History ComicStrip / TheWorldOfLilyWong

* AlienLunch: This is how Stuart's parents saw the food their banquet in their honor.

* CultureClash: A usual punchline in the strips.
* {{Eagleland}}: Mixed Flavor of Beautiful and Boorish. On the Beautiful side, the country was portrayed to have wide open spaces and individual houses with gardens that Stuart missed while in urbanized Hong Kong. On the Boorish side, Americans are portrayed as ignorant to other cultures, paranoid, and rude (though the last part is questionable as [[CultureClash the Hong Kong Chinese]] has manners that [[NotSoDifferent can be seen as "rude" for non-Hong Kong people as well]]).
* ElvisLives: ... and is dictator of China!
** UpToEleven: [[UsefulNotes/ToGetRichIsGlorious Deng]] later learns from party members that Qaddafi, Saddam and Slobodan Milosevic all claim to be Music/RickyNelson, Music/MarvinGaye and Music/JanisJoplin, respectively. Deng's response?
--->'''Deng:''' Think of the jam session we'd have!
--->'''Dictators:''' ''[Singing]'' [[Music/WeAreTheWorld We Rule the World ...]], [[RefugeInAudacity We Bomb the Children ...]]

* FriendingNetwork: Lily joins one in an arc and gets addicted.

* HenpeckedHusband: Stuart.
* HeroicBSOD: Stuart has this in [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980518.htm a story arc]].
* InstantBirthJustAddWater: Averted. Lily's labor takes place over an entire story arc.

* TheInternetIsForPorn: This is obviously put up in a series of strips involving the internet.

* Manhua
* TheMafia: Rudy Joins the Mafia

** This is TruthInTelevision insofar as it isn't rare for Chinese parents to share living accommodations with their adult children and take an active interest in their lives. And that brings us to ...

* MoneyDearBoy, OnlyInItForTheMoney: In-universe, most of the Hong Kongers are depicted as such.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Averted. Such figures as Deng Xiaoping and UsefulNotes/BillClinton appear as themselves.
* ObnoxiousInLaws

* ReincarnationRomance: Parodied in a story arc that depicted Stuart's previous incarnation as a British sailor at the time of the foundation of Hong Kong, and Lily as a haughty local lady.
** ExaggeratedTrope: The Psychic tells both Stuart and Lily that they were lovers since the beginning of time.

* SexySecretary: Lily

* TheSlacker: Rudy, Lily's lazy bum of a younger brother.
* SuddenlyBilingual: Both Lily and Stuart discover this, as Crystal cries differently to each of them.

* TrappedByGamblingDebts: Happens plenty of times to Rudy.
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Of course.

* {{Eagleland}}: Mixed Flavor of Beautiful and Boorish. On the Beautiful side, the country was portrayed to have wide open spaces and individual houses with gardens that Stuart missed while in urbanized Hong Kong. On the Boorish side, Americans are portrayed as ignorant to other cultures, paranoid, and rude (though [[CultureClash only for the Hong Kong Chinese]] and [[NotSoDifferent also rude for non-Hong Kong people as well]]).

* {{Eagleland}}: Mixed Flavor of Beautiful and Boorish. On the Beautiful side, the country was portrayed to have wide open spaces and individual houses with gardens that Stuart missed while in urbanized Hong Kong. On the Boorish side, Americans are portrayed as ignorant to other cultures, paranoid, and rude (though [[CultureClash only for the Hong Kong Chinese]]).

* {{Eagleland}}: Mixed.

-->'''Rudy:''' ''[holding a video tape]'' [[LampshadeHanging Yet another Hong Kong rip-off of]] [[HollywoodHypeMachine over hyped]] [[CashCowFranchise successful]] [[TheFlintstones foreign entertaiment product ...]]

The title character is a UsefulNotes/HongKong woman married to an American expatriate. The comic focuses on Lily's daily family and professional life, among her live-at-home parents, her ne'er-do-well brother, her henpecked husband and her ethnically mixed baby daughter. The name of the comic is a parodic ShoutOut to the classic movie ''The World of Suzie Wong''.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The strip was cancelled after Feign trod on the sensibilities of the PRC's leadership too much. The owners of the newspapers it ran in had extensive interests in the mainland, and apparently had been pressured.
** Then the strip {{Channel Hop}}ped to The Independent, Hong Kong Standard (called Hong Kong [[IProduct iMail]] at the time) and finally to their official website.

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The title character is a HongKong woman married to an American expatriate. The comic focuses on Lily's daily family and professional life, among her live-at-home parents, her ne'er-do-well brother, her henpecked husband and her ethnically mixed baby daughter. The name of the comic is a parodic ShoutOut to the classic movie ''The World of Suzie Wong''.

