France

The French, pictured speaking English.

France is a nation in Europe, former colonial power, permanent member of the UN Security Council, and a wielder of nuclear weapons. It is known for making many contributions to Western culture and has a reputation for snobbery.

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Transformers cartoon

Not to scale.

The transcontinental Europa 2000 car race started from Paris and went on to Istanbul. Secretly, it was a scam of Megatron's! A map of the race's route showed that either France is bigger in the show's universe than in reality, or the map-maker knew bog all about France's geography. Trans-Europe Express

Japanese cartoon continuity

Car Robots cartoon

See #2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon, below

The Headmasters cartoon

France was one of six nations blackmailed by Sixshot to give him all its energy or face destruction. The Trainbots stopped him before he could get round to carrying this threat out. Terror! The Six Shadows

Super-God Masterforce cartoon

The Headmaster Junior Minerva was French on her mother's side.

France held the F1 World Grand Prix at the Rouen Circuit, and was the homeland of champion racer Germain, whose car mysteriously survived every crash it was ever in. He later retired to run a bar in the small town of Dagneux. Both the Autobot and Decepticon Headmaster Juniors believed his car to be a Transtector and headed for France to investigate, with the latter group attacking Dagneux. They got their butts kicked. Assemble! The Four Godmaster Gunmen

In order to discredit Ginrai in the eyes of humanity, the Decepticons later dropped a meteor on Paris, destroying the Arc de Triomphe. Expose the Decepticons' Dark Trap!

As part of the Decepticon plan to devastate Earth, known as Operation M-1, Overlord devastated Paris and toppled the Arc de Triomphe again. The French armed forces were overpowered. BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space

Young Corgi

France would presumably be a member of the Federation of Western Europe. Battle Beneath the Ice

Transformers/G.I. Joe

Cobra conquered France in 1939, crushing the Maginot Line and enslaving the entire population of Paris.

Cobra. That has to be embarrassing. The Line

2005 IDW continuity

During the 19th century, France was led by Napoleon III, whose ambitions posed a threat to Britain, and thus skilled French exile Victor Hugo was instated as head of the Action Man Programme, an unprecedented honor for a foreigner. Absolute Beginners

During World War II, Centurion hunted down and killed a a brainwashed duplicate of Shockwave in war-torn France. Their battle was witnessed by Robert Savage and his Screaming Eagles. Strange Visitors

When the Decepticons seized New York City and began hitting other sites across the planet in 2008, a group of world leaders met in Versailles and discussed plans for a European Union assault on New York, and a plan within that plan to hit New York with a nuclear bomb during the attack, without telling all the nations involved. (This discussion of nuclear mass-murder put them off their tea.) The French were pretty happy Europe had had the luxury of time to prepare unlike other countries; a lucky break that definitely wasn't All Hail Megatron #6 an intentional plot by Megatron! All Hail Megatron #11 Knowledge of the nuclear plot reached America somehow but they couldn't do anything about it. All Hail Megatron #9

The strike was launched during an internal Decepticon spat. All Hail Megatron #10 France, having the only nuclear-armed jets in Europe, was going to drop the bomb but decided to re-use their old, retired propeller bombers for this missions rather than the Dassault Mirages; we don't know why but that sure was a lucky break for Tankor! All Hail Megatron #11 Megatron decided to have the French bomb dropped anyway but luckly for New York it got stopped. All Hail Megatron #12

2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon

The goal of the International Grand Prix was the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Skid Z's Choice

Live-action film series

Titan movie comic

Hell, you should see the other guys.

When the Decepticons conquered the United States, France joined the other nations of NATO in opposing them. Paris underwent an unknown level of bombardment during the conflict, but the Palais Bourbon (France's seat of government) was still used as a meeting point for world leaders when NATO decided to make a nuclear assault. However, the Decepticons hit NATO first, engaging its forces at the Bay of Biscay near France.

After ten minutes of ass-kicking, Dreadwing took out the Palais in a bombing strike. The French government was probably killed here. Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2

Revenge of the Fallen

Revenge of the Fallen viral campaign

Fassbinder was given a video recording an incident between Frenchman Vinny Lemans and an alien robot to post on The Real Effing Deal as part of their continuing efforts to expose the alien invasion occurring at the time. The Real Effing Deal

Revenge of the Fallen film

Eiffel Towers are as numerous as Constructicons.

It was a lovely day in Paris, when a couple of Decepticon transition forms came hurtling out of the blue skies, startling human pedestrians. One struck a masonry tower, causing it to collapse in smoke and flames. Revenge of the Fallen

Rescue Bots cartoon

According to Chase, they eat snails in France. The Lost Bell

Games

Hunt for the Decepticons

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Hunt for the Decepticons

Transformers Roleplaying Game

After forming an alliance with the Decepticons, Cobra established a secret cybernetics lab in the Pyrenees. Cobra/Con Fusion

Notes

• In World War II, France surrendered in the face of foreign invasion, leaving the population to suffer under a genocidal dictatorship for four years. This is seen as a source of hilarious jokes by some other nations.
• France withdrew from NATO's integrated military command in 1966 and rejoined in 2009. This is one year later than in Twilight's Last Gleaming, but then in real life there wasn't an alien occupation of North America.
• Comic artist Dan Reed lived in France. (He was an American and working for Marvel UK. Globalisation gone mad!)
• France has had multilingual packaging since 1985, due to Transformers distributors wanting to get all of mainland Europe in one product line.
• Beast Wars was known as Animutants in France.
• As well as dubbing the Transformers cartoons, France has dubbed and broadcast the Challenge of the GoBots cartoon. In fact, it dubbed that and the unrelated Japanese Machine Robo anime, slapping the GoBots logo on the latter.

External links

• France at Wikipedia