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  • Road Rovers, with an American as team leader (other nationalities: British, Russian, German, and Swiss).
  • The Three Caballeros. This trio of savage party-goers include American Donald Duck, Brazilian José Carioca and Mexican Panchito Pistolas.
  • Codename: Kids Next Door: The main characters all seem to live in the same American neighborhood, but if you listen to their parents, you realize they're basically this trope one generation removed—-both of Numbuh 1's parents are British, Numbuh 3's are Japanese (though only her father has an accent, so either his wife has done away with the accent or he's a direct immigrant), Numbuh 4's are Australian, and Numbuh 5's mother is French African. Numbuh 2 seems to be the only one who (as far as we know) has a "normal" American family.
  • Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Led by the racially ambiguous Gaia, Spirit of the Earth, voiced by Whoopi Goldberg in Seasons 1-3 and Margot Kidder in Seasons 4-6, the team was intentionally assembled from five different continents and features Kwame, an African (from Ghana), Wheeler, a North American (from Brooklyn, New York), Linka, an Eastern European (tagline later changed from "From the Soviet Union" to "From Eastern Europe"), Gi, an Asian (from Thailand), and Ma-Ti, a South American (revealed to be a grandson of a Kayapo shaman, which makes him Brazilian).
  • Camp Lazlo has Lazlo (Brazilian), Raj (Indian), and Clam (American).
  • The four main protagonists of Xiaolin Showdown fit this trope. Led by a Chinese boy (Omi), his teammates are a Japanese girl (Kimiko), a Brazilian boy (Raimundo), and an American cowboy (Clay).
  • The M.A.S.K. agents come from all over the world:
    • Alex Sector - British
    • Bruce Sato - Japanese
    • Julio Lopez - Spanish
    • Jacques LaFleur - Canadian (and specifically, Quebec)
    • Ali Bombay - Indian
    • Boris Bushkin - Russian
    • Everybody else - American
  • In Spiral Zone, both the heroic Zone Riders and evil Black Widows are multinational teams.
  • Jackie Chan Adventures:
    • The J-Team — Jackie, Jade, and Uncle (Chinese from Hong Kong); Tohru (Japanese); Captain Black (white American); El Toro and Paco (Mexican); and Viper (American and Ambiguously Brown/Jewish; the Christmas Episode shows her at a Hannukah party).
    • Also the Dark Hand — Valmont (English), Finn (Irish-American), Chow (Chinese-American), Hak Foo (Chinese guy with red hair), and Ratso (American of unclear ethnicity; he has green skin).
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender:
    • An in-universe example; Aang (Air Nomads), Katara and Sokka (Water Tribe), Toph and Suki (Earth Kingdom), Zuko (Fire Nation).
    • The prominent members of the Order of the White Lotus: Iroh, Piandao, and Jeong-Jeong are all Fire Nation; Pakku is from the Water Tribe; and Bumi is of the Earth Kingdom; (by extension there would have once been Air Nomad members, and fanon holds Gyatso was included). In fact, multinational cooperation is the basis for the Order.
    • One should add that each of the four nations are also a Fantasy Counterpart Culture based on various regions of Asia: the Water Tribe are Native Siberians, the Air Nomads are Tibetans, the Earth Kingdom is China, and the Fire Nation is Japan. Some smaller tribes within fit the Magical Native American trope to a T.
  • Code Lyoko: Set in France. Yumi is Japanese; most other characters are French, but for some their names suggest their families have various origins: Ulrich Stern (possibly German), William Dunbar (possibly Scottish), Odd Della Robbia (most likely Italian; Della Robbia is a last name of clear Italian origins, and Odd can be short for a couple of very embarrassing Italian first names (at least, Odorico and Oddo are embarrassing for an Italian). He's probably an Italian who moved in France for his parents' works, and goes by Odd due an embarrassing first name...)
  • The 11 racecars from Cars 2 comprise two Americans (one of them being Lightning McQueen), one Italian, one Japanese, one Spanish, one French, one Brazilian (and the only female), one German, one pure-British, one half-British, half Grenadian; and one New Rearendian.
  • In James and the Giant Peach, Grasshopper, Earthworm, Ladybug, Glowworm and James are from different parts of Britain. Spider is French and Centipede is from Brooklyn.
  • Batman: The Brave and the Bold features the Batmen of All Nations mentioned in the Comics page in one episode's Cold Open. They include the Legionary from Italy, the Gaucho from Argentina, the Knight from the United Kingdom, etc. They also added Impala, a black South African hero not associated with Batman in comics, for the sake of greater racial diversity. Their meeting is crashed by the Joker, who brought his own Multinational Team, featuring a Scottish Joker, an Inuit Joker, a Japanese Joker, etc.
  • The The Super Hero Squad Show featured the All-Captains Squad, whose members included Captain America, Captain Canada, and Captain Liechtenstein.
  • Hurricanes is about the players in a soccer team, each of whom is a different nationality.
  • Winx Club isn't set on Earth, but each Human Alien Winx girl is from a different planet—Stella from Solaria, Flora from Linphea, Musa from Melody, Tecna from Zenith, Aisha from Tides, and Bloom from Earth and really Domino. This is justified by the fact that half the cast are princesses of their home planets.
  • The six protagonists from MeteoHeroes come not only from a different country but also a different continent each:
    • Giorgio Latini/Thermo (Rome, Italy).
    • Patty Storm/Pluvia (Seattle, USA).
    • Angelita Perez/Nubess (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
    • Andrew Khumalo/ Ventum (Cape Town, South Africa).
    • Su Pa Sin/Nix (Harbin, China).
    • Adam Bolt/Fulmen (Sydney, Australia).
  • The eighth season of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic features Twilight and company opening a school of friendship, taking in students from all over Equestria and beyond. The six (known collectively as either the Student Six or the Young Six) that get the most focus are Gallus (from the griffon nation of Griffonstone), Ocellus (from the Changeling Kingdom), Silverstream (from the seapony nation of Seaquestria), Smolder (from the Dragon Lands), Yona (from the yak nation of Yakyakistan), and Sandbar, an earth pony (from Equestria).
  • The Supa Strikas all hail from different parts of the world, while their opponents tend to all be from the one country. It seems to be a subtle promotion of multiculturalism and the idea of people from all walks of life working together to fix problems.
  • Carmen Sandiego: Carmen's team consists of herself (Argentinian), Player (Canadian, possibly First Nations), Zack, Ivy (both American), and Shadow-San (Japanese). V.I.L.E. is a villainous version of this trope.
  • Castlevania (2017): Dracula's vampire court, serving as his lieutenants in his attempted extermination of humanity, come from all over the world, though most are unnamed. Dracula himself is Wallachian, (from one of the historical component countries of Romania) Carmilla comes from Styria, a province of Austria, and Godbrand is explicitly a Viking; other vampires hail from England, Germany, Japan, Nepal, and Russia, among other less-defined places. Additionally, his two human allies, Hector and Isaac, are from Rhodes and implicitly somewhere in Islamic Africa, respectively.
  • Ice Age: Continental Drift: Gutt's Crew. Captain Gutt, Squint and Shira (before her Heel–Face Turn) have american accents, Raz is Australian, Silas is French, Flynn is from Britain while Gupta is from India. Dobson nationality is uknown.

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