History Characters / AxisPowersHetalia

* AxisPowersHetalia/TheAxis (North Italy, Germany, Japan)
* AxisPowersHetalia/JusticeDestinyStrikeFreedom (America, England, Russia, France, China)
* AxisPowersHetalia/NeitherHolyNorRomanNorAnEmpire (Holy Roman Empire, Hungary, Austria, Prussia, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, South Italy, Monaco, Seborga)
* AxisPowersHetalia/TrueNeutral (Switzerland, Liechtenstein)
* AxisPowersHetalia/TheEasternEuropeSoapOpera (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Moldova)
* AxisPowersHetalia/SocialismAndSaltedHerring (Finland, Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark)
* AxisPowersHetalia/TheEmpireFormerlyKnownAsBritain (Canada, Sealand, Seychelles, Australia, Cameroon, New Zealand, Wy)
* AxisPowersHetalia/TheEmpireOnWhichTheSunSetsInAFewHours (Cuba)
* [[AxisPowersHetalia/AseanSensasean ASEAN SENSASEAN]] (Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Mongolia, Tibet, Macau)
* AxisPowersHetalia/IstanbulNotConstantinople (Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Northern Cyprus, Cyprus, Bulgaria)
* AxisPowersHetalia/ModernClassics (Roman Empire, Germania, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece)

And given how many there already ''are,'' as well as the real life world history, it should come as no surprise that the original main characters (Germany, Italy, Japan, America, England, France, Russia, China) have been supplemented by a [[IncrediblyLamePun whole world]] of prominent, minor and periphery characters.

* AxisPowersHetalia/TheEasternEuropeSoapOpera (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania)

[[folder: Hideaki Anno]]

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[[caption-width:300:[[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2007-05-03 "I'm here to answer any questions you have".]]]]

->''(what he's actually saying)"I is here to answer any question ye may have by which I means I will nat answer any questions."''




THE TRUE FACE OF EVIL AND INSANITY!!!!!!
A VERY EVIL MAN WHO HAS DONE VERY EVIL THINGS!!!!!!


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* {{Deconstruction}} - A specialty of his.(he was a former construction worker)
* Draco in Leather Pants - he is very very evil but his fangirls and boys deny that and call him a sweet innocent bearded angel!
* Evil Is Sexy - He may be evil and crazy but none would deny that he is a sexy evil beast! Just look at the pic!!

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[[folder: WHO???]]
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>'''Voiced by''': Who voiced him?

->''"I can't remember who I am. Nobody counts the number of times they pick their nose or take a crap. Same with this SO FUCK OFF!!!."''



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[[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters There is potentially a character for every country that exists now or ever has, even ones that were never independent countries like Hong Kong, and supernational states like the Holy Roman Empire]]. The human names are technically not canon, but nonetheless are mentioned (although they are WordOfGod they're not used in the manga aside from two dubious instances in strips; they don't appear on the website and they were deleted with the author's original site blog). Nevertheless they're popular in fandom, mostly because many people don't like using the actual country names in fanfic. It also helps that he's open at least to the idea of human names.

And given how many there already ''are,'' as well as the real life world history, it should come as no surprise that the original main characters (Germany, Italy, Japan, America, England, France, Russia, China) have been supplemented by a [[IncrediblyLamePun whole world]] of prominent, minor and periphery characters.

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[[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters There is potentially a character for every country that exists now or ever has, even ones that were never independent countries like Hong Kong, and supernational states like the Holy Roman Empire]]. The human names are technically not canon, but nonetheless are mentioned (although they are WordOfGod they're not used in the manga aside from two dubious instances in strips; they don't appear on the website and they were deleted with the author's original site blog). Nevertheless they're popular in fandom, mostly because many people don't like using the actual country names in fanfic. It also helps that he's open at least to the idea of human names.

And given how many there already ''are,'' as well as the real life world history, it should come as no surprise that the original main characters (Germany, Italy, Japan, America, England, France, Russia, China) have been supplemented by a [[IncrediblyLamePun whole world]] of prominent, minor and periphery characters.

* AxisPowersHetalia/IstanbulNotConstantinople (Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Northern Cyprus, Bulgaria)

* AxisPowersHetalia/IstanbulNotConstantinople (Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Northern Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania)

* AxisPowersHetalia/IstanbulNotConstantinople (Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Northern Cyprus, Bulgaria)

* AxisPowersHetalia/TheEasternEuropeSoapOpera (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova)

* AxisPowersHetalia/NeitherHolyNorRomanNorAnEmpire (Holy Roman Empire, Hungary, Austria, Prussia, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, South Italy, Monaco, Seborga, Portugal)

-->In heaven, [[BritishCoppers the police are British,]] [[LatinLover the lovers are Italian,]] [[HollywoodCuisine the chefs are French,]] [[{{Technopath}} the engineers are German]], and [[TheWatchmaker the bankers are Swiss.]]

And given how many there already ''are,'' as well as the real life world history, it should come as no surprise that the original main characters (Germany, Italy, Japan, America, England, Russia, China) have been supplemented by a [[IncrediblyLamePun whole world]] of prominent, minor and periphery characters.

And given how many there already ''are,'' it should come as no surprise that the original main characters (Germany, Italy, Japan, America, England, Russia, China) have been supplemented by a world of major, minor and periphery characters.

* AxisPowersHetalia/JapanesePrefectures

* AxisPowersHwetalia/JapanesePrefectures

[[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters There is potentially a character for every country that exists now or ever has, even ones that were never independent countries like Hong Kong, and supernational states like the Holy Roman Empire]]. The human names are technically not canon (although they are WordOfGod they're not used in the manga aside from two dubious instances in strips; they don't appear on the website and they were deleted with the author's original site blog), nevertheless they're popular in fandom, mostly because many people don't like using the actual country names in fanfic. It also helps that he's open at least to the idea of human names.

[[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters There is potentially a character for every country that exists now or ever has, even ones that were never independent countries like Hong Kong, and supernational states like the Holy Roman Empire]]. The human names are technically not canon (although they are WordOfGod they're not used in the manga aside from two dubious instances in strips, they don't appear on the website and they were deleted with the author's original site blog), nevertheless they're popular in fandom, mostly because many people don't like using the actual country names in fanfic.

* [[AxisPowersHetalia/AseanSensasean ASEAN SENSASEAN]] (Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Mongolia, Tibet)

* AxisPowersHetalia/TheAxis
* AxisPowersHetalia/JusticeDestinyStrikeFreedom
* AxisPowersHetalia/NeitherHolyNorRomanNorAnEmpire
* AxisPowersHetalia/TrueNeutral
* AxisPowersHetalia/TheEasternEuropeSoapOpera
* AxisPowersHetalia/SocialismAndSaltedHerring
* AxisPowersHetalia/TheEmpireFormerlyKnownAsBritain
* AxisPowersHetalia/TheEmpireOnWhichTheSunSetsInAFewHours
* [[AxisPowersHetalia/AseanSensasean ASEAN SENSASEAN]]
* AxisPowersHetalia/IstanbulNotConstantinople
* AxisPowersHetalia/ModernClassics

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[[folder:The Axis]]
!The Axis [[strike: Of Evil]]
* AnalogyBackfire: When Italy invents the Axis metaphor ("The world will revolve around a Rome-Berlin Axis"), Germany [[LampshadeHanging points out]] how (literally) astronomically impossible the idea is.
* BlondBrunetteRedhead: Germany, Japan, and Italy, although the personalities hardly match up.
* IdiotHair: For the Italy brothers, it acts as an erogenous zone.
* {{Nakama}}: The Axis Powers are somewhat shown as this. At one point, N. Italy has a bad dream that the others will get tired of him and leave him behind.
* OnlySaneMan: Germany. Japan is this occasionally to Germany and Italy, especially in anime artwork. And, in one strip, ''Italy'' plays the role of the sensible one to Japan and Germany's new dieting habits.
* OppositesAttract: Germany and Italy.
* PinkySwear: Used to symbolize Germany and Italy's Pact of Steel.
* PortmanteauCoupleName: In RealLife, Italians called the group "Roberto" for '''Ro'''me-'''Ber'''lin-'''To'''kyo. In Italy, 'Axis' meant just Rome and Berlin specifically.
* PowerTrio: Germany is Superego (rational), Italy is Id (emotional), Japan is Ego (middle man).
** ComicTrio: More often than they'd like.
* [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl Savvy Guy, Energetic Other Guy]]: Germany and North Italy. Italy also has these dynamics with his brother South Italy, and Japan.
* ShirtlessScene: Germany and Italy have a few. [[HoYay Usually together]]. [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn To Japan's embarrassment]]
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Germany and Italy... [[spoiler:and it seems they really ''do'']].

!!N. Italy (Italy Veneziano) - Feliciano Vargas
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->''Mmm... Let's see, let's see... I'll start with de-li-cious pasta.. and then, then I'd like olive oil, and wine, and then, and then, a real pretty girl, riiight here...''

->Voiced by: DaisukeNamikawa (JP), Aki Kanada (JP-Chibitalia), ToddHaberkorn (EN), BrinaPalencia (EN-Chibitalia)
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* AdaptationDyeJob: His hair is often colored medium or light brown in manga illustrations, but the anime gives him auburn hair, though it tends to be brightened to a saturated sort of red shade in some episodes.
* BigEater: His obsession with pasta.
* BiTheWay: Italy hits on girls all the time, but as Chibitalia his first real love was a male: the HolyRomanEmpire. And now there's Germany, too...
* BrownEyes: In the manga.
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralGood, arguably. He's... hard to pin down.
* CheerfulChild (as Chibitalia) --> {{Keet}} (as a teenage/adult)
* TheDeterminator: Inverted. He's very determined... to give up.
* DieForOurShip: Gets hit by this from rabid Germany/Prussia shippers who turn him into a PsychopathicManchild who tortures Germany. Yes, really. [[YourHeadAsplode Your head may asplode now.]]
* TheDitz
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: As Chibitalia, he once had a dream about a young man he had never seen until then. [[spoiler: That youth turned out to be Japan.]]
* DrivesLikeCrazy: The reason Japanese cars are so safety oriented is because poor Japan took a horrendous car ride with Italy once and it traumatised him for life.
* [[DroppedABridgetOnHim Dropped A Reverse Bridget On Him]]: Did this to Austria. It was [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarious]]!
* EyesAlwaysShut: He's usually drawn with eyes that resemble equals signs.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in episode 41, where Italy opens his eyes as he wakes up.
--->''I tried opening my eyes for a change. ~Italy Veneziano''
* EyesOfGold: In the anime.
* [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Innocent Fanservice Guy]]: Italy is rather eager to take his clothes off when he gets ready to nap or sleep. This often gets him bitched out or kicked away, as Austria showed him once.
* IdiotHair: Italy has one single hair curl on his left side, known to be an erogenous zone when touched (also read above). A couple incidents of Germany doing such was an AccidentalPervert situation.
* [[GirlInABox Boy In A Crate]]: Germany met Italy like this.
** He ends up in one again after [[PityTheKidnapper America and England get tired keeping him prisoner]] and send him back to Germany. With a card that says "FUCK" on it.
* [[{{Joshikousei}} Danshigakusei]]: Italy sometimes wears a sailor suit ... [[{{Fanservice}} but only some of it]].
* {{Keet}}
* {{Moe}}: [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/italy_hist.jpg At all ages]]. Just ask the [[HoYay Holy Roman Empire... or Germany]]... or his legions of {{Fangirl}}s.
* NonActionGuy
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Germany initially thinks that Italy is trying to trick him. He's wrong.
* ObliviousToLove: So, ''so'' much toward Germany, reaching MasterOfTheMixedMessage levels at times.
* OcularGushers: Italy's tears are pressurized like a water hose, sometimes getting all over other people.
* PickyEater: He doesn't hide his dislike of Germany's sausages.
** He's been one ever since he was Chibitalia: He was hungry, so Holy Roman Empire left his food for him, but he didn't eat it because it looked gross. He's a gourmet.
* SlasherSmile: In one strip, Japan imagines Italy pulling one.
* TalkingToHimself: DaisukeNamikawa voices ''both'' Italies. Meanwhile, Aki Kanada voices ''both'' of their younger selves.
* TastesLikeDiabetes: Chibitalia.
* TheLeisureSuitLarry: He's supposed to be a lothario, but he's still a virgin, so he is not very successful.
* TheLoad: And how.
* TheObstructiveLoveInterest: He is this to Germany. But played for comedy of course.
* TheWoobie: Mostly due to his own incompetence (even the title says so!) but that doesn't make him any less sympathetic.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: As Chibitalia, he once ''kicks Turkey's ass''.]] He de-levels, of course.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Pastaaaaaaaaa~!
* TrouserSpace: In one comic, Italy pulls a pair of boxers out of his own pair.
* VerbalTic: "Veeeeeee!"
** "Beh!"
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He wasn't originally intended to have his IdiotHair, but Himaruya drew it in at the last minute to make him appear cuter. His personality was also originally to be similar to a character from Himaruya's first series, ''Advance! Kitakou Broadcasting Club'' in being simply unlucky and cowardly, not being ''that'' much of a ditz.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Not only as Chibitalia, but also in the [[http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/8327259.html 2010 April's Fools strip]] where he dons a dress, make-up and a wig to fool Japan into thinking that he was born female.

!!Germany - [[OnlyOneName Ludwig]]
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->''Right,'' Germany ''will do something. Why don't'' you ''do something?''

->Voiced by: HirokiYasumoto (JP), PatrickSeitz (EN)
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* BiTheWay: Him. North Italy. [[spoiler: Holy Roman Empire and Chibitalia, if you subscribe to the "Germany = grown-up, amnesiac HRE" theory]]. That's all.
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulNeutral:
* DrillSergeantNasty: Germany shouts almost constantly at anyone who is being difficult, unorganized or a layabout. It's implied that Austria is even stricter.
** TrainingFromHell: As far as Italy is concerned, they put him through this.
* GermanicDepressives: Of course.
* GermanicEfficiency: Naturally.
* HawaiianShirtedTourist: When taking a trip to Hawaii, getting a weird look from a Hawaiian.
* [[spoiler: LaserGuidedAmnesia: It has been hinted that he ''really'' is the missing Holy Roman Empire, only grown up and without any recollection of his childhood. That comes across in the Valentine's strip, which ends with Germany ''possibly'' starting to recover his memories.]]
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: [[CaptainObvious Well...yeah]], but WWII Germany in particular fits this trope. He's seen reacting with open shock and disgust at some of the orders he's given (like taking Austria away by force in the "Anschluss", despite Hungary and Italy's pleas), yet he can't do anything but obey.
* NeatFreak: One strip has Italy cooking and Germany cleaning up his mess right next to him.
* OnlyOneName: Unlike the other characters, only his first name was ever given. According to WordofGod, we allegedly will find out why...[[AllThereInTheManual someday]].
** Fans generally give him the same last name as his brother Prussia if one is required.
* PaperThinDisguise: Germany, reenacting a story about a spy, only wears glasses as a disguise. However, France only recognizes him after noticing Germany's table manners.
* PerpetualFrowner: He has smiled maybe once, and that was when he was young.
** Lies! He smiles at Italy just before invading Poland in WWII, and when he's making clocks during - ironically enough - TheGreatDepression.
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Germany often says this to Italy.
** In one strip Japan is scandalized to find Italy and Germany lounging without shirts on a hot summer day.
* [[SayMyName ITALIAAAAAAA!!!!]]
* SeriousBusiness: "Whether it be games or cleaning, it's SeriousBusiness to me!"
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: If you ask South Italy or France, he's a "potato freak", but he doesn't eat them often. When France spots him undercover, it's ''the way'' he's eating that gives him away. He also has wursts and beer.
* {{Tsundere}}: [[WordOfGod Himaruya]] actually calls Germany one [[AllThereInTheManual in the notes]]. It's hard to tell his exact type given his usually [[GermanicDepressives staid demeanour]]. He ''seems'' to be a Type A fond of a mix between Cold Shoulder and Smirk (less about merely throwing insults around or having mood swings, more about being grumpy and a DrillSergeantNasty to Italy); he's usually a 'take no guff' guy around everybody, but you can just tell he's making exceptions for Italy.
** And to drive the point further, the [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Valentine's strip]] had Germany pretty much ''[[http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/735352.html the whole time]]'' in full-blown deredere mode.
* [[spoiler: VictoriousChildhoodFriend: He ''may'' be this to Chibitalia/North Italy, if he ''is'' the Holy Roman Empire. ]]
* {{Wangst}}: "Einsamkeit [[strike: und Recht und Freiheit]] (Loneliness)". From the few lyrics we know, it's played for laughs. It can still be sad [[YourMileageMayVary depending on your point of view]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Early notes in a booklet included with the special edition of volume 3 revealed that Germany was to be more of a "scary" character and moodier, but became more of a sympathetic type as the story evolved.
* TheWoobie: In the crazy world of Hetalia, [[OnlySaneMan Germany]] was given [[BlessedWithSuck the blessing of sanity]]. His [[TheWoobie woobieness]] is especially prominent in [[spoiler: the Valentine's Day strip]]. [[YourMileageMayVary If you're more of an Italy fan, you probably won't see things from this view and vice versa.]]

!!Japan - Kiku Honda
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->''Commander! I, like a true Japanese man will say "I'll consider it" or "perhaps next time" or "we'll use discretion" and be as vague as possible! By all of which I mean "no", sir!''

