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So' date=' what's your best Hitler-in-a-jar plot?[/quote']

 

My favourite plot is "borrowed" from The Golden Age, a DC limited series from a few years ago, potentially crossed over with the scene in this post:

http://www.herogames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=540414&postcount=12

 

Basically, you have another infiltrator already in a strategically chosen body. He/she/it becomes the world's most popular/prominent superhuman, and eventually acquires a suitable body for Hitler.

 

At some point, you start dropping hints to the PCs that not all is as it seems. Take your time about advancing the plot. Eventually, things hit the fan with a vengeance...

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Do you have a major NPC hero in your campaign world? Very popular, universally respected, rumors of political ambitions?

 

Let your PCs stumble across the hints of neo-Nazi genetics experiments, find the lab, find a series of preserved bodies of Hitler clones. Each one shows signs of experimentation in attempted superhuman augmentation. The most recent body in the series is identical to the NPC hero.

 

Of course immediately afterward the lab self-destructs, eliminating the evidence. :eg:

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Do you have a major NPC hero in your campaign world? Very popular, universally respected, rumors of political ambitions?

 

Let your PCs stumble across the hints of neo-Nazi genetics experiments, find the lab, find a series of preserved bodies of Hitler clones. Each one shows signs of experimentation in attempted superhuman augmentation. The most recent body in the series is identical to the NPC hero.

 

Of course immediately afterward the lab self-destructs, eliminating the evidence. :eg:

 

 

And that brings me to the evil idea that your post inspired in me: "What if the heroes confront the NPC, only to have him admit that he is the clone of Adolph Hitler and that in the years and the lives he's led since WWII, he's come to see the folly of his ways and his heroics are a way of atoning for the all the evil he's done. And, to make it worse, he was provided with these bodies over the years by a secret Nazi group that now realiz3es what he has become and want to replace him with a cloned brain of Hitler that HASN'T spent the last 60 years growing it a real human! What do they do- do they protect Hitler, from Hitler? Do they go public? What do they do?" :rolleyes:

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I'll get the pics up sunday. And thaks' date=' I'm starting to become a rep-whore![/quote']

Fun, aint it? Just lay back and enjoy :) [Cue the Porn music!]

 

 

I only came in here because everytime I see the title the Metallica version of "Whiskey in a Jar" starts playing in my head. Thought I'd come in and see if he was pickled.

 

(Turns out he was! Though not in the same stuff I expected)

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There was a comic arc that dealt with Hitler's brain and a plot to implant it in the body of the Shaggy Man (DC Universe).. The Shaggy Man is an almost unstoppable fighting machine. It would get nasty.

 

I ran a similair theme in an adventure using Mechanon. Basic idea was that a scientist arrives in town and claims to have designed a detention facility to hold Mechanon indefinitely. It consisted of a concrete bunker with a computer system that could download Mechanon's brain into a mainframe. Once there, the it would be put into a perpetual loop. The catch was that the scientist was actually working with Mechanon and when UNTIL finally caught Mechanon and "imprisioned" him they found to their horror that the "isolated computer prison" was actually linked to the city's data web. The bunker was not designed to keep Mechanon in... It was designed to keep UNTIL out. Needless to say chaos ensued and Mechanon got some nice playtime...

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There was a B-movie about this, They Saved Hitler's Brain.

 

With any brain-in-a-jar, to make them viable characters, you will either have to (a) implant them into a suitable body, or (B) turn them into an evil mastermind. I think part (a) has been handled pretty well in the previous posts.

 

Part (B) would basically require that the brain have a form of communication with the outside world, and a cadre of people loyal to doing whatever the brain suggested. These could be scientists working on genetic manipulation, scientists continuing with the depraved medical experiments of the Third Reich, or scientists involved in creating a body to implant the brain in (or all three, depending on resources). These could be loyal Nazi's willing to wait until the time is right to bring about the return of their glorious leader, or even new agents that don't realize the person giving them orders is just a puppet for the real Hitler.

 

I did like the idea of what if they cloned the brain. Where are the others, and why was this one not used?

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In my universe, the Nazi party fled to Mars to rebuild, saving

some genetic data from Hitler. Since then they have cloned him

multiple times so that their entire Ruling Council is now called

the Council of Hitler.

 

One of their technical experts is a mentalist scientist brain-in-

a-jar called just 'The Brain'. He engineers/clones/steals bodies and

has his entire Jar placed where the head/neck should be.

 

Just my ramble on the subject...

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Ripped off from the Star Trek episode where they swiped Spock's brain...

 

Hitler gets abducted by aliens, who want him to defend their war against an alien invader. Hitler's brain is doing a great job defending the planet, controlling a vast automated weapons system. Hitler is hooked up to to the super-computer, you see, and also broadcasts "victory reports" (shameless propaganda) ehenever he destroys something.

 

My players loved this one. They could either indulge their urge to kill Hitler and help destroy an entire race, or do nothing.

 

They surprised me, and worked to end the reason for the alien invasion, then persuaded the aliens to turn over Hitler's brain for trial on Earth.

 

Hitler hired Johnny Cochrane as his lawyer, whose defense was that Hitler's brain was not in control of his body when the crimes were committed...and was thus innocent.

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Since then they have cloned him multiple times so that their entire Ruling Council is now called the Council of Hitler.

As big a control-freak megalomaniac that Hitler was, I would hate to be in one of these council meetings. Can you imagine if these guys ever got into a heated disagreement?

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