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[[caption-width-right:350:[[SoUnfunnyItsFunny The 1800's called, they want their segregation back.]]]]

* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': In one episode, Will and Carlton are driving a very nice car belonging to a friend of Uncle Phil. They get pulled over by the police for driving incredibly slowly, and then arrested with little regard for due process. During all this the writers contrast Will's StreetSmarts and cynicism born from his upbringing in the hood with Carlton's [[TheWoobie Woobieish]] optimism in authority figures from his wealthy upbringing which shielded him from such treatment, as Carlton blunders through several actions that a well behaved rich kid can't see the shame in but Will tries to advise him against. Notably, the end of the episode is one of the few times Uncle Phil agrees that Will had the right idea, having been pulled over before in the past.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[SoUnfunnyItsFunny The 1850's called, they want their segregation back.]]]]

* This is the main drive of ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'' -- a Nuhuman named Ulysses gains that power to see the future in almost perfect clarity. [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]] believes that Ulysses is a boon, as they can use him to stop crimes before they can start. However [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] doesn't buy it, proclaiming that this ultimately leads to this very trope. In fact, Tony ends up kidnapping Ulysses from the Inhumans so he can figure out what's going on and theorizes that he's influenced by various factors around him. However, the paranoia over his predictions end up causing deaths as [[spoiler:an attempt to stop an invading ComicBook/{{Thanos}} leads to ComicBook/WarMachine and ComicBook/SheHulk's deaths and panic over [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk the Hulk]] killing everyone leads to [[Characters/MarvelComicsClintBarton Clint Barton]] killing a clearly harmless [[Characters/MarvelComicsBruceBanner Bruce Banner]].]]

** While the eponymous character herself is oblivious to her sister's plight, Comicbook/WonderWomanRebirth involves flashbacks to the 1960s where Nubia tried to stop a crime while tracking a monster to The United States, and couldn't grasp why the police were still convinced she was the criminal even as she fully cooperated with their investigation under the assumption she'd be treated just like Wonder Woman. Nubia hadn't been in "man's world" since antiquity, where she was one of the most powerful and respected women on Madagascar, and had also missed most of the Bana-Mighdall/Themyscira conflict, so the concept of "black" being a problem was so alien to Nubia [[ComicBook/MartialManhunter an alien]] had to demonstrate by impersonating a black detective who outranked the officers who arrested her.

* This is the main drive of ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'' -- a Nuhuman named Ulysses gains that power to see the future in almost perfect clarity. [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Carol Danvers]] believes that Ulysses is a boon, as they can use him to stop crimes before they can start. However [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] doesn't buy it, proclaiming that this ultimately leads to this very trope. In fact, Tony ends up kidnapping Ulysses from the Inhumans so he can figure out what's going on and theorizes that he's influenced by various factors around him. However, the paranoia over his predictions end up causing deaths as [[spoiler:an attempt to stop an invading ComicBook/{{Thanos}} leads to War Machine and She-Hulk's deaths and panic over ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk killing everyone leads to ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} killing a clearly harmless Bruce Banner.]]
** Several of the tie-ins deal with the profiling aspect more explicitly. ''Comicbook/{{Ms Marvel|2014}}'' has a scene where Kamala's sister-in-law, Ayesha, references how the War on Drugs in the 90's resulted in a lot of young African-Americans getting arrested for either minor crimes, or crimes they flat out didn't even commit. Meanwhile, ''Comicbook/CaptainAmericaSamWilson'' has a {{Flashback}} to early on in Comicbook/TheFalcon's career, where he was arrested during a fight with the Trapster because the cops assumed ''he'' was the supervillain because of his skin color. Iron Man himself explicitly refers to it as 'profiling' in a chat with [[Comicbook/{{Miles Morales}} Ultimate Spider-Man]], who points out that it's a charged word for a black-Hispanic person like himself. Spidey's father draws a parallel to how he himself was arrested on suspicion of drug possession just because he's black.

** Tayo suffered this along with his brothers while in their youth, as (implied white) cops stopped them for no real reason just due to their race. It's one reason he's determined to fight institutionalized racism and remove human bias from law enforcement.

* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': In one episode, Will and Carlton are driving a very nice car belonging to a friend of Uncle Phil. They get pulled over by the police for driving incredibly slowly, and then arrested with little regard for due process. During all this the writers contrast Will's StreetSmarts and cynicism born from his upbringing in the hood with Carlton's [[TheWoobie Woobieish]] optimism in authority figures from his wealthy upbringing which shielded him from such treatment, as Carlton blunders through several actions that a well behaved rich kid can't see the shame in but Will tries to advise him against.