History MultinationalTeam / ComicBooks

* In the 2016 ''Xena: Warrior Princess'' mini-series, Xena and Gabrielle, in issue #2, the pair are surrounded by a group of female warriors known as Harpies. It's not necessarily a multinational team, so much as a multi-tribal/ethnic team: we have a Mongolian archer (Batbayar), Hun swordswoman Meryem and shaman Seyman, shield-maiden Ingrid (implied to be North European), horsewomen Basira and daughter Fahima, Greek exile Anthousa, Asian spear-warrior Jiao from Ancient China, and Chilapa, queen of the Amazons.

* In the 2019 ''Xena: Warrior Princess'' mini-series, Xena and Gabrielle, in issue #2, the pair are surrounded by a group of female warriors known as Harpies. It's not necessarily a multinational team, so much as a multi-tribal/ethnic team: we have a Mongolian archer (Batbayar), Hun swordswoman Meryem and shaman Seyman, shield-maiden Ingrid (implied to be North European), horsewomen Basira and daughter Fahima, Greek exile Anthousa, Asian spear-warrior Jiao from Ancient China, and Chilapa, queen of the Amazons.

* In the 2019 ''Xena: Warrior Princess'' mini-series, Xena and Gabrielle, in issue #2, the pair are surrounded by a group of female warriors known as Harpies. It's not necessarily a multinational team, so much as a multi-tribal/ethnic team: we have a Mongolian archer (Batbayar), Hun swordswoman Meryem and shaman Seyman, shield-maiden Ingrid (implied to be North European), horsewomen Basira and daugther Fahima, Greek exile Anthousa, Asian spear-warrior Jiao from Ancient China, and Chilapa, queen of the Amazons.

* The modern incarnation of the ''Green Team'' had Commodore Murphy (British), JP Houston (American; Texan), Cecilia Sunbeam (American; Californian), and Prince Mohammed Qahtanii (from some [[{{Qurac}} fake Middle-Eastern country]]).

