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Monochrome Casting

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Monochrome Casting	comment	You're watching your favorite sitcom — it's fluff, but it's harmless fluff, right? And you're laughing at the latest antics of the cast, when all of a sudden it hits you — "Are there any Black people in New York City?" You've just run across a program guilty of Monochrome Casting. The melanin content of the actors simply doesn't vary much at all. Almost all of these programs consist of either an all-Black or all-white cast (shows with all-Asian or Hispanic casts are usually set and produced in countries where they're by far the dominant ethnic/racial group). It is close to becoming a Discredited Trope — a product of the Leave It to Beaver era — but it still holds more sway than people at large realize. Most often, this trope is seen in sitcoms, where it is used to help target a single demographic. Sometimes you'll get a Token Minority or Token White appearing in a walk-on role in the show; if he's a Black man on a white show, then he's probably there for a Very Special Episode about racism. Now, some shows are set in environments where it might even seem forced to have any sort of ethnic diversity; this trope doesn't apply to these programs so much. For instance, the rarified world of the superwealthy that often dominates in Soap Operas really doesn't have many Black people or Latin Americans (except as servants, and that might be a little too real); likewise, the Chicago public-housing projects displayed in Good Times were pretty much all-Black by the time the show aired in the '70s. Similarly, Europe was almost all-white until the past two or so centuries (and many parts still are, especially in the East), and there are small towns in rural America that just don't have much in terms of diversity. In some countries, such as Japan or South Korea, ethnic homogeneity is practically state policy. It's when a show exists in an environment like New York or London, note which started becoming really racially diverse since the 1960s where diversity would be almost mandatory, that they can be guilty of monochrome casting. Historically, Monochrome Casting was (at least in part) often the fault of Executive Meddling, either overt or covert. Before about 1965, it was standard for television stations and movie chains operating in the southern US to edit movies and TV shows to remove non-stereotypical African-American characters. Maids and criminals were fine, scientists and soldiers were not. If an African-American character was so intrinsic to the show that he or she couldn't be edited out, the show or movie simply wouldn't be shown in the South. note A strong contender for Crowning Moment of WTF came in May 1970, when a Mississippi state commission voted that the state's public networks would not air Sesame Street, stating that "Mississippi was not yet ready" for the show's integrated cast. This naturally would cut into profits, so producers tended to make the entire cast white. One of the first shows to challenge this was Hogan's Heroes, whose producers cast a Black actor as Hogan's second-in-command/camp genius specifically to make it impossible for Southern stations to edit the character out. However, sometimes Monochrome Casting is more understandable in older works, due simply to demographic changes. In 1940, for example, only 1 in 10 Americans were nonwhite; now it's between 1 in 4 and 1 in 3, depending on who counts as "nonwhite." So, statistically speaking, one could show nine white characters in a 1940 film or 2 or 3 white characters now and maintain plausible deniability. Many older films and shows and whatnot actually didn't have this trope in their day, if only because there were many more social factors dividing people than just race. A story from the past showing, say, rich people and poor people socializing freely, or Catholics and Protestants getting along, or Irish-Americans and Italian-Americans actually not wanting to kill each other (as they did in countless Mob movies), is in a way not this trope, at least if the diversity was the work's main theme and there was no reason for it to be more diverse still. Where Monochrome Casting is most noticeable is in works where the characters are homogeneous in every way: race, national origin, income level, political and cultural values. Either that, or they just seem so similar that any differences among them effectively don't matter. Contrast People of Hair Color. Compare Humans Are White, a similar phenomenon in unrealistic works. Contrast the Five-Token Band, where it seems the writers were trying too hard in the opposite direction. Compare to White Male Lead in which, while the cast is ethnically diverse, the main character and Audience Surrogate is still white. May overlap with Pop-Culture Isolation. Compare Plenty of Blondes. Compare Chromosome Casting, the equivalent of this trope in sex (when characters of only one sex appear in a work). See also More Diverse Sequel if the installment is successful enough to make a sequel or spinoff with a diverse cast. noreallife
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Monochrome Casting / int_109f7814	comment	Sherlock faces such criticism. Despite the Setting Update, London is almost as white as if it was in the Victorian era. While the second episode has a Chinese criminal organization as antagonists, all other main characters are white. Detective Sally Donovan and Watson's therapist are the only recurring characters of colors and they're very minor.
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Monochrome Casting / int_11343b17	comment	The 1993 film The Meteor Man has an entirely Black cast save for one white mobster.
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Monochrome Casting / int_124e4ce9	comment	The only two white characters to appear in multiple episodes of the otherwise all-Black show, Smart Guy were a satellite character to Yvette, and a Butt-Monkey who was always being made fun of for his whiteness.
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Monochrome Casting / int_13bb3a0c	comment	The Northman: Like the previous two films directed by Robert Eggers, this movie features an all-white cast of characters. This is not surprising considering that it is set in Scandinavia and Iceland in The Viking Age.
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Monochrome Casting / int_13c3a84b	comment	Similarly seen in the spin-off Melrose Place, which had one Black character during its first season who quickly vanished due to lack of storyline.
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Monochrome Casting / int_1462da4	comment	Come Back Mrs. Noah, a shortlived 1978 British comedy set in the year 2050. Despite numerous gags about future Britain being a multicultural society, good luck seeing anyone of color in the cast or even as an extra.
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Monochrome Casting / int_16712475	comment	Not even cartoons are exempt! The biggest offender was probably The Jetsons. It takes place in the far off future (2062),note Which was exactly 100 years after the show first aired (1962) but there's not a single minority to be seen in the original 60s run. note To be fair, this makes sense for the time period in which the show was made. Racial issues were quite controversial in the 60s, thus, having a minority character in the show might have been considered offensive.
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Monochrome Casting / int_169f043b	comment	StarCraft does have some minority characters. 3 to be precise, and all of them are killed on-screen by Sarah Kerrigan. The terran Worker Unit is the only Black unit in the whole game (there's also the Moroccan-appearing Samir Duran, but he's not human).
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Monochrome Casting / int_16a4aad3	comment	Crash & Bernstein's lead human cast (Cole Jensen, Landry Bender, Oana Gregory, and Aaron Landon) is entirely white, as is its extended cast (Mary Birdsong, McKenna Grace, and Danny Woodburn). And while Crash himself is a puppet, his puppeteer Tim Lagasse is white as well. This is understandable, because all but two of them are members of a family.
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Monochrome Casting / int_17e8a772	comment	Dick Tracy (1990): For a film featuring tons of characters and set in 1930s Chicago (by then already a multiracial city), there is exactly one visible minority in Dick Tracy: a Chinese shop owner whom Tracy saves from a holdup. There's also the radio report about the (presumably Black) shoeshiner who is murdered at the very beginning of the film, but we never actually see him, so we can only speculate.
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Monochrome Casting / int_181720de	comment	The Artist, set in a time period in Hollywood where most Black characters were in Blackface.
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Monochrome Casting / int_18acb3a5	comment	Even though The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air takes place in upper-class Los Angeles, there are no non-Black recurring characters and none of the kids date interracially. Not that Uncle Phil would have allowed that, anyway. The only white characters to appear in more than one episode were Kellogg, Margaret, and Frank, who, if they were lucky, got to appear in 4-6 episodes at most.
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Monochrome Casting / int_1ad1ba68	comment	Notting Hill has a curious lack of Black people in crowd shots despite being set in Notting Hill neighborhood, which has enough of a Black population that the Notting Hill Carnival is a major annual event which is known for being a celebration of Black culture in the United Kingdom. At least one comedian of color joked that the film would win the Academy Award for Best Special Effects for removing all the Black people from Notting Hill. Screenwriter Richard Curtis responded by casting the guy as a DJ in Love Actually.
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Monochrome Casting / int_1bdeba5a	comment	The original five X-Men (Cyclops, Beast, Angel, Jean Grey and Iceman) consisted of all-white superheroes. Furthermore, all additional members of Stan Lee's run (Mimic, Morph, Havok and Polaris) were white. This looks like Early-Installment Weirdness nowadays, given that one of the X-Men's (and the numerous other X-teams) defining traits since the '70s is just how diverse it is. With the large cast, there's a hero for everyone. When the O5 X-Men reunited under the X-Factor banner in 1986, the utter lack of diversity made it stick out like a sore thumb.
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Monochrome Casting / int_1e703d1f	comment	'Gilmore Girls'' has only a few non-White characters, even when Rory goes to Yale.
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Monochrome Casting / int_2212773a	comment	Buffy's sister show, Angel, also had a curious lack of minorities, especially since it took place in Los Angeles. Gunn and Gavin Park were the only real major non-white characters, and there didn't seem to be very many Hispanics, despite Los Angeles having a large Hispanic population. The showrunners finally produced a single episode in the final season, "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco", which heavily involved the city's Hispanic community, but it ended up just drawing attention to the lacuna in the series as a whole.
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Monochrome Casting / int_222a8847	comment	RoboCop (1987): The film is set in a futuristic version of Detroit that is surprisingly white, with only Da Chief and one of the minor crooks being black. The sequels are just as bad.
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Monochrome Casting / int_2264e890	comment	The HBO series Girls has gotten backlash over this, especially since it was touted and marketed as a supposedly progressive comedy and takes place in New York, one of the most ethnically diverse cities on the planet. The show's creator Lena Dunham has since apologized and promised to add some women of color to the cast for the series' second season. In the second season premiere, the main character Hannah dates a Black man named Sandy (Donald Glover).
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Monochrome Casting / int_2705e27b	comment	Averted on Empire. While other shows starring Black upper-class families play this trope very straight (The Cosby Show and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air come to mind), Empire regularly features supporting characters and love interests of different races.
