National Animal Stereotypes

Spot all the national animals!^note Clockwise from the top-left corner: American bald eagle, Russian bear, French rooster, German black eagle, British lion, Italian wolf, Austro-Hungarian two-headed eagle, Chinese dragon, and Japanese leopard.

Now the Peke, although people may say what they please,
Is no British Dog, but a Heathen Chinese.

—T. S. Eliot, "Of The Awefull Battle Of The Pekes And The Pollicles" (later put to music in Cats)

In media, especially those with talking animals of any kind, certain animal species are often associated with a real-life human national/ethnic/racial group, and will be portrayed as National Stereotypes. Sometimes they will just have the accent, sometimes they will play up the positive and/or negative stereotypes associated with that nation (the latter often overlapping with Space Jews, and occasionally leading to Unfortunate Implications).

Occasionally, the animal is portrayed as the pet of a human being, who is a walking National Stereotype themselves (in this case, the animal doesn't need to be anthropomorphized). The animals could be wild animals actually native to the country, or domestic animals that are primarily bred there, or chosen by the government to be an official mascot (thus appearing on the national flag and/or coat-of-arms). Cat and Dog Stereotypes can come into play, if particular breeds of various national origins are depicted.

Alternatively, the same Animal Stereotypes associated with a particular species may simply be similar to the National Stereotypes associated with a particular country. Two warring nations can be portrayed as two animal species, whose Animal Jingoism reflects the real-life jingoism between the countries. Political Cartoons and Propaganda Pieces (like the one pictured above, which references the Boxer Rebellion), especially love using this trope, using anthropomorphic animals as the Anthropomorphic Personifications of various countries.

Obviously, this is a sub-trope of both National Stereotypes and Animal Stereotypes. Closely related to Anthropomorphic Personifications; compare and contrast this trope with Nations as People, when humans are used to symbolize an entire country. And also see Wikipedia's list of national animals.

See Analysis.National Animal Stereotypes for a detailed list of cultural and regional animal stereotypes around the world.

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Sub-tropes:

• American Eagle: Bald eagles used to represent the United States of America.
• Kangaroos Represent Australia: Kangaroos used as symbols of Australia.
• Russian Bear: Brown (or more rarely, polar) bears used to represent the various incarnations of Russia or its fantasy stand-ins.
• Western Rattlers: Rattlesnakes used to represent, or being associated with, the American Old West.
• Wild West Armadillo: Armadillos used to represent, or being associated with, the American Old West.

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Examples in media:

Advertising

• La llama que llama ("The llama that calls'') uses llama puppets as mascots of a phone company. One of the llamas wears an Andean chullo.
• Churchill, the British bulldog in the car insurance adverts, named after Winston Churchill.
• The mascot of the brandy produced by the Spanish company Osborne. The large road ads that the company began to built in the 1950s trascended the company itself and became such a cultural icon that, when road ads were banned in Spain outside city limits in 1994, the signs were "indulted" due to popular acclaim and only required to have the "Osborne" letters blackened. Nowadays, the Osborne bull is often depicted in flags◊, bandanas, hats and tourist souvenirs. The association is so ironed that the signs have been subjected to vandalism from separatist groups and there have been attempts to replace it in some regions with other "national" animals like the Catalan donkey◊ and the Galician dairy cow◊.
• Swedish moose are sometimes used for IKEA ads or products.
• Kylie the Kangaroo in the UK Coco Pops adverts is Australian, and the only character to have a non-English accent (even though the others are all African animals).

Anime & Manga

• Cat Shit One:
  • In an aversion of the stereotype, Americans are portrayed as, out of all species, rabbits. It's a pun on the Japanese word for rabbit, "usagi" (USA GI, get it?).
  • In an aversion of the usual stereotypes, the French are portrayed as pigs.
  • Germans are portrayed as foxes.
  • Soviet Russians are portrayed as bears.
  • The Chinese are portrayed as pandas.
  • The Japanese are portrayed as monkeys.
  • Koreans are portrayed as dogs.
  • The Vietnamese are portrayed as cats — hence the title, as the story takes place during The Vietnam War and its protagonists are American soldiers.
  • Middle Eastern nations are represented by camels, sheep and goats.
  • Australians are unsurprisingly kangaroos.
• Matador Gundam (Toro Gundam in the English dub) is... well just look at it.
• Hetalia: Axis Powers: Australia has a pet koala, New Zealand has a pet sheep, and Iceland has a pet puffin.
• Pokonyan: The titular character is a mix of raccoon dog and a cat.

Comic Books

• Asterix:
  • Asterix in Spain: Astérix is captured by the Romans and thrown in the arena. He defiantly tells the Roman governor to release his lions, but he smugly replies that they don't have lions there, they have aurochs. The aurochs looks and acts like a stereotypical Spanish bull, and Astérix literally invents bullfighting while dealing with it.
  • One short story features a Gaulish rooster called Chanticleerix who outwits a Roman eagle.
• Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!:
  • The American Eagle in the relaunch is a bald eagle and Captain Patriotic.
  • An early villain was "Kongarilla", a kangaroo turned into a giant by a secret organization. Kongaroo hailed from "Aukstralia" (Earth-C's version of Australia).
• Black Panther: The royal family of the fictional African kingdom Wakanda has black panthers as their symbol^note melanistic leopards do exist in Africa, although they are fairly uncommon. Among his enemies, Madame Slay has a spotted leopard motif and M'Baku the Man-Ape has a Killer Gorilla motif.
• Condorito: Condorito is a Chilean anthropomorphic condor created by Chilean cartoonist Pepo because he was disappointed about Chile being represented by a mail plane in Disney's Saludos Amigos.
• Grandville: In a play on the rooster, the comic portrays Marianne, the personification of France, as a hen.
• Judge Dredd: Some designs for the Judges of other Mega-Cities riff on the American Eagle seen on the Mega-City One uniform's badge and shoulder pauldron.
  • Brit Cit has a lion-shaped badge and pauldron, and even a lion on the helmet.
  • In IDW Publishing continuity, Mega-City Two (West Coast America) has a teddy bear badge, riffing on the Californian bear flag (as well as the idea that they're "friendlier" than Mega-City One Judges).
  • Some versions of the Simba City (Equatorial Africa) uniform also have lion pauldrons. The Pan-African Judges (the rest of the continent except Luxor) have a lion on one shoulder and rhino horns on the other.
• Kamandi: Some of the Uplifted Animal states are based on this: Britain is home to the Bulldog Britanneks, Italy to the Wolf Garibaldeks, Russia to the Commu-Bears, Australia to the Kanga-Rat Murder Society, China to the Mao-Tse-Tigers and Indonesia to the Orang-Utan Surfing Civilization.
• Knight and Squire: One of the British superheroes is a guy in a bulldog costume.
• Maus:
  • All Jewish people are portrayed as mice, to play up the Jewish mouse/Nazi cat association.
  • All non-Jewish Germans are portrayed as cats, regardless of whether they are supporters of the Nazi Party or not.
  • Polish people are portrayed as pigs (due to the "schwein" slur).
  • One Romani woman is portrayed as a gypsy moth.
  • French people (most prominently, a prisoner in a death camp) are portrayed as frogs. This is both Discussed and Defied in a scene with the author's wife. He chooses frogs to represent the French because he wants a neutral animal, whether something like rabbits would make them seem too positive when the French have done both good and bad. He then asks her if she should be portrayed as a frog since she's French, but she insists she should be portrayed as a mouse like her husband (even though she wasn't born Jewish). They both appear as mice during this conversation.
  • The British are portrayed as fish — presumably due to coming from a country surrounded by the sea and which derived its power from its navy, but also reflecting stereotypes of British stoicism and reserve (cf: "cold fish").
  • All non-Jewish Americans are portrayed as dogs — Caucasians as white dogs, African-Americans as black dogs. This is most likely due to Animal Jingoism, as the comic takes place during World War II and Germans are portrayed as cats, but it also suits some stereotypes about Americans: a little dim, but loyal, and with big personalities and drawn to big deeds (for good or ill).
  • The Swedish are portrayed as reindeer.
• The Muppet Show Comic Book: When Fozzie goes to another theatre with a Similar Squad, the counterpart to Sam the Eagle (the show's extremely American patriot) is a British bulldog.
• Şerafettin the Bad Cat is a Turkish comic book taking place in Istanbul, starring a foul-mouthed cat.
• The various continents and nations of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) are Fantasy Counterpart Culture analogues for ones on our Earth, and characters associated with them sometimes fall into this trope:
  • Among the post-reboot Egg Bosses, Soumerca is ruled by Thunderbolt the Chinchilla, Tralius is ruled by Maw the Thylacine, and Efrika is ruled by Axel the Water Buffalo.

