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And their cousin Naga Saki.
He was a fat man
In the book snowcrash by Neil Stephenson the main character is named "Hiro Protagonist". Yes it's a real book, and one of my favorites, by a real author.
I like it, as a person who doesn't really pay attention to most names in fiction, and primarily focuses on the story it's trying to tell.
Don't make it too obvious like "Busty LoveInterest" and "Villain McMustashface".
Die Hardman
Heartman
Fragile
Revolver Ocelott
Snake Eater
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Kojima you beautiful bastard
Haha you know I'm a kojima fan!!
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If you like techno-fantasy I highly recommend snowcrash. For years I've wanted a game of the first chapter, basically a guy is delivering pizza but gas is really expensive so all he has is a skateboard and a harpoon gun with an electromagnet. He basically shoots the harpoon at cars and gave them pull him towards the destination, it sounds like a cool video game like a race but you don't control speed only which car you are connected to.
Don't worry that didn't spoil anything. The book goes into a totally different direction with technology and science.
The guy in the car getting harpooned is delivering the pizza, the skateboarder is just hitching a free ride.
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The difference is that's trying to be stupid and funny. Rowling is just, I don't know, lazy, or uncreative, or racist. One, or multiple, of those at least.
Cho Chang. is so fucking wild that her editor didn't go, "Wtf?"
That was the age of "if you point out racism, you're the real racist".
It's not a direct connection to Rowling but I was just pointing out another example.
snowcraah
The way I imagined this being said
Have your agent call mine
Sorry, it's snowcrash and I corrected the original comment.
The protagonist from one of the mortal Kombat was Shujinko. Which means protagonist.
I just looked that up and it says Shujinko was fooled by someone named Damashi, which means trick.
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I mean, this is one where you don't have to make up an example. The only Asian character in the books is named Cho Chang.
And the movie portrayal was character assassination implying she was the one who ratted out Dumbledore’s Army.
Fuck I forgot about that. Those movies kinda suck ass past the first two.
Order of the Phoenix is brutal but I think Half Blood Prince from a cinematography perspective is the best in the series. Prisoner of Azkaban was also really well done.
Oh yeah Prisoner was great.
Going to have to disagree with you on HBP. I went through a huge Potterhead phase as a teen and I fell asleep during that movie every time I tried to watch it.
At the time, the only other movie I had ever fallen asleep during while trying to watch was After Earth. So, admittedly, I kinda wrote the HBP movie off for that reason. But I've tried to go back and revisit it, and I just can't keep my eyes open!
Order of the Phoenix took the longest book and made the shortest film.
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Wasn't she possessed or something and that was the reason she ratted out Dumbledore's Army?
In the movie Dolores Umbridge had Snape administer truth serum to Cho.
That's the joke.
The joke is that JK Rowling names her characters offensively.
I've seen this done before with multiple non-existent examples.
This one also uses a Japanese example.
My point is that JK Rowling already named an Asian character offensively. She also has an Irish kid named Seamus that loves blowing stuff up, and a black man named Shacklebolt.
All I'm saying is the joke is now distracting from the source, because there is a real example of using her naming conventions on Asian characters. I'll also say that we don't actually know Cho's nationality, yet I don't have faith in JK Rowling to distinguish between non-European nationalities.
Of course, the longer I talk about it the less funny everything becomes.
I struggle to imagine a world where magic and religion cohexist. I am normally used to high fantasy where the worldbuilding makes sense, but harry potter just flows like she thought of what could come next, and that's it. Worldbuilding Babe, that's how we add lore. Make stuff up.
Some fantasy is heightened by that, though.
I think CS Lewis employed a similar strategy, and Narnia is all the more fantastical for it. I mean what the fuck is going on in The Horse and His Boy and The Silver Chair?
JK Rowling's strategy of adding lore via halfassed Twitter replies may have a bit less thought involved, though.
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Sergay Lovecock would make for a badass porn name though
Rowling is a diverse writer who can make multiple offensive asian characters. Yes she has a generic asian character but get ready for hiro and their friends Walla Greataru (China), pungeen Pitt (vietnam), and Ima Eatdog (Korea) who will be diversifying the bigotry in fun new ways along with their rivals Rege Sheepfucker (Wales), Maple Beaverlodge (Canada), and Gitmo Castro (Colombia)
Omg I didn't realize her writing had grown so much! I'll be paying much attention to the inclusion of Cheeseburger Slurman (American).
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Funnily there is an actual Italian football player named Kevin Lasagna
That would have bombed
You'd think so, but in contrast it exploded within the general public.
Implying she'd even attempt to resist.
She just butthurt for her own name
Hiro Protagonist is much better.
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