History Main / MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow

* ''Theatre/MButterfly'', a play by David Henry Hwang later adapted by Creator/DavidCronenberg into the movie of the same name mentioned in the "Film" section, is a subversion; the stereotypically doll-like Asian woman [[spoiler: [[UnsettlingGenderReveal turns out to be a male spy]] who [[InvokedTrope deliberately plays]] into the white man's stereotyped expectations of Asian women to make him fall in love with him. Complete with a scathing commentary on the Western concept of the "Submissive, Feminine Asia' that will fall for the 'Big Gun, and Big Money Masculine West" concept, and pointing out that if the situation was inversed, with a Western woman falling hopelessly in love with an Asian man and killing herself because he married someone else, the white man would find the story ridiculous]]. And it was InspiredBy a true event: look up [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Boursicot Bernard Boursicot]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Pei_Pu Shi Peipu]] for details.

* ''Theatre/MButterfly'', a play by David Henry Hwang later adapted by Creator/DavidCronenberg into the movie of the same name mentioned in the "Film" section, is a subversion; the stereotypically doll-like Asian woman [[spoiler: [[UnsettlingGenderReveal turns out to be a male spy]] who [[InvokedTrope deliberately plays]] into the white man's stereotyped expectations of Asian women to make him fall in love with him. Complete with a scathing commentary on the Western concept of the "Submissive, Feminine Asia' that will fall for the 'Big Gun, and Big Money Masculine West" concept]]. And it was InspiredBy a true event: look up [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Boursicot Bernard Boursicot]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Pei_Pu Shi Peipu]] for details.

* Played with in ''Film/TaiPan'' (as well as the [[Literature/AsianSaga original novel]]), where protagonist Dirk Struan has a fiery mistress named Mei-Mei, who defies just about everything about the "Mellow Yellow" attributes, with mellow and submissive being the last two words to describe her - but she still has to deal with the monumental racism of the white people and all the disadvantages it brings. Also, both the novel and the film reverses it, with a [[FallenPrincess poverty-stricken young Englishwoman]] who makes an extremely good living by prostituting herself to an exclusively Chinese clientèle.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has an inversion with the red-haired, blue-eyed German-American Asuka ([[ButNotTooForeign who is quarter Japanese through her mother]]), who has some emotional and sexual tension with Shinji Ikari. Interestingly, Asuka is often flummoxed by his submissive and meek behavior, seeing him as unenthusiastic about her advances.

* The Music/{{Vocaloid}} song with an [[MindScrew extremely]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs trippy]] video, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKiPc-7uWtA "I Fell in Love With Geisha Girl"]] parodies this trope, as well as American stereotypes of the Japanese, and vice versa. It has the English vocaloid "Big Al" speaking in Japanese peppered with English, and Luka as the voice of the geisha.

* ''Film/TaiPan'' (as well as the [[Literature/AsianSaga original novel]]), where protagonist Dirk Struan has a fiery mistress named Mei-Mei. The film also reverses it, with a [[FallenPrincess poverty-stricken young Englishwoman]] who makes an extremely good living by prostituting herself to an exclusively Chinese clientèle.

* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration'' has the blonde, blue-eyed American [[KidSamurai Brooklyn]] "[[InsistentTerminology Bullet]]" [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Luckfield]] with his Japanese partner/girlfriend [[ShyBlueHairedGirl Kusuha]] [[DistressedDamsel 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...]])

''Remember, this is not simply a list of relationships between Asian women and white men in fiction, but of a specific depiction of such relationships drawing on {{Race Fetish}}ism and Asian streotypes in relation to the MightyWhitey trope.''

A note to all editors: This is not simply a list of relationships between Asian women and white men in fiction, but of a specific depiction of such relationships drawing on {{Race Fetish}}ism and the MightyWhitey trope.

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* Inverted and parodied in a series of commercials for Australian insurance provider AAMI:
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Kh8wyJHwA first video]] introduces us to a red-headed office worker Rhonda who, upon picking up her car keys, gets a massive parade thrown for her.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmiB1t7KD48 second video]] sees Rhonda travel to Bali on a holiday where she gets a foot massage. The lady recognises her and is immediately swarmed by onlookers who are told to leave.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW_kKUWlslo third video]] reached [[MemeticMutation memetic levels]] when viewers picked up on the chemistry between Rhonda and the Balinese Ketut, working as a server. The iconic "Hot like a sunrise" line is said first in this video by Ketut [[spoiler:when he notices that Rhonda's face is sunburnt and proceeds to put up an umbrella.]]
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri-Pl-njZM8 fourth and most well-known video]] has a visibly-tanned Rhonda reimagining the third video as an EroticDream to a friend who is driving a car. The friend, also aroused, proceeds to crash into the back of a stopped car at an intersection [[IWasHavingSuchANiceDream before Rhonda and Ketut can kiss]]. This prompted AAMI to release a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-8SRDfEFGA follow-up]] StupidStatementDanceMix.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnJYxgTvNPI fifth video]] takes place at a ClassReunion. Rhonda, now a local celebrity, fends off snide remarks from pair of {{Alpha Bitch}}es and attracts the attention of a former classmate [[BigManOnCampus Trent]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing Toogood]]. [[spoiler: The video ends with a frantic and heartbroken Ketut discovering an empty gym, although a subsequent advertising campaign suggests this is a cliffhanger as opposed to a DownerEnding.]]
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DfgnaxZzEY sixth and final video]] is set at the end of the ClassReunion and finishes with Rhonda and [[spoiler: Ketut]] together, along with a [[spoiler: PairTheSpares between Trent and Rhonda's friend]].
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* In a strange version of this trope, the Japanese Konoka of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' once mentions to the Welsh Negi that she has a thing for "foreigners" (i.e. [[PhenotypeStereotype white]]). It turns out that she likes her half-demon best friend even more... though really, can you ''get'' much more foreign than someone who is ethnically from another dimension on one parent's side without departing from one's own species entirely?
* {{Gender inverted|Trope}} in ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' with Shuro, an "Eastern" (Japanese) man falling in love with [[spoiler: Falin, a Western woman. He even proposed to her but she was eaten by the Red Dragon before she could decide on an answer.]]

