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[[caption-width-right:350:Heil MechaHitler!]]
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Another reason might be that [[Germanic Efficiency|German technology has a (not always deserved) reputation for being effective]]. The problem is that this effectiveness is usually gained by intricate engineering that increases costs and inhibits mass production. This doctrine plagued almost every weapon system the Germans utilized throughout the war, even the more conventional ones. As an extreme example, the much-vaunted Type XXI submarine was actually inferior to its Japanese equivalent and the U.S./Britain were easily able to equal its performance by relatively simple modifications to their existing designs. German tanks might have been extremely powerful, but Allied tanks were usually far cheaper to build and easier to maintain, an edge Germany couldn't overcome as the war-ravaged industrial base eroded away.
Nonethless, if you have to pick one WWII power to give antigravity and a [[Iron Sky
[[wikipedia:Category:Nazism and occultism|Nazi occultism]], though often combined with the: [[wikipedia:Wunderwaffe|Wunderwaffe]], [[wikipedia:Category:Superweapons|superweapon]], and [[wikipedia:Category:V-weapons|V-weapons]]; was not as strong as people believe. For example, the [[wikipedia:Thule Society|Thule Society]] was shut down because the [[Ghostapo|Nazis]] did not trust their political loyalty.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
* In ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure
* While [[Hellsing|Millenium]] are primarily about using [[Ghostapo|occult means]] to accomplish their goals (most notably the creation of a battalion of vampires) they also use advanced technology such as powerful, missile-shooting [[Zeppelins
** Not a perfect example, though, as ''Hellsing'' is set in the modern era; Millenium is a splinter faction that survived the war (presumably building all this stuff in the intervening time).
*** There are, however, two examples which go back to the War. {{spoiler|The method for creating vampires involved a kind of surgical procedure to transfer vampiric power to normal humans, somewhat combining [[Magitek|occultism and science]].}} And the final reveal that {{spoiler|the Major was mortally wounded in battle in Russia, and was saved by being converted into a cyborg}}.
* ''[[
* In the manga version of ''[[Space Adventure Cobra]]'', it is eventually revealed that {{spoiler|Salamander, the leader of the Pirate Guild,}} is actually {{spoiler|Hitler.}}
* In ''[[The Legend of Koizumi]]'', it turns out that all the Nazis- including Menegle and Hitler- survived WWII up to the present day, and are now living on a moon base. They travel from Earth to the Moon in classic [[Flying Saucer|UFOs]], and have a gigantic Meteor Cannon that can hit any point on Earth with the strength of a nuke. The only way to stop them? [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Mah-Jong]].
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* ''[[Blackhawk]]'' in [[The DCU]] fought a lot of bizarre Nazi superscience (with bizarre Allied superscience). The most famous was the [[Monowheel Mayhem|War-Wheel]], a large spiked wheel with a centre like a tank from the First World War.
* ''[[Top Ten]]'s'' Neopolis is an entire ''city'' designed by expat Nazi [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]], complete with flying castles, huge megastructures, and teleporters. In ''The Forty-Niners'', some of them try using a time machine to alter the course of the war.
* [[Ultimate Marvel]] has Nazi ''Aliens'', or rather aliens who helped Nazis with ahead-of-their-time ICBM and atom bomb technology, and then [[Putting
* ''[[Hellboy]]'': The eponymous character is the result of [[Ghostapo|an occult version of this]] and he spends most of the comic smashing and/or shooting the results of other Nazi super weapon projects.
** A crossover with ''[[The Savage Dragon]]'' revealed that the brain of Brainiape, an evil gorilla with mental powers, was actually Hitler.
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* A 90's ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' comic had a Hitler's brain operated robot travel ''in time'' to save his past self so he could later serve in order to be saved for his brain transplant.
* ''[[Superman At Earths End]]'' is possibly the most literal example of this, not only with a mutant Gestapo armed with futuristic weapons, an army of half-human half-animal monsters, a giant evil Batman clone-monster, but with TWO clones of Hitler himself.
