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-> ''"My mother's Puerto Rican, my father's Negro, and we lived in a big Jewish tenement building — in an Italian neighborhood. So every time I went outside, they'd yell, 'Get him! He's all of them!'"''
-->-- '''Creator/RichardPryor'''

Maybe you are the child of that army guy who married TheChiefsDaughter. Or perhaps dear mum left home and joined dad on his ancestral family homestead back in rural Smalltownington. (This of course is assuming both your parents [[ParentalAbandonment are alive]] and love each other. StarCrossedLovers have a tendency to have it rough.) Or you might be the product of [[ChildByRape less than consensual sex]]. [[Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs Or perhaps two people from different parts of the world (or, sometimes in fiction, different species) happened to meet in the course of day-to-day life, fell in love while spending time together, married and decided to start a family]]. And then you were born.

To describe story elements, this trope encapsulates both mixed ancestry in the sense of ethnicity (real-life and fictional ones) and mixed ancestry with human and/or non-human beings (for example, a half-human half-elf) despite the difference between the two.

Please note that in RealLife, the term "half-breed" is a highly offensive slur. Also note that while being of mixed ancestry is sometimes depicted as either a good or a bad thing in [[SpeculativeFiction speculative fiction settings]], there's no such questions in the case of real-life ethnicity.

Subtrope of LiminalBeing. ChildOfTwoWorlds, ExtraParentConception, LineageComesFromTheFather, and SemiDivine sometimes make use of this trope. See also {{Nephilim}}, an obscure [[Literature/TheBible Biblical]] race that are sometimes described as the hybrid offspring of angels and humans.

Compare CulturalPersonalityMakeover.

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!!Examples (not covered in the sub tropes):
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* In ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer'' Injun Joe is a "half-breed" and evil. In spite of his very progressive views on racism and imperialism, Creator/MarkTwain's early writings on American Indians were usually very critical.
* ''Literature/TheAliceNetwork'': Eve is half French and half English. This, along with growing up near the border of Germany in France, means she speaks French, English and German fluently. It comes in handy as a spy.
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' has some odd examples, since {{Shapeshifting}} is a major part of the series: for example, [[spoiler:Tobias]] had an Andalite father, but was born totally human. Similarly the Hamee family are Hork-Bajir descended from a {{Shapeshifter Mode Lock}}ed Andalite, Aldrea.
** The Ellimist had children while living among the Andalites in a genetically engineered body millions of years ago, so a great deal, if not the entirety, of modern Andalites should be his descendants. Which means [[spoiler:Tobias]] and the Hamee family are his descendants, too. And indeed, it is implied the modern Andalites inherit their built-in TranslatorMicrobes (i.e. "thought-speak") from his artificial body. The primitive Andalites he lived amongst had only sign language.
* ''Literature/AnnalsOfTheWesternShore''
** In ''Gifts'', Orrec is the son of an Uplands brantor and his wife from the lowlands, who still experiences some culture shock from all the "witchcraft." [[spoiler:It's why Orrec has ''no'' gift at all, resulting in his father faking that he does.]]
** Memer of ''Voices'' is one of many "siege brats" resulting from the [[ChildByRape rape of Ansul women by Ald soldiers]]. She's subject to some HalfBreedDiscrimination over this.
* ''Literature/Area51'': Turcotte is French-Canadian and Native American, or "Canuck Indian" as he puts it, from Maine near the border with Canada.
* ''The Barrakee Mystery'' has several characters with mixed ancestry (mostly white/Aboriginal, but there's also a minor character who's noted to have a touch of Chinese ancestry which he's touchy about), and attitudes towards these characters are central to the plot. One of the characters, the half-caste detective Literature/{{Bony}}, went on to star in 28 more novels.
* Rehv, from the ''Literature/BlackDaggerBrotherhood'' series, is half-vampire and half-sympath.
* The eponymous villain in ''Literature/{{Brokenclaw}}'' is half Chinese and half Native American, which gives him what is described as striking and charismatic features.
* ''Literature/TheBoundless'': Mr. Dorian is a Metis, people who are descended from Native Americans and French settlers.
* In ''Literature/ADiscoveryOfWitches'' Diana's paternal grandmother was human, and either she or Matthew had demon ancestry. Her children are a mixture of all three creatures and human. Matthew's son Benjamin, a vampire, impregnated a witch and their descendants have been long-living witches. Sophie, a demon born of witches, and Nathaniel, a demon son of a demon mother and presumably human father, have a witch daughter.
** In the TV series, Nathaniel is black and Sophie is white. And in Time's Convert it is revealed that Phoebe Taylor has mixed British and Indian ancestry.
* It's suggested (but not confirmed) in ''The Literature/{{Discworld}} Companion'' that the Ogg family might have a bit of dwarf in them (they live in a country known for dwarf mines, tend to be skilled at magic or metalwork, and are sometimes rather short). However ''Literature/RaisingSteam'' suggests that dwarf/human crossbreeding is uncommon (in the context of a mixed marriage that will probably have to adopt).
* ''Literature/DivineBloodNovels'':
** In ''Smoke Over Grimsvotn'', the Demoness of Smoke, Lilitu Geisthexe is strongly implied to be the daughter of the Goddess Urd Jotundottir. Urd herself refers to the Queen of the Demons as Mother, making Lilitu 3/4ths Demon biologically.
** More central to the plot of the actual novel, the children of Mao Semezou are Demi-Gods.
* In ''Literature/{{Dogsbody}}'', the dog star Sirius is is cast down to Earth in the form of a Labrador-{{Hellhound}} mix.
* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'': Due to people not realizing in-universe that sexual intercourse causes reproduction, most of the characters listed as siring children here aren't recognized as such. However, people still usually do realize mixed ancestry exists, they're just unaware of how it really does (thinking that it's a result of spirits mixing) but the Clan don't and think children with Cro-Magnon ancestry were simply deformed.
** Ayla's son Durc is the product of [[ChildByRape her rape]] by Broud. She's a Cro-Magnon (Other), he's a Neanderthal (Clan). Many other people of this lineage also appear in the series later, some conceived by rape, but others not from what they can infer.
** Ranec was born to his white father, a Mamutoi (from what's now Ukraine) and a black Aterian woman (in northern Africa). He's also fathered a number of children with white Mamutoi women who also count.
** Joplaya, the child of Jerika (who's East Asian) and Dalanar (a white man from what's now France).
* In ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'', Vikings have a tendency to raid other lands for women, resulting in the number of BlackVikings the protagonists see (as well as Asian ones, Amerindian ones, etc.). The Amazons apparently do the same thing with men; their queen, for example, seems to be a [[HeinzHybrid hodgepodge of everything]].
* The Ysabel Kid, from ''The Floating Outfit'' novels of Creator/JTEdson, is half Kentucky Irish, a quarter Commanche, and a quarter French-Canadian.
* In ''Literature/TheGoblinEmperor'', Maia, the titular character is actually half goblin, half elf. His mother had been forced into a loveless political marriage with the elven emperor. Of course, to the elves the fact that he is part goblin is more relevant than his elven half.
* Nathan from ''Literature/TheHalfLifeTrilogy'' is half white witch and half black witch.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** A major theme is FantasticRacism based on how much wizard ancestry one has. However, it's stated at one point that "half-bloods" actually make up a large percent of the population, including the series's four most prominent characters: [[TheProtagonist Harry]], [[AmbiguouslyEvil Snape]], [[BigBad Voldemort]] and [[EccentricMentor Dumbledore]]. Generally it's the Muggle-borns who, according to WordOfGod, are very distant descendants of [[MuggleBornOfMages Squibs]] that [[HalfBreedDiscrimination get persecuted]].
** There's generally three kinds of halfbloods: characters who are products of a muggleborn/pureblood marriage (ex: Harry, Dumbledore and his siblings, and Tonks), characters whose parents [[MuggleMageRomance are a muggle and a wizard]] (ex: Seamus Finnigan, Snape, and Voldemort), and characters whose parents are both wizards but have recent muggle ancestry (ex: Harry's three kids and godson Teddy Lupin).
** There's also some HalfHumanHybrid examples: WordOfGod says that Professor Flitwick has some distant goblin ancestry (explaining his extreme shortness), while the books eventually reveal that [[spoiler:Hagrid]] and [[spoiler:Madame Maxime]] are half-giant.
* Dee Moreno, the central character of ''Literature/TheHeartsWeSold'', is half-Latina, half-white. She's apparently white-passing; another character comments that she didn't realize Dee was Latina until she saw it marked on a form.
* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': Honor has white and East Asian parents. This is stated to be the norm in future human society, with Honor actually being ''less'' mixed than most humans on average.
* Terry Brooks's ''Literature/MagicKingdomOfLandover'' series has Willow, born of two different kinds of faerie, whose status complicates both her relationship to Ben Holiday, and later their child's gestation and birth -- as the child of a wood nymph, she has to spend part of the time as a tree.
* In Ian Fleming's ''Literature/JamesBond'' novels, the titular character's father is British (Scottish, to be precise) and his mother Swiss.
* Oliza in Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' ''Literature/KieshaRa'' series is a half-snake shapeshifter, half-hawk shapeshifter. She has the forms of both a hawk, a cobra, and a combined form referred to as a wyvern. Her cousin, [[spoiler: Hai]], is half-falcon and half-cobra and suffers from unstable magic that allows her to see several possible timelines (making her a WaifProphet) but leaving her starkly out of touch with reality. Oliza and [[spoiler: Hai]] are also both example of AllGenesAreCodominant.
* Martin Fierro, the central character of ''Literature/MartinFierro'': Martín Fierro is a {{Gaucho}}, meaning that he was part of the peasant population in Argentina, who is mostly ''mestiza'' (White and UsefulNotes/NativeAmerican ancestry). Even they call the women chinas, probably by the "Indian" eyes. The relevance of this fact is that Fierro story is one of a survivor of the FinalSolution from his government.
* Technically anyone of note in both ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'' and ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices''. Shadowhunters are half-angel half-human, Warlocks are half-demon half-human, Faeries are half-angel half-demon, etc etc.
* In ''Literature/{{Overenskommelser}}'' by Creator/SimonaAhrnstedt, Beatrice Löwenström had a Swedish father and a French mother. [[spoiler: And hers and Seth's kids will be 1/2 Norwegian, 1/4 Swedish and 1/4 French.]]
