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== Tropes in the show include: ==
* [[Achilles' Heel]]: The otherwise invincible Carbonado-enhanced soldiers are vulnerable to {{spoiler|diamond bullets}}.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of sixties cinema and TV, pulp fiction, and also specifically, old Japanese sci-fi.
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: "My God. There's Nazis in the walls!" This being in a secure bank vault.
* [[Alternate History]]: [[World War Two]] in [[The Sixties]].
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]: In Episode 4 of the miniseries, Goring shows off several women enhanced in a similar fashion to Hitler's Carbonado bodyguards, but using different gemstones. {{spoiler|None of them are ''quite'' as bulletproof}}.
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* [[Chainsaw Good]]: Hitler's mech's "Victory Chainsaw". It has a flamethrower too!
* [[Chair Reveal]]: Hitler in "Final Victory" - in a '60s [[Cool Chair|Ball Chair]], no less.
* [[Chekhov's Volcano]]: Mengele's Antarctic volcano base.
* [[Cliché Storm]]: Part of the parody.
* [[Cradling Your Kill]]: Inevitably used for Pierre's perfect-cocktail [[Running Gag]].
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{{quote|"Professor Johann Filk of the International League of Sciencemongers. I am a scientist. A man of science. I've been practicing science on this plateau for nearly 10 years."}}
* [[Depraved Homosexual]]: Himmler and Heydrich.
* [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons]]: The dinosaur Ilsa fights can breathe fire.
* [[Disconnected by Death]]: Ilsa shoots someone [[Beyond the Impossible|over the phone]].
* [[Disguised in Drag]]: Pierre in a corset and blond wig in "Fresh Meat for Hitler's Sex Kitchen". [[Paper-Thin Disguise|Without covering up his moustache]], naturally.
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: Ilsa makes Jackson lose his staring contest with Tucker by [[Going Commando|taking off her panties]] and throwing them in his face. The fact that he can hear Ilsa crossing and uncrossing her long leather boots doesn't help.
* [[Doomsday Device]]: Stalin has one that will destroy the world if the Nazis conquer the USSR.
* [[Doppelganger]]: Danger 5 are cloned in "Final Victory"
* [[Dressing as the Enemy]]: How Danger 5 attempt to kill Hitler in the first episode. Tucker while infiltrating the Swiss brothel.
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* [[Feet First Introduction]]: The all-mighty Sheba is introduced via a slow pan up her sexy body...only to reveal she's a beastwoman!
* [[Finger Gun]]: ''who needs a gun, when you've got imagination?
* [[Furo Scene]]: Jackson, Ilsa and Claire make use of a hot spring.
* [[Gladiator Games]]: Mengele forces his prisoners to fight his mutants.
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Ilsa is jealous because Hitler prefers Claire [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|be brought to his quarters]] instead of her. Jackson and Rommel fighting over Ilsa.
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* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: Happens often to the virginal Claire.
* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]] / [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Claire and Jackson are being strangled by brainwashed Tucker and Ilsa. Claire admits to Tucker that "we need you and...[[Anguished Declaration of Love|I can't go on without you!]]" This wakes up Tucker, who promptly knocks out Ilsa [[Interrupted Declaration of Love|while Jackson is stumbling over his own]] [[Love Confession]]. Afterwards, however, Claire refuses to admit to Tucker that she actually meant what she said.
* [[I'll Take Two Beers, Too!]]: Jackson.
{{quote|"I'll take Double [[Bland-Name Product|Jim Bourbons]] on the rocks. ... No, ''two'' of them."}}
* [[Immune to Bullets]]: The Carbonado-enhanced girls and the Japanese robo-soldiers.
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** The Swiss bleed ''money''.
* [[Nazisploitation]]: Parodied.
* [[Non-Specifically Foreign]]: Pierre is from 'Europe'.
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: {{spoiler|Danger 5 finally kill Hitler in the last episode, only to find they've killed his clone and the real Hitler is piloting a giant robot. They destroy the robot and are given the Key to the World, only for Hitler to turn up again in [[The Stinger]].}}
* [[Now or Never Kiss]]: Ilsa and Tucker share a drink and an [[Almost Kiss]] as they're about to be eaten by the T-Rex.
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{{quote|'''Claire''': That's a Tyrannosaurus Rex!
'''Colonel''': No, Claire, that's a ''Tyrannosaurus Rex''. Try thinking first before you open your mouth. }}
** Hitler jumping out the window. The same window.
* [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche]]: Mainly the latter two.
* [[Scarpia Ultimatum]]: [[Mad Scientist]] Mengele gives Claire the choice of sleeping with him or seeing her friends thrown to the mutants. A pair of lab coats hung up behind give Mengele the [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|appearance of horns]].
* [[Scenery Censor]]: A pterodactyl is doing [[Black Comedy Rape|something nasty]] to a [[Screaming Woman]] behind a strategically-placed flower vase.
* [[Series Goal]]:
{{quote|''KILL HITLER!''}}
* [[Shaped Like Itself]]
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* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: With gusto.
* [[Super Window Jump]]: Hitler, involving the [[Stock Footage|same footage every time]].
* [[Stripperiffic]]: Ilsa's [[Custom Uniform of Sexy]]. And most other female characters.
* [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler]]: Practically part of the premise.
* [[Surreal Humor]]: Why are there people with eagle-heads in this series? Or talking dogs?
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* [[William Telling]]: 'John Baccarat' (Jackson) while blindfolded shoots holes in cards [[Victoria's Secret Compartment|held in a woman's cleavage]].
* [[Widget Series]]: WWII featuring an eagle-headed military officer. Need I say more?
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Jackson in "Fresh Meat for Hitler's Sex Kitchen".
{{quote|You hit a woman!
I hit a '''Nazi!''' }}
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