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* Chada from ''[[NieA_7]]'' at first appears to be a walking, talking stereotype of an Indian convenience store owner, complete with broken English. [[Justified Trope|However,]] [[Fauxreigner|he's actually an alien who adopted this stereotype as his appearance and identity.]]
* Although its becoming less so over time, this is still disturbingly common in most anime (especially older animes) due to most people in Japan having little experience with people of other ethnicities.
* Chocolove of [[Shaman King]].
* Many Koreans didn't respond well to the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of their country in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''.
* Subverted in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' by Ling Yao, who leans into this intentionally as a means of [[Obfuscating Stupidity]].
* In ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt]]'', Garterbelt is a blatantly parodic example of this trope due to the fact that he is a remarkably large, [[Ambiguously Gay|gay(?)]] and [[Scary Black Man|scary-looking black]] [[Pedophile Priest]] who has both a [[Funny Afro|comically huge afro]] that [[It Makes Just As Much Sense in Context|he can use as both an extra penis and a weapon-storing container]] and an almost-''as''-comically huge pair of pink lips...and also due to the fact that at least one of his official voice actors (Christopher Sabat) ''extremely''-obviously is a white person who is doing a ''very'' fake "cool and sexy black guy" voice.
== Comic Books ==
* Chop-Chop from ''[[Blackhawk]]''. All the Caucasian characters are tall and good-looking
** However
***
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131018121944/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1263:is-the-spirits-sidekick-a-clown-or-did-people-actually-dress-that-way&catid=29:confounding-comic-covers-index&Itemid=32 Ebony White] in ''[[The Spirit]]''. Yes, he got better lines and a more serious role as the story went on, but to have a comedy black character half the white guy's height with big
▲*** More modern Hawkman issues (nineties) show the character as a successful businessman. His 'past' was retconned to be a couple of pointless jokes and he was always a valued member of the team. Of course, [[Continuity Snarl|since this was a Hawkman comic]], the continuity of such is in doubt.
▲* [http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1263:is-the-spirits-sidekick-a-clown-or-did-people-actually-dress-that-way&catid=29:confounding-comic-covers-index&Itemid=32 Ebony White] in ''[[The Spirit]]''. Yes, he got better lines and a more serious role as the story went on, but to have a comedy black character half the white guy's height with big, red, rubber lips and huge, wide staring eyes was not the finest idea in [[Will Eisner]]'s great career as a cartoonist.
** Eisner discusses this problem, and his reaction to it, in the introduction to ''Fagin the Jew'', the comic he made to vindicate the character of Fagin in ''Oliver Twist''.
** The 2007 Darwyn Cooke version makes him into a street-smart kid, with the added precaution of excising any [[Jive Turkey]] habits. Spirit employs him as his driver since both of them are officially "outside the law," and because of Ebony's excellent survival instincts. They also invert Ebony's role from the original strips
* The [[Silver Age]] [[Green Lantern]] Hal Jordan had an Inuit sidekick called Pieface who served as his mechanic. Today, he is strictly called Tom Kalmaku and depicted with respect as an engineer. One retelling of Hal's origin has the "Pieface" nickname used by a [[Jerkass]] rival pilot.
** Tom gets his in ''[[Justice League: The New Frontier]]'', Darwyn Cooke's (there he is again!) reimagining of the dawn of DC's [[Silver Age]]. Hal Jordan calls him Pieface when they first meet. Tom responds by calling Hal "whitebread" and threatening him with a wrench, and that's the last time Hal uses that nickname.
** While the nickname was very unfortunate, as such things go, [[Fair for Its Day|Tom was really treated pretty decently in the old Gardner Fox Silver Age GL comics]]. He looked like a real Eskimo and not some weird caricature, avoided a [[You No Take Candle]]-style weird accent, and he was clearly a good and intelligent man whom Hal respected. He also deserves credit for being a favorable portrayal of a minority most readers at that time would only be vaguely familiar with.
* The Africans in ''[[Tintin]] in the Congo'' are better left unmentioned. However, the later ''Blue Lotus'' was written with input by a real Chinese person, and worked hard to remove some of the [[Yellow Peril]] stereotypes. This did not, however, apply to the Japanese villains, who were mostly depicted
** Herge expressed great regret later on for the racism in his early work, and actually requested ''Tintin in the Congo'' not be republished. The last few Tintin adventures are still prone to including Ethnic
* Whitewash in the ''Young Allies'' comics? Go to [[Super Dickery|superdickery.com]] and click on any of the pictures where the Allies are mentioned.
