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* ''[[Record of Lodoss War (Roleplay)|Record of Lodoss War]]'' is based on a ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' campaign its creator played. It shows. And yet it's still a classic.
* On the other hand, ''[[Slayers (Anime)|Slayers]]'' skewers all of those very same [[Cliche|cliches]] (with a good healthy dose of pop culture references) for laughs.
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Anime)|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]!'' A [[Kid Hero]], an [[Idiot Hero]] and a [[Small Girl Big Gun]] [[Screw Destiny|fighting fate]] with [[Humongous Mecha]] and [[In the Name of The Moon]] speeches. A [[Naive Everygirl|pure hearted]] [[
* ''[[
* There's a reason the ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' series is on the [[Trope Overdosed]] list up with the long-running series and major franchises, despite being [[Twelve Episode Anime|twenty-eight episodes long]], with a few scattered mentions of the unanimated novels. There's also a reason we named the title character [[Trope Pantheons/Theater|Goddess of Tropes]], and it's not just the obvious.
* ''[[Cowboy Bebop (Anime)|Cowboy Bebop]]'' is a Noachian deluge of tropes and clichés from countless genres, from heroic bloodshed to spy films to spaghetti Westerns to blaxploitation to space opera and more. It appropriates them, it subverts them, it plays them straight, it pays loving homage, and all the while it does its own thing.
* The first episode of ''[[The Tower of Druaga (Anime)|The Tower of Druaga]]'' (which the creators have put up [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vgQ6WJ8zhQ online]'') comes out swinging, hitting just about every RPG trope possible (and a few Giant Robot tropes in the process). {{spoiler|Subverted in that it's all in the hero's head}}.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima (Manga)|Mahou Sensei Negima]]'': [[Loads and Loads of Characters|31+ characters]], each with some character-type of every form (some with [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|many]]) used throughout [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] history: The Vampire ([[Elegant Gothic Lolita|in victorian-styled clothes]]) [http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/342/eval.jpg stands atop a gothically designed building in the moonlight], the [[Hired Guns|mercenary]] [[The Gunslinger|gunslinger]] uses [[Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics]] while [[Miser Advisor|charging massive bills for her services]], [[The Medic]] wears a [[Final Fantasy|red-rimmed white outfit]], the [[Shrinking Violet|extremely shy]] [[Hot Librarian|librarian]] has [[Mind Over Manners|privacy-invading]] [[Mind Probe|mind-reading powers]], and the main heroine has a [[Power Nullifier|magic-negating power]] and wields an [[Anti
* ''[[Code Geass (Anime)|Code Geass]]'' is a fifty-episode series about a robot war, a magical [[Evil Eye]], and a comedic high school played for as much drama as goddmann possible, with an ''absurdly'' colorful cast of characters.
* ''[[Getter Robo (Manga)|Getter Robo]]'': If there's a [[Super Robot]] trope, it's in here. If there's a [[Real Robot]] trope, it's probably in here too. And you can expect them all to be turned [[Up to Eleven]].And everything associated with [[Hot Blood]] is in ''[[Getter Robo (Manga)|Getter Robo]]''. Also dinosaurs.
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* ''[[Vision of Escaflowne (Anime)|Vision of Escaflowne]]'': A Shojo heroine, a shonen hero, giant robots, [[Catgirl|Cat Girls]], an [[Ordinary High School Student]] [[Trapped in Another World]], [[Love Dodecahedron|Love Dodecahedrons]], {{spoiler|[[Gender Bender]]}}, and more. The show seems to deliberately throw in as many anime-related tropes as possible. What's more, it refuses to limit itself to ''just'' [[Shonen]] or [[Shoujo]] tropes, [[Multiple Demographic Appeal|so it makes use of both]]. We have extremely complicated Love Dodecahedrons involving [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys|copious amounts of]] [[Bishonen]] in a war-torn world where [[Giant Mecha]] duke it out.
