Tropescilloscope: Race Lift

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

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They Really Do Love Each Other Fate Worse than Death Shown Their Work Actually Pretty Funny Revenge Costume Porn The Mafia Running Gag Undying Loyalty Closed Circle Too Dumb to Live Narrator Dies Wide Open I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Wham Shot Fish out of Water Leave the Camera Running Straight Gay Obstructive Bureaucrat Ghost Fiction Shout-Out For Want of a Nail Drowning My Sorrows Rated M for Manly Extremely Short Timespan Film Noir Abhorrent Admirer Crapsack World The Un-Reveal Gorn Evil Sounds Deep "The Reason You Suck" Speech Everyone Has Standards All There in the Script Kids Are Cruel Homage One-Word Title Chiaroscuro Famous Last Words Your Cheating Heart Pyrrhic Victory Black Comedy Vomit Indiscretion Shot Beard of Evil Unresolved Sexual Tension Bad Boss Yandere Bilingual Bonus Vitriolic Best Buds Badass Normal All Just a Dream The Ace Demoted to Extra Eldritch Abomination Alas, Poor Villain Flipping the Bird Offscreen Moment of Awesome Twist Ending Black Best Friend Hell Is That Noise Aluminum Christmas Trees Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Badass Grandpa Bond Villain Stupidity Artistic License – Gun Safety Darkest Hour Romantic False Lead Early-Bird Cameo Ambiguous Ending Creepy Child Silent Movie Faux Affably Evil Pet the Dog Italian Films Deliberate Values Dissonance Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Well-Intentioned Extremist Parental Abandonment Bring My Brown Pants Love at First Sight Instant Death Bullet Reckless Gun Usage Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Nice Guy Air-Vent Passageway Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Lost Lenore Men Are the Expendable Gender Martial Arts Movie Beauty Is Never Tarnished Plucky Comic Relief Would Hurt a Child Rule of Symbolism You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Smart Guy Intrepid Reporter No Name Given Calling the Old Man Out Pretty in Mink Adaptational Attractiveness Leitmotif Chekhov's Skill Crazy Jealous Guy Really Gets Around Together in Death Mad Scientist Bittersweet Ending Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The Sociopath Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Outrun the Fireball Catapult Nightmare Names to Run Away from Really Fast Fantastic Racism Irony Evil Laugh Sci-Fi Horror Novelization Call-Forward Break the Haughty Cool Car The Quiet One Affectionate Parody Spiteful Spit Vomit Discretion Shot Apocalypse How Here We Go Again! Badass Bookworm Fat Bastard The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Berserk Button Honor Before Reason Stock Footage Brick Joke Double-Meaning Title The Lancer Foil Romantic Comedy Roaring Rampage of Revenge Japanese Films Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Public Domain Feature Films Adaptational Heroism My Beloved Smother Adapted Out Anyone Can Die Failed a Spot Check Serial Killer Ragtag Bunch of Misfits A.I. Is a Crapshoot Hypocrite Dark Action Girl Obfuscating Stupidity Large Ham Bunny-Ears Lawyer Red Oni, Blue Oni Heterosexual Life-Partners Redshirt Army Christmas Movies Index Gratuitous English Rape as Drama Cassandra Truth Foregone Conclusion Artistic License – History Visual Pun Bound and Gagged Foreshadowing Music Stories Smug Snake Disproportionate Retribution Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Musical Auto Erotica Super Strength Fourth Date Marriage One-Man Army Distracted by the Sexy Rewatch Bonus Posthumous Character Those Two Guys Artistic License – Geography Mexican Standoff The Stoic Chewing the Scenery Villain Song Due to the Dead Married to the Job Shirtless Scene The '80s Deus ex Machina Attempted Rape Determinator aka: The Determinator Psychopathic Manchild Depraved Bisexual Ship Tease Zombie Stories Our Zombies Are Different Laser-Guided Karma Historical In-Joke Parental Neglect Totally Radical Drill Sergeant Nasty Put on a Bus The End... Or Is It? Anachronism Stew Sequel Hook Action Girl Fingore Adaptation Distillation Historical-Domain Character The Big Guy Biopic Manipulative Bastard Fire-Forged Friends Advertised Extra Off with His Head! Gold Digger Sinister Minister Race Against the Clock Serious Business From Nobody to Nightmare Creative Closing Credits Dumb Blonde Continuity Nod Final Girl Index of Film Westerns The Chessmaster Hair-Trigger Temper Evil vs. Evil Camera Abuse