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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Boogieman from the Milestone comic ''[[Milestone Comics|Blood Syndicate]]'' was a fairly odd variant. A ''closeted'' White kid (he's a [[Animorphism|were-rat]]) in a band of Black, Hispanic, and Asian (ex)[[Gang-Bangers]] that were mutated (instead of killed outright like most in the area) by radiation-tainted tear-gas used to break up a big melee.

* For a few issues of ''[[Justice League of America]]'' around 2009, the team consisted of Vixen, Firestorm (Jason Rusch), Green Lantern (John Stewart), Doctor Light (Kimiyo Hoshi), and Zatanna, thus making Zatanna the [[Token White]].

* For a few issues of ''[[Justice League of America]]'' around 2009, the team consisted of Vixen, Firestorm (Jason Rusch), Green Lantern (John Stewart), Doctor Light (Kimiyo Hoshi), and Zatanna, thus making Zatanna the Token White.

* In Earth-23 of the DCU, Batman is this for the Justice League.

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** Come on, everyone loves [[Pretty Fly for a White Guy|Cornflake]].

* ''[[Family Matters]]'' had this. Generally the only white guy on the cast was Carl's boss Lieutenant Lieu Murtaugh, and was shown to be, again, completely out of touch... with reality. There was also the occasional goofy white friend of the kids, who was often a "wannabe", trying desperately to [[Pretty Fly for a White Guy|assimilate into black culture]], with everyone else practically straining their retinas rolling their eyes. And then there was the one episode with two cops who pulled Eddie over for being in a white neighborhood (though only one of them was actually racist, the other was just dragged along).

** There was also Mr Looney(pronounced [[Its Pronounced Tropay|Loon-ay ]] played by the late Tom Poston

** There was also Mr Looney(pronounced [[Its Pronounced Tropay|Loon-ay]] played by the late Tom Poston

* [[Jim Carrey]] and Kelly Coffield were the token whites for ''[[In Living Color]]''. Carrey at least earned an audition for being Damon Wayans' friend rather than simply the need for a white castmember.

* ''[[A Different World]]'' took place at a predominantly Black college - to show it was "predominantly" black and not "all" black they had a token white girl the first season, played by Marisa Tomei.

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* Standup comedy shows with almost entirely black comics tend to have the one white, usually at the very end of the show. On [[BET]]'s former comedy showcase ''Comicview'', two white comics, White Chocolate and Gary Owens, were popular enough to ''host'' the show after their respective seasons (the most popular comics in a season get to host the next).

* Kim from the mostly-black ''[[Real Housewives]] of Atlanta''.

* [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] on [[Malcolm in the Middle]]. While [[Twofer Token Minority|Stevie]] is the token black of the main kids, [[Bumbling Dad|Hal]] winds up becoming the [[Token White]] of his friends, who are all black.

* [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] on [[Malcolm in the Middle]]. While [[Twofer Token Minority|Stevie]] is the token black of the main kids, [[Bumbling Dad|Hal]] winds up becoming the Token White of his friends, who are all black.

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==