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* The original ComicBook/GlobalGuardians in Franchise/TheDCU were a mish-mash of NationalStereotypes: The Knight from the U.K., Rising Sun from Japan, Tuatara from New Zealand, and so on. They got less token-ish as time went on. They made their debut in the comic adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}''; subtlety clearly wasn't a concern.
* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' had a team in Europe and an international team at one time. Over the years, there have been numerous characters that have joined the team. Even in its classic "Big Seven" incarnation, you can expect [[Franchise/{{Batman}} only]] [[ComicBook/GreenLantern three]] [[Franchise/TheFlash Americans]]. The rest are [[Franchise/{{Superman}} two]] [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter aliens]] [[Franchise/WonderWoman an Amazon]] and [[ComicBook/AquaMan an Atlantean]].
* Comicbook/JusticeLeagueInternational was a U.N.-sponsored iteration of the famous superhero team. Most of its members were American, but Rocket Red and ComicBook/CaptainAtom officially represented the U.S.S.R. and U.S.A. respectively, with a number of other international members as well: Fire (Brazil), Ice (Norway), Doctor Light (Japan), Crimson Fox (France), Tasmanian Devil (guess), etc.
** Many of these members were taken from the pre-existing Global Guardians.
** The [[Comicbook/{{New52}} DCnU]] version has Comicbook/{{Vixen}} (from Zambesi), August General in Iron (from China), and Godiva (from the U.K., and another former Global Guardian to boot) to the mix. And ComicBook/BoosterGold is now Canadian. Later additions include Batwing (Congolese) and OMAC (Cambodian)
* The Club of Heroes (a.k.a. the Batmen of All Nations) from 1950s Franchise/{{Batman}} comics (reintroduced in a 2008 story arc) was a loose group of non-powered heroes who were inspired by the Bat; their number included Batman (the United States), Man-of-Bats (also the United States; he was Sioux), the aforementioned Knight (Britain), the Ranger (Australia), the Gaucho (Argentina), Wingman (Sweden), the Musketeer (France), and the Legionary (Italy). The Knight, Ranger and Man-of-Bats also had Robinesque sidekicks: the Squire (who became the second Knight, and got his own Squire), the Scout (who became the Dark Ranger) and Little Raven (who became Raven Red).
** Batman would later revisit the idea by creating ''Batman, Inc.'', featuring most of the above apart from the now-deceased Legionary, Ranger, and Wingman. New additions include the Hood (another representative of Britain), Mr. Unknown (Japan), and Nightrunner (France, replacing the retired Musketeer). There's also Batwing (Congolese), and a mysterious new Wingman (who turned out to be [[spoiler:the American Jason Todd]]). Batman, Inc. might not seem like much of a team, but they operate independently and come together to tackle greater crises -- like the Justice League.
** The {{Elseworld}} ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' adds the Dragon (China), the Samurai (Japan) and the Cossack (Russia).
** ComicBook/GreenArrow, at the time practically a same-company CaptainErsatz of Batman, had his own Club of Heroes. "The Costumed Archers of the World" included the Ace Archer (Japan), the Bowman of the Bush (Australia), the Phantom (France), the Bowman of Britain (Britain) and the Archer of Arabia (Saudi Arabia), in addition to the American Green Arrow.
* ''ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}}'' from Quality Comics in [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks the Golden Age]], later acquired by [[Creator/DCComics DC]]. Two distinct versions of this international team of aviators exist, sometimes with [[ContinuitySnarl slight differences]] within the versions.
** The Blackhawk Squadron that existed between 1941 and 1983 consisted of: Blackhawk (aka, sometimes, Bart Hawk -- Polish, American, or Polish-American, DependingOnTheWriter); André Blanc Dumont (France); Olaf Bjornson ([[NorseByNorsewest Norway... or possibly Sweden]]); Chuck Wilson (USA, specifically Texas); Hans Hendrickson (Netherlands); Stanislaus (Poland); Chop-Chop (aka Liu Huang or Wu Cheng, China); Zinda "[[DistaffCounterpart Lady Blackhawk]]" Blake (USA).
** In a 1987 miniseries, Creator/HowardChaykin introduced an updated, slightly different, version of the team, which carried over into a subsequent ongoing series. These Blackhawks included: Janos "Blackhawk" Prohaska and Stanislaus Drozdowski (Poland); André Blanc-Dumont (France); Olaf Friedriksen (Denmark); Carlo "Chuck" Sirianni (Italy by way of the United States); Ritter Hendricksen (Netherlands); Weng "[[EthnicScrappy Chop-Chop]]" Chan (China); Natalie "the other Lady Blackhawk" Reed, and Grover Baines (the United States); Quan Chee Keng (Malaysia); and Paco Herrera (Mexico).
** Present-day continuity seems to have reverted to some variation of the original team, DependingOnTheWriter.
** The modern incarnation of the team seemed to follow suit to some degree; the nationalities of Andrew "Blackhawk" Lincoln, Lady Blackhawk, and Randall Wildman were never revealed (though Lincoln is likely American), but Kunoichi is Japanese, Canada is American (Nicknamed after an incident in a bar in Calgary), the Irishman is Ukranian (but born to American parents; he got his nickname from fellow Spetsnaz operatives due to his red hair), and Attila is Hungarian.
* The Apollo Eleven from ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' were a team of astronauts from around the world sent to man the first moonbase; something up there changed them into superhumans and they came back with an eleventh person.
* The ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' has included at various points Captain Boomerang (both of them; Australian), Stalnoivolk (Russian), Ravan and Rustam ({{Qurac}}i), Plastique (Quebecoise), Count Vertigo ([[{{Ruritania}} Vlativan]]), Manchester Black and the Shade (English), Javelin (German), Mirror Master (Scottish), and virtually everyone else is American.
* Creator/JackKirby's ''Boy Commandos'': Dan "Brooklyn" Turpin (US), Alfie Twigett (UK), André Chavard (France) and Jan Haasan (Netherlands).
** Their Golden Age distaff counterparts, Harvey's ''Girl Commandos'', consisted of Pat Parker (American), Ellen Billings and Penny Kirt (British), Tanya (from the Soviet Union) and Mei-Ling (Chinese).
* Due to being reincarnated into people from across the globe, the Knights of the Round Table from ''ComicBook/{{Camelot 3000}}'' were this in effect: King Arthur, Tom Prentice, and (presumably) Merlin are all English, Sir Lancelot is French, Queen Guinevere and Sir Kay are American, Sir Galahad is Japanese, Sir Perceval is Australian, Sir Gawain is South African, and Sir Tristan is Canadian.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The UN delegation to Themyscira in "Strangers in Paradise" consists of twelve people from wildly different backgrounds. However, since the arc is only five issues long, only a few of them (BlindBlackGuy Rovo, troubled Tiananmen survivor Lin Koo, and the all-American ComicBook/LoisLane) get anything besides token roles in the plot.

