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Cosmopolitan Council
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The Omniscient Council of Vagueness is in session! And what's this?! The shadowy faces are actually lit! Well what do you know? It's the employers of the Equal-Opportunity Evil Mooks and the patrons behind the Five-Token Band! These people can be any kind of congregation, whether to play poker or plot the downfall of western civilization, but are nonetheless very heterogeneous. Options include both sexes (but usually just one woman), ethnically, religiously and geographically distinct people, always in the regional chic rather than western business attire (except maybe one). A comedy can even highlight this by using ridiculously cliché or period dress, such as the Mexican delegate dressing like a 1910 bandito/revolutionary, the Russian contingent in Cossack dress or a military greatcoat and ushanka in the summer, or an American in a cowboy suit. If they aren't outlandish/foreign enough, expect them to layer their English with lots of gratuitous phrases or accents. In fantasy and sci-fi settings where fictional races exist, you can expect them to have a few seats as well. The one trait that ties everyone together is that they are all in possession of skill, authority or money, and in excessive amounts. The members will probably be heavily accessorized with gaudy jewelry or a scar to prove their moral alignment. In short, the implication is that each and every member has a varied and storied past... which we very likely won't learn. Aside for positions of leadership, they also often appear as a group of prospective customers for a Mad Scientist or Corrupt Corporate Executive to sell his newest project/invention/acquisition to (see also Auction of Evil). Related to Gang of Hats: especially when dealing with meeting the heads of groups. Also related to the "How different" aspect of Conservation of Ninjutsu. Common members of the council include but are not limited to: a Lady in a Power Suit (often with corresponding Power Hair), an Inscrutable Oriental (albeit usually in a suit these days, instead of in more old-school East Asian garb), an Arab Oil Sheikh, a Fake Russian, and The Generalissimo. Examples |
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Royal Pains: The business meeting in S4E08 has an Arab Oil Sheikh in appropriate garb and a black man, plus a Russian and the ambiguously European-American Boris. This makes sense, given that it's about oil. | |
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Angel: The Circle of the Black Thorn are a varied group, incorporating demon royalty, vampires (once Angel joins), sorcerors, and even a few humans. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise: The Xindi were five different alien races from the same planet who were in a council. A Five-Token Band for the bad guys, basically. They would've had six, if the Xindi-Avians weren't all killed when their planet was destroyed. | |
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The Naked Gun parodies this. It starts with Frank Drebin barging into a meeting of an "anti-American" council consisting of (the film was made in The '80s): Ayatollah Khomeini, Yasser Arafat, Muammar Gaddafi, Idi Amin, Fidel Castro and Mikhail Gorbachev (who comments on how he fooled the Americans into thinking he's "a nice guy"). Several of these people detested each other in reality, with Khomeini being the most incompatible (the USSR backed Iraq in the Iran–Iraq War). As a bonus, they're meeting in Beirut, which was controlled by a pro-American government at the time. Amin was actually out of power at the time however, unlike the rest (and, thanks to Drebin, out the window, too). | |
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In Runaways, the Pride is six supervillain couples each representing a very different kind of villain (mad scientists, aliens, mutants, etc.) Justified by the Gibborim specifically needing these "six young pair bonds" for the rituals needed for their return to power: the magicians (the Minorus, Japanese), the thieves (the Wilders, black), the travelers (the Yorkes, Jewish), the wise men (the Steins, apparently WASPs), the colonists (the Deans, Aliens), and the outcasts (the Hayes, Mutants). | |
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The Simpsons The show parodies this with the group that gets together in The War Room to discuss Sideshow Bob's demands to abolish all of television, which included the Fourth Doctor and Steve Urkel. The Republican Party in Springfield is depicted similarly, consisting of Dr. Hibbert, Rainier Wolfcastle, Count Chocula, Mr. Burns, Krusty, Rich Texan, Birch Barlow (a parody of Rush Limbaugh), and Lindsay Neagle. Mr. Burns greets them by performing an elaborate hand gesture while chanting in Enochian, and Bob Dole reads to them from the Necronomicon. In another scene, Mr. Burns calls for advice from his "League of Evil" - a mad scientist, a samurai, a Nazi colonel, a Wild West outlaw, and an Arab warlord with turban and scimitar. Unfortunately, however, they've all been sealed in the space behind his bookcase for decades and all that's left of them is their costumed skeletons. There's also the Stonecutters' supreme council. Any group that includes both Orville Redenbacher and Mr. T has definitely met its diversity quota. |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. eventually revealed that HYDRA was an Ancient Conspiracy that long-predated the Nazis and while it might not always have been equal-opportunity when it came to sex, race wasn't that important. | |
