History Main / FacialProfiling

* Pocahontas is quite accurate in the way it protrays how Native Americans looked in the 1600's...except for Pocahontas herself, who is a weird a-ethnic mush and looks very unlike the ''real'' Pocahontas.

** Also, Westerners can be depicted as freakishly tall, have pink or orange skin, a huge nose, a prominent jaw and chin, and the men are muscular and hairy (almost always clad in blue polo shirts) while the women are [[GagBoobs profoundly buxom]], [[HourglassHottie often with large hips.]]

In animation, certain facial features are used (and often exaggerated) to help the viewer identify ethnicity. Often this can depend on where the animation was produced. The audience is considered to be the "default" type of character; i.e., a character with no outstanding features is assumed to be of the ethnicity and/or gender of the (majority of) the audience. Any character which deviates from this is given some outstanding feature which identifies him or her as such. That's why a stick figure is usually assumed to be male unless it has long hair or a ponytail, in which case it's female.

** The problem is more of ''how'' big the lips are. We ''know'' we have big lips, so lips that are noticeably larger (For example, if they look like they're wearing lipstick but it's not of a different color) aren't insulting.
*** It seems that the biggest no-no of the lips isn't so much the size, but the color. Many black people in real life do have a full, red/pink lower lip, but the depiction of Africans having bulging, all red lips is heavily associated with Blackface. Even more offensive is giving them fully pale pink lips, which is almost non-existent with real life blacks and solely a product of caricature and Blackface.

* Old cartoons had yellow-skinned, buck-toothed, line-eyed Japanese and Chinese. (You can imagine how unacceptable things like that are nowadays, though this was still being done well into the 60's and even occasionally beyond).

* [[MagnificentMoustachesOfMexico Mexicans had mustaches]], as did some Italians.

* Shows up in the ''AnAmericanTail'' movies, through use of fur color and clothing. Bridget, an Irish mouse from the first movie, has red hair and freckles. Later films have Native American mice with reddish-brown fur and long black hair. (Which is all kind of silly. I mean, they're ''mice''!)

* Old cartoons had yellow-skinned, buck-toothed, line-eyed Japanese and Chinese. (You can imagine how unacceptable things like that are nowadays).

* American Indians are depicted with high prominent cheekbones in more subtle versions. Other times the animators just color them red.

* Typically any 1940's WartimeCartoon will have the typical Japanese stereotypes.

* Shows up in the ''AnAmericanTail'' movies, through use of fur color and clothing. Bridget, an Irish mouse from the first movie, has red hair and freckles. Later films have Native American mice with reddish-brown fur and long black hair.

* {{DCAU}} cartoons, the only white males that have lips are Lex Luthor and Harvey Dent. (And interestingly, some later depictions of Dent have him as black). Lex Luthor on ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' is often mistaken for being black because of this facial feature.

* Shows up in the ''AnAmericanTail'' movies, through use of fur color and clothing. Bridget, an Irish mouse from the first movie, has red hair and freckles. Later films have Native American mice with reddish-brown fur and long black hair.

** Nowadays since lips are generally taboo, wider noses and nostrils are usually used to identify a character as black. This trait did frequently show up in older depictions alongside thick lips, but since a bigger nose is a lot harder to fake than bigger lips, it didn't become a staple of the blackface genre.

* The ''MaximumRide'' manga features Nudge with very large lips that on occasion look way too big for her face, and (oddly enough) white fingernails.