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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* [[Trish Stratus]] fought at least one match while wearing a pair of butt-hugging Canadian flag-themed shorts. It was truly a glorious sight to see.
* [[TNA]] [[Power Stable]] Team Canada all wore outfits adorned with Canadian-flag imagery. What else did you expect, [[Canada, Eh?|eh?]]
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In [[The Superhero Squad Show]], Wolverine, a Canadian, had to wear a modified version of his costume that is in Canadian colours during an episode that has him join the various national Captains like [[Captain America (comics)]].
== [[Real Life]] ==
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* Bubba Ray Dudley wore one early in his [[WWE|WWF]] career.
== [[Toys]] ==
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The Danish flag (dannebrog) is for some reason considered more to be a general symbol of joy than a national symbol, leading to it being traditionally displayed in miniature on Christmas trees, birthday cakes and party accessories, and being waved obnoxiously in the face of friends returning from overseas in the airport.
* Football brings out dannebrog facepaint, shirts, flags worn as capes and the ever-present red-and-white clapping cat.
* It's also flown in pretty much every garden, with actual laws regulating when and how to fly it.
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* A headband with the rising sun seems to be a standard motif. [[Running Gag|Why can't we wear headbands with the American flag on them?]]
* The launch version of the Honda Fit's trunk badge had the "I" dotted with a rising sun. When Honda launched the Fit in America (after ''four years'' [[No Export for You|of dawdling]]!) it was changed to a ''blue'' dot for whatever reason.
* Probably because the Imperial Flag of Japan (the "rising sun flag", still used by the navy) was unfairly associated in people's minds with the Japanese Empire of [[World War II]], and in American minds, guys wearing rising sun headbands must all be kamikaze death-strike ninjas.
* Japanese Bento lunches sometimes have an Umiboshi (A salty sour pickled plum) in the center of rice. It's there for two reasons, 1) Flavor, 2) It resembles the Japanese Flag. American lunchboxes have to make do with the occasional flag-frosted cupcake, usually available only around the Fourth of July.
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* Wrestlers Eddie"Primo" Colon and Savio Vega both use ring gear designed from the flag. TNA's Homicide wears a bandana designed from the flag. Some wrestlers in Puerto Rican promotions have done this too.
== Real Life ==
* A lot of Puerto Ricans from the island tend to wear clothes designed from the flag (bandanas, shirts, etc.).
* Around June, and throughout Summer actually, in NYC expect a lot of flag wearing.
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** There are also unlockable face paints of the flags of various countries, including the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union... In Soviet Russia!
** In Soviet Russia, [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|flag wears]] ''[[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|you]]''.
* In ''[[Command
* For some reason, Soviet heroes are EXTREMELY popular in [[City of Heroes]]; naturally, many wear the flag as a costume.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Captain America (comics)]]'s shield: great shield or ''the greatest'' shield?
** Being a spoof of Captain America, an American spoof, Major Glory from ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]'' has a costume with a flag motif.
*** The latter gets taken to its logical conclusion upon being beatened by a Tournament Big Bad in ''Dial M for Monkey'', the man waves Major Glory's unconscious body so he does look like a flag. An ''American'' flag!
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Ulysses, a mysterious character from ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' wears a duster with the Old World Flag on the back.
{{quote|'''Ulysses:''' America sleeps. And until it's dead, I carry it. Just like I carried you. More than hope. '''Belief'''.}}
** By the end of ''Lonesome Road'', the Courier is given a coat of their own symbolizing the faction that they choose to support for the official endgame, with the Old World coat representing Mr. House.
* In a much less serious example, [[American Robot|Liberty Prime]] from ''[[Fallout 3]]'' has an engraving of the Statue of Liberty on the soles of both of its feet.
* In ''[[City of Heroes]],'' Statesman apparently ''used'' to wear a US flag as his cape, but removed it after the First Rikti War, and later shifted to another design with similar colors but not the same design. What a disgrace for an American!
** The full story is, he removed his cape to replace the American flag atop Paragon City Hall, and in respect to Hero 1 (mentioned below). This is used as the in-game justification for why characters cannot wear a cape until they reach level 20 and do a specific mission to earn one.
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* [[Amanda Tapping]] caused a small controversy by posing for a magazine [http://quantumconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/flag-amanda-tapping.jpg wearing nothing BUT an American flag]. Which is funny, considering that she's an English-born Canadian...''in America''! However, [[Rule of Sexy]] applies: Amanda Tapping is ''HOT.''
* [[Lord TNK]] made a [http://deathbychibi.comicgenesis.com/d/20080707.html comic showing off his cool flag designs], and they're all American flags.
* Ke$ha's performance on SNL involved her wearing a sparkly American flag-patterned cape (in addition to another flag hanging off her mic stand).
* In 2010 Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill kicked several students off campus for wearing American flags on Cinco de Mayo causing a national controversy.
* And of course, American soldiers wear a patch shoulder depecting an American Flag. When worn on the right shoulder, the flag has to be "reversed" so that it looks like the flag is waving in the correct way when the soldier walks forward.
* Old Navy stores in the US sell US flag t-shirts for five dollars each from March to July 4 every year. Generally the shirts feature an image of the flag with an Old Navy logo and the current year.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Command
** In Red Alert 2, you see a highway sign emblazoned with the Texas Flag reminding drivers to "Drive Friendly, The Texas Way!" shortly before a Soviet tank [[Irony|runs it over]]. The sign, of course, is a real highway sign displayed at state border crossings.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Mad Mod, the recurring [[Evil Brit]] villain on ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''.
* On ''[[Phineas and Ferb]],'' British-American Ferb has the Union Jack on one of his shirts (seen in "The Baljeatles"), as well as his skateboard ("Picture This"). He also gets one in the background of his [[Rousing Speech]] in "The Lizard Whisperer" when a truck with the image [[Contrived Coincidence|coincidentally]] stops behind him.
* There's a character on ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' who is a conglomeration of European stereotypes; she has a Union Jack t-shirt.
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* Union Jacks are worn in America mainly for show. It's connected to the British Punk movement and Mod styles, so it's considered fashionable in some groups.
* [http://i45.tinypic.com/wvyfew.jpg Ginger Spice] from ''[[The Spice Girls]]'' was known for wearing a Union Jack dress.
** Ironically, Union Jack-patterned tank tops seem to be popular among some American women. Gwen Stacy wore one in an issue of ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]''.
* Flying a Union flag from private dwellings is generally frowned upon these days, being seen as symptomatic of the sort of [[Hot-Blooded]] [[Patriotic Fervour]] that caused two World Wars and many many smaller ones since.
** Doubly frowned upon in Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland, where [[The Troubles]] established it as a symbol of the Unionist community, and so can be seen as somewhat antagonistic. In Scotland, the neutral Scottish flag is preferred, while in Northern Ireland there is limited consensus, although some favour the unaligned (but unpopular) [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/St_Patrick%27s_saltire.svg St. Patrick's cross].
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* Same applies to everyone in [[Flagland]], seeing as they are all countries.
* Also in Polandball, where everyone is a ball with their nation's colors.
* This trope originally had a mention of America in every example, making it a [[Self Deomnstrating Article]]. As time went on, this was moved away from but the existing ones haven't been edited out.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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