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The Cyclic Trope side of the Token Minority. A show might have an all-minority cast, such as focusing on a Black family or a Multinational Team, but the blonde-and-blue-eyed portion of the audience will not be left out, either. On a Sitcom, they're often either the "uncool" one or the ditz. This is probably because the others are viewed as less Acceptable Targets, but when you really think about the implications of the white member of a diverse group being lame, it starts to seem like a Broken Aesop. On a Black Sitcom they're often comic relief or a Cloud Cuckoolander, though they can be academically smart. A white member of a multi-ethnic team tends to stand out even more than the traditional Token and is more likely to be lampshaded. When the Very Special Episode about racism comes along, it won't be about them. If the episode is about learning about and respecting someone else's culture, they'll be the one who needs to learn it most, and it's never about their own culture. In some cases, the token white will be part of a non-racial minority group, such as being disabled or LGBT, or are otherwise part of a demographic which itself has faced discrimination, whether presently or historically, such as Italians, Irish, or Ashkenazic Jews. Being ginger could count as well if the show is set in Europe. Whatever the case, the token white's whiteness might still make them an Acceptable Target, but their own minority status will not, and might give the others something to learn about tolerance. Rarely the token white might actually double up as a token minority in the racial sense, if the series takes place in countries where white people aren't common. This is particularly apparent in Japanese Media from the mid-to-late Showa era onwards, where the presence of US air bases and increased tourism from Europe and America has increased attention in Japan towards the race. Anime & Manga in particular can be prone to featuring a Token White, though due to the art-styles more often than not taking liberties with ethnic features, Japanese and white characters can be hard to immediately tell apart. This trope is largely restricted to Western media, although some other countries have their own local variants. Contrast White Male Lead, in which the sole white character is the lead. No Real Life Examples, Please! |
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Similarly, Greg Wulliger in Everybody Hates Chris. Though he's no more dorky than Chris himself. | |
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Nina Walsh from Smart Guy. Notably, the only white female in the series, and aside from one Very Special Episode which centered around her job (following Black people around a mall to make sure they don't steal anything), her only role was to follow Yvette around. There was also a Butt-Monkey white male named Mackey on the show. Usually, after being the butt of a joke, he'd comment "It's because I'm white, isn't it?" | |
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Men of War: Vietnam have two Russian Spetsnaz advisors Fyodor Kazakov & Mikhail Morozov in the Vietcong campaign. Justified since the Russians did provide significant aid to North Vietnam, although making sure they remained confined to the sidelines. | |
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air did this occasionally with Will's goofy white classmates/friends, but even these eventually disappeared and were replaced with Black Beavis And Butthead style sidekicks, only one of which had any staying power. For the first half or so of the series, there was also the hopelessly out-of-touch white teacher. Later, one of his aunts became involved with a white man (initially played by Diedrich Bader) ... who eventually became so accepted by the family that he could make jokes about Carlton being white. Come on, everyone loves Cornflake. |
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The titular character of Marco Polo (unrelated to the TV series). Said film is a Shaw Brothers production starring the all-Chinese Venoms Mob, while Richard Harrison plays Marco and serves as a Supporting Protagonist. | |
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Chuck, among the male leads,note If we exclude Julie and assume she's white in Motorcity. Jacob would also count, but he's not as "on the field" as often as the rest. It's not as noticeable, as some of the races are confirmed by Word of God (Mike is mixed race, Texas is Filipino, etc.). | |
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Andre's wife Rhonda from Empire. | |
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Squid Girl: Cindy, a researcher from America, is the sole white person in an all-Japanese cast. | |
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And Martin with Shawn and Buckwhite (parody of Buckwheat). | |
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Black Lightning: Jefferson's sidekick, Gambi, is the only white main cast member in the series. Antagonist Tobias Whale is easily mistaken to be white at first glance, but he's an albino black man (and played by an actual albino black man). | |
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A newspaper comic example is the character of Gunk from Curtis. Gunk is the only white member of the cast, period, and is the white equivalent of the "magical negro" character type, displaying utterly bizarre and nonsensical abilities due to being from the backwards Flyspeck Island. Gunk isn't just clueless and out-of-touch... he's the uber-ascendant Cloudcuckoolander given shape, voice, and wall-eyes. | |
