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* In ''Series/{{Glee}}'', Lauren is initially attracted to Puck because she thinks he's an ethnically ambiguous mixed-race man and is disappointed to learn he's a white Jew. Ironically, Puck does have a mixed-race half-brother, but by the time Jake started high school, Lauren and the other older students had graduated.

* In ''Series/{{Glee}}'', Lauren is initially attracted to Puck because she thinks he's an ethnically ambiguous mixed-race man and is disappointed to learn he's a white Jew. Ironically, Puck does have a mixed-race half-brother, but by the time Jake came along, Lauren and the other older students had graduated.

* In ''Series/{{Glee}}'', Lauren is initially attracted to Puck because she thinks he's an ethnically ambiguous mixed-race man and is disappointed to learn he's a white Jew.

* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. When Tom Paris first sets eyes on [[HalfHumanHybrid Brazilian-Venerian]] B'Elanna Torres, he notes that she has "that exotic Venerian allure", [[ButNotTooBlack but not too alien for discomfort]] thanks to her human blood. Tom tries hitting on her and is shot down.

* ''Literature/EleanorAndPark'': Park and Josh are half-white and half-Korean. Josh is white passing, but Eleanor reacts with interest to Park's more "Asian" features, such as his darker skin and almond-shaped eyes. [[HollywoodGenetics His eyes are also green]], despite this being unlikely.

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* Usui of ''Manga/MaidSama''. His superhuman attractiveness and unusual coloring (blonde hair and green eyes) are attributed to being one-quarter British (his mother was British-Japanese).

* Writer Nick Adams, best known for his work on ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'', is black with a Native American wife and he has joked about this trope in his essay book ''Making Friends With Black People''. A lot of people have told him and his wife that their future children will be beautiful, though he knows that's no guarantee. In the book he said he hopes to have a son who looks like Creator/DwayneJohnson, a daughter who looks like Creator/RosarioDawson, and then a third child who looks like Creator/CarrotTop just to mess with people's expectations.

* Writer Nick Adams, best known for his work on ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'', is black with a Native American wife and he has joked about this trope in his essay book ''Making Friends With Black People''. A lot of people have told him that their future children will be beautiful, though he knows that's no guarantee. In the book he said he hopes to have a son who looks like Creator/DwayneJohnson, a daughter who looks like Creator/RosarioDawson, and then a third child who looks like Creator/CarrotTop just to mess with people's expectations.

* Writer Nick Adams, best known for his work on ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'', is black with a Native American wife and he has joked about this trope in his book ''Making Friends With Black People''. A lot of people have told him that their children will be beautiful, though he knows that's no guarantee. In the book he said he hopes to have a son who looks like Creator/Dwayne Johnson, a daughter who looks like Creator/RosarioDawson...and then a third child who looks like Creator/CarrotTop, just to mess with people's expectations.

To avoid gushing over real-life mixed-race people, this trope is '''Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly'''.

* Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/Archer'' in the episode "Blood Test", when Ray predicts that Lana, upset over Archer having a son, is going to get drunk and jealous and ask him to have a baby with her.

* ''Series/{{Community}}'': Britta invokes this in "Romantic Expressionism" when she mentions that Annie and Troy's babies would be "extra cute".

** Lampshaded by Lestat de Lioncourt (who is a wealthy Frenchman in an era when France was still an active colonial power, which includes colonies in Africa) in [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder the series premiere]] when he mentions that he finds what he calls [[StarbucksSkinScale cinnamon skin tone]] -- a mix of African and European descent -- attractive while [[EatingTheEyeCandy gazing seductively]] at Louis de Pointe du Lac, who is biracial and fits in the "cinnamon" category. Louis becomes even more desirable in Lestat's eyes when the latter learns that the former has French ancestry (Lestat is delighted that Louis speaks French and has a French name), so Louis' "exotic" quality is more "accessible" to Lestat. Lestat frequently compliments Louis' looks (e.g. [[PrettyBoy "beautiful face," "pretty head"]]). This also extends to the biracial Lily because Lestat refers to both her and Louis as "misfit beauties." Lestat is madly (even obsessively) in love with Louis, seduces him, and then turns him into a vampire so that they can be companions for eternity.
** In [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E3IsMyVeryNatureThatOfADevil the third episode]], Antoinette Brown (a white American woman) has a flirty expression and smiles at Louis when she divulges, "I like burnished [[note]]copper, which is a medium brown, is a metal that is commonly burnished, so she perceives Louis as having copper-toned skin[[/note]] complexions."
** While Lestat isn't sexually attracted to his vampire daughter Claudia (who is also biracial), he nonetheless uses similar terms to describe her as he does with Louis and Lily (e.g. "pretty little head," "belladonnic beauty"). Considering that Lestat's [[ILoveYouVampireSon vampire son Louis is his lover]] and he had sex with Lily, the ''only'' reason why Lestat doesn't fetishize Claudia is because [[NotGrowingUpSucks she doesn't have the body of an adult]], and this is confirmed in [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart the fifth episode]] where there's IncestSubtext when Lestat explains to Claudia (who demanded to know which of her two vampire fathers will fuck her) that he won't have sex with her because she lacks a fuller figure.

This can manifest in several ways. A racially homogenous community might react with interest to a mixed-race character's features, similar to AttractionToOutliers, especially if there is a uniqueness value. A character might react positively to the children or potential children of an interracial couple, or more insidiously, [[ChosenConceptionPartner aim for bearing or siring mixed-race children themselves]] (this is a horrendously offensive assumption about interracial couples in real life). A monoracial character might affect physical traits that make them more [[AmbiguouslyBrown ethnically ambiguous]], such as [[ButNotTooWhite darkening their skin to look less pale]].