Web Video / Hitler Rants

Hitler requires more vespene gas.^note Actual Translation: "If he has gone AWOL, that's desertion!"

Gunsche: There is now a separate page for the Hitler Rants. Fegelein made the request to TV Tropes.

Hitler: I should have known that imbecile would find yet another way to make me look like a fool. And now he's done it! With a separate page for Hitler Rants, I'm FUCKED! I was hoping the Downfall page would bury all the antics that go on in the bunker. But no! Now bring me that asshole Fegelein!

FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN, FEGELEIN!

The Hitler Rants (also known as "Hitler Reacts", "Hitler Parodies", or "Downfall Parodies") are Memetic Mutations involving fanmade series of Gag Subs involving Adolf Hitler and his famous freakout scene from Downfall (2004) (portrayed by Bruno Ganz), often ranting about several topics. Said rants are usually anachronistic, often over trivial matters and sometimes can even relate to current events of the time a video gets made, all for Rule of Funny.

There are thousands of videos out there, and they can use any part of the movie (or even clips from other movies), but the most common scenes used are Hitler planning a counterattack, Hitler melting down while in his bunker upon hearing that Felix Steiner couldn't muster up that counterattack, Hitler calling about artillery fire near the bunker, Otto Gunsche informing him that Hermann Fegelein has gone AWOL, or Hitler having dinner with some of his aides and learning that Himmler tried to have Germany surrender to the US behind his back. The most commonly used scenes are actually rather early in the film.

The series has since expanded to the point where the makers of parodies (or Untergangers in reference to the source material) have practically created an entire universe. Not only this, but it has expanded to the point where it has gained a number of spin-offs using footage from other films and videos:

• Inglourious Basterds: Another ranting Hitler, portrayed as an Arch-Enemy of Downfall Hitler. Popularised by the unterganger Hitler Rants Parodies.
• U-Boat Parodies: Using footage from Das Boot. Captain Heinrich Lemann-Willenbrock and the loveable crew of U-96 set out to perform all kinds of antics to embarrass Hitler.
• Stalin Parodies: Using footage from an obscure Russian film the title of which translates as Tukhachevksy, Conspiracy Marshall. Josef Stalin plots various schemes for his own ends, many of which ultimately cause trouble for Hitler.
• Angry German Kid Parodies: Crossover with another popular Internet Meme about a German kid having a massive breakdown over Unreal Tournament 3. Hitler and Leopold (the Angry German Kid) appear as equally vitriolic arch-enemies particularly in gaming.
• Revolution Parodies: Using footage of the Italian version of Duck, You Sucker!. John Mallory is out to get Hitler, and nothing's going to stop him from blowing him up.
• American Girl: Using (often dubbed) footage of various movies based on the toy line. The two most common are Felicity Merriman and Kit Kittredge, though footage using Samantha Parkington has also been used.
• Mussolini Parodies: Using footage from a film called Mussolini Ultimo Atto, which like Downfall depicts the fall of Mussolini. Much like Hitler Rants, Mussolini runs into all kinds of trouble and rants about it.
• Gaddafi Parodies: Using actual footage of Muammar Al-Gaddafi. He believes himself to be a superior dictator to the others, and is determined to prove it.

A list of Untergangers can be found here.

The parodies were also adapted into video games or Game Mods, also by Untergangers. Deadpool comics referenced this with Hitler complaining about Nick Fury.

For his part, the film's director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, likes the concept considering it furthers the purpose of his film of making the Nazis feel human and not just monsters one can dismiss as nothing like oneself.

Changing sociopolitical attitudes, YouTube's censorship of Nazi-related content and the retirement of prominent Untergangers have resulted in the meme declining in recent years, though there are some who are still dedicated to making Hitler parody videos to this day.

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Tropes:

Tropes about the parodies in general

• Acme Products: Both Reich Industries and FegelCorp produce all kinds of goods and services.
• Actually Pretty Funny: In the videos where Hitler realizes that YouTubers make fun of him with these parodies, there are usually other characters who think the videos are pretty funny. Hitler, of course, usually disagrees.
• Adolf Hitlarious: The whole point of this meme is to make fun of Adolf Hitler and the rest of Those Wacky Nazis through over-the-top Black Comedy and Surreal Humor.
• Affectionate Parody: Of Downfall.
• All There in the Manual: HRP's wiki has a timeline page that provides some background information that wasn't mentioned in any of his parodies.
• Anachronism Stew: Even though the setting seems to be 1945 Germany, Hitler and his acquaintances often encounter people, media, and technology from the past and future. There's no explanation for this.
  • Hitler Rants Parodies' works explicitly take place in an alternate timeline/universe: Germany still seems to be fascist, or at least authoritarian, with Hitler as Führer, but (among other things) World War II and the Final Solution didn't happen - only a "Reich/Soviet War" is mentioned, implied to have started over Stalin calling Hitler a dumbass - and Hitler himself sneers at Real Life Nazi genocides as "what that other dumbass [real] Hitler did".
• Anti-Villain: Pretty much any way you look at it, no matter which person is the central focus of the parody in question. After all, no matter which character is trying to be a hero, they’re still Nazis.
• Bilingual Bonus: Inverted for people understanding German, as hearing the original conversations can be a little bit distracting for them while watching the parodies. In an article commenting on the parodies, Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel even admitted to muting the sound when watching them.
• Black Comedy: Bad things frequently happen to Hitler and the rest of the cast, sometimes rather violently, and all of it's Played for Laughs.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: To the point of No Fourth Wall. Everyone seems to be aware that they are characters in YouTube videos. Unsurprisingly, Hitler is very displeased at how most of the humor is targeted at his expense.
• Crack Fic: Of the highly depressing war drama film Downfall, of all things.
• Crossover: Many parodies include characters and clips taken straight from other YouTube videos, movies, TV shows, cartoons, video games, and other media. Sometimes results in a full-blown Massive Multiplayer Crossover that serves as a metafictional parody of multiple different works.
• Death Is Cheap: Any character can be killed, but brought back with little or no explanation. Hermann Fegelein is the best example of this, and this is referred to as being some kind of superpower that he has.
• Digital Head Swap: Done crudely with parodies involving Hitler and company in scenarios e.g. where Hitler gets pranked by Fegelein. Though given the comedic nature of the parodies, it could be seen as a form of Stylistic Suck.
• Gag Sub: All of the subtitles are intentionally mistranslated from the original German, allowing Hitler to rant about anything.
  • German-speaking viewers will regularly comment that the videos lose some of their humor value if one actually understands what he's saying; however, this hasn't stopped some Germans on YouTube (such as Staedty86) from making these parodies. The effect is somewhat restored by watching with the audio muted.
• Live-Action Cartoon: These videos frequently involve a lot of Slapstick, Surreal Humor, and wacky characters that give them a very cartoonish feel.
• Negative Continuity: There is no real canon or continuity, so just about anything can happen without permanent consequences.
• Sadist Show: Many videos prominently feature Black Comedy and Comedic Sociopathy to varying degrees. Though as most of this sadistic humor primarily victimizes a cast full of Unsympathetic Comedy Villain Protagonists (who are also literal Nazis), it's hard to feel too sorry for any of them.
• Science Fantasy: Many videos involve the Nazis getting involved with strange phenomena from fantasy or science fiction.
• Stock Footage: The entire point of this meme is to reuse the same footage from Der Untergang over and over again, but add new subtitles and sometimes special effects to make entirely new stories.
• Surreal Humor: Many videos involve some really weird comedy, with the most absurdly random events happening, sometimes to the point of Mind Screw.

Tropes about specific videos

Video series with their own pages:

• Der Disneygang
  • Battle for the Bunker

• Aliens Are Bastards: The Na'kuhl in the War of the Hitlers series.
  • Some Fegel-Aliens abduct Hitler from his bunker at night to pull an antic on him.
  • In Battle for the Bunker, a group of former Antic Masters called the Destroyers plan to destroy the world, their antic to end all antics.
• All Just a Dream: Some parodies. For most of the time, it's Hitler who's dreaming it all up.
• Amusement Park: Hitler in one video plans to build his own theme park, known as "Hitlerland".
  • There's also another park called "Fegelland". Guess who owns this one.
• And I Must Scream: Hitler gets this treatment quite often, such as getting sent to hell or being trapped all by himself in a white void. These situations can either be Played for Laughs or be straight-up Nightmare Fuel. invoked
• Answer Cut: In the third part of "Hitler Plans to Have Justin Bieber Killed", when Hitler gets the Joker to kill Justin Bieber, Wiedling mentions that they forgot to tell the Joker about the "Spontaneous Jumping Truck Syndrome". When Hitler asks what that even means, it cuts to the scene of the Joker's truck flipping over.
• Anvil on Head: Happens to Gunsche and Hitler, courtesy of Fegelein.
• Apocalypse Wow: Played straight in a Downfall parody trailer of 2012, with the entire world falling to pieces on an epic scale.
• Artistic License: In a now-deleted video where Hitler tries to play The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and ends up encountering Ben Drowned, Hitler details how he plans to play the game in the first place using Dolphin Emulator, saying that someone from the bunker will go to the store and buy the emulator, and he will insert a CD of the game into said emulator. For one, Dolphin Emulator is a computer program, not a physical device. For another, you play games of an emulator by running the game's code within the software rather than with a CD.
• The Bad Guy Wins: In the wake of the Brazil v. Germany football game, Germany defeated Brazil to the delight of Hitler, and the one time Fegelein loses.
• Bait-and-Switch: Sometimes, a Pros and Cons video will start normally, only for Hitler to suddenly remember that the subject about which Günsche had asked had no pros, only cons.
• Bears Are Bad News: The Fegelbear.
• Big Bad: Usually Fegelein, though occasionally Hitler himself serves this role.
  • Otto Günsche and Soviet Union during "The Assassination Of Hitler" storyline serve this role. Na'kuhl and real-life Hitler take this role in "War of the Hitlers" storyline. Both storylines also feature Space Nazis.
• Big Damn Heroes: Wenck serves this role in the "War of the Hitlers" when he rounds up reinforcements from the other dead Hitlers to go up against Real Life Hitler, thus completely turning the tide of the war just when all hope seemed lost.
• Big Damn Movie: Sometimes there are series of parodies which cover a longer story arc.
  • Der Untergang: The Parody spoofs the whole Downfall film.
  • The Assassination of Hitler, in which Hitler is murdered, and all the other Nazi leaders fight for control of Germany. It is Darker and Edgier, using more of the drama and war scenes from the original movie, and there is a lot less humor.
  • War of the Hitlers, in which Downfall Hitler goes to war against Hitlers from other movies. This one is two-and-a-half hours long, easily the length of a feature film, and similarly to The Assassination of Hitler is Darker and Edgier, particularly once the Darkest Hour hits.
  • Hitler's Llama Priest, where Hitler leads an expedition to find the "Llama Priest" idol from a booby-trapped temple.
  • Der Disneygang, which deals with the Nazi invasion and occupation of the Disney universe.
    • Followed by Battle for the Bunker, which involves the above in reverse, with a cartoon invasion of Germany.
• Big "NO!": Done by Hitler in numerous videos, usually whenever he discovers that his plan to kill Fegelein failed.
  • Also tends to happen when Hitler is caught in an explosion.
  • He delivers a huge, 25 second long one as a reaction to the Hitler Rants Parodies channel reaching 100,000 subscribers. He does it again when he learns Trump won the election.
  • It happened yet again when Germany was eliminated from the 2018 World Cup in last place in their group.
• Bigger Is Better in Bed: Eva left him for Jonah Falcon.
• Bloodless Carnage: Varies between parodies.
• Body Horror: Played for laughs in this video.
• Brick Joke: In this video (involving humorous crossover with different Sonic the Hedgehog continuities) when Hitler mentions that the reason he believes that Dr. Julian Ivo Robotnik was defeated by the Freedom Fighters was because his troops were "screwing with that bat prostitute", he gets so depressed by this set back that he asks them to contact "Rouge the Prostitute".
• Brown Bag Mask: Hitler ends up wearing one after Squid Girl hacks his VPN service and leaks his browsing history.
• Butt-Monkey: Virtually everyone except for Fegelein and Himmler, though Hitler obviously gets the worst of it.
• Call-Back: When being informed he dies at the end of Inglourious Basterds, he references one of the original videos, in which he lost his Xbox Live account.
• The Captain: Captain Willenbrock.
• Casino Episode: Hiter goes to the Casino, where Fegelein beats Hitler at casino games.
• Cassandra Truth: Every time Hitler tries to search for Berlin on a map of Germany. When someone points directly to Berlin on the map (mainly Krebs), insisting that the capital city is located on the map, Hitler always dismissively claims that they know nothing about its whereabouts.
• Celebrity Paradox: The main reason why Benito Mussolini can't appear in the parodies, because Rod Steiger already appears as Juan Miranda in sketches involving Duck, You Sucker!, as enunciated in this video.
• The Chessmaster: Stalin, Willenbrock and Mallory.
• Christmas Episode: A near-absurd amount of them have been made (see here for a playlist containing most of them). The examples below are just the tip of the iceberg.
  • Hitler's Christmas Carol
  • Hitler's Christmas rant
  • Hitler is a Mall Santa
  • A Very Hitler Christmas! (RBC56's version)
  • How the Führer Stole Christmas!
  • Christmas in Hitler's bunker
  • How the Himmler & Fegelein stole Hitler's Christmas
  • Hitler's Best Christmas
  • Hitler Christmas Pictures
  • A Very Hitler Christmas! (KakashiBallZ's version)
  • Hitler's Christmas Present
  • Christmas In The Führerbunker
  • Hitler's Christmas Downfall
  • Hitler is informed it's Christmas
  • Hitler's Magical Christmas Adventure
• Cluster F-Bomb: Hitler, in some parodies, such as this one.
• Comes Great Responsibility: Said by Speer when he constructs the Wand of Doom for Hitler, but the latter ignores him, which leads to him getting his comeuppance.
• Companion Cube: Krebs loves pointing at his maps.
  • He's also quite interested in fish, as everything to meals to outright insane uses.
• Complexity Addiction: Mallory is so keen to blow up Hitler, but he never once seems to stop and consider the possibility of maybe using more reliable tactics... like just shooting him.
• Cool Ship: U-96, the setting of the U-Boat Parodies.
• Cosmic Horror Story: This whole meme takes place in a universe where dozens of people have the power to tear apart the universe, and they will do so for as simple a reason as to get a laugh.
  • This video uses footage from an actual Cosmic Horror Story, In the Mouth of Madness. The video sees Captain Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock tearing apart reality and forcing Hitler to endure the terrible music of Kate Bush's mirror universe counterpart, while the rest of the universe falls apart to his amusement.
