History Main / TwoferTokenMinority

** He wasn't Hispanic if he was from Spain. In fact, Hispanic was originally only used to refer to people from the island of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), but now refers to anywhere in Latin America. Spain is a European country and people of Spanish descent are white.

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* RosarioDawson is 1/4 Afro-Cuban, 1/4 Afro-Puerto Rican, 1/4 Native American (Apache-Seminole), and 1/4 Irish.

* Ashley Williams in ''MassEffect'' is a woman, [[SpicyLatina Hispanic]], and the only openly religious person in a traditionally-[[OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions atheist]] genre. Subverted, however, in that ''MassEffect'' tends to make everyone the unique representative of some group on the team.

* Wade/Unique from ''{{Glee}}'' is black and transgender.
** Also, Rachel's dads are gay and Jewish.
*** And one of them is black.

** Or, as one story goes, FrankSinatra described him: "You're short, you're one-eyed, and I heard somewhere you're Jewish. Don't be afraid!"

-->--'''The TV Exec''', ''ThatMitchellAndWebbLook''

* RichardPryor; half African-American, half Afro-Puerto Rican.

* 'Celebrity Big Brother Australia', had Anthony Mundine, an Aboriginal Muslim.

** And on LawAndOrderUK, Creator/FreemaAgyeman (who is black) as the assistant prosecutor.

* Lampshaded in "Series/DoctorWho" The Sound of Drums when the Master points out the diversity of the Doctor's "little band" of suddenly-fugitives: Martha Jones is black and female, Jack Harkness is a pansexual white male.

* Invoked in an episode of TheDrewCareyShow, where Drew's brother Steve lost his job at Winnfred-Lauder due to being a crossdresser. After Drew manages to get Steve his job back, Drew asks if Steve is gay. When Steve replies he isn't, Drew says "That's a shame. If you were a gay crossdresser, I could have had you made vice president!" (paraphrased)
* Willow from [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]], who describes herself in Season 8 (the comic) as a "gay Wiccan Jewess".
* In ModernFamily, Mitchell and Cameron want to get Lily into an exclusive preschool and figure that they're shoo-ins because she's an adopted Vietnamese girl with two gay dads. They get beaten by an interracial lesbian couple, one of whom is Indian and disabled, with an adopted African baby.

* YesMinister: "The perfect representative on a government committee is a disabled black Welsh woman trades-unionist."

* The ''WildCATS'' character Voodoo is mixed-race (Half-black and half-white) bisexual. She was also the first black woman to have an ongoing solo series in the DCUniverse.

* Carter from ''SpinCity'' (black and gay). Lampshaded in an episode where Carter refers to him
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* Carter from ''SpinCity'' (black and gay). Lampshaded in an episode where Carter refers to him

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Reba in ''RedDragon,'' the novel to which ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' is the significantly better-known sequel. She herself is a blind woman who works for a photographic film processing company; she jokes that between her and another woman, the company managed to pack eight different minorities into two hires.

* In the [[{{Batman}} Bat-Family]], [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2000}} Cassandra Cain]] is a Threefer: female, Asian, and has a learning disability due to her torturous childhood. The family also has Oracle (female, handicapped). {{Nightwing}} might count in the context of the Bats: not only is he {{Roma}}, but also relatively sane.

