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The Anglophone stereotype that France sucks at war and surrenders at the drop of a hat... and needs the Anglophone countries to save them! It is unknown when exactly this stereotype first arose to prominence. France historically was England's, and later the United Kingdom's, oldest and most frequent enemy, which on its own would have certainly already contributed to a negative view of the French in general in the Anglosphere from the Middle Ages onwards. The term itself was coined by writer Ken Keeler on an episode of The Simpsons in 1995. This trope is also so widespread because it jibes with that other major negative stereotype Anglophones have about the French — that they're effeminate. Generally speaking, the concept that contributes to the perception of this trope was how swiftly France was overrun by German forces in World War II (an occurence that shocked the whole world at the time, including German high command, because even though France was not seen as a match for Germany, it was still considered a formidable military power that would at least hold out for longer than it did), and from the 1940s to the 1970s were subject to several disasters in their military campaigns, losing large colonial wars in Indochina (to a much weaker force than the Americans faced years later) and Algeria, as well as being strong-armed into withdrawing from Egypt. Of course, the truth is always more complicated. Historically, France has been the prominent battleground of just about every major European war, and they lost more men in combat during World War I than any other nation except Russia and Germany, while being the strongest Allied army for most of it. And then, of course, there's the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period — from the 1790s to 1815, France became a military powerhouse, culminating in the French Empire, under a certain Napoléon Bonaparte, controlling a large swathe of Western Europe and turning Germany, Italy, and Spain into client states, requiring everyone else in Europe to team up to have a chance of beating them. As for the losses of France's colonial possessions in the post-war period, the British suffered the near-total disintegration of its own empire in the same period (notably losing India in 1947 and control over the Suez Canal in 1956) in what was in reality a global trend toward decolonization, but are not considered to be a culture of wimps; instead, the most applicable negative streotype of the British is that they are imperious and condescending toward "lesser" countries and peoples (but not weak). The idea of France always surrendering might be Newer Than They Think, perhaps only beginning with how quick they surrendered to Nazi Germany during World War II. It shot back to prominence particularly in the US in 2003 when France refused to support the invasion of Iraq. While many other major nations also voted against it, France for whatever reason came in for a particularly acidic response from American conservatives. Contrast Gauls with Grenades and Legion of Lost Souls. See also La Résistance. |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Antoine D'Coolette. In the first four years of the Archie Comics Sonic series, he was the very epitome of this trope. Until he fell in love with Bunnie Rabbot and took several levels in badass. It got to the point where his old ways were just something he can look back and laugh at himself over. After the Cosmic Retcon, these traits were actually retconned as well, to the point where becomes more of a Cowardly Lion, willing to put his personal fears aside to protect everything and everyone he loves. In some kind of unexpected subversion, Sonic himself seems to be French or of French descent, since his family all have French forenames: Bernadette (Mother), Jules (Father) and Charles (Uncle). That and his middle name is Maurice. |
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Bucky of Get Fuzzy is known to give rants to this effect. Other characters get their shots in too: |
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Frog from Sluggy Freelance: "We surrender! There! How's that? Does that take care of your hunger to disparage others for some 'larfs?'" | |
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Rise of the Reds: Inverted. Not only do France provide the ECA with a good number of effective units like the Felin Rifleman, the Tiger Helicopter and the Valkyrie Venom Exosuit, but France deploying her nuclear arsenal is a major plot point in the mod's backstory — in May 2048 during the height of the Russian offensive, the Russians had overrun most of the continent and the ECA were holed up in an enclave just north of the Pyrenees with no reinforcements coming and no hope. President Marmont however decided he would rather break out the neutron bombs and drop them on his own country than surrender it to the Ivans. It nearly provoked a protracted nuclear exchange from General Ripper Aleksandr until cooler heads prevailed on the Russian side and control of the Russian nukes was given exclusively to Four-Star Badass Old Soldier Zhukov. | |
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Bleak Expectations: France is portrayed as a country of jerks, whose surprisingly well-dressed anti-British lynch mobs can be driven off by one man firing a musket into the air, if only temporarily. | |
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Subverted in Dystopian Wars: despite having been reduced to a shadow of its former glory over the last several decades of the game's Backstory, the République of France is not only still a Major Power, but is currently fully dedicated to regaining said former glory, by force if need be. | |
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JonTron gets a dig in at France for this, along with a dig at Germany for starting wars, during his play of Valiant Hearts: | |
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In one episode from the final season of That '70s Show, Red and Kitty, having decided to move to Florida, are showing the house to a bunch of different families. Kitty mentions that a family with the last name Dubois is coming to view the house. Red, in his typical fashion, complains about it. | |
