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** [[OnlySixFaces Every characters have the same features regardless of their races.]]



* '''Enforced''': "We need to make a character who stands out more."

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* '''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
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"We need to make a character who stands out more.""
** "We need a character who everyone can associate with, let's make her look less like any specific race!"



** With DesignerBabies and fashion-ability of exotic looks parents choose to add more variety to the appearance of their children.

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** With DesignerBabies and fashion-ability of exotic looks looks, parents choose to add more variety to the appearance of their children.
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** [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Sakura was born with a full head of luxurious blonde locks from a magical flower that her mother consumed it.]]

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** [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Sakura was born with a full head of luxurious blonde locks from a magical flower that her mother consumed it.during pregnancy.]]



** An ancient sorcerer casts a spell on Japan that causes their hair and eye colors to become vibrantly unnatural.

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** An ancient sorcerer casts a spell on somewhere in Japan that causes their hair and eye colors to become vibrantly unnatural.
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*** Triple Subversion: She's actually wearing contacts.
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** [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Sakura was born with a full head of luxurious blonde locks from a magical flower that her mother consumed it.]]


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** An ancient sorcerer casts a spell on Japan that causes their hair and eye colors to become vibrantly unnatural.
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** Sakura is of the Ainu.
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** Alternately, East Asians (like Sakura) are drawn in the Anime look. Sarah, and the Americans and the Canadians in-universe are drawn in a more realistic Superhero comic style. Europeans, on the other hand, look like the classic Princess-and-Prince-Charming Disney characters.

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** Alternately, the racial differences are shown by stylistic differences. East Asians (like Sakura) Sakura Shimada) are drawn in the Anime look. Sarah, look (bonus point for looking chibi). Sarah Sanders, and the Americans and the Canadians in-universe are drawn in a more realistic Superhero comic style. Europeans, Sandrine Strasbouger and the other European characters, on the other hand, look like the classic Princess-and-Prince-Charming Disney characters.
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* '''Played For Drama''': Racial tensions are explored in this particular series.

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* '''Played For Drama''': Racial tensions are explored in this particular series.series, such as Japanese ultranationalists abusing their own who look like ''gaijin'' or Neo-Nazis giving grief to Japanese Americans who are discovered to have been white-passing.

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* '''Parodied''': Sakura is obviously one of the StarfishAliens, and is still stated to be Japanese.

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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
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Sakura is obviously one of the StarfishAliens, and is still stated to be Japanese.
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** All the other characters drawn in this style can do {{Face Fault}}s and other anime ways of emoting, but a character explicitly stated to be a white American and drawn in a Western style, try as he might, cannot.
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* '''Conversed''': "Lots of Japanese {{Anime}} characters don't look Japanese.

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* '''Conversed''': "Lots of Japanese {{Anime}} characters don't look Japanese."

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* '''Subverted''': Sakura is stated to be an American student studying abroad in Japan, going by a nickname.

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Sakura is stated to be an American student studying abroad in Japan, going by a nickname.

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** Sakura ''is'' Japanese, but has dyed her hair.

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** Sakura ''is'' Japanese, but has dyed her hair. hair.
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*** Or, alternatively, she was born and raised in Japan, but her parents are foreign.

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*** Or, alternatively, she ** Sakura was born and raised in Japan, but her parents are foreign.
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** Sakura ''is'' Japanese, but has dyed her hair.

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** Sakura is an albino, explaining how she has blonde hair and blue eyes.

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*** Or, alternatively, she was born and raised in Japan, but her parents are foreign.
** Sakura is an albino, explaining how she has blonde hair and blue eyes.albino.

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* '''Invoked''': Sakura wants to look like all the American women she's seeing in the magazines she reads, and contemplates changing her hair and eye color.

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Sakura wants to look like all the American women she's seeing in the magazines she reads, and contemplates changing her hair and eye color.

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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Sakura lives in Japan but has red hair which is rare but possible without any other heritage.



** Sakura is an albino, explaining how she has blonde hair and blue eyes.



* '''Exploited''': ???

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** With DesignerBabies and fashion-ability of exotic looks parents choose to add more variety to the appearance of their children.
* '''Exploited''': ???Sakura is an American and uses this trope to disguise herself.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Sakura (and all her friends and neighbors) are part of an AmazingTechnicolorPopulation, with hair, eye, and skin colors not found in nature at all.
** Sakura is a [[StickFigureComic Stick Figure]], along with all the other characters.

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Sakura (and all her friends and neighbors) are part of an AmazingTechnicolorPopulation, with hair, eye, and skin colors not found in nature at all.
** Sakura is a [[StickFigureComic Stick Figure]], {{Stick Figure|Comic}}, along with all the other characters.
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** Sakura is a [[StickFigureComic Stick Figure]], along with all the other characters.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': Sakura has blue eyes and blonde hair, is stated to be japanese, later you find out her real father was foreign, but his father was Japanese. Through a long convoluted family tree, the viewer finds out she is actually African. South African.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Sakura has blue eyes and blonde hair, but is stated to be japanese, Japanese. However, later you find out that her real father was foreign, but his father was Japanese. Through Eventually, after going through a long long, convoluted family tree, the viewer finds out that she is actually African. South African.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Sakura has blue eyes and blonde hair, is stated to be japanese, later you find out her real father was foreign, but his father was Japanese. Through a long convoluted family tree, the viewer finds out she is actually African. South African.

