Roderick Metze

Note: The following character appears only in the Freedom Chronicles which exist as works of fiction within the Wolfenstein setting; their existence and the veracity of events involving them in the actual timeline is questionable at best.
Übercommander Roderick Metze is the main antagonist of the Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus DLC The Adventures of Gunslinger Joe. A Nazi collaborator, he is involved with the Sonnengewehr project.
==Biography==
===Backstory===
Metze was born to a family with ancestors who sided with the Confederate States during the Civil War and had a hate-mongering, preacher father who worked as a Grand Dragon in the KKK. When he was young, he asked his father how he knew Whites were better than Negroes, with his father replying that he (and all other white folk) were ordained to commune with God.
Before the occupation of the US, Roderick Metze was a dentist with extremely unpleasant reputation. When the Nazis occupied America, Metze became a collaborator, attaining such a high rank that he was promoted to Übercommander within a decade, and the only American to do so. When an African-American named Stallion formed a resistance group, Metze ordered his arrest and sent him to the Hillsboro mine to work till he 'croaked'. Unbeknownst to Metze, he did this in front of the man's son, Joseph, who would become his enemy later in life. Himself an athlete, goal is to find the secret in the genetic material of exceptional American athletes to create a perfect super sportsman for the regime - however, it was more likely a twisted pet project, as it was was considered a waste of time and resources by the Nazis.
Metze was part of the German superteam and on March 12, 1950, he scored his fourth touchdown, winning the game. However, Gunslinger Joe scored one point for his team and was eventually captured with resistance members.
It is believed that Metze worked along with Übercommander Michael Rademaker in 1959 to organize a bombing campaign that flushed out the resistance in Springfield, allowing the capture of sixteen members, and the deaths of several others.
===The Freedom Chronicles===
In The Adventures of Gunslinger Joe, Roderick Metze and the Nazis try to prove the superiority of the Aryan race through American football by organizing football games in the Überbowl. The games have the Aryan All Stars team versus the Üntermensch team, who are forced to lose every game to promote Aryan superiority. An African American slave named Joseph Stallion (Gunslinger Joe), a former professional athlete and football quarterback attempts to break the rules and score, only for Metze to shoot the ball before it reaches the goal post. Metze and his men arrest Joe, and send him to the coal mines.
However, Metze recognizes Joe, having arrested his father years ago, and instead has Joe sent to Research Station Omega. Metze underestimates Joe's remarkable body structure and his raw strength, and Stallion breaks free, now seeking revenge on Metze. However, as Joe arrives at the resistance hideout, he runs into Metze and his men. Due to his extreme arrogance, Metze decides Joe is not worthy to be killed by his hand because he was a African American and orders his men to kill him, but Joe escapes by tackling a soldier out a window.
When Joe goes on a rampage in the Secret Police Headquarters, Metze tells him through the speakers that he was surprised a slave like Joe was a problem for him, and gives him his father back as a gift, who he found broken in the bottom of the Hillboros coal mine. But Metze, not wanting to be humiliated by Joe, also leaves a bomb as a deathtrap. Due to the police headquarters going up in flames with no found survivors, Metze now believes that Joe has perished. However, Joe carefully removed the bomb, managing to get away, and vowed to hunt down and kill Metze.
Later Joe finds out Metze intended to fire a super weapon known as the Sun Gun at the American Midwest. Metze's plan is to coordinate the attack from Venus to suppress the rising activities of the American Resistance. Joe, realizing the stakes being now much higher, stowaways on a rocket headed for Venus. Metze could only watch as Joe kills nearly all of his guards at the Venus base. When Joe heads for the control room where he expected to find Metze, Metze throws a surprise attack on Joe from his side and shoots him. Unable to learn from his mistakes for underestimating Joe previously, Metze foolishly brags to Joe that this will be poetic justice. But before killing Joe, he asked him if he has any last words. Joe asks him why he hasn't fired the sun gun yet, and Metze tells him that it's not fully operational yet. Metze mockingly asks if those are really his last words, to which Joe says 'No', and quickly tackles Metze out a window behind him, causing Metze to fall to his death.
== Personality and Relationships ==
Blonde haired, blue eyed, softly spoken and hard to anger, Rodrick Metze physically seemed ordinary - however, even compared to other Nazis, Metze, Traitor to America, was twisted, sadistic and possibly insane. He would conduct inhumane and brutal experiments on prisoners, to the extent that even his subordinates began to grow uncomfortable and speculate on their usefulness. Metze was very proud of his family's history, and gladly accepted the Nazi occupation of America as racial vindication - he was the first (and apparently only) member of the Klu Klux Klan to officially join the Wehrmacht. Metze had a longtime and disturbed fascination with Joe, owing to the (in his mind) paradox of an African-American being a naturally peerless athlete. In addition, Metze showed himself to be cowardly through each volume, constantly leaving Joe's fate to others, until forced to ambush him personally. He is shown to have superb marksmanship skills, deftly shooting out a football in mid-air before Joe could score, and nearly kills Joe by cuffing him and shooting him in the stomach. He also casually executes a line of Resistance prisoners one-by-one without looking.
Metze displayed signs of delusions and mental illness - not only were his depraved experiments intended to fulfill his ridiculous ambition to 'create' a perfect sportsman, he had become convinced that his research would ultimately serve to create an army that could fight an alien invasion he felt certain was imminent. Individuals who questioned or mocked him (a frequent occurrence) met gruesome ends and Metze tolerated no hindrances on his progress. He would often use dental analogies to justify his worldview, likening the scourge of 'undesirables' to rotting teeth that needed to be pulled out. His solution to the deteriorating situation in America was quite simply to destroy his own country using the Sun Gun with no more justification than 'it would be worth it'. Unwilling to tolerate the man any longer, the Oberkommando ultimately pulled away their more valuable soldiers away from Metze's command and Gunslinger Joe's path of vengeance and allowed the footballer to solve their problem. 
He also follows the in-game trend of American collaborators being poor speakers of German, and consistently mispronounces 'Reich'.
==Quotes==
==Gallery==
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Untffee.png|Metze taking in Joseph Stallion's father.
Metze-Dentist.jpg|Metze as his time as a dentist.
maxresdefaulfee.jpg|Enter Übercommander Roderick Metze.
Metze-Capture.png|Metze captures Stallion.
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maxresdefauldeff.jpg|Metze underestimates Joe; this ends about as well as you'd expect.
Untifevveff.png|Roderick Metze falls to his death after Joe tackles him.
Untitdggeg.png|Metze's corpse.
==Trivia==
* Metze appears to have Heterochromia, with his right eye blue and left eye green.
* Despite being an Übercommander, he wears the uniform of a regular commander and uses a handgun rather than a Kampfpistole. This is not explained during the story.
* He and Wolfgang Schwarz share the same character model.
* Unlike the other primary antagonists in the Freedom Chronicles, Metze interacts with Gunslinger Joe in all three chapters.
* Metze is loosely based on "The Angel of Death" Josef Mengele.
* In the cutscene, he appears to bear a resemblance to Donald Trump, a businessman and the former US president, but this may be coincidental.
*Metze's handgun has the upgraded suppressor and magnum.
*Metze’s actor, Dwight Schultz, had previously voiced Wilhelm Strasse in Wolfenstein: The New Order. 
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