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The Polandball series of comics, being full of National Stereotypes, has this as a Running Gag, though its level of historical accuracy means the trope is also often subverted. | |
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The Simpsons: The Trope Namer is Groundskeeper Willie in 1995 with the episode Round Springfield. Having been forced to sub as a French teacher, the brief snippet of his "lesson" plays out as follows: After the 9/11 attacks it was particularly popular among American conservatives and conservative media outlets. Even though this trope is mainly about American and English attitudes towards the French, the phrase was originally uttered by a character from Scotland, a country with a c.1100-1603 tradition of allying with the French against the English (before they decided to form a country with them), and addressed to a class consisting of Americans. In his appearance in the cartoon, Scorpio asks Homer whether he should use his massive Death Ray to wipe out France or Italy, and when Homer makes his decision, Scorpio quips, "Nobody ever says Italy." In the story of Joan of Arc, Homer remarks "Victory? We're French! We don't even have a word for it!!" note The English word "victory" actually comes from the French "victoire." Subverted in "Treehouse of Horror VIII": when Mayor Quimby insults the French they declare war on Springfield, and destroy it with a Neutron Bomb. Along with everything else. |
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When the actor Ed O'Neill later starred in the 2003 update of Dragnet, he was investigating a murder, and interviewing a latina maid. Her boss (who was having an affair with her) said, "You wouldn't be interviewing her if she was French!". Sgt. Friday replied, "Well, I have a thing about the French." | |
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Subverted in Team Yankee. The French have a very low Morale check (5+), which means that if the unit comes under heavy fire, don't expect it to Hold the Line. The sourcebook steps in to explain that this is not down to cowardice on the part of the French soldiers (as their Courage stat is actually rather high), but to represent the French military doctrine of preferring to sacrifice ground to preserve manpower rather than encouraging Senseless Sacrifices in disadvantageous encounters. | |
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Star Trek: Picard: Picard again. Early on in season 2, when a Borg queen transports aboard the Stargazer and begins to assimilate the entire fleet (which has been enhanced with Borg tech), Picard uses his reinstated admiral credentials to activate self-destruct. He only survives because Q intervenes and transports him and his associates to an alternate universe. | |
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Ozy and Millie: This strip. | |
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Unhappily Ever After: Mr. Floppy lists all the countries he'd like to nuke. Jack asks, "Can we kaboom France?" Floppy: "We don't have to — France will surrender with a phone call." | |
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This stereotype is often cited by sarcastic Harry Potter fans who note the discrepancy between Fleur Delacour's reputation and credentials and her actual on-screen performance. Cleolinda Jones lampshades hers in the Movies in Fifteen Minutes summary of Goblet of Fire. | |
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The original Code Geass: Akito the Exiled followed this trope (along with promoting stereotypical French snobbishness) with the entire European cast (outside W-0). Then the dub, by applying actual French accents to said characters, made it that much worse. | |
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Mike of Spaced once attempted a one-man invasion of Paris with a stolen Chieftain tank. He only failed because he decided to stop off at Euro Disney on the way. | |
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Catch Me If You Can: Inverted. The French police actually seem very gung-ho about shooting Abagnale on sight. In fact, the French in general have a sense of national pride at least as intense as the American one. As such, they're pretty incensed that an American Con Man like Frank thinks nothing of stealing their money and embarrassing them. | |
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In an episode of Earthworm Jim, Bob the Goldfish builds a De-evolution Ray, and decides to test it first on the Planet of Easily-Frightened People: | |
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Isabelle of Paris averts this, being set during the Franco-Prussian war post-Battle of Sedan. While the French initially lost the battle to Prussia, Victor and Andréa are skilled military commanders who are willing to fight until their last breath, and Jules and the rest of the Parisians swear to take the Prussians on their own. The main character, Isabelle, works as a spy to help aid France and liberate Paris. Even Geneviève, who's pregnant, vows to defend their country, wanting the children of Paris to have a bright future. | |
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Al Bundy liked to make jokes like these on Married... with Children, for instance noting how another character ran away "like a Frenchman from a cap gun." | |
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Discordia: Averted. When one of the aliens convinces the French people to reenact the French Revolution and bring back the guillotine, the surviving public officials flee to Germany. The French then threaten Germany to hand over the officials, pointing out that, unlike Germany, France is a nuclear power. | |
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Cracked: The article 22 Shocking Statistics that change how you see the world attacks the real-world basis for this trope, and shows that in the last 2000 years, France has won more than twice as many major wars as they have lost, and they don't consume as much cheese as Greece. However, this runs into Artistic License – History as it includes military victories from before France came into existence as a nation-state. Italy's military history looks alot more impressive if you count the ancient Romans. | |
