Tropescilloscope: Those Wacky Nazis

They were very bad guys. But really crazy ones. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Dwindling Party Character Development Creator Cameo Mistaken for Gay You Have Failed Me She Cleans Up Nicely Eye Scream Dramedy Brutal Honesty One Steve Limit The Un-Reveal Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Deal with the Devil Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Offscreen Teleportation Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Take a Third Option Suspiciously Similar Substitute Pretty Little Headshots Bury Your Gays The Lost Lenore Real Life What Happened to the Mouse? Henpecked Husband No Antagonist Captain Obvious Rated M for Manly Rule of Three An Axe to Grind Logo Joke Half the Man He Used to Be Back from the Dead Red Eyes, Take Warning Ghost Fiction Yandere Ironic Echo Smug Snake Freudian Excuse Decoy Protagonist Daddy's Girl Daylight Horror The Cameo Training Montage Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Broken Aesop Flashback The Big Guy Film Noir Establishing Character Moment Toplessness from the Back Heterosexual Life-Partners How We Got Here Blatant Lies Too Dumb to Live Totally Radical Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Is Serious Business Foil Cool Old Guy Call-Forward Air-Vent Passageway Red Shirt Adapted Out Hero of Another Story Dies Wide Open Tempting Fate An Arm and a Leg All for Nothing Badass Longcoat Laughing Mad Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Call-Back Costume Porn Danny Peary Cult Movies List Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Really Gets Around Rule of Cool Monumental Damage Dark Reprise Russian Films Handicapped Badass Four-Temperament Ensemble Those Wacky Nazis Race Lift My God, What Have I Done? 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Hidden Depths Drugs Are Bad No Ending Lighter and Softer The Stinger Despair Event Horizon Only Known by Their Nickname Public Domain Feature Films timeperiod Pet the Dog Drill Sergeant Nasty Disproportionate Retribution Eagleland The Stoic Drives Like Crazy Continuity Nod Biopic Papa Wolf One-Man Army Pimped-Out Dress Malevolent Masked Men Stealth Pun Adaptation Name Change Meaningful Name Meaningful Background Event Historical Villain Upgrade Properly Paranoid Men Are the Expendable Gender Bloodier and Gorier Ambiguously Gay Book-Ends Epic Movie Kick the Son of a Bitch Bound and Gagged Artistic License – Geography Manchild Video Credits Distracted by the Sexy You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Oh, Crap! Guns Akimbo Thriller Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Expy Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Death by Irony All Men Are Perverts Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Smart Guy Playing Gertrude Bar Brawl The Power of Love Eiffel Tower Effect Shoot the Shaggy Dog Shout-Out Downer Ending Department of Redundancy Department Camera Abuse Time Skip Aside Glance Honor Before Reason Index of Film Westerns Not What It Looks Like Slasher Movie Final Girl The '70s Refuge in Audacity Mythology Gag Your Head A-Splode Badass Bookworm British Films Line-of-Sight Name Improvised Weapon As Long as It Sounds Foreign The Mafia Those Two Guys Horror Comedy Unreliable Narrator Red Herring Older Than They Look Foreshadowing Armor-Piercing Question Love Triangle Sequel Hook Adaptational Villainy Action Genre Empathic Environment The End... Or Is It? Made of Explodium Genre Shift Meaningful Echo Death of a Child Made of Iron Animated Credits Opening The Musical Man on Fire The Atoner You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Male Frontal Nudity Rasputinian Death Offscreen Moment of Awesome Documentary Facial Horror Hero Antagonist Anti-Hero Retired Badass Never Found the Body Canadian Movies Punny Name Translation Convention Non-Indicative Name He Knows Too Much Whole Plot Reference Cool Car Arc Words Dropped a Bridge on Him Adults Are Useless Sports Stories Gory Discretion Shot Evil Laugh Bloody Hilarious Contrived Coincidence Silent Movie Darker and Edgier BFG Artistic License – Biology Adult Fear Gainax Ending Novelization Dramatic Irony Retcon Faking the Dead Italian Films Ax-Crazy "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Sci-Fi Horror Narrator Crazy Jealous Guy Pyrrhic Victory Adaptation Dye-Job Loophole Abuse As the Good Book Says... Berserk Button Bait-and-Switch The '50s Idiot Ball Dirty Cop Up to Eleven Creepy Child Badass in a Nice Suit Death by Sex Naked People Are Funny Worthy Opponent Spiritual Successor Artistic License – History No-Sell Evil Is Hammy Shut Up, Hannibal! Bowdlerise The Smurfette Principle Double-Meaning Title The Ghost Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Not So Different Big-Bad Ensemble Big Fancy House A Father to His Men Stylistic Suck Black and Gray Morality Death Glare Artistic License – Physics Awesome, but Impractical Spared by the Adaptation Jerk with a Heart of Gold Mama Bear Femme Fatale Revenge Race Against the Clock The Starscream Mystery and Detective Films Unwitting Instigator of Doom Manly Tears No Name Given One-Word Title Affectionate Parody Captain Ersatz Heroic BSoD Ripped from the Headlines Rewatch Bonus Killed Mid-Sentence Actor Allusion Would Hurt a Child La Résistance Would Hit a Girl I'm a Humanitarian As Himself Cool Shades Mighty Whitey She's Got Legs Wrong Genre Savvy Improbable Aiming Skills Humans Are Bastards Married to the Job Hong Kong Films Dissonant Serenity Politically Incorrect Villain Mexican Standoff Spanner in the Works Jerkass Has a Point The Bully Be Careful What You Wish For I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Chessmaster Take That! 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Is a Crapshoot The Alleged Car My Beloved Smother Depraved Bisexual Vacation Films Due to the Dead Famous Last Words Deliberate Values Dissonance Hate Sink Title Drop Deliberately Monochrome Shower Scene And Starring Eldritch Abomination Historical Hero Upgrade Camp Gay Card-Carrying Villain The Film of the Book Woman in White Action Survivor Overly Long Gag Bland-Name Product Our Vampires Are Different Get Out! 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