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Blackface-Style Caricature
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A caricature usually seen in very old cartoons, with a design that resembles Blackface. Characters drawn in this style have solid black skin, exaggerated red or white lips, and unrealistically round white eyes. This is very much a Discredited Trope due to its racist origins, and most examples are either an Old Shame that franchises try to cover up, or going for Deliberate Values Dissonance in order to provide commentary on racism. Straight examples may still occasionally be found in non-American works, especially in media from places where it's not considered a cultural taboo. Cartoons made in the mid-20th century would sometimes combine this with Ash Face, in which characters would briefly adopt a blackface look and sometimes perform other acts reminiscent of Minstrel Shows, such as dancing a cakewalk and generally engaging in Uncle Tomfoolery. This served as a Parental Bonus for parents who were more familiar with minstrel show tropes. See also Facial Profiling, a broader trope about how cartoons indicate race. May also overlap with Unfortunate Character Design. |
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The Banana Fish manga is guilty of this with most of the Black characters, notably Cain Blood. Since the manga is a bit dated, originally debuting in the 1980s, when the 2018 anime was created, MAPPA updated the designs to be less offensive. | |
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Wham Bam Rock in Kirby Super Star is a Background Boss that appears as a floating face against a pitch-black background, with his only visible features being his eyes and bulbous orange lips. This was changed in the Ultra remake, where he was redesigned into a Mayincatec stone-face (meanwhile, Wham Bam Jewel, a harder version of Rock exclusive to the remake, looks organic like the original Rock, but has much thinner lips and more bestial traits like fangs and a third eye to look less humanlike). | |
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Kimba the White Lion depicts African characters with black skin and very large lips. | |
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Ebony White from The Spirit was one of the first black characters that interacted and aided main characters, being the Kid Sidekick of The Spirit helping him to solve cases as well being the Plucky Comic Relief of the series. However, he was drawn with a blackface style (not to mention the wordgame pun of his name), and was widely rejected by readers, some of whom even treated Will Eisner as a racist. Ebony has been so controversial, historically, that many adaptations changed him into a normal African-American boy (the 1987 Pilot Movie and DC Comics run in the 2000s) or simply erased him (the 2008 movie). | |
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In the Raggedy Ann stories, one of the toys is a mammy doll, Beloved Belindy. While her portrayal was mostly positive with some subtler racist elements, her blatant blackface design makes the character ten times more uncomfortable, and modern editions of the books make no attempts to keep in. | |
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Some of the early chapters of Tezuka's Black Jack also features Africans and African-Americans depicted like this. Later chapters with Black characters have them drawn much more realistically. | |
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In Invisible Man, the narrator's first (black) landlady when he moves to New York City has a Golliwog-style statue of a caricatured black person, with huge red lips and a wide open mouth, which she uses to store coins. The statue isn't commented on directly but likely symbolizes her assimilationist nature and internalized racism. | |
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Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin uses this as part of the film's vicious satire on racism in America. While the film caused tremendous controversy, the blow was softened by both its stunningly accurate depiction of race relations and the film's largely African-American cast and crew. Pictures and footage of actual blackface and "Darkie iconography" are sometimes used in the background to hammer the point home. | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia does this in-universe with the gang's botched attempt at making a fifth Lethal Weapon film. It doesn't go well for them. | |
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Looney Tunes: Its very first star, Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid, isn't seen much nowadays because he is visually a blackface caricature. He was Ambiguously Human enough to the point where he looked like a monkey. He was generally depicted as the hero of the shorts and an admirable character, and the blackface elements of his design were gradually toned down, but the origin was still obvious. "Any Bonds Today?" features an infamous scene where Bugs Bunny dons blackface while imitating Al Jolson. In "Patient Porky", the elevator operator, who was cut from the syndicated version for obvious reasons, is a caricature of Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. In "Porky's Road Race", the driver of the pedal-powered car seen after the others speed off, and also usually cut from syndicated prints, is a caricature of Stepin Fetchit. Another often-censored Fetchit caricature appears in "Porky The Fireman" when a businessman makes a Leap of Faith into the smoke cloud and emerges in Ash Face. |
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Subverted in Cuphead. The Devil had all the potential to be a depiction of this. But Studio MDHR were having none of that, and altered his appearance to his final design to avoid this. | |
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The older Spirou & Fantasio albums, and even some of the Tome & Janry era (1984-1998) stories, tend to depict black characters as either looking like blackface caricatures, or still being drawn with pink lips. | |
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Dragon Ball: Staff Officer Black and other black characters have a blackface appearance, which has been a long-standing nightmare when it comes to trying to export the shows. Mr. Popo also resembles this. Combined with his status as a "servant" character, this has long made Mister Popo a target of criticism, to the point that 4Kids Entertainment famously changed his skin color to blue when Dragon Ball Z Kai aired on Toonzai. Word of God is that Mr. Popo is based on the Hindu Mahakala; his name is probably derived from his Tibetan title ''nak po chen po" (ནག་པོ་ཆེན་པོ�) ("Great Black One"). |
