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* 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 (film)|entry on the film]] points out that the film confuses the Lafayette Escadrille with the Lafayette Flying Corps with whom Eugene Bullard (the real person Skinner was based on) actually flew.

* 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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