Basic Trope: Hitler gets cloned.
- Straight: Mad Scientist Dr. Evilstein creates a clone of Hitler to aid him in taking over the world.
- Exaggerated:
- Evilstein creates hundreds of Hitlers and uses them as Mooks.
- Evilstein decides Hitler wasn't evil enough so he tries to produce the Antichrist with a convoluted plot involving making an evil clone of Jesus.
- Evilstein creates millions of Eldritch Abomination Hitlers.
- Hitler himself cloned millions of himself.
- Downplayed:
- Evilstein grooms someone who looks a lot like Hitler and shares certain characteristics, but is not an actual clone.
- Evilstein clones someone associated with the Third Reich or Nazism who isn't Hitler, such as Hermann Goering or one of the Strasser brothers.
- Justified:
- Evilstein is a Neo-Nazi trying to recreate the Third Reich.
- Evilstein clones Hitler so he can try to understand the motives and mind of Adolf Hitler.
- Evilstein wants to resurrect Hitler through cloning so he can face proper trial for his war crimes.
- Inverted:
- Evilstein creates a clone of Winston Churchill, because his convoluted "plan" (may or may not be evil at all) involves Britain in some manner.
- Hitler Clones You!
- Evilstein is a Mad Scientist who has reformed or was never evil in the first place - so when a global economic crisis hits, his idea for resolving it starts with creating a clone of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Subverted:
- Evilstein attempts to create a clone of Hitler but due to a lab accident turns out as not being related to Hitler at all.
- Evilstein gloats about being backed up by "one of the most powerful and notorious dictators of all time, one of the major figures in World War II, a man with a snazzy mustache." Turns out it's Stalin.
- Hitler is cloned, but to go back in time to kill and replace the real Hitler to prevent WWII
- The clone of Hitler doesn't turn out anything like the original in terms of personality, and refuses to play along with Evilstein's plot.
- The 'sample' turns out to be from a woman who isn't even Eva Braun.
- The "Hitler" that Evilstein has cloned is none other than William Patrick Hitler
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- Double Subverted:
- The failed clone does, however, gain Hitler's personality.
- Stalin then gets an idea to clone Hitler for shits and giggles.
- It's still of a figure within the Reich, whether it be someone as important as Himmler, or someone unimportant, like Tragarsky◊.
- Parodied: Evilstein, a Teen Genius (albiet an evil one) creates a Hitler clone as a Science Fair project. The teacher reprobates him, because he has always been more of a Josef Stalin's fan.
- Zig Zagged:
- Because of a mistake in the cloning, Hitlers clone switches between having Hitlers personality and having a happy, cheery, hippy-like personality.
- Evilstein clones Stalin, but then Stalin clones Hitler, but it turns out Stalin only cloned Hitler for the satisfaction of killing him in person... But the clone Hitler survived the brutal beating.
- Alternatively, Evilstein clones Stalin, Stalin clones Hitler, then Hitler clones Hirohito, then Hirohito clones Mussolini, then Evilstein clones Winston Churchill to prevent the cascade - but then Hitler clones Evilstein! Evilstein responds by cloning Hitler again, resulting in more clones!
- Averted: Evilstein creates clones of other major historical figures, but omits Hitler.
- Enforced: "We need Evilstein to do something really evil... hey, how about we let him clone Hitler?"
- Lampshaded: "Why did I think making a clone of Hitler was a good idea in the first place?"
- Invoked: Evilstein is told to create a Hitler clone to prove that he's truly insane.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Evilstein, creating a replica of the Third Reich, refuses to clone Hitler because he wants to be the one in charge.
- "Yeah, I'm not going to make a clone of Hitler. A more ludicrous waste of cloning technology I can't imagine."
- Discussed: "How come there's so many Hitler clones around? Is there some company out there that makes 'grow your own Hitler' kits or something?"
- Conversed: "Why do all the bad guys seem so intent on cloning Hitler?"
- Deconstructed:
- The clone Hitler develops his own personality, Wangsts about how he's expected to live up to his "father" and rebels against the same person who created him, sometimes ending up as good.
- The above happens, but the cloning is shown to be causing Hitler to change from the inside out, becoming an altogether different Frankenstein's Monster which Evilstein has to destroy himself.
- Rousseau Was Right, and the clone Hitler is nothing like the real Hitler due to growing up in none of the same conditions. However, Evilstein is still credited for producing the first test-tube baby, and his achievements do not go unnoticed by the scientific community.
- Clone Hitler is an infant, because in real life, clones aren't born fully grown.
- Clones Are People, Too.
- Reconstructed:
- Above Hitler clone is driven to evil by this.
- The clone of Hitler, despite being nothing like the original, becomes insufferable and destructive in some other way - such as being a Corrupt Corporate Executive destroying the world around him in pursuit of money, or a vain, self-obsessed, hedonistic star musician who does more drugs than even the original Hitler did.
- Played For Laughs:
- Evilstein's Hitler clone is useless and sits around the lab wasting time all day.
- Evilstein creates a Hitler clone out of curiosity, but he ends up created an Opposite-Sex Clone of Hitler and falls in love with her.
- Played For Drama:
- Evilstein's Hitler clone betrays him and ends up becoming the Big Bad.
- Evilstein's Hitler clone is captured when his lab is raided and ends up living in mainstream society. But his status as a clone of the man widely considered history's greatest monster causes him to go through severe ostracism, possibly leading him to go down a similar dark path to the one his "father" took; at the very least the wider conflict over what to do with him between different groups who want to see different outcomes will cause a lot of anguish.
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