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| 19 | Foreign characters may pop up in fiction, but often regular characters who are not native (to the country the work is set in) tend to have native ethnicity somewhere in their family. Or possibly were born in the native country, but raised in another country, and have recently come back. |
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| 21 | There are four variations of this trope: |
| 22 | # Half native to the author's ancestry, half foreign ancestry (the most common version). |
| 23 | # Mixed ancestry of different races that may not be related to the author. |
| 24 | # Born in one country, raised in another. |
| 25 | # Ethnically one nationality, culturally a different one. |
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| 27 | Part of this probably stems from the actual ethnic homogeneity of a country, especially in Japan where foreigners really do make up only about two percent of the population. [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Their name will also have an obvious foreign sound to it even if it doesn't sound real.]] Assuming this character was raised overseas, it's notable the character who is Not Too Foreign will rarely speak another language on-screen even if they are supposed to be fluent. This is often an artifact of a manga-to-anime transition: a text translation can be passable, while voice actors end up [[GratuitousEnglish totally mangling it]]. How much an actor is allowed to speak tends to reflect more on their personal fluency. This in itself does often lead to {{Mukokuseki}} within anime and manga works and AmbiguouslyBrown at the opposite end of this trope. |
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| 29 | Frequently, this trope is used as an excuse to give a character an unusual phenotype, especially in anime/manga which try to avoid the use of AnimeHair. In reality, however, [[HollywoodGenetics it is unlikely for a person who is, say, half-German, half-Japanese to have blue/green eyes or blond/red hair, given that the alleles for those traits are recessive]]. |
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| 31 | In anime and manga, the non-Japanese ethnicity is often either [[GratuitousGerman German]], "[[{{Eagleland}} American]]" (usually white. If, and that's a very rare if, they're [[ScaryBlackMan black]], they will probably come from the US), British, or French (relying on people to think "He's British? Must be [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman sophisticated and smart]]." or "He's French? [[EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench How romantic]]!") The occasional Russian, either [[FormerRegimePersonnel ex-military]], [[TheMafiya mafia]], or often both, will also pop up. |
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| 33 | But Not Too Foreign often pops up as the result of creative types trying to appeal to the people of their homeland with the sense that they possess a connection to their culture despite being partly foreign, and are thus perfectly okay to empathize with. See also NonSpecificallyForeign. |
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| 35 | Compare ButNotTooBlack and MixedAncestryIsAttractive -- this trope greatly contributes to the latter, as mixed ancestry can give a character more unique features while not being totally alien to the target audience. |
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| 37 | Some examples can be non-native, due to the thousands of races in the world, and we don't just marry people of the same race anymore, making this trope TruthInTelevision for the most part. May also overlap into TwoferTokenMinority. Overlaps with PlaysGreatEthnics in RealLife. |
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| 41 | !!Examples: |
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| 45 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 46 | * One of the three title characters in ''Manga/{{Adolf}}'' is half Japanese half German, another is the Japanese-born son of Jewish German parents who considers himself Japanese. The third is, well [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler you know]]... |
| 47 | * ''Manga/AiKora'': Sakurako's mother is English in order to justify her having the blue eyes which Maeda so covets. |
| 48 | * Tina Foster from ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi'' is an American girl who was raised in Hakata until middle school. As a result, she was unable to make friends in Japan due to being "too American", and she couldn't make friends in high school in America either due to being "too Japanese." She covers up her feelings of being culturally lost by constantly trying to show how "Japanese" she is at heart and is a very tragic and lonely figure despite being a HardDrinkingPartyGirl (to the point of alcoholism) and overall GenkiGirl and semi-lunatic. One of the most sympathetically played "Not Too Foreign" characters in anime and manga. |
| 49 | * ''Manga/AhMyGoddess:'' Urd has no Japanese blood, but shares the insecurities/issues of many other cases of this trope because of her own mixed heritage... her mother is a demon ([[spoiler: the Queen of Hell to be exact]]). Additionally, the goddesses are ''very'' culturally Japanese, particularly YamatoNadeshiko Belldandy, and Skuld looks rather Japanese... despite their being Norse deities. |
| 50 | * Touma from ''Manga/AmeNochiHare'' is a half-Japanese who speaks perfect Japanese and even claims that his proficiency in English is barely passable. (He's half-French rather than from an English-speaking country.) |
| 51 | * Meiko "Menma" Honma from ''Anime/AnoHanaTheFlowerWeSawThatDay'' has a Russian mother and a Japanese father. The movie reveals that Menma had no friends before meeting the rest of the Super Peace Busters, and she believed that it was because other people didn't think of her as a Japanese. |
| 52 | * Olivia from ''Manga/AsobiAsobase'' is of the "ethnic/cultural dissonance" type. While both her parents are foreigners and she has [[PhenotypeStereotype the blonde hair and blue eyes]] to prove it, she was born and raised in Japan and thus is culturally Japanese. As a result, she can't speak a word of English even though everyone assumes she's fluent. |
| 53 | * Max Mizuhara of ''Anime/BakutenShootBeyblade'' is the son of a Japanese father and an American mother and in the original version, peppers his speech with the occasional English word. His foreign looks (presumably the blonde hair and blue eyes he inherited from his mother) were apparently visible enough that his teammates mistook him for being completely American when they first met him. |
| 54 | * Cyndi Manabe in ''Anime/BestStudentCouncil'' is a redhead, glib HugeSchoolgirl who spoke mainly in fragmented English, when she spoke at all. She was apparently discouraged by her American mother who does speak Japanese but, to continue the gag, has extremely bizarre sentence construction. |
| 55 | * Yasutora "Chad" Sado, the only confirmed not-completely-Japanese character in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', is half Japanese, half Latino. This is a little bit of AuthorAppeal: Creator/TiteKubo has mentioned that he thinks Spanish stuff is cool. |
| 56 | * ''Anime/BloodPlus'' has a non-human example. Saya was born in France, to parents whose identities and ethnicities are entirely unknown, but can easily pass for Japanese. |
| 57 | * Sakura Yamazaki from ''Manga/BlueSeed'' may be a full-blooded Japanese miko but she was raised in America (by the CIA no less) so she's stereotypically brash and prone to spouting off exclamations in GratuitousEnglish. |
| 58 | * Roberto Hongo in ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'' was born and raised in Brazil, but has Japanese ancestry (indeed, Brazil has the largest ethnic Japanese population outside of Japan). |
| 59 | * Rui, Hitomi and Ai Kisugi, the three main female characters in ''Manga/CatsEye'', have a German father and a Japanese mother. Only Hitomi, the middle daughter, is said to look the most European of the sisters due to her being virtually identical to their paternal grandmother. Later in the series she has to dye her hair due to the return of blonde strands in her hair. |
| 60 | * ''Manga/CaseClosed'': |
| 61 | ** Ai Haibara a.k.a. Sherry is half-English. However, she was visibly white, and did mentioned that people with visual foreign traits like her are subjected to prejudice. Her sister, Akemi, looked more Japanese and there has been no mention of her having dealt with anything like that herself. |
| 62 | ** Saguru Hakuba of ''Manga/MagicKaito'' is also half-English. He's lived in London, is one of the most famous detectives in Europe, was even introduced with the Union Flag behind him, yet is actually the son of Tokyo Metropolitan's Superintendent General. |
| 63 | ** The Akai siblings are British-born with a British mother, Mary. Their father's identity is unknown, but it is known that he was Japanese. Shuichi Akai is also a naturalized American citizen who joined the FBI. Their heritage isn't immediately apparent, since they all use Japanese names and two out of three are AmbiguouslyBrown. |
| 64 | * In ''Manga/CityHunter'', more than once, white girls that come to Japan for Ryo's protection are revealed to be half Japanese. |
| 65 | * Karen Kouzuki/Kallen Stadtfeld from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is half Japanese (mother), half Britannian (father, stepfamily). So is [[spoiler:Rai, the main character]] from ''Lost Colors'': [[spoiler:his father was a Britannian noble and his mother was from the Sumeragi clan]]. |
| 66 | * Lucy, full name Lucyna Kushinada, from ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'', managed to be this twice over - she's a half-Polish-half-Japanese character in a Polish-Japanese coproduction. |
| 67 | * In ''Manga/Cyborg009'', Joe Shimamura aka 009 is also half-Japanese (mother), half-American (father), and in the manga he was [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer bullied]] because of that. So are three friends of his (Mary, Shinichi and Masaru) [[spoiler: who are turned into killing machines against their wills by Black Ghost, so he has to fight them [[ShootTheDog and]] ''[[ShootTheDog kill]]'' [[ShootTheDog them]]]]). |
| 68 | * Seiji Hama in ''Manga/DanceInTheVampireBund'' is something of an inversion. He's half-Navajo on his father's side and is a retired Green Beret, but he's initially introduced as a Japanese police inspector with no indication of being anything else ethnically. |
| 69 | * Suoh and Shion of ''[[Anime/DarkerThanBlack Darker Than Black 2]]'' are half-Japanese half-Russian. |
| 70 | * ''Manga/DeathNote'': |
| 71 | ** L is part-Japanese, although he grew up in Britain. WordOfGod states that he is one quarter Japanese, one quarter English, one quarter Russian, and one quarter of either French or Italian. |
| 72 | ** Raye Penber is also a case of this trope: mixed Japanese and American. {{Justified|Trope}} in that the CIA wanted to send someone to Japan who wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb. The artist admits to playing up the character's "foreignness" when drawing him. |
| 73 | ** Same goes for Naomi Misora. In general, characters who are part Japanese are drawn with pale skin, black hair, and usually gray or blue eyes. Which makes one wonder about Kiyomi Takada... |
| 74 | * Miki Makimura and her little brother Taro (Tare in the original ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'') are half-white and half-Japanese in ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'': their father Noel is white, and possibly Irish on account of the Celtic artwork in their house. Miki has green eyes (inherited from her father) and brown hair, while her brother looks more Japanese. Interestingly, theirs is a case of [[RaceLift race lift]], as they were fully Japanese in the original ''Franchise/{{Devilman}}'' manga and anime adaptations. Having Miki and Taro be biracial siblings with a white father makes it easier for the Japanese audience to understand why the Makimuras are fairly devout Christians in a country where only one or two percent of the population is Christian. |
| 75 | * In each of the ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' anime, there is a token case of But Not Too Foreign. |
| 76 | ** Yamato and Takeru (Matt and T.K. in the dub) from ''[[Anime/DigimonAdventure Adventure]]'' and ''[[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 02]]'' are at least a quarter French. This is known because one episode in the World Tour arc features their French grandfather, Michel. Since ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'' shows Yamato and Takeru visiting their grandmother in Shimane, fans have [[{{Fanon}} decided]] that it is their paternal grandmother who lives in Shimane, and their maternal grandfather in France. |
| 77 | *** Recent material confirms the fandom's suspicion that Michel is the boys' maternal grandfather; in a recent CD drama, Yamato and Takeru are accompanied by their father on another trip to Shimane. |
| 78 | ** In ''[[Anime/DigimonTamers Tamers]]'', Lee Jianliang and Xiaochang (Henry and Suzie Wong) and their two older siblings are half-Chinese through their father (changed that to half-Taiwanese in the German dub). Jianliang's Digimon partner, Terriermon, even speaks Cantonese. |
| 79 | ** Orimoto Izumi (Zoe) of ''[[Anime/DigimonFrontier Frontier]]'', was born in Japan, but spent most of her formative years in Italy and often uses Italian expressions in her speech. This actually plays into her character development, as it has resulted in her being much more individualistic and independent than her peers. (In the Italian dub, they changed it so Izumi lived in the United States instead, leading her to use a lot of GratuitousEnglish.) |