Comic Strips

• In Oor Wullie, the Scottish title character owns a West Highland Terrier named Wee Harry. Harry also has his own strip, where his best friend is Jock, a Scottie.

Eastern Animation

• Johnny Corncob: Tatars (a Turkic ethnicity affiliated with the Mongol Empire) are depicted as dog-people, due to the term "dog-headed Tatar" used in the original poem, referring to the Tatar invaders of Hungary in the 1200s. The cartoon takes the expression very literal, as the Hungarian Hussars can distract the Tatars by throwing them chicken bones.
• Masha and the Bear, a Russian cartoon, has bears as the main characters as well as the lead bear having a Siberian tiger friend.
• Squirrel and Hedgehog: Russians are represented as bears, and are the unreliable allies of the heroic North Korean squirrels and hedgehogs against the villainous South Korean rats, Japanese weasels, and American wolves and foxes.

Fan Works

• Born to Be Wilde:
  • The citizens of Outback Island, based on assorted Australian wildlife, are all stereotypical Aussies.
  • Mrs. Pong is a panda running a Chinese restaurant.
  • Koslov is a polar bear mafioso with a Russian name and accent, and also runs a borscht restaurant.
• Different Tales, Different Lessons:
  • Vignette 11 includes the Portuguese Captain Alvares and diplomat Tome Pires, who are an Iberian lynx and alpine ibex, respectively; Long Shi, a South Chinese pirate who is a clouded leopard; and a contingent of Sumatran rhinos.
  • Vignette 12 gives Shou Feng a dhole Number Two who hails from Kazakhstan.
  • Vignette 14 has a passing reference made to a character from Ilien's Book of Changes, Isidorus of Alexandria, who is a cheetah.
• "The Harmony Trap": The current avatar of Quetzacoatl is, in his mortal form, a Mexican hairless dog.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction often expends on the show's use of this to populate non-pony cultures:
  • A fanmade map plotted on the outlines of real-life geography uses this to fill in various counterparts for real-life nations, including an Inca-like llama empire, a donkey kingdom in Spain, a gryphon empire in place of Germany, a reindeer kingdom covering Scandinavia and parts of Russia, camel caliphates in Northern Africa, zebra nations further south, a cow realm in India, and Kirin nations for China, Korea and Japan.
  • The Assassination of Twilight Sparkle: Kyukyo is a Japanese-inspired nation populated by kitsune.
  • The Palaververse: Asinia is a nation based heavily on colonial Spain and populated by donkeys.
  • Under the Northern Lights: Tarandroland is a nation of Norse reindeer, with the nomadic "Grazer" reindeer as counterparts to the Sami people. There is also mention of "camel sultanates", and of kirin ruled by a Mikado.
• Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space: Captain Proton makes contact with the Fish People of Deep Sea Nine — a frog-like humanoid wearing a red watch cap.
  "I am an aquanaut! Why do you theenk I 'ave thees outrageous accent, you silly Queen of Rocket Men?"
• This Bites!: Downplayed with Jeremiah Cross, who, while not a stereotype in any direction, is half-French and has spent years in the country. His main partner is Soundbite the Transponder Snail.