* The version of ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' backed by the [=G7=] featured members from each of the world's seven richest nations: The Colonel from Britain, Street from the United States, Teuton from Germany, Rush from Canada, Last Call from Italy, the Surgeon from France, and Machine from Japan.
** The Authority themselves were originally led by a Briton and included a Tibetan (Swift) and a Netherlander (The Doctor) along with whatever nationality Apollo and Midnighter possessed before losing their original identities, and the second Doctor was a Palestinian.
* The titular team in ''ComicBook/TheBoys'': the leader and the viewpoint character are British, and there's also a Frenchman and two Americans.
* The League of Ancients in the ''Comicbook/{{JLA}}'' story "The Obsidian Age" are a team of heroes (ish) from 1020 BC, each from a different ancient civilisation: Gamemnae (Atlantis), Rama Khan (the Indian subcontinent), Tezumak (Mesoamerica), Manitou Raven and Dawn (North America), Sela (sub-Saharan Africa), the Anointed One (Hebrew) and the Whaler (Inuit).

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* For the first decade of their existence, the ''Comicbook/XMen'' were one of the most homogenous superhero teams, consisting entirely of white Americans belonging to the middle and upper classes; also four of the six core members, including the team's leader and mentor, Professor X, came from one state (New York). This changed dramatically with the "All-New, All-Different" team which debuted in 1975. Gathered from America and around the world by Charles Xavier, it included (besides two members of the original team) Wolverine from Canada, Storm from East Africa, Nightcrawler from West Germany, Banshee from Ireland[[note]](actually attending a country music show in Memphis, TN, when Xavier recruited him)[[/note]], Sunfire from Japan, Colossus from Russia (Eastern Siberia, to be precise), and Thunderbird, an Apache. This initiated a trend of international X-teams in which the members also belonged to different ethnic, religious etc. groups, often [[TwoferTokenMinority to several at once]]. In the X-Men themselves the next new recruits included Kitty Pryde (later called Shadowcat, Jewish), Rogue (from the Deep South, but raised by a lesbian couple and fluent in French since childhood), Psylocke (British), Forge (Cheyenne), Longshot (an alien rather than a mutant), Jubilee (Chinese-American), Gambit (Cajun), Bishop (Black, at least partly of Australian Aboriginal descent), Maggott (South Africa), Thunderbird III (Indian), and so on.
** This partly carried over into the movies. The opening scene of the first one establishes Magneto as a European Jewish survivor of the Holocaust (a flashback scene in ''First Class'' shows him [[InformedJudaism celebrating Hanukkah as a boy]]). Also in the first movie, Wolverine is first seen in Canada[[note]] Flashback scenes also showing him wearing a uniform that apparently identifies him as Canadian.[[/note]] and Halle Berry attempts to give Storm a Kenyan accent[[note]] A deleted scene includes a flashback of her being chased from her African village.[[/note]], while in the second movie Nightcrawler's nationality is immediately obvious.
** While the All-New, All-Different X-Men came over as somewhat stereotypical in their first appearance, new writer Creator/ChrisClaremont fleshed them out and made them more complex. Nightcrawler was revealed to have been raised by a Gypsy family and within a travelling circus that included survivors of the Holocaust, making him anything but a "typical" German. Storm, who started out as a dark-skinned version of a "Literature/{{She}}"-like JunglePrincess, was born in Harlem of an African-American father and a Kenyan mother, and grew up in the streets of Cairo (the one in Egypt) after being orphaned before migrating south to her mother's native country. In contrast, when the original X-Men team was re-established with ''X-Factor'' #1 in the mid-1980s, the team's lack of diversity stuck out like a sore thumb.
* The ''X-Men'' spinoff book ''The ComicBook/NewMutants'' followed this trend. Wolfbane was Scottish, Mirage was Cheyenne, Karma was Vietnamese, Sunspot was Brazilian and Cannonball was from an Appalachian coal-mining town in Kentucky. Later, they added Magik from Russia, Cypher (white) from the United States, Warlock who was an alien, and Magma who was from an offshoot of an ancient Roman tribe that lived in Brazil. Though, due to various retcons, she may be British.
