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8	An adaptation or ContinuityReboot tweaks the cast so that the cast represents more groups. How this trope works largely depends on where and when it's set. Diversifying the cast can mean numerous things, from adding a more multiracial cast to having more explicitly queer characters.
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10	A lot of the time this trope is invoked to make a work more realistic. Percentages differ from place to place but a fair percentage of people are of a minority or marginalized group, such as sexuality, religion, or ethnicity, so it's expected that at least a few would likely be sprinkled about the cast. The original work may have been restricted by standards of the time, such as casting white actors for characters of color (often in {{blackface}}, {{brownface}}, or {{yellowface}}) or only being able to [[HideYourLesbians vaguely imply LGBT characters]] and only confirm them [[WordOfGay with author statements]], while the newer renditions lack such restrictions.
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12	Other times it's due to a SettingUpdate. The demographic of areas change with time and social norms change. The newer versions of the work modernize it to fit with the times. In the case of a ForeignRemake, casts may be diversified to fit the different country's setting.
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14	A work must have at least 2-3 unrelated changes. If they don't, they go underneath their respective sub-trope instead.
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16	While Adaptational Diversity occasionally appeared before, it became widespread during the 2010s.
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18	May overlap with AdaptationalGenderIdentity, AdaptationalNationality, AdaptationalSexuality, DisabledInTheAdaptation, AdaptationalCurves, and RaceLift. A GenderFlip applied to members of a [[ChromosomeCasting predominantly single-gender cast]] can also count. Compare MoreDiverseSequel for when it's the sequel, not the adaptation, that is more diverse. Related to LegacyCharacter. This is also a common reason behind [[CastFullOfGay everyone is gay in fan-works]], and for WatchedItForTheRepresentation.
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21	!!Examples:
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25	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
26	* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasDriftsInTheUniverse'' does this with Commander Liebert's crew. The story itself is a SpaceOpera loosely inspired by ''Franchise/StarWars'', with the [[PlanetSpaceship Milky Way Drifting Fleet]] housing millions of humans, aliens, and robots, but in the original manga Liebert's soldiers and officers are all humans (probably meant to evoke the Galactic Empire from the original trilogy). In the anime adaptation, Liebert's crew contains humans and aliens in equal amounts.
27	* ''Anime/IeNakiKoRemi'': Gender example - the anime has significantly more female characters than the novel, even {{Gender Flip}}ping the main character Remi into a girl, when in the original [[Literature/SansFamille novel]] by Hector Malot he was male.
28	* ''Manga/MarvelMangaverse'' features a female Human Torch and a Punisher who is both female and Japanese.
29	* ''Anime/TheThreeMusketeers'' featured a half-blind Rochefort and a female Aramis who is masquerading as a man.
30	* ''Anime/TheSecretGarden'' makes the Sowerbys AmbiguouslyBrown (possibly a MythologyGag to how in the original book, Martha was racist) and also introduces the CanonForeigner [[HotGypsyWoman Camila]] into the cast.
31	* ''Anime/{{Wowser}}'': Gender example - the anime adds two female characters, Beatrice and Cherry, to the cast and they're in prominent focus for most of the show. They also serve as love interests to Ron and Dommel respectively, though Cherry doesn't reciprocate because he's a dog.
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34	[[folder:Comic Books]]
35	* The ''ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse'' features a female combination of Daredevil and Deathstroke called "Dare the Terminator" and a dark-skinned Egyptian combination of Catwoman and Elektra called "Catsai".
36	* ''ComicBook/AnneOfWestPhilly'' adapts the original story to be about a black foster child who moves to West Philly. Her new guardians Marilla and Matthew are also made black, and Diana Barry is [[AmbigiouslyBrown unstated]] but it's loosely implied she might be Latina. Minor characters are also racelifted. Anne is also attracted to girls, as shown in the ned that she likely has a crush on Diana.
37	* ''ComicBook/Batman66'' follows in the footsteps of [[Series/Batman1966 its base show]] via having Alfred require glasses, having Catwoman be black on occasion and Zelda the Great existing rather than Carnado but continues by having Warden Crichton be a black woman as well as depicting Mayor Linseed as a black man.
38	* ''ComicBook/BatmanThrillkiller'' features a Joker who is an unambiguous bisexual woman rather than an AmbiguouslyBi man.
39	* ''ComicBook/CatwomanGuardianOfGotham'' features a criminally insane Batman and female versions of Two-Face and Alfred.
40	* Despite being a PeriodPiece set over 70 years in the past, ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'' is more diverse than the main Creator/DCComics universe. Much of the cast is lesbian or bisexual, there is at least one transgender character, the superheroes come from different countries (instead of predominantly being American), and some of the American characters get {{Race Lift}}s instead of being white.
41	* In contrast to the all-white, all heterosexual cast of the mainstream comics, the characters in ''ComicBook/GothamHigh'' are more diverse with Bruce Wayne being Chinese on his mother's side, Alfred being Chinese, homosexual and requiring glasses, Selina Kyle being Latin, the Gordons and Dick Grayson being black, Poison Ivy being Korean and Commissioner Gordon, now Principal Gordon, being female.
42	* ''ComicBook/TheImmortalHulk'' features a black, female version of Jack [=McGee=] named Jacqueline "Jackie" [=McGee=].
43	* The ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'' reboot comics are diversified compared to [[WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} the 1980s cartoon]]. The original cartoon had [[OnlyOneFemaleMold body type limitations]] largely due to it being a MerchandiseDriven cartoon for a doll line, but the comic doesn't have this restriction so characters have a [[CastOfSnowflakes wide range of body types]]. Various characters are also given {{Race Lift}}s and there are more explicitly queer characters than in the source (for example, Stormer and Kimber do away with their PseudoRomanticFriendship and become a straight-up couple).
44	* ''ComicBook/JustImagineStanLeeCreatingTheDCUniverse'' features a black Batman, Dinah Drake and Steve Trevor, a Peruvian Wonder Woman, a Hispanic Robin and a female Flash.
45	* A ''Legends of the DC Universe'' one-shot tying in to ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' retroactively reveals that one of the alternate realities wiped out in the Crisis was Earth-D, which is home to a more racially diverse incarnation of the Justice League called the Justice Alliance. Membership includes an Asian Flash (who has a black Mirror Master as one of his enemies), a black Superman as well as a black Supergirl who are a married couple rather than cousins, a Native American Green Arrow and a Hispanic Green Lantern.
46	* ''ComicBook/MarvelNoir'' features a Jewish Punisher, a female and Japanese Bullseye, an Afrikaner Otto Octavius and a German Electro.
47	* ''Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy'', an modernized adaptation of ''Literature/LittleWomen'', portrays the March family as blended: Mr. March and Meg are black, Mrs. March and Jo are white, and Beth and Amy are biracial, with Jo and Aunt Cath being gay and the Laurences becoming the Marquezs, a Spanish family.
48	* The Creator/ViperComics adaptation of ''{{Film/Nosferatu}}'' both genderflipped Hutter and made her a lesbian with Ellen likewise becoming a lesbian.
