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== Anime
* The Vandenreich of ''[[Bleach]]'' not only [[Putting on the Reich|look the part]], they act the part as well, what with behavior that borders on ethnic cleansing towards Hollows.
* The Principality of Zeon and its successor movement Neo Zeon from the UC ''[[Gundam]]'' timeline. The most famous instance is where [[Evil Prince|Prince Gihren Zabi]] turns a state funeral into a political rally, with the audience shouting "Sieg Zeon!" ([http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=DZUt8BSs8Sw Hail Zeon] in the dub). [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when King Degwin Zabi compares his son, Gihren to Hitler and Gihren accepts it as a complement.
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** Another 2000AD comic, ''Invasion!'' and its sequel, ''Savage'', feature the Volgans, a far-right Russian regime. Originally intended to be played by the Soviet Union, [[Executive Meddling|Editorial Meddling]] forced the creators to use a generically authoritarian [[Ruritania]]n [[Expy]] so as not to aggravate officials at the Soviet embassy during a period of fragile détente. They were later explicitly revealed to be Russian.
*** Likewise, the enemy Norts from ''Rogue Trooper'' show quite a number of Nazi characteristics.
▲** The Norsefire Party were closer to a logical (if extreme) extension of right-wing tendencies in late 1980s Britain; they're a decidedly unsubtle [[Expy]] of the National Front with some level-grinding in competence. That Norsefire are essentially the Nazi Party ''and still'' recognisably a heartbeat away from the government of the time is part of what makes ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' so chilling.
▲*** The head honcho Leader Adam Susan, in an introspective moment before the beginning of his slide into true madness, outright confirms to himself he is fascist, both by the historic and the Nazi definition. In his own mental phrasing (and Norsefire doctrine, no doubt), the war "put paid to freedom".
▲*** It should be noted that Norsefire are an implicitly neo-Nazi organisation, and so the parallels are conscious decisions by Norsefire itself. Unlike most entries on this page, Norsefire consciously emulate Nazi Germany.
** In the Fifth Sleeper story, the [[Red Skull]] tells [[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]] that HYDRA was always a front for "the true force supreme, NAZIISM!" (His words, not mine.) It says a lot for how hated the Nazis are that HYDRA is, by comparison, a [[Slave to PR]].▼
* In the Archie ''[[
▲** Somewhat like Norsefire above, HYDRA started off as an actual Nazi organisation during World War II which became independent when the actual Nazis, well, ''lost''. When your founders are Nazis it's no stretch that your organisation end up Nazi-like.
▲** In the Fifth Sleeper story, the [[Red Skull]] tells [[Captain America (comics)]] that HYDRA was always a front for "the true force supreme, NAZIISM!" (His words, not mine.) It says a lot for how hated the Nazis are that HYDRA is, by comparison, a [[Slave to PR]].
▲* In the Archie ''[[Archies Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic The Hedgehog]]'' series, Angel Island was occupied for a time by the [[Big Bad|Dr. Eggman]]-backed Dingo Regime, whose soldiers not only wore Brown Shirt-esque uniforms, but who imprisoned all captured Echidnas in what were clearly concentration camps.
* Bob Heller, one of the presidential candidates in ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'', whose rhetoric is equal parts [[The Strong Should Dominate the Weak]] and [[Patriotic Fervor]]. His campaign insignia is a black "H" in a white circle on a field of red, and other characters openly compare him to the Nazis and his campaign events to the Nuremberg rallies. (Just how much of a [[Crapsack World]] is ''Transmetropolitan''? Not only is Heller not the most evil candidate in the race, he's not even the most evil candidate ''in his party''.)
== Film ==
* The government in
* Since the movie ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'' is a satire of the gung-ho jingoism of the novel, they use the Nazi-like symbolism to portray the humans as an [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|evil invading race]] by [[Putting on the Reich]], and occasionally showing a propaganda commercial. This is capped by [[Neil Patrick Harris]] (at the time, best known for ''[[Doogie Howser, M.D.]]'') as a Dr. Mengele [[Expy]]. One [[Wild Mass Guessing|fan theory]] is that the humans faked the asteroid attack to justify the invasion. Either that, or used the opportunity provided by the otherwise natural asteroid strike to start a war. In any case, it's never shown how the Arachnids could have deliberately launched the asteroid.▼
▲* Since the movie ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'' is a satire of the gung-ho jingoism of the novel, they use the Nazi-like symbolism to portray the humans as an [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|evil invading race]] by [[Putting on the Reich]], and occasionally showing a propaganda commercial. This is capped by [[Neil Patrick Harris]] (at the time, best known for ''[[Doogie Howser, M.D.]]'') as a Dr. Mengele [[Expy]]. One [[Wild Mass Guessing|fan theory]] is that the humans faked the asteroid attack to justify the invasion. Either that, or used the opportunity provided by the otherwise natural asteroid strike to start a war. In any case it's never shown how the Arachnids could have deliberately launched the asteroid.
