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Racial Face Blindness
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A simple way to show someone is culturally insensitive (but acceptably so) is for them to be unable to tell individuals of a different race from one another. Almost always played for comedy, though occasionally it is used to show that a character is genuinely racist to the point of being unable or unwilling to tell individuals apart since they just view them as a whole. This could be partially explained by the commonality of brown eyes and black hair outside of Europe and the US/Canada. It's also a psychological fact that humans have a harder time distinguishing details in faces from races that are unfamiliar to them. As someone spends more time around other races, this trope diminishes. The most stereotypical way this trope is used is characters thinking all East Asians look identical. Because of this, compare Interchangeable Asian Cultures, a subtrope of Mistaken Nationality where entire Asian cultures are confused for one another (by either characters within the fiction or even creators of a work). Also compare Ditto Aliens, which is a similar phenomenon but applied to an alien group, rather than a foreign group. When they really do all look the same, see Only Six Faces and You All Look Familiar. And when someone assumes all members of a race are related because of this, see Same Race Means Related. |
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Air Crash Investigation: The captains of Japan Airlines Flight 123 and Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 are both portrayed by Japanese-Canadian actor Denis Akiyama. | |
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Chappelle's Show featured a sketch where Dave had an attractive white woman sing all his prejudiced thoughts, one of which was "All Asian people look alike." He then went on to admit that pretty much everyone who isn't black looks alike to him. | |
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In the Quest Den quest Return to Sender, to avoid telling bounty hunters he met runaway scientist Faspan, Pascoe lies that non-chimeras look too much alike to him. | |
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Parodied on Inside Job (2021). Reagan explains to her nonhuman friend Myc that her selfish Japanese mother Tamiko is marrying herself. Myc replies that he had just assumed Tamiko was a lesbian and he was racist after seeing two of her on the wedding invitation. | |
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The Double: When it's pointed out that James and Simon look identical, Simon's coworker notes that they're not even Chinese. | |
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The Simpsons Played with in an episode where Homer is in a Chinese orphanage, trying to find a specific baby. It might not be that all Asians look the same, but all babies look the same — or more likely, both at once making it extra confusing. When Homer is in India trying to find Apu's cousin, his difficulties are mainly due to the vagueness of Apu's description: "medium height, dark complexion, brown eyes, black hair." Somehow, he manages to find him in about two tries. Less forgivably, in one episode Homer mistakes Little Richard for both Prince and Michael Jackson within thirty seconds. |
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Fred starts making such a joke while commenting on the Japanese Spider-Man series, but he is cut short by a censoring alarm. | |
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In Heroes, Ando and Hiro see a precognitive painting of Matt Parkman. When Hiro asks if they know him, Ando responds that all white people look the same to him. Hiro scolds him for being racist. | |
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Red Ears: There's a gag where a white woman has sex with a short Asian guy in his apartment, then after they're done he says that he's ready to go for another round but has to crawl under the bed first (it's "tradition"). He emerges on the other end and they have sex again. This repeats about six times until the woman gets curious and checks under the bed, only to find about 10 identical-looking Asian guys sitting there. | |
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Parodied in Avenue Q with the Fantastic Racism against monsters. Princeton asks Kate Monster if she's related to Trekkie Monster due to their shared last name, and she calls him racist and asks if he thinks all monsters look the same. | |
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Community: When Jeff finds a photograph of Pierce with a black man on his black professor Kane's desk, he assumes getting kicked out of class was a scheme by Pierce and Kane...only to realize that it was a different black man.In Jeff's DefenseJeff was in a very emotional state at the time, and what he mainly noticed was the prison uniform the man was wearing (Kane had earlier told the class a story of how he got his degree while spending 25 years in prison). Also, the table is magic. | |