49	* ''ComicBook/SpiderGwen'' features a black Reed Richards, a bisexual Mary Jane Watson, a Black Francophone version of Felicia Hardy, a genderflipped Sam Wilson (renamed "Samantha"), a Japanese Wolverine, a genderflipped Jessica Drew (renamed "Jesse")and a genderflipped Eddie Brock (renamed "Elsa").
50	* ''Creator/TangentComics'' features a female Joker, a black Harvey Dent, and a Chinese Power Girl.
51	* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
52	** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 The original comics]] had only one black Amazon named Nubia. Ever since the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 George Perez reboot]], the Amazons have been depicted as being more racially diverse, with some Amazons of African, East Asian and Middle Eastern descent.
53	** In ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' the oft speculated but never confirmed sexuality of several major Amazons finally makes it into the books, with Hippolyta and Diana being confirmed bisexual when all their prior romantic interests had been men and Philippus, first introduced in [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Vol 2]], being in a longstanding loving lesbian relationship with Hippolyta.
54	** ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'' is a retelling and adaptation of Wonder Woman's UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era adventures, but while both the Holliday Girls and the Amazons were all white in the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 original comics]] here both groups of ladies are far more diverse, with two of the named Holliday Girls getting {{Race Lift}}s from their original white counterparts.
55	** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanEarthOne'' features a strongly implied to be bisexual Etta Candy (renamed Beth), a black Steve Trevor, and a dark-skinned Artemis the Amazon.
56	** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanTempestTossed'' splits Steve Trevor into a gay couple consisting of Asian-American Steve and African-American Trevor and portrays Etta Candy as a Polish immigrant by name of Henke Cukierek.
57	* Inverted for ''ComicBook/FrankMillersRoboCop'', the comic adaptation of Miller's original ''Film/RoboCop2'' script as Murphy, Lewis, and Reed are the only ones who still looked like the actors who played them. This resulted in two of the cops, Whittaker and Estevez (played in ''2'' respectively by a pre-''Series/TheDistrict'' Creator/RogerAaronBrown and soap opera actress Wanda De Jesus) becoming two white guys.
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60	[[folder:Fan Works]]
61	* ''Fanfic/{{Daemorphing}}'':
62	** Since ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' was written in TheNineties, there weren't any overtly queer characters. In this series, the teens discover their sexualities as part of their arcs, the Hork-Bajir practice polygamy, and there are a few transgender characters.
63	** The humans' religious beliefs, which were only mentioned in passing in canon, are given much more focus.
64	** Cassie and her parents were the only black characters in canon, but this series introduces a few [[OriginalCharacter original ones]] as well.
65	* The Creator/{{Erin\|Hunter}}s aren't allowed to have explicitly gay characters in ''Literature/{{Warrior\|Cats}}s'', though they've still [[HideYourLesbians written a few in]] anyway. The FixFic ''Fanfic/WarriorsRewrite'' does away with this by introducing same-gender romances and even a few transgender cats (including the protagonist Fireheart). It also includes more disabled and mixed-Clan characters.
66	* In ''Fanfic/FormerlyKnownAsHarryPotter'', Lily Potter is a disabled trans girl instead of a cis boy with no apparent physical or mental illness outside of nearsightedness.
67	* ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'' features more queer and disabled characters than in canon. The titular team alone has been changed: Ruby is a female-attracted asexual trans girl (as opposed to a presumably cisgender CelibateHero), Weiss is lesbian and mentally ill (instead of male-attracted and likely not mentally ill), Blake is noted as bisexual early on, and Yang is explicitly bisexual from the start. The characters are also given slightly clearer defined ethnicities than in the {{Mukokuseki}} show due to more emphasis on FantasyCounterpartCulture, so three out of four members of RWBY are at minimum half-Asian coded.
68	* In ''Fanfic/TheMalfoySeries'', Harry is biracial and Hermione is black, as well as Draco and Harry being bisexual.
69	* In the ''Scooby Doo'' rewrite ''Fanfic/NowThatICanSeeYourFaceICanStandUpToAnything'', all of Mystery Inc are given {{Race Lift}}s and they're all bisexual. Velma also [[AdaptationalCurves gained weight]].
70	* ''Blog/AskTheFamous8'': The [[Literature/TheRailwaySeries original books]] and [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends television series]] this is based on did not feature any of these, being written at a time when such were considered taboo. Since the engines are now humans and the story takes place in the present day, sleepyhenry decided to include these changes to reflect the diversity of the modern world. The majority of the cast, including the titular "Famous 8", are of non-white minorities, with a few being mixed-race. In addition to this, there are multiple [=LGBTQ+=] characters, including seven of the Famous 8.
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73	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
74	* In the [[ComicBook/SunfireAndBigHero6 original comic]] all of Big Hero 6 was Japanese. The Disney film ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' changes the setting to the more multiethnic UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco (or "San Frans[[UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}} okyo]]" as it's called due to the series' AlternateHistory). Only Hiro retains his Japanese ancestry and even then he's half-white. Wasabi is African-American, Gogo is Korean, Honey Lemon is a dark-skinned blonde Latina, and Fred is Caucasian. The body types are also diversified more.
75	* ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol1997'' features a black, female version of the Ghost of Christmas Present, voiced by Creator/WhoopiGoldberg.
76	* The ''WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse'' features a bisexual/homosexual King Shark, a black Cat Grant and a black, lesbian Etta Candy.
77	* ''WesternAnimation/DeathstrokeKnightsAndDragons'' features Slade Wilson as having already been missing his eye before the procedure, Bronze Tiger losing an arm and getting a cybernetic prosthetic and an Afro-English Wintergreen.
78	* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueGodsAndMonsters'' features a black, male Cheetah (of the four characters to have held the identity in the mainstream continuity, only one has been male), a Lois Lane who requires glasses and Lex Luthor initially requiring a cane before needing an entire hover chair.
79	* '' WesternAnimation/ScroogeAChristmasCarol'' features a female Ghost of Christmas Past, a Scottish Fezziwig, an Indian version of Scrooge's niece-in-law and a black Tom Jenkins.
80	* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanRedSon'' features a lesbian Wonder Woman and a black Jimmy Olsen.
81	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMutantMayhem'' features Donatello, Splinter and April requiring glasses, a half-blind expy of Hun named Spider, an Australian, female Leatherhead, a female Wingnut and Scumbug, and the officially AmbiguouslyBrown April (due to disagreement between Eastman and Laird on what she is supposed to be) as black.
82	* The ''{{WesternAnimation/Tomorrowverse}}'' features a black Iris West and an Egyptian Hawkman (Both nationality and ethnicity wise).
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85	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
86	* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'' portrayed the traditionally American Curt Connors as English, the traditionally white Max Dillon and Sally Avril as black and Asian-American respectively, Ben Parker as requiring glasses, something that his mainstream counterpart had no need of, and Norman and Harry Osborn suffering from a long-term genetic and terminal illness, with Norman also being shown to require glasses in a hologram. Due to DecompositeCharacter, an Indian version of Norman's ruthless businessman persona named Rajit Ratha also appeared.
87	* ''Series/TheAndromedaStrain'': In the [[Literature/TheAndromedaStrain source novel]], team Wildfire were mainly white heterosexual men, while this adaptation deliberately changed the characters' ethnicities, sexualities, and genders for the sake of diversity.
88	* ''Film/Annie1982'' featured an English Warbucks and ventriloquist Fred [=McCracken=] gender-flipped into Mrs. [=McKracky=].
89	* ''Film/Annie2014'' features a black Annie and Warbucks, renamed William Stacks, and a female Sandy.
90	* In ''Film/ArtemisFowl'', Butler and Juliet were changed from "Eurasian" in the books[[note]]unclear if this meant mixed European and Asian ancestry, or from Russia east of the Urals (which would make sense given Butler's first name)[[/note]] to black...which had some unfortunate implications given that the Butler family has a LegacyOfService to the very white Fowl family. Holly, described as having "nut-brown skin" in the books (though the graphic novels show her as a similar skin tone to Artemis), was played by a white actress, and Julius Root was changed to a woman (which completely negated the significance of Holly's BreakingTheGlassCeiling in the books, being the first female [=LEPRecon=] officer).
91	* The ''Film/BatmanFilmSeries'' featured Bruce Wayne wearing glasses for short distances, the traditionally white Harvey Dent as black, James Gordon as missing the little finger on his left hand, Alfred Pennyworth as requiring glasses, as well as developing a rare and fatal disease later, Oswald Cobblepot as having severe syndactyly, Selina Kyle as having a SplitPersonality and Barbara Gordon, now Barbara Wilson, is now British.
92	* ''Film/BulletTrain'' features a female version of the Prince and several of the characters being portrayed as white, black and Mexican.
93	* ''Film/TheCallOfTheWild2020'' features a black Perrault and a First Nations, female version of Francois named Francoise.
94	* ''Film/CharliesAngels2019'': The first incarnation of the Angels where all three of them are minorities: Jane is black, Elena is now bi-racial (both Creator/EllaBalinska and Creator/NaomiScott are biracial), and Sabina (now the only white woman in the trio) is AmbiguouslyBi.
95	* ''Film/AChristmasCarolTheMusical'' featured the Ghosts and Christmas Past and Yet to Come as female and the Ghost of Christmas Present as black.
96	* ''Film/Cinderella2021'':
97	** Here, Cinderella is played by Latina Music/CamilaCabello, with a number of Black supporting characters (including her FairyGodmother being Creator/BillyPorter, who is his usual CampGay self), unlike most depictions where the cast is all-White.
98	** The signs of the vendors' booths in the village are in languages like Chinese, Italian, Spanish, and German.
99	** One of the women at the ball is Indian.
100	* ''Film/{{Cyrano}}'' portrays Cyrano as having dwarfism, due to being played by Creator/PeterDinklage, and Christian and Sister Claire are portrayed as black and Tamil respectively.
101	* ''Film/Daredevil2003'' features a black Kingpin and an Irish Bulleseye.
102	* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' features Bane as being in a near constant state of pain (requiring him to wear his mask to not feel the pain from previous injuries), a black Gillian Loeb, a Caucasian Ra's & Half-Caucasian Talia al-Ghul (the former played by an Irishman and the latter's mother having been a Middle Eastern warlord), and ethnic crime bosses (Black, Chechnyan, a Chinese book-keeper employed by the Falcone family).
103	* The ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'':
104	** The traditionally Caucasian Perry White is portrayed as black (by Creator/LaurenceFishburne) in ''Film/ManOfSteel''.
105	** Aquaman (Creator/JasonMomoa) as Half-Maori and the Flash (Creator/EzraMiller) as being Jewish. Both had an EarlyBirdCameo in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', and Flash being Jewish is indirectly mentioned in ''[[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague Justice League]]''. In addition, the traditionally white Mercy Graves is portrayed by a Japanese actress, the Snyder cut establishes Iris West as being black and Lex Luthor has some form of mental disorder.
106	** Etta Candy is American in the comics, while in ''Film/WonderWoman2017'' she is British.
107	** Deadshot and Slipknot are white in the comics and were played by Creator/WillSmith (Black) and Creator/AdamBeach (First Nations) respectively in ''Film/{{Suicide Squad\|2016}}''. It is also implied that Harley Quinn hears voices.
108	** The traditionally white Artemis is portrayed by black actress Ann Wolfe.
109	** Thomas Curry went from white in the comics to Maori (Creator/TemueraMorrison) in ''Film/{{Aquaman\|2018}}''.
110	** Freddy's lame leg is not cured by the powerset in ''Film/{{Shazam2019}}''.
111	** Dinah Lance/Black Canary went from blonde white to mixed race, played by Creator/JurneeSmollett in ''Film/{{Birds of Prey\|2020}}''. Likewise, Renee Montoya became Afro-Latina, while her original counterpart was strictly Latina.
112	** ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' established Maxwell Lord was being Chilean by birth, his birth name being Maxwell Lorenzo and him having faced racism from bullies.
113	** Bloodsport went from American to English, Londoner specifically based on the accent, and Ratcatcher from American to Portuguese in ''Film/TheSuicideSquad''.
114	** Hawkman also went from white to being played by Creator/AldisHodge and Dr. Fate from American to English in ''Film/{{Black Adam\|2022}}''.
115	** ''Film/TheFlash2023'' features Colombian-American actress Creator/SashaCalle as Supergirl.
116	* The Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes, whose films share no continuity with each other, features:
117	** ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'' features a homosexual Lefou, a few characters who were originally white as black and Madam de Garderobe, originally French like everyone else, portrayed as an Italian opera singer.
118	** ''Film/LadyAndTheTramp2019'' features characters such as Jock and the baby being female, Darling being played by biracial actress Creator/KierseyClemons, with her and Jim's baby by extension being multiracial, and Aunt Sarah being black.
119	** ''Film/Pinocchio2022Disney'' features a black actress playing the Blue Fairy, Gideon having an implied attraction to Honest John and the children who go to Pleasure Island consisting of both boys and girls, rather than firmly boys.
120	** ''Film/PeterPanAndWendy'' features the Lost Boys and pirates as being more diverse in relation to both ethnicity and gender and Tinker Bell is portrayed by a black actress of Iranian descent.
121	** ''Film/TheLittleMermaid2023'' features people of varying ethnicities, in some cases due to ColourBlindCasting, and rather than all of Ariel's animal sidekicks being male, Scuttle is now female.
122	* ''Film/Ebenezer1998'' features a female, First Nations Ghost of Christmas Past due to the SettingUpdate to the Canadian Frontier.
123	* ''Film/FantasticFour2015'' featured the traditionally white American biologically-related Storm siblings differently with Johnny as a black American and Sue as his white adoptive sister who was a Kosovo refugee.
124	* ''Film/TheFlightOfThePhoenix2004'': The [[Film/TheFlightOfThePhoenix1965 original film]] has a cast of white men. In this version, the cast includes two black guys, [[TwoferTokenMinority one of whom is apparently missing an eye]], a Latino guy, [[TheSmurfettePrinciple a woman]], and a Middle Eastern guy.
125	* ''Film/TheGreenKnight'' features Creator/DevPatel as Gawain, as well as other non-white actors in other roles, and the lord who plays host to Gawain as having a romantic interest in the young knight.
