The English novelist Sax Rohmer is best known for creating which prototypical ethnic villain who is now associated with a distinctive mustache?
"China the best engineers of Europe, for some larger criminal purpose. By the end of the book, Fu Manchu's slave Karamaneh, a beautiful Arab woman, apparently now in love with Dr Petrie, and her brother Aziz, are freed, and Inspector Weymouth, driven mad by an injection of serum from Fu Manchu, is restored to sanity by Fu Manchu, who appears to have escaped from a fire which destroys the house he had previously entered. The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (1913) is the first novel in the Dr. Fu Manchu (sometimes ""Fu-Manchu"") series by Sax Rohmer."
"intended to refer to China, was offensive. Characterizing Fu Manchu as an overtly racist creation has been criticized in the book ""Lord of Strange Deaths: The Fiendish World of Sax Rohmer"". In a review of the book in ""The Independent"", Fu Manchu is contextualized: ""These magnificently absurd books, glowing with a crazed exoticism, are really far less polar, less black-and-white, less white-and-yellow, than they first seem."" The style of facial hair associated with him in film adaptations has become known as the Fu Manchu moustache. The iconic moustache is registered in the Oxford Dictionary as a “Fu Manchu"", which is"
"Peril incarnate"". Sax Rohmer inextricably tied the evil character of Fu Manchu to all East Asians as a physical representation of the Yellow Peril, attributing the villain's evil behavior to his race. Rohmer also adds an element of mysticism and exoticism to his portrayal of Fu Manchu. Despite Fu Manchu's specifically Manchu ethnicity, his evil and cunning are pan-Asian attributes again reinforcing Fu Manchu as representational of ""all"" East Asian people. Blatantly racist statements (not considered so at the time the novels were published) made by white protagonists such as: ""the swamping of the white world by yellow hordes might"
"Fu Manchu moustache A Fu Manchu moustache or simply Fu Manchu is a full, straight moustache that originates on the corners of the mouth and grows downward past the clean-shaven lips and chin in two tapered ""tendrils"", often extending past the jawline. An expansion of the Fu Manchu sometimes includes a third long ""tendril"" descending from a small patch on the chin. The Fu Manchu moustache derives its name from Fu Manchu, a fictional character created by British/Irish author Sax Rohmer, who is shown wearing such a moustache in film adaptations of Rohmer's stories. The literary Fu Manchu did not"
"films. Thirteen novels, three short stories, and one novelette have been written about Fu Manchu and Sir Denis Nayland Smith, the British agent determined to stop him. Millions of copies have been sold in the United States with publication in British and American periodicals and adaptations to film, comics, radio, and television. Due to his enormous popularity, the ""image of Fu Manchu has been absorbed into American consciousness as the archetypal East Asian villain."" In ""The Insidious Doctor Fu-Manchu"", Sax Rohmer introduces Fu Manchu as a cruel and cunning man, with a face like Satan, who is essentially the ""Yellow"
"frequently of foreign nationality (usually Chinese) and often possessed a stereotypically Asian appearance (for example, a long wispy moustache and yellow-tinted skin). They were often highly intelligent or in possession of a powerful, supernatural ability and generally occupied themselves with elaborate plans for world domination, although they were usually thwarted by the American heroes of their time. While usually serious threats, one somewhat humorous Yellow Peril villain was DC's Egg Fu, a giant Communist egg with facial features and a prehensile moustache. In the early 20th century, author Sax Rohmer published a series of novels focusing on the wildly popular"
"incursion: Racist myths often carried by the water imagery of flood, deluge, the tidal waves of immigrants, rivers of blood."" In 1936, when the Nazis banned his novels in Germany, because they believed him Jewish, Sax Rohmer denied being racist and published a letter declaring himself ""a good Irishman"", wherein he was disingenuous about the why of the Nazi book-ban, because ""my stories are not inimical to Nazi ideals."" ""The Mask of Fu Manchu"" (1932) reflects the white man's sexual-anxiety as the basis of Yellow Peril fear; thus Fu Manchu (Boris Karloff) urges his Asian army to ""Kill the white"
