Tropescilloscope: Race Lift

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

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Extreme Doormat The Brute Stealth Hi/Bye Girl-on-Girl Is Hot How We Got Here Femme Fatale Implacable Man Spared by the Adaptation Reckless Gun Usage Evil Is Petty Bury Your Gays Betty and Veronica Dirty Coward Decoy Protagonist Actor Allusion Ripped from the Headlines Retired Badass Artistic License – History Well-Intentioned Extremist Badass in a Nice Suit The End... Or Is It? Motor Mouth Television Movie Index Body Horror Soft Glass Groin Attack Our Vampires Are Different Sequel Hook Broken Pedestal Woman Scorned Face–Heel Turn Heel Realization Grievous Bottley Harm Gory Discretion Shot Bald of Evil Psycho for Hire Bi the Way Wicked Cultured The Chick Recycled IN SPACE! An Aesop Beauty Is Never Tarnished Vomit Indiscretion Shot Brother–Sister Incest Beard of Evil Combat Pragmatist Laughing Mad Bait-and-Switch Chiaroscuro What You Are in the Dark Slasher Movie The Casanova Fire-Forged Friends Last-Name Basis Revenge Adaptational Badass Canon Foreigner Blood from the Mouth The Lost Lenore After the End Big Bad Duumvirate The Stinger German Films Leave the Camera Running Truth in Television Dark Reprise "Shaggy Dog" Story Disproportionate Retribution Suspiciously Specific Denial Eiffel Tower Effect This Is Gonna Suck Deliberately Monochrome MacGuffin Broken Aesop Animal Title Index Dying Moment of Awesome Dirty Cop Broken Bird Needs Wiki Magic Love Silent Movie Damsel in Distress Film Noir Index Pay Evil unto Evil Dressing as the Enemy Plot Hole Stepford Smiler Evil vs. Evil Break the Haughty Men Are the Expendable Gender Police Brutality Improbable Weapon User The Starscream Nice Hat Gender Flip Expy Crazy-Prepared Almost Kiss Trailers Always Spoil Establishing Character Moment Suddenly SHOUTING! You Have Failed Me Dramedy Gainax Ending Military and Warfare Films Canadian Movies Wretched Hive Pragmatic Adaptation Your Head A-Splode Wham Line The X of Y Shirtless Scene Random Events Plot The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Mooks Get Out! Brainless Beauty Alpha Bitch Race Lift Evil Brit Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Mercy Kill Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Ass Shove True Companions Public Domain Feature Films Pretty Little Headshots Sanity Slippage Not Quite Dead Rule of Three Papa Wolf Totally Radical Big "NO!" I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Action Survivor Dogged Nice Guy Destination Defenestration Bond Villain Stupidity Pragmatic Villainy Star-Crossed Lovers Hope Spot Only a Flesh Wound Police are Useless You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Bloodless Carnage Match Cut Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Adaptational Attractiveness Black Best Friend Visual Pun Mystery and Detective Films The '50s Small Name, Big Ego Serious Business A.I. 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Mad Scientist Parental Abandonment Make It Look Like an Accident Redshirt Army As Himself Bar Brawl Too Dumb to Live Spiteful Spit Jerkass Has a Point Man on Fire Reality Is Unrealistic Shown Their Work Non-Indicative Name Retirony Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Department of Redundancy Department Pyrrhic Victory Bloodier and Gorier And I Must Scream Gratuitous English Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil folderlabel Off with His Head! Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie N-Word Privileges Product Placement Dutch Angle Be Careful What You Wish For Empathic Environment Ominous Latin Chanting Corpsing Half the Man He Used to Be Black Comedy Rape Death Glare The Cameo Dumb Blonde Ambiguously Gay Hero Antagonist Outrun the Fireball Wounded Gazelle Gambit Slap-Slap-Kiss Wrong Genre Savvy Artistic License – Geography Alliterative Name Anachronism Stew Maybe Ever After Calling the Old Man Out Bound and Gagged Arc Words Accidental Murder The Smart Guy Shipper on Deck And Starring Screw the Rules, I Have Money! An Axe to Grind Up to Eleven Death by Adaptation Sadistic Choice Blood Knight Award-Bait Song Tempting Fate Fainting Continuity Nod Posthumous Character Animated Credits Opening The Musical Stuff Blowing Up Unspoken Plan Guarantee Fun with Acronyms Funny Background Event Sexy Discretion Shot Brick Joke Intrepid Reporter Slashed Throat It Can Think Silence Is Golden Meaningful Echo Artistic License – Biology Romantic False Lead Once More, with Clarity! 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Deus ex Machina Gorn Framing Device The Un-Reveal Action Prologue Cloudcuckoolander Artistic License – Gun Safety Badass Longcoat Villain Opening Scene Evil Counterpart Gold Digger Manly Tears Mexican Standoff Rule of Symbolism Loophole Abuse The Load Woman in White Thriller The Hero Humans Are Bastards Beta Couple Based on a True Story Conspicuous CG Ms. Fanservice Rewatch Bonus Bad Boss Alas, Poor Villain No OSHA Compliance Hypocritical Humor The Chessmaster Would Hit a Girl Contrived Coincidence Babies Ever After Immune to Bullets She's Got Legs Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Cat Scare Cool Guns Never Found the Body Humiliation Conga Sequel Escalation Deliberate Values Dissonance The Smurfette Principle Noodle Incident Epic Fail Mind Screw Daddy's Girl Scare Chord Not Even Bothering with the Accent Author Avatar Shut Up, Hannibal! Big Brother Instinct "Awesome McCool" Name Flashback Vomit Discretion Shot Politically Incorrect Villain Hero of Another Story Age Lift Double-Meaning Title The Oner Together in Death Deadpan Snarker All There in the Manual Costume Porn The Voiceless Yandere Blackmail Captain Obvious Slasher Smile Very Loosely Based on a True Story Early Installment Weirdness Loads and Loads of Characters Soundtrack Dissonance Awesome, but Impractical Sealed Evil in a Can I Just Shot Marvin in the Face "Where Are They Now?" 