* {{Gender inverted|Trope}} in ''Manga/ItazuraNaKiss'', where the Englishwoman Christine "Chris" Robbins has a thing for Japanese men and is GenreSavvy enough to go to Japan ''specifically'' to find one to date and marry. At first, she's interested in male lead Naoki [[spoiler: but ends up marrying Kotoko's former DoggedNiceGuy Kinnosuke. [[BabiesEverAfter They have three kids]], with their dad's features and their mom's eye/hair color scheme.]]
* ''Manga/CaseClosed'' features a case where an American man was injured and cared for by a Japanese woman, who he ended up falling for. Naturally, this ended badly: [[spoiler:When he left, she asked if he loved her. He left her a note that said "shine" (as in, he hoped to find a shining bride). Unfortunately, the woman could not read English very well (and was already [[BreakTheCutie suffering from depression]] due to [[GoodScarsEvilScars being scarred]] [[AbusiveParents by her father]] and a [[ThereAreNoTherapists lack of anyone who could actually do something about it]]) read it as "shi ne" ("Go kill yourself"). [[DrivenToSuicide She did so.]] When the man comes back three years later, he ends up killing a guy who was badmouthing her and her father (who he believed drove her to it). When he learns the truth about why she did it, [[DespairEventHorizon he loses all will to do... anything]].]]
%% ** Fusae Campbell Kinoshita, Dr. Agasa's [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Unlucky Childhood Friend]], was the daughter of a Japanese woman and an English man. She herself was the victim of bullying due to her origins and her naturally blond hair.
* Sorta gender-flipped (in a PG manner) in ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}''. The transfer student from Brazil, a dark-skinned, blond soccer genius named Roberto, is very popular among the girls of Hiroko (Laura)'s school.
** Roberto himself has a slight crush on Hiroko, but in a subversion of the trope it's less because of ethnicity and more because [[LoveAtFirstPunch she actually stood up against him for acting like a jerk]].
* Subverted in ''Manga/HaikaraSanGaTooru''. The male lead Shinobu Iijyuin was born from a mixed marriage (Japanese father, German mother), and later one of his love interests is Larissa, a Russian noblewoman and local BrokenBird. [[spoiler: He, however, ends up with his BunnyEarsLawyer Japanese love interest, Benio Hanamura, due to Larissa's death in the series's BittersweetEnding. It does help that he and Benio, despite having been in an ArrangedMarriage, [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage really liked each other]].]]
** Even further subverted when you look at Shinobu and see that he has blonde hair ''and'' blue eyes, having inherited [[PhenotypeStereotype his German mother's looks]]. [[spoiler: Which were shared by Larissa's dead husband... his long-lost maternal half-brother Sasha, whose father was a Russian count.]]
%% * Lilly in ''Manga/RainbowNishaRokubouNoShichinin''.
* ''Manga/{{Amakusa 1637}}'': Seika "Mariana" Akishima, one of the {{Time Travel}}ers thrown in the Nagasaki of the [=XVIIIth=] century, catches the eye of a Dutch man named Jan who saved her life when she arrived into the past. In a subversion, she doesn't necessarily reciprocate Jan's feelings for her.
%% * In the shojo manga ''Manga/{{Lady}}'', the main character Lyn Russell (original name, Rin Midorikawa) is the daughter of the Englishman Sir George Russell and his Japanese second wife, Misuzu Midorikawa. (Curiously, she looks ''very'' Western with her blonde hair and green eyes, inherited from her dad.) After Misuzu's death in an accident, Lynn has to live with George and her half-sister Sarah, and faces quite a bit of discrimination.

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} from ''Comicbook/XMen'' was engaged to Mariko Yashida, a Japanese woman, when he became a samurai. The wedding was canceled at the last moment, however, thanks to villain Mastermind's manipulations. He ''did'' marry the Japanese Itsu, with whom he had a son, Daken. He also had a romance with free-spirited Yukio. The [[WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries 90s 'toon]] mixes Lady Deathstrike (Yuriko Oyama) with Mariko to create this trope again (Granted, she wants him dead now).
%% * [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]]' former fianceé Alyssa Moy.
* Played with in ''ComicBook/CortoMaltese'': Corto and Shanghai Li develop feelings for each other, but don't act on them as Li turns out to already be married to a Chinese man whom she describes as a NiceGuy, parting ways amicably with Corto. This was also shown in TheMovie.
%% * The OfficialCouple in ''LesInnommables'' is [[UglyGuyHotWife Mac, an American, and Alix, a Chinese girl]].
%% * Two French-Belgian graphic novels that play the trope straight are ''Love Hotel'' and ''Tokyo Est Mon Jardin''. In the first one, a clueless Westerner moves to Japan hoping to start a romantic relationship with his teen-aged pen pal, who turns out to be a contestant in a reality-TV game; he does eventually seduce a Japanese woman. In the second one, the same character settles down with yet another Japanese woman and marries her.
%% ** In real life, Creator/FredericBoilet, the author, lives with a Sino-Khmer woman, who is herself a graphic novelist and has depicted their relationship in the sexually explicit ''Fraise Et Chocolat''.
%% * Joel Kent and Mei-Lai in the Creator/DCComics {{Elseworld}} ''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations''.
%% * Gender-inverted with [[ComicBook/TheAtom Ryan Choi]] and his white girlfriend, [[TinyGuyHugeGirl Giganta]].
%% * Inverted with the Mandarin (major ComicBook/IronMan villain) and Shang-Chi (Master of Kung Fu and hero): both have Chinese fathers and white mothers.
%% ** Additionally, Shang-Chi is in love with Tarantula, a Hispanic woman.
%% * Doubly inverted with Karate Kid from the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes; he has a Japanese father and a white American mother, and his girlfriend/wife/widow was Princess Projectra (later Sensor Girl) who's a white girl with MysticalWhiteHair.

* Inverted in Creator/GeneLuenYang's ''ComicBook/AmericanBornChinese''. Chinese-American Jin develops a crush on his schoolmate Amelia, who's white. This eventually causes him to reject his Asian heritage outright.
* In the graphic novel ''Skim'' the half-Japanese protagonist's father was formerly married to her Japanese mother and is now dating another Asian woman. The creators identify him as someone who dates exclusively Asian women in an interview.
%% * Season 8 of ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has Satsu, a Japanese Slayer who replaces white guy with white girl, in this case Buffy.
* Played to an extreme in ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' where the Comedian gets himself a Vietnamese girlfriend during the war but eventually dumps her, despite her being pregnant with his child, and shoots her dead when she scars him with broken glass.
* ''Franchise/TheFlash'': Prior to the New 52, we have Wally West and [[IntrepidReporter Linda Park]]. However, at the start, they were at odds with each other due to Linda criticizing the Flash for the collateral damage. Then, they got married and had twins. Linda averts the stereotypical Asian submissive love interest because she has spunk and at one storyline, goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge when she watched Wally died in the hands of Kobra and requested Pied Piper to build weapons so she can put lead on Kobra despite not having any superpowers.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'':
** Mike Doonesbury, who marries the much younger Vietnam-war orphan Kim.
** White mercenary, conman and ambassador "Uncle" Duke has a quite fucked-up relation with his secretary/translator/sex slave Honey Huan (Chinese).

