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== Flavor 2 ==
=== Anime & Manga ===
* In one of the earlier books in the manga version of ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'', Keiichi races against two students from a California technical institute. They are shown as hypercompetitive, cheating
* ''[[School Shock]]'' presents the Americans as aggressive diplomats with their default tactic being war threats,
* Carrie from ''[[Bamboo Blade]]'' is depicted as a somewhat stereotypical American type 2. She is obnoxious and in-your-face, extremely arrogant, and generally disregards the traditional rules of Kendo in favor of practices she thinks are more cool. However, by the end of the anime series, she and her rival Miya-Miya do seem to have a grudging respect for one another.
* The third episode of the 1990s OVAs of ''[[Black Jack]]'' features the "Federal Unites," complete with shots of the Statue of Liberty. ''This'' Eagle Land is a corrupt, imperialist bully bent on controlling and oppressing weaker nations for the sake of their resources. This makes it ''very'' satisfying when Dr. Black Jack beats the crap out of the Vice President for {{spoiler|murdering his patient.}} Black Jack is generally a very anti-establishment work anyway, so it's likely that this was just more of the "anyone with power is a corrupt dick" mindset than an anti-American one.
* ''[[Blood Plus]]''
** In the Japanese version, they outright left the French Van Aragano to die because he wasn't American
* Flavor 2 shows up in ''[[Darker than Black]]'' a couple of times. In the first season, the guy overseeing the American embassy is a stuck-up idiot who [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|deliberately gets in the way]] of [[Hero Antagonist|Misaki Kirihara's]] attempts to prevent a terrorist attack by [[The Syndicate]], and won't even let the Japanese police in to help security when "someone" drops a smoke bomb outside as an obvious distraction, which leads to [[Tempting Fate|the immortal line]]: "Don't test my patience-" *
** It's too mind-screwy to really tell, but the ending of the second season seems to cement America as this version: {{spoiler|it essentially implies they successfully invade
* An episode of ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' was set in Flavor 2 Eagleland, with a humongous New York that seemed to be nothing but Mafiosi and slums. Obviously [[Played for Laughs]], though; Excel immediately recognizes that she is in America by landing "...in the very definition of a slum."
** She tries to interact with the locals on their own level, hilariously badly. In the dub, she just spits out as many stereotyped gang-slang phrases she can think of; the trivia tags feature notes that in the original version, it was an even more eclectic collection of vaguely offensive faux- (and not-so-faux) Americanisms.
* In ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'', Leonard Apollo, the coach of the Nasa Aliens, is definitely an example of the latter type. His players are pretty nice guys, but Apollo is an overbearing blowhard who's bitter about his own failed dream of becoming a pro football player. This is actually a step down from the manga, as there Apollo is actually ''blatantly racist''.
** {{spoiler|He got better. He has [[Defrosting Ice Queen|softened up to Panther,]] the one he had despised so much, but also the one who admires him for his [[Determinator|hardships and determination]], to the point that he is willing to teach his trade in return for becoming a running back. [[Took a Level in Badass|It improves him so much.]]}}
** Ironically enough, Hiruma actually exhibits the most type 2 qualities, despite being ethnically Japanese and having lived in Japan his entire life. He list of type 2 qualities include:
** Loudness, lack of personal space, rudeness, crudeness, violence, sadism, trigger happy, militant leadership, boisterousness, use of intimidation, a "might-equals-right" (bully) mindset, ruthless ambition, fluency in English, cheerful
* Episodes 10 and 11 of ''[[Genshiken]]'' Season 2. Angela is shown as riding roughshod over all cultural sensitivities in Japan, in an almost painful caricature.
* ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' contains a particularly obnoxious example of type 2 in the infamous episode 10; a major plot point revolves around the "American Empire" sanctioning their forces to commit atrocious war crimes in South America, which might have been marginally forgivable given the series' alternate-future setting (in which [[All There in the Manual|supplemental materials]] reveal that America has undergone a second Civil War), but the depiction of the Japanese-American characters as ugly, condescending, manipulative cowards really has no excuse. Needless to say, some American fans like to [[Fanon Discontinuity|ignore that episode]].
** It is worth noting that the "American Empire" is NOT the United States, but one of two break-away nations from the US, with
* The ''[[You're Under Arrest]]: No Mercy'' special had the two [[Lovely Angels]] of the show
* Early '90s show ''[[Mad Bull 34]]'' sends a Japanese policeman on exchange to New York's 34th precinct to be [[Buddy Cop Show|buddies]] with "Sleepy" John Estes, the most violent cop on the force, who cleans up the [[Big Applesauce|Big Apple]]'s crime problem with shotguns, grenades, and a wanton disregard for legal procedure.
