Putting on the Reich/Playing With: Difference between revisions

** It's [[World War Two]], and the heroes are fighting actual German forces.

** The villians [[Genre Savvy|know the connotations of their uniforms]] and dress that way to make thier enemies afraid of them.

* '''Inverted''': The heroes wear Wehrmacht or SS style uniforms.

** Or the bad guys were once part of the Nazi Empire, but now are a separate enemy force. They abandon their old uniforms for newer ones.

* '''Lampshaded''': A recruit to the Evil Empire's army asks: "Why are we dressing like we're about to invade Poland?"

* '''Invoked''': The [[Evil Empire]] is a successor state to [[Nazi Germany]], so they go out of their way to call back to their roots.

* '''Defied''': [[Even Evil Has Standards|The Evil Empire doesn't want to associate with the Nazis]] and does something different to differentiate themselves from their precursors.

* '''Discussed''': "We have to fight an evil empire? Five bucks says they're all wearing uniforms that look like Nazi knock-offs."

* '''Conversed''': "Have you ever noticed that all of the bad guys in tv look like Nazis?"

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