Are the foreign characters an sterotypical image of their nations

I believe yes. An example Cecilia Reyes is typical latin girl that struggle in a world against her to proove that she is worth.  Storm was a thief. Gambit is a womanizer. ..... 

But may be these characters lead the way to create more of those countries! 

Moving to Gen Discussion, because this is about multiple characters.

Lets face it, most comic characters are a stereotype.

The Mandarin is a very old, power-hungry Chinese Communist who's personality reflects his nationality and political status. 
Magneto is a Polish-Jew who wants to take over the world because he feels like he's been through enough hardship to deserve it... (I stole this one from somebody else) 
Victor von Doom is a blatant parody on the Latverian people... Cold hearted, lonely, cunning, etc... 

Almost every single foreig character is a stereotype
 
Christ, the whole Uncanny X-Men (second generation) was a huge stereotype....Colossus, Banshee, Sunfire, Storm oh my

Lets face it, most comic characters are a stereotype.

So, an stereotype helps the characters to be more interesting

Psylocke's British... she really isn't a stereotype....at least not after the body swap... 
 
Wolverine is Canadian and he isn't stereo-typically Canadian, in-fact, he's the opposite 
 
There are a few stereotypes, but not every single 'foreign' character is

I don't think they all are but I think they often are. Creators tend to--I believe--worry that you'll forget a character is a particular demographic unless they constantly remind you. Or they might think, what's the point of making a character of a particular demographic unless you're going to "use it."

less not include the countless Hispanic characters that for some reason or other finish their sentences with random Spanish words, never understood why. Or why the Russian guy always got be either cold or evil

@Green Skin said:

Lets face it, most comic characters are a stereotype.

What is getting boring, becuase in the lets be multicultural crap, creator decide to make new character, even when they dont know anything about other cultures.

Bunker was a huge example for me of how does, some one could try so hard to make a character "not an steretype" and make him another stereotype of the same culture.

Also, is not bad if a character cames from an stereotype, the problems is that most of them are bidimensionals.

Red Star

Nope.

Though many have started out as such in the past, they generally don't anymore and aren't depicted as their respective stereo-types as often either.

@Dracade102 said:

The Mandarin is a very old, power-hungry Chinese Communist who's personality reflects his nationality and political status. Magneto is a Polish-Jew who wants to take over the world because he feels like he's been through enough hardship to deserve it... (I stole this one from somebody else) Victor von Doom is a blatant parody on the Latverian people... Cold hearted, lonely, cunning, etc...

@DeathpooltheT1000: Yes. When writters introduce new characters they use the information of mass media has given to us (tv or movies) but they dont know how different cultures really are

Definitely.

@Sol-rac said:

@DeathpooltheT1000: Yes. When writters introduce new characters they use the information of mass media has given to us (tv or movies) but they dont know how different cultures really are

Yeah, they dont even look for it online, i mean tthere is ahuge list of webstites taht would help you to design characters better, since you will learn about the thing you are creating.

Eh, at least they're not Punch Out levels of sterotype.

@Dracade102: Latveria isn't a real place so you can't really have a stereotypical Latverian

black panther is a stereotype of africa and that's probably why his book is getting cancel, so is luke cage even though he is not foreign he is a stereotype of angry black man syndrome or badass black man

Eh, at least they're not Punch Out levels of sterotype.

I could think of several foreign characters that aren't stereotypical such as Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Sabertooth, Maverick and Psylock

@joshmightbe said:

@Dracade102: Latveria isn't a real place so you can't really have a stereotypical Latverian

but Doom kinda represents the leader of former Soviet Republics like lithuania, armenia, belarus, latvia....these nation states were once part of the USSR. Things are said to be better for the former USSR states but you also have things like mass censorship, rising crime, artistic oppression and a large percentage of the population fled the country because of poverty etc.

Doom is the stereotype come-to-life in a cartoon verse