* ''[[Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro]]'' features possibly the pinnacle of type II Eagleland, ironically during a [[Hot Springs Episode|trip to a traditional Japanese Hot Spring]]. As well as ticking all the [[Phenotype Stereotype]] boxes (blond hair, blue eyes, large nose), and having a [[Surprisingly Good English|surprisingly plausible accent]] (until [[Gratuitous English|he has to speak English]]...), he {{spoiler|whistles the "Star-Spangled Banner" to himself, hates Japanese culture, but pretends to love it just to get close to a woman, threatens to [[Frivolous Lawsuit|sue for the slightest slight]], keeps a massive revolver [[Freud Was Right|in his pants]], kills a woman for refusing to give him "her resources" (her love), thinks that losing his pride is reasonable grounds for self-defense, and is obsessed with working out to the point of walking around shirtless, dressed like someone from an L.A. street gang. Oh, and he calls America "a law enforcing [[The Empire|Empire]]" which "raised [him] to have an emotionless heart".}} The kicker is that the episode ends as [[An Aesop]] about how people shouldn't be so narrow minded and intolerant of other people's culture.
**In a later chapter, that arc's {{spoiler|first}} villain reveals that he used the poor man as the first {{spoiler|test subject for [[The Virus|the electronic drug]], which exaggerates something people like in order to warp them into killers,}} making this an [[Exploited Trope]]: he most likely picked the American instead of his other {{spoiler|graduate students}} because he thought people would fall for it, and he was right. This turns that story's moral about xenophobia into a [[Space Whale Aesop]]: don't miss important clues because of xenophobic assumptions about Americans or {{spoiler|a [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|computer]] might take over the world.}}▼
* The ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'' anime has several characters who incarnated diverse variations of Eagleland #2. The one who shows up
▲In a later chapter that arc's {{spoiler|first}} villain reveals that he used the poor man as the first {{spoiler|test subject for [[The Virus|the electronic drug]], which exaggerates something people like in order to warp them into killers}} making this an [[Exploited Trope]]: he most likely picked the American instead of his other {{spoiler|graduate students}} because he thought people would fall for it, and he was right. This turns that story's moral about xenophobia into a [[Space Whale Aesop]]: don't miss important clues because of xenophobic assumptions about Americans or {{spoiler|a [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|computer]] might take over the world.}}
* The German/Japanese Asuka Langley Soryuu of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' has American citizenship and lived there for a time, possibly just to hint at her loud showboating personality. On the other hand, at the time the anime begins, she's [[Improbable Age|thirteen]], and [[Teen Genius|she has already graduated from college "last year"]]—which does at least run counter to the Americans-are-idiots cliche. Of course, the only person who ever mentions that Asuka is a college graduate is Asuka herself
▲* The ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'' anime has several characters who incarnated diverse variations of Eagleland #2. The one who shows up more often is Michael Grant, who started learning Japanese after watching several Japanese movies, acts like an overactive [[Genki Girl|Genki Boy]] and is quite fixated on his host sister, Miki. Also, we have Yuu's American friends and schoolmates: a [[Hot-Blooded]] semi [[Jerk Jock]] (Brian), a blonde [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] (Jenny), a sweet and homely [[Cool Big Sis]] (Doris) and young man who pretends to be sexually ambiguous to a degree (Bill).
** She also knows phsyics as second-nature, being able to answer all Shinji's homework without even being able to read it, and also speaks at least two languages fluently (it can be assumed she also knows English from living in the States). I think her word is pretty good.▼
▲* The German/Japanese Asuka Langley Soryuu of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' has American citizenship and lived there for a time, possibly just to hint at her loud showboating personality. On the other hand, at the time the anime begins, she's [[Improbable Age|thirteen]], and [[Teen Genius|she has already graduated from college "last year"]]—which does at least run counter to the Americans-are-idiots cliche. Of course, the only person who ever mentions that Asuka is a college graduate is Asuka herself, and given her personality, that might be best to take with a grain of salt...
* In the
▲** She also knows phsyics second-nature, being able to answer all Shinji's homework without even being able to read it, and also speaks at least two languages fluently (it can be assumed she also knows English from living in the States). I think her word is pretty good.
* Team Rocket's Meowth from the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime comes from California, and grew up in Hollywood. He went there as a lonely kitten to find happiness, but it was rough there
▲* In the Anime ''Ping Pong Club'' the tall, hairy, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, extremely ''smelly'' Mitchell Tanabe is..you guessed it. American.
** Also applied to James's background. as his parents are overbearing and insensitive [[Gone with the Wind]]-style billionaires. Again, not a [[Woolseyism]].▼
▲* Team Rocket's Meowth from the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime comes from California, and grew up in Hollywood. He went there as a lonely kitten to find happiness but it was rough there too and he was mistreated by almost everyone from a baseball team to a chef. Meowth had to join a gang and steal food to survive. This is not a [[Woolseyism]] and is true even in the original Japanese version. The rich lady's Meowth, Meowzie, who Meowth fell in love with, is humorously named [[Maddo NYA]] in that version.
** While Lt. Surge is a Type 1 in the games, in the anime he is the stereotypical "American bully," taunting children and having his bigger Pokémon beat up on them while he calls them "babies". In the ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' manga he is even worse: a power-hungry [[Psycho for Hire]] that climbed to the top ranks of [[The Mafia|Team Rocket]] and got his jollies beating the crap out of a teenage boy with a lightning [[BFG]] and an enslaved minor [[Physical God]].▼
▲** Also applied to James's background as his parents are overbearing and insensitive [[Gone with the Wind]]-style billionaires. Again not a [[Woolseyism]].
