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A subset of Acceptable Targets. Remember that these aren't always ethnic in the literal sense we're used to — they just refer to groups who are targeted for their physical appearance or for having inborn traits that they can't really change. Foreign/unusual accents and dialects are also typically considered speech impediments, and therefore become subjects of mockery much like Acceptable Hard Luck Targets. See also Funny Foreigner. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Examples: |
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Any midget match/segment is used for comedy or for the heel to mock their opponent. The exception are lucha feds like CMLL and AAA, as well as lucha inspired feds like Pro Wrestling Revolution, which have "Mini" divisions for anyone under a certain height generally taken as seriously as the "large" divisions. Though not the only members, mini ranks tend to be dominated by midgets and dwarves. Subverted in Dick the Bruiser's World Wrestling Association in Indianapolis in his and The Crusher's feud with Bobby Heenan. Bruiser and Crusher would team with a midget named Little Bruisernote When they did the match in Milwaukee, he was named "Little Crusher" against Heenan and The Blackjacks (Mulligan and Lanza). It's two big tough Face wrestlers and a midget against two big tough Heel wrestlers and a Heel manager. Who gets the pin? The midget. Who takes the pin? Heenan. |
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Possibly averted in The Incredibles, in which there are two characters short enough to potentially be the butt of dwarf jokes, but both characterizations are based on something else entirely — Mr. Huph is defined by his callous indifference to human suffering, and the humor of Edna Mode's character stems from her artistic temperament. It is only a possible aversion because the cartoony style of the film makes it uncertain whether their shortness is supposed to be indicative of dwarfism, or just a quirk of character design. Most likely it's to contrast them with Mr. Incredible. Mr. Huph because it's thus more humorous that this tiny little guy is ranting and ordering around a massive, superpowered dude because of his authority, and Edna because she smacks the same guy around and bends him to her will with far more style and good humor. And many of the characters are physical exaggerations, including Mr. Incredible, to augment the movie's "morning cartoon" style. | |
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The Scotsman, known only as The Scotsman, from Samurai Jack. | |
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Played with in The 40-Year-Old Virgin; the movie also revealed the REAL reason for waxing your anything. It's not to look good for anyone — it's to entertain your friends, who are standing there watching. | |
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The musical commentary for Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog contains "Nobody's Asian in the Movies," which is loaded with Asian stereotypes. It was performed by an Asian. | |
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College football coach Hayden Fox on Coach frequently mocked Sitcom Archnemesis Coach Judy Watkins, and the players on her ladies basketball team for being tall, and, implicitly, butch. Hayden was a curmudgeonly Straw Misogynist Chew Toy who mocked the idea of women playing sports at all, while and coach Watkins was decidedly closer to earth; usually, this highlighted that tall women are labeled as boorish and ungraceful, but unattractive as well. He also made fun of his assistant coach, Dauber, for being tall. | |
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House had an episode with a dwarf woman and her daughter. The daughter's condition was caused by a curable disease (Cushing's?), meaning that when cured, she hit a growth spurt. House actually treated both of them as he would anyone else — he's abrasive and demeaning with everyone he encounters, so while he made a few dwarfism remarks, they were similar to things he's said about any other group besides "people who are Greg House". Usually hyper-sensitive Dr. Cameron came off as something of an Innocent Bigot though. |
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Politically-corrected on L.A. Law, where a midget-attorney Warwick Davis was harassed by punks, only to be "saved" by Jimmy Smits. The rest of the episode showed Smitts embarrassingly grinning and laughing like an idiot Jack-o-Lantern while chumming around with him, pretending to hit it off together as the studio bent over backwards to be politically-correct and "height-blind." | |
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Averted by Kojak, although Telly Savalas' other roles after he went bald do fit this sub-trope. | |
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That '70s Show has Donna, who is constantly called "lumberjack", "Big Red", "Stretch" and any other tall joke you can think of. However, those insults usually come from her vain, bitchy friend, Jackie; the male characters find Donna highly attractive. | |
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Parodied in The Simpsons-verse, where hair growth seems to explicitly equal success. In "Simpson and Delilah", Homer gets promoted through the roof immediately after his hair starts growing back after he discovers a wondrous hair growth product. Once it fell out again, he ends up back in his old position. | |
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While "colored" wrestlers were always highly promoted special attractions on professional wrestling cards, they were rarely more than that, and aside from being filmed eating watermelons for shits and giggles were never portrayed too prominently, or offensively for that matter, for fear of sparking riots. In the event a black wrestler did become too popular to suppress, such as Bobo Brazil, they were still pigeon holed into whitebread baby face roles. Ernie Ladd was an exception, as his fame as a professional football player allowed him to get away with being a heel even against white wrestlers. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway?''. Poor Colin Mochrie... In one game, Ryan makes a joke about Colin's baldness that naturally amuses the audience, but when Colin follows up with a joke about Ryan's nose, the audience reacts negatively. After the game, Colin notes "Notice all the melon jokes, the bald jokes? I make *one* nose joke, it's OOOOOOOHHH!". In fact, Colin is still the butt of bald jokes in the revival despite Wayne Brady sporting a shaved head now. It's brushed off due to Wayne being bald by choice (Wayne is black of course, but according to Wayne's hairline in the late 00s, his baldness is probably not entirely by choice either). |
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In Bruges has Jordan Prentice playing Jimmy, an actor with dwarfism. This is more of an in-story example; main character Ray has a strange obsession with "midgets" but all the prejudice he meets from other characters is simply because he's rude and American. He's also mistaken for a child, and is in fact playing a child in the film's Film Within A Film. And he's an asshole with a coke habit and occasionally racist rants, but this is shown as having more to do with him being an actor than being a dwarf. In spite of this, though, he's a fairly multilayered, believable character. | |
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Looney Tunes had Hassan, a bloodthirsty Arab with a huge sword, whose lines essentially consisted of some variation of "Hassan chop!" | |
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Tomb Raider: Pierre is a sleazy French-accented Cowardly Boss who ambushes Lara several times. | |
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Shallow Hal showed that fat women could be good people intellectually and emotionally, but otherwise still portrayed them as phsyically lazy, clumbsy gluttons. | |
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And before this was the SNL skit-turned-film Coneheads, where the titular family laughed at such silly notions as "Humans to the moon". Whether they were laughing at the idea of humans reaching the moon or that they'd only gotten as far as the moon is unclear. | |
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Aversion: The short-lived alien invasion drama Threshold included a dwarf character: the fact that he was short was mentioned only in a few purely practical contexts along the lines of explaining why he couldn't drive someone else's car. There was a scene in a bar where the character was surrounded by half a dozen babes when another character tracked him down (he'd gone missing). He was asked "How do you get the babes?", and replied "Chicks dig brains", or words to that effect. The dwarf character had several math (and language?) degrees and was otherwise a valued team member. And was played by Peter Dinklage, by the way. | |
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In The Weekenders, Carver receives a love letter he later finds out is from a girl named Nona, who's quite tall, and Carver is biased about it, to the point of having nightmares about if they got together, culminating in her delivering a gigantic baby. His friends aren't above it either, as when he tells them Nona is his secret admirer, they all hold their hands out and up and say "THAT Nona?". | |
