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Fu Manchu

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Fu Manchu	comment	The villain of various pulp novels by Sax Rohmer, this Diabolical Mastermind is the archetypal Yellow Peril villain. He has made his way into many media, including film, radio, TV, and comics.Fu Manchu has a long Evil Moustache in the famous "Fu Manchu" style.note The Moustache is a bit of Adaptation Displacement — in the original books he was clean-shaven. He has squinty eyes: pure Yellow Peril. He is a Chessmaster setting up The Plan and he's as much of a Karma Houdini as the codes of production allow.Fu Manchu's arch-nemeses are Sir Denis Nayland Smith, an agent of the British government, and Dr. Petrie, Smith's Watson. Likely inspired by the Sherlock Holmes series, Sax Rohmer had Petrie narrate each of the first three novels as Smith combated Fu Manchu's latest evil plot.His actual public domain status is complicated. The first three Fu-Manchunote so spelled in the first three novels books were published prior to 1922 and are public domain in the USA; however, some characters are not public domain since they were introduced later, particularly his daughter Fah Lo Suee, who was introduced in the third book but not named until the fourth book, published in 1931. Also, Fu Manchu is not in the public domain in Europe (Rohmer died in 1959). However, he is PD in Canada, Japan, and New Zealand.note NZ still uses "life plus 50"; Canada and Japan didn't change from life plus 50 to life plus 70 until 2022 and 2018 respectively, and neither country made that change retroactive.He has been played in over forty films by over a dozen different actors, including H. Agar Lyons (an Irishman), Warner Oland (a Swede), Boris Karloff (an Englishman with some Indian ancestry, with Irish-American Myrna Loy as his daughter, here called Fah Lo), Christopher Lee (an Englishman with a bit of Italian in him, see page image), and Peter Sellers (also English) — but never yet by an actual Asian actor, although Fu Manchu's daughter has been played by two Asian actresses: the Chinese-American Anna May Wong as Ling Moy in Daughter of the Dragon and the Chinese Tsai Chin as Lin Tang in Lee's version. In fact Sellers' take, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980), is the last movie centered around the character to date, and a parody at that.His first appearance on radio was on a show called The Collier Hour, which presented adaptations of various popular works. This was followed by the short-lived Fu Manchu radio series, which lasted from 1932-1933. There was also a Fu Manchu newspaper comic which ran from 1931 to 1933.There was a brief television series entitled The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu airing in 1956. The show can be considered Fair for Its Day as it contains some sympathetic, peace-loving Asian characters as well as some villainous Western characters. However, Fu Manchu is still played by a white man (Glen Gordon) in Yellow Face and it contains the same over-the-top exoticism, so it can still be a little cringe-worthy.Of course, Fu Manchu also made a notable cameo in the Grindhouse fake trailer Werewolf Women of the S.S. where he was played by none other than Nicolas Cage.note THIS IS MY MECCA! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! He was also the original father of Marvel Comics hero Shang-Chi, though public domain complications eventually led to this being retconned away.He probably bears direct responsibility for killing off an entire moustache style (although Toki Wartooth is a rare modern example of the style), a feat only matched by Adolf Hitler.
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Fu Manchu / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Fu Manchu / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: In The Drums of Fu Manchu "Marcel Delibes" represents Leon Blum, "Monaghani" is Mussolini, and "Rudolph Adlon" is a creepily sympathetic portrait of that other guy with a moustache. In President Fu Manchu, Huey Long and "radio priest" Father Coughlin appear as "Harvey Bragg" and "Abbot Patrick Donegal".
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Fu Manchu / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Fu Manchu / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: In President Fu Manchu the assassination of a populist political candidate recalls that of Huey Long.
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Fu Manchu / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
Fu Manchu / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Fu Manchu.
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Fu Manchu / int_22b411b9	type	Thinking Tic
Fu Manchu / int_22b411b9	comment	Thinking Tic: Sir Denis Nayland Smith tugs on an earlobe when thinkingâ€”even if he's in disguise at the time.
