History Main / DragonLady

* Princess Azula of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is a less ethnically offensive version of this trope. She has a lot in common with traditional Dragon Ladies, being a cruel, {{a|xCrazy}}ggressive, {{manipulative|Bastard}} {{da|ddysLittleVillain}}ughter of the [[BigBad Fire Lord]]. But pretty much everyone in the series is a [[FantasyCounterpartCulture fantasy Asian or Inuit]], so the stereotype is balanced by plenty of counter-examples. She's not so much a Dragon Lady as just an EvilIsSexy villainess in a world where practically everyone happens to be Asian.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' have the Iron Queen, though current writer Ian Flynn made her a [[TechnoWizard Technomage]] and less a traditional spellcaster.

* The TropeNamer is the original Dragon Lady, also known as Madam Deal, introduced in 1934 in Milton Caniff's comic strip ''ComicStrip/TerryAndThePirates''. According to Trina Robbin's "Tender Mercies: Women Who Kill", the character was based on the real-life Lai Choi San, who was a rather successful pirate active in the China seas in the 1920s and 1930s.

* Seemingly played straight [[spoiler: and actually averted]] with the "second" Ada Wong in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6''. True, she dresses in a sexy dress, is cruel and kills in sadistic manners without mercy, and [[spoiler: appears to be]] a {{Dragon}} to the BigBad, but [[spoiler: she's really a vengeful Caucasian woman who was manipulated and transformed against her will into a physical copy of the real Ada, who is an AntiHero]].

* Wanda from ''{{Webcomic/Erfworld}}''; she's a mysterious, sexually-aggressive, ambitious woman from a long-lost Asian-looking tribe.
* The Handmaid from ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'', who has a distinct Asian theme (despite being an alien from another universe) and is also the unwilling servant of an EldritchAbomination whose purpose is to end universes.

* Mavra Chan (marginally) qualifies in ''{{Webcomic/Terinu}}''. Though she tends to wear stompy boots and an armoured corset rather than a kimono, she's certainly mysterious, sadistic, evil and perfectly willing to sell out the human race to make a fast buck. Unfortunately she's also the only human character in the main cast to show any ethnicity at all (the rest are white Australians).

* Parodied in a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short ''China Jones'' featuring WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck as a detective who is interrogating an Asian woman known as "The Dragon Lady." When the terminally [[GenreBlindness genre-blind]] Daffy asks her why she is called that, she breathes fire on him. ([[YouNoTakeCandle "Is answer question?"]])

TheBaroness [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] YellowPeril. The Dragon Lady is characterized by her overt [[EvilIsSexy sexual]] and [[DarkActionGirl physical aggression]], [[DevilInPlainSight untrustworthiness]], and [[InscrutableOriental mysteriousness]]. Probably [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery wears]] a UsefulNotes/{{qipao}}, UsefulNotes/{{kimono}}, or other traditional Asian finery (regardless of her actual ethnicity), often with a dragon ''on it'', and knows [[AllAsiansKnowMartialArts martial arts]]. If she carries a weapon, it's usually a concealed stabbing or [[CoolSword slashing]] weapon; {{combat hand fan}}s are a perennial favorite. Is contractually obligated to have legs that would make Tina Turner jealous, to better [[ShowSomeLeg pull off the dress]].

* Linda Lo of ''Theatre/FlowerDrumSong'' is a more benign example. She merges this with AsianAirhead, but she's a manipulative seductress who tries to secure her own comfort - and is contrasted with the YamatoNadeshiko Mei Li. Ironically enough Linda is an Asian-American - whereas Mei Li is a Chinese immigrant.

TheBaroness [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] YellowPeril. The Dragon Lady is characterized by her overt [[EvilIsSexy sexual]] and [[DarkActionGirl physical aggression]], [[DevilInPlainSight untrustworthiness]], and {{mysterious|Woman}}[[InscrutableOriental ness]]. Probably [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery wears]] a UsefulNotes/{{qipao}}, UsefulNotes/{{kimono}}, or other traditional Asian finery (regardless of her actual ethnicity), often with a dragon ''on it'', and knows [[AllAsiansKnowMartialArts martial arts]]. If she carries a weapon, it's usually a concealed stabbing or [[CoolSword slashing]] weapon; {{combat hand fan}}s are a perennial favorite. Is contractually obligated to have legs that would make Tina Turner jealous, to better [[ShowSomeLeg pull off the dress]].