** [[Atop the Fourth Wall
* An arc in Justice Society Classified involved the disembodied brain of Heinrich Himmler. Who built a giant railgun on THE MOON.
** One storyline in the monthly [[Justice Society of America]] comic is all about a future Nazi Fourth Reich, complete with giant heavily armed war mechs, a means to neutralize all superheroes, and their own supervillains including Captain Nazi.
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* In the early ''[[Wolverine]]'' comics, you had Geist, a Nazi cyborg.
* The ''Commando'' comic series was chock full of this. There was little common continuity between the stories in each issue, apart from taking place in wartime. In some of them the Nazis among other things had a nuclear bomb, a moonbase, a time machine, and naturally every time the Allied forces managed to overcome them with absolutely no secret weapons of their own.
* I recall a ''[[
** And another where they built a time machine as the Allies were just outside Berlin. Hitler and Eva Braun escape using the time machine, but it's not been properly calibrated, so they wind up in Prehistoric times as the first man and woman.
* ''Monster Plus'' runs afoul of Hitlerfist, the monster with Hitlers for hands, in his inaugural issue. Nothing can stand up to the Fists of Fuhrer. Hitlerfist is probably the Sensational Character Find of 2009.
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== Films ==
* ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger
* ''[[
* ''[[They Saved
* The Nazi propaganda cartoon [[Wartime Cartoon|shown in]] ''[[The Rocketeer (
* ''[[
* Animated Polish feature ''[http://www.hardkor44.pl/ Hardkor '44]'' (currently in production) pits the insurgents during Warsaw Uprising against a whole friggin' army of Nazi cyborgs. Click the middle icon on the film's webpage to download zipped concept art.
* Sci-fi's Reign of the Gargoyles: After their bomber goes down, Allied forces must confront huge, stone gargoyles brought to life and controlled by, you guessed it, the Nazis.
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== Live Action TV ==
* [[Sci Fi Channel]]'s Movie of the Week: ''SS Doomtrooper:'' The Dirty Dozen versus Nuclear Powered Nazi Mutant [[Super Soldier]]. Featuring a one-thread-of-shoestring-budget [[Special Effects Failure]] in the title role.
* In ''[[The Man
* In ''[[The New Avengers]]'' episode "The Eagle's Nest", the Avengers prevent an attempt by an enclave of Nazis concealed in a British monastery to revive Hitler's preserved body.
* ''[[The Tomorrow People]]'' storyline "Hitler's Last Secret" is chock full of evil Nazi super-sciencey goodness.
* In the season three finale of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', the victorious Enterprise returns home to find that they are in the mid-twentieth century, where aliens have crashed landed and allied with the Nazis. However this turns out to be a subversion as the aliens have only been there for 2 years and were not going to give Hitler any weapons or technology until their time machine was finished. They did have control of the U.S East Coast and a good section of Russia but that was because some different aliens had traveled back in time and killed Lenin resulting in the Soviet Union never forming. The Nazis were already losing land to the Americans and Russians and were hoping the Alien technology would turn the tide back in their favor.
** The Enterprise did fight Stukas with plasma cannons, which would have done very well against contemporary aircraft. However, they weren't much more than an annoyance to the Enterprise.
* ''[[Kamen Rider X]]'' gave us [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3SzmfZ6F24 STARFISH HITLER!]
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* In ''[[Angel]]'' certain flashbacks tell that Hitler was planning on creating an army of mind-controlled vampires. This plan failed twice over, since first the submarine transporting the specimens was captured by the Allies, and then the restraints failed, releasing Spike and his Eastern European friends to wreak havoc over the new crew.
* ''[[Tales of the Gold Monkey]]:'' in the episode "Black Pearl" the Germans build an atomic bomb, in 1938.