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Subverted in NCIS: Los Angeles with Hetty, who is not only small, but also an extremely badass ex-operative that has Seen It All, and has an enormous amount of political clout. | |
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Divina Fly has feuded with Taylor Made and her manager, April Hunter. She stomped on Made's groin and said she was putting out a fire crotch(Made was a fake red, Hunter a natural). In their first meeting Fly also attempt to stomp Ivelisse Vélez, a natural blonde who was dying her hair brown, insisting her hair had a "red tint to it"note this was a reference to Velez having a phoenix tattooed on her inner thigh, that earned her an appearance on Tattoo Nightmares | |
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NikkiStorm from Pippa L'vinn's Wrestling Factory fits the inflated ego stereotype, as she antagonizes everyone of every other ethnicity over Scotland's superiority. Downplayed in SHIMMER and its spinoffs, where she also antagonizes fellow Scots like Kay Lee Ray and Viper for not being Scottish enough. L'Vinn herself has a bit of a Scottish accent, and is perhaps a dirtier heel than Storm, though prefers to be referred to as British. | |
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Remember that hilarious scene in Airplane!? The one where the woman loses control and there’s a long line waiting to slap her? While slapping is a bit taboo these days, ridiculing these sorts of women or mocking them is still frequent. | |
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New Zealand wrestlers were regarded as bright smiling out of the ring all business superior mat wrestlers in the ring thanks to World Heavyweight Champion Pat O'Connor, but unforntuantely he was one of the names targeted in an anti-trust lawsuit against the National Wrestling Alliance and "the guy" in Buddy Rogers's famous "To A Nicer Guy, It Couldn't Happen" promo after be beat O'Connor for the belt, making New Zealanders a punchline in wrestling. Then they became dangerous hardcore brawlers with the rise of The Sheepherders, but they got turned into jokes in the WWF after their Heel–Face Turn into The Bushwakers, and New Zealanders became seen as "wacky". Then the stereotype turned to "tryhard" "kick boys" abroad when Jay White tried to appeal to the ROH audience by emulating their inaugural champion Low Ki before throwing his hands up and joining Bullet Club. | |
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Gutsy Smurf from The Smurfs. | |
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John Kiester of Almost Live! made this mockery of the "sniveling, put-upon loser" and Hollywood Homely as much a part of his comedy persona as being a Seattle native. | |
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Most of the purebloods in Harry Potter are inbred. | |
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Played half-straight in Scrubs. A recurring character holds a black belt that's generally shown with punches to the crotch, or in one case, crushing the hand of another character to end a tense handshake. "Would you stop using that expression, Randall? It's stuck in my head." But averted in an episode where assisting a really short surgeon is considered a terrible assignment to pull; the "boys' club" that uses him as an instrument of social coercion is portrayed as a pack of Jerkasses, and he gets to deliver the aesop of the episode. To be fair, the "punishment" aspect of being assigned to assist the incredibly short doctor was because the assisting surgeon would be required to stand hunched over for hours at a time, resulting in severe back pain and stiffness because of the height disparity. |
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The Delta Force centers around a plane hijacking by a group of Lebanese terrorists (probably based off the real-life 1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacking). | |
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Jurassic World has an entire segment about its main heroine having no desire for children, and being forced to take care of her nephews because of her lack of motherly instincts. | |
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Fat Bastard from the Austin Powers sequels. | |
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Hidalgo includes untrustworthy Bedouins who try to double-cross the hero so he loses the big horse race. It also features an oppressed Arab woman, the sheikh's daughter, who is being forced into a marriage to her cousin. | |
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In fact, a *lot* of Gothic fiction depicts Italians as "other," going all the way back to Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, which Walpole originally claimed to be an Italian tale he'd found and translated... just in case his readership didn't like the novel he wrote. | |
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Married... with Children. From Peg's *huge* mother to the fat women frequenting Al's workplace, this show doesn't just verbally mock overweight women, it also portrays them as food-addicted, greedy, mean-spirited and overall just unpleasant beings (although this being Married... with Children, almost everyone is a greedy, mean-spirited and overall just unpleasant human being). | |
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Let's not forget Deliverance. | |
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A character in The Commitments explains that it is appropriate for an Irish band to play Soul Music, because the Irish are "the Blacks of Europe". | |
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In The Guns of the South time-traveling Afrikaner extremists go back to assist the Confederacy in winning the American Civil War by giving them AK-47s, so apartheid South Africa can have a strong ally in the future. All of them are portrayed as violent racist militants who like the fact that the Confederacy allows black slavery, buying slaves for themselves while there. To be fair, however, the real-life group they came from was extreme even by apartheid standards (it was actually banned by the government in those days). | |
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Iron Man tries to avert this trope by saying that the terrorist group includes people who "speak many different languages — Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Urdu, Russian, Hungarian (!)..." However, all the terrorists shown onscreen are brown (although some are undoubtedly supposed to be Afghan, not Arab). And the main terrorist henchman speaks Arabic in all his scenes despite being played by the Pakistani-American Faran Tahir (though Urdu is spoken in some scenes, and is a realistic choice for a multi-ethnic group)…so the attempted aversion doesn't really work. Perhaps a subversion later on when Iron Man actually saves innocent Middle Eastern citizens from the terrorists. There's also the nice prisoner who helps Tony build his suit. A bit of a Magical Negro in a few ways, but his Heroic Sacrifice (aka he walks into a group of armed men with no chance for survival) is made more interesting when he reveals that he's actually trying to get himself killed so that he can be with his dead family again. In the original comic book Tony's captors were all Vietnamese (it was published around the time of The Vietnam War) including Professor Yinsen, who, yes, helps Tony to build the armor and makes a Heroic Sacrifice to save him. (Yinsen is most definitely a Chinese name, not Vietnamese, though there are ethnic Chinese people in Vietnam, whom the Communists persecuted.) | |
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The Transformers had Carbombya, an obvious jab at Libya. Lebanese voice actor Casey Kasem left the show at that point, finding it in unimaginably poor taste. That's why Cliffjumper has no lines afterward. | |
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King Neptune in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is ridculed for being bald and hides it with his crown. The crown was stolen and you can guess how well that went down. | |
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The Daily Show tends to feature this regarding Jon Stewart's jewishness, including a hysterical ad-lib by John Oliver when Stewart cut his hand open doing A Glass in the Hand, telling him to "Stop being so Jewish about it!" The staff is also routinely granted N-Word Privileges in this regard. | |
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Me, Myself & Irene: it's intended as humiliation that Jim Carrey's character's wife runs off with a dwarf. | |
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Barry Kripkie in The Big Bang Theory asking Siri for restaurant recommendations went exactly as you expect. | |
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Lucha Underground was the exception that proved the rule, as by his own rules Dario Cueto wasn't allowed to bar Mascarita Sagrada (VII) from entering his temple, but he was able to do everything in his power to encourage Sagrada to leave. | |