* Miss East in the ''Film/WildWildWest'' film, also played by Bai Ling.

* The bizarre Saturday morning chimpanzee-acted parody of spy parody ''Series/GetSmart'', ''Series/LancelotLinkSecretChimp'', featured the "[[LampshadeHanging Dragon Woman]]," a female Oriental spy (voiced by Joan Gerber), who was (as the ThemeSong assured us) "lovely, but she's wicked all the same."

* Miss Ylang-Ylang from ''WesternAnimation/BobMorane''. Asian, seductive, and the leader of her own criminal organization.

* Many of the characters played by Creator/AnnaMayWong - starting with ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad1924'' until ''[[Literature/FuManchu Daughter of the Dragon]]''. This was a source of considerable annoyance to her, especially since she was lucky to even get ''those'' roles, because most went to white actresses in {{yellowface}} makeup. After ''Daughter of the Dragon'', she took her career to Europe to play more varied roles.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanSoulOfTheDragon'' , Shiva has the exotic Asian appearance, the fighting prowess and is even mentioned to be the head of organized crime in Gotham's Chinatown.

* Fah Lo Suee, the daughter of Literature/FuManchu.

* One of the main characters in ''The Periodic Table of Science Fiction'' is known as 'The Dragon Lady'.
** Miss Adrienne Wong-Heppworth, found in the chapter "[[http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/periodictable.html Lutetium]]".
* ''I am a genius of unspeakable evil and I want to be your Class President'': Tatiana, someone who even the titular evil overlord-type considers cruel, invokes this trope with a kimono embroidered with pink dragons.
* In ''Literature/DeepSix1984'', Min Koryo is implied to have been this in her youth.

* Princess Koji, villainess of the short-lived ''Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey'', who varied from wanting to kill [[TheHero Jake Cutter]] and wanting to [[VillainousCrush bed him.]] She's played by a [[{{Yellowface}} white actress]] with the HandWave that she's half-Irish.

* ''Film/CodeNameDiamondHead'': Tsao Tsing owns a boat called ''Dragon Lady'', but she's actually the Chinese positive archetype of "dragon lady": warm, loving, intelligent and protective.

* Linda Lo of ''Theatre/FlowerDrumSong'' is a more benign example. She merges this with AsianAirhead, but she's a manipulative seductress who tries to secure her own comfort - and is contrasted with the YamatoNadeshiko Mei Li. Ironically enough Linda is an Asian-American - whereas Mei Li is a Chinese immigrant.

* Ming Xiao, leader of the Asian vampires in ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines''.

* [[DaddysLittleVillain Mai Hem]] from ''VideoGame/PerfectDark Zero''.

