12 Times Adolf Hitler Has Been Totally Owned In Fiction

5. Itchy & Scratchy (The Simpsons)

While the realistic approach in a cartoon clearly has its own merits, that isn't to say that going full-blown cartoon-style doesn't work, either. Case in point: Itchy and Scratchy from The Simpsons' take on the cartoons of the day. Itchy and Scratchy, of course, parody the many tropes of older cartoons by playing them to the extreme. Though the characters do bounce back (eventually), actions far more violent than anything Bugs or Daffy could stomach are the norm. Therefore, while seeing a realistic Hitler getting bopped over the head and crying like a baby is funny, one can't help but imagine that Itchy and Scratchy did what the animators of that era probably really wanted to do in their pictures- at least, in this particular instance. It begins similarly enough with the mallet, but quickly escalates as the cartoon cat and mouse duo introduce a board with nails through it, a giant wrench, and finally, the coup de grace: A simple wood-chopping axe, which Itchy uses to bloodily decapitate the Fuehrer. If that wasn't enough (and is it ever, really?), Itchy gets right back to business and does the same to Scratchy once their common foe has been disposed, then proceeds to end on a war drive pitch as Roosevelt kicks the headless Hitler and sadly betrayed patriotic cat in the rump all the while. It's relatively extreme in its violence, but at the same time, is rather pure as it essentially puts everything you could want out of a cartoon owning of Hitler into a mere 16 seconds.