** Interestingly, these characters are each more complicated and "other" than their ethnic origins might suggest; the Scot Wolfsbane is too religious, conflicted and repressed to be seen as a "passionate celt" stereotype. The Native American Dani Moonstar is also uncertain, suspicious, self-destructive and perhaps bisexual. The Vietnamese Karma is a surrogate mother to her younger siblings, later a lesbian, and prone to losses of self-control. Sunspot was one of the first characters coming from a racially mixed marriage (also, his white mother comes from an established, upper-class family while his black father is a self-made man with a lower-class background); his origin that cuts him off from most normal relationships; his (white) girlfriend was murdered and died in his arms, he ceases to show deep relationships after this. Cannonball from an American point of view was the most "normal" member of the team, but when he and Dani Moonstar started to jointly lead the team, it was Dani who got the job of leadership in battle while Sam assumed the "traditionally female" job of emotionally holding the team together, of "team mother".
*** For Moonstar, her ambiguous bisexuality might be GeniusBonus: Identifying as "heterosexual" or "homosexual" as a bifurcation is rarer on Indian reservations, largely because of a tradition of [[UnsettlingGenderReveal winkte]], [[SamusIsAGirl kurami]], and the like. Magik also later got the Legacy Virus, which is analogous to HIV in the Marvel Universe. Wait, [[ArtisticLicenseHistory an ancient Roman tribe that lived in Brazil?]]
** ''ComicBook/GenerationX'', New Mutants' successor title, had a multinational team continued this trend, often making their characters opposite of their ethnic stereotype. For instance, Husk, an Appalachian girl (one of Cannonball's sisters), is generally considered the brain, and Skin, who was a Hispanic gang member, is generally the nice guy, etc.
* ''ComicBook/{{Excalibur}}'', the X-Men's offshoot team in Britain, in its initial incarnation had Captain Britain (English), Meggan (British/Fey, raised by Gypsies), Nightcrawler (German), Shadowcat (American/Jewish), Lockheed (alien dragon) and Phoenix (Alternate Future America). In time the lineup changed and at one point or another also included Colossus (Russian), Douglock (blend of techo-organic alien and white American), Wolfsbane (Scottish), Widget (extradimensional robot), Black Knight (American), Feron (Fey/alternate universe), Cerise (yet another alien race), Pete Wisdom (English) etc.
* Marvel's [[CircusOfFear Circus of Crime]] is very cosmopolitan, featuring the Ringmaster (Austrian), Bruto the Strongman (Swedish), Fire-Eater (Spanish), the Great Gambonnos (Italian), Rajah (Indian). The Human Cannonball, the Clown, Live Wire, Princess Python, and Blackwing are Americans.
* ''ComicBook/TheInvadersMarvel'' and their [[Creator/MarvelComics Timely]] counterpart ''All Winners Squad'' were heroes from the various Allied Powers during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* Comicbook/TheAvengers, much like the JLA, have also had many international members as well as non-humans, although they are usually sponsored by the US government.
** This began with "ComicBook/CapsKookyQuartet", starting in ''Avengers'' #16, when Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, natives of a fictional Balkan country, joined the team. They were soon joined by the Black Widow (Russian) and Hercules (a literal Greek god).[[note]] Asgardian Thor was of course one of the founding members, but at the time he was also American by virtue of his civilian alter ego Donald Blake.[[/note]]
* The League of Realms in ''Comicbook/TheMightyThor'' was a Multi-Norse-Mythological-World Team, comprising Thor (Asgard), Screwbeard (Nidavellir), Ud (Kingdom of the Trolls), Lady Waziria (Svartalfheim), Sir Ivory Honeyshot (Alfheim) and Oggy (Jotunheim).
* The [[ComicBook/XMen Shi'ar Imperial Guard]] is a planetary variant, comprised of several champions each hailing from one colony of the empire. As such, they're all different alien races. It's also an {{enforced|Trope}} example, as if one member dies in battle or [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness falls out of favor with the Majestrix]], they will be replaced by [[LegacyCharacter another warrior from whatever race their title is associated with]].
* [[ThePsychoRangers The Liberators]] in ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'' were a supervillain example of this trope matched against the mostly American superheroes team, with the Colonel (a Iranian-Azerbaijani), Crimson Dynamo and Abomination (Chinese), Perun (Russian), Swarm (a Georgian working for the Syrian government), Hurricane (North Korean), Schizoid Man (French) and Loki (an Asgardian masquerading as a Norwegian).
* The newest incarnation of the ''ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas'' features several Asian and Asian-American Heroes: ComicBook/AmadeusCho, ComicBook/{{Silk}} (Korean-American), White Fox, Crescent and Luna Snow (Korean), Aero, Sword Master and ComicBook/ShangChi (Chinese), Wave (Philippine) and Raz Malhotra/Giant-Man (Indian-American).

