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* OneGenderRace: By default, all countries are male, but can be portrayed as female if the author feels like like. The official wiki goes one step further, mostly referring to the characters with gender-neutral nouns and pronouns.
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** CanadaEh: Canada is portrayed as obsessed with Tim Horton's, perpetually apologizing, and fed up with living next to America.
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** CanadaEh: MooseAndMapleSyrup: Canada is portrayed as obsessed with Tim Horton's, perpetually apologizing, and fed up with living next to America.
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* AbusiveParents: Every country that had colonies is portrayed as this.
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* TheAlcoholic: Russia and Finland are usually portrayed this way. Ireland as well.
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* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: According to Austria, "is problem with papa und penis."
* AllYourPowersCombined: [[http://polandballcomics.tumblr.com/image/92628448570 By Your Powers Combined]]. Sadly, it's not very effective.
** Together we form... [[http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Polandball+anglosphere+allies_1fc45c_5351205.png The Anglosphere!]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: ISIS Ball seems to hate every modern countryball and is pretty much always seen attacking someone when it makes an appearance.
* AmbiguousGender: As the characters are countryballs, this is to be expected although male pronouns are used as the default. Some countries like Moldova and Estonia (refereed to as Esti) are sometimes portrayed as female consistently in universe.
** Comics where the gender of a countryball is explicitly will use bows to represent females.
* AllYourPowersCombined: [[http://polandballcomics.tumblr.com/image/92628448570 By Your Powers Combined]]. Sadly, it's not very effective.
** Together we form... [[http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Polandball+anglosphere+allies_1fc45c_5351205.png The Anglosphere!]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: ISIS Ball seems to hate every modern countryball and is pretty much always seen attacking someone when it makes an appearance.
* AmbiguousGender: As the characters are countryballs, this is to be expected although male pronouns are used as the default. Some countries like Moldova and Estonia (refereed to as Esti) are sometimes portrayed as female consistently in universe.
** Comics where the gender of a countryball is explicitly will use bows to represent females.
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** Comics where the gender of a countryball is
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-->'''Pakistan:''' And that is why Islam is best religion.
-->'''Poland:''' If Islam is good why is yuor capital Islamabad?
-->'''Poland:''' If Islam is good why is yuor capital Islamabad?
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* ArtisticAge: All countryballs look the same age, although some are older literally, and some act older. See VagueAge below.
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* ArtisticAge: All countryballs look the same age, although some are older literally, and some act older. See VagueAge below.
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* AxCrazy: Serbia. Also Eritrea.
** Unsurprisingly Nazi Germany takes this up to eleven.
** Unsurprisingly Nazi Germany takes this up to eleven.
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* BestialityIsDepraved: New Zealand and Wales have quite the affinity for sheep.
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* BlackComedy: Dear God yes. Notable subjects that always produce near-the-knuckle comics are UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict, UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars, UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and anything to do with Africa. This is a comic series in which Serbia being obsessed with repeating the Srebenica Massacre, Russia invading Ukraine, Syria being in civil war, etc. are played for laughs.
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* BlackComedy: Dear God yes. Notable subjects that always produce near-the-knuckle comics are UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict, UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars, UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and anything to do with Africa. This is a comic series in which Serbia being obsessed with repeating the Srebenica Massacre, Russia invading Ukraine, Syria being in civil war, etc. are played for laughs.
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* BreakTheCutie: The 2014 FIFA World Cup is often portrayed as this, GenkiGuy Brazil suffering brutal [[RapeAsComedy anschluss]] under Germany.
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* BullyingADragon: [[http://i.imgur.com/s1sgE0v.png The strategy of ISIS in this comic]]. TruthInTelevision.
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* CerebusRollercoaster: Seriously, especially for comics of this type. [[http://i.imgur.com/mtK6YZk.png Compare this]] [[http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/609/815/941.png to this.]]
* CharacterBlog: Many Facebook pages serve as this for their respective countryballs.
