He wasn't even mentioned on the "Super Sistine" bracket my religion teacher handed out. So that's a count against him. He's not an American pope, nor is he an African pope, so that's two. And you can tell the Romans were pulling their usual stuff when they had a South American Pope whose parents were Italian. However, we'll see. This quote from wikipedia looks interesting:
However, his apparent abrasiveness on the issue of homosexuality (and of what follows) and the way he states it won't translate well, methinks, in the modern world. My default is "like".