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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Why '''am''' I the only black Jedi on the Jedi Council? Ain't nobody else in here black, and if y'all black you got a [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|bone in the middle of yo head]]."''
|'''Mace Windu''', ''[[Star Wars]]: A Lost Hope''}}
Space has a lot of people in it. Way, way more people than science tells us there should be. There are [[Amazing Technicolor Population|blue people, green people, orange people, purple people,]] [[To Serve Man|people that eat people]], [[Proud Warrior Race Guy
▲{{quote|''"Why '''am''' I the only black Jedi on the Jedi Council? Ain't nobody else in here black, and if y'all black you got a [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|bone in the middle of yo head]]."'' |'''Mace Windu''', ''[[Star Wars]]: A Lost Hope''}}
But there's still probably [[Token Minority|just the one black guy]]
▲Space has a lot of people in it. Way, way more people than science tells us there should be. There are [[Amazing Technicolor Population|blue people, green people, orange people, purple people,]] [[To Serve Man|people that eat people]], [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Proud Warrior Race Guys]], [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]], [[Big Creepy Crawlies]], [[Energy Beings]], and even the odd [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] with [[Ancient Astronauts|a very familiar name]]. And most of them even [[Aliens Speaking English|speak English]].
Oh, and even better luck finding Asians, Latinos, or, Heaven forbid, an Arab or Native American. You will hardly ever find an Indian, even though they're the third-biggest Asian minority in the US and the biggest Asian minority in the UK. And there are never any [[Informed Judaism|non-assimilated]] Jews.
▲But there's still probably [[Token Minority|just the one black guy]][[hottip:*:[[Always Male|Seldom gal.]].
▲Oh, and even better luck finding Asians, Latinos, or, Heaven forbid, an Arab or Native American. You will hardly ever find an Indian, even though they're the third-biggest Asian minority in the US and the biggest Asian minority in the UK. And there are never any [[Informed Judaism|non-assimilated]] Jews.
This trope can also appear in alternate dimensions or histories as well as in futuristic space stories.
In older live-action works, this occurs because [[Monochrome Casting|the great majority of actors were white]], and the [
Note that
Contrast with [[Politically
Please do not confuse it with its [[Sister Trope]], [[Monochrome Casting]]. Compare with how [[Plenty of Blondes|whites are blonde.]]
{{examples
== Anime and Manga ==
* The [[Tower of God|Tower]] is full of weird creatures, but if they are humanoid, they are most likely white, except for Quant and Kurudan.
* ''[[Gundam]]'' has evolved a lot since its beginnings. Though it is at times a little hard to tell the 'white' people apart from the Asians since they used to make not such a big fuss about it.
** ''[[
** ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
*** Though it could be argued that they didn't have too much of a choice, considering that they spent most of the middle part of the series in ''Africa''.
** ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
** ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam
** Uh, what? At least 3 of the Gundam Fighters we actually get to see are decidedly non-white: Neo Kenya is black, Neo Spain is Hispanic and Neo India is...green.
** ''[[Turn
** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00
** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
* ''[[Irresponsible Captain Tylor]]'' has its main characters supposedly as members of an [[The Federation|international military force]]. However, pretty much everyone on the ship has a Japanese name, and the high command are likewise Japanese. The token minority member is Lt. Kim who in averting [[No Koreans in Japan]] is probably meant as proof of a more "racially harmonious" future.
* There are absolutely no non-white characters in [[The Empire]] in ''[[Legend of Galactic Heroes]]'', for justified ([[Moral Event Horizon|if monstrous]]) reasons. The Free Planets Alliance, by contrast, showed a number of Blacks and other ethnicities.
* [[Zoids]]: Chaotic Century features Moonbay, most likely supposed to be Native American, in the main cast.
* [[Fullmetal Alchemist]] notably averts this trope, particularly in the manga and Brotherhood. With the Asian looking Xingese characters, the dark skinned, white haired, red eyed Ishvalans, and the (generally) caucasian Amestrians, FMA is one of the few anime/manga to not only include a variety of ethnic backgrounds, but actually incorporate them into the character designs. Even among Amestrians, there are "black" supporting characters like Paninya and Jerso.
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== Comic Books ==
* In the [[Silver Age]], ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (
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** In the Legion's "threeboot" continuity, Star Boy is a black Human Alien from the planet Xanthu who's just one of the gang, though his previous incarnations in the older continuities were white. Atom Girl/Shrinking Violet, another human-looking alien from the planet Imsk, also has vaguely Asian features.