126	* Creator/KennethBranagh's Literature/HerculePoirot [[Film/HerculePoirotKennethBranagh adaptations]], per the director's ColorblindCasting habit and more:
127	** ''Film/MurderOnTheOrientExpress2017'': Doctor Aburthnot is now black, and his friendship with Colonel Armstrong is now grateful for the latter giving him the chance to study medicine. Poirot's friend Bouc was originally a middle-aged manager, now a young party animal with the same job (but is very professional when the situation calls for it).
128	** ''Film/DeathOnTheNile2022'': Combined with AgeLift. Salome Otterbourne is played by Creator/SophieOkonedo, her daughter Rosalie is played by Creator/LetitiaWright and Miss Bowers becomes Marie Van Schuyler's secret lesbian lover rather than just her nurse.
129	** ''Film/AHauntingInVenice'': Joyce Reynolds is made an East Asian (played by Creator/MichelleYeoh).
130	* The 2000 film adaptation of ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost'', directed by Kenneth Branagh, feature a genderflipped Holofernes, renamed Holofernia, and a black Maria and Dumaine. While Branagh had engaged in ColorBlindCasting prior to this, the inclusion of a GenderFlip marked his first foray from simple RaceLift to Adaptational Diversity (aftr all this trope is NOT just race lifts), beating his Hercule Poirot series by seventeen years and is perhaps the first case of a major Shakespeare adaptation to use this trope.
131	* ''Film/{{Madeline}}'' portrays one of Madeline's classmates as being of East Asian descent, another requiring glasses, and a few of them as being British in origin. This is in contrast to the original book series, where the rest of her classmates were portrayed as of Western European descent, lacking glasses and there being general ambiguity if they were French or not.
132	* ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven2016'' has a much more diverse cast than the [[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 original film]]. Not only is the team led by a black Union officer but they have Native American, Asian, (mestizo) Mexican and white members in addition to having a female ally that brings them together to take down the robber baron. The difference is also in the people being subjugated, going from a poor Mexican pueblo to an American mining community.
133	* The ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' features
134	** The traditionally white Nick Fury played by famed black actor Creator/SamuelLJackson, debuting in ''Film/IronMan1''.
135	** American Peggy Carter made British in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''.
136	** The traditionally white Heimdall portrayed by black actor Idris Elba in ''Film/{{Thor}}''.
137	** Tony Stark suffering from PTSD in ''Film/IronMan3''.
138	** The white Karl Mordo is portrayed as black in ''Film/DoctorStrange2016''.
139	** Mainframe is a female android voiced by Creator/MileyCyrus rather than a future version of the Vision in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''.
140	** Peter Parker's classmates have been revised to be more ethnically diverse to represent New York being a cultural melting pot in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', especially the biracial Mary-Jane & Filipino-American Ned Leeds.
141	** The traditionally white Valkyrie is portrayed by black actress Creator/TessaThompson in ''Film/ThorRagnarok''.
142	** The traditionally white male Ghost is portrayed as a biracial female in ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp''.
143	** The traditionally male Captain Marvel, alias Walter Lawson, is portrayed as female, alias Wendy Lawson, in ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019''.
144	** American of English descent Dane Whitman as just English, heterosexual Phastos as homosexual, Makkari as deaf, Makkari, Ajak and Sprite as female and the Eternals themselves more ethnically diverse in ''Film/{{Eternals}}''.
145	** The traditionally American male Taskmaster becomes a Russian woman who requires the suit to physically move in ''Film/BlackWidow2021''.
146	** American Charles Xavier as either British or British-born American ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness''
147	** The traditionally white Namor is portrayed by Mexican actor Tenoch Huerta in ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever''.
148	* ''Film/MeanGirls2024'':
149	** The film's original main cast was almost entirely white; here, Janis, Damian and Karen are all portrayed by people of color, and Janis is explicitly queer rather than being MistakenForGay.
150	** While Damian was the only explicitly gay character in the first film, this version features a number of same-sex relationships among the background characters, as well as students dressing in gender-nonconforming ways, demonstrating the increased prevalence and overall acceptance of queer youth.
151	* The 2016 film adaptation of ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'' features a bisexual Titania, a lesbian Hippolyta played by the half-English, half-Japanese Eleanor Matsuura, a black Oberon played by Nonso Anozie, a Sri Lankan Puck, a black, ambiguously bi Demetrius, a gender-flipped Quince, a black Snug, Flute and Egeus and an Indian Peaseblossom.
152	* ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'' changes the astronauts. In the original novel, they consisted of three white men and a male chimpanzee. The film changes them to include a black man and switches out the chimpanzee for a human woman.
153	* ''Film/PowerRangers2017'': A few race lifts (avoiding the [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers original show]]'s implications in casting the Black and Yellow Rangers as black and Asian) -- although Jason is now clearly white instead of ambiguously so, Kimberly is now biracial Indian/Caucasian[[note]]as opposed to white[[/note]], Billy is black and autistic[[note]]also as opposed to white[[/note]], Trini is Latina and AmbiguouslyGay[[note]]as opposed to Asian, and confirmed LGBT by WordOfGay[[/note]] and Zack is Asian[[note]]as opposed to black[[/note]].
154	* ''Film/RichardIII'' makes Elizabeth Woodville and her family Americans, allowed due to a SettingUpdate to the 1930's, and Richard is given another disability besides the withered arm in the form of a blind left eye.
155	* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShowLetsDoTheTimeWarpAgain'' features a black Magenta and Scott while Furter is black, female and played by trans actress Laverne Cox.
156	* Th 2006 film adaptation of ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' featured black actor Creator/TonyTodd in the dual role and Gabriel John Utterson genderflipped into Karen Utterson.
157	* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'' features a black, female version of Burne Thompson, renamed "Bernadette".
158	* ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973'' started with a case of DisabledInTheAdaptation by making the character of Rochefort half-blind and the sequel ''The Return of the Musketeers'' officially upgraded to this trope by gender flipping Mordaunt into a woman named Justine.
159	* ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers2023'' features a bisexual Porthos and Algerian actress Lyna Khoudri as Constance Bonacieux.
160	* ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers2023UK'' features a half-blind Rochefort, a black d'Artagnan and an Indian Milady.
161	* The first ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' film made Bella's human friends more diverse, with Angela made Latina, Eric as Asian, and Tyler now black. In the books, they're all white. As well, the films did away with Stephenie Meyer's claim that all vampires, regardless of original ethnicity or race, become pale white. In the films, the secondary vampires are fairly diverse.
162	* The 2021 film ''Twist'', an adaptation of ''Literature/OliverTwist'', features a black Brownlow and Charlie Bates and female versions of Bill Sikes and the Artful Dodger.
163	* ''Film/{{Warcraft}}'': The humans of the film are of a wide range of ethnicities, including a side character who is black. In the games at the time of the film's release, HumansAreWhite was PlayedStraight. However, Blizzard would gradually diversify the in-game humans by introducing people of color as seen with the Kul Tirans in ''Battle for Azeroth'' and the Arathi in ''The War Within''.
164	* ''Film/{{Wendy}}'': In this version, Peter plus a number of the Lost Boys are Black. More female characters are added too, Black and White both, to round things out (so it's less "Lost Boys" than "Lost Children").
