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* PunnyName: His name is clearly based on UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
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** Funnily enough, most characters who fall into the GeneralRipper trope tend to be such violent rage-bags it strains credibility for them to have ever gotten to such a high rank. The TropeNamer, on the other hand, is [[Main/UnbuiltTrope calm, cool and collected]] for most of the film, to the point that he's been cleared for a psych evaluation to be given potential clearance to order a nuclear strike. He remains completely in control even after ordering a preemptive nuclear strike, and the sheer depths of his madness don't become clear until he gives Mandrake a MotiveRant (which even then he has to be lightly goaded into giving).
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* {{Malaproper}}: Bat Guano gets it all wrong, even on a verbal level.
-->'''Bat Guano:''' I think you're a deviated ''prevert''. Gen. Ripper found out about your ''preversion'' and that you're organizing some kind of mutiny of ''preverts''. If you try any of your ''preversions'' in there, I'll blow your head off.
-->'''Bat Guano:''' I think you're a deviated ''prevert''. Gen. Ripper found out about your ''preversion'' and that you're organizing some kind of mutiny of ''preverts''. If you try any of your ''preversions'' in there, I'll blow your head off.
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* MadnessMantra: "Purity Of Essence" mixed with "Peace On Earth", for GeneralRipper.
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Implied to be the reason General Ripper went nuts with the "precious bodily fluids" stuff.
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* LawfulStupid: Col. "Bat" Guano initially refuses to let Mandrake break into a vending machine to get the change he needs to call the President even though the latter is trying to ''prevent a nuclear holocaust''. Even after giving in, Guano sternly insists he will "have to answer to the Coca-Cola company".
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Before kicking the bucket, Ripper remarks that he knows he'll have to answer in the afterlife for what he did and that he thinks he can.
* 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.
* 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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* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Lionel Mandrake - "I'd love to come, Jack, but you see, the thing is, the string's...gone out...in my leg!" A literal Lame Excuse.
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* 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.
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* GutturalGrowler: Gen. Turgidson. He is played by George C. Scott, after all.
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* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: The Soviet premier. Not only not seen, but not heard either. Sellers does a [[Creator/BobNewhart Newhart]]-style telephone gag where, though you only hear President Merkin's side of the conversation, it's pretty clear what "Dmitri" is saying.
-->'''Merkin:''' I'm sorry too, Dmitri. I'm very sorry.... All right, you're sorrier than I am. But I am sorry as well... I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri. Don't say that you're more sorry than I am because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we're both sorry, all right? ... All right.
-->'''Merkin:''' I'm sorry too, Dmitri. I'm very sorry.... All right, you're sorrier than I am. But I am sorry as well... I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri. Don't say that you're more sorry than I am because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we're both sorry, all right? ... All right.
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* GeniusCripple: Doctor Strangelove, although he regained the ability to walk seconds before the world ended.
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* TheFriendlyTexan: Major: T.J. "King" Kong, who wears his cowboy hat proudly. He cements his status as the Friendly Texan after reading through the contents of the survival kit, after which he notes cheerfully:
--> '''Major Kong:''' Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
--> '''Major Kong:''' Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
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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".
* EvilLaugh: Dr. Strangelove has a broken way of laughing on occasion that sits comfortably between Un-Evil and just plain Evil.
* EvilLaugh: Dr. Strangelove has a broken way of laughing on occasion that sits comfortably between Un-Evil and just plain Evil.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Ripper's fate. He does it because he is not sure he could trust himself not to give up the code to call The Wing back if he is given "[[EnhancedInterrogationTechniques a pretty good working over]]."
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* TheDeterminator: Major Kong and the rest of the crew of ''The Leper Colony''.
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An officer involved in the raid against Burpelson Air force Base. He doesn’t care why he’s there, he’s going to carry out his orders exactly as given to him.
* CombatPragmatist: Col. Bat Guano is right for not going into combat with loose change in his pocket; a nearby explosion's shockwave could suddenly turn that pocket change into shrapnel embedded in his body.
* CombatPragmatist: Col. Bat Guano is right for not going into combat with loose change in his pocket; a nearby explosion's shockwave could suddenly turn that pocket change into shrapnel embedded in his body.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Mandrake, as the OnlySaneMan, gets designated snarker status for this film.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: General Jack D. Ripper, with his belief that the Communists are poisoning American drinking water.
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* CoolShades: Dr. Strangelove's teashades.
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* ColonelKilgore: General Turgidson is letting his inner five-year-old who plays with army men out. His over-the-top enthusiasm shows he gets a hell of a kick out of a war he is supposed to prevent.
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* WhatAnIdiot: He activates the doomsday device ''before'' it is announced publicly that they have one. Dr. Strangelove points out that a doomsday deterrence doesn’t work if ''you don’t tell anybody about it.''
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*UnfortunateName: Literally means “bat shit.”
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* TheComicallySerious: There’s no joy in anything he says and does but this makes him hilarious.
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* TheComicallySerious: There’s no joy in anything he says and does but this makes him hilarious.
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* TheComicallySerious: There’s no joy in anything he says and does but this makes him hilarious.
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* TheComicallySerious: There’s no joy in anything he says and does but this makes him hilarious.
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The president of the USSR. He is called to help call off the nuclear war.
* TheGhost: No actor plays him and his lines are only implied by Muffley’s side of the phone calls.
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