History Main / MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales

* The allegedly offensive character [[PositiveStereotypeTropes has a good side]] -- WesternAnimation/{{Speedy|Gonzales}} as the TropeNamer may be stereotypical but he is an adored [[TheCape hero of the people]] with SuperSpeed while also shrewd, energetic, determined and [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin always wins]].

** All Might, an AffectionateParody of Superman-type superheroes, certainly isn't a ''negative'' stereotype; but a ridiculously muscular perpetually-grinning superhero who [[CallingYourAttacks shouts the names of U.S. states or cities when he attacks]] would probably be seen as corny (at best, and [[MyCountryRightOrWrong excessively patriotic]] at worst) if he came from an American creator. But, since it's a foreign franchise -- and because despite his {{Eagleland}} style, he's actually Japanese -- Americans see All Might as more of a love letter to the positive aspects of their culture, making him very popular, and possibly the [[JustForFun/ComeForTheXStayForTheY biggest draw for newcomers]]. It helps that he falls under the "Boisterous American" stereotype that frequently leads to this trope due to Americans seeing themselves that way, is a lovingly made Main/{{Expy}} of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, and is also a 100% legitimate IdealHero beloved by many in-universe and a deeply well-written character in his own right.

** When ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' was announced, many players (particularly Americans) were up in arms over the appearance of Mario on the second world where he sports a poncho and a sombrero on top of Mario's signature bushy moustache while he runs around a town of colorful skeleton people and saw it all as an offensive stereotype of Mexicans. Mexican fans on the other hand (following the example of the TropeNamer) were ecstatic at seeing a character as beloved as Mario running around a fantasy version of Mexico, and most of their responses to people claiming it was offensive was to tell them to shut up and stop speaking for them, it also helps that Mario and his franchise is [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff HUGE in Mexico]]. Mexican fans were also saddened after Nintendo, presumably due to the aforementioned American backlash, swapped a screencap of Mario wearing the sombrero with one of Mario swimming in the Lake Kingdom on the game's box art.

** The TropeNamer is WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales. Despite being an obvious stereotype of Mexicans, he's still a particularly popular and beloved character in Mexico and throughout Latin America, where his cartoons still run to this day.

* Surprisingly, ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' is liked by a variety of People worldwide aside with Military Geeks. Even more surprising that many of these fans come from China and Southeast Asia, basically the regions where Japanese occupations during World War II were felt the harshest.

** The song ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VPxmXPFOvY San Diego]]'' from the episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS16E5Butterballs Butterballs]]" is very popular among San Diegans, with some local fans even (jokingly) wanting it to be the city's official song. It helps that the song does advertise many of the city's iconic locations, and that it mainly mocks an event only tangibly-related to the city.[[note]] Where the controversial [=YouTuber=] Jason Russell was arrested for public nudity and disrupting traffic in the city.[[/note]]

* While it has garnered some controversy for usage of a derogatory word in the title, there is a large number of trans people who enjoy Harley Poe's "Transvestites Can Be Cannibals Too", which primarily helps as the lyrics portray the transphobes being eaten as {{Asshole Victim}}s.

* During screenings of ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' for Egyptian censors, the producers worried that Bond's "Egyptian builders!" quip would be poorly received, but it got a huge laugh.

* The character of Ben Jabituya from ''Film/ShortCircuit'' and its sequel is an Indian-American character played by a white actor, Creator/FisherStevens. In spite of the casting choice, Ben is liked by Indian and Indian-American viewers, helped by the fact he is portrayed in a positive light with little of his personality being stereotypically Indian (Stevens has said the role was originally written as white, and the decision to make Ben an Indian-American only happened after an attempt to cast Creator/BronsonPinchot in the role fell through), plus in the sequel he undergoes more character development. During [[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/arts/television/aziz-ansari-on-acting-race-and-hollywood.html?_r=0&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Television&action=keypress®ion=FixedLeft&pgtype=article a 2015 discussion between]] Creator/AzizAnsari and Stevens on the subject, Ansari noted that he did not view Stevens as a bad guy or someone who played Ben as a tired stereotype, and agreed with Stevens that the role would be played by an actor of Indian or South Asian descent had the movie been made in modern times.