* In ''[[
* Occurs in [[Misfits]] where an elderly Jewish man with the abilty to time travel goes back to the Nazi Germany and kill Hitler. He botches it and leaves his [[Timeline-Altering MacGuffin|mobile phone behind]]. The information gathered from the phone is enough to jump the Nazi technology up a few degrees.
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== New Media ==
* The presence of vast numbers of [[Conspicuous CG|obviously CGI]] pictures of never-realized Nazi wunderwaffen on the internet and History Channel (e.g. ''Luftwaffe 46'') has prompted [[Alternate History Dot Com]] to create an [[Affectionate Parody]] [[Conspiracy Theory]] that [[Sarcasm Mode|"the Nazis would have won the war if they'd spent all their money on tanks and guns instead of inventing CGI before computers existed"]].
** An elaborated version of the conspiracy explained away the computer thing by positing Stupid Jetpack ''[[World War One|Kaiser Wilhelm]]'': the Nazis could invent CGI because the Great War German High Command had already created AIs<ref>That came from the AI of [[Sid
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[
* In ''[[Secrets of the Third Reich]]'' the Nazis have [[Humongous Mecha|Mechs]], [[Powered Armor|smaller mechs]], [[Our Vampires Are Different|Vampires]], [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Werewolves]], [[Zombie Apocalypse|ZOMBIES!]], and [[Action Bomb|Zombiebombs!]] at their command.
* In [[Hollow Earth Expedition]] you can have the Thule society pursuing you to the Lost World within the Earth, via Panzerkampfkruppen--basically Nazi AT-[[S Ts]]. Hopefully, you stole a jetpack or two from them on the way down.
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== Video Games ==
* The video game grandaddy of this trope is the classic ''[[
** ''[[Wolfenstein (
** One series of ''[[Doom (
* Dino D-Day is kind of an odd example. Rather than create supertechnology for combat, the created super-advanced cloning technology and resurrected Dinosaurs...then put giant guns on them.
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has the 5th Column group: Nazi supersoldiers, robots, (artificial) vampires, and (artificial) werewolves. For a short period of time these were retooled into the Council who were less German Nazi and more [[A Nazi
** A good point of differentiation between the two is that the 5th Column plans seem to have much more to do with time travel than the Council's aliens. So it's a difference between Space Nazis and Time Nazis at this point.
* ''[[Persona 2]]: Innocent Sin'' had, among the many things that could possibly have made it unreleasable overseas, Nazi robots. {{spoiler|(And Hitler. He and his robots were hiding in Antarctica. Except it's not really him. It's complicated... or is it?)}}
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* Averted in ''[[Command and Conquer]]'''s ''[[Red Alert]]'' series, if only because the whole point of the series is that [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act|they eliminated Hitler right off the bat]]. Its result? We got Stupid <s> [[Soviet Superscience|Jetpack]]</s> [[Shock and Awe|Tesla Coil]] ''[[Soviet Superscience|Stalin]]'' instead...
* The second ''[[Freedom Force]]'' game has the [[Evil Gloating|ranting]] Nazi psychic Blitzkrieg go back in time to supply the Third Reich with [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum|Energy]] [[Meta Origin|X]]. The series being [[Affectionate Parody|what it is]], even the non-superpowered Nazis are [[Those Wacky Nazis|very Wacky]].
* The ''Secret Weapons of World War II'' expansion for ''[[Battlefield (
* The [[Lucas Arts]] flight simulator ''[[Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe]]'' revolved around implementing German jet fighter planes during [[WW 2]], which were really in production at the time but did not see much action. An expansion added the U.S. equivalent, P-80 Shooting Star.
* Who could forget the bonus levels of ''[[Medal of Honor]]: Underground'' where you fight Nazis in knight armour (resplendent with their swastika shields), Nazi zombies (or aliens; this was the [[PS 1]] so it's hard to tell, although the level title "Rotten to the Corps" in which they reside could point to them being the reanimated dead), and, of course, Nazi Robot [[Super Soldiers]]! You even assemble your own [[Robot Buddy]] called Panzerknacker to help you take out the bad guys.
