SS Hauptsturmführer Wafner

Nazi Capt Wafner (Mutated)

**SS Hauptsturmführer Wafner** is the antagonist in the 2018 film, Overlord.

On the eve of D-Day, the 5th of June, 1944, several American paratroopers are dropped behind enemy lines to carry out a mission crucial to the invasion's success: destroy a radio tower built in a little castle of an old French town that the Third Reich uses for communication between Berlin and Normandy beaches' bunkers. Due to the intense enemy fire, the planes are shot down and most soldiers die in the landing or are killed by the Nazis' night patrols after they land. However, a private named Ed Boyce survives to find Corporal Ford, a last-minute incorporation from Italy and a veteran expert in bombs and explosives, rogue sniper Tibbet, war photographer Chase, and finally private Dawson. After they watch the killing of their superior Sergeant Eldson by a Nazi night patrol, Ford becomes leader of the group and they try to get the town with the tower in order to complete the mission. In the forest close to the town they meet Chloe, a villager who assists the soldiers in her home with her elderly aunt and little brother Paul. But the mission gets complicated when by accident, Boyce ends up inside the Nazi radio tower, only to find horrible secret experiments with human beings that could empower a victory for Hitler and would change the fate of the world forever. With D-Day approaching, Boyce and the others begin to realize there is more going on in this Nazi-occupied village than a simple military operation. They not only have to fight against soldiers to destroy the radio tower, but also against the results of the experiments to turn the entire place to ruins. All this before dawn and Hitler gets his Third Reich of a thousand years that he promised.

## Powers and Abilities

SS Hauptsturmführer Wafner possesses the following powers and abilities:

* Instantaneous Healing
* Extreme durability & strength

## Fate

**SS Hauptsturmführer Wafner** is killed when Boyce blows up the church and jamming tower, killing Ford, Wafner, and the test subjects.

## Trivia

* The movie featured more practical effects rather than the standard cgi effects most movies use. This was done to get a better reaction from the actors involved in the scenes where something gruesome would happen.
* Operation Overlord was the code-name for the Allied operation for the Battle of Normandy, which launched the successful invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. This, alongside Operation Neptune, would become known as D-Day.
* Initially, it was reported that the film will be the fourth part of the Cloverfield film series, but on April 25, Abrams himself announced at CinemaCon that the film would not belong to this series.
* The scene where Chase's neck snaps back so fast causing bones to stick out of his chest was done with old school puppetry and animatronics.
* It took 5 hours each day to apply the face makeup to Pilou Asbæk for his disfigured, mutated face appearance.
* Some of the creatures encountered by Wyatt Russell's character encounters resemble those his father Kurt Russell's character encountered in The Thing.
* "*A thousand year Reich needs thousand year soldiers*"~ Wafner