->Voiced by: HirokiTakahashi (JP), Christopher Bevins (EN)
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* [[AmericansHateTingle Westerners Hate Japan]]: There ''are'' definitely Western fans who like him, but also an equal number of fans who are 'meh' about him at best and [[FanDumb brand him]] as an ExtremeDoormat, FlatCharacter, and/or even the series' [[TheWesley Wesley]] at worst due to his [[YamatoNadeshiko relatively]] [[TheStoic stoic]] [[InscrutableOriental personality]] and him representing the author's homeland which automatically makes him the character most vulnerable to MarySue accusations.
** There are even fans who take offense to a ''[[VocalMinority Visible Minority]]'' of the Japanese fandom turning him into a PossessionSue and cite this as a reason to not like him, forgetting that not only is that an absurd reason to hate the character himself (is it the ''character'' Japan's fault that his fandom likes warping his canon personality?) but that the Western fandom, or rather, American and Canadian fans do the ''[[HypocriticalHumor exact same thing]]'' to America and Canada.
* [[AManIsNotaVirgin A Male Nation Is Not A Virgin]]: Played for laughs with him and Greece.
* AsianAndNerdy: Like his {{Otaku}} side, this stereotype isn't brought up that much in regards to him but it clearly ''does'' apply to him to some extent, considering the couple of strips that show him to be a TeenGenius / GadgeteerGenius.
* BigFancyHouse: He lives in a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_house#Traditional_homes traditional Japanese house complex]]. It even has a [[HotSpringsEpisode a small outdoor hot spring]].
* BirdsOfAFeather: The major foundation for the Greece/Japan pairing, aside of the [[HoYay "Private]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean Lesson"]]. They do have their differences and Japan might be somewhat ObliviousToLove, but compared to almost all other potential couples' BelligerentSexualTension and/or [[OppositesAttract obvious personality contrasts]], they're practically HappilyMarried and the pairing least likely to get major conflict or angst in fanworks.
* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: In the Anglo-Japanese alliance, the artist isn't sure which is which.
* BrownEyes
* CainAndAbel: Him and his adoptive brother China.
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulNeutral, arguably. Again, not easy to pin down.
* CherryBlossoms: In episode 3 of the anime, when Japan is given the spotlight he's surrounded by [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic flying sakura petals]].
* CovertPervert: ...Come on, this is ''Japan'' we're talking about, how can he not be one? It's shown a little in the strips as well-like praising 2D over 3D, and casually having confidence-stealing erotic woodblock prints in his art book collection.
* DieForOurShip: [[FoeYay Turkey/Greece]] is a popular fanon pairing. Turkey and Greece [[LoveTriangle both like Japan in canon]]. [[BirdsOfAFeather Greece/Japan]] is more popular in the fandom overall than Turkey/Greece. Guess who gets bashed and unfairly called a RelationshipSue by the rabid Turkey/Greece shippers? ''Especially'' after anime episodes 54 and 55 aired? At least they still take the "just leave him out entirely" option over the "assassinate his character" option in fanworks, though.
* FishOutOfWater: He feels a bit strange sometimes when interacting with the other Axis members.
* FlowerMotifs: His human first name, Kiku, means "chrysanthemum", a flower with great symbolic importance in his country. CherryBlossoms are also often associated with him, especially after his introduction in the anime among a shower of them; Japanese fans have even adopted "[[SakuraGirl Sakura]]" as a FanNickname for his {{Gender Flip}}ped self.
* GagPenis: Inverted, because he's... well, [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean a lightweight]] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/025.jpg in his pants]].
--> '''Italy''' (as he's taking [[HotSpringsEpisode a hot bath]] with Japan): Hey, Japan! I heard from Germany that your miniatures are amazing! (...) [looks at Japan's body and into the water, obviously sizing up the other] Oh, wow! Here too?
--> '''Japan''': [[IFeelAngry My secret has been exposed. I suppose I can't do anything about this now...]] (there's a DiscretionShot as he beats up Italy)
** In the dub, Japan insists he's a grower, not a shower, so maybe...
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend / ThatDidntHappen: That night with Greece was AllJustADream. [[ImplausibleDeniability Really, it was! He's SO glad that it was just a dream!]]
** A subtler example comes from when he's helping Greece practice his Japanese through conversation:
-->'''Greece:''' Are you Nekojiro-san?
-->'''Japan:''' Yes, that's right.
-->'''Greece:''' Who does Nekojiro get along with?
-->'''Japan:''' His friend, Nekokichi-san.
-->'''Greece:''' (smiling) Am I Nekokichi-san?
-->'''Japan:''' (flustered) Eh? Ah...no comment.
* {{Hikikomori}}: Japan spent 200 years as one before America arrived at his doorstep with Commodore Perry. More specifically, Japan identifies himself as a ''hikikomori'' when he sees the American boats and almost has a FreakOut, and also when he [[TheWallflower does a Sunako]] in response to Holland opening the door to his room ("Don't shed sunlight on me! I'm melting!").
* HimeCut: Although he's a dude.
* InscrutableOriental: It isn't too often you see a Japanese character in a Japanese series characterized this way. Made even more noticeable by all of Japan's other Far Eastern siblings not fitting this trope in the slightest (with the possible exception of Hong Kong).
* JapanesePoliteness: Japan is always polite, even at his rudest:
-->'''China''': I'm China, aru! (...) Say, what's your name, aru?
-->'''Child!Japan''': (bows) Hello China, whom the sun sets upon. I am Japan, whom the sun rises on.
-->'''China''': Wah! This kid is so rude, aru!
** TruthInTelevision, as this is practically how Japan addressed itself in their first diplomatic document to China (The Emperor of the Land of the Sunrise to the Emperor of the Land of the Sunset...). The Chinese Emperor was of course pissed off, saying "bring not those impolite states before me!"
* JapaneseRanguage: He speaks like this in the dub.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: His WeaponOfChoice.
* KickTheDog: His stabbing of China in the back, presumably meant to symbolize the first Sino-Japanese war, which leaves a permanent scar on China's back. Though some fans seem to like emphasizing this single action of Japan a [[NeverLiveItDown little too much]], conveniently forgetting that there's ''more'' to him than that.
* {{Kuudere}}: He might ''look'' like an indifferent InscrutableOriental on the outside, but his close friendships (and enduring patience) with several other nations and his NotSoStoic moments hint at a warmer personality underneath, and some fans posit that he has trouble being open about his feelings because he's [[ShrinkingViolet secretly shy]] and/or believes that LoveIsAWeakness - something that can be remedied by ThePowerOfFriendship or [[ThePowerOfLove Love]], of course.
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: How many nations is he paired up with in {{Fanon}}? Especially by Japanese fans?
** Heck, even in the English-speaking fandom where he gets much less shipping attention than the Western countries do, it's probably telling that it can be hard at times to tell which ship is the most popular one for him with Japan/China, Japan/England, and Japan/Greece being within spitting distance of each other popularity-wise and several other Japan pairings having smaller but just as loyal followings.
* [[ManInWhite Nation-tan in White]]: When wearing his white military uniform.
* MeLoveYouLongTime: Okay, he isn't female (except in the occasional GenderFlip fanwork), but his personality is the one most closely tied to [[AsianAndNerdy Asian]] [[InscrutableOriental ste]][[JapanesePoliteness reot]][[YamatoNadeshiko ypes]] and the most common partner for him in fandom is Greece whose canon interest in his culture and language is often brought up in them, with England who stayed over at his house to learn more about his culture during their alliance running a very close second.
* MonochromaticEyes
* {{Mukokuseki}}
* NotSoStoic: In spite of Japan easily being one of the most stoic members of the cast, he's proven capable of losing his cool on quite a few occasions. Especially over [[HatesBeingTouched physical intimacy]], [[RantInducingSlight food prices]], [[{{Otaku}} 2D]], and [[PsychopathicManchild Russia]].
* {{Obake}}: They still exist, though Japan can't see them anymore.
* OddFriendship: He and America couldn't be any more different in personality, and yet they're good friends in the modern day strips who often spend holidays together.
* {{Otaku}}: He said he prefers 2D over 3D. Given the context, that should tell you something.
* OyajiKid: Remembering everybody's name is too much, the birthdays just get harder every year, high blood pressure, need to eat less salt...
* PerpetualFrowner: So much that Italy tries to get him to smile in one strip... well, he ''does'' succeed in getting Japan to show an angry expression, at least.
* {{Seppuku}}: He is ''shocked'' to discover this isn't Germany and Italy's first response to surrender.
* TeenGenius: Japan learns to write and invents his own alphabet ''very'' quickly, much to China's shock.
** GadgeteerGenius: In the webcast, he gives a U-boat a very interesting [[TransformingMecha upgrade]].
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: "An unpleasant sensation."
** DiscretionShot: But when he really ''does'' get angry...
* VocalEvolution: In the first drama CD, HirokiTakahashi gives Japan a rather soft voice. Later dramas and the anime series have him using a deeper tone.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Japan dresses [[YamatoNadeshiko like the archetypical Japanese housekeeper]] (female kimono, apron, and headgear included) when he does housework.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Never mind his gender, Japan ''by himself'' is actually the character in the series who's the closest to being a Yamato Nadeshiko, other than Liechtenstein (and maybe Lithuania), especially in the modern day strips. He's polite, soft-spoken, wears traditional Japanese clothing outside of meetings, and while he has his share of [[HikikoMori bizarre]] [[CovertPervert quirks]] like every other character in Hetalia does, they tend to be more subtle.
** ... Which of course has led to some people accusing him of being a FlatCharacter, even though his Yamato Nadeshiko traits are frequently used for humor/parody (e.g. he's often too polite for his own good or doesn't let his politeness get in the way of him being a touch passive-aggressive).
* {{Yandere}} / {{Yangire}}: He's got his own Yandere/Yangire ("Black Kiku") tag on Pixiv, and this characterization of him is especially popular in China/Japan fanfic (taking its cues from Japan being shown to [[KickTheDog brutally stab China]] InTheBack at one point in canon) and WWII DarkFic.
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[[folder:Justice Destiny Strike Freedom]]
!Justice Destiny Strike Freedom
* BlackMagic: England uses a creepy BlackCloak ritual to curse Germany.
** WhiteMagic: But Russia uses the Orthodox Church to curse Japan.
* FiveManBand: The Allied Forces can be seen like this, to some degree. Roles are subjected to change, of course:
** TheHero: America ([[LoveFreak or so he wants to believe]])
** TheLancer: England (StraightMan and sort of TheRival to America, ''[[NotSoAboveItAll sometimes]]'' TeamDad / OnlySaneMan)
** TheBigGuy: Russia (The tallest and [[PsychopathicManchild more unstable]] of the group)
** TheSmartGuy: France (mostly by default, though [[ManipulativeBastard he can be quite sneaky and sly]] when he wants)
** TheChick / TheHeart: China (The most traditionally bishonen and kinda artsy. He's also TheWoobie of the group.)
** SixthRanger: Canada (Whose presence is rarely noticed by the other Allies and sometimes mistaken for America.)
* FlowerMotifs: Fandom never misses an opportunity to depict Russia with sunflowers and England with roses (England's national flower). And then there's France and [[HandOrObjectUnderwear his own roses]]...
* [[WifeHusbandry Husband Husbandry]]: An inversion of this is a [[{{Fanon}} popular interpretation]] of [[HoYay a potential America/England romance]]. See the main page for details.
* {{MIB}}: England and France spread propaganda with style.
* RedOniBlueOni: America is cheerful, idealistic, brash, if a little ''too'' much. England is his cynical, grouchy, critical, sometimes underhand, longtime 'frenemy'.
** [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl Savvy Guy, Energetic Other Guy]]: They're also this.
* TalkingToHimself: America and Canada are ''both'' voiced by KatsuyukiKonishi.
* TheAlliance: The Allies, [[CaptainObvious of course]].
* TheMinnesotaFats: America and England have a bit of a rivalry. No matter what England does, America does it better. But on Halloween, England takes advantage of America's fear of ghosts and wins their competition of who will be scared first 87 years straight. (However, when America enlists Japan's help...)
* {{Tsundere}}: England is heavy on The Smirk, [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/APH_Chp2_p4.jpg especially]] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/i_i9-2.gif when]] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/APH_IndeDay_p5.jpg around]] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tdn6.jpg America]]. When he's in deredere mode, though, he sometimes shows such vulnerability that he qualifies as TheWoobie. He's also called Tsundere by both fandom ''and'' WordOfGod (specifically, the Drama [=CDs=] and some author notes).
** America is an odd variation of the Type B Tsundere. He has a penchant for stepping on people's toes with his rampant KY-ness, cheerful LoveFreak mannerisms and occasional bouts of arrogance, but England seems to be the only one he ''deliberately'' teases and yanks his emotions around. On the other hand, he shows sadness and melancholy as he remembers their past together and also displays childish yet genuine worry when the other's sick (once he even brings him back to life with his teasing), he complains about England's food but eats it anyway, and for all his complaints and teasings, he seems to hold genuine affection for England.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: America and England. My God, the ''ShipTease'' between them...
** They even have a strip that has a title that pretty much translates to [[MomentKiller The Moment Is Killed]].
*** Or, more specifically, [[http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/557094.html The Long-Awaited Deep Emotion is Ruined]].
** Reaches EveryoneCanSeeIt levels in one of the CD dramas, after everyone hears them arguing at night:
-->'''Lithuania:''' R-Russia! Everyone was pretending not to hear anything!
-->'''England:''' W-what? Everyone's awake, after all?
-->'''France:''' That's because you were having a lover's quarrel here.
-->'''England:''' [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend Don't say it was a lover's quarrel!]]
-->'''Japan:''' Well, it's not like we were peeping and such...
*** Hell, even ''Tony'' can see it in [[http://yamiyoru.livejournal.com/120577.html this]] mini-drama:

-->'''England''': That's why! The alien and friends over there, just shut up! You have been trying to irritate me since just now.
-->'''America:''' Even if you said that, the truth is you just wanted to sleep together in the same room in the same way we did in the past, right?
-->'''Tony:''' Love me bubu. Kiss me bubu.

** The dub also lampshades this, with France asking if they're done "releasing sexual tensions".

!!US of A - Alfred F. Jones
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->''Now is the time we allies must take a stand for the sake of the world! Should we not fight in the name of justice? Let our hammer of righteousness strike deep into the heart of this evil! Starting with this lame-o Italy!''

->Voiced by: KatsuyukiKonishi (JP), EricVale (EN)
[[hardline]]
* {{Adorkable}}: He's practically a comic book geek for crying out loud.
* AdultChild: Often acts like one.
** PsychopathicManchild: If America's featured in a DarkFic, he's ''very'' likely to end up like this.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Two of his hobbies are "archaeology" and "adventures".
* AmericaSavesTheDay: So much that he's the picture on the main page.
* AttentionWhore: So much so that, when he isn't the center of attention, he loses his will to do absolutely ''anything''.
* BigEater: America loves all matter of junk food, especially hamburgers. One strip features him becoming concerned about his weight causing him to try out different diets. (He still appears fit no matter what, of course.)
** Apparently he hides tons of sweets and junk food ''under his clothes''.
* BoisterousBruiser: America is ''very'' eager and happy to fight the Axis Powers.
* BrainySpecs: America actually doesn't need his glasses for any vision purposes. The glasses represent Texas (he gets them around the time of its annexation) but it really looks like an opportunity to [[{{Meganekko}} make him]] [[{{Moe}} cuter]].
* CaptainObvious: "It's not working!"
* ChainsawGood: In [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-878.html this new chibi sketch]] as a ShoutOut to FridayThe13th of course.
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulGood. Goes without saying.
* ClusterFBomb: [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-936.html We could call it a]] [[IncrediblyLamePun nuclear F bomb!.]]
** To explain: Himaruya used him to demonstrate an American movie that was heavy on ClusterFBomb.
* CoolPlane: Planes seem to be a motif, seeing as he has one on his bomber jacket and likes to show England his airplane designs. He has one in the third chapter which comes from a design in an old Disney cartoon.
** StealthInsult: Times two.
--->'''England:''' Such a [[{{Subtext}} (daft)]] design is beyond me, of course. How [[{{Subtext}} (idiotic)]] like you, America.
--->'''America:''' That's good! Because I also made this technology for [[{{Subtext}} (beating the crap out of)]] you!
* {{Eagleland}}: America is a relatively benign mix of both flavors.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His introduction has this exchange:
-->'''America:''' Okay--let's start from the be-gin-ning! England, you're my backup! Next, France! You're my backup! Uh, who's next...China, I'll have him as my backup. Lastly, Russia! Yours is the grave duty of backing me up!
-->'''Russia:''' Um, may I ask a question? What will ''you'' do?
-->'''America:''' Mm, that's actually a very good question, Russia! [[DesignatedHero I'll be the hero, of course!]]
* DumbBlonde: Sometimes.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: As a child, he loved playing with bunnies. As an adult, he befriends whales and even ''aliens'' (hi, Tony). Ironically, this doesn't mean that he cares one bit about global warming, though.
** But what about his giant robot to [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum combat global warming]]?
*** He's probably more interested in the giant robot aspect... (see his birthday strip)
* GeniusDitz: Very good with aircraft and computers, despite his lack of common sense and geography skills.
* HeroicWannabe: [[AmericaSavesTheDay "I'll be the hero, of course!"]]
** "I'll be the [[{{Sentai}} Red Ranger]], of course!"
** The credits of the independent film on Yout... I mean [[BlandNameProduct HetaTube]] list his role as "Hero".
* HollywoodPudgy: Spoofed; he believes he's gaining weight, but he doesn't look any different and WordOfGod [[http://aph.starry-sky.com/matome_heta.html says that he's actually gaining muscle and simply fails to realize it over his paranoia.]]
* IdiotsCannotCatchColds: He hasn't even heard of them.
** This has been retconned to represent the recent recession. Worse yet, America's cold ''spreads''.
*** Of course, that leaves this troper (and history major) wondering if the manga-ka decided to overlook The Great Depression for that joke. Also, what would something like the American Civil War be represented as? An auto-immune disease?
**** Probably a split-personality disorder?
*** The Great Depression is too big for any mere metaphor. [[http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/95663.html Here it is.]]
* IdiotHair: Represents Nantucket.
* IdiotHero: So damn much, indeed.
* InstantWakingSkills: In the drama CD, he goes from being half-awake to on his feet rushing to get ready for work when he sees he's going to be late (thankfully for him Lithuania readied everything for him).
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: He comes up with crazy inventions like a gun that makes people fall in love or a giant space robot to stop global warming. They never seem to get very far.
** To be more specific, the gun was meant to make enemy soldiers fall in love with each other. If you thought it was just a joke, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb the joke's on you]].
* JusticeWillPrevail: He says things such as "Should we not fight in the name of justice?" and "I support you in the name of justice!".
* LargeHam: He is often very energetic and loud, commanding all the attention for himself.
** Not to mention the character songs. There's a reason why it's [[EarWorm HAMburger street]], evidently.
* LoveFreak: He is "a nation of pioneers who think of everything in a positive light, is quick to take action, and loves heroes, justice, freedom, as well as hamburgers." He also gives a RousingSpeech talking about justice and defeating the evil Axis Powers in the beginning of Chapter Two.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: At least as far as England is concerned.
* MysteriousMiddleInitial: So, really, what ''does'' that "F" stand for?
* NonHumanSidekick: He has whales and the visitor from outer space named Tony (who hates England for some reason, but is fond of Lithuania).
* NonUniformUniform: In [[HighSchoolAU Gakuen Hetalia]]. [[http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd201/Genrou-chan/Hetalia%20Gakuen/31.jpg He wears his bomber jacket]] instead of the required school jacket.
** Well... it ''is'' modified to look like a letter jacket, so maybe he's on a sports team.
* PhenotypeStereotype: Since he ''is'' America, he's blond and blue-eyed.
* RonTheDeathEater: He may have his jerkish moments in canon, but some people make him out to be an absolute and irredeemable {{Jerkass}}, especially when they want to make [[TheUnfavorite Canada]] [[SympatheticSue look better]] or [[DieForOurShip justify England hooking up with someone else]].
** Or a PsychopathicManchild or even SpectacledSadist who treats Japan horribly during/after WWII. Sometimes this is done to [[DieForOurShip send Japan running off into the arms of someone else]], but other times it seems that the fan authors truly believe that America would ''actually'' act like that towards Japan. Keep in mind that while Japan initially resented America, he eventually warmed up to him during Westernization and is clearly good friends with him in the post-WWII strips. You would think that would signify that the events at the end of WWII are far from the be-all end-all of their overall relationship, right? [[NeverLiveItDown Apparently not.]]
* SayMyName: "EEEEENGLAAAAAAAND!!!!"
* SlasherSmile: America has this while [[ChainsawGood wielding a chainsaw]] along with ScaryShinyGlasses. Probably the only time America didn't look his [[LoveFreak normal self]]. Though it was only scary due to Canada's paranoia, as America was just using his chainsaw normally.
* StepfordSmiler: Fanfics often portray him as one of these. Even when canon shows him as being really ''that'' happy and childlike.
** If he is one, he's most likely a minor case instead of being a full-blown version.
** Was without a doubt one in the [[TearJerker "Cleaning my Storage Room"]] chapter.
* SuperStrength: Even as a child, America could pick up a buffalo and swing it around like a toy. He also can run around while dragging a car.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: At the Allied Forces meeting, America and the pictures of the different Allies on the chalkboard. The others figure it out though. Interestingly, they work it out not just because he's the only one praising it, but also because he points out it's obviously done in American cartoon style.
** It doesn't help that his own portrait is the only one that has sparkles around it.
* TalkingToHimself: Both Katsuyuki and Eric also voice Canada.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Burgers.
* TheDitz: The 'lovable/obnoxious oaf AdultChild' variety.
* VerbalTic: When he talks business, he ends his sentences with [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "-gates"]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to volume 3 originally he was supposed to be smarter, more cheeky and more handsome.
** MORE handsome? The mind boggles!
* {{Ukefication}}: Fanfic writers writers frequently forget about his super strength in order to make him a {{Woobie}}.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: America is irrationally afraid of even the mention of ghosts. Oddly, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything he doesn't mind the aliens that hang around his house]]. Apparently, on Halloween, he inherits England's second sight for a moment, which is ''terrifying'' for him.
** Oddly enough, the actual presence of the Grim Reaper didn't faze him at all.
* YouFailGeographyForever: The embodiment of the trope. In one strip he mentions that he gets a headache whenever he has to look at any map that's not of himself.

!!England/UK of GB and NI - Arthur Kirkland
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->''Ahh, fuck it all! You only got so far thanks to me prat, don't you dare act cocky with me!''

