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A common trope in 18th and 19th century adventure fiction, when Europeans were visiting and documenting vast swathes of the world for the first time, Mighty Whitey is usually a displaced white European, who ends up living with native tribespeople and not only learns their ways but also becomes their greatest warrior/leader/representative. In cases of the first and second, this trope can heavily overlap with Led by the Outsider. Extra points if he woos The Chief's Daughter along the way; an unfortunately common variation that perpetuates into present-day media is that she will continue to love our hero even if he is directly responsible for the death of her husband, brother, or father. When he becomes closest to the leader of the tribe and his family, or another important member, it's a case of The Outsider Befriends the Best. Sometimes the foreign societies are shown to be realistic, three-dimensional and actually rather pleasant places to live. Indeed, sometimes the native peoples are shown to be better in some way than European society and the white man begins to despise his old home. All this is a setup for the white man to adapt to the Native's ways, thereby making him superior both to the natives and the Europeans back home. In modern-day fiction, sometimes the Mighty Whitey is there to lead or inspire the Hollywood Natives or bring some aspect of modern technology or knowledge to their aid, something they presumably could not do before he showed up. One particular version has it so that the sympathetic Author Avatar whitey is not only now the Great White Hope for the non-white Noble Savages, but is very often defending them from other evil whites. In modern-day fiction — particularly in Hollywood movies — Mighty Whitey pops up as the result of creative types trying to appeal to as broad a cross-section of society as possible to get their cash back. And since the majority of major Hollywood stars are white Americans (despite the fact that only a small minority of their audiences are Americans at all, let alone white Americans), it's almost inevitable that the all-singing, all-dancing hero is also going to be registering low on the melanin count... which can become a self-perpetuating mess. Of course, these writers might also just be doing the respectable thing, and be writing what they know. Perhaps not in the 'I'm a badass Adventurer Archaeologist' sense, but in the 'I'm used to the cultural norms of my race/gender and would be terrified of offending people with incorrect cultures cues' sense. Or in the 'What I know has been mostly informed by what has already been established in fictional story-telling and I'm subconsciously perpetuating those same pas' sense. Often involves a strong element of wish fulfillment for the First World writer and First World audience, in the sense of, "I'll bet I could be a great hero if I could just escape this straight-laced and boring 'civilized' world I'm stuck in." Or it might be a combination of their or the audience's preference for a protagonist that looks like themselves combined with the natural desire to see the protagonist become The Chosen One. Remakes of shows/movies with the original trope often subvert this; for instance, making the Mighty Whitey into a dunce, and their Ethnic Scrappy sidekick into a smart, street-savvy badass. This trope can also occur as an unintended side effect of writers trying to show the equality of all races and cultures — in a tone-deaf and more than potentially offensive kind of way. Non-American media can exhibit versions of this trope tailored to their home audiences (e.g. the awesome guy in an Anime/Manga series being Japanese). But Not Too Foreign is often used as a way to set up this version of Mighty Whitey. Can be a Justified Trope as it did happen in real life. Explorers from a technologically more advanced civilization had access to nutrition, education, technology, and general skills and experience that a native who never traveled further than the neighboring village didn't. Especially as only those who were already among the strongest and bravest in their home countries did have the courage and motivation to become explorers in those dangerous times. The Unfortunate Implications came in when people began to assume that they were better because of their culture, beliefs, or genetic stock, rather than access to tools and benefits derived from hundreds of years of accumulated advantages. As the following examples will show, the trope tends to be used pretty liberally, especially because of the historical difficulty of defining the term "white" (i.e., whether it should primarily refer to Europeans, Caucasoids, or simply light-skinned people). It's most convenient to define this trope as a "modern" character achieving mastery over "primitive" characters, not necessary with respect to race per se. See also White Male Lead and (especially) Going Native. Compare The Man Is Sticking It to the Man and Born in the Wrong Century (similar tropes but removed from race), Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow, Led by the Outsider and Instant Expert. Contrast Flawless Token, Token White, Evil Colonialist, and White Man's Burden. The inversions are Majored in Western Hypocrisy (for when a character from a less "civilised" race receives training from his overlords and frequently ends up using it against them) and Pretty Fly for a White Guy (for when a white or analogous character's aping of a different culture is treated as ridiculous and/or offensive). In fantasy works, Planetary Romance and Lost World stories are likely to have a similar theme, where the hero from Earth ends up being a better Mongonian or Skartaran or Pandoran than the natives themselves (often the alien world will have lighter gravity, hence making the Earth guy a Heavy Worlder with Super-Strength). Many alien super heroes provide a variation in that they usually come from some more advanced society, go native on primitive Earth, and become heroes here. Isekai stories will often feature something similar, especially if it's set in an RPG Mechanics 'Verse, with the hero from Earth receiving skills and abilities that far exceed those of the natives because they're The Chosen One and not due to any actual skills or talent on their part. |
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In the live-action series for Planet of the Apes, there are definite hints of this; where the human's tech and knowledge thereof gives them a great advantage. "The Good Seed" is one of the earliest and best examples of this. Virdon and Pete's advanced old-time knowledge lets them educate their hosts, a family of ape tenant farmers, on using a block and tackle (making it easier to store hay), the importance of using the best kernels of corn to grow next year's crop and of using horizontal ploughing on hills rather than vertical (to control erosion), build a rail fence (better than the simple planted sticks fence they were using) and a windmill for them, and midwife a cow having trouble calving. It's further justified by Virdon having been a farm boy before he became an astronaut. There's an episode where Virdon gets shot and Pete has to retrieve a book on human medicine to teach the ape doctors to perform the life-saving surgery Virdon needs. He also has to educate them on how to properly match blood types for blood transfusions. "Tomorrow's Tide" hinges on them teaching a fishing colony how to make fishing nets rather than rely on just individual fishing spears. "The Cure" revolves around them helping a village that is being plagued by malaria, teaching them how to identify the tree that makes the antidote and instructing them on the importance of avoiding mosquito bites and draining the stagnant water where the plague-carrying mosquitoes breed. |
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In Homage to Catalonia George Orwell describes the Spanish militiamen he fought alongside viewing him as Mighty Whitey. Despite Orwell's total lack of training or familiarity with soldiering, his compatriots were thrilled that an educated Englishman had joined up with their cause. | |
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Dune has Paul Atreides who is born from the waterworld Caladan, son of a duke, trained by the best swordsmen and tacticians in the galaxy and trained as a Mentat human computer. He and his pregnant mother went into hiding from their enemies, the Harkonnens, who killed his father, and met the natives of Arrakis, the Fremen, who also hate the Harkonnen. They managed to win the favor of the Fremen, learned their culture and Paul fell in love with a Fremen girl (but she's not a full-blooded Fremen because her grandfather is a former Planetologist of the Emperor who went native). He's also destined to be the Messiah which the Fremen had been waiting for due to his prophetic powers and at the end of the novel, he led the Fremen against the Harkonnens and the Emperor and took over the throne by marrying the Emperor's eldest daughter while keeping his Freman lover as his concubine. However, this example is both a deconstruction and exploitation, as Paul's abilities and the prophecy itself are just part of the Bene Gesserit's machinations, and Paul knows he will become a tyrant who will unleash his diehard followers into the entire galaxy, causing chaos and destruction in his name. He hates it but can't do anything about it because it's part of his destiny. | |
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Kylie Chan's Dark Heavens trilogy in which a young, white Australian nanny with no previous training develops superhuman martial-arts skills and magic qi powers in just a few years, beats up demons and generally proves herself an equal to Chinese gods, never mind mere mortals. Then she gets upstaged by a half-American, half-Chinese six-year-old. Justified to an extent as the most recent book has revealed that this is largely a result of her half-Shen heritage. | |
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Samurai Jack has a subversion in "Jack in Africa.' The boy that would grow into Jack (who's Japanese), still a pre-teen, goes to train with a native African village, which is attacked by a different village, and all the inhabitants bar Jack are captured. Jack adapts to the superior weapons that the opposing village has, and fights against them, but, while Jack can fight off one or two, the reason he wins is that he frees the other villagers, who prove that the enemies' better weapons are no match for their own better skills. The Big Bad is not defeated by Jack, but by Jack's mentor, and the day is won by both Jack and the villagers. | |
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Ultimate Avengers plays with this in the second movie. The Wakandan elders believe they don't need the aid of outsiders and especially the Avengers to stop the Chitauri as long as they have their Vibranium meteorite deposit and the salvaged Chitauri technology, since they did in fact repel them before. However, not only is the Chitauri assault implicitly much bigger than the one Wakanda faced in the past, the aliens realize the Wakandans are using their technology to help power their weapons and blow it up, crippling Wakanda's defenses. Also, the Avengers would have had to go to Wakanda anyways since that's where the mothership coordinating the whole planetary assault is stationed to have any hope of saving the world (and as far as most of the isolationist Wakandans aside from Black Panther were concerned, the rest of the world could burn as long as they themselves were victorious). | |
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2013's 47 Ronin is a very, very loose adaptation of the original story, but with fantasy elements and a character played by Keanu Reeves, a half breed who nonetheless charms his samurai lord's daughter, wins a spot of honor among his fellow samurai, and all but orders all the Japanese men around him about in the second act. | |
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The 13th Warrior features something of a reversal: the cultured Arab diplomat Ahmad ibn Fadlan leaves his country with some Vikings to go north. The Vikings don't expect him to be very useful, but he learns their language, fights alongside them, and amazes them with his literacy, though he does not surpass the Vikings in any of the skills they teach him. In fact, the Vikings treat him a bit like a child, calling him "Little Brother". He is ultimately a secondary figure in the big picture behind their leader Buliwyf. The story, taken from Michael Crichton's book Eaters of the Dead, is very loosely based on the accounts of the real Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, spiced up with a non-magical retelling of Beowulf. | |
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Arrow plays with this trope in the third season. Oliver takes on the League of Assassins, a Middle Eastern guild of warriors who all take Arabic titles, where his superior skills lead to him essentially playing out this trope: He becomes the next in line for leadership and is set to marry the leader's daughter. However, the leader himself is white, having been a Mighty Whitey himself who took leadership centuries ago, who seems to be invoking this trope by electing to position Oliver, an outsider, as his heir, and forces his daughter, who is a lesbian, to marry Oliver against her will to ensure that the eventual heir is still a blood descendant. In the end, it's Malcolm, another white outsider, who takes leadership... but not through his own skill, but rather through Loophole Abuse and making a deal with Oliver. | |
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Averted in The Road to El Dorado. In spite of being mistaken for gods by the natives of El Dorado, Miguel and Tulio are woefully out of their depth when it comes to learning the natives' customs. Simply climbing the steps to their pyramid leaves them out of breath, while the king (who probably weighs significantly more than both of them combined) does it with little difficulty. They only manage to keep the ruse going with help from a sympathetic native. However, they still manage to do a lot of good. Due to being mistaken as gods, they're able to ban the practice of human sacrifice and "pulling rank" on the blood-thirsty high priest. They do end having to leave, but that is to protect the place when Cortez shows up (though they do end up locking the entrance as to keep anyone from finding it again, thus keeping the people safe from Cortez and the High Priest. | |
