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| 5 | [[caption-width-right:319:"I ain't no foreigner... ain't nothing yeller 'bout me, but there is one color about me. It's a little red... that's right, I'm a redneck."]] |
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| 7 | Much like the very tropes described on this site, Ethnic and National Stereotypes are things that an audience reasonably expects (for reasons good and... not so good) when confronted by an individual of a given background. |
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| 9 | Some writers know this, and just like the tropes associated with fiction, they decide to [[InvertedTrope turn it on its head]]. |
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| 11 | A Stereotype Flip occurs when an individual does something that runs in direct contradiction to some established stereotype based on that character's gender, {{race|Tropes}}, religious belief, [[NationalStereotypes nationality]], or country (or [[FantasticRacism planet]]) of origin. |
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| 13 | This is often TruthInTelevision, as none ever fit all the given stereotypes associated with their background. If enough individuals do a Stereotype Flip, the stereotype in question may become a DiscreditedTrope. |
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| 15 | A Stereotype Flip is not ''always'' a good move, however; it can sprout UnfortunateImplications of its own. Inverting a negative stereotype can lead to FlawlessToken, and inverting a "model minority" stereotype is risky because portraying a minority as dumb, cowardly, and/or evil taps into much more basic forms of xenophobia than portraying them as [[BlackAndNerdy being]] [[AsianAndNerdy smart]] [[JewishAndNerdy but]] [[BollywoodNerd nerdy]]. Finally, even if both those pitfalls are avoided, it still must be remembered that ''flipping'' a stereotype isn't the same as ''avoiding'' it; flipped stereotypes are no substitute for actual well-rounded characters. |
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| 17 | Applies to fictional backgrounds as well. If the character is ''deliberately'' defying the "nature" of his people, it overlaps with MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch. If they choose a culturally disfavored role knowingly, then KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect. Related to SquareRaceRoundClass and TokenHeroicOrc. CulturalRebel is generally the product of a character given the Stereotype Flip treatment. MasculineGirlFeminineBoy and AsianAirhead are subtropes of this. See also PowerStereotypeFlip, for when their personality contrasts with their powers. May be a result of StopBeingStereotypical. |
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| 20 | !!Examples: |
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| 22 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 23 | |
| 24 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 25 | * ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': |
| 26 | ** Osaka breaks Tomo's expectations that the new Osakan student is going to be a [[TheIdiotFromOsaka loudmouth who's always trying to sell stuff]]. This is emphasized in the original print English manga, where Osaka's speech is translated with a New York City accent, which has a similar "loud and pushy" stereotype associated with it; most other translations go for a UsefulNotes/{{Houston}} accent, which instead breaks the "loudmouthed redneck" stereotype. |
| 27 | ** And then there's Sakaki, the tall, athletic raven-haired girl with an intimidating appearance who fits [[AloofDarkHairedGirl none of the]] [[JapaneseDelinquents associated]] tropes, and is just naturally [[ShrinkingViolet shy and quiet]], and has a (sadly [[AnimalsHateHim mostly unrequited]]) [[KindheartedCatLover love of cats]]. |
| 28 | * In the manga ''Manga/Cyborg009'', the character of 008, the only character on the team from Africa, is drawn in an incredibly {{unfortunate|Implications}} art style that is more than a little similar to {{blackface}}. This is at odds with his actual personality, which is an intelligent and stoic man who is passionate about preserving his culture and protecting his land and people from harm. In the stories that take place in Africa, the people are drawn in the same stereotypical way, but the reader is told that they're a people with a rich culture that ought to be preserved instead of converted or stamped out. Inversely, the non-African imperialists and poachers are shown as greedy and uncaring about anyone they hurt in the process of getting what they want. |
| 29 | * In what might be an accidental example of this and more of a case of AsLongAsItSoundsForeign, ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' had a minor character of an Israeli OccidentalOtaku, who did not only not conform to the stereotype of being loud, rude, and aggressive, but he was ''very'' white and ''blond'', which is quite a rarity among Israelis (although if he was wealthy enough to become an otaku and go study in Japan, he was probably a well-to-do [[AllJewsAreAshkenazi Ashkenazi]], which is not ''that'' unlikely), and spoke with an accent that sounded ''nothing'' like an Israeli accent. |
| 30 | * ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'' has the main cast go against what is often expected of their character roles in romantic {{shoujo|Demographic}} series. It helps that all of them save Chiyo and Nozaki have traits taken from stock characters of the opposite sex. |
| 31 | ** The titular Nozaki is a ''very'' tall, muscular {{Hunk}} who used to be captain of the junior high basketball team. He's also TheStoic and approaches his problems head-on. That said, he's also an award-winning shoujo mangaka and is [[RealMenWearPink utterly obsessed with writing good quality romance stories]]. |
| 32 | ** Even Chiyo, to a degree. Yes, she's very much like [[StockShoujoHeroine a typical shoujo heroine]]: girly, cutesy, determined, and obsessed with her crush. But she's also a bit of a DeadpanSnarker and is a StalkerWithACrush towards Nozaki. |
| 33 | ** Mikoshiba has the appearance and attitude of a playboy towards his classmates, but outside of school, he's a socially awkward {{Otaku}} who plays dating sims in order talk to girls more easily, even though said dating sims depict almost or entirely unrealistic conversations one would have with girls. His subtle {{Tsundere}} tendencies and fragile heart underneath his cool persona make him the basis of ''Let's Fall in Love's'' ''heroine'', who is as stereotypical a StockShoujoHeroine as it gets. |
| 34 | ** Kashima is the [[{{Bifauxnen}} charming and androgynous-looking female "prince"]] of the school who loves flirting with other girls. She would be right at home in a OneGenderSchool Shoujo manga, but if she were a guy, she would fit the textbook shoujo "School Prince" easily. She also flips a common tomboy stereotype in shonen romance; rather than [[TomboyAngst being insecure about her masculine qualities due to not being "girly" enough]], she revels in them. |
| 35 | ** Hori is Kashima's senpai who frequently [[WouldHitAGirl beats her up]] for skipping Drama Club and excessively flirting. Not only is this an inversion of the typical "[[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale girl comically beats up guy]] for [[PervertRevengeMode being a pervert/idiot]]", but if Hori were a girl, he would probably be the "Prince's beleaguered friend" in a shoujo romance who is always trying to make sure the Prince actually does more than be a playboy. |
| 36 | ** Seo is loud, abrasive, blunt, and rude. Case in point, Nozaki used her characteristics to create a ''male'' character who has her personality, which is not uncommon in shoujo manga. |
| 37 | ** Wakamatsu is a tall, muscular athlete, but is an innocent, friendly NiceGuy. He's also a bit of a {{Tsundere}} towards Seo. Nozaki modeled a female character after him who plays a love interest for Seo's character in ''Let's Fall in Love'', who of course is an ordinary girl repelled by his antics but charmed by the abrasive boy's [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold rare acts of kindness]]. He's also a male example of the ThinksLikeARomanceNovel trope, which is a trait usually given to girls in both shonen and shoujo. |
| 38 | * ''Manga/ShesMyKnight'' is similar to ''Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun'' in having a tomboy Prince and a male Tsundere, and some fans have even called them {{expies}} of Kashima and Mikoshiba. |
| 39 | * In ''Anime/{{Monster}}'', Runge's painstaking research of Tenma's past results in little more than him ascertaining that the latter is not "stereotypically" Japanese. |
| 40 | * The crux of the manga ''Manga/PleaseTellMeGalkoChan'' is that every character who appears doesn't play every single idea about the stereotype they embody straight. |
| 41 | ** Galko, a GyaruGirl, is actually a NiceGirl who will jump at the chance to help someone who needs it, she narrates stories with entertaining amounts of LargeHam, and she dreams of becoming a mother someday. The reason she dresses as a gyaru is to [[BigBrotherWorship emulate her]] [[CoolBigSis older sister]]. |
| 42 | ** Otako may be an {{Otaku}}, but she's actually more of a {{Bookworm}}, a habit she got from reading anything in her house out of boredom. |
| 43 | ** Ojou is certainly TheOjou, one who excels in her studies, but she's also naïve when it comes to what everyone else her age does. |
| 44 | ** Iincho is the StudentCouncilPresident, but in her first bit of attention in the manga, she realizes that she's never given "creating a world without war" essays a thought until she saw Galko--who she assumed didn't care--take it seriously. |
| 45 | * A {{hikikomori}} is stereotypically a creepy, misanthropic guy, and ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' instead has [[PunnyName Kiri Komori]], who is female and friendly ''and'' a hikikomori. |
| 46 | * ''Manga/GabrielDropout'' runs on the angels and demons having their stereotypes flipped. Gabriel became a lazy, snarky shut-in, while Raphael takes pleasure in picking on the oblivious Satanichia. Tsukinose is probably one of the friendliest, kindest characters in the entire series. The only character who fits her stereotype is Satanichia, but her acts of villainy are too [[HarmlessVillain laughably ineffective]] to actually cause suffering. |
| 47 | [[/folder]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 50 | * Korean-American Henry Cho was born and raised in Tennessee, and much of his humor is quite blue-collar in contrast to the stereotypically elitist affectations of Korean-Americans. Henry's even acknowledged the inherent humor of [[VocalDissonance an Asian person with a southern drawl]]. |
| 51 | * Canadian comedian Shaun Majumder, who is half Indian, has a stand-up bit about appearing as a minor terrorist villain on ''Series/TwentyFour''. He talks at length about how offensively stereotyped his character was while describing a chase scene with Jack Bauer, but the punch line is that instead of being a stereotypical brown terrorist, he's actually an over-the-top Newfoundlander. |
| 52 | * Creator/SerdarSomuncu, a German of Turkish descent born in Istanbul, deliberately invoked this trope after his acting career ended with him being a ClassicallyTrainedExtra who would play stereotypic "immigrant" characters with a fake accent that wasn't his, despite being well versed in Goethe, Schiller and all the rest. So he decided to do something GERMAN for his standup program. What, you ask? Oh, only reading UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's ''Literature/MeinKampf'' (in a way that makes people laugh, which he admits was the point). He later reflected on that and the resulting identity crisis in a program aptly titled "Hitler Kebap". |