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Monochrome Casting / int_28645d05	comment	This was a problem in pro wrestling right up until the 1990s. In the USA for example, there was segregation and though Black wrestlers were often popular attractions despite it, there were fears of giving them too much prominence for fear of race riots. Jack Veneno, Bobo Brazil and Carlos Colon did become NWA World Champion but their names were struck from the record books. Tony Atlas reportedly almost starved to death from lack of work while Bruiser Brody refused to book him at all (though Brody was later said to have gotten that order from above.) Even some cases like Junkyard Dog, who was the top star of Mid-South Wrestling for close to 5 years in the early '80s with a number of singles and tag title reigns but got nothing in the WWF, who incidentally along with Jim Crockett put companies like Mid-south out of business, making it look even worse down the line that it was rare for Black wrestlers to be booked to win titles until Ron Simmons defeated Big Van Vader for the top WCW Title in 1992. As far as anyone can determine, there were few Black main-eventers on WWE television until Bad News Brown challenged Randy Savage for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship - and it wouldn't happen again until Mabel challenged Diesel for the WWE Championship in 1995, and lost. Japanese wrestler Antonio Inoki did hold the WWE Championship briefly in 1979, but his run was later stricken from the record book, and an Asian or Pacific Islander would not win the title again until Yokozuna in 1993. Pedro Morales was WWE Champion for a while in the '70s, but the first WWE Champion to have no European ancestry at all was The Rock (half-Black, half-Samoan). That said, there were rare occasions where titleholders were non-European descent, at least in the WWF, with these exceptions almost always being Tag Team Champions. By far the most successful of the non-Anglo Saxons was Tito Santana, a Mission, Texas native who was of Hispanic heritage; he held both the Intercontinental and Tag Team championships on multiple occasions, and at one point was seriously considered for a World Heavyweight Championship run. note (He had challenged both The Iron Sheik (both wrestlers were disqualified) and Sgt. Slaughter (winning by disqualification) when they were champions, in 1984 and 1991, respectively. Santana got a serious look in the wake of the WWF steroid scandal and the WWF — also trying to move on from the now-tired WWE - Rock 'N Wrestling Era formula — was looking for a star to carry them through the 1990s, and lucha libre (a style popular in Mexico and with Hispanic wrestlers) was seriously considered ... but the WWF decided to look to Canada and Bret Hart ... and Santana's fellow Texan, Shawn Michaels, instead.) The Wild Samoans (Polynesian descent) were the most prominent Tag Team example, holding the titles on three occasions from 1980 to 1983. General Adnan, who is of Iraqi descent, was billed as Native American when he and Chief Jay Strongbow co-held the Tag Team Championship in 1977, while Mr. Fuji (who was billed as Japanese but was actually Hawaiian) teamed with an actual Japanese native, Masa Saito, to win the WWF Tag Team Championship, holding them from 1981 to 1983. The Soul Connection — Tony Atlas and Rocky Johnson — became the first African American titleholders of any of the three major titles when they defeated the Wild Samoans in 1983. Additionally, both Atlas and Johnson, and Jimmy Snuka (Polynesian descent) got main-event matches against Intercontinental Champion the Magnificent Muraco, while the Junkyard Dog faced Greg Valentine for the Intercontinental Championship. The first World Heavyweight Champion to be of non-European descent (other than Morales, of Hispanic heritage) was The Iron Sheik, who was of Iranian heritage. The most prominent African American challenger for the title, at least during the Kayfabe-era, was Bad News Brown's challenging both Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship; Hogan would be tormented in 1989 by Zeus (actor Tom Lister Jr. in his No Holds Barred movie role).
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Monochrome Casting / int_2a4c791e	comment	Urd and her mother Hild from Ah! My Goddess are examples of brown-skinned major characters, although neither is human. In a mild aversion, some characters describe Urd as Indian early on in the manga. Given that the manga largely averts the strange gamut of hair colours in anime, it's likely that in universe Belldandy probably looks Caucasian with a Japanese boyfriend in Keiichi.
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Monochrome Casting / int_2b82b95f	comment	In iCarly, T-Bo and Principal Franklin are the only recurring non-white characters, and the only Asian recurring characters appeared twice at most, but they were portrayed as irritating and unlikable. It was once lampshaded in a fanfic with the line: "Seattle has the diversity of a corn field!" (In case you were wondering, the real-world Seattle has a 30.5% minority population as of the 2010 Census).
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Monochrome Casting / int_2d1537ff	comment	This is the standard for Australian soaps - Home and Away and Packed To The Rafters are two more prominent examples, although unlike Neighbours, they aren't set in Australia's second most diverse city (Melbourne).
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Monochrome Casting / int_2d514670	comment	For a good while, the WB's nightly lineup consisted almost entirely of shows with this kind of casting, particularly of Black families, like The Parent 'Hood and Sister, Sister. Averted however as many of these shows had white recurring characters or guest stars even if they were not regulars.
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Monochrome Casting / int_2e2993b8	comment	The Bachelor/The Bachelorette is like this, with only white people (with the occasional light-skinned Hispanic or Asian) on the show. And there's absolutely no excuse for this, given that there are twenty-plus contestants every season. The problem, is that the bachelor, and bachelorette in question is almost always white. And unfortunately Interracial Dating is still kinda taboo in Real Life (unlike in tv/film). The bachelor, and bachelorette may also have specified the ethnicity of the contestants. A lawsuit was filed by two African-American men who claim that they auditioned for the show and were not given equal audition time solely because of their race. The Bachelorette finally remedied this in 2017 with a Black Bachelorette (who ended up with a white man), and they milked the publicity from that for all it was worth.
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Monochrome Casting / int_2f3162e4	comment	Sex and the City was also set in an unrealistically white version of New York City. Out of the parade of boyfriends and lovers the girls had over the course of six seasons, the non-white ones can be counted on maybe one hand. Reportedly, Cynthia Nixon complained to the producers about this for years, until they finally threw her a bone by casting Blair Underwood as Miranda's onscreen lover. The close-but-not-a-direct-prequel series The Carrie Diaries, actually averts this a lot better than the original show did. It has led to a lot of people joking that Carrie Bradshaw became increasingly racist as she got older.
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Monochrome Casting / int_2feff3ce	comment	A minor media controversy erupted after Shonda Rhimes from Grey's Anatomy criticized Bunheads over this. The dismissive response from the show's creator certainly hasn't helped matters either...
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Monochrome Casting / int_30a5ebfd	comment	The later seasons of Naruto added in several Black ninja-like Killer Bee and Omoi.
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Monochrome Casting / int_310d6df7	comment	Stand Still, Stay Silent is subject to this despite being set in post Depopulation Bomb Nordic countries, due to some of them having a more racially diverse population in the present day than those living outside them tend to assume them to have. The author's justification is that there were survivors of non-Scandinavian heritage to the Depopulation Bomb, but their numbers were so small that they ended up reproducing with the white-skinned population during the ninety years separating the apocalypse from the time in which the main story is set.
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Monochrome Casting / int_316ce2ea	comment	For a long time, the Bash Street Kids in The Beano (and, indeed, the Beano in general once they got rid of all the racist stereotype characters but didn't replace them with anything). In the 21st century, they've tried to add more strips with BAME characters, and in the 2020s, several of these characters were added to the Kids (mostly girls since the strip had also been subject to The Smurfette Principle).
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Monochrome Casting / int_31ca9925	comment	The Dukes of Hazzard takes place in a part of the U.S. where you would expect to see a lot of African-American people, yet there is only one Black character of any note (though that character is the highly respected sheriff of a neighbouring county).
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Monochrome Casting / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist turns this trope completely upside down. The core cast is mostly European, but there are a number of exceptions. The show's universe draws heavily from World War II Europe, heavily mixed with a conflict-ridden counterpart to the Middle East. Because of this, true-to-life racial and cultural tensions are depicted on a very frequent basis. As for specific cast, Paninya and Jerso are both Black, and a number of characters of varying degrees of importance come from the fictional nations of Ishval and Xing, which are stand-ins for the Middle East and China respectively.
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Monochrome Casting / int_34c3fab0	comment	Despite Moesha taking place in Los Angeles, the only non-Black characters who weren't just background characters were Marco, a Mexican who appeared in 4 episodes, Haley, a Caucasian who appeared in 5 episodes, and Brenda, a Caucasian who was thrown into 4 episodes of the final season.
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Monochrome Casting / int_36807c5d	comment	Neighbours is frequently guilty of this, and its attempts at rectifying the situation have rarely made things better. They eventually added the Kapoors, but only as a result of active campaigning from British fans who desired more diversity. Unfortunately the entire Kapoor family were Put on a Bus after only a year on Ramsay Street. Sachin Joab (Ajay) has called the producers out on the lack of multiculturalism in the show.
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Monochrome Casting / int_378000d8	comment	Extreme Makeover: Home Edition features very white construction crews. If you are used to seeing non-white construction workers, this looks very odd.
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Monochrome Casting / int_37b7d067	comment	Every character in Teahouse is white. After this was pointed out to the writers, they did include a person of colour in as a non-speaking servant. Naturally people complained and they wrote out out a "we're not racist" blog. A non-white character has yet to have any dialog.
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Monochrome Casting / int_38981e58	comment	A kids'-soap example of this is Blue Water High, which is set in Australia's most diverse city, albeit a coastal areas that could be upward of 90% white. In its first season every significant character was white, with a blonde German exchange student as a minority. The later two seasons each had a Token Minority in the main cast ('Red Ranger' played one of the protagonists in S3). Although about a fifth of Sydney's population is Asian, no Asian Australians appeared in the main cast.
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Monochrome Casting / int_3b3004b6	comment	The town Footloose is set in is exclusively inhabited by white characters, though this isn't unusual, as Utah is not the most diverse of states (according to the United States Census in 2010, nearly 90% of its inhabitants are white, and that kind of disparity is not likely to have changed in a mere 30 years), and rural Utah (as opposed to Salt Lake City) is closer to 100% white. Averted in the remake where the town is shown to have a fairly large Black population and the characters of Rusty and Woody are now played by a Puerto Rican girl and an African-American man respectively.
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Monochrome Casting / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter has only a few characters of color and all of them are minor - Angelina Johnson, Blaize Zabini, Lee Jordan and Dean Thomas are the only Black students, and Dean was in fact supposed to have a larger role that just went to Neville, and so his only function is to date Ginny briefly before she ends up with Harry. Cho Chang (East Asian) and Parvati Patil (South Asian) function as Romantic False Leads for Harry but both lose any story relevance by the sixth book, and Parvati's twin sister Padma only appears in a handful of chapters. Lavender Brown was seemingly portrayed as Black in the first few films, where she was just a featured extra, but her expanded role in the Half Blood Prince movie saw the white Jessie Cave playing her. Kingsley Shackelbolt is the only named Black person in the Order of the Phoenix, who at least gets to be made Minister for Magic at the end, but never has a story of his own. JK Rowling backtracked when Harry Potter and the Cursed Child cast a Black actress as Hermione (and therefore her daughter as well), insisting that she'd never specified Hermione's race, aside from one line describing "Hermione's white face" in reference to her getting scared, but of course she'd been played by a white actress in the films and drawn as white in all the illustrations and tie-in media before the adaptations. Though it should be pointed out that this number of characters of color was not really low, considering the population composition of Britain at the time.
