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* A few years ago,{{when}} there were no U.S. commercials featuring mixed couples even though there was the occasional movie or
== Anime and Manga ==
* Van and Folken Fanel's parents in ''[[The Vision of Escaflowne|Vision of Escaflowne]]'' were human and Draconian, much to the outrage of the royal court due to the racism against Draconians.
* ''[[Inuyasha
** However, while InuYasha was similarly persecuted as a "half-breed," everyone generally accepted his parents' love for each other as they were.
== Comic Books ==
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* In ''[[Treasure Chest]] of Fun and Fact'', a comic book distributed in American Catholic schools, the "Chuck White" feature explored a mild religion-based version of this trope (Chuck's father was a Protestant.)
* [[Luke Cage]] had to deal with an heir to the Power Man name who was throwing all sorts of shade his way. When he got to fact that Luke was married to Jessica Jones (a white heroine), and implied this made him less of a black man, punching ensued.
== Film ==
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* In the movie version of ''[[The Wall]]'', Pinks's Hammer army attacks a mixed race couple, viciously beats the black man, and rapes the white woman. This goes very well with the nazi-esque themes that appeared in the previous song (In The Flesh).
* This is subverted hard in [[The Feast Of All Saints]] (movie and book) as ''placage'' (an "official" relationship between a white man and a free woman of color in antebellum New Orleans whereby he was required to take care of her and any children in exchange for sex) was fully supported while marriages between people of color of different stations was seriously frowned on.
== Literature ==
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* [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] has Beren and Luthien, the original mixed pairing, as well as Idril and Tuor, and [[Star-Crossed Lovers|Aegnor and Andreth]] - the only human/elf pairing that didn't work out because of the consequences of this trope. A few generations later, there's also Aragorn and Arwen, but they got off easy.
** Luthien's parents took that [[Up to Eleven]] — Thingol was an elf (and Teleri at that, which for the elven aristocracy of Middle-Earth just ''screamed'' "parvenu"), while his wife Melian was [[Physical God|a freaking Maia]], just like Gandalf and Sauron.
* The parents from [[Judy Blume]]'s ''[[Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.
* In ''[[Deryni|In The King's Service]]'', predictably enough thanks in part to [[Fantastic Racism]], the marriage of Lady Alyce deCorwyn and Sir Kenneth Morgan is condemned by both humans and Deryni mages. Hostile clerics and other humans don't like to see a wealthy and beautiful "sorceress" wed and reproduce; High Deryni Lords and Ladies who worry about protecting their heritage against hostile forces would prefer she wed another mage instead of a mere human, who will only father "[[Halfbreed|inferior half-breeds]]".
* In ''[[Discworld]]'' novels, some people, most notably the Dragon King At Arms in ''[[
{{quote|"The city knows how to deal with ... inconvenient kings. But an heir to the throne who is ''actually'' called Rex?"}}
* In ''[[The Full Matilda]]'' by David Haynes, Rodrick is black and his wife Katie is white, and both their families disapprove. There even is a class element, with Rodrick coming from a middle class black family and Katie coming from old money. This causes problems for his son Jacob who is [[Ambiguously Brown]] and can't decide which race he identifies with.
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* While it's only a single reference and not relevant to the plot, [[Star Trek: Hollow Men]] features a Lissepian criminal mentioning his upcoming marriage to a Nausicaan woman. Her family are trying to put a stop to it, unable to accept the validity of a mixed-race marriage.
* [[Amelia Peabody]] Emerson had believed herself entirely above racial bigotry, especially bigotry against Egyptians. She was quite distressed when forced to confront the fact that, although she "thoroughly" approved of David Todros, her son's best friend, she found it unacceptable for him to be romantically involved with her blue-eyed blonde English niece. She got over it (the prejudice, that is) and soon seemed [[Self-Serving Memory|to have convinced herself that she'd never objected at all]].
== Live-Action TV ==
* Helo and Athena from
* An episode of ''[[Reno 911!]]'' featured a KKK member who proposed marriage to his African American fiance. The joke of course was that the two were somehow so madly in love that the woman's race and the man's bigotry were made completely irrelevant.
* In ''[[Charmed]]'' Piper [[Bodyguard Crush|fell in love]] with her [[Lowest Cosmic Denominator|whitelighter]]; this was initially forbidden, but Piper managed to out-stubborn the [[Powers That Be]] into accepting a marriage. Throughout the series, the problems with this marriage kept coming up.
