History Main / FiveTokenBand

* In ''Literature/TheEgyptGame'', the Egypt gang consists of a white girl, a black girl, her younger brother, an Asian girl, a white boy (who in the sequel ''The Gypsy Game'' is revealed to be one-quarter UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}) and an Asian boy. The white girl is more-or-less the protagonist.

* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': So we have the French geologist, the Italian demolitions expert, the female Hispanic mechanic, the half-black/half-Native American doctor -- and the white American guy. He's near-sighted though -- does that count? Either way, he's clearly the ButtMonkey, at least for the first half. After that he's the naive idealist before finally becoming the hero.

** ''[[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Wild Force]]'' had Caucasian Red, Yellow, and Silver, Afro-Asian Blue, Latino Black, and Native American White (played by a Filipino-American actress).

** ''[[Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel Ninja Steel]]'' had Hispanic Red and Gold ([[spoiler:brothers]], [[ColorBlindCasting played by Arab/Desi and Maori actors, respectively]] with [[spoiler:their father played by a Caucasian]]), Asian Blue (Vietnamese, but like the previous season's Blue actor, played by an Indonesian; Yoshi and Peter Sudarso are brothers), African-American White (whose actress is half-Caucasian), and Caucasian Pink ([[FakeNationality played by a white Brazilian]]) and Yellow (whose actor is half-Colombian). Yellow was originally a light skinned black actor, but was replaced early in filming.

** ''[[Series/PowerRangersSamurai Samurai]]'' had Caucasian Red ([[spoiler:actually Red''s'', brother and sister]]) and Yellow, African-American Blue (whose actor is half-Caucasian), Latino Green and Gold (the latter was played by Thai-German Steven Skyler, but was AmbiguouslyBrown and threw around a lot of GratuitousSpanish), and Asian (Japanese, played by a Chinese actress) Pink. This is particularly odd for this season, as all of them but Gold were supposed to be descended from actual samurai.
** ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Megaforce]]'' had Caucasian Red and Yellow, Eurasian Pink, African-American Blue (whose actor is half-Caucasian) and (Tunisian-American, specifically) Black/Green, Human Alien Silver (played by a Caucasian), and android Robo Knight (also Silver).

** ''[[Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel Ninja Steel]]'' had Hispanic Red and Gold ([[spoiler:brothers]], [[ColorBlindCasting played by Desi and Maori actors, respectively]] with [[spoiler:their father played by a Caucasian]]), Asian Blue (Vietnamese, but like the previous season's Blue actor, played by an Indonesian; Yoshi and Peter Sudarso are brothers), African-American White (whose actress is half-Caucasian), and Caucasian Pink ([[FakeNationality played by a white Brazilian]]) and Yellow (whose actor is half-Colombian). Yellow was originally a light skinned black actor, but was replaced early in filming.

* Played straight in ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt''. Of note: The character-in-a-wheelchair (Daisy) ends up more capable for it thanks to ArtificialLimbs (let alone her ''other'' DisabilitySuperpower) and the lone white guy (Jason) is classed as a HeroicComedicSociopath; and beyond that [[FurryComic the rest of the cast isn't even human]].

** In [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1 the first game]], the main heroes were a TokenTrio consisting of Liu Kang (Chinese and male), Johnny Cage (white, American and male) and Sonya Blade (white, American and female). [[VideoGame/MortalKombatII The second game]] introduced Sonya's partner Jax Briggs (African-American male), Kuai Liang the second Sub-Zero (Chinese-American male), Kung Lao (Chinese male) who is Liu Kang's fellow WarriorMonk and the Princess Kitana who hails from the fictional realm of Edenia and has been depicted as Latina, white or Asian depending on the media.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': The titular ranger, Cordell Walker, is part-Caucasian and [[BadassNative part-Native American]], the [[BlackAndNerdy tech-savvy]] Ranger James Trivette is [[TokenBlack African]]-[[TokenBlackFriend American]], Assistant D.A. Alex Cahill, retired ranger-turned-restauranteur C.D. Parker, infantryman-turned-karate instructor and P.I. Trent Malloy and Ranger Francis Gage are white, and Dallas PD Detective Carlos Sandoval and Ranger Sydney Cooke are both Hispanic.

** ''[[Series/PowerRangersSPD SPD]]'' had African-American Red, Caucasian Blue, Pink, and Green (with Green being AmbiguouslyJewish as well thanks to one or two lines of dialogue), Latina Yellow, dog-lizard-alien Shadow Ranger (Black; played by a Maori actor), and Caucasian Omega Ranger (White; his first appearance, as a preteen, reveals that he is Caucasian; he passes through a time portal that takes him 20 years into the future, which "crystalizes his being into light energy"; as a result, for most of the season, he appears as a ball of light when not morphed, and at the end, he briefly appears without his helmet).

* ''WesternAnimation/TenkoAndTheGuardiansOfMagic'': The Guardians are a racially diverse bunch. Tenko is Japanese, Bolt is white, Hawk is Native American and Steel is African-American. [[spoiler:They are later joined by Ali who is white.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' has Sam (Irish-American), Clover (American), Alex (Latina) and Britney (Japanese-American).

** ''[[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Wild Force]]'' had Caucasian Red, Yellow, and Silver, African-American Blue, Latino Black, and Native American White (played by a Filipino-American actress).

* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' has a black guy, a Korean girl, a light-skinned Latina girl, a half-Japanese/half-white boy, and a rich white guy as the members of its titular team. ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Oh, and a robot too.]]) However, the white guy ''isn't'' the lead but the PluckyComicRelief, and the mixed-race TeenGenius is the main character. The whole team was Japanese in the Marvel comic series the movie is loosely based on.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': The titular ranger, Walker, is part-Caucasian and [[BadassNative part-Native American]], the [[BlackAndNerdy tech-savvy]] Ranger Trivette is [[TokenBlack African-American]], Assistant D.A. Alex Cahill, retired ranger-turned-restauranteur C.D. Parker, armyman-turned-karate instructor and P.I. Trent Malloy and Ranger Francis Gage are white, and Detective Carlos Sandoval and Ranger Sydney Cooke are both Hispanic.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': The titular ranger, Walker, is part-Caucasian and [[BadassNative part-Native American]], the [[BlackAndNerdy tech-savvy]] Trivette is [[TokenBlack African-American]], Alex, C.D. Trent and Gage are white, and Carlos and Sydney are both Hispanic.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': The titular ranger, Walker, is part-Caucasian and part-Native American, the [[BlackAndNerdy tech-savvy]] Trivette is [[TokenBlack African-American]], Alex, C.D. Trent and Gage are white, and Carlos and Sydney are both Hispanic.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': Walker is part-Caucasian and part-Native American, Trivette is African-American, Alex, C.D. Trent and Gage are white, and Carlos and Sydney are both Hispanic.

%%* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': Walker is part-Caucasian and part-Native American, Trivette is African-American, Alex, Gage, Trent and CD are white, and Carlos and Sydney are both Hispanic.

* [[http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/351644290024595608/937F73A62F9A334EC42DAC4A0F7F1624A67C77D4/ This]] header from a now defunct "Ask the humanized cast of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''" fan blog that was briefly hosted on Website/{{tumblr}}. Note that some of the combinations of genders and sexualities don't even make sense when put together like that.

** Commander Shepard's team could be seen as an in-universe version, especially in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. Excluding humans, there's only one teammate of any species per game at a time, but most species are represented on the team at some point. The characters are well-developed regardless of race, but some fit their stereotypes and some don't. Mordin fits the salarian mold: he's smart, lives at high speed, and good with technology. Garrus wonders aloud if he's bad turian: he's never been with rules and regulations, but on the other hand he's excellent in combat. Wrex is unlike almost any other Krogan you meet: he knows when to be diplomatic and when to fight, and he's good at both.
** Humans on Team Shepard tend to be pretty diverse as well, and the melting pot nature of the Alliance makes for some weird combos. There's Kaidan Alenko (seemingly white Canadian with a Japanese/Russian name), Joker (disabled; brittle bones), Ashley (female, Hispanic), Dr. Chakwas (very fair-skinned British-accented woman with implied Indian heritage), Pressley (black), etc. The sequels throw in an Aussie (Miranda), a black man (Jacob), a Japanese woman (Kasumi), a probably Arabic guy (Zaeed), a Latino guy (Vega) even a semi-recovering addict (Jack).
** Teams in multiplayer in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' have potential for this. Every species that Shepard can recruit can be used in multiplayer, plus Batarians, Vorcha, and Volus. [[spoiler: though the Prothean character in multiplayer is actually an awakened collector.]]

** [[Wrestling/TheNexus Season 1]] had Wrestling/WadeBarrett (white and English), Wrestling/JustinGabriel (South African and mixed-race), Wrestling/DavidOtunga (black), Michael Tarver (black), [[Wrestling/{{Ryback}} Skip Sheffield]] (white), [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] (white), Wrestling/DarrenYoung (black) and Wrestling/HeathSlater (white and [[AcceptableEthnicTargets ginger]]).

** The Asian (typically represent Chinese, Japanese, or [[InterchangeableAsianCultures ambiguous east Asian]]) who is either AsianAndNerdy or the [[AllAsiansKnowMartialArts martial art user]]. If not overlapped with second girl in the team, this character [[TheSixthRanger may likely to add in the team later]].

