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 2 months ago by AmourDeFrance@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
khannie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hon hon hon
Red0ctober@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not specifically French, but Hetalia is straight up countries as people.
FerretyFever0@fedia.io 2 months 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 2 months ago
Asterix
ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
and Obelix
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Scandinavia and the World (comic)
Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 2 months ago
It even has two Frances!
litchralee@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Does a webcomic count as a franchise? satwcomic.com
Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 months 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 2 months ago
It’s only a matter of time before they make “The Polandball Movie”
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pepe le Pew?
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Flight of the conchords is 100% your typical New Zealander
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 2 months 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 2 months ago
I mean the Expedition 33 cast is basically French people.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 months ago
Zis game, so tight!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Civilization?
Hugin@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Girls umd Panzer
__siru__@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Maybe I am completely misunderstanding, but wouldn’t Marianne be the main character representing France?
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dexter’s Lab but only for one episode.
SmoothIsFast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Omelette du fromage!
LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Punch-Out! Wii has you fighting caricatures of various nationalities
lencioni@midwest.social 2 months ago
Street Fighter
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
I thought it was supposed to portray the Soviet Union as the empire?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 months 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 2 months ago
Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room with Pierre and Suzette.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How about these happy little friends?
Phryges - Wikipedia share.google/xdlE0TIy1sNRHC8Yr
hisao@ani.social 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Pepe Le Pew is the first character that comes to mind for France
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Jean Pierre Polnareff for me.