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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })In Real Life, Australia is a vibrant, diverse and multicultural young country. The population is one of the most urbanised in the world (more so than in America or the UK). More than 80% of people live close to the coast, while the interior is sparsely populated. In Hollywood, Australia is a primitive barren wasteland consisting entirely of Outback desert, aborigines, dingoes, crocodiles, kangaroos and some other marsupials, and occasionally a couple of rural people who run around wielding bowie knives and boomerangs. People talk with a grating accent, apparently a blend of Cockney English, New Zealander and vaguely British extraction called "Ostrayan" or more concisely "Strine". In Real Life, Australian Wildlife is unique (the island is one of the handful of megadiverse lands in the world), being dominated by marsupials rather than placental mammals. The dangers of the native animals have been noted by many - US President Barack Obama brought it up when he visited Australia - but most of these creatures only live in remote areas. However, in Hollywood, Everything Trying to Kill You, although any sufficiently ''cute'' animal, no matter how wild, is inexplicably safe.note While the 'duck-billed' platypus and the kangaroo are animals that are often treated as cute in Hollywood, in truth they can be very dangerous: the male platypus has poisonous spurs that cause non-lethal but excruciating pain, the kangaroo can disembowel you with a single well-placed kick and even koalas have sharp teeth and claws that can cause nasty injuries if cornered. This habit of making Australia a Death World often results in Australians being considered ludicrously tough. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })For those fortunate enough to avoid being eaten by the aforementioned crocodiles, life is one long beach party and all meals consist of shrimp on the barbie (actually called 'Prawns') and Vegemite sandwiches (pronounced "veeeeejeemoit"). If these stereotypes are absent, the setting is likely Sydney, Australia's most populous metropolis and bustling economic centre. It's the home of the famous Sydney Opera House, which all hotels naturally look onto. Australia's capital is actually Canberra, a city built precisely halfway between Sydney and the other major capital, Melbourne, as a concession to neither city being named the actual capital. If you're interested here are some awesome things to see and do there. The first Australian colonies began as settlements of convicts sent over by the British. A fair few Australians claim convict ancestry with pride, truthfully or otherwise. Of course, with one of the world's highest immigrant intakes, Australians are, ethnically speaking, slowly becoming a sort of Convict/European/Asian/Middle-Eastern/Oceanian/African/Americas amalgamation. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })Complicating this trope is that a lot of Australian humour involves deliberately playing up or invoking the stereotypes to mess with foreigners. Especially Americans. For these reasons, it should come as no surprise that villains love this country. Surprisingly, one aspect of Australia that is rarely (possibly never) played up is how important the Aussie mining industry is both historically and economically. In fact, as they have the best military in their hemisphere, perhaps the Dwarf checklist should be consulted. Gruff, gold-loving, blunt-speaking, funny-accented, alcohol-swilling, Elf-hating, boastful of their battle prowess and mainly just the fact that they are Dwarves. In comparison, some have noted New Zealand's 'elvish sensibilities'. New Zealand is largely interchangeable with Australia in western media. This is especially ironic given New Zealand - its indigenous ecology almost wholly lacks native mammals of any kind.note Except for a few bats and some marine mammals. Also, its location is even more remote, being one of the last major land masses colonized by humans: the Maori arrived only in the 12th century AD.note To give you an idea, the Vikings by this point had not only spotted America, they had managed to establish a settlement, lose a war, and then abandon it...over two hundred years earlier. Just gives you an idea of how HUGE the Pacific is... Although New Zealand is jokingly often known as 'Down Underer' boasting a similar outdoor physical culture. See also Useful Notes on Australia. Examples: |
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The Smurfs Season 9 episode "G'Day Smoogle" takes place in Australia, where the Smurfs find a race of Smoogles. | |
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When the heroes of Finding Nemo need to find Sydney, Australia, a helpful school arrange themselves as a likeness of the Opera House to confirm that it's where they want to go. Finding Nemo also features what must be the highest-rent dentist's office in the world, what with the stunning harborside views and the price of Sydney real estate. Well, he was doing work on the Prime Minister in one scene... | |
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CJ McMahon likes to make humorous reference to his home country's customs onstage while touring abroad, especially when it comes to the famously Australian usage of Country Matters. | |
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The secondary antagonists of The Cars That Ate Paris are hoons: sociopathic Greaser Delinquents who race bizarre custom cars similar to those in Mad Max. | |
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Parodied on Clone High, when Gandhi runs into Daniel Feldspar, the "stereotypical Australian dragon", who Gandhi manages to distract by claiming that he's never tried vegemite. | |
