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* ''Film/SoulMan'': A child of wealthy parents is told they won't pay for his tuition to Harvard Law School. He takes a huge amount of tanning pills to turn his skin dark so he can qualify for a scholarship for black students. Hilarity (supposedly) ensues.
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* ''GeNext'': In this mini-series from the late-2000s, about a small group of children of X-Men, they are comprised of a four white teenagers: a Russian (Colossus's grandson), a Cajun (Gambit's son), an American blond guy and a [[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/6/68486/1365456-nn_take_a_shot.png blonde white girl]] called "No-Name", plus an African teenager (Storm's daughter). In the sequel mini-series, shenanigans happen during a mission in India, and everyone is turned into an Indian person to protect them from the villains. At the end of second mini-series, everyone is reverted back to their original appearance, save for No-Name, who decides to [[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/6/68486/1389763-nn_or_d_you_even.png keep the new look]].

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* ''GeNext'': ''[=GeNext=]'': In this mini-series from the late-2000s, about a small group of children of X-Men, they are comprised of a four white teenagers: a Russian (Colossus's grandson), a Cajun (Gambit's son), an American blond guy and a [[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/6/68486/1365456-nn_take_a_shot.png blonde white girl]] called "No-Name", plus an African teenager (Storm's daughter). In the sequel mini-series, shenanigans happen during a mission in India, and everyone is turned into an Indian person to protect them from the villains. At the end of second mini-series, everyone is reverted back to their original appearance, save for No-Name, who decides to [[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/6/68486/1389763-nn_or_d_you_even.png keep the new look]].
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* ''GeNext'': In this mini-series from the late-2000s, about a small group of children of X-Men, they are comprised of a four white teenagers: a Russian (Colossus's grandson), a Cajun (Gambit's son), an American blond guy and a blonde white girl called "No-Name", plus an African teenager (Storm's daughter). In the sequel mini-series, shenanigans happen during a mission in India, and everyone is turned into an Indian person to protect them from the villains. At the end of second mini-series, everyone is reverted back to their original appearance, save for No-Name, who decides to keep the new look.

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* ''GeNext'': In this mini-series from the late-2000s, about a small group of children of X-Men, they are comprised of a four white teenagers: a Russian (Colossus's grandson), a Cajun (Gambit's son), an American blond guy and a [[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/6/68486/1365456-nn_take_a_shot.png blonde white girl girl]] called "No-Name", plus an African teenager (Storm's daughter). In the sequel mini-series, shenanigans happen during a mission in India, and everyone is turned into an Indian person to protect them from the villains. At the end of second mini-series, everyone is reverted back to their original appearance, save for No-Name, who decides to [[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/6/68486/1389763-nn_or_d_you_even.png keep the new look.look]].
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* ''GeNext'': In this mini-series from the late-2000s, about a small group of children of X-Men, they are comprised of a four white teenagers: a Russian (Colossus's grandson), a Cajun (Gambit's son), an American blond guy and a blonde white girl called "No-Name", plus an African teenager (Storm's daughter). In the sequel mini-series, shenanigans happen during a mission in India, and everyone is turned into an Indian person to protect them from the villains. At the end of second mini-series, everyone is reverted back to their original appearance, save for No-Name, who decides to keep the new look.
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* In ''ComicBook/{{Champions 2016}}'', Viv Vision is turned from synthezoid into a human by the High Evolutionary, and somehow becomes a black girl in the process.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Champions|MarvelComics}}'': In ''ComicBook/{{Champions 2016}}'', ''ComicBook/Champions2016'' #15, Viv Vision is turned from synthezoid into a human by the High Evolutionary, and somehow becomes a black girl in the process.
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* In a cycle of North African/Berber stories classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type AaTh 451A, "The Sister Seeking her Nine Brothers" (after 2004, it was subsumed under type ATU 451, "The Maiden Who Seeks Her Brothers"), a girl is born after seven brothers and, when she grows up, decides to go after them. On the road, her Black slave girl (sometimes helped by an accomplice) forces the girl to bathe in a basin, pool, or oasis where the Black girl becomes white, and the heroine's skin becomes black.

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* In a cycle of North African/Berber stories classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type AaTh [=AaTh=] 451A, "The Sister Seeking her Nine Brothers" (after 2004, it was subsumed under type ATU 451, "The Maiden Who Seeks Her Brothers"), a girl is born after seven brothers and, when she grows up, decides to go after them. On the road, her Black slave girl (sometimes helped by an accomplice) forces the girl to bathe in a basin, pool, or oasis where the Black girl becomes white, and the heroine's skin becomes black.
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* In a cycle of North African/Berber stories classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type AaTh 451A, "The Sister Seeking her Nine Brothers" (after 2004, it was subsumed under type ATU 451, "The Maiden Who Seeks Her Brothers"), a girl is born after seven brothers and, when she grows up, decides to go after them. On the road, her Black slave girl (sometimes helped by an accomplice) forces the girl to bathe in a basin, pool, or oasis where the Black girl becomes white, and the heroine's skin becomes black.
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Compare GenderBender. See RaceLift for the out-of-universe version when a character's ethnicity is changed in a {{Reboot}} or adaptation. {{Blackface}}, {{Brownface}}, {{Yellowface}}, and WhiteLikeMe are the mundane and easily reversible make-up based alternatives.

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Compare GenderBender. See RaceLift for the out-of-universe version when a character's ethnicity is changed in a {{Reboot}} ContinuityReboot or adaptation. {{Blackface}}, {{Brownface}}, {{Yellowface}}, and WhiteLikeMe are the mundane and easily reversible make-up based alternatives.
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* The musical ''Theatre/FiniansRainbow'' features the villainous Senator Billboard Rawkins transformed into a black man by a wish carelessly made over a crock of leprechaun's gold. After Og the leprechaun magically gives him a "new inside" to go with his changed outside, a kinder Rawkins not only ends up embracing his blackness, but is unable to defend Sharon against charges of "witchcraft" because the Jim Crow laws he himself pushed on Missitucky now give him limited legal standing; [[spoiler:after he's changed back at the end, he vows to be a better representative to all of his constituents, both white and black]]. To avoid {{Blackface}}, revivals tend to cast two separate actors for Rawkins pre- and post-transformation, or a black actor initially in whiteface to give maximum irony to Rawkins' bigoted attitudes.
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* In the ''Series/InLivingColor'' sketch "Greshan Formula", the said product can transform the user to a black person.


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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheDatingGuy'' episode "Brother From Another Tanning Booth", Mark and Woody switch skin colors.

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* The old [=DOS=] game ''VideoGame/WizardsCastle'' lets the player start out as a human, a dwarf, an elf, or a hobbit. This choice will remain stable throughout the dungeon crawl unless the player chooses to drink from a pool (three pools per level, 24 in total). Among the effects these magic pools have are changing one's race. A player could enter the castle as a male elf, and emerge (or perish) as a female dwarf, for instance.


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* ''VideoGame/WizardsCastle'' lets the player start out as a human, a dwarf, an elf, or a hobbit. This choice will remain stable throughout the dungeon crawl unless the player chooses to drink from a pool (three pools per level, 24 in total). Such a drink can change one's race. A player could enter the castle as a male elf, and emerge (or perish) as a female dwarf, for instance.

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