* In the original ''VideoGame/DeadToRights'', Slate has to fight an entire massage parlor of dragon ladies
* [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast MayDay]] from ''VideoGame/{{Aquanox}} 2'' is playing the trope as straight as possible.
* Chun-Li from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' is an exceptionally rare good version, combined with heroic ActionGirl — competitive, sexy, a bit aggressive, and certainly Asiatic. She also dons a qipao.
* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'':
** Anna Williams is a rare example of a white woman portrayed as this trope. She may be [[{{Oireland}} Irish]], but she has the dress, the legs, the vampiness, and the killer instinct native to the trope, and as of ''Tekken 6'', she's the G-Corporation Kazuya's right-hand woman.
** Lana Lei from ''Death by Degrees'' is a straighter example, being an aggressive and untrustworthy Asian woman. Unlike most examples of this trope, however, [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes she has one man in her life whom she truly loves]].
* Yuma Lau of ''VideoGame/FarCry4'' is the adopted sister of Pagan Min, [[TheCaligula murderous dictator of Kyrat]]. Like her brother, she's ethnically East Asian, and she plans on betraying and overthrowing her brother because she believes that [[spoiler: [[TheyWereHoldingYouBack Pagan's love for Ajay's mother Ishwari was softening his tyranny.]]]] Apart from that, she's also the governor of Pagan's [[EliteMooks Royal Guard]] and the [[WardensAreEvil chief warden]] of [[HellHolePrison Durgesh Prison]]. Oh, and [[spoiler:she tries to rape and kill Ajay because he's a living reminder of the woman who served as a MoralityChain to Pagan. Needless to say, in contrast to the rest of the villains, she's a CompleteMonster.]]
* Litchi Faye-Ling of ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' plays around this trope. Although heavily Chinese-oriented and occasionally aggressive when drunk, she is overall a good, modest, kindhearted lady. Then in the end ''Continuum Shift'', it would seem that she ends up joining NOL, making her look like the trope, double subverting the trope. However, it turns out that she is in fact ForcedIntoEvil, didn't act like a typical [[TheVamp vamp]] or seductress, her kind heart didn't get replaced by aggressiveness on obsession and it is shown clearly that she regrets what she had to do, but has no other choice, thereby triple-subverting the trope.
** On the other hand, the novel character Mei-Fang Lapislazuli is a straighter version: A sadistic CombatSadomasochist who has the power to FeelNoPain, which annoys her because she likes pain on herself, and leader of the Zero Squadron of NOL and overall just ''very'' unstable. She has played the BigBad role in ''Variable Heart'' and has a dark involvement in the Ikaruga Civil War, as detailed in ''Spiral Shift'' novels. Which includes [[OffWithHisHead a beheaded ally courtesy of herself]].

* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney:''
** While she's not as combative as other examples, Morgan Fey carries several traits, including a subtle iron fist on her daughter and a quite disturbing DeathGlare. It's doesn't stay "subtle" for long though, since she's [[spoiler:one of the two culprits of the case where you first meet her, and her daughter is pretty central to her motivation for committing the crime]].
** Morgan's niece Mia occasionally seems like a benevolent version of this trope: She's frighteningly competent for someone who's dead, is a harsh if encouraging mistress to her old pupil Phoenix, and [[MsFanservice is quite attractive]].
** Played very straight in ''Spirit of Justice'' with [[spoiler: Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in, the Queen of Khura'in, especially once she gets serious. Her EvilCostumeSwitch in very reminiscent of this trope, and she's considered downright terrifying by everyone. Even before she became a dictator, she was a prosecutor known for being especially ruthless. Once she took the throne, she went to every length to ensure she stays in power, even making defending a criminal in court a ''capital crime''.]]

* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' has The Empress, a mysterious and ruthless crime boss in charge of the [[{{Yakuza}} Nyakuza]].
* Maiko in ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' is almost a deconstruction of this as she is a beautiful Japanese prostitute/gangster with an utterly ruthless vindictive streak. [[TokenEvilTeammate However, she's (mostly) on your side]] and all of her nasty elements come from having to survive in an environment that does not treat women very well as well as doesn't hesitate to use violence. As she says, you have to be utterly ruthless and utterly polite at the level of gangster that her bosses operate.
* In Compile-era ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' games when she is a villain, Draco Centauros gives off this vibe, wearing the qipao and being quite physically aggressive, seemingly knowing martial arts. In the Sega era this is averted as she's far too ditzy to qualify.

* Yu Hansung from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' appears to be this and is quite the scheming [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]]. She is heavily Korean-themed, however she is not presented as sexy, because ''Tower Of God'' just isn't that type of manhwa. [[spoiler: And fifty chapters in you discover that [[DudeLooksLikeALady she... is a he]].]]
* Mavra Chan (marginally) qualifies in ''{{Webcomic/Terinu}}''. Though she tends to wear stompy boots and an armoured corset rather than a kimono, she's certainly mysterious, sadistic, evil and perfectly willing to sell out the human race to make a fast buck. Unfortunately she's also the only human character in the main cast to show any ethnicity at all (the rest are white Australians).

* Wanda from ''{{Webcomic/Erfworld}}''; she's a mysterious, sexually-aggressive, ambitious woman from a long-lost Asian-looking tribe.