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Steamboy has a gathering of military representatives from various countries that are going to buy steam-powered weaponry. David says there are "America, Prussia, France and Russia", despite the fact that many of these representatives are dressed as stereotypical Arabs and Hindu. | |
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The Matrix: The Council of Zion is extremely diverse. Of its 18 members, 12 are women, and the majority of councillors are non-white. Hamman is the only white male. | |
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Naruto: The Akatsuki, originally just fuzzy, indistinct holograms in a dark cave, are eventually revealed to have unique appearances (there's one guy with fish-like skin, one who's a living puppet, one with mouths on the palms of his hands, and let's not even get into the Venus flytrap guy), and with only a couple of exceptions all hail from different ninja villages. | |
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Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising: The evil Cabal fits this trope to perfection: there's a sinister American radicalist who thinks that "Without control, we may as well end all life on this planet and see if the cockroaches can get it right", a Russian who remembers "de old days", a German chick that wants to "take major urban areas back to the Stone Age", plus an assortment of guys who look like gangsters, ganglords and corrupt politicians. Oh and the obligatory cigar-smoking El Presidente lookalike. See the whole thing here. | |
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In G.I. Joe, Cobra is all over this. Cobra Commander is American (or believed to be, in most continuities); Destro is Scottish; the Paoli twins are Corsican; Storm Shadow is Japanese; the Baroness is a European of unstated nationality. And then there's Serpentor, who depending on continuity is either a genetically engineered supersoldier, or an android, or simply the American leader of a Scientology-like cult. | |
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SPECTRE, mainly in the film series, tended to have multinational representation when they were shown meeting (e.g. From Russia with Love, Thunderball). Most notably, they've recruited at least one member from both NATO and the Warsaw Pact (Colonel Jacques Bouvar and Colonel Rosa Klebb, respectively), befitting their neutral stance in the Cold War. | |
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Austin Powers: Dr Evil's Evil Panel contains a group of the "world's deadliest assassins" of many different nationalities, varieties, etc. Then he kills most of them for failing him in the first scene. The ones that survive are a Russian woman and a Turkish man. The first film had the Good Counterpart in the United Nations Secret Security Council Meeting Room when Dr. Evil gives his blackmail threat - for instance, there were a pair of sumo wrestlers in the room. |
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The Dresden Files: The Senior Council has The Merlin (who looks like The Merlin and is British), a Scottish wizard who lives in Missouri (Ebenezar McCoy), a small Asian witch (Ancient Mai), an older black witch (Martha Liberty), a hooded Arab wizard (Rashid, the Gatekeeper), an American Indian shaman (Joseph "Injun Joe" Listens-to-Wind) and a French wizard (Aleron LaFortier). They also used to have a Russian wizard (Simon Petrovich), and after LaFortier dies he's replaced by a Greek wizard (Gregori Cristos). The cosmopolitan nature of the council actually shapes the plot more than once - a recurring theme is that many wizards resent the Senior Council for overrepresenting Americans, and the dissenting faction led by Cristos is able to gather a fair amount of support by making itself the voice of those resentments. |
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James Bond: SPECTRE is this way by design, as Blofeld intentionally recruited alumni from six of the most powerful intelligence or criminal organizations in Europe: the Sicilian Mafia, the Corsican mob, the "Highland Turks," the Gestapo, the Yugoslav secret police, and SMERSH. Meanwhile, its leader is half-Greek, half-Polish, and spent World War Two working first for the Axis and then for the Allies. The previous villainous organization, SMERSH, surprisingly has shades of this too. Technically, it's the Soviet agency charged with assassinations, and as such only answers to one country. However, its overseas departments have recruited a great many foreigners into key positions; they include a French union leader, an African-American gangster, a British rocket scientist (who's actually an escaped Nazi war criminal), an Irish assassin, and a British jeweler. Some of the post-Fleming novels continue this tradition. Raymond Benson's novels give us the Union, a sort of Spiritual Successor to SPECTRE. Its original founder was an American white supremacist. Its current leader, who overthrew and killed the founder, is a French Corsican on his father's side and a Moroccan Berber on his mother's side. Other senior leaders include a Spaniard, an Arab of unstated nationality, the founder's American partners, and James Bond's father-in-law, the former head of the Corsican mob. |