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Xiaolin Showdown: Clay from Texas is the only character in the main cast who is unambiguously white. Omi (along with other characters like Master Fung) is Chinese, Kimiko is Japanese, Raimundo is Brazilian, Jack's ethnic background is not touched upon, and Wuya is Ambiguously Brown. | |
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In the Sky 1 series Sinbad, the cast is made up of various ethnicities, including a pair of white women pretending to be Arabic/Asian. There is, however, one Northern European bloke who is often referenced as the 'Northman' and fills this trope, without the Butt-Monkey aspect. | |
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Boogieman from the Milestone comic Blood Syndicate was a fairly odd variant. A closeted White kid (he's a were-rat) in a band of Black, Hispanic, and Asian (ex)Gangbangers that were mutated (instead of killed outright like most in the area) by radiation-tainted tear-gas used to break up a big melee. He has some elements of Pretty Fly for a White Guy — unlike the rest of the team he comes from a stable, middle-class family, and he talks like he stepped out of a rap video. | |
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Alex in Tinsel. | |
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Stevie from The Parkers. On this show, she's also a Twofer Token Minority by also being the only slim woman. | |
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: Razor Fist (Florian Munteanu) is the only named white actor in the main body of the film. note Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) and Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) appear in the post-credit scenes. | |
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Brady and his replacement Boz on Pair of Kings were always the sole white cast member of the show. | |
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Invoked in an episode of King of the Hill, where an all-Asian country club attempts to recruit Hank just to convince the PGA that they're not racist. Hank refuses to go along with it when he figures it out. | |
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Lincoln Heights made sure to have at least a couple whites prominent in the story. Always as a sidekick or love interest to one of the main Black characters. Lund as the sidekick to Eddie, Charles as the boyfriend to Cassie and later Sage as a foil to Cassie. | |
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Oddly enough, the title character of Marco Polo largely acts as one, with a common complaint being that he plays very little role in the story and seems to only exist because the execs were skittish about having an all-Asian cast. | |
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In Martial Law, Louise was the only white character out of the main cast in season 1. | |
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The Wiz Live! has one white dancer in its otherwise all-African-American cast. | |
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Let It Shine: Lyla, manager to Roxie, is the only major white character in a cast of almost-entirely Black people. | |
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Richie from Static Shock was Virgil Hawkins's sidekick, and the only white member of the principal cast. Although he's still a minority, too: the character he was based off from the comic was gay, and Dwayne McDuffie had stated animated Richie was gay, too. They couldn't actually show it on the show, though. Hotstreak, one of Static's most prominent enemies, is pretty much the only other recurring white character. | |
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This Scandinavia and the World strip parodies a Real Life situation in China, where apparently you can rent white (or otherwise foreign) people in China to pretend to be a foreign employee of your company or an allied CEO. It's completely this trope that this practice exists; to prove that their companies are modern and global, Chinese businesses hire white people to be their token foreign dudes. | |
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Chris Potter on Kenan & Kel, and later on Marc. | |
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Insecure has Issa's coworker Frieda, who is the only white character with any substantial amount of screentime. She's dropped from the show in season 3, leaving the main cast all Black for season 4. Molly's Asian love interest Andrew is then upgraded to regular in season 5, and one episode implies that Molly sees him as this because of the different racial dynamics they experience. | |
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Persona 2 has Lisa Silverman, one of the main characters in Innocent Sin, a blonde white girl who is also 100 percent culturally Japanese due to having been raised in Japan since birth by Japanophile parents. | |
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Persona 3 has Bebe, an exchange student from France, who has come to study at Gekkoukan High because of his fascination with Japanese culture. | |
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Persona 4 has Teddie, a Shadow whose human form is that of a fair-skinned blonde boy with blue eyes. Lampshaded by Junpei in Persona 4: Arena who calls him "white guy". | |
