Sandbox / Yellow Peril Wick Check

This is a wick check to see how Yellow Peril is used. It was originally meant as a list of expies, parodies, or other characters based on Fu Manchu, but its use has since expanded to any examples of villainous Asians (especially stereotypical ones), as well as sometimes describing eras of anti-Asian xenophobia.

Literally about Fu Manchu (2/50, 4%)

• CreatorBacklash.Comic Books: According to this Comic-Con interview, Jim Starlin regrets working on Shang-Chi's first three issues. He worked on the first issue completely ignorant of the source material of Fu Manchu, who was portrayed as Shang-Chi's father. Afterwards, Starlin's friend Larry Hama gave him a Fu Manchu book to read, and he is horrified by the stereotypical Yellow Peril portrayal of the character, leading to him dropping out of the book after the third issue.
• The Mask of Fu Manchu: The reason that all these white people have to retrieve the sword and mask is that if Fu Manchu gets them first, he'll assume the role of Genghis Khan and lead Asia in a war of extermination against white people.
  Fah Lo See: Genghis Khan leads the east against the world!

Characters inspired by Fu Manchu (3/50, 6%)

• Characters.Dr No: (Dr. No): A low-key example given he's a half-Chinese man working for a white-run organization. His introduction theme does have a Asian-esque sound to it, however, and the majority of his base staff seem to be Asian (though his outside operatives are from a number of different races). The character was intended to be a tribute to Fu Manchu. Indeed, one of the actors considered to play him was Christopher Lee, who portrayed Fu Manchu in the most number of films of any actor.
• ComicBook.Detective Comics: Issue #1 contains more than one tale about an upstanding white detective defeating sinister oriental villains, and the cover illustration features a stereotypical Chinese mastermind smiling evilly at the reader.
• Comic Book.Judomaster: Most of the villains play on this, but "Japanese Sandman" really plays it straight with his Fu Manchu facial hair and long nails.

Stereotypical or offensive Asian villains (7/50, 14%)

• Banned in China.Canada: TV Ontario refused to broadcast the Doctor Who story "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" after Chinese-Canadian groups who were given precautionary test screenings were angered by its Yellow Peril content.
• Characters.Disney Ducks Comic Universe Antagonists: (Wan Fu) The Chinese Wan Fu is the villain, the Italian Magica is the lesser villain, and the Scottish Scrooge and American Donald are the heroes. Magica and Wan Fu even compare the battle for the Number One Dime to a matter of East vs. West.
• Characters.GLOW 2017 (Jenney Chey) Dirty Communists / Yellow Peril: Her wrestling persona, an antagonistic Asian stereotype, pairs up with Soviet Zoya the Destroya in the final match of season 2 and in season 3 this tag-team continues.
• ComicBook.Stardust The Super Wizard: The one-time villain Slant-Eye's name and Yellowface strongly suggest this trope, although the script never mentions his race or nationality and he gets about as much development as a villain as the other evil men in suits.
• Creator.Stan Kelly: Any time Stan blames something on China, he usually draws a slant-eyed conical hat-wearing Chinese man rubbing his hands menacingly.
• Funny.Der Fuehrers Face: The Hypocritical Humor of Tojo calling himself an "Aryan pure-a superman" when he looks like a stereotypical Asian caricature, as far from the Aryan ideal as possible. However, this could possibly be a reference to the fact that Nazis considered the Japanese to be honorary Aryans.
• TheScrappy.Mortal Kombat: Perhaps the most unanimous Scrappy in the entire series is Hsu Hao. His goofy design as well as his sloppy animations and gameplay have made him very hated at worst, and forgettable at best. Combine all of that with him being a very unflattering depiction of a Yellow Peril stereotype villain, and you have a character who is reviled to the point of even the creators disliking him and actively regarding him as a mistake of ignorance on their parts.

Asian villains in general (15/50, 30%)

• Asians Eat Pets: Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space: Before opening fire on an Asian invasion, Proton says as a Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "Eat radium explosive, you dog-eating dogs!"
• Biological Weapons Solve Everything: In Jack London's story "The Unparalleled Invasion", what prevents the Yellow Peril from taking over the world is the bombardment of Chinese cities with glass tubes containing "every virulent form of infectious death," which exterminates the Chinese population in six weeks.
• Characters.The Dark Knight Trilogy League Of Shadows: (Ra's al Ghul's Decoy) He's played by a Japanese actor and leads a terrorist group. Subverted when it turns out he isn't the real Ra's al Ghul.
• Characters.The Shadow: Shiwan Khan was a would-be world conquer and archenemy of The Shadow. He was the last living descendant of Genghis Khan.
• Creator.HP Lovecraft: In "He", a man travels into the future and sees New York filled with scary Asian people.
• Creator.Tom Clancy: Tom Clancy loves this. Apart from multiple Ryanvese examples, SSN has China go to war with America over the Spratly Islands. Based on a submarine simulator Video Game.
• Dime Novel: Tom Edison Jr fought a Yellow Peril villain named Kiang Ho of the Golden Belt in 1892 who commanded a submarine called the Sea Serpent.
• Far East Asian Terrorists: There is a possibility that they can be placed in Unfortunate Implications with a case of Yellow Peril for terrorists who are of East Asian origin, especially Chinese ones.
• Literature.CALEXIT: Much concern is had that an independent California would become a Chinese puppet-state and seek to expand. How true this is remains to be seen.
• Literature.Jack Ryan: His portrayal of Japan in Debt of Honor and China in The Bear And The Dragon.
• Literature.Rivers Of London: One of Nightingale's predecessors at the Folly led the bust of a reputed Chinese sorcerer and white slaver in 1911. A subversion, as it turned out the sorcerer was a Canadian white guy operating under a Chinese name.
• Nightmare Fuel.WWE: The Japanese heels, too. WWE aren't shy about playing up the Yellow Peril gimmick for all it's worth.
• Recap.The Shadow Pulps S 1 The Living Shadow: Subverted — while a number of Chinese characters serve as mooks, the Big Bad and his Dragon are both Caucasian.
• UnfortunateImplications.Live Action TV: (Daredevil (2015)) It had been brought up that out of all the stereotyped criminal organizations in Wilson Fisk's criminal enterprise in season 1, the Chinese and Japanese are essentially modern-day Yellow Peril cliches.
• Signature Laugh: (Pro Wrestling) Mr. Fuji had a sneering, sinister laugh.

