Sandbox / Those Wacky Nazis Wick Check

Here a wick check will be performed on Those Wacky Nazis.

Why?: Tropes Needing TRS states "Covers many different stereotypical portrayals of Nazis, with no clear narrative meaning."Currently, Those Wacky Nazis is defined as "covers a number of nazi stereotypes". Despite being defined as a trope about stereotypes about nazis, the trope doesn't seem to have a very clear scope and seems to be used for any portrayal of nazis. Indeed, the Playing With page defines the basic trope as "Bad guys who adhere to the principles of National Socialism as advocated by Adolf Hitler.". "Characters/Villains are nazis" could easily be considered Chairs.Link to the oldest version of the page in the internet archive from 2007.Link to the oldest Laconic in the internet archive.

Wicks checked: /61

Potholes will be bolded.

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1. Funny.ZeroPunctuation1: "You could transplant the head of Joseph Goebbels onto the body of a praying mantis, and it would still compare favorable to Super Mario Sunshine."
2. Trivia.CallOfDutyZombies: Ascended Fanfic:
   • One of the most popular custom gamemodes in previous multiplayer COD (or just about any other first person shooter) was/is "zombie mode" or some variation of it. So much so that it led Treyarch to simply include it as an on-disc bonus gameplay mode with pretty much no plot or complexity. After that, well... just look at the rest of this page.
   • Some suspect that the interpretation of Richtofen being a Depraved Homosexual in a lot of Nazi Zombies fanfics (particularly with Dempsey) led to Treyarch throwing in a joke in Call Of The Dead where Richtofen is implied to have accidentally yanked on Dempsey's crotch, and another joke where Richthofen is explicitly stated to have puts his finger in Dempsey's ass (although Dempsey quickly proceeds to kick Richtofen's), as well as giving him a LOT more suggestive dialogue:
3. Recap.FBIMostWantedS04E20: The Aryan Saints, led by Justin Sykes. ZCE. Just "Characters are nazis" example.
4. VideoGame.Bully: Devil in Plain Sight: Gary is such an obvious liar. His choice in Halloween attire is also questionable. Sieg heil.
5. Recap.GoodOmensEpisode3HardTimes: When Crowley shows up to help Aziraphale when he is about to be discorporated by Greta, Mr. Harmony, and Mr. Glozier, Aziraphale assumes that they are working for Crowley. Crowley insists that they aren't, calling them "half-witted Nazi spies" and quickly being distracted by the holy water in the room as if they don't matter. Right after the bomb lands on the church, Aziraphale (who is a Nice Guy by default) is more torn up about his books being destroyed than the lives lost.
6. ObviouslyEvil.ComicBooks: Then we have Captain America's old enemy the Red Skull. The name alone (coming after what his 'face' looks like) is bleedingly obvious a tip-off and this is without mentioning he sided with the Nazis. Can't get much more Obviously Evil than that.
7. Obstructive Bureaucrat: In his preface to the The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis references the "Eichmann" bureaucrat type as a model for how he envisioned demons.
8. ScrewThisImOuttaHere.ComicBooks: Hellboy: Wake the Devil, Hellboy runs into Ilsa Haupstein and two of her mooks. Ilsa orders them to attack; one of them instead shouts, "No no no no!" as he runs away and jumps out a window. We never see him again.
9. Film.Schwarzfahrer: Subverted. But the attitude and the age of the old lady in 1994 might fit. And the old man's probably too.
10. YMMV.TheConfusionsOfYoungTorless: What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: Most interpretations after the Second World War note prescient parallels regarding Beineberg and Reiting's philosophies and their terrorizing of fellow students. The novel was published in 1906 and while Musil would become an anti-Nazi, it's obvious that the story is more a general one about fraternity and male dominance at school.
