History Main / ButNottooForeign

** IdolSinger Ruri Hijiribe is also implied to have some European ancestry, probably because [[spoiler:[[{{Dhampyr}} vampires]] aren't native to Japan in this 'verse]].

* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'': Walker Yumasaki is regularly noted in the novels to be biracial (half-''what'' has yet to be elaborated upon, but it's implied to be white). This is never brought up in the anime adaptation.

** Ken's student, Sean from ''Street Fighter III'' and his elder sister Laura from ''Videogame/StreetFighterV'', is half-Japanese, half-Brazilian.

* ''Videogame/TraumaCenter'': in the Japanese version, the main (Derek) storyline is set in Japan. Blue-eyed blonde Angie, from that cast, is part German, though this was just for colour/this trope until Trauma Center 2 made a retcon, specifically that [[spoiler:the "sinners" (people who are attuned enough to GUILT to help breed it, which includes Angie) were descendants of Adam, the main villain, and the main branch of Adam's family lives in Germany. Never mind the fact that another sinner in that very game is from Central or South America]].
* More than one ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' games have used characters whose ethnicity is part-Japanese, whose real ethnicity contributes to the games' plot twists.

* Stella in ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo'' is a justified example because for the period that the VN is set in (mid 50s Japan) it wouldn't make much sense for a fully foreign girl to be there. It also features heavily into her character when the story reveals more about her.

* Europe Comics has the titular ''Isabellae''. Isabellae is the daughter of a samurai and an Irish sorceress, and she journeys through Japan searching for her sister, cutting a bloody swathe through the country, before going on a quest to her mother's homeland.

** ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' has Tetsu (who seems like a HumanAlien with NoSocialSkills but is really a human who’s lived offworld since his parents died) and Ban, whose only sign of an Earthen origin is a flashback to his samurai ancestor.

* ''Manhwa/UnbalanceXUnbalance'', a {{manhwa}} features a British-Korean character who is a younger half sister to one of the main characters.

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* ''The Shadowhunter Chronicles'':
** Every character of a different ethnicity who appears in ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'' always turns out to be biracial, (usually half white). Magnus is half Dutch[=/=]half Indonesian, Aline is half Chinese[=/=]half white, Maia is half black[=/=]half white. See a trend here?
** Both Will and Jem from ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices''. They're both half English and half Welsh and Chinese[[note]]which was unusual for the time period given the state of relations between Britain and China[[/note]] respectively. Will's actual name is Gwilym and Jem's actual name is Jian but their real names are only brought up once or twice in passing and for some reason both seem to prefer to be called by their "British" names.

* Hiro and his older brother Tadashi in ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' are half-Japanese and half-white Asian-Americans, emphasized by them living with a white aunt (somewhat of a RaceLift from the comic, where Hiro was purely Japanese). This is a case of ActorSharedBackground, as both their voice actors (Ryan Potter and Daniel Henney, respectively) are biracial.

* ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'': Lian Harper is a quarter Vietnamese on her mother Jade Nguyen's side and her father Roy Harper is a white man of Navajo upbringing. Jade herself also qualifies as she has a Vietnamese mother and a white father [[note]]A DC encyclopedia stated her father was French but Gail Simone's ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' run retconned her into being a ChildByRape of an American senator.[[/note]]

** Yara Flor, one of the {{ComicBook/Wonder Girl}}s, is a Native-Brazilian hero, daughter of an Amazon from Themyscira with an [[UsefulNotes/TheAmazonRainforest Amazonian]] river god. However, her solo title ''ComicBook/WonderGirlInfiniteFrontier'' reveals she was actually taken away from Brazil as a child to flee an attack of the Greek pantheon and was raised in the United States, only traveling back when she was 21 years old. Since Yara has little recollection of her childhood, this means she doesn't really have much connection to Brazil when she returns to her birth country, even giving her {{Pegasus}} the English name "Jerry" rather than any name from Native-Brazilian languages or Portuguese.

** Josuke (Part 8) is a mess simply because [[spoiler:he's a FusionDance between this reality's Yoshikage Kira—who is... 7/16th some-kind-of-American and 9/16th Japanese due to Johnny's marriage to Rina Higashikata and then the same iteration of George II, Joseph, and then Holly who marries a fully Japanese man--and Josefumi Kujo who is most likely fully Japanese... except he also has the Joestar birthmark which would make him also a Joestar which is just even more confusing now]].

* The plot of ''Series/KungFu1972'' centered on a Shaolin Monk wandering the old west. Logically, this would require the lead to be Chinese (and there were many Chinese immigrants in America at the time the show is set). Instead, the writers specified that Caine was only Half-Chinese, and [[{{Yellowface}} cast a white actor to play him.]] Reportedly, this was changed only because the network didn't feel that America was ready for an Asian lead, which was actually the producers' original intentions. Bruce Lee, who had partial European ancestry himself, was supposed to be Caine.

** ''[[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive Operation Overdrive]]'''s pink ranger Rose was shown to be living in London (working as a university lecturer) before she was recruited to the team. Her actress is British (albeit of Filipino descent), so it's probably safe to assume that the character actually is British.

* In Irish television show ''Series/{{Raw}}'' Tanya, the restaurant manageress is English. As she is married to the Irish head chef there is already a perfectly understandable reason for her to be in Ireland but the show decided to reveal she was part Irish anyway. The actress, Creator/ShelleyConn, is of Sri Lankan and British ancestry.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' has had plenty of principal characters who are at least partially non-human, but with some human ancestry or influence: Spock (half-vulcan, half-human), Deanna Troi (half-human, half-betazed), Worf (fully Klingon, raised by humans), Data (android designed to mimic humans), B'Elanna Torres (half-Klingon, half-human), and Seven of Nine (Borg with most of her humanity restored).

* ''The Inn of the Sixth Happiness”, based on the novel ''The Small Woman'', changed things other than its title in its transition to the screen. The lead character's real-life Chinese love interest was made half European, presumably so he could be played by a white actor to avoid offending Hollywood sensibilities.