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* While some racebending clearly occurred in ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', the characters of the original series were members of entirely fictional ethnic groups.

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* Oliver Stone's ''World Trade Center'' includes, among other real life people, a minor character based mostly off a real man who happened to be black. Unfortunately, when they were doing research, no one in the production thought to check this man's race, and they cast a white actor. After the movie came out they were informed about it, and Stone apologized.

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* Oliver Stone's ''World Trade Center'' ''Film/WorldTradeCenter'' includes, among other real life people, a minor character based mostly off a real man who happened to be black. Unfortunately, when they were doing research, no one in the production thought to check this man's race, and they cast a white actor. After the movie came out they were informed about it, and Stone apologized.



* In the ''Harry Potter'' books, the centaur Firenze is described as blonde haired and with the hind body of a palomino horse which are light colored. In the movies he's portrayed by a black actor and his appearance is that of a grey colored centaur.

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* In the ''Harry Potter'' ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books, the centaur Firenze is described as blonde haired and with the hind body of a palomino horse which are light colored. In the movies he's portrayed by a black actor and his appearance is that of a grey colored centaur.


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* While some racebending clearly occurred in ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', the characters of the original series were members of entirely fictional ethnic groups.
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* ComicBook/BlackAdam has always been drawn with light skin despite being associated with AncientEgypt and coming from a ([[{{Qurac}} fictional]]) country in Sinai Peninsula. In ''ComicBook/Shazam2012'', and a few times since, Teth-Adam looks appropriately Middle Eastern without his powers, but when he transforms he still looks white. In fact, he looks more like a regular white guy than he did before since they got rid of his PointyEars, UnusualEyebrows and vaguely demonic features.

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* ComicBook/BlackAdam has always been drawn with light skin despite being associated with AncientEgypt and coming from a ([[{{Qurac}} fictional]]) country in the Sinai Peninsula. In ''ComicBook/Shazam2012'', and a few times since, Teth-Adam looks appropriately Middle Eastern without his powers, but when he transforms he still looks white. In fact, he looks more like a regular white guy than he did before since they got rid of his PointyEars, UnusualEyebrows and vaguely demonic features.
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* Carlos Ezquerra originally designed the title character of ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' to be Hispanic; other artists drew him as either white or black in early issues. Since these issues were black and white, nobody noticed. After the series began appearing in color, Dredd was consistently drawn as a white man.

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* Carlos Ezquerra originally designed the title character of ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' to be Hispanic; other artists drew him as either white or black in early issues. Since these issues were black and white, nobody noticed. After the series began appearing in color, Dredd was consistently drawn as a white man. In the 2023 storyline "One-Eyed Jacks", it was revealed that his clone father, Judge Eustice Fargo, had a black grandmother, Detective Eartha Fargo, which presumably makes him mixed race.
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* ComicBook/BlackAdam has always been drawn with light skin despite being associated with AncientEgypt and coming from a ([[{{Qurac}} fictional]]) country in Sinai Peninsula. In ''ComicBook/Shazam2012'', and a few times since, Teth-Adam looks appropriately Middle Eastern without his powers, but when he transforms he looks white. In fact, he looks more like a regular white guy than he did before since they got rid of his PointyEars, UnusualEyebrows and vaguely demonic features.

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* ComicBook/BlackAdam has always been drawn with light skin despite being associated with AncientEgypt and coming from a ([[{{Qurac}} fictional]]) country in Sinai Peninsula. In ''ComicBook/Shazam2012'', and a few times since, Teth-Adam looks appropriately Middle Eastern without his powers, but when he transforms he still looks white. In fact, he looks more like a regular white guy than he did before since they got rid of his PointyEars, UnusualEyebrows and vaguely demonic features.
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* ''Film/QueenOfTheDamned'': Possibly both the King and Queen Of The Damned. While only Enkil's statue is seen in the film, he is quite clearly a white man. And while Akasha was the queen of Kemet (ancient Egypt) of six thousand years ago, the character was from Uruk before marrying into Enkil's throne. So she'd be middle eastern, but she's played by a black actress (Sub-Saharan descent). However, even the books are pretty vague about this, as Akasha's pale white skin has nothing to do with her race, but the fact that vampires lose their pigmentation the older they are. No matter what race or skin color they were in their human lives, they are both pale white as a statue now.
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* ComicBook/BlackAdam has always been drawn with light skin despite being associated with AncientEgypt and coming from a (fictional) country in the Middle East. In ''ComicBook/Shazam2012'', and a few times since, Teth-Adam looks appropriately Middle Eastern without his powers, but when he transforms he looks white. In fact, he looks more like a regular white guy than he did before since they got rid of his PointyEars and UnusualEyebrows.

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* ComicBook/BlackAdam has always been drawn with light skin despite being associated with AncientEgypt and coming from a (fictional) ([[{{Qurac}} fictional]]) country in the Middle East.Sinai Peninsula. In ''ComicBook/Shazam2012'', and a few times since, Teth-Adam looks appropriately Middle Eastern without his powers, but when he transforms he looks white. In fact, he looks more like a regular white guy than he did before since they got rid of his PointyEars PointyEars, UnusualEyebrows and UnusualEyebrows.vaguely demonic features.

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