History Main / MalignedMixedMarriage

* The 1954 version of UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode stated "Illicit sex relations are neither to be hinted at nor portrayed." This could be, and probably was, used to effectively ban portrayals of interracial relationships in comics, in conjunction with other "perversions" such as homosexuality. Nevertheless, a few instances of interracial relationships were depicted under the Code by the 1970s -- most prominently, that between white hero ComicBook/IronFist and black heroine [[ComicBook/DaughtersOfTheDragon Misty Knight]], who [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/89/2c/4e/892c4e412db981343e92e99187f2eadd.jpg first kissed in 1977]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'': The driving conflict is Triton's disapproval of his mermaid daughter's fascination with humans. When he learns that she's fallen in love with a human prince, he does not take it well. This appears to be just his view, rather than the common way. [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning A prequel film]] depicts his wife (and Ariel's mother) being killed by pirates.

* ''Film/{{Loving}}'' is BasedOnATrueStory, specifically the ''Loving V. Virginia'' case whose ruling legalized interracial marriage across the United States, after Mr. and Mrs. Loving sued the state of Virginia to recognize their marriage and drop the unlawful cohabitation charges against them. [[spoiler:[[DownerEnding They did not live happily ever after; soon after the ruling, Mr. Loving died in a car accident]].]]

* The Chinese protagonist of ''Film/TheTollOfTheSea'', an adaptation of the opera ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'', is constantly bothered by her peers telling her marrying an American isn't a good idea, that he will leave her in the end. Lotus Blossom ignores them. [[spoiler:Her husband does leave her for a woman back in America, though he didn't know that Lotus had a son with him.]]

* Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium:
** In Creator/JRRTolkien's Middle Earth, human-elf marriages are widely accepted. But the very first such couple, [[Literature/TheSilmarillion Beren and Lúthien]], first had to overcome the FantasticRacism of Lúthien's father Thingol, who considered any mortal beneath his daughter and made totally impossible demands (go to {{Hell}}, cut a Silmaril from {{Satan}}'s crown, and give it to me). Considering Thingol himself was [[InterspeciesRomance married to an angel]] (one who ''didn't'' object to [[NonhumanHumanoidHybrid her daughter]] marrying a human), you'd ''think'' he'd be more accepting, but nooooo. Admittedly, in the case of Beren and Lúthien the racial difference is unusually relevant: after Beren dies of old age, Lúthien's soul passed out of the world with his instead of joining the other elven souls in the Halls of Mandos. This made Lúthien the first elf ever to truly die, and Thingol knew, apparently due to some level of prophecy, that this would happen should Lúthien marry a human.
** However, after Beren and Lúthien [[EngagementChallenge did the impossible]] anyway and got married, subsequent elf-human marriages met no opposition. [[HeinzHybrid Their descendant]] Elrond merely expected [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Aragorn]] to help defeat Sauron and make Middle-earth a safe place to live before agreeing to leave his daughter Arwen there for the rest of her life. And considering his wife was once abducted and tortured to death by orcs ''while on vacation'', his concerns look pretty understandable. There was also the simple question of status: she was elven royalty after all, even if Rivendell isn't a traditional kingdom.
** But at ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' Elf Gwindor warns Elf Finduilas to not fall in love with human Túrin, because a mixed-race marriage is something that is unnatural, and Gwindor could see that [[DoomMagnet Túrin]] is not Beren. Even in this case, it's not so much that mixed marriages are morally or socially wrong -- Gwindor is simply reminding Finduilas that falling in love with Túrin is likely to cause both of them grief, since [[MayflyDecemberRomance one is immortal and the other isn't]].

* Touched on a few times in the ''Literature/EarthsChildren'' series. Most prominently, Joplaya and Echozar's bonding is looked down upon by most of their fellow Lanzadonii. It's mostly said that it is because Joplaya is a stunning, exotic beauty and Echozar is... not. The underlying issue is that Echozar is half-Neanderthal. Regardless, they have a good marriage.

* In the world of ''Literature/AFoxTail'' interspecies relationships are about as controversial as homosexual ones. Making Vulpie (male fox) and Polar's (male wolf) marriage particularly newsworthy.

* There are several examples of this trope in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series with wizards or witches who marry muggles or muggle-borns.

* While it's only a single reference and not relevant to the plot, ''Literature/StarTrekHollowMen'' features a Lissepian criminal mentioning his upcoming marriage to a Nausicaan woman. Her family are trying to put a stop to it, unable to accept the validity of a mixed-race marriage.
* White supremacist novels ''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries'' and ''Literature/HunterWLPierce'' predictably attack mixed-race marriages. The former involves the "Day of the Rope" in which promoters of race-mixing are executed en masse. The latter involves a lone serial killer targeting mixed race couples.

-->''"Self control!" repeated Tom incredulously. "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out. . . . Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white."''
-->''Flushed with his impassioned gibberish he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.''

* The Jews in New Testament Biblical history were so racist that if any Jew married a non-Jew, particularly a Samaritan, he/she was [[IHaveNoSon immediately given a]] ''[[IHaveNoSon funeral]]'' [[IHaveNoSon by his/her family]].
** This is referenced in James [=McBride's=] memoir ''The Color of Water'', when his Orthodox Jewish mother married a black man (his father) in the 1940s, they had a funeral for her.
*** That he was black probably didn't help matters, but for Orthodox Jews, the non-negotiable issue would have been that he was a Christian.

