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Needless to say, this very often intersects with various other tropes of the same bent, such as, the WhiteMaleLead, the WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant, the VanillaProtagonist, the StandardizedLeader, LeadYouCanRelateTo, AmericaWinsTheWar and AmericaSavesTheDay, and ButNotTooForeign. Naturally, UnfortunateImplications tend to abound that range from CreatorProvincialism, over WeAllLiveInAmerica, all the way to genuine (though ultimately [[MisplacedNationalism misplaced]]) PatrioticFervour.\\

* The ''VideoGame/{{Arma}}'' series regularly casts you as an American soldier in NATO intervention and/or peacekeeping operations in fictional countries. Sometimes it's actually closely based on RealLife (like in ''II'''s [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Yugoslavia-esque]] [[{{Ruritania}} Chernarus]] and [[UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror Afghanistan-esque]] [[{{Qurac}} Takistan]]) and thus [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]], but other times (as with Sahrani in ''I'' or Altis and Stratis in ''III'') not so much. The creators themselves [[SubvertedTrope are Czech]] (and have once even made a Czech faction in-game), but the intended target market audience was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff obvious.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Arma}}'' series regularly casts you as an American soldier in NATO intervention and/or peacekeeping operations in fictional countries. Sometimes it's actually closely based on RealLife (like in ''II'''s [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Yugoslavia-esque]] [[{{Ruritania}} Chernarus]] and [[UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror Afghanistan-esque]] [[{{Qurac}} Takistan]]) and thus [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]], but other times (as with Sahrani in ''I'' or Altis and Stratis in ''III'') not so much. The creators themselves [[SubvertedTrope are Czech]] (and have once even made a Czech faction in-game), but the intended target market audience was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff obvious]].

* The ''VideoGame/{{Arma}}'' series regularly casts you as an American soldier in NATO intervention and/or peacekeeping operations in fictional countries. Sometimes it's actually closely based on RealLife (like in ''II'''s [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Yugoslavia-esque]] [[{{Ruritania}} Chernarus]] and [[UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror Afghanistan-esque]] [[{{Qurac}} Takistan]]) and thus [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]], but other times (as with Sahrani in ''I'' or Altis and Stratis in ''III'') not so much. The creators themselves [[SubvertedTrope are Czech]] (and have once even made a Czech faction in-game), but the intended target market audience was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhof obvious]].

* The ''VideoGame/{{Arma}}'' series regularly casts you as an American soldier in NATO intervention and/or peacekeeping operations in fictional countries. Sometimes it's actually closely based on RealLife (like in ''2'''s [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars Yugoslavia-esque]] [[{{Ruritania}} Chernarus]] and [[UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror Afghanistan-esque]] [[{{Qurac}} Takistan]]) and thus [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]], but other times (as with Sahrani in ''I'' or Altis and Stratis in ''III'') not so much.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}}'' series, Russia, continental Europe and the British Isles are attacked by a deadly mutant virus - and you play, of course, as a soldier of an American intervention force.

* ''Film/TheDarkestHour'', where aliens attack and level Moscow. The leads are a bunch of American tourists (and a ''Swede'').

# Is there a humorous Russian film about a FishOutOfTemporalWater [[TimeTravel travelling back in time]] and encountering [[DynastiesFromShangToQing Ming Dynasty China]]? Almost certainly the time traveler's going to be a lazy modern-day St Petersburg slacker schoolkid who ends up 'bettering' the highly advanced civilisation with his marginal knowledge [[ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll of recent Russian pop culture]] and [[SocietyMarchesOn a quick aesop in some modern Russian values]], usually to either [[ButterflyEffect great positive]] or [[BurnTheWitch very negative]] effect.

* ''Literature/PatriotGames'': A CIA agent goes to the UK [[BusmansHoliday in his spare time]], saves Prince Charles' life, and subsequently gets himself into a lot of trouble with the IRA.

# Is there a humorous Russian film about a FishOutOfTemporalWater [[TimeTravel travelling back in time]] and encountering [[DynastiesFromShangToQing Ming Dynasty China]]? Almost certainly the kid's going to be a lazy modern-day St Petersburg slacker schoolkid who ends up 'bettering' the highly advanced civilisation with his marginal knowledge [[ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll of recent Russian pop culture]] and [[SocietyMarchesOn a quick aesop in some modern Russian values]], usually to either [[ButterflyEffect great positive]] or [[BurnTheWitch very negative]] effect.

* ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'': An American coal mining community gets transported back in time and plunged into [[UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar Thirty Years War-era]] [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Thuringia]], inadvertedly injecting the war-stricken Europe with [[{{Eagleland}} some modern American values]].

-> '''Alvaro Neves:''' You are a proper American hero.
-> '''Max Payne:''' Well at least I fucking tried!
-> '''Alvaro Neves:''' *''SarcasticClapping''* Well done with your effort. The whole city is grateful, the Great American Saviour of the Poor.
-> '''Max Payne:''' That's right!

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* ''Film/MasterAndCommander'' [[InvertedTrope inverts]] this: The book its based on had originally cast American privateers as the [[BritsWithBattleships RN]] protagonists' enemies, whereas the Hollywood film version turns them into Frenchmen. The jury is still out on whether that's a product of AdaptationDistillation or the producers trying to 'tame' the story for the American audience.

AudienceSurrogate and WriteWhatYouKnow, in return, are this trope's [[SuperTrope Superiors]].

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* ForeignCorrespondent
* MightyWhitey
* StrangeCopInAStrangeLand
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MightyWhitey, StrangeCopInAStrangeLand and ForeignCorrespondent cover aspects of this trope, but are ultimately subtropes to the Homegrown Hero. AudienceSurrogate and WriteWhatYouKnow, in return, are [[SuperTrope Supertropes]].

* Taken to a new extreme in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' in which, despite taking place in post-apocalyptic Bulgaria where any semblance of nationstates has been destroyed, 99% of the humans still seem to be American (Gordon Freeman himself, naturally).

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' lampshades the trope, despite not being an example itself (being a Japanese game with an American protagonist): [[ThePresidentsDaughter The US President's daughter]] and [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 Leon Kennedy]] (now a secret service agent) is sent to rescue her. The villains enjoy taunting him over how things won't turn out "like your American action movies".

-->-- '''''VideoGame/MaxPayne III''''', [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] this trope.

* Taken to a new extreme in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' in which, despite taking place in post-apocalyptic Bulgaria where any semblance of nationstates has been destroyed, 99% of the humans still seem to be American (protagonist included, naturally).

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'': [[ThePresidentsDaughter The US President's daughter]] gets abducted in Spain, and the only bad-enough dude to save her is a solitary American cop.

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Needless to say, this very often intersects with various other tropes of the same bent, such as, the WhiteMaleLead, the WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant, the VanillaProtagonist, the StandardizedLeader, LeadYouCanRelateTo, AmericaWinsTheWar and AmericaSavesTheDay, and ButNotTooForeign. Naturally, UnfortunateImplications tend to abound that range from CreatorProvincialism, over WeAllLiveInAmerica, all the way to genuine (though ultimately [[MisplacedNationalism misplaced]]) PatrioticFervour. MightyWhitey, StrangeCopInAStrangeLand and ForeignCorrespondent cover aspects of this trope, but are ultimately subtropes to the Homegrown Hero. AudienceSurrogate and WriteWhatYouKnow, in return, are [[SuperTrope Supertropes]].

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-> '''Alvaro Neves:'''You are a proper American hero.

-> '''Alvaro Neves: '''*''SarcasticClapping''* Well done with your effort. The whole city is grateful, the Great American Saviour of the Poor.