* In the [[Marvel Universe]], [[Proud Warrior Race|The Kree]] were all originally blue-skinned, but interbreeding with other alien races led to the appearance of a Caucasian subrace; the superhero [[Captain Mar
* As part of a well-meaning but horribly misguided attempt to explain why all the Kryptonians in ''[[Superman]]'' were white, a writer in the '70s came up with the idea that there were indeed black Kryptonians, but they all lived in a state of self-exile in a place called Vathlo Island. This was ignored in the ''New Krypton'' event, where Kryptonians of various races were seen. ''[[Smallville]]'' also tried to subvert this idea by introducing several minor black Kryptonian characters.
== Film ==
* The original ''[[Star Wars]]'' trilogy has only one human main character who is not white: Lando. George Lucas has said that at one point he considered making Han Solo a black character, but decided he "didn't feel like making ''[[Guess
* All of the citizens of the city in ''[[Logan's Run]]'' are conspicuously white. That could be the result of the city's [[Designer Babies]]. Then again, the [[Killer Robot]] they fight was originally supposed to evoke a "tribal" African and was portrayed by a black actor. So....
* The ''[[
* ''[[Wing Commander (
* Invoked in ''[[Planet of the Apes]]''-There's only one black man, Dodge, in the original film. Zira says in the third film that the apes were intrigued by Dodge and stuffed him for display because they'd never seen a human with dark skin before. That said, there ''was'' a black man among the mutant society in the second film.
* Lampshaded in ''[[
* There is only a ''single'' black person in ''[[Space Mutiny]]'' (a frozen corpse). This has bigger [[Unfortunate Implications]] than most examples since the film was made in Apartheid era South Africa...
== Literature ==
* The future history of [[
* Earth in the ''[[Known Space]]'' universe has had such thorough mixing through the convenience of the [[Transporters and Teleporters|transit booth]], which eliminated distance and borders. The Belters are also evenly mixed, for the opposite
* In L. Sprague deCamp's Planet Krishna stories, one alien monarch simply refused to believe that African-descended Earthmen and European-decended Earthmen could ''possibly'' be of the same species. So he tried to test this "scientifically" by imprisoning two people (black man and white woman) together to see if they could breed. Needless to say, they didn't find it very romantic.
* In the ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]'' black people are extremely rare, and go as far as for one character to ask if one of the black character's skin is dyed. They apparently come from far away and travel is limited by technology, much like the real world.
** The [[Inheritance Cycle]] swings into [[Unfortunate Implications]] territory when it mentions that the "wandering tribes'" favourite thing to do is "smoke cardus weed."
* The ''Warworld'' series, set in the [[
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'', the subject is handled rather... well, he tried, anyway; In a fumbled attempt at open-mindedness, Lazarus makes a big point out of the fact that his descendents have ''a'' black ancestor, while utterly failing to notice the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of two thousand years of almost exclusively white breeding. And [[You Do NOT Want to Know]] how the future treats the poor Chinese...
** Averted in many ways by [[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]]. The main character's (Manuel Garcia O'Kelly Davis, a bit of a multicultural mashup in itself) race isn't really described, but is described as multi-racial with an ancestor deported from Chad. His romantic entanglement in the novel is also described as being unusual in that her ethnic background is reasonably easy to see, something that usually doesn't persist more than a couple of generations in the decidedly heterogenous Lunar cities.
** Many of Heinlein's novels included non-white characters, including his Juveniles. In fact, many of his protagonists are multi-racial, despite how they're portrayed on [[Covers Always Lie|the covers]].
* Everybody talks about Heinlein's aversion of this trope, but Andre Norton did it first. In her very first SF novel, ''Star Man's Son
* Ursula Le Guin's ''Hainish Cycle''. When a fair-skinned, Caucasian-looking character crops up in the short story "Dancing to Ganam", most other people find his appearance downright bizarre. [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] likes to play around with this trope in most of her works, largely in opposition to the [[Unfortunate Implications|racial undertones]] of many fantasy novels.
* Justified in ''Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy'', in which virtually anyone with black African ancestry has been wiped out {{spoiler|by a racist nanite plague. Two of the main characters, a father and daughter, are black ''with green eyes'', this being a trait the virus was programmed to read as "not black".}} Period movies featuring black characters have to cast Australian aborigines in those roles, and there's a [[Show Within a Show|TV show]] with an all-aboriginal cast who play black space colonists who'd survived the plague by being on Mars at the time.
