Tropescilloscope: Race Lift

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

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