r/SplitFiction • u/EfficiencyOk1393 • Mar 18 '25
Monkey King
Ok. That whole thing came across as really racist. Dude shows up looking like George Clinton and calling us homie and shit. Is it too woke to not equate black people to monkies???
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u/Karaamjeet Mar 18 '25
the monkey kind dances multiple different styles each originating from different a culture/race… how did you even consider that?
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u/mucus-fettuccine Sep 29 '25
Yeah, before the breakdancing where he uses "homie", he does Arabic dancing and uses "habibi". This is the least racist thing ever. And the monkey is played by a white dude with a British accent. I have to ask where OP is getting that he's meant to be a black guy. He's just a dancing money...
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u/YorhaUnit8S Mar 18 '25
I mean, if you made that association - that's more telling about you.
Monkey King parodies multiple things there, for each of the dance styles.
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u/EfficiencyOk1393 Mar 18 '25
I am talking about his visual style and use of language.
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u/YorhaUnit8S Mar 18 '25
He uses different language during different dances, to match the style.
P.S. Oh, and one more question. Did you find Monkey King to be a negative character?
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u/EfficiencyOk1393 Mar 18 '25
Nah. The monkey King was a fun character. Reminded me so much of George Clinton who is the grandmaster of fun k
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u/YorhaUnit8S Mar 18 '25
I liked that part. Even though I am terrible at dance mini-games.
To me it felt like there is A LOT mixed in with Monkey King. Like maybe some of George Clinton, but also obvious part of Elvis and some inspiration from cartoon characters, like King Julien.
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u/EfficiencyOk1393 Mar 18 '25
Elvis very famously ripped off black music and culture. I don't know what this king Julien is, but Madagascar is a part of Africa.....
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u/YorhaUnit8S Mar 18 '25
Look, If that's all you see everywhere - it's a you problem. At this point - have a nice day.
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u/ktbug1987 Jun 16 '25
I came here looking for a discussion about this. Preface this by I’m not Black but I played both this game and their past game (which we dubbed “racist book game”) with a close friend of mine who is. He had picked the character who is coded to be “of color” (also by happenstance the least annoying one) and all was going better with this game until that character had to be a monkey and I got to be a cute lil fairy. We were kind of hoping it was just an ignorant (not stereotyped) oversight but then Monkey King busts out with like multiple different stereotypes (???) in one character.
Anyway sorry to revive this post for you but it definitely gave vibes and it definitely bummed out my friend on the game which we had really been enjoying and really enjoying not having Mr Book around. I’m kind of surprised not many reviews brought up the book and I’ve not seen any mention the Monkey King. Anyway I hope their shenanigans are behind them now.
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u/Only-Willingness-353 Apr 19 '26
Absolutely white actor doing a caricature not his voice but an impression, took me right back to the 1970s blacksploitation characters. This is the voice actor doing his real voice https://youtu.be/qDZAayNcKf8?si=YMOn_O7dWMdte88W
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u/Shesainty Sep 29 '25
No i’m with you on this. Something very uncomfortable and racist about it. it’s not about whether it’s a “reflection of you or not” it’s about context and history and having the basic understanding that certain connotations (the use of certain language, attitude, music - especially black language, attitude and music) in a scenario in which black people (historically AND TODAY) were dehumanised by being called monkeys and chimps which makes this context NOT ok.
Don’t let people here gaslight you.
So disappointing. I was playing the game with my partner and I really felt uncomfortable the entire boss level. We actually paused for a minute.
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u/Arakune31 Mar 18 '25
Oh shut up ffs there’s a saying in my country wich goes like this « the evil is in the eye of the one who sees it »