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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Creator/TessaThompson's Sam White gets this reaction repeatedly and resents it. Gabe goes so far as to accuse her of playing up a "Tragic Mulatto" front. Sam herself identifies unambiguously as black, and does not once question, deny, or attempt to hide her own blackness. In fact she gets accused of overcompensating due to this.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Among the criticism towards white people that Sam makes on her radio show are touching her hair without asking, dating a black person to piss off your parents and... dancing.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Among the criticism towards white people that Sam makes on her radio show are touching her hair without asking, dating a black person to piss off your parents and... dancing.
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* BlackBestFriend: Troy attempts to become this for Kurt, but he's able to see through it.
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* ButNotTooBlack: Coco invokes this for herself when joking that white girls' tans are getting darker than her own skin tone, "which...isn't ''that'' dark..."
* ButNotTooWhite: Sam does not once address [[spoiler:her white father]] until the end of the movie.
* ButNotTooWhite: Sam does not once address [[spoiler:her white father]] until the end of the movie.
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* DatingCatwoman: He's certainly no villain, but building racial tensions and Sam's very vocal position in them leads her to hide her relationship with Gabe, even antagonizing him in public.
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* GhettoName: Coco's real name is Colandrea.
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* IronicName: Sam ''White'' identifies strongly as being black.
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* MalcolmXerox: Sam serves as a female version, though she mellows over the course of the film.
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* {{Misblamed}}: Sam and the BSU voice their discontent with the American film industry's treatment of black characters, with Tyler Perry being named in particular as producing offensive movies. But rather than a producer or a writer, they complain to the poor man behind the ticket booth at a local movie theater.
* MissingMom: Troy's father plays a large role in the film, but his mother is unmentioned and never seen.
** In the series he reveals that she left when he was young.
* MistakenNationality: Reggie apparently mistook Sam for Puerto Rican at first.
* MixedAncestry: Sam, whose father is white, though she identifies only as black.
* MissingMom: Troy's father plays a large role in the film, but his mother is unmentioned and never seen.
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* MistakenNationality: Reggie apparently mistook Sam for Puerto Rican at first.
* MixedAncestry: Sam, whose father is white, though she identifies only as black.
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* {{Misblamed}}: Sam and the BSU voice their discontent with the American film industry's treatment of black characters, with Tyler Perry being named in particular as producing offensive movies. But rather than a producer or a writer, they complain to the poor man behind the ticket booth at a local movie theater.
* MissingMom: Troy's father plays a large role in the film, but his mother is unmentioned and never seen.
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* MistakenNationality: Reggie apparently mistook Sam for Puerto Rican at first.
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* MissingMom: Troy's father plays a large role in the film, but his mother is unmentioned and never seen.
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* MistakenNationality: Reggie apparently mistook Sam for Puerto Rican at first.
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* StraightGay: Lionel is gay, though none of his mannerisms suggest this.
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* KarmaHoudini: Kurt assaults Lionel in front of witnesses, but isn't expelled or prosecuted (the fact that [[{{Nepotism}} his father is the university president]] helps with the latter, but the former is left unexplained).
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* KarmaHoudini: Kurt assaults Lionel Lion-O in front of witnesses, but isn't expelled or prosecuted (the fact that [[{{Nepotism}} [[{{ThunderCats1985}} his father is the university president]] Mumm-ra]] helps with the latter, but the former is left unexplained).
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The administration of the college getting Pastiche to call off the Blackface Party would have been a victory of tolerance over racism. Too bad [[spoiler:Sam]] sabotages it.
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* WorthyOpponent: Kurt would like to be this to Sam. Sam isn't having any of it.
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Natter, and on the subject of Sam, she’s not inciting racisl tensions so much as rebelling against systems she perceives as racist.
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** Not so much as you might think. While Kurt has spent most of the movie as the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racism-trolling Jerkass]] he doesn't turn violent until Lionel starts [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge trashing his house]]. At which point Lionel [[PlayedForLaughs sexually assaults Kurt]] but gets away with it because of [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality Protagonist-Centered Morality.]]
** But the real Karma Houdini is [[spoiler:Sam]] who inflames racial tensions, orchestrates a racial incident that becomes a riot, and gains national renown for reporting on the incident she herself caused.
** But the real Karma Houdini is [[spoiler:Sam]] who inflames racial tensions, orchestrates a racial incident that becomes a riot, and gains national renown for reporting on the incident she herself caused.
