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'''France''' is a nation in [[Europe]], former colonial power, permanent member of the [[United Nations|UN Security Council]], and a wielder of nuclear | [[File:Flag of France.png|225px|right|thumb|"I find everyone's pain funny but my own. I'm French."]] | ||
'''France''' is a nation in [[Europe]], former colonial power, permanent member of the [[United Nations|UN Security Council]], and a wielder of [[nuclear weapon]]s. It is known for making many contributions to Western culture and has a reputation for snobbery. | |||
==Fiction== | ==Fiction== | ||
===Generation 1=== | ===Generation 1 cartoon continuity=== | ||
==== | ====''The Transformers'' cartoon==== | ||
[[ | [[File:Europa 2000.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|Not to [[scale]].]] | ||
The | The transcontinental [[Europa 2000]] car race started from Paris and went on to Istanbul. Secretly, it was a scam of [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron]]'s! A map of the race's route showed that either France is bigger in the show's universe than in reality, or the map-maker knew bog all about France's geography. {{storylink|Trans-Europe Express}} | ||
====='' | =====''The Headmasters'' cartoon===== | ||
France was one of six nations blackmailed by [[Sixshot (G1)|Sixshot]] to give him all its energy or face destruction. The [[Trainbot]]s stopped him before he could get round to carrying this threat out. {{storylink|Terror! The Six Shadows}} | |||
=====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon===== | |||
The [[Headmaster Junior]] [[Minerva (human)|Minerva]] was French on her mother's side. | |||
France held the F1 World Grand Prix at the Rouen Circuit, and was the homeland of champion racer [[Germain]], whose car mysteriously survived every crash it was ever in. He later retired to run a bar in the small town of [[Dagneux]]. Both the Autobot and Decepticon Headmaster Juniors believed his car to be a [[Transtector]] and headed for France to investigate, with the latter group attacking Dagneux. They got their butts kicked. {{storylink|Assemble! The Four Godmaster Gunmen}} | |||
In order to discredit [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]] in the eyes of humanity, the Decepticons later dropped a meteor on Paris, destroying the [[Arc de Triomphe]]. {{storylink|Expose the Decepticons' Dark Trap!}} | |||
As part of the Decepticon plan to devastate Earth, known as Operation M-1, [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] devastated Paris and toppled the Arc de Triomphe ''again''. The French armed forces were overpowered. {{storylink|BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space}} | |||
===Young Corgi continuity=== | |||
France would presumably be a member of the [[Federation of Western Europe]]. {{storylink|Battle Beneath the Ice}} | France would presumably be a member of the [[Federation of Western Europe]]. {{storylink|Battle Beneath the Ice}} | ||
===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''=== | |||
[[Cobra]] conquered France in [[1939]], crushing the [[Maginot Line]] and enslaving the entire population of Paris. | [[Cobra]] conquered France in [[1939]], crushing the [[Maginot Line]] and enslaving the entire population of Paris. | ||
''Cobra''. That has to be embarrassing. | ''Cobra''. That has to be embarrassing. {{storylink|The Line}} | ||
===2005 IDW continuity=== | |||
[[File:Titan Paris1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|The French, pictured speaking English.]] | |||
During the 19th century, France was led by [[Napoleon III]], whose ambitions posed a threat to Britain, and thus skilled French exile [[Victor Hugo]] was instated as head of the [[Action Man Programme]], an unprecedented honor for a foreigner. {{storylink|Absolute Beginners}} | |||
During [[World War II]], [[Centurion (IDW)|Centurion]] hunted down and killed a [[Maximal Shockwave|a brainwashed duplicate of Shockwave]] in war-torn France. Their battle was witnessed by [[Sgt. Savage|Robert Savage]] and his [[Screaming Eagles]]. {{storylink|Strange Visitors}} | |||
When the Decepticons seized [[New York City]] and began hitting other sites across the planet in 2008, a group of world leaders met in [[Versailles]] and discussed plans for a [[European Union]] assault on New York, and a plan ''within'' that plan to hit New York with a nuclear bomb during the attack, without telling all the nations involved. (This discussion of nuclear mass-murder put them off their tea.) The French were pretty happy ''Europe'' had had the luxury of time to prepare unlike other countries; a lucky break that definitely wasn't {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 6|All Hail Megatron #6}} an intentional plot by Megatron! {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}} Knowledge of the nuclear plot reached America somehow but they couldn't ''do'' anything about it. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 9|All Hail Megatron #9}} | |||
