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14	->''"I used to think you were smokin' but a lot of that had to do with the fact that I thought you were mixed race and that never fails to get me goin'."''
15	-->-- '''Lauren''' (to Puck), ''Series/{{Glee}}'', "Silly Love Songs"
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17	When being mixed-race -- and more importantly, ''looking'' mixed-race -- is seen as more attractive, interesting, and exotic InUniverse.
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19	This can manifest in several ways. A racially homogenous community might react with interest to a mixed-race character's features, similar to AttractionToOutliers, especially if there is a uniqueness value. A character might react positively to the children or potential children of an interracial couple, or more insidiously, [[ChosenConceptionPartner aim for bearing or siring mixed-race children themselves]]. A monoracial character might affect physical traits that make them more [[AmbiguouslyBrown ethnically ambiguous]], such as [[ButNotTooWhite darkening their skin to look less pale]].
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21	In animated works, mixed ancestry is often used to justify unusual phenotypes, regardless of [[HollywoodGenetics how unlikely these might be in real life]]; these rarer skin, hair, and eye colors might contribute to the character's perceived attractiveness. For example, it is common in Japanese media for a mixed white/Japanese (''haafu'', a loanword meaning "half") [[GorgeousGaijin beauty]] to have [[PhenotypeStereotype light hair and eyes]], traits that stick out in a predominantly dark-haired and dark-eyed society, even though such a person is 99% more likely to have their Asian parent's black hair and brown eyes.
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23	In many real-world societies reflected in fiction, the most common phenotypes that receive this are those that mix visibly Caucasian/Eurocentric features with traits that indicate another race, eg. darker skin or monolids. Eurocentric features are familiar to and already considered attractive by the majority of the population, but the character has just enough "[[FacialProfiling ethnic features]]" to make them stand out. This can be considered a "half-measure" approach to diversity, in which characters of color are upheld as attractive but with features associated with white people, and other prejudices like colorism may still come into play. See ButNotTooBlack. In cultures that are not predominantly white, it can be the other way around: white heritage results in features that distinguish them from everyone else, but not ''too'' much that they look totally unfamiliar.
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25	This trope is TruthInTelevision: fetishization and exoticization for their looks is a documented experience by many mixed-race people, which they can experience from both white communities and communities of color. In addition, foreign ([[ButNotTooBlack often Eurocentric]]) features figure into the beauty standards of many countries even if the vast majority of the population does not have them, resulting in mixed people who do have these features being upheld. However, while this trope usually focuses on the multiracial character's appearance, characters who don't look like a mix of their ancestries (like many real-life mixed people) can qualify as well, especially if one of their heritages is specifically stereotyped as sexy/attractive and adds a specific allure to them -- see EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench or InhumanlyBeautifulRace.
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27	Compare and contrast HalfBreedDiscrimination, a more overt form of prejudice against biracial individuals, although they can go hand-in-hand (since fetishization is often rooted in prejudice; for example, a BigotWithACrush might be unable to reconcile their racism with their crush's "different" beauty), and ButNotTooForeign (when a character is part-foreign to make them "exotic", but also part-whatever the target audience's demographic is as not to make them too alien). See also the various types of RaceFetish and ForeignFanservice. Note also HybridPower, which is when mixed ancestry gives the character some form of advantage.
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29	To avoid gushing over mixed-race people, this trope is '''Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly'''.
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37	* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', Asian people are believed by the characters to have been wiped out, and Mikasa (half-([[FantasyCounterpartCulture alternate]]) Japanese and half-Germanic white) is thought to be the last person of Asian descent alive. This gives her a unique phenotype, with straight dark hair and almond-shaped eyes. She is considered beautiful, with Jean in particular falling in LoveAtFirstSight and extolling her features.
38	* ''Manga/{{Azumi}}''
39	** Azumi has brown-tinted hair and blue eyes, with characters speculating one of her parents must have been a foreigner, and is frequently extolled as being beautiful in a ButNotTooForeign way.
40	** Konishi Shizune has blond hair and is dazzlingly handsome, [[spoiler:as does his identical twin brother Tadane]]. This exoticism facilitates his claim that he is the reincarnation of Jesus... [[spoiler:and lets them manipulate everyone into starting a civil war]].
41	* ''Manga/FoodWars'': The Aldini brothers are half-Japanese and half-Italian and are both {{Chick Magnet}}s, with the elder brother Takumi having a dedicated fan club at Totsuki despite being a first year and making even older female students gush about him. While he doesn't have his own fan club, some members of Takumi's also comment on how cute they find Isami. Why the differential treatment? Takumi has blonde hair, blue eyes, and is slim whereas Isami has brown hair and is chubby (his eye color is also blue but you rarely see them; also, in some seasons he actually slims down).
