Tropescilloscope: Race Lift

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

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