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Shaka Zulu: Deconstructed. The Europeans arrive in Zululand to establish diplomatic ties and trading rights, and Dr. Henry Flynn points out that an unscrupulous person with their superior technology could become a god in this country, but it turns out that King Shaka is a dangerous, cunning ruler who has them totally at his mercy throughout their stay, and they're effectively political hostages. This small collection of mostly western civilians does manage to oppose an army of 20,000 enemy soldiers with a few rifles and a cannon, and Shaka becomes convinced that they possess the secret to immortality (actually hair dye that makes him appear younger and more medical knowledge to nurse him back to health after an attempted assassination). When Lieutenant Farewell returns from Capetown, his meeting with Shaka after the King has experienced a mental breakdown because of the death of his mother, in particular, is a very bitter take on this trope, as Shaka likens himself to a simple monkey who allowed himself to be tricked into getting his hand trapped in a bottle containing something shiny. | |
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Sister Act racially inverts the trope. Protagonist Deloris, played by Whoopi Goldberg, goes into hiding as a nun, and is the only black woman in the convent. She also ends up saving the choir by educating them on how to sing. On a larger scale, it's she who brings the neighborhood together in doing so. | |
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Ken has a rich white father and a Japanese mother. Compared to his best friend and rival Ryu, he is the most out-going and coolest. However, it's how he's portrayed in the American animated TV series that qualifies him for savior status. By the final season, Ken is given the title greatest martial artist of all time and the only one who can beat Akuma. Interestingly enough, the Anime motion picture would avert this, by making Ken a victim of Bison, and Ryu being the only one who can save him. And let's not forget the live motion picture, which portrays Guile - played by Jean Claude Van Damme - as the hero and savior, when in the fighting game universe, he's not a main character (though it is he, and not Ryu or Ken, who has the biggest personal beef against the Big Bad). Ken and Ryu, who are the main characters, are portrayed as traveling con-artist who get in over their heads. | |
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X: Beyond the Frontier (and pretty much the entire X series, for that matter) takes this trope and Humans Are Special and runs with it. In the first game, displaced human Kyle Brennan (a white man) is stranded in the X universe and, over the course of the series, contributes to the near-defeat of a race of genocidal robot ships, builds up a massive and influential R&D company in the hopes of finding a way back to Earth, uncovers the true nature of the Kha'ak, and through his actions eventually sets in motion the reunion between Earth and the rest of the universe. Terran Conflict plays this trope in a mechanical sense in that Terran ships — which are often faster, better shielded, and more destructive than anything else in the X universe — range from a bright polished platinum color to near-pure white. | |
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Madi in The Grimnoir Chronicles is a rare villainous example. Japanese Iron Guard are considered badass if they can survive taking up to five kanji brands. Madi, a white man, has thirteen and is second only to the Big Bad in power. That said, there are other white people in the Iron Guard and none of them are as badass as Madi or the Japanese members. | |
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Subverted in Heroes; when Hiro goes back in time and meets the great Japanese hero Takezo Kensei, he discovers that Kensei's actually a white man. He then goes on to discover that Kensei is not nearly the patron of bravery and honor that myth has made him into, and finds himself trying to hammer Kensei into the role that history has made for him. Kensei eventually undergoes a Face–Heel Turn and it is Hiro who ends up inspiring the Takezo Kensei legend. | |
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In Back to the Future, a white kid from The '80s named Marty McFly travels back to 1955 and is implied in a Historical In-Joke to have introduced Rock & Roll to the world by playing "Johnny B. Goode" at a school dance where Chuck Berry's cousin is in attendance, three years before Chuck wrote the song. | |
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Spencer Rice in Caravaneer unwittingly spawns Spencerism in the Kivi Tribe when he teaches agriculture to them. You later find out that he is actually a biological scientist, and he can help you convince the Kivi to wipe out the Drekar tribe. | |
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The Phantom, a generational line of more than twenty white males who protect the first South Asian, then African jungle, including tribes of native Africans. Partially justified in that the twenty-first Phantom was originally written as a Batman/Bruce Wayne type of superhero, and when Falk decided he should instead be the descendant of a long line of Phantoms they didn't change the design. This was back in 1936, and today it seems the Phantom mostly gets by on Grandfather Clause. The Phantom Chronicles contain a complete genealogy of the Phantoms. None of the 21st Phantom's female ancestors were African, but the majority (note, majority, not plurality) were South Asian, and he has Native American, East Asian and Latin American ancestry as well, so it's not quite as clear-cut as it (admittedly and unfortunately) looks. |
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Parodied in Beverly Hills Ninja where Chris Farley's character is adopted by a tribe of ninjas who think he'll be the prophesied Great White Ninja. As it turns out, Farley is a blundering klutz, who is far outmatched by his Japanese brother. Though they do end up playing it straight in the end. | |
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Sheena, Queen of the Jungle is a fairly conventional 'white woman Raised by Natives' example. | |
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The Last of the Mohicans is an excellent example of Mighty Whitey in traditional American literature and, hence, in classic movies. Imitations and similar characters appear in Westerns. Although Chingachgook is just as much of a badass as Hawkeye — and he's the one who kills the main antagonist in many adaptations and he's the guy who the entire book/movie is named after. The 1992 film at least subverts it in that Nathaniel identifies as Native American and eschews white civilization, even giving a "The Reason You Suck" Speech about it to Cora. | |
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Played with regarding Roy Harper and the few times his Native American upbringing is discussed. In all of Roy's origin stories, they involve him being orphaned at an early age and then looked after by a Native caretaker. Devin Grayson's take on Roy's backstory was a humanized version of his Post-Crisis origin, wherein Roy was raised on a Navajo reservation after the death of his father. In this case, Roy spent his formative years not realizing he was white until he turned 13 while English was a second language to him. As an adult, Roy receives a second naming ceremony and a tattoo symbolizing he's an official member of the Navajo but that's as far as it went. While incredibly knowledgable and respectful of his Navajo upbringing, to the point Roy passed on a lot of teachings to his daughter Lian, and considered one of them despite his skin, Roy was never considered to be a potential savior or lauded for being a better Navajo than those around him. Sioux woman Dakota Jamison was left speechless after she assumed Roy's tattoo was tacky disrespect against actual Native people. | |
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In the 1970 Western A Man Called Horse, Richard Harris plays English aristocrat John Morgan who is captured by the Sioux. After various trials and tests, he becomes not only a tribe member but eventually its leader. | |
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Used uniquely in Kill Bill. Pai Mei is an elderly Chinese kung fu master and also a colossal Jerkass. He hates white people, women, blondes, the Japanese, and Americans. So when the Bride - a skinny, white, blonde American woman who tries to impress him by speaking Japanese and claiming to be a great fighter with the katana - comes to his secluded temple to learn under him, his notorious Training from Hell becomes all the harsher. Becomes heartwarming when you find out that she was his favourite student, and he taught her alone the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique. | |
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Dragon Age: Inquisition: Given the Fantasy Counterpart Culture nature of Andrastian humans being Medieval European Catholics and the tribal nature of Dalish culture (Word of God has admitted that Thedas elves were inspired by Medieval Jews and that their historical struggle under humans has some real-world parallels to Native Americans and other oppressed minorities), Morrigan, a white human woman, being presented as a greater Eluvian/Elvhen expert than any elven characters (particularly the Dalish Merrill or a Dalish Inquisitor), has left many players getting this vibe. Subverted in that the team's other Elvhen expert, the elf Solas, thinks she's an idiot taking legends at face value as history. He turns out to be right. | |
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In Isle of Dogs, a white American exchange student and pro-dog activist leads the investigation of a conspiracy, amid a canine influenza outbreak in a dystopian Japanese city. | |
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Deconstructed with White Wolf, archenemy and adopted brother of Black Panther. He was raised by T'Chaka the former king of Wakanda and has always loved the country. However Wakanda is a fairly xenophobic country, so he was never accepted or treated with respect by people outside his family due to being white. Add T'Challa generally being treated far better than him by both their father and the people of Wakanda, and the result is a deep resentment of his brother combined with a desperate desire to be loved by others. All he wants is to help Wakanda and gain the acceptance of his adoptive culture, but his desperation to do so and the natives' constant refusal of his help drove him into supervillainy. | |
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Also discussed and mocked to hell by Bill Burr not only in being tired of feeling guilty about segregation against ping-pong, but also directly mocks Save Our Students films like Dangerous Minds in wishing that the teacher gets harassed out of town. | |
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Likewise in Attack on Titan, Action Girl, 3D combat prodigy, and all-around badass Mikasa also just so happens to be the only surviving person of Asian descent on Earth (the other survivors being apparently European). | |
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Sh�gun (2024) - As per the book, the series looks like it might be going in this direction but over time it subverts it completely. John Blackthorne has his moments - he really is a great sailor and is generally a useful and resourceful guy - but he's unremittingly manipulated by the Japanese nobles around him, even (especially!) by the ones who like him. Even the Portuguese, who have a lot more agency and influence than Blackthorne, are very much not in charge. | |
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Immortal Iron Fist, on the other hand, reveals that Iron Fist is just one of several Immortal Weapons. Most of the others are Asian, and most of them are better than Danny. | |
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A manga version of the old Romance of the Three Kingdoms story, Destiny Of An Emperor (which was also made into a Dragon Quest knockoff RPG for the NES, which bizarrely enough managed to cross the Pacific), posits that historical warlord Lü Bu was, in fact, a blond European who had taken a Chinese name, thus explaining his historically-documented freakish height and strength. Hilariously, when applied to Lü Bu of all people it becomes a subversion of the trope, as Lü Bu was a lecher, a murderer, and betrayed everyone he ever met. He died alone and utterly ruined. | |
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Hidalgo has the underdog whitey beating Arabs and Bedouins in their race, on their own lands, which he had never before visited. He gets the bonus points for having a good chance with the Sheik's daughter, whom he rescued. Then again, it's almost a subversion because the hero is supposed to be part American Indian - but in Real Life, this turned out to be a lie). The whole movie is based on the Real Life Hopkins' bullshit stories he told as a performer. | |
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At least six different bearers of the mantle of Faerie Queen in The Dresden Files (Maeve, Lily, Sarissa, Molly, Mab, and (by implication) Titania) were originally mortals, albeit mostly changelings (half-human/half-fey). | |
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Rambo IV starts out with the half-Indian John Rambo having become a Burmese snake-wrangler. | |
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On Deadly Ground is more an environmentalist fable than anything else (if a particularly demented one), but Steven Seagal's character puts it upon himself to speak for the Inuit who are being screwed over by the oil companies. Because, well, the Inuit have no voice. There's even a scene where undergoes a Vision Quest to essentially purge himself of white guilt. | |
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In the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal, Assassin Johanna Smith-Rhodes comes from the Discworld's Fantasy Counterpart Culture of South Africa. Brought up in a country stuck in The Apartheid Era, she is changed by her years of living in Ankh-Morpork. When her apartheid-supporting aunt sees to it that her status of a Married Woman Of Means is graced by a complement of domestic servants, they are Black Howondalandian. Johanna has a problem with getting them to address her as Madam, and not as "Baas-lady", as their conditioning has taught them. Johanna no longer believes in apartheid; her servants believe, with good reason, that if they don't abide by apartheid and treat their employers as Mighty Whitey, they're in a lot of trouble. Readjustment takes place on both sides. | |
