Tropescilloscope: Those Wacky Nazis

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

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More Tropes Handicapped Badass Call-Back The Starscream Author Appeal Toplessness from the Back What the Hell, Hero? Insult Backfire Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Time Skip Gory Discretion Shot A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Great Depression It's Personal Death by Adaptation World of Ham All There in the Manual Take That! Dark Action Girl Face Death with Dignity Real Life Knight Templar Bare Your Midriff Stealth Hi/Bye Dressing as the Enemy Artistic License – History French Films Needs Wiki Magic Love Throwing Your Sword Always Works Amusing Injuries Put on a Bus Madness Mantra Cold-Blooded Torture Man on Fire Rape as Drama Curse Cut Short Pet the Dog Arc Words Catch-Phrase Stealth Pun Important Haircut Boom, Headshot! Reality Has No Subtitles Dark and Troubled Past Super Strength Nice Guy Say My Name Male Frontal Nudity Ambiguous Disorder Fantasy Films Obviously Evil Offscreen Moment of Awesome Sassy Black Woman The Remake Gratuitous English An Aesop Off-into-the-Distance Ending Psycho for Hire Badass Grandpa This Is Gonna Suck Demonic Possession She's Got Legs Hate Sink Dropped a Bridge on Him And the Adventure Continues The Hero Dies Parental Incest Mad Scientist Villainous Breakdown Crazy-Prepared Children Are Innocent Bloodier and Gorier Mercy Kill Ascended Extra Defiant to the End The Dog Bites Back I Did What I Had to Do Film Noir Index Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Every Car Is a Pinto Red Eyes, Take Warning Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping The '60s MacGuffin Creator Cameo An Axe to Grind Skewed Priorities Heroic Sacrifice The Dreaded Parental Substitute Beard of Evil Unresolved Sexual Tension Mind Screw Accidental Misnaming Show Within a Show Rule of Symbolism Motor Mouth The Stoner Suspiciously Specific Denial Sequel Hook Moment Killer And Starring Adaptation Expansion Faux Affably Evil Disappeared Dad Shout-Out Card-Carrying Villain Chuck Cunningham Syndrome War Is Hell Rule of Funny Mooks Jerk Jock Wham Line Greater-Scope Villain Arranged Marriage My Beloved Smother Casting Gag Soft Glass Does This Remind You of Anything? Room Full of Crazy Early Installment Weirdness Blood from the Mouth Overprotective Dad Cruel and Unusual Death Alliterative Name Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Knife Nut An Arm and a Leg Bring My Brown Pants Spiritual Successor Gorn Take a Third Option Drill Sergeant Nasty Loophole Abuse Bunny-Ears Lawyer Genre Throwback Black Dude Dies First Kill It with Fire Babies Ever After Body Horror Film Series Re-Cut Ironic Echo The Bully Running Gag Cloudcuckoolander The Mole Ship Tease Drives Like Crazy Sir Swears-a-Lot Mundane Made Awesome Hidden Depths Bound and Gagged Dark Is Not Evil Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Animal Motifs Dramatic Irony It Will Never Catch On Chiaroscuro Chekhov's Skill It's All About Me Fanservice Hollywood Darkness Straight Gay Dogged Nice Guy Crucified Hero Shot Gainax Ending Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Genre Shift True Companions Drugs Are Bad Wretched Hive Four-Temperament Ensemble Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Better to Die than Be Killed The '50s Anti-Villain Serious Business Adaptational Attractiveness Yandere B-Movie Not So Different Sports Stories Sci-Fi Horror The Cavalry Ripped from the Headlines Evil vs. Evil Rousing Speech Up to Eleven Italian Films Even Evil Has Loved Ones Horror Films '80s Hair After the End Neck Lift Bowdlerise Big Brother Instinct Femme Fatale Composite Character Earn Your Happy Ending Morality Pet The Stoic Getting Crap Past the Radar Hell Is That Noise Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Training Montage Pretty Little Headshots Retired Badass Dirty Coward Taking You with Me Pragmatic Adaptation Reality Ensues Adapted Out Last-Name Basis Rewatch Bonus Exactly What It Says on the Tin Dark Reprise Armor-Piercing Question Would Hurt a Child Lock and Load Montage Major Injury Underreaction Artistic License – Biology Gone Horribly Right Bar Brawl Humiliation Conga Men Are the Expendable Gender Death of a Child Posthumous Character German Films Leaning on the Fourth Wall Stock Footage The Un-Reveal Friend to All Children Actor Allusion Informed Ability How We Got Here Zombie Stories Shell-Shocked Veteran Pay Evil unto Evil Took a Level in Badass Only Known by Their Nickname Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! In