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The Man in the High Castle

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The Man in the High Castle	comment	The Man in the High Castle is an Alternate History series produced by Ridley Scott, created by Frank Spotnitz and based on the book of the same name by Philip K. Dick. It debuted in 2015 and aired four seasons via Amazon Prime.The series begins many years after the victory of the Axis powers in the Second World War, and what was once the United States has been divided between the Japanese Empire and the Third Reich. A thin strip of neutral, lawless territory in the Rocky Mountains serves as a buffer between the two superpowers, who have been in an uneasy truce since the war's end. Juliana Crain, a woman living in the Japanese Pacific States with her fiancé Frank Frink, is given a film reel depicting an Alternate History where the Allied powers won the war. In the Greater Nazi Reich, a man named Joe Blake carries one of these mysterious film reels toward the Neutral Zone, under orders from Obergruppenführer John Smith. Meanwhile, high-ranking politicians from both empires fear for the aging Adolf Hitler's life, knowing that the death of the Fuhrer would trigger a war far more terrible than any seen before.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_11519098	comment	Stop, or I Shoot Myself!: When the Nazis apprehend Hawthorne Abendsen, he threatens to shoot himself since he knows that they need him alive for their plans. However, John Smith is already holding his wife hostage, so he's ultimately forced to back down.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Man in the High Castle / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: In a dystopian setting this dangerous, it's no wonder that death is just around the corner. By season 3, even main characters start to bite the dust, with both Joe Blake and Frank Frink dying for real. Season 4 opens with the death of Minister Tagomi.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Man in the High Castle / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: The "Japanese Crown Prince" is not referred to by name. Presuming nothing was changed about the Japanese Imperial succession, that would be Akihito (the Emperor Emeritus of Japan)... but that's never stated explicitly. His wife (presumably the Empress Emerita) is also never named; though given cultural differences between timelines (e.g. affecting marriage rules for the Imperial Household) it could be someone else. That said, the actress does resemble a younger version of the Empress even if she is never formally named.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Man in the High Castle / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: "The Marshal" and other bounty hunters carry around a deck of playing cards containing the faces and information of enemies of the state. When the Crown Prince is shot, his wife remains by his side in a pink kimono splattered with her husband's blood, and refuses to take it off. The way Tagomi and a German agent (Wegener) are conspiring to deliver nuclear secrets to the Japanese science minister resembles to some extent how the Soviets partially developed their own atomic bomb project, through espionage about the American nuclear project. In one episode, the Resistance member Sarah is wearing a stereotypical outfit worn by women members of radical groups in the 1960's & 70's. Obergruppenfuhrer Smith plots to save his son Thomas by sending him to Argentina to be hidden away. This is similar to the Ratlines in our version of history, which were a system of escape routes to South America for high-ranking Nazi officials to escape capture once the Allies occupied Berlin. The drugs Dr. Adler prescribed to Lucy Collins are the same types that Dr. Theodor Morell routinely administered to Hitler. note As the Hitler in this setting has lived far longer, and appears in much better physical and mental health than he did by 1945 in reality, then presumably early on Hitler stopped using Morell as his personal physician in this alternate setting, but that Morell seemingly became a powerful authority over the Reich medical profession and therefore influenced the methods of treatment administered to women in the Reich. It's also possible that Hitler's health fared better when flush with victory, causing him to avoid most of the drugs, rather than slipping into delusions and paranoia with the stress of defeat. The "officially" stated purpose of Jahr Null ("Year Zero"), to "Cast aside the old and the past, and bring forth the new and the future," with the unleashing of the Party youth (the students) out into the streets as the instruments and public demonstration of this new policy, is modeled more from Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution in China from 1966 to 1976, rather than Nazi Germany's Kristallnacht in 1938, which the series' Himmler boasts about and compares Jahr Null to. After the inauguration of Jahr Null in the finale of Season 3, young people march through the streets with torches chanting "blood and soil", a disturbing reference to the Neo-Nazi "Unite the Right" rally held in Charlottesville in 2017 (this was a Nazi slogan originally, which of course their modern-day followers drew from). Watching the planes shoot missiles into the Statue of Liberty, which falls straight over into the harbor, can feel reminiscent of news footage of the World Trade Center collapsing on 9/11. The Japanese withdrawal from the Pacific States and the subsequent mass evacuation brings to mind of the chaotic last days of Saigon during the closing hours of the Vietnam War.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_157aa3db	type	Gay Cowboy
The Man in the High Castle / int_157aa3db	comment	Gay Cowboy: Jack is a gay cowboy in the Neutral territories, which are explicitly New Old West. He's ultimately more a grifter instead of a rancher by trade, but he does wear a cowboy hat.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
The Man in the High Castle / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: The Season 3 finale features a montage of Nazi supporters taking to the streets of New York City with burning torches and fascist banners, destroying cars and assaulting random bystanders while chanting "Blood and soil!" This was pretty clearly inspired by the real life "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville in 2017 (although the kind of thing the real Nazis also did).
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The Man in the High Castle / int_19944e8f	type	Terraform
The Man in the High Castle / int_19944e8f	comment	Terraform: In season 2 Reichsminister Heusmann shows Joe Blake plans for the creation of new land and energy by draining the Mediterranean, something carried over from the book (although there it was already implemented). This was based on the real "Atlantropa" plan by German scientists who favoured a "southern policy" of European settlement in Africa over the conquest of territory in Eastern Europe preferred by the Nazis. The younger generation of Nazi youth oppose this plan, as environmentalism is gaining traction in the Reich.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_19fc58a2	type	A Lighter Shade of Black
The Man in the High Castle / int_19fc58a2	comment	A Lighter Shade of Black: All over the place, due to the setting. Adolf frakking Hitler of all people comes across as this in comparison to Reinhard Heydrich's faction, whose goals are by all accounts a total nuclear war with Japan. The conclusion of Season 2 astonishingly makes Heinrich Himmler into this as well, as he and his SS halt the unleashing of nuclear war against Japan, and take down the mastermind behind Heydrich's faction. As oppressive as they are, the Japanese are slightly more tolerant (although Judaism is forbidden) compared to the Reich. It appears that their antisemitic laws are simply in imitation of the Nazis (probably for good relations with them), while they have nothing in particular against Jews. The Japanese are quite racist against anyone who’s not Japanese, but unlike the Nazis don’t single out any specific group, and other races can live their lives under Imperial rule as long as they remember their place. The Kempeitai don't bother hunting down anyone not actively resisting Imperial rule, so proscribed groups like Jews and homosexuals are at least able to do what they want in private.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_1b36b313	type	Mandatory Motherhood
The Man in the High Castle / int_1b36b313	comment	Mandatory Motherhood: Bearing children is considered the greatest female virtue in the Greater Nazi Reich. When Juliana defects to the GNR in Season 2, she is told by a doctor performing an inspection who's specialized in "racial science" (among other things, measuring her skull and skin tone) that she has an injury which may render her infertile and endanger her chances for a visa. Juliana later becomes close with a Stepford Smiler among the Nazi elite who has had problems becoming pregnant. She fears her social position may be endangered because her husband has started to move on due to her infertility. The Smiths themselves are not exempt, having three children in the GNR world, but only one in the alternate world.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Man in the High Castle / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: Thelma and Wayne Harris appear to be using each other this way (assuming both aren't bisexual), since they're shown in same-sex relationships on the side.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_1c263b9f	type	The Purge
The Man in the High Castle / int_1c263b9f	comment	The Purge: It is implied that after their occupation of the USA, the Nazis and Japanese purged all Christian or Jewish religious literature. This results in books such as the Bible being a rarity, with Juliana even remarking that she hasn't seen one since she was a small child. Not to mention that the Nazis purged black people and Jews in their domain, though the Japanese are more lenient (at least toward the former). Helen later learns another is being planned in the Pacific States after the American Reich decides to annex them when the Japanese withdraw, finding documents with plans for camps, gas chambers, and lists of the "undesirable" people that will be sent there. This includes not only black people or Jews but also anyone of mixed race, Roma and Native Americans. Presumably they were purged already in the American Reich.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_1d6fa62a	type	Gas Chamber
The Man in the High Castle / int_1d6fa62a	comment	Gas Chamber: Laura and her children are killed in a gas chamber inside the Kenpeitai headquarters that's made to look like a suburban waiting room with Zyklon-B. The claim that the agent is 'odorless' is something of a simplification - the nerves are simply rendered incapable of conveying the information to the brain. Kido even mentions to Frank that they have made "improvements" to the Zyklon-B the Nazis used. Ironically, Kido himself ends up locked up in the same chamber by the resistance after the Japanese evacuation and resigns himself to his death, but since the gas canisters are empty he survives.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Man in the High Castle / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: While the Kempeitai make reprisal executions by firing squad, they execute traitors by repeatedly bayoneting them in the torso to draw out their agony. Truth in Television, although the Japanese usually used POWs and/or Chinese civilians for bayonet practice in real life. Reserving it for traitors is likely an indication of how the Japanese Empire has loosened up somewhat since the war.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_1e7159cf	type	Propaganda Machine
The Man in the High Castle / int_1e7159cf	comment	Propaganda Machine: The Nazi regime has a very active one; one of their main actions in the show is a purging of American historical monuments (the Lincoln Memorial, Statue of Liberty, etc.) in an effort to weaken American cultural identity and strengthen the Reich.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Man in the High Castle / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: At the end of Season 1, a man is shown literally living in a high castle. His name is Adolf Hitler, who also owns a vast collection of alternate universe films just like the real Man in the High Castle.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
The Man in the High Castle / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Kotomichi instructs Kido to remove the last knuckle of one pinky finger before he'll let him into the Yakuza. Kido does so with nothing more than a slight grunt. This is a real Yakuza practice called yubitsume, usually done when a subordinate member has to make penance for some wrong they did to their superior. Here the viewer doesn't see the actual finger removal though.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Man in the High Castle / int_21d70919	comment	All over the place, due to the setting. Adolf frakking Hitler of all people comes across as this in comparison to Reinhard Heydrich's faction, whose goals are by all accounts a total nuclear war with Japan.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_2206fd8c	type	Fallen States of America
The Man in the High Castle / int_2206fd8c	comment	Fallen States of America: America is split into three sections: the Japanese Pacific States, the Greater Nazi Reich, and a Neutral Zone in between that has become completely lawless. American culture in the occupied territories is being systematically dismantled and replaced by the culture of the occupying nations.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_222df7f7	type	Lowered Recruiting Standards
The Man in the High Castle / int_222df7f7	comment	Lowered Recruiting Standards: In season 3, Inspector Kido is introduced to a new member of his staff to replace some of the people killed in the previous season's bombing of the Kempeitai's offices, a half-Japanese man born in the United States whose proficiency in Japanese is not up to standards. Kido begrudgingly gives him a chance to prove his loyalty to the Empire. This man later turns out to be a mole.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Man in the High Castle / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: In multiple ways. Some book characters are heavily modified, their family members are introduced, and there are many wholly new characters. The plot is also greatly expanded, with much more of it taking place in the Nazi-controlled portion of the former US.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_25afd4a3	type	Good Guns, Bad Guns
The Man in the High Castle / int_25afd4a3	comment	Good Guns, Bad Guns: Played with. The World War II era weapons of the Germans and Japanese are still around and in the hands of their respective country's soldiers, but they are slowly being replaced by more modern weapons, leading to guns like the MP5 - usually seen by Western audiences in the hands of traditionally good guy SWAT teams and elite units - becoming the weapon of choice for the Nazis. American World War II weapons like the Thompson, 1911, and M1 carbine are seen in the hands of resistance fighters, though by Season 4, these are likewise being supplanted, this time by Communist Bloc weapons like the AK-47 in another role reversal. Weapons like M2 machine guns and Winchester shotguns are seen in use by all sides, though whether this is a case of them being pressed into service by the Axis powers or their being Weapons Understudies for fictional guns the Germans and Japanese developed in this timeline is unclear. Lastly, revolvers and lever action weapons seem to be favored in the Neutral Zone, adding to its Wild West-like atmosphere.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
