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* The ''Literature/MaximumRide'' manga features Nudge with very large lips that on occasion look way too big for her face, and (oddly enough) white fingernails.
* ''Anime/EurekaSeven'''s cosmopolitan cast both plays this straight and averts this; Matthieu, Linck, Gidget, and Hilda are all black -- the first three have large lips, but Hilda doesn't.
* The original character designs for ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'' fell into this, but the most prominent example was Pyumna/008, whose lips took up most of his head. Notably, while most of the characters have had minimal changes made to their designs over the years, Pyunma's appearance was extensively overhauled in the '79 movie and 2001 series.
* Akira Toriyama drew the occasional black person in this manner (large red lips) for ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', not just the infamous Mr. Popo.

* Tiana from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' is Disney's first African American heroine. She has full lips and a broad nose to avoid ButNotTooBlack accusations, but not too exaggerated so as to avoid making her a racist caricature. She's still been accused of being both at the same time. Her figure is pretty standard as far as Disney girls go, despite accusations of "Disney thinks all black girls have big butts!" This despite the fact that [[http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/the-princess-and-the-frog.jpg her character design]] is basically a [[InkSuitActor cartoon version]] of the ''[[http://www.contactmusic.com/photo/anika_noni_rose_1783586 voice actress portraying her]]'' in keeping with Disney's longstanding tradition of basing character designs on their voice actors.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' the Egyptians have dark skin, high cheekbones and are clean-shaven if male. The people who are Jewish have smooth, round features, and are generally lighter-skinned. This means that Moses's face ''changes'' from angular to round in the course of the movie. The slave girl Tzipporah, whom Moses helps to escape (and eventually marries), has an even rounder face, and the Midian people are AmbiguouslyBrown and darker than the Jewish characters, which makes sense since one theory about the Midians is that they were from the area around modern Sudan (ironically, Tzipporah is voiced by Creator/MichellePfeiffer, a very pale German-American, in a case about as far from InkSuitActor as one can get). This is possible TruthInTelevision; the Canaanites (who likely shared a skin tone with the Israelites) were depicted in at least one Egyptian mural as a paler race.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' is quite accurate in the way it portrays how Native Americans looked in the 1600's...except for Pocahontas herself, who looks very unlike the ''real'' Pocahontas. Once again, this was because her face was based on her voice actress, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Bedard Irene Bedard]], who is of Inupiat Inuit and Métis descent, so Pocahontas does in fact look like a fairly typical ''modern'' Native American, most of whom trace their ancestry to several different tribes, but unlike what one would look like during the time and place where the film is set. In some ways this was unavoidable, as the movie's Pocahontas is [[AgeLift also several years older than the real one was at the time]]. And then there's the tall, blond, blue-eyed John Smith who looked ''nothing'' like the real guy.
* Native Hawaiians in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' generally appear realistically Polynesian, with varying degrees of tanned skin tones, dark hair colors, and almond-shaped eyes. Body types are also pretty curvy, but that's partly due to [[PuniPlush another trope entirely]].

* Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse cartoons, the only white males that have lips are Lex Luthor and Harvey Dent. (And interestingly, some later depictions of Dent [[RaceLift have him as black]].) Lex Luthor on ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' is often mistaken for being black because of this facial feature, [[ComicBookFantasyCasting when in fact the character's design is supposed to evoke]] Creator/TellySavalas. John Stewart was also the only male on ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' to have lips, presumably for clarity -- when the character's mouth is just a black line, it's more difficult to see on dark skin.