->Voiced by: NoriakiSugiyama (JP), Scott Freeman (EN)
[[hardline]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: Alternatively appears with dark or light blond hair in the manga, but it became a saturated yellow-blond shade for the anime.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: He apparently has a non-returned(?) crush on America. The most obvious hint is the Valentine's strip where England gives America some chocolates while blushing and being all embarrassed. America [[{{MasterOfTheMixedMessage}} giving mixed signals]] (mocking England in one moment, claiming to be hurt because England didn't give him Valentine's chocolates in the next) [[WillTheyOrWontThey doesn't exactly help matters]], and neither does the fact that they're both {{Tsundere}} and ''heavy'' on the ''tsun''.
* AmazingFreakingGrace: His ringtone on his cellphone.
* TheArcher: Some sketches of child!England have him with bow and arrows as his WeaponOfChoice
* BigBrotherMentor: He used to be this to America (and Canada) until [[TheAmericanRevolution it all went wrong.]]
* BigOlEyebrows: A sign of being a gentleman. Or something. And they're ''even bigger'' in the anime.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Due to the expansive nature of the British Empire and subsequent Commonwealth, fandom sometimes depicts him as the head of a large extended family including (so far): Australia, Canada, Cameroon, Hong Kong, Sealand, Seychelles, New Zealand and the USA.
* BlackMagic: His speciality. At one point, he tries to summon ''something'' evil and ends up with Russia.
** WhiteMagic: His Britannia Angel magic is a little less evil. Well, a lot sillier.
* TheBritishEmpire: Embodied by his days as a conquering pirate.
* TheBritishInvasion: As well as a pirate, he is also depicted as a [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O2OO-R4w1T0/Sp--0pLWacI/AAAAAAAAARQ/J299EsLCqLw/s320/Hetalia_England_CD.png rock guitarist]] in fan artworks (twice in official art), most probably as a nod to England's famous rock heritage.
* BritishStuffiness: Evidenced with the disapproving and often despairing attitude he displays towards his compatriots, but it's also averted- he's a former delinquent with a HairTriggerTemper, a [[ClusterFBomb foul mouth]] and [[CantHoldHisLiquor bad drinking habits.]]
* BritsWithBattleships: He references his impressive naval history in his image song "Absolutely Invincible British Gentleman."
-->'''England:''' (translated) "The seven seas are like my backyard, romance and plundering, I manage holiday houses in India and Hong-Kong!"
* CassandraTruth: Even though England can see magical creatures, almost nobody else can. So whenever he starts interacting with them, everyone else assumes he's gone [[TalkativeLoon off his rocker]].
** [[http://aph.starry-sky.com/rkgk16.html Other countries]] seem to be able to see the creatures when they go to England's house, except for America.
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulSelfish at his worst, NeutralGood at his best.
* CloakAndDagger: England is the best of the Allied Forces when it comes to spying.
-->'''England:''' ..When it comes to spies, no country can beat the great England!
* ClusterFBomb: He has the filthiest mouth of all the characters. Besides Tony, of course.
* CodeName of sorts: He's England but he represents the entire United Kingdom as well, so in the Japanese original he's called "Britain" (''igirisu''), even in historical periods when Great Britain didn't exist.
** In Japanese fanworks he's usually called by his "real name", England (''ingurando'') by his older brothers, and sometimes by other countries as well before the 18th century.
* CoolChair: He once tries to get back at America by tricking him into sitting on "Yorkshire's Infamous 'Sit and You Die' Busby Stoop Chair". Russia gets to it first and manages to out-evil it, causing it to explode.
* CovertPervert: In the first chapter of the (published) manga, "Meeting of the World" he's reading porn during the meeting. France cites several sexual records held by British people. And then there's his [[FanServiceWithASmile "battle uniform"]]. {{Fandom}} often depicts him as secretly being [[BeyondTheImpossible kinkier than France]].
* CryCute: "Cleaning Up The Storage". [[TearJerker That's all]].
* CutenessProximity: England is very affectionate to the nice spirits that follow him around. Since no one else can see those spirits, they assume [[CassandraTruth he's gone a little crazy.]]
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice Lord]]: He seems to be cold at first, but is surprisingly devoted to those he becomes friends with.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Due to the [[{{Understatement}} extensive and unpleasant]] history of British imperalism, he is ''extremely'' prone to this trope in fanworks, sometimes to the point of being an irredeemable ManipulativeBastard. May overlap with the DieForOurShip entry below.
* DieForOurShip: Some America/Russia shippers exaggerate England's possible opposition towards their pet couple (which would be somewhat understandable, considering Russia's [[PsychopathicManchild instability]]) and make him a [[IfICantHaveYou downright]] ''{{Yandere}}'' (as opposed to Russia, who is frequently [[{{Woobie}} woobiefied]] in these fics, ''despite'' being the main {{Yandere}} in the cast).
* [[DotingParent Doting Older Brother]]: Towards little America, at any rate. He's not nearly as close to Canada (whom he occasionally mistakes for America), let alone [[{{AnnoyingYoungerSibling}} Sealand]].
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The animated rendition of "England is about to die" strips have the bed-ridden England [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylDxhpLtOG8 with feverish eyes, fever-reddened cheeks, slurred speech, slow breathing,]] etc. [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arthur_has_an_orgasm.jpg Something like this,]] if you wonder.
** [[MemeticMutation Shoops are obviously in the making.]] [[http://mizumimi.livejournal.com/19602.html Same goes to icons.]]
* DressingAsTheEnemy: He does this when he's trying to escape from Italy. (He even makes himself a fake {{Ahoge}}.) He even succeeds, until Germany notices that unlike the other Italians, he's not hitting on the pretty girls walking by.
* DrowningMySorrows: Apparently when he gets ''really'' drunk he tends to go on about that ungrateful whelp America [[LoveHurts leaving him]].
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Parodied when a young England fails to pull one and France tricks him into fixing it... cutting it back to its original length.
* FanServiceWithASmile: The [[HadakaApron "sexy waiter"]] outfit.
* FormerTeenRebel: Although he is now a (self-styled) gentleman, he used to be a delinquent.
* GreenEyes
* [[SheCleansUpNicely He Cleans Up Nicely]] - Comb his hair, put him in a nice, fashionable suit and Germany has trouble recognizing him, eyebrows or no eyebrows.
** ...[[FishOutOfWater Unless he's amid the crowds of Italy.]]
*** That was because of him being (stereotypically) English, though. Germany didn't recognize him until he started behaving differently than real Italians (e.g. not checking out pretty girls).
* HistoryOfNavalWarfare: He's seen defeating Spain's "invincible" Armada.
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: He's one of the most popular characters in both the Japanese and English-speaking fandoms. He gets around. A ''lot''.
** As evidence, his facebook fanlisting has the largest amount of fans out of any country in the series (over 9000 fans and counting). He also came 2nd in a character popularity poll hosted on the official Japanese site of Hetalia's publisher Gentosha, losing out (perhaps inevitably) to Japan - ''[[http://www.gentosha-comics.net/hetalia/enquete/index_02.html here.]]''
*** And he actually came in 1st on an [[http://www.gentosha-comics.net/hetalia/enquete/index_01.html earlier character popularity poll,]] beating out even Japan.
* LethalChef: A running gag is that his lack of taste is directly responsible for America's food culture.
** [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome "Listen and be amazed!"]] No one is impressed by his sudden discovery of 'hard-boiled egg' technology.
* LonelyAtTheTop: He used to be lonely even ''before'' he got to the top. (It's implied that America changed this, until of course [[TheAmericanRevolution things went wrong]].) He and Japan eventually [[LonelyTogether form an alliance over their shared friendless-ness]].
-->'''France:''' Oh, if it isn't the friendless England!
-->'''England:''' Dammit, being in Europe makes me so mad!
* MeanBrit: A little.
* MemeticOutfit: His "Britannia Angel" outfit, in which he has magic powers, such as being able to turn other characters back into children. Also his Sexy Waiter outfit.
* MessyHair
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: When he gets drunk he forgets all about being a gentleman and has the habit of stripping naked in front of other countries. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity usually ensues]].
* NotSoAboveItAll: He rejects a naked France's invitation to "join him in feeling 'open' today" because he doesn't want to be associated with France's [[AnythingThatMoves reputation]]. [[http://i55.tinypic.com/2gyanfk.jpg France calls him out on it]], stating a number of sexual records held by British people.
* OverlyLongName: He's a bit self-conscious about his very long name (the "UK of GB and NI," not "England").
* [[SheIsAllGrownUp He Is All Grown Up]]: England leaves young America to return to his country, telling the boy to do his best and become strong. When he comes back, England is shocked to find that America has grown to be taller than him. He has a similar nightmare about [[http://nisecal.livejournal.com/58883.html Sealand actually growing up and becoming a country.]]
* OnlySaneMan: He [[strike:usually]] [[strike:sometimes]] occasionally takes up this role with the Allies. Of course, 95% of the time, he's NotSoAboveItAll.
* PerpetualFrowner: Though not as much as your average perpetual frowner, you have to admit that {{Fanon}} and canon don't exactly depict him as the happiest person around.
* {{Pirate}}: A ''huge'' amount of fan-art depicts him during his swashbuckling, colonial past.
* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: He tries his best to be this...
** More like an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFOfTd1resQ&feature=related Absolutely Invincible British Gentleman]].
* RealMenWearPink: He loves sewing and embroidering.
* RonTheDeathEater: He tends to be hit with this trope. Whether it's because [[DieForOurShip he's in the way of the author's preferred pairing]], the author wants to [[TheWoobie woobiefy]] a character connected to him, they want to make him more [[DarkerAndEdgier "historically accurate"]] or, it seems, simply because [[EvilBrit he's British]], if a fanfic has an evil/depraved bastard and it's not Russia, chances are it's him.
* ShirtlessScene: Had one in the Japanese Folklore episode (episode 30), taking his clothes off to [[HotSpringsEpisode take a hot bath]]. In the anime it was [[FanService more ''sexy,'' and he was almost naked]].
* SitcomArchnemesis: With France.
* StudentCouncilPresident: In Gakuen Hetalia.
* SpotOfTea: England has a tea cup in his official art. America used to drink tea but has switched to coffee since TheAmericanRevolution.
** [[NotSoInnocentWhistle Not So Innocent]] SpotOfTea: Pirates? Privateers? Savaging the Spanish fleet? [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Nothing to do with him]].
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Australia, Hong Kong, Wy and Sealand share his BigOlEyebrows. Curiously, America, Canada and Seychelles don't.
* TalkingInYourSleep: In public, even. "Did you wet your bed again, Ame--"
* TheUnFavorite: Among his older brothers (Scotland and presumably Wales and Ireland).
* VolleyingInsults: England does this with France and America a lot.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Himaruya originally considered giving him normal thin eyebrows, as well as making him an older man who attempted to dress trendy and younger. He changed his mind on the eyebrows after deciding he wanted them to mimic the brow patterns of a Shiba dog.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: In one episode, England invents machines for boiling the 'perfect egg' and brewing the 'perfect beer.' Nobody is very impressed.


!!Russia - Ivan Braginsky
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->''I've always been alone, so it's great seeing everyone so alive. Besides, soon it'll be the last chance I can see their faces. Whenever I imagine how they'd look begging for mercy, I can't help but smile.''

->Voiced by: YasuhiroTakato (JP), JerryJewell (EN)
[[hardline]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: His hair varies between being platinum blond or a golden-dark blond in manga artwork. The anime chose to render his hair in a beige tone (which it originally appeared as in trading card art).
* [=~Beat Still, My Heart~=]: In one strip, Russia's heart ''falls out onto the table''. Apparently, this is something of a regular occurrence for him.
* BlessedWithSuck: Russia has General Winter around all the time. He despises the constant bitter cold but during wartime Winter is on his side.
* ComedicSociopathy: His insanity is always played for laughs.
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticNeutral, as he's too childish to fully realize the impact of his worst actions. Derailed into ChaoticEvil in WAY too many fanfics.
* CreepyAwesome
* DespairEventHorizon: He reaches a breaking point in "Bloody Sunday", has a FreakOut and becomes a {{Yangire}}. It's speculated in fandom that he was driven ''even more'' towards the edge by the fall and death of the Romanovs.
* DieForOurShip: Blame his {{fanon}} status as a MemeticMolester and the way some shippers find it easy to [[CharacterExaggeration exaggerate]] his PsychopathicManchild traits to make him into a CompleteMonster who tortures one half of their preferred pairing so that the other half can swoop in and provide [[HurtComfortFic hurt/comfort]].
* DracoInLeatherPants: Subverted ''and'' played straight. See the main entry for details.
* {{Emoticon}}: Russia has his own, thanks to a NicoNicoDouga member:
** (^し^)
** (^J^) alternatively
* EvillyAffable: As much as he can be regarded as "evil," anyway.
-->'''Estonia:''' Russia, it's not right to bully the weak!
-->'''Russia:''' [[PsychopathicManchild But it's so fun]]!
* FreudianExcuse: It's implied that he turned insane mainly because of his horrible history, which included him being implicitly tormented by General Winter during his childhood and witnessing many tragedies and wars.
* HuskyRusskie: Russia is the tallest of the characters with a given height. His thick clothing caused one fan to ask the author if he's fat, and Russia responded "I'm big-boned." So, Russia is the largest character because:?
** It's [[HuskyRusskie Scary]]
** It's [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong Russian]]
** It's [[AnthropomorphicPersonification accurate]]
** And [[TakeOverTheWorld everyone will become one with Russia anyway]]
* JerkAssWoobie: Yep, he abuses his subordinates like you wouldn't believe and it's seen as comedy. But the moment you learn ''[[FreakOut why]]'' [[DespairEventHorizon he's so fucked up]], you can't help but want to hug him.
** [[http://aph.starry-sky.com/rrt.html His dream is to live in a nice warm place surrounded by sunflowers.]] You can't ''help'' but want to hug him despite his insanity.
* IAmBigBoned: Could be the TropeNamer.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: His lead-pipe faucet-crowbar thing. His {{gender flip}}ped self uses a shovel instead.
* MadLove: Goes both ways, actually. He shows his obsession with Lithuania, the only one who seems to make him happy, through [[StalkerWithACrush stalking]] and emotional and physical abuse. He's also on the ''receiving'' end of MadLove when it comes to his little sister Belarus...
* MadnessMantra: His "kolkolkolkol" chant, referring to the "Kolkhoz".
** Moving into EpilepticTrees territory, it might also be [[GeniusBonus a reference]] to a popular [[BilingualBonus Russian riddle]]: turn the nonsensical word ''kolokolokolokola'' into a meaningful Russian phrase by inserting just two spaces. Since the riddle is unknown outside the Russian-speaking countries it is most likely just a coincidence (if anyone is interested, the correct answer is [[spoiler: ''kol okolo kolokola'', "a stake next to a bell"]]).
* MasterOfDisguise: You'll never know which panda he is.
* MemeticMolester: [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "Everyone will become one with Russia"]], indeed.
* PetTheDog: The printed manga and the anime give him a genuine affection for Ukraine, as much as his insanity lets him.
* PsychopathicManchild: Russia is described as having the cruelty of a child. He even has a high, childish voice. (To hammer the point home, as mentioned, he shares his VA with Gluttony from FullMetalAlchemist.)
** His voice is less high in the dub, probably to make him sound more Russian.
** His voice is also very deep during his MadnessMantra.
* PurpleEyes
* RussianGuySuffersMost: Total inversion. The ones who suffer the most are those in his ''surroundings'', not Russia himself.
** Can be seen as played straight, though, if you remember the "Bloody Sunday" strip. Or the strip about the White Sea Canal. Or the part where he was ''happy to be imprisoned by the enemy''.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: He got it from Ukraine.
* StepfordSmiler: At one point, he sends England into a screaming fit of terror just by ''sitting and smiling pleasantly''.
** SlasherSmile: After smiling calmly, Russia usually pulls this out by the end of a strip he's in.
* TearsOfFear: He can only sob and make futile cries of "Go home!" when [[MadLove Belarus literally tears down his door]] [[BrotherSisterIncest to demand that they get married]].
* TokenEvilTeammate: Well, it depends on your definition of ''evil'', but...
* TheBigGuy: Inverts the third; Despite his size, looks nice and cute... and is [[PsychopathicManchild every]][[{{Yangire}} thing]] [[TokenEvilTeammate mentioned]] [[StepfordSmiler above]].
* UsedToBeASweetKid: According to his and his sisters's backstory and Volume 3, where he meets Lithuania as a kid.
** Might not be true, since [[EvilDetectingDog Lithuania's dog was scared of him]] even then. He might have been just affable, as always.
** It's not confirmed that Lithuania's dog was scared of him. It may have barked because it recognized he was different from most children Lithuania came across, due to being a country as well. In the next panel, Lithuania says something along the lines of "Could he be like me?" as in a country rather than a human child.
* VodkaDrunkenski: "My favorite food would be pierogi and...vodka? It's my fuel, you see."
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to volume 3, at first he had dark hair, was middle-aged, and a crybaby who completely changed when he drank alcohol.
* WhiteMagic: The Orthodox Church curses Japan. It works.
* [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Woobie Conqueror of Worlds]]: By insisting that "all will become one with Russia". This trope is also played totally straight with him during the Bloody Sunday strip, in which [[GoMadFromTheRevelation he]] [[DespairEventHorizon snaps]] and starts to [[FreakOut mow down his own people]] on the grounds that, basically, "they're not really Russians if they don't love me".
* {{Yandere}} ''and'' {{Yangire}}: Russia is nice one moment and the next....

!!France - [[ShapedLikeItself Francis]] Bonnefoy
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->''Geez, you guys... aren't there more vital things at hand than arguing? Like doing something with that tasteless uniform.''

->Voiced by: MasayaOnosaka (JP), JMichaelTatum (ENG)
[[hardline]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: His hair color in the manga varies between being a golden blond to a darker, almost brown shade. In the anime, it's a bright yellow-blond.
* AnnoyingLaugh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5nvhfUecGw&feature=related Just listen!
* AnythingThatMoves
* BigBrotherMentor: To N. Italy, albeit more of a TricksterMentor, taking the place of N. Italy's actual big brother. He was even England's mentor back in the day, probably one of the reasons why England hates him so much now.
** He's very forgiving and occasionally protective of Italy despite the whole Fascist invasion thing. But he's still a bad influence.
* BitingTheHandkerchief: [[http://i40.tinypic.com/35i9apt.gif In episode 10 of the webcast]]
* BlingOfWar: France's WWI uniform. He tells America and England that their clothes are too drab, and they both retort "You're just too flashy!". He agrees when he realizes it draws sniper fire. (TruthInTelevision, actually.)
* CarpetOfVirility: He's actually the only character who has this when naked, to remark on his LovableSexManiac nature.
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticNeutral.
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: England is quick to point out France's reputation for being inept at warfare.
* [[DudeShesLikeInAComa Dude He's Like Really Sick]]: He comes close to molesting England while the latter is tired and has a bad cold. America walks in before anything happens, to France's irritation.
** "I found Prague!"
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: To the point where it is lampshaded in this [[http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/902567.html#cutid1 comic]]
** This is PROOF: [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe1afo_aph-france_shortfilms APH--France Is a Sexy Bitch]]
* FrenchJerk: Considering the series, how could he ''not'' be this?
* LaResistance: His most tangible contribution to the allies is spying. Or possibly just freelance voyeurism, who knows?
* TheLeisureSuitLarry: He's usually able to get further than most Larries, but none of the other countries find him remotely attractive.
** HandsomeLech: After all, EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench.
** LovableSexManiac: And it's often played for laughs.
* ManipulativeBastard: He attempts to be one. Whether it works or not, he has [[http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/641505.html "a little bird"]] to help him out. Naturally, he leads the way spreading nasty rumors about Germany.
** At his best, he almost pulled off a DivideAndConquer against the Habsburgs. Divide, but not ''quite'' conquer.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Some of his antics. And mind you, he isn't content with being the ''only'' naked one during those moments. He devotes an entire [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas special]] to taking off characters' shirts ([[NakedPeopleAreFunny and a bit more]]).
* PermaStubble: When young, he had his face perfectly clean. As he grew up, though, he developed this.
* RapeAsComedy: If in the same comic as another country, there's a good chance of this happening.
* {{Shotacon}}: He once gets impure thoughts upon seeing a [[SheIsAllGrownUp more grown-up]] but still not fully "legal" North Italy. And this being ''France'', it soon went into [[http://www.taleofyanlin.com/junk/heta-infrance2.gif outright sexual harassment]].
** His attitude towards his ex-pupil and colony, Seychelles, can also be seen as quite {{lolicon}}ish.
*** {{Generic Cuteness}} aside, Seychelles looks [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/seys.jpg too old for it to be that.]]
**** [[http://i27.tinypic.com/34t8z2q.png Not always.]].
***** It still probably doesn't count if he only hits on her/[[{{Squick}} gropes her]] when she's a teenager.
* SitcomArchnemesis: The only surefire way to keep England out of your house is to invite France. America observes that after 900 years of war the only thing that keeps these two old timers going is antagonizing each other.
* SuckMyRose: He carries one in his official art. Another time, it's used to [[HandOrObjectUnderwear censor his privates]].
* SupremeChef: And tried to use his culinary skills to get baby!America to pick him over England, but failed. Later he also tried to bribe the kid into seeing him as a brother too, but though he liked his sweets, America was too used to England's bad food anyway.
* TheDeterminator: "Like... like Hell I'll die here!" Followed by a [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Roaring Rampage of Nudity]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: France was originally planned as a straight stereotype of a completely suave character, and he would have had visible wrinkles and shorter hair. Like America, he actually appeared in the strips with some of those physical characteristics before the ArtEvolution hit.

!!PR of C - Wang Yao
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->''What ruckus, this? Ah, England, France, and America fighting again. These lands of Europe, they like fighting so very much.''

->Voiced by: YukiKaida (JP), Clarine Harp (EN)
[[hardline]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: Has black hair (most of the time) in the manga, but brown in the anime.
* AdultChild: Tries his best to act as a mentor to others, often giving out advice or nagging. When he's not, he's cheerfully playing with Shinatty and other cute things.
* [[DudeWheresMyRespect Aiyaa Where Is My Respect Aru?!]]: A part of the drama track in China's character CD is about him trying to get the respect of Shinatty and his sister Taiwan and failing hilariously.
-->'''Taiwan:''' Shut up teacher!
-->'''China:''' T-Taiwan...!
-->'''Taiwan:''' Please, you need to keep quiet when you’re in public areas like this! If you’re too noisy, you’ll scare away all the birds and make the flowers die...
-->'''Shinatty:''' Please forgive us; the old man’s gone a bit crazy, he was having flashbacks about his childhood!
-->'''China:''' I’m not an old man! I’m young, cool, and hip!
-->'''Taiwan:''' ‘Cool and hip?’ [[TotallyRadical That just dates you even more...]]
* BadassAdorable: Especially in the anime. See CuteBruiser below.
* {{Bishonen}}: China has the swishiest style of all the characters, especially when he draws himself. He's also fairly artistic.
* BlandNameProduct: Some of these are [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as his cheap knock-offs.
** The author thinks China's real-life Hello Kitty dolls have been given a PsychoticSmirk.
* BrokenBird: China can easily be seen as a rare male example. Considering [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld how long he's lived]], [[TheWoobie what's he's lived through]] [[UsefulNotes/{{China}} and how much the actual country itself has suffered throughout the years]], fangirls don't hesitate to put him in this position.
** Or [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation alternatively]], he can be seen as a BrokenHero, considering how he manages to remain relatively cheerful and upbeat even after everything he's gone through (he ''does'' angst about his problems from time to time, but it never really overtakes his character).
* ButtMonkey
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralGood.
* CoolOldGuy: Being a 4000 year old man, China certainly qualifies. Come ''on''! The guy can fight with a [[ImprobableWeaponUser wok!]]
* CrossdressingVoices: The only one among the eight main characters voiced by a female.
* CuteBruiser: In the anime. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome "Aiyaaaa! I'm gonna kick your ass!"]]
** In episode 28 of the World Series, he proves able to [[SuperStrength punch through a wall with eleven chops, kick through another one with just one kick and even visibly crack a third one]] with just his head before America stops him.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Like in the case of England, some of his portrayals in fanwork can gravitate towards this, sometimes reaching ManipulativeBastard or SmugSnake extremes.
** RonTheDeathEater: The portrayals of ImperialChina or RedChina are sometimes by the lines of a borderline CompleteMonster or insane {{Yandere}} / {{Yangire}}
* DrowningMySorrows: China is once seen at a bar, drinking and crying about his relationship with Japan to Russia.
* DudeLooksLikeALady / ViewerGenderConfusion: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in his entry on the official character chart: "The only female member of the Allies. {{Not}}."
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcuNbB-FKVI Also lampshaded by his own actress!]]
* EverythingsCuterWithKittens: [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Shinatty-chan]]!
* FanNickname: Frequently referred to as Nii-Ni (a play on the Japanese word for 'Big Brother', ''Oniisan'') in the Japanese fanbase.
* FishOutOfWater: Like his brother Japan, he feels alienated when in regards to the Allies.
* [[FryingPanOfDoom Wok Of Doom]]: In the webcast.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has a single but large one across his back, after Japan injures him with his katana and leaves. We see it when he gets a massage from Korea.
* ImmortalImmaturity: He's a 4000 year old HelloKitty fan.
* OnlySaneMan: He reaches this some of the time and can act like the voice of reason for the Allies, usually when England proves that he's NotSoAboveItAll and NotSoDifferent.
* PandaingToTheAudience: He loves his pandas. To the point of having a birthmark of one on his butt.
* ParentalSubstitute: He's an [[BigBrotherMentor older brother figure]] to the East Asian nation-tans, rather than adoptive father.
* PickyEater: Inverted. China's TrademarkFavoriteFood is ''variety''; considering the different types of Chinese cuisine, this can be seen as TruthInTelevision.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Even if you don't take the MagicRealism stance, China's profile describes him as being 4000 years old.
* RedArmbandOfLeadership: In certain portrayals he wears a uniform with a red armband...of leadership.
* VerbalTic: China ends most of his sentences with "aru", which is derived from a Japanese stereotype of Chinese people. When talking to England (for example in the Britannia Angel strip) "aru" sometimes changes to "ahen" which means [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "opium"]].
** This is actually TruthInTelevision, as adding 'ar' onto the ends of sentences is one of the most prominent features of the Beijing dialect of Mandarin.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to volume 3 he originally had short hair, glasses, and was more like Austria in personality.
* WhatMeasureIsANonBadass: Some fans have ragged on China for his "[[{{Bishonen}} girly looks]]" and "[[CrossdressingVoices girly voice]]".
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: China's profile lists him as four-thousand years old and immortal, so this characterization is popular fanon. Also his character song "Aiyaa Four-Thousand Years" seems to take this stance.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Even when the Allies start getting Japan off his back, they still keep picking on him.
* TalkingToHimself: Kaida-san also voices Taiwan in the Drama CD.
* TheWoobie: He never seems to get any respect, not even with his younger siblings.
** TearJerker: His damn ImageSong "Aiyaa Four Thousand Years". Don't believe me? [[http://hetalia.wikia.com/wiki/Aiyaa_Four_Thousand_Years Read the lyrics]].
* {{Yandere}}: While Japan is the Asian most frequently portrayed as one in {{fanon}}, there's more than one fanart (mostly on Pixiv) and fanfic (and not just kink meme fills) that have China becoming one over his siblings's departures. Hong Kong and Taiwan are the most common fanon targets of his obsession: one memorable fic has a drug-addicted China raping Taiwan in an OpiumDen, and another shows him sexually assaulting Hong Kong right after the Hand-Over Ceremony from 1997.

