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| 13 | [[quoteright:300:[[Literature/FuManchu https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fumanchu.jpg]]]] |
| 14 | [[caption-width-right:300:From a time when what scared the West most was the East.]] |
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| 16 | ->''"Some years ago, a terrorist from America needed a bogeyman to bring it to its knees. So he appropriated the Ten Rings -- my Ten Rings. But because he didn't know my actual name, he invented a new one. Do you know the name he chose? The Mandarin. He gave his figurehead the name of a chicken dish. And it worked! America was terrified ... of an orange."'' |
| 17 | -->-- '''Xu Wenwu''', ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' |
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| 19 | The Yellow Peril is an "oriental" criminal and/or political mastermind, a character originating in the xenophobic days of the late 19th century, but popular ever since. |
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| 21 | As an expression of the "mysterious East" gone wrong, this villain traditionally had, or seemed to have, mystical powers. Often he had a beautiful daughter, who either [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter turned from her evil ways to work with the good guys]], or [[DaddysLittleVillain was herself]] [[DragonLady a scheming villain]], at least as bad as he, in her own right. He would likely know [[AllAsiansKnowMartialArts some form of martial arts]], and sometimes speak in a [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish thick and oddly-accented dialect]]. |
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| 23 | In some cases, the Yellow Peril might be an ancient civilization composed of [[InscrutableOriental wise and intelligent]] but [[{{Pride}} hubristically]] [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] people (basically real-life versions of [[TheFairFolk Elves]]) who [[TheChessmaster will use their "wisdom" to outplan and outmaneuver you every time]]. In others, the Yellow Peril may be an [[HordesFromTheEast evil horde making up in raw numbers]] [[ZergRush what they lack in power]] (this stereotype came from medieval portrayals of the [[UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan Mongolian empire]]). He will often be garbed in clothing you'd expect to find in Qing-dynasty China. |
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| 25 | However, not all examples are necessarily Chinese nationals; on the contrary, many (including the TropeCodifier Literature/FuManchu himself) are the leaders of [[CosmopolitanCouncil Pan-Asiatic coalitions]], uniting Chinese, Indians, Japanese and various others against [[EvilColonialist "Western Imperialism"]] and its alleged or real exploitation of Asia. Such portrayals may be inspired by the real-life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Asianism Pan-Asian ideology of the Japanese]] in World War II, who claimed to be fighting [[CapitalismIsBad against globalist capitalism]] and for the liberation of the Asian peoples (most of whom were still colonized by Europe [[note]]or the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates in the case of the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}}[[/note]] in 1941) -- although more crudely racist depictions may also simply be a case of thinking [[FarEast all Asians are the same]] ([[EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily as well as bad]]). |
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| 27 | The "mysterious Chinaman" grew to be such a cliché in mystery stories of the early twentieth century that in 1929 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Knox Ronald Knox]] included in his "[[FairplayWhodunnit Ten Commandments]]" the [[ItMakesSenseInContext rule]] that "[[ScaryMinoritySuspect No Chinaman must figure in the story.]]" Early story attempts to counter the connotations of such a villain often had an Asian hero included who is dedicated to stopping the villain, such as with the various incarnations of Creator/MarvelComics which had [[Characters/AgentsOfAtlasOriginal Jimmy Woo]] in the ''ComicBook/YellowClaw'' stories in the 1950s, while Fu Manchu was opposed by his son Characters/ShangChi, the Master of Kung Fu, in the 1970s. |
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| 29 | In what was presumably an attempt to avoid accusations of falling into this trope's racist and xenophobic roots, several 80s and 90s {{Animated Adaptation}}s of properties with Yellow Peril villains colored them ''[[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation green]]''. Mandarin in ''WesternAnimation/IronManTheAnimatedSeries'', Dr No in ''WesternAnimation/JamesBondJr'', and Ming the Merciless in both ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'' and the 1996 ''WesternAnimation/{{Flash Gordon|1996}}'' series are examples of this. |
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| 31 | One may think this was now a DiscreditedTrope, but in fact it is alive and well, although the ''individual'' "yellow" villain is often replaced by [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triads]], {{Yakuza}}, [[RedChina Chinese]] [[RedScare Communism]], or [[CorruptCorporateExecutive sinister Asian businessmen]]. |
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| 33 | In the UK, this trope drew inspiration from the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, and the presence of Chinese workers (especially sailors and [[ChineseLaunderer launderers]]) in port cities like VictorianLondon. Across the pond in the US, this trope also drew inspiration from Chinese immigration--specifically, the mass migration of thousands of {{Chinese laborer}}s in the nineteenth century. This large movement led many Americans to mistakenly think of Chinese people (and by extension, [[InterchangeableAsianCultures all Asians]]) as mysterious and expansionist. The fact that the workers weren't allowed to integrate with whites and often couldn't speak English didn't help matters. It [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII later turned out]] [[UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar that it]] was ''Japan'' that was expansionist, and horrifically brutal doing so--China was in no shape for world domination at that point--but hindsight is 20/20. (Of course, in response to the new threat of UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan, the media promptly switched this trope around and started portraying "the Japs" as the new Yellow Peril, only to [[RedChina switch back to China]] during TheFifties.) |
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| 35 | Nonetheless, in many instances of the trope, such a villain is treated more sympathetically than a villain of Western origin, along the lines of an EnlightenedAntagonist. The reason is that, while "Western" villains are usually depicted as having ''rejected'' the moral values of their culture in favor of baser instincts like greed and lust (and, therefore, as more simplistic and unambigously evil), the seeming "villainy" of these characters may be just due to the fact that they come from a foreign culture with a different understanding of the world (based more on spirituality than on science and logic), and, therefore, [[ValuesDissonance a different concept of right and wrong]]. Sometimes it may even turn out that their idea of good and evil is more sound than the one of the Western protagonist, and the protagonist was on the WrongSideAllAlong. |
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| 37 | See also: InscrutableOriental, DragonLady, JapanTakesOverTheWorld, ChinaTakesOverTheWorld, and another product of these stereotypes, MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow. For the WebComic of the same name, see ''WebComic/YellowPeril''. |
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| 39 | Absolutely nothing to do with the ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' [[Recap/OnlyFoolsAndHorsesS2E05TheYellowPeril episode of that name]]. |
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| 43 | !!Examples: |
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| 47 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 48 | * ''Manga/BiNoKyoujin'' implies this about Xiao Chen, him being Chinese and linked to the Chinese triads is presented as an extra reason why he is an enemy to Kabu's clan. |
| 49 | * Prince Ko-Fan Shiemarr from ''Manga/TheFiveStarStories'', despite being a character in a SpaceOpera manga set ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway is designed to mimic the aesthetic of Yellow Peril characters in western works. He is a bit of a subversion, though, since rather than being an out-and-out villain, he's more of a PsychoForHire who works for the nominal protagonist. |
| 50 | ** ...who is ''himself'' a very Japanese-flavored PhysicalGod of WellIntentionedExtremist. |
| 51 | * Chao Lingshen, the first major BigBad from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is the smarter of the two stereotypical Chinese students in Negi's class. Completely subverted when [[spoiler: it is revealed that Chao's ambitions are actually to bring about a better future, causing the entire cast to question whether they should stop her or join her.]] |
| 52 | ** Also, she is technically [[spoiler: Martian]], not Chinese. Those bits of her we see outside of the plot arc centered around her and outside class 3-A show her as smoothly blending in to Mahora culture and being genuinely social, friendly and helpful - which combined with the hints of a backstory which makes pulp villainy relatively lighthearted comedy strongly imply that to the extent this trope fits, she's [[InvokedTrope role-playing it on purpose]] both for effect and personal entertainment. |
| 53 | * ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' includes a reversal of this in Shogo Amakusa, a mysterious westerner who used his mystical Christian powers to heal people and fight. |
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| 56 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 57 | * Discussed in a German political cabaret sketch. It was way back when the right wing coined the term "red-green peril" in analogy to "yellow peril", and the left wing fired back (freely translated excerpt, to be mentally read in "breathless" style): |
| 58 | -->"The reds turn all trafficlights to red!"\ |
