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These things about ''[[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]'' are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.
* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: Because the characters are countries, and ''no'' country has a clean past, it's not very hard to find [[Darker and Edgier|much]] [[Dark Fic|darker]] interpretations of the characters, especially when set during the past for any colonial power. In fact, the series has [[Alternative Character Interpretation/Axis Powers Hetalia|its own page]] for the trope.▼
▲* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: Because the characters are countries, and ''no'' country has a clean past, it's not very hard to find [[Darker and Edgier|much]] [[Dark Fic|darker]] interpretations of the characters, especially when set during the past for any colonial power. In fact, the series has [[Alternative Character Interpretation/Anime/Axis Powers Hetalia|its own page]] for the trope.
* [[Americans Hate Tingle]]: While there are definitely Western fans who like Japan, there are also a sizable number of fans who are 'meh' about him at best and [[Fan Dumb|brand him]] as an [[Extreme Doormat]], [[Flat Character]], and/or even the series' [[Creator's Pet]] at worst due to his [[Yamato Nadeshiko|relatively]] [[The Stoic|stoic]] [[Inscrutable Oriental|personality]] and him representing the author's homeland which automatically makes him the character most vulnerable to [[Mary Sue]] accusations.
** There are even fans who take offense to a ''[[Vocal Minority|Visible Minority]]'' of the Japanese fandom turning him into a [[Possession Sue]] and cite this as a reason to not like him, forgetting that not only is that an absurd reason to hate the character himself (is it the ''character'' Japan's fault that his fandom likes warping his canon personality?) but that the Western fandom, or rather, American and Canadian fans do the ''[[Hypocritical Fandom|exact same thing]]'' to America and Canada.
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** Also recently joining the ranks is China's 2nd character song, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTSfZKvWF8U 'Aiyaa 4000 Years']. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who [[Tear Jerker|cried tears of BLOOD]] upon listening to it.
*** Made even more liable to make one cry when one realizes it's got a large focus on Japan's betrayal and harm of China - even though it was taken out of the anime.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20150913165026/http://audio.isg.si/audiox/?q=node
** [[Ear Worm|Pabu, pabu, pabu tte GO!!]]
** And, lest we forget: [[Gratuitous English|HEY U GAIZ!! Let's go to the]] [[Narm Charm|HAMBAGA STUROEEEEETO!!!]]
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** What, no love for the catchy-as-all-heck [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlRhX1RifG0 "Delicious Tomato Song?"]
** Uta no Obayun's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYsdRXyK7bk&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL 'El Sol'] fits Spain perfectly, what with the cheerful, fun rhythm, and amazing lyrics that clearly are dedicated to a certain someone *Cough*[[Shipping|Romano]]*Cough*. It also helps and Obayun sounds EXACTLY like Spain's seiyuu, to the point that this troper thought it was an official character song.
* [[Die for Our Ship]]: Unfortunately even this fandom has instances of this, but thankfully it hasn't reached dangerous levels yet (now, as for [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]]...) for examples go '''[[Die for Our Ship/Anime and Manga/Axis Powers Hetalia|here.]]'''
* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]: Russia - subverted ''and'' played straight. See the main entry for details.
* [[Dry Docking]]: More than one fan has admitted to shipping England with other characters so that they can have America all to themselves. Or wanting to be the one to make Russia feel better. Or pretending that Greece and/or Turkey aren't interested in Japan. Or...seriously, you can find at least one fan that has this attitude with ''any'' nation; you can even find [Insert Nation here]/[[Self-Insert Fic|Reader]] fics if you know where to look.
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** From the movie we now have "World Ondo," which is absolutely adorable in that it has all of the main eight singing together.
*** How about "Happy Thoughts Museum," FUNimation's own song used in their trailers for season 1? Coincidentally, it also features a la la la la la melody.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: [[Hot-Blooded|Prussia]], [[Yaoi Fangirl|Hungary]] and [[
** As a whole, the Nordics is one of the more popular groups. Character wise, [[Boisterous Bruiser|Denmark]] was the most popular until the 2010 Bloodbath where [[Sugar and Ice Personality|Iceland]] became the most popular within those few days [[Ship Tease|due to]] [[A Day in the Limelight|obvious reasons.]]
*** Take in account this for example: Denmark was an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] ''before'' appearing in ''any'' strip.
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** [[Badass Longcoat|Romania]].
*** [[Abhorrent Admirer]] / [[Amicably Divorced]] / [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: Depending on the fan's interpretation on their relationship, Romania is this with Moldova or vice-versa, mainly due to the mixed sentiment involving the [[wikipedia:Movement for the unification of Romania and Moldova|the Roma-Moldovan unification movement]]
*** [[Affably Evil]]: Even though this is just due to the fact that most fans draw him with a [[Slasher Smile]] or a [[Psychotic Smirk]] on his face. [http://hijiribe.donmai.us/post/show/954796/ No]{{Dead link}} [http://hijiribe.donmai.us/post/show/965141/ kidding]{{Dead link}}. (Warning: Both links may contain '''NSFW''' ads)
*** [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]
*** [[Cute and Psycho]], or ''maybe'' [[
*** [[Foe Yay]]: With Hungary. The countries are rivals in [[Real Life]], as well.
*** [[Ho Yay]]: His relationship with Bulgaria has become a popular fanfiction topic, recently.
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*** [[Vampire]]: Well, duh.