When the Decepticons seized [[New York City]] and began hitting other sites across the planet, a group of world leaders met in Versailles and | |||
The strike was launched during an internal Decepticon spat | The strike was launched during an internal Decepticon spat. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 10|All Hail Megatron #10}} France, having the only {{w|Dassault Mirage 2000N/2000D|nuclear-armed jets}} in Europe, was going to drop the bomb but decided to re-use their old, retired propeller bombers for this missions rather than the Dassault Mirages; we don't know why but that sure was a lucky break for [[Octane|Tankor]]! {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 11|All Hail Megatron #11}} Megatron decided to have the French bomb dropped anyway but luckly for New York it got stopped. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 12|All Hail Megatron #12}} | ||
===''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon=== | ===2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon=== | ||
The goal of the [[International Grand Prix]] was the | The goal of the [[International Grand Prix]] was the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. {{storylink|Skid Z's Choice}} | ||
===Live-action | ===Live-action film series=== | ||
====Titan | ====Titan movie comic==== | ||
[[File:Titan Paris2.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Hell, you should see the ''[[Savannah|other]]'' [[Washington, D.C.|guys]].]] | |||
[[ | |||
When the Decepticons conquered the United States, France joined the other nations of [[NATO]] in opposing them. Paris underwent an unknown level of bombardment during the conflict, but the Palais Bourbon (France's seat of government) was still used as a meeting point for world leaders when NATO decided to make a nuclear assault. However, the Decepticons hit NATO first, engaging its forces at the Bay of Biscay near France. | When the Decepticons conquered the United States, France joined the other nations of [[NATO]] in opposing them. Paris underwent an unknown level of bombardment during the conflict, but the Palais Bourbon (France's seat of government) was still used as a meeting point for world leaders when NATO decided to make a nuclear assault. However, the Decepticons hit NATO first, engaging its forces at the Bay of Biscay near France. | ||
After ten minutes of ass-kicking, [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]] took out the Palais in a bombing strike. The French government was probably killed here. | After ten minutes of ass-kicking, [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]] took out the Palais in a bombing strike. The French government was probably killed here. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 10|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2}} | ||
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====''Revenge of the Fallen''==== | ====''Revenge of the Fallen''==== | ||
=====''Revenge of the Fallen'' viral campaign===== | =====''Revenge of the Fallen'' viral campaign===== | ||
[[Fassbinder]] was given a video recording an incident between Frenchman Vinny Lemans and | [[Fassbinder]] was given a video recording an incident between Frenchman [[Vinny Lemans]] and an [[Toy biplane robot|alien robot]] to post on [[The Real Effing Deal]] as part of their continuing efforts to expose the alien invasion occurring at the time. {{storylink|The Real Effing Deal}} | ||
=====''Revenge of the Fallen'' film===== | =====''Revenge of the Fallen'' film===== | ||
[[ | [[File:Rotf-paris.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Eiffel Towers are as numerous as [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicon]]s.]] | ||
It was a lovely day in Paris, when a couple of Decepticon transition forms came hurtling out of the blue skies, startling human pedestrians. One struck a masonry tower, causing it to collapse in smoke and flames. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}} | |||
{{note|In real life, the [[Eiffel Tower]] is indeed visible from the ''Place de la Concorde''... but it would be ''behind'' the viewer in the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' scenes. It certainly isn't visible from [[Philadelphia]], whose City Hall tower is the one shown getting blown up.}} | |||
===''Rescue Bots'' cartoon=== | |||
According to [[Chase (RB)|Chase]], they eat snails in France. {{storylink|The Lost Bell}} | |||
==Games== | ==Games== | ||
===Hunt for the Decepticons=== | ===Hunt for the Decepticons=== | ||
{{ | {{locationstub}} | ||
{{storylink|Hunt for the Decepticons}} | {{storylink|Hunt for the Decepticons}} | ||
===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''=== | |||