* ''[[Outlaw Star (Anime)|Outlaw Star]]'' is generally regarded as one of the most trope-crammed [[Space Western|Space Westerns]] in fiction. As [http://www.youtube.com/user/Husse67#play/uploads/6/fkCASszWeL4 one reviewer] puts it:
{{quote| "This show gets a free pass for being the most wish-fulfilling sci-fi title '''''ever'''''. Everything you can love about sci-fi is here: [[Wacky Racing|space races]], [[Explosions in Space|space combat]], [[Single Biome Planet|diverse planets]], [[Another Dimension|alternate dimensions]], [[Starfish Aliens|weird aliens]], [[Green Skinned Space Babe|hot aliens]], [[Bizarre Alien Biology|aliens of questionable gender]](seriously, what is [http://images.absoluteanime.com/outlaw_star/swanzo.jpg that?]), [[Humongous Mecha|giant robots]], [[Artificial Human|bio-androids]], [[Cyborg|human cyborgs]], [[Mysterious Waif|cold-sleep beauties]], [[Our Werewolves Are Different|shapeshifting]] [[Catgirl|beastmen]], [[Family
* The recent GAINAX-animated, 3-episode OVA adaptation of ''[[Cutey Honey (Anime)|Cutey Honey]]'' takes the campiness of the '70s anime and cranks it up to ''12''! <ref>[[Mind Screw|You can guess]] [[Troperiffic|why it's twelve]] [[Gainax Ending|but not eleven.]]</ref>
* The producers of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (Anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' are big [[Super Robot]] fans, [[Mix and Match|which explains the]] [[Trope Overdosed|sheer number of tropes]] that the franchise has utilized.
* ''[[Heroman (Anime)|Heroman]]'' seems to be turning out this way, especially if you know [[Stan Lee]]. The story so far is your generic [[Kid Hero]]-recieves-giant-robot-by-fate storyline. The hero has only one friend, and then there's a cheerleader [[Love Interest]], two [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]], a [[Hot Teacher]], and the [[The Government]] who are stereotypically evil and care only about their country's interests. There's more when you throw in a [[Missing Mom]] and [[Disappeared Dad]] combo, [[Always Chaotic Evil|aliens who have no complex motives]] for world conquest, and the hero's [[Long
* ''[[Black Lagoon (Anime)|Black Lagoon]]'' has been described alternately as a love letter to the action movie genre, a [[Stealth Parody]] of it, or even both. In any case, it certainly takes many of the genre's tropes [[Up to Eleven]].
* There are very, very few tropes that ''[[Excel Saga (Anime)|Excel Saga]]'' doesn't mock, and pretty much none that get played straight, since each episode is an [[Affectionate Parody]] of a different movie or television genre.
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* ''[[Shinji and Warhammer 40 K (Fanfic)|Shinji and Warhammer 40 K]]'' takes all the respective tropes from its [[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|parent]] [[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)|series]] and mixes in heaping helpings of [[Serial Escalation]], [[Crazy Awesome]], [[Rule of Cool]], and [[HSQ]].
* Compare ''any'' fic by [[Big Name Fan|Killashandra]] to the [http://www.invisibleplanets.com/kirk_spock/KSCliches.htm Big List of K/S Clichés.] Yet, she is one of the biggest names in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Slash]] fandom, and her fics aren't half bad[[So Cool Its Awesome|, either]].
* From the ''[[Pokémon]]'' fandom, ''[[Latias Journey (Fanfic)|Latias Journey]]'' and its [[Brave New World (Fanfic)|sequel]]. It helps that [[
* ''[[Kyon Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]'' is a ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' and [[TV Tropes]] crossover. Yes, a series already on this list has been crossed over with this site.
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6400777/1/Fanfiction_is_SO_Cliched Fanfiction is SO Cliched]'', a ''[[Pokémon]]'' fic which variously [[Deconstructor Fleet|subverts, lampshades, or deconstructs practically every fanfic cliché in the book.]]
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* ''[[Sucker Punch (Film)|Sucker Punch]]''
* ''[[Wanted]]'', [[The Film of the Book]] [[Wanted (Comic Book)|comic book]] is an incredibly played-straight [[The
* Arguably, the ''entire work'' of Timur Bekmambetov, be it Russian- or Hollywood-era. He is fond of playing common film tropes unflinchingly straight -- all while adding enough [[Lampshade Hanging|tongue-in-cheek remarks]] and [[Exaggerated Trope|intentionally over-the-top antics]]. As [[Caustic Critic|Anthony Lane]] put it in ''The New Yorker'',
{{quote| ''How, for example, does [Bekmambetov] make a cup of coffee? My best guess, based on the evidence of the film, is that he tosses a handful of beans toward the ceiling, shoots them individually into a fine powder, leaves it hanging in the air, runs downstairs, breaks open a fire hydrant with his head, carefully directs the jet of water through the window of his apartment, sets fire to the building, then stands patiently with his mug amid the blazing ruins to collect the precious percolated drops. Don't even think about a cappuccino.''}}
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* ''[[Speed Racer (Film)|Speed Racer]]'' never even tried to justify any of the weird things in the original, and instead ran with them as fast as the [[Rule of Cool]] could possibly allow. If you try to take it at all seriously [[MST3K Mantra|you're watching the wrong damn movie]].