11. Captain Ethnic: Pretty much all the non-Japanese wrestlers in Kinnikuman are this (at least the human ones, anyway). The United States is represented by Terryman, a Texas cowboy, Specialman, a wrestling football player, and Geronimo, a native American who wields tomahawks; Britain is home to Robin Mask, who wrestles in a knight's suit of armour; from Germany come Brockenman, a wrestling Nazi commandant, and his son, who isn't a Nazi but still wears an SS uniform; and India brings us Curry Cook, the wrestling...well, guess. With the addition of Wolfman, a sumo wrestler, even Japan isn't off-limits. Sometimes they at least shake it up, as in the case with Mr. Khamen, an Egyptian wrestler who dresses like a pharaoh and whose Finishing Move involves mummifying his opponent... and who is also a vampire who kills his victims by sucking out the moisture from their bodies until they're just a husk. Even the minor characters fall victim to this, including Woolman, a sheep-themed wrestler from New Zealand^note which is known for its high sheep population and the one-shot Danish wrestler Vikingman.
12. Literature.Bony: Appear in a couple post-WWII novels. ZCE
13. Film.WhereEaglesDare: A classic reinforcer of a lot of the stereotypes. There's the sinister Gestapo officer, the aristocratic generals and the tight-lipped torture-Frau, not to mention the soon-to-be-exploded Mooks shown to be continually living it up in Bierkellers.
14. YMMV.AustinPowers: Crosses the Line Twice:
    • Dr. Evil and Scott doing on The Jerry Springer Show at the beginning of the second film - the whole segment is dedicated specifically to "evil fathers", with Scott and Dr. Evil being on the show alongside a klansman and a Neo-Nazi, of all things. Then Dr. Evil gets into a fistfight with the klansman (per usual for The Jerry Springer Show), and when Springer tries to calm things down, Dr. Evil then tries beating him up after Springer insults him, culminating in Springer biting Dr. Evil's ankle.
15. Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Bring 'Em Back Alive was very loosely based on the life of real world Great White Hunter Frank Buck (and takes its title from his first volume of memoirs). However, it turns him into a two-fisted hero battling Those Wacky Nazis and other bad guys in pre-WWII Malaya.
16. WMG.WolfensteinTheNewOrder: WMG: Wolfenstein: The New Order will involve Time Travel. The original Wolfenstein 3-D ended with B.J. killing Hitler in his bunker. As well, it seems that even a One-Man Army like Blazkowicz might not be able to take on the whole Nazi war machine by himself. So I'm thinking, in the climax, B.J. goes back in time to the last days of WWII and kills Hitler like he did back in Wolf3D.
    • It's also stated in the E3 Trailer that "They beat us to The Bomb... No one knows how." If the nuking of NYC was the main divergence point of this Alternate History, then the Set Right What Once Went Wrong level will involve stopping the Nazis from developing nuclear weapons before (if not outright stealing them from) the United States. Bonus points if it involves B.J. performing a Heroic Sacrifice by setting the bomb off before it's used against the United States.
17. YMMV.Gormiti: Memetic Mutation:
    • Insane Gormiti Instagram memes^Explanation On several Italian meme pages, Gormiti are depicted in engaging in several weird or even illegal acts ranging from flashing and drug dealing all the way to rape and genocide. The main archetypes in these memes depict Gormiti as: drug addicts, insane criminals or even as full-blown fascists or communists
18. Film.RedScorpion: The main antagonists of the movie. ZCE
19. Show Some Leg: Danger 5. Ilsa doesn't bother with subtly regarding this trope. In the first episode she has to stop Goebbels from entering the room where Danger 5 is hiding. A cut later and a stunned Goebbels does up his fly and staggers off while Ilsa gets up off her knees and calmly lights up a ciggie.
