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* ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' might be one of the oldest examples of this trope. It features a couple of stereotypical cavemen, a RedBaron expy, a couple of army stereotypes, a mob of stereotypical gangsters, a supergenius scientist inventor, a lazy hillbilly with a pet bear, a stereotype lumberjack with a pet beaver, TheChick who is a GirlyGirl obsessed with her looks, and a DastardlyWhiplash-style villain. There's also a racer whose main trait is being a racer, who serves as this cast's [["TheGenericGuy Normal Guy"]].

* ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' might be one of the oldest examples of this trope. It features a couple of stereotypical cavemen, a RedBaron expy, a couple of army stereotypes, a mob of stereotypical gangsters, a supergenius scientist inventor, a lazy hillbilly with a pet bear, a stereotype lumberjack with a pet beaver, TheChick who is a GirlyGirl obsessed with her looks, and a DastardlyWhiplash-style villain. There's also a racer whose main trait is being a racer, who serves as this cast's "Normal Guy".

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' The entire cast represent and "parody" reality show contestant and teenage stereotypes.

. * WesternAnimation/''Total Drama'' all the characters represent and "parody" reality show contestant and teenage stereotypes.

* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' subverts this. The cast initially looks like this trope, consisting of clones of various historical figures rather than their expies. However, the characters themselves don't want to be tied down with other people's preconceptions of the historical figures from whom they're cloned, so they tend to do a complete 180-degree turn in terms of personality: Abe Lincoln is a weak-willed wimp, Joan of Arc went goth, and so on.

* Music/TheVillagePeople's gimmick was that each dressed as a different stereotype of American masculinity.

* ''Dead in the Water'' for UsefulNotes/PS1, which was basically ''Twisted Metal'' with boats, features a stereotypical army commander, an [[AwesomeAussie Australian]] CrocodileDundee pastiche, a stereotypical redneck family, a stereotypical pirate, a stereotypical cop, a boy genius, a JiveTurkey black man, a goth girl, and a team of ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' pastiche babes.

* While ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'' games always featured stereotypes among their casts, ''Twisted Metal 3'' came the closest to this trope. Contestants include a stereotypical raver, a sexy environmentalist GranolaGirl, a "get off my lawn"-type granny, a black guy from "the hood" who wants to [[JiveTurkey "kick it with his homies in the crib"]], an expy of ''TheProdigy'''s frontman, a burly construction worker, a GhostRider expy, a crazy deranged homeless guy, etc.

This trope was surprisingly prominent in fighting, racing and vehicular combat video games, but can also be encountered elsewhere.

* ''Dead in the Water'' for PS1, which was basically ''Twisted Metal'' with boats, features a stereotypical army commander, an [[AwesomeAussie Australian]] CrocodileDundee pastiche, a stereotypical redneck family, a stereotypical pirate, a stereotypical cop, a boy genius, a JiveTurkey black man, a goth girl, and a team of ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' pastiche babes.

* ''VideoGame/WarGods'' features a kabuki-themed samurai, a Caribbean Voodoo witchdoctor, a typical Roman gladiator, a {{Terminator}} expy, a sexy female viking, a sexy witch, and a couple others. And Anubis.

* National/ethnic/racial/religious stereotypes.
* Job stereotypes (doctor, soldier, pirate, artist, etc), usually wearing StockCostumeTraits.

* {{Ms Fanservice}}s[[note]]([[DoubleStandard this is almost never done with males]])[[/note]] representing [[SexyWhateverOutfit "sexy"]] versions of certain job/subculture/nation/etc identities ([[FairCop sexy cop]], [[HospitalHottie sexy nurse]], [[HotLibrarian sexy librarian]], etc.).

If an All-Stereotype Cast contains a couple non-stereotypical characters, they tend to be:

* If it's a game that features bosses/mid-bosses, they're also quite often non-[[note]](or at least, less)[[/note]]stereotypical.

Compare FiveTokenBand, which doesn't necessarily consist of stereotypes, and is always multiethnic[[note]](unlike AllStereotypeCast which could be, e.g., a monoethnic team of job stereotypes)[[/note]]. See also CaptainEthnic: a superhero team consisting of {{Captain Ethnic}}s will result in an AllStereotypeCast.

* ''Series/{{Sense8}}'': Due to having to introduce eight storylines all at once, the global cast is comprised of NationalStereotypes so the audience doesn't have to fill in the blanks as much. The protagonists are a [[GermanicDepressives serious, possibly-sociopathic German]], a queer San Franciscan intellectual, a [[InscrutableOriental quiet, stoic Korean]] who [[AllAsiansKnowMartialArts is a champion kickboxer]], a macho {{Telenovela}} actor from Mexico, a cool Nordic DJ, a nice all-American cop, an Indian woman nervous about her [[SadBollywoodWedding upcoming wedding]] (complete with a Bollywood dance number early in the first season), and a poor Kenyan man with a mother dying of AIDS. The characters are fleshed-out and allowed to be more than these stereotypes, however, even playing with some of them (eg. the macho Mexican actor is [[ManlyGay closeted]], the Indian woman is a religious scientist).

