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* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' plays with this during "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E." as [[FishOutOfTemporalWater Numbuh 19th Century]] is shocked to see girls now serving as Kids Next Door operatives, which, [[StayInTheKitchen given the roles they were forced into]] during his time makes sense, yet makes no comment on the French-African Numbuh 5 serving as one outside of her gender, even though she would have been most likely enslaved when he was active.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', the black Jack Fury leads the Howling Commandos, who as mentioned, are pretty diverse during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Of course, seeing as that particular [=WW2=] was between the Allied Nations and ''[[NoSwastikas Hydra]]'' as well as the Nazis, it can probably be excused as an AlternateHistory.[[note]]The full explanation is that in the actual comics, Nick Fury, the leader of the Commandos in that continuity, is white; the cartoon followed ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'' and the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' in making Nick Fury look like Creator/SamuelLJackson, but kept the connection to the Howling Commandos, and making their leader Nick's grandfather to account for the sliding time scale.[[/note]]
* Subverted in the '90s ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' cartoon, where a time-traveling ComicBook/{{Storm}} is told she is not welcome in a restaurant. At first, she thinks it's because she is a mutant, then once she realizes it's because she's black, she says that discrimination by race is almost quaint.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' featured Franchise/{{Batman}}, Franchise/WonderWoman, and Franchise/GreenLantern [[TimeTravel chasing]] a MadScientist back to the WildWest, where they disguised themselves as law enforcers. Nobody they met saw anything odd about a woman or a black man as a lawperson. Though this might be an unintended aversion, as there ''were'' black lawmen and cowboys at the time, but they sort of faded out of the limelight until recently.
** An earlier episode, "Legends," before the series changed names, had some of the League transported into a dimension that bore resemblance to an in-show comic book (it's theorized that the creators of said comic had a subconscious link to that universe and used what they thought were original ideas for the comic) and pair up with equivalents of the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, who were of course still in UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks mentally. The token girl character invites Hawkgirl to help cook. And when Green Lantern's childhood hero complimented him with "[[YouAreACreditToYourRace You're a credit to your people]], son!", Green Lantern could only reply, "Uh... yeah." It was an incredibly subtle bit of animation where you could see John's thoughts written all over his face... he obviously knew that the other man wasn't ''trying'' to be insulting, he just came from an era where statements like that probably ''were'' the equivalent of being racially sensitive. (The fact that the present day Green Lantern did not meet an actual [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] DC superhero but the ''equivalent'' enabled the script to get away with more. Actually, an earlier draft of the script had just that scenario, but you tend to think that Creator/DCComics might have a problem with ''any'' incarnation of one of their superheroes portrayed as a racist.)
* ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'', "Witchery Science Theater": No one in the old B-grade movie that Sabrina and friends [[TrappedInTVLand find themselves trapped in]] found Sabrina's Afro-American SecretKeeper best friend the least unusual. Then again, it was a ShowWithinAShow and not actual time travel.
* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'', a time travel episode to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII features Caucasian, Asian and African American soldiers all in the same company. It also features a handlebar mustached ''Führer'', who, while clearly intended to be Hitler, isn't.
* The cartoon ''WEsternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat'' has the Magistrate having three daughters and NO sons. No-one says anything about it. In real life, he would have been pressured to keep trying for a son or take another wife -- the Kingdom could NOT be passed down to girls! Also, in real life, no matter how dumb the Magistrate is, his wife wouldn't dare talk to him as she did (in a henpecking, almost bullying, mother-like way) or she would have been beheaded! (or at least not in public, there were plenty of Chinese noblewomen who ruled from behind the scenes.)
* ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourTheAnimatedSeries'' had a TimeTravel episode where the heroes are transported to ancient Greece during the battle of Marathon. The Thing asks whose side they're on and Reed Richards responds, "The Persians were brutal tyrants, while the Athenians invented democracy." While neither side was a bastion of liberty by today's standards, participation in Athenian democracy was denied to women, foreigners, and slaves (''i.e''., over two-thirds of the population). Meanwhile, while the Persians were conquerors and slavers they were conspicuous for how they tolerated the customs and institutions of the peoples they conquered -- their general policy was that as long as they paid proper tribute to the empire and didn't rebel, their conquered states could self-govern, maintain their traditions and beliefs, and generally go on much as they had before being conquered. This is generally believed to have been a major contributor to the success of their empire, as it tended to make rebellion a much less attractive proposition than it might otherwise be.
* Lampshaded on ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}.'' Any time their depiction of history got a little less than family-friendly, network censor Lydia Karaoke would step forward and complain. Many of Lydia's complaints were more along the lines of HaveAGayOldTime, however.
* A Christmas episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', set at Christmastime during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, shows the neighborhood of the Simpson family (or, at least, the family being portrayed by the Simpsons characters) as racially integrated. Although there ''were'' some integrated neighborhoods in the 1940s, that has not commonly been portrayed in popular culture, either then or now - and it is certainly odd to see it on ''The Simpsons'', which is famous for its [[WorldHalfEmpty cynical brand of humor]] and [[PopularHistory historical generalizations]].
** Not to mention it showed Marge as a combat rifleman in the war, even though women are only just now being allowed in direct-combat roles in the U.S. Army.
*** That was more PlayedForLaughs than for political correctness. The joke had been that Marge had been drafted from the Simpson family instead of Homer because Homer was too fat to fit into the foxholes and ended up working on the weapon assembly lines instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' had an episode dealing with this. Hank, dismayed at the fact that the school's Texas History textbook skips important events like the Alamo in favor of pop culture, produces a re-enactment of the Alamo with another man who's supposedly just as outraged. However, that man's script is a revisionist version of the story where the Texans are all braindead, drunken cowards (and one wears a dress, to boot). The man defends his version by saying the facts are unclear (and citing Creator/OliverStone's ''Film/{{JFK}}''); after briefly considering trashing the set, Hank realizes it's wrong to censor someone just for disagreeing, and presages the play with a speech about the bare facts regarding the Alamo.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has this in-universe, when Aang accidentally infiltrates a Fire Nation elementary school and their history turns out to be systematic propaganda, including revising the comet-powered genocide of Aang's pacifistic race as a mighty victory over the mighty 'Air Nation' armies. Given they also obviously killed all the babies[[note]]That they killed the women and old people does not apply in this context as the Fire Nation were EqualOpportunityEvil, and they would not be considered categorically helpless[[/note]], this isn't a story likely to hold together long against serious examination, but it makes the majority of students who hear it ''much'' less likely to start wondering about the rightness of the cause than the truth would.
** Under Fire Lord [[spoiler:Zuko]], what is politically correct changes dramatically from the regime probably instated by Fire Lord Azulon, who presided over the chronological bulk of the war and making it a feasible long-term project. Something Sozin almost certainly never anticipated and Ozai never had the patience for.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfFrostyTheSnowman'' takes place in a stereotypical 1950's suburban community, but racism doesn't exist. Kids of different races hang out, and it's socially acceptable for Tommy (who is white) to be attracted to Sara (who is black).
* When ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' and the Holograms go back to 1781 Vienna and 1944 London, Shana, Aja, and Raya never face any racism.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' [[spoiler:with Philip Wittebane/Emperor Belos, who was a white British settler in the New World stranded in the Boiling Isles in the 1600s. While his journal entries Luz reads seems to indicate he grew to love the Demon Realm despite its horrors like she did, in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", when Luz and Lilith travel back in time to meet him, it's revealed he's a racist jerk who hates witches because he hasn't let go of his seventeenth-century mindset. "Hollow Mind" goes even further by revealing that he ''still'' identifies as a witch hunter centuries afterwards, and in fact his ascent to power and the Day of Unity was all a very-long gambit to wipe out the Boiling Isles to save humanity. This is [[{{Hypocrite}} despite him altering his body with magic to survive to the point that even many of the witches we see like Eda, Amity, Willow, and Gus resemble humans more than he does.]] He's also heavily hinted to have killed his own brother for letting go of the anti-witch beliefs and falling in love with one.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' plays with this during "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E." as [[FishOutOfTemporalWater Numbuh 19th Century]] is shocked to see girls now serving as Kids Next Door operatives, which, [[StayInTheKitchen given the roles they were forced into]] during his time makes sense, yet makes no comment on the French-African Numbuh 5 serving as one outside of her gender, even though she would have been most likely enslaved when he was active.
