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As a whole

The major nations of the Allied Forces in WWII, which include America, England (representing the UK), France, Russia, China, and Canada.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job:
  • England's hair in the manga varies with realistic shades of blond (pale straw blond, dirty blond, golden-strawberry blond) but the anime makes it a saturated yellow. Beautiful World fixes this, going with the golden blond seen in most manga art.
  • France's hair color in the manga varies between being a golden blond to a darker, almost brown shade. In the anime, it's a bright yellow-blond. The fifth season gives him platinum blond hair.
  • Russia's hair varies between being platinum blond or a golden-dark blond in manga artwork. The anime chose to render his hair in a beige tone (which it originally appeared as in trading card art). His tan scarf is also changed to pink. (Well, pink does fit him.)
  • China has black hair (most of the time) in the manga, but brown in the anime.
  • Canada has lighter blond hair with darker tips in manga artwork, but the anime gives him a uniform dark blond shade. His eyes also changed from being violet (or light blue) to a deep blue. Both changes make him look even more like America. Season 5 gives him back his violet eyes, and changes his hair color to a strawberry blond shade.
• The Alliance: They were all a part of the Allies in WWII.
• Aloof Ally: Russia and China tend to keep out of America's, England's and France's antics, both preferring to work alone.
• Anachronism Stew:
  • This strip, when England asks America (who is admittedly a technical wizard) if he's trying to show off by having a computer that won't be invented for forty-two years.
  • One episode of the anime depicts France with a digital camera, presumably in the 1940s. Yet it prints photos as if it were a Polaroid.
• Arch-Enemy: Russia and America, during the Cold War.
• Badass Crew: With certain complications.
• Battle in the Rain: Narrowly averted between England and America during The American Revolution.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Gender-Inverted Trope for France, England and America respectively.
• Big Brother Mentor: England used to be this to America (and Canada) until it all went wrong.
• Characterization Marches On:
  • Early strips showed France as much more of a Handsome Lech, and Hungary's frying pan joke originally started off as her driving France away from manhandling Austria. Most of his particularly lecherous early strips have been long deleted from the main site, though, and nowadays his being a Chivalrous Pervert is more emphasized.
  • Oh sure, England was also a Tsundere for America back then, but remember the time he tried to essentially kill America (by making him sit in the Busby's chair) all because of America's slip-up about beating him?
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass:
  • It's hard to believe that the relatively unassuming, idealistic, and boisterous America has Super-Strength to rival Russia... and his Idiot Hero tendencies do not help one bit.
  • France during Napoleon's reign, enough to even win against Russia and Austria.
• Cuteness Proximity:
  • England is very affectionate to the nice spirits that follow him around (i.e. Flying Mint Bunny, a unicorn, Captain Hook, and Tinkerbell). Since no one else can see those spirits, they assume he's gone a little crazy.
  • China definitely has a weakness for all things cute, including baby!Japan, pandas, and of course, Shinatty-chan. At one point he voyages across the world to bring his boss back interesting animals... and selects only the ones he thinks were cute.
• Enemy Mine: France and England—could also apply to America and Russia, but their rivalry really kicks into gear after WWII, when much of the original comic and anime is set.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Apparently when England gets really drunk he tends to do this. China is also once seen at a bar, drinking and crying about his relationship with Japan to Russia.
• Flower Motifs: Fandom never misses an opportunity to depict Russia with sunflowers and England with roses (England's national flower). And then there's France and his own roses...
• Foil:
  • England and America. England is grumpy, a realist, somewhat pessimistic and world-weary, while America is incredibly optimistic, outgoing, cheerful, and highly imaginative.
  • England and France could also qualify. While England is focused, serious and has trouble interacting with others, France is carefree, outgoing and has a more relaxed, easygoing nature.
  • America and Canada. America is loud, forceful, often makes himself the center of attention, and often overlooks others' feelings. Canada is soft-spoken, somewhat shy, gentle and is constantly overshadowed or overlooked by others.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: England is serious and responsible, while America is carefree and fun-loving.
• Freudian Excuse:
  • It's implied that Russia turned insane mainly because of his horrible history, which included him being implicitly tormented by General Winter during his childhood, bullied by other nations as a kid, and witnessing many tragedies and wars.
  • England muses once that America's tendency toward big and extravagant may stem from when he was still hungry.
• Gratuitous Foreign Language: America and England in the original Japanese, and then France, China and Russia in both the original and the dub.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Despite England's cynical and realistic outlook on life, he's apparently a romanticist "before he goes to sleep", according to Word of Himaruya. And even though he's outwardly grumpy and unfriendly, he's very affectionate to the spirits that follow him around, and was to young America before the Revolution. Himaruya has said that he has a "rich and unlimited personality".
  • Russia is far more perceptive of the people around him then they give him credit for, is quite reflective on himself and his actions, occasionally being regretful, likes to cook, knit and is a computer hacker who rivals Estonia.
  • Particularly in more recent strips, France has shown a more serious side, specially marked by how he's surprisingly good at reading emotions. This shows clearly when he befriends Lisa aka the reincarnation of Joan of Arc and in a story where he interacts with a French soldier.
  • America, like Russia, is shown at times to be more aware of the atmosphere than others think. He's also shown to actually be quite melancholy in private, such as for his separation from England, his brother Canada being easier to befriend than him, or his short-lived childhood due to his abnormally rapid growth.
  • Canada is usually as meek and unassuming as he appears to be, but is very much capable of driving America to tears with just words alone and according to Word of Himaruya, has always been somewhat of a tactician. He is also said to be a very strong fighter despite not enjoying it.
• Idiot Hair: Out the wazoo in the comic as a whole:
  • America's Nantucket
  • Canada's loopy curl
  • Even the cat/neko versions of the characters have their ahoges!
• I Just Want to Have Friends:
  • When he was a child, Russia just wanted to make friends with the other nations, but they bullied him instead. He even tried befriending a hamster, only for it to reject him too. You can even interpret his later "become one with me" mantra as a twisted Manchild version of this.
  • England as well, which motivates the Anglo-Japanese alliance. However, given his behavior, it's easy to see why he has trouble in this area...
• Improbable Weapon User: China uses a wok and ladle to beat up the Axis, while Russia's weapon is a lead-pipe faucet-crowbar thing.
• Intentional Engrish for Funny: China and Russia sometimes get this treatment in the dub.
• Interspecies Friendship: America with Tony, an alien, and England with his various magical friends.
• Invisible to Normals: Originally it was implied only England can see his "magical friends", until France walked in on them...
• It's All About Me:
  • While America does genuinely try to help others, there are times he falls into this. His "battle plan" for the Allies is this in spades.
  • France has these moments occasionally. At one point he refers to the other nations as "insignificant characters".
• Large Ham:
  • America is often very energetic and loud, commanding all the attention for himself.
  • France is dramatic to the extreme whenever he has the opportunity, especially when he's distraught about something.
• Manipulative Bastard:
  • In Episode 20 of the World Series, America (successfully) lays a guilt trip on Japan to get the latter to come to the former's Christmas party.
  America: GUESS WHAT, EVERYONE! This year's Christmas Party is going to be Japan's treat!
  Japan: F*CK YOU, AMERICA!
  • France — naturally, he leads the way spreading nasty rumors about Germany. At his best, he almost pulled off a Divide and Conquer against the Habsburgs. Divide, but not quite conquer. It's also pointed out early in the series that France often profits from the sidelines during any war or military conflict, even if he's not involved in it.
  • Russia exploits his scary and cutesy traits for his own gain and doesn't give choices.
    "Compromise? There's no such service in Russia, you know."
  • Canada, surprisingly. One of his tactics to get America to surrender during The American Revolution was to trick him into signing a surrender treaty that was hidden in a package disguised to make it look like it had food inside. It nearly worked, too.
• The Minnesota Fats: America and England have a bit of a rivalry. No matter what England does, America does it bigger and better. Case in point: Their long-running (87 years) competition trying to scare the other one first at Halloween—England's won every year.
