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** [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff The work is unexpectedly popular in Germany]] and the work's attempt to exploit this isn't well=researched enough for anything more nuanced.

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** [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff The work is unexpectedly popular in Germany]] and the work's attempt to exploit this isn't well=researched well-researched enough for anything more nuanced.
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'''Basic Trope''': Germans are portrayed as being very serious and stuffy.

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'''Basic Trope''': Germans are portrayed as being very serious and stuffy.stuffy, or angsty and melancholic.
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** The writer is an East German (or have researched East Germany) and they have endured [[WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell the sad state of the fall of East Germany]], to them, portray the ''entire'' Germany as a CrapsackWorld is just appropriate.

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** The writer is an East German (or have researched East Germany) and they have endured [[WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell the sad state of the fall of East Germany]], Germany]]; to them, portray the ''entire'' Germany as a CrapsackWorld is just appropriate.
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** The writer is an East German and they have endured [[WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell the sad state of the fall of East Germany]], to them, portray the ''entire'' Germany as a CrapsackWorld is just appropriate.

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** The writer is an East German (or have researched East Germany) and they have endured [[WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell the sad state of the fall of East Germany]], to them, portray the ''entire'' Germany as a CrapsackWorld is just appropriate.

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* '''Enforced''': [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff The work is unexpectedly popular in Germany]] and the work's attempt to exploit this isn't well=researched enough for anything more nuanced.

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* '''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
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[[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff The work is unexpectedly popular in Germany]] and the work's attempt to exploit this isn't well=researched enough for anything more nuanced.nuanced.
** The writer is an East German and they have endured [[WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell the sad state of the fall of East Germany]], to them, portray the ''entire'' Germany as a CrapsackWorld is just appropriate.



* '''Discussed''': ???

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* '''Discussed''': ???"Hans is TheWoobie and he doesn't even show any positive emotions ever possible." "Maybe we can only hope [[WhenSheSmiles when he smiles]]."
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** Germany is a CrapsackWorld and Hans doesn't like the lifestyle, but he rather doesn't talk about it.

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** Germany is a CrapsackWorld (especially [[WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell the East German parts]]) and Hans doesn't like the lifestyle, but he rather doesn't talk about it.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Hans is German and is actually incapable of feeling emotions.

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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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Hans is German and is actually incapable of feeling emotions.emotions.
** All Germans are portrayed as sour people.
** Germany is the WorldOfSilence.

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* '''Downplayed''': Hans is fairly uptight, but not much more than the rest of the cast.
* '''Justified''': German culture really does support hard work and a strict division of business and pleasure.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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Hans is fairly uptight, but not much more than the rest of the cast.
** Hans is a KnightInSourArmor.
* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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German culture really does support hard work and a strict division of business and pleasure.pleasure.
** Germany is a CrapsackWorld and Hans doesn't like the lifestyle, but he rather doesn't talk about it.
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'''Basic Trope''': Germans are portrayed as being very serious and stuffy.
* '''Straight''': Hans is German and is very serious.
* '''Exaggerated''': Hans is German and is actually incapable of feeling emotions.
* '''Downplayed''': Hans is fairly uptight, but not much more than the rest of the cast.
* '''Justified''': German culture really does support hard work and a strict division of business and pleasure.
* '''Inverted''':
** Hans is a jolly German who loves chocolate, beer, and seeing his favorite techno bands play at nightclubs.
** In a work set in German, an American character is notably dry and serious.
* '''Subverted''': Hans seems very serious at first, but then is caught going kind of crazy at a party.
* '''Double Subverted''': Hans has a WorkHardPlayHard attitude.
* '''Parodied''': Hans is a ChewToy who stoically suffers thorough lots of slapstick.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Hans sometimes seems very serious, sometimes not.
* '''Averted''': Hans is not notably serious.
* '''Enforced''': [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff The work is unexpectedly popular in Germany]] and the work's attempt to exploit this isn't well=researched enough for anything more nuanced.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Geez, you'd think after living through three crazy dictatorships, those Germans would want to get that stick out of their ass now."
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': Bob stews trouble between Hans and his American girlfriend Alice by claiming Hans didn't like Alice's birthday gift for him, even though Hans just isn't enthusiastic overall.
* '''Defied''': Hans realizes he can come off as too cold to foreigners and he tries to be more expressive around them.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Implied''': Hans is TheGhost, but after Bob talks to him offscreen, he makes a sarcastic commeunt about him being "a real bunch of laughs."
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