History Main / TokenEnemyMinority

* ''Sgt. Fury's ComicBook/HowlingCommandos'':

** In [[ComicBook/RainbowRowellsRunaways the 2017 series]], Gib is the only Gibborim willing to abandon his people's obsession with reclaiming the Earth.

* ''{{Series/Charmed 1998}}'' had an arc involving the demon Cole falling in love with Phoebe and pulling a HeelFaceTurn for a while.

* Most of Literature/{{Alatriste}}'s enemies are aristocrats, but he is also friends with 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).

* Golden Girl in ''ComicBook/TheInvadersMarvel'' (Japanese during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII -- note that she's a {{Retcon}} hero; real World War II comic books didn't do this).

*** One episode (''Future Imperfect'') has Riker wake up sixteen years into the future, a time where he is now captain of the ''Enterprise''. He is startled to see a Ferengi Ensign on the bridge and remarks on the unlikeliness of this, his first clue as to what is really going on. Despite this, ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''featured a Ferengi joining Starfleet only seven years after this episode of TNG was broadcast.

* ''Film/TheUntouchables'' is about prohibition agents fighting Italian mobsters run by Al Capone. One of the agents, George Stone (birth name Giuseppe Petri), is also Italian. This leads to bigotry from Irish-American cop Jim Malone (Sean Connery) who calls him a "thieving wop" upon discovering that he is Italian. Interestingly enough, Stone is played by Andy Garcia who is actually Cuban, not Italian, but is famous for playing Italian characters.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', you choose which of the two warring countries to side with, and so, who the TokenEnemyMinority is depends on which version you're playing. Hoshidan Ninja Kaze and Nohrian Cavalier Silas will join the Avatar character no matter which side you choose (though under different circumstances in different routes). If you choose Nohr, Kaze is the TokenEnemyMinority, due to overhearing how the Avatar wishes to end the conflict by reforming Nohr from within [[spoiler:and his latent guilt for not preventing their kidnapping in the first place]]. If you choose Hoshido, it will be Silas and the Avatar's servants, Jakob and Felicia, whose personal loyalty to the Avatar trumps their nationalism. Silas in particular has to deal with a lot of anti-Nohrian suspicion in his interactions with his Hoshidan comrades, while Kaze's easygoing charm spares him the worst of it. Both are considered extremely trustworthy and likable by both sides.

* Golden Girl in ''ComicBook/TheInvadersComicBook'' (Japanese during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII -- note that she's a {{Retcon}} hero; real World War II comic books didn't do this).

* Rampart in Creator/ChrisClaremont's ''ComicBook/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.
* Golden Girl in ''ComicBook/TheInvaders'' (Japanese during World War II -- note that she's a {{Retcon}} hero; real World War II comic books didn't do this).

** Worf in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' is a fantastic variant of the same, as a member of what was the main BigBad alien race in the original ''Series/{{Star Trek|the Original Series}}'', though by the time of the new series relations are tense, but no longer hostile, and they improve over the course of the franchise due in no small part to Worf himself.
** Before TNG, the Star Trek comics had Konom, a Klingon defector serving on Kirk's Enterprise.

* Sayid Jarrah from ''Series/{{Lost}}''. He served in the Gulf War. In the Iraqi Republican Guard. Dude.

* The remake of ''Film/RedDawn2012'', in which the North Koreans are the enemy, had an Asian-American Marine played by Kenneth Choi (himself of Korean ancestry) working with Colonel Tanner.

The character often remains stereotypical in ways other than being an enemy. In cases where this overlaps with TokenNonHuman, this results in TokenHeroicOrc.

* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's story ''Literature/SixthColumn'' was a reworking of a Creator/JohnWCampbell story where the YellowPeril invades America. Heinlein wrote that he had to remove racist elements from the original story, and the final story has a Japanese-American as one of the good guys. Assuming this was an addition by Heinlein (which seems likely), it may be unique as an example of the trope used during World War II.

** Fischer is an officer in the Heer who is working as a ReverseMole for the British SOE, and is Rousseau's contact in Paris. It's heavily implied that, while he is loyal to Germany, he hates the way the Nazis are running things.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'':
** One episode involves a BadFuture where the world has become a LadyLand ruled by {{Straw Feminist}}s. The one girl who is not a villain is Sally, who turns out to be Numbuh 3's granddaughter.
** Teenagers are prominent antagonists, as Kids Next Door operatives are decommissioned as soon as they turn 13. [[spoiler: Both Maurice and Chad turn out to be {{Fake Defector}}s who were GoodAllAlong.]]

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

* Hillman's ''Air Fighters Comics'' (1941-48) featured two, reformed villainess Valkyrie (Liselotte von Schellendorf) and her Air Maidens in the ''Airboy'' feature (she would reappear in later incarnations of that franchise) and The Heap, a proto-Swamp Thing in ''Skywolf''. The Heap was World War 1 German flying ace, Baron Emmelmann, merged with swamp vegetation.

* Considering that the Fire Nation are the main antagonists of the series, then [[spoiler:Zuko]] will fulfill this role after he joins Team Avatar in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''.
** An earlier example is Aang's past life, Avatar Roku. Roku was a Fire Nation Avatar who explicitly opposed the war and is the second Fire Nation citizen Aang meets who does. (The first is Shyu, who helps Aang contact Roku's spirit.) Roku serves as Aang's SpiritAdvisor and the lesson Aang takes from learning his life story is that people from the Fire Nation aren't born evil.

* ''Fanfic/CodeGeassPaladinsOfVoltron'': Twofold - he leads the Black Knights and is a Britannian Prince, [[spoiler: and is the leader of the Paladins of Voltron despite being one-quarter Galra (though he doesn't know it yet).]]

* [[spoiler:Isaac]] becomes this in ''Series/TheOrville'' after his people starts a war against the Union. [[spoiler:He remains part of The Orville's crew after he has a change of heart during the ship's occupation by the hostile Kailon extermination force traveling to Earth.]]

* A similar case of Fencer is Tyger in the animated series ''WesternAnimation/FievelsAmericanTails'', series base in Creator/DonBluth's movie ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', Tyger is Fievel's friend and the only good cat in a town full of villain cats.

* Slimer in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostBusters'', yes the series shows that not every ghost is evil and some ghosts can be very cooperative with the Ghostbusters, but that doesn't change the fact that Slimer is a ghost helping the [=GHOSTbusters=]. He was call a traitor for several spirits, like Samhain. Naturally he has a similar role in the successor series ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters''.
* Garahl nar Hhallas in ''WesternAnimation/WingCommanderAcademy'', the animated series based in the game of the same name. Hhallas acomplishes more or less the same role of Hobbes in the aforementioned game.