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* Pioneered, and possibly created, by ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', where the main characters were Kirk (white American from Iowa), [=McCoy=] (white American from Georgia), Spock (Vulcan, with his mother coming from an unspecified Earth country), Uhura (Kenyan), Sulu (Japanese American from California), Chekhov (Russian) and Scotty (Scottish). Expanded later in the franchise, as even more characters representing other ''species'' were included. In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', for example, there was a Frenchman (Picard), a few Americans (Riker, Crusher), a Somalian (La Forge), a Belarussian-by-adoption (Worf, who, as a Klingon, obviously represents, obviously a whole other "nation" as well), and an Irishman (O'Brien). ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' had an American (Sisko), the Belarussian-by-adoption (Worf), the Irishman (O'Brien) and somebody clearly of a multi-ethnic background (Bashir). ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' wasn't as diverse but tried to make up for it with more aliens. ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' had a few Americans (Archer and Trip), an Englishman (Reed) and a Japanese (Sato).

* Pioneered, and possibly created, by ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', where the main characters were Kirk (white American from Riverside, Iowa), [=McCoy=] (white American from Georgia), Spock (Vulcan, with his mother coming from an unspecified Earth country), Uhura (Kenyan), Sulu (Japanese American from San Fransisco, California), Chekhov (Russian) and Scotty (Scottish). Expanded later in the franchise, as even more characters representing other ''species'' were included. In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', for example, there was a Frenchman (Picard), a few Americans (Riker, Crusher), a Somalian (La Forge), a Belarussian-by-adoption (Worf, who, as a Klingon, obviously represents, obviously a whole other "nation" as well), and an Irishman (O'Brien). ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' had an American (Sisko), the Belarussian-by-adoption (Worf), the Irishman (O'Brien) and somebody clearly of a multi-ethnic background (Bashir). ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' wasn't as diverse but tried to make up for it with more aliens. ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' had a few Americans (Archer and Trip), an Englishman (Reed) and a Japanese (Sato).

* Pioneered, and possibly created, by ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', where the main characters were Kirk (white American from Iowa), [=McCoy=] (white American from Georgia), Spock (Vulcan, with his mother coming from an unspecified Earth country), Uhura (Kenyan), Sulu (Japanese American from San Fransisco, California), Chekhov (Russian) and Scotty (Scottish). Expanded later in the franchise, as even more characters representing other ''species'' were included. In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', for example, there was a Frenchman (Picard), a few Americans (Riker, Crusher), a Somalian (La Forge), a Belarussian-by-adoption (Worf, who, as a Klingon, obviously represents, obviously a whole other "nation" as well), and an Irishman (O'Brien). ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' had an American (Sisko), the Belarussian-by-adoption (Worf), the Irishman (O'Brien) and somebody clearly of a multi-ethnic background (Bashir). ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' wasn't as diverse but tried to make up for it with more aliens. ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' had a few Americans (Archer and Trip), an Englishman (Reed) and a Japanese (Sato).

* Pioneered, and possibly created, by ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', where the main characters were Kirk and [=McCoy=] (Americans), Spock (Vulcan, with his mother coming from an unspecified Earth country), Uhura (Kenyan), Sulu (Japanese), Chekhov (Russian) and Scotty (Scottish). Expanded later in the franchise, as even more characters representing other ''species'' were included. In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', for example, there was a Frenchman (Picard), a few Americans (Riker, Crusher), a Somalian (La Forge), a Belarussian-by-adoption (Worf, who, as a Klingon, obviously represents, obviously a whole other "nation" as well), and an Irishman (O'Brien). ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' had an American (Sisko), the Belarussian-by-adoption (Worf), the Irishman (O'Brien) and somebody clearly of a multi-ethnic background (Bashir). ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' wasn't as diverse but tried to make up for it with more aliens. ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' had a few Americans (Archer and Trip), an Englishman (Reed) and a Japanese (Sato).

