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* {{spoiler|[[Cloning Gambit]]: Played with: It's not actually Hitler [[Back From the Dead]], just clones of him.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Decoy Protagonist]]:}} Barry in the movie.
* [[The End -
* [[Expendable Clone]]: Averted. While Mengele's superiors want the project scrapped, Mengele's very aware that his clones are aging in real time, and that each is irreplaceable.
* [[Evil-Detecting Dog]]
* [[Failure Hero]]
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Mengele's plan to create a new Hitler leads to the following trope:
* [[Hoist
* [[Hunting Accident]]: One of the parents murder.
* [[History Marches On]]: The movie puts Mengele in Paraguay (though the mothers of the kids are Brazilian), his speculated real life location. He truly went there for sometime, but in the 1970s he was ''really'' in Brazil (where he died in 1979, meaning that besides the deteriorated health he could have seen the movie).
* [[Historical Villain Upgrade]]: Josef Mengele goes from, essentially, a psychotic State-sponsored [[Serial Killer]] who was, in reality, a totally incompetent scientist; to the [[Diabolical Mastermind]] behind both a cloning project at least a century ahead of its time, and an elaborate political scheme to recreate the Fourth Reich.
** [[Adolf Hitler]], too, in the sense that merely creating a clone of him (and raising him in a near-identical way) is enough to potentially bring about [[The End of the World
*** Yep, after all it isn't like the world changed between 1889 (Hitler's birth)and the 1970s! *rolls eyes*
* [[Large Ham]]: Both protagonists are enjoying their roles, particularly Peck.
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