What are some franchises with characters that personify countries?

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• Hugin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• Frostbeard@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Girls umd Panzer

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• Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Jean Pierre Polnareff for me.

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• DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Polandball

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  • khannie@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hon hon hon

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• Red0ctober@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

  m.imdb.com/title/tt1356878/

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  • FerretyFever0@fedia.io ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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• Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Scandinavia and the World (comic)

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  • Infrapink@thebrainbin.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It even has two Frances!

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• FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Asterix

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  • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    and Obelix

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• litchralee@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Does a webcomic count as a franchise? satwcomic.com

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  • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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• jxk@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• Mora@pawb.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean the Expedition 33 cast is basically French people.

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Zis game, so tight!

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Civilization?

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• Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Flight of the conchords is 100% your typical New Zealander

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    New Zealander

    Oh good, I thought they were Australians…

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2gii2nenUg

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    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• lencioni@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Street Fighter

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pepe le Pew?

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• __siru__@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

  Wiki Entry

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• LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dexter’s Lab but only for one episode.

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  • SmoothIsFast@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Omelette du fromage!

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• Marty_TF@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Non-player_characters#…

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• JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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• AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How about these happy little friends?

  Phryges - Wikipedia share.google/xdlE0TIy1sNRHC8Yr

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• hisao@ani.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  • 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)

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  • AmourDeFrance@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Richelieu is beautiful hehe

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