* CloudCuckooLander: Albania doesn't really live on the same planet as everyone else.
* CombiningMecha: "BLANDA UPP!!!"
* CharacterBlog: Many Facebook pages serve as this for their respective countryballs.
* CloudCuckooLander: Albania doesn't really live on the same planet as everyone else.
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* CoolShades: America is almost always wearing a pair.
** Monaco also wears these to distinguish itself from Poland and Indonesia.
** Austria-Hungary sometimes wears one too, with his flag's heraldry as the lenses.
* CordonBleughChef: This aspect of France is played-up in comics like [[http://i.imgur.com/p9mNQss.png this one]]
** Monaco also wears these to distinguish itself from Poland and Indonesia.
** Austria-Hungary sometimes wears one too, with his flag's heraldry as the lenses.
* CordonBleughChef: This aspect of France is played-up in comics like [[http://i.imgur.com/p9mNQss.png this one]]
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* CulturalPosturing: PlayedForLaughs.
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* DomesticAbuse: How the relationship between Canada and Quebec is portrayed in [[http://i.imgur.com/hGBW67R.png this comic]].
* TheDreaded: Prussia, Nazi Germany, and Reichtangle. The Soviet Union (or Russia) is sometimes this as well.
* TheDreaded: Prussia, Nazi Germany, and Reichtangle. The Soviet Union (or Russia) is sometimes this as well.
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* DrowningMySorrows: Occurs disturbingly often. Especially prone to this are countries who used to be a VestigialEmpire like the UK and Spain.
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* EyesAlwaysShut: Asian countries, especially China and Japan, may be drawn this way.
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* {{Fartillery}}: [[https://i.imgur.com/Sp1jBLD.png This competition between Uzbekistan, Kazakhbrick, Russia, and Turkmenistan]].
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* [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Half The Ball It Used To Be]]: Panama gets forcibly cut into half by other countries, in reference to [[UsefulNotes/{{Panama}} its famous canal]].
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* HistoricalInJoke: Polandball ''runs'' on this.
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* HumongousMecha: International organisations (such as the European Union) can be depicted as this, with member states acting as crew members.
* IdiotBall: In the [[http://i.imgur.com/ot5f5QQ.png increasingly]] [[http://i.imgur.com/SomcnVw.png poor]] [[http://i.imgur.com/pI4XDob.png ideas]] [[http://i.imgur.com/tgxR2rj.png of]] [[http://i.imgur.com/KvrVjOV.png Red]] [[http://i.imgur.com/mMD8FWe.png China]], the disasters, scandals and failed wars of UsefulNotes/RedChina as China grasping this trope.
* IdiotBall: In the [[http://i.imgur.com/ot5f5QQ.png increasingly]] [[http://i.imgur.com/SomcnVw.png poor]] [[http://i.imgur.com/pI4XDob.png ideas]] [[http://i.imgur.com/tgxR2rj.png of]] [[http://i.imgur.com/KvrVjOV.png Red]] [[http://i.imgur.com/mMD8FWe.png China]], the disasters, scandals and failed wars of UsefulNotes/RedChina as China grasping this trope.
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* [[IntentionalEngrishForFunny Intentional Engrish Into Funny]]: One of the most important parts of the comic's humor is the ungrammatical, misspelled English that everyone except the native-English-speaking countryballs converses in.
---> '''Poland''': Poland cannot into space...
---> '''Poland''' (or any other nation): Poland, yuo are of genious!
---> '''Poland''': Gib monies plox!
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---> '''Poland''': Poland cannot into space...
---> '''Poland''' (or any other nation): Poland, yuo are of genious!
---> '''Poland''': Gib monies plox!
* JapaneseRanguage: Japan often speaks like this, as well as other Asian countries.
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* MediumAwareness: Poor little Poland in [[http://i.imgur.com/qxGMJhd.png this comic]]
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** The USA is sometimes drawn as a Zol from ''[[Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaI The Legend of Zelda]]'' for the sake of "Americans are fat" jokes.
