Tropescilloscope: Token Minority

Adding a character of a different ethincity, gender or age to the cast in order to make the show appear more diverse. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Dying Moment of Awesome Narrator Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Male Frontal Nudity Red Shirt What You Are in the Dark Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Bland-Name Product Meaningful Name Arranged Marriage Cassandra Truth Babies Ever After Vampire Fiction Interrupted Suicide Annoying Younger Sibling Ambiguously Gay Dressing as the Enemy Earn Your Happy Ending Kick the Son of a Bitch Artistic License – History Bond Villain Stupidity Dark Reprise Villain Ball Dramatic Irony The Cavalry Mama Bear Closed Circle Show Within a Show Wounded Gazelle Gambit Cain and Abel Greater-Scope Villain Auto Erotica Bloodier and Gorier Red Oni, Blue Oni Rule of Symbolism Death by Sex Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Bi the Way Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Genre Throwback Disney Death Broken Pedestal Betty and Veronica Abusive Parents Bloodless Carnage Beard of Evil Good Is Not Nice Intergenerational Friendship Fun with Acronyms Unusual Euphemism Death of a Child Manic Pixie Dream Girl Does This Remind You of Anything? Bloody Hilarious Chiaroscuro Gold Digger Those Two Bad Guys Italian Films Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Facial Horror Mood Whiplash Male Gaze Non-Indicative Name Adults Are Useless Never My Fault Obviously Evil The Alcoholic Mr. Exposition Funny Background Event Evil Is Petty Shown Their Work Foil Japanese Films Leave the Camera Running Fat Bastard Determinator Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Actually Pretty Funny As Himself No-Sell Coming-of-Age Story Depraved Bisexual Shut Up, Hannibal! Bound and Gagged Shoot the Shaggy Dog 20 Minutes into the Future One-Man Army Extreme Doormat Cool Old Lady The Reveal Drugs Are Bad Stealth Hi/Bye Public Domain Feature Films Logo Joke Costume Porn Covers Always Lie Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Bad Guy Wins Insane Troll Logic Butt-Monkey Black Comedy Attempted Rape Rule of Three Artistic License – Military An Axe to Grind Star-Crossed Lovers Race Lift Fish out of Water All Men Are Perverts Honor Before Reason Screw This, I'm Outta Here! The Remake Very Loosely Based on a True Story Line-of-Sight Name Body Horror Badass Normal Foregone Conclusion The Lancer Getting Crap Past the Radar Ripped from the Headlines Vomit Indiscretion Shot Celebrity Paradox Tagline Would Hurt a Child Creative Closing Credits Real Life Writes the Plot The Chessmaster Took a Level in Badass The Dragon The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Reasonable Authority Figure Dumb Blonde Novelization Large Ham Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Unresolved Sexual Tension Gainax Ending Mystery and Detective Films Off-into-the-Distance Ending Historical-Domain Character Parental Incest Major Injury Underreaction Genre Savvy Deliberately Monochrome Love at First Sight Trailers Always Spoil Bittersweet Ending What the Hell, Hero? Break the Haughty Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Ship Tease Important Haircut Works Set in World War II Oh, Crap! Children Are Innocent Gender Flip Paper-Thin Disguise Card-Carrying Villain Police Brutality Straight Gay Does Not Like Shoes Eureka Moment Beauty Is Never Tarnished Sealed Evil in a Can Happily Married You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Hollywood Law Killed Mid-Sentence The Casanova Artistic License – Law Cat Fight Jump Scare Drowning My Sorrows Red Right Hand All Just a Dream Mythology Gag Corpsing Brick Joke The End... Or Is It? Totally Radical Meaningful Background Event Once More, with Clarity! Freeze-Frame Bonus No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Sir Swears-a-Lot N-Word Privileges Pretty in Mink Slap-Slap-Kiss Music Stories Awesome, but Impractical Double Entendre Immune to Bullets "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue One-Word Title It Can Think Beware the Nice Ones Scenery Porn Intrepid Reporter Informed Ability You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Big Brother Instinct Military and Warfare Films You Have Failed Me Determinator aka: The Determinator Disguised in Drag Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Older Than They Look Big Bad Duumvirate Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience What Happened to the Mouse? Dissonant Serenity Vomit Discretion Shot Spared by the Adaptation Whole Plot Reference Enemy Mine Never Trust a Trailer Scenery Gorn Shirtless Scene Retired Badass Parental Abandonment Peek-a-Boo Corpse Rich Bitch Kubrick Stare Stock Footage Missing Mom Empathic Environment Fanservice Extra Not So Different Television Movie Index Brutal Honesty Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Adaptational Villainy Epic Movie Darkest Hour Blackmail World of Ham Curse Cut Short Dwindling Party Accidental Misnaming Sexy Discretion Shot The Cameo Biopic No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Final Girl Romantic Comedy Sequel Escalation Men Are the Expendable Gender Smug Snake Heel–Face Turn Deconstruction Karmic Death Affably Evil Amusing Injuries Femme Fatale Sassy Black Woman Irony Black and Gray Morality Camp Gay For Want of a Nail Tranquil Fury Face Death with Dignity Bilingual Bonus Abhorrent Admirer Adult Fear Badass in a Nice Suit Fainting Deus ex Machina Blood from the Mouth Neck Lift MacGuffin Calling the Old Man Out Manipulative Bastard Offscreen Moment of Awesome Car Fu British Films Better to Die than Be Killed Almost Kiss Antagonist Title Hero Antagonist Hidden Depths Shout-Out Everyone Has Standards Psycho for Hire Bunny-Ears Lawyer Despair Event Horizon Our Vampires Are Different Worthy Opponent Sports Stories Thriller Becoming the Mask Russian Films Distracted by the Sexy Insistent Terminology Throwing Your Sword Always Works An Aesop Word of God Red Herring Our Zombies Are Different Victoria's Secret Compartment Even Evil Has Loved Ones Darker and Edgier True Companions Big Damn Heroes Action Prologue In Medias Res How We Got Here Parental Neglect The Dreaded Big Eater Lampshade Hanging As Long as It Sounds Foreign Made of Iron Affectionate Parody Fanservice Refuge in Audacity Punch-Clock Villain Accidental Murder Stalker with a Crush Take That! Properly Paranoid Villain Protagonist Mercy Kill Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Kids Are Cruel Fiery Redhead Heel Realization After the End Nice Hat Sanity Slippage Bavarian Fire Drill Tempting Fate Dirty Cop Award-Bait Song Jerkass Has a Point Cool Car Fate Worse than Death Laser-Guided Karma Naked People Are Funny Hair-Trigger Temper Chekhov's Gunman Face–Heel Turn Heroic BSoD Demoted to Extra The Place Hollywood Darkness Ms. Fanservice Rewatch Bonus Karma Houdini Downer Ending Age Lift Cool Old Guy The Sociopath Humans Are Bastards Crazy-Prepared Up to Eleven Big Fancy House Beta Couple The Ghost Not So Above It All Let's Get Dangerous! Skewed Priorities Evil Plan Title Drop Imagine Spot Dirty Coward Diabolus ex Machina Extremely Short Timespan Anachronism Stew Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Yandere Dramatic Gun Cock Woman in White Continuity Nod Sadistic Choice Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Scare Chord Married to the Job Jerkass Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Canon Foreigner Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Video Credits The Starscream Humiliation Conga Sci-Fi Horror Silence Is Golden Leitmotif Ironic Echo He Knows Too Much Take a Third Option Jitter Cam Even Evil Has Standards Race Against the Clock Taking the Bullet Bar Brawl Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Idiot Ball Rule of Cool "The Reason You Suck" Speech Cool Shades Took a Level in Jerkass Needs Wiki Magic Love Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Failed a Spot Check Contrived Coincidence Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds My Beloved Smother Laughing Mad Historical Villain Upgrade Redemption Equals Death Fantasy Films The Hero Overprotective Dad Heterosexual Life-Partners Spiritual Successor Villainous Breakdown The '60s Names to Run Away from Really Fast Big Bad Punny Name As the Good Book Says... Reality Ensues The '90s Moment Killer No Antagonist Grievous Bottley Harm Conspicuous CG Improbable Aiming Skills Hoist by His Own Petard Film Noir Adaptational Badass Recycled IN SPACE! Index of Film Westerns Roaring Rampage of Revenge Toplessness from the Back I Need a Freaking Drink Off with His Head! Gorn Berserk Button May–December Romance The Hero Dies Villain Opening Scene Insult Backfire Bad "Bad Acting" Pimped-Out Dress The X of Y B-Movie Creepy Child Only One Name Dark and Troubled Past Hooker with a Heart of Gold Historical Hero Upgrade Knight Templar Big-Bad Ensemble Manchild Adaptation Name Change Air-Vent Passageway Dirty Old Man folderlabel Actor Allusion Mr. Fanservice Reality Is Unrealistic Tap on the Head Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Martial Arts Movie Department of Redundancy Department I'm a Humanitarian Author Appeal I Have Your Wife Mad Scientist Alliterative Name You Killed My Father Adaptational Attractiveness Bowdlerise Have a Gay Old Time Aluminum Christmas Trees Match Cut A Minor Kidroduction Make It Look Like an Accident Psychological Thriller Protagonist Title Slashed Throat timeperiod Ascended Extra Evil Laugh No Ending Cluster F-Bomb Nothing Is Scarier Manly Tears Random Events Plot He Who Fights Monsters Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Wicked Cultured Undying Loyalty Gilligan Cut Bond One-Liner Market-Based Title The Stoic Light Is Not Good Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Book-Ends Fan Disservice Mind Screw Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Every Car Is a Pinto Romantic False Lead Not Using the "Z" Word Loophole Abuse Plot Hole Hong Kong Films Mighty Whitey Wretched Hive Australian Movies Belligerent Sexual Tension The Faceless Redshirt Army Stuff Blowing Up Unspoken Plan Guarantee Cruel and Unusual Death Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Police are Useless Overly Long Gag Rousing Speech Big "NO!" Man on Fire Really Gets Around Fantastic Racism Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality I Did What I Had to Do War Is Hell Blatant Lies Captain Obvious All Girls Want Bad Boys Not What It Looks Like Slasher Movie BFG Wham Line Disproportionate Retribution Never Found the Body Spell My Name with an "S" Ass Shove Villain with Good Publicity The Mole Bolivian Army Ending Fourth Date Marriage Love Triangle Lighter and Softer Hypocritical Humor Handicapped Badass Easily Forgiven The Voiceless Super Strength Captain Ersatz Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Alpha Bitch Zombie Stories Driven to Suicide "Well Done, Son!" Guy Only Sane Man Not Even Bothering with the Accent Mexican Standoff The Ace Mundane Made Awesome Fatal Flaw Jerk with a Heart of Gold The '70s This Is Gonna Suck Corrupt Corporate Executive Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Badass Grandpa Film Noir Index Breaking the Fourth Wall The Great Depression Flashback Animal Motifs I Want My Beloved to Be Happy An Arm and a Leg Daddy's Girl Science Fiction Films Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Badass Boast Retirony Action Girl Ambiguous Disorder Bait-and-Switch Black Best Friend Horror Films Defrosting Ice Queen My God, What Have I Done? Dutch Angle Arc Words Combat Pragmatist Documentary Demonic Possession Spiteful Spit Taking You with Me Last-Name Basis Setting Update Gratuitous English Animal Title Index Adaptation Distillation Slasher Smile Crucified Hero Shot Defiant to the End Cloudcuckoolander Adaptation Expansion Exactly What It Says on the Tin Homage Mistaken for Gay Only in It for the Money Badass Longcoat Developing Doomed Characters Mugging the Monster Death by Adaptation The Quiet One The Alleged Car The Atoner Big Applesauce My Greatest Failure Expository Hairstyle Change Product Placement Spanner in the Works Death Glare Pragmatic Villainy Obfuscating Stupidity Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Advertised Extra Playing Gertrude Credits Gag Anti-Hero Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Anti-Villain Destination Defenestration Left the Background Music On Eyepatch of Power Noodle Incident Improbable Weapon User Daylight Horror Only Known by Their Nickname Dark Action Girl Not Quite Dead Be Careful What You Wish For Adaptation Dye-Job In the Back Arch-Enemy The Ditz Anguished Declaration of Love French Films Shower Scene Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Deliberate Values Dissonance Kill 'em All The Power of Love Aside Glance Sinister Minister Pragmatic Adaptation And Starring The Film of the Book Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Jerk Jock Parental Substitute Unreliable Narrator Exact Words Gone Horribly Right Badass Bookworm Authority Equals Asskicking Pay Evil unto Evil Sole Survivor Catch-Phrase Eagleland Serious Business Rasputinian Death Made of Explodium Vitriolic Best Buds The Brute Eye Scream Those Two Guys Artistic License – Geography Country Matters Guns Akimbo More Dakka Soft Glass Decoy Protagonist Half the Man He Used to Be Shell-Shocked Veteran Cool Guns Domestic Abuse Superhero Black Dude Dies First Riddle for the Ages Flipping the Bird Twist Ending Broken Aesop Obstructive Bureaucrat Guile Hero Green-Eyed Monster Composite Character '80s Hair Evil Brit Monumental Damage Maybe Ever After From Nobody to Nightmare Chase Scene Crapsack World Didn't Think This Through Red Eyes, Take Warning Loads and Loads of Characters Call-Back Black Comedy Rape Early Installment Weirdness Back from the Dead As You Know In Name Only Amoral Attorney