* The early episodes of the 1970s cartoon ''The Blue Racer'' had the main character (a blue snake) chase after a bespectacled, bucktoothed, squinty-eyed Japanese Beetle for a meal. Another episode also featured the snake trying to steal an egg from a Japanese rooster, oddly enough voiced by {{Creator/Mako}}.
* Typically, any 1940's WartimeCartoon will have all the Japanese stereotypes mentioned above: Buck Teeth, glasses, etc.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' European people are colored yellow, whilst early on people of East Asian descent had pale white skin with narrower eyes. However, in recent episodes, people of East Asian descent have the same skin tone as the European people, only a little lighter, and still large but almond shaped eyes.
* Charlie from ''WesternAnimation/MrMagoo'', who is ethnically Chinese, has buck teeth like the politically-incorrect stereotype and almond-shaped eyes, but has a very whitish, ivory-colored skintone. Conversely, Mr. Magoo, who is ethnically white, has a yellowish peach skintone, which is a much more normal skintone for both white and East Asian ethnicities.
* The episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' that had Stan harassing an Iranian family who moved in next door (suspecting them to be terrorists) had the neighbors with black hair and brown skin, like Arabs, even though ethnic Persians are ''not'' Arabs and their appearances are quite diverse, running the gamut from dark brown to almost Irish-looking. Of course, [[JustifiedTrope if the animators had colored the neighbors a lighter shade, Stan might not have thought they were terrorists, and the plot never would have come about]].
* Stacy and Ginger Hirano (Japanese-American) of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' both have almond-shaped eyes.
* Sydney's mom from ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'', who is black, has more prominent lips than any of the cast. Mindy's friend Lillian also has almond shaped eyes.
* While ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' tends to use different ''species'' to depict different races, an "Asian" pony with almond-shaped eyes appeared in "Green Isn't Your Color." Because no other character like this has popped up since, and this one particular pony's only appeared ''very'' rarely in background shots since that one episode, it could be considered a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.

* ''Website/TheOnion'' tells of [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/graphic-artist-carefully-assignsethnicities-to-ant,1588/ this being done]] to create a FiveTokenBand of {{Animate Inanimate Object}}s.

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 [[MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial assumed to be male]] unless it has [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics long hair or a skirt]], in which case it's female.

* Black people are depicted with [[GagLips prominent lips.]] This was also a major element of the {{blackface}} era. Doesn't show up much in WesternAnimation these days because of it, although if you go back to before the 1960s, it is very common. Cartoons nowadays that leave out lips for non-black characters may draw in normal-sized lips for black characters. Wider noses and frizzy hair is also common, as are braids on black women. Shaved heads will appear frequently on black men. For the extremely exaggerated caricature version of this, as seen in old cartoons, see BlackfaceStyleCaricature.

* Arabs, North Africans, Egyptians, most Middle Eastern countries etc,: Will often have tan skin, high cheek bones, large hooked noses and black curly hair (and beards) on men and straight hair on women (if not covered by a headscarf). They are still often enough played by white actors however. If their depiction is negative (which these days in Western media, it often is), they are often hairy and ugly as well.
* East Asians, especially in Western Works from the 40s to the 60s, are depicted as yellow-skinned and slit-eyed, often with [[AsianBuckTeeth buck teeth]]. Today, Asians are depicted with almond-shaped eyes. Skin may be the same as whites or tinted slightly differently. Straight hair is usually a given. In all periods, as with Jews, NerdGlasses will be common thanks both to Hideki Tojo's spectacles and to the AsianAndNerdy trope.

* Native Americans are depicted with high prominent cheekbones and/or jowls in more subtle versions. Other times the animators just color them red though this is considered offensive by actual Native Americans who generally describe their skin as brown. And they'll always be dressed in the animator's idea of their traditional clothing (usually a sort of generic Plains Tribe look, without enough detail to identify a specific nation) with a crest of feathers on their heads. Both men and women usually have (very straight) long hair, possibly in one or two [[BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins braids.]]

* Turks are also distinguished by large mustaches, along with a fez (this being inaccurate as fezzes have been ''outlawed'' in Turkey since 1925). European facial features tend to be the norm, especially since many Turks are actually ethnic Greeks or Armenians.

