Alkahest
Banned
OTL pop culture has been truly blessed by the Third Reich. If you need a bad guy, in any kind of setting, in any form of media, the Nazis are right there. Superhero comic book? Nazi supervillains in colorful spandex. Urban fantasy? Nazi vampire sorcerers. Science fiction? Nazis with ray guns in flying saucers. Pornography? Nazi concentration camp dominatrices. They can be comedic enough for the silliest of Saturday morning cartoons and dark enough for the most disturbing of horror movies. Their ideology was as close you can get to pure evil, they were a real threat to the free world once upon a time and their clothes were downright sexy. Perfect villains in every way.
Now, in a TL where the Nazis never showed up or never turned into a credible threat - which group could replace them as all-purpose bad guys? This TL can be anything from one found on this site to a published book to something you just made up. In this world, who are the clichéd villains everyone uses?
(Before someone says the obvious, I personally don't think communists (in the TLs where they exist) would work all that well. Their ideology is in at least some senses sympathetic and they never seemed to nail the "evil" look down properly. Even places like North Korea are more examples of crazy personality cults than proper "moo haa haa look at how evil we are let's commit genocide because why not"-villains.)
Now, in a TL where the Nazis never showed up or never turned into a credible threat - which group could replace them as all-purpose bad guys? This TL can be anything from one found on this site to a published book to something you just made up. In this world, who are the clichéd villains everyone uses?
(Before someone says the obvious, I personally don't think communists (in the TLs where they exist) would work all that well. Their ideology is in at least some senses sympathetic and they never seemed to nail the "evil" look down properly. Even places like North Korea are more examples of crazy personality cults than proper "moo haa haa look at how evil we are let's commit genocide because why not"-villains.)