History Main / LandDownUnder

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlaminThongs'' is about an Australian family which embodies almost every negative rocker stereotype.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlaminThongs'' is about an Australian family which embodies almost every negative ocker stereotype.

* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'':
** "The Odd Ball Runaround" takes place mainly in Australia. "Waltzing Matilda" can be heard in the background.
** In "The Great Bone Idol," Greenback hires Count Duckula to find the idol. When Duckula asks what's in it for him, Greenback offers his Australia.
-->'''Duckula:''' Australia? Bondi Beach...Woolloomooloo...kangaroo stew...yes, done!

*** One has to point out that Rommel himself never actually fought against Soviets, so he may have been justified to speak only of what he really knew first-hand; besides he was less affected by Nazi propaganda than many of the other German generals of the time, and his own account regarding racism is unclear.

* Upon hearing that Australia doesn't have a version of Halloween, Tycho decides to take an ArtifactOfDoom down there to spread some chaos, thinking that they just don't have enough to be scared of. [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/10/31/underworld-part-three He's proven quite wrong by the Wolfman]].

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* Two members of WebAnimation/{{Hololive}} EN Gen 2 Council are Australian:
** Hakos Baelz has a faint accent and confirmed in a Q&A stream that she lives along the east coast.
** Tsukumo Sana has not outright confirmed it, but she has a thick accent, likes meat pies, refers to [=McDonalds=] as Maccas and has to catch herself using "we" when referring to Australians in general. Contrary to certain memes regarding the land's associated wildlife, they're both absolutely terrified of spiders (save for the daddy longlegs) and Sana asserts that eating them is not an Australian thing; that's just Haachama.
** Haachama, one of the Japanese Generation 1 members spent a considerable amount of time in Australia, including finishing high school there before finally leaving in late 2020. Her time in Australia wasn't particularly great for her as the family she was staying with were relatives but treated her poorly and the general lack of Japanese immigration and the tendency of students to form cliques based on nationality/ethnicity meant she had trouble making friends. Her streaming was also impacted by Australia's terrible internet.
** Takanashi Kiara is Austrian but had a long RunningGag where she claimed to be Australian, with an accompanying wink to emphasize the joke, which came about after fans asked about her accent and streaming schedule. She dropped this after a real-life friend of hers took it at face value and believed that she was actually Australian.
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Menagerie is a continent that is controlled by [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]]. Located in the south-east of Remnant, two-thirds of its landmass is a harsh desert made uninhabitable by how dangerous the native wildlife is. As a refuge for any Faunus in the world to retreat to if [[FantasticRacism life elsewhere becomes too harsh]], the single settlement region is cramped and overcrowded. While Humans gave it to the Faunus as a peace-offering over the Faunus fight for equality, Menagerie has instead become a symbol of just how unequal the relationship between Humans and Faunus remains.
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* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' is one of the few films to reference Australia's convict past: "Australia, as everybody knows, is populated entirely by criminals." It also shows Iocane, the deadliest poison in the world, as being found only in Australia. Of course, the story takes place in Renaissance Europe, [[AnachronismStew roughly two centuries before Australia is even colonised]].

* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' is one of the few films to reference Australia's convict past: "Australia, as everybody knows, is populated entirely by criminals." It also shows Iocane, the deadliest poison in the world, as being found only in Australia. Of course, the story takes place in Renaissance Europe, [[AnachronismStew roughly two centuries before Australia is even discovered]].

* Australian women's wrestling is in fact very respected among the Internet Wrestling Community. The Australian women are regarded as second only to the Japanese women in terms of skill. Madison Eagles got the ball rolling in 2011 when she was voted the Number 1 woman on the PWI Female 50 - the first time an independent wrestler had ever topped the list. Shortly after her success, more Australians started appearing on the American indies. As of 2017 three Australians were signed to WWE - [[Wrestling/TenilleDashwood Emma]], Wrestling/BillieKay and Wrestling/PeytonRoyce. Following the main description, a New Zealander called Evie is often lumped with the Australian women too.

* In ''Film/Sweetie'', Gordon, Kay, and Louis take a trip to a jackeroo ranch in the outback.

* Modern Australia's reputation for strange and dangerous wildlife is completely put to shame but the crazy megafauna that roamed the continent during the Ice Age. Back when mammoths were still roaming Siberia and the glaciers covered up Canada, Australia's wildlife included the gigantic goanna Megalania, which may have been the largest venomous animal to have ever lived; ''Diprotodon'', a rhino-sized cousin of the wombat and the largest marsupial known to science; and ''Thylacoleo'', the marsupial lion, a cousin of the koala that AscendedToCarnivorism and as the strongest bite of any mammal ever. And then there were the giant kangaroos, "marsupial tapirs", horned tortoises, "demon ducks of doom", sheep-sized echidnas, enormous snakes, and land-dwelling crocodiles. Ultimately however, all these creatures were rendered extinct by the arrival of the first humans in Australia, although descriptions for many of them have been preserved in Aboriginal art and folklore.