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The Nation of Domination started out in USWA with a white majority but after moving to WWE the white members were all phased out. Then Owen Hart was brought in as the only white man. | |
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Turning Red has exactly one white character in a major role (Miriam, one of the friends of protagonist Mei). Mei and her family are Chinese-Canadian, while the other people in her friend group are of Asian descent (Abby is Korean, Priya is Indian, and Tyler is Afro-Vietnamese). | |
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Benny from Black Lagoon is the only white member of the Lagoon Trading Company, though it's been brought up once or twice that he's Jewish. Such as when Dutch asks what he thinks of the whole White Power neo-Nazi philosophy, only for Benny to point out that as a Jew, "Fuck the Nazis" is basically a family creed. | |
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In 4 Square, the Beat Team has only one white member while the rest are Black. Also in the second season, Chantelle is the only white member of the Four Tones. |
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Public School Superhero has Preemie, whom Kenny says is the only white student at their school. | |
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In Pretty Dudes, Alexander is this in the first season and much of the second. Interesting in a way as he's the most vocal one about racial injustices. | |
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Molly of Denali: Qyah is mostly made up of Alaskan Natives (along with some African-Americans - Trini and her dad), but there are a few white people: Nina, Connie, Jake, and Mr. Rowley. | |
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Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum: Brad is the only white character on the main team. He's also Jewish. | |
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Cilan was also the token white of the group for Pokémon the Series: Black & White, with Ash being Asian and Iris being Ambiguously Brown. | |
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Kung Fu (2021): Evan is the only White person in the main cast. The rest are East Asian (specifically Chinese or Chinese-American). | |
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She's Gotta Have It: There's a couple White characters in the otherwise all Black/biracial cast who recur on the show: Nola's friend Rachel, who occasionally appears though not nearly as often as her Black female friends. Bianca, her annoying neighbor who is a minor antagonist. Dean, a very Black-acting White guy who's unintentionally obnoxious. |
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Desmond's was set in a barber's shop in London, and the cast was almost exclusively Black, except for Gloria's best friend Louise, as well as hairdresser Tony, who were white. In one episode, he referred to Black people as "we" or "us", prompting someone else to say that he'd been hanging around the rest of them for too long. | |
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Squid from Rocket Power. The Rockets were half-Hawaiian and Twister was Latino. | |
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The Hate U Give focuses on Starr, a Black teenage girl, her family, and the other people living in Garden Heights, a mostly-Black low-income neighborhood. The only major white characters are Hailey, Starr's "friend" from school, and Chris, Starr's boyfriend. By the end, Chris has become this for Starr's group of friends, who have all warmed up to him, and he's accompanied by Maya, who's Asian, and thus a minority herself. | |
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A Different World took place at a predominantly Black college - to show it was "predominantly" Black and not "all" Black they had a token white girl the first season, played by Marisa Tomei. | |
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Roach, a Caucasian character in the main cast of Next Friday. | |
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Moon Base Alpha: The Sjobeg family of Nordic Jerkasses are the only Caucasian people on Moon Base Alpha. They're also the only entirely white people Dash has ever met in his life, as most people in the future are of mixed ancestry. | |
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Finding 'Ohana: Casper is the only white person of note to appear in the movie apart from the pirates in the flashback portions, and the only white person in the main cast. | |
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Thuggin and Buggin Enterprises was central to a race-baiting angle in WWE where Theodore Long would challenge white wrestlers to take on his clients such as D'Lo Brown, Rodney Mack, and Mark Henry. When Christopher Nowinski said his Harvard education allowed him to identify with the Black man's plight though, Long decided to give a white boy a chance. | |
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Heather Morris, before she played Brittany on Glee, was the token white among Beyoncé's backup dancers, and she can be seen in many live performances of "Single Ladies". When Heather announced she was quitting to do Glee, Beyonce gave her blessing but joked about losing her white girl. | |
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Vida: Nearly all of the cast are Latin American, with only a few whites appearing on the show. Lyn's boyfriend in the first season and a local store owner (whose property Marisol vandalizes) are probably the only ones who appear in more than a couple scenes, have multiple lines, or aren't in the background. | |