* Creator/{{Vathara}} loves playing with this.
** Inverted in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2434630/1/Blades_of_Blood Blades of Blood]]/[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3218251/1/Witchy-Woman Witchy Woman]]'', where Kenshin's mother is white and she and his father are KissingCousins, and ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2698347/1/Walk-Through-the-Valley Walk Through the Valley]]'', where Cadnawes was a white merrow out-cross and his father a Wakuseigo-speaking DeepCoverAgent.
** In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2520472/1/Ethan_Raynes_Very_Bad_Day Ethan Rayne's Very Bad Day]]'' and Urban Legends fics from ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1941214/1/Spin-Cycle Spin Cycle]]'' onward, the red hair comes from Youkai blood.
** In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4031223/1/Shadows_in_Starlight Shadows in Starlight]]'', Kenshin's father may be white, but his mother is [[HalfHumanHybrid part]]-Firrereo. The man was an orphan who couldn't find anyone willing to apprentice him until he gave up his family name and married into a very backwoods peasant family.

* ''Film/HeavenAndEarth'', an Creator/OliverStone film based on true events.
* Two versions of this trope in ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence''. The first is the titular character talking about a brief relationship he had with an Asian woman at the outbreak of war. The second is a version of this trope, though it would be better called "Japanese general obsessively stalks POW soldier Music/DavidBowie who may or may not also fancy him". The first appears to be Type 1 but the second Type 2, as the director says Yonoi was attracted (along with other factors) by Celliers' blond hair.
* ''Film/TheForbiddenKingdom'': The female lead falls for the only white man in AncientChina. Interestingly, many of the Chinese promotional posters and DVD covers put Jackie Chan center-stage. She and her beau are always off to one side if they're depicted at all.
%% * An early film example is ''Film/TheWrathOfTheGods'' made in 1914, starring Japanese-American silent film idol Sessue Hayakawa (as the dad; not the romantic lead this time, 'natch).

%% * ''Film/YearOfTheDragon'': Stanley White (Creator/MickeyRourke) aggressively courts Tracy Tzu (Creator/ArianeKoizumi), and his sexual attraction to her is implied to be a byproduct of a blend of attraction/repulsion towards Asians which he picked up in Vietnam.
* Inverted in ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'' with the BetaCouple, Eddie and Margo.
* [[AuthorAppeal A pattern]] in several novels/scripts/etc. by James Clavell:
** ''Film/TaiPan'' (as well as the [[Literature/AsianSaga original novel]]), where protagonist Dirk Struan has a fiery mistress named Mei-Mei. The film also reverses it, with a [[FallenPrincess poverty-stricken young Englishwoman]] who makes an extremely good living by prostituting herself to an exclusively Chinese clientèle.
** ''Literature/{{Shogun}}'', where John "Anjin-san" Blackthorne falls in love with his Japanese language mentor Mariko Buntarou. In fairness, William Adams, the RealLife inspiration for Blackthorne, did marry a Japanese woman, but possibly for social reasons and not love. [[spoiler: And in any case, once Blackthorne does marry a Japanese woman, it's likely for the same reasons, as it isn't Mariko, who's dead by then.]]
** ''Noble House'', where a visiting American businessman in Hong Kong falls in love with a Chinese-Portuguese woman [[HoneyTrap sent by a British businessman to seduce him]].
** ''Film/KingRat'', where flashbacks reveal that the protagonist had been hiding from the Japanese in an Indonesian village for a long time, where he had a native wife. He is also tempted by the daughter of the village elder with whom prisoners do black market deals.

%% * The Tom Selleck vehicle ''Film/MrBaseball'' is a particularly sad example - their love scene is said to have more or less cost the actress her career.
%% * ''Rising Sun'' with Creator/SeanConnery and Creator/TiaCarrere.
%% * ''Heaven And Earth'': A GI in Vietnam comes home to the US with a war bride.
%% * ''Chinese Box'': Gong Li has a relationship with Jeremy Irons.
%% * ''Red Corner'': Richard Gere, charged with murder while in China, has his beautiful assigned lawyer Bai Ling fall in love with him. Similar to the ''MrBaseball'' example above as Bai Ling reportedly lost her ''citizenship'' over it.
%% * ''The Breed'' with Creator/BaiLing.
%% * ''Art Of War'' starring Creator/WesleySnipes.
%% * ''Bangkok Dangerous'' (the remake with Creator/NicholasCage)
%% * ''Film/SnowFallingOnCedars'': Averted, as while the Japanese girl Hatsue is very much in love with the Western guy Ishmael, circumstances force her to marry a fellow Japanese. In the book, however, the relationship between Ishmael and Hatsue wasn't quite that simple.
* ''Film/ThreeSeasons'': Creator/HarveyKeitel is a Vietnam War veteran who had a child with a local girl during his tour of duty, and comes looking for her 30 years later.
* ''Film/ComeSeeTheParadise'': Dennis Quaid marries a Japanese woman in the late 1930s, only to see her sent to a detention camp along with other Japanese immigrants to the US in the wake of Pearl Harbor.

%% * ''Flypaper'' with Creator/LucyLiu.
%% * ''Film/{{Face}}'' with Creator/BaiLing.
%% * ''Film/{{Stealth}}'' the black character (portrayed by Creator/JamieFoxx) has a Thai girlfriend.
%% * ''One Night Stand'' has Wesley Snipes married to Ming-Na Wen.
* ''Literature/TheQuietAmerican'': see Literature.

%% * ''Film/CharliesAngels2000'': Creator/LucyLiu's father and boyfriend are played by Creator/JohnCleese and Creator/MatteBlanc, respectively, indicating something of a family tradition for this trope.
%% * ''Film/MiamiVice'': GongLi is the mistress of a (white-looking) Latin American drug lord, and has a tryst with Colin Farrell.
%% * ''The Hunted'': Christopher Lambert has a one-night stand with Creator/JoanChen.

%% * The French movie ''Augustin Roi Du Kung Fu'' (the title character has a platonic relationship with a Chinese immigrant played by Maggie Cheung, and eventually moves to Beijing where he marries a local woman).

