The Definitive Asian Comic Book Characters List

[Zephyranthes]

I should be more specific. This list is for Western comics. I bet a couple manga have Asian characters in them, but as we all know, only America matters. Euro comics don't count, either. AMERICA FUCK YEAH (lol, I got that song stuck in my head)

Here's whom I've got so far.

Nico Minoru (Runaways)
Dr. Allison Mann (Y: The Last MAAAAAN!!!1)
The Deadly Hands of Shang-Chi, Master of Kung-Fu
Silver Samurai (Wolverine/X-Men villain)
Sunfire (X-Men)
Jubilee (LOL)
Ultimate Wasp
Kato (Green Hornet)
Wong (Dr. Strange's manservant)
Batgirl/Cassandra Cain (she's half-Asian, correct? If so, we'll claim her)
Psylocke/Betsy Braddock (white woman in an Asian body gives new meaning to the term "twinkie." Close enough)
The Mandarin (Iron Man nemesis)
Katana (Outsiders)
Amadeus Cho (Hulk ally)
Deadly Little Miho (Sin City)
Lady Shiva (Batman rogue)
Fin Fang Foom (Iron Man rogue)
Surge (New X-Men: Academy X)
Thunder and Lightning (Teen Titans Go!)
Cheshire (Poor man's Lady Shiva)
Lian Harper (daughter of Speedy/Arsenal/Red Arrow/whatever his name is and Cheshire)
Lady Deathstrike (Wolverine/X-Men villain)
Mariko Yashida (one of Wolverine's old lovers; sister of Silver Samurai)
The Swift (The Authority)
The Female (The Boys)
The Shredder (TMNT)
The Foot Clan (TMNT)
The Hand (Daredevil)
Linda Park West (Wally's wife)
Kabuki (David Mack's series)
Glenn (The Walking Dead)
Girl One (Top Ten)
Tujiro (Grendel)
Ryan Choi (The Atom)
Shinobi Shaw (X-Men villain)
Sunpyre (Sunfire's sister. HAHA)
Temugin (The Mandarin's son)
Radioactive Man (The Thunderbolts)
Kwannon (Psylocke's body)
Matsu'o Tsurayaba (X-Men villain)
Armor (New Mutants)
Mantis (The Avengers. Was she the Celestial Madonna or something?)
Dr. Light (The heroine, not the rapist with the porn goatee)
Red Lotus (X-Men ally)
Karma (Original New Mutants)
The Great Ten (See Chairy's post for clutch details - http://forums.shoryuken.com/showpost.php?p=4387764&postcount=8 )
Storm Shadow (GI Joe, Real AMERICAN Heroes!!!)
Karai (TMNT)
Wally and Linda's superkids (The Flash)
Ultimate Abomination
Amiko Kobayashi (Wolverine's adopted daughter)
Yukio (Adventurer, ally of the X-Men's Wolverine and Storm)
Daken (Wolverine's bastard with some random Asian broad. We need to vote on whether it's worth keeping this guy as one of us, seeing as how he's from Daniel Way's Origins comic.)
Opal Tanaka (Iceman's ex-girlfriend)
Kaizen Gamorra (WildStorm supervillain)
Lei-Kung the Thunderer (Immortal Iron Fist)
Steel Serpent, aka Davos (Immortal Iron Fist)
All of the other martial arts champions in the current Iron Fist arc
Puck 2, aka Zuzha Yu (Alpha Flight)
Rising Sun (Global Guardians)
Thunderlord (Global Guardians)
Gloss (Global Guardians)
Fu Manchu (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
Egg Fu/Chang Tzu (DC Comics... LOL, I thought 4Play was just hungry or racist when he suggested Egg Fu!!)
Grunge (Gen 13)
Grail (Wetworks)
Dupli-kate (Invincible. Really? I didn't know she was Asian. SEXY)
Jimmy Woo (Agents of Atlas and Agent of SHIELD. Damn good call, shengy. Can't believe I forgot him.)
Jenny Quantum/Jenny Quarx (The Authority. Another great call. I will do 999 pushups in remorse now.)
Toyo Harada (Harbinger)
Fuji (Stormwatch)
Rai (Valiant Comics)
Dr. Mirage (Valiant)
Jinx (GI Joe)
Tunnel Rat (GI Joe)
Quick Kick (GI Joe)
Tana Moon (Supercloneboy's girlfriend)
Grace Kwon (Derek Kirk Kim's Good As Lily OGN)
Jen Dik Seong, aka "Dixie" (Mike Carey's Re-Gifters OGN)
Rice Wilder/Wild Rice (The Spirit)
Various Adrian Tomine characters
Various Derek Kirk Kim characters
Jin Wang (American Born Chinese)
Lester Huang, aka Teeko-Meeko the Chinese Wonder Man (Brave Old World. It's an obscure Vertigo mini from 2000)
Rachel Kai (Seven Brothers. The Virgin Comics miniseries from John Woo and Garth Ennis.)
Robert Akimbe; Baz Hooker; Daniel Falling Water; Jagdish Verna; Gabriel Castillo, Muhammed Ridwan Salim; Ronald "Double-Double" Wipes; (Collectively known as the Seven Brothers of the aforementioned comic. Sure, these guys obviously don't have Asian names... but if you read the story, they're obviously part of our ethnic heritage. We're claiming them.)
Collective Man (Contest of Champions)
Shi (The eponymous)
Ringo Chen (Hitman)
Tiger Lily; Snap Dragon; Scarab; Ice; Butch; Siamese; aka Masks of the Noh (Kabuki)
Akemi (Kabuki)
Multi-Paul (Invincible)
The Minorus, aka The Most Important And Significant Members Of The Pride (Runaways)
J2 (Juggernaut's son in the Spider-Girl comics universe)
The Quiz (From the Brotherhood of Dada in Doom Patrol. A really good call, Damny. I will now slit my own throat in shame.)
Danny the Street (Doom Patrol)
Splinter (TMNT)
The Ancient One (The Previous Sorceror Supreme and Master of the Mystic Arts who taught Dr. Strange how to be Asian and hire Wong to simulate a Chinese environment)
Kyodai-Ken (Batman: The Animated Series.)
Ogun (Wolverine's former sword master)
Wu Cheng, aka Chop-Chop (Blackhawk. Another good call, Damny.)
Cedric (Fight for Tomorrow. Go Brian Wood!)
Machine (Authority supervillain from the Transfer of Power storyarc)
Sway (X-Men: Deadly Genesis)
Kai Nagasaki (Crossing Midnight)
Toshi Nagasaki (Crossing Midnight)
Sir Galahad (Camelot 3000)
The Emperor (Member of the Council of Five in Wanted)
Gordon Yamamoto (Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks by Gene Yang)
Loyola Chin (Loyola Chin and the San Peligran Order also by Gene Yang)
The Boy (Soulwind by Scott Morse)
Sun Kim and Kokoro (Big Clay Pot by Scott Mills)
Miss Blossom (The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist)
X-23 (What? Really? Bub?)
Jong Li, aka the first Green Lantern of Earth (From some Doug Moench Green Lantern comic)
Night-Dragon (Batman: Hong Kong OGN. Also by Moench. Moench must have Asian fetish or something. He wrote a lot of Shang-Chi comics, too)
Scrambler, aka Kim Il Sung (Original Marauders, X-Men foes)
Samurai Steel, aka Yoshida Asano (Iron Man villain)
Khatana (Cyber Ninjas. LOL, I did a google search on this character and all I got was 'locky's post! But I believe.)
Bengal (Daredevil F-Lister)
Tran Coy Manh (Brother of Karma. X-Men related character)
Ninja (Iron Fist villain. We forgot him because his name is "ninja." Thanks again, 'locky. By the way, what does Ninja look like again? A ninja?)
Assassin, aka Mimeyoshi (Some android built by Apocalypse whose primary function was housekeeping)
R.A.M., aka Takeo Yakata (New Guardians, a DC book)
The Cat, aka Shen Kuei (Shang-Chi nemesis. Also appeared in Cable & Deadpool)
Tao (Alan Moore's WildC.A.T.s. And the Bru's Sleeper. The supervillain formerly known as the Tactically Augmented Organism. If we have Machine Man and Assassin, we're definitely claiming Tao. At least his name sounds Asian. And he's good at math, too -must be Asian.)
Shado (Green Arrow character from the Mike Grell era)
Miyamoto Usagi (Usagi Yojimbo. I finally realized Usagi Yojimbo was missing from this list while I was taking a dump. Can't believe I almost forgot!)
Murakami Gennosuke (Usagi Yojimbo)
Zato-Ino, the Blind Swordpig (Usagi Yojimbo)
Kitsune (Usagi Yojimbo again)
Jei (Usagi's nemesis)
Connor Hawke (Green Arrow/Ollie's son is part Asian)
Yellow Claw (A supervillain from Steranko's Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD)
Dr. Zin (Jonny Quest)
Jezebel Jade (Jonny Quest)
Buddha (Kingdom Come. Sumo-sized scourge of China)
Tokyo Rose (Kingdom Come. Japanese martial arts assassin)
Kabuki Kommando (Kingdom Come. The Fourth World's Japanese champion)
Samurai (Kingdom Come. Champion of Japan from the Batmen of many nations. LOL, so now we got a guy named "Ninja" and a guy named "Samurai." Next thing we know, Ronin turns out to be Asian.)
Dragon (Kingdom Come. Champion of China from the Batmen of many nations)
Renjiro (The main guy from Silent Dragon. Remember that WildStorm miniseries by Andy Diggle and Leinil Yu? The story took place in future Japan. There were lots of Japanese people in that story.)
Lady Takara (Silent Dragon. The love interest)
Suki Suzuki (Silent Dragon. The plucky sidekick.)
Hideaki (Silent Dragon. The villain.)
Manzo (Silent Dragon. The villain's right hand enforcer.)
Ikiryu (Silent Dragon. The mysterious, spiritual ghost dude.)
Jimmy Shan (Sandman Mystery Theatre. He was a key player in "The Face" storyarc. That arc had a bunch of other Chinese people, too.)
The Yellow Menace (Pistolwhip: The Yellow Menace. Pistolwhip is a sweet, old-style crime noir comic by Jason Hall and Matt Kindt. Yay Top Shelf!)
Jeriven (My Faith in Frankie. It was one of Carey's early Vertigo works.)
The Gorgon, aka Tomi Shishido (From Wolverine: Enemy of the State)
Ken (Demo #6: What You Wish For. His wife is Asian as well.)
Masahiro, aka The Devil Who Dares (What If? Daredevil. It was a great one shot by Rick Veitch and Tommy Lee Edwards from a couple years back.)
Ryoko Oshiba (A Japanese intelligence agent from... Ready for this? The X-Men: Kitty Pryde - Shadow & Flame miniseries.)
Nao (Leader of the Path of Destiny. A hokey ninja offshoot somehow related to the Hand... Also from the Shadow & Flame Kitty mini.)
Ozaki (Frank Miller's Ronin)
Doctor Doom ("Either I win or you lose. Choose quickly.")
Professor Yinsen (The dude who helped Tony Stark create the original Iron Man armor)
Satchel Pooch (From the Get Fuzzy comic strip. He's part Shar Pei.)
Sparrow (Amalgam Comics. Basically Tim Drake and Jubilee merged into one being. Jim Balent had a hand in her design so she's automatically the adolescent Asian version of Powergirl in terms of breast power.)
Wilson (Old Chinese gangster dude from DMZ)
Traci Thirteen (Vintage DC Comics character is half-Asian)
Knives Chau (Scott Pilgrim)
Sonny Sumo (From Jack Kirby's Forever People)



