Wong's been pretty snarky most of his existence in comics. And not always Strange's biggest fan.
The problem runs right to the creation of Wong, of Short Round, of Kato, of Wing, etc. The Chinese servant-friend. They're all very Gunga Din, and that's their strength and what's annoying about them and that continued character type. At least, Gunga Din is clearly the equal or superior to his white "superiors," where, most often, even if Stephen Strange is horribly in the wrong and absurdly condescending, they'll make up and Wong's back to doing the laundry and waiting on him hand and foot.
Heck, Alfred, as a white manservant, is only really saved by Frank Miller repositioning him as basically father to Bruce Wayne. And, you don't even have the very explicit racial divide there, so it was strictly an issue of classist expectations that aren't really in fashion these days.
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The way I see the Hand is just ninjas involve with organize crime, the Kingpin is/was a leader of them, or you could say they are an asian Illuminati.
On the Strange/Wong issue, it wasn't that big of deal for the Green Hornet movie for Kato so I think Wong could be a servant or he could just be a student to Strange.
Pak has a great take on how to do Wong without it being racist offensive. Also emphasizing that he's the servant of the Supreme Sorcerer, not Strange would be good; and they need to make it clear this is an Asian convention, not a European convention, so it's not a lowly position at all. Frankly I'd make him terrible at being a "servant" and run him as the badass bodyguard who is using "servant" as his secret identity due to everyone assuming it's a hired help kind of servant. Then let him loose to run a street level team. Sort of tongue in cheek mockery of everyone getting it wrong.
But seriously, the bromance for these two is strong with these two and would be very popular.
Last edited by Post Monster; 04-11-2015 at 04:20 PM.
Umm the Wolverine was nothing but Japanese people + Hugh Jackman
The Hand was in the Elektra movie (no one remembers this cause no one watched it but not only were they there they were probably the best part of the movie) and all the members but Typhoid were Asian actors, iirc.
Donnie Yen was one of the Bloodpack in Blade 2
Kenneth Choi played a Howling Commando in Captain America: the First Avenger
Kelly Hu was Lady Deathstrike in X2
Meiling Melançon played Psylocke X-Men the Last Stand
Fan Bingbing was Blink in Days of Future past
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Everything is an offensive stereotype if you're hyper-sensitive enough.
Ninjas are cool. Leave them alone.
There are East Asian chicks all over the place playing the femmes fatales and romancing the Caucasian leads but the men are hard to find. Yes Will Yun Lee had a speaking part in The Wolverine but didn't the chick he like go for Logan? Wasn't Snowman a mute in Blade 2 and get killed offscreen? Didn't the awesome Kenneth Choi get only like maybe 2 lines throughout Captain America?
The original answer was simply about the Hand as the OP asked but yes Asian guys get the short shrift in both the MU and CMU.