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In "The Plot to Frozen 2", Anna mistakes a random black background character in a green dress for Princess Tiana, referencing cross-movie theories in the fandom. Elsa thinks that's racist and exiles Anna. | |
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Part of the discrimination against the Dark Elves in Dragon From Ash, with several Nord characters claiming they all look alike and when a search warrant for Velandryn pops up, the authorities start frisking every single Dunmer at the city's gates because having his picture doesn't help them. | |
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In the Rambo videogame adaptations episode, during his review of Rambo: The Video Game (a 2014 rail-shooter based on the original trilogy), during one of the Vietnam levels he tries (tries) to explains the games suffers from You ALL Look Familiar when you fight the Vietnamese mooks, but each time It Comes Out Wrong as him using this trope, to his own annoyance. | |
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Arrested Development: Michael Bluth, trying to prove what a good person he is, offers a ride to someone he thinks is his mother's Latina housekeeper, Lupe, when he sees her waiting for the bus. Unfortunately, she is a actually a total stranger name Helen who speaks no English, and she panics when Michael refuses to let her out of his car (because he thinks it would be impolite to not drive her all the way), rending the situation an instance of Accidental Kidnapping. Michael is eventually arrested for kidnapping Helen, but walks free when she is unable to pick him out from a police lineup with four other white guys. | |
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The Rick and Morty episode "Rick and Morty's Thanksploitation Spectacular" features a convoluted plot in which Rick turns himself into a turkey to get a pardon from the president and the president turns a squad of soldiers into turkeys because humans can't tell turkeys apart. It's then played straight when a bartender looks at the president and a mutant turkey/human hybrid created using the president's DNA and can't tell them apart despite the latter's obvious turkey bits. The bartender casually concludes he's a racist. | |
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One Cracked article has a casino worker with dwarfism being mistaken for another dwarf working at the same place. A woman with dwarfism, mind you. | |
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An African version happens in The Dogs of War. After Shannon's mercenaries leading a force of African soldiers launches a successful coup d'état, his employer Endean says the Africans will do to hold the country until their puppet dictator establishes his own force, as most European diplomats can't tell one African from another. Shannon asks, "Can you?" but Endean dismisses the question which he shouldn't have as the Africans that Shannon has recruited aren't mercenaries; they're from the local immigrant population and Shannon has just seized power on behalf of their leader. | |
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King of the Hill: When the family visits Japan, Hank's Japanese half-brother manages to get them access into a major media event by convincing the security guard that Hank is Tom Brokaw. In another episode, Ted Wassanasong and another man speak in Chinese and Hank asks Kahn (a Laotian) to translate. However, Ted Wassanason is also Laotian. He just happens to speak Chinese as well. Played straight in the Souphanousinphones' debut episode, where the main four guys ask Kahn if he is Chinese or Japanese... then ask again upon being told that he's Laotian. But it's averted in the next episode, as Cotton of all people is able to correctly identify Kahn as Laotian at first glance, after being told that he was Japanese by Dale. Of course, Cotton would know exactly what Japanese people look like, he killed fiddy of them. |
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Judge Dee: Used for Deliberate Values Dissonance in "Murder in Canton", when the (Han Chinese) judge says he can't tell the Arabs in Canton apart from each other. | |
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Killing and Dying: On improv night Jesse gets up on stage after a black man who made a successful joke about angry white men wanting to say the n-word. After she tries to launch a joke off another black man she accuses his set of being low-hanging fruit before it's pointed out to her that it's a totally different guy. She has to uncomfortably disclaim that she doesn't think all black men look alike. | |
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Kunal Nayyar discusses in this interview about getting mistaken for other South-Asian actors, such as Kumail Nanjiani, Kal Penn, and Aziz Ansari. He is not even the same nationality as any of them, as Nanjiani was born in Pakistan and Penn and Ansari were both born in the US to Indian parents. | |
