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Multinational Team (trope)
A stereotype for every continent. Except Oceania. And Antarctica.

Soldier: We're all Americans here!
Miss Pauling: Well, not all of us, obviously. Medic's German and Heavy's from Russ — Ow! What? Oh.
Heavy: [nervously] Ha ha! Germany! Russia! Is big joke! Big American joke on Soldier! Ooh, America. It is the place I am from. All the time.

A Multinational Team is a group of characters with different, emphasized nationalities with an In-Universe justification for this diversity. They are almost invariably the good guys, although the bad guys might have their own version of a multinational team. The trope can occur in works of fiction that do not take place in the present or even on Earth: in The Lord of the Rings, for example, many diverse people from all over Middle-Earth band together.

The Multinational Team differs from the Five-Token Band in that:

  • The characters are explicitly from different nations, not merely different ethnicities. If the diverse characters all grew up in the same suburban town, they are the Five-Token Band, not the Multinational Team.
  • The team has been assembled for a specific purpose, usually by an independent party. If the diverse characters have no specific reason to be hanging out, again they are the Five-Token Band.

In other words, the Multinational Team explains why the team is diverse, whereas the Five-Token Band simply is diverse, often with no explanation. This is not to say that such teams are incapable of tokenism or stereotypes. They're simply different breeds of trope.

Note that "emphasized" does not necessarily mean "thrown in your face every five seconds." If the series makes enough references to the characters' nationalities for the viewer to be aware of it, then the nationalities have been emphasized. Compare the villainous counterpart, Equal-Opportunity Evil. If it's people with power, it's likely a Cosmopolitan Council. Compare/contrast Five-Token Band. Subtrope of Party of Representatives. Compare Mixed Animal Species Team.

This trope puts the heroes on the "heterogeneous" side of Alike and Antithetical Adversaries.


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  • The four main Bibo mascots were American extreme athlete Jay Apple Jr., British rock musician Johnny Orange, Japanese gamer/electronics expert Taka Strawberry, and Italian footballer Paolo Peach.

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Crossovers

  • Code Prime has the Autobot-Black Knight Alliance themselves, who, despite initially being founded as a Japanese partisan group, quickly expand themselves to include Britannians, including many who defected in droves after the SAZ Massacre and Decepticon takeover of their country at the end of R1. Comes R2, the alliance gets even more diverse with European and Chinese members joining the fold.
  • Event Horizon: Storm of Magic: Being a multinational corporation, The Company™'s mission to the star system features characters from all over Earth, including Fred Kovacs (Canadian/American), Daniel Zimmerman (American), Angela Cheong (Korean), James Lombardi (Italian-American), Akane Saito (Japanese), Silke Mertesacker (German), Katherine Chakwas (Afro-British), Cristina Di Stefano (Italian-Argentine), James Wong (Chinese), Robin Van der Merwe (South African), and so on.
  • The Uzumaki family in Naruto's Waifu Marriage! are quite diverse. And that’s without factoring in that they’re from (collectively) eight different franchises!
    • Naruto Uzumaki was born in Konoha, and has Uzushio heritage on his mother’s side.
    • Hinata Hyuga-Uzumaki hails from Konoha, where her clan has resided for decades.
    • Rias Gremory-Uzumaki and her childhood friend/sister-wife Akeno Himejima-Uzumaki are from Kiri.
    • Yasaka Uzumaki and her childrens' origins are shrouded in mystery, but she's apparently from the Land of Fire.
    • Yoruichi Shihouin-Uzumaki hails from a noble clan of assassins in an unknown nation, but ran away from the pressure her stuffy relatives put on her.
    • Yor Briar-Uzumaki is from a land beyond the Elemental Nations, but due to her amnesia, she can't remember where. Same with her adoptive daughter Anya.
    • Erza Uzumaki was born in Kusa, and like Naruto, her mother was from Uzushio.
    • Esdeath Yuki-Uzumaki was born in a now-destroyed village in the northmost regions of Elementia.
    • Rumi Usagiyama-Uzumaki and her daughter Eri were wanderers who traveled the Elemental Nations, and their homeland is possibly the Land of Water, as that was where Rumi met Naruto.
    • Koriand'r/Starfire Uzumaki is by far the most extreme example, as she's an alien from outer space. Specifically, the planet Tamaran. She was kidnapped by Gordanian invaders, but escaped from their ship and crash-landed on Elementia, where she was saved by Naruto.
  • Pokémon Crossing focuses on a trio of trainers from different regions: Kidd (Kalosian), Tank (Hoennian), and Benedict (Hoennian/Galarian, born and raised Unovan). Cultural differences are highlighted through the series i.e. Kidd snarking in French and trying to order wine, Benedict's hotblooded personality getting him into fights, and Tank happily teaching about Hoennian culture.
  • Super Sentai Alternate: The story Battle Fever J, the Global Lagoon is naturally this, only using a real group of multinational heroes due to the characters all coming from Black Lagoon (and one random Frenchman from Hellsing).

Discworld

Godzilla

  • Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Monarch's Multinational Team from Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) (the members who survived the movie anyway) return, and new additions to their numbers for the duration of this story's main time frame include the African-American Dr. Brooks and the late, Japanese Dr. Serizawa's son Ren.

High School D×D

  • The Roots Of Hope features the Crossroads, a team that has representatives from several mythologies; Norse, Heaven, Hell, Fallen Angels, Olympus and Youkai.

Invader Zim

Kingdom Hearts

  • Re:Flection Scenario: Although none of them are of Earth, the Heralds of Dawn are based on a Phenotype Stereotype associated with the compass point they are named after: Norius has Northern/English/Norse long blond hair and blueish-grey eyes. Weselo has Western/Latin American olive skin and wavy dark hair. Easen has Eastern green hair styled similar to a Hime Cut and his uniform takes inspiration from Chinese hanfu. Souzi has Southern/African dark brown skin and red hair in a buzz cut.

The Legend of Spyro

  • Pure Light: The Freedom Flyers oppose the usual strict racial hierarchy of Warfang by taking members from any species. Just on team Alpha under Cynder's command, there are three dragons, a long, a winged unicorn, a cheetah, some kind of anthropomorphic flying lizard, a griffin, and Baboush who may be a dragon. In the past there was also a wyvern.

Lyrical Nanoha

  • Deva Series: The students at Hayate's academy are deliberately chosen from nations the world over. The Circles also have members from lots of nations.

My Little Pony

  • Chrysalis Visits The Hague: The author seems to have made a point out of hardly any two characters being from the same country, with exception of the Equestrian ponies and some Dutch natives.
  • Flutterspy: The three evil ninjas. Red Adder is from Stalliongrad, Blue Cobra is from Trottingham, and Yellow Viper is from Okineighwa.
  • The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: Three of the Bearers were born (and grew up) in the Equestrian continent; Night Blade in Canterlot, Rex in the Under before moving to Middle Canterlot as an adult, and Page Turner in an unknown location before going to Canterlot when very young, while Xvital is an Ahuizotl visiting from the Cuanmiztl Kingdom, Vix-Lei is a minotaur visiting from the Minos Islands, and the griffon Wind Breaker grew up in Canterlot (but, as revealed in the sequel Picking Up the Pieces, was born in and kidnapped from the Griffish Isles and taken back to Canterlot when he was too young to remember).

Pokémon

  • Pokémon Reset Bloodlines: While Ash's Battle Harem isn't quite this yet, it'll eventually include two Kantonian girls (Misty and Anabel), one Unovan (Iris), one Hoennian (May), one Sinnohan (Dawn), and one Kalosian (Serena). So far only the first three have joined, with Serena foreshadowed to be the next one.
  • Pokemon: Shadow of Time: While Ash's Battle Harem isn't quite this yet, it'll eventually include two Kantonian girls (Misty and Anabel), one Unovan (Iris), one Hoennian (May), one Sinnohan (Dawn), one Kalosian (Serena), and one Orrean (original character Robin Ryuto). So far May and Dawn are the only ones who haven't joined yet, though both of them have been accepted as inevitabilities by four of the other five (presumably for the same reason three of those fournote  joined Ash, having known him in the old timeline).

RWBY

  • DNMC has the titular team comprising one member from each of the four kingdoms of Remnant.