165	* The [[Film/WestSideStory2021 2021 version]] of ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', especially compared to the [[Film/WestSideStory1961 1961 version]]:
166	** In contrast to the original's {{brownface}} casting of the Puerto Rican characters, they are played Latinos of various ethnicities this time around. Anita is also explicitly Black in addition to Puerto Rican in this version.
167	** Anybodys is reimagined as a trans boy instead of a cis tomboy.
168	** The role of Doc (a kindly older white man) is given to a new character, his Puerto Rican widow Valentina, with Doc himself dying prior to the story.
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172	* ''[[Series/FortyFourHundred 4400]]'', which is a remake of ''Series/The4400'', goes from the original's almost entirely white cast to an almost entirely black cast, plus a few supporting characters who are people of color. Additionally, while the original cast were all straight, there is now a lesbian character, while another is a trans man. Of the white characters, Noah is a trans boy and Mildred has a malformed left hand. Two more minor women of color in the cast are lesbians too. It also turns out that Isaiah's son is gay. Hayden is Black and also implied to have autism.
173	* ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy'' {{race lift}}s a lot of the characters from [[Literature/ThirteenReasonsWhy the book]] - Marcus and Mr. Porter are now black (and the white Jenny becomes the black Sheri), Courtney and Zach are Asian, Jessica is mixed race, Tony and Jeff are Hispanic. Sexuality wise Ryan, Tony, and [[spoiler: Courtney]] become gay. [[spoiler: Alex]] is also revealed to be bisexual in Season 4.
174	* ''Series/AnneWithAnE'' adapts ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' and adds black and indigenous characters. A classmate of Anne's is also gay.
175	* ''Series/TheBabysittersClub2020'', adapted from ''Literature/TheBabysittersClub''.
176	** Mary Anne and Dawn were white in the books; in the show, they're biracial (half-black and half-white) and Latina respectively.
177	** Dawn's father is gay in the show. He only ever dated and married women in the books. The client in the adaptation of "Mary Anne Saves the Day" is trans in the show, while she was not in the books.
178	* ''Series/Batman1966'' featured Alfred Pennyworth as requiring glasses, Carnado the Great being gender flipped into Zelda the Great and, on one occasion, a black Catwoman, while the film seems to depict a Russian Catwoman, going by her alter ego's nationality.
179	* ''Series/BraveNewWorld'': [[Literature/BraveNewWorld The book]] didn't describe many [[UsefulNotes/{{London}} New Londoners]] as being people of color. Here, they are nearly as common as white people. Additionally, it adds more women, and some male characters (such as Mond) are {{gender flip}}ped as well. Mond is also given a {{race lift}}, becoming black.
180	* ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'': In the book, of course the main and supporting characters are all-white since it's Regency-themed. But in the show, due to [[RaceLift race lift]], the actors playing the important characters are black or biracial (Queen Charlotte, Lady Danbury, the Basset family and Marina Thompson Crane), South-Asians (the Sharma family) and other non-whites. Some characters are gay and lesbian.
181	* While ''Series/Charmed1998'' had only one non-white regular during its eight season run, the cast of the [[Series/Charmed2018 2018 reboot]] consists predominantly of people-of-color, including the Charmed Ones themselves.
182	* ''Series/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'' compared to the [[ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch original comic it was influenced by]] (although an adaptation of [[ComicBook/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina a different comic]] itself). Sabrina now has a prominent black friend as well as a transgender friend. She gains a black cousin in Ambrose and deals with a [[GirlPosse group of magical mean girls]] that includes a black and Asian girl respectively. Ambrose is also [[TwoferTokenMinority pansexual]].
183	* ''Series/Cursed2020'': This reimagining of the Arthurian legend makes many classic characters (including Arthur himself) into people of color. Morgana is also revealed to have a female lover.
184	* ''Series/DoogieKamealohaMD'' is a reboot of ''Series/DoogieHowserMD'', replacing the white male protagonist with a new female Doogie with Asian ancestry.
185	* In ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'', Crazy Jane, who is white in the comics, is played by Latina actress Diane Guerrero. The series also makes Larry Traynor a gay man, [[QueerCharacterQueerActor played by]] Creator/MattBomer and adds ComicBook/{{Cyborg}}, who is black, to the cast. In addition, Torture of the [=SeX=] Men is reinterpreted as a black woman, when all three of them were [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation blue-skinned]] men in the source material.
186	* ''Series/Dracula2013'' features a black Renfield and a lesbian Lucy.
187	* ''Series/Dracula2020'' features a female Van Helsing and a half-black Lucy.
188	* The novel ''Literature/TheHandmaidsTale'' has an all-white cast because the Gilead regime was explicitly white supremacist, and had all black people ReleasedToElsewhere; the [[Series/TheHandmaidsTale Hulu adaptation]] dispenses with this aspect in order to avoid MonochromeCasting. A number of significant roles (Moira, Luke, and his and June's daughter Hannah, Nick, Rita) are played by actors of color; there are also actors of color among the smaller roles and extras, especially the Handmaids and Marthas. In addition, Ofglen (named Emily in the series) is shown to be a lesbian, which isn't mentioned in the book (although Moira being a lesbian is book canon). We also see some black Commanders and Guardians (though in the background mostly).
189	* ''Series/{{Hanna}}'': The Miller family were all white in the original film. Here, the father is South Asian, with both the kids being mixed race. Also, while the film had just one character of color with any lines (an old Moroccan man who helps Hanna) this show adds several supporting characters who are.
190	* ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse2018'' introduces characters of color in addition to the Crains (while playing up Theo being a lesbian due to societal changes). Shirley, Eleanor, and Theo all have partners who are people of color (Shirley also has mixed race children).
191	* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'':
192	** In the books, Louis de Pointe du Lac was white and born in France in 1766. In the show, he is a black man born in New Orleans in 1877. The TV version also makes him explicitly gay, whereas the character in the source material had feelings for a woman named [[AdaptedOut Babette Freniere]].
193	** Claudia also becomes a black girl, while she was white originally.
194	** In the novels, Armand was Caucasian and an Eastern Orthodox Christian, while his TV counterpart is Muslim and played by an actor of Bangladeshi descent (the character's exact ethnicity is not specified in Season 1, although there's a hint that he might be a Crimean Tatar).
195	* ''Series/MagnumPI2018'': does this to the two main characters. For starters, Magnum himself is played by Latino actor Jay Hernandez, along with the reinvention of Johnathan Higgens, now shown as Juliet Higgens, who is aged down as well.
196	* ''Series/TheMusketeers'' features Porthos being portrayed by an actor with black ancestry and Rochefort becoming half-blind after being stabbed in the left eye.
197	* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' introduces a lot of diversity to classic fairy tale characters. The Evil Queen is played by a Latina; Mulan, Red Riding Hood, and Dorothy become bisexual; the Fairy Godmother, Rapunzel, Ursula, Merlin, Lancelot, Poseidon and Jekyll's butler Poole (reimagined as an orderly) are black; Guinevere is Spanish; Jafar is at least Half-Indian initially; Jack of ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' was a woman and Jekyll requires glasses. In the seventh season, where new incarnations of characters appear, these include a Cinderella who is Latina and an Alice who is lesbian.
