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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: With her increased prominence, Amelia now has issues struggling with her StageMom's visible interest in pushing her daughter into acting regardless of her wishes and relates to Jin's own parental angst.
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* CanonForeigner: Anuj, Jin's primary friend before the start of the show, is show original to inform Jin's updated interests and demonstrate his self-absorbed tendencies over his insecurities from being a Chinese-American ClosetGeek.
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* PlotParallel: Wei-Chen and Jin's increasingly tense friendship is reflected in [[spoiler:the Monkey King and Bull Demon's own fractured relationship with an assertive headstrong man and his more introverted and awkward friend. The second pair serves to show the worst possible outcome for the two teenage boys who come to know each other over the course of the show. This is best showcased in the finale when Jin acting as the Bull Demon makes a speech about his flaws and insecurities that could easily as well apply to him]].
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** Anuj cites ''Manga/DragonBall'' and ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'' as examples of how Sun Wukong's story has been adapted countless times in comics.
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* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Jin performs a HeroicSacrifice to prevent the Iron Staff from connecting Heaven with the mortal realm. He survives, most likely thanks to being the [[LivingMacGuffin Fourth Scroll]].]]
* LivingMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Jin is revealed to be the Fourth Scroll in episode 8.]]
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* {{Otaku}}: Jin is shown to decorate his room with anime and manga merchandise and has a knowledge of popular manga.
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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/DragonBall, Manga/Naruto, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, Manga/AttackonTitan, and all the volumes of ComicBook/{{Amulet}}.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler: Sun Waking and Bull Demon were once supportive best buddies before the former was named the Great Sage.]]
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler: Sun Waking Wukong and Bull Demon were once supportive best buddies before the former was named the Great Sage.]]
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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. and all the volumes of ComicBook/{{Amulet}}.
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* {{Retraux}}: Sun Wukong's flashback about his past with Bull Demon is presented as a late [=70s=] TV show, including a title sequence and credits and effects and framing more like a television production from then.
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** In Episode 4, Sun Wukong's extended flashback is a tribute to ''Series/{{Monkey}}'', right down to starting with an "intro" that copies the show's imagery and uses a similar song.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler: Sun Waking and Bull Demon were once supportive best buddies before the former was named the Great Sage.]]
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* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The reason Jaime Yao agrees to do a reunion episode of a show where he played an in universe EthnicScrappy.
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* CreativeClosingCredits: The end credits of reach episode feature a montage of Gene Luen Yang’s sketches of characters from the graphic novel.
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* CreativeClosingCredits: The end credits of reach each episode feature a montage of Gene Luen Yang’s sketches of characters from the graphic novel.
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* ActorAllusion: Freddy Wong was an actor who gave up acting and started working behind the scenes, much like Creator/KeHuyQuan did for several years.
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* ActorAllusion: Freddy Wong Jamie Yao was an actor who gave up acting and started working behind the scenes, much like Creator/KeHuyQuan did for several years.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: During the reunion episode of his OldShame sitcom, Freddy Wong gives a monologue saying he hopes Asian kids watching know that they don't have to be jokes and hopes for better representation in the future.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The reason Freddy Wong agrees to do a reunion episode of a show where he played an in universe EthnicScrappy.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: During the reunion episode of his OldShame sitcom, Freddy Wong Jamie Yao gives a monologue saying he hopes Asian kids watching know that they don't have to be jokes and hopes for better representation in the future.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The reasonFreddy Wong Jaime Yao agrees to do a reunion episode of a show where he played an in universe EthnicScrappy.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The reason
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* FormerTeenRebel: Present-day Sun Wukong is a member of the Jade Emperor's inner circle and is a stern, mature father. He's very different from the rebellious prankster we see in the flashback and the original stories.
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** Jin is shown wearing a [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] hoodie in the In Production featurette.
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** Jin is shown wearing a [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] hooded onesie in episode 3 as part of his soccer team hazing. He's also made to sing [[Music/LuisFonsi "Despacito"]] while in it.
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* AdvertisingByAssociation: The Worlds Collide trailer proclaims the series is “From the director of ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings''”.
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* AdaptedOut: Chin-Kee, the extremely stereotypical Chinese cousin [[spoiler:who turns out to be the Monkey King in disguise]], is absent from the series. Instead, his broader role as a microcosm of anti-Asian racism in western media is filled by Freddie Wong, a character from a ShowWithinAShow who serves as an in-universe equivalent of Long Duk Dong from ''Film/SixteenCandles'' (i.e. a stereotypical fictional Asian who inspires racist insults from white fans).
* AdvertisingByAssociation: The Worlds Collide trailer proclaims the series is“From "From the director of ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings''”.''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings''".
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The series only carries over the characters and initial premise of [[ComicBook/AmericanBornChinese the original graphic novel]], with the story being substantially different. According to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20230520110054/https://time.com/6281202/american-born-chinese-disney-interviews/ an article]] from ''Magazine/{{Time}}'' magazine, the radical overhauling was done in order to reflect how much American society had changed since the book's publication in 2006, with the new story aiming to recontextualize its core ideas for an audience nearly 20 years removed from that of the source material.
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* SoapboxSadie: Suzy and the Culture Club, who lead protests about a video of Ben that became a racist meme, much to the introverted Ben's displeasure.