* AffectionateParody: A series of strips had [[Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire The Lost Shopping Mall of Atlantis]] and [[TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001: A Space aieeyaadyssey]]

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: When Stuarts's American parents come visiting, their behavior is so embarrassing that he puts on a disguise and pretends not to know them.
* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: Lily is given one by a businessman after he hears she's related to a Communist Party official. "And so we're trying to get planning permission for this new industrial/office complex in Guilin..."
* CaptainErsatz: [[TheFlintstones Meet the Fongstones]]. As quoted,
-->'''Rudy''': (Holding a video tape) ''[[LampshadeHanging Yet another Hong Kong rip-off of]] [[HollywoodHypeMachine over hyped]] [[CashCowFranchise successful]] [[TheFlintstones foreign entertaiment product...]]''
* ComicBookTime: Subverted, Crystal aged real time between the TimeSkip, but the rest of the cast looks the same.
* CrossOver: One story arc featured TheFabulousFurryFreakBrothers coming over to Hong Kong after hearing how the city was founded on dope smuggling.

* ElvisLives: ... and dictator of China!
** UpToEleven: [[ToGetRichIsGlorious Deng]] later learns from party members that Qaddafi, Saddam and Slobodan Milosevic all claim to be RickyNelson, MarvinGaye and JanisJoplin, respectively. Deng's response?
-->'''Deng''': ''Think of the jam session we'd have!''
-->'''Dictators''': (Singing) ''[[Music/WeAreTheWorld We Rule the World...]], [[RefugeInAudacity We Bomb the Children...]]''

** Then the strip ChannelHop to The Independent, Hong Kong Standard (called Hong Kong [[IProduct iMail]] at the time) and finally to their official website.
* FriendingNetwork: Lily joined one in an arc and got addicted.
* GreenAesop: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in a strip that had Rudy with a horse racing pamphlet versus a man in a suit littering newspaper pages.

-->'''Tokyo Ground Control''': ''This is ground control... For the 28th time, Hong Kong is'' '''not''' ''in Japan''
-->'''Co-Pilot''': '''''Listen, you lyin' S.O.B.! Let me remind you who won the war!'''''

* IWantGrandkids: An arc had Lily's dad begging for grandkids after playing mahjong with his friends. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope This is more in the lines of him]] FollowTheLeader.]]

** This is TruthInTelevision insofar as it isn't rare for Chinese parents to share living accommodations with their adult children and take an active interest in their lives. And that brings us to...

-->'''Stuart''': ''My wife... (pant) baby... (pant) bring me to her...''
-->'''Nurse''': ''Not allow. You wait in here.''
-->'''Stuart''': ''But I'm the father!''
-->'''Nurse''': ''Sorry. Only hospital staff allow.''
-->'''Stuart''': ''But but but--at least find out for me if it's born yet! and the sex! ask the sex!''
-->'''Nurse''' (to her colleagues): ''Some gweilo out there interested in sex.''
-->'''Other nurse''': ''Aren't they all...''

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Averted. Such figures as Deng Xiaoping and Bill Clinton appear as themselves.

* ProductPlacement: Lily and Rudy appeared in a [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc990517.htm couple of strips for Cathay Pacific]]

-->'''Cell!Stuart''': ''Hoo-ee!, Looka that cute Hong Kong flu virus!''
-->'''Cell!Lily''': ''Keep your falgella to your self microbe breath!''

* SexyStewardess: Conversed by Stuart as he and Lily were picking airlines.
-->'''Stuart''': ''[[BlatantLies I'm merely making an informed choice based on information provided.]]''

* SuddenlyBilingual: Both Lily and Stuart discovered this as Crystal cried differently to each other.
* StrawFeminist: [[FunWithAcronyms G.I.R.L.]] , the Gwaipo Infidelity Reduction League.

--->'''Erma''':''[[GratuitousGerman Achtung! wir müßen nur Deutsch, Lateinisch oder Russisch sprechen.]]''
--->'''Crystal''':''я голоден''
--->'''Stuart''':''[[LampshadeHanging Next time we hire a maid]]'' '''[[LampshadeHanging without]]''' ''[[LampshadeHanging a Master's Degree!]]''

