Basic Trope: A wrestling heel who represents a foreign country/nation, often while playing up to national stereotypes, and looks down on the hosting country. The performer themselves may or may not be actually foreign.
- Straight: In the Troperian wrestling scene, one of the most prominent heels is Sir Potts, hailing from Tropeland (a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Britain), taking a sip of tea at the start of every match, and looking down on Troperians for being unsophisticated.
- Exaggerated:
- There is a wrestling heel for pretty much every country, and they're all orders of magnitude meaner than the national ones.
- Alternatively, all of Troperia's wrestling heels are foreigners.
- Downplayed: Sir Potts is a wrestling heel, but is very tame compared to the much meaner national wrestling heels. While he does dislike Troperians, he also sees them as Worthy Opponents.
- Justified: Sir Potts started as a face, but underwent a Face–Heel Turn as he became disillusioned with Troperians.
- Inverted:
- All-American Face
- Sir Potts is a foreign wrestling face, who looks up to Troperians and came to their country to see what lessons and virtues he can learn from them and pass the teachings along to his own people.
- Due to Cultural Cringe, the Troperian wrestling scene is made up mostly of foreign wrestling faces and national wrestling heels.
- Subverted: When Sir Potts is introduced, he's initially advertised in a way that strongly implies he's a wrestling heel, but he turns out to be a face.
- Double Subverted: Then he pulls a Face–Heel Turn after a couple matches.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Sir Potts is a Heel–Face Revolving Door.
- Averted: There are no wrestlers representing foreign countries or nations.
- Enforced: Troperia is at war with Tropeland, and the Troperian government pressures the country's wrestling federation to introduce Tropelandic wrestling heels as a propaganda move.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Sir Potts leaves the Troperian wrestling scene altogether because he decides that acknowledging Troperians at all is giving them too much credit.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Alice, who lives in Troperia, watches a wrestling match offscreen. While telling Bob about it, she comments on how mean the Tropelandic wrestler was and how she finds that cool.
- Deconstructed: Over time, the national stereotypes that used to be seen as cool or funny went on to be considered in poor taste, causing foreign wrestlers to fall out of favor with the audience.
- Reconstructed:
- The wrestling federation updates the portrayal of foreigners to be more accurate and sensitive in order to Win Back the Crowd.
- It turns out that Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales, and the foreign wrestling heels are so popular with the cultures and nations they portray that they continue to thrive despite the outdated stereotypes.
- Played for Laughs: ???
- Played for Drama: ???
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