History Main / StopBeingStereotypical

* This trope is a big part of the premise behind the ''ComicBook/XMen'' - humanity in general fears mutants because they see them as dangerous and violent, and the X-Men take it upon themselves to police the mutant population, stopping evil mutants whose actions confirm anti-mutant prejudices.

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--> '''Sin''': "Man, why you gotta reinforce the stereotype? I ''live'' here. I'm on the ''neighborhood watch''."

-->'''Tugg Speedman''': I can't believe you people!\\
'''Kirk''': Whoa, whoa. What do you mean, "you people"?\\
'''Alpa''': What do ''you'' mean, "you people"?

* Glory in ''Literature/WingsOfFire'' is this with a side-order of BoomerangBigot. All her life, she's been looked down upon for being a [=RainWing=], especially due to the negative stereotypes of [=RainWings=] (mainly that they're lazy and powerless). She's determined to defy these stereotypes until she actually meets her own people for the first time... and realizes that they pretty much ''are'' that laid-back and [[ActualPacifist pacifistic.]] She immediately starts chewing out all the [=RainWings=] she meets for the behavior since she's been taught to think of it as negative for all her life. It eventually takes an older [=RainWing=] pulling her aside and telling her about her people to point out that some of the behaviors she derides are actually ''essential to their health due to their tribe's biology'', and her friends espouse the more peaceful lives of her tribe. [[spoiler: She still fights to become their Queen in order to mobilize them to action and is still the least [=RainWing-y=] [=RainWing=] ever, but she doesn't make as much of a fuss about it.]]

-->'''Prue''': Is that why you're dressed as Mistress of the Dark?\\
'''Phoebe''': This happens to be a protest statement.\\
'''Prue''': I'm impressed at your ability to make a protest statement and show cleavage at the same time.\\
'''Phoebe''': [[SarcasmBlind Thanks]].

-->'''Magnitude''': Pop pop!
-->'''Kane''': You do realize they're laughing at you, not with you.

-->'''Max''': I thought you were a committed feminist.\\
'''Kim''': Yeah, I am.\\
'''Max''': So I assumed you'd be firmly on the female side.\\
'''Kim''': That's a bit primitive, to think that [[StrawFeminist feminists regard all men as rapists, isn't it??]]

** Many Japanese wrestlers also get labeled as too stereotypical, even the ones who are actually from Japan, and any tag team with shared ethnicity is thought of as a "race tag team" regardless of whether or not they use their ethnicity as a defining character trait-- Unless they're white (and not Canadian). There are a number of teams that ''do'' use their race as such, and it's usually terrible: e.g. Cryme Tyme, promoted as two large black men from Brooklyn that steal...and that's it, and Harlem Heat who, while featuring stars Booker T and Stevie Ray, were initially promoted as a pair of wrestling ''slaves'', led to the ring in shackles by a white southerner (WCW wisely did not air this on TV.)

** Also the assumption that everyone had regarding the Heavy being the DumbMuscle, rather than the GeniusBruiser that he is - he just [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue doesn't know English well enough]] to shed the assumption. His [=PhD=] in Russian Literature is also more useful in his line of work than one might think.

* Spoofed in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons,'' when Marge suggests that Fat Tony take on a career that isn't a harmful Italian-American stereotype, such as [[HypocriticalHumor a pizza maker or organ grinder]], to which Fat Tony tearfully replies, "You've just listed all of my failed dreams."

-->"Hah, I been a man only hardly any time," said Detritus, "and already I fed up with you stupid trolls. What you think humans say, eh? Oh, them ethnic, them don't know how to behave in big city, go around waving clubs at the drop of a thing you wear on head."

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* ''Seres/CurbYourEnthusiasm'': Leon, a black man, is revealed in one episode to only eat watermelon in secret, where no white people can see him.

** Later, though, when they are trying to be intimidating, [[InvertedTrope Sin scolds Dabu for doing things that are not "gangsta"]], such as drinking tea from a small cup with the little finger raised.

Typically, this may reflect divisions of class (such as middle and upper class black people living in {{Suburbia}} complaining about the [[GangBangers "ghetto" behavior of unruly ones in the cities]]), gender expression (such as [[StraightGay gender-conforming gays]] complaining about [[CampGay "flaming" gays]], gender non-conforming heterosexual men and [[NotLikeOtherGirls women]] complaining about other heterosexual men and women enjoying hobbies typically associated with their gender, or a {{Tomboy}} complaining about a GirlyGirl because RealWomenDontWearDresses), ideology (such as people railing against the extremists of their religious or political ideology), or conformity to mainstream social rules (such as {{fanboy}}s complaining about peers who won't even bother with personal hygiene). Whatever the group involved, the criticism is generally not of the behavior in itself, but of the way it "makes us look bad." Indeed, sometimes the complainers will engage in the behavior ''themselves'', but will be careful to do so only in private; this, in turn, might cause the accused party to [[AtLeastIAdmitIt take the moral high ground over this hypocrisy]].

Typically, this may reflect divisions of class (such as middle and upper class black people living in {{Suburbia}} complaining about the [[GangBangers "ghetto" behavior of unruly ones in the cities]]), gender expression (such as [[StraightGay gender-conforming gays]] complaining about [[CampGay "flaming" gays]], gender non-conforming heterosexual men and women complaining about other heterosexual men and women enjoying hobbies typically associated with their gender, or a {{Tomboy}} complaining about a GirlyGirl because RealWomenDontWearDresses), ideology (such as people railing against the extremists of their religious or political ideology), or conformity to mainstream social rules (such as {{fanboy}}s complaining about peers who won't even bother with personal hygiene). Whatever the group involved, the criticism is generally not of the behavior in itself, but of the way it "makes us look bad." Indeed, sometimes the complainers will engage in the behavior ''themselves'', but will be careful to do so only in private; this, in turn, might cause the accused party to [[AtLeastIAdmitIt take the moral high ground over this hypocrisy]].