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That's all I've got so far. I'll edit the list as needed.

[P. Gorath]

Tujiro - Grendel
Iceman's girlfriend from back in the day
Wolverine's girlfriend/wife (mariko?)
i feel like one of the queens from Checkmate was azn

[Adam Warlock]

Fin Fang Foom (Iron Man rogue)


ROFL Dude, you can't claim the fucking dragon lol

Surge (New Xmen)
Ryan Choi (The Atom)
Shinobi Shaw (X-men Villain)
Sunpyre (Sunfire's sister)

[4Play]

I bet a couple manga have Asian characters in them, but as we all know, only America and Latveria matters.

The truth.


Anyway,
There's Shinobi Shaw(Sebastian Shaw's son)

And Tenoquin(sp?) Mandarin's son

Radioactive Man(Thunderbolts)

Doctor Light 2( uh Crisis)

Katana(Outsiders)

EGG FU!

[Adam Warlock]

Kwannon (The body Psylocke stole)
Armor (New Mutants)
Mantis (Avengers)

[Zephyranthes]

Lol, why can't we claim Fin Fang Foom? The dude has one of the most blatantly Asian names in comicsdom, he lives in China, and he sports a Conqueror Ming-style goatee. It doesn't matter if they retconned him into an alien being who landed on Earth. He's Asian.

[Adam Warlock]

Matsu'o Tsurayaba (X-men Villain)
Red Lotus (X-men ally)
Karma and her siblings (original new mutants)

[ChairHome]

There's the Great Ten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ten)

With their atrocious names.

Accomplished Perfect Physician
August General in Iron
Celestial Archer
Chang Tzu
Ghost Fox Killer
Immortal Man in Darkness
Mother of Champions
Seven Deadly Brothers
Shaolin Robot
Socialist Red Guardsman
Thundermind
The Yeti

[maxx]

I should be more specific. This list is for Western comics. I bet a couple manga have Asian characters in them, but as we all know, only America matters. Euro comics don't count, either. AMERICA FUCK YEAH (lol, I got that song stuck in my head)

Here's whom I've got so far.

Nico Minoru (Runaways)
Dr. Alison Mann (Y: The Last MAAAAAN!!!1)
The Deadly Hands of Shang-Chi, Master of Kung-Fu
Silver Samurai (Wolverine/X-Men villain)
Sunfire (X-Men)
Jubilee (LOL)
Ultimate Wasp
Kato (Green Hornet)
Wong (Dr. Strange's manservant)
Batgirl/Cassandra Cain (she's half-Asian, correct? If so, we'll claim her)
Psylocke/Betsy Braddock (white woman in an Asian body gives new meaning to the term "twinkie." Close enough)
The Mandarin (Iron Man nemesis)
Katana (Outsiders)
Amadeus Cho (Hulk ally)
Deadly Little Miho (Sin City)
Lady Shiva (Batman rogue)
Fin Fang Foom (Iron Man rogue)
Surge (New X-Men: Academy X)
Thunder and Lightning (Teen Titans Go!)
Cheshire (Poor man's Lady Shiva)
Lian Harper (daughter of Speedy/Arsenal/Red Arrow/whatever his name is and Cheshire)
Lady Deathstrike (Wolverine/X-Men villain)
Mariko Yashida (one of Wolverine's old lovers; sister of Silver Samurai)
The Swift (The Authority)
The Female (The Boys)
The Shredder (TMNT)
The Foot Clan (TMNT)
The Hand (Daredevil)
Linda Park West (Wally's wife)
Kabuki (David Mack's series)
Glenn (The Walking Dead)
Girl One (Top Ten)
Tujiro (Grendel)
Iceman's girlfriend from back in the day (The world according to P.Gabby)
Ryan Choi (The Atom)
Shinobi Shaw (X-Men villain)
Sunpyre (Sunfire's sister. HAHA)
Temugin (The Mandarin's son)
Radioactive Man (The Thunderbolts)
Kwannon (Psylocke's body)
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That's all I've got so far. I'll edit the list as needed.

isn't jubliee only half asian...u claiming halfies?

storm shadow muthafuckas

karai-tmnt

[Zephyranthes]

If we can claim interstellar dragons, we can claim halfies.