SCP Foundation

  • SCP: Overlord: The squad known as MTF Epsilon-6 ("Village Idiots") consists of individuals from several places, identifiable by the flags on their helmets. They including Poland (Kolinski), England (Lambert), Italy (Cicero), France (Besson), and New Mexico (Reyes). Jansen doesn't have a flag on his helmet, but his accent sounds American.

A Song of Ice and Fire

  • Alysanne, Lady of Winterfell: The Sunflowers are a theatre troupe with half of the performers from Dorne (including at least one orphan of the Greenblood), a Westeros-raised Lyseni, and a Braavosi, led by a woman from the Shield Islands.

Total Drama

Warhammer 40,000

  • The Ragged Edges focuses on a space-age equivalent in the form of a Guard regiment assembled from last-surviving members of other regiments from across the galaxy.

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  • Cars 2: The eleven race cars featured in the film comprise two Americans (one of them being Lightning McQueen), one Italian, one Japanese, one Spanish, one French, one Brazilian (and the only female), one German, one pure-British, one half-British, half Grenadian; and one New Rearendian.
  • Ice Age: Continental Drift: Gutt's crew. Captain Gutt, Squint and Shira (before her Heel–Face Turn) have American accents, Raz is Australian, Silas is French, Flynn is from Britain and Gupta is from India. Dobson's nationality is unknown.
  • James and the Giant Peach: The group James travels with in the titular Giant Peach is multinational — Grasshopper, Earthworm, Ladybug, Glowworm and James are from different parts of Britain. Spider is French and Centipede is from Brooklyn.