• Naked People Are Funny:
  • Some of France's antics. And mind you, he isn't content with being the only naked one during those moments. He devotes an entire Christmas special to taking off characters' shirts (and a bit more).
  • When England gets drunk he forgets all about being a gentleman and has the habit of stripping naked in front of other countries. Hilarity usually ensues.
• Nice Guy:
  • Canada, to a ridiculous level. America even lampshades it in the strips themselves:
    America: He has a rare personality that can get along well with everyone, and he actually wants to change it? He seriously doesn't know how blessed he is.
  • America does genuinely want to help his fellow nations. For example, in Episode 8 of The Beautiful World, he leaps at the opportunity to use his technological knowhow to track down the hackers who messed with Estonia's blog. Of course, he often falls into It's All About Me while trying to help.
• Non-Human Sidekick:
  • America has whales and the visitor from outer space named Tony (who hates England for some reason, but is fond of Lithuania).
  • The spirits that follow England around (with one being a Unicorn) as an adult could count, but as a child he's pretty much always seen with a rabbit by his side.
  • Canada has Kumajirou, his talking polar bear.
  • China has his pandas.
• Odd Friendship: France and Russia, based on historical friendship between them (also mentioned in some of Himaruya's old notes).
• Only Sane Man:
  • England occasionally takes up this role with the Allies. Of course, 95% of the time, he's Not So Above It All.
  • China reaches this some of the time and can act like the voice of reason for the Allies, usually when England proves that he's Not So Above It All.
• The Quiet One:
  • Canada is soft-spoken, especially in comparison to the much louder America.
  • As per Word of Himaruya, Russia's true nature is quiet and aloof around people he doesn't consider friends. But it doesn't come up, since he considers everyone his friend...
• Reading The Enemy's Mail: The Allies get a hold of Germany's diary and read it to find clues on how to defeat the Axis...but most of the entries are about Italy.
• Real Men Cook: France and China are excellent cooks. England tries...and is mocked over the non-edibility of his food.
• Real Men Wear Pink:
  • England loves sewing and embroidering.
  • Not only does Russia volunteer to be the Pink Ranger in the drama CDs, but he also likes knitting as much as England loves embroidery. He's also been shown wearing a cutesy apron that says "Usa-chan" (as in rabbit in Japanese, not America]]).
  • France's outfit in The Movie, quite literally.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni:
  • America — loud, brash, confident — is the Red Oni to Canada's quiet, reserved, humble Blue Oni.
  • England can also be the Red Oni to France's Blue Oni, being volatile and hot-tempered in comparison to France's relaxed, poised persona.
• Regional Riff: France sometimes has accordion music in the background when he is on screen, and it shows up in his songs as well. China's songs use East Asian instruments and motifs.
• The Rival: England and France, with their long history of wars. Russia and America too, especially during the Cold War.
• Rivals Team Up:
  • Arguably the whole group of them, but particularly France and England, and America and Russia. Could also apply to China and Russia, given their historical disagreements about communism.
  • Frequently amounts to Teeth-Clenched Teamwork, though America likes to brand them as a successful, supportive team.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: America and Canada's sibling relationship is often portrayed as this, with America as the Manly Man and Canada as the Sensitive Guy.
• Separated by a Common Language: In one comic, England asks America for a rubber (eraser). After asking a confused England if he even has a partner, America gives him a condom.
• She Is All Grown Up: England leaves young America to return to his country during the colonial period, telling the boy to do his best and become strong. He is shocked after he returns to find that America's grown from a child to a teenager in an abnormally short time for a nation. And that he's grown taller than him.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Canada and America. Canada is meek and sensitive while America is outgoing and has occasional bouts of arrogance.
• Sick Episode: One story showed France teasing a bed-ridden England until he realized that the latter was really sick, at which point he tried to help him feel better. America appeared later and tried to cure England by putting a hamburger on his head.
• Signature Laugh: Also ubiquitous:
  • America's loud and rhythmic "Ha ha ha ha!"
  • Russia's soft, ominous "ufufufu~"
  • Dub!France's "onhonhonhon!"
• Sitcom Archnemesis
  • England and France. The only surefire way to keep England out of your house is to invite France. America observes that after 900 years of war, the only thing that keeps these two old timers going is antagonizing each other.
  • Russia and America have something of this after the Cold War. They're pretty passive-aggressive toward one another, and the atmosphere intensifies when the two get into it.
• Ship Tease: Basically goes on between any characters who spend time together. Himaruya must be aware of the number of yaoi fans in his fanbase...
• Strong Family Resemblance/Uncanny Family Resemblance: America and Canada, to the point that Cuba and other nations at times mistake Canada for America, much to his misery.
• Super-Strength: Russia, America, and China are depicted having this, as in Real Life, they are superpower nations of the modern world.
• Supreme Chef:
  • France, who tried to use his culinary skills to bribe a young America several times (however, on his last try, America was too used to England's food). When England really needs food done well, even he capitulates and asks France for help.
  • China as well. In fact, one of the top three gourmet cuisines in the world is Chinese food, the other being France and (presumably) Turkey.
    • France, China, and Turkey form the Gourmet Club in the Gakuen verse.
• Trademark Favorite Food: America has hamburgers, and Canada has anything covered in maple syrup. There's England's love of tea, and Russia's love of vodka.
• True Companions: Played with; the Allies sing a song together, United Nations Star ☆, and proclaim themselves to be this, only to agree in the song itself that it's not true.
• Tsundere:
  • England is heavy on The Smirk, especially◊ when◊ around◊ America◊. When he's in deredere mode, though, he sometimes shows such vulnerability that he qualifies as the Woobie. He's also called Tsundere by both fandom and Word of Himaruya (specifically, the Drama CDs and some author notes).
  • America is an odd variation of the Type B Tsundere. He has a penchant for stepping on people's toes with his rampant KY-ness, cheerful Love Freak mannerisms and occasional bouts of arrogance, but most of his teasing comes off as well-intended. On the other hand, he shows sadness and melancholy as he remembers past friendships and also displays childish yet genuine worry when the England is sick (once he even brings him back to life with his teasing). He complains about England's food as a child but eats it anyway, and for all his complaints and teasing, he seems to hold genuine affection for his friends.
• Unicorn: England gave a baby unicorn to America as a pet for his centennial. America freaked out because he couldn't see it, but it's been mentioned by Word of God that he kept it and manages to take care of it.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: England and America have this in spades.
  • They even have a strip that has a title that pretty much translates to "The Moment Is Killed". More specifically, "The Long-Awaited Deep Emotion is Ruined".
  • It reaches Everyone Can See It levels in one of the CD dramas, after everyone hears them arguing at night:
  Lithuania: R-Russia! Everyone was pretending not to hear anything!
  England: W-what? Everyone's awake, after all?
  France: That's because you were having a lover's quarrel here.
  England: Don't say it was a lover's quarrel!
  Japan: Well, it's not like we were peeping and such...
  • Hell, even Tony can see it in this mini-drama:
  England: That's why! The alien and friends over there, just shut up! You have been trying to irritate me since just now.
  America: Even if you said that, the truth is you just wanted to sleep together in the same room in the same way we did in the past, right?
  Tony: Love me bubu. Kiss me bubu.
  • The dub also lampshades this, with France asking if they're done "releasing sexual tensions".
• Verbal Tic:
  • China ends most of his sentences with "aru," which is derived from a Japanese stereotype of Chinese people. When talking to England (for example in the Britannia Angel strip) "aru" sometimes changes to "ahen" which means "opium".^note This is actually Truth in Television, as adding 'ar' onto the ends of sentences and certain words is one of the most prominent features of the Beijing dialect of Mandarin.
  • When America talks business, he ends his sentences with "-gates".
  • Canada has "Maple!" when he's in pain.
  • Russia and his threatening "kolkolkol" chant.
• Vitriolic Best Buds:
  • England has this kind of relationship with both America and France, to varying extents.
  • To a lesser extent, the Allies are this. They bicker a lot and only barely manage to get along, but in the end they've got each other's backs.
• We ARE Struggling Together: The Allies as a whole don't always get along very well.

