YMMV / The Secret of the Swordfish

• Complete Monster: Emperor Basam-Damdu is the head of the Yellow Empire. After claiming that he wanted peace, he attacked the free world, bombing several capitals in order to break the free world's minds, successfully taking over the world. When La Résistance starts fighting back, Basam-Damdu and his Great Council put the blame on Colonel Olrik, subtly threatening him and telling him to force Mortimer to reveal the Swordfish's plans in two days, or he will send someone to torture Mortimer. When the resistance is slowly winning, Basam-Damdu launches his empire's nuclear arsenal, attempting to destroy the world out of spite. A selfish, uncaring man who didn't care even for his own empire, Basam-Damdu was among the first, and among the worst, of the comic's villains.
• Values Dissonance: Considering that the plot is basically "The Yellow Peril takes over the world"... Olrik in particular has no loyalty to The Empire based almost solely on the fact that they're Asian and he's European. The creators of the animated series were fully aware of this and turned them into generic Commie Nazis with a white leader whose face is never seen.

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