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[[folder:Neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire]]
!Neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire

* AllThereInTheManual: Saxony and Bavaria (two other descendants of Germania) appear as background characters in the Austrian War of Secession. Saxony also appears in Comic Diary 7, Liechtenstein's Journal of Swiss Dopiness and Chibitalia (as one of HRE's bodyguards, but only in the manga). They are confirmed as elder brothers of Germany in the Prussia-centric ''Kuso-game'', along with the additional three states of Hesse, Schleswig-Holstein, and Brandenburg.
* TheClan Of The Habsburgs
* CrossDresser: The Italies (when they were little). Although the Italies' dresses may be another [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeching_(boys) historical in-joke]].
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: Young Prussia used to think that young Hungary was a boy, until he got to grope her chest. And some other characters thought that Chibitalia (child North Italy) was a little girl (the Holy Roman Empire included), until he hit puberty.
* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs: Hungary has flower-shaped hairpins, Belgium uses headbands. Monaco has hairpins ''and'' headbands.
* {{Meido}}: As a young child living with Austria, [[WholesomeCrossdresser Italy used to wear maid outfits]]. Especially in the Chibitalia chapter, which lampshades the trope when the Holy Roman Empire is seen with a portrait of Chibitalia and is asked if the model was a servant.
* OneTrueThreesome: Many fans ship [[StoicSpectacles Austria]]/[[NinjaMaid Hungary]]/[[HotBlooded Prussia]], which is sometimes called [[FanNickname "The Frying Pangle"]]
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Austria and Hungary are the grown-up version of the trope. HRE and Chibitalia also fit... except that Chibitalia is a [[WholesomeCrossdresser a boy who dresses as a girl]]
* SiblingYinYang: North and South Italy.
** Holland (TheBigGuy) and Belgium ({{Bokukko}}) are supposed to have these dynamics too. We'll see.
* TeamDad: Austria, no question. He raises the girlish N. Italy with the help of Hungary.
* TeamMom: Spain is this at start, being equal partners with Austria (or property?), and raising the boyish S. Italy. Hungary graduates to this from CoolBigSis after she marries the local TeamDad.
* ToyShip: The Holy Roman Empire and Chibitalia.
* WifeHusbandry: A possible interpretation of the Spain/Romano pairing. See the main page.

!!The Holy Roman Empire
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-> ''Italy, come with me, and become the Roman Empire again!''

->Voiced by: Jun Konno (JP), Chris Cason (EN)
[[hardline]]
* CharacterAlignment: TrueNeutral or LawfulNeutral
* MonochromaticEyes: In the manga and merchandise. Subverted in the anime, where his eyes are changed to be brighter and with pupils and shine to them.
* NiceHat
* SatelliteCharacter: Is HRE the boss? Does he just own the house? He doesn't interact much with the others. He's not Germany, by the way. [[OrIsIt Or is he?]] [[EpilepticTrees Hmmm...]]
* StalkerWithACrush: To Chibitalia, completely played for laughs.
* {{Tsundere}}: Arguably, towards Chibitalia.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: The audience isn't involved and is instead switched with HRE (and a few other countries at the time, until Italy grew up). Mainly, HRE always thought that Chibitalia was a ''girl''.

!!Hungary - Erzsebet Héderváry
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-> ''Ah, that horny man is touching his chest! Austria's nipples are sacred things!''

->Voiced by: MichikoNeya (JP), LuciChristian (EN)
[[hardline]]
* BadassAdorable / CuteBruiser: She started fighting when she was a little girl, and was able to take on both Prussia ''and'' Austria successfully. She also averts {{Chickification}} by both not being invincible in her "male" days ''and'' by being shown as physically strong during her "maid" ones.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: This cute and sweet maid brutalizes Prussia's army, watches him get ready to sleep [[BladeOnAStick with a spear in hand]], and busts down a wall in his home to help out her beloved Austria.
* BladeOnAStick: Hungary's WeaponOfChoice (aside of her frying pan). She also has [[{{BFG}} a rifle]], but we never see her use it.
* BodyguardCrush: Towards Austria.
* BoisterousBruiser: Can be easily seen as one of the rare female examples.
--> '''Hungary''': Seize vital regions, seize vital regions... CRUSH PRUSSIA! CRUSH PRUSSIA!
** Cranked UpToEleven in the anime, which adds a BattleAura to her SlasherSmile and a ''truly'' scary deliver of the MadnessMantra above by MichikoNeya. Austria wisely decides to just let her be... and the scene soon changes to her [[CurbStompBattle punching and kicking the living crap]] [[OneManArmy out of a whole Prussian army]].
* {{Bokukko}}: When she was a child, Hungary spoke rather boyishly, assuming that she was a boy and would grow up into a man (heck, when her breasts started developing, she actually thought that she was sick...). Ever since she grew out of this, though, she has perfectly feminine speech patterns, only reverting to boyish speech ''very'' rarely.
** WholesomeCrossdresser: Himaruya originally intended to have Hungary as a crossdressing male. He used this idea for Poland instead.
* BoobsOfSteel: Is very well-endowed (though not to Ukraine's GagBoobs levels), as shown in the scene from the "Noto-sama 5" game where [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/44176775.jpg Yamato and Noto peep on her when she's changing clothes]].
* BrokenBird: Often portrayed like this in DarkFic.
* CameraFiend: The fans ''love'' to peg her as one, based on her YaoiFangirl status.
** Then again, she ''did'' take photos of the mess around Austria when he was groped by France.
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralGood, with some shades of ChaoticGood
* CovertPervert: She insists that her love for Austria is "pure," but all the footage she has of him in [[ShirtlessScene compromising]] [[RapeAsComedy positions]] [[YaoiFangirl says otherwise.]] Even ''France'' is amazed by how dirty her mind is.
* DefeatByModesty. Subverted in [[http://pics.livejournal.com/melcratch/pic/00004xzk/ this strip]], where Hungary [[InnocentFanserviceGirl doesn't seem to care that her tunic has been ripped]] to AbsoluteCleavage levels after fighting Turkey. [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn Prussia's the one who cares more.]]
* DieForOurShip: While much ''less'' bashed than her status as the most prominent female character would seem to guarantee, some Austria/Other Males shippers throw pot-shots at her occasionally. Luckily, this is averted quite often due to her being a NinjaMaid, OtakuSurrogate and YaoiFangirl, which greatly softens the blows.
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: Prussia, possibly several other nations, and ''Hungary herself'' were all rather surprised to find out that Hungary was a girl.
* FlowerMotifs: She uses flowers and/or flower-shaped hair jewelry.
** FlowerInHerHair: Her pink flower hairpin (apparently a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geranium geranium]]) symbolizes [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Balaton Lake Balaton aka The Hungarian Sea]], BTW.
* FryingPanOfDoom: If Hungary and Prussia are in the same comic, you can expect to see her attack him with ''at least'' this. France is another target when Hungary isn't in [[YaoiFangirl "Voyeurist"]] Mode. The frying pan probably comes from 'László the Brave,' a Hungarian slapstick comedy in the vein of 'Punch and Judy,' where the titular hero uses a huge frying pan to beat up his enemies.
* GreenEyes
* HotAmazon / NinjaMaid: Hungary often dresses up as a {{meido}} (especially in the Maria Theresa mini arc). She's also very willing to use her spear to defend herself and/or Austria.
** It seems to me that it's not a maid dress but a simplified version of the [[http://hungaria.org/ahm/index.php?projectid=4&menuid=194#239 traditional Hungarian dress]] or folk attire.
*** It could actually be a mix of ''both'' factors. In ''Chibitalia'' we see Italy working as a maid at the "Holy Roman Empire Household" and dressing up as a maid, and when Hungary is introduced as his CoolBigSis it's said they're technically in the same situation. And in "France and the frying pan", she's clearly wearing a normal maid outfit.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Is seen beating up France and Prussia with her FryingPanOfDoom.
* OtakuSurrogate: Fangirls adore the fact that the girl who appears the most loves male-on-male porn as much as they do.
* PantyShot: [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kaeriuti.gif Courtesy of France, of course]].
* ParentalSubstitute: Towards Chibitalia.
* PluckyGirl: And how.
* {{Shotacon}}: Either this of CutenessProximity.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: She and Austria. In her own words from the ''Gakuen Hetalia'' script: "My heart is Austrian territory!"
** Also slightly subverted, due to her status as a YaoiFangirl. She does love and care for Austria, but rarely minds seeing her husband/boyfriend being felt up by other males...
* {{Memetic Sex God}}dess: [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Every fangirl is lesbian or bi for Hungary!]]
* RelationshipVoiceActor: In the dub [[SoulEater Medusa and Stein]] are in a loving relationship...enjoy the MindScrew!
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Elisabeth, Elisaveta, Erzsébet, Elizabeth...?
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: So much that she's pictured in the main page.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Along with the idea for Hungary as a man, Himaruya had another idea for her personality, with her being a snide and witchy type of woman who would shoot people full of arrows if they mistook her for a guy. The basis of her current design and this rejected personality were in turn recycled from a Hungarian witch character in a series that never materialized.
* YaoiFangirl: Hungary loves nothing more than watching men having sex. Even if it's her ''husband''. Who are we kidding, she loves it ''especially'' if it's her husband. [[strike: "Platonic and pure love", OUR FEET!]]. JustifiedTrope to a degree, considering Hungary's fame on pornography.
* YouFailBiologyForever: She thought she was a boy. She had the strangest theories to explain this. And she made fun of Prussia for not only thinking her theory was as unbelievable as it is, but for not knowing it already.

!!Austria - Roderich Edelstein
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-> ''Beethoven attained greatness as an'' Austrian. ''He would count out 60 beans when he drank his coffee. This kind of over-serious behavior is characteristic of Austrians.''

->Voiced by: Akira Sasanuma (JP), ChuckHuber (EN)
[[hardline]]
* {{AirInAG-String}}: Really handsome, really skilled in piano playing.
* [[AloofBigBrother Aloof Big]] [[BigBrotherMentor Brother Mentor]]: Though he served as Italy's mentor and brother figure when Italy was a child, he was also very strict and cold.
* BeautyMark: A tiny one... that functions as his [[{{FantasticArousal}} erogenous zone.]]
* {{Bishonen}}: While it could be argued that this applies to a lot of characters, ArtEvolution seems to be hitting Austria hard in the latest manga volumes.
* BrainySpecs: WordOfGod says he's wearing glasses because he looks [[GenericCuteness rather plain without them]].
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulNeutral
* DichterAndDenker: The Dichter part, his musical skill being a nod to Austria's famous composers.
* DieForOurShip: While not turned into an abusive monster in a regular basis, he ''is'' sometimes portrayed by Prussia/Hungary shippers as [[SpectacledSadist cold, neglectful and indifferent]] towards his wife/ex-wife/girlfriend Hungary so she can seek out the "more passionate and fun" Prussia for comfort.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: While pretty much ''every'' male has this going on, let's not forget that his beautiful ''wife'' loves seeing them hit on him in canon.
* FantasticArousal: [[BeautyMark Well...]]
* HeyItsThatVoice: Akira Sasanuma aka [[GundamSEED Dearka]] [[GundamSEEDDestiny Elfsmann]].
* IdiotHair: Represents [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariazell Mariazell]].
* IllBoy: He was in a wheelchair for a time, according to [[AllThereInTheManual some of Himaruya's notes]]
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Just because the glory days of the Habsburgs are over doesn't mean Austria has to act like it. Prussia tries to blow his cover on his penny-pinching ways to Austria's [[{{Tsundere}} arch]][[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend rival]] Switzerland. Too bad he forgets that for Switzerland, nothing is nobler than thrift.
* {{Kuudere}}
* {{Meganekko}}
** StoicSpectacles: Actually, Austria has a great emotional range: he can be 'solemn', 'sullen', 'stern', 'saturnine', 'harsh' and 'sterner'.
* MemeticMutation: [[CargoShip Austria x His Piano OTP!]], after episode 5 of the webcast.
** MemeticSexGod: When Austria plays his piano, FUCKING PANTIES HIT THE FLOOR.
* NeatFreak: As an aristocrat, he gets angry when seen disheveled. Even if it's his ''wife''.
* NonActionGuy: Much to Switzerland's frustration. Luckily, his partner and wife is a NinjaMaid who's more than happy to fight for him, while he remains as MissionControl.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Says WordOfGod. Alluded to in the Valentine's strip when Austria is about to go out to get something for Hungary, and Germany tells him that he won't be able to come get him if he gets lost. Austria decides to make something with his own hands instead.
* [[{{Ojou}} Ouji]] / TheWhitePrince: A 'young master' kind of character.
* PurpleEyes
* RelationshipVoiceActor: See Hungary.
* ShipperOnDeck: Ships Germany/North Italy in the Buon San Valentino strips.
* TeamDad: To TheClan.
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* TheCyrano: In the Valentine's strip, Germany asks him for help and advice on dealing with Italy.
* TheWhitePrince
* ValuesDissonance: In the Chibitalia chapter he's supposed to come across as [[SternTeacher a hard yet well-intentioned father figure]], but his ''extremely'' harsh punishments towards little Italy (like tying him up to a post ''once'') are often seen by fans as [[AbusiveParents unnecessarily cruel]]. [[NeverLiveItDown And some remember him ONLY as an abusive asshole]].
** Not to mention stomping on poor Italy's head when he did something wrong or forgot to do something.
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Towards Hungary. [[LoveAtFirstPunch Even when she used to pick on him.]]

!!Prussia - Gilbert Beilschmidt
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-> ''Mission Complete! Praise me! Hail me! On your knees!''

->Voiced by: Atsushi Kousaka (JP), Jonathan Brooks (EN)
[[hardline]]
* BasementDweller: Pretty much stated to have become one in modern times, via author notes:
-->"Now he lives as a good-for-nothing at Germany's house and as an exclave in Russia!"
* BeamMeUpScotty - NeverLiveItDown: ''He'' never said anything about "vital regions". ''Others'' did it (namely: Austria, Spain, Lithuania, and Hungary)
* BloodKnight ''and'' BoisterousBruiser: He was created to attack and enslave all the other characters here and that's all he lives for. [[strike: Poor Austria and the Baltics]].
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticNeutral
* ChivalrousPervert: As mentioned below, Prussia talks big, but when it comes to actually seeing his childhood "friend" Hungary pretty much ''naked'', [[http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/7409189.html he freaks out]].
* CornerOfWoe: Prussia has an Altar of Woe.
* EastGermany: His nickname for Germany is 'West', so...
* EnsembleDarkhorse: THE EnsembleDarkhorse of the fandom.
* EvilLaugh: He's fufufu'd in his time.
** KESESESESE!
* ForTheEvulz: On Valentine's and Xmas he realizes just how lonely he is...so this calls for ShipSinking.
* HotBlooded: Even after his dissolution.
** LargeHam: "PRAISE HIM!", indeed.
* JapanesePronouns: He uses Ore-sama to refer to himself. That says a LOT.
* JerkAss: Played for laughs.
* LonersAreFreaks: He claims that he enjoys being alone, but evidence says that he doesn't enjoy not having friends.
* MemeticBadass / MemeticMolester / MemeticSexGod: Although it's his unrepentant badassness that makes him so popular, his fandom's [[MemeticMutation memes]] are even scarier, notably: 'Prussia will occupy/seize your vital regions' and 'Prussia is [[GagPenis 5 METERS LONG]]!'. In fact, Prussia is said to run around [[ImageBoard 4chan]] attempting to seize the vital regions of the various boards. Heck, he even took over the main site for an April Fool's event.
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: [[http://pics.livejournal.com/melcratch/pic/00004xzk/ at the sight of a teenaged Hungary with her tunic ripped]], he blushes intensely and later hands her his own cape. [[ShipTease I can hear the Prussia/Hungary shippers squealing from here.]]
* PsychoticSmirk: His more usual smile.
* RaisedByDudes: Hinted by Hungary in one comic, mentioning how Prussia was "surrounded only by men" since birth.
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* SkinshipGrope: To Hungary, though [[DroppedABridgetOnHim he thought she was male]] at the time. That she is female is from then on [[BuxomIsBetter abundantly clear]].
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: There is a speculation for the spelling of his surname for either "Weillschmidt" or "Beilschmidt". However, Beilschmidt is considered the more correct spelling by most fans, since it is an actual German name unlike Weillschmidt.
* TedBaxter: Boasts about his skills and hot blood, but often [[ButtMonkey ends up beaten]].
* TheTeutonicKnights: The fact that Prussia was formed from [[ChurchMilitant an armed wing of the Catholic Church]] tells you everything about him you need to know. Canonically he's both this and later Prussia.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Beer, beer, beer!
** Also pancakes with maple syrup, ever since [[CanadaEh Canada]] introduced them to him.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Many fanworkers are fond of making him one of these in regards to Hungary. He can also switch to VictoriousChildhoodFriend when written/drawn as a "[[SecondLove second option]]" for her (in either a SlapSlapKiss or TheMasochismTango way), if Hungary is not paired up with Austria.
** Considering Volume 3, Himaruya seemingly liked the idea and thought "SureWhyNot", hence the ShipTease going off the ceiling.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He was initially to have long hair and facial characteristics more like Poland, as well as being more mature.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Has the looks, but not the aloofness.


!!Belgium
->''I'm sorry for teasing you, I'll give you some tarte au matons from my place!''

->Voiced by: Eriko Nakamura (JP - upcoming Drama File from Spain's CD)

[[hardline]]
* ActionGirl: A popular {{fanon}} portrayal. Having a {{BFG}} certainly helps.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Her profile in the third volume describes her as being scary when she's mad.
* {{BFG}}: In some sketches, Belgium is seen handling a quite big rifle.
* BottleFairy: A quite popular {{fanon}} rendition of Belgium, based on how her land is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_beer among the biggest beer producers in the world]].
* BrotherSisterIncest: According to some fans, Netherlands argues with Belgium while he wants her to become one with him again, like how Belarus wants to be one with Russia, except Netherlands is just pushy instead of {{Yandere}}. As a result, the fanon pairing of Belgium/Netherlands has a small but very loyal fandom corner.
* CatSmile: Belgium frequently sports one in official artwork.
* CombatStilettos: A sketch of her military uniform has her boots having high heels.
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralGood
* CoolBigSis: Finland mentions in the 2007 Christmas strips that Belgium is a bit like this.
--> '''Finland:''' "She's mature and has a cheerful personality, but doesn't stand out much because of the people surrounding her."
** [[http://pics.livejournal.com/melcratch/pic/00003xx2/ Confirmed in the third manga volume.]] [[http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/8929397.html Twice.]]
* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs: Sports a headband.
* FanNickname: Because Belgium has no official human name, many fans refer to her as "Belle" or "Bella."
** Some fans of late have started to refer to her as "Alice".
* FlowerMotifs: {{Fanon}} often depicts her with tulips and poppies.
* GreenEyes
* TheOjou: The [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/000696z7.jpg original anime sketches]] and both [[http://i44.tinypic.com/66x5sk.jpg the first panel]] of "Meeting of the World" and the first episode of the anime series (based on said strip) show her wearing a light blue dress, a pink bolero, jewelry and a pink headband. Even when [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beru.jpg her first portrait]] had her looking more like a {{Bokukko}}.
** [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-526.html This post]] from Himaruya's blog, done while the anime was running, has another {{Bokukko}} Belgium. Could be she's ''both'' {{Bokukko}} and TheOjou. Or possibly a {{Shorttank}}.
** Note that other characters in the series will generally switch between their "military outfit" and "normal outfit" depending on the situation. Belgium's {{Bokukko}} look in her military garb could be just circumstantial, while her dress as TheOjou is her preferred look; or it could be the opposite, with her [[SheCleansUpNicely dolling up only for official meetings]] yet being {{Bokukko}} in daily life.
** The latter is confirmed in the translations of the profiles provided in [[http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/8929397.html the third volume]], explaining she dresses simply and inconspicuously.
* PluckyGirl
* TricksterMentor: Possibly. Her profile describes her as being meddlesome and she did tease Romano in her first speaking role.


!!The Netherlands
->''Stop being a nuisance. Hurry and gimme snacks, tea, and Japan.''

[[hardline]]
* TheBigGuy: Has the looks.
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticGood or ChaoticNeutral
* {{Ephebophile}} - {{Lolicon}}: Is said to be this by Finland in the [[http://aph.starry-sky.com/chrismas_bonsai.html Christmas 2007 strip]]:
--->'''Finland''': And he likes young women (too young?) and also thinks some shady drugs are okay, so he's kind of a punk in that way.
* EverythingsBetterWithBunnies: The Netherlands has a pet bunny, who goes meet Japan's pup Pochi while their masters do the same. HilarityEnsues.
* FanNickname: Many fans call him [[{{Twilight}} ''Sparkling Holland'']] due to having a hairstyle similar to Edward Cullen's.
* TheFaceless: He was like this, [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-689.html until recently]].
* FlowerMotifs: Both [[WordOfGod Himaruya]] and [[{{Fanon}} fanartists]] like to portray him with poppies and tulips.
* NeatFreak: According to his profile.
* OCStandIn: For a period of time, fans had his FIFA sketch to base his appearance on but very little to base his actual personality on, and he was most commonly depicted in fanworks as a boisterous, easygoing, not-too-bright, pot-smoking guy - in other words, a pot-smoking version of Denmark. Even after he was shown in canon to be more of a blunt, no-nonsense, somewhat stoic and unsmiling guy, it's still common to see the Denmark-like fanon portrayal for him instead in fanfic.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: The Netherlands gets a nice black, blue and white one [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-758.html in the second sketch]]
* ScarsAreForever: Has one on his forehead.
* SmokingIsCool: The Netherlands ''loves'' smoking, and does it in a stylish pipe.
** TheStoner: {{Fanon}} pegs him as one, based on the infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands ultra liberal drug policy]] of the country.
* {{Tsundere}}: He is described as a Type A, according to the Hetalia Wiki. Might have been confirmed in canon, as Netherlands speaks and acts very roughly but is still willing to keep contact with isolationist!Japan, putting up with his HikikoMori quirks rather patiently and bringing his pet bunny around.


!!Spain - Antonio Fernandez Carriedo
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-> ''You're so cute when you're half asleep!''

