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* The second ComicBook/XMen team had ComicBook/{{Storm}}, who was, for quite a while, the only black X-Man. She joined the team along with Sunfire, a Japanese man who left almost immediately, and Thunderbird, a Native American man who died almost immediately, making her also the only active non-white X-Man for a good while.

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* The second ComicBook/XMen team had ComicBook/{{Storm}}, ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}}, who was, for quite a while, the only black X-Man. She joined the team along with Sunfire, a Japanese man who left almost immediately, and Thunderbird, a Native American man who died almost immediately, making her also the only active non-white X-Man for a good while.
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*''Anime/LauraThePrairieGirl'': Quite a few Wisconsin residents that move to the Prairie are black, including the Ingalls' family friend from episode 3.

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* The black Orange Blossom and the AmbiguouslyBrown Ginger Snap of ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'', though later seasons introduce more characters.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'':
** Orange Blossom is the TokenBlackFriend to Strawberry in every generation.
The black most egregious case is ''Berry Bitty Adventures'', where she was the only character of color in the entire series.
** The International Friends from the 1980s series were introduced to diversify Strawberry's circle of friends. They include the British Lem and Ada, the French Crepes Suzette, the Chinese Almond Tea, the Dutch Mint Tulip, and the Mexican Cafe Ole.
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Orange Blossom and the AmbiguouslyBrown Ginger Snap of ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'', the 2003 series, though later seasons introduce more characters.characters with different ethnicities, like Tangerina Torta, Tea Blossom (a renamed Almond Tea), and Crepes Suzette.
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** ComicBook/TheFalcon was this in-universe. He was added to The Avengers because [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Gyrich]] insisted that the team should have more black members; he didn't actually want to join. According to [[Creator/ChristopherPriestComics Christopher Priest]], Falcon's nickname in the Marvel offices throughout the 70s and early 80s was "Fal-coon". No, Priest wasn't alright with it, though being a lowly intern at the time, he didn't raise a big stink. In his blog, he refuses to name the co-workers who used it for fear of burning his bridges. Years later, Triathlon served the exact same role (again, in-universe) during Creator/KurtBusiek's run. Later iterations of the team were thankfully more diverse.

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** ComicBook/TheFalcon was this in-universe. He was added to The Avengers because [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Gyrich]] insisted that the team should have more black members; he didn't actually want to join. According to [[Creator/ChristopherPriestComics Christopher Priest]], Creator/{{Christopher Priest|Comics}}, Falcon's nickname in the Marvel offices throughout the 70s and early 80s was "Fal-coon". No, Priest wasn't alright with it, though being a lowly intern at the time, he didn't raise a big stink. In his blog, he refuses to name the co-workers who used it for fear of burning his bridges. Years later, Triathlon served the exact same role (again, in-universe) during Creator/KurtBusiek's run. Later iterations of the team were thankfully more diverse.
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* ''Literature/TalesOfThePack'': Duane appears to be the only black man at Milton College.
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** Parodied with [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep Tolkien Black]] ([[SuddenNameChange formerly named Token Williams]]), the only black kid. Part of the joke is that all the other characters think he's the token ''rich'' character -- the only one to regularly call attention to Token's blackness is Cartman, who has been shown in other contexts to be [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain quite racist]]. And his parents own the Hooters {{expy}} restaurant Raisins. Which is done as a deliberate subversion of this trope.
** Ruthlessly parodied in "The Big Fix", where Randy, in attempt to appeal to black customers, attempts to recuit Token's father - Steve - into his weed farming business. After succeeding, Randy proceeds to ignore all of Steve's actual input and makes it incredibly obvious that he's only using him for his race, going to far as to plaster billboards across town with Steve's face on it. Steve proceeds to angrily quit [[LaserGuidedKarma and opens up a rival company right across the street.]] Meanwhile, Randy's attempt to get Stan and Token to connect leads to the revelation that Token [[spoiler:is actually called ''[[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien]]]]'', and that apparently everybody in South Park except for Stan and Randy knew that. Complete with the episode BreakingTheFourthWall to [[BlamedForBeingRailroaded accuse the audience of being racist]] for thinking otherwise.

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** Parodied with [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep Tolkien Token Black]] ([[SuddenNameChange formerly named the less on-the-nose Token Williams]]), the only black kid. Part of the joke is that all the other characters think he's the token ''rich'' character -- the only one to regularly call attention to Token's blackness is Cartman, who has been shown in other contexts to be [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain quite racist]]. And his parents own the Hooters {{expy}} restaurant Raisins. Which is done as a deliberate subversion of this trope.
** Ruthlessly parodied in "The Big Fix", where Randy, in attempt to appeal to black customers, attempts to recuit Token's father - Steve - into his weed farming business. After succeeding, Randy proceeds to ignore all of Steve's actual input and makes it incredibly obvious that he's only using him for his race, going to far as to plaster billboards across town with Steve's face on it. Steve proceeds to angrily quit [[LaserGuidedKarma and opens up a rival company right across the street.]] Meanwhile, Randy's attempt to get Stan and Token to connect leads to the revelation "revelation" that Token [[spoiler:is was actually called named ''[[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien]]]]'', Tolkien]]'' all along, and that apparently everybody in South Park except for Stan and Randy knew that. Complete with the episode BreakingTheFourthWall to [[BlamedForBeingRailroaded accuse the audience of being racist]] for thinking otherwise.
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*''Film/BigBrother2018'' is set in Hong Kong, with the half-Pakistani Zufa being the sole non-Chinese or Hong-Konger character.
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*''Series/PipoDeClown'': Klukkluk is the only Native American amongst an European cast, and this is highlighted by his poor grasp of the Dutch language and FunnyForeigner antics. He is portrayed by a white actor in {{brownface}}.
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* ''Series/{{Camelot}}'': Ulfius on Arthur's side and Vivian on Margan's. Both are the sole Black people among the cast, who are otherwise White.

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* ''Series/{{Camelot}}'': Ulfius on Arthur's side and Vivian on Margan's.Morgan's. Both are the sole Black people among the cast, who are otherwise White.
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* ''Film/TheMajestic'': Emmett is a black man, the only person of color in the film and Lawson, California, a small town where he lives. Nobody appears to treat him badly, but he recalls visiting France as a soldier in World War II where the (white) French people greeted him gratefully and didn't care about his race at all, with it having been a moving experience he's always remembered.

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* ''Film/TheMajestic'': Emmett is a black man, the only person of color in the film and Lawson, California, a the small town where he lives. of Lawson, California. Nobody appears to treat him badly, but he recalls visiting France as a soldier in World War II I where the (white) French people greeted him gratefully and didn't care about his race at all, with it having been a moving experience he's always remembered.

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