* The ''[[Lion King]]'' gives us the song ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0AiN8vrn9Y Be Prepared]'', in which Scar rallies the Hyenas into setting up a new age in Pride Rock, ruled by Scar and the Hyenas. The Nazi Symbolism is quite clear during a sequence when the Hyenas goose step (the most evilest march ever) by Scar. The scene is directly inspired by ''[[Triumph of the Will]]''.
** This makes the song especially chilling if you watch it in either Hebrew or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASEQScFZd_I German].
* The 1940 [[Charlie Chaplin]] film ''[[The Great Dictator]]'' is about a thinly-veiled parody of the Nazi regime, whose leader is named Adenoid Hynkel and whose symbol is the Double Cross. The location is translated from Germany to the [[Ruritania|fictional country]] of Tomania; the anti-Semitism is left undisguised.
* In [[The Avengers (film)|Marvel's ''The Avengers'']], Loki is prone to [[Putting on the Reich]], and performs a 'you were born to be ruled speech' and one old German calls him out in a [[Badass Bystander]] moment when he says to kneel.
{{quote|'''Old German''': I will not bow to a man like you.
'''Loki''': There are no [[A God Am I|men like me.]]
'''Old German''': There are [[Adolf Hitler|always men like you.]] }}
*
** "Quit yer Stalin!"
* In ''[[Star Wars]]'', particularly the [[Expanded Universe]], it's definitely possible to see [[The Empire]] as Nazilike. It's not just the cut of the officers' uniforms (and Grand Moff Tarkin definitely acts the part of a Nazi official), or the fact that its [[Faceless Goons]] are called "stormtroopers". The Empire is also strictly, stridently [[Fantastic Racism|speciesist]], always putting humans before nonhumans, to the point where the nonhumans on the capital planet are restricted to a single sector. And it rose when a charismatic leader talked his way into a high position in a democratic government, created problems, then refused to let go.▼
▲* In ''[[Star Wars]]'', particularly the [[Expanded Universe]], it's definitely possible to see [[The Empire]] as Nazilike. It's not just the cut of the officers' uniforms (and Grand Moff Tarkin definitely acts the part of a Nazi official) or the fact that its [[Faceless Goons]] are called "stormtroopers". The Empire is also strictly, stridently [[Fantastic Racism|speciesist]], always putting humans before nonhumans, to the point where the nonhumans on the capital planet are restricted to a single sector. And it rose when a charismatic leader talked his way into a high position in a democratic government, created problems, then refused to let go.
** Not to mention him gaining power by first becoming Chancellor.
** Rather ironically, a ''Rebel'' ceremony at the end of the original film is clearly modeled on ''Triumph of the Will''.
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** At one point, one of the prisoners even calls him a Nazi.
* [[Mega Corp|Omni Consumer Products]] in ''[[RoboCop]] 2'' uses a flag resembling the Third Reich's: the octagonal OCP logo in black, within a white octagon, centered on a red field.
* ''[[The Human Centipede]]'' is sort of a meta example. The director claimed he intended to show what notorious Nazi doctors like Adolph Eichmann would be doing if they were still in business in modern times. When that factor is added in, the message isn't subtle...
== Literature ==
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* The [[Garth Nix]] short story "Hope Chest" features a villain called the Leader who terrifies populations into submission and brings everyone who hears his voice under his thrall.
* ''[[Discworld]]'' has several Nazi-like groups:
** Wolfgang von Uberwald's [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolf]] "movement" in ''[[
*** According to a 1943 OSS profile, "Wulf" was [[Adolf Hitler]]'s favorite nickname for himself.
** The vampires in ''[[
** The Dogs' Guild in ''[[
** While ideology is lacking, the past Ankh-Morpork shown in ''[[
* The Death Eaters from ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' believe in the superiority of [[Witch Species|pure blood]], and will kill anyone they feel is inferior to them. Their leader Voldemort hates anyone not of pure wizard blood, yet he himself is not pure blood; [[Adolf Hitler]] viewed "Aryans," commonly portrayed as blonds with blue eyes as the master race, yet he himself was brown haired with brown eyes. J.K. Rowling [[Word of God|acknowledged]] the Death Eaters are supposed to represent the Nazis. In the fourth movie, they're also symbolized as Klansmen—check out the KKK-inspired headgear, torches and "burning signal".