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The Tomorrow Series by John Marsden, was a popular series of Young Adult novels released in the early 1990s, where Australia gets invaded and occupied during Australia Day by an unnamed foreign power (read: Indonesia) and a group of kids, who were out camping at the time, start a vicious campaign of guerrilla warfare against them. No, really. For books aimed at kids in high school, it leaned a good way towards the darker side of the scale, giving readers a pretty frank war story featuring firefights, death and sex (for which the schoolboys rejoiced). A movie has been made. | |
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While most of the animal characters in CrashBandicoot are Australian, the one who fits the trope best is Dingodile. | |
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Occurred in Black Jack when the title character head to the Outback investigating a disease outbreak. | |
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Raptor from Darkstalkers, the zombie rockstar who chomps on people with his decomposed chest-cavity. Possibly some sort of perverse homage to the late, great Bon Scott of AC/DC - where else did they get a dead Aussie rock god from?... Plus he's skinny enough! | |
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Sally uses Australia as an analogy for her relationship to Steve on Coupling. As his girlfriend's best friend, Sally tells Steve that she is like Australia - mysterious, distant and with areas of great danger. Steve thought she meant that she had a lot of convicts. | |
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In Arrow, Slade Wilson- aka Deathstroke- is reimagined as an Awesome Aussie who is the most badass character in the series; he trained the title character in how to fight; later went insane, gained super strength and a slight healing factor, and survived getting shot through the eye with an arrow; then came back and became the season 2 Big Bad; then became not-insane, lost his superpowers, spent years locked in an underground prison, and was still able to kick infinity levels of ass while teaming up with Green Arrow. Why was he able to do all that? Because he used to be a part of ASIS, the Australian military's covert ops unit. So basically, because he's from Australia. | |
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The Man from Snowy River and Return To Snowy River. | |
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Disney's The Rescuers Down Under is set in Australia and revels in stereotypes, though its Dundee analog is the villain. | |
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An early Australian promo for Dexter had Dexter giving an interview in character to an Australian interviewer. The interviewer asked Dexter where he would want to live if he had to live in Australia, to which he replied "Adelaide, because it's the serial killer capital of Australia"...cue pissed off reactions from the Mayor's office, the Board of Tourism and various other parties when word of it got out. The promo didn't air in Adelaide, nor anywhere else for that matter. | |
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The Simpsons: "Bart vs. Australia" manages to make several goofs — such as a didgeridoo made out of bamboo, being played by a woman — as well as purposefully subverted stereotypes, such as a postage stamp proudly claiming, "30 Years of Electricity!" Surprisingly, many Aussies are quite fond of that episode. You know Dwarves... wonderful senses of humor. Another favourite bit goes like this: And of course: Another: And of course the scene where Homer and Bart try to jump into the pouches of a pair of kangaroos. "I think a dingo is eating your baby." This taunt from Bart really angers the Aussies. As it should; if you knew the full tragic story of the death of Azaria Chamberlain it'd provoke a severe case of Dude, Not Funny!. In the episode "Lost Verizon" Bart prank calls a Tin-shack bar, on the edge of Sydney Harbour. |
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Van Diemen's Land relates the largely true story of a convict who escaped from Macquarie Harbour (a prison on the edge of seriously inhospitable wilderness) with a number of companions, and survived his walk to more civilised parts by eating them. The sequel Dying Breed focuses on the cannibalistic inbred bogan descendents of the original villain protagonist. | |
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Special mention goes to dancer and Dancing with the Stars veteran Kym Johnson, who's begun to acquire a reputation of being damn near indestructible. In one season of the American version, she endured a pretty nasty knee injury and continued to dance with partner Jerry Springer. That, however, is nothing compared to the season with Hines Ward. She suffered a difficult-to-watch neck injury while rehearsing, where she was in an awkward position on the floor, and Hines (who's over twice her size,) fell on top of her. She went on, not only to dance later that week, but to win the whole damn thing. Said attempts have only seemed to anger her. | |
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The slasher films Road Games, Wolf Creek and Savage Crossings feature villanous serial killers who prowl the Outback in search of fresh victims. | |
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When Young Justice visited the Sydney Olympics, there were kangaroos bounding through the Olympic Village (which was seemingly situated on the side of a cliff within easy eyeshot of Sydney Harbour). | |
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Although Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans isn't part of the UC Timeline, the colony drop that happened in the backstory of the original Mobile Suit Gundam seems to have happened in the past of the Post Disaster timeline. | |
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The story in which Spirou and Fantasio go to Australia is actually centered around the opal-mining industry. | |