42	* The Haiba siblings of ''Manga/{{Haikyuu}}'' are [[ButNotTooForeign half-Japanese and half-Russian]]. Lev's tall height (an advantage in volleyball) is favorably attributed to his Russian heritage, while his teammates have crushes on his beautiful sister Alisa. Both of them became models during the time skip.
43	* Hayasaka from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' is mentioned in her character profile to be a quarter Irish, and the only time it is ever directly addressed by another character in-series is when Go is commenting on her looks at a mixer.
44	* ''Manga/KillBlue'' has Noren Mitsuoka, who is described as tall and beautiful "like a model", and is constantly getting leered on by boys and men alike, resulting in her [[DoesNotLikeMen distaste for the opposite sex]]. She ascribes her good looks to her Canadian mother.
45	* Usui of ''Manga/MaidSama''. His superhuman attractiveness and unusual coloring (blonde hair and green eyes) are attributed to being one-quarter British (his mother was British-Japanese).
46	* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'':
47	** This is part of Tamaki's brand appeal in the host club as his half-Japanese, half-French heritage has given him the blonde hair and blue eyes that is seen by others as being princely and charming.
48	** Similarly, due to his Russian heritage, Nekozawa has natural blonde hair and blue eyes, which is considered in-universe to make him look princely and attractive. However, due to his photophobia, he masks those features with a black wig and brown contacts; that in conjunction with his penchant towards the occult makes him come off as creepy and off-putting most of the time.
49	* ''Manga/PrincessJellyfish'': Kuranosuke is half-Japanese and half-Italian, and got both his delicate good looks and love of fashion from his Italian mother.
50	* ''Manga/{{Ratman}}'': Mirea Mizushima and her older sister Crea are half-English, and thus have blonde hair. Mirea in particular is regarded as an exotic beauty by her classmates.
51	* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': Eri Sawachika is half-Japanese, half-English, with blonde hair and light brown eyes. She is one of the school's two {{Dude Magnet}}s, along with the [[YamatoNadeshiko more classically beautiful]] Yakumo, and frequently has to turn guys down. Eri's mixed heritage makes her attractive to her Japanese peers and an object of derision to Europeans, which gives her [[SoBeautifulItsACurse a complex]] about her looks.
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55	* Writer Nick Adams, best known for his work on ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'', is black with a Native American wife and he has joked about this trope in his essay book ''Making Friends With Black People''. A lot of people have told him and his wife that their future children will be beautiful, though he knows that's no guarantee. In the book he said he hopes to have a son who looks like Creator/DwayneJohnson, a daughter who looks like Creator/RosarioDawson, and then a third child who looks like Creator/CarrotTop just to mess with people's expectations.
56	* Comic Clinton Jackson (who is black) jokes about how most people who hear that his wife is Japanese tend to always remark on how beautiful their children will be. His response?
57	--> "I ''guess''... or they could have short legs and long arms." ''kneels'' "'Don't cry, sweetie. Come Halloween, you're gonna be the best [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]] ''ever''. Now give daddy a hug.'"
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61	* ''Fanfic/IWokeUpAsADungeonNowWhat'': Being from another world, Taylor has a combination of features that would indicate mixed ancestry in the Conquered Lands, and once she figures out how to create an avatar several people comment on how attractive they find her.
62	* ''Fanfic/MyDeepestDarkestSecret'': Solon is a [[VampiricWerewolf vampire-werewolf hybrid]] and also an InUniverse DudeMagnet. Though nobody interested in him is aware of his heritage (and for many good reasons) but they're still aware of his attractiveness.
63	* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. When Tom Paris first sets eyes on [[HalfHumanHybrid Brazilian-Venerian]] B'Elanna Torres, he notes that she has "that exotic Venerian allure", [[ButNotTooForeign but not too alien for discomfort]] thanks to her human blood. Tom tries hitting on her and is shot down.
64	-->"Crash and burn, space-jockey!" gloated a Maquis at the adjourning table. "Don't feel bad. That dame's as prickly as a Martian cactus."\
65	"Maybe." Paris was too experienced a Lothario to give up at the first knockback. "Half-Venerian, half-Brazilian, and [[CatholicSchoolgirlsRule raised as a convent girl]]. Could be interesting..."
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69	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Tyler seems to find Aaron Z. attractive because he, like Tyler, is Blasian and Tyler shouts "Z! I love you, man!" while at the concert at which Aaron Z. performs.
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73	* ''Film/JungleFever'': PlayedWith. Drew is half-black and half-white. She gets concerned that her black husband's initial attraction to her was because she is lighter-skinned because he cheats on her with a white coworker.
