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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]].
* In Earth-23 of the DCU, Batman is this for the Justice League.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* [[Lincoln Heights]] made sure to have at least a couple whites prominent in the story. Always as a sidekick or love interest to one of the main black characters. Lund as the sidekick to [[The Hero]], Charles as the boyfriend to [[The Chick]] and later Sage as a foil to Cassie.
* ''[[The Steve Harvey Show]]'' is notorious for this.
* As is ''[[Sister, Sister]]''. ([[Brittany Murphy]] was the first of them.)
* Nina Walsh from ''[[Smart Guy (TV series)|Smart Guy]]''. Notably, the only white female in the series, and aside from one [[Very Special Episode]] which centered around her job (following black people around a mall to make sure they don't steal anything), her only role was to follow Yvette around. There was also a [[Butt Monkey]] white male on the show. Usually, after being the butt of a joke, he'd comment "It's because I'm white, isn't it?"
* In ''The Wayans Bros'', the character is actually named "White Mike."
* And ''Martin'' with Shawn and Buckwhite (parody of Buckwheat).
* Similarly, Greg Wulliger in ''[[Everybody Hates Chris]]''. Though he's no more dorky than Chris himself.
* Chelsea in ''[[That's So Raven]]''. In the spin-off ''[[Cory in The House]]'', Newt plays pretty much exactly the same role.
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* ''[[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
* [[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.
* ''[[Desmonds]]'' was set in a barber's shop in London, and the cast was almost exclusively black, except for Tony, one of the hairdressers, who was white. In one episode, he referred to black people as "we" or "us", prompting someone else to say that he'd been hanging around the rest of them for too long.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Zoey from ''[[The Proud Family]]''.
* Richie from ''[[Static Shock]]'' was Virgil Hawkins's sidekick, and the only white member of the principal cast. Although he's still a minority, too: the character he was based off from the comic was gay, and [[Dwayne McDuffie]] had [[Word of Gay|stated animated Richie was gay, too.]] They [[Animation Age Ghetto|couldn't actually show it on the show]], though.
** Hotstreak, one of Static's most prominent enemies, is pretty much the only other recurring white character.
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