| 53 | [[/folder]] |
| 54 | |
| 55 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 56 | * A fairly common variation in comics is to introduce a member of the fictional species and then the civilization. |
| 57 | ** Thus, [[ComicBook/{{Valor}} Mon-El]] (''Franchise/{{Superman}}'') and Sodam Yat (''Franchise/GreenLantern'') are friendly explorers from a racist and xenophobic species. They are seen as {{Category Traitor}}s to their own people. |
| 58 | ** Blackfire (''ComicBook/TeenTitans'') is a cruel and malicious monster from a passionate and warm species. |
| 59 | ** ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} is a good-hearted protector from a race of conquerors. |
| 60 | ** Katar Hol (''ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}'') is a good cop from an expansionist empire policed by CorruptCops. His wife Shayera is often torn between her love for her husband and her duty to her people. And the conservative Katar often gets into arguments with the liberal ComicBook/GreenArrow. |
| 61 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': |
| 62 | ** Wolverine famously defies stereotypes of Canadians being unrealistically polite by being abrasive, crude, quick-tempered and prone to violent outbursts. |
| 63 | ** Despite debuting during a [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar very intense period between the Western and Eastern Blocs]], Colossus was unique among Soviet Union characters at the time by being a kind, trustworthy hero. Even to this day, it's hard to come up comic book characters of Eastern European origin who are heroes, let alone ones as heroic as Colossus. |
| 64 | ** ''ComicBook/GenerationX'' was this trope plus FiveTokenBand: the girl from Kentucky was the smart one, the guy from Los Angeles was the nice one, and so on. |
| 65 | ** Forge is a {{Zig Zagging|Trope}} example. While most Native American superheroes tend to have super strength, super senses or [[MagicalNativeAmerican magic-based abilities]], Forge's mutant power gives him [[TechnoWizard an intuitive talent for developing machines]]. However, Forge also has magical knowledge that he rarely uses. |
| 66 | * ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' with both superhero and teen drama cliches. Japanese Goth girl is actually both [[PerkyGoth rather happy]] and a Catholic, ValleyGirl slowly realizes she is gay, JerkJock is hiding his smarts due to hatred for his physically abusive scientist father, TagAlongKid is also both [[TheBigGuy strongest member of the team]] and much smarter than she looks and so on. |
| 67 | * ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'': [[StockForeignName Bridget Clancy]], the superintendent of Dick Grayson's apartment building, is a stereotypical blue-collar Irish lass, complete with comically broad FunetikAksent. The only difference is that she's ethnically Asian, and was adopted by an Irish family as a baby. Lampshaded when Dick is first introduced to her and assumes "Bridget" is the white redheaded woman she's standing next to. |
| 68 | * During Marvel's time as Timely Comics, it became famous for monster comics. When they came back as Marvel, they created ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' which flips the monster comic stereotypes upside down. The monster is the hero while the US army which usually kills the monster are portrayed as well-meaning but violent obstacles. |
| 69 | [[/folder]] |
| 70 | |
| 71 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 72 | * In one ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'', Opus is sitting at a bar when a redneck-looking guy opens a conversation with the standard "you know what's wrong with this country?" bit. The redneck then expresses surprisingly pacifist and environmentalist sentiments. Opus turns to the {{beatnik}} on his other side to say something about how appearances can be deceiving, and the beatnik shouts "America, love it or leave it you pinko punk! |
| 73 | [[/folder]] |
| 74 | |
| 75 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 76 | * ''[[Fanfic/ChristianWestonChandlerInSurvivorKujiraJima Christian Weston Chandler in Survivor: Kujira-Jima]]'' has a mild-mannered white-collar Caucasian who talks in corporate buzzwords, an African-American former gangster... and Ken Faraday-Connors, a [[BerserkButton (usually)]] reserved and well-spoken black IT guy who bears more similarity to the former than the latter. |
| 77 | * ''Fanfic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy'': Ashley [=McFly=][=/=]Leather Ashes. [[{{Fauxreigner}} She pretends to be from the USA]], and is a flat-chested brunette, a 360 flip on the PhenotypeStereotype Japanese have of all American women being blonde buxom beauties. |
| 78 | [[/folder]] |
| 79 | |
| 80 | [[folder:Film -- Animation]] |
| 81 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': Nangi, a yoga instructor at the Mystic Springs Oasis. Despite being an elephant and Yax insisting that [[ElephantsNeverForget her memory is excellent]], she is remarkably forgetful and proves to be of no real help to Judy and Nick on their search for Emmitt Otterton. Yax, on the other hand, gives them exactly the information they need, and credits Nangi for it. |
| 82 | [[/folder]] |
| 83 | |
| 84 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 85 | * ''Film/EightMile'' documents the lifestyle of an American socioeconomic group that, like Native Americans, has not been commonly seen in the popular media for decades: poor, urban whites (who are living in UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, the stereotypically blackest city in America, no less!). Many stories take it for granted that characters like Jimmy "Rabbit", Stephanie, and Lily haven't existed since the 1940s -- and even when they do, they tend to assume that those people are "white ethnics", instead of the [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant British-descended Protestants]] the Smith family clearly are. |
| 86 | * In ''Film/FortyTwo'', there's a scene where UsefulNotes/JackieRobinson and his wife are approached by a scowling and rough-looking white man on the street, in the midst of an awful lot of racist persecution against them. The man proceeds to tell Jackie how upset he is at the way the Robinsons have been treated and to express his hope that Jackie will get the chance to prove his worth on the baseball field. |
| 87 | * One hilarious scene in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' shows [[Series/LeaveItToBeaver June Cleaver]] acting as an interpreter for two young black men who speak only Jive. She, of course, despite being a little old white lady is fluent in [[JiveTurkey the language]]. |
| 88 | * ''Film/BigDaddy'' inverts the typical IrishmanAndAJew dynamic: the main character, Sonny Koufax, is a rambunctious but sentimental Jewish guy, whose {{foil}} is Kevin Gerrity, a straitlaced Irish-American corporate lawyer. |
| 89 | * ''Film/BoneTomahawk'': Unlike your typical [[TheWestern western]], the most prominent Native American character is a well-educated man who speaks English very fluently and is respected by the mostly white community he lives in. He's known simply as "the Professor", and he may actually ''be'' one. |
| 90 | * In ''Film/{{Clockstoppers}}'', Zak's TokenBlackFriend Meeker is a much worse DJ than his white rival. |
| 91 | * ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' -- [[ScaryBlackMan Massive, terrifying, black convict]] ([[TattooedCrook with a facial tattoo!]]) taking the detonator that would (allegedly) blow up the other boat to save theirs. "Give it to me, and I'll do what you shoulda did ten minutes ago." [[ExactWords Which is throwing it out the window]]. |
| 92 | ** A few other convicts seem to [[EvenEvilHasStandards support his decision]]. |
| 93 | * ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'' turns the knight vs. dragon relationship on its head by making them become friends. Their inevitable showdown becomes tragic as a result. |
| 94 | * ''Film/TheEdgeOfSeventeen'' has Mr. Bruner who is neither overly involved in his students lives nor is an overbearing authority figure. He just wants to stay out of all the teen drama BS. |
| 95 | * In ''Film/{{Eraser}}'', there's an exchange between a mobster and his supposedly dumb as bricks muscle: |
| 96 | -->'''Tony Two Toes:''' There they are. Commie bastards!\ |
| 97 | '''Mikey:''' They're not communists anymore, Tony. They're a federation of independent liberated states.\ |
| 98 | '''Tony Two Toes:''' Don't make me hurt you, Mikey. |
| 99 | * The ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'' movies are built on this trope: |
| 100 | ** Kumar inverts the stereotype of South Asians being hardworking and studious, as he is an unemployed, irresponsible, BrilliantButLazy [[TheSlacker slacker]] [[TheStoner stoner]] with terrible personal hygiene. However, the [[Film/HaroldAndKumarEscapeFromGuantanamoBay sequel]] shows that he actually was a high achieving math nerd in college until he was introduced to pot by a white girl. |
| 101 | ** Harold does tick a lot of the stereotype boxes for an Asian-American. He's intelligent, fastidious, high-strung and works in finance. However, he is also a recreational pot user like Kumar, although he strictly only does it outside of work. A flashback to his college days also shows that he used to be an EmoKid. |
| 102 | ** Played with in a sequence where Harold and Kumar are in the DeepSouth, and meet a stereotypical redneck farmer... who turns out to be rich and sophisticated and lives in a very nice home with all modern conveniences and designer clothes... however, it's then revealed that he and his wife are brother and sister, and keep their deformed, inbred son chained up in the basement. |
| 103 | ** In another scene, they break down in Compton and see a group of [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Men]] advance on them, with the biggest and scariest carrying a tire iron. They flee, only for a guy to roll in a spare tire from offscreen and the group to wonder why they ran away rather than accept their help in repairing the car. The leader, who turns out to be an orthodontist, then says they need to call the police to report the suspicious incident. |
| 104 | * ''Film/InTheHeatOfTheNight'': The black guy in town, played by Creator/SidneyPoitier, is not just a suspicious black man passing through town on the night of a murder; he's also a respected detective from UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}}. And in case you're wondering, [[MemeticMutation they call him]] [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs "Mr. Tibbs"!]], not "boy". |
| 105 | * In the ''Film/TheKarateKid2010'' reboot, Andre is on his way to China, and on the flight sees a Chinese guy. Naturally, he takes the opportunity to practice speaking Chinese, only for the guy to say, "Dude. I'm from Detroit." |
| 106 | * ''Film/TheLastDragon'' runs on this by design. All the African-Americans are interested in martial arts and spirituality while the Asian-Americans are very gangster. |
| 107 | * In ''Film/TheLuckOfTheIrish'', Kyle's TokenBlackFriend is terrible at basketball, with every white guy on the team being much better than him, to the point where his father threatens to disown him. Subverted in the end when it turns out he simply lacks confidence in his skills, just like Kyle, who is used to relying on his Leprechaun family luck. |
| 108 | * In the third ''Film/TheNakedGun'' movie, the protagonist Frank goes down a line of cabs trying to find someone who can relay an urgent message to Police Squad. The first two drivers do not speak English and do not understand what is being asked of them. When Frank looks into the third cab he sees a black guy dressed in traditional African clothes. Frank instantly dismisses him and abandons his attempts to radio for backup, leaving the driver to muse to himself "I wonder what the devil he wanted" in a British accent. |