* ''Manga/ABridesStory'': [[spoiler:Smith and Talas']] marriage is seen as once they return to his hometown, having both to deal with local gossip and his parents [[DisappointedInYou being disappointed]] and [[ParentalMarriageVeto refusing to acknowledge it]] respectively. Not only are they [[UptownGirl of very different social standings]], [[spoiler:with Smith distantly related to British nobility and Talas a Turkmeni shepherdess]], but as a foreigner [[spoiler:in Victorian England, Talas]] gets looked upon as an exotic curiosity at best and as outright subhuman at worst. Finally, they got married without letting his parents know in advance (and also outside the parents' religion) and thus his parents first only meet [[spoiler:Talas]] when she's introduced to them as [[spoiler:Smith's]] wife. [[spoiler:Smith's mother ends up banning the pair from the family's house and countryside estate, forcing Smith to rent a house so they can stay together.]]

* ''Manga/ABridesStory'': [[spoiler:Smith and Talas']] marriage is seen as once they return to his hometown, having both to deal with local gossip and his parents [[DisappointedInYou being disappointed]] and [[ParentalMarriageVeto refusing to acknowledge it]] respectively. Not only are they [[UptownGirl of very different social standings]], [[spoiler:with Smith distantly related to British nobility and Talas a Turkmeni shepherdess]], but as a foreigner [[spoiler:in Victorian England, Talas]] gets looked upon as an exotic curiosity at best and as outright subhuman at worst. Finally, they got married without letting his parents know in advance (and also outside the parents' religion) and thus his parents first only meet [[spoiler:Talas]] when she's introduced to them as [[spoiler:Smith's]] wife, something that annoys the father-in-law. [[spoiler:Smith's mother ends up banning the pair from the family's house and countryside estate, forcing Smith to rent a house so they can stay together.]]

* ''Manga/ABridesStory'': [[spoiler:Smith and Talas']] marriage is seen as once they return to his hometown, having both to deal with local gossip and his parents [[SoDisappointedInYou being disappointed]] and [[ParentalMarriageVeto refusing to acknowledge it]] respectively. Not only are they [[UptownGirl of very different social standings]], [[spoiler:with Smith distantly related to British nobility and Talas a Turkmeni shepherdess]], but as a foreigner [[spoiler:in Victorian England, Talas]] gets looked upon as an exotic curiosity at best and as outright subhuman at worst. Finally, they got married without letting his parents know in advance (and also outside the parents' religion) and thus his parents first only meet [[spoiler:Talas]] when she's introduced to them as [[spoiler:Smith's]] wife, something that annoys the father-in-law. [[spoiler:Smith's mother ends up banning the pair from the family's house and countryside estate, forcing Smith to rent a house so they can stay together.]]

* ''Manga/ABridesStory'': [[spoiler:Smith and Talas']] marriage is seen as once they return to his hometown, having both to deal with local gossip and his ObnoxiousInLaws being at best disappointed and at worst refusing to acknowledge it. Not only are they [[UptownGirl of very different social standings]], [[spoiler:with Smith distantly related to british nobility and Talas a turkmeni shepherdess]], but as a foreigner [[spoiler:in Victorian England, Talas]] gets looked upon as an exotic curiosity at best and as outright subhuman at worst. Finally, they got married without letting his parents know in advance (and also outside the parents' religion) and thus his parents first only meet [[spoiler:Talas]] when she's introduced to them as [[spoiler:Smith's]] wife, something that annoys the father-in-law. [[spoiler:Smith's mother ends up banning the pair from the family's house and countryside estate, forcing Smith to rent a house so they can stay together.]]

* ''Manga/ABridesStory'': [[spoiler:Smith and Talas']] marriage is seen as once they return to his hometown. Not only are they [[UptownGirl of very different social standings]], [[spoiler:with Smith distantly related to british nobility and Talas a turkmeni shepherdess]], they got married without letting his parents know in advance and thus his parents first only meet [[spoiler:Talas]] when she's introduced as [[spoiler:Smith's]] wife. [[spoiler:Smith's mother refuses to acknowledge Talas, [[RacistGrandma refers to her homeland as 'the land of the savages']], and refuses to let Talas stay in the family's house.]] Between this and local gossip the two are forced to move away to the countryside.

* ''Anime/{{Beastars}}'': The societal standard for ''all'' races. Interspecies marriage is heavily frowned upon, and same species marriages are subsidized by the government. Partially justified in that [[HybridsAreACrapshoot offspring of interspecies couples tend to suffer from health complications]] and in the case of Carnivore and Herbivore couples frequently end with the former eating the latter due to the connection between a Carnivore's appetite and their libido.

* In Chapter 11 of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/40425528/chapters/101269389 A Stack of Fresh Fried Parathas]]'', a series of vignettes set around Kamala and Bruno in ''Series/MsMarvel'', Bruno overhears some of the Illuminaunties gossiping about that "goya boy that Muneeba took in" and is now dating Kamala. Kamala is understandably upset at the Illuminaunties. Subverted with Kamala's family, as Muneeba and Yusef have nothing but love and respect for Bruno, and are overjoyed when he and Kamala get married.

