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The Yellow Peril is an "oriental" criminal and/or political mastermind, a character originating in the xenophobic days of the late 19th century, but popular ever since. As an expression of the "mysterious East" gone wrong, this villain traditionally had, or seemed to have, mystical powers. Often he had a beautiful daughter, who either turned from her evil ways to work with the good guys, or was herself a scheming villain, at least as bad as he, in her own right. He would likely know some form of martial arts, and sometimes speak in a thick and oddly-accented dialect. In some cases, the Yellow Peril might be an ancient civilization composed of wise and intelligent but hubristically ambitious people (basically real-life versions of Elves) who will use their "wisdom" to outplan and outmaneuver you every time. In others, the Yellow Peril may be an evil horde making up in raw numbers what they lack in power (this stereotype came from medieval portrayals of the Mongolian empire). He will often be garbed in clothing you'd expect to find in Qing-dynasty China. However, not all examples are necessarily Chinese nationals; on the contrary, many (including the Trope Codifier Fu Manchu himself) are the leaders of Pan-Asiatic coalitions, uniting Chinese, Indians, Japanese and various others against "Western Imperialism" and its alleged or real exploitation of Asia. Such portrayals may be inspired by the real-life Pan-Asian ideology of the Japanese in World War II, who claimed to be fighting against globalist capitalism and for the liberation of the Asian peoples (most of whom were still colonized by Europe note or the United States in the case of the Philippines in 1941) — although more crudely racist depictions may also simply be a case of thinking all Asians are the same (as well as bad). The "mysterious Chinaman" grew to be such a cliché in mystery stories of the early twentieth century that in 1929 Ronald Knox included in his "Ten Commandments" the rule that "No Chinaman must figure in the story." Early story attempts to counter the connotations of such a villain often had an Asian hero included who is dedicated to stopping the villain, such as with the various incarnations of Marvel Comics which had Jimmy Woo in the Yellow Claw stories in the 1950s, while Fu Manchu was opposed by his son Shang-Chi, the Master of Kung Fu, in the 1970s. In what was presumably an attempt to avoid accusations of falling into this trope's racist and xenophobic roots, several 80s and 90s Animated Adaptations of properties with Yellow Peril villains colored them green. Mandarin in Iron Man: The Animated Series, Dr No in James Bond Jr., and Ming the Merciless in both Defenders of the Earth and the 1996 Flash Gordon series are examples of this. One may think this was now a Discredited Trope, but in fact it is alive and well, although the individual "yellow" villain is often replaced by Triads, Yakuza, Chinese Communism, or sinister Asian businessmen. In the UK, this trope drew inspiration from the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, and the presence of Chinese workers (especially sailors and launderers) in port cities like Victorian London. Across the pond in the US, this trope also drew inspiration from Chinese immigration—specifically, the mass migration of thousands of Chinese laborers in the nineteenth century. This large movement led many Americans to mistakenly think of Chinese people (and by extension, all Asians) as mysterious and expansionist. The fact that the workers weren't allowed to integrate with whites and often couldn't speak English didn't help matters. It later turned out that it was Japan that was expansionist, and horrifically brutal doing so—China was in no shape for world domination at that point—but hindsight is 20/20. (Of course, in response to the new threat of Imperial Japan, the media promptly switched this trope around and started portraying "the Japs" as the new Yellow Peril, only to switch back to China during The '50s.) Nonetheless, in many instances of the trope, such a villain is treated more sympathetically than a villain of Western origin, along the lines of an Enlightened Antagonist. The reason is that, while "Western" villains are usually depicted as having rejected the moral values of their culture in favor of baser instincts like greed and lust (and, therefore, as more simplistic and unambigously evil), the seeming "villainy" of these characters may be just due to the fact that they come from a foreign culture with a different understanding of the world (based more on spirituality than on science and logic), and, therefore, a different concept of right and wrong. Sometimes it may even turn out that their idea of good and evil is more sound than the one of the Western protagonist, and the protagonist was on the Wrong Side All Along. See also: Inscrutable Oriental, Dragon Lady, Japan Takes Over the World, China Takes Over the World, and another product of these stereotypes, Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow. For the Web Comic of the same name, see Yellow Peril. Absolutely nothing to do with the Only Fools and Horses episode of that name. |
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The Magic Pudding: Curry and Rice — beyond his atrocious name, he's a Fat Bastard of a Villainous Glutton who uses strange magical powers to create an infinitely renewable pastry and then hoards it to himself while watching his fellow shipwreck strandees slowly starving to death. About the only way he's not a racist icon is his art, and that's because all of the humans portrayed in the illustrations are bizarre-looking caricatures. | |
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The second Sherlock episode "The Blind Banker" is an old-fashioned Yellow Peril story that smacks viewers in the face with every Chinese stereotype ever portrayed in television played completely straight. | |
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Although it had the chance to go this route, The Bitter Tea of General Yen soundly averts this trope. General Yen can be cruel, but he's drawn as a complex character with complex emotions. | |
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Mr. Han from Enter the Dragon would exemplify this trope, right down to his "daughters", but the hero opposing him is played by Bruce Lee! | |
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Homefront may well be the epitome of this trope: a gritty, frightening portrayal of North Korea takes over the world. You have exactly three guesses as to the fate of the game in many Asian countries, and the first two don't count. | |
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The Count Duckula episode "Transylvanian Take-awy" features an evil Mandarin and his thugs trying to beat the Count to some treasure. These characters re-appeared in the Victor & Hugo book "Fu Man's Choo-Choo" thus making the connection clear. | |
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The Sluggy Freelance villain Dr. Nofun is a parody of this. | |
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Bi no Kyoujin implies this about Xiao Chen, him being Chinese and linked to the Chinese triads is presented as an extra reason why he is an enemy to Kabu's clan. | |