** Of course, in a recent comic where the new Captain America (Bucky) reunited with his old friends, they fix that and don't even use the nickname. He was also shown to be highly intelligent.
** And just a reminder that at that time, having a black kid in a relatively equal role in a mostly-white group ''was a step up''.
*** [[Fair for Its Day]] is still ''pretty bad''. Seanbaby called him [http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-gayest-fattest-most-racist-most-useless-sidekicks-of-all-time/ racist on a level we simply cannot recreate with today's technology].
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== Video Games ==
* After the huge success of Sony's "It Only Does Everything" marketing campaign spearheaded by [[Kevin Butler]], Sony decided to try to replicate the same success for their PSP line of products. Sony introduced Marcus, an African American adolescent who blatantly plays heavily on
** This came after the earlier PSP ad campaign that included stereotypically [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzs7824Ct6g&feature=related Mexican dustballs] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOwRqQ70p-k African American squirrels]. Throw in advertising slogans such as "PSP: It's like cheese you can listen to outside", and this is arguably the low point of Sony advertising.
* ''[[Arc the Lad]]''
** The [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|funny thing]] is that, since the translated version came out after 9/11, western players could not see the character without thinking about [[Osama Bin Laden]]... [[Nightmare Fuel|A scarily competent expy of Bin Laden who managed to make]] [[The Empire|the world's only uncontested superpower]] [[Nightmare Fuel|bite the dust after a few years of carefully planed terrorists attacks]]. Well, at least, the real Bin Laden does not have [[Badass Crew|two dozens]] of [[Magic Knight|magic wielding]] [[One-Man Army|overpowered warriors]] and summoned monsters... [[Paranoia Fuel|We hope...]]
** Chongara also became the captain of the airship Silver Noah, to further underline his competence and usefulness. Mind you, that airship took part in an aerial terrorist attack on a city that's a direct analog of New York... and blew up a major landmark.
* 18-Volt from ''[[Wario Ware]]'' is pretty obviously a stereotype of a black man—though not necessarily a negative one. He's more like a would-be rapper, complete with boom box and gold teeth. However, some players still dislike him, considering his only lines of dialogue are "word" (Nintendo's understanding of rap culture? [[Hulk Speak]]? Who knows?) and he seems like [[Satellite Character|an arbitrary addition]] to 9-Volt, a more developed character.
* Some players have a great deal of hatred for Oilman of ''[[Mega Man Powered Up]]''. Though his design could have been accidental, it still is in effect a black face with thick, pink lips. The US version changed it to dark blue and yellow lips—which still doesn't help that much.
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* Rico of [[Killzone]], who is Hispanic, foul-mouthed, and hot headed. He's one of the most hated characters, not to mention the fact that he guarantees the defeat of the ISA in ''Killzone 2'' by killing Visari.
* Nightwolf from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]''. The movies in particular make him one of the most ridiculous [[Braids, Beads, and Buckskins]] stereotypes in recent memory. The cartoon, however, turns him into a [[Genius Bruiser]] with computer hacking skills who is also the only one who is immune to a virus.
* Li Xiangfei from ''[[The King of Fighters]]''
* ''[[Street Fighter]]'' has Balrog, who takes being a [[Scary Black Man|brutish black boxer]] to its [[Logical Extreme|logical extreme]]. In fact, [[Quintessential British Gentleman|Dudley]] even [[Lampshade Hanging|points out how stereotypical Balrog is]] in ''[[Street Fighter IV]]''.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' has the infamous Barret Wallace (a completely shameless [[Scary Black Man|Mr. T caricature]] who has both a [[Arm Cannon|literal gun arm]] and a [[Angry Black Man|comically short temper]]), although he does become a much deeper, more heroic and less annoying character as the game progesses.
* Subverted in ''[[The Last of Us: Part 2]]'' by [[Big Bad|Abby]], who has ''many'' stereotypically "black" characteristics (being cartoonishly strong and brutish, having a missing/dead father, having a storyline role that revolves around her wanting to kill the white main protagonists of the game, wearing a tank top, being an arrogant jerk, etc.) but actually is white.
