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A group of soldiers who have set out to scalp Germans as a sort of revenge. Started as eight Jewish-Americans, but were later joined by the German Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz after he murders 13 Gestapo officers and the Basterds break him out of jail.
A group of soldiers who have set out to scalp Germans as a sort of revenge. Started as eight Jewish-Americans, but were later joined by the German Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz after he murders 13 Gestapo officers and the Basterds break him out of jail.


* [[Anti Hero]]: Type IV
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type IV
* [[Batter Up]]: Donny Donowitz's preferred style of execution.
* [[Batter Up]]: Donny Donowitz's preferred style of execution.
* [[Blood Knight]]
* [[Blood Knight]]
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* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]
* [[He Who Fights Monsters|They Who Fight Monsters]]: Let's see, they hate the Nazis, yet they do several eerily similar actions onto the Nazis that the Nazis do onto Jews and other undesirables, even down to locking them in a room under false pretenses (in a manner of speaking). That fits the trope to a "t".
* [[He Who Fights Monsters|They Who Fight Monsters]]: Let's see, they hate the Nazis, yet they do several eerily similar actions onto the Nazis that the Nazis do onto Jews and other undesirables, even down to locking them in a room under false pretenses (in a manner of speaking). That fits the trope to a "t".
* [[What Happened to The Mouse]]?: {{spoiler|Four Basterds disappear, never to be shown on screen again. According to leaked versions of the script, whoever didn't show up before the tavern scene had died.}}
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]?: {{spoiler|Four Basterds disappear, never to be shown on screen again. According to leaked versions of the script, whoever didn't show up before the tavern scene had died.}}


=== Lt. Aldo "The Apache" Raine ===
=== Lt. Aldo "The Apache" Raine ===
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A hilljack from the backwoods of Tennesee. Has a scar about his neck that is never explained. He is the leader of the Basterds.
A hilljack from the backwoods of Tennesee. Has a scar about his neck that is never explained. He is the leader of the Basterds.


* [[Anti Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti Heroes|Type IV or V.]]
* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type IV or V.]]
* [[Anti Villain]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti Villains|Type III]]
* [[Anti-Villain]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains|Type III]]
* [[Ax Crazy]]: He '''does''' get off on carving swastikas into the heads of German prisoners-of-war.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: He '''does''' get off on carving swastikas into the heads of German prisoners-of-war.
* [[Badass Mustache]]
* [[Badass Mustache]]
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* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]
* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]
* [[Knight Templar]]
* [[Knight Templar]]
* [[Southern Fried Private|Southern Fried Lieutenant]]: Hails from Tennessee, although Raine mentions he's got Native American blood in him.
* [[Southern-Fried Private|Southern Fried Lieutenant]]: Hails from Tennessee, although Raine mentions he's got Native American blood in him.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]
* [[Villain Protagonist]]
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{{quote|'''Played By:''' Til Schweiger|''"Say "auf Wiedersehen" to your Nazi balls."''}}
{{quote|'''Played By:''' Til Schweiger|''"Say "auf Wiedersehen" to your Nazi balls."''}}


* [[Anti Hero]]: Type V
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type V
* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[Ax Crazy]]
* [[A Day in The Limelight]]: The only Basterd to get a full flashback sequence divulging their backstory.
* [[A Day in The Limelight]]: The only Basterd to get a full flashback sequence divulging their backstory.
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{{quote|'''Played By:''' [[Eli Roth]]|''"Teddy fuckin' Williams knocks it out of the park! Fenway Park on its feet for Teddy fuckin' Ballgame! He went yardo on that one, out to fuckin' Lansdowne Street!"''}}
{{quote|'''Played By:''' [[Eli Roth]]|''"Teddy fuckin' Williams knocks it out of the park! Fenway Park on its feet for Teddy fuckin' Ballgame! He went yardo on that one, out to fuckin' Lansdowne Street!"''}}


* [[Anti Hero]]: Type IV
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type IV
* [[Badass]]
* [[Badass]]
* [[Batter Up]]: His weapon of choice
* [[Batter Up]]: His weapon of choice
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* [[Breakout Character]]
* [[Breakout Character]]
* [[Colonel Badass]]
* [[Colonel Badass]]
* [[Cunning Linguist]]: One of the character's most well-known traits is his [[Buffy Speak|quadri-linguality]].
* [[Cunning Linguist]]: One of the character's most well-known traits is his [[Buffy-Speak|quadri-linguality]].
* {{spoiler|[[Fate Worse Than Death]] - lets just say that despite promise of becoming a complete American citizen and hailed as a hero, he couldn't eliminate his ties to the Nazis afterwards thanks to the surviving members of the Basterds deciding to do one of their usual methods with surviving Nazis. Though he can probably get plastic surgery with all those goodies he extorted.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Fate Worse Than Death]] - lets just say that despite promise of becoming a complete American citizen and hailed as a hero, he couldn't eliminate his ties to the Nazis afterwards thanks to the surviving members of the Basterds deciding to do one of their usual methods with surviving Nazis. Though he can probably get plastic surgery with all those goodies he extorted.}}
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
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* [[Mook Lieutenant]]
* [[Mook Lieutenant]]
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: He confesses to Shosanna that he does not want to watch his film, because he does not feel proud of killing so many men.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: He confesses to Shosanna that he does not want to watch his film, because he does not feel proud of killing so many men.
* [[Not So Harmless Villain]]
* [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]
* {{spoiler|[[Taking You With Me]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Taking You With Me]]}}
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A beautiful German actress who is secretly working for the Allies.
A beautiful German actress who is secretly working for the Allies.