* Advertising/TheBurgerKingKidsClubGang, as illustrated at the top of the page. The intent was to make Burger King appeal to all ethnicities and groups, with characters such as Wheels, who is in a wheelchair, and Jaws, who is African-American. Later on, an Asian girl named Jazz [[TheSixthRanger was also added]] to the team.

* In the early 1990s, before Creator/DiC acquired the rights to the North American release of ''Anime/SailorMoon'', an outfit called Toon Makers [[WesternAnimation/ToonMakersSailorMoon made a bid for them]]. As part of their pitch, TM made a short demo film of what they wanted to do with the property. They threw out the original cast and diversified the cast of all-Japanese girls into two white girls (one of which is in a wheelchair), a black girl, and a Hispanic girl. Curiously, only one was kept Asian (Mars), and the leader is one of the white girls. The result is often called "Saban Moon" or "The Saban Nightmare" due to people mistaking the relatively unknown TM for a more well-known company. (See it [[http://www.toonamiarsenal.com/download/sailormoon.php here]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=saban+sailor+moon&search=Search search YouTube.com]].) They've even got a wheelchair that can sail through space.

* Any FiveManBand from ''WebComic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' would have to be this by default due to [[NationsAsPeople the premise]]. As it stands, the only canon example is the Allied Forces, with an American, an Englishman, a Frenchman, a Russian and a Chinese. {{And|Zoidberg}} [[SixthRanger sometimes]] [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg a Canadian]].
* The Riot Force 6 from ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS'' has soldiers from different worlds, the majority being from Mid-Childa. Some of them aren't even actually human. For example:

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}} Sun and Moon'''s main group fits the bill. Aside from Ash himself (who is Asian), there's:

* ''Manga/ACentaursLife'': {{Invoked}} and {{Exaggerated}}, all due to the worldbuilding: race is an extremely touchy subject InUniverse. As a result, all of the MagicalGirl anime produced for young girls (though it can be reasonably assumed a great deal more cartoons besides) in this world, as an unwritten rule, must have a supporting cast containing a magical girl of each race, with the focus character being from a different race every episode.

** ''The All-New, All-Different X-Men''. The wheelchair-bound mentor (Professor X, representing the handicapped) and Caucasian male team leader (Cyclops from the original team, which was all-white and all American) were joined by an African woman (Storm), an Asian (Sunfire), an Apache (Thunderbird), a German (Nightcrawler), an Irishman (Banshee), a Russian (Colossus), and a Canadian (Wolverine). The in-universe reason the "All New All Different" X-Men were so diverse was that, back then, mutants were assumed to be danged ''rare'', and Professor X had to gather together those few he could find on short notice from all around the world. Of course, as more and more mutants kept getting introduced in subsequent years, mutant rarity became a forgotten concept, until a bit of ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' [[StatusQuoIsGod forcibly restored it]] decades later.

** The ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' spinoff is no better. [[AmbiguouslyGay Ambiguously Lesbian]] Vietnamese (Karma), check. Son of Brazilian self-made millionaire (Sunspot), check. Neurotic Scots werewolf (Wolfsbane -- devout Calvinist half-convinced she is damned to Hell for bonus {{Wangst}}), check. Angry young Cheyenne ActionGirl (Mirage), check. Appalachian coal-miner's son (Cannonball), check. As for the ones who joined up later, let us say that the only OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent (Cypher) joined the same night as the shapeshifting alien of living circuitry (Warlock).
** The teen series ''ComicBook/GenerationX''. The Asian girl (Jubilee) is the class clown, the Latino (Skin) is physically the ugliest member and a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, the redneck (Husk) is the brain, the black girl (M) is the RichBitch / AlphaBitch, etc.
** Creator/BrianWood's all-female line-up from the adjectiveless ''X-Men'' fits as well. Aside from the two white ladies (Rogue and Rachel Grey), the team consists of Storm (Kenyan mother and African-American father), Jubilee (Chinese-American, a single mother, and suffers from a learning disability), Psylocke ([[FreakyFridayFlip white British woman in the body of a Japanese assassin]]), M (Afro-Algerian and a Muslim), Karima (Indian), and Bling ([[TwoferTokenMinority African-American and bisexual]]). Wood has said he didn't set out to create a racially-diverse cast, but is proud of how diverse the book turned out.

* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' Tim's high school clique worked out to fit here, especially after they were down to five. There was Tim Drake the white rich kid protagonist, Sebastian Ives the [[JewishAndNerdy nerdy Jewish]] leader, Callie Evans the twitchy {{tomboy}}, Kevin Hudman the smart [[BlackAndNerdy nerdy black]] boy, Hudson the ambiguously brown chubby boy, and Ariana the refugee girly girl who eventually stopped hanging out with the others.