* ''ComicBook/TheInvadersComicBook'' and their [[Creator/MarvelComics Timely]] counterpart ''All Winners Squad'' were heroes from the various Allied Powers during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

* The original ComicBook/GlobalGuardians in Franchise/TheDCU were a mish-mash of national stereotypes: The Knight from the U.K., Rising Sun from Japan, Tuatara from New Zealand, and so on. They got less token-ish as time went on. They made their debut in the comic adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}''; subtlety clearly wasn't a concern.

* ''Comicbook/{{Blackhawk}}'' from Quality Comics in [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks the Golden Age]], later acquired by [[Creator/DCComics DC]]. Two distinct versions of this international team of aviators exist, sometimes with [[ContinuitySnarl slight differences]] within the versions.

* ''ComicBook/TheInvaders'' and their [[Creator/MarvelComics Timely]] counterpart ''All Winners Squad'' were heroes from the various Allied Powers during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

* The League of Ancients in the ''Comicbook/{{JLA}}'' story "The Obsidian Age" are a team of heroes (ish) from 1020 BC, each from a different ancient civilisation: Gamemnae (Atlantis), Rama Khan (the Indian subcontinent), Tezumak (Mesoamerica), Manitou Raven and Dawn (North America), Sela (Africa), the Anointed One (Hebrew) and the Whaler (Inuit).

* The League of Ancients in the ''Comicbook/{{JLA}}'' story "The Obsidian Age" are a team of heroes (ish) from 1020 BC, each from a different ancient civilisation: Gamemnae (Atlantis) Rama Khan (the Indian subcontinent), Tezumak (Mesoamerica), Manitou Raven and Dawn (North America), Sela (Africa), the Anointed One (Hebrew) and the Whaler (Inuit).

* For the first decade of their existence, the ''Comicbook/XMen'' were one of the most homogenous superhero teams, consisting entirely of white Americans belonging to the middle and upper classes; also four of the six core members, including the team's leader and mentor, Professor X, came from one state (New York). This changed dramatically with the "All-New, All-Different" team which debuted in 1975. Gathered from America and around the world by Charles Xavier, it included (besides two members of the original team) Wolverine from Canada, Storm from East Africa, Nightcrawler from West Germany, Banshee from Ireland[[note]](actually attending a country music show in Memphis, TN, when Xavier recruited him)[[/note]], Sunfire from Japan, Colossus from Russia (Eastern Siberia, to be precise), and Thunderbird, an Apache. This initiated a trend of international X-teams in which the members also belonged to different ethnic, religious etc. groups, often [[TwoferTokenMinority to several at once]]. In the X-Men themselves the next new recruits included Kitty Pryde (later called Shadowcat, Jewish), Rogue (from the Deep South, but raised by a lesbian couple and fluent in French since childhood), Psylocke (British), Forge (Cheyenne), Jubilee (Chinese-American), Gambit (Cajun), Bishop (Black, at least partly of Australian Aboriginal descent), Maggott (South Africa), Thunderbird III (Indian), and so on.

