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* At Wrestling/{{AEW}}'s ''Double or Nothing 2023'' the Wrestling/BlackpoolCombatClub had a house band play "Wild Thing" for their entrance, for some bizarre reason the singer of said band was in blackface. Wrestling/JimCornette completely [[https://youtu.be/X1vH-wkzpA0?si=yv27kdVGJq-QaoCW&t=68 lost his mind]] about this when reviewing the show on his podcast.
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* At Wrestling/{{AEW}}'s ''Double or Nothing 2023'' 2023'', the Wrestling/BlackpoolCombatClub had a house band play "Wild Thing" for their entrance, for entrance. For some bizarre reason reason, the singer of said band was in blackface. Wrestling/JimCornette completely [[https://youtu.be/X1vH-wkzpA0?si=yv27kdVGJq-QaoCW&t=68 lost his mind]] about this when reviewing the show on his podcast.blackface.
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* At Wrestling/{{AEW}}'s ''Double or Nothing 2023'' the Wrestling/BlackpoolCombatClub had a house band play "Wild Thing" for their entrance, for some bizarre reason the singer of said band was in blackface. Wrestling/JimCornette completely [[https://youtu.be/X1vH-wkzpA0?si=yv27kdVGJq-QaoCW&t=68 lost his mind]] about this when reviewing the show on his podcast.
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* Occasionally in ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'', particularly earlier WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'' shorts.
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* Mexican film "Angelitos Negros" (lit. Little Black Angels) of 1948 has an initial musical act where Jose Carlos, performed by singer Pedro Infante, sing in blackface with a group of mulato artists. Then later is inverted by his daughter, a mulato girl called Belen (Cuban actress Titina Romay) that tries to paint her face white so she can feel loved by her white mother,
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* AbilityOverAppearance: Used to be a justification for blackface in the days when it was acceptable; directors such as Creator/DWGriffith would claim they just chose the best actors for the parts and made them up accordingly. Of course, this was rife with racist UnfortunateImplications of its own: you mean to say that ''no'' black people ''anywhere'' were good enough actors to play black characters?
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* AbilityOverAppearance: Used to be a justification for blackface in the days when it was acceptable; directors such as Creator/DWGriffith would claim they just chose the best actors for the parts and made them up accordingly. Of course, this was rife with racist UnfortunateImplications unfortunate implications of its own: you mean to say that ''no'' black people ''anywhere'' were good enough actors to play black characters?
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* UnfortunateImplications: The inherent purpose of the outfit is racist caricaturing and stereotyping of African American people and culture. Website/TheOtherWiki [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface goes into more depth]] on the history and controversies surrounding it.
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* An unknown character in an {{omake}} from ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' appears to don this. The character was going to [[UnfortunateImplications perform a ritual to curse people.]]
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* An unknown character in an {{omake}} from ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' appears to don this. The character was going to [[UnfortunateImplications perform a ritual to curse people.]]
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** In another episode, Bertie is persuaded to disguise himself as an African chief [[ZanyScheme in order to retrieve a tribal artifact]], making things very awkward when the real chief shows up. In each case, UnfortunateImplications are mostly skirted because the joke is not on black people but on what a dolt Bertie is for thinking it would work.
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** In another episode, Bertie is persuaded to disguise himself as an African chief [[ZanyScheme in order to retrieve a tribal artifact]], making things very awkward when the real chief shows up. In each case, UnfortunateImplications unfortunate implications are mostly skirted because the joke is not on black people but on what a dolt Bertie is for thinking it would work.
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* Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine's music video for "No Light, No Light" has two savage people in blackface [[ScaryBlackMan menacing]] the white singer, who is saved by white choirboys and seen at the end with a white lover. Supposedly, the men in blackface are meant to be [[UnfortunateImplications demons]].
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* Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine's music video for "No Light, No Light" has two savage people in blackface [[ScaryBlackMan menacing]] the white singer, who is saved by white choirboys and seen at the end with a white lover. Supposedly, the men in blackface are meant to be [[UnfortunateImplications demons]].demons.
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'''Forest Demon:''' No no, you don't understand! I'm literally a forest demon from across the bridge, this isn't a costume!\\
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'''Forest Demon:''' No no, you don't understand! I'm literally a forest demon from across the bridge, this bridge. This isn't a costume!\\
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->'''Party Bro''': Whoa! Is that fucking blackface, dude?!