United States of America - Alfred F. Jones

United States of America 🇺🇸

"Now is the time we allies must take a stand for the sake of the world! Should we not fight in the name of justice? Let our hammer of righteousness strike deep into the heart of this evil! Starting with this lame-o Italy!"

Voiced by: Osamu Ikeda (Flower of Iris CD), Katsuyuki Konishi (JP), Eric Vale (EN)

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• Adventurer Archaeologist: Two of his hobbies are "archaeology" and "adventures".
• Age Cut: England says goodbye to a little boy America, and returns on his next voyage to find America a nearly fully-grown teenager.
• The All-American Boy: While he definitely looks the archetype, America's actual personality doesn't exactly fit the mold... but it does come close.
• Always a Child to Parent: Despite America being fully grown (well, 19 according to canon), England still habitually scolds him like a child and once makes a reference to America wetting the bed.
• America Saves the Day: He does this quite a lot.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: He gets on England's nerves a lot.
• Attention Whore: So much so that, when he isn't the center of attention, he loses his will to do absolutely anything.
• Badass Adorable: Himaruya makes America awfully cute, but he's also likely the strongest character in the series and more than capable of dishing the hurt when he's not delegating to others.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: In America and Japan's Co-Habitation!, when he jumps naked into the bath with Japan.
• Big Brother Bully: He can be quite mean to Canada at times.
• Big Eater: America loves all matter of junk food, especially hamburgers. One strip features him becoming concerned about his weight causing him to try out different diets. (He still appears fit no matter what, of course.) He even manages to keep a stash of snacks underneath his clothes.
  "My vocabulary can be a little intimidating; I'll stop eating this absurd pile of hamburgers so you can focus better."
• Big Little Brother: To England.
• Boisterous Bruiser: America is very eager and happy to fight the Axis Powers.
• Captain Obvious: "It's not working!"
• Catchphrase: "I'm the hero!" and variations on it.
• Chainsaw Good: In his Halloween costume◊ as a Shout-Out to Friday the 13th of course.
• Characterization Marches On: Was a lot more of an arrogant, tactless Glory Hound in early installments. Later ones mellowed him out a bit so that he was more friendly, relaxed and thoughtful.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: He always feels the need to be the hero in every situation.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: His idea for combating global warming? Creating a gigantic hero to protect the Earth!
• Cluster F-Bomb: We could call it a nuclear F bomb! ^note Himaruya used him to demonstrate an American movie that was heavy on Cluster F-Bomb.
• Conspiracy Theorist: This exchange in World☆Stars:
  Japan: I wonder what made Akenhatan decide to initiate a religious reformation. There are still some doubts regarding the theory that his goal was to reduce the political power of the priests....
  America: Actually, I've drawn my own conclusion about that.
  America: Akenhatan was actually an alien bent on world domination! And Aten was his true form!
• Cool Plane: Planes seem to be a motif, seeing as he has one on his bomber jacket and likes to show England his airplane designs. He has one in the third chapter which comes from a design in an old Disney cartoon.
• Cuddle Bug: Not to Italy's extent, but he still seems to be more physically affectionate than the other Nations.
  America: (after England offers him ice cream) DUDE, SWEET! I'M TOTALLY GOING OVER THERE TO HUG YOU!
• Defeat Means Friendship: As seen in World Stars Volume 2 Chapter 37, a post-Cold War strip, he's at least friends with Russia…
• The Ditz: The 'lovable/obnoxious Manchild' variety. Also the space case.
• Dumb Blond: Sometimes.
• Eagleland: America is a relatively benign mix of both flavors. He's loud, arrogant, prideful, and boorish, but he's genuinely willing to help out others and be their friend.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: He originally lacked an Idiot Hair, and had his hair parted a different way.
• Establishing Character Moment: His introduction has this exchange:
  America: Okay—let's start from the be-gin-ning! England, you're my backup! Next, France! You're my backup! Uh, who's next...China, I'll have him as my backup. Lastly, Russia! Yours is the grave duty of backing me up!
  Russia: Um, may I ask a question? What will you do?
  America: Mm, that's actually a very good question, Russia! I'll be the hero, of course!
• Forgotten Phlebotinum: Number of times we have seen America use his Super-Strength in an actual combat situation: one. Number of times America has been presented with an opportunity to use his Super-Strength but just chose to sit back and watch China take care of it: too many.
• Friend to All Living Things: As a child, he loved playing with bunnies and bison. As an adult, he befriends whales and even aliens (hi, Tony). In Episode 8 of The Beautiful World, a small bird even perches on his finger. Taken to even more extreme levels with him being friends with the unicorn England gave him for his bicentennial, even though he still can't see it.
• Freudian Excuse: England postulates that his habit of overproduction stems from childhood memories of poverty.
• Genius Ditz: Very good with aircraft and computers, despite his lack of common sense and geography skills.
• Global Ignorance: The embodiment of the trope. In one strip he mentions that he gets a headache whenever he has to look at any map that's not of himself.
• Heroic Wannabe: "I'll be the hero, of course!" The credits of the independent film on YouT... I mean HetaTube list his role as "Hero".
  "I'll be the Red Ranger, of course!"
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Japan during their cohabitation strips.
• Humiliation Conga: He gets one handed down by him during the Great Depression when he screwed up and racked up a huge debt, causing the other nations' economies to blunder except Russia's.
• Idiot Hero: So damn much, indeed.
• Idiots Cannot Catch Colds: He hasn't even heard of them. This was later retconned.
• I Got Bigger: America shoots up in a growth spurt between two of England's visits to the colonies, going from a little boy to at least a head taller than England, much to the latter's consternation.
  • Could be to avoid portraying him as a child during the American Revolution
• I Just Want to Be Free: During the Revolutionary War.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: As a child, he is a straight example of the trope. His role as a Love Freak with Chronic Hero Syndrome put him here, but it's played with since he's also a bit of an Attention Whore and his naivety borders on just being plain clueless sometimes.
• Instant Waking Skills: In the drama CD, he goes from being half-awake to on his feet rushing to get ready for work when he sees he's going to be late (thankfully for him, Lithuania readied everything for him).
• It Runs on Nonsensoleum: He comes up with crazy inventions like a gun that makes people fall in love or a giant space robot to stop global warming. They never seem to get very far.^note To be more specific, the gun was meant to make enemy soldiers fall in love with each other. If you thought it was just a joke, the joke's on you.
• It's All Junk: America tries to pull this with the gifts given to him by England during the colonial period, but can't bring himself to do it.
• I Was Just Joking: When America tells England how great it feels to remember defeating him in the American Revolutionary War, England looks as if he's been genuinely hurt. America then says that that's a lie, which brings England back to his usual irritated Tsundere state.
• Justice Will Prevail: He says things such as "Should we not fight in the name of justice?" and "I support you in the name of justice!".
• Love Freak: He is "a nation of pioneers who think of everything in a positive light, is quick to take action, and loves heroes, justice, freedom, as well as hamburgers". He also gives a Rousing Speech talking about justice and defeating the evil Axis Powers in the beginning of Chapter Two.
• Manchild: Often acts like a dumb teenager.
• Master of the Mixed Message: At least as far as England is concerned.
• Megaton Punch: He pulls one off in the Hetalia movie against the aliens.
• Mysterious Middle Initial: So, really, what does that "F" stand for? It seems like Himaruya considered making it short for "Foster". Or "Franklin". Or "Fuck". But in the end, he didn't choose any of them.
• Non-Uniform Uniform: In Gakuen Hetalia. He wears his bomber jacket◊ instead of the required school jacket, although it is modified to look like a letter jacket, so maybe he's on a sports team.
• Odd Friendship: His friendship with the calm, stoic and shy Japan in the present qualifies.
• Phenotype Stereotype: Since he is America, he's blond and blue-eyed. Many fanarts and Season 5 of the anime complete the package by giving him a tan (especially noticeable since he gets paired with England, Russia and Japan so often).
• Potty Failure: According to a sleep-talking England, he used to wet the bed as a child. His embarrassed reaction seems to confirm this.
• Psychopathic Manchild: He shows this a little bit, though it's easy to forget it's there. In the Episode 28 dub:
  America: I guess being bloodthirsty gets a little distracting. (Beat) ...And by that I mean bringing democracy to the rest of the world.
• Purely Aesthetic Glasses: He doesn't actually need his glasses for vision purposes. They represent Texas (he gets them around the time of its annexation), but it really looks like an opportunity to make him cuter.
• Rapid Aging: Grew to (near) adulthood much faster than the other Nations, judging by England's shocked reaction (and the fact that he and France were still shown as children by 1000 AD).
• Screams Like a Little Girl: At the movies.
• Selective Obliviousness: He can read the atmosphere. He just doesn't care to.
• Sentai: He's a fan of it. And of course, he wants to be the Red Ranger.
• Specs of Awesome: "Awesome" according to himself, anyway.
• Stepford Smiler: Fanon often portrays him as one of these. Possibly confirmed in canon, as pointed out in the analysis of this comic about America musing about how lucky Canada is to have a personality that's easy to befriend.
• Super-Strength: Shown many times. For example, he can run around for an hour while dragging a car. A parked car.
• Super-Strong Child: Even as a child, America could pick up a buffalo and swing it around like a toy, much to England's horror.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: At the Allied Forces meeting, America and the pictures of the different Allies on the chalkboard. The others figure it out though. Interestingly, they work it out not just because he's the only one praising it, but also because he points out it's obviously done in American cartoon style. It doesn't help that his own portrait is the only one that has sparkles around it.
• Tareme Eyes: "Inherited" from Finland.
• Totally Radical: In the dub. Given that America's a Manchild, it works for him.
• Tsundere: Type B, with England being the person that triggers his more snarky and defensive side.
• Twinkle Smile: America does this at one point during an Allied Forces meeting.
• Unnecessary Combat Roll: He pulls one off during the Hetalia Movie with backflips. It was awesome.
• Weight Woe: He's self-conscious about his unhealthy eating habits, and has tried dieting on a couple of occasions. Himaruya says that he's actually gaining muscle rather than fat.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?:
  • America is irrationally afraid of even the mention of ghosts. Oddly, he doesn't mind the aliens that hang around his house. Apparently, on Halloween, he inherits England's second sight for a moment, which is terrifying for him.
  • Oddly enough, the actual presence of the Grim Reaper didn't faze him at all.
  • According to Hetalia Fantasia 2, he's also scared of Dora the Explorer.
  • There's also his fear of marmite.
• Younger Than They Look: Downplayed — his human/physical age is apparently 19, despite him looking somewhere in his 20s. Even funnier, this makes him younger than Italy, who looks younger than him.