* ''Out of This World'' by [[
* Inverted, by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. ''Parafaith War'''s hero is blond and white-skinned... and therefore regarded with a lot of suspicion by everyone as straight "anglos" are rare in the Eco-Tech Coalition. They are more often associated with their adversaries, the fanatical Revenants of the Prophets. Most Eco-Tech citizens are Asian (predominantly south-east asian with a strong component of Japanese.) Because of that he is ultimately sent into enemy territory as a spy.
* Somewhat subverted in John Scalzi's [[Old
* Somewhat averted in the ''[[
* Averted with a vengeance in the ''[[Inheritance Trilogy]]'', where almost all the major human civilizations are varying shades of dark, with only the Amn being explicitly white (and they- or at least, their tyrannical leaders- are mostly bad guys).
* Averted in [[Vernor Vinge]] 's ''A Fire Upon The Deep'' universe. All human settlements in The Beyond come from one common
* Played With in ''[[
* [[John Hemry]]'s books dodge this by almost never specifying '''anyone's''' skin, hair, or eye color. Names may hint at ethnicities — U.S. Navy Captain Nguyen, for instance, is likely to have Vietnamese ancestry — but how '''much''' of such ancestry and how it affects appearance aren't made clear. For that matter, the Nguyens could've adopted a girl who's black, Hispanic, a blue-eyed blonde, or whatever. The only person whose hair color is ever spelled out comes from a colony world named Éire, where lots of people were genetically engineered for green hair. She's '''probably''' white ... '''if''' there's no non-white immigrant ancestry on Éire. Of course the [[Covers Always Lie|book covers inevitably portray the male lead as white, and usually blond]].
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek:
** There was a [[Epileptic Trees|minor fan theory]] about this, combining the lack of Arabic or Farsi names in Star Trek (besides Bashir) with the fact that Abrahamic
*** Originally, there were plans for Worf's human adoptive parents to be Jewish, but apparently it came off too much like [[Unfortunate Implications]] when the ''[[Star Trek:
*** The extreme rarity of anyone who's obviously Jewish on Star Trek was referenced on the commentary track for ''[[Firefly]]'', where the appearance of a postmaster in one episode who happens to wear a kippah sparked comments from the actors that this was, indeed, the first time any of them could remember seeing a Jew in space, with Alan Tudyk musing that they should perhaps coin a term for this strange and unusual phenomenon ("A Sp'Jew?").
*** While there are virtually no ''religious'' Jewish people on Star Trek, three of [[Star Trek:
**** The lack of religiousness was a deliberate choice on part of Gene Roddenberry. According to him, everyone in the future of Star Trek was an atheist, and better for it.
**** Averted gleefully in the [[Star Trek Expanded Universe]]. Starbase [[Star Trek: Vanguard|Vanguard]] has a rabbi on permanent staff, and [[Starfleet Corps of Engineers|Captain David Gold]] is an observant Jew and married to Rabbi Rachel Gilman (who officiates over the first Jewish-Klingon wedding. The mind boggles).
** Supervillain Khan Noonien Singh was suggested to be an Indian Sikh on his first appearance, which was confirmed in one of the Trek novels. Part of his [[Backstory]] involves fleeing the anti-Sikh pogroms that took place in New Delhi after Indira Gandhi's assassination. Of course, Khan is played by [[Fake Nationality|Ricardo Montalban]] and his Sikhism is never directly established onscreen.
*** Between the fact that Marla McGivers initially declares that his features look Sikh, and that his last name is then revealed to be ''Singh,'' it's pretty clear that he is ethnically a Sikh. Though the fact that he's clean-shaven means he is not an observant one.
**** In a Khan-centric [[Expanded Universe]] novel, it's explained that he shaved off his Sikh beard and declared himself beyond petty human traditions when the [[Ubermensch]]-ness [[Transhuman Treachery|started getting to his head]].
** In "Return Of the Archons," the ''Enterprise'' beams down two disguised crewmen to a primitive planet. The crewmen are identified as strangers and get in trouble almost immediately. The crewmen seem surprised by this, despite the fact that the planet seems to be inhabited entirely by white folks, and one of the crewmen is ''Sulu.''
** Painfully applied in ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', which has one African-American guy, one Japanese woman, one British person, and the rest of the crew is seemingly made up entirely of white Americans, except for a minor marine played by a pre-''[[Lost]]'' [[Retroactive Recognition|Daniel Dae Kim]].
