History Main / TokenEnemyMinority

* OlderThanSteam: In Shakespeare's ''Theatre/HenryV'', Henry is accompanied in his French war by (fictional) Scottish, Welsh, and Irish soldiers. It is Macmorris the Irish captain who really fits this trope, as ''Theatre/HenryV'' was written in 1599 in the middle of a very bloody English war against Irish rebels.

** [[spoiler:[=BlackArachnia=]]] takes the role after [[spoiler:Dinobot's death]] although unlike Dinobot, she never consider herself a Maximal and even protests if is not called a Predacon. [[spoiler: Only after her Transmetal 2 upgrade does she fully become a Maximal.]]

* [[spoiler:Isaac]] becomes this in ''Series/TheOrville'' after his people start a war against the Union. [[spoiler:He remains part of the ''Orville'''s crew after he has a change of heart during the ship's occupation by the hostile Kaylon extermination force traveling to Earth.]]

* Herald Alberich of Karse in Mercedes Lackey's ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series was the Token Enemy Minority Herald, until he got two entire books as the protagonist and stopped being just a token. Then there're three other books (published earlier, taking place chronologically later) with a Karsite priest as one of the protagonists. As of the chronologically latest books in the series, Karse is now allied to Valdemar, but for centuries they were very bitter enemies fighting a perpetual war.
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's story ''Literature/SixthColumn'' was a reworking of a Creator/JohnWCampbell story where the YellowPeril invades America. Heinlein wrote that he had to remove racist elements from the original story, and the final story has a Japanese-American as one of the good guys. Assuming this was an addition by Heinlein (which seems likely), it may be unique as an example of the trope used for a Japanese character during World War II.
* The trope is {{Invoked}} by Jacobson in Creator/JoWalton's ''[[Literature/SmallChange Half a Crown]]'', who is prominently the only Jewish member of The Watch, a sinister StateSec organization that is more-or-less a British gestapo. The remaining British Jewish population perceive him as a [[TheQuisling Collaborator Figurehead]], not knowing Jacobson is running a ZeroApprovalGambit and is [[RageWithinTheMachine using his resources within The Watch]] to help run a large-scale UndergroundRailroad.

* Most of Literature/{{Alatriste}}'s enemies are aristocrats, but he is also friends with an aristocrat, the Count of Guadalmedina. In ''Corsairs of the Levant'', Alatriste joins the Spanish galleys fighting the Muslims in the Mediterranean and is accompanied by Gurriato, a Muslim auxiliary from Wahran (now in Algeria, part of the Spanish Empire at the time of the novels).
* If you consider the Slytherins to be basically the bad guys in the Literature/{{Harry Potter}} universe (aside Death Eaters that are mostly Slytherins) then there are at least two Slytherins helping the heroes in their war against Voldemort, Slughorn and [[spoiler:Snape]]. Also at the end of book seven [[spoiler:the Malfoys]] do a discrete defection.

* ''Literature/TheWordForWorldIsForest'' was published in 1972 and includes Vietnamese characters, Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin having written it as a response to UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar.

* ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob'': Myc Celium belongs to a HiveMind race of sentient fungus who wants to rule the Earth but he at the end remained loyal to his friends/coworkers.

** [[spoiler:Black Arachnia]] takes the role after [[spoiler:Dinobot's death]] although unlike Dinobot, she never consider herself a Maximal and even protests if is not call a Predacon.

* The ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorRisingSun'' has the heroes fighting Japanese soldiers in WWII. The main villain is Masataka Shima (Mako Iwamatsu), a high ranking officer for the Imperial Japanese Army. The protagonist works with Ichiro Tanaka, a brave and loyal Japanese-American OSS agent.