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Monochrome Casting / int_3f01b5a4	comment	Power Rangers Samurai is weird. While it has 2 hispanic rangers, one Asian, one Black, and 3 white, 2 of the white rangers, Jayden and his sister Lauren, have the last name Shiba (this is because Samurai was a very close adaptation of its Sentai source material, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, where the original characters had that surname), signaling that they're descended from a Japanese family. In fact, the opening narration states that the villains and the Rangers' powers come from ancient Japan (again, a leftover from the Sentai). This could mean that 4 of the other 5 Rangers (Antonio got his powers himself) are of Japanese descent as well, but it's never stated. The fact that Jayden and Lauren aren't at least part-Japanese stuck out to some people. In fact, the show, even over 26 years later, has yet to have an Asian red ranger for some reason. It is possible that they're descended from someone who was adopted into their family, since their father is shown in a flashback and is white as well, but that's never stated either.
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Monochrome Casting / int_3f6dc289	comment	Girl Meets World: All of the show's main cast members are white, despite the fact that the show is set in the very diverse New York City.
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Monochrome Casting / int_400469e	comment	Every character in Calvin and Hobbes is white. While not as noticeable as some examples due to the strips being mostly black and white, the color strips don't show any non-Caucasian skin tones amongst the main cast. Based on the tree shown behind Calvin's house (mostly broadleafs) along with it having hot summers and cold, snowy winters, it appears that he lives in a suburb in the Midwest. And since the cast is just his parents, the girl next door to him, and some kids and adults at his elementary school, it's not completely unrealistic, although Imagine Spots are also only filled with white people.
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Monochrome Casting / int_428a472b	comment	Everyone from the central Asian nation of Kazakhstan in the thriller Air Force One is white. This isn't the first time for that particular nation either. Apparently the makers of the film thought Kazakhs look like Russians (when they're more akin to East Asian). Russians are a minority.
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Monochrome Casting / int_42b00860	comment	Likewise, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the MCU's first movie to revolve around a Chinese/Asian lead (Shang-Chi) and features a 98 percent Chinese/Asian cast. One benefit to this trope is that it helps to mitigate the Yellow Peril implications of the Big Bad, the Mandarin (who has traditionally been depicted as the Arch-Enemy of Iron Man, whose own adventures largely feature a white supporting cast, except for War Machine). The only non-East-Asian actors of note in the cast are Creed II's Florian Munteanu (Razorfist), Ben Kingsleynote Who is of mixed Gujurati, White British, and Russian-Jewish heritage (reprising his role as the former fake Mandarin from Iron Man 3), and Mark Ruffalo and Brie Larson reprising their respective roles as Bruce Banner and Captain Marvel (the latter two in The Stinger) rather than in the film proper.
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Monochrome Casting / int_43339c8b	comment	Birds of Prey fell into this, as while the team has had several minority "guest operatives" who have shown up from time to time, the core cast has historically been entirely white. Even the writer, Gail Simone, said she thought it was a problem. She mentioned that at various points, she unsuccessfully tried to get Vixen, Rocket (both Black), Cassandra Cain (half-Asian) and Renee Montoya (Hispanic) added to the team. In the case of Cassandra, Simone even claims she had written up Cass' debut issue before editorial informed her that she would not be able to use her. The 2011 relaunch was the first time in the title's history that a minority woman (Japanese heroine Katana) was featured as part of the core cast. The character Strix (an African American member of the Court of Owls) was later added to the team.
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Monochrome Casting / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers is usually racially diverse with its casting, but in Power Rangers Jungle Fury, all the rangers except for one (the Asian Blue Ranger) were white. So far, it's the only season to do this. Power Rangers RPM just barely avoided this; Scott (Red Ranger) was the only non-white on the main team (he's Black), but both of the Sixth Ranger characters were Asian. That being said, it's still one of the least racially diverse seasons. Power Rangers Samurai is weird. While it has 2 hispanic rangers, one Asian, one Black, and 3 white, 2 of the white rangers, Jayden and his sister Lauren, have the last name Shiba (this is because Samurai was a very close adaptation of its Sentai source material, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, where the original characters had that surname), signaling that they're descended from a Japanese family. In fact, the opening narration states that the villains and the Rangers' powers come from ancient Japan (again, a leftover from the Sentai). This could mean that 4 of the other 5 Rangers (Antonio got his powers himself) are of Japanese descent as well, but it's never stated. The fact that Jayden and Lauren aren't at least part-Japanese stuck out to some people. In fact, the show, even over 26 years later, has yet to have an Asian red ranger for some reason. It is possible that they're descended from someone who was adopted into their family, since their father is shown in a flashback and is white as well, but that's never stated either. Something weird happened with Power Rangers Ninja Steel. The characters are of different races, and not all of the actors are New Zealanders, but they all have roughly the same complexion. A last-minute actor replacement is partially responsible - Calvin was originally to be played by Chantz Simpson.
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Monochrome Casting / int_46004f14	comment	The only white characrers from Lincoln Heights were tokens, who, while sort of signifiant to the story, were only sidekicks or love interests to one of the Black characters.
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Monochrome Casting / int_4617a9f2	comment	Married... with Children, despite being set in the very-diverse Chicago, only features three recurring minority characters: Officer Dan, news reporter Miranda Veracruze de la Hoya Cardinal, and Al's coworker Griff. The first two are only sporadically recurring, and while Griff appears more frequently, he was a late addition to the cast. The show also had at least four proposed spinoffs by way of Poorly Disguised Pilot episodes, and those were all-white too. Interestingly, series co-creator Michael G. Moye is African-American.
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Monochrome Casting / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld, it is established early on that Howondaland is the Fantasy Counterpart Culture for Africa. Ankh-Morpork is implicitly a fantasy version of London and has corresponding ethnic communities, although only two incidental characters are clearly stated to be black: policewoman Precious Jolson and her father, who runs a catering business.
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Monochrome Casting / int_468c5450	comment	Despite being set in the diverse Bay Area, Always Be My Maybe has a cast entirely made up of Asian-Americans except for the mixed race Michelle Buteau as Sasha's best friend.
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Monochrome Casting / int_47e80a7e	comment	Wrestlicious featured a rather huge proportion of white women wrestlers compared to women of colour, despite picking a mixture of women on the indies and actresses and models trained for the show. The only prominent woman of colour was Lil' Slamm - although the 2010 reshoots added in Coco Montegro (played by Josette Bynum). There were two Latinas in Bandita and Maria Toro but that was about it. Mia Yim did work live events but never appeared on TV, and a one-shot belly dancer character called Aziza had a cameo in one episode.
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Monochrome Casting / int_492240cf	comment	MADtv (1995): Parodied with the sketch "Pretty White Kids With Problems." It aired when Dawson's Creek was at its prime. A different sketch called "Devon's Creek" was Dawson with all-Black cast members. Problem is, because the entire writing staff, production crew, and executive board were white, the lines sounded like every Black comedian stereotype of white people. Another sketch spoofed Friends, featuring a Black girl as Ross' blind date, which shocks the entire gang. The narration states that this was done due to "a direct order from the United States Supreme Court".
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Monochrome Casting / int_4b5dbe41	comment	Clerks: The Animated Series: Lampshaded and parodied when Dante and Randal respond to viewer mail complaining about the show's Monochrome Casting. They respond by adding a new Black character named Lando who does little more than wave to the guys as he passes them on the street. Further parodied when the guys later need a helicopter pilot to get them in the air, and "Lando" is the man to do it. Cut to Lando eagerly offering to help, only to learn that Dante and Randal were talking about a different Lando; another white guy.
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Monochrome Casting / int_4b9d0f72	comment	The Class (2006), with Friends creator David Crane as an executive producer, was highly criticized for having an all-white cast, especially considering Philadelphia has a very large Black population.
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Monochrome Casting / int_4c095a1f	comment	The Transformers was by and large about the robots, but the main four or five humans in the cast (Sparkplug, Spike, Daniel, Carly, and Chip Chase) are all white and the number of meaningful non-Caucasian humans in the supporting cast, even if they only featured in one episode, could probably be counted on one hand, to say nothing of the fact that many of those characters were cringingly bad stereotypes besides (so bad, in fact, that Casey Kasem left the show because of the incredibly racist Arab stereotypes in Season 3). Later series' varied: Beast Wars was set before the existence of Humanity as we know it, while Transformers: Robots in Disguise had a hard case of Mukokuseki. Transformers: Armada had a token nonwhite Hispanic, while the rest of the Unicron Trilogy (Energon and Cybertron) were both mostly monochromatic. Transformers: Animated went nearly the other way, with only one supporting character and most human villains being white: the primary Human Buddies were Indian (then one turned out to be Cybertronian after all). Transformers: Prime, on the other hand managed a fairly diverse human cast.
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Monochrome Casting / int_4c4eb915	comment	Jack & Diane: All of the characters are White. This is rather unrealistic, as it's set in a big American city.
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Monochrome Casting / int_4ca80f59	comment	The Man Who Could Work Miracles: Understandable for a film set among middle class England in the 1930s. However, towards the end of the film, Fotheringay uses his powers to summon all of the world's leaders—temporal and spiritual—to his palace. Logically this should have included a diverse range of races, but only white faces are visible, even in the group shots.
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Monochrome Casting / int_4ce4d500	comment	The Brothers GarcÃa is the rare Hispanic variation. Granted it's set in San Antonio, whose population is over 60% Hispanic, but the only non-Hispanic recurring character is a Token Black Friend who's only in a handful of episodes and Carlos's rival Eddie Bauer (who's white). This was intentional on the part of the creator; wanting to create an English-speaking show with a majority Latino cast.
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Monochrome Casting / int_4d04208	comment	The Andy Griffith Show doesn't have any Black characters except as extras. Despite being set in a rural town in the South in the 1960s, there's never so much as a mention of the Civil Rights Movement or Segregation or many similar issues that would certainly have been concerns for real law enforcement officers at the time. In fact this was an Enforced Trope; Griffith wanted to include African Americans in main roles but was overruled by Executive Meddling fearing that it would be too controversial for Southern audiences.
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Monochrome Casting / int_4f920c5f	comment	White Wolves: The first and second films have all white casts while the third and fourth each have a Token Minority character: a Filipino teenager and a Badass Native pilot, respectively.