* The Comicbook/MarvelNOW relaunch of ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'' is another example of Marvel listening to criticism about their MonochromeCasting and trying to do better. The team is lead by African-American superhero ComicBook/LukeCage and consists of [[ComicBook/CaptainMarvelMarvelComics Spectrum]] and [[ComicBook/AdamLegendOfTheBlueMarvel Blue Marvel]] (both African-American), [[Comicbook/SuperiorSpiderMan Superior Spider-Man]] (white), Power Man (Dominican), ComicBook/WhiteTiger (Puerto Rican), and ComicBook/SheHulk (white/green). There's also a [[LegacyCharacter new Ronin]], but their identity has yet to be revealed ([[spoiler:it's [[{{ComicBook/Blade}} Blade]]]], who is black and English). Superior Spider-Man got kicked out fairly quickly, and got replaced by another white guy, ComicBook/IronFist.

* The [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] goes back and forth on this. As of 2013, the main ''Justice League'' team had Cyborg (African-American), ComicBook/TheAtom (Latina) and Element Woman (Asian-American), while the [[WestCoastTeam spin-off team]] had ComicBook/GreenLantern Simon Baz (Lebanese-American), ComicBook/{{Katana}} (Japanese), and Vibe (Mexican-American).

* ComicBook/AvengersAcademy was arguably an example, as Reptil (the leader of the group) was Latino, Mettle was Polynesian, Hazmat was Asian-American, Finesse and Veil were women, and the only Caucasian man on the team, Striker, was a gay teenager [[spoiler:from a working-class background and a survivor of sexual abuse]]. The West Coast revamp of the title introduced ComicBook/WhiteTiger (Puerto Rican), Power Man ([[TwoferTokenMinority Black Dominican]]), Spider-Girl (Latina), Wiz Kid (Asian American), Rocket Racer (African American) and Hollow/Penance (originally Yugoslavian, retconned into being a black Algerian, current ethnicity unknown) into the Academy. It also added Julie Power (bisexual), and ComicBook/{{X 23}} to the cast.

* The ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' version of [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] is a group of six children who can turn into [[MythologyGag Captain Thunder]]. In addition to the original Caucasian PowerTrio of Billy and Mary Batson and Freddy Freeman (who's disabled), there's Eugene (Asian-American), Pedro (Latino), and Darla (African-American). Following the CosmicRetcon caused by fixing ''Flashpoint'', the six of them become a new Shazam Family, sharing Billy/Shazam's power.
* The Marvel event ''ComicBook/FearItself'' had a teenage superhero team consisting of Caucasian ComicBook/{{X 23}} and ComicBook/{{Thunderstrike}}, ComicBook/AmadeusCho (Korean-American), [[ComicBook/LukeCage Power Man]] (Dominican), and [[ComicBook/AnyaCorazon Spider-Girl]] (Hispanic).

* ''[[ComicBook/TheDefenders Fearless Defenders]]'' was one of the better-handled and more organic examples seen in comics. The entire team was female, and included [[AfroAssKicker Misty Knight]] (African-American and an [[ArtificialLimbs amputee]]), Annabelle Riggs (lesbian), Dani Moonstar (Cheyenne), and the [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Inhuman]] Ren Kimura (Japanese-American and a lesbian).

* ''ComicBook/{{Champions|2016}}'' had a bunch of them, whoo boy. You had [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Ms. Marvel]] (Kamala Khan, a Pakistani-American and an Inhuman), Spider-Man (ComicBook/MilesMorales, African-Hispanic mix), ComicBook/TotallyAwesomeHulk (Amadeus Cho, a Korean-American), Nova (Sam Alexander, half Mexican), Viv Vision (android) and [[ComicBook/XMenBlue the time-displaced Cyclops]] (Scott Summers, mutant). Cyclops subsequently left and was replaced with two others: ComicBook/TheUnstoppableWasp (Nadia Van Dyne, part-Hungarian) and ComicBook/{{Ironheart}} (Riri Williams, African-American)
* {{Lampshade}}d with ''Comicbook/{{The Ultimates|2015}}'', who a National Security Council member compares to a Benetton ad.

* ''ComicBook/JuniorBravesOfTheApocalypse'': The main team displays a wie variety of ethinicities, backrounds, and religions. Pabir is the glasses-wearing Indian Hindu. Amir is a redheaded Jewish second-generation immigrant. Lucas is a black Lutheran. Johnny is Apache and adopted. Travis is a bit overweight, but otherwise fits the role of the token white guy, complete with blond hair and blue eyes.
* ComicBook/HarleyQuinn ended up picking up one of these during the New 52 -- her Gang of Harleys. The team includes Shona Choudhury (Indian), Carlita Alvarez (Latina), Hannah Borgman (Jewish), Antonia Moore (black), Erica Zhang (Chinese), Harvey [=McPhearson=] (gay and TheOneGuy), and Holly Hamden (blind and paraplegic).

