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** Ditto for StargateAtlantis. Not only did they have TWO TokenMinorities in the main team (one of which was a [[TwoferTokenMinority twofer]], they went to plenty of planets with mixed societies. If I recall correctly, though, they tended to throw in black background characters, often forgetting that there are plenty of other minorities in the world, too.

** Which is ironic, considering that in the book it's, err, [[TheyJustDidntCare somewhat loosely based on]], the main character is Filipino and there were many characters from all over the world.
** In the movie, the three main characters are from Buenos Aires which is apparently mostly populated with blonde-haired blue-eyed white people, who speak English and play a futuristic version of American Football, [[spoiler: until the bugs blow it up.]]
*** The Xenoarachnids must have been [[FootballHooligans soccer fans]].
*** Actually, since Buenos Aires is 89% caucasian, this is a case of TruthInTelevision.
** And Verhoven was [[MisaimedFandom trying to make a satire of fascism and blind patriotism (which he got accused of glorifying)]], so the race thing could have just been [[{{Anvilicious}} another anvil]] lost in a [[AuthorTract vast sea of anvils]].

* [[SergeantRock Sergeant Johnson]] of ''{{Halo}}'' fame is the sole black guy in the series, and a MagicalNegro to boot. There was also a female Marine voiced by Michelle Rodriguez in Halo 2, and a whole lot more minorities in the novels.

*** While there are virtually no ''religious'' Jewish people on Star Trek, three of [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original series']] regular cast members were ''ethnically'' Jewish, including two of the [[PowerTrio three main leads]]: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Walter Koenig. (Also worth noting: the famous Vulcan hand gesture was inspired by the way Kohenim, or Jewish priests, bless their congregations.) It's also notable that there aren't alot of particularly devout members of ''any'' Human religion on StarTrek, the sole exception being [[StarTrekVoyager Chakotay]] who grew up in a colony explicitly centered around a Native American animist culture.

*** When you remember that Vulcan is supposed to be a mostly desert planet at the far sunward edge of its system's habitable zone [[FridgeLogic it seems a bit odd you only ever see one black one, though]]...
**** [[AmbiguouslyBrown That depends on what you consider T'Pring from the original series.]]
*** Plus, who knows what Vulcan sunlight [[BizarreAlienBiology does to Vulcan skin]]? Whatever they use for melanin may have nothing to do with adapting to radiation exposure.

*** The season 1 ''TNG'' episode "Code of Honor" had racism problems ''well beyond'' the lack of one minority or the other. Just read the description of "Code of Honor" and ''try'' not to cry blood.

*** This doesn't necessarily rule out him being of Arab descent. Some Berber peoples are quite pale skinned, for example. But lets not apologize for the creators.
**** Technically Berbers are African. Pale, white and blonde Africans, but African none the less.

** Averted by the God Emperor who is Turkish. Well, "from the general area where the modern Turkey now sits", to be precise. Turks are relatively recent immigrants in Anatolia, and around the Emperor's birth they hadn't actually ''existed'' yet.

** ''Salamanders'' SpaceMarine chaper is black to the man, though. On the other hand, that's apparently, [[UnfortunateImplications because their genes are corrupted.]]

** Most real life albinos have problems with vision, whcih would presumably still be detrimental even if you live underground.

** ''Salamanders'' SpaceMarine chaper is black to the man, though.
** Apparently, [[UnfortunateImplications this is because their genes are corrupted.]]

** Averted by the God Emperor who is Turkish.

* [[http://www.dorktower.com/2010/08/27/dork-tower-friday-august-27-2010/ Ken]] calls out ''Warhamster Fantasy Battles'' on this point.
** It's not a historical simulation. It's a fantasy game with ''orcs, elves, demons and vampires'' among other FantasyKitchenSink species, but black people would be unrealistic?
** That and he's wrong, the Tomb Kings used to be black while Chaos and the Ogres include mongolians and the Strigoi rule over gypsies. Not to mention the fact that it explicitly takes place in the Europe analogue and that non Europeans do exist outside it (Arabs in Araby, Native Americans in Lustria, Blacks in the Southlands, and Asians in Cathy, Nippon and the rest of the far east).
* ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick'', based off D&D ver. 3.5, has a Black protagonist and a large number of Black and Asian [=NPCs=] and minor characters. The current ark (as of this writing) being situated on a desert continent with a Mesopotamian pantheon, it also has a large number of mid-eastern/north african types (well, as far as the stick-figure art allows us to determine anyway).

* In the world of ''FinalFantasyVII'', there are [[TalkingAnimal lion-like people]], robots, robot cats, ancient beings... and one single black guy.
** There are three more in the whole game. [[UnfortunateImplications One works in a prison. One works for a pimp. One is a member of the local Mafia.]] Well, it's better than only Barret.

