History PlayingWith / NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel

** Alice is a Jewish woman without PhenotypeStereotype who travels to the UsefulNotes/NaziGermany era, and despite the fact that she can hide her own heritage from UsefulNotes/TheGestapo, she is still uncomfortable with prejudicial atmosphere around her.

* '''Implied''': Alice mentions getting dirty looks when she traveled back to the nineteenth to early twentieth century, which Bob can't understand at first.
* '''Deconstructed''': Alice can't stay long where she was supposed to be sent, for fear of death or grievous bodily harm.

** ''Every'' time-traveling agent has a list of places and times where they cannot go due to their race, sex, sexual orientation, class, et cetera. Alice can safely go places where her White colleague Bob would be lynched just as he can go places where she would face that peril.

** Alice is a lesbian who travels to TheEighties, where she can [[HideYourLesbians conceal her sexuality from the]] MoralGuardians, but she still suffers a good deal more homophobia than she might in the 21st century.

** Alice is a lesbian who travels to TheEighties, where she is able to [[HideYourLesbians get her sexuality away from the]] MoralGuardian eyes, but are still subject to a good deal more homophobia than she might in the 21st century.

** Bob, a White man, travels into the future and finds that now ''he'' is the member of the marginalized group. Or he travels to some point in the past, in a country and period when White people wouldn't be welcome -- Sakoku-era Japan, for example.
** Bob, a breath-takingly virulent racist, manages to travel to the far future that has become [[InTheFutureHumansWillBeOneRace a multiracial utopia]] and reinfects it with his hatred. He then tells the horrified protagonists that [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil his creed is immortal]].
* '''Subverted''': Alice walks down the street and gets a dirty look from a White person … [[DiscriminateAndSwitch who is only shocked at her futuristic clothes]], or [[CantTakeAnythingWithYou her nakedness]].

** Only {{Voluntary Shapeshifter}}s may use time travel, since they can physically morph to avoid persecution in any time they might wind up in.

** Every time-traveling agent has a list of places and times where they cannot go due to their race, sex, sexual orientation, class, et cetera. Alice can safely go places where her White colleague Bob would be lynched.

** The bigots steal Alice's time travel device and decide to [[TimeTravelingJerkass satisfy their bloodlust by lynching people throughout history]].

"Return to NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel … And watch-out for those filthy time-traveling [[CensoredForComedy n(BLEEP)]]! Goddammit! They let anyone jump in time nowadays…"

** A FiveTokenBand travel to an era where prejudice is rampant, and ''all'' of them experience extreme forms of racism/sexism/ableism/homophobia/transphobia/etc. EXCEPT the WhiteMaleLead or TokenWhite man who is treated like {{a god|AmI}} by the local populace.

** A FiveTokenBand travel to an era where prejudice is rampant, and ''all'' of them experience extreme forms of racism/sexism/ableism/homophobia/transphobia/etc.

** Alice is a Jewish woman without PhenotypeStereotype who travels to the UsefulNotes/NaziGermany era, despite she can hide her own heritage from UsefulNotes/TheGestapo, she is still uncomfortable with prejudicial atmosphere around her.

* '''Implied''': Alice mentions getting dirty looks when she traveled back to the nineteenth century, which Bob can't understand at first.

** Alice is a lesbian who travels to TheEighties, where she is able to [[HideYourLesbian get her sexuality past the]] MoralGuardian, but are still subject to a good deal more homophobia than she might in the 21st century.

** [[TwoferTokenMinority Alice isn't just a Black woman]], she's also left-handed, a lesbian, and has autism. [[ButtMonkey Naturally]], she finds herself treated like absolute dirt in an era dominated by right-handed, heterosexual, neurotypical White men.
* '''Downplayed''': People in the past are prejudiced and do feel uncomfortable around Alice, but don't go out and say it because [[SacredHospitality they want to be polite.]]