* In Chapter 11 of [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/40425528/chapters/101269389 A Stack of Fresh Fried Parathas]], a series of vignettes set around Kamala and Bruno in ''Series/MsMarvel'', Bruno overhears some of the Illuminaunties gossiping about that "goya boy that Muneeba took in" and is now dating Kamala. Kamala is understandably upset at the Illuminaunties. Subverted with Kamala's family, as Muneeba and Yusef have nothing but love and respect for Bruno, and are overjoyed when he and Kamala get married.

* In ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'', white forest elf Cutter ends up choosing black desert elf Leetah as his lifemate. This is never commented on by anyone in the comics (although, in a novelization, Leetah initially finds the pale complexions of the Wolfriders unnerving and Moonshade is chagrined at the thought of tanning) as skin color is considered purely an "evolutionary benefit" (the elves evolve ''fast'') and just kind of pretty. However, the fact that Cutter has animal ancestors (and is mortal as a result) is considered absolutely ''disgusting'' by some characters, including Leetah's former boyfriend Rayek, who tries to separate them. On the other hand, one of the reasons the ''[=ElfQuest=]'' animated cartoon never took off was because [[ExecutiveMeddling the network demanded]] that this mixed marriage be changed, and [[ExecutiveVeto the writers would have none of that]].
* An occasionally revisited theme in ''ComicBook/{{Horndog}}'', played with a semi-metaphor (a white dog named Bob and his black cat girlfriend, Charlene), sometimes has this couple as targets of racism.
* In ''ComicBook/TreasureChest of Fun and Fact'', a comic book distributed in American Catholic schools, the "Chuck White" feature explored a mild religion-based version of this trope (Chuck's father was a Protestant.)
* ComicBook/LukeCage had to deal with an heir to the Power Man name who was throwing all sorts of shade his way. When the second Power Man learned that Luke was married to ComicBook/JessicaJones (a white heroine), and implied this made him less of a black man, punching ensued. Jessica herself runs into some of this in ''ComicBook/ThePulse'', catching flak from a black nurse during the RedSkiesCrossover with ''ComicBook/{{Secret War|2004}}'' for dating Luke. Luke himself notes that they can't avoid the fact they're a biracial couple and they're likely to get some dirty looks when he proposes to her near the end of the series.
* [[Characters/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyModern Mantis]] from ComicBook/TheAvengers and the ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy is the daughter of a German man and a Vietnamese woman. Her mom's brother was so disgusted by the notion that his sister had married a white man that he used his resources to try and have them both killed. Mantis and her father survived, but her mother did not.
* Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine: The Seventh Doctor comic strip “Fellow Travellers” has an old lady who is annoyed that the housekeeper (implied to be Tibetan descended) married her son and had a child with him, considering it “not right”. She ends up being transformed into a monster and trying to [[OffingTheOffspring kill the granddaughter]]. It’s implied this is a regular thing.
* ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'': Alana and Marko's home civilisations (planet Landfall and its moon Wreath) have been at war for so long that no one can remember a time when they got on, and the war has effectively been outsourced to most of the galaxy, ravaging hundreds of planets and dragging billions of people who'd otherwise be minding their own business into the conflict. Alana and Marko consensually having a healthy child together is, thus, of interest to the highest political powers in the galaxy for all the wrong reasons.

* ''ComicBook/MsMarvel2014'':
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} -- the title character is from a Pakistani-American Muslim family, and her parents are momentarily upset when her older brother, Aamir, announces his engagement to Tyesha, who is also a Muslim but black. To be fair, this could partly just be attributed to shock and the fact that he bypassed the usual matchmaking traditions, and they drop their resistance pretty quickly [[CallingTheOldManOut after being called out on it]].

** This is also part of the tension about Kamala herself possibly pursuing a relationship with her white, non-Muslim friend Bruno, though it's mostly a case of ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies.
* ''Titans'': In issue #100 of the title ''New Titans'', Dick Grayson and alien princess Starfire try ou for marriage licenses, but they are denied. When they leave the City Hall, a mob is right there demonstrating against their union, shouting that humans don't marry alien monsters.

* In ''ComicStrip/DickTracy,'' Moon Maid's father, the Moon Governor, was not at all happy about her marrying a human. At the time, many [[BrokenBase readers agreed.]] Currently, the comic is openly making references to the [[CanonDiscontinuity "Moon Period"]] for the first time in many years, and the readers are being teased about whether Moon Maid may [[DeathIsCheap return.]] The new creative team is handling it skillfully enough that readers seem like they may be okay with it, after all this time.
* In ''ComicStrip/SafeHavens'' Remora the mermaid gets disowned by her family because she married a human and chose to stay on land. They eventually realize how boneheaded they were and apologize to Remora and Thomas. Oddly, this is the only example of this trope, despite the fact that there are three other mixed-race couples (and if you include any animal-related couples, arguably more).