| 80 | ** Tohma (Thomas) H. Norstein from ''[[Anime/DigimonDataSquad Savers/Data Squad]]'' is the son of a Japanese woman and an Austrian aristocrat. [[spoiler:Implied to have been [[HeroicBastard born out of wedlock]], he was outright rejected by [[EvilMatriarch his paternal grandmother]] after his mother's death, and his father couldn't bring himself to oppose her. This lead to a serious rift between them.]] |
| 81 | ** ''[[Anime/DigimonFusion Xros Wars/Fusion]]'' is the first not to have a part-foreigner in the main cast, though [[spoiler:a couple of the aforementioned ones show up at the end, notably Matt]]. |
| 82 | ** In ''[[Anime/DigimonUniverseAppMonsters Appmon]]'', Astora has a British mother. |
| 83 | * Cinque Izumi and possibly his cousin Nanami from ''Anime/DogDays'' are half-British (from Cornwall, to be specific), half-Japanese. [[UnevenHybrid Couvert]] is descended from Adelaide (who is implied to be French). |
| 84 | * Kohaku and her sister Ruri from ''Manga/DrStone'' clearly have foreign blood, despite the fact that they've lived in what is essentially Stone Age-Japan. Turns out this is due to them being descendants of [[spoiler:[[ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts astronauts who returned from the International Space Station]]]]. |
| 85 | * Mamori from ''Manga/Eyeshield21'' is quarter-American (on her mother's side). Although she is the quickest to pick up the rules and nuances of Football (faster than the rookie players), according to the manga writer, her ancestry wasn't planned to explain this. Instead, he came up with it as way to explain why such an upright/uptight character (and member of the school's disciplinary committee) had [[HairColors brown hair]] in the color art. (The blond and brown-haired boys in the cast are assumed to have dye-jobs.) |
| 86 | * In the manga ''Manga/{{FAKE}}'' (set in NYC), we have Randy "Ryo" [=McLean=], who is half-Japanese. |
| 87 | ** Aya Stanford from ''SIN'' is also one, as her father is American and her mother is Japanese. Double points for being a MilitaryBrat, being her father is an Army serviceman. |
| 88 | * ''Manga/FoodWars'': |
| 89 | ** Twin brothers Takumi and Isami Aldini are half-Japanese, half-Italian. They grew up in Italy working at their uncle's restaurant. |
| 90 | ** Alice Nakiri is half-Danish through her mother's side, and she spent quite a bit of her childhood abroad. |
| 91 | * Momiji Sohma from ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' is half-German and fluent, though this detail is left out of the 2001 anime. His [[PhenotypeStereotype blond hair]] is not due to him being biracial, but due to him being the rabbit in the zodiac. |
| 92 | * ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'': |
| 93 | ** Bleed Kaga is half-Japanese and half-Spanish, and he spends time living in the United States as a field racer. |
| 94 | * The main characters of ''Anime/GalileiDonna'' are, unsurprisingly, descendants of Galileo Galilei and Italian. They're also Japanese on their father's side and have Japanese given names. |
| 95 | * In ''Manga/GetBackers'', Midou Ban is one-quarter German; of course the German grandparent is the only one we ever meet. |
| 96 | * Kei Miyama, the protagonist of ''Manga/GoWithTheCloudsNorthByNorthwest'', and his younger brother Michitaka are part-French through their grandfather, Jacques, which explains their height and appearance - Kei has blue eyes, while Michitaka has blonde hair. |
| 97 | * ''Manga/GoldenKamuy'': |
| 98 | ** Tsurumi entrusts the Japanese orphaned baby of Keiichirou Sakamoto and O-Gin to Asirpa's Ainu grandmother. |
| 99 | ** Olga is the daughter of a Japanese photographer and his Russian wife. |
| 100 | ** Asirpa herself is revealed to be one-quarter Polish through her father. |
| 101 | * Remy Shimada from ''Anime/GoShogun'' is part-French, part-Japanese. |
| 102 | * ''Anime/GreatMazinger'': Jun Honoo is one of the first examples (she is half-black. Her father was American and her mother Japanese), and also notable in being the hero's love interest in the series, something ''very'' unusual for these years. |
| 103 | * ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'': Urumi Kanzaki's mother is Japanese, and her father was an American [[spoiler:who provided a sperm sample]]. She has blonde hair, one blue eye, and one hazel eye. |
| 104 | * ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'': Jun and Kaoru Kamata, and their {{Childhood Friend|s}} Natsu, are all blond, due to being half-American. |
| 105 | * ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'': |
| 106 | ** Amuro Ray from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' is arguably one of the most famous examples of this trope in all of anime, although his background rarely comes up in conversation. Mostly because his birth in Japan was only background material, likely enforced to avoid having a complete foreigner as TheHero. The further unmentioned location of his childhood home on Earth still shifts to Prince Rupert, Canada, in the movie compilation. Then shifted again to Rosarito, Mexico and specifically mentioned in ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamTheOrigin''. |
| 107 | ** Only ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'', ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'', and the two ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'' series have had fully Japanese protagonists. A few of the side stories have characters with Japanese names as well, but ''Gundam'' tends to focus more on whether a character is from Earth or a Space Colony, with the specific country being irrelevant if from Earth. |
| 108 | ** Kira Yamato from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' has an extremely Japanese name, but his homeland is the Orb Union (a fictional South Pacific island nation). It's possible he has Japanese ancestry (his biological father's surname was "Hibiki") but it's never explored. |
| 109 | ** Setsuna F. Seiei from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' is a subversion: that name is a codename. His real name is Soran Ibrahim, and he's Middle Eastern (suggested to be Kurdish). |
| 110 | * Rally Vincent of ''Manga/GunsmithCats'' is an unusual case in that she's half English and half East Indian, though whether her father was from Pakistan or India itself was never made clear. This actually makes her a [[TwoferTokenMinority Token Twofer]] in Japan But Not Too Foreign in Chicago where the series is actually set. AND they significantly lightened her skin tone for the anime, making her [[ButNotTooBlack Not Too Black]] as well. |
| 111 | * Lev Haiba from ''Manga/{{Haikyuu}}'' is half-Japanese, half-Russian, explaining his exceptional height (nearly 195cm tall at age 16). |
| 112 | * Emily and Claire of ''Manga/HarukanaReceive'' both sport blonde hair, leading Haruka to assume they're English speakers. When she converses with them, however, she's surprised that they can speak Japanese. |
| 113 | * ''Manga/HelenESP''s title character, Helen Takahara La Guido, is half-Japanese half-French. |
| 114 | * Lion Christian Yuzuriha in ''Anime/HighSchoolStarMusical'' is the flipside of variation 4 - he lived in France until he moved to Japan to start high school. Even though he is ethnically Japanese, he didn't speak the language at all, and he's culturally an outsider. It is possible that he put on his over-the-top French affect to avoid that expectation. |
| 115 | * ''Manga/HitomiChanIsShyWithStrangers'': Yuu and Hitomi's school gets an American transfer student named [[GorgeousGaijin Angelica "Ange" Karasuma]], who is part-Japanese based on her family name. |
| 116 | * Sakai Jefferson Kouji in ''Anime/HungryHeartWildStriker'' is the son of a Japanese father and a Swedish mother. By the time the story begins, he's spent most of his life living in Europe. |
| 117 | * Takane in ''[[Anime/TheIdolmaster THE iDOLM@STER]]'' is implied to be this. There are even implications that she might be from [[HumanAliens the moon]]. |
| 118 | * In ''Manga/{{Jagaaaaaan}}'', Clarabelle "Bell" Kawamoto is half-Japanese, half-American. |
| 119 | * ''Anime/JinzoKonchuKabutoBorgVXV'': Venetian/Amiko Itari is Japanese but traces her ancestry to Italian nobles who were shipwrecked off Japan during their attempted migration to the New Continent. |
| 120 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': All the [=JoJos=] introduced from Part 3 to Part 6 are at least part-Japanese and part-British. Interesting example, in that the author acknowledged and consciously invoked this trope, believing that the previous two parts suffered backlash for starring non-Japanese protagonists due to falling under Japan's MinorityShowGhetto back in the day. To wit: |
| 121 | ** Jotaro (Part 3) is one quarter British-American (from his grandfather Joseph, the [=JoJo=] from part 2), one quarter Italian (from his grandmother Suzi Q) and half-Japanese. |
| 122 | ** Josuke (Part 4) is half British-American (from ''Joseph'', not that it's impossible...) and half-Japanese (he spent most of his life prior to Part 4 unaware of his Joestar heritage, however). |
| 123 | ** Giorno (Part 5) is half-British ('''''[[TangledFamilyTree From Jonathan's body with Dio's head on top]]'''''), half-Japanese, and culturally Italian (having been raised in Italy and having an Italian stepfather). |
| 124 | ** Jolyne (Part 6) is an American who is Jotaro's and an Italian-American woman's daughter. |
| 125 | ** Josuke (Part 8) is a mess simply because [[spoiler:he's a FusionDance between this reality's Yoshikage Kira—who is... 7/16th some-kind-of-American and 9/16th Japanese due to Johnny's marriage to Rina Higashikata and then the same iteration of George II, Joseph, and then Holly who marries a fully Japanese man--and Josefumi Kujo who is most likely fully Japanese[[note]]while Josefumi was shown with a Joestar birthmark in his first appearance—which would make him also a Joestar, confusing things even more—later chapters lack this. The 2023 reprint of ''[=JoJolion=]'' removed the birthmark from the aforementioned introduction, indicating that it was an error[[/note]]]]. |
| 126 | * Freesia Yagyu from ''Anime/JubeiChan 2'' is half-Russian and fluent, though her voice actor does a passable job. |
| 127 | * Played straight in ''Anime/{{K}}'' with Andy Doumyouji (half-French according to WordOfGod), but averted with Adolf K. Weismann, when he [[spoiler: returns to his 100% German body after a long time in the body of a cute Japanese teenager, the only form his friends know him in]]. Eric Surt is likewise an aversion. |
| 128 | * ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': |
| 129 | ** Hayasaka is a quarter Irish, though this only comes up in [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary material]] (and a single line of dialogue by a background character during a mixer). |
| 130 | ** [[spoiler:Gigako is revealed during graduation to be the granddaughter of the school principal, making her part French.]] |
| 131 | * Nishikiori Michiru from ''Manga/KamichamaKarin'' is half-English, half-Japanese. |
| 132 | * ''Manga/KOn'': Her blonde hair and blue eyes (which no one else in the cast has), English skills, trips to Finland, and repeated references to European royal families hint that [[{{Ojou}} Tsumugi Kotobuki]] is part-white. It's never explicitly confirmed, though. |
| 133 | * ''Anime/KillLaKill'': The light novel reveals that Gamagoori is the son of a Japanese nurse and a foreign man -- possibly an American soldier -- explaining his dark-skinned blond looks. |
| 134 | * ''Manga/KiniroMosaic'': Played with: Karen Kujou is half-English, half-Japanese. However, she has almost no visibly Japanese traits (white skin, extremely blonde hair, etc.), speaks Japanese rather poorly, and her first name, Karen, happens to be a rare case of being a common female name in ''both'' the West and in Japan. |
| 135 | * Ritsuko Kettenkrad (StudentCouncilPresident) from ''Anime/KujibikiUnbalance'' is half-German and wears a World War II German-style helmet wherever she goes, although originally this depicted as an heirloom amongst successive class presidents. |
| 136 | * Lynn Russell/Rin Midorikawa from ''Manga/{{Lady}}'' is the daughter of a Japanese woman and an English noble (a Lord, to be exact), but she spent a good portion of her first 5 years in Japan. |
| 137 | * ''Franchise/LoveLive'': |
| 138 | ** Eli Ayase and her younger sister Arisa from ''Anime/LoveLive'' are a quarter Russian through their grandmother's side. |
| 139 | ** Mari Ohara from ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'' , whose mother is Japanese while her father is Italian-American. Due to her upbringing, Mari speaks with an accent and often inserts GratuitousEnglish (or GratuitousItalian [[KeepItForeign in the English dub]]) into her speech every few lines. |
| 140 | ** ''Anime/LoveLiveSuperstar'': Kanon Shibuya is a quarter-Spanish from her grandmother. Keke Tang had emigrated from Shanghai to Japan, though she's part-Japanese on her mother's side. |
| 141 | * ''Franchise/LupinIII'', in the series of the same name; his father, Arsene Lupin, Jr., was the son of the original ''Literature/ArseneLupin'', main character of a famous French pulp adventure series of the late 19th and early 20th century. His mother, on the other hand, is Japanese. He encounters the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of other famous fictional (and in some cases historical) figures, and in most cases, they would have a Japanese mother or grandmother. |
| 142 | * ''Manga/MadBull34'' is set in 1980s UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity; viewpoint character Daizaburo "Eddie" Ban is Japanese-American, and the only thing about the series that has anything to do with Japan; That said, he's also a cowardly, ineffectual virgin |