*** Throughout ''Enterprise'', the blue-skinned Andorians repeatedly use "pinkskin" as a derogatory term for humans in general, even after meeting others (and, weirdly, alongside other white aliens?).
** Though most of the ''aliens'' in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'' are white, the human cast is quite colorful, including two African-Americans, one half-North African and one white (Irish) man. In addition, several black guest stars appear throughout the show (though most of them are love interests for the African-descended regulars).
*** There is a 'behind the scenes' book that claims that the only way race impacted casting for ''Deep Space Nine'''s initial regulars was Jake having to be visibly the same race as his father.
*** The casting directors decided that it would be unrealistic for alien species to have evolved the same 'races' as humans have. A majority of "Caucasian" Bajorans are shown to have red or sandy hair, for instance, and while Asians were cast as Bajorans, no Asians were cast as Klingons and only one black actor was cast as a Bajoran, as a walk-on.
** ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' had a black Vulcan, an Asian, a Native American, and a half-Hispanic, half-Klingon. And a blue guy seen exactly ''twice''. And the only other Vulcan was white.
** Avoided a couple of times in ''[[Star Trek:
** There was an interesting culinary version of this in one TNG episode: Riker is showing a visiting alien some typical Earth
* Averted in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', where many of the alien cultures are made of a mix of races, and those who aren't have a good reason for it. The non-mixed societies are not always white, either: for example, black, Native American, and East Asian societies are all seen.
** One interesting case is in the episode "The Other Side", where SG-1 visits a planet which is at war between two factions. They first assume that the reason the locals distrust Teal'c is due to his status as Jaffa. Later, we learn that the nation that controls the Stargate is in fact racist and xenophobic, to the point where discriminating against someone for being black is acceptable.
*** It's to the point where there are no people, anywhere, amongst that nation who aren't white. [[Fridge Horror|Guess how they must have gotten that way.]] As a sort of inverted [[Actor Allusion]], the leader of the group was played by the guy who played Odo, the shapeshifter who could appear to be ''any'' ethnicity he wanted to be on [[Deep Space Nine]].
** Ditto for [[Stargate Atlantis]]. Not only did they have TWO [[Token Minorities]] in the main team (one of which was a [[Twofer Token Minority|twofer]]), they went to plenty of planets with mixed societies. Though, they tended to throw in black background characters, often forgetting that there are plenty of other minorities in the world, too.
** Likewise, the alien species of the Wraith had a range of skin
* ''[[
** The pilot included a Japanese woman with a substantial role in the "bridge" command crew, but she was [[Put
** Doctor Franklin (and his father) are (apparently) African Americans.
** With the exception of Franklin, the core cast and most actors with speaking parts were white. The show does better on ethnic diversity when you consider minor characters (e.g., Earth Alliance President Luis Santiago; Senator Hidoshi) and the extras playing the human population of the station. Puzzingly, however, there are hardly any Indians or Chinese (Asian characters are usually Japanese).
*** Though unlike Star Trek (and predating the Firefly occurance), the show did have a Jewish character, Susan Ivanova. Granted, she was [[Informed Judaism|not a practicing Jew]], but they did at least have her sit shiva in one episode.
** The ''[[
* In ''[[
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the 2007 ''[[Flash Gordon (TV series)|Flash Gordon]]''; when Nick asks Baylin whether there are any "people of color" on Mongo, she replies "I know many people of color - yellow, red, even blue. I am [[Fantastic Racism|not so fond of the blue ones]], though."
* Given that ''[[Mortal Kombat
* Briefly [[Discussed Trope|discussed]] in ''[[
{{quote|
* Averted in
* The original version of ''[[The Tomorrow People]]'' had a black actress in their regular cast, who was once forced to sit out their visit to a [[Human Alien]] planet because there weren't any black people on that world. A native asked her if she was from the same planet as the other Tomorrow People, then commented that there must be "an interesting variety of skin color" on Earth when she said yes.
* Rather darkly pointed out on ''[[
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] was quite unhappy about the Caucasian cast of ''A Wizard of Earthsea''. In the novels, the protagonist is red-skinned and his best friend black, and the nation of white folk in ''The Tombs of Atuan'' are rather imperialistic and warmongering compared to the other inhabitants of the world. This was not reflected in the animated version, which didn't even have the risible excuse of lacking suitable actors.
* In ''Space Rangers'' all human characters (apart from one recurring extra) are white. Asian actors are cast as aliens.