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  • This music video on YouTube sings a cover of "Nagging" by IU & Seul-ong.
  • Frequent in Korean Pop Music. Groups without at least one foreign member are few and far in-between and becoming less common each generation.
  • AC/DC current lineup consist of Australians Angus Young, Phil Rudd, Stevie Young and Englishmen Brian Johnson and Cliff Williams.
  • Amahiru's lineup consists of a British singer (Archie Wilson), guitarists from France (Frédéric Leclercq) and Japan (Saki), a Dutch keyboardist (Coen Janssen), and an American drummer (Mike Heller).
  • Arcade Fire consists of five Canadians and two Americans (Though as of 2019 Win Butler holds dual US-Canadian citizenship).
  • Arch Enemy: Their current lineup consists of Swedish guitarist Michael Amott, bassist Sharlee D'Angelo, and drummer Daniel Elardsson; Canadian vocalist Alissa White-Gluz; and American guitarist Joey Concepcion. The former lineup had members from outside Sweden: German vocalist Angela Gossow and the American guitarist Nick Cordle and Jeff Loomis.
  • The official members of Baltimora were the Italian Maurizio Bassi, the American Naimy Hackett, and the Northern Irish frontman Jimmy McShane. All other musicians who worked with the group in the studio were Italians.
  • The Black Eyed Peas has will.i.am (African-American), apl.de.ap (Filipino-American), Taboo (Mexican-American) and J. Rey Soul (African-American). Former members include Fergie (mixed English, Irish, Mexican and Scottish) and Kim Hill (African-American).
  • Although Black Sabbath's most iconic lineup (Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward) are all English, the band has had mant members from all around the anglosphere including Americans Ronnie James Dio, Vinny Appice, Eric Singer, and Bobby Rondinelli, Scottish Neil Murray and Australian Bob Daisley.
  • Bloc Party's original lineup comprised Nigerian-British vocalist/guitarist Kele Okereke, Malaysian-British drummer Matt Tong, as well as bassist Gordon Moakes and guitarist Russell Lissack, both white British.
  • Deathgrind band Brujeria has members from numerous parts of the globe. Lead singer Juan Brujo and backing vocalist Ciriaco Quezada are from Mexico, bassist/guitarist Shane Embury (Napalm Death) is English, and Pat Moed (additional bass) is from the United States. As of 2016, they've added another American (Henry Sanchez on additional vocals) and a Chilean (Anton Reisenegger of Criminal on guitar) to their lineup.
  • The classic 1970-73 lineup of Can consisted of four Germans instrumentalists and a Japanese vocalist. Other times, the band variously had an African-American, a Jamaican, and a Ghanaian.
  • Boy Band CNCO, born of a Latin American talent show, has five countries represented in its lineup: Ecuador (Christopher), Cuba (Erick), Mexico (Joel), Dominican Republic (Richard) and Puerto Rico (Zabdiel).
  • Coal Chamber: Their current line up consists of Americans Dez Fafara and Mike Cox, Mexican Meegs Rascón, and German Nadja Peulen.
  • Conquer Divide: All members are Americans, except for guitarist Izzy, who is British.
  • Crypta early lineup features Brazilians vocalist and bassist Fernanda Lira, guitarist Tainá Bergamaschi, drummer Luana Dametto and Dutch Sonia Anubis. Averted after Anubis left the band replaced by another Brazilian Jéssica Di Falchi.
  • Since 2025, the lineup of The Cure consists of Brits Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Roger O'Donnell, and Jason Cooper and American Reeves Gabrels.
  • Deathspell Omega is an Anonymous Band to the extreme, however the most commonly accepted theory regarding their membership posits that they have a French guitarist and drummer, a Finnish vocalist, and a Japanese bassist. They apparently used to be entirely French until their first vocalist Shaxul left.
  • Deee-Lite, the group behind "Groove Is in the Heart", consisted of American vocalist Lady Miss Kier, Korean-Japanese DJ Towa Tei, and Ukranian "Supa DJ" Dmitri.
  • Deep Purple: Marks III through VIII had at a token American member to the mostly British band. These Americans have been Tommy Bolin, Joe Lynn Turner, Joe Satrini, and Steve Morse. Averted with Marks I, II, and IX, where all the members are British.
  • DragonForce is made up of English Marc Hudson on vocals, American Alicia Vigil on bass, Hong-Konger Herman "Shred" Li on guitars, English-born New Zealander Sam Totman on guitars, and Italian Gee Anzalone on drums. Former members include South African vocalist ZP Theart, English bassist Adrian Lambert, French bassist Frederic Leclercq, Ukrainian keyboardist Vadim Pruzhanov and Scottish drummer Dave "Compact Dynamo" Mackintosh.
  • Dream Theater, current lineup featured four Americans John Petrucci (Italian), John Myung (Korean), Mike Portnoy (Jewish), Jordan Rudess, and Canadian James LaBrie.
  • Dschinghis Khan began with two Germans, two Hungarians, a South African, and a Dutchwoman.
  • Equinox, a supergroup (or "common framework") specifically formed to represent Bulgaria at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, featured three Bulgarians and two Americans.
  • Evanescence current lineup consist of four Americans Amy Lee, Tim McCord, Will Hunt, and Troy McLawhorn and Australian Emma Anzai. Former member German Jen Majura.
  • Extreme consisted of three Americans Gary Cherone, Pat Badger, Kevin Figueiredo, and Portuguese-born Nuno Bettencourt.
