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| 6 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kumbia_speedy_8.png]] |
| 7 | [[caption-width-right:350:Not always ''[[InterspeciesRomance that]]'' much.]] |
| 8 | ->''"In Mexico, we grew up watching Speedy Gonzales. He was like a superhero to us, or maybe more like a revolutionario like Simon Bolivar or Pancho Villa. He watched out for the little people but with a lot of bravado, and a weakness for the ladies. I'm really excited to be bringing this character to the big screen."'' |
| 9 | -->-- '''Creator/EugenioDerbez''', on the planned ''WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales'' movie (currently in DevelopmentHell as of 2024) |
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| 11 | When a character is created that is a culmination of a number of stereotypes with regard to different culture, nationality or other demographic, there will likely be some backlash within the culture of origin because of those stereotypes (especially an EthnicScrappy). But with some surprise the target culture ended up ''embracing'' that caricature concocted by someone else. |
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| 13 | It ''might'' be a case of InsultBackfire, though it happens most often when the caricature in question is [[UnfortunateImplications at worst tone-deaf]] rather than intentionally offensive. It's usually because of an unexpected ValuesResonance as they embrace the spirit in which it was intended, or a case of ActuallyPrettyFunny when they recognize themselves in the caricature. |
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| 15 | It may help if: |
| 16 | * The allegedly offensive character [[PositiveStereotypeTropes has a good side]] -- WesternAnimation/{{Speedy|Gonzales}} as the TropeNamer may be stereotypical but he is an adored [[TheCape hero of the people]] with SuperSpeed while also shrewd, energetic, determined and [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin always wins]]. |
| 17 | * The other characters aren't portrayed as any better, utilizing an AllStereotypeCast where nobody is an especially subtle character type. |
| 18 | * [[RefugeInAudacity The stereotype is carried so far as to be clear parody even to a casual viewer]], even intended to be offensive InUniverse. |
| 19 | * The stereotype is so [[{{Narm}} unintentionally ridiculous]] that members of the targeted demographic can't help but think, "It's hilarious that ''this'' is what they think about us." |
| 20 | * The stereotype is based on an outdated ForgottenTrope that no longer has as much weight, or is so clueless about the minority that it isn't even identifiable as offensive any more except on an intellectual level. Something that fell out of favor 100 years ago doesn't press as many buttons as a recent stereotype. |
| 21 | * The stereotypical aspects are exceedingly FairForItsDay. The character's traits are not treated as inherently negative, or they are shrewd enough to play into how others perceive them, or they simply don't ''care'' how others perceive them. For example, a CampGay character who's a source of cheap gay jokes, but is also unafraid to be himself and speak his mind. |
| 22 | * The demographic rarely appears at all in the media, so [[WatchedItForTheRepresentation they embrace any representation they can get]]. |
| 23 | * The stereotype, for whatever reason, doesn't translate over or read as negative. [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue Thick accents may be rendered as natural and eloquent]] when dubbed for foreign distribution. This also happens a lot in cases of whitewashing, which tend to get a pretty cold reception in diaspora communities but barely raise an eyebrow in their home countries. |
| 24 | * The stereotype is [[NWordPrivileges made by someone from the targeted culture itself]] and [[SelfDeprecation acknowledges the group's own flaws]]. There's enough truth to it to be funny, but enough affection that it doesn't offend. Conversely, the creator may not exactly be a member of the community but are close enough to be "adopted" as part of the group, as they demonstrate both familiarity with the culture and appreciation for the people. |
| 25 | * The stereotype doesn't carry as much of a negative connotation due to lack of a negative history -- for example, UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} stereotypes of America tend to read as downright cute to Americans, since it isn't invoking the same ugly legacy as, say, [[UncleTomfoolery stereotypes of black Americans.]] |
| 26 | * The country/group that created the work sees the stereotype as negative because it [[CultureClash rubs against their values]], but the targeted group sees it as positive because it ''[[ValuesResonance aligns]]'' with ''their'' own values. For example, when certain countries [[{{Eagleland}} stereotype Americans]] as HotBlooded, LargeHam {{Blood Knight}}s, they consider this to be mockery, while some Americans find it entertaining or even complimentary. |
| 27 | * The backlash comes primarily from MalcolmXerox types whose views don't always represent average members of the group. In the worst case scenario, the [[SoapboxSadie complainers]] might not even be part of the group at all and are presuming to speak for them without understanding the cultural nuances that make the character so popular. |
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| 29 | Compare ApprovalOfGod, when a fan adaptation or a parody of a work is well-received by the original author. Also compare CrossCulturalKerfluffle, AffectionateParody, and ThisLoserIsYou. Possibly a GuiltyPleasure. |
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| 31 | Note that this trope specifically involves, as the top of the page says, a stereotypical and sometimes unflattering caricature. If a group of people is portrayed ''positively and non-stereotypically'' in foreign media, and said group reacts positively to it, that's WatchedItForTheRepresentation or GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff. If said group dislikes their depiction to a greater extent than other audiences, it's AmericansHateTingle. Do note that this trope and the characters described here can easily become [[BaseBreakingCharacter base-breaking]]. One person's "Speedy Gonzales" is another's UncleTomfoolery. |
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| 33 | See also and compare OpinionOverride. The inverse trope is OffendingTheCreatorsOwn, where a work or character is condemned as offensive to a particular group despite the creator being a member of that group. |
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| 35 | !!Examples: |
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| 37 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 38 | * The Frito Bandito, a character Frito-Lay used from 1967 to 1971 to advertise their potato chips. Being a creation from a U.S. ad agency of the 1960s, he was just as stereotypical as Gonzales, down to sharing the same [[Creator/MelBlanc voice actor]]. Reactions from Mexican-Americans were mixed: while anti-defamation groups successfully lobbied for the retirement of Bandito, surveys in four cities in California and Texas conducted by the ad agency that created Bandito claimed that 85% of Mexican-Americans liked him. Frito-Lay reportedly received a letter from a Los Angeles junior high school with a predominantly Mexican student body, saying, "If you take away the Bandito, we'll stop buying Fritos." In Mexico itself, the character was very popular. |
| 39 | * Mars Inc. had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTHtYwyXaYc a few commercials]] for their Starburst candies which featured "Scotch-Koreans" (Korean people who speak with thick Scottish accents and play up classic Scottish stereotypes like playing bagpipes by foggy lakes), which wound up being pretty well-received by actual Scots of Korean descent. They know the commercials aren't taking the last bit serious and are happy to see Scottish-Korean ''anything'' in the mainstream. |
| 40 | * Jaguar's "It's Good to Be Bad" campaign, embracing the EvilBrit, StiffUpperLip stereotypes, used in its home market just as heavily as abroad, with no complaints from the British because EvilIsCool. |
| 41 | * As stereotypical as the mascot is, many Latinos are fond of the Chiquita Banana campaign. |
| 42 | * An entire series of PropagandaPiece posters such [[https://external-preview.redd.it/xXEmRg9qtEEmhTfVTP_2brcQUVfWeqsvdrLTYJTQ09Y.jpg?auto=webp&s=7843a0edae85e28d7ba8a6597a9fad12924ea1a9 as this]] by RedChina is really well received by Americans for making them look badass. Some other examples include [[https://old.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/y1kyns/chinese_propaganda_is_once_again_making_us_badass/ this metal album cover looking]] one, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/ukqxid/chinese_propaganda_on_their_way_to_make_nato_look/ and this]] BigRedDevil NATO (which was made into an army morale patch). But by far the most impactful [[https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/nhv033/chinese_propaganda_draws_biden_as_the_king_of/ was this]] GlowingEyesOfDoom poster of Joe Biden on an [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Iron Throne]] of guns, which was a major contributor to the Dark Brandon mega-meme and subreddit. The propaganda is ''meant'' to play up America as a powerful adversary and the Chinese as an underdog struggling against a vast power but Americans, used to the [[MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting far more cutting satire they produce themselves]], find such portrayals endearing by comparison. |
| 43 | * Reportedly, Bostonians love the "Your Cousin from Boston" ad campaign from Samuel Adams. These ads feature a Boston city slicker with an exaggerated accent and attitude. |
| 44 | * Native Jamaicans and Jamaican-Americans overall rather like [=CinnaMon=] from the 2000s Apple Jacks commercials. Though they admit that he's not a very accurate representation of them, they like [=CinnaMon=] for his smooth voice, friendly personality, and tendency to always win his races against Bad Apple. In general, Jamaicans tend to be fond of representation that doesn't paint them as just a joke. |
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| 47 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 48 | * ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Naddy’s shtick is completely ludicrous and arguably cultural appropriation, but Americans tend to like her quite a bit, since she is [[NarmCharm totally earnest]] in her ideals and she genuinely believes in Flavor 1 {{Eagleland}}, and as such is very nice instead of obnoxious. It also helps that her obsession is clearly TheThemeParkVersion of American culture instead of the real thing, so it isn’t like the writers are saying that all Americans are like that in real life. |
| 49 | * Despite being blatant American stereotypes, Androids 13, 14, and 15 from the ''Franchise/DragonBall'' movie ''Anime/SuperAndroid13'' are all well-loved by the American fanbase.[[note]]They are a redneck, a native American, and an African American stereotype respectively if you are wondering.[[/note]] |
| 50 | * While not specifically stated to be American, Ein from ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' is a stereotypical "American" tough guy character. He [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead wears a stars-and-stripes jacket]], has a [[LargeHam larger]]-[[BoisterousBruiser than]]-[[HotBlooded life]] attitude and fights with GoodOldFisticuffs instead of the do-anything Kung Fu other characters in the series use. He is ''easily'' the [[EnsembleDarkhorse most popular character]] in the second part of the manga for Americans, being seen as a better, more honest companion to Kenshiro and Bat than Falco. The fact he's a PapaWolf of epic proportions and died in a HeroicSacrifice also helps to endear him to American fans. |
| 51 | * Envy of ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'' is loved by many trans and non-binary fans, despite being one of the [[KickTheDog nastiest]] [[AxCrazy villains]], as well as an ArtificialHuman [[spoiler:with two very inhuman, NoBiologicalSex true forms in the [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist manga/Brotherhood]]]] and a {{shapeshifter|s do it for a change}}, which many AmbiguousGender characters [[OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous tend to be designated as]]. Part of this is nostalgia; for many young anime fans in the 2000s, Envy was one of the first gender-ambiguous characters they were introduced to (though in the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 2003 anime version]], Envy is [[spoiler:confirmed male]].) It also helps that Envy is considered by many viewers to be attractive (without being a [[EverybodyWantsTheHermaphrodite fetish object]]) and [[LoveToHate very entertaining]], and they're never ridiculed in-universe for their gender identity or expression. |
| 52 | * In ''Manga/GetterRobo'', Texas Mack has [[MemeticMutation too much high popularity, man]]! To explain, the [[AmericanRobot Cowboy Robot]] and its pilots from the original TV anime were seen as offensive stereotypes ''even in Japan while it was airing''. Years later, the ''Shin Getter Robo vs Neo Getter Robo'' OVA included a portrayal that was less offensive and more endearingly goofy, which [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap won the Texas Mack the affection of Western fandom]]. |
| 53 | * American fans of ''Manga/{{Gravitation}}'' seem to quite enjoy K-san, the crazy American manager of Bad Luck who has a habit of carrying guns everywhere and threatening people with them in situations where a stern talking to would probably get the job done. |
| 54 | * In the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise there are several "American" characters who stand out: |
| 55 | ** Chibodee Crockett of ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' is ridiculous in many way, but he's also just as awesome at the same time. His Gundam, Gundam Maxter, is a has armor shaped like American football uniforms, has boxing gloves and a six-shooter pistol as its weapons, and a shield shaped like a surfboard. Chibodee himself is very patriotic and loves his nation, and in fact represents the ideal of the "American dream" (a poor child with no money to his name that found success through talent and hard work). |
| 56 | *** In fact, nearly ''every'' character in G Gundam is some kind of broad ethnic stereotype, and also greatly loved by fans in their country of origin, even Chico Rodriguez and his [[RefugeInAudacity Tequila Gundam.]] |
| 57 | ** Duo Maxwell of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'' is the sharpest character in the show, combining boisterous joking with some extremely badass tendencies. His Gundam, the Deathscythe, is one of the more beloved Gundams in the show and is affectionately known in some circles as [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} the Bat-Gundam]] due to its wings and general color scheme. |
| 58 | ** The first 16 or so episodes of ''Anime/AfterWarGundamX'' take place on the North American Continent with the majority of the characters being North Americans and actually ''[[SubvertedTrope not]]'' being {{Eagleland}}ers. Characters are enjoyed for their diversity and the series has built up something of a positive reputation in North America despite Bandai's reluctance in [[NoExportForYou bringing the series to North America.]] (Which they eventually did.) |
| 59 | ** Before the second season, Graham Aker of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' was also incredibly popular in the U.S. for a myriad of reasons. First, he was a Type 1 Eaglelander (rare enough in anime) with BoisterousBruiser, AFatherToHisMen, and NobleDemon traits. Second, he was one of two characters (the other being [[BloodKnight Ali al-Saachez]]) who could take the Gundams straight on with non-GN powered mobile suits (and the only one to actually damage one), thus cementing his badass credentials. Third, in a franchise that usually focuses on morally gray characters, Graham is one of the few antagonists that cannot be described as amoral in some way, nor did he fight for [[TheEmpire a thoroughly evil nation/faction]][[note]]again until Season Two[[/note]]; he was more or less the archetypical American soldier (and fighter pilot to boot) fighting for his country against invaders (and even then he didn't necessarily [[WorthyOpponent hate his opponents]], at least until the Thrones showed up). All that stated, it should be obvious why more than one American ''Gundam'' fan cheered whenever Graham showed the Meisters how real pros used mobile suits. Additionally, in TheMovie he comes to the aid of the heroes more than once. |
| 60 | ** While [[Anime/GundamBuildFighters Nils Nielsen]] does get criticism from some American fans, others love him for being an over-the-top weeaboo who uses a samurai-styled mobile suit who has some kickass moments. It doesn't hurt that over the series, he becomes less of a weeb and instead plays the straight man to the rest of the cast, and isn't exempt from some of the wackier things that happen in the series. |
| 61 | ** And finally, an example of a ''Gundam'' character who isn't "American", protagonist Kamille Bidan from ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'' claims to be autistic at one point. Despite hitting many of the stereotypes listed on HollywoodAutism (although this can be excused by [[ValuesDissonance autism not being well-researched when the anime first aired in the 1980s]]), he's still beloved by actual neurodivergent people. |
| 62 | * ''Anime/HellsingUltimate'' is quite popular among both American Catholic and Protestant audiences... even though the series does not portray Catholics in a positive light, and Christianity is more of a backdrop for the vampire gore. The former audience especially loves Alexander Anderson, and more than one has actually claimed him to be an ideal priest. Enrico Maxwell is (rather surprisingly) popular as well, though it helps that he was actually a great character before he went JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope. |
| 63 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', for example, being made of exaggeratedly stereotyped {{anthropomorphic personification}}s of countries, has plenty of fans all over the world. A lot of the characters are well-loved in the countries they represent, probably because they can see those stereotypes and know how to laugh at themselves. There are some exceptions, though; the series is hated in South Korea due to the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII many, many, problems]] between that country and Japan, though it still does have South Korean fans. |
| 64 | ** Finland in ''Hetalia Axis Powers'', a {{moe}} boy with a close relationship with the big and scary Sweden, is actually quite indistinguishable to Finnish audience, save for maybe the fact he's said to be surprisingly strong in the cold, a ShoutOut to [[UsefulNotes/FinnsWithFearsomeForests Winter War]] (of which Finns cannot seem to get enough). They ''still'' like him. The trope is also defied, in that the personality of the character himself has a polarizing effect in certain Finnish circles, who find him to have little to do with how Finns [[GrimUpNorth typically are]]. |
| 65 | ** The usual Russian reaction to [[PsychopathicManchild Ivan]] [[CrazyIsCool Braginsky]] is "Fuck, yeah! Two please." |
| 66 | ** Indonesian fans clamored for over a decade for their country to be personified, and when he finally debuted in Hetalia World Stars manga, they're all overtaken with extreme joy. |
| 67 | * Funny Valentine, the main villain of ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun [=JoJo's=] Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run]]'', happens to be the President of the United States. He has sympathetic ideals ([[WellIntentionedExtremist but he goes on a rather extremist way of making them happen]]), genuinely cares for his country, and has a quirky personality, which has caused him to become popular among Americans. |
| 68 | ** In regards to the series itself, next to Japan, Italy has had a [=JoJo=] fandom longer than any other country in the world, even before the 2012 anime. Based on [[https://www.reddit.com/r/StardustCrusaders/comments/5r1ycm/comment/dd3t25e?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=more_replies this Reddit thread]], Italian viewers love Araki's dedication to Italian culture, and even when the characters' naming conventions in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'' amounted to SpaghettiAndGondolas, while Italian fans thought strangely of it, they ultimately wrote it off as funny, seeing it as an extension to the series' NarmCharm. |
| 69 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_tMD5bTbLM Mr. Kouhei, American stereotype edition]] from ''Anime/MagicalShoppingArcadeAbenobashi''. Stars-and-stripes-attired Elvis impersonator selling giant hotdogs and [[ClusterFBomb constantly saying "fuck"]], cheerleaders with American flag bikinis... [[CrossesTheLineTwice it's all just too ridiculous to be insulting.]] |
| 70 | -->[[HypocriticalHumor "What the fuck, us fucking Americans don't fucking talk like that."]] |
| 71 | * ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': |
| 72 | ** All Might, an AffectionateParody of Superman-type superheroes, certainly isn't a ''negative'' stereotype; but a ridiculously muscular perpetually-grinning superhero who [[CallingYourAttacks shouts the names of U.S. states or cities when he attacks]] would probably be seen as corny (at best, and [[MyCountryRightOrWrong excessively patriotic]] at worst) if he came from an American creator. But, since it's a foreign franchise -- and because despite his {{Eagleland}} style, he's actually Japanese -- Americans see All Might as more of a love letter to the positive aspects of their culture, making him very popular, and possibly the [[JustForFun/ComeForTheXStayForTheY biggest draw for newcomers]]. It helps that he falls under the "Boisterous American" stereotype that frequently leads to this trope due to Americans seeing themselves that way, is a lovingly made Main/{{Expy}} of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, and is also a 100% legitimate IdealHero beloved by many in-universe and a deeply well-written character in his own right. |
| 73 | ** Given the small number of Black characters in anime that don't turn out to be AmbiguouslyBrown, Rock Lock is also enjoyed by black anime fans, who are relieved to see a character like them who isn't based on or resembles any anti-black stereotypes. |
| 74 | * Tomoko Kuroki from ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular'' is a LoserProtagonist otaku with NoSocialSkills. ''International'' anime fans love her due to her relatability and sympathize with her. Japanese anime fans, however, thought she was just offensive and too close for comfort. Poetically, the anime did very poorly in Japan but is popular in several other countries. |
| 75 | * As one of the only UsefulNotes/{{asexual}} or UsefulNotes/{{aromantic}} heroes out there, Monkey D. Luffy from ''Manga/OnePiece'' is beloved by the asexual and aromantic communities, even if he is a bit dim and fits the "asexual who just cares about food" stereotype. |
| 76 | * ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' was much better received in the U.S. than it was in Japan, despite (or perhaps because of) being also a homage to/parody of U.S. animation, presented as a bunch of [[VulgarHumor dick-and-fart jokes]], [[GrossoutShow repulsive moments]] and lots of sex. |
| 77 | ** Garterbelt himself is a fairly rare (for the medium) example of a black BadassPreacher who's clearly a good guy by normal standards, let alone those of the show's setting. While it takes a while to see it as they seem fairly nominal as heroes at first, the Anarchy sisters are presented to play up their status as ''Chaotic'' Good angels with the defense of freedom as a dominant virtue, which feeds into the Americanized look. It also helps the show's not afraid to poke fun at its source; an episode done in a "Little Tokyo" ghetto with a distinctly changed art style manages to show Panty and Stocking, when they finally show up looking and acting no different than usual, appearing like actual angels simply due to contrast. |
| 78 | ** In spite of Garterbelt being a Black caricature, there are many Black people who still like him and the show in general, judging by the huge amount of Black ''PASWG'' cosplays and fanart on social media. |
| 79 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 80 | ** Lt. Surge is a favorite among American fans. |
| 81 | ** In the English dub for ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'', there's a scene where Team Rocket show up disguised as [[HornyVikings Vikings]], to which Brock comments "I didn't know Vikings still existed." and Ash responds "They mostly live in Minnesota." a nod to the Minnesota Vikings team in the NFL. Minnesotans and Vikings fans alike get a kick out of this. |
| 82 | * ''Manga/StopHibariKun'' features a lot of ValuesDissonance due to being a 1980s manga, but a lot of trans women like Hibari despite all the jokes about her from other characters. |
| 83 | * ''Anime/TokyoGodfathers'': Hana is a pretty stereotypical [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} trans woman]] character, with as much [[CampGay flamboyance]] and cheap jokes about her being physically masculine as you'd expect. However, she's liked by trans fans of the film for being [[TheHeart the most kind-hearted member of the cast]], for having a sympathetic storyline and [[ActionMom some badass moments]], and for getting a happy ending, not [[BuryYourGays the usual death]]. It helps that her GKIDS voice actress, Shakina Nayfack, is trans like her. |
| 84 | * ''Anime/YuGiOh'': |
| 85 | ** Bandit Keith, or at least his AbridgedSeries incarnation, is popular... ''[[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries in America!]]'' [[spoiler:Although he's actually Canadian.[[note]][[CosmicRetcon until he wasn't]][[/note]]]] |
| 86 | ** There was never any doubt that Pegasus was fully American; he was the first BigBad of the series, and was depicted as a CampStraight PsychopathicManchild... and American audiences couldn't get enough of him. |
| 87 | ** The original series, with its Egyptian themes, is also pretty popular in Egypt. It helps that Kazuki Takahashi's research into ancient Egyptian mythology and culture is easily leagues above most anything else in pop culture. |
| 88 | * ''Anime/YuriOnIce''. The characters are pretty popular with the countries that they're supposed to come from. The Russian skaters are particularly beloved by Russian anime fans, probably because they're not the typical Hollywood Russian villains. |
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| 91 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 92 | * A North Korean children's show, ''Animation/SquirrelAndHedgehog'', depicts the unfortunate peninsula as a land where {{Funny Animal}}s [[CrapsaccharineWorld wage war on each other]]. In contrast to the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter cute chipmunks and ducks]] that dwell in Furry North Korea, the Evil Americans are represented as [[EvilSoundsDeep deep-voiced]] bipedal wolves with [[PowerGlows glowing blue eyes]] wearing [[BadassLongcoat greatcoats]] while flying [[CoolPlane rocket-powered robo-falcons]] and [[SuperStrength tossing around Jeeps]]. There is also a MediaNotes/FurryFandom version of [[Franchise/GIJoe The Baroness]]: [[MsFanservice Lieutenant Vixen]], a badass with [[HartmanHips curvy, sashaying hips]], wearing a [[GoodLookingPrivates military uniform]] and glasses. Americans' response to this has generally been "Were you trying to ''insult'' us? [[InsultBackfire It's not working]]." This is a ''huge'' case of ValuesDissonance; North Korean philosophy teaches that Koreans are a gentle, innocent people beset on all sides by vicious, bloodthirsty killers that would annihilate the Koreans were it not for North Korea's "great leaders". Thus the North Koreans really do see it as an insult to portray Americans as wolves no matter how cool it seems to the Americans themselves. Even putting aside said ValuesDissonance, another reason it fell flat was that [[DesignatedHero Flower Hill's actions]] paint them way off from their supposed portrayal of the moral underdog, while for the Americans it could be a case of AtLeastIAdmitIt. |