| 59 | "To stop traffic!"\ |
| 60 | "The greens turn all trafficlights to green!"\ |
| 61 | "To destroy traffic!"\ |
| 62 | "They compromise... on yellow!"\ |
| 63 | "Thereby, the red-green peril has turned into a yellow peril!"\ |
| 64 | "Chinese General Secretary Dennnnnnnng Xiao Pinnnnnnnng..." |
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| 67 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 68 | * Chin-Kee from ''ComicBook/AmericanBornChinese'' is an embodiment of every negative Asian stereotype, all of which are employed for satirical purposes. (He's not really a ''villain'', but he can be unpleasant to be around and it's not clear if a couple of minor characters end up better off for having encountered him.) |
| 69 | * The Creator/{{Wildstorm}} comic ''ComicBook/TheAmericanWay'' has a 1960's United States defended by the Civil Defense Corps, a team of heroes. An advertising whiz brought on to help discovers the CDC is actually a massive fraud; half the team have no real powers and all their super-hero "fights" and "alien invasions" are staged for public morale. One fight is set up with the Red Terror, a supposed Communist agitator who's actually an American cast simply because he's of Chinese descent. However, in the middle of the fight, CDC hero Old Glory dies of a heart attack and Red Terror becomes paranoid the public will blame him for it as he played the role of the evil villain too well. |
| 70 | * In ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky'', the main antagonists are an evil race of Yellow Peril-coded beetle-like aliens called the [[SignificantAnagram Nagma]] who are meant to illustrate Creator/AlbertUderzo's dislike of manga and its popularity in France. Both critics and fans derided the book as little more than a crass and xenophobia-tainted rant against manga and it dealt a fatal blow to Uderzo's reputation from which he never quite recovered. |
| 71 | * Starting in 1989, Creator/{{Atari}} ran ''Atarian'' magazine, which, alongside game reviews, previews and interviews, printed the ''[[http://pixelpompeii.blogspot.ca/2015/07/atari-super-hero.html Adventures of Atari]]'', superheroic champion of the company. In the pages of his comic, Atari would thwart the plans of a Fu Manchu-style mastermind, a Japanese caricature with slit eyes and buck teeth named "Ninja-Endo", to ruin Atari Corp's foothold in the video game market. Unsurprisingly, these comics were published after Creator/{{Nintendo}} brought the {{Platform/N|intendoEntertainmentSystem}}ES nationwide in the United States (having first sold it in specific cities) and quickly overtook American companies like Atari in video game sales. Also unsurprisingly, ''Atarian'' only lasted three issues. |
| 72 | * The first album of ''De Avonturen van detective Van Zwam'', ''Het geheim van Matsuoka'', is all about a Japanese entrepreneur that creates a company that serves beer to people that turns them mad. Subverted because ''Marc Sleen'', the creator of the comic, thought that ''Matsuoka'' was the name of the Japanese minister of foreign affairs during UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 . |
| 73 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': |
| 74 | ** Doctor Tzin-Tzin is a Fu Manchu-inspired Asian-looking (but actually a MightyWhitey American raised by Chinese bandits) crime lord who battles Franchise/{{Batman}} several times. |
| 75 | ** ComicBook/RasAlGhul is explicitly modeled after this character type, essentially being a more Arabic-themed Fu Manchu with all of the trappings ([[ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul beautiful daughter]] infatuated with the hero, vast criminal empire, supernatural elements). His creator, Denny O'Neil, commented that his face is meant to be an unidentifiable mixture of facial features so that he is neither Asian nor Arab (of course, considering his tribe came from China, he is Asian). He also has green or blue eyes (depending on the continuity) and in media tends to be [[RaceLift portrayed by white European actors]] (Creator/LiamNeeson, Creator/DavidWarner). In an interesting example in the former's case, he was cast to subvert this trope. As ''Film/BatmanBegins'' was in development right after 9/11 and its aftermath, Creator/WarnerBrothers didn't want to play into an Arab terrorist stereotype so Neeson was cast. |
| 76 | ** In the ''[[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Legends of the Dark Knight]]'' story ''Tao'', Batman encounters a number of Chinese villains, as well as a Chinese mentor. The villains include a wicked old wizard, H'sien Tan, his student, Dragon, who acts as TheDragon to his master as well as the BigBad later, and looks just like the "Little Dragon", Bruce Lee. Most stereotypical of all is the boss of Gotham's Chinese underworld, Johnny Khan (Khan isn't even a Chinese name!). Khan isn't just a 'Yellow Peril' stereotype, he's Fu Manchu. And not just any Fu Manchu. He's clearly recognisable as Creator/ChristopherLee ''dressed'' as Fu Manchu. |
| 77 | * The first of Edgar P. Jacobs' ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer'' stories, ''Secret of the Swordfish'', pits the heroes against the world-conquering, Asian-supremacist [[TheEmpire "Yellow Empire"]] (in the original french-language version, the Empire was specifically and explicitely... ''Tibet''). However, the trope is subverted, as the [[TheHeavy primary villain]] in the story is the white Colonel Olrik and the BigBad, Emperor Basam Damdu, is less mysterious Oriental, and more Hitler-esque, megalomaniac madman. |
| 78 | * The [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] comic book supervillain The Claw took this trope about as far as it could possibly go. He was a gigantic yellow dragon-like EvilOverlord with a horde of "oriental" minions and could do anything, up to and including standing in the middle of the ocean and creating a gigantic whirlpool to change the Earth's climate. During his five-issue battle with the Golden Age Daredevil (at a time when multi-part stories were unheard of), he {{brainwashed}} the US President and then took over the country himself with an army of criminals. |
| 79 | ** ''ComicBook/ProjectSuperpowers'' tried to avert this with their modern version of the Claw, which was a giant EldritchAbomination made out of hundreds of human bodies. |
| 80 | * ''ComicBook/DetectiveComics'', now known as the home of Batman, started out as an anthology title whose first issue featured a story about a private eye fighting cartoonishly-drawn oriental villains, whose leader smirked at the reader from the front cover. In 2017, Creator/GeneLuenYang's ''ComicBook/NewSuperMan'' incorporated a deconstruction of that story into its backstory, depicting the Chinese antagonists more sympathetically than the prejudiced white detective. |
| 81 | * Memnan Saa from the ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' universe (the ''ComicBook/{{BPRD}}'' and ''Lobster Johnson'' comics). Though as it turns out, his origins predate China, and stretch back to the ancient Hyperborean civilization of the North Pole. Not only that, but the reason he resembles the classic British actor dressed in ridiculous Oriental robes look is because [[spoiler:he's actually a Victorian-era British occultist named Martin Gilfryd.]] |
| 82 | * The [[Characters/IronManCentralRoguesGallery Mandarin]], from ''ComicBook/IronMan'', though more recent writers have dropped the Fu Manchu-esque traits, [[AlternateCompanyEquivalent making him more like]] ComicBook/RasAlGhul from the ComicBook/{{Batman}} comics. |
| 83 | ** ''WesternAnimation/IronManTheAnimatedSeries'' tried to avert this by revealing that he was white before he got exposed to the power rings and his appearance changed. To ''green.'' |
| 84 | ** The later ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'' animated series also largely averts this with its portrayal of the two characters who use the Mandarin identity: Shin Zhang is treated as a fairly typical criminal mastermind whose Asian-ness is incidental to his evil, while his stepson Gene Khan is both a major AntiVillain and, while he certainly takes pride in his heritage from China in general and his family line in particular, he's otherwise very modern and western in his mannerisms and outlook. |
| 85 | * Leif Lama in the Swedish comic ''ComicBook/JamesHund'', an AffectionateParody of action-adventure stories. He is the EvilTwin Brother of the Dalai Lama; like him he is supposedly reincarnated through the centuries, but leads the Dhubbist sect "which preaches violence and materialism". Leif is one of the leaders of [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Evil, Inc.]], and his thieving followers apparently created a Mount Everest-sized heap of stolen goods in Tibet - as well as partially powering modern (Western) consumerist society (they keep stealing our useless crap, so we buy more useless crap, for which {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s pay a fee to Leif). |
| 86 | * Creator/AlanMoore's comic series ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' concluded with a war between "The Doctor", who is clearly meant to be Literature/FuManchu,[[note]]but is never named, as that character was still under copyright[[/note]] and [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Professor James Moriarty]]. It also reflected the times by having a lot of dialogue and depictions of London's Chinatown in ways that [[DeliberateValuesDissonance we would consider massively racist now]]. |
| 87 | * The ''ComicBook/{{Madballs}}'' comic book published by defunct Creator/MarvelComics subsidiary Star Comics featured a Chinese villainess named Maiden Hong Kong, who made her debut in the sixth issue attempting to coerce Chin's father into only making fortune cookies with nasty fortunes inside them. |
| 88 | * Hark in ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'' is a clear Fu Manchu analogue, but ended up [[HeelFaceTurn working for the side of good]], alongside various pulp hero {{Expy}}s. His beautiful daughter is Anna Hark, a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive ruthless businesswoman]] who's a bit of a DragonLady but undergoes her own HeelFaceTurn. |
| 89 | * During Creator/JossWhedon's run on the series, the ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' ended up in early 20th century New York. While there, team leader Nico Minoru learned that her ancestor was a Yellow Peril-type sorceress, although instead of running her own criminal empire, she was forced to do the bidding of a vaguely racist forerunner to the Avengers. |
