User blog comment:Blinkn/Where are the Asians?/@comment-61371-20120612013439

There's definitely a lack of Asian characters (though that's not really unique to Marvel. Look at television or movies. How many big name Asian actors are there? And how many are left when you remove the ones best known for martial arts?). But let's not forget Hazmat (though she IS confined to a hazmat suit, and her face is rarely seen. But she's a non-stereotypical Asian female non-sidekick) and the entirety of Big Hero 6 (alright...most of them. Baymax is a robot, and the second Sunypre was from the Microverse). And isn't Colleen Wing half-Asian?

Mandarin (who has become much less of a stereotypical Asian villain in recent years). Mandarin/Temujin (who had quite the character development in Agents of Atlas). Suwan/Jade Claw. Commander A (well, he's vastly multicultural, but he IS part Asian, if I recall, and serves as a Captain America analogue in his future). Radioactive Man (who, in recent years, has reformed and become a hero. Or...last time I checked, anyway). Raizo Kodo (he's a martial arts master, but he's a vampire, and he's a character they keep trying to build into a bigger and bigger character, even leading his own team). And Collective Man's occasionally a hero (and occasionally a villain). There was also the brief-lived People's Defense Force from Mighty Avengers, a team made up of Chinese nationals (of course, they were mostly taken out by the Unspoken's machine, and it took the Avengers to save them...but they were a recent heroic team, at least).

I think there are more Asian heroes and villains than you'd think, but I'd definitely agree there's a lack of them. Of course, if we turned around and played "where are all the Native American characters"...you'd find the list quite a bit shorter, and the number who AREN'T named after stereotypical Native American things ("Warpath" being one of the few non-animal names, but itself being a stereotypical Native American thing) is almost non-existent. I believe the Squadron Supreme's Redstone is the closest you get. And neither group has a representative on the Avengers (despite Red Wolf and Shang-Chi working with the Avengers numerous times), though both have at least a couple of X-Men representatives (I guess the X-Men are just a tad more inclusive).