* Alison Bechdel's ''ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor''. Bechdel herself has joked that, yes, the cast is almost diverse to a fault (with a main cast comprising just about every ethnicity, religion, political affiliation—-[[GayConservative yes, there are indeed lesbian Republicans out there]]). However, as they're all fully-fleshed characters with their own personalities, they tend not to suffer from being the token something-or-other. Thea (disabled, with MS) is the only possible exception, even lampshaded by her in an AnimatedActors segment: "I move that ''no'' new personnel be introduced until I get properly established here! I thought I was gonna be a fully-fledged, three-dimensional character like everyone else, but nooooo! I just show up on my crutches every tenth episode like a goddamn poster child!"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfKells'' has possibly the most bizarre version of this of all time: a Five-Token Band of Irish Catholic monks. We get a French monk, a Russian monk, an English monk, a Chinese monk, and Black monk. It's not even alluded to how they all came to be at the same Irish monastery in the 9th century. The creators state that this was to represent diverse influences in the ''Book of Kells''. There was a large amount of immigration to Ireland during this period, especially among the clergy. It had a bit to do with Ireland being one of the few countries in Europe to escape TheDarkAges.

* [[UrExample A nice early example]] are the ''[[Film/TheLittleRascals Our Gang]]'' theatrical shorts. Despite the fact that every kid was some obvious stereotype, the series broke major ground in depicting the group in an informal manner and as getting along with each other despite their differences without really calling attention to it. Their major shared trait was being lower-middle class and a dislike of icky girls.

* The ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000'' movie goes a step further and enforces representation of ''fictional'' minorities. After the white man [[MightyWhitey the leader and destined hero, naturally]], there's a white girl as the snobby wizard, a black man as the comic-relief bumbling sidekick, another white man as the ''tallest dwarf in the world'', and a black woman playing the elf (making her a threefer, maybe?). Worst of all, each and every one of them is 100% pure, concentrated stereotype.

* ''Film/TheBigHit'' has the Irish-American protagonist working for [[spoiler:and later against]] the most diverse criminal syndicate of all time. The crime boss is black, Melvin's fellow [[spoiler:and rival]] hitmen are black, Latino, East Asian and Italian-American, and he spends part of the film juggling his blonde Jewish fiancée, his black mistress, and the Japanese girl he kidnaps for ransom. This is partly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] for laughs in a scene where the aforementioned Jewish fiance's father wanders in drunk, sees the aforementioned protagonist and hitmen (not knowing that [[spoiler:they were sent to confront him about his suspected betrayal]] and remarks how happy he is to see four young men of different races sitting together in friendship, in contrast to his wife's rejection of Melvin as a future son-in-law for not being Jewish.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' does this with its main cast. The white Jewish male leader Jake, his female cousin Rachel, his black girlfriend Cassie, his Hispanic best friend Marco, and Tobias who has a [[ParentalAbandonment messed-up]] [[ResentfulGuardian family]] (and is a bird). They later add [[SixthRanger an alien]], Ax. Toward the end of the series, they get a RedshirtArmy made up of disabled children (though {{Justified}}--they specifically picked disabled kids because [[PuppeteerParasite Yeerks]] wouldn't bother to infest them). Rachel's parents are divorced, too -- she's raised by her mother, who isn't Jewish.

** {{Invoked}}: the original lineup for the rebuilt [[Literature/XWingSeries Rogue Squadron]] in the eponymous books was deliberately chosen on politically correct grounds by the Alliance leadership, given how important a propaganda symbol the squadron is. However, this is a ''Star Wars Galaxy'' Twelve Token Band, so it consists of: the token Bothan (for their work in finding the second Death Star), the token Twi'lek (Ryloth is coming into its own at this time), ''other'' other token aliens (an insectoid, a wolfman, and another... thing, to represent the more non-human ones), the token refugee (a woman), the token kid brought up in jail (also a woman), the token precocious kid (who's also from Tatooine), and ''two'' token Thyferrans (including one woman) because that's the only way to please the two factions of the planet producing the most critical medical supply in the galaxy. In fact at one point, a good Corellian pilot isn't allowed to join because they already have two Corellians. Wedge is highly displeased about leadership picking the squadron for him, but he grows to like his people.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter''

* Unusually well {{Justified}} in the ''Literature/SpiritAnimals'' series. The world of Erdras is divided into four main continents, each of which has a different ethnic phenotype and patron deity (Zhongese correspond to Asians, Nilosians to Africans, Eurans to Europeans, and Amayans to Native Americans (though their society is closer to Modern America with medieval technology)). The plot is kicked off when the four deities choose four mortal children to partner with, and naturally each chose to bond a person from their region.