20. Laconic.TheSaboteur: A sprightly Irishman gets revenge on Those Wacky Nazis by blowing up their footholds in Gay Paree... all for revenge against an incident at a race track and murder of his best friend. Laconic for a videogame
21. Soldier vs. Warrior: Deadliest Warrior would sometimes have matches between a fierce and wild warrior, against a more professional soldier. Probably best shown by "Comanche vs. Mongol", the fearless native American horsemen against one of Genghis Khan's chosen (the Comanche warrior won; or "Waffen SS vs. Vietcong", pitting the stone-hearted killers of Adolf Hitler's regime against ragtag communist revolutionaries (the Waffen SS soldiers won); or "Pirate vs. Knight", a wild man who fights for himself against a noble man who fights for God and kingdom (the Pirate warrior won).
22. TabletopGame.HollowEarthExpedition: Gone Horribly Wrong: Happens twice to Thule Society. They realised too late what exactly they did and who they put in power, and by the time they've tried to counter the course of action, they were already sidelined. Their grand plan to come back to power was to convince Nazi higher-ups they needed a dedicated, formal organisation for the study of the mysteries of the world and occult powers, ostentiably for the incoming war. Thinking they can subvert it right at the inception, the Society instead ended up locked in an Interservice Rivalry with a freshly minted Ahnenerbe, further sidelining themselves and access to the resources they were after from the start.
23. Pantheon.ActsOfWar: Gihren, being the Hitler Expy that he is has no problem rubbing shoulders with Nazi-based deities, most of whom he sees as kindred spirits. His relationship with HYDRA leader Red Skull stems from a deep-seated rivalry. Both were in the running for God of Nazism after Downfall Hitler 'resigned' before Schmidt won out. Gihren accepted the loss with grace and the two maintain warm relations, happy to exchange ideas for world domination and the subjugation of liberty to their respective wills. Schmidt and by extension HYDRA's High Council think Gihren too egotistical for his own good but will secure as much resources from his as possible before his hubris gets the better of him. Gihren is happy to provide Shocker (especially Colonel Zol, a former SS officer) resources in exchange for support in his civil war with Char, and is rumoured to be behind a sudden re-emergence of the Devil Gundam in a joint project with the organization.
24. Characters.VForVendettaFilm: His name is two letters away from Hitler, and that's just the beginning of it.
25. Characters.DangerGirl: They've got every Nazi stereotype in the book among their ranks, including a sadistic mad scientist, a hulking strongman clad head-to-toe in black leather, a pair of creepy aristocrat twins, and two "Baroness"-type sexpots.
26. Funny.BadCreepypasta: This line after they read something unbelievably confusing:
    Matt: (Bewildered) I don't know what just happened! Words... Came from you, but they didn't mean anything!
    Jacob: Yeah, I know what those words mean, but not in that order.
    Matt: Do you have some sort of code for me to decipher it? Are you trying sneak this past the Germans or something?
27. Headscratchers.IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade: The movie is set in 1938, and it seems by the weather and surroundings that it is summer in Austria, when they infiltrate that castle. Austria was annexed by Germany in march of 1938. So why is there a cartoonish secret planning facility and base hidden in the castle? Who are they hiding it from and why. They could easily have an open garrison there, or have such facilities in Vienna or anywhere. Its just so funny that Those Wacky Nazis just want to have hidden lairs even if they don't have any need for them.
28. Characters.Warhammer40000Orks: If the Orks have a parallel in any historical army, it is of a vast barbarian horde scouring the land in a tide of howling violence mixed with Those Wacky Nazis, Pirates and cheerfully psychotic Football Hooligans.
29. Everyone Is Satan in Hell: Koga's Ninja Trick shows a manji. What's so bad about a manji? Well, it looks an awful lot like a swastika. Some people thought it meant Pokémon was encouraging Nazism.
30. Roleplay.LynchingITP: Evil Is Not a Toy: Sure those Nazis will be happy to lend us their considerable resources and help us take over the world. Likewise, surely they will follow our instructions, despite being offered no real incentive to do so.
31. DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything.Webcomics: Malack's plans to make the process of human sacrifices more efficient and orderly by developing "some sort of special chamber" is meant to evoke Soylent Green. However, plenty of readers saw a different parallel.
32. Characters.RemnantsMightiestHeroesVillains: One of the most famous Nazi supervillains and the Remnantians are understandably horrified at the atrocities the Nazis committed.
33. Recap.SCPFoundationSCPs4000To4999: It is effectively a hodgepodge of Nazi occultism, involving a warship with multiple psychic artifacts, controlled by an alien life form, using an unknown power source, and guarded by thaumatalogical protective wards.
34. Recap.DoctorWhoNewAdventuresJustWar: The Nazis in Just War are not wacky at all. Parkin was actually inspired by Terrance Dicks' Timewyrm: Exodus, because he didn't like Dicks' use of the "aliens possessed Hitler" trope. Instead, Just War's chief Nazi is a completely mundane, well-educated man who is simply a true believer in fascism, and Hitler is never mentioned once.
35. YMMV.TempleMatthewReilly: Complete Monster:
    • William Race, in present-day 1999, faces two groups of Western Terrorists aiming to acquire a working Supernova, a powerful bomb known as a planet-killer:
      • Oberstgruppenführer Odilo Ehrhardt was a lieutenant at Auschwitz who in the present is still a rabid Nazi and head of the group known as the Stormtroopers. Ehrhardt demands a ransom of $100 billion dollars, ultimately intending to cripple the US economy. When he learns the ransom won't be paid, Ehrhardt kills the only person who knows the disarm code for what he thinks is a working Supernova and sets up a Sadistic Choice for William Race: Either the Supernova would destroy the world—with Ehrhardt perfectly willing to die if he can take the world with him—or, if Race somehow manages to disarm the device, the world would be saved but this would trigger another mechanism which would explode and kill Race.
36. WhamEpisode.Webcomics: And Shine Heaven Now got a Wham Episode in when it's revealed that Jeeves is working with Millennium.
37. Springtime for Hitler: If you thought this trope had something to do with the bad guys from World War II, you may be looking for Those Wacky Nazis or Adolf Hitlarious.
38. YMMV.Antigone: Misaimed Fandom: The Vichy government allowed the modern version of this play to be performed simply because they thought that Creon was a model leader. Hardly surprising.
39. Film.BloodInBloodOut: Neo-Nazis, to be precise, in the form of the Aryan Vanguard.
40. ComicBook.Bunty: Bittersweet Ending: Most "Catch the Cat" stories ended with the heroine, Maria Bonnet, foiling the German forces occupying France, but still being alone and cast aside due to the fact she acts friendly towards them to cover for her resistance work.
41. Quotes.SuperheroParadox: ->J. Jonah Jameson: Unbelievable... I understand that we have another low-information caller who thinks we're better off thanks to Spider-Man. Let's see if we can set her straight. You're on, with J. Jonah Jameson.
    Caller: I just wanna say that I've never seen Manhattan so safe and peaceful. Compare what it was like when Spider-Man first showed up to now.
    J. Jonah Jameson: Okay, fair enough, I will. Then, we had police and firefighters doing a wonderful job. There was crime, sure, but nothing they couldn't handle. Of course, we do have things we didn't then. Maniacs who shoot electricity out of their eyes, walking piles of sand, NAZIS MADE OF BEES!
    Caller: Didn't Spider-Man put all those guys in jail?
    J. Jonah Jameson: You're missing the POINT! They didn't exist before he came along! At best, he attracts them. But I've often wondered if they're in cahoots!
    Caller: Wow. I've never actually heard anyone say "cahoots" before. Look, all I'm saying is, I'd hate to imagine what would've happened if all those guys showed up and Spider-Man wasn't here.
    J. Jonah Jameson: Another lost cause. GOODBYE!
    — Spider-Man (PS4)
42. Film.Overlord2018: Ghostapo: It's never explained why the tar under the village can bring people back to life but Those Wacky Nazis sure are taking advantage of it anyway.