** And that's not even getting into the ''seventh'' book, for most of which the [[Power Trio]] are on the run in one of the most blatant parallels of Nazi-occupied Europe ever seen. The Ministry of Magic has become so corrupted from the inside by [[Les Collaborateurs]], that they essentially pass the Nuremberg Laws against Muggle-born wizards, and under the guidance of Umbridge are shown creating pamphlets touting purity of blood whose content and saccharine covers call to mind the publications of Julius Streicher. The various Death Eater minions inside the Ministry are dressed in khaki clothes, with red, white, and black armbands bearing the Dark Mark. The sign of {{spoiler|the Deathly Hallows}} is very similar to the history of the swastika as well - originally an innocent symbol, then used by wizard-supremacist Grindelwald, etched on walls by stupid pricks to get attention...
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*** Also, a lunatic, old loner as the last inmate of an incredibly guarded prison? That sounds like [[wikipedia:Rudolf Hess|Rudolf Hess.]]
*** The [[Film of the Book]] shows a snippet of {{spoiler|Hermione's torture from the book, except instead of just hearing her disembodied screams, we also see Belatrix doing...something with the dagger in her hand to Hermione's arm. When we see her arm, we can see that Lestrange carved "Mudblood" into the inside of Hermione's forearm, much like how the Nazis tattooed numbers into the forearms of the Jews in concentration camps}}.
** Polish translation of ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' explicitly called those who hunted muggleborns and [[La Résistance]] for profit ''szmalcownicy''. [[Real Life]] ''szmalcownicy'' sold hiding Jews to the Nazis during [[World War Two|The War]].
** You can go even further with this one: Voldemort=Hitler, Fudge=Chamberlain, Scrimgeour=Churchill, Dumbledore=Gandhi, Bellatrix=Unity Mitford, Andromeda=Jessica Mitford, Narcissa=Diana Mitford.
*** Nagini, Voldemort's beloved female pet snake = [[wikipedia:Blondi|Blondi]]
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* And there is Dr. Bob Mengele "no relation" in [[Wild Cards]].
* In [[Octavia Butler]]'s ''[[Parable of the Sower|Parable of the Talents]]'', the Christian America sect is pretty much exactly like the Nazis. They have a [[Glorious Leader]], Jarrett, who persecutes all non-Christians and others who he sees a scapegoats. They place all people they see as "heathens" into concentration camps where they are forced to do hard labor, be converted to Christianity, and raped and beaten. They also often will take the children of the so-called "heathens" in order to raise them as Christians.
== Live-Action TV ==
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* The Kromaggs in ''[[Sliders]]'' are changed to this after the show was moved to Sci Fi Channel. They start wearing Nazi-like uniforms, having breeding programs, and claiming to be the master race. They also perform cruel experiments on humans in order to further their scientific knowledge.
** There's one episode in which the sliders visit an alternate U.S. that is turning into a Nazi-like state under a rising demagogue, Gov. Schick (presumably an allusion to Schicklgruber, the surname of Hitler's father). The episode suggests that in this alternate reality there was no Third Reich or Holocaust, making the U.S. unprepared for that type of occurrence in their own country.
== Music Videos ==
* The music video for the [[Pearl Jam]] song "Do the Evolution" (seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI here] has a scene with what are implied to be Nazi troops, but the Swastika is replaced by another symbol. However, the symbol is actually similar to the symbol used by the SS.
== Tabletop Games ==
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** Though the fact Registered Mutants have to [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|wear yellow armbands point them out as such]] does play this trope somewhat straight.
* Cheliax in ''[[Pathfinder]]'' is a nation under diabolical dominion populated by humans of a particular ethnicity who believe themselves superior to other humans and treat other local races as second-class citizens at best, most notably halflings that [[Slave Race|only exist to serve them]]. Their legal system is also reminiscent of Nazi dictatorship with exceedingly intrusive laws that only exist to weed out political dissent.
* The drow in most ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' are [[Social Darwinist]]s who are basically trying to develop an Aryan version of elves. [[Depending on the Writer]], that is why females are so fond of [[Stripperific]] clothing and [[Chainmail Bikini]]s, they [[Attention Whore|love showing off]] their physical "perfection".
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* The Xylvanians from ''[[Battalion Wars]]'' are a theme park version of it and WWI Imperial Germany. All of its military are modeled off of Nazi infantry, vehicles, and aircraft and the same feeling of superiority and inferior races exists between Xylvania and other countries.
