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Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character introduced in a series of novels by British author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century.
The character was also featured extensively in cinema, television, radio, comic strips and comic books for over 90 years, and has become an archetype of the evil criminal genius while lending the name to the Fu Manchu moustache.
Laurette Luez played Karamaneh in 1956's The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu, but the character owed more to Fah lo Suee than Rohmer's depiction of Karamaneh.
Following the 1940 release of Republic Pictures ' serial adaptation of Drums of Fu Manchu, the U. S. State Department requested the studio make no further films with the character as China was an ally against Japan.
Shang-Chi () is a Marvel Comics character, often called the " Master of Kung Fu ".
The character was conceived in late 1972 when Marvel Comics acquired the comic book rights to Sax Rohmer's pulp novel villain Dr. Fu Manchu while they also held the rights to the Kung Fu television program.
Though an original character himself, many of Shang-Chi's supporting characters ( most notably Fu Manchu and Sir Denis Nayland Smith ) were Rohmer creations.
No characters from the Kung Fu television series carried over into the comic series, though the character Lu Sung, in an early issue, bears a strong resemblance to Kwai Chang Caine with the addition of a moustache.
* Fah Lo Suee is the daughter of Fu Manchu and is the final character from the novels to appear in the comic.
Fleming's inspiration for the Dr. No character was Sax Rohmer's villain Dr Fu Manchu, the books about who Fleming had read and enjoyed in earlier years.
* The character Kwai Chang Caine in the television series Kung Fu, is modeled after the character Cain.
The Fu Manchu character is believed to have been patterned on the antagonist of the 1898 Yellow Peril series by British writer M. P. Shiel.
After working on Captain Marvel, Starlin and writer Steve Englehart co-created the character Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, though they only worked on the early issues of the series.
* The fictional character Kwai Chang Caine used elements of Snake Kung Fu in the television series Kung Fu
* Bou Keng Wan (" Cloud "), a Kung Fu character from the Hong Kong comic, Fung Wan
A prominent example occurs within the first volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, wherein a character who is clearly intended in appearance and description by other characters to be Dr. Fu Manchu appears as a significant villain ; however, as this character was not in the public domain at the time of writing and the rights still held by the estate of his creator Sax Rohmer, he is not directly named as such in the work and is only referred to as ' the Devil Doctor '.
In his complex schemes for world-domination, he is also reminiscent of Sax Rohmer's character, Fu Manchu.
Ming is portrayed as a military dictator in this serial, rather than as a Fu Manchu or Devil-like character as in the two previous Flash Gordon serials.
* Oolong, a main character from Yie-Ar Kung Fu.
Although the character was designed deliberately to mimic pulp magazine-style villains such as Dr. Fu Manchu and Fantômas, the latter of which was a direct inspiration, Jacques ' goal was both commercial success and to make political comments, in much the same way that the silent movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ) had done just a few years previously.

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The delicately beautiful Manchu princess Lo-Tsen is the basis of the Maria character.
Details are uncertain due to the scarcity of source material and a lack of cultural referents ; compounding the matter is a linguistic difficulty: In Manchu the term gūsa denotes a large military formation called a " banner " and tu refers to a flag known as a " banner ", but in Chinese ( the language used in nearly all the pertinent records ) the character qi ( 旗 ) is used for both meanings.
He was born in the Forbidden City, Beijing, and was given the name Mianning ( Wade-Giles: Mien-ning ; ), changed into Minning (; Manchu: Min ning ) when he became emperor: the first character of his private name was changed from Mian ( 綿 ) to Min ( 旻 ) so as to avoid the relatively common Mian character.
The reasons for the choice of Qing as the new name are likewise unclear, although it has been speculated that the sound – Jin and Qing are pronounced similarly in Manchu – or wuxing theory – traditional ideas held that fire, associated with the character for Ming, was overcome by water, associated with the character for Qing – may have influenced the choice.
* Fu Manchu, a fictional character first featured in a series of novels by English author Sax Rohmer
** Fu Manchu moustache, a full mustache popularized by the character
Hughes was best known as the titular character Bill Davidson on the long-running daytime radio serial, Just Plain Bill, and he acted in other well-known radio programs such as the Fu Manchu Mysteries and Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons.
Given Hollywood's reluctance to hire Asian actors for substantial roles during that period ( with only a few reluctant exceptions, such as Anna May Wong, Sessue Hayakawa, and Philip Ahn ), he portrayed a variety of Asian characters in several movies before being offered the leading role in the 1929 film, The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu as the first onscreen portrayal of the title character.

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His younger brother Elliot Caplin also became a comic strip creator, best known for co-creating the soap opera strip The Heart of Juliet Jones with artist Stan Drake, and conceiving the comic strip character Broom-Hilda with cartoonist Russell Myers.
The Daria character had been created for Beavis and Butt-Head by Glenn Eichler and originally designed by Bill Peckmann of J. J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. Eichler then became a producer for Daria.
* The fifth UK edition introduced the " Evil " touch, whereby the authority character " Big Brother " became almost a villain.
He became a highly regarded character actor and guest-starred in many 1960s TV series including Ben Casey, The Twilight Zone, The Andy Griffith Show, Dr. Kildare and Hennesey.
The film was Mabel's Strange Predicament, but " The Tramp " character, as it became known, debuted to audiences in Kid Auto Races at Venice — shot later but released two days earlier.
When the character was spun off into Frasier, his father became a central character with, in a case of retroactive continuity, the explanation that Frasier was embarrassed about his father's lowbrow attitudes and thus claimed his death.
* Cygwin 1. 7 introduced comprehensive support for POSIX locales and many character encodings, whereby the UTF-8 Unicode encoding became the default.
In 1983, Shirley Armitage became the first major black character in her role as machinist at Baldwin's Casuals.
Following the company-wide " Dark Reign " and " Siege " story arcs, the Steve Rogers character became part of the " Heroic Age " arc.
The character of Don Quixote became so well known in its time that the word quixotic was quickly adopted by many languages.
In 1953, Day appeared as the title character in the comedic western-themed musical, Calamity Jane, winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song for " Secret Love " ( her recording of which became her fourth U. S. No. 1 recording ).
He became popular in his lifetime, and remained popular after his death ; partly due to his larger than life character, and his reputation for drinking to excess.
" With satisfaction came severe personal difficulties: acting the same role over an extended period, it became impossible for him to separate Ziggy Stardust — and, later, the Thin White Duke — from his own character offstage.
From this time he became one of the most celebrated orators in Rome, but sacrificed his character by conducting accusations for the government.
Arden's quick wit made her a natural talent for radio ; she became a regular on Danny Kaye's short-lived but memorably zany comedy-variety show in 1946, which also featured swing bandleader Harry James and gravel-voiced character actor-comedian Lionel Stander.
Along with Russell, he led the turn away from idealism in British philosophy, and became well known for his advocacy of common sense concepts, his contributions to ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, and " his exceptional personality and moral character.
Arthur, the next oldest, donned a curly red wig and became " Patsy Brannigan ", a stereotypical Irish character.
After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915, public anti-German sentiment was widespread, and Marx's German character was booed, so he quickly dropped the accent and developed the fast-talking wise-guy character that became his trademark.
If Matthew's prime concern was to preserve the Jewish character of the church, he failed: Christianity became a Gentile religion, and Christianity and Judaism came to view each other as opposites.
After his career in music, Brood turned to painting and became a well-known character in Amsterdam art circles.
Although not attested in the Biblical account of the Partriarch's life, it became an important aspect of Abraham's character in later Jewish tradition.

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