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* Although Italian Disney artists occasionally point out that Duckburg is supposed to in North America, they tend to make the Disney characters take a particular interest in Italian history, Italian culture and Italian geography. Sometimes it's justified--you don't have to know much about tourism to realize that a restaurant with [[EiffelTowerEffect a view of the Leaning Tower of Pisa]] is a good investment (although you have to wonder how a busy financial tycoon like Scrooge [=McDuck=] can find the time to run the place himself). But it seems weird that [[OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain Scrooge and Rockerduck]] would drop everything to see who can be the first to build a bridge over the strait of Messina, Sicily. Or that WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse's nephews argue obsessively over who was Italy's best player in the soccer world championship 18 years ago. Of course one of the major antagonists, Magica De Spell ''is'' an Italian (though [[Creator/CarlBarks her creator]] is American). Creator/DonRosa was guilty of this at several points throughout his works. In ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'', Scrooge arrives in Louisville, Kentucky, Rosa's home town. The comics also often mention Burbank, presumably referring to the California municipality where Creator/{{Disney}}'s studios happen to be located.
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* Although Italian Disney artists occasionally point out that Duckburg is supposed to in North America, they tend to make the Disney characters take a particular interest in Italian history, Italian culture and Italian geography. Sometimes it's justified--you don't have to know much about tourism to realize that a restaurant with [[EiffelTowerEffect a view of the Leaning Tower of Pisa]] is a good investment (although you have to wonder how a busy financial tycoon like Scrooge [=McDuck=] can find the time to run the place himself). But it seems weird that [[OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain Scrooge and Rockerduck]] would drop everything to see who can be the first to build a bridge over the strait of Messina, Sicily. Or that WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse's nephews [[ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse Mickey Mouse's nephews]] argue obsessively over who was Italy's best player in the soccer world championship FIFA World Cup 18 years ago. ago.
** Of course one of the major antagonists, Magica De Spell ''is'' an Italian (though [[Creator/CarlBarks her creator]] isAmerican). American).
** Creator/DonRosa was guilty of this at several points throughout his works. In ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'', Scrooge arrives in Louisville, Kentucky, Rosa's home town. The comics also often mention Burbank, presumably referring to the California municipality where Creator/{{Disney}}'s studios happen to be located.
** Of course one of the major antagonists, Magica De Spell ''is'' an Italian (though [[Creator/CarlBarks her creator]] is
** Creator/DonRosa was guilty of this at several points throughout his works. In ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'', Scrooge arrives in Louisville, Kentucky, Rosa's home town. The comics also often mention Burbank, presumably referring to the California municipality where Creator/{{Disney}}'s studios happen to be located.
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* Creator/AlanMoore is from Northampton, England, and extremely [[ManOfTheCity proud of it] to the extent that a majority of his works (no matter where they're set) end up tied to Northampton somehow.
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* Creator/AlanMoore is from Northampton, England, and extremely [[ManOfTheCity proud of it] it]] to the extent that a majority of his works (no matter where they're set) end up tied to Northampton somehow.
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* The Italian comic ''Saturno Contro la Terra'' (Saturn Versus Earth) has Italian heroes and Italy assuming an extremely important role among Earth's powers, but is notable in that it makes the effort to [[JustifiedTrope provide explanations for it]] in that [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist professor Marcus]] (who is implied to actually be British or American and merely ''working'' in Italy) and his assistants are the first to warn the world of the impending invasion, thus receiving the international support needed to thwart it, and that [[BigBad Rebo]] cripples Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States, France and Germany but is foiled right before he could take out Italy, leaving the latter with mostly intact economy, industry and military while otherwise greater powers are in shambles. Then in "The Island of Sand" Rebo goes after humanity's greatest scientists from all nations, leaving only Marcus (who had a security detail that foiled the initial kidnapping attempt) able to oppose him.
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* The Italian comic ''Saturno Contro la Terra'' (Saturn Versus Earth) has Italian heroes and Italy assuming an extremely important role among Earth's powers, but is notable in that it makes the effort to [[JustifiedTrope provide explanations for it]] in that [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist professor Marcus]] (who is implied to actually be British or American and merely ''working'' in Italy) and his assistants are the first to warn the world of the impending invasion, thus receiving the international support needed to thwart it, and that [[BigBad Rebo]] cripples Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States, France and Germany but is foiled right before he could take out Italy, leaving the latter with mostly intact economy, industry and military while otherwise greater powers are in shambles. Then in "The Island of Sand" Rebo goes after humanity's greatest scientists from all nations, leaving only Marcus (who had a security detail that foiled the initial kidnapping attempt) able to oppose him.him.
* Creator/AlanMoore is from Northampton, England, and extremely [[ManOfTheCity proud of it] to the extent that a majority of his works (no matter where they're set) end up tied to Northampton somehow.
* Creator/AlanMoore is from Northampton, England, and extremely [[ManOfTheCity proud of it] to the extent that a majority of his works (no matter where they're set) end up tied to Northampton somehow.
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* The Italian comic ''Saturno Contro la Terra'' (Saturn Versus Earth) has Italian heroes and Italy assuming an extremely important role among Earth's powers, but is notable in that it makes the effort to [[JustifiedTrope provide explanations for it]]:
** Professor Marcus (who is implied to the British or American and merely ''working'' in Italy) and his apprentices (who are in fact Italian) happen to be the first to notice the arrival of the Saturnians and warn Earth, and Marcus provided useful inventions to fight off the invaders, so they naturally assume leading roles, but not exclusive - the French scientist Leducq in the first story has his own role as a secondary hero. Then in the second story "The Island of Sand" [[BigBad Rebo]] directly targets humanity's top scientists and kills them, but Marcus and his assistants escape thanks to the security detail they were given as the heroes who defeated the initial invasion, leaving them as the only people who can actually deal with the new Saturnian attacks.
** During the initial attack in the first invasion Rebo goes after Britain and the Soviet Union first, judging the former as the most powerful opponent and the latter as another great enemy that is close to his initial base, and doesn't consider Italy much until Marcus foils him. Spooked by that, when he launches his main attack Rebo decides to hit the other great powers (Berlin, Paris and New York specifically are shown to have been devastated by the Saturnians) and ''then'' Italy so as to have all his forces available in case the Italians have other secret weapons... And he's foiled just as his [[{{Kaiju}} gigantified animals]] reach the outskirts of Milan, leaving Italy with her industry, economy and military mostly intact while otherwise greater powers have been crippled.
** Professor Marcus (who is implied to the British or American and merely ''working'' in Italy) and his apprentices (who are in fact Italian) happen to be the first to notice the arrival of the Saturnians and warn Earth, and Marcus provided useful inventions to fight off the invaders, so they naturally assume leading roles, but not exclusive - the French scientist Leducq in the first story has his own role as a secondary hero. Then in the second story "The Island of Sand" [[BigBad Rebo]] directly targets humanity's top scientists and kills them, but Marcus and his assistants escape thanks to the security detail they were given as the heroes who defeated the initial invasion, leaving them as the only people who can actually deal with the new Saturnian attacks.
** During the initial attack in the first invasion Rebo goes after Britain and the Soviet Union first, judging the former as the most powerful opponent and the latter as another great enemy that is close to his initial base, and doesn't consider Italy much until Marcus foils him. Spooked by that, when he launches his main attack Rebo decides to hit the other great powers (Berlin, Paris and New York specifically are shown to have been devastated by the Saturnians) and ''then'' Italy so as to have all his forces available in case the Italians have other secret weapons... And he's foiled just as his [[{{Kaiju}} gigantified animals]] reach the outskirts of Milan, leaving Italy with her industry, economy and military mostly intact while otherwise greater powers have been crippled.
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* The Italian comic ''Saturno Contro la Terra'' (Saturn Versus Earth) has Italian heroes and Italy assuming an extremely important role among Earth's powers, but is notable in that it makes the effort to [[JustifiedTrope provide explanations for it]]:
** Professor Marcusit]] in that [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist professor Marcus]] (who is implied to the actually be British or American and merely ''working'' in Italy) and his apprentices (who assistants are in fact Italian) happen to be the first to notice warn the arrival world of the Saturnians impending invasion, thus receiving the international support needed to thwart it, and warn Earth, that [[BigBad Rebo]] cripples Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States, France and Marcus provided useful inventions to fight off Germany but is foiled right before he could take out Italy, leaving the invaders, so they naturally assume leading roles, but not exclusive - the French scientist Leducq latter with mostly intact economy, industry and military while otherwise greater powers are in the first story has his own role as a secondary hero. shambles. Then in the second story "The Island of Sand" [[BigBad Rebo]] directly targets Rebo goes after humanity's top greatest scientists and kills them, but from all nations, leaving only Marcus and his assistants escape thanks to the (who had a security detail they were given as the heroes who defeated that foiled the initial invasion, leaving them as the only people who can actually deal with the new Saturnian attacks.