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Madoc in A Swiftly Tilting Planet, though he has completely abandoned his Welsh homeland. He is still admired for his spiritual wisdom and prowess as a warrior and is on the verge of marrying The Chief's Daughter. | |
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World of Warcraft: Legion: The long-awaited return of Second War hero Turalyon and his wife Alleria reveals that he has since joined the Army of the Light, a faction of enlightened races spoken of by the Draenei as survivors of homeworlds overtaken by the Legion. Although almost entirely made up of Draenei, Turalyon becomes more or less the leader of the Army of the Light. While Turalyon doesn't strike up a romance with any of the Army's Draenic women, his still carries out the trope of an exotic wife in his High Elven lover Alleria, who also ascends to a high rank within the Army. | |
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Exploited in The Man Who Would be King. Our antiheroes are two conniving ex-soldiers who decide that it will be a snap to go to Kafiristan and become kings because, after all, they're Britons! With the aid of 20 rifles and their military experience, the pair do in fact conquer all of the local tribes and become kings. One of them is worshiped as the son of Alexander the Great, the last Mighty Whitey to steamroll through the region. | |
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The Ghost Rider: Carter Slade, the original Ghost Rider, was given his equipment by the medicine man of an Indian tribe, chosen by a prophecy to become their champion. However, Slade mostly protects everyone who is victimized by criminals, not just Indians, and isn't regarded as any sort of cultural hero or anything. | |
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In The Proposition, Arthur Burns is essentially the evil version of this. He lives up in the hills, and the Aborigines are terrified of him and think he's a werewolf. | |
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Flash Gordon goes to the planet Mongo, learns its ways, liberates it from tyrant Ming the Merciless, and becomes its greatest hero. Played particularly straight in the early strips where Mongo's Human Aliens are depicted with yellow skin. | |
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In Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1912), Lord Roxton becomes the best hunter in the native village he visits. | |
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Similarly, the Amtor series features a white Earth man thriving on Venus, among Human Aliens described as resembling humans from the Middle East. | |
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Metal Gear: The series has a recurring character template of a white child soldier in an army of black children who is noted for being markedly superior to the other soldiers, and in most cases get a nickname indicating their whiteness as well. This is at least partially justified in two of the cases ("White Mamba" is a clone of Big Boss and carries the perfect 'soldier genes', "The White Devil" was raised by another clone of Big Boss as a test case to see if combat ability, among other things, could be passed on outside of genes) but the recurring nature of this image, combined with the fact that it uses real-life wars as a backdrop (in one case, the wars in Liberia, a state founded by African-American slaves), gives this some definite Unfortunate Implications. Metal Gear: Ghost Babel: Slasher Hawk is a white Australian who claims to follow Aboriginal teachings better than the actual Aboriginies who adopted him and uses Aboriginal magic in battle, as well as boomerangs. However, his tribe rejected him no matter how hard he tried to fit in, leading to him joining Black Arts Viper's terrorist cell. The Gindran Liberation Front aren't a full use of this trope but have some strange racial politics going on. The group's highly talented Jeanne d'Archétype, Sophie N'dram, is mixed Boia-French and apparently passes for white enough that Snake mistakes her for his white American female ally, Chris Jenner. The actual leader of the group, Augustine Eguabon, preaches sovereignty for the Boia despite not being Boian or even from Gindra, and it's stated he owes most of his ability to the mentorship he got from Big Boss. |
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The Adam Strange comics used a concept nearly identical to the John Carter of Mars books. On Earth, Adam is just an archaeologist, but he uses his jetpack to make himself the hero of the space planet Rann. Popular comic author Alan Moore later subverted this by having the Rannians still treat Adam with contempt because they have superior intellects. Note that Moore's interpretation was a Retcon, and has been ignored since. | |
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Parodied in the American Dad!! episode "Home Adrone." Stan Smith rides a Predator drone disguised as a dragon in a Chinese New Year's parade. An old Chinese man cries "The prophecy has been fulfilled! The Great Dragon awakens!" A young Chinese American woman sarcastically replies, "Oh, and with a white guy riding him. Awesome." | |
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In the Marvel Universe, Daniel Lyons was chosen by a Blackfeet Indian chief to be a champion of justice, after besting 100 challengers by outrunning a deer, outswimming a salmon upstream, hitting the bullseye while blindfolded and then catching arrows that were fired at him, and then wrestling a bear, finally winning by breaking its neck with his bare hands. He was given a longbow into which he carved a notch whenever he performed a good deed. When he had attained 100 notches, would be judged worthy of having taken the mantle of the Black Marvel. | |
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Dances with Wolves: Played completely straight and criticized for having Dunbar be the reason why the Lakota defeat the army despite the Lakota historically doing so alone. | |
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Shows up in Lost Horizon, which is notably progressive for featuring a modern Mighty Whitey in the 1930s, when the old-fashioned version was still in vogue. When a plane full of white passengers finds themselves in Shangri-La, the mostly Chinese and Tibetan monks there prove themselves to be wise, intelligent, competent, and well-rounded characters. However, the white Conway turns out to be better at being a monk than the best of the Tibetans, and it turns out that the founder and leader of the monastery is a European who arrived in the 15th century. | |
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General John Doe from the Kraft Suspense Theatre episode "Jungle of Fear" is a villainous example. He's a white 19th century American who claims to have been raised in China, although it's more likely that he's a US Navy deserter who jumped ship there to escape hanging for murder. By 1850, he's a general in the Chinese army and the chief adviser to the Emperor's brother, and he plans to make the brother Emperor so he can rule behind the scenes as an Evil Chancellor. | |
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In the world of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, many kings of fairy kingdoms have actually been humans who were stolen into fairy. The footnotes indicate that while fairies like the idea of being kings, they also tend to be highly capricious, irrational, and easily distracted. Humans are much better at the actual business of ruling, and thus constitute a disproportionate percentage of long-reigning monarchs within fairyland. | |
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Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg features a villainous example of this trope with Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (a German Russian) managing to secure Mongolia's independence and then goes on to declare himself Genghis Khan's successor and restore the Mongolian Empire, wishing to conquer the entire world. | |
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From BlazBlue, we have a deconstruction, a subversion and an inversion. First up, we have Jin Kisaragi, who despite his very Japanese-sounding name is actually an Evil Brit. He was adopted into the Kisaragi family and soon proved to be better than any of the real children at pretty much anything, including iaido, although constantly having to put up with their jealousy is one of the contributing factors that led to him becoming a big-time Straw Nihilist. By the time of the sequel, he admits that he's "given up on life (and) the world" and that he believes the only "truth" is death. It's revealed that the Kirsaragis are considered pretty strong due to adopting from all walks of life, making Jin an exemplary case. Next up to bat is Noel Vermillion, who gets preferential treatment over her Japanese friend, Tsubaki Yayoi despite the fact that she... well... is worse at everything you can possibly imagine than Tsubaki is. The Big Bad eventually reveals that in a previous time loop, Noel didn't exist and Tsubaki had everything she did... in the most horrible way possible, that is. This causes her to snap and pull a Face–Heel Turn out of envy and hatred. However, the real kicker is that said villain is entirely responsible for the time loops and most likely orchestrated events so that Noel would take Tsubaki's place so that he could use them ''both'' for his own personal gain further down the line. It's revealed that the Yayois are growing weaker due to inbreeding and that Tsubaki's the first child to survive. Her general lack of talent compared to most caused her to take a sealed weapon that causes her Face–Heel Turn. Arakune aka Lotte Carmine provides our inversion. He couldn't stand the fact that Kokonoe was constantly bettering him (the fact that she is a Jerkass of the highest order probably didn't help matters) and so he sought forbidden knowledge from beyond the Boundary. His body couldn't handle what he discovered there and so he turned into an Eldritch Abomination. |
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In The Mystery of Urulgan by Kir Bulychev, Douglas Robertson is a deconstruction of the Mighty Whitey. He can hunt well, but he is violent, rude, arrogant, racist, cowardly, vain, and responsible for a lot of trouble in the story. | |
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Super Robot Wars is making a habit of making the "better" Original Generation pilots be German as well. Sanger Zonvolt and Elzam V. Branstein come to mind. Fridge Brilliance can also elevate Elzam's brother Raidese to this level as well (And their cousin Leona, though she's mostly out of focus). See also Arado and Seolla. | |
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Blind Fury has a dash of this, with Rutger Hauer playing a Vietnam veteran who gets blinded and adopted by a local tribe. Under their tutelage, he becomes a Master Swordsman despite being blind. | |
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Rules accompanying the Classic Dungeons & Dragons game's "Hollow World" setting, which was largely inspired by works that use this trope, incorporate a Mighty Surface-Dweller element to adventures involving outer-world PCs. Most of the heavy-damage spell effects such as Fireball are unknown to the Hollow World's natives, ostensibly to evoke the feel of literature in which heroic explorers' use of firearms gives them a tactical advantage over indigenous peoples. | |
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Although each mummy they've encountered has had its own particular native guardians/jailkeepers who have been watching over it for centuries, only the white O'Connell family of The Mummy Trilogy can actually destroy the mummies, even if the guardians are the ones who have made the means for doing so. This is true to just about all Mummy films, though the second one has the hero trained by the Middle Eastern guardians as a youth. | |
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Sub-Zero in the Mortal Kombat series is a white man (officially half Asian but you wouldn't know it by looking at him) that was born and raised in Minnesota. He moved to China with his father after his parents divorced when he was a teenager, and became leader of the Lin Kuei; he even moved the ancient tribe to America after they were discovered, instead of just relocating somewhere in China. The Lin Kuei are also shown to be a very diverse organization; Cyrax is Motswanan and Smoke is revealed to be Czech. He was portrayed by an Asian actor in his ending in Mortal Kombat II though, but he was masked for the rest of the game. |
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Kung Fu (1972) is a borderline example - the half-white child is stronger than all the Chinese mercenaries sent to recapture him. The character was originally going to be played by Bruce Lee (who has white ancestry himself), but television studio executives recast the role with David Carradine, a completely white actor (but a thoroughly incompetent martial artist; he didn't actually learn martial arts until after the show ended). | |
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Hermione Granger from Harry Potter only learns that magic exists at the age of eleven, but becomes the best in her year from the start although most of the students come from a culture where magic is common and have parents who do magic. | |
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Farscape has "Jeramiah Crichton". Stranded on a primitive planet populated by dark-skinned natives, John builds a number of labour-saving devices and is romanced by the chief's daughter. He actually lives a ways out from their village in an attempt to avoid this, but it sucks him in anyway. | |
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In The Victors Project, white 'Settler' Bovina spent sixty years being worshiped as a goddess in human form by the Anasazi natives, because her victor's winnings provided food and medicine. Compounding this is that the Settlers of District 10 believe anyone Reaped must have been disloyal, and thusly even her own family rejected her. She marries an Anasazi man and by the time of the first Quarter Quell, Bovina believes that both tributes voted in by the district should be Settlers, so they can "save one of their own". | |