* For the first decade of their existence, the ''Comicbook/XMen'' were one of the most homogenous superhero teams, consisting entirely of white Americans belonging to the middle and upper classes; also four of the six core members, including the team's leader and mentor, Professor X, came from one state (New York). This changed dramatically with the "All-New, All-Different" team which debuted in 1975. Gathered from America and around the world by Charles Xavier, it included (besides two members of the original team) Wolverine from Canada, Storm from East Africa, Nightcrawler from West Germany, Banshee from Ireland[[note]](actually attending a country music show in Memphis, TN, when Xavier recruited him)[[/note]], Sunfire from Japan, Colossus from Russia (Eastern Siberia, to be precise), and Thunderbird, an Apache. This initiated a trend of international X-teams in which the members also belonged to different ethnic, religious etc. groups, often [[TwoferTokenMinority to several at once]]. In the X-Men themselves the next new recruits included Kitty Pryde (later called Shadowcat, Jewish), Rogue (from the Deep South, but raised by a lesbian couple and fluent in French since childhood), Psylocke (British), Forge (Cheyenne), Jubilee (Chinese-American), Gambit (Cajun), Bishop (Black, at least partly of Australian Aboriginal descent), Maggott (South Africa), Thunderbird III (Indian), and so on.
** This partly carried over into the movies. The opening scene of the first one establishes Magneto as a European Jewish survivor of the Holocaust (a flashback scene in ''First Class'' shows him [[InformedJudaism celebrating Hanukkah as a boy]]). Also in the first movie, Wolverine is first seen in Canada[[note]] Flashback scenes also showing him wearing a uniform that apparently identifies him as Canadian.[[/note]] and Halle Berry attempts to give Storm a Kenyan accent[[note]] A deleted scene includes a flashback of her being chased from her African village.[[/note]], while in the second movie Nightcrawler's nationality is immediately obvious.
** While the All-New, All-Different X-Men came over as somewhat stereotypical in their first appearance, new writer Creator/ChrisClaremont fleshed them out and made them more complex. Nightcrawler was revealed to have been raised by a Gypsy family and within a travelling circus that included survivors of the Holocaust, making him anything but a "typical" German. Storm, who started out as a dark-skinned version of a "Literature/{{She}}"-like JunglePrincess, was born in Harlem of an African-American father and a Kenyan mother, and grew up in the streets of Cairo (the one in Egypt) after being orphaned before migrating south to her mother's native country. In contrast, when the original X-Men team was re-established with ''X-Factor'' #1 in the mid-1980s, the team's lack of diversity stuck out like a sore thumb.
* The ''X-Men'' spinoff book ''The ComicBook/NewMutants'' followed this trend. Wolfbane was Scottish, Mirage was Cheyenne, Karma was Vietnamese, Sunspot was Brazilian and Cannonball was from an Appalachian coal-mining town in Kentucky. Later, they added Magik from Russia, Cypher (white) from the United States, Warlock who was an alien, and Magma who was from an offshoot of an ancient Roman tribe that lived in Brazil. Though, due to various retcons, she may be British.
** Interestingly, these characters are each more complicated and "other" than their ethnic origins might suggest; the Scot Wolfsbane is too religious, conflicted and repressed to be seen as a "passionate celt" stereotype. The Native American Dani Moonstar is also uncertain, suspicious, self-destructive and perhaps bisexual. The Vietnamese Karma is a surrogate mother to her younger siblings, later a lesbian, and prone to losses of self-control. Sunspot was one of the first characters coming from a racially mixed marriage (also, his white mother comes from an established, upper-class family while his black father is a self-made man with a lower-class background); his origin that cuts him off from most normal relationships; his (white) girlfriend was murdered and died in his arms, he ceases to show deep relationships after this. Cannonball from an American point of view was the most "normal" member of the team, but when he and Dani Moonstar started to jointly lead the team, it was Dani who got the job of leadership in battle while Sam assumed the "traditionally female" job of emotionally holding the team together, of "team mother".
*** For Moonstar, her ambiguous bisexuality might be GeniusBonus: Identifying as "heterosexual" or "homosexual" as a bifurcation is rarer on Indian reservations, largely because of a tradition of [[UnsettlingGenderReveal winkte]], [[SamusIsAGirl kurami]], and the like. Magik also later got the Legacy Virus, which is analogous to HIV in the Marvel Universe. Wait, [[ArtisticLicenseHistory an ancient Roman tribe that lived in Brazil?]]
** ''ComicBook/GenerationX'', New Mutants' successor title, had a multinational team continued this trend, often making their characters opposite of their ethnic stereotype. For instance, Husk, an Appalachian girl (one of Cannonball's sisters), is generally considered the brain, and Skin, who was a Hispanic gang member, is generally the nice guy, etc.
* ''ComicBook/{{Excalibur}}'', the X-Men's offshoot team in Britain, in its initial incarnation had Captain Britain (English), Meggan (British/Fey, raised by Gypsies), Nightcrawler (German), Shadowcat (American/Jewish), Lockheed (alien dragon) and Phoenix (Alternate Future America). In time the lineup changed and at one point or another also included Colossus (Russian), Douglock (blend of techo-organic alien and white American), Wolfsbane (Scottish), Widget (extradimensional robot), Black Knight (American), Feron (Fey/alternate universe), Cerise (yet another alien race), Pete Wisdom (English) etc.