* Back when mammoths were still roaming Siberia and the glaciers covered up Canada, Australia had all sorts of crazy beasties. The most notable include ''Megalania'' (or ''Varanus priscus'' depending on who you ask) a 5-metre komodo dragon, ''Diprotodon'' a rhino-sized wombat, ''Thylacoleo'' the marsupial lion, giant kangaroos, "marsupial tapirs", giant horned tortoises, giant flightless geese, ''carnivorous'' tree kangaroos, sheep-sized echidnas, and land-dwelling crocodiles. Amazingly, humans managed to drive all these monsters to extinction. Many of them still live on Aboriginal art and folklore though.

In RealLife, UsefulNotes/AustralianWildlife ''is'' unique (the continent is one of the handful of megadiverse lands in the world), being dominated by marsupials rather than placental mammals. The dangers of the native animals have been noted by many -- US President UsefulNotes/BarackObama [[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-17/obama-visits-canberra-school/3677326 brought it up when he visited Australia]] -- but most of these creatures only live in remote areas. However, in Hollywood, EverythingTryingToKillYou, although [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute any sufficiently ''cute'' animal, no matter how wild, is inexplicably safe]], including [[NiceMice mice]].[[note]]While the [[PuzzlingPlatypus 'duck-billed' platypus]] and the {{kangaroo|sRepresentAustralia}} are animals that are often treated as cute in Hollywood, in truth they can be very dangerous: the male platypus has poisonous spurs that cause non-lethal but ''excruciating'' pain, the kangaroo can disembowel you with a single well-placed kick and even koalas have sharp teeth and claws that can cause nasty injuries if cornered.[[/note]] This habit of making Australia a DeathWorld often results in Australians being considered [[AwesomeAussie ludicrously tough]] and [[TheBogan utterly lacking tact]].

* Australian musical comedy duo The Scared Weird Little Guys wrote a song about [[strike: all]] some of the dangerous animals to be found in Australia -- "Come to Australia, you might accidentally get killed!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWFGd1nMa1A

-->'''Dylan:''' Why would anybody want to go there? What is the point of that country? I usually never leave the house but, we all went to Australia recently. The whole family. It was a ridiculous place. Located three quarters of a mile from the surface of the Sun. People audibly crackling as they walk past you on the street. That's why they all barbecue. You don't need to cook somewhere like that. You just bring the shit out, fling it on a grill, and it bursts into flames. It's not supposed to be inhabited. And when they're not doing that, frying themselves outside -- they all fling themselves into the sea. Which is inhabited almost exclusively by things designed to kill you. Sharks, jellyfish, swimming knives. They're all in there.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheLegendOfTheVampire'' has the Mystery Inc. gang visit Australia for vacation. They arrive in Sydney before traveling through the outback to a rock festival being terrorized by the Yowie Yahoo (a giant vampire drawn from two real Australian myths -- the Yowie, a Bigfoot or Yeti-type creature, and the Yara-ma-yha-who, a red frog-like vampire creature said to hide in fig trees and feed on unsuspecting travelers using suckers on the ends of its feet and hands). It also features, according to some, the worst (or, at least, the most bizarre) attempts at an Australian accent ever heard.

* ''Film/PointBreak1991'' concludes on Bells Beach, Torquay -- [[CaliforniaDoubling actually filmed in Oregon]]. The real Bells Beach is a good 2km from the nearest tree -- and it's a eucalpyt, not a pine.

* ''A Cry In The Dark'' A.K.A. ''Film/EvilAngels'' is based on the true story of the Chamberlain family, whose daughter Azaria was taken from their tent by a dingo whilst camping at Ayers Rock. This film is infamous for Creator/MerylStreep's accent (sometimes mocked as a failed Australian accent, it's actually a reasonably successful -- but undeniably memorable -- imitation of the New Zealand-born [[RealityIsUnrealistic Lindy Chamberlain's actual accent]]) and the line 'a dingo ate my baby!'

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' was filmed in Australia, and one episode where John Crichton returns to Earth [[spoiler:(well, not really, but he doesn't know that at the time)]] has him crashing on a beach outside Sydney -- where most of the episode's action takes place.