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In The Legend of Zorro, the Knights of Aragon are an aristocratic secret society that is said to control all the royal courts of Europe, though we only meet their French and British leaders. They intend to destroy the democratic United States by inciting a civil war before it can grow into a threat to their power; to that end, they ally themselves with a Confederate officer and a Christian fundamentalist militia leader. | |
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Final Fantasy XII: The brief glimpse we see of Raminas's war council in the intro shows that it includes a Bangaa, a Viera, and a Garif, fitting with Dalmasca being the cosmopolitan crossroads of Ivalice's three main continents. The Humes on the council are also a multi-ethnic group. | |
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A segment of diverse gang leaders from Gotham's north end teamed up together in Robin (1993) in response to a pair of corrupt cops murdering small time gangsters to try and give the criminals they liked working with more control. None of them really liked working together though and their alliance did not last. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars gave us the Shadow Collective, a syndicate merging together a number of powerful underworld factions under the leadership of Darth Maul as a sort of third party in the Clone Wars. It includes Nightsisters and Nightbrothers of Dathomir, a dark side Force cult largely made up of Zabrak; Death Watch, a reactionary terrorist group from Mandalore (which like most of that culture can come from any species, but the ones we see are largely human); and Black Sun, the Pyke Syndicate, and the Hutt Cartel, the three most powerful organized crime factions in the galaxy, each led by a different alien species. | |
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Carmen Sandiego: The V.I.L.E. head council is composed by five people all from different parts of the world. The show proper only reveals that Brunt is American, Shadow-san is Japanese, and Maelstrom is Swedish with the other two members being less clear. The novelization reveals that Countess Cleo is Egyptian and Dr. Bellum is Indian. Shadow-san's replacement, Roundabout, is British. | |
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The Order of the Stick: The Inter-Fiend Cooperation Commission is one of these for the three evil outsider races. It only has three members, and they all dress identically. The only way to tell them apart is the color of their eyes. | |
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Parodied in the Temps story "Pitbull Brittain" by Kim Newman, in which the sinister forces behind the Miners' Strike consists of literally everyone the Daily Mail doesn't like, including the Russians, the Arabs, the Irish, the South Americans, and the French. | |
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James Bond: SPECTRE, mainly in the film series, tended to have multinational representation when they were shown meeting (e.g. From Russia with Love, Thunderball). Most notably, they've recruited at least one member from both NATO and the Warsaw Pact (Colonel Jacques Bouvar and Colonel Rosa Klebb, respectively), befitting their neutral stance in the Cold War. In the Daniel Craig version of Casino Royale (2006), there is a very important poker game with a diverse set of players. Quantum in Quantum of Solace. Its members include a senior adviser to the British Prime Minister, a French businessman and environmental activist, an Israeli telecom magnate, and a Russian mining tycoon. And that's just the ones that are identified. Spectre reveals that Quantum was either a forerunner to or subsidiary of this continuity's version of SPECTRE. It's just as diverse as its predecessor; the meeting we see in Rome is conducted in three languages (English, French, German), and its attendees are quite ethnically diverse. Nationalities are mostly not given, but we do know that the organization's leader is Austrian, and two of his senior underlings are British and Italian. |
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes: The President's Committee of Inquiry "consisting of leading experts in all fields relevant to a situation whose implications - whether zoological, biological, psychological, medical, mathematical, historical, physical or even spiritual - are numberless." | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Avengers: The World Security Council is justified in that they are implied to be representing the permanent members of the UN Security Council and they are all dressed in suits. Their members changed in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. In the previous film the representatives were American, Chinese, Russian, and British. In the latter film only the British woman is still on the council, the US and China have changed their members, and the Russian member has been replaced with an Indian one. HYDRA's 21st century ruling council is made up of several ethnics and both genders. This is meant to show that they are truly Equal-Opportunity Evil and have moved beyond their Nazi origins. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. eventually revealed that HYDRA was an Ancient Conspiracy that long-predated the Nazis and while it might not always have been equal-opportunity when it came to sex, race wasn't that important. |