** During the initial attack in the first invasion Rebo goes after Britain and the Soviet Union first, judging the former as the most powerful opponent and the latter as another great enemy that is closekidnapping attempt) able to his initial base, and doesn't consider Italy much until Marcus foils him. Spooked by that, when he launches his main attack Rebo decides to hit the other great powers (Berlin, Paris and New York specifically are shown to have been devastated by the Saturnians) and ''then'' Italy so as to have all his forces available in case the Italians have other secret weapons... And he's foiled just as his [[{{Kaiju}} gigantified animals]] reach the outskirts of Milan, leaving Italy with her industry, economy and military mostly intact while otherwise greater powers have been crippled.oppose him.
** Professor Marcus
** During the initial attack in the first invasion Rebo goes after Britain and the Soviet Union first, judging the former as the most powerful opponent and the latter as another great enemy that is close
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* ''ComicBook/AlanFord'' is supposedly set in America, but there are many elements of the scenery, humor and characters are built to recall the ones from Italy, specifically Milan (Max Bunker's hometown), with an entire volume dedicated to the phoenomenon of the "Paninari", younger and "hippier" Italian people who despise the older generation and, as a symbol, prefer to eat panini (sandwiches) over the iconic spaghetti. Italy receives several mentions and is visited by the heroes more than once.
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* ''ComicBook/AlanFord'' is supposedly set in America, but there are many elements of the scenery, humor and characters are built to recall the ones from Italy, specifically Milan (Max Bunker's hometown), with an entire volume dedicated to the phoenomenon of the "Paninari", younger and "hippier" Italian people who despise the older generation and, as a symbol, prefer to eat panini (sandwiches) over the iconic spaghetti. Italy receives several mentions and is visited by the heroes more than once.once.
* The Italian comic ''Saturno Contro la Terra'' (Saturn Versus Earth) has Italian heroes and Italy assuming an extremely important role among Earth's powers, but is notable in that it makes the effort to [[JustifiedTrope provide explanations for it]]:
** Professor Marcus (who is implied to the British or American and merely ''working'' in Italy) and his apprentices (who are in fact Italian) happen to be the first to notice the arrival of the Saturnians and warn Earth, and Marcus provided useful inventions to fight off the invaders, so they naturally assume leading roles, but not exclusive - the French scientist Leducq in the first story has his own role as a secondary hero. Then in the second story "The Island of Sand" [[BigBad Rebo]] directly targets humanity's top scientists and kills them, but Marcus and his assistants escape thanks to the security detail they were given as the heroes who defeated the initial invasion, leaving them as the only people who can actually deal with the new Saturnian attacks.
** During the initial attack in the first invasion Rebo goes after Britain and the Soviet Union first, judging the former as the most powerful opponent and the latter as another great enemy that is close to his initial base, and doesn't consider Italy much until Marcus foils him. Spooked by that, when he launches his main attack Rebo decides to hit the other great powers (Berlin, Paris and New York specifically are shown to have been devastated by the Saturnians) and ''then'' Italy so as to have all his forces available in case the Italians have other secret weapons... And he's foiled just as his [[{{Kaiju}} gigantified animals]] reach the outskirts of Milan, leaving Italy with her industry, economy and military mostly intact while otherwise greater powers have been crippled.
* The Italian comic ''Saturno Contro la Terra'' (Saturn Versus Earth) has Italian heroes and Italy assuming an extremely important role among Earth's powers, but is notable in that it makes the effort to [[JustifiedTrope provide explanations for it]]:
** Professor Marcus (who is implied to the British or American and merely ''working'' in Italy) and his apprentices (who are in fact Italian) happen to be the first to notice the arrival of the Saturnians and warn Earth, and Marcus provided useful inventions to fight off the invaders, so they naturally assume leading roles, but not exclusive - the French scientist Leducq in the first story has his own role as a secondary hero. Then in the second story "The Island of Sand" [[BigBad Rebo]] directly targets humanity's top scientists and kills them, but Marcus and his assistants escape thanks to the security detail they were given as the heroes who defeated the initial invasion, leaving them as the only people who can actually deal with the new Saturnian attacks.
** During the initial attack in the first invasion Rebo goes after Britain and the Soviet Union first, judging the former as the most powerful opponent and the latter as another great enemy that is close to his initial base, and doesn't consider Italy much until Marcus foils him. Spooked by that, when he launches his main attack Rebo decides to hit the other great powers (Berlin, Paris and New York specifically are shown to have been devastated by the Saturnians) and ''then'' Italy so as to have all his forces available in case the Italians have other secret weapons... And he's foiled just as his [[{{Kaiju}} gigantified animals]] reach the outskirts of Milan, leaving Italy with her industry, economy and military mostly intact while otherwise greater powers have been crippled.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Gen 13}}'' was Creator/{{Wildstorm}}'s flagship title for pretty much all of its 18 years, so it should come as no surprise that the team was primarily based in La Jolla, California, where Wildstorm's offices were located. This changed a handful of times as the book went on (for instance, one arc had the group living in Tokyo, and on various occasions they've gone on the run with no set base of operations), but everything goes back to La Jolla sooner or later.
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* The ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'' limited series takes place on an Earth suffering from near-total collapse, yet the entire story takes place in the United States. This is especially jarring given that much of the story focuses on how the Squadron's efforts are impacting the rights of individuals, yet the laws and traditions of different countries are never addressed.
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* Franchise/TheDCU is particularly guilty of this:
** Earth has, to date, had ''six'' well-known Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s -- which is remarkable in itself, since Green Lanterns represent huge sectors of space, not individual planets -- and ''all'' of them are from North America (five being males from the United States). Although this is justified at least initially with Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner -- Abin Sur had crashed in the US and told the ring to find the ''closest'' worthy person. He was in the US, so Hal and Guy were the two closest. Dennis [=O'Neil=] argued that the third Green Lantern, John Stewart, should be African-American on the grounds that it was ''extremely'' unlikely that out of the entire human race, the Green Lantern rings would choose two white American males in a row to represent Earth. Kilowog was an exception during his brief stay on Earth: he elected to move to the Soviet Union because his own civilization was closer to the communist way of thinking.
** Every superpowered alien in the DC Universe - Franchise/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, etc. - either chooses to live in the United States or ends up there by chance.
** ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'' averts this: through a mere chance of fate, Kal-El lands not in rural Kansas but on a kolkhoz in Ukraine, and grows up to fight not for "truth, justice and the American Way", but "Stalin, socialism and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact". While an interesting idea and attempt to explore and avert this trope, it also seems like it was simply an elaborate excuse to make a Stalin/"Man of Steel" pun.
** The ComicBook/MartianManhunter has lately been written as a world traveler with multiple superhero identities in several countries, probably in recognition of this very problem. Almost all of this, of course, [[InformedAbility takes place off-camera]], but that's probably an artifact of CharacterFocus on the Franchise/{{Justice League of|America}} ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica America]]''.
** There's also the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational, though it's still headquartered in New York City. The JLI explicitly invokes this trope. Doctor Light (a heroine from Japan) actually states at one point that it's a political necessity that the Justice League have a more diverse, multicultural membership, as the global community is more likely to be accommodating toward a team of superheroes that does not solely consist of white Americans.
** There are also superhero teams outside the U.S., but they don't normally get their own series. For instance, there's the ComicBook/GreatTen in China. Or Japan's ComicBook/SuperYoungTeam and Big Science Action.
** UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} had "Batmen of many nations", but all of them were ''inspired'' by the American Franchise/{{Batman}}. This was reformed as Batman Inc in the 2000s, and actively did have numerous international BadassNormal heroes, many of which were bat-themed and often actively inspired by Batman, but most existing before coming into Bruce's fold.
** And, since ComicBook/GreenArrow is Batman with a bow there were also Green Arrows of many nations.
** The 2007 ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' miniseries seems to assume that all of Earth-C's superheroes were in the United Species of America (Earth-C's United States of America), and thus subject to the American government's anti-superhero initiative (which included removing the non-Zoo Crew heroes' powers), with the President noting at one point that thanks to the law, there are "no other superheroes on Earth!" Apparently Cornada, Verminy, and Loondon (Earth-C's Canada, Germany, and London respectively, all places mentioned or shown in the original Zoo Crew series) were superhero-less... or that the other heroes simply moving to any of those places (and thus avoiding the law) wasn't an option...