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The Sorrow and the Pity: The Trope Maker is discussed. It is noted that France was the only one of the several countries that Hitler conquered to make a formal peace with Nazi Germany. While all of the other countries in Hitler's Europe had governments-in-exile in London, France did not. This left de Gaulle and the Free French in an awkward position and undercut their ability to contribute to the the anti-Nazi war effort. | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Inverted, where the English knights depend heavily on the strategy "RUN AWAY!" | |
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Scandinavia and the World: Denmark, viewing the moon through a telescope, sees the the sun-bleached American flag on the surface and, thinking it's a white 'surrender' flag, asks Sweden when France visited the moon. Link. | |
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Valiant: The mice of La Résistance are under-funded, ill-equipped and in some cases stark raving mad, but their skill and courage are never questioned. Also, one would expect that cheese-eating jokes would be easy enough to shoe-horn in, given that the characters are mice, but no, not a one is made. | |
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Ultimate Captain America's "SURRENDER??!! You think this letter on my head stands for France?" This is probably the single most well-known anything that ever occurred in the Ultimate universe. Averted by the Captain America of main continuity during the Winter Soldier arc. While in Paris, he reminisces on fighting alongside the French Resistance, and expresses his deep respect for the French people; while their government surrendered, they never stopped fighting back. (Possible a Take That! to the Ultimate example above.) Also inverted by one of Captain America's main recurring foes, Batroc the Leaper — though he's (generally) evil, and often treated comically, he's consistently brave to the point of recklessness, and considered one of the few normal humans on the planet who can keep Cap at bay. Ultimate Cap later ended up in a French SHIELD base, with two soldiers who take issue with his prejudices. A few seconds later, he slips his cuffs, disarms the soldiers, subdues a third, and one of the tough-talking soldiers tries to surrender. This was supposed to be hypocritical and ironic, but this version of Cap eats heavily-armed platoons for breakfast, much less three normal guys. Surrendering is a perfectly sensible choice. |
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Irregular Webcomic! has this with French battle plan number one. Do note that DMM has inverted this trope before. | |
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In his novel Tricky Business, a team of Mafia goons have loaded a speedboat with "enough weaponry to invade a small Third World nation. Or France." | |
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An honourable mention should go to the BBC documentary The World At War from 1973. 23 episodes covered the entire span of World War II, and episode three was titled France Falls. This trope might as well be the title of that episode, because the narrative does little to hide the lousy French planning, the lack of unity before the war, or anything else. One scene shows archive footage of the many thousand French soldiers plainly walking away from the trenches, effectively surrendering. Because this series was a British production, the trope came in with force. | |
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The Unbelievable Truth: When one lecture claims a dog started a fifteen day war with France, Henning Wehn (who is German) buzzes in to say this couldn't really have happened because France would've surrendered long before then. | |
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He stings both France and Italy in the WWII section of Dave Barry Slept Here, describing France's defeat at the end of an epic 35-minute battle, during which the Italian army "penetrated nearly two hundred feet into southern France before their truck broke down." | |
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From We Were Soldiers: The film opens with a French unit during the Indochina War ambushed by Vietminh troops, though it's overwhelmed through surprise and sheer numbers rather than any lack of courage. The Vietminh commander orders his soldiers not to take prisoners so no more French will be sent. |
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World War II: Deconstructed as the Real Life situation of the War was much more complex than the "only dropped once" stereotypes and parodies. The Beleaguered Bureaucrat nature of the overlapping Allied command structure contrasted with the German dictatorship is only one among many of the details the show tackles to illustrate the reasons for the Fall of France and combat post-war misconceptions about the effectiveness of the Maginot Line and French response to the invasion. | |