  • The most iconic lineup of Fleetwood Mac consisted of Brits Mick Fleetwood, John and Christine McVie, and Americans Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. The final lineup consisted of Fleetwood, the McVies, and Nicks, alongside American Mike Campbell, and New Zealand Neil Finn.
  • Fear Factory, 2023 line up featured Mexican-American Dino Cazares and Tony Campos, Caucasian-American Pete Webber, and Italian Milo Silvestro.
  • Foreigner was formed with Britons Mick Jones, Ian McDonald, and Dennis Elliot along with Americans Lou Gramm, Al Greenwood, and Ed Gagliardi. In fact, the band was named such because the band members were from different countries.
  • Garbage consists of Americans Steve Marker, Duke Erikson, and Butch Vig and Scottish lead singer Shirley Manson.
  • Girl Group G.R.L. consisted of three Americans, one Brit, and one Canadian.
  • GogolBordello were formed in America by Ukrainian Eugene Hutz and have featured several Russians, Romanians, Israelis, Americans, English, Scottish and even a Scottish-Chinese member amongst their ranks. However, Russians will insist that they're an American band, on account of being formed there.
  • Jazz unit Hiromi Uehara Trio Project consists of its namesake Hiromi Uehara (Japanese), Anthony Jackson (American), and Simon Phillips (British).
  • Journey's current lineup since 2021 consists of Americans Neal Schon, Jonathan Cain, Deen Castronovo, Jason Derlatka, and Todd Jenson, and Filipino Arnel Pineda. Also, British Aynsley Dunbar was a member in the mid-to-late 70's.
  • Judas Priest current lineup features Englishmen Rob Halford, Ian Hill, Glenn Tipton, Richie Faulkner and American Scott Travis. Former member featured Northern Irish Les Binks and American Tim "Ripper" Owens.
  • KISS' last lineup features Americans Paul Stanley, Eric Singer, Tommy Thayer and Israeli-born Gene Simmons.
  • Kreator consist of Germans Mille Petrozza and Ventor, Finnish Sami Yli-Sirniö and French Frédéric Leclercq.
  • Ladytron consists of a Scot, Bulgarian and two British members (one of them of Chinese descent).
  • Limp Bizkit features Americans Fred Durst, Wes Borland, John Otto and Latvian-born DJ Lethal.
  • Liv Moon's current lineup consists of four Japanese Masaki, Kentaro, Saori Hoshino, Yuya Maeta and Swedish-born Akane Liv.
  • Deathgrind band Lock Up consists of Englishman Shane Embury (bass), Swede Tomas Lindberg (vocals), Americans Kevin Sharp (vocals) and Adam Jarvis (drums), and Chilean Anton Reisenegger (guitars).
  • Machine Head consists of Americans Robb Flynn, Jared MacEachern, Reece Scruggs and English Matt Alston. Notable past member include Canadian Logan Mader and Polish Wacław "Vogg" Kiełtyka.
  • Jazz Fusion pioneers Mahavishnu Orchestra was fronted by Britsh guitarist John McLaughlin. Its most well-known lineup includes Panamanian-American drummer Billy Cobham, American violinist Jerry Goodman, Czech-American keyboardist Jan Hammer, and Irish bassist Rick Laird. Other lineups included nationalities such as French and Swedish.
  • Malevolent Creation is from the United States, but given that they have a ridiculous amount of former members even by death metal standards, they've unsurprisingly had a couple members from outside their home nation, those two being drummer Gus Rios (Venezuela) and guitarist/singer Lee Wollenschlaeger (South Africa).
  • The current lineup of Mayhem consists of Norwegians Necrobutcher, Hellhammer, and Teloch; the Hungarian Attlia Csihar; and the British Ghul.
  • Megadeth's current lineup consists of Americans Dave Mustaine and James LoMenzo, Finnish Teemu Mäntysaari and Belgian Dirk Verbeuren. Notable past members include Canadians Glen and Shawn Drover and Brazilian Kiko Loureiro.
  • Since 2003, the lineup of Metallica consists of Americans James Hetfield (Caucasian), Kirk Hammett (Caucasian and Filipino) and Robert Trujillo (Mexican) and Danish Lars Ulrich.
  • Milli Vanilli consisted of the French Fab Morvan and the German Rob Pilatus. Their producer was the German Frank Farian, and the actual vocalists were all Americans.
  • The final lineup of Motörhead consisted of English Lemmy, Welsh Phil Campbell, and Swedish Mikkey Dee.
  • Napalm Death's current lineup consists of two Englishmen (Mark "Barney" Greenway and Shane Embury) and two Americans (Mitch Harris and Danny Herrera).
  • The current lineup for the London-based power metal band Neonfly consists of Irish vocalist Willy Norton, Mexican-French guitarist Frederick Thunder, English guitarist Andy Midgley, French drummer Boris le Gal, and Channel Islander bassist Paul Miller. Midgley's predecessor as rhythm guitarist was the Irish-Filipino Patrick Harrington.
  • Nervosa's current lineup qualifies; guitarist and mainwoman Prika Amaral and drummer Gabriela Abud is from Brazil (which is still the band's base of operations), while the rest of the lineup is from Greece (Helena Kotina and Hel Pyre). Notable past member vocalist and bassist Fernanda Lira, drummer Fernanda Terra, Pitchu Ferraz, Luana Dametto and guitarist Karen Ramos (Brazilian), vocalist Diva Satanica (Spanish), bassist Mia Wallace (Italian), drummer Eleni Nota (Greek), and drummer Mihaela Naydenova (Bulgarian).
  • The Melodic Death Metal band Nightrage was formed in Greece, but have had several members based in Sweden since they relocated to Gothenburg, and have also had members from Finland, France, and Venezuela.
  • No Devotion is a Welsh rock band, though one of them is English, and fronted by an American.