[Pained Auron]

wally's kids are halfies
also add carpet lint
isn't the abomination asian?

[Zephyranthes]

Ha, Clinty's a comic book character now? I checked on the Abomination. He's Russian, and I don't know if we're going to count Eastern Europeans as Asian. But Ultimate Abomination is Chinese. Good call.

[Sano]

Amiko Kobayashi - Japanese. Wolverine's adopted daughter.

Yukio - Japanese. Wolverine's sometime lover and friend. Storm's best friend. Caretaker of Amiko.

Daiken - Half Japanese on his mother's side. Wolverine's son.

[Sano]

The name of Iceman's ex is Opal Tanaka.

[Zephyranthes]

Good work on all the obscure X-Asians, sano. You can be an honorary Asian if you want.

[Sano]

Good work on all the obscure X-Asians, sano. You can be an honorary Asian if you want.

:rofl:

[Carpet Lint]

ROFL Dude, you can't claim the fucking dragon lol
You shut your dirty mouth. In return, we acknowledge that you can have Jinx from Pokemon.

Daken (Wolverine's bastard with some random Asian broad. We need to vote on whether it's worth keeping this guy as one of us, seeing as how he's from Daniel Way's Origins comic.)

There's the Great Ten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ten)

With their atrocious names.
We don't want 'em!

Additional Asians...

Kaizen Gamorra (The Authority)
Lei-Kung The Thunderer (Iron Fist)
Steel Serpent aka Davos (Iron Fist)

Also, generally they like to cram in a lot of minorities into the international superhero teams, so those are good places to look as well.

Rising Sun (Global Guardians)
Thunderlord (Global Guardians)
Gloss (Global Guardians)
Puck 2 aka Zuzha Yu (Alpha Flight)

Yes, apparently even Puck is stealing our Asian women. Yellow Fever is fucked up for reals.

Also...

- Fu Manchu actually appeared in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but I don't know if that applies.

- I don't remember if Viper (Madam HYDRA) is Asian or European.

- All the other champions in the current Iron Fist (Fat Cobra, The Bride of Nine Spiders, Dog Brother #1, and Tiger's Beautiful Daughter, and I assume The Prince of Orphans is Asian too) but I don't know if they're too minor to include yet. Like...what's the minimum appearance limit we want here? Like more than five issues or three story arcs?

- Unrelated (I was trying to see if Jason Todd was a halfie) but this thread got me thinking...you know how in A Death In The Family, Jason Todd is going around the world looking for his mother and they narrow it down to like three possible women? And one is like an Israeli (or was it Lebanese?) government agent, one is Lady Shiva who is Chinese, and one is the eventual real mother whose name I have forgotten...but she was like white, right?

So it's like...the world's greatest detective didn't even consider like LOOKING AT JASON TODD and figuring out if he was half Chinese, half Israeli, or half white? Couldn't they have just skipped like more than half of that story if they could have narrowed it down?

Who wrote this? Jim Starlin!?! Come on, man!

...I think that's all I got for now.

That's a pretty good list.

[Sano]

Viper's European.

[4Play]

What, Egg Fu doesn't count?

[Carpet Lint]

Haha, I thought it was just a funny somewhat Asian-related phrase you ended your post with, like...

BURGERS BURGERS BURGERS or WHERE AMAZING HAPPENS

Oh right, Egg Fu (aka Chang Tzu Post-Crisis) would qualify as well. Just looking at his Wikipedia page now...holy shit, comics were so racist back then.

I think that's what we're missing in today's world, honestly. More racism. We need to get back to those racist values that once served us so well.

[Carpet Lint]

And is X-23 Asian? She looks like it, but I haven't touched non-New or non-Astonishing X-titles in like five years, so I don't know anything about her.

[goodm0urning]

As long as we're counting halfsies... (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/goodm0urning/spidey20.jpg)

[subaru84]

And is X-23 Asian? She looks like it, but I haven't touched non-New or non-Astonishing X-titles in like five years, so I don't know anything about her.

X-23 is a female clone of Wolvie. Thus, azn be she not.

[Sheng-Long]

'Grunge' Chang (Gen13-Wildstorm)
Grail (Wetworks-Wildstorm)
Tripli-kate (Invincible-Image)
Jimmy Woo (Yellow Claw-Marvel)
Jenny Quantum/Jenny Quarx (The Authority-Wildstorm)

EDIT:
Toyo Harada (Harbinger-Valiant)
Fuji (Stormwatch-Wildstorm)
Kaizen Gamorra (Stormwatch-Wildstorm)
Rai (Rai-Valiant)
Dr. Mirage (The Second Life of Dr. Mirage-Valiant)

[goodm0urning]

Tana Moon (Supercloneboy's girlfriend)
Lois Chaudhari (Clark Kent's girlfriend in Secret Identity)
Rice Wilder/Wild Rice (criminal from The Spirit)

[Zephyranthes]

I'll be back later to finish the rest of the edits. Also, does Lois Chaudhari really count? She's Indian, right? Some Indians I've met considered themselves Asian, but I believe some Indians do not identify as Asian.

We have some issues to discuss for the racial draft.

ASIAN HUDDLE NOW

[goodm0urning]

I'll be back later to finish the rest of the edits. Also, does Lois Chaudhari really count? She's Indian, right? Some Indians I've met considered themselves Asian, but I believe some Indians do not identify as Asian.India is in Asia, because America said so. End of story.

[Zephyranthes]

I'll hold off on the Indian controversy until I get more feedback from the others.

Now, a brief comic strip everyone can enjoy!
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=312

[PsychoSquall]

Shi is mixed (japanese father, american mother)

[Pained Auron]

Ha, Clinty's a comic book character now?



well no one who likes van damme that much can be real. anyway clinty you should go int fgd and read the van damme thread there

[Carpet Lint]

Yeah, I think Az posted it in the Lounge Thread, unless you're talking about a different Van Damme thread...

Good stuff, but I think the guys in FGD handled it sufficiently well. That isn't my world.

ASIAN HUDDLE NOW
I'm moving AGAINST Indian inclusion. Just for everything else in like real life, they don't get to fit under our "Asian" label umbrella. Get these "South Asian" people out of this thread - MAKE YOUR OWN!

That means you, Desi.

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Oh man, I don't believe we forgot Shi. Any other mid 90's Bad Girl Era (ie. Dawn, Barbed Wire, Razor) characters we're forgetting? I completely forgot about the rest of Wildstorm and Image - good looking out, Shengy. Though we forgot Tripli-Kate's twin brother...uh...Tripli-Kate's twin brother.

