The Dictator
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"Blonde hair! Blue eyes! Super strength! I should be recruiting them!" |
"The Dictator" is a minor villain in the Dragon Ball Z film Fusion Reborn. He is the only character to appear in Dragon World who is an allusion of a real life figure, that of Austrian-born politician Adolf Hitler. Instead of Swastikas on the flags and uniforms, the insignias were replaced with X's. Goten and Trunks fight him off along with the rest of his undead Nazi army after they were resurrected from Hell along with the villains the Z Fighters previously defeated. Trunks and Goten then defeat all of the army and the Dictator by fusing into Gotenks. In the FUNimation dub, he also says that because they have blonde hair, blue eyes and super strength, he should have been recruiting them. After the Dictator's defeat, he was not seen in Dragon Ball GT's Super 17 Saga where a similar event takes place where all the previous villains escaped from Hell.
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- It is also notable that the Red Ribbon Army had some similarity to Hitler's Nazi Army and may have been based on them due to the ribbons on their arms and their constant displaying of their symbols. Also, General Blue was based on what an ideal, disciplined soldier of Adolf Hitler's army would be like, along with the fact that General Blue was of German descent and spoke German in one instance in the English manga translation, saying the phrase "Auf Wiedersehen" (which means "Goodbye" in German).
- The bullets that his army use are multi-colored.
- He is the only named villain to come out of hell that wasn't killed by the Z Fighters beforehand.
- In the FUNimation dub, he comments on Goten and Trunks SSJ form, he is comparing them the Nazi idea of an Aryan (Blonde Hair, Blue/Green Eyes, and Super Strength). It is likely that he believes them to be Aryan, unaware that they are Super Saiyans (as are most of the earthlings in the series are).
- In original Japanese version, he instead states that they are little punks that dyed their hair and likely doesn't consider them to be Aryan.
- The animation style for the fight with his army is slightly different from the rest of the movie (it has a more cartoonish look).
- Unlike his real life counter-part, The Dictator actually leads his army into battle. However, this may be due to his being undead.
- He isn't in the German and French versions of Fusion Reborn. This is because of strict laws in both Germany and France that prohibit the reproduction of Nazi emblems and references.
- He also isn't in the Hebrew version of the movie because of avoiding to insult Israelis and Holocaust survivors.
- His battle with Goten and Trunks was removed when Fusion Reborn was broadcast on Toonami.
