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* In ''Film/SaveTheLastDance'' A black female character criticizes the white girl for falling in love with a black youth with a bright future. She says she hates how white girls always take the decent black men, leaving black girls with the black men that are criminals and gang members.
* In ''Film/ShanghaiNoon''. Chon Wang ends up with Princess Pei-Pei, who are both from China, while Roy O'Bannon ends up with Falling Leaves, who are both from... America.

* {{Subverted}} in ''Literature/HarryPotter''-- friends [[AnnouncerChatter Lee Jordan]] (black) and [[TricksterTwins Fred and George Weasley]] (white) all seem infatuated with [[StatuesqueStunner Angelina Johnson]] (black), but Lee is the one she never apparently dates. (WordOfGod says she marries [[spoiler:George]].)

[[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt White women always like black men]] and [[MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow white men want Asian women]] but some times couples are just happier with someone who's the same race, nationality, or even religion. It might be a conscious choice of the characters saying that they feel [[TokenMinorityCouple obligated to be together]] because they're both the same. They might feel [[EntitledToHaveYou entitled be together]] but a white person tries to keep them apart but fails and so we see the strength of their relationship. To emphasis the difference between the white person trying to keep them apart and the black people, the white one is probably blonde. It might be done as a black on black TokenMinorityCouple as the BlackBestFriend making a BetaCouple with another black person.

* On ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', [[TroubledButCute Duncan]] (white) was with [[WellExcuseMePrincess Courtney]] (Hispanic) but cheats on her with [[PerkyGoth Gwen]] (also white), with whom he ends up when Courtney finds out and dumps him. Particularly {{egregious}} because Courtney then falls for [[VillainSue Alejandro]], the only other Hispanic character on the show. (Though to be fair, he's only interested in Asian [[AlphaBitch Heather]], [[spoiler:who ultimately rejects him]]).

* In ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'', [[ReallyGetsAround Joe]] tries to hook his friend [[ButtMonkey Danny]] (white) with [[JadeColoredGlasses Sarah]] (black), whom he essentially picked arbitrarily from a crowd. Danny declines interest, since he hadn't gotten over his recent break-up. Joe claims that Danny's just racist. Shortly thereafter Danny meets [[GamerChick Amber]] (white), and has a thought-bubble vision of Joe calling him a racist again. When Joe actually meets Amber, he's more concerned with the fact that she just happens to look uncannily similar to Danny's ex.

* On ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', [[TroubledButCute Duncan]] (white) was with [[WellExcuseMePrincess Courtney]] (Hispanic) but cheats on her with [[PerkyGoth Gwen]] (also white), with whom he ends up when Courtney finds out and dumps him. Particularly {{egregious}} because Courtney then falls for [[VillainSue Alejandro]], the only other Hispanic character on the show. (Though to be fair, he's only interested in Asian [[TheLibby Heather]], [[spoiler:who ultimately rejects him]]).
* On ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', [[TheHero Danny]] (white) has a longstanding infatuation on [[TheLibby Paulina]] (Hispanic) and a brief relationship with [[DatingCatwoman Valerie]] (black), but ultimately winds up with his white friend, [[PerkyGoth Sam]].

* On ''Series/{{Glee}}'', Asian Tina leaves white Artie for also-Asian Mike between seasons one and two. This led to some {{flanderization}} since in the first season, their race was purely incidental, but from the second season on, both characters and their relationship became a never-ending MargaretCho punchline. Fortunately, the other interracial love triangles on the show don't make a big deal out of race, such as blonde Brittany breaking up with Artie to go back to Hispanic Santana, or black Mercedes choosing white Sam over black Shane.

* In the ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' films, Eric is given a RaceLift to become Asian. He pines for Bella, who chooses the white Edward, and Eric is ultimately paired up with Angela - who herself gets a RaceLift to become Hispanic.

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* Franchise/{{Batman}}'s two most persistent [[DatingCatwoman villainous]] {{Love Interest}}s are [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Talia al Ghul]] ([[AmbiguouslyBrown East Asian and/or Arab]]) and Comicbook/{{Catwoman}} (white). The former eventually becomes DaddysLittleVillain after [[spoiler:his death]] while the latter remains in the game.