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Beneath a Steel Sky is set in a dystopian future Sydney. It's never explicitly stated, but the range of characters with Australian accents, the prologue set in the Outback and the "ancient" map of Sydney's underground train system are clues. All of which making the American protagonist speaking in British phrases much more hilarious. | |
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In an episode of Minder, Arthur Daley somehow manages to find himself in the middle of inhospitable outback and in real danger of dying of thirst a few hours drive outside of Sydney. Never mind that anywhere he could have driven to in that time would be urban sprawl, rolling farmland or on the coast. | |
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Taz-Mania, a show starring Looney Tunes' Tasmanian Devil, is supposedly set in the island of Tasmania, but is actually a Flanderized version of the Outback, and bears as much resemblance to the real Tasmania as Taz does to the real Tasmanian devil (that is, none at all). Apart from the Unstoppable Rage and Extreme Omnivore tendencies. Weirdly Taz-Mania got right the fact that Port Arthur in Tasmania has a lead mine. No idea if this was Shown Their Work or Accidentally Correct Writing. | |
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The first NWA International Tag Team Champions, The Fabulous Kangaroos, who were huge Foreign Wrestling Heels of the 1960s. | |
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In the G.I. Joe universe, Cobra operative Major Bludd is from Sydney, and once served with the Australian SAS. On the Joe team, the survival expert Outback is depicted in the UK comics iteration as an Australian. | |
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Australian women's wrestling is in fact very respected among the Internet Wrestling Community. The Australian women are regarded as second only to the Japanese women in terms of skill. Madison Eagles got the ball rolling in 2011 when she was voted the Number 1 woman on the PWI Female 50 - the first time an independent wrestler had ever topped the list. Shortly after her success, more Australians started appearing on the American indies. As of 2017 three Australians were signed to WWE - Emma, Billie Kay and Peyton Royce. Following the main description, a New Zealander called Evie is often lumped with the Australian women too. | |
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In Scandinavia and the World Australia is a Dark-Skinned Blond thanks to going surfing often, and is prone to wrestle with wildlife. His Distaff Counterpart Sister Australia is a bit more subdued, and is considered an expy of Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark (who is an Australian native). | |
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The Flamin' Thongs is about an Australian family which embodies almost every negative ocker stereotype. | |
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Records indicate Justice Sir Redmond Barry sat for Kelly's last trial and found him guilty for a plethora of murders, bank robberies, resisting the police, and many more charges, and sentenced to hang. At the end of the trial, the two had an unusual exchange of words. The reported exchange neatly summed up Kelly's opinion, and may provide evidence that Kelly was a wizard able to curse and/or Badass Boast people to death—less than two weeks after Kelly was hanged, the judge took ill and died of exhaustion and infections. | |
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There are multiple characters in the Whateley Universe are Australian, Including Razorback, a large raptor-like mutant. Also, There are stories of events that occur in Australia such as the takedown of a rogue mutant in Darwin, as well as allusions to as-of-Yet unwritten events that occur to some of the Australian students during a home visit. The story of Outcast Corner's Christmas trip to Darwin has finally come out. No one would blame them if they decide not to repeat the trip. |
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Total Drama's fifth season features an Australian character, who displays an stereotypical "crocodile hunter" behavior. | |
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Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire, featuring the worst (or, at least, the most bizarre) attempts at an Australian accent ever heard. | |
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Averted in The Proposition, a western that characterizes 1880's Australia as a god-forsaken hell-hole. Since most of the inhabitants are immigrants or first generation, very few have anything approaching an Australian accent. | |
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And some of the deadliest snakes in the world. Which are very tasty. As David Morgan-Mar put it, "Only 9 of the top 10 most venomous snakes in the world live in Australia. Of course, 9 of the top 9 venomous snakes in the world live in Australia." | |
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Team Fortress 2: Background character Saxton Hale is best described as Crocodile Dundee in charge of a major company. That company's name is Mann Co., its motto is "We sell products and get in fights!", and it sends out form letters that depending on the boxes ticked are either about thanking someone for submitting a potential product or telling a thief that he should watch his back because Saxton Hale is coming for him. Then there is the "transformative mineral" Australium, which is only discovered in Australia, managed to turn the country from a "nation of idiots" into an extremely advanced society that outpaced everyone in the world in terms of technology, allowing them to have shiny buildings, streamlined cars, monoplanes, teleportation, cloaking, an entire spectrum of mustache science, and every single innovation in the last 40 years... in 1890. According to the comics, all Australians (including women) are relatively dumb, muscular, constantly fighting, and always wear mustaches. The Sniper, on the other hand, is not. Nor are his parents, judging from one photo. As it turns out, the Sniper was actually born in New Zealand; only his adoptive parents are Australian. |