* While ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'' games always featured stereotypes among their casts, ''Twisted Metal 3'' came the closest to this trope. Contestants include a stereotypical raver, a sexy environmentalist GranolaGirl, a "get off my lawn" type granny, a black guy from "the hood" who wants to [[JiveTurkey "kick it with his homies in the crib"]], an expy of ''TheProdigy'''s frontman, a burly construction worker, a GhostRider expy, a crazy deranged homeless guy, etc.

* Another ''Twisted Metal'' clone, ''VideoGame/{{Vigilante 8}}'' (and its sequel) do the same... but with 1970s stereotypes.
* ''VideoGame/StreetRacer'' features a self-absorbed rich guy, a sexy surfer girl, a hi-tech sumo fighter from Japan, a tribal chieftain from Kenya, a Red Baron pastiche from Germany, and a turban-wearing guy on a flying carpet from Turkey.

* ''AMF Bowling Pinbusters''. Features a surfer dude, a sexy cowgirl, a stereotypical army sergeant, a punk girl, a JiveTurkey black guy, a spicy Latina, an Elvis impersonator, and a sports-obsessed jock [[note]](who happens to be Asian American; when reviewing this game, Vinny from VineSauce was surprised the character was in fact a job/lifestyle stereotype rather than an ethnic stereotype)[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/BloodyGoodTime'': The cast includes a goth girl, a stoner, a beach babe, a surfer dude, a Playboy bunny girl, a showgirl, a psychopathic clown and a black gambler.

* The whole premise of ''WebComic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'' is that the characters representing the countries are NationalStereotypes.

* ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' might be one of the oldest examples of this trope. It features a couple of stereotypical cavemen, a RedBaron expy, a couple army stereotypes, a mob of stereotypical gangsters, a supergenius scientist inventor, a lazy hillbilly with a pet bear, TheChick who is a GirlyGirl obsessed with her looks, and a DastardlyWhiplash-style villain. There's also a racer whose main trait is being a racer, who serves as this cast's "Normal Guy".

* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' subverts this. The cast initially looks like this trope, consisting of clones of various historical figures rather than their expies. However, the characters themselves don't want to be tied down with other people's preconceptions of the historical figures they're cloned from so they tend to do a complete 180-degree turn in terms of personality: Abe Lincoln is a weak-willed wimp, Joan of Arc went goth, and so on.

Compare FiveTokenBand, which doesn't necessarily consist of stereotypes, and is always multiethnic[[note]](unlike AllStereotypeCast which could be, e.g., a monoethnic team of job stereotypes)[[/note]]. See also CaptainEthnic: a superhero team consisting of {{CaptainEthnic}}s will result in an AllStereotypeCast.