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Castlevania (2017) features a Council of Vampires (plus two token humans) in Season 2 lead by Dracula (Romanian) and composed of Carmilla (Austrian), Godbrand (Scandinavian), Isaac (from somewhere in Africa) and Hector (implied to be either Greek or Turkish). There are also other unnamed members, but two of them look distinctly European, while another two appear to originate from India and the fifth one looks Chinese/Japanese. | |
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Stargate SG-1: The System Lords each choose to inhabit an ethnically distinct host and formed the basis for the ancient gods and cultures of every ancient religion except the vikings. Previous councils have included Egyptian, Mesopotamian and even Japanese and Chinese gods. | |
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Kingdom Hearts.: The Disney villain alliance may be evil but you can't call them exclusive. After all, you can't really call yourself diverse unless your council includes a giant talking sack filled with bugs. It even has the Arab tyrant covered. No word on whether there's oil in Agrabah. To their credit they had two women in the group of 6, Ursula and Maleficent, the latter of whom was The Leader of the group. The successors as antagonists, Organization XIII, only had the one girl and much less diversity in background... except for the Anime Hair. | |
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Sojourn: a council of Troll governors of conquered territories: They were all Trolls, but each one was dressed in the ethnic garb of the area they governed. There was even a token She-Troll. | |
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Mass Effect: The Citadel Council consists of three members (four from the end of the first game onwards), each of different species. | |
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The heads of Gotham's multicultural criminal underground will meet up and work together from time to time, generally against Batman or a super-powered threat to their grip on the city. When these alliances inevitably fall apart there's usually a bloodbath across the city as they turn on each other. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: In the episode "Foreign Teachers", educational officials from France, Ireland and Sweden visit Madison High School. They turn out to be so insulting that Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton and Mr. Conklin throw them out. Unfortunately, this gets Miss Brooks and company in trouble with the head of the National Board of Education. | |
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In Camelot 3000, the world leaders who gather to conspire against Arthur include a bulky, dour-faced Russian in a wide-shouldered suit, a prim Chinese matron in conservative skirt and jacket, an Idi Amin-inspired African dictator in overly-bemedaled military uniform, and an American president dressed like a Wild West cowboy in "Uncle Sam" colors. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Council of Elrond is made up of people who just happened to be in Rivendell at the time. The council members end up representing all the "free peoples," including Elves, Dwarves, Men and Hobbits. | |
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Journey to Chaos: The Mana Mutation Summit that meets in Mana Mutation Menace features world leaders from hundreds of countries, "the sum total of the world". Being a Fantasy Kitchen Sink, these are not ethnics but species: humans, orcs, mermaids, dragons, Talking Animals, etc. The fact that the elf is a only present as an observer is a plot point. | |
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In Evil Genius one of the tasks is to assemble a meeting with the crime lords from all around the world and announce your ascension to world domination. | |
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Spectre reveals that Quantum was either a forerunner to or subsidiary of this continuity's version of SPECTRE. It's just as diverse as its predecessor; the meeting we see in Rome is conducted in three languages (English, French, German), and its attendees are quite ethnically diverse. Nationalities are mostly not given, but we do know that the organization's leader is Austrian, and two of his senior underlings are British and Italian. | |
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One Piece does this quite a bit because Eiichiro Oda likes making everyone distinct. | |
