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* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' has Cleopatra, a Franchise/WonderWoman {{Expy}} who in the present day is a dark-skinned woman. As a commentary on this trend, stories set earlier in the ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' universe, however, show a previous Cleopatra [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall who was a blonde Caucasian woman]].
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** The original Quarrel was a male criminal. He is succeed by his daughter, who took his name and gear to build a heroic legacy.
** Little is known about the original Flying Fox other than he was male. The second Flying Fox is the daughter of a state Senator, and a lesbian in her private life.
** The original Goldenglove was a male super-criminal. His daughter dons the identity of Goldenglove II to be a master thief, but is eventually swayed into being a hero.
** Stray I was a male member of the Astro City Irregulars, while Stray II is a female free agent who was sometimes seen with the Confessor.
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** In Dynamite's King Features comics, ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician's ally Lothar takes up the mantle of the Phantom while seeking the Phantom family's heir, becoming the first non-temprary black Phantom. (The last of the Phantom family died with his heir missing. Lothar's predecessor couldn't find the heir, so he took on the Phantom mantle, and before he died, he asked Lothar to find the heir. Believing the world still needed a Phantom while he searched, Lothar decided to take on the name.) The actual heir to the Phantom legacy turns out to be a woman, Jen Harris.
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** In Dynamite's King Features comics, ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician's ally Lothar takes up the mantle of the Phantom while seeking the Phantom family's heir, becoming the first non-temprary non-temporary black Phantom. (The last of the Phantom family died with his heir missing. Lothar's predecessor couldn't find the heir, so he took on the Phantom mantle, and before he died, he asked Lothar to find the heir. Believing the world still needed a Phantom while he searched, Lothar decided to take on the name.) The actual heir to the Phantom legacy turns out to be a woman, Jen Harris.
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* In Dynamite's King Features comics, ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician's ally Lothar takes up the mantle of the Phantom while seeking the Phantom family's heir, becoming the first black Phantom. (The last of the Phantom family died with his heir missing. Lothar's predecessor couldn't find the heir, so he took on the Phantom mantle, and before he died, he asked Lothar to find the heir. Believing the world still needed a Phantom while he searched, Lothar decided to take on the name.) The actual heir to the Phantom legacy turns out to be a woman, Jen Harris.
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** In Dynamite's King Features comics, ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician's ally Lothar takes up the mantle of the Phantom while seeking the Phantom family's heir, becoming the first non-temprary black Phantom. (The last of the Phantom family died with his heir missing. Lothar's predecessor couldn't find the heir, so he took on the Phantom mantle, and before he died, he asked Lothar to find the heir. Believing the world still needed a Phantom while he searched, Lothar decided to take on the name.) The actual heir to the Phantom legacy turns out to be a woman, Jen Harris.
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!!The following have their own pages:
[[index]]
* AffirmativeActionLegacy/TheDCU
* AffirmativeActionLegacy/MarvelUniverse
[[/index]]
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!!Other Comics
* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' has Cleopatra, a Franchise/WonderWoman {{Expy}} who in the present day is a dark-skinned woman. As a commentary on this trend, stories set earlier in the ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' universe, however, show a previous Cleopatra [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall who was a blonde Caucasian woman]].
* Women have donned the mantle of ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'', though so far only temporarily (the oath made by the Phantoms specifies "sons"). The 21st and current Phantom's children consists of twins, a boy and a girl, and should he ever kick the bucket (yeah, right) it has been implied that the two of them might end up sharing the duties of the Phantom.
* In Dynamite's King Features comics, ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician's ally Lothar takes up the mantle of the Phantom while seeking the Phantom family's heir, becoming the first black Phantom. (The last of the Phantom family died with his heir missing. Lothar's predecessor couldn't find the heir, so he took on the Phantom mantle, and before he died, he asked Lothar to find the heir. Believing the world still needed a Phantom while he searched, Lothar decided to take on the name.) The actual heir to the Phantom legacy turns out to be a woman, Jen Harris.
* The original Fighting Yank eventually died, and his daughter Carol decided to carry on his legacy as the Fighting Spirit. In addition to being a woman (the original Fighting Yank was obviously a man), Carol was eventually revealed to be a lesbian as well, making her a twofer.
* During a period where Mark Grayson was unable to fulfill his duties, he was replaced in the ComicBook/{{Invincible}} role by his buddy Zandale Randolph. As ''Invincible'' {{deconstruct|ion}}s a number of superhero elements, replacing Mark with a black dude was likely an intentional invocation of this trope.
* The Golden Age hero American Crusader was a white man. His modern-day successor in the ''ComicBook/ProjectSuperpowers'' universe is a black man.
* In ''[[ComicBook/TwoThousandAD 2000 AD]]'', the character of Sam Slade, Robo-Hunter, was succeeded by his granddaughter, Samantha Slade.
