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* Invoked in ''[[Guilty Gear]]'': Anji Mito is a Japanese person (in this "verse," their race was almost wiped out in a war with the eponymous Gears, and are placed in protective colonies throughout Asia supposedly for their own safety) who takes up the guise of a Chinese person in order to travel freely.
* In ''[[Fallout 3]]'''s Mothership Zeta expansion, Paulson (a 19th century cowboy) refers to Toshiro Kago (a 16th century [[Samurai]]) as a "Chinaman" until he is corrected.
* At one point in ''[[EarthBound]]'', a museum curator refers to Poo as a samurai. While Poo ''does'' come from the typical Asian-[[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]-in-an-otherwise-Western-world, it subverts the [[Wutai]] trope by making it have more in common with India and Sri Lanka than Japan or anywhere else. This being ''[[
* [[Blizzard Entertainment]] offended its Chinese fans by giving the
* ''[[Deus Ex:
* In ''[[Syndicate]]'' reboot, the Aspari syndicate is formed from the Yakuza and Triads and employs both Chinese and Japanese.
* For the early ''[[Mortal Kombat]]''s Midway had trouble keeping the races of the Asian characters straight, which is why you have things like Chinese Ninja and the series' main character (a Chinese Shaolin Monk) being named after a Japanese samurai in preproduction and the like. Later games retconned all of this to make sense to a certain degree. This is also likely why all of the Asian characters yell gibberish when they [[Calling Your Attacks|utter battle cries]].
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