* ''[[Kill Bill]]'' is this as well, [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s love letter to the [[Katanas Are Just Better]] and basically every other action film trope ever. It draws liberally from [[Mix and Match|old kung fu flicks, old violent exploitation movies and old spaghetti-westerns]].
* ''[[Grindhouse]]: Planet Terror'' takes those silly [[B
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' mixes the Westerns, Samurai movies, and pulp sci-fi [[George Lucas]] loved as a kid. He also studied ''[[The
* ''[[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (Film)|Attack of the Killer Tomatoes]]'': I'm sure the next film will be written by scanning this website for any they missed.
* ''[[Enchanted (Film)|Enchanted]]'' is entirely based on Disney gathering up a list of both tropes from its [[Disney Animated Canon|classic animated films]] and from modern romantic comedies, putting them in one movie, and subverting, inverting, and generally [[Playing With a Trope|dicking around with and laughing at all of them]].
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* ''[[Avatar (Film)|Avatar]]'' combines this with [[Doing It for The Art]]. Yes, [[James Cameron]] knows exactly how [[Cliche Storm|cliched he's being]], and he doesn't really care.
* ''[[Sick Girl (Film)|Sick Girl]]'' has so many [[Horror Tropes]] it's insane.
* ''[[The Fifth Element (Film)|The Fifth Element]]''. [[Mysterious Waif]] [[MacGuffin Girl]]? Check. [[Large Ham]] [[Sissy Villain]]? Check. [[Testosterone Poisoning|Ultra-manly man]] [[Action Hero]] played by [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]]? Check. [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]], [[Flying Car|hovercar]] [[Chase Scene|chases]], [[Waif Fu]], [[Eldritch Abomination|the Ultimate Evil]], and {{spoiler|the world being saved through [[The Power of Love]]}}? Check, check, check, check, ''check.'' This movie is practically cheesy sci-fi incarnate, and it's AWESOME.
* ''[[Stardust (Film)|Stardust]]'' pretty much plays every fairytale trope to the hilt. An earlier example of the same is ''[[The Princess Bride (Film)|The Princess Bride]]''.
* ''[[The Expendables]]''. [[George Lucas Throwback|There's a reason]] [[Rule of Cool|why it's currently]] [[Rated M for Manly|the trope's picture.]]
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* ''[[Black Dynamite]]'' finds a way to work in almost every relevant trope, filmmaking convention, and even plotline from 70s Blaxploitation films in the course of creating an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the genre. According to [[Word of God]] it was even deeper in that the actors were actually playing the fictional actors making the film.
* ''[[The Quick and The Dead]]'' puts every [[The Western|Western]] stock character into a [[Quick Draw]] tournament to find The [[Fastest Gun in The West]]
* TV channel Five US are currently celebrating '80/90s action film tropes via the medium of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_GmuIHL_EM hair rock full of lampshades]. Celebrates (at least, just the lyrics) [[Car Fu]], whatever-the-heck-the-trope-is-for-indestructable-hair (although they show a [[Hair Reboot]] in the video), [[Dodge the Bullet]] (while showing [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]), [[Stuff Blowing Up]], [[Good Old Fisticuffs]], [[Outrun the Fireball]], and [[Pre
* ''[[Film/Hot Fuzz|Hot Fuzz]]''
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[The A-Team (TV)|The A-Team]]''. Part of the appeal is knowing, blow by blow, how each episode will play out before you watch it. There will be a scene where B.A. throws a guy over a car. Murdock will act silly and tick B.A. off. Face will fall in love with every remotely attractive woman he sees. It's just fun. [[A
* ''[[Chuck]]'' seems to tend towards this, with many tropes played straight, though often for laughs. It's predictable, but humorously so (often dialed [[Up to Eleven]]). Someone sets a trip wire to stop Thanksgiving thieves at the Buy More? A bad guy ''will'' trip over it before the end of the episode.