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The Grand Theft Auto series has a long running joke about a fictional war against Australia. | |
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The DuckTales (1987) episode "Back Out in the Outback". Features miniature UFO's, opals. a sheep station, and a variety of marsupials. | |
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The newer Resident Evil games has the Black Tiger, a giant Australian funnelweb. In real life they are that hard to kill and even deadlier, yes the T Virus makes it go through Badass Decay. | |
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Point Break (1991) concludes on Bells Beach, Torquay - actually filmed in Oregon. The real Bells Beach is a good 2km from the nearest tree - and it's a eucalpyt, not a pine. | |
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Peppa Pig's "Australian Holiday" 4-parter plays with this in a slightly more accurate way and the location slowly becoming more obvious. In the first part (The Outback), Peppa and Kyle's family are seen flying in Kyle's family plane. You can clearly see Uluru in the background before seeing them go to their cabin. The second part (Surfing) features Miss Rabbit (a skilled worker in their hometown) showing up at the surf shop near a beach, and features them learning how to surf. Surfing is popular in Australia, despite boat racing and wakesurfing having a bit of a following there. The third part is about them exploring the Great Barrier Reef in a homemade submarine. From here it's too obious that they have located a house near the Townsville-Cairns border. The fourth and last part (Boomerang) is about learning how a throw a boomerang, despite being wildly unknown among modern Australian people. |
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The Newsflesh novella How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea. Regular Australia not enough for you? How about zombie Australia? Ironically, Aussies tend to regard the zombies as just one more hazardous animal, much to the consternation of tourists. | |
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During the Order of the Dragon arc in Fans!, Keith Feddyg took Australia when the Order caused worldwide chaos and rioting by literally destroying the concept of writing. As he observed, "You know how feral most of that continent is? The exotic killer wildlife will have destroyed human civilization by dinnertime. All I have to do is go back, find the leader of the survivors and melt his bowie knife." This gave him time to stab another Order member in the back and seek revenge against Ally. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Jeice is from "Space Australia". More specifically, Space Brisbane. Go Space Broncos! |
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There was an issue of the Tomb Raider comic supposedly set in Australia, but which actually appeared to be taking place in The Wild West as everyone walked around with a pistol on their hip and there appeared to be no organised law enforcement of any kind. | |
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If one admits to being Australian on /tg/, the first question asked is almost inevitably something along the lines of "How do you find the time to play DnD with all the poisonous snakes?" The answer, of course, is that it's a good idea to have a hobby when unable to leave the house due to the town being knee-deep in funnelweb spiders. | |
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Kano from Mortal Kombat. Granted, he was originally American-Japanese, but the design team decided to retcon him into being an Australian. This was due to the movie, where Trevor Goddard portrayed him as Australian. | |
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Farscape was filmed in Australia, and one episode where John Crichton returns to Earth (well, not really, but he doesn't know that at the time) has him crashing on a beach outside Sydney- where most of the episode's action takes place. | |
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The Howling franchise changes location to Australia in the third movie, Howling III: The Marsupials, focusing on marsupial werewolves (and it's as silly as it sounds). | |
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The best moment occurs in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. A time-travel episode taking place in mid-21st century Earth involves a hostage situation where a friendly mook decides he wants to flee to Tasmania (The little island off the bottom of Australia.), defending his choice of refuge as the origin of actor Errol Flynn (Trope Namer for Flynning). As he and the others prepare to make their Last Stand against government forces, he cocks his gun: "It's probably raining in Tasmania anyway!" * chick-chick* Which is kinda like saying "I want to flee to Newfoundland, or far north Scotland." While on the subject of Star Trek, it appears that the Vulcan embassy to Earth is in Canberra. Vulcans and Australians living in close quarters could be... interesting. Particularly as the depictions of Vulcan basically maker it look like depictions of Australia on steroids: Desert where everything is poisonous and actively trying to kill and eat you (including a significant portion of what plant life there is), but this is a whole PLANET of it. And ALL of the people are experts at living in the wilderness, or they don't live to see their ninth birthday. |
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One place the mining industry did get some time in the spotlight was in Dreamwave's Transformers Energon run. | |