| 93 | * Chinese propaganda series "Year Hare Affair" is popular with [[https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/14kd5tv/chinese_propaganda_cartoon_depicts_each_branch_of/ Americans]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/yvja59/even_in_chinese_propaganda_for_children_the/ on]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/15ndw0w/just_received_my_based_eagle_plushie/ reddit]], probably because the US military looks so powerful. Chinese soldiers are portrayed as [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter rabbits]] and Americans as bald eagles. |
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| 97 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 98 | * Comedian Paul Rodriguez says he likes Speedy's friend, Slowpoke Rodriguez, even more than Speedy, despite being a caricature of lazy Mexicans. |
| 99 | * Stand-up comic Carlos Mencia was once asked to perform in front of a crowd of hospital patients with mental and physical disabilities. The crowd asks Mencia to do jokes about "retarded people," but he was hesitant to until one of them asked an ArmorPiercingQuestion of "why won't you do those jokes in front of us?" So Mencia did, even exaggerated the stereotypes, and the crowd was beside themselves with laughter. |
| 100 | * According to Arab-American comic Ahmed Ahmed, Creator/JeffDunham's infamous puppet Achmed the Dead Terrorist is actually a big hit in the Middle East. |
| 101 | ** Similarly, Jeff Dunham was concerned that "Sweet Daddy Dee!", a caricature of African-American pimp culture would be seen as offensive, particularly in areas like New York and Los Angeles with a far higher concentration of African-Americans. He quickly found that Sweet Daddy Dee performs much ''better'' in those areas since the stereotype he's poking fun at is better-known. |
| 102 | ** Creator/GabrielIglesias tells a story that backs up the claim about Dunham's. He was once told by a cab driver in Saudi Arabia that he was the #2 most popular comedian in all of the Middle East. He was very flattered, then he asked who was #1. The driver's answer? Jeff Dunham. |
| 103 | --->'''Gabriel:''' You mean you guys don't find him at all offensive?\ |
| 104 | '''Driver:''' ''[gasps, offended]'' No! "I KEEL YOU!" |
| 105 | ** Also, while in Riyadh, Iglesias talked about how "I didn't know I would be performing for Franchise/AssassinsCreed." The crowd loved it. |
| 106 | * Creator/GabrielIglesias in ''Stadium Fluffy'' tells the story about how he invoked the trope in real life because he had heard that Speedy Gonzales was left out of ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'' for his racist implications so he started a trend on Twitter. The filmmakers actually contacted him and he offered to do the voice. When they heard him do the voice they were so blown away by his accuracy that they offered him the role immediately but they also asked don't Latin Americans, especially Mexicans find him offensive. Gabriel replied that this trope is TruthInTelevision since there wasn't much representation of Hispanics or Latin Americans during his childhood. |
| 107 | * Lisa Lampanelli, known for making fun of all kinds of [[RaceTropes racial stereotypes]], said that she started making jokes about the disabled after a guy in a wheelchair asked her to do it. |
| 108 | * The Blue Collar Comedy troupe (Creator/JeffFoxworthy, Creator/BillEngvall, and Creator/LarryTheCableGuy) are known primarily for making exaggerated humor pertaining to stereotypes of the Southern United States... where most of their fanbase hails from. |
| 109 | * Much of Les Dawson's act consisted of mother-in-law jokes. His own mother-in-law thought they were hilarious. |
| 110 | * Jim Davidson's act featured the notorious black stereotype character Chalky White. He claimed that black audiences loved the bit. |
| 111 | * Creator/DonRickles and pretty much anyone of any ethnicity, religion, nationality, or race. When he lampooned you, you knew it was all a gag and you laughed with him rather than taking offense. That and he was [[EqualOpportunityOffender completely egalitarian in his insult comedy]], so it was clear that your (fill in the blank) wasn't being singled out. |
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| 113 | |
| 114 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 115 | * ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': |
| 116 | ** Goscinny and Uderzo went so far as to post an apology at the beginning of the English translation of ''Asterix in Britain''. However, it's consistently the best-selling ''Asterix'' album in the UK -- probably because the stereotypes it promotes (StiffUpperLip, BritsLoveTea) are ones the British are happy to promote themselves, while in general the Britons are portrayed as being not that different from the Gauls. Goscinny noted that normally he would get a torrent of hate mail from whatever country he was spoofing in albums set in foreign countries, but for ''Asterix in Britain'' did not receive a single one. |
| 117 | ** The best-selling album in Corsica is ''Asterix in Corsica'', which portrays the Corsicans as surly, terrifying, outrageously misogynistic [[TheMafia gangsters]] who eat cheeses so unspeakably foul-smelling that they are explosive, and Corsica itself to be [[SceneryPorn beautiful]] but a ReassignedToAntarctica hell for legionaries, to which being thrown to the lions in the circus is preferable. |
| 118 | ** Italians tend to self-identify as the descendants of the Ancient Romans that the series depicts as villains, and often buffoonish ones at that. The series is wildly popular in Italy, to the point [[{{Woolseyism}} the Italian translations added their own humor to make them even more ridiculous]] (Obelix' catchphrase "These Romans are crazy" was translated as "Sono Pazzi Questi Romani" to match Rome's motto "SPQR"[[note]]'''''S'''enatus '''P'''opolus'''q'''ue '''R'''omanus'', "The Senate and the Roman People"[[/note]], and in the movies' dubs the Romans talk in Rome's dialect, or at least Rome's accent). |
| 119 | * ComicBook/ChickTracts are popular among certain skeptics and liberal Christians (y'know, some of Jack Chick's favorite targets of criticism), who enjoy the tracts for the sheer hilarious {{Narm}}. "Dark Dungeons" is also popular among tabletop gamers for the same reason. |
| 120 | * ''Franchise/{{Tintin}} in the Congo''. This album published in 1930 is widely considered as Hergé's biggest OldShame for its caricatural and paternalistically racist depiction of Congolese people, and several countries perpetually banned it from reprints. Oddly enough, it is quite popular in francophone Africa, and in modern Congo itself in particular. Interviews of locals show that people don't mind the caricatures there[[note]](saying that local caricatures of white people there are in fact ''worse'' than what Hergé made of them)[[/note]], considering them as hilarious (seeing how [[InsultBackfire Europeans could be so unbelievably ignorant about Africans]]), and that Hergé actually made the country's name world-famous and inspired its comic book artists to the point of making it Africa's number one provider of comic book authors. And there's the boost it gave to local tourism. |
| 121 | [[/folder]] |
| 122 | |
| 123 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 124 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}:'' |
| 125 | ** Many white-collar professionals love the comic, despite (or because of) the mockery of the corporate cubicle culture. |
| 126 | ** Tina is revered among technical writers, as this profession is rarely mentioned in popular media. |
| 127 | * ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'': |
| 128 | ** Non-ethnic example: Gary Larson once drew a cartoon in which a scolding chimpanzee wife finds a blonde hair on the fur of her chimp husband and snarls: [[BestialityIsDepraved "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"]] The (then-)Director of the Jane Goodall Foundation sent an angry letter to Larson threatening him with a lawsuit for defamation. But then word came in from the Gambia that Goodall herself loved the cartoon, and was unaware that anyone had been offended by it. (For the record, Larson has said that he respects Goodall a great deal and did not intend to hurt her anyway.) Eventually, they met in person, and Goodall ended up writing an introduction to one of the ''Far Side'' collections, signing a contract to guarantee she would ''never'' sue him for the cartoon, and subsequently selling the design on souvenirs from the Institute. Goodall even invited Larson to her chimpanzee sanctuary, [[LaserGuidedKarma whereupon one of the larger chimps roughed him up a bit]]. |
| 129 | ** In another non-ethnic example, after the "Al Tilly the Bum" comic, a random guy named Albert Tilly wrote to say how honored he was to have his own ''Far Side'' cartoon. |
| 130 | ** A comic with a salesman looking apprehensively at a "Beware of Doug" sign, with Doug watching intently from behind a tree, supposedly went over quite well -- with guys named Doug. |
| 131 | ** Comics of fat scientists behaving like children or engaged in the pettiest of behaviour are extremely popular on campuses and in labs. |
| 132 | * ''ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible'', an American cartoon about a {{Horny Viking|s}}, is popular in Scandinavia, having been syndicated in major newspapers. |
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| 134 | |
| 135 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 136 | * Early on in the story's publication history, the writer of ''Fanfic/OriginStory'' came under fire from a handful of readers for his supposed "mocking" of trans-people. Thing is, it wasn't actual trans people who were doing the criticizing. Turns out the story has a large following among trans readers of fan fiction who came to the writer's defense and applauded the relatively sensitive way the story dealt with the issue of dysphoria and the feeling of not belonging in your own body. |
| 137 | [[/folder]] |
| 138 | |
| 139 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 140 | * Creator/DonBluth's ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' was well-received in Russia and a box office hit, since its distributors took care to market it as not history but a historical fairy tale, letting the audience watch it with a fair dose of MST3KMantra. |
| 141 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Coonskin}}'', despite its usage of blackface stereotypes and frequent saying of the N-word, was very popular among African-American audiences and even the NAACP. It helps that much of the film was meant to be a [[TakeThat mocking satire]] towards the racist portrayals of African-Americans in America, and that director Creator/RalphBakshi [[ShownTheirWork really put effort into making sure the film was as accurate as possible]]. The film was so popular among black audiences, in fact, that many couldn't believe that Bakshi was white. It is even apparently a favorite among Creator/SpikeLee and the Music/WuTangClan. |
| 142 | * Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon: |
| 143 | ** A strange example is the character Sunflower from ''{{WesternAnimation/Fantasia}}''. She's a female centaur who is drawn like a black caricature (wide lips and a body like a donkey) and acts as a servant to the white-featured centaurs. She has been removed from the movie since the 60s, but she has her share of fans. There is rather a lot of fan art depicting her as a little more realistically drawn and unsubmissive. |
| 144 | ** The crows from ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' are [[BaseBreakingCharacter divisive]] for being stereotypical caricatures of African-Americans, but they did have some black fans. They are based on real black entertainers of the time, and most of them are voiced by actual African-American singers; these details are often lost on modern audiences. Floyd Norman, one of Disney's first black animators, defended them due to their basis in reality, and Creator/WhoopiGoldberg once expressed a desire to see them in more Disney merchandise. It helps that they're likable and supportive characters. |
| 145 | ** José Carioca from ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'', ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'' and ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'' is ''heavily'' popular in Brazil, even rivaling with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in popularity among the Brazilian fans. He has been featured prominently in the local Disney comics since the 1950s, and has his own comic book since 1961, with stories entirely made by Brazilian Disney artists. Interestingly, as the years passed, some of the Brazilian authors actually made him a little less stereotypical by giving him new outfits, more consistent with the weather and contemporary fashion in Brazil[[note]]let's not forget his original clothes reflect the style of Rio in [[TheForties the 1940s]]; in Brazil his trademark style is a t-shirt, jeans, sneakers and a baseball cap, usually turned backwards[[/note]] and introducing new characters, such as his many friends from the neighborhood and his cousins from different parts of Brazil, thus giving him a wider range of possibilities for the stories and better opportunities to exploit lesser-known aspects of the Brazilian culture. |
| 146 | ** Though not as popular in his representative country as José is to Brazilians, Panchito Pistoles from ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'' is still well-liked by many of Mexican descent. Although his outfit and a lot of his mannerisms are very stereotypical for the time like his gun-toting, he's shown to be highly proud and respectful of his culture, dropping his LargeHam attitude to educate Donald Duck about various aspects of Mexican history like ''Los Posadas'' and the meaning of the nation's flag. |
| 147 | ** Disney's version of Tiger Lily from ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' is a [[EnsembleDarkHorse popular character]], even amongst Native Americans who otherwise [[AmericansHateTingle dislike]] their [[ValuesDissonance portrayal]] in the film, thanks to her go-getter personality and her less stylized, more traditionally appealing design. |
| 148 | ** ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' is full of NationalStereotypes from Irish cops to Mexican chihuahuas, yet all kinds of people enjoy watching it. Being one of Disney's first ventures into real diversity, it's pretty FairForItsDay. Si and Am are an obvious parody of Asian stereotypes, but there are Asians who enjoy them and their VillainSong. Tony is a stereotypical Italian, but quite a few Italians like him for his lovable personality and having the [[SignatureScene most memorable song]] in the film. Jock, [[NationalAnimalStereotypes a tartan-wearing Scottish terrier with a Scottish accent]], doesn't seem to bother Scottish viewers, especially since he and Trusty end up being the real heroes of the film. |
| 149 | ** Ursula, the BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', is {{fat|Bastard}}, and the fact that she thinks of herself as [[BigBeautifulWoman attractive]] (and laments that she's actually "wasted away" from her former weight) is PlayedForLaughs. However, this actually made her popular with many FatAndProud Disney fans, to the point that there was an outcry when the official Disney Villains merchandise gave her a slimmer physique. |
| 150 | ** In some Middle Eastern countries, such as Egypt, ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' is seemingly popular. Despite being a mishmash of [[ArabianNightsDays various Middle Eastern cultures]], many people of Arabic descent have praised the film for a positive portrayal of Middle Eastern people -- as opposed to depicting them as terrorists or savages. |
| 151 | ** While ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' is often criticised for its liberties with facts, Creator/IreneBedard (who voiced Pocahontas) has said that young girls of Native American descent have thanked her for portraying a Disney heroine who looked like them. Irene herself views the character as an important figure in Native American representation. |
| 152 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' was a ''huge'' hit in France. The filmmakers were especially worried about offending the French people by taking an iconic symbol of French literature and culture and giving it the so-called "Disney Treatment" (and perhaps they had reason to be, given the notoriously controversial opening of Ride/DisneylandParis earlier that decade). This is possibly why Disney was shocked later when ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' was [[AmericansHateTingle met with revulsion in Greece]] for its extreme liberties taken with the country's mythology. |
| 153 | ** In contrast to the various criticisms levied at ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' by [[AmericansHateTingle native Greeks]], Greek-Americans have much kinder things to say about the film, acknowledging that it's not intended to be an accurate retelling of Myth/ClassicalMythology, and finding the LighterAndSofter take on their mythos to be an enjoyable experience on its own merits. |
| 154 | ** Despite the numerous [[ArtisticLicenseHistory creative liberties]] taken with Mesoamerican history, ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' has found itself a dedicated fanbase amongst actual Mesoamericans, primarily in southern Mexico, largely owing to how enjoyable the central cast is. |
| 155 | ** ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': Vinny Santorini is as much of a beloved EnsembleDarkHorse among Italian fans as he is generally among other viewers worldwide. The SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing by Pasquale Anselmo, who gave Vinny a southern accent to make him stick out more in the Italian dub and be accurate to him being from Palermo, definitely upped the character's charm. |
| 156 | * ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'' is incredibly popular in the Scandinavian countries. Despite promoting the HornyVikings stereotype and using Scottish accents rather than Scandinavian, many Scandinavians feel that it portrays parts of the Norse culture correctly, something unusual for Hollywood. |
| 157 | * Creator/{{Pixar}}: |
| 158 | ** Many viewers with disabilities love ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' and ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''. Sure, the franchise uses things like the word "gimpy", and there's been some criticism about using animals as a stand-in for representation. But it's also one of the few major mainstream film series to have many characters with disabilities (who vary in both condition ''and'' characterization), and for the most part, it's handled well. Dory's short-term memory loss may often be played for laughs, but since the movies are comedies, so is everything else, and both films balance it out by giving Dory a CerebusRetcon. |
| 159 | ** Scotland loves ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}''. It helps that the cast was mostly genuine Scots, and they were encouraged to tweak the dialogue as much as they saw fit, so it certainly ''sounds'' authentic. |
| 160 | ** Although there was some heavy criticism at first, eventually ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'' did WinBackTheCrowd in Mexico, ''big-time''. It became the biggest ticket seller when it premiered and it's loved because of just how loyally it depicts Mexican culture, specially of Day of the Dead, which is one of their most important holidays. |
| 161 | ** Ever since it's been revealed that ''WesternAnimation/{{Luca}}'' used the towns of Cinque Terre in the UsefulNotes/{{Ital|y}}ian region of Liguria as the reference for Portorosso, the movie has gained a lot of interest from Italians, especially those from Liguria who instantly loved it for its accurate portrayal of the region and its lifestyle. In Monterosso (one of the towns of Cinque Terre), they've even placed two statues of Luca and Alberto on the seabed off their main beach a few days after the movie debut. |
| 162 | ** While ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' has been criticized by some for presenting a stereotypical view of Chinese culture (despite the film being directed by a [[OffendingTheCreatorsOwn Chinese-Canadian woman]]), the film has become praised by many Chinese-Americans/Canadians due to how much Mei's experiences resonate with their own experiences and has been praised amongst native Chinese audiences as well, with the film getting an 8.2/10 on Douban (a Chinese film rating site). |
| 163 | * Brazilians (especially casual consumers) seriously love ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'' (and its sequel). Creator/BlueSkyStudios clearly pushed the right buttons when they made it -- the movie's portrayal of the country is mostly accurate without being (particularly) offensive. Its director, Carlos Saldanha, is from Rio himself, so even if he does portray his hometown with its common stereotypes, you can see the good intentions are there. |
| 164 | * While Peni's depiction in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' received plenty of love from the many members of the Western fandom (yes, even the Otakus love her), her popularity in Japan exploded to the point that she gets more fan art than the other five Spider-People combined, for [[{{Animesque}} obvious]] [[{{Moe}} reasons]] because Japanese entertainment love to include {{Moe}}-ish Girls. |
| 165 | * InUniverse in ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'', after Mario and Luigi view their plumbing business commercial on a local pizzeria’s TV, Mario questions if the fake Italian accents they used as a reflection of their Italian heritage were “too much”. The Italian-born Giuseppe ([[RemakeCameo voiced]] by Creator/CharlesMartinet and who has a very thick accent himself) overhears and reassures the brothers that the accents were perfect. |
| 166 | [[/folder]] |
| 167 | |
| 168 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 169 | * Many (not all, but many enough) Poles think fondly of the Russian film ''Film/SixteenTwelve'', which tells the story of heroic Russians expelling Polish occupiers out of their country. This is mostly because, for a change, it's the Poles who are the [[EvilIsCool evil badasses]] who kick everyone's backsides until the film's heroes finally get their stuff together. |
| 170 | * ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'' is ''very'' popular with people who work at TV stations. |
| 171 | * The Chinese big budget anti-American propaganda film about [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar the Korean War]] ''Film/TheBattleForLakeChangjin'', portrays [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks American troops]] as overwhelmingly powerful, over the top macho badasses, and pretty much anywhere [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmBjkb-r8Fw footage of the American forces]] in the film pops up, is filled with comments of Americans enjoying such, like [[https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/y4k71c/be_the_america_chinese_propaganda_says_you_are/ these reactions]] to its portrayal of UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur. |
| 172 | * Despite some seriously unflattering portrayals of local life in Hawaii, ''Film/BeyondParadise'' seems to be popular among Hawaiians who have seen it. |
| 173 | * ''Film/{{Borat}}'' is quite popular in Kazakhstan, despite the title character being a deliberately absurd FunnyForeigner who acts ''nothing'' like a real Kazakh, and the general portrayal of Kazakhstan as a dirt-poor backwards country inhabited by ignorant racist buffoons. Kazakhs were mostly smart enough to realize that the film has nothing to do with the real Kazakhstan and is actually lampooning Americans' ignorance of foreign cultures. It also helped reintroduce Kazakhstan to the public eye after the fall of the Soviet Union left it without a real national identity. [[StreisandEffect The president tried to ban it]], but his daughter convinced him to lighten up and enjoy the joke. In 2020, the Kazakhstan Board of Tourism even released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRGXq4t9wY4 an advertisement]] incorporating Borat's catchphrase, "Very Nice!" |
| 174 | * The latter half of ''Film/TheBourneLegacy'' features scenes from Manila right down to the slum areas and the heavy traffic. There's also Aaron Cross (played by Creator/JeremyRenner) beating up Filipino security guards and policemen. Filipino viewers don't mind that the movie showed the downside of Manila or Cross beating their cops since Cross is a super agent like Jason Bourne and the cops are just doing their jobs and are obviously no match to a guy whose physical abilities are genetically enhanced. It also helps that at the end, [[spoiler:a fisherman helped Cross and Dr. Shearing escape from the guys who are trying to kill them in the first place]]. The film production staff got permission and support from the Filipino government to shoot the scenes. |
| 175 | * ''Film/BoysDontCry'' depicts a cisgender actress (Creator/HilarySwank) portraying a transgender man. Despite this controversial casting, the film is seen as a positive example of transgender representation -- and Hilary Swank confesses to getting hundreds of letters from LGBTQ fans thanking her for helping tell the story. |
| 176 | * Creator/SachaBaronCohen's other film, ''Film/Bruno2009'' was [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/sacha-baron-cohen/5579114/Austrians-fail-to-see-funny-side-of-Bruno-and-Sacha-Baron-Cohen.html more divisive in Austria]]. Older, more conservative generations thought Brüno was an obscene and disgusting pervert who had no place in their country. Others understood Cohen's satirical intent and even noted that Brüno was likely based on a popular and flamboyant TV show host -- Alfons Haider -- who was famous for wearing tight vests in public. |
| 177 | * Despite its historical inaccuracies, Frank Abagnale Jr. is an avid fan of Film/CatchMeIfYouCan, claiming it fulfilled his fantasy of meeting his father again. |
| 178 | * Many Asian-American critics dislike the ''Film/CharlieChan'' franchise because of its {{Ice Cream Koan}}s, {{Yellowface}} (despite the fact that the actor playing Charlie in the first iteration was actually 1/4 Mongolian), misrepresentation of Chinese culture, [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish broken English]], and the title character's alleged subservience to whites. However, he's also a brilliant, law-abiding detective [[FairForItsDay in a time]] where most Chinese characters were [[YellowPeril villains]] and some of his Ice Cream Koans are funny. Plus, Chan is the hero of the series, always defeating the villain. While Chan is a stereotype, his children are shown as being all-American kids (Number One Son, Lee, even wins a Gold Medal in the 1936 Olympics!) and were played by actual Asian actors. This has earned the franchise a few Asian-American defenders, including actor Keye Luke (who would voice his [[WesternAnimation/TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan animated equivalent]]). The enormous popularity in East Asia could also be due to ValuesDissonance. The use of color-face (blackface, whiteface, yellowface) isn't seen as offensive as in the U.S., especially if it's not used spitefully. A commercial by Nippon Airline had an actor dressing up in whiteface for a gag, and most Japanese didn't see the problem, and an English competition in China featured middle school students dressed as "foreigners". It's worth noting that the books are better-received, as many aspects that Asian-Americans disliked about the films are downplayed or even completely absent in the books. |