** Much worse in the ComicBook/BrightestDay event. Atrocitus uses his magic to divine the locations of the seven emotional entities. Two are captured by someone in Ysmault. The other five are in U.S. territory.
* [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Marvel Comics]] is also guilty, as most of its heroes reside in New York, the city where the company's headquartered. ComicBook/TheAvengers, ComicBook/FantasticFour, Franchise/SpiderMan, ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}, ComicBook/ThePunisher, etc. all hail in[=/=]from the Big Apple, and the ComicBook/XMen live in nearby Westchester County. This is occasionally lampshaded by civilians, villains, and heroes in the universe. Even ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, who is from Canada and will kill you if you insult it, spends most of his time in the US. When the character [[EnsembleDarkhorse started to get popular]], several attempts were made to {{retcon}} him into [[HomegrownHero actually being American]]. Fortunately, none of these stuck.
** One of their (once) most popular titles, ''Comicbook/{{Excalibur}}'', followed the national super-team of the UK. The X-Men lived in Australia for several years, too, but ''Excalibur'' was created by writer Creator/ChrisClaremont, who was born in Britain, and British artist Alan Davis. And the team in its original form consisted of two Britons, two Americans and a German.
** This was lampshaded during the ''[[ComicBook/HouseOfM Decimation]]'' event when Henry Peter Gyrich remarked how, now that there are no mutants around any more, the US wins the superpower race by default since statistically, "[[FreakLabAccident happy accidents]]" (like the Comicbook/FantasticFour or Comicbook/IncredibleHulk) and scientific advancements (like ComicBook/CaptainAmerica) that lead to meta-humans being created occur more frequently in the US than anywhere else in the world.
** Another exception: ComicBook/AlphaFlight, but that was created by Canadian artist and writer Creator/JohnByrne.
** Yet another: The ComicBook/{{Runaways}}' bases are in Southern California. In fact, besides ComicBook/CloakAndDagger, none of the other heroes show up in the comic unless they're in New York themselves or [[spoiler:they're being apprehended by ComicBook/TheAvengers]].
** Both Marvel and DC actually do assume that there are superhumans living all over the globe - in fact, both have had crossovers or miniseries that existed simply to introduce a lot of global heroes [[RememberTheNewGuy who were treated as characters that had always been there]], [[HeroOfAnotherStory you just never saw them before]] - it's just brought up infrequently, so every now and then a completely unnecessary lampshade gets hung on it by a writer who doesn't realize that there are lots of characters they've never heard of and lots of writers before them who had the same idea.
** Wolverine and the rest of the characters introduced in Giant Size X-Men #1 were intentionally designed to be a new group of mutants from around the world... they all just got recruited to go live in Westchester.
** This was lampshaded during the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' arc: at the height of the conflict, the Canadian characters in Alpha Flight were mocking all the angst going on among the American superheroes concerning the Registration Act by pointing out that other nations (including Canada) had something equivalent in place for years without having had either opponents, supporters, or the governments in question go as insane over the issue as the Americans currently were.
** Banshee was even a member of "Mutants Without Borders", a charity organization that helps mutants in the third world. Of course, it was owned and run by the American X-Man Archangel.
** This whole situation was {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Comicbook/MightyAvengers''. The ComicBook/BlueMarvel is a black superhero from America who divides his time between the Avengers and helping out various other superheroes across the globe, with the RunningGag being that whenever he mentions any of his non-American hero comrades, none of the Avengers have even the slightest idea of who the hell he is talking about.
** ''ComicBook/{{The Vision|2015}}'' takes place almost entirely in a suburb of UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, despite Vision working for the New York-based Avengers, because writer Creator/TomKing lives and works in Washington.
** Earth has, to date, had ''six'' well-known Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s -- which is remarkable in itself, since Green Lanterns represent huge sectors of space, not individual planets -- and ''all'' of them are from North America (five being males from the United States). Although this is justified at least initially with Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner -- Abin Sur had crashed in the US and told the ring to find the ''closest'' worthy person. He was in the US, so Hal and Guy were the two closest. Dennis [=O'Neil=] argued that the third Green Lantern, John Stewart, should be African-American on the grounds that it was ''extremely'' unlikely that out of the entire human race, the Green Lantern rings would choose two white American males in a row to represent Earth. Kilowog was an exception during his brief stay on Earth: he elected to move to the Soviet Union because his own civilization was closer to the communist way of thinking.
** Every superpowered alien in the DC Universe - Franchise/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, etc. - either chooses to live in the United States or ends up there by chance.
** ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'' averts this: through a mere chance of fate, Kal-El lands not in rural Kansas but on a kolkhoz in Ukraine, and grows up to fight not for "truth, justice and the American Way", but "Stalin, socialism and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact". While an interesting idea and attempt to explore and avert this trope, it also seems like it was simply an elaborate excuse to make a Stalin/"Man of Steel" pun.
** The ComicBook/MartianManhunter has lately been written as a world traveler with multiple superhero identities in several countries, probably in recognition of this very problem. Almost all of this, of course, [[InformedAbility takes place off-camera]], but that's probably an artifact of CharacterFocus on the Franchise/{{Justice League of|America}} ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica America]]''.
** There's also the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational, though it's still headquartered in New York City. The JLI explicitly invokes this trope. Doctor Light (a heroine from Japan) actually states at one point that it's a political necessity that the Justice League have a more diverse, multicultural membership, as the global community is more likely to be accommodating toward a team of superheroes that does not solely consist of white Americans.
** There are also superhero teams outside the U.S., but they don't normally get their own series. For instance, there's the ComicBook/GreatTen in China. Or Japan's ComicBook/SuperYoungTeam and Big Science Action.
** UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} had "Batmen of many nations", but all of them were ''inspired'' by the American Franchise/{{Batman}}. This was reformed as Batman Inc in the 2000s, and actively did have numerous international BadassNormal heroes, many of which were bat-themed and often actively inspired by Batman, but most existing before coming into Bruce's fold.
** And, since ComicBook/GreenArrow is Batman with a bow there were also Green Arrows of many nations.
** The 2007 ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' miniseries seems to assume that all of Earth-C's superheroes were in the United Species of America (Earth-C's United States of America), and thus subject to the American government's anti-superhero initiative (which included removing the non-Zoo Crew heroes' powers), with the President noting at one point that thanks to the law, there are "no other superheroes on Earth!" Apparently Cornada, Verminy, and Loondon (Earth-C's Canada, Germany, and London respectively, all places mentioned or shown in the original Zoo Crew series) were superhero-less... or that the other heroes simply moving to any of those places (and thus avoiding the law) wasn't an option...
** Much worse in the ComicBook/BrightestDay event. Atrocitus uses his magic to divine the locations of the seven emotional entities. Two are captured by someone in Ysmault. The other five are in U.S. territory.
* [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Marvel Comics]] is also guilty, as most of its heroes reside in New York, the city where the company's headquartered. ComicBook/TheAvengers, ComicBook/FantasticFour, Franchise/SpiderMan, ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}, ComicBook/ThePunisher, etc. all hail in[=/=]from the Big Apple, and the ComicBook/XMen live in nearby Westchester County. This is occasionally lampshaded by civilians, villains, and heroes in the universe. Even ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, who is from Canada and will kill you if you insult it, spends most of his time in the US. When the character [[EnsembleDarkhorse started to get popular]], several attempts were made to {{retcon}} him into [[HomegrownHero actually being American]]. Fortunately, none of these stuck.
** One of their (once) most popular titles, ''Comicbook/{{Excalibur}}'', followed the national super-team of the UK. The X-Men lived in Australia for several years, too, but ''Excalibur'' was created by writer Creator/ChrisClaremont, who was born in Britain, and British artist Alan Davis. And the team in its original form consisted of two Britons, two Americans and a German.
** This was lampshaded during the ''[[ComicBook/HouseOfM Decimation]]'' event when Henry Peter Gyrich remarked how, now that there are no mutants around any more, the US wins the superpower race by default since statistically, "[[FreakLabAccident happy accidents]]" (like the Comicbook/FantasticFour or Comicbook/IncredibleHulk) and scientific advancements (like ComicBook/CaptainAmerica) that lead to meta-humans being created occur more frequently in the US than anywhere else in the world.
** Another exception: ComicBook/AlphaFlight, but that was created by Canadian artist and writer Creator/JohnByrne.
** Yet another: The ComicBook/{{Runaways}}' bases are in Southern California. In fact, besides ComicBook/CloakAndDagger, none of the other heroes show up in the comic unless they're in New York themselves or [[spoiler:they're being apprehended by ComicBook/TheAvengers]].