* The Inspector Rather series - a series of spoof blog posts featuring Dan Rather as an incompetent detective and the various personalities in the right-wing blogosphere as a RoguesGallery of stereotypical detective story villains - portrays Michelle Malkin as one of these. She even calls herself The Dragon Lady.

* Parodied in a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short ''China Jones'' featuring WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck as a detective who is interrogating an Asian woman known as "The Dragon Lady." When the terminally [[GenreBlindness genre-blind]] Daffy asks her why she is called that, she breathes fire on him. ([[YouNoTakeCandle "Is answer question?"]])

* Lady Fang from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}'' episode "Firecracker", who engages in WarForFunAndProfit.
* A dragon lady lures Paul to her ghost ship in ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' episode "Anna."
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': One of the dog's most formidable enemies was a Chinese Empress who embodied this tropes to a supernatural extent.

* Lady Serpent, foe of the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] hero the Black Terror.

* The title character of Chaos! Comics' ''ComicBook/{{Jade}}'' is this.
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' have the Iron Queen, though current writer Ian Flynn made her a [[TechnoWizard Technomage]] and less a traditional spellcaster.
* Lu Sin from AC Comics. Fitting, as she's an {{Expy}} of Fah Lo Suee.
* ''ComicBook/DangerGirl: The Chase'' has Anastasia Kilbourne, a master of edged weaponry who Sonya describes as "a tattooed ninja assassin". She even has a tattoo of an oriental dragon running all the way up the right side of her body.
* Anna Sui Hark, from Creator/WarrenEllis's ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'', is a rare good version. Like the classic Dragon Lady, she comes off for a long time as morally ambiguous - but is ultimately revealed to be aiding the bad guys solely out of fear of losing everything her father had worked to accomplish.
* Chinatsu from ''ComicBook/{{Drain}}'' is a heroic version. Albeit she's a Japanese vampire ninja whose seeks revenge against her family's murderer while killing bad guys along the way. Play straight with the white Freya, Chinatsu former lover, who even dresses in a qipao.
* ComicBook/APeoplesHistoryOfTheAmericanEmpire has a real life example with Vietnamese First Lady Madame Nhu

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* Many of the characters played by Creator/AnnaMayWong - starting with ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad1924'' until ''[[Literature/FuManchu Daughter of the Dragon]]''. This was a source of considerable annoyance to her, especially since she was lucky to even get ''those'' roles, because most went to white actresses in {{yellowface}} makeup. After ''Daughter of the Dragon'', she took her career to Europe to play more varied roles.
--> "Why is it that the screen Chinese is always the villain? And so horrible a villain - mean, treacherous, a snake in the grass. We are not like that!"

* Hu Li, from ''Film/RushHour2''.

* Miss East in the ''Film/WildWildWest'' film, also played by Bai Ling.
* Mai, TheDragon of ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard''.
* The ''qipao''-clan main villainess from ''Film/ShanghaiGrand'', who spends much of the film's first half antagonizing the good guys. Her EstablishingCharacterMoment involve her killing a man by chewing his throat out and later on she personally machine-guns a cage filled with 20 helpless prisoners. Her final moment involves her trying to feed the film's [[TheLancer lancer]] to her pet boa constrictor while she gleefully watches.
* Madame Rose, the villainess/villain of the Thai film ''Tom Yum Goong'', retitled ''Film/TheProtector'' in the US.
* Miss Yang, who hires and later betrays Terry Tsurugi in ''Film/TheStreetFighter''.

* The pirate lord Mistress Ching, based on the real-life pirate Ching Shih, in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd''.
* Cantana in ''Film/StreetFighterTheLegendOfChunLi''.
* At the end of the movie ''Film/{{Bowfinger}}'', Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) and Jiff Ramsey (Eddie Murphy) star in a kung fu movie called "Fake Purse Ninjas" where Christine Baranski plays a Dragon Lady type ordering a horde of ninjas to attack them.
* The Hong Kong action picture ''Film/LegendaryAssassin'' casts a Japanese woman in this role, and to better play up her ethnicity, gives her a katana as a weapon. Her ability to lead and kick ass is largely [[InformedAbility informed]], however, as she spends most of the movie taunting the hero over the phone, threatens his captive LoveInterest for two minutes at the end of the movie, then gets beaten in one hit by said love interest once the girl is set free.

