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"The new Resident Evil 5 footage indicates that Capcom are counteracting the accusations of racism by including an African female sidekick resembling a white woman who's been dipped in tea."
Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, video game journalist

"Johnny is in love with a local girl named Carmen Ibanez, played by Denise Richards. This is even more laughable than Whitey Rico, because of all the people you imagine might conceivably be called Carman Ibanez, it sure ain't Denise Richards."

"In Street Fighter, Chun-Li pranced around like a seven-year-old pretending to hit people, giving her seven years more martial arts experience than Legend's Kirstin Kreuk, whose entire acting history of violent encounters is 'wanting to sleep with Superman.' While that does demonstrate incredible physical bravery it falls a bit short of being an Asian martial artist in important categories like being Asian and knowing martial arts. She spends the first half-hour undergoing advanced Michael Jacksonification, morphing from an incredibly Chinese child to a skin tone that has only been achieved by Asians who are dead and under a flood light."

Tiberius: Ooh, a half-jap, eh? Give me a sec and I’ll have your body and soul split in half to match!
Asap Suzuki: I’m not letting go of either the American or the Japanese parts of my soul! It’s because of them that I am who I am!


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