* Carter from ''SpinCity'' (black and gay). Lampshaded in an episode where Carter refers to himself as a minority and a character sarcastically remarks "What do you mean, a "minority"? You're black and you're gay. You cover up two thirds of the Earth's surface. You're like ''water''."
** There was also Janelle, a black woman, which came in handy when the Mayor was accussed of being a racist. Not only did he bring up the various civil rights marches he took part in, he states 'I'm even dating a black woman'.
* Lisa Gay Hamilton on ''ThePractice'' (black and female).
** Although there was also Eugene, a black man, and for most of the show's run the women outnumbered the men five to three.
* Lt. Van Buren on ''LawAndOrder'' (black and female). This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in one episode, where she notes that people probably think she got the job (as police lieutenant, not actress in a hit legal drama) for diversity reasons.
** In reality, that was the point of casting the actress. Originally, the cast of ''LawAndOrder'' consisted of six males, only one of whom was a minority. Two men were dropped from the cast (including the black male) and replaced with a white woman and a black woman.
** In the later seasons, Connie Rubirosa got the double whammy of being latina and a woman, working directly under conservative Michael Cutter and old-guard liberal Jack [=McCoy=].
** Dr. George Huang from ''SVU'' is Asian-American and gay.
** And on LawAndOrderUK, Creator/FreemaAgyeman (who is black) as the assistant prosecutor.
* Cambridge on ''Series/PieInTheSky'' (black and female) -- may not count, since the series has multiple female recurring characters, but worth mentioning because she's a TwoferTokenMinority ''in-story'', picked by her PointyHairedBoss as an efficient way of demonstrating his equal-opportunity-employer credentials.
* Marissa on ''Series/EarlyEdition'' takes this one step further: She's black, female, ''and'' blind.
* Toshiko Sato on ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', who's Asian, female and bisexual. The last one might not count since EveryoneIsBi.
* Lampshaded in "Series/DoctorWho" The Sound of Drums when the Master points out the diversity of the Doctor's "little band" of suddenly-fugitives: Martha Jones is black and female, Jack Harkness is a pansexual white male.
* Djaq on the BBC ''Series/RobinHood'', female and Arab.
* Stevie from ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' lampshades this, noting that as a black, asthmatic man in a wheelchair, he can get pretty much any job he wants with his "tokenism".
* Det Kima Greggs from ''TheWire'' is a ''fourfer'' (female, black/Korean mixed-race lesbian). Omar Little is a black gay man; his boyfriends have been Jewish, Hispanic and black. Their status as Twofer Token Minorities is debatable, however--the cast of TheWire is at least two thirds black, and neither character was tokenized.
* James Spurlock from ''Series/ThirtyRock'' is actually called "Toofer" because as one character says "with him you get a two-for-one; he's a black guy and a Harvard guy."
** Though a later episode had the gang coming up with new nicknames for him, one of which was "Threefer, because you're also gay!"
** This is Lampshaded in a later episode. Floyd interviews for a high-level job; Jack thinks he's a shoo-in until they see that the other candidate for the job is a handicapped black man. "You're not beating that."
* "Original Cindy" from ''DarkAngel'' is a black lesbian.
* Bobby D. (the D stands for Dershowitz) from InPlainSight is black and Jewish.
* Invoked in an episode of TheDrewCareyShow, where Drew's brother Steve lost his job at Winnfred-Lauder due to being a crossdresser. After Drew manages to get Steve his job back, Drew asks if Steve is gay. When Steve replies he isn't, Drew says "That's a shame. If you were a gay crossdresser, I could have had you made vice president!" (paraphrased)
* Willow from [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]], who describes herself in Season 8 (the comic) as a "gay Wiccan Jewess".
* In ModernFamily, Mitchell and Cameron want to get Lily into an exclusive preschool and figure that they're shoo-ins because she's an adopted Vietnamese girl with two gay dads. They get beaten by an interracial lesbian couple, one of whom is Indian and disabled, with an adopted African baby.
* This is the entire main cast of ''NoahsArc'' (African-American or Latino and gay), so the Token part doesn't really qualify.
* Angela Pearly-Gates Montenegro [[spoiler:Hodgins]] in ''Series/{{Bones}}'' is a "threefer": a half-Asian bisexual female. She's also the daughter of Billy Gibbons of ZZTop and picked her middle name from his [[ICallItVera guitar]].
** Cam is a African-American female.
* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' starts with the recurring character of Dr. Lanie Parish (African-American female), the local medical examiner and Kate's best friend. The latest season also adds Captain Victoria Gates of the same minority groups.
* YesMinister: "The perfect representative on a government committee is a disabled black Welsh woman trades-unionist."
* Teal'c on ''Series/StargateSG1'' is a weird version of this. He's the Token Black Guy and the TokenNonhuman.
