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* The original ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' series had only two main characters of color, Japanese-American ComicBook/{{Nico|Minoru}} and African-American Alex, and by the end, Nico was the sole person of color left in the cast. The second series added Latino ComicBook/{{Victor|Mancha}} and genderfluid Xavin, and confirmed Karolina as a lesbian, creating one of the few mainstream superhero teams that wasn't dominated by white male characters (of which only Chase fit).

* ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'': The first series, ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', had a nearly all-Caucasian cast. Its sequel ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' is more diverse, turning the main heroes into a FiveTokenBand (with an Asian guy, a black girl, a Cherokee girl, and a Latino boy), and revealing that a previously introduced character was LGBT+.

** [[VideoGame/MassEffect3 The final game]] uses this trope again by giving a variety of love interests of different species, genders, and sexual orientations. Also the male love interest from the first game [[BiTheWay becomes also available to the male Shepard]]. It also features exclusively gay characters. Notably, this is the first game where a male Shepard is able to have a male/masculine love interest.

This trope applies when a sequel work has a more diverse character makeup than its predecessor, and overall includes more racial, ethnic, sexual, or gender minorities. Ways this can go about include introducing new minority characters, [[AscendedExtra giving previously one-off minorities more screentime]], PassingTheTorch or ChangingOfTheGuard to an AffirmativeActionLegacy to create a FiveTokenBand or MultinationalTeam, or revealing that existing characters are minorities via SuddenlyEthnicity or SuddenlySexuality. Whatever mechanisms are used, the resulting cast of characters is a lot less like the existing demographic majorities (usually [[WhiteMaleLead white, male, cis/straight, and vaguely Christian]]) than it was before.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', the sequel to ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', is more diverse than its predecessor when it comes to LGBT+ characters. Korra and Asami, who are seen holding hands and staring into each other's eyes at the end of the series on their way to the spirit world, are later confirmed in an interview to be bisexual. Other confirmed LGBTQ+ characters in the interview are Kya, Aang and Katara's daughter, and Aiwei. In contrast, none of the main characters in the predecessor are confirmed to be something other than straight. Initially, it didn't have any known LGBTQ+ characters, but Avatar Kyoshi is eventually revealed to be bisexual in the LOK comic ''Turf Wars'' and we see one of her girlfriends in her own book, ''Literature/TheRiseOfKyoshi''.

* Compared to ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', which has an all-white cast, ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' has a prominent minority supporting character in the form of Lt. Destin Mattias and prominently features indigenous people.

* ''Series/NineOneOne'' is already diverse, but the spin-off series ''Series/NineOneOneLoneStar'' adds even more. While all of the main cast in 9-1-1 were cis, Lone Star has Paul Strickland, a black trans man. The series also has a more racially diverse cast, with black, muslim and latino characters in the forefront.

** The second one has those characters and adds two more from the same area, revealing one of the first ones was actually from Atteka, South America's equivalent. Two remaining characters have no corresponding origin in reality: one is from Lemuria (essentially {{Atlantis}}, but in the Indian Ocean), and the other fell from either a flying city or the moon. Among the plot-important NPCs, several Gondowans (Africans) and Hesperians (North America) appear.

* ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' was originally formed with ComicBook/{{Robin}}, [[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Superboy]] and ComicBook/{{Impulse}}. All white and male, and there was even an issue which parodied the "boys club" nature of the team when they were later joined by three girls: ComicBook/WonderGirl, [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Arrowette]] and Secret. Again, all white. Later member Empress was African-American and [[TokenMinority the only non-white]]. In ''2019'', the book was relaunched with most of the original members and many new faces. The cast was still mostly white, but now also joined by [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Teen Lantern]] and ComicBook/{{Naomi}} (both African-American), Miguel of ComicBook/DialHForHero (Hispanic), as well as the extra-terrestrial Wonder Twins. The male-to-female ratio also remained roughly equal, similar to the original series.

Compare AdaptationalDiversity, for when an adaptation, reboot, or other derivative work diversifies the existing cast, and its related tropes RaceLift, DisabledInTheAdaptation, AdaptationalCurves, GenderFlip and AdaptationalSexuality.

* Compared to ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', which has an all-white cast, ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' has a prominent minority supporting character in the form of Lt. Destin and prominently features indigenous people.