England (The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) - Arthur Kirkland

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

"Ahh, fuck it all! You only got so far thanks to me, prat, don't you dare act cocky with me!"

Voiced by: Yuuya Kakitsubata (Flower of Iris CD), Noriaki Sugiyama (JP), Scott Freeman (Seasons 1-5), Taliesin Jaffe (Season 6), Steven Kelly (Season 7) (EN)

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• Amazing Freaking Grace: His ringtone on his cellphone.
• Back from the Dead: He actually died during the "England Caught A Cold" strips. Fortunately, America restored him back to life.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With France. Of course, given his personality, this may be the only kind of sexual tension England is capable of. Even poked fun at by the voice actors, with England's English voice actor claiming his "Don't, stop!" is more like a "Don't stop!"
• Berserk Button: Basically anything France suggests. A good chunk of what America says too.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: A sign of being a gentleman. Or something. And they're even bigger in the anime. Went memetic.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: Due to the expansive nature of the British Empire and subsequent Commonwealth, fandom sometimes depicts him as the head of a large extended family including (so far): America, Australia, Canada, Cameroon, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Sealand, Seychelles, and Singapore.
• Black Cloak: Wears one during his magic rituals.
• Black Magic: His specialty. At one point, he tries to summon something evil and ends up with Russia. He also uses a creepy ritual to curse Germany.
• Bookworm: Literature is one of his hobbies. According to Hetaween 2011, Sherlock Holmes is his favorite book series.
• British Rockstar: He's sometimes drawn as one as mentioned above, and he even has a tattoo of an electric guitar somewhere on his body.
• British Stuffiness: Evidenced with the disapproving and often despairing attitude he displays towards his compatriots, despite his delinquent past.
• Brits Love Tea: England has a tea cup in much of his official art.
• Calling Your Attacks: He's prone to this:
  "Britannia Sword!"
  "Eat this! Britannia Beam!"
  "Britannia Fork!" (during the manga version of "Meeting of the World".)
  "Britannia Fist!" (in volume 3)
• Can't Hold His Liquor: Episode 26 gives us a hilarious example of this.
• Cassandra Truth: Even though England can see magical creatures (such as Flying Mint Bunny and the Japanese demons who are slowly fading away from the country's consciousness), almost nobody else can.^note Norway is a known exception. So whenever he starts interacting with them, everyone else assumes he's gone off his rocker. Played with when France enters England's office, where England is sleeping at his desk surrounded by his "friends"... whom France can see.
• "Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate: With France, over whose fault it is that America behaves so strangely.
• Class Representative: In Gakuen Hetalia, set in a multinational private school, he's the president of the student council and his characterisation is an embodiment of The British Empire.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: To America in one episode, where he freaks out over keeping America safe from dangers like poisonous snakes and lizards. Much to his relief, it turns out that it was All Just a Dream. And then America actually does show up...
• Cluster F-Bomb: He has the filthiest mouth of all the characters, besides Tony and (maybe) Romano.
• Code Name: Of sorts. He's England but he represents the entire United Kingdom as well, so in the Japanese original he's called "Britain" (Igirisu), even in historical periods when Great Britain didn't exist. In Japanese fanworks, he's usually called by his "real name", England (Ingurando) by his older brothers, and sometimes by other countries as well before the 18th century.
• Cool Chair: He once tries to get back at America by tricking him into sitting on "Yorkshire's Infamous 'Sit and You Die' Busby Stoop Chair". Russia gets to it first and manages to out-evil it, causing it to explode.
• Covert Pervert: In the first chapter of the (published) manga, "Meeting of the World" he's reading porn during the meeting. France cites several sexual records held by British people. And then there's his "battle uniform". Fandom often depicts him as secretly being kinkier than France. France even asserts that this is the case, telling him that he's giving his title of the "Erotic Ambassador" to him.
• Deadpan Snarker / Gentleman Snarker: He tries to be the latter, but he's all around the former.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: He seems to be cold at first, but is surprisingly devoted to those he becomes friends with.
• Did They or Didn't They?: One strip has France and England masturbating together, raising questions (along with their Like an Old Married Couple interactions) about what else they get up to together.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: The animated rendition of "England is about to die" strips have the bed-ridden England with feverish eyes, fever-reddened cheeks, slurred speech, slow breathing, etc. Something like this,◊ if you wonder.^note  Needless to say, the fandom had fun with this.
• Doting Parent: Towards little America, at any rate. He's not nearly as close to Canada (whom he occasionally mistakes for America), let alone Sealand.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: As indicated in the Cloudcuckoolander's Minder entry above.
• Dressing as the Enemy: When he tries to escape from Italy, Germany captures him because he doesn't look Italian. A Scottish spy tells him to dress like them. He does so, even making himself a fake ahoge. He even succeeds, until Germany notices that unlike the other Italians, he's not hitting on the pretty girls walking by, and again when he tries to order British food from an Italian cafe.
• Dying Declaration of Love: During the 'England is about to die' strips, he tells America that despite their bickering he doesn't actually hate him and seems to try to say something else until Death smothered him. He gets better, of course. The dub version of this scene actually has England say "America, I'm in lo—" before he was offed.
• Evil Laugh: Occasional does this, like when he betrayed Austria.
• Evil Brit: Sometimes parodied.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Parodied when a young England fails to pull one and France tricks him into fixing it... cutting it back to its original length.
• Fanservice with a Smile: The "sexy waiter" outfit.
• Fire-Forged Friends: With France—pretty silly for either of them to claim they're not friends at this point.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: Ridicules America's belief in aliens and Tony, despite living in a Fantasy Kitchen Sink.
  • Hypocritical Humor: ...While being the same guy who talks to unicorns, fairies, and other spirits.
• Former Teen Rebel: Although he is now a (self-styled) gentleman, he used to be a delinquent.
• Fun Size: England can use his Magic Wand to make the other nations smaller and younger. France enlists his help doing so as per fan request during one of the April Fool's specials...only for it to come back and bite him.
