History Characters / PolandballWesternEurope

The countryballs of Western Europe can be found here. For the main character index, look [[Characters/{{Polandball}} here]]. For the Western European nations on the Iberia peninsula, look [[Characters/PolandballIberianPeninsulaNations here]]. For the United Kingdom, look [[Characters/PolandballBritishIslesNations here]].

[[folder:Belgiumball/Belgium]]
* AbusiveParents: The colonies of other European countries may be brats, but little Congo turned out all right. [[http://i.imgur.com/fEzrfsp.png Right?]]
* ButtMonkey: He is mocked as being "not a real nation".
* CollectorOfTheStrange / CreepySouvenir: Collects chopped-off hands, a holdover from the days of [[BadBoss ruling]] over Belgian Congo.
* CurbStompBattle: WWI and WWII turned him into a warzone without his permission.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Netherlands.
* KarmaHoudini: No one ever seems to bring up his atrocious colonial past, which spares him from any sort of reputation as TheDreaded whereas other countries have been ostracized for crimes that they apologized for or are no where near as bad.
* RetiredMonster: He's a civilised, kind-hearted, typical Western European. Just don't ask him what he used to get up to in his African colony.
* SplitPersonality: May be subject to this due to the high tension between his Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia.
* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Waffles and chocolate.
* TokenEvilTeammate: This takes some doing in a work when ComedicSociopathy is the norm, although this trait only appears in portrayals of modern-day Belgium for the purposes of punchlines.
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[[folder:Franceball/France]]

->''"Shouldn't you be working?"''
->''"No. I am strike. Such injustice."''

* AnnoyingLaugh: The classic Frenchman laugh.
--> ''Honhonhonhonhon''
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: PlayedWith. France is often the butt of jokes of this kind (and YMMV on whether they're justified), but it's worth the other countryballs' whiles (especially [[TheRival [=UK=]]]) to remember that TheSoCalledCoward can be formidable.
* HappilyMarried: Fem!France is portrayed married to Germany and the mother of the EU, and the relationship is stable if not always friendly.
* GloryDays: Is rather nostalgic about Napoleon's reign.
* FrenchCuisineIsHaughty: This serves as the basis for his CulturalPosturing towards Italy - he believes that French cuisine is more refined than the latter's.
* FrenchJerk: Can be rather arrogant and narcissistic.
* InsistentAppellation: Insists on calling UK "ze Rosbif"
* OnlySaneMan: Takes up this role when Germany isn't available.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Not eyes, but the [[spoiler: Oriflamme]]. Seen during the defense against Denmark's Vikings, the end of the Hundred Years' War, the Resistance against the Vichy and Nazis]]
* SmokingIsGlamorous: Presumably why he is often drawn smoking a cigarette.
* SupremeChef: Believes himself to be this and actually lives up to it.
** CordonBleughChef: ...but sometimes this isn't the case.
* RetiredBadAss: He has had [[http://i.imgur.com/fvypapU.png a lot of military victories]] in the past but almost no one remembers them now.
** CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Possesses a military about as powerful as Germany's, and after [[spoiler: ISIS' attacks on Paris, they are going to war once more.]]
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[[folder:Germanyball/Germany]]

->''"Wörk, wörk."''

