What are some franchises with characters that personify countries?
from AmourDeFrance@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 00:07
https://sh.itjust.works/post/45608979

i really like all things France and want to find a character that personifies France :)

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litchralee@sh.itjust.works on 08 Sep 00:14 next collapse

Does a webcomic count as a franchise? satwcomic.com

And here are all of France’s appearances: satwcomic.com/the-world/france

Ephera@lemmy.ml on 08 Sep 03:48 collapse

Polandball would be another web comic like that. Although the characters are just circles with flags in them, so no idea how useful that is.

Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz on 08 Sep 00:15 next collapse

Flight of the conchords is 100% your typical New Zealander

givesomefucks@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 00:22 collapse

New Zealander

Oh good, I thought they were Australians…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2gii2nenUg

Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz on 08 Sep 01:47 collapse

The Kiwi / Aussie rivalry is great, we rip each other to shreds, but will stand up for one another if anyone else tries it.

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 00:15 next collapse

Pepe le Pew?

Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz on 08 Sep 00:16 next collapse

Pepe Le Pew is the first character that comes to mind for France

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works on 08 Sep 04:50 collapse

Jean Pierre Polnareff for me.

Red0ctober@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 00:23 next collapse

Not specifically French, but Hetalia is straight up countries as people.

m.imdb.com/title/tt1356878/

FerretyFever0@fedia.io on 08 Sep 02:15 collapse

Yeah, I'd stay far away from this one. It has every power of WW2 personified as an anime boy. If I had the word hate... you know the rest. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan shouldn't be turned into anime boys.

FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website on 08 Sep 00:39 next collapse

Asterix

ace_garp@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 00:42 collapse

and Obelix

DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org on 08 Sep 00:52 next collapse

Polandball

khannie@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 08:06 collapse

Hon hon hon

hisao@ani.social on 08 Sep 01:47 next collapse
  • Kantai Collection (KanColle) – A Japanese browser game (later anime) where WWII-era Japanese warships are personified as girls. Hugely popular in Japan around 2013–2016. KanColle started mostly with Imperial Japanese Navy ships, but later added foreign ones. For France, the characters are:
    • Richelieu – Personification of the French battleship Richelieu.
    • Jean Bart – Battleship, Richelieu’s sister ship.
    • Commandant Teste – Seaplane tender.
  • Azur Lane – A Chinese mobile game (also with anime and manga) that includes warships from multiple countries (Japan, USA, UK, Germany, etc.) as anime girls. This one has a more international cast compared to KanColle. Azur Lane has a whole French faction called Iris Libre (Free Iris, based on Free France) and Vichya Dominion (based on Vichy France). French shipgirls include:
    • Richelieu – Battleship, leader-type character (Free Iris).
    • Jean Bart – Battleship (Vichya Dominion, later joins Free Iris).
    • Le Malin – Destroyer.
    • Le Triomphant – Destroyer.
    • Algérie – Heavy cruiser.
    • Béarn – Aircraft carrier.
    • Saint Louis – Heavy cruiser.
    • Gascogne – Battleship (super prototype type).
    • Dupleix, Émile Bertin, Vauquelin, Kersaint, Forbin, Surcouf, etc. – Various cruisers, destroyers, and subs.

PS: those two games I had in mind immediately, but I used a bit of AI to put up those lists of characters, added some links manually (for other characters just swap the character name in query)

AmourDeFrance@sh.itjust.works on 08 Sep 19:31 collapse

Richelieu is beautiful hehe

Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 01:51 next collapse

How about these happy little friends?

Phryges - Wikipedia share.google/xdlE0TIy1sNRHC8Yr

AmidFuror@fedia.io on 08 Sep 03:38 next collapse

Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room with Pierre and Suzette.

betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 04:26 next collapse

Dexter’s Lab but only for one episode.

SmoothIsFast@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 13:39 collapse

Omelette du fromage!

__siru__@discuss.tchncs.de on 08 Sep 05:32 next collapse

Maybe I am completely misunderstanding, but wouldn’t Marianne be the main character representing France?

Wiki Entry

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 08 Sep 05:35 next collapse

Civilization?

Echolynx@lemmy.zip on 08 Sep 06:11 next collapse

Scandinavia and the World (comic)

Infrapink@thebrainbin.org on 08 Sep 10:20 collapse

It even has two Frances!

jxk@sh.itjust.works on 08 Sep 06:42 next collapse

It’s only a matter of time before they make “The Polandball Movie”

JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 08:06 next collapse

While not about France, the prominent example that comes to mind is Star Wars personifying the United States as the Empire.

MBech@feddit.dk on 08 Sep 15:31 collapse

I thought it was supposed to portray the Soviet Union as the empire?

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de on 08 Sep 17:10 collapse

Return of the Jedi with the Ewoks fighting the Empire is a direct reference to the Vietnam war.

Although the easier to see reference for the Empire is Nazi Germany.

Mora@pawb.social on 08 Sep 08:56 next collapse

I mean the Expedition 33 cast is basically French people.

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de on 08 Sep 17:08 collapse

Zis game, so tight!

LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml on 08 Sep 09:05 next collapse

Punch-Out! Wii has you fighting caricatures of various nationalities

lencioni@midwest.social on 08 Sep 14:55 next collapse

Street Fighter

Frostbeard@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 16:05 next collapse

Girls und Panzer

Hugin@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 18:31 collapse

Hetalia: Axis Powers is this during WWII.

France (フランス, Furansu) is an overly-romantic, carefree man. In the series, he is shown to have a long-held rivalry with England. He makes sexual passes at many characters. France explains away his long history of military defeats as a joke from God, but he believes he is gifted with his “charms” and his supreme cooking skills.