| 143 | * ''Manga/MaidSama'': Takumi Usui is a quarter English, though aside from being blond-haired and blue-eyed, he is a Japanese through and through. |
| 144 | * ''Manga/{{Monster}}'''s protagonist Dr. Tenma is a German citizen, but is originally from Japan. |
| 145 | * ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': One of the students from Class 1-B, Pony Tsunotori, is half Japanese, half American who used to live in the USA before moving to Japan. Unlike other similar examples in anime and manga where the character speaks normal Japanese, Tsunotori speaks a broken form of Japanese with a noticeable accent, since Japanese is explicitly not her first language. An example is how she often substitutes Japanese words for English ones, such as saying Vlad-Teacher instead of Vlad-Sensei. In addition, because of her poor Japanese, it's stated that whenever she is upset or angry, [[ForeignLanguageTirade she starts speaking entirely in English]]. |
| 146 | * Thobari Kumohira Durandal of ''Manga/NabariNoOu'' is, apparently, partially of Japanese heritage, but was born and raised in Ireland. |
| 147 | * The rival band from ''Manga/{{NANA}}'', TRAPNEST, often features fluently English lyrics; likely a product of half-American vocalist Layla 'Reira' Serizawa. In being signed to a label, their record company ultimately decides to hide her heritage by making her image and name more unambiguously Asian-- reason being that the Japanese (and implied xenophobic) public would be more impressed with her English if she were a native. |
| 148 | * ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': |
| 149 | ** Rich, white looking, girl Ayaka Yukihiro is also said by Fuuka Narutaki to be 'half breed', although Ayaka herself protested at being called that. |
| 150 | ** Negi himself might also count. His full name is Negi Springfield and he comes from Wales. His cousin Nekane has the same family name and is blonde and also his father and mother both have Japanese first names. It could be speculated that Nagi's parents were English and Japanese, which resulted in each member of the family having a Japanese first name but an English last name. But as said earlier, might is the key word here as we know nothing about the Springfield family tree. |
| 151 | *** [[spoiler:And then we learn that Negi is half-Welsh, half-MARTIAN. He's also a prince]]. |
| 152 | ** Mana is half Puerto Rican, half Japanese, and half [[spoiler: Demon]]. Yes, that's three halves, although technically the last label could have come from the same parent as one of the former two. |
| 153 | * Asuka Langley Soryu in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is occasionally drawn in promotional materials as a blonde instead of a redhead. The North American and Mexican dubs pad this out with dialogue that occasionally includes [[ForeignCussWord German expletives and exclamations]]. She's really only quarter Japanese because her mother was half Japanese and half German. Asuka was born and raised in Germany, speaks German as her native language, so she considers herself German and everyone else does too. Of course, in terms of her legal nationality, she's American. Her actual ethnic makeup is 25% Japanese, 25% German, 50% "American"[[note]]The only thing we know for sure about her father that could pertain to his ethnic ancestry is that 1) he's from the USA, and 2) he has white skin; while that makes "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Americans White American]]" as the most likely ethnicity for him, he could very well be of some other American ethnic group (or even [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiracial_Americans Multiracial American]]!) who simply happens to '''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_(racial_identity) pass]]''' for a White American.[[/note]]. Her mother's name was Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu, while Langley is her father's last name. |
| 154 | ** ''Rebuild'' also introduces Mari Illustrious Makinami, part-British and part-Japanese. |
| 155 | * Chitoge Kirisaki, the female protagonist in ''{{Manga/Nisekoi}}'', has a white American father and Japanese mother. Consequently, she has blonde hair and blue eyes from her father's side of the family. Raku and Chitoge's quarter-American son Haku likewise has blonde hair and blue eyes, inherited from his mother. |
| 156 | * Momoko Asuka from ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' was born in Japan, but grew up in America, causing her to speak (perfect) English when she's nervous, which renders her unintelligible to the other girls. It's also reflected in her character design, which makes her look somewhat more edgy than the other girls and her {{Leitmotif}} sounding completely different from every other song used in the series. |
| 157 | * Tamaki Suoh of ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' is half-French, using the romantic nature of the French to charm clients at his host club. |
| 158 | * Rebecca Miyamoto in ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'' has a Japanese mother and an American father. In the manga, it was the other way around, which makes a great deal more sense, given her name. |
| 159 | * Lieutenant Kanuka Clancy from ''Franchise/{{Patlabor}}'' is a biracial Japanese American who, ironically, is drawn with a more traditionally "Asian" appearance than anyone else in the cast. |
| 160 | * ''Anime/PrettyCure'': |
| 161 | ** ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'': Urara has a French father and a Japanese mother. |
| 162 | ** ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'': Henri Wakamiya has a French father and a Japanese mother. |
| 163 | ** ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'': Elena Amamiya has a Mexican father and a Japanese mother. |
| 164 | * ''VideoGame/PrettySeries'': |
| 165 | ** ''Anime/PrettyRhythmAuroraDream'': Mion Takamine has a Japanese mother and a presumably Italian father, the latter of whom shares her blonde hair and blue eyes. |
| 166 | ** ''Anime/PrettyRhythmRainbowLive'': Ann Fukuhara is three-quarter Japanese, one-quarter American through her grandmother, who shares her blue eyes. |
| 167 | * Yomiko Readman of ''Anime/ReadOrDie'' is half-British, half-Japanese. |
| 168 | * [[spoiler: Gokudera Hayato]] from ''Manga/Reborn2004'' has a Japanese mother and an Italian father. |
| 169 | * The characters of ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' come all over the globe, but the main characters are all Japanese... except for Hyouga, who is half-Russian. He's blonde and blue-eyed (like his MissingMom), has cold-based attacks some of which have Russian names, and he gets most of the [[{{Wangst}} (W)]][[AgeAppropriateAngst angst]]. Justified in the manga, though, where [[spoiler: the man that put them through the TrainingFromHell, Mitsumasa Kido, was actually their absurdly promiscuous father,]] and since he was Japanese... |
| 170 | * Fumio Kirisaki of the ''Manga/SaitamaChainsawShoujo'' is three-quarters Japanese, since her grandfather immigrated from the US. [[ACupAngst She laments the fact that she didn't seem to pick up the standard physical traits]] from her western heritage. |
| 171 | * Kaede Kimura from ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' is a blonde-haired blue-eyed otherwise-white-looking Japanese native (it's never specified whether she is of mixed ancestry or is simply descended from naturalized white migrants to Japan ''yes, they do exist'') who has recently returned from studying abroad, and has developed a split personality based on her two nations' stereotypes. Her [[YamatoNadeshiko Japanese side is extremely polite and gentle]] (and in love with Itoshiki-sensei), while her foreign half is loud, obnoxious, and [[FrivolousLawsuit ready to sue her classmates at the drop of a hat]]. |
| 172 | * Eri Sawachika of ''Manga/SchoolRumble'' is referred to as a "halfie" (her father is British), which she demonstrates with her long blonde hair and occasional [[GratuitousEnglish mangled English]] ("Never dream of it"). |
| 173 | * Jun, from ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' is half American, half Japanese. |
| 174 | * Sakuya Ookouchi in ''Manga/SensualPhrase'' is half-American and half-Japanese, having been [[ChildByRape conceived when his mother was raped by an American]]. His and Aine's son Shion consequently is quarter-American. The only visible signs of Sakuya's American ancestry are his blue eyes (which his girlfriend Aine initially mistakes for contact lenses when they first meet) and large, tall frame. |
| 175 | * Vladimir from ''Manga/ShonenNoteBoySoprano'' is a blond, blue eyed prodigious boy soprano who speaks fluent Japanese despite being Russian. How? His grandmother was Japanese. |
| 176 | * The title character of ''Manga/SilverNina'' is the child of a Japanese mother and Finnish father. The story centers on her living in Japan with her uncle and grandparents while her mother travels for work. The "silver" in the title refers to Nina's hair. |
| 177 | * Langa Hasegawa from ''Anime/SK8TheInfinity'' is half-Japanese and half-Canadian. While he's fluent in Japanese, he's spent most of his life in Canada and is [[HeritageDisconnect out of touch with Japanese culture]] as a result. |
| 178 | * Michael Okita from the third ''Manga/SlamDunk'' movie is mentioned to be half-Japanese (per father's side) and half-American. He also has [[PhenotypeStereotype blue eyes and blond hair]], is bilingual and was supposed to be under the watch of the NBA. Not to mention he's quite the [[GenkiGirl Genki Guy]] when off-duty. |
| 179 | * In ''Manga/SoulEater'', Black Star mentions that Maka, like him, is Japanese. This would be half-Japanese in her case, as her father is Spirit Albarn. There are other Japanese characters - Tsubaki and Yumi for e.g - but much of the cast are at least suggested (mostly through names, or area they work in) to be from all over the place. |
| 180 | * Ana Coppola from ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'' is British -- specifically, from Cornwall -- but hides the fact she is culturally Japanese. That her name sounds Italian is probably lost on the author, since it's just an excuse for a RunningGag pun. |
| 181 | * Ushio Kofune and her younger sister Mio from ''Manga/SummerTimeRendering'' are half-Japanese and half-French; because of her blonde hair and blue eyes (inherited from her father, Alain), Ushio got bullied in her childhood. By contrast, Mio looks more Japanese than her sister, with only her blue eyes revealing her French background. |
| 182 | * ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'': Yukine Chris whose name is half-Japanese and half-Anglophone is half-Japanese and half-American with her father being Japanese and mother the foreign one, [[AllThereInTheManual which is confirmed in the manga notes]]. She mixes some English words in her character song and even a Spanish word partly due to spending a part of her childhood in a South American county. |
| 183 | * Kanae Von Rosewald, from ''Manga/TokyoGhoul[=:Re=]''. He's German with a Japanese grandfather, though it isn't clarified whether he's half or a quarter Japanese. |
| 184 | * ''Manga/TokyoShinobiSquad:'' En is from Thailand, but he was raised by his father, a shinobi, and speaks fluent Japanese (albeit with some occasional hiccups). Shuriken is Half-Japanese and Half-Norwegian and is based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. |
| 185 | * Carol Olston from ''Manga/TomoChanIsAGirl'' is fully British, but she was raised in Japan and is culturally Japanese as a result. |
| 186 | * Syaoran from ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' has a Chinese dad and a Japanese mom. |
| 187 | ** The magician Clow Reed is half English and half Chinese. It was noted that his heritage is what inspired him to combine western and eastern magic. |
| 188 | *** On the other hand, Clow's reincarnation [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura Eriol Hiiragizawa]] is presumably half English, half ''Japanese.'' |
| 189 | ** [[Manga/XxxHOLiC Watanuki]] is probably also at least half Chinese, considering that [[spoiler:he's kinda sorta bizarrely the twin brother/clone/son/''something'' of Syaoran]]...[[MindScrew look, it's complicated, okay?]] [[spoiler: The fact that he bears a [[UncannyFamilyResemblance striking resemblance]] to Clow Reed supports this.]] |
| 190 | * ''Anime/{{Tsuritama}}'': |
| 191 | ** Yuki Sanada, who has red hair through his French grandmother Kate, [[RaisedByGrandparents who he lives with]]. This makes him Japanese enough to mostly fit in with the crowd in-story, but still gives him a unique appearance to signify his status as a main character. |
| 192 | ** Akira Agarkar Yamada is also presumably part Japanese considering his name and fluency in the language. |
| 193 | * ''Anime/TweenyWitches'': [[spoiler:Lennon]] is the HalfHumanHybrid son of a Japanese man and a white-coded [[MageSpecies witch]], the latter of whom has his blonde hair and grey eyes. |
| 194 | * Vivienne Otori from size-shifting-magical-girl series ''Ultimate Girls'' has a Japanese father and White (possibly Russian) mother. |
| 195 | * Terry the Kid from ''Anime/UltimateMuscle'' is half-American, half-Japanese, but this rarely comes up because this wasn't so that the audience could relate to him -- it's just a natural extension of the fact that the American Terryman married the Japanese Natsuko after the original ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'' series. ''Kinnikuman'' is actually one of the series that most proudly averts this, with main characters who are 100% British (Robin Mask), German (Brocken, Jr.), American (Terryman), ''Native'' American (Geronimo), Chinese (Ramenman), Russian (Warsman), and Spanish (Buffaloman). |