* Taygen in the fifth ''[[Geneforge]]'' game, who plans to annihilate all nonhumans, even has concentration camps. It shall be left as an exercise to the player whether those who consider his faction the optimal choice constitute a [[Misaimed Fandom]] or are a consequence of the series's [[Grey and Gray Morality]].
* The Movement from ''
* ''[[Suikoden]]'' has several Bazi groups.
** The Godwin family preaches the "virtues" of a strong militaristic regime, has soldiers in really snappy [[Putting on the Reich|gray uniforms with red berets]], and tries to make a "[[Fantastic Racism|Falena for Falenans]]." They also employ an assassin named [[Adolf Hitler|Dolph]], in case you still haven't gotten it by that point.
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* The Enclave in the ''[[Fallout]]'' series. Aside from [[Putting on the Reich]], they have a Final Solution involving tainting the water supply.
** Although that's only the (far more sympathetic) Fallout 3 version who were actually trying to do good by getting rid of the mutated humans. The original Fallout 2 version is a much better example of this, who truly considered themselves and themselves alone to be the absolute master race, and who intended to kill off the entire population of America (and they tested their method by using it on the residents of the player character's home of Fallout 1 and the inhabitants of the player character's village in Fallout 2).
* The Project (commonly referred to as the Black Lance), from ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]] IV: The Price of Freedom'' is [[Anvilicious|none too subtle]] a 27th century Nazi analog, complete with a [[
** Ironically, a great deal of their more outright disturbing aspects come from where they BREAK with Nazi doctrine. You see, the Nazis had blind spots that the well-connected and cunning could take advantage of. They did not immediately kill every undesirable, and indeed many of their grotesquely corrupt members actually saved the lives of these unfortunates by blackmailing them for virtually anything they had. If they just didn't kill them anyway. This is where the Black Lance is even more terrifying, because the Black Lance does NOT descriminate, it does not wait, it does not accept bribes, and is very, VERY effective because [[Knights Templar|they believe that the fate of the human race depends upon]] [[Inferred Holocaust|purging it of such "impurities" and subjecting what is left to massive continual warfare as a case of very drastic "survival of the Fittest" evolution]]. Which in many ways makes them even WORSE because they do not kid around.
* ''Die Spinne'' in ''[[Crimson Skies]].'' 1. They're German; 2. They're Fascists; 3. The game series is set in the thirties. It looks like somebody wasn't really trying to hide the obvious here.
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* In [[Skyrim]], there's the Thalmor, the ruling party of the new Aldmeri Dominion, who initiate an aggressive military policy, and thanks to a treaty drawn up to favor them, they basically have free reign to hunt down anyone of any dissident religions. They also believe that not just the existence of humanity, but the very possibility of humanity existing is holding them back. And finally, they revised history so that ''they'' are the ones who stopped the Oblivion Crisis, not the Champion of Cyrodiil.
** All they're missing now is a leader whose name resembles Adolf Hitler's name (Something like Ayldroosh Hershur), and a little symbol that vaguely resembles the Nazi Swastika.
** Also, the Stormcloaks
* The Empire of Magnagora in ''[[Lusternia]]''. While ''nominally'' democratic, their [[Aristocrats Are Evil|aristocracy]] consists of a [[Deadly Decadent Court]], with backroom politics, assassinations and smear campaigns regarded as valid methods of advancement. They are [[Fantastic Racism|highly racist]] towards [[Our Elves Are Better|elfen]] and [[Fish People|merian]], and regard [[The Corruption|The Taint]] - a mutagenic [[Psycho Serum]] cross between [[I Love Nuclear Power]] and [[Lovecraftian Superpower]] - as highly desirable in creating a mutated master race of super-hardy, poison-breathing [[The Undead|undead]]. Their ultimate goal is to conquer and Taint the known world and murder all merian and elfen. Fantasy Nazism, through and through.
* In [[Tropico]] 4, the nationalist faction (or at least their leader) is this, if not just a skin head. They dislike any policy that allows people to move to the island, even when the island is facing crippling underpopulation and the closest thing the island has to college is the pub.
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** The Nightborne in Surumar aren't openly racist, but the similarities are there, including obsession over physical perfection for a select few, vile experiments on prisoners, and Gestapo-like secret police patrolling the place. One resistance member goes so far as to use the term "the wrong side of history" when referring to how future generations will hopefully regard the current rulers.