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Memnan Saa from the Hellboy universe (the B.P.R.D. and Lobster Johnson comics). Though as it turns out, his origins predate China, and stretch back to the ancient Hyperborean civilization of the North Pole. Not only that, but the reason he resembles the classic British actor dressed in ridiculous Oriental robes look is because he's actually a Victorian-era British occultist named Martin Gilfryd. | |
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The episode "Last Horizons" of TaleSpin has Baloo encountering "Panda-La" a land of Asian stereotypical Panda bears who are secretly planning to invade Cape Suzette, although it is mentioned in passing that other Panda populations despise them for their aggression. The episode was so heavily criticized because of its depiction of Asians that it was taken out of syndication. | |
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Grindhouse had Fu Manchu in the Real Trailer, Fake Movie Werewolf Women Of The SS... played by Nicolas Cage! | |
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Shiwan Khan, of The Shadow, is a somewhat odder portrayal of this, as he is purely Mongolian rather than Chinese and identifies as the heir to Genghis Khan. | |
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Robotboy featured the evil if short-statured Dr. Kamikazi and his hapless sumo sidekick Constantine, though they were deliberately overdone. | |
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Doctor Julius No in the James Bond book and movie Dr. No. Ian Fleming admitted that Dr. No was inspired in part by Fu Manchu. Despite this, No's half-Chinese national origin has little to do with his actions. | |
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Richard Wong from Psychic Force. Class S evil Chinese man who controls time and manipulates the NOA group under Keith Evans to eventually take over the world for his plaything as a God. Predictably, he breaks out from NOA. | |
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The first of Edgar P. Jacobs' Blake and Mortimer stories, Secret of the Swordfish, pits the heroes against the world-conquering, Asian-supremacist "Yellow Empire" (in the original french-language version, the Empire was specifically and explicitely... Tibet). However, the trope is subverted, as the primary villain in the story is the white Colonel Olrik and the Big Bad, Emperor Basam Damdu, is less mysterious Oriental, and more Hitler-esque, megalomaniac madman. | |
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Chairman Shen-Ji Yang of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is a Yellow Peril on an alien planet. He is one of the most sinister of the faction leaders (though some of the others are no slouches themselves), and regards his entire population as nothing more than a grand social experiment. Doesn't help that his faction is one of the most powerful in the game... Of course, factions in the game are based on ideology rather than racial makeup. The Hive are likely to be just as ethnically diverse as any other faction. |
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The villains in the 1928 pulp novel Armageddon 2419 A.D are the Han Airlords, an Asian empire that conquers the world in 2109. It takes a 20th century transplant to turn the tide. | |
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The Looney Tunes Wartime Cartoon "Tokio Jokio" features some very inaccurate caricatures of Hideki Tojo and Isoroku Yamamoto, on top of just-plain unflattering depictions of the Japanese in general. | |
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Dr. Zin also appears as the villain in an episode of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. | |
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Batman Begins changes Ra's al Ghul from his comic book portrayal. Some of the Yellow Peril aspects are played more straight this time (his headquarters are in China this time, and Ra's is Chinese or Japanese) while others are messed with (he and his followers lack supernatural powers, but use tricks to make enemies think they do, and he's actually a white man with an Asian decoy). | |
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Modesty Blaise has Mr. Wu Smith; a Chinese crime lord based in Hong Kong who dresses and speaks like Fu Manchu. | |
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Vikings manages to combine this with Russia Takes Over the World. Despite being (nominally) slavified vikings, their attire and weaponry are very East Asian, complete with their armor being Mongol and Chinese armor directly repurposed from Marco Polo. | |
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Chinese communist agent Wo Fat from Hawaii Five-O. He appears in the reboot too, but a criminal rather than a spy. | |
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The evil Mongol Shiwan Khan in The Shadow movie is a magical overlord who claims to be the last direct descendant of Genghis Khan—a bit of an unlikely story given just how many descendants Genghis Khan is believed to have.note A rough estimate puts it at 35 million men. It's impossible to know how many women are descended from him, but you can probably just double the male estimate. | |
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The Blaxploitation spoof Black Dynamite has The Fiendish Dr. Wu. His name actually is Fiendish Dr. Wu, and Dynamite refers to him like that every time he is mentioned. Considering how he takes out the entire squad, leaving Dynamite as the sole-survivor, and has created a drug that shrinks people's "johnsons", he certainly lives up to his name. | |
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In I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, the Chinese supercomputer that forms part of AM's systems projects its avatar as a yellow figure in a gold robe. It also acts as a trickster throughout the scenarios that each of AM's 5 human victims are sent into. | |
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The Disney Wartime Cartoon "Commando Duck". It was a thing back then. | |
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Chin-Kee from American Born Chinese is an embodiment of every negative Asian stereotype, all of which are employed for satirical purposes. (He's not really a villain, but he can be unpleasant to be around and it's not clear if a couple of minor characters end up better off for having encountered him.) | |
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings then introduces an actually-Chinese version of the Mandarin (played by Tony Leung Chiu-wai) that's Truer to the Text than Kingsley's, but with care taken to discard offensive aspects — for instance, he doesn't use the "Mandarin" title himself and points out its misuse; and instead of being a Chinese villain fighting a white American, he's now going up against equally-Chinese heroes, who also serve to humanize him as two of them are his children. The director, writer, and leading cast of the movie are all Asian or of Asian descent. Leung's character also mocks the Iron Man 3 version, seemingly both annoyed at the cultural misappropriation and amused that it scared the Americans anyway. | |
