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- Ascended Extra: Spain and Romano have become major ensemble characters over time.
- Big Fancy House: In the "Boss Spain" strips Spain and young!Romano (and maybe Belgium and Netherlands too) live in a castle. Justified Trope, this is Imperial!Spain we're talking about.
- Foil: Spain and Romano. Romano is grumpy, incredibly insecure and constantly frowning, while Spain is always cheerful, constantly smiling, carefree, and oblivious.
- Little Red Riding Hood: Spain, Romano, Netherlands and Belgium's costume theme for Hetaween 2011.
- Perpetual Smiler: Spain is very cheerful, and Portugal is almost always seen smiling, even when threatening or insulting Spain.
- The Rival: Spain and Portugal have acted as this to one another in the past.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Spain loves tomatoes, and taught S. Italy to do the same. Buono tomato! And like any good Team Mom, Spain has learnt how to settle disputes with sweets, more exactly churros
. - Uncanny Family Resemblance: Spain and Portugal, to the point that Seychelles can't tell them apart. While their exact relationship is unclear, they're confirmed to have the same ancestor.
- Wife Husbandry: A possible interpretation of the Spain/Romano pairing. See the main page.
Kingdom of Spain - Antonio Fernandez Carriedo
Reino de España 🇪🇸
You're so cute when you're half asleep!
Voiced by: Go Inoue (JP), Dave Trosko (EN)
- Accidental Pervert: When he tugs on Romano's haircurl not understanding what it does to him. But Spain does show hints of being a Covert Pervert.
- Big Damn Heroes: Spain pulls a Papa Wolf and rescues South Italy from Turkey. Then, Turkey declares war and Spain almost goes bankrupt funding the war effort.
- Dashing Hispanic: Downplayed. It is heavily implied that he has traces of this, especially during his imperial days, but he's a more optimistic and easygoing person.
- Doting Parent: Too bad Romano slaps him in the face every time Spain tries to be nice.
- Fruit of the Loon: "Nice bananas."
- Goofy Print Underwear: In the Noto-sama 5 flash game, when Noto and Yamato strip him, we see that Spain wears tomato-print undies◊.
- In Vino Veritas / Can't Hold His Liquor: From his profile:"When he drinks wine, he becomes sentimental, and if he gets drunk, you better put some distance between you and him!"
- Latin Lover: While not shown in-series, Spain alludes to this idea of him while assuring Turkey that while he is "sensually misleading to the eye" he's still very much a badass.
- Nice Guy: Spain's major personality trait is how lighthearted and friendly he is.
- Pirate: During his imperial days.
- The Pollyanna: No matter what terrible thing is happening to him, he remains optimistic and cheerful.
- Slave Collar: He gets forced into one when he's captured by pirates.
- Surprise Santa Encounter: Double Subverted. Belgium and Romano knew Netherlands was setting up a meeting with Santa... The surprise was when he brought a spaced-out Spain over his shoulder while dressed as reindeer. They were horrified, but at least no money was spent!
- Team Mom: At start, being equal partners with Austria (or property?), and raising the boyish S. Italy.
- Toros y Flamenco: Quite averted: he has only appeared in a matador costume in one official art, not in the strips, and doesn't seem to be a Latin Lover.
- Cute and Psycho: Some old notes stated that he was two-faced like Russia and either very severe or cruel to his colonies that were not South Italy. However, those notes were very old and were taken off Hidekaz's proper site, so it is unknown if they are still canon. His Volume Five profile does mention that he has a "mysterious aura of light and darkness", which might be a reference to the White Legend and Black Legend, respectively.
The trope is mostly Played for Laughs in the 2011 Fool's Bath. He gives a rather crazy look when France is about to spill who the true culprit of the event is, then switches to his happy face and claims that the letters he sent were meant to be a group hang out and not to be threatening.
Southern Italian Republic (Italy Romano) - Lovino Vargas
Repubblica Italiana Meridionale 🇮🇹
I KINDA HATE YOU DAMNIT!
Voiced by: Shounosuke Hitachi (Flower of Iris CD), Daisuke Namikawa (JP), Ian Sinclair (EN), Aki Kanada (JP-Chibiromano), Colleen Clinkenbeard (EN-Chibiromano)
North Italy's brother. Considerably less nice and pushier than Feliciano.- Adaptation Dye-Job: He has green eyesnote in the manga, while the first four seasons of the anime gave him golden eyes, and made his hair darker than in the manga. Beautiful World changed them back to green and lightened up his hair again.
- Attack Hello: His favorite method of waking up Spain as Chibiromano.
- Berserk Button: Just seeing Germany is enough to set him off.
- Big Brother Bully: He's often verbally abusive to the younger Italy, at least, he keeps shoving his northern counterpart and tells him to shut up.
- Big Brother Instinct: He utterly hates Germany because of Germany's
connection to Italy. This doesn't stop him bothering younger Italy himself, or even pretending his little brother doesn't exist sometimes. - Bratty Half-Pint: Was a jerkass even as a child, and spoiled to boot.