* Averted by [[Big Bad|Neo Cortex]] of ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'', who looks literally yellow but is from Illinois.
* ''[[Mother 3]]'' gives us [[Arab Oil Sheikh|Fassad]], a [[Middle Eastern Terrorists|Middle Eastern Terrorist]] who is basically a combination of [[Osama Bin Laden]] and [[Courage the Cowardly Dog|Eustace Bagge]].
* ''[[Nintendo Wars|Advance Wars]]'' has Kanbei (a ludicrously blatant "Japanese warrior" caricature whose obsession with warfare is so extreme that it causes him to forget how to find his socks and largely is his only personality trait) and Koal (an utterly obnoxious Earth-polluting douchebag who dresses himself up as a kabuki actor and says things such as "this world will become as ugly as your face"). Naturally enough, said characters have ''extremely''-stereotypically Asian theme songs.
== Web Original ==
* The hatta from ''[[Neurotically Yours]]'' is seen by many fans as this. Episodes featuring him are frequently disliked by the fans.
* [[4chan]]'s Corona-Chan is a humanoid version of the
== Western Animation ==
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** [[Imperial Japan]] gave ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' more than its share of ethnic scrappies during World War II.
** Then there is the classic ethnic scrappy of the series, Pepe Le Pew. Even ignoring the ''many'' [[Unfortunate Implications]] of what he is—making a skunk character French seems pretty reminiscent of the stereotype that the French ignore hygiene, and his personality recalls the other stereotype that they're chauvinists—his whole horny schtick is offensive on its own to many people.
* ''[[Dumbo]]''{{'}}s crows, whom the protagonist meets after his infamous [[Non Sequitur Scene]] nightmare. Though [[Space Jews|stereotypically "black,"]] [[Fair for Its Day|they're glad to take a fellow outcast]] [[
** With the exception of Cliff Edwards, the voice actors were also black singers, the Hall Johnson Choir
* ''[[Chuck Norris:
* Some fans of ''[[CatDog]]'' loathe Lola the bird,
▲* ''[[Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos|Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos]]'': Dear '''GOD!''' Where to start? When the least offensive ethnic character on the show is a stereotypical Samurai named Kemo, you know you're in trouble. Others include Lard-ass [[Extreme Omnivore]] sumo wrestler Tabe and [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Too-Much]].
▲* Some fans of ''[[CatDog]]'' loathe Lola the bird, although only part of it has to do with her being a latin-American stereotype, and another part is that she was sometimes a [[Creator's Pet]].
* Cleveland from ''[[Family Guy]]'' and ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'' falls into this trope at times. [[Deconstructive Parody|Sometimes]] [[Lampshade Hanging|intentionally]].
** Jasper, Brian's gay cousin, is considered by many as a "Gay Scrappy".
** Theres also Mort Goldman, who gradually devolved into a walking Jew caricature.
* Paco from ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]''. He's [[The Load]], an annoying fanboy, and his [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|gratingly fake]] accent prevents him from properly pronouncing the names of his best friends. His sole purpose was to provide a foil for El Toro (who really didn't need one), and his sole impact on the plot in the entire series was to [[Too Dumb to Live|put on a big obvious artifact of evil]] and nearly doom the world once. He's so bad that the fanbase prefers to ship Jade with a homicidal demonic bat.
* ''[[Lady and the Tramp]]'' has the infamous Siamese Cat duo. On top of being
** Another stereotypical Siamese cat from a [[Disney]] feature
* The cartoon ''[[Mr. Magoo]]'' had Charlie, a Chinese character who was servant of some form to Magoo. Charlie had buck teeth and a thick accent that resulted in calling his employer "Mr. Magloo" or "Bloss." He was able to see and therefore aware of all Magoo's errors, but his subservient position made him unable to call Magoo out on them, even when they got him put in harm's way.
* The [[Superfriends]] had four such tokens: Samurai is the least stereotypical, only because you can't recognize him as Japanese until he slips into [[Gratuitous Japanese]] with an American accent.
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' has the Scotsman and his wife.
* In ''[[American Dad]]'' we have a [[Show Within a Show]] example with the detective show Steve and Roger like to watch. Where [[Meaningful Name|Tex is a American detective in a cowboy outfit]] and his partner is a Mexican stereotype.
* ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' gives us Di Lung,
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