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* ''Film/{{Obsessed}}'' tells the story of Lisa, an office temp, who falls in love with her boss, Derek Charles (a black man) and attempts to seduce him and break up him and his wife Sharon (also black), by claiming that she had an affair with him.
* In ''Film/SaveTheLastDance'' A black female character criticizes the white girl for falling in love with a black youth with a bright future. She says she hates how white girls always take the decent black men, leaving black girls with the black men that are criminals and gang members.

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* The ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Snitch" has an African man married to a couple of African women and a white one. In the end of the episode it's just him and his black wife.

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* This is thoroughly explored on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' when a new girl comes to the school and is the only black female student (in the same year as the main characters anyway). She and Kyle share a mutual crush but Cartman insists on pushing her together with Token since Token and the black girl, Nichole, are the only ones at the school of their race and gender. At the end of the episode Kyle ends up alone since Nichole is with Token. Cartman even points out that the only two Latino students in the school are dating as proof, but it turns out that Cartman had been responsible for them getting together as well.
** Then it was played for laughs when Cartman's cupid set him up with someone "like" him, an [[AbhorrentAdmirer ugly and fat girl with halitosis]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'': Mack and Jodie, who are two of the few African American students at Lawndale High, are dating each other. While they do like each other, they also feel the social pressure to be good role models for the local black community. It is not clear how much of their relationship is due to one and how much to the other.
* In ''Film/SaveTheLastDance'' A black female character criticizes the white girl for falling in love with a black youth with a bright future. She says she hates how white girls always take the decent black men, leaving black girls with the black men that are criminals and gang members.

* On ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', [[TroubledButCute Duncan]] (white) was with [[WellExcuseMePrincess Courtney]] (Hispanic) but cheats on her with [[PerkyGoth Gwen]] (also white), with whom he ends up when Courtney finds out and dumps him. Particularly {{egregious}} because Courtney then falls for [[VillainSue Alejandro]], the only other Hispanic character on the show. (Though to be fair, he's only interested in Asian [[TheLibby Heather]], [[spoiler:who ultimately rejects him]]).
* On ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', [[TheHero Danny]] (white) has a longstanding infatuation on [[TheLibby Paulina]] (Hispanic) and a brief relationship with [[DatingCatwoman Valerie]] (black), but ultimately winds up with his white friend, [[PerkyGoth Sam]].
* Franchise/{{Batman}}'s two most persistent [[DatingCatwoman villainous]] {{Love Interest}}s are [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Talia al Ghul]] ([[AmbiguouslyBrown East Asian and/or Arab]]) and Comicbook/{{Catwoman}} (white). The former eventually becomes DaddysLittleVillain after [[spoiler:his death]] while the latter remains in the game.
* In ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'', [[ReallyGetsAround Joe]] tries to hook his friend [[ButtMonkey Danny]] (white) with [[JadeColoredGlasses Sarah]] (black), whom he essentially picked arbitrarily from a crowd. Danny declines interest, since he hadn't gotten over his recent break-up. Joe claims that Danny's just racist. Shortly thereafter Danny meets [[GamerChick Amber]] (white), and has a thought-bubble vision of Joe calling him a racist again. When Joe actually meets Amber, he's more concerned with the fact that she just happens to look uncannily similar to Danny's ex.
* In ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', black Tiana gets together with dark-skinned Prince Naveen, even though her friend Charlotte, who is white, was interested in him.

* {{Subverted}} in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' - friends [[AnnouncerChatter Lee Jordan]] (black) and [[TricksterTwins Fred and George Weasley]] (white) all seem infatuated with [[StatuesqueStunner Angelina Johnson]] (black), but Lee is the one she never apparently dates. (WordOfGod says she marries [[spoiler:George]].)

* In ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'', [[ActionGirl Michonne]] is only attracted to black men. She has a hard time because, while she clearly craves love and affection, there are very few to go around at any given time.
* Music/DelThaFunkeeHomosapien's song "Dark-Skinned Girls" expresses his preference for black women lyrically and at great length.