Name Only Death by Irony Fake Shemp Improbable Aiming Skills The Big Guy Big Damn Heroes Thriller Animal Title Index Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The '90s Noodle Incident Ax-Crazy Kick the Dog What You Are in the Dark Eiffel Tower Effect Shirtless Scene Action Genre The Power of Love Laughing Mad Hair-Trigger Temper Insistent Terminology Covers Always Lie Historical Villain Upgrade Dissonant Serenity Didn't Think This Through Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Russian Films Determinator Amoral Attorney Get Out! Deliberate Values Dissonance The Voiceless Hollywood Law Danny Peary Cult Movies List Badass Longcoat Revenge You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Good Is Not Nice Driven to Suicide Villain with Good Publicity Villain Song The Sociopath I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Overly Long Gag Outrun the Fireball Shipper on Deck Red Shirt Villain Opening Scene Star-Crossed Lovers Imagine Spot Meaningful Background Event Market-Based Title Genre Savvy Storming the Castle Scenery Gorn Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Department of Redundancy Department Setting Update Sole Survivor Annoying Younger Sibling Blatant Lies Interrupted Suicide Fish out of Water Belligerent Sexual Tension Disney Villain Death Evil Brit As Long as It Sounds Foreign Missing Mom Brick Joke Book-Ends Not Even Bothering with the Accent Distracted by the Sexy Adaptation Dye-Job Chekhov's Gun Despair Event Horizon Playing Gertrude Half the Man He Used to Be Chewing the Scenery Here We Go Again! Insane Troll Logic The Dragon Calling the Old Man Out The Ghost Anguished Declaration of Love Spiteful Spit The Quiet One Ungrateful Bastard Hero Antagonist Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Manic Pixie Dream Girl The Musical Malevolent Masked Men Deal with the Devil Married to the Job Big Fancy House Bond Villain Stupidity Early-Bird Cameo Hoist by His Own Petard Bait-and-Switch Bullying a Dragon From Nobody to Nightmare Authority Equals Asskicking Obstructive Bureaucrat Woman in White Silence Is Golden La Résistance Crazy Jealous Guy Video Credits Ms. Fanservice Bloody Hilarious "Well Done, Son!" Guy Ghost Fiction Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Those Two Bad Guys Lighter and Softer British Films Break the Haughty Psychopathic Manchild Death by Sex Red Herring Ominous Latin Chanting Curb-Stomp Battle Heel–Face Turn Vomit Discretion Shot Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Berserk Button Random Events Plot Made of Iron Contrived Coincidence Five-Man Band Your Cheating Heart Slasher Movie Darkest Hour Artistic License – Gun Safety Taking the Bullet Unusual Euphemism Mistaken for Gay Adaptational Badass Monumental Damage Let's Get Dangerous! Historical In-Joke Stylistic Suck Off with His Head! Dumb Blonde Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Dutch Angle No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Determinator aka: The Determinator Defrosting Ice Queen Police are Useless Celebrity Paradox Dying Moment of Awesome Deadpan Snarker A God Am I Pyrrhic Victory Diabolus ex Machina Index of Film Westerns Maybe Ever After Kill 'em All Spanner in the Works Black Comedy Rape Politically Incorrect Villain Punny Name Peek-a-Boo Corpse Beauty Is Never Tarnished Word of God I Need a Freaking Drink Tranquil Fury Brother–Sister Incest Disproportionate Retribution Grey and Gray Morality Cat Scare Action Prologue For Want of a Nail Reasonable Authority Figure Roaring Rampage of Revenge You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Chase Scene Adorkable Disguised in Drag Our Zombies Are Different Final Girl Costume Porn Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Coming-of-Age Story Translation Convention Anyone Can Die Back from the Dead O.O.C. Is Serious Business Laser-Guided Karma Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Made of Explodium As Himself Rasputinian Death Freudian Excuse Cat Fight Redemption Equals Death Meaningful Name Cassandra Truth All Girls Want Bad Boys Epic Fail Bad "Bad Acting" Shown Their Work Batman Gambit Beta Couple The Stinger Visual Pun Death Seeker Obfuscating Stupidity Extremely Short Timespan Mr. Fanservice Wrong Genre Savvy Match Cut Naked People Are Funny Easily Forgiven Closed Circle Ass Shove Heroes Want Redheads Lampshade Hanging Call-Forward Smug Snake Shut Up, Hannibal! Serial Killer Foil The Load The Place The Cameo Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Alleged Car Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Kubrick Stare Sinister