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**Not so much as you might think. While Kurt has spent most of the movie as the [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racism-trolling Jerkass]] he doesn't turn violent until Lionel starts [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge trashing his house]]. At which point Lionel [[PlayedForLaughs sexually assaults Kurt]] but gets away with it because of [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality Protagonist-Centered Morality.]]
**But the real Karma Houdini is [[spoiler:Sam]] who inflames racial tensions, orchestrates a racial incident that becomes a riot, and gains national renown for reporting on the incident she herself caused.
**But the real Karma Houdini is [[spoiler:Sam]] who inflames racial tensions, orchestrates a racial incident that becomes a riot, and gains national renown for reporting on the incident she herself caused.
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%%* BiggerBad: President Fletcher.
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** In the series he reveals that she left when he was young.
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* ShoutOut: In the series, Coco attempts to join the black sorority Alpha Delta Rho, which is the same sorority that Whitley joined in ''Series/ADifferentWorld''.
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* IronicName: Sam ''White'' identifies strongly as being black.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Creator/TessaThompson's Sam White gets this reaction repeatedly and resents it. Gabe goes so far as to accuse her of playing up a "Tragic Mulatto" front. Sam herself identifies unambiguously as black, and does not once question, deny, or attempt to hide her own blackness.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Creator/TessaThompson's Sam White gets this reaction repeatedly and resents it. Gabe goes so far as to accuse her of playing up a "Tragic Mulatto" front. Sam herself identifies unambiguously as black, and does not once question, deny, or attempt to hide her own blackness. In fact she gets accused of overcompensating due to this.
* CampGay: All of the gay guys we see except for Lionel. He doesn't identify in their crowd comfortably because of it.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Programming, or rather the aptitude at which the character can use it [[spoiler: Sam's friend Reggie boasts his skill of hacking early on during the BSU meeting, later Sam is called into the Dean of Students office to discuss a problem with the app that took the votes for the election, she won...but she kept winning]]
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* ChekhovsSkill: Programming, or rather the aptitude at which the character can use it it. [[spoiler: Sam's friend Reggie boasts of his skill of at hacking early on during the BSU meeting, later meeting. Later Sam is called into the Dean of Students office to discuss a problem with the app that took the votes for the election, she won...but she election. She won... then kept winning]]
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Sofia is implied to be dating Troy for this reason. Unintentionally {{lampshaded}} by Sam almost immediately after the couple is introduced:
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* FireForgedFriends: Lionel and [[spoiler: the Black Student Union, after he takes the reigns during Sam's [[HeroicBSOD brief departure]]]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: An early scene has the black homosexual Lionel sitting on the college campus observing two different groups: [[ScaryBlackMan tough-looking black guys]] and [[{{CampGay}} limp-wristed gay guys]], neither of whom he feels he identifies with. It more or less sums up exactly what the movie is about.
* FreudWasRight: InUniverse. Kurt brings up ‘Pastiche’s motto, metaphorically saying that comedy and criticism should not hold back and hit raw nerves: ‘Sharpen thy sword’. One of the members thinks it’s a euphemism for [[ADateWithRosiePalms something else]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: An early scene has the black homosexual Lionel sitting on the college campus observing two different groups: [[ScaryBlackMan tough-looking black guys]] and [[{{CampGay}} limp-wristed gay guys]], neither of whom he feels he identifies with. It more or less sums up exactly what the movie is about.
* FreudWasRight: InUniverse. Kurt brings up ‘Pastiche’s motto, metaphorically saying that comedy and criticism should not hold back and hit raw nerves: ‘Sharpen thy sword’. One of the members thinks it’s a euphemism for [[ADateWithRosiePalms something else]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: An early scene has the young gay blackhomosexual man Lionel sitting on the college campus observing two different groups: [[ScaryBlackMan tough-looking black guys]] and [[{{CampGay}} limp-wristed gay guys]], neither of whom he feels he identifies with. It more or less sums up exactly what the movie is about.
* FreudWasRight: InUniverse. Kurt brings up‘Pastiche’s Pastiche’s motto, metaphorically saying that comedy and criticism should not hold back and hit raw nerves: ‘Sharpen thy sword’. One of the members thinks it’s a euphemism for [[ADateWithRosiePalms something else]].
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* ImportantHaircut: Sam and Lionel. Lionel finally cuts his hair down, signifying [[spoiler: his new found confidence in approaching the members of the BSU]], and Sam doesn't spend the bulk of her time trying to force an outward appearance of "blackness" and instead [[spoiler: prioritizes who she is over what everyone sees her for]].
