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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: The His whole motivation for his going rouge and ending the world.world is that he was unable to perform during sexual intercourse and subsequently convinced himself that a vast communist conspiracy was somehow the reason.
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* DoNotGoGentle: Ordinarily, any man who finds himself falling to his death while on top of a nuclear bomb would probably be screaming in terror in his final moments. Major Kong, on the other hand, waves his hat and yodels with excitement as he and the bomb plummet towards the surface of Russia.
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[[folder: General Jack D. Ripper]]
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[[folder: General Buck Turgidson]]
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An arrogant bombastic general. He is called to the war room to help figure out how to call off the attack, or deal with the consequences.
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[[folder: Major T. J. "King" Kong]]
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* BoomerangBigot: He's barely able to hide his nostalgia for the time of Nazism, even though, as a paraplegic, the Nazis would've killed him.
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* BoomerangBigot: He's barely able to hide his nostalgia for the time of Nazism, Nazism even though, though as a paraplegic, the Nazis would've killed him.him, assuming he hasn't just been faking it for the Americans.
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* GutturalGrowler: He is played by George C. Scott, after all.
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* SkewedPriorities: When Muffley calls to warn him of the impending attack. Kissov seems more deeply concerned that Muffley doesn't like him as a friend and would rather spend time chatting with him socially.
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* SkewedPriorities: When Muffley calls to warn him of the impending attack. Kissov seems more deeply concerned that Muffley doesn't like him as a friend and would rather spend time chatting with him socially. Justified by the fact that he's drunk.
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* AdaptationNameChange: He was Major Paul Howard in ''Red Alert.''
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* AdaptationNameChange: From the novel's Captain Brown.
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* AdaptationNameChange: From the novel's Captain Brown.Clint Brown.
* AgeLift: Clint Brown in the novel is 26, rather than being middle-aged as Kong is.
* AgeLift: Clint Brown in the novel is 26, rather than being middle-aged as Kong is.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the novelization, General Ripper escapes from Burpleson on his private plane rather than commit suicide.
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* AdaptationNameChange: He was Lt Col. Andrew Mackenzie in ''Red Alert.''
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From the novel: Howard looked out at the base while they removed what was left of Quinten, and cleared up some of the mess. When a man puts a four five in his mouth and pulls the trigger, there is inevitably a mess. The only way he escaped would be in a body bag.
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* DeathByAdaptation: Ripper's novel counterpart doesn't commit suicide; he escapes at the controls of a plane.
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Captain Brown dies of his injuries from one of several missile attacks on the ''Alabama Angel,'' rather than ride the bomb into thermonuclear oblivion as Kong does.
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* NaturalizedName: His birth name was "Merkwürdigliebe", [[/note [[BilingualBonus German for 'strange love']]]] but he changed it when he became an American citizen.
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* NaturalizedName: His birth name was "Merkwürdigliebe", [[/note [[note]] [[BilingualBonus German for 'strange love']]]] love']] [[/note]] but he changed it when he became an American citizen.citizen.
*NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: A ''nasty'' caricature of Herman Kahn, a famously pro-nuclear war scientist and irl creator of the 'doomsday device'. Also closely resembles a fellow ex-Nazi, the rocket scientist Wehrner Von Braun, and pro nuclear war amoral scientists involved in the development of the H Bomb, Edward Teller and John Von Neumann.
**Creator/ArthurCClarke, who knew both Creator/StanleyKubrick and Wernher von Braun, reported that Kubrick once asked him to "tell Wernher I wasn't getting at him." Clarke adds, "I never did because, firstly, I didn't believe him, and secondly, even if Stanley wasn't, Peter Sellers certainly was."
**His ridiculous and implied BlindIdiotTranslation name change to sound more Americanised is especially reminiscient of Von Neumann; a Hungarian born margittai Neumann János, which he changed to the German Johann von Neumann, then John von Neumann in America, insisting he be referred to as 'Johnny'. [[note]] Technically, his birth name was actually just Neumann János, which Germanised would just be John Neumann. The noble prefix margittai, meaning 'of Marghita' (a town in Romania that the Neumanns weren't from; it was chosen because of John's mother, Margaret), was added to his name when his father was ennobled when he was nine. He rendered this in German as 'Johann Von Neumann', a noble particle meaning 'John of Neumann' (which isn't even a real place). [[/note]]
*NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: A ''nasty'' caricature of Herman Kahn, a famously pro-nuclear war scientist and irl creator of the 'doomsday device'. Also closely resembles a fellow ex-Nazi, the rocket scientist Wehrner Von Braun, and pro nuclear war amoral scientists involved in the development of the H Bomb, Edward Teller and John Von Neumann.