* In the Wii iteration of ''VideoGame/PunchOut'', every opponent is a blatant stereotype designed to be [[TakeThatScrappy all the more satisfying to beat senseless]]. However, the characters are by far ''the'' most loved part of the game, in no short part due to the surprisingly good writing, the flawless [[BilingualBonus foreign languages]] with its international opponents, and the fact that each stereotype is an AffectionateParody of a ''national'' stereotype versus an ethnic one, which is all the more apparent with how Nintendo and Next Level Games takes the piss out of their own home nations with [[UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} Piston Honda]] and [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Bear]] [[CanadaEh Hugger]]. Combine this with [[ShownTheirWork the surprising amount of research dedicated to affectionately lampooning each nation]], and you got yourself a rare fusion of an AllStereotypeCast and CastOfSnowflakes... and people love it! Respectively with the most popular instances:

** Many Canadians have found in Bear Hugger a very fun, endearing character; and a big part of it has to do with how he lampoons Canadian stereotypes by invoking CanadaEh in different ways (drinking maple syrup, saying "eh?" frequently, and working as a lumberjack when he isn't boxing). It's evident that Next Level Games had the time of their lives when bringing this character to the Wii game.

** Canadians seem to have taken the jibes at their accent and their country in the movie version of the series with good humor. Canadian fans tend to love anything involving Terrance and Phillip. It probably helps that the depiction of Canada isn't just based in [[CanadaEh stereotypes]], but is a {{Cloudcuckooland}} that doesn't quite match up to ''any'' real-world culture.

* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' invokes EveryoneIsBi for shock value and RefugeInAudacity, plus the token gay character Xandir Wifflebottom is an extremely stereotypical effeminate {{twink}} who receives tons of homophobic jokes and gets sexually harassed by one of the main female characters. The show (and especially Xandir) still has quite the LGBTFanbase though, because homosexuality/bisexuality gets so normalized and Xandir tends to be OnlySaneMan while still being an entertaining character. As stated before, just about ''every'' group gets ripped to shreds as part of the shock humor which barely makes the homophobic jokes stand out.

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** When ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' was announced, many players (particularly Americans) were up in arms over the appearance of Mario on the second world where he sports a poncho and a sombrero on top of Mario's signature bushy moustache while he runs around a town of colorful skeleton people and saw it all as an offensive stereotype of Mexicans. Mexican fans on the other hand (following the example of the TropeNamer) were ecstatic at seeing a character as beloved as Mario running around a fantasy version of Mexico, and most of their responses to people claiming it was offensive was to tell them to shut up and stop speaking for them, it also helps that Mario and his franchise is [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff HUGE in Mexico]]. Mexican fans were also saddened after Nintendo, presumably due to the aforementioned American backlash, removed a screencap of Mario wearing the sombrero from the game's box art.

* Hana of ''Anime/TokyoGodfathers'' is a pretty stereotypical [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} trans woman]] character, with as much [[CampGay flamboyance]] and cheap jokes about her being physically masculine as you'd expect. However, she's liked by trans fans of the film for being [[TheHeart the most kind-hearted member of the cast]], for having a sympathetic storyline and [[ActionMom some badass moments]], and for getting a happy ending, not [[BuryYourGays the usual death]]. It helps that her GKIDS voice actress, Shakina Nayfack, is trans like her.

* A North Korean children's show, ''Animation/SquirrelAndHedgehog'', depicts the unfortunate peninsula as a land where {{Funny Animal}}s [[CrapsaccharineWorld wage war on each other]]. In contrast to the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter cute chipmunks and ducks]] that dwell in Furry North Korea, the Evil Americans are represented as [[EvilSoundsDeep deep-voiced]] bipedal wolves with [[PowerGlows glowing blue eyes]] wearing [[BadassLongcoat greatcoats]] while flying [[CoolPlane rocket-powered robo-falcons]] and [[SuperStrength tossing around Jeeps]]. There is also a UsefulNotes/FurryFandom version of [[Franchise/GIJoe The Baroness]]: [[MsFanservice Lieutenant Vixen]], a badass with [[HartmanHips curvy, sashaying hips]], wearing a [[GoodLookingPrivates military uniform]] and glasses. Americans' response to this has generally been "Were you trying to ''insult'' us? [[InsultBackfire It's not working]]." This is a ''huge'' case of ValuesDissonance; North Korean philosophy teaches that Koreans are a gentle, innocent people beset on all sides by vicious, bloodthirsty killers that would annihilate the Koreans were it not for North Korea's "great leaders". Thus the North Koreans really do see it as an insult to portray Americans as wolves no matter how cool it seems to the Americans themselves. Even putting aside said ValuesDissonance, another reason it fell flat was that [[DesignatedHero Flower Hill's actions]] paint them way off from their supposed portrayal of the moral underdog, while for the Americans it could be a case of AtLeastIAdmitIt.