  • One scrapped parody implied that killing Fegelein will result with an imbalance in the universe, causing metaphysical annihilation.
  • The Menace of Fegel-Forest, in which most of the cast is lost in a forest trying to survive against the Slender Man.
• Crossover: Many have been done so far, most prominently Hitler making phone calls to other depictions of himself.
  • For that matter, Hitler vs. Khan, which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, and the perspective flipped The Wrath of Hitler. Both videos splicing together footage from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan to make it look like Hitler is battling with Khan and Captain Kirk respectively.
  • Hitler plans on Retrieving EMI for the bronies and banning Sagan.
  • There have been numerous videos involving Hitler going to Equestria and interacting with the characters of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
  • This vid humorously crosses over Hitler and Green Lantern.
  • Hitler Phones Captain Blackadder.
  • Several scenes are crossed with footage from the early 90s PC game Wolfenstein 3D effectively merging the plot of the game with the film, including the final boss battle where Hitler fights in his battle mecha.
  • "Super Hitler Kart", which combines the Downfall characters, Super Mario Kart, and Mario Kart: Double Dash!!.
  • "Super Mario vs. The Führerbunker!", which pits the Downfall characters against Mario after Hitler fails to beat World 1-1.
  • Hitler goes to Silent Hill.
  • Hitler phoning Elsa, who breaks up with him. In song.
  • Der Disneygang is probably one of the biggest instances of this, with Fegelein fighting to save the entire Disney universe.
    • Followed by Battle for the Bunker, with Hitler trying to defend Berlin against various animated series.
• Cut Adolf Hitler a Check: Hitler attempts to steal Fegelein's grandma's purse to recapitalize the Reich treasury. It fails.
• Demoted to Extra: Despite serving a major role in the actual movie, Schneck rarely ever appears in the videos, and when he does, it's usually just a cameo.
• Depending on the Writer:
  • Hitler is either a raging Psychopathic Manchild, a Butt-Monkey of crazy pranks, or even the Only Sane Man.
  • Gunsche is usually the straight man to Hitler, but sometimes quirks into constantly spouting the obvious.
  • Fegelein can be anywhere from a constant prankster to The Ghost to even the Big Bad with almost god-like powers.
  • Usually Hitler is depicted as the protagonist and Fegelein as the antagonist, though other times Hitler is the villain who is tormenting everyone in the bunker, until Fegelein comes in to save the day.
  • The technology and places used can vary between well-known and established modern names (ie. Windows 7 and Gamestop) to a Nazi Bland-Name Product (ie. Windows 1945 and Reich Games).
  • In cases where Hitler is aware of the parodies, he can be either incredibly supportive of them (to the point where its depicted as though he himself actually writes and acts in them to entertain people) or he outright despises them and actively tries to get rid of them.
  • Hitler is either depicted as being anti-semitic, or isn't.
  • All men in the bunker are either perverts, or not.
• Determinator: There is literally nothing that can stop Mallory from his quest to blow up Hitler, and for that matter any antic master.
  • Hitler NEVER gives up in his attempts to kill Fegelein, even when the latter is portrayed as a Reality Warper in-universe, and acknowledged as such.
• Deus ex Machina: Lampshaded in "Super Hitler Kart" when Hitler chastises Gunsche for letting himself get defeated by one.
• Don't Be Ridiculous: In one video, Hitler rants about the flat Earth movement, pointing out how stupid it is to believe the Earth is flat... and at the very end, he says the Earth is shaped like a swastika.
• Drama Queen: Hitler melting down over the most insignificant things is (or was) the entire premise of the meme.
• Dream Within a Dream: Hitler's dream sequence. Lampshaded to shreds.
• Drives Like Crazy: Grawitz and Jodl fail their driving lessons this way.
• End-of-Series Awareness: Discussed when Constantin Films, the producers of Der Untergang, forced YouTube to remove most of the videos.
  • This also happened during the controversy surrounding SOPA, a bill that would have granted the entertainment business absolute power over the internet. This video depicts a nightmarish After the End scenario that resulted from the passing of the bill.
• Enemy Mine: Occasionally, Hitler and Fegelein will team up.
• Epic Fail: Well, that's a nice way of putting some of the things that happen in the bunker.
  • Possibly inverted in the U-Boat Parodies, at least from Willenbrock's point of view. For him, success is the only option, though that still usually results in him finding some way to benefit from Hitler's misery. Stalin Parodies follow a similar concept, though Stalin does occasionally get humiliated in comedic ways.
  • To a lesser degree, Mallory usually causes massive amounts of property damage, and does occasionally manage to blow up Hitler... but the strange way the Physics of the Parody Universe work ensure that either Hitler survives or his death his only temporary, leaving Mallory to constantly have to try new things.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In this video, Hitler rants about paedophillia.
  • One parody featured Hitler sending aid to Libyan rebels because Gaddafi "gave dictators a bad name".
  • A rare time where Hitler's plan actually succeeds is when he teamed up with Fegelein to destroy the Westboro Baptist Church, an organization that he can't stand.
• Evil Versus Evil: The 14 part epic "War of the Hitlers" (the link goes to the first episode) is probably one of the most exaggerated examples of this trope ever, following a war in which countless fictionalized depictions of Adolf Hitler duke it out for supremacy.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Subverted for HRP's "[character] tries to [action] for 10 hours", as Hitler (or even himself) gets tired of it/doing so.
• Fan Disservice: The ending of Hitler's third trip to Japan may very well be one of the greatest instances of the trope. Ugh...
• Flanderization: The officers are usually flanderized to just their most obvious actions. For instance, Jodl constantly objects, Krebs has a map-pointing fetish and Gunsche informs Hitler of anything. In the spin-off parodies, Mallory is a psycho whose solution to any problem is through explosives (usually dynamite), leading him to constantly blow various things up.
• Fluffy the Terrible: Fegelein has a pet panther called "Mr. Cuddlepants" in Hitler is a Mall Santa.
• Foil: Captain Heinrich Lemann-Willenbrock to Hitler. Hitler spends most of his time ranting and shouting at his incompetent staff to carry out plans which they can never manage. Meanwhile, Willenbrock, who doesn't even have a position of government, is calm, rational, and plans his schemes carefully. Guess which one normally succeeds. Merriman, Kittredge and Parkington also served as a stark foil to Hitler's sinister image, being that they were depicted in their original stories as loveable children and as role models.
• Forced Transformation:
  • In Hitler Becomes a Wizard, Hitler turns Grawitz into a cat toy and later into a toilet plunger. Then, when Fegelein gets a hold of the wand, he turns Hitler into a toilet.
  • There's also a video where Hitler gets transformed into a dog.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In one video, where Gunsche tells Hitler that he's being watched, Hitler eventually figures out that he's on YouTube and looks at the viewer, telling them to stop or he will take drastic measures.