43. Fourth Reich: Let's face it: Those Wacky Nazis make great villains. Between their aesthetic, their ideology, and their absolutely monstrous rap sheet, it's no wonder they pop up as antagonists a lot. But unlike with many other ideologies, Nazism no longer has a country to call its own, since Nazi Germany fell to the Allied Powers at the end of World War II.
44. ComicBook.Pulp2020: The story takes place in 1939, as the Nazis start their march through Europe, but there is also the "Nazi Bund" (which was actually called the "German American Bund") in New York. Jeremiah's plan is to rob them of their money. Except it's not: he actually wants to steal their ledger to see who has been donating to the Nazis and expose them.
45. SealedEvilInACan.Literature: The Adversary Cycle: The Keep has Radu Molasar, advance man for The Otherness, sealed in a castle in Romania until Those Wacky Nazis accidentally let him out.
46. Monster.GIJoe: Issue #2—"Words of Honor": Doktor Otto Totenschadel is a Nazi war criminal seeking to escape any form of retribution for his past crimes, no matter the cost. A vicious sadist who oversaw concentration camps and experimented on thousands of innocent people to perfect his horrific "Sarin Plus" nerve gas, Totenschadel hoped for it to be used in World War II to kill millions. However, realizing that a direct deployment of his nerve gas on American soil would lead to him being relentlessly hunted by America's governments, Totenschadel betrayed and murdered several of his fellow Nazis to enable himself to vanish with priceless treasures. When, decades later, Totenschadel is tracked down by Israeli militants seeking his head, the despicable former Nazi tries to hand off his Sarin Plus to Cobra in exchange for protection, uncaring of the millions Cobra will endanger with the nerve gas.
47. YMMV.WebersGermanyTheVeterinarianTotalitarian: Complete Monster: Reinhard Heydrich is a top-ranking Nazi and one of the party's vilest members. Controlling the Abwehr, Heydrich orchestrates the start of the Spring War by killing 20 people through the Danzig Crisis. Once tasked to organize the Final Solution, Heydrich decrees the Jews and other races deemed as inferior will be sent to Germany's African colonies and enslaved, where they will gradually be exterminated by being worked to death or sterilized. After being sent to manage the colony of Kamerun, Heydrich places the laborers under brutal working conditions, liquidating entire towns and sending thousands of them to work near Lake Monoun to asphyxiate from its volcanic gases.
48. Literature.APearlForMyMistress: Only one actually shows up in the plot, but they are frequently referenced.
49. CompletelyDifferentTitle.English: The 2022 Netflix Spanish film MalnaZidos became Valley of the Dead in the English translation. The curse word "malnacidos" roughly translates to "bastards", plus adding a 'z' that provides a double-barreled pun: both regarding who are the main villains and through its appearance (big "Z"-shaped blood splatter) a regular pun that appears in titles of Zombie Apocalypse media. Because the pun is almost impossible to keep in English, it became a Title of the Dead instead.
50. Fanfic.AkatsukiKittenPhoenixCorporationOverhaul: Sasori gets to troll Hitler. Hitler. ZCE
51. Literature.NoMansLandTalesFromTheWeirdWars: Known as the Napis. Though in this timeline, it's Austria-Hungary of all places that goes Napi.
52. Politics Tropes: Commie Nazis: The evil bastard offspring of Dirty Communists and Those Wacky Nazis.
53. Monster.LiteratureDToG: The Gregory Sallust series, by Dennis Wheatley, has these two Nazis:
    • Gruppenführer Grauber is a sadistic Gestapo chief who loves nothing so much as torture. Having risen to power over a pile of tortured bodies, even holding his own allies' loved ones in captivity to torture should they step out of live, Grauber forms a deep enmity to Gregory Sallust himself. Torturing his friend to death and trying to torture his lover Erika, Grauber happily tortures innocents with anything from cigars to electricity, later promoted and put in charge of military operations where he has thousands liquidated before taking a final chance to torture Sallust into a blind, deaf and mute wreck.