* Yet another French movie, ''Film/{{Indochine}}'', about a love triangle in colonial Indochina. The young Vietnamese orphan is seduced by the dashing French navy officer, who had also scored her French adoptive mother. {{Subverted|Trope}}, because, in spite of her young age, the Vietnamese girl is not submissive at all. She even becomes a resistance hero. In contrast, her white lover is quite weak and passively undergoes the events of the film.

** Also in a sixth French film, ''Film/HiroshimaMonAmour'', in which a French actress has an affair with a Japanese businessman.
%% *** Deconstructed in a ''seventh'' [[TheAdventuresOfAntoineDoinel French film.]]
%% * Creator/DolphLundgren and Creator/TiaCarrere in ''Film/ShowdownInLittleTokyo''.
* ''Film/{{Highlander}}'': Ramirez's backstory reveals that he once married a Japanese princess. He was originally Ancient Egyptian, but he IS played by Creator/SeanConnery.
* ''Film/DirtyWork'': [[Creator/ChrisFarley Jimmy]] and the Saigon whore who bit his nose off.
%% * ''Film/AirAmerica'': The character played by Creator/MelGibson, an American pilot in 1960s Laos, is married to a local woman.

%% * This is a subplot of ''Film/{{Midway|1976}}''. As the main reason for making the girl Japanese is to present the lovers with "difficulties peculiar to 1942" it is more a case of StarCrossedLovers. It is also unclear whether they eventually do marry but implied that they do not.
%% * Inverted in ''Stratosphere Girl'', as the main reason the Belgian girl becomes a club hostess in Tokyo is to find and hook up with a young Japanese DJ she met back home.
* {{Gender inverted|Trope}} in ''Film/BridgeToTheSun'', based [[RealLife on the autobiographic novel]] of the same name. Gwendolyn "Gwen" Harold (Caroll Baker), a white woman from Tennessee, marries the Japanese diplomat Hidenari "Terry" Terasaki (James Shigeta)... some years before UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. [[BreakTheCutie Needless to say]], it does not end well for them.
* Discussed in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift'', where the main character, a white American, is sent to Japan and somehow avoids ending up with a Japanese girl, instead falling for a fellow gaijin, albeit a Latina one. This is even alluded to by one of the Asian characters in the film.
%% * Subverted in ''The Ramen Girl'', in which the eponymous character falls in love with a Korean man, despite being in Japan.
* Played with in ''Film/ForrestGump'': at the end, Lieutenant Dan arrives at Forrest and Jenny's wedding with "new legs" and his fiancée, an Asian woman, suggesting he's beginning to get past his resentment and [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]] about UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar.
%% * A rare non-human example occurs in the [[EasternEuropeanAnimation Hungarian]] animated film CatCity: both the hero Grabowski and his girlfriend Csino-san are anthropomorphic mice, but the former is clearly European or American, and the latter is Japanese.
* Inverted in ''Film/MaosLastDancer'', where the Chinese main character falls in love with an American dancer.
%% * Inverted again in ''The Replacement Killers'', courtesy of Creator/ChowYunFat and Creator/MiraSorvino.
* Seen in ''Film/ThePaintedVeil'', with the Fanes' neighbour Waddington and his Manchurian lover Wan Xi.
* ''Film/SonOfTheDragon'' is precisely about getting a husband for a beautiful Asian princess. The main character, the only occidental and a foreigner (since he's not Asian), enters the competition for marrying her in order to infiltrate and steal part of the treasure. He ends up falling in love with her and fighting against the other main competitor to defend the castle when that competitor with his army to get the treasure, revealing he was EvilAllAlong and didn't care about the princess.
* In ''Film/FlowersOfWar'', Christian Bale plays a funeral director in Nanking during the Nanking Massacre. He helps Chinese girls hide from Japanese soldiers and has an affair with a Chinese prostitute. This is likely why Bale's character was made into a funeral director posing as a priest rather than an actual priest, which would be more historically accurate.
* [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-inverted]] in D.W. Griffith's ''Film/BrokenBlossoms'', even though the Asian guy is played by a white actor in YellowFace.
* Inverted in the ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'' films. Korean-American Harold's LoveInterest is technically Colombian, but in ''Film/HaroldAndKumarEscapeFromGuantanamoBay'', Kumar goes for a full inversion.

* In the film ''Film/LoveIsAManySplendoredThing'', set in Hong Kong, white journalist Mark Elliot (Creator/WilliamHolden) and Eurasian doctor Han Suyin (Jennifer Jones) fall in love. Aside from the racial difference, he's married (though estranged from his wife). It is subtly implied that her career will be jeopardized if the relationship continues. They do so anyway, only for him to be killed while on assignment in Korea.

* Old Joe marries a Chinese woman in ''Film/{{Looper}}''.

* ''Film/WelcomeToHardTimes'' features a subplot with two minor characters, a White man and a Chinese prostitute, falling for each other.

* Mickey Rourke and Arianne Koizumi in Year Of The Dragon.

* ''Film/DonovansReef'' has Dedham, a doctor on Haleakaloha in French Polynesia, leaving his ''hapa'' children in the care of his friend Donovan for a couple of weeks. Their late mother, the doctor's second wife, was a Polynesian princess. He has yet to explain this to Amelia, his Boston Brahmin daughter by his first marriage, who visits the island. The children are temporarily passed off as Donovan's until their dad returns, and they correctly assume this is because they are not white.
* Similar to the comics, ''Film/TheWolverine'' has Logan and Mariko Yashida. But Logan is still trying to move on from Jean Grey's death while Mariko became an AdaptationalBadass due to her knife-throwing skills. In the movie's climax, Mariko is the one who saved Logan from the BigBad, [[spoiler:who happened to be her own grandfather]]. In the end, their relationship never really goes anywhere except for a quick kiss and Logan went back to the United States.

* In ''Film/TheHost2006'', a minor character, Sgt. Donald White, a United States sergeant stationed in South Korea, has a Korean girlfriend.

* ''Troublemaker and Other Saints'' has one of the daughters of a Chinese family married to a black man; another daughter has a preference for white men and not Asian men.
%% * ''Midnight Sunshine'' a book by Kelvin Reed, has a Filipina marrying a black man.

%%* ''Madame Chrysantheme'' by Pierre Loti.
%% * ''Sayonara'' by James Michener.

* The Ben Devereaux/Li-Xia couple in Literature/RedLotus can come off as this, but while Ben is ''definitely'' a Mighty Whitey, Li-Xia is ''not'' a Mellow Yellow.