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Christie's The Seven Dials Mystery has the titular group in a downplayed version. They're a secret society who wear clock-emblazoned masks, each showing a time from 1:00 to 7:00. Number One is a Hungarian countess, Number Two (who isn't at the first meeting readers see) a German former soldier, Number Three a British gentleman, Number Four an American reporter, Number Five a Hungarian ambassador, Number Six a Russian club owner, and Number Seven, whose identity is the central mystery of the book, is Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard. Several reveals follow: the Dials are actually good guys; the "Hungarian" countess is an American actress affecting a voice; and Number Two was another Brit—the suspected German was an undercover police officer, explaining why he wasn't at the meeting. At the end of the book, heroine Eileen Brent agrees to become the "new" Number Two, bringing the total number of Brits in the Dials to three. | |
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The Seven in the Babylon Rising series is made up of two British men (one apparently a Roman Catholic priest), a Spanish man, a communist Chinese general, a German woman, a Romanian woman, and an Indian man. | |
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Christian comics artist Jack Chick likes this one. For one example, his comic "Fairy Tales?" has an anti-God council with an ayatollah, a pentagram-tattooed Satanist, a Red Chinese general, a Wicked Witch, a stereotypical feminist and a Creation-denying palaeontologist in a pith helmet. | |
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Dirty Sexy Money has a poker game similar to the one in Casino Royale. | |
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Batman & Robin: The page image is of the potential buyers of Bane. All you have to do is look at how each one of them is wearing a different costume to see how global Bane has gone. | |
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Buck Danny gave us the International Federation of Armed Revolutionary Group, a movement of extreme-left radicals from various countries (we see German, Mexican, and Arab members), who come together to steal nuclear weapons and modern fighter jets that they intend to use in a massive terrorist attack. For extra points in diversity (and irony), the plan forces the IFARG to ally with an extreme-right faction of Central American generals (who have no idea who they're dealing with), as well as two former Iranian pilots from the Shah's regime (who do realize who they're dealing with, but don't care as long as it allows them to strike back at the United States for having abandoned them). The latter two pilots came into the plan courtesy of Lady X, who couldn't care less about anyone's ideology, and is simply in it for the money, and a chance to get even with Buck Danny after her many previous defeats. | |
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Tsuritama: The leadership of the DUCK organization is quite diverse, with the top brass depicted as having black, Arabic and Asian members. | |
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In Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, the Absolution Council that decides whether or not prisoners in the prison tower in Icewind Dale deserve to be pardoned consists of a human, a halfling, a dragonborn and an aarakocra. | |
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On Young Justice (2010), the members of the Light turn out to be Vandal Savage (Ambiguously Brown immortal caveman), Lex Luthor (white American), Ra's al Ghul (Arabic), Queen Bee (a Quraci female dictator), Ocean Master (Atlantean), the Brain (French Brain in a Jar), and Klarion (Creepy Child Humanoid Abomination). Ocean Master is later replaced by Black Manta (African American pirate captain). By the end of the third season, The Brain and Black Manta had been taken into custody, and were replaced by Deathstroke (white American) and the Ultra-Humanite (a human brain in the body of an albino gorilla; indeterminate origin). Ocean Master was executed by Lady Shiva for attempting to carry out the Nuclear Option on the families of the Justice League, and was replaced by Gretchen Goode (Apokoliptian, though appearing as an elderly Caucasian lady), and subsequently Zviad Baazovi (Markovian). |
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In Illuminatus!, the Erisian Liberation Front is represented by a council of people in really bizarre costumes, including a cavewoman. (Being Discordians, they might just be playing dress-up for the fun of it.) And in subversion, while the Illuminati Primi are for a while implied to follow this trope, in fact apart from one exception they are all siblings. | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the Brethren Court is composed of the Nine Pirate Lords, each of whom is renowned as the greatest buccaneer of their own realm. The members include Ammand the Corsair (a Barbary pirate who rules the Black Sea and North Africa), Hector Barbossa (a Brit who rules the Caspian Sea), Captaine Chevalle (a Frenchman who rules the Mediterranean Sea), Mistress Ching (a Chinese woman who rules the Pacific Ocean), Gentleman Jocard (a black former slave who rules the Atlantic Ocean), Jack Sparrow (a vaguely British-American man who rules the Caribbean Sea), Sri Sumbhajee (a Hindu priest who rules the Indian Ocean), Sao Feng (a Chinese man who rules the South China Sea; he's killed and passes his title to Elizabeth Swann, making a British woman the new Lord of that region), and Eduardo Villanueva (a Spaniard who rules the Adriatic Sea). This is accurate because each of the areas they used actually were known for their large populations of pirates, and consists of the "known world" in the movie's setting. Several of the pirates in the council were based on real life pirates (although they did not all live at the same time, obviously). Mistress Ching, for example, was most likely based on the Chinese pirate Ching Shih. | |