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* Fighting games:
** ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII''/''Super Street Fighter II'' is a well-known example. There's a HuskyRusskie, a Japanese sumo fighter, a beauty-obsessed Spaniard dressed like a matador, a Native Mexican who wears mostly traditional garb and has some connection with animals, an Indian pacifist yoga master with mystical yoga powers, a Chinese woman in a sexy version of a qipao and an "ox horns" hairstyle, a sexy special forces woman, a BruceLeeClone from Hong Kong, and a buff EagleLand Air Force major with an American flag tattooed on his shoulder. Other games of the series also use this trope. There are also a couple "Normal Guy" characters, and gimmick characters.
** ''Street Fighter'''s clone ''VideoGame/WorldHeroes'' features Rasputin/Genghis Khan/Joan of Arc/Bruce Lee pastiches from Russia/Mongolia/France/China respectively, a superhumanly competent and powerful German robot, and an Eagleland-themed American wrestler. The sequels add a stereotypical viking, a stereotypical pirate, a primitive Pacific Islander witchdoctor, an aggressive American football player, and a punk Jack the Ripper from the UK.
** ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' game (at least since the second arcade game) loves this trope. The main character, Little Mac, is a "Normal Guy", but most of his opponents are national/ethnic stereotypes. These include a cowardly Frenchman, a Canadian lumberjack, ''the'' VodkaDrunkenski (aka Soda Popinski) from Russia, a militaristic German guy whose stage music is Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, a BruceLeeClone from Hong Kong, a old martial arts master from China, an aggressive Irishman, a Flamenco-dancing Spanish ladies' man, and more.
** ''Wade Hixton's Counter Punch'', a GBA boxing game similar to ''Punch Out'', also does this. Its main character is a "Normal Guy" like Little Mac, but the boxers he encounters include a stereotypical burly biker, a nature-loving African tribesman, a stereotypical raver girl, a black pimp complete with a purple hat and fur coat who [[JiveTurkey sometimes speaks in gibberish "-izzle" words]], and a couple gimmick characters.
** Another similar game is ''Super KO Boxing 2''. Again, a "Normal Guy" hero fights against a cowboy from Texas, a Spanish matador with a rose in his teeth, a stereotypical "gangsta" black guy, a Native American chief with a feathered headdress, a black voodoo magician decked in skulls and bones, a stereotypical caveman, a Ryu-esque Japanese fighter with a Rising Sun headband, a pharaoh from Egypt, and a couple gimmick characters.
** ''VideoGame/WarGods'' features a kabuki-themed samurai, a Caribbean Voodoo witchdoctor, a typical Roman gladiator, a {{Terminator}} expy, a sexy female viking, a sexy witch, and a couple others. And Anubis.
** ''VideoGame/{{Timeslaughter}}'', one of the goriest (and campiest) fighting games ever, cranks this trope up to eleven. Some of its characters are: a stereotypical madman, a stereotypical Neanderthal caveman, a stereotypical French artist, a Scot complete with a kilt and bagpipes, and a cannibalistic voodoo-empowered African chieftain.
** ''Brawlhalla'', a ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' clone, features a DressedToPlunder pirate, a generic knight, a ninja called [[FamousNamedForeigner Hattori]] (for [[FarEast some reason]], one of her alternate costumes is a BruceLeeClone), a {{Mayincatec}} warrior queen, a SteamPunk inventor, a CyberPunk hacker, a stereotypical caveman, a cowgirl, and a couple others.
* Racing and vehicular combat games:
** While ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'' games always featured stereotypes among their casts, ''Twisted Metal 3'' came the closest to this trope. Contestants include a stereotypical raver, a sexy environmentalist GranolaGirl, a "get off my lawn" type granny, a black guy from "the hood" who wants to [[JiveTurkey "kick it with his homies in the crib"]], an expy of ''TheProdigy'''s frontman, a burly construction worker, a GhostRider expy, a crazy deranged homeless guy, etc.
** ''Twisted Metal'''s clone (and SpiritualSuccessor to the first two games) called ''Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012'' features a stereotypical madman, a stock Batman parody, a fat ElvisImpersonator, a SpaghettiWestern cowboy (albeit of a cyborg variety), a sexy nun, a sexy country girl, a RichBitch, and a walking penis joke.
** Another ''Twisted Metal'' clone, ''VideoGame/{{Vigilante 8}}'' (and its sequel) do the same... but with 1970s stereotypes.
** ''VideoGame/StreetRacer'' features a self-absorbed rich guy, a sexy surfer girl, a hi-tech sumo fighter from Japan, a tribal chieftain from Kenya, a Red Baron pastiche from Germany, and a turban-wearing guy on a flying carpet from Turkey.
** ''Dead in the Water'' for PS1, which was basically ''Twisted Metal'' with boats, features a stereotypical army commander, an [[AwesomeAussie Australian]] CrocodileDundee pastiche, a stereotypical redneck family, a stereotypical pirate, a stereotypical cop, a boy genius, a JiveTurkey black man, a goth girl, and a team of ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' pastiche babes.
** ''VideoGame/CelDamage'' features a ShallowParody anime girl, a stereotypical nerd, a sexy dominatrix, a burly construction worker, and a stereotypical gangster (who happens to be a FunnyAnimal duck).
* Other genres:
** ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' relies on national/ethnic stereotypes: The Heavy is a HuskyRusskie, the Medic is a German MadScientist, the Sniper a Film/CrocodileDundee {{Expy}}, the Engy a GoodOldBoy from Texas, the Demoman a ViolentGlaswegian, the Soldier an uber-patriotic {{Eagleland}}er, the Spy a FrenchJerk, the Scout a {{Brooklyn Rage}}r, their boss Saxton Hale is an AwesomeAussie (the page image even!), and the Pyro is... [[TheFaceless the Pyro]].
** ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101''. Wonder-Red, the 'normal guy' who also fulfills the WhiteMaleLead of a multiethnic team. Blue from Los Angeles, speaks in surfer slang. Green is a [[FrenchCuisineIsHaughty foodie stationed in Paris, France]]. Pink is a [[SensualSlavs vampy]] ValleyGirl from Transylvania. Yellow is a [[HuskyRusskie strong man from Russia]]. White is a ninja from Japan. Black is an Indian nerd. Among the other 100 extra wonderful ones, their names are simply Wonder-'X', where X is a stereotype like Zombie, Cheerleader, Pirate, or even Vegetable, that they fit to a tee design wise.
** ''AMF Bowling Pinbusters''. Features a surfer dude, a sexy cowgirl, a stereotypical army sergeant, a punk girl, a JiveTurkey black guy, a spicy Latina, an Elvis impersonator, and a sports-obsessed jock [[note]](who happens to be Asian American; when reviewing this game, Vinny from VineSauce was surprised the character was in fact a job/lifestyle stereotype rather than an ethnic stereotype)[[/note]]
** ''Jerry Rice & Nitus' Dog Football'': The trainers include a goth-ish rockstar, a kilt-and-bagpipes Scot, a RichBitch ValleyGirl, a stereotypical badass biker, an Inuit girl dressed in traditional clothes with a snowflake as her symbol, a clown, and a hula dancer.
** ''VideoGame/BloodyGoodTime'': The cast includes a goth girl, a stoner, a beach babe, a surfer dude, a Playboy bunny girl, a showgirl, a psychopathic clown and a black gambler.