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Historical-Domain Character Manchild For Want of a Nail Time Skip Arranged Marriage Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Covers Always Lie Artistic License – Law Drill Sergeant Nasty Married to the Job Big Eater Ungrateful Bastard Market-Based Title Genre Throwback As the Good Book Says... Sir Swears-a-Lot Adaptation Distillation It's Personal Comically Missing the Point Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Action Girl Creative Closing Credits Fanservice Film Noir Evil-Detecting Dog Brutal Honesty Corrupt Corporate Executive Credits Gag Unresolved Sexual Tension Jump Scare Children Are Innocent Vampire Fiction From Bad to Worse Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Red Herring Music Stories The Hero Dies May–December Romance Fish out of Water Index of Film Westerns Eye Scream The Faceless Mistaken for Gay Abusive Parents Despair Event Horizon Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Spiritual Successor Due to the Dead French Films Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Dramatic Irony Hoist by His Own Petard Kick the Son of a Bitch Offscreen Teleportation Chekhov's Gunman Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Every Car Is a Pinto The Dragon Advertised Extra Heroic Sacrifice Happily Married Reasonable Authority Figure Bunny-Ears Lawyer Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Those Two Guys Russian Films Never My Fault Bittersweet Ending Air-Vent Passageway Henpecked Husband Gone Horribly Right Even Evil Has Standards The Ghost Love at First Sight Drives Like Crazy Spanner in the Works Face Death with Dignity I Did What I Had to Do Badass Normal Asshole Victim Funny Foreigner Black Comedy Artistic License – Military Extremely Short Timespan Meaningful Background Event Important Haircut Manic Pixie Dream Girl Playing Gertrude Wham Shot Armor-Piercing Question Adorkable Line-of-Sight Name Tagline Australian Movies Book-Ends Have a Gay Old Time Biopic Fake Shemp Meet Cute Cold-Blooded Torture The Ditz Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Guns Akimbo Becoming the Mask Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Big-Bad Ensemble Throwing Your Sword Always Works Video Credits More Dakka Mugging the Monster For the Evulz Demonic Possession Not So Above It All Training Montage Jerkass No Antagonist Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Rousing Speech Hollywood Law Light Is Not Good The Reveal Historical In-Joke Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Tap on the Head The Vamp Fat Bastard Lampshade Hanging "Well Done, Son!" Guy Distracted by the Sexy Male Frontal Nudity Pre-Mortem One-Liner Aluminum Christmas Trees Defiant to the End From Nobody to Nightmare Obfuscating Stupidity Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Does This Remind You of Anything? 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The Stoner Victoria's Secret Compartment Parental Incest Hong Kong Films Leitmotif Villain with Good Publicity Crucified Hero Shot Storming the Castle Country Matters The Quiet One Failed a Spot Check Only Sane Man Fanservice Extra As Long as It Sounds Foreign Bolivian Army Ending Author Appeal Sole Survivor Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun I Have Your Wife Overly Long Gag Documentary Madness Mantra Pretty in Mink Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Sinister Minister Taking You with Me Darker and Edgier Attempted Rape Dirty Old Man Exact Words Demoted to Extra Self-Deprecation Kubrick Stare As You Know Amusing Injuries Zombie Stories Race Against the Clock Animal Motifs An Arm and a Leg Camera Abuse Took a Level in Badass Coming-of-Age Story Final Girl Twist Ending Heel–Face Turn Smoking Is Cool Rated M for Manly Italian Films Black and Gray Morality Cool Old Lady Determinator aka: The Determinator Closed Circle Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Foil Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Heroic BSoD Dual Wielding Darkest Hour Creepy Child The Power of Love Room Full of Crazy Affably Evil Drugs Are Bad Karmic Death Death by Irony Fiery Redhead No-Sell Early-Bird Cameo The '60s Freeze-Frame Bonus Death Seeker Hooker with a Heart of Gold No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Driven to Suicide Riddle for the Ages The Alleged Car It's All About Me Skewed Priorities Your Cheating Heart Bare Your Midriff "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Bad Guy Wins Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Genre Savvy You Killed My Father Those Wacky Nazis Poor Communication Kills Epic Movie Gilligan Cut Malevolent Masked Men Psychological Thriller Cool Old Guy Beware the Nice Ones Japanese Films Famous Last Words Not So Different Running Gag Defrosting Ice Queen Bowdlerise Paper-Thin Disguise Downer Ending Unwitting Instigator of Doom Dramatic Gun Cock Straight Gay Boom, Headshot! BFG Naked People Are Funny Film Series