** Both Marvel and DC actually do assume that there are superhumans living all over the globe - in fact, both have had crossovers or miniseries that existed simply to introduce a lot of global heroes [[RememberTheNewGuy who were treated as characters that had always been there]], [[HeroOfAnotherStory you just never saw them before]] - it's just brought up infrequently, so every now and then a completely unnecessary lampshade gets hung on it by a writer who doesn't realize that there are lots of characters they've never heard of and lots of writers before them who had the same idea.
** Wolverine and the rest of the characters introduced in Giant Size X-Men #1 were intentionally designed to be a new group of mutants from around the world... they all just got recruited to go live in Westchester.
** This was lampshaded during the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' arc: at the height of the conflict, the Canadian characters in Alpha Flight were mocking all the angst going on among the American superheroes concerning the Registration Act by pointing out that other nations (including Canada) had something equivalent in place for years without having had either opponents, supporters, or the governments in question go as insane over the issue as the Americans currently were.
** Banshee was even a member of "Mutants Without Borders", a charity organization that helps mutants in the third world. Of course, it was owned and run by the American X-Man Archangel.
** This whole situation was {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Comicbook/MightyAvengers''. The ComicBook/BlueMarvel is a black superhero from America who divides his time between the Avengers and helping out various other superheroes across the globe, with the RunningGag being that whenever he mentions any of his non-American hero comrades, none of the Avengers have even the slightest idea of who the hell he is talking about.
** ''ComicBook/{{The Vision|2015}}'' takes place almost entirely in a suburb of UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, despite Vision working for the New York-based Avengers, because writer Creator/TomKing lives and works in Washington.
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** Earth has, to date, had ''six'' well-known Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s -- which is remarkable in itself, since Green Lanterns represent huge sectors of space, not individual planets -- and ''all'' of them are from North America (five being males from the United States). Although this is justified at least initially with Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner -- Abin Sur had crashed in the US and told the ring to find the ''closest'' worthy person. He was in the US, so Hal and Guy were the two closest. Dennis [=O'Neil=] argued that the third Green Lantern, John Stewart, should be African-American on the grounds that it was ''extremely'' unlikely that out of the entire human race, the Green Lantern rings would choose two white American males in a row to represent Earth. Kilowog was an exception during his brief stay on Earth: he elected to move to the Soviet Union because his own civilization was closer to the communist way of thinking.
** Every superpowered alien in the DC Universe - Franchise/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, etc. - either chooses to live in the United States or ends up there by chance.
** ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'' averts this: through a mere chance of fate, Kal-El lands not in rural Kansas but on a kolkhoz in Ukraine, and grows up to fight not for "truth, justice and the American Way", but "Stalin, socialism and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact". While an interesting idea and attempt to explore and avert this trope, it also seems like it was simply an elaborate excuse to make a Stalin/"Man of Steel" pun.
** The ComicBook/MartianManhunter has lately been written as a world traveler with multiple superhero identities in several countries, probably in recognition of this very problem. Almost all of this, of course, [[InformedAbility takes place off-camera]], but that's probably an artifact of CharacterFocus on the Franchise/{{Justice League of|America}} ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica America]]''.
** There's also the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational, though it's still headquartered in New York City. The JLI explicitly invokes this trope. Doctor Light (a heroine from Japan) actually states at one point that it's a political necessity that the Justice League have a more diverse, multicultural membership, as the global community is more likely to be accommodating toward a team of superheroes that does not solely consist of white Americans.
** There are also superhero teams outside the U.S., but they don't normally get their own series. For instance, there's the ComicBook/GreatTen in China. Or Japan's ComicBook/SuperYoungTeam and Big Science Action.
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** And, since ComicBook/GreenArrow is Batman with a bow there were also Green Arrows of many nations.
** The 2007 ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' miniseries seems to assume that all of Earth-C's superheroes were in the United Species of America (Earth-C's United States of America), and thus subject to the American government's anti-superhero initiative (which included removing the non-Zoo Crew heroes' powers), with the President noting at one point that thanks to the law, there are "no other superheroes on Earth!" Apparently Cornada, Verminy, and Loondon (Earth-C's Canada, Germany, and London respectively, all places mentioned or shown in the original Zoo Crew series) were superhero-less... or that the other heroes simply moving to any of those places (and thus avoiding the law) wasn't an option...
** Much worse in the ComicBook/BrightestDay event. Atrocitus uses his magic to divine the locations of the seven emotional entities. Two are captured by someone in Ysmault. The other five are in U.S. territory.
* [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Marvel Comics]] is also guilty, as most of its heroes reside in New York, the city where the company's headquartered. ComicBook/TheAvengers, ComicBook/FantasticFour, Franchise/SpiderMan, ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}, ComicBook/ThePunisher, etc. all hail in[=/=]from the Big Apple, and the ComicBook/XMen live in nearby Westchester County. This is occasionally lampshaded by civilians, villains, and heroes in the universe. Even ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, who is from Canada and will kill you if you insult it, spends most of his time in the US. When the character [[EnsembleDarkhorse started to get popular]], several attempts were made to {{retcon}} him into [[HomegrownHero actually being American]]. Fortunately, none of these stuck.
** One of their (once) most popular titles, ''Comicbook/{{Excalibur}}'', followed the national super-team of the UK. The X-Men lived in Australia for several years, too, but ''Excalibur'' was created by writer Creator/ChrisClaremont, who was born in Britain, and British artist Alan Davis. And the team in its original form consisted of two Britons, two Americans and a German.
** This was lampshaded during the ''[[ComicBook/HouseOfM Decimation]]'' event when Henry Peter Gyrich remarked how, now that there are no mutants around any more, the US wins the superpower race by default since statistically, "[[FreakLabAccident happy accidents]]" (like the Comicbook/FantasticFour or Comicbook/IncredibleHulk) and scientific advancements (like ComicBook/CaptainAmerica) that lead to meta-humans being created occur more frequently in the US than anywhere else in the world.
** Another exception: ComicBook/AlphaFlight, but that was created by Canadian artist and writer Creator/JohnByrne.
** Yet another: The ComicBook/{{Runaways}}' bases are in Southern California. In fact, besides ComicBook/CloakAndDagger, none of the other heroes show up in the comic unless they're in New York themselves or [[spoiler:they're being apprehended by ComicBook/TheAvengers]].
** Both Marvel and DC actually do assume that there are superhumans living all over the globe - in fact, both have had crossovers or miniseries that existed simply to introduce a lot of global heroes [[RememberTheNewGuy who were treated as characters that had always been there]], [[HeroOfAnotherStory you just never saw them before]] - it's just brought up infrequently, so every now and then a completely unnecessary lampshade gets hung on it by a writer who doesn't realize that there are lots of characters they've never heard of and lots of writers before them who had the same idea.
** Wolverine and the rest of the characters introduced in Giant Size X-Men #1 were intentionally designed to be a new group of mutants from around the world... they all just got recruited to go live in Westchester.
** This was lampshaded during the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' arc: at the height of the conflict, the Canadian characters in Alpha Flight were mocking all the angst going on among the American superheroes concerning the Registration Act by pointing out that other nations (including Canada) had something equivalent in place for years without having had either opponents, supporters, or the governments in question go as insane over the issue as the Americans currently were.
** Banshee was even a member of "Mutants Without Borders", a charity organization that helps mutants in the third world. Of course, it was owned and run by the American X-Man Archangel.
** This whole situation was {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Comicbook/MightyAvengers''. The ComicBook/BlueMarvel is a black superhero from America who divides his time between the Avengers and helping out various other superheroes across the globe, with the RunningGag being that whenever he mentions any of his non-American hero comrades, none of the Avengers have even the slightest idea of who the hell he is talking about.
** ''ComicBook/{{The Vision|2015}}'' takes place almost entirely in a suburb of UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, despite Vision working for the New York-based Avengers, because writer Creator/TomKing lives and works in Washington.
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* Franchise/TheDCU is particularly guilty of this:
** Earth has, to date, had ''six'' well-known Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s -- which is remarkable in itself, since Green Lanterns represent huge sectors of space, not individual planets -- and ''all'' of them are from North America (five being males from the United States). Although this is justified at least initially with Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner -- Abin Sur had crashed in the US and told the ring to find the ''closest'' worthy person. He was in the US, so Hal and Guy were the two closest. Dennis [=O'Neil=] argued that the third Green Lantern, John Stewart, should be African-American on the grounds that it was ''extremely'' unlikely that out of the entire human race, the Green Lantern rings would choose two white American males in a row to represent Earth. Kilowog was an exception during his brief stay on Earth: he elected to move to the Soviet Union because his own civilization was closer to the communist way of thinking.