**Creator/ArthurCClarke, who knew both Creator/StanleyKubrick and Wernher von Braun, reported that Kubrick once asked him to "tell Wernher I wasn't getting at him." Clarke adds, "I never did because, firstly, I didn't believe him, and secondly, even if Stanley wasn't, Peter Sellers certainly was."
**His ridiculous and implied BlindIdiotTranslation name change to sound more Americanised is especially reminiscient of Von Neumann; a Hungarian born margittai Neumann János, which he changed to the German Johann von Neumann, then John von Neumann in America, insisting he be referred to as 'Johnny'. [[note]] Technically, his birth name was actually just Neumann János, which Germanised would just be John Neumann. The noble prefix margittai, meaning 'of Marghita' (a town in Romania that the Neumanns weren't from; it was chosen because of John's mother, Margaret), was added to his name when his father was ennobled when he was nine. He rendered this in German as 'Johann Von Neumann', a noble particle meaning 'John of Neumann' (which isn't even a real place). [[/note]]
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* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Rather [[RuleOfFunny inexplicably]] regains the ability to walk at the end of the movie [[/note: in real life, Peter Seller forgot his character was supposed to be paraplegic and stood up, before [[ThrowItIn ad-libbing]] to cover it.]]
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* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Rather [[RuleOfFunny inexplicably]] regains the ability to walk at the end of the movie [[/note: in [[note]] In real life, Peter Seller forgot his character was supposed to be paraplegic and stood up, before [[ThrowItIn ad-libbing]] to cover it.]]it. [[/note]]
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* NaturalizedName: His birth name was "Merkwürdigliebe", [[note/ [[BilingualBonus German for 'strange love']]]] but he changed it when he became an American citizen.
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* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Rather [[RuleOfFunny inexplicably]] regains the ability to walk at the end of the movie [[note: [[/note: in real life, Peter Seller forgot his character was supposed to be paraplegic and stood up, before [[ThrowItIn ad-libbing]] to cover it.]]
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* MadnessMantra: "Purity Of Essence" mixed with "Peace On Earth", for GeneralRipper.
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* TestosteronePoisoning: An '''extremely''' dark example, actually pretty close to the original meaning of the term: in her book 'Missile Envy', Helen Caldicott coins the term 'testosterone poisoning' to mock men insecure about their masculinity who were driven by it to perpetuate the nuclear arms race. Ripper is an exaggerated example of this, played for both drama and BlackComedy; he ''destroys the world'' because he can no longer get it up during sex.
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* TestosteronePoisoning: An '''extremely''' dark example, actually pretty close to the original meaning of the term: in her book 'Missile Envy', ''Missile Envy'', Helen Caldicott coins the term 'testosterone poisoning' to mock men insecure about their masculinity who were driven by it to perpetuate the nuclear arms race. Ripper is an exaggerated example of this, this idea, played for both drama and BlackComedy; he ''destroys the world'' because he can no longer get it up during sex.sex. The movie in general plays on the ridiculously phallic and [[FreudWasRight Freudian]] aspects of the conflict, even playing porn music over scenes of bomber airplanes refueling.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Strangelove spends all his screen time acting as [[EvilIsHammy cartoonishly evil]] as possible, and has a Nazi past to boot, but he never does anything all that evil, at least not that we know about (although his obvious glee to see that humanity is going to be destroyed, and the fact that this joy is enough to make him ''walk again''...).
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Mentally ill? Check. Constantly battling his own hand? Check. An ex-Nazi you want to mess with? Heck no.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Strangelove spends all his screen time acting as [[EvilIsHammy cartoonishly evil]] as possible, and has a Nazi past to boot, but he never does ''does'' anything all that evil, at least not that we know about evil while onscreen (although his obsessive planning of a suspiciously fascist bunker system to survive the war and obvious glee to see that humanity is going to be destroyed, and the fact that this joy is enough to make him ''walk again''...).
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Mentally ill? Check. Constantly battling his own hand? Check.An A genius ex-Nazi you want to mess with? Heck no.