• Gender Bender:
  • In one video, Fegelein turns Hitler into Vivian Wagner.
  • While it isn't an actual transformation, there's also a video where Fegelein traps Hitler in a Kit Kittredge costume and later in a Saige costume. On the opposite side of the spectrum, there's another video where Fegelein traps Traudl and Gerda in a Gunsche costume.
• The Ghost:
  • Steiner, though some have found ways to make him appear. It doesn't end well.
  • Wenck is also constantly mentioned throughout the parodies, but doesn't make any appearances.
• Gilligan Cut: In Hitler is a Mall Santa:
  Mohnke: You could try to get a seasonal job when you're at the mall. Try to make some extra cash.
  Hitler: ...That's actually a pretty good idea, Bonkers. I have a pretty damn impressive resume. There's no doubt in my mind I'll get the best job the Berlin Mall has to offer.
  (cut to Hitler at the mall, having been assigned the job of a Mall Santa)
  Hitler: You have got to be fucking kidding me.
• Gorn: Varies between parodies.
• Grammar Nazi: Lampshaded in "Hitler the Grammar Nazi", when Günsche mixes up the words "you're" and "your".
  • And taken to its logical conclusion in Downfall of Grammar, where Hitler rants about a sentence ending in a dangling participle.
• Groin Attack: Numerous videos center around Fegelein finding new ways to painfully hit Hitler in the crotch.
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: This happens in Hitler's Time Loop Tantrum, in which Hitler accidentally pushes a button that traps himself and his generals in a time loop.
• Halloween Episode: An overwhelming amount of them have been made (see here for a playlist containing most of them), the examples below are only just some of them.
  • Hitler is informed it's Halloween
  • Hitler's White Halloween
  • Hitler throws a Halloween party!
  • Hitler's Spooky Halloween
  • Hitler's Halloween Antics
  • Hitler is informed it's Halloween again
  • Hitler's Scary Halloween
  • Halloween In The Führerbunker
  • Ghost in the Bunker
• Heavy Voice: Happens when Hitler becomes overweight in ''Hitler and Operation Plumparossa''. He then demands that everyone in the bunker gains weight, as he likes how it makes their voices sound more masculine.
• Helium Speech: Many videos have depicted Fegelein filling the bunker with helium. Of course, each time, Hilarity Ensues.
• Hell Has New Management: If a parody features Hitler winding up in Hell, there's a good chance that Hitler will straight up insult the devil to his face (like here). Others seem to imply that Hitler dethroned Satan and took control of Hell.
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: Stalin, Steiner, Wenck and (sometimes) Fegelein, which is often played with. Stalin's shown up more since he got his own series.
• Hiccup Hijinks: Naturally the plot of Hitler has the hiccups.
• Hitler in His Bunker: Hitler plans a lot, but he remains in the bunker most of the time while his henchmen carry out his work.
• How the Character Stole Christmas: How the Führer Stole Christmas!
• Humiliation Conga: Hitler is usually on the receiving end of the stick, due to Fegelein's antics, bad luck, or a combination of both.
• "I Am Great!" Song: Burgdorf's Villain Song "Greatest in the Reich", as one can probably tell from the title.
• Idiot Ball: Goes back and forth depending on the parody. Hitler can go from being the Only Sane Man in one video to a complete moron in the next. Then of course there's Jodl, whose reasons for objecting to his plans range from pointing out blatant flaws to outright insanity.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Gunsche, as shown here. And here.
• Implacable Man: Anyone associate with antics will find a way to come back from the dead.
• Insane Troll Logic: Hitler tries to kill Fegelein with his phone, because he concludes that since weapons have never worked on him, non-weapons will therefore kill him.
  • Hitler's main reason for ignoring Jodl is because he is convinced it is bad luck to listen to a "bald virgin".
• Instant Soprano: Is the focal-gag of this video.
• Interservice Rivalry: Taken to the ridiculous extreme, with Hitler overseeing the regular German army while the entire navy is out to get him, though granted the German navy in this universe consists of two U-Boat crews and a slightly loopy Captain who's almost always drunk.
• In-Universe Nickname: Goebbels is typically called "Skeletor" by everyone else, much to his annoyance.
• It's All About Me:
  • In one video, Hitler complains that his pizza will be late, not caring that the delivery boy is literally risking life and limb to get it to him.
  • In a video where Hitler's attempt at a fundraiser fails spectacularly, he laments, "I can't believe how selfish the people of today are. Thinking about themselves and not me!"
• It Amused Me: This is the motivation for most antic masters.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Even Hitler and the Nazis thought kitty0706 was a creative and funny young man. Upon learning he'd passed away, they decided to pay their respects.
• Joker Immunity: Practically every single one of Hitler's arch enemies. On the rare occasion he does catch one of them, they'll always escape.
• Karma Houdini: Just about every antic master normally gets away with whatever scheme they've just pulled to make Hitler's life miserable. Once in a while, Fegelein gets arrested, but he usually gets out of it.