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The extended Jem and the Holograms (IDW) cast is diverse, but Rapture is the one white member of The Stingers. The others are Riot (half-white and half-Asian), Minx (South Asian-German), and Raya (Mexican-American). | |
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Twenties: Courtney, a somewhat annoying woman, in the only white female regular on the show. Zach, Marie's boss, is the sole white guy. |
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Marnie from When Marnie Was There is as being a "foreigner" and is one of the only white characters in the film. Everyone else is Japanese. Anna herself is multiracial as Marnie is her grandmother. | |
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Family Matters: The show had this. Generally the only white guy on the cast was Carl's boss Lieutenant Lieu Murtaugh and was shown to be, again, completely out of touch... with reality. There was also the occasional goofy white friend of the kids, who was often a "wannabe", trying desperately to assimilate into Black culture, with everyone else practically straining their retinas rolling their eyes. And then there was the one episode with two cops who pulled Eddie over for being in a white neighborhood (though only one of them was actually racist, the other was just dragged along). There was also Mr Looney (pronounced Loon-ay) played by the late Tom Poston. In the first couple seasons Eddie had a shady white friend named Rodney. Rodney came down with a case of Chuck Cunningham Syndrome. |
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There is a bit of a weird variation on this in Tsotsi. The police officer is a token white guy, but this being a South African movie, he's also just a regular token minority. (Large minorities are still minorities.) | |
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In Earth-23 of The DCU, Batman is this for the Justice League, which is otherwise predominantly Black. There is actually a reason for this; aside from that world's Black Superman, all the other Black Leaguers have actually existed before in other comics. Batman has had no such version, however, so he's still Bruce Wayne. | |
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In Coming to America: Eddie Murphy as "Saul" the old Jewish guy in the barbershop. Best line — when the king arrives draped in a lion skin — "What is that? Velvet?" Later on, there's the restaurant worker Maurice. | |
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In Kim's Convenience, Jung's manager Shannon, who is from Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, is the only white member of the otherwise pre-dominantly Korean main cast. She crushes on Jung for most of Season 1 and eventually becomes his love interest. | |
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Daimos: Douglas Banks, being a white New Zealander, is the only Caucasian character of the supporting cast, which is mostly Japanese or Baamite. | |
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The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has Jordan Klepper and Desi Lydic as the only white correspondents. After Klepper was spun off into his own show, he was replaced by Michael Kosta, another white guy. | |
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Gamera vs. Guiron: Tom and his mother are the only white Americans in an otherwise Japanese cast—added solely to give the film more appeal to the American market. | |
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New Japan Pro-Wrestling's "House of Torture", a sub-group of Bullet Club founded by EVIL after he defected from Los Ingobernables de Japon, was originally made up exclusively of Bullet Club's Japanese members—which is noteworthy because the faction was originally a multi-national gaijin stable.note Kenta and Taiji Ishimori are the only Japanese members of Bullet Club who've (so far) declined to join House of Torture This remained the case until Jack Perry (son of the late Luke Perry) unexpectedly joined in Spring 2024 following his Face–Heel Turn the previous year. | |
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Saving Face: Wil's coworker Randi is the only white person in the film, which has an almost entirely East Asian cast, along with one Black person (Wil's friend Jay). | |
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As is Sister, Sister. (Brittany Murphy was the first of them.) | |
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Isaac in Barbershop. Also Pretty Fly for a White Guy. | |
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Acapulco: Chad and his mother Diane, tall white blond Americans who don't speak a lick of Spanish, are both visually and culturally distinct from the rest of the main cast, who are dark-haired and Hispanic. | |
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Asian sketch-comedy series Goodness Gracious Me had Dave Lamb in the cast to play the Token White Man, who was cast in the role-reversal situation where he represented the equivalent of an Indian or Pakistani, who is alone among white people in an unfamiliar culture. note Dave is better known as the mega-sarky narrator of foodie show Come Dine With Me. | |
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Marisa from K.C. Undercover. She's also the only member of the main cast who is not part of the Cooper family. | |