Films — Animation

• All Dogs Go to Heaven has a pit bull terrier gangster as its main antagonist. A music-loving Sewer Gator with a New Orleans accent also appears.
• An American Tail shows Jewish mice being hunted by cats in a Russian village, as a metaphor for the antisemitic persecution that was rampant in the Russian Empire. The general theme is that mice = marginalized group and cats = oppressors.
• Brave: The Scottish King Fergus is accompanied by Scottish deerhounds.
• Cat City: Vampire bats are portrayed as Mexican banditos.
• Coco: Dante is Miguel's xoloitzcuintle who started out as a stray dog and becomes a spirit guide alebrije. Pepita is Imelda's winged jaguar spirit guide alebrije. Ernesto de la Cruz has Chihuahua alebrijes.
• Donkey Xote stars a Spanish donkey — who is Sancho Panza's donkey mount from Don Quixote (and the Expy of a more famous CGI donkey).
• Disney Animated Canon:
  • 101 Dalmatians: The Colonel is an English sheepdog who acts like a typical British officer. A collie with a Noël Coward-like voice also appears.
  • Aladdin takes place in the fictional Middle Eastern kingdom Agrabah, which seems to be a mix between Arabian and Indian culture. The latter is reinforced by Princess Jasmine owning a pet tiger named Rajah (Hindi for "king"), Aladdin getting an elephant (actually his shapeshifted monkey sidekick Abu) as a mount, and the villain Jafar having cobras as his Animal Motifs. ^note There actually were tigers in parts of the Middle East as recently as the 19th century, and the now-extinct Syrian elephant was also found there. There was also a good deal of trade between India and the Arab world, so it's not unthinkable that Jasmine might give her pet tiger a name deliberately evocative of India, especially if he was imported from there.
  • The Aristocats: Scat Cat's music band includes a Siamese cat named Shung Gon, who plays the piano with chopsticks and sings with a thick Chinese accent, Peppo, a romantic Italian cat, and Billy Boss, a Siberian cat with a heavy Russian accent.
  • Big Hero 6: The Hamada family owns a calico Japanese bobtail cat named Mochi. The Hamadas live in the fictional city San Fransokyo, which is partly inspired by Tokyo, and the Hamadas have a Japanese family name.
  • Brother Bear: The comedic moose duo, Rutt and Tuke, talk with a Canadian accent.
  • Fantasia: Bacchus is accompanied by two female centaurs whose top half is an African woman and bottom part is a zebra.
  • Frozen (2013): The Sami ice miner Kristoff owns a pet reindeer named Sven.
  • Lady and the Tramp:
    • Jock is a Scottish terrier. The film also has a bulldog with a Cockney accent as a side character.
    • There's a dachshund named Fritz with a German accent.
    • Boris the Russian wolfhound fond of quoting Fyodor Dostoevsky.
    • A duo of slit-eyed, buck-toothed, and mean Siamese cats named Si and Am antagonize Lady.
  • The Lion King (1994): The characters have Swahili names and occasionally use Swahili phrases (Timon and Pumbaa's motto "Hakuna Matata", for one). However, only four of the main characters are voiced by African-Americans, and only one, the shaman baboon Rafiki, has an African accent.
  • The Little Mermaid (1989) brings us Sebastian, the Jamaican-accented crab.
  • Mulan:
    • One of the titular heroine's sidekicks is a small Chinese dragon named Mushu (who, for some reason, is voiced by Eddie Murphy and thus talks with an African-American accent rather than a Chinese one).
    • The Hun/Xiongnu leader Shan Yu has a pet falcon named Hayabusa.
  • Oliver & Company:
    • The dog gang includes a Mexican-accented Chihuahua, Tito, and Francis, a bulldog with a British accent and fondness for English theatre and Shakespeare in particular.
    • Georgette is a rich French Jerk poodle — she's actually a Fauxreigner, but her French name is clearly a nod to the stereotype.
  • The Princess and the Frog: Downplayed. The frog-turned prince Naveen is from the fictional Ambiguously Brown kingdom of Maldonia, but his accent sounds vaguely French. He attempts to charm Tiana with Everything Sounds Sexier in French. The movie takes place in Louisiana, which has a heavy French-descended population, and French-sounding accents are common. It also features a jazz-loving alligator from Louisiana.
  • The Rescuers Down Under: Most Australian animals speak with an Aussie accent, but Jake the Kangaroo Mouse nails the stereotype by wearing a khaki shirt, a slouch hat and carrying a boomerang while being an Awesome Aussie.
  • Robin Hood (1973): King Richard and Prince John are portrayed as lions. Robin and Marian are, of course, foxes.
  • Saludos Amigos: During World War II, Disney tried to cover its loses on the European and Asian markets that were then unavailable by reaching out to Latin America. The result was Saludos Amigos, an animated film divided in four segments set in Latin America. The first segment ("Lake Titicaca") has Donald Duck getting in trouble with an obstinate llama in Bolivia. The fourth, "Aquarela do Brasil", introduces the Brazilian parrot José "Zé" Carioca as he shows his country to Donald ("Carioca" is the demonym for people from the city of Rio de Janeiro^note Although most people, even in Brazil, apply the name for residents of the entire State, the actual name for Rio de Janeiro natives who are not from its eponymous capital is fluminense. Its thematic sequel, The Three Caballeros, introduces Panchito Pistoles, a loud, sombrero-wearing, pistol-packing Mexican rooster, to make a trio with Donald and José.
  • Zootopia:
    • The strict police chief Bogo is a Cape buffalo with an African-sounding name (coming from the Swahili word m'bogo, meaning Cape buffalo) who fits the Scary Black Man stereotype. Bogo is played by Afro-British actor Idris Elba, who is of Ghanaian and Sierra Leonean descent.
    • Renato Manchas, the black jaguar limousine driver, has a Hispanic name and is voiced by Venezuelan-American actor Jesse Corti.
    • One of the child cats in the school play at the beginning is a jaguar named Jaguar (pronounced "Hog-u-are", i.e. "jaguar" in Spanish).
    • There's a polar bear character with the Russian-sounding name Koslov. He was originally intended to be a more prominent character, head of a Russian-type mafia, complete with the accent, but in the final film he's a non-speaking henchman of the Italian-accented mafioso Mr. Big. Other polar bear mobsters wear attire stereotypical of Russian mobsters, like tracksuits and golden chains.
    • There is an Asian elephant yoga teacher with the Indian-sounding name Nangi. She's nude because she is part of a "naturalist" hippie club, but she is covered in henna tattoos, also often associated with India.
    • The male newsreader of ZNN news is a different species of animal in various international releases of the movie. In the American and Canadian version he is a Canadian-accented moose named Peter Moosebridge (an Ink-Suit Actor version of real-life newscaster Peter Mansbridge, longtime anchor (1988-2017) of the CBC's flagship evening News Broadcast The National). Most international dubs also keep the moose, though he often loses the accent. In the Australian and New Zealander version, he is a koala. In the Chinese version he is a panda. In the Japanese version he is a tanuki. In the Brazilian version he is a jaguar. When it was revealed that the newsreader was going to change species in some countries, there was a persistent internet rumor that he was going to be a Corgi in the United Kingdom, and many British fans were disappointed when they found that the newsreader in their country was a moose like in the American version. In truth, the movie's crew never intended to include any dog breeds in the movie, and the only canines present are wolves and two species of foxes^note Although a Freeze-Frame Bonus reveals that one of the bands on Judy's playlist is The Beagles.
• Ferdinand: Angus is a Highland bull that is voiced by David Tennant with a very heavy Scottish accent.
• Finding Nemo: Crush and his fellow sea turtles are Hawaiian Surfer Dude stereotypes.
• Flushed Away: Le Frog and his henchmen are French frogs who work as assassins. One of them is a mime. Le Frog himself is voiced by an actual French actor, Jean Reno.
• Freddie as F.R.O.7 is a movie about a medieval French prince turned into a frog that then proceeded to become a special agent, and an immortal one at that. Many a gag in the movie is had at his superiors mistaking people affirming that yes, he is a frog as some kind of racist statement. Said superiors are also British.
• In Happy Feet, the characters with accents represent northern countries, for example, the Scottish chief penguin, the Russian singing teacher penguin, and the Scandinavian seal.
• Kung Fu Panda takes place in a World of Funny Animals version of ancient China. Most (although not all) characters are based on animals native to China, but the main character, Po, is a panda. His title as "Dragon Warrior" makes him a double example. Two of the major supporting characters are Master Tigress, a female tiger, and Master Monkey (guess), voiced by Jackie Chan, who fights with a staff in a similar manner to Sun Wukong.
• Madagascar:
  • The four main characters are all African animal species, but all of them are voiced by American actors and behave as such. Marty the zebra and Gloria the hippo are voiced by black actors, but fit African-American stereotypes (the former being a Jive Turkey and the latter being a Sassy Black Woman). In the second movie, however, African lions apply tribal war paint before a ritual brawl, and giraffes have dance moves based on Masai warriors and appoint Melman as their Witch Doctor.
  • King Julien, leader of the lemurs in a Madagascar jungle, is portrayed as being something like a tribal chieftain wearing a spectacular leaf-crown, although his accent is less of an authentic Malagasy accent and more of Sacha Baron Cohen doing an As Long as It Sounds Foreign accent.
  • Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted: The American businessman who buys the circus has a pet bald eagle. Vitaly, the Russian-accented Siberian tiger, is The Leader of the circus gang. The minor character Sonya, while a non-anthropomorphic bear, also has a Russian-sounding name.
  • Penguins of Madagascar: Corporal the polar bear is Norwegian (although he's voiced by the Swedish actor Peter Stormare).
• Mr. Weenie the dachshund from Open Season has a German accent.
• Rango:
  • The Magical Native American is a raven.
  • The killer outlaw who serves as the film's villain is a rattlesnake, the most feared animal in the western USA.
  • There's a mariachi band of sombrero-wearing, Mexican-accented owls as well as an elderly, poncho-wearing armadillo.
• Rio: Brazilian birds such as parrots and toucans all share a love for samba music, Carnival and football (soccer).
• The Road to El Dorado: The main characters are followed by an armadillo after they arrive in Central America, and the villainous Tzekel-Kan uses his Blood Magic to animate a giant stone jaguar.
• Sing:
  • Mike the mouse is in debt of a trio of Russian-accented gangster brown bears who keep pursuing him over the course of the movie.
  • There is a Japanese Pop Music Girl Group of red pandas participating in the singing contest. A case of Interchangeable Asian Cultures and/or Misplaced Wildlife, as red pandas are native to China, not Japan.
• The Swan Princess: Jean-Bob is a French frog. He believes that he's a Bewitched Amphibian, but in fact he's just a delusional frog.
• Turning Red is set in Canada featuring a school with a beaver as its mascot. Also, Ming has a moose bobblehead. The women in Mei's ethnically Chinese family have the ability to turn into red pandas.
• Valiant is set during World War II and associates various animal species with specific nationalities:
  • The English are represented by pigeons, which is not the usual stereotype, but the English actually used messenger pigeons in World War II.
  • The Nazis are portrayed as falcons (not quite eagles, but another type of bird of prey). This is Truth in Television, since Nazi Germany did actually train falcons to kill enemy homing pigeons.
  • In another aversion of the stereotype, the film also features French mice as La Résistance, literally hiding underground from the Nazi falcons.
• The Wild has Canadian geese with Canadian accents. It also features Indian (with a touch of Arabic) stereotype pigeons and Italian-American flamingos and alligators.