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* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' subverts this. The cast initially looks like this trope, consisting of clones of various historical figures rather than their expies. However, the characters themselves don't want to be tied down with other people's preconceptions of the historical figures they're cloned from so they tend to do a complete 180-degree turn in terms of personality: Abe Lincoln is a weak-willed wimp, Joan of Arc went goth, and so on.

** ''StreetFighterII''/''Super Street Fighter II'' is a well-known example. There's a HuskyRusskie, a Japanese sumo fighter, a beauty-obsessed Spaniard dressed like a matador, a Native Mexican who wears mostly traditional garb and has some connection with animals, an Indian pacifist yoga master with mystical yoga powers, a Chinese woman in a sexy version of a qipao and an "ox horns" hairstyle, a sexy special forces woman, a BruceLeeClone from Hong Kong, and a buff EagleLand Air Force major with an American flag tattooed on his shoulder. Other games of the series also use this trope. There are also a couple "Normal Guy" characters, and gimmick characters.
** StreetFighter's clone ''WorldHeroes'' features Rasputin/Genghis Khan/Joan of Arc/Bruce Lee pastiches from Russia/Mongolia/France/China respectively, a superhumanly competent and powerful German robot, and an Eagleland-themed American wrestler. The sequels add a stereotypical viking, a stereotypical pirate, a primitive Pacific Islander witchdoctor, an aggressive American football player, and a punk Jack the Ripper from the UK.
** ''PunchOut'' game (at least since the second arcade game) loves this trope. The main character, Little Mac, is a "Normal Guy", but most of his opponents are national/ethnic stereotypes. These include a cowardly Frenchman, a Canadian lumberjack, ''the'' VodkaDrunkenski (aka Soda Popinski) from Russia, a militaristic German guy whose stage music is Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, a BruceLeeClone from Hong Kong, a old martial arts master from China, an aggressive Irishman, a Flamenco-dancing Spanish ladies' man, and more.
** ''Wade Hixton's Counter Punch'', a GBA boxing game similar to PunchOut, also does this. Its main character is a "Normal Guy" like Little Mac, but the boxers he encounters include a stereotypical burly biker, a nature-loving African tribesman, a stereotypical raver girl, a black pimp complete with a purple hat and fur coat who [[JiveTurkey sometimes speaks in gibberish "-izzle" words]], and a couple gimmick characters.

** ''WarGods'' features a kabuki-themed samurai, a Caribbean Voodoo witchdoctor, a typical Roman gladiator, a {{Terminator}} expy, a sexy female viking, a sexy witch, and a couple others. And Anubis.
** ''{{Timeslaughter}}'', one of the goriest (and campiest) fighting games ever, cranks this trope up to eleven. Some of its characters are: a stereotypical madman, a stereotypical Neanderthal caveman, a stereotypical French artist, a Scot complete with a kilt and bagpipes, and a cannibalistic voodoo-empowered African chieftain.
** ''Brawlhalla'', a ''SuperSmashBros'' clone, features a DressedToPlunder pirate, a generic knight, a ninja called [[FamousNamedForeigner Hattori]] (for [[FarEast some reason]], one of her alternate costumes is a BruceLeeClone), a {{Mayincatec}} warrior queen, a SteamPunk inventor, a CyberPunk hacker, a stereotypical caveman, a cowgirl, and a couple others.

