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This trope is under discussion in the Trope Repair Shop. A variation on the Odd Couple, involving a white person and a black person. Usually, the white person is a strait-laced by-the-book type, while the black person is a funky, urban type who doesn't have much respect for authority. Most commonly, they're cops, assigned as partners after their old partners die/get disgusted and walk away. Generally, the two will make a fairly good team if they can work out the personality clashes, with the strengths of one covering for the weaknesses of the other. And there's a better-than-even chance they'll wind up as unlikely friends before the story is over. This trope tends to get subverted nowadays due to increased racial awareness so that it's the white person who's a rebellious hothead, while the black person is smart and savvy. Another common subversion is for the black guy to be uptight and the white guy to be relaxed. An alternate version is a pairing of a white character with a Hispanic character called a Cafe con Leche. Please note, however, that the characters being of two different races isn't enough for this trope; there must also be some kind of contrast in their personalities for it to work. For American media, this may be more common in the movies (such as Lethal Weapon, Die Hard or Die Hard with a Vengeance) than on TV as television shows often seem more segregated. Subtrope to Red Oni, Blue Oni. See also Token Black Friend. Irishman and a Jew is an older variation of this trope. If they're not different races, the trope is All Work vs. All Play. Not to be confused with the 90s hip hop group. |
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The Brazilian movie The Elite Squad features childhood friends Matias and Neto, both are honest, wide eyed idealistic cops, the difference being that Matias is more rational and sensible, while Neto was impulsive and emotional. Following Neto's murder, Matias turns into a Cowboy Cop and becomes more brutal as he is driven to avenge his best friend's death. | |
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Houston rappers Paul Wall and Chamillionaire. | |
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Parodied when one episode of Clone High involved the Gandhi clone and the George Washington Carver clone making a buddy cop movie, in which they played strait-laced, Harvard-educated Leon Black (Carver) and Tandoori Jones (Gandhi), "...a typical Indian cop who plays by his own rules: none! Together they are Black and Tan!" | |
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Yet another villainous example occurs in Tales of Legendia. Interestingly enough, both are Big Bads but don't work together so much as one plays off the other's mistakes to further their goals; making for an exploitive inversion of how the trope is usually meant to work. Of the two, Vaclav is the Ambiguously Brown brawler who has no regard for even the rules of his own country, never seems to have much of a plan beyond "Kill 'em all and let the flames sort it out" and has a much more relaxed attitude (although he's far from Affably Evil). The pasty-skinned Maurits, on the other hand, is a textbook chessmaster who exploits the flaws in Vaclav's plans to lay the foundations for advancing his own goals. A straight, heroic example would be Jay and Moses. | |
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Cloak & Dagger (2018) has Tyrone Johnson, whose dedication to being perfect is born of his parents' fear of what could happen to a black man if he ever made a mistake, team up with Tandy Bowen a white petty thief with a drug problem. | |
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Bleach gives us Urahara and Yoruichi, which play this trope straight and invert it. When it comes to their everyday personalities, Yoruichi is a vivacious flirtatious pepper while Urahara is a hard-to-read trickster salt. However, when it comes to mentoring Ichigo, Urahara is batshit insane white pepper of a Sink or Swim Mentor, while Yoruichi is a calm and controlled black salt whose tests, while equally dangerous, are a lot less wacky. Of course, Yoruichi's Bankai training for Ichigo was created by Urahara. | |
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James Belushi and Tupac Shakur in Gang Related. Both corrupt cops, but Tupac's character is the more sensible of the two. | |
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The Thing (1982): The last two surviving characters standing against the eponymous Thing are Childs, straight-laced Scary Black Man with icy demeanor, and MacReady, alcoholic Brave Scot with devil-may-care attitude towards rules and social niceties. | |
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The live-action The Defenders (2017) series has Luke Cage and Iron Fist, but in this take they're more like the modern inversion of the trope. Luke is older, more experienced and is more or less the Team Dad of the whole group. Danny, by contrast, is the youngest and most hotheaded of the Defenders. | |
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Better Off Ted averts this trope as a joke in Phil and Lem. Got a Lampshade Hanging in one episode, when Ted was using salt and pepper shakers to represent them. They were at first confused about which one was which, but then Lem (the black one) decided he was pepper because he was spicy. Phil agreed that he was "salty, like a sea captain." The punchline being that their personalities are close to identical. (And neither is spicy or salty.) | |
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Angel: Wes and Gunn, who notably reversed roles during the show's run. Wes started out as a strait-laced, tightly-wound British stereotype and evolved into the brooding, morally ambiguous badass that he'd always wanted to be, while Gunn started out running a vampire-hunting street gang but later, thanks to some Applied Phlebotinum, became a sharp-suited lawyer. | |
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CHiPs is a Cafe Con Leche example with the strait-laced Jon Baker and the hot-headed Hispanic Frank "Ponch" Poncherello. | |
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Osmosis Jones is this, on a microcosmic level- Ozzy is a white blood cell paired with a cold pill. The voice actors being Chris Rock and David Hyde Pierce make it apparent from first glance this is the trope they were implying. | |
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Nick and Hank in Grimm with Nick as the level-headed and Hank as the more spicy and sassy character. | |
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Psych: The main characters are the laid-back, street-smart white Shawn and his uptight, eminently nerdy black partner Gus. This was even played upon in a commercial for the show, where they performed "Ebony and Ivory" together. Also, the "Black and Tan" episode. Gus was Tan, Shawn was Black. And how dare you assume otherwise. The one time Gus was allowed to come up with the aliases, all he could think of was "Gus Brown and Shawn White," as it happens. Shawn is laying out the set-up of a restaurant in "Shawn Gets the Yipps". He says that everyone in the restaurant is an object: |
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Tales of Eternia features the mages Keele, a Deadpan Snarker who always has to have the last word and more or less exemplifies The Smart Guy and Meredy, the ditzy seven year-old living in a teenage body. Eventually deconstructed when it's revealed that a) Meredy knows a lot more than anyone realises: she just doesn't "get" Inferian culture (due to coming from a world that's very far down the "Emotions" side of Emotions vs. Stoicism), and b) the reasons as to why she became such a Cloudcuckoolander are horrifying. Her family was betrayed and she was forced to watch her mother cross the Despair Event Horizon: becoming an Eldritch Abomination possessed by a God of Evil. | |