* ''Literature/ThePower'': Allie is mixed race, but it's only mentioned a couple times. We never learn what her exact background is, although she's described as having dark skin.
* In ''Literature/RaceToTheSun'', Nihzoni's OnlyFriend Davery is Navajo on his father's side and African-American on his mother's side.
* In ''Literature/{{Remnants}}'', [[TokenEvilTeammate Yago]] is the son of the first African-American female president and her white husband. His skin tone is noted to be a perfect bronze color; since he's known to have had a lot of plastic surgery, [[BornInTheWrongCentury Violet]] wonders at one point if it's natural.
* Halfway through ''Literature/TheRiseOfKyoshi,'' it's revealed that Kyoshi's mother was an Airbender. This shocks her friend Rangi; though Kyoshi had long avoided saying anything about her parents, she actually didn't consider ''this'' detail to really be a secret. Really, Rangi is more shocked that an Airbender [[spoiler:would become a bandit leader]].
* ''Literature/SantaOlivia'': Loup has a Latina mother and Black father (who was also a [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke GMO]]). Her older half-brother had a White father.
* Laura from ''Literature/{{Sarny}}'' is a rich multiracial, one-eight black, woman living in America right when slavery is being abolished. She passes herself off as White however the newly freed protagonist learns about her heritage when a part of her curly hair pokes out. Sarny is the only one who knows her secret.
* There are a few examples of hybrids in Terry Brooks's ''Literature/{{Shannara}}'' books (the Urda, for example, are Troll/Gnome hybrids). Justified, in one sense, by the fact that dwarves, gnomes, and trolls are simply different subspecies of human mutated by the apocalypse. Less explicable is how humans can interbreed with elves, who are just fae ''evolved'' into humanoids...
* ''Literature/TheSilerianTrilogy'':
** Ronall is the son of a Valdan man and Silerian woman.
** Mirabar's daughter with Baran. She is a Guardian (fire magic user) and he's a waterlord (water magic user), while their daughter will have the ability to use both as a result. This is significant as the two groups have been deadly enemies for many centuries.
* A number of characters in Creator/JRRTolkien's [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium Middle-earth writings]] (like ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' and ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'') are of multi-species descent: the most notable are Lúthien (half Elf, half [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Maia]]), her son Dior (half Human, 1/4 Elf, 1/4 Maia), Eärendil (half Elf, half Human) and their various HeinzHybrid descendants (Elwing, Elros, Elrond, Aragorn, etc.). All seem to be well loved and respected by both sides of their respective families.
* This is very common in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': [[WordOfGod GRRM]] has stated that very few families, if any, in Westeros are 100% First Man or 100% Andal due to 6,000 years of coexistence and intermingling.
** The most prominent are the children of Eddard and Catelyn Stark. The Starks are First Men and so are the Tullys (Catelyn's House), but the Tullys are Southroners and totally assimilated into Andal culture and have some known Andal ancestry. Their kids are considered to be thoroughly Northern and the only notable Southron practice they keep is worshiping the Seven (along with the Old Gods). However most of them resemble Catelyn, and only Arya looks Stark.
** Any Targaryen who breeds outside [[IncestIsRelative their family]] will have children who are this, with children who display only some distinctively Valyrian features. Dany named her unborn son Rhaego to reflect his Valyrian and Dothraki heritage. In a vision, she sees him as a Dothraki child with silver hair.
** Most Dornish people are a mixture of Andal and Rhoynar. The Rhoynar were Essosi refugees who settled in Dorne and married with the Andals, which created a hybrid culture. The few full Rhoynar who remain kept their language and customs and live along the Greenblood River in southern Dorne, or have returned to the Rhoyne. The narration notes that there are three general categories of Dornishman, distinguished by their distance from the coast and the amount of Rhoynish heritage in their blood.
** Brown Ben Plumm claims to have Braavosi, Summer Islander, Ibbenese, Qohorik, Dornish, Dothraki, and Westerosi blood in him as well as a drop of Valyrian.
* ''Literature/TalionRevenant'': Countess Jamila is of half-Stelosian (a black African counterpart) and Hamisian ancestry (a European counterpart). She and her Hamisian husband also have a son, who's thus another example.
* ''Literature/TellMeHowYouReallyFeel'': Sana, who's Iranian/Indian by ancestry, has cousins who all have a white mother (two are blonde), her aunt by marriage to her mom's brother.
* ''Literature/TheTeresaKnightTrilogy'': Numerous mixed race people appear, always of Black and White descent.
* ''Literature/ThereThere'': Thomas, who grapples with his mother being white and his father being "one thousand percent Indian".
* ''Literature/TortallUniverse'': Dove and Sarai in the ''Literature/TrickstersDuet'' are half-raka and half-luarin (the latter being the conquerors of the Copper Isles). They were the product of a happy marriage but they're subject to a lot of snide and flagrant discrimination outside the family. It also makes them subjects of TheProphecy, which stipulates that the rightful queen will be descended from both the raka and luarin royal lines.
* In Creator/GrahamMcNeill's ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' ''Literature/{{Ultramarines}}'' novel ''Black Sun Dead Sky'', Honsou is termed a half-breed. In ''Storm of Iron'', it is revealed that this is because he has gene-seed stolen from Imperial sources as well as the Chaos ones; the Warmaster exploits this to develop [[DividedWeFall rivalries]]. Honsou's gene-seed isn't just from an Imperial source - it's from the Imperial Fists, the Iron Warriors' [[ArchEnemy arch-enemies]]. As a result, calling him "half-breed" remains his BerserkButton for quite some time.
* Plenty of characters in ''Literature/WarriorCats'' have been descended from cats that came from the mountains. After that, they split apart...though inter-Clan relationships can make this trope happen. Examples are Windflight, Lionblaze, Flametail, and Mistystar.
* The Ewu in ''Literature/WhoFearsDeath'', being born from the union of Okeke and Nuru people. Looking surprisingly like neither tribe, the Ewu have sand-colored skin and hair, with light eyes, like albino Africans.
* ''Literature/WonderWomanWarbringer'': Alia and Jason are children of the white Greek Nik Keralis and his black American wife Lina Mayeux.
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* ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'': Isabelle is biracial, having a Black father (Richard) and a White mother (Lily) by a {{mystical pregnancy}}.
* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': Daisy Johnson is the daughter of a Chinese (and Inhuman) mother and a white father, and is portrayed by Creator/ChloeBennet, who has the same ancestry (except for the Inhuman part, of course).
* ''Series/AlmostFamily'': Edie is biracial, having a Black mother and White father. Her mother is also indicated to have mixed race ancestry, since she's even lighter than Edie.
* ''Series/TheBabySittersClub2020'': Mary Anne's mixed race, with a white father and black mother.
* ''Series/TheBarrier'': The epilogue features the child of a pair made out of one of the few black characters and another member of the otherwise mostly-white cast.
* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': Bill Adama is half-Caprican, half-Tauron. Lee Adama is correspondingly a quarter Tauron.
* ''Series/BeautyAndTheBeast2012'': Catherine and Heather's mother was Asian-American, while their father is white [[spoiler: though Catherine's biological father turns out to be someone different than she thought]], reflecting Creator/KristinKreuk's [[ActorSharedBackground actual ancestry]].
* ''Series/BetterThings'': Dorman's father is White while his mother's of East Asian descent.
* ''Series/{{Blindspotting}}'':
** Sean, the son of Miles (who's White) and Ashley (who looks to be mixed race of Black and White descent).
** Trish, Miles's half-sister, is clearly Black on her dad's side (possibly Afro-Latina, since she refers to herself as Sean's tia).
** Janelle's mother Nancy fits as well, since Trish mentions that she has a white grandmother.
** Their status as mixed-race people is a subject for discussion in episode 6, since it makes Nancy, Earl, and Janelle wonder if the "black experience" has been different for them because of it.
* ''Series/{{Bonekickers}}'': Vic it turns out is half white, having a white mother ([[spoiler:shared with Magwilde]]) and black father.
* Angela on ''Series/{{Bones}}'' is half Caucasian and half Chinese. Her husband is white and they have a son together, another example.
* ''Series/BurdenOfTruth'':
** Joanna is half Caucasian and half Chinese-Canadian.
** Luna is half Indigenous Canadian and half Caucasian.
** Kodie's younger daughter, True, is half Indigenous and half Caucasian too.
** Joanna's daughter with Billy, her Caucasian partner (in both the business and romantic senses) is another example.
* ''Series/CarnivalRow'': Sophie's father is Burgish (like English people) and her mother was Pharoanic (similar to Egyptians).
* In ''Series/Charmed1998'', Paige is a half-witch, half-whitelighter. She gains whitelighter powers such as orbing and healing without having to actually die, though she has to learn how to use them while whitelighters know them automatically. Wyatt and Chris are also the same though stronger because their mother is a Charmed One.
* ''Series/Charmed2018'':
** All three of the sisters have this, though in different ways. They share a Latina mother, while Maggie and Macy have a black father. Maggie wasn't aware of this for most of her life, and has to adjust with whether she's black, or should identify that way.
** Jada is the child of a whitelighter and witch. As a result she was shunned, and rejected the Elders for it.
* ''Series/{{Community}}'': Abed Nadir is the son of a Palestinian father and a Polish mother. Annie's mother is Jewish and her father is a gentile.
* ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'': Heather has a white mother and black father.
* ''Series/CrossingLines'': Arabela Seeger is the child of a Dutchwoman and Nigerian man. The killer (a Russian) in the series finale also has a daughter with her deceased husband, an Angolan.
* ''Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeofResistance'': Kylan's mother was from the Spriton clan and his father was from the Stonewood.
* ''Series/DashAndLily'': Lily and her brother Langston have a Japanese mother and a white father.
* ''Series/DearWhitePeople'': Sam openly mentions she's biracial to her friends, something which she never does in the film.
* ''Series/{{Defiance}}'': Although not highlighted in the show, it's revealed that the [=McCawley=] children's mom (who's still alive, contrary to what they believed) is white (played by Linda Hamilton), while their father Rafe is Native American. Given that her first name is Pilar, it's possible she's a white Latina. The three children are played by a Latina and two indigenous actors, but their appearance makes this plausible.
