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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 ==
* ''West Coast Avengers'' is the other modern originator of this; this time, as the counterpart of ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]''.
** The ''[[Great Lakes Avengers]]'' are a [[Joke Character|joke team]] based in Wisconsin, made of all [[Fun Personified]] characters with powers of ''apparently'' [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|dubious]] value (although they tend to [[Weak but Skilled|use teamwork]] to make the best of their abilities,) seemingly playing off the stereotype that "[[Flyover Country]]" is a boring place in which nothing good and interesting happens. They've also been known as the Lightning Rods, the Great Lakes [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]], the Great Lakes Champions, and the Great Lakes Initiative.
*** Their most iconic member is [[Squirrel Girl]], well-known for defeating Dr. Doom, Thanos and [[Deadpool]] on separate occasions.
* ''Justice League Europe'' was a
** Taking the "[[Great Lakes Avengers]]" gag up a level, there was a one-shot ''Justice League Antarctica'' title. The team was mostly supervillains briefly attempting to reform.
* Many a
* ''[[Runaways]]'' is sort of a
** Justified in that, until recently, the Pride kept everyone else out (except for the aforementioned West Coast Avengers, who apparently don't count) and kept their own actions low-profile (sensible, in a world of superheroes. You kinda wonder why more criminals in comicbook universes don't do this). After {{spoiler|they died}}, other supervillains have been slowly [[Evil Power Vacuum|moving in to take advantage]].
*** Naturally, these supervillains have been getting their asses kicked by the Runaways. The fact that everyone still considers Los Angeles a place where nothing super happens only adds to the series's [[Adults Are Useless]] theme.
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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 ==
* Las Vegas-based ''[[CSI]]'' spun-off ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' and ''[[CSI New York]]''.
* Washington, DC-based ''[[NCIS]]'' spun-off ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]''.
* ''[[Law and Order]]'' and its 2010 spin-off ''[[Law
* [[Stargate SG
== Tabletop Games ==
* The default [[Mutants and Masterminds]] setting for the first and second edition was [[Freedom City]]. For the third edition, the default setting is still in the same universe as Freedom City, modules and the like are by default based on the west coast based Emerald City. While superpowered individuals are common in Freedom City, they were rare in Emerald City until an event caused an outbreak of superpowered individuals. This allows the player characters to be the founding members of their own team.
** The default team even manages to contain several [[Captain Ethnic]]s for the west coast including The Rook (A man who got rich in the dotcom bubble and got out at the right time. Being a [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]], he becomes a Batman analog superhero because he has nothing better to do with his time), Princess (Valley Girl college student), Dragoneye (Mystic champion of the local Chinatown) and Kid Robot (A silicon valley computer system that became sapient).
== Web Original ==
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== Western Animation ==
* ''Titans West'' was a West Coast wing of the ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'', and one of the main originators of this trope. In the ''[[Teen Titans (
** The first time the cartoon's Titans East were prominently featured, they were <s>evil</s> [[Not Himself|Not Themselves]], too.
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