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* ImportantHaircut: Sam and Lionel. Lionel finally cuts his hair down, signifying [[spoiler: his new found newfound confidence in approaching the members of the BSU]], and BSU]]. At the same time Sam doesn't lets her down, signifying that she now won't spend the bulk of her time trying to force an outward appearance of "blackness" and instead [[spoiler: prioritizes who she is over what everyone sees her for]].
* KarmaHoudini: Kurt assaults Lionel in front of witnesses, but isn't expelled or prosecuted (the fact that [[{{Nepotism}} his father is the university president]] helps with the latter, but the former is left unexplained).
* MalcolmXerox: Sam serves as a female version, though she mellows over the course of the film.
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* BatmanGambit: Sam, in the final act - After overhearing [[spoiler: the cancellation of the Blackface party]] Sam forces the invites out anyway, but that's all, banking on the members of Pastiche and their guests to do the rest.
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* BatmanGambit: Sam, in the final act - act. After overhearing [[spoiler: the cancellation of the Blackface party]] Sam forces the invites out anyway, but that's all, banking on the members of Pastiche and their guests to do the rest.
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* BatmanGambit:Sam, in the final act - After overhearing [[spoiler: the cancellation of the Blackface party]] Sam forces the invites out anyway, but that's all, banking on the members of Pastiche and their guests to do the rest.
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* BatmanGambit:Sam, BatmanGambit: Sam, in the final act - After overhearing [[spoiler: the cancellation of the Blackface party]] Sam forces the invites out anyway, but that's all, banking on the members of Pastiche and their guests to do the rest.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: As noted in the AluminumChristmasTrees entry, BlackFace parties have occurred. Right before the credits roll, a montage shows numerous pictures of real life, white college students donning BlackFace as part of their costume.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: As noted in the AluminumChristmasTrees entry, BlackFace parties have occurred. Right before the credits roll, a montage shows numerous pictures of real life, white college students donning BlackFace as part of their (culturally insensitive) costume.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: As noted in the AluminumChritsmasTrees entry, BlackFace parties have occurred. Right before the credits roll, a montage shows numerous pictures of real life, white college students donning BlackFace as part of their costume.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: As noted in the AluminumChritsmasTrees AluminumChristmasTrees entry, BlackFace parties have occurred. Right before the credits roll, a montage shows numerous pictures of real life, white college students donning BlackFace as part of their costume.
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: As noted in the AluminumChritsmasTrees entry, BlackFace parties have occurred. Right before the credits roll, a montage shows numerous pictures of real life, white college students donning BlackFace as part of their costume.
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* MaleGaze: When Coco wears a dress with AbsoluteCleavage to a party, the camera lingers. It's also subverted in that when she approaches Kurt at the end of the party, the camera frames the back of his head such that the audience cannot tell if he's looking.
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* EverythingIsRacist: Explored as part of the film's examination of race relations.
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Sam is wrong about black people never being racist (people of color can definitely be racist toward other people of color), but she's right about racism being a system of disadvantage based on race and is by definition not racist herself unless she denigrates, say, Asians as a whole.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Sam is outstandingly racist, though she denies this, claiming that racism is a system of disadvantage based on race, thus black people can't be racist because they don't stand to benefit from being racist.
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%%* EverythingIsRacist: Sam's defining characteristic for a majority of the film. At one point, she claims that ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' is [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation about white suburbanites being afraid of black people]].
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Bringing to discussion.
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Who is President Fletcher and how is he the Bigger Bad?
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No spoiler tags on entire examples. Also, how are Sam's films examples of Stylistic Suck? Zero Context Example. Please expand before readding.
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Sam, BatmanGambit:Sam, in the final act - After overhearing overhearing [[spoiler: the cancellation of the Blackface party party]] Sam forces the invites out anyway, but that's all, banking on the members of Pastiche and their guests to do the rest.]]
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Even if Sam is supposed to be right, which the article doesn't really support, that doesn't actually invalidate her claims of Everything Is Racist. If anything it would support them. Similarly, the article does not suggest that it is accurate to blame a distributor of material that they designate as racist while refusing to blame the creator of that material.
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* {{Misblamed}}: Sam and the BSU voice their discontent with the American film industry's treatment of black characters, with Tyler Perry being named in particular as producing offensive movies. But rather than a producer or a writer, they complain to the poor man behind the ticket booth at a local movie theater.