Basic Trope: Minority characters with the same race/ethnicity are related, or at least assumed to be related.
- Straight: Most of the characters in Tales from Tropes Academy are white. Claire and Josh, the only two East Asian characters, are later revealed to be cousins.
- Exaggerated: All the Asian characters in the work are related to Claire and Josh in some way.
- Downplayed: Claire and Josh are related and the only major East Asian characters,
- Justified: Tales from Tropes Academy is set in a small town in early 1970s USA, just as Asian immigration to the United States was picking up steam. Claire's family are the only Asian people in town because of that, and Josh is introduced after his aunt and uncle, Claire's parents, sponsor his move to the US.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: Claire and Josh only pretend to be cousins to make fun of the casual racism that assumes they are related. In reality, they aren't related — in fact, Claire is Chinese and Josh is Japanese.
- Double Subverted: Josh was born in Japan... but when they find his birth records, it turns out that his mother was Chinese... specifically, Claire's aunt. So against all odds, they end up related after all.
- Parodied: People assume Claire is related not just to Josh (Japanese) but also to Alia (Indian), Roger (Indonesian), and Amir (Iranian) just because they are all from Asia, even though they are all visibly different ethnicities and look nothing alike.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- The minority characters are not related and are not assumed to be related.
- There are no minority characters, or there is only one.
- Enforced: The executives don't think it's realistic for there two be two Asian families in the setting, so Josh is retooled to be Claire's cousin.
- Lampshaded: "Do you really think all Asian people are related?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Tales from Tropes Academy is set in Regency England, where it is improper for a young, unmarried woman to be out alone. Josh pretends to be Claire's brother so he can be her "chaperone" when she goes outside. Members of society, not bothering to distinguish between "Orientals", don't look twice.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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