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The only white playable character in Martial Masters is the Religious Bruiser Tiger. | |
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In Blackbird (1986), all the main characters are African Americans with the exception of Randy's white love interest Marshall. | |
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The Jeffersons: Tom Willis was the only constantly recurring white character. Also one of the first characters of this type on television. | |
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Undercover Brother Lance (Neil Patrick Harris) as the token white staffer of "The Brotherhood", an African-American spy agency. Lampshaded thoroughly. ("What's a white boy doing here?" "What can I say. Affirmative Action.") Starts as a classic "uncool" version, but he gains respect when he reveals that he goes a little Axe-Crazy when pushed. Crazy white boys. Later White She Devil joins as well, much to Conspiracy Brother's chagrin. |
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The casting in Hamilton enforces this trope (and Race Lift) by calling for King George III to be played by a white man and nonwhite actors play all the other principals (who were historically white founding fathers, revolutionaries, etc.). Further reinforced by the music; George's song, "You'll Be Back," is done in an old school Broadway/British Invasion style, to clash with the musical's other hip-hop/R&B/jazz numbers, enforcing the idea that the colonies and the Old World have grown very different. It's interesting to point out that George's two originating actors, Jonathan Groff and Andrew Rannells, are both gay, meaning even he was still represented by minorities in the beginning. Samuel Seabury is also played by a white man, albeit one of the chorus members, and there's at least one documented instance of a white man appearing in the dual role of John Laurens and Phillip Hamilton—coincidentally, the actor had also performed both Seabury and King George in other shows. | |
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Posse: Little J (Stephen Baldwin) is the token white guy of the eponymous posse. | |
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Super: Frank is the only Caucasian working at the diner, though Sarah formerly worked there as well. | |
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In Young Justice, the Runaways are a Five-Token Band who only gain a white member, Arsenal, at the end of their second appearance. He's actually a Twofer Token Minority since he's also disabled. And Native American if we're going by comic canon. | |
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Zoey from The Proud Family is the only recurring white character in the original show and thus an inversion of the Token Black Friend trope. The Louder and Prouder revival adds Barry, who is notably also gay. | |
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In Living Color!: Jim Carrey and Kelly Coffield were the original token whites in the otherwise all-black sketch comedy show, though in later seasons they were joined by Alexandra Wentworth and Jay Leggett. Carrey at least was invited to audition because he was friends with Damon Wayans after they worked together in Earth Girls Are Easy, rather than an arbitrary need for a white castmember. | |
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The Last Queen: The cast is primarily composed of Algerian actors and actors of Algerian descent, with the exception of the Scandinavian Astrid, played by French actress of Finnish and Polish descent Nadia Tereszkiewicz. | |
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Sandi (played by Jessica Stroup), Claude's secret wife in This Christmas. | |
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Indie rock band TV on the Radio is almost entirely Black, except for gutarist David Sitek, who's white. | |
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Ryu the Cave Boy: Ryu is the only character with pale skin in the entire show, as everyone else is dark skinned. This is enforced as pale skin is seen as a bad omen, hence pale-skinned babies being murdered at birth. Ryu was lucky enough to survive and be taken to safety, but still endures attacks from his fellow humans because of his skin. | |
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Chelsea in That's So Raven. In the spin-off Cory in the House, Newt plays pretty much exactly the same role. | |
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He became this directly in the Super Bowl LVI lineup. He was the only white guy in the lineup, as the rest of the lineup were all black recording artists. The rest of them were Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dogg, and a surprise appearance by 50 Cent. | |
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The Hughleys used the "Black family in a largely ethnic neighborhood with one white neighbor" theme, but then made it interesting by having the white neighbor not be a butt monkey, easy target, or other form of comic relief. Rather, he was the friendly, supportive friend who would occasionally offer sage advice type of TV neighbor. | |
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In 2004, four Ring of Honor wrestlers went rogue and invaded IWA Puerto Rico. Monsta Mack, Dan Maff, Homicide and BJ Whitmer. Whitmer was the only one who wasn't Puerto Rican and the only one 'white' by the standards of his era. | |