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Boogie from the Rhythm Star franchise resembled one until he was redesigned for international release. | |
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The hero of A Million Ways to Die in the West practices his aim with a "runaway slave" shooting gallery game with this trope on full display. During the credits, a black gunslinger does the same thing — with his target being the carny operating the game. | |
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Cyborg 008 (a.k.a. Pyunma) in Cyborg 009 originally had a blackface-like design despite being one of the heroes and not a source of comic relief, but he was changed from Super Vortex onwards. | |
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BioShock Infinite has examples of this trope scattered around the imagery of Columbia as a reminder of the city's white supremacist ideology. | |
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The 1960 German children novel Jim Button features the main character with a clear blackface design on the cover. Even the 1986 TV puppet adaptation follows the design very closely, as it did not hold the same negative connotations in Germany as it did in the United States. | |
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Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, one of the Censored Eleven, was a parody of Snow White whose entire cast consisted of various black stereotypes. The dwarfs were all blackface caricatures. The Prince wore a Zoot suit and had straightened hair and gold teeth. "So White" was a hypersexual, big-bottomed younger black woman, with perky breasts and revealing clothing. The mother and child at the beginning were a stereotypical Mammy character and a literal pickaninny. | |
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An extremely unfortunate example occurs in Square's Famicom adaptation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, released only in Japan (not to be confused with the Seta/Winkysoft platform game that was released the same year). The caricature used for Jim would almost be cause for Torches and Pitchforks in the U.S. | |
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"Any Bonds Today?" features an infamous scene where Bugs Bunny dons blackface while imitating Al Jolson. | |
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One of Cleopatra's servants in Asterix and Cleopatra (specifically, the Servile Snarker bringing Cleopatra's lion) falls squarely into this trope. Earlier, there's the lookout of the pirate ship, who's much thinner than his comic book counterpart and whose skin (in a quite uncomfortable moment to watch that often ends up a invokedDeleted Scene) whitens out of fear whenever Oh, Crap! situations occur for him. | |
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The Elm-Chanted Forest: Mr. Truffle's Wacky Wayside Tribe dancers are this due to their dark brown skin and light pink lips. | |
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In the Disney Ducks Comic Universe, Bombie the Zombie has the blackish-brown skin, white eyes, exaggerated lips and golden ear and nose rings. Ironically, this makes him one of the more human-looking characters among a cast of Dogfaces and Funny Animals. Notably, his first animated appearance in DuckTales (2017) changes him into a dogface as well, with gray rather than black complexion, to push his design away from this trope. | |
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In "Patient Porky", the elevator operator, who was cut from the syndicated version for obvious reasons, is a caricature of Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. | |
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"Balloon Land" features a few black inhabitants of Balloon Land who look like blackface caricatures. They have crossed eyes and dopey expressions and are the first ones popped by the Pincushion Man. | |
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Doki Doki Panic has an item called "Big Face", a black disembodied head with oversized red lips◊. When it was remade into Super Mario Bros. 2 for foreign markets, the item was replaced with a Koopa shell. | |
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The title character from Memin Pinguin looks like this. It also gives him a Non-Standard Character Design, as all the other human characters, including his mammy-looking mother Doña Eufrosina, look much more realistic than him. | |
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Shaman King: Chocolove was originally drawn with large lips resembling a blackface caricature, though they were colored darker than his skin (rather than brighter, as typical with blackface). The 2021 series changed his design so that his lips are not much larger than that of the Asian and white characters and are colored the same tone as his skin. | |
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Dennis the Menace (US): In 1970 cartoonist Hank Ketchum decided to introduce a new character, a black boy named Jackson. Unfortunately, Jackson was drawn in such a stereotyped manner that it inspired angry protests and some newspapers even issued editorial apologies. Jackson made only one more appearance. Ketchum always maintained that he didn't mean to insult anyone and the text accompanying Jackson's appearances was always completely innocuous, but Ketchum was apparently unable to draw a little black boy in a way that wasn't insulting. | |
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In One Piece, one of Buggy's crewmates (who only made an appearance in the Orange Town arc in the manga, but has made a few bit appearances since then in the anime) has an appearance that closely resembles blackface, which resulted in his skin being recolored to white when the anime was dubbed by 4Kids Entertainment. While he keeps his original skin tone in the Funimation dub, his skin tone was made white again in the Digitally Colored version of the manga. | |