** Every superpowered alien in the DC Universe - Franchise/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, etc. - either chooses to live in the United States or ends up there by chance.
** ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'' averts this: through a mere chance of fate, Kal-El lands not in rural Kansas but on a kolkhoz in Ukraine, and grows up to fight not for "truth, justice and the American Way", but "Stalin, socialism and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact". While an interesting idea and attempt to explore and avert this trope, it also seems like it was simply an elaborate excuse to make a Stalin/"Man of Steel" pun.
** The ComicBook/MartianManhunter has lately been written as a world traveler with multiple superhero identities in several countries, probably in recognition of this very problem. Almost all of this, of course, [[InformedAbility takes place off-camera]], but that's probably an artifact of CharacterFocus on the Franchise/{{Justice League of|America}} ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica America]]''.
** There's also the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational, though it's still headquartered in New York City. The JLI explicitly invokes this trope. Doctor Light (a heroine from Japan) actually states at one point that it's a political necessity that the Justice League have a more diverse, multicultural membership, as the global community is more likely to be accommodating toward a team of superheroes that does not solely consist of white Americans.
** There are also superhero teams outside the U.S., but they don't normally get their own series. For instance, there's the ComicBook/GreatTen in China. Or Japan's ComicBook/SuperYoungTeam and Big Science Action.
** UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} had "Batmen of many nations", but all of them were ''inspired'' by the American Franchise/{{Batman}}. This was reformed as Batman Inc in the 2000s, and actively did have numerous international BadassNormal heroes, many of which were bat-themed and often actively inspired by Batman, but most existing before coming into Bruce's fold.
** And, since ComicBook/GreenArrow is Batman with a bow there were also Green Arrows of many nations.
** The 2007 ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' miniseries seems to assume that all of Earth-C's superheroes were in the United Species of America (Earth-C's United States of America), and thus subject to the American government's anti-superhero initiative (which included removing the non-Zoo Crew heroes' powers), with the President noting at one point that thanks to the law, there are "no other superheroes on Earth!" Apparently Cornada, Verminy, and Loondon (Earth-C's Canada, Germany, and London respectively, all places mentioned or shown in the original Zoo Crew series) were superhero-less... or that the other heroes simply moving to any of those places (and thus avoiding the law) wasn't an option...
** Much worse in the ComicBook/BrightestDay event. Atrocitus uses his magic to divine the locations of the seven emotional entities. Two are captured by someone in Ysmault. The other five are in U.S. territory.
* [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Marvel Comics]] is also guilty, as most of its heroes reside in New York, the city where the company's headquartered. ComicBook/TheAvengers, ComicBook/FantasticFour, Franchise/SpiderMan, ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}, ComicBook/ThePunisher, etc. all hail in[=/=]from the Big Apple, and the ComicBook/XMen live in nearby Westchester County. This is occasionally lampshaded by civilians, villains, and heroes in the universe. Even ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, who is from Canada and will kill you if you insult it, spends most of his time in the US. When the character [[EnsembleDarkhorse started to get popular]], several attempts were made to {{retcon}} him into [[HomegrownHero actually being American]]. Fortunately, none of these stuck.
** One of their (once) most popular titles, ''Comicbook/{{Excalibur}}'', followed the national super-team of the UK. The X-Men lived in Australia for several years, too, but ''Excalibur'' was created by writer Creator/ChrisClaremont, who was born in Britain, and British artist Alan Davis. And the team in its original form consisted of two Britons, two Americans and a German.
** This was lampshaded during the ''[[ComicBook/HouseOfM Decimation]]'' event when Henry Peter Gyrich remarked how, now that there are no mutants around any more, the US wins the superpower race by default since statistically, "[[FreakLabAccident happy accidents]]" (like the Comicbook/FantasticFour or Comicbook/IncredibleHulk) and scientific advancements (like ComicBook/CaptainAmerica) that lead to meta-humans being created occur more frequently in the US than anywhere else in the world.
** Another exception: ComicBook/AlphaFlight, but that was created by Canadian artist and writer Creator/JohnByrne.
** Yet another: The ComicBook/{{Runaways}}' bases are in Southern California. In fact, besides ComicBook/CloakAndDagger, none of the other heroes show up in the comic unless they're in New York themselves or [[spoiler:they're being apprehended by ComicBook/TheAvengers]].
** Both Marvel and DC actually do assume that there are superhumans living all over the globe - in fact, both have had crossovers or miniseries that existed simply to introduce a lot of global heroes [[RememberTheNewGuy who were treated as characters that had always been there]], [[HeroOfAnotherStory you just never saw them before]] - it's just brought up infrequently, so every now and then a completely unnecessary lampshade gets hung on it by a writer who doesn't realize that there are lots of characters they've never heard of and lots of writers before them who had the same idea.
** Wolverine and the rest of the characters introduced in Giant Size X-Men #1 were intentionally designed to be a new group of mutants from around the world... they all just got recruited to go live in Westchester.
** This was lampshaded during the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' arc: at the height of the conflict, the Canadian characters in Alpha Flight were mocking all the angst going on among the American superheroes concerning the Registration Act by pointing out that other nations (including Canada) had something equivalent in place for years without having had either opponents, supporters, or the governments in question go as insane over the issue as the Americans currently were.
** Banshee was even a member of "Mutants Without Borders", a charity organization that helps mutants in the third world. Of course, it was owned and run by the American X-Man Archangel.
** This whole situation was {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Comicbook/MightyAvengers''. The ComicBook/BlueMarvel is a black superhero from America who divides his time between the Avengers and helping out various other superheroes across the globe, with the RunningGag being that whenever he mentions any of his non-American hero comrades, none of the Avengers have even the slightest idea of who the hell he is talking about.
** ''ComicBook/{{The Vision|2015}}'' takes place almost entirely in a suburb of UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, despite Vision working for the New York-based Avengers, because writer Creator/TomKing lives and works in Washington.
* The ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'' limited series takes place on an Earth suffering from near-total collapse, yet the entire story takes place in the United States. This is especially jarring given that much of the story focuses on how the Squadron's efforts are impacting the rights of individuals, yet the laws and traditions of different countries are never addressed.
* Prominent [[labelnote:*]](it sticks out like a sore thumb)[[/labelnote]] aversion in the case of Creator/EdwardGorey. Most of his illustrated novels were set in an ersatz [[TheEdwardianEra Edwardian England]] or an ersatz Europe of that era. Gorey himself never visited England, and rarely traveled outside his home state of Massachusetts. Though Gorey's books (which are books, not comics) do sometimes play this straight, as stories like "The Willowdale Handcar" and "The Iron Tonic" are in an ersatz Edwardian version of the US (the former featuring town names that are amusing parodies to New Englanders like those from Gorey's home state) and he devoted an entire book, "The Lavender Leotard", to very obscure in-jokes about his obsession, the New York City Ballet and George Balanchine. (Gorey saw literally every ''performance'' for several seasons, and the book is basically observations that would only make sense to another NYCB balletomane.)
* Averted in the Argentinian comic strip (and animated movie) ''ComicStrip/BoogieElAceitoso'': Despite the author being Argentinian, the titular character, Boogie, is a ''racist, white American hitman'' who hate (and kills) black people and Hispanics for fun, and most of his stories take place in the United States, or in few cases, in Central America during the many wars that happened there in the 80s, but ''never'' in Argentina. Even the author himself lampshaded the fact many times in many interviews about the topic.
* Played straight and averted by ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'': There are plenty of stories set in other countries or as world trips ([[HollywoodGeography not that they're accurate or anything]]), but quite a few have evil criminals, aliens or whatever that just happen to hide/go to Spain for no real reason. Best example? ''Expediente J''. The evil aliens send a few havoc-causing {{phlebotinum}} rocks to Spain (and accurately, around the area the main characters live at that) and when their leader appears at the end, he assumes that has caused ALL of humanity to be a mess. What?
* Although Italian Disney artists occasionally point out that Duckburg is supposed to in North America, they tend to make the Disney characters take a particular interest in Italian history, Italian culture and Italian geography. Sometimes it's justified--you don't have to know much about tourism to realize that a restaurant with [[EiffelTowerEffect a view of the Leaning Tower of Pisa]] is a good investment (although you have to wonder how a busy financial tycoon like Scrooge [=McDuck=] can find the time to run the place himself). But it seems weird that [[OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain Scrooge and Rockerduck]] would drop everything to see who can be the first to build a bridge over the strait of Messina, Sicily. Or that WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse's nephews argue obsessively over who was Italy's best player in the soccer world championship 18 years ago. Of course one of the major antagonists, Magica De Spell ''is'' an Italian (though [[Creator/CarlBarks her creator]] is American). Creator/DonRosa was guilty of this at several points throughout his works. In ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'', Scrooge arrives in Louisville, Kentucky, Rosa's home town. The comics also often mention Burbank, presumably referring to the California municipality where Creator/{{Disney}}'s studios happen to be located.
* ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' is created by DC Thomson who are based in Dundee, Scotland, and their Scottish origins are often clear most notably in strips based around Scotland such as the [=McTickles=], Wee Ben Nevis and Red Rory of the Eagles.
* Mexican comics tend to [[PlayingWithATrope play with this trope]] ''a lot of times,'' since we see some stories that take place in Mexico and other titles in other countries or outside Earth. Some notable examples:
** Most of the stories in ''ComicBook/{{Fantomas}}'' (the Mexican version, not the French one) take place overseas and a few times in Mexico too. The fact that the title character's nationality is unknown does help.
** ''Comicbook/{{Kaliman}}'', another Mexican comic, also takes place worldwide along with Mexico sometimes. And the title character, Kalimán, hails from India and his young sidekick, Solin, is from Egypt.
** The black-and-white comic, ''Samurai: John Barry'' averts this trope, since the whole series takes place in the Sengoku-era Japan (and sometimes in Europe) and all the characters are Japanese and Europeans, but we don't see a ''single Mexican character'' here.[[note]]Justified, due to the time period, since Mexico didn't exist as a country, but as an Spanish colony in that era.[[/note]]
** The highly-controversial comic, (in the U.S., at least) ''Memin Pinguin'' takes place most of the time in Mexico, but some of the later [[StoryArc story arcs]] took place abroad, like in the United States and Africa.
** ''Soul Keepers'', another Mexican comic, also avoids this trope: While some stories of the comic take place in Mexico, the [=titular=] characters, the Soul Keepers, are not Mexicans.
* ''7 Prisoners'' is a French comic that takes place in a prison on the moon, housing hundreds of thousands of prisoners from all over the world. Naturally, three of the eponymous prisoners are French (four if you count the artificial lifeform created by two of the Frenchmen). And of the three Frenchmen, two committed crimes so they could go to the prison and find something, meaning they're just about the only inmates who aren't career criminals. Just saying.
* ''ComicBook/{{Gen 13}}'' was Creator/{{Wildstorm}}'s flagship title for pretty much all of its 18 years, so it should come as no surprise that the team was primarily based in La Jolla, California, where Wildstorm's offices were located. This changed a handful of times as the book went on (for instance, one arc had the group living in Tokyo, and on various occasions they've gone on the run with no set base of operations), but everything goes back to La Jolla sooner or later.
* The infamous ''ComicBook/NovasAventurasDeMegaMan'', amongst its many changes, abruptly uproots the entire ''Franchise/MegaMan'' franchise and claims that it takes place in Brazil (and always has). It got even more blatant when one writer introduced a CreatorsPet character with strong nationalistic beliefs who ranted about how there need to be more comics about Brazilian characters; then it came to light that said writer planned for his character to [[SpotlightStealingSquad kill off the Mega Man characters and take over the comic]], which got him fired.
* BelgianComics: Many Belgian comics take place in Brussels or a typical Flemish/Walloon village.
** ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'': The main characters have time travelled a lot to periods in Flemish/Belgian history and have met many Flemish folklore characters. When the series caught on in the Netherlands the characters suddenly started using KLM airlines and travelling more to hot spots in the Netherlands. It got to the point that they even referred to themselves as Dutch in some stories. In "De Goalgetter" Suske become a soccer champion and joins the Dutch national team rather than the Belgian one.
* ''ComicBook/HaagseHarry'': All action takes place in The Hague, The Netherlands, where all the characters also speak with the local accent of that city.
* ''ComicBook/AlbedoErmaFelnaEDF'', just like ''VideoGame/PowerDolls'' above, is an sci-fi, alien version of this trope, albeit a somewhat contrived version of it: The titular heroine hails from a planet who is basically, taking into account the way how it is described in-universe, an alien, furry version of ''Japan'', since it shares similar customs and traditions. Her best friend Toki, on the other hand, is depicted as came out from the alien version of the Netherlands, or at least [[FreestateAmsterdam the stereotypical version of it]]. While there's an alien version of the U.S. (the Independent Lepine Republic), they are depicted as the ''bad guys'', mixed with tropes of the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Nazi Germany]]. Even more egregious the author is a former member of the USAF.
** In a more meta-example of this trope, most of the animal species who appears in the story are descendant from American, European and Oceanian species and breeds, albeit some stock animals from African countries (hippos, lions, cheetahs, etc) also appears as well. There's almost ''no'' animals from Asian countries (like {{Tanuki}}s), albeit in some fanart the author has included some Asian breeds like the Japanese Shiba Inu breed. As a rule of thumb, Western species and breeds tends to appear more frequently in the story than non-Western ones.
* Most of the characters in the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' are based off English works, just as [[Creator/AlanMoore the writer]] and the artist are English. That's fine and dandy for the initial [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain Victorian]] setting, but it's quite jarring to see how few, say, American and Japanese references appear when the plot travels to 2009. The fact that famous English post-Victorian era characters like [[spoiler: Franchise/JamesBond and Franchise/HarryPotter]] receive no small amount of AdaptationalVillainy hasn't helped either.
** This is averted however in the supplementary material, especially ''The New Traveller's Almanac'' which has references to Colombian, French, Russian literature and other obscurities. Later volumes also make heavy references to German playwright Creator/BertoltBrecht and Creator/JulesVerne (whose creations include Captain Nemo) is a French author. Likewise, ''The Nemo Trilogy'' makes references to Godzilla and GermanExpressionism.
** One reason why Moore plays this trope straight is that his books are about the darker aspects of culture and the way literary imaginations of certain places and events (such as how English people imagine African, Chinese and Indian writers) coloured real-life visions of these cultures. The motif of a ConstructedWorld AlternateUniverse based entirely on fictional depictions of the past is partially a commentary on the limits and virtues of the fictions various cultures dream up.
* Most stories in ''ComicBook/WilqSuperbohater'' take place in Opole, which the authors' home town, and much effort was given to faithful depiction of locations and names around the town. On few occasions, Wilq visits Cracow, where the Minkiewicz brothers have been living since their study at the Academy of Fine Arts in the 1990s.
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' takes place in Bretagne, France. The protagonists are Gauls (Frenchmen) who frequently visit other countries, where Obelix always dismisses the odd habits of local people as "crazy". Many jokes reference francophone culture and aren't always that easily translatable to other countries.
* The original authors of ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'' set the series in a fictional American city but ended up making it look more like an European one, resulting in non-European fans [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield being unable to understand where Heatherfield is supposed to be]]. {{Averted|Trope}} with the animated adaptation, where Heatherfield is clearly shown as an American city.
* Various comic books from ChileanMedia are based on real Chilean cities where their characters come from. Two notable examples are the characters of ''[[ComicBook/DiabloChile Diablo]]'' and ''Captain Chile'', in which adventures happen in Santiago and Valparaiso respectively (where their creators come from), and both having recreations of these cities in their comic books.
* In the 2000 AD comic ''ComicBook/{{Zombo}}'', it's implied that the Earth government is largely American in nature, given that UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump is President of the UnitedSpaceOfAmerica, but there's also a "Shadow" President, a term which is not really used outside the United Kingdom to denote the opposition.
* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in the Italian comic ''ComicBook/DylanDog''. The writers usually take great pains to respect the comic's London setting, but over the course of the time there's been an oddly high number of clues/riddles/whatever that needed to be solved in Italian[[note]]The comic, of course, is written in Italian but [[TranslationConvention the characters are supposed to be speaking English]][[/note]] just as a character who can speak Italian happens to be nearby.
* ''ComicBook/AlanFord'' is supposedly set in America, but there are many elements of the scenery, humor and characters are built to recall the ones from Italy, specifically Milan (Max Bunker's hometown), with an entire volume dedicated to the phoenomenon of the "Paninari", younger and "hippier" Italian people who despise the older generation and, as a symbol, prefer to eat panini (sandwiches) over the iconic spaghetti. Italy receives several mentions and is visited by the heroes more than once.