  • Mallory has yet to receive any form of comeuppance for what may be over thousands of dollars worth of property damage he has caused, or his numerous attempted murders.
• Karmic Trickster: Stalin's plans have one thing in common — to piss off Hitler.
• Knights of Cerebus: Space Nazis, who are directly and indirectly responsible for everything that happens in Darker and Edgier The Assassination of Hitler video series and are set up as Big Bads in "The Final Conflict".
• Large Ham: Three guesses on who.
• Locked in a Room: Several videos had the entire Bunker staff stuck in everything from elevators to closets to roller coasters.
• Lovecraft Lite: The aforementioned The Menace of Fegel-Forest is for the most part a very dark parody in which many familiar characters are forced to endure the horror of The Slender Man. That is until the very end, when Mallory successfully kills the Slender Man with an antic rifle, and then proceeds to detonate a liquid explosive specifically to blow up Hitler, as always.
• Loveable Rogue: Captain Willenbrock and the crew of U-96.
• Magic Wand: One is used by Hitler in "Hitler Becomes a Wizard". It doesn't end very well for him, though.
• Malevolent Mutilation: Fegelein painfully re-arranges Hitler's face in "Hitler plans a facial plastic surgery".
• Massively Multiplayer Crossover: Happens multiple times.
  • HRP's "War of the Hitlers" is a crossover between Downfall Hitler and a very large amount of other movie depictions of Adolf Hitler, battling it out in a huge war to determine who's the strongest Hitler. It even features the real life version of Hitler as the Big Bad by utilizing footage of his real life speeches.
  • Der Disneygang features many Disney characters being oppressed by and, at the end, in battle with the Downfall characters. Even characters from other entertainment brands, like Hasbro's Transformers and My Little Pony make cameo appearances.
  • Likewise, the sequel to Der Disneygang, the Battle for the Bunker, features many cartoon and anime characters taking vengeance on Hitler and his Nazis for taking over Disneyland, only for both sides to be attacked by alien spaceships from multiple alien invasion movies. The latest episode in this serial even features the Joker from Batman leading another attack.
• Mega-Corp: Some parodies mention one by the name of "Reich Tech", which apparently makes...well, everything. Hitler is CEO.
  • Another major company is FegelCorp. You can probably guess who owns it.
• Medium Awareness: In some videos, Hitler and some others are aware of the parodies, often in disgust.
• Mirror Universe: While not frequently explored, there is one that exists for the Parody Universe, where everything is reversed. The fact that everything is spelt backwards (regardless of how pronounceable it may make people's names) aside, Hitler has successfully conquered the world and worked his way into other dimensions, regularly performs antics on Fegelein and relentlessly tries to blow up Mallory who is also Juan's unwilling lackey, Captain Willenbrock constantly fails at his schemes due to the actions of Hitler and often rants about it, and Justin Bieber is the greatest singer of all time while Kate Bush is the absolute worst.
• Mundane Made Awesome: Frequent in many videos. "Hitler plans to breathe", for one example.
• Mushroom Samba: Hitler's Magical Desk.
• Nazi Protagonist: Hitler and his staff whenever the focus is on them.
• Never Mess with Granny: Hitler's attempts to steal Fegelein's grandmother's purse fail rather spectacularly.
• Nominal Hero: Sure, Mallory, Willenbrock, Fegelein, Kittredge, and others are all out to get Hitler... just not for the reasons you'd normally expect...
• Not Me This Time: Given that Fegelein made several antics towards the inhabitants of the bunker, he had to clarify at times when a misfortune is not a result of him that time when everyone looks at him^note particularly in a clip where he's nearby the door the time Hitler lets out his rant.
• Once per Episode: In the "Hitler Is Informed" parodies, they will almost always include the lines: "I'm fucked!" and "Fegelein! Fegelein! Fegelein!"
• Political Overcorrectness: Hitler is definitely not amused by this.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: Given that the "hero" is often Adolf Hitler.
• Poe's Law: Has occurred a few times. Most notably, several viewers mistook FegaMan's "paid DLC" to be a serious statement.
• Porn Stache: Stalin and Mallory.
• Potty Emergency:
  • Happens to Gunsche in one video, where he's prevented from going to the bathroom because of everyone asking him for favors.
  • Serves as the "explosive" finale of "Hitler plans to get Göring in shape" when Hitler spikes Göring's food with laxatives.
• Pragmatic Villainy: In this video, Hitler is outraged that the Jews have been subjected to extermination... because he wanted them to finance Germany's reconstruction
• Reality Warper:
  • Fegelein, although Hitler has his moments.
  • Hitler's pencils have the power to do anything from blowing up buildings to stopping time. It gets even more absurd, as quite a few characters have superweapons hidden in seemingly ordinary objects, such as forks, bottles, and even select body parts.
  • Captain Willenbrock tore a hole in the space-time continuum, in the process creating mass chaos, and forcing Hitler to listen to a horrible alternate mirror version of Kate Bush just for a laugh.