* Sally uses Australia as an analogy for her relationship to Steve on ''{{Series/Coupling}}''. As his girlfriend's best friend, Sally tells Steve that she is like Australia -- mysterious, distant and with areas of great danger. Steve thought she meant that she had a lot of convicts.

* In ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', Slade Wilson -- aka Deathstroke -- is reimagined as an AwesomeAussie who is the most bad''ass'' character in the series; he trained the title character in how to fight; later went insane, gained super strength and a slight healing factor, and survived getting shot through the eye with an arrow; then came back and became the season 2 BigBad; then became not-insane, lost his superpowers, spent years locked in an underground prison, and was still able to kick infinity levels of ass while teaming up with Green Arrow. Why was he able to do all that? Because he used to be a part of ASIS, the Australian military's covert ops unit. So basically, because he's from Australia.

* "We'll surf like they do in the U.S.A.|We'll fly down to Sydney for our holiday|On sunny Christmas Day|Australia, Australia" -- Music/TheKinks' concept album ''Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire)'' tells the story of a man emigrating to Australia from post-war England.

* The aptly-named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNEeq5qGh8I Come To Australia]], listing [[SarcasmMode many reasons to visit Australia]] -- specifically, its "wonderful wildlife and fabulous fauna".

* Australian women's wrestling is in fact very respected among the Internet Wrestling Community. The Australian women are regarded as second only to the Japanese women in terms of skill. Madison Eagles got the ball rolling in 2011 when she was voted the Number 1 woman on the PWI Female 50 -- the first time an independent wrestler had ever topped the list. Shortly after her success, more Australians started appearing on the American indies. As of 2017 three Australians were signed to WWE -- [[Wrestling/TenilleDashwood Emma]], Wrestling/BillieKay and Wrestling/PeytonRoyce. Following the main description, a New Zealander called Evie is often lumped with the Australian women too.

--> '''Clio/Kira:''' I swear to you, sisters, by the fires of Hephaestus -- I mean, ''(switches to Australian accent)'' by the fires of all the shrimp on the barbie -- I will help this Sonny Malone to fulfill his destiny!

** Raptor from ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'', the zombie rockstar who chomps on people with his decomposed chest-cavity. Possibly some sort of perverse homage to the late, great Bon Scott of Music/{{ACDC}} -- where else did they get a dead Aussie rock god from?... Plus he's skinny enough!

* In ''VideoGame/DOOMEternal'', the forces of Hell has invaded Earth and slaughtered billions of humans all across the globe -- except Australia, which is completely untouched. Were the inhabitants too badass or was the wildlife too terrifying for Hell itself? You decide.

-->If yer a fukken fair dinkum fukken full-grown Aussie, this is what you'd have fuh breakfast, ya fukken dog cunts! A fukken VB -- LONGNECK -- at twenty-to-eight in the fukken mornin'! Git that up ya!

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E16BartVsAustralia Bart vs. Australia]]" manages to make several goofs -- such as a didgeridoo made out of bamboo, being played by a woman -- as well as purposefully subverted stereotypes, such as a postage stamp proudly claiming, "30 Years of Electricity!" Surprisingly, [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales many Aussies are quite fond of that episode]].

* When the X-Men appeared on ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'' and again in ''WesternAnimation/PrydeOfTheXMen'' (the pilot for the first attempt to make an X-Men animated series, which wasn't picked up) usually Canadian X-Man ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} sported an Australian accent. Presumably because the producers couldn't imagine the toughest mutant in the world coming from anywhere else. (Decades later, it would turn out they were right -- but at least Creator/HughJackman was polite enough to fake it.)

* Australia's former Prime Minister, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_rudd Kevin Rudd]], is a highly educated, bespectacled, ex-diplomat who talks like a management-consultant -- in English ''and'' fluent Mandarin Chinese. In other words, he's a bit of a nerd. Shortly before the election that brought his government to power, the news media broke a "scandal" that he once got drunk at a strip-club in New York City. Australia's reaction? [[InsultBackfire "Oh, he must be all right then."]] Alexander Downer, a Cabinet Minister in then-Prime Minister John Howard's government, noted that Howard told him that this was the moment he knew he'd lost the election. If anything, Rudd lost some respect when witnesses explained he just got drunk and went home instead of starting a bar fight or challenging a bouncer to a Boat Race.

