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