| 109 | * In one of the most memorable scenes in ''Film/RememberTheTitans'' one of the black football players is visiting his teammate who lives in a white neighborhood. A police car pulls up and an officer eyes the youth. You think it's going to be a classic Rodney King-esque scene (it takes place in 1960s Virginia). But... the officer simply congratulates the youth on a well-played game and wishes him good luck for an upcoming game. The black player, and presumably the audience, are pleasantly surprised. |
| 110 | * The ''Film/RushHour'' movies milk this trope for all it's worth. |
| 111 | ** Consider the scenes where Carter reveals he actually knows Chinese and Lee reveals that he actually speaks flawless English. |
| 112 | ** In ''Rush Hour 2'', Carter makes fun of a black man who has immersed himself in Chinese culture and knows the same type of kung-fu as Lee (they were trained by brothers, who live in Hong Kong and Crenshaw, respectively). |
| 113 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'': In-Universe example. [[BigBad Darth Sidious/Emperor Sheev Palpatine]], a genocidal tyrant and one of the evilest people in the history of the galaxy, is a native of the peace-loving planet Naboo. The majority of its people are none too pleased about this. |
| 114 | [[/folder]] |
| 115 | |
| 116 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 117 | * In the ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'' series, the Germans are the free-wheeling individualists, and the Americans are the stuffy, bureaucratic rule-lovers, much to the surprise of the respective opposing parties. Played with further in that any German that is a stuffy, bureaucratic rule-lover ''also'' fits this trope: the 'downtimer' stereotype of Germans is free-wheeling individualists. |
| 118 | * ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' is a kind of romance novel set in a world where women rule and men are [[GenderRarityValue so rare they must be secluded and protected]]. As such it flips a lot of romance novel gender roles on their heads and invents some entirely new ones. |
| 119 | * The science-fiction novel ''Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede'' has three. |
| 120 | ** The protagonist himself, who looks almost exactly like Music/BuddyHolly (which becomes highly pertinent to the plot). He's an atheist, but not [[HollywoodAtheist a bitter or sarcastic one]], and by the end of the novel he has come to believe in a Higher Power after all. |
| 121 | ** The protagonist's mother was a teenager who came of age in The50s, but still [[SeeminglyWholesome50sGirl had her son out of wedlock and made no apologies for doing so]]. It was she who encouraged her son to embrace atheism, owing to her hatred of the people at her son's religious school who thought rock and roll was evil. |
| 122 | ** In the course of the novel, the protagonist befriends a right-wing biker who's [[TheBully bullying]], crude, and a fan of HeavyMetal music -- and is also a young woman with feminist leanings. We get the sense that she might have joined the political left [[FreudianExcuse if not for]] her obnoxious HippieParents. |
| 123 | * Victorian author Creator/WilkieCollins liked to do this to stereotypes of his day. For example, in stage melodramas, the villain was always portrayed as being [[LeanAndMean incredibly thin]] while fat men tended to be [[BigFun jolly]] [[FatComicRelief comic relief]] style characters. So, in ''Literature/TheWomanInWhite'', Collins carefully cast the fat man as the main villain of the piece, an evil Italian gangster. [[AffablyEvil He is still pretty jolly, though.]] |
| 124 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' establishes its stereotypes purely to flip them, such as [[TheCasanova Casanunda]], a great lover from a culture that generally [[OneGenderRace doesn't acknowledge the existence of two genders]], or the reveal that the Big Dumb Troll stereotype is purely a side-effect of the weather. In ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', Mr. Nutt, a character who talks like a philosophy professor and avoids conflict whenever possible is revealed near the end [[spoiler: to be an orc]]. |
| 125 | * In ''Literature/DragonBones'', Ward uses the fact that people tend to assume big guys are just dumb muscle to his advantage by ObfuscatingStupidity. He's actually very intelligent and concluded from his father's behaviour that he would have to pretend to have brain damage to be left alone, as his father saw him as a threat. |
| 126 | * ''Literature/DreamPark'': Alphonse Nakagawa, from ''The California Voodoo Game'', is the grandson of a Japanese fisherman who emigrated to Galveston to take up shrimping in the Gulf. Al himself plays up a "dumb Texas shitkicker" routine to make other Loremasters underestimate him, and even when he's not exaggerating his Southern culture, he'll use very un-Asian phrases like "that dog won't hunt" in his internal monologue. |
| 127 | * ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': |
| 128 | ** Karrin Murphy is a pretty, five-foot-nothing blonde with a cute button nose who Harry has described as looking like a cheerleader or someone's favorite aunt. And she's a badass cop with a black belt in aikido who's stood up to everything from a NighInvulnerable hell-werewolf to the king of all incubi and once attacked a 15-foot-tall ogre with a chainsaw. Averted in the TV series, where [[RaceLift Murphy is Hispanic]] and looks like she means business. Still pretty, though. |
| 129 | ** The local [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] pack are all ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''-playing geeks. |
| 130 | ** Sanya is a rather tall and imposing black man... who's from Russia and sounds like it. He's also basically one of God's chosen [[ThePaladin paladins]]... but he's not remotely KnightTemplar or even religious (he's an atheist who rather stubbornly refuses to buy any signs of God's existence). Also, Harry uses his accent and rhetoric to conclude that he's a communist, but he scoffs at the idea. |
| 131 | * In the historical novel ''Give Me Back My Legions!'' (set in 7-9 AD Roman Empire) by Creator/HarryTurtledove, the Romans are stoic, logical, and disciplined, not given to emotional outbursts, while the Germanic tribesmen that they are trying to conquer are excitable and prone to emotional outbursts, as likely to pull a knife as look at you and undisciplined in battle. In other words, modern-day Italian and German stereotypes are reversed. |
| 132 | * In ''Literature/TheGreenMile'', the Huge Muscular Black Man who supposedly raped two young girls and killed them with his BARE hands actually has a heart of gold (and is innocent). |
| 133 | * ''Literature/HarryPotter'': The title character looks like a StereotypicalNerd, being short, lean and bespectacled. But he's actually more like a jock in terms of personality and skillset, and is even one of the star Quidditch players on the Gryffindor team. |
| 134 | * ''Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt'': Drizzt Do'Urden is well known for being pretty much everything a Drow isn't. He's a NiceGuy and Drow... are not very nice. At all. It should be noted that Drizzt's popularity has induced a slew of stereotype-flipped drow characters, turning the character into a FountainOfExpies and the race into an EnsembleDarkHorse for [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] players. |
| 135 | * You'd generally expect a ginormous black guy to be a ScaryBlackMan who talks like someone from the 'hood. Hamish Lunley from ''Literature/TheMakoSaga'' is a GentleGiant, and very very ''[[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]]''. (He was adopted from a UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} orphanage by a Scottish couple.) |
| 136 | * ''Literature/LesMiserables'': InspectorJavert is implied to be of at least partial UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} descent. If he is, being a determined, self-righteous officer of the law is certainly a major departure from the RoguishRomani stereotype. |
| 137 | * In Lisa Yee's ''Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time'', the titular Stanford Wong is an Asian who's a basketball jock so hopeless at academics that he flunks English class and needs to be tutored by Millicent Min, who does fit the AsianAndNerdy stereotype but acts dumber than she is to be accepted by her friends. |
| 138 | * ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': |
| 139 | ** Piggy, the Gamorrean pilot from the ''Literature/XWingSeries'', is the only member of his species with the intellectual capacity to pilot a starfighter. (Of course, his brain was enhanced in various [[PlayingWithSyringes procedures]].) |
| 140 | ** All prior Nelvaanians who appear prior to ''Literature/MaulLockdown'' are honorable beings who use the same level of technology as real-world Native Americans. Izhsmash is a computer hacker and member of an unsavory prison gang. |
| 141 | ** Blotus, a Hutt, served as Supreme Chancellor of the Republic for 275 years in its early days. Contrary to [[CorruptPolitician what you might think]], he was beloved and almost universally considered one of the best chancellors the Republic ever had. |
| 142 | * In the ''Literature/{{Troubleshooters}}'' series, one of the terrorists is a [[WesternTerrorists white, blond/blue-eyed guy from the Midwest]], who relies on racial stereotyping to get away with murder, not to mention pin his latest crimes on the nice Middle Eastern gardener in the neighborhood. |
| 143 | * Sandy Mitchell seems to take some glee in using the ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' novels to turn ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' stereotypes on their heads. For starters, the title character is the exact opposite of the stereotypical Imperial [[ThePoliticalOfficer commissar]], a cowardly, self-hating man with an inflated reputation [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation (or so he says)]], frequently described by fans like the type of guy commissars are supposed to ''shoot''. Valhallan troops have a reputation for ZergRush tactics, but the 597th is a BadassArmy of mechanized infantry that is just as happy to let the enemy come to them if the situation calls for it. In ''Cain's Last Stand'' we meet Sister Julien, a senior [[ChurchMilitant Sister of Battle]] who drinks, gambles, and is romantically involved with the [[MilitaryAcademy schola progenium's]] bursar. |
| 144 | * In ''I Am Charlotte Simmons'', Charlotte looks like a {{dumb blonde}} cheerleader, and when she gets into college, most people assume that's what she is, even though [[SmarterThanYouLook she's highly intelligent and ambitious]]. Unfortunately for her, the way people perceive her does affect her success. |
| 145 | * A common trait of {{Reborn as Villainess Stor|y}}ies. The protagonists, girls who are in the position of the cruel female antagonists of an Otome game world, are in actuality kind, resourceful, devoted, and didn't do anything to earn hatred, much like the "heroine" would. The designated "heroine", however, features in many stories as selfish, lustful, vindictive of the protagonist and sees all of the love interests as objects to be won rather than people, like the villainess would do in any normal version of their "story". |
| 146 | * ''Literature/NoliMeTangere'' was considered blasphemous for having its villains be Franciscan monks since Franciscans are the most touchy-feely of all the monkish orders. |
