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Facial Profiling
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In animation, certain facial features are used (and often exaggerated) to help the viewer identify ethnicity. Often this can depend on where (or when) the animation was produced. The audience is considered to be the "default" type of character; i.e., a character with no outstanding features is assumed to be of the ethnicity and/or gender of the (majority of) the audience. Any character which deviates from this is given some outstanding feature which identifies him or her as such. That's why a stick figure is usually assumed to be male unless it has long hair or a skirt, in which case it's female. Similarly, that's why in the East, light skinned characters are assumed to be Asian, while in Western cultures they are assumed to be white. Again, people would largely make similar subconscious assumptions if they had to humanize a stick figure, smiley face, or animal unless they perceived specific racial or gender markers. Naturally, with the prevalence of anime in the West, many people make the mistake of wondering why Japanese cartoons appear to feature white casts. To the Japanese, they don't — even coupled with blonde hair and blue eyes on characters who are 100% Japanese. (But as these same characters often stand alongside naturally blue, pink and green haired people, yellowish hair might not be far of a stretch after all.) Common animation features used to identify a character as female are Tertiary Sexual Characteristics. Ethnic identifiers might be more subtle (or not), and often are areas of great sensitivity. At its best it can be used for specificity in representation and diversity. Unfortunately, as seen even in this list, historically the more a character is distinguished from the presumed "beautiful default," the more likely they are to be exaggerated into outright racist caricatures and become ugly or alien. See also Phenotype Stereotype. Greeks: The Greek nose that lacks the indent over the bridge, cribbed from vase painting. Often have dark, curly hair. Unflattering depictions will give them excessive body hair. Jews: Hook-nosed and curly-haired, since All Jews Are Ashkenazi (this has very negative connotations). Sideburns or long, curled sidelocks (payot) will show up on Orthodox or Conservative Jews. Nerd Glasses are optional. Black people are depicted with prominent lips. This was also a major element of the blackface era. Doesn't show up much in Western Animation these days because of it, although if you go back to before the 1960s, it is very common. Cartoons nowadays that leave out lips for non-black characters may draw in normal-sized lips for black characters. Wider noses and frizzy hair is also common, as are braids on black women. Shaved heads will appear frequently on black men. For the extremely exaggerated caricature version of this, as seen in old cartoons, see Blackface-Style Caricature. There's usually little difference between African-Americans and black Sub-Saharan Africans of any nation in the rare occasion that series features both or mentions a specific African country by name. If there are both, then Africans will have rounder faces, darker skin and sometimes larger ears or generally anything that makes them further away from the 'white default' than black Americans. Stereotypical Darkest Africa bush tribes will have gaunt features, long faces, and wear little clothing. Arabs, North Africans, Egyptians, most Middle Eastern countries etc,: Will often have tan skin, high cheek bones, large hooked noses and black curly hair (and beards) on men and straight hair on women (if not covered by a headscarf). They are still often enough played by white actors however. If their depiction is negative (which these days in Western media, it often is), they are often hairy and ugly as well. East Asians, especially in Western Works from the 40s to the 60s, are depicted as yellow-skinned and slit-eyed, often with buck teeth. Today, Asians are depicted with almond-shaped eyes. Skin may be the same as whites or tinted slightly differently. Straight hair is usually a given. In all periods, as with Jews, Nerd Glasses will be common thanks both to Hideki Tojo's spectacles and to the Asian and Nerdy trope. Within East Asia itself, the more subtle differences are usually pointed out depending on the region. Northern Chinese (and by extension, Manchus) are typically depicted as tall and lean, with pale skin, high cheekbones and occasionally protruding jaws. Southern Chinese (including Hong Kongers) tend to be shorter and swarthier with more pronounced lips. Japanese tend to be relatively dark with wide faces and large, drooping eyes, Koreans are often flat-faced and small-eyed, and Mongolians are usually stout and dark with a relatively 'squashed' appearance. Central Asians, when portrayed at all, tend to operate at a 'middle ground' between East Asians and Caucasians. Native Americans are depicted with high prominent cheekbones and/or jowls in more subtle versions. Other times the animators just color them red though this is considered offensive by actual Native Americans who generally describe their skin as brown. And they'll always be dressed in the