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)

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