*** The original series gets a lot of flak because the Black Ranger was African-American and the Yellow Ranger was Asian (Chinese, but played by a Vietnamese actress). WordOfGod from the producers and WordOfSaintPaul from Walter Jones (Zack) himself confirm this was unintentional and something they didn't notice until several episodes had been filmed, and the real reason why the Rangers were swapped is due to either budget or popularity issues. Not to mention, Trini was played by a Hispanic actress in the {{Pilot}}, only to be recast before the show entered full production.

** ''[[Series/PowerRangersInSpace In Space]]'', which was two-thirds returning ''Turbo'' cast, had (Caucasian) HumanAlien Red and Silver, African-American Blue, Caucasian Yellow, Hispanic Black, and Asian (Chinese) Pink.
** ''[[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Lost Galaxy]]'' had Caucasian Red, Magna Defender (Black; brothers), and first Pink, African-American Green, Asian (Chinese) Blue, and (Caucasian) HumanAlien Yellow and second Pink (the former played by Cerina Vincent, who is Italian-American).

** ''[[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'' had Caucasian Red and Pink, Eurasian Blue and Quantum (also Red) Ranger, African-American Yellow, and RubberForeheadAlien Green (played by a Eurasian).

** ''[[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Mystic Force]]'' had Arab ([[spoiler:HumanAlien]]) Red (Firass Dirani has Lebanese descent), Latina (Filipino/mixed-race) Blue and Pink (sisters), Caucasian Yellow, (Caucasian) Australian Green, and a (Maori) HumanAlien Solaris Knight (Gold; Shadow Ranger and Solaris Knight are both played by John Tui).
** ''[[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive Operation Overdrive]]'' had Caucasian Red ([[spoiler:an android who becomes human in this season's finale]]) and Yellow, Afro-Caribbean Black, Asian (Chinese) Blue, Latina Pink (played by a Filipino actress), and HumanAlien Mercury Ranger (Silver; played by a Caucasian).

** ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Megaforce]]'' had Caucasian Red and Yellow, Eurasian Pink, African-American Blue (whose actor is half-Caucasian) and (Tunisian-American, specifically) Black/Green, HumanAlien Silver (played by a Caucasian), and android Robo Knight (also Silver).

** ''[[Series/PowerRangersDinoFury Dino Fury]]'' had HumanAlien/RubberForeheadAlien Red and Gold (former played by an Afro-Asian, the latter, African-American), Polynesian Blue (With a Japanese surname, played by a Hawaiian of mixed Hawaiian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and European descent), Hispanic Black and Green (stepbrother and -sister), and Caucasian Pink. For bonus diversity points, the Green Ranger is [[TwoferTokenMinority also]] a ButchLesbian.
** ''WebVideo/PowerRangersHyperforce'' has HumanAlien Red and Green (who was also Silver for Time Force beforehand) (played by the aforementioned Indonesian brothers from ''Dino Charge'' and ''Ninja Steel''), Caucasian Pink, Hispanic [[spoiler:RidiculouslyHumanRobot]] female Black, big-bodied Caucasian Yellow, and African American Blue.

* Parodied by Creator/StephenColbert's "friends". When his Black Friend Alan betrayed him by being seen at an anti-war protest, he advertised for a new one. He has an assortment of other ethnic friends, the best known being Jewish Friend [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]]. Many fans who have met him have reported getting him to take a picture with them under the promise that they'll be his ____ best friend: deaf, French, asexual, bipolar. Presumably he's being CrazyPrepared in case the need should ever arise for any of those. Note that, beginning with Alan, the photos of Stephen with his ____ best friend have always showed him beaming at the camera and ''pointing'' at his companion, while the companion has his/her arms folded and a "You've got to be fucking kidding me" facial expression.

** {{Lampshaded}}. The Master congratulates the Doctor's team on "ticking every demographic box". His posse at that point consists of himself (could currently pass for white British despite being an alien), Martha (black British and female) and Jack (white, bisexual and apparently American).

* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' pulls one of these together, without making it feel forced. The main character and her sister are half-latina, Andre is black, Robbie is Jewish, [[TheStraightMan Beck]] is Indian but ''not'' a BollywoodNerd. The last 2 characters are Cat, who is a white redheaded GenkiGirl, and Jade, a white Goth, for whom the fandom believes might be bisexual.

* ''Series/ChicagoPD'': Intelligence Unit is made up of various incarnations of this throughout the series. The current makeup is Voight, Halstead and Ruzek (Caucasian), along with Upton(Greek-American, as is her actress, Creator/TracySpiridakos), Burgess(played by Italian-American Creator/MarinaSquerciati), Atwater(African-American) and Rojas(Latina). Before their departures there were Jin (S1 Asian-American) and Sumner (S1 African-American) , Lindsay(S1-4 Caucasian), Dawson(S1-6 Latino), and Olinsky (S1-5, Polish, played by Greek-American Elias Koteas).