%% * Inverted in ''Literature/TheKingAndI''.

* Gwen and Hidenari from ''Bridge to the Sun'' [[GenderFlip gender inverted]] this.
* In ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'', Frank Jackson, one of the uptime miners, came back from UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar with a wife.

%% * {{Inverted}} in classic YA Australian novel ''Literature/TomorrowWhenTheWarBegan'', where the white female lead falls in love with the Asian male lead.
%% * Played straight in Christos Tsiolkas's ''Literature/TheSlap'', where the first (Greek-Australian) point-of-view character's wife is an Indian-Australian woman.
%% * Robert Lecter and Lady Murasaki, in ''Literature/HannibalRising''.
%% * {{Inverted}} in Kerry Greenwood's PhryneFisher stories, when Phryne becomes involved with Lin Chung. Their relationship continues even after his ArrangedMarriage to another woman goes ahead.
%% * ''Literature/TheSecretsOfTheImmortalNicholasFlamel'' inverts this with [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Irish redheaded vampire ninja war goddess]] Aoife and immortal Japanese swordsman Niten.

* David Mitchell's ''Literature/TheThousandAutumnsofJacobDeZoet'' has Dutch trader Jacob [=DeZoet=] traveling to Japan to earn money to propose to a wealthy girl in Holland. Instead in Nagasaki he falls for Orito, a disfigured midwife, who is spirited away by a cult in the mountains.
* A tragic and awful subversion in My Lai, a character from ''Literature/TheKid''.

%%* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' has Toshiko Sato, who has a thing for Owen Harper. Unfortunately, he's more or less blind to her feelings.
%%** Which is reversed in the episode "Adam". Owen's the one with the thing for Toshiko, which she doesn't notice because she's taken up with the title character. [[spoiler: The title character isn't even a real person, and has been manipulating their memories to stay alive.]]
%% * ''{{Shogun}}'' (as well as the [[Literature/AsianSaga original novel]] by James Clavell)
%% * ''HouseOfHarmony''--not only does the Singaporean Chinese female fall in love with a visiting American businessman, but her half-Asian daughter (played by Maggie Q) later falls in love with the adopted son of said businessman.
%% * ''Series/TwinPeaks'': Creator/JoanChen is married to an older Westerner, and it is revealed he picked her up in Hong Kong. She also has affairs with other Westerners.
* ''Series/QuantumLeap'' has an episode where the man Sam is currently possessing has recently returned from war with a Japanese wife and dealing with the resulting prejudice.

* Subverted in ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' when Hiro goes back in time to Ancient Japan and meets his hero Takezo Kensei, only to find out he's a drunken white man named Adam Monroe. In an attempt to preserve the timeline he recalls Hiro tries to turn Monroe into a hero and get him and Princess Yaeko ("the most beautiful girl in Japan") together. However despite - or arguably because of - Hiro's best efforts [[LikeGoesWithLike Yaeko ends up drawn to him rather than Monroe.]]
** Although, it could also be argued that Hiro attempting to get them together went perfectly fine until Hiro decided to give in to temptation and make out with her. Some fans choose to see her as a manipulative bitch whose choices end up ruining several lives.
** GenderFlipped earlier in the series, 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/ReGenesis'': One of the main characters, Mayko Tran, is a Vietnam-born woman who has relationships with two white men in turn, one of them her boss.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' has Dr. Kelso, a Korean War vet who has a serious thing for Asian females. Always goes to Asian massage parlors, sleeps with many Asian girls, and has an AsianBabymama.
** A one-shot joke implied that he loved his long-time (no pun intended) mistress more than he did his own wife.
** In his "[[ADayInTheLimelight His Story]]" episode, one of his {{Imagine Spot}}s, when asked what he'd be doing if he was still in the military, was a parody of the ending of ''Film/AnOfficerAndAGentleman'' with an Asian woman in the Debra Winger role, and ''"Up Where We Belong" being sung in Korean''. Then he imagines what it would be like if he were a nurse, and the Asian woman appears in a navy uniform to carry ''him'' away.
** He also reveals that his son has a penchant for Filipino boyfriends, so apparently it runs in the family.
%% * In ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'' and ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]'' with Miles and Keiko O'Brien.
%% * An episode of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' flashes back to Jack traveling to Phuket, Thailand, where he enters into a relationship with a local woman. It didn't seem to last very long, though.
* ''Lady Bar'' is a made-for-TV movie by Xavier Durringer about the romantic relationship between a French tourist and a Thai prostitute.
** In the sequel, ''Lady Bar II'', the characters (now married) set up a "matchmaking resort" for single Western men seeking committed relationships with Thai women.
* A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' skit showed UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson chatting up Sally Hemming while his colleagues talk about them behind his back. They mention Creator/{{Benjamin|Franklin}} [[ReallyGetsAround Franklin]] likes Asians despite never meeting one.
* Inverted in ''Series/FlashForward2009'', with Demetri (played by John Cho) and Zoey (played by Gabrielle Union), but played straight by Bryce and Keiko (she specifically rejects Japanese suitors in his favor).

* In ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', sole Asian player Karen Maruyama is assigned with the role of "A Call Girl" in ''Let's Make A Date'' - and the former {{Trope Namer|s}} was what she had in mind. Considering that it ''was'' a subversion...

* ''Series/{{Titus}}'': Christopher's younger brother Dave repeatedly lauds the fact that his girlfriend is Asian. According to DVD commentary, they got the idea to give him this character quirk because the actor's wife is Asian.
* Appears to be played straight in the Benihana Christmas episode of ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'', where Michael and Andy ask out two attractive waitresses and aren't shown being shut down, then somehow end up with two different attractive, college-aged Benihana waitresses at the party, but it turns out this was a [[WTHCastingAgency casting problem]]. The second ones were [[HollywoodHomely supposed to be ugly]], with the implication the attractive ones turned them down.
* Unavoidable on ''Series/{{MASH}}'', considering that it is about a mostly male military unit in Korea. Every love interest who wasn't a nurse had to be Asian, as well as the war prostitutes.
** Most notably, Klinger ends up marrying a Korean woman, Soon-Li, in the series finale. In another episode, Hawkeye fell in love with a Korean woman much more deeply than for his usual fling, to the point of being in tears when they were forced to part.
%% * In ''Series/NightCourt'', the black Mac Robinson is married to Vietnamese Quon Le.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' - Jerry is excited over the prospect of meeting and dating a Donna Chang, then is upset when he finds she's a white girl who appropriated a Chinese name.
* Series three of ''Series/LittleBritain'' featured the white English Dudley and his Thai mail order bride, Ting Tong Macadangdang. [[spoiler: Subverted when Ting Tong turns out to be [[UnsettlingGenderReveal "a ladyboy"]] and, it is implied, [[{{Fauxreigner}} not really Thai]].]]
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' had an episode with ''multiple'' incarnations. Several servicemen had married South Korean women and brought them back to the states. Turns out that they had used the trope to their advantage, as they were actually ''North'' Korean spies/terrorists. However, one really loved her husband (and their child) and killed the others in an attempt to negate the mission and not be detected.
** There's another episode where servicemen attempted to sneak five or six Asian women overseas in a shipping container, the plan being that one of the men would be on the ship to help them. However, none of them were, and all but one woman died in transfer, and she was taking her revenge on the men one by one.
%% ** Jimmy Palmer had a season-long relationship with Agent Michelle Lee.
%% * ''Series/SullivanAndSon'': Sullivan is white and his wife is Korean. Inverted with the son, who seems to have a thing for a white paramedic.