* One poster to OutpostGallifrey pointed out that ''{{Torchwood}}'' made sure to include black actors in guest roles. Only problem, the city takes place in Cardiff, which has a higher number of residents of Asian and Middle Eastern than of black ethnicity. RussellTDavies and his production team must surely know this, so presumably they either don't want to give the wrong impression or simply couldn't find enough talented Asians of the above ethnicities.

* In ''[[Film/StarTrek the 2009 StarTrek movie]]'', Starfleet does seem to finally be fully integretated.

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* In ''[[Film/StarTrek the 2009 StarTrek movie]]'', Starfleet does seem to finally be fully integretated. Of course [[BlackDudeDiesFirst some things still persist.]]

** Though the first onscreen death was probably that [[{{RedShirt}}poor crew member]] what got sucked out of the corridor into space....

* Averted in the remake of ''BattlestarGalactica''. In the original show, due to the time, almost the entire cast is white males--as long as you don't count Col. Tigh, Boomer, Athena, Cassiopeia, Sheba, and Cpl. Rigel. In the remake, there are several people of other races and/or females, but the majority are still white males.

* It took almost forty years for ''Series/DoctorWho'' to finally get a black companion, but when traveling around history, poor Martha is bound to be at the receiving end of some blatant racism (even when it's [[YouAreACreditToYourRace intended to be a compliment]]).
** Though technically, supporting character Mickey briefly became the first black companion...
** In the comic strip the first black companion was Sharon. It was 1980 or so.
** An ExpandedUniverse novel averts the 'no Indians in space', curiously enough, by being set on an entire planet colonised by Indian settlers.

** ''{{Gundam 00}}'' has at least two black secondary characters: Graham Aker's late wingman Daryl Dodge and the president of TheFederation. There's also AmbiguouslyBrown Johan Trinity (who seems to be a different race than his siblings- they're GattacaBabies). Despite his Japenese CodeName, the main character Setsuna F. Seiei is Kurdish, along with his ex-mentor/arch-enemy Ali Al Saachez. Princess Marina Ismail and her right-hand Shirin Bakhtiar are Persian (Azadistan is of Persian etymology) Fellow gundameister Allelujah Haptism is Kazakh. And of course, there are all the other cast members with apparently multiracial origins, as shown through their names.

** That could be the result of the city's GattacaBabies. Then again, the KillerRobot they fight was originally supposed to evoke a "tribal" African and was portrayed by a black actor. So....

** Averted by the God Emperor who is Turkish

* As part of a well-meaning but horribly misguided attempt to explain why all the Kryptonians seen in flashback issues of ''{{Superman}}'' were white, a writer in the 70's came up with the idea that there were indeed black Kryptonians, but that they (voluntarily) lived in a state of self-exile in a place called Vathlo Island. This was ignored in the ''New Krypton'' event, where Kryptonians of various races were seen. ''{{Smallville}}'' also tried to subvert this idea by introducing several minor black Kryptonian characters.

* The ''VampireTheMasquerade'' sourcebooks for [[TheBigEasy New Orleans]], {{Atlanta}}, and {{Milwaukee}} feature next to no black characters, even though all three cities have a black majority.

Space has a lot of people in it. Way, way more people than science tells us there should be. There are [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation blue people, green people, orange people, purple people,]] [[ImAHumanitarian people that eat people]], [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race Guys]], ScaryDogmaticAliens, BigCreepyCrawlies, EnergyBeings, and even the odd SufficientlyAdvancedAlien with [[AncientAstronauts a very familiar name]]. And most of them even [[AliensSpeakingEnglish speak English]].

* Averted in Fallout3 and FalloutNewVegas, but true in-universe. While the population and cast is pretty diverse and well-represented, advertisements and media that have survived from before the nuclear war seem to be filled with white people only, suggesting that racial equality in the Fallout-verse only seemed to arrive sometime after nuclear armageddon.

** ''MobileSuitGundam'', had at least one (propably) Hispanol Character, Ryou. (He might also have been black to [[BlackDudeDiesFirst fit the trope]].) Apart from that most people lookd a lot the same but were probably evenly distributed between Asians and white ones.

* Averted in ''{{Golden Sun}}'''s sequel, Lost Age. The geography of Weyard is based off of the real world thousands of years ago, and as such, when travelling around in the game's parallels to India and Africa (and to a lesser degree China and Japan), even very minor [=NPCs=] are quite a bit darker.

*** While there are virtually no ''religious'' Jewish people on Star Trek, three of [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original series']] regular cast members were ''ethnically'' Jewish, including two of the [[PowerTrio three main leads]]: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Walter Koenig. (Also worth noting: the famous Vulcan hand gesture was inspired by the way Kohenim, or Jewish priests, bless their congregations.) It's also notable that there aren't alot of particularly devout members of ''any'' Human religion on StarTrek, the sole exception being [[StarTrekVoyager Chakotay]] who grew up in a colony explicitly centred around a Native American animist culture.