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* A FantasticRacism variant is used in ''Film/XMen1'', when Magneto turns anti-mutant Senator Kelly into a mutant. This is given an IronicEcho in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', when Magneto is BroughtDownToNormal.

*** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E80AQualityOfMercy A Quality of Mercy]]", a GI in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII who's just a little too enthused about killing is suddenly transformed into a Japanese soldier and hears his commander on that side speak in a bloodthirsty way about killing Americans.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' "Old Stan of the Mountain", Stan is transformed into an elderly man when his general rudeness towards senior citizens gets him cursed by one. At the end of the episode, Stan's curse is lifted, [[HereWeGoAgain but he becomes a black man.]]

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has the boys making [[TokenEvilTeammate Cartman]] think he's...[[RedheadedStepchild a ginger]]. Freckles and hair dye. The episode then turns this on its head--rather than making Cartman rethink his horrible attitude, he actually ''starts a ginger supremacist movement'', radicalizing all the gingers and nearly killing every non-ginger in the town, only stopping when Stan reveals the trick, at which point Cartman realizes his army will soon kill him too if he doesn't de-radicalize them as soon as possible. This episode could be a {{deconstruction}} in that it argues that supremacists behave as they do not because they don't understand the other side, but because they need to feel superior to someone else.

*** Founder Joseph Smith and his successor Brigham Young believed that black people were descended from Cain and Noah and that their skin colour was the "Mark Of Cain" and the "Curse Of Ham"[[note]]A punishment for Noah'son, Ham after seeing his father naked.[[/note]]

*** Founder Joseph Smith and his successor Brigham Young believed that black people were descended from Cain and Noah and that their skin colour was the "Mark Of Cain" and the "Curse Of Ham"[[/note]]A punishment for Noah'son, Ham after seeing his father naked.[[note]]

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* In ''Theatre/FiniansRainbow'', Sharon tells a racist senator she wishes he were black so he would understand what black people have to go through due to people who think like he does. She happens to be standing where a pot of magical wish-granting gold is buried, so... well, you can guess where this is going. Interestingly the race-switch isn't what changes his views. [[ItMakesSenseInContext It was a leprechaun that magically made him more open-minded]]. After that, his efforts to take back his previous racist actions fail because while he wants to change things, he is now black and the white officers won't listen to him.

See also KarmicTransformation, YouAreWhatYouHate, and PersecutionFlip.

* In a ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' comic, some members of the mutant-hating "Friends of Mankind" get the word "mutie" marked on them with a burning iron by an angry mutant girl, Robin Vega. On their ''foreheads''. Mutations don't have to be obvious, so they will have a hard time proving that they are not mutants.

* PlayedWith in a couple of episodes of ''Series/AllInTheFamily''. In one episode Archie has a gallbladder operation and ends up getting blood donated from a black man, much to his consternation. Several seasons later when the KKK move into Queens he [[InvokedTrope invokes]] the transfusion as having made him part black, so he can call on his black brothers to protest the KKK meeting house.

** In "The Grell", humans have enslaved a race of RubberForeheadAliens. An important politician survives a plane crash with his family and his Grell servant, but is critically injured. The Grell heals him by infusing his master with Grell DNA, which will slowly transform him into one of them. Whereas he had previously callously killed a Grell servant who tried to flee, when he's treated in the same way by a human soldier who tries to kill him for being a "half-breed" he starts to see the error of his ways.
** "Tribunal", the 100th episode, featured an ending where a Nazi war criminal who's escaped justice for 50 years is put into the uniform of his prisoners and taken back in time to his own camp. His younger self shoots him after the "old Jewish man" says he isn't supposed to be there, and in an attempt to explain himself to his younger self cites details from his childhood and seriously disturbs the younger self.

*** In "The Quality of Mercy", a GI in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII who's just a little too enthused about killing is suddenly transformed into a Japanese soldier and hears his commander on that side speak in a bloodthirsty way about killing Americans.

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* ''Film/{{District 9}}'' is another FantasticRacism version, although the protagonist is not a dyed-in-the-wool racist: he simply [[PunchClockVillain does what he's told]].

* At the end of ''{{Film/Machete}}'', the senator who organized immigrant hunts gets dressed up as an illegal immigrant and gets shot by the rednecks.

* ''[[Film/Skin2018Short Skin]]'': A racist skinhead goon and his racist skinhead goon buddies jump a black man in a parking lot and give him a brutal beating. In return, the man's friends kidnap the skinhead goon, and tattoo his skin black.

* A FantasticRacism variant is used in ''Film/XMen1'', when Magneto turns anti-mutant Senator Kelly into a mutant. This is given an IronicEcho in the third movie, when Magneto is BroughtDownToNormal.

* A short-lived [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica South African]] comedy series called ''Series/TheCoconuts'' focused on a suburban white family that get turned black by a sangoma when they set up their camper on sacred ground.

* There's an episode of ''Series/MorkAndMindy'' in which Mork uses his Orkan powers to turn a bunch of racists into Latino, Black and East-Asian, among other changes (two of them were turned orange and at least one had stripes.). They were [[{{Expy}} expies]] of the KKK, so they didn't know it until they [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yR6PcwZtB0 took their white hoods off]].

* In a ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' comic, some members of the mutant-hating "Friends of Mankind" get the word "mutie" marked by burning iron by an angry mutant girl, Robin Vega. On their ''foreheads''. Mutations don't have to be obvious, so they will have a hard time proving that they are not mutants.

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* Elvis's best friend in ''Film/BubbaHoTep'' is a man who claims he's UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy and that the government faked his death, removed part of his brain and dyed his skin brown.

* Inverted and given a FantasticRacism twist in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''. In Alethi society, rank is based on eye color with lighteyes oppressing darkeyes. Kaladin, a dark-eyed man, gains light blue eyes when he [[spoiler:summons Syl as a weapon]]. Since he despises the caste system and has suffered greatly at the hands of lighteyes, he has considerable mixed feelings about it.

** Subverted in an episode. The morning after receiving a lecture fom one of her relatives about the importance of not judging by appearance, Sabrina checks herself in the mirror and is grateful that her appearance wasn't modified in the night. [[spoiler:Harvey, however, spends the episode transformed into a beast-man, and Sabrina has to accept him before the curse is undone.]]

* ''Film/{{Sam}}'': Sam is [[HeManWomanHater hateful misogynist]] who makes a drunken rant about the uselessness of women to the proprietor of TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday. The next morning, he wakes up to discover that he is now a she.

* A low-key version in ''Film/NineteenFortyOne''. Private Folley bullies Private Jones simply because Jones happens to be black. Later Pvt. Jones gets a sack of flour on his face, while Pvt. Foley takes a [[AshFace blast of ash on his face]]. Foley starts laughing at Jones because of lighter complexion, until Jones points out that Foley has darker complexion and laughs while telling Foley to "go to the back of the tank."

[[AndThatsTerrible Racism is a terrible thing]]. And sometimes, someone will take it upon themselves to teach a racist just what a terrible thing it is. And, to do that, they use some kind of power to transform the racist (usually temporarily) into a member of the race they despise.