animator's idea of their traditional clothing (usually a sort of generic Plains Tribe look, without enough detail to identify a specific nation) with a crest of feathers on their heads. Both men and women usually have (very straight) long hair, possibly in one or two braids. Mexicans tend to have brown skin. Men have impressive mustaches. Other typical traits may include soft facial features and small eyes, and a glossiness of the skin that implies a perpetual sweat. (Real-life Mexicans will frequently be pale-skinned with flat Uto-Aztecan faces and almond-shaped eyes, but good luck finding these traits in popular representations.) Spaniards will often look just like Mexicans. If not, their skin tone can vary depending on the context and positivity of the portrayal: conquistadors may be clearly white to better differentiate them from the typically brown-skinned Mayincatecs, but Spaniards among other European or European-descending characters will be universally darker than those, at the very least with a solid sun tan. Hair is always straight and black, often with a stylish moustache and/or a trimmed beard for men. Turks are also distinguished by large mustaches, along with a fez (this being inaccurate as fezzes have been outlawed in Turkey since 1925). European facial features tend to be the norm, especially since many Turks are actually ethnic Greeks or Armenians. The English: In flattering examples, males will have a tall, slender figure, noble, distinguished features, (usually) blue eyes, and glossy, floppy hair (usually blond or auburn, but occasionally darker brown for a little variety) parted to the side. See Hugh Grant or Henry Cavill for real-life detail. In unflattering examples, males will have bad teeth, large ears, and big eyebrows — see King Charles III for detail. Flattering female examples will depict the English Rose or Bond Girl type (pale-skinned, rosy cheeks, gentle eyes, natural beauty) See Kate Winslet or Rachel Weisz for inspiration. Unflattering female examples will look like Margaret Thatcher (big nose, ruddy, horsey face). In almost all examples, both sexes will sport very pale fair skin. Children are often freckled and mostly light-haired, with little girls sporting ringlets in period works. The children from Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang are perfect examples. The Irish: Red hair, very pale skin and freckles. Shorter and stockier than the English. They'll have big heads, or just sport a Forehead of Doom. Women often have a very large mass of frizzy or very curly hair, like the wigs of some Irish step-dancers. Men have cleft chins and thicker eyebrows, with large sideburns if they're older. Centuries ago, when they were considered a separate race "below" whites, the Irish were depicted as very ape-like. Often a Significant Green-Eyed Redhead will be Irish. Scandinavians: Blond hair, blue eyes, fair skin, and high cheekbones. Very tall. If they are Vikings, bearded men are a given. If they are modern Scandinavians, then beards only appear occasionally. Italians: Olive skin, dark hair, and dark eyes. Sometimes medium or even light brown hair appears too. Large aquiline noses are also common. Mustaches are a common feature on men. Usually short, especially if from Southern Italy. In older works, women will often be ugly and rotund. In modern works, women (especially Northern Italian) will be sensual and attractive. Russians and other Slavs: Men will be depicted with brown hair (or sometimes bald heads) and beards, while women will have blonde hair and delicate facial features. In unflattering examples, younger Slav males will be ghostly pale, have shaven, round heads, large ears, a long nose and rather small eyes, often quite close together — the whole look will suggest a malnourished, sullen quality (see Vladimir Putin for real-life detail). More flattering examples, on the other hand, will usually depict them as brawny hunks. Older works often depict Russian women as ugly, while modern works will show them as Ms. Fanservice, slender with big breasts and long, long legs. Sometimes, the men and old women will have large or unusual noses, though not to the extent of Jews. Expect dark Exhausted Eye Bags under the eyes of both sexes. In anime and manga, Russians are frequently depicted as pale with white, silver, platinum blond, or blue hair. Will frequently wear ushankas. White Americans (generally of Nordic, Anglo-Saxon or Celtic descent): Flattering examples will be tall and tanned, have a large square jawline, a cleft chin, a beaming snow-white smile, coiffed hair and a broad muscular frame — see Mitt Romney for real-life detail or Stan from American Dad! for a good caricature. Unflattering examples will be pig-ugly, sweaty, have multiple chins and be at least 400 lbs (although some of these people, such as John Goodman, are portrayed more positively). Flattering portrayals of American women will generally be tall, (bottle) blonde, curvaceous and tanned (Anna Nicole Smith and WWE's "Sable" being two very good examples from recent decades), whilst unflattering examples are morbidly obese and physically repulsive. Westerners, in Japanese anime and video games: blond and blue-eyed. While there are plenty of anime characters who are