* In the Gold Key feature ''Comicbook/JetDream'', Jet's [[GenderFlip all-female]] Comicbook/{{Blackhawk}} [[{{Expy}} Expy Squadron]] consisted of: Jet Dream and Cookie Jarr (presumed American); Petite (France); Marlene (UsefulNotes/WestGermany); and Ting-a-Ling (unspecified Polynesian island).
* Marvel's [[CircusOfFear Circus of Crime]] is very cosmopolitan, featuring the Ringmaster (Austrian), Bruto the Strongman (Swedish), Fire-Eater (Spanish), the Great Gambonnos (Italian), Rajah (Indian). The Human Cannonball, the Clown, Live Wire, Princess Python, and Blackwing are Americans.

* The latest incarnation of Creator/ImageComics' ''Guardians of the Globe'' features Bulletproof, Black Samson, Knockout, and Brit (American), Kid Thor (Canadian), the Yeti (Nepalese), Kaboomerang (Australian), Outrun (South African), El Chupacabra (Mexican), Best Tiger (Chinese), Cast Iron (From an unspecified former Yugoslav state), Pegasus (Russian), Japandroid (Japanese), Le Bruiser (French), and Shapesmith (Martian). Recruiting heroes from all over the world was a deliberate move on team coordinator Cecil's part -- they're guarding the ''globe'', and everyone should have a part in it.

* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' had a team in Europe and an international team at one time. Over the years, there have been numerous characters that have joined the team. Even in its classic "Big Seven" incarnation, you can expect [[Franchise/{{Batman}} only]] [[ComicBook/GreenLantern three]] [[Franchise/TheFlash Americans]]. The rest are [[Franchise/{{Superman}} two]] [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter aliens]] [[Franchise/WonderWoman an Amazon]] and [[ComicBook/AquaMan an Atlantean]].

