Basic Trope: An elderly Nazi or other war criminal in hiding.
- Straight:
- Alice's grandpa and Bob's neighbour Hans is a former Nazi who never recanted his views.
- Bob's neighbour Mr. Hazegawa is a former Imperial Japanese Army colonel who participated in the Rape of Nanking.
- Bob's neighbour Mr. Konstantinov is a former Red Army general who oversaw the Massacre of Feodosia
. - Bob's neighbour Mr. Ahmed is a former Al-Qaeda terrorist.
- Bob's neighbor Mr. Bećirević is a former Bosnian Serb Army soldier who was a perpetrator of the Srebrenica Massacre.
- In an Iraqi village, one of Aisha's neighbours is a former Abu Ghraib prison guard who tortured her father to death.
- Exaggerated:
- Hans turns out to be an elderly Adolf Hitler who faked his death.
- All of Bob's neighbours are former Nazis.
- All of Alice's grandparents are former Nazis.
- Downplayed:
- Hans was a Wehrmacht foot soldier who didn't commit any serious war crimes.
- Hans served his time in prison for his crimes and was released.
- Justified:
- Hans managed to sneak his way into the States after the war.
- Hans was allowed into the States under Operation Paperclip.
- Inverted:
- In a small town in Germany, Hermann, a former concentration camp guard, unknowingly has a Holocaust survivor as a neighbor.
- In a small Japanese village, one of Itsuki's neighbours is a former Enola Gay crew member.
- Subverted: Hans was involved with the Nazi party but secretly working for the Allies.
- Double Subverted: But was actually a triple agent for the Nazis.
- Parodied:
- Hans proudly flocks around in his old SS uniform, to his family's embarrassment.
- Hans is the head of a Neo-Nazi gang who intend to overthrow America. Unfortunately for him, he's a Scatterbrained Senior in the advanced stages of dementia and the Neo-Nazis are forced to act as his caretakers.
- Zig Zagged: Hans was a Double Reverse Quadruple Agent.
- Averted:
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded:
- Invoked:
- Exploited: Charlie reveals Hans' past to derail Alice's congressional campaign, or blackmails her with the information.
- Defied: Hans chooses to live in isolation in a cabin in Texas.
- Discussed:
- Conversed:
- Implied:
- Alice's grandpa speaks in a German accent, is extremely racist and antisemitic, knows a lot about weaponry and murder and avoids the police.
- Bob's neighbour Hans is extremely antisemitic and secretive.
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Played For Laughs:
- Played For Drama:
- Hans is an abusive father and a bigoted monster.
- Hans attempts to kill his daughter when she tries to marry a Jewish man.
- Hans is haunted by nightmares of his crimes.
- When Bob tries to report Hans to the authorities, Alice, still seeing Hans as her beloved grandpa and/or not wanting her family to become infamous, kills Bob.
- Played For Horror:
- Hans is a Serial Killer targeting minorities in his neighbourhood.
- Bob Stein and his family move to a neighbourhood, only to find that most of their neighbours are remorseless ex-Nazis and their equally prejudiced families. Before they could leave, the neighbours realise that Bob is Jewish and try to kill him.
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