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Max Payne 3 is a double subversion. Max, who has moved to Sao Paulo to work security for the Branco family, repeatedly fails to stop local Gangbangers from making off with his principal's wife. As we reach the end, though, he stops the large-scale Organ Theft of Sao Paulo's poor, destroys the paramilitaries and Dirty Cops responsible and brings down the Corrupt Politician exploiting the whole operation to fund his mayoral campaign. Lampshaded when Neves, one of the masterminds behind the Organ Theft scheme, sarcastically calls Max "The Great American Savior of the Poor" (which is also used as the title of that particular chapter). | |
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Roxton A. Colchester III, though an orange Lutari in Neopets, is a character created based on this trope - a bold mighty white adventurer accompanied by a white chick and a short Asian sidekick. The Atlas of the Ancients plot even went so far as to say that their adventure is essential to saving the world of Neopia. | |
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Stargate SG-1. Colonel Mitchell is captured by the Sodan tribe, "the best Jaffa warriors ever", who are offshoots of humans and dark-skinned. He's taught their fighting style prior to a ritualistic one-on-one deathmatch. Mitchell rapidly learns their fighting style, and even uses it in later episodes to easily dispatch Jaffa Mooks. However, both his teacher and Teal'c (who in addition to being non-human, also happens to have dark skin) still effortlessly beat him on multiple occasions. The first season episode, "The First Commandment," had a rogue SG team set themselves up as gods to a primitive tribe on a world they had been sent to explore, exploiting the natives for their own benefit. In the eighth season episode, "It's Good To Be King," former NID agent — and thorn in SG-1's side — Harry Maybourne had been exiled to a remote planet. He used his knowledge of future events (from his ability to read the notes left behind by a time-travelling Ancient) to elevate himself to command of the local population. He turned out to be a benevolent ruler who truly improved the lot of the people under his rule so much that when they found out about the con that had placed him in command, they chose to keep him. |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Northern Water Tribe gets turned on its head in two episodes as Katara comes in, tells them that Stay in the Kitchen is wrong thinking, gets into an insult match and subsequently assaults the Old Master that teaches waterbending, then proceeds to master their signature martial arts style in a matter of weeks (days?). Sokka fills in the bonus points by wooing The Chief's Daughter. While Katara and Sokka's Southern Water Tribe is related to the Northern Water Tribe and both tribes are relatively dark-skinned, they're culturally distinct and the Northerners tend to have somewhat lighter skin. Aang is ethnically Asian and lighter-skinned than Sokka and Katara, and he masters in a few minutes the waterbending techniques that Katara took years to learn. On the one hand Katara had to learn those techniques by herself, without anyone to teach her, on the other hand Aang is The Avatar. |
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Within Days of being on the station, human Starfleet Commander Benjamin Sisko of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is named as the Emissary of the Prophets by Kai Opaka of the Bajoran people. The less advanced and more spiritual Bajorans quickly begin to worship Sisko and see him as a father figure. Sisko spends the first part of the series trying to ignore them, but unfortunately for him they have his home address. Eventually, Sisko learned to accept his role and became one of the spiritual leaders of Bajor as well as its chief proponent for Federation Membership, and saved the planet multiple times from external threats they are too weak or incompetent to defend themselves against. By the way, Sisko was black, while the majority of the Bajoran people were played by white people. | |
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The Marvel Netflix show Iron Fist (2017), based on the comic of the same name, actually serves as a deconstruction of the concept. The only reason Danny was able to become the best fighter at K'un-Lun was that he dedicated himself to nothing but training to cope with the trauma of being orphaned and marooned there after his family's plane crash. Additionally, the other students of K'un-Lun, all of whom are indigenous to the region, are furious that not only did an outsider of a different race best them and obtain the power of the Iron Fist, but that he abandoned the region to return to America at the first opportunity, effectively forsaking the duty and tradition of the post. In the second season it's further revealed that Danny didn't win the powers of the Iron Fist because he was the strongest or most worthy candidate, but rather because the actual strongest, Davos, had the all-important duel rigged against him, thus meaning that Danny simply happened to be in the right place at the right time. Though it does become a Zig-Zagging Trope since Danny did have to become strong enough to face-off and defeat Shou-Lao, a creature described as infinite, in order to gain the Iron Fist. | |
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An inversion in V for Vendetta, where the fascist regime has eliminated all non-whites from the British Isles and the Show Within a Show Storm Saxon is a cringingly racist and narmy serial where the eponymous white hero fights evil black savages. After V takes out the government's Propaganda Machine, forcing them to use different announcers, he claims the show had better writing. | |
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Tortall Universe: In the third Song of the Lioness, when Prince Jonathan becomes the Voice of the People to the Bazhir Tribesmen and Alanna becomes a respected shaman to the Bloody Hawk Tribe. Pierce later realized that she was playing into this trope and in subsequent series made efforts to avoid it. Trickster's Duet: The white protagonist goes to the Copper Isles and becomes the spymaster of a developing rebellion by the native, dark-skinned raka against the white-skinned luarin conquerers. Granted, Aly was raised by Tortall's spymaster. It's also stated that they need a Token White on the rebel side to stop a general slaughter of luarin, but given that their own Chosen One is half-luarin and loves that side of her family, it's possible she could do that on her own. The other rebel leaders are mostly raka, but spying and clever plans are shown as being basically the most important thing. In the second book (and likely as a result of complaints about the first), it attempts to show that Aly is still only a small cog in a rebellion that represents generations of work by the raka. |
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In Aelita, a 1924 film from the Soviet Union, a group of stranded Soviet astronauts on Mars lead a communist revolution by technologically advanced, but ideologically backwards masses against the ruling class of that planet! | |
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Avatar has a paralyzed human. A bit unconventional since he doesn't fulfill the trope until his consciousness is put in a half-human, half-alien body, but after that happens, he eventually learns the Na'vi ways and embodies this trope by doing several things: marrying the Princess, becoming a legendary chief, getting the planetary consciousness to fight to push back the humans, and eventually transforming permanently into a Na'Vi. | |
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Dangerous Minds has ex-Marine and sassy white girl Michelle Pfeiffer inspiring a classroom full of angry ethnic minority teens to learn (and, in one scene, kicking their asses). Based on a true story, though the Hollywood treatment given to the story isn't reflective of reality in many ways. | |
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Averted hard in Balibo. The film focuses on several white journalists who enter East Timor to provide coverage of the ongoing Indonesian invasion, intending to attract worldwide attention. Not only are they respectful of East Timorese culture, but they are all executed by the Indonesian military and fail to accomplish their objective. The only one to actually come close to making any progress is native East Timorese politician José, and even that comes at a great personal cost. | |
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This is a common criticism of 8 Mile, in that the white rapper Rabbit is a uniquely gifted rapper whose friends are virtually all black, and that the climax of the movie shows him beating a succession of black rappers. However, the movie addresses this by making Rabbit reluctant to battle out of anxiety that he is seen as a tourist or appropriator. The final battle also ends with Rabbit winning against a violent black bully by pointing out that his opponent comes from a middle class family, goes to a private school, and likes to slum it in the hood to feel like a gangster - indicating that despite Rabbit's race, he is still part of an oppressed working class through which he can authentically connect with hip-hop culture. Also, Rabbit is played by Eminem, who is a uniquely gifted battle rapper, and the film is inspired by his own background. | |
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Serendipity the Pink Dragon: Shades of this with Bobby, since the island and its denizens need him to save the day. However Serendipity plays as much of a role, and Bobby's race is never exactly clear despite his pale skin. (Which just makes it a case of Humanity Is Superior.) | |
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Played with and deconstructed in Far Cry 3. Delving into Rook Island's background and paying attention to the players involved in the current story indicates that it's less of a case of Mighty Whitey and more of a case of Mighty Outsider-In-General. Rook Island has a history of outside individuals coming to the island and taking control of it, only to go mad and be killed by another outsider. The Chinese general who took over the island and left many of the ruins, only to be killed by his superiors, the Japanese who took over only to go mad and be killed by each other, and now Jason and Vaas/Hoyt (as well as Citra). Depending on the ending, either Citra is killed by Dennis or Citra kills Jason after he kills his friends. in either case, it's another example of an outsider effectively dominating the island being killed by another outsider. Even the mythological background of the island involves an outsider (the "prince from the northern kingdom") slaying another malevolent outside power (the giant). | |
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Averted in Far Cry 4 in response to criticism. The protagonist is a native-born Kyrati but grew up in the United States, which explains his unfamiliarity with the country. Big Bad Pagan Min can be considered a variation of this trope, being a half-British criminal from Hong Kong who overthrew the original regime to become the local dictator (even had he been 100% Hong Kongese, he'd still be an example as an alien foreigner from a more advanced nation, as Kyrat is heavily implied to be around Nepal's area). | |
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Played with in The Lord of the Rings. The Sindar and Númenoreans 'are' superior to the Sylvan elves and Rohirrim respectively: but the Sylvan and Sindar elves are distant relatives, and the same is true for the Númenoreans and the Rohirrim. Although culturally distinct, these groups are all tenously related by blood: which somewhat changes the dynamic of the interaction. It's more like if your cousin goes off to college and then comes home and fixes your computer without asking. Kinda rude but like... they were trying to be nice? Also like... in both cases the "invaders" are themselves refugees, so it's a little bit more of an Israel/Palestine situation than a Britain/South Africa situation (especially in the case of the Númenoreans, whose culture is more than a little bit Judaic in flavor). Also there is kind of a good reason to appoint the most powerful guy as ruler, since there is a clear and present threat to everyone's lives (in the form of the Dark Lord Sauron). | |
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In Red River (1995), the girl who carries on the story of the Hittite Empire... is Yuri Suzuki, who is a full-blooded Japanese. | |
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Parodied in The Armstrong and Miller Show with the arrogant Dr. Tia ("I live in Botswana, saving lives- do you?"). He sees himself as a much-loved figure among the Botswana natives and is oblivious to the fact that they all hate him. | |
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On The Office (US), Michael and Vikram talk about the latter's Worthless Foreign Degree from Pakistan, where he was a surgeon. Michael, not really understanding that trope, thinks he'd be Chief of Medicine there. | |
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In The Mummy: The Animated Series, Rick's son Alex gains a golden band which gives him the superpowers of a Medjai (such as telekinesis), allowing him to become the most powerful of the students training to be a Medjai. | |
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In G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Snake Eyes is a white street urchin in Hong Kong who fights Storm Shadow to a draw on their first meeting, even though presumably Storm Shadow has been combat-trained since he could walk, by virtue of throwing every object he can get his hands on at Storm Shadow. After being accepted into the dojo, it takes Snake Eyes only a short time to surpass Storm Shadow's skills, though it seems Storm Shadow retains the edge with a Katana—in their climactic fight, Storm Shadow disarms Snake Eyes and breaks his Katana, and the Joe is only able to win after switching to bladed tonfas. | |
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In The Twelve Kingdoms two very successful rulers (and two noble kirin) are from Japan. In fact, a rival ruler is trying to prevent one of them from rising to power because he fears the success that he believes is inevitable if the rival nation is ruled by someone from Japan. | |
