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* [[DCU|DC Comics]] are particularly guilty of this. Earth has, to date, had ''five'' well-known [[Green Lantern|Green Lanterns]] - which is remarkable in itself, since Green Lanterns represent huge sectors of space, not individual planets - and ''all'' of them have been American males.

** Although this is justified at least initially with Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner- Abin Sur had crashed in America and told the ring to find the ''closest'' worthy person. He was in America, so Hal and Guy were the two closest.

*** It continues to be justified, as at first other Green Lanterns were chosen by Hal, who by virtue of living in America would mostly meet other Americans. It's also incorrect that all of them were males... there was a female who wielded a Green Lantern ring, she simply preferred to use the name "Jade". Kyle Rayner was the first Green Lantern in a long while to be chosen without having any connection at all to a prior Lantern, but that's also justified because Ganthet, the Guardian who gave him his ring, was the same Guardian who had gone on a trip across America with Hal and Ollie, so naturally he picked a place on Earth he was familiar with to appear.

* Every superpowered alien in the DC Universe- Superman, Martian Manhunter, Starfire, etc. - either chooses to live in the United States or ends up there by chance.

** ''[[Superman Red Son]]'' averts this: through a mere chance of fate, Kal-El lands not in rural Kansas but on a kolkhoz in Ukraine, and grows up to fight not for "truth, justice and the American Way", but "Stalin, socialism and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact". While an interesting idea and attempt to explore and avert this trope, it also seems like it was simply an elaborate excuse to make a Stalin/"Man of Steel" pun.