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Whateley Universe: The Chinese supervillain Iron Dragon, who has been trying to overthrow America, Europe, and Russia for decades, is essentially an Expy of Fu Manchu, right down to the moustache. His daughter, Silver Serpent, is now attending the Whateley Academy and is a member of the Bad Seeds clique (to be admitted, one or more of your parents must be a supervillain). In early 2012, Iron Dragon staged a coup that overthrew the People's Republic, declaring himself to hold the Mandate of Heaven as the first emperor of a new Imperial dynasty. According to Unreliable Narrator (and one-man Deconstructor Fleet) Mephisto, while playing the part of a 'sinister Asiatic mastermind' in San Francisco in the 1930s, Mephisto had run afoul of a real sinister Asiatic mastermind; knowing when he was beaten, Mephisto sold his operation to him and got as far away as he could. He went on to explain that there were dozens of such masterminds running their own operations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most of whom were heading remnants of the Tongs and Triads and were looking for revenge against the West for the indignities the Han had suffered at the hands of the colonial powers. By the time of World War II, most of them had fallen to in-fighting or butting heads with other organized crime groups like The Mafia. The Iron Dragon, kept alive by magic, was one of the more ruthless and effective of those remaining, and by the 1980s had co-opted or enlisted most of the others that were still around. |
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Pearl Harbor generally averts this trope, portraying the Japanese for the most part in non-stereotyped ways. However, the Japanese are nonetheless overly vilified; in one scene Zeros attack a hospital and open fire on civilians, even though the Japanese made an effort not to harm civilians during the actual raid, and did not fire at civilian targets even when they had a clear shot. | |
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Admiral Hamura Kusaki from Adventures of Captain Vrungel is a member of the Japanese Imperial Navy and the Big Bad, who makes it his personal mission to pursue the protagonists around the world and cause trouble for them on their global voyage, but while he's the only prominent POC in the story and the prose sometimes describes his skin color as yellow, he otherwise doesn't fall into many of the common stereotypes seen in a work written in the 30's. He has no grand ambitions other than to oversee the extinction of all whales and to make life hell for the protagonists over something minor (saving a whale), he has no special abilities, he's not a criminal mastermind - on the contrary, all of his schemes to get back at Vrungel blow up in his face out of his own stupidity. When reflecting on Kusaki years later, Vrungel considers him merely a product of the imperialist culture in Japan during that time, and he holds a similar disdain for Banditto, the Italian fascist and one-off antagonist. | |
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Her Father's Daughter: Despite its nature-loving themes and its romances, it's centrally a heavy-headed warning against it: | |
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At one point, the old coloring is lampshaded with a remark in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition that "The Yellow Claw has a pale yellow skin color quite unlike the skin tones of other Orientals." | |
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Iron Man 3 both averts this and cleverly exploits this. The Mandarin is an Wicked Cultured Diabolical Mastermind, played by the British-Indian actor Ben Kingsley, who does follow some classical Chinese philosophy. Except he's not. Kingsley's character is a washed-up actor named Trevor Slattery who is being paid by Dr. Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce — a white dude) to be the front for his operations in exchange for a cushy life. Killian deliberately mashed up a number of foreign stereotypes in order to sell an anti-American boogeyman to the media. The follow-up short film All Hail the King then reveals that they (mis)appropriated the story of an actual foreign warlord, who isn't happy with the theft and intends to kill Slattery for it. | |
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Zhu Long in Sentinels of the Multiverse is an intentional reference to this, having originated early in Sentinel Comics's history: an immortal Chinese mastermind who employs ninjas and turns into a dragon. He was primarily a villain for Blaxploitation kung fu hero Black Fist, now Mr Fixer. CCG Importance Dissonance means that despite his significant story influence, all he gets is an environment deck and a guest spot as a minion card. | |
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The Wild Wild West episode "The Night the Dragon Screamed" subverts this: the episode starts as a rival-tongs plot, but halfway through the main villain is revealed as a renegade Englishman hoping to manipulate the Chinese throne. | |
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So does the Popeye Wartime Cartoon "You're a Sap, Mr. Jap" with the Imperial Japanese Navy. | |
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Ming the Merciless from the 1934 Flash Gordon comic strip was written and drawn as Fu Manchu IN SPACE!, right down to the scheming daughter. (He's not named "Ming" by accident.) The early serials and Filmation animated version continued this portrayal. The 1980 movie cast Max von Sydow, a Swedish actor, in the role, and the 2007 TV series dropped 'the Merciless' from his name and turned him into a blond guy, while in the 1990s comic book mini-series, he and his people have natural ash-gray skin coloring, and in the animated series Defenders of the Earth, his skin is green. | |
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Iron Man: The Animated Series tried to avert this by revealing that he was white before he got exposed to the power rings and his appearance changed. To green. | |
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Yakuza Kumicho (boss) Shogo Takamoto in Tomb Raider: Legend. And scores of Yakuza mooks. Lara does get a Japanese friend who helps her find Takamoto, in the form of media mogul Nishimura. | |
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Jessica Jones: Invoked when one of the fake Kilgrave victims is a stoner who claims Kilgrave was this Chinese dude with glowing eyes who made him rob a convenience store at gunpoint. | |
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Dr. Yen Lo the sinister brainwasher in the 1962 adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate. | |
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In reference to this, Hearts of Iron has both Imperial Japan and Nationalist China (biggest/most dangerous Chinese faction) don different shades of yellow as their faction colours. | |
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The Siamese cats from Lady and the Tramp, two Manipulative Bitches whose machinations lead to Lady getting muzzled for bad behaviour (in reality, trying to stop them from stealing the baby's milk). Their Villain Song even sounds like a parody of Chinese music. | |