* A fantasy universe example: In ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', Fynn, the [[{{Hobbits}} Prum]] captain of the Loki Familia, is a person who works to restore his race's pride. Because of this he naturally prefers dating another Prum instead of Tiona, an {{Amazon|ianBeauty}} who is utterly smitten with him. [[spoiler: [[HopelessSuitor He eventually decides to propose to Lilly, the only other Prum in the cast, who rejects him in favor of Bell, a human. He then tries to have a duel with Bell (who is badly outmatched) to settle it, but is forced to flee from Tione's advances before he could do so.]]]]
* {{Played for laughs}} on the (unsanctioned)''Wrestling/{{ROH}} A Night Of Hoopla'' where [[Wrestling/RandySavage Machismo]] [[RaceLift King]] Wrestling/JayLethal proposed to [[strike:Wrestling/MissElizabeth]]Wrestling/MariaKanellis, who accepted once he did it "[[WholePlotReference right]]" only to be [[OverTheShoulderCarry carried off]] by Mike Bennett.

[[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt White women always like black men]] and [[MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow white men want Asian women]] but some times couples are just happier with someone who's the same race, nationality, or even religion. It might be a conscious choice of the characters saying that they feel [[TokenMinorityCouple obligated to be together]] because they're both the same. They might feel [[EntitledToHaveYou entitled be together]] but a white person tries to keep them apart but fails and so we see the strength of their relationship. To emphasis the difference between the white person trying to keep them apart and the black people, the white one is probably [[BlondesAreEvil blonde]]. It might be done as a black on black TokenMinorityCouple as the BlackBestFriend making a BetaCouple with another black person.

* On the December 5, 2014, page of ''Webcomic/{{Dasien}}'', prison fugitive Gizmo Bug declares his love for [[BlondesAreEvil Goldie]], who had just stolen a jade statuette.

* {{Played for laughs}} on the (unsanctioned)''Wrestling/{{ROH}} A Night Of Hoopla'' where [[Wrestling/RandySavage Machismo]] King Wrestling/JayLethal proposed to [[strike:Wrestling/MissElizabeth]]Wrestling/MariaKanellis, who accepted once he did it "[[WholePlotReference right]]" only to be [[OverTheShoulderCarry carried off]] by Mike Bennett.

-->-- BlackBestFriend '''John Hamilton''', ''SeventhHeaven'', to his white roommate

* An episode of ''Series/SeventhHeaven'' has Matt's best friend and roommate, who is black, try to pair up him and Matt with a couple of women in the building and it's obvious that he'll be with the black one and Matt will be with the white one.

This is one trope we can partially blame UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode for. Prior to the code, interracial pairs (particularly Black/White) had been done before (not perfectly, but done nonetheless), but the Hays Code ''forbade'' any form of interracial relationships throughout its thirty-year entirety.

* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E08CrossroadBlues ''Crossroad Blues'' (S02, Ep08)]], the crossroad demon takes the form of a beautiful black woman when summoned by the famous black jazz musician Robert Johnson, but when the white Dean Winchester summons the crossroad demon, she takes a beautiful white woman as a vessel.

* Creator/DelThaFunkeeHomosapien's song "Dark-Skinned Girls" expresses his preference for black women lyrically and at great length.

* This is thoroughly explored on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' when a new girl comes to the school and is the only black female student (in the same year as the main characters anyway). She and Kyle share a mutual crush but Cartman insists on pushing her together with Token since Token and the black girl, Nichole, are the only ones at the school of their race and gender. At the end of the episode Kyle ends up alone since Nichole is with Token. Cartman even points out that the only two Latino student sin the school are dating as proof, but it turns out that Cartman had been responsible for them getting together as well.

* This is thoroughly explored on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' when a new girl comes to the school and is the only black female student (in the same year as the main characters anyway). She and Kyle share a mutual crush but Cartman insists on pushing her together with Token since Token and the black girl, Nichole, are the only ones at the school of their race and gender. At the end of the episode Kyle ends up alone since Nichole is with Token.

** Then it was played with laughs when Cartman's cupid set him up with someone "like" him, an [[AbhorrentAdmirer ugly and fat girl with halitosis]].
* An episode of ''SeventhHeaven'' has Matt's best friend and roommate, who is black, try to pair up him and Matt with a couple of women in the building and it's obvious that he'll be with the black one and Matt will be with the white one.
** Another episode has Simon's friend Nigel says that there's a desirable girl in his class who could have picked anyone to be her boyfriend and she picked him. Come to find out that she's black like him.

