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Anansi is the Spider God from West African folklore. I know this because I watched cartoons as a kid and saw Static Shock on the Saturday morning block, where a DC superhero version of the Spider shows up and in a few episodes, the actual mythology of the Spider God is explained. That show was insanely popular and had ratings which rivaled that of Once Upon A Time. Considering the block also included such childhood staples as Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Batman, Jackie Chan Adventures and Xiaolin Showdown, it's not hard to understand why.

And The Monkey King (AKA Sun Wukong) is from Journey To The West, which everyone knows as its most recent incarnation Dragon Ball Z, since it literally is the best-selling manga and anime series of ALL TIME.

You always say that Once won't go outside of European stories because no one knows anything else. But you're seriously wrong. OLDER people know nothing else. But most of the fanbase that I've seen are people as young as 5 years old all the way up to 40. Those people are young. Those people have been exposed to more cultures than just American thanks to the Internet and TV and books.