74	* ''Film/LoveIsAManySplendoredThing'' goes out of its way to state that Han Suyin is an exotic Eurasian beauty.
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78	* Mixed with EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench in ''Literature/AndTheMountainsEchoed''. Nila Wahdati is a half-French, half-Afghan woman who is consistently described as strikingly beautiful. Her glamorous appearance, sexual poetry, and love for high society and the finer things in life all fit her French ancestry. The ''mixed'' part is important too, as her Parisian audience finds her Afghani background interesting, while her {{oblivious\|Adoption}}ly adopted daughter Pari (a full-blooded Afghan) unfavorably compares her "common" looks with Nila's regal ones.
79	* ''Literature/{{Brokenclaw}}'': The eponymous villain is half Chinese and half Native American, which gives him what are described as striking and charismatic features.
80	* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'':
81	** Ranec is the son of a Caucasian father and a black African mother (the former journeyed from what's now modern Ukraine). He is described as being attractive to many women among his father's people as a result of his exotic looks (dark skin, curly hair), which results in him sleeping with a number of them (therefore conceiving several children).
82	** Joplaya's father is Caucasian, while her mother is strongly implied to come from East Asia.[[note]]The series takes place in the Ice Age, so precise locations can be tricky to pin down and most modern ethnic groups have yet to be formed, although her father lives in the area that's now France[[/note]] She also inherited features from both parents and is noted by Zelandonii characters (her father's people) to have a slightly 'exotic' look to her, which in many people's opinion only increases her beauty and allure.
83	* ''Literature/EleanorAndPark'': Park and Josh are half-white and half-Korean. Josh is white passing, but Eleanor [[RaceFetish reacts with interest to Park's more "Asian" features]], such as his darker skin and almond-shaped eyes. [[HollywoodGenetics His eyes are also green]], despite this being unlikely.
84	* In the first book of ''Literature/ModernFaerieTales'', Tithe, the main character's mixed heritage is fetishized by several characters who comment on how lucky she is for having Japanese features and blonde hair. This is made a little ironic because [[spoiler: she's not any human ethnicity, she's actually a fairy glamoured to look like a human. Presumably the changeling human girl she was glamoured to look like will grow up to have the same blonde hair and facial features]].
85	* ''Literature/NoliMeTangere'': Maria Clara's Eurasian features make her a great beauty in the mostly-native Filipino town of San Diego. Also a case of [[spoiler:ChocolateBaby, since she's not the daughter of the Filipino Tiago, but the Spanish Damaso]].
86	* ''Literature/OnEarthWereBrieflyGorgeous'': Little Dog's mother Rose had features that were considered striking because she's the daughter of a Vietnamese woman and a white American soldier.
87	* Kita Charles of ''Literature/{{Parrotfish}}'' is half-black and half-Japanese, and the narrator considers her the perfect example of an ethnically ambiguous, mixed-race beauty.
88	-->'''Grady:''' In Kita the combination of racial backgrounds had produced a stunner: Her skin like polished oak, and she wore her black hair in long dreads. [...] You couldn't take her apart and say, ''Ah yes, that part is Japanese; that part is African''. She was a perfectly mixed combination -- her own unique person.
89	* In ''The Quest for Saint Aquin'', a 1951 sci-fi short by Creator/AnthonyBoucher, the protagonist encounters a [[HalfHumanHybrid Martian-American]] waitress and notes the "spectacular combination" of the "[[BuxomBeautyStandard highly developed Martian chest expansion and the highly developed American breasts]]". He also notes that while Martians and humans can breed, their offspring is infertile, and some unscrupulous entrepreneurs [[TheOldestProfession have been exploiting this]].
90	* In ''Literature/{{Remnants}}'', [[TokenEvilTeammate Yago]] is the son of the first African-American female president and her white husband. His skin tone is noted to be a perfect bronze color; since he's known to have had a lot of plastic surgery, [[BornInTheWrongCentury Violet]] wonders at one point if it's natural.
91	* Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium: Down the ages of Middle-Earth, repeated mixed marriages first between the [[InhumanlyBeautifulRace angelic Maiar]] and the elves, and then between elves and Humans, have produced people of unearthly beauty.
92	** ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'': Dior, (the son of Luthien, herself the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman, and half-elf and half-Maiar) is called "Dior the beautiful" and "Dior the fair", and the narration emphasizes that his "threefold race" heritage contributed to his beauty.
93	--->Then Dior arose, and about his neck he clasped the Nauglamir; and now he appeared as the fairest of all the children of the world, of threefold race: of the Edain, and of the Eldar, and of the Maiar of the Blessed Realm.