| 179 | * ''Film/TheCraft'': |
| 180 | ** Despite the most gothic girl turning out to be the villain, the movie has a huge fanbase of goth and punk girls. Nancy is particular is regarded as one of the most memorable parts of the film; it helps that she's depicted as a more complex AntiVillain with sympathetic traits. |
| 181 | ** Although the TokenBlackFriend Rochelle is considered a FlatCharacter whose entire arc revolves around her race, Rachel True has spoken about getting thanked by many Pagan girls of colour who were happy that someone who looked like them was one of the leads in a mainstream film (the film was released [[FairForItsDay in 1996]]). In fact, fans merely wish [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter more had been done with Rochelle as a character]]. It's also worth noting that Rochelle's character lacks some of the most common stereotypes of black characters, such as being a SassyBlackWoman or from the ghetto. |
| 182 | ** The movie is also popular among Wiccans despite showing magic as something dangerous and promoting what many Wiccans would consider being common misconceptions about "magic". It helps that they had a consultant on board to write many of the spells, and Fairuza Balk did plenty of research to enhance her performance; including buying an occult shop. |
| 183 | * Singaporeans are aware that ''Film/CrazyRichAsians'' would not give an accurate representation of their city and its population due to criticism for not casting Malays and Indians who are the second and third ethnic groups in the city. They also accepted that the movie is meant for the Asian-Americans who have been underrepresented and stereotyped in Western media for years. For Singaporeans, the movie is just a typical romantic comedy which is set in their city. It helps that the Singaporean Tourism Board helped out during the film production, which would also boost the city's tourism. |
| 184 | * Australians love [[AwesomeAussie their portrayal by foreigners]], particularly in America. The best part is that, for a long time, most American portrayals of Australians have been based on ''Film/CrocodileDundee'', in which the character of Mick Dundee [[UnbuiltTrope actually played up most of the "outback survivalist" aspects to trick American tourists]]. America didn't get it, which makes most American portrayals of Australians hilarious. |
| 185 | * In addition, Belarusian audiences were generally okay with the American-produced film adaptation of ''Film/{{Defiance}}: The Bielski Partisans'', despite the historical liberties and film's constant harping on antagonism between the Soviet military and Jewish partisans ([[DramaticallyMissingThePoint when the book demonstrated Belarus was one of the rare places where nationalist and Jewish partisans cooperated in great concert]]). It may have had something to do with being an American film set in a country Americans are not necessarily aware of and [[Creator/DanielCraig James Bond]] fighting Nazis. |
| 186 | * South Africans are extremely enthused about the popularity of ''Film/District9'' even though non-African viewers seemed to get the takeaway message that 'South Africans are terrible people'. Afrikaaners are just that damn thrilled to have a major film with a mostly S.A. cast and crew. |
| 187 | * ''Film/GalaxyQuest'': |
| 188 | ** The film's most fervent fans are ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fans, to the point that many consider it the unofficial tenth movie (which has the side effect of making the StarTrekMovieCurse still work). It helps that, though the movie mocks all the oddities of ''Trek'' and its fandom, its overall impression of the franchise [[AffectionateParody is a pretty positive one.]] |
| 189 | ** The cast of both the original series and ''The Next Generation'' also found the movie incredibly funny. Creator/PatrickStewart said he initially was going to give the film a pass since he assumed it would be a mean-spirited parody. When he was finally convinced to see it, "nobody was laughing longer or harder than I!" Though Creator/GeorgeTakei also described the early scenes with the actors being washed up, bitter, and coasting on previous glory to be a "chillingly accurate documentary". |
| 190 | * Japanese audiences didn't seem to mind ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017''. In America, the film was slammed for casting the white Creator/ScarlettJohansson as the Major (who was Japanese in the original anime). But in Japan [[https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2017/04/japanese-audiences-praise-ghost-in-the-shell-remake-and-are-happy-with-scarlett-johanssons-casting/ a lot of people praised the casting]], including the director of the original, since Scarlett Johansson really ''does'' look like the Major as depicted [[Anime/GhostInTheShell1995 in the original anime]]. Ironically the film also changes the location (though it's only implied) from Japan to Hong Kong. In this case the American media may have been the more relevant part; the setting of the franchise does a lot of weird if not terribly overt things with national stereotypes (if Caucasian Americans show up, they'll usually behave stereotypically Japanese in a sinister way -- but the Japanese stereotype of "sinister Japanese" rather than YellowPeril, and a lot of the heroic characters are based on non-Japanese stock roles to start with). And it's a part of the Major's character in particular that she has the outward appearance of a generically pretty adult woman who doesn't even resemble in face or body the woman she might have naturally grown up as. The franchise was obscure enough some entertainment writers unfamiliar with the work had to come up with something to talk about, and it was developed at a time when other movies' similar casting choices were controversial. |
| 191 | * The whole SpaghettiWestern genre is an example of this. While these films were made by Italian studios, usually shot in Spain, titles such as ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' and ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'' are among the most successful Western films, even in the United States, which is notoriously resistant towards European films. |
| 192 | * ''Film/TheGreatDictator'': |
| 193 | ** Though no one ever recorded what UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler thought of it, he did definitely watch the film twice. |
| 194 | ** Chaplin stated that he couldn't have made the film if he had known about the true extent of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps at the time. Most Jews would be glad that he didn't. |
| 195 | * ''Film/TheGreenInferno'' features members of an actual Peruvian tribe as the cannibal tribe. According to director Creator/EliRoth, in order to teach the tribe what a movie was, he and the crew brought in a generator and a TV and showed them the infamous ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'' to give them an idea of what they were being asked to do. They all loved it, thinking it was a comedy, and instantly signed on to play cannibals. Roth chalked it up to a strong culture of storytelling among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. |
| 196 | * ''Film/{{Hackers}}'': Despite being clueless about how computer hacking works, it's popular among real-life hackers and IT technicians for portraying them in a positive light and [[MundaneMadeAwesome making their job]] [[RuleOfCool look cool]], as well as the general SoBadItsGood-ness. |
| 197 | * ''Film/HocusPocus'', much like ''Film/TheCraft''; despite the Sanderson Sisters being {{Wicked Witch}}es, they're often beloved by real witches for how [[EvilIsCool fun and powerful they are]]. |
| 198 | * The Korean film ''Film/TheHost2006'' did good business as a foreign-language import in the American market, despite the United States being villains in the film and responsible for creating the monster. The film does make an attempt to soften its portrayal by making an off-duty American soldier a BadassBystander who tries to fight the monster off in the beginning. |
| 199 | * Film/JamesBond'': |
| 200 | ** * During screenings of ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' for Egyptian censors, the producers worried that [[BondOneLiner Bond's "Egyptian builders!" quip]] would be poorly received, but it got a huge laugh. |
| 201 | ** ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'': Even though it includes many MysticalIndia tropes, the film is considered a series highlight in India, and is a factor in Creator/RogerMoore's own popularity in the country. |
| 202 | * Similar to ''Rocky Horror'' mentioned below, ''Film/JennifersBody'' is popular among UsefulNotes/{{sapphi|sm}}c women even though the [[AntagonistTitle eponymous villain]] (played by Creator/MeganFox) is a LiteralManeater with HomoeroticSubtext between [[DepravedBisexual her and her best friend]] Anita "Needy" Lesnicki (played by Creator/AmandaSeyfried). It helps that Jennifer is a TragicMonster who starts out sympathetic (if something of a {{jerkass}}, but a sympathetic jerkass nonetheless) because she was [[DemonicPossession demonically possessed]] in the first place after being captured and [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed]] by a [[RockMeAsmodeus devil-worshiping rock band]] who thought she was a {{virgin|Sacrifice}}. It also helps that she seems to genuinely love Needy (albeit in an increasingly possessive and violent way) even after becoming a FullyEmbracedFiend, that Needy herself is AmbiguouslyBi too while being the heroine, and that Fox (herself bisexual) was the one who decided to play Jennifer as a deeply closeted lesbian. |
| 203 | * ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}'' depicts the famous Batman villain as a normal man with mental illness who undergoes a FaceHeelTurn after being mistreated by society. Plenty of people who do suffer from mental illness praised the film for a sympathetic depiction of it -- especially as Arthur's condition is what humanizes him and it's society's indifference to his suffering that leads to his StartOfDarkness. |
| 204 | * The ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' franchise is very popular in Costa Rica, despite the fact that it shows several misconceptions about the country itself (like the depiction of the capital or the idea that it has an army) because it is one of the very few instances in which the country is part of a world-famous movie franchise. |
| 205 | * The Tom Cruise movie ''Film/TheLastSamurai'', despite taking many "liberties" with Japanese history, is beloved over in Japan because they think it's really cool. This also might have something to do with the fact that the movie used actual Japanese actors like Creator/KenWatanabe instead of [[FakeNationality other]] [[InterchangeableAsianCultures East]] [[RacialFaceBlindness Asians]]. It's also a movie that basically praises the good old days, which is something that any nostalgia junkie would get behind. Both in spite, and because it wasn't as great as people would like it to be. This is particularly ironic as the Japanese troops trained in Western combat were world renowned after the Russo-Japanese War for how well they followed the rules of war and the honor with which they treated their captives. The people wanting to return to the old ways of bushido are responsible for the Japanese army becoming monstrous during WWII, but they are depicted as good guys fighting evil progress in this film. |
| 206 | * Both Creator/BruceLee and Creator/JackieChan's films are popular in Japan, despite (at first in Jackie Chan's case) many of them implying they kick lots of Japanese ass. |
| 207 | * The 1989 Creator/KirkCameron[=/=]Creator/JamiGertz drama ''Film/ListenToMe'' has a cult following among the competitive speech and debate community for its totally unrealistic and [[{{Narm}} excessively melodramatic]] portrayal of college debate. |
| 208 | * Hollywood Montrose from the ''Film/{{Mannequin}}'' movies is so stereotypically CampGay that he would become a bonfire if he were any more flaming, but queer audiences loved him for being unafraid to be himself. He is also the only character who appears in both films, and he gets at least one scene in each where his quick thinking saves the day. [[WebVideo/NeedsMoreGay Rantasmo]], a gay reviewer, admitted to loving Hollywood in spite of his extreme stereotyping. |
| 209 | -->'''Rantasmo:''' Hollywood Montrose is a cliché character based on a tired, thoughtless, offensive, insulting stereotype... and I ''love'' him. [...] And so Hollywood presents a kinda unique dilemma: can a stereotype be awesome? |
| 210 | * {{Martial Arts Movie}}s are never any less popular among western audiences when an eastern martial artist is pitted against western villains who are portrayed as ruthless thugs or pompous weaklings. In fact, westerners seem to expect it. Such films made in the west often continue this dynamic. |
| 211 | * The films of the Creator/MarxBrothers -- which feature the Jewish Chico Marx (real name: Leonard Marx) as a very broad stereotype of shifty Italian immigrants -- were very popular with real Italian immigrants, because -- much like Speedy Gonzales -- he always outwits his [=WASPy=], patrician foes. |
| 212 | * ''Film/MissCongeniality'' is very popular in the pageant world for several reasons: the producers had clearly [[ShownTheirWork done their research]] on all the hard work that goes into pageants, the handful of contestants given characterization are not just [[BrainlessBeauty shallow bimbos]] but have nuanced personalities, and it reveals that pageants are not as anti-feminist as main character Gracie assumes. |
| 213 | * MoralGuardians aside, many Christians think ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' is hilarious. It helps a lot that, while Brian is a bit of a buffoon, Jesus himself is always treated respectfully, and that the Pythons [[ShownTheirWork get a lot of obscure and specific details from the four Gospels right]]. In fact, it's so accurate at times that some priests and ministers have even shown clips from the film during sermons to illustrate one point or another. |
| 214 | * Greeks have enjoyed ''Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding'' — which makes sense since Nia Vardalos is Greek,[[note]]Canadian, but her father was an immigrant from Greece, and her mother was also of Greek origin[[/note]] and many don't see the "stereotypes" in the film as that. |
| 215 | * ''Film/NachoLibre'' was made as an AffectionateParody of [[MaskedLuchador lucha libre wrestling]], and it's positively adored by many Mexican viewers and fans of lucha libre for its silly, yet earnest and loving depiction of the national pastime (the fact its star, Creator/JackBlack, [[FakeNationality isn't even of Mexican descent]], only adds to the strange charm). It helps that the villain Ramses was played by Wrestling/SilverKing, an actual luchador. |
| 216 | * ''Film/OceansThirteen'' is reportedly very popular with hotel staff worldwide. In particular is the treatment of the VUP (Very Unimportant Person) [[spoiler:who is in actuality the reviewer of the coveted Five Diamond Award]]; many a hotel worker has claimed their (obviously impossible) wish to be able to treat annoying guests in that manner. |
| 217 | * ''Film/TheParty'', which stars white British comedian Creator/PeterSellers as an Indian actor named Hrundi Bakshi, is very popular in India. One of Bakshi's famous lines, "In India, we don't ''think'' who we are, we ''know'' who we are", is often quoted, and it had an influence on some legendary players in the Indian film industry, including the likes of Creator/AmitabhBachchan and Creator/SatyajitRay. |
| 218 | * ''Film/ThePrincessBride'': Australian fans are in fact very pleased by the line ''...and Australia, as everybody knows, [[SentencedToDownUnder is populated entirely by criminals]]'' and cinema screenings in the country are often interupted by loud cheering after this line. |
| 219 | * ''Film/TheQuietMan'' has several examples of {{Oireland}} stereotyping, but it's considered a classic in Ireland. Helping matters was that it was the first big-budget Hollywood film to be shot there, features mostly Irish actors (besides Victor [=McLaglen=] and Ward Bond) and has the Irish language spoken on-screen. It's frequently played on television around Christmas in Ireland. |
| 220 | * ''Film/RamboIII'' is hugely popular in Afghanistan. Apparently, the Afghans appreciated being portrayed as an unbeatable ProudWarriorRace. |
| 221 | * Despite many critics accusing ''Film/RamboLastBlood'' of being racist and xenophobic for portraying the Mexican border as a dangerous, crime-ridden wasteland, many viewers of Mexican descent who enjoyed the movie have come out on social media to defend the film, claiming its portrayal of how dangerous the border has become [[RealityIsUnrealistic isn't too off the mark]], were happy that it raised awareness about sex trafficking, and weren't offended by its depiction at all. |
| 222 | * ''Film/ReeferMadness'' has actually become a popular StonerFlick; despite condemning cannabis, the movie is so hilariously {{clueless|Aesop}} and over-the-top that it's [[WatchItStoned great to laugh at while high]]. Its ironic popularity eventually earned it an AffectionateParody in the form of ''Theatre/ReeferMadnessTheMusical''. |
| 223 | * ''Film/RisingSun'' had all the potential to become hated in Japan for its negative portrayal of the Japanese. Yet the local screenings [[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-11-30-wr-62352-story.html had audiences roaring with laughter]] [[{{Narm}} at what was supposed to be a thriller]], as between stereotypes and mispronunciations of Japanese words, what could offend was instead deemed unintentionally funny. |
| 224 | * [[Creator/DolphLundgren Ivan Drago,]] the stereotypical RedScare HuskyRusskie from ''Film/RockyIV'' is very popular in Russia, with many people noting that, despite being a character in an anti-Soviet movie, he was far cooler than heroes from actual Soviet propaganda. It helps too that the film had a surprisingly benign portrayal of Russia for the time (a ''real'' rarity during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar). |
| 225 | * ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' still has a sizable LGBTFanbase despite some of its choices in depicting such communities not holding up so well today. For [[TheSeventies its time]] it was notably progressive and opened up a lot of eyes. Modern backlash is largely due to generational differences: both because increased sensitivity toward queer people has made unambiguously positive depictions more widespread, and because ''Rocky Horror'''s [[Creator/RichardOBrien creator]]--though [[OffendingTheCreatorsOwn nonbinary himself]]--has expressed invalidating views about trans women specifically. |
| 226 | * Many Russians enjoy inaccurate portraits of Russia and the USSR in Hollywood movies. They affectionately call it klyukva (cranberry). One of the more (in)famous examples is the old Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger flick ''Film/RedHeat'', which enjoys a CultClassic status and has launched a couple of [[MemeticMutation internet memes]]. |
| 227 | * [[https://thesource4ym.com/saved-10-5-2004/ Several evangelical Christian youth groups leaders]] have found the movie ''Film/{{Saved}}'' to be a funny but important teaching tool, despite the fact the movie was intended to mock this very demographic. |
| 228 | * There're a lot of drug dealers who feel represented by the movie ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}'' [[spoiler:despite the fact that Tony dies at the end]]. It's common for police to seize guns or other items bearing the inscription ''The world is yours''. |
| 229 | * ''Film/SchoolOfRock'': Contrary to writer/star Creator/MikeWhite's negative opinion of the character having his CampGay stereotypes played up and [[AuthorsSavingThrow efforts to humanize him more in the Broadway show]], Billy "Fancy Pants" is very beloved by LGBTQ+ fans of the movie, who not only think he's hilarious but argue that [[RealityIsUnrealistic he isn't even that much of an exaggeration of an effeminate preadolescent boy to be considered offensive]].[[note]]These differing opinions may be due to society having changed a lot between Mike White's youth and 2003, as well as White's experiences being queer (he's openly bisexual) being much less forgiving for him, having grown up in the 70s and 80s with an closeted gay father who ghostwrote speeches for anti-gay Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. While homophobia wasn't eradicated by 2003, opinions on homosexuality were generally kinder and kids in a visibly diverse private elementary school would've found homosexuality a non-issue, if not ''cool'' (the "metrosexuality" trend was only a year away).[[/note]] It helps that his actor Brian Faltudo, not only came out as gay after the fact but went on to become a passionate activist for LGBTQ+ causes, including [[https://www.thetrevorproject.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwufn8BRCwARIsAKzP695hQnvvHcdde8CK8Eazf6HxLOGpv7nKJNuFYxPPxewuxIYCHz2XqIkaAuTxEALw_wcB The Trevor Project]]. |
| 230 | * The character of Ben Jabituya from ''Film/ShortCircuit'' and [[Film/ShortCircuit2 its sequel]] is an Indian-American character played by a white actor, Creator/FisherStevens. In spite of the casting choice, Ben is liked by Indian and Indian-American viewers, helped by the fact he is portrayed in a positive light with little of his personality being stereotypically Indian (Stevens has said the role was originally written as white, and the decision to make Ben an Indian-American only happened after an attempt to cast Creator/BronsonPinchot in the role fell through), plus in the sequel he undergoes more character development. During [[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/arts/television/aziz-ansari-on-acting-race-and-hollywood.html?_r=0&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Television&action=keypress®ion=FixedLeft&pgtype=article a 2015 discussion between]] Creator/AzizAnsari and Stevens on the subject, Ansari noted that he did not view Stevens as a bad guy or someone who played Ben as a tired stereotype, and agreed with Stevens that the role would be played by an actor of Indian or South Asian descent had the movie been made in modern times. |
| 231 | * The ''Film/SisterAct'' movies are well-known for [[ArtisticLicenseReligion playing fast and loose with Catholicism]] and [[NunsAreFunny playing nuns and sisters for comedy]], but many real-life nuns and others in Catholic ministry love the movies. A lot of it comes down to the fact that the films are both feel-good and harmless; aside from lighthearted ribbing against some goofier antiquated practices, they never mock the practice of religion or theology as a whole, and they frame the nuns, priests, and monks in the movies as being in the right in finding strength from their faith. |
| 232 | * The producers of ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' found themselves facing unexpected criticism from the Sikh community that was really looking forward to the film's villain, [[spoiler:Khan Noonien Singh]], played by a Sikh actor. The producers wanted to avoid the UnfortunateImplications of a villain of color, but the Sikh community noted that the character is such a classic MagnificentBastard and TragicVillain who physically and mentally outclasses any white man that it was a disappointment he was played by a British actor. More importantly, Khan was a genetically engineered superhuman, and making him British has rather questionable implications |
| 233 | * Creator/RicardoMontalban's portrayal of Khan in ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' was praised. [[FairForItsDay At the time,]] having a non-[=WASP=] play a non-white character billed as a "perfected" human was revolutionary enough than Montalbán being Latin American didn't really matter. Khan, as in all his portrayals, was charismatic, intelligent and reasonably sympathetic, which made him a prime DracoInLeatherPants. More importantly, the very idea that a genetically engineered "superior" human could even ''be'' non-white was a big deal. What most people didn't (and still don't) seem to know is that Montalbán himself was a white man: he was born in Mexico, but his parents were immigrants from Spain. What most people also don't seem to know is that this isn't the least bit unusual considering that more than a third of Latin Americans self-identify as white. |
| 234 | * ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'': El Diablo (Chato Santana) has gained some popularity among Latin American fans, because of his amazing powers, his tragic past (which has turned him into TheAtoner) [[spoiler:and his heroic sacrifice at the end.]] |
| 235 | * In spite of (or, more likely, because of) its relentless mockery of rednecks, UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}}, and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs NASCAR-loving rednecks]], ''Film/TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby'' became a box office smash in middle America, beloved by the very demographics it was ([[AffectionateParody lightheartedly]]) making fun of. |
| 236 | * ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'': |
| 237 | ** A possibly apocryphal story says that the late [[UsefulNotes/TheRulersOfNorthKorea Kim Jong-il]] found the film to be hilarious, despite himself being the movie's villain. |
| 238 | ** On a different level, the late Creator/GerryAnderson apparently thought that despite being an AffectionateParody of ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'', ''Team America World Police'' stayed much more true to the spirit of its source material than the live-action ''Film/{{Thunderbirds}}'' movie released around the same time. |
| 239 | ** Creator/MattDamon actually thought [[{{Gonk}} his]] [[PokemonSpeak portrayal]] was rather hilarious, and [[http://www.cinemablend.com/news/1536259/how-matt-damon-really-feels-about-team-america-world-police spoke very highly of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, even calling them "geniuses".]] |
| 240 | * Many rock fans and rock stars either really love or really dislike ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' for being a close-to-the-bone AffectionateParody of rock excess and culture, especially as the "Spinal Tap" analogy has become synonymous with such behavior and art. Some of that may have to do with how deeply involved with their own excesses they were at the time they viewed the movie; Steven Tyler of Music/{{Aerosmith}}, fueled by drug-induced paranoia, allegedly thought the movie was specifically mirroring the Aerosmith story and hated the movie as a result. Ozzy Osbourne ''genuinely thought'' the film was a documentary since the various comedic mishaps were so true to life that he didn't understand they were actually jokes. For example, the idea of turning something Up to Eleven has become a staple of the rock attitude, even though the movie itself thoroughly lambasts the concept. The long sequence in which the band cannot find the stage and ends up wandering around the bowels of the venue until a janitor gives them directions is apparently TruthInTelevision for anyone who has been on the right-sized tour. |
