History Main / AllAmericanFace

** At ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 1993'', he filled out the final slot of the team the All-Americans, with Lex Luger and the Steiner Brothers (Rick and [[Wrestling/ScottSteiner Scott]]) after Ludwig Borga had [[SquashMatch squashed]] Tatanka.[[note]]Though, as Tatanka is a Native American, and ''Survivor Series'' was usually held on Thanksgiving, what would he have been celebrating?[[/note]] and ' To show he was serious, since this was rather unexpected, [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead he even had an American flag replace the normal lining of his]] BadassLongcoat.

** They actually were not sure what Angle they were going to take with him when he was first signed to WWE. His promos were just generic bios about his Olympic victories and seemed to play him up as this. He oversold it at his first television debut, and the audience started booing him. The execs took it and ran with it, and got word to him in the ring that he was a heel now and should act like an asshole. The rest is history.
** Though it's usually played straight whenever Angle makes a HeelFaceTurn, albeit with a good bit of comic relief mixed in

The All-American {{Face}} is one of the major stock characters of [[ProfessionalWrestling professional wrestling]]. He [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead drapes himself in the flag]], fights for Truth, Justice, and the American Way, and is as wholesome as Mom and Apple Pie (well, if Mom started using steroids, anyway). He's proud to be an American, and expresses it at every opportunity he gets, even when wrestling in foreign lands. His entrance theme usually has references to being an American, his wrestling gear is in red, white, and blue (if it's not an actual American flag print); he may even go so far as to wave an American flag as he walks down to the ring. Before he became a wrestler, he was either a collegiate All-American in some sport, or a soldier; if he's a soldier, he'll pepper his speech with military lingo in between proclaiming how much he loves America.

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** The best example is probably Wrestling/TorrieWilson, who had as her unofficial nickname "The Girl Next Door" and was played up by WWE as precisely that (albeit one who posed for ''Playboy'' twice and wasn't shy about displaying [[HoYay Les Yay]] tendencies). Nowhere was this more apparent than at two consecutive editions of ''The Great American Bash'' (2004-2005): she was the mascot for both events, wearing a stars-and-stripes top hat and tuxedo at the first and appearing in a poster for the second saluting with a slightly psychedelic American flag design.

The All-American Face is the natural enemy of the ForeignWrestlingHeel, and thus they often find themselves paired in feuds. The traditional climax to such a feud is a Flag Match, where the flags of the two nations are placed on opposite turnbuckles, and the winner is the first wrestler to recover his nation's flag and wave it. When the All-American Face is getting his ass kicked, especially by the ForeignWrestlingHeel, expect the crowd to start in with the chant of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" (sometimes, this is enhanced by the winner's National Anthem being played after the match as well).

* Yet another subversion is Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield, a SelfMadeMan who constantly talks about how proud he is of his country and he is the personification of the American Dream -- but his America doesn't include "foreigners" like Eddie Guerrero and [[Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr Rey Mysterio]] (both native-born Americans), or "miscreants" like John Cena and Wrestling/CMPunk.
** JBL was really more of a self-serving politician type, [[ItsAllAboutMe caring far more about himself than his country]] and spewing patriotic rhetoric because he thought that was what the fans wanted to hear. His disdain for immigrants was (kayfabe) genuine, though.

** And, of course, [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys [=USApe=]]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' in the episode "The Blind Bandit", Fire Nation Man is this for the Fire Nation.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode, ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E7SpecialEdna Special Edna]]'' has Bart watching one called Uncle Slam impaling a Bin Laden parody, Osama Bin Rotten with an American flagpole.

** That was, until [[ShockingSwerve he became a Canadian]]!

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** Mildly subverted by USAgent, who is just a tool of the United States government rather than a man for the people.

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* America from ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia''. 'Nuff said.

Compare {{Eagleland}}; when played straight the All-American Face is Type 1, but when inverted is usually Type 2.

* Invoked by, of all people, The Penguin in the ''Series/{{Batman}}'' episode in which he ran for Mayor of Gotham City [[Film/BatmanReturns (wouldn't be the last time)]]. In the course of his campaign he refused to discuss any actual issues other than his "Batman's-a-criminal-and-I'm-a-hero" plank ("Issues only confuse people"); instead, he spouted all the usual clichés, kissed babies, adopted "Yankee Doodle" (with rewritten lyrics) as his campaign song, and even had a rock band dressed as Revolutionary Minutemen (Paul Revere & The Raiders) perform at one of his rallies.

* Santana Garret and Amber O'Neal became a pair of them in the {{revival}} of WOW (Women Of Wrestling), The All American Girls. Known as The American Sweethearts elsewhere.

** And later [[Wrestling/TheColonyWrestling Green Ant]] of Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}, after ForeignWrestlingHeel Tursas began to write derogatory blog posts about America. He even got the endorsement of Lex Luger!