12 Times Adolf Hitler Has Been Totally Owned In Fiction
3. Anyone Who's Ever Been Upset By Anything On The Internet (Downfall/Hitler Reacts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQDBjRHC7Ro With the exception of being locked in the cupboard, most of this list has focused on the physical aspects of owning Hitler in fiction. But with his alternate universe alter-ego's defeat at the hands of two Super Saiyan schoolchildren, we're starting to get into the more psychological aspect of it. That brings us to the movie Downfall... or rather, what the internet has done with it. One scene in particular featuring the Fuehrer angrily lashing out at his closest confidantes has become a meme which effectively strips Hitler of all his power and makes him just like one of us. He likes sports, wrestling, movies, video games, comic books, and so forth. What's more, he's incredibly passionate about them all. As a result, any time something upsets someone on the internet, it winds up projected onto ol' Adolf as things start going south for him. Disney bought Star Wars? CM Punk walked out on WWE? DC is actually calling their next movie "Superman v Batman: Dawn of Justice"? Whatever the outcry, Hitler usually has a reaction to it, hence the name for the meme, "Hitler Reacts." While acts of punching, shooting, and so on to Hitler all have their own form of catharsis, there is something to be said about building Hitler up as being strongly invested in something, only to have his whole world torn down... again and again and again and again. In this way, it's almost as though the internet has found a way to- at least in a fictional way- found a way to condemn his soul to eternal torment for all time, and that's something you can't get from a simple sock to the jaw.
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