* ''{{Daria}}'': Mack and Jodie, who are two of the few African American students at Lawndale High, are dating each other. While they do like each other, they also feel the social pressure to be good role models for the local black community. It is not clear how much of their relationship is due to one and how much to the other.
* In ''SaveTheLastDance'' A black female character criticizes the white girl for falling in love with a black youth with a bright future. She says she hates how white girls always take the decent black men, leaving black girls with the black men that are criminals and gang members.
* On ''{{Glee}}'', Asian Tina leaves white Artie for also-Asian Mike between seasons one and two. This led to some {{flanderization}} since in the first season, their race was purely incidental, but from the second season on, both characters and their relationship became a never-ending MargaretCho punchline. Fortunately, the other interracial love triangles on the show don't make a big deal out of race, such as blonde Brittany breaking up with Artie to go back to Hispanic Santana, or black Mercedes choosing white Sam over black Shane.
* On ''TotalDrama,'' [[TroubledButCute Duncan]] (white) was with [[WellExcuseMePrincess Courtney]] (Hispanic) but cheats on her with [[PerkyGoth Gwen]] (also white), with whom he ends up when Courtney finds out and dumps him. Particularly {{egregious}} because Courtney then falls for [[VillainSue Alejandro]], the only other Hispanic character on the show. (Though to be fair, he's only interested in Asian [[TheLibby Heather]], [[spoiler:who ultimately rejects him]]).
* On ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom,'' [[TheHero Danny]] (white) has a longstanding infatuation on [[TheLibby Paulina]] (Hispanic) and a brief relationship with [[DatingCatwoman Valerie]] (black), but ultimately winds up with his white friend, [[PerkyGoth Sam]].

* In ''WebComic/DumbingOfAge,'' [[ReallyGetsAround Joe]] tries to hook his friend [[ButtMonkey Danny]] (white) with [[JadeColoredGlasses Sarah]] (black), whom he essentially picked arbitrarily from a crowd. Danny declines interest, since he hadn't gotten over his recent break-up. Joe claims that Danny's just racist. Shortly thereafter Danny meets [[GamerChick Amber]] (white), and has a thought-bubble vision of Joe calling him a racist again. When Joe actually meets Amber, he's more concerned with the fact that she just happens to look uncannily similar to Danny's ex.
* In ''PrincessAndTheFrog'', black Tiana gets together with dark-skinned Prince Naveen, even though her friend Charlotte, who is white, was interested in him.
* Subverted in Disney Channel show, The Jersey, where Coleman (who's black) and Theo (who's white)date a white girl and black girl respectively.

* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}} episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E08CrossroadBlues ''Crossroad Blues'' (S02, Ep08)]], the crossroad demon takes the form of a beautiful black woman when summoned by the famous black jazz musician Robert Johnson, but when the white Dean Winchester summons the crossroad demon, she takes a beautiful white woman as a vessel.

* On ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', Kramer and Mickey double date two women, but can't decide who should date which woman. Kramer finds out that the parents of one of the women are little people, so he says Mickey (a little person) should date her because "they have more in common", while he dates the other woman. As Mickey is a SerialSpouse (and rather proud of it), he rushes into a FourthDateMarriage with his woman incredibly quickly. Subverted when the bride walks down the altar and whispers to Kramer that she wanted him all along, while Kramer's date is so in love with Mickey that she can't bear to watch him marry someone else and runs out of the church in tears.
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* On ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' Kramer and Mickey double date two women, but can't decide who should date which woman. Kramer finds out that the parents of one of the women are little people, so he says Mickey (a little person) should date her because "they have more in common", while he dates the other woman. As Mickey is a SerialSpouse (and rather proud of it), he rushes into a FourthDateMarriage with his woman incredibly quickly. Subverted when the bride walks down the altar and whispers to Kramer that she wanted him all along, while Kramer's date is so in love with Mickey that she can't bear to watch him marry someone else and runs out of the church in tears.

->''“And they are a perfect match for us... [[LampshadeHanging Okay what I mean is one woman is white and the other just happens to be of the African-American persuasion.]]”''

* This is thoroughly explored on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' when a new girl comes to the school and is the only black female student (in the same year as the main characters anyway). She and Kyle share a mutual crush but Cartman insists on pushing her together with Token since Token and the black girl, Nichole, are the only ones at the school of their race and gender. At the end of the episode Kyle ends up alone since Nichole is with Token.