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Far Cry: The protagonist of Far Cry 3 is a rich, entitled white guy without any combat training or experience who stumbles into the midst of the Rakyat tribe after escaping his captors. He's promptly given his own set of sacred Rakyat tattoos for no particular reason and proceeds to more or less single-handedly liberate the tribe from the pirates oppressing it - a feat the entire tribe apparently wasn't able to muster. The Rakyat seem unusual in that they're willing to adopt any foreigners who "hear the call" (and prove their strength) into the tribe. That includes not only white American Jason Brody, but the Liberian Dennis, and even their ruler, Citra, is probably of Latina heritage given her brother's accent. The implication may be that Jason is far from unique. Also deconstructed, since despite Jason's growing combat skills, he also becomes increasingly violent and less sane, and eventually, depending on the player's decision, can end up killing his friends and loved ones and getting knifed to death by Citra. Averted in Far Cry 4 in response to criticism. The protagonist is a native-born Kyrati but grew up in the United States, which explains his unfamiliarity with the country. Big Bad Pagan Min can be considered a variation of this trope, being a half-British criminal from Hong Kong who overthrew the original regime to become the local dictator (even had he been 100% Hong Kongese, he'd still be an example as an alien foreigner from a more advanced nation, as Kyrat is heavily implied to be around Nepal's area). |
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Subverted in Fullmetal Alchemist (2003). Edward thinks he saved Lior, whose citizens are brown-skinned in the 2003 anime (but white in the original manga) after he exposes their religious leader as manipulating them. The homunculus kill Cornello and Envy impersonates him which helps cause a violent civil war. When the soldiers come around, they only make things worse and it becomes something of a parallel to the Ishval War. So basically Edward caused an entire town to go from prosperous to a war zone within months of him 'saving' it, which also caused Rose, a girl he met there, to have a Child by Rape which also causes her to go from a Mama Bear to a mute Broken Bird. | |
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The Indiana Jones franchise plays with this trope, playing it straight (Belloq and the Hovitos), inverting it (bumbling Marcus Brody, given extra comedy by Indy's describing him as the ultimate Mighty Whitey, immediately cutting to his being hideously out of his depth in only-barely-non-Western Turkey), and subverted, inverted and played straight at various times with Indy himself. As the movies are inspired by the tone of old adventure serials, this was probably intentional. | |
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Gundam has a whole actually tends to play with this by having their heroes not technically be Japanesenote Domon Kasshu from Mobile Fighter G Gundam was from a Japan Recycled In Space but rather Spacenoids. If a character is considered The Ace and can fly rings around more experienced mobile suit pilots, pick up the ability quickly or get that series version of a Super Mode then they are likely from space. In fact in the thirty plus history of Gundam only three franchises have main characters are not Spacers After War Gundam X, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny and Mobile Suit Gundam 00 and of those two of them are not Japanese (Garrod Rannote American and Setsuna F. Seieinote Middle Eastern with a Japanese codename). | |
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John Blackstar is an Earthman who gets stranded on the planet Sagar, learns its ways, acquires a powerful weapon, joins a rebellion against its tyrant and becomes its greatest hero. It's no coincidence that Filmation produced this series not long after finishing their version of Flash Gordon. Blackstar's ethnicity is up for debate, though: urban legend has it that he was originally supposed to be black (hence the name), but the network nixed the idea and he was made Ambiguously Brown instead. Filmation's Lou Scheimer later said he had no recollection of this, though. At any event, many of the show's fans have declared John Blackstar to be Native American. | |
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The title character of Richard Dragon was a white punk who ended up being trained into one of the greatest martial artists of the DC Universe. | |
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In the third Song of the Lioness, when Prince Jonathan becomes the Voice of the People to the Bazhir Tribesmen and Alanna becomes a respected shaman to the Bloody Hawk Tribe. Pierce later realized that she was playing into this trope and in subsequent series made efforts to avoid it. | |
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Parodied, and ultimately deconstructed, with the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption." An embittered military medic, hiding in a low-tech village to avoid punishment for desertion, introduces the locals to modern medicine and saves several lives, in the process growing more open and less cynical, finding love with the chieftain's child, and ultimately saving the whole village from an invading force. The deconstruction? The medic deliberately called in the invading force so she could fend them off, fake being a hero, and return to the culture she actually wants to live in under the guise of being redeemed by her efforts. That is, she's doing what lost European explorers most typically did with locals: selfishly exploit them and then ditch them without a shred of actual empathy. The parody? The medic is Ensign Peanut Hamper, a non-humanoid utility robot who looks like an expressionless metal egg on skis and is voiced by a very snarky Kether Donohue. | |
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Tony in The Pumaman is supposed to be this, with him (and his father before him) apparently being the greatest protector of the Aztec people despite being white. In practice, he's a whiny idiot, and Vadhinio, his Aztec sidekick, is a far better hero than him. | |
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Played with in the final volume of The Wheel of Time. Shara is an isolationist empire, at least partially populated by dark-skinned people (Sharans of varying shades are described), who accept the pale-skinned foreigner Demandred as their Messiah and happily march to war under his overlordship. Of course, Demandred is a manipulative, vengeful villain and Shara is a brutally repressive slaver society both pre-and-post Demandred, so this is a very dark take on the trope and the association doesn't make either side look that good. Not to mention that Demandred's mightiness comes from his being an immortal who dates back to a golden age millennia ago and was the considered the second-most badass person on the planet even then, so he's mighty next to just about everyone- Shara just happened to be where they had prophecies about him. Not to mention the more general one of Rand going to the Aiel Waste, becoming their Car'a'Carn, bringing water back to their ancient city, and the Aiel for all intents and purposes becoming his personal army for the rest of the saga. On top of that, he also 'gets the girl' Aviendha, who, even more in line with this trope, is the first Aiel we readers meet. Of course, this is slightly averted in that Rand is Aiel by birth, so he's not really the white man coming and taking over the savages. However, he does identify as a Two Rivers man throughout. Also averted by the fact that the Aiel themselves are described as having European features like red or blond hair and blue eyes. |
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Pathfinder (2007) has an 11-year-old Viking boy raised by Native Americans and becoming their greatest warrior. The boy is the best because he learns to combine the savage Viking combat skills he learned as a child, with the patience and cunning ambush skills he picked up as a teenager. He does accidentally wipe out his own side in the process, though... | |
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Peekay in The Power of One, who acquires a cult of personality with the black prisoners at Barberton Prison when he is still just a small kid - because of his multilingualism, boxing prowess and the sophistication of the smuggling system he helps to set up for the prisoners, they start to see him as some kind of saviour. Slightly subverted in that said cult of personality is mainly due to how prisoner Geel Piet keeps talking up & promoting him with the other prisoners, but the fact that the prisoners buy into it is a case of Mighty Whitey. | |
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De Cape et de Crocs has a race flip where a black former slave ends up on the shores of an island populated by white savages who dress like Robinson Crusoe. Because they'd never seen black skin before, they took him for a god, but he was quick to insist that he was just a man (he is their chieftain, however). | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: During the Joel era, when films like Jungle Goddess or Rocketship X-M were experiments, Joel would inevitably roll his eyes and say something along the lines of, "Thank you, Mr. White Male Reality!" This comes back in the Jonah era with The Beast of Hollow Mountain as the main character is a white, male American in a cast of numerous Mexicans. At one point, the character whistles at his two Mexican companions like they were dogs, prompting Tom Servo to groan, pretending to be one of the two, that "Now, granted, I've got problems, but I'm a human being! And in front of my SON?!" |
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And they sometimes double up on it, with a large percentage of the non-Japanese characters being American. Some games in the series, such as Alpha and Compact 2/Impact, will pair the two together. Super Robot Wars is making a habit of making the "better" Original Generation pilots be German as well. Sanger Zonvolt and Elzam V. Branstein come to mind. Fridge Brilliance can also elevate Elzam's brother Raidese to this level as well (And their cousin Leona, though she's mostly out of focus). See also Arado and Seolla. Not to mention Latooni (... well, Latun, as a proper romanization of the way her name is written), who is one of the best pilots in the game (can easily compete with Raidiese for 'ace of the younger generation') - she's Russian. Or at least her name is since her backstory makes it rather hard to figure out her ethnicity and nationality... |
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The Book of Mormon: Parodied with the song "I Am Africa", in which the white Mormon missionaries sing about how they represent Africa. It's ultimately subverted, since none of the missionaries are actually able to inspire the Ugandans, who have to deal with a dangerous warlord, AIDS, and maggots in their scrotum. Even Arnold's stories aren't actually believed by the Ugandans, but provide good life lessons. By the end, the missionaries succeed in repelling (and eventually converting) a violent warlord and inspiring hope in the Ugandans, but don't seem to actually fix any real problems. | |
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Metal Gear: Ghost Babel: Slasher Hawk is a white Australian who claims to follow Aboriginal teachings better than the actual Aboriginies who adopted him and uses Aboriginal magic in battle, as well as boomerangs. However, his tribe rejected him no matter how hard he tried to fit in, leading to him joining Black Arts Viper's terrorist cell. The Gindran Liberation Front aren't a full use of this trope but have some strange racial politics going on. The group's highly talented Jeanne d'Archétype, Sophie N'dram, is mixed Boia-French and apparently passes for white enough that Snake mistakes her for his white American female ally, Chris Jenner. The actual leader of the group, Augustine Eguabon, preaches sovereignty for the Boia despite not being Boian or even from Gindra, and it's stated he owes most of his ability to the mentorship he got from Big Boss. |
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The Elder Scrolls: The extinct "Bird Men" were a Beast Race native to what would become the Imperial City Isle in central Cyrodiil. Topal the Pilot, the legendary Aldmeri Bold Explorer and poet, became this to them. He and his men taught them to speak their own words and how to write, so they declared him their lord and offered him their islands. Despite this, the Bird Men would be rendered extinct at the hands of "cat demons," believed by modern scholars to have been the ancient Khajiit. Morrowind has it present in the main quest. While the races and cultures involved are fictionalized, getting recognized as the Nerevarine of the Ashlander tribes (and, to a lesser extent, the Hortator of the three Great Houses) amounts to this trope, since your character is a hated outlander and an agent of the Imperial government that has conquered Morrowind — especially if your character is not a Dunmer. Even if you are a Dunmer, as an outlander you're seen as a 'cultural' outsider and are treated as such by the people you're trying to get to recognize you. |
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Referenced in a throwaway remark by Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl while recounting his adventures, "And then they made me their chief!" We see the tribe he became chief of in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. However, this trope is subverted because even as the chief, Jack can't stop the natives from doing what they've already made up their minds to do, like keeping his crew imprisoned or honoring Jack by having him ritually sacrificed and eaten. It's also worth noting that the throwaway line itself was a reference to The Fast Show, which Johnny Depp was a big fan of. | |
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Good Omens has a member of the Witchfinder Army who served in Britain's African forces in the colonial era, who didn't so much learn to live with the natives as he did terrify them into submission by countering whatever magic they had. | |