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Ivory (Lisa Moretti) as the manager of the black Face tag team of "Sexual Chocolate" Mark Henry and D'Lo Brown. | |
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On The Simpsons, there are two main Salt and Pepper pairs: Chief Wiggum's right-hand cops Eddie and Lou. Inverted in that Lou is more competent and Eddie doesn't talk much. Also inverted with Homer's friends Lenny and Carl. Lenny is a slacker and Carl is more controlled. KBBL disc jockeys Bill and Marty. Bill is reasonably intelligent, competent and cynical, Marty is more of a Kindhearted Simpleton that Bill openly describes as dead weight. The Simpsons also had another pair on the show within a show "Police Cops". Also Rainier Wolfcastle's series of McBain movies had McBain and Skowie. Played for a one-off gag when Bart is convinced to enroll in a class by a stereotypically cool black guy who promises it will turn him "from sloppa to proper." It's called "The Proper Young Man" and is taught by a middle-aged, very British woman. When Bart complains, she replies "Are you accusing my husband of misleading you? Good heavens, I should bust a cap in your ass." |
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Doris & Mary-Anne Are Breaking Out of Prison has features the white Doris and the black Mary-Anne. Doris is a Talkative Loon whose escape plans frequently slip into outright insanity. Mary-Anne is The Stoic who can only sit in reserved silence as her cellmate rambles. At the end, Doris serves her full sentence, and Mary-Anne is implied to break out. | |
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The Tales Series loves to play around with this one, which is fitting as several of its games really get into the guts of race, and discrimination, tropes and often end up subverting or deconstructing the crap out of them. Tales of Eternia features the mages Keele, a Deadpan Snarker who always has to have the last word and more or less exemplifies The Smart Guy and Meredy, the ditzy seven year-old living in a teenage body. Eventually deconstructed when it's revealed that a) Meredy knows a lot more than anyone realises: she just doesn't "get" Inferian culture (due to coming from a world that's very far down the "Emotions" side of Emotions vs. Stoicism), and b) the reasons as to why she became such a Cloudcuckoolander are horrifying. Her family was betrayed and she was forced to watch her mother cross the Despair Event Horizon: becoming an Eldritch Abomination possessed by a God of Evil. Tales of Destiny has multiple examples: Stahn being a naive, silly but well-meaning white pepper to Woodrow / Garr's calm, collected black salt. Stahn is the Salt when he's paired up with Kongman/Khang... but only because Kongman out-hams absolutely everybody. Another inversion happens with Woodrow and Chelsea. He's still the badass yet wise black salt to her hyperactive, fangirlish white pepper. Rutee and Mary are a played-straight example. Mary is also shown to have this dynamic with her husband. Tales of Destiny 2 gives us another inversion. Kyle is a Hot-Blooded white Kid Hero who will not stop harping on about how he's going to be a true hero some day. Loni is a much calmer Chivalrous Pervert Big Brother Mentor Token Black Friend who generally tries to keep Kyle out of trouble with mixed results. Loni has a similar dynamic with his love interest, the Fiery Redhead Nanaly. Played straight with the villains; Elraine and Barbatos. However, this one proves very much that Tropes Are Not Bad because it was the latter who went on to become a Memetic Badass (in hindsight, Norio Wakamoto's voice may have helped) while Elraine is largely forgotten by the Tales community. Tales of Rebirth is another inversion. Eugene, the closest thing the 'verse has to a Scary Black Man, looks like the pepper but turns out to be an extremely sane Team Dad. The whites, on the other hand, are varying degrees of Idiot Hero, Hot-Blooded and Leeroy Jenkins. However, the naive idealism of the latter ends up saving the day just as many times as the former's logic. Furthermore, after the Disk-One Final Boss, Eugene becomes infected with its negative emotions and it's revealed that his wise, stoic personality is being deliberately invoked by him to try and desperately suppress the rage that's building up due to all of the Fantastic Racism. A played-straight example from the same game is Saleh (salt) and Tomah (pepper). However, in this case, they both run around the world kicking puppies, manipulating innocents and tormenting anyone they can victimize just because they can. Played with the Halfs (yes, they're the same race, but it Makes Sense In Context) Hilda and the darker-toned Militsa. Hilda is a white pepper effectively trying to pass as salt, while Militsa is a black salt who clearly wishes she could be more peppery but just finds it easier to bottle everything up and be a by-the-book Punch-Clock Villain. The dynamic continues even after Hilda's Heel–Face Turn. It's different planets as opposed to ethnic backgrounds in Tales of Symphonia, but Lloyd Irving, who is steadfastly committed to his principles of goodness and righteousness, and Zelos Wilder, a Chaotic Neutral Chivalrous Pervert, clearly have the makings of this trope going on. In the same vein, so do Love Freak Colette and Action Girl Sheena. In terms of race, the elf Genis is the salt to Lloyd's pepper. This dynamic continues even after Genis is revealed to be a Half-Elf. Yet another villainous example occurs in Tales of Legendia. Interestingly enough, both are Big Bads but don't work together so much as one plays off the other's mistakes to further their goals; making for an exploitive inversion of how the trope is usually meant to work. Of the two, Vaclav is the Ambiguously Brown brawler who has no regard for even the rules of his own country, never seems to have much of a plan beyond "Kill 'em all and let the flames sort it out" and has a much more relaxed attitude (although he's far from Affably Evil). The pasty-skinned Maurits, on the other hand, is a textbook chessmaster who exploits the flaws in Vaclav's plans to lay the foundations for advancing his own goals. A straight, heroic example would be Jay and Moses. Tales of Vesperia gives the cool, calm and collected white hero Deadpan Snarker Yuri and his Sixth Ranger, the Ambiguously Brown Chivalrous Pervert Raven. This dynamic is flipped around when it's revealed that Raven is The Mole and is actually the Badass Stoic Captain Schwann. Or Schwann is his Split Personality... Yeah, it's kinda hard to pin down. For exactly the same reasons as Lloyd and Zelos, Jude and Alvin are an inversion. Played straight with Milla and her Loony Fan Ivar, although ultimately deconstructed as her being so salty results in her refusing to take him seriously due to his extremely peppery nature, resulting in what is basically the mother of all fuck-ups as the Dragon with an Agenda's Batman Gambit goes off without a hitch. They both learn from it. |
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Justice League features the inversion with uptight ex-marine John Stewart/Green Lantern paired up with goofball Flash. Stewart also ends up in a (maybe) temporary relationship with Boisterous Bruiser Hawkgirl. |