* John Gage on ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' is half white/half Native American, [[ActorSharedBackground like his actor Randolph Mantooth]].
* ''Series/{{Euphoria}}'': Rue and Gia are biracial. Their dad is white and their mom is black.
* ''Series/FeelGood'': Laura, Sophie's daughter (who's Caucasian), was pretty clearly sired by a man of South Asian heritage given her appearance.
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': Nora's biracial, with a White father and Black mother.
* Prominent in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', which centers on the melding of three major ethnic groups: the First Men, the Andals and the Valyrians:
** [[spoiler:Jon Snow is revealed as the legitimate son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, making him more or less half-Valyrian, half-First Man.]]
** The Stark children are half-Andal and half-First Man, as Catelyn Stark comes from a largely Andal family and Ned Stark comes from one of the oldest First Man families.
* ''Series/GossipGirl2021'':
** Julien has a White dad, and her mom was Black.
** Aki has a White dad, while his mom's got East Asian ancestry.
* On ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' Renard is the illegitimate child of a Hexenbiest and a King. This gives him a fair amount of clout in both Wesen and Royal circles but it also means that neither group really accepts him as one of their own.[[note]]It is not clear if the Royals are human or something akin to the Grimm, though they're not capable of transformations.[[/note]]
** Marriages between different Wesen races were taboo until recently and used to be punishable by death. In fact, the Wesens in the Nazi ranks specifically prioritized interracial marriages over actual races[[note]]and yes, Hitler was a Wesen[[/note]]. Children of mixed Wesen ancestry will generally assume the Wesen characteristics of one parent or the other thus avoiding HybridPower. A third possibility is mentioned but it is not elaborated on.
* ''Series/{{Guerrilla}}'': The son of Afrikaner Pence and the black informant who he's involved with has this.
* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': Offred's husband Luke appears to be mixed race in this series (their daughter Hannah is too).
* ''Series/{{Hanna}}'': Sophie and her brother are both mixed. Their mom's white and their dad is of South Asian ancestry. The children of Dieter (a white German) and his wife (who's Turkish by descent) also count.
* ''Series/HellOnWheels'': Elam Ferguson, due to being conceived by his black slave mother's [[ChildByRape rape by their master]].
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Micah Sanders, the child of a black father and white mother.
* Duncan's friend Charlie Desalvo on ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' was half Italian, half black, and got picked on a lot for it.
* ''Series/{{Himmelsdalen}}'': Helena mentions having an American mother and Swedish father (along with her twin Siri).
* ''Series/{{Intergalactic}}'': Ash's mother is a Briton of South Asian ancestry, with her father being Black.
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': Sarah “Mac” Mackenzie has, other than presumed ancestry from the British Isles given her name, Cherokee and Iranian ancestry. The Native American ancestry is only mentioned in "The Return of Jimmy Blackhorse", while the Iranian part is mentioned in several episodes.
* ''Series/{{Jeremiah}}'': Elizabeth is revealed to have some White ancestry along with Black.
* ''Series/JupitersLegacy'':
** Raikou is the child of Walter, a Caucasian American. Her unseen mother was East Asian, to judge by her looks.
** Skyfox, Hutch's father, is also Caucasian. Hutch however visibly is not, which indicates his mother comes from another race.
* ''Series/KungFu'': Kwai Chang Caine is half Chinese, half white American, played by [[FakeMixedRace David Carradine]].
* ''Series/TheKingLoves'': Won's father is the King of Goryeo (Korea) and his mother is a Yuan (Mongolian) princess. [[{{Jerkass}} His father]] calls him a half-breed to his face and tells him his blood is mixed with barbarians'.
* ''Series/LostInSpace2018'': Judy is the child of Maureen (who's white) by her first (black) husband.
* ''Series/LovecraftCountry'':
** Atticus it turns out is partly descended from a white slave owner. This lets him into the otherwise all-white "Sons of Adam" secret society (which ordinarily doesn't allow men of color in).
** Though unstated, it's implied that Leti has some white ancestry (like her actress) as she's significantly lighter than her half-siblings.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': Nurse Kellye brings this up when Hawkeye asks for an arterial graft for a patient:
-->'''Hawkeye''': These are too small! They're spaghettini, I need rigatoni!\\
'''Winchester''': Spoken like a true meatball surgeon.\\
'''Kellye''': Rigatoni? Doctor, I'm half Chinese, half Hawaiian. Give it to me in ethnic measurements I can understand.\\
'''Hawkeye''': A small egg roll.
* ''Series/MixedIsh'': Bo and her siblings' mixed heritage gives the series its name, along with being the main focus.
* ''Series/NeverHaveIEver'': Paxton Hall-Yoshida is of Japanese and white heritage, as indicated by his name, just like his actor.
* ''Series/NoughtsAndCrosses'': Yaro, the son of [[spoiler:Kamal]], a Cross (black) with a Nought (white) woman. [[spoiler:Sephy]]'s interracial relationship with [[spoiler:Callum]] causes the conception of a child as well.
* ''Series/TheOutpost'': It's said in the second season that Talon isn't a "pure" Blackblood, though how this is known or the reason is not explained.
* ''Series/PennAndTellerFoolUs'': Mentalist [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1y6FRatJs Henok Negash]] utilizes his ambiguous features as part of his routine. As part of his routine, he challenges Penn and Teller to guess what his ethnicity is. At the end of the act, Henok reveals [[spoiler:he is half Irish and half Ethiopian, neither of which were guessed by the judges, but they know his routine and were not fooled by that]].
* ''Series/ThePractice'': In "The Lonely People" a racist who murdered a Black man was revealed to be half Black himself, with the man he says order it being his father (who preaches interracial relationships are forbidden). He was light enough to pass for White, so no one suspected.
* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'': Emily is half Filipino on her father's side (with an AmbiguouslyBrown mother) as confirmed in Season 5.
* ''Series/{{Quantico}}'': Main character Alex Parrish is the child of an Indian mother and white father. This was {{enforced}} by [[FakeMixedRace fully Indian]] actress Creator/PriyankaChopra: the character was originally written as a white woman, but when Chopra was cast instead she refused efforts to have the character be more stereotypically Indian, including changing her surname.
* ''Series/ResidentAlien'': Unbeknownst to her at first, she's half Native American as [[spoiler:Asta]] is really her birth mother (her birth father being White).
* In ''Series/{{Revolution}}'', Jason Neville is the son of a black father and white mother (his actor is actually Hispanic though).
* ''Series/RiseOfEmpiresOttoman'': Mehmet is the son of Sultan Murad and an unnamed Greek noblewoman. It's suggested that this plays into his desire to unite the east and west under one ruler.
* ''Series/RoswellNewMexico'': Alex Manes is half White and half Native American (Navajo specifically).
* ''Series/Sense8'': Wolfgang has a German first name, but a very stereotypical Russian last name. Also his relatives have Russian names like Anton, Sergei and Irina, and his uncle is in the TheMafiya. The funeral he attends is also Russian Orthodox. Since he lives in the former East Berlin, where there is a sizable community from Russia and the former Soviet Union who now have German citizenship, it makes sense.
* ''Series/ShadowAndBone'': Alina is half Ravkan and half Shu Han. They're loosely based on the Russians and Chinese.
* ''Series/TheSociety'': Helena's of White and East Asian ancestry.
* ''Series/StrangeEmpire'': Kat and Caleb are Métis (First Nations/White ancestry), and Isabelle (Black/White). Ruby's mentioned though unseen son would also count, as she's black with him having a white father.
* ''Series/SWAT2017'': Erika mentions she has a Black father and White mother in "Crusade", saying the Imperial Dukes (a racist group) would [[HalfBreedDiscrimination hate]] [[MalignedMixedMarriage that]].
* ''Series/SydneyToTheMax'': Sydney Reynolds has a white dad and a black mom. Sydney also has a friend named Emmy who's half Cuban and half Filipino.
* ''Series/TeenWolf'': Scott [=McCall=] is half-Hispanic on his mother's side, just like his actor, Creator/TylerPosey.
* ''Series/{{Trinkets}}'':
** Tabitha is biracial (her mother is black while her father is white).
** Moe's mom is white, while her dad is a man of color, apparently Latino since he refers to "mi familia", though their last name (Truax) is of French origin.
* ''Series/{{Underground}}'': A large number of the slaves have at least some white ancestry.
** Rosalee is usually described as "mulatto", the period-appropriate term for a person of one half white/one half black ancestry. She along with her little brother James were sired by their owner, Tom Macon.
** Later their mother Ernestine mentions she's half white as well.
** Pearly Mae is also the half sister of Suzanne, Tom's wife.
** Several other of the black people also appear to be mixed race, although it's not elaborated on.
* ''Series/VagrantQueen'': Elida's mother was dark-skinned, while her father was fair-skinned. Her complexion is somewhere in between.
* ''Series/TheWilds'': Flashbacks reveal that Nora and Rachel are actually biracial. They have a White father and Black mother.
* ''Series/TheWitcher2019'': Yennefer's mother is human. Her real father is revealed to be half elven.
* ''Series/YearsAndYears'':
** Bethany and Ruby Bisme-Lyons are half White British and half British Jamaican.
** Lincoln Lyons is half White British and half Chinese, although the family jokes he inherited all of his father's genetics in terms of appearance.
** Rosie and Jonjo's unnamed son is a mixture of White British and British Asian, as Jonjo appears to be of Indian or Pakistani descent based on his surname (Aleef) and the actor's ethnicity.
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[[folder:Podcasts]]
* ''Podcast/{{Sequinox}}'': Elena Park, Caiden's mom, is initially stated to have heritage that's hard to nail down. When Shannon appeared to talk about the Parks in ''The Home For Wayward [=OCs=]'', she states that she's Black Italian with Hispanic heritage as well.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Raúl Castillo, who was renamed Maravilla in Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling, was of Dominican and Cuban ancestry. This is not an especially strange combination, as the Taino inhabited much of the Caribbean, including the parts that came to be known as Cuba and The Dominican Republic, but [[WrestlingFamily brother]] Fidel, better known as Huracán Castillo, was "just" Cuban. This means Huracán Castillo Jr. is Cuban and Puerto Rican, while Maravilla's son Magnificent Chris is Dominican, Cuban and Puerto Rican. The Dominican was most pronounced in Chris's tragically short career, as he was a member of La Revolución Dominicana in [[EvilForeigner Puerto Rico]]'s IWA.
