Having one of the only hardcore Nazis be this misogynistic joke is an eeenh choice
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I mean she's a joke about stuff the Nazis really believed in but no one in real life actually pumped out babies for the Reich despite the programs they set up to encourage it
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah, that's suboptimal. I'm trying to think of any other named fully committed Nazis. I guess the Gestapo leader but he's only in the one scene
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
I feel like if I was trying to full throatedly defend/Stan JJR, which I don't feel it really needs, but if I was, I'd say the lack of full true believers is kind of the point, because it's trying to show us a society like ours where everyone is slowly becoming complicit
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
Where even the Resistance thinks anti-Semitic jokes are hilarious
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
Rebel Wilson's character is more or less straight-evil - she has the kids doing suicide runs at the end (or is she the one who had the 19 kids? I forgot...)
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Replying to @the_moviebob @BootlegGirl
Yeah it's the kind of caricatured idea of cranking out kids to be soldiers
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Something that we've typically attributed to other countries with "teeming hordes", which is why this trope is not great, even if it seems like the Nazis deserve any negative trope you can pin on them
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In DC Comics they had a Chinese superhero where this was her superpower (Mother of Champions)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Oooh I'd forgotten about that. Whenever Grant Morrison beams back down to this plane of existence it's always directly into a really juvenille place (but still somehow endearingly pretentious - if I recall the main gimmick with his Chinese super-team was that they...
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...constantly refered to them by the literal English translation of their names ("Accomplished Perfect Physician," "August General in Iron," etc)
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