* On ''TheSopranos'', Meadow briefly dates Noah, a half-black, half-Jewish student at NYU. Tony, being the rather, uh, ''old fashioned'' father that he is, is not amused.
* Australian comedy Outland had Rae, an aboriginal wheelchair using [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InsistentTerminology homosexualist]].
* Leah, a black Canadian woman, joins Team One in ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'' after [[spoiler: Lewis' death]].
* {{Smash}}'s Sam Strickland subverts this. He's both gay and black, but he's a big sports fan and a regular churchgoer, two traits not often found among actors/dancers. The actor who plays him downplays his sexuality in interviews, saying it shouldn't matter.
* Norton on ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds'' is a black guy in a wheelchair, though the show also features the Native American Paul Ironhorse. [[spoiler: Until the start of the second season, when they both get killed.]]
* Agent One on ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' is a black man in a wheelchair.
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[[folder:Music]]
* ''WeirdAlYankovic'' invoked this with a threefer in the song, JerrySpringer.
--> "It's been three days since the bitter feud between the KKK and that gay Jewish Black dude."
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* {{TNA}} has Orlando Jordan: Black and openly Bisexual.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/AnyoneCanWhistle'', Hapgood interrogates a black man:
-->'''Hapgood''': Occupation?\\
'''Martin''': [[CivilRightsMovement Going to schools, riding in buses, eating in restaurants.]]\\
'''Hapgood''': Isn't that line of work getting rather easy?\\
'''Martin''': Not for me. I'm Jewish.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Woozie Mu in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto San Andreas'' is a blind Asian. Not so much tokenism, as being necessary for the jokes.
** He's more a ShoutOut to {{Zatoichi}} than anything else. Proficient [[HandicappedBadass blind warrior]] is a predominantly Asian trope.
* Sean Matsuda from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' is Afro-Brazilian and Japanese.
* Alyx Vance in ''Half-Life 2'' is a woman of black and Asian descent... which would make her a three-fer.
** Her dad, Eli, is black and has a prosthetic leg.
* The Demoman of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' calls himself a "a black Scottish cyclops", and laments that there're more f-<[[ClusterBleepBomb extended bleep]]> that the likes of him.
** But only because he hasn't lost both eyes like the rest of his clan always does by his age.
* Rochelle in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' is a black woman.
** However there is also Coach, a black man. This is a step up from the first game which had two white males, a black man and a white woman (also known as the bare minimum of multi-culti).
* The main cast of ''Grand Theft Auto IV'' includes a local druglady Elizabeta Torres (Black/Hispanic female who is also implied to be lesbian or bisexual).
** And the ''Ballad of Gay Tony'' introduces eponymous Anthony Price who is black and homosexual.
* ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' has [[http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Arie Arie]] [[TheVonTropeFamily van]] [[http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Van%20Bruggen Bruggen]], a black bisexual Middle-eastern/Dutch hacker who speaks with a Caribbean accent.
** Aaand still managed to insult him on ''top'' of all that, as he's neither an ally nor an enemy - [[TrueNeutral he'll work for whoever will pay him or failing that, keep him from getting shot.]]
*** Including the ''player'' - giving him a gun to help escape from an ambush results in MercyRewarded - he lampshades the [[WithThisHerring paycheck you get from Sarif]], and puts several thousand credits in your bank account.
* In almost every game he appears in, Moby Jones of ''VideoGame/{{SSX}}'' is both the only black and the only British character. The exception was ''SSX Tricky'', where he was joined by Seeiah, an African-American woman.
* Redguards from Franchise/TheElderScrolls, they are black people that live on a desert and dress in Islamic clothing. They represent both, the Black and the Arabs.
** They also have Japanese traits, though mostly in their backstory.
* Ashley Williams in ''MassEffect'' is a woman, [[SpicyLatina Hispanic]], and the only openly religious person in a traditionally-[[OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions atheist]] genre. Subverted, however, in that ''MassEffect'' tends to make everyone the unique representative of some group on the team.
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* From Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses:
** WebVideo/ThatDudeInTheSuede is an New Zealander Mormon.
** That Chick with the Goggles is an African-German.
** {{Benzaie}} is an French Bisexual Atheist.
** DiamandaHagan is an Irish Married Lesbian Atheist.
* Zaboo in ''TheGuild'' is a self described "Hinjew", half Indian, half Jewish.
* Chaka, among others in the ''WhateleyUniverse''. Chaka is a black female bisexual transgender mutant. Is there such a thing as a ''fivefer''? (Pretty much everyone in Poe Cottage at Whateley Academy is automatically a twofer or threefer, since they're all mutants and all [=LGBTI=], and about half of them are female.)
