Leave us not ignore the mass-based right-populist political movement of second-string Happy Days characters: The Potsies! 
Yeah, we have to watch out for Sir Roderick Spode and the Brownshorts taking over.
The fact is the Nazis were snappy dressers.
Yes Stalins mob and Maotze donglers people were totally EVIL but when the representatives of absaloute evil are dressed like your local park bench Meths drinker it lacks a certain “something”.
I think that the Nazis as the supreme bad guys will continue right up until the History Channel is consumed by the expanding dying sun and the death of our solar system.
Also, they had the whole “Mad Science” thing down pat.
This is so true. No remotely sane person can hear about Mengele and the like and not just feel utter revulsion and fear. The Nazis are still good villains in fiction because they were regrettably good at being bad guys in real life.
I did once learn the hard way that if you’re a snotty 14-year-old who resents your parents forcing you to go to Hebrew school, the person to discuss how snappy looking the Nazis were - especially compared to the unavoidable scrappy appearance of the various resistance forces - is not your rabbi. Whose mother survived one of the camps and whose father was in the Polish Resistance and fought in the Warsaw uprising. Regardless of the truth of the initial statement, that’s not a conversation that’ll end well.
A worse fate has already befallen the History Channel: it’s been consumed by theologists, Nostradamus, and Bigfoot.
And a small group of Nazis could take them all without even breaking a sweat!
You’d think Muslim terrorists could take up the slack, but they always have to spend too much time pointing out how most Muslims are not like that. If they don’t, then they find a car bomb parked outside their door the next morning.
On the other hand, I can’t remember the last time, if ever, I saw a film that even hinted that not all Germans in the 1930s and 1940s were Nazis.
Try Valkyrie, with Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh etc. The reviews were mixed, but I thought it was pretty good.
Try Europa.
Ah yes, I spoke too soon. We even just saw Valkyrie not too long ago. And I do recall now there being a trend around the 1970s to portray sympathetic Nazis, Germans who were maybe drafted and hated the war and Hitler. But still, these are all very few overall, because let’s face it: Everyone wants to see evil German Nazis.
I think part of the reason Nazis are still and will continue to be the ultimate evil is that they are being used as a distraction from atrocities that were far worse and just as deliberate, like those of Stalin and Mao, both Communists.
And yet their own prior religious wars (jihad as-sayf), beginning with Muhammad, during which they conquered Spain and other vast regions, are somehow no problem to them or anyone else. Odd.
Come on. It’s not like there haven’t been plenty of movies with Commie villains. You don’t see 'em much since the collapse of the USSR (although, as I mentioned before, there was the recent Indiana Jones movie), but it was a common trope throughout the Cold War. See everything from The Manchurian Candidate to Red Dawn.
From the Arnold Schwarzenegger film Eraser (1996):
Tony Two Toes: There they are. Commie bastards!
Mikey: They’re not communists any more, Tony. They’re a federation of independent liberated states.
Tony Two Toes: Don’t make me hurt you, Mikey.
Das Boot was a hell of a flick, though.
It’s actually, “Are we the baddies?”
Much funnier. At least to English ears.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Nazis
Heinous villains.
“Everything” is actually pretty slim pickings. Communists were almost NEVER the villains in Hollywood.
Even in the James Bond movies, the Russians were almost never the villains. Oh yes, the Russians were the bad guys in most of Ian Fleming’s books, but in the movies, the Russians were replaced by evil international businessmen.
Corporate executives are villains in movies FAR more often than Communists.
Are we the baddies?
That’s not how I remember the 1980s.