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In Empath: The Luckiest Smurf, Polaris Psyche is this among the Smurfs, since all Psyches have white-colored skin. | |
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Sean from Ultraman Max is the only white member of DASH in the all-Japanese cast with the justification being that he was a transplanted American member. He tends to use a fair amount of Gratuitous English, but also serves as the team's inventor and is a good friend of protagonist Kaito and sharpshooter Koba. | |
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The second skit has the last player be "A. A. Ron Balakay", a Call-Back to the "Substitute Teacher" skit. | |
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Christian for the otherwise all-African-American Team Kingston (Kofi Kingston/Mark Henry/Montel Vontavious Porter/R-Truth) at Survivor Series 2009, who defeated the all-white Team Orton (Randy Orton/Cody Rhodes/Ted DiBiase Jr/CM Punk/William Regal). In a backstage promo, he even lampshades how awkward it is that he's a Canadian from ECW. | |
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Maya & Miguel has Andy, the only white member of the principal cast who is also disabled i.e. missing an arm. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: Tracey was designed to have an Anglo-Saxon look, making him the Token White of the Orange Islands arc (though his Japanese name being "Kenji" implies he's Japanese). Cilan was also the token white of the group for Pokémon the Series: Black & White, with Ash being Asian and Iris being Ambiguously Brown. |
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In the 2010 version of The Karate Kid, Dre's only friend he finds in China is a blond boy. | |
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In the third film in the Bring It On series, white cheerleader Britney Allen moves from her affluent community to a mostly minority working-class community, where she's initially marginalized, but eventually accepted. | |
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In The Book of Life, Sasha is the only one of the Detention Kids to be white. | |
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The Steve Harvey Show is notorious for this. | |
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Sanford and Son has Officer "Hoppy" Hopkins, the only regularly recurring white character. He could best be described as being somewhat mentally disabled. | |
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In The Wayans Bros., the character is actually named "White Mike." | |
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All Rise: Mark and Lisa are the only White people in the main cast. The rest are Black, Latino, or East Asian (rather unusually in a mainstream series). | |
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Throughout Sky Williams' series, Jesse is consistently treated like this in any video he's in, even when Jason or Leah are also in that video. He goes along with it, as he tries and fails to rap and pretends to be completely unaware of N-Word Privileges. | |
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In ¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.? (a series about a multigenerational Cuban-American family) Sharon, one of teen Carmen's friends qualifies. Speaking only English and not being of Cuban or any other Latin/Hispanic origin makes her stand out more than her race. Hanging at the Peña home also gives her plenty of opportunities for butchering the Spanish language. | |
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Cactus Jack, in the "Ghetto Odds" match at WCW Clash of the Champions XXI, November 18, 1992, since he teamed with the African-American Tony Atlas and the Tongan The Barbarian in a losing effort to the African-American team of Ron Simmons and the debuting 2 Cold Scorpio. | |
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A downplayed version in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Nathaniel isn't the only white character, or the only straight character, or the only male character, but he is the only straight white male character in the main cast. Accordingly, he's an exaggerated parody of snotty, emotionally stunted privilege (at first, at least). | |
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Key & Peele have their East/West Bowl series of skits, parodying how long and "out there" the names of football players can be. All three videos have only the final player introduced be white, with all the other players racial minorities. Their first video has a gradual escalation in the absurdity, reaching a crescendo with "Javaris Jamar Javarison-Lamar" and "The Player Formerly Known As Mousecop" before culminating in a sudden white player introducing himself as "Dan Smith". The second skit has the last player be "A. A. Ron Balakay", a Call-Back to the "Substitute Teacher" skit. The third skit mixed in real NFL players with crazy sounding names like Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, Leger Douzable, and Ishmai'lly Kitchen; this one finished with "A. A. Ron Rodgers". |
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In Lilo & Stitch, most of the human characters are Hawaiian and Cobra Bubbles is black. The only semi-prominent white character is Mertle, the bully who picks on Lilo. However she is Bullying a Dragon as Lilo's response to being insulted is to bite Mertle and pull her hair. Lilo does apologize later, but Mertle does not accept. | |
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