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** With a dose of [[Ghostapo]] for good measure.
* ''[[Blood Rayne]]'' had some of this, most notably [[Mighty Glacier|Infantry General D. Mauler]] and the [[Humongous Mecha|Super Panzers]] under G. Gosler's command. It also had quite a bit of [[Ghostapo]]. And actual nazis in longcoats and rocket packs.
* The bonus mode of ''[[Call of Duty]]: World At War'', [[Nazi Zombies]], in addition to the [[Exactly What It Says
** Nazi Zombies returns in ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops
* ''[[Crimson Skies]]'' has ''Die Spinne,'' a German arms cartel that is ''heavily'' implied to be front for the Nazi Party (the games are set in an [[Alternate Universe]] version of the 1930s). Their arsenal includes [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier|zeppelin carriers]], [[Zeppelins
* The [[Metal Slug]] Series. Who has [[Tank Goodness|tanks]] armed with [[Painfully-Slow Projectile|painfully slow]] rolling mortar shells and [[This Is a Drill|mining drills]], anti-personell [[Macross Missile Massacre|homing missiles]], [[Humongous Mecha|antrophomorphic weapons]], [[Man-Eating Plant|man eating plants]], [[The Virus|a pathogen]] that turns the players [[Zombie Apocalypse|undead]], shiny flashing bullets and grenades and access to [[Applied Phlebotinum|alien technology]]? <s>[[Those Wacky Nazis]]</s> The [[Brand X|Rebel Army]] of course!
* The old Cinemaware title ''Rocket Ranger'' had an unnamed hero, with a jetpack, facing off against Nazis armed with anti-gravity mind-controlling [[Green Rocks]] and a base on the Moon. Eventually, it is revealed that the Nazis {{spoiler|are getting help from an alien "Intergalactic League of Fascists".}}
* Partially invoked by the early [[
* This is the entire marketing campaign for obscure but awesome RTS ''[[War Front Turning Point]]''. The three factions, Allies, Nazis and Soviets, each have their different superweapons. The Allies get the short end of the stick with a massive shield generator, the Soviets, in a nod to ''[[Red Alert]]'', have freeze rays and atomic freeze bombs, and the Nazis get the best deal with three radically different superweapons: jetpacks, monstrous jet-powered zeppelins, and robotic exoskeletons.
* ''[[
* The final mission of ''[[Medal of Honor]]: Airborne'', departing from the previously realistic campaigns, has [[More Dakka|heavy machinegun-armed]] [[Gas Mask Mooks|gas-masked]] Nazi [[Super Soldier|super soldiers]].
** Invoked by [[Zero Punctuation]]: "You would think that THE NAZIS were the most evil people ever, but apparently they weren't ''evil'' enough."
* A variant in ''[[Just Cause (
== Webcomics ==
* You'd think this would come up in ''[[
** [[Alt Text|He's also apparently sensible enough to realise that a smoking jacket covered in Swastikas would be tacky.]]
* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' repeatedly features Nazi super-tech. Among other things, Hitler is a [[Brain In
* As it has done with so many things, Kris Straub's [[Chainsawsuit]] [http://chainsawsuit.com/2009/10/06/ went to town] with this one, too.
* In ''[[Jesus Christ in The Name of The Gun]]'', Nazis capture {{spoiler|Jesus}} and plan on {{spoiler|using his blood}} to revive Hitler, who was shot in the head by {{spoiler|a time traveling [[Ernest Hemingway]]}}. A chapter later we find out that Hitler was {{spoiler|[[Not Quite Dead]], a werewolf and probably a servant of the Devil, too}} and Nazis had created some kind of {{spoiler|ogre-like beings on which they were going to use the blood to bring them to life}}.
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