• Road Runner vs. Coyote: Pretty much any parody where Mallory appears. To be fair, Hitler doesn't get off quite so easy, it's just that Mallory can never permanently kill him with his explosives.
• Rogue Agent: Willenbrock.
• Rule of Cool: Most of the action-themed parodies.
• Rule of Funny: The main reason these videos exist, and often revolve around trivial things. Oddly enough, this defense won an Australian man his job back and a settlement from his employer in May 2020. About a year and a half earlier during contract negotiations, he posted one of these videos to his union’s closed Facebook page and management saw it and fired him. A lower court ruled that since the man was clearly joking and was not literally calling them Nazis, the video was protected speech and his termination was unlawful. The company tried to appeal but the federal court rejected the case and let the lower court ruling stand.
• Rule of Symbolism: There are very specific individuals representing good and bad music. Kate Bush exists as the personification of beautiful, powerful, and incredible pop music while Justin Bieber is used as a personification of crappy music. It's not just limited to music, though. There are many others.
• Running Gag: This meme is full of running gags, due to reusing and recycling many of the same scenes, and humor derived from eccentric characters and their personality quirks. Examples include Krebs's fish obsession and Jodl's objecting to everything.
• Scary Stinging Swarm: In Hitler's adventure in Africa, Hitler gets attacked by a bee swarm. It gets ridiculous when they drive a police car to destroy his. Then Hitler fights a giant bee and loses. Fortunately, it's All Just a Dream. Or Was It a Dream? Because the ending doesn't make any sense.
• Schmuck Bait: the FegelStations. Even before playing the first one, Hitler suspects there is something amiss. Upon playing it he immediately catches on that the "bugs" in it were put there on purpose and that the entire system is made to troll him. And yet, even three Fegelstations later, he still didn't learn his lesson to just not touch the damn things.
• Sdrawkcab Name: Nielegef, and pretty much everything from the Mirror Parody Universe. Exaggerated in some parodies, where his name is mirrored horizontally in the subtitles.
• Seadog Beard: Captain Willenbrock and the crew of U-96 frequently, though they do tend to shave more frequently than they did in Das Boot.
• Self-Deprecation: In many of HRP's videos, whenever Hitler mentions him, he calls him an idiot and a loser for making so many Downfall parodies.
• Serious Business: For starters, try telling him that his Xbox Live account has been banned for life.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: In "Hitler meets Fegelein (FINALLY!)", Fegelein finally arrives to Hitler's office after the former has called for him so many times. Unfortunately, Hitler has forgotten what he wanted to talk to Fegelein about.
• Shared Universe: It would be impossible to count how many people have made parodies, though different people have different views on continuity. HitlerRantsParodies, for example seems to be set entirely in his own independent continuity, while HitchcockJohn and Benad 361's parodies appear to be set in the same reality, occasionally collaborating in crossovers or borrowing characters from each other's work.
• Shout-Out: Many. Listing them here would just stretch the page, so just look up the parodies if you want to.
• Sickeningly Sweet: Invoked with Burgdorf's music video, which depicts him singing poorly near a pretty rural cottage, dancing with young children and petting rabbits. For some reason, he made this as a recruitment commercial for the Hitler Youth! Hitler was very embarrassed and enraged by it.
• Sinister Surveillance: Hitler attempts this on the bunker in the fifth Viva La Fegel video to stop Fegelein's antics once and for all. It of course backfires once it comes to light that Speer, who installed the cameras for him, was in cahoots with Fegelein and also put in a Foxy animatronic as well.
• Smoking Is Cool: Krebs smokes in some scenes, and Koller smokes in his major scenes.
  • Apparently not in Hitler's Orange Mocha Frappuccino.
• Sound-Effect Bleep: In "Viva La Fegel 2", Hitler gets an enormous cock as a result of Fegelein messing with his medicines. Leads to weird sex with Eva, which the others listen in on. But when asked about what he was doing:
  "I never knew Viagra would help me *WHINNY!* so well. The *SQUAWK!* was that noise?! Now he's censoring me! He's *ELEPHANT TRUMPETING*. Don't tell me I'll have to walk around doing this all *OWL COOING* day. Tell *CAW!* to undo this! *CUE MORE BLEEP SOUND EFFECTS*"
• The Starscream: As of "The Assassination of Hitler," Gunsche is revealed to be this: He was the one to assassinate Hitler in the first place, and is revealed to be working with the Space Nazis.
• The Stinger: The supposedly wild Pikachu that Hitler encounters in "Hitler Tries to Catch Pikachu" turns out to be Fegelein's, who contemplates sending out Mewtwo next time after returning Pikachu to its Poké Ball.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Mallory has made it his goal in life to blow up Hitler. Anything that gets in his way also goes boom!
  • The Silver Universe's parodies has lots and lots of explosions that would make Michael Bay proud.