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| 149 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 150 | * ''Series/TwentyFour'' has been flipping stereotypes since its pilot episode. The biggest Flip occurred in Season 2. The question of just who was helping the terrorists nuke LA boiled down to either the Middle-Eastern boy educated in London or his WASP father-in-law to be. And then...we learn the REAL identity of the terrorist. Before the show starting [[AssPull pulling asses]]; this was one of the greatest twists and a true Stereotype Freakin' Flip. |
| 151 | * ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' starts with a man with super powers and a shady government organization hot on his heels. A terrorist group known as Rising Tide is hovering menacingly in the background. The episode then flips these stereotypes upside-down. The government organization is S.H.I.E.L.D, Rising Tide is a hoax created by Skye (who is captured and recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D) and the superpowered man is a test subject for a bootleg version of the super soldier serum created by the real villains. |
| 152 | * ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'''s fourth season introduces African-American politician Herbert Love, a wealthy, snobbish, smooth-talker with ultra-conservative politics who embodies the complete opposite of every African-American stereotype in the book. [[note]] He's a pretty clear NoCelebritiesWereHarmed take on Herman Cain, a similarly wealthy and conservative politician who was notable for being one of the most prominent African-Americans in the Republican Party[[/note]] Lampshaded at one point when George Sr. attends his fundraising dinner and mistakes an African-American waiter for one of his campaign aides. |
| 153 | -->'''Waiter:''' Would you like a mini-quiche?\ |
| 154 | '''George Sr.:''' Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were a successful Republican strategist.\ |
| 155 | '''Waiter:''' Why, because I'm black? |
| 156 | * Zigzagged in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', when we meet Felicity's mother in season three, well, let's just say she does not fit the JewishMother stereotype at all. On the other hand, she does seem to fit the DumbBlonde stereotype pretty well. |
| 157 | * ''Series/TheATeam''[='s=] Mr. T., fool! ScaryBlackMan with a Mohawk and a chest full of chains. You wouldn't think it, but he was actually the one the kids loved, both in the show's universe and in RealLife. |
| 158 | * [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''Series/TheBoys2019''. CorruptCorporateExecutive [[Creator/GiancarloEsposito Stan Edgar]] takes steps to avoid coming across as a typical ScaryBlackMan, citing a HairTriggerTemper as a "white man's luxury". He instead chooses to be scary in [[DissonantSerenity other ways]]. |
| 159 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 160 | ** A petite blonde young woman in a horror series is...a vampire slayer. The entire premise of the show was to flip the stereotype. |
| 161 | ** There's also a more subtle example in the form of Giles, who flips the stereotype that [[AdultsAreUseless all adults in horror-based media are useless]]. His very job as Watcher is to be useful. And later done again when we find out the very British, bookish, and stuffy Giles is also fully capable of kicking severe amounts of ass when the situation calls for it. He mainly lets Buffy take care of stuff early on because she needs the practice. |
| 162 | ** Played straight with Angelus and Spike, and averted with their pre-vampire bite human selves. |
| 163 | *** Liam is Irish, and as a human, had a love of drinking, sex and tavern brawling. When he became Angelus, Liam put on a veneer of class and intelligence more befitting of his noble upbringing, all the while possessing a sadism that eclipsed most vampires. |
| 164 | *** Before he became a vampire, Spike was an aspiring British poet called William the Bloody, so-called because his poetry was seen as "bloody awful". While the human William was a sensitive MommasBoy, the vampire Spike is a sarcastic and vicious BloodKnight. |
| 165 | * In ''Series/ChicagoMed'', Dr. Crockett Marcel is an immigrant from Iran. However, because he grew up in [[TheBigEasy New Orleans]] he looks, acts and sounds like a stereotypical Louisiana Cajun. He's also not Muslim, he's Baha'i. |
| 166 | ** Dr. Ethan Choi is a rare example of an Asian-American in fiction whose heritage doesn't play a role in his character at all. He's intelligent and hard working, but not a stereotypical overachieving nerd. He's also a {{Badass}}; but because he's a Navy veteran, not a martial artist. |
| 167 | * ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': |
| 168 | ** Agent Sarah Walker is a sexy blonde. And an ass-kicking is never far behind whenever she's on the screen. |
| 169 | ** Devon "Captain Awesome!" Woodcomb combs like a typical "frat boy." And while he has that silly catchphrase, played football, and loves to say "bro" and "dude"; he is also an accomplished doctor, and a genuinely caring husband and friend. |
| 170 | ** Casey is a hardened veteran, and in the first couple of seasons seems to have no problem with a standing order to kill Chuck when ordered. When Chuck and Sarah run away together to complete the mission, he tracks them down and is visibly angry -- albeit not because they disobeyed their orders but because they didn't trust him enough to include him in their plan, showing he genuinely cares about the team. |
| 171 | * Señor Chang on ''Series/{{Community}}'' is a racially Asian Spanish teacher who has come to identify far more strongly with Latin culture due to his marriage to a Latina woman. And this trope apparently [[ItRunsInTheFamily runs in the family]], since he has a brother who is a ''rabbi''. This aspect of his character is [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness dwelt on far less]] past the first season, after which he is [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] into an insane megalomaniac. |
| 172 | ** A later season revealed that he was never actually married, and made up that story to get hired for the job. The Dean was too worried about appearing racist to question its validity. The same is most likely true for his brother as well. |
| 173 | * In a case of an adaptation doing this to its own source material, ''Series/CloakAndDagger2018'' imagines Tandy Bowen (Dagger) as a street-smart poor girl and Ty Johnson (Cloak) hailing from an upper-class background, as opposed to [[ComicBook/CloakAndDagger the original comics]], where Dagger hailed from a rich family and Cloak was from a poor background. |
| 174 | * In an episode of ''Series/DesigningWomen'', Julia and Suzanne are visiting their mother in Japan. While on the plane, they're sitting beside an Asian man who is sitting on Suzanne's purse. Suzanne yells at him in her typically offensive way; Julia then attempts to speak to him in Japanese. At this point, he reveals that he knew he was sitting on her purse and mentions that not only does he speak fluent English, he's actually from UsefulNotes/GeorgiaUSA, and mentions that if they want to continue screaming at him, please do it in English, because he might look Asian, but in reality, "He's a Bubba." (As a bonus, he was played by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeKFNisCatA Henry Cho]], who's mentioned above.) |
| 175 | * Whitley Gilbert, the AlphaBitch on ''Series/ADifferentWorld'' was a brash SouthernBelle at a (functionally) all-black college. She was played by a trained dancer and stage actress Jasmine Guy, whose acerbic characterization and well-paced slapstick soon made Whitley the BreakoutCharacter. HarsherInHindsight / HilariousInHindsight FairForItsDay, because during The80s, it was ''seen as a step forward for a black woman to play a ComedicSociopath convincingly.'' |
| 176 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 177 | ** The Time Lords are a [[PlanetOfHats Planet of Dull, Stuffy]] (and incredibly ridiculous) [[PlanetOfHats Hats]]. The Doctor is an [[GuileHero adventurous]], [[AllLovingHero friendly]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who ran away from home for this selfsame reason. |
| 178 | ** The Master, the Doctor's EvilCounterpart, also defies the Time Lord stereotype. Especially in his/her incarnations as Saxon and Missy, where the usual insanity is mixed with [[LaughablyEvil a sense of humour]]. |
| 179 | * ''Series/DowntonAbbey'': |
| 180 | ** Lady Sinderby is an aversion of the JewishMother stereotype. When her son Atticus wishes to marry a gentile girl, she is the supportive one, while his father is the one who is raving about Atticus throwing away their culture for a girl. When the girl's mother pulls a last-second effort to break off the marriage by announcing her impending divorce, it is Lady Sinderby who once again reacts to it calmly and urges her son to proceed with the wedding, then coldly threatening her husband with a divorce if he utters even one word in protest. |
| 181 | ** Prince Igor Kuragin also doesn't fit the typical stereotype of a Russian nobleman, seeming like a kind, gentle old man. His wife Irina, on the other hand, is cold and aristocratic. |
| 182 | * ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' had Zoe, an ass-kicking ActionGirl, who was happily married to Wash, who was very much a NonActionGuy. It seems that not AllAmazonsWantHercules. |
| 183 | * ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' derived much humor from the FishOutOfWater nature of a stereotypical black teen clashing with his flipped relatives in Bel Air. This is the most obvious with the BlackAndNerdy Carlton, who is taunted by Will for [[TheWhitestBlackGuy not being "black enough"]], and Hilary, who is pretty much a black DumbBlonde. |
| 184 | * ''Series/GoodnessGraciousMe'' has a variant. The stereotype of obnoxious Brits making idiots of themselves at an Indian restaurant is flipped when an Indian family decides to get drunk and "go for an English". |
| 185 | * ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' is made of this. |
| 186 | ** Eleanor: Subverts the DumbBlonde stereotype by being quite street smart (even if not book smart) and has a bit of a DarkAndTroubledPast. |
| 187 | ** Tahani: A rich, upper-class British socialite, posh British accent, mannerisms and all, who happens to be of Indian descent (some viewers at first actually thought she was an olive-skinned white girl because Creator/JameelaJamil herself is that same Stereotype Flip and comes across as quintessentially British). |
| 188 | ** Chidi: A philosophical, cultured BlackAndNerdy type of guy who ends up being [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy the feminine boy to Eleanor's masculine girl]]. He ends up being TheSmartGuy of the group with his book smarts. |
| 189 | ** Jason: An AsianAirhead who is also a party animal. He is not only BookDumb but has no real knowledge of [[AllAsiansKnowMartialArts martial arts]]. [[spoiler: Subverted in that it turns out he's actually of Hispanic heritage, but that doesn't preclude him from being Asian as well, as Creator/MannyJacinto is Filipino himself]]. |
| 190 | * ''Series/HannahMontana'''s {{Alpha Bitch}}es Amber and Ashley are played by a black girl and an Asian girl. Amber is the hottest girl in school and a RichBitch, a role usually restricted to blondes, and Ashley is a bitchy AsianAirhead as opposed to "model minority" AsianAndNerdy. So, less of an {{Unfortunate Implication|s}} as much as a case of not restricting the ethnic kids to TokenBlackFriend and TokenMinority. |
| 191 | * On ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', DL Hawkins was initially described as the classic ScaryBlackMan. When he actually showed up, he turned out to be one of the nicest and sanest characters on the show, completely dedicated to his wife and son. While initially said to be a criminal, he is, in fact, a firefighter. |
