i really like all things France and want to find a character that personifies France :)
Hon hon hon
Does a webcomic count as a franchise? https://satwcomic.com/
Polandball would be another web comic like that. Although the characters are just circles with flags in them, so no idea how useful that is.
Pepe Le Pew is the first character that comes to mind for France
Jean Pierre Polnareff for me.
Flight of the conchords is 100% your typical New Zealander
The Kiwi / Aussie rivalry is great, we rip each other to shreds, but will stand up for one another if anyone else tries it.
Pepe le Pew?
Asterix
and Obelix
Not specifically French, but Hetalia is straight up countries as people.
Yeah, I’d stay far away from this one. It has every power of WW2 personified as an anime boy. If I had the word hate… you know the rest. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan shouldn’t be turned into anime boys.
Scandinavia and the World (comic)
It even has two Frances!
Civilization?
It’s only a matter of time before they make “The Polandball Movie”
Maybe I am completely misunderstanding, but wouldn’t Marianne be the main character representing France?
deleted by creator
While not about France, the prominent example that comes to mind is Star Wars personifying the United States as the Empire.
I thought it was supposed to portray the Soviet Union as the empire?
Girls und Panzer
Punch-Out! Wii has you fighting caricatures of various nationalities
