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Stereotypes are a critical component of any Polandball comic. They are the attributes each country possesses for comedic effect. These stereotypes can range from subtle to blunt, meta to deadpan, and completely non-offensive to "holy-shit-2-edgy-4-me" offensive.
Countryball Stereotypes[edit | edit source]
These are stereotypes used in Polandball for specific countryballs.
Albaniaball: Usually wears kebab hats, and doesn't like
Slavs, especially hating
Serbiaball.
Argentinaball: Portrayed often as wanting to be white-skinned or European. Doesn't have good relations with
UKball.
Australiaball: Shown as always wild and drinks lots of beer. He is considered to be weak (because he lost a fight against Emus).
Austriaball: Often portrayed as an experimental, possibly insane psychologist, but mostly a doctor.
Bosnia and Herzegovinaball: Often is a kebab and is a dedicated kebab defender, usually hates
Serbiaball. It still wants more coastline.
Brazilball: Constantly in a state of laughter, specifically the laugh "HUE". Loves coffee.
Bulgariaball: Created yogurt and always wants to defend yogurt, its food.
Canadaball: Portrayed in a friendly and sometimes gentle state, only occasionally stepping out of this demeanor. A common vocabulary word is "eh". Can also be obsessed with clubbing seals. It always apologizes for everything it does. It also loves (maybe even smells like) maple syrup.
Chinaball: Portrayed as Maoist, oversized, smoggy, wise, and aggressively claiming neighboring territories. Also, in some comics, it is seen eating, cooking, or having a dead body of đ¶ a dog/dogs.
DR Congoball: Portrayed as a doctor, due to its' full name Democratic Republic (DR) of Congo. Also hates
Belgiumball for the genocide they never apologized for.
Croatiaball: Sometimes portrayed as having a bitter hatred for
Serbiaball.
Cubaball: Portrayed as a very
Communist state.
Cyprusball: Almost always is split in half/disputed and usually hates
Turkeyball.
Czechiaball: Loves beer, slav, and space. Has very good relations with
Slovakiaball.
Denmarkball: Loves very much lego, as he was the inventor.
Ecuadorball: Always subject to volcanic and tectonic activity.
Eritreaball: Considered to be "the
North Koreaball of Africa".
Estoniaball: Often portrayed as wanting to become Nordic instead of Baltic, and in love with
Finlandball (largely for this reason).
Ethiopiaball: The only African country to not become colonized by Europeans, and doesn't like
his evil sibling,
kebabs or
his fascist enemy. It also usually has a BIG ego, and portrayed as a peanut shape linked to his famine.
Finlandball: Portrayed as drunk, depressed, and overall in a very dark and deadly atmosphere. Occasionally has more silly attributes involving Nokia phones and similar technologies.
Franceball: Often portrayed as snobby over its culture (or anything else, really). A common stereotype is that it surrenders easily to others, even in common and non-violent ordeals. Loves its bread, the baguette. Also likes to protest all the time.
Germanyball: Portrayed often as a hard and enjoyable worker, hates breaks, and often intent on establishing a
fourth reich. It also keeps bringing up
Greeceball's debts. It never laughs and is always serious and straightforward.
Greeceball: Constantly debt-ridden, often due to German bonds. This is often portrayed as due to recklessly lavish spending on things like race cars, or simply burning it.
Icelandball - Portrayed as "powerful" and strong. Also throws UK into the abyss and stabs Ireland.
Indiaball: Either portrayed as a tech support scammer, Islamophobic, poor, or a đź cow worshipper. It also really hates
Pakistanball.
Irelandball - Loves potatoes and has millions of them in its house.
Italyball: Portrayed often as corrupt. Is always late for work.
Japanball: Often portrayed as "Kawaii", or in a state of lament over its
dead empire. Likes to take pictures of other countries, especially landmarks. Often inventing new tech stuff and sometimes portrayed as a pervert. Sometimes, it is portrayed as a đ± cat. It also likes to read hentai.
Latviaball: Often portrayed as it is in classic Latvian Jokes, i.e. "cannot into potato", "deported to gulag", "working hard". Also portrayed as a former
Nazi that occasionally breaks out into pro-N[azi sentiment
Moroccoball: Often portrayed as a patriotic and charismatic cool country who fights (with the help of his friends) for the justice in his clay,but his neighbour countries hates him and always try to ruin its reputation.
Mexicoball: Often portrayed as attempting to break into
USAball's land, often via fence-jumping. It is also portrayed using a sombrero most of the time.
NepalRawr: Mostly portrayed as a fierce monster due to its flag shape, but actually has a soft and tender heart and loves the nature. RAWR!
New Zealandball: Often thought of as the "home" of Lord of the Rings, despite UKball being the actual home of J. R. R. Tolkien.
Nigeriaball: Just like
Indiaball, it scams people, but instead, on the internet via e-mails with variations of the "Nigerian Prince Scam".
Norwayball: Shown as rich and owning many things such as race cars, because of its' #1 HDI and AAA investment rate.
Philippinesball: Like many other countries surrounding the Far East,
Philippinesball is portrayed as hating the countries surrounding it. What makes it unique in this way is how childishly butthurt it gets in reaction. It also does this to himself very often.
Polandball: "Cannot into space". The most central core of the Polandball meme. Often also portrayed as a plumber or holding a plunger, which is based off the stereotype of Polish immigrants.
Portugalball: Portrayed as a sailor, and very occasionally as
Germanyball's beach towel.
Romaniaball: Portayed as wanting to remove
gypsies and
Hungaryball. It is also often portrayed as a vampire (In a reference to Dracula, the most famous vampire, being a Romanian and also Transylvania being located in Romania which is a film about vampires.
Russiaball: There are a variety of stereotypes commonly associated with him. Among these are being very dark and deadly, in a constantly drunk state, being able to "into space", and constantly invading other nations. Don't forget the vodka! Also don't forget its very well-known catchphrase: "that is classified, comrade."
Serbiaball: Often portrayed as a bare stereotype of "REMOVE KEBAB". This means wanting to murder neighbors that are Islamic, mainly
Bosnia and Herzegovinaball and
Turkeyball.
Somaliaball: Acts like a pirate, steals and raids everything. It also defends kebab from
Ethiopiaball, and with its
all its Islamic immigration friends to annoy
Swedenball.
South Koreaball: Portrayed as being a massive fan of K-pop and StarCraft, and has a fear of mechanical fans.
Spainball: Portrayed often as in distress from separatism.
Swedenball: "Börk" being a common phrase (see: Terminology). Owns IKEA. Creates gaming software (i.e. Minecraft). Is Nordic and is against Estonia joining.
Switzerlandball: Often portrayed as a doctor, due to the cross on his skin. Also often portrayed as rich from the reception of
Nazi-obtained money/other possibly illegal money. Of course, we cannot forget the stereotype of sitting on the fence.
Ukraineball: Portrayed as a very fast thief of pigs. This especially enrages its neighbors
Belarusball and
Polandball. Also, they're kinda going through an invasion right now with
Russiaball.
UKball: Portrayed often in an overly fancy style, and carrying a
dead empire. Sometimes talks about its glory days as a vast empire. Tea and SPACE are very important and also top hat and monocle. It is also portrayed as very, very polite and uses bloody, mate, innit, chap, bruv, etc. in its conversations.
USAball: There are many stereotypes often attributed to the it. Amongst these usually involve being fat, being ignorant of other countries, and being bossy (in both cool and arrogant ways).
Vietnamball: Portrayed as having a bitter hatred of
Chinaball and being
Communist.
Zimbabweball: Always in a constant state of deflation and poverty, and prices thing way too high.