** The Mogu can also be considered this, given their [[Lawful Evil]] nature and "master race" philosophy.
** The Scarlet Crusade started out as a splinter group of the Knights of the Silver Hand, a group dedicated to fighting the Scourge. The Scarlet Crusade, however, started to view ''every'' undead as [[Exclusively Evil]], including Forsaken civilians, and once the [[Van Helsing Hate Crime]]s started, it got worse, the Crusade becoming a [[Corrupt Church]] who viewed ''every'' race other than humans as "impure" and deserving of extermination, so the comparison is clear. The revelation that the Burning Legion (literal demons) was the driving force behind them only clarified them as irredeemable.
* Columbia in ''[[Bioshock|Bioshock Infinite]]''. A small municipality composed of in an alternate version of Earth, this place was run by a Nazi-in-all-but-name government even ''before'' the actual Nazis were founded.
* Those Who Slither In The Dark from ''[[Fire Emblem: Three Houses]]'' are an easily hateable Nazi substitute in a game where villain morality tends to at least be a little more muddled. Genocidal madmen who dress in red and black? Check. Are known for starting a destructive world war waged against a species that they hate? Check. Refer to the ones they hate as subhuman beasts? Check. Overly fond of horrific human experimentation? Check.
** {{spoiler|Edelgard is often called "Waifu Hitler" by her detractors, and not entirely without reason. While she's a reluctant ally of the Slithers and fully intends to to betray and kill them once they've served their purpose, [[Not So Different|she isn't really that different than them in a lot of respects.]] She allows them to perform their twisted experiments on innocent people, and fully endorses their genocidal hatred of the Nabatean race while painting them as guilty for all of Fodlan's woes in her own "Stabbed-in-the-back" myth. She's also the aggressive Germanic-named expansionist ruler of a country heavily associated with red and black, leads Garreg Mach's Black Eagle house before the timeskip, and religiously persecutes worshippers of the Church of Seiros in non-Crimson Flower routes. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Oh, and she's a lousy artist, too.]]}}
* King Olly from ''[[Paper Mario: The Origami King]]'' is the blonde-haired tyrant leading the Legion of Stationary in a mad bid to wipe out all Toads from existence out of petty genocidal hatred. He's also a staunch believer in origami supremacy, and aggressively pushes this belief by forcibly converting tons of paper people into his origami soldiers.
== Web Comics ==
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* The [[Evil Empire|Souballo Empire]] is presented this way in ''[[Our Little Adventure]]'', with Elves (and probably Half-Elves) being their primary target of discrimination.
* v2 to v4 of ''[[Open Blue]]''{{'}}s Sirene (back then called Seran) didn't even try to hide its Naziness. Authoritarian Germanic nation led by a Führer, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Snazzy]] (albeit red) uniforms everywhere, an intelligence agency that almost directly parallels the SS right down to the [[Common Ranks]], basically everything except racial superiority beliefs and [[No Swastikas|swastikas]]. This was toned down in v5.▼
▲== Web Originals ==
▲* v2 to v4 of ''[[Open Blue]]'''s Sirene (back then called Seran) didn't even try to hide its Naziness. Authoritarian Germanic nation led by a Führer, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Snazzy]] (albeit red) uniforms everywhere, an intelligence agency that almost directly parallels the SS right down to the [[Common Ranks]], basically everything except racial superiority beliefs and [[No Swastikas|swastikas]]. This was toned down in v5.
* ''[[Decades of Darkness]]'' has Shane Mullins and his Vitalists of New England. Fun fact: They have an SA equivalent wearing [[Red Shirt|red shirts]].
== Western Animation ==
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* The episode "Absolute Power" from ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'' brought Superman to an alien planet that had been conquered by Jax-Ur and Mala, two Kryptonian criminals that had escaped from the [[Phantom Zone]]. The parallels with Nazi Germany are present but vague in the beginning, there are stories told of economic depression and social unrest that were corrected when a new discipline-obsessed regime came to power, but it becomes patently hard to miss the symbolism when they start using the ''Hitlergruß'' (Nazi Salute).
* ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'': {{spoiler|The treatment of non-benders by the Republic City Council (Curfews, cutting off electricity, rounding up innocents including children en masse and throwing them in jail) in response to the rising threat of the Equalists is awfully similar to not only the Nazi treatment of Jews, but also the Red Scare and Japanese internment in North America.}}
* In ''[[The Owl House]]'', {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Emperor Belos]] is what you would get if you took [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)| Judge Frollo]] and made him an actual sorcerer with more far-reaching plans. Adding a great deal of [[Fantastic Racism]], his plans for the Boiling Isles are no less than a [[Final Solution]].}}
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