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Hearts of Iron: Hearts of Iron II covers World War 2, where, as noted in the trope description, France surrendered to the Germans early in the war. Consequently, France is typically steamrolled by Germany in short order. Hearts of Iron III: France is usually defeated by Germany within a few weeks, as they lack the industrial capacity, leadership, and manpower to stand up to Germany without a skilled player taking the reigns. In the 1940 start, they don't even have medium armor divisions. Hearts of Iron IV: France starts the game off with a spirit called "Disjointed Government", which among other debuffsnote said other debuffs are -50% political power gain and -10% stability, halves the surrender threshold of Francenote said threshold is when the country surrenders; most nations require you to take the majority of the country before they'll capitulate, meaning that if any other country takes Paris and a few other cities, France will surrender - which is easier than you might think, since the game has Paratroopers, and they only require a few seconds of air superiority to take off. On historical the French AI will avoid removing this spiritnote in part due to the fact that the democratic path requires France to wait a full year after taking a certain focus before they can take the one that removes the spirit, but if the French AI goes down a path that has France change ideologies or France is controlled by a player, France can avert this trope. In the Alternate-History Nazi Victory mod The New Order Last Days Of Europe, by 1962 France has been strangled to near-death by economic ruination and punitive treaties imposed by a vindictive and victorious Nazi Germany. When Burgundy invades right after the beginning of the German Civil War following Adolf Hitler's death, the French State and its tiny token militia army stands absolutely no chance against the Burgundian juggernaut. However somewhat subverted as France can potentially bounce back and reclaim the territories following the collapse of Burgundy and regain some prominence as a regional power, depending on which government takes over. Averted by Free France, the Charles de Gaulle's Government in Exile in Côte d'Ivoire — it's a pitiful strip of desert with no navy, no air force, a tiny army, conscription problems, no allies of note, and is target practice for Luftwaffe bombers; however they can come Back from the Brink, win the West African War and against all the odds even reclaim their homeland. |
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Crécy; It is pointed out that the French army at the time was considered badass, whereas nobody took the English army seriously. Then the English archers give France one of the most one-sided defeats in History. | |
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Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories: Tink has a French accent (at least in the US dub). He is also a womanizing Dirty Coward... and a frog.note The French having acquired the nickname of "Frogs" for eating them. | |
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In Mars Attacks!, the French President joyfully calls the American President to announce that he has signed a peace treaty to end the war. The American President is forced to listen to his dying screams. | |
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Subverted quite awesomely in Wolfenstein: The New Order. It's implied by a newspaper cutting that France is one of the few countries in the world that still has an active resistance movement in 1960, after the Nazis battered the free world into submission after a prolonged World War II. And they are no closer to giving up than they were when the Nazis first invaded over twenty years ago. Sure enough, this snippet was Foreshadowing for Wolfenstein: Youngblood, which features the French Resistance as your allies. Apparently they are still an effective fighting force well into The '80s. |
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Inverted in Star Trek: First Contact, where Captain Picard is the only member of Enterprise's crew who doesn't want to destroy his ship to prevent a Borg victory. He gives another of the most badass—if slightly delusional—lines in Trek: Then, when he gets called on it by Lily, he comes down from his delusion, activates the self-destruct timer... and then stays on board while everyone else leaves so he can rescue Data. |
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Justice League of America: Invoked by Guy Gardner's response to a French General's request for help in "Wonder Woman and Justice League America". | |
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The Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) animation series did not last long enough for Antoine to develop out of this trope. Years later, as part of a review of both Sonic cartoon shows, The Nostalgia Critic viciously lampshaded this for all it was worth: Now as to what happens to him in the comic, on the other hand... |
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Completely inverted in The Walking Dead. According to Dr. Jenner, the guy in the CDC bunker in the first season finale, France was not only the last country to fall to the zombies, but the French scientists kept working on a cure for The Virus until the end while the American CDC scientists abandoned their work and ran for the hills. | |
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The Borgias subverts this to its fullest extent by presenting the French army as a pack of bloodthirsty, highly skilled warriors who've recently invented some extremely grisly war machines. The warfare among Italian cities, based largely on condottieri mercenaries, had an element of playacting as mercenary soldiers did their best to not suffer casualties so that they could collect their pay and go home to spend it. The French forces under Charles VIII that intervened in Italy at the end of 15th century, on the other hand, were a tough, warlike, and hard-fighting army supported by revolutionary artillery equipment and tactics. | |
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From Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG: | |
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Forgotten Weapons: Ian, who is an avowed Francophile, has gone to great pains to disabuse people of the notion, including buying a Chauchat for the the sole purpose of proving that it is nowhere near as wretched a weapon as most people think. | |
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The Sims 3: One of the books you can buy in the French holiday town is "The White Flag of Victory". | |
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Armed and Dangerous: One cutscene has Rexus using his Jedi Mind Trick powers to cause two mooks to surrender by convincing them they were French. | |
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From the pages of Batman Annual, when Bruce Wayne tells the head of the Police Nationale that he wants to set up a Batman in Paris, he responds thus: | |