* Russians and other Slavs: Men will be depicted with brown hair (or sometimes bald heads) and beards, while women will have blonde hair and delicate facial features. In unflattering examples, younger Slav males will be ghostly pale, have shaven, round heads, large ears, a long nose and rather small eyes, often quite close together -- the whole look will suggest a malnourished, sullen quality (see UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin for real-life detail). More flattering examples, on the other hand, will usually depict them as brawny hunks. Older works often depict Russian women as ugly, while modern works will show them as MsFanservice, [[SensualSlavs slender with big breasts]] and long, long legs. Sometimes, the men and old women will have large or unusual noses, though not to the extent of Jews. Expect dark ExhaustedEyeBags under the eyes of both sexes. In anime and manga, Russians are frequently depicted as pale with white, silver, platinum blond, or blue hair. Will frequently wear [[RussianFashion ushankas]].

** In extremely rare cases some South Asians get light coloured eyes like bollywood stars Hrithik Roshan, Ashwaria Rai, Bangladeshi actor Taskeen Rahman and British Indian Navin Chouwdhury.

* Due to the attitudes following World War II, the episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' cartoon produced in Australia always portray the Japanese in the stereotypical fashion mentioned above, and usually make them rather idiotic to boot. One of the animators later admitted no one could really enjoy those episodes today because of the awkwardness.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' is quite accurate in the way it portrays how Native Americans looked in the 1600's...except for Pocahontas herself, who looks very unlike the ''real'' Pocahontas. Once again, this was because her face was based on her voice actress, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Bedard Irene Bedard]], who is of Inupiat Inuit and Métis descent, so Pocahontas does in fact look like a fairly typical ''modern'' Native American, most of whom trace their ancestry to several different tribes, but unlike what one would look like during the time and place where the film is set. And then there's the tall, blond, blue-eyed John Smith who looked ''nothing'' like the real guy.

* Scandinavians: Blond hair, blue eyes, fair skin, and high cheekbones. Very tall. If they are Vikings, bearded men are a given. If they are modern Scandinavians, then beards only appear occasionally.
* Italians: Olive skin, dark hair, and dark eyes. Sometimes medium or even light brown hair appears too. Large aquiline noses are also common. Mustaches are a common feature on men. Usually short, especially if from Southern Italy. In older works, women will often be ugly and rotund. In modern works, women (especially Northern Italian) will be sensual and attractive.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' is quite accurate in the way it portrays how Native Americans looked in the 1600's...except for Pocahontas herself, who looks very unlike the ''real'' Pocahontas. Once again, this was because her face was based on her voice actress, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Bedard Irene Bedard]], who is of Inupiat Inuit and Métis descent, so Pocahontas does in fact look like a ''modern'' Native American, most of whom trace their ancestry to several different tribes, but unlike what one would look like during the time and place where the film is set. And then there's the tall, blond, blue-eyed John Smith who looked ''nothing'' like the real guy.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Most of the Romani, including Esmeralda (who is named for her unusual green eyes), are darker-skinned and darker-haired than the other French characters. There are a few lighter skinned Romani background characters. Quasimodo himself is Romani but is a pale-skinned redhead even though his mother has dark skin and black hair; his unusual coloring might have to do with his deformities.

* Much like Indians, Polynesians are frequently depicted with a "middle ground" skin tone between white people and black people. For Hawaiians, younger men tend to have a swimmer's build, while younger women usually lean towards the willowy (all the better for hula dancing, one supposes). Middle-aged and older Hawaiians tend to be at least chubby. New Zealand Maori are often portrayed as [[StoutStrength quite heavyset]] (tattoos are compulsory) whilst Samoans tend to be very tall and muscular.

* Franchise/{{DCAU}} cartoons, the only white males that have lips are Lex Luthor and Harvey Dent. (And interestingly, some later depictions of Dent [[RaceLift have him as black]].) Lex Luthor on ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' is often mistaken for being black because of this facial feature, [[ComicBookFantasyCasting when in fact the character's design is supposed to evoke]] Creator/TellySavalas. John Stewart was also the only male on ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' to have lips, presumably for clarity -- when the character's mouth is just a black line, it's more difficult to see on dark skin.