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LA Heat: Chase is a white Cowboy Cop, a younger risk-taker who likes to live on the edge and is passionate about his job, outside police work he makes metal sculptures, enjoys health food. August is the black more experienced By-the-Book Cop, a Vietnam veteran and former pro boxer, outside police work runs a boxing center for underprivileged kids, and likes to eat hamburgers and bacon to annoy Chase. | |
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Inverted in Cape Town with the white, anti-social and borderline suicidal Mat Joubert and his clean-cut, black partner (and former Hawks member) Sanctus Snook. | |
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Half-Life 2 and sequel episodes: Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance (although by her facial complexion, Alyx's mother could have been white or Asian). Gordon is the strong, silent type; Alyx is a tomboy who does all the talking. | |
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Common Law: Plays this straight with Detectives Travis Marks and Wesley Mitchell. Travis (black) is unpredictable and frequently ignores the rules, while Wes (white) is straight-laced and by the book. | |
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Community: The episode The Science of Illusion has Annie and Shirley acting as campus security. The joke, however, is that they're both trying to be the bad cop... | |
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Several times in the National Wrestling Alliance, including many of the other examples listed on this page. One of the more successful examples also worth mentioning are world tag team champions Skull Krushers, who competed with the straight pepper Dark City Fight Club. Keith Walker the more serious salt to pepper counterpart, Rasche Brown, Jon Davis being the more series pepper to another pepper Kory Chavis. | |
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There's also Turner and Hooch (a black and white surgeon duo brought together by Turk and J.D. for the pun on their names) and a Cafe con Leche pairing in Elliot and Carla. Season 9 introduced the Salt and Pepper pairing of Captain Melvis Duncook and Lieutenant Frank Underhill, campus security for Winston University. | |
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Dr. Facilier (pepper) and Lawrence (salt) in The Princess and the Frog. Inverted in that Facilier is the Big Bad and Lawrence is the Bumbling Sidekick. | |
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Jump Start: Inverted with Sunny and her best friend Dexter, since Sunny is definitely the most level-headed of the two. Played more straight with Jojo and his best friend Benny. | |
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Averted by LayCool, the heel Diva team of Layla El and Michelle McCool that terrorized SmackDown! from 2009 to 2011. Although Layla was of mixed race (North African and European) and Michelle was white, as a team they more or less behaved the same way (snobby and obnoxious). Before they teamed up, however, they each played the trope rather straight: Michelle was prim, while Layla was spunky. | |
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Boston Public: Principal Stephen Harper and Vice Principal Scott Guber. It's noteworthy that the very large, intimidating Harper is the empathetic and diplomatic Reasonable Authority Figure, whereas slightly built, unremarkable, white Guber is the hard-assed but scrupulously even-handed disciplinarian. | |
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Tales of Vesperia gives the cool, calm and collected white hero Deadpan Snarker Yuri and his Sixth Ranger, the Ambiguously Brown Chivalrous Pervert Raven. This dynamic is flipped around when it's revealed that Raven is The Mole and is actually the Badass Stoic Captain Schwann. Or Schwann is his Split Personality... Yeah, it's kinda hard to pin down. | |
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One funny parody had Larry Wilmore making this a Discussed Trope in regards to Barack Obama's search for a vice presidential running mate. Film clips illustrated how over the years black leads have been teamed up with cops, nerdy guys, dogs, "Gene Wilder...Gene Wilder...Gene Wilder...It was a different time." This leads into a further discussion of the Magical Negro trope (as in The Green Mile, The Legend of Bagger Vance, and Kazaam) as it would apply to Obama. | |
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Scrubs: Turk and J.D, although they're really both giant dorks - Turk is only the "cooler", more grounded one by comparison. There's also Turner and Hooch (a black and white surgeon duo brought together by Turk and J.D. for the pun on their names) and a Cafe con Leche pairing in Elliot and Carla. Season 9 introduced the Salt and Pepper pairing of Captain Melvis Duncook and Lieutenant Frank Underhill, campus security for Winston University. |
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For a surprisingly long time, Booker T and Goldust were a successful tag team, with Booker (the black one, if you didn't know) playing the more serious half, while Goldust was, well, Goldust. | |
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In Keepers of the Elements, there are two notable subversions. With Travis and Milah, Travis is the straight-laced, by the book one and Milah is is the more outgoing, risk-taking one. The other subversion is that of Nasira and Hasim, Nasira being the straight-laced one and Hasim is the fun loving one, who while he doesn't go against the rules, is certainly more flexible when it comes to them. | |
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Django Unchained plays this straight on both sides of the conflict. Django, the badass, works alongside Guile Hero King Schultz, and Calvin Candie's slave Stephen is his Dragon-in-Chief. Notably, both villains are disposed of by their same-race counterparts. | |
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Emperor Uriel Septim's bodyguards, The aggressive and on-edge Imperial named Glenroy and calm and friendly Redguard named Baurus, in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. | |
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Homicide: Life on the Street: Plays a variation with Pembleton and Bayliss. Black Pembleton is a tightly wound intellectual with an unforgiving set of morals. White Bayliss was nakedly emotional and always wanted to see everyone's viewpoint. | |
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Whateley Universe: Roommates black Toni Chandler (Chaka) and white Nikki Reilly (Fey). Chaka is also way more relaxed about their mutual problem, while Fey is wound tight enough that she accidentally pops out hobgoblins regularly. Also Chaka (smart-alecky black girl) and Bladedancer (Tao-driven Oriental girl), most blatantly when Bladedancer went home with Chaka for Christmas. |
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Detritus and Cuddy (and later Littlebottom) in Discworld are a troll/dwarf partnership. Trolls being naturally stone-cool, and dwarfs being fairly uptight. | |
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On Total Drama, the lanky white nerd Harold with Sassy Black Woman Leshawna, though they were never a team until Total Drama Action. He also has a huge and obvious crush on her which she seems to eventually reciprocate. | |
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MADtv (1995): One sketch spoofed this trope in a bit called "Night and Day", about a male black cop forced to partner with an albino woman. They learn to work together while taking cover in the villain's lair, conveniently fronted by a blackboard and whiteboard factory. | |