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fic ''Fanfic/TheBlackSheep'', by Creator/AAPessimal, Balthazar Smith-Rhodes was exiled from [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Rimwards Howondaland]] not for being a rogue and a confidence trickster, but for repeatedly breaking the Racial Separation Acts. In fact, he has left one officially unacknowledged mixed-race member of the Smith-Rhodes family behind him to further embarrass the whole family. Based in [[UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands Sto Kerrig]], he further appalls his [[AmoralAfrikaner countrymen]] by setting up home with Sissie, who claims to be a Zulu Princess. Neither they nor their more liberally minded Sto Kerrigian hosts give a damn about this, but expat [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica White Howondalandians]] have their eyebrows more than raised. In a later fic, his niece discovers a town called ''Smithville'' in a neighbouring [[DarkestAfrica Black Howondalandian]] state. This is where Uncle Baal went immediately after his sentence of exile. Mariella discovers she has two cousins here, with far darker skins and the trademark Smith-Rhodes red hair.
* In the ''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' fic ''Fanfic/ByTheSea'', the merman Cody decides to come clean early and tell his people that he was rescued and nursed back to health by a human, knowing that it would throw all of their preconceptions about humans sideways, and then drops the bombshell that he intends to marry this man and take him as his spouse. Reactions are bemused at best, and one of Cody's enemies tries to have him declared insane [[spoiler:and unfit for rule]] for not killing the human on sight, and when that fails, he sends some thugs after Obi-Wan to try and kill him instead.
* ''Fanfic/ALittleAngelOnMyShoulder'': In "The Sohryus" plotline, after Shinji and Asuka [[AccidentalMarriage got married]] [[GreenEyedMonster Raye]] tried to talk Shinji into getting a divorce saying: "[[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/nge-a-little-angel-on-my-shoulder.175674/page-46#post-5601564 On top of that, think of the children. I mean, what will they look like?” ]]. It did not work.
* Two examples in ''Fanfic/WhatHathJoinedTogether'':
** The noble unicorn Orion had his marriage to his childhood love forbidden [[FantasticCasteSystem due to her being an Earth Pony]], and his pleading to Twilight Sparkle fell on deaf ears. He eventually grew so enraged he attacked her outright [[LoveMartyr to make a point that true love isn't something you can stop]] and awaits his sentencing for assaulting royalty.
** Just at the start of reciprocating an unrequited crush is Princess Twilight and Flash Sentry's relationship, which is again forbidden due to being of different social classes. That being said, Twilight starts investigating whether their caste system is truly justified and [[LoveGoddess Princess Cadance]] isn't enamored with the idea of restricting true love, so there's hope for their romance yet.
* In the final three [[http://www.tbillingsemergencyfanfic.com/storiesbytammy.htm fics]] of Tammy Billingham's ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' series, John Gage faces this. His fiancé/wife's parents let go of their hate eventually, but the tribesmen who already tormented John as a child and adult with HalfBreedDiscrimination due to his being half white won't let up until they nearly kill him and are arrested.
* A great many ''{{WesternAnimation/Zootopia}}'' fics--[[FandomSpecificPlot typically those that romantically pair up Judy and Nick]]--depict relationships between predator and prey species as being harshly discriminated against. Some stories take it a step farther and has any sort of cross-species romance be frowned upon.

* ''Fanfic/FakeVega62a'': Sachiko is Catholic and her {{arranged|Marriage}} husband is Buddhist. This is one of the issues of her marriage that makes her uncomfortable. Her husband [[IncompatibleOrientation being gay]] is another issue.