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Interestingly, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody has a smart blonde (Maddie) and a dumb Asian (London). This was because, originally, Ashley Tisdale was to play London (after all, she is a parody of Paris Hilton, a blonde). But early on, Disney realized that Ashley was better at playing Maddie, and Brenda Song (originally cast as Maddie) was better at playing London. | |
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Glinda from Wicked. | |
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The Spitting Image song "I've Never Met A Nice South African". Subverted however by mentioning there are nice South Africans... who opposed apartheid. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun had an episode where Dick learns about tolerance and explains at the end that no one is "better" than anyone else, just different. The rest of the aliens burst out laughing at the idea that they're no better than humans. | |
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In the USWA The Nation of Domination was mostly made up of white men who were trying to impress their black friends. This simple joke was far too complicated for the WWF, who made them into a straight riff of the NOI while still having a small number of white men do all their work for them. | |
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In ECW the joke about the FBI(Full Blooded Italians) was that for all of their posturing, most of them actually were not and some of them probably were not even Italian at all. This simple joke was far too complex for WWE however, who basically turned them into Italian Gangbangers with mafioso delusions. Johnny The Bull and Nunzio did become baby faces when the WWE version inevitably split up but Chuck Palumbo just veered harder into gangsterism by becoming a 1% biker gang banger hybrid. | |
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LAX in TNA were supposed to be an evil group of Latinos. Homicide went so far as to kidnap a "snowflake"(lilly white interviewer Lauren) for not "liking Latinos" enough. Thing is, fans thought a group representing Latin Americans across the nations was cool, so they became faces by default. TNA would try again with "Mexican America", an group of Mexican supremacists who wanted to launch a Nazi style takeover of the United States Of America(or at least Florida) while spouting rhetoric about the boarder crossing them first and superiority of their race. There was even cross promotion with WWC where Mexican America invaded the promotion to fight a two front war because WWC was so full of Puerto Ricans to beat up. | |
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A major aversion in Chinatown. Too bad it's the pedophile, incest-minded father-grandfather that wins. | |
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Discrimination against Travellers was the point of The Riches. | |
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An episode of American Dad! where Hayley takes up a career as a pole dancer and stripper satirizes American attitudes towards female bodily hair. When she takes a twirl on the pole and her wig falls off — she has lost all her natural hair earlier in the episode — the general attiude from watching men is one of disgust and repulsion. One man sums it up — The same show, and its stablemate Family Guy also lampshade the Values Dissonance between American and Europe on the desirability or otherwise of female bodily hair. European women who don't care or don't bother about shaving armpits, etc, are pilloried as somehow being unclean and certainly less desirable.note Europeans can find the perceived American mania for women to shave and depilate virtually everything to bejust as weird and un-natural |
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Avengers: Infinity War casts Dinklage as King Eitri — a Dwarf from the planet of Nidavellir — the single largest mortal character to appear in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. | |
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Robert from Everybody Loves Raymond is a running "tall" joke. While Brad Garrett is tall, he's been shown before in other roles without drawing attention to it (such as the mechanic in Seinfeld who steals Jerry's car); meanwhile Robert Barone is his only role in which he is shown to be Frankensteinishly enormous. | |
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300. Yes, you can make the case that it was told from the perspective of an Unreliable Narrator, but there are a lot of other ethnic groups that a major Hollywood movie simply could not get away with depicting as faceless, soulless, subhuman depraved monsters. More likely the film would never have seen the light of day. The bad guys in both movie and comic book were not only the Persians, but also (generic eastern) Asians, black men, homosexuals (and bisexuals, transsexuals...), old men, sick men, hunchbacks and deformed in general. And they were all portrayed as cowardly, incompetent, and/or inhuman, depraved monsters. Even the only woman in the movie, despite being on the side of the heroes, has to prostitute herself to try and get military help for her husband. And if you speak Italian, it's funny that the only named bad guy other than Xerxes is called Theron, since its italianized form (Terone) is a derogative epithet for people from the South of Italy, usually darker and physically more similar to Arabic people, as opposed to the people from the North, who have usually more Mittel-European features. | |
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock: "Don't call me tiny!" | |
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In Search of the Castaways has an odd one: while most of the cast are heroic Brits (and the Frenchman is the comic relief and Butt-Monkey), Britain's education of the Australian natives leaves to be desired, teaching that the entire world belongs to them (America is still a colony governed by Lord Washington, and France a colony led by Lord Napoleon from the capital of Calais). | |
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Also averted with Ted Hoffman in Murder One — who comes off as the greatest and coolest defense lawyer ever, as well as being incorruptible and a loyal husband and father. | |
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A big part of the backstory of the Cal Leandros books includes the Leandros brothers' Roma heritage. Their mother was an abusive and alcoholic monster (metaphorically speaking), none of which is directly blamed on her being Roma, but it doesn't help that she engaged in a lifestyle that matches the worst of the anti-Roma stereotype (fortune-teller, scam artist, thief and jailbird). Worse are the Sarzo clan and their witch of a matriarch, Abelia-Roo (especially in the fifth book). We're told that, of all of human society, only the Roma are aware as a society of the non-human inhabitants in that particular universe. | |
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Subverted in The Long Kiss Goodnight where the dead Arab is the scapegoat of the film's evil CIA operatives staging a terrorist outrage to increase their budget. | |
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BlastphamousHD aka. Maurice Barnett, who went bald in his teens, is a rare black example. But like Santoro, most of the mocking is done by Maurice himself, though his fans do have fun joking about it, calling him "black Mr. Clean" (when he wears white shirts) and "Milk Dud". | |
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And Walter Skinner of The X-Files. | |
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The public defender in My Cousin Vinny stutters through his opening statement, and is promptly dropped as legal counsel in favor of the title character. (Though it should be clarified that the public defender was dropped mostly because he was a sucky lawyer, while Vinny, despite his inexperience, was able to discredit the first witness with simple logic). | |
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The size of presenters Richard "Hamster" Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson is a source of numerous jokes on Top Gear (UK). Hammond's height may have actually saved his life during a serious crash of a Vampire drag racer at 288 mph; it is believed that a taller man could have been decapitated. | |
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Angus from the Mortal Kombat rip-off that is Kasumi Ninja. Ironically he's one of the more memorable aspects of the game. Besides having a short temper and stereotypical clothing, one of his special attacks involves lifting up his kilt and shooting fireballs out of his crotch — a new take on Groin Attack indeed. | |
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Hans Gruber in Die Hard is a gleeful send-up of cruel-but-effete Nazi stereotypes (played by an Englishman, obviously) despite that he's a former German communist terrorist (i.e. the Nazis deadly enemies). | |
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Stile in Piers Anthony’s Apprentice Adept series is a subversion and played straight in-universe. He’s frequently mocked and underestimated due to his well below average height, but he’s one of the smartest and most athletic men in his society, and when he crosses to the parallel magic universe, he’s by far the strongest and most capable Adept (magic user) in the land. It’s all but stated outright that his drive to excel is partially fueled by his intent to prove himself greater than his appearance implies. | |