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In the second episode of the Space Battleship Yamato 2199, the multinational leadership of the United Nations briefing Captain Okida prior to the Yamato's launch; visible are the United States leader, the European Union's leader, as well as those for the Middle East and China, along with a UN Secretary General very clearly inspired by Ghanaian Koffi Annan. | |
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In Zoolander, there is a group of high-profile fashion industry leaders that comprise this role. | |
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Every faction in Terra Invicta ends up looking like this, as they recruit talented councilors from across the world and all walks of life. Even Humanity First and the Initiative are egalitarian when it comes to their fellow humans. | |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: A brief downplayed version appears in the introductory briefing of the 5th Allied mission - the Non-Entity General sits in on a call between US President Dugan, General Carville, Tanya, and the leaders of Britain, France, and Germany. The latter three are somewhat stereotyped in terms of appearence - the British Prime Minister is a clear expy of Margaret Thatcher, the French President looks a lot like Charles de Gaulle and stands in front of a picture of the Eiffel Tower, and the German Chancellor looks much like Helmut Kohl. | |
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The Avengers: The World Security Council is justified in that they are implied to be representing the permanent members of the UN Security Council and they are all dressed in suits. Their members changed in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. In the previous film the representatives were American, Chinese, Russian, and British. In the latter film only the British woman is still on the council, the US and China have changed their members, and the Russian member has been replaced with an Indian one. | |
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The Council of Eternity, wizards that gave Black Adam his powers and punished the Trinity of Sin, at least in New 52 continuity. The only named one is Mamaragan, based on Australian aboriginal mythology. There is also a stereotypically looking Native American man (with Nemean Skinning energy hood to boot), Japanese man, Egyptian woman, European redhead woman, vaguely Chinese woman in something that looks like a qipao, and a vaguely Middle Eastern man in a robe. | |
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By the end of the third season, The Brain and Black Manta had been taken into custody, and were replaced by Deathstroke (white American) and the Ultra-Humanite (a human brain in the body of an albino gorilla; indeterminate origin). Ocean Master was executed by Lady Shiva for attempting to carry out the Nuclear Option on the families of the Justice League, and was replaced by Gretchen Goode (Apokoliptian, though appearing as an elderly Caucasian lady), and subsequently Zviad Baazovi (Markovian). | |
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In Wild Wild West, Dr. Loveless is backed by a Cosmopolitan Council made up of representatives from France, Britain, Spain, and Mexico - every foreign country that once owned land in what is now the United States, and wants to help him destroy the country so they can get it back. There's also a Native American faction that's apparently been promised Manhattan back. Finally, Loveless has some of his former colleagues from the Confederate Army on retainer, and uses them as muscle for the first half of the movie - however, he has no intention of cutting them in and uses them for target practice once they're of no further use, largely out of resentment for having surrendered at the end of the Civil War instead of fighting on. | |
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With Dark Reign comes the Evil Counterpart to the Illuminati: Norman Osborn (Green Goblin), Loki (now female), The Hood, Dr Doom, Emma Frost....and Namor. | |
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Largo Winch has Group W, a fairly realistic example given that it's a gigantic multinational. The board of directors has included French, British, Dutch, German, Italian, American, and South African citizens. As for their CEO, he's Yugoslav (now Montenegrin) by birth, American by adoption, raised in Liechtenstein, and educated in various French, British, and American institutions. | |
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The Power of Five: Leaders of the heroic Nexus organization come from England, China, America, Australia, Peru, France, India, Germany, and possibly additional countries. Four of the twelve leaders are women. | |
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South Park's Imaginationland trilogy has a council composed by the nine most important fictional characters: Aslan, Luke Skywalker, Zeus, Wonder Woman, Popeye, Morpheus, Gandalf, Glinda the Good Witch... and Jesus. | |