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Monochrome Casting / int_50bcf7a6	comment	In a literal example, every human in Homestuck is drawn with literally white skin. Not quite an example - Word of God dictates that by intent, Mukokuseki is in full effect and no-one save his Author Avatar (Caucasian, coloured orange) has any defined race, or for that matter other physical characteristics beyond the basics, and that one reference to Bro being white was an error that he put in before he'd clearly established the character.
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Monochrome Casting / int_53435bc5	comment	Before the Shipwrecked DLC was released, Don't Starve was guilty of this, even now with all of its new characters having been introduced the cast is still mostly made up of white people.
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Monochrome Casting / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): Most episodes had only white characters, but there were definitely exceptions (one even had an all-black cast, something very unusual in the early 1960s).
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Monochrome Casting / int_5c66fff9	comment	Neverwinter Nights 2, made by Obsidian Entertainment after BioWare chose to focus on original IP between games, averts this in the second Expansion Pack Storm of Zehir. While the Medieval European Fantasy Sword Coast region is still prominent as in the original campaign, about half the game takes place in Samarach, which is a stand-in for tropical Africa, and so much of the cast is darker-skinned, including two of the humans and the halfling.
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Monochrome Casting / int_5ca2f3f9	comment	Wizards of Waverly Place: Aside from Theresa and her family, everyone is at least half-white. Considering they live in New York, this is a little strange.
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Monochrome Casting / int_5cec267a	comment	Defiance: The show was an absolutely egregious example of this trope for numerous reasons and only got worse with it as time went on. First, it's not only set forty years from now where one would expect a more diverse human population, it's set in St. Louis, a majority-Black city (yet filmed in Canada) yet one could count the number of Black humans appearing on one hand during its entire run and that's including extras. Second, it's immigration allegory with Rubber-Forehead Aliens whose Fantastic Slur for humans is "pink skins", suggesting humanity's gotten whiter over the years despite every species of alien put together there still having less variety among themselves as the Native American being called that snarks back by showing his wrist and saying, "this look pink to you?" Third, main character Joshua Nolan being a textbook White Male Lead and White Savior from his Fantastic Racism down to a Heroic Sacrifice for an alien race, and he's marketed so prominently you'd be remiss to think there were any cast members of color. Fourth, everything culturally human/"Old World" being depicted as monolithically white compared to the aliens being a mish-mash of fantasy counterpart cultures, so even the Native American family are more like old money W.A.S.Ps having a Culture Clash with ethnic foreigners, such as daughter Christie (who's in an Interspecies Romance with one) being stupid enough to put on the alien equivalent of Blackface without any self-awareness. By the third season, all of the original humans of color are dead, with the most prominent Black character, Tommy (and only Black character to appear for more than two episodes), being either ignored/sidelined by the show itself or shit on by Nolan for two seasons until he was killed off near the end of season two, meaning that besides the minority actors playing aliens, the show ended whiter than it started.
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Monochrome Casting / int_5d844f37	comment	Very much averted in the spin off Once Upon a Time in Wonderland - which featured Peter Gadiot (Dutch-Mexican), Naveen Andrews (Anglo-Indian), Zuleikha Robinson (Burmese-Indian) and Brian George (Anglo-Israeli) in the main cast.
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Monochrome Casting / int_5defb7f8	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist (2017) is a strange example, with an entirely Japanese cast to play European characters; presumably because it would be hard to find an entire cast of European actors who are fluent in Japanese. The whole Ishval story arc, which is the main source of racial tension in the story, is also absent from the film, as well as the characters from the China stand-in Xing and any dark-skinned characters.
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Monochrome Casting / int_6250d2c3	comment	College Roomies from Hell!!! has an all-white cast, the main characters all have different hair colors.
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Monochrome Casting / int_64cd1ec	comment	Earthsea, the Sci-Fi Channel adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea novels. Le Guin intentionally created a fantasy world where a variety of dark-skinned people make up the majority of the populace (she even makes a point of distinguishing between the different shades of brown), with the only white people being barbarians... and the movie starred a bunch of white people and a Magical Negro. Le Guin had some choice things to say about the production.
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Monochrome Casting / int_6664e2ff	comment	The US version of Queer as Folk is somewhat disappointing since the show is about gay life in Pittsburgh, which has a healthy Black population, yet one has to keep one's eye's peeled to even see non-white extras. Justin does have a Token Black Friend, but she's so light-skinned that you wouldn't notice until she mentions it herself.
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Monochrome Casting / int_671d5c19	comment	Every human main character in The Powerpuff Girls (1998) is white. Later cartoons from Craig McCracken have more diversity, as Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends introduces African-American character Goo, and Kid Cosmic has a very diverse main cast.
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Monochrome Casting / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: A frequent complaint, even from many fans of the MCU, is the abundance of White Male Leads. It's an issue carried from the comics, as most main Marvel characters are white in the source material and the MCU only race-lifted minor characters. The first The Avengers (2012) team, despite being gathered by Nick Fury to save the entire world, is all white. The closest thing to a non-white superhero was Hulk turning green. With War Machine and The Falcon joining at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron, along with other members leaving, the team is noticeably more diverse in the group shot at the end of the film. Ultimately, Marvel released 17 films over 10 years before they started having ones with a non-white or female lead (Black Panther for the former, and both Ant-Man and the Wasp and Captain Marvel for the latter); though they've made a push for more diversity in the years since. Justified in Black Panther, which is set in Africa and accordingly has an overwhelmingly Black cast with only a handful of white actors (notably Martin Freeman and Andy Serkis). It's explained that Wakanda is a very isolationist country that doesn't normally allow foreigners inside so it makes sense that most of the characters are Black. Likewise, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the MCU's first movie to revolve around a Chinese/Asian lead (Shang-Chi) and features a 98 percent Chinese/Asian cast. One benefit to this trope is that it helps to mitigate the Yellow Peril implications of the Big Bad, the Mandarin (who has traditionally been depicted as the Arch-Enemy of Iron Man, whose own adventures largely feature a white supporting cast, except for War Machine). The only non-East-Asian actors of note in the cast are Creed II's Florian Munteanu (Razorfist), Ben Kingsleynote Who is of mixed Gujurati, White British, and Russian-Jewish heritage (reprising his role as the former fake Mandarin from Iron Man 3), and Mark Ruffalo and Brie Larson reprising their respective roles as Bruce Banner and Captain Marvel (the latter two in The Stinger) rather than in the film proper.
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Monochrome Casting / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons has had issues with this trope since the game began. Most D&D settings are heavily derived on old depictions of Medieval Europe (which tended to be a lot more monochrome than Europe was in actuality). While 3rd Edition made a conscious effort to improve the racial diversity of the default characters in the Player's Handbook, settings books for Forgotten Realms still tended to show pictures of towns and cities that were filled with white people.
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Monochrome Casting / int_704aab9e	comment	Shuffle Along, Cabin in the Sky, Porgy and Bess, The Wiz, and The Color Purple are some of the Broadway musicals with an all-Black cast.note For a longer list, go here. Considering the heavy cultural scripts and backgrounds of said works, these plays could not experience Race Lifting.
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Monochrome Casting / int_705bb59a	comment	The Vampire: The Masquerade sourcebooks for New Orleans, Atlanta, and Milwaukee are conspicuously lacking in minority NPC characters, even though all three cities have either a Black majority or plurality.
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Monochrome Casting / int_7336de44	comment	In the same vein as Cabin in the Sky, Stormy Weather features an all Black cast and cameos of the era's best performers; Cab Calloway, Ada Brown, and Fats Waller.
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Monochrome Casting / int_74276cae	comment	In Noah's Arc, almost everyone any of the characters interacts with is either Black or latino. You can count the number of white people seen throughout the series on one hand.
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Monochrome Casting / int_74e8b407	comment	Midway (2019): Understandable since Japan is pretty monoethnicnote The Imperial Japanese armed forces did have Chinese and Korean conscripts, but these likely wouldn't have been featured in any of the naval battles and, for whatever it's worth, probably wouldn't have been visually distinguishable from ethnic Japanese by most American viewers anyway. and the US military was segregated at the time. The film unfortunately left out its only real opportunity for a Historical Domain Character of color: USN messman Doris Miller, who jumped on a machine gun when the USS West Virginia was torpedoed at anchor in Pearl Harbor and was credited with downing two Japanese aircraft and then risked his life to rescue several other sailors, earning a Navy Cross. Miller did not take part in any of the other battles depicted in the film.
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Monochrome Casting / int_755d1424	comment	LEGO has this trope Zig-Zagged. All of their minifigures in non-licensed sets have yellow skin. This was decided to make them racially neutral, so that the balance seems appropriate for all cultures. However, early licensed sets still used yellow skin, and Black characters/actors got brown skin for accuracy, unfortunately making every yellow minifigure that had been released look white by comparison. Soon, licensed figures all got appropriate flesh tones to solve the problem.
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Monochrome Casting / int_7884ec15	comment	Seinfeld is frequently mentioned for the rarity of minority characters who appear. Showrunner Larry David would winkingly own up to it in his later series Curb Your Enthusiasm in the episode "Affirmative Action", in which a Black woman brings up that there were no Black people on Seinfeld.
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Monochrome Casting / int_793c3360	comment	Kay Ben M'Rad, executive producer of H₂O: Just Add Water, later expressed regret at the lack of diversity on the series. The Gold Coast is one of the most diverse parts of Australia, and yet minor character Tiffany (the Innocent Beta Bitch to Miriam in Season 1) is the only Black person of any note. Cleo was considered Ambiguously Brown by fans, as she has two fair-skinned white parents, but Phoebe Tonkin is just tanned from her Italian heritage.
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Monochrome Casting / int_7a867a29	comment	AmÃ©lie is set in Montmartre, an area of Paris with a large immigrant population, but the cast, with the exception of Jamel Debouze, is almost exclusively white. The director responded to such criticism by pointing out the role of Debouze and the diversity displayed amongst a selection of photographs which play an important role in the plot.
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Monochrome Casting / int_7e05f763	comment	At New York Comic-Con 2012, Rick Remender self-deprecatingly stated that the line-up of his Uncanny Avengers book was "Crackerfest 2012" in regards to the lack of minorities on the team. Japanese hero Sunfire was added to the cast in the second story arc in order to offset this a little.
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Monochrome Casting / int_7fad55fe	comment	In a country with a worldwide colonial heritage and lots of Arab, African or Asian immigrants, it is interesting that French sitcom Les Filles d'Ã cÃ´tÃ© has 100% monochrome casting. Even the highly toned background extras in the gym are all white.