%% * ''Series/{{Elementary}}'': The ex-boyfriend of Joan Watson (Creator/LucyLiu), Ty Morstan, is white.
%% * [[DepravedHomosexual Joel]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Godard]] (the character he played, not the real announcer) on LateNight with Creator/ConanOBrien had a thing for young Asian men.

* ''Series/IronFist2017'': The case for Danny Rand and Colleen Wing, which is a deviation from the comics (where Danny's love interest is Misty Knight). Danny's a native New Yorker who trained for 15 years in K'un-L'un while Colleen was born in China, spent time in Japan, and now teaches martial arts at a dojo.
* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': Elektra is French-Cambodian, just like Creator/ElodieYung who plays her, which means her dynamic with Matt during season 2 falls into this, although she isn't particularly mellow.

* Inverted like ''whoa'' by US VisualKei and JRock fandoms. The majority of US fans are female, androgynous, or bisexual/gay male. Nevertheless, just ''try'' and find some who aren't interested in [[YaoiFangirl imagining two or more Japanese rockstars together]] and/or actually [[GroupieBrigade becoming sexually involved with one had they the chance]].
%% * "China Girl" was penned by Music/DavidBowie and Music/IggyPop for the latter's 1977 album ''The Idiot'', though it's Bowie's CoverVersion in 1983 that's better-known. The inspiration for the song comes from Pop's confession of his love for Kuelan Nguyen, so take from that what you will.
* One of Music/BonJovi's two music videos for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiBEm8p_Paw "This Ain't a Love Song"]] tells [[TearJerker the tragic]] [[StarCrossedLovers love story]] of an American IntrepidReporter and a Vietnamese girl during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. [[spoiler: More than 20 years later, he returns to Vietnam and manages to find his lost love. And their daughter, [[IdenticalGrandson who looks a LOT like her mom when she was young]]. EarnYourHappyEnding with your Asian family, I guess?]]

* Music/BruceSpringsteen's hit "Born in the U.S.A.": "I had a brother at Khe Sanh [...] He had a woman he loved in Saigon. / I've got a picture of him in her arms now..."
%% * Weezer's "Pinkerton".
* Weezer's song "Buddy Holly" was inspired particularly by this. Songwriter Rivers Cuomo wrote "Buddy Holly" after his friends made fun of his Asian girlfriend.
* "La Petite Tonkinoise" is a 1906 hit by French singer Vincent Scotto, about a soldier sent to Vietnam who picks up a local girlfriend.
* Two words: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwNybYpI868 Yellow Fever]]", by the Bloodhound Gang (NSFW).

* Music/RodStewart's "Every Picture Tells a Story" describes how the singer "Fell in love with a slit-eyed lady / By the light of an Eastern moon".

* Music/AlStewart’s “Year of the Cat” is this trope in song form. “On a morning from a Bogart movie/In a country where they turned back time/. . . She comes out of the sun/ with her silk dress running/ like a watercolor in the rain . . . .”

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%% * In V3 of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'', Adam Dodd ends up getting Izzy Cheung, though considering the [[ThereCanOnlyBeOne premise]] and the [[BolivianArmyEnding ending]], it's hard to say what really happened next.
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* In ''Theatre/SouthPacific,'' a white American guy bangs and then falls in love with a Tonkinese girl... [[LanguageOfLove even though they don't have any language in common]]. Then her mom suggests that they get married, but he's too worried about what his racist family thinks to do anything.
** Also part of Emile's backstory- his children are from his marriage to a Tonkinese woman.

%% * {{Gender inverted|Trope}} in ''ThoroughlyModernMillie''.

* Sorta inverted in many DatingSim-like games where one of the girls is often the token foreigner (with a good dose of ForeignFanservice). She's hardly ever the main heroine role though unless the events happen in her country where there are lots of foreigners who are technically not foreigners.
* ''VideoGame/RedSteel'': Scott Monroe is engaged to Miyu Sato. Although the first-person perspective prevents the player from knowing Scott's exact ethnicity, he is recognized as non-Japanese by other characters and his name implies European ancestry.

%% * At the end of ''Franchise/ResidentEvil: Dead Aim'', Fong Ling reveals her feelings for Bruce by kissing him.
%% * In ''VideoGame/WingCommander'', one of your female Japanese pilots has a fiancé. Unfortunately, things don't turn out so well.
%% * Inverted in ''[[VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial Tokimeki Memorial Pocket]]'': one of the winnable girls, Patricia [=McGrath=], is an {{Eagleland}}er doing a study trip in Japan at the High School you, a Japanese boy, are studying at.
* Also inverted in ''VideoGame/MitsumeteKnight'', ''Tokimeki Memorial'' 's SpiritualSuccessor, but on a larger scale: you're playing as an Asian who comes to a country located in the equivalent, in this universe, of the European Continent as a mercenary, and during your quest to help said country win its war against its neighbour country, you can score any of the local ladies, who are all from this Continent (most of them from the country you're fighting for, the only two exceptions coming from other countries of the Continent).
* Yet another inversion in ''VideoGame/SakuraWars: [[VideoGame/SakuraWarsSoLongMyLove So Long, My Love]]''. The hero is a Japanese male who travels to the United States, with his potential love interests including [[PluckyGirl three]] white [[HaremNanny women]], with two of them being his subordinates (with the last technically being his boss). The earlier ''Sakura Wars'' games also invert this trope in the same way, due to their Japanese protagonist's romanceable subordinates including a fair number of Europeans.
%% * Possibly inverted in the ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' series if you play a white female Shepard and romance Kaidan Alenko (born in Singapore).

%% * [[VideoGame/MetalGear Kazuhira Miller]] is the offspring of an American GHQ officer and a Japanese woman. However, it also gets {{averted|Trope}} as Mei Ling from the same series never gets in a relationship.

* Sorta invoked in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''. The people from the Chon'sin country are pretty much Feudal Japanese By Any Other Name, and two characters from that land [[spoiler: (actually three, but Say'ri's brother Yen'fay can only be recruited via Spot-Pass)]] can be brought into the party: MasterSwordsman Lon'qu and LadyOfWar Say'ri. The female Avatar marry Lon'qu [[spoiler: or Yen'fay]]; the Male Avatar can marry Say'ri.
** Additionally, Lon'qu can be romanced by several other female characters if the player so decides.
* The main lands in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' are Nohr, based on a mix of different Medieval/Renaissance kingdoms, and Hoshido, based on Feudal Japan. The Avatar of this game is a ChildOfTwoWorlds, hailing from Hoshido and raised in Nohr as a political hostage, and he or she will seek to either defend Hoshido from a Nohrian invasion or try reforming Nohr from the inside before they take over Hoshido. Either way, the Avatar can marry several Hoshidan people if he/she goes to their side, and so can his/her Nohrian personal companions and retainers, though the "advantage/disadvantage" side of this trope seriously depend case by case. And in the case of his/her Hoshidan retainers, Mozu and Kaze, each can marry people from the Nohrian side.
** Further toyed with in [[spoiler:the GoldenPath known as ''Revelation'', where the Avatar and his/her group go into hiding with '''both''' Hoshidan and Nohrian armies after them. As both groups mingle under the leadership of [[AllLovingHero the Avatar]], each army member of either gender adds two prospect love interests from the opposite group to his/her pool of prospect spouses, and again more than one cross-cultural romantic support will include discussions of the differences and similarities between Nohr and Hoshido, and won't necessarily abide by the "advantage/disadvantage" stereotypes: i.e both [[LadyOfWar Oboro]] and [[GentleGiant Benny]] like making good luck charms, and their A support has them discussing the differences of Hoshidan charms and Nohrian ones, with him making a Nohrian charm for her and her returning the favor.]]

* Inverted in ''[[http://dreamless.keenspot.com/ Dreamless]]'', the story of an American girl and a Japanese boy in the 1940s who are in telepathic contact with each other in their sleep, and eventually fall in love.

* ''{{Tune}}'' lampshades the trope in [[http://www.tunecomic.com/2010/12/28/tune-part01-pg017/ this strip]].
%% * ''OdoriPark'' is about a Japanese woman married to a white American man. It is [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial definitely not autobiographical]], even though the author is married to a Japanese woman, taught English in Japan, and has a multi-racial child.
%% * David and Ye Thuza Williams (White and Burmese) in ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo''. By extension, [[ToyShip inverted with their son Cloud and Sandra]].
%% * In [[Website/KiwisByBeat Ryan Armand's]] webcomic ''Great'', the WhiteMaleLead Lyle marries Yukiko, the daughter of the owner of a Japanese ramen restaurant.

** Aubrey herself has an Asian mother and a white father and went on to marry Jason, who is white.
* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Rocko, a rich white guy, is now dating [[{{Moe}} Moé,]] a [[FishOutOfTemporalWater time displaced]] Japanese ninja girl, and even providing jobs for two of her three ninja brothers. [[MeaningfulName Moé]]'s character is meant more as a joke about ''[[{{Anime}} anime]]'' tropes than about Asia per se (she and her brothers are drawn in big-eyed anime style when no one else in the comic is). Subverted in that [[spoiler: properly speaking, Rocko's not a white guy or even ''human.'' He's a bald [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti bigfoot.]] But [[TheMasquerade only a handful of people know that.]]]]
* Played with in ''Webcomic/HowToBeAWerewolf''. Malaya's parents are an American man and a Filipina woman, but the father is a small coffee shop owner, while the mother is a scientist with a strong degree. Both seem on roughly equal footing in household matters.

* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and [[ParodiedTrope parodied]] in "Yellow Fever", a film by Creator/WongFuProductions.
* Briefly discussed again in "Home is Where the Hans Are" in reference to a pair of FlirtyStepsiblings.

%% * GenderInverted example: In ''WebVideo/TheGuild'', Creator/FeliciaDay's character Cyd Sherman has a brief romance with an Asian guy.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' both inverts this and plays it regularly. While Ron is in Asia for plot reasons, his replacement in Middleton is Hirotaka, a male student from the same school, who is athletic, rides a cool motorcycle, and all the girls in Middleton fight over him. Including Kim and Monique. Ron himself meets Yori, who eventually becomes attracted to him and would [[GreenEyedMonster provoke]] envy in Kim when she met her.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': It's revealed in one episode that while Cotton Hill was recuperating in a Japanese hospital from his WWII wounds he ended up having an affair with a local nurse. Flashing forward to present time, while he still hates the Japanese (on account of the war and them killing all his buddies), he's still eager to go back to Japan to reconnect with the nurse (and to a lesser extent the son he fathered with her). The former nurse does say that after he left she was ostracized by society for having a half American son (which doesn't even seem to register with Cotton).

%%* The animated series ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'' features a Korean girl named Kitty Ko with an almost psychotic crush on geeky protagonist Eric Needles.
%% * On ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'', Andy and Kevin both fall for Tina, George's older sister - Kevin because she's a fellow sci-fi geek, and Andy because, well, she's hot.
%% * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': Terry [=McGinnis=]'s steady girlfriend [[spoiler:and eventual fiancee]] Dana Tan is Asian American. He may have a thing for Asian girls; in one episode he flirts with [[GirlOfTheWeek Irene]], an Asian [[BubbleBoy Bubble Girl]]. Dana is not amused.
%% * Sometimes Trixie Tang and Timmy Turner from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents''.
%% * Flip-flopped in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' with Phoebe's parents: An Asian father and a white mother. (Though, due to his surname, her father could only be half-Asian.)
%% * Jake and Lady Rainicorn from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''; he's an anthropomorphic [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] dog whose first language is English, she's a flying unicorn/rainbow thing who speaks only Korean.

* The animated series ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'' features a Korean girl named Kitty Ko with an almost psychotic crush on geeky protagonist Eric Needles.

* Inverted in ''Literature/SannikovLand''. Annuir is an Onkilon woman (the Onkilons are related to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukchi_people Chukchi]]) who falls deeply in love with white explorer Ordin. However, he starts to like her back ''because'' she is anything but gentle and submissive: for example, their acquaintance begins when she demands to become his wife, and only the day after she announces StayInTheKitchen is not for her and she intends to follow Ordin to war.

** ''Film/{{Shogun}}'', where John "Anjin-san" Blackthorne falls in love with his Japanese language mentor Mariko Buntarou. In fairness, William Adams, the RealLife inspiration for Blackthorne, did marry a Japanese woman, but possibly for social reasons and not love. [[spoiler: And in any case, once Blackthorne does marry a Japanese woman, it's likely for the same reasons, as it isn't Mariko, who's dead by then.]]

* Inverted in Gene Yang's ''ComicBook/AmericanBornChinese''. Chinese-American Jin develops a crush on his schoolmate Amelia, who's white. This eventually causes him to reject his Asian heritage outright.

* Played straight and then averted in ''Series/ReGenesis'': One of the main characters, Mayko Tran, is a Vietnam-born woman who has relationships with two white men in turn, one of them her boss. Said man, however, later goes to China and meets a pretty woman doctor without any romantic development resulting (then again, they were in the middle of an epidemic and had other things on their minds).

* Almost averted in ''Film/GoodMorningVietnam'': Adrian Cronauer tries to get a relationship started with a local Vietnamese girl, but while the latter eventually warms to him, the relationship remains platonic. Also the girl he goes after is the third (fourth?) one he sees wearing identical white robes and straw hat, and (probably jokingly) thinking she's "following" him, he obsessively goes after her; "Asian Fever" seems oddly appropriate for how he was acting (blaming it on being surrounded by Grecian women, who he claims are hairy).

** The trope is averted with another character in the movie: a Vietnamese prostitute looking for a potential husband among her Western customers eventually settles with a fellow Vietnamese man.

* Averted in ''The Children of Huang Shi'', where the white, male main character goes for the other Western character rather than Michelle Yeoh.
* Also averted in ''Film/DoctorAkagi'', but the film does play with the idea:
-->'''Tomiko''': Here's some food for the prisoner.
-->'''Sonoko''': So much?
-->'''Tomiko''': Dutchmen are tall, they eat a lot.
-->'''Sonoko''': Oh, he isn't that tall. But he does have a big one.
-->'''Tomiko''': He's a Dutchman all right.

* Averted but discussed in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift'', where the main character, a white American, is sent to Japan and somehow avoids ending up with a Japanese girl, instead falling for a fellow gaijin, albeit a Latina one. This is even alluded to by one of the Asian characters in the film.

* Averted in ''Film/SnowFallingOnCedars'' when Hatsue decides to break up with Ishmael even ''before'' her family finds out about their affair. Though she is deeply fond of him, she's simply not ''in'' love with him, and ends up happily married to a Japanese man.

* Both referenced and averted in the ''Series/ColdCase'' episode "Who's Your Daddy": An overseer blackmails a Cambodian refugee into providing him sexual favors [[spoiler:and later tries to coerce another one, killing her in the process]]; but the consensual interracial relationship is between an Asian woman and an African-American man, who happens to be a Vietnam veteran. Said man is (wrongly) suspected of being a SugarDaddy for the teenage Asian girl. One construction worker is heard calling out "Me love you long time" as the Cambodian woman walks past.

* Conscientiously averted in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird''. Phillipe Loren's female CoDragons were originally envisioned as a pair of Japanese twins named Natsuko and Yukako (or [[ThemeTwinNaming Suki and Yuki]] for short) who headed an all-female prostitute gang and basically did all of Phillipe's heavy lifting for him. Head writer Steve Jaros, however, didn't want to play into the "badass Asian chicks that are subservient to an older man" stereotype, so Suki and Yuki were retooled into the white twins Viola and Kiki [=DeWynter=], and their gang was merged into Loren's Morningstar.

* Averted but discussed in ''Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift'', where the main character, a white American, is sent to Japan and somehow avoids ending up with a Japanese girl, instead falling for a fellow gaijin, albeit an AmbiguouslyBrown one (her actress is a Latina). This is even alluded to by one of the Asian characters in the film.

* Sorta gender-flipped (in a PG manner) in ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}''. The transfer student from Brazil, a DarkSkinnedBlond soccer genius named Roberto, is very popular among the girls of Hiroko (Laura)'s school.

%% * In V3 of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'', Adam Dodd ends up getting Izzy Cheung, though considering the [[ThereCanOnlyBeOne pre]][[KillEmAll mise]] and the [[BolivianArmyEnding ending]], it's hard to say what really happened next.

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} from ''Comicbook/XMen'' was engaged to Mariko Yashida, a Japanese woman, when he became a samurai. The wedding was canceled at the last moment, however, thanks to villain Mastermind's manipulations. He ''did'' marry the Japanese Itsu, with whom he had a son, Daken. He also had a romance with free-spirited Yukio. The [[WesternAnimation/XMen 90s 'toon]] mixes Lady Deathstrike (Yuriko Oyama) with Mariko to create this trope again (Granted, she wants him dead now).

* Yet another inversion in ''VideoGame/SakuraWars: [[VideoGame/SakuraWarsSoLongMyLove So Long, My Love]]''. The hero is a Japanese male who travels to the United States, with his potential love interests including [[PluckyGirl three]] [[IllGirl white]] [[HaremNanny women]], with two of them being his subordinates (with the last technically being his boss). The earlier ''Sakura Wars'' games also invert this trope in the same way, due to their Japanese protagonist's romanceable subordinates including a fair number of Europeans.

* {{Wolverine}} from ''Comicbook/XMen'' was engaged to Mariko Yashida, a Japanese woman, when he became a samurai. The wedding was canceled at the last moment, however, thanks to villain Mastermind's manipulations. He ''did'' marry the Japanese Itsu, with whom he had a son, Daken. He also had a romance with free-spirited Yukio. The [[WesternAnimation/XMen 90s 'toon]] mixes Lady Deathstrike (Yuriko Oyama) with Mariko to create this trope again (Granted, she wants him dead now).

In RealLife, it should be noted that [[http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/10/the-rise-of-interracial-marriage/ white male-Asian female is the second-most common interracial pairing in the United States]]. Back in UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, Chinese-American star Creator/AnnaMayWong was treated this way in the press for dating white men - as she found that Asian men looked down on her for being an actress. But we won't get into the psychology or implications of real people here.