Examples of All-Stereotype Cast in Video Games:
Fighting Games
- Brawlhalla, a Super Smash Bros. clone, features a Dressed to Plunder pirate, a generic knight, a ninja called Hattori (for some reason, one of her alternate costumes is a Bruce Lee Clone), a Mayincatec warrior queen, a Steampunk inventor, a Cyberpunk hacker, a stereotypical caveman, a cowgirl, and a couple others.
- Evil Zone is an incredibly campy hodgepodge of 90's action anime stereotypes — the hot-blooded catchphrase-shouting Henshin Hero, the magic sword-wielding schoolgirl, the demon sword-possessed edgelord, and more.
- Mace: The Dark Age: in this fighting game set in the Dark Ages/Middle Ages, there are a horn-helmeted Northman viking named Ragnar Bloodaxe, two samurai (one in samurai regalia and the other with a conical straw hat), an East Asian blind monk, an odalisque-looking princess from a harem, a female kunoichi, and a dual-wielding, scimitar-wielding Arabian assassin.
- In Martial Champion for the Arcade, as usual for the time, the cast features stereotypical characters from around the world: an East Asian fighter modelled after Ken and Ryu; an eyepatch-wearing military man from the United States; a "Chinnese" old martial arts master; a Japanese kabuki actor with a large mane of red hair; a Chinese Vampire (jiangshi) from "Hon-Kong"; a large obese scimitar-wielding man from Saudi Arabia; a girl that apparently comes from Ancient Egypt instead of the modern country. Some exceptions seem to be Racheal, a blue-eyed blonde American who dresses like a kunoichi, and Mahambah, a staff-wielding boy that comes from a Kenyan village.
- The Masters Fighter: As argued by Matt McMuscles, the game's cast is built upon versions of characters from other, contemporary Fighting Games:
- Long-Way is the local Bruce Lee Clone, copied from Dragon (World Heroes), who is also a Bruce Lee Clone of that series;
- Kang Te Kong is the Old Master character, a combination of Lee Pai Long and Tung Fu Rue;
- Takuya, the (apparent) protagonist, is visually similar to Kim Kaphwan;
- Mishell is clearly Yuri Sakazaki from Art of Fighting, though wearing urban clothes;
- Sakamoto is this game's version of Real Life samurai Yagyu Jubei, who has a counterpart in Samurai Shodown;
- Bill is the burly muscled giant that McMuscles suspects was copied from Jack Turner from Art of Fighting.
- Azarl fits the slot of a military clad character, à la Guile from Street Fighter. Again, McMuscles argues for a combination between Guile, Mr. Big and John (the latter two from Art of Fighting).
- The cast for Power Athlete (or Power Moves) is also a collection of Fighting Game stereotypes:
- Joe, the main (and only playable) character in Arcade Mode, is implied to hail from Japan (harking back to Ken and Ryu from Street Fighter).
- Baraki seems to be a dark-skinned African character, but is modelled after feral Blanka.
- Reayon fits the slot of the only girl in a fighting game cast. Also a martial arts practitioner a la Chun-Li, although Reayon comes from Thailand.
- Vagnad is this game's responde to Zangief: a burly, yet slow character from (Soviet) Russia.
- Buoh is the Japanese representative: a martial artist fashioned after a kabuki actor.
- Savage Warriors for the PC has the distinction of also being a collection of fighting game archetypes. As Matt McMuscles put it, "they're pretty generic. We have: martial arts girl, New York gang member, military guy, Egyptian princess, reptile monster, Native American, African tribesman", among others. Rounding up the roster are a hook-handed pirate, a redheaded Scottish clan leader/warlord, and a Roman gladiator from Carthage - the three plucked out of their respective time periods.
- Street Fighter clone Human Killing Machine's cast includes a Korean martial artist, a Russian/Soviet soldier and his dog (whose Home Stage is Saint Basil's Cathedral), a Hispanic torero (bull fighter) and the bull (whose Home Stage is a bull fighting arena), a lederhosen-wearing German, and a Keffiyeh (a type of male headdress)-wearing Middle Eastern man in a war-torn country.
