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** Ororo Munroe, a.k.a. ComicBook/{{Storm}}, daughter of an African-American father and a Kenyan mother. Also, during Claremont's run as writer, there was some rather strong subtext that she's bisexual. She also believes in a mysterious female deity referred to as "Goddess" or "Bright Lady", which makes her an adherent of a (probably fictional) minority religion.

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** Ororo Munroe, a.k.a. ComicBook/{{Storm}}, [[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]], daughter of an African-American father and a Kenyan mother. Also, during Claremont's run as writer, there was some rather strong subtext that she's bisexual. She also believes in a mysterious female deity referred to as "Goddess" or "Bright Lady", which makes her an adherent of a (probably fictional) minority religion.



*** The Exiles' Sunfire, an alternate-reality Mariko Yashida, was Japanese, female and homosexual.
** Banshee: The original one an Irish Catholic, his daughter (formerly Siryn) also female.

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*** The Exiles' Sunfire, an alternate-reality Mariko Yashida, was Japanese, female female, and homosexual.
** Banshee: The original one is an Irish Catholic, his daughter (formerly Siryn) is also female.



** ComicBook/{{Magneto}}: Jewish and (after the writers finally made up their mind) German.

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** ComicBook/{{Magneto}}: Jewish and (after the writers finally made up their mind) minds) German.



** Indra, one of the Indian recruits, is a Jain, member of a small religious minority not just in America, but also in his native country.
** Colossus in his 1970's and 1980's shape and form: Russian (from Siberia), atheist and communist. Not so remarkable in his native Soviet Union, but quite an assemblage of minorities in New York.
** Original team-member Iceman after a retcon involving his alternate-reality teenage counterpart: Son of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father and Gay.
** Northstar: French-Canadian, Catholic and gay. And now partner in a multiracial same-sex marriage.

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** Indra, one of the Indian recruits, is a Jain, a member of a small religious minority not just in America, but also in his native country.
** Colossus in his 1970's 1970s and 1980's shape and form: Russian (from Siberia), atheist and communist. Not so remarkable in his native Soviet Union, but quite an assemblage of minorities in New York.
** Original team-member team member Iceman after a retcon involving his alternate-reality teenage counterpart: Son of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father and Gay.
** Northstar: French-Canadian, Catholic Catholic, and gay. And now partner in a multiracial same-sex marriage.



* Katherine "Kate" Kane, the new ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}, is a Jewish lesbian with long (and complicated) history with Renee, [[HilariousInHindsight which is ironic]], considering that the ''original'' Batwoman and Batgirl were created in order [[TheBeard to prove that Batman and Robin were not gay]].

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* Katherine "Kate" Kane, the new ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}, is a Jewish lesbian with a long (and complicated) history with Renee, [[HilariousInHindsight which is ironic]], considering that the ''original'' Batwoman and Batgirl were created in order [[TheBeard to prove that Batman and Robin were not gay]].



* The 2011 ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' relaunch introduced Bunker, an openly-gay teenage superhero from Mexico. He is the first gay member of the main Teen Titans branch.

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* The 2011 ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' relaunch introduced Bunker, an openly-gay openly gay teenage superhero from Mexico. He is the first gay member of the main Teen Titans branch.
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* ''Series/FellowTravelers'': Marcus and Frankie are gay African Americans.
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* ''{{Series/Hightown}}'': Jackie is a woman of Dominican heritage and lesbian.

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* ''{{Series/Hightown}}'': Jackie is a woman of Dominican heritage and lesbian.a ButchLesbian. While the cast has other Latino people and lesbians, she's the only one who's both. The other lesbians are also largely [[LipstickLesbian more femme]].



** Victoria Neuman is a woman of color in this adaptation, changed from the white Victor Neuman. Her ethnicity is [[AmbiguouslyBrown left unclear]] though. (Claudia Doumit is of Italian and Lebanese ancestry).