The Man in the High Castle / int_2764d432	comment	Between Germany and the Japanese Empire in this alternate universe, as they are the two victorious superpowers of World War II. They are officially still allies but are wary of the other's intentions. It is predicted by high-ranking members of both governments that when the terminally ill Adolf Hitler dies, it will escalate into full-blown warfare.Throughout the first season, a faction within the German government led by Reinhard Heydrich tries to usurp power from Hitler and launch a nuclear war against Japan, but this plot is eliminated at the last second. This is even more central to the plot in season 2. Heussman, revealed to be behind the plot in the previous season, frames Japan for Hitler's death, bringing the two nations to the brink of (a pretty much one-sided in Germany's favor) nuclear war. Thanks to a bluff made possible by Tagomi's visit to our timeline and Juliana preventing John Smith from being arrested by the SS, it is averted at the last minute.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Man in the High Castle / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: As is to be expected, various German and Japanese lines are sprinkled throughout the series — albeit mostly just one-liners.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_2a035a26	type	Allohistorical Allusion
The Man in the High Castle / int_2a035a26	comment	Allohistorical Allusion: An assassination attempt orchestrated by Reinhard Heydrich is made against John Smith, in which several gunmen attack his car with machine guns and explosives. This is very similar to how Heydrich himself was historically killed in the famous Operation Anthropoid in Prague, right down to Smith getting out of the car to confront his attackers in a gunfight. In the show's timeline, however, Smith survives. Hermann Göring is said to have been executed for treason some time before the events of the series after he attempted to gain power as acting chancellor during a period when Adolf Hitler was seriously ill. Göring, who had been Hitler's chosen successor for much of the war, did a similar "power grab" in real life when Hitler was confined to the Führerbunker in the last days of World War 2. At the end of season 2, Hitler is assassinated and succeeded by another high-ranking Nazi, before this conspiracy is outed by Heinrich Himmler based on intelligence he received from John Smith. In a speech to the German people, he notably decries their lack of loyalty to their now-dead Fuehrer. Historically, Himmler attempted to throw Hitler under the bus when he tried to make a separate deal with the Allies through backwater diplomatic channels. Early in season 3, the Japanese perform a nuclear test in the Utah territory as a warning to the Nazis, alluding to the Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico where the first functional atomic bomb was successfully detonated in 1945. Admiral Inokuchi is assigned as the new overall leader of the Japanese Pacific States, but seldom leaves his flagship and fleet, likely for security since the headquarters bombing. This alludes to Marshal-Admiral Yamamoto, who actually was opposed to Japan going to war against America, which made him a target for assassination by zealot Japanese Army militants before the Pearl Harbor attack, so for a time he had to confine himself to his ships for his own protection from them. Admiral Inokuchi instructs Chief Inspector Kido to end reprisal killings and use lighter methods, including working to win the American population in the JPS over to the side of the Japanese, which sounds like a "hearts and minds" effort. But it's apparent that any such methods are already too little, too late to be effective now, and so is as likely to be as successful as the "hearts and minds" policy was for the U.S. in the Vietnam War. In the season 3 episode "Sabra", a (Japanese) Buddhist monk douses and ignites himself with gasoline in the middle of the street as Japanese troops are violently putting down a street protest, alluding to the 1963 self-immolation protest of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức against the regime in South Vietnam. Chief Inspector Kido's disgust when he describes how he liberated a Japanese-American internment camp parallels the Allied liberation of German concentration camps at the end of the war. The Nazi policy to eradicate and erase all United States history from before the conquest by the Reich is named "Jahr Null", which means "Year Zero". The only time in real life that a political force named a policy "Year Zero" was in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge of Pol Pot, and its purpose was the total elimination of all culture, traditions, and history that existed in that country before Pol Pot's communist revolution. It also references "Stunde Null" (Hour Zero), which ironically was the term for post-Nazi Germany breaking with that period completely. In one of John Smith's flashbacks, shortly after the end of the war, he is visited by his direct superior, who tells him that the US Army is being absorbed into the Reich forces. He mentions that Hermann Goering shook hands with a surrendering General Patton at West Point to seal the deal. This is referencing Goering's own surrender to the Allied forces, which caused a scandal when US officers treated him too kindly by shaking his hand and drinking with him, implying that he was a Worthy Opponent instead of a war criminal. The Emperor's speech about relinquishing their occupation of the Pacific States is extremely similar to the real-life Imperial Japanese surrender speech, down to the entire first paragraph and the intentionally-vague "situation has not necessarily developed to our advantage" bit. General Yamori's subsequent suicide is also reminiscent of the wave of real-life seppukus committed by embittered and despairing officers upon hearing the surrender and period of national humiliation Japan was about to enter. The Greater Nazi Reich splitting in two at the end of the series, with one Führer ruling the West and one Führer ruling the East, brings to mind the division of The Roman Empire due to overreach. Also, much like the Romans themselves, the western part is the first to collapse. The Yakuza remaining in operation in America with Inspector Kido and his son trapped into becoming members after the Empire's occupation withdrawal, alludes to how the Yakuza endured after Japan's surrender, and increased through black-marketeering and swelling their ranks with demobilized (and demoralized and destitute) ex-servicemen including former Kempeitei.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Any issues with Joel de la Fuente’s spoken Japanese are excused in Season 3 when Admiral Inokuchi observes that Kido has picked up an American accent.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_2a3006e5	type	State Sec
The Man in the High Castle / int_2a3006e5	comment	State Sec: Two of the most infamous Real Life examples of the last century feature heavily in the plot; Nazi Germany's SS and Imperial Japan's Kenpeitai.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_2cd8db8c	type	FantasticSlur
The Man in the High Castle / int_2cd8db8c	comment	Fantastic Slur: Although "Jap" is heard here and there, Americans in the JPS usually use "Pon" (short for Nippon) to derisively refer to their Japanese overlords. And in the GNR, instead of the slurs that Americans (in "our reality") have used for Jews, Smith and others in the GNR call them "semites," which was the derogatory term for Jews used in Germany.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_2d4d16d9	type	I Know You Know I Know
The Man in the High Castle / int_2d4d16d9	comment	I Know You Know I Know: In season 3, Rockwell confronts him on how Smith murdered Adler to keep his son's bad health quiet and Helen then killed Adler's widow, citing evidence from Hoover. But Smith had already pressured Hoover (with evidence of his own sinful crimes) to claim there was no evidence at all. Himmler accuses Rockwell of plotting against Smith and has him arrested. In private, Himmler point blank tells Smith he knows full well Smith and Helen are guilty and set up Rockwell and actually respects that. He also points out that Smith might have to "tie up the loose end" of Helen. Even as he's promoted to Reichmarshall, Smith knows it's tricky as Himmler wants Smith to know he wasn't fooled by this setup for an instant.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_2dbbe772	type	Propaganda Hero
The Man in the High Castle / int_2dbbe772	comment	Propaganda Hero: John's son Thomas inadvertently becomes this when he willingly submits himself to euthanasia upon learning that he has a neurological condition that will cause him to become a "burden" to the Reich.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_2f5b9954	type	Alphabetical Theme Naming
The Man in the High Castle / int_2f5b9954	comment	Alphabetical Theme Naming: The Nazi leadership featured in the series all follow two-syllable "H" names: Hitler, Heydrich, Heusmann, and Himmler. Three of these were real people, but Heusmann was created for the show.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_30ab0aa1	type	Worldbuilding
The Man in the High Castle / int_30ab0aa1	comment	Worldbuilding: There are a lot of references made about the overall state of the hellish world that the Axis Powers created in their victory, for instance Nazi Germany taking over the European colonies in Africa and replacing them with even more brutal regimes resembling the Congo Free State.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Man in the High Castle / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Due to some of the main characters being anti villains, this trope comes up occasionally: Chief Inspector Kido lets Frank go unharmed after he realizes that he'd just executed Frank's sister and her children for no reason. John Smith occasionally shows mercy to people he could otherwise annihilate. When standing his ground against his would-be assassin Rudolph Wegener, Hitler is shown to be opposed to a destructive war with Imperial Japan. He tells Wegener that he is aware of a high-level conspiracy to murder him and start the war, and uses his opposition to this conflict - plus a promise to spare Wegener's family - to convince Wegener to commit suicide instead. In Season 2, Hitler is replaced as Chancellor by Martin Heusmann, who immediately orders a full-scale attack on Japan on the pretext that they poisoned the Fuhrer. When planning the attack, Heusmann orders Tokyo to be targeted in the first wave of nuclear strikes; Heinrich Himmler - both historically and in this universe a ruthless proponent of genocide - objects and only backs down when Heusmann insists on it. Later, John Smith shows the Nazi leadership a supposed recording of a Japanese H-bomb test; Himmler is visibly shaken by the implication that the Japanese have nuclear weapons and that the war will be much more destructive than he anticipated. Heusmann, however, insists that the invasion will go ahead as the Reich still has the advantage. John Smith then shows Himmler evidence that Heusmann is part of the aforementioned conspiracy to murder Hitler and attack Japan, so Himmler has Heusmann arrested, takes power, and cancels the attack. The BCR have no love for their Japanese occupiers, but they do not allow vigilante killings and senseless anarchy once the Pacific States has been abandoned by the Japanese. They are aghast when they come across the attempted lynching of Inspector Kido by an angry white mob intent on exacting revenge on any and all remaining Japanese, but considering black Americans long history of being lynched themselves, it makes sense. They insist he have a trial rather than simply be hung.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_31fa019d	type	All Psychology Is Freudian
The Man in the High Castle / int_31fa019d	comment	All Psychology Is Freudian: Subverted. In the Nazi-dominated world, All Psychology is Jungian, since Sigmund Freud's writings were dismissed for his Jewish heritage, while Carl Jung was officially embraced because he was an "Aryan" (Swiss German).
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The Man in the High Castle / int_32c082ae	type	Bury Your Disabled
The Man in the High Castle / int_32c082ae	comment	Bury Your Disabled: In the eugenics-supporting alternate world created by the Nazis, the infirm are one of the groups targeted for extermination by the authorities. During Joe Blake's drive through the country from NYC to the Rocky Mountains, he passes a hospital that burns its disabled and terminally ill patients there at the end of every week. John Smith, a high-ranking SS officer in America, is horrified to learn that his son has muscular dystrophy, because it means he will have to be euthanized. Smith's older brother, whom he worshiped as a child, died of the same disease. His wife mentions how such people are not allowed to suffer, not knowing she was talking about her own son. Thomas Smith eventually turns himself in to be "euthanized", which he's lionized for. It's discussed after Juliana hears of this upon emigrating into the American Reich, and asks what would happen to a friend of hers who's disabled due to a respiratory ailment, learning about their policy.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_337a0f4	type	TrailersAlwaysLie
The Man in the High Castle / int_337a0f4	comment	Trailers Always Lie: The Season 3 trailer showed scenes of Juliana unfolding a flag with the peace symbol in the colors of the Nazi flag. This never happens in the entire season.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
The Man in the High Castle / int_34dd5f3	comment	La Résistance: The GNR and JPS are having a hard time dealing with anti-occupation fighters. The Neutral Zone also has anti-occupation resistance hideouts. The Crown Prince mentioned that resistance forces in the Asia-Pacific occupied territories of the Japanese Empire are weakening Tokyo's grip on the Empire.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
The Man in the High Castle / int_355007c3	comment	In this timeline, atomic weapons were apparently developed by Werner Heisenberg (hence "Heisenberg device"). In real life, Heisenberg believed that a nuclear bomb would be too impractical to build to be worthwhile, and was far too busy screwing anything in a skirt at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute to put in the research to learn otherwise.note Heisenberg's later claim that he and other German scientists had sabotaged their own research to avoid giving Hitler weapons of mass destruction was a shameless attempt to cover his own ass after the war. Heisenberg's letters to Niehls Bohr and other confidants at the time reveal that he was a big fan of the Nazi Party as long as the grant money kept flowing. In reality, Kurt Diebner was far closer to producing a functional device.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_35fb9016	type	Gratuitous German
The Man in the High Castle / int_35fb9016	comment	Gratuitous German: Comes with the territory, but of varying quality. Kenneth Tigar (Himmler) for example puts on a very convincing accent despite not being native, Carsten Norgaard (Wegener) speaks fluently, but with a distinct foreign accent, Timothy Murphy (Eichmann) makes a laughable attempt, and Wolf Muser (Hitler) is, well, a native speaker (just to name several).
