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* Edge would sometimes claim to still be popular in Toronto when he got especially searing heat from the crowds of other cities. He would then claim this made Toronto better than wherever he currently was which made the booing louder.
* In general, any [[Foreign Wrestling Heel]] will be popular in their own country if their only negative traits are calling their homeland superior to whatever nation they happen to be wrestling in. Even with a full on gimmick in addition to being foreign there is still a decent chance that this trope may apply anyway.
== Real Life ==▼
* [[Dracula|Vlad Tepes]] is a perennial Rumanian hero, mostly celebrated for fighting off the Turks and enforcing strict morality at home. [[Metaphorgotten|Sometimes to make an omelet, you've gotta impale a few thousand people...]]▼
* In Hungary, [[Attila the Hun]] is a folk hero and "Attila" is a popular first name.▼
* Pablo Escobar is considered a hero in Colombia or at least to his hometown. The further away from his home you get the lower opinions of him drop.▼
* In Russia, Lenin.▼
* Whilst the rest of the country has warmed up to him relatively recently, John Brown has ''always'' been a hero in Kansas.▼
* Ghengis Kahn is a national hero in Mongolia.▼
== Tabletop Games ==
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* The City of Townsville is repeatedly attacked without provocation by giant monsters. A large number of these come from monster island, where those who manage to survive a fight with the ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'' are celebrated as heroes, and just see [[Kick the Dog|attacking the city]] as a way to draw them out.
* The Sewer Urchin on ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' is, on the surface, a milquetoast punchline. Underground he's in his element, superbly competent and feared and respected by sewer dwellers.
▲== Real Life ==
▲* [[Dracula|Vlad Tepes]] is a perennial Rumanian hero, mostly celebrated for fighting off the Turks and enforcing strict morality at home. [[Metaphorgotten|Sometimes to make an omelet, you've gotta impale a few thousand people...]]
▲* In Hungary, [[Attila the Hun]] is a folk hero and "Attila" is a popular first name.
▲* Pablo Escobar is considered a hero in Colombia or at least to his hometown. The further away from his home you get the lower opinions of him drop.
▲* In Russia, Lenin.
▲* Whilst the rest of the country has warmed up to him relatively recently, John Brown has ''always'' been a hero in Kansas.
▲* Ghengis Kahn is a national hero in Mongolia.
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