Used knowingly in Astro City; the further a hero is from Astro City proper, the more likely they are to be a Captain Ethnic or Captain Geographic.
Las Vegas' big hero is the neon-themed Mirage.
New York is defended by Skyscraper.
Boston has the Silversmith (after Bostonian silversmith Paul Revere) and The Brahmin.
Chicago has The Untouchable.
Austin, Texas has Lonestar.
Atlanta, Georgia (home of Coca-Cola) has The Real Thing.
Detroit, the Motor City, has MPH.
Los Angeles has Starpower, a Chrome Champion wearing an oversized film strip.
The Golden Age All-American and Slugger can be seen as representing the United States as a whole, whose tactics and abilities all come from sports.
Australia's most notable heroes include Kookaburra, Barrier, Bullroarer, and the Colonial.
Later issues introduced another hero called Wolfspider, and the villains Coolangatta Pete, the Exo-Skells, and Jack Panzer.
There's also a popular kids' cartoon called "Queenslaw", about a team of (fictional) Australian superheroes — Cap'n Cookaburra, Banana Bender, Goldrush, Krokolite, Seadragon, the Territorian, and Numbat.
British crime lords include The Red Queen, Clever Dick, the Toff and the Headmaster of Crime, while its heroes include The Lion and the Unicorn, Larkspur, and Popstar.
Germany has Iron Cross.
Kenya has Anansi, who creates illusions.
India has a team of super-powered street urchins called The Unclean.
Brazilian heroes mentioned are the Birds of Paradise, a trio of flying, scantily-clad women.
There was an independent comic series called Captain Africa, which was written and drawn by a black creator, and was meant as a vehicle to garner interest in African heritage in black children. Despite the fact that the title character was actually American, and had never actually lived in Africa.
There was also Zwanna, Son of Zulu, who was an African price who is enrolled at 'Black American State University' who enjoys watching Montel who becomes a mighty champion by yelling the magic word 'ZHAAB!'. His costume is a loin-cloth and a necklace, and he has a spear. He battles skinheads and three transvestites named after Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush, Sr., and goes on to fight their cross-dressing boss. Needless to say, it was a very weird comic.
Empowered encountered a rather ineffectual villain calling himself the Lash who was originally part of a Terrible Trio (Rum, Sodomy, and The Lash) who were all British themed. Lash is extremely over-the-top in throwing in "Britishisms" into his speech to a degree that he is almost certainly not actually British.
Parodied with Glorious Five Year Plan, a Russian superhero team with names like Hammer and Sickle, Collectivo and Purge. Love Sausage's name doesn't fit, buthechecksouteveryotherSovietstereotype you can think of.
And then there's The Frenchman, a bald, goggles-wearing Batroc-shit-insane lunatic who acts as The Brute of the team alongside the Female (he's the only one who can talk to her, in fact). His backstory is that he lost his love during a bicycle baguette joust with his love rival (with a warcry of "Hon hon hon!"), joined the Legion of Lost Souls, and was recruited by Billy when an American tried to pull the Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys shtick and ended up headbutted. And if you're wondering, the French translation changes only one thing: his village gets renamed from Franglais (the French equivalent to Gratuitous English) to Saint-Glinglin (a French expression that means "never").
The short-lived comic book The Mighty Bombshells consists of American Ms. Liberty (A redhead wearing Uncle Sam's costume), British Fireball (who likes to make tea), German Blitzkrieg (Blonde hair blue eyes), Chinese Red Dragon (who is a martial artist), Japanese Cherry Blossom, and Texan Dynamite Girl (whose costume has the Confederate flag on it).
The latest incarnation of The Guardians of the Globe is, for once, actually global. Most of its newer members aren't obvious stereotypes, but there are a few. The Japanese Japandroid, a sophisticated robot that looks like a prepubescent girl and the French Le Bruiser, a French bulldog with superpowers, are the biggest examples. Others, like the Nepalese Yeti, the Australian Kaboomerang, and the Mexican el Chupacabra, are more thematically tied to their countries of origin than anything else — it's a part of their identity, but not their entire identity.
Parodied by Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology with the Asian Y-Men, who introduce themselves by saying "Feel the suicidal wrath of Kami Kazei", "Sweaty Feet of Coolie are express ticket to hell", "The myopic blasts of Four Eyes" and "Special delivery from Riceman. Pork-fried pain".
Ace Periodicals' Captain Courageous from the Golden Age of Comics had two Japanese stereotypes for supervillains, Captain Nippo (not to be confused with Fawcett Comics' Captain Nippon) and Shinto Samurai. It was a different time.