* ''Fanfic/AChangedWorld'': One of several reasons given for time-displaced Bajorans to dislike Captain Kanril Eleya is her marriage to Commander Reshek Gaarra, who is of a higher caste than herself. Eleya counters that the caste system was abolished while the downtimers were [[YearOutsideHourInside trapped in a black hole's gravity well]], years before she or he were born.
* In the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/SomethingAlwaysRemains'', this is actually one of the catalysts for [[spoiler: all the tragedies at Freddy's]]. In TheSixties, Bonnie Wickes, a part Asian, part Caucasian woman and [[AlternateUniverseFic this universe's]] original owner of Fredbear's Family Diner, married Freddy Wickes, a black man. [[DeliberateValuesDissonance The fallout]] on her side of the family started with their wedding, continued on throughout the construction of the restaurant,[[spoiler: during which Freddy disappeared]], which in turn left Bonnie running the restaurant alone, where she's [[spoiler: left vulnerable with almost no support and [[IfICantHaveYou murdered]] in the [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Spring Bonnie suit]] by an [[VillainousCrush old friend]] after she [[LoveMakesYouEvil rejected his advances]]. He then goes on to become the [[BigBad murderer of the missing children]]]].
* In [[Fanfic/ToUberwaldAndHopefullyBackAgain to Überwald and (hopefully) back again]], Otto von Chriek (vampire) is engaged to Sacharissa Cripslock (human) and William de Worde (human). Otto’s vampiric parents does not approve of the relationship. [[spoiler: There is family history of vampire/human relationships that ended tragically, and they do not want this for their son.]]
* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Ayrwyn's marriage to Petrichor shows that Genasi can marry non-Genasi, but are severely stigmatized for doing so. Haara gets under his skin by suggesting he married his slave only because nobody else would say yes.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'': The driving conflict is Triton's disapproval of his mermaid daughter's fascination with humans. When he learns that she's fallen in love with a human prince, he does not take it well. This appears to be just his view, rather than the common way. [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning A prequel film]] depicts his wife (and Ariel's mother) being killed by pirates.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' has two StarCrossedLovers. One is a white English man, while the other is a Native-American woman. In this, the conflict is less because of their race -- but because the English are invading her people's land. Nonetheless, there is surprise and outrage from both sides when their affair is discovered. [[spoiler:They don't end up together but Pocahontas marries another white English man in the sequel]]. There was some opposition to the 13 year old Pocahontas's real-life marriage with adult John Rolfe by his parents, but not because of race. Not understanding how Native-American chief systems worked, they mistook the young child for royalty (her being TheChiefsDaughter) and were worried about their son marrying so far above his station.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Elemental|2023}}'': Air, Fire, Water, and Earth elements live in Element City where they all live by one simple rule. Elements can't mix. But when Ember, a young fire woman, falls in love with Wade, a water guy, their love is frowned upon by Ember's parents, especially her father.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': Eclipsa Butterfly, Star's distant ancestress, is known as the Queen of Darkness for all the terrible things she did -- most famous being the part where she abandoned her duties and her mewman husband in order to run off with a monster. It eventually became clear that, other than inventing some DarkIsNotEvil spells, that was the ''only'' thing she did "wrong." Eclipsa loved Globgor far more than the UpperClassTwit she was forced to marry, but severe FantasticRacism meant she would never be allowed to be with him openly. [[spoiler:The PowersThatBe were so disgusted with her actions that they got rid of her actual daughter, Meteora, and had a random peasant girl adopted as her supposed daughter with her mewman husband. Then they imprisoned Eclipsa and Globgor in crystal and perpetuated the lie that they were horrible villains.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': In Martian society, [[FantasticCasteSystem inter-caste]] romantic relationships are heavily stigmatized. M'gann's mother J'ann (of the majority G'arrunn caste) was [[IHaveNoDaughter disowned by her family]] (save for her brother [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter J'onn]]) when she married M'aatt M'orzz, an A'ashenn, and the only priest they could find willing to officiate their wedding was elderly and knew he wouldn't have to deal with the social backlash for long before he died. [[InterspeciesRomance M'gann's own impending marriage to Connor Kent]], while happily accepted by her parents, is the subject of varying levels of disapproval from even within her own family. Their officiant, S'yraa S'mitt, is sympathetic to their plight, [[spoiler: because she herself (a G'arrunn before she joined the Y'ellonn priests) had been in a relationship with Prince J'emm (of the ruling B'lahdenn), which was cruelly ended by his father who, despite actively working to end [[FantasticRacism the divisions between the G'arrunn and A'ashenn]], [[{{Hypocrite}} still believed that the B'lahdenn should remain separate and superior]].]]

* ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'' is about the daughter of white San Francisco liberals who brings her Black fiancé to dinner with her parents. Eventually, said fiancé's parents join them, and both sets of parents are forced to come to terms with their prejudices regarding the relationship.
%%* ''Film/LaCageAuxFolles'' was essentially ''Guess Who's Coming To Dinner'' [[AC:[[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace WITH GAYS.]]]]

* ''Film/{{Sayonara}}'' (1957) features an American serviceman falling in love with a Japanese woman. He marries her, but federal laws prevent him from taking her to the United States, and the Air Force has strict regulations against intermarriage. This was probably the first American film to depict racial intermarriage at all, much less depict it sympathetically.

* The whole point of ''Film/LakeviewTerrace''. An interracial couple move in next door to a racist cop, who proceeds to terrorize them and try to drive them out of the neighborhood. Unusually, for this trope, the cop is black, and resents the couple because his wife [[spoiler: cheated on him with her white boss and died in a car accident trying to get to her boss' house]].
* It's the reason behind the Vampire/Lycan war in the ''Film/Underworld2003'' series. Lucian, a Lycan, falls in love with and secretly weds Sonja, who happens to be the daughter of a Vampire Elder. [[spoiler: Said Elder has Sonja (and her and Lucian's unborn child) put to death, Lucian swears revenge]], and it's all downhill from there.
* In ''Film/{{Chocolate}}'' the main character is the product of one of these between a Japanese yakuza and an enforcer in the Thai mob. They eventually part ways in order to avoid their enemies, even though they still love one another.
* ''Film/SomethingNew'' has a successful black businesswoman falling in love with a white landscaper and her parents not exactly approving as they'd prefer her to be with someone of her own race (and class.)
* ''Film/TheRoyalTenenbaums'' has Creator/AnjelicaHuston and Creator/DannyGlover's characters get married, and again the mixed-race thing isn't a big deal. Except on the part of Royal himself, though he may have just been upset about her (re)marrying ANYONE and simply been playing up the race angle in order to offend and provoke Glover's character.
* The short mockumentary ''Film/WhiteFace'' is premised on the idea that performers who appear to be wearing white greasepaint (clowns, etc.) are ''not'' wearing makeup; that's a racial trait, and they suffer FantasticRacism for it. In the film, various "Clown-Americans" are interviewed, including a Vietnam War veteran, a college professor, and a recent immigrant (who communicates in his "native language" with a bicycle horn). There's also a [[RacistGrandma Racist Clown Grandma]] who is upset that her grandchild is about to marry.... [[EveryoneHatesMimes a mime]].
* In the movie version of ''Music/TheWall'', Pinks's Hammer army attacks a mixed-race couple, viciously beats the black man, and rapes the white woman. This goes very well with the Nazi-esque themes that appeared in the previous song ("In The Flesh").
* This is subverted in ''Film/TheFeastOfAllSaints'' (movie and book) as ''placage'' (an "official" relationship between a white man and a free woman of color in antebellum New Orleans whereby he was required to take care of her and any children in exchange for sex) was fully supported while marriages between people of color of different stations were seriously frowned on.
* Hinted at in ''Film/TheSixthSense'', when Cole sees three hanged ghosts: a black man, a white woman, and a child who is clearly meant to be their own.
* ''Film/Hairspray1988'' and [[Film/{{Hairspray|2007}} its 2007 remake]] sort of emulate this trope between Penny and Seaweed, except they're dating, not married. Penny's mother is a racist who shows disgust at her inter-racial relationship, and it is mentioned that they'll have a lot of animosity from the residents of bigoted Baltimore, but don't care.
* ''Film/Zebrahead1992'' is about a white high school boy and a black girl controversially dating.
* ''Film/AliFearEatsTheSoul'': Emmi, a German cleaning lady in her sixties, meets, falls in love with, and marries Ali, an African immigrant half her age. 1974 Germany is then revealed to be super-racist. Upon receiving the news, Emmi's three children disown her, one going so far as to kick the screen to her TV in a fit of rage. Her neighbors mock her, her coworkers shun her, the corner grocer deliberately humiliates Ali, and the staff at a bistro simply stand and stare at the couple while they try to have lunch.