->Voiced by: Go Inoue (JP), Dave Trosko (EN)
[[hardline]]
* AnAxeToGrind: Fanarts have him using a fricking ''big'' one as his WeaponOfChoice.
** Confirmed by WordOfGod: [[http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5653/200908151155598a0.jpg this Himaruya sketch]] has him with a halberd.
* BadassSpaniard: In some fanworks.
* BigDamnHeroes: Spain pulls a PapaWolf and rescues South Italy from Turkey. Then, Turkey declares war and Spain almost goes bankrupt funding the war effort.
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulGood
* DotingParent: Dangerously combined with his {{Shotacon}} tendencies. Too bad Romano slaps him in the face every time Spain tries to be nice.
* [[EverythingsBetterWithCows Everything Is Better with BULLS]]: The best way to start a BigDamnHeroes? [[DynamicEntry Go have a bull knocking down the carriage]] where your adopted kid is being held and then go face his kidnapper.
* GreenEyes
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: In the Noto-sama 5 flash game, when [[WholesomeCrossdresser Noto]] and [[LovableSexManiac Yamato]] strip him, we see that Spain [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/54130320.jpg wears tomato-print undies]].
* HilariousInHindsight: In Spain's recently-released version of Marukaite Chikyuu, you can hear Soccer/Football sounds, such as a ball being kicked and a referee's whistle being blown. Guess which national team won the 2010 FIFA World Cup?
* FruitOfTheLoon: "Nice bananas."
* IllBoy: When his economy goes ''really'' rotten, he gets very sick. Romano then goes to search for a cure...
* KansaiRegionalAccent: Although it usually doesn't show up in scanlations.
* NiceGuy: Spain's major personality trait. Though thanks to Spain/Romano being a very popular ship, he isn't as overlooked in the fandom as you might expect.
* {{Shotacon}}: 'Nuff said.
* TorosYFlamenco: Quite averted: he has only appeared in a ''matador'' costume in ''one'' official art, not in the strips, and doesn't seem to be a LatinLover. The fanartists, on the other hand...
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Spain loves tomatoes, and has taught S. Italy to do the same. And like any good TeamMom, he has learnt how to settle disputes with sweets, more exactly [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churros churros]].
* {{Yandere}} / {{Yangire}}: An increasingly popular [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation rendition of his character]] in {{fanon}}, considering how conflicted Spanish history is. It even has its own tag on Pixiv, the Japanese equivalent of Deviant Art.
** WordOfGod also says that he was two-faced like Russia and either very severe or cruel to his colonies that are not South Italy. To be fair, those notes are ''very old'' and were taken off Hidekaz's proper site, so we don't know how true they are ''right now''.


!!S. Italy (Italy Romano) - Lovino Vargas
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-> ''I KINDA HATE YOU DAMNIT!''

->Voiced by: DaisukeNamikawa (JP), Ian Sinclair (EN), Aki Kanada (JP-Chibiromano)
[[hardline]]
* BigBrotherComplex: He utterly ''hates'' Germany because of Germany's [[HoYay connection to Italy]]. This doesn't stop him [[{{Tsundere}} bothering younger Italy himself]], or even pretending his little brother doesn't exist sometimes.
* BrattyHalfPint --> {{Tsundere}}
* CallingYourAttacks: When he was a kid.
-->'''Chibiromano:''' Eat this! [[UseYourHead Napolitan Tornado!]]
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticGood
* CrowningMomentofFunny: When Romano is introduced to Germany by Italy.
-->'''Italy:''' Hey Germany! My older brother Romano is here, isn't he so cool?
-->'''Germany:''' Er, ya it's nice to meet you.
-->'''Italy:''' See I'm the Northern half, and Romano's the southern half! We were occupied separately, so my brother has been with Spain longer than he has with me! Come on Romano, say hello!
-->'''Romano:''' (to Germany) Munch on a bullet, potato freak.
-->'''Germany:''' Uh!?
** The Dub Version has some interesting alterations [[hottip:*:(Italy): Hey Germany, check it cool! This is my big brother Romano. Isn't he shizzy? **(Germany): I am Germany. A pleasure. **(Italy): I'm the north of the country, and he's the southern part. Since we've always been governed separately, he had to spend more time with our big brother Spain so he's become kind of a dick! Right? Now say "Hi" to my friend! **(Romano): (to Germany) Suck my balls, you damn potato eater! **(Germany): Uh!?]]
* DieForOurShip: Some Spain/France shippers do not look favorably on Romano's abrasive personality and [[RonTheDeathEater ramp up]] his {{Tsundere}}ness to DomesticAbuser levels so that France can swoop in and give Spain a truly healthy and loving relationship.
* GreenEyes (in early art) --> EyesOfGold (in the anime and later art)
* HairTriggerTemper
* HoYay: Spain/Romano, obviously.
** And there is an incestuous version of this when Romano and Italy get their hair curls/erogenous zones tangles together...while naked in bed. Then Germany answers Italy's distress call and untangles them.
* JamesBondage: When Turkey kidnaps him.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Quite heavier on the Jerk part, with his HairTriggerTemper.
* IdiotHair: Like his brother's, it acts as his erogenous zone.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: A bit lighter compared to the other characters, but some fans tend to use "Rovino," an actual Italian name meaning something along the lines of 'collapse,' instead of "Lovino," which isn't actually a given name (but a surname) but was just copied en masse due to L/R confusion.
* {{Tsundere}}: South Italy is a fierce mix of ''all'' Type A varieties, partly out of insecurity that Spain only wants him for his inheritance and partly that his lack of domestic/artistic talents makes him inferior to his little brother. And yep, Romano's Tsundere side is specially strong [[HoYay when around Spain]].
* TheMafia: Seen once as thugs. Informs his outlook. It makes a lot of difference to the page quote [[TheDitz which Italy]] you mean.
* TheOtherDarrin: In the case of his younger self, initially voiced by a very nasal Daisuke Namikawa in the first episode then recast in the sixtieth episode with [[TalkingToHimself Aki Kanada (the voice actress of Chibitalia)]].
* PerpetualFrowner
* PrecociousCrush: He was chasing skirts ever since he was a little child, as shown when he hits on Queen Joanna of Castile, and by his reactions when he meets [[CoolBigSis Belgium]] [[http://pics.livejournal.com/melcratch/pic/00003xx2/ in the printed manga]].
* TheUnfavorite: To some degree, especially during his "childhood" days when Spain was more fixated on North Italy than him. He was ''seriously'' worried that he didn't have anything to offer, lacking his brother's domestic and artistic skills.
** It is hinted that the reason he is so mean to Spain is that he has abandonment issues-and considering that Ancient Rome chose to leave with North Italy instead, that Spain tried to swap him for his little brother, and that he thinks Spain only wants him for his inheritance, no one here can really blame him.
** Oh, and Spain passed up saving Romano that one time because he had to make 500 roses instead. To be fair, Spain's ''own'' economy was in no condition to save anyone, and he also felt really bad about it.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: [[EarWorm Buono tomato!]]
* TheWoobie: YourMilageMayVary, of course, but little Romano was a inferiority-complex stricken kid [[ParentalAbandonment whose grandfather abandoned]] [[ParentalFavoritism him in favor of his younger brother]], [[FearLeadsToAnger who was deathly worried that Spain and France only wanted him for his grandfather's inheritance and that he had nothing to offer]], [[TheUnFavorite and is often disliked in favor of his much-loved younger brother]].
** On the other hand, it has also led to some of his fangirls CompletelyMissingThePoint and [[RonTheDeathEater ferociously bashing North Italy because of this]] while painting Romano [[PuritySue as a flawless angel]], when in canon North Italy cares for his brother and tries to help him but gets shot down more than once. Considering Romano's HairTriggerTemper and PerpetualFrowner traits, he's more of a JerkAssWoobie: very sympathetic, yeah, but NotSoAboveItAll.


!!Monaco

[[hardline]]
* BrainyBrunette: Subverted, she was initially a brunette but it seems she's now a blue-eyed blonde, via the notes given on her in the volume 3 special edition.
** Apparently, in the last profile picture Himaruya took a third option and gave her dark blonde hair, which can be seen as light brown too.
* BlueEyes
* CharacterAlignment: Most likely LawfulGood
* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs: Has several hairpins and a purple bow in her hair, [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-759.html like her first sketch shows]].
* {{Meganekko}}
* PrincessesPreferPink: Her clothes in her profile picture are pink.
* TheGambler: Look at her profile. She's even drawn with cards around her!
* TheOjou: Has the looks. Whether she is one or not...

!!The Principality of Seborga
->''So you must be little Wy! Hmmm, maybe I'll hit on you after a couple hundred years go by.''

* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticGood
* CloudCuckooLander: His introduction was pretty... [[{{Understatement}} strange]].
* FunPersonified: According to his profile he's "A cheerful, self-proclaim independent nation seated on a hilltop"
* GreenEyes
* IdiotHair: Has one similar to both Italy brothers' curls, but it has a more bent-up appearance as opposed to a smooth spiral.
** As per usual, Himaruya did [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-870.html a nice sketch]] to let us spot the differences.
* LatinLover

!!Portugal

* FlipFlopOfGod Himaruya has released [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-938.html#more SEVERAL sketches]] [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-939.html for a possible Portugal.]]
** The "male!Port" drawings hit the following tropes:
*** FieryRedhead: One of them has reddish hair.
*** GoodScarsEvilScars: The same one also has a notorious scar over his left eye.
*** PermaStubble: Another combines this and {{Megane}}
*** TallDarkAndHandsome: All of them, in their own ways.
*** [[WhenSheSmiles When He Smiles]]: They all smile very prettily.
** On the other hand, the two "female!Port" doodles hit these tropes
*** ActionGirl: One is a HotChickWithASword, the other is a LadyOfWar.
*** BoobsOfSteel: Both are Hungary-level endowed.
*** GoodScarsEvilScars: The "Hot Chick".
*** TallDarkAndBishoujo: The "Lady".
*** WhenSheSmiles: Both girls have beautiful smiles, too.
* RelationshipSue: Sadly, even from before they were given these sketches Portugal also was used as this by fans who flanderized the rich story behind the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Portuguese_Alliance Anglo-Portuguese Alliance]] into "marriage marriage marriage England England England yay they're married". Not all [=PortEng=] fans do this, of course, but the basis is there and it's not helped [[ShipToShipCombat by the USUK bashing]].
** Keep in mind that Portugal's character notes about other charas refer mostly to Spain and South Italy, with England not even being mentioned. So, all speculations about the nature of his... her... er, ''their'' relationship with England are pure fanon.

[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment N. Italy]]

[[/folder]]

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[[folder: True Neutral]]

!TrueNeutral
* SiblingYinYang -- These two. though Switzerland goes ChaoticNeutral when his BerserkButton is hit.
* YodelLand -- Kiku/Japan is ''ruthlessly'' and ''hilariously'' disabused of his ''Heidi''-style notions by meeting Vasch. Liechtenstein and her blond pigtails and lacy skirts arguably play it straight though.

!!Switzerland - Vasch Zwingli
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-> ''Don't get in the way of my gun!''

->Voiced by: RomiPark (JP), John Burgmeier (EN)
[[hardline]]
* BerserkButton: People coming uninvited to his house.
** Also, don't be talking smack about his pajamas.
* BigBrotherComplex: Switzerland is ''very'' protective of his little sister Liechtenstein.
* CharacterAlignment: TrueNeutral, though his trigger happy personality seems to make him more of ChaoticNeutral.
* GreenEyes
* [[RichBitch Rich Jerkass]]: He's a miser, paranoid, xenophobic and trigger-happy. The only person that he is close to is his sister Liechtenstein (and formerly Austria, [[{{Tsundere}} even though Switzerland denies it]] [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend until the cows come home]]), which shows that he might be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold (only ''very'' heavy on the "jerk" part, with his HairTriggerTemper).
* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He Was Never My Heterosexual Life Partner]]: He does not like to remember that he and Austria used to be friends as children.
* MoralityPet: Who knows how much ''more'' of a jerk he would be without Liechtenstein around.
* RealMenWearPink: Girly pink pyjamas, that is. They're a present from Liechtenstein; she gave him the wrong ones by mistake, but he doesn't mind... because they're from ''his sister''.
* RelationshipVoiceActor: His seiyuu is RomiPaku aka Edward Elric. His sister? Voiced by RieKugimiya aka Alphonse Elric.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: While his last name is undoubtedly[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwingli Zwingli]], is his first name Vash, Basch, Vasch, or what?
* TheGunslinger: His [[WeaponOfChoice Weapons Of Choice]] are several different guns, but personality-wise, he's more like a parody of the trope. Not to be confused with that ''other'' [[{{Trigun}} Vash]], though.
* {{Tsundere}}: Switzerland is a combination of Tsun Type A and [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He Was Never My Heterosexual Life Partner]] to Austria. TheGunslinger is especially fond of The Violent Approach (duh), going deredere ([[{{Kuudere}} and VERY much so]]) only for Liechtenstein.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Towards [[HoYay Austria]], arguably. Fanworks are fond of making his feelings to him [[AllLoveIsUnrequited completely onesided]] [[StarBoarding ''and'' without possible reciprocation]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Himaruya had one idea for Switzerland to actually be [[{{Bifauxnen}} a woman who dressed masculine when in uniform]], but who would wind up shocking others like Germany [[SheCleansUpNicely when they would see her in plain clothing.]]
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: He "created" Austria (whose name means 'eastern division') to fight, which is [[NonActionGuy not really Austria's strong point]].


!!Liechtenstein
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->''If my brother is happy, then so am I...''

->Voiced by: RieKugimiya (JP), Cherami Leigh (EN)
[[hardline]]
* {{Bifauxnen}}: While in uniform, without the ribbon.
** Although she's a little younger and cuter than the typical {{Bifauxnen}}, so in her case, she might be considered a [[{{CuteShotaroBoy}} Cute Fauxtaro Boy]].
* CharacterAlignment: Either TrueNeutral (Type 2) or straight-up NeutralGood
* [[DudeLooksLikeALady Lady Looks Like A Dude]]: Once, Liechtenstein wears an uniform similar to Switzerland's. When people see her, [[{{Bifauxnen}} she's mistaken for his younger brother]].
* DyingAlone and DeathByDespair: Thanks to Switzerland, she barely escaped from this.
** IOweYouMyLife: Predictably, Liechtenstein is very grateful to her brother and thinks he definitely saved her.
* EveryGirlisCuterWithHairDecs: After the [[DudeLooksLikeaLady Lady Looks Like a Dude]] incident, Switzerland buys her a hair ribbon.
* FanNickname: She doesn't have an official human name, but some fans call her "Lili Zwingli" to bypass that. It comes from a shortening of her nation name and from the Lily flower, which is sometimes considered to be a national flower of Liechtenstein.
* GreenEyes
* HairOfGold
* HeartwarmingOrphan: According to the published manga, the poor little girl was on her own and [[BreakTheCutie passed through]] [[DespairEventHorizon several hardships]] before she was found and adopted by Switzerland. No mention of her "biological" parents or anybody who took care of her and her people until then.
** This happened right after WorldWarI, since [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Liechtenstein#Liechtenstein_during_the_World_Wars the union with Switzerland]] dates from 1919.
* ImportantHaircut: Liechtenstein used to have long braids. At the beginning of her first strip, she cuts said braids off to both look more like her brother and be more comfortable. The webcast episode featuring these strips actually begins with her cutting off said braids.
* {{Moe}}: Even by the series' standards. Who ''wouldn't'' go deredere for such a sweetie?
* MonochromaticEyes
* {{Pettanko}} ({{A-Cup Angst}} version): In the [[DudeLooksLikeALady Lady Looks Like A Dude]] incident, when the old woman mistakes Liechenstein for a boy, poor Liechtenstein goes BlueWithShock and touches her ''very'' flat chest.
* SheCleansUpNicely: According to [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-837.html this entry]]. Such a pretty dress!
* TastesLikeDiabetes: Her version of Marukaite Chikyuu. Adorable beyond words.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Due to her, um, [[{{Pettanko}} lack of secondary]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean characteristics]], Switzerland just buys her a blue hair ribbon so no one mistakes her for a boy again.
* TokenLoli
* TheUnpronounceable: At one point in the dub, the Narrator apparently has trouble pronouncing Liechtenstein's name correctly. When she does, the child audience cheers.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: At first Himaruya considered having her emulate her brother even more, with a harsher personality and a cold manner of speech.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Has the personality traits: hardworking, mature, polite, very competent in housework, sweet and devoted to those she loves.

[[/folder]]

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[[folder:The Eastern Europe Soap Opera]]

!The Eastern Europe Soap Opera
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: The basis of [[YandereLoveTriangle Belarus/Russia/Lithuania]]. [[{{Yandere}} Belarus]] likes Russia, [[{{Yangire}} Russia]] likes Lithuania ([[StalkerWithACrush sorta]]), [[TheWoobie Lithuania]] likes Belarus, and [[ItGotWorse it goes downhill from there]]. ''[[ComedicSociopathy Hilariously]]''.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: A good rule of thumb here. Even for little Latvia.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Up to providing a general DysfunctionJunction.
* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs: Both Ukraine and Belarus use hairbands. Ukraine also adds some hairpins.
* FiveBadBand: If the Baltics and Slavs are seen as a parody of this trope...
** The BigBad ''and'' TheBrute: Russia (PsychopathicManchild version, obviously)
** TheDragon: Lithuania (rather... unwillingly)
** The EvilGenius: Estonia (basically, for being [[OnlySaneMan the most stable]])
** The DarkChick: Belarus (who wants to [[strike: get MARRIEDMARRIEDMARRIED]] become TheDragon to Russia's BigBad), Latvia (FragileFlower version)
** [[TagAlongKid Tag Along]] TeamMom: Ukraine (who actually wants to "defect" ''real'' bad)
* FlowerMotifs: Russia is sometimes seen with sunflowers. In one strip, Russia tells Lithuania that he dreams of "living in a warm place surrounded by sunflowers". They put the "dere" in {{Yandere}} for him.
** Latvia attacks Sealand with a Lily of the Valley at one point (which is, interestingly, Finland's national flower), the first hint of his {{Yandere}} or {{Yangire}} potential.
** Rye fields. Just... dear God, the rye fields.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Poland and Lithuania.
** OddFriendship / OppositesAttract: Poland is cheerful and hyper, Lithuania is gentle and kind.
* StalkerWithACrush: Belarus, to Russia. Russia himself, to Lithuania.
* TheChewToy: Ukraine and the Baltic States -- Latvia and Lithuania in particular.
** TruthInTelevision applies for this one, particularly if you toss Poland into the mix as these countries have been the traditional ChewToy of Europe and have been frequently invaded and conquered. Most of these countries have spent more time under the foot of the more powerful countries for the las millenia.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Ukraine and Belarus are an unusual example. Appearance-wise, [[{{Bokukko}} Ukraine]] is the tomboy and [[ElegantGothicLolita Belarus]] the girly girl, but with their personalities, the roles are reversed with Ukraine being a sweet, gentle ShrinkingViolet and Belarus being an [[PerpetualFrowner angry-looking]] {{Yandere}}.
* {{Yandere}} / {{Yangire}}: Russia, Russia, Russia. Latvia shows signs of this as well, likely because of Russia. Also, Russia's sister Belarus: she is obsessed with her older brother, is often represented with a knife, and shares Russia's penchant of abusing people who show care for her - especially [[DoggedNiceGuy Lithuania...]] Heck, Belarus is ''so'' [[{{Yandere}} Yanderiffic]] that Russia is scared of ''her''!
--> '''Russia''' (on Belarus): "Belarus, my little sister. She's [[{{Moe}} a real beauty]], and it seems she loves me very much, huh. (She is) [[PluckyGirl A girl with a strong heart and will]]. In a negative way."

'''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Russia]]'''


!!Estonia - Eduard von Bock
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Estonia.bmp
-> ''Hello! I'm the one who usually doesn't stand out, Estonia! Do you remember me?''

->Voiced by: Atsushi Kousaka (JP), MikeMcFarland (EN)
[[hardline]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: Has light blond hair and GreenEyes in the manga, but dark blond hair and deep blue eyes in the anime.
* AuthorAvatar: Apparently, Himaruya used his own looks as the basics for Estonia's design.
* TheBeastMaster: Sort-of... if you count the Mochis as his pets.
* BigBrotherComplex: Towards [[SayMyName LATVIAAAAAAAAAA!!!!]]
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulGood
* IsntItSad: The most forgotten of the Baltics (Lampshaded in the quote above). On the other hand, he's the one less likely to be picked on by Russia, so...
* HollywoodNerd: Has quite the knack for computers.
** {{Meganekko}}
* OnlySaneMan: Seems to be the most stable of the bros.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Eduard vs Edward, von Bock vs. von Fock.
* [[UnclePennybags Brother Pennybags]]: Estonia is the rich one of the Baltic states and always happy to help them out. One strip is an advertising pitch for more tourism. He is also described as a Honors Student and 'reeks of money'.


!!Latvia - Raivis Galante
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Latvia.bmp
-> '' If you don't have friends ... things will...your heart and body will.. it'll be so tough...* sob* ''

->Voiced by: Kazutada Tanaka (JP), RyanReynolds (EN)
[[hardline]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: Generally depicted with light blond hair and violet eyes in the manga, but has dark blond hair and bright blue eyes in the anime.
* TheAlcoholic: According to some notes and the desktop mascots. Despite being too young to drink in human age.
* [[AndCallHimGeorge And Call Him Latvia]]: See ShrinkingViolet.
* BlueEyes: In the anime.
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulGood
* CrossdressingVoices: In the CD dramas, he's the only Baltic voiced by a female: the aforementioned RieKugimiya.
** Averted in the anime series, where he's voiced by Kazutada "Kokoro" Tanaka (Poland)
*** But played straight in the dub where he's been confirmed to be voiced by a girl (named Ryan Reynolds...[[{{TheProposal}} no, not that one]])
* CuteShotaroBoy: The boy is {{Moe}} beyond ''belief'', even for this series.
* PurpleEyes: In the manga.
* ShrinkingViolet: To the ''[[FragileFlower extreme]]''. When Russia wonders why Latvia's always twitching when he's around, he grabs Latvia and demands he stop. Latvia does... but goes into a coma and almost ''dies''. Cut to Estonia's [[SayMyName horrified screams]].
* WaterWorks: Is always about to burst into tears.
* {{Yangire}}: Slightly hinted as one in the Lily of the Valley incident.
* TeensAreShort

!!Lithuania - Toris Lorinaitis
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Lithuania.bmp
-> ''Ever since returning, I've been worked to the point of no sleep... It must be because Russia is pissed off...''

