i really like all things France and want to find a character that personifies France :)
Pepe Le Pew is the first character that comes to mind for France
Jean Pierre Polnareff for me.
Does a webcomic count as a franchise? https://satwcomic.com/
And here are all of France’s appearances: https://satwcomic.com/the-world/france
Polandball would be another web comic like that. Although the characters are just circles with flags in them, so no idea how useful that is.
Not specifically French, but Hetalia is straight up countries as people.
Yeah, I’d stay far away from this one. It has every power of WW2 personified as an anime boy. If I had the word hate… you know the rest. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan shouldn’t be turned into anime boys.
Asterix
and Obelix
Flight of the conchords is 100% your typical New Zealander
The Kiwi / Aussie rivalry is great, we rip each other to shreds, but will stand up for one another if anyone else tries it.
Pepe le Pew?
Dexter’s Lab but only for one episode.
Maybe I am completely misunderstanding, but wouldn’t Marianne be the main character representing France?
How about these happy little friends?
Phryges - Wikipedia https://share.google/xdlE0TIy1sNRHC8Yr
Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room with Pierre and Suzette.
Civilization?
- Kantai Collection (KanColle) – A Japanese browser game (later anime) where WWII-era Japanese warships are personified as girls. Hugely popular in Japan around 2013–2016. KanColle started mostly with Imperial Japanese Navy ships, but later added foreign ones. For France, the characters are:
- Richelieu – Personification of the French battleship Richelieu.
- Jean Bart – Battleship, Richelieu’s sister ship.
- Commandant Teste – Seaplane tender.
- Azur Lane – A Chinese mobile game (also with anime and manga) that includes warships from multiple countries (Japan, USA, UK, Germany, etc.) as anime girls. This one has a more international cast compared to KanColle. Azur Lane has a whole French faction called Iris Libre (Free Iris, based on Free France) and Vichya Dominion (based on Vichy France). French shipgirls include:
- Richelieu – Battleship, leader-type character (Free Iris).
- Jean Bart – Battleship (Vichya Dominion, later joins Free Iris).
- Le Malin – Destroyer.
- Le Triomphant – Destroyer.
- Algérie – Heavy cruiser.
- Béarn – Aircraft carrier.
- Saint Louis – Heavy cruiser.
- Gascogne – Battleship (super prototype type).
- Dupleix, Émile Bertin, Vauquelin, Kersaint, Forbin, Surcouf, etc. – Various cruisers, destroyers, and subs.
PS: those two games I had in mind immediately, but I used a bit of AI to put up those lists of characters, added some links manually (for other characters just swap the character name in query)
- Kantai Collection (KanColle) – A Japanese browser game (later anime) where WWII-era Japanese warships are personified as girls. Hugely popular in Japan around 2013–2016. KanColle started mostly with Imperial Japanese Navy ships, but later added foreign ones. For France, the characters are:
