History Main / ToKenMinority

* Currently the WWE Divas are sadly falling into this. Each brand has one (and in many cases, ONLY one) member of each minority group amidst the sea of blond hair on the rest of the roster.

* As it stands, here are is the list of divas and their ethnicities (as of August 2013):

** Latina - Rosa Mendes, The Bella Twins (half-Mexican, half-Italian), Eva Marie, [=JoJo=]

*** Wrestling/VickieGuerrero is officially listed as a Diva, but she's more of a manager. She's also considerably older than the rest of the group, some of whom are young enough to be her daughters.

** Latina - Rosa Mendes, The Bella Twins (half-Mexican, half-Italian), Eva Marie, JoJo

* As it stands, here are is the list of divas and their ethnicities:
** Caucasian - [[Wrestling/NatalyaNeidheart Natalya]], [[Wrestling/{{ChickBusters}} Kaitlyn]] ([[EveryoneLovesBlondes all blonde as well]]).
** Black - Wrestling/AliciaFox
** Latina - Wrestling/EveTorres, Rosa Mendes
** Asian - None in WWE (Wrestling/GailKim left for TNA.)
** Samoan - Tamina[[note]]Daughter of Wrestling/JimmySnuka[[/note]]
** Mixed Race - Layla (Moroccan/British), Wrestling/AJLee (half-Italian).

* Pete Ross from ''{{Smallville}}'' is an especially funny example, as his comic book counterpart is white.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' has an interesting take on this. While the crew of the Normandy consists mainly of humans with only one member of various other species present (one asari, one turian, etc.), those species are so common throughout the galaxy that most of your NPC interactions involve them. Tali'Zorah Nar Rayya, on the other hand, is the only quarian in the entire game, making her your token minority team member.
** She's also a [[SpaceJews Space Gipsy]], making her and anyone of her race a barely tolerated outcast everywhere outside their fleet.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' gives a double subversion, since Shepard's field mission squad consist of only three humans and seven aliens of different races, but when it comes to the human crew on Normandy SR-2, [[OnlySaneMan Jacob Taylor]] is the only black man on the whole ship.
** Until you download the DLC and thus you have Token Minorities within token minorities. In the humans, you have an Australian(Miranda), a Canadian(Shepard, both sexes), an American(Jacob), a Brit(Zaeed), and a Japanese GenkiGirl(Kasumi).

* Parodied in a ''{{Shortpacked}}'' strip dealing with the controversy around Michael B. Jordan [[RaceLift being approached to play]] [[FantasticFour the Human Torch]]. An irate comic fan complains to Jacob about this development and states that this would likely make the Invisible Woman (Torch's sister) black as well, and when Jacob doesn't see a problem with this, the fanboy responds by claiming that having two black people in the cast would be "unrealistic". The fanboy then runs off screaming when Lucy, the strip's other major black character, shows up.

* Perhaps in response some of the complaints about the [[MonochromeCasting racial]] and [[TheSmurfettePrinciple gender]] disparity in [[Film/TheAvengers the live-action movie]], the upcoming ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'' cartoon has ComicBook/TheFalcon added to the film's Avengers roster, making him the sole person of color.

* Mixed-race AngelCoulby was the result of AbilityOverAppearance when it came to casting her as Guinevere on ''Series/{{Merlin}}'', and to their credit, the producers have never once defended or explained this decision beyond saying that she was the best for the role. However, one can't help but feel that the later inclusion of Gwen's brother Elyan was the result of this trope: he's the only black knight of the Round Table and doesn't really get to do much.

** Sgt. Kinchloe (played by Ivan Dixon) was more than the radio expert - he was second-in-command. He also had at least three episodes showcasing him. And his role was prominent enough that the practice of cutting out the black characters for the "Southern Version" (practiced up to the late 1960's) wasn't usually possible. Sgt. Baker (played by Kenneth Washington) was a better fit for the TokenMinority trope when he took Kinchloe's place, having previously been the one black guy in the mob of line-less background prisoners.

* ''HarryPotter'''s school Hogwarts has a few, including the very Irish Seamus Finnegan (although there may be others who are less obvious), the Indian Patil twins, the Jewish Anthony Goldstein, the Chinese Cho Chang, and the black Dean Thomas, Angelina Johnson, and Blaise Zabini. To Mrs. Rowling's credit, no ado is made of any of these characters' ethnicities, nor are they ever described as such. In fact, WordOfGod has been needed to identify some of the black characters in the series.

** In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' there are exactly two non-Imperials among the nobles of Cyrodiil: Count Andel Indarys of Cheydinhal, a dark elf who is accused of having gotten his position via {{nepotism}} (he's supposedly friends with King Helseth of Morrowind), and Imperial Battlemage Ocato, a high elf who only even appears twice.

* The ''{{Fabuland}}'' toy line by {{LEGO}} only had one crocodile and three birds among an otherwise all-mammal cast.

** One of those later books was the ''Literature/{{Remnants}} series, which had several black, Hispanic, and Asian characters, a character who had a messed up face because it was burned in a fire (2Face), and Noyze, who grew up deaf. They even tried to put a lesbian in this ''kids series from 2001'', but sadly, [[HideYourLesbians it didn't quite work as planned]].

* Parodied in a ''{{Shortpacked}}'' dealing with the controversy around Michael B. Jordan [[RaceLift being approached to play]] [[FantasticFour the Human Torch]]. An irate comic fan complains to Jacob about this development and states that this would likely make the Invisible Woman (Torch's sister) black as well, and when Jacob doesn't see a problem with this, the fanboy responds by claiming that having two black people in the cast would be "unrealistic". The fanboy then runs off screaming when Lucy, the strip's other major black character, shows up.

* The [[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] goes back in forth on this, with some eras (such as the Meltzer and [[DwayneMcDuffie McDuffie]] years) had very diverse casts, others like the James Robinson run were criticized for having no minority members whatsoever. During the ''{{New 52}}'' relaunch, Cyborg was retconned into being the sole non-white founding member of the original team, presumably to make up for the extended periods of whiteness.

* ''SuperFriends'' was notorious for that kind of character, with a bunch of obviously non-white superheroes; Apache Chief (Native North America), Black Vulcan (Black), Samurai (Asian) and El Dorado (Latin American). The final season tried to address the black issue by replacing Black Vulcan with Cyborg of the ComicBook/TeenTitans, a character that Marv Wolfman and George Perez worked hard to create as a legitimate original character.

* Freight Train from ''WheresHuddles''.

* Valerie from ''JosieAndThePussycats''.

* ''Stockinger'', the spinoff of the Austrian show ''InspectorRex'', has Antonella Simoni, a cheerful Italian-Austrian cop and the first female cop to appear in the ''Inspector Rex'' franchise.

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* ''[[WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'' has BlackPanther, an African king who's proven himself a very competent fighter and quite knowledgeable about science and magic. However, he sometimes goes whole episodes without saying anything. (Then again, some might argue that his stunts feel more badass when he doesn't talk.)