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{{quote|We then pan up to get a clear shot of the big shots on the catwalk, and here's what we find: 1) a guy wearing an American army general's uniform, 2) an obviously Russian woman wearing a big Cossack hat, 3) a Yassir Arafat-type with a kaffiyeh on his head, 4) a dead ringer for Fidel Castro, 5) a black guy in a dashiki, and finally, 6) a Japanese guy in a business suit. [[Sarcasm Mode|Nope, not one single stereotype in the whole bunch]].|'''[[The Agony Booth]]''', '' [[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]] [http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Batman___Robin_1997.aspx recap]''}}
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** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] by the Gibborim specifically needing these "six young pair bonds" for the rituals needed for their return to power: the magicians (the Minorus, Japanese), the thieves (the Wilders, Black), the travelers (the Yorkes, [[Space Jews|Jews]]), the wise men (the Steins, apparently WASPs), the colonists (the Deans, Aliens), and the outcasts (the Hayes, [[Fantastic Racism|Mutants]]).
* Marvel Comics has a council made up of the heads of all Earth's Pantheons, called the Council of Godheads.
* In preparation for the slew of events in 2006-2008, Marvel retconned the existence of a
** With Dark Reign there is now the Dark Illuminati. Norman Osborn (Green Goblin), Loki (now female), The Hood, Dr Doom, Emma Frost....and Namor.
* The Black Glove from ''[[Grant Morrison's Batman|Batman RIP]]''.
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** In the Daniel Craig version of ''[[Casino Royale]]'', there is a very important poker game with a diverse set of players.
** [[Nebulous Evil Organization|Quantum]] in ''[[Quantum of Solace]]''. Its members include corrupt French, Japanese and Russian businessmen, a British advisor to the Prime Minister, and other unidentified diverse evil people.
* In the third ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' film, the Pirates Council: all the greatest pirate captains from nine distinct geographic regions are in
* The "United World" representatives in ''[[Batman: The Movie]]'' (1966).
* In ''[[Zoolander]]'', there is a group of high-profile fashion industry leaders that comprise this role.
* The movie version of ''[[Wild Wild West (film)|Wild Wild West]]'' has a
* SPECTRE, mainly in the [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] film series, tended to have multinational representation when they were shown meeting. Their successor, Quantum, in the reboot starting with ''[[Casino Royale]]'' and revealed in ''[[Quantum of Solace]]'', are even more multinational and composed of men and women.
* ''[[The Naked Gun]]'' starts with Frank Drebin barging into a meeting of an "anti-American" council consisting of (the film was made in [[The Eighties]]): Ayatollah Khomeini, Yasser Arafat, Muammar Gaddafi, Idi Amin, Fidel Castro (IIRC) and Mikhail Gorbachev (who comments on how he fooled the Americans into thinking he's "a good guy").
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* In "[[Doug]]'s A Big Fat Liar", Doug imagines being on trial by the "Sub-Committe to Uncover Big Fat Liars", which consists of: his parents, Mr. Bone (presumably the chairperson), Mrs. Wingo, Mayor White, Roger and his cat Stinky.
* ''[[South Park]]'''s Imaginationland trilogy has a council composed by the nine most important fictional characters: [[The Chronicles of Narnia|Aslan]], [[Star Wars|Luke Skywalker]], [[Greek Mythology|Zeus]], [[Wonder Woman]], [[Popeye]], [[The Matrix|Morpheus]], [[The Lord of the Rings|Gandalf]], [[The Wizard of Oz (film)|Glinda the Good Witch]]... and [[The Messiah|Jesus]].
* On ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]],'' the members of [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness|The Light]] turn out to be {{spoiler|[[Vandal Savage]] ([[Ambiguously Brown]] immortal caveman), [[Lex Luthor]] (white American), [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|R'as Al Ghul]] (Asian), [[God Save Us From the Queen|Queen Bee]] (a [[Qurac
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Truth in Television]]: The UN Security Council. There are five permanent members: One American (the US, obviously), two Europeans (UK, France), one Eurasian (Russia), one East Asian (China), and a smattering of ten elected [[Red Shirt
* International organization BRICS (an acronym of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) fits the bill perfectly. At their annual summits national leaders Dilma Rousseff, Dmitry Medvedev, Manmohan Singh, Hu Jintao and Jacob Zuma make up a remarkably diverse bunch, even including the token woman.
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