| 90 | * ''ComicBook/ShangChi'' initially used Fu Manchu himself as a major supporting character in the 1970s ''ComicBook/MasterOfKungFu'' and ''ComicBook/DeadlyHandsOfKungFu1974'' series, where his son Shang-Chi fights against his father's villainy. |
| 91 | ** After Marvel lost the rights to Sax Rohmer's books, a GivenNameReveal renamed Fu Manchu to Zheng Zu, but kept most of the problematic elements. Creator/GeneLuenYang eventually carried out a SoftReboot in ''ComicBook/ShangChi2020'', redefining Zheng Zu as a very different character to Fu Manchu, with a more complex and sympathetic portrayal, and actively averting this trope. |
| 92 | * There was a villain named "Yellow Peri" in both the ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' comic book and TV show, but she had nothing to do with the trope other than the name pun. (A "peri" is a type of Persian fairy, and "The Red Peri" was a space pirate in a 1935 Stanley G. Weinbaum story.) |
| 93 | * In [[DependingOnTheArtist some issues]] of ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi'', Aleema and Satal Keto are depicted this way--there's no Asia in Star Wars, but they are drawn with Asian facial characteristics and sometimes even have lemon-yellow skin, evoking this trope. (Granted, the latter may be due to those issues' very weird coloring issues.) |
| 94 | * The ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' story ''[[Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus The Blue Lotus]]'' averts this: the portrayal of China is famously sympathetic and accurate - though the trope is both discussed (Tintin describes to a Chinese friend the common Yellow Peril stereotype prevalent among westerners) and parodied (Thompson and Thomson dress up as the stereotype to go undercover, [[EpicFail only to end up being followed by a throng of amused Chinese onlookers... without them noticing beyond a hunch]]). The Japanese invaders come across as evil and petty imperialists (with their leader having [[AsianBuckTeeth buck teeth]]), but, well, they sort of ''were''. Coming from a Belgian, this is something of a case of grey and black morality, not that Creator/{{Herge}}; was your typical Belgian colonial. The UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar, in which at least 10 million Chinese civilians died at the hands of the Japanese Army, was undoubtedly among the darkest moral hours of Japan. |
| 95 | ** Averted permanently for the rest of the series. There's a non-caricatured Japanese detective in ''[[Recap/TintinTheCrabWithTheGoldenClaws The Crab with the Golden Claws]]'' and the locals in ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTibet Tintin in Tibet]]'' are all normal folks. |
| 96 | ** That was largely because Hergé befriended Zhang Chongren, a Chinese student who came to Brussels to study art and architecture. Zhang was his consultant about China, and was the reason why Hergé became sympathetic to the Chinese during the war and caricatured the Japanese invaders so heavily. When the war ended, there was basically no reason to draw these caricatures anymore, so Japan just became another nation to portray accurately. Ironically, while his first editor, a conservative Catholic abbot, was ''encouraging'' Hergé to be racist (hence the '''fantastically''' racist ''Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo''), it was another abbot who urged him to be more sensitive and introduced him and Zhang to each other. The character of Chang Chong-Chen is based on Zhang. |
| 97 | * A few particularly [[http://www.superdickery.com/the-fury-of-egg-fu/ cracked]] out [[http://www.superdickery.com/more-egg-fu/ issues]] of ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' and ''The ComicBook/MetalMen'' had "Egg Fu", a gigantic yellow ''egg'' with stereotypical Oriental features and a "mustache tlap." (Well, "trap", but, [[JapaneseRanguage you know]].) John Byrne later tried to retinker him as a supercomputer from Apokolips (and one that was deemed culturally insensitive ''within the story''), but this was undone by Creator/GrantMorrison making him one of the Great Ten (a Chinese superhero team also created by Grant Morrison) and dubbing him "Chang Tzu." While Morrison ditched the mustache and the accent, his Chang Tzu was still an overly-intelligent yellow Asian egghead, which brought back the UnfortunateImplications. In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' comic book, he turns out to be an EldritchAbomination named Y'ggphu-Soggoth. |
| 98 | * Played with in Creator/MarkMillar and J. G. Jones's comics miniseries ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'', where the prerequisite Fu Manchu knockoff, who secretly rules all of Asia, is actually pretty [[AffablyEvil affable]] as far as megalomaniacal supervillains go. |
| 99 | * The eponymous VillainProtagonist of 1950s comic ''ComicBook/YellowClaw'' is somewhat similar, drawing on the same sort of imagery and background as characters such as Literature/FuManchu. The ''Yellow Claw'' series was published by Atlas Comics, who later became Marvel Comics - and the characters were then incorporated into the shared Franchise/MarvelUniverse. |
| 100 | ** It's also counterbalanced by the fact that his archenemy, FBI agent Jimmy Woo, is a typical [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] action hero who happens to be Chinese-American. This makes Woo one of Marvel's earliest heroes of color. |
| 101 | ** At one point, the old coloring is lampshaded with a remark in the ''ComicBook/OfficialHandbookOfTheMarvelUniverse Deluxe Edition'' that "The Yellow Claw has [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation a pale yellow skin color quite unlike the skin tones of other Orientals]]." |
| 102 | ** An ''ComicBook/IronMan'' storyline in the 1980s saw the Yellow Claw fight the Mandarin, in an epic clash of yellow peril stereotypes! Specifically, Yellow Claw represented the pre-World War II stereotype of Asians as devious and inscrutable, and The Mandarin represented the post-World War II stereotype of Asians as reckless bloodthirsty barbarians. |
| 103 | ** The "yellow peril" aspects of the Yellow Claw are eventually {{Lampshaded}} and thoroughly subverted in the initial ''ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas'' miniseries, which brings both the Yellow Claw and Jimmy Woo into the modern era. By the end of that story, the Yellow Claw is KilledOffForReal, and it's revealed that he was always the ''Golden'' Claw - "Yellow Claw" was the result of racist westerners [[TranslationWithAnAgenda deliberately mistranslating]] the Chinese characters that made up his name. |
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| 106 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 107 | * In the early years of ''ComicStrip/BuckRogers'', the title character fought "Red Mongols" who had invaded and conquered the USA. |
| 108 | * Before achieving international fame with his children's books, Creator/DrSeuss wrote [[WartimeCartoon political cartoons]] for the now-defunct left-wing magazine ''PM'' during the first half of World War II. Although Seuss's views were generally quite progressive, especially for the era, he tended to paint the Japanese in an extremely negative light, implying that Japanese-Americans were a secret army just waiting for the signal to rise up against America (note that these cartoons were made before the Pearl Harbor attacks). He would later come to regard these cartoons as an OldShame, and expressed guilt over them later in life. |
| 109 | * Ming the Merciless from the 1934 ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'' comic strip was written and drawn as Fu Manchu {{IN SPACE}}, right down to the scheming daughter. (He's not named "Ming" by accident.) The [[Film/FlashGordonSerial early serials]] and [[WesternAnimation/FlashGordon1979 Filmation animated version]] continued this portrayal. The [[Film/FlashGordon1980 1980 movie]] cast Creator/MaxVonSydow, a Swedish actor, in the role, and the [[Series/FlashGordon2007 2007 TV series]] dropped 'the Merciless' from his name and turned him into a blond guy, while in the 1990s comic book mini-series, he and his people have natural ash-gray skin coloring, and in the animated series ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'', his skin is green. |
| 110 | * ''ComicBook/LosMiserables'' frequently portrays the Chinese as a constant peril to the nearly nonexistent finances of the Godinez family, in one example after a story arc learning everything about People Smuggling to the U.S. they decide to start a business of this, only to discover that the Chinese already beat them to it and their fees are so much lower, they drive them out of business ''before'' even starting. In another example, the kid, Bimbilique, gets annoyed with a competing Chinese boy who gets up very early and performs several tricks on his same street corner, gathering all the coins from passerbys and leaving nothing for him, so he gangs up with other kids, beats him and drives him away. |
| 111 | * ''ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise'' has Mr. Wu Smith; a Chinese crime lord based in Hong Kong who dresses and speaks like Literature/FuManchu. |
| 112 | * Ruthlessly averted in the ''ComicStrip/RupertBear'' comic strips and books with the Chinese girl Tiger Lily and her father The Conjurer, who are both polite, friendly and helpful and in some stories are even crucial to solving the current problem. Ironically the strip is run by the ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers Daily Express]]''. And that's no joke. |
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| 116 | * The Siamese cats from ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'', two {{Manipulative Bitch}}es whose machinations lead to Lady getting muzzled for bad behaviour (in reality, trying to stop them from stealing the baby's milk). Their VillainSong even sounds like a parody of Chinese music. |
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| 119 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 120 | * ''Film/BallsOfFury'' (a WholePlotReference to ''Film/EnterTheDragon'', but with ping-pong!) parodies it with ''Creator/ChristopherWalken'' as a white guy who's apparently obsessed with being this trope as it pertains to old kung-fu movies (and also [[CultureChopSuey takes parts from other Asian cultures]] [[InterchangeableAsianCultures and uses them as part of his fixations]], ie. having sumo wrestlers carry him around on a palanquin). The main characters are stunned to see he's white, as the composite sketch looked ''nothing'' like him. |