->Voiced by: Ken Takeuchi (JP), Josh Grelle (EN)
[[hardline]]
* BlueEyes: In the anime.
* [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Crouching Woobie Hidden Badass]]: According to [[http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/15100.html this]] strip.
--->'''Finland''': He's usually so kind, but in battle his aura and face change.
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulGood
* DivingSave: In the Battle of Tannenburg, Lithuania saves Poland just as Prussia is about to bring a sword down on his head, as well as having a [[TwangHello knife against Prussia's throat]]. Poland lampshades the trope when he remarks on how Lithuania was "totally late".
* DoggedNiceGuy: To Belarus, even when she hates him and makes it very clear.
* EvilDetectingDog: Used to have one as a kid, and the puppy barked and whimpered at the sight of... Russia. [[UsedToBeASweetKid Who apparently wasn't crazy back then.]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has several, [[{{Fanon}} apparently due to Russia's abuse]] (it has been hinted, but not stated outright in the comics). Which Poland discovers in the bath.
* GreenEyes: In the manga.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Lithuania and Poland's friendship comes off as extremely one-sided, and though Lithuania is frequently exasperated by Poland's antics, he still works hard to stay with and protect him. After all, [[AFateWorseThanDeath the alternative is Russia]].
** Following the 'Liet's Scars' strip, and the original 'Meeting of the World' strip (in which Poland ''confronts'' the much feared Russia in Lithuania's defence), alongside the new character profiles, it seems that their friendship is much ''less'' one-sided than in the initial strips. [[CharacterDevelopment Poland's character has changed over the years, and he is much less selfish in the newer strips]].
*** A scanlated strip has a dream sequence in which a younger Lithuania tells Poland that he hates him for being so selfish. Poland's response? "I, like, totally don't care what [Lithuania] thinks of me. Even if you, like, hate me, it totally doesn't change that I like you." Then he says that he'll try to be less selfish. The expression he uses in Japanese can also just as easily mean 'love'.
* MemeticMutation: ''"I'm damaged goods, Feliks!"''. Coming from a VERY bad fanfic where he was the [[{{Ukefication}} weepy uke]] to Russia's BastardBoyfriend and Poland's RelationshipSue.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Sure, most of the time Lithuania is potrayed as a genuine NiceGuy amongst the insanity of Russia and Poland, but he does occasionally express frustration.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: So was it Laurinaitis, Lolinaitis, Rolinatis, or what? Also, Toris? Taurys? Tauras?
** Or Tolys, which exists and is actually Lithuanian.
* {{Ukefication}}: He often gets written as such by fans, usually due to his YamatoNadeshiko tendencies.
* TheWoobie: Oh, ''Lithuania''. The fact that Lithuania is the suicide capital of the world bodes ill for his future, to be sure.
** SympatheticSue: When the fanworkers forget that he's got more in his personality than woobieness, Lithuania ends up as this instead.
* YamatoNadeshiko: He qualifies as a male version: he's sweet, hard-working, good at cooking and housekeeping, and a massive {{Woobie}}.
* YankTheDogsChain: He never seems to get what he wants. Because of Russia, Poland and Lithuania are split apart. For a while, Lithuania works for America and much prefers that life, but the Great Depression hits and he has to go back to working for Russia. When he finally gets a date with his crush Belarus, she breaks his fingers.


!!Poland - Feliks £ukasiewicz
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Poland.bmp
-> ''Do you think our wheat would sell more if we dyed it, like, blue?''

->Voiced by: Kazutada Tanaka (JP), Ryan Bijan (EN)
[[hardline]]
* [[AllGirlsLikePonies All Nations Like Ponies! Totally!]]
* AmbiguouslyGay: Poland is hyperactive, talks like a valley girl, and occasionally crossdresses. Obviously his sexuality isn't stated ([[SituationalSexuality but since most of the other countries are male...]]).
* CharacterDevelopment: Starts as ''very'' [[SpoiledBrat selfish and childish]], starts to mature later. He's one of the few who stand up to Russia, after all, and does so to protect Lithuania.
* CulturalPosturing: Poland used to treat Lithuania like his lackey and tried to make Liet live like him. Without any bad intentions, yeah, but still not the best thing.
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralGood
* TheDeterminator: Hinted at being one in his character profile: no matter how much he gets beaten up, he keeps rising back "like a phoenix". Plus, it's [[AnthropomorphicPersonification accurate]].
* DieForOurShip: As a side-effect of the Russia/Lithuania vs. Poland/Lithuania ShipToShipCombat.
* DumbBlonde: Played for laughs mostly. Then again, the ShipToShipCombat tends to exaggerate it.
* GreenEyes
* ISurrenderSuckers: In the Battle of Tannenburg, Poland uses this against [[spoiler: Prussia]] to let [[spoiler: Lithuania]] attack and disarm him.
* ShrinkingViolet: Variation. He seems to be [[GenkiGirl outgoing and cheery]] when around people he's close to, but when confronted with someone he doesn't know, he sometimes backs off and clings to or hides behind the nearest person.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Guys, it's Feli''ks''.
** Justified: The letter "x" doesn't exist in the Polish alphabet.
* {{Tsurime}}: Not a {{Tsundere}}, but eh, he counts.
* [[TheStraightWillAndGrace The Ambiguously Gay Will And Grace]]: Kinda hinted to be this with Hungary, which is supported by the historical connections between both nations. She refers to him as "Po-chan", to start.
* [[ValleyGirl Valley Boy]]: Like, totally, emighawd. He can apparently ditch it if he wants to.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen / GenderFlip: He was initially intended to be the first female, while Hungary was to be male.


!!Belarus - Natalia Arlovskaya
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Belarus.bmp
-> ''Damn doorknob, getting between me and my older brother! [Rips it out] Brotheeer, that obstinate knob is no more. Now then, [[BrotherSisterIncest let's get married married married married...]]''

->Voiced by: UraraTakano (JP), MonicaRial (EN)
[[hardline]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: She is best known for being a platinum blonde in the manga illustrations and assorted merchandise, though the anime gives her dark blonde hair.
* [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Annoying Little Sister]]: Not only to Russia and Ukraine, but according to [[AllThereInTheManual some manga notes]], America also views her like that since he had to take care of her for a while.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Belarus ''adores'' her older brother Russia and wants to marry him, much to Russia's horror.
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticNeutral
* ClingyJealousGirl / {{Yandere}}: Do we really need to explain?
* CombatStilettos: Her military uniform includes high heeled boots.
* DieForOurShip: Much ''less'' than expected (thank God), but it still pops out once in a while in Russia-centered fics. Fics and arts where she ties up, tortures and ''rapes'' a weepy Lithuania just to prove the point of how underserving of Russia's "love" he is have been spotted.
* ElegantGothicLolita: Dresses like one.
* EmotionlessGirl: Or at least, she acts that way most of the time. When not around Russia, that is.
* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs: Wears a ribbon on her head, which is later revealed to be a headband.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: In the first volume of the manga and the first episode of the anime, Belarus is seen holding [[KnifeNut a knife]] to Latvia. Since she's a {{Yandere}}, well...
* MadnessMantra: [[MemeticMutation "Let's get married, married, married..."]]
* MindGameShip: When she's not paired with [[BrotherSisterIncest Russia]] or [[ThrowTheDogABone Lithuania]], she's paired up with... [[OppositesAttract Amer]][[FoeYay ica]].
* NightmareFetishist: If you meet her in the [[http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/5760167.html Latvia and Sealand desktop mascot program]], she seems rather preoccupied with ghosts. She also brings up the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mansion Winchester Mansion]] and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste Mary Celeste.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Belarus looks like she's 14 or 15. She's actually stated to be 19.
** But then again, [[CompletelyMissingThePoint this applies to all the characters]], since they're all ReallySevenHundredYearsOld...
* PerpetualFrowner: A rare female example, since she's too nuts to be a LittleMissSnarker.
* PlayingAgainstType: UraraTakano, who more often than not plays {{Cute Shotaro Boy}}s or {{Onee Sama}} types.
** Contrast with Monica, who is ''[[SgtFrog very]] [[FullmetalAlchemist much]]'' in her element. That said, ''those'' parts were a departure for her at the time, so she's growing into a new "type" here.
* PluckyGirl: In Russia's words, she is one. "In a negative way", he adds.
* RonTheDeathEater: Some people overexaggerate her bad traits to make Lithuania [[SympatheticSue look more woobie-ish than he truly is]] or to discourage the Russia/Belarus pairing.
* StalkerWithACrush: Arguably, towards Russia.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it "Natalia" or "Natalya"? Some will just TakeAThirdOption and call her "Natasha", the diminutive of both names in Russian.
** As well as "Alfroskaya" vs "Arlovskaya".
* StrangeGirl: So much.
* TheUnfavorite: She treats the other Baltics so badly because she ''thinks'' she is Russia's Unfavorite because of them. Hell, she's even jealous of ''Ukraine'', even when this might be more of TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-525.html this blog entry]], Belarus originally was supposed to be a brunette and quite more mellow and stable. A remnant of this idea can be seen in her first colored manga appearance, where her facial expression when threatening Latvia is a little less severe, while her hair and eyes are both colored brown.
** Volume 3 notes also revealed that Himaruya played around with the idea of a {{Tsundere}} Belarus who was hot-tempered and constantly nagging.
** Another instance of an early and more {{Moe}} Belarus design can be seen in a ''SchoolDays''[[http://www.geocities.jp/himaruya/soviet.gif -parodying doodle by Himaruya, entitled "Soviet Days"]].

!!Ukraine
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ukraine.bmp
-> ''I'm sorry, little Russia! I'm sure we'll meet again! Waaaaah!''

->Voiced by: YukiMasuda (JP), Lydia Mackay (EN)
[[hardline]]
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralGood
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: She's ''very'' popular among female fans.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: As a little girl, [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1251349887318.png Ukraine had long-ish, braided hair]]. Now she keeps it short.
** NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Russians call three things 'Katyusha': girls, headbands... and rocket artillery.
* FragileFlower: Her aforementioned economy-related woes and failure to get more friends outside the Baltic and Soviet circles often leave the poor girl quite... distressed. [[TenderTears And tearful.]]
* GagBoobs: In the anime, Ukraine's enormous breasts go constantly "boing" and make strange little noises as she moves. Obviously this is [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical highly symbolic]]; it is a well-known fact that Ukraine [[StealthPun has huge tracts of land]]. * [[http://www.instantrimshot.com/ rimshot]]*
** {{Gainaxing}}: Obviously, the anime takes it and cranks it UpToEleven. With beach ball bouncing sound effects!
-->'''Russia:''' Nobody's answering the door.\
'''Latvia:''' That's odd...I know I can hear her breasts moving...
* NaiveEverygirl: And boy, is she TheChewToy because of that.
* PerpetualPoverty: She's often seen freaking out about her poor economy.
* TeamMom: Ukraine was this for Belarus and Russia when they were children; she gave Russia a scarf once when he was cold, and he still wears it as his trademark. She's also said to be the one who fixes her siblings' {{Yandere}} screw-ups, and is among the few nation-tans that Russia [[PetTheDog shows his almost nonexistent deredere side to]].
--> '''Russia''' (on Ukraine): "She has a big heart and is often targeted because of it. [[WaterWorks She's a bit of a crybaby too.]]"
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Ukraine was to originally have a more average-sized chest, but in contrast, her personality would have been less dignified and she was to be even ''more'' unlucky.

!!Moldova

* PerpetualPoverty: in this nation's only appearance to date in the strip ''In Just Two Minutes, You Can Grasp The Exterior Of The European Economy'', s/he is said to have an economy 1/30th the size of Greece.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: Is it a male or a female? Only time will tell (or a clearer appearance).

[[/folder]]

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[[folder:Socialism and Salted Herring]]

!Socialism and Salted Herring
* FiveManBand: Some fans apply these dynamics to the Nordics:
** TheHero: Finland (Nordic-centered strips are often from his POV)
** TheLancer: Sweden (Finland's [[strike: husband]] [[HoYay partner]])
** TheBigGuy: Denmark (BoisterousBruiser, with an axe as his WeaponOfChoice)
** TheSmartGuy: Norway (DeadpanSnarker, can see spirits, gives Denmark snark and concrit)
** TheChick: Iceland (The younger of the Nordics, barring Sealand. This might change, of course)
** TagAlongKid: Sealand (Sweden's "adoptive child")
** TeamPet: Iceland's puffin and Hana-Tamago!
* [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Huge Guy Tiny]] ...[[HugeGuyTinyGirl Other Guy]]: Sweden is at least 12 cms. taller than [[HoYay his partner]], Finland.
* NonHumanSidekick: Finland and Sweden share their pet dog Hana-tomago.
** Not to mention Iceland's puffin or Norway's faeries and nisse.
* RedOniBlueOni: Denmark and Sweden, respectively, get this a lot in {{fanon}}. What has been seen of Denmark in the official strips has done nothing to [[{{Jossed}} joss]] it.
* [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl Savvy Tall Guy, Energetic Short Guy]]: Arguably, Sweden and Finland.
** Inverted as [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl Savvy Short Guy, Energetic Tall Guy]] in the case of Norway and Denmark.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Applies to Sweden and Finland, although Sweden could actually fall under both.
* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He Is Not My Husband]]: Sweden calls Finland his wife. Finland does not like it at all.
* StockholmSyndrome: A possible and quite cynical take on Sweden and Finland's relationship. Somewhat subverted due to Sweden's GentleGiant nature, which is quite a bit different from the standard captors.
** Others speculate that it actually [[LimaSyndrome goes both ways...]]
* TalkingAnimal: Hanatamago can talk during the ChristmasEpisode. Finland is surprised but doesn't think too much of it when they start to read some fan letters.


!!Finland - Tino Väinämöinen
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Finland.bmp
-> ''How about "Go for it, Bomber"?!''

->Voiced by: TakahiroMizushima (JP), Clint Bickman (EN)
[[hardline]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: Has light blond hair and violet eyes in the manga. In the anime, his hair is the same yellow-blond shade that England and France have, while his eyes are dark brown.
* BladeOnAStick: As shown by [[http://www.txq.nu/hetalia/Hetalia_vol_3_Nordics_01sm.jpg recent artbook illustrations]], he totes around one of these as a baby.
* BoisterousBruiser
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralGood
* CloudCuckooLander: Just look at his original name suggestions for their pup.
* CuteBruiser: If you read the strip referring to the [[http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/15100.html Polish-Swedish war]], you'll notice that Finland is [[BoisterousBruiser quite eager and happy to get into battle]], literally ''crying'' because Sweden called off the battle.
* ForeignQueasine: Unlike England, Finland knows how to cook. ''If only he wouldn't''.
* MeaningfulName: Väinämöinen is the name of the hero of the Finnish/Karelian epic poem ''TheKalevala''.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Tino or Timo? There are more Timos in Finland...
* SurpriseSantaEncounter: The UrExample, of course. Actually, in most European traditions Santa lives here in Lappland instead of the North Pole.
* {{Ukefication}}: Poor Finland may be the biggest victim of this in the APH fandom, after England and Lithuania.

!!Norway
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Norway.bmp
-> ''"Hurry up and start saying it, you! Bro-o-ther!"''

->Voiced by: Masami Iwasaki (JP)
[[hardline]]
* BigBrotherComplex: Towards Iceland. He even demands Iceland call him "brother" in one stip, like the quote above states.
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulNeutral
* DeadpanSnarker: Apparently limited to Denmark. [[InsultBackfire Who does not get it]].
* [[EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs This Guy Uses Hair Decs]]: Wears a cross-shaped hairclip.
* IdiotHair: His floats!
** [[IdiotHair Idiot Dot]]
* [[{{Joshikousei}} Danshigakusei]]: at least in this pic. Watch this space. It's probably supposed to be a Navy uniform, though.
* MonochromaticEyes
* NonHumanSidekick: His [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomte nisse]].
* TheStoic: "quiet and mysterious" as his profile has it, and wearing the same deadpan expression in all artwork.
* {{Tsundere}}: The fans are ''very'' fond of making him one towards Denmark, and to [[SlapSlapKiss quite]] [[DomesticAbuse violent]] [[BelligerentSexualTension extents]]. [[{{Fanon}} Not that this has much backing in the character profile he eventually got]], although [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-663.html strangling Denmark with his own tie]] certainly lends credibility to the idea.

!!Iceland
-> ''"It'd be great if there was stuff like mythical phantom residents that live only in Iceland..."''

->Voiced by: Ayumu Asakura (JP)
[[hardline]]
* BlueEyes: In early colored art and the anime.
* CharacterAlignment: TrueNeutral
* CrossDressingVoices: Averted and {{Jossed}}. A popular and old rumor was that he would be voiced by MitsukiSaiga, while fans often assumed that a female would eventually voice him anyway. His voice actor for TheMovie wound up being a relatively unknown male one, Ayumu Asakura.
* IsntItSad: Tends to be the most forgotten of the Nordics in fanworks, especially with [[OfficialCouple Sweden/Finland]] and [[FanPreferredCouple Denmark/Norway]] being popular ShipMates.
** He does get to appear in TheMovie, at least.
* {{Kuudere}}: He's described as being [[EmotionlessBoy cold]] on the outside, but warmer and [[HotBlooded "hot-blooded"]] on the inside. The latest Nordic strip shows him as being cool in the beginning and somewhat losing it by the end.
* NonHumanSidekick: He's often shown with a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffin Puffin]] bird.
* PurpleEyes: In later manga artwork.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy

!!Sweden - Berwald Oxenstierna
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Sweden.bmp
-> '''Nd m'wif.''

->Voiced by: Keikou Sakai (JP)
[[hardline]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: He usually has light blond hair in the merchandise and illustrations, yet the anime series initially gave him sandy brown hair and changed his blue-green eyes to a deep brown. This was thankfully corrected in later episodes to him having only brighter blond hair and purely blue eyes.
* TheBigGuy: Subverted. He's the tallest of all the nations along with Russia, but hardly acts like it.
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulGood
* {{BFS}}: His WeaponOfChoice is a two-hands sword.
** DropTheHammer: {{Fanon}} sometimes depicts him as using a war hammer as well.
** DualWield: Official art has shown him with either his BFS or what could be [[SimpleStaff a quarterstaff]].
* DeathGlare: Although it's pretty much [[PerpetualFrowner his normal]] [[FaceOfAThug facial expression]], whether he likes it or not.
* {{Emoticon}}: 回言回
* FaceOfAThug: His height and serious face scares ''everyone''. Even if he doesn't intend it.
* GentleGiant / RealMenWearPink: Sweden looks like a huge and scary BigGuy... but is very domestic, an excellent babysitter and even sews his old clothes personally before giving them to Finland when the other remarks on their height difference.
* [[HugeSchoolgirl Huge Male Nation-tan]]: In the 5th anniversary strip, Sweden genuinely wants to say some nice things to the fans... but is so blushy and embarrassed that he cannot, much to his and Finland's dismay.
--> '''Sweden''': I wanna say all kinds of nice things... but... (HUGE BLUSH)... 'm embarr'ssed!
--> '''Finland''': Hey! Su! Whoa, are you okay?!
* {{Kuudere}} ''and'' PerpetualFrowner: Ooooooh, so much. The only time he's been shown smiling in the comic was when he "adopted" Sealand... by purchasing him off the internet. [[{{Shotacon}} Not like that, you know.]]
* RetiredOutlaw: According to his profile he's taken a break from ruling with his old viking ways.
** His profile is referring to either that or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Empire Swedish Empire]].
* SingleTargetSexuality: Apparently, Himaruya's old notes say that he's "gay for Finland". Whether it still stands or not, it's still up for confirmation.
* SpectacledSadist: Subverted: since he looks like one of these yet is anything ''but'' cruel and cold.
* StoicSpectacles: He speaks in a grunting dialect, rarely changes his fearsome facial expression, and scares pretty much everybody when they first meet him.
* TheUnintelligible: In {{Fanon}} due to failed attempts by fan tranlators to localize his original TohokuRegionalAccent, leaving him with a barely intelligible, grunting speech. Often cranked UpToEleven in fandom, wh'ch m'ks 't 'nb'r'bl.
** [[MemeticMutation Sp't 'n m' b'tt F'nl'nd!]]
* WeaponOfMassDestruction / ForeignQueasine: It was humorously noted in Berwald's original character profile that he was making massive amounts of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surströmming Surströmming]] - "...the food that can pretty much be used as an ultimate weapon."


!!Denmark
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Denmark.bmp
-> ''"No matter how I see it, you guys DO look like brothers. You know, the way you're weirdly scary, and how you have weird friends. And to begin with, we're all something like brothers. And * I* am the elder brother... WAH!""''

->Voiced by: Hiroshi Shimozaki (JP)
[[hardline]]
* AnAxeToGrind: In the official art, Denmark has an axe as his WeaponOfChoice.
* BoisterousBruiser: He's often depicted as such in fanworks. Considering how he's shown drinking beer in one of the two strips he's been in and how loud he is in his opinions (to the point that Norway strangles him with his tie), this may have been partially confirmed in canon. (More on Danish and Scandinavian stereotypes [[http://folk.uio.no/geirthe/Scandinavian_images.html here]].)
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticGood
* CrazyAwesome
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Is becoming more and more of this; he's appeared in only [[http://community.livejournal.com/kalmarunionen/52908.html#cutid1 two]] [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-663.html comics]] so far.
* LovableSexManiac: He sometimes gets this characterization as well, mixed with the one above.
* NiceHat: His trademark headgear.
* {{Yandere}}: Many (but not all) fanworks depict him like this, mainly when paired with Sweden (and to a smaller degree, when with Norway). Less in the [[StalkerWithACrush "I stalk you because I love you"]] sense, more in the [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence "I will beat and subdue you]] [[BastardBoyfriend because I love you"]] one.
** ''Possibly'' confirmed [[http://community.livejournal.com/kalmarunionen/222272.html in the artbook of Volume 3]]. He's either this or a StepfordSmiler.
-->'''Volume 3''' (on Denmark): "Poking England, using Russia as a shield, he's quite the active young man. I feel like his personality will turn out to be the complete opposite of his outward appearance."

[[/folder]]

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[[folder:The Empire Formerly Known As Britain]]

!The Empire Formerly Known As Britain
* BigOlEyebrows: Their tell (including England), but not America, Canada, or Seychelles.
** America and England [[NotBloodSiblings aren't blood relatives]]; England just adopted him as his brother. Cuts down on some of the [[BrotherSisterIncest potential incestuous]] [[YourMileageMayVary squick]] in their [[HoYay relationship]]. Canada [[WildMassGuessing might be the same way too]], and he is said to get his hair from France.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Due to the nature of the British Empire, they are often portrayed this way in fanworks.
* BladeOnAStick: During "America Cleans Out The Storage", England and America face off with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayonet bayonets]].
* TeamDad: In a metaphorical (literal?) sense England's the older adoptive brother of America (and Sealand and presumably most of the commonwealth). ''Former'' older brother, anyway. It's complicated.