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In The Quest, Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a street criminal who is shanghaied and sold into slavery to a Thai boxing camp. Without any past training as a fighter, within two years he is one of their top-ranked members, despite the native boxers having trained from early childhood. And this just from watching the classes on the beach... | |
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Tintin had a notorious example in the album Tintin in the Congo, in which the boy reporter goes to the Belgian Congo, bests the childlike natives in both physical and mental prowess and explains to them about their homeland, which is here identified as Belgium. Later versions of the album would remove some of the more extreme stuff. Current English editions feature a prominent disclaimer, having spent many years out of print. In fairness to Hergé, he acknowledged this as Old Shame, and the trope is (mostly) absent from later albums. | |
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Shanghai Noon: Chong Wang (played by Jackie Chan), a Chinese palace guard from the Forbidden City, travels to Wild West Nevada to rescue Imperial Princess Pei Pei. Although a Fish out of Water in the western setting, his superior fighting skills impress a Native American chief who tricks him into marrying his daughter, Falling Leaves. Chong subsequently teams up with outlaw Roy O'Bannon (played by Owen Wilson) and gains notoriety as the "Shanghai Kid" on a "Wanted!" Poster without even trying, causing Roy to gripe that the bounty on Chong's head is already bigger than his even though he's been committing crimes for years. | |
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Code Geass plays it straight with Lelouch vi Britannia, a white man leading a war to drive out evil white men from Japan, but also inverts it with Suzaku Kururugi, a Japanese man who is the best Knightmare Frame pilot in the white man's army. Both examples are somewhat justified, however, since Lelouch had been scheming to take down the Empire since his mother was killed, while Suzaku's physical skills are effectively a Charles Atlas Superpower. | |
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In Magic: The Gathering's Amonkhet set, the all-white cast travels to the fantasy version of Egypt and fights against the local death-seeker culture. | |
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Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos plays the trope straight. The series is full of Asian martial artists, but the greatest of them all is Chuck Norris, of course. | |
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In Violine, the doctor is treated like this by the pygmies, who proclaim him their world champion after they see him perform "magic" (blowing bubbles which shrink their heads in the reflection, significant because they are headhunters). Van Beursen, a Western Corrupt Corporate Executive, tries to invoke this on the natives of Zongo, but they reject this. | |
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In the Fatal Fury universe, Terry and Andy Bogard are white boys adopted by Jeff Bogard and taught his martial arts style. After Geese Howard, Deceptive Disciple of Tung Fu Rue, murders him, the brothers set out to stop him, with Terry being the ultimate hero in the end. In the anime movies, Terry is always portrayed as the strong, silent hero while the highest-profile Asian character from the games, Joe Higashi, is relegated to comic relief. | |
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In the Pellucidar series, David Innes and Abner Perry use SCIENCE! to overthrow the reptilian overlords and free the humanoid natives, culminating in David being crowned emperor. When David is lost through Pellucidar again, captured and made a slave, the chief's daughter wants him... Oddly, many of the human tribes in David's empire are also white, despite Pellucidar being a Hollow World wrapped around a miniature sun that never sets and irradiates all of the surface equally. |
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Iron Fist was adopted and raised in the mystical city of K'un-L'un to take the title and powers of Marvel's ultimate martial artist. And not just the current one either; his predecessor was white too. Both of them did start training when they were very young though. This is lampshaded in Avengers Academy, where Hazmat (who is of Japanese descent) refers to him as "Mr. I Wish I Was Asian". Immortal Iron Fist, on the other hand, reveals that Iron Fist is just one of several Immortal Weapons. Most of the others are Asian, and most of them are better than Danny. The trope gets inverted and/or played with in the case of the Iron Fist of Thor's original team of Avengers shown in The Avengers (2018), who is Atlantean and thus of an entirely different minority altogether. |
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Parodied in Jade Empire, with Sir Roderick Ponce von Fontlebottom. "Mighty Whitey" is his mantra, and he's a card-carrying supremacist through and through dedicated to "educating" the locals (the Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Ancient China) primarily by shooting challengers with his musket. The one person he has "enlightened" is a guy he renamed "Percival" and made his squire, who sees it more as a job than anything. Your character is given the mission of humbling so he'll finally stop bothering everyone by first defeating him in a debate (where he does at least raise some worthwhile points) and then in a duel. Once defeated, however, he's gracious enough that he'll offer up a reward and be on his way. One of the reward for fighting him is his Tactical Manual, a treatise on the art of warfare which gives you a bonus to your fighting ability by teaching you what not to do. Another "reward" is a manual on trepanation, which has your character noting that this goes against every known medical practice in the land and so must be metaphorical. Or his gun Mirabelle, one of the best weapons in the game once upgraded. |
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Black Rain. The Japanese Police Are Useless, it's up to the white American protagonists to catch the criminal. Neither side is portrayed as flawless, but in the end, the white guy wins after persuading an uptight sympathetic local officer to loosen up a little. | |
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Temeraire repeatedly subverts this trope in Lawrence and Temeraire's travels across the world. In Empire of Ivory, Lawrence is captured by the Tswana people of the modern Zimbabwe and discovers that they have already successfully replicated European military technology with no friendly white people to help; all they want Lawrence to do is to improve their map of Europe. Later, Lawrence, Temeraire, and their squadron are completely unable to save Cape Town from the Tswana army. While Temeraire, as a Celestial, gets a lot of respect in China, Lawrence doesn't really have much to offer and is looked down upon by the Chinese. |
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The final scene of the third season of Game of Thrones. Lily-white Daenerys Targaryen has just liberated a city's slaves, and they come out to hail her as "Mother." In the book, the slaves were all kinds of races, but in the show, the scene was filmed in Morocco with the crowd made of entirely of locals. | |
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Snake Eyes, in the Marvel comics G.I. Joe series, is an interesting example, as he was essentially invited to adopt another culture by Tommy Arashikage AKA Storm Shadow, a friend who was doing much the same thing himself at the time (being a traditionally-trained ninja then serving in the US Army), nor did he excel his friend in skill and ability, but rather became his equal (though the one is said to be slightly better with a blade, the other with a bow). | |
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The long-running pulp serial The Destroyer is predicated on a prophecy that a white man will become the greatest master of the phlebotinum-laden Korean martial art of Sinanju. Main character Remo Williams is not just the prophesied white Sinanju master, he's also the incarnation of the Hindu god Shiva. | |
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TNA had evil takes on this trope with Mexican America. Among the group's goals were to prove the superiority of the "Mexican race" but the best wrestler in the group, Sarita, was not of Latin American or Hispanic descent, but a Canadian. Even ignoring kayfabe, when the group was about to be defeated by Beer Money they were saved by AAA Mega Champion Jeff Jarrett, a non Mexican trying to prove he was in fact "The King Of Mexico". | |
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Morrowind has it present in the main quest. While the races and cultures involved are fictionalized, getting recognized as the Nerevarine of the Ashlander tribes (and, to a lesser extent, the Hortator of the three Great Houses) amounts to this trope, since your character is a hated outlander and an agent of the Imperial government that has conquered Morrowind — especially if your character is not a Dunmer. Even if you are a Dunmer, as an outlander you're seen as a 'cultural' outsider and are treated as such by the people you're trying to get to recognize you. | |
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord is about a half-Cheyenne who organizes Amazonian peoples. Not really sure if it counts as nonwhite (since that's what the other half was), but since the Cheyenne really did modernize before the Amazonian Indians did, it fits the trope. | |
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In Journey to Saturn, sergeant Arne Skrydsbøl says "We are the white gods" to the aliens when landing on Saturn. The aliens do (presumably) not understand Danish, but it does not end well. | |
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Kingdom of Heaven has a scene where Balian, fresh from Europe, has to teach a bunch of lifelong desert-dwellers how to dig a well. The scene is vague enough that he may just be upgrading their existing system; he is an engineer after all. | |
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Deconstructed in Tales of Rebirth. It's done with humans and beastmen rather than people of any skin colour but hey. Milhaust is the only Huma and the only non-Force user of the main villains and, wouldn't you know it, he's also The Ace of it. It's his being so incredible and awesome that causes Agarte to fall in love with him. However, because she believes that he could never love her due to them being from different races, she gets it in her head that she needs to get herself a Huma body. Cue the events of the entire plot that ends in Agarte dying and Milhaust revealing that, actually, he felt the same way about her; thereby making everything she did to win his heart completely pointless. | |
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Legion of Super-Heroes, set in 30th Century earth, for decades managed to have blue-skinned members, orange-skinned members, and green-skinned members, but no blacks or Asians. They were still almost entirely Northern European body-types right into the 1980s. When they decided to have a martial arts expert join the Legion—in 1966 before it was fashionable—they got Val Armorr, Karate Kid raised on an earth colony, allegedly of mixed human genetics, but with features and curly red-brown hair that suggested Irish ancestry, if anything. There was a (probably unintentionally) funny bit in the issue which examined Val's origin, where he's absolutely SHOCKED to discover that he's not actually entirely Japanese. Despite his appearance being as white as possible without making him blond, and his name being decidedly non-Japanese. Jim Shooter originally wanted Ferro Lad — who joined the Legion at the same time as Karate Kid — to be of African descent but got vetoed by Mort Weisinger (likely out of fear of offending readers in the South.) So Shooter had him make a Heroic Sacrifice seven issues after his introduction. Later iterations of the character would be white. |
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This comes back in the Jonah era with The Beast of Hollow Mountain as the main character is a white, male American in a cast of numerous Mexicans. At one point, the character whistles at his two Mexican companions like they were dogs, prompting Tom Servo to groan, pretending to be one of the two, that "Now, granted, I've got problems, but I'm a human being! And in front of my SON?!" | |
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Lawrence of Arabia tells of T. E. Lawrence. It would be an exaggeration to say he alone put together a loose band of irregular tribesman that threw back the better-armed, better-equipped, much-more-powerful Ottoman Turks by mastering desert warfare on a level that amazed even his Arab irregulars, and thus was directly responsible for weakening the Ottoman Empire critically and thus changing the entire strategic balance in the First World War... but it would not be a gross exaggeration. | |
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1984 TV series The Master: Lee Van Cleef plays a man who stayed in Japan after WW2 to learn the ways of the ninja, and became the head of a ninja clan. He abandoned it to search the US for his daughter. Naturally, the ninja clan thought his abandoning them was dishonorable, and sent his best student after him to exact revenge. | |
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The Doctor from Doctor Who is this trope in much the same way as Superman. He (She, starting from Series 11) is a Time Traveling alien who originally looked down on other species, until becoming enamoured with the universe, in particular their favourite planet, Earth. They're now one of our greatest defenders, inspiring us to be better. | |
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Asterix and Obelix come to mind in Asterix and the Great Crossing and its animated adaptation Asterix Conquers America, since they quickly excel at everything the natives challenge them at, though it certainly helped that they were aided by the magic potion that gives superhuman strength and speed. | |
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Natty Bumpo, the hero of James Fenimore Cooper's The Leatherstocking Tales, is a white man who was raised by Delaware Indians and becomes a remarkable warrior and hunter. | |