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Several of the central characters of Brooklyn Nine-Nine fit the trope when partnering up. Jake Peralta is a wisecracking goofball who doesn't like rules, and often pairs up with much more stoic, by-the-book partners. Rosa Diaz, similarly, is a violent hothead with an aversion to the "nerd stuff" that sometimes comes with cop work, though she also struggles with emotional honesty. Captain Raymond Holt is by-the-book and so stoic he's compared to a statue. That said, in his personal life, this trope is flipped. To his academic husband and their friends (also all in academia or classical music, or similar professions), the extremely dry wit of Raymond Holt is thought of as him being the funniest person they know, and his job is considered a rugged, manly career. Jake's romantic partner Amy Santiago is a rule loving stoic student of Holt's methods, with a obsessive love of paperwork. Precinct Sergeant Terry Jeffords is a bit more relaxed by comparison, but is still a definite by-the-book family man to provide contrast to Jake. And, on the rare occasions that Doug Judy, the Pontiac Bandit, gets involved in a case with Jake, he often ends up working with Jake and, by virtue of being an actual criminal trying to coax Jake into doing crime, makes Jake seem like the stoic, by-the-book, uptight detective if only by comparison. That said, no person in the Precinct is humourless, especially when everybody participates in friendly precinct competitions, like the regular Halloween episodes, or the sporadic Jimmy-Jab Games, at which point this trope is a complete aversion. |
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X-Men: Evolution had a rivals version of this trope between the calm but less formal black Storm and the ladylike but tantrum-prone white—or rather, light blue—Mystique. | |
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The Daily Show: One funny parody had Larry Wilmore making this a Discussed Trope in regards to Barack Obama's search for a vice presidential running mate. Film clips illustrated how over the years black leads have been teamed up with cops, nerdy guys, dogs, "Gene Wilder...Gene Wilder...Gene Wilder...It was a different time." This leads into a further discussion of the Magical Negro trope (as in The Green Mile, The Legend of Bagger Vance, and Kazaam) as it would apply to Obama. |
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Static Shock with Static being the funky, quick-tongue, while Gear was the more calculative and nerdy one. They were both pretty nerdy actually, and Richie only became smarter with his power, whearas before Virgil was much smarter. |
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In early Robin (1993) stories, two of Tim and Ives' friends who are never seen apart are the short, serious, practical Black and Nerdy Keven Hudman and the vaguely Latino/White impulsive, reckless and excitable Hudson. Later writers seemed to forget these were separate characters and merged them into one mostly resembling Hudson. | |
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Ready Jet Go!: Jet's best friends, Sean and Sydney. Sean is the Salt — he's a neurotic, uptight, fact-driven white guy. Sydney is the Pepper — she's an imaginative, laid-back, fun-loving black girl. Despite their wildly different personalities, Sean and Sydney are great friends. | |
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Quantum and Woody (uptight middle-class black guy, street-smart white guy, sharing a power á la The Defiant Ones) was a later take on the Heroes for Hire idea by Christopher Priest, who used to write the comic. Quantum and Woody are even briefly shown dressed as Luke and Danny during a costume shop montage. | |
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Stuck's leads, Tre and Nora. He's a black Genius Ditz with a slacker complex, while she's a white Stepford Snarker who can be uptight at times, depending on her mood. They end up in a happy relationship (which has its ups and downs). | |
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At ECW November to Remember 95, there was a tag team match with the Sandman (Salt) and 2 Cold Scorpio (Pepper) vs. the Public Enemy (Salt and Salt). Before the match, there was a dance contest. Scorpio danced well. Sandman...didn't. Although, in his defense, this was clearly intentional. | |
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In WWE, The World's Greatest Tag Team. A subversion in that Shelton Benjamin (the black one) is the relatively straight one (though he's still an insufferable self-centered ass), and Charlie Haas (the white one) is a veritable Jive Turkey (to quote Rory, one of the Highlanders, "I didn't know Charlie Haas was black!"). When they were working for Kurt Angle, however, their personalities were pretty much interchangeable. | |
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And similar (being an Affectionate Parody), Robin Hood: Men in Tights had the very British Robin Hood with Hatchoo, who is so Jive Turkey that he wears his hat backwards.. | |
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Red Dwarf: Although this show is set in the far future where contemporary notions of race may not apply, the extremely uptight Rimmer (played by white British actor Chris Barrie) and the laid-back, slobby Lister (played by half-West-Indian half-Irish Brit Craig Charles) fulfill this trope. (You could probably also throw in Holly and the Cat.) However, Lister wasn't written specifically as a "black character". In fact, when the show's creators first wrote the script they imagined him as looking a lot like Christopher Lloyd in Taxi. | |
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Degrassi: Had JT and Liberty. JT, the white one in the pairing, was humorous, relaxed, and not very smart. Liberty was a teen genius, didn't have a sense of humour, and was always worrying. They end up falling in love. Also there is the friendship of Jimmy, the cool guy who can rap, dance, and play basketball, with the Spinner who's tough but can't dance because he's white. It's an Averted Trope with Hazle who tries to be just like Paige. |
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Marvel Universe: Iron Fist (white martial arts master raised in an other-dimensional city) and Power Man (wrongfully accused black ex-con living in Times Square and freelancing as a superhero) in Heroes for Hire. Both were created in the '70s during the kung-fu and blaxploitation crazes. Best Odd Couple ever. From the same era are the Daughters of the Dragon: the Asian Colleen Wing and black Misty Knight, combining inspirations from Charlie's Angels and Cleopatra Jones. The Incredible Hulk: The supervillain duo Hammer and Anvil are Marvel's homage to The Defiant Ones. He's a Politically Incorrect Villain who hates black people named Johnny Anvil, and he's an "Angry Black Man" Stereotype who Hates Everyone Equally named Leroy "Hammer" Jackson. Together, they're a pair of escaped convicts whose powers and lives are linked by the chain that binds them. They commit crime! Iron Man: Tony Stark and his best friend, James "Rhodey" Rhodes. Their roles are subverted since Tony's reckless and flamboyant while Rhodey's a strait-laced colonel in the U.S. Air Force. Captain America and his African-American partner, the Falcon. They don't team up as often as they used to, but they avert this trope, as both are very straitlaced. U.S.Agent and Battlestar are a b-list Anti-Hero Substitute to Cap and the Falcon. Agent is the more violent of the two, while Battlestar is more sensible. |
