Tropescilloscope: Race Lift

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

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