| 121 | * Dr. Tito Daka from the 1943 ''Film/{{The Batman|Serial}}'' serial blows ''far'' past UnfortunateImplications; the narrator actually refers to him as "the sinister Jap, Dr. Daka" and speaks glowingly of when "a wise government rounded up the shifty-eyed Japs" of Gotham City's Little Tokyo. |
| 122 | * ''Film/BatmanBegins'' changes Ra's al Ghul from his comic book portrayal. Some of the Yellow Peril aspects are played more straight this time (his headquarters are in China this time, and Ra's is Chinese or Japanese) while others are messed with (he and his followers lack supernatural powers, but use tricks to make enemies think they do, and [[spoiler:he's actually a white man with an Asian decoy)]]. |
| 123 | * ''Film/BattleBeneathTheEarth'' (1967). The Chinese military is tunnelling under the Pacific so they can plant atomic bombs under US cities. A ''slight'' amount of subtlety was added to this by making the BigBad a renegade general who'd already set up nukes under Beijing. |
| 124 | * The villain in ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'' is a stereotypical Chinese EvilSorcerer named David Lo Pan, who dresses the part (well, the spirit version of him does; the decrepit old man version wears a suit and a tie). This is another example where the sting is taken off by having most of the heroes also be Chinese, though. Lo Pan himself is also not really presented as a peril to white America, and most of his crimes and depredations seem to be at the expense of other Chinese or Chinese-Americans. |
| 125 | * Although it had the chance to go this route, ''Film/TheBitterTeaOfGeneralYen'' soundly averts this trope. General Yen can be cruel, but he's drawn as a complex character with complex emotions. |
| 126 | * The Blaxploitation spoof ''Film/BlackDynamite'' has The Fiendish Dr. Wu. His name actually '''is''' Fiendish Dr. Wu, and Dynamite refers to him like that every time he is mentioned. Considering how he [[spoiler: takes out the entire squad, leaving Dynamite as the sole-survivor, and has created a drug that shrinks people's "johnsons"]], he certainly lives up to his name. |
| 127 | * ''Film/BlackRain'' plays the trope completely straight, with a sinister Japanese conspiracy to flood the USA with "perfect" forged banknotes, although the mastermind is portrayed fairly sympathetically and reveals his motivation for the plot is revenge on the US, having survived Hiroshima as a child, while the main villain is a young AxCrazy TheStarscream whose actions are blamed on him having become too Westernized. |
| 128 | * The affable, polite Japanese neighbor in ''Film/TheCheat'' (1915) turns out to be a sexual predator who tries to rape the heroine. |
| 129 | * In ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' the EvilCorporation that apparently caused the awakening of the monster from the ocean's floor was the Japanese company Tagruato. |
| 130 | * Mr. Han from ''Film/EnterTheDragon'' would exemplify this trope, right down to his "daughters", but the hero opposing him is played by Creator/BruceLee! |
| 131 | * Unsurprisingly, ''Film/TheFaceOfFuManchu'' and its sequels, based on Sax Rohmer's characters and starring Creator/ChristopherLee in YellowFace in the title role. The fifth and final installment ''Film/TheCastleOfFuManchu'' was the [[strike:victim]] subject of an [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E23TheCastleOfFuManchu episode]] of Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000. |
| 132 | * In ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious2001'', the main antagonists are an Asian biker gang even though there aren't really any infamous Asian biker gangs in real life. In addition, the Asian bikers are the only Asians in the film and are violent and unsympathetic. |
| 133 | * ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'' had Literature/FuManchu in the RealTrailerFakeMovie [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xynLdCh2Uss Werewolf Women Of The SS]]... [[spoiler: played by [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Nicolas Cage]]!]] |
| 134 | * Indiana Jones briefly faces off against Chinese mobster Lao Che and his cronies in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''. Not ''particularly'' stereotypical (they speak near-perfect English), although all [[LargeHam rather hammy]]. |
| 135 | * Parodied in ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' with Dr. Klahn. |
| 136 | * Doctor Who (no [[Series/DoctorWho relation]]) from ''Film/KingKongEscapes'' would be a classic Yellow Peril villain, except that, since this movie was made in Japan, he's just ordinary peril (being sort of Bond-villain-ish), with no particular xenophobia attached. |
| 137 | * Dr. Yen Lo the sinister brainwasher in the 1962 adaptation of ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate''. |
| 138 | * The ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' has taken pains to avert this trope in their adaptations of the comic book supervillain the Mandarin. |
| 139 | ** ''Film/IronMan3'' both averts this and cleverly [[spoiler:exploits]] this. The Mandarin is an WickedCultured DiabolicalMastermind, played by the British-Indian actor Creator/BenKingsley, who does follow some classical Chinese philosophy. [[spoiler:Except he's not. Kingsley's character is a washed-up actor named Trevor Slattery who is being paid by Dr. Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce -- a white dude) to be the front for his operations in exchange for a cushy life. Killian deliberately mashed up a number of foreign stereotypes in order to sell an anti-American boogeyman to the media.]] The follow-up short film ''Film/AllHailTheKing'' then reveals that [[spoiler:they (mis)appropriated the story of an actual foreign warlord, who isn't happy with the theft and intends to kill Slattery for it.]] |
| 140 | ** ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' then introduces an actually-Chinese version of the Mandarin (played by Creator/TonyLeungChiuWai) that's TruerToTheText than Kingsley's, but with care taken to discard offensive aspects -- for instance, he [[ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames doesn't use the "Mandarin" title himself]] and points out its misuse; and instead of being a Chinese villain fighting a white American, he's now going up against equally-Chinese heroes, who also serve to humanize him as [[ArchnemesisDad two of them are his children]]. The director, writer, and leading cast of the movie are all Asian or of Asian descent. Leung's character also mocks the ''Iron Man 3'' version, seemingly both annoyed at the cultural misappropriation and amused that it scared the Americans anyway. |
| 141 | * ''Film/TheMaskOfFuManchu'' (1932), with Creator/BorisKarloff [[{{Yellowface}} playing the titular character]], is widely considered to be probably one of the most racist films of all time. |
| 142 | * The Dragon Emperor as played by Jet Li in ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor''. The sorceress Zi Yuan does help the heroes, though. |
| 143 | * Kabai Sengh, leader of the Sengh Brotherhood in ''Film/{{The Phantom|1996}}''. (The name was modified for the film to make it sound more Asian; in the comics it's Singh, which is Punjabi.) He is played by Creator/CaryHiroyukiTagawa, who was the go-to guy for Asian supervillains back during the 1980s and 1990s (he played Shang Tsung in the ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' movie, for example). |
| 144 | * ''Film/PearlHarbor'' generally averts this trope, portraying the Japanese for the most part in non-stereotyped ways. However, the Japanese are nonetheless overly vilified; in one scene Zeros attack a hospital and open fire on civilians, even though the Japanese made an effort not to harm civilians during the actual raid, and did not fire at civilian targets even when they had a clear shot. |
| 145 | * The not-particularly-nice Chinese pirate Sao Feng, as played by Chow Yun-Fat, in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd''. There's also a female Pirate Lord named Mistress Ching. |
| 146 | * ''Film/RedDawn2012'' has ''UsefulNotes/NorthKorea'' invading the United States. (It was the Soviet Union, with Cuban shock troops, in the 1984 original.) The original script had China as the main aggressor but it was changed to North Korea due to fear of ending BannedInChina. The movies those mention "a coalition" of sorts. |
| 147 | * Used in ''Film/RisingSun'' because JapanTakesOverTheWorld. Creator/SeanConnery's character constantly talks about how Japanese culture makes them more efficient and productive, but the plot also portrays Japanese businessmen as shadowy, corrupt and decadent. |
| 148 | * The evil Mongol Shiwan Khan in ''Film/TheShadow'' movie is a magical overlord who claims to be the last direct descendant of UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan--a bit of an unlikely story given just how many descendants Genghis Khan is believed to have.[[note]]A rough estimate puts it at 35 ''million'' men. It's impossible to know how many women are descended from him, but you can probably just double the male estimate.[[/note]] |
| 149 | * In ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane'' the main antagonist is a brutal Asian gangster who beats a prosecutor to death [[BatterUp with a baseball bat]] in the beginning of the movie. However, there is another Asian character in the film, a kickboxer, and he is portrayed as selfless and brave. |
| 150 | * Chung King, the BigBad of ''Film/TheTerrorOfTheTongs'', is very much a poor man's Fu Manchu; even down to being played by Creator/ChristopherLee in YellowFace. |
| 151 | * ''Film/NoEscape2015'': The film initially plays up the exoticness of the setting, but later on all (and only) Asian characters become a threat to Jack Dwyer and his family. |