Films — Live-Action

• 102 Dalmatians: Cruella notices some poodles while driving in France, which apparently inspire her to create a new dog-fur coat.
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua: Chihuahuas are portrayed as proud of their Mexican ancestry. Also, there is a literal coyote helping dogs cross the USA Mexico border.
• Cats & Dogs: The German representative of the World Dog Council is a German Shepherd. The Chinese representative is a Shar Pei.
• The Charge of the Light Brigade: The animated segments depict Britain as a lion, who at one point sics bulldogs on the Russian Bear, while France is represented by a cockerel.
• Mary Poppins features an Irish fox which Bert saves from typical British fox hunters.
• Pirates: The main character is a French boy who can swim better than anyone. His nickname is, of course, The Frog.
• In Strays (2023), Maggie the Australian Shepherd has an Australian accent.
• Zaschitniki ("The Guardians", or "The Defenders"), a Russian superhero movie, includes a half-man half-bear superhero.

Literature

• Bio of a Space Tyrant: When Earth nations begin to colonize the galaxy after discovering faster-than-light travel, they divide it up by constellations: the United States get the Eagle, Russia gets the Bear, and China gets the Dragon.
• Discworld: In-universe example. The national animals of Ankh-Morpork are the morepork^note a species of small owls and the hippopotamus. While the former is just a pun, the latter is generally reckoned as a good metaphor for the city, being large, ungainly, unexpectedly dangerous when roused, and wallowing in mud.
• Franklin: The titular character was created in Canada and the main cast includes a beaver, a bear, a raccoon, and a Canadian goose. A moose appears as a one-shot character.
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: The boa constrictor is portrayed as Brazilian, using the word "amigo" when talking to Harry. (The film adaptation changed the snake to a Burmese python and removed the word "amigo".)
• The Lions Cavalcade, a sequel to The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast by Alan Aldridge and Harry Wilcock:
  • A jaguar is queen of "Lost El Dorado". (This is partly because the joke of the scene is that the City of Gold is exclusively home to golden-coloured animals, but it fits this trope as well — as does the armadillo in her entourage).
  • The acts in the Cavalcade include an elephant fakir and "the pyrotechnic Tiger of Royal Bengal".
• In The Neverending Story: There's a centaur whose human part is an African man, while his horse part is a zebra.
• Perfume: The French main character is named Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. Grenouille is French for "Frog".
• Richard Scarrys Busy Busy World:
  • Native Americans are portrayed either as either bison or raccoons.
  • One story stars a Canadian raccoon ranger who needs to defeat two bullies, a grizzly bear and a timber wolf.
  • South Americans are portrayed as various wildlife native to the continent, including jaguars, toucans, armadillos, anteaters and constrictor snakes.
  • The Queen of England is portrayed as a lioness; anthropomorphic ravens appear as the guards at the Tower of London in the same story. Also, Scottish Terriers are shown wearing kilt and playing the bagpipe in another story.
  • The Swiss are portrayed as mountain goats.
  • The Sami are portrayed as reindeer-herding Arctic foxes.
  • One story stars a bear dentist from Russia.
  • A tiger is the main character in a story that takes place in India. Cobras and elephants appear as background characters.
  • The story taking place in China stars pandas.
  • Zebras are portrayed as spear-wielding African natives.
• A Song of Ice and Fire: The loose Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Muslim Spain, Dorne, is noted for its fast local breed of horse, which is based on Andalusian and Arabic horses.
• The Story of Ferdinand: It takes place in Spain, and stars a reluctant bull who would rather sit and smell the flowers than fight the matador.
• Through the Looking Glass: The Lion and the Unicorn are the animals from the United Kingdom's coat of arms, representing England and Scotland.

Live-Action TV

• The Eagle (2011): In the original ending, Esca makes plans to raise horses in Spain.
• Fully Booked, a Scotland Saturday Morning Kids’ Show, has as its obligatory puppet mascot Morag the Highland Cow.
• Gladiator: Maximus says that Spanish horses are some of the best and mentions owning two, named Argento and Scatto (a stealth reference to The Lone Ranger and Roy Rogers, the names being Latin/Italian for "Silver" and "Rush").
• Hausmeister Krause parodies Vereinsmeierei, which means an overemphasized importance of a club membership in someone's life, as well as an overbearing importance of rules within the club. This gets perceived by Germans as being typically German. The club the protagonist Dieter Krause is in is a Dachshund club.
• How I Met Your Mother: There is the Beaver Song from Robin "Sparkles"' Canadian kid's show.
• The Muppet Show:
  • Sam the Eagle is so American that, when he plays a British character in The Muppet Christmas Carol, he starts talking about how business makes America great and has to be reminded by the narrator that he's British.
  • The skit based on the song "I Go to Rio" heavily features parrots and iguanas.
• Power Rangers Dino Charge liked to play up on Chase's New Zealander heritage, to the point that his skateboard has a kiwi bird silhouette cut into the griptape.
• Sesame Tree, a Northern Irish Sesame Street spinoff, has Hilda the Irish hare.
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: In the episode set in Barcelona, the value of neutral Spain to the Entente war effort is reduced to the fact that they sell mules to be used as pack animals in the Western Front. Naturally, the climax takes place in a bullring.
• Zorro: In all movie incarnations, Zorro's horse Tornado is a black Andalusian. Although actually played by a black Frisian in the first Antonio Banderas movie, the dialogue says that he is an Andalusian.