* All Japan's Mitsuo and Yoshi Momota, sons of the Wrestling/{{Rikidozan}}, are of Korean and Japanese acestry. This also applies to Rikidozan's grandson Chikara. After being discriminated against as a Sumo Wrestler, Rikidozan tried to down play his Korean roots when founding Japan Wrestling Assocation but it was an open secret to the point officials from North and South Korea came together to honor Rikidozan after his death.
* It's been said people used to pick on Wrestling/AjaKong growing up because she had a black father.
* Legendary Japanese wrestler El Gran Hamada loved Mexico so much that he married a Mexican woman. Two of his daughters, Xochitl and Ayako, followed in his footsteps as luchadoras.
* Wrestling/CarlitoColon has described himself as half black, the black obviously being his father, who is also a famous pro wrestler. His mother isn't as well known. Logically, the same would apply to his siblings Eddie and Stacy. His cousin Orlando is not as clear, but given he grows a brown afro if his hair is left unchecked, people assume he has some black in him and most Puerto Rican do have ''some'' tracable amount of African ancestry.
* Wrestling/JimmyWangYang has described himself as part Korean and part Caucasion. Despite this he has been given multiple gimmicks where he was "just" Asian, [[InterchangeableAsianCultures sometimes the wrong kind of Asian]], or "just" a redneck (though him taking after his Korean father made the claim there wasn't anything "yeller" about him hard to take seriously).
* [[Wrestling/EmberMoon Athena]] described herself as half black. She was happy to have found "another" when she met Marti Belle, who initially scoffed and claimed to be "pure Dominican", but later admitted ''being'' Dominican means there likely is some black in her.
* Wrestling/SuYung was billed as a half white Chinese woman in Wrestling/JerryLawler's Memphis Wrestling and its DistaffCounterpart Memphis Ladies Wrestling, although PGWA billed her as a crazy Japanese woman and Yung [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy sometimes]] claims [[RefugeInAudacity to be black]].
* Mia Yim used to be known as the "Blasian Barbie". She loves Japan but does not like being called Japanese, evenatually sowing the South Korean flag into her tights and assuring us she is black.
* Satu Jinn calls himself "black and gifted". Given the long brown hair, green eyes and almost peachy skin, pretty much everyone just assumes he is mixed. At Vicious Outcast Wrestling he claimed it was from not being entirely human...and possibly contagious.
* Perhaps the most famous example is probably [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]], whose father was black, and whose mother was Samoan. [[AmbiguouslyBrown If you weren't told this up front, though, you could be forgiven for thinking he was one of several different ethnic groups]].
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[[folder:Roleplay]]
* ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'':
** Ciro Gardner is half-white from his father's side and half-Mexican from his mother's, with her ''[[UsefulNotes/SpanishNamingConventions apellido]]'' (Alvarado) serving as a middle name for him and his siblings. While he takes after his mother, his two siblings take more after their father, which has caused a subtle disconnect between them.
** Ivy Havilland is Chinese on her mother's side and white on her father's, and takes most strongly from her mom. She's remarked that people tend to assume her name will be something more 'Asian' than it is.
** Jemimah Chen is Sino-Japanese, with her father being a Chinese accountant and her mother being a retired Japanese judoka (a passion that Jem [[PassionateSportsGirl inherited]]).
** Daigo Hiraga has a Japanese mother and a white father. Because he's white-passing, and his mother has long since passed away, he feels a [[HeritageDisconnect disconnect with his heritage]].
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[[folder:Theatre]]
%%* [[WomanScorned Azuri]] in ''Theatre/TheDesertSong''.
* In ''Theatre/ShowBoat'', riverboat actress Julie La Verne is half black, half white. This being set in the 1880s, it causes a lot of problems, including her losing her job. It's the same in every film adaptation as well.
%%* One of the love plots in the musical ''South Pacific'' (also the film).
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* This trope is played up in the video game ''VideoGame/RedDeadRevolver'' with Red, the main character, being the offspring of a white settler and a Native American.
* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'':
** Connor Kenway, the main character in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'', is the son of a British father and a Mohawk mother.
** His descendant Desmond Miles takes this to eleven, as being a descendant of Ezio and Altair means he is also of Italian and Syrian/Arabic descent with Japanese thrown in for good measure. Altair himself is apparently half-European (his mother was a Christian named Maud while his father was a Muslim) and his own wife was an Englishwoman, making Altair's sons, and distantly Desmond by extension, half-English.
* In ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'', while Booker [=DeWitt=] passes off as a Caucasian man well-enough, there are a few hints that he has at least one Native American ancestor and is capable of speaking Sioux. The significance of this is [[spoiler:foreshadowing that he and Comstock [[AlternateSelf are the same person]] -- Comstock claims that during the Wounded Knee Massacre (back before he became born-again and assumed [[DarkMessiah his current name and identity]]), he was accused of having Native American blood, [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten which he "disproved" by way of setting fire to teepees]]. Retroactively adding these events to [[TheAtoner our Booker's backstory]] would explain ''a lot'' of [[BeAllMySinsRemembered why he feels he's so beyond redemption]].]]
* The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series falls into this:
** One of [[TheReveal Reveals]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' is that [[spoiler:Cecil Harvey and his brother Golbez are half-Lunarian. Cecil's son Ceodore is a quarter-Lunarian, owing to Cecil's marriage to the human Rosa]].
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' Bartz is fully human, but his parents hail from different halves of the world that [[spoiler:existed as separate planets]] for centuries.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', Terra Branford is half-human and half an esper, a race of powerful magic beings who are not always humanoid. Most of the first half and her character arc revolve around her powers and identity struggle.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Aerith had a human father and a Cetra mother. This is also highly significant to the plot.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', Yuna is the daughter of a normal human and an Al-Bhed, a human ethnicity distinguished by their green eyes and spiral irises. The mixture manifested itself as Yuna's heterochromia.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** This is the case for all mixed-race hybrids in the series, being {{Uneven Hybrid}}s while averting AllGenesAreCodominant. Throughout the series, several [[InGameNovel in-game books]] and [[AllThereInTheManual backstory details]] indicate that each race of Men (Imperial, Breton, Redguard, Nord) and Mer ("Elves" - Altmer, Dunmer, Bosmer, Orsimer) can indeed interbreed, with the race of the offspring usually being virtually identical to the mother, with a few of the father's traits potentially sprinkled in.[[note]]This may also be true for the [[CatFolk Khajiit]], but so far there are no canonical examples.[[/note]] For example, if an [[SquishyWizard Altmer father]] and [[ProudWarriorRace Nord mother]] produce a child, it wouldn't be a MagicKnight combination of each race. Instead, the child would be almost entirely Nord with the potential of having some Altmeri traits, such as slight points to his ears, higher cheekbones, or a slightly different skin tone.
** The Bretons are the most famous hybrid race in Tamriel. Their (human) ancestors were {{Breeding Slave}}s to the Direnni Altmer of High Rock. Over the course of many generations, some of the Elven traits started to come through with greater dominance. This has led the Bretons to be the most [[WitchSpecies magically inclined]] race of Men in Tamriel at the cost of some of the HumansAreWarriors traits of the other races of Men. It still isn't accurate to call the Bretons "half human" hybrids, however. They are still almost entirely human with ''some'' Altmeri ancestry. It's noted that some elite noble Breton families still have slightly pointed ears.
** The Bosmer are said to be result of ancient hybridization as well. When the Aldmer ({{Precursors}} to all of the modern Elven races) first settled in Valenwood, they started to take "Mannish wives," leading to the modern Bosmer. It is worth noting that out of all the races of Mer, the Bosmer are the ones who look closest to humans and have the most human-like skin tones. In the exact opposite of the Bretons, the Bosmer are still almost entirely Mer.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', the [[RedBaron Gray Prince]], a champion gladiator is part human, part orc[[note]]The (human) father was also a vampire, but just what that had for consequences for the Gray Prince is uncertain, as he is both the only known case of human/orc interbreeding and vampire/living interbreeding.[[/note]].
* Rexxar in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' is a Mok'nathal, the union of orcs and ogres. The first orc guard he sees greets him with "You've got the look of an ogre, half-breed. What's your business here?"
* Granté from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', is half Hylian, half Sheikah. He has his Hylian mother's blond hair (as opposed to the MysticalWhiteHair of the Sheikah) and pointy chin, while he has his Sheikah father's [[{{Wutai}} Japanese-inspired fashion sense]] and interest in the LostTechnology of his ancestors.
* It's implied in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' that [[FarmGirl Malon's]] mother was a Gerudo due to her father's comment about the Gerudo mask reminding him of his wife.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': As eventually confirmed by WordOfGod, Fareeha "Pharah" Amari is the daughter of Egyptian hero Ana Amari and a Canadian First Nations father. Unlike her relationship with Ana, Pharah's paternal lineage isn't referenced much outside of her Thunderbird and Raindancer skins, which are based on the art motifs of the original inhabitants of North America's Pacific Northwest.
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': Charles, a member of the Dutch Van Der Linde gang and a friend of [[TheProtagonist Arthur Morgan]], has a black father and a Native American mother.
* Chloe from ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} '' is the daughter of an Indian man and a white Australian woman.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Banquo of ''Webcomic/GoodbyeChains''. His character profile proudly describes him as "half-Mexican and half-Swedish, and also a colossal dick." He was the result of a one-night stand between an actress and a mestizo Mexican man, and faces quite a bit of racism because of his background. His DistaffCounterpart and part time lover, Cordelia, is half-Ute, but there are certainly no parallels between them and how they treat their companions, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial no siree]].
* [[spoiler:Antimony Carver]] from ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' is a (mostly human) human/fire elemental hybrid, which is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by [[TheTrickster Coyote]].
-->'''Coyote''': What an interesting first union that must have been...
* HalfIdenticalTwins Walky and Sal of ''Webcomic/ItsWalky'' and ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge.'' Their mother is all-white, their father is half-black. Lampshaded by Walky:
-->'''Walky''': "Well, my ''sister'' is black, but ''I'm'' [[AmbiguouslyBrown generically beige]]."
** As well, in ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'', Billie got a RaceLift, going from all-white to half-Chinese.
* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'' has a few.
