History Main / ColorMeBlack

*** There's an episode where a white racist is sent back in time and perceived by those around him as black, and is sent to UsefulNotes/NaziGermany where he is seen as a Jew.

* Elvis's best friend in ''Film/BubbaHoTep'' is a man who claims he's UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy and that the government faked his death, removed part of his brain and died his skin brown.

->Oh no! It's me! I'm a horrible black thing, I've turned black!

* [[AllThereInTheManual An online supplement]] to ''Literature/HarryPotter'' gives us a RevengeByProxy example. After Lyall Lupin describes werewolves as "soulless, evil, deserving of nothing but death," the werewolf Fenrir Greyback--an infamously savage FullyEmbracedFiend--bites Lyall's ''son'' Remus, infecting the poor boy with TheVirus. The silver lining is that raising a werewolf leads Lyall to change his views and to [[SupportingTheMonsterLovedOne care for his son as best he can]]. This supportive upbringing leads Remus to grow into the lycanthropic version of a TokenHeroicOrc.

* [[AllThereInTheManual An online supplement]] to ''Literature/HarryPotter'' gives us a RevengeByProxy example. After Lyall Lupin describes werewolves as "soulless, evil, deserving of nothing but death," the werewolf Fenrir Greyback--an infamously savage FullyEmbracedFiend--bites Lyall's ''son'' Remus during the next full moon, infecting the poor boy with TheVirus. The silver lining is that raising a werewolf leads Lyall to change his views and to [[SupportingTheMonsterLovedOne care for his son as best he can]]. This supportive upbringing leads Remus to grow into the lycanthropic version of a TokenHeroicOrc.

* [[AllThereInTheManual An online supplement]] to ''Literature/HarryPotter'' gives us a RevengeByProxy example. After Lyall Lupin describes werewolves as "soulless, evil, deserving of nothing but death," the werewolf Fenrir Greyback--an infamously savage FullyEmbracedFiend--bites Lyall's ''son'' Remus during the next full moon, infecting the poor boy with TheVirus. The silver lining is that raising a werewolf leads Lyall to change his views and to [[SupportingTheMonsterLovedOne support his son as best he can]].

* [[AllThereInTheManual An online supplement]] to ''Literature/HarryPotter'' gives us a RevengeByProxy example. After Lyall Lupin describes werewolves as "soulless, evil, deserving of nothing but death," the werewolf Fenrir Greyback--an infamously savage FullyEmbracedFiend--bites Lyall's ''son'' Remus during the next full moon, infecting the poor boy with TheVirus.

* ''Literature/BarryTrotter'' once called into a TV show presented by a white supremacist and cast a spell to turn him black.

* ''Literature/BarryTrotter'' once called into a TV show presented by a white supremacist and cast a spell to turn him black.

* This is the premise of ''Film/WatermelonMan'', where a white racist wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a black man.

* Kinda subverted on an ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' comic. Some members of the mutant-hating "Friends of Mankind" get the word "mutie" marked by burning iron by an angry mutant girl, Robin Vega. On their ''foreheads''. Mutations don't have to be obvious, so they will have a hard time proving that they are not mutants.

** He also uses it on a clueless Steve Dallas, who assumes it is a KarmicTwistEnding and starts searching for Creator/RodSerling (of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'') in the bushes.

* ''Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird'': To avoid getting caught for having Big Bird in their captivity, the Sleaze brothers paint him blue, and pass him off as their "Blue Bird of Happiness".

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has the boys making [[TokenEvilTeammate Cartman]] think he's...[[RedheadedStepchild a ginger]]. Freckles and hair dye. The episode then turns this on its head--rather than making Cartman rethink his horrible attitude, he actually ''starts a ginger supremacist movement'' and nearly kills every non-ginger in the town. This episode could be a {{deconstruction}} in that it argues that supremacists behave as they do not because they don't understand the other side, but because they need to feel superior to someone else.

* This is the premise of ''Film/WatermelonMan''.

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* This is the premise of ''Film/WatermelonMan''.
* A FantasticRacism variant is used in ''Film/XMen1'', when Magneto turns anti-mutant Senator Kelly into a mutant. This is given an IronicEcho in the third movie, when Magneto is BroughtDownToNormal.
* The ''Podcast/RiffTrax''-featured educational film ''Skipper Learns A Lesson'' does this with a dog who hates "funny-looking" dogs. After he gets covered in paint, the other dogs avoid him and he tells then they're "being silly" for avoiding him because of how he looks, then realizes that he was being silly too.
* This was attempted on the BigBad of ''Film/{{Dragonheart}} 2'' prior to the events of the movie. It utterly failed, the [[spoiler:dragon in human form]] is still bent on genocide.