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** A person travels forward in time and experiences prejudices that don't exist yet (such as eye color, hair color, or arm length).
** Bob, a White man, travels into the future and finds that now ''he'' is the member of the marginalized group … Or he travels to some point in the past, in a country and period when White people wouldn't be welcome -- Sakoku-era Japan, for example.
* '''Subverted''': Alice walks down the street and gets a dirty look from a White person … [[DiscriminateAndSwitch who is only shocked at her futuristic clothes.]]
* '''Double Subverted''': "Is that what [insert plural racial slur here] wear in the future?"

** Alice is AmbiguouslyBrown. Depending on the time period, location, and how she's dressed, she faces greater or lesser amounts of prejudice. Sometimes it's her extremely pale colleague Bob who can't fit in.

* '''Conversed''': Two characters are watching a [[ShowWithinAShow movie.]] One says, "Why would they send Alice back in time? She's Black and racism might hinder her work."

** Alice went back in time [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong to correct an injustice done to somebody or many somebodies in the past]], but because she'll be treated as a second-class citizen at best in that period, [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished she]] ''[[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished will]]'' [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished suffer for it]].

'''Basic Trope''': A person from a marginalized group travels back in time and experiences prejudice.

** Anyone who wasn't a straight, male, [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant White Anglophone Protestant]] during most of the United States' history will very likely experience all sorts of prejudice and unfair treatment.

* '''Invoked''': Alice, a Black time-traveling cop, is pursuing Bob, a White time-traveling criminal. Bob accuses Alice of being an escaped slave, leading to her capture and his escape.

** Only {{Voluntary Shapeshifter}}s are allowed to use time travel, since they can physically morph to avoid persecution in any time they might wind up in.
* '''Discussed''': Alice wants to go back in time, but her associates discourage it because she is Black and might experience racism.

** Bob, a man from the future, travels back to the present. He is accepted in his own time but is an {{Acceptable Target|s}} in our time.

** Every White person in the past becomes filled with rage at the mere sight of a Black person and every man is openly appalled that a woman dares walk about alone.

** Alice goes so far back in time, and is so [[FishOutOfTemporalWater bad at fitting in]] when she gets there, that she [[StableTimeLoop accidentally]] ''[[BeenThereShapedHistory invents]]'' [[NiceJobBreakingItHero racism.]]

* '''Invoked''': Bob, a White time-traveling criminal, is being pursued by Alice, a Black time-traveling cop. Bob accuses Alice of being an escaped slave, leading to her capture and his escape.
* '''Exploited''': Bob, a White time-traveling criminal, is being pursued by Alice, a Black time-traveling cop. Bob escapes while Alice is attacked by a mob of racists.

** Every time-traveling agent has a list of places and times where he or she cannot go due to their race. Alice can safely go places where her White colleague Bob would be lynched.

** Alice gets fed up with the racism of the past and [[CatharsisFactor beats the crap out of every]] [[AssholeVictim bigoted mob that gets in her way]].

** Alice went back in time [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong to correct an injustice done to somebody or many somebodies in the past]], but because she'll be treated as a second- if not third-class citizen at best in that period, [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished she]] ''[[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished will]]'' [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished suffer for it]].

** Alice isn't attacked physically, but a few especially sadistic bigots from the past show her [[ColdBloodedTorture what they've done to other Black time-travelers]], which [[NightmareFuel scares the bejabbers out of her for days on end]].

* '''Untwisted''': Alice is treated well in the past, leading to the appearance of PoliticallyCorrectHistory. She then discovers her [[PerceptionFilter Chameleon Suit]] doesn't just give her the appearance of period appropriate clothing but makes her appear the "correct race".

* '''Untwisted''': Alice is treated well in the past, leading to the appearance of PoliticallyCorrectHistory. She then discovers her [[PerceptionFilter Chameleon Suit]] doesn't just give her the appearance of peroid appropriate clothing but makes her appear the "correct race".

* '''Untwisted''': Alice is treated well in the past, leading to the appearance of PoliticallyCorrectHistory. She then discovers the PerceptionFilter doesn't just give her the appearance of peroid appropriate clothing but makes her appear the "correct race".