Minister Real Life Writes the Plot Historical-Domain Character Novelization Intergenerational Friendship Double Entendre As the Good Book Says... Token Minority Pragmatic Villainy Affably Evil Not What It Looks Like Totally Radical Male Gaze The Film of the Book Age Lift Deliberately Monochrome Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Green-Eyed Monster Vampire Fiction Scenery Porn Twist Ending Victoria's Secret Compartment Rated M for Manly Precision F-Strike 20 Minutes into the Future Auto Erotica Mystery and Detective Films No OSHA Compliance Large Ham Bilingual Bonus Big Bad Duumvirate Bond One-Liner Broken Pedestal Artistic License – Law Manipulative Bastard Captain Obvious Catapult Nightmare No Antagonist Public Domain Feature Films Self-Deprecation Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Artistic License – Geography One-Man Army Hooker with a Heart of Gold Adaptation Distillation Eldritch Abomination Dramedy Pre-Mortem One-Liner Police Brutality Foregone Conclusion Bi the Way Light Is Not Good A Father to His Men Based on a True Story Deconstruction Cain and Abel Asshole Victim Gender Flip Villain Ball The Vamp The Chick Bury Your Gays Retcon Never Found the Body Not Quite Dead Parental Neglect Title Drop Heterosexual Life-Partners Hypocrite Big Applesauce The Atoner "The Reason You Suck" Speech Immune to Bullets The Chessmaster No Celebrities Were Harmed Smoking Is Cool Black and Gray Morality Red Right Hand Actually Pretty Funny Only One Name Advertised Extra Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Expository Hairstyle Change Gold Digger Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Older Than They Look Spell My Name with an "S" Bland-Name Product Chekhov's Gunman Cool Guns As You Know The Mafia Cool Shades Redshirt Army My God, What Have I Done? My Greatest Failure Blackmail Sacrificial Lion Took a Level in Jerkass Blood Knight The Smurfette Principle "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Animated Credits Opening Martial Arts Movie Attempted Rape Once More, with Clarity! Mexican Standoff You Have Failed Me Fingore Really Gets Around Cluster F-Bomb Gilligan Cut Bottomless Magazines Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Dirty Old Man Vomit Indiscretion Shot Protagonist Title Henpecked Husband Anachronism Stew Those Wacky Nazis Only a Flesh Wound Well-Intentioned Extremist Slashed Throat Meaningful Echo Demoted to Extra Homage Fun with Acronyms Horror Comedy Famous Last Words Slasher Smile Freeze-Frame Bonus Cool Car The Ditz Properly Paranoid Does Not Like Shoes Even Evil Has Standards Instant Death Bullet Sadistic Choice Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Smart Guy Big Bad Due to the Dead Television Movie Index Brutal Honesty Romantic Comedy Irony Cool Old Guy Heroic BSoD Soundtrack Dissonance Whole Plot Reference Face–Heel Turn The X of Y Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The End... Or Is It? Sexy Discretion Shot It Can Think Scare Chord Red Oni, Blue Oni Hong Kong Films A Minor Kidroduction Dirty Cop Continuity Nod Downer Ending Double-Meaning Title Badass in a Nice Suit Canon Foreigner Fatal Flaw Funny Background Event Rich Bitch Fan Disservice One-Word Title Mugging the Monster The Oner Narrator Awesome, but Impractical May–December Romance Would Hit a Girl I'm a Humanitarian Line-of-Sight Name Everyone Has Standards Daylight Horror Together in Death Domestic Abuse Poor Communication Kills Funny Foreigner Oh, Crap! Improvised Weapon Silent Movie The Faceless Character Development Pimped-Out Dress Hero of Another Story Corpsing Credits Gag Evil Laugh Almost Kiss Papa Wolf Stepford Smiler Trailers Always Spoil Military and Warfare Films Jump Scare Implacable Man Action Survivor Mighty Whitey Developing Doomed Characters Bald of Evil Historical Hero Upgrade All Just a Dream Offscreen Teleportation Fate Worse than Death Stalker with a Crush Daddy's Girl Eureka Moment Unspoken Plan Guarantee Bolivian Army Ending Comically Missing the Point The '70s Jerk with a Heart of Gold Badass Bookworm Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Anti-Hero Dwindling Party Agony of the Feet Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Riddle for the Ages Big "NO!" Intrepid Reporter Eagleland Villain Protagonist Music Stories Hypocritical Humor Action Girl Loads and Loads of Characters Shower Scene Mood Whiplash Jerkass Not Using the "Z" Word Evil-Detecting Dog Suddenly SHOUTING! Darker and Edgier Logo Joke Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Bavarian Fire Drill Shoot the Shaggy Dog Butt-Monkey She Cleans Up Nicely