* The original ''ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}'' team consisted of Battalion (American), Fuji (Japanese), Hellstrike (Irish), Winter (Russian), and Diva (Italian). They were joined in short order by Flashpoint (Australian), Sunburst (Swedish), Nautika (not human, origin unspecified), Flint (Kenyan), and three additional Americans in Synergy, Cannon, and Fahrenheit. One of the team's names in development was "Multinational Force", with the designs of the original team members having [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead their nations' flags painted on their faces]]. Fuji's design was notably unchanged from this phase.
** Flint was introduced as part of a short-lived "new" Stormwatch team consisting of herself, the Canadian Blademaster, the Tibetan Swift, and the Native American Comanche.
* The version of ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' backed by the [=G7=] featured members from each of the world's seven richest nations: The Colonel from Britain, Street from the United States, Teuton from Germany, Rush from Canada, Last Call from Italy, the Surgeon from France, and Machine from Japan.
** The Authority themselves were originally led by a Briton and included a Tibetan (Swift) and a Netherlander (The Doctor) along with whatever nationality Apollo and Midnighter possessed before losing their original identities, and the second Doctor was a Palestinian.
* The modern incarnation of the ''Green Team'' had Commodore Murphy (British), JP Houston (American; Texan), Cecilia Sunbeam (American; Californian), and Prince Mohammed Qahtanii (from some [[{{Qurac}} fake Middle-Eastern country]]).
* The ''ComicBook/HandOfTheMorningstar'' has Titan (American), Avatar (Indian), Shango (West African), Kwan Yin (Chinese), and Kami (South American).
* Due to being reincarnated into people from across the globe, the Knights of the Round Table from ''ComicBook/{{Camelot 3000}}'' were this in effect: King Arthur, Tom Prentice, and (presumably) Merlin are all English, Sir Lancelot is French, Queen Guinevere and Sir Kay are American, Sir Galahad is Japanese, Sir Perceval is Australian, Sir Gawain is South African, and Sir Tristan is Canadian.
* ''Action Force: International Heroes'', aka the UK version of ''Franchise/GIJoe'', with the characters given more varied countries of origin. Flint (UK) is the leader and other members include Lady Jaye (Ireland), Footlose (Scotland), Beach Head (New Zealand), Airtight (West Germany) etc. Some characters (such as Snake-Eyes and Scarlett) were said to be visiting London from Action Force's US branch ... which was eventually retconned to be called G.I. Joe.
* The comic book Comicbook/{{Smite}} focuses on this even more than the [[VideoGame/{{Smite}} game]].

* The Roman Legion which Asterix and Obelix join in ''Comicbook/{{Asterix}} and Legionary'' also includes Neveratalos (Greek, by Zeus!), Selectivemploymentax (Briton, I say, wot), Hemispheric the Goth, Gastronomix of Belgium, and Ptenisnet, a confused Egyptian.

** This began with "Cap's Kooky Quartet", starting in ''Avengers'' #16, when Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, natives of a fictional Balkan country, joined the team. They were soon joined by the Black Widow (Russian) and Hercules (a literal Greek god).[[note]] Asgardian Thor was of course one of the founding members, but at the time he was also American by virtue of his civilian alter ego Donald Blake.[[/note]]

* In the Gold Key feature ''Comicbook/JetDream'', Jet's [[GenderFlip all-female]] Comicbook/{{Blackhawk}} [[{{Expy}} Expy Squadron]] consisted of: Jet Dream and Cookie Jarr (presumed American); Petite (France); Marlene (WestGermany); and Ting-a-Ling (unspecified Polynesian island).

* The League of Realms in ''Comicbook/TheMightyThor'' was a Multi-Norse-World Team, comprising Thor (Asgard), Screwbeard (Nidavellir), Ud (Kingdom of the Trolls), Lady Waziria (Svartalfheim), Sir Ivory Honeyshot (Alfheim) and Oggy (Jotunheim).

* For the first decade of their existence, the ''Comicbook/XMen'' were one of the most homogenous superhero teams, consisting entirely of white Americans belonging to the middle and upper classes; also four of the six core members, including the team's leader and mentor, Professor X, came from one state (New York). This changed dramatically with the "All-New, All-Different" team which debuted in 1975. Gathered from America and around the world by Charles Xavier, it included (besides two members of the original team) Wolverine from Canada, Storm from Africa, Nightcrawler from Germany, Banshee from Ireland[[note]](actually attending a country music show in Memphis, TN, when Xavier recruited him)[[/note]], Sunfire from Japan, Colossus from Russia, and Thunderbird, an Apache. This initiated a trend of international X-teams in which the members also belonged to different ethnic, religious etc. groups, often [[TwoferTokenMinority to several at once]]. In the X-Men themselves the next new recruits included Kitty Pryde (later called Shadowcat, Jewish), Rogue (from the Deep South, but raised by a lesbian couple and fluent in French since childhood), Psylocke (British), Forge (Cheyenne), Jubilee (Chinese-American), Gambit (Cajun), Bishop (Black, at least partly of Australian Aboriginal descent), Maggott (South Africa), Thunderbird III (Indian), and so on.

** The Authority themselves were originally led by a Brit and included a Tibetan (Swift) and a Netherlander (The Doctor) along with whatever nationality Apollo and Midnighter possessed before losing their original identities, and the second Doctor was a Palestinian.