| 192 | ** In one episode, Hiro and Ando have to hitchhike across Texas and are delighted when a trucker of Japanese heritage pulls over for them. The trucker is baffled by their use of the Japanese language and speaks in a typically "redneck" fashion. |
| 193 | * ''Series/{{Insecure}}'' has Issa defying the stereotype of a put-together SassyBlackWoman who quips constantly and is highly confident. Instead she is awkward, often at a loss of words, and...well...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin insecure]]. |
| 194 | * ''Series/{{JAG}}'': |
| 195 | ** Meg Austin, Harm's partner in the first season only, is a beautiful blonde with a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents Texan drawl]] who also happens to be a lawyer, professional computer hacker, and fluent in Spanish. More than once other characters (usually antagonists) will make dismissive comments about her, assuming her to be a DumbBlonde or a harmless DamselInDistress. |
| 196 | ** J.D. in "Sightings", a drunken drawling veteran living in a trailer near the border, dismisses the possibility that the Mexican man he saw near Cathy could be responsible for her disappearance. In this case, because he could see the man was scared out of his wits. |
| 197 | %%* ''Series/TheJeffersons'', although they sometimes fall straight into other stereotypes. |
| 198 | * ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' made TheSmartGuy [[BlackAndNerdy black]] and TheBigGuy white. Elsewhere in the series, in one episode they meet another team, their "big guy" is an attractive Jewish woman (and a BadassIsraeli). As an added bonus, the black smart guy also has [[RenaissanceMan tons of other skills, including painting, playing the violin, and being a damn good con artist]]. |
| 199 | * ''Series/MadTV1995'': The "Average Asian" sketches are about an Asian guy who is expected to have stereotypical Asian abilities (knows karate, origami, good at math, plays a musical instrument, etc.) by people around him but doesn't (except for ping pong, summoning {{ninja}}s, and [[ChineseLaunderer laundry]]). |
| 200 | * In an episode of ''Series/MayansMC'', EZ and Angel get sent into Mexico to pick up a shipment of narcotics from a cartel courier nicknamed "Juan Denver". Juan turns out to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Mexicans ethnically Asian]], only able to speak Spanish, and his nickname comes from being a fan of American singer-songwriter Music/JohnDenver, |
| 201 | * Danny John Jules always enjoyed playing the Cat's nerdy alter-ego 'Dwayne Dibbley on ''Series/RedDwarf'' because it flipped the stereotype of black people as cool jive-talking characters. |
| 202 | * In the ''Series/PushingDaisies'' episode "The Fun in Funeral", the culprit turns out to be an Asian-American good ol' boy who killed the victim to get back Civil War memorabilia belonging to his great-grandfather (a ChineseLaborer who wandered off from the railroad and ended up joining the Confederacy). |
| 203 | * Lisa Turtle from ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' was written as a stereotypical "[[JewishAmericanPrincess Jewish Princess]]" and cast as black (gentile?) before the show went on the air. She was still materialistic and high maintenance, but managed to avoid many of the UnfortunateImplications of the SassyBlackWoman because of her class (somewhere between a RichBitch and a [[SpoiledSweet pampered sweet kid]]) and CloudCuckoolander tendencies. Her character was the only female lead to survive the ReTool. |
| 204 | * In ''Series/SiliconValley''; the engineers at Pied Piper are depicted as money-grubbing egoists and all-around immature jerks; while Jared, an MBA with a corporate background, is a selfless and kind wet blanket, the exact opposite of the usual stereotypes of management and tech workers. Additionally, Jared is the ButtMonkey of the group who the others bully and disrespect, rather than an unreasonable tyrant who bosses them around. That being said, Jared is shown to be very much the exception, as all other managers and higher-ups in the show conform to the stereotype of a tech executive. |
| 205 | * ''Franchise/{{Stargate Verse}}'': |
| 206 | ** ''Series/StargateSG1'': |
| 207 | *** Colonel Samantha Carter is a gorgeous blonde. She also possesses an IQ surpassing UsefulNotes/StephenHawking's and has kicked several planets' worth of asses in ''two'' galaxies. And killed the gods of ''a third''. [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun She also blew up a sun]]. |
| 208 | *** Jack O'Neill also breaks several stereotypes. being TheKirk and not into science, most of the time he'll occasionally recognize stuff first... Of course, O'Neill isn't as dumb as he [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretends to be]]. He just likes to put on the appearance of a dumb fighter jock to get people to leave him alone or underestimate him. He's the only known person who was able to survive having the total sum of Ancient knowledge downloaded into his head... twice. |
| 209 | *** Daniel Jackson fits the bill as well. He is undoubtedly an academic in the literal sense (3 doctoral degrees to boot), and a nerd, who in the course of the show, has kicked his fair share of ass, and is far too good-looking to be a standard nerd. |
| 210 | *** It should also be noted that of the two academics on the team, it's Samantha Carter who is the expert on the hard sciences, the career military officer, and TheLancer. Daniel Jackson is a civilian whose specialties are in the much fuzzier subjects of archaeology, linguistics, and anthropology; he is TheHeart of the team. |
| 211 | ** ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': |
| 212 | *** Dr. Rodney [=McKay=] is Canadian. He is also [[CrassCanuck arrogant, rude, hypochondriac, and generally a pain in the ass]]... when he's not ''kicking'' it. He also ends up with a hot chick... and is the only main character who has joined the Mile High Club. |
| 213 | *** Major (later Colonel) Sheppard appears to be your typical O'Neill {{Expy}}. Except for the fact that he is eventually revealed to have a UsefulNotes/{{Mensa}}-level intelligence, which he simply chooses to keep secret. "Rod" [=McKay=] from a parallel universe even reveals that his version of Sheppard is his intellectual equal. In yet another parallel universe, Shepard is a police detective, who manages to track down a rogue Wraith and helps stop him (at the cost of his own life), something that world's [=McKay=] fails to do. |
| 214 | * ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': The mere fact of the original Enterprise's crew was a historic stereotype flip. A black woman who was actually not a servant. A very scrutable Asian. A Russian treated sympathetically ''at the height of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar''. One of Trek's great accomplishments was all the stereotypes it flipped. |
| 215 | * ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': |
| 216 | ** Worf flips the HotBlooded Klingon stereotype by instead being TheStoic. This is explained by him learning about Klingon culture through books rather than first-hand knowledge. He's very much surprised to learn that most Klingons are hardly the paragons of honor he perceived them to be. |
| 217 | ** Worf's lover K'ehleyr, a fellow Klingon (though half-human), actually cracks jokes, smiles, and seems to actually have other interests other than finding excuses to 'fight in glorious battle.' She's also an example of MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch, though in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' this tends to be a standard-issue trait of alien hybrids. |
| 218 | * ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': |
| 219 | ** Nog not only proves that he's more than a money-grubbing Ferengi, but he also becomes a Lieutenant in Starfleet. In some ExpandedUniverse novels, he becomes a Starfleet Admiral. |
| 220 | * In an episode of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', a Vulcan greets Captain Archer... with a warm and hearty handshake, something the Vulcans... don't do. She also asks Archer about her quarters; T'Pol assumes she's displeased with the smell as Vulcans have a more heightened sense of smell than humans. Rather, she wants Archer to thank the crewman who loaned it to her. |
| 221 | ** There is also an episode of a group of Vulcan outcasts. One of the biggest clues that something is different about them is when their leader foregoes the typical vegetarian meal the chef prepared for him and asks to try some of the chicken, despite the well-known fact that Vulcans never consume meat. |
| 222 | * ''Series/StepByStep'' flips the stereotypes of the BrainyBrunette and the DumbBlonde. Dana is the snarky and brainy sister, who is rather close to becoming a StrawFeminist. Karen is not always ''dumb'', but she mostly seems to only think about boys, clothes, and her appearance. But unlike what you might think, Dana is the blonde and Karen is the brunette. |
| 223 | * ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'': |
| 224 | ** London Tipton, an AsianAirhead, yes, but usually the spoiled socialites are blonder. This is meant to contrast with the blonde Maddie who is the smart and intelligent one, flipping the dumb blonde stereotype. |
| 225 | ** Speaking of blondes, Maddie averts the DumbBlonde stereotype by being smart and hard-working. She also comes from a working-class background to further underscore her as a {{foil}} to London. |
| 226 | ** Mr. Moseby, played by a black actor, is an uptight hotel manager who speaks with a refined vernacular. |
| 227 | * Phil Harding, regular on UK archaeology show ''Series/TimeTeam'', looks and talks like a stereotypical [[UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry West Country]] poacher. He's also an expert in pottery and flint-knapping and can speak eruditely and at great length about them, "ooh-arr" accent and all. |
| 228 | * In an episode of ''Series/TheTonightShow'' with Creator/JayLeno, During a talent competition between [[UsefulNotes/PowerFiveConferences USC and Michigan]] football players called "All American Idol", a white guy faces up against a black guy in a rap battle and utterly schools him. |
| 229 | * In ''Series/TheLibrarians2014'', Jacob Stone is your typical cowboy from Oklahoma, who enjoys going to a bar with his friends and starting a brawl. He also has a [[SouthernFriedGenius genius-level IQ]] and a [=PhD=] in art history, having written dozens of academic papers on the subject (all under assumed names). No wonder the Library picked him as a potential Librarian. By the end of Season 3, he's also a [[GeniusBruiser master martial artist]], having learned from the [[Characters/JourneyToTheWest Monkey King]] himself (although that last part is expected from someone who knows Creator/ChristianKane from [[Series/{{Leverage}} another show]])... |
| 230 | * ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'': Darryl is basically the exact opposite of a [[DepravedBisexual bisexual stereotype]] - he's in his forties, male, kind of boring (his idea of a rocking party mainly revolves around having many different types of cheese), and completely monogamous and pretty traditional (he loves children, unlike his boyfriend who is pretty neutral on the subject). |
| 231 | ** Josh Chan is an AsianAirhead, a nice, perpetually chill jock who can be a bit of a manchild. In one scene where Josh counts a number off on his fingers, the actor even confirmed with the director that he wasn't doing it too fast. |