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Just Shoot Me!: Jack gets Mistaken for Racist due to misidentifying a Chinese-American man in his employ for a Japanese-American businessman he was set to meet. Both of them later express annoyance after the two meet in an elevator. | |
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag has this conversation between Edward Kenway and a Black Assassin. | |
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In the 2011 remake of The Green Hornet, Kato was played by Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou, but several sources, included IMDb, mistakenly credited John Cho, who is Korean-American and around 10 years older. The confusion might also have had something to do with their similar-sounding names. However, Cho was a good sport about it, saying on Twitter, "I am beginning to suspect that I am not in the Green Hornet movie." | |
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From 1998 up to 2017, WWE curiously never allowed more than one Asian woman on a television show at a time. A brief sample: Lena Yada was removed from shows as Angela Fong came onto them, Fong was removed for Sonia and both were moved and eventually removed entirely for a returning Gail Kim, whose absence had earlier made room for Hiroko Suzuki. This wasn't lost on Fong, or Malia Hosoka (from earlier in the chain), who in companies lacking this Asian female phobia, made antagonistic remarks about how much Su Yung (Sonia) looked like her (Fong, and despite both being Chinese Yung really doesn't) or was moving in on her "spot" (Hosaka). | |
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Joueur du Grenier: Fred starts making such a joke while commenting on the Japanese Spider-Man series, but he is cut short by a censoring alarm. In the Rambo videogame adaptations episode, during his review of Rambo: The Video Game (a 2014 rail-shooter based on the original trilogy), during one of the Vietnam levels he tries (tries) to explains the games suffers from You ALL Look Familiar when you fight the Vietnamese mooks, but each time It Comes Out Wrong as him using this trope, to his own annoyance. |
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Done subtly in The Walking Dead with Lee and Clementine. Pretty much everyone assumes they're father and daughter because they both appear black. Christa however, herself also black, immediately recognizes they aren't related and even calls it obvious, being able to notice the more subtle differences in their facial features such as Clementine's Asian features. | |
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The Psesah University police in Schlock Mercenary provide an exaggerated example, being unable to tell a human from a carbosilicate amorph. The amorph does not take kindly to this. | |
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In The Pinkertons episode "The Fourth Man", one of the murder suspects refers to the Japanese Kenji Harada as "some Chinese fellow". | |
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In one Superman comic, when the second Bloodsport, a white supremacist, recognises Black Daily Planet reporter Ron Troupe from a previous encounter, Ron snarks "You remember me? I thought we all looked alike." | |
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The Nostalgia Critic: In "The Top 11 Best Avatar Episodes", Critic confuses Dante Basco with Dev Patel, and this angers Dante so much that he punches Critic down into the comment section. In "The Plot to Frozen 2", Anna mistakes a random black background character in a green dress for Princess Tiana, referencing cross-movie theories in the fandom. Elsa thinks that's racist and exiles Anna. |
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GradeAUnderA made an entire video about this trope, where he issues a series of tests designed to (jokingly) prove to the viewer that they are racist. The first test has him showing the viewer three different Asian women, saying that one of them is from China, one of them is from Japan, and one of them is from Korea. It turns out that none of them were from either China or Korea. Two of them were Japanese, and the other one was a Laotian-American drag queen named Jujubee. | |
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The Death of Achilles: The Caucasian Fandorin, frustrated at Japanese Masa's vague description of a suspect, says "We all l-look alike to him." | |
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Inspector Rex: This stereotype is present in the chapter "Ombre cinesi" (Chinese shadows). A bus driver who helped Shu Lin to escape from the villain tells Morini that all Chinese are similar, but the girl [Shu Lin] is beautiful. Fabbri is not content with that stereotype. | |
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Starsky & Hutch: A Chinese suspect admits he can't tell the titular detectives more about the guys that hired him because they were white and "all you guys look alike to me". Hutch doesn't take any offense at the comment and notes white people have the same issue with "orientals". | |