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The Man in the High Castle / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Man in the High Castle / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Hawthorne was counting on Juliana to specifically ignore his insistence that George Dixon's survival was key to preventing nuclear war, and that she would instead kill him to save Thomas's life, thereby ensuring John Smith would make it to Berlin to stop Heusmann. Given the fact that he's The Man in the High Castle and has seen hundreds of different futures, planning that far ahead wouldn't be too difficult for him. Smith visits Heydrich in prison, ordering the alarm sounded and presenting him with his dress uniform, to tell him that his co-conspirators have succeeded and he is being released. Before letting him out, Smith asks who his co-conspirators are. Heydrich, knowing he will be able to kill Smith once he's out, is all too happy to tell Smith that Heusmann is behind the plot before Smith shoots him dead and shuts the false alarm off.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_39684516	type	Kill the Ones You Love
The Man in the High Castle / int_39684516	comment	Kill the Ones You Love: After Heussman's failed usurpation of the Reich leadership, Josef is forced to personally execute his father to prove his loyalty to the Nazi Party. Afterwards, his godfather and new Fuhrer, Heinrich Himmler, pats him on the cheek and has him Reassigned to Antarctica.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
The Man in the High Castle / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: In contrast to the Neutral Zone, the Greater Nazi Reich (and, to a lesser extent, the Japanese Pacific States) are far more developed and livable, and in some cases even enjoyable, assuming you aren't one of the persecuted minorities. However, the show goes to great lengths to reveal what happens when someone stops being protected and starts to come into the eyes of the state. Juliana was perfectly happy with her life until her sister was murdered by the Kempeitai, Frank was doing just fine until Juliana disappeared and he lost almost his entire family, but the worst has to be what has started to happen to Obergruppenfuhrer Smith, not for the severity, but because he is the one man who has the most to gain from the society he's helped build. In episode 8, he learns that his son is suffering from a degenerative disability and will go into full paralysis within a year. Since the Nazis don't want to create cures for such disabilities, as they would lead to an impure human race, he is given only one option — eventual euthanasia. It's clear that no matter how much faith he has in the Reich, this turn of events is shaking that faith, because he loves his wife and children more than anything, and had previously deluded himself into believing that by joining the Nazis, he was making a better world for them.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
The Man in the High Castle / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	While subject to some degree of Schizo Tech, the small arms used by each faction are ones actually developed and fielded by West Germany and Japan in the 1960s and 1970s.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_3dc6aa5b	type	New Old West
The Man in the High Castle / int_3dc6aa5b	comment	New Old West: The Neutral Zone has a distinct Wild West feel to it despite existing within an alternate 1960s world dominated by the victorious Axis Powers, being a near-lawless frontier setting roamed by bounty hunters, gangs of outlaws (trading in horses for motorcycles), grifters, and small-town settlers. Several of the main characters who visit it spend much of their time in season 3 hanging out in a saloon to boot.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Man in the High Castle / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: The official story taught in schools regarding people of African decent in the American Reich is that they were sent back to Africa to work for the Reich. They are actually killed in accordance with Nazi ideologies, but since the Propaganda Machine uses African slavery to vilify pre-war America, they can't openly disclose the truth. When Smith's daughter asks him about the situation, he has to ask her what she's taught in school because he's not confident that he knows the Reich's most recent propaganda on the matter.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Man in the High Castle / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: America 'wins': The Axis Powers lose sovereignty of America, but the end result is a Divided States of America that is already gearing up for conflict.note The Japanese withdraw from the Japanese Pacific States as the Black Communist Rebellion seizes their territory, the Nazis have lost control of the Greater Nazi Republic to their former quislings, and the Resistance has become the proud new owner of a permanent dimensional gate to other worlds. However, with the BCR claiming the West Coast, the ex-Nazi American leaders retaking the East Coast, and the Resistance stuck in the middle after topologically reshaping the entire board, combined with decades of infighting, terrorism, and polar ideological clashes, it's implied that civil war and worldwide conflict are inevitable. Dictatorships eventually fall, but history never ends. Some of the Nazis have escaped to other worlds, continuing to spread chaos throughout the multiverse. However, the portal has now stabilized, turning this specific Earth into a nexus for thousands of travelers to spread their own hopes and beliefs to the formerly Nazi-dominated world and beyond. Smith commits suicide as a broken man, and his wife sacrificed herself to assassinate him, though their daughters get to live (for better or worse, as one hates their guts and the other has fully embraced fascism). Kido pays his son's life debt by serving the Yakuza in San Francisco, rather than return to Japan. Childan gets married, but must spend the rest of his life in Japan as an impoverished second-class citizen. Abensen's wife dies, but it's implied he'll find another version of her in another universe.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
The Man in the High Castle / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: John Smith initially joined the Reich to provide for his family, participating in Nazi atrocities for many years while burying his conscience. Throughout the series, he continues to climb the ranks to protect them from new threats, but loses even that excuse by the end. As of the last episode of the series, there is literally nothing stopping him from abandoning the Reich. The new führer has made North America completely autonomous, and will not interfere with Smith in any way, even though he continues to provide logistical support. Smith's second-in-command even begs him to break away from the Reich and make America independent again. However, Smith continues to go through with the plans to kill most of the people in the Pacific states with a series of scorched-Earth attacks, and to renew the American Holocaust against those who remain. In their last moments together, Helen tells him that they need to stop pretending to be Nazis, and John says he doesn't know how.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
The Man in the High Castle / int_4482e1ef	comment	Divided States of America: Between the Nazis, Imperial Japan, and the lawless Neutral Zone.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Man in the High Castle / int_4604fd4d	comment	In one of John Smith's flashbacks, shortly after the end of the war, he is visited by his direct superior, who tells him that the US Army is being absorbed into the Reich forces. He mentions that Hermann Goering shook hands with a surrendering General Patton at West Point to seal the deal. This is referencing Goering's own surrender to the Allied forces, which caused a scandal when US officers treated him too kindly by shaking his hand and drinking with him, implying that he was a Worthy Opponent instead of a war criminal.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
The Man in the High Castle / int_469e3e2f	comment	An In-Universe example includes the plot of propaganda film The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, which details a world where it was instead the Allies, not the Axis powers who won the war. It isn't the only one in-universe. At least three alternate timelines are spoken of, and as both Adolf Hitler and Hawthorne Abendsen have libraries of hundreds of newsreels, it is uncertain how many alternate worlds are being implied.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_46b5a2f2	type	Historical Character's Fictional Relative
The Man in the High Castle / int_46b5a2f2	comment	Historical Character's Fictional Relative: Nicole Dormer, a young German woman and fellow Lebensborn who befriends Joe Blake, is officially the "niece" of Joseph Goebbels, although it's implied that she's really his bastard daughter.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_4864031b	type	Informed Attractiveness
The Man in the High Castle / int_4864031b	comment	Informed Attractiveness: People are often called upon to describe Juliana's appearance, and they invariably mention that she's attractive.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_48d464ca	type	Interdimensional Travel Device
The Man in the High Castle / int_48d464ca	comment	Interdimensional Travel Device: Throughout the series, various characters are able to visit parallel universe through some form of meditation, causing the film reels showing these worlds to spread. In season 3, the Nazis build an interdimensional travel device through technological means in an abandoned mine, the Nebenwelt project, in order to conquer other worlds.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_4dbd3706	type	Clap Your Hands If You Believe
The Man in the High Castle / int_4dbd3706	comment	Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Hawthorne reveals to Juliana that the first grasshopper films were actually fakes made from cobbled together real world footage. Although the details on what happened next are sketchy, creating the fake films gave him access to the real ones.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_4e6e4dc7	type	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much
The Man in the High Castle / int_4e6e4dc7	comment	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: Obergruppenfuhrer Smith, faced with the choice of killing his son or turning him over to the Nazi authorities, takes the third option and kills his physician and destroys the medical records in order to continue to hide his son's illness. When the physician's widow asks for an autopsy, Smith quickly has the body burned to hide the evidence of murder.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Man in the High Castle / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: The "Pilot" episode reveals Joe Blake as a deep-cover SS operative reporting directly to Obergruppenführer Smith. In Season 2, Heydrich's identification of the mastermind of the conspiracy against Hitler. In Season 3, Resistance member (Reverand) Hagan mutters under torture:
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The Man in the High Castle / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Man in the High Castle / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Juliana and Frank view a different film in Kindness which shows a mass execution, and among the executed is... Frank, by Joe. In "Duck and Cover", Tagomi finds Juliana Crane is his daughter-in-law in an alternate timeline. Juliana sees Trudy alive and well at the end of Season Two. Season 3's "Baku" opens with a home movie of John and Thomas, until a store display of TV sets show Martin Luther King on TV. It's another of High Castle's films being watched by Smith. In Season 4 "Hexagram 64", a grand Japanese funeral procession is seen interjected with Kido's flashbacks to him witnessing an assassination. The shot of the funeral then pans to the portrait of Tagomi, revealing who had in fact been assassinated.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Man in the High Castle / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The Reprisals. Every Japanese soldier killed by the Resistance is retaliated for by executing ten random American civilians on the side of the street. This soon backfired, to the point that a Japanese Buddhist monk immolates himself on a San Francisco street to protest the Imperial Army/Kempeitai's brutality towards American civilians.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_515edb43	type	Fantasy Landmark Equivalent
The Man in the High Castle / int_515edb43	comment	Fantasy Landmark Equivalent: Marketing for the series shows the Statue of Liberty wearing a Nazi armband and doing a Roman Salute; in the show itself, Lady Liberty is destroyed as part of the "Jahr Null" (Year Zero) initiative following Nazi victory, in order to make way for a new monument ironically titled the New Colossus.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Man in the High Castle / int_537dd8fe	comment	Both the Third Reich and Imperial Japan are ruthless, tyrannical Empires, with some decent, good (or at least Affably Evil) people in both sides.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_5552929	type	Albinos Are Freaks
The Man in the High Castle / int_5552929	comment	Albinos Are Freaks: Discussed by The Marshall, a Nazi bounty hunter operating in the Neutral Zone, while an albino boy shines his shoes. It would appear it's possible to be too white in the American Reich.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_5558641	type	Gratuitous Japanese
The Man in the High Castle / int_5558641	comment	Gratuitous Japanese: Slightly less than German, but still there. Mainly because many 'Japanese' characters went straight to English in numerous instances, even when they are present in the group of other 'Japanese' characters. Joel de la Fuente's (Kido) American accent gets lampshaded in season 3.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Man in the High Castle / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: One main setting of the series is the "Greater Nazi Reich", the German occupation zone in the East US. The Nazis never used the word "Nazi" themselves, which was a slur by their enemies, and always used the long term "Nationalsozialisten". "Greater German Reich" would have been way more appropriate, or even "Greater Germanic Reich", which was the planned name for the Nazi empire once they fully incorporated the occupied territories. Hell, even "Greater Aryan Reich" would have made more sense since they actually used that (misappropriated) term in their own propaganda to describe themselves. The main capital of Nazi Germany is called "Berlin". In reality, Hitler hated that name and planned to rename it to "Welthauptstadt Germania" (World Capital Germania) after the endsieg. In this timeline, atomic weapons were apparently developed by Werner Heisenberg (hence "Heisenberg device"). In real life, Heisenberg believed that a nuclear bomb would be too impractical to build to be worthwhile, and was far too busy screwing anything in a skirt at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute to put in the research to learn otherwise.note Heisenberg's later claim that he and other German scientists had sabotaged their own research to avoid giving Hitler weapons of mass destruction was a shameless attempt to cover his own ass after the war. Heisenberg's letters to Niehls Bohr and other confidants at the time reveal that he was a big fan of the Nazi Party as long as the grant money kept flowing. In reality, Kurt Diebner was far closer to producing a functional device. The show portrays Adolf Hitler as being the individual who is primarily responsible for preventing the Nazis and Japanese from going to war with each other. In Real Life, it appears that he took the view that after the Allies were defeated, a war between Germany and Japan was virtually inevitable. Somewhat justified in this case, as Hitler in the show is Older and Wiser and knows from the Grasshopper newsreels that such a conflict would ruin his empire even if they win. One cannot use the Japanese Emperor's personal name to name anything. One may use era names, such as "Meiji Dairies," or "Showa University," but one cannot name an airport "Hirohito Airport."
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The Man in the High Castle / int_5670cddb	type	Troubled Backstory Flashback
The Man in the High Castle / int_5670cddb	comment	Troubled Backstory Flashback: When Juliana is sedated by members of the Resistance, she experiences a flashback montage which includes attending her father's funeral and attempting suicide by standing in front of a bus.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
The Man in the High Castle / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: Kido evades reprisals and finds his wayward son. But they are left behind in San Francisco and indebted to the Yakuza, who they must both serve in order to survive. Should the Americans go on an all-out crackdown on the Yakuza, Kido's future is dubious.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_5aa9fe2a	type	Raster Vision
The Man in the High Castle / int_5aa9fe2a	comment	Raster Vision: Appears on the TV sets (which aren't quite period-correct, see Schizo Tech, below).
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The Man in the High Castle / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
The Man in the High Castle / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Nuclear weapons are officially called "Heisenberg Devices" in this timeline. "Atomic" is occasionally used as well, as is "H-bomb" (short for "Heisenberg" in this case).