* Creator/JoanChen was {{type|Casting}}cast as the Dragon Lady in several 1980s-1990s films, prompting her to return home to China for a few years and try her hand at directing instead.
* Majorly defied in ''Film/TheExpendables2'' with Maggie Chan, with only ''one'' subversion. She's Oriental, but she's wholly good, capable of kicking and shooting bad guys' asses to kingdom come instead of being a DamselInDistress, witty, not cynical at all... and has no problem using either JackBauerInterrogationTechnique or ColdBloodedTorture to extort informations... out of thugs and bad guys (It's off screen, no worries).
* A forgettable kids' movie ''Film/{{Alec to the Rescue}}'' cast... [[WTHCastingAgency Nicaraguan Barbara Carrera]] (best known from ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'') in such a role.

* Madame Piranha AKA Madame X from ''Film/KingKongEscapes'' qualifies, even if we're never told what Asian country it is she is a representative of.
* In the Wrestling/TrishStratus action movie ''Bounty Hunters'' the villains' team has an Asian female. She's suitably deadly and vampy, naturally getting a DesignatedGirlFight with Trish's character Jules.

* ''Royal Kill'' - an independent action film from 2009 - has an Asian assassin being sent to murder a long lost princess raised as an ordinary suburban girl. Wrestling/GailKim, mentioned below, plays her. Of course since most of the cast is Asian, including the 'princess', it's a little less offensive.
* In ''Film/ThirteenWomen'', the BigBad Ursula is a sinister Eurasian beauty (played by Creator/MyrnaLoy in {{Yellowface}}) who dresses in slinky gowns and has HypnoticEyes who embarks on a campaign to destroy the 13 Caucasian women she blames for ruining her life a decade earlier.
* In ''Film/DeathRing'', Danton Vach's [[TheCreon extremely competent second-in-command]] is Ms. Ling: a half-Vietnamese assassin who killed 17 Americans during the Vietnam War, starting when she was 14.

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* Lanhua in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'', an odd example from an Asian work; she's Chinese and part of an EvilIsSexy-based QuirkyMinibossSquad (along with a {{cr|eepyCrossdresser}}ossdressing [[KissOfTheVampire vampire]], a loli IdolSinger, and a [[FashionableEvil Fashionably Evil]] [[HoYay lesbian]] [[MinionShipping couple]]).

* One of these shows up in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'''s {{interquel}} OVA, with the added bonus of being a GravityMaster who takes down the seriously badass hero without breaking a sweat.
* Boa Hancock, Pirate Empress of ''Manga/OnePiece'' shares many traits with archetype, though she's somewhat of a newcomer when it comes to being a vamp.
* A far more AxCrazy version is Liang Qi from ''Anime/{{Canaan}}''.

* Subverted in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' with Chang Wufei's late wife Meiran. She aspired to be powerful and respected, both in terms of her fighting ability and her intellect (often getting into heated debates with her husband). She [[ActionGirl kicked ass]], in order to protect her home. She wasn't particularly TheVamp, or a villainess, though. Wufei admired her strength, albeit somewhat grudgingly.
* Shenhua in ''Manga/BlackLagoon''. A Taiwanese assassin who wears qipao and talks in pidgin English (or Japanese depending.) Don't underestimate her because of that if you value your life.

* Poison knife-wielding Qinglin Cui from ''Anime/NightRaid1931'' is one that runs an illegal prostitution ring by kidnapping aspiring actresses.

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** [[Characters/BatmanTaliaAlGhul Talia al Ghul's]] design and role in ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'' was fashioned after one, with her Asian physical features being more prominent than ever, her tendency to wear red UsefulNotes/{{Qipao}}s, TookALevelInJerkass and becoming far more ruthless and her role as TheLeader of a terrorist organization of her own.