- SNES game Street Combat (a repackaged Ranma 1/2 Fighting Game) cast of characters is nothing to write home about, either:
- The only Black character in the cast is named Tyrone.
- There is a character named G.I. Jim wearing a military outfit.
- A clown/jester that fights with juggling poles and is called Dozo.
- The only girl is named Lita, who wears a purple and red garment. She is implied to be a ninja, since her pre-battle artwork shows a shuriken on her hand.
- Street Fighter II/Super Street Fighter II is a well-known example. There's a Husky Russkie, a Japanese sumo fighter, a beauty-obsessed Spaniard dressed like a matador, a Native Mexican(who is actually from the US) 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 British special forces woman, a Bruce Lee Clone 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.
- 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.
- War Gods features a kabuki-themed samurai, a Caribbean Voodoo witchdoctor, a typical Roman gladiator, a Terminator parody, a sexy female viking, a sexy witch, and a couple others. And Anubis (which, by in-game lore, is not the Egyptian god).
- Street Fighter clone World Heroes 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 riffing on Hulk Hogan.
- 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.
Boxing Games
- The Punch-Out!! games (at least since the second arcade game) love 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 Vodka Drunkenski (aka Soda Popinski) from Russia, a militaristic German guy whose stage music is Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, a Bruce Lee Clone from Hong Kong, an old martial arts master from China, an aggressive Irishman, a Flamenco-dancing Spanish ladies' man, and more.
- 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.
- 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 sometimes speaks in gibberish "-izzle" words, and a couple gimmick characters.
Racing Games
- Dead in the Water for PS 1, which was basically Twisted Metal with boats, features a stereotypical army commander, an Australian "Crocodile" Dundee pastiche, a stereotypical redneck family, a stereotypical pirate, a stereotypical cop, a boy genius, a Jive Turkey black man, a goth girl, and a team of Baywatch pastiche babes.
- Street Racer 1994 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 Turkish guy on a flying carpet.
- A Twisted Metal clone (and Spiritual Successor to the first two games) called Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012 features a stereotypical madman, a stock Batman parody, a fat Elvis Impersonator, a Spaghetti Western cowboy (albeit of a cyborg variety), a sexy nun, a sexy country girl, a Rich Bitch, and a walking penis joke.
- While Twisted Metal games always featured stereotypes among their casts, Twisted Metal 3 came the closest to this trope. Contestants include a stereotypical raver, a sexy environmentalist Granola Girl, a "get off my lawn"-type granny, a black guy from "the hood" who wants to "kick it with his homies in the crib", a burly construction worker, a Ghost Rider pardoy, a crazy deranged homeless guy, etc.
- Vigilante 8 (and its sequel), does the same... but with 1970s stereotypes.
Other genres
- AMF Bowling Pinbusters: This game features a surfer dude, a sexy cowgirl, a Drill Sergeant Nasty, a punk girl, a Jive Turkey black guy, a Spicy Latina, an Elvis impersonator, and a sports-obsessed jock note
- Bloody Good Time: 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.
- Being set in a North American boarding school, Bully predictably portrays a cast of students representing American schoolyard stock characters, known in-game as cliques: Nerds, Bullies, Preppies, Greasers, Jocks, and Townies.
- Cel Damage features a Shallow Parody anime girl, a stereotypical nerd, a sexy dominatrix, a burly construction worker, and a stereotypical gangster (who happens to be a Funny Animal duck).
- Guitar Hero's playable characters are stereotypes of rock stars from various rock subgenres — a bouncy pop-punk girl in a tartan school skirt, an 80s Hair Metal guy in denim, a punk with liberty spikes and Union Jack clothing, a Glam Rock guy in androgynous clothes and Aladdin Sane face paint, a big Heävy Mëtal Ümlaut in black leather and corpse paint, a Visual Kei girl in neon colours and twintails, a hippie/prog bloke in a Napoleonic jacket and a bow with which to play his guitar, a grunge/Southern rock girl in a Confederate flag bra... This fell by the wayside once the series began incorporating real musicians as playable characters, and was somewhat diminished in III where many characters were redesigned to fit a generic metal look.