▲** In the ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' manga he is even worse: a power-hungry [[Psycho for Hire]] that climbed to the top ranks of [[The Mafia|Team Rocket]] and got his jollies beating the crap out of a teenage boy with a lightning [[BFG]] and an enslaved minor [[Physical God]].
* Donald Curtis from ''[[Porco Rosso]]'' is an exceptional #2 example. "Make way for the American!" He plans to be a Hollywood actor and later president. [[Ronald Reagan|Sound familiar?]]
* ''[[Pretty Sammy|Magical Project S]]'' has a brief sequence at the White House, where it shows the President as some gullible idiot willing to dump 60 billion dollars into a satellite surveillance system created by a 12 year
{{quote|"Ohhhhhhhh, I'm the president."}}
* Principal Kuno from ''[[Ranma ½]]'', a truly bizarre character with a penchant for loud shirts
* The American team in the baseball episode of ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'' is a definite type 2. They are portrayed as blatantly cheating, violent, murderous thugs who consider the Japanese team to be ignorant savages. They also keep going on and on about American superiority. When the game dissolves into a beaning match which ends with Mugen as the last man standing, he then yells "Go back to your own damn country!" The narrator then helpfully adds that the Americans went home in shame, with a profound fear of the Japanese people.
* ''Shin [[Getter Robo]] Armageddon'': After the apocalypse, the remaining nations struggle to survive against immortal aliens. A group of Americans come onto the Japanese base and start trying to kill everyone and destroy Shin Getter. Their reason? They think the Japanese ''caused'' the disaster that flooded the surface with Getter radiation, killing about 90% of the population, and drove them underground {{spoiler|in truth, the UN over-reacted and launched a nuke at the, at the time, highly volatile Shin Dragon}}. Gai calls them out on this, asking why the Japanese would drop the bomb on themselves.
** They have a [[Heel Face Turn]] of sorts near the end of the OVA
** In the original ''Getter Robo'' series and the ''Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo'' OAV, we get the Texas Mack robot unit shaped as a cowboy and its horse, piloted by the siblings Jack and Mary King. The depictions of Jack King vary as well; in the original ''Getter Robo'', he was so Flavor 2 that even the Japanese found it a bit ridiculous and offensive. In ''Shin Vs. Neo'', however, he at first appears to be Flavor 2 (a bit of a jerk, refusing to use Japanese, speaking bluntly, etc.) but quickly shows that [[Determinator|he's willing to defend his country and his allies, even at great personal risk, without so much as a half-moment of hesitation]].
*** Latter does so speaking absolutely horrid and, at the same time, absolutely ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilarious]]'' Engrish.
*** The Americans in ''Getter Robo Go'' are not the nicest people. They are grateful for Getter's help but won't share parts due Japan's past history of not assisting allies, specifically when Japan needed oil during the Gulf War and not helping. American pilot Schwartz takes the cake and is a total racist that hates everything non-white. He does start to realize he was wrong and his co-pilot was always stopping from picking on the Japanese.
* Let's not forget "Bandit" Keith [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Steve]] Howard from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', both an American and a ruthless dirty cheater, who has a [[Wearing a Flag on Your Head|Stars and Stripes bandanna]]. He even pulls a gun on Pegasus when he loses! Of course, Pegasus himself is American... and a flamboyant, childlike billionaire. Or Rebecca Hopkins/Hawkins, American champion, a cute little girl with a teddy bear... whose [[Catch Phrase]] is "God damn". Rebecca gets a little better later on, but still. Not to mention the [[It's All About Me|shallow, selfish]] movie star Jean-Claude Magnum. [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|In America]].
** In [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|the Abridged Series]], Yugi states it himself: "So let me get this straight. The only characters on this show who represent America are Jean Claude Magnum, Rebecca Hawkins, Maximilian Pegasus, and Bandit Keith. Is it just me, or is Yu-Gi-Oh the most xenophobic show ever?"
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* The manga version of ''[[Bokurano]]'' portrays America this way, even though Americans themselves are very rarely shown. Characters usually speak with disgust about the United States, saying that the country is stuck thinking it's the world's sole superpower, and worrying that the U.S. may invade Japan, using the manga's events as a pretext. In fact, the U.S. never actually does anything antagonistic in the manga.
* While America doesn't make an appearance until one of the final episodes of ''[[Speed Grapher]]'', the portrayal is definitely this type. The American President (very clearly [[George W. Bush]] in the dub) is among the world leaders discussing dealing with the situation in Japan, and they launch missiles into the middle of Tokyo as a response, and their motives for doing this are completely corrupt. Admittedly, the series also presents all Japanese politicians (and arguably all politicians in general) as corrupt.
* ''Heroman'', while definitely a poster child for Type 1 at first glance, seems to be headed this way as of recent episodes, with {{spoiler|the government actively trying to capture Heroman, as he poses a threat to the country.}}
* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'': When Osaka learns Chiyo plans to study abroad, she seems to think Chiyo will get shot the minute she steps off the plane.
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