** While ''TwistedMetal'' games always featured stereotypes among their casts, ''Twisted Metal 3'' came the closest to this trope. Contestants include a stereotypical raver, a sexy environmentalist GranolaGirl, a "get off my lawn" type granny, a black guy from "the hood" who wants to [[JiveTurkey "kick it with his homies in the crib"]], an expy of ''TheProdigy'''s frontman, a burly construction worker, a GhostRider expy, a crazy deranged homeless guy, etc.
** TwistedMetal's clone (and SpiritualSuccessor to the first two games) called ''Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012'' features a stereotypical madman, a stock Batman parody, a fat Elvis impersonator, a SpaghettiWestern cowboy (albeit of a cyborg variety), a sexy nun, a sexy country girl, a RichBitch, and a walking penis joke.
** Another TwistedMetal clone, ''{{Vigilante 8}}'' (and its sequel) do the same... but with 1970s stereotypes.
** ''StreetRacer'' features a self-absorbed rich guy, a sexy surfer girl, a hi-tech sumo fighter from Japan, a tribal chieftain from Kenya, a Red Baron pastiche from Germany, and a turban-wearing guy on a flying carpet from Turkey.
** ''Dead in the Water'' for PS1, which was basically TwistedMetal with boats, features a stereotypical army commander, an Australian CrocodileDundee pastiche, a stereotypical redneck family, a stereotypical pirate, a stereotypical cop, a boy genius, a JiveTurkey black man, a goth girl, and a team of {{Baywatch}} pastiche babes.
** ''CelDamage'' features a ShallowParody anime girl, a stereotypical nerd, a sexy dominatrix, a burly construction worker, and a stereotypical gangster (who happens to be a FunnyAnimal duck).

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* ''AxisPowersHetalia'' is a pretty well-known example, where this is done deliberately and usually Played for Laughs. The characters represent various countries of the world, and are intentionally portrayed in a stereotypical manner: Japan is overly reserved, Italy is obsessed with pasta, America only wants to be the hero, etc.
* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' revels in this trope. Nearly every Gundam pilot is a walking national stereotype. To list a few: Japanese Domon (TheHero) is a martial artist trying to restore his family honor, Spaniard Carlos Andalusia dresses like a matador and his Gundam is shaped like a bull's head, Chibodee Crockett fits every EagleLand stereotype you can think of, and Indian Chandra Sijiema is an evil snake charmer.
* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'': The superhero identities of the supporting cast rely heavily on stereotypes: sexy MsFanservice superheroine Karina, bull-themed DashingHispanic Antonio, dragon-themed BruceLeeClone ChineseGirl Pao-Lin, [[KindheartedSimpleton ditzy, nice]] AllAmericanFace Keith, and flamboyant [[note]] but according to WordOfGod, ''not'' CampGay but rather more of an agender transsexual [[/note]] Nathan play this trope straight; Ivan plays with it by having his identity being a stereotypical ninja/samurai but is instead a Russian Japanophile.

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* ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'': A sort of {{Deconstruction}}. Each of the students in detention fulfills a high school stereotype of TheEighties: specifically, jocks, brainiacs, princesses, criminals, and basket cases -- and yet is about showing how they're much more than those stereotypes.
* ''ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines.'' The Germans are uptight efficiency freaks, the French are more interested in making love and having fun than working, the Italians are devout Catholics and have a bunch of kids, the American is a cowboy, the British are stuffy and formal, and so forth. But as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODKxMlovi4o&feature=PlayList&p=4EA6BDC0C1691CFE&playnext_from=PL&index=6 one YouTube review]] points out, the facts that all actors are the appropriate nationalities and "insults" are applied evenly to all concerned helps mitigate the offensiveness.

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* ''Series/{{Sense8}}'': Due to having to introduce eight storylines all at once, the global cast is comprised of NationalStereotypes so the audience doesn't have to fill in the blanks as much. The protagonists are a [[GermanicDepressives serious, possibly-sociopathic German]], a queer San Franciscan intellectual, a [[InscrutableOriental quiet, stoic Korean]] who [[AllAsiansKnowMartialArts is a champion kickboxer]], a macho {{Telenovela}} actor from Mexico, a cool Nordic DJ, a nice all-American cop, an Indian woman nervous about her [[SadBollywoodWedding upcoming wedding]] (complete with a Bollywood dance number early in the first season), and a poor Kenyan man with a mother dying of AIDS. The characters are fleshed-out and allowed to be more than these stereotypes, however, even playing with some of them (eg. the macho Mexican actor is [[ManlyGay closeted]], the Indian woman is a religious scientist).

* ''{{Hetalia}}'' is a pretty well-known example, where this is done deliberately and usually Played for Laughs. The characters represent various countries of the world, and are intentionally portrayed in a stereotypical manner: Japan is overly reserved, Italy is obsessed with pasta, America only wants to be the hero, etc.

* If it's a game that features bosses/mid-bosses, they\'re also quite often non-[[note]](or at least, less)[[/note]]stereotypical.