Rule of Funny Double Entendre Chase Scene Driven to Suicide Slap-Slap-Kiss Crazy-Prepared Heel–Face Turn Last-Name Basis The Casanova Worthy Opponent Blood from the Mouth Fiery Redhead Exact Words The Dragon Small Name, Big Ego Wretched Hive Sports Stories Took a Level in Jerkass An Arm and a Leg And Starring Pragmatic Adaptation Ripped from the Headlines Monumental Damage Shipper on Deck Hooker with a Heart of Gold Random Events Plot German Films Love Triangle Bloody Hilarious Heroes Want Redheads Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Great Depression Protagonist Title Fan Disservice Captain Obvious Reality Is Unrealistic No OSHA Compliance In Medias Res Truth in Television Eureka Moment Daylight Horror Spiritual Successor Wounded Gazelle Gambit Word of God Adaptation Name Change Comically Missing the Point Action Prologue Stepford Smiler Breaking the Fourth Wall Expository Hairstyle Change Politically Incorrect Villain Stylistic Suck Cluster F-Bomb Actor Allusion Epic Movie Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Central Theme Setting Update Conspicuous CG Neck Lift Moment Killer Historical Hero Upgrade Papa Wolf Room Full of Crazy Throwing Your Sword Always Works Get Out! Sanity Slippage No Antagonist You Killed My Father Bloodier and Gorier Pay Evil unto Evil Cain and Abel Slasher Movie Paper-Thin Disguise You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Mercy Kill Cool Shades Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Adorkable As Himself In Name Only Psycho for Hire Those Two Bad Guys Cool Old Guy Jerk Jock The Stoner Daddy's Girl Big-Bad Ensemble Mr. Fanservice Offscreen Teleportation Big Eater Sexy Discretion Shot Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas And I Must Scream Does Not Like Shoes Bare Your Midriff Horror Comedy Adaptational Villainy Morality Pet O.O.C. Is Serious Business Hollywood Darkness Mooks Bar Brawl Brutal Honesty Deal with the Devil Frame-Up Reality Ensues Despair Event Horizon Red Herring Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Faceless B-Movie Blood Knight Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Villainous Breakdown Ironic Echo Historical Villain Upgrade Never Trust a Trailer Chekhov's Gunman Market-Based Title Nothing Is Scarier Unreliable Narrator Real Life Writes the Plot Bullying a Dragon How We Got Here NO INDOOR VOICE Villain with Good Publicity Insane Troll Logic Pragmatic Villainy Plot Hole He Who Fights Monsters Catch-Phrase The Place Only Known by Their Nickname Manic Pixie Dream Girl There Is No Kill Like Overkill Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil And the Adventure Continues All There in the Manual Disguised in Drag Kill It with Fire After the End Humiliation Conga Tap on the Head Re-Cut Race Lift Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" An Axe to Grind Guns Akimbo Alpha Bitch All Men Are Perverts Every Car Is a Pinto Age Lift Epic Fail The '70s Hope Spot Captain Ersatz Based on a True Story Unusually Uninteresting Sight Big Applesauce Sealed Evil in a Can What Happened to the Mouse? Jerkass Has a Point Dark and Troubled Past Getting Crap Past the Radar Credits Gag Dual Wielding Time Skip Freudian Excuse Genre Shift Big "NO!" Department of Redundancy Department Red Eyes, Take Warning "Awesome McCool" Name Shut Up, Hannibal! Mind Screw Framing Device The Remake Authority Equals Asskicking Death by Sex Canon Foreigner Mugging the Monster Broken Aesop Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Maybe Ever After Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Lock and Load Montage Greater-Scope Villain Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Big Bad An Aesop Humans Are Bastards Adaptational Badass Aside Glance Does This Remind You of Anything? Big Damn Heroes Rousing Speech Eyepatch of Power Tempting Fate Soft Glass It's All About Me Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Dissonant Serenity Ass Shove Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Token Minority Adults Are Useless Made of Iron Manchild French Films A Father to His Men Enemy Mine Creator Cameo The Bad Guy Wins Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Shoot the Shaggy Dog Bi the Way This Is Gonna Suck Retired Badass Male Frontal Nudity Overly Long Gag Happily Married Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Darker and Edgier The Dreaded Amusing Injuries Downer Ending Big Brother Instinct Adaptation Dye-Job Hoist by His Own Petard I'm a Humanitarian