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In one episode of Seinfeld, George remarks that his boss looks like boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, to which his boss replies "I suppose we all look alike to you". George spends the rest of the episode trying to prove that he's not racist. | |
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Lampshaded in an episode of The Musketeers, with black rather than Asian people. Porthos's manipulative and evil blood father gives him a miniature painting of a random black woman claiming that it was of his mother. Porthos of course knows exactly what his mother looked like, and the incident causes him to recognize what a villain his father is. | |
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In the American version of The Office episode "A Benihana Christmas", Michael Scott (after several drinks) was confused as to which of the two Asian waitresses brought back from the episode's eponymous restaurant was with him. They even switch actresses when the waitresses come to the office. Michael goes as far as to mark the arm of the correct waitress with a sharpie. | |
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Dad's Army. While guarding an Italian POW camp, the platoon use a Circular Drive to convince an officer that there's a full headcount, by running the same Italians through the same hut. This trope inevitably comes up. | |
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From Our Dumb World's entry on China: "1999: NATO mistakenly bombs the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia, claiming all the buildings look exactly the same." | |
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Parodied in an episode of 30 Rock. Jack Donaghy has a meeting with a group of scientists from India, who accidentally call him "John Donovan" and dismissively remark that all American names sound alike to them. For added humor, a delivery boy who looks exactly like Jack (and who like Jack, is also played by Alec Baldwin) later shows up, and one of the scientists wonders aloud if it's racist to think the two white guys look alike. | |
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M*A*S*H: In a season two episode, the Korean liaison officer semi-sarcastically explains the difficulty in finding the father of a half-American baby as, "You all look alike to us." There are also several episodes that deal with or make reference to the difficulty in people being able to tell the difference between Japanese, Chinese and Korean people. An Asian blackmarket salesmen posing as a general even uses the trope to deflect suspicion away from himself, claiming, "We all look the same." In the finale, Klinger's Korean fiancée (played by Rosalind Chao, Chinese-American) is looking for her family, whom she describes several times as "Short, dark hair?" |
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Rome: Cleopatra does this with Marc Antony as part of their verbal sparring when they meet again in Season 2. Cleopatra claims not to remember him from when he was with Julius Caesar in Egypt. "It's those uniforms you wear. You all look alike." | |
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Law & Order: In "Conspiracy", a member of a Black nationalist group snarks that he can't identify a white man accused of killing the group's leader, because white people all look alike to him. Subverted though when he does identify the suspect. In "The Pursuit of Happiness", a defendant's lawyer tries to argue that a key witness, who is Korean, is incapable of telling non-Asians apart and could therefore not correctly identify the Puerto Rican defendant. Ben Stone is disgusted and has to argue that the witness is reliable because the study the defense is relying on looked at more segregated communities and the witness has lived in New York City his entire life surrounded by a melting pot. Another episode has a Japanese defendant argue that a Chinese-American witness is unable to tell non-Chinese Asians apart. |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: The Pakleds confuse Captain Freeman, who's black, for Captain Janeway, who's white, because both are female humans in Starfleet. Then again, the Pakleds aren't exactly the sharpest crayons in the box. | |
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In Radiant Historia, Gafka, a member of a gorilla-like race, claims that all humans look the same to him. | |
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In an episode of Dollhouse, Sierra mugs and replaces a Japanese-American NSA agent named Ms. Sato. Somehow, nobody is able to tell them apart despite the two women looking nothing alike (and Sierra's actress being visibly biracial to boot). Though she does infiltrate the building among a large number of employees. | |
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In Diamond and Silver's Excellent Adventure, when forced to choose between Baron Zeppeli (a zebra) and an impostor, Diamond Tiara realizes the real Zeppeli is black with white stripes, while the impostor is white with black stripes. At that point, Silver Spoon chimes in that she still can't tell the difference between the two zebras. | |