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The Man in the High Castle / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
The Man in the High Castle / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: In season 2, Frank Frink dreams about visiting his sister and her children and joining them in a Judaic prayer before gas starts pouring down from the ceiling, killing them all. In season 3, John Smith has a dream about spending the day fishing with his dead son Thomas, before Thomas vanishes and the lake turns out to be filled with dead, bloated corpses.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Man in the High Castle / int_5ca80293	comment	In Season 3, Himmler opts to play the trope to its fullest; instead of planning an invasion or a nuclear assault, he simply imposes a trade embargo and starves them of oil imports, causing riots in the Japanese Pacific States and implied to spread beyond. Except Tagomi convinces Smith to re-open the trade routes in an effort to slowly end the Space Cold War.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_5fc0d315	type	Only One Me Allowed Right Now
The Man in the High Castle / int_5fc0d315	comment	Only One Me Allowed Right Now: One of the metaphysical laws of dimension-traveling between alternate universes is that a person cannot co-exist with another version of themselves in the same reality. Therefore, one can only travel to a universe where their counterpart is dead.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
The Man in the High Castle / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: Some of the more evident sci-fi elements from the original novel (The Nazis have drained much of the Mediterranean Sea and turned it into arable farmland. There's also mention of them launching space exploration and establishing colonies on Mars and Venus.) are completely omitted or cut off in the series. However, the drainage plan is later mentioned in season 2, indicating that it simply hasn't been implemented yet. It is also left ambiguous as to how long flights take to travel. The novel mentions that Concorde flights are in commercial use, making flights from San Francisco to Berlin last about 2 hours. Given that these flights have not been successfully implemented in our timeline even over five decades later, it would be impractical to mention them in the series.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_60f992e8	type	Florence Nightingale Effect
The Man in the High Castle / int_60f992e8	comment	Florence Nightingale Effect: Subverted. In season 3, Helen Smith starts visiting a psychotherapist to process her grief over the death of her son Thomas. She starts to develop feelings for the doctor after being distant with her husband John and even tries to kiss the man, but he puts a stop to it by instantly informing her husband and resigning. This is partly because he's well aware of the phenomenon of transference, and partly because John Smith is a very high-ranking Nazi official who had already threatened his life before, and whose bad side he really doesn’t want to be on.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_61066d95	type	Fictional Counterpart
The Man in the High Castle / int_61066d95	comment	Fictional Counterpart: JFK International Airport is now Lincoln Rockwell International Airport, named after the founder of the American Nazi Party George Lincoln Rockwell, who becomes Reichsmarshall of North America. San Francisco International Airport is now Pan Pacific International Airport. Obergruppenführer Smith's son Thomas attends Fritz Julius Kuhn High School, named after the leader of the German American Bund. In the pilot episode, we see a map tracking Joe's journey to the neutral zone, and it shows that the city of St. Louis, Missouri has been renamed New Berlin. It makes sense that the GNR would not want one of its major cities to be named after a French monarch.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
The Man in the High Castle / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: When the Nazi German leadership is planning an imminent nuclear attack on the Japanese Empire, their analysts predict heavy loss of life in the American territories especially during the first stages of the war, in the order of tens of millions. Himmler dismisses these losses as acceptable since the Americans are a "late addition" to the expanded Nazi empire.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Man in the High Castle / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Obergruppenführer John Smith is a ruthless Nazi official who casually orders horrific treatment of prisoners and stages fake executions of his subordinates to test their loyalty. He's also a devoted husband and father whose home life is pretty much the American Dream right out of a Norman Rockwell painting... with swastikas. A great deal of his character conflict involves balancing his career as a Nazi with his family life.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Man in the High Castle / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Thomas Smith surrendering himself to be "euthanized" is portrayed this way afterward by the Nazi regime in the US.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
The Man in the High Castle / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Smith captures Abendsen, he says: "John, I wondered if we'd ever meet again." Smith has to order a bunch of clerks to dig through old files to figure out who the hell he is.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_65275c7e	type	Dead Alternate Counterpart
The Man in the High Castle / int_65275c7e	comment	Dead Alternate Counterpart: It is revealed that in this timeline Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring and his family were executed on Hitler's orders because Goering tried to usurp power from his boss after he fell into a brief coma several years prior to 1962. This mirrors Goering's similar real life attempt at a coup when the Third Reich collapsed in 1945. Inverted with Trade Minister Tagomi, who visits an alternate universe (from his perspective) where the Axis Powers lost World War II and his wife and son are both still alive and living in San Francisco. He spends considerable time there with them. His counterpart in our timeline is implied to have jumped off a bridge. Frank Frink watches one of the Alternate Universe reels with Juliana, where he witnesses himself being executed by Joe Blake as part of a Nazi death squad. This is in a reality where the Space Cold War between the Nazis and Japanese "turned hot", and San Francisco was nuked and invaded by the Reich. Juliana lives for several months in an alternate USA where her counterpart had died as a child along with her parents in a car crash. It's ultimately revealed that in order for people to travel to alternate worlds, their counterpar in a given world must be dead. This is shown to be the case for all the major characters seen traveling;note Alt-Tagomi committed suicide, Trudy was killed by the Japanese, Alt-Juliana died with her parents, and Alt-Smith was killed by a Nazi infiltrator. when the Nazis begin experimenting with Die Nebenwelt and attempt to send test subjects through the portal, those whose counterparts are still alive in the alternate world are reduced to Ludicrous Gibs.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_661d7909	type	Maligned Mixed Marriage
The Man in the High Castle / int_661d7909	comment	Maligned Mixed Marriage: The "regular universe" counterpart of Trade Minister Tagomi, who is a Japanese immigrant in San Francisco, was deeply disapproving of his son's relationship with Juliana and thinks he is giving up his cultural heritage. His son manages to convince him that in America he can be both an American and Japanese. White American Robert Childan's marriage to Yukiko, who's Japanese, is clearly disapproved of by her people too. They refuse to let him travel on the boat with her even after he gives the guard a hefty bribe. He has to bribe the Yakuza to get on another boat in hopes of meeting her there later. Even if they do reunite, they'll be second class citizens in Japan.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_685d06d	type	Plot Parallel
The Man in the High Castle / int_685d06d	comment	Plot Parallel: When Alt-Thomas leaves with the Marine recruiters over the objections of his parents, it parallels the scene when Thomas-Prime was taken away by the government medical personnel to be euthanized.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_6b4f4350	type	Zeppelins from Another World
The Man in the High Castle / int_6b4f4350	comment	Zeppelins from Another World: Downplayed. The shot of the Times Square in the first episode has some zeppelins visible in the sky and the establishing shots of New York contain them now and then. But as a whole the show prefers to use Concordes with their distinctive sonic booms to set the "this is an alternate universe" feeling.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Man in the High Castle / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: The scene of Thomas leaving to join the Marines in the alternate world is an almost shot-for-shot, line-by-line recreation of the earlier scene of him being led away to be euthanized in the prime world. The second time, however, it's John Smith rather than Helen who is begging their son to stay.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Man in the High Castle / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: A Jewish resistance member named Sampson.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_6da4d56e	type	Conspicuously Public Assassination
The Man in the High Castle / int_6da4d56e	comment	Conspicuously Public Assassination: Attempted against the Crown Prince of Japan. The assassin intends to be caught and serve as a Pretext for War.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_6e429ce0	type	Standard '50s Father
The Man in the High Castle / int_6e429ce0	comment	Standard '50s Father: Despite being the 1960s, John Smith fits this trope almost perfectly. In his first scene at home, he joins his family for an elaborate breakfast, firmly but lovingly chides his son for studying at the table, and gives a heartfelt speech about values and appropriate goals. This is especially jarring to the audience, since he's wearing his Nazi officer's uniform throughout the scene. Much of Smith's conflict will eventually revolve around his love for his family.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
The Man in the High Castle / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License – Military: The Nazi border guards encountered by Juliana and Wyatt wear Wehrmacht Heer uniforms, but their vehicle is painted with SS runes. The Heer was the regular army of Germany, while the SS was the private military of the Nazi Party. They did operate together on a regular basis, but had separate logistics and chain of command. Heer troops would not be driving an SS vehicle. Speaking of the SS, they're shown wearing all-black uniforms even in 1962. This is the "Black Ensemble" uniform, which started to get phased out in favor of more Boring, but Practical "earth-grey" tunic uniforms. This is because Feldgrau was exclusively used in the field and the Nazi regime spent their last five years on a continuous war-footing. It's possible that the uniforms in the Alternate History just developed in different ways: John Smith is a high-ranking member of the American SS but wears a black uniform and a Nazi party armband that incorporates the stripes of the American flag, and is also shown to be wearing what looks like a Wehrmacht peaked cap at first glance but actually has an SS runestone in the center, which no historical uniform ever did. Yamori and Inokuchi have gensui badges, but neither are ever called gensui. This would never fly in the military, especially in the Japanese one where titles are considered immensely important.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_7041e520	type	Super Breeding Program
The Man in the High Castle / int_7041e520	comment	Super Breeding Program: The real Nazi Lebensborn breeding program is involved in the plot. Even in this reality, where the Nazi Reich has achieved its apotheosis, the program was scrapped and pushed under the rug. Joe Blake discovers that he is a product of the program and meets a number of others.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
The Man in the High Castle / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Narrowly subverted. When Kido and Kotomichi visit Denver late in season 3, two bounty hunters almost pick a fight with the Chief Inspector of the Military Police and the Oyabun of the Yakuza. They decide to let the matter slide before they both unknowingly would have ended up face-down in a ditch.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Man in the High Castle / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: When the Marshal is pursuing Joe and Juliana, Joe gets the drop on him and knocks him out. Rather than killing him or just tying him up, they immediately run, and the pursuit continues when the Marshal wakes up. It gets worse when, after he knocks out the Marshal, he neglects to pick up the man's gun, then immediately complains that he doesn't have a gun on him. When Joe shoots the two Yakuza guards, neither he nor Frank think to take their guns and Frank forgets to take his ransom money back.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
The Man in the High Castle / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: The Axis Powers and surprisingly, the Resistance, mostly towards Juliana, who has become one of their targets following helping Joe Blake at the end of the first season and being blamed for Karen's death at the beginning of the second season.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
The Man in the High Castle / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Lots of examples. Both the Third Reich and Imperial Japan are ruthless, tyrannical Empires, with some decent, good (or at least Affably Evil) people in both sides. By the end of the season, Kido knows Frank Frink is innocent, but is pursuing him as a suspect anyway, since he knows that if the truth gets out about the crown prince being assassinated by a Nazi agent, there'll be a devastating war that the Japanese will almost certainly lose. He's even prepared to commit seppuku to preserve the lie. In the season 1 finale, Wegener has the opportunity to kill Hitler... but doing so would put Reinhard Heydrich in power, and probably cause a nuclear war with Japan. The Resistance are this as well. While their goal is to free America from Nazi and Japanese occupation, they won't hesitate to assassinate innocent family members of Nazi officials or purposely allow civilians to be killed by Japanese troops to fuel resentment and make more people join their cause. Smith gets this in the second season. While it appears at first that he's subverting Reich laws just to save his son's life, we later learn that he was a high-ranking member of the United States military during the Second World War, which suggests his actions are a case of My Country, Right or Wrong and being a Punch-Clock Villain, and that he is not a True Believer in the Nazi cause.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_73f79f91	type	Released to Elsewhere
The Man in the High Castle / int_73f79f91	comment	Released to Elsewhere: In the Greater Nazi Reich, children are taught that black people who used to live in the former United States returned to Africa to work for the Reich. They were all sent to death camps, and the "work" in Africa enjoyed by the natives is simple slavery.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
The Man in the High Castle / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: Frank is arrested and detained by the Kempeitai (Japanese Military Police) for his Jewish ancestry. Whilst in custody, he is stripped naked, brutally beaten and threatened with execution by firing squad or extradition to Nazi-controlled America. It shouldn't be a surprise that the SS in the German-occupied portion of the United States also resort to torture tactics to force information out of their suspects. Obergruppenfuehrer John Smith actually orders one of his men to beat a captured member of the resistance to death even though he's unconscious and can't answer any questions, so his comrades will think he didn't give them anything after his body is found.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Man in the High Castle / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "A way out." First spoken by Trudy to Juliana just before the former is killed. Juliana continues to repeat this and actually seek a way out at different times all through the series. At the end of season 2, Juliana breaks down declaring, "There's no way out," then the Man in the High Castle presents what he proclaims is a Hope Spot for her.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_768ae1c9	type	Les Collaborateurs
The Man in the High Castle / int_768ae1c9	comment	The Germans are better and worse to the local population. They have driven out or exterminated virtually all "undesirable" races, but treat local white people as full members of the Reich, turning former American citizens into Les Collaborateurs. While most dominant members of the Reich are German-born, the Reich does promote local natives into positions of high authority, such as Obergruppenfuhrer John Smith.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_7913833c	type	Balkanize Me
The Man in the High Castle / int_7913833c	comment	Balkanize Me: Naturally, as Germany and Japan have divided the world between one-another. America has been split between the Japanese-controlled Pacific States and the Nazi-controlled United States, with a lawless neutral zone existing along the Rocky Mountains. Canada is in a similar situation. Baja California is part of the Pacific States, ceded to Japan by Mexico. A neutral nation was created in Brazil called Amazonia, which covers most of the Amazon Rainforest. The Greater Nazi Reich itself is divided after Smith carries out a coup against Himmler, creating two independent Nazi empires in both Europe and North America.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
The Man in the High Castle / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: Discussed. Joe discusses the fact that he would be a different, and worse, person if he had not met Juliana. This is later demonstrated to horrifying effect in a newsreel depicting an Alternate Timeline in which SS officers, including Joe, cold-bloodedly execute survivors of San Francisco, including Frank. There's also the much broader aspect of the Crapsack World Alternate History setting, which seems to have resulted from Franklin D. Roosevelt's assassination in this setting. In the "regular" universe, Tagomi's wife and son died during the war, and in the "alternate" universe, Juliana is married to Tagomi's son. The trope is literally the title of Episode 9 in Season 4.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_79cf6c4e	type	Join or Die
The Man in the High Castle / int_79cf6c4e	comment	Join or Die: Essentially the deal given by the Nazis to Americans after their victory — as long as they were white, heteronormative, non-disabled, non-Jewish, etc.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_7c1207c1	type	Weapons Understudies
The Man in the High Castle / int_7c1207c1	comment	Weapons Understudies: Soviet/Russian hardware is often used as the alternate-history Japanese standard issue. Regular Imperial Army and Kempeitai personnel drive UAZ jeeps, often with DShK heavy machine guns mounted. The Imperial Navy in Season 3 flies Kamov Ka-25 helicopters. The German panzers in Season 3 are Soviet T-54 main battle tanks. The Leopard I MBT would make more sense, but surplus T-54s are much easier to find than surplus Leos, so it’s excusable. In Season 4, we see British Centurions used by SS-Panzer units during the invasion of Denver.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_7c3dda61	type	Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility
The Man in the High Castle / int_7c3dda61	comment	Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility: While the novel suffered from Dated History and the scenario as a whole (the Axis beating the Soviets, much less Germany and Japan both invading America by 1947) is ridiculously implausible, the series pushes things to a solid Alien Space Bats with the inclusion of "Travelers."
