
Benzino Napaloni is a major villain in 1940 Chaplin comedy The Great Dictator, a parody of fascist leader Benito Mussolini in the same way his ally Adenoid Hynkel parodies Hitler, and leader of the country of Bacteria. Benzino is introduced to the film as he and his wife go on a visit to Hynkel’s country Tomania, and Benzino and Adenoid disagree over who should attack the country of Osterlich first. He appears in Nonspecific Villains War.
Nonspecific Villains War[]
Forming the Axis[]
The leader of Tomania, Adenoid Hynkel, and the leader of Bacteria, Benzino Napaloni, form an alliance at Hynkel’s palace, as Hynkel’s Minister of Propaganda, Garbitsch, watches. Together, they form the European Axis.