* The cast of ''VideoGame/{{Divekick}}'' is a parody of various figures from the UsefulNotes/FightingGameCommunity, and the gameplay itself consists of doing nothing but the popular diving kick attack. Despite this, it was released to positive reception from those in the FGC. This is due to gameplay being stripped down to the bare essentials and embodying the main draw of Fighting game gameplay ([[RocketTagGameplay positioning and finding the best opportunity to strike]]).

* Website/CollegeHumor's ''Furry Force'' videos are rather popular with the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom, despite mocking said fandom (specifically its kinkier side). The show was even nominated for and won the "Best Anthropomorphic Dramatic Short Work or Series" category of the annual Ursa Major Awards. The creators' familiarity with the fandom through PopCulturalOsmosis, as stated in an AMA hosted on the r/furry [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]], definitely helps.

* The targeted group sees the stereotype as positive, where it's offensive ''because'' of [[ValuesDissonance rubbing against local values]] but is hardly an issue outside of the place of origin. [[{{Eagleland}} American stereotypes]] are casually ignored because the HotBlooded, LargeHam BoisterousBruiser is a hell of a lot of fun to watch and a heroic archetype, as well as [[ValuesResonance fitting well with Americans' own understanding of their national identity]].

* Quite similar to Speedy Gonzales is the Frito Bandito, a character Frito-Lay used from 1967 to 1971 to advertise their Frito chips. Being a creation from a U.S. ad agency of the 1960s, he was just as stereotypical as Gonzales, down to sharing the same [[Creator/MelBlanc voice actor]]. Reactions from Mexican-Americans were mixed: while anti-defamation groups successfully lobbied for the retirement of Bandito, surveys in four cities in California and Texas conducted by the ad agency that created Bandito claimed that 85% of Mexican-Americans liked him. Frito-Lay reportedly received a letter from a Los Angeles junior high school with a predominantly Mexican student body saying "If you take away the Bandito, we'll stop buying Fritos." In Mexico itself, the character was very popular.
* Mars Inc. had a few commercials for their Starburst candies which featured "Scotch-Koreans" (Korean people who speak with thick Scottish accents and play up classic Scottish stereotypes like playing bagpipes by foggy lakes), which wound up being pretty well-received by actual Scots of Korean descent. They know the commercials aren't taking themselves the least bit seriously and are happy to see Scottish-Korean ''anything'' in the mainstream.

* Creator/EliRoth's ''Film/TheGreenInferno'' features members of an actual Peruvian tribe as the cannibal tribe. According to Roth, in order to teach them what a movie was, he and the crew brought in a generator and a TV and showed them the infamous ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'' to give them an idea of what they were being asked to do. They all loved it, thinking it was a comedy, and instantly signed on to play cannibals. Roth chalked it up to a strong culture of storytelling among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon.

* Many (not all, but many enough) Poles think fondly of the Russian film ''1612'', which tells the story of heroic Russians expelling Polish occupiers out of their country. This is mostly because, for a change, it's the Poles who are the [[EvilIsCool evil badasses]] who kick everyone's backsides until the film's heroes finally get their stuff together.

* The Chinese big budget anti-American propaganda film about [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar the Korean War]] ''The Battle for Lake Changjin'', portrays [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks American troops]] as overwhelmingly powerful, over the top macho badasses, and pretty much anywhere [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmBjkb-r8Fw footage of the American forces]] in the film pops up, is filled with comments of Americans enjoying such, like [[https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/y4k71c/be_the_america_chinese_propaganda_says_you_are/ these reactions]] to its portrayal of UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur.