--->'''XYXYZ''':''Take us to Lu''
--->'''Lily''':''Lu Ping? but he's in Beijing! If you mean take you to our leader, that would be Patten. Unless you mean paramount leader Deng Xiaoping...''
--->'''XYXYZ''':''Tsk! Ask these Earthlings for a toilet, and they make a major case out of it!''
* TimeSkip: Between it's last printed newspaper strip and revival, 5 years past as shown in the first strip of the revival.
* TrappedByGamblingDebts: Happened plenty of times to Rudy.

* AffectionateParody: A series of strips had [[AtlantisTheLostEmpire The Lost Shopping Mall of Atlantis]] and [[TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001: A Space aieeyaadyssey]]

-->'''Dictators''': (Singing) ''[[WeAreTheWorld We Rule the World...]], [[RefugeInAudacity We Bomb the Children...]]''

--->'''Crystal''':''Я Голоде&#1085''

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: When the husband's American parents come visiting, their behavior is so embarrassing that he puts on a disguise and pretends not to know them.
''': ''Of course it don't work in Hong Kong! According to the Hong Kong laws of physics, all matter ends up in the harbour!''

* AffectionateParody: [[http://www.humorist.net/books/book16s.htm Attack Of The Diced Chicken has]] [[AtlantisTheLostEmpire The Lost Shopping Mall of Atlantis]] and [[TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001: A Space aieeyaadyssey]]
* [[AliensinCardiff Aliens in Hong Kong]] [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980216.htm Here]] and [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc990308.htm this]] [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc990315.htm story]] [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc990322.htm arc.]]
* AlienLunch: [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980921.htm How Stuart's parents saw the food their banquet.]]
* AllThereInTheManual: [[http://www.lilywong.net/glossary.htm The glossary of Hong Kong terms]].

* AndThenWhat: Between Lily and Crystal [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive2008/lilyarc013e.html here (third strip)]].
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Rudy shows Lily and Stuart a black hole from the aliens from [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc990322.htm the story arc.]]
-->'''Stuart''': ''[[LampshadeHanging Impossible! That can't be a black hole- according to the laws of physics, it would suck up all surrounding matter!]]''
-->'''Rudy''': ''Of course it don't work in Hong Kong! According to the Hong Kong laws of physics, all matter ends up in the harbour!''

* TheButlerDidIt: [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc990517.htm Second to last strip.]]
* CaptainErsatz: [[TheFlintstones Meet the]] [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980615.htm Fongstones]]. As quoted,

** Lily and Rudy later appeared in a [[http://www.humorist.net/political/splash/splash4.htm political cartoon by Feign, about the 1997 handover.]] Rudy shows Lily his TheMerch he's selling; a Transformer that turns from communist to capitalist, literal RoseTintedGlasses and "The Handover Sandwich" symbolizing the China's promises and Britain's reassurances.
--->'''Rudy''': ''[[StealthPun In other words,]] [[TakeThat two slices of baloney!]]''
* CultureClash: [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980608.htm Here]], [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc981130.htm here]] and [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc990118.htm there]].

* ElvisLives: ... and [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980622.htm dictator]] [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980629.htm of China!]]

* FriendingNetwork: Lily joined one [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive2008/lilyarc011e.html in this arc]].
* GreenAesop: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980810.htm in the last strip]]

* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Discussed [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980921.htm here]]

* TheInternetIsForPorn: [[AllMenArePerverts Naturally]] for Stuart [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc990222.htm here]].
* IronicEcho: [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc990208.htm I don't want our child speaking Tagalog!]]
* IWantGrandkids: [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive2008/lilyarc006e.html This arc]] * [[spoiler: {{Subverted}}]]

* TheMafia: [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc971215.htm Rudy tires to join the Mafia]]

* MermaidProblem: Surprisingly [[AvertedTrope Averted]] [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980914.htm here]]. Justified as it wasn't brought up.
* MileHighClub: {{Subverted}} [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc990517.htm here (last strip)]]

* TheNoseless: [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980420.htm Mei-Ling]]

* [[spoiler:OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: The reason Rudy was abducted in the [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc990315.htm second alien story arc.]]]]
* PantyThief: [[ExploitedTrope Exploited]]: [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980907.htm Rudy goes into business after reading about a similar venture in Japan.]] [[spoiler: It didn't work out]]
* PopCultureIsolation: In universe, [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc990118.htm both Lily and Stuart can't bear each other's music tastes]], [[DefiedTrope but it makes their love stronger.]]

-->'''Cell!Stuart''': ''[[MaleGaze Hoo-ee!]], Looka that cute Hong Kong flu virus!''
-->'''Cell!Lily''': ''[[HoldYourHippogriffs Keep your falgella to your self microbe breath!]]''

* SexyStewardess: Conversed by Stuart in the [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980824.htm third to last strip here.]]