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In the Halo universe, Sydney is the capital of the Unified Earth Government, and is also home to HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6 (the Hive), the formal headquarters of the UNSC military. This was presumably so that potential invaders like the Covenant could become better acquainted with the wildlife. There's also Recurring Extra Private Chips Dubbo from the original trilogy; fans attribute his apparently exceptional survival skills to his Australian origins. | |
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He also said shitstorm on the 6.30 news. A Mass Effect 2 fan? | |
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District 9 | |
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The New Humans: A Cape Punk novel set mostly in Australia during the 1960s. | |
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Mass Effect: Miranda Lawson in Mass Effect 2, while not specifically outed as Australian, is voiced by Australian actress Yvonne Strahovski, who not only kept her natural accent but also acted as a model for the character's looks. Urdnot Wreav wants Australia for helping the humans. He wants to live in a place more terrifying than his own Death World. Australian fans responded en masse "We welcome our new alien overlords...if they can handle the place." |
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The goal of the main character Yorick throughout most of Y: The Last Man is to get to Australia to meet his girlfriend Beth, who was in Australia researching Aboriginal culture. In this universe, post-Gendercide Australia has become the single most powerful navy in the world, based on having the only female piloted submarines, and the entirety of Sydney has become a heroin addicted slum from south-east Asian pirates smuggling drugs into the country. | |
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Quigley Down Under is set in Western Australia in the late 19th century. Other famous Aussie Westerns include Ned Kelly, Mad Dog Morgan, and The Outlaw Michael Howe. | |
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Escape from Monkey Island features Ozzie Mandrill, an Australian property developer and expy for Rupert Murdoch. He bests Guybrush in a bout of insult swordfighting, and turns out to be working with LeChuck to find and control the Ultimate Insult. | |
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An episode of Gargoyles where they visited Australia and the country was portrayed this way. Also Dingo's character in general. If you can get past the ludicrously over-the-top faux Australian accent long enough to pay attention to his words and behaviour, that is. | |
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Godzilla: Final Wars has a scene that takes place in Sydney, Australia in which Godzilla slams the American Godzilla into the Sydney Opera House and kills him instantly with his thermonuclear breath. Considering that director, Ryuhei Kitamura went to the School of Visual Arts in Australia, it's not surprising that it was featured. | |
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Although Fair Game is set in the present day, the Outback is portrayed as a sparsely populated desert wasteland where desert punks and sex-starved hunters butcher kangaroos and harrass vulnerable women. | |
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Australia plays a major role in the Gundam franchise's UC continuity: In the Mobile Suit Gundam series, Sydney was struck by the original Colony Drop, leaving a massive scar that persists throughout the UC timeline. Zeon pilot Bernie Wiseman claims to be Australian (from Sydney, in fact) to get through a checkpoint in Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, but the ruse falls apart when he talks about having snow at Christmas and sounds oddly cheerful for a guy whose home got hit with a colony less than a year ago. Torrington Base is a Federation installation near the impact site that appears in Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory and Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. In 0083, it's the site of a Grand Theft Prototype incident with major repercussions, and it gets attacked by a giant Mobile Armor in Unicorn. Although Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans isn't part of the UC Timeline, the colony drop that happened in the backstory of the original Mobile Suit Gundam seems to have happened in the past of the Post Disaster timeline. The three central characters of Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative are Australian natives who were hailed as the Miracle Children whose precognition saved their community from the effects of Operation British. |
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The Right Stuff shows Gordo Cooper going to a station near Perth where he is to communicate with John Glenn by radio as the latter's orbital flight passes over. While there, he meets some Aboriginal men who dance and play the didgeridoo around a fire. | |
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America (The Book) describes all Australian culture as "a by-product of their perpetual drunkenness". As in, after a few tinnies you can begin to make sense of Geoffrey Rush, and Vegemite becomes edible about the time you're dying of alcohol poisoning. Not that any self-respectin' Aussie is going to succumb to piss poisonin'. The above-mentioned Discworld novel The Last Continent proposes that the perspective-altering beer is the cause of the Vegemite. Also, time travel. |
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Torrington Base is a Federation installation near the impact site that appears in Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory and Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. In 0083, it's the site of a Grand Theft Prototype incident with major repercussions, and it gets attacked by a giant Mobile Armor in Unicorn. | |
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In Tony Hawk's Underground 2, you get to visit Australia (Well actually Sydney). Looks right except that there's a Butterfinger ad where, in Australia, Butterfingers are never advertised. | |