* Also TruthInTelevision is the stereotype of toughness at least in Australian military history. During the Weltkrieg, or UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, the German Army hated and feared Australians because they were big, tough men who butchered everyone who tried to surrender to them or was too wounded to fight back -- or so the rumours went. Hell, at the Battle of the Kokoda Trail in the Pacific theatre of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII two hundred Australian militia held an entire regiment of Japanese soldiers for a month. This was the start of a series of running battles where the outnumbered Australians slowed the Japanese force to a crawl, although the terrain was not suited for rapid movement -- to say the least. A case in point was the first battle of Kokoda where the Japanese thought they had driven off a force of about 1200 ill-supplied infantry defending the Kokoda airstrip. In reality they had been up against 77 soldiers using the spare food, automatic weapons, and ammunition meant for a much larger group of soldiers. Scale that up a thousand times and you practically have something on the order of ''Changsha'' (I-IV) or ''Citadel/Kursk'' (to use examples from the same war).

** [[KillerRabbit Koalas]]. Cute, slow-moving living teddy bears that prefer to sleep 19 hours a day. If disturbed -- which is easy, what with the 19 hours of sleep deal -- they can maim. They also feed off eucalyptus leaves, which from a nutritional point of view resemble cardboard that's been sprayed with mescaline. (That's right, they sleep 19 hours and are high as kites for the five they're awake.) We'll say that again -- Australia's ''teddy bears'' can do severe damage if pissed off. Of course, if you actually call them a teddy bear...

** Wombats. Although they can be tamed to some degree, they can reach 40km an hour, albeit only for a minute and a half. They're also pretty heavy, so they can knock over grown men if angered. Then they can deliver a bite through your trousers, socks, and gumboots, and still go nearly an inch into your leg. For sheer WTF value, however, there's their main defence against predators like dingos: they run down a hole and present their asses. (No, it's not {{Fartillery}}). Their backsides are heavily padded with cartilage and they have really short tails, ensuring that it takes a hell of a lot of effort to get them out of that hole. Unfortunately, this means that wombats are the one exception to the "don't swerve to avoid an animal in the road" rule -- hitting a wombat can total your car so completely you're actually better off ''swerving''. 120-tonne road trains have been taken out of action by hitting a wombat. Wombats can also use their butts to crush, suffocate and kill their attacker. You read that right. Cute little Australian native animals are so damn badass [[AssKicksYou they can use their butts as offensive, lethal weapons.]] They also have cubical faeces.
** Dingoes deserve a mention too. They're dogs, their puppies are still adorable, but... well... [[KillerRabbit this is one of the]] ''[[BewareOfViciousDog top predators]]'' in ''[[DeathWorld Australia]]''. Only a few things eat them -- wedge-tailed eagles, which occasionally attack the elderly ones, and ''saltwater crocodiles''. Oh, and they sometimes kill people (they prefer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azaria_Chamberlain_disappearance babies]], from what I've heard). In fact, they're a sort of predator cocktail -- the organisation of wolves, the threat level of ''cougars''.

** Wedge-tailed eagles are bigger than most bald eagles. That's right, [[{{Eagleland}} America]] -- our eagle can kick your eagle's ass any day! How much larger? The wedge-tail's ''average'' wingspan is six inches larger than the bald eagle's ''maximum'' wingspan.

** Emus. Not only can they kick the crap out of you, but they are one of those species who does the same thing all those huge sauropods used to do -- eat ''solid god-damned rocks'' to grind up their food. Also they [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War had a war]] with the above-mentioned badass Australian military and WON!

** And kangaroos. The biggest ones are taller than the average man when they stand upright, and can leap 9 metres in one leap. So you'd better believe those big, powerful legs can cause incredible damage to a human -- not to mention those feet have nice long claws on them. There's tales of humans being nearly ''disembowelled'' by a kangaroo kick. To add to that they actually prefer to drown their attackers in a river. And if that doesn't works they grab them and kick them with their legs (did we mention that those are extremely strong?) until the attacker topples over because of internal bleeding. Even young kangaroos pose serious danger, no matter how small they seem.

** Possums, being well-known for the creature that most Australians run over since they only come out at night. They're also known for being little cheeky bastards -- they'll steal fruit from your trees, terrorize your dog, make unholy noise during the night, and god forbid if any of them get inside your house or roof. There's pest control business dedicated ''solely'' to getting rid of them. They also have a nasty bite if provoked. Still, since they're mostly harmless and pretty cute, they're not so much a part of Australia's deadly wildlife as much as they are the irritating part.

*** "Irukandji syndrome" is the effect of this little dear's venom -- not only are you in excruciating pain but you become ''convinced'' you are going to die and will ''beg'' to be put out of your misery.

