Sometimes, the TokenMinority will be glaringly out of place for their locale (e.g. seemingly the [[BlackVikings only black person in medieval Europe]]).

Often, the producers will go out of their way to avoid racial issues regarding their TokenMinority. For example, Warrick Brown in ''Series/{{CSI}}'' rarely if ever discusses race issues. In this case, the TokenMinority may either be in the show to broaden its appeal without risking angering any media watchdogs with stereotypical depictions of minorities... or it may be an example of race-blind casting, and not tokenism at all.

If a character is of ''two'' minority groups, this is referred to cynically in the industry as a Twofer (see TwoferTokenMinority). This is quite common on news programs, for example, which often have one white male and one black or Asian female newscaster. Note that for the purposes of this trope [[TheSmurfettePrinciple women are a "minority"]], when in fact they make up a small ''majority'' in the population of most countries. This logical inconsistency is usually attributed to the fact that women are often still perceived to be relative newcomers in many job fields, including broadcasting (this perception is helped along by the fact that female newscasters are often fired at the first sign that they're aging, meaning they're almost always younger than their male counterparts).

If the opposite gender of this minority appears in an episode, [[TokenMinorityCouple they're almost always a love interest]].

In Britain, the TokenMinority is just as likely to be South Asian as Afro-Caribbean. With the increasing number of Central and Eastern Europeans in the UK, they're slowly starting to turn up as characters other than TheIllegal and criminals (''Series/CoronationStreet'' now has a Polish character). It may take a while before we start seeing them in as police officers, though.

In some casts of animal, alien, or monster characters, WorldOfFunnyAnimals or not, there is a majority species and one or more minority species. If there are animals in a cast of characters, the majority of them are going to be mammals in most works, whether the world is a WorldOfFunnyAnimals or not. Understandable as humans are mammals and cats and dogs are easier to anthropomorphize than snakes. To keep the cast of characters from being completely mammalian, the token non-mammal comes in. Usually a bird, though reptiles, amphibians, and even invertebrates are certainly not unheard of.
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