Are there any major characters in the David Mack Kabuki titles we can include as well? I've never touched any of those. The main character is just called Kabuki, right?

EDIT: OH! And Ringo Chen from Garth Ennis' Hitman. In summary...

Tripli-Kate's twin brother (Invincible) - need to go back and find his name...
Kabuki (Kabuki)
Ringo Chen (Hitman)

[matrix9280]

Xorn (Though I doubt anyone could say for sure)
Collective Man

[goodm0urning]

South Asia is still Asia. The only place the southern region of a continent should be completely disregarded is America, where everything below the Mason-Dixon line should be summarily ignored in all matters not related to tractor pulls and corn husking.

[str[e]ak]

Fin Fang Foom (Iron Man rogue)


ROFL Dude, you can't claim the fucking dragon lol


You shut your dirty mouth. In return, we acknowledge that you can have Jinx from Pokemon.


lol, racial draft, anyone?

i just looked up fin fang foom on wikipedia, and it says that he's an alien. :annoy:

[The Damned]

Tripli-kate (Invincible-Image)

Tripli-Kate's twin brother (Invincible) - need to go back and find his name...

Okay, so this has been bugging me for since the whole five hours ago that I read the entirety of the thread, especially since I thought there were more fans of Invincible, especially ones that had more comics of it than I had.

The girl's name was Dupli-Kate.

Her brother's name is supposedly Multi-Paul.

They're puns.

....


...Also, you kind of obviously messed Nico Minoru's parents. I would count them as characters worthy of the list since they were a part of the Pride. However, you never did specify how many issues someone should be in to "qualify".

Oh, and if we're including Fu Manchu because he appeared in League of Extraordinary Gentleman, then I don't see how we can leave out all the Asian people in Street Fighter by Udon since that's an American comic. (Or is it?)

Random EDIT: I just randomly remembered this for some reason, which is really odd since I've never read a ...whatever Avengers book for the future, but I think that Juggernaut's kid, the one that exists in the same future as Spider-Girl, is half-Asian.

I think his name is J2, but I'm not sure about the half-Asian thing; I'm just assuming that he is because I vaguely recall his mother having black hair (though picture in my head might not even be her) and since Juggernaut's like the biggest white guy out there....


Oh, and speaking of random, from something else I never read, I believe that The Quiz in the Brotherhood of Dada from Doom Patrol is supposed to be a Japanese woman. It's just difficult or impossible to tell due to her germaphobe.

[Zephyranthes]

I'm moving AGAINST Indian inclusion. Just for everything else in like real life, they don't get to fit under our "Asian" label umbrella. Get these "South Asian" people out of this thread - MAKE YOUR OWN!

Okay. Any other Asians or Indians have anything to add on this notion? Or shall we just agree that Indians need their own thread?


Oh man, I don't believe we forgot Shi. Any other mid 90's Bad Girl Era (ie. Dawn, Barbed Wire, Razor) characters we're forgetting? I completely forgot about the rest of Wildstorm and Image - good looking out, Shengy. Though we forgot Tripli-Kate's twin brother...uh...Tripli-Kate's twin brother.

Everyone I've added to this list, I've looked up online to verify their Asianness. I can't think of any other Bad Girls we haven't mentioned. Lady Death? She looks white to me. And I always assumed Barbed Wire is white because of that movie. Who the hell is Razor? We don't need her anyway.


Are there any major characters in the David Mack Kabuki titles we can include as well? I've never touched any of those. The main character is just called Kabuki, right?


Yeah, a number of major characters in Kabuki are Asian as well. I've added the most memorable ones to the list. I just figured naming the main character would be enough and we'd be able to figure out the rest by association. A bigger list does make me feel better, though... almost as though I am compensating for something.


Xorn (Though I doubt anyone could say for sure)


Xorn is Jewish.

South Asia is still Asia. The only place the southern region of a continent should be completely disregarded is America, where everything below the Mason-Dixon line should be summarily ignored in all matters not related to tractor pulls and corn husking.

India has enough people to be its own country. In fact, I believe it is a separate country from Asia. Wait, is Asia even a country? Oh, well. I don't really care. I am American, after all.

Seriously, though, if we start counting South Asia or India, then we have to claim Asia Minor as well. In fact, I'll claim Atlantis while we're at it. That used to be off the tip of Crete, right? Asia Minor. Namor the Sub-Mariner is one of us, baby, an ASIAN. Just look at those slinty eyes.


ak;4391333']lol, racial draft, anyone?

i just looked up fin fang foom on wikipedia, and it says that he's an alien. :annoy:

Fine, whatever, we'll call him a hapa if it makes everyone feel better.


...Also, you kind of obviously messed Nico Minoru's parents. I would count them as characters worthy of the list since they were a part of the Pride. However, you never did specify how many issues someone should be in to "qualify".

Yeah, I figured it would be okay to assume they were Asian by association. Otherwise I'd have to start adding everybody's parents, y'know? And I remember an issue where Iceman had dinner with Opal Tanaka's parents and I didn't think they were worth listing.

But the Minorus are in Runaways, so they deserve their own specific spot. Good watching out, Damny.


Oh, and if we're including Fu Manchu because he appeared in League of Extraordinary Gentleman, then I don't see how we can leave out all the Asian people in Street Fighter by Udon since that's an American comic. (Or is it?)

I left out the Street Fighter people because they are based on the game - a licensed property. Fu Manchu in LoEG is based on a novel character, but the Fu Manchu in the LoEG comic is basically, to me, a new character worthy of our list because he's in the public domain. Plus, Alan Moore wrote that comic and we need more of that.

But this is a good point about licensed properties. If we're counting licensed properties (and I personally don't think licensed comics characters have a place on our list), then we may have to have another ASIAN HUDDLE NOW. If we're allowing licensed characters, then we could have, like, George Takei's character from Star Trek.

Someone should do some fact checking about those GI Joe characters. Were they created in the comics first or were comics based on the toys or cartoon? If we have to cut Storm Shadow, I might cry.


Oh, and speaking of random, from something else I never read, I believe that The Quiz in the Brotherhood of Dada from Doom Patrol is supposed to be a Japanese woman. It's just difficult or impossible to tell due to her germaphobe.

Excellent call. I should have remembered that. I just read that a couple months ago. I have a terrible memory for an Asian. I'm not even good at math.

While we're on the subject of Doom Patrol, I'm am going to go ahead and claim Danny the Street as one of us.

[goodm0urning]

Asia is a continent. Asians are people who come from countries in/on the Asian continent. India is in/on the Asian continent. Therefore, Indians are Asians.

[EvilSamurai]

Asia is a continent. Asians are people who come from countries in/on the Asian continent. India is in/on the Asian continent. Therefore, Indians are Asians.

Indians are caucasians.

[chopperbyrne]

Map of Asia (http://www.stanford.edu/class/humbio103/ParaSites2006/Sparganosis/Sparganosis%20Website/asia-map.gif)

There you go people.

No wonder most of Asia hates you.

[kane_warhead]

swift from the authority is asian

I also nominate Captain Barbel and Darna

[Sheng-Long]

I'll be back later to finish the rest of the edits. Also, does Lois Chaudhari really count? She's Indian, right? Some Indians I've met considered themselves Asian, but I believe some Indians do not identify as Asian.

We have some issues to discuss for the racial draft.