198	* ''Series/OnePiece2023'': Compared to [[Manga/OnePiece the manga]]:
199	** Buggy's crew at the start is an all-male crew in the manga. In the show, it has several female members in his circus-themed crew.
200	** In the manga, the staff of the Baratie consists entirely of humans. In this series, at least one [[FishPeople Fishman]] is among the crew.
201	** In the manga and anime where the characters are drawn in a similar manga-style, the show has various villages or Marines have background characters that are of different nationalities, skin colors, and sexes.
202	* ''Series/{{Percy Jackson and the Olympians\|2023}}'': In addition to Annabeth being Black and Grover being played by an actor of Indian descent, there are a few disabled campers at Camp Half-Blood; the camper that Percy tries and fails to demonstrate archery in front of is in a wheelchair.
203	* ''Series/ThePower2023'': The series has more explicit minority characters than were in the books.
204	** Although her race is not stated, Jos was presumably white in the book. Here, she's half Latina, as her dad is Latino, which also goes for her siblings. In accord with this, Jos' last name has been changed to Cleary-Lopez (not just Cleary) as she gets her Latino dad's last name as well.
205	** Roxy's now bisexual, whereas in the book this wasn't shown to be the case.
206	** The nuns who take in Allie here include women of color, their leader Sister Veronica (who's Asian-American) most prominently. Sister Maria is also a trans women. While possible, there are no such details in the book. Further, they are renegade Catholics who broke off from the mainstream Church due to being LGBT-affirming (see Sister Maria). In the book, they are still part of the mainstream Church.
207	* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'':
208	** Several {{race lift}}s, such as Veronica and her family being Latino, Reggie and Dilton being Asian, and Weatherbee, Pop Tate, and Josie (as well as Josie's family) being black. All of these characters were white in [[ComicBook/ArchieComics the comics]].
209	** Sexuality changes, including Cheryl being a lesbian and Moose being bisexual. Both of these characters were heterosexual in the comics.
210	** Due to this series being DarkerAndEdgier than its lighthearted suburban source material, quite a few characters are portrayed as mentally ill, notably several members of the Blossom and Cooper families.
211	* ''Series/RobinHood'' features a black Friar Tuck and the Saracen character, a semi-staple since ''Series/RobinOfSherwood'', as being a woman.
212	* ''Series/RobynHood2023'' features a bisexual female version of Robin Hood.
213	* ''Series/RoswellNewMexico'': In the [[{{Series/Roswell}} original]], all of the main cast were straight and White.
214	** Here, the main character Liz is a Latina, while Kyle becomes Latino too.
215	** Isobel and Michael become bisexuals.
216	** Alex becomes both gay and half Native American (Navaho).
217	** Maria is now Black.
218	* ''Series/TheShannaraChronicles'':
219	** Eretria, a straight woman in the books, is bisexual here. In fact, she's with more women than men.
220	** Allanon is described as white-skinned in the books. Here, he's played by part-Maori actor Creator/ManuBennett.
221	** The people of Leah are described as white-skinned in the books. They're all played by black actors on the show (although two of the show's characters are original).
222	* ''Series/ShesGottaHaveIt'': Two of the main cast (Greer and Mars) are made biracial here, which isn't the case in the original film. Opal and Clorinda seem to be biracial (like the actresses) as well, though it's not stated, and some minor biracial characters were introduced too. A couple minor White characters are introduced additionally. Nola is pansexual now as well. In the original film the cast was entirely Black, and she's straight.
223	* ''Series/TheSummerITurnedPretty'': While the characters in the books are white, straight and cisgender, and the story mostly focuses on Belly's relationship with the Fisher brothers, the series adds a number of changes. Belly, her brother and mother are Korean American; Steven and Laurel, respectively, have their own storylines; Taylor appears in the present and her friendship with Belly is of import; Belly has female friends in the debs; original characters are added, mostly characters of colour; Jeremiah and Cleveland are both bisexual; and in Season 2, Jeremiah and Conrad's cousin, Skye, is non-binary.
224	* In ''Series/{{Supergirl\|2015}}'', James Olsen, Hank Henshaw, and Manchester Black are all played by black actors, whereas their comic-book counterparts are all white. The series also features Brainiac 5, played by half-Goan actor Creator/JesseRath, and a transgender ancestor of Dream Girl who shares her descendant's powers, played by trans actress Nicole Maines.
225	* Every ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series has a mostly-Japanese cast with the occasional TokenMinority characters, whereas ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' has main characters from pretty much every racial demographic in North America.
226	* ''Series/Titans2018'':
227	** Starfire and Beast Boy are played by an African-American actress and Asian-American actor respectively.
228	** [[ComicBook/HawkAndDove Hank Hall's]] brother Don Hall is black as depicted in the flashbacks.
229	** Slade Wilson is portrayed by Puerto-Rican actor Esai Morales. His wife and son, Adeline and Joey, are portrayed by Asian-American actors and are white in the comics.
230	** Jay Lycurgo, who is black, has been cast as Tim Drake in season 3.
231	* Due to ColourBlindCasting ''Series/TroyFallOfACity'' has Achilles, Patroclus, Aeneas, Pandarus, Zeus and Athena are all portrayed by black actors (mixed race[[note]]From the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Coloureds Cape Coloured]] group in South Africa[[/note]] in Athena's case), Achilles and Patroclus are unambiguously bisexual rather than AmbiguouslyBi this time around and Artemis is portrayed by a black actress with albinism.
232	* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'': While the Hargreeves siblings were all Caucasian in the comics, the show makes Allison black, Ben Asian, and Diego Latino. Number Seven, a cisgender woman named Vanya in the comics, is here a trans man named Viktor, reflecting Creator/ElliotPage's [[QueerCharacterQueerActor transition]]. In addition, Cha-Cha is played by a black actress.[[note]]The character was never unmasked in the comics.[[/note]] Five's boss is now a woman,[[note]]As opposed to a male goldfish.[[/note]] and Diego's FriendOnTheForce is Eudora (a black woman).[[note]]Instead of Lupo (a white man).[[/note]]
233	* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'':
234	** Alanna's Warders here are in a relationship with her and each other. They were not shown to be queer or polyamorous in the books. Stepin also casually mentions that he would be open to sex with them when proposing becoming Alanna's Warder, albeit saying that it would be his first time with a man.
235	** In the books, [[spoiler:Moiraine and Siuan]] were temporarily involved while Novices but later only friends, with this portrayed as just a way to [[SitchSexuality relieve youthful libidos]]. Here, they maintain a passionate (though also secret) relationship well into adulthood.
236	** The book character of Siuan has pale skin and blue eyes. Here, she's played by two Black actresses (for her child and adult versions).
237	* ''Series/TheWitcher2019'' introduces a countless number of people of color, whereas the original novels hardly ever had anyone with skin that is not pale white. A lot of RaceLift is done for several major characters. As a whole, the show includes black people, people of Indian descent, people of Asian descent, and Latin Americans in one place.
