Critical Look at the INSANELY Anti-AM Videogame Franchise "XCOM"

XCOM: Enemy Unknown 2012

The “Thin Men” are aliens that try their best to look human. They are grotesque-looking, poison-spewing aliens. They are unmistakably Asian men. (See: games Crysis Warhead [2008] and Crysis [2007]; films Men in Black 3 [2012], Star Wars: Force Awakens [2015], Team America: World Police [2004], Invasion [1966].) “Dr. Raymond Shen” is an old Asian-male engineer (stereotype, desexualization via geriatrifican). “Hongou Marazuki” is an Asiatic-male scientist (stereotype) that you have to rescue (emasculation).

XCOM: Enemy Unknown – Slingshot (Content Pack) 2012 – “Shaojie Zhang” is a Triad member (stereotype, villification). Furthermore, his nickname is “Chilong,” which means “Hornless Dragon” which is Chinese slang meaning “small dick, big mouth” (emasculation).

XCOM 2 2016 – As usual, the Asian girl “Lily” is a protagonist, while her Asian father “Raymond Shen” is dead (Asian guy always dies). (See extremely anti-Asian-male game XCOM: Enemy Unknown [2012].)

XCOM 2: Shen’s Last Gift 2016 – An AI called “Julian” sees himself as the true heir of the deceased Raymond Shen, and hates his sister, protagonist “Lily.” He tries to kill her several times, and in the end tries to crawl back to her. He also hates humans and everyone in general. He has to be programmed to not kill everyone. To recap, the Asian guy is represented in the form of a literal AI/robot and is bitter and vengeful against his sister due to his father’s favoring of the sister. We see this trope all the time (e.g. Heroes, Sense8, Horizon Zero Dawn, etc.)