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In Fables, the Big Bad Wolf talks smack about the French: | |
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Dunkirk features both aversions and a subversion. The French soldiers aren't given much screen time, but they're shown holding the line in the prologue as Tommy escapes to the beach and Commander Bolton mentions several times that the soldiers and tanks are keeping the Germans from getting into the city. The subversion comes when "Gibson" is revealed to be a French soldier impersonating a Brit. Save for Tommy, the British soldiers who got inside the trawler consider him as a coward for taking the clothes and identity of a dead soldier, but the truth is, he's just as desperate to leave the beach as they are, and British soldiers are embarked in priority over French ones. "Gibson" also saved the group's life the night before when the ship they embarked on was sunken by a torpedo, opening them the door as they were trapped inside and drowning. | |
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The Onion's book "Our Dumb Century" discusses the French in its World War II articles: They surrender after a "Valiant Ten-Minute Struggle," then after Pearl Harbor, then again after Nagasaki. In fact, pretty much every war that's mentioned in the book includes a headline somewhere on the page reading "France Surrenders." Even if France isn't involved. |
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The Patriot (2000): Technically inverted with Major Jean Villeneuve (a composite character representing, among others, the Marquis de La Fayette) fighting alongside the Americans (interestingly he shares a last name with the French admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, who lost the Battle of Trafalgar, although this may not have been intentional). That being said, the revolutionaries bemoan the lack of French assistance throughout the film, though French forces show up with the very end of the film and help them win the Battle of Yorktown. | |
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Ruddigore suggested an early Stealth Parody of this trope with Richard's sea shanty. The French were offended, but the British tars of the song exercise their Patriotic Fervour by retreating from a French frigate without firing back at it because "she's only a poor Parley-voo" and fighting it would be "like hittin' of a gal." Of course, that the French have them outmaneuvered, outgunned and outclassed in terms of skill has nothing to do with anything. | |
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Mass Effect: Human Revolution, being written by a French Canadian, lampoons this several times: Alluded to and promptly subverted in chapter 28. Also mentioned in chapter 34 from Taggart, a Scot. Also mentioned during the space battle over Noveria. Everyone in orbit, save the Normandy, joins in to fight the geth attack. Emphasis is given to the fact that the French are up there fighting as well while the Alliance's Normandy is stuck following the AIA's blackout protocols. |
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Skippy's List has examples: | |
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Pokémon Black and White: Serperior is based off a snake and a French king. Its offensive stats are average, but it has high Speed and Defensive stats. In its normal form, it performs an adequate job providing support for the team and annoying the opponent. When it comes from the Dream World, however, it becomes amazing, turning into a nearly unstoppable Lightning Bruiser because its Special Attack doubles from using a 140-base power STAB move. Overall, Serperior is a subversion of this trope. | |
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Inverted in The Brothers Grimm, taking place during the Napoleonic Wars, when the deuteragonist is the French General Delatombe, commander of the recently-conquered Kingdom of Westphalia. On the DVD commentary, Terry Gilliam said he felt it was important to remind people that, once upon a time, it was the French occupying Germany, and not the other way around. | |
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In Joker's Last Laugh: | |
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Soul Eater: Troubled Souls: Claudia Moncharmin is incapable of combat and prefers not to get her hands dirty, not that Caius actually minds early on, and is quite frankly all talk and no action. Like a lot of things, this is Played for Drama. | |
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World of Tanks: Expect a lot of jokes about this if French tanks are on the field in the beginning of the battle, that is before the actual battle happens. After this it's subverted to some degree: the later French tanks are some of the fastest on field and thus the first to engage enemies, often soon enough those didn't expect fire and are nowhere near cover, not to mention they can dish out a lot of damage in short time, killing you before you can even say cheese, but lacking armor for their speed and firepower, they will surrender fast if you so much as point your gun at them. | |
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Inverted in Deadliest Warrior. French warriors are always described and depicted as extremely badass, especially the French Musketeers who are described as crazy, fancy Chick Magnet medieval special forces, and back up their description by destroying their Ming Warrior opponents by 670-230 in the simulation. Not to mention Joan of Arc and Napoleon Bonaparte, who, respectively, defeats William the Conqueror, and loses against George Washington by a margin so close that any sane man would call it a tie. The French Foreign Legion are also shown as awesome, even though the Gurkhas kick their asses. It also doesn't count as the French Foreign Legion is an Army of Thieves and Whores made of men from all over the world; one of the experts brought in who was a former Legionnaire is an Australian. | |
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In the dub of Lupin III: Part II, Zenigata makes this reference. | |