* TheAtoner: [[http://imgur.com/a/rpzHc All you need to know]].
* CatchPhrase: "Wörk!"
** "PAY DEBTS" to Greeceball at least.
* CompositeCharacter: Modern Germany has combined the [[PlanetOfHats traits]] of his previous incarnations (with the obvious exception of Naziball). He has German Empireball's love for efficiency, Holy Roman Empireball's love for culture and West Germanyball's love for austerity and the EuropeanUnion. Upon reuniting with East Germanyball, he gained a secret Bond Villain side for world domination and Prussia's need to create a new Reich.
* TheDreaded: Is this to Greeceball since he's constantly forcing him to pay his EU debts.
* EmptyEyes: When he sports small beady white eyes, it's a visual cue that either in anschluss mode or about to turn into Reichtangle.
* GermanicDepressives: Mention the Holocaust and he'll start feeling guilty again. This has been exploited many times by other countries, usually Greece or Israel, to give them money. He has also been shown to not understand jokes easily.
* GermanicEfficiency: He loves to work... and is great at it. When they exiled him to Siberia to work, he didn't think much of it.
* HairTriggerTemper: Unfortunately for him, he's also the OnlySaneMan. Seeing Poland do something extremely stupid [[EnragedByIdiocy may even trigger his Reichtangle form]].
* HiddenDepths: The existence of [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Reichtangle]] imply some [[AxCrazy rather]] [[TheDreaded nasty]] [[BloodKnight traits]] within him.
* ManBehindTheMan: Similar to how Angela Merkel in RealLife is seen as the leader of the EU, Germanyball is pretty much pushing EU ball's agenda. Little does EU ball know that Germany's reunification with his brother has caused him to obsess over creating a new reich through debts.
* MeanBoss: Is one due to his strict attitude towards [[{{Workaholic}} work]]. He is very stern towards the other EU members and can get frustrated easily when they become uncooperative.
* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe. Nazi Germany and the Second World War are forever a big black mark on him, causing constant complications ranging from awkward dinner conversations to downright paranoia on those he had previously conquered.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His current decisions and EU obsessions are played off Angela Merkel's RealLife policies.
* OnlySaneMan: Is usually the voice of reason when everyone else refuses to listen. [[SubvertedTrope Unless he's the crazy one himself.]]
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Oh, yeah. From the Cherusci and the Franks to the Teutonic Knights and Prussia, all the way to the World Wars and the Modern Day. [[http://9gag.com/gag/aNog3N0 He's always truly been characterised by his military, and diplomacy is really only a fairly new thing to him.]] Even now, whenever Girl!France goes to bed, he takes little EU off to [[spoiler: [[http://i.imgur.com/noLsXeK.png secretly plot invasions against their enemies]]]].
** A recent portrayal inverts this, showing him as being weak in terms of military and afraid of causing another war. It's meant to mirror the RealLife country's reluctance to use its underequipped army.
** Played straight ever since the Russian intervention in Crimea. He has the raw industrial power to rearm himself on a moment's notice, and he has already been readying his standing defenses heavily. He remembers well [[BarbarianHero where he came from]].
* RetiredMonster: He used to be known for industrial genocide and attempted domination of Europe. Now he's the EU's tax collector.
* SuperOCD: He strongly believes in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnung Ordnung]] and tries his best to follow the rules as closely as possible.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Reichtangle is this to him. How scary was Reichtangle? It took the UK, Russia, and a full half of the US' power to put it down.
** It recently made a return during its crushing victory over Brazil in the 2014 World Cup. In this case, though, it was not so much represented as an EvilOverlord as it was a badass ConsummateProfessional, which also describes that year's team quite well.
* TakeOverTheWorld: This was the [[PlanetOfHats mantra]] of his past 3 reich incarnations. Reuniting with StateSec obsessed East Germanyball in comics has caused him to develop a new need to do so once more, this time with the EU and debts rather than armies.
* UnclePennybags: Greece frequently asks him for (and gets) large amounts of money.
* {{Workaholic}}: Overlaps with GermanicEfficiency. [[WildMassGuessing Is he so good at work because he likes it so much? Or did he fall in love with working ever since he became good at it?]]
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[[folder:Luxembourgball/Luxembourg]]
* BirdsOfAFeather: Is frequently shown together with Monaco, presumably due to their wealth and love of casinos.
* TheGenericGuy: Appears with a speaking line so rarely that he lacks an established personality.
** OutOfFocus
* JerkAss: Can be very disagreeable.
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[[folder:Netherlandsball/Netherlands]]
* AbsurdPhobia: Is terrified of water because of the rising water levels caused by global warming and the fact that he's a low-lying country. However, he has reclaimed much land from the sea and it has been implied that he can't live without it.
* BrutalHonesty: Can be rather [[{{Pun}} blunt]].
* FlowerMotifs: Tulips, of course. He's often seen carrying a bouquet of them.
* GreatDetective: When not portrayed as a stoner, he is sometimes shown as a detective hero in reference to the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Canada and Belgium.
* TheStoner: FreeStateAmsterdam is in full effect.
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** It recently made a return during its crushing victory over Brazil in the 2014 World Cup. In this case, though, it was not so much represented as an EvilOverlord as it was a BadAss ConsummateProfessional, which also describes that year's team quite well.

* TheAtoner: [[http://imgur.com/a/rpzHc All you need to know]].

** TheAtoner: [[http://imgur.com/a/rpzHc All you need to know]].

* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Waffles.

* TheNicknamer: Likes to refer to Britain as "ze Rosbif".

** However, a recent portrayal shows him as being weak in terms of military, mirroring the RealLife country's under equipped army.

* EnragedByIdiocy: Unfortunately for him, he's also the OnlySaneMMan. Seeing Poland do something extremely stupid may even trigger his Reichtangle form.

* CollectorOfTheStrange / CreepySouveneir: Collects chopped-off hands, a holdover from the days of [[BadBoss ruling]] over Belgian Congo.

* CollectorOfTheStrange / CreepySouvenier: Collects chopped-off hands, a holdover from the days of [[BadBass ruling]] over Belgian Congo.

* CollectorOfTheStrange/CreepySouvenie: Collects chopped-off hands, a holdover from the days of [[BadBass ruling]] over Belgian Congo.

* CollectorOfTheStrange: Collects chopped-off hands for some unexplained, twisted reason.

* ButtMonkey: He is mocked as being "not a real nation" at times.

* AbsurbPhobia: Is terrified of water because of the rising water levels caused by global warming and the fact that he's a low-lying country. However, he has reclaimed much land from the sea and it has been implied that he can't live without it.

The countryballs of Western Europe can be found here. For the main character index, look [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/Polandball here]]. For the Western European nations on the Iberia peninsula, look [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/PolandballIberianPeninsula here]]. For the United Kingdom, look [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/PolandballBritishIslesNations here]].

* IronicFear: Is terrified of water because of the rising water levels caused by global warming and the fact that he's a low-lying country. However, he has reclaimed much land from the sea and it has been implied that he can't live without it.

* CurbStompBattle: WWI and WWII made him into a warzone without his permission.

* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Chocolate, fries, and waffles.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Canada and Belguim.