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A '''West Coast Team''' is typically composed of characters with totally different worldviews from their East Coast counterparts, but with a similar team dynamic. They are so named because most American comic books take place in the Northeast, specifically [[Big Applesauce|New York]] or a [[No Communities Were Harmed]] version thereof ([[Superman|Metropolis]], [[Batman|Gotham City]]). Thus, the West Coast Team tends to relocate to the second-biggest US population area -- [[California]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The secondary trio in ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' are scattered across the world, but when together, make a backup (and, for some reason, [[Can't Catch Up|much less effective]]) team.
* In ''[[Samurai Pizza Cats]]'', there's
▲* In ''[[Samurai Pizza Cats]]'', there are the New York Pizza Cats (Himitsu Ninja Tai Yankee in the Japanese version), the American equivalent of the original Japanese Pizza Cats.
== Comic Books ==
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* The [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] themselves have become the main Marvel Universe's West Coast Team, making the move to San Francisco after their mansion got destroyed one time too many.
** A more straight X-Men example would be the now-defunct X-Corporations, which handled the X-Men's functions in several locations abroad.
** ''[[Excalibur (Comic Book)|Excalibur]]'' and its [[Spiritual Successor]] MI-13 were for all intents and purposes European versions of the X-Men. Also, the 'side-characters get their own team' idea is found in ''[[X-Factor (comics)|X-Factor]],'' first consisting of the original five X-Men after they hadn't been with the team for a while, and later (and ever since) consisting of second-stringers.
*** Not so much MI-13, only one member was a mutant and for a change they were all British citizens.
**** And now that Wolverine has taken half the X-Men back east with him, Cyclops and his team (most of whom are former foes of the X-Men) are now a West Coast Team by default.
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* There were so many Titans characters in [[DC Nation]] at one point that there are ''three'' Titans teams - Titans East (led by Nightwing and Troia), Titans West (led by Cyborg and Starfire), and Titans South (nominally led by Jamie Reyes and Raven, but functioning more democratically).
* Several times in the various stories in ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'', Doug Sangnoir mentions that the superteam of which he is part in his home universe has its headquarters and "Alpha" branch near London, England and a "Beta Team" in Tokyo. There is also apparently a Delta Team in the Sinai Peninsula, as well as a Gamma Team, whose location [[Running Gag|is never specified]].
== Live Action TV ==
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