** Shado, a character best known for [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale raping the Green Arrow]].
** Lillian Worth, the mother of Rose Wilson.
** Shiv, the teenage granddaughter of a Japanese [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] supervillain. Her Asian heritage isn't particularly pronounced though, and some artists don't seem to realize she's Asian at all.
** The villainess Roulette isn't Asian, but is the sort of person who [[ForeignCultureFetish wishes she were]]. She does wear a qipao, has Chinese tattoos (including one of a dragon), wears chopsticks in her hair etc. When it came time for her to appear in [[Recap/SmallvilleS09E05Roulette an episode]] of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', she was indeed played by Creator/StephSong, an actress of Asian heritage. Lois even refers to her as a dragon lady! Referring to her outfit as a 'bigger RedScare than UsefulNotes/ColdWar Russia.'

* Miss Ylang-Ylang from ''WesternAnimation/BobMorane''. Asian, seductive, and the leader of her own criminal organization.
* The title character of ''ComicBook/ExecutiveAssistantIris''.

TheBaroness [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] YellowPeril. The Dragon Lady is characterized by her overt [[EvilIsSexy sexual]] and [[DarkActionGirl physical aggression]], [[DevilInPlainSight untrustworthiness]], and {{mysterious|Woman}}[[InscrutableOriental ness]]. Probably [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery wears]] a UsefulNotes/{{qipao}}, UsefulNotes/{{kimono}}, or other traditional Asian finery (regardless of her actual ethnicity), often with a dragon ''on it'', and knows [[AllAsiansKnowMartialArts martial arts]]. If she carries a weapon, it's usually a concealed stabbing or [[CoolSword slashing]] weapon; {{combat hand fan}}s are a perennial favorite. Is contractually obligated to have [[ShesGotLegs legs that would make Tina Turner jealous]], to better [[ShowSomeLeg pull off the dress]].

* Seemingly played straight [[spoiler: and actually averted]] with the "second" Ada Wong in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6''. True, she dresses in a sexy [[ShesGotLegs dress]], is cruel and kills in sadistic manners without mercy, and [[spoiler: appears to be]] a {{Dragon}} to the BigBad, but [[spoiler: she's really a vengeful Caucasian woman who was manipulated and transformed against her will into a physical copy of the real Ada, who is an AntiHero]].

* ''FanFic/OnePieceParallelWorks'' has the up-and-coming Warlord of the Sea Shenhua Jiang. Not only does she run a brothel, she almost forces [[spoiler: Daisuke]] into prostitution, [[spoiler: murdered Enlai's father and kidnapped his [[IllGirl sick little sister]],]] and she is implied to be allied with TheTriadsAndTheTongs. To add to that, her Wanted poster nickname is "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dragon Lady]]".

* Seemingly played straight [[spoiler: and actually averted]] with the "second" Ada Wong in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6''. True, she dresses in a [[AbsoluteCleavage sexy]] [[ShesGotLegs dress]], is cruel and kills in sadistic manners without mercy, and [[spoiler: appears to be]] a {{Dragon}} to the BigBad, but [[spoiler: she's really a vengeful Caucasian woman who was manipulated and transformed against her will into a physical copy of the real Ada, who is an AntiHero]].

* [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Anna Williams]] has the dress, the legs, the vampiness, and the killer instinct native to the trope. On the flip side, she does not lord over a league of gangsters and is [[{{Oireland}} Irish]].
** But then again she does seem to be the G-Corporation Kazuya's right-hand woman as of ''Tekken 6''.
** Lana Lei from ''Death by Degrees'' is a straighter example being an aggressive and untrustworthy Asian woman. Unlike most examples of this trope, however, [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes she has one man in her life whom she truly loves]].

* Princess Koji, villainess of the short-lived ''Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey''.

** Tyger Tiger from the ''{{Wolverine}}'' comics.

* ''Franchise/TheDCU'' ''loves'' this trope:
** The most famous DCU example is probably Comicbook/LadyShiva, a morally-ambiguous martial artist whose life mostly revolves around being the best-unarmed combatant in the world.
** [[Comicbook/{{Batgirl2000}} Cassandra Cain]], Lady Shiva's daughter and the third ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, temporarily became a Dragon Lady during her much-reviled FaceHeelTurn.