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Brought up in Unskippable for the opening cutscene of Onimusha 3: Demon Siege, where modern day Paris gets attacked by some kind of overwhelming invading monster force, killing hundreds. Played with when the boys say something along the lines of | |
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From Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: | |
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Peter Milligan and Mike Allred's run on X-Force had the title team's former manager try and create a new superhero group based around various absurd Captain Ethnics including a French member who appeared to be an actual monkey whose mutant power was knowing exactly the right moment to surrender (and whose codename was actually Surrender Monkey). The team's backers actually call the manager out on what ridiculous stereotypes all the superheroes are. The French monkey showed up in a later story line and was revealed to be an American agent with the job of creating anti-French sentiment but he went native because of his love of cheese and wine. | |
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Punch-Out!!: Glass Joe both plays this trope straight and inverts it. Played straight because he has a record of one win and 99 losses. Inverted in that despite his record, he refuses to surrender (retire), and he'll gladly go through a fight until his inevitable defeat. This also applies to his student, Gabby Jay, who has the exact same record as him. His only victory was against Glass Joe. | |
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'Allo 'Allo!, the legendary sitcom, is all about the French resistance and how cowardly Rene, the main "hero", is, and mentions the French surrendering approximately once per two episodes. A majority of the French cast, however, don't fit the trope. | |
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World Without End: Subverted with an English character who goes off to France to fight in the Hundred Year's War. When he comes back after a successful campaign, his family gleefully engages in some trash talk about French courage and martial valor. But he immediately cuts that off and points out that the French he fought were every bit as brave as the English and fought ferociously — he attributes the success of the English to superior weapons and tactics. | |
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The West Wing In "Commencement", the penultimate episode of Season 4, Wes, a member of the Secret Service detail, is being transferred to France, and everyone teases him about how cushy the job will be; Admiral Fitzwallace even tells him to watch out for all of the dangerous mimes. There are other references throughout the series, such as when the White House negotiates with the French government for the return of a painting to its rightful owner and a British character notes that France "promptly surrendered". Another time, President Bartlet is about to go to war in Africa and is denied access to French airspace, so he tells Leo to "tell those poncy hairdressers I'm going to shove a loaf of bread up their ass!" |
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Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle: Inverted. When the protagonist, who is disguised as a Frenchman, meets an army colonel, the colonel starts lecturing him on how many great generals France had: Napoleon Bonaparte, Julius Caesar, Don Quixote... | |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers: Sort of a Zig-Zagging Trope for France, depending on the time period. England even refers to him by the trope name in the dub. | |
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The Fairly OddParents! had a loving couple from France being hit by a water balloon due to Timmy's terrible aim. Their response? "We surrender!" | |
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Origin Story: After a diplomatic incident involving the illegal arrest of a French ambassador (namely, a Ben Grimm that absolutely refused to be part of the Civil War (2006) and moved to France, and upon his return to the U.S. had his diplomatic immunity disregarded by SHIELD and thus was put in jail for being an unregistered super), President George W. Bush specifically points out that while they might joke about how the French are weak sisters, everyone knows that the truth is that a war between France and the United States would most likely end up in a Pyrrhic Victory for the US. It's also noted that, for all the snideness, French martial prowess is so widely respected that most of the words in the English language relating to warfare and military matters are in fact borrowed from French. | |
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Subverted in Father Ted. Father Jack, who is undoubtedly not a coward, always stands for La Marseillaise and demands everyone else do so as well. | |
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In 1990, Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" followed up the news that Germany was reunifying with the line, "Believe me, a lot of countries are very nervous about this. France, for example, offered to surrender." | |
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Downplayed in Horatio Hornblower. The French are often portrayed as less competent than British (which they were; too many of the officers of the old Bourbon navy were decapitated) but not as less brave. | |
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The whole "Freedom Fries" debate is spoofed in a FoxTrot strip where Andy asks Paige how her French homework is coming along. Paige responds by just saying "Excuse me??" Andy repeats the question, and gets the same response again. Then she facepalms herself as she realizes what Paige meant: | |
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And again in the Infinite Crisis: Villains United special: | |
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Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Abridged: Parodied. Polenareff is intent on defying this trope, but Kakyoin is a lot less concerned with living up to National Stereotypes and more concerned with the two assassins coming after them. | |