* Subverted in the '90s ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' cartoon, where a time-traveling ComicBook/{{Storm}} is told she is not welcome in a restaurant. At first, she thinks it's because she is a mutant, then once she realizes it's because she's black, she says that discrimination by race is almost quaint.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' featured Franchise/{{Batman}}, Franchise/WonderWoman, and Franchise/GreenLantern [[TimeTravel chasing]] a MadScientist back to the WildWest, where they disguised themselves as law enforcers. Nobody they met saw anything odd about a woman or a black man as a lawperson. Though this might be an unintended aversion, as there ''were'' black lawmen and cowboys at the time, but they sort of faded out of the limelight until recently.
** An earlier episode, "Legends," before the series changed names, had some of the League transported into a dimension that bore resemblance to an in-show comic book (it's theorized that the creators of said comic had a subconscious link to that universe and used what they thought were original ideas for the comic) and pair up with equivalents of the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, who were of course still in UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks mentally. The token girl character invites Hawkgirl to help cook. And when Green Lantern's childhood hero complimented him with "[[YouAreACreditToYourRace You're a credit to your people]], son!", Green Lantern could only reply, "Uh... yeah." It was an incredibly subtle bit of animation where you could see John's thoughts written all over his face... he obviously knew that the other man wasn't ''trying'' to be insulting, he just came from an era where statements like that probably ''were'' the equivalent of being racially sensitive. (The fact that the present day Green Lantern did not meet an actual [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] DC superhero but the ''equivalent'' enabled the script to get away with more. Actually, an earlier draft of the script had just that scenario, but you tend to think that Creator/DCComics might have a problem with ''any'' incarnation of one of their superheroes portrayed as a racist.)
* ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'', "Witchery Science Theater": No one in the old B-grade movie that Sabrina and friends [[TrappedInTVLand find themselves trapped in]] found Sabrina's Afro-American SecretKeeper best friend the least unusual. Then again, it was a ShowWithinAShow and not actual time travel.
* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'', a time travel episode to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII features Caucasian, Asian and African American soldiers all in the same company. It also features a handlebar mustached ''Führer'', who, while clearly intended to be Hitler, isn't.
* The cartoon ''WEsternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat'' has the Magistrate having three daughters and NO sons. No-one says anything about it. In real life, he would have been pressured to keep trying for a son or take another wife -- the Kingdom could NOT be passed down to girls! Also, in real life, no matter how dumb the Magistrate is, his wife wouldn't dare talk to him as she did (in a henpecking, almost bullying, mother-like way) or she would have been beheaded! (or at least not in public, there were plenty of Chinese noblewomen who ruled from behind the scenes.)
* ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourTheAnimatedSeries'' had a TimeTravel episode where the heroes are transported to ancient Greece during the battle of Marathon. The Thing asks whose side they're on and Reed Richards responds, "The Persians were brutal tyrants, while the Athenians invented democracy." While neither side was a bastion of liberty by today's standards, participation in Athenian democracy was denied to women, foreigners, and slaves (''i.e''., over two-thirds of the population). Meanwhile, while the Persians were conquerors and slavers they were conspicuous for how they tolerated the customs and institutions of the peoples they conquered -- their general policy was that as long as they paid proper tribute to the empire and didn't rebel, their conquered states could self-govern, maintain their traditions and beliefs, and generally go on much as they had before being conquered. This is generally believed to have been a major contributor to the success of their empire, as it tended to make rebellion a much less attractive proposition than it might otherwise be.
