Basic Trope: A team of heroes has members from different countries, and this fact is important.
- Straight: In The Trope Team, Bob is an American Hero, Haruto is a Japanese Lancer, Viktor is an Ukrainian Big guy, Mahmud is an Egyptian Smart Guy, and Alice is an Australian Chick. Their nationalities are plot-important.
- Exaggerated: The Trope Team includes members from every country on earth, including obscure ones like San Marino and Djibouti, and even sub-national entities, such as Quebec, Hong Kong, New South Wales, a penguin from Antarctica, and even some aliens.
- Downplayed:
- Bob and Alice are American, Haruto, Sakura and Yuki are Japanese.
- Bob and Alice are American, Carol and Danny are Canadian, and Enrique is Mexican.
- Everyone on the Trope Team is from America, but originate from different states: Alice is a cowgirl from Texas, Bob is a fisherman from Maine, Charlie is a Farm Boy from Iowa, Dave is a businessman from California, and Ellie is a surfer girl from Hawai'i.
- Justified:
- The fight against evil and saving the world is universal, so nations pool their resources and fight together.
- Emperor Evulz destroys hometowns of The Trope Team's members, so they form the team to defeat Emperor Evulz together.
- Inverted: Equal-Opportunity Evil
- Subverted: In The Trope Team, Haruto is a Japanese Hero, Bob is a Japanese-American Lancer, Karl is a Japanese-German Big Guy, Enrique is a Japanese-Peruvian Smart Guy, and Alice is a Japanese-Australian Chick...
- Double Subverted:
- ...But it's reveal later that Bob is actually a Vietnamese-Canadian and Karl is full German.
- ...Then Carol, a Canadian Sixth Ranger, is recruited to join the team. And when the villains kill off Karl and Enrique, The Trope Team meet Viktor, an Ukrainian big guy, and Mahmud, an Egyptian Smart Guy, and they accept The Trope Team's invitation.
- Parodied: They're not only multinational, but every last one is a Captain Ethnic.
- Zig Zagged: Originally, there's only members from five countries, but as the series progresses, more and more nations join, until finally every nation and sub-national entity is a member of the Trope Team. However, a Curb-Stomp Battle with the villains kills off most of the members. The nations whose members got killed in the battle replace them.
- Averted: The Trope Team are all from one nationality.
- Enforced:
- The producer thinks audiences identify more with characters of their own ethnicity.
- The show is commissioned note to encourage interracial friendships.
- Lampshaded: "Now all we need is Antarctica..."
- Invoked: The leaders want an international team, for diplomatic reasons.
- Exploited: Emperor Evulz uses the team's ethnic diversity for manipulation in hopes that they will start fighting each other over racial/cultural/religious tension.
- Defied: The leaders only pick the best of the best from their own country, figuring that a diverse team would constantly stumble over communication issues.
- Discussed: "Ever notice how the main guy's always white, the guy who's his total opposite is black, an Asian guy's either a genius or a fifth-degree blackbelt, and the token girl is white? They might add an Indian later on in the series."
- Conversed: Ally and Blake discuss how a show they watch has a large international following due to how diverse the cast is.
- Implied: Their accents are obviously different and their names are of multiple ethnicities, but their nationalities are never mentioned.
- Deconstruction: To represent the trouble between countries, the wars between the member nations are carried over into the Trope Team as squabbles between the members. Manipulative Bitch Alice naturally takes advantage of this by tricking some members into succumbing to Face Heel Turns.
- Reconstruction: Those members realize they've been tricked, and join together to fight against Alice.
- Played For Laughs: In the Equal-Opportunity Offender media, the Comedic Sociopath Harmless Villain Emperor Evulz has an Evil Plan to destroy the World, so the team full of hilariously National Stereotypes is recruited to stop him.
- Played For Drama: The group has to put up with political, cultural and religious tensions (e.g. Israelis and Palestinians).
- And a special case- Artistic License – History: This is before the integration of the military, and there's still a Five-Token Band in the U.S. military.
Back to Multinational Team, amigos! Schnell!