• Gentleman Wizard: Used magic in the series a couple of times, and he's also shown interacting with magical creatures. He's also a (self-styled) gentleman.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Once something sets him off, he'll respond with a flurry of verbal insults.
• Hangover Sensitivity: After getting trashed one night, England shows up to an Allied Forces meeting the next day with his jacket over his head, swearing that he's never going to drink again.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Makes up one half of the franchise’s two most popular ships. Although he’s most commonly shipped with America and France, other popular pairings include Spain, Japan, China, Russia, Prussia, Italy, Portugal and Germany.
• Lethal Chef: A running gag is that his horrendous lack of taste is directly responsible for America's food culture.
  Narrator: Rumor has it that when British troops were captured by Italy, they didn't want to leave because their food was so much better.
• Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Even though they're not a couple they have BelligerentSexualTension. England's the masculine one to France's girly, feminine tendencies
• Messy Hair: Even more extreme when he was a child; he tried growing out his hair and ended up looking like a "golden caterpillar" in France's words.
• Mundane Made Awesome: In one episode, England invents machines for boiling the "perfect egg" and brewing the "perfect beer". (Nobody is actually impressed.)
• Nerves of Steel: In his character notes, Himuraya mentions England doesn't scare easily. Either inverted when he bursts into tears at the sight of Russia at a Halloween get-together, or simply proof of how scary Russia is.
• Noble Male, Roguish Male: He is a composite of both — his rather opposing, contrasting character traits (gentleman one minute, irate drunk the next) are likely an homage to the polarized way in which British males are often presented in popular culture generally — that is, they are designed and depicted as being from either the very top (upper class gentleman, the epitome of Western sophistication) OR very bottom (rough and ready, punkish Cockney rogues) of the British social-class scale. As he represents all aspects of England, these entirely opposing national stereotypes are amalgamated into one divergent character.
• Not So Above It All: He rejects a naked France's invitation to "join him in feeling 'open' today" because he doesn't want to be associated with France's reputation. France calls him out on it◊, stating a number of sexual records held by British people. He's also masturbated with France on another occasion…
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Inverted—England allows France to "conquer" him when they think the world is ending in 1000 AD, saying he wouldn't allow anyone else to do it.
• Our Fairies Are Different: A few appear among the ranks of his magical friends.
• Our Vampires Are Different: Dresses as one for one Halloween◊.
• Overly Long Name: He's a bit self-conscious about his very long name (the "UK of GB and NI", not "England").
• Parental Favoritism: He always did prefer America over all his other territories. And America's also the one he's most sore over when it came to his independence.
• Power Gives You Wings: In his Britannia Angel form, he grows a pair of white feathery wings.
• Perpetual Frowner: Though not as much as your average perpetual frowner, you have to admit that canon doesn't exactly depict him as the happiest person around.
• Pirate: A huge amount of fan-art depicts him during his swashbuckling past.
• Pride: During his empire days, at least. Doesn't seem to have let it go much, despite the collapse of the empire.
  "The British Empire is the strongest in the world!"
• Quintessential British Gentleman: He tries his best to be this, but he's more like an Absolutely Invincible British Gentleman.
• Retired Badass: Having controlled one quarter of the world's population in his past, he is understandably sensitive about the decolonization of his global territories.
• Rounded Character: The author has stated that England has a very rich and unlimited personality and that he can't decide whether he is a serious person or not.
• Sexy Secretary: Has one in the Hetalia Bloodbath 2010. Apparently he's the grandson of Howard, the British spy in the "Can't Escape From Italy" strips.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Comb his hair, put him in a nice, fashionable suit and Germany has trouble recognizing him, eyebrows or no eyebrows, at least until he started acting differently than everyone around him.
• She Is All Grown Up: He has a nightmare about Sealand actually growing up and becoming a country.
• Shirtless Scene: Had one in the Japanese Folklore episode (Episode 30), taking his clothes off to take a hot bath. In the anime, it was more ''sexy'', and he was almost naked.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Besides Tony, he's the most foul mouthed character in the entire series, tying only with Romano.
• The Snark Knight: He can drift into this territory occasionally.
• Spellbook: Often uses one when doing his Black Magic.
• Stiff Upper Lip: Somehow, being England, he manages to be the ultimate aversion of this.
• The Straight Man: Plays this at times to America's wacky ideas and France's dramatic freakouts.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Australia, Hong Kong, Wy and Sealand share his Big Ol' Eyebrows. Curiously, America, Canada, Seychelles, and Singapore don't. The latter four probably have their mixed colonial heritages to thank.
• Student Council President: In Gakuen Hetalia.
• Summon Magic: And his summoning spell is full of Shout-Outs in the dub.
• Summoning Ritual: England once did this when he tried to summon "a twisted creature of monstrous size and strength... with the power to crush America!" He got Russia.
  Russia: You called?
  England: (shoves Russia back through the circle) Damned communist!
• Super Drowning Skills: One blog post depicts him as being unable to swim, as a reference to how, despite the UK's impressive naval history, many British sailors similarly and surprisingly lacked this necessary skill for a life at sea.
• Talking in Your Sleep: In public, even.
  America: I say we leave him sleeping, then some of us can get to be right for a change! (laughs)
  England: (while sleeping) Did you wet your bed again, Ame—
  America: (hits England across the back of the head) Dude, you should not fall asleep in the middle of a meeting.
• They Really Do Love Each Other: France takes care of England when he's ill, and despite a Dude, She's Like in a Coma moment, he appears genuinely concerned for England's health.
• Thwarted Escape: In "Can't Escape From Italy", Germany sees through his attempts at blending in and disguise and drags him back to the Italian prison.
• Tsundere: Type A, though he occasionally shows a softer side.
• Tsurime Eyes: Obligatory to a tsundere.
• Volleying Insults: England does this with France and America a lot.
• White Magic: His Britannia Angel magic is a little less evil than when he's using his Black Magic. Well, a lot sillier.
• Unicorn: One of them is one of England's magical friends.
• Workaholic: He seems to be this in the 2010 Bloodbath where he would rather work all night instead of celebrating Christmas.

