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* 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.
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* 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 ''ComicBook/BatmanIncorporated'' 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.
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* ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'': Lampshaded with the revelation that ''93%'' of Earth's superheroes are American. This leads to a ConspiracyTheory alleging that a significant amount were SuperSoldiers created by the U.S. government, leading to a lot of FantasticRacism against DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals. [[DarkestHour Things get worse from there.]]
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* ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'': Lampshaded with the revelation that ''93%'' of Earth's superheroes are American. This leads to a ConspiracyTheory conspiracy theory alleging that a significant amount were SuperSoldiers created by the U.S. government, leading to a lot of FantasticRacism against DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals. [[DarkestHour Things get worse from there.]]
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** ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story arc "ComicBook/TheSuperSteedOfSteel", authored by American writer Leo Dorfman, has Atlantean villain Vostar to mind-control Comet into starting a destructive rampage that for no particular reason only targets USA famous monuments.
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* It's {{lampshaded}} in ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'', with the revelation that ''93%'' of Earth's superheroes are American. This leads to a ConspiracyTheory alleging that a significant amount were SuperSoldiers created by the U.S. government, leading to a lot of FantasticRacism against DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals. [[DarkestHour Things get worse from there.]]
* 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]]''.
* 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]]''.
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* It's {{lampshaded}} in ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'', ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'': Lampshaded with the revelation that ''93%'' of Earth's superheroes are American. This leads to a ConspiracyTheory alleging that a significant amount were SuperSoldiers created by the U.S. government, leading to a lot of FantasticRacism against DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals. [[DarkestHour Things get worse from there.]]
* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': Earth has, to date, had ''six'' well-knownFranchise/{{Green Lantern}}s Green Lanterns -- 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 closest.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** Kal-El's rocket lands ina row midwest America, and he chooses 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 alienlive in the DC Universe - Franchise/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, etc. - United States.
** Every superpowerful alien either chooses to live in the United States or ends up there bychance.
* ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'' averts this: throughchance. Justified with ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, since her rocket was programmed to lead her to Superman's location (hence, her landing near Metropolis in ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton1959'' and Gotham City in ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'')
** ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'': Averted. 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.
** ''ComicBook/TheLivingLegendsOfSuperman'', penned by American writer Creator/ElliotSMaggin, is about how Superman will be regarded in the future as History becomes Legend and Legend fades to Myth. In the year 5,902, a man called Riley Benedix likes dressing as heroes of the past: Superman (the defender of Truth, Justice and the American Way of Life), Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Eisenhower (three USA presidents who not only have been not forgotten after forty centuries but they are seemingly widely known and appraised)...and a single non-American person who is not even a real historical character.
* The ComicBook/MartianManhunter haslately also 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]]''.ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica.
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** ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'': Averted. 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.
** ''ComicBook/TheLivingLegendsOfSuperman'', penned by American writer Creator/ElliotSMaggin, is about how Superman will be regarded in the future as History becomes Legend and Legend fades to Myth. In the year 5,902, a man called Riley Benedix likes dressing as heroes of the past: Superman (the defender of Truth, Justice and the American Way of Life), Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Eisenhower (three USA presidents who not only have been not forgotten after forty centuries but they are seemingly widely known and appraised)...and a single non-American person who is not even a real historical character.
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* 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.
* ''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.
* ''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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* 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.
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* 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.territory.
* ''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.
* ''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 DC universe is particularly guilty of this.
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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.
* 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.
The DC universe is particularly guilty of this.
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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.
* 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.