* ''Film/TheThingWithTwoHeads'', a 1972 BMovie. Ray Milland plays Dr. Maxwell Kirshner, a dying, wealthy racist who demands that his head be transplanted onto a healthy body. As his health rapidly deteriorates, there remains only one alternative: graft Kirshner's head onto the body of a black death row inmate, Jack Moss, played by Rosey Grier.
* A segment of ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'' plays with this, where a bigot suddenly finds himself in Nazi Germany and accused of being Jewish, then in the Deep South where apparently several Klansmen see him as a Black Man (though his skin doesn't actually change), and later fleeing into the jungles of UsefulNotes/{{Vietnam}} as an Asian during [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar the war]].

* ''Film/{{Sam}}'': Sam is [[HeManWomanHater hateful misogynist]] who makes a drunken rant about the uselessness of women to the proprietor of TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday. The next morning, he wakes up to discover that he is now a she.

* Inverted in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', where Cassie, when confronted with a racist when travelling back in time, turns herself white - [[{{Animorphism}} into a polar bear]].

* Tor Åge Bringsværd wrote a story about a KKK member who is turned into a black, and then handed over to the Klan to be lynched. Appropriately enough, the story is called "Boomerang".
* Creator/RodSerling wrote a story called "Color Scheme" in ''Literature/TheSeasonToBeWary'' where a racist rabble-rouser in the South gets changed into a black man; his victim (a black civil rights preacher whose youngest daughter is killed when his house is set on fire by the mob the racist guy stirred up) turns white and [[IronicEcho uses the rabble-rouser's own words against him.]] [[DownerEnding It ends]] with the preacher returned to his black self but [[EvilStoleMyFaith pushed]] past the DespairEventHorizon and believing GodIsEvil and HumansAreBastards while the racist-- still black-skinned, what's left of him-- has been dragged to death behind a car.

* In the ''Series/MissionImpossible'' episode "Kitara", the IMF uses drugs and a special light bulb to make a ruthless white provincial governor in an apartheid African nation believe he's actually black as part of a ploy to free a resistance leader.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'', the staff of the 4077 gradually darken the skin of a White racist to make him think he's turning black after getting a blood transfusion from a Black person.

* ''Franchise/TheTwilightZone'':
** ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'':
*** There's an episode where a white racist is sent back in time and perceived by those around him as black, and is sent to UsefulNotes/NaziGermany where he is seen as a Jew.
*** Creator/SammyDavisJr wrote in his autobiography that he suggested an episode have a white supremacist wake up one day and he's black. Rod Serling eventually wrote the story "Color Scheme" for his anthology ''Literature/TheSeasonToBeWary''. The other two stories in that collection were part of the ''Series/NightGallery'' pilot, but "Color Scheme" was seen as too raw even for 1970s TV.
*** In "The Quality of Mercy", a GI in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII who's just a little too enthused about killing is suddenly transformed into a Japanese soldier and hears his commander on that side speak in a bloodthirsty way about killing Americans.
** ''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'': In "Shades of Guilt", a white man sees a black man being attacked and drives away instead of helping. He later learns that the man was a college professor who was beaten to death by skinheads. As he is consumed by guilt his skin begins to darken over time until he looks just like the victim and ends up in the same situation. [[spoiler: It's actually a chance for him to realize that he was wrong and change his decision.]]

* Creator/DaveChappelle does something very strange with this in one ''Series/ChappellesShow'' sketch. The sketch revolves around a BlindBlackGuy who grew up unaware of his own race and became a prominent KKK leader and writer of white supremacist literature. His race is kept secret by his friends, who make sure he is never seen in public out of his KKK robes and don't tell him he's black because they think it will make him kill himself just so there will be one less black person in the world. At the climax, he is speaking at a rally, when one audience member asks to see his face. Ignoring the protests from his friends, he rips off his hood and shocks the whole crowd full of rednecks (one guy's [[YourHeadAsplode head explodes]]). A WhereAreTheyNow segment at the end of this sketch (which was framed as a news show doing a special feature) reveals that he has come to accept the fact that he is black... but he still divorced his wife "[[RefugeInAudacity because she's a nigger-lover]]".