** Earth has, to date, had ''six'' well-known Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s -- which is remarkable in itself, since Green Lanterns represent huge sectors of space, not individual planets -- and ''all'' of them are from North America (five being males from the United States). Although this is justified at least initially with Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner -- Abin Sur had crashed in the US and told the ring to find the ''closest'' worthy person. He was in the US, so Hal and Guy were the two closest. Dennis [=O'Neil=] argued that the third Green Lantern, John Stewart, should be African-American on the grounds that it was ''extremely'' unlikely that out of the entire human race, the Green Lantern rings would choose two white American males in a row to represent Earth. Kilowog was an exception during his brief stay on Earth: he elected to move to the Soviet Union because his own civilization was closer to the communist way of thinking.
** Every superpowered alien in the DC Universe - Franchise/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, etc. - either chooses to live in the United States or ends up there by chance.
** ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'' averts this: through a mere chance of fate, Kal-El lands not in rural Kansas but on a kolkhoz in Ukraine, and grows up to fight not for "truth, justice and the American Way", but "Stalin, socialism and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact". While an interesting idea and attempt to explore and avert this trope, it also seems like it was simply an elaborate excuse to make a Stalin/"Man of Steel" pun.
** The ComicBook/MartianManhunter has lately been written as a world traveler with multiple superhero identities in several countries, probably in recognition of this very problem. Almost all of this, of course, [[InformedAbility takes place off-camera]], but that's probably an artifact of CharacterFocus on the Franchise/{{Justice League of|America}} ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica America]]''.
** There's also the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational, though it's still headquartered in New York City. The JLI explicitly invokes this trope. Doctor Light (a heroine from Japan) actually states at one point that it's a political necessity that the Justice League have a more diverse, multicultural membership, as the global community is more likely to be accommodating toward a team of superheroes that does not solely consist of white Americans.
** There are also superhero teams outside the U.S., but they don't normally get their own series. For instance, there's the ComicBook/GreatTen in China. Or Japan's ComicBook/SuperYoungTeam and Big Science Action.
** UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} had "Batmen of many nations", but all of them were ''inspired'' by the American Franchise/{{Batman}}. This was reformed as Batman Inc in the 2000s, and actively did have numerous international BadassNormal heroes, many of which were bat-themed and often actively inspired by Batman, but most existing before coming into Bruce's fold.
** And, since ComicBook/GreenArrow is Batman with a bow there were also Green Arrows of many nations.
** The 2007 ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' miniseries seems to assume that all of Earth-C's superheroes were in the United Species of America (Earth-C's United States of America), and thus subject to the American government's anti-superhero initiative (which included removing the non-Zoo Crew heroes' powers), with the President noting at one point that thanks to the law, there are "no other superheroes on Earth!" Apparently Cornada, Verminy, and Loondon (Earth-C's Canada, Germany, and London respectively, all places mentioned or shown in the original Zoo Crew series) were superhero-less... or that the other heroes simply moving to any of those places (and thus avoiding the law) wasn't an option...
** Much worse in the ComicBook/BrightestDay event. Atrocitus uses his magic to divine the locations of the seven emotional entities. Two are captured by someone in Ysmault. The other five are in U.S. territory.
* [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Marvel Comics]] is also guilty, as most of its heroes reside in New York, the city where the company's headquartered. ComicBook/TheAvengers, ComicBook/FantasticFour, Franchise/SpiderMan, ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}, ComicBook/ThePunisher, etc. all hail in[=/=]from the Big Apple, and the ComicBook/XMen live in nearby Westchester County. This is occasionally lampshaded by civilians, villains, and heroes in the universe. Even ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, who is from Canada and will kill you if you insult it, spends most of his time in the US. When the character [[EnsembleDarkhorse started to get popular]], several attempts were made to {{retcon}} him into [[HomegrownHero actually being American]]. Fortunately, none of these stuck.
** One of their (once) most popular titles, ''Comicbook/{{Excalibur}}'', followed the national super-team of the UK. The X-Men lived in Australia for several years, too, but ''Excalibur'' was created by writer Creator/ChrisClaremont, who was born in Britain, and British artist Alan Davis. And the team in its original form consisted of two Britons, two Americans and a German.
** This was lampshaded during the ''[[ComicBook/HouseOfM Decimation]]'' event when Henry Peter Gyrich remarked how, now that there are no mutants around any more, the US wins the superpower race by default since statistically, "[[FreakLabAccident happy accidents]]" (like the Comicbook/FantasticFour or Comicbook/IncredibleHulk) and scientific advancements (like ComicBook/CaptainAmerica) that lead to meta-humans being created occur more frequently in the US than anywhere else in the world.
** Another exception: ComicBook/AlphaFlight, but that was created by Canadian artist and writer Creator/JohnByrne.
** Yet another: The ComicBook/{{Runaways}}' bases are in Southern California. In fact, besides ComicBook/CloakAndDagger, none of the other heroes show up in the comic unless they're in New York themselves or [[spoiler:they're being apprehended by ComicBook/TheAvengers]].
** Both Marvel and DC actually do assume that there are superhumans living all over the globe - in fact, both have had crossovers or miniseries that existed simply to introduce a lot of global heroes [[RememberTheNewGuy who were treated as characters that had always been there]], [[HeroOfAnotherStory you just never saw them before]] - it's just brought up infrequently, so every now and then a completely unnecessary lampshade gets hung on it by a writer who doesn't realize that there are lots of characters they've never heard of and lots of writers before them who had the same idea.
** Wolverine and the rest of the characters introduced in Giant Size X-Men #1 were intentionally designed to be a new group of mutants from around the world... they all just got recruited to go live in Westchester.
** This was lampshaded during the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' arc: at the height of the conflict, the Canadian characters in Alpha Flight were mocking all the angst going on among the American superheroes concerning the Registration Act by pointing out that other nations (including Canada) had something equivalent in place for years without having had either opponents, supporters, or the governments in question go as insane over the issue as the Americans currently were.
** Banshee was even a member of "Mutants Without Borders", a charity organization that helps mutants in the third world. Of course, it was owned and run by the American X-Man Archangel.
** This whole situation was {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Comicbook/MightyAvengers''. The ComicBook/BlueMarvel is a black superhero from America who divides his time between the Avengers and helping out various other superheroes across the globe, with the RunningGag being that whenever he mentions any of his non-American hero comrades, none of the Avengers have even the slightest idea of who the hell he is talking about.
** ''ComicBook/{{The Vision|2015}}'' takes place almost entirely in a suburb of UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, despite Vision working for the New York-based Avengers, because writer Creator/TomKing lives and works in Washington.
* The ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'' limited series takes place on an Earth suffering from near-total collapse, yet the entire story takes place in the United States. This is especially jarring given that much of the story focuses on how the Squadron's efforts are impacting the rights of individuals, yet the laws and traditions of different countries are never addressed.
* Prominent [[labelnote:*]](it sticks out like a sore thumb)[[/labelnote]] aversion in the case of Creator/EdwardGorey. Most of his illustrated novels were set in an ersatz [[TheEdwardianEra Edwardian England]] or an ersatz Europe of that era. Gorey himself never visited England, and rarely traveled outside his home state of Massachusetts. Though Gorey's books (which are books, not comics) do sometimes play this straight, as stories like "The Willowdale Handcar" and "The Iron Tonic" are in an ersatz Edwardian version of the US (the former featuring town names that are amusing parodies to New Englanders like those from Gorey's home state) and he devoted an entire book, "The Lavender Leotard", to very obscure in-jokes about his obsession, the New York City Ballet and George Balanchine. (Gorey saw literally every ''performance'' for several seasons, and the book is basically observations that would only make sense to another NYCB balletomane.)
* Averted in the Argentinian comic strip (and animated movie) ''ComicStrip/BoogieElAceitoso'': Despite the author being Argentinian, the titular character, Boogie, is a ''racist, white American hitman'' who hate (and kills) black people and Hispanics for fun, and most of his stories take place in the United States, or in few cases, in Central America during the many wars that happened there in the 80s, but ''never'' in Argentina. Even the author himself lampshaded the fact many times in many interviews about the topic.
* Played straight and averted by ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'': There are plenty of stories set in other countries or as world trips ([[HollywoodGeography not that they're accurate or anything]]), but quite a few have evil criminals, aliens or whatever that just happen to hide/go to Spain for no real reason. Best example? ''Expediente J''. The evil aliens send a few havoc-causing {{phlebotinum}} rocks to Spain (and accurately, around the area the main characters live at that) and when their leader appears at the end, he assumes that has caused ALL of humanity to be a mess. What?
