Gee, you spend thirty years selling Wal-Mart cheap crap manufactured with slave labor, and you suddenly think you own the world.
Yeah, it's China again. Hot off the nation's attempt to blot Taiwan out of existence and suppress protests in Hong Kong comes a scheme to absorb Mongolia into its writhing mass. If that wasn't bad enough, China wants other countries to push its propaganda that Mongolia was always part of China, that there was no such thing as Ghengis Khan, and that the wall you can see from space is only there to add panache to the country's backyard.
There's a museum in France that used to have a Ghengis Khan exhibit, but the Chinese Bureau of Cultural Heritage decided that there was no reason a Ghengis Khan exhibit should have Ghengis Khan in it. Why a museum in Europe is any of China's damn business I'll never know, but ultimately the Château des ducs de Bretagne decided that it would be better to close the exhibit than use it as a billboard for China's self-serving historical rewrites.
"What does this have to do with video games?," you say. "I liked this blog better before you got all political!," you say. Well, I say you're lying, because you never liked this blog in the first place. I also say that this has everything to do with video games, because whenever China gets the urge to annex some other country, it tends to trickle down into our hobby, like so much piss from a stopped up urinal.
Consider this: when Hearthstone champion Blitzchung publicly declared his support for a free Hong Kong, Activision executive and money grubbing turd Bobby Kotick responded by withholding the money he won in a Hearthstone competition, held by Activision. When China wanted to restrict Taiwan's autonomy from the mainland, SNK's current owner 37Games removed all references to the country from several Neo-Geo games. Now China would like you to believe that it was never Ghengis Khan's bitch, and it's going to do whatever is necessary to make you believe that.
Which brings us to this gentleman.
image from the SNK Wiki
This is Julius Carn from the World Heroes series. He's described on the SNK Wiki as "the strongest fighter of the Mongolian people," and a man who "led the powerful (Mongolian) army into many victories and conquests." Like all of the other characters in the series, he's an expy of a historical figure, and if you haven't already figured out which one, I'll give you a hint: he loves Twinkies for their most excellent sugar rush.
Given China's eagerness to make the world forget about Ghengis Khan, and SNK's eagerness to do China's bidding, it's not hard to imagine what could happen to this character in the immediate future. Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions, but considering what happened to Winnie the Pooh in the Chinese release of Kingdom Hearts (he's not there), it doesn't seem too far-fetched. If J. Carn suddenly vanishes from your digital copy of World Heroes 2, well, you heard it here first.
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