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* ''Film/TheMummy1999'' and its sequels mostly take place in 1920s Egypt, which was British-aligned. Though plenty of Egyptians and Britons figure in the story, the protagonist - a former FrenchForeignLegion soldier - is American.

* ''Film/TheMummy1999'' and its sequels mostly take place in 1920s Egypt, which was British-aligned. Though plenty of Egyptians and Britons figure in the story, the protagonist - a former UsefulNotes/FrenchForeignLegion soldier - is American.

# Is there a British [[BasedOnATrueStory based-on-a-true-story]] [[DuringTheWar war drama]] about an obscure African civil conflict? At best, you can expect at least one British freelance reporter to mournfully narrate it all from the sidelines - at worst, you can expect the ''entire'' story to focus on [[ForeignCorrespondent an aid worker from Essex]] and him getting tangled up in the struggle.

** The major aversion is Marcus Cole, who speaks with a British accent and is apparently from a British-settled space colony.

* ''Film/{{Leningrad}}'': It's a story about the Siege of Leningrad (with 3 Million dead generally considered the deadliest siege in recorded history), and the protagonist is a trapped Anglo-American reporter.

* In ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'', time-traveling aliens invade and occupy central Europe. As an international coalition readies to beat them back, a US Army PR officer leading an American mecha platoon and a British ActionChick more or less single-handedly beats them at their own game.

* ''Film/BigGame'': A president's plane gets shot down over Lapland. Which president? The US President, of course.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' sure seems to have a thing for British assistants on his galaxy-saving travels. Then again, the [[AliensInCardiff aliens love Cardiff]] too.

** Despite his American accent, Commander Sinclair is a subversion: he is from Mars and actually considers himself ethnically British (his ancestors were RAF pilots in the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Battle of Britain]]).

** Garibaldi is actually from Mars, but speaks with an American accent and is of American descent (his great-grandmother or something like that was a cop in Boston).

** Captain Sheridan is definitively American, a farm boy (we see him on a call with his dad back on the farm) from somewhere in the Midwest, and is apparently a descendant of the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Civil War]] general Philip Sheridan.

** Both Commander Sinclair and Captain Sheridan are Americans, with Sheridan specifically being a Midwestern farm boy.

** Garibaldi is actually from Mars, but speaks with an American accent and is of American descent (his great-grandmother or something like that was a cop in Boston).
** Dr. Franklin's ancestry is never made clear, but he speaks like an American.

* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', practically all the human representatives are from the US.

* The later Showa-era ''Franchise/{{Gamera}}'' films had token American children shoehorned into stories set in Japan. Daiei did this specifically because their film distributor assured them the movies would be better-received in the US if there were Americans in the cast.

* ''Fanfic/ShadowchasersBackwater''; the eponymous town is in Nebraska, much like the author, 7th Librarian, is.

* [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged in]] ''Film/TheThirdMan'' where the American protagonist being out of luck in post-war Vienna is very much a deconstruction of this trope. With the British deuteragonist however, not nearly so much.

* Film/TheThing2011: In a polar research station filled to the brim with Norwegians, of course the Americans are the heroes.

* ''Literature/GorkyPark'' is about a Soviet cop investigating the death of an American and his friends in the heart of Moscow - and promptly receives unasked aid from the victim's brother, a NYPD detective.

* This trope is a staple of the ''VideoGame/FarCry'' series, as the vast majority of the protagonists are American citizens abroad. Some games have handled this differently, though: ''VideoGame/FarCry2'' allows a wide selection of protagonists, only one or two of which are Americans and the rest come from all over the world. ''VideoGame/FarCry4''[='=]s protagonist was actually born in the country it takes place in, moving away to America when very young and only coming back on his mother's dying wish. ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'' takes place long before there even ''was'' a United States, while ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' takes place entirely ''in'' America. The [[Film/FarCry film adaptation of the first game]] also does this, as protagonist Jack Carver is RaceLift[=ed=] from American to German, as per the nationality of its director.

* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne 3'' is about everyone's favourite [[NewYorkCityCops New York cop]] moving his 'practices' to Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Often crops up in both [[{{Sequelitis}} Sequels]] and [[ForeignRemake Foreign Remakes]], who often like to recycle the plot in more exotic locations and give the story a '[[CulturalTranslation translated]]' tinge respectively.

# Is there an inspiring South African [[SportsStories Sports Story]] about a RagtagBunchOfMisfits somehow qualifying for, say, [[ArtisticLicenseSports the Cheese Rolling discipline at the Olympics]], even though not a single South African has ever ever rolled any kind of dairy product down a slope in the history of the world before? Well, since UnderdogsNeverLose, not only will they roll that cheese down that hill faster, more efficiently and more artfully than the OpposingSportsTeam, those JerkAss three-decades-in-a-row Cheese-Rolling [[Series/MockTheWeek gold medalists from Ireland]], they will somehow set up a new record in the process through [[PowerOfLove their sheer patriotic energy alone]]. After [[InstantExpert one or two days of hardcore practice montages]]. Also, expect the story to be BasedOnAGreatBigLie.

# Is there a US [[TheCaper Crime Caper]] about outfoxing a Yugoslavian human trafficking ring and saving the poor local townsfolk from their corrupt grip? Expect the gun-wielding MagnificentBastard making it happen to be [[StrangeCopInAStrangeLand a tough-as-nails ex-FBI agent straight out of Los Angeles]], looking for a new start in the old world.

* 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]].

* This trope is a staple of the ''VideoGame/FarCry'' series, as every single protagonist, regardless of where the games take place, are American citizens abroad. Later games have played around with this, however: ''VideoGame/FarCry4''[='=]s protagonist was actually born in the country it takes place in, moving away when very young and only coming back on his mother's dying wish, while ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'' takes place long before there even ''was'' a United States and ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' takes place entirely ''in'' America.

-->-- ''VideoGame/MaxPayne3'', [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] this trope in Brazil.

* This trope is a staple of the ''VideoGame/FarCry'' series, as every single protagonist, regardless of where the games take place, are American citizens abroad.

* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne3'' is about everyone's favourite [[NewYorkCityCops New York cop]] moving his 'practices' to Sao Paolo, Brazil.

* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' is a Honk Kong crime drama... and the protagonist is an undercover San Francisco PD Sino-American.

* In Film/EdgeOfTomorrow, time-traveling aliens invade and occupy central Europe. As an international coalition readies to beat them back, a US Army PR officer leading an American mecha platoon and a British ActionChick more or less single-handedly beats them at their own game.