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== Anime and Manga ==
* Spike Spiegel on ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' is considered Jewish by some fans because he has a Yiddish family name, a stereotypically Jewish haircut, and carries an Israeli-made Jericho 941 pistol. Obviously he is not played by a Jewish actor, since he is an animated character, and his Japanese voice actor isn't either. ([[Steve Blum|His American voice-actor]], on the other hand...) When asked, the series creators said he was modeled after actor [[wikipedia:Yusaku Matsuda|Yusaku]] [http://i.imgur.com/nf8cQ.jpg Matsuda], and they just thought the name sounded cool.
* The ''[[Gundam]]'' metaseries has a few characters with Jewish-sounding names (which might merely be [[Foreign Sounding Gibberish|German names]]) whose background is never really elaborated on. Notable examples include ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket|0080]]'''s Bernie Wiseman, ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory|0083]]''{{'}}s Deitrov Kosel and Anavel Gato, ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam]]''{{'}}s Jamitov Hyman, and ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED]]''{{'}}s Seigal Klein. What's particularly strange about these examples is that all of them, with the possible exception of Klein, come from factions that had an unfortunate tendency toward [[Putting on the Reich]]. Sure, it's a political divide, not ethnic, but it's still odd to see possibly-Ambiguously Jewish characters goose-stepping.
** In some circles of ''Gundam'' fandom, hero Amuro Ray and Captain Bright may or may not be Jewish.
** Speaking of ''Gundam'', presumably Louise Halevy of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' has Jewish ancestry, as Halevy is a generally Sephardic Jewish surname and Louise's family is from Spain.
** The Kleins were confirmed by [[Word of God]] as being from Scandinavia, possibly related to royalty or nobility. However, they ironically go in a different direction than most of the examples because their own faction (the coordinators) is treated with about the same respect as WWII-era Jews by the naturals.
* ''[[Code Geass]]'': [[The Everyman|Ohgi]]. His hair, held back by a hairband, looks vaguely afro-ish, but it was [https://web.archive.org/web/20111120192334/http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/55/83435-ohgi_comp_large.gif that random Star of David] on his uniform that earned him the name [[Fan Nickname|Jewgi]].
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* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X Men]]'' [[Big Bad]] Magneto (real name Max Eisenhardt but known by an assumed name of Erik Lehnsherr) has occasionally had his ancestry cast in doubt like this. It's a well-established part of his backstory that he was in a Nazi concentration camp, but other groups were placed in those as well. Briefly, Marvel claimed he was a Gypsy or just avoided mention of his ethnicity for a while out of fear of being called anti-Semitic, but it was eventually confirmed that he's Jewish.
* The character of G.B. Blackrock from the Generation One ''Transformers'' comic published by Marvel Comics. Blackrock sounds like an Anglicization of Schwarzstein, and creator Bob Budiansky said he based the character's name off that of his friend Gary Bennett Schwartz; both Budiansky and Schwartz are Jewish. Nevertheless, Blackrock's religious or ethnic background is never referred to explicitly in the comic. Also, there was an amusing incident during the scraplet outbreak wherein Goldbug (an alternate name for Bumblebee) telephoned Blackrock for help; Blackrock's secretary mispronounced Goldbug as Goldberg.
== Fan Works ==
* Fishlegs Ingerman and his siblings in the ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]'' fanfic ''[[A Thing of Vikings]]'', building on his characterization in the film. Later all ambiguity is wiped away, when it's revealed that his grandfather was a displaced Jewish scribe named Dror ben Ezra; later the discovery of Jews in Rouen prompts the Ingermans to embrace them as family and after learning of their historical persecution offer them homes and jobs on Berk.
== Film ==
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