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Flashman discusses this trope in Flashman and the Redskins, and points out the ridiculousness of it (with a clear Take That! at King Solomon's Mines as an example of the trope). While he does best an Apache warrior, it is made very clear that Flashman chose to fight using a weapon he knew he could handle better than the warrior, and the warrior in question is indicated to be generally mediocre. Having been accepted, he is not held in any high regard and, indeed, is on the whole less skilled than the rest of the tribe. | |
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In Monster, the brilliant, long-suffering, morally infallible main character is a lone Japanese man among Europeans. | |
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The original Mandalorians were genetically drawn from the Taung, a race of monkey-like humanoids who once lived on Coruscant; they were defeated in ancient times by the Human warriors of the Battalions of Zhell, whereupon they fled Coruscant and escaped to the far-off world of Roon, only to relocate to a slightly less distant planet near the Gordian Reach. There the Taung war chief, Mandalore, lent his name to both the newly-colonized world and to his people and their warrior culture. As time passed, the Taung-descended Mandalorians began allowing Humans and other species to emigrate to Mandalore - and ironically, the "pure" Mandalorians eventually relocated to yet another planet. The process started out with Humans other non-Taung species being adopted by Taung Mandalorians; while family ties are essential to Mandalorians, they make no distinction between blood relatives and adopted ones, something which continued to be central to Mandalorian culture even after the original Taung descendants were gone. This departure left non-Taung in control of Mandalore, and these other species remade the order in their own image, resulting thousands of years later in Human Mandalorians such as Journeyman Protector Jaster Mereel, Jango Fett and his son Boba, and Sabine Wren. For comparison, imagine if modern-day (non-Native) Americans completely absorbed and internalized the American Indian way of life, began dressing in Indian garb, and called themselves "Indians" without any irony whatsoever. | |
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Straight Outta Compton ends up subverting this trope twice, and in a unique way. Jerry Heller, N.W.A's manager, seems like he's honest in helping the group become Household Names. He even defends the group when they're harassed by the police during recording sessions. However, once they become a national sensation, Heller resorts to dirty tactics to rip the band apart, by giving Eazy-E more money and favoritism than his fellow bandmates. Heller's deception backfires on him when Eazy E discovers Heller's been stealing money, causing him to find out about the deceit. Eazy E doesn't take his supposed plea for forgiveness seriously and terminates him. A more clear subversion with Bryan Turner, the head of N.W.A.'s label, Priority Records. He tries to withhold royalties from Ice Cube for his album, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted. It doesn't go so well for Turner. |
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Discussed in Legend of the Animal Healer. Martine wonders why of all the people in Africa, it's a foreign biracial girl who has the power to heal animals. Grace says that it's her heart that led to her being chosen, and the animals themselves don't see a difference. (Note that The Chosen One is prophecied to save all sorts of animals, not just African ones.) | |
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This is the very premise of Outcast, otherwise known as "The Mighty Whitey Movie", where Hayden Christiansen and Nicolas Cage plays a pair of paladins who fled the Crusades and ends up in Han Dynasty China. They then help a Chinese prince regain his throne from his evil brother and save the entire dynasty from tyranny, with Christiansen's character dueling the villainous elder prince mano-on-mano and putting an end to his reign by killing him. | |
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"Crocodile" Dundee: Averted by the eponymous Mick Dundee, a white Australian bush expert who was raised by Aborigines. As such, he knows a lot of mystic secrets and survival tricks that serve him well in the bush. However, he's never shown to be any better at it than his Aborigine friends. He simply has one foot in the urban world, allowing him to make a living showing off to tourists and newspaper reporters. | |
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Farewell To The King: The blond, blue-eyed American Learoyd deserts his command, flees into the Borneo jungle, winds up with a tribe there, slays their best warrior in a duel, marries a beautiful princess, and becomes their chief. | |
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Played with in Freezing. All the top Pandoras in the world seem to be of white descent, even the ones situated in Asian countries. However, the one Pandora touted as the most powerful Pandora who evet lived, Kazuya's sister Kazuha, was Japanese, while the currently-living most powerful Pandora is Korean. | |
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The Last Samurai has many elements of this. After being captured by the samurai leader, Nathan Algren adopts their ways, falls in love with the widow of one of the men he killed and becomes a key advisor for those he was originally ordered to defeat. However, he's never really shown to be any better than the Japanese. As a career soldier, after lengthy training he's finally shown to only bring his trainer to a draw (and even then after several losses in a row), and he was an advisor mainly because he trained the people they were going to fight (in that case simply due to his familiarity with the weapons). Algren even states in his journal that the Japanese treat him mostly with "mild neglect." Even when they begin to begrudgingly respect his combat skills, one samurai jokes that even if he has gotten better, he's "still so ugly". Might qualify as an inversion, as the white man is instead saved by the alien culture he joins, without reforming it and his attempts to save the samurai way of life from modernity ultimately does not work. Algren was an alcoholic with a genuine death wish at first, but the beauty and meaning of the Japanese culture causes him to back away from that destructive mindset. |
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Dragon Ball's Goku fulfills this trope in the same way that Superman, listed below, does. He's an alien from another planet but upon beginning his wanderings as a child he quickly becomes one of the strongest fighters in the world and only improves as time goes on. | |
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Oddly enough, Superman may be the earliest example of a superhero playing to a variation of this trope, except that the "mighty whitey" is actually an alien, and the entire human race are the natives who he joins (in contrast to the more common Sci-fi variant of the trope where the opposite would be the case). Kal-El learns the ways of the primitive Earth folk and ultimately becomes their greatest champion while inspiring them to bring out the best in their culture, and even turns against the race he was born to when they try to molest his new home with their advanced strength and weapons. | |
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Tarzan is parodied in Youngblood: Judgment Day with Zantar, the White God of the Congo. The narration in his story is casually racist towards the natives, but heaps accolades upon Zantar. A descendant of his remarks upon discussing Zantar's adventures that it's all pretty offensive. | |
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Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King plays this trope brazenly straight. Eugene Henderson is a disaffected middle-class American who goes to Africa and quickly impresses the local tribe enough for him to have the title honor bestowed upon him. | |
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Soul Series: Rock was a white English boy who marooned in the New World and raised among Native Americans, though they were afraid of the "white giant." His immense size and strength make him one of the toughest fighters in the world. In this case, his being White is just a coincidence. Setsuka is a European woman who was raised in Japan. Despite discrimination for her European features, she's one of the deadliest fighters in the world. Although it's also subverted in that the only person she has found who would accept her white heritage was her master, which would go a long way in explaining why she's a great fighter. Otherwise, she had a very hard time fitting in. |
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Lord Greystoke, AKA Tarzan, was shown in the original books to be far better suited to life in the African wilds than any of the black natives. The original books explicitly said that his European noble ancestry is what allowed him to shine, not the fact that he was raised by apes. Eugenics was a popular topic at the time. However, Burroughs seemed to be more interested in aristocratic blood than racial blood, considering his characterizations of lower-class whites and upper-class blacks. | |
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Trickster's Duet: The white protagonist goes to the Copper Isles and becomes the spymaster of a developing rebellion by the native, dark-skinned raka against the white-skinned luarin conquerers. Granted, Aly was raised by Tortall's spymaster. It's also stated that they need a Token White on the rebel side to stop a general slaughter of luarin, but given that their own Chosen One is half-luarin and loves that side of her family, it's possible she could do that on her own. The other rebel leaders are mostly raka, but spying and clever plans are shown as being basically the most important thing. In the second book (and likely as a result of complaints about the first), it attempts to show that Aly is still only a small cog in a rebellion that represents generations of work by the raka. | |
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Big Trouble in Little China subverts this by presenting Jack Burton, a big, brawling, two-fisted white guy who thinks he's the hero, but who often gets his ass handed to him in the battle against the Big Bad. The real hero of the movie is Jack Burton's competent, martial-arts savvy, Chinese-American "sidekick," Wang Chi. That said, Jack is the one who kills the Big Bad, to even his own surprise. According to the DVD commentary both the director and the star wanted to make the subversion more obvious but Executive Meddling prevented it. | |
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In The Air Up There, white basketball coach Jimmy visits the Winabi in Kenya to recruit the player Saleh. When the Winabi bet their land in a basketball game against a Tyrannical Town Tycoon's team, Jimmy is initiated into the tribe so he can play basketball with them, complete with painful Initiation Ceremony, and coaches the team to victory. | |
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In the 2008 Turok, General Roland Kane is such a master of the ancient warrior ways of the American Indians that he ends up teaching them to Turok, a Native American marine. Somewhat justified in not everyone studies their own history extensively; simply being of Native American descent wouldn't automatically grant him in-depth knowledge and Kane had actually researched the subject. Turok also ultimately proves to be a superior warrior to Kane when he defeats him in a knife fight after Kane turns out to be an evil Broken Pedestal. | |
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John Carter of Mars is an (white) Earth man who bests people of nearly every color on Mars. He even weds the Red Men's Princess, though John Carter is a Heavyworlder on Mars, not to mention an immortal man and trained soldier who fought in the Civil War. | |
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Downplayed in Atlantis: The Lost Empire: Milo Thatch, a white linguist, can read the ancient language of the Atlanteans, even though none of them can. An odd example of Truth in Television, though, as this was inspired by the Egyptians of the 1800s, who had no knowledge of the meaning of the pyramids. | |
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The Ghost and the Darkness, a pair of lions are killing scores of local tribesmen, so two white men, Patterson and Remington, go off to kill them. Patterson is the one who survives, and he's just a military engineer by trade. The film is based on a true story and actually makes Patterson less badass than he really was. Patterson was an experienced hunter and took both lions down himself (though the only record is Patterson's own journal, and he was a known self-promoter so there's a question of just how much help he had from other people). | |
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Played straight in Sword of the Stranger. The strongest of the Chinese warriors is Luo Long, who is a six-foot-tall blonde-haired blue-eyed man. Possibly the main character, Nanashi/Nameless as well. He has red hair but is otherwise indistinguishable from a normal Japanese person. It's theorized that he is of mixed race. | |
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Parodied in the South Park episode "Last of the Meheecans" where Butters, dressed up as a Mexican for a game with Cartman, unintentionally inspires and leads hundreds of immigrated Mexicans-Americans back into their home country to the point where America loses its prosperity to Mexico. | |
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In Warrior Cats, the domestic cat Rusty joins a group of feral cats because their leader Bluestar thinks he has talent. He is renamed Firepaw and goes on to become the leader of that group (his name then becomes Firestar), despite the strong prejudice feral cats have against domestic ones. | |
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Sandokan presents several examples, including the historical character of James Brooke. Yanez is the most prominent, both for being the co-protagonist and the only white man who was captured by the Tigers of Mompracem and lived without paying a ransom. Yanez's improbable survival of his initial encounter with the pirates is lampshaded when he himself explains Kammamuri that the Tigers of Mompracem never spare white men and Kammamuri notes that Yanez, while white, has just led the pirates that attacked the ship he was on. Yanez replied he was a special case. |