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* EvilHand: Dr. Strangelove has one, which seems to act on Strangelove's violent and Nazi subconscious. The portrayal was so influential that the real-life condition [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome "alien hand syndrome"]] is also known as "Dr. Strangelove Syndrome".
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* EvilHand: Dr. Strangelove Famously has one, which seems to act on Strangelove's his violent and Nazi subconscious.subconscious; it does Nazi salutes and hilariously grapples with him throughout the movie, even punching him in the face and trying to choke him at one point. The portrayal was so influential that the real-life condition [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome "alien hand syndrome"]] is also known as "Dr. Strangelove Syndrome".
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* GeniusCripple: Doctor Strangelove, although he regained the ability to walk seconds before the world ended.
* HerrDoctor: Strangelove is an ex-Nazi MadScientist who became a U.S. operative after the war. He has trouble shaking his old ways, such that at one point he accidentally addresses the President as "Mein Fuehrer" before correcting himself to "Mr. President." With elements of MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate.
* HookHand: The wheelchair-bound Dr. Strangelove is a type of "mad scientist" whose eccentricities include a severe case of alien hand syndrome, so that his right hand, clad in an ominous black leather glove, variously attempts to strangle Strangelove or make the Nazi salute.
* HerrDoctor: Strangelove is an ex-Nazi MadScientist who became a U.S. operative after the war. He has trouble shaking his old ways, such that at one point he accidentally addresses the President as "Mein Fuehrer" before correcting himself to "Mr. President." With elements of MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate.
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*FourEyesZeroSoul: A sadistic, sociopathic Nazi with shaded spectacles.
* GeniusCripple:Doctor Strangelove, Is confined to a wheelchair for unclear reasons, although he regained regains the ability to walk seconds before the world ended.
*GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Has a prominent cigarette clenched firmly in his teeth in his first scene. Is '''not''' a good guy.
* HerrDoctor: Strangelove is an ex-Nazi MadScientist who became a U.S. operative after thewar.war, with a comically thick German accent. He has trouble shaking his old ways, such that at one point he accidentally addresses the President as "Mein Fuehrer" before correcting himself to "Mr. President." With elements of MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate.
*HookHand: The wheelchair-bound Dr. Strangelove is a type of "mad scientist" whose eccentricities include a severe case of alien hand syndrome, so that his right hand, clad in an ominous RedRightHand: His black leather glove, variously attempts to strangle Strangelove or make the Nazi salute.gloved hand.
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*GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Has a prominent cigarette clenched firmly in his teeth in his first scene. Is '''not''' a good guy.
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*ScaryShinyGlasses: As funny as Strangeglove is, his menacingly glinting shaded glasses are just one part of his character that makes him also something of a figure of [[NightmareFuel nightmare]].
*ScaryShinyGlasses: As funny as Strangeglove is, his menacingly glinting shaded glasses are just one part of his character that makes him also something of a figure of [[NightmareFuel nightmare]].
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* ImproperlyParanoid: General Ripper triggers WorldWarIII because, in an era where Communist Russia literally had dastardly plans afoot (ex. the Doomsday Machine), he ''still'' jumps on the most brain-dead silly conspiracy theory of all as the reason to champion such a thing.
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* ImproperlyParanoid: General Ripper He triggers WorldWarIII because, in an era a movie where Communist Russia literally had has dastardly plans afoot (ex. the Doomsday Machine), he ''still'' jumps on the most brain-dead silly conspiracy theory of all as the reason to champion such a thing.
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Implied to be the reason General Ripper went nuts with the "precious bodily fluids" stuff.
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*TestosteronePoisoning: An '''extremely''' dark example, actually pretty close to the original meaning of the term: in her book 'Missile Envy', Helen Caldicott coins the term 'testosterone poisoning' to mock men insecure about their masculinity who were driven by it to perpetuate the nuclear arms race. Ripper is an exaggerated example of this, played for both drama and BlackComedy; he ''destroys the world'' because he can no longer get it up during sex.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: His hand does the Hitler salute, and his idea of selecting people with the right qualities to live underground is a subtle allusion to Nazi eugenics.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: His hand does the Hitler salute, and his idea of selecting people with the right qualities to live underground is a subtle an obvious allusion to Nazi eugenics.