!!Canada - Matthew Williams
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Canada.bmp
-> ''Excuse me! I'm sorry for my lateness! A terrible accident happened... When I woke up this morning, it was already past noon!''

->Voiced by: KatsuyukiKonishi (JP), EricVale (EN)
[[hardline]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: Has lighter blond hair with darker tips in manga artwork, but the anime gives him a uniform dark blond shade. His eyes also changed from being violet (or light blue) to a deep blue. Both changes make him look even more like America.
* {{Adorkable}}
* ApologisesALot: ...see quote.
* ButtMonkey and CanadaEh: Uh oh, poor kid.
* BlueEyes: In the anime.
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralGood
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: When he beat America at something and gave him TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for ''three hours straight'' and would have kept going if England didn't step in.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: So, so much. Especially considering how few strips he's appeared in.
* EverythingIsWorseWithBears: Averted, since his pet polar bear Kumajirou might forget who Canada really is, but isn't exactly a bad or evil animal.
* HeavySleeper: Seems to be narcoleptic, as one of the webcomic strips has him speaking to someone else and then both fall asleep randomly. See his quote as well.
* IdiotHair
* {{Megane}}
* MemeticMutation: ''Canada,'' ''[[{{Moe}} WHY SO MOE?!]]''
* MistakenIdentity: Canada is always confused for America (but not the other way around), much to his misery.
* NiceGuy
* NonHumanSidekick: Kumajirou, his ''talking polar bear''.
* PurpleEyes
* ShrinkingViolet
* SiblingYinYang: With his brother America. Canada is meek and sensitive while America is outgoing and has occasional bouts of arrogance.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: America and Canada argue. Canada ''wins''. After three hours, England cuts him off out of mercy for a collapsing America.
* TheStoner: In {{Fanon}}, due to the country's rather laid back stance on cannabis in RealLife ''and'' to the extremely good diplomatic relationships with the ''other'' {{fanon}} stoner, Netherlands.
* TheUnFavorite: Canada has always been overshadowed by America ever since they were little. As soon as England seemed to be paying more attention to Canada, America came along and took his attention back.
** In fact, poor Canada is usually treated as a non-entity - people either forget who he is or don't even notice him. (In one strip Russia spends ''a whole meeting'' sitting in his lap because he didn't notice that Canada was already sitting in the chair. Later Russia comments to Belarus on how comfortable his chair was.)
* VerbalTic: "Maple!", when in pain.
* WhatMeasureIsANonBadass: Some fans have a tendency to turn him into a MemeticBadass and DeadpanSnarker instead of the fairly nice, unassertive guy he is in canon.
* WhoIsThisGuyAgain: He is this trope ''incarnated.''
* TheWoobie: He might be ignored in canon, but fans have ''not'' failed to recognize him.
** SympatheticSue: When the fans go to ''extremes'' though, Canada ends up as this and not as a genuine Woobie. Double points if they [[CharacterDerailment derail]] [[RonTheDeathEater America into an evil]] JerkJock. This phenomenon has reached the point where it's ''costing him character popularity'' in some annoyed fandom circles.

!!Sealand - Peter Kirkland
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Sealand.bmp
-> ''Aim for it! Sealand will enter the G8!''

->Voiced by: AiOrikasa (JP), MaxeyWhitehead (EN)
[[hardline]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To England.
* BadAss: The real Sealand's formation. It was formed when an absolutely batshit insane man, his mercenaries and several hundred 'subjects' [[JerkAss stole an aquatic military base from pirate radio broadcaster Ronan O'Reilly]] and declared it the country of Sealand. Then, when England tried to deal with him through the navy, he fended them off with firearms, gasoline bombs and what his own wikipedia article describes as ''lunatic strength''. From then on, he managed to get his imaginary country declared as a real country by basically shooting anyone who said that it wasn't.
* BlueEyes
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticGood
* CheerfulChild: The most deluded one ''ever''.
* CuteShotaroBoy: Someday, Sealand will be a huge empire that even that jerk England will bow down to!
* [[HasTwoMommies Has Two Papas]]: Sweden and Finland.
** Although to be fair, only Sweden was seen adopting Sealand. Fans just incorporate Finland into the family scheme because of the whole "wife" thing.
* [[{{Joshikousei}} Danshigakusei]]: Fair enough, since it's an English design and he's school age.
* GreenEyes: In early art.
* MadeOfIron: He is ''literally'' made of steel. In real life.
* NiceHat
** {{Sentai}}: He loves Sentai and Japan even teaches him how to transform into a HumongousMecha! His RocketPunch has to land on [[ChewToy poor Latvia]], of course.
* TheScrappy: While not as open as in Korea's case, you can bet that in a poll about disliked characters he will have a "top" spot.
* VerbalTic: Sealand finishes most of his sentences with "desu yo." which lends his speech an emphatic tone.

!!Seychelles
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Seychelles.bmp
-> ''99% of people go through their lives without even knowing about my existence! Only having your name known is above this!''

->Voiced by: Megumi Takemoto (JP, CD dramas only)

[[hardline]]
* ButNotTooBlack: Although the Seychelles is in Africa, its population are all descended from a mix of colonists, chiefly French, African, Indian and Chinese people because it had no indigenous natives, so the fact that she's drawn white in the monochrome manga and is usually pretty fair (but officially "light brown") is accurate. However, this might explain why she's the only sub-saharan African country to feature, because she's "Not Too Black".
** Semi-{{Jossed}}. [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-689.html Cameroon]] has just been officially released, so no longer the only sub-Saharan country. ''And'' his skin tone is darker than Seychelles.
*** The recent release of her design for the [[http://www.otomate.jp/gakuen_hetaria/ PSP game]] show her to be very, ''very'' white. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Cut to fan rage.]]
* [[CountryMouse Island Mouse]]: In [[HighschoolAU "Gakuen Hetalia"]].
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralGood
* FootFocus: Illustrations show her as either wearing sandals or going bare-foot.
* GenkiGirl
* GirlishPigtails
* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs: Her red ribbons.
* {{Joshikousei}}: She's the star of Gakuen Hetalia, as already mentioned.
* NewTransferStudent: In the Gakuen Hetalia game, France convinces her to join the World Academy. When she draws her national crest on the chalkboard, the other members of her Africa Class laugh so hard at how cheesy it is they need to be taken to the school infirmary.
* NubileSavage
* OnlySaneMan: Averted. In Gakuen Hetalia, Seychelles attempts to put a curse on England, only to have him reveal himself as a lover of black magic as he starts begging for her to teach him. This causes Seychelles to think on how strange everyone in World Academy W is, not realizing that she is in fact just as weird as everyone else.
* PluckyGirl: As attested by the quote mentioned above.
* RelationshipSue: Has been falsely accused of being this ''many'' times by disgruntled fans, using her ''Gakuen Hetalia'' role as "proof".
* SassyBlackWoman: The more positive side of this trope. She occasionally says snarky things about her (at the time) boss England as well, and is said to have dumped France in Christmas. Look below as well.
* {{Tsundere}}: In Gakuen Hetalia, she's a Type B that goes from demure and polite to screaming or swearing as soon as England or France push her too far, either by being bossy (England) or by groping her (France).
** In the original Gakuen Hetalia script, one of the "bad endings" (the one where she joins the Axis) drives it ''very'' straight to the point, as it finished with Seychelles screaming and swearing that she'll ''kill'' England the next time they meet.
** To England (After he clamps a dog collar on her and declares her his colony): LIKE HELL I WILL YOU EYEBROW BASTAAARD!
*** And when France gropes her, this can be considered a CrowningMomentofFunny as well as a CrowningMomentofAwesome:
--->'''England:''' Say...that looks like sexual harrassment from over here.
--->'''France:''' Nonsense, this is how the French convey love. You yourself should try to give more love to others Englan-
--->'''Seychelles:''' JUST DISSOLVE, YOU BASTARD! (punch)

!!Australia
[[hardline]]
* BigOlEyebrows: [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/osuto.jpg Even BIGGER than England's]] in the first sketch. [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-759.html A later picture]] shows him with eyebrows that aren't as big as England's, but are still fairly big.
* BoisterousBruiser and FunPersonified: His two more popular {{fanon}} characterizations.
* CharacterAlignment: Fanfiction tend to make him ChaoticGood.
* GreenEyes
* LandDownUnder
* NonHumanSidekick: Has a koala and a dingo (?) in the first sketch.
* VitriolicBestBuds: A lot of fanon portrays him as this towards England, based on their RealLife relationship.

!!Cameroon
[[hardline]]
* TheBigGuy: Subverted. He ''does'' look quite tall [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-689.html this picture]], but he's not ''necessarily'' as tall as Denmark and Holland. Maybe it's just DepthDeception.
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralGood or TrueNeutral seems to be the most common in the rare times he's portray in the [[{{Fanon}} fandom]].
* EverythingsCuterWithKittens: Sort-of. [[http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/5319/006qz.jpg He has a lion cub]] named Kokolo.
* GentleGiant: The most popular {{fanon}} characterization. Having a big "kitty" certainly helps.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: (Has one on the side of his head)
* StoicSpectacles

!!New Zealand
[[hardline]]
* AllThereInTheManual: Like a lot of other characters, apparently.
* AmbiguousGender: As of now. Likely to change, of course.
* BigOlEyebrows
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralGood seems to be the most common in the rare times they's portrayed in the [[{{Fanon}} fandom]].
* [[EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs Every Androgyne Is Cuter With Hair Decs]] or IdiotHair: Whatever [[http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/6743/s640x480ud.jpg that thing]] on the side of hir head is. Is it a Tiki? A flower? A hair curl? [[EpilepticTrees A ram horn?]] It's difficult to tell.
* NonHumanSidekick: The sheep s/he was drawn with.

!!The Principality of Wy
->''Did you think we're buddies? But I'm different from you... I've been re-cog-ni-zed!''
[[hardline]]
* BareYourMidriff
* BigOlEyebrows: The first girl to sport them! (Unless, of course, [[AmbiguousGender New Zealand turns out to be female]].)
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticGood
* EveryGirlIsCuterwithHairDecs
* EyesOfGold
* GirlishPigtails: Has one side pigtail.
* LittleMissSnarker
* MouthyKid
* {{Pettanko}}
* PluckyGirl
* ReclusiveArtist: A curious example. While she is indeed an artist and also really hard to reach that's actually because [[http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/23/1074732605593.html?from=storyrhs they can't build a driveway]].
* TheScrappy: Due to being a micronation and not a real country, as well as some fans not liking her bratty personality, her debut quickly earned her this position along with some accusations of being part of a SpotlightStealingSquad.
** ''What?'' She's been barely introduced! Oh, fandom...
*** I think it might have something to do with the fact she has her own strip while Australia, the country in which the Micronation is located in hasn't appeared outside of two sketches as of writing.
* {{Shorttank}}
* TokenLoli

[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment America]]

[[/folder]]

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[[folder:The Empire On Which The Sun Sets In A Few Hours]]

!The Empire On Which The Sun Sets In A Few Hours
!!Cuba
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Cuba.bmp
-> ''HEY YOU, AMERICA! WHY ARE YOU HERE?!''

->Voiced by: HirokiTakahashi (JP), Bob Carter (EN)
[[hardline]]
* BigFun: Rather popular {{fanon}} characterization.
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticGood
* HotBlooded
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [[TheBigGuy Big]], gruff, HotBlooded, ''loathes'' America. Likes ice cream and cigars, is friends with America's brother Canada.
* KansaiRegionalAccent: Speaks with a Kawachi accent, a rougher variation of the Osaka accent.
* SitcomArchnemesis: To America. Too bad he can't tell him from Canada, much to Cuba's embarrassment when he finds out the truth.
* SmokingIsCool: Always shows up with a cigar in his mouth. Obviously, a reference to the famous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigar#Cuban_cigars Cuban cigars]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He was initially set to be a CuteShotaroBoy who was kinder, yet still strong-willed.

[[/folder]]

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[[folder:ASEAN SENSASEAN]]

!ASEAN SENSASEAN

* BigScrewedUpFamily: A popular rendition, which can be played either for drama or for laughs depending on the fandom.
* ChinesePeople: ''All'' of them, [[ShapedLikeItself especially China]]. Hong Kong, despite the eyebrows.
** ChineseGirl: Taiwan, Vietnam, the GenderFlip art of China (either fanart or the canon Himaruya doodles)
*** TomboyAndGirlyGirl: [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1229815456781.gif Vietnam]] (tomboy) and [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gallery3-34.gif Taiwan]] (girly girl) certainly look the part. Whether they'll have these dynamics in canon or not... we'll see.
* FiveManBand: In fanwork, the East Asian nations are typically portrayed as one.
** TheHero: China (Gets upgraded from TheChick to this, since he's the eldest of the group and the others' ParentalSubstitute)
** TheLancer: Japan (Disagrees with China a LOT, ends up betraying him at some point)
** TheBigGuy: South Korea (Tallest and the [[HotBlooded most ]] [[FunPersonified energetic]] of the bunch)
** TheSmartGuy: Hong Kong (mysterious, calm, always deadpan, described as a trickster in the author's notes)
** TheChick: Taiwan (the [[TheSmurfettePrinciple only girl]] for quite a while, the most {{moe}} of the group)
** SixthRanger: Vietnam ([[TomboyAndGirlyGirl the tomboy to Taiwan's girly girl]]) and Thailand (newest East Asian introduced). Mongolia and Tibet would count if they were featured more often.
** TeamPet: Either Pochi (Japan's puppy) or... Shinatty-chan.
* {{Mukokuseki}}: This is a somewhat rare aversion of making the Japanese character generically stateless or anime-like, but making other East Asians more realistic. This time, Japan looks like his relatives.
* [[SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl Savvy Older Brothers, Energetic Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Korea and ''both'' China and Japan. China and Taiwan, to a degree.

!!R of K - Im Yonsoo
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Korea.bmp
->''URI NARA MANSAE!''
[[hardline]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: He would have had chestnut brown hair in the anime series, as evidenced by a character design that was later removed from the official site. Himaruya usually depicts him with black hair or a very dark shade of brown.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Korea's [[BrotherSisterIncest incestuous affection]] towards China is not returned ''at all''. He's not much luckier when he tries to pursue Japan, either.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To ''both'' China and Japan; he's loud, obnoxious, and says that ''they'' should call ''him'' their older brother.
* AsianAndNerdy: In his profile, it's said he loves the internet and games. TruthInTelevision to some degree; Korea apparently has the highest percentage of households with Internet access in the world.
* BrainyBrunette: Korea really is quite intelligent, seeing as he was able to fix the mind reading binoculars in one strip. [[GeniusDitz Too bad he doesn't show it a lot.]]
--->'''Korea:''' I'm an intellectual, [[VerbalTic da ze]]!
* CainAndAbel: In DarkFic, if the [[TooSoon not-featured-in-canon]] North Korea appears, their and Yonsoo's relationship goes like this.
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticGood
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Korea's mind-reading binoculars; he utterly misinterprets what they show him.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* ExpressiveHair: Korea's IdiotHair is sometimes drawn with a face, making this a more literal interpretation of the trope.
* {{Keet}}: Korea is quite cheerful and energetic.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Korea is usually saying he invented things, like education (and of course he didn't).
* SkinshipGrope: He ''really'' wants to grope both of his brothers's breasts. And once or twice manages to do so.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it "Yonsoo" or "Yong Soo"?
* StepfordSmiler: He's another one who gets this characterization in DarkFic.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He loves kimchi so much, that he took it up into outer space, causing France to become pissed off.
* {{Tsundere}}: During a conversation with Japan, he claims to have invented tsundere (''all'' types, presumably). He is ''not'' one himself, but an AnnoyingYoungerSibling with traces of HopelessSuitor to China and Japan.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A prototype design for Korea had the character as a [[http://hetalia.wikia.com/wiki/File:FemaleKorea.PNG girl]] with aspirations to be a pop idol. The design for the female Korea was inspired by the lead of an earlier, short-lived webcomic by Himaruya, entitled [=MoeKan=] (and even directly resembled her in one of the drafts).

!!Taiwan
->''"[[IFeelAngry Hey, you bastard! Don't you dare touch Japan!]]"''

->Voiced by: YukiKaida (JP)

[[hardline]]
* [[BrattyTeenageDaughter Bratty Little Sister]]: One of the earlier Himaruya sketches has her poking China on the cheek and demanding that he leaves Japan alone, while saying the quote above. Confirmed in China's drama CD track, where she teases China a ''lot'':
--> '''Taiwan:''' (giggles) Teacher’s going crazy!
--> '''China:''' I told you! I’m young, cool, and hip!
* TheBeastMaster: She's often represented with tigers, magpie birds (the national bird of Taiwan) and oxes in fanart.
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralGood.
* ChineseGirl
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* FanNickname: To cover up for her current lack of a proper "human name", some fans call her "Mei Mei" (which means "little sister" in Chinese) or simply "Mei" (which can mean "plum"). Taiwanese fans also nickname her "Wanwan" or "Wan-chan".
* {{Fanon}}: Taiwan is depicted in fanwork as either:
** a LadyOfWar or a DragonLady during WWII;
** the target of WifeHusbandry from either ImperialJapan or ImperialChina (more frequently the first);
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding having her feet bound]] per China's orders until [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_under_Japanese_rule her island came under Japanese rule]] (TruthInTelevision, sadly, since many Taiwanese women were subjected to foot binding until ''at least'' 1915, when the Japanese administration banned it).
* TheFashionista: Accoding to WordOfGod.
* FlowerMotifs / FlowerInHerHair: [[EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs Her hair accessories]]. Those are [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_mume Asian plum flowers]], which is the national flower of Taiwan. Strange, it's one of the symbolic vestiges of Taiwan's Chinese claim.
** She also has [[http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt102/pan2panT/hetalia/taiwan.gif a flower-shaped mark on her thigh]].
** Lampshaded in her character chart blurb: "If she has flowers and long dark hair, then it's Taiwan-chan."
* FriendToAllLivingThings: According to [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-643.html these Himaruya chibis]]
-->'''Taiwan''': If you're too noisy, you’ll scare away all the birds and make the flowers die...
* {{Joshikousei}}: Taiwan's preliminary character design for Gakuen Hetalia has her wearing [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/hetalia/images/e/e7/Taiwan_Gakuen.gif a sailor uniform]] instead of the more Western clothing Seychelles wears.
* IdiotHair: Kind of. Hers is longer and droopier than the other characters'.
* {{Moe}}: Any wonder?
* PluckyGirl: Taiwan's profile mentions that, though she tends to fret and worry, she's also very strongwilled when it counts.
* RelationshipSue: Lord, what some fangirls do to her in their Taiwan/any-Asian-male-but-almost-always-Japan fanwork. Japanese and Chinese/Taiwanese fen are especially to blame for this, apparently inspired on how her land was [[ImperialJapan "the Pearl of the Japanese Empire"]] from 1895 to 1945.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Himaruya had ''many'' [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/hetalia/images/9/9b/Taiwandesigns.gif preliminary designs of Taiwan]], including: a little girl, an old man, a DragonLady, a short-haired tomboy, a little boy and a young man.
* YamatoNadeshiko: She has the looks, but canon has pretty much {{jossed}} the personalty traits twice:
** In the [[http://aph.starry-sky.com/caa.html Doodles about Asia]], while Taiwan keeps the looks, she's also capable of [[IFeelAngry speaking quite more roughly]] than the average YN lady, referring to China as "bastard" like the quote above shows.
** The drama track from China's CD has her as a GenkiGirl who inflicts AmusingInjuries on China (she tries to fix his back and then ends up breaking his arm!) and calls him "old man" pretty much to his face.
* {{Yandere}} / {{Yangire}}: Sometimes portrayed as one in fanwork, though mostly played for laughs.
** She's sometimes portayed as a {{Tsundere}} in fanon too, especially if paired up with Korea or Hong Kong.
* YukiKaida
** PlayingAgainstType
** [[TalkingToHimself Talking To Herself]] (she voices both Taiwan ''and'' China)

!!Hong Kong
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HongKong.bmp
->''"To be blunt, isn't "not playing the game" the'' least ''troublesome option?"''

->Voiced by: Motoki Takagi (JP)
[[hardline]]
* CharacterAlignment: TrueNeutral
* CovertPervert: "I said to stop making [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean this kind of art]], otherwise [[{{Pixellation}} I'll have to mosaic it out]], aru!"
* CrossDressingVoices: Avoided. Lots of fans speculated about which female seiyuu would play him, but the CD drama gave him a male one.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* DeadpanSnarker
* EmotionlessBoy: His original draft tells all.
* TheMedic: In the CD Drama ''[[AlternateUniverse Hetalia Phantasia]]'', he apparently is both this ''and'' the...
** NaiveNewcomer: As China's assistant. In the seiyuu talk track, his seiyuu [[EfATaleOfMemories Motoki Takagi]] sorta takes up the role as well.
* PandaingToTheAudience: Just as much as China, apparently.
* PerpetualFrowner
* StuffBlowingUp: His profile says that he loves detonating firecrackers, much to England's annoyance. More than one fanwork goes further and depicts him as a [[IncrediblyLamePun full-blown]] [[WeaponOfChoice explosives expert]].
** {{Trickster}}: He uses his firecrackers to play pranks on England, according to WordOfGod.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: There was some debate on whether he was male or actually a {{Bifauxnen}} girl, until the official character chart grouped him with the males.

!!Vietnam
[[hardline]]
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralGood, according to...
* {{Fanon}}: Vietnam is popularly depicted in fanart as either going from [[CountryMouse an innocent fisher girl]] to [[BrokenBird a battle-hardened]] ActionGirl, or as the East Asians' TeamMom.
* HartmanHips: One of Himaruya's Christmas sketches [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vietnamchan_4583.gif gives her a rather large butt.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Some fanwork have Vietnam beating up people with her rice paddle. [[ShipTease Especially]] [[TheMasochismTango Ame]][[MindGameShip rica]].
* LadyOfWar: A popular {{fanon}} depiction.
* NiceHat: Nice ''straw'' hat, indeed.
* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Sometimes portrayed like this in fanart, specially if it also features [[{{Moe}} Taiwan]].