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The Man in the High Castle / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Man in the High Castle / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: During Season 4's third episode, Wyatt's cell and the BCR stage a coup against several Japanese officials that attend Childan's auction. They get to kill General Masuda, who very much deserved getting killed, but also take out two ministers that Childan reveals are supporters of the Crown Princess' motion to move the Japanese army out of the JPS, so the Resistance ends up doing more harm than good, along with losing some of their members in the coup.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_8071d6ed	type	Alcoholic Parent
The Man in the High Castle / int_8071d6ed	comment	Alcoholic Parent: Tagomi, in the alternate timeline where the Allies won the war, is an alcoholic father who dies after falling off a bridge in a drunken stupor. The Tagomi that takes his place (the Pacific States Trade Minister) is shocked to hear this.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
The Man in the High Castle / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: In both the book and series. The book ends with Juliana realizing that the Axis did indeed lose the war, but it's left up the readers to decide what that means. (There was intended to be a sequel, which involved travel between parallel dimensions, but it never saw the light of day.) The series has this due to being canceled halfway through its fourth season. The series ends with the Nazi's portal opening of its own accord and the people whom Juliana saw in the wasteland in her visions spilling out and looking around in confusion. The only answer we get is Hawthorne's unhelpful explanation that the people are from "everywhere". There are some possible hints in the previous episodes (such as Hawthorne telling Smith that the Axis had killed so many people that the multiverse had become unbalanced. We're also told that Hitler came across his filmstrips through his spiritualist beliefs, suggesting that the afterlife might be involved.) However, there's nothing conclusive.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_82b48dc	type	Stupid Jetpack Hitler
The Man in the High Castle / int_82b48dc	comment	Stupid Jetpack Hitler: The premise of the show is that the Nazis were able to win the war by developing nuclear weapons first, but it's apparent that they were also technically advanced in other ways. The series is set in 1962, but the weaponry and technology depicted wouldn't exist for years or decades in the real world: Nazi soldiers carry MP-5 submachine guns, which wasn't developed until the late '60s. Supersonic airliners are common in the 1962 of the show. In the real world, the first such commercial supersonic airliner, the Concorde, didn't debut until the late 70s. Videoconferencing. Although videoconferencing did exist in the early '60s, it was only capable of 1 frame every two seconds; the much smoother video depicted in the show wouldn't exist in the '80s.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_830f2f0e	type	Police State
The Man in the High Castle / int_830f2f0e	comment	Police State: The JPS and GNR hold their respective nations on a tight leash, as the occupation is still fairly new and the Resistance is still active. Paramilitary police are often roving the streets and demanding to see people's papers. In Season 4, Kido mentions the presence of the Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu or Tokko having a San Francisco branch.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_83a8d697	type	Oblivious Guilt Slinging
The Man in the High Castle / int_83a8d697	comment	Oblivious Guilt Slinging: Juliana's mother tells her that she was afraid that her other daughter Trudy is dead because she had the same foreboding feeling that she had when her first husband died during the war, but is sure that Trudy's alright because the feeling went away the next morning. Juliana knows all too well that her sister is dead. After Obergruppenfuhrer John Smith is told that his only son has a degenerative muscle disease and that he should euthanize him, he's conflicted between his love for his son and what he feels is his "duty" to give him a painless death. While he's looking at family pictures of his now deceased brother (who had the same affliction), Smith's wife Helen says that she thinks it's a good thing to kill the infirm, ignorant of her child's condition. In Season 4, John Smith travels to a universe where the Allies had won and his son is alive and well. He meets the alternate version of an old friend Daniel whose prime-timeline version had been left to die thanks to a Murder by Inaction on John's part. An understandably confused Alt-Danny's tries to console him when "John" suddenly starts apologising and tells him "...we're brothers right? You've got nothing to be sorry for!" Smith can barely function afterwards in Danny's presence when he fully recalls the monumental betrayal he had performed on his best friend in the prime-timeline.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
The Man in the High Castle / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Many of the housewives among the Nazi elite in the Greater Nazi Reich are implied to be purposely projecting a positive image to the outside world but are in fact scared both of each other and of being seen as subversive in any way. John Smith's wife can barely contain her anguish at knowing that her son would be killed by the state if his disability was revealed, and Juliana meets another woman among the group who is scared that she'll be brushed aside by her husband if she can't bear him children.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_83fb6177	type	First-Episode Twist
The Man in the High Castle / int_83fb6177	comment	First-Episode Twist: In the pilot episode, Joe Blake is a young American adult who has been living under Nazi occupation for several years when he decides to join the underground resistance. By the end of the episode, it's already revealed to the audience that he's really a Nazi spy attempting to infiltrate them.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Man in the High Castle / int_87504252	comment	The Big Board: When General Onada explains the impending Nazi attack to his soldiers, he demonstrates his defense plans on a huge planning board with little figures.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Man in the High Castle / int_875615dd	comment	If you think the copious amount of Swastikas you see at the Nazi Embassy in SF or on the East Coast is bad, just wait until you see Berlin. Regarding the historical Nazis' fondness of their symbol, this counts as Truth in Television though.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
The Man in the High Castle / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: Conversed; most of the older generation of Germans sees the children of the Lebensborn program as this.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_89f2f8aa	type	Misidentified Weapons
The Man in the High Castle / int_89f2f8aa	comment	Misidentified Weapons: In Season 4, Captain Ijima identifies a suspect's drive-by pistol as a "Chinese Type 54" when the pistol in question is a Russian-made Stechkin APS automatic pistol with fake Chinese markings. The Type 54 pistol in-real-life is a copy of the Soviet TT-33 pistol, although it is unclear whether the gun is supposed to be a Weapons Understudies to the actual Type 54, or the Stechkin APS in that universe is actually designated as the Type 54.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Man in the High Castle / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: For all its faults, if you're a fan of classic German cars, this world is impressive: government officials are taken around in Mercedes S600 limos, while even taxicabs in the former US are as often as not made by Mercedes-Benz. Granted, as the series is set in 1962, these are all new cars at the time... but the degree to which the cars are everywhere is still impressive, especially since it seems clear that US automakers are still in business. And for fans of the small, budget-model European cars from the 1950s and 60s (Citroens, Fiats, Volkswagens, etc.), these are spotted all over San Francisco. These were apparently meant as substitutes for equivalent Japanese models, which are likely too rare for the series' production to obtain for filming.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_8a336276	type	Propaganda Piece
The Man in the High Castle / int_8a336276	comment	Propaganda Piece: In an alternate universe where the Axis powers won WWII, Hudson Aberdeen made anti-Nazi propaganda to bolster the Resistance movement, which pretended that the Allies won. The films were so realistic, that mistakenly, Travelers started sending him real films of the Allies winning, sparking the plot. In a second example, he later gets coerced into hosting a TV show that is much like the original The Twilight Zone, with Nazi aesops such as "In an alternate universe, you might have a black boss!" This is specifically to discredit his previous work, which gets portrayed as another negative alternate universe story.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_8a943fe3	type	Space Cold War
The Man in the High Castle / int_8a943fe3	comment	Space Cold War: Between Germany and the Japanese Empire in this alternate universe, as they are the two victorious superpowers of World War II. They are officially still allies but are wary of the other's intentions. It is predicted by high-ranking members of both governments that when the terminally ill Adolf Hitler dies, it will escalate into full-blown warfare.Throughout the first season, a faction within the German government led by Reinhard Heydrich tries to usurp power from Hitler and launch a nuclear war against Japan, but this plot is eliminated at the last second. This is even more central to the plot in season 2. Heussman, revealed to be behind the plot in the previous season, frames Japan for Hitler's death, bringing the two nations to the brink of (a pretty much one-sided in Germany's favor) nuclear war. Thanks to a bluff made possible by Tagomi's visit to our timeline and Juliana preventing John Smith from being arrested by the SS, it is averted at the last minute. In Season 3, Himmler opts to play the trope to its fullest; instead of planning an invasion or a nuclear assault, he simply imposes a trade embargo and starves them of oil imports, causing riots in the Japanese Pacific States and implied to spread beyond. Except Tagomi convinces Smith to re-open the trade routes in an effort to slowly end the Space Cold War.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_8c55e307	type	Ultimate Job Security
The Man in the High Castle / int_8c55e307	comment	Nicole tries to make herself too indispensable to be persecuted for her closet bisexuality by spearheading Project Jahr Null, a cultural genocide of American culture, while semi-secretly attending lesbian clubs. It doesn't work; as soon as the Statue of Liberty's head hits the ocean, Himmler has her arrested and sent back to Germany for 're-education'.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_8cb01d0e	type	Category Traitor
The Man in the High Castle / int_8cb01d0e	comment	Category Traitor: In Season 4, Amy Smith calls her sister Jennifer a "race traitor" for listening to music sung by a black person.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Man in the High Castle / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: In the season 3 finale, Juliana says this verbatim about Himmler's plan to attack other worlds through the dimensional portal. "He's just gonna roll tanks through the portal alongside the troops? With no idea what they'll find on the other side? If they even get to the other side? Or have none of you thought that through?" As Juliana points out, surprise or no, a small Nazi incursion force has little chance against advanced worlds where Germany was already defeated. They later send spies through to get them intelligence and sabotage strategic technological efforts instead. Also in the finale, arrogant Nicole Dormer is sent back to Berlin for "reeducation" due to her being bisexual. Nicole had assumed her place as part of the Reich propaganda machine gave her carte blanche to act as she wanted, failing to consider how Himmler would take a dim view of this.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
The Man in the High Castle / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The season 1 finale, "A Way Out", ends with Tagomi waking up in a world where the Allies won the war, the US still exists, and John F. Kennedy is president.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Man in the High Castle / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Among the characters who are killed without mourning are not just Nazis or collaborators, but resistance members too. The notable examples include resistance members George Dixon, Susan, and offscreen Gary Connell and eventual Nazi spy Joe Blake, all of whom except Gary were killed personally by Juliana in self-defense.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Man in the High Castle / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Himmler is murdered with Zyklon B gas, the same used in Nazi death camps. The Resistance locks Kido in the same gas chamber that he used to kill Frank Fink's family. Ultimately subverted when he survives, as the gas tanks connected to the chamber are empty.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Man in the High Castle / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: During the Japanese withdrawal in Season 4, Inspector Kido is captured by vigilantes and locked in the same gas chamber room where he killed Frank Frink's sister and her children. He realizes the karma and resigns himself to it. Then subverted due to the gas cylinders being empty, and Kido gets an opening to kill the thugs and escape.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_910f8179	type	Cultural Cringe
The Man in the High Castle / int_910f8179	comment	Cultural Cringe: When a Japanese man asks Childan about various aspects of American culture, Childan repeatedly disparages American culture in favor of Japanese and German culture, such as saying he dislikes "negro music" and prefers Wagner. He also says that common American idioms are stupid in comparison to Japanese.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_913f683a	type	Discussed
The Man in the High Castle / int_913f683a	comment	It's discussed after Juliana hears of this upon emigrating into the American Reich, and asks what would happen to a friend of hers who's disabled due to a respiratory ailment, learning about their policy.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
The Man in the High Castle / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: The Crown Princess returns in Season 4 since being Put on the Bus early in Season 1, taking the peacemaker role Minister Tagomi was playing.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_92ef883c	type	Hotline
The Man in the High Castle / int_92ef883c	comment	Hotline: Inspector Kido and Obergruppenfuehrer Smith are shown to have this between their offices during season 2. Whether they already had this for some time before, or newly set it up just after Kido first came to personally see Smith in season 2, is not revealed. By their rapport, it appears that they have known one another for some time and respect each other as soldiers, though they could hardly be called friendly.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_95aded7e	type	WildWest
The Man in the High Castle / int_95aded7e	comment	The main focus of the series is life in the USA after the Axis powers won World War II, with the Germans occupying the East Coast, the Japanese controlling the West Coast, and a Wild West-like "neutral zone" in the Rocky Mountains. Other differing aspects of the timeline are mentioned throughout, such as Franklin D. Roosevelt being assassinated, the entire black population of Africa being enslaved by the Nazis, and WWII ending in 1947 instead of 1945.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_9620c3a1	type	God-Emperor
The Man in the High Castle / int_9620c3a1	comment	God-Emperor: The Japanese people still consider their emperor a living god in this timeline. This is mentioned to be vital to capture him when the Nazis are planning the invasion of their former ally, because he holds such sway over them.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Man in the High Castle / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Smith mentions a document on the interaction of parallel Earths written by someone who wasn't on the Nazi Poconos team, with the implication being that they took it from Hawthorne, but that they have no idea who wrote it; who did?
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The Man in the High Castle / int_9727fa73	type	Dimensional Traveler
The Man in the High Castle / int_9727fa73	comment	Dimensional Traveler: Kotomichi, Tagomi, and alternate-Trudy stumbled onto how to pull this off and go into alternate timelines, but exactly how it works is a mystery. The Man in the High Castle is suspected to also be a "traveler", but is not. The finale of Season 3 shows Juliana become one, vanishing right before Smith's eyes. Word of God suggests that individuals can only travel to alternate timelines where their own counterpart is already dead, which Tagomi finds about his counterpart (although that man's family are all completely unaware that he is gone). These people are also implied to be the real source of the alternate timeline films popping up throughout the setting, having carried them over from these other realities.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
The Man in the High Castle / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Dialogues are usually loaded with this kind of exposition, with characters retelling general details about the setting or retreading info about plans they obviously have gone about before or known for a long time.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_984763bb	type	555
The Man in the High Castle / int_984763bb	comment	555: Some phone numbers, such as the one written on Sampson's work truck, begin with KL5, using a period-appropriate telephone exchange name for "555."
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The Man in the High Castle / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Man in the High Castle / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Juliana accuses George Dixon of being just like the Nazis when he's about to use the fact of Thomas Smith being ill against John Smith, as this would not only result in John's career destruction but also Thomas's death by involuntary "euthanasia". George admits it, and says they have to be even worse than the Nazis if the Resistance wants a chance at victory.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_99c36bb5	type	Ironic Nursery Tune
The Man in the High Castle / int_99c36bb5	comment	Ironic Nursery Tune: The opening credits are overlaid with an eerie take on the Rodgers and Hammerstein song "Edelweiss."
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The Man in the High Castle / int_9aebded4	type	Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow
The Man in the High Castle / int_9aebded4	comment	Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow: Played with in the JPS due to whites being second-class citizens. Frank and Sarah, though Frank is Sarah's social inferior in the JPS. Childan is revealed to have a Race Fetish for geisha and loves to make prostitutes praise him in Japanese, though only white woman are available to play the role. He later begins a romance with a Japanese woman and they marry, though the Japanese government's prejudice toward their relationship means he can't travel with her when all Japanese citizens are evacuated from the Pacific States (Childan manages to get alternate transportation by bribing the Yakuza).
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The Man in the High Castle / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
The Man in the High Castle / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: In season 4, Himmler himself was killed with Zyklon B, a gas commonly associated with the gas chambers the Nazis set up to kill undesirables.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
The Man in the High Castle / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: It's mentioned that Stalin was executed in 1949. Based on maps, the Soviet Union was divided between Germany and Japan, with a large neutral zone taking up Siberia and Central Asia. Communistic influence, however, is still strong as ever, with the Japanese still facing massive communist guerrilla resistance in Manchuria and the remnants of China while a large portion of African-Americans in the JPS have organised themselves into a movement called the "Black Communist Rebellion".
