Basic Trope: Adolf Hitler is Played for Laughs.
- Straight: Adolf Hitler is portrayed as a Laughably Evil, stupid buffoon who gets comically mad and has an unjustified ego.
- Exaggerated: Hitler is so comical, he's actually too incompetent to carry out his real life atrocities.
- Downplayed: Hitler as a Nazi Nobleman gets several funny moments in a serious movie.
- Justified: Allied wartime propaganda did portray Hitler this way to assuage people's fear.
- Inverted:
- Hitler is a Knight of Cerebus who everyone, even fellow Nazis, is afraid of and has absolutely no funny moments.
- Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin are portrayed as highly comical heroes.
- Subverted: Hitler seems funny and dumb at first, but later drops the act and turns out to be very menacing.
- Double Subverted:
- He plays at this for a while before he screws up again.
- While he becomes menacing, his eventual Villainous Breakdown is played for Black Comedy.
- Parodied: A clone of Hitler, who is nothing like the original personality-wise, is nonetheless portrayed as the most inept character in the entire cast - with predictable results ensuing.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Hitler is subject to extreme Mood Whiplash.
- Hitler is portrayed as engaging in horrifying acts but always managing to look like a chump and buffoon. Reactions are mixed as to if defuses some of the horror or makes it even worse by suggesting 'what if somebody less incompetent were in charge'....
- Averted: Hitler is always portrayed seriously.
- Enforced: The producers think this is the best way to oppose dictators: by mocking them.
- Lampshaded: "Wow, Hitler's kind of a screw-up."
- Invoked: In a meeting with foreign state leaders, Hitler decides to play dumb so nobody will suspect him of hidden plans.
- Exploited: Allied wartime propaganda seizes on Hitler's screw-ups to make him less threatening.
- Defied:
- The Nazis execute anybody who witnesses Hitler's screw-ups.
- When executives of an In-Universe historical film production request the addition of a comedic scene for Adolf Hitler in any fashion, like a propaganda short along the lines of Der Fuehrer's Face (with them noting that this is something real life propaganda did all the time back then), the reaction of everybody else in the production is a resounding "hell, no".
- Discussed: "Hitler is such a buffoon." "Just like his ideology can only be believed by a buffoon."
- Conversed: "If Hitler had been anything of this trope in real life, he hadn't been able to pull off all his atrocities."
- Deconstructed:
- Everyone thinks of Hitler as a goofball and they underestimate him as a result.
- The modern-day portrayal of Hitler as an ineffectual and comical buffoon gets "Dude, Not Funny!" reactions from people who are actually endangered by neo-Nazis.
- Reconstructed:
- People take Hitler's capabilities seriously and just mock him to keep their spirits up.
- The modern-day story portrays Hitler as the world's biggest example of an unrepentant douchebag, whose sheer cruelty and evil does not detract from him being stupid.
- Implied: Two foreign state leaders are talking about one of them's audience with Hitler. They are mainly laughing about the silly stuff he is reported to have said.
- Played For Laughs: A recurring joke shows the soldiers who are fighting against Hitler denigrating and slandering him in hilarious ways - and then points out how Hitler, time and again, gave them a lot to work with.
- Played for Drama: A couple of Jewish refugees realize what Hitler is like and are absolutely horrified by his comical behavior while condemning them to death.
- Played For Horror: Adolf Hitler's representation in the film is a Laughably Evil jackass in the vein of Freddy Krueger, Pennywise the Clown or The Joker — which means he will commit all of the horror he's ever done and make pithy jokes on a constant basis that only he finds funny.
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