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