* East Asians, especially from the 40s to the 60s, are depicted as yellow-skinned and slit-eyed, often with [[AsianBuckTeeth buck teeth]]. Today, Asians are depicted with almond-shaped eyes. Skin may be the same as whites or tinted slightly differently. Straight hair is usually a given. In all periods, as with Jews, NerdGlasses will be common thanks both to Hideki Tojo's spectacles and to the AsianAndNerdy trope.

* Much like Indians, Polynesians are frequently depicted with a "middle ground" skin tone between white people and black people. Younger men tend to have a swimmer's build, while younger women usually lean towards the willowy (all the better for hula dancing, one supposes). Middle-aged and older people tend to be at least chubby. Samoans, on the other hand, tend to be very tall and muscular.

* Mexicans tend to have [[LatinoIsBrown brown skin]]. [[MagnificentMoustachesOfMexico Men have mustaches.]] Other typical traits may include soft facial features and small eyes, and a glossiness of the skin that implies a perpetual sweat. (Real-life Mexicans will frequently be pale-skinned with flat Uto-Aztecan faces and almond-shaped eyes, but good luck finding these traits in popular representations.)

* Westerners, in Japanese anime and video games: blond and blue-eyed. While there are plenty of anime characters who are blond and blue-eyed and [[{{Mukokuseki}} not Western]], there aren't many Western anime characters who are not blond and blue-eyed. Those that aren't are typically black. Old-school caricatures of white people in Japanese media will have tall statures, [[GagNose huge, protruding noses]], tan or ruddy skin, chiseled features with prominent jaws and chins, small/squinting eyes (oh, the irony), and freckles. Men will be muscular and [[CarpetOfVirility hairy]], the women will be [[GorgeousGaijin very curvy and]] [[GagBoobs buxom]]. Most depictions nowadays just include the height, build and aforementioned coloring.
* The French are tanned and swarthy [[note]] Only ''southern'' French ethnicities, such as Gascons and Provencals, have the typical Mediterranean complexion, though French who vacation regularly on the (also Mediterranean) Riviera may develop tans artificially. [[/note]] with gaunt noses, (and, in manga and anime, frequently blond, which is actually a pretty rare occurrence in France, compared to the UK and Scandinavia, for example). Women and young men are very slender, older men are short and chubby. May wear an expression of fatigued disinterest. [[CarpetOfVirility Very pilose,]] [[FanDisservice even the women]] in the most unflattering depictions. Men frequently have curly mustaches, and sometimes goatees.

* The English: In flattering examples, males will have a tall, slender figure, noble, distinguished features, DroopyEyes (usually blue) and glossy, floppy hair (usually blond or auburn, but occasionally darker brown for a little variety) parted to the side. See Creator/HughGrant or Creator/RalphFiennes for real-life detail. In unflattering examples, males will have [[BritishTeeth bad teeth,]] large ears, and big eyebrows -- see [[UsefulNotes/CharlesIII King Charles III]] for detail. Flattering female examples will depict the EnglishRose or BondGirl type (pale-skinned, rosy cheeks, gentle eyes, natural beauty) See Creator/KateWinslet or Creator/RachelWeisz for inspiration. Unflattering female examples will look like UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher (big nose, ruddy, horsey face). In almost all examples, both sexes will sport very pale fair skin. Children are often freckled and mostly light-haired [[note]] Blond Britons are better represented in eastern or northern England, due to heavy Scandinavian settlement in centuries past. Southern and western England are more Celtic/Latin, and the people therefore darker-haired. [[/note]] -- little girls will have [[RegalRinglets ringlets]] in period works. The children from ''Film/MaryPoppins'' and ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'' are perfect examples.
* The Irish: Rufous hair, very pale skin and freckles. Shorter and stockier than the English. They'll have big heads, or just sport a ForeheadOfDoom. Women often have a very large mass of frizzy or very curly hair, like the wigs of some Irish stepdancers. Men have cleft chins and thicker eyebrows, with large sideburns if they're older. [[ValuesDissonance Centuries ago, when they were considered a separate race "below" whites,]] the Irish were depicted as very ape-like. Often a SignificantGreenEyedRedhead will be Irish.