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Human Target: Inverted Trope by the supporting pair of Guerrero & Winston. Winston's the black retired cop, Guerrero's the white semi-retired criminal. Also opposites in size, since Chi McBride is about a foot taller and a good bit wider than Jackie Earle Haley. | |
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Josh and Brittany in Mr. Meaty. Brittany is an African girl who's very popular, and well-liked. She hangs out with Ashley and Ashley 2. Though she's not as shallow as the two girls, and the smartest of them. Josh is the slacker. he's into making monster films, music, and talking to girls. In the last few episodes before series cancellation, it's revealed he likes Brittany. In subsequent (aired OOO), Brittany speaks to him in school, and he slams his hand in his locker door, then follows after her. They go on a date to the movies, where they make out, and in last episode, Josh refers to her as his girlfriend. He later, in the episode preceding the last, tells her he loves her. She feels the same, and they hug. | |
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Samuel L. Jackson was paired with Geena Davis in The Long Kiss Goodnight, first as Scary Black Man and Scared White Captive, then it looked like it would be played straight, then it was inverted after Geena recovered her memory of being a pro assassin, and became scarier. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Tony Stark, irreverent playboy whose approach to life is Screw the Rules, I Have Money!, and his best friend James Rhodes an upright military man who believes in the chain of command. Serious, dour Fish out of Temporal Water Steve Rogers and upbeat Pop-Cultured Badass Sam Wilson. Sam Wilson teamed up with Bucky Barnes for the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Sam and Bucky are arguably a better example of the trope (than Steve & Sam) because there is a more obvious contrast in their personalities. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier also features a more-or-less Beta Couple version of this trope with the characters of John Walker and Lemar Hoskins. Doctor Strange, whose approach to life is "Screw the rules, I have talent" and Mordo, who is so dedicated to following rules that he leaves the order and goes on a killing spree when he finds out the Ancient One broke them. T'Challa, whose dedication to following Wakanda's ancient laws borders on Lawful Stupid, teams up with Everett Ross, a white American CIA agent who is comfortable with Dirty Business. Before becoming Director, boisterous swaggering Nick Fury was partnered with quiet, friendly, and deceptively generic looking Phil Coulson. Spider-Man: Far From Home had the trip chaperones, white nerdy sad-sack Harrington, and black Motor Mouth Cloud Cuckoolander Dell. Ant-Man has ancillary characters that fit this trope: Those Two Guys Kurt and Dave. Kurt doesn't talk much, and has a very calm demeanor and manner of speaking, while Dave is more expressive and excitable. It's implied that Hank Pym and Bill Foster were this when they worked together. |
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Iron Man: Tony Stark and his best friend, James "Rhodey" Rhodes. Their roles are subverted since Tony's reckless and flamboyant while Rhodey's a strait-laced colonel in the U.S. Air Force. | |
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Blood: The Last Vampire, the Alternate Continuity predecessor of Blood+, features different versions of David and Lewis. | |
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The Vampire Diaries has a personality reversed version of this with Bonnie and Caroline. Bonnie is the African-American cool-headed capable witch, and Caroline is the short tempered, blonde Girly Bruiser. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Pulled this off (inadvertently probably) with Captain Sisko and his second-in-command the Sassy White Woman, Major Kira. In the late 24th century where the show takes place, it's fairly certain race and even gender don't carry the same meaning as they do today, but as with most things Star Trek, they are other parallels within the show reflecting contemporary issues. Sisko is a career Starfleet officer while Kira is a hero of guerrilla warfare. And while initially, they butt heads, they come to find they both are fiercely loyal to justice, and both will tolerate absolutely no crap from anyone. Even each other. | |
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The L Word: An unusual example. Tasha's black and the straitlaced one, a quiet soldier dating Alice, her girlfriend who's white plus far more unconventional. | |
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Pulp Fiction has the duo of Jules Winnfield (a loud Scary Black Man played by Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (a soft-spoken, slightly dorky white guy played by John Travolta). Both are prone to moments of deep philosophical insight, leading to a lot of Sophisticated as Hell Seinfeldian Conversation. Just to clarify, "Vega" can be a Russian surname instead of a Spanish one. So this isn't necessarily "Cafe Con Pepper." | |
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It's different planets as opposed to ethnic backgrounds in Tales of Symphonia, but Lloyd Irving, who is steadfastly committed to his principles of goodness and righteousness, and Zelos Wilder, a Chaotic Neutral Chivalrous Pervert, clearly have the makings of this trope going on. In the same vein, so do Love Freak Colette and Action Girl Sheena. In terms of race, the elf Genis is the salt to Lloyd's pepper. This dynamic continues even after Genis is revealed to be a Half-Elf. |
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Spider-Man: Far From Home had the trip chaperones, white nerdy sad-sack Harrington, and black Motor Mouth Cloud Cuckoolander Dell. | |
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Gargoyles: Half-black half-Native American Detective Elisa Maza, despite everything she's seen, doesn't believe in anything until she sees it herself. She's partnered with the Caucasian (and apparently Jewish) Conspiracy Theorist Matt Bluestone. | |
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Black Mirror: Yorkie and Kelly on the episode 'San Junipero.' Yorkie is white, introverted, dorky to the point of wearing glasses she doesn't need in a virtual reality world, and wants to live forever; Kelly is black, outgoing, confident, and wants to live life while it lasts. | |
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No less than three sets in King of New York: drug lord Frank White (salt) and his right-hand goon Jimmy Jump (pepper), Frank's Bodyguard Babes Melanie (salt) and Raye (pepper), and Rabid Cops Denis Gilley (salt) and Tommy Flanigan (pepper). | |
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The APA, Bradshaw and Faarooq are probably wrestling's most famous example. Bradshaw is the fun-loving Boisterous Bruiser from Texas and Farooq is the no-nonsense Scary Black Man from Georgia. When they are not beating people up (usually for money, since their gimmick was being hired muscle), they are most likely seen in the back drinking beer and playing poker. | |
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Parodied beautifully in the Cleopatra Schwartz segment of The Kentucky Fried Movie, with the titular black woman (an over-the-top action hero) married to a mild-mannered Hassidic Jew. | |
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Law & Order: The seasons featuring Briscoe and Green made this a staple of the show. After Briscoe, Green was partnered with Fontana, Cassidy, and Lupo. After Green, Lupo was partnered with Bernard. When the show was revived, Bernard was partnered with Cosgrove. On the prosecutor's side there's the very first A.D.A.s, Stone and Robinette. | |