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The Book of Boba Fett is careful to downplay this trope. Boba Fett is played by Maori actor Temuera Morrison, and he instructs the Tusken tribe who adopts him on how to use outside technology that they are unfamiliar with. When he's taught the use of a gaderffii stick, he eventually becomes good enough to disarm his instructor, only for the instructor to put Boba on the ground moments later. The series did still face some criticism along these lines though, for relying on stereotypes of a native culture that is completely helpless against a technologically superior opponent until someone from the opponent's culture helps them, and for later slaughtering the entire native tribe off unceremoniously to advance the main hero's story. | |
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Doctor Strange. A wealthy, spoiled, arrogant Dr. Jerk travels from Manhattan to the Far East seeking a cure for his injured hands, meets The Ancient One, and within a matter of years, he has surpassed all other students in The Ancient One's temple to become the next Sorcerer Supreme. In both the comic and animated adaptation, the second-best student is consumed with jealousy and becomes Baron Mordo. In later years, the mighty whitey implications have been softened. His replacement as Sorcerer Supreme was Doctor Voodoo, a Haitian psychologist. | |
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The Karate Kid (2010): Dre Parker (black) moves to China, and with a month or so of training, beats all the experienced bullies at the local kung fu tournament. | |
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Off the Map is a Medical Drama about American doctors working on a remote village in South America, so naturally this tropes is lampshaded in the title of the Pilot episode, "Saved by the Great White Hope". Mostly averted, however; most of the patients are treated with native medicine and plants as opposed to medicine brought from the states, and there are many people who refuse treatment because they don't trust the doctors. | |
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Bazil Broketail: Relkin takes this role when meeting the primitive, oppressed Ardu people. He ends up not only liberating them from slavery, but teaching them how to fight their tormentors effectively and helping them establish a more organized society. | |
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Nioh: The main character William is a white Englishman (heavily based on the real life William Adams) fighting his way through Japan during the Sengoku Period. After his Guardian Entity Saoirse is kidnapped by Edward Kelley, he pursues the alchemist to Japan during the era's final years where he meets Hattori Hanzo, who offers to help him track down Kelley in exchange for helping Tokugawa Ieyasu combat the Toyotomi loyalists working with Kelley. While he initially becomes their ally solely to rescue Saoirse, William ends up coming to greatly respect Hanzo and Ieyasu, and by the end of the game, William plays a major role in bringing the Sengoku Period to a close and is recognized as one of the greatest warriors in Japan, though his and Kelley's involvement in the events are kept a secret by the newly established Tokugawa shogunate. The aforementioned Edward Kelley provides a much more twisted subversion. While he presents himself as a foreign savior to Ishida Mitsunari and the losing Toyotomi forces, in truth he's only using them as pawns in order to prolong the conflict so he can harvest more amrita from the country for England and his master John Dee. Mitsunari and his men aren't fooled for even a second though, but they're willing to put up with Kelley, because blatant monster or not, his magic is their best chance to turn the war around. |
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Both used and subverted in Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody mysteries. Amelia and her husband, son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren are all white and regarded with awe, admiration, and dread by the Egyptians they work with, but one of the causes they champion is equal rights for Egyptians, and they cultivate some impressive Egyptian sidekicks (though none in their own league). In The Last Camel Died at Noon, Amelia and family visit a Lost World, where Amelia is irritated to discover that the heroic native prince believes in the Mighty Whitey trope. | |
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Mass Effect: Andromeda sees a massive colonization fleet from the Milky Way arrive at the Heleus Cluster, a region of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy that's home to a native alien species called the angara. Within a few months at most, Ryder then instantly masters the use of ancient precursor technology none of the angara ever managed to control despite centuries of effort, chalks up some major wins in their decades-long Hopeless War against Scary Dogmatic Aliens, recovers priceless artifacts of their lost empire, founds colonies on some of their worlds and revives the entire dying star cluster. | |
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A Confederacy of Dunces: This is deconstructed with Ignatius. On some level, he sympathizes with the poverty-stricken black community of New Orleans, but he has no genuine respect for their humanity or needs, looking at them through his incredibly skewed pro-Renaissance worldview. His "rally" of the black factory workers is not done out of any desire to help them, but to serve his crazed and selfish desires. The black workers at Levy Pants think of him as a hilarious fool, while Burma only associates with Ignatius for his own schemes. | |
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Jewelpet Twinkle☆: the heroine Akari Sakura is the only Japanese kid in the magic school she attends; her classmates and the students from other schools are all white (though Sara is half-Japanese, but doesn't live in Japan). Additionally, she is the last one to enroll, but that doesn't stop her from surpassing everyone, solving all the problems in Jewel Land and becoming the most powerful wizard by the end of the show. | |
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Parodied in A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever, where the protagonist must fight alongside the "Native American Analogue" against the "U.S. Military Analogue". | |
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Assassin's Creed III subverts it by means of the protagonist's skewed perception. Once with Haytham Kenway who gets involved with the Mohawk during his mission and falls in love with a Native American woman, only to be ultimately kicked out by his lover due to his Templar allegiance despite him and his faction trying their best to keep the Natives safe from the ever-expanding colonies; the second time with William Johnson, an Irish templar who spends most of his time among native Americans, to the point where he wears several articles of tribal clothing above a typical British colonial outfit. He has spent most of his life trading with the natives, which Connor assumes is ultimately part of an evil plan due to his belonging to the Templar Order. Except Connor is entirely wrong, Johnson was helping the natives all along including Connor's own tribe, and represents their sole salvation in a world where every other colonial wants them eradicated. The fate of the Native Americans is sealed when Connor stabs Johnson to death and sides with a faction that proceeds to drive all the natives off of their lands and kill most of them. | |
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Street Fighter: Ken has a rich white father and a Japanese mother. Compared to his best friend and rival Ryu, he is the most out-going and coolest. However, it's how he's portrayed in the American animated TV series that qualifies him for savior status. By the final season, Ken is given the title greatest martial artist of all time and the only one who can beat Akuma. Interestingly enough, the Anime motion picture would avert this, by making Ken a victim of Bison, and Ryu being the only one who can save him. And let's not forget the live motion picture, which portrays Guile - played by Jean Claude Van Damme - as the hero and savior, when in the fighting game universe, he's not a main character (though it is he, and not Ryu or Ken, who has the biggest personal beef against the Big Bad). Ken and Ryu, who are the main characters, are portrayed as traveling con-artist who get in over their heads. Ryu spends every moment of his life wandering the world to challenge the greatest fighters he can find and hone his martial arts. He breathes, eats, sleeps, and craps his style 24 hours a day. Ken, on the other hand, spends a wild time in American nightlife, gets married, has a kid, and lives life like a rich guy. He practices martial arts to avoid getting rusty, but nowhere near the level Ryu does. When Ken and Ryu fight, it's often described that Ryu is better... but not by much, and Ken can give Ryu a serious workout. |
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In Voltron: Legendary Defender, a semi-sentient planet-sized organism called the Balmera has been taken over by The Empire and its inhabitants, the Balmerans, enslaved. The Balmerans can telepathically commune with the Balmera, allowing their entire species to communicate with one another across the entire planet; exceptional individuals are also shown to be able to directly ask the Balmera for help. When the Voltron Force shows up and resolves to free the enslaved natives, it turns out that off-worlder Princess Allura can not only commune with the Balmera as easily as Balmerans who've been doing it their entire lives, she can also perform a ritual restoring the injured planet's Life Energy. For bonus points, the ritual involves Allura being surrounded by a ring of Balmerans who prostrate themselves, presumably before the Balmera itself, but the imagery certainly makes it look as though they're bowing in worship of Allura. | |
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The Time Machine (2002): The film (probably inadvertently) has this effect by the Eloi all being Ambiguously Brown with Alex being the White Male Lead, him rescuing them from the evil Morlocks who prey upon them, which they can't do (having been culled to stop any resistance). Sure enough, he's soon getting close with one of their women, Mara, and sacrifices his time machine to protect them, happily staying with the Eloi. | |
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In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, four British, human children travel to Narnia - a world inhabited by talking animals and mythical creatures - and learn that a prophecy declares that four humans will become the rightful rulers of Narnia. When the White Witch is defeated, the natives joyfully accept the children as their kings and queens. | |
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Subverted in ElfQuest. Although Leetah is definitely The Chief's Daughter, Cutter and the Wolfriders mix pretty thoroughly with the Sun Folk and their cultures support each other relatively equally (and the white Wolfriders are considered the Noble Savage types). It's further subverted with Dart, who teaches the Sun Folk warfare as a child, but it's because he's lived in the village all his life; he stays living there for most of the rest of the series. The story of Little Patch, Tyleet´s adopted human son, plays it more straight, although Patch was raised by the wolfrider elves. Because of his woodland skills and other skills, he swiftly "out-hunts and outgraces" everyone in the human village, and eventually becomes their chief. In this story, the elves have the role of cultural superior beings. |
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Red Steel: Scott Monroe plays this trope almost painfully straight, being a white American who becomes the successor to the head of a Japanese Yakuza family. His Japanese allies throughout the game are constantly showering him with praise, whether it's complimenting his sword/gun skills or his character. By contrast, the villain Tokai is a Japanese man who leads an American gang based in Los Angeles. |
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The 1632 novel series averts this trope. While the 2000-era Americans do have far superior technology and want to spread American ideals, history teacher Melissa Mailey quickly points out, after finding a 1632-era doctor is fluent in at least a dozen languages, "You didn't actually think you were smarter than these people, did you?" In addition, the most respected American doctor is the African-American James Nichols, who is instantly trusted because, in 17th century Germany, the best doctors were usually Moorish. | |
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In Ouke no Monshou, the girl who carries on the story of Ancient Egypt and changes it for the better is — a blue-eyed blonde lass, Carol Reed, mistaken as a goddess or goddess avatar due to her hair and eyes. | |
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Rammstein: Parodied in the music video for Auslander. The band is a bunch of missionaries who visit an African village and try to act like this trope, but they're actually just a bunch of ignorant rubes who act more like college students on spring break and party with the villagers. | |
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Deconstructed in The Last King of Scotland, in which the white protagonist Nicholas Garrigan is at first presented as a likable young man who wins the favor of Ugandan leader Idi Amin, but descends into Fallen Hero territory as he allows himself to be seduced by the power and luxury Amin offers (even as the evidence of Amin's brutality mounts). When Garrigan finally has his Heel Realization and decides to resist Amin, he's laughably out of his depth, and nearly every Ugandan who aids or gets involved with him is punished horribly for it. For all this, the movie ends with Garrigan getting on a plane out of the country, as happened in real life. His whiteness is part of the reason he gets saved by the local doctor, because the international community will believe the atrocity of Amin's regime if told by a white, British citizen. | |
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