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Cartoons made in the mid-20th century would sometimes combine this with AshFace, in which characters would briefly adopt a blackface look and sometimes perform other acts reminiscent of MinstrelShows, such as dancing a cakewalk and generally engaging in UncleTomfoolery. This served as a ParentalBonus for parents who were more familiar with minstrel show tropes.

Cartoons made in the mid-twentieth century would sometimes combine this with AshFace, in which characters would briefly adopt a blackface look and sometimes perform other acts reminiscent of MinstrelShows, such as dancing a cakewalk and generally engaging in UncleTomfoolery. This served as a ParentalBonus for parents who were more familiar with minstrel show tropes.

A caricature usually seen in very old cartoons, with a design that resembles {{Blackface}}. Characters drawn in this style have solid black skin, exaggerated red or white lips, and round white eyes. This is very much a DiscreditedTrope due to racism, and most examples are either an OldShame that franchises try to cover up, or going for DeliberateValuesDissonance in order to provide commentary on racism. Straight examples may still occasionally be found in non-American works, [[ValuesDissonance especially in media from places where it's not considered a cultural taboo]].

* One of these illustrations is a plot point in ''Film/GhostWorld''. Enid borrows a poster from Seymour depicting Cook's Chicken's OldShame mascot, a monkey-like dark-skinned child with huge red lips and eyes, eating chicken, and presents it as art to one-up her pretentious art teacher. This backfires as the art teacher loves it and features it at an art exhibition. The blatantly racist poster attracts a lot of brouhaha, and all the criticism involved get [[spoiler: Seymour fired from his job and Enid forced to fail the art class]].

* The children's book ''Literature/LittleBlackSambo'' did not originally have illustrations- early publications often illustrated the title character with black skin and exaggerated red lips, although it has been reprinted with more realistic illustrations in modern times.

* The obscure Dreamcast launch title, ''VideoGame/PenPenTricelon'', has Unga Pogo: a ''jarringly'' racist -- almost bestial -- depiction of an African native.

* Theodore Geisel (Creator/DrSeuss) sometimes depicted black characters in racist ways in cartoons intended for magazines. One featured a store selling various things are which are puns on familiar sayings. Under a sign urging people to buy "a high-class nigger for your woodpile" are depictions of several black men waiting to be purchased.

* ''VideoGame/Animal Crossing'':

* Animal Crossing:

** Its very first star, WesternAnimation/BoskoTheTalkInkKid, isn't seen much nowadays because he is visually a blackface caricature. He was generally depicted as the hero of the shorts and an admirable character, and the blackface elements of his design were gradually toned down, but the origin was still obvious.

* ''WesternAnimation/CoalBlackAndDeSebbenDwarfs'', one of WB's WesternAnimation/CensoredEleven shorts, was a parody of ''Literature/SnowWhite'' whose entire cast consisted of various black stereotypes. The dwarfs were all blackface caricatures. The Prince wore a Zoot suit and had straightened hair and gold teeth. "So White", was a hypersexual, big-bottomed younger black woman, with perky breasts and revealing clothing. The mother and child at the beginning were a stereotypical Mammy character and a literal pickaninny.

* Black characters in ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' tend to be drawn like this. One story in ''Uderzo croqué par ses amis'' parodies the fact by depicting a [[StylisticSuck ridiculously bad strip]] supposedly drawn by a young Uderzo. It features a Roman optio and his 'politically-incorrect Romans', soldiers who are drawn in a blackface style even more extreme than the style in the original comics.

* One of Cleopatra's servants in ''WesternAnimation/AsterixAndCleopatra'' falls squarely into this trope.

A racist caricature usually seen in very old cartoons, with a design that resembles {{Blackface}}. Characters drawn in this style have solid black skin, exaggerated red or white lips, and round white eyes. This is very much a DiscreditedTrope, and most examples are either an OldShame that franchises try to cover up, or going for DeliberateValuesDissonance in order to provide commentary on racism. Straight examples may still occasionally be found in non-American works, [[ValuesDissonance especially in media from places where it's not considered a cultural taboo]].

* Ralph Bakshi's ''WesternAnimation/{{Coonskin}}'' uses this as part of the film's ''vicious'' satire on racism in America. While the film caused ''tremendous'' controversy, the blow was softened by both its [[ShownTheirWork stunningly accurate depiction]] of race relations and the film's Largely African American cast and crew. Pictures and footage of actual blackface and "Darkie iconography" are sometimes used in the background to hammer the point home.

See also FacialProfiling, a broader trope about how cartoons indicate race.