* The ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'' franchise would count, since the main story revolves around an Italian-American cop named Sara Pezzini. According to WordOfGod, the ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' anime, the ''Manga/WitchbladeTakeru'' manga, and the novel ''Witchblade: Ao no Shōjo'' are all considered canon in the Top Cow universe, making these an example since the three protagonists (Masane Amaha, Takeru Ibaraki, and Yuri Miyazono) are all Japanese.
** Sara was also briefly replaced by Danielle Baptiste, a young bisexual woman.
* The Shield originally was a man named Joe Higgins. When the comic was rebooted in 1959, the main character was changed to a man named Lancelot Strong. Later on the character changed again to Michael Barnes. The 2015 reboot stars a woman named Victoria Adams.
* When Rebellion brought back many of the old IPC/Fleetway characters in ''Scream! and ComicBook/{{Misty}} HalloweenSpecial 2017'' and the following year's team book ''The Vigilant'', it's revealed that Dr Sin, the OccultDetective from the early ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' strip of the same name, has died, and has passed his mission on to his grandson, a black British hip-hop artist who calls himself Sin Tax. And Thunderbolt the Avenger from ''ComicBook/{{Buster}}'' (aka PC Mick Riley) has also died, passing his TransformationTrinket on to a female colleague, Mary Landson.
* In ''ComicBook/DeathDefyingDoctorMirage'', Li Hwen Mirage, the titular character from Valiant's old ''ComicBook/TheSecondLifeOfDoctorMirage'', has died, and the moniker is now reluctantly carried by his widow Shan Fong.
[[index]]
* AffirmativeActionLegacy/TheDCU
* AffirmativeActionLegacy/MarvelUniverse
[[/index]]
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!!Other Comics
* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' has Cleopatra, a Franchise/WonderWoman {{Expy}} who in the present day is a dark-skinned woman. As a commentary on this trend, stories set earlier in the ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' universe, however, show a previous Cleopatra [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall who was a blonde Caucasian woman]].
* Women have donned the mantle of ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'', though so far only temporarily (the oath made by the Phantoms specifies "sons"). The 21st and current Phantom's children consists of twins, a boy and a girl, and should he ever kick the bucket (yeah, right) it has been implied that the two of them might end up sharing the duties of the Phantom.
* In Dynamite's King Features comics, ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician's ally Lothar takes up the mantle of the Phantom while seeking the Phantom family's heir, becoming the first black Phantom. (The last of the Phantom family died with his heir missing. Lothar's predecessor couldn't find the heir, so he took on the Phantom mantle, and before he died, he asked Lothar to find the heir. Believing the world still needed a Phantom while he searched, Lothar decided to take on the name.) The actual heir to the Phantom legacy turns out to be a woman, Jen Harris.
* The original Fighting Yank eventually died, and his daughter Carol decided to carry on his legacy as the Fighting Spirit. In addition to being a woman (the original Fighting Yank was obviously a man), Carol was eventually revealed to be a lesbian as well, making her a twofer.
* During a period where Mark Grayson was unable to fulfill his duties, he was replaced in the ComicBook/{{Invincible}} role by his buddy Zandale Randolph. As ''Invincible'' {{deconstruct|ion}}s a number of superhero elements, replacing Mark with a black dude was likely an intentional invocation of this trope.
* The Golden Age hero American Crusader was a white man. His modern-day successor in the ''ComicBook/ProjectSuperpowers'' universe is a black man.
* In ''[[ComicBook/TwoThousandAD 2000 AD]]'', the character of Sam Slade, Robo-Hunter, was succeeded by his granddaughter, Samantha Slade.
* The ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'' franchise would count, since the main story revolves around an Italian-American cop named Sara Pezzini. According to WordOfGod, the ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' anime, the ''Manga/WitchbladeTakeru'' manga, and the novel ''Witchblade: Ao no Shōjo'' are all considered canon in the Top Cow universe, making these an example since the three protagonists (Masane Amaha, Takeru Ibaraki, and Yuri Miyazono) are all Japanese.
** Sara was also briefly replaced by Danielle Baptiste, a young bisexual woman.
* The Shield originally was a man named Joe Higgins. When the comic was rebooted in 1959, the main character was changed to a man named Lancelot Strong. Later on the character changed again to Michael Barnes. The 2015 reboot stars a woman named Victoria Adams.
* When Rebellion brought back many of the old IPC/Fleetway characters in ''Scream! and ComicBook/{{Misty}} HalloweenSpecial 2017'' and the following year's team book ''The Vigilant'', it's revealed that Dr Sin, the OccultDetective from the early ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' strip of the same name, has died, and has passed his mission on to his grandson, a black British hip-hop artist who calls himself Sin Tax. And Thunderbolt the Avenger from ''ComicBook/{{Buster}}'' (aka PC Mick Riley) has also died, passing his TransformationTrinket on to a female colleague, Mary Landson.
* In ''ComicBook/DeathDefyingDoctorMirage'', Li Hwen Mirage, the titular character from Valiant's old ''ComicBook/TheSecondLifeOfDoctorMirage'', has died, and the moniker is now reluctantly carried by his widow Shan Fong.