* ''[[Burn Notice]]'' embraces a wide variety of tropes and proceeds to [[Playing With a Trope|use, subvert, deconstruct, avert, and in general play]] with all of them. Sometimes the show follows a pretty clean formula for the individual stories, and unfortunately that is its main flaw. But in the [[Narrator|narration]] there is more than a dozen quotes you could use to describe an individual trope that are so specific you know they did it on purpose.
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== Toys ==
* [[LEGO]]'s ''[[Bionicle]]''- a [[Darker and Edgier]], [[Merchandise Driven]] [[Science Fantasy]] series powered by [[Rule of Cool]]. It starts out with a bunch of [[Cyborg]] [[Hobbits]] living in [[Elemental Nation|Elemental Tribes]] on a [[Schizo Tech]] [[Patchwork Map]] Island being terrorized by a mysterious [[Big Bad]]. Then a [[Five
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* Spoofed in ''[[The Simpsons Game (Video Game)|The Simpsons Game]]'', where you collect clichés (and Comic Book Guy explains them).
* ''[[Super Robot Wars (Video Game)|Super Robot Wars]]'', being [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover|what it is]], tends to use pretty much every [[Humongous Mecha]] trope at least once or twice a game.
* The scene in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIII]]'' when Snow and Fang rescue Ligthning and Hope in Palumpolum pushes very hard to find out how many tropes you can pack into one minute: Lightning and Hope come across a huge screen that shows a live broadcast of the capture of two fugitives, which causes an [[Oh Crap]] moment as the camera zooms on them. Surrounded by a small army of soldiers and facing a [[Bolivian Army Ending]], Lightning tells Hope to run while she makes her [[Heroic Sacrifice]], while the commander reminds his troops of [[What Measure Is a Non
* ''[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/508676 This is The Only Level]'' incorporates several video game tropes to change what is otherwise the exact same level over and over again.
* ''[[Bayonetta (Video Game)|Bayonetta]]'' omnivorously gobbles up every action game trope, cliche, and visual flourish of the past twenty-five years and synthesises them into something [[Crazy Awesome|uniquely mad]].
* How about ''[[Dragon Quest (Video Game)|Dragon Quest]]'', where all the cliches are just used as filler for what just boils down to lighthearted adventuring. Plus some of the tropes used for the more emotional scenes actually are pulled off phenomenally. Anyone who says seven isn't sad is lying.
* ''[[Gotcha Force]]'' is based off of 1: Toy fights that children have with their action figures, and 2: Gatchapon toys based off of popular anime/video games/movies/etc. Combine these two together, and you have a video game that takes inspiration from an infinite area of resources, and proceeds to pit [[Ninja]], [[The Western|cowboys]], [[
* Any [[Bio Ware]] game in existence, the more power over the world they have, the more troperrific their games are.
** ''[[Dragon Age (Video Game)|Dragon Age]]'' is this on many levels -- and anyone who's tried to read the [[Great Big Book of Everything|Codex]] knows it has many, many levels.
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* [[Obsidian Entertainment]] does not usually engage in this, but the original campaign of ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'' is a rare example, where the game heartily engages in a by the numbers adventure story with a few unexpected twists and turns -- all while merrily [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading it]]. When they aren't unleashing a [[Deconstructor Fleet]] against everything from ''D&D'' to George Lucas's idea of morality, that is...
* While ''[[Red Steel (Video Game)|Red Steel]]'' is a [[Cliche Storm]], ''Red Steel 2'' is [[Troperiffic]]. ''Red Steel 2'' combines [[Desert Punk]] and [[Samurai]] tropes in every way possible. In every AWESOME way possible, mind you.
* ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'' just had almost RPG cliché you can think of at the time it was released, such as [[Rebellious Princess|rebellious princesses]] with [[Orphan's Plot Trinket|mysterious pendants]], [[Heroic Mime|Heroic Mimes]] who live with a single mom ([[Disappeared Dad|no dad]]), [[Good Morning, Crono|are woken up by said mom to get ready for the fair]], and [[Saving the World]] from the [[Cosmic Horror]]...[[Recycled in Space|WITH TIME TRAVEL!]] Nevertheless, the story itself and the characters were praised by many for its brilliant usage of these cliches. Its successor, ''[[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]]'', was less troperiffic than its predecessor, and that itself [[Love It or Hate It|divided the fanbase on the game.]]
