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* Debuting in ''52'', Batwoman managed to provoke a [[Broken Base]] even before this due to press releases touting her as DC's lesbian hero, who would be receiving DC's full support. Then DC promptly didn't do anything with her outside the series for over a year (and even in the series, she received little attention, as she was more supporting cast for her girlfriend, Renee Montoya). In all that time, she had very little storyline, so her characterization was mostly as a closeted lesbian and a Jew. When she did finally get her own series, she abandoned her [[Lipstick Lesbian]] lifestyle for tattoos and apparently coming out off-camera.
** This seems to be the product of a retcon though, that established that Kate had tattoos and her alternative fashion sense YEARS before ''52'' took place. It also established that she had come out as a teenager, and that Renee was the closeted one in their relationship. So it seems the closeted lipstick lesbian phase more or less never happened in the current continuity.
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** Years later, Triathlon served the exact same role (again, in-universe) during [[Kurt Busiek]]'s run. Later iterations of the team were thankfully more diverse.
** According to Christopher Priest, Falcon's nickname in the Marvel offices throughout the 70s and early 80s was "Fal-coon". No, Priest wasn't alright with it, though being a lowly intern at the time, he didn't raise a big stink. In his blog, he refuses to name the co-workers who used it for fear of burning his bridges.
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** [[Samuel L. Jackson]] in the prequels may also be a example of this, as his character serves as little more than a background character until Revenge of the Sith (excluding his excellent use in the Clone Wars shorts).
** One might argue that casting Temuera Morrison, who is a Maori, as Jango Fett and by retroactive consequence, his clone Boba Fett and ''every single clonetrooper'' reduces all other characters in the series (black, white or green) to token minorities by sheer weight of numbers.
* While the 2006 historical film ''[[Flyboys]]'' was already heavily criticised for its historical inaccuracies relating to its World War I setting, one of the more amusing ones came from the film's fictional [[Token Minority]], Eugene Skinner, a black boxer who joined the squadron to 'pay back' his adopted homeland. Mainly because the end of the movie showed a picture of the real-life squadron which was composed of exactly zero minorities. A rare moment where a film actually seems proud to reveal when it [[Did Not Do the Research]]. [[The Other Wiki]]'s [[wikipedia:Flyboys
* Harvey Weinstein loved using this trope for his productions back in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Starting with ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]] 2'', nearly all of his teen-aimed productions had at least one token black character (often played by a rapper) solely to bump up the box office. He seemed to stop this after ''Shall We Dance?'', which had an [[Advertised Extra]] in the form of Ja Rule (who appeared in one concert scene and had no purpose to the plot).
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