blond and blue-eyed and not Western, there aren't many Western anime characters who are not blond and blue-eyed. Those that aren't are typically black. Old-school caricatures of white people in Japanese media will have tall statures, huge, protruding noses, tan or ruddy skin, chiseled features with prominent jaws and chins, small/squinting eyes (oh, the irony), and freckles. Men will be muscular and hairy, the women will be very curvy and buxom. Most depictions nowadays just include the height, build and aforementioned coloring. The French are tanned and swarthy note Only southern French ethnicities, such as Gascons and Provencals, have the typical Mediterranean complexion, though French who vacation regularly on the (also Mediterranean) Riviera may develop tans artificially. with gaunt noses, (and, in manga and anime, frequently blond, which is actually a pretty rare occurrence in France, compared to the UK and Scandinavia, for example). Women and young men are very slender, older men are short and chubby. May wear an expression of fatigued disinterest. Very pilose, even the women in the most unflattering depictions. Men frequently have curly mustaches, and sometimes goatees. Men and women of South Asian descent will almost always be portrayed as roughly in the middle ground of skin tone between white and African (in real life, they run the gamut from "whiter than Irish" — see Freddie Mercury, Sir Ben Kingsley, British Pakistani Abdullah Afzal (of Citizen Khan) and British Bangladeshi Islah Abdur Rahman (Cornershop Show) — to blue-black see Naveen Andrews and Anneika Rose). Facial features are almost always similar to those of Arab portrayals (see above) but more toned down toward a white 'base'. Large eyebrows are common. Men will have short hair that is either curly or heavily greased, sometimes into unfashionable looks to play on the Bollywood Nerd stereotype. Women will always have long hair that is jet-black and nearly always straight (this kind of hair is actually considered ideal by women, similar to how many Western women like blonde hair. As many Western women are bottle blondes, many South Asian women have this kind of hair thanks to time spent in a beauty parlour). Older men will have long beards, making them look like yogis. (Note, this often truth in television as elderly men often grow beards in South Asia, even outside of religious reasons.) Sometimes, either out of laziness or just in the interest of But Not Too Black, authors will simply use a dark-haired pale person and slap on a sari (if female) or a Nehru jacket (if male), and maybe a red forehead dot or a turban as well. Among South Asians there are phenotypes associated with certain groups. Afghans, Pakistanis and North West Indians (typically Punjabis) are usually expected to have whiter skin and Arab/Iranic features and considered to be taller, larger, fatter or more muscular than other South Asians. Northern/Central Indians, some southern Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are usually considered on the medium brown tone, Bangladeshis are usually stereotyped as short ans skinny. Though if theyre on the athletic side then they'd almost always be wirey/ripped rather than jacked or bulky. South Indians and Sri Lankans (usually Tamils and Telugus) are considered to be much darker skin and have broader facial features as opposed to the sharp facial features of North Indians, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis. Finally some ethnic groups usually in the mountains of the himalayas are considered more Oriental/Far Eastern looking like Hazaras found in Afghanistan, Pakistan and North India. Most Nepalese, Bhutanese and North East Indians have mix of Indo-Ayran and Sino-Tibetan features (looking anything between Indian and Chinese). Minority of Bangladeshis also fall into this with some ethnic minorities like the Rohingya refugees looking more South East Asian. In extremely rare cases some South Asians get light coloured eyes like bollywood stars Hrithik Roshan, Ashwaria Rai, Bangladeshi actor Taskeen Rahman and British Indian Navin Chouwdhury. Armenians will be shown with big noses and unibrows. Though usually when an Armenian appears in animation the animator is likely Armenian. Young Romani women in fiction always have long, wavy black hair (usually under a headscarf), dark sexy eyes, and tan-to-olive skin. Older Romani women are always very short and wrinkled, while Romani men (if seen) are bulky, hairy-armed figures with big black mustaches. Australians will almost always be represented as white, quite tall and mostly blonde. Australian men tend to be portrayed as heavily tanned, with a square jaw and cheekbones and a rough, rugged appearance (largely due to the success of "Crocodile" Dundee and Crocodile Hunter). Australian women seem less stereotyped but are likely to be surfer or bikini babes (not surprising given that the vast majority of Australians live on the coasts). Aboriginals, when seen at all, will be portrayed in a traditional, tribal setting and will have very dark skin, a somewhat protruding jaw and often wear white body paint. Much like Indians, Polynesians are frequently depicted with a "middle ground" skin tone between white people and black people. For Hawaiians, younger men tend to have a swimmer's build, while younger women usually lean towards the willowy (all the better for hula dancing, one supposes). Middle-aged and older Hawaiians tend to be at least chubby. New Zealand Maori are often portrayed as quite heavyset (tattoos are compulsory) whilst Samoans tend to be very tall and muscular. (Feel free to add more signals of ethnicity) Supertrope of Asian Buck Teeth and British Teeth. Related to Mistaken Ethnicity, especially for someone who doesn't conform to the stereotype. |