ASIAN HUDDLE NOW

eh, why not. There aren't that much to add to the list that I can think of though, the Engineer from Authority? (or is she Hispanic? Her last name is Spica, lol), Dr. Kavitha Rao from Astonishing X-men, Jonny Quest's friend.

I also nominate Captain Barbel and Darna

Foreign comcs aren't counted or else we'll be here forever.

Okay, so this has been bugging me for since the whole five hours ago that I read the entirety of the thread, especially since I thought there were more fans of Invincible, especially ones that had more comics of it than I had.

The girl's name was Dupli-Kate.

Her brother's name is supposedly Multi-Paul.


Ooops.

In my defense, when I was trying to think of her name, I recalled that scene where she had a threesome with another character and then I googled "Tripli-kate Invincible" and had 3 hits. lol. WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE LINTY !?


EDIT:
oooh good call on Teeko-Meeko. Speaking of Vertigo, Cedric from "Fight for Tomorrow".

[maxx]

Good work on all the obscure X-Asians, sano. You can be an honorary Asian if you want.

oddly enough i always had image of him bein asian in my head..dunno why.

[Sano]

I'm Latino. :smile:

I say you should count Storm Shadow still even though he started out as a toy. Marvel had a hand in the cartoon and the comics. That one issue that had Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow and no dialog at all, the famous 'Silent Issue' was one of the greatest things in comics ever.

[Carpet Lint]

Honestly, enough with the nitpicking regarding the definitions of Asians in the context of this thread. It's obvious what we're looking for here, and there's no need to "prove" India is in Asia - we all know that. It's just that if we include India, then we'd have to include Russia, Saudi-Arabia, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan...I mean, come on - that just ruins the fun. In the same way, we never really refer to Puerto Ricans or guys from Guam as Americans. ...I mean, you CAN, if you were like a completely obsessive nitpicker...but I mean...you know. I think my point is made.

So we're just talking in regards to the squinty eyed, rice eating comic book characters in this thread. Feel free to make a new, more accurate Asian Comic Book Characters thread, where Russians and Indians and whoever are also included - I'll gladly contribute to that thread as well.

This should be in now way taken as an offense towards Indian people - I personally love Indian people. I took a taxi the other week, and the Indian guy driving it was very courteous and an excellent cab driver - no one loves Indians more that I do.

- Damn me, I got caught on the Tripli-Kate thing by Damny as well. I'm an ass, I'm sorry. I was just following Shengy's lead, and I just assumed that he knew what the hell he was talking about...which I obviously now know to be folly, and I will never make the same mistake again. YOU'VE LED ME ASTRAY, SHENG-LONG! I TRUSTED YOU, MAN

- Fin Fang Foom is Asian, we reject Marvel's racist reconning of him into an alien. He is ours, get your own ancient giant dragon monster.

- I also agree with the whole licensed property thing, and that's the reason I haven't brought up Street Fighter characters yet. Comic book adaptations of existing properties shouldn't count - if they have already been more prominently established in another medium outside of comics, then they shouldn't count. Because then that also opens up a huge can of worms because like almost every popular movie, television show, video game or whatever has been in at least one comic book adaptation - we'll have to just start listing all the Asians in popular media, which is beyond the scope of this thread.

- G.I.Joe the television series was originally based on the toy line by Hasbro and the comic book title by Marvel. Thus...Storm Shadow is still a valid entry on the list, and the high ass kicking integrity of the list is maintained.

- I always thought Xorn was Jewish all throughout. Was this ever changed, or did I just not understand Planet X correctly? In my defense though, Morrison was tripping on some particularly potent acid for the entire second half of that run.

- Would Spliter (TMNT) be classified as Asian? I mean...yeah, he's a mutated rat...but he was born in Japan and trained by a Japanese dude...so...what's the call there? Or would this just apply to human ethnicities?

[Sano]

Do dead people count? If so -

The Ancient One - Dr. Strange's old master from Tibet. Killed by Shuma-Gorath lol! :wgrin:

Ogun - Wolverine's old Japanese sword master. Even though he's dead his spirit comes back now and then to mess with Logan san...

[The Damned]

- I always thought Xorn was Jewish all throughout. Was this ever changed, or did I just not understand Planet X correctly? In my defense though, Morrison was tripping on some particularly potent acid for the entire second half of that run.

- Would Spliter (TMNT) be classified as Asian? I mean...yeah, he's a mutated rat...but he was born in Japan and trained by a Japanese dude...so...what's the call there? Or would this just apply to human ethnicities?

Who the hell understands "Planet X" correctly, especially when Excalibur basically retconned the shit out of it with but a mere sentence less than four months later? If we're talking solely about Planet X within itself, then "Xorn" was Jewish because he was Magneto in (awesome) disguise. If you go beyond that, though, then the entirety of "Xorn's" existence is called into question because of the two things that happened after that, both of which ended up being abortive: Magneto on the cast of Excalibur dismissing him as an IMPOSTER! & that other Xorn showing up who, AFAIK, has never been mentioned again except maybe in New Excalibur since Juggernaut and Nocturne are there--this would mean that Xorn was actually Chinese--and then the whole "Wanda is Uber now" thing meaning that she could have made it so that Xorn was a Chinese-Jew who just happened to look like her father and having all his powers and mannerisms and personality....

...Ugh, I'm making myself pissed off at Wanda again. Therefore, I'll just stop since I'm sure you knew all that already and I don't want to have to start go into the whole "Collective" bullshit top of that.

*electricity surges up behind me dramatically*

XOORRRNNNNNNN!!!!


...Anyway, I say we just count the second Xorn that turned up even though he will probably never ever show up again. We also need to count that Collective Man guy that China had as well if didn't already--I can't see the first page anymore when posting....

As for Splinter, we should definitely count him if we're counting the Shredder and Fin Fang Foom given that they are both aliens (now).


Oh, and speaking of racist, did we get Chop-Chop from Blackhawk already?


Excalipoor EDIT: Speaking of the short-lived Excalibur, wasn't that "Wicked" girl who could command those specter-like things Asian?

[Sano]

If we are talking racism there's that Dr. Strange villain, the god named The Living Buddha. He looks like a gigantic overweight Buddha statue and of course he is evil. Whoa talk about embracing other cultures and religions... I only know of him becaused he served under Shuma-Gorath lol. :rofl:

EDIT: Anyone see the new Flash Gordon TV show? Ming the Merciless is no longer obviously asian in design, he's just a regular white guy! No long fingernails, no make up, nothing. Just a regular caucasian! Everything is so PC nowadays... Yeash they could of at least gave the guy green skin or something...

[goodm0urning]

If we're not including Kazakhstan, we might as well just close the thread right now.

[Zephyranthes]

eh, why not. There aren't that much to add to the list that I can think of though, the Engineer from Authority? (or is she Hispanic? Her last name is Spica, lol), Dr. Kavitha Rao from Astonishing X-men, Jonny Quest's friend.


I don't think Angie is Asian. She might be, because she's really smart, but I am not sure. Her replacement in the Transfer of Power arc was Japanese, though.

Honestly, enough with the nitpicking regarding the definitions of Asians in the context of this thread. It's obvious what we're looking for here, and there's no need to "prove" India is in Asia - we all know that. It's just that if we include India, then we'd have to include Russia, Saudi-Arabia, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan...I mean, come on - that just ruins the fun. In the same way, we never really refer to Puerto Ricans or guys from Guam as Americans. ...I mean, you CAN, if you were like a completely obsessive nitpicker...but I mean...you know. I think my point is made.