Russian Federation - Ivan Braginsky

Российская Федерация 🇷🇺

"I've always been alone, so it's great seeing everyone so alive. Besides, soon it'll be the last chance I can see their faces. Whenever I imagine how they'd look begging for mercy, I can't help but smile."

Voiced by: Benjamin Kobatsu (Flower of Iris CD), Yasuhiro Takato (JP), Jerry Jewell (EN)

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• The Alcoholic: Vodka is his fuel, after all.
• Animals Hate Him: Almost every animal in Russia's surroundings reacts... not so well to him. The only exception is his pet cat.
• Animate Inanimate Object: Russia's scarf once comes to life and tries to strangle America.
• Bait-and-Switch Comment: He does this often during the sudden switch into his "cruel" mode. For instance, he once tells England that he considers America's cockiness a positive trait, and that he very much enjoys his youthful spirit... because people like that are more fun to "snap in half".
• Beat Still, My Heart: In one strip, Russia's heart falls out onto the table. Apparently, this is something of a regular occurrence for him. He isn't too bothered; he only blushes and says it "just pops out of me, sometimes."
• Berserk Button: Don't wrongly accuse him of things, or he'll come after you with his magic staff! AKA: A metal pipe.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Could be viewed as having this with America.
  • At one point, America points out the odd (in his view) Russian greeting of kissing on the lips—Russia responds by saying "Let's make your gums bleed, hm?"
  • During one fight in the dub, when Russia is strangling America with his scarf, America yells out "Perestroika! Perestroika! I thought that was the safe word!"
  • Also in the dub, he once appears to call America easy.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Lampshaded in the WWII arc, where it's commented how polite he is, and his response clearly highlights an Ax-Crazy dark side.
• The Big Guy: Inverts the third; despite his size, looks nice and cute... and is everything mentioned below.
• Big Little Brother: To Ukraine.
• Blessed with Suck: Russia has General Winter around all the time. He despises the constant bitter cold but during wartime Winter is on his side.
• Broken Tears: Suffers an emotional — and mental — breakdown during the Bloody Sunday 1905 strip when his own people turn against him.
• Brother–Sister Incest: Play with, with Belarus. She's insistent on their marriage, but this may be for financial reasons (given their comparative wealth and economy size) rather than anything sexual.
• Character Development: The reason for many fanfic writers to be at odds with his characterization. Let's just say that Russia is at his worst during the Soviet Era strips and at his best in the modern day ones (though he still has his moments).
• Crazy Jealous Guy: His behavior during "Lithuania's Out-Sourcing" showed shades of this.
• Comedic Sociopathy: His insanity is (almost) always played for laughs.
• Cute and Psycho: He's nice one moment, then the next...
• Cute Giant: Towers over everybody, is thick, muscular and strong all over, combines it with a very cute, sweet baby face. Fitting his disposition nicely.
• Dark and Troubled Past: And it's the reason he's so messed up.
• Despair Event Horizon: He reaches a breaking point in "Bloody Sunday," has a Freak Out.
• Emoticon: Russia has his own, thanks to a Nico Nico Douga member:
  • ( ^し^ )
  • ( ^J^ ) alternatively
• The Dreaded: Everyone, even America, is terrified of him when he's angry.
• Evil Sounds Deep: His voice in his cruel mode can get frighteningly deep.
• Extreme Omnivore: He has eaten arrows and punchlines, and when Japan tried to injure or poison him with spiked food, he noticed...and then just ate it with no effects.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Has a sweet face, is really a Cute and Psycho.
• The Fake Cutie: As part of his Manipulative Bastard side.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: He's this through necessity for the Allies and fear for the nations as a whole.
• Gag Nose: See emoticon. You know this is his defining physical trait when his cat has a big nose.
• Gag Penis: Implied in one episode where he sends America a box of 25 cm condoms, which are considered "extra small". (For those who know nothing of the metric system, 25 cm is between 9 to 10 inches.)
• Gentle Giant: Zig-zagged. He seems like this on the surface, and is capable of being one, but many occasions show that he's quite cruel.
• Giggling Villain: When he's amused (often at others' pain) he goes "ufufufu". (Not "kolkolkolkol".)
• Happy Dance: After he defeats Poland and Lithuania.
  "Russia is the best in all of the world!"
• Husky Russkie: Russia is the tallest of the characters with a given height, and though he claims to be "big-boned" (but not as big-boned as people say), he is at least thicker and more muscular than most of the other characters.
• Hypocritical Humor: At one point.
  Child!Russia: [Ukraine]'s a total nutjob!
• I Am Big Boned: Word for word. Subverted in that he turns out to be right, sort of.
• Kick the Dog: A habit of his in his crueler moments.
• Large and in Charge: Of the Soviet Union.
• Lighter and Softer: Himaruya's latest strips (and specially the Hetalia Bloodbath 2010) amp up his Manchild quirks more than the Psychopathic Manchild ones. He was pretty harmless in the last Christmas/New Years special and got captured pretty easily, and his new profile◊ mentions how he really wants to have more friends. Not to mention, in the April's Fools strips he was among the first to "surrender" and even seems to be getting along better with America.
  • He still gets a few jerkass moments in the Birz strips, however. "If an alien came to my house, I would tear it to pieces."
• Mad Love: Goes both ways, actually. He shows his obsession with Lithuania, the only one who seems to make him happy, through stalking and emotional and physical abuse. He also seems to have an obsession with China and stalks him as well. At the same time, he's also on the receiving end of Mad Love when it comes to his little sister Belarus...
• Madness Mantra: His "kolkolkolkol" chant, referring to the "Kolkhoz" and the impalement (with the word кол, kol, being Russian for stake).
• Made of Iron: Per his boss's orders, he had to stop a tank with his body. And still managed to attend the Allies meeting with a trail of blood following him. France is nonplussed, considering it is Russia.
• Mark of the Supernatural: His purple eyes are connected to his supernatural relationship with General Winter.
• Master of Disguise: You'll never know which panda he is.
• Never Gets Drunk: "Whenever he does anything, vodka is somehow involved." And yet, he's never been seen drunk in canon.
• No Sense of Personal Space: He has a tendency to get really close to people he's talking to (and trying to intimidate), like he did when telling America to "take good care of" Lithuania during "Lithuania's Outsourcing."
• No Social Skills: At least, he doesn't know how to make friends in a non-forceful way. He writes anonymously to France's radio show for advice on how to do so.
• Obfuscating Insanity: Most of the nations write him off as a crazy guy but he's much more clever then he presents himself as.
• Only a Flesh Wound: In one strip, he is hit by a tank and later shows up to a meeting telling everyone he was "a tiiiny bit busy with something"... while covered from the waist down in his own blood.
• Perpetual Smiler: In a bad way.
• Pet the Dog: The printed manga and the anime give him a genuine affection for Ukraine, as much as his insanity and childishness lets him.
• Pipe Pain: What he uses as an Improbable Weapon User.
• Playful Hacker: He's mentioned in the 2010 Bloodbath and Fantasia 2 "tinkering" with his computer.
• Psychopathic Manchild: He's very childlike, in some of the worst ways. He even has a high, childish voice. (To hammer the point home, as mentioned, he shares his VA with Gluttony from Fullmetal Alchemist.) Flanderized horribly in the fandom at times. In canon, he says creepy things and stalks people from around corners but has only actually done anything a handful of times, and none of it was sexual (except possibly the time he put Lithuania in a French maid outfit and whipped him while he was working).
  • His voice is less high in the dub, probably to make him sound more Russian.
  • His voice is also very deep during his Madness Mantra.
  • It's implied that his natural voice is deep; he deliberately makes it higher to sound friendlier. Along with his Madness Mantra, there's evidence of this in his image songs; "Winter" and his versions of "Marukaite Chikyuu" and "Mawaru Chikyuu Rondo". Seems to run in the family, his sister Belarus has a similar tendency, her voice often shifts from a soft and girly tone to a shrill, harsh and deeper one.
• Russian Guy Suffers Most: Inversion and played straight. Those in his surroundings suffer, but also:
  • The "Bloody Sunday" strip. Or the strip about the White Sea Canal. Or the part where he was happy to be imprisoned by the enemy.
  • Even his sisters left him. Belarus returned, although this basically means more suffering.
  • He was bullied horribly as a child and was shown as being very poor and with ratty, ripped clothes in the Russian winter.
  • The Tatar yoke...
• Sanity Slippage: As a result of his turbulent history.
• Scarf of Asskicking: He got his most frequently-worn one from Ukraine.
• Sedgwick Speech: "I'm Russian, I know everything about snow!" Sadly, he knows nothing about parachuting. (He lives, but ow.)
• Slasher Smile: Sports this while chasing Estonia with a pipe to beat him with.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: In his cruel mode, he can easily be pushed to not be so soft-spoken, however.
• Spell My Name With An S: His surname is often misspelled Braginski; it's supposed to be Braginsky, as the -ski suffix is Polish while the -sky suffix is Russian.
• Stepford Smiler: At one point, he sends England into a screaming fit of terror just by sitting and smiling pleasantly.
• Sunny Sunflower Disposition: While the sunniness of his personality is mainly only on the exterior, his dream of living in a warm place surrounded by sunflowers is a major indicator that he really does have a "dere" side underneath his insanity.
• Stalker with a Crush: Stalks China and Lithuania. Whether or not he actually has feelings for them is up to personal interpretation.
• Super-Strength: He's described as superhuman and can carry around a 50kg+ manhole cover like it's nothing. (Though he is very muscular, so it might just be plain strength)
• Tears of Fear: He can only sob and make futile cries of "Go home!" when Belarus literally tears down his door to demand that they get married.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The third and fourth manga volumes reveal him to have been a genuinely nice and friendly kid who just wanted to be friends with the nations who kept on bullying or avoiding him and snapped only when Prussia insisted on picking a fight with him. And even after that fight, he writes in his journal about how he hopes the Teutonic Knights will "come as friends, not enemies" the next time he meets them.
• Vocal Dissonance: Zig-zagged. In the original Japanese, he usually has a high, cutesy voice that does match his personality and cute appearance but contrasts with his immense size; then his voice can go quite deep at times. The English dub averts this.
• Vodka Drunkenski: "My favorite food would be pirozhki and...vodka? It's my fuel, you see."
• White Hair, Black Heart: Platinum blond (like many anime Russians), and certainly one of the more morally ambiguous characters.
• White Magic: The Orthodox Church curses Japan. It works—after 17 years.
• The Worf Effect: During the 2010 Bloodbath, he was one of the first nations taken out and kidnapped. And this is after General Winter was also defeated.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: By insisting that "all will become one with Russia." Also during the Bloody Sunday strip, in which he snaps and starts to mow down his own people on the grounds that "they're not really Russians if they don't love me."
• Yandere: In spades! But in a (usually) non-romantic way. His method of making and keeping friends is...intense, to say the least.

French Republic - Francis Bonnefoy

​​République Française 🇫🇷

Geez, you guys... aren't there more vital things at hand than arguing? Like doing something with that tasteless uniform.

Voiced by: Ciaou Sasaki (Flower of Iris CD), Masaya Onosaka (JP), J. Michael Tatum (ENG)