* ''Series/{{The Strain|TVSeries}}'' had this on both sides of the Human/Strigoi conflict. The human side had folks from the United States (Ephraim Goodweather, "Gus" Elizalde), Argentina (Nora Martinez), Romania (Abraham Setrakian), the Ukraine (Vasily Fet), the United Kingdom ("Dutch" Velders), and Mexico (Angel Guzman Hurtado). The Stigoi side has Americans Gabriel Bolivar, Eldritch Palmer, Kelly Goodweather, and [[spoiler:Zach Goodweather]], along with German Thomas Eichhorst. (It's questionable if nationality even applies to The Master and Mr Quinlan, though the former has a Polish host at the start of the series, and Quinlan was born during Ancient Rome and even became a Roman citizen himself.)

* Pioneered, and possibly created, by ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. Expanded later in the franchise, as even more characters representing other ''species'' were included. In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', for example, there was a Frenchman (Picard), a few Americans (Riker, Crusher), an African (La Forge), a Belarussian-by-adoption (Worf, who represents, obviously, a whole other "nation" as well), and an Irishman (O'Brien). ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' had an American (Sisko), the Belarussian-by-adoption (Worf), the Irishman (O'Brien) and somebody clearly of a multi-ethnic background (Bashir). ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' wasn't as diverse but tried to make up for it with more aliens. ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' had a few Americans (Archer and Trip), an Englishman (Reed) and a Japanese (Sato).

** [[spoiler:Lila]]: Berlin.

* ''Series/UFO1970''L SHADO is a multinational alien-fighting organisation based in England, but commanded by an American (e.g., a BritishSeries aiming for a US market). Other characters are Australian, Eastern European, Indian and Afro-Caribbean. A lampshading of this is the food dispenser on Moonbase, with sections marked "American Meal", "Russian Meal" and so on.

* ''Series/{{UFO}}'' (1970-1). SHADO is a multinational alien-fighting organisation based in England, but commanded by an American (e.g. a BritishSeries aiming for a US market). Other characters are Australian, Eastern European, Indian and Afro-Caribbean. A lampshading of this is the food dispenser on Moonbase, with sections marked "American Meal", "Russian Meal" and so on.

* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': The main characters were adopted and raised in the United States, but their names suggest their country of origin:
** Luther, Alison, and Ben: the US or another English-speaking country.
** Diego: Latin America
** Klaus: Germany
** Vonya: Russia.

* Pioneered, and possibly created, by ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. Expanded later in the franchise, as even more characters representing other ''species'' were included. In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', for example, there was a Frenchman (Picard), a few Americans (Riker, Crusher), an African (La Forge), a Belarussian-by-adoption (Worf, who represents, obviously, a whole other "nation" as well), and an Irishman (O'Brien). ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' had an American (Sisko), the Belarussian-by-adoption (Worf), the Irishman (O'Brien) and somebody clearly of a multi-ethnic background (Bashir). ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' wasn't as diverse but tried to make up for it with more aliens. ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' had a few Americans (Archer and Trip), an Englishman (Reed) and a Japanese (Sato).
* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': The Atlantis expedition is an international team with members from a large variety of countries. You can have a bit of fun spotting the flags on the base uniforms too. Regulars have included a number of Americans, a Canadian (Rodney [=McKay=]), a Scot (Carson Beckett -- no, I don't know why he has the Saltire on there when Scotland is not an independent state) and a Czech (Radek Zelenka). Extras have included South Africans, Russians, Chinese and a Belgian. And Rodney fangirl Miko Kusanagi is Japanese. Unfortunately, the only Australian was also imaginary.
* [[Series/HogansHeroes Colonel Hogan's team]] is made up of three Americans, an Englishman and a Frenchman -- plus [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Sergeant Schultz]], who is not supposed to be an ally but is anyway. The show is notable for averting the FakeNationality trope for all of the main cast members.
* ''PowerRangers'', at least in its earlier seasons. The episode "A Season to Remember" features a plot in which the villains tried to use their ethnic diversity against them by sparking a fierce Christmas/Kwaanza/Hanukkah rivalry. This episode, incidentally, pointed out the fact there were no Jewish Rangers until ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'', where Bridge is Jewish. The Jewish character in that Zeo episode was their geeky ally. It's weird when you consider that Haim Saban and Shuki Levy, who created the franchise, are both Israeli...