* Many Asian-American critics dislike the ''Film/CharlieChan'' franchise because of its {{Ice Cream Koan}}s, {{Yellowface}} (despite the fact that the actor playing Charlie in the first iteration was actually 1/4 Mongolian), misrepresentation of Chinese culture, [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish broken English]], and the title character's alleged subservience to whites. However, he's also a brilliant, law-abiding detective [[FairForItsDay in a time]] where most Chinese characters were [[YellowPeril villains]] and some of his Ice Cream Koans are funny. Plus, Chan is the hero of the series, always defeating the villain. While Chan is a stereotype, his children are shown as being all-American kids (Number One Son, Lee, even wins a Gold Medal in the 1936 Olympics!) and were played by actual Asian actors. This has earned the franchise a few Asian-American defenders, including actor Keye Luke (who would voice his [[WesternAnimation/TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan animated equivalent]]). The enormous popularity in East Asia could also be due to ValuesDissonance. The use of color-face (blackface, whiteface, yellowface) isn't seen as offensive as in the U.S., especially if it's not used spitefully. A commercial by Nippon Airline had an actor dressing up in whiteface for a gag, and most Japanese didn't see the problem, and an English competition in China featured middle school students dressed as "foreigners".
** It's worth noting that the books are better-received, as many aspects that Asian-Americans disliked about the films are downplayed or even completely absent in the books.

* Japanese audiences didn't seem to mind ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017''. In America, the film was slammed for casting the white Creator/ScarlettJohansson as the Major (who was Japanese in the original anime). But in Japan [[https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2017/04/japanese-audiences-praise-ghost-in-the-shell-remake-and-are-happy-with-scarlett-johanssons-casting/ a lot of people praised the casting]], including the director of the original, since Scarlett Johansson really ''does'' look like the Major as depicted [[Anime/GhostInTheShell1995 in the original anime]]. Ironically the film also changes the location (though it's only implied) from Japan to Hong Kong.
** In this case the American media may have been the more relevant part; the setting of the franchise does a lot of weird if not terribly overt things with national stereotypes (if Caucasian Americans show up, they'll usually behave stereotypically Japanese in a sinister way -- but the Japanese stereotype of "sinister Japanese" rather than YellowPeril, and a lot of the heroic characters are based on non-Japanese stock roles to start with). And it's a part of the Major's character in particular that she has the outward appearance of a generically pretty adult woman who doesn't even resemble in face or body the woman she might have naturally grown up as. The franchise was obscure enough some entertainment writers unfamiliar with the work had to come up with something to talk about, and it was developed at a time when other movies' similar casting choices were controversial.

* The Tom Cruise movie ''Film/TheLastSamurai'', despite taking many "liberties" with Japanese history, is beloved over in Japan because they think it's really cool. This also might have something to do with the fact that the movie used actual Japanese actors like Creator/KenWatanabe instead of [[FakeNationality other]] [[InterchangeableAsianCultures East]] [[RacialFaceBlindness Asians]]. It's also a movie that basically praises the good old days, which is something that any nostalgia junkie would get behind. Both in spite, and because it wasn't as great as people would like it to be.
** This is particularly ironic as the Japanese troops trained in Western combat were world renowned after the Russo-Japanese War for how well they followed the rules of war and the honor with which they treated their captives. The people wanting to return to the old ways of bushido are responsible for the Japanese army becoming monstrous during WWII, but they are depicted as good guys fighting evil progress in this film.

* The 1989 Creator/KirkCameron[=/=]Creator/JamiGertz drama ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097756/?ref_=tttr_tr_tt Listen to Me]]'' has a cult following among the competitive speech and debate community for its totally unrealistic and [[{{Narm}} excessively melodramatic]] portrayal of college debate.

* [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} Cryme Tyme]] were a pair of two [[UncleTomFoolery African American thugs who talked slang and stole.]] Despite the massive stereotypes they ended up being one of the most popular tag teams during their time together, including with black audiences. JTG and Shad Gaspard[[note]]Who sadly passed away in 2020 after drowning while attempting to save his son from a rip current off the coast of Los Angeles. It wasn't a futile attempt; his son was rescued.[[/note]] were ''Myth/RobinHood''-[[JustLikeRobinHood like]] [[LoveableRogue face characters]] during almost their entire WWE run, and always got the better of their (somehow always deserving) heel victims.