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November 11 and April in Darker than Black are, respectively, a cool, collected, and impeccably-dressed charmer and an easygoing black Hard-Drinking Party Girl and dyes her hair bright blue has naturally bright blue hair. They're antagonists, though. | |
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The Rush Hour Trilogy, with the uptight by-the-book character played by Jackie Chan and the streetwise play-by-my-own-rules character played by Chris Tucker. | |
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Mentioned in the Angie Tribeca episode "Tribeca's Day Off", when Geils and Tanner are partners for the day. Lt. Atkins comments that they'll have to figure out how a white man and a black man can work as partners, as if this had never happened before in the history of police work. It turns out that Geils and Tanner have exactly the same taste in music (Public Domain radio), both like "riding shotgun" (so Hoffmann the dog drives the car) and there is no conflict at all. | |
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Tom and Sarah Dubois in The Boondocks are an inversion. Tom is the straightest-laced character in the show; whereas Sarah, his white wife, is at least naughty enough to fileshare, and is irked by her husband's irrational fear of getting caught breaking the law. | |
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Assault on Precinct 13 (1976): When a bunch of criminals and cops have to team up against the implacable Street Thunder gang sieging the titular precinct, white sarcastic Professional Killer with an honour code "Napoleon" Wilson fights together with black hot-headed rookie police detective lt. Bishop against zombie-esque waves of invaders. By the end of the movie, they're full-on Bash Brothers. | |
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The DCU: Firestorm (DC Comics): Firestorm can be this all by himself, since he's a fusion of two separate characters in a single body. The writers tend to like to pick distinctly different personalities (who may not even like each other much). In early Robin (1993) stories, two of Tim and Ives' friends who are never seen apart are the short, serious, practical Black and Nerdy Keven Hudman and the vaguely Latino/White impulsive, reckless and excitable Hudson. Later writers seemed to forget these were separate characters and merged them into one mostly resembling Hudson. |
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Parodied in Futurama, with a Jive Turkey robot cop named URL, partnered to a white human named Smitty. | |
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Splatoon 2 has Off the Hook, consisting of the pale Pearl and the dark-skinned Marina. The typical dynamic is reversed—Pearl is the loud, impulsive, and short-tempered one, while Marina is her calmer and more polite foil. | |
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Lucifer (2016) takes it to cosmic proportions with Amenadiel, who has been a loyal soldier and dutiful son since the dawn of time, and Lucifer who literally invented the concept of "screw the rules". | |
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Jonathan Ingram (white) and Ed Brown (Black) in Policenauts, as direct reference to Lethal Weapon. Ed is older, but other than that they're pretty much exactly as wacky as each other. | |
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"All of You" with Diana Ross. (Also a mixed gender example.) | |
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The Lethal Weapon films, with the by-the-book Roger Murtaugh being a family man and a stickler for rules when they meet, while new partner Martin Riggs is the genuinely near suicidal, loose cannon with nothing to lose. In later films, Riggs and Murtaugh both become close to each other and their styles start to be a lot closer, as being adopted in to the Murtaugh family as a kind of crazy uncle gives Riggs something to live for, and Riggs becoming Murtaugh's best friend forces him to come out of his comfort zone more often and expands his worldview. By the fourth film, the trope is averted, as "Riggs & Murtaugh" have become a cohesive team, neither one suicidal but both willing to do almost anything to solve the case and stop the bad guy. | |
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FlashForward (2009): Did a white guy/Asian guy variation on this, with Mark being the introverted and brooding (and unfortunately prone to holding the Idiot Ball) white guy and Demetri being the more Hot-Blooded and impulsive and competent of the pair. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: The supervillain duo Hammer and Anvil are Marvel's homage to The Defiant Ones. He's a Politically Incorrect Villain who hates black people named Johnny Anvil, and he's an "Angry Black Man" Stereotype who Hates Everyone Equally named Leroy "Hammer" Jackson. Together, they're a pair of escaped convicts whose powers and lives are linked by the chain that binds them. They commit crime! | |
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The Leverage team of main characters includes Alec Hardison, the unapologetically Black and Nerdy genius hacker with "focus issues" and an unstoppable Motor Mouth, and Eliot Spencer, the rough-around-the-edges Southern-accented "retrieval specialist" who specializes in up close and very physical solutions to dangerous problems. The contrast between the two (and the humorous bickering that usually results) means that they're frequently teamed up together during cons. | |
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1989 short film The Lunch Date focuses on a white woman who learns a lesson after sitting down for lunch at a diner and finding a homeless black man in her booth. | |
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Tenspeed and Brown Shoe: This 1980 Stephen Cannell creation starring Jeff Goldblum as Lionel Whitney, a karate-chopping ex-stockbroker private-eye wanna-be that takes all his inspiration and advice from Mark Savage, a fictional character in a series of 40's style detective novels (Stephen Cannel's photograph appeared on the dust jackets as the author of the books). Thrown together in the pilot episode with his co-star, Ben Vereen, playing E.L. Turner a street-wise hustler and con-man, in a caper after E.L. steals a million dollars from the mob, which the mob had gotten by fencing Nazi diamonds. This gets both the mob and the Nazis after him and a confused Lionel, who is about to be married, and whom both groups believe to be E.L.'s partner. 14 episodes were made and this was Jeff Goldblum's only major television role until Raines and Law & Order: Criminal Intent in The Aughts. | |
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Tales of Rebirth is another inversion. Eugene, the closest thing the 'verse has to a Scary Black Man, looks like the pepper but turns out to be an extremely sane Team Dad. The whites, on the other hand, are varying degrees of Idiot Hero, Hot-Blooded and Leeroy Jenkins. However, the naive idealism of the latter ends up saving the day just as many times as the former's logic. Furthermore, after the Disk-One Final Boss, Eugene becomes infected with its negative emotions and it's revealed that his wise, stoic personality is being deliberately invoked by him to try and desperately suppress the rage that's building up due to all of the Fantastic Racism. A played-straight example from the same game is Saleh (salt) and Tomah (pepper). However, in this case, they both run around the world kicking puppies, manipulating innocents and tormenting anyone they can victimize just because they can. Played with the Halfs (yes, they're the same race, but it Makes Sense In Context) Hilda and the darker-toned Militsa. Hilda is a white pepper effectively trying to pass as salt, while Militsa is a black salt who clearly wishes she could be more peppery but just finds it easier to bottle everything up and be a by-the-book Punch-Clock Villain. The dynamic continues even after Hilda's Heel–Face Turn. |