** Records indicate Justice Sir Redmond Barry sat for Kelly's last trial and found him guilty for a plethora of murders, bank robberies, resisting the police, and many more charges, and sentenced to hang. At the end of the trial, the two had an unusual exchange of words. The reported exchange neatly summed up Kelly's opinion, and may provide evidence that [[Website/{{Cracked}} Kelly was a wizard]] able to curse and/or BadassBoast people to death -- less than two weeks after Kelly was hanged, the judge took ill and died of exhaustion and infections.

* Fosters beer -- thanks to Crocodile Dundee himself, everyone outside of Australia thinks that everyone in Australia drinks nothing but the "amber nectar". Australians tend to prefer less fizzy and more flavoursome (and more alcoholic) brews.

*** Most foreign beer is made locally under license; beer doesn't travel well. (There are a few exceptions, but truth be told the farthest beer can get is basically across the Atlantic -- the Pacific is impossible.)
** Castlemaine is a probably UK-only example best described as "Fosters, but worse". Also noteworthy for being brewed next to the site of an old gasworks that was so badly contaminated with hazardous chemical waste that it took a couple of decades to clean it up well enough to be safely built on... at which point production of Castlemaine moved elsewhere.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheLegendOfTheVampire'' has the Mystery Inc. gang visit Australia for vacation. They arrive in Sydney before traveling through the outback to a rock festival being terrorized by the Yowie Yahoo (a giant vampire drawn from two real Australian myths -- the Yowie, a Bigfoot or Yeti-type creature, and the Yara-ma-yha-who, a red frog-like vampire creature said to hide in fig trees and feed on unsuspecting travelers using suckers on the ends of its feet and hands). It also features, [[YourMileageMayVary according to some]], the worst (or, at least, the most bizarre) attempts at an Australian accent ever heard.

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In RealLife, UsefulNotes/AustralianWildlife ''is'' unique (the continent is one of the handful of megadiverse lands in the world), being dominated by marsupials rather than placental mammals. The dangers of the native animals have been noted by many - US President UsefulNotes/BarackObama [[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-17/obama-visits-canberra-school/3677326 brought it up when he visited Australia]] - but most of these creatures only live in remote areas. However, in Hollywood, EverythingTryingToKillYou, although [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute any sufficiently ''cute'' animal, no matter how wild, is inexplicably safe]], including [[NiceMice mice]].[[note]]While the [[PuzzlingPlatypus 'duck-billed' platypus]] and the {{kangaroo|sRepresentAustralia}} are animals that are often treated as cute in Hollywood, in truth they can be very dangerous: the male platypus has poisonous spurs that cause non-lethal but ''excruciating'' pain, the kangaroo can disembowel you with a single well-placed kick and even koalas have sharp teeth and claws that can cause nasty injuries if cornered.[[/note]] This habit of making Australia a DeathWorld often results in Australians being considered [[AwesomeAussie ludicrously tough]] and [[TheBogan utterly lacking tact]].

For those fortunate enough to avoid being eaten by the aforementioned crocodiles, life is one long beach party and all meals consist of ''shrimp on the barbie'' (actually called 'Prawns') and Vegemite sandwiches (pronounced "veeeeejeemoit"). If these stereotypes are absent, the setting is likely UsefulNotes/{{Sydney}}, Australia's most populous metropolis and bustling economic centre. It's the home of the famous Sydney Opera House, [[EiffelTowerEffect which all hotels naturally look onto]]. Australia's capital is actually Canberra, a city built precisely halfway between Sydney and the other major capital, UsefulNotes/{{Melbourne}}, as a concession to [[TakeAThirdOption neither city being named the actual capital]].

Surprisingly, one aspect of Australia that is rarely (possibly never) played up is how important the Aussie mining industry is both historically and economically. In fact, as they have [[UsefulNotes/AussiesWithArtillery the best military in their hemisphere]], perhaps the [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwarf checklist]] should be consulted. ''Gruff, gold-loving, blunt-speaking, funny-accented, alcohol-swilling, Elf-hating, boastful of their battle prowess and mainly just the fact that they are Dwarves.'' In comparison, [[http://www.economist.com/node/15763381 some have noted]] New Zealand's '[[OurElvesAreDifferent elvish sensibilities]]'.

UsefulNotes/NewZealand is largely interchangeable with Australia in western media. This is especially ironic given New Zealand - its indigenous ecology almost wholly lacks native mammals of any kind.[[note]]Except for a few bats and some marine mammals.[[/note]] Also, its location is even more remote, being one of the last major land masses colonized by humans: the Māori arrived only in the 13th century AD.[[note]]To give you an idea, the Vikings by this point had not only spotted America, they had managed to establish a settlement, lose a war, and then abandon it...over two hundred years earlier. Just gives you an idea of how HUGE the Pacific is...[[/note]] Although New Zealand is jokingly often known as 'Down Underer' boasting a similar outdoor physical culture.

