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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Gory Discretion Shot Beard of Evil Visual Pun Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Pimped-Out Dress Hope Spot My God, What Have I Done? The Lost Lenore Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Sexy Discretion Shot Villain with Good Publicity Enemy Mine Curse Cut Short Celebrity Paradox Tap on the Head Twist Ending The Great Depression Parental Substitute Well-Intentioned Extremist Evil Is Petty Country Matters Pretty in Mink Hollywood Darkness Creator Cameo The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Flipping the Bird Disney Villain Death Chekhov's Skill Unresolved Sexual Tension Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Married to the Job Moment Killer Arch-Enemy No Name Given Dramatic Irony Be Careful What You Wish For Eureka Moment Evil Sounds Deep Spared by the Adaptation Catch-Phrase Brutal Honesty Improbable Aiming Skills Rewatch Bonus Red Shirt Failed a Spot Check Armor-Piercing Question Reckless Gun Usage Developing Doomed Characters Due to the Dead Extreme Doormat Chekhov's Gun Kids Are Cruel Dramatic Gun Cock Action Survivor Every Car Is a Pinto Ascended Extra Genre Savvy Documentary Sequel Hook Karma Houdini Didn't Think This Through Genre Throwback Cool Guns Hollywood Law The Big Guy The Power of Love Throwing Your Sword Always Works Military and Warfare Films Anti-Hero No OSHA Compliance Dissonant Serenity La Résistance Auto Erotica Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Spanner in the Works Deconstruction Ship Tease Posthumous Character Green-Eyed Monster Red Eyes, Take Warning Destination Defenestration "The Reason You Suck" Speech Toplessness from the Back Bottomless Magazines Chiaroscuro Fanservice Extra Bad Boss Psycho for Hire Grievous Bottley Harm As the Good Book Says... Dressing as the Enemy Properly Paranoid Papa Wolf Improbable Weapon User Book-Ends Drowning My Sorrows The Atoner Break the Haughty Crapsack World Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Loophole Abuse The Hero Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Evil-Detecting Dog Meaningful Background Event Real Life Writes the Plot timeperiod He Who Fights Monsters Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Oh, Crap! Laser-Guided Karma Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Make It Look Like an Accident Race Against the Clock Abhorrent Admirer Defrosting Ice Queen Gold Digger Beauty Is Never Tarnished Mercy Kill Plot Hole Kubrick Stare Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Creepy Child Race Lift Annoying Younger Sibling What You Are in the Dark Match Cut Laughing Mad Brother–Sister Incest Jump Scare Hong Kong Films Big Applesauce Ambiguously Gay Foregone Conclusion Car Fu Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Serial Killer Pragmatic Villainy Interrupted Suicide Outrun the Fireball Vomit Indiscretion Shot Have a Gay Old Time I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Rousing Speech Vampire Fiction Coming-of-Age Story Small Name, Big Ego Japanese Films An Axe to Grind Shipper on Deck Pre-Mortem One-Liner Historical Villain Upgrade Hell Is That Noise The Casanova The Stoner Reality Has No Subtitles Mooks '80s Hair Romantic Comedy Early-Bird Cameo I Did What I Had to Do An Aesop Arc Words Epic Fail A God Am I Monumental Damage Conspicuous CG Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Music Stories Video Credits Refuge in Audacity Badass Boast Roaring Rampage of Revenge Corpsing Dark and Troubled Past Getting Crap Past the Radar Insult Backfire Big Eater Very Loosely Based on a True Story Fantastic Racism The Chick "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Shout-Out Funny Background Event Fun with Acronyms Framing Device Becoming the Mask The Lancer Big Brother Instinct The Ghost Suspiciously Specific Denial Beware the Nice Ones Adaptational Attractiveness Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Black Best Friend Psychological Thriller Broken Bird All for Nothing Adults Are Useless Russian Films Homage Chekhov's Gunman Straight Gay The Mafia The Smart Guy Insane Troll Logic The '60s Dramedy World of Ham Big Bad Duumvirate Not So Above It All Shirtless Scene Biopic Evil Is Hammy Police are Useless Mystery and Detective Films Death Glare Dark Action Girl Only One Name Smoking Is Cool Once More, with Clarity! 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BFG Unspoken Plan Guarantee Gilligan Cut Hero of Another Story Overprotective Dad Good Is Not Nice Not Quite Dead Foil Market-Based Title Too Dumb to Live Heterosexual Life-Partners Fake Shemp The '70s After the End Spiteful Spit Men Are the Expendable Gender I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Lighter and Softer Badass in a Nice Suit My Beloved Smother Soft Glass Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Dirty Old Man Not Even Bothering with the Accent I Have Your Wife Up to Eleven The Musical Abusive Parents The Starscream Australian Movies There Is No Kill Like Overkill Authority Equals Asskicking Jerk Jock Drugs Are Bad Public Domain Feature Films Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Deliberate Values Dissonance Aluminum Christmas Trees Bi the Way Disappeared Dad Amoral Attorney Improvised Weapon What the Hell, Hero? Hidden Depths Names to Run Away from Really Fast Crazy-Prepared Dark Is Not Evil All Men Are Perverts Retirony Never My Fault Villain Protagonist A.I. Is a Crapshoot In the Back Important Haircut Recycled IN SPACE! Poor Communication Kills Pragmatic Adaptation Took a Level in Badass Bring My Brown Pants Red Herring Left the Background Music On Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Guile Hero Bloodier and Gorier Smug Snake Punch-Clock Villain Action Genre Italian Films Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Cowboy Cop Maybe Ever After Bond Villain Stupidity Slasher Smile Canon Foreigner Dark Reprise Time Skip Ambiguous Disorder The Film of the Book Science Fiction Films Faking the Dead Get Out! 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Retcon All Just a Dream Ms. Fanservice Really Gets Around Bald of Evil Arranged Marriage Awesome, but Impractical Double-Meaning Title The Alcoholic Sassy Black Woman Cloudcuckoolander For Want of a Nail Adaptation Expansion Took a Level in Jerkass Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Title Drop Let's Get Dangerous! Mind Screw Hoist by His Own Petard Anti-Villain Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Distracted by the Sexy Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Faux Affably Evil Cat Fight Villainous Breakdown Missing Mom Central Theme Re-Cut Expository Hairstyle Change Face Death with Dignity The Stoic The Remake Darker and Edgier Overly Long Gag Freudian Excuse Wham Shot Hair-Trigger Temper Camera Abuse Rule of Cool Mr. Exposition Tempting Fate Fish out of Water Film Noir Index Costume Porn I'm a Humanitarian Word of God Better to Die than Be Killed War Is Hell Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome True Companions Wicked Cultured Trailers Always Spoil "Well Done, Son!" 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