* VideoGame/MoshiMonsters: Despite the fact that their ambiguous gender, as well as the fact that they beat up anyone who asks about their gender, is treated as the subject of a joke[[note]]at least until Moshi Monsters Rewritten was released[[/note]], many fans have considered them a non-binary icon.

*** From 1999 to 2002, ''Speedy'' cartoons were banned in the USA by Cartoon Network, who had exclusive broadcasting rights, and discontinued by Warner Bros. but a massive fan campaign and lobbying by the League of United Latin American Citizens eventually led to this practice ending. The temporary discontinuation was referenced in ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' when Porky Pig meets Speedy at the Warner Bros. canteen and they talk about how political correctness ruined their careers, since Porky has a handicap ([[SpeechImpediment stuttering]]) and Speedy belongs to an ethnic minority.

** Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone have stated that the people who enjoyed "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E12AllAboutMormons All About Mormons]]" were mostly Mormons themselves. It definitely helps that, although the episode heavily mocked the Mormon faith, they ended the episode with an intended TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Gary that says nothing but nice things about them.

** "[[Recap/SouthParkS26E2TheWorldwidePrivacyTour The Worldwide Privacy Tour]]" was incredibly popular in the United Kingdom who enjoyed the parody of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, having grown tired of their antics.

** José Carioca from ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'', ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'' and ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'' is ''heavily'' popular in Brazil, even rivaling with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in popularity among the Brazilian fans. He has been featured prominently in the local Disney comics since the 1950s, and has his own comic book since 1961, with stories entirely made by Brazilian Disney artists. Interestingly, as the years passed, some of the Brazilian authors actually made him a little less stereotypical by giving him new outfits, more consistent with the weather and contemporary fashion in Brazil -- let's not forget his original clothes reflect the style of Rio in [[TheForties the 1940s]] -- and introducing new characters, such as his many friends from the neighborhood and his cousins from different parts of Brazil, thus giving him a wider range of possibilities for the stories and better opportunities to exploit lesser-known aspects of the Brazilian culture.

* ''Series/LastManStanding'' despite featuring a number of jokes at the expense of liberals has a pretty sizable left-leaning fanbase as they appreciate the show having three-dimensional female characters and a prominent gay character who isn't stereotyped and the show does have progressive messages at times. Plus leftists can relate to everyone getting annoyed with [[StrawFeminist Ryan]] as many of them know at least one person like him whom they can't stand.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Squidward was written to be the curmudgeonly, boring and overly-mature {{foil}} to [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick, living a joyless life, being annoyed by their constant shenanigans, failing to make it as an artist, and hating his BurgerFool job at the Krusty Krab (in contrast to [=SpongeBob=] absolutely loving the work). All these traits made him popular among [[PeripheryDemographic the show's adult audience]], who found him and his struggles to be surprisingly relatable.

** Despite the character being extremely controversial due to being considered ableist, Derpy Hooves/Ditzy Doo/[[IHaveManyNames Muffins]] is a favorite among disabled fans, and many fanworks portray her [[FishEyes eye problem]] and clumsiness in a sympathetic and relatable manner.

* ''Film/NachoLibre'' was made as an AffectionateParody of [[MaskedLuchador lucha libre wrestling]], and it's positively adored by many Mexican viewers for its silly, yet earnest and loving depiction of the national pastime (the fact its star, Creator/JackBlack, [[FakeNationality isn't even of Mexican descent]], only adds to the strange charm). It helps that the villain Ramses was played by Wrestling/SilverKing, an actual luchador.

* Czech comedy TV series ''Kosmo'', telling a story of a Czech-Slovak-Polish race to the Moon, has become a viral sensation in Poland. This is not so much in spite as because it depicts the Poles as [[Literature/SienkiewiczTrilogy four nobleman types]] [[Series/CzterejPancerniIPies and a dog]] in a rocket topped with a cross and emblazoned with an image of pope John Paul II riding a tiger and wielding a flaming sword, who only answer to a call for help if it's from another Pole.

* ''Film/NachoLibre'' was made as an AffectionateParody of [[MaskedLuchador lucha libre wrestling]], and it's positively adored by many Mexican viewers for its silly, yet earnest and loving depiction of the national pastime (the fact its star, Creator/JackBlack, [[FakeNationality isn't even of Mexican descent]], only adds to the strange charm).