** \'\'PunchOut\'\' game (at least since the second arcade game) loves this trope. The main character, Little Mac, is a "Normal Guy", but most of his opponents are national/ethnic stereotypes. These include a cowardly Frenchman, a Canadian lumberjack, \'\'the\'\' VodkaDrunkenski (aka Soda Popinski) from Russia, a militaristic German guy whose stage music is Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, a BruceLeeClone from Hong Kong, a old martial arts master from China, an aggressive Irishman, a Flamenco-dancing Spanish ladies\' man, and more.
** \'\'Wade Hixton\'s Counter Punch\'\', a GBA boxing game similar to PunchOut, also does this. Its main character is a \"Normal Guy\" like Little Mac, but the boxers he encounters include a stereotypical burly biker, a nature-loving African tribesman, a stereotypical raver girl, a black pimp complete with a purple hat and fur coat who [[JiveTurkey sometimes speaks in gibberish \"-izzle\" words]], and a couple gimmick characters.
** Another similar game is \'\'Super KO Boxing 2\'\'. Again, a \"Normal Guy\" hero fights against a cowboy from Texas, a Spanish matador with a rose in his teeth, a stereotypical \"gangsta\" black guy, a Native American chief with a feathered headdress, a black voodoo magician decked in skulls and bones, a stereotypical caveman, a Ryu-esque Japanese fighter with a Rising Sun headband, a pharaoh from Egypt, and a couple gimmick characters.
** \'\'WarGods\'\' features a kabuki-themed samurai, a Caribbean Voodoo witchdoctor, a typical Roman gladiator, a {{Terminator}} expy, a sexy female viking, a sexy witch, and a couple others. And Anubis.
** \'\'{{Timeslaughter}}\'\', one of the goriest (and campiest) fighting games ever, cranks this trope up to eleven. Some of its characters are: a stereotypical madman, a stereotypical Neanderthal caveman, a stereotypical French artist, a Scot complete with a kilt and bagpipes, and a cannibalistic voodoo-empowered African chieftain.
** \'\'Brawlhalla\'\', a \'\'SuperSmashBros\'\' clone, features a DressedToPlunder pirate, a generic knight, a ninja called [[FamousNamedForeigner Hattori]] (for [[FarEast some reason]], one of her alternate costumes is a BruceLeeClone), a {{Mayincatec}} warrior queen, a SteamPunk inventor, a CyberPunk hacker, a stereotypical caveman, a cowgirl, and a couple others.

** While \'\'TwistedMetal\'\' games always featured stereotypes among their casts, \'\'Twisted Metal 3\'\' came the closest to this trope. Contestants include a stereotypical raver, a sexy environmentalist GranolaGirl, a \"get off my lawn\" type granny, a black guy from \"the hood\" who wants to [[JiveTurkey \"kick it with his homies in the crib\"]], an expy of \'\'TheProdigy\'\'\'s frontman, a burly construction worker, a GhostRider expy, a crazy deranged homeless guy, etc.
** TwistedMetal\'s clone (and SpiritualSuccessor to the first two games) called \'\'Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012\'\' features a stereotypical madman, a stock Batman parody, a fat Elvis impersonator, a SpaghettiWestern cowboy (albeit of a cyborg variety), a sexy nun, a sexy country girl, a RichBitch, and a walking penis joke.
** Another TwistedMetal clone, \'\'{{Vigilante 8}}\'\' (and its sequel) do the same... but with 1970s stereotypes.
** \'\'StreetRacer\'\' features a self-absorbed rich guy, a sexy surfer girl, a hi-tech sumo fighter from Japan, a tribal chieftain from Kenya, a Red Baron pastiche from Germany, and a turban-wearing guy on a flying carpet from Turkey.
** \'\'Dead in the Water\'\' for PS1, which was basically TwistedMetal with boats, features a stereotypical army commander, an Australian CrocodileDundee pastiche, a stereotypical redneck family, a stereotypical pirate, a stereotypical cop, a boy genius, a JiveTurkey black man, a goth girl, and a team of {{Baywatch}} pastiche babes.
** \'\'CelDamage\'\' features a ShallowParody anime girl, a stereotypical nerd, a sexy dominatrix, a burly construction worker, and a stereotypical gangster (who happens to be a FunnyAnimal duck).