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Subversion: Samantha Carter from Stargate SG-1 is an undeniable super-genius in any scientific field one cares to imagine. Astrophysics, engineering, quantum physics, wormhole physics, chemistry, theoretical physics, nanotechnology, subspace theory, hyperspace physics. The list goes on and on. Carter is at the very top of all those fields. | |
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Subverted, or maybe inverted with District 9. While it's about an alien version of apartheid, all of South Africa is prejudiced against the extraterrestrials. The hero is also an Afrikaner who pulls a Heel–Face Turn. The movie's not about apartheid. It's actually about South African immigration. For the most part this trope is played straight, since we're talking about the main Afrikaaners in the movie, most of whom are Evil Businessmen, Sadistic Scientists, and Gun-Toting Maniac Racists. But a careful bit of attention to the in-story "logic" behind the Nigerian gangsters and you uncover some potentially interesting parallels. For instance, if Prawns represent sympathetic immigrants and a good many immigrants in the country are Nigerian but your Nigerians are Always Chaotic Evil then you're entering ugly territory. | |
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Disclosure is about an evil woman in an executive position who gained her position by having sex with powerful men and then uses a False Rape Accusation against the protagonist. It’s noted that the villain was also assigned her position over a much more qualified (but less sexually-attractive) woman. | |
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Aversion: In Seinfeld, one of Kramer's closest friends aside from the other three main characters is a dwarf named Mickey. In one episode, his height becomes important: The child actor he doubles has grown, so he uses insoles — which the other dwarfs don't like. | |
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Network: What really sets off Howard Beale during his "I'm as mad as hell!" speech is Arabs allegedly buying up land in America. | |
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Toyed with but ultimately subverted in the 1999 film Bowfinger. Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) gets his film crew by hustling illegal Mexican immigrants into the back of his van. By the end of the movie, the men have learned all about film-making and are now respected and highly successful professionals. | |
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All together now: Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated! | |
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While Von Erich Family wrestlers ultimately became better known as baby faces, they began with Fritz and Waldo Von Erich as "The Nazi Brothers". | |
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Let's Kill All the Belgians: A Child's Guide to Genocide. Exactly What It Says on the Tin, although in a subversion the comic is rather a mockery of American jingoism and the author specifically picked Belgians as the "target" because he couldn't think of a more harmless group for the characters to be racist against. | |
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SHIMMER subverted this, as the Australian Pink Ladies began as goofy jobbers but gradually Took A Level in Badass, and were generally well rounded enough to offset the overthetop Kellie Skater. Pretty much every Australian has also been a champion of some kind in SHIMMER or at least a frequent contender. In the spinoffs SHINE and RISE, however, all the Australian wrestlers are goofy paper tigers, to the point Evie muttered "Thank God!" when Maddison Eagles made it clear Evie was in fact from New Zealand. | |
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Alma Pudden in St Clare's. Really fat, obsessed with food, dumb and mean and mocked by the main characters. | |
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The best remembered example nowadays is probably psychotic blond South African diplomat, murderer and smuggler Arjen Rudd in Lethal Weapon 2, and his similarly pasty and vicious mooks. | |
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Joel and Ethan Coen. Miller's Crossing. | |
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Death at a Funeral features Peter Dinklage (as Peter in the 2007 original or Frank in the 2010 remake) as a major character. His height is never commented on except as an identifying feature. | |
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Perhaps the ultimate shot at WASPs was Caddyshack, in the characters of the Lutheran Bishop Pickering and the WASP's WASP, Judge Smails, portrayed as only Ted Knight can. | |
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The first Back to the Future film features Libyan terrorists who try to shoot the heroes. The "language" they speak in the film is absolute nonsense and in no way resembles the languages actually spoken in Libya. The series doesn't only pick on "acceptable" targets. The first film also features stereotypical African American characters (Goldie Wilson and Marvin Berry), and in the second movie Marty's screaming boss embodies a Japanese stereotype. This type of cheap racial humor was still common in the 1980s, even though ironically the first movie was trying to celebrate racial progress. | |
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One Bugs Bunny short featured your stereotypical, kilt-wearing Scotsman. | |
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Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark has lots of swarthy Arabs in turbans who keep trying to slice Indy up with their swords. Somewhat averted by the character of Sallah, Indy's trustworthy Egyptian friend...who is played by a Welshman. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade seems to be a better aversion, though, as most Arabs there are actually trying to stop the Nazis from getting their hands on the Holy Grail. They do appear to be villains in an earlier scene, though, and Indy beats some of them up. |
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Pretty much every redhead not named El Generico was evil after Ring of Honor left HD Net and went to Sinclair Broadcast Group. Taeler Hendrix even drew attention to it, calling herself Ginerlicious and Delicious not long after self indentifying as "evil". | |
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Santana has been known to pick on fellow Glee club member Rachel for her diminutive stature ("Listen to Dwarf Diane Warren"). | |
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M*A*S*H beat them by a few decades, and used it in a bit of satire; a 'Korean' (played by Japanese American Pat Morita), on being asked about someone, reported that 'all you [white] folks look alike to us'. Studies have shown that it's common for a person of any race to have trouble distinguishing members of any other race. It is theorized that this is because when confronted with a person of obvious differences, such as a different skin color or a differently-shaped nose or face, most people will focus on those major differences, and will have trouble distinguishing the details, such as shades of skin color or slight variations in shape of nose or face. So, this may have been more Truth in Television than the writers intended. |
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NCIS halfway-subverts this — Goth 'lab rat' Abby dates an intelligent, charming fellow science geek with a love for bowling, who just happens to be a dwarf. The one time the script calls for a joke about it, it's at the expense of Abby — who says something rather thoughtlessly in her typical way that comes across as a jab about his height, and apologizes. However, the relationship doesn't last — the actor playing her love interest committed suicide, and it's implied she was dumped due to her differing height. | |
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In Veep, Jonah is constantly mocked for his height. | |
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The whole reason for the character of Kendra Krinklesac's existence in The Cleveland Show. She's morbidly obese to the point that she's never shown transporting anywhere without her rascal, and has needed crane lifts to get her physically unstuck from her house. She basically embodies the "white trash" stereotype that you would expect to see appearing at a Wal-Mart, who makes the most of her life by enjoying cheap, unhealthy foods. Very rarely has she ever been portrayed as anything more than a fat joke, but those times show some Hidden Depths. | |
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Aversion: The HBO drama Carnivàle featured a dwarf, Samson, who was effectively the traveling carnival's leader. | |
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Kim Possible takes this to the extreme with the two leads: a girl who "can do anything" and a boy who is treated as an all-around loser for whom things never go right. | |
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Averted in Penelope (2006). Though one character is a dwarf nobody makes any mention of this except one clearly idiotic character who is ignored. He also wears a bitchin' eyepatch. | |
