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{{quote|''"Mr. Vollmer, I was making speeches before you could read them. I was fighting battles when your only struggle was to climb out of a '''womb.''' I was taking over the world when your universe was a crib! And as for being in '''darkness''', Mr. Vollmer, I '''INVENTED''' darkness!"''|'''[[Large Ham|Adolf Hitler]]''', ''[[The Twilight Zone (TV)|The Twilight Zone]]''}}
 
Think of evil. Not [[Card-Carrying Villain|Saturday Morning Cartoon evil]], or Hollywood Blockbuster evil, but festering, seething, irredeemable evil. Take the concept of [[Complete Monster]] and turn it [[Up to Eleven]]. Who do you think of?
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...Because if he somehow came back, we'd ''all'' be screwed.
 
Maybe there's some nutjob who hasn't given up on the idea of the Third Reich, the Aryan Nation, the Thule Society or any one of the other things Hitler had a hand in, or maybe they're just doing it [[For the Evulz]], but bringing back Hitler for the express purpose of having him take over the world is a recurring villainous plot in fiction, and is often treated as synonymous with opening the gates of Hell and letting [[Satan]] [[The Legions of Hell|and his minions run free]] or summoning down one of [[H.P. Lovecraft (Creator)|H. P. Lovecraft]]'s many [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]] to destroy the minds of all mankind - that is, [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]].
 
Of course, in reality, Hitler was a mere mortal rather than the very spirit of evil given human form, and bringing him back from the dead would in all likelihood not make [[The Legions of Hell]] [[Take Over the World]]. As a matter of fact, the reason why an ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]''-type situation didn't happen in reality is because the Allies realized that [[Pointy-Haired Boss|Hitler's incompetent leadership]] was practically winning the war ''for'' them.
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* Averted by the Hitler clone in ''[[Afterschool Charisma]]'', a [[Cheerful Child|cute little boy]] who is terrified of turning out like his predecessor.
* Glemmy Toto of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ]]'' is a [[You Cloned Hitler|clone]] of Gihren Zabi, himself a [[Captain Ersatz]] of Hitler. His manipulations ultimately cause a [[Enemy Civil War|civil war]] within [[The Remnant|Neo-Zeon]] and escalated the rest of the conflict, causing countless additional deaths. Justified by his having been given power by the people who cloned him, and using it as a stepping stone to greater things.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* In a multi-issue storyline in the [[Fantomas]] comic book in the late 70s (likely inspired by The Boys From Brazil) a young Son of Hitler shows up, starts the Fourth Reich, takes over France, restarts the Holocaust(!!), and captures and tortures Fantomas (something no other villain in the series had ever managed to do.) His downfall only came when he became obsessed with Fantomas' follower, agent Taurus... a ''Black'' woman!
* Subverted in an issue of DC Comics ''Outsiders', where a clone of Hitler is decanted, shown films the "accomplishments" of his predecessor -- [[Driven to Suicide|and then shoots himself out of horror]].
* In ''[[Hellboy (Comic Bookcomics)|Hellboy]]'' and ''[[Savage Dragon]]'' Hitler lived until 1952, when Hellboy killed him. And then [[Killer Gorilla|his brain was transplanted into a gorilla]].
** Hitler surviving was also brought up in the Hellboy movie.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[They Saved HitlersHitler's Brain (Film)|They Saved Hitlers Brain]]'', of course.
* Given a subtle nod in ''[[Hellboy (Filmfilm)|Hellboy]]'', where Professor Bruttenholm casually gives a date for Hitler's death much ''later'' than 1945 - and, more concretely, establishes that Hitler had indeed [[Ghostapo|used the power of legendary artifacts such as the Spear of Longinus]] to cement his power base.
* [[The Movie]] of ''[[The Boys Fromfrom Brazil]]'' (in Litterature below), of course.
* ''Flesh Feast'', the last film of poor [[wikipedia:Veronica Lake|Veronica Lake]], is about a [[Mad Scientist]] who creates a breed of man-eating maggots (under the pretense of using them for "regeneration research") and helps the bad guys resurrect Hitler {{spoiler|just so she can kill him personally with her maggots by throwing them in his face, as revenge for her political prisoner parents' deaths in the Holocaust}}. [[Makes Just Asas Much Sense in Context|And that's about it, really]].
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[The Boys Fromfrom Brazil]]'', {{spoiler|not only has Hitler been cloned many times over, but efforts are being made to make the clones' lives more like that of young Adolfs, for example by killing the clones' fathers when the clones are the age that Hitler was when his father died.}} Also was adapted as a movie.
* In the [[Fundamentalist]] "End Times" novel ''The Fourth Reich'', Hitler ''is'' [[The Antichrist]] - {{spoiler|''and'' literally Hitler reborn. He's the Russian President, who turns out to be a clone of Hitler, and is indwelt by the soul of the original Hitler, who's been released by Satan from Hell to do his dirty work}}. This book is one of the more entertaining [[So Bad It's Good|(for sufficiently twisted values of "entertaining")]] "End Times" fictions around, and is also notable for a take on eschatology that differs ''sharply'' from the Premillennial Dispensationalist viewpoint with which most people will be familiar. There is much fun to be had in watching Hitler scream "''Nie wieder! Nie wieder!''" as his evil plans are frustrated, and watching him explain each failure to a furious [[Satan]]. In other words, the work is "Christian" End Times fiction [[[[In Name Only]] in advertising only.
* In the ''[[Faction Paradox]]'' novel ''Warlords of Utopia'', which involves a war between a parallel universe where [[Ancient Rome]] never fell and a parallel universe where [[Those Wacky Nazis|the Nazis won WWII]], ends with the son of Hitler, raised from birth to be [[Up to Eleven|Hitler times a thousand]], escaping to ''our world'', planning to wreak havoc. {{spoiler|He is hunted down by the protaganist, who finds him in a small villa in Brazil. He is, for all his education and pure distilled evilness, little more than just another pathetic white supremacist. He's squashed like a bug}}.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[The New Avengers]]'' episode "The Eagle's Nest" featured a group of Nazis attempting to revive the cryogenically preserved body of Hitler.
* An episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone (TV)|The Twilight Zone]]'' which provides the page quotes sees Hitler's ghost inspire and direct a young American neo-Nazi, eventually driving him to {{spoiler|kill a friend to make a martyr for his cause, and later murder an elderly Jewish man.}} At the end of the episode, Hitler's spectral shadow glides along a wall, seeking a new apprentice, as the narration proceeds to inform the audience that [[As Long Asas There Is Evil|as long as bigotry and racism exist, Hitler will always be alive.]]
 
== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The villains of ''[[Bionic Commando (Video Game)|Bionic Commando]]'' manage to successfully resurrect Hitler (or "Master D", as he's called in the U.S. version). [[Your Head Asplode|You get to blow his head off with a rocket launcher.]]
* Played with in ''[[Persona 2]]: Innocent Sin'', where Hitler is resurrected via the [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|power of rumors]] and a conspiracy theory suggesting he escaped instead of committing suicide and attempts to take over the world. {{spoiler|This Hitler turns out to be fake, though. He also turns out to be none other than [[H.P. Lovecraft (Creator)|Nyarlatothep]] himself. [[Eldritch Abomination|Be afraid.]] [[Ultimate Evil|Be very afraid.]]}}
* ''[[Wolfenstein (Video2009 Gamevideo game)|Wolfenstein]]'' had Hitler in [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|a mecha suit]], [[Ghostapo|and several different legions of ghosts, mages, and what have you.]]
** Arguably justified, since Wolfenstein is supposed to take place ''during'' [[WW 2]], so not so much a case of a clone Hitler as an alternate version of the real one.
** The ''Wolfenstein 3-D'' [[Game Mod]] ''Spear Resurrection'' plays it straight, with the Spear of Destiny being used to resurrect Hitler (partially, you get to kill him again before he's fully corporeal).
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Mentioned by Professor Farnsworth in ''[[Futurama]]'':
{{quote| '''Professor''': Everyone's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain. But when you put it in the body of a [[Everything's Even Worse Withwith Sharks|great white shark]], ooh, suddenly you've gone too far!}}
* In ''[[The Venture Brothers (Animation)|The Venture Brothers]]'', a group of villains who want to resurrect Hitler (through cloning, and a dog reincarnation of him) are featured in the first episode of season four. It's [[Played for Laughs]], of course. Brock kills the dog, then remarks that he can check one more thing off the list of cool stuff he never thought he'd get to do.
** And kinda, [[Opposite Sex Clone|Girl Hitler]].
 
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