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* [[Exaggerated Trope|Exaggerated]] with the [[Jerkass]] heel [[Kurt Angle]], who was so patriotic that he wore a starred and striped singlet and insulted ''Canadian'' people; and darkly subverted with John "Bradshaw" Layfield, who merely exploited patriotism as a vehicle to seize power.
* Rene Dupree showed French Patriotic Fervor during 2003-2004 (which, [[Ripped from the Headlines|if you'll remember the current events going on at the time]], was when there was a huge backlash against France due to their actively trying to undermine the invasion of Iraq). He was then joined by Rob Conway, an American turncoat "French sympathizer", forming the tag team La Resistance, and getting Heel heat not only from the fans but particularly [[Jim Ross]] and [[Jerry Lawler]] ([[Even Evil Has Standards|despite Lawler being a heel]], or at least a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]).
** A couple of years later, Sylvan Grenier - the third La Resistance member - became the self-appointed Ambassador of Quebec, a heel who kept telling people that Quebec was the best place in the world. This culminated in a Smackdown from Montreal, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100710160854/http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaoush_sd-22-09-06-tatanka-vs-sylvan_sport where he got massive cheers].
** Both Dupree and Grenier are actually Canadian, and after a while (perhaps to mitigate hostility among fans in France) they were billed as French-''Canadian'' jingoists. (For context, French-Canadians are often viewed by Anglo-Canadians with even more disdain than Mexican-Americans are viewed in the U.S.) Humorously, Rob Conway was also billed as a Canadian despite being from New Jersey.
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