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i really like all things France and want to find a character that personifies France :)

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[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Hetalia: Axis Powers is this during WWII.

France (フランス, Furansu) is an overly-romantic, carefree man. In the series, he is shown to have a long-held rivalry with England. He makes sexual passes at many characters. France explains away his long history of military defeats as a joke from God, but he believes he is gifted with his "charms" and his supreme cooking skills.

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Girls und Panzer

[–] lencioni@midwest.social 1 points 13 hours ago

Street Fighter

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 3 points 18 hours ago

It even has two Frances!

[–] Mora@pawb.social 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I mean the Expedition 33 cast is basically French people.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 11 hours ago

Zis game, so tight!

[–] jxk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 21 hours ago

It's only a matter of time before they make "The Polandball Movie"

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] khannie@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Hon hon hon

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pepe Le Pew is the first character that comes to mind for France

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 points 23 hours ago

Jean Pierre Polnareff for me.

[–] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not specifically French, but Hetalia is straight up countries as people.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1356878/

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I'd stay far away from this one. It has every power of WW2 personified as an anime boy. If I had the word hate... you know the rest. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan shouldn't be turned into anime boys.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago
[–] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago

Punch-Out! Wii has you fighting caricatures of various nationalities

[–] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Does a webcomic count as a franchise? https://satwcomic.com/

And here are all of France's appearances: https://satwcomic.com/the-world/france

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Polandball would be another web comic like that. Although the characters are just circles with flags in them, so no idea how useful that is.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 22 hours ago

Civilization?

[–] __siru__@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 22 hours ago

Maybe I am completely misunderstanding, but wouldn't Marianne be the main character representing France?

Wiki Entry

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Dexter's Lab but only for one episode.

[–] SmoothIsFast@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Omelette du fromage!

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Flight of the conchords is 100% your typical New Zealander

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

New Zealander

Oh good, I thought they were Australians...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2gii2nenUg

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 day ago

The Kiwi / Aussie rivalry is great, we rip each other to shreds, but will stand up for one another if anyone else tries it.

[–] Marty_TF@lemmy.zip 2 points 22 hours ago
[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Pepe le Pew?

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room with Pierre and Suzette.

How about these happy little friends?

Phryges - Wikipedia https://share.google/xdlE0TIy1sNRHC8Yr

[–] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

While not about France, the prominent example that comes to mind is Star Wars personifying the United States as the Empire.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I thought it was supposed to portray the Soviet Union as the empire?

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 11 hours ago

Return of the Jedi with the Ewoks fighting the Empire is a direct reference to the Vietnam war.

Although the easier to see reference for the Empire is Nazi Germany.

[–] hisao@ani.social -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  • Kantai Collection (KanColle) – A Japanese browser game (later anime) where WWII-era Japanese warships are personified as girls. Hugely popular in Japan around 2013–2016. KanColle started mostly with Imperial Japanese Navy ships, but later added foreign ones. For France, the characters are:
    • Richelieu – Personification of the French battleship Richelieu.
    • Jean Bart – Battleship, Richelieu’s sister ship.
    • Commandant Teste – Seaplane tender.
  • Azur Lane – A Chinese mobile game (also with anime and manga) that includes warships from multiple countries (Japan, USA, UK, Germany, etc.) as anime girls. This one has a more international cast compared to KanColle. Azur Lane has a whole French faction called Iris Libre (Free Iris, based on Free France) and Vichya Dominion (based on Vichy France). French shipgirls include:
    • Richelieu – Battleship, leader-type character (Free Iris).
    • Jean Bart – Battleship (Vichya Dominion, later joins Free Iris).
    • Le Malin – Destroyer.
    • Le Triomphant – Destroyer.
    • Algérie – Heavy cruiser.
    • Béarn – Aircraft carrier.
    • Saint Louis – Heavy cruiser.
    • Gascogne – Battleship (super prototype type).
    • Dupleix, Émile Bertin, Vauquelin, Kersaint, Forbin, Surcouf, etc. – Various cruisers, destroyers, and subs.

PS: those two games I had in mind immediately, but I used a bit of AI to put up those lists of characters, added some links manually (for other characters just swap the character name in query)

[–] AmourDeFrance@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

Richelieu is beautiful hehe