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* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'' takes place in Scotland so a lot of characters are redheads or have reddish-brown hair. Sandybell, however, is blonde - it's later found out that she's adopted.

* As expected of Creator/KaoruMori, whose other series take place in England, this is heavily [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in ''Manga/A BridesStory'': at first the only British character is Henry Smith, who is clearly blond. Later progression of the story has Henry Smith and his elder brother be the ''only'' Englishmen seen who are blonde (their eye colour is light but otherwise unconfirmed -- Henry's is probably blue). Both the Englishwoman in chapter 10 and Mr. Smith's friend, Mr. Hawking, have toned hair (so red or brown), not to mention the other members of the Smith family tending to be darker-haired. Additionally, since his features are also not uncommon to Slavs, [[InUniverse many locals]] assume that Mr. Smith is Russian for this reason (with a focus on his fair skin); Ali uses a similar assumption to make locals think his boss is Tartar instead.

* As expected of Creator/KaoruMori, whose other series take place in England, this is heavily [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in ''Manga/A Bride's Story'': at first the only British character is Henry Smith, who is clearly blond. Later progression of the story has Henry Smith and his elder brother be the ''only'' Englishmen seen who are blonde (their eye colour is light but otherwise unconfirmed -- Henry's is probably blue). Both the Englishwoman in chapter 10 and Mr. Smith's friend, Mr. Hawking, have toned hair (so red or brown), not to mention the other members of the Smith family tending to be darker-haired. Additionally, since his features are also not uncommon to Slavs, [[InUniverse many locals]] assume that Mr. Smith is Russian for this reason (with a focus on his fair skin); Ali uses a similar assumption to make locals think his boss is Tartar instead.

* Kujou from ''Literature/{{Gosick}}'' is called Dark Reaper partly because of his black hair which the students from Sauville see as uncommon. While black hair is not uncommon among Europeans, especially around the Mediterranean (Sauville is said to border Italy -- which would make this an example of ignorance or oversight on the part of the author), Victorique specifically mentions that their classmates are just bored and stupid (although, she thinks almost everyone is stupid) and that Kujou just happened to fit the description of the latest horror story being passed around.

** Shuichi's American manager "K" is a deliberate sendup: handsome, straight-forward, carries a gun everywhere he goes, and is usually addressed "Mister K".

* ''Literature/IfHerFlagBreaks'': The half-Japanese Nanami, who's from a fictional country in Europe called "Bladefield", stands out from the rest of the members of the main cast for having blonde hair and blue eyes. Her half-sister Hakua, who shares Nanami's ethnic makeup, averts this, having white hair and purple eyes.

* ''Manga/MaidSama'': The male lead, Takumi Usui, is only part-English (his maternal grandfather is from Britain) yet he has blond hair and blue eyes. What makes this weirder is that Takumi's half-brother, Gerald Walker, has black hair, yet he is actually 3/4 foreign (he shared Takumi's mixed mother and has a full English father).

* Ayase from ''Manga/OkaneGaNai'' is described as "mixed race", his blonde hair and blue eyes making him seem a foreigner. In the manga it is explained via flashbacks that this is one of the reasons why he was discriminated against while growing up. His amazingly [[{{Uke}} fey looks]] and occasional [[WholesomeCrossdresser crossdressing]] did not help either.

* In ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'', one of the characters you can roll up is a fat blond man with an American flag on his shirt. His name is, of course, "American Guy". He's even fatter than the ''sumo wrestlers''. Hilariously, he also wears a ball-cap, has glasses and is bearded. He looks like Michael Moore (who has worn American flag shirts before).

** ''VideoGame/Persona2'': [[DeconstructedTrope This is the fulcrum of a lot of Lisa's internal conflict]]. Lisa is a naturalized Japanese citizen with an intense desire to assimilate into modern Japanese society, but can't because her stereotypically white American appearance means her peers immediately mark her as "a foreigner", despite Lisa having been denied American cultural markers by her parents, even English. In fact, her character development only really begins during the Aoba Park concert sequence where she, as the lead singer of MUSES, reluctantly admits to the audience that she doesn't know English.

** ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' has the blond blue-eyed "Lightning American", Lt. Surge.
** However, Morty, Agatha, Glacia, Greta, Volkner, Palmer, Barry, and Cynthia are clearly not American. Glacia is a blue-eyed blonde from an unspecified region so it's possible she still counts. Her Japanese name, "Prim", isn't associated with any country.

** ''VideoGame/TheIdolmasterSideM'' has the Italian-Japanese Mario Ando as a candidate for the New Idol Discovery Project, who comes with the prerequisite blond hair. This is also played with using Rui, who is blond but ethnically Japanese like other members of the ''[=iM@S=]'' verse, but also teaches English, [[GratuitousEnglish uses it in his dialogue]], and refers to himself as "Michael" on occasion. Played completely straight with Pierre, who is a foreigner who comes from a vaguely defined country only referred to as "over there", and is blond.