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** Not to mention they get steamrolled, like everyone else.
* Subverted in the original ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'': the U.S.A. army occupies Japan because it's invaded by demons. In the end, {{spoiler|the U.S.A. send nukes on Japan and you later play through a post apocalyptic Japan.}}
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'''s universe plays with this trope like a cat's cradle. The times when Snake (any of them) is acting as an American agent, the trope is played straight; when Snake is a free agent as part of Philanthropy, the American military is sometimes portrayed as not helping with or ''contributing'' to a problem (like the tanker incident in ''MGS2''), and sometimes as coming to Snake's aid (like the U.S.S. Missouri's [[Big Damn Heroes|Big Damn Battleship]] moment in ''MGS4''). In the end, the United States is just as much at the mercy of the machinations going on behind the scenes as the rest of the world. What it really boils down to: {{spoiler|[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots|Snake Saves The Day From The Metal Gear Solid 3 Cast]]}}.
* Played so straight in ''[[America's Army|Americas Army]]'', to the point that your team ''always'' appears as U.S. Army infantry while the opposing team appears to be European terrorists; players on the other team see themselves/their team's in-game characters as being U.S. Army, while your team and your avatars appear to be said Islamic terrorists. Then again, you ''are'' playing an official United States Army game, authorized and funded by the United States government.
* Subverted in ''[[X-COM]]'', where the manual to the game specifically notes that several national governments attempted to confront the alien threat individually and were ineffective; the X-Com project controlled by the player is therefore, at least initially, an international organization funded and supported by every nation on Earth (and keeping their support is a major part of the game.) The United States does realistically (or at least, realistically in terms of what would likely be possible in such a scenario) contribute more money than any other nation, though.
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