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I've always found it weird when world threatening events are typically concentrated in one country but it is to be expected that the majority of media from a country will take place in that country.

If the MCU were more realistic, there ought to be more international heroes but somehow almost all the earth heroes seem to be American (the only exception I can think of is Black Panther). I like that The Incredibles 2 features international heroes.

I also used to find it weird how in Digimon, the saviours of a whole other world just happen to all be from Japan. The second season brought in international digidestined but it doesn't change the fact that the ones who traveled to the digiworld to fight evil in the first season happened to all be from one small area of Japan

Honestly, it helps with the suspension of disbelief. Some local author tried to tell urban fantasy stories in my home town... Its just too silly for me to read about a werewolf/vampire/alien fighting on the street I cross to get to the supermarket.

And of course it is absolutely masturbatoric, same as Japan and aliens invading Tokyo.

I don't know why I'd expect a US production to be set in Germany and be about, uh, local superheroes (?). (In fact, thinking about it, I'd dread any such production unless the majority of the people involved are in fact German and know the country.)

Spider-Man doesn't work in our cities anymore than he works in a small US town.

As a form of masturbation.

The same way I view the location of most anime being in Japan. It's just typical of the genre.

It's pretty indifferent because Hollywood has an excellent track record of screwing up literally every aspect of a foreign country, even with next door Canada and Mexico, so people would rather just see a good movie than a bad depiction.

As for superheroes, I've always made the argument that most people actually don't care all that much about the current genre outside of fictional entertainment because to them it's purely fictional entertainment. Especially for 3rd world countries, they would find it dumb for some superhero to battle a supervillain in their hometown when there's a shitty government/military/cartel/mob right down the street that's done 999999x worse than whatever a fictional villain can threaten to do.

One of the reasons the Batman trilogy was so well received internationally is because unlike the rest of the superhero genre, it revolved around Gotham's decrepit justice system being reignited and actually leading to a systemic improvement in society, which is everyone's pipe dream.

This is Sekovia erasure! Again!

Reminds me of Doctor Who and how this awesome time-traveling, space-hopping demigod mostly only cares about this one random island (Great Britain).

The Doctor did come to America for a season (with the Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith) and America has been mentioned a couple times (e.g. "New New York", though that was an alien city) but for the most part, the series is UK-centric because it's made in the UK.

Most anime takes place in Japan, if it's from Japan. The Apothecary Diaries is a recent one that takes place in China. That's weird. When anime is set in the west — for example, Fullmetal Alchemist and its sequel, Attack on Titan, Saga of Tanya the Evil, and SPYxFAMILY all being set in Germany, and The Promised Neverland taking place in the US (minor spoiler, some of these don't actually take place there, but you're led to believe they do) — Japan likes to make a live-action version that IS set in Japan, however ridiculous that ends up being. I guess they're a bit xenophobic, but so are we, so... not gonna hold it against 'em, but rather, just be thankful for more entertainment options.

So, it happens. Placing the action in another country. It's not normal, though.

Its funny. "Oh the earth is about to explode? Only show it crack in the USA". Makes me feel safe knowing how much it is fictionnal and in no way related to me.

Wolverine is Canadian so I dont really care

It's all fantasy and entertainment. We know that superheroes are not real and we don't care where they fight their enemies. It all could just as well be happening in made up lands like Middle-earth, Gotham City or Boston.

Most of Hollywood is yank wank, you kinda get used to it. Tbh Hollywood is way too ignorant to portray anything outside the states accurately.

They love them. Supercape shit is wildly popular the world over.

I'm more annoyed that US movies puts places on earth in other places. Like Mission Impossible put a Norwegian mountain in Cambodia, Superman put Norwegian snowy mountains on the north pole and Star Wars took the exact same mountains and put them in a totally different galaxy, smh.

Superheroes are cops with superpowers.

Is not always New York, Marvel puts its movies in New York as a form of running gag. Their first office was there.

Superman movie are more in California.

Captain France always Fights for France, in France.

Do you live in new York or LA? If not you know how it feels.

Easy! We don't view, or watch, American superhero movies. Never saw them or their appeal.