** \'\'VideoGame/TeamFortress2\'\' relies on national/ethnic stereotypes: The Heavy is a HuskyRusskie, the Medic is a German MadScientist, the Sniper a Film/CrocodileDundee {{Expy}}, the Engy a GoodOldBoy from Texas, the Demoman a ViolentGlaswegian, the Soldier an uber-patriotic {{Eagleland}}er, the Spy a FrenchJerk, the Scout a {{Brooklyn Rage}}r, their boss Saxton Hale is an AwesomeAussie (the page image even!), and the Pyro is... [[TheFaceless the Pyro]].
** \'\'VideoGame/TheWonderful101\'\'. Wonder-Red, the \'normal guy\' who also fulfills the WhiteMaleLead of a multiethnic team. Blue from Los Angeles, speaks in surfer slang. Green is a [[FrenchCuisineIsHaughty foodie stationed in Paris, France]]. Pink is a [[SensualSlavs vampy]] ValleyGirl from Transylvania. Yellow is a [[HuskyRusskie strong man from Russia]]. White is a ninja from Japan. Black is an Indian nerd. Among the other 100 extra wonderful ones, their names are simply Wonder-\'X\', where X is a stereotype like Zombie, Cheerleader, Pirate, or even Vegetable, that they fit to a tee design wise.
** \'\'AMF Bowling Pinbusters\'\'. Features a surfer dude, a sexy cowgirl, a stereotypical army sergeant, a punk girl, a JiveTurkey black guy, a spicy Latina, an Elvis impersonator, and a sports-obsessed jock [[note]](who happens to be Asian American; when reviewing this game, Vinny from VineSauce was surprised the character was in fact a job/lifestyle stereotype rather than an ethnic stereotype)[[/note]]
** \'\'Jerry Rice & Nitus\' Dog Football\'\': The trainers include a goth-ish rockstar, a kilt-and-bagpipes Scot, a RichBitch ValleyGirl, a stereotypical badass biker, an Inuit girl dressed in traditional clothes with a snowflake as her symbol, a clown, and a hula dancer.
** \'\'VideoGame/BloodyGoodTime\'\': The cast includes a goth girl, a stoner, a beach babe, a surfer dude, a Playboy bunny girl, a showgirl, a psychopathic clown and a black gambler.

* \'\'{{Hetalia}}\'\' is a pretty well-known example, where this is done deliberately and usually Played for Laughs. The characters represent various countries of the world, and are intentionally portrayed in a stereotypical manner: Japan is overly reserved, Italy is obsessed with pasta, America only wants to be the hero, etc.
* \'\'Anime/MobileFighterGGundam\'\' revels in this trope. Nearly every Gundam pilot is a walking national stereotype. To list a few: Japanese Domon (TheHero) is a martial artist trying to restore his family honor, Spaniard Carlos Andalusia dresses like a matador and his Gundam is shaped like a bull\'s head, Chibodee Crockett fits every EagleLand stereotype you can think of, and Indian Chandra Sijiema is an evil snake charmer.
* \'\'Anime/TigerAndBunny\'\': The superhero identities of the supporting cast rely heavily on stereotypes: sexy MsFanservice superheroine Karina, bull-themed DashingHispanic Antonio, dragon-themed BruceLeeClone ChineseGirl Pao-Lin, [[KindheartedSimpleton ditzy, nice]] AllAmericanFace Keith, and flamboyant [[note]] but according to WordOfGod, \'\'not\'\' CampGay but rather more of an agender transsexual [[/note]] Nathan play this trope straight; Ivan plays with it by having his identity being a stereotypical ninja/samurai but is instead a Russian Japanophile.

* \'\'Film/TheBreakfastClub\'\': A sort of {{Deconstruction}}. Each of the students in detention fulfills a high school stereotype of TheEighties: specifically, jocks, brainiacs, princesses, criminals, and basket cases -- and yet is about showing how they\'re much more than those stereotypes.
* \'\'ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines.\'\' The Germans are uptight efficiency freaks, the French are more interested in making love and having fun than working, the Italians are devout Catholics and have a bunch of kids, the American is a cowboy, the British are stuffy and formal, and so forth. But as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODKxMlovi4o&feature=PlayList&p=4EA6BDC0C1691CFE&playnext_from=PL&index=6 one YouTube review]] points out, the facts that all actors are the appropriate nationalities and \"insults\" are applied evenly to all concerned helps mitigate the offensiveness.

* \'\'Series/{{Sense8}}\'\': Due to having to introduce eight storylines all at once, the global cast is comprised of NationalStereotypes so the audience doesn\'t have to fill in the blanks as much. The protagonists are a [[GermanicDepressives serious, possibly-sociopathic German]], a queer San Franciscan intellectual, a [[InscrutableOriental quiet, stoic Korean]] who [[AllAsiansKnowMartialArts is a champion kickboxer]], a macho {{Telenovela}} actor from Mexico, a cool Nordic DJ, a nice all-American cop, an Indian woman nervous about her [[SadBollywoodWedding upcoming wedding]] (complete with a Bollywood dance number early in the first season), and a poor Kenyan man with a mother dying of AIDS. The characters are fleshed-out and allowed to be more than these stereotypes, however, even playing with some of them (eg. the macho Mexican actor is [[ManlyGay closeted]], the Indian woman is a religious scientist).