** And she's 'running up the walls' hyperactive. Sixfer?
** Totem and Lady Astarte count as mutants with that rarest of minorities in superhero works: age. Totem is over a hundred, and Lady Astarte is in her seventies. Both are still badass.
* StatlessAndTactless: "Soo" is shorthand for "Soraya", a middle-eastern name. She's also the only woman in the group.
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* Foxxy Love on ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' is also a threefer: black, female, and bisexual (though EveryoneIsBi according to RuleOfFunny).
* Elisa Maza from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''; female, black, Native American.
** Originally Elisa was Hispanic. She was made half-black and half-Native American to match her voice actress, Salli Richardson.
* When Dale on ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' is being opposed for Gun Club President, he states that his opponent has "already got the black vote -- Earl -- and the gay vote -- Earl."
* Asian Reporter Tricia Takanawa on WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy. (Asian and female) But that is, of course, part of the point.
* ''Supposedly'' Alexis in ''TransformersArmada'' is Vietnamese. However, it's never mentioned anywhere but a writer interview and she looks pretty dang white, so it might not count.
* ''TransformersAnimated'' has the Indian girl Sari as the main human character.
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' has Miko, who is Japanese and the only girl of the three human sidekicks.
* Isabella Garcia-Shapiro from WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb - the only female in the FiveManBand, she is half Hispanic (specifically Mexican) and half Jewish.
** Danville apparently has enough of a Mexican-Jewish population to hold a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utufTTAXQcc Mexican-Jewish Cultural Festival]]. ''Oy-le!''
* Lena Mack from ''Street Sharks''. She's also virtually the only woman there.
** Augura of HotWheelsBattleForce5 (black female in a team of guys) is pretty much a younger version of Lena.
** Not the first time a Nerd Corps show used this trope, as before Augura, there was [[WesternAnimation/StormHawks Piper]]. (In both cases, one can argue for another character sharing one of their minority traits: the WesternAnimation/StormHawks also have the dark-skinned rhino-like Junko, while the Battle Force 5 get their intel from a female sentient, and another of the 5 guys is from Thailand.)
** Piper is also AmbiguouslyGay. Don't forget!
* Conway Stern in the ''{{Archer}}'' episode "Diversity Hire" is black and Jewish. As the episode name suggests, he was hired specifically so that ISIS could maintain its minority quotas, with Malory even introducing him as a "diversity double-whammy".
** Melissa of HomeMovies makes it up with being a girl and [[AmbiguouslyBrown black?]]
* Mack from ''BroTown'': it isn't easy being a Scottish-Jewish-Samoan (and ambiguously gay) [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az-oYj9uGS0]]
* Numbuh 5 from ''CodenameKidsNextDoor'' is a black French-American girl.
* Tish Katsufrakis the eastern European, Jewish vegetarian girl on TheWeekenders
* ''WesternAnimation/SkysurferStrikeForce'' gives us Kim Sakai aka Sliced Ice, she's Asian and the only woman on the heroes side.
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* Condoleezza Rice--black, female, rumoured to be gay. Even if the third one isn't true, though, throw in her being a neoconservative politician and you have a very rare gem indeed.
* Stand-up comedian MargaretCho is a Korean-American female FagHag/bisexual, making her a threefer (by her own standards, at least).
* CNN reporter Soledad O'Brien: female, black, Hispanic.
* Comedian Stephen K. Amos, black and gay.
* Much of the discussion around who Barack Obama might nominate to the Supreme Court has centered on such twofers as Sonia Sotomayor (female and Hispanic) and Kathleen Sullivan (female and gay).
* In the 1930s, Justice Benjamin Cardozo was both Hispanic and Jewish. His ethnic ancestry was downplayed in recent years to allow Sotomayor to take full credit as the first Latino Supreme Court Justice. As a Hispanic, Cardozo was from Spain, not Latin America.
** He wasn't Hispanic if he was from Spain. In fact, Hispanic was originally only used to refer to people from the island of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), but now refers to anywhere in Latin America. Spain is a European country and people of Spanish descent are white.
* Current Australian Federal Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penelope "Penny" Ying-yen Wong, Asian lesbian.
* Sammy Davis, Jr. was Black, Hispanic and Jewish. In his own words, "When I move into a neighborhood, I wipe it out!" Underlined by his golf one-liner, "Talk about a handicap, I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew!"
** and possibly bisexual.
** Or, as one story goes, FrankSinatra described him: "You're short, you're one-eyed, and I heard somewhere you're Jewish. Don't be afraid!"
* Christopher Titus has a joke about his in his material, talking to his kid while watching CNN; "You see that lady there? She's part black, part Japanese, and part Native American. Networks don't like to hire too many minorities so they pack as many as they can into one person." (paraphrased)