->'''Forest Demon''': No no no, this isn't blackface, I'm an actual demon!
->'''Woman''': Are you fucking serious?
->'''Man''': Not cool, man!
->'''Forest Demon''': No no, you don't understand! I'm literally a forest demon from across the bridge, this isn't a costume!
->'''Man''': ''(punches the demon)'' Get the FUCK out, man!
->'''Forest Demon''': No no no, this isn't blackface, I'm an actual demon!
->'''Woman''': Are you fucking serious?
->'''Man''': Not cool, man!
->'''Forest Demon''': No no, you don't understand! I'm literally a forest demon from across the bridge, this isn't a costume!
->'''Man''': ''(punches the demon)'' Get the FUCK out, man!
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->'''Party Bro''': Bro:''' Whoa! Is that fucking blackface, dude?!
->'''Forest Demon''':dude?!\\
'''Forest Demon:''' No no no, this isn't blackface, I'm an actualdemon!
->'''Woman''':demon!\\
'''Woman:''' Are you fuckingserious?
->'''Man''':serious?\\
'''Man:''' Not cool,man!
->'''Forest Demon''':man!\\
'''Forest Demon:''' No no, you don't understand! I'm literally a forest demon from across the bridge, this isn't acostume!
->'''Man''':costume!\\
'''Man:''' ''(punches the demon)'' Get the FUCK out, man!
->'''Forest Demon''':
'''Forest Demon:''' No no no, this isn't blackface, I'm an actual
->'''Woman''':
'''Woman:''' Are you fucking
->'''Man''':
'''Man:''' Not cool,
->'''Forest Demon''':
'''Forest Demon:''' No no, you don't understand! I'm literally a forest demon from across the bridge, this isn't a
->'''Man''':
'''Man:''' ''(punches the demon)'' Get the FUCK out, man!
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* In ''Literature/TheBookThief'' which takes place in Nazi Germany, Rudy pretends to be the black Olympic runner Jesse Owens by painting himself black with a mixture of water and charcoal then runs an imaginary race. He doesn't realize that trying to emulate a black man could land him in serious trouble with the Nazis, something that his father quickly sets him straight on.
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* Played for InnocentlyInsensitive laughs in a ''ComicStrip/{{Crabgrass}}'' [[https://www.gocomics.com/crabgrass/2020/04/01 strip]] where 9-year-old best friends Miles (who is black) and Kevin (who is white) plan to dress as each other for an April Fools' Day prank. Miles' mom initially finds the idea funny and cute... [[DelayedReaction until it hits her]] how the very naïve Kevin would likely go about making himself look like Miles, and rushes to call Kevin's mom so she can stop him before he gets too far painting himself black.
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* Played for InnocentlyInsensitive laughs in a ''ComicStrip/{{Crabgrass}}'' [[https://www.gocomics.com/crabgrass/2020/04/01 strip]] where 9-year-old best friends Miles (who is black) and Kevin (who is white) plan to dress as each other for an April Fools' Day prank. Miles' mom initially finds the idea funny and cute... [[DelayedReaction until it hits her]] how the very naïve Kevin would likely go about making himself look like Miles, and rushes to call Kevin's mom so she can stop him before he gets too far painting himself black.
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* The helpers of UsefulNotes/{{Sinterklaas}} (the Dutch Santa Claus) are usually white people in blackface and colourful costumes called Zwarte Piet ("Black Pete").
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* The helpers of UsefulNotes/{{Sinterklaas}} (the Dutch Santa Claus) are usually white people in blackface and colourful costumes called Zwarte Piet ("Black Pete"). After years of growing controversy in the Netherlands, as the Dutch became more aware of the racial implications of blackface, the makeup has largely been discontinued in favor of being similar to soot rather than full face paint.
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->''"Whoa! Is that fucking blackface, dude?!"''
-->-- '''Party Bro''', ''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends''
-->-- '''Party Bro''', ''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends''
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->'''Forest Demon''': No no no, this isn't blackface, I'm an actual demon!
->'''Woman''': Are you fucking serious?
->'''Man''': Not cool, man!
->'''Forest Demon''': No no, you don't understand! I'm literally a forest demon from across the bridge, this isn't a costume!
->'''Man''': ''(punches the demon)'' Get the FUCK out, man!
