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| “ | In life, you've got to make hard decisions. And sometimes, you've got to punish the animals out there. It's kill or be killed; the old and the weak are doomed. All manners of scum and sickly minds and dirty bodies and cockroaches, doing everything in their power to rob the white man of what he's earned. It's on us to straighten out the queer. It's on you. | „ |
| ~ Rip's ideology. |
| “ | Rip: They rounded up all the Jews, and the coloreds, and the queers. This is a white man's world now; white man's gotta keep it Christian. B.J.: You sold her out. Rip: So what? Wife made a living bemoanin' me, and raised a boy into a murderer. Well, I always saw you for what you are: ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag. |
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| ~ Rip preparing to kill B.J. out of petty spite when he calls him out on selling Zofia out. |
Rip Blazkowicz is one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Adolf Hitler) of the MachineGames Timeline of the Wolfenstein franchise, serving as the secondary antagonist in The New Colossus. He is the horrendously abusive father of B.J. Blazkowicz.
Although Rip doesn't have as much screentime as Deathshead or Frau Engel, he is quite possibly BJ's most personal enemy to date for making his childhood a living Hell as well as directly causing the death of his kind-hearted mother Zofia.
He was voiced by Glenn Morshower.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Even before becoming a familial abuser, he was already an evil man from the beginning due to being conman who sold fiscal ailments in the past.
- Despite losing his job, became broke and had to live in poverty, this does not make him tragic in the slightest, given by how most of his actions isn't even motivated by his poverty, and the narrative never paints him in a sympathetic light, with only his family being portrayed as sympathetic and never him.
- He's an abusive husband and father, both physically and emotionally, as a flashback shows him slapping his wife Zofia very hard and knocking her unconscious all because she wanted to stop him from talking to B.J. Then, he kicks Bessie, the family's pet dog, out of the room and calls her an "ungrateful bitch". He then strangled B.J. to unconsciousness while mocking, tormenting and berating him in verbally cruel ways. Not only that, but he only married Zofia for her father's money and fortune, and then foolishly lost it all.
- In another flashback, he helped B.J. confront his nightmares when the latter was a child, even humouring his fears by storming into the basement with him carrying rifles and letting him keep the rifle afterwards. However, it was purely because Rip couldn't sleep due to his son's constant yelling waking him up at night and he didn't show any genuine care for him in said flashback, even adding that he's only agreeing to do this because beating B.J. didn't work.
- He is disgustingly racist, sexist, and homophobic, as he forces B.J. to shoot the family's pet dog Bessie for playing with a black girl when he was a child. If the player refuses and instead shoots the wall, Rip kills Bessie himself.
- He helped the Nazis by selling out all Jews, non-whites and homosexuals in the neighborhood to the Nazis both out of spite and to advance himself, including his own wife Zofia. He also ratted out his former best friend Frank and his employee Archibald out of spite for abandoning him and exposing his conning scheme. Worse still, after B.J. realizes Rip sold Zofia out, Rip simply replies "So what?", showing his lack of remorse for this heinous crime.
- Although he's loyal to the Nazis, it is out of pragmatism as he's only loyal to them to embrace their racism and xenophobia to boost his ego, and also only because of the money he got from them. This is evidence by the fact that not even the Nazis have any admiration for him, and while they did praise him, it was for their own benefit than them respect him in any way.
- Knowing his personality, it's hard to believe someone like Rip would have a second thought before backstabbing the Nazis, whenever it's out of cowardice or selfish interests, especially since previously, he had no second thought before selling out even those close to him like his wife and neighbors.
- He scold his son when confronted by him that his son stained the Blazkowicz name for killing the Nazis, when in reality, it's clear through his actions and personality that he's the one that stained the Blazkowicz name for siding with the Nazis and being an abuser to his family instead of his son.
- He also claims that Blazkowicz is a name of respect and renown, when he has none of the virtues that he claims the name represent.
- He tries to kill B.J. with a shotgun after revealing his location to Frau Engel via phone call, which ends with the former's public beheading at the Lincoln Memorial. Though, BJ's friends manage to sneakily obtain his decapitated head and put it on a new robot body, allowing him to defeat Engel later at the end of the game.
- His death, although brutal, is not played for sympathy at all, but instead satisfaction due to all of his crimes and the horrible things he did to his own family, especially since he still looked down at his son and refused to take him seriously despite his reputation of being a one-man army and a Nazi killer.
- His abuse towards B.J. ultimately contributed to his hatred of Nazis, and his tragic upbringing would continue to scar him even as an adult. To put the icing on the cake, B.J. even directly compares the mere thought of simply being in Rip's presence to going to hell (and his mother Zofia's presence to heaven) in-universe, showing how badly his father's cruelty had affected him.
- While Deathshead and Frau Engel are worse, they have FAR more resources as the former is the general of an entire army and the latter is the leader of a death camp. Rip, on the other hand, is a failed businessman who not only lost his job and almost became broke, but also serves as the patriarch for a family, enabling him to stand out.
- He had no comedic moments and absolutely everything about him is played very serious.
Trivia[]
- Rip is an unusual example of a Pure Evil villain, as his crimes are generally rather standard, but he only stands out due to having a very low amount of resources which he makes the most of by horrifically busing his family in graphic and upsetting ways (even when the Wolfenstein franchise's very high heinous standard is taken into account), so he only qualifies due to passing the individual capability.
- The chapter in which B.J. kills Rip is titled "Monster", which is likely a nod to how evil and uncaring he is.
- Rip's relationships with his own parents and other relatives is unknown. However, given how he treated his wife and son, he might've treated the rest of his family that way, too, and might've also implied to have murder them for having a bad reputation when they first landed in the United States, something which he could've hated all of them for. If this was confirmed true, then this would makes Rip even worse, as he might've also a rather spiteful hypocrite than just an abusive, cruel, and shameful father to B.J.
External Links[]
- Rip Blazkowicz on the Villains Wiki
- Rip Blazkowicz on the Hate Sink Wiki
- Rip Blazkowicz on the Pathetic Pinhead Wiki
- Rip Blazkowicz on the Wolfenstein Wiki