Hank asks viewers whether it would be okay to kill baby Hitler (2007)
ask · status: reported back · last event: result reported (2013-01-15) · owner: Hank
In May 2007 Hank asked viewers whether it would be okay to kill baby Hitler. In the comment debate that followed, Nerdfighter Brooke proposed a third, comic option: kidnap him and raise him in an Evil Baby Orphanage, which John introduced on May 14. John credited Brooke again in 2009; in 2012 Hank recalled it as an idea he and John came up with. Hank put the question to Charlie McDonnell in 2012, and John answered that he would kidnap baby Hitler, not kill him.
Told alongside: The Evil Baby Orphanage (2007)
About: Adolf Hitler
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-05-11 | asked | Hank asks for people's opinions on whether it would be okay to kill baby Hitler. | May 11th: Heroes 00:02:03 |
| 2007-05-14 | result reported | John reports that Hank's baby-Hitler question sparked an intense comment debate split into pro- and anti-killing camps, and introduces Nerdfighter Brooke's comic third option: an Evil Baby Orphanage. → refers to May 11th: Heroes | Brotherhood 2.0: May 14: The Evil Baby Orphanage 00:00:00 |
| 2009-04-05 (happened 2007-05) | result reported | John recaps the Evil Baby Orphanage: invented almost two years ago by nerdfighter Brooke as a compromise in the debate over killing baby Hitler via time travel. (playful) | The EVIL BABY ORPHANAGE Returns for North Korea 00:00:25 |
| 2012-04-27 | reminder | Hank asks Charlie McDonnell whether he would kill baby Hitler, ruling out the Evil Baby Orphanage as an option; Charlie says he would kill him. (playful) | Hank Talks to Charlie McDonnell 00:01:33 |
| 2012-05-01 | result reported | Answering Hank's question, John says he can't believe Hank still asks it five years after the Evil Baby Orphanage; he would kidnap baby Hitler, not kill him. (playful) → refers to Hank Talks to Charlie McDonnell | Moon Farts: Being Charlie While Running Errands 00:01:17 |
| 2012-08-10 | result reported | Hank recalls the Evil Baby Orphanage as an idea he and John conceived to escape the dilemma of killing baby Hitler: you could instead abduct him to an evil baby orphanage. | I Don't Have a Favorite Pony 00:02:40 |
| 2013-01-15 | result reported | John recounts that a commenter answered Hank's baby-Hitler question: rather than kill him, kidnap evil babies and raise them in an evil baby orphanage. | An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall 00:57:30 |
What is said about it
3 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2007-05-14 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 14: The Evil Baby Orphanage — John says commenters fall into two camps: baby Hitler is just a baby who has not done evil yet, versus 'we need to go back in time and kill baby Hitler'. — 00:00:00
- 2012-04-27 · Hank Talks to Charlie McDonnell — Charlie McDonnell: Asked whether he would kill baby Hitler, Charlie wonders why Hank asks after years of the Evil Baby Orphanage; told the orphanage is not an option, he says he would kill the baby. (playful) — 00:01:35
- 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John retells the Evil Baby Orphanage: Hank asked about killing baby Hitler, a commenter proposed an orphanage for evil babies, inspiring fan fiction, web comics and now a professionally produced card game. — 00:57:30