* Creator/OsamuTezuka's original ''Anime/{{Metropolis}}'' manga had blackface caricatures in one page, seen standing in front of a store called "Hottentotto travel". Note that "Hottentot" is a racial slur that comes from the mockery of the language of the Khoekhoen tribe of southwest Africa.

* In the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse, [[VoodooZombie Bombie the Zombie]] has the blackish-brown skin, exaggerated lips and golden ear and nose rings. Ironically, this makes him one of the more human-looking characters among a cast of {{Dogfaces}} and {{Funny Animal}}s. Notably, his first animated appearance in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' changes him into a dogface as well, with gray rather than black complexion, to push his design away from this trope.

A racist caricature usually seen in very old cartoons, with a design that resembles {{Blackface}}. Characters drawn in this style have solid black skin, exaggerated red or white lips, and round white eyes. This is very much a DiscreditedTrope, and most examples are either an OldShame that franchises try to cover up, or going for DeliberateValuesDissonance in order to provide commentary on racism. Straight examples may still occasionally be found in non-American works, [[ValuesDissonance where it's not considered a cultural taboo]].

Cartoons made in the mid 20th century would sometimes combine this with AshFace, in which characters would briefly adopt a blackface look, and sometimes engage in other MinstrelShow-related acts (e.g. dancing a cakewalk). This served as a ParentalBonus for parents who were familiar with Minstrel Show tropes.

A racist caricature usually seen in very old cartoons, with a design that resembles {{Blackface}}. Characters drawn in this style have solid black skin, exaggerated red or white lips, and round white eyes. This is very much a DiscreditedTrope, and most examples are either an OldShame that franchises try to cover up, or going for DeliberateValuesDissonance in order to provide commentary on racism. Straight examples may still occasionally be found in non-western works.

** An infamous cartoon has WesternAnimation/BugsBunny donning blackface while imitating Al Jolson.

[[caption-width-right:350: [[SarcasmMode Hard to believe these aren't sold anymore.]]]]

* Cyborg 008 (a.k.a. Pyunma) in ''Manga/Cyborg009'' originally had a blackface-like design despite being one of the heroes and not a source of comic relief, but he was thankfully changed from ''[[Anime/Cyborg009TheMovieLegendOfTheSuperGalaxy Super Vortex]]'' onwards.

* Osamu Tezuka's original ''[[{{Anime/Metropolis}} Metropolis]]'' manga had blackface caricatures in one page, seen standing in front of a store called "Hottentotto travel". Note that "Hottentot" is a racial slur that comes from the mockery of the language of the Khoekhoen tribe of southwest Africa.

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': The Pokémon Jynx drew considerable controversy with its official introduction in the episode "Holiday Hi-Jinx", as the decidedly female Pokémon initially sported a black face with prominent lips which drew accusations from Western viewers of it being potentially offensive for its uncanny resemblance to blackface; one critic even labeled it among the most "Politically Incorrect Pokémon" of the series. In response to these criticisms, Nintendo eventually recolored Jynx with purple skin to offset the resemblance to blackface, and the character has been altered several times in Pokémon media to avoid further offense.
* ''Anime/ShamanKing'': Chocolove was originally drawn with large lips resembling a blackface caricature, though they were colored darker than his skin (rather than brighter, as typical with blackface). The 2021 series fixed his design so that his lips are not much larger than that of the Asian and white characters and are colored the same tone as his skin.

* ''WesternAnimation/CoalBlackAndDeSebbenDwarfs'', one of WB's WesternAnimation/CensoredEleven shorts, was a parody of ''Literature/SnowWhite'' whose entire cast consisted of various black stereotypes. The dwarfs were all blackface caricatures. The Prince wore a Zoot suit and had straightened hair and gold teeth. The Snow White {{Expy}}, "So White", was a hypersexual, big-bottomed younger black woman, with perky breasts and revealing clothing. The mother and child at the beginning were a stereotypical Mammy character and a literal pickaninny.

* The Creator/PhoenixGames title ''VideoGame/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenCleverBoys'' gives us Sonny, one of the titular boys and a walking blackface caricature. He's also dressed in an outfit somewhere between Uncle Sam's outfit and a Harlem Globetrotters uniform, and he plays sax during Snow White's song.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'': Mister Popo, Staff Officer Black and other black characters have a blackface appearance, which has been a long-standing nightmare when it comes to trying to export the shows. This, combined with his status as a "servant" character, has long made Mister Popo a target of criticism, to the point that Creator/FourKidsEntertainment changed his skin color to blue when ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' aired on Creator/{{Toonzai}}.