!!Thailand
[[hardline]]
* TheBeastMaster: Has a pet elephant, named Toto, whom he dotes on like crazy.
* CharacterAlignment: Most likely NeutralGood.
* CloudCuckooLander: Said to be very absent-minded by WordOfGod
* FunPersonified: The doodles where he's appeared have him always smiling and acting cheerful. His original profile says he gets along with people easily and is never in a hurry.
** TheDeterminator - GuileHero: When he ''does'' take a decision or wants something, however, he can be pretty tricky and stubborn. Possbly comes from the fact that the Kingdom of Thailand retained its independence during the European colonization.
* {{Meganekko}}
* SupremeChef:
--> "If he cooks it's always something really sweet or really hot. The cooking itself is very delicious."
* VerbalTic: "Ana~", according to said doodles.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: The most popular fanon for him, coming from [[http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95463 the concept]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathoey of Kathoey]]

!!Mongolia
[[hardline]]
* TheArcher: In [[http://i39.tinypic.com/2055vo2.gif this cameo]] from Japan and China's BackStory.
* CharacterAlignment: Most likely ChaoticNeutral or LawfulNeutral
* {{Meganekko}}
* NiceHat: Has only appeared [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/asia003.png in a single draft]] aside of the aforementioned doodle, but fans still comment on the odd hat he wears.
* TheRival: Of Hungary, whom he attacked and bullied as a child according to [[AllThereInTheManual some sketches]].

!!Tibet
[[hardline]]
* BaldOfAwesome
* BareFistedMonk: The ''very'' unfrequent fanarts about him portray him this way.
* CharacterAlignment: Fandom usually portray him as NeutralGood or LawfulGood.
* HermitGuru
* TooSoon: Due to the obvious RealLife issues, Tibet just appeared in a single strip. In the webcast adaptation of said strip, he was replaced by [[PandaingToTheAudience a talking panda]]


[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment China]]

[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Japan]]

[[/folder]]

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[[folder:IstanbulNotConstantinople]]

!IstanbulNotConstantinople

!!Greece - Heracles Karpusi
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Greece.bmp
-> ''I want to become a cat, if I can be reborn...''

->Voiced by: Atsushi Kousaka (JP), VicMignogna (EN)
[[hardline]]
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: As seen in [[http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/4121574.html#cutid1 this strip]], Greece has a movie about a [[ForeignQueasine gigantic moussaka]] attacking.
* BerserkButton: Turkey's mere presence.
* BladeOnAStick: Aside of his [[ImprobableWeaponUser metal cross]], he uses a [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kodogre.jpg spear]] in some drawings.
* BrilliantButLazy: He tends to be characterized as this in some fanworks.
* CharacterAlignment: NeutralGood
* ChivalrousPervert: Just think about it. He's #1 in the frequency of sex in the world, surpassing even ''France'', and everyone else knows it, and he has no problems with nudity like France... and yet he's one of the [[NiceGuy nicest characters]] in the series and the other characters don't seem afraid of being randomly undressed or molested while interacting with him, unlike with France. Additionally, it's made clear that he definitely wouldn't object to having sex with his close friend Japan (and actually manages to get him into bed at least once) but also that he values their friendship enough, or is mindful enough of Japan's intimacy issues, to not press him ''too'' hard on this, and ''[[LadykillerInLove genuinely]]'' [[LadykillerInLove likes him as a person]].
* CrazyJealousGuy: Pick a fanwork, ''any'' fanwork that has Turkey flirting with Japan within Greece's line of sight, causing him to go from [[HeavySleeper sleepy-eyed]] to [[GreenEyedMonster green-eyed]] (if not outright [[DeathGlare death-glaring]]) in 0.3 seconds flat. ''Only'' when Turkey's around, though - he'll be the epitome of a NiceGuy otherwise.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: According to some manga notes:
-->"When riding in cars [[UnderStatement he becomes a little bit faster]]!"
* FoeYay: {{Fanon}} enjoys pairing him with his SitcomArchnemesis, Turkey. Must be all the SlapSlapKiss potential.
** SlapSlapKiss? More like straight-up TheMasochismTango. [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence Still]] ''[[InterplayOfSexAndViolence hot]]'' [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence if well done, though]].
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Him and Turkey have a fistfight in every Christmas strip.
* HeavySleeper: Greece sleeps through all conferences while all the other countries loudly fight with each other.
* HiddenDepths: Seems a CloudCuckooLander, is actually ThePhilosopher.
* HoYay: After Japan finds out that Greece is n°1 in the frequency of having sex while Japan is dead last, he gets a [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean private lesson]] from him. Japan is embarrassed by this and [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend denies that]] [[ThatDidntHappen it ever happened]]. And let's not forget the TogetherUmbrella strip with them...
* IdiotHair: His splits into two, resembling a Greek column.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Always carries around a huge metal cross, which represents [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Athos the Agion Oros aka Mount Athos]].
* InternetBackdraft: It's a VicMignogna role, so expect quite a bit of this.
* KindheartedCatLover: Greece loves cats, but is [[AWorldwidePunomenon less skittish]] towards others than your average CrazyCatLady.
* [[MissYoYoKnickers Mister Yo Yo Briefs]]: In the "official doujinshi" by Himaruya, England and France try to tell others that he invented condoms. [[InsultBackfire It backfires when he admits he's had lots of sex, but then adds he doesn't use them]].
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The only one aside from France who will casually walk around buttnaked.
* PerpetualPoverty: He suffers from trade deficit and can't play online games with the others due to costly internet.
** NotFunnyAnymore: Compare this with the actual economic situation of Greece in RealLife. Meep.
* SitcomArchnemesis / ArchEnemy: Of Turkey, and the reverse. The ''only'' way to seriously piss Greece off is to have Turkey not too far away. [[ShipTease Specially if Japan is near at the same time]].
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: So is it 'Karpusi' or 'Karpossi' or 'Kiparsi' or what? Also, is it 'Heracles' or 'Herakles'?
** Seeing as his last name is based on the greek word for "watermelon", which is "καρπούζι", [[{{Tropers/Alexandra}} this Greek troper]] thinks that it should be Karpouzi and the author just {{Did Not Do The Research}}.
* TheOtherDarrin: From Atsushi Kousaka (anime) to KisshoTaniyama (Hetalia Phantasia)
* UnkemptBeauty: Japan gets confused when Greece tells him that he doesn't want Japan to see him with MessyHair in the rain, as he thinks that Greece's hair looks messy ''all the time'' and doesn't see a problem with it. (It certainly doesn't stop fanworks from depicting him as extremely attractive, anyway.)
* VocalEvolution: In episodes 54 and 55, his voice is considerably slower-paced than his first speaking appearance in Episode 35.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to volume 3, originally he [[{{Meganekko}} had glasses]] and shorter hair.


!!Turkey/The Ottoman Empire - Sadiq Annan
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Turkry.bmp
-> ''Today I make Europe mine.''

->Voiced by: Takahiro Fujimoto (JP)
[[hardline]]
* BlingOfWar: Ottoman style.
** MaskPower: Combined with a ''very'' NiceHat.
** WeaponOfChoice: A sword, probably a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilij Kilij or Turkish scimitar]]
** MemeticOutfit. Either of his three outfits: the Ottoman times one, [[CoatHatMask the modern military uniform he wears now]] or the green hoodie he often wears.
* BoisterousBruiser
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticGood in modern times. Possibly LawfulNeutral (this series doesn't have ''real'' villains, no matter what fanon says) in his empire days.
* ChildHater: "I really hate kids!", after [[spoiler: Chibitalia]] kicks him in the face.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* HopelessSuitor: He's hinted to have a crush on Japan, and it turns out that his rival is none other than Greece. Who's shown a ''lot'' more with Japan than him in the strips. And slept together with Japan at least once. And while fandom does give Turkey [[FoeYay some action with Greece]], the number of fics in which he's even ''considered'' as a viable romantic possibility for Japan, much less paired up with him, can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
** It's only on the Western side though, due to having the [[AllThereInTheManual Author's notes about Turkey & Japan]] lost in translation until recently. Meanwhile, the Japanese fandom likes to play with the Greece/Japan/Turkey Triangle [[TriangRelations in all shapes and angles; most commonly in Type 2, 4, 5, 7, or 8 Triangle forms with either Japan or Greece at the pivotal point)]].
* LoveHurts: In the beta version for the drama CD, he's revealed to have been in love with [[HotMom Ancient]] [[LadyOfWar Greece]]/Byzantium. Who he eventually killed. (It's not necessarily canon as it wasn't included in the final version of the drama CD, but it sure would explain an awful lot about his relations with her son.) And when you take in account the aforementioned HopelessSuitor case with Japan and Greece ''and'' the only popular fanon pairing he gets being all about him and his ArchEnemy belting out the tune of TheMasochismTango at the top of their lungs while stomping on each other's feet as often as possible, you have one wholly unenviable love life on your hands.
** Let's not forget that a small section of the Japanese fandom also pairs him up with the local ActionGirl, Hungary. Who has been fighting him ever since she was a little girl (she refers to him as [[PrecisionFStrike "the Ottobastard Empire"]]) and not to mention [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Hungary Ottoman Hungary was one of the most rebellious provinces in the Ottoman Empire.]] Add how [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan she's in love with]] [[TheWhitePrince Austria]] and, well...
* PermaStubble
* RedOniBlueOni: He and Greece, respectively.
* RonTheDeathEater: He might not have the most agreeable of personalities or the best of relations with Greece or Hungary, but some fanworks turn him into a complete asshole who will [[SmugSnake smirkingly]] [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate]], [[DomesticAbuser abuse]], and even [[RapeAsDrama rape]] others solely to "put them in their place", whether because these fanwriters love TheMasochismTango FetishFuel of Turkey/Greece or Turkey/Hungary or are enamored of the idea of Turkey as an BastardBoyfriend with a WhiteMaskOfDoom.
* SweetTooth: He loves sweet food, one such food being [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashure ashure]] or Noah's pudding, a traditional Turkish dessert. JustifiedTrope, since [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_cuisine Turkish cuisine]] is well-known for its sweets.
* TakeOverTheWorld: As the Ottoman Empire, he continuously tries to take over Europe- fighting little Hungary, the Habsburgs, abducting little Greece, etc. in the process.
* TurksWithTroops: He's sometimes seen with his Ottomans.

!!Egypt - Gupta Muhammad Hassan
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Egypt.bmp
-> ''...''

->Voiced by: Scott Sager (EN)
[[hardline]]
* ButNotTooBlack: While he has olive skin in the illustrations, the anime makes him much paler. It's true that some Egyptian people ''are'' quite pale compared to other African ethnicities, but still.
* CharacterAlignment: TrueNeutral
* CuteMute: Egypt is not much of a talker. Though, at one point, France asked him if he could even talk, to which Egypt responded, "Would you like to buy something?"
* {{Fanon}}: Since he had not been seen without his ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefiyeh keffiyeh]]'' (his white headdress) until few ago, fanarts often pictured him with long flowing hair. A draft from Himaruya, however, [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/11c5zj8.gif showed Egypt with short hair]].
* GreenEyes: [[http://www.geocities.jp/himaruya/h_micro.html In his new profile picture]]. In earlier artwork and the anime, he has BrownEyes instead.
* {{Kuudere}}: According to WordOfGod.
* MagicWarrior: ''Maybe'', considering one or three sketches.
* NonHumanSidekick: His jackal hound, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis Anubis]]. Obviously named [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic after the Egyptian god of the Dead]].
** In his new profile picture, he has an falcon as well. Likely an allusion to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra Ra, the falcon god of the Sun]].

!!Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cyprus.png
[[hardline]]
* CharacterAlignment: TrueNeutral
* CuteShotaroBoy
* NiceHat: Similar to Turkey's.
* PerpetualFrowner
* SiblingYinYang: In the Drama CD, TRNC is deadpan, quiet and stern, while his big brother Cyprus is expressive, talkative and polite.

!!Bulgaria
->''I just got the sudden urge to hit him when I looked at his face!''

->Voiced by: GoInoue (JP), JustinPate (EN)
[[hardline]]
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticNeutral
* EnsembleDarkhorse: At first, only in the LJ fandom. He has now his own tag in Pixiv (the Japanese equivalent of Deviant Art)
* {{Fanon}} / OCStandIn: His appearances (both manga and anime) are so short that fanworkers are at odds with any kind of characterisation. His most popular "personality" is a JerkAss with a HairTriggerTemper.
* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: He cites this as his reason to bully Italy, even when they're in the same group. Quite well portrayed in the quote above.

[[/folder]]

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[[folder:Modern Classics]]

!Modern Classics
* IdenticalGrandson: Germany looks like Germania with shorter hair. Averted with the Roman Empire, who looks like both his grandsons (or rather both take after him without looking identical); Romano got his hair color, while Italy got his eyes.
** Germany looks so much like Germania that {{Funimation}} thought they were the same person. Lets hope that gets fixed.

!!Ancient Italy, i.e. the Roman Empire
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Rome.bmp
-> ''What!? You don't even * &%&@ on the road!? You've at least kissed a girl, right? Maybe a little bit of !@#$ on the beach!?''

->Voiced by: Hozomi Goda (JP), ChristopherSabat (EN)
[[hardline]]
* BiTheWay: Well, he ''did'' say he regretted never having sex with a male when alive...
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticGood
* [[DotingParent Doting Grandfather]]: To Italy. "Aww, he's so ''kyooot~''"
* DirtyOldMan: The 'With Grandpa Rome' strips (in the published manga) hint on this.
* EyesOfGold: In the anime, matching both of his grandsons' eye colors.
* HozumiGouda
* LoveAtFirstSight: According to his official profile, it happened to him at least twice: with Old Greece (Greece's mother) and Old Egypt (Egypt's mother).
* PermaStubble
* PosthumousCharacter: Almost only seen in flashbacks (if we don't count the published manga and the filler island cameo in the anime), but even as late as the Chibitalia Renaissance strips, it's all about him. He also confirms that nations age and die with military weakness.

!!Germania
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Germania.bmp
->''Talk about something else than women, alcohol and battles once in a while!''

->Voiced by: KisshoTaniyama (JP)
[[hardline]]
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulNeutral
* FanNickname: "[[LordOfTheRings Legolas]]", for his design.
* KisshoTaniyama
* PerpetualFrowner: So much that, when he ''tries'' to smile, he cannot.
* TheStoic

!!Ancient Egypt
[[hardline]]
* MissingMom: To her son, the current Egypt.

!!Ancient Greece
[[hardline]]
* HotMom: WordOfGod says she's [[YamatoNadeshiko a beautiful mom]] that can be [[LadyOfWar very scary]] [[LetsGetDangerous in battle]].
* LadyOfWar: According to WordOfGod.
* MissingMom: To her son, the current Greece.

[[/folder]]

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[[folder: Historical Figures]]


!![[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_arc Saint Joan Of Arc]]
[[hardline]]
* ActionGirl
* {{Bishoujo}}: Is drawn as a very cute teen girl in her single appearance. Well, the series thrives in {{Moe}}, so...
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulGood
* FanNickname: J-fen refer to her as "that girl", as seen in Pixiv.
* SubordinateExcuse: Some fans ship Joan with France and use this as a possible basis for the pairing.


!![[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa Empress Maria Theresa of Austria]]
[[hardline]]
->''"That sounded kind of lewd, you know..."''
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulGood
* DeadpanSnarker
* HairofGold: More exactly, sandy blond
* LadyOfWar: In the "Summary of the Seven Years War" strip, she commands the tropes herself.
* NaiveNewcomer: The Seven Years strips start when she's just been crowned.
* TheOjou
* PimpedOutDress: She doesn't seem to like it very much, though.
* PrincessCurls
* TheHighQueen ''and'' TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask

!![[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_II_of_Prussia King Frederick II of Prussia aka Old Fritz]]
[[hardline]]

* CharacterAlignment: LawfulNeutral
* TheChessMaster
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* SubordinateExcuse: A small but ''very'' loyal part of the fandom thinks Prussia felt this way towards him.
* WarriorPrince
* TheWisePrince


!![[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jogaila Wladyslaw II Jagiello, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King Consort of Poland]]
[[hardline]]
* ArrangedMarriage: To Queen/King Jadwiga.
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulGood
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* TheWisePrince


!![[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadwiga_of_Poland Queen/King Regnant Jadwiga of Poland]]
* ArrangedMarriage: To Wladislaw.
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulGood
* TheOjou
* PrincessCurls

!![[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_of_Sweden Queen/King Christina of Sweden]]
* CharacterAlignment: Most likely NeutralGood
* TheOjou
* PrincessCurls

!![[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He Zheng He]]
* CharacterAlignment: LawfulGood
* TheConsigliere (to China)
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

[[/folder]]

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[[folder:Those Who Don't Seem To Fit Anywhere]]

!Those Who Don't Seem To Fit Anywhere
!!Tony
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticNeutral
* ClusterFBomb: "FUCKING LIMEY!"
* TheGrays: [[http://i33.tinypic.com/29sdn9.jpg See here]]
* HumanoidAliens

!!Shinatty-Chan
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticNeutral
* [[CatGirl Cat Man]]
* TheFaceless: Averted; we see his face at least twice in the webcomic.
* EverythingsCuterWithKittens
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar ("Shinatty" comes from a DerisiveNickname give to ChinesePeople by the Japanese during WorldWarTwo)
* HozumiGouda: In China's CD drama track.
* PsychoticSmirk: Comes with the territory of being one of [[RealLifeWritesThePlot China's ripoffs]].
* WhatMeasureIsANonCute

!!Picardy
* CharacterAlignment: TrueNeutral
* CanonForeigner: Only appears in the ''April Fools: Aftermath'' dating sim game.
* [[CatGirl Cat Boy]]: Wears a pair of cat ears.
* IntrepidReporter

!!Noto Kanazawa/Noto-sama
* CanonImmigrant: From another manga by Himaruya, [[SusumeKitakouHousoubu ''Advance! Kitakou Broadcasting Club''.]] And ''completely'' revamped from his original self, who didn't crossdress and was quite more meek [[ButtMonkey and unlucky]].
** He did crossdress (and gained lots of fanboys due to that), but not that way. The (not deleted) webcomics on Kitayume are the early era before Noto got pissed off at everyone for making fun of him and became Black Noto. Noto-sama 1-6 and deleted comics followed after.
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticGood or ChaoticNeutral. Was NeutralGood in ''SusumeKitakouHousoubu''.
* [[EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs Every Guy Is Cuter With Hair Decs]]: You know that ponytail he sports with a large red ribbon when as Noto-sama? It's detachable.
* {{Joshikousei}} / [[{{Joshikousei}} Danshigakusei]]: Exactly how should he be classified?
* LovableSexManiac: Really likes peeping on people [[NakedPeopleAreFunny and take pictures of them in different stages of nudity.]]
* SchoolNewspaperNewshound
* {{Tsundere}}: The evolved Noto-sama we know and love today.
* WholesomeCrossdresser
* {{Yangire}}: After becoming sick of being the unpopular ButtMonkey, he becomes this as Black Noto and exacts his revenge through his own brands of bullying (most which include sexual harassment in some way or another).

!!Yamato Nara
* CanonImmigrant: From Himaruya's ''Barjona Bombers''
* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticGood or ChaoticNeutral.
* {{Delinquents}}: Used to be one in ''Barjona Bombers''
* LovableSexManiac: Noto-sama promised him porno mags for being his helper.
** WordOfGod says he is a huge lecher.
* MeaningfulName: The name is a HistoricalInJoke with Yamato being the ancient name of Japan and Nara is the original capital city.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend

[[/folder]]

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[[folder: Gender Flip Versions]]

!Gender Flip Versions

!!Fem!Italy
* CuteBruiser: She seems to like to punch the people who are the target of her anger, and unlike her male counterpart, is said to display great physical strength when she becomes emotional.
* EyesOfGold
* PluckyGirl
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Pizza~

!!Fem!Germany
* {{Bokukko}}
* BoobsOfSteel

!!Fem!Japan
* BadassAdorable
* FanNickname: "[[SakuraGirl Sakura]]" is the most widely accepted fanon name for her, and it might have been made official by recent WordOfGod that listed it as a likely name for her.
* {{Moe}}
* {{Tareme}}: Her chibi design has these eyes.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Himaruya explicitly calls her one in his early character notes on the GenderFlip versions.

!!Fem!America
* BareYourMidriff
* BatterUp: Often depicted with a baseball bat.
* GenkiGirl
* GrayEyes: Of the 3rd and possibly 5th variety.
* {{Stripperific}}

!!Fem!England/Britain
* GirlishPigtails
* GreenEyes
* {{Meganekko}}
* {{Tsurime}}

!!Fem!France
* BottleFairy: Holds a wine bottle in a chibi design.
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: Her outfits are always stylish and classy.
* TheOjou: Looks much classier than the original.
* PurpleEyes

!!Fem!Russia
* ImprobableWeaponUser: A rather pointy shovel.
* PrincessesPreferPink: Wears a beautiful pink coat.
* RapunzelHair

!!Fem!China
* ChineseGirl
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: She wields a butcher's knife with a blank smile in two sketches; Himaruya mentions how she's the type whose thoughts aren't easily read.
* {{Odango}}

!!Fem!Canada
* GirlishPigtails
* {{Meganekko}}: This added with the pigtails makes her more resemble England than America.
* NiceHat: Wears a cute beret .
* ShrinkingViolet: Appears to be quite shy.

!!Fem!South Italy
* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs: She is always seen wearing a hairband similar to Belgium's.
* GreenEyes
* SpicyLatina

!!Fem!Spain
* FlowerInHerHair
* HartmanHips

!!Fem!Sweden
* {{BFS}}
* HotChickWithASword
* LadyOfWar
* {{Meganekko}}
* RapunzelHair

!!Male!Hungary
* [[FlowerInHerHair Flowers In His Hair]]
* GoodLookingPrivates
* {{Keet}}

!!Male!Liechtenstein
* CuteShotaroBoy

!!Male!Taiwan
* CuteShotaroBoy
* RealMenWearPink: Quite stylish and doesn't mind wearing a flower pin on his shirt

[[/folder]]

* {{AirInAG-String}}: Really handsome, really skilled in pianmo playing.

* AirInAG-String: Really handsome, really skilled in pianmo playing.

* TheUnintelligible: In {{Fanon}} due to a failed attempts by fan tranlators to localize his original TohokuRegionalAccent, leaving him with a barely intelligible, grunting speech. Often cranked UpToEleven in fandom, wh'ch m'ks 't 'nb'r'bl.