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* [[Butt Monkey]]: Called himself "el duce" and had the initials BM. TWO triple entendres. And he brought "el duce" on himself.
* [[The Casanova]]: Mussolini had for all of his life numerous flirts and lovers. And he was not ashamed to show it, building a womanizer reputation for himself. He believed (perhaps correctly, being in Italy) that his success with women contributes to his perception as a strong leader.
* [[Conservation of Ninjitsu]]: A real life justified example. He regarded Italy's military as a display of his vanity and not a defense of Italy's security. Hence he expanded the mere numbers serving far beyond his capacity to officer them or provide adaquate infrastructure. As a result he got beat up by the British(with a tough, but not cutting edge Imperial army), the Greeks(a local Ruitania), and in the end even the Ethiopians who were far below other beligerents in technology.
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Not by him personally but by Otto Skorzeny the German commando(who was a fervant Nazi, but it must be admitted, had a new Crowning Momment of Awesome every time he changed his shirt) who engineered his rescue from prison.
* [[Dead Guy on Display]]: Along with his mistress.
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*** It's quite a common name for Italian men.
* [[Fascist but Inefficient]]: The [[Trope Namer]]. Ironically, because this is the man who was said to have "made the trains run on time." ([[Reality Is Unrealistic|They actually didn't.]])
**If this troper remembers they [[Fridge Logic|made one train run on time]] in front of camera crews.
* [[Fascist Italy]]: Well, duh.
* [[Generation Xerox]]: Not with Mussolini himself, but it turns out that his granddaughter Alessandra, who's a self-proclaimed fascist (even though she's a member of the [[Irony|"People of Freedom" Party]]), is apparently following in Il Duce's footsteps. Let the fact that there's still a Mussolini around in Italian politics sink in.
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* [[Kneel Before Zod]]: What a lot of his propaganda said. [[Large Ham|OBEY!]]
** It's either that or "SI!" (Yes in Italian)
* [[I Like Swords]]: Unsurprisingly given his absurd [[Testosterone Poisoning]]. Not only did he attend one or two real duels with lethal blades(it is not widely known that dueling still took place that late in history), but he several times took part in one himself.
* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Less Disturbing in Context]]: Zig-zagged. He actually advocated totalitarianism. However he did not mean "I am going to be evil". He meant the state should have complete control of everything. Of course as it is kind of hard to manage that without being evil it is at the same time more disturbing in context. But [[For the Evulz]] was not his campaign platform. And indeed he never actually fulfilled his goal because to do so you of course actually do have to make the trains run on time.
* [[Modern Major-General]]
* [[Nice Hat]]: his fez, that he would wear almost always (including the page picture). Bonus point for the fez being proof he served in World War I as a Bersagliere, Italy's elite infantry.
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* [[Squick]]: Look up how he and [[Dark Mistress|his mistress]] died. Seriously, it's bad.
* [[Take That]]: Mussolini's book, ''The Cardinal's Mistress''<ref>That or ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''</ref> was the subject of [[Deadpan Snarker|Dorothy Parker's]] famous quip, "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
* [[Testosterone Poisoning]]: He would be funny if he [[Dude, Not Funny| didn't cause so much suffering.]]
* [[Unnecessarily Large Interior]]: Mussolini had his visitors cross an excessively large hall to meet him, as a psychological intimidation tactic.
* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: Many intellectuals, including so-called "progressive" thinkers praised him for his handling of the Great Depression in Italy, and Mussolini himself described corporatism as being similar to the New Deal. That said, these days, "progressives" don't like fascism.
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* Is parodied along with Hitler in ''[[The Great Dictator]]'', in which the two conflict over which country would invade Austria. [[Truth in Television]] at the time, though the two became close allies later.
* In [[Mafalda]], Miguelito's grandfather is an admirer of Mussolini. He even manages to trace the [[Space Race|Moon Landing]] to Mussolini (Mussolini -> Hitler -> Von Braun -> NASA -> Moon Landing).
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* In ''[[H. Beam Piper|Space Viking]]'', historian Otto Harkaman describes a government on one planet as analogous to the "Corporate State, First Century Pre-Atomic on Terra. Benny the Moose."
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