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* PaletteSwap: Poland[=/=]Indonesia[=/=]Monaco.
* ParentalIncest: [[http://i.imgur.com/AZS5X3T.png This strip]] depicting the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_cleansing_myth virgin cleansing myth]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrective_rape corrective rape.]]
* ParentalIncest: [[http://i.imgur.com/AZS5X3T.png This strip]] depicting the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_cleansing_myth virgin cleansing myth]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrective_rape corrective rape.]]
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* PoirotSpeak: Averted by most Anglosphere countryballs. For everyone else, if they're not speaking in {{Engrish}}, they talk like this.
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* PottyFailure: Countryballs are prone to this after heavy drinking.
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* RuleOfFunny: Most comics run on this.
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* SimilarSquad: [[https://i.imgur.com/iVVH05D.png This comic]] plays with it.
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* TheStoner: The Netherlands, sometimes also Jamaica, the state of Colorado, and Uruguay.
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* YokoOhNo: [[http://polandballcomics.tumblr.com/image/92936737421 The Band Breaks Up]].
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/6tfkr5/crimes_against_humanity/ This comic]] displays the worst of history's atrocities: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor The Holodomor]] (a bunch of starving Ukrainians), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust The Holocaust]] (Nazis herding a score of Jews and Eastern Europeans into the gas chambers), the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre Nanjing Massacre]] (Imperial Japanese cutting up Republic of China balls), the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide Armenian Genocide]] (Turks shooting various Armenians and dumping them in a pile) and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers the invention of]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_pizza Hawaiian pizza]] (Canada happily cutting up a pineapple and sprinkling some on a pizza).
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/6tfkr5/crimes_against_humanity/ This comic]] displays the worst of history's atrocities: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor The Holodomor]] (a bunch of starving Ukrainians), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust The Holocaust]] (Nazis herding a score of Jews and Eastern Europeans into the gas chambers), the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre Nanjing Massacre]] (Imperial Japanese cutting up Republic of China balls), the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide Armenian Genocide]] (Turks shooting various Armenians and dumping them in a pile) and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers the invention of]] of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_pizza Hawaiian pizza]] (Canada happily cutting up a pineapple and sprinkling some on a pizza).
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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: One gag consists of taking a word that sounds similar in many different languages, and ending the list with one countryball in which the word is completely different.
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* ArmoredClosetGay: Since it enacted its infamous "Gay Propaganda Law", Russia has been mocked as this. President UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin's insistence on being photographed with his shirt off and his cultivation of a ridiculous RatedMForManly image has not helped.
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* ArmoredClosetGay: Since it enacted its infamous "Gay Propaganda Law", Russia has been mocked as this. President UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin's insistence on being photographed with his shirt off and his cultivation of a ridiculous RatedMForManly manly image has not helped.
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* OffModel: Comics are drawn on Paint and 'advanced tools' are looked down upon (and prohibited on the subreddit). Balls will also change size deliberately if the plot requires it, to show dominance, extension or population growth.
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[[http://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/ Examples can be read here]] [[http://www.facebook.com/polandball and here.]]
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* ''Webcomic/{{Stateball}}'': Comics about states
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** Italy loves pizza to the point of lashing out against other countryballs for not preparing it in the traditional way or putting clashing toppings like bell peppers, fruits that aren't tomatoes, or most infamously - pineapple.
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** [[http://i.imgur.com/2023kEh.png This]] previously mentioned comic is directly [[SongFic based on the lyrics]] to "It Has to Be This Way"[[note]][[spoiler:Armstrong's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyqa_h7slx4 boss battle theme]][[/note]] from VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance.
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** [[http://i.imgur.com/2023kEh.png This]] previously mentioned comic is directly [[SongFic based on the lyrics]] to "It Has to Be This Way"[[note]][[spoiler:Armstrong's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyqa_h7slx4 boss battle theme]][[/note]] from VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance.''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''.