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| 155 | * Admiral Hamura Kusaki from ''Animation/AdventuresOfCaptainVrungel'' is a member of the Japanese Imperial Navy and the BigBad, who makes it his personal mission to pursue the protagonists around the world and cause trouble for them on their global voyage, but while he's the only prominent POC in the story and the prose sometimes describes his skin color as yellow, he otherwise doesn't fall into many of the common stereotypes seen in a work written in the 30's. He has no grand ambitions other than to oversee the extinction of all whales and to make life hell for the protagonists over something minor (saving a whale), he has no special abilities, he's not a criminal mastermind - on the contrary, all of his schemes to get back at Vrungel blow up in his face out of his own stupidity. When reflecting on Kusaki years later, Vrungel considers him merely a product of the imperialist culture in Japan during that time, and he holds a similar disdain for Banditto, the Italian fascist and one-off antagonist. |
| 156 | * The villains in the 1928 pulp novel ''Armageddon 2419 A.D'' are the Han Airlords, an Asian empire that conquers the world in 2109. It takes a [[ComicStrip/BuckRogers 20th century transplant]] to turn the tide. |
| 157 | * The Fiendish Doctor Po from the ''Franchise/BerniceSummerfield'' novel ''Ship of Fools'' -- a fictional character in that world [[spoiler: (until somebody programs an AI to be him)]] and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] as a ridiculous anachronism to boot. |
| 158 | * ''Literature/HerculePoirot'' has an offscreen version in''Literature/TheBigFour'': the titular four are the head of a pre-WWII conspiracy to rule the world, headed from China by TheChessmaster Li Chang Yen. The other three are all Western ([[spoiler:an American billionaire, a fascist French scientist, and an English assassin]]) but take their orders from him. At the end of the book, he commits suicide when the attempted coup fails and the three others die in their lair's self-destruction. |
| 159 | * One of the recurring {{Diabolical Mastermind}}s of the Belgian book series ''Literature/BobMorane'' is Mr. Ming, a tall, mysterious, [[BaldOfEvil bald]] Mongolian. He was also known by the not-very-subtle moniker of "L'ombre Jaune" or "The Yellow Shadow". |
| 160 | * ''Literature/{{CALEXIT}}'': Much concern is had that an independent California would become a Chinese puppet-state and seek to expand into the American Southwest. As of the second book, this appears virtually given. |
| 161 | * ''Literature/{{Caliphate}}'' subverts this with the Celestial Kingdom of Han, which is what the People's Republic of China has turned into in a dystopic future. They are portrayed as amoral and strange post-human people with no reservation about performing weird experiments for their sinister purposes, and it's clear they want to replace America as the resident superpower. With that said, they are [[EnemyMine allied with the Americans]] against the titular [[MiddleEasternCoalition Islamic empire]] because the latter represents the more immediate and dangerous threat. |
| 162 | * Explicitly averted in the original ''Literature/CharlieChan'' novels by Earl Derr Biggers, in which the author set out to create an Asian character on the right side of the law for a change. How accurate they are is open to question, but at least some respect for the Chinese and their culture is shown. |
| 163 | * David Wingrove's ''Literature/ChungKuo'' series of sci-fi novels averts this. The founder of the system actually saved mankind from extinction, but it became corrupted over time, so that dissenters of all ethnicities work together to overthrow the regime. In the reboots, perhaps in light of changes in international relations, it's...less averted. |
| 164 | * {{Cyberpunk}} literature of the 80s and early 90s just considered [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld Japanese economic domination of the world]] inevitable, even extending to non-cyberpunk and even comedic SF like ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''. And then the bottom fell out of the Japanese banking system, which has never quite recovered. |
| 165 | * Creator/TomClancy's ''[[Literature/JackRyan Debt of Honor]]'' keeps pretty close to the standard version, with a Chinese/Japanese conspiracy as the BigBad, and Raizo Yamata in the "sinister yellow mastermind" role. Clancy pursued the "Chinese threat" theme in other novels: ''Executive Orders'', ''SSN'',[[note]]a {{novelization}} of the game of the same name[[/note]] ''The Bear and the Dragon'', and ''Threat Vector'' |
| 166 | * Several of Creator/CliveCussler's ''Literature/DirkPittAdventures'' books have examples of this: |
| 167 | ** ''Medusa'' has as its BigBad a sinister Chinese [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs conspiracy]] scheming to unleash a global plague. |
| 168 | ** The sinister Japanese businessman Hideki Suma from ''Dragon''. |
| 169 | ** Min Koryo, the head of Korean shipping cartel in ''Deep Six''. |
| 170 | * Doctor Julius No in the Franchise/JamesBond book and movie ''Literature/DrNo''. Creator/IanFleming admitted that Dr. No was inspired in part by Fu Manchu. Despite this, No's half-Chinese national origin has little to do with his actions. |
| 171 | * Prof. Anne Witchard's ''England’s Yellow Peril: Sinophobia and the Great War'', published [[TheNewTens as of 2014]], analyzes the reasons behind the sensationalist [[Literature/FuManchu Fu Manchu]]-inspired media and why it flourished during WWI and TheRoaringTwenties. |
| 172 | * ''Literature/FuManchu'', of the original short story and novel series by Sax Rohmer and their many, many adaptations, is perhaps the classic example. From the same source, Fah Lo Suee embodies the "beautiful-but-at-least-as-evil-as-he" version of the evil mastermind's daughter. Though he is not the first example of Yellow Peril caricatures of Asians, his cultural influence and the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160419214500/https://njedge.net/~knapp/clones.htm host of imitators he spawned]] make him the TropeCodifier. |
| 173 | * ''Literature/HerFathersDaughter'': Despite its nature-loving themes and its romances, it's centrally a heavy-headed warning against it: |
| 174 | --> ''People have talked about the 'yellow peril' till it's got to be a meaningless phrase. Somebody must wake up to the realization that it's the deadliest peril that ever has menaced white civilization. Why shouldn't you have your hand in such wonderful work?"\ |
| 175 | "Linda," said the boy breathlessly, "do you realize that you have been saying 'we'? Can you help me? Will you help me?"\ |
| 176 | "No," said Linda, "I didn't realize that I had said 'we.' I didn't mean two people, just you and me. I meant all the white boys and girls of the high school and the city and the state and the whole world. If we are going to combat the 'yellow peril' we must combine against it. We have got to curb our appetites and train our brains and enlarge our hearts till we are something bigger and finer and numerically greater than this yellow peril. We can't take it and pick it up and push it into the sea. We are not Germans and we are not Turks. I never wanted anything in all this world worse than I want to see you graduate ahead of Oka Sayye. And then I want to see the white boys and girls of Canada and of England and of Norway and Sweden and Australia, and of the whole world doing exactly what I am recommending that you do in your class and what I am doing personally in my own. I have had Japs in my classes ever since I have been in school, but Father always told me to study them, to play the game fairly, but to BEAT them in some way, in some fair way, to beat them at the game they are undertaking."'' |
| 177 | * Lord Hong from ''Literature/InterestingTimes'', although an ambiguous version of this trope (his plans to conquer the West, i.e. Ankh-Morpork, are depicted as hopelessly naive). |
| 178 | * One chapter in ''The Late Great Planet Earth'' by Hal Lindsey has "The Yellow Peril" as a chapter title, which predicts that [[RedChina the Chinese military]] will invade Israel (based on a fleeting reference in Daniel to "Kings of the East"). Though intended to be nonfiction, ''The Late Great Planet Earth'' and other books by Lindsey were a major influence on Literature/LeftBehind. |
| 179 | * Creator/HPLovecraft seemed to genuinely believe that some day in the future the Chinese would take over the world. This worked its way into the Franchise/CthulhuMythos in his story "He," where a man travels into the future and sees New York filled with scary Asian people. His opus "Literature/TheShadowOutOfTime" also briefly mentions "the cruel empire of Tsan-Chan, which is to come in 5,000 A.D." |
| 180 | * ''Literature/TheMagicPudding'': Curry and Rice -- beyond his atrocious name, he's a FatBastard of a VillainousGlutton who uses strange magical powers to create an infinitely renewable pastry and then hoards it to himself while watching his fellow shipwreck strandees slowly starving to death. About the only way he's not a racist icon is his art, and that's because all of the humans portrayed in the illustrations are bizarre-looking caricatures. |
| 181 | * Played very straight in [[Series/{{Wallander}} Henning Mankell's]] novel ''The Man From Beijing''. Evil Chinese mastermind? Check. Sinister Chinese conspiracy to take over the world (well Africa anyway)? Check. Subtle Chinese murder techniques? Check. |
| 182 | * Creator/RobertWChambers, who was a major influence on Lovecraft, had a similar (though far less over-the-top) fear of the mysterious East in his short story "The Maker of Moons", which involved an evil Chinese criminal getting involved in an illegal American alchemy ring. He had a [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Beautiful Daughter]] who was good, but she was adopted and white. |
| 183 | * A subversion is related in one of Nightingale's anecdotes from ''[[Literature/RiversOfLondon Moon Over Soho]]'', of how Folly police in 1911 went to bust someone they ''thought'' was a Chinese crime-lord and sorcerer. Turned out that, while he was indeed involved in white slavery, an offense often attributed to old-time Yellow Peril villains, he was also a white Canadian invoking this trope to throw off the cops. |
| 184 | * DimeNovel hero ''Literature/NickCarter'' had a few of these:Sang Tu and The Yellow Tong, The Hip Ling Secret Society, the Yellow Spider (A Chinese crime boss in San Francisco), etc. |
| 185 | ** Literature/NickCarter also subverted the trope with his relationship with the heroic Japanese detective Ten-Ichi. Further departing from the trope, Ten-Ichi marries June Lamartaine, a French woman, in Nick Carter Weekly #460 (21 October 1905);that kind of intermarriage was quite rare in 1905, both in fiction and in real life. |