So we're just talking in regards to the squinty eyed, rice eating comic book characters in this thread. Feel free to make a new, more accurate Asian Comic Book Characters thread, where Russians and Indians and whoever are also included - I'll gladly contribute to that thread as well.

So about the whole Indian thing, I'm thinking it may be best to let them have their own list. Clinty makes sense here.

oddly enough i always had image of him bein asian in my head..dunno why.

I'm Latino. :smile:


Latino? I thought you were black. Wasn't your picture in that one issue of Street Fighter? Man, I've been living a lie...


- G.I.Joe the television series was originally based on the toy line by Hasbro and the comic book title by Marvel. Thus...Storm Shadow is still a valid entry on the list, and the high ass kicking integrity of the list is maintained.

Very well, then. We shall continue to claim the GI Joe characters.


- I always thought Xorn was Jewish all throughout. Was this ever changed, or did I just not understand Planet X correctly? In my defense though, Morrison was tripping on some particularly potent acid for the entire second half of that run.

He's Jewish.


- Would Spliter (TMNT) be classified as Asian? I mean...yeah, he's a mutated rat...but he was born in Japan and trained by a Japanese dude...so...what's the call there? Or would this just apply to human ethnicities?

I should have listed him earlier when I slapped Shredder and Karai on the list. We're claiming him.


...Anyway, I say we just count the second Xorn that turned up even though he will probably never ever show up again. We also need to count that Collective Man guy that China had as well if didn't already--I can't see the first page anymore when posting....

Wait, did you say "we"? You're Asian as well? I thought you were black. My mistake. Anyway, that whole Xorn in China thing that Chuck Austen wrote? It never happened. AT ALL


Excalipoor EDIT: Speaking of the short-lived Excalibur, wasn't that "Wicked" girl who could command those specter-like things Asian?

I looked her up on wikipedia but she didn't seem Asian to me. Well, okay, I stopped reading her entry once I saw that she was created by Claremont in Excalibur #1, but I don't think we need to claim her.

[The Damned]

If we're not including Tajikistan, we might as well just close the thread right now.

Fixed.

Anyway, I finally remembered Radioactive Man, but I see we have him on the list.

However, and this is understandable considering she's the first to die, we're missing Sway from "Deadly Genesis".

Also, can we count Machine Man a.k.a. Aaron Stack?

Racial EDIT: Zeph, I'm still black. Just using "we" was easier.

[Zephyranthes]

However, and this is understandable considering she's the first to die, we're missing Sway from "Deadly Genesis".

Also, can we count Machine Man a.k.a. Aaron Stack?


Good watching out again with Sway. Machine Man is Asian? I thought he was just a robot/android with a white man's face. Well, if the white community doesn't want to claim him, I don't really mind another free agent pickup.


Racial EDIT: Zeph, I'm still black. Just using "we" was easier.
Cool, I thought I was going insane back there with unexpected racial revelations. I still can't believe sano is Latino... You sure, sano?

[The Damned]

Good watching out again with Sway. Machine Man is Asian? I thought he was just a robot/android with a white man's face. Well, if the white community doesn't want to claim him, I don't really mind another free agent pickup?

Oh, no. He's a machine, but his face looks more Asian than white to me.

Maybe it's because of the whole Hapa thing and I can't tell since half of the Asian kids are half-white nowadays.

[Sano]

Latino? I thought you were black. Wasn't your picture in that one issue of Street Fighter? Man, I've been living a lie...


Yeah I'm the guy with the red shirt holding the book up. And I'm sure I'm Latino lol my parents are from the Dominican Republic and I was born and raised in New York. There's dark and light skin people in my family if that matters. Did you confuse me with the person behind me who Adam Warlock once told me was checking out my back issues? :rofl:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v729/futaenokiwami/sanoatthecon.jpg

[Adam Warlock]

X-23 is a female clone of Wolvie. Thus, azn be she not.

Her mother is asian. Wolverine is only half her DNA.

[Zephyranthes]

All right, I will add her to the list for now. That isn't an Asian-sounding name, though. Sounds like the White Man wrote her origin.

[Zephyranthes]

sano, what was the name of that one dude Batman teamed up with in the Hong Kong OGN?

[Sano]

sano, what was the name of that one dude Batman teamed up with in the Hong Kong OGN?

Yeah I have that ha ha! The character is a Hong Kong comics character crossing over with Batman. I'll look up the name but I don't know about counting him unless you want to start tossing in Storm Riders and other HK heroes lol! But hey who knows maybe he's chilling on one of those 52 Earths...

[Sano]

Night-Dragon.

[Zephyranthes]

Oh, that was actually a crossover? I had no idea. I thought he was a guy Moench made up. Moench loves all that stereotypical Asian mystic arts/martial arts stuff. I recently learned he also introduced Jong Li, the Earth's ORIGINAL Green Lantern, baby!! Hahaha!

[Adam Warlock]

Here's the list alphabetized for easy referencing:

Akemi (Kabuki)
All of the other martial arts champions in the current Iron Fist arc
Amadeus Cho (Hulk ally)
Amiko Kobayashi (Wolverine's adopted daughter)
Armor (New Mutants)
Batgirl/Cassandra Cain (she's half-Asian, correct? If so, we'll claim her)
Cedric (Fight for Tomorrow. Go Brian Wood!)
Cheshire (Poor man's Lady Shiva)
Collective Man (Contest of Champions)
Daken (Wolverine's bastard with some random Asian broad. We need to vote on whether it's worth keeping this guy as one of us, seeing as how he's from Daniel Way's Origins comic.)
Danny the Street (Doom Patrol)
Deadly Little Miho (Sin City)
Dr. Alison Mann (Y: The Last MAAAAAN!!!1)
Dr. Light (The heroine, not the rapist with the porn goatee)
Dr. Mirage (Valiant)
Dupli-kate (Invincible. Really? I didn't know she was Asian. SEXY)
Egg Fu/Chang Tzu (DC Comics... LOL, I thought 4Play was just hungry or racist when he suggested Egg Fu!!)
Fin Fang Foom (Iron Man rogue)
Fu Manchu (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
Fuji (Stormwatch)
Girl One (Top Ten)
Glenn (The Walking Dead)
Gloss (Global Guardians)
Gordon Yamamoto (Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks by Gene Yang)
Grace Kwon (Derek Kirk Kim's Good As Lily OGN)
Grail (Wetworks)
Grunge (Gen 13)
J2 (Juggernaut's son in the Spider-Girl comics universe)
Jen Dik Seong, aka "Dixie" (Mike Carey's Re-Gifters OGN)
Jenny Quantum/Jenny Quarx (The Authority. Another great call. I will do 999 pushups in remorse now.)
Jimmy Woo (Agents of Atlas and Agent of SHIELD. Damn good call, shengy. Can't believe I forgot him.)
Jin Wang (American Born Chinese)
Jinx (GI Joe)
Jubilee (LOL)
Kabuki (David Mack's series)
Kai Nagasaki (Crossing Midnight)
Kaizen Gamorra (WildStorm supervillain)
Karai (TMNT)
Karma (Original New Mutants)
Katana (Outsiders)
Kato (Green Hornet)
Kwannon (Psylocke's body)
Kyodai-Ken (Batman: The Animated Series.)
Lady Deathstrike (Wolverine/X-Men villain)
Lady Shiva (Batman rogue)
Lei-Kung the Thunderer (Immortal Iron Fist)
Lester Huang, aka Teeko-Meeko the Chinese Wonder Man (Brave Old World. It's an obscure Vertigo mini from 2000)
Lian Harper (daughter of Speedy/Arsenal/Red Arrow/whatever his name is and Cheshire)
Linda Park West (Wally's wife)
Loyola Chin (Loyola Chin and the San Peligran Order also by Gene Yang)
Machine (Authority supervillain from the Transfer of Power storyarc)
Mantis (The Avengers. Was she the Celestial Madonna or something?)
Mariko Yashida (one of Wolverine's old lovers; sister of Silver Samurai)
Matsu'o Tsurayaba (X-Men villain)
Miss Blossom (The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist)
Multi-Paul (Invincible)
Nico Minoru (Runaways)
Ogun (Wolverine's former sword master)
Opal Tanaka (Iceman's ex-girlfriend)
Psylocke/Betsy Braddock (white woman in an Asian body gives new meaning to the term "twinkie." Close enough)
Puck 2, aka Zuzha Yu (Alpha Flight)
Quick Kick (GI Joe)
Rachel Kai (Seven Brothers. The Virgin Comics miniseries from John Woo and Garth Ennis.)
Radioactive Man (The Thunderbolts)
Rai (Valiant Comics)
Red Lotus (X-Men ally)
Rice Wilder/Wild Rice (The Spirit)
Ringo Chen (Hitman)
Rising Sun (Global Guardians)
Robert Akimbe; Baz Hooker; Daniel Falling Water; Jagdish Verna; Gabriel Castillo, Muhammed Ridwan Salim; Ronald "Double-Double" Wipes; (Collectively known as the Seven Brothers of the aforementioned comic. Sure, these guys obviously don't have Asian names... but if you read the story, they're obviously part of our ethnic heritage. We're claiming them.)
Ryan Choi (The Atom)
Shi (The eponymous)
Shinobi Shaw (X-Men villain)
Silver Samurai (Wolverine/X-Men villain)
Sir Galahad (Camelot 3000)
Splinter (TMNT)
Steel Serpent, aka Davos (Immortal Iron Fist)
Storm Shadow (GI Joe, Real AMERICAN Heroes!!!)
Sun Kim and Kokoro (Big Clay Pot by Scott Mills)
Sunfire (X-Men)
Sunpyre (Sunfire's sister. HAHA)
Surge (New X-Men: Academy X)
Sway (X-Men: Deadly Genesis)
Tana Moon (Supercloneboy's girlfriend)
Temugin (The Mandarin's son)
The Ancient One (The Previous Sorceror Supreme and Master of the Mystic Arts who taught Dr. Strange how to be Asian and hire Wong to simulate a Chinese environment)
The Boy (Soulwind by Scott Morse)
The Deadly Hands of Shang-Chi, Master of Kung-Fu
The Emperor (Member of the Council of Five in Wanted)
The Female (The Boys)
The Foot Clan (TMNT)
The Great Ten (See Chairy's post for clutch details - http://forums.shoryuken.com/showpost...64&postcount=8 )
The Hand (Daredevil)
The Mandarin (Iron Man nemesis)
The Minorus, aka The Most Important And Significant Members Of The Pride (Runaways)
The Quiz (From the Brotherhood of Dada in Doom Patrol. A really good call, Damny. I will now slit my own throat in shame.)
The Shredder (TMNT)
The Swift (The Authority)
Thunder and Lightning (Teen Titans Go!)
Thunderlord (Global Guardians)
Tiger Lily; Snap Dragon; Scarab; Ice; Butch; Siamese; aka Masks of the Noh (Kabuki)
Toshi Nagasaki (Crossing Midnight)
Toyo Harada (Harbinger)
Tujiro (Grendel)
Tunnel Rat (GI Joe)
Ultimate Abomination
Ultimate Wasp
Various Adrian Tomine characters
Various Derek Kirk Kim characters
Wally and Linda's superkids (The Flash)
Wong (Dr. Strange's manservant)
Wu Cheng, aka Chop-Chop (Blackhawk. Another good call, Damny.)
X-23 (What? Really? Bub?)
Yukio (Adventurer, ally of the X-Men's Wolverine and Storm)

For Fu manchu why not go with Ironfist's dad?

[The Damned]

Here's the list alphabetized for easy referencing:

And just as the idea entered my head, you are ahead of me again. Figures.

Looking at the list, I'm surprised that we seemed to have missed The Mandarin of people, especially when we have his son.

...And then I saw that he was under "T".

Anyway, Scrambler from the (original) Maruaders is/was apparently Asian--I'm guessing Korean from the name.

[Sano]

Oh, that was actually a crossover? I had no idea. I thought he was a guy Moench made up. Moench loves all that stereotypical Asian mystic arts/martial arts stuff. I recently learned he also introduced Jong Li, the Earth's ORIGINAL Green Lantern, baby!! Hahaha!

Oh no my bad, checked into it and it wasn't a crossover. The artist Tony Wong did HK comics before like Weapon of the Gods but the character was new. Ooops... :sweat: I suppose you can add Night-Dragon fine. :blush:

[Adam Warlock]

Samurai Steel (Iron Man Villain)
Khatana (Cyber Ninjas)
Bengal (daredevil Villian)
Assassin (if we're including machineman he counts)
karma's brother was Tran Coy Manh
Ninja (Ironfist villain) HOW THE FUCK COULD IF FANS FORGET HIM???

[The Damned]

Going off the Global Guardians thing, since I being reading a lot about DC's brokenness in the past two days, there was also another Asian character or two on Gloss's original team.

There was R.A.M., who is apparently dead, and Hal Jordan's (best) friend, Thomas Kalmaku, if Eskimos count as Asian.

If Eskimos do count, then isn't Harpoon from the Marauders--bless you stereotypes--an Eskimo?

[Adam Warlock]

No Eskimos. Thems Native American folk.

[The Damned]

No Eskimos. Thems Native American folk.

Technically, yes, but I vaguely remember them being referred as Asian somewhere....

That and they look more like Asians than they do a lot of other Native Americans (but that could just be because the later had forcible hot meat injections of white into them).

[Zephyranthes]

Don't historians say that Native Americans crossed over to North America from Asia via the Bering Strait back in the day? But I doubt they would consider themselves Asian at this point in time.

Some Icelandish people look kind of Asian, too. But Bjork says she's not Asian. Iceland's close enough to where all the snowy people live, I guess. Whatever. If we're going to start accepting Icelanders and Eskimos and Native Americans as Asians... I'm seriously going to go ahead and claim Atlantis and Namor.

Thanks for the alphabetized list, 'locky. At some point, when we run out of characters to add to the list, I will try to organize the list by publisher and whatnot. And the Asians might have to begin thinking about which characters are worth claiming as part of our racial team and which ones we should trade or simply waive altogether. (I'm looking at Daken, the Asian comic book version of Cherokee Parks.)

[kane_warhead]

Lady Deathstrike?

[Zephyranthes]

Thanks, already got her.

[kane_warhead]

how about shen kuei? That martial artist in Cable & deadpool?

[Zephyranthes]

Oh yeah, now that's a good call. Thanks.