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** Victoria Neuman is a woman of color in this adaptation, changed from the white Victor Neuman. Her ethnicity is [[AmbiguouslyBrown left unclear]] though. though (Claudia Doumit is of Italian and Lebanese ancestry).
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': Amaya is deaf, of Asian descent, and confirmed to be gay by the creators.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': Amaya is deaf, of Asian descent, and confirmed to be gay by the creators.in a lesbian relationship.
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* ''Series/SixFeetUnder'': Keith is black and gay.
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** Kallian Tabris is a biracial bisexual city elf.

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** Kallian Tabris is a biracial bisexual city elf. She stops being the TokenMinority once Soris and Zevran join the party.

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* Charlene Bellis, the new controller of the [[Literature/TheRailwaySeries North Western]] [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends Railway]] in ''Fanfic/SodorsLegendOfTheLostTreasureBadEnding'' is a person of colour who is also a lesbian.



* There's a threefer in the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/SomethingAlwaysRemains'': Vanna Belrose is Asian/European, female, and asexual. [[spoiler:Her twin sister, Vesper, and her Aunt Bonnie also count as twofers, being part Asian as well, and female]]. There's also a Black woman, [[ChekhovsGunman Gwen Carlisle]], [[spoiler:who's related to one of the missing children, and plays a key role in the Smiling Man's downfall]].


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* Charlene Bellis, the new controller of the [[Literature/TheRailwaySeries North Western]] [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends Railway]] in ''Fanfic/SodorsLegendOfTheLostTreasureBadEnding'' is a person of colour who is also a lesbian.
* There's a threefer in the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/SomethingAlwaysRemains'': Vanna Belrose is Asian/European, female, and asexual. [[spoiler:Her twin sister, Vesper, and her Aunt Bonnie also count as twofers, being part Asian as well, and female]]. There's also a Black woman, [[ChekhovsGunman Gwen Carlisle]], [[spoiler:who's related to one of the missing children, and plays a key role in the Smiling Man's downfall]].

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* In the ''Series/{{Glee}}'' fanfic [[http://archiveofourown.org/series/8386 Story of Three Boys,]] Puck mentions a few times that he suppressed his [[ArmouredClosetGay homosexuality]] more or less subconsciously for ''years'', because it was bad enough that he was the poor, Jewish kid whose [[DisappearedDad dad]] [[ParentalAbandonment left]].



* Deconstructed in the ''Danny Phantom'' one-shot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12133384/1/A-Shallow-End A Shallow End]]''. Paulina laments that she could be either a "token lesbian" or "token Latina", but to be both would be unacceptable. This only accentuates her {{gayngst}} and [[DrivenToSuicide suicidal ideation]].
* ''Fanfic/PokemonAMarvelousJourney'': Merlin Knowles is both Black and autistic.
* The protagonist of ''Fanfic/PoundTheTable'', lawyer Noa Schaefer, is female, Jewish, lesbian, and a mutant (and less than 5 feet tall), inserted into the Franchise/MarvelUniverse in the 1980s. She mentions that it only took her six months to notice that she was hired by her law firm to be the token woman hire, to be seen and not heard.



* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomverse'': In the stories where Paul London is starring in, he's the only adult and Hispanic member of White Gestalt as the others are either teens -- Gladion at 14 and Specter around 16 - 18 -- or a child -- Tokio at 10 -- and Japanese descent (or the Pokémon equivalent for Gladion and Tokio).



* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomverse'': In the stories where Paul London is starring in, he's the only adult and Hispanic member of White Gestalt as the others are either teens -- Gladion at 14 and Specter around 16 - 18 -- or a child -- Tokio at 10 -- and Japanese descent (or the Pokémon equivalent for Gladion and Tokio).

