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Heroic Comedic Sociopath: The Basterds are on a mission that requires them to perform atrocities, and they seem to take great pleasure in it, from scalping the dead to mutilating prisoners to beating the rest to death with a bat.
Source: Film / Inglourious Basterds -
Such crimes include but are not limited to: murdering soldiers, beating them to death with baseball bats, scalping their corpses, permanently scarring survivors for life, shooting into crowds of unarmed citizens, and suicide bombing a crowded theater.
Source: Pay Evil unto Evil -
They never really do anything, though, aside from the beating up some members of a rival gang (they may be selling "protection" to the Robbo Theives on the east side) in the beginning and selling (scalping?) tickets.
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