* Although Italian Disney artists occasionally point out that Duckburg is supposed to in North America, they tend to make the Disney characters take a particular interest in Italian history, Italian culture and Italian geography. Sometimes it's justified--you don't have to know much about tourism to realize that a restaurant with [[EiffelTowerEffect a view of the Leaning Tower of Pisa]] is a good investment (although you have to wonder how a busy financial tycoon like Scrooge [=McDuck=] can find the time to run the place himself). But it seems weird that [[OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain Scrooge and Rockerduck]] would drop everything to see who can be the first to build a bridge over the strait of Messina, Sicily. Or that WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse's nephews argue obsessively over who was Italy's best player in the soccer world championship 18 years ago. Of course one of the major antagonists, Magica De Spell ''is'' an Italian (though [[Creator/CarlBarks her creator]] is American). Creator/DonRosa was guilty of this at several points throughout his works. In ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'', Scrooge arrives in Louisville, Kentucky, Rosa's home town. The comics also often mention Burbank, presumably referring to the California municipality where Creator/{{Disney}}'s studios happen to be located.
* ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' is created by DC Thomson who are based in Dundee, Scotland, and their Scottish origins are often clear most notably in strips based around Scotland such as the [=McTickles=], Wee Ben Nevis and Red Rory of the Eagles.
* Mexican comics tend to [[PlayingWithATrope play with this trope]] ''a lot of times,'' since we see some stories that take place in Mexico and other titles in other countries or outside Earth. Some notable examples:
** Most of the stories in ''ComicBook/{{Fantomas}}'' (the Mexican version, not the French one) take place overseas and a few times in Mexico too. The fact that the title character's nationality is unknown does help.
** ''Comicbook/{{Kaliman}}'', another Mexican comic, also takes place worldwide along with Mexico sometimes. And the title character, Kalimán, hails from India and his young sidekick, Solin, is from Egypt.
** The black-and-white comic, ''Samurai: John Barry'' averts this trope, since the whole series takes place in the Sengoku-era Japan (and sometimes in Europe) and all the characters are Japanese and Europeans, but we don't see a ''single Mexican character'' here.[[note]]Justified, due to the time period, since Mexico didn't exist as a country, but as an Spanish colony in that era.[[/note]]
** The highly-controversial comic, (in the U.S., at least) ''Memin Pinguin'' takes place most of the time in Mexico, but some of the later [[StoryArc story arcs]] took place abroad, like in the United States and Africa.
** ''Soul Keepers'', another Mexican comic, also avoids this trope: While some stories of the comic take place in Mexico, the [=titular=] characters, the Soul Keepers, are not Mexicans.
* ''7 Prisoners'' is a French comic that takes place in a prison on the moon, housing hundreds of thousands of prisoners from all over the world. Naturally, three of the eponymous prisoners are French (four if you count the artificial lifeform created by two of the Frenchmen). And of the three Frenchmen, two committed crimes so they could go to the prison and find something, meaning they're just about the only inmates who aren't career criminals. Just saying.
* ''ComicBook/{{Gen 13}}'' was Creator/{{Wildstorm}}'s flagship title for pretty much all of its 18 years, so it should come as no surprise that the team was primarily based in La Jolla, California, where Wildstorm's offices were located. This changed a handful of times as the book went on (for instance, one arc had the group living in Tokyo, and on various occasions they've gone on the run with no set base of operations), but everything goes back to La Jolla sooner or later.
* The infamous ''ComicBook/NovasAventurasDeMegaMan'', amongst its many changes, abruptly uproots the entire ''Franchise/MegaMan'' franchise and claims that it takes place in Brazil (and always has). It got even more blatant when one writer introduced a CreatorsPet character with strong nationalistic beliefs who ranted about how there need to be more comics about Brazilian characters; then it came to light that said writer planned for his character to [[SpotlightStealingSquad kill off the Mega Man characters and take over the comic]], which got him fired.
* BelgianComics: Many Belgian comics take place in Brussels or a typical Flemish/Walloon village.
** ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'': The main characters have time travelled a lot to periods in Flemish/Belgian history and have met many Flemish folklore characters. When the series caught on in the Netherlands the characters suddenly started using KLM airlines and travelling more to hot spots in the Netherlands. It got to the point that they even referred to themselves as Dutch in some stories. In "De Goalgetter" Suske become a soccer champion and joins the Dutch national team rather than the Belgian one.
* ''ComicBook/HaagseHarry'': All action takes place in The Hague, The Netherlands, where all the characters also speak with the local accent of that city.
* ''ComicBook/AlbedoErmaFelnaEDF'', just like ''VideoGame/PowerDolls'' above, is an sci-fi, alien version of this trope, albeit a somewhat contrived version of it: The titular heroine hails from a planet who is basically, taking into account the way how it is described in-universe, an alien, furry version of ''Japan'', since it shares similar customs and traditions. Her best friend Toki, on the other hand, is depicted as came out from the alien version of the Netherlands, or at least [[FreestateAmsterdam the stereotypical version of it]]. While there's an alien version of the U.S. (the Independent Lepine Republic), they are depicted as the ''bad guys'', mixed with tropes of the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Nazi Germany]]. Even more egregious the author is a former member of the USAF.
** In a more meta-example of this trope, most of the animal species who appears in the story are descendant from American, European and Oceanian species and breeds, albeit some stock animals from African countries (hippos, lions, cheetahs, etc) also appears as well. There's almost ''no'' animals from Asian countries (like {{Tanuki}}s), albeit in some fanart the author has included some Asian breeds like the Japanese Shiba Inu breed. As a rule of thumb, Western species and breeds tends to appear more frequently in the story than non-Western ones.
* Most of the characters in the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' are based off English works, just as [[Creator/AlanMoore the writer]] and the artist are English. That's fine and dandy for the initial [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain Victorian]] setting, but it's quite jarring to see how few, say, American and Japanese references appear when the plot travels to 2009. The fact that famous English post-Victorian era characters like [[spoiler: Franchise/JamesBond and Franchise/HarryPotter]] receive no small amount of AdaptationalVillainy hasn't helped either.
** This is averted however in the supplementary material, especially ''The New Traveller's Almanac'' which has references to Colombian, French, Russian literature and other obscurities. Later volumes also make heavy references to German playwright Creator/BertoltBrecht and Creator/JulesVerne (whose creations include Captain Nemo) is a French author. Likewise, ''The Nemo Trilogy'' makes references to Godzilla and GermanExpressionism.
** One reason why Moore plays this trope straight is that his books are about the darker aspects of culture and the way literary imaginations of certain places and events (such as how English people imagine African, Chinese and Indian writers) coloured real-life visions of these cultures. The motif of a ConstructedWorld AlternateUniverse based entirely on fictional depictions of the past is partially a commentary on the limits and virtues of the fictions various cultures dream up.
* Most stories in ''ComicBook/WilqSuperbohater'' take place in Opole, which the authors' home town, and much effort was given to faithful depiction of locations and names around the town. On few occasions, Wilq visits Cracow, where the Minkiewicz brothers have been living since their study at the Academy of Fine Arts in the 1990s.
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' takes place in Bretagne, France. The protagonists are Gauls (Frenchmen) who frequently visit other countries, where Obelix always dismisses the odd habits of local people as "crazy". Many jokes reference francophone culture and aren't always that easily translatable to other countries.
* The original authors of ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'' set the series in a fictional American city but ended up making it look more like an European one, resulting in non-European fans [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield being unable to understand where Heatherfield is supposed to be]]. {{Averted|Trope}} with the animated adaptation, where Heatherfield is clearly shown as an American city.
* Various comic books from ChileanMedia are based on real Chilean cities where their characters come from. Two notable examples are the characters of ''[[ComicBook/DiabloChile Diablo]]'' and ''Captain Chile'', in which adventures happen in Santiago and Valparaiso respectively (where their creators come from), and both having recreations of these cities in their comic books.
* In the 2000 AD comic ''ComicBook/{{Zombo}}'', it's implied that the Earth government is largely American in nature, given that UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump is President of the UnitedSpaceOfAmerica, but there's also a "Shadow" President, a term which is not really used outside the United Kingdom to denote the opposition.
* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in the Italian comic ''ComicBook/DylanDog''. The writers usually take great pains to respect the comic's London setting, but over the course of the time there's been an oddly high number of clues/riddles/whatever that needed to be solved in Italian[[note]]The comic, of course, is written in Italian but [[TranslationConvention the characters are supposed to be speaking English]][[/note]] just as a character who can speak Italian happens to be nearby.
* ''ComicBook/AlanFord'' is supposedly set in America, but there are many elements of the scenery, humor and characters are built to recall the ones from Italy, specifically Milan (Max Bunker's hometown), with an entire volume dedicated to the phoenomenon of the "Paninari", younger and "hippier" Italian people who despise the older generation and, as a symbol, prefer to eat panini (sandwiches) over the iconic spaghetti. Italy receives several mentions and is visited by the heroes more than once.