== Tabletop Games ==
* Most of the art for the [[Used Future]] in the [[After the End|bleak]] game ''[[Warhammer
** The Salamanders [[Space Marine]] chapter, who are all black-skinned due to [[Unfortunate Implications|gene corruption]]. Note that this black as in the color black, jet black, (like obsidian), not what we call black skin in real life. Whether the unmodified humans of their world are black or white keeps getting retconned back and forth.
**
** In ''[[Rogue Trader]]'' Lady Captain Sun Lee can't hear these complains over the sounds of shuttle bay on her Nihontu.
** Possibly the God Emperor, who is "from the general area where modern Turkey now sits." It's unclear exactly what race he is, however, as he comes from a time ''before'' Turks lived in Anatolia.
** ''[[Dawn of War]]'' introduces Inquisitor Mordecai Toth, who is black. Perhaps the only explicitly black character in the setting. [[Unfortunate Implication]] in that the novelization implies he was not real but the creation or avatar of a powerful daemon. Meaning the only black person didn't actually exist. This is however only true in the novel, all other sources treat Toth as a real person.
* Cheerily averted in ''[[
* The ''[[
* This was (at least during the 1980s) ''the official policy'' of TSR when it came to ''[[Dungeons
* Averted in ''[[Traveller]]''. Humans of Terran orgin are as likely to have non-occidental names as occidental ones.
== Video Games ==
* Averted in ''[[
** It is also pointed out that humans have a much wider genetic variance than any other starfaring species. While we see plenty of asari of various shades from blue to purple (and, sometimes, green), Mordin claims this is only a tiny variation.
* In the world of ''[[
** In ''Crisis Core'', however, just about one in three of the NPCs (for each gender) is black, seemingly at random, in Midgar at the very least. Though whether it's an intentional aversion of this or just coincidence is anyone's guess.
** Similarly, ''[[
* Played straight in [[Civilization]] 4. Every regular unit regardless of the civ is white.
** Averted in the expansions. Various civs get more accurate unit models for their military units.
* ''[[
** Rafa and her brother are clearly meant to be Arab, however.
** Granted, FFT takes place in a single country, based off of Middle Ages Europe. Make of that what you will.
** Similarly, its predecessor [[Ogre Battle|Tactics Ogre]] had exactly one black character, the Dark Knight Andras. However, it's established that he is not from Valeria, coming instead from the country of Nirdam, and it's clear that Valeria is based on medieval Britain from the place names.
* Played straight in the ''Disciples'' series. Arguably justified as the world of Nevendaar is based on medieval Europe. The only characters with dark skin owe it to [[The Undead|necrosis.]]
* Averted in ''[[
** And averted in ''[[
* Averted in ''[[
** If upbringing counts, [[Darkskinned Blonde|Sheba]] may well qualify, since Lalivero is based on Ptolemic Egypt (it has an obelisk in the center of town, and Babi's Lighthouse is clearly a reference to the Lighthouse of Alexandria).
** And in ''[[Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
* There is exactly one non-white person (of the common races, anyway) in the entirety of ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'', Aarin Gend. ''Hordes of the Underdark'' averts this, though, as a large portion of the campaign is spent among drow (who are black elves).
** Completely averted in ''Neverwinter Nights 2.''
* Better dealt with for the squad of [[Operation Flashpoint|ARMA 2]] - there are two black men, two white men and a latino in the five-man squad. Even more, the main player character is one of the black men.
* Averted in ''[[Half Life]] 2'', where the deuteragonist, Alyx Vance, is Afro-Asian; Alyx's father, Eli, is black. Then there are the Citizens, who can be white, Asian, and black, of which the latter two can be seen quite often, if not just as often as the white models. There is a black character named Matt, an Asian character named Mary, and even an unambiguously Japanese character (Noriko). There are also quite a few Vortigaunts, if they count (they ''are'' voiced by black voice actors).
* Most of the people we see in ''[[Halo]]'' are white, despite the fact that all the locations visited on Earth are in Africa. Nevertheless, one of the main supporting characters is African-American Sergeant Johnson; other black characters include Marcus Banks in the 2nd and 3rd games and a female marine in ''Halo3''. As far as Hispanics go, there's Manuel Mendoza in''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' and a female marine voiced by Michelle Rodriguez in ''Halo2''.
** ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' introduces ODST sniper Kojo "Romeo" Agu and New Mombasa natives Sadie, Dr. Endesha, Jonas, and Commissioner Kinsler, all of whom are black (with the latter four being native African).