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The Man in the High Castle / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
The Man in the High Castle / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: Hitler and the Nazis' upper echelons know of alternate timelines. Hitler is revealed to have a vast archive of films from alternate timelines.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_a0c55654	type	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
The Man in the High Castle / int_a0c55654	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: The Resistance members on both sides of the occupied America are shown being quite willing to use brutal measures in their fight against the German or Japanese occupiers. George Dixon was about to expose Thomas Smith's illness as a weapon against his father, John Smith, knowing it would result in Thomas's death by involuntary "euthanasia". During the Japanese pullout from America, white vigilante groups and lynch mobs start forming and targeting any Japanese along with perceived collaborators they find. The African-American Black Communist Rebellion are determined to have none of this and try to curtail it, insisting that they receive trials.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_a21d8982	type	Assassination Attempt
The Man in the High Castle / int_a21d8982	comment	Assassination Attempt: In the finale of season 1, Reinhard Heydrich attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler by forcing the remorseful Rudolf Wegener, one of the few men whom Hitler still trusts, to kill him with one of the many weapons stashed around Hitler's castle. This plot is foiled by Hitler himself, who had advance knowledge thanks to the films. In the finale of season 3, the new Führer Heinrich Himmler is in the middle of overseeing Jahr Null, a wave of riots across the Greater Nazi Reich to destroy all non-Nazi culture, when he is shot by resistance snipers who are then able to disappear into the crowd.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_a4ffefce	type	Dream Intro
The Man in the High Castle / int_a4ffefce	comment	Dream Intro: The season 2 episode "Land O'Smiles" opens with Frank Frink performing a Judaic prayer with his deceased sister Laura and her children before gas suddenly starts to come down from the ceiling when he wakes up from this nightmare.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_a632f7fa	type	Cool Train
The Man in the High Castle / int_a632f7fa	comment	Cool Train: New York has an elevated monorail system. Berlin has an even more extensive network implied. In Season 4, John travels back and forth from the Nebenwelt installation in a personal bullet train that has externally mounted auto-turrets and forward-facing miniguns for defense!
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The Man in the High Castle / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
The Man in the High Castle / int_a86069f	comment	It's possible that the uniforms in the Alternate History just developed in different ways: John Smith is a high-ranking member of the American SS but wears a black uniform and a Nazi party armband that incorporates the stripes of the American flag, and is also shown to be wearing what looks like a Wehrmacht peaked cap at first glance but actually has an SS runestone in the center, which no historical uniform ever did.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_a8af3e53	type	Secret Police
The Man in the High Castle / int_a8af3e53	comment	Secret Police: The SS's intelligence branch, the SD (Sicherheitsdienst) pops up in multiple episodes, especially in the Neutral Zone, where their agents murder and terrorize people with impunity. Season 3 reveals that J. Edgar Hoover has remade the FBI into the ARBI, which adds yet another layer of secret-police oppression to the Reich's American territories. The Nazi Gestapo (the Trope Namer) is naturally mentioned to still be around. Season 4 also introduces a female Gestapo agent, Martha Stroud-it's then referred to as the "Staatspolizei" (the second two words of its official title, Geheime Staatspolizei-Secret State Police), and she's assisted by male agents too. Chief Inspector Kido is a high ranking agent of the Kenpeitai, the Imperial Japanese equivalent of the Gestapo.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_a969c74a	type	Final Solution
The Man in the High Castle / int_a969c74a	comment	Final Solution: This was applied to the Eastern United States after the Germans conquered it. Jews and black people were exterminated, except for those able to escape into the Neutral Zone or the Pacific States. The Japanese also kill Jews they find (apparently to stay friendly with the Nazis, so this is not strictly enforced) although not black people. After the American Reich decides to annex the formerly Japanese-ruled Pacific States, it's shown they plan to do this there as well. Not only to black people or Jews, but also Roma, those of mixed race and Native Americans. Thankfully, it's shown at the end that it won't happen when the new leader calls the invasion off.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
The Man in the High Castle / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: General Onoda makes a surprisingly good one to his officers as it appears nuclear war with the Nazis is at hand, complete with his officer's sword.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_ab2ffd70	type	Foreign Ruling Class
The Man in the High Castle / int_ab2ffd70	comment	Foreign Ruling Class: Both puppet states established in the former US are dominated by their foreign overlords. In both cases, simply proving you're one of the ruling class is enough to get cops to leave you alone for most transgressions. In the Japanese Pacific States, non-Japanese are considered second-class citizens to the ruling Japanese. Non-Japanese must defer to Japanese in all matters. While there is a stigma against locally born Japanese, they are still treated as Japanese and can achieve some positions of authority. The Germans are better and worse to the local population. They have driven out or exterminated virtually all "undesirable" races, but treat local white people as full members of the Reich, turning former American citizens into Les Collaborateurs. While most dominant members of the Reich are German-born, the Reich does promote local natives into positions of high authority, such as Obergruppenfuhrer John Smith.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_abe4d7b	type	Blue Blood
The Man in the High Castle / int_abe4d7b	comment	Martin Heusmann, despite being a Blue Blood, pretends to have little ambition beyond his work. It gets him named Acting Chancellor.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_abf75585	type	Checkpoint Charlie
The Man in the High Castle / int_abf75585	comment	Checkpoint Charlie: In season 2, Juliana Crain realizes that she's no longer safe in the JPS and defects to the Reich by crossing a border checkpoint at their San Francisco embassy. The Kempeitai troops standing guard attempt to stop her when they see what she's doing, but she manages to cross safely.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
The Man in the High Castle / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: In "Sunrise", it is revealed that the Nazi's leveled Washington DC with an A-bomb during their invasion of the United States. "Fallout" further shows that John Smith and his wife where there to witness the explosion from a nearby town before the end of the war. The Nazis still have nuclear weapons at their disposal, which contribute to their ongoing cold war with the Japanese Empire. One of the newsreels, from another alternate timeline (there are clearly a large number of them), shows this happening to San Francisco. It isn't clear whether this is a possible future for this world (as the characters think it might be) or an alternate past where the Cold War between the Germans and Japanese went hot.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Man in the High Castle / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Joe Blake undergoes a Face–Heel Turn in Season 3 and has come to embrace this belief wholeheartedly. Being tortured for months and eventually forced to kill his father has convinced him that the Reich's utter ruthlessness means it is destined to last forever.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_afe98316	type	Talkative Loon
The Man in the High Castle / int_afe98316	comment	Talkative Loon: After his capture, the Man in the High Castle produces an endless stream of random gibberish while in his cell, causing the Nazis to wonder if he's actually speaking in code.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_b401ff67	type	Multiversal Conqueror
The Man in the High Castle / int_b401ff67	comment	Multiversal Conqueror: After learning of "Travellers", visitors originating from alternate universes, the Nazis embark on a project to build an Interdimensional Travel Device, dubbed the Nebenwelt, in order to conquer those other universes. However, their efforts may be in vain if the Man in the High Castle is to be believed.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
The Man in the High Castle / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: John Smith is committed to Nazi ideology except when it's his own son that needs to be euthanized because of his chronic illness.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Man in the High Castle / int_b434558	comment	Video Phone: Particularly in season 3, high-ranking characters frequently communicate with each other through black and white video phones. This is one of a few areas where Nazi Germany has surpassed the technology of the real world of this era.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_b4de919d	type	Make an Example of Them
The Man in the High Castle / int_b4de919d	comment	Make an Example of Them: In season 2, when the Nazis prepare to invade the Japanese Empire, Obergruppenfuehrer John Smith's post is reinforced by SS troops from Germany to deal with the mounting resistance movement on the east coast. His new subordinate, Gruppenfuehrer Keller, advises him to raze a town of 80,000 people where resistance activity is highest. Smith says he'll take him up on his suggestion, then immediately countermands the order when Keller leaves the room.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_b4fb00f6	type	Mistaken for Pedophile
The Man in the High Castle / int_b4fb00f6	comment	Mistaken for Pedophile: A member of the resistance is sent to spy on John Smith's family as they go about their day. Their female bodyguard assumes him to be a pedophile since he's been following her and John Smith's daughter around a department store all morning, and threatens him over this. He's obviously not, they're just trying to figure out their routine to find an opportunity to make contact with Helen Smith.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_b7d773ab	type	Smash Cut
The Man in the High Castle / int_b7d773ab	comment	Smash Cut: Immediately after George Lincoln Rockwell is Out-Gambitted by Smith in front of Himmler and a public announcement made of his "retirement" as Reichsmarshall of North America, the scene jumps to Havana, Cuba, and Rockwell now living there in exile after what could be anywhere from a week to a month later.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_b8d3f642	type	Illegal Religion
The Man in the High Castle / int_b8d3f642	comment	Illegal Religion: Christianity has been banned in the Japanese Pacific States, and this is implied within the Reich as well, given that even a Neutral Zone book shop owner only sells Bibles under the table. The Marshal finds this out and confirms with his reaction that it's basically contraband, even though the Neutral Zone technically has no laws. Hitler actually did have plans to replace Christianity with a new religion centering on himself, according to some papers uncovered by the Allies. Judaism was banned in Nazi Germany already. In this setting, Imperial Japan has followed suit, with practicing it being punishable by death.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_bb040b01	type	Cool Guns
The Man in the High Castle / int_bb040b01	comment	Cool Guns: Multiple varieties show up. The resistance mainly uses Thompsons and Colt 1911's, with some old-school .38 wheelguns for good measure. The Marshal has a sawed-off Winchester 1887 lever action shotgun. GNR Nazis use Mauser Kar98K bolt-action rifles and MP-40 SMGs, likely hand-me-downs from the Wehrmacht, who are seen to be replacing their WWII-era inventory with HK G-3 automatic rifles and MP-5 SMGs. The Japanese use Nambu pistols, with Arisaka Type-38 and -99 bolt-action rifles equipping their rank-and-file soldiers. They have just adopted the Howa Type-64 automatic rifle, but it's so new that only elite units like the Imperial Guard have them yet. The new guns are all at least slightly anachronistic, but it's excusable in the alternate timeline, in which they could have been developed earlier. The assassin who shot the Japanese Crown Prince uses an even more unlikely Dragunov SVD rifle. In Season 2, Gary Connell favors a Browning HiPower, which fits perfectly because it was manufactured before WWII in both Belgium and Canada, and after they captured Herstal, the Nazis had FN continue production of the "Pistole 1935" for issue to the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe. Walther PPK pistols also pop up here and there. Guns (and their value and cachet) are a Discussed Trope since multiple characters are interested in acquiring and selling them: Childan deals in authentic antique weapons while Frank works at a foundry that churns out reproductions. A wide variety of Kalashnikovs, PPS-43 sub-machine guns and various Soviet pistols finally make their debut in Season 4, with the implication that China are now the main suppliers of Russian firearms in that timeline.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_bb094e0a	type	Cool Ship
The Man in the High Castle / int_bb094e0a	comment	Cool Ship: Admiral Inokuchi's flagship is a Yamato-class superbattleshipnote Which one is not clarified. Historically there were only two, Yamato and Musashi, while a third, Shinano, was converted to an aircraft carrier while still under construction and sunk by USS Archerfish during sea trials. In-universe, Japan's better wartime fortunes likely never necessitated that conversion. It's possible that more may have been built as well whose seaplane-handling spaces aft have been replaced with a helicopter flight deck, much the same as the Iowa-class fast battleships were converted in the real world. The fleet's introductory scene also prominently features a Taiho-class aircraft carrier with a postwar angled flight deck.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
The Man in the High Castle / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Multiple examples especially in season 2. After Juliana spends all the Resistance's money to save Joe, a confirmed Nazi spy, Lem is standing right next to her when she reveals her betrayal. Many people would have just put a bullet in her and shoved her into the water. Resistance soldier Gary decides to kill Juliana after she meets the Man In The High Castle, because she has seen his face and despite the Man telling him not to. Depending on exactly when the Man left them, he could just as easily have stabbed an unconscious Juliana to death in the boot, but he waits far too long, to the point that Juliana wakes up, escapes, and causes a Japanese guard post to get into a firefight with Gary, Lem and Karen that gets Karen killed. Susan decides to kill Juliana for her defection to the Nazis. This time, an underling surprises Juliana with a choking wire, instead of just shooting her or stabbing her in the back from behind. Juliana escapes and kills both the underling and Susan. Reinhard Heydrich wants John Smith on his side because he controls the American Reich. Heydrich gives Smith until he receives a phone call regarding the success of their assassination attempt on Hitler. Instead of making good on his promise, even after John refuses to join the coup, he waits long enough for John's aide to shoot a mook guard, letting John get the drop on Heydrich. The second assassin sent by Himmler to kill Trade Minister Tagomi would've succeeded if he'd used a gun. Instead he inexplicably brought only a knife, and then tries to kill with his bare hands after getting disarmed. Armed with only a staff, the elderly Tagomi still managed to disarm the guy, fight him off, and then kill him. And Himmler even chose the guy because he was a crack shot.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_bdddc73e	type	Yakuza
The Man in the High Castle / int_bdddc73e	comment	Yakuza: Given the Japanese control over the Western US, it's not surprising to learn the Yakuza are in control on the illegal side of things. Even the feared Japanese military police don't usually cross them, since they have connections in high places.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_bf3d0873	type	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame
The Man in the High Castle / int_bf3d0873	comment	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: Subverted in "Kasumi". Nicole takes Thelma to an underground lesbian bar in New York City where the clientele are all Lipstick Lesbians, fitting with the retro 1950s aesthetic of the series.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_c07e2029	type	Europeans Are Kinky
The Man in the High Castle / int_c07e2029	comment	Europeans Are Kinky: When Joe goes to a party with the other lebensborn, he finds that they are extremely liberal with drugs and sex, to his surprise: some even discuss sharing girlfriends. This is a reference to the counterculture practiced by hippies during The '60s in our timeline. By everything that's been shown of the conquered United States, it's ironically much more culturally conservative than the heart of the fascist empire. In fact, there seems to be a two-tiered legal system wherein, for instance, open displays of homosexuality are allowed for European nationals, but prosecuted for Americans. At least until Himmler has the bisexual Nicole carted off back to Germany for "re-education".