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If you're a hairy pro wrestler, either you're a savage like Pampero Firpo, an unhygienic boor like A-Train... or Shawn Michaels, who only gets away with it because he's a living legend at this point. Otherwise, you have a career worth of "Shave your back! Shave your back!" chants to look forward to. Ask Miguel Perez. | |
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The Lone Gunmen episode "Madam, I'm Adam" has a plot that involves a dwarf wrestling league and the situation is played as something that even the Gunman finds bizarre. Their "client" is a normal-height man who is trying to win back his wife, one of the wrestlers, and has undergone a drastic procedure to try and overcome the anger problems that drove her away. The husband makes no mention of her height, but her jerkass boyfriend shows his colors when he did. | |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark has lots of swarthy Arabs in turbans who keep trying to slice Indy up with their swords. Somewhat averted by the character of Sallah, Indy's trustworthy Egyptian friend...who is played by a Welshman. | |
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Canadians in general used to be considered quite, serious types who insist on low to the mat no punch kick matches while struggling to give compelling interviews, dating back to the days of the Bristish Empire. Anglo-Canadians later began to be seen as hammy "cool kids" with fragile egos, tending to lash out at everything that doesn't acknowledge their superiority, thanks to Owen Hart, Jim Neidhart, Chris Jericho and Wrestling/Christian, but the charisma blackhole stereotype held on thanks to "technical wizard" Lance Storm and TEst. Franco-Canadians tend to be sea rats, dirty theives, low life thugs and garbage wrestlers, or wannabe Frenchmen, with all the negative traits that come with being French and a poser. The latter is due to WWE turning Franco-Canadians La Resistance and Maryse into Francophiles, fake Frenchmen, or French Sympathizers, as the situation required. | |
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The Rush Hour movies are big offenders here. In the second movie, Chris Tucker punches Jackie Chan by accident while fighting Chinese Triads and says, "All y'all look alike!" This is only justified by the fact that Jackie Chan makes fun of Asians often, so giving Chris Tucker just one line does little harm. It's also the fact that the joke sort of involves mocking white people more than anything else, as it's a common accusation that white people think all black people look alike... thus the humor in a black person saying something similar of another ethnicity. Of course studies have shown that people raised around a majority of one race have more difficulty picking out distinguishing features of other races, but because of the above-noted WASP acceptable target, it's associated with white people. | |
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Can I get a Graf von Orlok? | |
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The longest-running subplot in Family Matters involves the nerdy Steve Urkel trying to gain the affections of his crush, Laura. One of his oft-repeated lines, whenever Laura shows him any interest is "I'm wearing you down, baby...". | |
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Cornelia from W.I.T.C.H.. While a fairly calm and intelligent girl in the comic books, she became The Ditz for the television series. She liked her transformation because of the big breasts that came with it. | |
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This is played with, lampshaded and subverted many times in The Boondocks. One example is when Uncle Ruckus sings "Don't trust them new niggers over there" and is applauded by a crowd of WASPs because "It's OK if one of them says it." | |
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Jommeke: A character named Mic Mac Jampudding is the archetypical Scot. He walks around in kilt and is so stingy that it gets ludicrous. It doesn't help that people around him always cry out: "Oh that Scottish stingyness!" and that this comic is aimed at children! | |
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As a dwarf actor in Living in Oblivion his role completely skewers the use of dwarfs as surreal visual elements. When the filmmaker protagonists film a dream sequence in which a dwarf walks around holding an apple, the dwarf actor insists that the whole thing is overplayed, yells at the director and eventually storms off the set. (This was actually his first film role.) | |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: The original plot revealed that Captain Nemo was a Pole whose family had been killed by the Russians. Verne's editor, not wishing to anger the Russian readership (as the countries were allied at the time), persuaded him to give him a different nationality, culminating in The Mysterious Island revealing Nemo was actually an Indian prince whose family was killed by the British, France and Britain deeming each other Acceptable Targets being a centuries-long tradition. | |
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One of The Now Show's many Running Gag s is the small stature of Jon Holmes. It is exaggerated for humourous effect. | |
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Bordertown has a bunch of honest and hardworking Hispanic immigrants vs. the chubby white guy who mistrusts immigrants. The rest of the town, whether they support immigration or not, tend to rush to appeal to a broader market to cash in on the growing immigrant population. | |
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Hal in Malcolm in the Middle has to be de-haired before they go to the beach. | |
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Tyrion from A Song of Ice and Fire gets a lot of mockery for being short and ugly, sometimes being referred to as "Halfman" and "the Imp" by certain characters and is hated by the common people. This has left him very embittered. And when Cersei tries to have him killed, it leads to a veritable parade of people killing dwarfs on the basis that it might be him, and bringing her their heads. Although one other dwarf is shown with a relatively high station in a religious settlement, it is clear that were he not a son of the richest and most powerful lord in the land, Tyrion would have suffered even more, something he is well aware of. Played by Peter Dinklage (see above) in the Live-Action TV Adaptation. |
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More subversion: CSI: Miami has Calleigh Duquesne who is not only blonde, but fairly short, with a rather "little-girl" sort of voice — absolutely none of which affects her ability as an investigator. | |
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The Siege, in which Arab terrorists attack New York, after which Arabs are rounded up into concentration camps. However, the movie is quite heavy-handed about defying this trope, with even the Well-Intentioned Extremist General Ripper responsible for the said round-up making a speech against instituting martial law. It also contains Harsher in Hindsight: The Mysterious Informant is not only a liar, but also The Mole. Remember, this film was released four years before the second Gulf War. Also, one of the good guys is an Arab-American FBI agent who's outraged and resigns when his son gets rounded up with the rest. | |
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In the trailer for Portal 2's multiplayer campaign, GLaDOS says, "These next tests requires co-operation. Consequently, they have never been solved by a human". This idea is elaborated in the promotional short "Bot Trust." The clip starts with a little animation of two humans entering a test chamber; one quickly shoves the other into a fire pit for no apparent reason. The narrator concludes that "Our data clearly shows that humans cannot be trusted. The answer? Robots!" Cue the montage of the two co-op robots, Atlas and P-Body, working together through "a regimen of trust exercises." At the end the narrator announces that these "inspiring artificial bonds" will be put to the test... and cuts to P-body shoving Atlas into a fire pit for no apparent reason. What did this accomplish? The robots gave them a whole six extra seconds of cooperation. Good job robots. |
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Also averted by Hermes Conrad of Futurama, portrayed as a strict bureaucrat. Although he was a world-famous Limbo champion in his younger days. But he does have some other interests that put him in line with the stereotype. | |
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'Allo 'Allo!, although it mixed its sadistic perverts with its bumbling but affable Germans. | |
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Subverted on Hannah Montana. Miley briefly goes out with a guy who is about an inch shorter than her (he must be about 5' 3''). She doesn't mind his height but is turned off when he has to stand on something to kiss her. She ditches him but then goes to apologize for being rude, after he tells her he always was rejected because of his small height. Although we never hear from him again. Played straight in some parts of the episode, as there are a lot of (corny) jokes against small people. | |