* Australian musical comedy duo The Scared Weird Little Guys wrote a song about [[strike: all]] some of the dangerous animals to be found in Australia - "Come to Australia, you might accidentally get killed!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWFGd1nMa1A

-->'''Dylan:''' Why would anybody want to go there? What is the point of that country? I usually never leave the house but, we all went to Australia recently. The whole family. It was a ridiculous place. Located three quarters of a mile from the surface of the Sun. People audibly crackling as they walk pass you on the street. That’s why they all barbecue. You don’t need to cook somewhere like that. You just bring the shit out, fling it on a grill, and it bursts into flames. It’s not supposed to be inhabited. And when they’re not doing that, frying themselves outside - they all fling themselves into the sea. Which is inhabited almost exclusively by things designed to kill you. Sharks, jellyfish, swimming knives. They’re all in there.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheLegendOfTheVampire'' has the Mystery Inc. gang visit Australia for vacation. They arrive in Sydney before traveling through the outback to a rock festival being terrorized by the Yowie Yahoo (a giant vampire drawn from two real Australian myths - the Yowie, a Bigfoot or Yeti type creature, and the Yara-ma-yha-who, a red frog-like vampire creature said to hide in fig trees and feed on unsuspecting travelers using suckers on the ends of its feet and hands). It also features, [[YourMileageMayVary according to some]], the worst (or, at least, the most bizarre) attempts at an Australian accent ever heard.

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* ''Film/PointBreak1991'' concludes on Bells Beach, Torquay - [[CaliforniaDoubling actually filmed in Oregon]]. The real Bells Beach is a good 2km from the nearest tree - and it's a eucalpyt, not a pine.

** It generally portrays Australians as [[{{Jerkass}} inherently unpleasant and mean-spirited towards New Zealanders]] (even the Australian ambassador makes a crack about a sheep being Miss New Zealand). The one seeming exception is an Australian woman who Jemaine had a drunken tryst with who, despite being rather grungy and unusually proud of her heritage as the descendant of a prostitute and a convicted rapist, seems rather pleasant. [[spoiler: Until she and her roommates steal all of Bret and Jemaine's stuff.]]

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' was filmed in Australia, and one episode where John Crichton returns to Earth [[spoiler:(well, not really, but he doesn't know that at the time)]] has him crashing on a beach outside Sydney- where most of the episode's action takes place.

* Sally uses Australia as an analogy for her relationship to Steve on ''{{Series/Coupling}}''. As his girlfriend's best friend, Sally tells Steve that she is like Australia - mysterious, distant and with areas of great danger. Steve thought she meant that she had a lot of convicts.

* In ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', Slade Wilson- aka Deathstroke- is reimagined as an AwesomeAussie who is the most bad''ass'' character in the series; he trained the title character in how to fight; later went insane, gained super strength and a slight healing factor, and survived getting shot through the eye with an arrow; then came back and became the season 2 BigBad; then became not-insane, lost his superpowers, spent years locked in an underground prison, and was still able to kick infinity levels of ass while teaming up with Green Arrow. Why was he able to do all that? Because he used to be a part of ASIS, the Australian military's covert ops unit. So basically, because he's from Australia.

* "We'll surf like they do in the U.S.A.|We'll fly down to Sydney for our holiday|On sunny Christmas Day|Australia, Australia" - Music/TheKinks' concept album ''Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire)'' tells the story of a man emigrating to Australia from post-war England.

* The aptly-named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNEeq5qGh8I Come To Australia]], listing [[SarcasmMode many reasons to visit Australia]] - specifically, its "wonderful wildlife and fabulous fauna".

* Australian women's wrestling is in fact very respected among the Internet Wrestling Community. The Australian women are regarded as second only to the Japanese women in terms of skill. Madison Eagles got the ball rolling in 2011 when she was voted the Number 1 woman on the PWI Female 50 - the first time an independent wrestler had ever topped the list. Shortly after her success, more Australians started appearing on the American indies. As of 2017 three Australians were signed to WWE - [[Wrestling/TenilleDashwood Emma]], Wrestling/BillieKay and Wrestling/PeytonRoyce. Following the main description, a New Zealander called Evie is often lumped with the Australian women too.

** Raptor from ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'', the zombie rockstar who chomps on people with his decomposed chest-cavity. Possibly some sort of perverse homage to the late, great Bon Scott of Music/{{ACDC}} - where else did they get a dead Aussie rock god from?... Plus he's skinny enough!

