History Main / TokenEnemyMinority

* The ''MedalofHonor'' game Rising Sun has the heroes fighting Japanese soldiers in WWII. The main villain is Masataka Shima (Mako Iwamatsu), a high ranking officer for the Imperial Japanese Army. The protagonist works with Ichiro Tanaka, a brave and loyal Japanese-American OSS agent.

* Illya Kuryakin in ''TheManFromUNCLE'', who turned out to be a friendly Russian spy. {{Justified|Trope}} because the agency they worked against [[EnemyMine was hated by both the free world and the communist bloc]]. Quickly promoted to joint protagonist after positive fan reaction, so ceased to be 'token'.

** He later moved to Scotland, went to medical school, became a medical examiner and works for ''{{NCIS}}''.

* Sayid Jarrah from ''{{Lost}}''. He served in the Gulf War. For the Republican Guard. Dude.

* Leonard on ''{{Community}}'' is this trope played for laughs: despite appearing in every way to be an elderly American male and Korean War veteran, it is later revealed that he fought on the North Korean side.

** Well, the good Arab was clearly an American of Arab descent, speaking with a fluent American accent, so that might have had something to do with it. In fact his ethnicity isn't brought up once. He might be Arab, but at least he's not foreign.

* ''Film/BlackHawkDown'' is about 120 American soldiers going into Somalia and fighting Somalis. Nearly every American soldier is white but there is literally just one black guy named SPC Mike Kurth (Gabriel Casseus). The fact that he's the only black soldier is never mentioned by any character in the film.

* Most of {{Alatriste}}'s enemies are aristocrats, but one of his friends include an aristocrat, the Count of Guadalmedina. In ''Corsairs of the Levant'', Alatriste joins the Spanish galleys fighting the Muslims in the Mediterranean and is accompanied by Gurriato, a Muslim auxilliary from Wahran (now in Algeria, part of the Spanish Empire at the time of the novels).

* Most of [[Alatriste]]'s enemies are aristocrats, but one of his friends include an aristocrat, the Count of Guadalmedina. In ''Corsairs of the Levant'', Alatriste joins the Spanish galleys fighting the Muslims in the Mediterranean and is accompanied by Gurriato, a Muslim auxilliary from Wahran (now in Algeria, part of the Spanish Empire at the time of the novels).

* Hammer Films' SpaceWestern ''Moon Zero Two'' had an American pilot hero with a Russian engineer sidekick (and a British everything else, but that's another trope entirely) as part of its philosophy that space exploration would dissolve all the old Earth prejudices.

* ''BlackHawkDown'' is about 120 American soldiers going into Somalia and fighting Somalis. Nearly every American soldier is white but there is literally just one black guy named SPC Mike Kurth (Gabriel Casseus). The fact that he's the only black soldier is never mentioned by any character in the film.

* If it wasn't for the presence of Steven Gomez, one might think the writers of ''Series/BreakingBad'' are bigoted against Mexicans.

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* Illya Kuryakin in ''TheManFromUNCLE'', who turned out to be a friendly Russian spy. [[JustifiedTrope justified]] because the agency they worked against [[EnemyMine was hated by both the free world and the communist bloc]]. Quickly promoted to joint protagonist after positive fan reaction, so ceased to be 'token'.

* If it wasn't for the presence of Steven Gomez, one might think the writers of ''Series/{{Breaking Bad}}'' are bigoted against Mexicans.

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* Ainsley Hayes in ''Series/TheWestWing'' is a Republican lawyer in a Democratic White House. She was added to the show due to complaints Sorkin received about Republicans always coming off as the bad guys. In-universe, most people outside the White House assume that Bartlet hired her as a bipartisan publicity stunt; inside the building, she's recognised as being just as frighteningly competent as anyone in the main cast.

* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', one of the Howling Commandoes is Jim Morita, a Japanese-American man played, again, by Kenneth Choi. When another soldier comments on his race, Morita indignantly says "I'm from Fresno, Ace".[[JustifiedTrope Justified since there]] [[ShownTheirWork were a number of Japanese-Americans soldiers in World War 2.]]

* Rampart in ChrisClaremont's ''{{Gen13}}'' (Arab Muslim during the War on Terror). Noble gesture, but unfortunately a bit CaptainEthnic; the guy said "Oh Allah!" so many times you'd think it was his CatchPhrase.

* Ainsley Hayes in ''Series/TheWestWing'' is a Republican lawyer in a Democratic White House. She was added to the show due to complaints Sorkin received about Republicans always coming off as the bad guys. In-universe, most people assume that Bartlet hired her as a bipartisan publicity stunt.

** Garak, also on DS9, is a Cardassian who, despite officially being a spy working for the enemy, typically sides with the Federation where it really counts.

* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' has Hugo Stiglitz, the only non-Jewish German in a Nazi-killing unit. (Aldo Rayne is of course not Jewish, but he isn't German, either.)

** [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Seven of Nine]], being a de-assimilated Borg serving on a Federation ship, is arguably an example too.

* The trope is {{Invoked}} by Jacobson in Creator/JoWalton's ''[[Literature/SmallChange Half a Crown]]'', who is prominently the only Jewish member of The Watch, a sinister StateSec organization that is more-or-less a British gestapo. The remaining British Jewish population perceive him as a CollaboratorFigurehead, not knowing Jacobson is running a ZeroApprovalGambit and is [[RageWithinTheMachine using his resources within The Watch]] to help run a large-scale UndergroundRailroad.

* A rare modern example is Djaq from the BBC's recent ''Series/RobinHood'', a friendly Arab woman who's as good a fighter as the rest of the crew and gets to bag her chosen Merry Man at the end of Series 2 (she's a total MarySue).
** They've been adding a Saracen to the Merry Men since the 1980s TV serial. First time the Saracen has been a TwoferTokenMinority though.

* FantasticRacism example on ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': Benders and non-Benders are at war. Non-Bender Asami Sato joins the New Team Avatar.

* FantasticRacism example on ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': Benders and non-Bendres are at war. Non-bender Asami Sato joins the New Team Avatar.

* Contessa [=DeFontaine=] for ''[[{{SHIELD}} S.H.I.E.L.D.]]''. At least for a while...

* ''AcesIronEagleIII'' has old WorldWarTwo pilots working alongside another old WorldWarTwo pilot...who is Japanese.

* In addition to Lelouch/Zero himself, [[TheEmpire Britannian]] TV producer Diethard Reid from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' fits this trope for the [[LaResistance Japanese resistence group]], The Black Knights. Instead of believing in their cause, Diethard is a {{Jerkass}} who joins because he worships Zero and he finds amusement in them.