"The Umbrella Academy" and "The Boys": Asian clichés cause a shit storm on the internet

Twitter users discuss clichés that should appear in "The Umbrella Academy" and "The Boys".

One stereotype is particularly criticized.

The superhero series “The Umbrella Academy” * and “The Boys” are particularly popular in-house productions by

and

.

Despite their popularity, viewers do not agree with everything that the creators allow themselves in terms of the plot and the character design.

For

example

, the American actor and singer

a discussion on

Twitter

about the portrayal of Asian characters in both series.

He points to a typical cliché that is used more often - and possibly unconsciously - in Hollywood.

"The Umbrella Academy" and "The Boys": Actor Jimmy Wong is bothered by the typical Asian cliché

In the series

and

two main roles were cast with Asian actors:

plays the character

in the Netflix production and

embodies

in the superhero hit of Prime video.

Although the actors play two major roles, Jimmy Wong found that they have little text and dialogue with other characters.

According to him, this is very often the case in Hollywood productions:

Least favorite acting thing I've noticed during pandemic binge watching: incredibly sexy and good looking Asian actors playing characters with barely ANY dialogue because it's supposed to be ... mysterious?

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- Jimmy Wong (@jfwong) October 18, 2020

"An ugly acting thing that I noticed during the pandemic binge-watching: Incredibly attractive and good-looking, Asian actors play characters who have almost no dialogue because that ... should seem mysterious?" Wong writes on Twitter .

In further tweets, he and other users explain that this phenomenon

- and it often hits black figures who hardly interact with the white main characters.

This is a problem because it deprives Asian and black actors from having the opportunity to prove themselves as an actor.

At the same time, in such a case, only white actors are in the spotlight, making them appear much more relevant.

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Not everyone can understand criticism of "The Umbrella Academy" and "The Boys"

As the magazine Digital Spy reports, at least

agree with Wong's criticism.

He explains that he is sorry for the way Kimiko was portrayed in season 1.

In the second season she got a bigger stage to get rid of the

.

Nevertheless, many comments accumulated under Wong's tweet, in which users

defend

the display modes in

and

: “Well Ben is (for the most part) dead and only Klaus can see him.

The two have very emotional relationships and hardly speak to each other anyway.

Kimiko was traumatized as a child with her brother and only speaks using her own sign language ... which no one understands ... so why should she speak? ”Explains one user.

Because of the actions, the characters would have little room for communication.

The fact that the characters are cast in Asia can be traced back to the comic models: “The series that you criticize belong to the productions with an already very

.

Both are also based on comics, which you should criticize instead, if at all, ”notes another user.

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