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The Simpsons Game has a level where Bart and Homer have to collect white flags in a French village during World War II. The villagers, of course, do nothing but run away from them, and a PA says things like "Make sure your flag is white, not off-white or eggshell or creme" and "By surrendering now, we will encourage our allies to fight even harder". The game is also the Trope Namer. | |
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The Battle of Algiers averts it for most part and justifies it when it happens. The leaders of the FLN know that they can't defeat the French by playing nice. In turn, Colonel Philippe Mathieu recognises that the rebels' brutality serves a strategic purpose and responds with brutal tactics of his own. Although the French do give up on Algiers, it is not until after the rebellion in the cities has been defeated and a terrible cost in blood has been extracted. | |
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Alt★Hero: Invoked and defied by Jean-Michel Durand. When Captain Europa's appearance causes some of the Paris protesters to lose heart, Durand tells them it's time the French fought back instead of fleeing all the time. Despite being physically outmatched, he faces and beats the Captain, inspiring the nationalists to rout their Antifa opposition. | |
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Hagrid and the Skoolgurlz calls the trope out by name when the band goes to Paris. | |
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One episode of Spin City focused on the Mayor trying to get Paris to be New York's sister city. | |
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Team Fortress 2: Zig-zagged. The Spy class is stereotypically French with an outrageous accent, and his "Meet The" video portrays the RED Spy as a Magnificent Bastard who seduced the BLU Scout's mother and single-handedly eliminated just about every member of the BLU team. Most of the other classes' domination and revenge taunts insult him for being a sneaky coward whose only skill is Chronic Backstabbing Disorder — which accurately, if insultingly, summarizes how you're supposed to play the Spy. However, only the Soldier invokes the trope directly: some of his lines refer to the Spy as a 'rifle dropping coward' and white flags. | |
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The Black Adder series makes a few off-hand reference to this, but none quite as prominent as in Blackadder: Back & Forth when the titular character travels through time to the Battle of Waterloo and has Napoleon portrayed as being strategically-inept, with another French soldier essentially stating that all of England's stereotypes of the French are quite true. Though apparently without The Duke of Wellington leading the Brits, the French would have won, at least according to this series. | |
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The Teen Titans villain Warp gets a lot of mockery over his nationality: In Joker's Last Laugh: And again in the Infinite Crisis: Villains United special: |
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Erika the Radical zig-zags this trope in the second 'season'. The French-themed schools of BC Freedom-Maginot issues a joint challenge to the German-themed Kuromorimine, which prompts relentless jokes about this trope from the the latter's team members and engineers. A small, but significant number of French Alliance troops even defect to Kuromorimine to settle personal scores, essentially recreating the Vichy-Free French split. During the match however, Kuromorimine proceeds to eat their words when the French Alliance puts up a very stiff resistance during the match, with sudden circumstances forcing Erika to order a retreat, the first in recent Kuromorimine history. | |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: Inverted in the Soviet Campaign; the French leadership are first among the Europeans to rally with the Americans against the Soviets. The Soviets are able to wreck Paris with a small force but that occurs because their armies were defending their borders. The Allied campaign also inverts it — while the European Council stays out of the initial fighting, this is because the Soviets are threatening to use their nukes on their countries, and it is the French representative that is the first to assure the US President they are not indifferent to the plight of the US, and offers to take command of the operation to neutralize the primary nuclear arsenal on the Soviet border. Given that in this universe Hitler became Ret-Gone thanks to Einstein and World War 2 was butterflied away, the more hawkish attitude of the French is justified enough in a game rather on the silly end of the Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness. Multiplayer lampshades this trope. If a player hits the function keys F1-F10 while playing, a country-specific voiceover will ask allies for help or will taunt the enemy. F6 sends a taunt calling on the opposing player(s) to surrender. If playing as France, the voice-over says "Surrender! No, I don't mean I surrender, I mean you surrender!" |
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In G.I. Joe: Retaliation, the President of the United States really Zartan in disguise forces the major world powers to abandon nuclear weaponry. When he triggers their missiles simultaneously, France's representative is first to disarm their warheads albeit only doing it after they attempted to leave first in disgust until the President threatened to launch. He's also the last to launch them. In this case, we can argue he's just the less willing to have a nuclear disaster. | |
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In Flushed Away, LeFrog calls his henchfrogs to action. They throw their arms up and yell, "We surrender!", to LeFrog's dismay. | |
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Ocean's Eleven: "They got enough armed personnel to occupy Paris!... OK, bad example." | |