  • Pop group Now United has this as its main marketing point. Each member is from a different country: Any is Brazilian, Bailey is Filipino, Heyoon is South Korean, Hina is Japanese, Joalin is Finnish, Josh is Canadian, Krystian is Chinese, Lamar is British, Noah is American, Nour is Lebanese, Sabina is Mexican, Savannah is Australian, Shivani is Indian, Sina is German and Sofya is Russian.
  • Obscura consists of vocalist/guitarist Steffen Kummerer and guitarist Kevin Olasz (German), bassist Robin Zielhorst (Dutch), and drummer James Steward (English). Notable past member guitarist Christian Munzner (German), Rafael Trujillo (Austrian) bassist Jerome Paul Thesseling (Dutch), Linus Klausenitzer (German), and drummer David Diepold (Austrian).
  • Ozzy Osbourne and his touring band from 2010-2017 consisted of two Brits (himself and keyboardist Adam Wakeman), two Americans (bassist Rob Nicholson and percussionist Tommy Clufetos), and a Greek (lead guitarist Gus G). Ozzy's last lineup before Ozzy passed away featured Englishmen Ozzy himself and Adam Wakeman and Americans Zakk Wylde, Mike Inez, and Tommy Clufetos.
  • Pendulum consists of Australians Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen and Paul "El Hornet" Harding, Welsh Peredur Ap Gwynedd, and American KJ Sawka.
  • Primal Fear current lineup features Germans Ralf Scheepers, Mat Sinner, and André Hilgers, Swedish Magnus Karlsson, and Italian Thalìa Bellazecca.
  • The classic lineup of Queen was Englishmen Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon and Zanzibar-born Freddie Mercury, lasting until Freddie's passing.
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers features Americans Anthony Kiedis, John Frusciante, Chad Smith and Australian-born Flea.
  • The Rolling Stones are this nowadays, with its primary lineup consisting of Brits and its touring lineup consisting of Americans.
  • Scorpions are this nowadays, with its primary lineup consisting of Germans Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, and Matthias Jabs, Polish Paweł Mąciwoda, and Swedish Mikkey Dee.
  • Slaughter to Prevail consisted of four are Russians Alex Terrible, Mike Petrov, Evgeny Novikov, & Dima Mamedov and English Guitarist Jack Simmons.
  • The original and most iconic lineup of Slayer conisisted of Americans Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, Chilean-born Tom Araya, and Cuban-born Dave Lombardo.
  • Slipknot's 2024 lineup consisted of six Americans Shawn "Clown" Crahan, Corey Taylor, Mick Thompson, Jim Root, Sid Wilson, and Michael Pfaff, plus the English Alessandro Venturella and Brazilian Eloy Casagrande.
  • Static-X current lineup features Americans Tony Campos (Mexican), Ken Jay, and Xer0 and Japanese Koichi Fukuda.
  • Sunn O))) intially just consisted of Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson, both Americans. However, over the years the band has expanded to include the Hungarian Attila Csihar (now performing mainly with Mayhem), the Australian Oren Ambarchi, and the Dutch Tos Nieuwenhuizen. They have also collaborated with artists from Britain, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Japan.
  • Indie band Superorganism are a London-based group consisting of eight different members: Orono Noguchi (Japanese), Harry (English), Emily (Australian), Robert Strange, Tucan, Ruby, B (New Zealanders), and Soul (South Korean). It gets even trickier when you learn that Orono was based in Maine, while Harry and Emily were based in New Zealand, while Soul currently resides in Australia due to an expired work visa.
  • The classic lineup of Supertramp featured Englishmen Rick Davies, John Helliwell, and Roger Hodgson; Scotsman Dougie Thomson; and American Bob Siebenberg.
  • System of a Down lineup features American-born Armenian Daron Malakian, Armenian-born Shavo Odadjian and Lebanese-born Serj Tankian and John Dolmayan.
  • tool consist of Americans Maynard James Keenan, Adam Jones & Danny Carey and English Justin Chancellor.
  • Although Americans make up a majority of Toto's lineups, two notable exceptions were South African Jean-Michel Byron and British Simon Phillips.
  • Transatlantic is a progressive rock supergroup, so named because their members are from both sides of The Pond; Keyboardist Neal Morse and drummer Mike Portnoy are American, guitarist Roine Stolt is Swedish and bassist Pete Trewavas is British.
  • Trivium consist of Americans Corey Beaulieu (French-Canadian), Paolo Gregoletto (Italian), and Alex Rüdinger and Japanese-born Matt Heafy (Irish father, Japanese mother).
  • Van Halen's last lineup features Americans David Lee Roth and Wolfgang Van Halen and Dutch-born Alex and Eddie Van Halen.
  • Prague-based band Vesna, known for representing Czechia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, includes three Czechs (Patricie Fuxová, Bára Šůstková, Markétka Vedralová), a Slovak (Tereza Čepková), a Bulgarian (Tanita Yankovová), and a Russian (Olesya Ochepovskaya).
  • Venom Prison is Welsh, but their frontwoman and most famous member Larissa Stupar is from Russia and also lived in Germany during her later childhood, not moving to the United Kingdom until she was college-aged.
  • Pioneering Death Metal band Necrophagia was formed in the Midwestern United States, but have had a hugely international lineup over the years, with members also hailing from Norway (Frediablo, Fug, and Iscariah), Italy (Titta Tani), Japan (Mirai Kawashima), and Ukraine (Serge Streltsov), with all except the latter not only being in the band at the same time but also making up the only lineup to appear on more than one album.
  • Yngwie Malmsteen's band features Swedish-born American Malmsteen himself, Serbian Nick Marino, and Americans Emilio Martinez and Wyatt Cooper.

