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"Führer me once, shame on you. Führer me twice..."

Hank: Is it me, or does like every Nazi want to clone Hitler? It's like the only thing they think of!

Sergeant Hatred: It seems that way, right? I guess when everybody hates you, you fixate on making rotten Hitlers. The Venture Bros. Is it me, or does like every Nazi want to clone Hitler? It's like the only thing they think of!It seems that way, right? I guess when everybody hates you, you fixate on making rotten Hitlers.

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Those Wacky Nazis have an obsession with their leader Adolf Hitler and now that he's gone they just can't seem to do anything without him. The solution? Simple! Clone him!

One of the most recurring plot elements when Nazis are involved. Neo-Nazis out to rebuild the Aryan Nation need their leader to tell them what to do, or maybe Hitler's underlings in the Thule Society believe that they can call the mustachioed villain from the Great Beyond but they need a body to hold his spirit. Lo and behold they just happen to have some of his DNA lingering in some forgotten drawer and they're off to clone Hitler.

Related to Apocalypse Hitler. Hitler as a Brain in a Jar is a common subtrope, as is Stupid Jetpack Hitler. See also Archived Army. Contrast with Clone Jesus.

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Anime & Manga

Comic Books

Fan Works

The DC Comics fanfiction With This Ring introduces this trope in the storyarc Triumph Of the Will when the Justice League are tracking Nazi supervillains Wolf Krieger and Captain Nazi. Orange Lantern comes across a man named Helmut Schrieber, a Brazilian citizen who turns out to be the only survivor of a post-WW2 project to clone Hitler. However, the project had fallen apart and Schrieber had simply been raised in a normal orphanage completely unaware that he was in any way out of the ordinary, and would go on to become a successful architect and marry a black woman with whom he has three children. Krieger eventually hunts him down, planning to pull the remains of Hitler's soul out of Hell and put it into Schrieber's body, but is stopped by Lantern and Rocket. Schrieber is portrayed as just a normal man with nothing in common with the original aside from genetics.

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Films — Live-Action

The Boys from Brazil, in which Nazis not only clone Hitler several dozen times, but attempt to recreate his upbringing as well.

The villains of They Saved Hitler's Brain are trying to clone a new body for Hitler, whose head has been preserved in a jar.

Literature

This is the whole point of the novel The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin, which was made into a rather good movie starring Gregory Peck (as Josef Mengele of all people) and Laurence Olivier.

In The Goodness Gene, the protagonist discovers that he's a Hitler clone.

In The Fourth Reich, a novel by Robert Van Kampen, Hitlers spirit leaves Hell and enters an embryo produced from his cloned DNA.

Evil Clonation, a novel by Heriberto Cintron, features a clone of Hitler.

In one story in the Church of the SubGenius's anthology Three-Fisted Tales of "Bob", "Bob" Dobbs stops the Deroes from cloning Hitler by using a little sleight of hand to replace the bloody cloth they were using as a DNA source with a scrap of the Shroud of Turin.

Live-Action TV

An episode of The '90s remake of The Professionals played this trope painfully straight, with a bunch of old crypto-Nazi bad guys planning to clone Hitler from his finger, which one of them managed to cut off somehow a few days before Berlin fell.

In The New Adventures of Wonder Woman episode "Anschluss '77" (1977), a group of South American neo-Nazis .. you guessed it ... cloned Hitler. It provides an in-universe explanation for the trope: they were convinced the NSDAP would have not existed, or remained just a group of disgruntled men in a beer hall, without the mesmerizing personality and rhetoric talent of the Führer, and therefore to make it exist they needed a living, breathing and talking Hitler.

There's a Mr. Show sketch about how, once human cloning technology had been invented, the world immediately set about mass-producing Hitlers, but forced them to be slaves to Jewish families.

In the The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Deadly Games Affair", a former SS scientist attempts to reanimate the body of Adolf Hitler. Since it was written in 1964, the episode makes this perfectly clear without ever actually mentioning the name Hitler.

One of the recurring sketches of the German Sketch Comedy series Die Wochenshow featured a bunch of Hitler clones (Cloned out of the original one's famous mustache! It was a Russian soldier's war trophy.) living in the present as flatmates.

An episode of Red Dwarf had the crew come across a deep-space research facility with clones of evil people from throughout history in an attempt to find a cure for psychopathy. Hitler was of course amongst them, as was Vlad the Impaler, Ghengis Kahn and Rupert Murdoch (who according to a report was not responding to treatment). Ultimately subverted, however, as the "clones" turn out to be androids made up to look like those historical figures — with a Lampshade Hanging on how "Hitler" looks nothing like Hitler.

Music

Rapper mc chris has a song called "006" featuring a villain called Robot Hitler Head. "Fuck you Robot Hitler Head, I'll never join you! You expect me to believe that's Hitler's body? What a bunch of bullshit!"

Simple Minds had a song called "Boys From Brazil" which borrowed heavily from the book/film.

Tabletop Games

Genius: The Transgression: Every time someone kills Hitler, the Time Police agents clone a new one to enforce Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act. (They have a problem with officers committing suicide afterwards.) Originally it wasn't even Hitler in the position, but after Hitler was killed they realised it would be easier to start cloning than find yet another replacement.

GURPS: The eternal Reich on Reich-5 doesn't clone Hitler, exactly, but they constantly search the alternate histories for the true Hitler, who will be a superior specimen. It comes out to the same thing.

Video Games

The original Japanese version of Bionic Commando had cloned Hitler as the final boss. In all versions, you get a cutscene of Hitler's head going boom when you win the final battle. The English version refers to the main villain as "Master D". Rearmed has "The Leader" (a literal translation of "Der Fuhrer") as the final boss.

In Download 2 for the PC Engine, terrorists have saved Hitler's brain.

Web Comics

Web Original

Hitler Rants: There are Downfall parodies about Hitler getting cloned (usually against his will), by either Speer, Fegelein, or some random dude.

SCP Foundation: SCP-2430 plays with this trope in a very interesting way. SCP-2430 is a mute, presumably non-sentient clone of Hitler created by the flesh of Sæhrímnir and for the amusement of Stalin, who killed his old foe in a variety of painful ways only to have him resurrected. After Stalin's death "Hitler" was rescued by a group of Nazis and brought to Argentina, where they presumed him to be catatonic after his imprisonment and was later retrieved by the Foundation after a MOSSAD raid.

Western Animation