Children Are Innocent Fatal Flaw Woman Scorned Russian Films Heel Realization Armor-Piercing Question Poor Communication Kills Grey and Gray Morality Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Redemption Equals Death Death by Irony Military and Warfare Films Fatal Family Photo Earn Your Happy Ending All Girls Want Bad Boys Sadistic Choice Black Dude Dies First The Bully What You Are in the Dark Shell-Shocked Veteran Dropped a Bridge on Him Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Noodle Incident Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Agony of the Feet Henpecked Husband Fun with Acronyms Stuff Blowing Up Hero of Another Story Thriller Cloudcuckoolander My Greatest Failure One Steve Limit Big Fancy House Mr. Exposition Cowboy Cop Badass Longcoat Death by Adaptation N-Word Privileges Hong Kong Films Beware the Nice Ones Soundtrack Dissonance Interrupted Suicide Establishing Character Moment Product Placement It's Personal Accidental Murder Not So Above It All I Need a Freaking Drink She Cleans Up Nicely Hate Sink BFG Expy Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Bottomless Magazines Vacation Films Important Haircut From Bad to Worse Empathic Environment Improbable Aiming Skills Gone Horribly Right Jitter Cam Scary Black Man Damsel in Distress Dutch Angle Leaning on the Fourth Wall Oh, Crap! Heroic Sacrifice All for Nothing Did Not Get the Girl Only One Name No-Sell Villain Protagonist Kill 'em All Abusive Parents Television Movie Index Blackmail Kubrick Stare Man on Fire Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Psychological Thriller Break the Cutie Call-Back More Dakka Self-Deprecation Four-Temperament Ensemble Artistic License – Law The Reveal Killed Mid-Sentence Becoming the Mask Amoral Attorney Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Rich Bitch Dark Reprise MacGuffin Insistent Terminology Anguished Declaration of Love Parental Incest Demonic Possession A Minor Kidroduction Karma Houdini Babies Ever After Annoying Younger Sibling Black and Gray Morality Meaningful Background Event Freeze-Frame Bonus The Dog Bites Back Dressing as the Enemy Funny Foreigner Trailers Always Spoil Ascended Extra Ominous Latin Chanting Reality Has No Subtitles Mistaken for Gay Line-of-Sight Name Bait-and-Switch Spell My Name with an "S" Intergenerational Friendship Accidental Misnaming Taking You with Me Blatant Lies Improvised Weapon For the Evulz Celebrity Paradox Wicked Cultured Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Anti-Hero What the Hell, Hero? Only Sane Man The Cameo Meet Cute Evil-Detecting Dog Sequel Escalation Imagine Spot Naked People Are Funny Exactly What It Says on the Tin No Ending Retcon Take That! Combat Pragmatist Animated Credits Opening Silence Is Golden Meaningful Echo Didn't Think This Through Ms. Fanservice The Starscream Star-Crossed Lovers Red Right Hand Suspiciously Specific Denial Translation Convention Gory Discretion Shot Suspiciously Similar Substitute Bad "Bad Acting" Rasputinian Death Death of a Child Loophole Abuse Lampshade Hanging Same Language Dub Decoy Protagonist Not So Different Genre Savvy Camp Gay Broken Pedestal Not Even Bothering with the Accent As You Know Scenery Gorn The Load The Smurfette Principle Informed Ability timeperiod Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Cold-Blooded Torture Asshole Victim Those Wacky Nazis It Will Never Catch On Evil Is Hammy Taking the Bullet Big Bad Duumvirate Needs Wiki Magic Love Slashed Throat Male Gaze Skewed Priorities Ax-Crazy Almost Kiss Sole Survivor Ungrateful Bastard Dull Surprise Casting Gag Handicapped Badass "Well Done, Son!" Guy Beta Couple Villain Opening Scene Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Be Careful What You Wish For Naïve Newcomer Mama Bear Villain Ball Deliberately Monochrome Immune to Bullets Logo Joke Arch-Enemy Coming-of-Age Story Fainting Dirty Old Man Punny Name Better to Die than Be Killed Heroic BSoD The Mole Developing Doomed Characters May–December Romance Author Appeal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Make It Look Like an Accident Spanner in the Works My God, What Have I Done? Author Avatar La Résistance Horror Films Dying Moment of Awesome Friend to All Children Dramatic Gun Cock Stealth Pun Mighty Whitey Artistic License – Biology Animal Motifs Bavarian Fire Drill Loads and Loads of Characters Hero Antagonist Death Seeker Up to Eleven Not So Stoic Brainless Beauty The X of Y Only in It for the Money