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== [[Film]] ==
* This is the premise of ''[[Watermelon Man]]''.
* A [[Fantastic Racism]] variant is used in the first ''[[X-Men 1]]'' movie, when Magneto turns anti-mutant Senator Kelly into a mutant.
** This is given an [[Ironic Echo]] in the third movie, when Magneto is [[Brought Down to Normal]] .
* The ''[[Riff Trax]]''-featured educational film ''Skipper Learns A Lesson'' does this with a dog who hates "funny-looking" dogs. After he gets covered in paint, the other dogs avoid him and he tells then they're "being silly" for avoiding him because of how he looks, then realizes that he was being silly too.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the ''[[Mission Impossible]]'' episode "Kitara", the IMF uses drugs and a special light bulb to make a ruthless white provincial governor in an apartheid African nation believe he's actually black as part of a ploy to free a resistance leader.
* In an episode of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)]]'', the staff of the 4077 gradually darken the skin of a White racist to make him think he's turning black after getting a blood transfusion from a Black person.
* At the end of an episode of ''[[Bewitched]]'', Samantha uses magic to cause a racist to see everyone as black. Including himself when he looks in a mirror.
* There's an episode of ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'' in which Mork uses his Orkan powers to turn a bunch of racists into Latino, Black and East-Asian, among other changes (two of them were turned orange and at least one had stripes.). They were [[Expy|expies]] of the KKK, so they didn't know it until they [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yR6PcwZtB0 took their white hoods off].
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** Sammy Davis, Jr. wrote in his autobiography that he suggested ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode have a white supremacist wake up one day and he's black. Rod Serling eventually wrote the story "Color Scheme" for his anthology ''The Season To Be Wary''. The other two stories in that collection were part of the ''[[Night Gallery]]'' pilot, but "Color Scheme" was seen as too raw even for 1970s TV.
* "Tribunal" the 100th episode of the 90's reboot of ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' featured an ending where a Nazi war criminal whose escaped justice for 50 years put into the uniform of his prisoners and taken back in time to his own camp. His younger self shoots him for being Jewish.
* A subversion in ''[[Different Strokes|Diff'rent Strokes]]'' occurs, where Arnold (Gary Coleman) overhears that his (white) stepsister, Kimberly's boyfriend and date for the dance isn't very keen on black people. She decides to call him out by saying that she wants to go to the dance in make up to make herself look black.
* An inversion in an old [[Saturday Night Live]] sketch had Eddie Murphy putting on white makeup to find out how white folks behaved if they thought there weren't any black people around.
** Turns out that when the last black guy got off a bus, stewardesses appeared, serving free drinks, and if you went into a bank to ask for a loan, they just handed over bundles of cash, no questions asked.
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** [[Crosses the Line Twice]] when the host of the news show doing the story on him does a little [[Where Are They Now]] segment at the end, which reveals that although he has come to terms with being a black man, he divorced his wife "because she was a nigger-lover".
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]''. The morning after receiving a lecture fom one of her relatives about the importance of not judging by appearance, Sabrina checks herself in the mirror and is grateful that her appearance wasn't modified in the night. {{spoiler|Harvey, however, spends the episode transformed into a beast-man, and Sabrina has to accept him before the curse is undone.}}
** Also subverted when Sabrina turns [[Alpha Bitch|Libby]] into a geek, forcing her out of her popular clique. Libby joins the geeky kids and manages to become their leader, then proceeds to act just as tyrannical as she always has, excluding Sabrina from Science Club for [[Inverted Trope|not being]] [[Even Nerds Have Standards|geeky enough]].
* [[The Sarah Silverman Program|Sarah Silverman]] does this after getting into an argument with a black man about who has it harder, the blacks or the Jews. She puts on blackface and he puts on a large fake nose and a yarmulke in order to experience a day as each other's race. Everyone treats them horribly [[Mistaken for Racist|because of what they're wearing]], but they both think their [[Paper-Thin Disguise|Paper Thin Disguises]] are flawless and are getting hated on for being black/Jewish.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Bloom County]]'' played this for laughs once; if memory serves, [[Black and Nerdy|Oliver Wendell Jones]] invented a gadget that temporarily turned white people black, and Cutter John was going to take it to D.C. and use it on the ambassador from South Africa (this was still the time of apartheid, so the ambassador would have been white) but his wheelchair-balloon got blown off course and he was lost at sea.
** He also used it on a clueless Steve Dallas, who assumed it was a [[Karmic Twist Ending]] and started searching for Rod Sterling (of [[The Twilight Zone]]) in the bushes.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* An episode of ''[[South Park]]'' has the boys making [[Token Evil Teammate|Cartman]] think he's...[[Redheaded Stepchild|a ginger]]. Freckles and hair dye. The episode then turns this on its head--rather than making Cartman rethink his horrible attitude, he actually ''starts a ginger supremacist movement'' and nearly kills every non-ginger in the town.
* ''[[Gargoyles]]'' villain [[Big Bad|Demona]] summons and binds [[Great Gazoo|Puck]] and forces him to grant her various wishes, [[Jackass Genie|which he delights in twisting because he dislikes her]], and because her wishes consist of "[[Kill All Humans]]," a species of which Puck is fond. She also wishes that she would not turn to stone during the day like other gargoyles -- which Puck grants by causing her to turn ''human'' during the day instead. And in this case, it's permanent. As usual, Demona learns nothing.
* In the ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' episode "A Walk On The Flip Side" (a parody of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'') has Montana Max, "rabbit-hater extraordinaire", wake up to find that he's a rabbit himself.
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