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* The hidden camera show ''[[What Would You Do]]'' has a few bits where actors pose as interracial couples and other actors harass them. The camera crew then interviews bystanders about their reactions.
== Oral Tradition ==
* The Jews in New Testament Biblical history were so racist that if any Jew married a non-Jew, particularly a Samaritan, he/she was immediately given a ''funeral'' by his/her family.
** This is referenced in James McBride's memoir ''The Color of Water'', when his Orthodox Jewish mother married a black man (his father) in the 1940s, they had a funeral for her.
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** And of course, there were exceptions—Moses is described as being married to a Midian woman named Tzipporah and a Cushite (possibly the same person, possibly a case of polygamy), while the Midianitess Ruth married two Jewish men. Both cases were controversial, but God never disparaged Moses and Ruth is the ancestress of King David.
== Recorded and Stand-Up Comedy ==▼
▲== Stand-Up Comedy ==
* Irish comic Dara O'Briain has a great bit in his stand-up parodying people's attitudes towards marriages between Catholics and Protestants. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0thRUS1wUw Can be seen here.]
== Theatre ==
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* In Robert Bolt's radio and stage play ''A Man For All Seasons'', Sir Thomas More is a Roman Catholic (this was just before King Henry VIII broke England away from allegiance to the Pope) who at first objects to his daughter's fiancé, William Roper, because he's a Lutheran. The two men have a fairly bitter row about the matter early in the story: More declares that the man whom Roper now follows, Martin Luther, is an excommunicate; and Roper retorts, basically, that it's a mark of pride to be excommunicated from a bastard church. Ouch.
* And of course one of the most tragic mixed marriages in all of literature is that between Othello and Desdemona in Shakespeare's ''[[Othello]]''. Iago and his friend Roderigo apparently consider Moors to be subhuman, because they ask Brabantio, a senator and Desdemona's father, if he is prepared to have animals as in-laws.
== Video Games ==
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* Averted in ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'', because, despite the fact that [[Fantastic Racism]] is a fairly big part of the setting (The Thalmor, for example, [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|run on it]], and the Stormcloaks show shades of it as well), no one in Skyrim seems to have an issue with people of two different races, or even [[Interspecies Romance|species]] marrying.
* In ''[[Mass Effect]]'', this is [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] with the Asari, who prefer that members of their race mate outside their species (as they can mate with any other species), because mating within their species doesn't add anything to their species, and has an increased chance of producing an [[Our Vampires Are Different|Ardat-Yakshi]], who [[Death by Sex|kills anyone she has sex with]].
== Web Animation ==
* ''[[There She Is]]'', featuring a rabbit and a cat in a very unaccepting alternate version of Korea.
== Web Comics ==
* The main protagonist in ''[[Goblin Hollow]]'' is a bear. His wife is a cougar. Certain people don't approve.
** Only her grandparents on her mother's side truly disapprove. Her parents understand the problem since the same grandparents had a fit when Lily's mountain lion mother married her African lion father.
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** One of Kevin's sisters who originated in a parallel reality (of Humans) said that his marriage to Kell is just as controversial back home (though the mix is left unstated).
** To be precise, interspecies relationships are fine in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]''—the taboo comes from intermarriage between predator and prey species. Other controversial pairings feature a wolf and a sheep, and a cat and a mouse.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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'''Stewie''': Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! [[I'm Standing Right Here|Sitting right here.]] }}
** Don't remind him.
== Real Life ==
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* Virginia's ban on mixed-race marriages led to the arrest of [[wikipedia:Mildred and Richard Loving|Mildred and Richard Loving]] which in turn led to a landmark Supreme Court decision with a hilariously appropriate name: [[wikipedia:Loving v. Virginia|Loving v. Virginia]], which declared bans on mixed-race marriages unconstitutional.
* Diane Farr of ''[[Numb3rs]]'' and ''[[Rescue Me]]'' fame married an Asian man and got hit with a bit of this early on from his family. She also [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/fashion/modern-love-breaking-our-parents-rules-for-love.html?pagewanted=all spoke] with friends on the issue. She found that many parents forbid their children from having interracial romantic relationships while otherwise preaching racial tolerance.
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/15/interracial-couple-denied_n_322784.html This Louisiana judge] refused to give a marriage license to an interracial couple in 2009.
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