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* '''Double Subverted''': But she hangs around with other characters who follow a similar PhenotypeStereotype, and none of them are stated to be foreigners; the fact that she is tends to [[CanonDiscontinuity be forgotten, even by the writers]].

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* '''Double Subverted''': Subverted''':
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But she hangs around with other characters who follow a similar PhenotypeStereotype, and none of them are stated to be foreigners; the fact that she is tends to [[CanonDiscontinuity be forgotten, even by the writers]].

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* '''Basic Trope''': Characters in an {{Anime}} or {{Manga}} series are stated to be Japanese, but don't look like Japanese people at all.
* '''Played Straight''': Sakura lives in Japan, but she has blonde hair and blue eyes.

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* '''Basic Trope''': Characters in an {{Anime}} or {{Manga}} series are stated to be Japanese, but don't look like Japanese people at all.
* '''Played Straight''': '''Straight''': Sakura lives in Japan, but she has blonde hair and blue eyes.



* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''':
** Sakura is [[ButNotTooForeign only half Japanese]].
** Sakura is a foreigner, but has been living in Japan for a long time.



* '''Justified''': Sakura is [[ButNotTooForeign only half Japanese]].
** Sakura is a foreigner, but has been living in Japan for a long time.



** But her eyes are blue or green, not something ''typically'' found in that population.
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** But her eyes are blue or green, not something ''typically'' found in that population. \n* '''Deconstructed''':\n* '''Reconstructed''':



* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Sakura (and all other Japanese characters in the series) are drawn in a much more realistic style.
* '''Enforced''': "We need to make a character who stands out more."



* '''Averted''': Sakura (and all other Japanese characters in the series) are drawn in a much more realistic style.
* '''Enforced''': "We need to make a character who stands out more."



* '''Exploited''': ???




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%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
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* '''Inverted''': Alice is stated to be European, but she has the ShinyMidnightBlack hair and almond eyes of an East Asian person.

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* '''Inverted''': Alice is stated to be European, but she has the ShinyMidnightBlack black hair and almond eyes of an East Asian person.
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** Sakura has ShinyMidnightBlack hair and almond eyes.
** Sakura is stated to have dyed her hair blonde and be wearing blue contact lenses, to look like the models in a foreign magazine she's been reading, or perhaps as an inverse parody of the infamous [[OccidentalOtaku "weeaboo"]].
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Blue Eyes has been split into six different tropes as per this thread because it\'s not just about having that eye colour, it\'s about what traits blue eyes supposed to symbolise and blue eyes is constantly being misused for \"X has blue eyes\", so anything that doesn\'t fit the split off tropes or Zero Content Examples will be removed. This goes for most of the Common Eye Colours tropes as well


* '''Played Straight''': Sakura lives in Japan, but she has HairOfGold and BlueEyes.

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* '''Played Straight''': Sakura lives in Japan, but she has HairOfGold blonde hair and BlueEyes.blue eyes.
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* '''Justified''': Sakura is only half Japanese.

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* '''Justified''': Sakura is [[ButNotTooForeign only half Japanese.Japanese]].
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* '''Enforced''':

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* '''Enforced''': "We need to make a character who stands out more."

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** Sakura has ShinyMidnightBlack hair and almond eyes.
** Sakura is stated to have dyed her hair blonde and be wearing blue contact lenses, to look like the models in a foreign magazine she's been reading, or perhaps as an inverse parody of the infamous [[OccidentalOtaku "weeaboo"]].



** But her eyes are blue or green, not something ''typically'' found in that population.



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'''Averted''': Sakura (and all other Japanese characters in the series) are drawn in a much more realistic style.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Invoked''': Sakura wants to look like all the American women she's seeing in the magazines she reads, and contemplates changing her hair and eye color.
* '''Defied''': Sakura then decides that look just isn't her, and decides against dyeing her hair and wearing blue contacts.
* '''Discussed''': "I don't think Sakura's from around here. I mean, she's blonde!"
* '''Conversed''': "Lots of Japanese {{Anime}} characters don't look Japanese.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Sakura is an obsessive Americanophile, parodying the OccidentalOtaku stereotype.
* '''Played For Drama''': Racial tensions are explored in this particular series.
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*'''Basic Trope''': Characters in an {{Anime}} or {{Manga}} series are stated to be Japanese, but don't look like Japanese people at all.
*'''Played Straight''': Sakura lives in Japan, but she has HairOfGold and BlueEyes.
*'''Exaggerated''': Sakura (and all her friends and neighbors) are part of an AmazingTechnicolorPopulation, with hair, eye, and skin colors not found in nature at all.
*'''Inverted''': Alice is stated to be European, but she has the ShinyMidnightBlack hair and almond eyes of an East Asian person.
*'''Justified''': Sakura is only half Japanese.
** Sakura is a foreigner, but has been living in Japan for a long time.
*'''Subverted''': Sakura is stated to be an American student studying abroad in Japan, going by a nickname.
*'''Double Subverted''': But she hangs around with other characters who follow a similar PhenotypeStereotype, and none of them are stated to be foreigners; the fact that she is tends to [[CanonDiscontinuity be forgotten, even by the writers]].
*'''Deconstructed''':
*'''Reconstructed''':
*'''Parodied''': Sakura is obviously one of the StarfishAliens, and is still stated to be Japanese.
*'''Lampshaded''': "You don't look Japanese at all!"
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