| 232 | * Zig-zagged by Eddie and Lewis from ''Series/FreshOffTheBoat'': Lewis is Cantonese, but he operates an all-American steakhouse and is generally obsessed with US culture - though he's still an "Asian Workaholic" whose interest in American cuisine is extensive, but calculated to make a profit for himself and his family. His son, Eddie, embraces urban black music, style, and interests, but casually mentions he's still [[AsianAndNerdy top of his class]]. |
| 233 | ** Discussed in an episode where Eddie's brother Emery starts high school - Eddie is afraid his nerdy behavior [[StopBeingStereotypical will ruin all the work Eddie had in proving he isn't an Asian stereotype]]. Emery defends himself by saying he's just trying to be himself without caring what other people think - just like Eddie. |
| 234 | ** Eddie's SitcomArchNemesis Phillip Goldstein is ethnically Chinese, but he was adopted and raised by a Jewish-American family, and identifies with Jewish culture rather than Chinese. |
| 235 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': Marshall Eriksen is a lawyer... and the nicest, most moral guy on the show by far. |
| 236 | * ''Series/TheMandalorian'': Previous live-action entries in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise have treated Tatooine's Sand People as AlwaysChaoticEvil (the EU portrayal has been more complex, DependingOnTheWriter). Episode five instead regards them something like Native Americans in the TheWildWest, with Mando addressing a pair of Tusken scouts he and Toro Calican encounter with the respect due an equal, and trading with them for the right to cross "their land". |
| 237 | [[/folder]] |
| 238 | |
| 239 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 240 | * "Truck Drivin' Song" by Music/WeirdAlYankovic is sung by a manly-sounding truck driver at the wheel of his BigBadassRig. By the end of the first verse, it is clear that he is also a {{crossdresser}}. |
| 241 | -->Rollin' down the highway until the break of dawn\ |
| 242 | Drivin' a truck with my high heels on |
| 243 | * Terri Clark's "Girls Lie, Too," a subversion of the FemalesAreMoreInnocent trope. |
| 244 | -->''Girls lie too,\ |
| 245 | We don't care how much money you make,\ |
| 246 | Or what you drive or what you weigh,\ |
| 247 | Size don't matter anyway.\ |
| 248 | Girls lie too''\ |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 252 | * Wrestling/{{WWE}} wrestler Wrestling/JimmyWangYang's entire gimmick is based around this. His character (a down-home cowboy who also happens to be Korean) has him deliberately defying Asian stereotypes by being proud of his Southern heritage, and wishing to be identified by his self-admitted love of being a redneck, rather than being judged by his race. |
| 253 | * Wrestling/JohnCena is an even better example, both in {{Kayfabe}} and in RealLife. Born to relative privilege in a practically all-white UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} suburb, [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy he embraced rap music at a young age and in time became a modestly successful rapper himself]]. And then, once he got to WWE, he flipped the stereotype right back by having his "wigger" character "join the military" (actually, he was just training for his starring role in ''The Marine'') and transform seemingly overnight from a rude and crude ghetto thug to an [[AllAmericanFace all-American hero]]. |
| 254 | * Mexican-born Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio defies the usual stereotypes of Mexicans being poor, ignorant, and ill-mannered with his character of "The Mexican Aristocrat", who (at least when he is a heel) is quite WickedCultured. He also speaks with an upper-class colonial accent more reminiscent of UsefulNotes/{{Spain}} than of UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}}, rather than the more stereotypical mestizo accent associated with Wrestling/EddieGuerrero and other Latino wrestlers. |
| 255 | * Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr got so fed up with being attacked by The Mexicools in 2005, that he turned his back on his Latino heritage, dyed his hair blonde and re-emerged as "Kerwin White", a golf-playing WASP who looked down on minorities and said bordeline racist stuff on television to draw heat from the crowd. In fact, he had even pitched an idea backstage to Vince [=McMahon=] about Kerwin joining the Klan! |
| 256 | * [[Wrestling/SamiZayn El Generico]] was a Canadian luchador on the indies notable for having very pale skin and red hair. Sami Zayn, the wrestler who portrayed him, is this in real life as, despite being very white-presenting he is of Syrian heritage. |
| 257 | * It was once extremely common for a wrestler performing a HeelFaceTurn or a FaceHeelTurn to completely invert their stereotypical qualities to make the transition more dramatic. An example of the latter would be Wrestling/NikolaiVolkoff's turnaround from being a {{Dirty Communist|s}} to an [[AllAmericanFace apple-pie American patriot]], while the former is exemplified in Wrestling/RickMartel's switch from soft-spoken nice guy to the arrogant {{Jerkass}} known as "The Model." Now that BlackAndGrayMorality is much more common in sports-entertainment, it's customary for wrestlers to simply retain (as much as possible) their old qualities when they turn: [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]]'s [[Wrestling/KenAnderson Mr. Anderson]]" [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor may be a crowd favorite from time to time]], but he's still undeniably an "Asshole." |
| 258 | [[/folder]] |
| 259 | |
| 260 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 261 | * JustForFun/TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples strikes again. In ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'', Creator/WilliamShakespeare flips not one, but ''three'' [[DeadHorseTrope Dead Horse Trope]]s: the brutal, lascivious, and treacherous Moor; the promiscuous, cunning, venal Venetian lady, and the honest soldier. Othello is honorable, cool-headed (mostly), and chaste, Desdemona is almost a PuritySue in her simplicity, while Iago is a ManipulativeBastard and the villain of the story... |
| 262 | * In ''Theatre/{{Electra}}'', Chrysothemis is very clear on the point that Electra is not behaving like a woman should at all (i.e. She refuses to defer to others and accept her weakness and limits as a woman, is certain to remain unmarried and neglected because of her behaviour, is stubborn and excessive in mourning her father, and is conspiring to murder her mother and step-father). Electra is a TragicHero, after all. |
| 263 | * ''Theatre/MButterfly'' has its title and plot clearly based on ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'''s, but turns out to be a {{deconstruction}} of the "[[MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow demure and submissive Asian woman]] [[DrivenToSuicide who lives only for her]] MightyWhitey man" stereotype [[TropeCodifier codified]] by ''Madame Butterfly'' when it's revealed that [[spoiler:the seemingly demure and submissive Song is actually a [[DisguisedInDrag male]] spy who manipulated the white diplomat Gallimard as ruthlessly as Pinkerton did with Butterfly in ''Madame Butterfly'', and it's ''Gallimard'' who kills himself in the end out of love for a man, even cross-dressing as a Japanese woman and committing suicide in the same manner Butterfly did]]. |
| 264 | * ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' casts a white girl with an exaggerated Southern drawl as the canonically Chinese-British Cho Chang. She occasionally drops some [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Chinese]] ([[InterchangeableAsianCultures and]] [[GratuitousJapanese Japanese]]), implying that her name isn't as [[NonIndicativeName non-indicative]] as it seems. |
| 265 | [[/folder]] |
| 266 | |
| 267 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 268 | * ''Franchise/MassEffect'' takes pride in introducing a [[PlanetOfHats hat for a species to wear]] and then instantly having them take it off. |
| 269 | ** Liara is a shy bookworm from a planet of sociable diplomats, Garrus is a [[CowboyCop loose cannon]] from a species of obedient soldiers (who lampshades it by saying that he's "not a very good turian") and Wrex is a [[WarriorPoet philosophical and noble leader]] from a species of {{Blood Knight}}s. |
| 270 | ** The second game introduces two asari who are so far outside the stereotype most of their own people tend not to mention them; a krogan warlord obsessed with producing a single perfect krogan rather than returning to the old ways; and [[spoiler:a geth who reveals the hat placed on his race in the original game applied to only a small rebel faction]]. |
| 271 | ** The ''extremely'' civil and eloquent krogan businessman you can meet on Illium. Another one, Charr, doesn't seem to have an ounce of aggression in his body and is seen wooing an asari with poetry. |
| 272 | ** Mordin, for the most part, represents the two typical things salarians are known for: science and espionage. Then he reveals that [[HiddenDepths he is also a pretty good singer]], having done the salarian adaptations of Creator/GilbertAndSullivan. |
| 273 | ** Even the fourth game has characters who defy the stereotypes of their race. Drack is an ancient krogan who actually has some pretty progressive views on how his species should survive Andromeda, Vetra is an amoral yet good-hearted turian smuggler who never went to boot camp, Peebee is a hyperactive asari who would rather live by the now and is perhaps the biggest critic of asari culture, Kallo, your pilot, is a salarian who actually doesn't like pushing already state of the art tech to its limits and uses his perfect memory to remember the good times of friends rather than knowledge. Even the human party members, Liam and Cora, can defy stereotypes from the view of the other races (being open about respecting and working with other species and completely adopting another race's culture respectively). |
| 274 | ** Khalisah al-Jilani (an Arab woman) is a ditzy, vapid tabloid reporter. She's not exactly a sympathetic character (the player has the option to ''[[ButtMonkey punch her in the face]]'' every time they meet), but she's such a far cry from typical Arab stereotypes that it almost comes off as FlawlessToken. |
| 275 | * The {{expansion|Pack}}s to ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' flip stereotypes with several characters. |
| 276 | ** ''Mask of the Betrayer'' has Gann, a hagspawn spirit shaman who is the resident MrFanservice. Hagspawn are normally ugly brutes (-2 Charisma, favored class Barbarian). Gann isn't because [[spoiler:his parents actually loved each other]]. |
| 277 | ** Safiya is everything the vast majority of Red Wizards are not, more interested in learning and teaching than accruing personal power. |
| 278 | ** ''Storm of Zehir'' has: |
| 279 | *** Umoja, a druid who [[LargeHam hams it up]] rather than whinging about the balance of life. |
| 280 | *** Belueth the Calm, a NeutralEvil aasimar rogue. Aasimar are normally good (favored class Paladin) due to their celestial heritage. |
| 281 | *** Grykk Bannersworn, a half-orc ''paladin''. Not much else needs to be said. |
| 282 | *** Ribsmasher, the batshit insane monk. You ain't getting any inner peace out of this guy. |
| 283 | * ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' has an example of this in one of the romance subplots related to Morrigan and Leliana. Morrigan is the 'atheist' member of the player's party who tends to hate religion whereas Leliana is the church-attending saint of the group. In a flip of a real-life expectation, it's Leliana, the religious party member, who is open to both a heterosexual and homosexual relationship. Morrigan, the atheist party member, is strictly heterosexual and will only entertain a romantic relationship with a male player character. It somewhat helps, however, that there is no stigma against homosexuality in Thedas, at least not from a religious point of view; [[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition the one case in the series]] of a truly homophobic character is a father who was trying, rather badly, to preserve his bloodline since his son marrying another man would mean no children for him, and his actions are not shed in a positive light ''at all.'' |
