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** ''[[The Waterboy]]'' subverts this, too: Sandler's love interest is good-hearted, but also somewhat trashy and a petty criminal to boot.
* [[George Lucas]]' ''[[Red Tails]]'' does this with the African-American Tuskegee Airmen, not by making them unusually good but by making their white counterparts incredibly incompetent.
* Downplayed in ''[[Alien]]'':, The first Alien movie is a downplayed example. Whilewhere Ellen Ripley is the sole survivor along with her feline companion,. andWhile sheRipley does very rarely make mistakes (almostwhich ascan ifbe she'sattributed awareto that[[Genre she's in a horror movieSavvy]]), she does make the mistake of assuming Ash wouldn't decide to attack her, even if she was suspicious about the instructions she received from Weyland Yutani. AndIt's femaleaverted with Lambert isnand Parker, who aren't portrayed aswith beingany bettersignificant atdisparity in survival than her male comrade Parker, as theyability; both dieperform atquite roughly the same timeadmirably, though alongthey withend Parkerup shedead doesdue reasonablyto well at surviving even if they both mess upmissteps near the end.
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