Often referred to as the melting pot, the United States of America as we know it today was largely shaped by the historical assimilation of immigrants from all across the world. For nearly 250 years, the fusion of nationalities, cultures, and ethnicities have helped make America one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, as well as home to the world’s largest immigrant population.

As it often does, art tends to mirror life, and therefore a large portion of our favorite fictional media has seen a slew of characters born all over the world, and sometimes from other worlds entirely. In comic books, especially, many of the heroes we know and love were born outside of the country, and have gone on to save the American people, and the world as a whole, on countless occasions.

To help celebrate the real-life contributions immigrants have made to our country, let’s take a look at 30 superheroes that weren’t born in the United States: