History Main / YellowPeril

* In the original "TabletopGame/{{Axis and Allies}} the pieces representing Japan were colored yellow. This was changed to red in 2001 for Axis and Allies Pacific, before settling on "burnt orange" for all future releases with Japan as a player. See also the yellow color for the units of the Asian Peoples Alliance/Western Invader for the game Fortress America.

** ComicBook/RasAlGhul is explicitly modeled after this character type, essentially being a more Arabic-themed Fu Manchu with all of the trappings ([[ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul beautiful daughter]] infatuated with the hero, vast criminal empire, supernatural elements). His creator, Denny O'Neil, commented that his face is meant to be an unidentifiable mixture of facial features so that he is neither Asian nor Arab (of course considering his tribe came from China he is Asian). He also has green or blue eyes (depending on the continuity) and in media tends to be [[RaceLift portrayed by white European actors]] (Creator/LiamNeeson, Creator/DavidWarner). In an interesting example in the former's case, he was cast to subvert this trope. As ''Film/BatmanBegins'' was in development right after 9/11 and its aftermath, Creator/WarnerBrothers didn't want to play into an Arab terrorist stereotype so Neeson was cast.
** In the ''[[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Legends of the Dark Knight]]'' story ''Tao'', Batman encounters a number of Chinese villains, as well as a Chinese Mentor. The villains include a wicked old wizard, H'sien Tan, his student, Dragon, who acts as TheDragon to his master as well as the BigBad later, and looks just like the "Little Dragon", Bruce Lee. Most stereotypical of all is the boss of Gotham's Chinese underworld, Johnny Khan (Khan isn't even a Chinese name!). Khan isn't just a 'Yellow Peril' stereotype, he's Fu Manchu. And not just any Fu Manchu. He's clearly recognisable as Christopher Lee ''dressed'' as Fu Manchu.

* ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'', being a throwback to RaygunGothic sci-fi, has its BigBad Maximus I.Q. draw elements of his design from Ming the Merciless, such as wearing red robes and sporting a Fu Manchu (on top of also resembling a Siamese cat). However, he has a Western name, speaks with a posh British accent and is generally characterized as more of a CardCarryingVillain and SmallNameBigEgo than a secretive [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]].

** And it gets worse in the second season. An actual war propaganda movie has Tarrlok 2.0, er, Unalaq, portrayed as your typical Fu Manchu Ming the Merciless villain. In a universe where all the characters are basically shades of Asian and Inuit, they portray the villain as the Yellow Peril...

* Even the typically politically-correct Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse gets in on this with Prince Xizor and his [[TheSyndicate crime syndicate]], Black Sun. Besides being a blatant Chinese/Manchurian stereotype ''and'' a [[LizardFolk reptilian]] (he looks like [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prince_xizor.jpg this]]), he's a scheming, inscrutable sort, and the logo of Black Sun is suspiciously similar to the flag of the Republic of China.

* ''Film/PearlHarbor'' generally averts this trope, portraying the Japanese for the most part in non-stereotyped ways. However, the Japanese are nonetheless overly vilified in one scene when Zeros attack a hospital and open fire on civilians, even though the Japanese intentionally did not fire on civilians during the actual attack, even when they had a clear shot.

* Starting in 1989, Creator/{{Atari}} ran ''Atarian'' magazine, which, alongside game reviews, previews and interviews, printed the ''[[http://pixelpompeii.blogspot.ca/2015/07/atari-super-hero.html Adventures of Atari]]'', superheroic champion of the company. In the pages of his comic, Atari would thwart the plans of a Fu Manchu-style mastermind, a Japanese caricature with slit eyes and buck teeth named "Ninja-Endo", to ruin Atari Corp's foothold in the video game market. Unsurprisingly, these comics were published after Creator/{{Nintendo}} brought the {{UsefulNotes/N|intendoEntertainmentSystem}}ES nationwide in the United States (having first sold it in specific cities) and quickly overtook American companies like Atari in video game sales. Also unsurprisingly, ''Atarian'' only lasted three issues.

* The [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] comic book supervillain The Claw took this trope about as far as it could possibly go. He was a gigantic yellow dragon-like EvilOverlord with a horde of "oriental" minions and could do anything, up to and including standing in the middle of the ocean and creating a gigantic whirlpool to change the Earth's climate. During his five-issue battle with the Golden Age Daredevil (at a time when multi-part stories were unheard of), he {{brainwashed}} the US President and then took over the country himself with an army of criminals.

** It's also counterbalanced by the fact that his archenemy, FBI agent Jimmy Woo, is a typical [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] action hero who happens to be Chinese-American. This makes Woo one of Marvel's earliest heroes of color.

* An odd version in ''Nyambe: African Adventures'' a UsefulNotes/D20System game, people from the Far East have come to Nyambe and hiding among these merchants and travellers are the [[SnakePeople Yuan-Ti]] an aberrant monstrous race from TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons that's largely associated with whatever East/Southeast Asia country expy. The Yuan-Ti presence have grown so strong that they control what's now known as the Yuan-Ti Lands and they have taken to enslaving and murdering local demihuman races as well as switching to the local evil cults.

* ''Literature/{{Caliphate}}'' subverts this with the Celestial Kingdom of Han, which is what the People's Republic of China has turned into in a dystopic future. They are portrayed as amoral and strange post-human people with no reservation about performing weird experiments for their sinister purposes, and it's clear they want to replace America as the resident superpower. With that said, they are allied with the Americans against the titular [[MiddleEasternCoalition Islamic empire]] because the latter represents the more immediate and dangerous threat.

* ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'', being a throwback to RaygunGothic sci-fi, has its BigBad Maximus I.Q. draw elements of his design from Ming the Merciless, such as wearing red robes and sporting a Fu Manchu (on top of also resembling a Siamese cat). However, he speaks in a posh British accent and is generally characterized as more of a CardCarryingVillain and SmallNameBigEgo than a secretive Chessmaster.

** And it gets worse in the Second Season. An actual War Propaganda movie has Tarrlok 2.0, er, Unalaq, portrayed as your typical Fu Manchu Ming the Merciless villain. In a universe where all the characters are basically shades of Asian and Inuit, they portray the villain as the Yellow Peril...

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''. The omnipresent evil Chinese sorcerer Daolon Wong is ''strongly'' reminiscent of Fu Manchu in all but facial hair, but then virtually all of the heroes are Asian too.

* Episode "Last Horizons" of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' has Baloo encountering "Panda-La" a land of Asian stereotypical Panda bears who are secretly planning to invade Cape Suzette, although it is mentioned in passing that other Panda populations despise them for their aggression. The episode was so heavily criticized because of its depiction of Asians that was taken out of syndication.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''
** Jonas Venture tries to disguise himself as a Yellow Peril villain, calling himself Dr. Fanadragon and claiming to hail from "Japananawa." Another villain starts to comment on how Dr. Fanadragon is muddling a number of Asian nations and is obviously a tall white man.

* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' WartimeCartoon "Tokio Jokio" features some very inaccurate caricatures of UsefulNotes/HidekiTojo and Isoroku Yamamoto.

** The Chinese supervillain Iron Dragon, who has been trying to overthrow America, Europe, and Russia for decades, is essentially an {{Expy}} of Fu Manchu, right down to the moustache. His daughter, Silver Serpent, is now attending the [[SuperHeroSchool Whateley Academy]] and is a member of the Bad Seeds clique (to be admitted, one or more of your parents must be a supervillain). [[spoiler: In early 2012, Iron Dragon staged a coup that overthrew the People's Republic, declaring himself to hold the MandateOfHeaven as the first emperor of a new Imperial dynasty.]]

** That was largely because Hergé befriended Zhang Chongren, a Chinese student who came to Brussels to study art and architecture. Zhang was his consultant about China, and was the reason why Hergé became sympathetic to the Chinese during the war and caricatured the Japanese invaders so heavily. When the war ended, there was basically no reason to draw these caricatures anymore, so Japan just became another nation to portray accurately. Ironically, while his first editor, a conservative Catholic abbot, was ''encouraging'' Hergé to be racist, it was another abbot who urged him to be more sensitive and introduced him and Zhang to each other. The character of Chang Chong-Chen is based on Zhang.

* In ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky'', the main antagonists are an evil race of Yellow Peril-coded beetle-like aliens called the Nagma who are meant to illustrate Creator/AlbertUderzo's dislike of manga and its popularity in France. Both critics and fans derided the book as little more than a crass and xenophobia-tainted rant against manga and it dealt a fatal blow to Uderzo's reputation from which he never quite recovered.

[[caption-width-right:300:From a time when what scared the West most was the East.]]]]

Absolutely nothing to do with the ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' episode [[Recap/OnlyFoolsAndHorsesS2E05TheYellowPeril of that name]].

* Inverted in ''Literature/KachikujinYapu'' : Rinichiro, a Japanese young male, and his girlfriend, Clara, a German young female, both end up being brainwashed, even tortured in a Literature/AllTomorrows-esque way for the former, after meeting a woman and being joined into her [[LadyLand future]][[StrawFeminist world.]] [[spoiler: Its society oppresses non-whites (especially Asians and more exactly Japanese people, now known as "yapoos") and led.... by White women.]]

* Inverted in ''Literature/KachikujinYapu'' : Rinichiro, a Japanese young male, and his girlfriend, Clara, a German young female, both end up being brainwashed, even tortured in a Literature/AllTomorrows-esque way for the former, after meeting a woman and being joined into her [[LadyLand future world.]] [[spoiler: Its society oppresses non-whites (especially Asians and more exactly Japanese people, now known as "yapoos") and led.... by White women.]]

* Inverted in ''Literature/KachikujinYapu'' : Rinichiro, a Japanese young male, and his girlfriend, Clara, a German young female, both end up being brainwashed, even tortured in a Literature/AllTomorrows-esque way for the former, after meeting a woman and being joined into her [[LadyLand future world.]] [[spoiler: Its society oppresses non-whites (especially Asians, now as "yapoos") and led.... by White women.]]

* ''Film/BallsOfFury'' (a WholePlotReference to ''Film/EnterTheDRrgon'', but with ping-pong!) parodies it with ''Creator/ChristopherWalken'' as a white guy who's apparently obsessed with being this trope as it pertains to old kung-fu movies (and also [[CultureChopSuey takes parts from other Asian cultures]] [[InterchangeableAsianCultures and uses them as part of his fixations]], ie. having sumo wrestlers carry him around on a palanquin). The main characters are stunned to see he's white, as the composite sketch looked ''nothing'' like him.