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The Man in the High Castle / int_c18d469b	type	Mutually Assured Destruction
The Man in the High Castle / int_c18d469b	comment	Mutually Assured Destruction: Invoked; a disillusioned Nazi official provides the Japanese empire with plans for nuclear weapons, knowing that once a very ill Hitler dies, his successors plan to break their treaty with the Japanese and engage in a one-sided nuclear war of extermination. Using footage smuggled from another dimension showing an American nuclear test in the Pacific, the Japanese are able to buy enough time to actually develop nuclear weapons. Defied after the death of Hitler; knowing that Japan has limited nuclear weapons and only has the ability to deploy them in America, there is a faction in Germany that sees the lives of several million Americans as an acceptable price to pay for total Nazi dominance.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_c27c7e07	type	The Neutral Zone
The Man in the High Castle / int_c27c7e07	comment	The Neutral Zone: North America is divided between a Nazi German puppet state in the east and an Imperial Japanese puppet state in the west. The large swath of area in between centered on the Rocky Mountains is a demilitarized zone unclaimed by either of the Axis states. As such there is no overt totalitarian oppression or racial policies, but at the cost of pretty much being a lawless hellhole instead, with decades-old infrastructure decaying and Wild West-style justice.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_c287be68	type	Family-Values Villain
The Man in the High Castle / int_c287be68	comment	Family-Values Villain: The Nazis place a strong value on the traditional family and especially on women as bearers of children: During her medical inspection upon entering the Reich, Juliana is told that an old injury might endanger her chance to gain a visa because it could prevent her from having children. The wife of a high-ranking official is terrified that her husband will divorce her if she proves to be infertile (they have been trying for children for some time with no success). John Smith's marital troubles and separation from his wife become a political liability.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_c2d6fc5e	type	Murder by Inaction
The Man in the High Castle / int_c2d6fc5e	comment	In Season 4, John Smith travels to a universe where the Allies had won and his son is alive and well. He meets the alternate version of an old friend Daniel whose prime-timeline version had been left to die thanks to a Murder by Inaction on John's part. An understandably confused Alt-Danny's tries to console him when "John" suddenly starts apologising and tells him "...we're brothers right? You've got nothing to be sorry for!" Smith can barely function afterwards in Danny's presence when he fully recalls the monumental betrayal he had performed on his best friend in the prime-timeline.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_c3075178	type	Filth
The Man in the High Castle / int_c3075178	comment	Filth: In the last episode of season 3, Wyatt visits an old friend of his in New York City to ask for his help, who has since become a pornographer. Wyatt is seen skimming through a pinup magazine called Raunchy Rich, and notices a camera pointed at a BDSM room, while mockingly noting that his interracial content, smuggled in from the Pacific States, could get him in trouble with the Nazi authorities.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Man in the High Castle / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Peace depends on Hitler not dying. And then Himmler helps to prevent a worldwide holocaust.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_c3bc970f	type	Seers
The Man in the High Castle / int_c3bc970f	comment	Seers: Juliana becomes this through season 3, as she finds herself able to experience flashes of memories from her own alternate reality counterparts when she encounters things closely linked to those alternate Julianas. Looking for the first time at a photo of Tagomi's deceased son Noriyuke causes her to experience the memories of the other Juliana married to the still-living alternate Nori. And then viewing a High Castle film showing another counterpart of her being brought as a prisoner into a mine shaft and then shot dead by Joe Blake, pushes Juliana to crucial decisions concerning Joe, and also enables her to locate that mine where the Reich's dimensional travel experiment is located, and find allies who become vital to rebuilding the Resistance.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_c3c2eea0	type	Heritage Disconnect
The Man in the High Castle / int_c3c2eea0	comment	Heritage Disconnect: Joe grew up knowing that his father was a high-ranking Nazi official, and felt angry at his father for not having raised him. Once he realizes his father's true intentions, he embraces his heritage. Sarah was a Japanese-American interned in Manzanar. When the Japanese occupied the Western United States and freed them, she and her family faced disdain because they were seen as having betrayed their country for coming to the US. This leads her to become part of The Resistance.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_c6074d96	type	I Am Spartacus
The Man in the High Castle / int_c6074d96	comment	I Am Spartacus: In season 3, a bounty hunter tracks down a small community of Jewish refugees posing as Catholics somewhere in the Neutral territories. After he holds one of them at gunpoint, Frank Frink, who is still alive, stands up and tells him to take him instead, since he's also a Jew. One by one, everyone else also stands up and tells him to take them too, before he's shot from a distance by a gun-toting inhabitant.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_c6655b23	type	Fallen Hero
The Man in the High Castle / int_c6655b23	comment	Smith gets this in the second season. While it appears at first that he's subverting Reich laws just to save his son's life, we later learn that he was a high-ranking member of the United States military during the Second World War, which suggests his actions are a case of My Country, Right or Wrong and being a Punch-Clock Villain, and that he is not a True Believer in the Nazi cause.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
The Man in the High Castle / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: Season one ends with Tagomi waking up in what appears to be our world's 1962 with no explanation given. Season two ends with Juliana reunited with either a very-much-alive Trudy or her alternate-history counterpart, and Lem approaches Tagomi with additional films from the Man. Season three ends with High Castle now the Nazis' prisoner, Himmler shot in an assassination attempt and the threat of a potential power struggle looming over the Reich, and Juliana escaping to another reality, but not just before getting shot by Smith.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Man in the High Castle / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Has its own page.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_c78d3e08	type	Seppuku
The Man in the High Castle / int_c78d3e08	comment	Seppuku: This is still a method of execution in Imperial Japan and its territories. An Imperial Guard officer is seen committing public seppuku after the crown prince's attempted assassination, and Kido is expected to do so if he can't find the would-be assassin.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
The Man in the High Castle / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: After they won the war, the Nazis have established a dog-eat-dog hierarchy, with the uppermost echelons of the party and paramilitary constantly scheming against each other for supremacy. Hitler himself even falls victim to an ambitious underling who desires to become Führer so he can start a nuclear war against their former Japanese allies.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_ca5eda76	type	Heteronormative Crusader
The Man in the High Castle / int_ca5eda76	comment	Heteronormative Crusader: Homosexuality is completely outlawed in the Greater Nazi Reich and punishable by death. The relatively more humane Japanese occupiers in the Pacific States don't condone it officially, but don't care if it's carried out in private. Ed brings this up while traveling through the Neutral Zone and he runs into an openly gay man, since he's used to being more careful about such things. Nicole tries to make herself too indispensable to be persecuted for her closet bisexuality by spearheading Project Jahr Null, a cultural genocide of American culture, while semi-secretly attending lesbian clubs. It doesn't work; as soon as the Statue of Liberty's head hits the ocean, Himmler has her arrested and sent back to Germany for 're-education'.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
The Man in the High Castle / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: John Smith is an agent of the Nazi Reich, but a lot of his conflict centers on struggling to hold his family together, which puts him at odds with the Reich. We are frequently reminded that he would have been a much different person had the war gone differently. Chief Inspector Kido is a ruthless agent of the JPS, but he also has a strong sense of honor and occasional Pet the Dog moments. Ultimately, he's just doing what he can to serve his nation.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_d026cad8	type	Sigil Spam
The Man in the High Castle / int_d026cad8	comment	Sigil Spam: If you think the copious amount of Swastikas you see at the Nazi Embassy in SF or on the East Coast is bad, just wait until you see Berlin. Regarding the historical Nazis' fondness of their symbol, this counts as Truth in Television though. The Resistance in the JPS begins spamming their own sigil against the occupation, designed by Frink. A rune symbolizing the Lebensborn program crops up beginning in Season Three. Downplayed compared to the swastika, as it generally appears only on lapel pins... except for the fact that the people wearing said pins are frequently acting as covert assassins.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_d243518d	type	In Spite of a Nail
The Man in the High Castle / int_d243518d	comment	In Spite of a Nail: Everything in the American Reich is vastly different from reality — except that J. Edgar Hoover is still the highest-ranking law enforcement agent. A Cold War still develops between two victorious nuclear powers, but in this case it is the German and Japanese empires rather than the USA and USSR. Despite the Soviet Union falling to the Nazis, there is still a post-war communist power (China) providing material support to communist movements (in this case the Black Communist uprising in the Pacific States).
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The Man in the High Castle / int_d3701aea	type	Prevent the War
The Man in the High Castle / int_d3701aea	comment	Prevent the War: Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire were the victors of World War II, but have been in an uneasy truce with each other ever since. The Nazis in particular want to take the Master Race idea to the next logical step and wipe out their last potential enemy to achieve total world domination. Since the aging Adolf Hitler is one of the few opposed to this, his death may spell more disaster for the world. Throughout the series, members of both the German and Japanese governments conspire with each other to prevent a devastating nuclear war.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Man in the High Castle / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: The Jahr Null street chaos that Himmler unleashed and gleefully encouraged made it possible for the sniper-assassins to target him, and then escape into the rioting crowds.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_d41832cc	type	Written by the Winners
The Man in the High Castle / int_d41832cc	comment	Written by the Winners: This trope is in full effect here. Several characters of the Greater Nazi Reich sometimes mention the "American genocide", referring to the mass murder of the Indians in their history. By accentuating these negative events, the victors portray the Americans they conquered as a savage people with a tendency to brutally kill off whoever gets in their way, making the victors look more sympathetic (or, alternatively, as proof that the Americans already had Nazi-like tendencies before the Axis invaded). The Nazis also refer to their genocide against the Jews as their war against Semite terrorists. This chillingly shows that the winners of a war can portray the losers as terrible as they want them to be, distracting the people from their own wrongdoings (even in our world, they claimed an international Jewish conspiracy was afoot to wipe out all "Aryans", which some neo-Nazis still believe exists, justifying killing all Jews first as "self-defense"). The opening of Season 2 shows some Nazi students praising the fact that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned 600 and 300 slaves, respectively. It is fitting since in our timeline, these facts are glossed over or underappreciated. One student responds to this fact with a sarcastic "God Bless America", implying that these facts are also emphasized to paint the former US as a nation of hypocrites.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_d4a4771e	type	Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman
The Man in the High Castle / int_d4a4771e	comment	Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: In-universe example, where the alternate Earth's John Smith left the military after World War II ended and became a traveling insurance salesman.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Man in the High Castle / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Residents of the Greater Nazi Reich are contemptuous of the Japanese notions of superiority that are standard in the Japanese Pacific States while flouting their own. Nazi propaganda uses things like slavery and the treatment of native Americans to vilify the pre-war American government, despite their own offical policies being much, much worse.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_d5d34629	type	Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Man in the High Castle / int_d5d34629	comment	Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: In the Axis-dominated world, execution is already a disturbingly-common punishment for dissidents, so traitors to the Nazi or Japanese causes are given an outright Cruel and Unusual Death. For instance, after a mole within the Kempeitai is exposed by Chief Inspector Kido, the traitor is bayonetted to death by a dozen soldiers charging on him in turns.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_da163a71	type	Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome
The Man in the High Castle / int_da163a71	comment	Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: In this reality, the Nazi Party is hypercompetent and has managed to not only win World War 2, but also occupy and colonize almost half the world while virtually stamping out local resistance. In less then two decades, they've built a powerful empire, filled Berlin with colossal monuments to themselves, and made technological breakthroughs that are ahead of their time. This is in spite of the show acknowledging the Nazis' rocky relationship with science. The Japanese Empire as a whole, meanwhile, was not only able to successfully conquer the former colonies in Southeast Asia as it originally intended, but even the Indian subcontinent and the entire West Coast of the United States, fulfilling its dream of a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and then some.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
The Man in the High Castle / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Heusmann turns out to not believe in God. He is also the head of the Nazi faction seeking to start a genocidal war against the Japanese.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
The Man in the High Castle / int_db33bc7e	comment	It's ultimately revealed that in order for people to travel to alternate worlds, their counterpar in a given world must be dead. This is shown to be the case for all the major characters seen traveling;note Alt-Tagomi committed suicide, Trudy was killed by the Japanese, Alt-Juliana died with her parents, and Alt-Smith was killed by a Nazi infiltrator. when the Nazis begin experimenting with Die Nebenwelt and attempt to send test subjects through the portal, those whose counterparts are still alive in the alternate world are reduced to Ludicrous Gibs.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_db7c6092	type	I Fight for the Strongest Side!
The Man in the High Castle / int_db7c6092	comment	I Fight for the Strongest Side!: Prior to the show's events, John Smith fought in the US Signal Corps against the Nazis. When the US lost, he joined the Reich and kept his US service medals hung in his office. Kido questions him about why he would continue to keep his medals displayed in service to the United States, and Smith replies, "To remind myself of the failures of command." note In other words, Smith's philosophy is that the side for which you fight may not be the correct one; the only thing that matters is whether it wins out or loses. Joe Blake undergoes a Face–Heel Turn in Season 3 and has come to embrace this belief wholeheartedly. Being tortured for months and eventually forced to kill his father has convinced him that the Reich's utter ruthlessness means it is destined to last forever.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_dc26326	type	Two Decades Behind
The Man in the High Castle / int_dc26326	comment	Two Decades Behind: The fashions, music, and much of the technology seen in the alternate 1962 are much closer to those found in the late 40s and early 50s in our timeline. This is obviously due to the ruling Axis powers suppressing artistic and cultural innovations deemed "degenerate".