| 284 | * ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'': gave us Montaron, a Halfling thief. So far, the stereotype is pretty accurate, but where the average halfling is a Good-aligned, jolly, chubby sling-user, Montaron is a NeutralEvil (and a member of the Zhentarim, an evil-aligned organization) grumpy, vaguely psychotic, bloodthirsty scar-covered backstabber. |
| 285 | * In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Tifa Lockhart and Aerith Gainsborough are meant to form a TomboyAndGirlyGirl routine: the former is a bartender in revealing clothes who [[BareFistedMonk fights with her bare hands]], while the latter sells flowers, wears a pink dress, and is [[WhiteMage the party's healer]]. Thing is, their expected personalities are swapped: Tifa is [[ShrinkingViolet shy]] and [[TeamMom motherly]], while Aerith is [[PluckyGirl flirty and adventurous]]. That being said it's a little subtle, causing some fans and Creator/SquareEnix themselves to miss this and [[SubvertedTrope switch them right around again]]. |
| 286 | * Most ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' games feature a Cleric who is quiet, shy and reserved and a {{Tsundere}} Troubadour. In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' this is flipped: Serra the Cleric is the {{Tsundere}} WellExcuseMePrincess while Priscilla the Troubadour is a modest ProperLady. It also flips the traditional Ogma and Navarre archetypes by having Guy the Myrmidon be an all-round NiceGuy and Raven the Mercenary be an edgelord with a HiddenHeartOfGold. |
| 287 | * In fighting videogames, Italians are ''mostly'' depicted as [[LatinLover sexy and suave]], with examples including [[SharpDressedMan Robert Garcia]] from ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'', [[StatuesqueStunner Rose]] from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', [[ActionFashionista Claudio Serafino]] from ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'', and [[LatinLover Brad Burns]] from ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter''. ''Soul Calibur's'' resident Italian, Voldo (a native of Palermo), is a brilliantly freaky, hideous looking bondage-fiend and provides a rather excellent exception to the rule. |
| 288 | * Many ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' are animals that flip the general AnimalStereotype that the animal they are based on may have. Such as Hippopotas (a hippopotamus) and Sandile (a crocodile) lines being Ground-types that hate getting wet despite being animals that are generally aquatic. |
| 289 | * The Sniper of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is an interesting one. His initial personality (an outback big-game hunter who favors large knives) is pretty well within real-world AwesomeAussie stereotypes... but in the setting of the game, Australians are HotBlooded [[GeniusBruiser Genius]] BoisterousBruiser types, who are incredibly muscular, have thick mustaches and chest hair and enjoy wrestling and boxing. The Sniper, on the other hand, is clean-shaven bar mild PermaStubble, LeanAndMean, and a LongRangeFighter and CombatPragmatist with an overall detached and down-to-earth personality, making him basically the opposite of the stereotypical Aussie. Eventually, it's revealed that [[spoiler:he's actually a New Zealander [[RaisedByNatives raised by Australians]]]]. |
| 290 | * Trevor Philips from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' was specifically written as the type of unstable psychopath who'd go on shooting sprees for the fun of it to satirize a certain type of GTA player. He's also [[CrassCanuck Canadian]], and God help you if you do anything that ''might'' remind him of this. Seriously, this guy makes ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} look the picture of mental stability. |
| 291 | * ''VideoGame/PathfinderWrathOfTheRighteous'' |
| 292 | ** Aasimar tend towards good alignments due to being influenced by the upper planes. Daeran Arendae is a NeutralEvil aasimar with a LackOfEmpathy who is quite happy to let others die or suffer for his own amusement. [[spoiler: It's mostly an act, though. Daeran is certainly hedonistic and self-centered, but he's a far better person than he thinks.]] |
| 293 | ** Gnomes are stereotyped as whimsical {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s, with the Golarion setting justifying it with the fact that seeking out new experiences staves off the Bleaching. Regill Derenge, a LawfulEvil hellknight, is anything but whimsical, being a hard-nosed and pragmatic killer. Notably this is ''killing him'', as he's Bleaching to death but refuses to do anything stereotypically gnomish to delay the priocess. |
| 294 | ** Half-orcs are often perceived as brutes and tend towards chaotic alignments. Irabeth Tirabade is not only LawfulGood but [[SquareRaceRoundClass a paladin]]. |
| 295 | ** Arueshalae is a [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus]] trying to redeem herself, and beyond not being evil is completely covered up and chaste, partially because she associates sexual acts with the terrible things she once did (and because her [[KissOfDeath kiss still kills people]]). |
| 296 | ** Halflings are generally Good-aligned, carefree hedonists who love food, drink and music. [[spoiler: Nurah]] is instead a Chaotic Evil, deeply traumatized former slave who hates the hypocrisy of the "good" creatures and gods who perpetuate slavery through their inaction even more than she hates slavers, and more than willing to see the world plunge into literall hell to get revenge. |
| 297 | * ''VideoGame/CatacombKids'': You'd expect your typical BlobMonster to be slow, lumbering, and either bouncing at you as an oversized water droplet or sticking to you like a living tar field, and generally [[TheGoomba being the wimpiest enemy]] in the game, right? Well, the Ogo is definitely neither, as a fast, dangerous and armed BadassNormal lump of [[MadeOfExplodium suprisingly explosive]] blue mucus, [[{{Foil}} unlike the previous two]] slimes fitting exactly the former description. |
| 298 | * Estelle of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'' seems to be deliberately designed to flip around one of the most classic RPG character concepts: she's a girl with a staff who also happens to be as far from the WhiteMagicianGirl as humanly possible, being both the main character and a hot-blooded StockShonenHero whose staff is not a MagicStaff but a good old hit-people-with-stick staff. Conversely, her love interest Joshua hits ''more'' personality traits of the archetype despite physically being a sword-wielding hero you'd expect to see in the protagonist's seat. |
| 299 | * ''VideoGame/KanColle'': Amusingly, while Gambier Bay certainly fits the [[GorgeousGaijin physical stereotype of an American woman in Japan]], she is actually [[ShrinkingViolet rather timid and tends to stutter]], and [[LoveableCoward she panics whenever she is pressed into battle]]. |
| 300 | [[/folder]] |
| 301 | |
| 302 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 303 | * None of the ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' characters entirely fulfill the cliche of their disability (Hanako probably comes the closest, but she is still much deeper than you'd expect)... |
| 304 | ** ...but Shizune really blows her own out of the water. She's deaf-mute, but instead of being shy and passive she's an outgoing, competitive, ruthless taskmaster who is a totally devoted StudentCouncilPresident. |
| 305 | ** One of the reasons Emi gives for why she gets up early every morning to go running is because her doctors said that she would have to relearn how to walk after losing her legs. Due to sheer [[{{Determinator}} determination]], she gets through physical therapy much faster than expected and continues to run "simply because she can". Also, rather hilariously, despite being the youngest-looking of the main characters, (seriously, she looks like she's 13; [[OlderThanTheyLook she's actually 19]].) she's also the one who [[SirSwearsALot swears the most.]] |
| 306 | [[/folder]] |
| 307 | |
| 308 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 309 | * ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Tiffany Pompoms is a blonde rich girl in high school. She's also a smart, nerdy, introverted DeadpanSnarker who [[MiddleNameBasis goes by her middle name Susan]] and dyes her hair dark blue. Justified, since she tries hard to avoid DumbBlonde stereotypes due to a [[SingleIssuePsychology traumatic event in her childhood]]. She's actually [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2017-10-25 horrified to find out]] she has an IdenticalStranger who fits a lot of the stereotypes she hates. |
| 310 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' often does this with various professional/race stereotypes of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' and the like. |
| 311 | ** Roy is a fighter, a class usually associated with DumbMuscle, but he's a GeniusBruiser. |
| 312 | ** Belkar is a halfling, a race generally known for being carefree and jolly, but he's ChaoticEvil and generally ill-tempered when not hurting people or [[PetTheDog caring for his pet cat]]. |
| 313 | ** Crystal is a pretty young assassin who works for a half-Orc -- but she's the DumbMuscle and he's a [[AffablyEvil pleasant]] [[TheDon Don]] type. |
| 314 | ** The swashbuckling hero Elan becomes a DistressedDude by the hands of [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0590.html Kubota's lackeys.]] |
| 315 | ** Therkla the half-orc is the result of a loving relationship between her parents (her father was a human, and the mother was an orc). Half-orcs in ''Dungeons & Dragons'' are usually the result of the [[ChildByRape opposite]]. |
| 316 | [[/folder]] |
| 317 | |
| 318 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 319 | * ''Website/TheHardTimes'': [[https://thehardtimes.net/music/male-fronted-hardcore-band-proves-that-guys-can-rock-too/ Male-Fronted Hardcore Band Proves That Guys Can Rock Too]]. While the stereotype is that most people in HardcorePunk bands and scenes are male, the article presumes the opposite and uses the same tropes typically applied to women in the scene on men. The article and the people interviewed in it focus excessively on the men's appearance and speculate that they only got their position due to [[NeverASelfMadeWoman dating or sleeping with important people]]. |
| 320 | * ''Literature/LoomingGaia'': Dr. Che is an asexual [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyr]], and is often assumed by strangers to be just as sex-crazed as satyrs are sterotyped to be in-universe. |
| 321 | * ''Podcast/TheOnceAndFutureNerd'' has a teenage elf with an American southern accent. |
| 322 | * ''Literature/{{Takotsubo}}'''s protagonist Cord Cai is a {{Deconstruction}} of the "Asian-American gangster" stereotype: A beaten-down, traumatized young man who hates being a stereotype, but [[TragicVillain thinks it's the only thing he's good for.]] According to the author, the story will go even ''farther'' than flipping the stereotype: [[WrongGenreSavvy Cord is a superhero who thinks he's a villain.]] |