* ''Film/DragonTheBruceLeeStory'', as a tribute to Creator/BruceLee, shows how Bruce and Linda's dating/marriage wasn't well-received by their families, and especially by Linda's mother who even [[YellowPeril refers to their prospect kids as "yellow babies"]]. [[spoiler: Mrs. Cadwell relents later when Brandon's born, though not before Linda [[CallingTheOldManOut bitterly throws the "yellow baby" spiel back to her face]].]]
* ''Film/SaveTheLastDance'': It's played with in the relationship between the white Sara (Creator/JuliaStiles) and black Derek (Creator/SeanPatrickThomas). Sara's dad gives some meaningfully unpleasant looks but otherwise doesn't really try to counter it. Derek's AlphaBitch ex-girlfriend Nikki meanwhile sharply disapproves because she thinks white girls are responsible for "stealing" the few decent black men around (as Derek is a good student who stays out of criminal activities).
* The French exploitation film from the '60s titled ''Film/MyBabyIsBlack'' The title says it all.
* In ''Film/{{Hancock}}'', it's implied that the majority of troubles that have plagued Hancock and [[spoiler: Mary]]'s relationship is because of their races.
* In Disney's ''Film/TheHauntedMansion2003'', the owner of the titular mansion was going to marry a black woman, who died before their wedding. It turns out she was murdered by the disapproving butler.
%%* ''Film/DanceMeOutside'' has the main character's sister and her white lawyer husband.
* The Chinese protagonist of ''Film/TheTollOfTheSea'', an adaptation of the opera ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'', is constantly bothered by her peers telling her marrying an American isn't a good idea, that he will leave her in the end. Lotus Blossom ignores them. [[spoiler: Her husband does leave her for a woman back in America, though he didn't know Lotus had a son with him.]]
* ''Film/FreeStateOfJones'': Newt's relationship with Rachel, though technically they were never married. Plus their great-great grandson's, which results directly from the above as he qualifies as "colored" under Mississippi state law, thus barring him from marrying a white woman legally.
* ''Film/{{Loving}}'', which is BasedOnATrueStory, specifically the ''Loving V. Virginia'' case whose ruling legalized interracial marriage across the United States, after Mr. and Mrs. Loving sued the state of Virginia to recognize their marriage, and drop the unlawful cohabitation charges against them. [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding They did not live happily ever after, soon after the ruling, Mr. Loving died in a car accident.]]]]
* ''Film/AUnitedKingdom'', based on the RealLife love story of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seretse_Khama Sir Seretse Khama]](the Prince of Bechuanaland (now Botswana)) and his wife, Londoner Ruth Williams Khama, a relationship is was not approved of by either of their families, nor by the British and South African governments, leading them to be exiled by both.
* ''Film/{{Sweetwater}}'': Josiah denounces Sarah's marriage with Miguel, a mestizo Mexican man, saying his rape of her "cleanses" this sin.
* ''Film/{{Volhynia}}'': The Poles murder Vasyl and Helena for being in a mixed marriage, along with their child.
* ''Film/JungleFever'': The relationship between Flipper and Angie is condemned by Flipper's father, along with his friends, while ''her'' father beats her after finding out about it and throws her out of his house. At least in Flipper's case though it's partly due to it being adultery.
* ''Film/KeepingTheFaith'' is about the romance between a Rabbi and a non-Jewish woman and the uproar that this causes among the rabbi's Jewish congregation.
* The 1995 Indian movie ''Film/{{Bombay}}'' tells the story of a Hindu man and his Muslim wife not only facing scrutiny from their respective families but also trying to survive during the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_riots Bombay riots]].
* ''Film/BridgeToTheSun'', a BasedOnATrueStory tale of a white American woman who marries a Japanese diplomat--right before World War II.
* ''Film/TheWorldOfSuzieWong'' is about a relationship between a white American artist and a Hong Kong prostitute. Early in the film while at a dinner with English expats, the host talks about a sister of his who married a Chinese man. Although it makes him appear quite liberal, his daughter reveals the story is made up and he later blackmails the artist when he dates the titular Suzie over his own daughter -- stating that it'll be hard for him to get a good job if he's married to a Chinese woman.
* ''Film/CrazyRichAsians'' is unique in that both partners are of the same race -- [[CaptainObvious they're both Chinese]] -- but [[UptownGirl drastically different classes]]. Rachel is second-generation Chinese-American and the working class daughter of a single mother (but she herself has achieved middle-class status through her job as a college professor). Nick however is Singaporean-Chinese from an insanely wealthy old money family, and his mother disapproves of Rachel for not having enough traditional Chinese values. It's also revealed that the mother herself was in the same position-- and she still hasn't won her mother-in-law's full respect.
* ''Film/StarTrek2009'': Spock's parents, to the point even completely logical Vulcan adults (and children) are incredibly racist towards him and his parents. Spock also had some issues in [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original series]], but Amanda seems to have been fully accepted, even becoming an initiate of Vulcan's ancient mystical discipline. Illogical but understandable-a human choosing to live according to Vulcan ways is a compliment, a Vulcan who isn't quite on the other hand is kind of creepy.
* The backstory of the eponymous evil spirit in ''Film/{{Candyman}}'' is that he was a wealthy black man who dated a young white woman whose father hired him to paint her portrait, and wound up brutally lynched when the father found out.
* ''{{Film/Savaged}}'': The rednecks are ''very'' disapproving of Zoe, who's white, being with Dane, her black fiancé. After they meet him, some cruelly joke that she must be colorblind.
* ''Film/WhereHandsTouch'': Leyna's parents' relationship was despised by many people. Her own relationship with Lutz has to be kept secret as a result of this-and worse, that it's a capital crime under the Nazi laws.
* The Spanish movie ''Palmeras en la nieve'' ("Palm Trees in the Snow"), has an old man telling his daughters about their unknown brothers. Through {{flashback}}s he reveals that he was an overseer in his father's cacao plantation in Equatorial Guinea while it was still a Spanish colony when he fell in love with a local woman who worked as a picker. Unfortunately, all of this happened in the years leading to Equatorial Guinea's independence, and she has to go into hiding. When she goes back to the plantation, she has born him a son, and he even sees her older son, fathered by another man, almost as his own. When Equatorial Guinea gains its independence, Spanish nationals are forcibly expelled, when he tries to take her with him aboard the ship bound for Spain, the soldiers guarding the dock force him to board but say she and the children must stay. When he says she's his wife, they threaten to open fire if he doesn't board by himself. After the massacre at the port, they manage to escape, they stay together for a few years before she encourages him to go back to Spain. Years later, after she died, her sons finally make the trip to reunite with their father.

