Tropescilloscope: Race Lift

A character's race/ethnicity is changed in a derivative work. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique I Have Your Wife Properly Paranoid Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Batman Gambit Bond One-Liner Bland-Name Product As You Know Thriller Unreliable Narrator Auto Erotica Small Name, Big Ego Rule of Cool Dirty Cop Bare Your Midriff Frame-Up Animated Credits Opening One Steve Limit Morality Pet Pragmatic Villainy Pet the Dog What Happened to the Mouse? Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Insane Troll Logic A Date with Rosie Palms Obfuscating Stupidity Christmas Movies Index One-Man Army Love at First Sight Facial Horror Crazy Jealous Guy Dirty Old Man You Have Failed Me Tagline Horror Comedy Domestic Abuse I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Too Dumb to Live Action Genre Artistic License – Law Reasonable Authority Figure Improbable Aiming Skills Eiffel Tower Effect Brutal Honesty Smoking Is Cool Historical Hero Upgrade Expy Token Minority Freudian Excuse Kubrick Stare How We Got Here Title Drop In the Back Arranged Marriage Rated M for Manly Back from the Dead Fingore Gainax Ending Italian Films Parental Abandonment Maybe Ever After In Medias Res Rule of Funny Even Evil Has Loved Ones Reckless Gun Usage Does This Remind You of Anything? The Alleged Car Artistic License – Gun Safety Ungrateful Bastard Very Loosely Based on a True Story Character Development Black Dude Dies First Homage Get Out! Big Eater Aluminum Christmas Trees Despair Event Horizon The Faceless The Stinger Badass Normal Evil-Detecting Dog Badass Grandpa Irony Sassy Black Woman He Who Fights Monsters Martial Arts Movie Combat Pragmatist Mugging the Monster 20 Minutes into the Future Heroic BSoD Due to the Dead Crapsack World Race Against the Clock Ambiguous Ending Alpha Bitch Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Deal with the Devil Guns Akimbo Older Than They Look Agony of the Feet Manic Pixie Dream Girl Undying Loyalty Adaptational Villainy Only Known by Their Nickname Central Theme Dumb Blonde Shower Scene There Is No Kill Like Overkill No Antagonist Faux Affably Evil The Brute Villainous Breakdown Vitriolic Best Buds Light Is Not Good Shipper on Deck Major Injury Underreaction Getting Crap Past the Radar Scenery Porn Asshole Victim The '60s Cowboy Cop Naïve Newcomer Groin Attack Obviously Evil Depraved Bisexual Cruel and Unusual Death Distracted by the Sexy Death by Adaptation Ghost Fiction Extremely Short Timespan Hell Is That Noise Ms. Fanservice Dirty Coward Cain and Abel Annoying Younger Sibling Evil Laugh Took a Level in Badass Eldritch Abomination Epic Movie Hypocritical Humor Off-into-the-Distance Ending Flashback Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Stealth Pun Rich Bitch Public Domain Feature Films Punny Name You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Cool Guns Death Glare Slasher Smile Film Noir Index Beauty Is Never Tarnished Danny Peary Cult Movies List Married to the Job Suspiciously Specific Denial Black Comedy Celebrity Paradox Mr. Exposition The Big Guy Decoy Protagonist Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Framing Device Stylistic Suck Genre Throwback Match Cut No-Sell Downer Ending Gory Discretion Shot Not So Different Intrepid Reporter Protagonist Title Ass Shove Fourth Date Marriage Big Fancy House B-Movie German Films Those Wacky Nazis Chiaroscuro No Ending Zombie Stories Psychopathic Manchild Sir Swears-a-Lot Dramatic Gun Cock Dark Is Not Evil Line-of-Sight Name Bottomless Magazines All There in the Manual Face–Heel Turn Ax-Crazy Children Are Innocent Camp Gay Eyepatch of Power Word of God Did Not Get the Girl Up to Eleven Science Fiction Films Evil Brit Neck Snap Rewatch Bonus Covers Always Lie Femme Fatale Gorn Badass Longcoat The Oner Say My Name Wicked Cultured Butt-Monkey The Film of the Book Super Strength Retcon Be Careful What You Wish For Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Took a Level in Jerkass Important Haircut Red Oni, Blue Oni The Place Meaningful Echo Narrator Fiery Redhead Chekhov's Skill Suspiciously Similar Substitute Slasher Movie He Knows Too Much Stalker with a Crush Bad "Bad Acting" Artistic License – History Made of Explodium Hope Spot Eureka Moment Drugs Are Bad Brainless Beauty Market-Based Title Let's Get Dangerous! Hidden Depths Mooks Red Shirt Handicapped Badass Exact Words Pretty Little Headshots Bullying a Dragon The Load The Sociopath Grievous Bottley Harm Throwing Your Sword Always Works Shown Their Work Not So Above It All Becoming the Mask Bunny-Ears Lawyer Dramatic Irony Bavarian Fire Drill Dark Reprise Better to Die than Be Killed Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Extreme Doormat Big "NO!" The Smurfette Principle Implacable Man Shell-Shocked Veteran Cloudcuckoolander The '90s Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Vamp Big Brother Instinct Pragmatic Adaptation Humiliation Conga Improbable Weapon User "Well Done, Son!" 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Our Vampires Are Different La Résistance Adaptational Heroism Unresolved Sexual Tension The Dreaded I Did What I Had to Do She Cleans Up Nicely Neck Lift Film Series Never Found the Body Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Kick the Dog Creator Cameo Karmic Death Rule of Three Affably Evil Big Damn Heroes Smug Snake Retired Badass Drowning My Sorrows Mythology Gag Adorkable Curb-Stomp Battle Deliberately Monochrome Bad Boss Cool Shades All Men Are Perverts Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Off with His Head! Author Avatar Foil Bittersweet Ending Woman in White Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Mole Shout-Out Jerk with a Heart of Gold My Beloved Smother Belligerent Sexual Tension Pay Evil unto Evil Fainting Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Unusual Euphemism Author Appeal Mighty Whitey Brother–Sister Incest True Companions Eagleland Would Hurt a Child The Atoner Bar Brawl Establishing Character Moment Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies No Good Deed Goes Unpunished And I Must Scream Parental Incest Vampire Fiction Dark Action Girl Stepford Smiler Redshirt Army Artistic License – Biology After the End The Smart Guy Punctuated! For! Emphasis! "Where Are They Now?" 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Is Serious Business Police Brutality Together in Death Arc Words Anachronism Stew Four-Temperament Ensemble Blackmail Reality Has No Subtitles Chase Scene Drives Like Crazy Race Lift Trailers Always Spoil Redemption Equals Death Bloodier and Gorier Male Gaze Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Fantastic Racism Damsel in Distress The Bully The Ditz Take That! No OSHA Compliance The Starscream Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Dogged Nice Guy Breaking the Fourth Wall Running Gag Lighter and Softer A.I. 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The Musical The Cavalry Jitter Cam Romantic False Lead Video Credits Break the Haughty Dressing as the Enemy Ambiguously Gay It Can Think The Alcoholic Rasputinian Death Music Stories Aside Glance From Nobody to Nightmare Straight Gay Red Herring Well-Intentioned Extremist Only in It for the Money Book-Ends Award-Bait Song Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Riddle for the Ages Genre Savvy Revenge Worthy Opponent Country Matters Defiant to the End Cat Fight Fantasy Films Soundtrack Dissonance N-Word Privileges Intergenerational Friendship More Dakka Really Gets Around Scenery Gorn Deliberate Values Dissonance Stuff Blowing Up As the Good Book Says... 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