[Sheng-Long]

Few more DC:
http://en.dcdatabaseproject.com/Category:Asian

From Marvel database by nationality: (exclude the expats of course)
http://en.marveldatabase.com/Category:Chinese
http://en.marveldatabase.com/Category:Japanese
http://en.marveldatabase.com/Category:Cambodian
http://en.marveldatabase.com/Category:Korean
http://en.marveldatabase.com/Category:South_Korean
http://en.marveldatabase.com/Category:Madripoorian
http://en.marveldatabase.com/Category:K'un-L'unan
http://en.marveldatabase.com/Category:Thai
http://en.marveldatabase.com/Category:Vietnamese

Also Dr. Zin from the Jonny Quest comics and other countless Asian villains they had as well as Race Bannon's girlfriend Jezebel Jade (from Comico comics)

[Zephyranthes]

Wow, that's a lot of stuff to sift through. Guess we got our work cut out for us... I'll go add Dr. Zin and Jezebel Jade for now.

Once we finish the list, I'm going to try to organize it and see just how many Asian comics characters are known primarily for their martial arts skills.

[Adam Warlock]

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/appasian.htm

[Carpet Lint]

NO ESKIMOS

Wow, that sucks - so apparently all this work has already been done, for Marvel and DC at least. We'll have to eventually sift through all those links then. Though our list is still awesome because it reaches across all of comicdom, and it's still probably more extensive than what's in there for Marvel and DC anyway.

I picked up my copy of Kingdom Come last night, and just coincidentally happened to notice five Asian characters in it. Listed below, along with the cheesy description line as found in the back of the trade.

- Buddha (sumo-sized scourge of China)
- Tokyo Rose (Japanese martial arts assassin)
- Kabuki Kommando (the Fourth World's Japanese champion)
- Samurai (champion of Japan from the Batmen of many nations)
- Dragon (champion of China from the Batmen of many nations)

Good stuff.

[Zephyranthes]

All right. I don't think there are any Eskimos on our list. I also added Clinty's Kingdom Come suckers.

[Zephyranthes]

Does anyone remember the name of the main character from Frank Miller's Ronin?

[goodm0urning]

Does anyone remember the name of the main character from Frank Miller's Ronin?Are you talking about Ozaki?

[Zephyranthes]

I think so. Like I said, I forget his name. But he's the dude on the cover of the TPB... The guy who gets reincarnated or thrown through time to continue the eternal battle. Or whatever the specifics were. I don't own my own copy and it's been a few years since the last time I read it.

[goodm0urning]

I think so. Like I said, I forget his name. But he's the dude on the cover of the TPB... The guy who gets reincarnated or thrown through time to continue the eternal battle. Or whatever the specifics were. I don't own my own copy and it's been a few years since the last time I read it.I'm not sure either, since I read it at the bookstore but never picked it up. Since I am a cheap ass son of a bitch, I do a lot of reading in the bookstore. I'm very picky about what I buy... which might not come as a surprise to people familiar with my posting habits.

[Carpet Lint]

Haha, I read trades I'd ordinarily never buy in the bookstore all the time. I think most recently was that Wolverine story arc where he and Elektra flew into like the magical twilight dawn city of The Hand and slew like literally fifty thousand ninjas with each hand, while wearing a SHIELD issue rocketpack and like a hilariously unnecessary targeting cursor thing on his eye.

I hope Mark Millar gets hit by a truck.

DO YOU THINK THIS "E" ON MY CHEST STANDS FOR AMERICA!?!

[Zephyranthes]

Yeah, I love goin' to Borders and reading their comics. The only thing that annoys the crap out of me is when I'm trying to browse the graphic novel section and some dumbass punk kid is sitting in the aisle, reading manga, and leaning against the shelves I am trying to look at.

So many kids do that. They don't know how to get out of the way when other (potential) customers/freeloaders are trying to look for something. It's like the kids are so damn engrossed with, like, fucking LOVE HINA that the entire rest of existence ceases to...uh, exist!

I have to step on people sometimes. Or kick them. I haven't spilled coffee on anyone yet because I don't drink coffee so I've never bought a cup at the bookstore.

My next goal is to drop an Absolute Edition on some unsuspecting kid's head. At my Borders recently, the staff put them on the top shelf - the top shelf! I can't wait to go and drop an Absolute Dark Knight on someone! The kid'll be like, "Hey, wtf man, watch out!" And I can be like, "I'm gonna SPAC this shit down!" and make him cry.

It would be awesome to drop a Lost Girls box set on someone's head, too. There can't be much else in the world like getting struck in the noggin by a 15 pound giant hardcover box set of porn.

-----

Clinty, I think I've finally realized where your irrational hatred of Millar comes from. It's 'cause he killed and zombiefied Northstar, eh? He basically ruined the one cool homosexual Canadian superhero.

I understand you now. If I were Canadian, bub, I would hate Mark Millar as well.

[4Play]

Yeah, I love goin' to Borders and reading their comics. The only thing that annoys the crap out of me is when I'm trying to browse the graphic novel section and some dumbass punk kid is sitting in the aisle, reading manga, and leaning against the shelves I am trying to look at.

So many kids do that. They don't know how to get out of the way when other (potential) customers/freeloaders are trying to look for something. It's like the kids are so damn engrossed with, like, fucking LOVE HINA that the entire rest of existence ceases to...uh, exist!


Ugh same thing happens to me. Damn those kids.

[goodm0urning]

You know what the really fucking stupid part is? The big bookstores always have one or two bays of real American comic books and at least twice as much space reserved for manga. They should park their greasy asses in front of the shit that nobody in their right mind would ever want to read, so that I can have access to the shit that I... mostly don't want to read.

Anyway, yeah. Get the fuck away from the comics.

[Carpet Lint]

My favourite is how like a lot of the big bookstores now will just throw the two shelves of graphic novels and stuff under the fifteen shelves of manga.

Kinda depressing when you're looking around for the comic books and you find it under a big "MANGA" sign next to all these kids reading Inuyasha or Yu-Gi-Oh mangas. Honestly, I feel bad enough bootlegging comics in a bookstore...there's no reason to hurt my self-esteem even more.

Clinty, I think I've finally realized where your irrational hatred of Millar comes from. It's 'cause he killed and zombiefied Northstar, eh? He basically ruined the one cool homosexual Canadian superhero.

I understand you now. If I were Canadian, bub, I would hate Mark Millar as well.
Now let's reenact that "it's not your fault" scene from Good Will Hunting - you'll be Robin Williams and I will be Matt Damon.

[Zephyranthes]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92D15qtI_Gk

I don't think I ever made it that far into the movie, so I had to youtube it. You are one hilarious Canucklehead, Clinty.

And for some reason, Matt Damon just reminds me of Rob Liefeld. I have to go look up a picture of Rob to see what he looks like now.

[Carpet Lint]

They're white, they all look the same to me.

LOL, Chinese subtitles - EXCELLENT TOUCH

How could you not have ever seen Good Will Hunting? I thought all English majors were like big pretentious film buffs as well. Ben Affleck has an Oscar sitting on his shelf at home, and Good Will Hunting is why. Ben Affleck is an Academy Award winning actor.

I mean, it was for writing the script, but whatever.

[Zephyranthes]

I remember watching part of the DVD with someone this one time. But something came up and I had to go do something else in the middle of the movie, and I never bothered going back to finish what Zephy had started.

There's just a ton of movies I've never watched, despite my English degree. It's probably because I was always too busy reading comic books at Borders, or trying to figure out loopholes as to why Doctor Doom is Asian.

[akumatrunigga]

do you guys have this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrow_%28comics%29)

[Zephyranthes]

Merciful Rao, I'd forgotten about Sparrow. I shall add her now. Although I will say she belongs somewhere low on the respect list. LOL, Jim Balent "created" her... She must be the most stacked 14 year old Asian girl ever.