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Fu Manchu / int_2c437b06	type	Violently Protective Girlfriend
Fu Manchu / int_2c437b06	comment	Violently Protective Girlfriend: KÃ¢ramanÃ¨h asserts her credentials as an Action Girl by shooting two of Fu Manchu's assassin's when they are about to catch Petrie and Nayland Smith. Later, Fu Manchu uses Laser-Guided Amnesia to subdue her back into his service. She regains her memory just in time to realize that her master is psychologically torturing Petrie in the next room. She doesn't like that. And if it weren't for Joker Immunity, that would have been the end of Dr. Fu Manchu.
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Fu Manchu / int_2d2c26c1	type	Daddy's Little Villain
Fu Manchu / int_2d2c26c1	comment	Daddy's Little Villain: Fah Lo Suee embodies the "beautiful but at least as evil as her father" version.
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Fu Manchu / int_30202b05	type	Censorship Bureau
Fu Manchu / int_30202b05	comment	Censorship Bureau: The production of Fu Manchu movies was halted during World War II at the request of the US State Department as China was an ally against Japan. Rohmer's publisher also voluntarily stopped publishing Fu Manchu novels during the war. Also in 1936 all of Sax Rohmer's books, Fu Manchu included, were banned by the Nazis, on the grounds that they thought that Rohmer was Jewish (he was actually Irish).
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Fu Manchu / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Fu Manchu / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards / Noble Demon: Fu, despite his willingness to mind-control, murder, and torture to gain his ends, nevertheless refuses to indulge in unnecessary cruelty and is always scrupulously a man of his word. He gives Shan Greville wedding presents and sincere congratulations in the epilogue of The Mask of Fu Manchu.
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Fu Manchu / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
Fu Manchu / int_34579385	comment	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: "Daughter of Fu Manchu" features a climax where the eponymous character, having dug up her father's stash of superweapons and reformed the Si Fan, has captured both our narrator Shan and series hero Nayland Smith, evades a possible last minute rescue, and is preparing to make the former victim of a gender reversal of the Scarpia Ultimatum, when Fu Manchu simply walks in the room and immediately takes over the resurgent Si Fan and release the prisoners. A rare case where The Bad Guy Wins, so long as we consider Fu Manchu the Big Bad of the series, is also a happy ending.
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Fu Manchu / int_356e26da	type	Good Hair, Evil Hair
Fu Manchu / int_356e26da	comment	Good Hair, Evil Hair: You will never, ever see a good character with a Fu Manchu mustache. Unless he's a Klingon.
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Fu Manchu / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Fu Manchu / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Fu starts out as a Chinese ultranationalist seeking the sovereignty of China and developed into one who seeks personal world domination. Moreover, as the series progresses Fu becomes more and more the Noble Demon type of character, a man of honor who occasionally even joins the heroes (as in The Island of Fu Manchu) to fight a greater evil (typically communism.)
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Fu Manchu / int_41d9aaef	type	Brainwashed
Fu Manchu / int_41d9aaef	comment	Brainwashed: Fu often uses his mental powers on his victims.
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Fu Manchu / int_4843f922	type	Dragon Lady
Fu Manchu / int_4843f922	comment	Dragon Lady: Fah Lo Suee, Fu Manchu's daughter, is one of the archetypes of this trope.
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Fu Manchu / int_4a78cc96	type	Yellowface
Fu Manchu / int_4a78cc96	comment	Yellow Face: Every onscreen incarnation of Fu Manchu has been played by a white man. In Christopher Lee's case, this got pretty laughable, as Lee — with that big aquiline nose — looked about as non-Chinese as it's possible to get.
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Fu Manchu / int_52fbbe7	type	Yellow Peril
Fu Manchu / int_52fbbe7	comment	Yellow Peril: The Trope Codifier. Fu Manchu himself launched a host of villainous Oriental genius imitations.
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Fu Manchu / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Fu Manchu / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Fu Manchu, who, despite using underhanded tactics, is a man of his word and even sends a wedding-gift to his nemesis.
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Fu Manchu / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Fu Manchu / int_55c79f7c	comment	Death Trap: Quite a few of the novels begin with someone being murdered in a mysterious and gruesome manner (often with the victim gasping out a cryptic Dying Clue), and the hero(es) later being attacked by the cause (very often some hideous reptilian/arthropodian horror). Rohmer claimed that every method he devised was based on actual scientific fact.
