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'''Note''': This trope specifically deals with [[World War II]]. It does not apply to any other war, particularly modern conflicts.

== Comicbooks ==

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* In ''[[Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World|It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'', Milton Berle's character invokes this while arguing with Terry-Thomas. It proves to be something of a [[Berserk Button]] for the latter.

{{quote| "As far as I'm concerned, the whole British race is practically finished. If it hadn't been for Lend-Lease, if we hadn't kept your whole country afloat by giving you billions that you never even said 'Thank you' for, the whole phony outfit would've sunk under the Atlantic years ago...What are you stopping for?"<br />

"[[Get Out]] of this machine." }}

"[[Get Out!]] of this machine." }}

* Averted in the 1961 adaptation of ''[[The Guns of Navarone]]''. The team consisted of a American (Mallory), two Brits (Franklin and Miller), two Greeks (Stavros and Pappadimos) and one person of unknown nationality ("Butcher" Brown, played by Welshman Stanley Baker).

* The Chinese equivalent appears in ''[[Ip Man]]''. The concluding captions mention China's defeat of Japan without mentioning the international Allied forces that had pushed Japan back across Asia and the Pacific, or the atom bombs. In reality, China acted as a huge punching bag, losing battle after battle until The United States, Britain, and later the Soviet Union entered the conflict. Also, no mention is made to the fact that a lot of China's anti tank weaponry (which was key in the few victories it did win) came from The United States.

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{{quote| [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee: "So why does the US have such a fascination about a time that everyone else would rather just forget about and move on? Well, probably because that was the last war in which they did any good; when they had a clear win over an unambiguously evil villain who posed a genuine threat, rather than any of these wishy-washy recent wars where they just run in, stomp all over a developing nation and run out again declaring victory around the time the population have to start eating their own dead."]] }}

* ''Operation Darkness'' mixes this trope up a bit, by instead using Britain Wins The War. Both the plot of the game and its brief historical asides emphasize the British contribution to the war effort in the same way this trope does for the US. The funny thing? It's a Japanese game.

* Averted - ''probably'' - in ''[[Command and Conquer Red Alert]]''. As per [[~~Hitlers~~ Time Travel Exemption Act]], this version of WW II is quite different, with a Soviet invasion of Europe being countered by Allies led by a German supreme commander and aided by technology developed by [[Albert Einstein]], while [[Word of God]] is that America didn't directly join the war until the Soviets were already losing. That said, the Allied armory includes what look like Abrams tanks and M-16s ([[Anachronism Stew|in the 1950's]]), but it's unclear whether this is due to an extensive lend-lease campaign by the United States, the result of [[Alternate History]] shenanigans, or simply because the game reuses a lot of assets from the original ''[[Command and Conquer]]''.

* Averted - ''probably'' - in ''[[Command and Conquer Red Alert]]''. As per [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act]], this version of WW II is quite different, with a Soviet invasion of Europe being countered by Allies led by a German supreme commander and aided by technology developed by [[Albert Einstein]], while [[Word of God]] is that America didn't directly join the war until the Soviets were already losing. That said, the Allied armory includes what look like Abrams tanks and M-16s ([[Anachronism Stew|in the 1950's]]), but it's unclear whether this is due to an extensive lend-lease campaign by the United States, the result of [[Alternate History]] shenanigans, or simply because the game reuses a lot of assets from the original ''[[Command and Conquer]]''.

* Averted in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] [[Metal Gear Solid 3|3: Snake Eater]]'' with the Cobra Unit, which while led by an American (and apparently a hugely patriotic one) contains at least two Russians and three people of unknown origin (all that's said is that they're from the Allied Nations). The game tells you rather erroneously that they all but won WWII as if all the other millions of Allied soldiers were just twiddling their thumbs at the Axis Powers.

* Averted in the ''[[Resistance]]'' series. The Chimera have pretty much steamrolled over all of Europe and Asia. In the sequel, they begin their invasion of the United States...and steamroll over ''them'' too. It's only the [[Super Soldier]] main character and his pals that achieve anything even resembling success.

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** ''Bart-Mangled Banner'', which is mainly a [[Take That]] episode aimed at misguided patriotism, plays with it. The Simpsons are rescued from the sea by a boat captained by a xenophobic Frenchman, who acknowledges his unjustified hatred of the Americans by admitting they were the (not a, the) country [[World War Two|which saved France from the Germans]] - [[World War One|twice]].

** In ''The Regina Monologues'' Homer, as usual, handles this in his usual way when visiting London: ''"We're big shot tourists from everyone's favourite country, the USA. We saved your ass in Vietnam and shared our prostitutes with Hugh Grant"''.

* Featured in ''[[Chicken Run (Animation)|Chicken Run]]'', when the RAF veteran rants [[The Reason You Suck Speech|about everything wrong with]] [[Eagle Land|Americans]], [[Late to The Party|including the fact that they come in late to every war]]. Probably more of a case of Britain Wins The War.

* Featured in ''[[Chicken Run (Animation)|Chicken Run]]'', when the RAF veteran rants [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|about everything wrong with]] [[Eagle Land|Americans]], [[Late to The Party|including the fact that they come in late to every war]]. Probably more of a case of Britain Wins The War.

* ''[[Freakazoid]]'' once got sucked through a time vortex and prevented the attack on Pearl Harbor, [[You Fail History Forever|"preventing" World War II]].

** Of course, he prevents the attack by setting up a customs checkpoint in the path of the Japanese fighters, and they turn back because one of their pilots brought grapes. So let's not take this example ''too'' seriously.

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