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Shown in Casablanca, as the city of Casablanca is part of Vichy France and cooperating with the Nazis. Averted at the end when Captain Louis Renault decides he will be Neutral No Longer, symbolically throws a bottle of Vichy water into the trash and suggests to Rick that they leave Casablanca and join the Free French at Brazzaville. The French also show their Heroic Resolve by defiantly singing "La Marseillaise" and drowning out the Germans in the bar. |
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Alternate History Hub discusses this trope in the video "What if France didn't Surrender in World War II?" Cody explains that France had not recovered from World War I even by the time Nazi Germany invaded. If they didn't surrender when they did (as in, almost immediately), it likely would have resulted in retribution from Germany. This could've taken the form of a massively retaliatory sacking of Paris which would've likely incurred untold losses of architecture and art, not to mention the resulting human toll. Cody based this on what Nazi Germany ended up doing to Warsaw after the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, which saw almost the entire city destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of civilians executed in reprisal. The swift surrender also permitted the preservation of La Résistance. | |
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Johnny English contains a fair amount of French bashing, because the main villain of the movie is French. At one point a British radio host asks his listeners to call him and say what they like about the French. He doesn't receive a single phone call. | |
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Hilariously parodied by QI, in which a panelist calls Americans 'Burger eating invasion monkeys'. Naturally, given the nature of QI, the show pointed out the rather impressive military history France actually has contrary to the stereotype. | |
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Odium: Thiery Trantigne is a coward, to the point where he screams in panic how they're all going to die even when facing the most pathetic of monsters. He also once expresses disgust at the thought of risking his life for a teammate. | |
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Jeremy Clarkson, one of the presenters of Top Gear is given to using the phrase "Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys" when he refers to the French. He'll also modify the phrase when appropriate; e.g., during the Val Thorens ice race the other drivers were "cheese-eating sideways monkeys." | |
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South Park: The episode "Fatbeard": "They're French, so they surrendered immediately." The fact that they surrendered to a nine-year-old with a plastic lightsabre is damning even by the standards of this trope. It was an "Un Lightsabre Terrible!" |
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In Casey and Andy, Casey's secret persona of Dr. X is bent on conquering the world. None of his plans work and he sits dejected in his war room and sighs, then inspiration strikes, he calls up France and declares war on them, they immediately surrender. Later, France pesters Dr. X on every little detail of how the country should be run. He tells them to do what they would have done normally. The next day's newspaper has the headline "France surrenders to Germany", much to the surprise of the Germans. |
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The Critic: When a food fight breaks out at the United Nations School, a stray food projectile accidentally hits the French table, and the french kids immediately surrender, despite not even taking part in the fight. | |
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Frasier: In one episode, Frasier's on a date at a French restaurant, whose owner is in a blazing row with his wife. It gets to the point he declares he wished he'd died back in the war, and she shoots back that it would've been hard to get killed when he was busy running away. | |
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In Voltes V, The Boazanian Empirenote Nicknamed "Space France" by fans is a Fantasy Counterpart Culture to France and the most advanced planet in the entire universe, being aeons ahead of humans in terms of sciences, warfare, technology and education. They are also ruthless in war, colonizing many planets so that they can turn their local populations into slaves, and their Crown Prince is a Blood Knight in mink who subjugates humans to extreme cruelty. In spite of their frilly dresses and Guyliner, the Boazanians are NOT a joke. However, the Boazanians quickly surrendered when their home planet were attacked by Voltes V and the forces of Big Falcon and the Resistance under La Gohl that took down their Beast Knights and defenses during the liberation. Even their Emperor, Zambajil chose to flee than try to resist. Only Prince Heinel attempted to make a stand by piloting Godol, the ultimate Beast Knight but fell to Voltes V in the end. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Captain Picard, despite Not Even Bothering with the Accent, tells Troi "Signal the following in all languages and on all frequencies: 'We surrender.'" In the pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint", no less. In fairness, this was his first encounter with Q. Picard is depicted as quite unwilling to surrender in virtually any reasonable circumstance. Aggressively averted in Yesterday's Enterprise, where an alternate timeline version of Picard leaps over a railing in the middle of a losing battle to personally take control of the tactical station. Then he delivers one of the most badass lines in all of Star Trek: Inverted in Star Trek: First Contact, where Captain Picard is the only member of Enterprise's crew who doesn't want to destroy his ship to prevent a Borg victory. He gives another of the most badass—if slightly delusional—lines in Trek: Then, when he gets called on it by Lily, he comes down from his delusion, activates the self-destruct timer... and then stays on board while everyone else leaves so he can rescue Data. |
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