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* It appears that during the Age of Migrations many ethnic groups started to band together and form raiding parties/tribes crossing ethnic lines giving themselves AwesomeMcCoolName -- names like "Franks" (the free people) "Alemanni" (all men) or Huns (nobody knows what it means, but given they were TheDreaded even to the UsefulNotes/RomanEmpire it must have been some name indeed). Ironically even two millennia later some people claim continuity from those heterogeneous groups to modern ethnicities.

* The elves of ''EldritchLandsTheWitchQueensEternalWar'', they wield katanas and have Japanese first names, but have French last names, as seen in the two named elves in the game, Moriko Alarie and Akira Dubois.

* ''Film/{{Silence}}'' is an American movie in English directed by an Italian-American (Creator/MartinScorsese), adapting a Japanese language novel (Shusaku Endo) with Portuguese priests as protagonists. Of course, [[CommonalityConnection both director and author]] were RaisedCatholic.

* [[{{Lampshading}} Lampshaded]] in an episode of ''TheSimpsons'', where Lisa is playing ''[[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot Dash Dingo]]'', a video game based on the {{Theme Park|s}} version of [[LandDownunder Australia]]. She is killed by a group of koalas dressed as ninjas, leading her to remark "Ninjas? [[McNinja But those aren't even Australian!]]"

* ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'': [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist The manga]] has at least one scene where Ed is shown to be eating rice out of bowls with chopsticks in what is otherwise based on early twentieth-century Europe. An early episode of the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]] has Edward eagerly eating several bowls offered to him during an interrogation by the local police. While names in Amestris are mostly English with a smattering of other European languages (the author shows herself in a supplementary comic choosing names at random out of a dictionary of European names), there are Japanese ones mixed in like Izumi. In both versions, a Japan analogue is shown to exist; Breda is once shown playing shogi and is able to answer when someone asks where it came from (an Eastern island). The manga has an Asian counterpart in Xing, which is a China counterpart with some Japan mixed in.

** CultColony went bad? Okay, now you've got a planet of Atheists. Racial Colony go bad? Now you've got a planet of Albino Zulus. There are examples in some of the short stories of what happens when different colonies hit the same planet and it gets ugly.

* The Castithi in ''Series/{{Defiance}}'', particularly as seen through the focus on the Tarrs, mix Italian Mafia, the Hindu caste system, Japanese bathing rituals, and Arabian Muslim attitudes towards women. Furthermore, it was originally planned to give older Castithans like Datak and Stahma an accent that would have sounded like a cross between Japanese and Indian.

* Pretty much all of the countries in the ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' series exhibit this sort of characterization. While some are closer to the real world nations they're based on, they all exhibit various levels of [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], thus [[AvertedTrope averting]] straight-up examples of FantasyCounterpartCulture. Osea shows political and cultural elements of both the United States and European Union member states as well as an obviously Japanese-derived [[InsistentTerminology self-defense force]]. Yuktobania has a Russian-influenced, but overall "generic Slavic" culture, and lies in climatic zones unlike any of the ones within Russia's or the USSR's territory (jungles, etc.) and its air force flies lots of real-world Western planes in addition to Russian models. Belka has many obvious parallels to Germany and German history, but its name sounds Slavic, its national legends also encompass iconography from the Arthurian legends and its plight in the 1980s and 1990s is often very reminiscent of the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, in addition to being a modernized allegory of World War Two. Ustio is a mix of Switzerland and the long-disputed Alsace-Lorraine region between France and Germany. Emmeria is an odd mix of American, Canadian, British, French, and other Western European nations. Aurelia has a lot in common with South American countries but also shares similarities with modern Australia. And so on...

* In ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'', Mars is shown to be a mix of (Predominantly)German and Japanese culture, with in-universe rumors saying that the first Martian colonies were built by Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire. While the German influence is fairly obvious with German names for people and concpets, such as Alita's martial arts style Panzer Kunst, the Japanese influence is less obvious and is mostly seen in the names of certain characters, such as [[spoiler:Altita herself, who's real name is the very Japanese Yoko]]. There also tends to be a vaguely Middle Eastern cultural influence on Mars as well, with certain members of the government wearing Middle Eastern influenced dress.

* ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'': ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has at least one scene where Ed is shown to be eating rice out of bowls with chopsticks in what is otherwise based on early twentieth-century Europe. An early episode of the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]] has Edward being submitted to a rice bowl interrogation by the local police. He eagerly consumes multiple bowls because he was really hungry, but it doesn't help the police get anywhere in getting a confession out of the completely innocent alchemist -- they ultimately just gave him a free meal. This may simply be something he picked up from his possibly Japanese alchemy teacher (with a name like Izumi, she's certainly not a full Amestrian). In both [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]] and the manga, a Japan analogue is shown to exist; Breda is once shown playing shogi and is able to answer when someone asks where it came from (an Eastern island). The manga has an Asian counterpart in Xing, which is a China counterpart with some Japan mixed in.

** The seventh generation is essentially based in Poké![[AlohaHawaii Hawai'i]], so HulaAndLuaus abound.

* Wilhelm, one of the player characters in the BeatEmUp game ''VideoGame/{{Shing}}'' has a Germanic name and a Scottish accent, lives in a giant tree based on the Yggdrasil of Norse mythology, and has dark skin. As you can imagine, he [[{{Understatement}} stands out]] in the far-eastern inspired setting.

* The continent of Wraeclast in ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'' houses different kinds of civilization with various cultural influences. The [[PlayerCharacter Exile]]'s home nation of Oriath is European ran by the [[PuttingOnTheReich Nazi-inspired]] [[CorruptedChurch Templars]], and they've brought them slaves from Karui, the counterpart to Australian Aboriginals. The Maraketh living near the desert regions have East Asian influences. There are also ruins of the Vaal civilization, who have strong Mesoamerican themes. The continent itself is modeled off of Australia.

* Wilhelm, one of the player characters in the BeatEmUp game ''VideoGame/{{Shing}}'' is a walking example of the trope. He has a Germanic name, a Scottish accent, lives in a giant tree based on the Yggdrasil of Norse mythology, and has dark skin. As you can imagine, he [[{{Understatement}} stands out]] in the far-eastern inspired setting.

* The BeatEmUp game ''VideoGame/{{Shing}}'' has the player character Wilhelm as a walking example of the trope. He has a Germanic name, a Scottish accent, lives in a giant tree based on the Yggdrasil of Norse mythology, and has dark skin. As you can imagine, he [[{{Understatement}} stands out]] in the far-eastern inspired setting.

* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' takes place in an fictional equivelant of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII World War II]] Europe, with influences from the surrounding periods. Most notably, are TheEmpire. The Imperials are a mix of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, [[UsefulNotes/SovietUnion Soviet Russia]], UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia, and UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany. Their tactics and devotion to their nation and Emperor, as well as their uniforms, fall mostly into Nazi Germany. Their tanks seem mostly Soviet Russia influenced, with their firearms seem to be mostly Nazi Germany influenced, and using mostly [[GratuitousGerman German designations]]. Imperial naming conventions seem to be a mix of German and Russian (with more German influence). Their political system seems mostly Imperial Germany and Imperial Russia mixed together. Tanks and other armoured vehicles tend to be named after animals (either in German or Latin), with the Vulcan from the fourth game being an exception.

* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' takes place in an fictional equivelant of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII World War II]] Europe, with influences from the surrounding periods. Most notably, are TheEmpire. The Imperials are a mix of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, [[UsefulNotes/SovietUnion Soviet Russia]], UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia, and UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany. Their tactics and devotion to their nation and Emperor as well as their uniforms fall mostly into Nazi Germany, their tanks seem mostly Soviet Russia influenced, their firearms seem to be mostly Nazi Germany influenced, and use mostly [[GratuitousGerman German designations]]. Imperial naming conventions seem to be a mix of German and Russian (with more German inflence). Their political system seems mostly Imperial Germany and Imperial Russia mixed together. Tanks and other armoured vehicles tend to be named after animals (either in German or Latin), with the Vulcan from the fourth game being an exception.

* In ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'', Mars is shown to be a mix of (Predominantly)German and Japanese culture, with in-universe rumors saying that the first Martian colonies were built by Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire. While the German influence is fairly obvious with German names for people,places and concpets, such as Alita's martial arts style Panzer Kunst, the Japanese influence less obvious and is mostly seen in the names of certain characters, such as [[spoiler:Altita herself, who's real name is the very Japanese Yoko]]. There also tends to be a vaguely Middle Eastern cultural influence on Mars as well, with certain members of the government wearing Middle Eastern influenced dress.

* In ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'', Mars is shown to be a mix of (Predominantly)German and Japanese culture, with in-universe rumors saying that the first Martian colonies were built by Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire. While the German influence is fairly obvious with German names for people,places and concpets, such as Alita's martial arts style Panzer Kunst, the Japanese influence is seen in the names of certain characters. There also tends to be a vaguely Middle Eastern cultural influence on Mars as well, with certain members of the government wearing Middle Eastern influenced dress.