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Fu Manchu / int_5dc04c4e	type	Brownface
Fu Manchu / int_5dc04c4e	comment	Brownface: In-Universe, Neyland Smith uses this to disguise himself as an Arab in one book.
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Fu Manchu / int_5dd191ec	type	Wife Husbandry
Fu Manchu / int_5dd191ec	comment	Wife Husbandry: Attempted. A year after Dr. Petrie marries Fu Manchu's former servant KÃ¢ramanÃ¨h, their daughter is born, but she supposedly dies when she's just three weeks old. Book 6 reveals her existence and that she was kidnapped by Fu Manchu or one of his servants, and raised under the name Fleurette for the purpose of bearing a son for him when she's old enough (he specifically states that no romance is intended, and he is just using her to bear his child). This is thwarted when she meets and falls for Alan Sterling (the narrator of The Bride of Fu Manchu) instead, and Fu Manchu, seeing his plan has effectively been sabotaged (however unintended), releases her to be with him. While he later abducts Fleurette again in the very next book, he is more concerned with using her as a hostage against his foes until he can achieve his actual goal of preparing one more dose of the formula that keeps him young and alive.
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Fu Manchu / int_5f4097ba	type	Not Distracted by the Sexy
Fu Manchu / int_5f4097ba	comment	Not Distracted by the Sexy: Nayland Smith is portrayed as a hyperactive, tireless agent of the crown and its interests, and alone among all the protagonists, never gets put off course by anyone of the Doctor's beautiful henchmen. The one person who comes close is Fah Lo Suee, and that's only after she's grabbed him for two last chance snogs and survived a Fate Worse than Death with Laser-Guided Amnesia, and he still remains in control, though she does manage to prove that he's Not So Stoic.
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Fu Manchu / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Fu Manchu / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Fu Manchu never breaks his word, with the exception of all the times he promises his daughter "You Have Failed Me for the last time" and "kills" her. She's the only real affiliate of his to never complete a Heelâ€“Face Turn and still survive the entire book series.
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Fu Manchu / int_663ffef6	type	Majored in Western Hypocrisy
Fu Manchu / int_663ffef6	comment	Majored in Western Hypocrisy: Fu Manchu was an early character of this type, having studied in the prestigious institutes of the day such as Edinburgh and the Sorbonne.
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Fu Manchu / int_6fb5cb83	type	I Gave My Word
Fu Manchu / int_6fb5cb83	comment	I Gave My Word: Both Fu Manchu and Nayland Smith both believe a man should keep his word even to an enemy.
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Fu Manchu / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
Fu Manchu / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: Fu Manchu is established to be past seventy, but we are never given an exact statement of just how aged he is supposed to be.
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Fu Manchu / int_9080e641	type	Diabolical Mastermind
Fu Manchu / int_9080e641	comment	Diabolical Mastermind: Fu Manchu himself.
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Fu Manchu / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Fu Manchu / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Zarmi and Fah Lo Suee.
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Fu Manchu / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Fu Manchu / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Fu Manchu is always the big bad; it's his job.
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Fu Manchu / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
Fu Manchu / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: The '60s film series (produced by Harry Alan Towers and starring Christopher Lee) would always end with Fu Manchu saying "The world shall hear from me again".
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Fu Manchu / int_a633a438	type	Really700YearsOld
Fu Manchu / int_a633a438	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Thanks to repeatedly imbibing his Elixir of Life formula to keep himself alive and young, Fu Manchu is well over a hundred years old.
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Fu Manchu / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Fu Manchu / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Fu Manchu — which made him a problem character under The Hays Code.
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Fu Manchu / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Fu Manchu / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Endemic to the series in pretty much every single romantic subplot. Even Fu Manchu's daughter claims to have developed a case of this when she first saw Nayland Smith. When he was pointing a gun to her head and she left him to die of thirst in a prison cell.
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Fu Manchu / int_ac69035c	type	Master Poisoner
Fu Manchu / int_ac69035c	comment	Master Poisoner: Fu Manchu is a master of many insidious and undetectable Oriental poisons.