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Monochrome Casting / int_803f56b2	comment	9 Chickweed Lane takes place in a version of Manhattan that is populated only by white people. Even characters explicitly identified as being from a non-white country (Xiulan and her family are from China and Fernanda is from Argentina) still have the exact same skin tone as the white characters.
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Monochrome Casting / int_8075edc8	comment	Brickleberry is meant to be sort of like this, with Hazelhurst being an extremely white town in the bible belt of America, where major and minor characters range from rich white men to trailer trash hillbillies and most of the population being bigoted, uneducated, slightly or majorly racist scumbags. This is mainly done for the sake of making Denzel pretty much the only Black guy within miles of Brickleberry National Park.
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Monochrome Casting / int_809a3193	comment	A Different World is a spin-off of The Cosby Show about Denise going to an all-Black college with her one white friend, Maggie Lauten, who was intended to be the Deuteragonist of the series. However, she was written off the show after one season, due to her actress, Marisa Tomei, quitting television to pursue a career in film instead. Her role was never replaced by another white actor and the show continued on for 5 more seasons without her or any other white or non-Black main or even supporting characters.
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Monochrome Casting / int_843d1304	comment	Anansi Boys takes it for granted that the characters are Black by default (their African ancestry is a major plot point), to the point that race is only specified for the Token White. (Reportedly, a proposed film version fell through because the executives wanted to have a predominantly white cast, which Neil Gaiman vetoed because he thought that would be ridiculous.)
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Monochrome Casting / int_87579c7f	comment	Of note is Seinen manga Me and the Devil Blues, a story chronicling the life of blues musician Robert Johnson had he actually won his talent from the devil, as some of the more popular rumors surrounding his mysterious rise to prominence dictated. The protagonist and many of the supporting characters are strikingly African American, with a range of body and facial types rarely seen any where, let alone manga or anime, while the lancer and most of the rest of the cast are Caucasian.
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Monochrome Casting / int_89465e75	comment	Percy Jackson and the Olympians has very few important characters of color. There are only three named campers who are non-white (Charles Beckendorf, Chris Rodriguez, and Ethan Nakamura), and two of them die in the final book. Percy's teams throughout the series incorporate only white people with the exception of one Ambiguously Brown character who dies at the end of that mission. The film adaptation had to Race Lift Grover because the film would otherwise be dominated by whites. Rick Riordan eventually noticed this though; the Seven of The Heroes of Olympus consist of two white boys, one white girl, a Latino boy, a Native American girl, an Asian boy, and a black girl, and the cast in general is much more varied. This was rectified in the Disney Plus series, in which Luke and Annabeth are race lifted to be played by black and mixed-race actors.
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Monochrome Casting / int_8a6d835c	comment	While the show did have a few Black characters in the past, As the World Turns' large cast was all white by the time it went off the air. This has been a major problem with most soap operas. Ironically, this might be a Justified Trope, as most are set in wealthy white-bread suburbs. However, The Bold and the Beautiful is set in the melting pot of Los Angeles but until recently had a cast almost completely devoid of minorities, and the few who were present often fell into patronizing Model Minority roles (local cop, guard &c.) who were often relegated to the background—yet another problem often seen on soaps. The first major Black character on the show was not even an American, but an adopted African orphan and is of cousin-oliverish significance. The first regular Black member joined the family in 2008, when a young man reunites with his white, blonde mother, who abandoned him as a teenager. It is also a clear case of fake mixed race casting.
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Monochrome Casting / int_8a836c90	comment	AMC's The Walking Dead (2010) focuses on a group of zombie apocalypse survivors around Atlanta, Georgia... a city with the largest Black population in the United States. The diversity on the show by Season Two is one Asian and one Black man, with another black man being a notable one-shot character. Diversity increased somewhat over the seasons, and the one-shot black character came back to become a main character. However, there are still fewer black people than you would expect in a post-apocalyptic South.
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Monochrome Casting / int_8b8da0b2	comment	Visionaries features a cast exclusively made up of white people, from minor to major characters. The only Black people seen are in background group shots. Even the canceled second toy line would not have fixed this.
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Monochrome Casting / int_8d85e141	comment	Veep had one Black actress, Sufe Bradshaw, who played a secretary, despite being filmed in one of the Blackest cities in America, Baltimore, and set in the Blackest city in America, Washington, DC. Although the show never outright says what political party the characters belong to, theyâ€™re clearly Democrats, a party thatâ€™s about 60% white. A Democratic administration would, in all likelihood, have a more diverse staff. This was slightly rectified in season 4, when Sam Richardson, playing a campaign aide, was added to the cast.
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Monochrome Casting / int_8d85f017	comment	Vida: Nearly all of the characters are Latino, except for a couple minor White ones. As it's set in a heavily Latino section of LA and focuses on their lives though, it makes sense.
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Monochrome Casting / int_8e077a1	comment	Something weird happened with Power Rangers Ninja Steel. The characters are of different races, and not all of the actors are New Zealanders, but they all have roughly the same complexion. A last-minute actor replacement is partially responsible - Calvin was originally to be played by Chantz Simpson.
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Monochrome Casting / int_914a6cf5	comment	Red Sparrow: Nate's boss Trish Forsyth is the only noticeably brown named character in the movie (played by Indian-American Sakina Jaffrey). Justified since the film takes place mostly in Russia and Hungary, both of which are mostly monoracial countries, and if the CIA had sent a person of color they would have stuck out like a sore thumb.
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Monochrome Casting / int_92cfb0f8	comment	What's Happening!! featured an almost entirely Black cast with the most prominent white characters being Earl Barnett, Jr. and his dad, who only appeared in 10 episodes of the show's 65 episode run.
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Monochrome Casting / int_92ef018a	comment	Everyone's white in Ferris Bueller's Day Off except for a few incidental characters. The high school you could maybe chalk up to districting, but its strains Willing Suspension of Disbelief a little when downtown Chicago apparently just has a token black guy.
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Monochrome Casting / int_976efc02	comment	While Mystery Science Theater 3000 only suffers from this trope due to the very limited cast (and also being shot in Minnesota, a state whose population at the time was 98% white and has not changed very much since then), the show is not above mocking the films they watch having very few minorities. Catalina Caper gets quite pointed about this, and in the episode featuring Tormented (1960), Crow points out how strange it is that the jazz pianist protagonist does not seem to know any black people.
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Monochrome Casting / int_97e7606f	comment	Alan Wake has about twenty characters, all of them Caucasian. It is set in a small town in the Pacific Northwest roughly around 2005-2010, and in some such towns the minority population is quite small.
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Monochrome Casting / int_9807380d	comment	The Retreat (2021): The whole cast of the film is white.
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Monochrome Casting / int_9871d4f3	comment	Bluey has a Funny Animal example, since every character in the show is a dog of some kind, with with no other type of anthropomorphic animal in sight (aside from a Show Within a Show). With that said, thereâ€™s actually a wide variety of dog breeds present. For example, the titular character and her family are Heelers, which is a fairly niche breed of dog.
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Monochrome Casting / int_98b697e9	comment	Scream has no non-white characters in the entire film (except a reporter in one brief scene played by Lisa Canning), but this was sort of addressed in the sequel, with Jada Pinkett and Omar Epps's characters as the opening victims, and Pinkett's character discussing how horror films typically ignore African American points of view. The film also features Hallie, Sydney's Token Black Friend, who also bites it, and Joel, Gale's new camera assistant, who lives. Scream 3's only Black character was Tyson, while Scream 4 goes back to an exclusively white cast with the exception of a bumbling cop played by Anthony Anderson. The fifth and sixth films however combat this by focusing on two Latina sisters, and having twins who are the biracial children of a character from the third.
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Monochrome Casting / int_99c003af	comment	The Boondocks takes place in the suburbs of Woodcrest, Maryland, and the main and recurring cast consists almost entirely Black people. Aside from Sarah, Gin, Cindy, and The Wuncler Family, the only white people to make prominent recurring appearances are either white-passing or mixed-race like Jazmine.
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Monochrome Casting / int_99d0c794	comment	Many of Disney's earlier animated films often tend to have all-white human characters due to the settings often being European countries. In fact, it's much easier to list examples where none of the human characters are white: those being The Jungle Book (1967), Aladdin, Mulan, The Emperor's New Groove, Brother Bear, Moana, Rayaandthe Last Dragon, and Encanto.
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Monochrome Casting / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series tried very hard to avoid monochrome casting, in line with Gene Roddenberry's views on race becoming a non-issue in Earth's future. This required deliberate effort on the part of the production staff, as, even in the mid-1960s, the network production system tended to fill all spots for extras with generic, physically fit white males (age 25 to 45) unless otherwise specified. As production values slipped in the second and third seasons of the series, crewmen and civilians fell back on the generic white male Hollywood stockpile. Of course, the most notable aversion of that era was Lieutenant Uhura, whose noteworthiness as a ranking Black officer was so notable that Dr Martin Luther King Jr. himself convinced Nichelle Nichols to stay on the show in later seasons specifically to avert this trope.
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Monochrome Casting / int_9aabc9b1	comment	The Wiz, being set first in Harlem and then in a Harlem-ized version of Oz, contains absolutely no non-Black characters. They exist in this movie's universe (note the Jewish Mother comment); they just never make it onto the screen.
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Monochrome Casting / int_9d0ea0a8	comment	Dawson's Creek. The High School principal and his daughter are the only Black people, even in the Boston episodes. There's also Bodie, the Black boyfriend of Bessie, who she has a child with, so the writers did include an interracial relationship and biracial kid - but ironically he's a mostly off-screen character that almost never actually appears on the series, making this trope played straight after all.
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Monochrome Casting / int_9dca11a9	comment	The Craft is set in Los Angeles, a notably diverse area, and yet Rochelle is the only non-white character in the cast (and the character was written to be white, only getting a Race Lift when Rachel True lobbied for the part). A Deleted Scene clarifies that it happens to be an all-white neighborhood, and Rochelle is literally the only Black girl there - and being ostracised because of her race is why she's friends with Nancy in the first place.
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Monochrome Casting / int_9f9c64a3	comment	Flower Drum Song, despite being a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, is notable for having an Asian-American version of this trope. In the movie of the musical, there is a single white person in the entire film, a man with one line who robs one of the main characters and is never seen again. Every other main character, side character (with a single Fake Nationality exception), and extra is an American of east-Asian descent.