| 241 | * Despite concerns that he would be perceived as offensive, Creator/RobertDowneyJr's character Kirk Lazarus from ''Film/TropicThunder'' (a pretentious actor who spends most of the film in BlackFace) was actually well-received by black audiences in initial test screenings. What made Kirk so well-received among African Americans was that the character was clearly white in-universe, meant as a satire of MethodActing and a criticism of Hollywood whitewashing as opposed to mocking actual black people. It helped that there was also an actual black character in the film, the rapper/actor Alpa Chino who calls Kirk out on what he's doing [[spoiler:and turns out to be a [[ArmouredClosetGay closeted gay man hiding behind an over-the-top hardcore gangsta image]]]]. |
| 242 | * ''Film/{{Umrika}}'': During an InUniverse showing of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', Indy is met with ProducePelting. The Indian audience is rooting for the Indian villain, Mola Ram, despite him being a violent Hindu priest with various other 'thuggish brown people' stereotypes. |
| 243 | -->"Don't hurt Brother Creator/{{Amrish|Puri}}!" |
| 244 | * Creator/OliverStone said in an interview that he is surprised that stockbrokers loved ''Film/WallStreet'' so much. Despite the fact that Gordon Gekko is ultimately the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive villain]], he's portrayed throughout the film as a rich, intelligent, stylish, and well-spoken corporate badass who rather eloquently articulates his view that "greed is good," so it's not exactly a mystery why the film inspired a lot of wanna-be Gordon Gekkos. |
| 245 | * ''Film/TheWaterboy'': Creator/HenryWinkler [[https://youtu.be/32ZltylPe6w?si=SiEMZuWOqvYy2SrC has said]] that many college football players have told him about their coaches playing the movie during bus rides to games. |
| 246 | * Many Puerto Ricans like ''Film/WestSideStory1961'', despite its rather unflattering portrayal of them, and one of the songs describing Puerto Rico as a backwards BananaRepublic. This might have something to do with the fact that it was [[FairForItsDay remarkably pro-immigrant for the time]], which might have something to do with the fact that the director and songwriter were both the sons of immigrants. It helps that Puerto Rican actress Creator/RitaMoreno won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Anita, too. |
| 247 | * ''Film/TheWorldOfSuzieWong'' is often attacked for enforcing the AsianHookerStereotype and being one of the archetypal MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow stories. But it has just as many fans who love it for the on-location scenes in Hong Kong -- making it a valuable time capsule of the city in the '60s. The film is also beloved for Creator/NancyKwan -- who became one of the most prominent Asians in Hollywood thanks to playing Suzie. Journalist HY Nahm noted that a lot of the hate for the film [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch came from people who had never seen it but had heard the negative things about it]]. When she sat down to watch the film, her reaction was... |
| 248 | -->"The revulsion never came...none of the vulgarity the mind conjures up at the mention of Suzie Wong...as awful as it sounds, I can't dislike the film. I come away with an appreciation for Kwan's beauty and talent." |
| 249 | * [[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3559889,00.html Many Israelis]] found ''Film/YouDontMessWithTheZohan'' to be pretty funny, albeit exaggerated. The fact that Adam Sandler is Jewish [[NWordPrivileges probably helped him avoid negative reception there.]] |
| 250 | * Many members of the fashion industry loved ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'', claiming its portrayals of male models are [[ShownTheirWork only slightly exaggerated]]. |
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| 252 | |
| 253 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 254 | * Several actual librarians find the ''Literature/AlcatrazSeries'' hilarious, with the comedic take on the titular [[EvilLibrarians villains]] preferable to the other [[HotLibrarian common interpretation of librarians in fiction.]] |
| 255 | * Most Scottish ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fans love the [[ViolentGlaswegian drinkin' and fightin' and stealin']] Nac Mac Feegle. As Eleanor Morton put it on the ''Desert Island Discworld'' podcast, from most other writers it would be an offensive stereotype, but it's Creator/TerryPratchett, and he's clearly done the research, so it's fine. |
| 256 | * ''Franchise/HarryPotter'': |
| 257 | ** The fictional sport of "Quodpot" from ''Literature/QuidditchThroughTheAges'' is a joke on EagleLand and [[SoccerHatingAmericans American rejection of association football]]. It's essentially basketball, played on {{flying broomstick}}s, and [[TimeBomb the ball blows up if you take too long to score]]. American fans of the series generally think that Quodpot [[http://doodlewee.deviantart.com/art/HP-Quodpot-114676537 sounds like a lot of fun]], or at least like that their fictional counterparts are badass enough to play such a BloodSport. |
| 258 | ** Viktor Krum. While his AsLongAsItSoundsForeign name and MisplacedAccent (for those who read the books in English) have attracted the ire of Bulgarian readers, he himself is very popular for being a decent, honorable guy and a star Quidditch player, and for their country being portrayed positively in such a famous work (instead of negatively or using a fictional {{Ruritania}}). |
| 259 | * ''Literature/SpacedOut2016'': InUniverse example. Dash shows his alien friend Zan Parfonic a ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie when she becomes curious after he mentioned it. She starts laughing at the designs of the alien characters and states that she really enjoyed it. |
| 260 | * ''Literature/WarriorCats'': |
| 261 | ** Atheist fans of ''Literature/WarriorCats'' are fond of Mothwing, a non-religious medicine cat, despite Mothwing being a FlatEarthAtheist who lost her belief in [=StarClan=] due to [[EvilStoleMyFaith traumatic events]]. |
| 262 | ** Cloudtail is also popular amongst atheists, to a lesser degree, despite being a "[[HollywoodAtheist pompous atheist]]" stereotype. |
| 263 | [[/folder]] |
| 264 | |
| 265 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 266 | * Archie Bunker in ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' is meant as a parody of working class conservative white men of the generation that came of age around the Second World War. Because Archie has many [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold likable traits (such as being a hard worker, a devoted family man) despite his bigoted views]], and because his son-in-law and liberal foil Meathead [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic came across as preachy and self-righteous much of the time]], many conservative, working class white guys loved the show and the Archie Bunker character, even among those who knew perfectly well that Archie was intended to be a parody and that the purpose of the show was to preach against his outlook. |
| 267 | * ''Series/AlloAllo'', a show set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, uses every national stereotype there is for the English, French, Germans, and Italians. Yet it's extremely popular all over Europe, probably because everybody is equally ridiculed. |
| 268 | * Many who identify as geeks claim to love ''Series/TheBigBangTheory.'' However, just as many [[OffendingTheCreatorsOwn decry it as "nerdface"]]. |
| 269 | * A lot of real-life witches love ''{{Series/Charmed 1998}}'' in spite of it only bearing a passing resemblance to real Wicca. Mostly because the witches are strong women who save the day repeatedly, as well as also being simply everyday people that happen to be witches (averting the GothGirlsKnowMagic stereotype). A lot of people were inspired to seek out witchcraft from watching the show; many covens and groups recall getting emails and phone calls from people asking if they could be like the Halliwell sisters. |
| 270 | * Some conservatives are aware that Creator/StephenColbert is a parody of conservatives, yet really love ''Series/TheColbertReport''. This includes Bill O'Reilly, of whom Colbert's in-show persona is a specific parody. |
| 271 | ** That said, many conservatives think the show hit massive SeasonalRot in recent years, with the show becoming less funny and more preachy. By 2021, most conservatives stopped enjoying Colbert and tuned out. |
| 272 | * Abed from ''Series/{{Community}}'' is regarded as one of the better depictions of autism in the media in spite of how it's only heavily implied and the presence of stereotypical traits, albeit it helps that the entire series has an AllStereotypeCast which makes the Hollywood autism traits a bit more forgivable. Plus he was actually created by [[Creator/DanHarmon an autistic creator]], in fact, he came to that realization while writing Abed's character. |
| 273 | * ''Series/DerryGirls'' is a sitcom set in Northern Ireland during UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, and has a lot of BlackComedy relating to it -- women complaining about bomb scares making them miss nail appointments, girls joking about their classmates being in the IRA, faking kidnappings to get out of trouble. Yet it's beloved in Northern Ireland -- with a mural of the main cast even [[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/06/derry-girls-tv-northern-ireland-emblems-troubles being painted]] in Derry. It helps that the show's writer Lisa [=McGee=] is from Derry herself, and most of the humor comes from her own experiences growing up there. |
| 274 | * Russian late-night talk show ''Evening Urgant'' did a New Year special called ''Ciao, 2020!'', an AffectionateParody of Italian televised concerts of the '80s which spoofed a lot of things common for Italian television of the time (such as nonsensical conversations and obsession with buxom breasts) as well as featured Russian hit songs translated into Italian and remixed ItaloDisco style. The special generated a lot of buzz in Italy for what was interpreted as loving mockery. Indeed, the [=YouTube=] upload of the special had a lot of comments from Italy, and a number of Italian media, such as ''La Republica'' and Mediaset, spoke favorably of the special. Ivan Urgant was even eventually honored as a Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy. |
| 275 | ** ''Evening Urgant'' crew produced another New Year special, ''Ciao, 2021!'', even getting several Italian celebrities to appear as cameos (posing as Russians to keep the ruse afloat). It was similarly positively received by Italians, and quite a few expressed the wish to see Ivan Urgant on Sanremo festival. |
| 276 | * You'd think that Catholic priests would hate ''Series/FatherTed''. You'd be absolutely wrong. |
| 277 | * Many Brits love Geoffrey from ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' because of how much of a DeadpanSnarker he is and how frequently he seems to be the OnlySaneMan in a given situation. In fact, he's depicted as more intelligent and educated than he might be in a typical British sitcom. |
| 278 | * Welsh people (especially people living in South Wales) love ''Series/GavinAndStacey''. Although the Welsh characters on the show are mostly eccentric, sometimes a bit dim and for the most part, rather sheltered from spending their whole lives in Barry Island, the same characters are also lovable, kind, and very funny, and Wales is very underrepresented in UK-wide media. The same applies to ''Series/DoctorWho'', which is filmed in Cardiff, despite the occasional TakeThat made at Cardiff's expense. |
| 279 | * The comedy show ''Series/GoodnessGraciousMe'', which was largely written and performed by British people from Indian backgrounds, did a sketch called "Having an English", which sent up the attitudes and behaviour of white Britons in Indian restaurants. It proved to be one of their most popular. The show's title also references a musical comedy bit by Creator/PeterSellers as a very stereotypical Anglo-Indian doctor. They were originally going to be a lot harsher about Seller's broad use of {{Yellowface}}, but the character he played was actually a pretty decent, intelligent guy, so they decided on an AffectionateParody instead. |
| 280 | * ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' makes constant digs at Florida and the football team the Jacksonville Jaguars. Most Floridians who watch the show find the jokes to be ''hilarious'', and not always inaccurate. (In general, Floridians tend not to mind jokes about how weird Florida is -- the OnlyInFlorida trope is used a ''lot'' by writers who are actually from the area.) Similarly, a lot of Jaguars fans think the jokes about their team are funny. |
| 281 | ** Similarly, Jason Mendoza is beloved by Asian-Americans, Filipinos in particular, specifically ''because'' he's a handsome doofus, the opposite of the usual smart-but-nerdy Asian-American stereotype. |
| 282 | * The Scousers, characters who appeared in ''[[Series/HarryEnfieldAndChums Harry Enfield's Television Programme]]'' in the 1990s actually proved popular in [[OopNorth Liverpool]]. They were even referenced in a Reebok magazine ad, with a whole section of the Enfield crowd in curly wigs and moustaches. Rumour has it that the crowd included the then-manager and several players, who were actually from the city. |
| 283 | * ''Series/HogansHeroes'': |
| 284 | ** In spite of being yet another one of countless American works that tend to focus on the [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazi era]] when it comes to [[AllGermansAreNazis featuring Germany and/or Germans]], the series did nevertheless become popular in Germany, due to massive {{Woolseyism}} in its treatment of the German characters, giving them [[UsefulNotes/GermanDialects different regional accents]] and adding various other cultural references which were played for comedy. For instance, more northern Germans thought Sergeant Schultz, a caricature of Bavarians, was funny, while likewise, more southern Germans were entertained by a similarly Prussian caricature embodied by Colonel Klink. |
| 285 | ** ''Hogan's Heroes'' is also loved among the Jewish community, but not for the reasons you'd expect. If the portrayal of Nazis being incompetent, buffoonish warmongers that are constantly being outwitted by Hogan and his intrepid crew wasn't funny enough, then there's the fact that said Nazis are being ''portrayed by Jewish actors'', many of whom were displaced following the rise of Nazi Germany (some of which, namely Robert Clary, John Banner, and Leon Askin, had lost relatives during). Indeed, ''Hogan's Heroes'' is often remarked as the Jews' "silent revenge" against the Nazis. |
| 286 | * ''Series/HouseOfCardsUS'' has VillainProtagonist Frank Underwood as a ruthless amoral bisexual Southern Gentleman politician [[spoiler:and later PresidentEvil]]. Bisexual males have absolutely no problem with him, mainly because while he has used sex as a tool to manipulate, his actual relationship with his wife and ex-boyfriend in college has been portrayed rather sympathetically if a little shaky with the former. |
| 287 | * ''Series/InLivingColor'': While much of the humor from this 90's sketch comedy show would '''not''' be kosher today, its "Make fun of everyone" approach meant it had fans among the groups it mocked. "Men on Film," where two CampGay men gave film reviews (and later covered other topics), was loved by gay men at the time, especially black gay men, who couldn't deny that the characters were hilarious. And Handi-Man, a superhero both physically and mentally disabled, had his fans among people with disabilities because all jokes aside, he always [[DisabledBadass came out on top and defeated the villains]]. At least in this case, his actor Creator/DamonWayans had a club foot growing up, allowing a degree of NWordPrivileges. |
| 288 | * Mexican and Latino fans of ''Franchise/KamenRider'' are appreciative of the utilization of the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) for the Deadmans, the villains of ''Series/KamenRiderRevice''. |
| 289 | * An EnforcedTrope for Series/KeyAndPeele: apparently, after the first series of the show aired, one (or both) of them were approached by a Latino gangster who asked them why they didn't make any jokes about Latino gangsters. Key and Peele obliged, so in the second season, we got the "Chairs are for pussies" sketch. |
| 290 | * You'd expect ''Series/KungFu1972'' and ''Series/KungFuTheLegendContinues'' to both be hated by both the Asian-American community and practitioners of martial arts. You'd be wrong. Creator/DavidCarradine visited the Shaolin Monastery in 2005 and the abbot, Shi Yǒngxìn, thanked him for helping to promote the Shaolin and kung fu culture, which he replied, "I am happy to serve." |
| 291 | * For another British character that's much loved across the pond, look no further than Jonathan Quayle Higgins III from ''Series/MagnumPI''. Not only is he an effective foil toward Magnum, as well as T.C. and Rick, Higgins is also a worldly man that has served His/Her Majesty's interests on and off the battlefront since World War II (such that a running gag in the series is him going off on one of his adventure stories), and more or less plays an older, more sagely [[TheSmartGuy Smart Guy]] among the main group. Like Niles, Higgins' actor, John Hillerman, is ''not'' British, instead hailing from Texas. |
| 292 | * ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' is often mocked for the original Yellow Ranger being portrayed as an Asian-American woman (and the series never had an Asian Yellow Ranger again after this). However, her actress Thuy Trang spoke about being approached by many older Asian-American viewers who thanked her for portraying a positive role model for the community. And while Trini is [[AsianAndNerdy academic]] and [[AllAsiansKnowMartialArts trained in Kung Fu]], it helps that she's not the nerdiest member of the team (in fact translating for Billy when the others can't understand him) and Jason and Tommy are martial artists too -- making this trait more incidental. In a fan poll in the 2000s, Trini was voted the most popular Yellow Ranger of all time. [[https://thenerdsofcolor.org/2013/08/15/the-first-romance-of-a-casual-fangirl-of-colour/ There have even been pieces written]] about what she meant to the generation of children who watched ''Power Rangers'' in the '90s. |
| 293 | -->"All I knew was that, for the ''first'' time in my life, I was watching a girl on-screen who looked like me, who might if I stretched my imagination have a childhood like mine, who might if I stretched my imagination even further might actually be me, and who was kicking massive amounts of butt...comic books were an oasis in the desert of all-White media; so starved were we for someone to relate to that we couldn't help but make an instant bond with those rare characters of colour we discovered. We connected with these faint and oftentimes racially insensitive characters (and caricatures) because they were, if nothing else, a validation that we, too, existed in this world." |
| 294 | * ''Series/MindYourLanguage'' is now generally viewed as a xenophobic, racist, and utterly cringeworthy piece of TV -- yet at the time of airing, it was popular with many non-white viewers who found the exaggerated national stereotypes funny and appreciated that the show was [[FairForItsDay providing greater visibility for actors of color.]] |
| 295 | * The Swedish Chef of ''Franchise/TheMuppets'' is a case of divisiveness in Sweden. Some people hate him for being an overtly ridiculous portrayal of Swedes, and others find him hilarious for exactly the same reason. According to Creator/AdamHills, in Sweden, the Swedish Chef is known as The Norwegian Chef. |
| 296 | * Creator/PatrickSwayze enjoyed the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' song "Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas", which was inspired by his film ''Film/RoadHouse1989''. |
| 297 | * It's the same case for Niles in ''Series/TheNanny'', who more or less has the same role as Geoffrey (though Niles steps it up by being a ManipulativeBastard who plays everyone in the Sheffield house like a Stradivarius). Amusingly, [[FakeBrit Niles' actor]], Creator/DanielDavis, [[FakeBrit isn't actually British, but an Arkansan]]. Even more amusing is that his portrayal of Niles was so spot on that British fans reportedly wrote Sheffield's actor, Creator/CharlesShaughnessy ([[RealityIsUnrealistic who IS a native Brit]]), imploring him to take voice lessons from Davis. |
| 298 | * Many people who work in white-collar corporate settings enjoy series like ''Series/TheOfficeUS''. Software developers, in particular, have enjoyed ''Series/TheItCrowd''. |
| 299 | * ''Series/{{Outsourced}}'', which is themed on the concept of outsourcing an American call center to India, has a growing fan following in India. |
| 300 | * ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'''s Ron Swanson is quite popular with libertarians, despite him being a StrawmanPolitical. It probably helps that he's presented as a sincere and consistent proponent of the philosophy who practices what he preaches, making him practically unique in mainstream TV. |
| 301 | ** Also, people who work in local government and/or public service, mainly due to being able to relate to Leslie's struggles as she tries to get something (anything!) done. |
| 302 | ** Librarians rejoice in "punk-ass book jockey" T-shirts and mugs with that moniker abound, as do librarian blogs and social media handles. |
| 303 | ** The series is also popular with people who grew up in Midwestern, flyover, conservative, under-educated towns that Pawnee satirizes. The general sentiment is, "They're not exaggerating as much as you'd think." |
| 304 | * ''Series/{{Pistvakt}}'' is a Swedish series taking place in a fictional town [[GrimUpNorth in the darkest and coldest reaches of Norrland.]] The show also plays a lot of the stereotypes about people in Norrland for laughs, such as their dialect not being understandable to other Swedes (which is mainly shown by the creators making up vaguely Northern slang for the show), them drinking a lot of illegally homebrewed alcohol, regularly poaching and so on. Despite this, it remains popular in Norrland; for years after the show was over, the protagonist trio's actors would do tours across Norrland under the band name ''The Pjäx Pistols'' while in-character, consistently filling up the concert venues. |
| 305 | * German series ''Der Popolski Show'' involves a none-too-bright, heavily drinking, simplistically religious Polish family with a persecution complex. For some reason, it's apparently liked by Poles living in Germany. The Popolskis are a novelty band that specializes in humorous, polka-style cover versions. Their popularity with Poles living in Germany may be due to them being portrayed sympathetically and as [[TheMunchausen tellers of incredible stories]]. Their main claim is that their grandfather Piotrek Popolski invented Pop Music (the "Pop" is actually short for "Popolski", you know) in 1908 and wrote 128,000 songs that reached the charts (all of which were stolen by a used-car salesman who sold them to other artists); he also landed on the Moon half an hour before Neil Armstrong in a homebuilt rocket launched from a field outside Zabrze. |
| 306 | * ''Series/{{Portlandia}}'' is often beloved by Portland natives. Even the ''actual mayor of Portland'' plays a recurring bit part as the aide to the series' version of the Mayor. However, there are still Portland natives who feel that the series [[OffendingTheCreatorsOwn openly insults perfectly innocent subcultures]]. |
| 307 | * ''Series/RaisedByWolves2013'', a British BlackComedy SitCom featuring Rebekah Staton (herself from Stoke-on-Trent) was actually well-received by people in the Midlands despite being a harsh parody of the region and its culture. |
| 308 | * ''Series/TheRighteousGemstones'' portrays it's titular megachurch family as hypocritical, foul-mouthed, decadent, and (with the exception of its patriarch) utter morons. Despite this, it's actually fairly popular with Christians because (1) a lot of Christians agree with its view on megachurches and prosperity gospel, and (2) it actually [[ShownTheirWork gets little details about American evangelicalism]] spot-on than most shows lampooning the religion miss. |
| 309 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' has lampooned virtually every group of people under the sun, so it's natural that a few would come to appreciate their teasing. |
| 310 | ** The best-known example is probably "Bill Swerski's Superfans," or "DAAAAAAAA Bears!" The sketch portrays Chicago's male citizens as [[BigEater fat]], [[LazyBum lazy]] [[FatSlob slobs]] who do nothing but eat [[NutritionalNightmare massive portions of unhealthy food]], have numerous heart attacks every day, and root without fail for Chicago sports teams, especially "daaaaaaaa Bears!" Despite the less-than-flattering portrayal, Chicagoans ''loved'' the characters and invited them to make guest appearances at virtually every major sporting event for the Bears, Bulls, and Cubs; similarly, Michael Jordan and Mike Ditka, both the biggest stars in Chicago at the time (Jordan as a player for the Bulls and Ditka as the Bears' coach), made appearances as themselves in sketches. |
| 311 | ** In a more recent example, the 2020 episode hosted by Creator/TimotheeChalamet featured a sketch about hip-hop. Chalamet and Pete Davidson play obnoxious "rappers" who have made a single (terrible) song on Tik Tok that has somehow been viewed two billion times, know nothing about the history of hip-hop and its revolutionary roots (Chalamet's character was apparently inspired by the rapping hamsters in KIA car commercials), and speak endlessly in nonsensical slang. The idea was to mock Tik Tok stars in particular and Gen Z in general -- but actual Tik Tok users thought the parody was hilarious and embraced it by sampling the fake song into their own short videos, while other Gen Zers flooded the sketch's [=YouTube=] post with praise and positive comments. |
| 312 | * ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' had Bob and Doug [=McKenzie=] as a caricature of Canadians to protest ExecutiveMeddling Canadian Content rules for the show. As it turns out, Canadians love them, as they're not only seen as funny, but also as a point of pride, reflecting Canada's national reputation of having an easygoing willingness to [[SelfDeprecation laugh at themselves]]. It's said that their "Coo-loo-koo-koo" call is one of the most popular ringtones ever sold in Canada. |
| 313 | * English comedian Russ Abbott's character of "See You Jimmy" is on the face of it a really insulting caricature of Scottish people in general and Glaswegians in particular. Sales of "See You Jimmy" hats and wigs in Scotland soar every time there is a national event, however, and the character was voted the third best Scottish person in a poll by the Glasgow Herald newspaper. |
| 314 | * ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' has a Ukrainian man in [[HuskyRusskie Soviet clothing]] smashing a Risk board game after overhearing Kramer call his country "weak" (in the context of the game). In spite of his Soviet appearance, this character became a popular meme among Ukrainian online users and supporters, representing Ukraine's resistance against the Russian invasion of their country in 2022. |
| 315 | * ''Series/SesameStreet'' added an autistic character named Julia. Despite her displaying some stereotypical mannerisms of autistic people, she was universally praised by almost everyone, including Autistic people. It helps that her performer is the mother of an autistic child. |