Tabletop Games

• Warhammer Fantasy:
  • The Empire, a pastiche of the Holy Roman Empire and the Napoleonic German states, is heavily associated with griffins — they turn up very often in its heraldry, while flesh-and-blood griffins serve as flying steeds for its leaders.
  • Kislev, a country based on medieval Russia, the Kievan Rus' and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, is heavily associated with bears and bear imagery. Its patron deity is Ursun, the god of bears and strength, it makes heavy use of bear iconography in its flags and symbols, and its late ruler Czar Boris rode a bear into battle.

Video Games

• Age of Empires II:
  • The first expansion changes the wolves and golden eagles in Mesoamerican maps to jaguars and macaws, even though wolves and eagles were historically present in Mexico (in fact, the golden eagle was sacred to the Aztecs and that's why it's on Mexico's flag). As a result, jaguars will attack your human units despite being notorious for being the only big cat with no known cases of maneaters in real life. The Aztec unique unit is the Jaguar Warrior, a clubman wearing a jaguar skin.
  • The African expansion replaces wolves with lions and crocodiles, boars with elephants, deer with ostriches and zebras, sheep with goats, and eagles with vultures and storks (even though it's mostly set in the Sahel, where similar African golden wolves, warthogs, and eagles are present, and zebras are not).
  • The southeast Asian expansion adds tigers, Komodo dragons, rhinos, and water buffaloes (even though, again, boars and wolf-like dholes are present).
  • The Central Asian expansion adds snow leopards, mountain goats, and Bactrian camels.
  • The two Spanish unique units are the Conquistador and the Missionary. The former rides a horse that is thinner and darker haired than other cavalry units, clearly meant to be an Andalusian. The latter rides a donkey (the only unit that does). The Spanish also have access to all cavalry technologies and as a result their cavalry is among the strongest in the game.
  • Though camels are available to half the civilizations, the strongest are trained by the Saracens (Arabs). Before The African Kingdoms, the Saracens were also the only civilization with two camel units: the usual Camel (a Muslim-looking rider on top of a dromedary) and the mid-ranged Mameluke, who rides a Bactrian camel.
  • The North African Berbers introduced in said expansion have the common Camel rider and the long ranged Camel Archer.
  • The more Muslim/Central Asian of the civs introduced in The Last Khans, the Tatars, have the common Camel and a unique explosive Bactrian Camel, along with more profitable herding animals.
  • The Indian unique unit is an archer riding, of course, an Asian elephant. However, the other civilization with an elephant unique unit, the Persians, has African elephants, despite the Persians historically getting theirs from India.
  • The only South American civilization, the Incas, begin every game with a llama.
• Animal Crossing:
  • The villager Apollo is a bald eagle whose birthday is on July 4th. He is also one of the few characters who hasn't had his name changed in international versions of the game.
  • Several of the kangaroo and koala villagers are named after Australian locations or concepts. Alice, Canberra, and Sydney are all named after cities in Australia; Melba is named after Melba toast, and probably takes inspiration from the city of Melbourne too (as her Japanese name is Adelaide, which is another city in Australia); Ozzie’s name is a pun on the word "Aussie"; and Walt and Mathilda are named after the popular Australian song "Waltzing Matilda". In addition, Gonzo's initial catchphrase is "mate", which is a common way for an Australian to refer to a friend.
  • Deli, a monkey named after New Delhi (the capital of India), whose coloration resembles that of a gray langur, a species of monkey native to India. Additionally, in Happy Home Designer, he asks for a curry-themed home (curry being a well-known Indian dish).
  • The villager Vladimir is a bear cub with a stereotypically Russian name whose catchphrase, "nyet", is the Russian word for "no".
  • Pekoe is a bear cub villager who resembles a panda, looks like an Anime Chinese Girl, has a very Asian-looking home in all the games she has appeared in, and is even on the cover of Imperial K.K. (a Chinese-style song by K.K. Slider). New Horizons also introduces Tiansheng, a monkey themed after Sun Wukong.
  • Ankha (a cat) has a strong Egyptian theme, alluding to how the ancient Egyptians saw cats as sacred. Lucky, another Egyptian-themed villager, is a dog, probably in reference to Anubis and other Egyptian jackal deities such as Anput and Wepwawet.
• Anime Chinese Girl Min Min from ARMS has a dragon motif: One of her default ARMS is named Dragon and resembles a dragon head, and one of her abilities is to turn her left arm (normally made of noodles like her right arm) into a dragon.
• Breath of Fire II: Jean is a humanoid frog who peppers his speech with Gratuitous French and has a reputation for preparing excellent cuisine (as long as you don't mind eating insects).
• Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped: Dingodile is a mix of a dingo and a crocodile, and talks with an Australian accent. Many of the other characters, including Crash himself, are also based on Australian animals, but Dingodile is the only one who really plays up the stereotype.
• Don't Starve: Woody is all Canadian, and is cursed to turn into a Werebeaver in the light of the full moon or if he chops down too many trees. The Werebeaver form allows him to shred through trees and enemies and grants night vision, but he cannot use items and his sanity takes a hit from this. Don't Starve Together adds two new Werebeast forms into the mix, both still very Canadian, a Weremoose and Weregoose that provide the same downsides as the Werebeaver but their own, unique upsides, the Weremoose being a tanky powerhouse and the Weregoose being a fast but fragile form that can run on water.
• Freedom Planet is set in world whose Fantasy Counterpart Culture is primarily China and is inhabited by Funny Animals. As a result, all of the native characters are of species that can be found in modern-day China, including several giant pandas. Mayor Zhao also highly resembles a red panda. The protagonist, Lilac, is an Eastern Dragon, though with so many liberties taken that she doesn't really look like one at all.
• The Berman Empire from Fuga: Melodies of Steel is a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Nazi Germany and mainly consists of Dobermans, hence the name.
• The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning: The Atlawas, the native people of the Mayincatec Tall Plains, are anthropomorphic llamas.
• Since the bosses in Mega Man X are (usually) robotic animals, some of them may play into this phenomenon due to their stage locations, which can be seen on the world map starting in X5:
  • Grizzly Slash/Crescent Grizzly's stage in X5 is in Russia and Squid Adler/Volt Kraken's is in Japan.
  • In X7, Soldier Stonekong's stage is in Algeria.
  • In X8, Bamboo Pandamonium's stage is in China.
• The NewZealand Story is set in a fantastical depiction of New Zealand where the player controls Tiki the kiwi, who has to rescue his friends from a leopard seal.
• Several of the Animal Motifs characters in Overwatch have are somewhat based on these:
  • Genji and Hanzo, both from Japan, have dragons as a motif, while Kiriko, from the same country, has a fox motif.
  • The German Reinhardt has a lion motif.
  • Pharah, from Egypt, has a falcon motif for most of her skins, but she also has two skins with a jackal motif.
    • Her mother, Ana, also has a bit of a bird motif (and was even known as Horus back in the day) and has a "Bastet" skin that, naturally, has a cat motif.
  • Mei, from China, has one skin with a bit of a panda motif (she could also be seen as having one by default due to her mask-like glasses, the mask-like visor her Robot Buddy Snowball has, her chubby build, and the fact that one of her sprays has her making an ice sculpture of a panda) and, since she's a scientist doing research in Antarctica (and possibly also partially due to her chubbiness), she also has a penguin-themed skin.
  • The Australian Junkrat has, as indicated by his name, a rat motif.
