during an hallucination that Sam J. Jones (the actor who plays Flash Gordon in the 1980 film) has in Seth MacFarlane's film, Ted (2012). In the 2012 young adult novel Eleanor and Park, protagonist Eleanor Douglas puts eyeliner on her Korean American love interest Park Sheridan and makes a comment saying that he looks like Ming the Merciless; this quote is among many instances of the book that were accused of racism. References Comics characters introduced in 1934 Extraterrestrial supervillains Extraterrestrial characters in comics Extraterrestrial characters in films Fictional dictators Fictional warlords Galactic emperors Fictional slave owners Flash Gordon characters Comic strip villains Male film villains Male characters in comics Film supervillains Race-related controversies in comics Race-related controversies in film