'''Basic Trope''': The TokenMinority falls in love with someone who "just so happens" to be that same type/kind of minority as well.
* '''Straight''': Alicia is the token black girl in the FourGirlEnsemble and meets Robert, who's funny, smart, handsome, and is black himself.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** The FourGirlEnsemble meet their SpearCounterpart quartet, who correspond to the girls' skintones, body types, ''and'' hair colors.
** LookalikeLovers
* '''Downplayed''':
** Many other minor characters besides Alicia and Robert are black.
** Alicia is in love with Diana, a [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASP]] woman who happens to be the only other gay character in the show.
** Alicia is a black girl and dates Robert, a mixed-race guy.
* '''Justified''':
** Alicia is only attracted to black men, and thus those are the only men she considers for relationships.
** They live in a society where interracial relationships are considered immoral.
** [[MasterRace Alicia believes her race is superior]] and she refuses to start any interracial relationship.
* '''Inverted''':
** Alicia and Robert are each in a relationship with a white person, instead of each other.
** None of the characters date people of their own races.
* '''Subverted''': Alicia is friends with Robert, but ends up dating Carl, who's white.
* '''Double Subverted''': But then she has an affair with Robert.
* '''Parodied''': Robert is literally bused in from another town by Alice's friends so she can have someone to date.
* '''Zig Zagged''':
** She has the affair with Robert or comes close, but realizes she truly loves Carl after all.
** A BettyAndVeronica love triangle ensues between "acceptable-to-the-family" Robert and [[StarCrossedLover star-crossed lover]] Carl.
* '''Averted''':
** There is more than one minority on the show, but there's no particular connection between them, and they don't solely date "matching" people.
** Alicia is the only one TokenMinority character in the entire show, and she either be a CelibateHeroine or has a relationship with a non-minority guy.
* '''Enforced''':
** It's TheSixties or earlier, and ExecutiveMeddling outright forbids anyone on the show from dating outside their race.
** It's ''now'', but the executives are aware that TokenShipping is still the less controversial option and will probably get fewer and less rabid complaints.
* '''Lampshaded''': Robert asks Alicia out, and she thinks about how he's the only black guy her age in the whole town.
* '''Invoked''': Robert flat-out says, "We ''are'' the only black people in Orange County..."
* '''Exploited''': The DoggedNiceGuy [[BlackLikeMe disguise himself as a black man]] to win Alicia's heart.
* '''Defied''': Alicia replies, "You're an even bigger jackass if you think I'd date you for that reason alone."
* '''Discussed''': Robert is a new student at Alicia's school, and one day the two of them talk about how everyone expects them to start dating.
* '''Conversed''': Alicia is watching [[SoapWithinAShow her favorite soap opera]] and is annoyed at how, out of all the men on the show, the black nurse is paired off with the black police officer even though they both have better chemistry with other characters that aren't black.
* '''Deconstructed''':
** Alicia lives in a time and place where racism is prevalent and [[MalignedMixedMarriage mixed marriage is frowned on]], and her family are keen for her to marry Robert, although she secretly loves [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy Carl]]. She's not very happy about it, and considers running away with Carl.
** Alicia and Robert have some mutual attraction, but everyone from their best friends to their own parents badger them to get together, frustrating them and blowing out any spark they might have had.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alicia starts dating Carl, but soon realizes that she's ''only'' into him for the ForbiddenFruit; they have no personal chemistry to speak of. When she breaks up with him and talks it over with her family, they explain that they didn't just pick the first black guy they saw; [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage they really think Robert is a good match]]. (Whether or not they get together is [[BolivianArmyEnding left ambiguous]] to lessen the inevitable UnfortunateImplications of "[[AnAesop So you see, kids, you should never marry out!]]")
* '''Implied''': Both of Alicia and Robert are AmbiguouslyBrown and [[BirdsOfAFeather they are often seen together with similar personalities/interests.]]
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