| 316 | ** More so a case of VindicatedByHistory, but this applies to Roosevelt Franklin with the African-American community. He was initially seen as a stereotypical portrayal of black people with his rowdy nature and tendency of [[VerbalTic speaking in scat]], resulting in his removal from the series. However, in more recent times, African-Americans have come to appreciate Roosevelt Franklin for how dedicated he was to clearing up misconceptions of their African heritage and, overall, just being a fun guy to hang around. |
| 317 | * ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': |
| 318 | ** Scotty has a big fanbase among Scottish Trekkies. Creator/CraigFerguson has said that Scottish engineers may be stereotypical, but it was one of the few portrayals at the time that didn't follow [[ViolentGlaswegian another stereotype.]] |
| 319 | ** [[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed Khan]] [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Singh]] is very popular with the Indian Sikh community. Even if he was [[FakeNationality played by a Mexican man]], his charismatic villainy seemed to make it a moot point. |
| 320 | * Dr. Bashir from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' is a big hit with the autistic community in spite of being the stereotypical InsufferableGenius and InnocentBigot. It helps that he is still one of the most accurate portrayals of low-support autism ever, he's a hero and never portrayed as a burden despite sometimes being annoying, he has sexual agency (averting one of the most common and infantilizing HollywoodAutism tropes), and [[spoiler:many autistic people have survived medical abuse as he did.]] |
| 321 | ** [[http://www.kissmywonderwoman.com/2016/04/masculinity-monday-dr-julian-bashir.html This article]] also considers it one of the best representations of a man of Arab origin on television. |
| 322 | * London Tipton of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' is the quintessential AsianAirhead, but is beloved by many Asian children who loved that someone who looked like them was a prominent character on a Disney Channel sitcom. It helps that the character is given plenty of HiddenDepths, bordering on SpoiledSweet, and has a spectacular UnlimitedWardrobe. And Brenda Song's comic timing is greatly respected to this day. |
| 323 | * ''Franchise/SuperSentai'': |
| 324 | ** ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'' features Ramirez, a Spirit Ranger with a [[BigFun big gut and silly mannerisms]]; he's exceptionally popular with Western Sentai fans, partly because he's the first non-Japanese Ranger '''ever''' (played by the emigrated Canadian actor Robert Baldwin), and partly because while he is used for FunnyForeigner jokes, he's still just as brave, noble, and competent as the other heroes. Needless to say, there are more than a few fans who have asked Saban to cast Baldwin as his own counterpart in ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'' (which is only aided by the fact that Baldwin himself has expressed interest as well). |
| 325 | ** The same applies to Kinji Takigawa in ''Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger'' a few seasons later. He's [[ButNotTooForeign a Japanese-American]] who was raised in America and displays a bunch of American stereotypes like being [[AmericansAreCowboys a cowboy]] and liking to party with rock n' roll music, but he's just as heroic and skilled as the other Ninningers (and that skill is primarily ''self-taught'') and Americans think that a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot rockstar cowboy ninja]] is awesome. |
| 326 | ** Before both of them was Jiraiya/Ninja Black of ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'', another Japanese-American character who spoke good English that his Japanese-American actor used to sneak in subtle jokes and [[DeadpanSnarker snarkery]]. If Jiraiya is what Japan thinks Americans are like then they must think we're pretty awesome. |
| 327 | ** Likely unintentional, but [[Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger Uchu Sentai Kyuranger's]] Naga Ray/Hebitsukai Silver is shaping up to be this for the autistic/Asperger fanbase. Like [[Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger Ramirez]] his "stereotypical traits" (lack of social skills and trouble recognizing emotional expressions in this case) are played for laughs, but it never comes off as mean-spirited or offensive and he's an unambiguously competent member of the team, showing skill as both a thief and fighter (with a '''scythe''' no less!), as well as some engineering talent. |
| 328 | * Superstore, despite being a parody of Walmart, was enjoyed by actual Walmart employees for being hilarious and portraying the employees like a family. |
| 329 | * ''Series/TheTudors'' and ''Series/TheBorgias'' did well with Catholic viewers. It also helps that in ''Series/TheBorgias'' the Catholics are sympathetically portrayed as well as ''Series/TheTudors'' to a lesser extent. |
| 330 | * ''Series/{{Versailles}}'' did well in both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands despite the negative portrayal of king William of Orange. |
| 331 | * Despite having the most blatant examples of gay stereotyping [[ValuesDissonance that would never be allowed on a television sitcom today]], most of the LGBT community appears to love ''Series/WillAndGrace'', and not just because of the significant impact the show made towards marriage equality and the like. An NBC revival debuted in 2018. |
| 332 | * Czech comedy TV series ''Kosmo'', telling a story of a Czech-Slovak-Polish race to the Moon, has become a viral sensation in Poland. This is not so much in spite as because it depicts the Poles as [[Literature/SienkiewiczTrilogy four nobleman types]] [[Series/CzterejPancerniIPies and a dog]] in a rocket topped with a cross and emblazoned with an image of [[UsefulNotes/ThePope Pope John Paul II]] riding a tiger and wielding a flaming sword, who only answer to a call for help if it's from another Pole. |
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| 335 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 336 | * The song "Yankee Doodle", so the legend goes, was invented by the British as a means to demean American troops during the French and Indian War.[[note]]The line "Stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni", for example, is a reference to a prominent 18th-century London social club, the Macaronis, the idea being that the colonists-cum-rebels were trying to ape the British aristocracy in everything from clothing fashions to literature to food, and coming up all ersatz. Nowadays, the song is considered patriotic in America, New England in particular, and often sung unironically by children. ''Definitely'' a case of InsultBackfire. It was even considered as a candidate for the national anthem for a while.[[/note]] |
| 337 | * Al Jolson, despite performing in BlackFace, was well respected by African-Americans, since he himself fought for more racial equality in the music business and his admiration for black musical tradition seems to have been pretty genuine. Part of this is ValuesDissonance though since BlackFace wasn't generally seen as offensive in the 1920s and '30s as it is today. |
| 338 | * The Finnish novelty rock band Music/LeningradCowboys, best known for their over-the-top hair and comedic antics, are fairly popular in Russia and throughout the CIS nations, despite originally being intended as a joke at Finland's Soviet neighbor for their film, ''Leningrad Cowboys Go to America''. |
| 339 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhRu9yzlTRI The Russians seem pretty okay with "Back in the USSR".]] Ironically, the actual USSR banned Music/TheBeatles for being a corrupting Western influence, even as American reactionaries accused the band of being pro-Soviet. |
| 340 | * The Music/BurtBacharach-Hal David song "Me Japanese Boy I Love You", first recorded by Bobby Goldsboro in 1964, only got to #74 on the ''Billboard'' chart but was a big hit in UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}, which has a large Japanese community. Later it was {{cover|Version}}ed and translated into Japanese by Music/PizzicatoFive. It helps that the song is more sappy than offensive. |
| 341 | * The British band Japan were massive stars in the country Japan. Their early material and dress sense inspired the genre of UsefulNotes/VisualKei, and it took until ''Life in Tokyo'' for the band to really break big in their home country. The band embraced East Asian influences in their music and worked with Japanese musicians such as Ryuichi Sakamoto and Masami Tsuchiya. The band recorded exclusive material for their Japanese fan club and kept older singles in print. Lead singer David Sylvian continued to work with Japanese musicians in his solo career (working with Ryuichi Sakamoto on several occasions, most notably [[Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence "Forbidden Colours"]]) and broke many musical boundaries, and is regarded by many there as an honorary Japanese. Whilst it's not uncommon for Japanese people to appreciate Westerners enjoying their culture, Sylvian is one of the few to have made an effort to ingratiate himself with the people and surroundings, and is respected for that reason. |
| 342 | * Nobody is more enthusiastic about hearing [[Music/{{Voltaire}} Voltaire's]] song "Bomb New Jersey" (and his [[TakeThat take thats]] towards the state in general) than his fans that live in said state. To be fair, Voltaire did grow up there and the song contains a lot of in-jokes that only make sense to people from New Jersey. |
| 343 | * Creator/HarryBelafonte is often criticized for playing an easy listening form of calypso designed for white audiences. However, many Caribbeans have to admit that his '50s popularity sparked an unprecedented level of creativity amongst 'genuine' calypso musicians from Trinidad and elsewhere. Many of these got their songs recorded and released on labels thanks to the music being in public demand at the time, with everyone wanting to capitalize on Belafonte's popularity and the genuine musicians finally getting their big break. It was thanks to Belafonte that the RCA Trinidad label formed, with superior production quality and better distribution. Lord Melody, in particular, realized by the '60s that if he wrote songs for Belafonte he'd make more money than if he recorded them himself. |
| 344 | * Much like the Jane Goodall example under Newspaper Comics, according to legend, Music/MichaelJackson once performed a concert in England. When he heard that Princess Diana was going to attend, he decided to omit his song "Dirty Diana", afraid the title and "obsessed groupie" nature of the song might be offensive. This was only reversed after speaking to Diana herself, who asked he put it back as it was one of her personal favorites. |
| 345 | * One would think the song "Fujiyama Mama" by rockabilly legend Wanda Jackson would be hated by the Japanese, what with its opening line being "I've been to Nagasaki, Hiroshima too! The things I did to them baby, I can do to you!". However, oddly enough, it was a number-one hit in Japan! It was such a hit, in fact, that Wanda did a tour in Japan because of it. This is might have something to do with the Japanese love of rockabilly. |
| 346 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecf4pxeq8CI Pluma Pluma Gay]], a parody of the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnopHCL1Jk8 Dragostea Din Tei]], performed by the Spanish humorous duo Los Morancos, has a video clip where muscular and half-naked men and all possible gay stereotypes abound. Some people find that the song is offensive and homophobic, but many gays love it because it is a song that calls to be brave, to not care what the rest of the world thinks and to leave the closet assuming you as gay. |
| 347 | * Music/WeirdAlYankovic: |
| 348 | ** "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi" is beloved by Jewish people. It helps that he consulted with his Jewish drummer, Jay "Bermuda" Schwartz, and the lyrics [[ShownTheirWork show that Al did his research]]. |
| 349 | ** Reportedly, there are several people in the Amish community who have a good sense of humor about "Amish Paradise." |
| 350 | * British singer Eddy Huntington's song "USSR" is a beloved song among Russians. He has performed it multiple times at 1980s music concerts in Russia. |
| 351 | * Despite some accusations of racism and stereotyping from westerners (even though the tropes in that music video are quite common in Japan), Music/AvrilLavigne's "Hello Kitty" is very popular among Japanese fans (though the song didn't chart too well in Japan itself). Reportedly, Lavigne's general popularity among the Japanese is why she made the song at all. |
| 352 | * Portugal had embraced [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WjI3DLOk4c "Vira-Vira"]], a slightly pornographic spoof of their traditional rhythm, the ''vira'', by Brazilian comedy group Mamonas Assassinas. The band would even tour the country [[WhatCouldHaveBeen had they not crashed their plane]]. |
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| 355 | * "I Dig Rock N Roll Music" by Music/PeterPaulAndMary is a good example of how this trope can apply InsultBackfire. Noel Paul Stookey wrote it as a satire on how he felt rock & roll was all style over substance, and that fans of rock & roll liked it because it was popular; not because it was good music. Ironically, the song became one of their biggest hits, charting number 9 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 pop charts and has been since included on many of "The Best of '60s Rock!" or "The Best of Hippie Rock" compilation albums. It also didn't help that one of the bands they ridiculed, Music/TheMamasAndThePapas, ended up covering the song. |
| 356 | * Music/BoneyM's hit single "Rasputin" is meant to be a [[DeliberateValuesDissonance deliberately]] ill-informed TakeThat at the titular UsefulNotes/{{Rasputin|TheMadMonk}}, created at a time where tensions with the Soviet Union were high. Understandably, the USSR government did its hardest to [[StreisandEffect ban the song]] from the country's radio waves, but in an amazing form of MisaimedFandom, USSR citizens actually ''loved'' the song, treating it as an ode to Rasputin and reviving interest in him. |
| 357 | * The song "Everything Stops for Tea" was written by an American composer for a musical adaptation of an American novel about a British aristocrat, and satirises the British fondness for {{tea|LovingBrits}}. Since the only thing Brits love more than tea is SelfDeprecation, it became hugely popular in the UK and was actually used by the Ministry of Food during the 1940 Great Exhibition. It is still regularly heard on Creator/{{BBC}} radio, in fact. |
| 358 | * Music/MerleHaggard's "Okie from Muskogee" was ostensibly a celebration of small-town American values and a condemnation of the counterculture of TheSixties (criticizing things like anti-war protests, drug use, and sexual promiscuity). But hippies and protesters embraced the song ironically, as seen in {{cover|Version}}s by the likes of Music/TheGratefulDead, Music/PhilOchs, and Music/TheBeachBoys (who also used it as SelfDeprecation of their own clean-cut image). |
| 359 | * Music/{{Eminem}} has become something of a mascot for [[{{Eagleland}} white trash America]] despite the fact that his [[KayfabeMusic kayfabe]] portrays white trash culture as a race of promiscuous, pill-addicted bigots from broken homes, stuck in dead-end jobs, forever on the verge of GoingPostal or becoming {{Serial Killer}}s. Eminem positions himself as an EscapistCharacter for the poor and dispossessed, and he's written multiple songs granting his alter-ego Slim Shady to his listeners as a name for the [[InUniverseCatharsis cathartic feelings of rage and pain]] they can release by listening to his music. Eminem's outspoken anti-racist views and [[TheParagon inspiring]], FriendToAllChildren persona in his songs outside of kayfabe also make him rather a positive figure as well and help keep his audience aware that they're in on a [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecating joke]]. |
| 360 | * The comment section of WebAnimation/YourFavoriteMartian's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c6vDxvOXhQ Transphobic Techno]]" (whose lyrics consist almost entirely of the phrase "bitch got a penis" looped ad nauseum) is full of UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} people saying they love the song. It helps that the song is intended to make fun of EDM producers rather than trans people, and that the video portrays the character's UnsettlingGenderReveal reaction as majorly exaggerated and not justified (especially since the ending [[spoiler:reveals that [[NotWhatItLooksLike the bitches didn't actually have a penis]]]]). |
| 361 | * Despite its harsh criticism of The South, Neil Young's "Southern Man" still sees regular radio play on many Southern US radio stations. |
| 362 | * [[https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8 "Prisencolinensinainciusol,"]] an Italian rock song designed to sound like an Italian person's idea of what an American rock song sounds like, with all the lyrics being English-sounding gibberish. It's a longstanding "meme song" in the English-speaking internet because of how [[AffectionateParody affectionately on-the-nose it is]], and it helps that it's genuinely catchy. |
| 363 | * While it has garnered some controversy for usage of a derogatory word in the title, there is a large number of trans people who enjoy Harley Poe's "Transvestites Can Be Cannibals Too", which primarily helps as the lyrics portray the transphobes being eaten as {{Asshole Victim}}s. |
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| 365 | |
| 366 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 367 | * This happens with all the {{foreign wrestling heel}}s, who become [[DracoInLeatherPants heroes in their home countries]] despite all of WWE's attempts to depict them as despicable and/or pathetic. Examples include Sylvain in Quebec (French Canada), Wrestling/TheGreatKhali in India, and Wrestling/TheIronSheik among the Iranian diaspora. |
| 368 | * The likes of Wrestling/WilliamRegal and Wrestling/WadeBarrett were stereotypical EvilBrit characters. Yet both are very popular in their native UK. The gimmick is so over partly because Regal himself came up with it in the early 90s WCW and relishes playing it. He knows it's more over with fans than other ones could be. It helps that Regal's British fans know that his posh character is nothing like his working-class Northern roots (and is in its own way, a send-up of how Americans stereotype Brits as [[BritainIsOnlyLondon all being from London]] in movies). When WWF tried to rebrand him as the lumberjack 'Real Man's Man' he had no enthusiasm for their gimmick and it showed (he was also on a lot of drugs at the time). When he came back, he did so on the condition that he could resume his EvilBrit gimmick (albeit changing his name from Steven Regal to William Regal) and that WWF would play it up for all it's worth. |
| 369 | * The Wrestling/{{WCW}} stable "West Texas Rednecks" were unflattering southern U.S. stereotypes who ended up becoming a sort of collective EnsembleDarkhorse among WCW's primarily Southern audience. It helped that their main rivals, a supposed face stable called the No Limit Soldiers, acted like heels and mostly consisted of inexperienced newcomers. |
| 370 | * Wrestling/EddieGuerrero's "I lie, I cheat, I steal" gimmick may have been somewhat unflattering toward Mexicans, and he put on a heavy Mexican accent while on camera which, judging by more serious interviews, wasn't his real accent at all. But he was still beloved by Latino wrestling fans, and wrestling fans in general. They seemed to more appreciate the fact that WWE was acknowledging Latino wrestling fans exist. Wrestling/ReyMysterio has noted in his book that Eddie was so instrumental in bridging the gap between Mexican and American wrestling that he was regarded as a legend and huge face on both sides. |
| 371 | * Before he was Wrestling/SamiZayn, Rami Sebei -- a Canadian of Syrian Arab descent -- wrestled on the indies as El Generico, a stereotypical Mexican MaskedLuchador whose catchphrase was "Olé!" This did not stop him from getting massively over with Mexican audiences in L.A.-based indy promotions. |
| 372 | * Rebecca Knox described her gimmick as a "stereotypical jigging Irish leprechaun" when she wrestled overseas. However, she's still beloved by Irish fans for her wrestling -- especially since getting signed to WWE as Wrestling/BeckyLynch. But showing how this trope can change, when she debuted in WWE doing her {{Oireland}} gimmick, the backlash was massive and it was quickly phased out. |
| 373 | * [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} Cryme Tyme]] were a pair of two [[UncleTomFoolery African American thugs who talked slang and stole.]] Despite the massive stereotypes they ended up being one of the most popular tag teams during their time together, including with black audiences. JTG and the late Shad Gaspard were ''Myth/RobinHood''-[[JustLikeRobinHood like]] [[LoveableRogue face characters]] during almost their entire WWE run, and always got the better of their (somehow always deserving) heel victims. |
| 374 | * Wrestling/{{Carmella}} received significant pops whenever she competed in Brooklyn for NXT. Her character is a trashy "Princess of Staten Island". But they loved her for her PluckyGirl nature and the fact that she was very much JerkWithAHeartOfGold. What's more, she's not really from New York -- she was born and raised in Boston. |
| 375 | * Wrestling/JinderMahal is immensely popular in India. Despite the fact that he fits the "foreign heel" trope to a T, he is very charismatic, a skilled and entertaining wrestler, and has held down a number of championships. WWE tried to bank on his success by putting the world title on him at one point, but several factors made their plan fall apart (including failing to build up his push, having him shoot racist promos, and causing nearly all of his wins to be via cheating). |
| 376 | * Wrestling/BulletClub in NJPW is considered to be a heel stable consist of ''gaijins'' but they are massively over to non-Japanese people because of how cool they look to the point where NJPW is really the only place they can continue playing the heel role straight. |
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| 380 | * Fans of any given [[UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball AFL]] club tend to like any given caller from ''The Coodabeen Champions''' talkback segment, regardless of how stereotypical they are. For example, Collingwood fans love Digger, a cantankerous old Collingwood fan who constantly complains about how the umpires "crucified" the Magpies, while Melbourne supporters like Ivan from Ivanhoe, a pompous rich guy who knows more about finances than football, and usually goes skiing instead of attending games. |
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| 383 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 384 | * In ''Tabletopgame/{{Warhammer}}'', the civilisation of [[GloriousMotherRussia Kislev]] is based on stereotypes of Russia, from [[BearsAreBadNews bear cavalry]] to [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong mighty men]] in a frozen land. However, Russians like this faction because it [[BadassArmy heroically stands]] against [[HornyVikings murderous]], [[TheLegionsOfHell monstrous hordes]] from an abominable realm far in the north. It is also because, in the game, the stereotypes have been made to look more [[DenserAndWackier badass]] and [[RuleOfCool over-the-top]]. |
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| 386 | |
| 387 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 388 | * Despite the [[RefugeInAudacity extremely irreverent portrayal]] of Mormonism in the musical ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'', lots of real-life Mormons are fans. The LDS Church itself resisted the StreisandEffect and has been known to place advertising in the show's playbills, usually saying stuff like "Now that you've seen the show, come read the book it's based on!" |
| 389 | * ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' depicts King George III as a CampStraight {{Yandere}} {{Manchild}} with a Britpop-inspired VillainSong. When it opened in London, the British ''loved'' him and found him one of the funniest things in the play. It helps that making fun of the royal family is practically a British tradition and that his VillainSong is extremely catchy and [[AwesomeMusic/{{Hamilton}} awesome]], filled with the type of BlackComedy that Brits adore. |
| 390 | * Enid from ''Theatre/LegallyBlonde'' is a bit of a StrawFeminist, as well as a rather stereotypical ButchLesbian. Despite this, a lot of feminist and lesbian audiences have taken a liking to her, since the portrayal of her sexuality isn't at all mean-spirited or demeaning, and Enid's shown to have plenty of admirable qualities along with her aggressiveness. It probably also helps that the show overall is extremely pro-feminist, and Vivienne and Elle's characters are both significantly more nuanced portrayals of feminism, so that balances things out. |
| 391 | * ''Theatre/TheMikado'', despite being a very broad caricature of Meiji-era Japanese society (actually a satire of ''Victorian'' mores in the guise of Meiji ones, which by coincidence, were based on Victorian mores), has always been very popular with the actual Japanese people. During TheEdwardianEra, at the height of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, a member of the Imperial Family, Prince Fushimi Sadanaru, visited London, hoping to see the play for himself, only to find that every production had been closed for fear of offending him! Eventually, a command performance was set up, and he and his entourage were "deeply and pleasingly disappointed" to find it hilarious. Today, the play remains very popular in Japan, where the town of Chichibu (at Saitama near Tokyo) claimed that the setting was inspired by a peasant revolt in 1884. |
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| 394 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 395 | * Addy Walker was the first African American doll of the ''Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection'', she and her family were born into slavery, in the days of the American Civil War, but soon obtained their freedom. [[https://www.greenandgorgeous.net/2012/10/26/american-girl-your-slave-doll-is-a-big-fat-offensive-fail/ Some people find it frankly offensive]] the existence of a "slave doll" and there are also those who complain that the history of African Americans is always reduced to the issue of slavery. [[https://htowncosplay.tumblr.com/post/187808175450/ayalaatreides-chaos-in-the-making On the other hand, there are those who defend Addy]], keep good memories of her and her books, and point out that her story and personality are not reduced to being a "slave doll". |
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| 398 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 399 | * Based on the words of people such as [[LetsPlay/AceAttorneyWithAnActualLawyer Prij]] and WebVideo/MangaKamen, the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series is popular with actual defense attorneys and prosecutors, who recognize the games as being {{satir|e}}ical and not meant to be an accurate depiction of law, as well as providing genuinely good insight into [[KangarooCourt corruption found within the legal system]]. |
| 400 | * ''VideoGame/BadDudes'' is a Japanese game about bad American dudes with giant muscles saving the President from ninjas and going out for burgers. Americans love the over-the-top parody of American [[LargeHam ham]] and [[HotBlooded hot blood]]. |