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Pokémon: Jynx appeared to be uncomfortably close to this aesthetic before its coloring was changed to purple due to complaints. While it got a baby form with its equivalents Magmar and Electabuzz it was notably the only one of the trio that didn't receive an evolution. It is sometimes claimed to have been designed after the "ganguro" style, though it was only just beginning to come to prominence in Japan at the time. More likely candidates are the Dutch Zwarte Piet holiday character, considering its Ice typing and appearance as Santa's helpers in the anime, or the Yama-uba of Japanese Mythology, a white-haired woman with dark, frostbitten skin who lives in the mountains. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and its follow-up Majora's Mask, the Skull Kids originally had blackface-esque facial features. When Majora's Mask was released internationally, the Skull Kid had his appearance altered to have beak-like lips and brown skin with a wooden texture, which carried over to Ocarina of Time 3D. Surprisingly, Skull Kid retains his blackface look in the manga versions, even outside of Japan. | |
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Spoofed with the character of Galley-Wag in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Based on a character from the children's book The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg (which plays the trope straight), in this version his appearance is explained by him being an alien. In fact he's made out of dark matter. | |
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Oil Man from Mega Man Powered Up. He was recolored blue and yellow in the English version, but his voice actor still plays him as sounding black-ish and worse yet he's portrayed as being somewhat lecherous, shiftless and not overly bright. The Archie comics got over the issue by just covering his mouth with his scarf. | |
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Persia, the Magic Fairy is very guilty of this, and possibly has the most tone-deaf depictions of Africans in anime history. Persia, due to being raised "in Africa", is an animalistic Wild Child (despite growing up around fellow humans) that dresses like a caveman, and the black characters look like this◊. | |
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Animal Crossing: Jane in the Japanese version of the first game had this, but was altered in the western release. Kiki's face truly qualifies as this, and yet it never caused any major controversy. |
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The Secret of Kells has a downplayed example with Brother Assoua, as his skin is more dark brown and his lips, whilst large, are more of a reddish brown. The director Tomm Moore has admitted in a (now deleted) tweet that he regrets the stereotypical design of Brother Assoua and that they should've gone with a less "cartoony" approach and gotten a POC (Person Of Color) to design him instead. | |
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One Betty Boop cartoon depicted black people as having giant eyes and huge, white lips. | |
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Black characters in Asterix tend to be drawn like this, with the most recurring being the lookout of Captain Redbeard's pirate crew. One story in Uderzo croqué par ses amis parodies the fact by depicting a ridiculously bad strip supposedly drawn by a young Albert Uderzo. It features a Roman optio and his 'politically-incorrect Romans', soldiers who are drawn in a blackface style even more extreme than the style in the original comics. | |
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The early Captain Marvel comics had Billy Batson’s friend Steamboat an African American with a simian like appearance and very large red lips. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: The Pokémon Jynx drew considerable controversy with its official introduction in the episode "Holiday Hi-Jinx", as the decidedly female Pokémon initially sported a black face with prominent lips which drew accusations from Western viewers of it being potentially offensive for its uncanny resemblance to blackface; one critic even labeled it among the most "Politically Incorrect Pokémon" of the series. In response to these criticisms, Nintendo eventually recolored Jynx with purple skin to offset the resemblance to blackface, and the character has been altered several times in Pokémon media to avoid further offense. | |
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Its very first star, Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid, isn't seen much nowadays because he is visually a blackface caricature. He was Ambiguously Human enough to the point where he looked like a monkey. He was generally depicted as the hero of the shorts and an admirable character, and the blackface elements of his design were gradually toned down, but the origin was still obvious. | |
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One of these illustrations is a plot point in Ghost World. Enid borrows a poster from Seymour depicting Cook's Chicken's Old Shame mascot, a monkey-like dark-skinned child with huge red lips and eyes, eating chicken, and presents it as art to one-up her pretentious art teacher. This backfires as the art teacher loves it and features it at an art exhibition. The blatantly racist poster attracts a lot of brouhaha, and all the criticism involved get Seymour fired from his job and Enid forced to fail the art class. | |
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Monica's Gang: Jeremias was originally conceived with pitch-black skin. His design would undergo significant overhauls throughout the years◊, at which point he gained thick pink lips, a circle-shaped nose and round eyes that differentiated him from the rest of the (mostly white) cast. Though another redesign was attempted in the New '10s, it was deemed unnecessary and criticized even by black readers, leading to his appearance being reverted to the way it was at the beginning of the millennium. | |
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A good chunk of the Censored Eleven are called like this mainly for this reason and other negative stereotypes. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, one of the Censored Eleven, was a parody of Snow White whose entire cast consisted of various black stereotypes. The dwarfs were all blackface caricatures. The Prince wore a Zoot suit and had straightened hair and gold teeth. "So White" was a hypersexual, big-bottomed younger black woman, with perky breasts and revealing clothing. The mother and child at the beginning were a stereotypical Mammy character and a literal pickaninny. |
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The Little Mermaid features a blink-and-you'll-miss-it gag with the blackfish being drawn in this style. | |
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