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The series follows Jin Wang, an Asian-American teen struggling to fit in, as he is drawn into a struggle of mythic proportions with the arrival of a new foreign exchange student. The series premiered on Creator/DisneyPlus May 24, 2023. In January 2024, it was announced the series was canceled after one season, with the creative team planing to shop it to other outlets.
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The series follows Jin Wang, an Asian-American teen struggling to fit in, as he is drawn into a struggle of mythic proportions with the arrival of a new foreign exchange student. The series premiered on Creator/DisneyPlus May 24, 2023. In January 2024, it was announced the series was canceled after one season, with the creative team planing planning to shop it to other outlets.
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* ActionizedAdaptation: The original comic was largely introspective and contained relatively little action, while the series has a heavy focus on martial arts and a war between gods.
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The series follows Jin Wang, an Asian-American teen struggling to fit in, as he is drawn into a struggle of mythic proportions with the arrival of a new foreign exchange student. The series premiered on Creator/DisneyPlus May 24, 2023. In January 2024, it was announced the series was canceled after one season.
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The series follows Jin Wang, an Asian-American teen struggling to fit in, as he is drawn into a struggle of mythic proportions with the arrival of a new foreign exchange student. The series premiered on Creator/DisneyPlus May 24, 2023. In January 2024, it was announced the series was canceled after one season.
season, with the creative team planing to shop it to other outlets.
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The series follows Jin Wang, an Asian-American teen struggling to fit in, as he is drawn into a struggle of mythic proportions with the arrival of a new foreign exchange student. The series premiered on Creator/DisneyPlus May 24, 2023.
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The series follows Jin Wang, an Asian-American teen struggling to fit in, as he is drawn into a struggle of mythic proportions with the arrival of a new foreign exchange student. The series premiered on Creator/DisneyPlus May 24, 2023.
2023. In January 2024, it was announced the series was canceled after one season.
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* AdaptationalNationality: Wei Chen, originally a Taiwanese national in the source material, is now identified as a Chinese national.
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* AdaptationalNationality: Wei Chen, Chen's human identity, originally a Taiwanese national in the source material, is now identified as a Chinese national.national instead.
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* AdaptationalNationality: Wei Chen, originally a Taiwanese national in the source material, is now identified as a Chinese national.
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** Jin's room is filled with pop culture ephemera, such as more ''Pokémon'' merchandise, figurines of (Injustice) Superman and Batman, and various comic books and manga including volumes of ComicBook/AntMan, ComicBook/{{Spawn}}, Manga/DragonBall, Manga/Naruto, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, Manga/AttackonTitan, and all the volumes of ComicBook/{{Amulet}}.
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** Jin's room is filled with pop culture ephemera, such as more ''Pokémon'' ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' merchandise, figurines of (Injustice) Superman (''Franchise/{{Injustice}}'') ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' and Batman, ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', and various comic books and manga including volumes of ComicBook/AntMan, ComicBook/{{Spawn}}, Manga/DragonBall, Manga/Naruto, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, Manga/AttackonTitan, ''ComicBook/AntMan'', ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'', ''Manga/DragonBall'', ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'', ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', and all the volumes of ComicBook/{{Amulet}}.''ComicBook/{{Amulet}}''.
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If you compare “the principal” to that Spanish teacher from Everybody hates Chris, the trope definitely fits!
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* CondescendingCompassion: Principal Finney starts out by pronouncing Jin’s last name as “Wang” rather than Wong, she pairs up Jin and Wei-Chen because they “have a lot in common”, and then in episode 7 when Jin’s parents are called in for a meeting about him getting into a fight with the school mascot she blatantly uses cultural misconceptions to describe her theory about Jin’s predicament at home.
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* CulturalCringe: Jin towards Chinese and other Asian culture. He doesn't bring Chinese food to school and doesn't discuss manga in front of white people. So he's very uncomfortable when the principal pairs him with Wei-Chen.
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* CulturalCringe: Jin towards Chinese and other Asian culture. He doesn't bring Chinese food to school and doesn't discuss manga in front of white people. So he's very uncomfortable when the principal pairs him with Wei-Chen.Wei-Chen and when the Culture Club shows support to him after Greg posts the racist Freddy Wong meme on him.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler: Sun Wukong and Bull Demon were once supportive best buddies before the former was named the Great Sage.]]
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** Kicked off with Jin and Anuj, the latter of which distances himself from him after Jin did nothing to stop Travis from pulling a cruel prank on Anuj. They reconcile in the later episodes, and Anuj goes as far as to help Jin and Wei-Chen stop the Bull Demon in the Season Finale.
** [[spoiler: Sun Wukong and Bull Demon were once supportive best buddies before the former was named the Great Sage.]]
** Kicked off with Jin and Anuj, the latter of which distances himself from him after Jin did nothing to stop Travis from pulling a cruel prank on Anuj. They reconcile in the later episodes, and Anuj goes as far as to help Jin and Wei-Chen stop the Bull Demon in the Season Finale.
** [[spoiler: Sun Wukong and Bull Demon were once supportive best buddies before the former was named the Great Sage.]]
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* YouAnsweredYourOwnQuestion: When Jin tries to defend himself after he questions Anuj for distancing himself from him, he basically tells him he "didn't do anything" regarding the cruel prank that Jin's soccer teammate, Travis, did to Anuj. Anuj points out those ExactWords to him: he didn't do anything, as in he didn't do anything to ''stop'' Travis from bullying Anuj.
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* BigBad: Season 1 has Niu Mowang, the Bull Demon and the former BestFriend turn ArchEnemy of Sun Wukong who wants revenge on him and Heaven for denying him the position of Great Sage. [[spoiler:The SequelHook sets up Mowang's wife, Princess Iron Fan, being the one who kidnapped Jin's parents]].
* OfficialCouple: Jin [[spoiler:and Amelia become this after much flirtation in the Season Finale]].
* RedOniBlueOni: Wei-Chen is the more energetic and confident Red Oni to Jin's more reserved Blue Oni. This becomes a major source of tension.
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* SoapboxSadie: Suzy and the Culture Club, who lead protests about a video of Jin that became a racist meme, much to the introverted Jin's displeasure.
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* SoapboxSadie: Suzy Nakumura and the Culture Club, who lead protests about a video of Jin that became a racist meme, much to the introverted Jin's displeasure.
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* BilingualBonus: In the first episode Jin heard his parents arguing over "fried squid" in Chinese. The term for fried squid (炒鱿鱼 or chǎo yóuyú) is also an expression for getting fired. This is mentioned by Wei-Chen later in the episode, but eagle-eyed Chinese-speaking viewers may pick up on it earlier.
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* BilingualBonus: In the first episode Jin heard hears his parents arguing over "fried squid" in Chinese. The term for fried squid (炒鱿鱼 or chǎo yóuyú) is also an expression for getting fired. This is mentioned by Wei-Chen later in the episode, but eagle-eyed Chinese-speaking viewers may pick up on it earlier.
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* BilingualBonus: In the first episode Jin heard his parents arguing over "fried squid" in Chinese. The term for fried squid (炒鱿鱼 or chǎo yóuyú) is also an expression for getting fired. This is mentioned by Wei-Chen later in the episode, but eagle-eyed Chinese-speaking viewers may pick up on it earlier.