** The title characters are a rabbit and a wolf, respectively, and they have their daughter Coney, who looks like a rabbit but displays carnivorous tendencies.
** Coney's half-brother Rudy is half fox on his father's side.
** It's eventually revealed that the sheep [[spoiler: Corrie]] is the child of Ralph, making [[spoiler: her]] half wolf.
** Rudy's girlfriend Fiona is part Fennec Fox on her father's side, and part Red Fox on her mother's.
** Fiona's father George remarried to Danielle, a rabbit, and they had a son of indeterminate species named Francis. Further complicating this is the fact that [[spoiler: Danielle was originally human. Francis eventually spontaneously turned human]].
** Lindesfarne, a hedgehog, is married to Fenton, a bat, and they have a flying hedgehog-bat hybrid named Turvy.
* Parodied in ''WebComic/{{Oglaf}}'' with the sorcerer who taught [[TestosteronePoisoning Kronar]] how to '[[ProjectileSpell shoot bzowts]]', who referred to themself as 'a half-breed of man and woman'.
* Grace of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' is mixed in several different senses due to having [[ExtraParentConception four]] [[BizarreAlienReproduction parents]]. As far as appearance goes she's ([[VoluntaryShapeshifting usually]]) an AmbiguouslyBrown human. Her parentage includes [[HumanoidAliens aliens]] and non-aliens which consist of: a sapient alien, a [[KillerSpaceMonkey non-sapient alien]], [[HalfHumanHybrid a human and an animal]]. On top of all that, since she's a powerful shapeshifter, she can appear as if she's the offspring of almost any combination of [[http://egscomics.com/egsnp/2017-04-26-fun-at-work-8 human ethnicities]] and/or [[http://egscomics.com/sketchbook/2018-01-29-you39ve-won-the-game humanoid]] [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2002-11-30 mammals]] ranging from LittleBitBeastly to BeastMan. This is {{lampshaded}} when Nanase [[http://egscomics.com/egsnp/2015-01-09 transforms]] into Grace and asks Tedd what Grace is ethnically. Tedd's response? "Mixed. Very, ''very'' mixed."
* Cloud and his little sister Yuna from ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'' are both half-Caucassian, half-Southeast Asian (their mother being [[RetiredBadass a former Burmese guerrilla fighter]] who immigrated to the US).
* In ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'', Unity plays with the trope in a very odd way. She's a FrankensteinsMonster-type zombie whose body is stitched together from people of multiple races. This is especially evident when she's wearing any clothes that show her arms and legs, but it's always noticeable due to her head--the right half is from a black woman, while the left is from a blond white woman.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* From ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', [=Jazmine DuBois=] is the daughter of [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt a black man and a white woman]]. Though compared to [[ComicStrip/TheBoondocks the comics]], Jazmine's insecurity about her mixed ethnicity is rather {{downplayed| trope}} for the most part.
* ''WesternAnimation/LEGOStarWarsTheFreemakerAdventures'':
** The Freemaker siblings Zander, Kordi and Rowan are the children of a black woman and a white man.
** Zander later goes on to marry a white woman, Becky Smoochenbacher and together have a 1/4 black daughter, Moxie Freemaker.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'':
** Both Cheshire and Artemis are half-Asian, half-white. ([[spoiler:In fact, they're sisters]].) Interestingly, Cheshire comes across as much more Asian than Artemis in terms of appearance, style, weapons, and voice. Semi-justified by the fact that Cheshire has explicitly rejected her white father; [[NomDeMom she goes by "Jade Nguyen,"]] while her daughter is "Lian Nguyen-[[spoiler:Harper]]."
** [[MakingASplash Kaldur]] has a white Atlantean mom and a black human father.
** M'gann [[spoiler:is a White Martian with a Green Martian mother]]. Apparently [[SubvertedTrope Not]] AllGenesAreCodominant.
* Increasingly common in the world of ''[[Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar]]''. Avatar Kyoshi (the last Earthbender Avatar) is the oldest confirmed character to have been mixed race. Her mother was an Airbender and her father an Earthbender but it's pretty common by the time of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''. The original ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' (which takes place about 70 years earlier) had very few mixed-race couples and only four children (three of whom are descendants of two tribes of the same culture, and the other only ever appearing in the comics), but in ''Korra'', due to the nature of [[HubCity Republic]] [[UsefulNotes/MeltingPot City]] many characters are of mixed race. This is most interesting since elemental bending is partially genetic, and benders normally can have access to only one type of bending, leading to siblings with completely different abilities, such as:
** Aang and Katara's children, consisting of two sons named Bumi and Tenzin and one daughter named Kya--Tenzin was born with airbending abilities like their dad while Kya was born with waterbending abilities like their mom. Bumi was originally born a nonbender, but eventually gained airbending abilities through Harmonic Convergence, his appearance also combines Air Nomad (grey eyes, light skin) and Water Tribe (dark hair) features unlike his siblings.
** Mako and Bolin are brothers, but Mako's a firebender while Bolin's an earthbender--their dad (who Bolin takes after in appearance) was an earthbender from Ba Sing Se while their mom (who Mako takes after in appearance) was a firebender from the Fire Nation.
** At first glance Asami Sato looks like an archetypical Fire Nation beauty. She has the pale skin, pitch black hair, and love of the colour red, however her green eyes pin her as having Earth Nation heritage as well. Both her names are Japanese which is what the Fire Nation is based on so she’s likely Fire Nation from her dad’s side.
** One minor character in Book one is a waterbender who looks Fire Nation.
* According to WordOfGod, AmbiguouslyBrown Mike Chilton from ''WesternAnimation/{{Motorcity}}'' is of mixed race.
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' the main human character, [[ActionGirl Elisa]] [[FairCop Maza]], has a Native American father and a black mother.
* Nadine from ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' is a DarkSkinnedBlonde. Her parents appear in one episode, and it's shown that her father's white and her mother's black.
** Also, from the same show is Phoebe Heyerdahl, born to a Japanese father and a white American mother.
* ''WesternAnimation/AbbyHatcher'' is half Chinese through her mother Miranda and half American through her dad Lex.
* Jake and his sister from ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' are half Chinese through their mother and half white through their dad.
* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Isabella Garcia-Shapiro is described as being Mexican-Jewish, and a running gag with her mother is that she's constantly cooking some improbable mash-up of the two culture's cuisines, like kreplach tortillas or matzah ball-ritos. This is taken UpToEleven when she hosts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2osaLrWrCg a Mexican-Jewish cultural festival]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'':
** Taranee is half-Asian and half-black. [[spoiler:Though she is adopted so ''maybe'' she isn't.]]
** The DarkSkinnedRedhead protagonist, Will, has an AmbiguouslyBrown mother and a white father.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'' has Mandy Struction who is Persian from her mom and Italian from her dad.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' has its main heroine Marinette Dupan-Chang who is French-Italian on her father's side and Chinese on her mother's side.
* The titular protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/NellaThePrincessKnight'' is half-white and half-black, having got the former from her mother and the latter from her father.
* Sanjay from ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig'' is half-Indian and half-white.
* Alex from ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' is shown to have a white father and an AmbiguouslyBrown mother--while never confirmed, Alex's mom is implied to be of Hispanic, Latina or Filipina descent.
* Tommy Pickles from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' has an American father and a Russian-Jewish mother.
* The Rocket siblings from ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' have a white father and a Polynesian mother. This isn't revealed until late into the series as their mother is [[MissingMom deceased]].
* Even though not clarified, Phyllis "Pizzazz" Gabor from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' is Hungarian-American based on her name.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince,'' half-brothers [[ClassicalAntiHero Callum]] and [[CheerfulChild Ezran]] had an Asian mother, while their respective birth fathers were white and black, respectively.
* In ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', AmbiguouslyBrown Hunk was confirmed to be of mixed Samoan and African American descent in the Voltron Coalition handbook, with his father being Samoan American and his mother being Afro-Samoan when they appear in the seventh season.
* On ''WesternAnimation/PuppyDogPals'', supporting character Chloe is Caucasian on her mother's side and Chinese-American on her father's side.
* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'' has the titular Kipo as half-Black, half-Korean ([[spoiler:with a [[HeinzHybrid dash of jaguar blood]]]]). WordOfGod states she was originally intended to just be of Korean ancestry until one of the show directors insisted one day that her father be African-American.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'', both Molly and Cole are biracial children, since their father, Owen, is black and their mother, Paige, is white.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', Luz is half Dominican, and per WordOfGod, identifies as Afro-Latino[[note]] Most people in the UsefulNotes/DominicanRepublic have a mix of African, Indigenous, and European ancestry, making this something of a double example[[/note]], that being her mother's side. Her father, though he's only been shown in part in a photograph, appeared to be Northern European. Another character in the series, Willow Park has been speculated to be the Boiling Isles equivalent of half black, half asian, per her parents, but as she HasTwoDaddies and it's unknown whether she was adopted, a stepchild, or if HomosexualReproduction is an option in the Boiling Isles, it isn't entirely clear.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Noni, the main protagonist in ''Film/BeyondTheLights'', is the daughter of a white mother (Macy) and a black father (whose identity is unknown).
* Lo Dorman, the eponymous protagonist of ''Film/TheHalfBreed'', is half-white and half-Native American, and as a consequence lives alone in the forest, not really welcome in either community.
* Elvis Presley plays a man with a white father and an Indian mother in ''Film/FlamingStar''.
* Frank Hopkins in ''Film/{{Hidalgo}}'' is half Native American and half white, and has a foot in both cultures.
* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', one of the treasure hunters in the prologue is credited as [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname "Half Breed"]].
* The main character, Zen, in ''Film/{{Chocolate}}'' is the child of a marriage between a Japanese Yakuza and an enforcer in a Thai mob.
* In ''Film/WhiteComanche'', William Shatner plays a pair of (fairly stereotypical) half-white, half-Comanche twins.
* In ''Film/BillyJack'' the main character is half-white, half-Native American (played by a [[FakeMixedRace fully white]] actor).
* Darwin from ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' is Black/Hispanic.
* In ''Film/WithinOurGates'', one of the oldest surviving films made by a black director with a black cast, the hero, trying to figure out why the heroine won't marry him, eventually discovers that it's because she is ashamed about having a white father.