| 186 | * Creator/MichaelCrichton's ''Literature/RisingSun'' runs with a "the Japanese are different from us, so their investment is a threat" version. |
| 187 | * Ah Ling in the ''Literature/SallyLockhart'' novels is half-Dutch, and ''looks'' white, but is otherwise a fairly standard example of the trope. |
| 188 | * Shiwan Khan, of ''Literature/TheShadow'', is a somewhat odder portrayal of this, as he is purely Mongolian rather than Chinese and identifies as the heir to Genghis Khan. |
| 189 | * The ''Literature/SisterhoodSeries'' by Creator/FernMichaels: Oh yes, this series, particularly the book ''Vendetta'', happily went into this trope! That book even had the ladies take evil John Chai and disguise him as Fu Manchu! In other books of the series, Harry Wong gets little respect from a number of Americans, simply because he is Asian. |
| 190 | * Creator/RobertAHeinlein |
| 191 | ** ''Literature/SixthColumn'' depicts heroic white Americans fighting back against sinister (and themselves racist) "Pan-Asian" (A Chinese/Japanese alliance) invaders, with [[PhlebotinumBomb race-specific weapons]]. Heinlein usually made an effort to be non-racist, but when working with another's writings when you want to not anger them (as Heinlein did with Creator/JohnWCampbell's ''All'', the original story from which ''Sixth Column'' was modified) there's only so much a writer can do. |
| 192 | ** However his ''Literature/TunnelInTheSky'' has the Chinese invading Australia and forcibly deporting the populace to New Zealand so they can fill it up with their own people. |
| 193 | * Even the typically politically-correct Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse gets in on this with Prince Xizor and his [[TheSyndicate crime syndicate]], Black Sun. Besides being a blatant Chinese/Manchurian stereotype ''and'' a [[LizardFolk reptilian]] (he looks like [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prince_xizor.jpg this]]), he's a scheming, inscrutable sort, and the logo of Black Sun is suspiciously similar to the logo of the Kuomintang. |
| 194 | * ''The Yellow Invasion'' trilogy, a political thriller written in 1905 by Emile Driant, depicts the surprise attack of Europe by gigantic Sino-Japanese armies led by a highly intelligent and fanatically anti-Western officer, Yukinaga. |
| 195 | * Inverted in ''Literature/KachikujinYapu'' : Rinichiro, a Japanese young male, and his girlfriend, Clara, a German young female, both end up being brainwashed, even tortured in a Literature/AllTomorrows-esque way for the former, after meeting a woman and being joined into her [[LadyLand future]] [[StrawFeminist world.]] [[spoiler: Its society oppresses non-whites (especially Asians and more exactly Japanese people, now known as "yapoos") and led.... by White women.]] |
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| 198 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 199 | * ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' had some in the first season. The second season was full of it with the introduction of the Hand. After receiving enough accusations of this trope, the MCU started taking corrective measures in ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' and ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' with the introducion of the other "fingers" of the Hand from other continents of the world, led by a white North American, a black African and a brown South American, as well as {{Mooks}} from different ethnicities. |
| 200 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'' has never played this absolutely straight, but three individual stories have shown elements of it: |
| 201 | ** Mavic Chen in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan "The Daleks' Master Plan"]] has a Chinese-sounding last name, stereotypical East Asian facial features created by sticking makeup on a white person, and even a sort of Fu Manchu-ish moustache. Since it's black-and-white, some fan recolours attempt to rescue this by colouring him pale blue, making him into an alien. The official intention was for him to look [[InTheFutureHumansWillBeOneRace vaguely multiracial, as he was from the future]]. |
| 202 | ** The title character of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E7TheCelestialToymaker "The Celestial Toymaker"]] dresses in stereotypical Mandarin clothes (recycled from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E4MarcoPolo "Marco Polo"]], which was actually set in ImperialChina), which the production team intended as a play on his use of the Towers of Hanoi as a puzzle for the Doctor to solve. Unlike other examples, there's no accent, and no {{yellowface}} beyond a bit of makeup to make his eyebrows stereotypically straight and sharp. |
| 203 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang "The Talons of Weng-Chiang"]] features numerous {{Mooks}} in the employ of the Tong of the Black Scorpion, including peasant-turned-magician Li H'sen Chang, but the ultimate villain is [[spoiler: a white, possibly Australian, time-traveller from the 51st century named Magnus Greel]]. This doesn't really help, though, as most of the Chinese characters are portrayed as fanatical, bloodthirsty thugs falling over themselves to kill and die for anyone who impresses them with a bit of whizz-bang. And the only one who gets a HeelRealisation is played by a white guy in make-up. |
| 204 | * The Steve Coogan series ''Series/DrTerriblesHouseOfHorrible'' parodied this with Hang Man Chan, [[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard Sinister Bony-Fingered Menace of the East and Would-be Emperor Of The Free World]], and his daughter Woo-Woo. |
| 205 | * ''Series/GetSmart'', as a spoof of secret-agent fiction has a couple of examples: |
| 206 | ** Dr. Yes, an over the top parody of ''Film/DrNo''. |
| 207 | ** Partially subverted with The Claw: in a spoof of AsianSpeekeeEngrish humor, {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Max keeps mis-hearing the villain's name as "The Craw" even though no one else has trouble hearing it as "The Claw". |
| 208 | * Chinese communist agent Wo Fat from ''Series/HawaiiFiveO''. He appears in the [[Series/HawaiiFive0 reboot]] too, but a criminal rather than a spy. |
| 209 | * ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'': Invoked when one of the fake Kilgrave victims is a stoner who claims Kilgrave was this Chinese dude with glowing eyes who made him rob a convenience store at gunpoint. |
| 210 | * Many episodes of ''Series/KungFu1972'', though the hero was a [[ButNotTooForeign half]] Chinese man played by a [[{{Yellowface}} white American actor]]. |
| 211 | * The bizarre Saturday morning chimpanzee-acted parody of spy parody ''Series/GetSmart'', ''Series/LancelotLinkSecretChimp'', featured both "Wang Fu" and the (*[[LampshadeHanging ahem]]*) "[[DragonLady Dragon Woman]]." |
| 212 | * ''Series/TheMagician'': The villain in "The Illusion of the Lost Dragon" is a descendant of warlords who used to rule Szechuan Province, and who regards anything that originates from there as his property. This includes demanding daughters of Chinese immigrants as tribute. Although he mentions that he is of mixed race (presumably to explain why the white actor playing him does not look Chinese) he dresses in ancient Chinese armour, and lives in a palace surrounded by Chinese servants. |
| 213 | * The ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. Monk gets Cabin Fever" has Monk going into witness protection after witnessing a killing by an Asian gang member. The twist near the end reveals that EVERY Asian person that appears in the episode was working for the Asian gangster and was involved in a plot to kill Monk. |
| 214 | * The Dragonman (Joey Forman, who also played Film/CharlieChan {{Expy}} "Harry Hoo" on ''Series/GetSmart'') in ''Series/TheMonkees'' episode, "Monkee Chow Mein." |
| 215 | * The Chinese crime lord Soo Choy in ''Series/TheNewAvengers'' episode "Trap", who wears traditional Chinese robes and a Mandarin cap and generally comes across as a poor man's Fu Manchu. Not helped by being played by a white actor in obvious YellowFace. |
| 216 | * ''Series/SeaQuestDSV'' has the Chaodai, a Southeast Asian maritime nation that is starting to show its teeth to UEO. In their first (and [[LeftHanging only]]) appearance, their sub-fighters (who utilize a BrainComputerInterface) easily outmaneuver and kill a long-time secondary character, proving their technological superiority. Supposedly, the Chaodai were planned to be the next BigBad alongside Macronesia. |
| 217 | * The second ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' episode "[[Recap/SherlockS01E02TheBlindBanker The Blind Banker]]" is an old-fashioned Yellow Peril story that smacks viewers in the face with every Chinese stereotype ever portrayed in television played completely straight. |
| 218 | * Klingons in the original series of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' give every indication of being descended from this model. Before their retrofit for the movie era, Klingons were usually portrayed as a bunch of clever, deceitful criminals, played by white guys in vaguely "eastern" make-up, complete with Fu Manchu moustaches. |
| 219 | * The Hood from ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'', with mind-control powers. His brother Kyrano and niece Tin-Tin were both on the good guy's staff. Kyrano was a servant. Tin-Tin has degrees in [[InformedAbility Engineering and Mathematics]] - she's the [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Mad Scientist's Beautiful Niece]]. |
| 220 | * Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s ''Series/TheThundermans'' features a semi-recurring character named Mrs. Wong whose sole characterization is to be a light personification of this trope. This from a TV show that's ''brand new for the 2013-2014 television season''. |
| 221 | * ''Series/{{Vikings}}'' manages to combine this with RussiaTakesOverTheWorld. Despite being ([[InformedAttribute nominally]]) slavified vikings, their attire and weaponry are very East Asian, complete with their armor being Mongol and Chinese armor [[PropRecycling directly repurposed]] from ''Series/MarcoPolo''. |
| 222 | * ''Series/Warrior2019'' is set in San Francisco during the 1890s, and the anti-Chinese sentiment of the time is a huge part of the show's world - though one it emphatically does ''not'' espouse. |