* SuddenlyBilingual: Both Lily and Stuart discovered as Crystal cried differently.
--->'''Stuart''': ''[[LampshadeHanging My little girl's bilingual!]]''
* StrawFeminist: [[FunWithAcronyms G.I.R.L.]] , the [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive2008/lilyarc019e.html Gwaipo Infidelity Reduction League]]

--->'''Crystal''':''Я Голоден''

* TakeMeToYourLeader: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980216.htm Here]]

* TimeSkip: Between it's last printed newspaper strip and revival, 5 years past as shown [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive2008/lilyarc001e.html here.]]
* TrappedByGamblingDebts: Happened [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980105.htm once]] [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive2008/lilyarc005e.html or]] [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive2008/lilyarc015e.html twice]] to Rudy.

* VacationEpisode: The cast goes to UsefulNotes/{{Singapore}} in a [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980824.htm story]] [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980831.htm arc]] and [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980907.htm spills to another]].

* AllAsiansAreAlike: Discussed [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980921.htm here]]
-->'''Tokyo Ground Control''': ''This is ground control... For the 28th time, Hong Kong is'' '''not''' ''in Japan''
-->'''Co-Pilot''': '''''Listen, you lyin' S.O.B.! Let me remind you who won the war!'''''

--->'''Crystal''':''[[GratuitousRussian я голоден]]''

--->'''Crystal''':''[[GratuitousRussian я гoЛoДeh]]''

* VacationEpisode: The cast goes to {{Singapore}} in a [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980824.htm story]] [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980831.htm arc]] and [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980907.htm spills to another]].

* AsianGalWithWhiteGuy: The main characters. Parodies some stereotypes. While Lily Wong is indeed married to a Westerner, she very much calls the shots in the relationship. Also referenced when Lily's husband shows up at the maternity:
-->'''Stuart''': ''My wife... (pant) baby... (pant) bring me to her...''
-->'''Nurse''': ''Not allow. You wait in here.''
-->'''Stuart''': ''But I'm the father!''
-->'''Nurse''': ''Sorry. Only hospital staff allow.''
-->'''Stuart''': ''But but but--at least find out for me if it's born yet! and the sex! ask the sex!''
-->'''Nurse''' (to her colleagues): ''Some gweilo out there interested in sex.''
-->'''Other nurse''': ''Aren't they all...''

* AlienLunch: [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980921.htm How Stuart's saw the food their banquet.]]

* StrawFeminist: [[FunWithAcronyms G.I.R.L.]], the [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive2008/lilyarc019e.html Gwaipo Infidelity Reduction League]]

--->'''Rudy''': ''In other words, [[StealthPun two slices of baloney!]]''

** UpToEleven: [[ToGetRichIsGlorious Deng]] later learns from party members that Qaddafi, Saddam and Slobodan Milosevic all claim to be RickyNelson, MarvinGaye and JanisJoplin, respectively; Deng's response?

* Manhwa

--->'''Stuart''': '''[[LampshadeHanging My little girl's bilingual!]]

--->'''Erma''':''[[GratuitousGerman Achtung! wir müßen nur Deutsch, Lateinisch oder Russisch sprechen.]]
--->'''Crystal''':''[[GratuitousRussian я гoЛoДeh]]
--->'''Stuart''':''[[LampshadeHanging Next time we hire a maid '''without''' a Master's Degree!]]
* {{Tsundere}}: At first, Lily's very cold and rude to Stuart, scorning his obvious devotion. Even after they're married, she's not above delivering the occasional zinger.

* ReincarnationRomance: Parodied in a story arc that depicted the husband's previous incarnation as a British sailor at the time of the foundation of Hong Kong, and Lily as a haughty local lady.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Several of the strips allude to Hong Kong and Chinese politics.

* ChinesePeople: Most of the cast.

* MeLoveYouLongTime: Parodied. While Lily Wong is indeed married to a Westerner, she very much calls the shots in the relationship. Also referenced when Lily's husband shows up at the maternity:
-->'''Stuart''': ''My wife... (pant) baby... (pant) bring me to her...''
-->'''Nurse''': ''Not allow. You wait in here.''
-->'''Stuart''': ''But I'm the father!''
-->'''Nurse''': ''Sorry. Only hospital staff allow.''
-->'''Stuart''': ''But but but--at least find out for me if it's born yet! and the sex! ask the sex!''
-->'''Nurse''' (to her colleagues): ''Some gweilo out there interested in sex.''
-->'''Other nurse''': ''Aren't they all...''