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Lost is notorious among Australian fans for its completely incorrect accents (with the exception of Emilie de Ravin, who is Australian, and even then she has drawn criticism), its hilarious geography goofs (judging from the view out the window, Boone's hotel room seems to be hung in mid-air over the harbour) and the fact that anyone in Australia (shown in flashbacks) seems to be less intelligent and with less common sense than the main characters. The problem was mainly in the show's first season. They began to improve in the later seasons, casting authentic Australian actors for minor roles (such as the undertaker in "?"). However, in season 4, they cast a British actress as Claire's mother, who has arguably the worst Australian accent on the show. Ironically, the minor characters "Captain Gault" and "Hendricks" are played by authentic Australians even though there is no reason for their characters to be Australian. Also, Charles Widmore, a supposedly British character, is played by Alan Dale, a New Zealander. |
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Mad Max, made by Australians, is set in an Australia Just Before the End, while the sequels are in an Outback filled with lawless punks After the End. | |
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The short film Bilby is about a bilby finding a lost albatross chick in the Australian Outback. | |
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Sirens is set in Australia, where a British minister and his wife visit the home of famed painter Norman Lindsey. The repressed wife is fascinated by the free-spirited models and learns to embrace her sexuality. Notably not set in the outback or a major city. | |
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Jim Crocodile Cook in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, on the other had, actually is Australian. | |
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And the Coconut Crew, also from Sonic Rush Adventure, are koalas (who have very different eyes from other Sonic characters, by the way). | |
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Australia is personified in the series Axis Powers Hetalia. All we know of him so far is that he has green eyes and light brown hair, wears a big grin and has a pet koala (that sports a Slasher Smile of sorts) and a dingo. Fanon usually portrays him as a Boisterous Bruiser. The Principality of Wy give us this line when she realizes she's in Hutt River's house: |
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In Code Geass, the Chinese Federation, the Euro Universe, and the Britannian Empire are the three major superpowers fighting to take control of the entire world... except Australia, which from the colours shown in the maps of the series, appears to be neutral. Possibly Australia is devoid of delicious Sakuradite, or possibly the three superpowers were disinclined to waste Knightmares on a costly boondoggle for what basically amounts to "murderous desert, with the occasional arable land". Of course, at one point when Schneizel decides that destroying lots of cities is a great way to achieve world peace, Sydney is among them. So something is there at least... |
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The Fatal Fury series features Raiden (also known as Big Bear), a huge Australian wrestler. | |
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Jeffry from Virtua Fighter (a sailor who merely circumnavigates the country) | |
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TY the Tasmanian Tiger, a platformer series, is set in a fictionalized, Funny Animal version of Australia. However, having been developed by actual Aussies, it manages to pull off an Australia that's not all outback and sheep. There's rainforests, obscure examples of Aussie lore, and relatively few musical tracks that abuse the didgeridoo. Did we mention the fact that all the Funny Animal koala people have two thumbs? | |
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Priscilla, Queen of the Desert contrasts the sophisticated gay scene of urban Oz with the outback culture. | |
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The Princess Bride is one of the few films to reference Australia's convict past: "Australia, as everybody knows, is populated entirely by criminals." It also shows Iocane, the deadliest poison in the world, as being found only in Australia. Of course, the story takes place in Renaissance Europe, roughly two centuries before Australia is even discovered. | |
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An episode of Modern Family has the family taking a vacation there. Phil starts out warning the others about how dangerous the country is and confident he'll be able to guide them through it, only to suffer all the worst it has to offer himself. A local then tells him this means he's accepted as an honorary Australian, as the place is hardest on its own. | |
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One of the minor factions in Syndicate was the Tasmanian Liberation Army, who take over Australia at least, but are described as always being too drunk to be a major player for world domination. The world map in the sequel Syndicate Wars asserts the language of Sydney is "Low English" (compared to "High English" in London) and their main industry is brewing. Tasmanians themselves might say that this isn't necessarily too far removed from the truth... | |
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Nero: Kangoeroe Eiland takes place in Australia. | |
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When the X-Men appeared on Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends and again in Pryde of the X-Men (the pilot for the first attempt to make an X-Men animated series, which wasn't picked up) usually Canadian X-Man Wolverine sported an Australian accent. Presumably because the producers couldn't imagine the toughest mutant in the world coming from anywhere else. (Decades later, it would turn out they were right - but at least Hugh Jackman was polite enough to fake it.) | |