* Italians: Olive skin, dark hair, and dark eyes. Sometimes medium or even light brown hair appears too. Large aquiline noses are also common. Mustaches are a common feature on men. Usually short, especially if from Southern Italy. In older works, women will often be ugly and rotund. In modern works, women (especially Northern Italian) will be attractive.
* Russians and other Slavs: Men will be depicted with brown hair (or sometimes bald heads) and beards, while women will have blonde hair and delicate facial features. In unflattering examples, younger Slav males will be ghostly pale, have shaven, round heads, large ears, a long nose and rather small eyes, often quite close together -- the whole look will suggest a malnourished, sullen quality (see UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin for real-life detail). More flattering examples, on the other hand, will usually depict them as brawny hunks. Older works often depict Russian women as ugly, while modern works will show them as MsFanservice, [[SensualSlavs slender with big breasts]] and long, long legs. Sometimes, the men and old women will have large or unusual noses, though not to the extent of Jews. Expect dark circles under the eyes of both sexes. In anime and manga, Russians are frequently depicted as pale with white, silver, platinum blond, or blue hair. Will frequently wear [[RussianFashion ushankas]].
* White Americans (generally of Nordic, Anglo-Saxon or Celtic descent): Flattering examples will be tall and tanned, have a [[LanternJawOfJustice large square jawline,]] a cleft chin, a beaming snow-white smile, coiffed hair and a broad muscular frame -- see Mitt Romney for real-life detail or Stan from ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' for a good caricature. Unflattering examples will be pig-ugly, sweaty, have multiple chins and be at ''least'' 400 lbs (although some of these people, such as John Goodman, are portrayed more positively). Flattering portrayals of American women will generally be tall, blonde, curvaceous and tanned (Anna Nicole Smith and Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s [[Wrestling/{{Sable}} "Sable"]] being two very good examples from recent decades), whilst unflattering examples are morbidly obese and physically repulsive.

Northern/Central Indians, some southern Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are usually considered on the medium brown tone, Bangladeshis are usually stereotyped as short ans skinny. Though if theyre on the athletic side then they'd almost always be wirey/ripped rather than jacked or bulky.
South Indians and Sri Lankans (usually Tamils and Telugus) are considered to be much darker skin and have broader facial features as opposed to the sharp facial features of North Indians, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis.
Finally some ethnic groups usually in the mountains of the himalayas are considered more Oriental/Far Eastern looking like Hazaras found in Afghanistan, Pakistan and North India. Most Nepalese, Bhutanese and North East Indians have mix of Indo-Ayran and Sino-Tibetan features (looking anything between Indian and Chinese).
Minority of Bangladeshis also fall into this with some ethnic minorities like the Rohingya refugees looking more South East Asian.

* Men and women of South Asian descent will almost always be portrayed as roughly in the middle ground of skin tone between white and African (in real life, they run the gamut from "whiter than Irish" -- see Music/FreddieMercury and Sir Creator/BenKingsley -- to blue-black). Facial features are almost always similar to those of Arab portrayals (see above) but more toned down toward a white 'base'. [[BigOlEyebrows Large eyebrows]] are common. Men will have short hair that is either curly or heavily greased, sometimes into unfashionable looks to play on the BollywoodNerd stereotype. Women will always have long hair that is jet-black and nearly always straight (this kind of hair is actually considered ideal by women, similar to how many Western women like blonde hair. As many Western women are bottle blondes, many South Asian women have this kind of hair thanks to time spent in a beauty parlour). Older men will have long beards, making them look like yogis. (Note, this often truth in television as elderly men often grow beards in South Asia, even outside of religious reasons.) Sometimes, either out of laziness or just in the interest of ButNotTooBlack, authors will simply use a dark-haired pale person and slap on a sari (if female) or a Nehru jacket (if male), and maybe a red forehead dot or a turban as well.

