Tropescilloscope: Token Minority

Adding a character of a different ethincity, gender or age to the cast in order to make the show appear more diverse. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Naïve Newcomer Age Lift Improbable Weapon User Hollywood Law Playing Gertrude Took a Level in Badass Betty and Veronica Laughing Mad Too Dumb to Live Artistic License – Physics Chewing the Scenery The Mafia Foil Ship Tease Beard of Evil Bavarian Fire Drill Asshole Victim Lighter and Softer Ambiguous Ending The '70s Badass Bookworm Thriller True Companions Foreshadowing Scenery Porn Famous Last Words All Girls Want Bad Boys Mooks Sealed Evil in a Can Morality Pet It Can Think No-Sell Continuity Nod Blood Knight Fan Disservice Missing Mom There Is No Kill Like Overkill Leaning on the Fourth Wall Imagine Spot Failed a Spot Check Arch-Enemy Public Domain Feature Films Cluster F-Bomb Jump Scare How We Got Here Smoking Is Cool Hollywood Darkness Silent Movie Cold-Blooded Torture Ghost Fiction Fatal Family Photo Corpsing Worthy Opponent The Stoner Improbable Aiming Skills The Voiceless Adorkable Reality Has No Subtitles Psychological Thriller Slasher Smile You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! I Need a Freaking Drink Gory Discretion Shot Call-Back Vacation Films Mr. Exposition Really Gets Around Creepy Child Needs Wiki Magic Love Double Entendre Chekhov's Skill Big-Bad Ensemble Adapted Out Sports Stories Combat Pragmatist Bilingual Bonus Unusually Uninteresting Sight Noodle Incident Dirty Coward Pimped-Out Dress Police are Useless Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Ditz The Cameo Adult Fear Romantic Comedy Truth in Television Villainous Breakdown Smug Snake Woman Scorned Narrator Stuff Blowing Up Curb-Stomp Battle War Is Hell Guns Akimbo Artistic License – Geography Adaptational Badass Running Gag Monumental Damage Market-Based Title Defrosting Ice Queen Villain with Good Publicity Fantasy Films Up to Eleven Twist Ending Artistic License – Law The Lancer Idiot Ball Meaningful Echo Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Pretty in Mink Manly Tears Sadistic Choice Knife Nut Kubrick Stare Slashed Throat She's Got Legs Fun with Acronyms Bad Boss The Chessmaster Rape as Drama Your Cheating Heart A Date with Rosie Palms Gilligan Cut Only Known by Their Nickname Works Set in World War II Meaningful Background Event Pre-Mortem One-Liner Mr. Fanservice The Bully Berserk Button Heel Realization Bond Villain Stupidity Ms. Fanservice Would Hurt a Child The Faceless Man on Fire Brick Joke Deconstruction Karmic Death Evil Laugh Darker and Edgier Shown Their Work Wounded Gazelle Gambit Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Adaptation Dye-Job Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Get Out! Freudian Excuse Race Lift Mood Whiplash Hoist by His Own Petard Anguished Declaration of Love Bloodless Carnage Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The Place Wham Shot As Long as It Sounds Foreign Bloody Hilarious Sassy Black Woman The Alleged Car Alpha Bitch Faking the Dead Dark Action Girl The Ace Cool Old Lady Line-of-Sight Name Stealth Pun Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Contrived Coincidence You Have Failed Me Artistic License – Biology Pyrrhic Victory Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene What You Are in the Dark It's All About Me Punch-Clock Villain Australian Movies Science Fiction Films Overprotective Dad The Vamp Alliterative Name Death Seeker He Who Fights Monsters Pet the Dog Papa Wolf Jerkass Flipping the Bird Alas, Poor Villain Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Car Fu Arc Words The X of Y Those Two Guys Toplessness from the Back No Ending Coming-of-Age Story Product Placement Broken Bird Shell-Shocked Veteran Star-Crossed Lovers For the Evulz Dropped a Bridge on Him Insane Troll Logic From Bad to Worse Getting Crap Past the Radar Parental Abandonment Historical-Domain Character Ominous Latin Chanting Never Found the Body Redemption Equals Death Rule of Cool Trailers Always Spoil Rule of Three Leitmotif Villain Protagonist Fantastic Racism Sequel Escalation Superhero Big Brother Instinct Psychopathic Manchild The Lost Lenore Informed Ability I Have Your Wife The '80s Destination Defenestration Vitriolic Best Buds Dissonant Serenity The Chick Kill It with Fire The End... Or Is It? Conspicuous CG Camera Abuse Artistic License – History Never My Fault Exact Words Large Ham Manipulative Bastard Music Stories Time Skip Very Loosely Based on a True Story Evil Sounds Deep Hate Sink Bloodier and Gorier Catapult Nightmare Hidden Depths Fainting Credits Gag Important Haircut Spiteful Spit Nothing Is Scarier Creative Closing Credits Tagline Arranged Marriage Poor Communication Kills Whole Plot Reference Animal Motifs Rewatch Bonus Eyepatch of Power Card-Carrying Villain May–December Romance Well-Intentioned Extremist Department of Redundancy Department Not Quite Dead Outrun the Fireball Film Noir Daylight Horror Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Random Events Plot Not Even Bothering with the Accent Advertised Extra Left the Background Music On Bottomless Magazines Cain and Abel Eldritch Abomination A God Am I Plucky Comic Relief Victoria's Secret Compartment Greater-Scope Villain Kids Are Cruel Documentary B-Movie After the End Moment Killer The Alcoholic Genre Throwback Ambiguous Disorder Four-Temperament Ensemble Match Cut Visual Pun Spiritual Successor Camp Gay Faux Affably Evil Driven to Suicide Easily Forgiven Bring My Brown Pants Death Glare Beware the Nice Ones Hell Is That Noise The Stinger Zombie Stories The Hero Dies