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Fire Island: Implied Trope. One of the white men in Charlie's circle assumes Howie and Noah (who are both East Asian but look nothing alike) are dating and comments that it's cute when couples look alike. | |
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Quite a few of Chris Tucker's lines throughout the Rush Hour series refer to this, along with every other crude Asian stereotype in the book. During a fight with a gang of Triads in Rush Hour 2 he accidentally punches Jackie's character in the face: | |
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The Professionals. In "Need to Know", Special Branch arrest a high-ranking MI5 executive who is spying for the Chinese. The KGB decide to snatch and interrogate him, figuring the Chinese will be blamed, and bring in a couple of Soviet Asiatics for the job. It's downplayed as a KGB man says they don't really look Chinese, but his boss says that they'll have facial disguises to further sell the illusion. | |
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Case Closed discusses this in the episode introducing James Black. Kidnappers mistake Black for the wealthy American owner of a trained dolphin show. Conan explains to the Detective Boys that, just as All Asians Are Alike to many Westerners, all Caucasians look alike to many Asians. At the same time, this is subverted when Conan is able to differentiate Black from the show-owner because he speaks English with a British rather than Texan accent (at least for the show's purposes. However, he actually speaks it with a "Japanese actor reading phonetically" accent). | |
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Scooby-Doo! Team-Up: When Mystery, Inc. goes to Gorilla City, Daphne is worried because all gorillas look the same to her and apologizes for saying it. King Solovar accepts it and says all humans look the same to him. When they meet Gorilla Grodd, he doesn't recognize the gang from the time they helped the Justice League to defeat the Legion of Doom because all humans look the same to him as well. | |
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Flower Drum Song: When Wang's son asks him what the man who robbed him looked like, he says, "Don't ask me what he looked like. All white men look alike." | |
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In Kim's Convenience, a customer in "Rude Kid" thinks Mr. Kim (a Korean immigrant and owner of titular store) looks Japanese, "like that guy in The Last Samurai". | |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: At first, Alex can't recognize Marty from all the zebras. He later subverts it as he realizes all the zebras are white with black stripes except Marty, who's black with white stripes. | |
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Get Smart: The Western on Asian variation is inverted in an episode when an Asian villain, The Craw (no, not the Craw, the Craw!), and his henchmen try repeatedly to kidnap a visiting Scandinavian princess, but keep getting the wrong woman because all white people look alike. In another episode, CONTROL's computer was not able to identify the KAOS agent, who was from a fictional East Asian country, because apparently the computer can't tell the difference between people from there. |
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In an episode of Life on Mars; Sam is questioning an Asian witness about whether he saw a certain white guy, and the witness (used to racism from police) says deliberately that he doesn't know, because white people all look alike. | |
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Saturday Night Live had a Weekend Update in which Michael Che and Colin Jost did a "joke exchange" as their Christmas present to each other. Che's jokes were designed to make Jost look horribly racist, culminating in this. | |
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In Help!, Swami Clang can't tell the Beatles apart: "They look all the same in their similarity and language!" | |
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Korean taxi drivers in Marseilles use this to their advantage in Taxi. It seems like they work 24 hours a day when in fact it's always one car and one taxi license for two drivers, one driving the taxi, one sleeping in the trunk. This goes largely unnoticed because nobody in Marseilles can tell two Koreans from one another. | |
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In the first issue of Steelgrip Starkey and the All-Purpose Power Tool, the Jerkass foreman Arty Blasko tries to identify Sharri's ethnicity using a variety of Asian slurs (she's Filipino). | |
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Jenny Nicholson's "A Star Wars Story" video hinges on this. Throughout the story, the protagonist is travelling with a Bounty Hunter twi'lek woman who has bounty on him, as well as evading other alien bounty hunters. After the pair are finally captured, she shows him his wanted poster... and it's a completely different human. He then asks the alien guards to show their wanted poster, and it's a third completely different human. It turns out, every alien in the galaxy has face blindness to humans. Shortly afterwards, the protagonist gives a rousing speech to a random twi'lek because he thought she was his companion. | |