| 223 | * ''Series/TheWildWildWest'' episode "The Night the Dragon Screamed" subverts this: the episode starts as a [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs rival-tongs]] plot, but halfway through the main villain is revealed as a renegade Englishman hoping to manipulate the Chinese throne. |
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| 226 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 227 | * In a number of ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' episodes, e. g. "China Story" and the one where Fred Fu Manchu, the world's leading bamboo saxophone player, explodes all non-bamboo saxophones. |
| 228 | * Played for laughs with the recurring villain TheMaster in ''Radio/TheNavyLark''. |
| 229 | * Also with Dr. Chu-en Ginsberg, M. A. (failed), from ''Radio/RoundTheHorne''. |
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| 232 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 233 | * In the original TabletopGame/{{Axis and Allies}} the pieces representing Japan were colored yellow. This was changed to red in 2001 for Axis and Allies Pacific, before settling on "burnt orange" for all future releases with Japan as a player. See also the yellow color for the units of the Asian Peoples Alliance/Western Invader for the game Fortress America. |
| 234 | * The Ubiquitous Dragon of ''TabletopGame/{{Adventure}}!''. His worldview is the result of his being raised by a Chinese warlord, who sought to corrupt him as a form of revenge on the Dragon's deceased father, a man of honor. |
| 235 | * Most of the Coordinators and Chancellors of the Draconis Combine and the Capellan Confederation, respectively, in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech''. They technically fall under GreyAndGreyMorality ([[http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Jinjiro_Kurita with a few exceptions]]), but they're generally a darker shade of grey. |
| 236 | ** To be more specific, during the Eighties and Nineties, when Japan was seen as an economic threat to the US and China was (''still'') recovering from the worst excesses of communism, the Combine (Japan) was portrayed as being powerful and evil, whilst the Confederation (China) was portrayed as incompetent. After that, the Combine became less hostile to the erstwhile good guys (but see GrayAndGrayMorality again), whilst the Confederation suddenly became a lot more competent and threatening. |
| 237 | ** Then again, since ''none'' of the factions in TabletopGame/BattleTech are outright "good guys," the Combine and Confederation can just as easily be seen as sympathetic, defending themselves from aggressive and (especially in the Capellan Confederation's case) larger enemies. There are also any number of Asian characters staunchly in the "good guy" camp, such as Justin Xiang Allard and his son, Kai Allard-Liao. On a meta level, [=BattleTech=] started off taking its cues from any number of Anime Mecha series, so has a vested interest in not portraying its Asian factions as wholly evil. |
| 238 | *** It should also be pointed out that while House Liao is ruled by a family of Chinese descent, the original '80s portrayal of House Liao was one that was not of a monolithic Chinese ethno-state. The Capellan Confederation was much more a generic stand-in for CommieLand. It was only later on in the metaplot, with Sun-Tzu Liao's reign as Chancellor, that the state took on more Chinese trappings and flavor. And even then, the Confederation is a multi-ethnic state, as are all the Successor States. |
| 239 | ** Played straight in universe in certain areas of the Federated Suns. While neither the Confederation nor Combine are ethnostates in any sense of the word, their being led by Chinese and Japanese-descended leaders makes "Asian" in the Draconis and Capellan Marches shorthand for "suspect". This is shown especially clearly with the racist treatment Justin Xiang Allard (who is part-Chinese) had to endure in the early chapters of ''Warrior: En Garde'' from citizens of the Capellan March, who believed him to be if not an enemy agent, then very close to being one. |
| 240 | * In the ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' adventure/setting book ''Watchers of the Dragon'', Dr. Yin Wu is a classic Yellow Peril villain. He's also firmly on the side of good in this paticular adventure. |
| 241 | * Warlord Kang, head of the Iron Dragon railroad in ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}''. |
| 242 | * Subverted and invoked in the revised Sons of Ether Tradition book for ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension''. Fang Qinbao is one of a group of globetrotting archaeologist-mages. He assumes the persona of "The Insidious Doctor Fang" as a way of dissuading interlopers - his 'death-traps' are, in reality, a way of neutralizing his enemies without killing them, letting him and his friends escape. (Oddly, playing the part seems to make his enemies behave like they're in the pulps themselves - getting caught in Fang's traps, or wasting their time against Fang's followers.) |
| 243 | * An odd version in ''Nyambe: African Adventures'' a MediaNotes/D20System game, people from the Far East have come to Nyambe and hiding among these merchants and travellers are the [[SnakePeople Yuan-Ti]] an aberrant monstrous race from TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons that's largely associated with whatever East/Southeast Asia country expy. The Yuan-Ti presence have grown so strong that they control what's now known as the Yuan-Ti Lands and they have taken to enslaving and murdering local demihuman races as well as switching to the local evil cults. |
| 244 | ** The people of the Far East in Nyambe are also having a straining relationship with most of the native Nyambans. They have come in such numbers that they've almost co-opted the fishing villages of the Kaya Vua Sumaki (a powerful confederacy of small city-states and one of the mightiest political power centers in Nyamba) and are seen as a danger to the Nyamban way of life. Additionally the Far Easteners hunger for exotic animal products like ivory have caused a severe decline in animal life on the coast, forcing hunting tribes to go further inland. |
| 245 | * Zhu Long in ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' is an intentional reference to this, having originated early in Sentinel Comics's history: an immortal Chinese mastermind who employs ninjas and turns into a dragon. He was primarily a villain for {{Blaxploitation}} kung fu hero Black Fist, now Mr Fixer. CCGImportanceDissonance means that despite his significant story influence, all he gets is an environment deck and a guest spot as a minion card. |
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| 247 | |
| 248 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 249 | * The pantomime ''Theatre/SheerLuckHolmes'' has a song-and-dance number on the subject, sung by the Tong hatchetmen in a [[ChineseLaunderer Chinese laundry]]. |
| 250 | -->Hide your daughter and your son / for the Yellow Peril's come! |
| 251 | [[/folder]] |
| 252 | |
| 253 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 254 | * [[http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/Sin_Tzu Sin Tzu]], from ''VideoGame/BatmanRiseOfSinTzu''. |
| 255 | * Wang, leader of the sinister Shai-Gen Corporation in ''VideoGame/{{Crackdown}}''. |
| 256 | * ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', while set in a fantasy world, have this trope in effect in regards to the continent of [[{{Wutai}} Akavir]]. Akavir, per in-game sources, is a mishmash of Chinese (Ka Po' Tun), Japanese (Tsaesci), and less prominent Indian (Tang Mo) and Mongol (Kamal) {{Fantasy Counterpart Culture}}s. In the backstory, some of the Akaviri races have attempted to invade Tamriel (a continent with a heavy European basis and where all of the games to date in the series have taken place) several times, but have always been defeated. Because of the past invasions, the citizens have Tamriel have some very Yellow Peril inspired beliefs about Akavir. |
| 257 | * In ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'', one of the {{Diabolical Mastermind}}s the player can choose to play is Shen Yu, who looks like Literature/FuManchu and was formerly a triple agent spying on both [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs The Triads]] and the local HeroesRUs for each other. Now, he seeks to TakeOverTheWorld for himself. |
| 258 | * In reference to this, ''VideoGame/HeartsOfIron'' has both Imperial Japan and Nationalist China (biggest/most dangerous Chinese faction) don different shades of yellow as their faction colours. |
| 259 | * ''VideoGame/{{Homefront}}'' may well be the epitome of this trope: a gritty, frightening portrayal of [[ChinaTakesOverTheWorld North Korea takes over the world]]. [[BannedInChina You have exactly three guesses as to the fate]] [[AmericansHateTingle of the game in many Asian countries, and the first two don't count]]. |
| 260 | * In ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'', the Chinese supercomputer that forms part of [[AIIsACrapshoot AM]]'s systems projects its avatar as a yellow figure in a gold robe. It also acts as a trickster throughout the scenarios that each of AM's 5 human victims are sent into. |
| 261 | * Marshall Kai from ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheEmperorsTomb''. Indy's love interest and Marshall Kai's assistant Mei Ying is not villainous though. [[spoiler: At least not until she is posessed by the demon Kong Tien and becomes a boss you have to fight.]] |
| 262 | * In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarryWetDreamsDryTwice'', the BigBad is a man named Wang, who has taken over Prune Inc. He looks suspiciously like Music/{{PSY}}, has pretty perverted sexual preferences, and jumps up and down when excited in a manner similar to the ''Music/GangnamStyle'' dance. His henchwoman is a North Korean assassin named Yanmei. |
| 263 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' |
| 264 | ** Shang Tsung. Though the protagonist Liu Kang is also Asian (Chinese, specifically.) |
| 265 | ** Any villain played by Creator/CaryHiroyukiTagawa will have this flavor. |
| 266 | ** Kano was originally supposed to be a Japanese crime boss. However, in ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'', [[RaceLift he was played by Trevor Goddard]], and the developers liked it so much that later games retconned him to being an ''[[TheBogan Australian]]'' crime boss. |