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Monochrome Casting / int_a0262740	comment	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has a contest for kids all over the world and yet all five of the winners are white and either American or European. Granted, the 1964 source novel and 1971 film version went the same way, but the 2005 version makes it clear that the ticket contest is worldwide, so the lack of racial diversity is more conspicuous. Tim Burton admitted that his team had considered doing a Race Lift for some of the characters in the 2005 version, but since the kids (other than Charlie) are major brats with negative personality traits, the idea was dropped to avoid Unfortunate Implications. Tim Burton's concerns turned out to be accurate when the 2013 stage musical created racial controversy by making Violet and her parents black. It should be noted the book was an enforced example as well: Dahl had originally wanted to make Charlie black, but the editors forced him to change it.
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Monochrome Casting / int_a0b6c698	comment	Coming to America, where virtually the entire cast is Black with the exception of Louis Anderson, Eddie Murphy playing a Jewish guy in white face, a handful of very minor characters, and a memorable cameo of Randolph and Mortimer Duke from Trading Places.
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Monochrome Casting / int_a144cb39	comment	Invoked in Moral Orel as the series is a Deconstruction of white fundamentalist Protestant Christianity. The only minorities seen are the Ambiguously Brown Figurelli family (one episode has the town decide to discriminate against them, only for it to backfire because the 'discrimination' only benefitted the Figurellis), and a brief appearance by a black neighborhood, in which the Puppington family treated driving through it as a roller coaster, while the two people on the street looked at them like they were nuts.
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Monochrome Casting / int_a145ed29	comment	Laverne & Shirley takes place in 1950s Milwaukee which was in the middle of a massive influx of migrant Black workers from the south, most of whom came to work at Breweries like the one where the titular characters were employed.
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Monochrome Casting / int_a1bda379	comment	The 1972 "horror" film Night of the Lepus has only one Black character (Dr. Leopold), and amazingly, he doesn't die.
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Monochrome Casting / int_a32b6a64	comment	At the very beginning of The West Wing, all the main characters were cast as white. When the NAACP criticized the show, the show's creators agreed with them — so they revived the character of Charlie Young (who was cut from the pilot somewhere between script and screen) and introduced him in the third episode. The characters on the show actually lampshade the situation by being seriously concerned with how it will look for the one visible Black staff member to be the President's errand boy. This episode also introduces John Amos as the Black Admiral Percy Fitzwallace Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and would go on to add several Black Congresspeople and a Black National Security Advisor. Fitzwallace also assured Leo that how long is they were treating Charlie right he didn't see a problem with his job.
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Monochrome Casting / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass averts this, being set in a worldwide conflict between The Black Knights trying liberate Area 11 (once known as Japan) from Britannia, the main villain of the series. Plus there's China later on. This means there are plenty of characters ranging from Japanese, Chinese, and Britannian. Though, Britannians tend to all be white except for Ambiguously Brown Villetta Nu.
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Monochrome Casting / int_a4fc43c8	comment	In MEGANEBU!, most of the members of the student council are only half-Japanese (Brazilian, French, British, and German).
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Monochrome Casting / int_a609791a	comment	In every incarnation of Scooby-Doo (except Velma), Mystery Inc are all white teenagers, with Scooby being a brown Great Dane.
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Monochrome Casting / int_a88418fd	comment	Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures is written to be performed by a cast of all Asian men.
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Monochrome Casting / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live: Parodied in a skit where a Black waiter refused to serve Ashton Kutcher after the actor grudgingly admitted that there were no major minority characters in That '70s Show. Which actually isn't true - one of the main characters, Fez, was from a minority, though it was never determined which one (his actor is Latino). And, in any case, small-town Wisconsin in the 70s was pretty white anyway. Hyde was revealed as (supposedly) being half Black, and his Black biological father also counted (along with his half-sister Angie, who really was played by a mixed-race actress, in contrast to Hyde). SNL itself is an example of this trope depending on the season. The show has received some criticism for not having a diverse cast. The majority of its cast members have been white and the show has rarely had more than one non-white cast member at a time, and never had any fully Asian cast members (Rob Schneider and Fred Armisen were both a quarter Asian) until Bowen Yang was promoted from the writing staff in 2019, the show's 45th season. The show especially came under fire for not having any Black female cast members between Maya Rudolph's departure in 2007 and 2013, a fact that was highlighted when Kerry Washington guest starred (the cold open featured her playing Michelle Obama, Oprah, and BeyoncÃ©). SNL attempted to remedy this by holding a casting call in 2013 specifically for Black women, and in 2014 hired Black woman Sasheer Zamata. Steve Martin opened up the 40th anniversary show by saying that it was like being at "a high school reunion â€” a high school that is almost all white." Rival MADtv (1995) made fun of this fact by having guest star and former SNL regular Martin Short think he was on his was on his old show as a joke and mistake all the Black cast members, including the woman, for Tim Meadows. Alluded to in the Quinta Brunson-starring sketch "Drug Dealers", where one of the drug dealers claims their cocaine is so white, it's like a Noah Baumbach movie.
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Monochrome Casting / int_b3933a70	comment	Home Improvement, ostensibly takes place in Detroit, with is only about 14% white in the city proper. However, the main cast is entirely white, and there are very few minorities visible. Given that Tim seems to live in an upper-middle-class suburb of Detroit, this is somewhat less unrealistic, as white flight has made the suburbs much more white than downtown. For example, Ann Arbor is 67% white. Even if the show remained entirely in the suburbs, however, the region should be around 1/4 black.
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Monochrome Casting / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: The non-white population of New York City seems to consist of... Robbie. (Okay, sometimes we see his wife and son, too.) They've had other minority characters, but none of them stood the test of time. To avoid this in adaptations, Spectacular and Homecoming race-lifted half the cast, and Ultimate uses mostly minority heroes like Luke Cage and White Tiger as part of the team.
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Monochrome Casting / int_ba084d45	comment	Purposely averted with Hamilton, which has many [POCs] portraying historically white characters, with the exception of King George, who is always played by a Token White.
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Monochrome Casting / int_bb55a676	comment	Legion of Super-Heroes: A product of the 50s when including ethnic characters probably never crossed the creators' minds, though there were several non-white characters: Brainiac 5 was green, Shadow Lass was blue, and the alien-looking Chameleon Boy was orange. Compounded when they tried to fix it in the 70s by adding a Black hero, Tyroc, who came from an island with only Black people. That appeared on Earth only intermittently. And all the Black people in the world had gone to this island, and they were all racist, openly crying their hatred of whites. Ferro Lad was supposed to be Black under his armor, but you couldn't tell. When writer Jim Shooter wasn't allowed to reveal this, he gave the character a Heroic Sacrifice. Shadow Lass is also rumored to have been intended as Black; she ended up being blue instead.
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Monochrome Casting / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Following the Warhammer 40,000 example above, the Dawn of War series, Fire Warrior, and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. Despite the various Imperial factions supposedly representing humanity, they are all white. This is actually meant to make the player uncomfortable, a point that is lost on much of the fanbase. The Sisters of Battle, for example, are fanatics who insist on strict thought control and execute unbelievers and heretics and traitors with rapturous glee, and they dress in Black with red, white, and gold highlights. The Imperium's battle standard is an eagle with two heads. Their super soldiers are augmented superhumans with genetic modifications who are worried about the purity of those genes. This should start to sound familiar.
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Monochrome Casting / int_bce8560e	comment	Parodied on an episode of In Living Color! where Jim Carrey played a channel-hopping Ross Perot who overtook several television networks, including a comedy station where he tells a joke to an unreceptive audience of "You ever notice how there's no Blacks, no Jews, no Puerto Ricans on The Jetsons? Future seems pretty bright, don't you think?"
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Monochrome Casting / int_be9b3374	comment	The main cast of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is entirely Black as are most of the supporting cast. The only characters of other races are one-time characters of the day.
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Monochrome Casting / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer features near 1:1 transplants of 15th to 17th century European countries as the human focus factions (Germany/Empire,note With bits of Spain and Britain thrown in for flavor. France/Bretonnia,note Or, more accurately, the High Medieval composite monarchy that was composed of equal parts French and English territories, with a multiethnic population but solidly Francophone ruling class. Norsca/Scandinavia, Russia-Poland/Kislev, Italy/Tilea, Westerland/Netherlands, and Spain/Estalia in rough order of prominence) in a preindustrial setting where long range travel is extremely difficult, with the demihuman civilizations all being drawn from European myth (most notably elves, dwarfs, and halflings); thus all the major characters are either European-looking or are inhuman Beast Man types (like the Lizardmen, Skaven, and Orcs). The vaguely Iranic and Turkic Kurgan are the most common minions of Chaos, but as Always Chaotic Evil mooks don't receive much focus and have a grand total of two notable characters. There's also Araby, a minor power inspired by the Barbary states that shows up rarely, and the Egyptian-inspired Nekhara, home of the Tomb Kings, which would be a prominent enough faction to avert this trope for the setting but for the fact that they're all skeletons. The setting is basically an Fictional Earth focused on Europe, the (post-colonization) Americas, North Africa and West Asia, but the Native Americans are replaced by Mayincatec Lizard Folk while the Middle Easterners are replaced by Orcs. The lands of the east, most notably Cathay (Warhammer!China, the most populous human realm), get the occasional reference, but are too far away from the center of the action to get more. The Old World relaunch would be the first edition to avert this as Cathay was made into a leading playable faction.
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Monochrome Casting / int_c02fb957	comment	Nearly everyone in The Hustler (1961) is Caucasian — the only exception is a mute Black man at Ames' pool hall who sweeps the floor.
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Monochrome Casting / int_c4ca088c	comment	Ted (2024): This is lampshaded when Ted acknowledges how white the population of John's high school is while also justified because they live in a Boston suburb in 1993. John mentions that there was an Indian student the previous year, but "they got him".
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Monochrome Casting / int_c4d054c6	comment	America's Test Kitchen: With a name like that for a public TV show, you would think that non-white chefs would have been cast. Not so.
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Monochrome Casting / int_c7f7d77a	comment	Don't Breathe: While the cast isn't very large, it's a bit surprising that every character is white given that Detroit is only 14% white. In Don't Breathe 2, there is a white Hispanic supporting character and a black bit character without any lines. Otherwise the entire cast is white, non-Hispanic (except Rocci Williams, a British actor of Romani heritage playing Fake American).