- Calling Your Attacks: When he was a kid.ChibiRomano: Eat this! Napolitan Tornado!
- The Chosen One: In the 2010 Bloodbath. He's the key to saving the Alternate Universe.
- Cluster F-Bomb: His favorite words seem to be "bastard" and "dammit," which he uses. Profusely.
- Dismotivation: From the Vol. 5 profile: "He does have the will to work, he just doesn't feel like it for now!"
- Distressed Dude: When Turkey kidnaps him.
- Does Not Like Men: Rare male example. He's kind and flirtatious to women, but strict and asocial to men.
- Evil Older Brother: Not so extreme, but he's definitely the meaner of the two.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Very easy to piss off.
- Idiot Hair: Like his brother's, it acts as his erogenous zone.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Quite heavier on the Jerk part, being extremely foul-tempered and bossy, but he does care about his brother despite regularly belittling him.
- KidAnova: Tried putting the moves on Belgium when he was little. Probably because Spain was teaching him the art of piropos (Spanish flirting).
- Large Ham: He was pretty loud in the original, and then the English dub took that and ran away with it. Ian Sinclair's helped him become something of a Fountain of Memes.
- Little Sir Snarker: As ChibiRomano in the English dub.
- The Mafia: Seen once as thugs◊. Informs his outlook. It makes a lot of difference to the page quote which Italy you mean.
- Meaningful Name: Lovino is not a given name in Italian, instead used as a rather rare surname. It's possible that it is a masculinized form of "Lovina" which comes from the name "Lavinia" which was the name of the legendary mother of the Roman people.
- Mr. Imagination: When Romano was growing up, Spain lent him some chivalric romance-type books to read, which leads Romano to thinking he's a protagonist like in those kinds of stories, à la Don Quixote. Spain knocks sense into him by having him read the same exact book.
- Perpetual Frowner: When he does smile, it's almost always a Psychotic Smirk.
- Potty Failure: Tended to suffer from this when he was younger, since Spain's Big Fancy House was so large that he could never find the bathroom in time.
- Precocious Crush: He was chasing skirts ever since he was a little child, as shown when he hits on Queen Joanna of Castile, and by his reactions when he meets Belgium in the printed manga.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: With North Italy.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Ties with England as the most foul-mouthed character in the entire series.
- Spell My Name With An S: A bit lighter compared to the other characters, but some fans tend to use "Rovino," an actual Italian name meaning something along the lines of 'collapse,' instead of "Lovino," which isn't actually a given name (but a surname) but was just copied en masse due to L/R confusion.
- Spoiled Brat: When he was young, since Spain sure wasn't disciplining him.
- Throw the Pin: Just like his younger brother, he doesn't seem to know how to use a grenade.
- Tsundere: South Italy is a fierce mix of all Type A varieties, partly out of insecurity that Spain only wants him for his inheritance and partly that his lack of domestic/artistic talents makes him inferior to his little brother. And yep, Romano's Tsundere side is specially strong when around Spain.
- The Unfavorite: To some degree, especially during his "childhood" days when Spain was more fixated on North Italy than him. He was seriously worried that he didn't have anything to offer, lacking his brother's domestic and artistic skills.
- It is hinted that the reason he is so mean to Spain is that he has abandonment issues-and considering that Ancient Rome chose to leave with North Italy instead, that Spain tried to swap him for his little brother, and that he thinks Spain only wants him for his inheritance, no one here can really blame him.
- Oh, and Spain passed up saving Romano that one time because he had to make 500 roses instead. To be fair, Spain's own economy was in no condition to save anyone, and he also felt really bad about it.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Often dressed in maid dresses as a child. Though he did wear trousers underneath, unlike North Italy.
- Unreliable Voiceover: ChibiRomano's diary is this in spades.
- Use Your Head: Headbutted Spain in the gut as Chibiromano after the former absentmindedly pulled his hair curl.
- Verbal Tic: "CHIGI!" When he's especially upset or his hair curl is pulled.
- Will They or Won't They?: Volume 5 profile seem to be shaping up for this: "He's not friends or enemy with Spain, their relationship is a bit in the grey area".
- You Are What You Hate: Romano isn't fond of Germans in general, and when Germany points out that Romano has Germanic blood, it angers him enough to make him charge Germany...and then slip on a banana peel and skin his arm.
Principality of Monaco
Principauté de Monaco 🇲🇨
I'm free on Sunday but only if you win against me in poker.
Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa (World Twinkle) (JP), Colleen Clinkenbeard (EN)
- Action Girl: Possibly. She is drawn wearing what appears to be chain mail and coif in some concept sketches in the third volume.
- Art Shift: Comparing her early sketches to her more recent appearances, she looks a lot younger now with a much sleeker braid. Yeah
- Best Her to Bed Her: A variation. You have to beat her in poker to date her. She might make an exception once in a while, though.
- In the 2013 Halloween Italy tried to win against her so he could rest his head on her chest. She strips him naked.