Artistic License – Physics Asshole Victim Real Life Leaning on the Fourth Wall Implacable Man The Stinger All for Nothing Faux Affably Evil Five-Man Band Precision F-Strike The Smurfette Principle Faking the Dead The Dog Bites Back Bury Your Gays Broken Bird Bald of Evil Cowboy Cop Re-Cut Artistic License – Biology Sequel Hook The Stoner Posthumous Character Say My Name Your Head A-Splode Death Seeker Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Put on a Bus Evil Counterpart Bad Boss I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Genre Shift Dropped a Bridge on Him Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Bottomless Magazines There Is No Kill Like Overkill Dogged Nice Guy The Big Guy Establishing Character Moment No Celebrities Were Harmed Ambiguous Ending Armor-Piercing Question Ungrateful Bastard Author Avatar Drill Sergeant Nasty Suspiciously Similar Substitute She's Got Legs Brother–Sister Incest Historical In-Joke Grey and Gray Morality Suspiciously Specific Denial Time Skip The Mafia Reckless Gun Usage Reality Has No Subtitles Chekhov's Gun Rated M for Manly Heroic Sacrifice Animated Credits Opening Funny Foreigner And I Must Scream Hope Spot Apocalypse How And the Adventure Continues Smoking Is Cool Too Dumb to Live NO INDOOR VOICE Unwitting Instigator of Doom Lock and Load Montage Film Series Fake Shemp Heroes Want Redheads Self-Deprecation Deadpan Snarker Expy Instant Death Bullet The '50s Freudian Excuse Disney Villain Death Artistic License – Gun Safety Ax-Crazy Hate Sink Knife Nut Disappeared Dad It's Personal Henpecked Husband Wham Shot Motor Mouth Translation Convention Break the Cutie Canadian Movies Stepford Smiler Anachronic Order Psychopathic Manchild Adaptational Heroism Storming the Castle Creator Cameo The '80s Curb-Stomp Battle Camera Abuse The Smart Guy Pet the Dog Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Madness Mantra Evil-Detecting Dog Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Silent Movie Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Death by Irony Kick the Dog Anyone Can Die Here We Go Again! A Date with Rosie Palms Together in Death A.I. Is a Crapshoot It's All About Me The Lost Lenore Dark Is Not Evil Due to the Dead Room Full of Crazy Politically Incorrect Villain Neck Snap O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Vamp Adapted Out The Un-Reveal "Awesome McCool" Name Offscreen Teleportation Scary Black Man Character Development Famous Last Words Framing Device Early-Bird Cameo Brainless Beauty The Chick Get Out! Nice Guy Hell Is That Noise Ghost Fiction Well-Intentioned Extremist Not So Stoic Retcon Dual Wielding Gory Discretion Shot Friend to All Children All There in the Script The Load Token Minority Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Unusually Uninteresting Sight Dull Surprise Eiffel Tower Effect Kill It with Fire Evil Is Hammy Villain Song Suddenly SHOUTING! A Father to His Men Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Would Hit a Girl Mooks Bare Your Midriff Bring My Brown Pants Same Language Dub Hypocrite Pre-Mortem One-Liner Morality Pet Evil Sounds Deep The Bully Poor Communication Kills Adorkable Drives Like Crazy Boom, Headshot! German Films Action Survivor Based on a True Story A God Am I Visual Pun Plucky Comic Relief Chekhov's Skill Malevolent Masked Men Improvised Weapon Blood Knight From Bad to Worse Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! No Name Given Pyrrhic Victory Fingore Revenge Comically Missing the Point Foreshadowing Four-Temperament Ensemble "Shaggy Dog" Story Fatal Family Photo All There in the Manual Fire-Forged Friends Evil vs. Evil Batman Gambit Hero of Another Story Only a Flesh Wound Damsel in Distress Ominous Latin Chanting Small Name, Big Ego Those Wacky Nazis Meaningful Echo Horror Comedy La Résistance Vacation Films Deal with the Devil Meet Cute Central Theme Groin Attack Agony of the Feet Chewing the Scenery The Oner Training Montage Wrong Genre Savvy Shipper on Deck Stealth Pun Catapult Nightmare Woman Scorned Pretty Little Headshots Naïve Newcomer Alas, Poor Villain She Cleans Up Nicely Papa Wolf Serial Killer Truth in Television Rule of Funny Your Cheating Heart Soundtrack Dissonance Rape as Drama Crazy Jealous Guy Cold-Blooded Torture Danny Peary Cult Movies List Casting Gag For the Evulz Did Not Get the Girl Dies Wide Open Double-Meaning Title The Musical Sacrificial Lion Stylistic Suck Bullying a Dragon Running Gag Christmas Movies Index Action Genre No OSHA Compliance Cat Scare Epic Fail Frame-Up Outrun the Fireball One Steve Limit Eldritch Abomination It Will Never Catch On Call-Forward Dramedy