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Kitsune no Yomeiri: When Ousuke traveled to his girlfriend's homeland, a bunch of fox spirits come up to him and he believes Tsunemaru has multiplied. Tsunemaru soon appears and feels insulted that he was mistaken for children, only for Ousuke to think they all look the same. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the episode "Triple Threat", Dragon Lord Ember mistakes Starlight Glimmer for Twilight Sparkle, even though Twilight has wings and Starlight doesn't. Another episode, "Sweet and Smoky", has Ember mixing up Fluttershy with Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie, even though they are all different colors and the latter two don't have wings. |
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Lampshaded in the Doctor Who serial "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" when the Doctor first meets The Dragon Li H'sen Chiang at the police station. When he asks whether they've met before, Chiang deadpans "I understand we all look the same." Of course, they haven't actually met before, the Doctor merely recognised Chiang from seeing a poster for his theater act. | |
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Exploited in Monster. A young German cop denounces the protagonist Tenma (a Japanese doctor wanted for murder) to his superiors, but after Tenma saves his mother's life, he then lies to his superiors by telling them that his suspect was called Dr. Chang and that he mistook him for Tenma because of his oriental features. | |
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The Great Greene Heist: Mrs. Appleton, the senior administrative assistant, can't tell Hispanic or Asian students apart regardless of their country of ancestry and makes little effort to try. | |
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The Wire: This is combined with the Suspect Is Hatless trope when it comes to trying to get descriptions of black suspects from white witnesses. When Andy Krawczyk witnesses Omar Little seeking revenge on Stringer Bell, he ignores Omar's huge facial scar, distinctive outfit, and can only come up with "big, black, with a large weapon". This is so common that the black police officers laugh it off afterwards as yet another description that boils down to BNBG; Big Negro, Big Gun. It also gets referenced in the fourth season. De'Londa Brice tries to push her son Namond towards continuing the family legacy of being involved in the criminal underworld, and as she starts getting more insistent about it, one of the things she tells Namond to do is to cut his distinctive, enormously frizzy ponytail. The reason why is because it's so distinctive that she says even white police will be able to recognize him due to it. By sheer chance, Herc (a white cop who has thoroughly earned the right to be considered the Dumb Muscle of the major characters), happens to see Avon Barksdale, the drug kingpin that was the target of a special investigation in Season 1, getting out of the prison early after he scammed the prison into a deal reducing his sentence. Nobody believes Herc when he tells them this, however, because of his dumbness and because they simply refuse to believe there's any way Avon could have gotten out so early despite the charges they put him away on. This leads to Kima playfully asking Herc he just saw someone else but all black people look alike to him. She and everyone else is much less amused when they later confirm that Avon really did get out early. |
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Parodied in They Call Me Bruce where the unnamed Korean title character is called 'Bruce' after Bruce Lee because his boss can't bother telling the difference. 'Bruce' then plays up the trope accordingly, posing as a Chinese kung fu warrior or a Japanese samurai whenever he wants to look more badass (the joke being he doesn't know any martial arts). | |
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Inspector Morse: Invoked in "The Settling of the Sun", where the Victim of the Week is Japanese, and another Japanese man is used to establish a false time of death. It's later revealed that the victim is Not Quite Dead; overpowering his Doppelgänger and switching places with him. Apparently none of the conspirators noticed the difference. | |
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The Ultimates: During the Comic-Book Fantasy Casting segment, Jan asks who should play her in a movie. Nick Fury proposes Lucy Liu, causing Jan to complain that she looks nothing like her, and asks if Bruce Lee is his back-up choice. | |
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South Park: In "Conjoined Fetus Lady", all the Chinese kids look alike. One Chinese commentator remarks to the other that he is unable to identify a member of the South Park team, as "all Americans look alike." Also, bizarrely, Kevin Stoley is said to be Chinese-American yet looks totally white. Mr. Lu Kim and the City Sushi owner try to explain the differences between Japan and China to the townspeople. All Canadians look alike to everyone but other Canadians (and possibly Saddam Hussein), who can recognize Ugly Bob's horrible disfigurement. |