| 196 | * In ''Manga/VirginLove'', Daigo is mixed race, with his mother being Japanese and his father American ([[AmbiguouslyBrown ethnicity unspecified]]). In a kind of subversion the reason Kaoru takes an interest in him at all is precisely because he looks foreign (Kaoru doesn't like Japanese men at all). |
| 197 | * Up until the release of ''Anime/VividStrike'', the protagonist for every season ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' was at least tangentially Japanese despite the fact that the fact that Earth stopped being relevant after ''A's''. Nanoha herself is 100% Japanese, and while [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers Subaru]], [[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid Vivio]], and [[Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce Thoma]] are all HumanAliens, they were all adopted (or set to be adopted in Thoma's case) into families with Japanese ancestry. |
| 198 | * Of the 14 people who are to decide the fate of the planet in ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'', 12 are Japanese, one is an artificial construct with the brain of a Japanese girl, and one is half-Japanese, half-generic-white. It's nice to see the rest of the Earth get a little representation. |
| 199 | * ''Manga/YakitateJapan'': |
| 200 | ** (Meister) Sylvan Kirisaki and his sister Sophie are half-French. While Meister is now the manager of the Pantasia Main Branch and a bread judge in Japan, Sophie remained in France as a baker. |
| 201 | ** Spencer Henry Hokou aka "Sachihoko" is an odd case. He is 100% Italian-American, but has a mentality of a dude from Nagoya. He starts to lose his Nagoya-ness once he returned to America though. |
| 202 | * The titular character from ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'' is apparently from a foreign country and, on at least one occasion, was identified as non-Japanese by some people. However, due to being adopted and raised by Koiwai from a young age, it's rarely brought up. |
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| 204 | |
| 205 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 206 | * Franchise/TheDCU: |
| 207 | ** Grace Choi, a [[Franchise/TheDCU DC]] superheroine, is of ambiguously Asian descent on her father's name, her mother being an Bana (offshoots of the Amazons and thus presumably vaguely Grecian). Her surname suggests that her father is either of Korean or Cantonese extraction. |
| 208 | ** Franchise/{{Batman}}: Both Damian Wayne, the fifth Characters/{{Robin}}, and Cassandra Cain, the second Characters/{{Batgirl}}, are half white on their father's side and half ambiguously Asian[[note]]Damian's mother Talia is usually depicted as some mix of Arab and Chinese; Cass's mother Lady Shiva is something of a pan-Asian character[[/note]] on their mother's side. |
| 209 | *** Damian's mother Talia is responsible for his ruthlessness, bad attitude, and association with an international league of assassins, while his father being Batman is what brings him into the Batfamily's fold. |
| 210 | *** Cass's father is responsible for her training and muteness, but her prodigious skill at martial arts is also attributed to being her mother being the DCU's foremost martial artist. |
| 211 | ** ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'': Lian Harper is a quarter Vietnamese on her mother Jade Nguyen's side and her father Roy Harper is a white man of Navajo upbringing. Jade herself also qualifies as she has a Vietnamese mother and a white father [[note]]A DC encyclopedia stated her father was French but Gail Simone's ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' run retconned her into being a ChildByRape of an American senator.[[/note]] |
| 212 | ** ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': Rose Wilson is the son of Slade Wilson/Deathstroke, a white American man and Lillian Worth, a Cambodian woman. Lillian was killed in Deathstroke's first solo series and Roses story primarily revolves around her relationship with her father. |
| 213 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': Yara Flor, one of the {{ComicBook/Wonder Girl}}s, is a Native-Brazilian hero, daughter of an Amazon from Themyscira with an [[UsefulNotes/TheAmazonRainforest Amazonian]] river god. However, her solo title ''ComicBook/WonderGirlInfiniteFrontier'' reveals she was actually taken away from Brazil as a child to flee an attack of the Greek pantheon and was raised in the United States, only traveling back when she was 21 years old. Since Yara has little recollection of her childhood, this means she doesn't really have much connection to Brazil when she returns to her birth country, even giving her {{Pegasus}} the English name "Jerry" rather than any name from Native-Brazilian languages or Portuguese. |
| 214 | * Franchise/MarvelUniverse: |
| 215 | ** Pod/Enigma/Aikku Jokinen of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' is a Norwegian national born to Finnish parents. For an added bonus, she's [[TwoferTokenMinority lesbian]]. |
| 216 | ** The Mandarin, one of ''ComicBook/IronMan'''s most implacable foes and an international criminal terrorist, is half-Chinese, half-white. |
| 217 | ** An EnforcedTrope in the case of Characters/ShangChi, Marvel's resident BruceLeeClone. His original creators wanted to make him fully Chinese, but he ended up half-white by editorial mandate. However, this would later be retconned following the reveal of his real mother, who is also Chinese. |
| 218 | ** [[ComicBook/SpiderMan2099 Miguel O'Hara]], the ComicBook/SpiderMan of 2099, is half-Irish/half-Mexican. |
| 219 | ** [[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]], of the ''ComicBook/XMen''. The "all-new, all-different" relaunched X-Men were international, patching whatever foreign character had already appeared with some newly introduced characters, and Storm was the token African (Kenyan) with decidedly non-Kenyan features such as white hair and blue eyes. A retcon established that her mother was an east African princess (whose ancestors were white-haired, blue-eyed witches) but her father was African-American, and Storm herself was born in the US. The family moved to Egypt when she was a little girl, and promptly died when a plane hit their house and nearly crushed Storm in rubble, giving her a degree of amnesia and her famous claustrophobia. Interestingly, her creator said that he never really designed Storm to be a true representation of "African," but rather designed her to be more of an international woman in keeping with her status as a vaguely defined goddess of the Earth. The trend for years has been to depict her with African lips and cheekbones, European nose, and East Asian eye shape. |
| 220 | |
| 221 | * The man who became Bill Ward's UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era, black-clad hero ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}} was supposedly a Polish resistance fighter who swore revenge on the Nazis after one of them bombed his farmhouse, killing his brother and sister. But the names of those siblings were "Jack" and "Connie," respectively, which look suspiciously un-Polish. And Blackhawk himself speaks in informal American English, which you wouldn't expect a person living — and presumably born — in Poland to do. All of this could be chalked up to TranslationConvention, but it's still quite odd. |
| 222 | * Thugboy in ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' is half-Japanese. |
| 223 | * Suki Leiber of the American manga ''Goofyfoot Gurl'' is half Japanese and half Jewish. |
| 224 | * ''Europe Comics'' has the titular ''Isabellae'' which was later brought over to North America by Creator/DarkhorseComics. Isabellae is the daughter of a samurai and a Celtic sorceress from Ireland (her mother is from a Celtic tribe that existed prior to the Irish landing), and she journeys through Japan searching for her sister, cutting a bloody swathe through the country, before going on a quest to her mother's homeland. |
| 225 | * Kei Kawade, the protagonist of ''ComicBook/MonstersUnleashed'', is Caucasian on his mother Deanna's side and Japanese-American on his father's side. |
| 226 | * Mi-Tse Meyer, recurring half-Chinese female villain from German comic ''ComicStrip/NickKnatterton''. |
| 227 | * William Tucci's [[BadGirlComic '90s bad girl]] ComicBook/{{Shi}}, is the daughter of a Japanese warrior and a female American missionary. |
| 228 | [[/folder]] |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 231 | * The ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' fic ''Fanfic/ShadowOfTheDragon'' has two examples: |
| 232 | ** Sakura and Tomoyo are revealed to be of at least 1/8th British descent, their great-grandfather Masaki Amamiya being a British immigrant to Japan. |
| 233 | ** In chapter 13, Rika is established as 1/4th American through her father Jyou. |
| 234 | * ''Fanfic/TheChildOfLove'': Asuka and her daughter Teri are part German, part Japanese. |
| 235 | * Alex Kane from the ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' fanfic ''Fanfic/KunoichisLikeUs'' is culturally Japanese, but ethnically half-French/half-American. |
| 236 | * Naomi of ''Fanfic/DespairsLastResort'' is established as half-British on her fathers side in her introduction. She lived in the U.K. for most of her life, but moved with her mother to Japan three years before getting accepted into Hope's Peak. |
| 237 | * In ''Fanfic/ADifferentKindOfTruth'', Johnny Joestar is a blonde-haired and blue-eyed American, as he was in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' Part 7: Steel Ball Run. But in the story he is half-Japanese on his mother's side so that he could be Dojima's nephew. |
| 238 | * ''Manga/Evangelion303'': In this doujin set in America, Asuka is half-German half-Japanese and Mari is half-British half-Japanese. Shinji is full-blooded Japanese but he has lived in USA as long as he can remember and it feels like his home to him. |
| 239 | * In ''Fanfic/GhostsOfEvangelion'', Asuka's mixed ancestry is brought up when Misato and Asuka discuss why she doesn’t want to go back to Germany. Misato assures her that they cannot force her to return since she is half-American. |
| 240 | * ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': Asuka is part American, part German and part Japanese. Ergo, her daughter Akiko is 5/8 Japanese, 1/8 German and 2/8 American [[spoiler:as is her second daughter Sakiko.]] |
| 241 | * ''Webcomic/HowIBecameYours'' manages to do this with the canon characters, though it doesn't change their ethnicity. Instead, it changes cultural trappings, giving all heroic females very European-style gowns and using backgrounds that appear to come from France or Italy. |
| 242 | * In ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'': Asuka is half-American, a quarter German and a quarter Japanese. Her American citizenship came into play when [[spoiler: Misato uses Asuka's USA passport to request the protection of the American army and refugee status]]. |
| 243 | * ''Fanfic/PokemonCrossing'': Holly Sussex, the main character, is half-Galarian and half-Hoennian. Culturally, she identifies herself as Unovan (born and raised in Castelia City, just moved to the Hoenn region in the beginning of the fic). |
| 244 | * Tish Williams from Deborah Goldsmith's ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' fanfic ''[[http://homepage.mac.com/dgoldsmith/nj/juilliard.html Notes from Julliard]]'' is a tall African-American girl who spent her formative years in Japan and as a result doesn't fit in anywhere. She calls herself a "Tuna Roll" -- i.e. Black on the outside, Japanese on the inside. It doesn't help that both forms of her name ("Tish" is short for "Leticia") are barely pronounceable tongue twisters for her Japanese friends. |
| 245 | * In ''Fanfic/RiskItAll'', Ren is a Chinese-American who admits to being only half-Chinese, which has him worried when he runs into members of the Triad who may not appreciate his "impure blood". He also has blue eyes because of this, so he wears colored contacts to make them look more like a typical dark brown to hide his identity while acting as a vigilante. |
| 246 | * There are four examples in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/56283/Bill_K Bill K's]] ''Manga/SailorMoon'' saga to explain their hair color. First being that Usagi's and Minako's maternal grandfathers were American marines (twins at that). Haruka is Swedish from her father's side and Michiru's mother is American. |
| 247 | * Kilik Rung in the ''Manga/SoulEater'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SoulEaterTroubledSouls'' is half-Dominican and half-African. However, he moved to American early in life, so he's probably culturally African-American. |
| 248 | [[/folder]] |
| 249 | |
| 250 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 251 | * Hiro and his older brother Tadashi in ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' are half-Japanese and half-white Asian-Americans, emphasized by them living with a white aunt (somewhat of a RaceLift from the comic, where Hiro was purely Japanese). This is a case of ActorSharedBackground, as both their voice actors (Creator/RyanPotter and Creator/DanielHenney, respectively) are biracial. |
| 252 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei is ethnically Chinese but culturally effectively a second generation Canadian and comes to terms with balancing the two cultures. |
| 253 | [[/folder]] |
| 254 | |
| 255 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 256 | * The comedy film ''21 And Over'' stars Justin Chon of ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' fame as Jeff Chang, an Asian-American student celebrating his 21st birthday. The version [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/15/21-and-over-china-ending_n_2694277.html shown in China]] turns Jeff into a Chinese student who briefly travels to America and gets "corrupted" by its decadent culture before returning to China a better person. |
