Pepe Le Pew is the first character that comes to mind for France
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2025
49 points (98.0% liked)
No Stupid Questions
43334 readers
939 users here now
No such thing. Ask away!
!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules (interactive)
Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.
All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.
Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.
If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.
Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.
If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here. This includes using AI responses and summaries.
Credits
Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!
The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Jean Pierre Polnareff for me.
Not specifically French, but Hetalia is straight up countries as people.
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.
Asterix
and Obelix
Does a webcomic count as a franchise? https://satwcomic.com/
And here are all of France's appearances: https://satwcomic.com/the-world/france
Flight of the conchords is 100% your typical New Zealander
New Zealander
Oh good, I thought they were Australians...
The Kiwi / Aussie rivalry is great, we rip each other to shreds, but will stand up for one another if anyone else tries it.
It's only a matter of time before they make "The Polandball Movie"
Pepe le Pew?
I mean the Expedition 33 cast is basically French people.
Zis game, so tight!
Dexter's Lab but only for one episode.
Omelette du fromage!
Civilization?
Girls und Panzer
Maybe I am completely misunderstanding, but wouldn't Marianne be the main character representing France?
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.
Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room with Pierre and Suzette.
Street Fighter
While not about France, the prominent example that comes to mind is Star Wars personifying the United States as the Empire.
I thought it was supposed to portray the Soviet Union as the empire?
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.
- 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)
Richelieu is beautiful hehe