** Sometimes Comicbook/{{Blackhawk}} foe Miss Fear (who also appeared in the ''Guns Of The Dragon'' mini-series) fits this trope.
** ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}} faced an opponent called--wait for it--Lady Dragon, the leader of the Silicon Dragons, who seems to fit in this trope. Like Roulette, the untrustworthiness is somewhat reduced by her obsession with fair play, or as Lady Dragon calls it, "equal measure."
** The [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] foe Lynx, who for bonus points runs a gang called the Ghost Dragons. Her successor in ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' also pretends to be an over-the-top Dragon Lady villainess, but claims to be in actuality an undercover cop from Hong Kong.

TheBaroness [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] YellowPeril. The Dragon Lady is characterized by her overt [[EvilIsSexy sexual]] and [[DarkActionGirl physical aggression]], [[DevilInPlainSight untrustworthiness]], and {{mysterious|Woman}}[[InscrutableOriental ness]]. Probably [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery wears]] a {{qipao}}, UsefulNotes/{{kimono}}, or other traditional Asian finery (regardless of her actual ethnicity), often with a dragon ''on it'', and knows [[AllAsiansKnowMartialArts martial arts]]. If she carries a weapon, it's usually a concealed stabbing or [[CoolSword slashing]] weapon; {{combat hand fan}}s are a perennial favorite. Is contractually obligated to have [[ShesGotLegs legs that would make Tina Turner jealous]], to better [[ShowSomeLeg pull off the dress]].

** [[Characters/BatmanTaliaAlGhul Talia al Ghul's]] design and role in ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'' was fashioned after one, with her Asian physical features being more prominent than ever, her tendency to wear red {{Qipao}}s, TookALevelInJerkass and becoming far more ruthless and her role as TheLeader of a terrorist organization of her own.

* ''Film/WhereEastIsEast'': Madame de Sylva is a perfect example: sexy, mysterious, dresses in a {{Qipao}}, ReallyGetsAround. Her servant knows what's going to happen when Madame sets out to seduce the innocent American, Bobby: "White boy like sheep with tiger!"

TheBaroness [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] YellowPeril. The Dragon Lady is characterized by her overt [[EvilIsSexy sexual]] and [[DarkActionGirl physical aggression]], [[DevilInPlainSight untrustworthiness]], and {{mysterious|Woman}}[[InscrutableOriental ness]]. Probably [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery wears]] a {{qipao}}, UsefulNotes/{{kimono}}, or other traditional Asian finery (regardless of her actual ethnicity), often with a dragon ''on it'', and knows [[AllAsiansKnowMartialArts martial arts]]. If she carries a weapon, it's usually a concealed [[KnifeNut stabbing]] or [[CoolSword slashing]] weapon; {{combat hand fan}}s are a perennial favorite. Is contractually obligated to have [[ShesGotLegs legs that would make Tina Turner jealous]], to better [[ShowSomeLeg pull off the dress]].

TheBaroness [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] YellowPeril. The Dragon Lady is characterized by her overt [[EvilIsSexy sexual]] and [[DarkActionGirl physical aggression]], [[DevilInPlainSight untrustworthiness]], and {{mysterious|Woman}}[[InscrutableOriental ness]]. Probably [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery wears]] a {{qipao}} or UsefulNotes/{{kimono}} often with a dragon ''on it'' (even if she's not Chinese or Japanese), and knows [[AllAsiansKnowMartialArts martial arts]]. If she carries a weapon, it's usually a concealed [[KnifeNut stabbing]] or [[CoolSword slashing]] weapon; {{combat hand fan}}s are a perennial favorite. Is contractually obligated to have [[ShesGotLegs legs that would make Tina Turner jealous]], to better [[ShowSomeLeg pull off the dress]].

* Princess Koji, villainess of the short lived ''Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey''.

* Creator/DCComics ''loves'' this trope:
** The most famous DCU example is probably Comicbook/LadyShiva, a morally-ambiguous martial artist whose life mostly revolves around being the best unarmed combatant in the world.
** [[Comicbook/{{Batgirl2000}} Cassandra Cain]], Lady Shiva's daughter and the third ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, temporarily became a Dragon Lady during her much reviled FaceHeelTurn.
** Cheshire, [[PsychoForHire hired mercenary and general psychopath]].

** Lady Lotus from ''ComicBook/TheInvadersMarvel''.

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