blackshirt5 said:I thought Fu Manchu was a straight up villain, though?
Well, sure, that's what Dr. Petrie said. What do you expect from an Englishman?
Fu was trying to bring down the British empire, true...but the Chinese had some pretty good reasons for being miffed with the Western powers back around the turn of the century.
I think it would be a very small step to imagine that Fu Manchu was really a Nemo-esque freedom fighter, battling an arrogant and racist British Empire.
In Planetary, Brass and Hark finally realized that they were both fighting for the good of all mankind, and decided to work together.
[Tarzan's real name is John Clayton, Lord Greystoke. In the novels, he actually moves back and forth between the two worlds with relative ease.]
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