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Detective Comics, now known as the home of Batman, started out as an anthology title whose first issue featured a story about a private eye fighting cartoonishly-drawn oriental villains, whose leader smirked at the reader from the front cover. In 2017, Gene Luen Yang's New Super-Man incorporated a deconstruction of that story into its backstory, depicting the Chinese antagonists more sympathetically than the prejudiced white detective. | |
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Inspector Gadget's nemesis Dr. Claw tried to team up with a Yellow Peril villain on two separate occasions. First, in "The Japanese Connection," Claw met with the "Great Samurai Waruda" who literally wore samurai armour. In "Eye of the Dragon," Claw met with the nefarious Mr. Chow from Hong Kong, who tended to speak largely in metaphors, as did a lot of the Chinese characters in that episode. | |
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The later Iron Man: Armored Adventures animated series also largely averts this with its portrayal of the two characters who use the Mandarin identity: Shin Zhang is treated as a fairly typical criminal mastermind whose Asian-ness is incidental to his evil, while his stepson Gene Khan is both a major Anti-Villain and, while he certainly takes pride in his heritage from China in general and his family line in particular, he's otherwise very modern and western in his mannerisms and outlook. | |
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe has taken pains to avert this trope in their adaptations of the comic book supervillain the Mandarin. Iron Man 3 both averts this and cleverly exploits this. The Mandarin is an Wicked Cultured Diabolical Mastermind, played by the British-Indian actor Ben Kingsley, who does follow some classical Chinese philosophy. Except he's not. Kingsley's character is a washed-up actor named Trevor Slattery who is being paid by Dr. Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce — a white dude) to be the front for his operations in exchange for a cushy life. Killian deliberately mashed up a number of foreign stereotypes in order to sell an anti-American boogeyman to the media. The follow-up short film All Hail the King then reveals that they (mis)appropriated the story of an actual foreign warlord, who isn't happy with the theft and intends to kill Slattery for it. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings then introduces an actually-Chinese version of the Mandarin (played by Tony Leung Chiu-wai) that's Truer to the Text than Kingsley's, but with care taken to discard offensive aspects — for instance, he doesn't use the "Mandarin" title himself and points out its misuse; and instead of being a Chinese villain fighting a white American, he's now going up against equally-Chinese heroes, who also serve to humanize him as two of them are his children. The director, writer, and leading cast of the movie are all Asian or of Asian descent. Leung's character also mocks the Iron Man 3 version, seemingly both annoyed at the cultural misappropriation and amused that it scared the Americans anyway. |
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An Iron Man storyline in the 1980s saw the Yellow Claw fight the Mandarin, in an epic clash of yellow peril stereotypes! Specifically, Yellow Claw represented the pre-World War II stereotype of Asians as devious and inscrutable, and The Mandarin represented the post-World War II stereotype of Asians as reckless bloodthirsty barbarians. | |
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Mortal Kombat Shang Tsung. Though the protagonist Liu Kang is also Asian (Chinese, specifically.) Any villain played by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa will have this flavor. Kano was originally supposed to be a Japanese crime boss. However, in Mortal Kombat: The Movie, he was played by Trevor Goddard, and the developers liked it so much that later games retconned him to being an Australian crime boss. |
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In Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice, the Big Bad is a man named Wang, who has taken over Prune Inc. He looks suspiciously like PSY, has pretty perverted sexual preferences, and jumps up and down when excited in a manner similar to the Gangnam Style dance. His henchwoman is a North Korean assassin named Yanmei. | |
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Many episodes of Kung Fu (1972), though the hero was a half Chinese man played by a white American actor. | |
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Subverted in Jackie Chan Adventures. The omnipresent evil Chinese sorcerer Daolon Wong is strongly reminiscent of Fu Manchu in all but facial hair, but then virtually all of the heroes are Asian too. | |
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Prince Ko-Fan Shiemarr from The Five Star Stories, despite being a character in a Space Opera manga set A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away... is designed to mimic the aesthetic of Yellow Peril characters in western works. He is a bit of a subversion, though, since rather than being an out-and-out villain, he's more of a Psycho for Hire who works for the nominal protagonist. ...who is himself a very Japanese-flavored Physical God of Well-Intentioned Extremist. |
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Long Feng from Avatar: The Last Airbender fits the trope to a T, but every character in the series is either Asian or Inuit, including the heroes. Tarrlok from The Legend of Korra has all of the characteristics, except that he's from the Water Tribe. These stereotypes are actually done in-universe in the second season. An actual war propaganda movie has Tarrlok 2.0, er, Unalaq, portrayed as your typical Fu Manchu/Ming the Merciless knockoff villain. |
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In The Fast and the Furious (2001), the main antagonists are an Asian biker gang even though there aren't really any infamous Asian biker gangs in real life. In addition, the Asian bikers are the only Asians in the film and are violent and unsympathetic. | |
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Lord Hong from Interesting Times, although an ambiguous version of this trope (his plans to conquer the West, i.e. Ankh-Morpork, are depicted as hopelessly naive). | |
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In the Legends of the Dark Knight story Tao, Batman encounters a number of Chinese villains, as well as a Chinese mentor. The villains include a wicked old wizard, H'sien Tan, his student, Dragon, who acts as The Dragon to his master as well as the Big Bad later, and looks just like the "Little Dragon", Bruce Lee. Most stereotypical of all is the boss of Gotham's Chinese underworld, Johnny Khan (Khan isn't even a Chinese name!). Khan isn't just a 'Yellow Peril' stereotype, he's Fu Manchu. And not just any Fu Manchu. He's clearly recognisable as Christopher Lee dressed as Fu Manchu. | |