** ''[[Halo: Reach]]'' features three squad members that aren't simply of European ethnicity, although Emile, who has a black voice actor and is depicted as such in concept art, never removes his helmet.
** The [[Expanded Universe]] contains way more characters of non-European ethnicity than the games do; Fhajad-084, Li-008, Jilan al-Cygni, Zheng Cho, Akio Watanabe, Zhou Heng Lopez, Ngoc Benti, Kopano N'Singile, Raj Singh, Maria Esquival, etc.
* Averted in ''[[Mount
* Averted in ''[[
* Every important human characters in the ''[[
* The Wild-West game ''[[Wild
* Averted in ''[[Fable|Fable 3]]'', where there are white, black, oriental, and even vaguely Roma characters sprinkled throughout the world in equal proportion.
** Played straight in the first two games, where the only black characters are Thunder and Whisper in the first game and Garth in the second. Of course, Garth is from another country, so it's not unreasonable that Thunder and Whisper are as well (the game strongly supports this via dress and accents).
* ''[[Capcom vs. SNK 2 Mark of the Millennium
* ''[[Wing Commander (
** When the games made the jump to [[Full Motion Video]], the ratio of ethnicities tilted towards caucasians, but there was still a fairly significant non-token minority presence, including the first carrier captain seen in the series who wasn't white, Captain Eisen.
* Averted in [[Fallout 3]] and [[Fallout: New Vegas]], but true in-universe. While the population and cast is pretty diverse and well-represented, advertisements and media that have survived from before the nuclear war seem to be filled with white people only, suggesting that racial equality in the Fallout-verse only seemed to arrive sometime after nuclear armageddon.
** The above statement is actually true. Most of the vaults were experiments except for a few. Ironically, the most successful vault, Vault 15, was an experiment involving people of different races together. They were supposed to fail. They succeeded. Out of Vault 15 came three of the wastelands toughest raider bands (The Khans/New Khans/Great Khans, the Jackals, and the Vipers). But what ''really'' came out of their spirit of multicultural and ethnic diversity was the ''' ''New California Republic'' '''. '''The first major post-war government''' that ultimately ended up being like late 20th Century America.
* Averted in [[The Elder Scrolls]] series... sort of. Humans come in four flavors: Roman/Italian, Norse, Celtic/French, and... Black with a cultural mashup of the Middle East, northern Africa, and even bits of Japan. So there it's Humans Are White Except When They're Redguard.
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== Web Comics ==
* Averted with ''[[The Order of the Stick
* The titular characters of [[
== Web Original ==
* The ''[[
* The blog [http://www.starshipnivan.com/blog/ ''Astrogator's Logs''] addresses this trope [http://www.starshipnivan.com/blog/?p=2645 here] (note that the author is Greek).
== Western Animation ==
* The ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (
* ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' was pretty bad about this as well; the only non-white non-alien recurring character was Raoul, a Hispanic-ish street punk... ''whose skin tone [[But Not Too Black|switched to a lighter color]] in his second (and final) appearance''.
** They probably figured that Jazz was enough.
** Later series were better about it, with major recurring humans such as [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise|Koji Onishi]] and black [[Transformers Cybertron|Colonel Franklin]].
** ''Animated'' itself did a pretty good job. The main recurring human is not white {{spoiler|or a human}}, Detective Fanzone in second place is white, but Issac Sumdac is indian, the mayor of Detroit and his aide are black, as is [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Porter C. Powell, and backround humans come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Almost all the recurring human bad guys are white, but that's probably to avoid other implications if a [[Media Watchdog]] only sees one episode. On another note, during an short story arc in Animated, the five main Autobots turn human. Four out of the 5 are white, to match their voice actors.
*** Don't forget the third-season episode of the original cartoon, "Only Human." The four lead Autobots have their minds transferred into Synthoid bodies, which become conveniently Caucasian (the episode is also noted for being a crossover with the ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' cartoon).
** The live action movies have visibility of non-white races, but some [[Unfortunate Implications]] that are ''not'' just limited to the twin [[Ethnic Scrappy]] bots.
* ''[[
* [[Averted Trope|Averted]] in ''[[
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[
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'''Han''': Lando's not a system, he's a black guy. Perhaps the only black guy in the universe. }}
** Then when he shows up on screen, he's played by Mort (the only Jewish character) with his skin tone altered, [[Hypocritical Humor|because the ''only black guy'' from the regular cast]] was already playing R2-D2.
* In ''[[
* In [[
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