- Brainy Brunette: Subverted, she was initially a brunette but it seems she's now a blue-eyed blonde, via the notes given on her in the volume 3 special edition.
- Apparently, in the last profile picture Himaruya took a third option and gave her dark blonde hair, which can be seen as light brown too.
- Hair Color Dissonance: Is it dark brown, light brown, dirty blond or platinum blond?
- Characterization Marches On: She used to be a Perpetual Frowner, but is somewhat cheerier now.
- The Gambler: According to her profile, while she didn't build the famous casinos, she still loves them to the point she's even drawn with cards around her!
- Sorta brought up again when Seborga asks her out on Hetalia Bloodbath 2011. She accepts, but then she tells him to beat her at poker first!◊ He loses, but she goes out with him anyway.
- Sorta brought up again when Seborga asks her out on Hetalia Bloodbath 2011. She accepts, but then she tells him to beat her at poker first!
- Girlish Pigtails: During the 2013 Halloween event.
- Hot Librarian: Fanon loves to peg her as this, and her profile describes her as she "a smart girl who gives off a proud impression".
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: The tiny girl to both France and Seborga. Even though they're not really that tall, she barely comes up to their chests.
- The Hyena: Laughs near-constantly in the 2011 Halloween and Christmas events.
- Joshikousei: Her everyday clothes seem rather reminiscent of this, including a long, double-breasted pink coat with a sailor-style collar (pictured above) and a short sleeved purple dress that looks even more so. Subverted in the case of a sketch of her Gakuen design, as she wears a more Western style uniform much like Seychelles'.
- Like Brother and Sister: Notes say her and France's relationship comes off as this. Although France being France, he probably doesn't see it the same way as she does.
- Long Hair Is Feminine: In her profile, it's stated that she let it grow to look like a Grand Duchess.
- Nightmare Fetishist: While not nearly on the levels of Belarus, she does make some pretty ominous remarks about the business of being a nation during the 2011 Bloodbath. All while laughing casually.Monaco: It would be great to have parents and lovers at a time like this, right? (laughing)Cyprus: Don't say such depressing things!
- The 2013 Halloween event makes it clear that she has a pretty dark (or at least snarky) sense of humor.
- Peter Pan: Monaco is Tinker Bell for Hetaween 2011, alongside France's Peter Pan and Seychelles' Captain Hook.
- The Ojou: She has the looks to be one, and seems to have the personality for it too.
- Pink Means Feminine: Her clothes in her profile picture are pink.
- Princesses Prefer Pink: Even though she's not necessarily a princess, being a nation as well as a principate comes pretty darn close.
- Plucky Girl: Has the proud and confident air, especially when it comes to poker.Monaco: I'm strong, you know! Hahahaha!
- Professional Gambler: You need to know how to play Poker if you ever hope to date her. Also, as noted in her profile, she owns and loves casinos.
- Shorter Means Smarter: She's often referred to as an honor student, and in a recent blog post, she was revealed to be shorter than Liechtenstein.
- The Smart Girl: It is said her intelligence is what has benefited her throughout history.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly girl to Seychelles' tomboy in Hetaween 2011.
- When She Smiles: She's usually drawn looking like The Stoic, but smiled constantly during the 2011 Bloodbath, looking absolutely adorable.
- Yaoi Fangirl: Maybe. During the Hetaween 2011 event, she has an interesting reaction◊ to France rubbing his face on England... although it's unclear if it's because she finds it funny or if she takes after her "brother".
Portuguese Republic
República Portuguesa 🇵🇹
Watching your bravado from behind, I can't help but feel sorry for you...and it's only getting worse lately...
Voiced by: Yuichiro Umehara (Japanese), Ivan Jasso (English)
- Blackmail: The "foolish stories" he knows comes off as this. Romano complains that Spain becomes much meeker around Portugal.
- Portugal: I know so many foolish stories about this guy, there's no way he can ever say no to me.
- Establishing Character Moment: Appearing before Spain and Romano, saying "Boa noite"Translation and saying he knows a lot of foolish stories involving Spain, which makes Spain feel uncomfortable.
- Goggles Do Nothing: He wears some "badass goggles" with his uniform.
- Hopeless with Tech: As a result of him being late to industrialize.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners:
- England and Portugal have a deep bond, as per
Word of God. They do have the oldest living alliance with the Windsor Treaty. - He and Macau were close friends and trading partners even before they became boss and underling. Portugal fought and defeated the Netherlands to keep Macau with him.
- England and Portugal have a deep bond, as per
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: Hinted at in a conversation between him and his underling, Macau◊.
- He cheerfully mentions to Spain how happy he is that Spain's sunk since his empire days, as it makes him feel better about his own fate.
- The Rival: Acted as this toward the Netherlands, who competed with him to be dominant in maritime trade.
- Sailor's Ponytail: Seems to have one of these. Considering his History, it's very appropriate.
- Scars Are Forever: Had a vertical one on his left eye in one of the sketches. He has no scar in his official introduction.
