History Main / MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow

** Also inverted in the first season, since Brittanian Princess Euphemia's boyfriend is none other than her personal knight, Suzaku Kururugi (Japanese). He is the lower status individual on pretty nearly every scale, but he kicks ass and likes being told what to do, and she's a total sweetheart, so it's actually pretty well balanced.

** ''Shogun'' provides some justification, as Mariko-san is the only available translator for Blackthorne, so the two end up spending all their time together. Blackthorne, all told, has ''four'' Japanese women: [[ButtMonkey Fujiko]], whom Toranaga orders to run his household as a consort (with all that the word implies), [[OfficialCouple Mariko his translator]], and, in the end, [[spoiler: he is married to Midori, in order to solidify his standing as samurai and to run his house once Fujiko commits {{seppuku}}, and [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Kikuchiyo]]'s contract is given to him so she'll be attached to someone worthy of her, and so that he'll have someone to delight him for as long as he's imprisoned in Japan]]. Blackthorne's real-life inspiration actually did marry a Japanese woman (although a commoner of the merchant class, not a samurai or a geisha) and have two children with her.

Interracial relationships, in general, are still a [[MalignedMixedMarriage touchy subject]]. There still exists the notion that [[EntitledToHaveYou the women of a social category somehow "belong" to the men of that category and vice-versa]]. Those who stray are often considered some kind of [[CategoryTraitor traitor to "their people"]]. Asiatic-European pairings are also plagued by the shadow of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism Orientalism]], and a long history of stories about "pink men rescuing brown women from evil brown men". Though Orientalism was originally defined by European attitudes to the Middle East, European eyes went on to view the Far East through the same paradigm. In any case, the modern {{stereotype}} of an Asian woman is that she's a charmingly exotic, uber-domestic, [[AsianHookerStereotype unquestioningly-subservient nymphomaniac]]... or, at the other extreme, [[AsianAirhead an uneducated, ditzy moron]]. Thus, her white lover will arrive and be somehow "better" than her Asian peers, often to the point of her complete devotion.

* Given an intriguing race flip in Korean romantic comedy ''Film/MarriageBlue'', wherein a white woman from Uzbekistan, in Korea on a work visa, has fallen in love with an older Korean man. It's Mighty Yellow And Mellow Whitey, but in all other respects, the dynamic is the same with the woman being the foreigner, of lower social status (the man owns his own flower shop), and struggling to fit in with the dominant culture that the man is part of.

** There's a GenderFlip in the form of Gruver's white fiance Eileen growing closer to a kabuki performer called Nakamura. Theirs is only given a MaybeEverAfter, and Nakamura is played by the Mexican actor Ricardo Montalban. In this case, Nakamura outranks her.

* Gender-Inverted in ''Stratosphere Girl'', where a European girl who's an aspiring comic book artist falls for a Japanese foreign exchange student from a wealthy family, then when he returns to Tokyo, she follows in the hopes of finding him again; when her early tries at getting hired in the manga industry fall through, she ends up stuck working as a hostess in a bar catering to the white RaceFetish of its Asian patrons. And then the murder mystery happens...

* GenderFlipped earlier in ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', with Hiro and his white girlfriend [[PhotographicMemory Charlie]]. Interestingly, Charlie herself is pretty close to [[AcceptableFeminineGoalsAndTraits parts of the Asian stereotype]], being a kind, gentle waitress. Hiro falls squarely as an AscendedFanboy and thus an AudienceSurrogate for many of the nerds watching - women like him precisely ''because'' he's an earnest NiceGuy.

* Series/DiffrentStrokes: Phillip Drummond is surprised by a man claiming to be his son; the man's mother is a Korean woman Drummond met during the war. [[spoiler: The man's father was actually an American soldier who raped the woman. She lied and told her son Drummond was his father because Drummond embodied many of the "Mighty Whitey" characteristics of bravery and honour.]].

* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration'' has the blonde, blue-eyed American [[KidSamurai Brooklyn]] "[[InsistentTerminology Bullet]]" [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Luckfield]] with his Japanese partner/girlfriend [[ShyBlueHairedGirl Kusuha]] [[DamselInDistress Mizuha]], as well as the German [[SupremeChef Elzam von]] [[MemeticBadass Branstein]] and his late Japanese wife [[YamatoNadeshiko Cattleya Fujiwara]] (though according to the backstory, Elzam's around 1/4 Japanese). Interestingly, most interracial couples in the series actually invert this, with the very Japanese [[TheStoic Kyosuke]] [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsCompact2 Nanbu]], [[NoSenseOfDirection Masaki]] [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars2 Andoh]] and [[IdiotHero Tasuku]] [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Shinguji]] pairing up with [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Excellen]] [[MsFanservice Browning]], [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Lune]] [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars3 Zoldark]] and [[BlueBlood Leona]] [[LethalChef Garstein]], respectively ([[{{Mukokuseki}} not that you can really tell...]])