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In The Simpsons European people are colored yellow, whilst early on people of East Asian descent had pale white skin with narrower eyes. However, in recent episodes, people of East Asian descent have the same skin tone as the European people, only a little lighter, and still large but almond shaped eyes. | |
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Layla of Winx Club has lips so large that they often cover her chin. | |
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Tiana from The Princess and the Frog is Disney's first African American heroine. She has full lips and a broad nose to avoid But Not Too Black accusations, but not too exaggerated so as to avoid making her a racist caricature. She's still been accused of being both at the same time. Her figure is pretty standard as far as Disney girls go, despite accusations of "Disney thinks all black girls have big butts!" This despite the fact that her character design◊ is basically a cartoon version of the voice actress portraying her in keeping with Disney's longstanding tradition of basing character designs on their voice actors. | |
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DC Animated Universe cartoons, the only white males that have lips are Lex Luthor and Harvey Dent. (And interestingly, some later depictions of Dent have him as black.) Lex Luthor on Superman: The Animated Series is often mistaken for being black because of this facial feature, when in fact the character's design is supposed to evoke Telly Savalas. John Stewart was also the only male on Justice League to have lips, presumably for clarity — when the character's mouth is just a black line, it's more difficult to see on dark skin. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Most of the Romani, including Esmeralda (who is named for her unusual green eyes), are darker-skinned and darker-haired than the other French characters. There are a few lighter skinned Romani background characters. Quasimodo himself is Romani but is a pale-skinned redhead even though his mother has dark skin and black hair; his unusual coloring might have to do with his deformities. | |
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The original character designs for Cyborg 009 fell into this, but the most prominent example was Pyumna/008, whose lips took up most of his head. Notably, while most of the characters have had minimal changes made to their designs over the years, Pyunma's appearance was extensively overhauled in the '79 movie and 2001 series. | |
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Pocahontas is quite accurate in the way it portrays how Native Americans looked in the 1600's...except for Pocahontas herself, who looks very unlike the real Pocahontas. Once again, this was because her face was based on her voice actress, Irene Bedard, who is of Inupiat Inuit and Métis descent, so Pocahontas does in fact look like a modern Native American, most of whom trace their ancestry to several different tribes, but unlike what one would look like during the time and place where the film is set. And then there's the tall, blond, blue-eyed John Smith who looked nothing like the real guy. | |
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Sydney's mom from Ready Jet Go!, who is black, has more prominent lips than any of the cast. Mindy's friend Lillian also has almond shaped eyes. | |
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The cover of MAD's Special Racial Issue from June 1967 has Alfred E. Neuman pose as several different nationalities. Another issue showed an array of caricatured faces from around the world, proclaiming that their owners were "living together in peace and harmony" and asking the reader to use crayons to color them the appropriate hues. The correct answer for each? "You were correct if you colored them all green. Because if they're living together in peace and harmony, they must be Martians!" Neuman himself is thought by some to have originated from a racist caricature of Irish immigrants (although MAD gave him a Germanic name). |
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The episode of American Dad! that had Stan harassing an Iranian family who moved in next door (suspecting them to be terrorists) had the neighbors with black hair and brown skin, like Arabs, even though ethnic Persians are not Arabs and their appearances are quite diverse, running the gamut from dark brown to almost Irish-looking. Of course, if the animators had colored the neighbors a lighter shade, Stan might not have thought they were terrorists, and the plot never would have come about. | |