* Most [[Jidai Geki]] drama set around the Sengoku Jidai period will predictably straddle around [[Cliche Storm]] and Troperiffic, although two sets the bar for the video games department:
** ''[[Sengoku Basara (Video Game)|Sengoku Basara]]''. [[Badass]] [[Hot Blooded]] [[Rule of Cool]] cranked [[Up to Eleven]] in a [[World of Ham]] [[Anachronism Stew]]. [[Crazy Awesome]] [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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== Visual Novels ==
* The ''[[When They Cry (Visual Novel)|When They Cry]]'' series is excellent at this.
** ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Umineko no Naku Koro Ni]]'' deserves a particular mention, combining [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]], [[Groundhog Day Loop]], [[Closed Circle]], [[Clueless Mystery]], ''and'' [[Fair Play Who Dunnit]] into one [[Visual Novel]]. It has [[What Do You Mean
* ''[[Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Ace Attorney]]'' has an impressive list of tropes, and it's a game about [[What Do You Mean
== Web Comics ==
* If individual characters can be Troperiffic, ''[[Antihero for Hire]]'''s Dr. Nefarious is.
* In-story example: In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Dr. Disaster's [[Hard Light|holo-simulator]] plugs its users into a story straight out of [[Raygun Gothic|1950s pulp sci-fi]]: [[Latex Space Suit|Latex Spacesuits]], [[Death Ray|Death Rays]], and alien moon fortresses are played gleefully straight. Antimony is the [[Meta Guy|only one]] who [[
* Chris Hastings once wrote down every single '80s action movie trope that he could remember. Then he crammed ever one of them into a story. The result was ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' [[Story Arc]] "D.A.R.E. to Resist Ninja Drugs and Violence".
* ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (Webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'': How many fairy tales can you stick into a single webcomics? Quite a few, actually.
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== Western Animation ==
* While many superhero comics since the end of [[The Silver Age of Comic Books]] try to avoid the almost inherent silliness of the genre, ''[[Batman the Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' embraces them so hard that [[Crosses the Line Twice|it goes back around from "stupid" to]] [[Rule of Cool|spectacular]]. It also adds the occasional dash of Bronze Age and Modern Day super-hero tropes to keep viewers on their toes.
* ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (Animation)|Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'' took what could have been a cheap knock-off show and turned it into [[Rule of Cool|pure awesome]] through a combination of [[Genre Savvy]] and this trope. Zurg gets extra points for being [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]...[[Card
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. Example: it takes [[Elemental Powers]], plays them to the hilt by having the benders use their powers for more than just fancy martial arts. There are a few subversions, notably {{spoiler|Azula's interruption of Aang's Avatar transformation and Zuko's subverted [[Heel Face Turn]] at the end of the Season 2 finale.}} This just makes those trope subversions all the more jarring and awesome.
* ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'', in spades. Just check out the length of their page.
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* ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]''. This entire show is just one big love-letter to [[The Nineties]]' cartoons.
* ''[[Regular Show (Animation)|Regular Show]]'' is another, if not bigger love-letter to [[The Nineties]]' cartoons and even goes as far to have many references to [[The Eighties]]. Its characters, crazy plots, and overall surreal nature is loved by many a tv troper.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''. The two-part pilot draws from nearly every [[Magical Girl]] trope in the book. The rest of the series is a [[Slice of Life]] comedy with heavy [[Looney Tunes]] influences, numerous [[Shout Out|shout outs]] that the target demographic might not get, and [[An Aesop]] applied at the end of nearly every episode. It's also self-aware enough that it lampshades most of these tropes. Is it any wonder why this show got such a vocal [[Periphery Demographic]]?
* ''[[Total Drama Island (Animation)|Total Drama Island]]'', both because of its parody of reality show tropes and its 24+ different character types with their own personalities.
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== Real Life ==
* Eric Berne wrote a book called ''Games People Play'', which was essentially a collection of tropes of human interaction. Berne gave them games memorable titles such as "Now I've got you, you son of a bitch," "Wooden leg," "Yes, but...," and "[[Let's You and Him Fight|Let's you and him fight]]."
* [[Tropes Are Not Good|More disturbingly]], [[Nazi Germany]] could be called this. Part of their strategy for drumming up the support of the German people was using a lot of pageantry, theatrics, and such to [[Villain With Good Publicity|make being a Nazi seem exciting]]. Not to mention the truly staggering amount of [[Villain]] Tropes they embodied... [[Those Wacky Nazis|They]] [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|inspired]] [[Ghostapo|some,]] [[
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