France
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.
In World War 2, 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.
Fiction
Generation 1 cartoon continuity
Generation 1 cartoon
The trans-continental 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 the map-maker knew bog all about France's geography. Trans-Europe Express
Japanese cartoon continuity
Headmasters
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
The Headmaster Junior Minerva is half-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 Dagnuex. 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 Dagnuex. They got their butts kicked. At Full Strength! The Four Godmaster Gunmen
As part of the Decepticon plan to devastate Earth, known as Operation M-1, Overlord devastated Paris and toppled the Arc de Triomphe. The French armed forces were overpowered. BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space
Transformers/G.I. Joe
Cobra conquered it in 1938. Cobra. That has to be embarrassing. Transformers/G.I. Joe
IDW Generation 1 comics
When the Decepticons seized New York City and began hitting other sites across the planet, a group of world leaders met in Versailles and decided to hit New York with a nuclear strike. Luckily, this discussion of nuclear mass-murder did not put them off their tea. All Hail Megatron issue 6
Titan Magazines Transformers movie comics
<div style="width: 90%; margin: 0 auto .2em auto; background-color:#efefef; border: 2px solid #eeeeee; padding: 2px; text-align: left;">Note: The following events occur in an alternate timeline/continuity where Megatron won the battle of Mission City.</div>
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 and Dreadwing took out the Palais in a bombing strike. The French government was probably killed here. Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2
Notes
- 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 Ani Mutants in France.