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Ainsley Hayes from The West Wing is not only a "hot blonde" who is perfectly intelligent and capable, but she is also conservative on a show when almost the rest of the main cast is liberal, up to allowing her to make persuasive arguments on conservative issues. Although, her character is often defined by the other characters as "the blonde Republican sex kitten" (she's even the Trope Namer). Donna Moss is a slightly more traditional example, although she is quite smart, just not as smart as Josh. | |
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Gimli in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. "Toss me!" ("Don't tell the elf!") May count as a subversion, since Gimli is played by John Rhys-Davies, who is not a dwarf in real-life and most instances of Gimli being shorter than the rest of the characters are either forced perspective or because he was scaled down in post-production. |
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The Sheik, the 1921 silent movie starring Rudolph Valentino, depicts the title character as a Noble Savage who wins over the virginal European heroine with his violent passion. Averted since the end of the movie reveals that he's actually European, not Arab (thus making the romance acceptable). It's worth noting that in the original novel, the sheik rapes the heroine, thus making her fall in love with him. In the movie's sequel, Son of the Sheik, Rudolph Valentino's character does actually rape the female protagonist, and by the end of the movie they're happily in love. | |
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Clueless has a brief reference to the "Persian mafia" — a poke at Los Angeles Persians, which would be a subset of Iranian/Persian Acceptable Targets. (The stereotype of Los Angeles Persians is often an Acceptable Target for Iranians as well, so a lot of Iranians thought the Clueless reference was hilarious.) | |
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Dinklage also played Finbar McBride, the protagonist of The Station Agent. His dwarfism is a major part of the film, but isn't played for laughs at all. So... averted. | |
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In the film version of Stardust, lovable hero Tristan has loads of chest hair, visible whenever he undoes his top button. | |
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Jake Hager/Jake Strong/Jack Swagger is a "natural heel" due to his noticeable lisp instantly turning crowds against him when he tries to cut promos. | |
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Game of Thrones: In-universe, virtually no one respects or likes Tyrion Lannister, but the show itself does not make him a joke; on the contrary, he is arguably the most intelligent and competent character on the show. Three guesses who plays him, in what is probably his biggest role ever. | |
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This happens in Soul Plane, a movie where everybody is game. The scene shows a man, without showing his face at first, walking through the aisles. As he's passing by, flight attendants and passengers stop and stare at him in fear or disgust (while the theme for Jaws is being played). When he finally reaches his seat, he's revealed to be a Middle-Eastern man in a turban. As soon as the poor guy sits down, he suddenly gets harassed by two employees and is called "Osama" by one of them. It's all Played for Laughs. | |
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The Fabulous Kangaroos, who would cheat by throwing razor edged boomerangs at their opponents, which apparently isn't illegal in Australia. Also, they would spit in your eye, which apparently how one says "hello" in Australia. | |
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In Modern Family, Mitchell sees his old high school girlfriend holding hands with a short red-haired person and worries that he gave her a son. He's actually a dwarf and her husband. | |
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Sheamus has at various times been ridiculed for his pale skin and or red hair, but it was WWE were it became a weekly thing, with Josh Matthews suspecting Sheamus was an albino, with Edge making his long awaited return and asking when Raw had been taken over by an evil Ronald McDonald. | |
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Semi-averted in Pirates of the Caribbean. A member of Jack's crew is also a little person, and while they once or twice play his size for laughs, he's largely treated as just another member of Jack's dysfunctional little "family". Nearly every production that features Martin Klebba generally ignores his condition... unless his dwarfism is the entire point of his appearance. He's a person not afraid to laugh at himself, after all. Perhaps because he looks like he could fight back. | |
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Wade Barrett, when asked to single out another NXT rookie for ridicule, settled on Heath Slater, on the basis Slater was a ginger and that any good English man would have to single him out for it. John Cena also dubbed Slater "that chick from Wendy's". | |
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There's also the scene in Blazing Saddles where the town will accept every racial minority except the Irish. Admittedly, this is An Aesop about racism, but still... But they accept the Irish in the end, subverting the joke. |
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Somewhat averted by Lawrence of Arabia where the Arab characters are generally heroes. Only somewhat, because every major Arab character (except the one played by Omar Sharif) is played by a Westerner, and the fact they are unable to overcome their tribal differences in Damascus, allowing the British and French to take over from the 'children.' That was also kind of what really happened: the various factions were unable to agree on anything and couldn't present a unified front to the League of Nations. The movie also portrayed the British and the French as beings complete racist bastards who only care about Arabia as being a part of their empires. All the factions in the movie were bastards, to some extent. | |
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Mush-mouth from Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids; as the name implies, he mumbles his words to the point of being The Unintelligible. | |
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ROH also takes note of the "ignored" aspect of this trope, usually trying to give plenty of promotion to Jimmy Wang Yang, Karen Q and the like, although it is Played for Laughs in the case of referee Pat Tanaka. Steve Corino has to be frequently reminded Tanaka is a Boston native who speaks no Japenese, and speaks fluent English for that matter. Julius Smokes also went on a left field Chinese food rant during a promo on (Korean)Mia Yim's ROH origins. | |
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Interestingly enough, another series that subverts the "dumb blonde" trope is Boston Legal, despite the fact that the majority of the long list of "Acceptable Targets" cliches above are played straight and usually for humor with great relish on the same show. In fact, lawyers seem to get a slight reprieve more often; blonde, capable lawyers show up in Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Women's Murder Club, to name a few. | |
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Again, Team Fortress 2: the Medic is a overtly sadistic German doctor, coming from Stuttgart 'in an era where the Hippocratic Oath had been downgraded to an optional Hippocratic suggestion.' However, Word Of God is that he was not a Nazi. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, with its mostly female main cast, intentionally shows that there are so many different ways to be a girl, while The One Guy serves as the series' Butt-Monkey and is often not even treated like a proper member of the group. | |
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The Doctor Who story "Delta and the Bannermen" has the evil Human Alien Bounty Hunter Keillor, who has an unexplained South African accent. The astronauts in "The Sontaran Experiment" also have South African accents. They aren't the antagonists as such, but they are depicted as curt and uncivilised. |
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Billy Madison, surprisingly, subverts this when Billy mocks a boy's stuttering in class. Not only is the audience expected to see it as an example of Billy's Jerkass nature (none of the other kids laugh at it), but the teacher also immediately drags him out by the ear and gives him a very stern ass-chewing for it. | |
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Asterix: In the story Asterix and the Goths the Goths (Germans) are depicted as villains. The story was drawn in the early 1960s, when anti-German sentiments were still vivid in Europe. Albert Uderzo, creator of the comic strip, has expressed regret over these portrayals and in later stories the Germans are depicted in a far more sympathetic light. | |
