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  • Complete Monster: The titular Lucien Lacombe is a sociopathic teenager from Vichy France who hides his lack of emotion behind a pretty face. After being denied entry into the local anti-Nazi movement, Lucien joins the Milice and sells out the resistance commander—his old schoolteacher—out of spite. Gladly helping with the arrest of several resistance fighters, Lucien manipulates the daughter of one of his associates, France Horn, into falling in love with him. When France's father is captured for being a Jew, Lucien accuses him of being responsible for his own demise in front of France, slapping and raping her when she shows disgust towards his attitude. Even his allies are not safe from him, as shown when Lucien murders his own SS partner solely to reclaim a pocket watch. Believing Nazism to be a tool for him to exert his power over people, Lucien served as an example of how some collaborators were just as bad as the Nazis themselves.

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