  • Western outlaw Ashe has a subtle Western Rattlers motif, as her gun is called "the Viper" and rattlesnakes are a type of viper.
  • Symmetra, from India, has a peacock-themed skin and a cobra-themed skin.
  • One of the Canadian Sojourn's skins comes bundled with a moose antler spray. Her home stage, New Queen Street, is also home to the Toronto Raccoons curling team.
  • One of Husky Russkie Zarya's sprays shows her wrestling a bear.
  • Some of the Overwatch League teams have elements of this in their motifs: One team is named the Shanghai Dragons and features fittingly dragon-based motifs, while the now-disbanded Chengdu Hunters had a panda as their logo, the Vegas Eternal (which started as the Paris Eternal) has a chicken, the Seoul Dynasty has a tiger, the Houston Outlaws have a longhorned bull, and the Vancouver Titans have a Sasquatch.
• Pathway: The Canine Companions for the Nazi Troops happen to be the German Shepherds.
• Planet Zoo: The animals have names common in countries and regions where they occur: deers, swans, badgers and red foxes have British names, wisents have Slavic names, reindeer have Norse names, polar bears and arctic foxes have Inuit names, African animals like lions or elephants have African names, cougars and prairie dogs have Native American names etc. The interesting example of this trope are king penguins who have English/British names, due to Antarctica not being owned by any nation.
• Pokémon:
  • Pokémon Black and White: The Unova region is based on the United States in a general sense and on New York City specifically, and several Pokémon species introduced in this game are based on animals associated with these areas:
    • Pidove and its evolutionary line are based on common pigeons, some of the most common urban animals in the Manhattan area.
    • Bouffalant is an American bison provided with an afro.
    • Braviary is a quintessential American Eagle with feathers in the colors of the American flag and a crest resembling a Cheyenne headdress.
  • Pokémon X and Y introduced several new Mons based on France, as Kalos is clearly inspired on this country:
    • The water starter of this region is a frog named Froakie. It could have been a coincidence if its evolution were not called Frogadier and Greninja (which are portmanteau names respectively containing the French words ''brigadier" and "grenouille"). Greninja also uses its tongue as a scarf, an accessory stereotypically associated with French clothing style.
    • Furfrou is poodle based on the French word "froufrou" (puff) and is In-Universe one of the favorite Pokémon of this region. Its fur is also customizable which is reminiscing of the real-life poodles being sometime made "fashionable" by their masters.
    • Goomy, Sliggoo, and Goodra are slug/snail-like dragons, referring to both escargot and the prevalence of snails and slugs in medieval French art.
  • Pokémon Sun and Moon take place in the Alola region, based on Hawaii, and introduced several Pokémon based on that state, though the only one that could be considered a stereotype would be Tapu Koko, one of the region's four guardian legendaries, who's based on a chicken.
  • There are a fair bit more examples in Pokémon Sword and Shield, whose Galar region is based on the UK:
    • We have foxes (Nickit and Thievul), a corgi (Yamper), sheep (Wooloo, Dubwool, and if you squint, Indeedee), a raven (Corviknight), a badger (Obstagoon), unicorns (Galarian Ponyta and Rapidash) and a bunch of dragons (the Dreepy line, Duraludon, Flapple, Appletun, Dracozolt, Dracovish, Eternatus, and Regidrago). The Scottish Terrier-based Lillipup line can also be found in Galar, but oddly only on the Isle of Man-based Isle of Armor instead of in the Scotland-based Crown Tundra.
    • He's a human, but the regional champion Leon is named that due to lions being a symbol of the British royal family.
  • It shouldn't come as much of a surprise that Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's Paldea region, based on a combination of Spain and Portugal, has a regional Tauros variant based on Spanish Fighting Bulls.
  • The regions from the first four generations are all based on different parts of Japan (Kanto is based on the real-world Kantō region, Johto is based on a mix of Kansai, Chūbu, Chūgoku, and a little bit of Shikoku, Hoenn is based on Kyūshū, and Sinnoh (formerly Hisui) is based on Hokkaidõ) and have Pokémon that fit some stereotypes of the country: Tanuki (Sentret and Zigzagoon), foxes (Vulpix and Ninetales), eastern dragons (Gyarados, Dratini, Dragonair, Rayquaza), koi (Magikarp, Goldeen, and Seaking), and octopi (Octillery).
• Primal Legends: Masha is a snowy owl with a (poor attempt at a) Scandinavian accent.
• Punch-Out!!:
  • Bear Hugger the Canadian lumberjack is heavily themed around bears, especially in the Wii game where he has an actual grizzly bear for a sparring partner.
  • The Indian boxer is named Great Tiger, and wears tiger-striped pants.
• Street Fighter II: In the original Japanese, Balrog the American boxer and transparent expy of Mike Tyson, is named M. Bison.
• Sly Cooper:
  • One of the Cooper Gang's members, the Guru, is an Australian Aborigine koala.
  • Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus: The Fiendish Five include Mz. Ruby, a Cajun alligator and black magician, and the Panda King, a Chinese giant panda crime lord.
  • Sly 2: Band of Thieves:
    • Rajan, a tiger, is the antagonist of the India episodes, and some of his guards are monkeys. One of the final villains, Constable Neyla, is likewise an Indian tigress.
    • Jean Bison is a Canadian bison and former prospector and woodsman from the Wild West, who was frozen by an avalanche for a hundred years.
    • Frogs are among the guards in the Paris episode.
  • Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time: The Big Bad, Cyrille le Paradox, is a French Jerk skunk.
• A bit of a strange example in the Splatoon series: While it's implied that the Inklings, Octolings, and other evolved sea creatures live all over the world, it's also implied that they originated in Japan, and the setting of every game so far has been in Japan.
  • Frye's implied to be from, or at least have cultural ties to, India, and she has a bit of a snake motif. Her Splatfest solo song is titled "Anarchy Poisons (Snake Mix)" and, in her boss battle, she controls a group of flying eels (not snakes, or even reptiles, but close enough) like a snake charmer.
• Super Mario Odyssey: The locals of Bubbalaine look like snails, fitting the area's French Riviera aesthetic.
• Them's Fightin' Herds:
  • Arizona is a cow with a Texan accent, and comes from a family where everyone is named after a Great Plains state (her father is called Texas and her mother Minnesota).
  • Velvet is a reindeer with a Scandanavian accent.
  • Pom is a sheep with a heavy Scottish accent. ^note Originally, she was going to take the stereotype further by having a New Zealand-like accent, but the former was easier.
  • Paprika is an alpaca from an area similar to the Andes.
  • Oleander is a unicorn, a mythical creature historically associated with British royalty, and speaks in a British accent to match her British Stuffiness.
  • Tianhuo is a longma, a dragon-like race coming from Chinese mythology, and comes from a China-derived Fantasy Counterpart Culture.
• In WipEout, the Brazilian team is named Piranha; the Malaysian team, Harimau, has a name that means "tiger" in Malay and raises money for environmental causes, their most famous being bringing tigers back from extinction via cloning; and the Australian team, Triakis, has a shark motif and is named after a genus of sharks (though ironically not one that actually lives near Australia).
• World of Warcraft:
  • The Tuskarr people of Northrend are anthropomorphic walruses having a Fantasy Counterpart Culture to the Inuits, wearing parkas and hunting with spears.
  • The Tauren resemble anthropomorphic cattle (in the vein of minotaurs) and are a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Native Americans. Their northern cousins, the Taunka, take this one step even further, being anthropomorphic bison.
  • The Pandaren are humanoid pandas with a culture clearly inspired by China.
• World of Warships: The German Tier IX and X battlecruisers have unique camouflages that add golden eagles on their bows.