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ZCE, the other is Blackface Style Caricature
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* Appeared in quite a few of the early ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'' shorts as well. These scenes tend to be edited out in modern TV airings, and a couple shorts which can't be easily edited have been all-out banned and [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes don't even appear on the [=DVDs=]]].
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%% * Appeared in quite a few of the early ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'' shorts as well. These scenes tend to be edited out in modern TV airings, and a couple shorts which can't be easily edited have been all-out banned and [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes don't even appear on the [=DVDs=]]].
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* "WesternAnimation/BalloonLand" features a few black inhabitants of Balloon Land who look like blackface caricatures. They have crossed eyes and dopey expressions and are the first ones popped by the Pincushion Man.
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* ''[[Film/Babylon2022 Babylon]]'': Sidney, a black jazz trumpetist in the 1930s, is made to wear blackface so that his appearance will match the white musicians who are also in blackface. He goes through with it under great pressure but quits his position immediately afterward.
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* ''[[Film/Babylon2022 Babylon]]'': ''{{Film/Babylon|2022}}'': Sidney, a black jazz trumpetist in the 1930s, is made to wear blackface so that his appearance will match the white musicians who are also in blackface. He goes through with it under great pressure but quits his position immediately afterward.
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* In ''Film/UpPompeii'', Lurcio covers his body in black makeup to disguise himself as a Nubian eunuch.
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* Appeared in quite a few of the early ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' shorts as well. These scenes tend to be edited out in modern TV airings, and a couple shorts which can't be easily edited have been all-out banned and [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes don't even appear on the [=DVDs=]]].
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* Appeared in quite a few of the early ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'' shorts as well. These scenes tend to be edited out in modern TV airings, and a couple shorts which can't be easily edited have been all-out banned and [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes don't even appear on the [=DVDs=]]].
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* Rather shockingly, the only black nurse in ''Film/DoctorInTheHouse1954'' is played by a white actress.
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* Creator/TheMarxBrothers, evading the law, momentarily done blackface to hide among a bunch of stable hands in ''Film/ADayAtTheRaces''. Harpo only paints half his face.
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* Creator/TheMarxBrothers, evading the law, momentarily done blackface to hide among a bunch of stable hands in ''Film/ADayAtTheRaces''.''Film/ADayAtTheRaces1937''. Harpo only paints half his face.
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* UncannyValley: Putting dark skin onto someone with European features almost certainly results in this. That's why the trope was usually played for comedy when it was popular, since it's pretty impossible to believe someone doing it is actually Black ([[Film/TheBirthOfANation1915 D.W. Griffith]] tried to play it realistically, and was sorely mocked).
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* UncannyValley: Putting dark skin onto someone with European features almost certainly results in this. That's why the trope was usually played for comedy when it was popular, since it's pretty impossible to believe someone doing it is actually Black ([[Film/TheBirthOfANation1915 D.W. Griffith]] tried to play it realistically, realistically and seriously, and was sorely mocked).
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* The third episode of ''Series/WithBobAndDavid'' has two examples: in one sketch, a phony tech guru shows a picture of an old advertisement for blackface as part of his presentation. In a later sketch, an desperate police watchdog activist tries to goad some police officers into brutalizing him by donning blackface.
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* The third episode of ''Series/WithBobAndDavid'' has two examples: in one sketch, a phony tech guru shows a picture of an old advertisement for blackface as part of his presentation. In a later sketch, an desperate police watchdog activist auditor tries to goad some police officers into brutalizing him by donning blackface.blackface. The episode was later removed from Netflix for the depiction.
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--->'''Lois''': You can't just pretend to be Black, that's offensive! It's a stupid idea!
--->'''Peter''': What?
--->'''Lois''': IT'S A STUPID IDEA! YOU'RE A STUPID MAN! A STUPID, STUPID, ''STUPID MAN!''
--->'''Peter''': What?
--->'''Lois''': IT'S A STUPID IDEA! YOU'RE A STUPID MAN! A STUPID, STUPID, ''STUPID MAN!''
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--->'''Lois''': You can't just pretend to be Black, that's offensive! It's Black! That's a stupid idea!
--->'''Peter''':What?
[[LackOfEmpathy What?]]
--->'''Lois''': IT'S A STUPID IDEA! YOU'RE A STUPID MAN! A STUPID,STUPID, ''STUPID MAN!''
--->'''Peter''':
--->'''Lois''': IT'S A STUPID IDEA! YOU'RE A STUPID MAN! A STUPID,