* ''Series/TheCarrieDiaries'' is an interesting example. It's a prequel series to ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' and has a more diverse set of supporting characters than the original. But since it's a prequel and ''Sex'' has a predominantly-white cast, some viewers have joked that Carrie must have gotten racist as she got older.

* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': The original series created in the sixties starred ComicBook/{{Robin}}, ComicBook/WonderGirl, [[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} Aqualad]], [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Speedy]], and [[ComicBook/WallyWest Kid Flash]]. All of them are white, with Wonder Girl as the only female. After later being retooled as the "New Teen Titans" to [[FollowTheLeader combat Marvel's success]] with ''ComicBook/XMen'', this team was similarly relaunched with a more diverse roster. Robin was the only returning member and was joined by Beast Boy (who is also a white male), ComicBook/{{Raven}} (a half-demon female), ComicBook/{{Starfire}} (an alien) and ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} (an African-American).

* ''ComicBook/Champions2016'' was the followup to a book that ran in the 1970s and starred a team of ComicBook/BlackWidow, [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]], ComicBook/GhostRider, ComicBook/{{Iceman}} and [[ComicBook/XMen Angel]]--all white and, [[TheSmurfettePrinciple aside from Black Widow]], male. The second series uses AffirmativeActionLegacy, and instead starred ComicBook/KamalaKhan (female Pakistani-American Muslim), [[ComicBook/UltimateSpiderman Miles Morales]] (half-African American, half-Puerto Rican) ComicBook/AmadeusCho (Korean-American), [[ComicBook/{{Nova}} Sam Alexander]] (half-Hispanic-American), [[ComicBook/TheVision2015 Viv Vision]] (female robot), [[ComicBook/UnstoppableWasp Nadia Pym]] (female), Snowguard (First Nations Canadian), Red Locust (female Hispanic-American), Patriot (African-American), Power Man (Hispanic), Falcon (Hispanic), Dust (female Afghan), Bombshell (female) and Pinpoint (East indian). A teenage, time-displaced ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} served as the TokenWhite male on the team.

* ''ComicBook/Champions2016'' was the followup to a book that ran in the 1970s and starred a team of ComicBook/BlackWidow, [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]], ComicBook/GhostRider, ComicBook/{{Iceman}} and [[ComicBook/XMen Angel]]--all white and, [[TheSmurfettePrinciple aside from Black Widow]], male. The second series uses AffirmativeActionLegacy, and instead starred ComicBook/KamalaKhan (female Pakistani-American Muslim), [[ComicBook/UltimateSpiderman Miles Morales]] (half-African, half-Mexican American) ComicBook/AmadeusCho (Korean-American), [[ComicBook/{{Nova}} Sam Alexander]] (half-Hispanic-American), [[ComicBook/TheVision2015 Viv Vision]] (female robot), [[ComicBook/UnstoppableWasp Nadia Pym]] (female), Snowguard (First Nations Canadian), Red Locust (female Hispanic-American), and Patriot (African-American). A teenage, time-displaced ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} served as the TokenWhite male on the team.

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* Compared to ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'', which had an all-white cast, ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' had a prominent minority supporting character in the form of Lt. Destin and prominently featured indigenous people.

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* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': The main films focusing on the founding members of Franchise/TheAvengers had mostly white casts led by men, with a TokenMinority or [[TheSmurfettePrinciple lone woman]] occasionally present. The franchise has started to shift away from this in Phase Three, with ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' (starring a mostly-black cast) and ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'' (the franchise's first female-led superhero film).
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''Film/ANewHope'' had an [[HumansAreWhite all-white human cast]][[note]]although Darth Vader was voiced by the African-American Creator/JamesEarlJones, he was played by the white Sebastian Shaw when unmasked[[/note]] and Princess Leia as the most prominent female character in a largely male cast. Later works add more women and minorities to the mix and also become more diverse when it comes to non-humans; in ''A New Hope'' the Rebels seem to be almost exclusively humans, whereas the sequels and prequels add more and more aliens to the mix. In the case of the latter, more alien species within the Rebellion is also indicative of increasing galactic support for the movement, which was founded mainly by humans.