Webcomics

• Girl Genius: When Queen Albia of England is holding formal court, there are three lions (well, two and a lioness) at the foot of her throne.
• Kevin & Kell:
  • In the pastiche of A Christmas Story, the Chinese restaurant is run by pandas.
  • One patron character is a British fox traffic cop, who enjoys stopping foxhounds for speeding.
• Scandinavia and the World:
  • In one strip, all Nordic countries' heraldic lions are mocked. Finland's lion gets it worst: it's holding a sword, but it is unfortunately drawn in perspective to make it appear as if it has stabbed itself in the head. The comic with the "Retarded Lion", or, as the comic's author Humon prefers to call it, "Special Lion", is one of her personal favourites , and fans of the webcomic also love the poor unfortunate creature.
  • Another strip has a National Animal Show, with England, Norway and Netherlands all glaring at each other in front of identical lions. Brother France and his rooster watch from the sidelines.
  • New Zealand is the only country that is not a human but a Talking Animal, specifically a sheep. She has an unhealthy relationship with Wales (and even produce a child, New South Wales, who is a lamb).

Web Original

• Britsune Garden Series:
  • The Reiwa-Windsors (the fictional British Royal Family in the series) are corgi gijinka, though they also happen to be part fox as well.
  • The titular Britsunes are based on foxes, which are stereotypical animals representing both Britain and Japan, and are said to be related to the Kitsune.
  • Even the kitsune itself replaces the real-world lion in its version of the UK's coat of arms. It is said to be white with red markings, four tails, and is crowned.
  • Sylvaninus resemble corgis with horse-like features such as hooves that replace what would be their hind paws.
• Look to the West: Volume VIII is called "The Bear and the Basilisk". The "bear" is Russia, as in our timeline, and the "basilisk" is the Societist Combine, a symbol chosen by the Diversitarian nations to represent the Threefold Eye of its flag and their belief that the cultures subsumed by the Combine are in "a national coma"; everything that passes before the Eye turns to stone.