* ''Series/TheReal'' The hosts (and guest co-host Amara La Negra) had a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfojvfE8dhc whole discussion]] about this trope. Tamera Mowry-Housley said she and her twin sister Tia were the first African American twins to have a TV show. Jeannie Mai said "I feel lonely" being one of three Asian-American woman (and the first one of Vietnamese descent) who co-hosted a daytime talk show. Adrienne Bailon was "sad" to find out she was the first Latino-American on an English language talk show. Loni Love joked that she was the second plus size African-American woman on daytime TV (referring to her friend Sheryl Underwood of ''Series/TheTalk'' as the first). They said their show was important so they can see more daytime TV hosts that look like them years from now.

* All the Season 4 residents of ''Series/TheGoodDoctor'' : Shaun and Asher are white; Claire, Olivia, and Jordan are black; Park is Asian; Enrique is Hispanic. Shaun also checks off having a character with a disability, and Asher covers having an LGBTQ+ character.

* The {{Defictionaliz|ation}}ed band Film/TheCheetahGirls has a black member, a mixed-race member, and a Latina member. In the book series, though, all of the girls were black except for Chanel, who was Cuban and Dominican.

* Done literally in ''Pinball/{{Diner}}'', whose five customers are a stereotypical Indian (Haji), a stereotypical Britian (Babs), a stereotypical Russian (Boris), a stereotypical Hispanic (Pépé), and a stereotypical American cowboy (Buck).

** [[Wrestling/TheNexus Season 1]] had Wrestling/WadeBarrett (white and English), Wrestling/JustinGabriel (South African and mixed-race), Wrestling/DavidOtunga (black), Michael Tarver (black), [[Wrestling/{{Ryback}} Skip Sheffield]] (white), [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] (white), [[Wrestling/PrimeTimePlayers Darren Young]] (black) and Wrestling/HeathSlater (white and [[AcceptableEthnicTargets ginger]]).
** Season 2 had [[Wrestling/LowKi Kaval]] (mixed-race), [[Wrestling/CurtisAxel Michael McGillicutty]] (white), [[Wrestling/BrayWyatt Husky Harris]] (white), [[Wrestling/PrimeTimePlayers Titus O'Neill]] (black), Eli Cottonwood (Jewish), Percy Watson (black), Alex Riley (white) and Lucky Cannon (white).

* Present in ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'', with MightyWhitey Marcus, his Hispanic best friend Dom, the Asian Delta squad leader Kim, and the black UncleTomfoolery BigGuy Cole. Now if TheSmartGuy Baird was disabled, he would complete the band. Unfortunately, he's only a rather JerkAss blond. You could even count Jack as the RobotBuddy.

** In the first game, the main heroes were a TokenTrio consisting of Liu Kang (Chinese and male), Johnny Cage (white, American and male) and Sonya Blade (white, American and female). The second game introduced Sonya's partner Jax Briggs (African-American male), Kuai Liang the second Sub-Zero (Chinese-American male), Kung Lao (Chinese male) who is Liu Kang's fellow WarriorMonk and the Princess Kitana who hails from the fictional realm of Edenia and has been depicted as latina, white or Asian depending on the media.
** Other recurring heroes include Nightwolf, a Native Amarican shaman and historian; Jade, Kitana's black friend; Kai, a black Shaolin monk; Smoke,[[McNinja a Czech ninja]]; Kenshi Takahashi a blind Eurasian swordsman and Stryker a white police officer.

* ''VideoGame/FarCry2'': There are nine playable characters who are men of various ethnicies and natonalities. Xianyong Bai is Chinese, Marty Alencar is Brazilian-American, Warren Clyde is American with [[AmbiguouslyBrown ambiguous ancestry]], Paul Ferenc is Hungarian-Israeli, Frank Bilders is Northern Irish, Hakim Echebbi is Algerian, Andre Hyppolite is Haitian, Quarbani Singh is Mauritian and has Indian ancestry, and Josip Idromeno is Kosavar Albanian.

* Parodied in ''Webcomic/TheNoob'', when the incompetent design team for the {{MMORPG}} "''Cliche Quest''" decides to show they embrace ethnic diversity in a commercial for their video game, to emphasize to the viewer that they don't follow "the old Fantasy stereotype where everyone is white" ("...or a squid"). Of course, after casting actors for the roles of "a Jewish-American, an Irish-American, an Italian-American, a Latino, an Asian and an African-American", the lead developer is furious because "no one will recognize them": His "solution" leads to [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/comic/197/ even worse racial/cultural/ethnic stereotypes]]. Oh, and because they forgot to cast the "Caucasian with the rural or Southern accent", they come up with a last-minute [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/comic/198/ alternative]]. Not to mention [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/comic/247/ all those Scottish-accented dwarves]] sprouting [[http://www.thenoobcomic.com/comic/262/ Communist propaganda]] and Euro Nerd Techno...

* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' pokes fun at the somewhat belated discovery of the "[[http://www.shortpacked.com/2007/comic/book-4/13-its-a-long-long-way-to-botcon/minoriteam/ Minoriteam]]" concept.

** ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInAMermaidTale'': Merliah (American), Hadley (Latina), Fallon (black), Xylie and Kayla (British). Minor characters in bith movies include Ally Mahoney (Asian), the lipstick fish (Hungarian accent) and Syrenka (Polish). In the sequel we have Kylie (Australian) and the Ambasaadors: Kattrin (Korean), Selena (Russian), Mirabella (Brazilian), and Renata (African).

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'':

** Jem and the Holograms are made up of redhead keyboardist Kimber, her blonde biological sister Jem (Jerrica) as the singer, the Asian (implied to be half-white and half either Chinese or Japanese) guitarist Aja, the black drummer/guitarist Shana, and later, the latina drummer Raya. Aside from the SixthRanger Raya, they were all raised together as Shana and Aja were the Benton's foster daughters.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'':

* One more example of a fantasy token band; ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats'', but especially ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011''. The members belong to clans based on real life cat species, though Panthro is the only one whom most obviously looks and sounds [[TokenBlack black]].

* On ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' it's oddly the jerky popular kids who fill this trope: [[JerkJock Dash]] (white guy), [[AlphaBitch Paulina]] (Hispanic girl), [[TokenGoodTeammate Kwan]] (Asian guy), [[WellIntentionedExtremist Valerie]] (black girl) and sometimes [[TheSixthRanger Star]] (white girl). They're like [[EqualOpportunityEvil Equal Opportunity]] {{Jerk Ass}}es. (Valerie is eventually exiled from the group when she becomes a FallenPrincess, though, and becomes [[AntiHero kind of]] nicer.)

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has a fantastic variation with the Planet Express crew. Fry, Leela, and Farnsworth are white Americans (with Leela also being a [[{{cyclops}} one-eyed]] {{mutant}}); Bender is a robot who was built in Mexico; Hermes is a black Jamaican; Amy is ethnically Chinese, but was born and raised on Mars; {{and Zoidberg}} is a member of an [[FishPeople aquatic alien race]] with a [[SpaceJews quasi-Jewish culture]].

* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' has Asian (Japanese) Shiro, HalfHumanHybrid (with an ambiguous ethnicity) Keith, Latino (Cuban) Lance, biracial (Samoan/African American) Hunk, Caucasian (Italian) Pidge, and AmbiguouslyBrown {{Space El|ves}}f HumanAlien Allura.

* ''The Adventures Of Olivia'' doubles as ForeignFanservice (being an American porn comic) with the title character originally being an obvious SassyBlackWoman before further designs made her more like [[AmbiguouslyBrown vaguely]] [[SpicyLatina Puerto Rican]] with "Mickey Mouse-like afro puffs" on the side of her head bordering otherwise straight hair, [[ValleyGirl Sandy,]] South Asian (never specified what country) [[BigBeautifulWoman Fatima,]] Mexican-American [[SpicyLatina Lupe,]] Ambiguously East Asian [[ThirdPersonPerson Mi-Hy,]] [[BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins Native American]] [[LipstickLesbian Pen]][[TwoferTokenMinority ny,]] tanned, but apparently Caucasian [[LovableAlphaBitch Sylvia]] [[RichBitch Wellington]] [[MatzoFever Jewish-American]] Meganekko Naomi and Italian-American Anna Provalone. Additionally, the whole team appear together as [[HospitalHottie nurses.]]

* ''M. A. S. K.'': The M. A. S. K. (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand) team has a Caucasian leader, Matt Trakker, and numerous other Caucasian members: Gloria Baker, Brad Turner, Calhoun Burns, Dusty Hayes, Buddy Hawks, Ace Riker, and Alex Sector (British). The other members are Hondo [=MacLean=] (African-American), Bruce Sato (Asian; specifically, Japanese), Nevada Rushmore (Native American), Ali Bombay (Indian), Julio Lopez (Latino), Boris Bushkin (Russian), and Jacques [=LaFleur=] (French Canadian).

** Somebody who is physically handicapped (typically with wheelchair, or with hearing impairment in the less common cases) or mentally handicapped character (typically with HollywoodAutism or [[AmbiguousDisorder some random disorders without any official confirmation]]), usually TheSmartGuy (IdiotSavant in the case of mentally handicapped character) to prove they're not useless in a mildly offensive way that assumes they can only provide any use with their brains, or TheHeart to infantilizingly assumes they're more innocent, completely harmless and [[DisabledMeansHelpless always need non-disabled guardian]].