* ''VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland'' features Ozzie Mandrill, an Australian property developer and {{expy}} for UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch. He bests Guybrush in a bout of insult swordfighting, [[spoiler: and turns out to be working with [=LeChuck=] to find and control the Ultimate Insult]].

* In ''VideoGame/DOOMEternal'', the forces of Hell has invaded Earth and slaughtered billions of humans all across the globe--except Australia, which is completely untouched. Were the inhabitants too badass or was the wildlife too terrifying for Hell itself? You decide.

--> If yer a fukken fair dinkum fukken full-grown Aussie, this is what you'd have fuh breakfast, ya fukken dog cunts! A fukken VB - LONGNECK - at twenty-to-eight in the fukken mornin'! Git that up ya!

* When the X-Men appeared on ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'' and again in ''WesternAnimation/PrydeOfTheXMen'' (the pilot for the first attempt to make an X-Men animated series, which wasn't picked up) usually Canadian X-Man ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} sported an Australian accent. Presumably because the producers couldn't imagine the toughest mutant in the world coming from anywhere else. (Decades later, it would turn out they were right - but at least Creator/HughJackman was polite enough to fake it.)

* Australia's former Prime Minister, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_rudd Kevin Rudd]], is a highly educated, bespectacled, ex-diplomat who talks like a management-consultant - in English ''and'' fluent Mandarin Chinese. In other words, he's a bit of a nerd. Shortly before the election that brought his government to power, the news media broke a "scandal" that he once got drunk at a strip-club in New York City. Australia's reaction? [[InsultBackfire "Oh, he must be all right then."]] Alexander Downer, a Cabinet Minister in then-Prime Minister John Howard's government, noted that Howard told him that this was the moment he knew he'd lost the election. If anything, Rudd lost some respect when witnesses explained he just got drunk and went home instead of starting a bar fight or challenging a bouncer to a Boat Race.

* Also TruthInTelevision is the stereotype of toughness at least in Australian military history. During the Weltkrieg, or UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, the German Army hated and feared Australians because they were big, tough men who butchered everyone who tried to surrender to them or was too wounded to fight back - or so the rumours went. Hell, at the Battle of the Kokoda Trail in the Pacific theatre of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII two hundred Australian militia held an entire regiment of Japanese soldiers for a month. This was the start of a series of running battles where the outnumbered Australians slowed the Japanese force to a crawl, although the terrain was not suited for rapid movement - to say the least. A case in point was the first battle of Kokoda where the Japanese thought they had driven off a force of about 1200 ill-supplied infantry defending the Kokoda airstrip. In reality they had been up against 77 soldiers using the spare food, automatic weapons, and ammunition meant for a much larger group of soldiers. Scale that up a thousand times and you practically have something on the order of ''Changsha'' (I-IV) or ''Citadel/Kursk'' (to use examples from the same war).

** [[KillerRabbit Koalas]]. Cute, slow-moving living teddy bears that prefer to sleep 19 hours a day. If disturbed - which is easy, what with the 19 hours of sleep deal - they can maim. They also feed off eucalyptus leaves, which from a nutritional point of view resemble cardboard that's been sprayed with mescaline. (That's right, they sleep 19 hours and are high as kites for the five they're awake.) We'll say that again - Australia's ''teddy bears'' can do severe damage if pissed off. Of course, if you actually call them a teddy bear...

** Wombats. Although they can be tamed to some degree, they can reach 40km an hour, albeit only for a minute and a half. They're also pretty heavy, so they can knock over grown men if angered. Then they can deliver a bite through your trousers, socks, and gumboots, and still go nearly an inch into your leg. For sheer WTF value, however, there's their main defence against predators like dingos: they run down a hole and present their asses. (No, it's not {{Fartillery}}). Their backsides are heavily padded with cartilage and they have really short tails, ensuring that it takes a hell of a lot of effort to get them out of that hole. Unfortunately, this means that wombats are the one exception to the 'don't swerve to avoid an animal in the road' rule - hitting a wombat can total your car so completely you're actually better off ''swerving''. 120tonne road trains taken been out of action by hitting a wombat. Wombats can also use their butts to crush, suffocate and kill their attacker. You read that right. Cute little Australian native animals are so damn badass [[AssKicksYou they can use their butts as offensive, lethal weapons.]] They also have cubical faeces.

** Emus. Not only can they kick the crap out of you, but they are one of those species who does the same thing all those huge sauropods used to do - eat ''solid god-damned rocks'' to grind up their food. Also they [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War had a war]] with the above-mentioned badass Australian military and WON!