| 257 | * Played for laughs in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension''; the eponymous hero is the inexplicably blue-eyed son of Japanese physicist, Masado Banzai, and Texan-of-Scottish ancestry, Sandra Willoughby. |
| 258 | * Nulla in ''Film/{{Australia}}'' is a half-UsefulNotes/{{Aboriginal|Australians}} boy, who has to deal with the RealLife issues that half-Aboriginal children had to deal with... that is, becoming part of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} Stolen Generation]]. |
| 259 | * The titular Avatars from ''{{Film/Avatar}}'' appear Na'Vi for the most part, but closer inspection reveals that they have smaller noses, closer-set eyes, sloping foreheads, and five fingers and toes on each limb, traits that native Na'Vi do not have. |
| 260 | * Balraj in ''Film/BrideAndPrejudice'' is Indian but raised in England. |
| 261 | * {{Discussed|Trope}} in ''Film/DragonTheBruceLeeStory''. On the set of ''Film/TheGreenHornet'', a network executive is shown commenting about Creator/BruceLee, "He's awfully Oriental...", but producer Bill Krieger assures him nothing is wrong with Bruce, because he's merely "playing Oriental" as Kato. Regardless, the executive asks him if he can stay masked at all times, and it also prevents Bruce from starring in ''Series/KungFu1972'', despite helping develop it with Krieger. |
| 262 | * Music/ElvisPresley (who actually had some distant Cherokee ancestry) played a half-breed Indian in 1960's ''Flaming Star''. |
| 263 | * Frank Hopkins as portrayed in ''Film/{{Hidalgo}}'' is half-white and half Native American. It's uncertain if the real Frank Hopkins, who claimed that his mother was a Lakota, actually was, since he was known to be a pathological liar, [[BasedOnAGreatBigLie including with the story that inspired the film]]. |
| 264 | * Welshman Anthony Hopkins plays a mixed-raced man who passes as white in ''Film/TheHumanStain''. By contrast, Wentworth Miller, who played the younger version of the same character, actually is of mixed race descent. |
| 265 | * ''The Inn of the Sixth Happiness'', based on the novel ''The Small Woman'', changed things other than its title in its transition to the screen. The lead character's real-life Chinese love interest was made half European, presumably so he could be played by a white actor to avoid offending Hollywood sensibilities. |
| 266 | * In ''Film/KillBill Volume 1'' O-Ren Ishii is half Japanese and half Chinese-American. When she becomes head of the Yakuza, she encounters resistance from some members due to her mixed heritage. |
| 267 | * Martin Pawley from ''Film/TheSearchers'' is 1/8th Cherokee (though this doesn't restrain him from fighting Comanches). His racist uncle Ethan gives him a hard time for this, but ultimately comes to respect him, in a way. Martin was fully white in the novella on which ''The Searchers'' was based, and his ancestry was tweaked in TheMovie to give Ethan some CharacterDevelopment. |
| 268 | * The trope codifier may be Rudolph Valentino's character in ''Film/TheSheik'' (based on a novel, but far better known as a film). The exotic Bedouin turns out to be--whew!--100% European by blood. |
| 269 | * Eric Sacks from ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'' is an American who was born in Japan. |
| 270 | * Takuma Tsurugi/Teri Tsurugi from ''Film/TheStreetFighter'' series is half-Japanese on his father's side, while his mother was a Chinese woman. |
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| 272 | |
| 273 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 274 | * Firo Prochainezo from ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' (set in [[TheRoaringTwenties early 20th century America]]) is half-Italian (the other half being British-descended American), and identifies himself as a second-generation Italian immigrant. With the exception of Japanese-American Yalgumo, most other characters don't have their ethnicity particularly focused upon -- although many of the supporting characters are decidedly not American-born simply on the basis that they're a good sixty years [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld older than the country itself]]. |
| 275 | * Every main character who isn't pure Chinese in ''Literature/BreakingTheWalls'' can be considered this. For example Pearl Bright, leader of the current generation, is half-Chinese half-Hungarian Jew. |
| 276 | * The main plot of ''Literature/CrazyRichAsians'' revolves around a Chinese-American who moves to Singapore to be with her Singaporean boyfriend. She is fully of Chinese descent, but she was born and raised in the United States, and experiences ''mighty'' culture shock in Singapore, to the point that some characters don't even consider her a Chinese. |
| 277 | * Kostanshoglo from ''Literature/DeadSouls'' is described being not a pure Russian, although he thinks of himself as Russian and doesn't speak foreign languages. Speculation: He may have a Turkish ancestor, since many Turkish names end in -oglu. |
| 278 | * ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'': |
| 279 | ** Walker Yumasaki is regularly noted in the novels to be biracial (half-''what'' has yet to be elaborated upon, but it's implied to be white). This is never brought up in the anime adaptation. |
| 280 | ** IdolSinger Ruri Hijiribe is also implied to have some European ancestry, probably because [[spoiler:[[{{Dhampyr}} vampires]] aren't native to Japan in this 'verse]]. |
| 281 | * ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'': |
| 282 | ** The original light novels mention several examples of this: Kurz and Tessa are both foreigners raised in Japan, and Sousuke is ethnic Japanese raised in Russia and later Afghanistan. Probably justified in that Mithrill likely picked the three of them for those characteristics. |
| 283 | ** Kaname is of the "ethnic/cultural dissonance" variant. While she's fully Japanese, she spent much of her childhood in New York and is basically [[{{Eagleland}} America the obnoxious]]. |
| 284 | * In T.C. Rypel's ''Gonji'' series from the '80s (since been reprinted in 2012), the titular character is a samurai who's father was a Japanese oyabun while his mother was a stranded Viking. Gonji's adventures take place entirely in Europe. |
| 285 | * Creator/HBeamPiper did this a '''lot''' in his Future History. ''Uller Uprising'' has a character named Hideyoshi O'Leary. In ''Four-Day Planet'', the narrator remarks that: |
| 286 | --> The amount of intermarriage that's gone on since the First Century [Atomic Era], any resemblance between people's names and their appearances is purely coincidental. Oscar Fujisawa, who looks as though his name ought to be Lief Ericsson, for example. |
| 287 | * Literature/CiaphasCain ('''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM''')'s fencing teacher was one [[UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi Miyamoto]] [[Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac de Bergerac]], though it's more of a ShoutOut gag rather than an insight into Imperial naming practices. |
| 288 | * Kodaka Hasegawa in ''Literature/{{Haganai}}'' can be said as a {{deconstruction}}--the prevalent racial prejudice in Japan means his half-British background, with dirty blonde hair and Asian facial features giving him a FaceOfAThug, combined with a very bad first-day-at-school impression, means he's taken to be a [[JapaneseDelinquents delinquent]]. His doll-like and much more natural-looking younger sister Kobato has none of the issues. |
| 289 | * Literature/HonorHarrington is the child of an already very mixed (British-Spanish-Chinese) mother and white Pseudo-British father, but she's unusual in that many people in the Universe are ''more'' ethnically blended than she is. ''She'' takes much more flak due to having [[BioAugmentation genetic engineering]] in her ancestry. |
| 290 | * ''Literature/LegendSeries'': Day and Anden are both half-white half-Asian. Day has a Mongolian father, and he and his brothers all have Mongolian middle names. |
| 291 | * Sei from ''Literature/MariaWatchesOverUs'' apparently has some non-Japanese ancestry, but we're informed she still has "attractive Japanese features" regardless. |
| 292 | * Runa of ''Literature/ModernVillainess'' is the descendent of an illegitimate branch of the Keikain, who owns a small zaibatzu. She is also, by heritage, ''three-quarters'' Russian owing to her mother and paternal grandmother being Russians, and as a result, she doesn't look a bit like an Asian. But as she says, that's the ''only'' non-Japanese thing about her. |
| 293 | -->''My body and blood may have been three-fourths Russian, but my soul and lifestyle were wholly Japanese.'' |
| 294 | * ''Literature/{{Sandokan}}'': |
| 295 | ** Marianna's mother was half-Italian, and Marianna herself was born in Naples. |
| 296 | ** Ada Corishant too: being the daughter of Marianna's maternal uncle and an Indian woman she's one quarter Italian, one quarter English and two quarters Indian. |
| 297 | * Not only is Maya Witherspoon, the Snow White analog in ''Literature/TheSerpentsShadow'', a (female) doctor and open suffragette in [[TheEdwardianEra Edwardian London]], but her mother was a "Native" her wellborn army physician father openly married when stationed in India. Of course her late mother's EvilTwin (and to a less homicidal degree Indian society in general) was rather ticked over a pure-blooded Brahmin giving birth to a polluted half-English child. |
| 298 | ** Miscegenation was somewhat less inflammatory in India that it was in Britain itself, especially because "half-caste" children tended to see themselves as white anyway. |
| 299 | * In ''Literature/SeekersOfTheSky'', main characters are not Russians, as opposed to many other novels by Creator/SergeyLukyanenko, but Russian spies appear later. |
| 300 | * ''Literature/TheShadowhunterChronicles'': |
| 301 | ** Every character of a different ethnicity who appears in ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'' always turns out to be biracial, (usually half white). Magnus is half-Dutch[=/=]half-Indonesian, Aline is half-Chinese[=/=]half-white, Maia is half-black[=/=]half-white. See a trend here? |
| 302 | ** Jem from ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'' is half-white half-Chinese. He has a Chinese name (Ke Jian Ming), but prefers to be called "Jem". Will is a downplayed example; he is fully white, but his father is English while his mother is Welsh. At the time, Welsh identity was very strong (English didn't become the majority language of Wales until 1911), and being Welsh was basically the same thing as being a foreigner to the English. |
| 303 | ** Cordelia Carstairs, the main protagonist of ''Literature/TheLastHours'', is half-English half-Persian. |
| 304 | * Galadriel 'El' Higgins from ''Literature/TheScholomance'' is half Marathi on her father's side and so favors him that nobody realizes her blonde British mother Gwen is a blood relation unless told. While her mother took pains to make sure she knew her [[FateWorseThanDeath tragically lost]] father's native language El was raised entirely in a hippie {{commune}} in rural Wales and the one time her mum brought her to visit her paternal family they had to flee in the middle of the night for El's life (Dread Prophesy thing rather than Mixed Race thing, but not conducive to close relationships). |
| 305 | * In-universe example in ''Literature/SirenQueen''. When Chinese-American Luli Wei becomes a movie star in a magical alternate pre-Code Hollywood, the studio concocts several fake backstories for her, which simultaneously play up her Chinese heritage in stereotypical ways to make her seem "exotic", but also (untruthfully) claim she's half-white to make her "relatable". |
| 306 | * In ''Literature/SisterPrincess'', Haruka is half German, Yotsuba is half British, and Aria is implied to be at least half French. |
| 307 | * Hiro Protagonist from ''Literature/SnowCrash'' gives his racial heritage as Japanese by way of Korea and Africa by way of Texas. His ethnicity, however, is stated to be "Army." Played for dark humor when he is cornered by members of "New South Africa" who debate whether to attack him because he is Asian or because he is black. |
| 308 | * ''Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy'': The psychologist is half-Native American, Control is half Latino, and the biologist is about quarter Asian. |
| 309 | * ''Literature/TheStarsMyDestination'' has the SecretPolice agent and MasterOfDisguise Peter Yang-Yeovil, who can trace his ancestry back to an ancient dynasty, but looks white enough to disguise himself as an Italian at one point. Justified by the fact that since humanity learned how to teleport, race has become so blended that only one's name can indicate one's nationality. |
| 310 | * Tazuku of Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote series is one-quarter French who hails from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arras Arras]]. This is somehow unsurprising, as the part-author Hitomi Fujimoto is on record a [[ForeignCultureFetish big France Nut]]. |
| 311 | * ''Literature/TheTeresaKnightTrilogy'': Teresa is a Briton of Sudanese descent, which is brought up though since she's born and raised in the UK. Teresa's culturally British so it doesn't affect her very much. She also has a wholly English name. |
| 312 | * In ''Literature/ThievesLikeUs'', Ty is the daughter of a Haitian man and an American woman. While she looks Haitian and was raised in Haiti, she speaks English fluently and with a perfect American accent. This is because her father loved the sound of her mother speaking English, and, after the mother left, he forced his daughter to learn to speak the same way so he could continue to hear it. |