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Monochrome Casting / int_c7fd7de3	comment	Love/Hate having a majority white cast would make more sense if it weren't set in 2010s Dublin. This is of course a result of Two Decades Behind - Ireland was a homogeneous country until the 90s, when the economic boom saw significant immigration of other nationalities. Despite large amounts of African, Venezuelan and Chinese communities - the only major non-white character was Gav. Rosie (played by the Irish-Ethiopian Ruth Negga) was a protagonist in the first two seasons but her departure drew attention to just how white the main cast was.
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Monochrome Casting / int_cac1f772	comment	CSI used to have a diverse main cast...sort of: one Black (Warrick) in the main CSI team, one Latino detective (Vega) and one Asian Lab Rat (Archie). Until Warrick got killed off and Vega turned out to be a Corrupt Cop and got killed while Archie just disappeared with the rest of the lab rats leaving only Hodges and Henry. There's also Dr. Ray Langston played by Laurence Fishburne who took Grissom's place as the lead character until he left and got replaced by D.B. Russell (Ted Danson) which made the main CSI team all-white with one Black detective.
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Monochrome Casting / int_cb66716	comment	Hallelujah! by King Vidor, a 1929 musical about a family of poor cotton farmers, was the first film in this genre. This film shows African-Americans as sharecroppers with urban African-American in big city ghettoes, so while white characters aren't acknowledged in the film, one can assume that they exist since the portrayal of African-Americans is largely realistic.
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Monochrome Casting / int_ccf875f7	comment	In an episode of Criminal Minds, the gang travels to Cleveland to take on a serial killer in the city's east side, and it soon becomes clear that the producers have never actually been there. Every Clevelander shown onscreen is white and middle-classed even though the East Side in real life is at least 90% Black and 99% Wrong Side of the Tracks. There are predominantly-white areas in the suburbs as you move away from the urban core, but the action explicitly takes place in the city proper. The murderer drew inspiration from the infamous Torso Killer from the 1930's and that seems to be the basis of Cleveland's portrayal on the show, but the city's demographics have changed a lot since then.
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Monochrome Casting / int_cf69b21e	comment	Later series' varied: Beast Wars was set before the existence of Humanity as we know it, while Transformers: Robots in Disguise had a hard case of Mukokuseki. Transformers: Armada had a token nonwhite Hispanic, while the rest of the Unicron Trilogy (Energon and Cybertron) were both mostly monochromatic. Transformers: Animated went nearly the other way, with only one supporting character and most human villains being white: the primary Human Buddies were Indian (then one turned out to be Cybertronian after all). Transformers: Prime, on the other hand managed a fairly diverse human cast.
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Monochrome Casting / int_cfb3439a	comment	BrÃ¼tal Legend's human cast is all white. The game world does run on heavy metal and much of the cast are an Expy of some famous figure in Heavy Metal, so there still were many non-whites to draw from.
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Monochrome Casting / int_d236fc2	comment	Kuromukuro is very diverse, especially for a mecha anime that takes place in Japan and draws upon traditional Japanese culture. Featured among the Japanese character are a French, a Brit, an American, a Chinese, an Italian, a German, a Polish, two Bridge Bunnies consisting of a Latina and a European, and one character who is half-Japanese/half-Spanish.
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Monochrome Casting / int_d240c96f	comment	EastEnders - Sweet Baby Jesus. The show takes place in one of the most ethnically diverse parts of one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the world and somehow manages to be 90 percent white. Worse yet, this is a fairly recent development. When the show started in 1985, the area's demographics were roughly the same and you could count the non-white actors on one hand. It's like the producers hadn't visited the area since the Fifties.note They probably hadn't. The BBC remains a tough employer to get into if you aren't ethnically white and socio-economically at least middle-class. People who get BBC staff jobs in production and management aspire to live in better parts of London and wouldn't be seen dead in an area like "Walford". The issue here isn't so much one of race, as one of social class and Establishment values. Why do you think so many of its Brit Coms centre on nice middle-class white families living in nice sought-after areas? (Heck, Call the Midwife, which actually is set in the Fifties in the same part of London, might have had more minority guest appearances on average.)
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Monochrome Casting / int_d3bc03fe	comment	One Tree Hill is somewhat seen as this. Although from the beginning, they have had Black male characters and even had one in the opening credits by season four, there were no female Black characters unless they were only in the background with little to no lines. There was an episode where Lucas ran into an old friend of his who was a Black female, BUT viewers never heard of her prior to the episode and they only reunited outside of Tree Hill. Also, Latina Anna Taggaro became a recurring character, along with being the very first bisexual woman of color on a US TV show.
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Monochrome Casting / int_d43be22a	comment	The Halloween franchise very rarely features non-white characters (the original film doesn't feature a single one), which is somewhat justified by its suburban Illinois setting. Apparently franchise executive producer Moustapha Akkad, who was from Syria, upheld this trope because he mistakenly assumed there were no non-white people living in that state. The biggest exceptions are Mrs. Alves (Gloria Gifford) from Halloween II (playing a character originally written as an elderly white woman), Ronny (LL Cool J) from Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later, Freddie (Busta Rhymes), Rudy (Sean Patrick Thomas), and Nora (Tyra Banks) from Halloween: Resurrection, Ismael (Danny Trejo) and Joe Grizzly (Ken Foree) from Rob Zombie's Halloween, Nurse Daniels (Octavia Spencer) in Rob Zombie's Halloween II, and Julian (Jibrail Nantambu) and Sheriff Barker (Omar Dorsey) in Halloween (2018) and Halloween Kills.
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Monochrome Casting / int_d56cafaf	comment	Power Rangers RPM just barely avoided this; Scott (Red Ranger) was the only non-white on the main team (he's Black), but both of the Sixth Ranger characters were Asian. That being said, it's still one of the least racially diverse seasons.
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Monochrome Casting / int_d59887ee	comment	Beverly Hills, 90210, so much so Aaron Spelling said he regretted it. Similarly seen in the spin-off Melrose Place, which had one Black character during its first season who quickly vanished due to lack of storyline. Even though Aaron had passed by the time it came out, the sequel series fixed this featuring a Black and Arab (even though he's played by a Hispanic) in the main cast and an Indian recurring character.
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Monochrome Casting / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park was originally meant to be this way, being set in rural Colorado where Chef as the Token Minority. Eventually they had a Token Minority student named Token as well, though the episode The Big Fix retcons it to having always been Tolkien. Nowadays the town seems to be more diverse, with the City Wok guy actually a white guy with multiple personalities, a Japanese restaurateur, the Asian-looking "6th Grader Leader" and several others. Minor character Kevin was identified as Asian American in one of the earlier seasons, though this is rarely brought up. This is actually somewhat Truth in Television - Colorado's population has changed over the time the show has been running. Mr. Garrison after he became elected as President had his homeroom teacher position replaced by an Asian woman.
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Monochrome Casting / int_dab7c96c	comment	Pleasantville: Not a single ethnic minority resident in Pleasantville. Not one. Not even a Funny Foreigner. 50s sitcoms were in fact lily-white, but one couldn't be faulted for thinking a movie so concerned with racism and culture change could have found a way around this.
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Monochrome Casting / int_dc4363c5	comment	An occasional criticism of True Blood, since the number of minority characters shown does not correspond with the real-life American South, which has the largest concentration of African-Americans in the country and a growing Hispanic population. Worse, almost all the non-white characters on the show are directly connected to each other: series regulars Tara and Lafayette are cousins, and a good chunk of the minority recurring characters are their family members and love interests.
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Monochrome Casting / int_dd1242ef	comment	Sanford and Son is a show with an almost entirely Black cast, with the only non-Black characters being an Asian character named Ah Chew, who is constantly being mocked, belittled, and insulted by Fred, specifically because of his race and a Puerto Rican next-door neighbor, who is also strongly disliked by Fred solely for being Hispanic. The only other non-Black character is Officer Hopkins, who, you guessed it, is constantly being insulted by Fred because of his race.
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Monochrome Casting / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time downplayed this in season 1, with Regina Mills and Sidney as the only recurring character of minority ethnicities. But Season 2 onwards began averting it, featuring Mulan and Tamara as recurring minorities as well as giving many fairytale characters a Race Lift; Rapunzel, Maid Marian, Ursula, Guinevere and Lancelot were all played by non-white actors.
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Monochrome Casting / int_deb863bc	comment	Whiplash, has no (named) Black characters despite being a movie about jazz. This is probably an artistic choice, as the characters having no cultural connection to the music further drives home the pointlessness of the suffering they put themselves and others through to get good at it.
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Monochrome Casting / int_ded1e4f5	comment	Out of 101 episodes of The Wayans Bros., only one white character appeared in more than one episode, and that was White Mike, who appeared in 6 episodes across the first two seasons before disappearing from the show completely for the rest of its 5-season-long run.
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Monochrome Casting / int_df083f42	comment	Good Times was one of the first Black sitcoms of its time, having premiered a decade after segregation was abolished in the real world. The show wanted to take full advantage of being able to feature Black characters by going all out, having the series take place in a predominantly Black neighborhood in the city of Chicago, which is known to have a very high Black population, even back then. Despite the show taking place after the abolition of segregation, it was still prevalent that the world wasn't quite integrated yet, as big changes like that truly take time before we can see them take effect. That being said, little to none of the characters in the show were white aside from an extremely scarce number of minor and one-off characters who would drop by for an episode or two. The only white characters who were really noteworthy in the grand scheme of things were only white because the plot specifically called for them to be white, as they appeared in very special episodes that dealt with race. These characters being two blonde-haired white girls named Cindy. note These characters being Cindy Bradford from "Thelma's Scholarship" and Cindy Crebbins from "Michael's Decision".
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Monochrome Casting / int_df31c0ad	comment	All of Jason's Lyric's casts are black, including the background figures.
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Monochrome Casting / int_e084daa6	comment	Dune has an all-white cast, which can come off as pretty awkward regarding the Fremen who don't even look sun-tanned. The Denis Villeneuve films have avoided such issue since.
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Monochrome Casting / int_e186e2cf	comment	How NOT to Write a Novel called this "The Country Club", noting that unless one's novel happens to be set in rural Sweden, the reader may start to get the undesired impression that some form of ethnic cleansing has taken place.
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Monochrome Casting / int_e293455a	comment	During the brief period where university life at "UC Sunnydale" was shown on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, there were almost no Asians, even though the actual University of California has over 40%. You can count the Black characters on Buffy with both hands, and only one for the characters that survive. Lampshaded in real life at Dragoncon 2012, where James Marsters bluntly stated that he'd never in his life encountered a real town that was as white as Sunnydale.