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In the Star Trek novel Enterprise: The First Adventure, McCoy tells a high-ranking Klingon that mint juleps will put hair on your chest. The Klingon recoils, deeply disturbed by the notion, contributing to an ongoing diplomatic incident. | |
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Ring of Honor Top Prospect, later champion, Matt Taven certainly thought bald people were an acceptable target, saying Christopher Daniels had insulted God when he shaved his head. | |
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Much the same in Person of Interest with Sameen Shaw, who might be a Sociopathic Hero-slash-Emotionless Girl but does improve in later seasons. | |
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Pushing Daisies's fifth episode, "Girth", may as well be renamed "CHENO IS SHORT", given that it consists almost entirely of reminders that Kristin Chenoweth is 4'11" — ranging from a Backstory involving a stereotypical short person's profession of horse jockey to a scene where she can't use a spade as a lever because she can't get traction on the ground. And deliberately shooting her from high angles to make her look even shorter. One must wonder if a scene in The West Wing, where her character is walking on a hallway with C.J. "Flamingo" Cregg, is poking fun at her slight stature, or C.J.'s towering one. |
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The basic point of the Funny Or Die True Detective parody "Tiny Detectives," with Kate Mara (5'2") and Elliot Page (5'1") as cops whose work is constantly hampered by their lack of height — being too short to see blood splatters on walls, Page's feet being unable to reach the car pedals, Mara being asked if she sleeps in a shoebox, the two going undercover as a man with Page on Mara's shoulders until the latter's head pokes out ("That's my face-penis..."), etc. | |
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An episode of CSI dealing with dwarfs swung in its treatment of them from respectful to "humorous". | |
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Subverted in JAG where main character Sarah Mackenzie is stated to be of Persian descent and speaks Farsi. The actress who plays her (Catherine Bell) is half-Iranian herself. | |
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True Lies, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger battles a group of Arab terrorists who are plotting a nuclear attack. Made slightly less offensive because one of Arnold's anti-terror colleagues is an Arab-American chap named Faisil, who is portrayed as being a Nice Guy and occasional badass. | |
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In 2002, Kurt Angle (who was both a Heel and rapidly losing his hair) had his head shaved after losing a Hair vs. Hair match at Judgment Day. He reappeared on TV wearing a strapped-on Dodgy Toupee and everyone mocked him for it, including other bald wrestlers such as Mavennote Though he had a full head of hair, just shaved off, and is biracial. and Hulk Hogannote Himself also an aversion, Hogan tries to justify it by saying "Hulk Hogan lost his match to Mother Nature, dude!". After having the toupee removed by Hogan and later defeating Hogan by submission at King of the Ring, he gained back his confidence, ditched the toupee and embraced his baldness. Now he's considered an aversion. | |
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Vince McMahon Sr. was famous for insisting on having a representative for every ethnic group in New York City. Vince McMahon Jr. was famous for offending every ethnic group in New York City except the Irish. However, they finally got their "turn" with the introduction of Hornswoggle, who had the truly unique gimmick of being McMahon's bastard leprechaun son granted the ability to speak English through Santa Clause. This was later retconned however into Hornswoggle being Fin Finlay's bastard son, bringing his "Irish American" roots into question. | |
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In Criminal Minds there was a scrawny unsub who participated in a fight club and lost every fight he got into. This drove him to get a gun and kill anyone who had higher authority than him. | |
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Believe it or not, TNA Wrestling actually manages to avert it, and subvert it. The aversion comes with Raisha Saeed, burqa-clad wrestler/manager who was one of the most powerful women in TNA's "Knockout" division (thanks largely to her association with the unstoppable Awesome Kong); though she's an example of a long running tradition of mysterious Arab Heels, it's more flattering than a terrorist angle. The subversion comes with "Sheik Abdul Bashir", who would seem to be the epitome of that standard "terrorist" stereotype, what with the angry rhetoric and the comments about holding the X-Division title "hostage"… but only if you ignore his introductory vignettes, which established him as a former Iranian-American businessman who lost everything after 9/11 due to runaway hatred of Middle Easterners, and then decided that he would make himself into the very personification of American fears as the ultimate revenge. Said vignettes even established that Abdul Bashir isn't even his real name; that would be Shawn Daivari. Daivari himself also portrayed the childhood friend of a Double Subversion in Muhammad Hassan. Hassan was introduced and constantly described as an American-born of Arab descent who was just as appalled by 9/11 as "we" were, but became the victim of racism from those who didn't want to know him. The double subversion came when irony bit HARD on the character, as the fans didn't want to know him and booed him for his race. The writing team quickly applied Flanderization like there was no tomorrow and turned him into the evil Arab the fans wanted to think of him as, culminating in choking an opponent out with a piano wire garrotte while Daivari was carried out as though a martyr by a bunch of people in ski masks, thus taking what might have been one of the most interesting characters ever and making him the most offensive. Irony kept biting when the WWE taped that particular scene on 4 July 2005 for a show to air on 7 July, meaning it was already in the can when London got attacked. Everyone in the media, including those who really should know better, said the WWE was capitalizing on the terrorist attack, and Hassan's career was over before it ever started. |
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The Mitchell brothers from EastEnders (especially Phil): bald, stupid, and villainous. | |
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The Golden Girls: Dorothy's ex-husband Stan is balding and every appearance he makes usually contains at least one bald joke and it isn't helped by the fact that he tends to wear toupees. He is a jerk who cheated on Dorothy multiple times and remained a huge thorn in her side even after their divorce, so it's hard to feel sympathy for him. | |
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Disney's Aladdin. The original lyrics to "Arabian Nights" started this way: "Oh, I come from a land, from a faraway place/Where the caravan camels roam/Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face/It's barbaric, but hey, it's home!" Then there's Jasmine, a princess who dresses like a harem girl. It's also worth noting that the good characters have more Western-looking appearances (Aladdin was actually modeled on Tom Cruise), and generic American accents, while the evil Jafar has more Semitic features and an evil British accent. The line about "cutting off your ear" was later replaced by "Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense." | |
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Subverted in Dick the Bruiser's World Wrestling Association in Indianapolis in his and The Crusher's feud with Bobby Heenan. Bruiser and Crusher would team with a midget named Little Bruisernote When they did the match in Milwaukee, he was named "Little Crusher" against Heenan and The Blackjacks (Mulligan and Lanza). It's two big tough Face wrestlers and a midget against two big tough Heel wrestlers and a Heel manager. Who gets the pin? The midget. Who takes the pin? Heenan. | |
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In Police Squad!, Al the police officer (played by 7-foot tall Ronald "Tiny Ron" Taylor) was used for comic relief (for starters, his face was never shown as it was always above the edge of the screen). | |
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Space Jam made a joke when several very tall basketball players and one short basketball player (Muggsy Bogues, the shortest NBA player in history at 5'3") are walking down the hall following a doctor. They walk through a door way... or at least Bogues and the doctor do; the others hit their heads on the door frame. This is Justified as all the players had their talent stolen by the villains, which in this scene translates to them forgetting they're all too tall to step through the door without ducking. | |
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South Park: One episode revolves around a motivational speaker who is also a little person, who immediately becomes a target of constant ridicule by Cartman. Rather than having him rise above it, which was basically what his entire character was based on, he ends up eventually succumbing to Cartmans taunts and challenges him to a fight, a fight he loses at that. | |
