Rip Blazkowicz

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## Evil-doer

* Old
* Young

### Alias

Daddy (by B.J.)
Mr. Blazkowicz
Asshole

### Allies

The Nazis
Frau Engel

### Occupation

Ally of the Nazi Party
Businessman (formerly)
Ranch owner

### Resources

Gunmanship
Marksmanship
Manipulation
Strength

### Hobby

Abusing his family.
Forwarding information to the Nazis.

### Goals

Keep his family in line by abusing them.Become a financial success.Turn his wife over to the Nazis (all succeeded).Give his son to the Nazis and have him killed (ultimately failed).

### Moral Event Horizon

Forcing B.J. to kill his beloved pet dog Bessie.
Selling out his wife Zofia to die in a Nazi death camp just to mentally hurt his son.

### Kill Count

1 dog (enforced; determinant)
At least 3 (indirectly)
1 (attempted)

### Crimes

Domestic abuse
Animal cruelty
Uxorcide by proxy
Hate crimes
Attempted filicide
Child endangerment
Conning
Terrorism
Psychological torture
Accessory to Nazi crimes
Assault and battery

### Type of Villain

Abusive Supremacist

**Rip Blazkowicz** is a major antagonist in the *Wolfenstein* video game series. He serves as an unseen antagonist in *The New Order*, the secondary antagonist of *The New Colossus* and a posthumous antagonist in *Youngblood*. He is the horrendously abusive father of B.J. Blazkowicz, and also one of his archenemies.

Although Rip doesn't have as much screen time 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.

## Personality

Two-faced, racist, selfish, treacherous, hot-tempered, and downright cruel, Rip Blazkowicz was an overall cruel failure of a man, at home as well as at work. Rather than examine his own shortcomings as a businessman, husband, and father, he frequently and irrationally blamed his rotten luck on his family and minorities, fueling his belief that the old and the weak are "doomed". According to his former best friend Frank, and former employee Archibald, Rip is a scheming, unscrupulous businessman who likes to con money out of customers and often displays deeply unprofessional behavior.

Rip also embodies an extreme form of the prejudices of the time, opposing the idea of his son falling in love with an African-American girl, despite being married to a Jewish woman whom he freely admits was only for the money. The only time he showed any kindness to his son was when he helped him cure his nightmares by going down into the basement with him and Zofia to see the monsters. This flashback implies that he had some care for his son, but this was probably more likely to stop B.J. from waking him up at night and give his son the strength to not embarrass him in public since he cared for his name and reputation far above any other consideration. Due to his paranoid egocentricity, he is incapable of acknowledging any worth in his son; neither about his career in the army nor as a symbol of resistance. Rip always spins every aspect of B.J. into an affront or personal insult no matter how unreasonable, possibly because he is somewhat rancorously jealous of the fact that B.J. has ultimately become much more than his father.

He is an unapologetic racist, spitefully calling B.J.'s friend Billie a racial epithet and viewing African-Americans as nothing more than cancer to society alongside Jews, homosexuals, and other minorities or "deviants". He is also shamelessly greedy, since he married Zofia for money (even remarking on how he thought her "father would be an asset.") instead of love, and was perfectly willing to sell her and his former friends out to certain death for material gain, justifying that his wife did nothing but "make a living bemoaning" him. Furthermore, he was also extremely spiteful since he also ratted out his former best friend, Frank, and former employee, Archibald, to the Nazis, due to Frank ending his friendship with Rip, and Archibald abandoning him for squandering business opportunities - along with his terrible business ethics. He lacks any sense of remorse or self-reflection, defending his craven atrocities to B.J., claiming that the world is only for White Christians.

Despite insisting he tried "his damnedest" to put B.J. on the right track as a father, it is clear that his abuse of his son is a comfortable, natural thing for him - even when confronting a fully grown, military-trained, muscular, armed B.J. wearing armor (which Rip dismisses as "that queer outfit"), and holding a reputation for mass-murder, he refuses to take him seriously and threatens him with a shotgun, expecting no resistance as though he were still a small, helpless boy. His reaction when B.J. brutally kills him is one of pitiful, confused surprise.

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

* He's a hypocrite. He only married a Jewish woman for her father's money and fortune, and then foolishly lost it all, and he only helped B.J. confront his nightmares because he couldn't sleep due to his son's constant yelling waking him up at night. He was also a conman selling fiscal ailments.
* He's an abusive husband and father, both physically and emotionally. In one scene, he is shown slapping his wife so hard that she gets knocked unconscious, kicks Bessie out of the room and strangles B.J. to unconsciousness.
* He forces B.J. to shoot the family 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 is disgustingly racist, sexist, and homophobic as 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. Worse still, after B.J. realizes Rip sold Zofia out, Rip simply replies "so what" showing his lack of remorse for this heinous crime.
	+ He also ratted out his former best friend Frank and his employee Archibald out of spite for abandoning him and exposing his conning scheme.

* 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.
* Unlike other villains whose evilness is hammed up, *everything* about Rip is played dead seriously. Even Hitler, Deathshead and Frau Engel are all rather funny and entertaining. It's really no wonder why B.J. hates the Nazis so much; his father was an abusive racist just like them.
* Whilst Deathshead and Frau Engel did worse, Rip has FAR less resources than either of those two.