Diabolus ex Machina Dirty Cop Jump Scare Retirony Easily Forgiven Action Survivor Non-Indicative Name Storming the Castle Composite Character Cruel and Unusual Death Rule of Three A Date with Rosie Palms Suddenly SHOUTING! Police Brutality Mystery and Detective Films Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Toplessness from the Back She's Got Legs Unwitting Instigator of Doom Have a Gay Old Time Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Eagleland Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Brute Kick the Son of a Bitch Character Development Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Punch-Clock Villain Chekhov's Gun Only a Flesh Wound Superhero Police are Useless Curse Cut Short Defiant to the End Book-Ends I Did What I Had to Do The Alcoholic Gainax Ending Domestic Abuse Defrosting Ice Queen The Power of Love 20 Minutes into the Future The Vamp Training Montage Artistic License – Military Pre-Mortem One-Liner Canadian Movies The Stinger Dramedy Card-Carrying Villain "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Refuge in Audacity Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Science Fiction Films Funny Background Event folderlabel Determinator Adult Fear Country Matters You Have Failed Me Antagonist Title Five-Man Band Dark Is Not Evil Guile Hero Stalker with a Crush Lighter and Softer Our Vampires Are Different Genre Throwback Dwindling Party Shower Scene Improbable Weapon User Pretty Little Headshots Idiot Ball Drugs Are Bad Hidden Depths I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Femme Fatale Cat Scare World of Ham Alliterative Name Badass in a Nice Suit Danny Peary Cult Movies List The Ditz Death Glare Black Comedy Rape Affably Evil Obviously Evil Crucified Hero Shot Manly Tears Red Shirt Pimped-Out Dress Arranged Marriage Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Body Horror The Cavalry Unspoken Plan Guarantee Adaptation Expansion Overprotective Dad Knife Nut The Film of the Book Slasher Smile Missing Mom Batman Gambit Early Installment Weirdness The Hero Playing Gertrude Your Head A-Splode Not Using the "Z" Word Faking the Dead The '90s Fanservice Extra Corpsing Deconstruction Tranquil Fury Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Karmic Death Older Than They Look Mundane Made Awesome The '50s Properly Paranoid Mythology Gag Eye Scream Cool Guns Award-Bait Song Parental Substitute Film Series Light Is Not Good Peek-a-Boo Corpse Ambiguously Gay Australian Movies Recycled IN SPACE! Fake Shemp Awesome, but Impractical Reasonable Authority Figure Arc Words Once More, with Clarity! He Knows Too Much Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Eiffel Tower Effect Curb-Stomp Battle Sassy Black Woman Hollywood Law Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Broken Bird Unusual Euphemism No Celebrities Were Harmed Woman in White Say My Name Disney Villain Death Even Evil Has Standards Corrupt Corporate Executive Contrived Coincidence Half the Man He Used to Be Madness Mantra True Companions Car Fu Flashback Boom, Headshot! A God Am I Artistic License – Physics Butt-Monkey Nice Hat Motor Mouth Documentary Works Set in World War II It Can Think Anti-Villain Wrong Genre Savvy "Shaggy Dog" Story The Voiceless Took a Level in Badass Belligerent Sexual Tension Groin Attack Video Credits Stealth Hi/Bye I Have Your Wife Deadpan Snarker The Ghost Match Cut Insult Backfire Kick the Dog Jerkass Bury Your Gays Evil Is Petty Fanservice Made of Explodium Bowdlerise Drives Like Crazy Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Victoria's Secret Compartment Not What It Looks Like Extreme Doormat Covers Always Lie Show Within a Show Hypocritical Humor British Films Vampire Fiction Wham Line Never Found the Body Smoking Is Cool Bloodless Carnage Evil Brit Evil Counterpart Dogged Nice Guy Neck Snap Ambiguous Disorder Animal Title Index Facial Horror As the Good Book Says... '80s Hair The '60s Cool Old Lady The Alleged Car Rule of Cool Evil Plan Tagline The Atoner Mood Whiplash Good Is Not Nice Real Life Off-into-the-Distance Ending In the Back Very Loosely Based on a True Story Take a Third Option Fantasy Films The Oner Title Drop Destination Defenestration Back from the Dead War Is Hell Knight Templar Bond One-Liner Sacrificial Lion The Hero Dies Would Hit a Girl Green-Eyed Monster Brother–Sister Incest Film Noir Index Let's Get Dangerous! Major Injury Underreaction The Chick Laughing Mad Dirty Coward Bland-Name Product Implacable Man