"and some people shave their heads before undergoing such treatment.) In modern settings, shaved heads are often associated with characters who display a stern and disciplined or hardcore attitude. Examples include those played by Yul Brynner and Vin Diesel; Telly Savalas as Kojak; Samuel L. Jackson in roles such as Mace Windu and Nick Fury; and Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in ""Alien 3"" (1992). Shaved heads are also associated with villains, such as Superman's archenemy Lex Luthor, Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz in ""Apocalypse Now"", or Donald Pleasence as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in ""You Only Live Twice"". Goatee beards"
"Roehm did not undergo the typical change in appearance associated with werewolves. However, he acquired superhuman strength, enhanced senses, claws, and barely controllable bloodlust during his transformation. His powers were genetically based, but required mental triggering by Selene. Aside from his personal devotion to Selene, von Roehm was apparentally mentally compelled to obey Selene while in his superhuman state. Friedrich von Roehm Friedrich von Roehm, also known as the Black Rook, is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as an adversary of the X-Men. Von Roehm possesses a hereditary"
"Chinese villain, Dr. Fu Manchu. Attempting to capitalize on this success, DC Comics and Marvel Comics both published comic books featuring Chinese villains physically resembling Fu Manchu and possessing the same personality, sexual ambiguity, and ambitions for world domination. Because neither publisher possessed a license for the Fu Manchu character, these early Chinese comic book villains were either unnamed or had a different name than Fu Manchu. Examples include DC's Red Dragon and Marvel's Yellow Claw and The Mandarin. In 1938, DC Comics obtained the license for Sax Rohmer's character, and subsequent titles featured Fu Manchu as a recurring villain"
"Yellow Peril was a common subject for colonial adventure fiction, of which the representative villain is Dr. Fu Manchu, created by Sax Rohmer, and featured in thirteen novels (1913–59). Fu Manchu is an evil Chinese gangster and mad scientist who means to conquer the world, despite continually being foiled by the British policeman and gentleman spy Sir Denis Nayland Smith, and his assistant Dr. Petrie. Fu Manchu was patterned on the antagonist of the Yellow Peril series and novel ""The Yellow Danger; Or, what Might Happen in the Division of the Chinese Empire Should Estrange all European Countries"" (1898), by"
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"described as a “long, narrow moustache whose ends taper and droop down to the chin"", although Rohmer's writings described the character as wearing no such adornment. Before the creation of Fu Manchu, Chinese people in Western culture were usually portrayed as victims in Western dominance. Fu Manchu was a new phase in western culture where, suddenly, Chinese people were portrayed as the perpetrator and a threat to Western culture. Because of this, the character of Fu Manchu became for some a stereotype embodying the ""yellow peril"". For some others, Fu Manchu became the most notorious personification of Western views towards"
"Friedrich von Roehm Friedrich von Roehm, also known as the Black Rook, is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as an adversary of the X-Men. Von Roehm possesses a hereditary ability that is likened to lycanthropy. Von Roehm undergoes a transformation from his ordinary human form through a process mentally activated by Selene. He attained the rank of ""Black Rook,"" of the Lords Cardinal of the New York branch of the Hellfire Club, an exclusive secret society bent on world domination. In civilian life, he was a jeweler. Created"
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"Bridget Hitler's story is considered by most scholars to be fiction designed to cash in on her brother-in-law's notoriety. After World War II, the style fell from favour in much of the world due to its strong association with Hitler earning it another name: the ""Hitler moustache"". Artist Steve Ditko's original design for fictional character J. Jonah Jameson, a supporting character in the Spider-Man comics, sported a toothbrush moustache, apparently meant to make him seem Hitleresque and thus more loathsome, considering his extreme antagonism to Spider-Man, and most appearances of Jameson since his creation have maintained the style or a"
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