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The Dudley Boys are another good example and another interesting subversion. Both of them are dumb, bumbling buffoons who are low on social grace and manners. Though in TNA, Bubba in particular does subvert his character even further by becoming somewhat of a Genre Savvy Magnificent Bastard who is able to manipulate the powers that be. Starting about 2010, this all changed when the brothers split and Bubba (now known as "Bully Ray") experienced a Face–Heel Turn. Now Devon (the black one) is a thuggish but still pretty cool guy, while Bully Ray is a loudmouth and coward whom everybody hates. Their racial contrast is no longer important, other than the fact that Devon is now good friends with the Jive Turkey D'Angelo Dinero (at least until the latter messed with his kids). Subverted again, after Bully Ray revealed himself to be the Big Bad of the biker gang Aces&8s, of which Devon was already a member. |
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In Future of Wrestling, viewers were presented with the pairing of Antonio Banks(Pepper) and Punisher (Salt), who also doubled as Big Guy, Little Guy, even though Banks wasn't that little just because Punisher was so big. Banks was the more outspoken and sarcastic of the two, plus he had Malcolm X tattooed on his chest, playing this trope pretty much straight. | |
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Northern Exposure: White Chris Stevens and his black half-brother Bernard. The hook being that they are pretty much exactly the same guy, right down to being born on the same day. One episode even revolves around Bernard beginning a relationship with one of Chris's ex-lovers - and she can't detect any difference between them in bed. | |
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Blazing Saddles (1974) would have been the first Wilder/Pryor pairing as the Waco Kid and Black Bart, respectively, but Cleavon Little ultimately received the Bart role, with Pryor remaining behind the scenes as co-writer. | |
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Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo in Brian's Song. Brian is the loud goofy one while Gale is the quiet and reserved one. | |
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Arrowverse: Oliver Queen, started as an obsessive, single minded humorless vigilante, and quickly teamed up with John Diggle, who keeps him tethered to the much more casual nature of normal people's lives. Joe West, a somewhat grizzled veteran cop was partnered with the younger lighter Eddie Thawne. Firestorm, a Fusion Dance character with older professor Martin Stein, and younger athletic Jefferson Jackson. When cool, athletic James Olsen became the vigilante Guardian, nerdy, anxious Winn became his Mission Control. When tough, impulsive Kate Kane first became Batwoman, her only ally was nerdy, anxious Luke Fox acting as Mission Control. |
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In the Doctor Who Expanded Universe Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester. Roz is black, and is deeply cynical and usually the by-the-book type. Chris is white, and very idealistic. | |
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Doctor Who | hasFeature |
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The All Night Express in Ring of Honor, especially after Rhett Titus (salt) and Kenny King (pepper) left Austin Aries and started interacting more with the aforementioned World's Greatest Tag Team. However, outside of the team, Titus was/is much goofier than King, as he is a bow tie wearing Casanova Wannabe. | |
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Person of Interest: Carter, who is black and honest to a fault, is partnered with Fusco, who is white and formerly corrupt. | |
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John McClane and Zeus Carver in Die Hard with a Vengeance. Subverted in that neither one of them have much of a respect for authority. | |
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Firestorm (DC Comics): Firestorm can be this all by himself, since he's a fusion of two separate characters in a single body. The writers tend to like to pick distinctly different personalities (who may not even like each other much). | |
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For exactly the same reasons as Lloyd and Zelos, Jude and Alvin are an inversion. Played straight with Milla and her Loony Fan Ivar, although ultimately deconstructed as her being so salty results in her refusing to take him seriously due to his extremely peppery nature, resulting in what is basically the mother of all fuck-ups as the Dragon with an Agenda's Batman Gambit goes off without a hitch. They both learn from it. | |
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"Over and Over" Nelly ft. Tim McGraw. Bad Meets Evil, composed of Eminem and Royce da 5'9 The two remaining members of Massive Attack, 3D and Daddy G. Jedi Mind Tricks, comprised of Vinnie Paz (salt), Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind (salt), and Jus Allah (pepper). Vinnie Paz's supergroup Army of the Pharaohs: Salt: Esoteric, Apathy, Celph Titled, Vinnie Paz Pepper: Reef the Lost Cauze, Crypt the Warchild, Jus Allah, Des Devious, Planetary, Doap Nixon, Demoz |
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Subverted in the movie Amos & Andrew, with Samuel L. Jackson as uptight Andrew and Nicolas Cage as crazy criminal Amos. | |
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Górsky & Butch: At one point, the titular duo argue over which of them should be the relaxed one. Generally, Gorsky (who, despite the Polish surname, is the black one) tends to be the smarter and more experienced — except for his unfortunate tendency to walk right into every Stereotype Reaction Gag that comes his way. | |
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Power Rangers S.P.D.: Jack and Sky are something of an example here. The African-American's a chaotic former Robin-Hood type, the white guy's excruciatingly by the book in comparison (one episode had him "letting his hair down" in a birthday party setting by unbuttoning the top button of his uniform collar). They're also cops, and frequently have to work together. Keep in mind though, that their personalities were based off Ban Akaza and Hoji Tomasu, respectively, from Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger. Given that it's Power Rangers, it goes a step further with the red/blue motif although it's still important to note that there are three other Rangers on the team. | |
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Tales of Destiny has multiple examples: Stahn being a naive, silly but well-meaning white pepper to Woodrow / Garr's calm, collected black salt. Stahn is the Salt when he's paired up with Kongman/Khang... but only because Kongman out-hams absolutely everybody. Another inversion happens with Woodrow and Chelsea. He's still the badass yet wise black salt to her hyperactive, fangirlish white pepper. Rutee and Mary are a played-straight example. Mary is also shown to have this dynamic with her husband. |