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* ''ComicBook/XMen'' was originally launched with five white characters: four men and one woman--all American. After being completely revamped in the 70s as the "All-New, All-Different X-Men'', the team's roster expanded to both different ethnicities and different nationalities, including ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} (German), ComicBook/{{Storm}} (African), ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} (Canadian), ComicBook/{{Colossus}} and Thunderbird (Native American). They were later joined by ComicBook/KittyPryde (Jewish) and have only become more diverse over the years.
* The original run of ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' had only one character of color, Patriot, although it was also one of the only mainstream series to have a canonically gay couple in the main cast. The sequel series added Latina lesbian ComicBook/AmericaChavez and bisexual black Prodigy.

* ''Series/TheCarrieDiaries'' is an interesting example. It's a prequel series to ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' and has a more diverse set of supporting characters than the original. But since it's a prequel and ''Sex'' has a predominantly-white cast, some viewers have joked that Carrie became racist as an adult.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' is more diverse than the original. Not only are there more female characters in the main cast (one of whom is an amputee), but LGBT characters are present in a small way. Two members of the supporting cast [[HasTwoMommies have two daddies]], and major character Launchpad MacQuack is now heavily implied to be bisexual instead of straight. Several characters that were voiced by white actors are now portrayed by latino actors, and their characters are revamped to match.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' Is more diverse than the original. Not only are there more female characters in the main cast (one of whom is an amputee), but LGBT characters are present in a small way. Two members of the supporting cast [[HasTwoMommies have two daddies]], and major character Launchpad [=MacQuack=] is now heavily implied to be bisexual instead of straight.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' Is more diverse than the original. Not only are there more female characters in the main cast (one of whom is an amputee), but LGBT characters are present in a small way. Two members of the supporting cast [[HasTwoMommies have two daddies]], and major character Launchpad MacQuack is now heavily implied to be bisexual instead of straight.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales(2017) Is more diverse than the original. Not only are there more female characters in the main cast, but LGBT characters are present in a small way. One character HasTwoDaddies, and major character Launchpad MacQuack is now heavily implied to be bisexual instead of straight.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', the sequel to ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', is more diverse than its predecessor when it comes to LGBT+ characters. Korra and Asami, who are seen holding hands and staring into each other's eyes at the end of the series on their way to the spirit world, are later confirmed in an interview to be bisexual. Other confirmed LGBTQ+ characters in the interview are Kya, Aang and Katara's daughter, and Aiwei. In contrast, none of the main characters in the predecessor are confirmed to be something other than straight. Initially, it didn't have any known LGBTQ+ characters, but Avatar Kyoshi is eventually revealed to be bisexual in the LOK comic ''Turf Wars'' and we see one of her girlfriends in her own comic, ''Literature/TheRiseOfKyoshi''.

* ''ComicBook/XMen'' was original launched with five white characters: four men and one woman--all American. After being completely revamped in the 70s as the "All-New, All-Different X-Men'', the team's roster expanded to both different ethnicities and different nationalities, including ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} (German), ComicBook/{{Storm}} (African), ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} (Canadian), ComicBook/{{Colossus}} and Thunderbird (Native American). They were later joined by ComicBook/KittyPryde (Jewish) and have only become more diverse over the years.

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This trope applies when a sequel work has a more diverse character makeup than its predecessor, and overall includes more racial, ethnic, sexual, or gender minorities. Ways this can go about include introducing new minority characters, [[AscendedExtra giving previously one-off minorities more screentime]], PassingTheTorch or ChangingOfTheGuard to an AffirmativeActionLegacy to create a FiveTokenBand or MultinationalTeam, or revealing that existing characters are minorities via SuddenlyEthnicity or SuddenlySexuality. Whatever mechanisms are used, the resulting cast of characters is a lot less [[WhiteMaleLead white, male, cis/straight, and vaguely Christian]] than it was before.

* ''ComicBook/XMen'' was original launched with five white characters: four men and one woman--all American. After being completely revamped in the 70s as the "All-New, All-Different X-Men'', the team's roster expanded to both different ethnicities and different nationalities, including ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} (German), ComicBook/{{Storm}} (African, raised in the US), ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} (Canadian), ComicBook/{{Colossus}} and Thunderbird (Native American). They were later joined by ComicBook/KittyPryde (Jewish) and have only become more diverse over the years.