* Russians and other Slavs: Men will be depicted with brown hair (or sometimes bald heads) and beards, while women will have blonde hair and delicate facial features. In unflattering examples, younger Slav males will be ghostly pale, have shaven, round heads, large ears, a long nose and rather small eyes, often quite close together -- the whole look will suggest a malnourished, sullen quality (see UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin for real-life detail). More flattering examples, on the other hand, will usually depict them as brawny hunks. Older works often depict Russian women as ugly, while modern works will show them as MsFanservice, [[SensualSlavs slender with big breasts]] and [[ShesGotLegs long, long legs.]] Sometimes, the men and old women will have large or unusual noses, though not to the extent of Jews. Expect dark circles under the eyes of both sexes. In anime and manga, Russians are frequently depicted as pale with white, silver, platinum blond, or blue hair. Will frequently wear [[RussianFashion ushankas]].

** Neuman himself is thought by some to have originated from a racist caricature of Irish immigrants (despite clearly having a Germanic name).

* The English: In flattering examples, males will have a tall, slender figure, noble, distinguished features, DroopyEyes (usually blue) and glossy, floppy hair (usually blond or auburn, but occasionally darker brown for a little variety) parted to the side. See Creator/HughGrant or Creator/RalphFiennes for real-life detail. In unflattering examples, males will have [[BritishTeeth bad teeth,]] large ears, and big eyebrows -- see [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Charles]] for detail. Flattering female examples will depict the EnglishRose or BondGirl type (pale-skinned, rosy cheeks, gentle eyes, natural beauty) See Creator/KateWinslet or Creator/RachelWeisz for inspiration. Unflattering female examples will look like UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher (big nose, ruddy, horsey face). In almost all examples, both sexes will sport very pale fair skin. Children are often freckled and mostly light-haired [[note]] Blond Britons are better represented in eastern or northern England, due to heavy Scandinavian settlement in centuries past. Southern and western England are more Celtic/Latin, and the people therefore darker-haired. [[/note]] -- little girls will have [[RegalRinglets ringlets]] in period works. The children from ''Film/MaryPoppins'' and ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'' are perfect examples.

* ''Webcomic/FamilyMan'': The protagonist LutherLevy has Jewish ancestry and an [[GagNose exceptionally long nose]]. It's implied to be [[UnreliableNarrator a visual representation]] of his InternalizedCategorism, as he sees other Jewish characters similarly.

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 skirt, in which case it's female.

* Jews: Hook-nosed and curly-haired, since AllJewsAreAshkenazi (definitely has negative connotations, though). Sideburns or long, curled sidelocks (''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payot payot]]'') will show up on Orthodox or Conservative Jews. NerdGlasses are optional.

* Jews: Hook-nosed and curly-haired, since AllJewsAreAshkenazi (definitely has negative connotations, though). Sideburns will show up on Orthodox or Conservative Jews. NerdGlasses are optional.

* ''Anime/EurekaSeven'''s cosmopolitan cast both plays this straight and averts this; Matthieu, Linck, Gidget, and Hilda are all black - the first three have large lips, but Hilda doesn't.

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* Franchise/{{DCAU}} cartoons, the only white males that have lips are Lex Luthor and Harvey Dent. (And interestingly, some later depictions of Dent [[RaceLift have him as black]].) Lex Luthor on ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' is often mistaken for being black because of this facial feature, [[ComicBookFantasyCasting when in fact the character's design is supposed to evoke]] Creator/TellySavalas. John Stewart was also the only male on ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' to have lips, presumably for clarity- when the character's mouth is just a black line, it's more difficult to see on dark skin.