* U.S. Representative Barney Frank is Jewish and gay.
** [[RuleOfThree And left-handed.]]
* Canada's two most recent Governor Generals, Adrienne Clarkson (born in Hong Kong) and Michelle Jean (born in Haiti) were non-white and female, as well as both being born outside of Canada.
* RosarioDawson is 1/4 Afro-Cuban, 1/4 Afro-Puerto Rican, 1/4 Native American (Apache-Seminole), and 1/4 Irish.
* Comedian Freddie Prinze (best known to this generation as [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy's]] father-in-law); half Puerto Rican, half Hungarian Jew. He once had a bit where he asked his parents how they met, they said they were on a bus, trying to pick each other's pockets.
* RichardPryor; half African-American, half Afro-Puerto Rican.
* In NickCave & the Bad Seeds we have Kid Congo Powers, who is Mexican and gay, in a band of (allegedly, there was that one time Nick and Blixa kissed, and Nick's manlove comments in his autobiography)) straight white guys.
* Writer Audre Lorde, who was black, lesbian, and legally blind.
* Enka singer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jero Jero]] is African-American, one-quarter Japanese, and an emigrant to Japan.
* British actress SophieOkonedo, who is half Nigerian, half Ashkenazi Jew. After she and her Irish partner gave birth to a daughter, she quipped "She's going to be an Irish, Nigerian Jew."
* TigerWoods certainly fits in this trope; He's 1/4 African-American, 1/4 Thai, 1/4 Chinese, 1/8 Native-American and 1/8 Dutch. He even has created a word for his ethnic make-up (Cablinasian).
* BruceLee, and also his children, Brandon and Shannon Lee count as this. Bruce Lee was 3/4 Chinese and 1/4 German. His children thus were mixed Chinese, German, Anglo-Saxon and Swedish.
* In the band [[BlackEyedPeas The Black Eyed Peas]], apl.de.ap is a Black Filipino, Fergie is white, native American, Mexican, and female, and Taboo is Mexican and Shoshone.
* ThinLizzy singer/bassist Phil Lynott: half Irish, half black Brazilian. The band had also included Scott Gorham, an American, Brian Robertson, Scottish, and Snowy White/John Skyes, both english (although White was from the Isle of.. Wight.) The main/only reason the band is thought of as Irish is because this is where Brian Downey and Lynott grew up and met. Even Gary Moore was ''Nothern'' Irish, whereas the other two were from Dublin.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_he Zheng He]], 15th-century Chinese explorer (mentioned above in Comic Books) has got to count: Muslim and [[BodyHorror a eunuch]].
* [[{{Queen}} Freddie Mercury]] was both Asian (South Asian, to be specific) and bisexual.
* The former [[FrenchPoliticalSystem French Minister of Parliamentary Relations]] and current Ambassador to the OECD, Roger Karroutchi, is a threefer: he's gay, Moroccan, and Jewish.
* Zaha Hadid, the world's most prominent female architect, is an Iranian Muslim.
* Mia Love, current mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah is a female Mormon Republican of Haitian descent.
* British comedian Paul Sindha: Indian and gay (not a threefer as he so far is only known in Britain)
* Jani Toivola - a Finnish actor, dancer, and politician - is black and homosexual.
* GeorgeTakei is Asian (Japanese, to be specific) and gay.
* Bayard Rustin was a close friend of MartinLutherKingJr who influenced him to take a non-violent stance. He was black, openly gay (in 1950's America) and was a Quaker.
* MayaRudolph, born to a black mother and a Jewish father.
* Brazilian comedienne\MsFanservice (and former BigBrother contestant) [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Sato Sabrina Sato]] is half Japanese (maternal side), 1/4 Swiss and 1/4 Lebanese (paternal side), and a heavily-[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caipira_dialect accented]] hillbilly to boot.
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* As a famous Jewish joke puts it, a Jewish man once gets on a bus and sees a black man reading a newspaper in Hebrew. The Jew then exclaims:
--> Ha! It's not enough for him that he's black!
** Subverted in Israel with the Ethiopian Jews. They were a religious minority in Ethiopia, then airlifted to Israel, where they learned modern Hebrew because it was the official language of their new home country.
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* Sean Matsuda from ''StreetFighterIII'' is Afro-Brazilian and Japanese.

** [[RuleOfThree And left-handed]]

* ScarletWitch and Comicbook/{{Quicksilver}} from Comicbook/TheAvengers are the children of a white Jewish father ({{Magneto}}) and a {{Roma}} mother.

* Susannah Dean of Creator/StephenKing's ''TheDarkTower'' is black, female, legless and has multiple personality disorder; notably, every other member of her ka-tet is a white male, except for Oy, who is a billy-bumbler (but Oy is male as well).

** And on LawAndOrderUK, FreemaAgyeman (who is black) as the assistant prosecutor.

** Of the original five members, Iceman might qualify. He is Jewish or half-Jewish (son of a Jewish mother) and many fans see him as a closet gay.