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Fu Manchu / int_b6025c77	type	Elixir of Life
Fu Manchu / int_b6025c77	comment	Elixir of Life: Fu Manchu has devised a version of the long sought-after elixer of life, which keeps him young, though he must keep drinking it to retain his youth. The key ingredient is oil from a plant in Burma, where it takes about eighty years to bloom; one of his ongoing projects is cultivating it so it takes less time.
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Fu Manchu / int_b63019a5	type	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn
Fu Manchu / int_b63019a5	comment	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn: KÃ¢ramanÃ¨h, who starts out as one of Fu Manchu's henchwomen but eventually falls in love with Dr Petrie.
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Fu Manchu / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
Fu Manchu / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: Fu Manchu is a master of them. Even when his main scheme is foiled by the heroes, he'll find some way to gain something of value he can use for future schemes.
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Fu Manchu / int_c9798438	type	Villain-Based Franchise
Fu Manchu / int_c9798438	comment	Villain-Based Franchise: There's a reason why the titles of nearly every novel, film, and show in the franchise contain the name "Fu Manchu" instead of "Nayland Smith".
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Fu Manchu / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
Fu Manchu / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: All of the books in the series, as well as most films, feature Doctor Fu's name in their titles.
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Fu Manchu / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Fu Manchu / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Fu Manchu.
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Fu Manchu / int_e4ce314	type	The Triads and the Tongs
Fu Manchu / int_e4ce314	comment	The Triads and the Tongs: Fu Manchu is often depicted as controlling or at least working with these groups.
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Fu Manchu / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Fu Manchu / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Of Sherlock Holmes: Nayland Smith is Holmes Dr. Petrie is Watson Fu Manchu is Professor Moriarty
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Fu Manchu / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Fu Manchu / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Starting with Dr. Petrie, most of the series' narrators find themselves Dating Catwoman and occasionally suffering from lapses in judgement thanks to a brief moment of eye contact with any of Fu Manchu's beautiful henchwomen.
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Fu Manchu / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Fu Manchu / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: How many film adaptations treat Fu Manchu's daughter Fah Lo Suee. Although she was introduced in the third novel, which is public domain in the US, she wasn't named until the fourth, which isn't. Because of this, she can't be included under that name in any adaptations without the direct permission of the Rohmer estate. To avoid the hassle, many film adaptations usually create a similar character with a different name — Ling Moy in Daughter of the Dragon, Karamaneh (who is actually named after a different Sax Rohmer character introduced and named in the first novel) in The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu, and Lin Tang in the Christopher Lee films.
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Fu Manchu / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Fu Manchu / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Fah Lo Suee is supposedly executed by her father in The Trail of Fu Manchu. The Drums of Fu Manchu reveals this trope was in play, and she was actually taken away and brainwashed (or "reincarnated", as Fu Manchu puts it) into a new identity, named Koreani.
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Fu Manchu / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Fu Manchu / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: In their own way, Fu-Manchu and the Si-Fan organization at times. The Drums of Fu Manchu sees them claiming they want to end war and working to eliminate certain individuals (or at least remove their influence) whom they claim could plunge Europe into such a conflict.
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Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Geniuses Have Multiple PhDs / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Good Hair, Evil Hair / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	I Know You Know I Know / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Just Here for Godzilla / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Long-Running Book Series / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Mainstream Obscurity / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Majored in Western Hypocrisy / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Master Poisoner / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	No Sex Allowed / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Opium Den / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Orphaned Etymology / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Pen Name / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Pendulum of Death / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Pillow Pistol / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Public Domain Character / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Recursive Canon / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Renaissance Man / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Staying Alive / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	The Edwardian Era / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	The End... Or Is It? / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	The Triads and the Tongs / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Thinking Tic / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Unintentional Period Piece / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Villain-Based Franchise / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Villainous Widow's Peak / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Wife Husbandry / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Writing Around Trademarks / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Yellow Peril / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Yellowface / int_7f77ffd2
Fu Manchu	hasFeature	Those Magnificent Flying Machines / int_7f77ffd2

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