** And kangaroos. The biggest ones are taller than the average man when they stand upright, and can leap 9 metres in one leap. So you'd better believe those big, powerful legs can cause incredible damage to a human - not to mention those feet have nice long claws on them. There's tales of humans being nearly ''disembowelled'' by a kangaroo kick. To add to that they actually prefer to drown their attackers in a river. And if that doesn't works they grab them and kick them with their legs (did we mention that those are extremely strong?) until the attacker topples over because of internal bleeding. Even young kangaroos pose serious danger, no matter how small they seem.

** Possums, being well-known for the creature that most Australians run over since they only come out at night. They're also known for being little cheeky bastards - they'll steal fruit from your trees, terrorize your dog, make unholy noise during the night, and god forbid if any of them get inside your house or roof. There's pest control business dedicated ''solely'' to getting rid of them. They also have a nasty bite if provoked. Still, since they're mostly harmless and pretty cute, they're not so much a part of Australia's deadly wildlife as much as they are the irritating part.

*** "Irukandji syndrome" is the effect of this little dear's venom - not only are you in excruciating pain but you become ''convinced'' you are going to die and will ''beg'' to be put out of your misery.

** Records indicate Justice Sir Redmond Barry sat for Kelly's last trial and found him guilty for a plethora of murders, bank robberies, resisting the police, and many more charges, and sentenced to hang. At the end of the trial, the two had an unusual exchange of words. The reported exchange neatly summed up Kelly's opinion, and may provide evidence that [[Website/{{Cracked}} Kelly was a wizard]] able to curse and/or BadassBoast people to death--less than two weeks after Kelly was hanged, the judge took ill and died of exhaustion and infections.

* Fosters beer - thanks to Crocodile Dundee himself, everyone outside of Australia thinks that everyone in Australia drinks nothing but the 'amber nectar'. Australians tend to prefer less fizzy and more flavoursome (and more alcoholic) brews.
** It's also worth pointing out that the 'Australian' beer you can buy abroad is [[InNameOnly brewed locally under license.]]
*** Most foreign beer is made locally under license; beer doesn't travel well. (There are a few exceptions, but truth be told the farthest beer can get is basically across the Atlantic--the Pacific is impossible.)

* The short film ''WesternAnimation/{{Bilby}}'' is about a bilby finding a lost albatross chick in the Australian Outback.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' featured Fred Nerk, the first Australian Dragon, during "Dragon Summit". He was initially jealous of Jake for taking his spot as the newest dragon, engaging in a prank war with him. His dragon form's design was based on Sea Dragons, which are native to the waters of Australia, and he was described by the creators as "an affable bloke; plays rugby; likes to travel; not especially concerned about dragoning ('The bloody place pretty much takes care of itself.')"

* [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney's]] ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'' is set in Australia and revels in stereotypes, though its Dundee analog is the villain.

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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Menagerie is a continent that is controlled by [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]]. Located in the south-east of Remnant, two-thirds of its landmass is a harsh desert made uninhabitable by how dangerous the native wildlife is. As a refuge for any Faunus in the world to retreat to if [[FantasticRacism life elsewhere becomes too harsh]], the single settlement region of the continent is cramped and overcrowded. While Humans gave it to the Faunus as a peace-offering after the Faunus fight for equality, it has instead become a symbol of just how unequal the relationship between Humans and Faunus remains.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': [[MeaningfulName Mena]][[MenagerieOfMisery gerie]] is the name of the continent where most of the [[BeastMan Faunos]] live. Located in the south east of Remnant, two thirds of its landmass is a harsh, inhabitable desert full of dangerous wildlife, it was a "reward" granted by humans to the Faunos for their participation in the [[GreatOffscreenWar Great War]]. Things got ugly when the human kingdoms attempted to centralize all the Faunos population into Menagerie, sparking the Faunos Rights Revolution. The Faunos won and were allowed to live in the other continents, even thought they all still face [[FantasticRacism discrimination]] from most of the humans in the setting.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' featured Fred Nerk, the first Australian Dragon, during the Dragon Summit. His dragon form's design was based on Sea Dragons, which are native to the waters of Australia, and he was described by the creators as "an affable bloke; plays rugby; likes to travel; not especially concerned about dragoning ('The bloody place pretty much takes care of itself.')"

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' featured Fred Nerk, the first Australian Dragon, during the Dragon Summit. He was initially jealous of Jake Long, the first American Dragon, since Jake took his spot as the newest in the order, but grew to respect him after Jake saved him from the Dark Dragon. His dragon form's design was based on Sea Dragons, which are native to the waters of Australia, and he was described by the creators as "an affable bloke; plays rugby; likes to travel; not especially concerned about dragoning ('The bloody place pretty much takes care of itself.')"

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