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* SoapboxSadie: Suzy and the Culture Club, who lead protests about a video of Ben Jin that became a racist meme, much to the introverted Ben's Jin's displeasure.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Ji Gong helps Wei-Chen escape after being disgusted by Bull Demon's unnecessary brutality.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sun Wukong gives one to the gods and smashes the Peach of Immortality. Ao Guang admires his courage and makes him a Sage.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sun Wukong gives one to the gods and smashes the Peach of Immortality. Ao Guang admires his courage and makes him a Sage.the Great Sage.
* SequelHook: After [[spoiler:Bull Demon's uprising is stopped]], Jin comes home to find [[spoiler:his parents missing and Princess Iron Fan revealing she kidnapped them]].
* SequelHook: After [[spoiler:Bull Demon's uprising is stopped]], Jin comes home to find [[spoiler:his parents missing and Princess Iron Fan revealing she kidnapped them]].
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* CatchTheConscience: Bull Demon is a shapeshifter hiding in a crowd at a soccer game, [[spoiler:so Jin and Wei-Chen draw him out by putting on a play that depicts him in a very unflattering light, provoking him into revealing himself.]]
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* AllPartOfTheShow: The climactic battle between the Bull Demon and Wei-Chen takes place in front of an audience at a soccer game. Everyone thinks it's an opening act put on by the cosplay club.
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* EthnicScrappy: Like Chin-Kee in the original comic, the character of Freddy Wong from ''[[ShowWithinAShow Beyond Repair]]'' is an intentional reference to characters considered this in universe.
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* DragonTheirFeet: After the [[spoiler:climactic battle at the soccer game]], Jin comes home only to find [[spoiler:Princess Iron Fan on his couch. She reveals she's kidnapped his parents.]]
* EthnicScrappy: Like Chin-Kee in the original comic, the character of Freddy Wong from ''[[ShowWithinAShow Beyond Repair]]'' is an intentional reference to characters considered this inuniverse. universe.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: During the reunion episode of his OldShame sitcom, Freddy Wong gives a monologue saying he hopes Asian kids watching know that they don't have to be jokes and hopes for better representation in the future.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: During the reunion episode of his OldShame sitcom, Freddy Wong gives a monologue saying he hopes Asian kids watching know that they don't have to be jokes and hopes for better representation in the future.
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* CompanyCrossReferences: [[Series/TheMandalorian Baby Yoda (Grogu)]] is mentioned in episode 2.
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** [[Series/TheMandalorian Baby Yoda (Grogu)]] is mentioned in episode2.2.
** Jin calls [[DrunkenMaster Ji Gong]] [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean "Chinese Jack Sparrow"]].
** Some Creator/MarvelComics can be seen in the background of Jin's room, though interestingly, Creator/DCComics, Creator/ImageComics, and manga are more represented.
** [[Series/TheMandalorian Baby Yoda (Grogu)]] is mentioned in episode
** Jin calls [[DrunkenMaster Ji Gong]] [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean "Chinese Jack Sparrow"]].
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Jin's parents. Christine is frustrated with Simon for his timidness and reluctance to ask for raises and promotions. Simon resents the criticism from someone who [[{{Housewife}} has no job at all]].
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sun Wukong gives one to the gods and smashes the Peach of Immortality. Ao Guang admires his courage and makes him a Sage.
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* YearOutsideHourInside: Wei-Chen returns to Heaven with his father but leaves after a day. Jin tells him that he's been gone a whole month.
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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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''American Born Chinese'' is a 2023 fantasy action series developed by Creator/KelvinYu and executive produced by Yu, Creator/JakeKasdan, Creator/DestinDanielCretton, and Creator/GeneLuenYang, based upon Yang’s [[ComicBook/AmericanBornChinese graphic novel]] of the same name. It stars Ben Wang, Jim Liu, Creator/MichelleYeoh, Creator/DanielWu, Yeo Yann Yann, Creator/ChinHan, and Creator/KeHuyQuan.
The series will follow 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.
The series will follow 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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''American Born Chinese'' is a 2023 fantasy action series developed by Creator/KelvinYu and executive produced by Yu, Creator/JakeKasdan, Creator/DestinDanielCretton, and Creator/GeneLuenYang, loosely based upon Yang’s Yang's [[ComicBook/AmericanBornChinese graphic novel]] of the same name. It stars Ben Wang, Jim Liu, Creator/MichelleYeoh, Creator/DanielWu, Yeo Yann Yann, Creator/ChinHan, and Creator/KeHuyQuan.
The serieswill follow 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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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the graphic novel, Wei Chen was sent to live among humans without sin for forty years to train him to follow in the footsteps of his father, Sun Wukong. After his falling out with Jin, he abandoned his mission out of disgust for humans' self-centeredness. In the TV series, Wei Chen ran away from home and now hides among humanity because he had a prophetic dream about a divine uprising and thinks Jin can help him stop the coming war.
* SettingUpdate: The original graphic novel was set contemporaneously to its 2006 publication date. The TV series, accordingly, bumps up the time period to its own contemporary era, TheNewTwenties.
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* StylisticSuck: The old sitcom ''Beyond Repair'' is presented as being very hackneyed. In-Universe, the main reason it's gone memetic online is solely because of the character Freddy Wong, a Chinese stereotype who is the shows ButtMonkey who suffers numerous AmusingInjuries.
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* StylisticSuck: The old sitcom ''Beyond Repair'' is presented as being very hackneyed. In-Universe, the main reason it's gone memetic online is solely because of the character Freddy Wong, a Chinese stereotype who is serves as the shows show's ButtMonkey who and suffers numerous AmusingInjuries.
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* EthnicScrappy: The character of Freddy Wong from ''[[ShowWithinAShow Beyond Repair]]'' is an intentional reference to characters considered this in universe.
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