| 401 | * In-universe example in the ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' DLC "Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep", where Tina makes all of the dwarves in her [[AlliterationAndAdventurers Bunkers & Badasses]] campaign look like the resident short guy Salvador. Lilith thinks this is offensive, but Salvador thinks it's awesome. |
| 402 | * ''VideoGame/{{Broforce}}'' is an AffectionateParody of American action films that were made by a dev team based in South Africa. It also has a rating of Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam, and many Americans practically fell in love with it. (The music video of the band Strident playing the credits theme tune, is popular even among those who haven't played the game for the sheer amount of fun the members seem to have being as over-the-top patriotic for a different country as possible.) |
| 403 | * The Latina title character of the ''Franchise/CarmenSandiego'' franchise is not really designed to be stereotypical or offensive; however, she is the antagonist and a world-class thief. However, the Hispanic and Latino American community, especially young Latin American girls, [[http://www.themarysue.com/carmen-sandiego-latina-role-model/ love her]] and view her as a role model, because she's smart, successful, and ''never loses'' (note that even when the kids won the game show and captured her, she was right back doing it again by the next episode). |
| 404 | * The ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' series tends to find fans who enjoy the portrayal of their home country. It helps that the games tend to focus on generally popular leaders and periods of historical importance and generally plays the civs based on better times in their history. Depending on the Civ, it may also combine with grateful for any portrayal at all, let alone a well-researched one that plays on positive stereotypes. Special mention should be made of Polish players of ''Civ V'' and ''VI'', which includes a Poland Civilization. The Civ was included because the game has a huge player base in Poland and the Polish players love that they were acknowledged and given a very competitively viable Civ to boot. Germans tend to enjoy that the game refuses to portray them as ThoseWackyNazis while still playing them as a military and industrial powerhouse. Overall, ''Civ VI'' is especially well received as the leaders selected are almost all better known for their diplomacy than their military prowess. |
| 405 | * The ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlertSeries'' is rather popular with Russians thanks to its [[GloriousMotherRussia ludicrous stereotyping]], HamAndCheese acting, and general awesomeness. When it comes to hilarious portrayals of the USSR, you can't beat a [[MindControl mind-controlling]] Lenin lookalike and [[CoolAirship Kirov airships]] of [=RA2=]... except with [[BearsAreBadNews battle-bears]] and Premier Creator/TimCurry of [=RA3=]. It probably helps that all the stereotypes are played for laughs, as well as that the Soviets get some really awesome units like the aforementioned airships, battle-bears, [[GiantSquid trained battle squids]], and huge [[TankGoodness Apocalypse Tanks]]. It also doesn't hurt that the other factions are just as stereotypical. |
| 406 | * The GLA in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals'' are favorites of many Middle Eastern & Southeast Asian gamers as despite of them being a run-of-the-mill UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror stereotype of Islamic militants, they are awesome enough to fight ''two'' superpowers at once with nothing but determination, guerilla skills, and [[RockBeatsLaser outdated or improvised technology]]. |
| 407 | * The ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' franchise, originally created in America, has found itself a noticeable Australian fandom for its setting taking place in the outback and utilizing multiple seldom-seen species from Australia that the world is rather unaware of otherwise. In particular, the dingo-crocodile hybrid Dingodile, despite being a blatant bundle of practically every Australian stereotype known to man, is just as much of an EnsembleDarkHorse in the Aussie as he is everywhere else in the world for how deviously cool he is in terms of design and personality. |
| 408 | * ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}'' is heavily beloved in the Philippines despite its reputation as one of the worst FPS games of all time. Yet Filipinos still loved it even with all the [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish hilariously stereotypical Asian Engrish accents]] and faux-Orientalist imagery. |
| 409 | * '''Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!''' from ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea|HourOfDarkness}}'' is a straight-up parody of American sci-fi B-movie characters. He is also much more popular in America than he is in Japan. |
| 410 | * The cast of ''VideoGame/{{Divekick}}'' is a parody of various figures from the MediaNotes/FightingGameCommunity, and the gameplay itself consists of doing nothing but the popular diving kick attack. Despite this, it was released to positive reception from those in the FGC. This is due to gameplay being stripped down to the bare essentials and embodying the main draw of Fighting game gameplay ([[RocketTagGameplay positioning and finding the best opportunity to strike]]). |
| 411 | * ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': Inverted with Cassandra, the gruff, mannish TomboyWithAGirlyStreak. The game establishes that she is 100% straight and can only be romanced by a male Inquisitor, likely to avoid making her come off as a stereotypical ButchLesbian. However, Cassandra became ''very'' popular with queer female players, to the point that many were actually disappointed that they couldn't romance her as a woman. Sure enough, there are mods for the PC version to fix that. |
| 412 | * ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' could be construed as offensive with its ''very'' loose interpretation of Chinese history (and hilariously terrible dubs early on), but it is apparently quite popular in China. The fact that it takes place millenia before present day and blends in elements of Chinese mythology helps soften any comparisons to the modern CCP, and the ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' remains a very popular topic for media. It doesn't hurt that all of the characters are portrayed as larger-than-life heroes, almost all of whom show both virtues and flaws while also completely annihilating entire enemy armies on their own. Many modern Chinese still have the same surnames as these heroes (Liu, Zhang, Cao, Sun, Wang, etc.) and as such some also attest familial fondness for certain characters as a result. |
| 413 | * Creator/{{SNK}}'s mascot character, Terry Bogard of ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' fame, is about as stereotypically {{Eagleland}}ian as an American character made in Japan can get, being HotBlooded and a BigEater of [[FastFoodNation burgers]]; speaking almost exclusively in GratuitousEnglish. Even with him checking off almost every stereotypical American box, American SNK fans ''love'' Terry to hell and back for being the living embodiment of awesomeness. |
| 414 | * ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'': |
| 415 | ** Niles has been ([[BaseBreakingCharacter with some caveats]]) completely embraced by the LGBTFanbase despite being a TooKinkyToTorture bisexual male. It helps that some of his dialogues are genuinely funny, he's very useful in gameplay for being the only default bow user in Conquest, and he has quite the HiddenDepths in his supports, ''and'' [[MrFanservice he's extremely handsome.]] |
| 416 | ** Similar to Niles, Arthur debuts in his game as a parody of over-the-top American superheroes [[BornUnlucky cursed with a bad luck streak a mile wide]], and he's ''far'' more popular in America than in Japan. Factors include the fact that he's a [[LightningBruiser surprisingly high-potential unit when trained]], has a ton of HiddenDepths as well as numerous well-written supports, and in spite of his status as a CosmicPlaything, the story treats his earnest desire to do good and infallible optimism with the utmost respect, which elevates his parodic status to outright [[AffectionateParody affectionate levels]] for many. |
| 417 | * ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' has [[Myth/AztecMythology Quetzalcoatl]] appear in the game as a SpicyLatina [[MaskedLuchador luchadora]], and while [[GenderBender she]] is a [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff lot more popular in the West than Japan in general]], in Central American and South American servers her popularity is ''insane'' for for [[StatuesqueStunner much of]] the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} same kinds]] of [[PhysicalGoddess reasons]] that [[MsFanservice you'd expect]], only cranked up to eleven due to finding her an excellent Latino representative. This becomes especially amusing because she is also the distillation of many problems with {{Mayincatec}} tropes, with the story repeatedly describing Mexico as part of South America and her Christmas alt seeing her [[ArtisticLicenseGeography utilizing a form of dance that's native to Brazil]], but that hasn't stopped anyone in the region from widely considering her a fan favorite. |
| 418 | * When ''VideoGame/TheFriendsOfRingoIshikawa'' was localized in Japan, a lot of Japanese gamers enjoyed the game that it made the top ten games sold there. |
| 419 | * ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'': |
| 420 | ** The franchise as a whole is made by a Scottish studio, and the series is meant to be America from foreign eyes (which seems to be a WretchedHive of a CrapsackWorld, of this series is any indication). That said, a good majority of fans of the series are American. |
| 421 | ** The trailer for ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoVI'' depicts the [[FictionalProvince state of Leonida]], the ''GTA'' universe's counterpart to UsefulNotes/{{Florida}}, in traditional ''GTA'' fashion, juxtaposing SceneryPorn with constant debauchery and depravity. Many Floridians loved it, and could easily tell how much Rockstar has ShownTheirWork beyond just [[OnlyInFlorida "Florida Man" memes]]. For example, Flanigan's, a restaurant chain that's restricted to South Florida, immediately had their Website/{{Twitter}} account [[https://twitter.com/FlanigansFL/status/1732216234739970174 post a screencap]] depicting the game's in-universe counterpart of the restaurant getting robbed by the protagonists, with the comment "Wouldn’t be Miami without us." |
| 422 | * Goldlewis Dickinson from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear -Strive-'' isn't exactly the most flattering depiction of an American.[[note]]He's not the first American character in the series by far, but he's the most identifiably American one by a fair margin.[[/note]] His [[StoutStrength mighty girth]], love for burgers, and horseshoes on his gloves makes him a clear example of how EverythingIsBigInTexas. As if [[WackyAmericansHaveWackyNames his name]] didn't sound ridiculous enough, he's a government official who fights using a coffin containing an alien from Area 51. Basically, he's a character whose concept is a little too crazy to have been thought up by an American and his image fits closer to [[{{Eagleland}} your average American in an anime]]. That being said, his cool personality and voice, the fact he's a fat character in a fighting game who defies typical [[FatComicRelief fat]] [[FatBastard character]] [[{{Acrofatic}} stereotypes]], and being a bit of a MemeticBadass won over a lot of American fans. |
| 423 | * ''VideoGame/HuniePop'': Hot bod and cute face aside, Nikki isn't exactly the most flattering stereotype of a GamerChick -- she's antisocial, misanthropic, dislikes children, and has little ambition in life beyond playing video games and eating junk food. However, among the player base, she is a firm fan favourite. Even famous streamers like [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]] have found her the most endearing heroine. |
| 424 | * There actually is no shortage of Japanese gamers who like UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-themed shooters, especially ones involving UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan as the main antagonists. |
| 425 | ** The ''VideoGame/NineteenFortyTwo'' series, made by Capcom, starring the iconic P-38 Lightning, has all but one game having the airplane cutting down swathes of Japanese fighters and navy. |
| 426 | ** On ''Series/XPlay'', Adam Sessler was surprised when he saw an advert for one ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'' while he was in Japan. |
| 427 | * Malaysian and Indonesian gamers really like ''Videogame/JustCause2'' despite Panau Island is mostly based on Malaysia, and besides the [[SceneryPorn breathtaking scenery]], its portrayal is anything but positive. |
| 428 | ** The same can be applied to ''Videogame/FarCry3'' although the island in Far Cry 3 is obviously pretty far from known civilization. |
| 429 | * Surprisingly, ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' is liked by a variety of People worldwide aside with Military Geeks. Even more surprising that many of these fans come from China and Southeast Asia, basically the regions where Japanese occupations during World War II were felt the harshest. |
| 430 | * ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'': |
| 431 | ** George is usually considered as an EthnicScrappy, but he's a lot more popular with actual Guyanese since Guyana is highly unrepresented in media outside the country and they're happy to have a character who's a [[ShownTheirWork fairly accurate]] portrayal. |
| 432 | ** Senator Armstrong has become such a FountainOfMemes that American fans love the character, even though (or precisely because) he is one of the most surreal and insane bosses ever presented in a ''Metal Gear'' game. Some even agree with his points and ideals (but not his methods). |
| 433 | * Many Americans are upset about ''VideoGame/MetalWolfChaos''. That is to say, they are upset about it [[NoExportForYou not being released in the U.S.]] until the 2018 remaster. It was so popular as an import game, that discs were being sold for up to $200. It mercilessly lampoons HotBlooded {{Eagleland}}ers in such an over-the-top fashion that is hard not to love it for its '''[[MemeticMutation BURNING AMERICAN FREEDOM!]]''' |
| 434 | * ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'': |
| 435 | ** Captain Dread from ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'' is beloved by actual rastas (and reggae fans) as he embodies their typical traits of being helpful, laidback, and wise despite his failing business. The makers clearly had ShownTheirWork as Dread comes across very similarly to how his inspiration Music/BobMarley actually was in interviews, as opposed to how he is usually depicted by the media. |
| 436 | ** Haggis [=McMutton=] from ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' is as stereotypical as it gets, but he is beloved by Scots because of his no-nonsense attitude towards Guybrush, even after he's been recruited. |
| 437 | * ''VideoGame/MotherRussiaBleeds'' is an over-the-top beat'em up about walking around TheThemeParkVersion of USSR and smacking all kinds of Russian criminal stereotypes in the face, all while fueling yourself with a fictional [[http://www.narconon.org/drug-information/krokodil.html krokodil]]-inspired drug. Both Russian critics and players fell in love with it, with a big chunk of positive reviews on Steam being written in the Russian language. |
| 438 | * Travis from ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' is an extremely unflattering caricature of the violent, Machiavellian, ignorant, single-minded, and culturally clueless American. The game is much, much more popular in America than it is in Japan. It might help that he's intended as a spoof of otaku first, Americans second. Americans also appreciated how much Santa Destroy looked like southern California. |
| 439 | * ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' boasts a {{Troperiffic}} character cast of many different nationalities, often with a twist or two that keeps them from being stereotypes and cause them to become beloved in their home nation: |
| 440 | ** D.va is based on the stereotype of Koreans loving video games, but breaks the mold in: 1. turning her gaming skills into HumongousMecha piloting ones, and 2. being [[GamerChick a woman talented at video games]], when [[UsefulNotes/SouthKorea the South Korean pro gaming circuit]] is almost entirely dominated by men ([[http://www.techtimes.com/articles/166261/20160621/overwatch-pro-players-quit-shame-trounced-17-y-o-korean.htm and has had big problems with sexism]].) |
| 441 | ** Reinhardt is generally well-regarded among German fans, some noting that Overwatch is one of the few games to portray Germans as... well, not [[ThoseWackyNazis a bunch of militant fascists]] or [[Main/HerrDoktor mad scientists]]. He is actually portrayed as a neo-medieval knight -- one longing for conquests and glory of old. He still retains a few stereotypes: for example, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff he loves David Hasselhoff]], and cites [[GermanicEfficiency "Precision German Engineering"]] as to what keeps him in one piece. |
| 442 | ** Many players from the Middle East love Ana and Pharah and especially admire Blizzard's choice of voice actress for Ana -- an actual Egyptian woman who speaks very accurate Arabic. |
| 443 | ** Torbjorn is more divisive -- most Swedes think he doesn't sound the least bit Swedish, but at least appreciate Blizzard's English translation of Swedish idioms like "making a chicken out of a feather" in his voice lines. |
| 444 | ** Australians tend to like Junkrat and Roadhog the best, even though Australia in the game is portrayed as a desolate, criminal-ridden wasteland and the two characters are outlaws because they're recognized as an homage to the ''Film/MadMax'' movies. |
| 445 | ** Latin American fans really love both Reaper and Sombra despite both characters being Latin American criminals. Despite being antagonists, both of them have very sympathetic backstories and invoke EvilIsCool and LaughablyEvil respectively. |
| 446 | ** Lúcio was well received by Brazilians — in no small part thanks to his very good [[Usefulnotes/RioDeJaneiro Carioca]] accent in the Portuguese dub. |
| 447 | ** While Symmetra is just fairly loved by Indians, it is the autistic fandom that overwhelmingly loves her, mostly because she's one of the few autistic characters in fiction that isn't portrayed as a complete freak, making her more relatable and avoiding common misconceptions of portraying autism in fiction. It also helps that while she currently stands as an antagonistic character, she's also portrayed as a very sympathetic AntiVillain with a compelling backstory and motivation to the point where many fans don't even know she's an antagonist. |
| 448 | ** Many Nigerian fans are pleasantly surprised that Doomfist has actual traces of Nigerian culture rather than simply being a stereotypical African warlord character with a mishmash of African representation. He is a descendant of the Yoruba people, an ethnic group who are from Nigeria; two martial arts practice he knows, Dambe and Gidigbo, can be traced from Nigeria with the latter even coming from the Yoruba people; and even two of his Legendary Skins, Avatar and Spirits, are based on the orishas, spirits that are a part of the Yoruba's religion with even each of the costumes color schemes has something to do with the orishas. These, along with the fact that he's intelligent, charismatic, and badass show that Blizzard took good care to research Nigerian culture in order to incorporate them into Doomfist, which many Nigerian fans can appreciate. |
| 449 | ** Tracer has both [[BoyishShortHair the appearance]] and [[{{Tomboy}} the personality]] associated with lesbian stereotypes but the LGBTFanbase still love her for her heroic behavior and being the face for a media that underrepresent the LGBTQA community. |
| 450 | ** Zarya gets a special treatment in Russia, despite her voice actress being Ukrainian (with "Bulgarian" accent). She got her appearance after a real Russian-American Blizzard employee, Tamara Bakhlycheva (although with exaggerated [[HuskyRusskie "stronk like bull"]] personality and muscles), and overall rather accurately represents a [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong Russian strongwoman]] archetype, as opposed to slim, cold, emotionless Ekaterina Volskaya (sometimes referred to as "UsefulNotes/JosephStalin in the skirt"). |
| 451 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'': Lt. Surge is designed to be a stereotypical American, being a DrillSergeantNasty who fought in a war, with his title of "The Lightning American" holding true in the Japanese version, and even {{gratuitous|english}}ly [[SirSwearsALot swearing]] in English in the Japanese script. Even with all that in mind, he's a fan-favorite Gym Leader amongst American players due to how much of a BoisterousBruiser he is, on top of using [[ShockAndAwe Electric-types]], which are practically the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' franchise's signature type. |
| 452 | * In the Wii iteration of ''VideoGame/PunchOut'', every opponent is a blatant stereotype designed to be [[TakeThatScrappy all the more satisfying to beat senseless]]. However, the characters are by far ''the'' most loved part of the game, in no short part due to the surprisingly good writing, the flawless [[BilingualBonus foreign languages]] with its international opponents, and the fact that each stereotype is an AffectionateParody of a ''national'' stereotype versus an ethnic one, which is all the more apparent with how Nintendo and Next Level Games takes the piss out of their own home nations with [[UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} Piston Honda]] and [[UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} Bear Hugger]]. Combine this with [[ShownTheirWork the surprising amount of research dedicated to affectionately lampooning each nation]], and you got yourself a rare fusion of an AllStereotypeCast and CastOfSnowflakes... and people love it! Respectively with the most popular instances: |
| 453 | ** [[WarmUpBoss Glass Joe]] is [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkey a wimpy boxer from France]] who is the series' resident [[TheChewToy Chew Toy]], having ''100'' losses to his record and only ''one'' win to his name, only won through a freak accident. Despite this, he is undeniably a fan favorite EnsembleDarkhorse of the series, with his popularity being outright ''celebratory'' in France [[ThePollyanna due to his unbreakable optimism]] and subverting the CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkey by being ''the'' defining {{Determinator}} of the series, as not even getting brain damage was enough to stop him from getting in the ring! Glass Joe is so loved by France for this reason that ''Super Punch-Out!!'''s SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute, Gabby Jay, was an outright ReplacementScrappy simply because he wasn't Glass Joe. |
| 454 | ** Von Kaiser hails from Germany, and is similarly adored by the fandom and ''especially'' German fans for being an [[AffectionateParody affectionate take]] on [[{{Kaiserreich}} another]] [[GermanicEfficiency stereotype]] of Germans that thankfully ''wasn't'' ThoseWackyNazis, plus the downright imposing Ride of the Valkyries-esque [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic remix of the]] ''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Punch-Out!!]]'' [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic theme]]. He also gained more love, additional [[TheWoobie Woobie]] points, and a PeripheryDemographic among PTSD survivors for having an accurate portrayal of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; even if the reason for his PTSD is humorous (getting beaten up by a bunch of kids at boxing school), seeing him genuinely look terrified after beating him and [[CowardlyLion him still getting into the ring despite his trauma]] makes him even ''more'' adored. |
| 455 | ** Many Canadians have found in Bear Hugger a very fun, endearing character; and a big part of it has to do with how he lampoons [[MooseAndMapleSyrup Canadian stereotypes]] in different ways (drinking maple syrup, saying "eh?" frequently, and working as a lumberjack when he isn't boxing). It's evident that Next Level Games had the time of their lives when bringing this character to the Wii game. |
| 456 | ** Don Flamenco satirizes typical national stereotypes of Spaniards (DashingHispanic and TorosYFlamenco) in a very affectionate way alongside his hilariously arrogant confidence in himself, even bringing a rose into the ring! It genuinely helps that when you fight him again in Title Defense Mode, he's trying to reclaim his loss for his lover Carmen after being heavily implied to have been dumped by her for his loss in Contender Mode. This all comes together to make him Spain's favorite character by a long shot. |
| 457 | ** Aran Ryan is a frothing lunatic Irishman who went from his home game as TheGenericGuy into an AxCrazy CombatPragmatist who breaks so many rules he ''brings a weapon into the ring in Title Defense!'' Despite this, and [[{{Heel}} despite being reviled in-universe by the crowd]], Aran is adored for being an Irish stereotype that isn't TheAlcoholic or LazyBum, and the general Irish person's reaction to him is "Fuck yeah! Room for two, please!" |
| 458 | ** Vodka Drunkenski/[[{{Bowdlerise}} Soda Popinski]] was originally a joke on Russian drunkards from the original [=NES=] game, but truly breathed a life of his own as a HuskyRusskie BoisterousBruiser who drinks a metric fuckton of soda and [[DrunkOnMilk somehow gets drunk on it]]. Ironically, this is a case where being [[{{Bowdlerise}} Bowdlerised]] ''improved'' a character's popularity even moreso than it has before, as it let other traits than just a drunk Russian joke come to the surface. It helps that he has an [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic awesome Russian Choir remix of the main theme]], as well as the surprising detail that [[AluminumChristmasTrees soda actually]] ''[[AluminumChristmasTrees is]]'' [[AluminumChristmasTrees that popular in Russia, and that their drink of choice – Pepsi – was so craved for that the Soviet Union gave part of its Navy to Pepsi when they couldn't pay]]. Because of all of this, Russia's response to Popinski is near-universally positive. |
| 459 | ** [[BullfightBoss Bald Bull]] is also loved for not only being one of the most memorable ([[ThatOneBoss and difficult]]) bosses in the game but also being a rare representation of a Turkish character in Western media, something Turks generally crave as much as they can get over. |
| 460 | ** When it's West Coast America's turn, Super Macho Man is an elitist, condescending, rich, and very, very tanned Californian actor with a fair share of FanDisservice to boot. Yet, he's one of the most popular characters in the United States, especially in the Wii sequel, because of [[LargeHam how completely over-the-top he is]] (it also helps that he is also a regional stereotype of Hollywood celebrities), with his new SurferDude characterization achieving memetic status. |
| 461 | * ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' has Sean [=McGuire=] who is an Irish criminal that likes to have fun and talks a lot. Irish fans really enjoy him as a character, partly because for all his flaws, he doesn't have the typical negative Irish stereotypes like getting drunk all the time, and also for being a character who can bring genuine levity. |