* Lampshaded on ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}.'' Any time their depiction of history got a little less than family-friendly, network censor Lydia Karaoke would step forward and complain. Many of Lydia's complaints were more along the lines of HaveAGayOldTime, however.
* A Christmas episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', set at Christmastime during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, shows the neighborhood of the Simpson family (or, at least, the family being portrayed by the Simpsons characters) as racially integrated. Although there ''were'' some integrated neighborhoods in the 1940s, that has not commonly been portrayed in popular culture, either then or now - and it is certainly odd to see it on ''The Simpsons'', which is famous for its [[WorldHalfEmpty cynical brand of humor]] and [[PopularHistory historical generalizations]].
** Not to mention it showed Marge as a combat rifleman in the war, even though women are only just now being allowed in direct-combat roles in the U.S. Army.
*** That was more PlayedForLaughs than for political correctness. The joke had been that Marge had been drafted from the Simpson family instead of Homer because Homer was too fat to fit into the foxholes and ended up working on the weapon assembly lines instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' had an episode dealing with this. Hank, dismayed at the fact that the school's Texas History textbook skips important events like the Alamo in favor of pop culture, produces a re-enactment of the Alamo with another man who's supposedly just as outraged. However, that man's script is a revisionist version of the story where the Texans are all braindead, drunken cowards (and one wears a dress, to boot). The man defends his version by saying the facts are unclear (and citing Creator/OliverStone's ''Film/{{JFK}}''); after briefly considering trashing the set, Hank realizes it's wrong to censor someone just for disagreeing, and presages the play with a speech about the bare facts regarding the Alamo.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has this in-universe, when Aang accidentally infiltrates a Fire Nation elementary school and their history turns out to be systematic propaganda, including revising the comet-powered genocide of Aang's pacifistic race as a mighty victory over the mighty 'Air Nation' armies. Given they also obviously killed all the babies[[note]]That they killed the women and old people does not apply in this context as the Fire Nation were EqualOpportunityEvil, and they would not be considered categorically helpless[[/note]], this isn't a story likely to hold together long against serious examination, but it makes the majority of students who hear it ''much'' less likely to start wondering about the rightness of the cause than the truth would.
** Under Fire Lord [[spoiler:Zuko]], what is politically correct changes dramatically from the regime probably instated by Fire Lord Azulon, who presided over the chronological bulk of the war and making it a feasible long-term project. Something Sozin almost certainly never anticipated and Ozai never had the patience for.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfFrostyTheSnowman'' takes place in a stereotypical 1950's suburban community, but racism doesn't exist. Kids of different races hang out, and it's socially acceptable for Tommy (who is white) to be attracted to Sara (who is black).
* When ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' and the Holograms go back to 1781 Vienna and 1944 London, Shana, Aja, and Raya never face any racism.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' [[spoiler:with Philip Wittebane/Emperor Belos, who was a white British settler in the New World stranded in the Boiling Isles in the 1600s. While his journal entries Luz reads seems to indicate he grew to love the Demon Realm despite its horrors like she did, in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", when Luz and Lilith travel back in time to meet him, it's revealed he's a racist jerk who hates witches because he hasn't let go of his seventeenth-century mindset. "Hollow Mind" goes even further by revealing that he ''still'' identifies as a witch hunter centuries afterwards, and in fact his ascent to power and the Day of Unity was all a very-long gambit to wipe out the Boiling Isles to save humanity. This is [[{{Hypocrite}} despite him altering his body with magic to survive to the point that even many of the witches we see like Eda, Amity, Willow, and Gus resemble humans more than he does.]] He's also heavily hinted to have killed his own brother for letting go of the anti-witch beliefs and falling in love with one.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' plays with this during "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E." as [[FishOutOfTemporalWater Numbuh 19th Century]] is shocked to see girls now serving as Kids Next Door operatives, which, [[StayInTheKitchen given the roles they were forced into]] during his time makes sense, yet makes no comment on the French-African Numbuh 5 serving as one outside of her gender, even though she would have been most likely enslaved when he was active.