Western Animation

• The Adventures of Puss in Boots: Pajuna is a Highland cow with a strong Scottish accent and a tartan-trimmed skirt.
• Aladdin: The Series: Mirage is a goddess with the appearance of a cat-headed woman, designed after the Egyptian goddess Bastet and carrying an Ancient Egypt aesthetic.
• Alfred J. Kwak:
  • The show depicts racist white geese oppresing native black ducks, as a metaphor for Apartheid South Africa.
  • The villain Dolf is essentially an anthropomorphic bird version of Adolf Hitler. While he is referred to as a crow, his character design with a crooked beak definitely recalls the German Imperial Eagle.
  • The Egyptians are mainly represented by cats, due to the association between Ancient Egypt and cats.
• American Dragon: Jake Long: Fu Dog is a Shar-pei who is peers with the Chinese-American dragon.
• Around the World with Willy Fog:
  • The Quintessential British Gentleman Willy Fog is a lion, while his opponents, the Clueless Detectives Dix and Bully, are a beagle and a bulldog, respectively.
  • Bison have a poignant scene in the American stage (though as non-sapient animals), the native Sioux are portrayed as coyotes and Transfer disguises as a coyote more than once, posing both as a Native and as an Euro-American. San Francisco is home to an old prospector raccoon, a cougar sheriff and golden retriever gunslingers. The Union Pacific president is an American Black Bear.
  • Elephants are non-sentient, so most funny animals in the show's version of India are cats and many of them are tigers. Princess Romy is a black panther, likely to make her stand out from the rest.
  • Ship captains tend to be bears for some reason, the one Chinese captain is a panda.
  • The Yokohama police chief that angrily reminds Dix and Bully that Japan is not a British colony and that their arrest order against Fog is worthless there is a fox. Meanwhile, Rigodon and Tico are guests in the humble home of two Japanese macaques.
  • In Willy Fog 2, based on Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the Canadian harpooner Ned Land is a polar bear. Furry Confusion ensues when Ned fights a non-sentient polar bear... in Antarctica.
• Bluey: The eponymous Bluey and her family are Australian Blue Heeler dogs. A French backpacker that appears in an episode is a French Bulldog.
• Bojack Horseman: Mr. Peanutbutter, an anthropomorphic Labrador Retriever dog, grew up in Canada's Labrador Peninsula (in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador). Additionally, everyone in his hometown are also Labrador Retrievers.
• In Camp Lazlo, Raj is an Indian elephant with an exaggerated Indian accent.
• Codename: Kids Next Door: When Sector V is turned into animals in Operation: G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S., three out of five members turn into an animal that is native of their ethnicity:
  • Numbuh 3, who is Japanese, turns into a crane;
  • Numbuh 4, who is Australian, turns into a koala;
  • Numbuh 5, who is African-American, turns into a gazelle.
  • Numbuh 86, while not part of Sector V, is turned into an Irish setter ^note in other words, she's a literal bitch, and she's of Irish heritage herself.
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: In "When Mice Were Men", the Rangers visit the fictional Spanish town Tramplonia. The main antagonist is a Spanish bull named "El Emenopio".
• Danger Mouse:
  • The Queen of the United Kingdom is a corgi.
  • Establishing Shots of New York have the Statue of Liberty as an eagle. There's also a recurring Innocent Bystander who's an eagle Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist.
  • Santa Claus is a polar bear.
• Dinosaur Train: Many animals speak with accents based on countries in which their fossils have been found.
• DuckTales (1987): The Inuit people are represented by penguins.
• DuckTales (2017):
  • Santa Claus, the North Pole's most famous resident, is a polar bear.
  • One of the villains is a Japanese Mad Scientist named Dr. Akita. He's an Akita dog.
  • In the episode "The Town Where Everyone Was Nice!", the citizens of a Brazilian town or so they seem are portrayed as birds that are found in South America, such as parrots, toucans, flamingos, and quetzals.
  • Some of the staff of the Chinese-style casino "House of Lucky Fortune" are anthropomorphic pandas.
  • Egyptians serving the pharaoh Toth-Ra (himself a gigantic falcon-man) are depicted as anthropomorphic falcons and jackals.
• Foofur: The cast includes a Chihuahua dog is named Pepe and a German Schnauzer named Fritz with an Otto von Bismarck-like mustache.
• In this animated short, titled à la Française, people at the French royal court are depicted as chickens.
• Gargoyles:
  • One of the four surviving Mayan gargoyles has a large snake-like tail instead of legs, feathered wings, and a face more reptilian than any other gargoyle's in the series, being clearly inspired by the serpent-god Quetzalcoatl.
  • In contrast to the more human-looking Scottish ones, the London clan gargoyles strongly resemble heraldic animals. The clan leader is a female winged humanoid unicorn and her mate is a winged humanoid lion.
  • The Australian member of the Pack is named Dingo, while another of its members, Wolf, is descended from (and eventually possessed by) a Viking chief.
• House of Mouse: In one skit, a group of parrots called "Parrots of the Caribbean" perform a song; they are clearly a reference to the Pirates of the Caribbean.
• Hurricanes:
  • The Spanish player is named Toro (Spanish for "Bull") Contrais. Though human, he has stereotypical bull-like attributes, being large, bulky, broad-chested, raven-haired and overconfident in the field, and he hails from Pamplona.
  • The one African player is named Zambia Zebras. He is from Zambia.
• Ivor the Engine: This extremely Welsh series features a red dragon called Idris.
• Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks: Ferny's father Don Toro is a Spanish bull living in Ireland. (Ferny is short for Fernando. Interestingly, while Don Toro is the standard black bull, Ferny — who has an Irish accent — has a Fresien coat, emphasizing the connection between his dad's accent and appearance.)
• In Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight, the Queen of England is a corgi (although, given the setting, she's more based on Elizabeth I than II) and her guards are lions. Rukhmini is a macaque from India, and her home city is controlled by an elephant with cobra guards, while her old partner is an Indian giant flying squirrel. In South America, Po and company meet tree frogs, armadillos, anteaters and a jaguar queen.
• Littlest Pet Shop (2012):
  • Sunil Nevla speaks with a rather thick, stereotypical Indian accent, as do all other mongooses in the series. His name is also Hindi for "cyan mongoose." Another mongoose, Shahrukh, is a Bollywood star and engages in a musical number very much like what you'd expect to find in a Bollywood movie.
  • Penny Ling is a panda, and her immediate family lives in Shanghai. That being said, Penny herself does not embody any Chinese stereotypes, instead fully embracing the North American setting where she lives, and when she meets said family in "Shanghai Hi-Jinks," Penny is unable to find any common ground with them.
• Looney Tunes:
  • In Herr Meets Hare, a Herman Goering caricature has a Dachshund as a hunting dog and an eagle as a hunting bird.
  • In Daffy — The Commando, the main antagonist is a Nazi commander named Von Vultur, a dark brown anthropomorphic vulture.
  • The Tasmanian government tried to use the Tasmanian Devil character in publicity to encourage tourism, but was never able to settle a deal with Warner Bros.. On the other hand, WB and the Tasmanian government did collaborate in a campaign using Taz stuffed toys in order to fund the preservation of the Tasmanian devil, as it is an endangered species.
• Madagascar:
  • In the Christmas Special short film The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper, the camels are celebrating Hanukkah, implying that they are Israeli.
  • The Penguins of Madagascar: Hans the puffin is Danish. Savio the boa constrictor has a Latin American accent. Joey the kangaroo and Leonard the koala both speak with Australian accents.
• Mickey Mouse (2013):
  • "One Man Band": The Queen of England is a Corgi.
  • "Mumbai Madness": The passenger is an anthropomorphic Asian elephant implied to be Ganesh himself.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Bison are portrayed as teepee-dwelling, feathered headdress-wearing Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Native Americans.
  • Yakyakistan is a country to the North from Equestria, inhabited by sapient yaks that wear Mongol-style hats, have a heavily violence-based culture, and communicate in Hulk Speak.
  • Zecora the zebra is portrayed as an African Witch Doctor, in contrast to the American- or British-accented horse cast.
• Pixar Shorts: In "Lava", which takes place in Hawaii, there is a pair of green sea turtles cuddling romantically at the volcano protagonist's coastline (among other animal couples).
• Pluto and the Armadillo has Pluto encountering an armadillo while in Brazil.
• Puppy in My Pocket: Adventures in Pocketville includes Koty, a koala who speaks with an Australian accent.
• Quick Draw McGraw: The main character's sidekick Baba Looey is a sombrero-wearing Mexican burro.

• Road Rovers: Hunter is a Golden Retriever from America, Colleen is a Rough Collie from United Kingdom, Blitz is a Doberman from Germany, Shag is a Sheepdog from Switzerland, and Exile is a Husky from Russia.
• Rocko's Modern Life: The main character is a wallaby with an Aussie accent.
• In a Spanish cartoon series based on Sandokan, the main character, known as "the Tiger of Malaysia", is portrayed as literally an anthropomorphic tiger.
• The Simpsons: In one "Treehouse of Horror" episode, the French launch a nuclear attack on Springfield after Mayor Quimby insults them by calling them frogs. As the president approves the strike, he says "We'll see who is like the frog!", and all his cabinet members laugh in a Maurice Chevalier Accent that makes it sound like croaking, their throats inflating as they do.
• SWAT Kats: The Japanese investors that visit Megacat City always alongside the mayor are Siamese cats. They are presented always as polite and friendly and not the Yellow Peril steteotype though.
• Tales of the Wizard of Oz: One episodes has a kangaroo named Boomer Rang (complete with boxing gloves and a heavy Australian accent when he speaks), whom the scarecrow (named Socrates in this series) is a big fan of, but when he accidentally knocks out the champion marsupial, he is forced to fight Boomer Rang in the ring. Needless to say, things don't go well.
• TaleSpin:
  • Russians are represented by boars in the USSR-parody country of Thembria. Boars are normally not the animal used for Russians or Soviets, but they are a native species of Russia and one of their species is known as the Eurasian Wildboar.
  • The two-part episode "For Whom the Bell Klangs" is located in some Indian-looking country with a King Cobra villain and the rest of the natives as gray wolves.
  • Baloo and Kit travel to the Artic in one episode, meeting polar bears with Inuit attire who speak broken English.
  • "Last Horizons" features the lost kingdom Panda-La, inhabited by pandas portrayed as stereotypical Chinese — so stereotypical, in fact, that the episode was banned due to being considered racist.
  • In "Double or Nothing", Baloo and Kit visit what seem to be a Northern African desert country populated by hippos (hippos are natives of North Africa).
• Tex Avery MGM Cartoons: In "The Hick Chick", the villain who steals Lem's girlfriend is a French rooster with a mustache and a Maurice Chevalier Accent.
• Tinga Tinga Tales: All African animals speak with an African accent and use some Gratuitious Swahili. Hippo, in particular, is portrayed as a Sassy Black Woman.
• Work It Out Wombats!: Zig-zagged. Only a few of the characters' nationalities correspond with their species. For example, JunJun and his family are Philippine eagles, so they all speak Tagalog. However, none of the marsupials in the series, such as the wombats and Leiko and Duffy (kangaroos), have Australian accents.

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