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Barney Miller: When an Asian prostitute has been purse-snatched ("Christmas Story"), she looks through the mug books. When she comments to Sgt. Yemana that "they all look alike," he responds, "I know, I'm Japanese too." | |
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Angela Fong has said that when she and Gail Kim were both on the main roster in WWE, they were often mistaken for each other — as the only two Asian females in the company. Angela is Chinese, and Gail is Korean. They are both Canadian though. | |
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Apparently while shooting Wheels on Meals on location in Spain, Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao got into a huge bar brawl one night against a gang of thugs who picked a fight with them. While this would have presumably made a great scene for the movie if anyone had been on hand with a camera, the next morning the Spanish police arrived at the set to arrest Chan and Biao. Not wanting to give up two of their top stars, the production crew instead handed over two of the stunt doubles who resembled them (3 years before Spaceballs made a joke out of this), counting on this trope (and the fact that neither actor was an internationally recognised superstar yet) to keep the police from realising they weren't arresting the right men. To the relief of the production crew, it actually worked. | |
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A lot of people thinks that Mari from Smosh Games and Olivia from the main Smosh channel looks very similar, to the point that Flitz called Olivia a Mari clone. | |
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Educomix: Inverted. Not only do the Asian characters look different from each other, each Asian is a clone of each non-Asian person, so Asia is by necessity as diverse as the rest of the world. | |
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In an exchange from Girlfriends (2000) Toni shows Joan a picture of her new white lover and asks "Doesn't he look just like Brad Pitt?" | |
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Family Guy: A cutaway gag in "A Hero Sits Next Door" shows Peter pissing off Israelis and Palestinians when he says he can't tell them apart. In "Breaking Out is Hard to Do," Peter says "Oh my God, it's Jackie Chan!" to various Asian people, even his sumo wrestling opponent ("Boy, you've put on weight, Jackie Chan!"). He only gets it correct by the 3rd or 4th try. Jackie Chan himself confuses the Griffins for Ethan Hawke (and in the case of Meg, Frankie Muniz). In "Tiegs for Two," it's revealed that Chinese Launderer Mr. Washee Washee thinks all white Americans look like Gene Shalit. |
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Shortcomings: Alice jokes that to the self-hating Ben, all Asian girls look the same. | |
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Less forgivably, in one episode Homer mistakes Little Richard for both Prince and Michael Jackson within thirty seconds. | |
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One Sherlock Holmes parody comic has an Asian henchman claim all white people look the same to him. | |
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The Great White Hope: How Jack escapes from the cops staking out his house, before eventually fleeing the country. A Negro League baseball team pays a visit, Jack changes clothes with one of the baseball players, and then leaves with the rest. Because, as Jack says, "You hear that sayin how all n***s look alike!" | |
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In an episode of Drawn Together, Princess Clara wears a helmet that lets her see how Asian people view the world. One test is a picture of two identical Asian men which she now sees as "two guys who look completely different". | |
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On Sabrina the Teenage Witch a Chinese restaurant delivery man hears Salem talking and captures him, saying that he can make enough money off of him to move back to Tokyo. Salem sarcastically wonders what a Japanese guy is doing working at a Chinese restaurant. | |
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In a DVD commentary for House of Flying Daggers, director Zhang Yimou admitted that he added in a new introduction scene for Andy Lau's character, who was originally supposed to be introduced already on an undercover mission, so that Western audiences wouldn't think he was two different characters. He and costar Zhang Ziyi then stated that they sometimes had trouble telling Western movie stars apart. In a separate commentary, he mentioned that he also had Lau eat peanuts in all his initial scenes in order to help audiences subconsciously identify him in his different roles. | |
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