* Arabs, North Africans, Egyptians, most Middle Eastern countries etc,: Will often have tan skin, high cheek bones, large hooked noses and black curly hair (and beards) on men and straight hair on women (if not covered by a headscarf). They are still often enough played by white actors however. If their depiction is negative (which these days in Western media, it almost always is), they are often hairy and ugly as well.

* Men and women of South Asian descent will almost always be portrayed as roughly in the middle ground of skin tone between white and African (in real life, they run the gamut from "whiter than Irish" -- see Music/FreddieMercury and Sir Creator/BenKingsley -- to blue-black). Facial features are almost always similar to those of Arab portrayals (see above) but more toned down toward a white 'base'. [[BigOlEyebrows Large eyebrows]] are common. Men will have short hair that is either curly or heavily greased, sometimes into unfashionable looks to play on the stereotype of Indian men being computer-savvy nerds. Women will always have long hair that is jet-black and nearly always straight (this kind of hair is actually considered ideal by women, similar to how many Western women like blonde hair. As many Western women are bottle blondes, many South Asian women have this kind of hair thanks to time spent in a beauty parlour).. Older men will have long beards, making them look like yogis. (Note, this often truth in television as elderly men often grow beards in South Asia, even outside of religious reasons.) Sometimes, either out of laziness or just in the interest of ButNotTooBlack, authors will simply use a dark-haired pale person and slap on a sari (if female) or a Nehru jacket (if male), and maybe a red forehead dot or a turban as well.

* Black people are depicted with [[GagLips prominent lips.]] This was also a major element of the {{blackface}} era. Doesn't show up much in WesternAnimation these days because of it, although if you go back to before the 1960s, it is very common. Cartoons nowadays that leave out lips for non-black characters may draw in normal-sized lips for black characters. Wider noses and frizzy hair is also common, as are braids on black women. [[BaldBlackLeaderGuy Shaved heads will appear frequently on black men.]] For the extremely exaggerated caricature version of this, as seen in old cartoons, see BlackfaceStyleCaricature.

* Black people are depicted with [[GagLips prominent lips.]] This was also a major element of the {{Blackface}} era. Doesn't show up much in WesternAnimation these days because of it, although if you go back to before the 1960s, it is very common. Cartoons nowadays that leave out lips for non-black characters may draw in normal-sized lips for black characters. Wider noses and frizzy hair is also common, as are braids on black women. [[BaldBlackLeaderGuy Shaved heads will appear frequently on black men.]] For the extremely exaggerated caricature version of this, as seen in old cartoons, see BlackfaceStyleCaricature.
* There's usually little difference between Black Americans and Black Sub-Saharan Africans of any nation in the rare occasion that series features both or mentions a specific African country by name. If there are both, then Africans will have rounder faces, darker skin and sometimes larger ears or generally anything that makes them further away from the 'white default' than black Americans. Stereotypical DarkestAfrica bush tribes will have gaunt features, long faces, and wear little clothing.

* Westerners, in Japanese anime and video games: blond and blue-eyed. While there are plenty of anime characters who are blond and blue-eyed and [[{{Mukokuseki}} not Western,]] there aren't many Western anime characters who are not blond and blue-eyed. Those that aren't are typically black. Old-school caricatures of white people in Japanese media will have tall statures, [[GagNose huge, protruding noses,]] tan or ruddy skin, chiseled features with prominent jaws and chins, small/squinting eyes (oh, the irony), and freckles. Men will be muscular and [[CarpetOfVirility hairy,]] the women will be [[GorgeousGaijin very curvy and]] [[GagBoobs buxom.]] Most depictions nowadays just include the height, build and aforementioned coloring.

* Much like Indians, Polynesians are frequently depicted with a "middle ground" skin tone between white people and black people. Younger men tend to have a swimmer's build, while younger women usually lean towards the willowy (all the better for hula dancing, one supposes). Middle-aged and older people tend to be at least chubby.