238	* ''Series/YTheLastMan2021'':
239	** The series addresses the question "what about trans men?" and adds one to the main cast, named Sam (he's a friend of Hero) along with other minor ones, with the title becoming more specifically about the last ''cisgender'' man. In a brief shot we see that another friend of Hero and Sam, a trans woman, had died in the plague too, since anyone who had a Y chromosome was killed. In the comics, while trans characters did exist, they were minor and this question was not explicitly addressed.
240	-->''"We have found plenty of men—just not anyone with an Y-chromosone."''
241	** This allows a deviation from the comics of women stunned to find a living man. In episode 5, Yorick is able to pass himself off as transgender with some refugees (who even offer him "testosterone if you need it"), and he and 355 realizing it's a good disguise.
242	** Dr. Mann emphasizes how thanks to the quirks of genetics, "millions of women dropped dead who never even knew they had a Y chromosome." Thus intersex people also get mentioned, unlike in the comic, such as those with androgen insensitivity (people with it can appear and identify as female but have a Y chromosome).
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245	[[folder:Theatre]]
246	* The 2018 National Theatre production of ''Theatre/AntonyAndCleopatra'' featured a black Cleopatra, Octavius (a case of ColourBlindCasting as his sister Octavia was played by a white actress), Charmian and Iras and a female Agrippa and soothsayer.
247	* The 2018 West End production of ''Theatre/CompanySondheim'' changed the genders of some characters to include more prominent female and gay roles. The central character Bobby becomes a woman named Bobbie (though all Bobby's girlfriends become Bobbie's boyfriends), while Amy becomes a man named Jamie, with his fiancé Paul remaining unchanged.
248	* The 2022 National Theatre production of ''Theatre/HenryV'' featured some gender flips such as a female Exeter and MacMorris, the latter of whom was also missing a piece of her right arm, and some race lifts such a black Archbishop of Canterbury, French royal family and an East Asian, female Chorus who also took the role of the Boy.
249	* The National Theatre's 2018 production of ''Theatre/KingLear'' featured a female Kent and due to ColourBlindCasting a black Cordelia with the King of France likewise being black.
250	* The 2019 Pasadena Playhouse production of ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'' casts George Salazar, a Filipino, as Seymour, and MJ Rodriguez, a black/Puerto Rican trans woman, as Audrey. Additionally, Audrey II is voiced by a woman, Amber Riley.
251	* The 2014 Stratford Festival production of ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'' featured a genderflipped, lesbian Lysander, a lesbian Hermia, a female Quince, a deaf Egeus, a black Philostrate and an East Asian Snug.
252	* The 2019 National Theatre production of ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'' featured an ambiguously bisexual Oberon (due to him and Titania having switched roles it is up in the air how much was him actually being bisxeual and how much was the love potion), a black and bisexual Demetrius and Lysander, a female Quince, a black, gay Bottom, a female Snout and Snug, a black Starveling, a black, female Peaseblossom and a female Moth.
253	* The National Theatre's 2020 production of ''Oliver Twist'' featured a deaf and mute Oliver, a deaf Dodger played by Nadeem Islam, a female Fagin, Fagin's gang consisting of both boys and girls of varying ethnicity and some even being disabled be it blind or paralyzed, Rose Brownlow being hard of hearing, Bill Sikes insisting upon sign language and Mrs. Bumble requiring a wheelchair.
254	* The 2004 Public Theater production of ''Theatre/RichardIII'' featured the typical ColourBlindCasting such as having black actor Ron Cephas Jones as Clarence, but also had Creator/PeterDinklage, an actor with dwarfism, as Richard.
255	* The 2022 Stratford Festival production of ''Theatre/RichardIII'' besides featuring the typical ColourBlindCasting such as black actor Michael Blake as Clarence (brothers Edward IV and Richard III played by white actors Creator/WayneBest and Creator/ColmFeore, also a case of UnderageCasting as Blake is clearly younger than both Best and Feore) also featured a legitimately genderflipped James Tyrell, renamed "Jane Tyrell", in contrast to some cases of CrosscastRole in other shows throughout the years, such as the same year's ''{{Theatre/Hamlet}}'', where the title character was played by Creator/AmakaUmeh and 2018's ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', where the title character was played by Creator/SeanaMcKenna.
256	* The 2017 National Theatre production of ''Theatre/PeterPan'' featured an actually female Captain Hook, alongside some crosscast roles, and black actors in roles such as Michael, Jane and Tiger Lily.
257	* The National Theatre's 2014 production of ''Theatre/{{Treasure Island\|2014}}'' significantly ups the diversity on several axes. In the original novel, nearly everyone is white and male; the play has actors and characters from several different ethnicities and approaches gender parity, with {{gender flip}}s for protagonist Jim (in the play, it's short for Jemima) and Dr. Livesey as well as several lesser supporting characters.
258	* The 2017 National Theatre production of ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' features Viola and Sebastian as black and genderflips Feste, Malvolio (renamed "Malvolia") and Fabian (renamed "Fabia").
259	* The 2018 National Theatre production of ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', due to a modern setting, featured a female Cassius, a black, female Casca, a black Octavius, a female Decius Brutus, a black Trebonius and a black Portia.
260	* ''Theatre/TheLionKing'' features an insane Scar and a female Rafiki.
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263	[[folder:Toys]]
264	* ''Toys/AmeComiGirls'' features some gender flips such as a female Sinestro, Black Flash and Black Manta, as well as race lifts such as a Chinese Jade and Obsidian and an Asian/Hispanic version of Black Canary called White Canary.
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267	[[folder:Video Games]]
268	* The ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'' features Alfred requiring glasses, Calendar Man's right leg being shorter than the left, Deadshot later being portrayed as black, the Penguin has a vent in his neck due to smoking and a beer bottle jammed into his left eye in place of his monocle and Bird being portrayed as Hispanic.
269	* In the original ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', all scientists in the game use [[OnlySixFaces the same four male models]]. Despite PA system in the opening tram ride claiming Black Mesa is an equal opportunity employer, the only female employee seen is the hologram in the optional tutorial. The FanRemake ''VideoGame/BlackMesa'' adds female scientists.
270	* The ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' franchise features Castor and Pollux as ConjoinedTwins, Mimir as Scottish, Hrugnir as having been born "without head or heart", and a black Angrboda.
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273	[[folder:Web Animation]]
274	* ''WebAnimation/EpithetErased'': Compared to ''Roleplay/AnimeCampaign'', which the series is an adaptation of, the characters are more diverse in terms of race and LGBTQ+ representation. The most notable examples are Molly, the main character, getting a RaceLift from white to half-black, and Trixie being genderfluid.
275	* ''{{WebAnimation/Sherwood}}'' features females versions of Robin Hood, Will Scarlet and Much the Miller's Son and a black Little John.
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278	[[folder:Web Videos]]
279	* ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'' is a SettingUpdate of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'', set in present-day America. Its source material is set in the RegencyEngland (so everyone is presumably white, straight, and Christian and they all come either from the middle or the upper-middle class). The Bennetts are white Americans with Jewish relatives, Charlotte Lu and her family are Asian-American, as is Bing Lee and his sister Caroline, and Fitz Williams is gay and black. And Kitty Bennet, one of the younger sisters in the novel, is a literal kitty (Lydia's cat). Its loose sequel series ''WebVideo/EmmaApproved'' also {{Race Lift}}s a few characters, with the Woodhouses, the Churchills, and [[spoiler:Augusta Elliot, since Caroline acts as a CompositeCharacter in her place]] being Asian, and Jane Fairfax being black.