** Egypt. Since he had not been seen without his ''[[wikipedia:Kefiyeh|keffiyeh]]'' (his white headdress) until few ago, fanarts often pictured him with long flowing hair. A draft from Himaruya, however, [[media:11c5zj8.gif|showed Egypt with short hair]].
*** Could be [[Justified Trope|justified]] if you take in account that [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101012315/http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/hair.htm ancient Egyptians use to wear wigs.]
*** Personality-wise, fans tend to depict him as a [[The Quiet One|wise and world-weary]] [[Mentor]]. Specially if he interacts with Greece.
** Bulgaria - doubles as [[OC Stand
*** Which has actually been [[Jossed]] after ''[[Hetaween 2011]]'' and the 2011 Bloodbath, where he's depicted as a softspoken [[Nice Guy]].
** Ukraine (like Canada) is sometimes depicted as a [[Silk Hiding Steel]] due to her country's history with the [[wikipedia:Cossacks#Name|Cossacks]]. Added to being hinted as a [[
* [[Fandom Rivalry]]: For some reason, with ''[[Homestuck]]''. The sane people on either side have absolutely no idea why or how; they're not even in the same genre or medium! This interpretation of the bizarreness of the rivalry and the desire to move past it has given birth to such oddities as [[Creator Shipping|shipping creators]] [[Hidekaz Himaruya]] and [[Andrew Hussie]].
* [[Fan-Preferred Couple]]: It's safe to say that every single combination of two ([[OT3|or more]]) nations, no matter how [[Crack Pairing|cracky]] or [[Ships That Pass in the Night|canon-dubious]], has ''someone'' out there shipping it. That said, there are some non-official (though in most cases, buoyed by [[Ship Tease]]) pairings that are preferred by the majority of fans: America/England, Spain/Romano, Poland/Lithuania, Germany/Italy, and Sweden/Finland.
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* [[Fan Yay]]: Turkey is quite adored by the gay male viewers, or gay/bisexual males shocked to see that Hetalia isn't entirely made up of [[Bishounen]].
** Grandpa Rome, for similar reasons.
** [[Mr. Fanservice|Australia]] as well, considering the amout of fanworks that [http://img01.pixiv.net/img/mayuge/22757920_m.jpg give]{{Dead link}} him [http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/327/6/f/g__day_by_aphnation_oz-d4h290c.jpg quite a lot of]... [http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/031/4/4/440c5947f4020abe99696c531b00e277-d4o765e.png beef.]. Plus it kinda fits the stereotype too.
** On the [[Les Yay]] side of the fandom, lesbian/bi/pan female fans tend to be quite fond of Hungary and Ukraine.
** Russia himself as well.
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** France too, [[Anything That Moves|fittingly]].
** Japan. How many nations is he paired up with in [[Fanon]]? Especially by Japanese fans? Heck, even in the English-speaking fandom where he gets much less shipping attention than the Western countries do, it's probably telling that it can be hard at times to tell which ship is the most popular one for him with Japan/China, Japan/England, and Japan/Greece being within spitting distance of each other popularity-wise and several other Japan pairings having smaller but just as loyal followings.
** England. He's one of the most popular characters in both the Japanese and English-speaking fandoms. He gets around. A ''lot''. As evidence, his facebook fanlisting has the largest amount of fans out of any country in the series (over 10,000 fans and counting). He also came 2nd in a character popularity poll hosted on the official Japanese site of Hetalia's publisher Gentosha, losing out (perhaps inevitably) to Japan - ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130905034531/http://www.gentosha-comics.net/hetalia/enquete/index_02.html here.]'' And he actually came in 1st on an [https://web.archive.org/web/20150525045533/http://www.gentosha-comics.net/hetalia/enquete/index_01.html earlier character popularity poll,] beating out even Japan.
* [[Memetic Badass]] / [[Memetic Molester]] / [[Memetic Sex God]]: Although it's his unrepentant badassness that makes him so popular, his fandom's [[Memetic Mutation|memes]] are even scarier, notably: 'Prussia will occupy/seize your vital regions' and 'Prussia is [[Gag Penis|5 METERS LONG]]!'. In fact, Prussia is said to run around [[Image Board|4chan]] attempting to seize the vital regions of the various boards. Heck, he even took over the main site for an April Fool's event. It may be rubbing off onto the actual anime, he acts very scarily in the below strip in the anime.
* [[Memetic Molester]]: "Everyone will become one with Russia", indeed.
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** Lord, what some fangirls do to Taiwan in their Taiwan/any-Asian-male-but-almost-always-Japan fanwork. Japanese and Chinese/Taiwanese fen are especially to blame for this, apparently inspired on how her land was [[Imperial Japan|"the Pearl of the Japanese Empire"]] from 1895 to 1945.