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Monochrome Casting / int_e6318baf	comment	You could reasonably argue that Midsomer Murders is a justified example, being set in a well-off part of rural England, which is inhabited by mainly white English people. However, when the producer of the show stated with astonishing bluntness in an interview with the Radio Times that the lack of diversity of the show was due to his view of it being a "bastion of Englishness", and that his view stemmed from being "politically incorrect", he was temporarily forced to step down from his position by the producing company. He eventually chose to voluntarily resign, and the very next series put a British Asian actor in a main role.
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Monochrome Casting / int_e694aadb	comment	Averted in some specific instances. The Salamanders are all Black,note but not racially; their skin is literally jet back due to weirdness between their homeworld's natural radiation and their geneseed Ciaphas Cain and Damnation Crusade feature minor Black characters, some Space Marine chapters have ethnic inspiration for their designs or names such as the Raven Guard (Indigenous American), Crimson Fists (Latino), White Scars (Mongolian), Thousand Sons (Persian/Egyptian).
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Monochrome Casting / int_ec2531c4	comment	A Pixar example of the trope would be Coco, where all of the characters are Hispanic.
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Monochrome Casting / int_ed4a44cf	comment	Everyone in the domed city of Logan's Run is white. Memorably lampshaded by Richard Pryor:
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Monochrome Casting / int_ed8b580	comment	The only White characters from My Wife and Kids were Dr. Klieger and Rachel McNamara, who only appeared in a collective 11 episodes before falling off the face of the earth after Season 2.
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Monochrome Casting / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother has an all-white primary cast, but a few recurring minority characters (cab driver Ranjit and Barney's gay Black brother). In the seventh season both Barney and Robin's love interests were minorities, but they are now gone for good. Ted's lack of variety in the girls he dates may be a necessity of the series' central gimmick: given we've seen the kids and they both look white, a woman of color is probably not going to be the mother.
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Monochrome Casting / int_f361b493	comment	I Love Lucy is an interesting case since, during this time, Desi Arnaz and the actors playing his friends and relatives from Cuba were not seen as non-whites, like they would be today, but more along the lines of a Funny Foreigner troupe. Only two minor Black characters appeared in the show's six-season run, and neither in the show's primary New York setting: a porter on the train that the characters take back home to New York after their time in Hollywood, and a background character in the dream sequence episode "Lucy Goes to Scotland".
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Monochrome Casting / int_f4a728d6	comment	Afro Samurai is another aversion. It doesn't hurt that it was made to cater to an American audience first.
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Monochrome Casting / int_f565604d	comment	Eyeshield 21 had a recurring team of American rivals, which were fairly diverse. The character Patrick "Panther" Spencer was a Black teen with a fairly large role.
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Monochrome Casting / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier: Although the show's lack of black characters is somewhat fitting for Seattle, given that the Black population of Seattle is very small and highly concentrated in an area far from the characters' affluent hangoutsnote The Winton family who live on the floor above - but the mother and son are atypical, with the latter being biracial too. the show does drop the ball when it comes to Asians, who do make up a significant percentage of Seattle's population (about 1/8th) but are largely absent from the series.note Frasier once inadvertently burns down an Asian newsagent's kiosk, and in one episode he flirts with an obviously Far Eastern potential girlfriend (he fails miserably) but that's it. In over 200 episodes.
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Monochrome Casting / int_f67aead0	comment	Monochromatic casting applied to all segments of American television before the 1970s. When Bill Cosby first appeared on The Tonight Show in the 1960s, doing his stand-up comedy act, the only makeup on hand at NBC was a base used previously for Lena Horne, who is so much paler than usual for American Blacks that she used to be attacked as a "mulatto" by hostile white (and, occasionally, Black) hecklers (Horne had Black, indigenous and white ancestry). Cosby was so pale on screen that night ("Live in Black & white!") his family thought something had been done to him or that he was ill.
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Monochrome Casting / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends rarely has any significant minority characters. Especially odd as it's set in Manhattan, one of the most diverse places in the world (in 2000: 45% white, 27% Hispanic, 17% Black, 9% Asian, and many mixed-race people) — yet not only are all the main cast white, but so are almost all the recurring characters (Gunther, Mr Heckles, ugly naked guy, the super, and virtually all love interests, bosses, coworkers, and acquaintances). Even the chick and the duck are white! Like Seinfeld, the show is usually cited as one of the most prominent and memorable examples of this trope (Aisha Tyler got a nine-episode arc in the last season as Ross's girlfriend Charlie, mainly due to media criticism over this trope).
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Monochrome Casting / int_fa6e380e	comment	Hill Street Blues had a memorable in-universe example of this when Ray Caitano was named "Hispanic Officer of the Year", and gave a speech bitterly calling them out on the fact that most of the officers of captain and above in the city were in the room and the only Hispanic people were the waiters. (A couple of characteristically insensitive remarks from Lieutenant Hunter and the fact they'd put out a bunch of Puerto Rican flags when Ray was Colombian-American really didn't help.) The series in general did a pretty good job of averting the trope, however, with numerous nonwhite main characters.
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Monochrome Casting / int_fbf8acc	comment	The Cabin in the Woods exploits this as a satire on 2000s horror movies, where the college kids selected for the ritual are all white, save for Holden (who is still very light-skinned); acknowledging that 2000s slashers would often have one Token Minority in there. The lab by contrast has far more people of colour working there, although even then Truman is the only one with a major speaking part.
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Monochrome Casting / int_fc1d6ac6	comment	The Witcher series is another justified example, being a Low Fantasy franchise set in a location based on medieval Poland, Scandinavia, and the Holy Roman Empire; thus every character looks Northern European aside from a handful of traders/mercenaries from the Arab-esque Ofir in the third game's Haert of Stone expansion pack.
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Monochrome Casting / int_fd58bcc8	comment	The Tree of Life. Granted, it is set in a small middle-class suburban town in the 1950s, providing some justification.
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Air Force One / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
AmÃ©lie / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Atonement / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Ax 'Em / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Batman Returns / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Battlefield Earth / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Black Hawk Down / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Black Panther (2018) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Captain Fantastic / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Car Wash / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Clerks III / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Close Encounters of the Third Kind / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Dance Me Outside / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Dead Poets Society / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Dick Tracy / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Don't Breathe / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Dunkirk / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Ferris Bueller's Day Off / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Field of Dreams / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
FriendsWithMoney	seeAlso	Monochrome Casting
Hail, Caesar! / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Hallelujah! / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Home Alone / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Identity / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
It Follows / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Jack & Diane / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Jason's Lyric / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Let It Shine / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Manos: The Hands of Fate / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Memento / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Midway (2019) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Moffie / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Moonlight (2016) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Night of the Lepus / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Oppenheimer / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Pacific Rim / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Paranormal Activity / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Persecuted / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Phase IV / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Pleasantville / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Quintet / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Raising Arizona / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Red Dawn (1984) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Reservoir Dogs / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Saving Grace / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Sister Act / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Sorority House Massacre / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Sorry to Bother You / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
St. Elmo's Fire / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Big Easy / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Breakfast Club / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Craft / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The First Purge / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Gift (2000) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Hustler (1961) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Intern / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Meteor Man / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Northman / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Retreat (2021) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Tree of Life / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Tormented (1960) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
12 Angry Men / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Victor/Victoria / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Anansi Boys / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Binder of Shame / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Bridget Jones / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Flipped / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
How NOT to Write a Novel / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Inheritance Trilogy / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Necromancy Cottage, Or, The Black Art Of Gnawing On Bones / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Never Let Me Go / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Percy Jackson and the Olympians / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Rules Of The Scam Mysteries / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Shivers / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Shivers (M. D. Spenser) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Chrysalids / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Dogs / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Gashlycrumb Tinies / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Gate to Women's Country / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Giver / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Stand / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Stepford Wives / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Katana	seeAlso	Monochrome Casting
MonoChromeCasting	sameAs	Monochrome Casting
WhitewashedHistory	seeAlso	Monochrome Casting
Remember the Time (Music) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (Radio) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Awkward. / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Band of Brothers / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Battlestar Galactica (1978) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Brotherly Love / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Brotherly Love (1995) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Bunheads / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Charles in Charge / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Come Back Mrs. Noah / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Coronation Street / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Dancing with the Stars / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Dark Shadows / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Dawson's Creek / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Defiance / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
EastEnders / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Emily in Paris / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Fawlty Towers / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Freaks and Geeks / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Gilmore Girls / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Girls / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
How I Met Your Mother / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
I Love Lucy / int_fdaa5b01	type	Monochrome Casting
Itaewon Class / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Keeping Up Appearances / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Kung Fu (2021) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Law & Order: Criminal Intent / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Leave It to Beaver / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Magnum, P.I. / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Melrose Place / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Midsomer Murders / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Models Inc. / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Moesha / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
MonkTropesK-R	seeAlso	Monochrome Casting
Mystery Science Theater 3000 / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Neighbours / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Noah's Arc / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Only Fools and Horses / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Passions / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Penny Dreadful / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Power Rangers Jungle Fury / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Primeval / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
QI / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Queer as Folk (US) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Sanford and Son / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Santa Barbara / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
7th Heaven / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Sex and the City / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Sherlock / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Shetland / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Strange Empire / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Succession / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Ted (2024) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Terriers / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Andy Griffith Show / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Avengers (1960s) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Bachelor / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Bold and the Beautiful / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Brittas Empire / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Chair (2014) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Class (2006) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Dukes of Hazzard / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Neighbors / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The O.C. / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Phil Silvers Show / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The State / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Steve Harvey Show / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Twin Peaks / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Vicious / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
What's My Line? / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
When Calls the Heart / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Porgy and Bess (Theatre) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Sunday in the Park with George (Theatre) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Wiz (Theatre) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Beyond a Steel Sky (Video Game) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Citizens of Earth (Video Game) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Ghost of Tsushima (Video Game) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Being A DIK (Visual Novel) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
My Candy Love (Visual Novel) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Maddie on the Island Hue (Webcomic) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Mulberry (Webcomic) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Stand Still, Stay Silent (Webcomic) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Teahouse (Webcomic) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Springhole (Website) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Anomalisa / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Balto / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Challenge of the GoBots / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Clerks: The Animated Series / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Fangface / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
IwÃ¡jÃº / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Kaijudo / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
M.A.S.K. / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Thomas & Friends / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Visionaries / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Spider-Girl (Comic Book) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Atonement / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Cougar Town / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Too Close for Comfort / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Wizards of Waverly Place / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Llamas with Hats (Web Animation) / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting

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