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