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• Agent Peacock: Retains many of his flamboyant, camp qualities even when he's a hyper-badass. Though it does occasionally backfire (such as his flashy uniform that makes him a prime target).
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With England. The fact that they bicker Like an Old Married Couple is a good hint, as well as the fact that they are incapable of not being involved in each other's lives, judging by what's been shown of them throughout history.
• Big Brother Instinct: Considers himself the older brother to all of Europe... except only North Italy and Monaco acknowledge him as such. It's partly in order to divert any suggestion that he's an old man.
• Big Brother Mentor:
  • To North Italy, albeit more of a Trickster Mentor, taking the place of N. Italy's actual big brother. He's very forgiving and occasionally protective of Italy despite the whole Fascist invasion thing. But he's still a bad influence.
  • He's also stated to be this towards Monaco, whom he seems to have a closer relationship with, other than her getting embarrassed when he pats her head. She even calls him "big brother".
• Bishie Sparkle: France is often shown sparkling in the webcomic, particularly when viewed by other characters.
• Bishōnen: France probably qualifies, with his feminine beauty.
• Biting the Handkerchief: In episode 10 of the webcast, and another time in season four.
• Black Comedy Rape: In the anime, at least three times (when he tried to force England to marry him, when he wanted England to take off his clothes to celebrate the Olympics, and when England was sick), though most of this has been toned down since 2008.
• Blatant Lies: About the marriage contract he tries to get England to sign: "Can't you see? It is a calendar!"
• Bling of War: France's WWI uniform. He tells America and England that their clothes are too drab, and they both retort, "You're just too flashy!" (In the dub, America and England criticize France for wearing a cape as part of his war uniform.) He agrees when he realizes it draws sniper fire. (Truth in Television, actually.)
• Carpet of Virility: He's actually the only character who has this when naked, to remark on his Lovable Sex Maniac nature.
• "Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate: With England, over whose fault it is that America behaves so strangely.
• Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: England is quick to point out France's reputation for being inept at warfare. In the English dub, Britain calls France this word for word.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Sure, he'll hit on anyone no matter gender and age, but he also believes that love shouldn't be forced on people and will, according to Word of Himaruya, stop trying to touch or strip people if it's made clear that what he's doing isn't enjoyed.
• Clark Kent Outfit: When he removes his clothes (which is often), he reveals that he's actually fairly muscular. Himaruya has described him as "Not being all macho like Germany, but having muscles in all the right places".
• Cultured Badass: Considered a "cultural center" of Europe, and a great lover of art, France is also capable of dealing some heavy damage, particularly under an effective ruler like Napoleon Bonaparte or Louis XIV.
• The Dandy: He admits to being "the dandiest of the dandies".
• Depraved Bisexual: Dips into this at times. He's probably the most bisexual of the cast and in the earlier strips, he would sexually harass...just about everybody.
• The Determinator: "Like... like hell I'll die here!" Followed by a Roaring Rampage of Nudity.
• Disguised in Drag: Apparently does this once to capture Italy.
  • Attractive Bent-Gender: According to Italy, he was, anyway. His Nyotalia counterpart is also very elegant and fashionable.
• Drama Queen: He's very prone to dramatic freakouts.
• Dude, He's Like, Really Sick: He comes close to getting handsy with England while the latter is tired and has a bad cold. America walks in before anything happens, to France's irritation.
• Everyone Looks Sexier if French: To the point where it is lampshaded in this comic
• Extreme Omnisexual: Said to love men, women, and everything in between.
• Fire-Forged Friends: With England. Pretty silly for either of them to claim they're not friends at this point.
• French Cuisine Is Haughty: France says his cooking is absolutely divine. He's right.
• French Jerk: Considering the series, how could he not be this? Considering his Hidden Depths, though, he does Take A Level In Kindness.
• Handsome Lech: After all, Everyone Looks Sexier if French.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: During the 2011 April Fool's event. He got a request for a picture of everyone as kids, so he asked England to use his magic wand to make everyone small.
  France: ...Hmm? England? Are you listening to me?
  England: So I can make everyone small, right? That includes you!
  France: Ah...! Crap... hold on! Aargh!
• Immortality Bisexuality: Technically, he's probably pansexual, but bisexual is more common in societal lingo.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Played with—he has blue eyes but is also a Lovable Sex Maniac, making him less traditionally innocent than America. However, he Took a Level in Kindness later on, and is shown to have a tender, emotional and thoughtful side.
• La Résistance: His best contribution to the Allies is spying.
• Le Film Artistique: The French horror film during the Nations' horror film-fest.
• Like Brother and Sister: With Monaco.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: France definitely qualifies.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: France is arguably the most feminine of the Allies (and the broader male cast), and has the longest hair besides China.
• Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Promiscuity jokes aside, France may be more of this than The Casanova. Some of the more recent episodes and strips show him genuinely lamenting his immortality as he watches human couples together, and old notes from Himaruya suggest that humans who spend too much time with countries tend to go mad, implying that long-term relationships with humans—even accepting their eventual deaths—is not really possible.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: And it's often played for laughs.
• Macho Camp: Shows off his masculinity with his beard, Carpet of Virility and muscles while being the dandiest of the dandies.
• Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: Even though they're not a couple they have BelligerentSexualTension. France is the feminine girly one to masculine military guy England
• Mr. Fanservice: In a cast filled with ridiculously handsome men, France is the one who plays it up the most. He's also naked the most.
• Otaku: He's a big manga fan, at least. Justified, as France is one of the lead importers of manga in the world.
• Out of Focus: He gets noticeably less screen time than the rest of the Allies in the anime. Lampshaded by Prussia at the start of World Series:
  "I'm a main character, not some bit-player like France!"
• Perma-Stubble: When young, he had his face perfectly clean. As he grew up, though, he developed this, in order to make himself look more mature.
• Peter Pan: His costume for the Hetaween 2011 event, complete with him flying on a wire...invokedthat he gets stuck on.
• Pretty Boy: He's quite attractive, to say the least.
• Proud Beauty: France is well-aware of his looks, and plays it to his advantage whenever he can. Of course, being as old as he is and as attractive as he is, he'd have to be pretty ditzy not to notice. He also puts a great deal of effort into his appearance and fashion.
  "I refuse to be ugly like the rest of you!"
• Really Gets Around: He's mentioned having relationships in the past, was once shown taking two young women home with him after a party, and during the 2007 April Fool's event when one fan wrote in claiming she was pregnant with his child, he responded:
  "Wh-Who are you...?! Who?!
  Are you Marianne?! Jennifer?!
  I'm really sorry about that time..."
• Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: "Slap slap slap".
• Stylish Protection Gear: France's uniform in Paint It, White! is a bit more dressed-up than everyone else's.
• Suck My Rose: He carries one in his official art. Another time, it's used to censor his privates.
• Super-Speed: He's fast. Not even America can catch up to him.
• The Talk: In the anime, after Italy asks France what "sexual intercourse" means, the latter is only too happy to explain.
• Team Dad: Wants to be called "big brother" by everyone younger than him (and sometimes even older), breaks up a fight between America and England in his introduction, cares for his colonies and many younger countries in his own special way, and in "Though I May Depart, You Shall Remain", he is happy to see a human man with his child, ultimately implying France would like to become a father, but cannot due to his immortality.
• They Really Do Love Each Other: France takes care of England when he's ill, and despite a Dude, She's Like in a Coma moment, he appears genuinely concerned for England's health.
• Too Kinky to Torture: After his April Fool's rampage, some of his victims capture him and attempt to humiliate him in retaliation... only to find that he actually enjoys most of their punishment. Until Sweden comes up with a Cool and Unusual Punishment, that is.
• Triple Nipple: France may count as such ever since the strip "Let's Assist the French Economy!", wherein he claimed Italy's right nipple, which apparently represents Corsica. At the very least, Italy is down to one.
• Urban Legend Love Life: He's implied to be rather successful with his flirting outside of the nations, such as charming a maid in The Movie.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Not France, apparently. The few times he speaks directly about his immortality, he seems to view it quite negatively. Then again, he's likely over two thousand years old, so who could blame him for being tired?
• Window Watcher: France once spied on Austria by peeping through his window. He might have gotten away with it if he hadn't butted in on the argument that Austria was having with Germany.
• Wine Is Classy: There's a few scenes in the anime of him drinking it, and he's often drawn holding a wine glass.

People's Republic of China - Wang Yao

中华人民共和国 🇨🇳

"What ruckus, this? Ah, England, France, and America fighting again. These lands of Europe, they like fighting so very much."

Voiced by: Kanae Kasuga (Flower of Iris CD), Yuki Kaida (JP), Clarine Harp (EN)

