making him angry (with the prisoner telling him that his parents' names were Rebecca and David). They finally cure him... with a written order from the Fuhrer himself.
233	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The soldiers are unable to hit the prisoners, even if they're pressing the guns right at his stomach.
234	* KickTheDog: When the Squad finally manages to find a perfect wall and everything seems allright...
235	-->''Captain'': "What do you mean with ''General Retreat''!?"
236	* PetTheDog: Eventually the Jew becomes affectionate to the captain, to the point that he even keep him company when he's hospitalized and help him getting his sanity back. The opposite happens when the prisoner fall ill and is hospitalized, and the Captain look after him.
237	* TheStoic: The jewish prisoner. He doesn't seem too fazed at the idea of being killed.
238	* SufferTheSlings: At one point, the jewish prisoner uses a slingshot to sneak-shot the Captain in the back of the head when he's about to order "Fire!", blaming it on stress.

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