* Queenie and Jacob from ''Film/FantasticBeasts '' can't get married because it's illegal for wizards to marry {{Muggles}} (or No-Majs as they call them) in America. Her sister Tina only disapproves because it's illegal, she doesn't care that he's a No-Maj. Grindelwald actually uses this to lure Queenie to his side in the climax of the second film as he says if he takes over and tears down the International Statute of Secrecy, the two of them will be free to be together.
* ''Film/JustMercy'': The black characters widely believe that [=McMillian=] first attracted police hostility by having an affair with a white woman. In real life, one of his sons was also married to a white woman, compounding this.

* ''Film/Aquaman2018'': [[ApparentlyHumanMerfolk Atlanteans]] mostly dislike Atlanna having had a relationship with a human, Thomas.
* ''Film/AaronLovesAngela'': Surprisingly, the racial differences between black Aaron and Puerto Rican Angela barely factor into the plot, except for one scene. When Angela kisses Aaron outside her building, two of her neighbors chase him and try to beat him up, because "We don't like no outsiders fuckin' with our women, man!"
* The Biopic ''Film/{{Barry}}'' about UsefulNotes/BarackObama's time in college at NYC features Barry dating the white Charlotte, an amalgamation of the three white women he's known to have dated in college. The reality of it is shown with a lot of complexity, with her family trying to be accepting, but coming off as [[InnocentBigot clueless and insensitive]], strangers (both black and white) staring, but not directing confronting them, and Obama's own insecurity about his identity ultimately causing the relationship to break down.
* In ''Film/TheAngelLevine'', the Jewish Morris has disowned his daughter Ruth for marrying an Italian.
* ''Film/WomenIsLosers'': Minerva and Calvin sympathize with Celina's struggles as a Latina single mom, due to being an interracial couple (she's white, he's black), and help her out, saying they've experienced discrimination too as a result.
* ''Film/WeddingSeason'': One of the weddings Ravi and Asha attend is an interfaith Hindu-Muslim one, and it's mentioned that their parents were so against it they didn't even show up.
* ''Film/Amsterdam2022'': It's made clear that Valeria and Harold can't live openly together in 1933 America, as a result of her being white while he's black. The two depart for Europe to find a more tolerant place at the end.
* ''Film/TheInvitation2022'': It's strongly implied that a large part of the scandal Emmaline Alexander had caused by running away with a footman occurred because he was black while she was white. Later the butler Mr. Field comments negatively on this, although without explicitly mentioning race, as does Viktoria as well.
* ''Film/BonesAndAll'': Maren's white maternal grandmother in the film says she and her grandfather shunned their daughter, her mother, for marrying her father. It's not stated, but pretty obviously a result of his race, as he's black.
* ''Film/HigherLearning'': The Neo-Nazis beat up a black guy for dating a white girl on campus, warning her to not do this again.
* ''Film/BornInTheMaelstrom'': Rebecca is stopped from dancing with a white boy she likes. It's not about her being biracial explicitly, though the fact members of her community [[HalfBreedDiscrimination don't like her heritage]] implies this.
* ''Film/FlamingStar'': Sam, who's white, married a second time to Neddy, a Kiowa. Their neighbors grow hostile towards them once the Kiowas start attacking, thinking they are somehow in on it. Neddy also gets insulted and nearly raped by two white travelers once she reveals to them she has a white husband.
* ''Film/{{Tevya}}'' has a rare example of this trope in which, as far as the work is concerned, the mixed marriage ''should'' be maligned. Tevye [[IHaveNoSon writes his daughter off as dead]] after she converts to Christianity to marry Fedye. Although Fedye sincerely loves his wife and respects her family, the rest of Khave's in-laws seem to regard her as a slave, and Fedye's father leads the effort to kick Tevye out of town. At the end Khave leaves her husband, goes back to her father, and reclaims her identity as a Jew. This AdaptationDeviation may have something to do with [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the political climate in 1939]].
* ''Film/NinasHeavenlyDelights'': Kary fears his mom's will hate him for marrying a white Scottish woman, Janice, and keeps it secret for some time. After he finally comes clean however, she's surprised but accepting and sees how much they love each other.
* ''Film/TheException'': It's unstated, but Brandt clearly knows that he and Mieke can never openly be together under Nazi rule, given he's an "Aryan" while she's Jewish. He carries on their affair anyway however (indeed, the Nazis made sex between "Aryans" and Jews a crime punishable by death, called "race defilement"). [[spoiler:The ending implies they may manage to end up happily together with their baby after the war's end, though it's uncertain.]]
* ''Film/KillersOfTheFlowerMoon'': Mollie's mother Lizzie Q mourns the Osage bloodlines being diluted by her daughters' white husbands. On the flipside, Mollie's in-laws [[HalfBreedDiscrimination coo that their grandson is white-passing, unlike his more visibly mixed sister]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': Cats and turtles don't mix. That doesn't prevent Filburt and Dr. Hutchison from marrying. It turns out [[spoiler:Hutchison's father is a turtle]], giving her mom a FreudianExcuse.
* Paul and Jean Baptise from ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' The two are a very loving and devoted couple despite the fact that Paul is a black gangbanger and Jean Baptise is a former white supremacist. The episode "Gay Wedding" chronicles their rocky but ultimately successful attempt to get married. It should be noted that they are two of the handful of characters to ''survive'' every episode.
* Nate Griffin (Peter's black slave ancestor) and Lois-Laura Bush-Lynne Cheney-Pewterschmidt (the daughter of Nate's owners) on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. They end up having three biracial babies that look like Chris, Meg, and Stewie. [[spoiler:Ironically, Peter would not be related to him at all, despite looking like him, since one episode reveals Francis Griffin was his stepfather.]]
-->'''Carter:''' Lois, how, in God's name, could you embarrass the family like this?\\
'''Stewie:''' Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! [[ImStandingRightHere Sitting right here.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': Eclipsa Butterfly, Star's distant ancestress, is known as the Queen of Darkness for all the terrible things she did--most famous being the part where she abandoned her duties and her mewman husband in order to run off with a monster. It eventually became clear that, other than inventing some DarkIsNotEvil spells, that was the ''only'' thing she did "wrong." Eclipsa loved Globgor far more than the UpperClassTwit she was forced to marry, but severe FantasticRacism meant she would never be allowed to be with him openly. [[spoiler:The PowersThatBe were so disgusted with her actions that they got rid of her actual daughter, Meteora, and had a random peasant girl adopted as her supposed daughter with her mewman husband. Then they imprisoned Eclipsa and Globgor in crystal and perpetuated the lie that they were horrible villains.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', Marinette's father is a white Frenchman and her mother is Chinese. This is never directly addressed, but is implied to be the reason why her paternal grandfather had cut off all communication before Marinette was born. (His official reason was that he'd [[RuleOfSymbolism "corrupted" their family's traditional bread recipe by adding a foreign ingredient, rice]]).
* This is averted for the most part in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' due to things like racism, sexism, and homophobia being foreign concepts on the Boiling Isles, [[spoiler:with even a HateSink like Odalia not caring in the slightest that her daughter's new girlfriend is a human (she's only bothered by the fact that Luz is a "[[HeroWithBadPublicity criminal]]").]] However, there is one major exception. [[spoiler:Roughly 400 years prior to the start of the series, the WitchHunter Philip Wittebane discovered that his older brother Caleb had fallen in love with a witch. In his anger, he attacked the couple and murdered his brother with a knife. Pretty much every horrible thing that happened in the series after that point can be directly traced back to [[NeverMyFault Philip being unable to accept the guilt of killing his brother and trying to enact genocide on the witches for "corrupting" him]].]]

'''Kamala:''' ''[holding up her hands)'' Let's definitely ''not'' admit what this is really about!