* ''Film/{{Thunderheart}}'': Ray Levoi is a quarter Lakota, and his ancestry features heavily in the plot. Also the tribal council president Jack Milton (Fred Ward), though it isn't outright stated. Both he and Val Kilmer (Levoi) really do have native ancestry (though Cherokee, not Lakota) so FakeMixedRace is thankfully {{averted}}.
* ''Film/FreeStateOfJones'': Newt and Rachel's son Jason. Rachel herself is mixed race too. It's also the issue at Davis Knight's trial as to whether his great-great grandmother was Rachel or Serena Knight. Assuming the former, he would be "colored" under Mississippi state law and thus forbidden to marry a white women. If the latter, he would be white and thus freed. The prosecutor {{lampshades}} how unusual this is, as generally it would be the father whose identity isn't clear. Eventually the Knight family Bible is uncovered, revealing that it was Rachel.
* ''Film/DearWhitePeople'': Sam, whose father is white, though she identifies only as black.
* ''Film/JungleFever'': Drew's father is white. She gets concerned that her husband's initial attraction to her was because she is lighter due to this after he cheats with a white coworker.
* ''Film/KillBill'' has O-Ren Ishii, who is half Japanese, half Chinese-American, and faced a lot of discrimination for it.
%%What's this from?* MixedAncestry
%%** Crystal is the daughter of Jay, an Aboriginal, and Mary, a white woman, and it's implied that she's largely shunned by the white community.
%%** Crystal's schoolmate Jasmine has skin significantly lighter than her Aboriginal grandmother, indicating that one of her parents was white.
* Captain Pierre Cordona in ''Rio Lobo'' (Creator/JohnWayne, 1970):
--> Cordona (Jorge Rivero): You keep calling me "Frenchy"; I'm half Mexican, you know.
--> [=McNally=] (John Wayne): Well, which half was kneeling and which half was kissin' her hand?
* ''Film/FastColor'': Ruth, who's the child of a black mother (Bo) and white father (Ellis). Technically, this also applies to Lila as well, being the child of a biracial mother (Ruth) and an unknown (presumably) black father.
* ''Film/WhereHandsTouch'': Leyna is half German and half African, the source of her very fraught status in Nazi Germany. Her baby with Lutz (who's a white German) is mixed too, and since such relationships are illegal under Nazi laws, she's at risk just by being pregnant.
* ''Film/{{Belle}}'': Dido has an African mother and English father. It's {{played for drama}} as she's not only legally a slave due to her mother being one, but faces frequent racism as a "mulatto" even when her father's family treats her fairly well in contrast.
* ''Film/WhenEvilCalls'': Samantha's father is white, while her mother's East Asian (the actress playing her has only East Asian ancestry however).
* ''Film/LadyMacbeth'': Teddy has this, as he's Alexander's son with a black woman. Unusually, despite the racist time period, there's no adverse reaction from anyone.
* ''Film/RoomInRome'': Alba says her father is a Saudi Arab, and her mother's Spanish. However, since this is the second version of a story (in the first, she's the mother rather than the child) that all might be made up.
* '' Film/{{Thelma}}'': Anja's mother is White, while she clearly is not. We don't see her father though, and thus his race isn't made clear.
* ''Film/TheWorldUnseen'': Amina is a quarter Black, and gets dislike from the Indian community because of it. Her mother was half Black due to her grandmother being raped by a Black man. Jacob and several more minor characters are also described as mixed race.
* In ''Film/YellowHairAndTheFortressOfGold'', the heroine Yellow Hair is the daughter of a Caucasian father and a Native American mother.
* ''Film/InTheShadowOfTheMoon'': [[spoiler:Rya]] is mixed race, with a Black father and White mother. This allows the reveal of her being [[spoiler:Lockhart]]'s granddaughter to be a surprise, since he's White (his daughter was her mother).
* ''Film/{{Australia}}'': Nullah is the child of an Aboriginal mother and white father.
* ''Film/TheEigerSanction'': George is a woman of color, whose father turns out to be Ben, who's white.
* ''Film/HappiestSeason'': Sloane (who is white) and Eric (who's black), have two biracial children.
* ''Film/Aquaman2018'': Arthur is the child of an [[ApparentlyHumanMerfolk Atlantean]] mother and human father. Further, Atlanteans visually appear to be like white humans, while his father is Maori.
* ''Film/{{Endless}}'': Riley's dad is White, her mom's Black.
* ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'': Liz's mom is Black, her dad's White.
* ''Theatre/ForColoredGirls'': Nyla and Tangie are both mixed race it turns out, with a White father and Black mother. Their grandfather arranged this, since he considered [[ButNotTooBlack lighter skin more beautiful]].
* In ''Film/TheShadowOfChikara'', ArmyScout Half Moon O'Brian's father was an Irish trapper and his mother was a Cherokee woman.
* ''Film/{{Blockers}}'': Kayla's mother is Indian-American while her father's White.
* ''Film/{{Harriet}}'': One of the slaves toward the end escaping with Harriet is a biracial woman, who's light enough to pass for White. This comes in handy as she covers their escape (while also [[SweetPollyOliver disguised as a man]]) to the patrollers and when one sees her resemblance to her master truthfully answers that she's his child.
* ''Film/ANewYorkChristmasWedding'':
** Jenni's dad is Latino and her deceased mom was a Black woman.
** David (who's Black), in the new timeline, has two children with his White wife (however, [[HollywoodGenetics neither actually looks mixed]]).
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* Creator/AAPessimal:
** Rebecka Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons and her two sisters are the daughters of Ankh-Morporkian wizard Ponder Stibbons and Assassin Johanna Smith-Rhodes, a [[AmoralAfrikaner Rimwards Howondalandian]]. Bekki reflects that she was brought up bilingual, with an "indoor language" (Vondalaans, Discworld's Afrikaans) and an "outdoor language" (Morporkian). After she qualifies as a witch, she moves to [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica Howondaland]] to found a Witch steading and get to grips, properly, with her Other Country and its multiple etnicities.
** The globe-trotting Witch Olga Romanoff marries a Rimwards Howondalandian and reflects because of her near-unique circumstances, her children will get it three ways with three languages and cultures: [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Rodinian]], Morporkian and Rimwards Howondalandian. She is pleasantly pleased as to how adaptable her twin children are.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In {{Fanon}}, it's often assumed that [[GenkiGirl Ty Lee]] has Air Nomad ancestry, since her appearance (round face, brown hair and gray eyes) and personality match them better than the Fire Nation. In some stories she's secretly an Airbender, but obviously hides it. This may also be the case for the new Airbenders in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra,'' rather than just being RandomlyGifted.
* ''Fanfic/EyesOnMe'': Sapphire Dahl is black on her father's side and Asian (specifically Japanese/Vietnamese) on her mother's side.
* ''Fanfic/FromBajorToTheBlack'' and ''Fanfic/TheSilenceEnds'': Jasmine "Jazz" Velasquez has a Latin American surname but is said to have had ancestors in uniform as far back as UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. Additionally, WordOfGod in [[http://perfectworld.vanillaforums.com/discussion/comment/12482368/#Comment_12482368 a forum post accompanying the fic]] gives her a second surname, Candemir (which is Turkish), and has her cast as Afton Williamson, an African-American actress.
* ''Fanfic/MarriedToTheFlames'': Referenced. Jin's boyfriend Li lives in the Earth Nation but has golden eyes like a firebender. Jin just assumes he is part Fire Nation.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Fan works often have this through SpinOffspring of Spike, a dragon, and any pony character; these are typically referred to as "draconies" (they were also called {{kirin}}, although this faded from use when kirin debuted as a canonical and non-hybrid species), and have varying blends of draconic and equine traits -- depending on the case, they may or may not have wings, may or may not have magic, and may eat gems or meat or grass. They usually have trouble fitting in with either pony society or dragons. Hybrids also tend to pop up for other interspecies ships, most often pony/changeling hybrids (who may have a weaker form of the changelings' shapeshifting) and griffon/pony hippogriff children.
** ''Fanfic/BrideOfDiscord'': The sequels have three, including Discord and Fluttershy's draconequus/pony hybrid daughter Screwball, her younger brother Zany, and [[spoiler:Applespike]], a dragon/pony hybrid.
** ''Fanfic/EquestriaAcrossTheMultiverse'': [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales Brightglow and her sisters]] are the hybrid daughters of the pegasus queen Star Catcher and the extraterrestrial celestial pony Star Skipper. The strangeness of two species that evolved on separate planets being able to crossbreed is lampshaded, and becomes a cause for close study.
** ''Fanfic/FluttershyIsFree'': [[spoiler:Fluttershy]] turns out to have been sired by a changeling. Her external anatomy is that of a pegasus, but some of her neural wiring is changeling: she is TheEmpath and an EmotionEater, but cannot {{shapeshift|ing}}. It's also implied that some of her emotional tendencies come from [[spoiler:the natural Changeling preference to hide from rather than confront danger]].
** ''Fanfic/TheFreeportVenture'': Ponies and griffins can interbreed to make hippogriffs. Zyphons are specifically zebra-griffin hybrids.
** ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/325714/it-doesnt-work-that-way It Doesn't Work That Way]]'': Due to the way that dragon reproduction works -- freshly-laid dragon eggs are essentially just rocks, and are fertilized when another dragon infuses them with magic by breathing fire over them -- the fact that Spike's egg was hatched by Twilight's magic surge means that he's technically half-dragon and half-pony.
** Creator/Kilala97's next generation continuity counts a number of half-pony hybrids:
*** Crystal Clarity and Turquoise Blits, Spike and Rairty's son and daughter, are half unicorn and half dragon.
*** Illusion, Discord and Celestia's son, is half alicorn and half draconequus -- which, due to draconequi being {{Mix and Match Critter}}s to begin with, largely makes him look like a more "ordered" draconequus.
*** In the alternate next gen setting, there are Morning Star (another Discord and Celestia child, and thus again half alicorn and half draconequus), Cicada Song (half alicorn and half [[InsectQueen royal changeling]]) and Hunter (half pegasus and half griffon).
** ''Fanfic/ALongNightAtTheHippodrome'': Piercing gaze is half-unicorn and half-onager, although he looks mostly unicorn.
** ''Fanfic/MyFlutteringHeart'': Flurry Heart is half-pony and half-changeling. She looks like a full pony, which makes passing her as one easy.