* The whole premise of \'\'WebComic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld\'\' is that the characters representing the countries are NationalStereotypes.

* \'\'WesternAnimation/WackyRaces\'\' might be one of the oldest examples of this trope. It features a couple of stereotypical cavemen, a RedBaron expy, a couple army stereotypes, a mob of stereotypical gangsters, a supergenius scientist inventor, a lazy hillbilly with a pet bear, TheChick who is a GirlyGirl obsessed with her looks, and a DastardlyWhiplash-style villain. There\'s also a racer whose main trait is being a racer, who serves as this cast\'s \"Normal Guy\".
* \'\'WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether\'\' characters represent (and parody) reality show stereotypes, combining them with cartoon genre archetypes. Captain Hero, for example, parodies the macho jock stereotype and the confident, powerful superhero.
* \'\'WesternAnimation/CloneHigh\'\' subverts this. The cast initially looks like this trope, consisting of clones of various historical figures rather than their expies. However, the characters themselves don\'t want to be tied down with other people\'s preconceptions of the historical figures they\'re cloned from so they tend to do a complete 180-degree turn in terms of personality: Abe Lincoln is a weak-willed wimp, Joan of Arc went goth, and so on.

* {{Ms Fanservice}}s[[note]]([[DoubleStandard this is almost never done with males]])[[/note]] representing [[SexyWhateverOutfit \"sexy\"]] versions of certain job/subculture/nation/etc identities ([[FairCop sexy cop]], [[HospitalHottie sexy nurse]], [[HotLibrarian sexy librarian]], etc.).

* \"Normal Guys/Girls\" who are much less stereotypical, but also much more bland than the rest. One of them is usually the main hero and AudienceSurrogate [[note]]([[UnfortunateImplications surprisingly often]] a WhiteMaleLead)[[/note]]

* If it\'s a game that features bosses/mid-bosses, they\'re also quite often non-[[note]](or at least, less)[[/note]]stereotypical.

This trope could be used for different reasons. Maybe the creators had a too limited time or budget to create a cast of fully fleshed but recognizable humorous characters, and turn to this trope as an easier shorthand. Maybe they just didn\'t care. Or maybe this was done intentionally, for example to parody or deconstruct the stereotypes, or just play them straight and revel in the ensuing campy silliness. Note: [[TropesAreNotBad This trope isn\'t necessarily a symptom of a bad or lazy creative process]], if done right it might result in an enjoyable if campy cast of characters.

Compare FiveTokenBand, which doesn\'t necessarily consist of stereotypes, and is always multiethnic[[note]](unlike AllStereotypeCast which could be, e.g., a monoethnic team of job stereotypes)[[/note]]. See also CaptainEthnic: a superhero team consisting of {{CaptainEthnic}}s will result in an AllStereotypeCast.

** \'\'StreetFighterII\'\'/\'\'Super Street Fighter II\'\' is a well-known example. There\'s a HuskyRusskie, a Japanese sumo fighter, a beauty-obsessed Spaniard dressed like a matador, a Native Mexican who wears mostly traditional garb and has some connection with animals, an Indian pacifist yoga master with mystical yoga powers, a Chinese woman in a sexy version of a qipao and an \"ox horns\" hairstyle, a sexy special forces woman, a BruceLeeClone from Hong Kong, and a buff EagleLand Air Force major with an American flag tattooed on his shoulder. Other games of the series also use this trope. There are also a couple \"Normal Guy\" characters, and gimmick characters.
** StreetFighter\'s clone \'\'WorldHeroes\'\' features Rasputin/Genghis Khan/Joan of Arc/Bruce Lee pastiches from Russia/Mongolia/France/China respectively, a superhumanly competent and powerful German robot, and an Eagleland-themed American wrestler. The sequels add a stereotypical viking, a stereotypical pirate, a primitive Pacific Islander witchdoctor, an aggressive American football player, and a punk Jack the Ripper from the UK.
** \'\'PunchOut\'\' game (at least since the second arcade game) loves this trope. The main character, Little Mac, is a \"Normal Guy\", but most of his opponents are national/ethnic stereotypes. These include a cowardly Frenchman, a Canadian lumberjack, \'\'the\'\' VodkaDrunkenski (aka Soda Popinski) from Russia, a militaristic German guy whose stage music is Wagner\'s Ride of the Valkyries, a BruceLeeClone from Hong Kong, a old martial arts master from China, an aggressive Irishman, a Flamenco-dancing Spanish ladies\' man, and more.