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On The 4400, this was parodied in in a returnee's low budget black and white home film that purported to expose "The Marked", a cabal of Body Snatchers from the future out to kill the 4400. The film showed a round table meeting with a geisha and a Catholic bishop, among others but the only confirmed member at the time was a powerful software magnate. The actual hosts of the Marked were exclusively white men save for one token black female. | |
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The Council of Nike in Astro City is an all-female version of this, although we only see their heads. Powerful, successful women from around the world, linked to empower the superhero Winged Victory. | |
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In the Daniel Craig version of Casino Royale (2006), there is a very important poker game with a diverse set of players. | |
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In The Gamer's Alliance, the Crimson Coalition council consists of various leaders of different factions which oppose the Grand Alliance. The current members are Glaurung Losstarot (leader of the Rebels and the overall commander of the Coalition), Hannibal Losstarot, Adela al-Saif (High Priest of the Clergy of Artemicia and deposed Sultana of Vanna), Yoshimuriko (High Priest of the Clergy of Nergal), Kamelith (lord of the Dark Elves), Endoran L'Sarius (leader of the Mullencamp), Boris Ivanov (general of the Proninist Party), Orestes (leader of the Vulfsatz), Simon (representative of the Totenkopfs), and last and definitely least, Craig Rimner (representative of the Scunnish rebels and author of the horrible yet ear-wormy Rimnerian Songs). | |
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Star Wars Legends, much like the movies, both averts this trope and plays it straight: some of the factions involved are hideously xenophobic and wouldn't be caught dead with a Cosmopolitan Council (the Empire, the Hutts, the Yuuzhan Vong), while others are diverse and tolerant enough that it's essentially a requirement (the Republic, the Separatists, the Rebels). Among the more prominent examples: Black Sun, the most powerful underworld faction in the galaxy, is made up of criminals from many different planets and species, which is reflected in its senior council. While most organizations of this type tend to be dominated by humans (by far the most populous species in the galaxy), Black Sun's unofficially dominant species are the Falleen, at least after Xizor's takeover. The Diversity Alliance is a terrorist group formed in response to the Empire's racism, so it welcomes members from a wide range of species (its founder and leader is a Twi'lek). The notable exception is, of course, humans, which the Alliance was formed for the purpose of exterminating. The Bounty Hunters' Guild spans the known galaxy and is divided into ten houses with various subsidiaries in each, so its membership is quite diverse. Among the senior leadership we've seen are Farghul, Trandoshans, Zabrak, and humans. The New Republic's Provisional Council, later Advisory Council, is a (mostly) benevolent version of this, an executive cabinet drawn from members of the (equally diverse) Senate. Some of the New Republic's most influential member species are virtually guaranteed to have members on the Council - most notably humans, Calamarians, Sullustans, Bothans, and Wookiees. The Saccorian Triad manages the impressive feat of being a Cosmopolitan Council Of Bigots. A triumvirate ruling a minor planet of the Corellian System, they're made up of one human, one Selonian, and one Drall - one member from each of the three species populating the system. However, the Triad supports supremacist movements from all three species (each of which enthusiastically targets members of the other two), in the hopes that these movements will drive the New Republic out of the sector and allow them to take control in the ensuring chaos. |
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Baldur's Gate: The Athkatlan Twisted Rune cell from the second game features diversity of the Heroic Fantasy setting. They consist of a lich, a vampire, a beholder, a male fighter with no armour, and a woman mage with her pet devil. | |
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Dirk Pitt Adventures: Shock Wave features an international council of twelve tycoons (all men) from across the world, including an Italian shipping magnate, a Russian mining baron, a Japanese airline executive, an American politician, and the owner of a French fashion house. They are working to create a united world economy and provide some exposition about the Big Bad. | |
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Alex Rider: At the beginning of SCORPIA, the leaders of the eponymous criminal organization are a woman from Wales (their sole female mother), an Englishman with a Chinese mother, a Yugoslavian, a man of mixed African and Japanese ancestry, a Frenchman, an elderly German, a one-eyed Israeli man, an Australian man with many names, and a Chinese Torture Technician. In later books they recruit new co-leaders from Ireland, Italy, and Afghanistan. | |
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