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* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomverse'': ''Fanfic/PokemonAMarvelousJourney'': Merlin Knowles is both Black and autistic.
* The protagonist of ''Fanfic/PoundTheTable'', lawyer Noa Schaefer, is female, Jewish, lesbian, and a mutant (and less than 5 feet tall), inserted into the Franchise/MarvelUniverse in the 1980s. She mentions that it only took her six months to notice that she was hired by her law firm to be the token woman hire, to be seen and not heard.
* Deconstructed in the ''Danny Phantom'' one-shot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12133384/1/A-Shallow-End A Shallow End]]''. Paulina laments that she could be either a "token lesbian" or "token Latina", but to be both would be unacceptable. This only accentuates her {{gayngst}} and [[DrivenToSuicide suicidal ideation]].
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In the stories where Paul London is starring in, he's ''Series/{{Glee}}'' fanfic [[http://archiveofourown.org/series/8386 Story of Three Boys,]] Puck mentions a few times that he suppressed his [[ArmouredClosetGay homosexuality]] more or less subconsciously for ''years'', because it was bad enough that he was the only adult and Hispanic member of White Gestalt as the others are either teens -- Gladion at 14 and Specter around 16 - 18 -- or poor, Jewish kid whose [[DisappearedDad dad]] [[ParentalAbandonment left]].
* ''Fanfic/TenVersusBlight'':
** Theron Mahariel is
a child -- Tokio at 10 -- and Japanese descent (or the Pokémon equivalent for Gladion and Tokio). black gay Dalish elf.
** Kallian Tabris is a biracial bisexual city elf.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Julio is gay and of Latino descent (stated to be Costa Rican in one episode and Cuban in another).
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* ''Series/SpinCity'': Carter Heywood is black and gay.

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* ''Series/SpinCity'': Carter Heywood Heywood, the Director of Minority Affairs, is black and gay.
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* ''Series/SpinCity'': Carter Heywood is black and gay.
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* Michael Collins from ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily''. While he's black in a majority black cast, he's also part-Powhatan and a gender-nonconforming gay (as confirmed in the revival series ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamilyLouderAndProuder'').

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* Michael Collins from ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily''. While he's black in a majority black cast, he's also part-Powhatan and a gender-nonconforming gay (as confirmed in the revival series ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamilyLouderAndProuder''). The reveal series also has Randy Leibowitz-Jenkins, who is black and gay.
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* Echo (formerly Ronin): Native American, Latina, female, and deaf. Also, a [[SweetPollyOliver cross-dresser]].

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* Echo (formerly Ronin): Native American, Latina, female, and deaf. Also, a [[SweetPollyOliver cross-dresser]].{{Crossdresser}}.
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* ''WebComic/PrincessPrincess'': Amira is Black and a lesbian, as slowly revealed due to her attraction toward Sadie (whom she marries at the end).

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* ''WebComic/PrincessPrincess'': Amira is Black and a lesbian, as slowly revealed due to her attraction toward Sadie (whom she marries at the end). She's the only main character of color (Amira's parents appear briefly).
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it's all jumbled so I put this F before a G to aid future alphabetizing, however slightly ;-)

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* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': Lieutenant Reece is the only black main character and a woman.
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* Charlene Bellis, the new controller of the [[Literature/TheRailwaySeries North Western]] [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends Railway]] in ''Fanfic/SodorsLegendOfTheLostTreasureBadEnding'' is a person of colour who is also a lesbian.
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* A plot point in ''Series/GenV'' when a scandal rocks Godolkin University. Vought, the omnipresent corporation backing the school, hesitates to spotlight the real hero of the hour, Jordan Li, because they're East Asian and bigender (i.e. too diverse for middle America). Vought insteades push Andre and Marie (who are black), though they did little more than stand by, because they're considered more palatable and will score points with the NAACP.

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* A plot point in ''Series/GenV'' when a scandal rocks Godolkin University. Vought, the omnipresent corporation backing the school, hesitates to spotlight the real hero of the hour, Jordan Li, because they're East Asian and bigender (i.e. too diverse for middle America). Vought insteades push instead pushes Andre and Marie (who are black), though although they did little more than stand by, because they're considered more palatable and will score points with the NAACP.
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Rewriting this. They're not a token if the cast is diverse, but they are a token for how they are seen by the execs in universe


* ''Series/GenV'': Jordan is Asian, bisexual, and bigender, though calling them "token" is a stretch among such a diverse cast. As the only main character who's East Asian and trans however they narrowly count.