| 323 | * In the stories that Matthew Villani (AltoonaYourPiano) writes for his instrumental music, many of the characters are this such as the conservative banker Charlie who happens to be African-American and the liberal (at least economically) white farmer Terry, but the biggest stereotype flip has to be Mary, the red-haired LoveInterest for his InteractiveNarrator character who averts the FieryRedhead stereotype hard. Instead, Mary is a PerpetualSmiler who is extremely friendly, a bit of a silly mildly GenkiGirl with a love for french fries, and never loses her temper. During the rare moments when she's annoyed about something she keeps silent about it and vents to him later, all while never losing her smile. He later finds out from talking to people she went to school with that she was perceived as "the weird kid" and may have been a victim of bullying. |
| 324 | ** In fact, the creator himself is a Stereotype flip, a big burly guy with a beard who has a history of strongman and martial arts training and a love of dangerous science experiments you'd expect to create heavy metal or country music but instead it's a type of beautiful seasonally-themed ambient music that he calls "experimental classical" that's pure SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel. That is, except for his [[HalloweenSongs Halloween stuff]], some of which is literal NightmareFuel above and beyond the regular horror associated with the holiday. |
| 325 | * ''Characters/TheGreatNerfWar'': Despite being German, Baineswolf is not at all percise or punctual, instead he '' "prefers to be fashionably late" '' |
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| 327 | |
| 328 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 329 | * Francine from ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' was angry at her adoptive Chinese parents for leaving all they had to their [[TheGhost unseen]] birth daughter, Gwen. It turns out that they actually have more respect for Francine, and that Gwen is an AsianAirhead who [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking isn't even good at math]]. Stan and Francine's father both agree it's [[CrossesTheLineTwice terrible for children to disrespect their parents' stereotypes]]. Used in-universe in one story when Francine and Hiko Yoshido go into an all-out war over the spelling bee Steve and Akiko are competing in. Despite not speaking a word of Japanese, Hiko demonstrates she is nonetheless a {{ninja}}, and confronts Francine in a fight to the death, smugly assuming that a blonde American woman will be easy prey. [[OhCrap And then she finds out Francine's adoptive parents are Chinese]]. Cue Francine picking up a sword and a WireFu battle erupting. |
| 330 | * There's a scene in ''Babar the Elephant Comes to America'' where Babar tries to address a Native American chief with some hilariously broken-sounding English. The chief responds with fluent English, complete with [[VocalDissonance an upper-class British accent]]. |
| 331 | * ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'': Diane Nguyen, as her last name suggests, comes from a Vietnamese-American[[note]]aside from her adopted brother, who's [[LionsTigersAndHumansOhMy an anthropomorphic sheep]][[/note]] family, with her parents having immigrated from there. Her relatives are ''very'' unlike stereotypical Asian-Americans, however, being crude, loutish {{Southies}}. |
| 332 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Planet Express' accountant Hermes Conrad, a UsefulNotes/{{Jamaica}}n man, is the exact opposite of a stereotypical Jamaican, being an uptight, neurotic {{workaholic}} rather than a mellow and relaxed NiceGuy. [[ZigZaggingTrope Though]] he does enjoy {{Reggae}}, he's a limbo champion, and he's implied to be a practicing Rastafarian in at least one episode. Not to mention his... [[EruditeStoner other interests]]. |
| 333 | ** Subverted by Mr and Mrs Wong. They are ranchers on Mars, which is Futurama's NewOldWest, and dress in stereotypical "Western" genre clothing; but otherwise are stereotypical Asian parents. |
| 334 | * On ''WesternAnimation/HeroElementary'', Sara Snap is the smallest of the 4 main kids, but she's also tough and one of her superpowers is {{super strength}}. Benny, who's the biggest of the four kids, is very gentle, loves animals, and has bubble powers. They're also [[NiceGuy genuinely nice people]], unlike other heroes with these strengths who are [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold a bit jerkish yet well-meaning.]] Sara is Asian and Benny is white, so they also invert the stereotypical MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow dynamic. |
| 335 | * ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': |
| 336 | ** Dale Gribble is a RightWingMilitiaFanatic and general ConspiracyTheorist, but against stereotype isn't racist/prejudiced in the slightest and is actually a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold pretty nice guy]] once you get to know him. |
| 337 | ** There was also an episode where Khan, in grief over failing to get Connie into a prep school, decided to embrace his "American" side and completely abandon his Laotian heritage and behaviors, becoming an unbearably stereotypical redneck instead of his normal stereotypical "Asian workaholic" behavior. |
| 338 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'', the blonde Dorothy Ann is the resident [[TheSmartGuy Smart Girl]] in Mrs. Frizzle's class, and apparently [[CuteBookworm reads constantly]] when she's not on field trips. Hell, her catchphrase was "According to my research..." |
| 339 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Minoriteam}}'' has the title characters as ethnic superheroes who fulfill their respective stereotypes to a T. In their civilian identities, however, they're all flipped: The Mexican gardener is a wealthy CEO, the misogynistic black man is a Women's Studies professor, the Jewish accountant is obsessed with black culture, and the Indian shopkeeper is a skateboarder. |
| 340 | * Hooty from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', despite being an [[TheOwlKnowingOne owl]] (and the titular house), is easily the dimmest of the main cast. [[TruthInTelevision This is actually realistic]], since most owls are actually on the low end of bird intelligence. |
| 341 | * [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren and Stimpy]] are flips of AnimalStereotypes. Ren is a [[CatsAreMean mean]] dog, Stimpy is a DumbIsGood [[DogsAreDumb cat]]. Though they do fit the stereotypes of [[DogStereotype Chihuahuas being aggressive]] and [[CatStereotype red cats being friendly]]. |
| 342 | * The titular characters on ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' flip the DumbBlonde and FieryRedhead stereotype, with Billy being the dumb redhead and Mandy being the fiery blonde (although Billy does have his moments of fits of rage). |
| 343 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 344 | ** [[PunnyName Tolkien Black]] ([[SuddenNameChange previously called Token]]) is the richest kid in town, and his parents seem to be more educated than just about anybody else. The entire episode "Here Comes the Neighborhood" plays on this idea: as more rich and successful black people move to town, the poor white characters begin to get angry, but over class rather than race -- until the very end, where Mr. Garrison basically outs himself as a racist. Tolkien does actually fulfill some pretty funny stereotypes himself though: He has an astounding soul voice (then-Mrs. Garrison claimed that it got her wet), and this little gem... |
| 345 | -->'''Cartman:''' Alright, Token, give me a smooth bass line.\ |
| 346 | '''Token:''' I don't know how to play bass.\ |
| 347 | '''Cartman:''' Token, how many times we have to go through this? You are black, you can play bass.\ |
| 348 | '''Token:''' I'm getting sick of your stereotypes.\ |
| 349 | '''Cartman:''' Be as sick as you want, just give me a goddamn bass line!\ |
| 350 | ''[Token plays a perfect funky line with slap]''\ |
| 351 | '''Token:''' ...Goddamnit. |
| 352 | ** [[PoliticalOvercorrectness PC Principal]] amounts to a walking jab at political correctness. However, he and his friends are depicted as [[{{Fratbro}} athletic, hard-drinking party dudes]] rather than {{Granola Girl}}s. |
| 353 | ** From the episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS15E14ThePoorKid The Poor Kid]]", there's Mr and Ms. Wheatherhead who are AbusiveParents who foster children only to force their belief on the kids and torture them if they don't comply...the belief in question isn't religion or tradition but....agnosticism. |
| 354 | * This is the basic concept behind WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales (which is part of the reason [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales Mexicans love him]]). He inverts the LazyMexican stereotype by being hard-working and energetic even ''before'' taking his SuperSpeed into account. |
| 355 | * Franchise/ScoobyDoo is the deliberate antithesis of the ideal Great Dane, a dog breed normally known for its elegance, bravery, strength, and high status, normally serving as a hunting dog or guard dog. He's certainly friendly and affectionate, but is also [[TheKlutz klutzy]], [[LovableCoward cowardly]], awkward, and seen as a mutt, with his usual role being to run away from the monster. His character designer reportedly asked a Great Dane breeder what the "ideal" traits of a Great Dane were, and went in the opposite direction for all of them: the traits given included straight legs, a straight back, a small chin, and small feet, while Scooby has bowed legs, a hump back, a big chin, and big feet. |
| 356 | [[/folder]] |
| 357 | |
| 358 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 359 | * [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas]] has a reputation for this trope among other [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Texans]]. The general attitude in the state ([[TheRival especially]] Fort Worth and UsefulNotes/{{Houston}}) is that Dallas culture tries a little ''too'' hard to avert the stereotype that all Texans are redneck cowboys, making the city and its residents come off as pretentious and bougie instead. |
| 360 | * After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 stoked American racial fears of the Japanese, Asian residents and citizens were forcibly removed from their homes in the West Coast because military leaders and public opinion combined to fan unproven fears of sabotage. As the war progressed, many of the young ''Nisei'', Japanese immigrants' children who were born with American citizenship, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-American_service_in_World_War_II volunteered or were drafted to serve in the United States military.]] One of those units, the 442nd Infantry Regiment, became the most decorated unit in U.S. military history. |
| 361 | * More broadly, the history of Asian Americans can be seen as an example of this trope in action. The [[AsianAndNerdy "model minority"]] stereotype only emerged after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII; before then, they were seen as just another horde of dirty, job-stealing, non-English-speaking, white-woman-raping immigrants gathered in the big cities on the West Coast just like the "white ethnic" immigrants and black people in the East, and often subjected to similar racism and xenophobia. The rise of the Asian model minority stereotype in the mid-20th century has a number of complex causes behind it, including the desire of Asian immigrants to seek out UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream, a sharp focus on education in Asian communities, a tight-knit culture that allowed them to support each other, their small numbers meaning that they weren't seen as a demographic threat, and efforts by some white conservatives to hold their success up as a response to African-American activists arguing that racism was keeping them back. |
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