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Subverted with Keswick from T.U.F.F. Puppy, who speaks with a stutter but it isn't made the butt of jokes. He's also recognized as a supergenius by both heroes and villains, with DOOM kidnapping him to help them. | |
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WWE ran an angle where Tatanka became a vengeful ghost warrior against the completely blameless Bobby Lashley and against WWE officials(who were merely incompetent rather than outright malicious) for their discrimination against him. The problem was fans thought this was "badass" and cheered him. It doesn't help that Tatanka is a Lumbee, which are one of the USA's most discriminated tribes by virtue of the government refusing to acknowledge their existencenote they tend to get lumped in with "Blacks" due to having sort of dark skin and a tendency for curly hair. Apparently there is no way a group of people with such features could get to the Americas before European colonists. | |
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Homestar Runner Homestah Wunnah's impediment seems to be presented as part of his general Ditziness, but the only person who ever makes fun of him for it is Strong Bad, who makes fun of Homestar for everything. Then there's Coach Z, who sports a strong accent that sounds like nothing on Earth. The cartoon "A Jorb Well Done" is devoted to the cast's attempts to get Coach Z to pronounce "job" correctly. Though in "3 Times Halloween Funjob", it's implied that, for some incomprehensible reason, Z is deliberately exaggerating his accent: |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon, is one of the best-known Western examples. In a world of powerful, ass-kicking women, the role of Butt-Monkey is usually played by male characters, especially Xander. With only a few exceptions, male characters that are particularly good at fighting or magic tend to be villains. In other words: male, powerful, good — pick any two. | |
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One episode has Joe, Peter and Quagmire respond to a domestic disturbance where the couple turns out to be dwarves. The situation is treated as a sideshow attraction, with Joe using the pair as props for an impromptu Punch and Judy show. | |
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Pan's Labyrinth features the villain torturing a stutterer, though the villain is far too nasty to be acceptable. | |
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Before becoming Moondog Fifi, the blonde German Diane Von Hoffman worked a Nazi gimmick when turning pro. Even while not working as a Moondog she eventually "mellowed" into into simply hating "small" or "rookie" wrestlers, but not before taking the Nazi gimmick back into Germany! | |
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The "No Offence" Woman in The Fast Show was given a South African accent specifically because she was so horrible, according to a Radio Times interview with the creators. | |
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The same show, and its stablemate Family Guy also lampshade the Values Dissonance between American and Europe on the desirability or otherwise of female bodily hair. European women who don't care or don't bother about shaving armpits, etc, are pilloried as somehow being unclean and certainly less desirable.note Europeans can find the perceived American mania for women to shave and depilate virtually everything to bejust as weird and un-natural | |
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade seems to be a better aversion, though, as most Arabs there are actually trying to stop the Nazis from getting their hands on the Holy Grail. They do appear to be villains in an earlier scene, though, and Indy beats some of them up. | |
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Steelgrip Starkey And The All-Purpose Power Tool has a group of Middle Eastern terrorists (complete with head coverings) take over the United Nations building and threaten to destroy it. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager was notorious for this, with the anti-WASP male stereotype Tom Paris, but also treating B'Elanna Torres' periodically breaking the limbs of male WASP underlings as a source of humor: beating up weaker people is allegedly funny, so long as the weaker people are WASP males and the abusive figure is female. Even if the latter is half alien. |
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YMMV, but one background in Street Fighter was set in a Scottish Distillery, which prominently featured a kilt wearing Scot. | |
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How I Met Your Mother sometimes makes jokes about Marshall's height (e.g., when security tells Barny there's a Sasquatch in building) and the fact that the rest of his family are all even taller, Marshall is specificially described as being the runt of the family at 6'4. Except in the above example, it was Marshal calling Barney and then pretending to be a Sasquatch in order to make Barney laugh, so it's not an example of him being a target. That being said, Marshal's height is often mocked by his friends in a similar way they mock Ted's romanticism or Robin's tomboy qualities. |
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Vincent Lorimar, in Unda Vosari, openly tells somebody he hits "like a midget" (as well as comparing his fists to testicles and calling him the dick in the middle). | |
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Suske en Wiske: In the story De Mollige Meivis a man expresses his glee that drinks are on the house. When Lambik says: "You're probably..." The man answers: "Dutch". Lambik then adds: "So I thought...", with an irritated look. | |
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Toot Braunstein on Drawn Together is fat and holds the official position of "the bitch" in the house. Ironically, the jokes about her weight so vastly outnumber those about her being a bitch that she's arguably the least unsympathetic of the show's cast of Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonists. | |
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Averted in Ender's Shadow with Bean. While Bean does grow in later novels (it's a genetic disease that eventually makes him grow too tall), for the duration of the first book he is significantly shorter than all the others. However, Bean is shown as being smarter than all the rest of the school of geniuses. There are many moments where Bean is mistreated for his height, but those are mostly done by bullies or portrayed negatively. Largely, Bean uses his height to his advantage, as he does with everything. | |
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Histeria!: Meta Deconstruction; it is due to the writing staff's own anti-French bias that the French stereotyping in this show, especially the Historical Villain Upgrade of Napoleon Bonaparte, is so bad that it was panned in French-speaking countries. | |
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Potter in It's a Wonderful Life was a collection of villainous characteristics: bald, rich, and in a wheelchair. | |
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This trope is subverted in Lakeview Terrace wherein Samuel L. Jackson plays a racist crooked black cop, terrorizing a suburban interracial family. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods, which is built around various horror tropes, specifically points out how prevalent “the Slut” character being killed is. | |
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Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers has an aversion. According to the writer's bible and comics, Dr. Hartford is Jamaican. | |
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One of the earliest subversions/aversions on network TV would be Jennifer, Carlson's secretary on WKRP in Cincinnati. The creators of the show deliberately refused to cater to the "dumb blonde" stereotype, and wrote her as intelligent, witty, ambitious, and more than a touch sarcastic. | |
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The village elder from Haré+Guu, has a massive mound of chest hair that shakes like shrubbery when he moves. At one point Guu actually steals his chest hair and, much to his horror, wears it as an afro. | |
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One The Angry Joe Show crossover made fun of the (exaggerated) height differential between Joe and Handsome Tom. | |
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Daniel Frishman as District Attorney Vincent Daniels on Night Court. While many jokes were made at the expense of his height, Frishman played up his character as a smug, over-rich, total and complete bastard, the direct antithesis of the usual "adorable midget" phenomenon that was sweeping the nation at the time. The jokes were made by Dan Fielding, who taunted Daniels mercilessly about his height — but got his punishment when Daniels turned out to be his supervisor. |
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Averted with Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Many people who try to deny they are turned off by bald people list him as an example, and for good reason. | |
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