* ''Series/StarCops'', in a similar manner to ''UFO''.
* ''Series/DefyingGravity'' had four countries represented among eight shipmates. At least one more country was represented among ground crew.
** Crew: American (Maddux Donner, Paula Morales [Hispanic-American from Texas], Steve Wassenfelder, Ted Shaw), Canadian (Jen Crane, Zoe Barnes), German (Nadia Schilling), Israeli (Evram Mintz). Most of the ground crew is American, although Dr. Claire Dereux is Canadian and Ajay Sharma (who was originally supposed to go on the ''Antares'') is Indian.
* ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'', an action comedy about a team of five assembled to assassinate Hitler and thwart Nazi plans [[AlternateHistory in the 1960s]]. The five are Jackson (American), Claire (British), Tucker (Australian), Ilsa (Russian), and Pierre ('European').
* The hosts of ''Series/TopGear'' became one of these after the firing of Jeremy Clarkson and the resulting resignations of Richard Hammond and James May. The new cast featured three Englishmen (Chris Evans, Chris Harris, and Rory Reid), an American (Matt [=LeBlanc=]), a German (Sabine Schmidt), and an Irishman (Eddie Jordan).
* ''Series/TheStrainTVSeries'' had this on both sides of the Human/Strigoi conflict. The human side had folks from the United States (Ephraim Goodweather, "Gus" Elizalde), Argentina (Nora Martinez), Romania (Abraham Setrakian), the Ukraine (Vasily Fet), the United Kingdom ("Dutch" Velders), and Mexico (Angel Guzman Hurtado). The Stigoi side has Americans Gabriel Bolivar, Eldritch Palmer, Kelly Goodweather, and [[spoiler:Zach Goodweather]], along with German Thomas Eichhorst. (It's questionable if nationality even applies to The Master and Mr Quinlan, though the former has a Polish host at the start of the series, and Quinlan was born during Ancient Rome and even became a Roman citizen himself.)
* ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'': The rebel forces are made up of former slaves from a multitude of backgrounds such as Thracian, Celtic in general, Gaul in particular, Germanic, Assyrian, Numidian, Hispanic, Phoenecian and even Roman exiles.
* ''Series/MoonbaseThree'': The Moonbase 3 personnel are predominantly British but there are scientists from other European countries such as France, Italy, Spain and Germany.

* ''Series/BattleFeverJ'', the third ''SuperSentai'' show had a strange variation of this idea where the members except for Miss America were "from" nations around the world, but since they were played by Japanese actors, they were Japanese who had been sent to Russia or France to be trained in combat and in acquiring tastes for caviar and escargo. The [[LegacyCharacter first]] Miss America was the only exception since she was played by a Japanese-American woman. The peculiarities of this series have something to do with the leftovers of the [[WhatCouldHaveBeen original idea]] to make the show "Captain Japan", a Japanese interpretation of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica under license from Creator/MarvelComics.

* ''Series/TheStrainTVSeries'' had this on both sides of the Human/Strigoi conflict. The human side had folks from the United States (Ephraim Goodweather, "Gus" Elizalde), Argentina (Nora Martinez), Romania (Abraham Setrakian), the Ukraine (Vasily Fet), the United Kingdom ("Dutch" Velders), and Mexico (Angel Guzman Hurtado). The Stigoi side has Americans Gabriel Bolivar, Eldritch Palmer, Kelly Goodweather, and [[spoiler:Zach Goodweather]], along with German Thomas Eichhorst. (It's questionable if nationality even applies to The Master and Mr Quinlan,though the former has a Polish host at the start of the series, and Quinlan was born during Ancient Rome and even became a Roman citizen himself.)