** Japan has been accused of this too by fans who apparently believe that "([[Not So Above It All|mostly]]) emotionally reserved character who gets focused on sometimes and has a [[Love Triangle]] of sorts going on with two (relatively minor) characters" = "perfect [[Gary Stu]] harem lead who has half of the cast falling all over him". Also comes mixed with [[Die for Our Ship]] from rabid Turkey/Greece shippers who bash him for getting in the way of their "far hotter and more historically important" pairing.
* [[Ron the Death Eater]]: Oh, boy. [[Ron the Death Eater/Anime and Manga/Axis Powers Hetalia|Now with its own page.]]
** America may have his jerkish moments in canon, but some people make him out to be an absolute and irredeemable [[Jerkass]], especially when they want to make [[The Unfavorite|Canada]] [[Sympathetic Sue|look better]] or [[Die for Our Ship|justify England hooking up with someone else]].
*** Or a [[Psychopathic Manchild]] or even [[Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend]] who treats Japan horribly during/after WWII. Sometimes this is done to [[Die for Our Ship|send Japan running off into the arms of someone else]], but other times it seems that the fan authors truly believe that America would ''actually'' act like that towards Japan. Keep in mind that while Japan initially resented America, he eventually warmed up to him during Westernization and is clearly good friends with him in the post-WWII strips. You would think that would signify that the events at the end of WWII are far from the be-all end-all of their overall relationship, right? [[Never Live It Down|Apparently not.]]
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** Turkey might not have the most agreeable of personalities or the best of relations with Greece or Hungary, but some fanworks turn him into a complete asshole who will [[Smug Snake|smirkingly]] [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulate]], [[Domestic Abuser|abuse]], and even [[Rape as Drama|rape]] others solely to "put them in their place", whether because these fanwriters love [[The Masochism Tango]] of Turkey/Greece or Turkey/Hungary or are enamored of the idea of Turkey as a [[Bastard Boyfriend]] with a [[White Mask of Doom]].
* [[The Scrappy]]: While not as open as in Korea's case, you can bet that in a poll about disliked characters Sealand will have a "top" spot.
** [[Rescued
** Due to being a micronation and not a real country, as well as some fans not liking her bratty personality, Wy's debut quickly earned her this position along with some accusations of being part of a [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]].
** No discussion of [[The Scrappy]] would be complete without Korea, who was raked over the coals by fans disgruntled about the Korean [[Moral Guardians]] forcing the cancellation of the Hetalia anime's TV broadcast. Fortunately, this seems to have all but died down with the passage of time; nowadays it's a lot more common for fans to lament that Korea ''isn't'' in the anime instead.
** Or Japan, who was ''hated'' by people who called him a [[Misplaced Nationalism]]-fueled [[Canon Sue]] that would [[Ruined FOREVER|ruin the anime FOREVER]] after every episode he appeared in. Or took personal offense about him being as beloved in Japanese fandom [[Hypocritical Fandom|as Canada was in Western fandom]]. Or claimed that him not being depicted as a [[Complete Monster]] or his [[Imperial Japan]] atrocities not being portrayed in graphic detail in a series focused on the light-hearted side of history meant that Himaruya was "trivializing" history. It was mainly limited to a [[Vocal Minority]], but they kept on finding the stupidest reasons to bash him; there was even a post on the Hetalia comm that bashed Japan as a "shojo harem manga heroine" to promote ''Turkey/Poland'' of all things. Fortunately, like with Korea, the hate has [[Rescued
* [[Second Love]]: Arguably for [[Fanon|some fans]], what [[Tsundere|Norway]] is to [[Love Martyr|Sweden]] [[Napoleonic Wars|after the Napoleonic Wars,]] [[Arranged Marriage|leading up to their third personal union.]] Although the union is sometimes interpreted as either [[A Match Made in Stockholm]] (technically Moss, Norway) or [[No Accounting for Taste]]. Keep in mind, however, that Sweden is still consistently shown with Finland more often than anyone else in the modern day strips, making this one pure [[Fanon]] speculation.
** A more canon-supported example is Germany for Italy, who used to be in love with the Holy Roman Empire. To make things even more interesting, there are hints that {{spoiler|Germany and the Holy Roman Empire may actually be the same person}}.
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*** On the other hand, it has also led to some of his fangirls missing the point and [[Ron the Death Eater|ferociously bashing North Italy because of this]] while painting Romano [[Purity Sue|as a flawless angel]], when in canon North Italy cares for his brother and tries to help him but gets shot down more than once. Considering Romano's [[Hair-Trigger Temper]] and [[Perpetual Frowner]] traits, he's more of a [[Jerkass Woobie]]: very sympathetic, yeah, but [[Not So Above It All]].
** Why don't we just say that ''everyone'' is a woobie at some point?
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Woobie Conqueror of Worlds]]: Russia, by insisting that "all will become one with Russia". This trope is also played totally straight with him during the Bloody Sunday strip, in which [[Go Mad
* [[Woolseyism]]: The dub constantly swings between this and [[Gag Dub]].
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