Tropescilloscope: Race Lift

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

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Unresolved Sexual Tension Character Development Gilligan Cut Music Stories The Un-Reveal You Killed My Father Dumb Blonde Retired Badass Mr. Fanservice Alliterative Name Only a Flesh Wound Leave the Camera Running BFG Self-Deprecation Final Girl Death by Irony Bait-and-Switch Genre Savvy Riddle for the Ages Redemption Equals Death Mind Screw Determinator Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Downer Ending Major Injury Underreaction Frame-Up Chekhov's Skill Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Eye Scream Expy Wrong Genre Savvy Madness Mantra Faking the Dead Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Obfuscating Stupidity Horror Films Male Gaze True Companions Jitter Cam Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Fire-Forged Friends Poor Communication Kills Film Series It's All About Me Arc Words Implacable Man The Bad Guy Wins Killed Mid-Sentence Villain Opening Scene One-Word Title Here We Go Again! Eyepatch of Power Covers Always Lie No Ending The Oner Tap on the Head Dramatic Irony Gold Digger Slashed Throat Betty and Veronica Police Brutality folderlabel Parental Abandonment Fantastic Racism Mooks Television Movie Index Rule of Symbolism Chase Scene Malevolent Masked Men Didn't Think This Through Retcon Adults Are Useless La Résistance Bavarian Fire Drill Heterosexual Life-Partners Femme Fatale Big Brother Instinct Face Death with Dignity Fanservice Extra Bond Villain Stupidity Artistic License – Gun Safety Parental Incest Rape as Drama Hero Antagonist Bound and Gagged Bald of Evil Important Haircut Dutch Angle Famous Last Words Knight Templar Almost Kiss Dramedy Only Known by Their Nickname Guile Hero The Casanova Abusive Parents Lighter and Softer Unspoken Plan Guarantee Disguised in Drag Too Dumb to Live Comically Missing the Point The Reveal Have a Gay Old Time Mercy Kill The Ghost Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Plucky Comic Relief May–December Romance Artistic License – Geography Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Honor Before Reason Spanner in the Works Cool Old Lady Cool Shades Adaptational Villainy Mistaken for Gay Establishing Character Moment Getting Crap Past the Radar Jump Scare The Smart Guy Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Place Hypocritical Humor Science Fiction Films Recycled IN SPACE! Naked People Are Funny "Well Done, Son!" Guy Every Car Is a Pinto Broken Bird An Arm and a Leg Decoy Protagonist Stuff Blowing Up Rousing Speech Your Head A-Splode Australian Movies Well-Intentioned Extremist From Nobody to Nightmare Funny Foreigner Vampire Fiction Tranquil Fury Leitmotif Badass Boast Did Not Get the Girl The Power of Love Aluminum Christmas Trees Blackmail Anachronic Order One Steve Limit Dull Surprise Storming the Castle Police are Useless Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Biopic And I Must Scream Sacrificial Lion Lock and Load Montage Market-Based Title Hollywood Darkness Star-Crossed Lovers Awesome, but Impractical Berserk Button Darkest Hour Exact Words Coming-of-Age Story All There in the Script Big Eater Exactly What It Says on the Tin Take a Third Option Beauty Is Never Tarnished Deal with the Devil Morality Pet Smoking Is Cool My Beloved Smother Big-Bad Ensemble Adorkable Dirty Cop Big Damn Heroes Reckless Gun Usage Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Thriller Crazy-Prepared Unusual Euphemism Due to the Dead Smug Snake Toplessness from the Back All Just a Dream Facial Horror Random Events Plot Ambiguous Ending Determinator aka: The Determinator "The Reason You Suck" Speech Celebrity Paradox Throwing Your Sword Always Works Nice Guy Reasonable Authority Figure Boom, Headshot! Spiritual Successor Men Are the Expendable Gender Green-Eyed Monster It Will Never Catch On The Lancer No Celebrities Were Harmed Visual Pun Depraved Bisexual Taking the Bullet Hell Is That Noise Disney Death Continuity Nod The Brute Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Ax-Crazy Annoying Younger Sibling Only in It for the Money What Happened to the Mouse? The Stinger Adaptational Badass Butt-Monkey For Want of a Nail Heel Realization Martial Arts Movie Offscreen Moment of Awesome French Films Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Fish out of Water Fanservice Large Ham Asshole Victim Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Advertised Extra Not Even Bothering with the Accent Truth in Television Rated M for Manly Failed a Spot Check Light Is Not Good Ominous Latin Chanting Evil vs. Evil Heel–Face Turn Sole Survivor Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Cat Fight Christmas Movies Index Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Straight Gay Crapsack World Fate Worse than Death Fantasy Films Zombie Stories Beware the Nice Ones Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Sinister Minister Does Not Like Shoes Lampshade Hanging Captain Ersatz Flashback Half the Man He Used to Be The Alleged Car Tagline Dissonant Serenity Camp Gay Darker and Edgier The Cameo Broken Aesop Chekhov's Gunman Overprotective Dad Disappeared Dad The Sociopath Parental Substitute Adapted Out Villain Song Those Wacky Nazis Badass Longcoat Dirty Coward Black Comedy Rule of Funny Taking You with Me Would Hurt a Child Hate Sink Pyrrhic Victory Bond One-Liner In the Back Foil Serial Killer Antagonist Title Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Irony Dark and Troubled Past Canadian Movies This Is Gonna Suck Death Seeker Japanese Films Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Age Lift 20 Minutes into the Future Villain Protagonist Call-Forward Bowdlerise Conspicuous CG Reality Ensues Breaking the Fourth Wall Laser-Guided Karma Manchild Cain and Abel Love at First Sight Adaptation Name Change Italian Films Diabolus ex Machina Evil Sounds Deep Ship Tease The Lost Lenore Unwitting Instigator of Doom Affectionate Parody Brainless Beauty Fatal Flaw Silence Is Golden Film Noir Gender Flip British Films The Atoner Shown Their Work The Chessmaster Reality Is Unrealistic Brick Joke Accidental Murder Last-Name Basis Serious Business Humiliation Conga Totally Radical Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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