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• All Chinese People Know Kung-Fu: Actually justified. The characters in Hetalia are personifications of their countries' histories and cultures, and China does have a long tradition of martial arts.
• Asian Rudeness: His propensity for bluntness, and his being somewhat easily annoyed and prone to snapping. Especially so in the dub, of course.
• Badass Adorable: Especially in the anime. See Cute Bruiser below.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Push him too far and he'll start smashing walls with his bare fists and head!
• Big Fancy House: The "I, Like, Wanna Be Free" manga strip gives us a glimpses of China's living room. It looks like he, Macau and Hong Kong live in a traditional Chinese complex home.
• Bland-Name Product: Some of these are justified as his cheap knock-offs.
  • The author thinks China's real-life Hello Kitty dolls have been given a Psychotic Smirk.
• Butt-Monkey: To the point where the other Allies treat him like their personal servant and claim pieces of him shortly after rescuing him.
• Chinese Vampire: Dresses as one for one Halloween◊.
• Crazy Jealous Guy : Non-romantic version (that we know of). While kind-hearted, China can be very clingy towards his relatives and treat them like children. A good example is the "I like, wanna be free", where he's completely baffled as to why Hong Kong wants to have more freedom after having censored his movies and meddled in his room.
• Cool Old Guy: Being a 4000 year old man, China certainly qualifies. Come on! The guy can fight with a wok!
• Crossdressing Voices: The only one among the eight main characters voiced by a woman.
• Cute Bruiser: In the anime. "Aiya! I'm gonna kick your ass!"
  • In Episode 28 of the World Series, he proves able to punch through a wall with eleven chops, kick through another one with just one kick and even visibly crack a third one with just his head before America stops him.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady / invokedViewer Gender Confusion:
  • Lampshaded in his entry on the official character chart: "The only female member of the Allies. NOT!"
  • Also lampshaded by his own actress!
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: A part of the drama track in China's character CD is about him trying to get the respect of Shinatty and his sister Taiwan and failing hilariously.
  Taiwan: Shut up teacher!
  China: T-Taiwan...!
  Taiwan: Please, you need to keep quiet when you're in public areas like this! If you're too noisy, you'll scare away all the birds and make the flowers die...
  Shinatty: Please forgive us; the old man's gone a bit crazy, he was having flashbacks about his childhood!
  China: I'm not an old man! I'm young, cool, and hip!
  Taiwan: "Cool and hip?" That just dates you even more...
• Elderly Immortal: Zigzagged. While China doesn't look much older than the other Nations (who all appear between 16-mid-thirties, micronations excluded), his age is frequently called out not only by other Nations, but China himself.
• Embarrassing Animal Suit: Wears one in order to get Hong Kong to stay with him in one strip.
• Extreme Omnivore: When everybody is discussing what they would do in an alien invasion, China remarks, "Leave the cooking to me!" This is actually somewhat justified, as various Chinese cuisines tend to use fairly unorthodox ingredients that may not be used in other cultures (e.g. chicken feet being one of the tamer examples), and Cantonese (and to an extent, other southern Chinese) people are stereotyped to eat just about anything and everything.
• Fish out of Water: Like his brother Japan, he feels alienated sometimes in regards to the Allies.
• Freudian Slip: There is a running joke in the Japanese fandom that China sang "Netto Chinko" (internet penis) instead of "Netto Jinko" (internet population) in his character song "Hello China".
• Goofy Print Underwear: He wears panda boxers!
• Helicopter Parents: Acts this way toward Hong Kong at least, if not all of his siblings.
• Immortal Immaturity: He's a 4000 year old Hello Kitty fan.
• Inscrutable Oriental: Completely averted. China is loud, extroverted and pushy.
• Leg Focus: Many have fallen to the beauty that is China's legs.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: The longest hair among the Allies, he actually ties it down in a ponytail. It certainly doesn't help with the Viewer Gender Confusion.
• Not Blood Siblings: He's explicitly this with Japan, while with his other siblings it's still ambiguous.
• Older Than They Look: Older Than He Looks: He's a 4000-year-old man, and doesn't look any of it.
• Older Is Better: He will gladly brag about his ancient heritage at any opportunity, including and specifically that he's older than other countries, and that this makes him superior. He's 4,000 years old and can he still wallop Germany with a wok and bust through walls with a karate-chop.
• One of the Kids: Tries his best to act as a mentor to others, often giving out advice or nagging. When he's not, he's cheerfully playing with Shinatty and other cute things.
• Our Dragons Are Different: His boss is (or was represented as) a Chinese dragon.
• Parental Substitute: He's an older brother figure to the East Asian nation-tans, rather than adoptive father.
• Physical Scars, Psychological Scars: He has a single but large one across his back, after Japan injures him with his katana and leaves. We see it when he gets a massage from Korea.
• Picky Eater: Inverted. China's Trademark Favorite Food is variety; considering the different types of Chinese cuisine, this can be seen as Truth in Television.
• Properly Paranoid: About Russia:
  China: (To a "panda") There's no doubt in my mind that he's trying to take me over from behind my back!
  Russia: (takes the head off the panda suit) How did you know?!
• Really 700 Years Old: Even if you don't take the Magic Realism stance, China's profile describes him as being 4000 years old.
• Red Armband of Leadership: In certain portrayals he wears a uniform with a red armband...of leadership.
• Scream Discretion Shot: When Japan severs their relationship...
• Super-Strength: When he has his temper tantrum after the Allies treat him like a servant, he smashes through walls with his fists and head.
• Team Dad: Wants to be this towards the other Asian countries.
• Team Mom: Is mostly this to the other Allies.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: China's profile lists him as four-thousand years old and immortal, so this characterization is popular fanon. Also his character song "Aiyaa Four-Thousand Years" seems to take this stance.
• With Friends Like These...: Even when the Allies start getting Japan off his back, they still keep picking on him. There's also a webcomic strip that shows England, France and Russia "comforting" him after the Boxer Rebellion by saying that he should give them territory or live with them.
• Wok Of Doom: In the anime.

Canada - Matthew Williams

Canada 🇨🇦

"Excuse me! I'm sorry for my lateness! A terrible accident happened... When I woke up this morning, it was already past noon!"

Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (JP), Eric Vale (EN)

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• Accidental Misnaming: Canada doesn't seem to be able to get his pet's name right. This situation might be ranging from type C to type F.
• Apologises a Lot: ...see quote.
• Badass Longcoat: His parka in his military uniform seems to be one.
• Bears Are Bad News: Averted, since his pet polar bear Kumajirou might forget who Canada really is, but isn't exactly a bad or evil animal.
• Beware the Nice Ones / Beware the Quiet Ones: The guy goes from very quiet to practically invisible! Get him angry, though, and he might give you a mind-blowing three-hour rant!
  • There's historical precedent for this trait too.
• Butt-Monkey: Uh oh, poor kid.
• Courteous Canadian: Canada is a shy, polite and humble young man who likes to be left in peace and spends his time usually alone in a cabin with his polar bear Kumajiro. He is barely ever noticed next to his much louder and prouder brother America. Parodied, since he is so shy and friendly that he is literally invisible to most people, and there are instances in which other nations just sit down on him.
• Distressed Dude: In Hetalia Fantasia 3, though it can be debated just how distressed he was since it was just a computer game.
• The Dutiful Son: The World☆Stars chapters centered around the American Revolution portray him this way, being the loyal, comforting presence to an England fresh off the emotional trauma from the Revolution. He even chews America out for breaking England's heart with his departure.
• Forgettable Character: His interactions with other characters often involve them forgetting who he is or that he exists and/or mistaking him for his more outgoing brother America.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Possibly justified? Canada was the aircraft manufacturing and flight training center for most of the British Empire in WW2 and his uniform is aviator-appropriate and seems to include a parachute. While America is clearly dressed as a fighter pilot, Canada is likely to be a bombardier or navigator.
• Groin Attack: Happens to him when he plays catch with America. Ouch.
• Heavy Sleeper: Seems to be narcoleptic, as one of the webcomic strips has him speaking to someone else and then both fall asleep randomly. See his quote as well.
• A Lizard Named "Liz": "Kuma" means "bear" in Japanese. And Himaruya has stated that if he'd been named in English, his name would be Will-bear.
• Mistaken Identity: Canada is always confused for America (but not the other way around), much to his misery.
• Phrase Catcher: When he's not being mistaken as America, everyone else would likely ask him, "Who are you?" whenever he shows up in events. This includes his pet.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: America and Canada argue. Canada has a 'not so quiet' moment and wins. After three hours, England cuts him off out of mercy for a collapsing America.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: When interacting with Cuba, with Canada as the Sensitive Guy and Cuba as the Manly Man.
• Shrinking Violet: Compared to his extremely nosy, extroverted brother.
• The Stoner: In fanon, due to the country's rather laid back stance on cannabis in Real Life and to the extremely good diplomatic relationships with the other fanon stoner, Netherlands. Confirmed in the Hetalia Bloodbath 2010.
• Talking Animal: Kumajirou, the talking polar bear.
• The Strategist: Himaruya remarked that he was a good tactician.
• The Un-Favorite: Canada has always been overshadowed by America ever since they were little. As soon as England seemed to be paying more attention to Canada, America came along and took his attention back.
  • In fact, poor Canada is usually treated as a non-entity — people either forget who he is or don't even notice him. (In one strip, Russia spends a whole meeting sitting in his lap because he didn't notice that Canada was already sitting in the chair. Later, Russia comments to Belarus on how comfortable his chair was.)
  • Averted in 2011, where Canada was the host in Hetaween 2011 and not only people recalled who he was, but they congratulated him on his job. Some of the fandom seems to block that out of their collective minds though others declared it was because of the 2010 Olympics drawing attention to him.
• Vocal Evolution: His dub voice preformed by Eric Vale starts out rather squeaky but soon evolves into a soft whispery voice.

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