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Numbuhs 2 and 5 of Codename: Kids Next Door; though 5 is general the street-wise and straight one, with 2 largely being a book-smart wannabe. Taken further in the Distant Finale. They're married. |
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Ant-Man has ancillary characters that fit this trope: Those Two Guys Kurt and Dave. Kurt doesn't talk much, and has a very calm demeanor and manner of speaking, while Dave is more expressive and excitable. It's implied that Hank Pym and Bill Foster were this when they worked together. |
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Sam Wilson teamed up with Bucky Barnes for the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Sam and Bucky are arguably a better example of the trope (than Steve & Sam) because there is a more obvious contrast in their personalities. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier also features a more-or-less Beta Couple version of this trope with the characters of John Walker and Lemar Hoskins. | |
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Total Drama Legacy: The Toxic Rat Pups (Storm and Link) are a textbook example. Not only is Storm a black girl and Link a white boy, their personalities contrast each other as well; Storm is Hot-Blooded, athletic, confident, and more of a leader type, while Link is relaxed, geeky, insecure, and more of a follower type. | |
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Iron Fist (white martial arts master raised in an other-dimensional city) and Power Man (wrongfully accused black ex-con living in Times Square and freelancing as a superhero) in Heroes for Hire. Both were created in the '70s during the kung-fu and blaxploitation crazes. Best Odd Couple ever. | |
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Dragon Age II plays it straight with the naive but well-meaning and culturally-loyal (well, from her perspective) Merrill and the Ambiguously Bronze pirate Isabela, who is both savvy and totally unconcerned with anyone's rules but her own. | |
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy and Kendra - Buffy is a Pop-Cultured Badass who does things her own way, while Kendra was trained as a kind of supernatural child soldier, by a secret society, making her the by-the-book one who was never allowed a life outside of slaying. However, averted with Buffy and Faith, who're both a Pop-Cultured Badass teen girl with little formal training, who rely heavily on their supernatural powers, including instincts for fighting demons. | |
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Firefly: Wash and Zoe are an inversion. Zoe is a black woman and loyal soldier who cannot be persuaded to stop calling Mal "sir;" Wash is the eminently laid-back white-guy pilot who tells Zoe that if she has a problem with his plan she should tell him instead of just letting Mal call that shots. The two are Happily Married. The same is true of Zoe (salt) and Mal (pepper), as with Mal she's the silent deadly warrior while he's the rowdy and adventurous gunslinger. | |
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Robinson Crusoe and Friday are probably the Ur-Example. It should be noted that Friday is actually not black in the original book: he's a Carib Indian from the Orinoco River delta region. (Crusoe's Caribbean island is in the mouth of the Orinoco.) But so many adaptations over the centuries have Race Lifted him as black that most people now think of him as such. Crusoe and Friday also share the traditional characteristics of this trope as a straitlaced, rather stodgy white man and his more vibrant, flamboyant "ethnic" sidekick. | |
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Tales of Destiny 2 gives us another inversion. Kyle is a Hot-Blooded white Kid Hero who will not stop harping on about how he's going to be a true hero some day. Loni is a much calmer Chivalrous Pervert Big Brother Mentor Token Black Friend who generally tries to keep Kyle out of trouble with mixed results. Loni has a similar dynamic with his love interest, the Fiery Redhead Nanaly. Played straight with the villains; Elraine and Barbatos. However, this one proves very much that Tropes Are Not Bad because it was the latter who went on to become a Memetic Badass (in hindsight, Norio Wakamoto's voice may have helped) while Elraine is largely forgotten by the Tales community. |
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Tragedy Girls: The titular girls: Sadie is white, McKayla's black. Sadie's the more level-headed, and McKayla's slightly hot-headed. Overall, they're pretty alike though. | |
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The 1958 film The Defiant Ones follows escaped, shackled-together convicts Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis, as their mutual hostility slowly turns into an unlikely friendship. | |
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Merlin: Angel Coulby and Katie McGrath make a striking pair as Morgana and Guinevere. The latter worked as the former's maid-servant, and where Morgana is passionate, high-strung and easily corrupted, Gwen is down-to-earth, practical and calm. | |
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Ghosts of Mars: Develops in the second half as by-the-book corrections officer Melanie is forced to team up with loose cannon criminal Desolation Williams (played by Ice Cube) to kick Martian zombie ass. The Sequel Hook at the end shows them reuniting and teaming up more formally to lead an all-out guerilla war against the Martians. | |
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Midnight Caller has talk radio host Jack Killian and reporter Deacon Bridges, who sometimes help each other investigate. Deacon is more relaxed and outgoing than Jack, but he takes his job very seriously, which can lead to conflict when Deacon publishes articles that hurt Jack's case. | |
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Reversed memorably, with the rational, mild-mannered black cop Bobby Hill (played by Michael Warren) teamed with loud, white, redneck Andy Renko (Charles Haid.) These uniformed patrol officers were shot and presumed dead in the 1980 pilot episode, but the charismatic pairing appealed to both the producers and audience. Hill and Renko returned to duty from a prolonged hospitalization in time for the first season of Hill Street Blues and were a mainstay of the series throughout its run. | |
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There are more than a few shades of this on Galaxy Rangers when Goose and Doc are paired up. It also helps that Doc is a high-class gentleman and The Smart Guy while Goose is an Artificial Human designed for combat. | |
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Captain America and his African-American partner, the Falcon. They don't team up as often as they used to, but they avert this trope, as both are very straitlaced. | |
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Cold Case: Will Jeffries and Nick Vera. Jeffries is the calm friendly Gentle Giant who gets along with almost everyone and his wife is The Lost Lenore. Vera is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold whose personal relationships are never going well. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation has an odd variation. In its classic form, this trope involves one partner who is Caucasian and stoic. Data is literally white and incapable of emotion, while his best friend Geordi is a completely normal human who happens to be black. In this 24th century setting, it's Data who is the mistreated minority. | |
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