- The Hex is a meta-game where six characters from disparate gaming genres find themselves in an inn and learn that one of them is going to commit a murder, so their past and motives are explored. There's the anthropomorphic protagonist of a Mascot Platformer (who looks like a cross between Sonic and Crash Bandicoot), a character from a fighting game (a Scary Black Man full of tattoos), a sorceress from a Zelda-esque 16-bit JRPG (who looks more like a World of Warcraft character), a Space Marine from a top-down shooter, a post-apocalyptic survivor from a Fallout-esque turn-based strategy game and the point-of-view character from an Environmental Narrative Game (who is represented as a mute shadow whose only arms and legs are rendered). However nothing is so clear-cut and the genres will be mixed and spoofed during the course of the main game, which is played for both comedy and drama.
- Jerry Rice & Nitus' Dog Football: The trainers include a goth-ish rockstar, a kilt-and-bagpipes Scot, a Rich Bitch Valley Girl, a stereotypical badass biker, an Inuit girl dressed in traditional clothes with a snowflake as her symbol, a clown, and a hula dancer.
- Judgment Rites does this In-Universe, when omnipotent brat Trelane constructs a World War I era German town as part of his newfound fascination with that period of Earth's history. He abducts the members of three Federation ships to serve as characters in the town, brainwashing them to play various roles. Because Trelane only has a rudimentary understanding of the period, both the town and its "inhabitants" are blatant stereotypes. This includes over-the-top-villainous German officers, a female spy for the French working as a bartender, bourgeois business owners reluctant to send their sons to war, an old veteran of the Franco-Prussian war who's lost an arm and can't clean his apartment, and a young soldier in the trenches who is perpetually on the verge of a melodramatic death. Even Kirk and his crewmen are stereotypes (in the eyes of the townspeople) — playing the roles of daring American pilots who'd been shot down and captured. All of these stereotypes are duly noted by Kirk and company. One of the possible solutions to the mission is to point out to Trelane how trite and shallow his recreation is, forcing him to use information from the Enterprise's computer to make a faithful recreation. Reality is so gruesome that Trelane can eventually be convinced by Kirk to lose his interest in the war and release the captives.
- In the sequel of Knights of Pen and Paper for playable characters we have the jock, the cheerleader, the lab rat, the surfer, the bookworm, the goth, the exchange student, the rocker, the rich kid and the hipster. Word of God states that they wanted to create a cast of diverse and easily recognizable high school stereotypes.
- Overwatch — a learned and pragmatic German, a Femme Fatale Frenchwoman, a chirpy Cockney sparra, a cutesy Korean esports gamer and actress, an American cowboy, a butch and bearlike Russian, an honourable Japanese samurai, a crazy hoon Australian, and so on. Heroes added later, like Sombra (a Mexican hacker) and Ana (a Cool Old Lady Egyptian sharpshooter) tend not to fit stereotypes as neatly, if at all.
- Team Fortress 2 relies on national/ethnic stereotypes: The Heavy is a Husky Russkie, the Medic is a German Mad Scientist, the Sniper a "Crocodile" Dundee parody, the Engineer a Good Old Boy from Texas, the Demoman a Violent Glaswegian, the Soldier an uber-patriotic Eaglelander, the Spy a French Jerk, the Scout a Brooklyn Rager, their boss Saxton Hale is an Awesome Aussie (the page image even!), and the Pyro is... the Pyro.
- The Wonderful 101: Wonder-Red, the 'normal guy' who also fulfills the White Male Lead of a multiethnic team. Blue from Los Angeles, speaks in surfer slang. Green is a foodie stationed in Paris, France. Pink is a vampy Valley Girl from Transylvania. Yellow is a 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.