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The Man in the High Castle / int_dddbdc26	type	Monumental Damage
The Man in the High Castle / int_dddbdc26	comment	Monumental Damage: In season 3, the Nazis initiate a plan to tear down former American monuments, such as Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty, and replacing them with ones exalting National Socialist ideology.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
The Man in the High Castle / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: A common theme. The Crown Prince's speech. The Crown Prince wants to give a speech cementing peace between the Japanese and German empires. The trade minister and a German agent are conspiring to deliver nuclear secrets to the Japanese science minister. A conspiracy of Nazis want to assassinate the prince and take the blame for it in order to spark a war. And hapless Frank Frink just wants to show up and kill the Prince in revenge for his family being murdered by the Kempeitai. Canon City. Juliana wants to learn the truth about the resistance. No less than three different Nazi agents are trying to find her and either claim the film, kill her, kill each other, or some combination of those. Meanwhile the true resistance member is trying to get the film without blowing his cover. The climax of Season 2. Heusmann's plans for nuclear war near completion. Tagomi brings back a film he hopes will avert the war, accidentally drawing Kido away from a room in the Japanese headquarters that Frank and the Resistance car-bomb. Kido would have been killed anyway, though, had it not been for Frank attempting to shoot him, causing him to jump out of the way of the blast. This bomb kills all the senior command except Kido, helping him to bypass the chain of command and show the film to Smith. Meanwhile, Juliana inadvertently saves Smith from being arrested by the SS while trying to save his son, allowing him to reach Berlin and reveal the film. Smith bluffs that the footage is of a Japanese hydrogen-bomb test in "their reality", which unnerves the leadership into resuming peace with Japan. Smith also shows Himmler evidence of Heusmann and Heydrich's treachery. Phew!
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The Man in the High Castle / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
The Man in the High Castle / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: When the show started, Frank Frink, Joe Blake, Tagomi, and Smith were stated to be protagonists, but by the Grand Finale, Frank and Joe were killed (with Joe undergoing a Face–Heel Turn into one of the show's antagonists that would lead to his death) in the third season, while Tagomi is Killed Offscreen at the beginning of the last season and Smith is revealed to be the true Big Bad before being Driven to Suicide in the Grand Finale, leaving their voided roles to filled in by other characters who were there since the first season as minor supporting characters or even later added new characters such as Wyatt. By the end of the show, the titular Man in the High Castle acts as the deuteragonist, while Wyatt is the tritagonist.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
The Man in the High Castle / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: John Smith is established as a high-ranking Nazi officer in his very first scene, but Season 4 includes a significant flashback subplot depicting the moment that Smith decided to become a Nazi. Smith was a Major in the U.S. Army when the Germans nuked Washington D.C. and wiped out most of the political leadership. As Reich forces quickly took over the American seats of power, Smith sold his soul for a favorable position in the new order, even allowing his best friend to be shipped off to his death because he was a Jew.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_e27693	type	The Coup
The Man in the High Castle / int_e27693	comment	The Coup: Near the end of season 4, John Smith, realizing that he is about to be removed from his position as Reichsmarshall and likely eliminated for his faltering loyalty, stages a coup against Himmler and his Berlin inner circle in alliance with an ambitious German general, allowing the general to take over the larger Reich but allowing Smith autonomy in America.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
The Man in the High Castle / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change: Some Japanese characters are renamed to more mundane-sounding names in Japanese version of the series as they have rather obscure or unnatural sounding name. For example, Trade Minister Tagomi becomes Tagami (田上), Mr. and Mrs. Kasoura becomes Kajiura (梶浦). This is carried over from the translation of the original novel.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_e2f7ab99	type	Assassin Outclassin'
The Man in the High Castle / int_e2f7ab99	comment	Assassin Outclassin': John Smith survives an attack on his motorcade and personally puts down the assassins. In season 3, Trade Minister Tagomi is repeatedly targeted by Nazi Lebensborn assassins for his previous participation in smuggling classified nuclear technology out of the Reich. On one such occasion, the assassin bursts right into his home, but Tagomi overpowers and kills him thanks to his Bojutsu skills.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_e44a1a70	type	Bounty Hunter
The Man in the High Castle / int_e44a1a70	comment	Bounty Hunter: The Marshal is a vicious bounty hunter who works for the Nazis to hunt down death camp escapees and resistance fighters in the Neutral Zone. Since the land is unclaimed by either the Germans or Japanese, people like him effectively are the law there.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
The Man in the High Castle / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: In Season 4, Himmler demands an explanation of John's transgressions throughout the series even after the former admits that he had always considered the latter to be a surrogate son. John Smith, after a period of stunned silence, suddenly regains his composure, then goes on a tirade of insults that shocks Himmler enough that he falls into a coughing fit.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The Man in the High Castle / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Someone from Smith's staff leaked out his official schedule to the resistance on orders from Heydrich. Smith kills the aide and makes it look like a suicide. Kido's new half-Japanese second-in-command in the Kempeitai turns out to be a mole for the Resistance.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_e8b0f099	type	Dark Is Evil
The Man in the High Castle / int_e8b0f099	comment	Speaking of the SS, they're shown wearing all-black uniforms even in 1962. This is the "Black Ensemble" uniform, which started to get phased out in favor of more Boring, but Practical "earth-grey" tunic uniforms. This is because Feldgrau was exclusively used in the field and the Nazi regime spent their last five years on a continuous war-footing.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_e9011626	type	Finale Credits
The Man in the High Castle / int_e9011626	comment	Finale Credits : The credits remain silent with no music or sound which is used as the Silent Credits.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_e92dcbb5	type	Flaunting Your Fleets
The Man in the High Castle / int_e92dcbb5	comment	Flaunting Your Fleets: At the start of season 3, the Japanese increase their military presence in their part of the conquered U.S., leading us to some impressive shots of a Japanese carrier group arriving in San Francisco Bay.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_eb4f769f	type	Race Fetish
The Man in the High Castle / int_eb4f769f	comment	Childan is revealed to have a Race Fetish for geisha and loves to make prostitutes praise him in Japanese, though only white woman are available to play the role. He later begins a romance with a Japanese woman and they marry, though the Japanese government's prejudice toward their relationship means he can't travel with her when all Japanese citizens are evacuated from the Pacific States (Childan manages to get alternate transportation by bribing the Yakuza).
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The Man in the High Castle / int_ebbf48c0	type	Silent Credits
The Man in the High Castle / int_ebbf48c0	comment	Silent Credits: Used at the end of the series finale.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_ec27f46e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Man in the High Castle / int_ec27f46e	comment	Freezeframe Bonus: In "Pilot", the markings on the police car that pulls Joe over say "Missouri Autobahn Patrol" instead of the more Americanized "Highway Patrol". Also, every police officer in the Reich has SS runes on the collar of his uniform. Furthermore, all GNR vehicles have "Arbeit Macht Frei," the infamous phrase on the gates of Auschwitz, as the tagline on their license plates. In "Sunrise", Joe Blake is briefly seen watching a Cop Show called American Reich, about two detectives who work for the Reich Police. The narration is straight out of Dragnet. In "A Way Out", Wegener's son is reading a "Ranger Reich" comic (Ranger Rick). In "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball", the file on the general recorded making near treasonous statements reveals him to be General Bradly Omar Gresham, an expy of real life American General Omar Bradley.note To drive it home, the file lists his name pecularly as "Last, Middle, First" (i.e.: Gresham, Omar, Bradley) and even gives the real general's actual date and place of birth.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_ed43de19	type	Hunting "Accident"
The Man in the High Castle / int_ed43de19	comment	Hunting "Accident": Obergruppenfuehrer John Smith discovers a plot by senior Nazis to assassinate Hitler and start a war with Japan. He's invited to a hunting party where he is to be quietly killed for knowing too much.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_ee0c2c3c	type	Fictional Country
The Man in the High Castle / int_ee0c2c3c	comment	Fictional Country: The Greater Nazi Reich, which is comprised of the former USA from the East Coast to the Rocky Mountains. It is a puppet state of Nazi Germany. The Japanese Pacific States, which is comprised of Hawaii and the former mainland USA from the West Coast to the Rockies, and part of the 'Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere' controlled by the Empire of Japan.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_eec329f5	type	Lesser of Two Evils
The Man in the High Castle / int_eec329f5	comment	Homosexuality is completely outlawed in the Greater Nazi Reich and punishable by death. The relatively more humane Japanese occupiers in the Pacific States don't condone it officially, but don't care if it's carried out in private. Ed brings this up while traveling through the Neutral Zone and he runs into an openly gay man, since he's used to being more careful about such things.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_eec346de	type	Monument of Humiliation and Defeat
The Man in the High Castle / int_eec346de	comment	Monument of Humiliation and Defeat: In Season 3, as part of the Jahr Null (Year Zero) celebrations, the Nazis melt down the Liberty Bell and convert it into a swastika. They also blow up the Statue of Liberty, and Season 4 shows the new statue the Nazis put in its place, of a "heroic" Aryan man and woman. Season 4 shows that Washington DC remains a radioactive wasteland nearly 20 years after being nuked, its iconic buildings and monuments left crumbling.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
The Man in the High Castle / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Reinhard Heydrich is plotting to assassinate Hitler so he can succeed him as Fuhrer and annihilate Japan with nuclear weapons. He specifically dismisses loyalty as an "overrated virtue" when called out on his lack of honor. However, Hitler was already aware of Heydrich's intentions and arranges for him to be assassinated first. In season 2, it transpires that Heydrich was merely an agent of the real Starscream, a Minister in Hitler's cabinet who actually managed to succeed him after a more successful assassination attempt through poisoning.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_efef300	type	Put on a Bus to Hell
The Man in the High Castle / int_efef300	comment	Put on a Bus to Hell: The last we see of Nicole, Himmler is sending her to a reeducation camp in Germany over her "perversions" (she's bisexual).
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The Man in the High Castle / int_f09e6c1c	type	Ironic Juxtaposition
The Man in the High Castle / int_f09e6c1c	comment	Ironic Juxtaposition: The Season 3 episode "History Ends" intercuts scenes of Frank's bar mitzvah, symbolizing him fully embracing his Jewish heritage, with Himmler's announcement of Jahr Null, the plan for the erasure of pre-occupation American history.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
The Man in the High Castle / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: In Season 3's "The New Colosseus", Rockwell spends his time in Cuban exile courting a dancer and her male partner after a show. Rockwell gets immersed in the performers and is real close to having a fun night right before he gets stabbed through the back by an assassin hired by Smith.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_f13a0451	type	Suicide Attack
The Man in the High Castle / int_f13a0451	comment	Suicide Attack: Frank and Sara attempt to bomb the Kempeitai headquarters, but are seen, and it becomes this for as it detonates with them still inside. It turns out that Frank survives however.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
The Man in the High Castle / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: In Season 3, the Japanese police beat up women in San Francisco protesting the fuel shortage. The officer specifically instructs them to only beat them as a "lighter hand" has been ordered-usually, they would be shot.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_f4d00fb0	type	Deadline News
The Man in the High Castle / int_f4d00fb0	comment	Deadline News: After Adolf Hitler's death, an illegal news broadcast in the Greater Nazi Reich exposes the truth to the public before the newsman is shot to death on live television.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_f609fcfe	type	Fictional Holiday
The Man in the High Castle / int_f609fcfe	comment	Fictional Holiday: A widely celebrated holiday in the Greater Nazi Reich is 'VA Day', which is short for 'Victory in America Day'.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_fba729d7	type	The War Room
The Man in the High Castle / int_fba729d7	comment	The War Room: The Nazi leadership has a command bunker in Berlin to oversee their global strategic forces and nuclear arsenal in a room very reminiscent of the War Room from Dr. Strangelove.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_fdb355db	type	Fun with Subtitles
The Man in the High Castle / int_fdb355db	comment	Fun with Subtitles: Played with, even more than usual. One episode of Season 2 starts out with Childan and a Caucasian woman who is made up to look like a geisha. Childan spends a minute or two teaching her to say a very particular sentence in Japanese, which she assumes to be dirty talk. When she says it "with real feeling," we finally get to see the subtitles kick in and translate the phrase to mean "You are truly a man of great culture and rare taste." They then proceed to make out.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
The Man in the High Castle / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: After Abendsen is captured and forced to make propaganda videos for the Nazis, Juliana becomes convinced he's hiding secret messages in his narration, specifically that Reichsmarshall Smith travels to the portal site by train. Wyatt and the other resistance members think she's grasping at straws... but Smith is later shown on a train, bound for the portal's location. The Resitance ultimately use this knowledge to ambuh the train and assassinate Smith.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
The Man in the High Castle / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive: Frank's brother-in-law Phil has to hold a Shinto funeral for his wife and kids, with Christianity being illegal and Judaism punishable by death. The Japanese Shinto priest officiating the funeral gets their names wrong, prompting an angry correction from Frank, who obviously considers the whole thing an insulting farce and shows signs of tragic bigotry. Still, the priest seems sincere, and Phil's Japanese coworkers and bosses in attendance seem genuinely sorry for their loss.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Man in the High Castle / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Chief Inspector Kido arranges for a "hostess" he has become friendly with to be set free, and gives her a bundle of cash to start a new life.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Man in the High Castle / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: In the book, Juliana is a judo instructor, while the series makes her a student of aikido. In the 1960s, judo was relatively well known as "the gentle way" in contrast to the more militant karate style. However, aikido is definitively linked to the Japanese pacifist movement and better fits the tenor of the depiction of the Japanese as quasi-benevolent invaders. Minister Tagomi and Inspector Kido addressing General Onada with the honorific "kakka ", which roughly translates as "your honor" or "your excellency", would be realistic to the culture in Imperial Japan. 1962 Berlin in the story's timeline has been rebuilt in the style of the monumental, triumphalist architectural designs of Hitler and Albert Speer. How they got the soil to support the weight of the enormous structures (Berlin is built on a swamp) is not explained. The Jewish prayers are all accurate. A bar mitzvah recites the Barechu before beginning to read from the Torah. When Frank Frink is about to be executed, he repeatedly recites the Shema ("Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God. The Lord is one."), the most holy prayer in the Jewish faith and often used by religious Jews as their last words. While subject to some degree of Schizo Tech, the small arms used by each faction are ones actually developed and fielded by West Germany and Japan in the 1960s and 1970s. The VTOL aircraft seen in Season Four is a Do 31, which was actually built and flown by West Germany, albeit only in prototype form.
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