![]() ![]() note An ethnic slur against Turks or Muslims in general, but he's triggered by the actual food as well. Serbia will fly straight into a murderous rage whenever he sees "kebab".Unsurprisingly Nazi Germany takes this up to eleven.As Long as It Sounds Foreign: The typos representing accents generally are not intended to sound like an actual speaker's accent, but just give the impression that there is some sort of foreign accent.In fact, a common saying is "polandball > history". Artistic License – History: Historical and cultural facts may be overlooked simply for the sake of humour.Artistic Age: All countryballs look the same age, although some are older literally, and some act older.More recent comics may cross over into Awesome Art, even when they are created with simple drawing tools. Art Evolution: The earliest comics are extremely crude, drawn with an unsteady hand in Microsoft Paint.Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: This comic displays the worst of history's atrocities: The Holodomor (a bunch of starving Ukrainians), The Holocaust (Nazis herding a score of Jews and Eastern Europeans into the gas chambers), the Nanjing Massacre (Imperial Japanese cutting up Republic of China balls), the Armenian Genocide (Turks shooting various Armenians and dumping them in a pile) and the invention of Hawaiian pizza (Canada happily cutting up a pineapple and sprinkling some on a pizza).Poland: If Islam is good why is yuor capital Islamabad? ![]() Normally, it has something to do with Russia's inability to get over the collapse of the USSR or his closeted homosexuality. Armor-Piercing Question: For some reason, Russia is often on the receiving end.President Vladimir Putin's insistence on being photographed with his shirt off and his cultivation of a ridiculous Rated M for Manly image has not helped. Armored Closet Gay: Since it enacted its infamous "Gay Propaganda Law", Russia has been mocked as this.Artifact Title: Poland is but one of many characters.Only exceptions being indigenous people and aliens represented with billiard balls. Except on the subreddit community, where only nations and supranational entities like UN, EU and ASEAN can be balls.This may not be limited to them though, since anything can become a ball. Anthropomorphic Personification: Of countries and their subdivisions, which makes up most of the cast.And Then John Was a Zombie: Nie, Ameryki.Comics where the gender of a countryball is explicitly will use bows to represent females.Some countries like Moldova and Estonia (refereed to as Esti) are sometimes portrayed as female consistently in universe. Ambiguous Gender: As the characters are countryballs, this is to be expected although male pronouns are used as the default.Always Chaotic Evil: ISIS Ball seems to hate every modern countryball and is pretty much always seen attacking someone when it makes an appearance.All Your Powers Combined: By Your Powers Combined.All Psychology Is Freudian: According to Austria, "is problem with papa und penis.".All Germans Are Nazis: While Germany and Nazi Germany are two separate countryballs, Germany has a tendency to turn into Reichtangle and spew out variations on "Arbeit Macht Frei", especially towards Greece.The Alcoholic: Russia and Finland are usually portrayed this way.However, it can make a few changes to them by expanding on the endings, setting the plot up and throwing in a few extra jokes. Adaptation Distillation: The Polandball Animated Series is Exactly What It Says on the Tin - an Animated Adaptation of existing Polandball comics.Abusive Parents: Every country that had colonies is portrayed as this.A Day in the Limelight: The Polandball subreddit has had numerous contests that either focus on other countries that usually don't get too much focus or ban the use of certain countryballs.Polcompball: Comics about political ideologies.Companyball: Comics about companies and brands.Other works in and related to the Polandball series: Video Games Feel free to move character-specific tropes there, as well. It currently has a large community on Facebook and Reddit.Ĭompare Scandinavia and the World and Hetalia: Axis Powers.Ĭurrently, a character page has begun construction. Having its origins on a German ImageBoard, it originally featured National Stereotypes and extreme political incorrectness but has grown to include Engrish, history and geography jokes. It started with Poland (obviously), but it quickly branched out to other countries as well. Polandball is a series of user-comics that uses spherical Anthropomorphic Personifications of various nations to satirize international relations, both contemporary and historical. "Polan can into TV Tropes!" * But cannot into space. ![]()
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