| 462 | * ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' was broadly successful worldwide, but it gained a special following among Spanish-speaking fans. While it did depict rural Spain as a land of creepy, impoverished, near-medieval villages run by evil cultists with EverythingTryingToKillYou, the traditional TorosYFlamenco stereotypes were nowhere to be seen, the game world instead feeling like {{Uberwald}} transplanted west, while the supporting character Luis Sera was a heroic and charismatic DashingHispanic [[spoiler:who's also TooCoolToLive]]. As for the use of [[{{Spexico}} grossly inaccurate Mexican Spanish]], well, that only enhanced the game's [[SoBadItsGood campy action movie feel]] for those who spoke the language, such that [[SoBadItWasBetter quite a few of them were disappointed]] when [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4Remake the remake]] had the villagers and cultists speak in more accurate Castilian Spanish. |
| 463 | * ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' depicts YHVH as a vain, megalomaniacal tyrant who leads HolierThanThou, KnightTemplar angels to remove TheEvilsOfFreeWill, and in most games Lucifer and TheLegionsOfHell are ALighterShadeOfBlack. It might be surprising to find that the series has a very large number of Christian fans. This may be because the series averts AnimeCatholicism and [[ShownTheirWork actually does its research]], with many of the higher-ranked angels having nods in their designs that only hardcore Bible nerds would notice. There’s also [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII Aleph]], who is a rare genuine Biblical Messiah who fits the role and has humanity’s interests in mind rather than merely adopting the title, despite his opposition to YHVH, as well as [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV the second appearance of Mastema]] considering YHVH’s plan is to have humans turn to Him by choice, mimicking Literature/ParadiseLost where God wished for humanity to be free of His influence. |
| 464 | * The [[Memes/SonicTheHedgehog Ugandan Knuckles]] meme presents Ugandans as a tribe of Knuckles with Ugandan accents repeating ''Film/WhoKilledCaptainAlex'' quotes. Though some claim the meme is being racist, Ugandan citizens, including the makers of ''Film/WhoKilledCaptainAlex'', have responded positively to the meme. |
| 465 | * ''Franchise/StreetFighter'': |
| 466 | ** According to the developers of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', Guile was based on the stereotypical image the Japanese people have of American soldiers stationed on military bases in Japan. As such he's a muscle-bundled former Special Forces with the U.S. flag [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead tattooed on his arm]], and it definitely helped that he is easily one of the most powerful player characters. Naturally, he became insanely popular in America, to the point that ''he'' became the main character [[Film/StreetFighter in most]] of the [[WesternAnimation/StreetFighter Western adaptations]]. |
| 467 | ** Most Brazilians love Blanka. Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono was even surprised [[https://tecnologia.uol.com.br/ultnot/2008/02/23/ult530u5873.jhtm once a local journalist told him so]], given the country was reduced to the Amazon, and the character is a weird, mutant FeralChild with PsychoElectro powers. |
| 468 | ** A similar love of Laura exists for Brazilian players, though this one is easier to understand since she's an AmazonianBeauty, StatuesqueStunner, a HotBlooded SpicyLatina of mixed race, and an InnocentFanserviceGirl. You couldn't get more positive Brazilian stereotypes in unless her power was throwing soccer balls. The other Brazilian character of the series, Laura's brother Sean, doesn't get much attention because, on top of being just another {{Shotoclone}}, [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIII the only game he appeared in]] was not as widely distributed in Brazil as the ''Alpha'' games, which makes him only known to the bigger fans of the franchise. |
| 469 | ** Poison from ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' has a [[LGBTFanbase sizable fanbase]] among people who find her a badass woman who [[FlipFlopOfGod may or may not be transgender]], despite the fact she's a criminal who runs with a major organised crime syndicate, was made trans because the developers thought Americans would be offended by beating up "real" women, and was, for one game, depicted as a StalkerWithACrush type on one of the heroes from the previous game. Her [[{{Transplant}} arrival]] in ''Street Fighter'', where she [[HeelFaceTurn went straight]] and started her own wrestling federation, was quite well received. |
| 470 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' |
| 471 | ** Birdo from ''Videogame/SuperMarioBros2'' is described in the manual as a guy who "thinks he is a girl". Despite this rather insensitive language and later games flip-flopping on whether or not she's transgender, Birdo is quite popular among actual trans people. |
| 472 | ** When ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' was announced, many players (particularly Americans) were up in arms over the appearance of Mario on the second world where he sports a poncho and a sombrero on top of Mario's signature bushy moustache while he runs around a town of colorful skeleton people and saw it all as an offensive stereotype of Mexicans. Mexican fans on the other hand (following the example of the TropeNamer) were ecstatic at seeing a character as beloved as Mario running around a fantasy version of Mexico, and most of their responses to people claiming it was offensive was to tell them to shut up and stop speaking for them, it also helps that Mario and his franchise is [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff HUGE in Mexico]]. Mexican fans were also saddened after Nintendo, presumably due to the aforementioned American backlash, swapped a screencap of Mario wearing the sombrero with one of Mario swimming in the Lake Kingdom on the game's box art. |
| 473 | * All the characters of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' are ethnic stereotypes (except the Pyro) with [[BloodKnight bloodthirsty natures]], [[PsychoForHire unhinged mentalities]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and unrealistic accents]]. They're also utterly hilarious, and meant as [[AffectionateParody affectionate parodies]]. What Russian ''doesn't'' want to be a huge MightyGlacier Heavy who wields a ginormous minigun? What American doesn't want to pull off stunts like the {{Eagleland}}er Soldier, or trash-talk like the big-mouthed Scout, or build incredible devices like the Engineer? What Frenchman doesn't want to be like the suave, sophisticated, ladies-man Spy? Which Australian wouldn't want to live in a universe where their country is a WorldOfBadass where everybody gets futuristic technology and mustaches? What Scotsman doesn't want to be a DrunkenMaster whose job is making sure that there's StuffBlowingUp? What German wouldn't want to turn the tide of the battle by healing someone so hard that they turn into a glowing invincible juggernaut? Nobody, that's who. |
| 474 | * Clownpiece from ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' was initially met with shock from American fans when she appeared in ''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom''. After all, she's a clown wearing an American flag, which seems to imply several unflattering things. This subsided after only an hour or so once other details came up. She's a fairy[[note]]normally one of the weakest species in the series[[/note]] clown from Hell that chucks literal moons at you and is powerful enough to be the penultimate boss of the game! She's based on a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampad Lampad]], making her one of the rare Touhou characters from [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Western myth]]! She kicked so much [[InvincibleVillain Lunarian]] ass that they were forced to evacuate the Lunar Capital! The quirky combination of hilarity, awesomeness, and unabashed American-ness quickly made her the most popular character introduced in the game, especially among American fans. It reached the point that even [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=yci5c9o4sux9pa1gajmuooqm&page=5168#129189 ZUN commented on it during an interview in the 2015 Tokyo Game Show]], stating surprise at how quickly Americans had made impressive cosplays of Clownpiece after only one month. It probably helps that her main reason for wearing an American flag is indirectly celebrating an American achievement (essentially, she's taunting the Lunarians with the USA flag planted on the moon; they are still ''quite'' furious that humans actually got in their turf). |
| 475 | [[/folder]] |
| 476 | |
| 477 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 478 | * ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'': Dora is a played with version of this trope, while she did start out as an offensive parody of [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer Dora]] who only spoke Spanish ''and'' was loved by Mestizo audiences, she later developed to be far less offensive and more of her own character while still keeping her Mestizo fanbase. |
| 479 | * Website/CollegeHumor's ''Furry Force'' videos are rather popular with the MediaNotes/FurryFandom, despite mocking said fandom (specifically its kinkier side). The show was even nominated for and won the "Best Anthropomorphic Dramatic Short Work or Series" category of the annual Ursa Major Awards. The creators' familiarity with the fandom through PopCulturalOsmosis, as stated in an AMA hosted on the r/furry [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]], definitely helps. |
| 480 | * ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'': |
| 481 | ** Some detractors of the show (both LGBT and cishet) have accused Angel Dust of being a negative gay stereotype for being portrayed as sleazy, overtly sexual, [[CampGay exaggeratedly flouncing]], egotistical, and rude. Other LGBT people love him, no doubt due to the aforementioned flaws giving him a memorable personality and his more nuanced HiddenDepths showcased in the pilot. It definitely helps that Charlie and Vaggie have much less stereotypical personalities to balance out Angel's character. |
| 482 | ** It also helps that Angel is a "fallen soul" who is ''literally in hell'', and thus is supposed to be a decided unpleasant person, with his career as a male porn star and prostitute being depicted as a bad thing. It's also fairly obvious from the pilot that there's a redemption arc planned for him. |
| 483 | ** Vaggie's character (who is of Salvadoran descent) has been accused of being a racist stereotype of "angry Latina," however she is very popular among Latinos, and there are Salvadoran people [[https://aspen-arts.tumblr.com/post/182857417726/vaggie-is-salvadorean who frankly love her.]] |
| 484 | * ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': |
| 485 | ** ''WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad'' was well-liked by actual teenage girls. Moreover, it was mainly with the unpopular girls that related most to What's Her Face, the ButtMonkey of the group. It helps that the series mocked the "high school hierarchy" that they were victims of. |
| 486 | ** In spite of being a ShallowParody, Stinkoman is very well-loved by anime fans. The Twitter announcement teasing the [[ScheduleSlip final level]] [[VideoGame/Stinkoman20x6 of the game]] received many responses with anime gifs. |
| 487 | * ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'': The high school girls that the show parodies are loved by real-life high school girls due to being quite relatable for them, according to [[https://soundcloud.com/justshootitpod/dr-havoc-the-most-popular-girls-in-school-creators-pt-2-just-shoot-it-46 this podcast interview with the creators.]] (Around the 23:30 mark.) |
| 488 | * Surprisingly enough, despite (or perhaps, ''because of'') ArmedFarces being one of the series' main sources of comedy (especially in the earlier seasons), ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' is actually noticeably popular with [[https://web.archive.org/web/20061231031027/http://www.twitchguru.com/2005/09/24/the_cult_of_red_vs/ American servicemen in the Middle East according to an interview with Geoff Ramsey]]. Many American veterans have praised the series for its depictions of the frustratingly inane and bureaucratic aspects of the military along with its satirization of the military-industrial complex. What certainly helps is that Ramsey, who has served as a consultant and aid on writing [=RvB=] episodes outside of being just a voice actor, [[WriteWhatYouKnow previously served]] in the [=U.S.=] Army and so he knows how to mock with respect. |
| 489 | [[/folder]] |
| 490 | |
| 491 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 492 | * Betty "Batterwitch" Crocker's publicity department has tweeted that they read and enjoy ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. This being a webcomic that portrays Betty Crocker as a maniacal alien dictator. |
| 493 | * Luke and Kevin of ''LetsPlay/HoboBros'' have Chinese ancestry, but find the [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish stereotypical East Asian voice]] hilarious, and often do it themselves, calling it the "Asian voice". |
| 494 | * Of the many silly voices LetsPlay/{{Lucahjin}} does in her LetsPlay videoes, one of the most frequently used -- and one of the most apparently offensive -- is a ridiculous, over-the-top [[JapaneseRanguage Asian accent parody.]] Every time she uses it, she makes comments about losing subscribers over it. Naturally, she gets plenty of comments from her Asian fans on how much they love it. |
| 495 | * The Venezuelan satiric webseries ''Pero Tenemos Patria'' (''But We Have Homeland'') has the EnsembleDarkHorse "El Opositor Radical" (The Radical Opossitor), who is a satire of the Far-Right elements of the Venezuelan opposition to the Chavista regime. He is an [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero old, loud, xenophobic]], white man that [[RedScare hates everything related to socialism and communism]]. The Opossitor became popular among both left- and right-wing opossitors due to his charismatic actor and his sheer [[JerkassHasAPoint justified hatred]] towards the Chavista regime, which is sincere despite being not that different, calling to cut off the hands of everyone who shakes hands with a Chavista and showing it by severing his own hand after acknowledging having done it in the past. |
| 496 | * ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'': |
| 497 | ** Finnish fans are quite fond of Brother and Sister Finland, although both are depicted as broody, [[AxCrazy Knife Crazy]] and practically unspeaking save for the frequent ''[[ForeignCussWord perkele]]''. These are actually valid stereotypes and widely recognized within Finland. Also helps that this behavior is portrayed as undeniably badass. |
| 498 | ** Similarly, Special Lion, a character born of a joke parodying the Scandinavian coats of arms, is popular enough to get on TheMerch. One Finn even posted "go go retarded lion!" after Finland won the World Hockey Championships. |
| 499 | ** Italy is shown as a CorruptBureaucrat [[ButtMonkey whose every act ends up backfiring on him]]. The standard reaction to his appearances is a good laugh, with [[http://satwcomic.com/your-time-is-up this one]] being lauded as extremely accurate. |
| 500 | ** Everyone loves their respective nation-tans. Except for Estonians. |
| 501 | * "Upon Friar Review" is a [=YouTube=] series where two Catholic priests review portrayals or Catholicism and Christianity in media, and while they mention some parts are inaccurate, they generally seem to enjoy what they're watching. |
| 502 | * A number of personnel involved with 4Kids and their dubs have gone on record saying that they enjoy ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', even though the series mocks them relentlessly. |
| 503 | * Most UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}ers love the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY Hastily-Made]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM&NR=1 Cleveland Tourism]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIbmT2Rs8vw Videos]]" despite their mercilessly-mocking tone. It helps that their creator, Mike Polk, is a ''[[NWordPrivileges local]]'' comedian. |
| 504 | * ''WebVideo/LegalEagle'' has proclaimed his love for two fictional lawyers, Lionel Hutz from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and Saul Goodman from ''Series/BetterCallSaul'', in spite of both characters being walking lawyer jokes. As he rightly points out, Goodman is a sleazebag but [[BunnyEarsLawyer generally gives very solid legal advice]], and Hutz is so bad his sheer RefugeInAudacity CrossesTheLineTwice. |
| 505 | * A genre example with YoutubePoop; its heyday was in the Aughts and many creators went for shock humor, specifically sexual. This resulted in [[ValuesDissonance a lot of gay jokes]]. Despite this, the genre (including old videos that made heavy use of slurs) has a huge LGBT+ fanbase and some of the old creators have come out as gay or trans. |
| 506 | * Popular Main/{{Creepypasta}} character Ticci Toby is defined in the original story as suffering from Tourettes, resulting in their near constant twitching and erratic movements. Despite the common trope of disorders being played for horror being on full display, many people with the same condition in real life have commented on liking the character for this reason. Helping this is the fact that Toby ultimately takes revenge on the people in his life who have wronged and insulted him, and even co-opts their insulting nickname for him as his pseudonym. |
| 507 | * The original ''WebOriginal/PenisSMP'' post was meant for people who disliked [[FanWorks/{{Minecraft}} MCYT]], as it was making fun of those "annoying" MCYT fans... and instead it ''attracted'' MCYT fans, who turned the one-off post made at their expense into an expansive FanVerse of AffectionateParody for their own amusement. |
| 508 | * VideoGame/MoshiMonsters: Despite the fact that Sweet Tooth's AmbiguousGender, as well as the fact that they beat up anyone who asks about their gender, is treated as the subject of a joke[[note]]at least until Moshi Monsters Rewritten was released[[/note]], many fans have considered them a non-binary icon. |
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| 510 | |
| 511 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 512 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': |
| 513 | ** Has an individual InUniverse example when the TrueCompanions watch a ShowWithinAShow based on their adventures. Most of them don't take kindly to their caricatured depictions in the play (not least because it's a PropagandaPiece by TheEmpire), but tomboyish LittleMissBadass Toph ''loves'' the theatrical version of her played by a huge muscleman. |
| 514 | ** The show has also been [[https://kurtwagners.tumblr.com/post/618523364774035456/sorry-if-im-bothering-you-but-can-you-share-why seriously criticized for various reasons]], such as the lack of Asian talents involved in the series or mistakes related to the real-life cultures it is inspired by, however many Asian Americans [[https://www.themarysue.com/reflections-on-atla-as-asian-american/ really love the show]] despite its flaws. The same can be said [[https://bookriot.com/2018/10/16/avatar-the-last-airbender-inuit-roots/ for Inuit people,]] many of whom are fans of the Water Tribes. |
| 515 | * ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' is loved by many metalheads, despite the titular characters being complete idiots. |
| 516 | * ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'': Raphael Bob-Waksberg admitted that part of the reason that led him to making Todd asexual was based on the stereotype that asexual people are too innocent or childlike for sex. However given he pulled a major AuthorsSavingThrow in the following seasons by giving Todd a serious arc involving his asexuality, the character became a icon among the community despite the stereotypes. Ironically, very few fans seem to care much about Yolanda, who's another asexual character that lacks those stereotypes. |
| 517 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' is generally considered to be racist and offensive by non-African Americans. African Americans, however, thought the show's social commentary and [[StopBeingStereotypical portrayal of obnoxious stereotypes]] were [[RealityIsUnrealistic spot on]]. It's ironically popular amongst those who relate to the gangster stereotypes that Riley plays up, which [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing the show is specifically putting down]]. |
| 518 | * ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' invokes EveryoneIsBi for shock value and RefugeInAudacity, plus the token gay character Xandir Wifflebottom is an extremely stereotypical effeminate [[TheTwink twink]] who receives tons of homophobic jokes and gets sexually harassed by one of the main female characters. The show (and especially Xandir) still has quite the LGBTFanbase though, because homosexuality/bisexuality gets so normalized and Xandir tends to be OnlySaneMan while still being an entertaining character. As stated before, just about ''every'' group gets ripped to shreds as part of the shock humor which barely makes the homophobic jokes stand out. |
| 519 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 520 | ** The episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E14PTV PTV]]" was entirely dedicated to bashing the FCC and its censoring practices. When it was shown to the actual FCC, [[ActuallyPrettyFunny they found the episode hilarious]]. |
| 521 | ** The numerous jokes that Family Guy has made about Italy and [[RambunctiousItalian Italian people]] are beloved among Italians and Italian-Americans. In particular, the "[[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Babba da boopi]]?" joke from "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS6E8McStroke McStroke]]" is ''legendary'' in Italy. |
| 522 | * Although ''WesternAnimation/GlitchTechs'' doesn't currently have a [[NoDubForYou Japanese dub]] as of yet (and neither does ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' until 5 years later), there are a lot of Japanese fans who liked the homages to their media, like [[MagicalGirlWarrior Leni as the 11 of Hearts]] (and by extension, [[{{Moe}} Miko]]), etc. in both series. |
| 523 | * ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': |
| 524 | ** The series began as a jab at [[DeepSouth Southern, Bible-thumping, redneck, middle-class Americans]]. However, the show soon became a smash hit with that exact demographic. After the first season, the show became less 'look at this dumb white guy' and more 'laugh along with this hard-working father and his loving family'. |
| 525 | ** The show also pulled this off in the opposite direction as well. In spite of the fact that the show would often skewer liberals and progressives, the show ended up becoming very popular with those very same demographics. Partially because of the show's explicit or implicit condemnations of some of the more negative aspects of American conservatism, and also because the views of many of the liberal and progressive characters that they show used to take potshots as those values were so over-the-top that all but the most extreme left-wing liberals thought that the characters were taking it too far. Additionally, Hank would find common ground with his liberal counterparts and learn to accept change as often as he reasserted his traditional values, with the series also depicting topics associated with the left, such as drag queens, in a respectful manner. It helps that the show actually had many left-wing writers on board, giving it a slight vibe of tongue-in-cheek SelfDeprecation. |
| 526 | ** There's also Kahn Souphanousinphone, Hank's obnoxious Laotian neighbor and his family. He has [[https://theoutline.com/post/2505/the-problem-with-apu-king-of-the-hill a lot of Asian-American fans]] despite being a mostly-unlikable jerk (and being voiced by a white actor) because his focus episodes deal with issues that Asian-Americans deal with in RealLife, such as [[AsianAndNerdy model minority]] stereotyping and the unreasonable expectations that go with it, plus being one of the few portrayals in American media that avoids InterchangeableAsianCultures. There's also the fact that making him a jerk gives him a distinct personality that's ripe for comedy instead of just being everybody's best friend, a [[FlawlessToken notorious pitfall]] with token minority characters in fiction. |
| 527 | * ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': |
| 528 | ** The TropeNamer is WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales. Despite being an obvious stereotype of Mexicans, he's still a particularly popular and beloved character in Mexico and throughout Latin America, where his cartoons still run to this day. |
| 529 | *** The reason isn't really all that complicated: Speedy is actually a ''positive'' figure rather than an EthnicScrappy -- he not only has a good heart and is more physically capable than his opponents, he more often than not [[GuileHero defeats them through his own cleverness rather than just his speed]]. Even Slowpoke Rodriguez, Speedy's audaciously ridiculous EruditeStoner cousin, is a gun-toting badass and "fast upstairs in the cabeza," and ''hypnotizes'' Sylvester in seconds. The most offensive aspect of Speedy, his broken English and terrible Spanish, [[LostInTranslation is not present in actual Spanish dubs]]. The second most offensive thing, his womanizing habits ("Speedy Gonzalez goes steady with ''everybody's'' sister"), doesn't seem to have drawn all that much flak, presumably because having that one flaw (offensive as it may be) makes him a better-rounded character and [[MrViceGuy serves as a weakness]]. It also helps that whenever Speedy's womanizing is mentioned, it [[PlayedForLaughs almost always causes the mice to just laugh]], and that [[ChivalrousPervert Speedy is often a gentleman around women.]] |
| 530 | *** Another major reason why this trope is in effect is that Speedy Gonzales himself is not the offensive (or the most offensive) portion of his cartoons. Instead, what's potentially offensive is the fact that the cartoons go out of their way to paint all the OTHER Mexican mice as lazy and gullible as possible. |
| 531 | *** As for the actual Mexico, in the 1950s when the cartoons were first made, Mexico was still in the shadow of both the Clutch Plague and a decade-long civil war that killed two million people in a country that had only 15 million at the time. Much of Mexico still resembled the poor villages depicted in the cartoons and the idea that Mexicans could be saved by a ''Mexican'' superhero really resonated with a lot of people. |
| 532 | *** From 1999 to 2002, ''Speedy'' cartoons were banned in the USA by Cartoon Network, who had exclusive broadcasting rights, and discontinued by Warner Bros. but a massive fan campaign and lobbying by the League of United Latin American Citizens eventually led to this practice ending. The temporary discontinuation was referenced in ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' when Porky Pig meets Speedy at the Warner Bros. canteen and they talk about how political correctness ruined their careers, since Porky has a handicap ([[SpeechImpediment stuttering]]) and Speedy belongs to an ethnic minority, and both played these things up in their acts. |