* ''Series/TheStrainTVSeries'' had this on both sides of the Human/Strigoi conflict. The human side had folks from the United States (Ephraim Goodweather, "Gus" Elizalde), Argentina (Nora Martinez), Romania (Abraham Setrakian), the Ukraine (Vasily Fet), the United Kingdom ("Dutch" Velders), and Mexico (Angel Guzman Hurtado). The Stigoi side has Americans Gabriel Bolivar, Eldritch Palmer, Kelly Goodweather, and [[spoiler:Zach Goodweather]], along with German Thomas Eichhorst. (It's questionable if nationality even applies to The Master and Mr Quinlan.)

* ''Series/BattleFeverJ'', the third ''SuperSentai'' show had a strange variation of this idea where the members except for Miss America were "from" nations around the world, but since they were played by Japanese actors, they were Japanese who had been sent to Russia or France to be trained in combat and in acquiring tastes for caviar and escargo. The [[LegacyCharacter first]] Miss America was the only exception since she was played by a Japanese-American woman. The peculiarities of this series have something to do with the leftovers of the [[WhatCouldHaveBeen original idea]] to make the show "Captain Japan", a Japanese interpretation of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica under license from MarvelComics.

* ''{{UFO}}'' (1970-1). SHADO is a multinational alien-fighting organisation based in England, but commanded by an American (e.g. a BritishSeries aiming for a US market). Other characters are Australian, Eastern European, Indian and Afro-Caribbean. A lampshading of this is the food dispenser on Moonbase, with sections marked "American Meal", "Russian Meal" and so on.

* ''Series/BattleFeverJ'', the third ''SuperSentai'' show had a strange variation of this idea where the members except for Miss America were "from" nations around the world, but since they were played by Japanese actors, they were Japanese who had been sent to Russia or France to be trained in combat and in acquiring tastes for caviar and escargo. The [[LegacyCharacter first]] Miss America was the only exception since she was played by a Japanese-American woman. The peculiarities of this series have something to do with the leftovers of the [[WhatCouldHaveBeen original idea]] to make the show "Captain Japan", a Japanese interpretation of CaptainAmerica under license from MarvelComics.

* [[HogansHeroes Colonel Hogan's team]] is made up of three Americans, an Englishman and a Frenchman -- plus [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Sergeant Schultz]], who is not supposed to be an ally but is anyway. The show is notable for averting the FakeNationality trope for all of the main cast members.

* Pioneered, and possibly created, by ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. Averted for some reason by the later series.
** Not ''truly'' averted, just not nearly as obvious (partially to show how humanity is so united, and what not, not to mention the increase of aliens in the crew). In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', for example, there was a Frenchman (Picard), a few Americans (Riker, Crusher), an African (La Forge), a Belarussian-by-adoption (Worf, who represents, obviously, a whole other "nation" as well) and an Irishman (O'Brien). ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' had an American (Sisko), the Belarussian-by-adoption (Worf), the Irishman (O'Brien) and somebody clearly of a multi-ethnic background (Bashir). ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' wasn't as diverse but tried to make up for it with more aliens. ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' had a few Americans (Archer and Trip), an Englishman (Reed) and a Japanese (Sato).

* ''BattleFeverJ'', the third ''SuperSentai'' show had a strange variation of this idea where the members except for Miss America were "from" nations around the world, but since they were played by Japanese actors, they were Japanese who had been sent to Russia or France to be trained in combat and in acquiring tastes for caviar and escargo. The [[LegacyCharacter first]] Miss America was the only exception since she was played by a Japanese-American woman. The peculiarities of this series have something to do with the leftovers of the [[WhatCouldHaveBeen original idea]] to make the show "Captain Japan", a Japanese interpretation of CaptainAmerica under license from MarvelComics.

* ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'', an action comedy about a team of five assembled to assassinate Hitler and thwart Nazi plans [[AlternateHistory in the 1960s]]. The five are Jackson (American), Claire (British), Tucker (Australian), Ilsa (Russian), and Pierre (European).

* ''The Knights of Prosperity''. I know it's a total shock, but the American one is the leader.
** Actually there are four Americans, plus a Colombian and an Indian.