    Pro Wrestling 

    Radio 
  • Journey into Space: The crew is British (Jet Morgan and Lemmy Barnet), Canadian (Doc Matthews) and Australian Stephen "Mitch" Mitchell).

    Religion 
  • In Christianity, it has become popular to depict the Three Wise Men who visited the infant Christ in this way. While the original text simply describes them as "wise men from the East," without indicating number, artistic representations of the trio since the late 1200s often have Caspar as white, Melchior as Arabic, and Balthazar as Black, representing the three major areas of the "known world" in Biblical times (Europe, Asia, and Africa, respectively). To further the point, the Wise Men are similarly depicted as being of three different ages, with Caspar as elderly, Melchior as middle-aged, and Balthazar as young.

    Tabletop Games 
  • Sentinels of the Multiverse: The various heroes and villains come from a huge range of nations.
    • While many of the heroes — especially the Freedom Five — come from the United States (Legacy, Bunker, Tachyon, Absolute Zero, Argent Adept, Nightmist, Setback, Chrono-Ranger, etc) many more come from other countries. Fanatic is from Peru, Unity from Israel, Haka from New Zealand, KNYFE from Scotland, the Naturalist from Nigeria, Visionary from China, Parse from Australia and Sky-Scraper and Tempest from outside of Earth.
    • The villains are just as diverse. Outside of the obvious nonhuman ones, there's Baron Blade, who hails from a a small fictional eastern European country, Ambuscade from France, the Operative from the Philippines, and La Capitan from colonial Spain.
  • Warhammer 40,000: Corsair crews are typically composed of Eldar from multiple societies of origin. A single ship might pick up crew from different Craftworlds, which are independent states with often strongly diverging cultures, alongside exiles (voluntary or otherwise) from the dark city of Commorragh and Exodites who tire of the subsistence-level lifestyle of the Maiden Worlds.
  • Warhammer Fantasy Battle: While most of the regiments and characters in the Dogs of War are Tilean, they also include a wide assortment of troops and rogues from across the nations of the world. A mercenary army can potentially include Imperial exile knights, Arabyan cavalry, Norse marauders, Amazon warriors, Dwarf pirates, Dark Elf raiders, a High Elf dragonrider, Lizardmen raptor riders, Orc crossbowmen, Hobgoblin wolf riders, and similarly colorful sorts.