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Fu Manchu, of the original short story and novel series by Sax Rohmer and their many, many adaptations, is perhaps the classic example. From the same source, Fah Lo Suee embodies the "beautiful-but-at-least-as-evil-as-he" version of the evil mastermind's daughter. Though he is not the first example of Yellow Peril caricatures of Asians, his cultural influence and the host of imitators he spawned make him the Trope Codifier. | |
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In the Champions adventure/setting book Watchers of the Dragon, Dr. Yin Wu is a classic Yellow Peril villain. He's also firmly on the side of good in this paticular adventure. | |
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Ah Ling in the Sally Lockhart novels is half-Dutch, and looks white, but is otherwise a fairly standard example of the trope. | |
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Parodied in The Kentucky Fried Movie with Dr. Klahn. | |
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The Monk episode "Mr. Monk gets Cabin Fever" has Monk going into witness protection after witnessing a killing by an Asian gang member. The twist near the end reveals that EVERY Asian person that appears in the episode was working for the Asian gangster and was involved in a plot to kill Monk. | |
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Red Dawn (2012) has North Korea invading the United States. (It was the Soviet Union, with Cuban shock troops, in the 1984 original.) The original script had China as the main aggressor but it was changed to North Korea due to fear of ending Banned in China. The movies those mention "a coalition" of sorts. | |
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There was a villain named "Yellow Peri" in both the Superboy comic book and TV show, but she had nothing to do with the trope other than the name pun. (A "peri" is a type of Persian fairy, and "The Red Peri" was a space pirate in a 1935 Stanley G. Weinbaum story.) | |
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The Ubiquitous Dragon of Adventure!. His worldview is the result of his being raised by a Chinese warlord, who sought to corrupt him as a form of revenge on the Dragon's deceased father, a man of honor. | |
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Dr. Tito Daka from the 1943 The Batman serial blows far past Unfortunate Implications; the narrator actually refers to him as "the sinister Jap, Dr. Daka" and speaks glowingly of when "a wise government rounded up the shifty-eyed Japs" of Gotham City's Little Tokyo. | |
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Then again, since none of the factions in BattleTech are outright "good guys," the Combine and Confederation can just as easily be seen as sympathetic, defending themselves from aggressive and (especially in the Capellan Confederation's case) larger enemies. There are also any number of Asian characters staunchly in the "good guy" camp, such as Justin Xiang Allard and his son, Kai Allard-Liao. On a meta level, BattleTech started off taking its cues from any number of Anime Mecha series, so has a vested interest in not portraying its Asian factions as wholly evil. It should also be pointed out that while House Liao is ruled by a family of Chinese descent, the original '80s portrayal of House Liao was one that was not of a monolithic Chinese ethno-state. The Capellan Confederation was much more a generic stand-in for Commie Land. It was only later on in the metaplot, with Sun-Tzu Liao's reign as Chancellor, that the state took on more Chinese trappings and flavor. And even then, the Confederation is a multi-ethnic state, as are all the Successor States. |
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In Evil Genius, one of the Diabolical Masterminds the player can choose to play is Shen Yu, who looks like Fu Manchu and was formerly a triple agent spying on both The Triads and the local Heroes "R" Us for each other. Now, he seeks to Take Over the World for himself. | |
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In Snakes on a Plane the main antagonist is a brutal Asian gangster who beats a prosecutor to death with a baseball bat in the beginning of the movie. However, there is another Asian character in the film, a kickboxer, and he is portrayed as selfless and brave. | |
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Unsurprisingly, The Face of Fu Manchu and its sequels, based on Sax Rohmer's characters and starring Christopher Lee in Yellow Face in the title role. The fifth and final installment The Castle of Fu Manchu was the victim subject of an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. | |
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The Fiendish Doctor Po from the Bernice Summerfield novel Ship of Fools — a fictional character in that world (until somebody programs an AI to be him) and lampshaded as a ridiculous anachronism to boot. | |
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Daredevil had some in the first season. The second season was full of it with the introduction of the Hand. After receiving enough accusations of this trope, the MCU started taking corrective measures in Iron Fist and The Defenders with the introducion of the other "fingers" of the Hand from other continents of the world, led by a white North American, a black African and a brown South American, as well as Mooks from different ethnicities. | |
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However his Tunnel in the Sky has the Chinese invading Australia and forcibly deporting the populace to New Zealand so they can fill it up with their own people. | |
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Klingons in the original series of Star Trek: The Original Series give every indication of being descended from this model. Before their retrofit for the movie era, Klingons were usually portrayed as a bunch of clever, deceitful criminals, played by white guys in vaguely "eastern" make-up, complete with Fu Manchu moustaches. | |
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The Hood from Thunderbirds, with mind-control powers. His brother Kyrano and niece Tin-Tin were both on the good guy's staff. Kyrano was a servant. Tin-Tin has degrees in Engineering and Mathematics - she's the Mad Scientist's Beautiful Niece. | |
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The Elder Scrolls, while set in a fantasy world, have this trope in effect in regards to the continent of Akavir. Akavir, per in-game sources, is a mishmash of Chinese (Ka Po' Tun), Japanese (Tsaesci), and less prominent Indian (Tang Mo) and Mongol (Kamal) Fantasy Counterpart Cultures. In the backstory, some of the Akaviri races have attempted to invade Tamriel (a continent with a heavy European basis and where all of the games to date in the series have taken place) several times, but have always been defeated. Because of the past invasions, the citizens have Tamriel have some very Yellow Peril inspired beliefs about Akavir. | |
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The affable, polite Japanese neighbor in The Cheat (1915) turns out to be a sexual predator who tries to rape the heroine. | |