** ''Fanfic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': Page Turner, the new Bearer of Kindness, is the tenth in her line to be a mix of unicorn and changeling, and refers to herself as a halfling or halfbreed after it comes out, though the exact percentage isn't certain at this point (her maternal ancestors have alternated between mating with full unicorns or full changelings ever since Lamella Armor the First was born to a unicorn and changeling pair). This mixed blood allows she and other changeling hybrids like her to gain Cutie Marks, and also renders them immune to the effects of the changeling detector lights.
** ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'':
*** Fluttercruel is the draconequus Discord's {{Child By|Rape}} MindRape with the pegasus Fluttershy. Fluttercruel is SharingABody with Fluttershy, so their ''body'' is pure pony, but [[HellishPupils some of]] [[CuteLittleFangs Fluttercruel's traits]] imply that, at least spiritually, she's half draconequus. The [[BadFuture Dark World]] stories further imply this by showing she [[spoiler:can inherit Discord's ability to BodySurf if killed by a non-draconequus and ultimately [[OneWingedAngel becomes a draconequus]]]].
*** [[GeneralRipper General-Admiral Makarov]], the BigBad of the Shining Armor Arc, is a deer/unicorn hybrid who was created by a SuperSoldier project intended to create such hybrids. It's also partly because he's a ParodySue. This is later subverted when he's revealed to actually be [[spoiler:an [[HumanoidAbomination Equinoid Abomination]] called the Shadow of Chernobull, who merely took that form to [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor grant the Hooviets desires for the project to succeed]]]]. The characters also meet Kweupe, a virgasus (a pegasus/zebra hybrid) as a guide in a Zebrafrican nation.
*** Tempest Shadow's Origins chapter reveals the existence of the Sparkle Ponies, hybrids of Equestrian ponies and a race of aliens called the Celestial Ponies, normally from [[CameFromTheSky them crash-landing on Equus]]. Notably, the improbability of an alien species being capable of interbreeding with the natives is lampshaded by Wind Whistler, but may be because ponies and Celestials have the same creator deity.
* ''Fanfic/AThinVeneer'': This becomes a major plot point -- between close racial interactions, progressive social views and advanced Federation technology, the Federation has many hybrids within their diverse populations and they are accepted and celebrated without prejudice or intolerance. To the much more insular, xenophobic and reactionary ''Babylon 5''-verse nations and cultures, however, this practice and tolerance is viewed with horror and disgust, contributing to the Minbari and even some Earthers perceiving the Federation as a "mongrel power" of depraved savages wielding technologies too advanced for their station whom they cannot surrender to or negotiate with. Some of the Minbari are so disgusted that one Alyt even outright declares that the Federation humans are ''worse'' than the Earther humans when he hears this from Kirk, and many keep fighting out of the misguided belief that defeat and surrender would result in the Federation spreading or even enforcing such practices upon them, diluting and degrading their gene pool and racial purity.
* ''Fanfic/OldWest'': The snake child Theodore "Teddy" Glossy's mother is a glossy snake, and his father is a gopher snake.
* ''Fanfic/OriginStory'': Louise Fulford, Alexandra Harris's partner, is a very light-colored African-American whose father is himself a relatively light-skinned black man and whose mother is a Native American. And by "light colored," she is light-colored to the point that anyone who sees her assumes she's just another white girl. When questioned about it, the writer pointed people to Creator/NicoleRichie, who was the character's bodycast.
* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': Because the list of potential (but very heavily suggested) half siblings come from multiple regions with an implied [[VideoGame/PokemonColosseum Orrean father]], the story has a growing number of characters of this sort. A number of characters in story are suggested as being of mixed ancestry even outside this case, such as [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Skyla]] whose father is Unovan and mother is from Johto.
* ''Fanfic/RanmaSaotomeChiMaster'': Ranma's guru is part Indian and part Chinese.
* ''Fanfic/TheVow'': The epilogue introduces a peafowl-swan hybrid Zian, son of [[spoiler:Lord Shen]] and [[spoiler:Lady Lianne]]. He looks like a peacock except for his white feathers, flat beak and slightly larger wings.
* ''Fanfic/TheWarOfTheMasters'': The Moabites are a melange of various groups with a bone to pick with post-WorldWarIII Earth, among them Jews of Israeli origin (Israel was destroyed by the Arab League in WWIII) and Vietnamese anti-communists (dislike Earth's post-scarcity welfare state). Plus there's been considerable interbreeding with local Klingons (most of them dispossessed, or descended from same, in various feudal power struggles in the Empire).
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* The titular character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' is a wolf/Husky mix and receives FantasticRacism because of it (though in real life wolf-dogs are much more dangerous than both dogs and wolves). In the sequel one of his pups looks more wolf than dog and doesn't get adopted because of it. The actual Balto was 100% dog.
* Dr. Sweet from ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' has a black father and a Native American mother.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', this is heavily implied with Dr. Facilier, who is lighter in skin tone than any other black character, has a French last name, and has purple eyes.
* Hiro from ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' is half-Japanese, half-white. His comic version is completely Japanese, but the movie takes place in a Tokyo-California mashup.
* WordOfGod confirms that Joaquin from ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'' is half-German on his mother's side.
* Tip from ''WesternAnimation/{{Home}}'' is half-Italian, half-Barbadian.
* ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' reveals that [[spoiler: Anna and Elsa]] are half-Northuldra through their mother [[spoiler: Iduna]]. Northuldra are based on the Sámi people and are implied to be indigenous Arendellian.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Creator/DCComics:
** Supervillain Cheshire (Vietnamese/French), who basically went insane.
** Cheshire has a daughter, Lian, whose father, [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Roy Harper]], is mostly white but identifies with his Navajo heritage.
** Connor Hawke, the second Green Arrow has a Caucasian father and a mother who is half black and half Korean.
** Cassandra Cain, the second Batgirl, is half white and half Asian.
** Mongrel, a.k.a. Josh Xan, was half-Vietnamese as well. He died in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''.
** Franchise/{{Batman}}'s son, Damian (the 5th ComicBook/{{Robin}}), is definitely half white and vaguely a quarter both Chinese and Arab.
** As related to above, Damian's mom ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul and grandfather ComicBook/RasAlGhul are usually a [[AmbiguouslyBrown some vague combo of Arab and Chinese]]. DependingOnTheWriter, Talia's mom was mixed Chinese/Arab as well and Ra's is sometimes the descendant of Chinese nomads who moved to the Arabian peninsula and intermarried. Their exact ethnicity and background changes a lot.
* ''Hawk, Son of ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'' was the son of the Caucasian Tomahawk and the Apache Moon Fawn.
* Walker Gabriel, the second (and heroic) Chronos, is half Chinese and half ''ancient Mayan'' (his father is a time traveler).
* In ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'', the platinum dragon D'bra is actually a hybrid between two differing tribes of dragons, platinum on her mother's side and iron on her father's. This is notable as full dragons are rare enough between two partners of the same tribe (most eggs hatch into less drakes or wyrms), and hybrids are thus extremely powerful. However, not only are they extremely rare (six have been recorded in the entirety of draconic history), but also card carrying demonstrations that WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity. D'bra's own explosive temper is a considerable worry to the other dragons who are afraid of her snapping like all the others.
* In ''ComicBook/ShamansTears'', Joshua Brand was half-Sioux, half-Irish.
* Miles Morales, the [[AffirmativeActionLegacy second]] ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', is half-African American and half-Puerto Rican.
* The UltimateUniverse version of ''ComicBook/IronMan'' had a white father and a Hispanic mother. It's a bit less clear with the mainstream version. His mother's maiden name is Carbonell, which definitely is of Hispanic origin, but then again [[spoiler: Tony is adopted]].
* For a brief period, the ComicBook/BlackPanther was replaced by a half-black, half-Jewish cop named Kasper Cole. Cole later became the ComicBook/WhiteTiger.
* Beetle from ''ComicBook/TheSuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'' is half-black, half-Dominican, her father being the evil Tombstone.
* ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch is a half-witch and half-human girl raised by her witch aunts.
* Kenton of ''ComicBook/WhiteSand'' is half-Daysider and half-Darksider, making him a DarkSkinnedBlond.
* In ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Corps'', the 25th century Commander A is ''very'' mixed race, most obviously Asian and African-American. When the PoliticallyIncorrectHero U.S.Agent comments on this, the Commander replies that he's also Native American; his ancestors were here ''first''.
* ComicBook/{{Sunspot}} from the ComicBook/NewMutants is Brazilian with a black father and white mother. His mutant powers first manifest when some fellow kids start beating him up for being both mixed and black.
* ''ComicBook/StarTrekDebtOfHonor'': As T'Cel explains, her mother, a full-blooded Romulan, was rescued from an escape pod as a child and mistaken for a Vulcan, as nobody in the Federation knew they were the same species yet. T'Cel, like [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Saavik]], is half-Vulcan, but chose to rejoin her mother's people and embrace her Romulan half (whereas Saavik is [[FantasticRacism shunned by some of T'Cel's crew for hewing to her Vulcan half]]).
* [[ComicBook/{{Quake}} Daisy Johnson]] is half white and half Chinese.
* ''ComicBook/JupitersLegacy'':
** Raikou is the child of [[spoiler:Walter]] (a White American) with a Japanese woman.
** Hutch's mother is obviously also a woman of color (probably Black, though it's unstated), although he's blonde and blue-eyed like his White father.
* ''ComicBook/TheWitchBoy'': Aster, along with his sister, have an AmbiguouslyBrown father and Caucasian mother.
* Emma Washbourne in the ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' comics. Her mom Zoe is black and her dad Hoban was white. She looks like her mom, though.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* From ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'', Jazmine [=DuBois=] is the daughter of [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt a black man and a white woman]]. She has some issues, such as disliking her curly hair and wishing it was straight like her mother's ([[StubbornHair she tries to straighten it out to no avail]]).
* The titular hero of ''ComicStrip/{{Latigo}}'', by Stan Lynde, was the son of an Irish father and Native American mother.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'': Urd is half-demon on her mother's side. Of course, the only one the really seems to be affected by it is her as most goddesses are nice enough not to bring it up (or simply don't care) and most demons, well, they don't really want to mess with the beloved daughter of the ruler of Hell herself.
