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| “ | Captain Blazkowicz. I know a lot about you. We have the same name, you and I. Wilhelm, William. But...you call me "Deathshead". I don't like it. I'm a happy man, you see? It doesn't sound right in English. Say it...correctly. Toten...kopf. | „ |
| ~ Deathshead telling BJ to refer to his name in German. |
| “ | I am a liberator. No longer must we serve the filthy parasite. No longer need we gaze upon his waddling gait, polluting the purity of our bloodline. No longer will we tolerate his primitive brain and violent impulses. Oh, terrorists...do you not see that my cause is just? Do you not see there is no place for you in this world? No matter how many soldiers you murder, how much concrete you shatter, you will never soil my legacy. I have willed into existence a new age—an age of reason, of purity, of strength. Your legacy is nothing but a common impulse of anger, no different from the gorilla in the jungle beating his chest...and even less impressive. | „ |
| ~ Deathshead exclaiming proudly how he won World War II. |
Dr. Obergruppenführer (General) Wilhelm Strasse, also known as "Totenkopf" or "Deathshead" due to his skull-like visage, is the main antagonist of the Wolfenstein series and the archenemy of William J. Blazkowicz. He is the secondary antagonist in Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the main antagonist of its 2009 sequel Wolfenstein and its 2014 sequel Wolfenstein: The New Order, one of the two unseen overarching antagonists in its 2015 prequel Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (along with Hitler), and the posthumous overarching antagonist in its 2017 sequel Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus.
In the 2009 game, he was voiced by Robin Atkin Downes, who also voiced Baron Zemo in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Solaris in All-Star Superman, Abomination in the 2010 Marvel Animated Universe, Valak in The Conjuring franchise, Kano in Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge, Emperor Nefarious in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Shinnok in Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms. In The New Order, he was voiced by Dwight Schultz.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He had no true loyalty to the Nazis, including Adolf Hitler, as the only thing he wanted was power.
- Is shown to have killed and butchered at least a half-dozen other unknown people for his experiments before the game even starts.
- Forces BJ to choose whether he should vivisect and take Fergus or Wyatt's brain for scientific research, and then leaving the surviving U.S.A. soldiers to burn alive in a crematorium afterwards anyway.
- Is heavily implied to be calling the shots for the Third Reich by the 1960s, thus making him responsible for the new world order under the Nazi regime.
- Had the Nazis deliver asylum patients to him for experimentation, then ordered the place massacred when he decided that he no longer needed them. Several doctors and nurses died trying to defend the patients, including Anya's parents.
- Puts BJ's dissected friend's brain in a robot body where he has no control over his actions, making them fight each other until BJ mercy-kills him.
- It's also worth mentioning that similar-looking robots are shown constantly throughout the story, thus leaving little to the imagination about how many other people got butchered just to create these machines.
- During his boss fight, Deathshead threatens to turn not just BJ but also everyone he loves into robot slaves as well.
- Kills himself with a grenade to wound and nearly kill BJ.
Trivia[]
- Deathshead, Roderick Metze, and Rip Blazkowicz are the only Wolfenstein Pure Evils.
- He is also the only Wolfenstein Pure Evil to be German, as Roderick and Rip are both Americans.
External Links[]
- Deathshead on the Villains Wiki
- Deathshead on the Wolfenstein Wiki