| 313 | * ''Literature/ToAllTheBoysIveLovedBefore'': Lara Jean and her sisters are half-white, half-Korean. While the novels are mostly devoid of racism, Lara Jean mentions that she has difficulty dressing up for Halloween, because no matter what costume she wears, everyone always assumes that she is dressing up as an anime character. In the second novel, Stormy accuses her of siding with a fellow retiree of Japanese descent because they are both Asian (then again, [[RacistGrandma Stormy is old]] and likely doesn't mean it as an insult, though Lara Jean is stung, regardless). |
| 314 | * Hiromi Callahan's sister, Satsuki Callahan, from ''Literature/ZetsubouRobo''. Hiromi and her mother are of Japanese descent, while Satsuki is mixed race, since their father, Arthur Callahan, is clearly of European descent. The book implies that this kind of thing is rather common out in the colonies, where various cultures mix and intermingle, and cultural traditions from Earth are not seen as being incredibly important. |
| 315 | [[/folder]] |
| 316 | |
| 317 | [[folder:Live Action TV]] |
| 318 | * In ''Series/TwentyFour'', the suicide bomber in Day 8 is half-Middle Eastern (in this case, his father is from [[{{Qurac}} Kamistan]] who married an American woman). |
| 319 | * ''Series/{{Banshee}}'': Fat Au, despite having an Asian sounding name and being backed by the Triads, is a large African-American man. |
| 320 | * Almost no Vietnamese character in ''Series/ChinaBeach'' is played by a Vietnamese actor. The bar didn't extend to the rest of Southeast Asia: in one episode, Cambodian Haing Ngor plays a character who is explicitly written as Cambodian. The recurring character Mai is plays by Hawaiian actress Elizabeth Lindsey. In the season four episode "The Quest", [[ShellShockedVeteran Colleen McMurphy]] goes to visit her old [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]] buddy Dodger and his half-Vietnamese son. The son is played by a young, obviously all-white Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In the son's next appearance, he's older and being played by an actual Asian actor. In all cases, Vietnamese characters speak strongly accented, but otherwise fluent and idiomatic, English. |
| 321 | * Abed and Annie in ''Series/{{Community}}'', who originally identified themselves as, respectively, Muslim and Jewish, were each revealed to have one Christian parent, making them both just Christian enough to participate in the annual Christmas episode without creating any inconvenient complications (though it's not unheard of for a non-Christian to celebrate the holiday socially). |
| 322 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Compared to the rest of Westeros, Dorne's people at large have some mix of Andal and Rhoynar blood. |
| 323 | * In the Jdrama version of ''Manga/HanaKimi'', Julia is meant to be an all-American blonde. Instead, she is played by the half-Japanese half-French Minami who speaks accented English. |
| 324 | * The eponymous ''Series/KamenRiderAmazon'' was born in the Amazon jungle. However, it turns out that he's a Japanese who was simply abandoned in the Amazon, Literature/{{Tarzan}}-style. His SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute in ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' is played by an actual South American, though he's still half-Japanese (specifically, Japanese-Peruvian, and he has the mixed name of Enrique Sakamoto). |
| 325 | ** ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' has part-white JerkJock Shun Daimonji, played by mixed Japanese-Australian actor Justin Tomimori. |
| 326 | ** ''Series/KamenRiderKabuto'''s Tsurugi is mixed Japanese-white, though his actor is fully Japanese. |
| 327 | * The plot of ''Series/KungFu1972'' centered on a Shaolin monk wandering the Old West. Logically, this would require the lead to be Chinese (and there were many Chinese immigrants in America at the time the show is set). Instead, the writers specified that Caine was only half-Chinese, and [[{{Yellowface}} cast a white actor to play him]]. Reportedly, this was changed only because the network didn't feel that America was ready for an Asian lead, which was actually the producers' original intention. Bruce Lee, who had partial European ancestry himself, was supposed to be Caine. |
| 328 | * With the possible exception of Pete Evans, none of the judges in ''Series/MyKitchenRules'' are Australian locals, although they presumably have citizenship. Manu Feildel hails from France, Colin Fassnidge from Ireland, while Guy Grossi, Liz Egan and Karen Martini are part-Italians. A lot of the contestants come from varying nationalities and ethnic backgrounds as well. |
| 329 | * ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' has Tommy, who is "a bit Native American"... maybe. After all his brother was simply adopted and may not himself be Native American. |
| 330 | ** ''[[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive Operation Overdrive]]'''s Pink Ranger, Rose, was shown to be living in London (working as a university lecturer) before she was recruited to the team. Her actress is British (albeit of Filipino descent), so it's probably safe to assume that the character actually is British. |
| 331 | * ''Series/{{Quantico}}'' protagonist Alex Parrish is half-Indian, half-white (though she's [[FakeMixedRace played by a fully Indian]] actress formerly of UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}, Creator/PriyankaChopra). |
| 332 | * In Irish television show ''Series/{{Raw}}'', Tanya the restaurant manageress is English. As she is married to the Irish head chef there is already a perfectly understandable reason for her to be in Ireland but the show decided to reveal she was part Irish anyway. The actress, Creator/ShelleyConn, is of Sri Lankan and British ancestry. |
| 333 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'' has had plenty of principal characters who are at least partially non-human, but with some human ancestry or influence: Spock (half-Vulcan, half-human), Deanna Troi (half-human, half-Betazoid), Worf (fully Klingon, raised by humans), Data (android designed to mimic humans), B'Elanna Torres (half-Klingon, half-human), and Seven of Nine (Borg with most of her humanity restored). |
| 334 | * ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' has numerous instances of Rangers who were born in Japan, but raised elsewhere. Sometimes homogeny is the culprit, but sometimes it seems that TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse and it won't do for a member of the FiveManBand to be from elsewhere. {{JustForFun/Egregious}} examples include: |
| 335 | ** ''Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger'': half-Swiss/half-Japanese Peggy Matsuyama, played by half-Japanese actress Lisa Komaki. Interestingly, the female members of all 1970s ''Super Sentai'' series were half-Japanese (''Series/JAKQDengekitai'''s Karen Mizuki and the below example); they didn't start casting full-Japanese actresses until 1980. |
| 336 | ** ''Series/BattleFeverJ'' was as close as ''Sentai'' gets to an international team: each Ranger had learned his or her particular fighting style in the country his or her Ranger identity was named for, but with the exception of Miss America, all were born in Japan, and even Miss America was half-Japanese [[spoiler:(both Miss Americas, actually)]]. |
| 337 | ** ''Series/ChoushinseiFlashman'' starred a team visiting from the Flash solar system, and the environment was only compatible enough for them to stay for about the length of your average sentai series... except it turns out they were kidnapped from Earth long ago. |
| 338 | ** The best example is ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger''’s Jiraiya, who despite having a Japanese name was raised in the US and had only come to Japan recently as the series began. He was played by an actual Japanese-American actor, spoke perfect English (to the point where his voice notably stood out in the Roll Calls and posing), spoke Japanese with an American accent and had notably different mannerisms and personality than the Japanese characters. |
| 339 | ** ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' has Tetsu (who seems like a {{Human Alien|s}} with NoSocialSkills but is really a human who’s lived offworld since his parents died) and Ban, whose only sign of an Earthen origin is a flashback to his samurai ancestor. |
| 340 | ** ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'': Kyoryu Black is named Ian Yorkland and is ambiguously Western, Kyoryu Pink is named Amy Yuzuki and is Japanese-American, and one episode had one of Ian's old girlfriends, Erica Stonesfield, visiting from abroad; all three are played by Japanese actors. However, ''Kyoryuger'' is also noteworthy for having the first non-Japanese Sentai Ranger: SixthRanger Ramirez, played by Robert Baldwin (who's ethnically Canadian but was born and raised in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese). His fellow Spirit Ranger Tessai is ethnically Chinese but played by a Japanese actor. |
| 341 | ** ''Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger''[='s=] SixthRanger is not just from America, but he's an [[{{Eagleland}} extreme American stereotype]]; yet he still comes from a Japanese family (his name is Kinji Takigawa) and isn't fluent in English at all. |
| 342 | * Invoked by Mr. Gus from ''Series/TrueBlood''. He's Japanese and runs the North American branch of the Yokonomo Corporation (the company that makes [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire TruBlood]]). The headquarters are in Dallas, and he dresses and talks like a billionaire cowboy to make himself more "approachable" to the Texans he does business with, almost to a patronizing degree. However, the actor playing him is American in real life. |
| 343 | * In ''Series/Tyrant2014'', protagonist Bassam Al-Fayeed, supposedly a native of the fictional country of Abbudin, is played by white British actor Creator/AdamRayner. His obvious white features are explained as a result of his mother being a British woman. |
| 344 | [[/folder]] |
| 345 | |
| 346 | [[folder:Manhwa]] |
| 347 | * ''Manhwa/UnbalanceXUnbalance'' features a British-Korean character who is a younger half sister to one of the main characters. |
| 348 | [[/folder]] |
| 349 | |
| 350 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 351 | * Pro wrestling tends to subvert this as most wrestlers are announced as being from their actual current home towns unless it is part of their gimmick in which case they are usually North Americans using a FakeNationality (for example Wrestling/RoddyPiper was announced as being from Glasgow, Scotland despite the fact he was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada but with Scottish ancestry). Granted, this can cause confutation and accusations of this if one of them decides to use their actual home town instead of a fake one. Also, Wrestling/{{WWE}} caught some flak a couple of years for changing some of the "Face" Canadian wrestlers hometowns. When they are announced to the ring, they're usually stated hailing to where they reside now in the U.S. as opposed to Canada. |
| 352 | * Inverted with Wrestling/GailKim during her run in WWE around 2004-ish where she was billed as being from Korea when she was born and raised in Toronto (but with Korean ancestry). |
| 353 | * Inverted with Wrestling/SantinoMarella. In RealLife, his name is Anthony Carelli, and he's a Canadian with Sicilian heritage. However, he made his debut during a European tour in Milan, implying he was a native Italian and winning the Intercontinental Championship as a plant in the crowd, and was called "The Milan Miracle" for a while after that. [[{{Fauxreigner}} This is one interesting case where WWE went out of their way to make him]] ''[[{{Fauxreigner}} more]]'' [[{{Fauxreigner}} foreign than he already was]]. |
| 354 | * The Legendary 80’s French Canadian tag team The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers played this trope for Heel Heat, while they were announced as being from their current home town of Memphis, Tennessee, start USA chants, and carried American flags. However they would often speak Québecois French and would say backhanded compliments about their new home country. Their theme song, All American Boys, proclaimed they loved being white bread preppy Barry Manilow fans. However, there was also a French portion of their song where they admitted that they were not being sincere and only acted that way because they knew it made the fans angry |
| 355 | * Wrestling/TrishStratus is Canadian of Greco-Polish descent. WWE just said that she was Canadian, although some fans have referred to her as a "Greek goddess." |
| 356 | * James Yun (A.K.A. Wrestling/JimmyWangYang) is half-Korean and half white American, so naturally Wrestling/{{WCW}} billed him as a Japanese man (and he ironically got over more in Wrestling/{{All Japan|ProWrestling}} than he ever did in the States). His first gimmick in the WWE was a Japanese bodyguard with mafia ties and he was a heel. His HeelFaceTurn came when he downplayed his Korean side and embraced his "redneck" ties (albeit ''Chinese-American'' redneck ties!). His attire changed from simple black pants to a wifebeater, cowboy hat, blue jeans and Confederate Flag emblems. (Interestingly, the RealLife persona of Yun is very close to that of Wang Yang, as it combines a fondness for "traditional" American culture with TheThemeParkVersion of the Far East.) |
| 357 | * MaskedLuchador El Desperado of Wrestling/SuzukiGun claims to be half-Japanese and half-Mexican. In reality, the man behind the mask - Kyosuke Mikami - is fully Japanese, and took inspiration from his time in Mexico to form the identity of El Desperado; him being of mixed heritage in-character is the explanation behind why he can speak and understand Japanese. |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 361 | * In ''Radio/NewDynamicEnglish'''s ''Functioning in Business'', Gary Engleton is half-American, half-Korean, being able to speak Korean fluently, much to Elizabeth's surprise. |
| 362 | [[/folder]] |
| 363 | |
| 364 | [[folder:Religion and Mythology]] |
| 365 | * Myth/ClassicalMythology has quite a few, not surprising considering the ancient Greeks were great explorers and frequently got in contact with other civilizations, especially those located in the Near East. This only lists those who were explicitly stated as coming from outside the Hellenistic world; Thrace and Troy don't count. |
| 366 | ** Perseus (Greek) and Andromeda (Aithiopian with Argive ancestry) married and had several children who carried on a long, long lineage of royalty and heroes who had Aithiopian blood somewhere in their ancestry, including: Hercules/Herakles, his nephew and companion Iolaus, their enemy Eurystheus, Odysseus' wife Penelope... |
| 367 | ** King Minos of Crete was a son of the Greek god Zeus and the Phoenician princess Europa, who was also of Argive descent. All of his descendants were thus also part Phoenician. |
| 368 | ** Europa's brother Cadmus, too, who became the first King of Thebes and later married the Greek goddess Harmonia and produced a long lineage of Theban kings. His children also included Semele, the mortal mother of the Olympian god Dionysus, which meant that ''a freaking Olympian god had a foreigner as a grandfather''. |
| 369 | ** Jason's AxCrazy girlfriend, Medea, and her brothers, were half-Greek from their father Aeëtes and half-Georgian from Aeëtes' divine Georgian consorts (Georgia as in [[UsefulNotes/GeorgiaCaucasus the country in the Caucasus]], not the US state. Also it wasn't called Georgia back in the day, but Colchis). |
| 370 | [[/folder]] |
| 371 | |
| 372 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 373 | * ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' uses this trope as a plot point. The character Emily Eupraxus Washington was inducted into the ancient Roman Eupraxus bloodline, who are treated as the figureheads of the [[AristocratsAreEvil Invictus]] Covenant. Emily's half-Japanese, and is portrayed as an ineffectual ruler and [[{{Moe}} moe blob]]. The plot is that the elder Invictus are largely racist feudal Europeans, but they dare not act against their crown jewel. The younger Invictus, on the other hand, love Emily because her combined lineage and bloodline show that the Invictus is capable of adapting to the modern world. [[WildMassGuessing Allegedly,]] the Japanese ancestry also pleases a [[OccidentalOtaku large part of the fan base.]] |
| 374 | [[/folder]] |
| 375 | |
| 376 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 377 | * ''Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection'' has gotten a fair amount of criticism for often giving characters of color white heritage, especially in the Girls of the Year line. Jess is half-Japanese and half-white, Kanani is half-Japanese-Hawaiian and half-white, Lea is ''one-eighth'' Brazilian (and is played by a white actress in her movie), and Nanea (a historical character) is half-Hawaiian and half-white. |
| 378 | [[/folder]] |
| 379 | |
| 380 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 381 | * Ashley Mizuki Robbins of ''VideoGame/AnotherCode''. Her mother was Japanese, and her father is either British or American, depending on what version you're playing. |
| 382 | * ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' has a rare Western example. The main character, Connor Kenway (birth name is Ratohnhaké:ton) is half-Native American (more specifically, he is part of the Mohawk tribe) and half British. Achilles Davenport (who is black) tells him that with his features and complexion, he can pass off as a Mediterranean to make his dealings with the Colonial Americans easier. |
| 383 | --> '''Achilles:''' "Better a Spaniard than a native... and far better than me." |
| 384 | * Hitomi of the ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' fighting game series fits this trope well, complete with Japanese and German parentage. Interestingly, though, her features are more western in comparison to her very Japanese name. |
| 385 | ** As does Kokoro, one of Fame Douglas's illegitimate daughters, with Japanese and American ancestry for your brawling pleasure. Helena is also half-French, half-American. |
| 386 | * ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'': Emily Kaldwin is the rightful empress of Gristol, but her father Corvo Attano hails from the island of Serkonos. For real life reference, this would be like if the Princess of England was half-Italian. |
| 387 | * In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', there are only two sympathetic and badass Orlesian characters - Leliana and Riordan. Both are actually from Ferelden, but were raised in Orlais. Everyone actually ''from'' Orlais is morally dubious, cowardly, or otherwise causes problems for the player. |
| 388 | ** Similarly, there's Fiona and Duncan, who we find is a Fereldan in Orlais in the books. The former was an elven slave sold to an Orlesian noble. |
| 389 | ** {{A|ctionGirl}}veline of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', who's also sympathetic and badass, is actually the reverse; she's ethnically Orlesian and raised in Ferelden. |
| 390 | * ''VideoGame/FarCry4'''s Ajay Ghale spends much of his waking life living in the US and only comes back to his birthplace of [[FictionalCountry Kyrat]] at the very start of the game. Pagan Min also qualifies to an extent, being that he hailed from Hong Kong and is supposedly half-British ancestrally. |
| 391 | * ''VideoGame/FightFever'': Among the characters on the roster of this FightingGame is a Mexican fighter named "Kim Hoon" who is of Korean heritage. |
| 392 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' gives us Yuna, a fantasy example of this trope. Her father's a Spiran, but her mother's an Al Bhed. |
| 393 | * ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' has Claude. His tan skin tone and the hints that he was not raised as a noble in Fódlan may tip the player off before he reveals that [[spoiler:he is half-Almyran, a region east of the main continent. He hides this from most people, as he’d rather not deal with the racism and xenophobia that Almyrans experience]]. |
| 394 | * ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' has Alyx Vance, half black, half indeterminate Asian. In this case, it was probably just a reference to her voice actress, whose father was Black and mother was Japanese/Korean. |
| 395 | * SciFi example. Colonel Hakha from ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}}'' is half-Vektan, half-Helghast. |
| 396 | * The HGame ''Koikatsu'' has the school nurse, who was born in France but moved to Japan as a child. There is also the returnee, who was born in Japan, grew up in an English-speaking country, and returned to Japan to work on her Japanese. |
| 397 | * ''VideoGame/MetalGear'': |
| 398 | ** Originally, Solid Snake was an American of mixed Japanese-British heritage and later revised to a Caucasian American with some Japanese ancestry in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', it is explained that [[spoiler:although EVA/Big Mama was Solid Snake's surrogate/birth mother, the egg came from a Japanese woman]]. |
| 399 | ** Characters from different countries are almost always half-Japanese or half-American in the ''Metal Gear'' series. Revolver Ocelot is half-American/half-Russian, Kazuhira Miller is half-Japanese/half-American, and Naomi Hunter claims to have a Japanese grandfather [[spoiler:(though this is revealed to be a lie, and even she's not sure of her real ancestry beyond speculation that there might be some Indian from when Rhodesia was a British colony)]]. Because of his last name, it can be assumed that Johnny Sasaki is also half-Japanese/half-American, though ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' muddies the issue somewhat by featuring his grandfather, also named Johnny, as a Russian prison guard (albeit one who had a son in America before going back to the Union). With the half-American characters, this is clearly a case of But Not Too Foreign so that the characters can be drawn with white features. |
| 400 | ** EVA is [[spoiler: half-American/half-Chinese]], although all that's known is she was born in Idaho and then inducted into the Chinese branch of the Philosophers. Unlike the other cases, no mention is made of her parentage. |
| 401 | ** In a more subtle example, Hal "Otacon" Emmerich is an American with a German-Jewish surname, but he's obsessed with Japanese culture. However, both have British heritage from their mothers’ sides. |
| 402 | ** Raiden was born in Liberia (and thus technically Liberian, or African-American), but he's clearly of European descent, and he speaks with a flawless American accent. |
| 403 | ** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', Mistral is half-Algerian/[[FrenchJerk half-French]], while Jetstream Sam is Brazilian with Japanese ancestry. |
| 404 | * ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'': Sylvia Christel is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed half-Japanese, half-Ukrainian bombshell raised in France but United States resident. This is evidenced solely by her French accent and a single random card that can only found in a New Game+. Her name, quite fittingly for such a sexy and seductive character, is also a shout out to the French classic "Emmanuelle" whose part was played by actress...Sylvia Kristel. |
| 405 | * Roberto Frois of ''VideoGame/OnimushaDawnOfDreams'' is half-Spanish, half-Japanese. |
| 406 | * Aya Brea of ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'' fame is half-Japanese, half-European, and has both in her appearance: she has Asian facial features as well as blonde hair and blue eyes. |
| 407 | * ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'': |
| 408 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona2'' gives us Lisa Silverman, who is ethnically white but culturally Japanese, having been raised there since birth by a pair of incredibly Japanophile parents. According to a guidebook, said parents are naturalized citizens that immigrated from the United States. Her folks do their damnest to blend in (her mother acts like a stereotypical [[YamatoNadeshiko Japanese lady]] and dropped her birth name for a Japanese one, while her father practices akido and is prickly about his ethnicity), and while Lisa also tries to do the same, [[spoiler:her [[EnemyWithout Shadow]] implies that isn't necessarily what she wants]]. Her parents' love of the country is so immense that her father, a minister of trade, can speak English, but has never spoken or taught it to his daughter. |
| 409 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona5'' deconstructs the trope: Ann Takamaki is ethnically mostly Japanese, as were her parents, but she is subjected to [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer extreme ostracism]] and SlutShaming because of the blonde hair, blue eyes and decidedly "white" facial features she inherited from an American grandparent. Her appearance also attracts the attention of her school's [[CreepyGymCoach predatory volleyball coach]], who uses her best friend's starting position as leverage to force Ann into having sex with him, [[spoiler: and then ''[[RevengeByProxy rapes her friend]]'' when she refuses]]. |
| 410 | * ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' has a few examples: |
| 411 | ** Jill Valentine is half-French, half-Japanese, her mother being of Japanese descent. |
| 412 | ** Jake Muller of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' is half-American, half-Eastern European. |
| 413 | * Wumela from the ''VideoGame/{{Richman}}'' series is half-Chinese, half-British. |
| 414 | * Masami von Weisegger, the main protagonist of ''Ring Of Red'', was a half-Japanese, half-German ace [[RealRobotGenre AFW]] pilot. |
| 415 | * Many of the most popular characters in the ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' series are at least half-Japanese, although they're otherwise from all over the place. Maria is Japanese/Russian, Orihime is Japanese/Italian, Hanabi is Japanese/French (though she looks more Japanese than at least half the full Japanese characters in the series)... |
| 416 | ** In Hanabi's case, the reason is a little different than usual for this trope: ''VideoGame/SakuraWars3IsParisBurning'' takes place ''in France'', so her mixed heritage is used to explain why a teenage Japanese girl would be living in France. |
| 417 | * Yuri Volte Hyuga, the hero of the first two ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' games, is the son of a Japanese army officer and a Russian émigré ([[spoiler:Okay, actually German, but that's a long story]]). In the English translation, he he has a Russian name (in the original, he's "Urmnaf Bort Hyuga," which is just [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Foreign-Sounding Gibberish]]). Note that "Yuri" is not a multiracial name for a man, as it's only used as a female name in Japan. |
| 418 | * Chili Shrimp from ''Shokumonogatari/Tale of Food'' is a partly Japanese dish and the game plays up the Japanese part of his identity; he's released on Japanese server first and wears what appears to be Taishō era clothing. However, in keeping with the theme of personification of Chinese food, he's still part of Szechuan cuisine. |
| 419 | * Wei Shen, the protagonist of ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012'' is a Hong Kong native who spent his adolescence and young adulthood living in California, which is why he has an American accent when he returns to Hong Kong to infiltrate the triads. |
| 420 | * Franchise/SlyCooper is American, and has roots in England, Japan, Egypt, Arabia, Scotland, Germany, and quite possibly more. |
| 421 | * ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'': |
| 422 | ** Setsuka was born to a Portuguese mother and a Japanese father on a voyage from Portugal to Japan. After her parents died from illness during the crossing, she was adopted and raised Japanese. |
| 423 | ** Arthur is British in origin, but as a boy joined the crew of a merchant ship and was eventually "adopted" by a wealthy Japanese merchant who liked exotic stuff. He was raised in Japan most of his life, and only returned to Europe in his 30's as part of his search of the cursed sword. |
| 424 | ** Isabella "Ivy" Valentine has Spanish heritage via her birth father Cervantes, but was born and raised English. |
| 425 | * ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'' has protagonist Fayt Leingod and his childhood friend Sophia Esteed as half Japanese. Their mothers Ryoko and Kyoko (respectively) were also close friends before they were born. Since the developer is Japanese, [[PlayingWithATrope which half is considered foreign depends on which side of the Pacific the player is on]]. |
| 426 | * Ken Masters, the second half of the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' series' leading duo, is a martial arts master who is 3/4 Japanese and 1/4 American (he was purely Japanese in ''SF I'', but was {{retcon}}ned in ''SF II''). His name, Ken, is a legitimate name in both English and Japanese. |
| 427 | ** Ken's student, Sean from ''Street Fighter III'' and his elder sister Laura from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'', is half-Japanese, half-Brazilian. |
| 428 | ** Ken's wife Eliza is fully American. As a result, their son Mel is 5/8 American and 3/8 Japanese. |
| 429 | * In ''[[VideoGame/StreetsOfRage Streets of Rage 4]]'', Estel Aguirre is of Swedish-Colombian ancestry, both parents being police officers. |
| 430 | * VideoGame/{{Strider}} Hiryu appears to be this: he's styled as being Japanese and even speaks the language in the [[VideoGame/StriderArcade first game]] (where every character speaks his/her native tongue), yet [[AllThereInTheManual according to official sources]], he was born in a village in eastern Siberia. The [[Manga/{{Strider}} manga]] does sort of imply he was raised by the Striders' director, a Japanese man, however. |
| 431 | * Shu Shirakawa in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' is half Japanese, half La Gias... okay, the latter may not be so much a nation but another world, but most of them are so identical with humans it's like 'just another nation'. |
| 432 | ** Several other characters are like this. The Braunstein brothers are both 1/4 Japanese. We never hear much about Yuuki Jagger's background, but just from his name you can tell it's probably the case. Sanger Somvold is not ethnically Japanese at all, but seems to be intended to embody the concept of ''Yamato Damacy'' anyway (unlike aspiring KidSamurai Bullet). |
| 433 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Syndicate}}'' (2012), the enemy Agent Tatsuo's surname is Hamilton. |
| 434 | * ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'': |
| 435 | ** Lee Chaolan was born in China and is ethnically Chinese, but was raised and officially identifies as Japanese. |
| 436 | ** Michelle Chang is half-Chinese, half-Native American |
| 437 | ** Lars Alexandersson is half Japanese [[spoiler:(from Heihachi's side)]], half Swedish. |
| 438 | * ''VideoGame/TokyoMirageSessionsFE'' has Eleonora Yumizuru, who's half-Japanese and half-Scandinavian.[[note]] Exactly which country is never established.[[/note]] Although she's apparently lived her whole life in japan, she's regularly treated as an outsider. She dreams of becoming a Hollywood actress because she feels it will lead to people judging her for something other than looking different. |
| 439 | * Sam Nishimura of ''VideoGame/TombRaider2013'' is a half-Japanese, half-Portuguese American. |
| 440 | * ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'': in the Japanese version, the main (Derek) storyline is set in Japan. Blue-eyed blonde Angie, from that cast, is part German, though this was just for colour/this trope until Trauma Center 2 made a retcon, specifically that [[spoiler:the "sinners" (people who are attuned enough to GUILT to help breed it, which includes Angie) were descendants of Adam, the main villain, and the main branch of Adam's family lives in Germany. Never mind the fact that another sinner in that very game is from Central or South America]]. |
| 441 | * More than one ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' game has used characters whose ethnicity is part-Japanese, whose real ethnicity contributes to the games' plot twists. |
| 442 | [[/folder]] |
| 443 | |
| 444 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 445 | * Morgan from ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'' has just a little Japanese ancestry. And her way of honoring this part of her heritage? Drinking tea and sake. |
| 446 | * Chiara, the AmbiguouslyBrown aide to JB in ''VisualNovel/TheEdenOfGrisaia'', is apparently a weird mixture of African and Japanese descent, though she looks like neither. |
| 447 | * ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has Illya, who has a Japanese dad and a German mom. Well, her mom is a homunculus but is genetically German. |
| 448 | ** This extends to ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya'', where (a much nicer and much more normal) Illya is the protagonist, as well as her clone/other side, Chloe, who is Illya's repressed memories given form and looks basically like a PaletteSwap (Illya is ''very'' pale, with MysticalWhiteHair and red eyes, Chloe is AmbiguouslyBrown, her hair is a light pink and her eyes are more orange). |
| 449 | * Lilly Satou and her big sister Akira from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' are half-Scottish, half-Japanese. WordOfGod says that Lilly looks completely white. |
| 450 | ** Some aspects of this trope are lampshaded in her route, with PluckyComicRelief Kenji theorizing as for what her "other half" might be and eventually settling on Russian, one of the more stereotypical choices (explaining his reasoning as Lilly's [[MafiaPrincess money having probably come from]] [[TheMafiya the Russian mafia.]] |
| 451 | * Kudryavka from ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters''! is three-quarters Russian, one-quarter Japanese. |
| 452 | * Shin Kuroi from ''{{VisualNovel/Morenatsu}}'' is half-Japanese, half-French, and not being "Japanese" enough is actually an important part of his characterization. |
| 453 | * ''VisualNovel/NoThankYou'': Maki, the blond who hangs out in the expat community, is a quarter Japanese on his dad's side, and was born in Japan. |
| 454 | * ''VisualNovel/RoseGunsDays'' has, rather ironically, the protagonist Rose, who is half-Japanese, half-Greek. Ironic because, by Japanese standards (especially in WWII Japan), she would probably have been considered a foreigner in RealLife. |
| 455 | ** In the American military, Phillip Butler and Gabriel Kaburaya are both half-American and half-Japanese -- the latter actually benefited from it to some extent, as the higher-ups wanted to promote an officer of Japanese descent to create a pretty success story and counter accusations of anti-Japanese racism. |
| 456 | * Stella in ''VisualNovel/TheShell'' is a justified example because for the period that the VN is set in (mid 50s Japan) it wouldn't make much sense for a fully foreign girl to be there. It also features heavily into her character when the story reveals more about her. |
| 457 | * Rei Izumi from ''VisualNovel/SlowDamage'' is born to a Japanese father and an English mother. He takes mostly after his mother in the appearance department, resulting in his fair looks. |
| 458 | * Eris from ''Sono Hanabira Ni Kuchizuke Wo'' had a Japanese father and a Western mother. Her half-Japanese ancestry gives her a reason to transfer to a Japanese school from overseas and learn more about the culture. |
| 459 | * Lemmy from ''VisualNovel/ToHeart'' is half Japanese and half American. this is expressed by her having blond hair, blue eyes, being a HugeSchoolgirl, having a fairly good sized bust, her use of [[GratuitousEnglish English]] (Which is not so bad she usually sticks to one word phrases or simple phrases "Good Morning" or "Fantastic". |
| 460 | * Ciel/Elesia from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' has a French father and an Oriental mother (exact ethnicity is unknown). |
| 461 | * [[spoiler:Sayo Yasuda, also known as Shannon, Kanon and Beatrice]] from ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', who is about three quarters Japanese and one quarter Italian. [[spoiler:This is because Kinzo fell in love with an Italian woman, Beatrice Castiglioni, and they later produced a half-Japanese, half-Italian daughter, Beatrice II. Unfortunately Beatrice Castiglioni's DeathByChildbirth caused Kinzo to go mad with grief and eventually [[ParentalIncest rape his daughter]] while deluding himself into thinking she was her mother's reincarnation. Beatrice II became pregnant as a result, later giving birth to the child who would eventually be known as Yasu/Beatrice.]] |
| 462 | [[/folder]] |
| 463 | |
| 464 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 465 | * Ash from ''Webcomic/BloodSplatteredSocks'' is half American, which counts as foreign for the Australian setting. |
| 466 | * In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Tedd is part Japanese through his mother and part white (his last name is Verres, [[https://www.houseofnames.com/Verres-family-crest which has French origins]]), since his cousin Nanase's family is Japanese. |
| 467 | * Played straight with Saki from ''{{Webcomic/Frivolesque}}'', who is half Japanese, half Canadian. People usually call her a "Japanese girl" even though she isn't culturally Japanese because of her habit of fighting with a Katana or wearing schoolgirl uniforms. Lampshaded by Japanophile Marie-Neige who refuses to acknowledge Saki as such. |
| 468 | * Soo from ''Webcomic/LongTermRoomies'' is 1/4 American and 3/4 Arab (though exactly where is never clarified). Her name works in both cultures because Americans assume it's spelled 'Sue' and her family know its short for Sooraya. |
| 469 | * ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'' has Cloud and Yuna, who are 1/2 American and 1/2 Burmese (their mother being a former {{Child Soldier|s}} that emigrated to the US). |
| 470 | * In ''Webcomic/VillainToKill'', Cassian is Korean-born but spent most of his life in the U.S. after being adopted by an American couple. He's still mostly fluent in Korean, though he's rusty enough that he [[MondegreenGag mistakes the Korean words for "sword of annihilation" for "scrap metal sword"]]. |
| 471 | * From ''Webcomic/WetSand'', Jo is half-Korean and half-Italian. |
| 472 | [[/folder]] |
| 473 | |
| 474 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 475 | * ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'': Mackenzie Zales is half-Korean and half-White, but unlike her mother, hints of her Asian side only pop up just a few times throughout the series. |
| 476 | [[/folder]] |
| 477 | |
| 478 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 479 | * In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'', Jake Long has a white dad and Chinese mom. Bonus points for the ambiguity and BilingualBonus of his last name since Long can be both a perfectly workable surname for both Anglo-Saxons and Chinese, and means "dragon" in the latter. |
| 480 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' version of Mercy Graves is reportedly this. Perhaps it's because of the casting of a Singaporean Chinese. |
| 481 | * In ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', Abigail and Cree Lincoln (mom is apparently of French ancestry) come to mind. (It's possible that her mother's nationality was French, or her family is originally from France, though.) |
| 482 | * Isabella Garcia-Shapiro from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' is supposed to be Mexican Jewish, but aside from in a handful of episodes, you'd barely be able to tell. |
| 483 | * In ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' Phoebe has a Japanese dad and a white mom. Her father as well because while he looks ethnically Japanese, his last name, Heyerdahl, certainly isn't (it's Norwegian). |
| 484 | * ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'': |
| 485 | ** Reagan is Japanese-American, but you wouldn't be able to tell if her mother Tamiko wasn't a character on the show. In-universe, she's apparently white-passing (or at least enough for the stuck-in-the-80s residents of Still Valley to not speak to her with anti-Asian microaggressions like they do the fully Korean Andre). Justified since her father Rand mentions that he tampered with her genetics to make sure his genes were dominant. |
| 486 | ** Lampshaded when discussing Creator/KeanuReeves[[note]]1/4 Chinese Hawaiian in real life[[/note]]. Gigi describes him as Asian, but not so much that he threatens Middle America. |
| 487 | * Marinette Dupain-Cheng, the titular heroine of ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' (and its NonSerialMovie, ''WesternAnimation/LadybugAndCatNoirTheMovie''), is half-French, half-Chinese. Though she looks more like her Caucasian peers rather than her mother or other Chinese relatives. She's also 100% culturally French, and an episode even highlights that she doesn't speak a word of Chinese. |
| 488 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures,'' Babs attempts to pass as human and get cast in a 90210-clone. She gives her name as Babs Bunnawalskioversmith. The casting director comments, "Ooo, good, ethnic -- but not ''too.''" |
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