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The Sisterhood Series by Fern Michaels: Oh yes, this series, particularly the book Vendetta, happily went into this trope! That book even had the ladies take evil John Chai and disguise him as Fu Manchu! In other books of the series, Harry Wong gets little respect from a number of Americans, simply because he is Asian. | |
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The Tintin story The Blue Lotus averts this: the portrayal of China is famously sympathetic and accurate - though the trope is both discussed (Tintin describes to a Chinese friend the common Yellow Peril stereotype prevalent among westerners) and parodied (Thompson and Thomson dress up as the stereotype to go undercover, only to end up being followed by a throng of amused Chinese onlookers... without them noticing beyond a hunch). The Japanese invaders come across as evil and petty imperialists (with their leader having buck teeth), but, well, they sort of were. Coming from a Belgian, this is something of a case of grey and black morality, not that Hergé; was your typical Belgian colonial. The Second Sino-Japanese War, in which at least 10 million Chinese civilians died at the hands of the Japanese Army, was undoubtedly among the darkest moral hours of Japan. Averted permanently for the rest of the series. There's a non-caricatured Japanese detective in The Crab with the Golden Claws and the locals in Tintin in Tibet are all normal folks. That was largely because Hergé befriended Zhang Chongren, a Chinese student who came to Brussels to study art and architecture. Zhang was his consultant about China, and was the reason why Hergé became sympathetic to the Chinese during the war and caricatured the Japanese invaders so heavily. When the war ended, there was basically no reason to draw these caricatures anymore, so Japan just became another nation to portray accurately. Ironically, while his first editor, a conservative Catholic abbot, was encouraging Hergé to be racist (hence the fantastically racist Tintin - Tintin in the Congo), it was another abbot who urged him to be more sensitive and introduced him and Zhang to each other. The character of Chang Chong-Chen is based on Zhang. |
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Climate Town: One of the clips from some of the bizarre advertisements the natural gas industry has put out over the years has a man pull aside the shower curtain to show an evil Fu Manchu stereotype in the shower, in an add attempting to villainize electric utility companies. | |
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Parodied in Futurama with Zapp Brannigan's Imagine Spots in the episode "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela", which have him battling Emperor Chop Chop. | |
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Explicitly averted in the original Charlie Chan novels by Earl Derr Biggers, in which the author set out to create an Asian character on the right side of the law for a change. How accurate they are is open to question, but at least some respect for the Chinese and their culture is shown. | |
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The Venture Bros.: Jonas Venture tries to disguise himself as a Yellow Peril villain, calling himself Dr. Fanadragon and claiming to hail from "Japananawa". Another villain starts to comment on how Dr. Fanadragon is muddling a number of Asian nations and is obviously a tall white man. Affably Evil (emphasis on "affable") Dr. Zhi, a parody of Dr. Zin from Jonny Quest. |
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SeaQuest DSV has the Chaodai, a Southeast Asian maritime nation that is starting to show its teeth to UEO. In their first (and only) appearance, their sub-fighters (who utilize a Brain/Computer Interface) easily outmaneuver and kill a long-time secondary character, proving their technological superiority. Supposedly, the Chaodai were planned to be the next Big Bad alongside Macronesia. | |
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The Steve Coogan series Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible parodied this with Hang Man Chan, Sinister Bony-Fingered Menace of the East and Would-be Emperor Of The Free World, and his daughter Woo-Woo. | |
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The Dragon Emperor as played by Jet Li in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. The sorceress Zi Yuan does help the heroes, though. | |
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The bizarre Saturday morning chimpanzee-acted parody of spy parody Get Smart, Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, featured both "Wang Fu" and the (*ahem*) "Dragon Woman." | |
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The Magician: The villain in "The Illusion of the Lost Dragon" is a descendant of warlords who used to rule Szechuan Province, and who regards anything that originates from there as his property. This includes demanding daughters of Chinese immigrants as tribute. Although he mentions that he is of mixed race (presumably to explain why the white actor playing him does not look Chinese) he dresses in ancient Chinese armour, and lives in a palace surrounded by Chinese servants. | |
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Subverted and invoked in the revised Sons of Ether Tradition book for Mage: The Ascension. Fang Qinbao is one of a group of globetrotting archaeologist-mages. He assumes the persona of "The Insidious Doctor Fang" as a way of dissuading interlopers - his 'death-traps' are, in reality, a way of neutralizing his enemies without killing them, letting him and his friends escape. (Oddly, playing the part seems to make his enemies behave like they're in the pulps themselves - getting caught in Fang's traps, or wasting their time against Fang's followers.) | |
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Caliphate subverts this with the Celestial Kingdom of Han, which is what the People's Republic of China has turned into in a dystopic future. They are portrayed as amoral and strange post-human people with no reservation about performing weird experiments for their sinister purposes, and it's clear they want to replace America as the resident superpower. With that said, they are allied with the Americans against the titular Islamic empire because the latter represents the more immediate and dangerous threat. | |
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Ruthlessly averted in the Rupert Bear comic strips and books with the Chinese girl Tiger Lily and her father The Conjurer, who are both polite, friendly and helpful and in some stories are even crucial to solving the current problem. Ironically the strip is run by the Daily Express. And that's no joke. | |
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Black Rain plays the trope completely straight, with a sinister Japanese conspiracy to flood the USA with "perfect" forged banknotes, although the mastermind is portrayed fairly sympathetically and reveals his motivation for the plot is revenge on the US, having survived Hiroshima as a child, while the main villain is a young Ax-Crazy The Starscream whose actions are blamed on him having become too Westernized. | |
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Dr. Yes, an over the top parody of Dr. No. | |