| 533 | *** When Cartoon Network first announced the production of ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', they started to build up hype by bringing the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' back as a full-hour programming block during the weekdays, which had been absent from the network for about the better part of a decade. Speedy Gonzales cartoons were not shown. ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' proved to be a success, and portrayed Speedy Gonzales in a positive light as the owner of a local pizzeria and an all-around entrepreneur who has business savvy, but wasn't overly focused on making money. The Looney Tunes still airs each day, but Speedy Gonzales cartoons are still decidedly absent. |
| 534 | *** Speedy is popular enough with Mexicans that some Mexican restaurants in the USA actually offer a "Speedy Gonzales" dish on their menu. It usually consists of a taco, enchilada, and rice or beans. Also it's not uncommon to find stickers of him on the buses of every major city. There's even a song about him. |
| 535 | ** WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's signature gag of [[{{Crossdresser}} crossdressing]] to fool his opponents was, at the time, seen as just a bog-standard joke with no real societal impact. However, current-day members of the LGBTQIA+ community, notably those who're UsefulNotes/{{transgender}}, non-binary, or genderfluid, like to consider Bugs a personal icon of theirs, given that despite those he fools being shocked by the fact that he's not a woman, Bugs himself never has any issue with having to crossdress, often times genuinely liking it (especially in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', where he sees himself crossdressed as beautiful). Amplified by a number of Twitter messages citing an interview Chuck Jones gave, in which he [[https://mediachomp.com/bugs-bunny-is-genderfluid-its-canon/ essentially described Bugs as genderfluid]]. |
| 536 | * ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' is a show about a guy from New Jersey who uses a giant robot car and people from the Garden State are very proud of this fact. Even though the state gets trashed every episode and there are a couple of jokes at the state's expense, the fact that all the action takes place in Jersey as well as the jokes being more affectionate rather than mean spirited makes it being declared one of the best representations of New Jersey in all of media. |
| 537 | * At least a few Swedes have professed their love for ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', despite the fact that their country is represented in the show by a vain, drug-and-alcohol-addicted nymphomaniac {{Jerkass}} with a MoneyFetish who enjoys hitting on elderly women, and whose name [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign isn't in actual Swedish]]. Said character, Skwisgaar Skwigelf, however, is probably the world's best guitarist in-universe, and [[DoingItForTheArt Does It For The Art]] when it comes to death metal. (He also periodically will have a PetTheDog moment, especially as the character development sets in.) The show also definitely [[ShownTheirWork Shows Its Work]] when it comes to metal and the entertainment industry, and is generally loved by a lot of metal fans from all over. |
| 538 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 539 | ** Despite the character causing some minor controvery for being labelled as ableist, Derpy Hooves is a favorite among disabled fans. Most fanworks portray her [[FishEyes eye problem]] and clumsiness in a sympathetic and relatable manner, and even the series itself picked up on this via {{meaningful background event}}s. |
| 540 | ** Zephyr Breeze is this [[BaseBreakingCharacter for half of the fan base at least]]. Those who related to his crippling fear of failure saw his featured episode as a well-thought-out grown-up learning experience and many of those who dislike him do for his inappropriate behavior towards Rainbow Dash rather than the rest of his characterization. |
| 541 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePJs'', a short-lived StopMotion cartoon about life in public housing, was a huge hit with African Americans despite MoralGuardians claiming it was racist and demeaning. It helped that A) the show was produced by Creator/EddieMurphy who [[WriteWhatYouKnow grew up in such an environment]], and B) it was actually funny and had some surprisingly subtle, relevant humor given the subject matter, rather than just being a parade of cliched stereotypes. |
| 542 | %%* Westernanimation/QuickDrawMcGraw's HypercompetentSidekick Baba Looey is very popular south of the border. |
| 543 | * The titular characters of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' show signs of being on the autism spectrum, such as stuttering, difficulty understanding sarcasm, and in Rick's case, lack of empathy. In season 3, Rick outright admits he's autistic. Despite Rick being a {{Jerkass}} ComedicSociopath with BlueAndOrangeMorality who endangers the people around him, autistic fans couldn't be happier about this revelation. Morty is also well-liked by autistic fans despite being the ButtMonkey. It helps that one of the co-creators is autistic himself. |
| 544 | * WordOfGod has confirmed that [[TeenGenius Donatello]] in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' is meant to be on the autism spectrum. While this version of Donnie is something of an InsufferableGenius MadScientist, he's still popular among the autistic community and is considered a very good representation of autism in media. |
| 545 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': |
| 546 | ** Many people saw Tommy Pickles' maternal grandparents, Boris and Minka Kropotkin, as offensive Jewish stereotypes, unaware that two of the show's creators were Jews who [[RealityIsUnrealistic knew exactly what they were talking about]]. If anything, Ashkenazi Jews were honored to be portrayed so authentically. Tellingly, Nickelodeon's Jewish then-president Albie Hecht was baffled by the controversy, while his goy successor Herb Scannell completely agreed with it. |
| 547 | ** The show's [[TokenMinority token African-American character]] Susie Carmichael also has an impressive African-American fanbase, despite sometimes being criticized as a FlawlessToken (WordOfGod says she's supposed to be "the anti-Angelica," and since Angelica is a KnowNothingKnowItAll {{Jerkass}}...). Creator/CreeSummer has said she's been thanked for years by people who were glad that a black character was part of their favorite cartoon. She also points out that at the time, it was often the case that white actors voiced characters of other races. |
| 548 | * Although she is described as an amoral scientist who [[spoiler:ends up working for the villain Hordak]], Entrapta from ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' is extremely popular among autistic fans, as she presents multiple signs of being a character within the autism spectrum (and was later confirmed to be autistic by WordOfGod). |
| 549 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 550 | ** Ned Flanders is popular among conservative Christians despite being a caricature of them. Pre-{{Flanderization}}, he ''was'' easily the nicest guy on the show and always portrayed as being very reasonable compared to his [[{{Foil}} stubborn, selfish, and idiotic neighbor Homer]]. Sadly, after Flanderization, Christians turned away from the character recognizing he had become [[TheFundamentalist more of a hateful stereotype of them by the writers]], though they have tried to tone this down over time and have him go back to his earlier cheery self. |
| 551 | ** Also from ''The Simpsons'', [[ViolentGlaswegian Groundskeeper Willie]] is very popular in -- yep, you guessed it -- Scotland. Representatives of Aberdeen and Glasgow [[http://www.scotsman.com/news/civic-war-centres-on-simpsons-star-1-1352999 fought to have their respective cities recognised as his hometown]] and Glasgow City Council grudgingly removed him from their list of "Famous Glaswegians" when it was made official in-universe that he hailed from Kirkwall, Orkney. This is also thought to have given Orkney a tourism boost in the following years. |
| 552 | ** Additionally, despite some episodes being BannedInChina ("[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E12GooGooGaiPan Goo Goo Gai Pan]]" in China, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E23ThirtyMinutesOverTokyo Thirty Minutes over Tokyo]]" in Japan and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E15BlameItOnLisa Blame It on Lisa]]" in Brazil), "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E8TheItalianBob The Italian Bob]]" averted NoExportForYou in Italy: not only did it not get banned at all, but it has aired often due to it being funny and even has the Italian-born Maria Grazia Cucinotta reprising her role as Sideshow Bob's Italian wife Francesca (she's the VA for the character in both versions). |
| 553 | ** [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E16BartVsAustralia "Bart vs. Australia"]] is considered an excellent documentary in Australia, particularly for showcasing [[RuleOfFunny the game of Knifey-Spoony, and the Prime Minister drinking from a can of beer while lying naked on a lake in an old tire.]] One Australian is [[http://qz.com/528297/yes-australians-are-really-petitioning-to-change-their-currencys-name-to-the-dollarydoo/ petitioning]] for the currency's name to be changed to dollarydoos. It's got over 60,000 signatures. Worth noting, however, that [[VindicatedByHistory the episode was controversial when it first aired but became a cult classic over time]]. Prime Minister Andy in particular became a go-to reference during the reign of Tony Abbott, who -- like many Australian [=PM=]s -- had a great love of swimming and surfing, and was often coaxed by the press into [[FreakierThanFiction giving statements on the beach while wearing only a Speedo]]. It's also common for Simpsons fan groups based in the country to use Tobias and Bruno (or at least their faces) in photoshopped memes involving Australian cultural references. |
| 554 | ** [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E15BlameItOnLisa "Blame It on Lisa"]] is a very loved episode in Brazil. While it had controversy (many people grew to hate the show thanks to it, and eventually the episode was banned in Brazil for a few years), there are many Simpsons fans in Brazil who love the episode despite its inaccuracies, and even more thanks to the stuff they got right. It helps that Brazilians have low self-esteem and love making jokes about their own country. Special mention goes to the "Our money sure is gay" joke, where Homer's kidnappers get a briefcase full of pink and purple money bills. Brazilians said how they needed the Simpsons to realize that, in Brazil, bills of 5 Reais and 10 Reais are indeed purple and pink. |
| 555 | ** A strange thing about Apu is that while he has been criticized by Indian-Americans or rather South Asian Americans (since even Pakistanis and Bangladeshis who aren't Indians are confused for the stereotype and accent), Apu is well-liked in India itself for the fact that Apu was one of the few Indian-origin characters in American TV, and that he was in the context of his time, non-stereotypical i.e. not defined entirely by religion, not overtly submissive, and generally shown with the same flaws and quirks as any Springfielder, compared to most Indian characters in Western media. |
| 556 | ** Apu has also been positively received by first-generation Indian immigrants in the United States, due to him showing that a first-generation immigrant is capable of running a successful business and supporting a loving family in spite of his ethnicity and dialect, which is seen as quite significant form of representation by a group of people forced to keep track of multiple languages at once and redefine how they're viewed by the people around them. |
| 557 | ** The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E22BloodFeud Blood Feud]]" has, at the end of the episode, Mr. Burns giving Bart an Olmec head. Though the writers made up most of the details regarding the giant stone head, a lot of archaeologists who specialize in studying the Olmec civilization wrote in to thank the show's staff for choosing Olmec rather than the usual [[{{Mayincatec}} Mayans and Aztec]] that had previously consumed [[SmallReferencePools nearly all mention of Mesoamerican pre-western history]] prior. |
| 558 | ** Kelsey Grammer, an avowed Republican, has played Sideshow Bob, an avowed ''homicidal'' Republican who wants to [[StrawmanPolitical "lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king"]], for close to thirty years. Presumably Bob's [[EvilIsCool sophistication]] nullifies the '[[CrossesTheLineTwice Republicans operate out of a Dracula castle]]' schtick. (It doesn't hurt his closest friends, writers, and castmates are gay.) |
| 559 | ** The character of Julio is very popular among both Cubans and Costa Ricans (his exact nationality is unclear) despite being gay and both countries been relatively conservative. The Bumblebee man is also very popular among Mexicans and Hispanics in general, probably in part because he is also an AffectionateParody of beloved comedian Series/{{Chespirito}} who is an icon of both Mexico and Latin America at large. |
| 560 | ** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E1TheCityOfNewYorkVsHomerSimpson The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson]]" is beloved by New Yorkers, because it shows the ''best'' parts of New York and the ''worst'' parts. New Yorkers were also ''pissed'' when the episode was pulled for years from rotation post-9/11 due to the [[HarsherInHindsight jokes about the World Trade Center]]. |
| 561 | ** The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS31E7LivinLaPuraVida Livin La Pura Vida]]" basically broke the Internet in Costa Rica, and it was even covered by many of the local newspapers and media as an important event. The Simpsons' popularity is a cultural phenomenon as in the rest of Latin America so to some, it was less this trope and more of a dream come true. The episode, to be fair, is pretty respectful and the country is more of a scenario than the subject of humor as in the Brazil and Australia episodes, however, should be remembered that there was already an antecedent with ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''s episode in which this trope was not fulfilled as even the government filed a complaint for the depiction of the country (and yes, the South Park episode does have some fans and defenders among the Costa Ricans but not so much as other examples of the trope, though most fans of the show just overlook the episode in question and enjoy the rest of the series). |
| 562 | ** [[AmoralAttorney Lionel Hutz]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWkH1CzLDU4 is beloved]] by [=YouTuber=] WebVideo/LegalEagle, an actual copyright attorney, who goes into some depth that the man is considered "the best worst lawyer ever" by many in his profession and that it's very common for lawyers to quote his "[[ObviousRulePatch No, money down!]]" bit. |
| 563 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS30E21DohCanada D'Oh Canada]]," the Simpsons visit Niagara Falls, and during the drive through Upstate New York, Homer sings an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYTg4GY9SA4 unflattering musical number]] portraying the region as a [[DyingTown Rust Belt wasteland]]. As the comments on the linked video suggest, the vast majority of Upstaters found the scene hilarious and [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity were happy]] to see the show poke fun at ''their'' portion of the state and not just NYC. It also doesn't hurt that the scene included some surprisingly beautiful SceneryPorn despite its mocking tone. |
| 564 | ** Many people in the LGBT community have a soft spot for Smithers, despite some of his more questionable misdeeds. It helps that he was an explicitly gay television character during a time when it was almost entirely ''unheard'' of, he's more of a StraightGay rather than an outlandish stereotype, and in spite of his quirks, he's rather {{Adorkable}} and a relatively sympathetic character. In fact, a lot of people who unironically ship Burns/Smithers are LGBT in some way, with a lot of them being gay men who relate to Smithers and want him to succeed. |
| 565 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 566 | ** Canadians seem to have taken the jibes at their accent and their country in the movie version of the series with good humor. Canadian fans tend to love anything involving Terrance and Phillip. It probably helps that the depiction of Canada isn't just based in MooseAndMapleSyrup sort of stereotypes, but is a {{Cloudcuckooland}} that doesn't quite match up to ''any'' real-world culture. |
| 567 | *** Quebecers generally found the ''South Park'' treatment of Quebec in "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E15ItsChristmasInCanada It's Christmas in Canada]]" pretty funny, and weren't offended by "[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail zee out-RA-geous accents]]". |
| 568 | ** Also, while the [[NoExportForYou eighth season and beyond was not dubbed for them,]] ''South Park''[='=]s sizable Japanese fanbase loves "[[Recap/SouthParkS8E1GoodTimesWithWeapons Good Times With Weapons]]", which is an AffectionateParody of anime. The song in said episode, [[IntentionalEngrishForFunny "Let's Fighting Love"]], which is in real but nonsensical Japanese, has reached MemeticMutation levels on Nico. |
| 569 | ** "[[Recap/SouthParkS15E9TheLastOfTheMeheecans The Last of the Meheecans]]" was very well received in Mexico too, presumably because despite Butters dressing up in {{Brownface}} as a Mexican stereotype, it promotes patriotism and nostalgia towards Mexico and mocks the whole illegal immigrants panic in America. |
| 570 | ** Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone have stated that the people who enjoyed "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E12AllAboutMormons All About Mormons]]" were mostly Mormons themselves. It definitely helps that, although the episode heavily mocked the Mormon faith, the writers clearly [[ShownTheirWork Showed Their Work]] and, if irreverently, ''accurately'' talked about what they believe, and they ended the episode with an intended TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Gary that says nothing but nice things about them. |
| 571 | ** Both Jimmy and Timmy are really popular with disabled people. While the show takes every available opportunity to poke fun at their shortcomings, it does the same to every other character with equal glee while simultaneously having the pair contribute to the story just as much as everyone else rather than talking down to fans in AVerySpecialEpisode kind of way. ''Many'' people appreciate a show that embraces these two as regular characters who are included alongside the others as equals, and feel it's actually one of the most positive portrayals of disabled characters on television for it despite the CrossingTheLineTwice humor. |
| 572 | ** In-universe. In "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E5FatButtAndPancakeHead Fat Butt and Pancake Head]]", a group of Latino community leaders actually award Cartman for his extremely stereotypical "Music/JenniferLopez" hand puppet routine at a ''South Park'' cultural diversity event. |
| 573 | ** Also in-universe, when the boys start their own wrestling federation and a ''large'' group of Mexicans are in the crowd wildly cheering for El Pollo Loco, Kenny's MaskedLuchador persona. |
| 574 | ** Tweak and Craig became a gay couple purely for the sake of a joke about [[OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs the shows yaoi fanart]] but a lot of LGBTQIA+ fans appreciated how they were portrayed as a StraightGay couple who weren't defined entirely by their sexuality and like Jimmy and Timmy, treated like normal kids who just happened to be gay. |
| 575 | ** "[[Recap/SouthParkS26E2TheWorldwidePrivacyTour The Worldwide Privacy Tour]]" was incredibly popular in the United Kingdom who enjoyed the downright ''savage'' TakeThat aimed at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, having grown tired of their antics. |
| 576 | ** The song ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VPxmXPFOvY San Diego]]'' from the episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS16E5Butterballs Butterballs]]" is very popular among San Diegans, with some local fans even (jokingly) wanting it to be the city's official song. It helps that the song does advertise many of the city's iconic locations, and that it mainly mocks an event only tangibly-related to the city.[[note]] Where the controversial [=YouTuber=] Jason Russell was arrested for public nudity and disrupting traffic in the city.[[/note]] |
| 577 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 578 | ** Squidward was written to be the curmudgeonly, boring and overly-mature {{foil}} to [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick, living a joyless life, being annoyed by their constant shenanigans, failing to make it as an artist, and hating his BurgerFool job at the Krusty Krab (in contrast to [=SpongeBob=] absolutely loving the work). All these traits made him popular among [[PeripheryDemographic the show's adult audience]], who found him and his struggles to be surprisingly relatable. |
| 579 | ** Likewise, Sandy Cheeks to Texans. She's a walking mish-mash of Texan stereotypes, speaking in a drawl, wielding a lasso, and singing guitar ballads about her home. She embodies a few negative stereotypes too, such as getting violently enraged when [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick begin making fun of Texas as she sees her home state as a SacredCow. Despite this, her vast intelligence, fighting skill, and big heart for everyone in her community make her popular enough that [[https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/spongebob-where-is-sandy-cheeks-from/#:~:text=Creator%20Stephen%20Hillenburg%20reportedly%20said,the%20dog%20days%20of%20summer.) many areas in Texas have tried to 'claim' her]] as Glasgow has in the past with Groundskeeper Willie. |
| 580 | * EvilBrit Mad Mod from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' has a good deal of fans from Britain, despite being an embodiment of every British stereotype you can think of i.e. he has wonky BritishTeeth, he's a fan of ''Creator/MontyPython'' and Music/TheBeatles and hates the "yanks" enough to try and cancel Independence Day! |
| 581 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'': A deleted scene from ''WesternAnimation/BigWorldBigAdventures'' showed Carlos, a Mexican engine joking about being a sun worshipper, then deploying the Aztec calendar around his face while "Jarabe Tapatío" plays in the background. It was deleted because it could be perceived as offensive, but Mexican fans expressed their approval of the scene and Carlos as a character. |
| 582 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': |
| 583 | ** Any fan who was [[HomeschooledKids homeschooled]] seems to like [[ButtMonkey Ezekiel]]. This includes FandomVIP the Kobold Necromancer, whose fanfics played a huge part in [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap rescuing him from the Scrappy Heap]]. |
| 584 | ** People with Dissociative Identity Disorder (or other neurodivergent conditions) often relate to Mike and his alters despite their less-than-accurate portrayal in the show, as they are a rare example of a system that is portrayed sympathetically. They often flesh out his symptoms and implied trauma in fan works to make him more realistic. It helps that he avoids all the [[EvilCripple negative]] [[DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery stereotypes]] commonly associated with disabled people, with it being made extremely clear that he is not crazy. |
| 585 | ** Sam is most beloved by the very gamers that he's a stereotype of. It definitely helps that he averts some of the more mean-spirited stereotypes associated with gamers (like [[NerdsAreVirgins perpetual singledom]][[note]]he ends up with SpoiledSweet celebrity Dakota in a case of GiveGeeksAChance[[/note]] and [[MurderSimulators desensitization to violence]]) and is continuously portrayed as one of the nicer characters on the show. |
| 586 | ** Many fans from the DeepSouth or similarly "redneck" places find Sugar hilarious. Several of them can attest to having known someone like her growing up. |
| 587 | ** Music lovers love Ella due to many finding her singing voice very beautiful and her tendency to break out in song during inappropriate moments leading to lots of funny moments. Her elimination is widely considered to be one of the [[TearJerker saddest]] and most unfair eliminations in the series. |
| 588 | * One of the commentaries for ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'', the creators explain that when Canadians were shown the French Peas they thought they were offensive and they shouldn't be featured on the show. They then showed the episode with the peas to some people from France who thought it was hilarious. |
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| 592 | * Most historical records about [[UsefulNotes/TheVikingAge Vikings]] heavily play up their brutality, being written by victims of their plunder and by Christian missionaries. In spite of that, Scandinavians today have embraced the stereotype of their ancestors as HornyVikings, from HeavyMithril bands like Music/AmonAmarth all the way to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odinic_Rite Odinists]]. It helps that it gives their region a more intimidating, marketable image. Many descendants of Scandinavian immigrants who have settled in Upper Midwestern America are also fans of the Minnesota Vikings with its stereotypical Viking mascot. |
| 593 | * While on a trip to China in the eighties, Prince Philip (the late husband of Queen Elizabeth II) was overheard telling some British students studying there, "If you stay much longer, you'll get slitty-eyed." The media picked up on this and was understandably horrified, which only cooled down when it was revealed that many Chinese people actually found Philip's joke funny (and revealed that a lot of Chinese people, in turn, refer to Westerners as "round-eyed"). |
| 594 | * The University of Notre Dame's "Fighting Irish" mascot is beloved by Irish Americans and in Ireland itself. The team has hosted 2 games there as of 2018, both of which sold out (albeit, a ton of American fans also travelled to the game). The planned third game (in 2020, which was eventually canceled because of COVID-19) had sold out within 24 hours. |
| 595 | * [[{{Orientalism}} Orientalist artworks]] portraying typical stereotypes of the Middle East like [[RoyalHarem nubile harem girls]], ArabianNightsDays and stuff like that is actually very popular among collectors from that region, and they are willing to [[https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0413/062-oriental-art-embracing-the-past.html#15c7680d6b35 pay quite a lot]]. |
| 596 | * Since 1993, Arapahoe High School in the Denver suburb of Centennial, Colorado has had a working relationship with their namesake, the Arapaho Nation of Wind River, Wyoming. Notably, Wilbur Antelope, a Northern Arapaho artist, designed the school's original logo. In addition, the school's gymnasium was renamed for Anthony Sitting Eagle, an Arapaho Elder who was one of the primary tribal elders that principal Ronald Booth met with in establishing the school's relationship with the Arapaho Nation, and every year the school hosts "Arapahoe Day" in which members of the Arapaho Nation travel from the reservation to share in tribal customs with the students. |
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