Canadian Movies Sequel Escalation Names to Run Away from Really Fast Drowning My Sorrows Eye Scream Creepy Child Vitriolic Best Buds Alas, Poor Villain Brainless Beauty Product Placement Love Triangle Crapsack World Plucky Comic Relief No-Sell Bloodless Carnage In Medias Res Destination Defenestration Kids Are Cruel Nice Hat In the Back Accidental Murder I Have Your Wife Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Leave the Camera Running The Lost Lenore Camera Abuse Badass Normal Dull Surprise Film Noir Wham Shot Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Truth in Television Betty and Veronica Japanese Films Ambiguous Ending Only Sane Man Death Glare Jerkass Has a Point Captain Ersatz Artistic License – Physics Antagonist Title Rule of Cool Big Eater Plot Hole Non-Indicative Name Same Language Dub BFG Nothing Is Scarier Big-Bad Ensemble Air-Vent Passageway Humans Are Bastards Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Unreliable Narrator Jitter Cam Be Careful What You Wish For Framing Device Fire-Forged Friends Wounded Gazelle Gambit Empathic Environment Biopic Aluminum Christmas Trees Failed a Spot Check No Name Given Manchild Refuge in Audacity Abhorrent Admirer Very Loosely Based on a True Story Small Name, Big Ego Karmic Death Black Best Friend Adult Fear Romantic False Lead Corrupt Corporate Executive No Ending What Happened to the Mouse? Expy Leitmotif Facial Horror You Killed My Father Creative Closing Credits Fantastic Racism Undying Loyalty Evil Counterpart Never Trust a Trailer Worthy Opponent Never My Fault Documentary Hope Spot Your Head A-Splode Dramatic Gun Cock Spared by the Adaptation Karma Houdini The '80s Those Two Guys Love at First Sight Evil Is Petty Bad Boss Unusually Uninteresting Sight The Brute Fatal Family Photo Conspicuous CG Epic Movie Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Cowboy Cop Car Fu Not So Above It All Enemy Mine Ambiguously Gay Vacation Films Mythology Gag Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Author Avatar Black Comedy Race Lift Make It Look Like an Accident "Shaggy Dog" Story Reckless Gun Usage Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Bad Guy Wins Naïve Newcomer Flashback Adults Are Useless Broken Bird For the Evulz Fanservice Extra Guns Akimbo Fat Bastard Award-Bait Song Faking the Dead Mama Bear Dies Wide Open Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Too Dumb to Live Artistic License – Military One Steve Limit Suspiciously Similar Substitute Badass Boast The Casanova Eyepatch of Power He Who Fights Monsters Broken Aesop He Knows Too Much Adaptational Heroism I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Foreshadowing Extreme Doormat Did Not Get the Girl Grievous Bottley Harm Our Vampires Are Different Becoming the Mask Superhero Decoy Protagonist Adaptational Villainy Science Fiction Films Honor Before Reason Kick the Son of a Bitch Woman Scorned A Date with Rosie Palms Not So Stoic Retirony All There in the Script Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Works Set in World War II Apocalypse How folderlabel The Hero Camp Gay Christmas Movies Index Breaking the Fourth Wall Country Matters Wicked Cultured Killed Mid-Sentence Evil Plan NO INDOOR VOICE Combat Pragmatist The Ace Only in It for the Money Affectionate Parody Punch-Clock Villain The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Have a Gay Old Time Rule of Three Frame-Up Establishing Character Moment Tempting Fate Tagline Fainting Bittersweet Ending Alpha Bitch Pretty in Mink And I Must Scream Stuff Blowing Up Abusive Parents Guile Hero Arch-Enemy Mr. Exposition Manly Tears Left the Background Music On Adaptation Name Change From Bad to Worse Groin Attack Heel Realization Central Theme Cool Old Lady Evil Sounds Deep Recycled IN SPACE! Break the Cutie Improbable Weapon User Disney Death Reality Is Unrealistic Sanity Slippage The Lancer Parental Abandonment Dual Wielding All Men Are Perverts Fiery Redhead Paper-Thin Disguise "Awesome McCool" Name Anachronic Order Happily Married Evil Is Hammy Scary Black Man Fourth Date Marriage Race Against the Clock Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Neck Snap Beware the Nice Ones Idiot Ball Flipping the Bird Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Reveal Damsel in Distress N-Word Privileges Exact Words Australian Movies Slap-Slap-Kiss Psychological Thriller Tap on the Head More Dakka Depraved Bisexual Sealed Evil in a Can All for Nothing No Good Deed Goes Unpunished timeperiod Deus ex Machina Aside Glance Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Alcoholic Meet Cute