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282	[[folder:Western Animation]]
283	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' featured a black Hamilton Hill, a Hispanic combination of Gillian Loeb and Harvey Bullock named Angel Rojas, an Asian-American combination of Ellen Yindel and Renee Montoya named Ellen Yin, Mercy Graves being Asian-American, the Penguin as having fused fingers and being criminally insane, the Cluemaster as being so obese he required a motorized platform to get around and Man-Bat having albinism.
284	* ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' features a South Asian Lady Shiva, an actually Maori Matatoa, a black Marion Grange and a German Mr. Toad (If his voice actor's origins are any indication).
285	* The ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' featured the following:
286	** Calendar Man being flipped into Calendar Woman, the Penguin having fused fingers initially, Mr. Freeze's condition eventually becoming so bad that he is reduced to being a head with an android body, Harvey Dent as Sicilian and Killer Croc initially seeming to have albinism in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.
287	** Cat Grant receiving an Asian-American expy Angela Chan, Inspector Henderson being portrayed as black, Jax-Ur being half-blind, Metallo being English rather than American and Lex Luthor being Greek in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''.
288	** The white Puff being portrayed as black in ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''.
289	** Draaga being half-blind, Ace being a girl, Copperhead being Hispanic and the Trickster having a mental illness in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''.
290	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' is more diverse than the original. Not only are there more female characters in the main cast (one of whom becomes an amputee after a LifeOrLimbDecision), but LGBT characters are present in a small way. Two members of the supporting cast are the daughters of a gay couple, another is a confirmed lesbian, and major character Launchpad [=McQuack=] is now implied to be bisexual. Several characters that were voiced by white actors are now portrayed by minorities, and their characters are [[ActorSharedBackground revamped to match]].
291	* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'' features a black (or AmbiguouslyBrown) Lex Luthor, a half-blind Two-Face, a Jewish Penguin, a black Queen of Fables, Catwoman and Music Meister and a gay Riddler and Clock King, the two being in a relationship with one another.
292	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' featured Mustapha genderflipped into Marie for the Christmas special and by the second season Anne and Janine, two of Madeline's classmates, became dark-skinned. However, this was inverted to some extent, as Madeline was made a native of France rather than an American attending boarding school in France.
293	* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBusRidesAgain'' replaces Phoebe with an Indian girl named Jyoti and introduces Keesha's lesbian mothers. Also, Carlos is specifically of Venezuelan descent instead of being generically Hispanic.
294	* ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'' features a Kraven with cataract in his right eye and a robotic right arm, a black Francine Frye and Baron Mordo and an AmbiguouslyBrown Flash Thompson.
295	* ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'':
296	** In the original ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'', the cast was predominantly white. In the reboot, ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', the cast is much more diverse (or at least are based on a more diverse set of Earth ethnicities, helped that most of this is caused by ActorSharedBackground) -- Glimmer is Asian (possibly biracial, due to her mother Angella now being Indian and her paternal family members now being east Asian), Bow is black, Perfuma is Latina, Mermista is AmbiguouslyBrown (implied to be Southeast Asian), Netossa is lesbian and in a relationship with Spinnerella. Even the title character [[spoiler: enters a relationship with Catra, her childhood friend and longtime rival, in the final season]]. On another level, Entrapta is confirmed to be Autistic. The characters' body types and ages are also more diverse compared to the original, which had most if not all as hourglass-shaped young women. Additionally, the reboots introduce Bow's parents (who have never even been seen or heard of in the original), who are a gay couple.
297	** ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'' features a black King Grayskull and Mer-Man and Trap Jaw both losing an eye during the events of the series.
298	** ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021'' features a black Teela and Stratos and a gender-flipped version of Ram Man.
299	* ''WesternAnimation/MyAdventuresWithSuperman'':
300	** Racially it features a black Jimmy Olsen, a Korean Sam and Lois Lane, and an AmbiguouslyBrown Cat Grant.
301	** Heatwave and Ron Troupe are gender-flipped from male to female.
302	* ''WesternAnimation/NakedMoleRatGetsDressedTheRockSpecial'', an animated special adapted from Mo Willems' children's book ''Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed'', makes the mole rats different ethinicities when they were all colored pink in the original book.
303	* ''WesternAnimation/ReturnToThePlanetOfTheApes'' follows in the footsteps of the film series via changing the astronauts from the original book. Rather than three white men and a male chimpanzee, the astronauts are reduced to three: a white man, a black man and a white woman.
304	* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' portrayed Electro as the Russian-born son of the German Red Skull and the Black Marvel as a black man named Omar Moseley, with the original character Daniel Lysons being the employer of Omar who let people think he was the Black Marvel to protect Omar's identity. Dr. Octopus was likewise portrayed as German, if his accent was any indication.
305	* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheNewAnimatedSeries'' featured an Asian combination of Betty Brant and Gwen Stacy named Indy Daimonji, who also required glasses, a black Kingpin, a loose-adaptation of Black Cat known as Talon who is African-American and a Curt Connors who requires glasses.
306	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' features a Gwen Stacy and an Aunt May who require glasses, a Hispanic Liz Allan and Molten Man, an Asian version of Kenny "King Kong" [=McFarlane=] (renamed "Kenny Kong"), a Native American Jean [=DeWolff=], a black Nicholas Bromwell and Roderick Kingsley and a Korean Ned Leeds (renamed "Ned Lee").
307	* In ''WesternAnimation/TarzanAndJane'', Jane is portrayed as British-American, thus combining her nationality from the original books and her frequent case of AdaptationalNationality in many screen adaptations, and as biracial, her father being white and her mother black.
308	* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''
309	** ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' features a half-blind Shredder, a female Tokka, a Russian Rocksteady and an Asian Hun.
310	** ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' features a black April who requires glasses. This is possibly downplayed in regards to the race lift due to disagreement between Eastman and Laird, the former saying April was supposed to be mixed-race and the latter saying she is Caucasian.
311	* The ''WesternAnimation/ToonMakersSailorMoon'' pilot replaces the entirely Japanese Sailor Senshi of the ''Anime/SailorMoon'' anime that it's based on with a multiethnic American cast. Sailor Mercury also uses a wheelchair.
312	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Velma}}'' features a bisexual, East Asian (possibly biracial) Daphne, a bisexual South Asian Velma who has a mental disorder and a black (also possibly biracial) Shaggy.
313	* In the ContinuityReboot ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', Lance is Cuban, Hunk is Samoan, Shiro is Japanese and gay, Keith is [[spoiler:[[TokenHeroicOrc part alien]] and [[HalfHumanHybrid implied-to-be-part Japanese-American]]]], and Allura, while technically an alien, has brown skin. Also Pidge is [[spoiler:[[SweetPollyOliver actually female]].]]
314	* ''Literature/WatershipDown''
315	** ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown1999'' features a half-blind Woundwort, a female Blackberry and a Campion who ends up losing his sight in one eye, as well as a good portion of one ear.
316	** ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown2018'' features a half-blind Woundwort and a female Strawberry.
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