* Native Hawaiians in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' generally appear realistically Polynesian, with varying degrees of tanned skin tones, dark hair colors, and almond-shaped eyes. Body types are also pretty curvy, but that's [[PuniPlush another trope entirely]].

* Franchise/{{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 ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' is often mistaken for being black because of this facial feature, [[ComicBookFantasyCasting when in fact the character's design is supposed to evoke]] Creator/TellySavalas. John Stewart was also the only male on ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' to have lips, presumably for clarity- when the character's mouth is just a black line, it's more difficult to see on dark skin.

** Another issue showed an array of caricatured faces from around the world, proclaiming that their owners were "living together in peace and harmony" and asking the reader to use crayons to color them the appropriate hues. The correct answer for each? "You were correct if you colored them all green. Because if they're living together in peace and harmony, they must be ''Martians''!"

Naturally, with the prevalence of anime in the West, many people make the mistake of [[https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/09/why-do-the-japanese-draw-themselves-as-white/340084/ wondering why Japanese cartoons appear to feature white casts]]. To the Japanese, [[{{Mukokuseki}} they don't]] -- even coupled with blonde hair and blue eyes on characters who are 100% Japanese. (But as these same characters often stand alongside naturally blue, pink and green haired people, [[AcceptableBreakFromReality yellowish hair might not be far of a stretch after all.]])

* Franchise/{{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 ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' is often mistaken for being black because of this facial feature, [[ComicBookFantasyCasting when in fact the character's design is supposed to evoke]] Creator/TellySavalas. John Stewart was also the only male on ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' to have lips, presumably for clarity- when the character's mouth is just a black line, it's more difficult to see on dark skin.

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

* While ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' tends to use different ''species'' to depict different races, an "Asian" pony with almond-shaped eyes appeared in ''Green Isn't Your Color''. Because no other character like this has popped up since, and this one particular pony's only appeared ''very'' rarely in background shots since that one episode, it could be considered a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' is pretty even when it comes to lips for blacks and girls. Some black characters like Huey, Riley, Granddad and Tom don't have lips, but the more ethnic, dark-skinned ones like Uncle Ruckus do. Likewise some females don't have lips such as Jazmine, Sarah, and Cindy, while the various supermodels do (which makes sense, as supermodels would be expected to wear lipstick) WordOfGod is that the animation is deliberately done in an anime style (with strong influences from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' and ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo''), where mouths and noses are usually set aside so as to put focus on eyes.

* Russians and other Slavs: Men will be depicted with brown hair (or sometimes bald heads) and beards, while women will have blonde hair and delicate facial features. In unflattering examples, younger Slav males will be ghostly pale, have shaven, round heads, large ears, a long nose and rather small eyes, often quite close together -- the whole look will suggest a malnourished, sullen quality (see Vladimir Putin for real-life detail). More flattering examples, on the other hand, will usually depict them as brawny hunks. Older works often depict Russian women as ugly, while modern works will show them as MsFanservice, [[SensualSlavs slender with big breasts]] and [[ShesGotLegs long, long legs.]] Sometimes, the men and old women will have large or unusual noses, though not to the extent of Jews. Expect dark circles under the eyes of both sexes. In anime and manga, Russians are frequently depicted as pale with white, silver, platinum blond, or blue hair. Will frequently wear [[RussianFashion ushankas]].

* Black people are depicted with [[GagLips prominent lips.]] This was also a major element of the {{Blackface}} era. Doesn't show up much WesternAnimation these days because of it, although if you go back to before the 1960s, it is very common. Cartoons nowadays that leave out lips for non-black characters may draw in normal-sized lips for black characters. Wider noses and frizzy hair is also common, as are braids on black women. [[BaldBlackLeaderGuy Shaved heads will appear frequently on black men.]] For the extremely exaggerated caricature version of this, as seen in old cartoons, see BlackfaceStyleCaricature.