* [[Anti Hero]]: Type IV
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type IV
* [[Femme Fatale]]
* [[Femme Fatale]]
* [[Reverse Mole]]
* [[Reverse Mole]]
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=== General Ed Fenech ===
=== General Ed Fenech ===
{{quote| '''Played By:''' [[WTH Casting Agency|Mike Myers]]}}
{{quote| '''Played By:''' [[WTH Casting Agency|Mike Myers]]}}
* [[One Scene Wonder]]
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]


== Le Gamaar Theater ==
== Le Gamaar Theater ==
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A French Jew whose entire family was murdered by Hans Landa's men. She eventually owns a cinema.
A French Jew whose entire family was murdered by Hans Landa's men. She eventually owns a cinema.


* [[Anti Hero]](Type IV [[Your Mileage May Vary|or]] V): Crafting a horrific punishment for an entire theater full of high-ranking Nazis. It certainly helps that she's the only survivor of a family of Jewish dairy farmers who were massacred by Landa - Landa [[Laser Guided Karma|leaving her alive because he figured she couldn't possibly pose a threat to the Nazis in the future]].
* [[Anti-Hero]](Type IV [[Your Mileage May Vary|or]] V): Crafting a horrific punishment for an entire theater full of high-ranking Nazis. It certainly helps that she's the only survivor of a family of Jewish dairy farmers who were massacred by Landa - Landa [[Laser-Guided Karma|leaving her alive because he figured she couldn't possibly pose a threat to the Nazis in the future]].
* [[Broken Bird]]
* [[Broken Bird]]
* [[The Chessmaster]]
* [[The Chessmaster]]
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He is Shoshanna's boyfriend as well as the film projectionist at her cinema.
He is Shoshanna's boyfriend as well as the film projectionist at her cinema.


* [[Anti Hero]]: Type III
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type III
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Maybe. Unlike the people in the theater, he had a possible escape route (hey, he had to get in through the back part of the theater somewhere).}}
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Maybe. Unlike the people in the theater, he had a possible escape route (hey, he had to get in through the back part of the theater somewhere).}}
* [[Satellite Character]]: We never get to learn anything about him, other than that he's Shosanna's boyfriend and a very good projectionist.
* [[Satellite Character]]: We never get to learn anything about him, other than that he's Shosanna's boyfriend and a very good projectionist.

Revision as of 22:05, 8 January 2014


Inglourious Basterds

The Basterds

 "We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty they will know who we are."

A group of soldiers who have set out to scalp Germans as a sort of revenge. Started as eight Jewish-Americans, but were later joined by the German Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz after he murders 13 Gestapo officers and the Basterds break him out of jail.

Lt. Aldo "The Apache" Raine
Played By: Brad Pitt
—"You probably heard we ain't in the prisoner-takin' business; we in the killin' Nazi business. And cousin, business is a-boomin'!"

A hilljack from the backwoods of Tennesee. Has a scar about his neck that is never explained. He is the leader of the Basterds.

Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz
Played By: Til Schweiger
—"Say "auf Wiedersehen" to your Nazi balls."

 "Do I not look calm to you?"

Sgt. Donny ‘The Bear Jew’ Donowitz
Played By: Eli Roth
—"Teddy fuckin' Williams knocks it out of the park! Fenway Park on its feet for Teddy fuckin' Ballgame! He went yardo on that one, out to fuckin' Lansdowne Street!"

Pfc. Omar Ulmer

 Played By: Omar Doom

Pfc. Smithson ‘Little Man’ Utvich
Played By: BJ Novak
—"The Germans' nickname for me is "the Little Man"?"

The Nazis

The German High Command (Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goring, and Martin Boorman)

Col. Hans ‘The Jew Hunter’ Landa
Played By: Christoph Waltz
—"I love rumors! Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing."

A Nazi colonel who is a damn good detective (in his words). Very good at rooting out Jewish families in hiding. This is how he makes the acquaintance of Shoshanna Dreyfus, whose family's death he is responsible for.

Frederick Zoller

 Played By: Daniel Bruhl

Major Dieter Hellstrom

 Played By: August Diehl

Adolf Hitler

 Played By: Martin Wuttke

Joseph Goebbels

 Played By: Sylvester Groth

The Allies

Lt. Archie Hicox

 Played By: Michael Fassbender

Bridget von Hammersmark

 Played By: Diane Kruger

A beautiful German actress who is secretly working for the Allies.

General Ed Fenech

 Played By: Mike Myers

Le Gamaar Theater

Shoshanna Dreyfus

 Played By: Melanie Laurent

A French Jew whose entire family was murdered by Hans Landa's men. She eventually owns a cinema.

Marcel

 Played By: Jacky Ido

He is Shoshanna's boyfriend as well as the film projectionist at her cinema.

  • Anti-Hero: Type III
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Maybe. Unlike the people in the theater, he had a possible escape route (hey, he had to get in through the back part of the theater somewhere).
  • Satellite Character: We never get to learn anything about him, other than that he's Shosanna's boyfriend and a very good projectionist.
  • Where Da White Woman At
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