Puppet Master: Axis Termination (2017) Plot Summary Explained

The Nazi spy was impersonating Captain Brooks to intercept the living puppets before they reached the American military. His mission was to eliminate anyone who stood between him and the puppets, which the Nazis needed for their own occult warfare. Danny was killed outright, and Beth was mortally wounded before the real Brooks arrived and killed the impostor.

• nazi spy
• danny
• beth
• puppet handover
• assassination

Captain Hansard assigned Brooks to join Doctor Ivan Ivanov's psychic team because the army needed to understand how the puppets worked and how their magical abilities could be harnessed for the war effort. The Nazis had already used occult rites to animate their own puppets, killing an American general and eight citizens, so understanding this power was critical for the Allies.

• captain brooks
• psychics
• doctor ivanov
• captain hansard
• war effort

Krabke was a formidable psychic Nazi with powerful mental abilities that overwhelmed the entire team at the power station. His psychic powers paralyzed them all, leaving Brooks and the psychics completely immobilized. It was only when Leech Woman spit a leech onto Krabke's eye that the team was able to break free and retreat.

• krabke
• psychic
• power station
• ambush
• paralysis

When Krabke paralyzed everyone with his psychic powers, Leech Woman spat a leech directly onto his eye, causing him to release his grip on the team. This bizarre attack gave them the split-second opportunity they needed to retreat from the power station and escape capture.

• leech woman
• leech
• escape
• krabke
• power station

The Nazis kidnapped Ivan's daughter to use as leverage against the psychic team. By capturing her, they hoped to force the psychics to reveal information about their abilities and the puppets, or to draw Brooks and his team into a trap at the mansion where they were hiding.

• ivan daughter
• kidnapping
• mansion
• naza trap
• leverage

During the final confrontation at the mansion, Krabke used his psychic powers to paralyze Brooks again. However, Pinhead approached silently and grabbed Krabke by the throat, choking him to death. The puppet's physical strength proved more effective than Krabke's psychic abilities in close combat.

• pinhead
• krabke
• mansion raid
• choking
• confrontation

Brooks was initially skeptical of the psychics, especially working with a Russian dwarf he considered beneath him. However, Ivan's daughter used her telepathic abilities to read his thoughts and revealed the traumatic war experiences he had witnessed. This moment of vulnerability made him human to the group and helped him accept their powers as genuine.

• brooks trust
• telepathy
• war trauma
• ivan daughter
• skepticism

After defeating the Nazis at the mansion and eliminating Krabke, Brooks and the team returned home and placed the puppets back in their trunk to rest. The ending suggests the puppets would remain stored until needed for future assignments, as the war effort against the Nazis continued.

• puppets
• trunk
• aftermath
• war continues
• storage

The Nazis were using occult rites to animate puppets for use in their psychic warfare efforts. They had already killed American general Porter and eight citizens in connection with these occult experiments. The Nazi puppets represented a supernatural threat that required the Allied puppets and psychics to counter.

• nazi puppets
• occult
• general porter
• supernatural
• psychic warfare

A Nazi spy had disguised himself as Captain Brooks to intercept the puppets meant for the American war effort. The real Brooks arrived at the handover location after the spy had already shot Danny and mortally wounded Beth, allowing Brooks to kill the impostor and take possession of the puppets.

• captain brooks impersonator
• spy
• disguise
• confusion
• handover