* ''Manga/Area88'':
** Saki and Rishar are the sons of an Asranian prince and his Greek wife. Fortunately, Saki and Rishar have suffered no stigma in Asran on account of their mixed heritage.
** Not so for Josie, an orphan of mixed French and Japanese ethnicity. After her parents' deaths, her Japanese grandparents [[HalfBreedDiscrimination refuse to take her in]] because they disapprove of her parents' marriage.
* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'':
** Mikasa Ackerman had a white father and an Asian mother, and unfortunately, her Asian heritage was the reason they were targeted by human traffickers and her parents both killed due to the fact that Asians have almost entirely died out in the world setting. Mikasa was actually not considered as valuable as her mother due to her mixed heritage, but the traffickers settled for her after accidentally killing her mother.
** [[spoiler: Reiner Braun is actually half-Eldian and half-Marleyan]]. Laws prohibiting such relationships result in him concealing his true heritage and give him '''plenty''' of Daddy Issues as a result of never being permitted to meet his father.
* It's speculated that the protagonist of ''Manga/{{Azumi}}'' had a European ancestor due to her brown hair and dark-blue irises setting her apart from the black-haired and black-irised Japanese.
* ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'': Shikadai and Chocho's fathers are both native to Konoha, while their mothers emigrated from Sunagakure and Kumogakure respectively. It's more noticable in the latter's case, since people from the Land of Lightning [[ElectricBlackGuy tend to have a darker skin tone than the other surrounding countries]].
* It's implied Rin from ''Manga/BunnyDrop'' is biracial. She has blond hair while everyone else, including her parents, do not. [[spoiler:Rin isn't really biologically related to Daikichi's grandfather so it's left ambiguous who her biological father is]].
* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Kallen Stadtfeld is half-Britannian, half-Japanese. She considers herself Japanese and chooses to go by Kallen Kozuki, her mother's maiden name.
* Jun Hono from ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' is the daughter of an African-American father and a Japanese mother.
* Matt and T.K. from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' are Japanese, and in the following season, they are revealed to be one-quarter French.
* ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': Henry, Suzie, and their rarely-seen older siblings Rinchei and Jaarin have a Chinese father and a Japanese mother.
* Major Miles from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is mixed-race, being 1/4 Ishvalan and two other unspecified ethnicities. The [[DarkSkinnedBlond Ishvalan]] part is the one that's most obvious, and he was subjected to the OneDropRule in the past because of it.
* ''Anime/{{Hellsing}}'': If the gene pool Jan and Luke come from can produce both medium brown and pale skin tones, it is likely to be mixed.
* Miyuki Ayukawa from ''Anime/{{Basquash}}'' is presumably half-black and half-Japanese.
* In ''Tensai Bakabon'', this is given as the origin story of Unaginu ('Eel-Dog', which is what his parents were). The story Unaginu tells Bakabon Papa of how his parents met is a send-up of the 'gangster rescues girl from life of prostitution' story popular in Japanese period dramas. After hearing how they met and fell in love, Bakabon Papa comments, "International marriages are great!"
* In ''Anime/BakutenShootBeyblade'', Max Mizuhara and his baby sister Charlotte have a white American mother and a Japanese father. Their parents each prefer their home countries and they often live apart with the children choosing with whom to live at a given time, but they also come over themselves for extended periods. It seems dysfunctional, and in all fairness, it does take its toll on Max, but it somehow works out for them. Another characters with known mixed ancestry is Kane Yamashita, who is Japanese-Australian. King and Queen should also qualify on account of their vastly different skin colors despite being twins, but there is a possibility they weren't originally written to be twins.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': The Joestar Family originally hailed from Great Britain, and gradually comes to include Italian, Japanese, and American lineage.
* Sentarou from '' Manga/KidsOnTheSlope'' is half-white. His hair is lighter than his half-siblings and when he had longer hair it's shown to be wavy. When he was younger he faced bullying due to his background.
* Chizuru from ''Manga/YouAndMe'' is half-Japanese and half-German. He has blue eyes and blond hair. His hair is referred to as resembling a straw hat several times. As a child Yuki and Chizuru were friends however [[LanguageBarrier they couldn't communicate]] due to Chizuru not speaking Japanese at the time.
* Besides all the human-alien hybrids, several characters in ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' are implied to be of multi-racial ancestry, judging from their names. This makes sense, considering the OneWorldOrder setting.
* ''Manga/{{Saki}}'' and her older sister Teru are this, since their mother was the daughter of a famous foreign mahjong player.
* Asirpa from ''Manga/GoldenKamuy'' is very much an Ainu girl, but it's hinted early on that she has European ancestry, what with her blue-green eyes and all. [[spoiler:Specifically, her father is half-Polish.]]
* Negi from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is Welsh, though the fact that he, his father, and his first cousin all have [[MultiethnicName Multi-Ethnic Names]] suggests possible Japanese ancestry. [[spoiler:He's also half [[HumanAlien Martian]] due to his mother having been an Ostian princess.]]
* Touta from ''Negima'''s sequel ''Manga/UQHolder'' considers himself to be Japanese, but his actually ancestry is a bit more complicated. [[spoiler: He's 1/4 Welsh and 3/4 [[HumanAlien Ostian]] due to being an ArtificalHuman made from Negi and Asuna's DNA, the woman who gave birth to him as a surrogate is Japanese with potential tengu ancestry (either 1/4 or 1/8), and he was raised by a Scotswoman.]]
* Maria, Shouya's niece from ''Manga/ASilentVoice'', has a Japanese mother and an Afro-Brazilian father.
* Maka from ''Manga/SoulEater'' is the daughter of a Meister and a Weapon. Being a Weapon is a genetic trait that Arachne created by mucking around with witch and human souls 800 years ago, so they aren't really a separate species.
* In ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'', it is implied that [[HeroicBastard Rio]] is of mixed heritage [[spoiler: since she lacks the PhenotypeStereotype looks of her blonde, green-eyed half-sister and her last names are Japanese/Slavic]]. Most probably a very common thing in Helvetia and no one seems to care.
* Blue from ''Anime/WolfsRain'' is a wolf-dog. Upon meeting Cheza, the dog side of her virtually disappears and she joins the other wolves. In the end, [[spoiler: it ultimately causes her to be denied reincarnation and she can't be with the other wolves.]]
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* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'': Url is half-demon on her mother's side. Of course, the only one the really seems to be affected by it is her as most goddesses are nice enough not to bring it up (or simply don't care) and most demons, well, they don't really want to mess with the beloved daughter of the ruler of Hell herself.

!!Sub-tropes:
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[[AC:General tropes]]
* ChildOfTwoWorlds: A character is a member of two very different (and often opposed) communities.
* ChocolateBaby: A baby doesn't look much like one or both of their parents, hinting that their mother may have cheated on her husband with the child's real father. The child being a different race/species may be an indicator.
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: A character of mixed heritage is discriminated against by one or both of their parents' respective communities.
* HidingYourHeritage: A character hides their mixed ancestry to avoid being discriminated for it.
* OneDropRule: Someone of mixed heritage gets pigeonholed into only being a single category that they belong to.
* WarringNatures: A child whose parents are members of different groups that are currently at war with each other.

[[AC:Multiracial tropes]]
* AbandonedWarChild: Sometimes (though not always), this character's father was a foreign soldier who had impregnated a local woman during a time of war or military occupation.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: A character has brownish skin, but their exact ethnicity is not given. Though it's quite possible that they're multiracial.
* ButNotTooBlack: A character who is known to be black, but their skin tone is very pale. This may imply white (or otherwise non-black) ancestry.
* ButNotTooForeign: A character has foreign ancestry or mixed blood, but has attributes of their native background toned down.
* FakeMixedRace: Despite their appearance, [[SubvertedTrope they're not actually multiracial]].
* InTheFutureHumansWillBeOneRace: In the distant future, all ethnic groups will eventually mix together until everyone looks racially homogeneous.
* InsanelyInternationalAncestry: A character has ancestors who originated from many different regions across the world.
* MultiEthnicName: Can sometimes indicate that a character has a rather diverse cultural heritage.
* TwoferTokenMinority: A character who belongs to multiple minority ethnic groups, while the rest of the cast are unmixed members of the majority ethnic group.

[[AC:Multispecies tropes]]
* AllGenesAreCodominant: An interspecies hybrid baby ends up getting 50/50 genes, looking like an even mix of both.
* ArtificialHybrid: A variation; this character was actually born as a member of one species (and thus technically doesn't have mixed parentage), but they were later transformed into a mutant hybrid with another species.
* BornOfHeavenAndHell: A character who's half-[[OurAngelsAreDifferent angel]] and half-[[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]].
* {{Dhampyr}}: A character who's half-human and half-[[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]].
* DivineParentage: Someone is the child of a [[OurGodsAreDifferent god]] and a mortal.
* DominantSpeciesGenes: When species X and Y have kids, the kid is ''always'' an X.
* DragonAncestry: Someone with partially [[OurDragonsAreDifferent draconic]] blood.
* EitherOrOffspring: When two species breed, you always get one or the other, never a true hybrid.
* GenderEqualsBreed: When an interspecies couple have children, the male children look like their father and the female children look like their mother.
* HalfBreedAngst: A HalfHumanHybrid or NonhumanHumanoidHybrid character is personally insecure due to feeling that they can never truly fit in with either side of their mixed ancestry.
* HalfHumanHybrid: A being who is half-human and half-something that isn't human.
* HeinzHybrid: A hybrid of an implausible number of different species.
* HumanMomNonHumanDad: This person's mother is human, while their father is not.
* HybridAllAlong: A character learns that they're a hybrid.
* HybridPower: A character with a superpowered parent inherits powers from them.
* {{Nephilim}}: They're usually some hybrid of human, [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angel]], and/or [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]]).
* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: A being who is a mixture of two different non-human species that still looks humanoid.
* SemiDivine: Part normal, part supernatural being. Or in between them in general.
* TrueBreedingHybrid: Crossing two species produces a new one.
* UnevenHybrid: Someone with majority ancestry of one species, and minority ancestry of another.

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* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: A being who is a mixture of two different non-human species.

* Emma Washbourne in the ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' comics. Her mom Zoe is black and her dad Hoban is white. She looks like her mom, though.

* ''Series/RoswellNewMexico'': is half White and half Native American (Navajo specifically).