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Subverted with Ming on Kitty Is Not a Cat. Although he is named after Ming the Merciless, speaks in a Chinese accent, and an Inscrutable Oriental personality (on top of also being a Balinese), he's one of the title character's friends and generally characterized as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who cares a lot for Kitty underneath his apparent coldness to her. | |
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The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932), with Boris Karloff playing the titular character, is widely considered to be probably one of the most racist films of all time. | |
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Balls of Fury (a Whole-Plot Reference to Enter the Dragon, but with ping-pong!) parodies it with Christopher Walken as a white guy who's apparently obsessed with being this trope as it pertains to old kung-fu movies (and also takes parts from other Asian cultures and uses them as part of his fixations, ie. having sumo wrestlers carry him around on a palanquin). The main characters are stunned to see he's white, as the composite sketch looked nothing like him. | |
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The not-particularly-nice Chinese pirate Sao Feng, as played by Chow Yun-Fat, in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. There's also a female Pirate Lord named Mistress Ching. | |
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Hark in Planetary is a clear Fu Manchu analogue, but ended up working for the side of good, alongside various pulp hero Expys. His beautiful daughter is Anna Hark, a ruthless businesswoman who's a bit of a Dragon Lady but undergoes her own Heel–Face Turn. | |
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No Escape (2015): The film initially plays up the exoticness of the setting, but later on all (and only) Asian characters become a threat to Jack Dwyer and his family. | |
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Doctor Who has never played this absolutely straight, but three individual stories have shown elements of it: Mavic Chen in "The Daleks' Master Plan" has a Chinese-sounding last name, stereotypical East Asian facial features created by sticking makeup on a white person, and even a sort of Fu Manchu-ish moustache. Since it's black-and-white, some fan recolours attempt to rescue this by colouring him pale blue, making him into an alien. The official intention was for him to look vaguely multiracial, as he was from the future. The title character of "The Celestial Toymaker" dresses in stereotypical Mandarin clothes (recycled from "Marco Polo", which was actually set in Imperial China), which the production team intended as a play on his use of the Towers of Hanoi as a puzzle for the Doctor to solve. Unlike other examples, there's no accent, and no yellowface beyond a bit of makeup to make his eyebrows stereotypically straight and sharp. "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" features numerous Mooks in the employ of the Tong of the Black Scorpion, including peasant-turned-magician Li H'sen Chang, but the ultimate villain is a white, possibly Australian, time-traveller from the 51st century named Magnus Greel. This doesn't really help, though, as most of the Chinese characters are portrayed as fanatical, bloodthirsty thugs falling over themselves to kill and die for anyone who impresses them with a bit of whizz-bang. And the only one who gets a Heel Realisation is played by a white guy in make-up. |
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Shang-Chi initially used Fu Manchu himself as a major supporting character in the 1970s Master of Kung Fu and Deadly Hands of Kung Fu (1974) series, where his son Shang-Chi fights against his father's villainy. After Marvel lost the rights to Sax Rohmer's books, a Given Name Reveal renamed Fu Manchu to Zheng Zu, but kept most of the problematic elements. Gene Luen Yang eventually carried out a Soft Reboot in Shang-Chi (2020), redefining Zheng Zu as a very different character to Fu Manchu, with a more complex and sympathetic portrayal, and actively averting this trope. |
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Hercule Poirot has an offscreen version inThe Big Four: the titular four are the head of a pre-WWII conspiracy to rule the world, headed from China by The Chessmaster Li Chang Yen. The other three are all Western (an American billionaire, a fascist French scientist, and an English assassin) but take their orders from him. At the end of the book, he commits suicide when the attempted coup fails and the three others die in their lair's self-destruction. | |
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CALEXIT: Much concern is had that an independent California would become a Chinese puppet-state and seek to expand into the American Southwest. As of the second book, this appears virtually given. | |
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The Dragonman (Joey Forman, who also played Charlie Chan Expy "Harry Hoo" on Get Smart) in The Monkees episode, "Monkee Chow Mein." | |
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Kano was originally supposed to be a Japanese crime boss. However, in Mortal Kombat: The Movie, he was played by Trevor Goddard, and the developers liked it so much that later games retconned him to being an Australian crime boss. | |
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Also with Dr. Chu-en Ginsberg, M. A. (failed), from Round the Horne. | |
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Atomic Betty, being a throwback to Raygun Gothic sci-fi, has its Big Bad Maximus I.Q. draw elements of his design from Ming the Merciless, such as wearing red robes and sporting a Fu Manchu (on top of also resembling a Siamese cat). However, he has a Western name, speaks with a posh British accent and is generally characterized as more of a Card-Carrying Villain and Small Name, Big Ego than a secretive Chessmaster. | |
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Jonny Quest LIVED on this trope, Dr. Zin, Dr. Ashida, General Fong, Chu Sing Ling... Dr. Zin also appears as the villain in an episode of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. |
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The villain in Big Trouble in Little China is a stereotypical Chinese Evil Sorcerer named David Lo Pan, who dresses the part (well, the spirit version of him does; the decrepit old man version wears a suit and a tie). This is another example where the sting is taken off by having most of the heroes also be Chinese, though. Lo Pan himself is also not really presented as a peril to white America, and most of his crimes and depredations seem to be at the expense of other Chinese or Chinese-Americans. | |
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Warlord Kang, head of the Iron Dragon railroad in Deadlands. | |