Historical anti-Asian xenophobia (5/50, 10%)

• Characters.MCU Howling Commandos: (Jim Morita) Averted and Defied; In his backstory he endured a lot of harassment for being Japanese after Pearl Harbor, but there's no mention of his race in the movie itself note , and he's just as loyal and dedicated to bringing down the Nazis / HYDRA as the other Commandos.
• Chinese Launderer: ...Unfortunately, in an effort to drive the "dangerous foreigners" out of the city, laws were passed in 1933 to among other things restrict ownership of laundries to American citizens...
• Film.Java Head: Present, if extremely downplayed. Edward's opium addiction and desire for Taou Yuen could be interpreted as an example of how China 'corrupts' people.
• Literature.Her Fathers Daughter: Despite its nature-loving themes and its romances, it's centrally a heavy-headed warning against it:
  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?"
  "Linda," said the boy breathlessly, "do you realize that you have been saying 'we'? Can you help me? Will you help me?"
  "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."
• Red China: Fu Manchu meets Dirty Communists (or Yellow Peril meets Red Scare), to a very large extent...

Asian stereotypes in general (3/50, 6%)

• Cat Stereotype: Siamese [cats] are sometimes portrayed with Southeast Asian (whether specifically Thai or not) or Chinese National Animal Stereotypes. As mentioned above, they'll often be evil or at least annoying and noisy, presumably in reference to the Yellow Peril or Asian Rudeness stereotype.
• Characters.Crash Canyon: (Hiko) Hiko has yellow skin on account of his Asian race.
• Film.The Daydreamer: With his squinty eyes, glasses, buck teeth, Fu Manchu mustache, and thick accent, the Mole in the Thumbelina segment is an obvious Japanese stereotype. His voice actor, Sessue Hayakawa, was commonly typecast as these character types later in his career.

Other, Pothole, or ZCE (15/50, 30%)

• Characters.Anno Dracula: ("The Lord of Strange Deaths") The classic one.
• Characters.Game Of Dogs: (Jun) Dog Stereotype: Of Yellow Peril variety.
• Characters.Lord El Melloi II Case Files Support Characters: (Hirishi) Dragon Lady: To a T. It's implied she deliberately plays this up for intimidation, as Western mages tend to be quite ignorant about Eastern traditions and easily fall into Yellow Peril anxieties.
• Dragon Lady: The Baroness meets Yellow Peril.
• Live-Action Films: In the final chapter of The Batman (Serial), the villain has Batman tied up in a chair and brings out Batman's girlfriend Linda and her uncle, who are under the influence of his mind control.
• Intimidation Demonstration: Wild Wild West: One of [Jim's] opponents does some fancy martial arts moves and says "I learned that from a Chinaman."
• Literature.The Day The Music Died: Deconstructed, as Tamaki's scheme of stealing five thousand people's personal information through a fake leaked copy of Carverquest's final book leads Nick to note that racism became prevalent in the already unstable fandom.
  And you know what happened next. He was Japanese. Rich, meaty racewank flowed like a river.
• MarvelCinematicUniverse.Tropes B To F: Culturally Sensitive Adaptation: The MCU has twice tried to adapt the Mandarin without the Yellow Peril stereotypes. Once in Iron Man 3 by deliberately making him an in-universe generically-"foreign" threat to exploit xenophobia, and again in Shang-Chi by using a rounded villain character that just happened to be Chinese.
• Pastiche: Doctor Who: ..."The Talons of Weng-Chiang" mixes up Sherlock Holmes and Yellow Peril Exploitation Films.
• Series.NCIS Los Angeles: "Chinatown" (1x16) is all over this one.
• Toothy Issue: Villainous Asians have crooked teeth.
• VideoGame.Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines: Black-and-Gray Morality: As fitting for the World of Darkness. The Camarilla is mostly made of manipulative schemers who try to use you as pawns for their own benefit, and the Anarchs, while depicted in a slightly better light, can come across as needlessly aggressive, self-destructive and averse to cooperation. Both are, however, overall better people than the Sabbat and Kuei-jin...
• WesternAnimation.Milton The Monster: Doctor Goo Fee and his sidekick Gung Ho.
• WMG.Tale Spin: I was mostly referring to some really heavy-handed stereotypes that were present, particularly Thembria/Russia and "Lost Horizons", a Missing Episode involving Yellow Peril elements.
• Radio.Round The Horne: Parodied with the villainous Dr Chou En Ginsberg, MA (failed) and his concubine, the lovely (but suspiciously deep-voiced) Lotus Blossom.