After forming an alliance with the Decepticons, [[Cobra]] established a [[The Joint|secret cybernetics lab]] in the [[Pyrenees]]. {{storylink|Cobra/Con Fusion}} | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
* France withdrew from NATO's integrated military command in 1966 and rejoined in 2009. This is one year ''later'' than in ''Twilight's Last Gleaming'', but then in real life there wasn't an alien occupation of North America. | *In [[World War II]], France surrendered in the face of foreign invasion, leaving the population to suffer under a genocidal dictatorship for four years. This is seen as a source of hilarious jokes by [[United Kingdom|some]] [[United States of America|other nations]]. | ||
* Comic artist [[Dan Reed]] lived in France. (He was an American and working for Marvel UK. Globalisation gone mad!) | *France {{w|History of NATO#French withdrawal|withdrew}} from NATO's integrated military command in 1966 and rejoined in 2009. This is one year ''later'' than in ''Twilight's Last Gleaming'', but then in real life there wasn't an alien occupation of North America. | ||
* France has had [[multilingual packaging]] since 1985, due to Transformers distributors wanting to get all of mainland Europe in one product line. | *Comic artist [[Dan Reed]] lived in France. (He was an American and working for Marvel UK. Globalisation gone mad!) | ||
* ''Beast Wars'' was known as '' | *France has had [[multilingual packaging]] since 1985, due to Transformers distributors wanting to get all of mainland Europe in one product line. | ||
* As well as dubbing the Transformers cartoons, France has dubbed and broadcast the | *''Beast Wars'' was known as ''Animutants'' in France. | ||
*As well as dubbing the ''Transformers'' cartoons, France has dubbed and broadcast the ''{{gb|Challenge of the GoBots|Challenge of the GoBots}}'' cartoon. In fact, it dubbed that ''and'' the unrelated Japanese {{w|Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos|''Machine Robo'' anime}}, slapping the ''GoBots'' logo on the latter. | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
* | *{{w|France}} at Wikipedia | ||
[[Category:European countries]] | [[Category:European countries]] | ||
[[Category:Generation 1 locations]] | [[Category:France| ]] | ||
[[Category:Generation 1 cartoon locations]] | |||
[[Category:Generation 1 countries]] | |||
[[Category:Movie locations]] | |||
[[Category:Real-world countries]] | |||
[[Category:Rescue Bots locations]] | |||
[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen locations]] | |||
[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2001) locations]] | |||
[[Category:Super-God Masterforce locations]] | |||
[[Category:The Headmasters locations]] | |||
[[Category:Transformers Roleplaying Game locations]] | |||
Latest revision as of 22:59, 27 February 2026
France is a nation in Europe, former colonial power, permanent member of the UN Security Council, and a wielder of nuclear weapons. It is known for making many contributions to Western culture and has a reputation for snobbery.
Fiction
[edit]Generation 1 cartoon continuity
[edit]The Transformers cartoon
[edit]
The transcontinental Europa 2000 car race started from Paris and went on to Istanbul. Secretly, it was a scam of Megatron's! A map of the race's route showed that either France is bigger in the show's universe than in reality, or the map-maker knew bog all about France's geography. Trans-Europe Express
The Headmasters cartoon
[edit]France was one of six nations blackmailed by Sixshot to give him all its energy or face destruction. The Trainbots stopped him before he could get round to carrying this threat out. Terror! The Six Shadows
Super-God Masterforce cartoon
[edit]The Headmaster Junior Minerva was French on her mother's side.
France held the F1 World Grand Prix at the Rouen Circuit, and was the homeland of champion racer Germain, whose car mysteriously survived every crash it was ever in. He later retired to run a bar in the small town of Dagneux. Both the Autobot and Decepticon Headmaster Juniors believed his car to be a Transtector and headed for France to investigate, with the latter group attacking Dagneux. They got their butts kicked. Assemble! The Four Godmaster Gunmen
In order to discredit Ginrai in the eyes of humanity, the Decepticons later dropped a meteor on Paris, destroying the Arc de Triomphe. Expose the Decepticons' Dark Trap!
As part of the Decepticon plan to devastate Earth, known as Operation M-1, Overlord devastated Paris and toppled the Arc de Triomphe again. The French armed forces were overpowered. BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space
Young Corgi continuity
[edit]France would presumably be a member of the Federation of Western Europe. Battle Beneath the Ice
Transformers/G.I. Joe
[edit]Cobra conquered France in 1939, crushing the Maginot Line and enslaving the entire population of Paris.