Death by Adaptation Your Head A-Splode Adults Are Useless The Load Rousing Speech Retcon Drowning My Sorrows Madness Mantra Cool Car Drugs Are Bad Chekhov's Gunman Kill 'em All Damsel in Distress Small Name, Big Ego Naked People Are Funny My Greatest Failure Comically Missing the Point No Antagonist Animal Title Index In Medias Res Mexican Standoff Let's Get Dangerous! Unspoken Plan Guarantee Bullying a Dragon Improvised Weapon I'm a Humanitarian As You Know Air-Vent Passageway Cool Old Guy Sacrificial Lion Older Than They Look Covers Always Lie Brutal Honesty Leave the Camera Running Big "NO!" Mercy Kill Throwing Your Sword Always Works Decoy Protagonist "Awesome McCool" Name Mugging the Monster Dirty Cop Immune to Bullets Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Eiffel Tower Effect Precision F-Strike Spared by the Adaptation Depraved Bisexual Loads and Loads of Characters Deus ex Machina Villain Song Chase Scene Soft Glass My God, What Have I Done? This Is Gonna Suck Shut Up, Hannibal! Plot Hole Self-Deprecation An Aesop Facial Horror Not So Above It All I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Break the Haughty Unreliable Narrator Good Is Not Nice Insistent Terminology Adaptational Villainy Horror Films Be Careful What You Wish For Crazy-Prepared Red Shirt Groin Attack Death by Sex Historical Villain Upgrade German Films The Great Depression Punctuated! For! Emphasis! What the Hell, Hero? I Did What I Had to Do Boom, Headshot! Re-Cut Big Eater Accidental Murder Race Against the Clock Heterosexual Life-Partners Evil Is Petty Insult Backfire Genre Shift The Quiet One British Films Big Damn Heroes Shout-Out Take That! Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Artistic License – Gun Safety Humiliation Conga It's Personal Grievous Bottley Harm The Brute All There in the Manual The Big Guy Everyone Has Standards Index of Film Westerns Demonic Possession Determinator aka: The Determinator Undying Loyalty Put on a Bus Funny Foreigner Jerk Jock Call-Forward Friend to All Children Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Bunny-Ears Lawyer Frame-Up Face Death with Dignity "Shaggy Dog" Story Developing Doomed Characters Dark Reprise Training Montage Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Killed Mid-Sentence Cowboy Cop Love at First Sight Black Comedy Sequel Hook Protagonist Title Politically Incorrect Villain The '50s Extreme Doormat The Dragon Taking You with Me Breaking the Fourth Wall Roaring Rampage of Revenge Deliberate Values Dissonance Bond One-Liner Evil Counterpart Police Brutality Film Noir Index Demoted to Extra Dutch Angle Stalker with a Crush Oh, Crap! 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Black Comedy Rape Domestic Abuse Fanservice Disney Villain Death The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Redshirt Army Blackmail Yandere A.I. Is a Crapshoot Ax-Crazy Badass Longcoat Almost Kiss Would Hit a Girl The Musical Take a Third Option Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Mistaken for Gay World of Ham No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Abhorrent Admirer Half the Man He Used to Be Actor Allusion Disappeared Dad NO INDOOR VOICE Epic Movie "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue And I Must Scream The Un-Reveal The Dreaded Catch-Phrase Together in Death Lampshade Hanging Paper-Thin Disguise Rasputinian Death timeperiod Implacable Man Handicapped Badass Dressing as the Enemy Reality Ensues Have a Gay Old Time Author Appeal Red Right Hand Hypocrite Offscreen Teleportation Epic Fail Not Using the "Z" Word The '90s Attempted Rape Double-Meaning Title Corrupt Corporate Executive Deadpan Snarker From Nobody to Nightmare Jerkass Has a Point Retired Badass Storming the Castle The Remake Adaptation Expansion Horror Comedy Reckless Gun Usage Drives Like Crazy Death by Irony Aluminum Christmas Trees La Résistance Biopic Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds N-Word Privileges Recycled IN SPACE! As the Good Book Says... Only One Name Manic Pixie Dream Girl The Bad Guy Wins Villain Opening Scene Anachronic Order Pragmatic Adaptation Male Frontal Nudity Spell My Name with an "S" Broken Pedestal Rich Bitch Canadian Movies Super Strength O.O.C. Is Serious Business Butt-Monkey Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Fake Shemp Anyone Can Die Not What It Looks Like Word of God Historical Hero Upgrade Broken Aesop Hong Kong Films Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! One Steve Limit Tranquil Fury Scare Chord Real Life Writes the Plot Bittersweet Ending Fanservice Extra Mystery and Detective Films '80s Hair Body Horror Earn Your Happy Ending Ass Shove Gainax Ending Closed Circle Daddy's Girl Hope Spot Enemy Mine Captain Obvious Vomit Indiscretion Shot Even Evil Has Standards Does Not Like Shoes Brother–Sister Incest Hooker with a Heart of Gold Pragmatic Villainy Shower Scene All Men Are Perverts Big Bad Bury Your Gays Grey and Gray Morality My Beloved Smother Heroes Want Redheads An Axe to Grind Stylistic Suck Calling the Old Man Out Due to the Dead Reasonable Authority Figure Hero of Another Story Setting Update The Atoner Stock Footage Chekhov's Gun Totally Radical Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Martial Arts Movie Fire-Forged Friends You Killed My Father The Ghost Henpecked Husband Married to the Job As Himself Cool Shades Cool Guns Sole Survivor Fate Worse than Death Sci-Fi Horror Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Aside Glance Wretched Hive All Just a Dream Final Girl Meet Cute Fingore Suddenly SHOUTING! 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