| 267 | * ''VideoGame/ProjectIGI: Covert Strike'' has the BigBad, General Wu Xing, a rogue Chinese official behind the theft of an EMP device and working with Russian terrorists, intending to use the device to overthrow the Chinese government which he perceives as "weak, hopelessly corrupt" before starting a war on the west. Marketing and promotional materials at the time keeps his presence a secret, but revelation of the game's main villain [[BannedInChina leads to the game being banned in China six months after it's release]]. |
| 268 | * Richard Wong from ''VideoGame/PsychicForce''. Class S evil Chinese man who controls time and manipulates the NOA group under [[DarkMessiah Keith Evans]] to eventually take over the world for his plaything as a God. Predictably, he breaks out from NOA. |
| 269 | * Chairman Shen-Ji Yang of ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'' is a Yellow Peril [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace on an alien planet]]. He is one of the most sinister of the faction leaders (though some of the others are no slouches themselves), and regards his entire population as nothing more than a grand social experiment. Doesn't help that his faction is one of the most powerful in the game... |
| 270 | ** Of course, factions in the game are based on ideology rather than racial makeup. The Hive are likely to be just as ethnically diverse as any other faction. |
| 271 | * In this [[http://www.teamfortress.com/loosecanon/05.html update page]] for ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', the Spy's predecessor is portrayed as the yellow peril. |
| 272 | ** Debateable as the characters aren't mentioned by name and they all appear to be working as mercenaries for higher powers. |
| 273 | * Yakuza ''Kumicho'' (boss) Shogo Takamoto in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderLegend''. And scores of Yakuza mooks. Lara does get a Japanese friend who helps her find Takamoto, in the form of media mogul Nishimura. |
| 274 | [[/folder]] |
| 275 | |
| 276 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 277 | * ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy'' parodied World War II newspaper comic depiction of the Japanese adversaries in comics encouraging the public to buy war bonds to fight the "The Japoteer." |
| 278 | * The ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' villain Dr. Nofun is a {{parody}} of this. |
| 279 | [[/folder]] |
| 280 | |
| 281 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 282 | * ''WebVideo/ClimateTown'': One of the clips from some of the bizarre advertisements the natural gas industry has put out over the years has a man pull aside the shower curtain to show an evil Fu Manchu stereotype in the shower, in an add attempting to villainize electric utility companies. |
| 283 | * ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': |
| 284 | ** The Chinese supervillain Iron Dragon, who has been trying to overthrow America, Europe, and Russia for decades, is essentially an {{Expy}} of Fu Manchu, right down to the moustache. His daughter, Silver Serpent, is now attending the [[SuperHeroSchool Whateley Academy]] and is a member of the Bad Seeds clique (to be admitted, one or more of your parents must be a supervillain). [[spoiler: In early 2012, Iron Dragon staged a coup that overthrew the People's Republic, declaring himself to hold the [[DivineRightOfKings Mandate of Heaven]] as the first emperor of a new Imperial dynasty.]] |
| 285 | ** According to UnreliableNarrator (and one-man DeconstructorFleet) Mephisto, while [[ThePowerOfActing playing the part of a 'sinister Asiatic mastermind']] in San Francisco in the 1930s, Mephisto had run afoul of a ''real'' sinister Asiatic mastermind; knowing when he was beaten, Mephisto sold his operation to him and got as far away as he could. He went on to explain that there were dozens of such masterminds running their own operations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most of whom were heading remnants of the Tongs and Triads and were looking for revenge against the West for the indignities the Han had suffered at the hands of the colonial powers. By the time of World War II, most of them had fallen to in-fighting or butting heads with other organized crime groups like TheMafia. The Iron Dragon, kept alive by magic, was one of the more ruthless and effective of those remaining, and by the 1980s had co-opted or enlisted most of the others that were still around. |
| 286 | [[/folder]] |
| 287 | |
| 288 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 289 | * ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'', being a [[GenreThrowback throwback]] to RaygunGothic sci-fi, has its BigBad Maximus I.Q. draw elements of his design from Ming the Merciless, such as wearing red robes and sporting a Fu Manchu (on top of also resembling a Siamese cat). However, he has a Western name, speaks with a posh British accent and is generally characterized as more of a CardCarryingVillain and SmallNameBigEgo than a secretive [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]]. |
| 290 | * Long Feng from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fits the trope to a T, but [[MonochromeCasting every character in the series is either Asian or Inuit, including the heroes]]. Tarrlok from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has all of the characteristics, except that he's from [[EskimoLand the Water Tribe]]. |
| 291 | ** These stereotypes are actually done in-universe in the second season. An actual war propaganda movie has Tarrlok 2.0, er, Unalaq, portrayed as your typical Fu Manchu/Ming the Merciless knockoff villain. |
| 292 | * The FiveEpisodePilot of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' has a pair of Siamese cat twins who run underground fish fighting rings. They could give Si and Am from ''Lady and the Tramp'' a run for their money in terms of how offensive they are. |
| 293 | * The ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' episode "Transylvanian Take-awy" features an evil Mandarin and his thugs trying to beat the Count to some treasure. These characters re-appeared in the ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndHugo'' book "Fu Man's Choo-Choo" thus making the connection clear. |
| 294 | * The [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Disney]] WartimeCartoon "Commando Duck". It was a thing back then. |
| 295 | * Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' with Zapp Brannigan's {{Imagine Spot}}s in the episode "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela", which have him battling Emperor Chop Chop. |
| 296 | * ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'''s nemesis Dr. Claw tried to team up with a Yellow Peril villain on two separate occasions. First, in "The Japanese Connection," Claw met with the "Great Samurai Waruda" who literally wore samurai armour. In "Eye of the Dragon," Claw met with the nefarious Mr. Chow from Hong Kong, who tended to speak largely in metaphors, as did a lot of the Chinese characters in that episode. |
| 297 | * Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''. The omnipresent [[EvilSorcerer evil Chinese sorcerer]] Daolon Wong is ''strongly'' reminiscent of Fu Manchu in all but facial hair, but then virtually all of the heroes are Asian too. |
| 298 | * ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' LIVED on this trope, Dr. Zin, Dr. Ashida, General Fong, Chu Sing Ling... |
| 299 | ** Dr. Zin also appears as the villain in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated''. |
| 300 | * Subverted with Ming on ''WesternAnimation/KittyIsNotACat''. Although he is named after Ming the Merciless, speaks in a Chinese accent, and an InscrutableOriental personality (on top of also being a Balinese), he's one of the title character's friends and generally characterized as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who cares a lot for Kitty underneath his apparent coldness to her. |
| 301 | * The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' WartimeCartoon "WesternAnimation/TokioJokio" features some very inaccurate caricatures of UsefulNotes/HidekiTojo and Isoroku Yamamoto, on top of just-plain unflattering depictions of the Japanese in general. |
| 302 | * So does the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' WartimeCartoon "You're a Sap, Mr. Jap" with the Imperial Japanese Navy. |
| 303 | * ''WesternAnimation/RobotBoy'' featured the evil if short-statured Dr. Kamikazi and his hapless sumo sidekick Constantine, though they were deliberately overdone. |
| 304 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "The China Probrem", the eternally racist Cartman sees the Bejing Olympic ceremonies as China's way of showing how large, dedicated and disciplined they are, construing it as a subtle military threat. In the end, the only threat is Butters's shaky aim. Earlier in "Chinpokomon," ''South Park'' had already parodied this trope by portraying a {{Phonymon}} franchise as an UsefulNotes/{{Imperial Japan}}ese indoctrination tool. They at least got around that by casting Japanese actors, using accurate Japanese language (which Creator/TreyParker speaks fluently), and making it so over-the-top nobody could take it seriously. |
| 305 | * The episode "Last Horizons" of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' has Baloo encountering "Panda-La" a land of Asian stereotypical Panda bears who are secretly planning to invade Cape Suzette, although it is mentioned in passing that other Panda populations despise them for their aggression. The episode was so heavily criticized because of its depiction of Asians that it was taken out of syndication. |
| 306 | * Peking Duck, a minor villain in ''WesternAnimation/TheTwistedTalesOfFelixTheCat'' is basically a G-rated variant of this. He's named after a Beijing duck recipe and dresses rather exotically, and he has two sumo wrestlers as henchmen. Not to mention his feathers are literally colored yellow. |
| 307 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'': |
| 308 | ** Jonas Venture tries to disguise himself as a Yellow Peril villain, calling himself Dr. Fanadragon and claiming to hail from "Japananawa". Another villain starts to comment on how Dr. Fanadragon is muddling a number of Asian nations and is obviously a tall white man. |
| 309 | ** AffablyEvil (emphasis on "affable") Dr. Zhi, a parody of Dr. Zin from ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest''. |
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