    • Heinrich Himmler is one of the highest-ranking members of the Nazi regime, and is the architect of both The Holocaust and much of the conflict in the story. Himmler decrees that all Jews and any others he deems "inferior" are to be systematically thrown into concentration camps and executed, hoping for the total genocide of anyone Himmler believes to be less than his idea of perfect. Millions lose their lives due to Himmler's machinations, and when Himmler is given a more personal role in leading the military, he showcases his cruelty and incompetence as he executes countless people for petty reasons and threatens to have the entire family of any Nazi soldier shot if they are captured without a fight during battle. Himmler's sole good quality, his friendship with Hitler, is shown by the end to have been one of ambition, as Himmler unflinchingly betrays Hitler in an attempt to side with the Allies and reign over Germany once World War II is over.
54. Characters.TNOSouthernUrals: Last Stand: In one of Lysenko's endings, Black Mountain is on the receiving end of this when they are besieged by the Aryan Brotherhood, with Lysenko ordering his forces to make the Mountain the Nazis tomb before ordering them to open fire.
55. Zeppelins from Another World: In The Flash (2014), what little we see of "Earth-3" includes, naturally, airships. Later on, Earth-X also has them, but with swastikas on the side.
56. DarthWiki.BeybladeCSquare: Plays to a variety of stereotypes, with her loud and aggressive shouting, her playing with her ripcord like a whip, and her mindless subservience to her coach and teammates.
57. Characters.MarvelComicsLethalLegion: He's one of the most famous real-life Nazis.
58. Film.SouthCentral: The Aryan Brotherhood is a prison gang of white supremacists who constantly try to force "debts" of various goods onto unsuspecting prisoners of color and threaten violence if they aren't met.
59. Characters.HawkeyeEnemies: The thirteenth Baron of the House of Zemo, leader of three incarnations of the Masters of Evil, founder of the Thunderbolts, and ruler of the island nation of Bagalia. Helmut Zemo was the son of Baron Zemo XII, aka Dr. Heinrich Zemo, a Nazi supervillain who fought Captain America in World War II. Though he has no superpowers of his own, exposure to his father's Compound X formula has slowed his aging. Traditionally holding the #2 spot in Cap's Rogues Gallery, Zemo came to resent Hawkeye for usurping control of the Thunderbolts from him. Seeking revenge, Zemo masterminded Barney Barton's transformation into the second Trickshot, then sent him after his brother.
60. ObviouslyEvil.AnimeAndManga: Some of the real nasties in One Piece can be pretty obvious in their appearance. Apart from the hook hand, Crocodile looks like a mob boss, and the stich on his face certainly helps. Akainu simply seems more realistically drawn and has a Yakuza tattoo (given that his realistic looks are modeled after late actor Bunta Sugawara of the Battles Without Honor and Dignity film series fame, it's fitting). Blackbeard is a big, fat, ugly guy missing some teeth and a nose that looks like it's been broken a few times. Gecko Moria is an obese, chalk-white, demonic-looking man with horns, no chin and a neck about triple the length it should be, with razor sharp teeth and an odd resemblance to a balloon animal. Spandam wears a leather mask and usually has a psychotic smirk in his face. Caesar Clown is a sadist and a Monster Clown. Kaido looks (and probably is) like a massive, brutish oni. On the other hand, Warden Magellan is probably a subversion, since, despite the fact that he looks like a demon and is sporting an outfit that appears to have been inspired by the Third Reich, he's practically a Hero Antagonist: he just wants to keep the world safe from some nasty, nasty pirates.
61. ComicBook.TheMonsterSocietyOfEvil: Given how superhero comics doubled as wartime propaganda, the depiction of Nazis and Hitler himself is quite... whimsical.