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The events of Razorback happen in the Australian outback, which seems to be filled with dangerous wild boars and psychotic pet food factory workers. | |
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Marine the Raccoon from Sonic Rush Adventure is a Motor Mouth who uses every single Australian slang word ever invented, and then some. She'd be The Scrappy for that (and may still be considered one) but the other characters react as if she is that annoying. Not to mention Knuckles is an echidna, an Australian monotreme. And the Coconut Crew, also from Sonic Rush Adventure, are koalas (who have very different eyes from other Sonic characters, by the way). |
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Doctor Who provides an example in Tegan Jovanka, played by Australian actress Janet Fielding. Tegan was snarky, assertive, brash and not willing to put up with anyone's crap, even if their address of record was "a time-travelling police box that's Bigger on the Inside". She once described herself as "a mouth with legs", due to her outspoken nature. Quite a few of her lines reference Australia (in the Big Finish audio dramas, she's taken more than one potshot at places like Brisbane), and her "often-spoken expletive"note Canonically only spoken twice onscreen, actually "rabbits!" most likely is a reference to headaches rabbits have given Australian farmers since their accidental introduction into the biosphere. Katie Manning (also Australian-born) has shades of this in Real Life, though her character Jo Grant was more an early 70s mix of Action Girl, Hypercompetent Sidekick and The Ditz who was canonically British. |
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Digimon Adventure 02 has a particularly strange case rife with compressed geography to drive home the point of where they are. During the Digidestined's efforts to eliminate Dark Towers around the world, Joe and Cody travel to Australia, landing in Sydney before heading up to the Gold Coast which, while doable in a day, is by no means a short or easy trip, especially for a pair of foreign early-teenage boys with no car. They notice that the locals treat the Dark Tower on the beach as an Unusually Uninteresting Sight, whereas a western show might've had the locals tear the bloody thing down before they'd have even gotten there. They do get backup from one of the local Digidestined, Derek; who is a blonde, tanned preteen surfer boy, very much in the spirit of this trope. In the last episode, Derek is in Sydney for some reason, probably to make it incredibly obvious what country he's in. | |
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It's also worth pointing out that the 'Australian' beer you can buy abroad is brewed locally under license. Most foreign beer is made locally under license; beer doesn't travel well. (There are a few exceptions, but truth be told the farthest beer can get is basically across the Atlantic—the Pacific is impossible.) |
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Child of the Storm has Australia being a land where Everything Is Trying to Kill You, and its natives being crazy buggers who epitomise the most badass part of the Humans Are Survivors trope that applies to all of humanity In-Universe as a background Running Gag. For instance, it is noted by Loki in the sequel that the grand scale reality warp at the end of the first book, which jumbled up time and space and had lingering effects (i.e. lots of long extinct species reappearing across the planet), and when he gets to Australia, he states that "Australia now has its formerly extinct range of horrifying giant creatures to add to its current range of horrifying small to medium sized creatures. The locals are, of course, delighted and celebrating by trying to find out how such formerly extinct creatures taste when barbecued." Several Australian reviewers admitted that, yeah, this is basically what would happen. |
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Thomas the Tank Engine: "Kangaroo Christmas" shows that there are a huge amount of kangaroos in Australia, only because they are native. | |
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Probably originated with Crocodile Dundee, which spurred an interest in this Flanderization of Australia. Note the movie was made by Australians and often cited as them enjoying playing up the image to mess with tourists. Hell, it's done in the movie. The titular Mr. Dundee plays up his wildman-living-off-the-land bit to further impress the tourists. Mick even does it to his best friend (by pretending to not know what day of the week it is), leading to the memorable line "Doesn't know, doesn't care. Lucky bastard!" |
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Australia didn’t exactly go unnoticed in JAG. One of the recurring characters, Mic Brumby, was an Australian naval officer originally on exchange duty in season 4. In season 5 the production team actually went to Sydney to film the two part episode “Boomerang” on location in Oz. The fact that the creator and executive producer had an Australian wife is probably the chief explanation for all this. | |
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Ben Powell, Brendan Wallace, and Jason Harris from Survival of the Fittest. They're all Aussie, though only Ben is played straight. You'd have to read the profiles of the latter two to find out they were actually Australian. | |
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Forza Horizon 3 takes place in and around Gold Coast, and features lesser seen settings such as rainforests alongside the typical Outback. | |
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High Stakes on the other hand allows people to live out their Blue Heelers fantasies by putting you behind the wheel of a Victoria police Holden patrol car. | |