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* ''Series/GenV'': A plot point in ''Series/GenV'' when a scandal rocks Godolkin University. Vought, the omnipresent corporation backing the school, hesitates to spotlight the real hero of the hour, Jordan is Asian, bisexual, and bigender, though calling them "token" is a stretch among such a diverse cast. As the only main character who's Li, because they're East Asian and trans however bigender (i.e. too diverse for middle America). Vought insteades push Andre and Marie (who are black), though they narrowly count.did little more than stand by, because they're considered more palatable and will score points with the NAACP.
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** Both the lesbians who Ava (nearly) hooks up with on the cruise are women of color, one with East Asian ancestry the other is olive-skinned.

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** Both the lesbians who Ava (nearly) hooks up with on the cruise are women of color, one with East Asian ancestry ancestry, the other is olive-skinned.olive-skinned with an unknown ethnicity.
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* In ''Series/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.

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* In ''Series/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. Cam tries to invoke this by pretending to be Native American when they meet with the principal.
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* ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods: Pedro is Latino and gay.
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* ''Film/TheNovice'': Dani, a ButchLesbian who is of unclear ethncity with olive skin and dark brown curly hair (played by a Dominican-American actress). She's the only person of color in the film.

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* ''Film/TheNovice'': Dani, a ButchLesbian who is of unclear ethncity ethnicity with olive skin and dark brown curly hair (played by a Dominican-American actress). She's the only person of color in the film.
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* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'': Izzy Garcia, the Green Dino Fury Ranger, is a dark-skinned lesbian.

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* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'': Izzy Garcia, the Green Dino Fury Ranger, is a dark-skinned lesbian. Her girlfriend Fern, who ends up [[Series/PowerRangersCosmicFury becoming an orange Power Ranger]], is an Asian lesbian.
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* ''Series/GenV'': Jordan is Asian, bisexual, and bigender, though calling them "token" is a stretch among such a diverse cast. As the only main character who's East Asian and trans however they narrowly count.
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* ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'': Sulu is the only Asian man and the only confirmed gay man among the ''Enterprise'' crew.
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* The [[TimeTravelTropes time-travelling]] [[Franchise/TheDCU DC Comics]] hero [[http://www.bigredhair.com/chronos/index.html Chronos]] (no, not the supervillain) is Walker Gabriel. He was adopted as a kid and didn't learn his background until years later, although he was obviously non-white. It turns out he's half-Chinese and half-''ancient Mayan.'' His adoptive parents, incidentally, were also a mixed couple, his dad being white and his mother Asian. [[spoiler:In the alternate timeline created when he [[HeroicSacrifice saves his mother's life by erasing his own history,]] they adopt a little white girl, instead.]]

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* The [[TimeTravelTropes time-travelling]] [[Franchise/TheDCU DC Comics]] hero [[http://www.[[https://www.bigredhair.com/chronos/index.html com/time-tunnel/interface/chronopolis/ Chronos]] (no, not the supervillain) is Walker Gabriel. He was adopted as a kid and didn't learn his background until years later, although he was obviously non-white. It turns out he's half-Chinese and half-''ancient Mayan.'' His adoptive parents, incidentally, were also a mixed couple, his dad being white and his mother Asian. [[spoiler:In the alternate timeline created when he [[HeroicSacrifice saves his mother's life by erasing his own history,]] they adopt a little white girl, instead.]]
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* ''WebVideo/OutWithDad'': New Vanessa, or Nessa, is a Latina lesbian and the only person of color in the cast.

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* ''WebVideo/OutWithDad'': New Vanessa, or Nessa, is a Latina lesbian and the (the only person woman of color in the cast.main cast).

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* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts:'' Benson is a gay African-American teenager.

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Benson is a gay African-American teenager.


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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
** Clyde [=McBride=] is black and has respiratory issues (at least one episode has an inhaler implying he has full-on asthma). He also has anxiety issues sufficient that he has his therapist on speed dial, making him at least a threefer.
** Harold [=McBride=] is African-American and gay.
** CJ Casagrande is a Latin American boy with Down Syndrome.
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* ''Film/TheNovice'': Dani, a ButchLesbian who is of unclear ethncity with olive skin and dark brown curly hair (played by a Dominican-American actress). She's the only person of color in the film.
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** Ororo Munroe, a.k.a. Comicbook/{{Storm}}, daughter of an African-American father and a Kenyan mother. Also, during Claremont's run as writer, there was some rather strong subtext that she's bisexual. She also believes in a mysterious female deity referred to as "Goddess" or "Bright Lady", which makes her an adherent of a (probably fictional) minority religion.

