History UsefulNotes / AdolfHitler

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* "Master D" and "The Badds" in the NES game ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' were really Hitler and the Nazis [[NoSwastikas with the swastikas painted over]], due to clumsy [[{{Bowdlerise}} Bowdlerization]] of the Japanese release, called ''Top Secret: The Resurrection of Hitler''. Not only does he cuss at you in an NES game, but you [[spoiler: get to blow up his head, in one of the greatest video game moments of all-time.]]

* "Master D" and "The Badds" in the NES game ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' were really Hitler and the Nazis [[NoSwastikas with the swastikas painted over]], due to clumsy [[{{Bowdlerise}} Bowdlerization]] of the Japanese release, called ''Top Secret: The Resurrection of Hitler''.
** Not only does he cuss at you in an NES game, but you [[spoiler: get to blow up his head, in one of the greatest video game moments of all-time.]]

He also displayed a callous, frankly psychopathic indifference to the suffering around him in his letters from the period (to his landlord and his landlord's family- he had next to no contact with his siblings, except for money his sister sent him). His rank during this time is often mistranslated as Corporal, but was actually more equivalent to a high-ranked Private[[note]] in German armed forces and those of other countries built on the same model, Corporal ranks (''Gefreiter'' and ''Obergefreiter'') are riflemen like ordinary soldiers, the NCO ranks start at ''Unteroffizier'' (Junior- or Lance-Sergeant)[[/note]]; despite an old myth, Hitler ''was'' offered promotion several times ''in spite'' of the belief of his superiors that he [[{{Irony}} "lacked leadership qualities"]], but always turned it down because he liked where he was (and probably wanted to avoid too many responsibilities). When he did take part in combat, he displayed reckless bravery and got wounded at least 2 times: October 7, 1916 - Battle of the Somme, leg wound and October 14, 1918, Wervik - poison gas. His blinding after the gas attack was diagnosed as psychosomatic by the doctors. Maybe wounded a 3rd time on September 28, 1918, when Private Henry Tandey (future Victoria Cross recipient) had him in sights, saw him limping from a wound [[ForWantOfANail and refused to shoot him]].

** In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, Hitler got punched out by ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. He was also cloned and came back as "the Hate-Monger", a supervillain dressed in a purple KKK outfit, before being KilledOffForReal. He was also shown explicitly as the Red Skull's benefactor -- [[EvenEvilHasStandards something that makes the Red Skull really unpopular with the rest of the supervillain community]]. Hitler didn't die by his own hand, but was instead [[KillItWithFire burned alive]] by the Human Torch and his sidekick Toro. Hardly IngloriousBasterds, but it works.

* The comic book ''ComicBook/FallenAngel'' features Dolf, the German-speaking bartender and proprietor of Furor's, the bar in which Liandra, the eponymous fallen angel hangs out. He is revealed to be a racist. He introduces himself thusly:

There can be no doubt that Hitler loved Germany -- or at least, [[SelectiveObliviousness the Germany of his imagination]]. The tribal Germany that smashed the Roman Empire and superseded it, the Germany of pagan myth -- strong, respected, and grandiose. He commissioned great public works in Berlin seeking to dwarf the capital cities of other nations. Hitler's dream Germany was pure and unsullied, strong in body and mind, without [[AcceptableTargets Jews or blacks or homosexuals or gypsies or Poles or communists or disabled people or "asocials" or "loose" women or jazz or]]... well, you get the idea. Adolf was obsessed with notions of purity. Racial purity, political purity, even religious purity. Everything and everyone that was less than perfect by Hitler's standards, simply had to go. [[TheHero And he saw himself as a hero]], [[MessianicArchetype a savior]], [[AGodAmI perhaps even something like a god]]. When he finally realized he had lost the war -- about a year ''after'' everyone else in the world realized it -- he wanted to go out in a blaze of glory, and take all of Germany with him. At the end of the war, Hitler [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled killed himself]] just as his greatest enemies, the Soviets, were advancing to within a stone's throw of his bunker. The whole thing must have seemed to him like Music/RichardWagner's ''[[Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung Götterdämmerung]]'' come to life. To the rest of the world, it seemed like an apocalyptic effort to take down a sort of Lucifer-esque figure -- a madman who believed himself superior to everyone and everything.

* In ''Webcomic/SupernormalStep'', Hitler was [[AcceptableTargets a little green gremlin]].

* The 2004 German film ''Der Untergang'' / ''Film/{{Downfall}}'' is remarkable for depicting Hitler during his final days as a human being instead of a scarecrow. It took some flak for the possibility of inspiring neo-Nazis by portraying him too sympathetically and daring to show him [[PetTheDog having a measure of compassion for his secretary and underfellows]]. This seems to have been avoided, as a realistically depicted Führerbunker!Hitler is still a failed human being by all accounts.

* ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' and its sequels, obviously. All of them featured Nazis, and part 3 of the original had [[AuthorityEqualsAssKicking Hitler himself as the]] FinalBoss. B.J. Blazkowicz also meets Hitler in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'', by which time Hitler is a senile 71-year-old man.