i really like all things France and want to find a character that personifies France :)
What are some franchises with characters that personify countries?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by AmourDeFrance@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
khannie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hon hon hon
Red0ctober@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not specifically French, but Hetalia is straight up countries as people.
FerretyFever0@fedia.io 3 weeks 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.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Asterix
ace_garp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
and Obelix
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Scandinavia and the World (comic)
Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 3 weeks ago
It even has two Frances!
litchralee@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Does a webcomic count as a franchise? satwcomic.com
Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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.
jxk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s only a matter of time before they make “The Polandball Movie”
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pepe le Pew?
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Flight of the conchords is 100% your typical New Zealander
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 3 weeks 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.
Mora@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I mean the Expedition 33 cast is basically French people.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks ago
Zis game, so tight!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Civilization?
Hugin@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Girls umd Panzer
__siru__@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Maybe I am completely misunderstanding, but wouldn’t Marianne be the main character representing France?
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dexter’s Lab but only for one episode.
SmoothIsFast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Omelette du fromage!
LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Punch-Out! Wii has you fighting caricatures of various nationalities
lencioni@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Street Fighter
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
While not about France, the prominent example that comes to mind is Star Wars personifying the United States as the Empire.
MBech@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
I thought it was supposed to portray the Soviet Union as the empire?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks 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.
AmidFuror@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room with Pierre and Suzette.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How about these happy little friends?
Phryges - Wikipedia share.google/xdlE0TIy1sNRHC8Yr
hisao@ani.social 3 weeks 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)
AmourDeFrance@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Richelieu is beautiful hehe
- 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:
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Pepe Le Pew is the first character that comes to mind for France
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Jean Pierre Polnareff for me.