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** Ororo Munroe, a.k.a. Comicbook/{{Storm}}, ComicBook/{{Storm}}, daughter of an African-American father and a Kenyan mother. Also, during Claremont's run as writer, there was some rather strong subtext that she's bisexual. She also believes in a mysterious female deity referred to as "Goddess" or "Bright Lady", which makes her an adherent of a (probably fictional) minority religion.



** Comicbook/KittyPryde: Jewish, female, and bisexual as confirmed by ''ComicBook/{{Marauders}} #12''.
** Comicbook/{{Magneto}}: Jewish and (after the writers finally made up their mind) German.

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** Comicbook/KittyPryde: ComicBook/KittyPryde: Jewish, female, and bisexual as confirmed by ''ComicBook/{{Marauders}} #12''.
** Comicbook/{{Magneto}}: ComicBook/{{Magneto}}: Jewish and (after the writers finally made up their mind) German.



** Comicbook/{{Gambit}}: Cajun, American Francophone, Catholic.

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** Comicbook/{{Gambit}}: ComicBook/{{Gambit}}: Cajun, American Francophone, Catholic.



* In ''Comicbook/SupergirlBeingSuper'' Kara Danvers/Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'s friend Dolly Granger is a lesbian Black girl.

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* In ''Comicbook/SupergirlBeingSuper'' ''ComicBook/SupergirlBeingSuper'' Kara Danvers/Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'s Danvers/ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s friend Dolly Granger is a lesbian Black girl.



* ComicBook/ScarletWitch and ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} from Comicbook/TheAvengers are the mutant children of an Ashkenazi Jewish father (ComicBook/{{Magneto}}) and a [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Roma]] mother.

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* ComicBook/ScarletWitch and ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} from Comicbook/TheAvengers ComicBook/TheAvengers are the mutant children of an Ashkenazi Jewish father (ComicBook/{{Magneto}}) and a [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Roma]] mother.



* Monica Chang from ''Comicbook/AvengersAI'' is a Chinese Muslim.

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* Monica Chang from ''Comicbook/AvengersAI'' ''ComicBook/AvengersAI'' is a Chinese Muslim.



* ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'' has introduced [[http://www.geekologie.com/2011/08/miles-morales-the-multicultural-spiderma.php Miles Morales,]] a half Black, half Latino child, as the new Franchise/SpiderMan.

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* ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'' has introduced [[http://www.geekologie.com/2011/08/miles-morales-the-multicultural-spiderma.php Miles Morales,]] a half Black, half Latino child, as the new Franchise/SpiderMan.ComicBook/SpiderMan.



* ''ComicBook/VoteLoki'' included a joke about how the title character could become America's first supervillain ''and'' female president. Outside of the joke modern Comicbook/{{Loki}} is established to be bisexual (Comicbook/YoungAvengers), and [[OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous genderfluid]] (Comicbook/LokiAgentOfAsgard) in addition to classically being the fictional minority of [[ChildOfTwoWorlds Jotun-Asgardian]].
* John Weller/Darr the Afflicter in ''Comicbook/{{The 99}}'' uses a wheelchair and is also white.

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* ''ComicBook/VoteLoki'' included a joke about how the title character could become America's first supervillain ''and'' female president. Outside of the joke modern Comicbook/{{Loki}} ComicBook/{{Loki}} is established to be bisexual (Comicbook/YoungAvengers), (ComicBook/YoungAvengers), and [[OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous genderfluid]] (Comicbook/LokiAgentOfAsgard) (ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard) in addition to classically being the fictional minority of [[ChildOfTwoWorlds Jotun-Asgardian]].
* John Weller/Darr the Afflicter in ''Comicbook/{{The ''ComicBook/{{The 99}}'' uses a wheelchair and is also white.

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