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In the South Park episode "The China Probrem", the eternally racist Cartman sees the Bejing Olympic ceremonies as China's way of showing how large, dedicated and disciplined they are, construing it as a subtle military threat. In the end, the only threat is Butters's shaky aim. Earlier in "Chinpokomon," South Park had already parodied this trope by portraying a Phonýmon franchise as an Imperial Japanese indoctrination tool. They at least got around that by casting Japanese actors, using accurate Japanese language (which Trey Parker speaks fluently), and making it so over-the-top nobody could take it seriously. | |
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A subversion is related in one of Nightingale's anecdotes from Moon Over Soho, of how Folly police in 1911 went to bust someone they thought was a Chinese crime-lord and sorcerer. Turned out that, while he was indeed involved in white slavery, an offense often attributed to old-time Yellow Peril villains, he was also a white Canadian invoking this trope to throw off the cops. | |
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Kabai Sengh, leader of the Sengh Brotherhood in The Phantom. (The name was modified for the film to make it sound more Asian; in the comics it's Singh, which is Punjabi.) He is played by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who was the go-to guy for Asian supervillains back during the 1980s and 1990s (he played Shang Tsung in the Mortal Kombat: The Movie movie, for example). | |
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David Wingrove's Chung Kuo series of sci-fi novels averts this. The founder of the system actually saved mankind from extinction, but it became corrupted over time, so that dissenters of all ethnicities work together to overthrow the regime. In the reboots, perhaps in light of changes in international relations, it's...less averted. | |
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Project Superpowers tried to avert this with their modern version of the Claw, which was a giant Eldritch Abomination made out of hundreds of human bodies. | |
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Casey and Andy parodied World War II newspaper comic depiction of the Japanese adversaries in comics encouraging the public to buy war bonds to fight the "The Japoteer." | |
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Ra's al Ghul is explicitly modeled after this character type, essentially being a more Arabic-themed Fu Manchu with all of the trappings (beautiful daughter infatuated with the hero, vast criminal empire, supernatural elements). His creator, Denny O'Neil, commented that his face is meant to be an unidentifiable mixture of facial features so that he is neither Asian nor Arab (of course, considering his tribe came from China, he is Asian). He also has green or blue eyes (depending on the continuity) and in media tends to be portrayed by white European actors (Liam Neeson, David Warner). In an interesting example in the former's case, he was cast to subvert this trope. As Batman Begins was in development right after 9/11 and its aftermath, Warner Bros. didn't want to play into an Arab terrorist stereotype so Neeson was cast. | |
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Peking Duck, a minor villain in The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat is basically a G-rated variant of this. He's named after a Beijing duck recipe and dresses rather exotically, and he has two sumo wrestlers as henchmen. Not to mention his feathers are literally colored yellow. | |
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Played very straight in Henning Mankell's novel The Man From Beijing. Evil Chinese mastermind? Check. Sinister Chinese conspiracy to take over the world (well Africa anyway)? Check. Subtle Chinese murder techniques? Check. | |
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Nick Carter also subverted the trope with his relationship with the heroic Japanese detective Ten-Ichi. Further departing from the trope, Ten-Ichi marries June Lamartaine, a French woman, in Nick Carter Weekly #460 (21 October 1905);that kind of intermarriage was quite rare in 1905, both in fiction and in real life. | |
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The Madballs comic book published by defunct Marvel Comics subsidiary Star Comics featured a Chinese villainess named Maiden Hong Kong, who made her debut in the sixth issue attempting to coerce Chin's father into only making fortune cookies with nasty fortunes inside them. | |
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Wang, leader of the sinister Shai-Gen Corporation in Crackdown. | |
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Marshall Kai from Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb. Indy's love interest and Marshall Kai's assistant Mei Ying is not villainous though. At least not until she is posessed by the demon Kong Tien and becomes a boss you have to fight. | |
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Rurouni Kenshin includes a reversal of this in Shogo Amakusa, a mysterious westerner who used his mystical Christian powers to heal people and fight. | |
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Sixth Column depicts heroic white Americans fighting back against sinister (and themselves racist) "Pan-Asian" (A Chinese/Japanese alliance) invaders, with race-specific weapons. Heinlein usually made an effort to be non-racist, but when working with another's writings when you want to not anger them (as Heinlein did with John W. Campbell's All, the original story from which Sixth Column was modified) there's only so much a writer can do. | |
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In Cloverfield the Evil Corporation that apparently caused the awakening of the monster from the ocean's floor was the Japanese company Tagruato. | |
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In a number of The Goon Show episodes, e. g. "China Story" and the one where Fred Fu Manchu, the world's leading bamboo saxophone player, explodes all non-bamboo saxophones. | |
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Project I.G.I.: Covert Strike has the Big Bad, General Wu Xing, a rogue Chinese official behind the theft of an EMP device and working with Russian terrorists, intending to use the device to overthrow the Chinese government which he perceives as "weak, hopelessly corrupt" before starting a war on the west. Marketing and promotional materials at the time keeps his presence a secret, but revelation of the game's main villain leads to the game being banned in China six months after it's release. | |
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Warrior (2019) is set in San Francisco during the 1890s, and the anti-Chinese sentiment of the time is a huge part of the show's world - though one it emphatically does not espouse. | |
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The Chinese crime lord Soo Choy in The New Avengers episode "Trap", who wears traditional Chinese robes and a Mandarin cap and generally comes across as a poor man's Fu Manchu. Not helped by being played by a white actor in obvious Yellow Face. | |
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Indiana Jones briefly faces off against Chinese mobster Lao Che and his cronies in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Not particularly stereotypical (they speak near-perfect English), although all rather hammy. | |
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