Humans Are White: Difference between revisions

== Comic Books ==

* In the [[Silver Age]], ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' featured many aliens but no black human or [[Human Aliens|Human Alien]] members. Eventually, in the [[Bronze Age]], Tyroc was added as the [[Angry Black Man]] that was a common sort of [[Token Minority]] back in the day (very similar to the earliest portrayals of the John Stewart [[Green Lantern]].) Supposedly, in the 30th century, the world is above caring about things like race, but the [[Executive Meddling|meddling executives]], very much of that point in the 20th century, weren't quite up to having a black character as just another guy instead of The Black Guy.

** 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-Vell]] was one of them. The Blue Kree are now a minority that rules their empire and mistreats the others.

* Given that ''[[Mortal Kombat]]: Conquest'' is a [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] that has superpowered [[Ninja|ninjas]], [[Another Dimension|dimension traveling]], and a [[Physical God|storm god]] who routinely acts more like an [[Cool Old Guy|affectionate great uncle]] than an all-powerful deity, it's reasonable that there might be an Asian temple near a city populated mostly by white people and that Raiden would take the form of a European. This is countered by the fact that the series is supposed to be set in ''ancient China''.

* Briefly [[Discussed Trope|discussed]] in ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'':

* Averted in the remake of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]''. In [[Battlestar Galactica Classic|the original show]], due to the time, almost the entire cast is white and the majority are male. In the remake, there are several people of other races and/or females.

* 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.

* [[Averted Trope|Averted]] in ''[[Gargoyles]]:'' [[Badass Normal|Elisa]], the main human character, is a [[Twofer Token Minority|half-black and half-Native American]] New York cop. For an added bonus, the main character, Goliath, was black (or at least [[Ambiguously Brown]]) when he was temporarily turned into a human. Note than none of the other Gargoyles seen turned into humans were black, but that's Justified given they're from a Scottish Gargoyle clan. Goliath was presumably made an exception ([[Ink Suit Actor|to match his voice actor]], [[Keith David]]).

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Family Guy]]'''s parody of ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''.

'''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.