• Stylistic Suck: A lot of parodies use cheesy special effects, such as pasting characters and objects into other video clips in a crude fashion. It can still be very funny though.
• Take Our Word for It: We never get to see the process of Hitler's facial surgery thanks to Fegelein, but judging by the screams Hitler makes during the process, it's painful. We do get to see the final product of the surgery, and it's terrifying.
• Take That!: Towards Justin Bieber mostly, although any form of media that Hitler rants about qualifies as well.
• Tank Goodness: Not really. Super Hitler Kart proves otherwise.
• Team Rocket Wins: Once in a while, one of Hitler's plans actually succeeds.
• Technology Marches On: Invoked. in "Hitler's Movie Theater" (Fegel-Dolf), Dolfy plans to open a cinema operated with an old 35mm projector, however Jodl's objections prove true and the theatre turns into the FegelAntics Theater.
• Temporal Paradox: HitlerRantsParodies' parodies run on the Multiverse Theory of time travel.
• Tempting Fate: Usually combined with You Just Had to Say It.
• Terrible Interviewees Montage: This occurs in "Hitler wants to find a new successor", where he's shown quickly rejecting numerous interviewees, including Darth Vader, Napoleon I, Sauron, and George W. Bush.
• Thanksgiving Episode: Several have been done, including:
  • Hitler's Thanksgiving Day!
  • Hitler is informed it's Thanksgiving
  • Hitler is wished a Happy Thanksgiving
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Hitler gets everyone to try and kill Fegelein
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: In-Universe, this is actually the standard for these videos, including the Trope Maker video.
  • In particular, this was Hitler's reaction to recent attraction changes at EPCOT Center, even ranting over it's name change to just "Epcot".
• Throw the Dog a Bone: Very rarely will things work out in Hitler's favor.
• Thumbtack on the Chair: One episode of Viva la Fegel has Fegelein do this to Hitler, among other antics.
• Time Machine: Several videos revolve around one being invented, and usually end up being used by Fegelein.
• To Hell and Back: Numerous videos have the characters going to Hell, but then escaping via various means.
• Too Dumb to Live: Hitler's Orange Mocha Frappuchino ends with Günsche lighting a cigarette while he, Jodl, and Burgdorf are covered with gasoline, detonating the gas station and killing the three (but not Hitler).
• Ultimate Job Security: Despite all the antics he pulled on Hitler, Fegelein somehow still remained in the bunker.
• Unfortunate Implicationsinvoked: This is Hitler's biggest problem with Miley Cyrus's "maturity" during the MTV 2013 Music Video Awards.
• Unwinnable by Design: Taken to extremes with Fegelein's FegelStation video game console, which has games programmed with instant death traps just to piss Hitler off. Then he trolls Hitler again with the FegelStation 2. And the FegelStation 3. And the FegelStation 4! To top it off, he manages to break Hitler's television... twice!
• Valentine's Day Episode: Many have been done, below are just a few examples:
  • Hitler is informed it's Valentine's Day
  • Hitler has not received a Valentine's card
  • Hitler's Valentine's Day
  • Hitler finds out it's Valentine's Day
  • Pros and Cons with Adolf Hitler: Valentine's Day
• Vestigial Empire: Played straight to the extreme. The Fuhrerbunker is all that is left of Nazi Germany. Some takes make this slightly less vestigial by having Hitler's authority extend to at least part of topside Berlin.
• Villain Song: "Greatest in the Reich" serves as this for Burgdorf.
• "The Villain Sucks" Song: "You're a Mean One, Mr. Führer"
• Volleying Insults: Happens between Mohnke and Goebbels at one point.
• Vulgar Humor: Many of Wonky-Tonk-Botty's parodies (and YouTube Poops) fit this trope to a T, due to his graphic use of Toilet Humor, vile profanities/references, mockery of people getting killed/seriously injured, racist content or politically incorrect/Moral Event Horizon material.
• We Need a Distraction: Particularly done in the Viva La Fegel videos by Günsche to distract Hitler.
• Wham Episode: Battle for the Bunker episode 6: Hitler's deceased mother used to be a member of the Destroyers, and Günsche is revealed to be the group's spy.
• World of Snark: Virtually every single character at one point has made a joke or snarky remark in a serious tone of voice. Hitler himself is usually this, most commonly in parodies where he is portrayed as the Only Sane Man.
• World War III: In "Hitler eliminates Vladimir Putin", Germany invades Russia, and Adolf Hitler personally executes Vladimir Putin. Hitler did this believing that he would maintain world peace, but instead he causes a nuclear apocalypse.
• You Bastard!: Subtly done in A Lonely Christmas; you'll feel bad after laughing at Hitler's antic on Jodl, who is left alone by himself to celebrate Christmas after his wife died.
• You Cloned Hitler!: And usually against his own will.
• Your Answer to Everything: Every problem Hitler faces will be met with ranting, Fegelein will always deal with his problems via antics, Krebs will point at maps, and of course Mallory's solution to everything is to blow it up.
• Your Mom: Viva La Fegel 3 features a "Yo Momma" contest.
• Yuri Fan: Hitler Ships Korrasami

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