Cobra. That has to be embarrassing. The Line
2005 IDW continuity
[edit]
During the 19th century, France was led by Napoleon III, whose ambitions posed a threat to Britain, and thus skilled French exile Victor Hugo was instated as head of the Action Man Programme, an unprecedented honor for a foreigner. Absolute Beginners
During World War II, Centurion hunted down and killed a a brainwashed duplicate of Shockwave in war-torn France. Their battle was witnessed by Robert Savage and his Screaming Eagles. Strange Visitors
When the Decepticons seized New York City and began hitting other sites across the planet in 2008, a group of world leaders met in Versailles and discussed plans for a European Union assault on New York, and a plan within that plan to hit New York with a nuclear bomb during the attack, without telling all the nations involved. (This discussion of nuclear mass-murder put them off their tea.) The French were pretty happy Europe had had the luxury of time to prepare unlike other countries; a lucky break that definitely wasn't All Hail Megatron #6 an intentional plot by Megatron! All Hail Megatron #11 Knowledge of the nuclear plot reached America somehow but they couldn't do anything about it. All Hail Megatron #9
The strike was launched during an internal Decepticon spat. All Hail Megatron #10 France, having the only nuclear-armed jets in Europe, was going to drop the bomb but decided to re-use their old, retired propeller bombers for this missions rather than the Dassault Mirages; we don't know why but that sure was a lucky break for Tankor! All Hail Megatron #11 Megatron decided to have the French bomb dropped anyway but luckly for New York it got stopped. All Hail Megatron #12
2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon
[edit]The goal of the International Grand Prix was the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Skid Z's Choice
Live-action film series
[edit]Titan movie comic
[edit]
When the Decepticons conquered the United States, France joined the other nations of NATO in opposing them. Paris underwent an unknown level of bombardment during the conflict, but the Palais Bourbon (France's seat of government) was still used as a meeting point for world leaders when NATO decided to make a nuclear assault. However, the Decepticons hit NATO first, engaging its forces at the Bay of Biscay near France.
After ten minutes of ass-kicking, Dreadwing took out the Palais in a bombing strike. The French government was probably killed here. Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2
Revenge of the Fallen
[edit]Revenge of the Fallen viral campaign
[edit]Fassbinder was given a video recording an incident between Frenchman Vinny Lemans and an alien robot to post on The Real Effing Deal as part of their continuing efforts to expose the alien invasion occurring at the time. The Real Effing Deal
Revenge of the Fallen film
[edit]
It was a lovely day in Paris, when a couple of Decepticon transition forms came hurtling out of the blue skies, startling human pedestrians. One struck a masonry tower, causing it to collapse in smoke and flames. Revenge of the Fallen
Rescue Bots cartoon
[edit]According to Chase, they eat snails in France. The Lost Bell
Games
[edit]Hunt for the Decepticons
[edit]
Transformers Roleplaying Game
[edit]After forming an alliance with the Decepticons, Cobra established a secret cybernetics lab in the Pyrenees. Cobra/Con Fusion
Notes
[edit]- In World War II, France surrendered in the face of foreign invasion, leaving the population to suffer under a genocidal dictatorship for four years. This is seen as a source of hilarious jokes by some other nations.
- France withdrew from NATO's integrated military command in 1966 and rejoined in 2009. This is one year later than in Twilight's Last Gleaming, but then in real life there wasn't an alien occupation of North America.
- Comic artist Dan Reed lived in France. (He was an American and working for Marvel UK. Globalisation gone mad!)
- France has had multilingual packaging since 1985, due to Transformers distributors wanting to get all of mainland Europe in one product line.
- Beast Wars was known as Animutants in France.
- As well as dubbing the Transformers cartoons, France has dubbed and broadcast the Challenge of the GoBots cartoon. In fact, it dubbed that and the unrelated Japanese Machine Robo anime, slapping the GoBots logo on the latter.
External links
[edit]- France at Wikipedia
- Pages with image sizes containing extra px
- Location stub
- European countries
- France
- Generation 1 cartoon locations
- Generation 1 countries
- Movie locations
- Real-world countries
- Rescue Bots locations
- Revenge of the Fallen locations
- Robots in Disguise (2001) locations
- Super-God Masterforce locations
- The Headmasters locations
- Transformers Roleplaying Game locations