    Toys 
  • The theme behind the Global Friends line of dolls is that they are a group of pen pals located around the world. In the accompanying books they visit each other in various international locations and each time stumble into a regional mystery.

    Visual Novels 
  • Artificial Nexus: While it's not explicitly stated, the core COEUS team in the game is implied to be from across different countries based on their names - Nicky (French), Roderick (German), Linnea and Sigurd (Scandinavian, likely Norwegian), and Akemi (Japanese). The only characters whose nationality can't be deduced are Hank and Kieran.
  • An Aboriginal Autralian version in Lands of Fire. The core group comes from all over Australia, from the Yuin in the southeastern coast to the Arrernte in the desert and the Gamilaraay in between. The Gunditjamara reinforcements from South Australia also feature an Yolngu from the opposite side of the continent.
  • Minotaur Hotel: The various guests that you will meet and may be able to recruit come from different countries and their respective country's myth. For example, Luke is of mixed heritage but was born and raised in the United States, Kota is from Japan, and Asterion himself is from Crete.
  • Queen of Thieves: The Gilded Poppy are a team of thieves who come from a variety of national backgrounds. Nikolai is Russian, Remy is French, Vivienne grew up all over, Zoe and the heroine are American, Jett is British, and Leon is from Hong Kong.

    Web Animation 
  • Eddie at The LMV: The LMV have a line-up of three black, two white, one Eastern-Asian, and an Ambiguously Brown.
  • hololive: The EN branch has turned out this way, compared to the group's main (all Japanese) and ID (all Indonesian) branches. From their accents and other information given by the girls themselves:
    • The first generation Myth has Calliope, Gura, and Ame being American (with Calli living in Japan), Kiara Austrian, and Ina of Korean ancestry and (most likely) living in Canada.
    • The second generation Council includes two Australians (Sana and Baelz), two more Americans (Fauna and Mumei), and another Korean-Canadian (Kronii). In between, IRyS seems to be an American living in Japan, similar to Calli.
    • The third generation, Advent include the Midwestern American Nerissa, the Thai-descended Bijou, as well as most likely Canadians, Fuwawa and Mococo. While Shiori's nationality or domain is still unknown, but she once alludes her upbringing by casually mentioned that she likes Brazo de Mercedes, a traditional Filipino delicacy.
    • The fourth generation Justice has it's members hailing from four distinct nations, both in lore and out. Elizabeth is from from Great Exardia (Great Britain), Gigi is from Freesia (America), Cecilia is from Immerheim (Germany) and Raora is from the Romance Empire (Italy).
  • RWBY: Each continent of Remnant has at least one kingdom, a safe place for humanity to flourish among the nightmarish creatures that stalk the world. Each kingdom contains an elite school that trains people to become Huntsmen and Huntresses, heroes who protect humanity from the threats to their existence. The world's best school is Beacon Academy, based in the Kingdom of Vale on the continent of Sanus, and run by the enigmatic Professor Ozpin; it either attracts the best students in the world or Ozpin actively headhunts them, so Beacon teams can consist of students who come from many different places. The heroes helping the Big Good to fight the Big Bad consist of two teams from Beacon Academy: Team RWBY, which contains Vale locals Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao Long, Weiss Schnee who is native to the Kingdom of Atlas on the continent of Solitas, and Blake Belladonna, who comes from the distant Faunus island of Menagerie. Team JNPR contains two characters of unknown origins, Jaune Arc and Nora Valkyrie, Pyrrha Nikos, who comes from the City of Argus on the continent of Anima, and Lie Ren, who comes from a completely different location on Anima, the village of Kuroyuri just outside the Kingdom of Mistral.

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  • Whateley Universe: The Vindicators' current line-up includes a Swede, a Dane, a Belgian, a Canadian, and two Americans. For that matter, Pan-Asia, which is made up of Whateley Academy students from all over Asia, including Japan, China, and Vietnam.

 
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International Legation Siege

In 1900, the nationalist Chinese Boxer rebellion laid siege to the embassies of the European colonial nations in Peking.

This resulted in soldiers and diplomats from Britain, the US, Germany, France, Italy, Japan and other nations to struggle together against a common foe.

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