* On an episode of ''Series/{{Oz}}'', the racist (and later JerkassWoobie) Robeson receives a gum transplant. From a black donor.
* One episode of ''Series/SpaceCases'' had Davenport gain the ability to swap the kids' races - Harlan becomes an Andromedan, Radu becomes human, Rosie becomes Uranian, Bova becomes Mercurian, etc.
* PlayedWith in a couple of episodes of ''Series/AllInTheFamily''. In one episode Archie has a gallbladder operation and ends up getting blood donated from a black man, much to his consternation. Several seasons later when the KKK move into Queens he [[InvokedTrope invokes]] the transfusion as having made him part black, so he can call on his black brothers to protest the KKK meeting house.
* A short-lived [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica South African]] comedy series called ''Series/TheCoconuts'' focused on a suburban white family that get turned black by a sangoma when they set up their camper on sacred ground.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has the boys making [[TokenEvilTeammate Cartman]] think he's...[[RedheadedStepchild a ginger]]. Freckles and hair dye. The episode then turns this on its head--rather than making Cartman rethink his horrible attitude, he actually ''starts a ginger supremacist movement'' and nearly kills every non-ginger in the town. This episode could be a {{deconstruction}} in that it argues that supremacists behave as they do not because they don't understand the other side, but because they need to feel superior to someone else.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' villain [[BigBad Demona]] summons and binds [[GreatGazoo Puck]] and forces him to grant her various wishes, [[JackassGenie which he delights in twisting because he dislikes her]], and because her wishes consist of "KillAllHumans," a species of which Puck is fond. She also wishes that she would not turn to stone during the day like other gargoyles -- which Puck grants by causing her to turn ''human'' during the day instead. And in this case, it's permanent. As usual, Demona learns nothing.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' has Ben get revenge on [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Will Harrangue]] - [[MaliciousSlander who made his life a living hell]] because of [[FantasticRacism his bigotry against aliens]] - by turning him into what he despised most: an alien.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "A Walk On The Flip Side" (a parody of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'') has Montana Max, "rabbit-hater extraordinaire", wake up to find that he's a rabbit himself.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "Witchy Woman," Johnny sexually harasses a woman with magical powers, who curses him to wake up the following day as a woman. Sure enough, it happens, and the new Johnny finds herself attracting a lot of unwanted attention from men and regrets what he's been doing his whole life, lifting the curse. Of course, Johnny being as dumb as he is, he forgets all about it [[StatusQuoIsGod by the next episode and is back to his flirty self]].

* A FantasticRacism variant is used in ''Film/XMen1'', when Magneto turns anti-mutant Senator Kelly into a mutant. This is given an IronicEcho in the third movie, when Magneto is BroughtDownToNormal .

*** Sammy Davis, Jr. wrote in his autobiography that he suggested an episode have a white supremacist wake up one day and he's black. Rod Serling eventually wrote the story "Color Scheme" for his anthology ''Literature/TheSeasonToBeWary''. The other two stories in that collection were part of the ''Series/NightGallery'' pilot, but "Color Scheme" was seen as too raw even for 1970s TV.

** ''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'': In "Shades of Guilt", a white man sees a black man being attacked and drives away instead of helping. He later learns that the man was a college professor who was beaten to death by skinheads. As he is consumed by guilt his skin begins to darken over time until he looks just like the victim and ends up in the same situation.[[spoiler: It is actually a chance for him to realise that he was wrong and change his decision.]]

* Dave Chappelle does something very strange with this in one ''Series/ChappellesShow'' sketch. The sketch revolves around a BlindBlackGuy who grew up unaware of his own race and became a prominent KKK leader and writer of white supremacist literature. His race is kept secret by his friends, who make sure he is never seen in public out of his KKK robes and don't tell him he's black because they think it will make him kill himself just so there will be one less black person in the world. At the climax, he is speaking at a rally, when one audience member asks to see his face. Ignoring the protests from his friends, he rips off his hood and shocks the whole crowd full of rednecks (one guy's [[YourHeadAsplode head explodes]]). A WhereAreTheyNow segment at the end of this sketch (which was framed as a news show doing a special feature) reveals that he has come to accept the fact that he is black... but he still divorced his wife "[[RefugeInAudacity because she's a nigger-lover]]".

* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' has the Apache Tracker, a man of seemingly Slavic descent who insists on wearing a ridiculous and offensive Indian headdress and claims to possess "Indian Magic" . He disappears and sometime later reappears having mysteriously transformed into a Native American, but having lost the ability to speak anything but Russian. He continues to wear the headdress, leading to some discussion over whether or not it's less offensive now.

* The Argentinian soap ''Lalola'' follows a womanizing publicist (Lalo) who wakes up as a woman (Lola) after a disgruntled ex-lover casts a spell on him.

* ''Film/SeasmeStreetPresentsFollowThatBird'': To avoid getting caught for having Big Bird in their captivity, the Sleaze brothers paint him blue, and pass him off as their "Blue Bird of Happiness".

* ''Film/{{Sam}}'': Sam is [[HeManWomanHater hateful misogynist]] who makes a drunken rant about the uselessness of women to the proprietor of TheLittleShopTjatWasntThereYesterday. The next morning, he wakes up to discover that he is now a she.

* ''Film/{{Sam}}'': Sam is [[HeManWomanHater hateful misogynist]] who makes a drunken rant about the uselessness of women to the proprietor of TheLittleShopWhoWasntThereYesterday. The next morning, he wakes up to discover that he is now a she.