10 Inappropriate Things Marvel And DC Want You To Forget

Representation is a huge deal in comics, especially since most books have been dominated by white, male faces for a long time. Asian characters in particular have suffered a great deal in the medium, being the constant subject of racist stereotyping until relatively recently. Of these offensive characters, there's one that really stands out as the worst possible portrayal of the Chinese people specifically.

The infamous Egg Fu was introduced in Wonder Woman #157 and somehow made it all the way to DC Rebirth in 2016. A masterclass in how not to write a character, Egg Fu is to this day one of the most racist characters ever put to page. Everything about his design was just bad. The slanted eyes, the moustache, even his name was a disaster. For added yikes, the writer chose to have him speak in dreadful broken English, replacing R's with L's during his speech.

Going by Chang Tzu, the character was redesigned to be far less of a caricature in later years. The character was turned into a half robot, half sentient egg and while still horrifying to look at, at least he wasn't reflecting a long dead racist stereotype. However that didn't stop DC changing his name again during The New 52 to the absolutely dreadful Edgar Fullerton Yeung (Egg Fu for short).