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Due to the attitudes following World War II, the episodes of The Beatles cartoon produced in Australia always portray the Japanese in the stereotypical fashion mentioned above, and usually make them rather idiotic to boot. One of the animators later admitted no one could really enjoy those episodes today because of the awkwardness. | |
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In Shaman King, the black shaman Chocolove is drawn with very prominent lips. The VIZ translation of the manga volumes edited the lips back to the style of the other characters. In the recent Jump Remix editions, a short chapter showed that the creator himself had done away with lips as well. | |
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Stacy and Ginger Hirano (Japanese-American) of Phineas and Ferb both have almond-shaped eyes. | |
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Eureka Seven's cosmopolitan cast both plays this straight and averts this; Matthieu, Linck, Gidget, and Hilda are all black — the first three have large lips, but Hilda doesn't. | |
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Family Man: The protagonist Luther Levy has Jewish ancestry and an exceptionally long nose. It's implied to be a visual representation of his Internalized Categorism, as he sees other Jewish characters similarly. | |
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The Onion tells of this being done to create a Five-Token Band of Animate Inanimate Objects. | |
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Charlie from Mr. Magoo, who is ethnically Chinese, has buck teeth like the politically-incorrect stereotype and almond-shaped eyes, but has a very whitish, ivory-colored skintone. Conversely, Mr. Magoo, who is ethnically white, has a yellowish peach skintone, which is a much more normal skintone for both white and East Asian ethnicities. | |
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Macross Zero. The hero's co-pilot had a stereotypical black appearance. | |
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The Boondocks is pretty even when it comes to lips for black and/or female characters. Some black characters like Huey, Riley, Granddad and Tom don't have lips, but the more ethnic, dark-skinned ones like Uncle Ruckus do. Likewise some females don't have lips such as Jazmine, Sarah, and Cindy, while the various supermodels do (which makes sense, as supermodels would be expected to wear lipstick) Word of God is that the animation is deliberately done in an anime style (with strong influences from Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo), where mouths and noses are usually set aside so as to put focus on eyes. | |
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The Maximum Ride manga features Nudge with very large lips that on occasion look way too big for her face, and (oddly enough) white fingernails. | |
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In The Prince of Egypt the Egyptians have dark skin, high cheekbones and are clean-shaven if male. The people who are Jewish have smooth, round features, and are generally lighter-skinned. This means that Moses's face changes from angular to round in the course of the movie. The slave girl Tzipporah, whom Moses helps to escape (and eventually marries), has an even rounder face, and the Midian people are Ambiguously Brown and darker than the Jewish characters, which makes sense since one theory about the Midians is that they were from the area around modern Sudan (ironically, Tzipporah is voiced by Michelle Pfeiffer, a very pale German-American, in a case about as far from Ink-Suit Actor as one can get). This is possible Truth in Television; the Canaanites (who likely shared a skin tone with the Israelites) were depicted in at least one Egyptian mural as a paler race. | |
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While My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic tends to use different species to depict different races, an "Asian" pony with almond-shaped eyes appeared in "Green Isn't Your Color." Because no other character like this has popped up since, and this one particular pony's only appeared very rarely in background shots since that one episode, it could be considered a case of Early-Installment Weirdness. | |
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Shows up in the An American Tail movies, through use of fur color and clothing. Bridget, an Irish mouse from the first movie, has red hair and freckles. Later films have Native American mice with reddish-brown fur and long black hair. Real-life mice from different areas might have different dominant physical characteristics, but this is pushing it. | |
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Akira Toriyama drew the occasional black person in this manner (large red lips) for Dragon Ball Z, not just the infamous Mr. Popo. | |
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Native Hawaiians in Lilo & Stitch generally appear realistically Polynesian, with varying degrees of tanned skin tones, dark hair colors, and almond-shaped eyes. Body types are also pretty curvy, but that's partly due to another trope entirely. | |
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