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In Once Upon a Time Belle's kingdom appears to be a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Australia. Emilie de Ravin plays Belle, and gets to keep her own accent. Her father and mother are likewise given Australian accents. But considering the source material is set in France and the names Belle, Maurice and Collette are French, this confuses the issue even further. | |
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Bloody Urban (which is set in an AU version of Sydney) features a strip which depicts the Australian open as being played entirely by crocodiles. The Alt Text for the page reads 'This is nothing. You should see our football.' | |
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Zeon pilot Bernie Wiseman claims to be Australian (from Sydney, in fact) to get through a checkpoint in Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, but the ruse falls apart when he talks about having snow at Christmas and sounds oddly cheerful for a guy whose home got hit with a colony less than a year ago. | |
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Craig Marduk of Tekken. Although his accent is about as Australian as Abraham Lincoln. It is suggested that Jun had placed Alex and Roger in Australia, which would be either a blessing or a curse. | |
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Then of course we have Daniel Osbourne in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or Oz. The name of the band he's in? Dingoes Ate My Baby, after the Azaria Chamberlain case. He's played by an American Seth Green, suggesting the character might be an Australia fanboy. | |
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Dead Island is actually based on Papua New Guinea but has a strong Australian population, Palanai more resembles a Australian resort and several of the playable characters are Australian. | |
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The three central characters of Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative are Australian natives who were hailed as the Miracle Children whose precognition saved their community from the effects of Operation British. | |
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A Cry In The Dark A.K.A. Evil Angels is based on the true story of the Chamberlain family, whose daughter Azaria was taken from their tent by a dingo whilst camping at Ayers Rock. This film is infamous for Meryl Streep's accent (sometimes mocked as a failed Australian accent, it's actually a reasonably successful — but undeniably memorable — imitation of the New Zealand-born Lindy Chamberlain's actual accent) and the line 'a dingo ate my baby!' | |
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Mega Man Battle Network: Dingo. His Netnavi is a different story. Not quite. Dingo is outright stated to be from the series' Eagleland. It's just that he has the name of an Australian-indigenous animal for some reason. |
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In the Mobile Suit Gundam series, Sydney was struck by the original Colony Drop, leaving a massive scar that persists throughout the UC timeline. | |
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The English voices of the two characters from Gran Pulse in Final Fantasy XIII have Australian accents. Appropriately enough, Gran Pulse is an over the top Death World full of horrible monsters such as the Adamantoises (gigantic tusked tortoises the size of shopping malls), Gorgonopsids (think Dingos but with toxic breath), Megistotherians (giant Gorgonopsids), King Behemoths, various Cieth and The Undying...and the dreaded Tonberries. And that's just the wildlife. Pulse's Killer Robots and giant Killer Robots can still be found in the ruins of Pulse's mining facilities and cities. All presided over by a mountain-sized Giant Robot god made out of lava that eats Adamantoises. And also, ironically, Gran Pulse is a planet underneath the smaller, inhabited "moon", Cocoon. So to the people of Cocoon, Gran Pulse is literally "the land down below". | |
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In one most of his video reviews, Yahtzee takes time to complain about how much later games are released in Australia than the US. One of these reviews showed an outline of Australia, with labels in four places. One in the southwest of the map said "ME" and the other three scattered throughout said "SHEEP". He doesn't think much of the "Everything Trying to Kill You" part, though. In his words, "Whatever Cracked might tell you, you do not get savaged by Shelob the moment you step off a plane in this country." |
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The famous Ryu vs. Sagat fight was depicted in the animated movie in a grassy field during a thunderstorm. The Alpha games have this in Australia. | |
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Terra Nova was filmed in Queensland. Arguably the most colorful character was Boylan, the Aussie bartender and ex soldier. Given how poorly Australians are often portrayed in US shows and the mistakes the show arguably made along the road to cancellation, it was an interesting thing to get right. | |
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Suske en Wiske: De Blinkende Boemerang takes place in Australia. | |
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For some reason, Jetfire in Transformers Cybertron has an Australian accent. | |
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Chu in the English dub of Yu Yu Hakusho is a hard drinking okker aussie Boisterous Bruiser. | |
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In Need for Speed II, the 'Outback track' goes from the usual Sydney landmarks to Uluru and back on a single racetrack. Luckily, Australians still find this kind of thing very funny. High Stakes on the other hand allows people to live out their Blue Heelers fantasies by putting you behind the wheel of a Victoria police Holden patrol car. |
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