94	** ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': This effect recurs down the generations as late as both Arwen and Aragorn, who are children on the genetic lines of mixed-race marriage. Their own children eventually bring together the stuff of all three races going right back to the Dawn Age of ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''.
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99	* ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'':
100	** The show sometimes emphasizes the backgrounds of its mixed-race aspiring-model contestants, ostensibly to help give them an edge in the beauty/modeling industry or to make their photoshoots unique.
101	*** The Asian heritage of Cycle 2's April Wilkner (white/Japanese) was played up by the stylists, with one shoot even adorning her with [[DragonsUpTheYinYang "Asian" symbols like dragons]].
102	*** Invoked by Cycle 6's Jade Cole (black/white), who branded herself a "biracial butterfly" throughout the show.
103	*** Cycle 11's Sheena Sakai (Japanese-Korean) was frequently compared to Creator/KimoraLeeSimmons (black/Japanese-Korean) for her mixed-Asian look.
104	** Invoked in Cycle 13 with a shoot glamorizing the concept of ''hapa'' (a Hawaiian term for being of mixed ancestry; fittingly, the shoot was in Hawaii). The girls were asked to pose as "biracial" models and dressed and accessorized to fit both heritages (for example, one contestant was Tibetan/Egyptian, another Mexican/Greek) during the photoshoot. This necessitated putting some of the girls in {{brownface}}, {{blackface}}, and {{yellowface}}.
105	* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': While staking out a hospital room, Amy (Cuban) and Jake (white Jewish) reveal to an [[RacistGrandma older woman]] that they are thinking about having kids. She remarks that mixed babies are the cutest, to Jake and Amy's slight discomfort.
106	* ''Series/{{Community}}'': Britta invokes this in "Romantic Expressionism" when she mentions that Annie (white) and Troy (black)'s babies would be "extra cute".
107	* ''Series/TheConfessionsOfFrannieLangton'': Sal tells Frannie customers frequently desire biracial women like her, so she begins working with her at the School House brothel flogging them for their pleasure.
108	* ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'': In the first season, when Rebecca (a white Jewish woman) is infatuated with Josh (a Filipino man), she makes multiple comments about googling cute mixed-race babies. In "I'm Back at Camp With Josh!" she says they're much cuter than the "plain" ones, and in "Josh and I Work on a Case!" Rebecca and Paula look up mixed-race babies and fawn over them.
109	--> '''Paula''': Oh, I just love mixed-race babies...I don't know. I still think Jewish and Filipino is the best mix.\
110	'''Rebecca''': All right, Paula, come on, we got to get back to work...I mean, Nigerian and Greek is a close second.\
111	'''Paula''': Oh, God, that's a beautiful baby.
112	* In ''Series/{{Glee}}'', Lauren is initially attracted to Puck because she thinks he's multiracial and is disappointed to learn he's just a white boy with a tan. Ironically, Puck does have a mixed-race half-brother, but by the time Jake started high school, Lauren and the other older students had graduated.
113	* In ''Series/HappyEndings'', Max tells Dave (Black) that his and Jane's (White) kids are going to look great because "half-Black is God's photoshop".
114	* In the pilot episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' LovableSexManiac Barney's EstablishingCharacterMoment is reminding StraightMan Ted that Barney [[RaceFetish had a thing for half-Asian women, though he's moved onto Lebanese women]].
115	* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'':
116	** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]": Lampshaded by Lestat de Lioncourt (who is a wealthy Frenchman in an era when France was still an active colonial power, which includes colonies in Africa) when he mentions that he finds what he calls [[StarbucksSkinScale cinnamon skin tone]] -- a mix of African and European descent -- attractive while [[EatingTheEyeCandy gazing seductively]] at Louis de Pointe du Lac, who is biracial and fits in the "cinnamon" category. Louis becomes even more desirable in Lestat's eyes when the latter learns that the former has French ancestry (Lestat is delighted that Louis speaks French and has a French name), so Louis' "exotic" quality is more "accessible" to Lestat. Lestat frequently compliments Louis' looks (e.g. [[PrettyBoy "beautiful face," "pretty head"]]). This also extends to the biracial Lily because Lestat refers to both her and Louis as "misfit beauties." Lestat is madly (even obsessively) in love with Louis, seduces him, and then turns him into a vampire so that they can be companions for eternity.
117	** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E3IsMyVeryNatureThatOfADevil Is My Very Nature That of a Devil]]": Antoinette Brown (a white American woman) has a flirty expression and smiles at Louis when she divulges, "I like burnished [[note]]copper, which is a medium brown, is a metal that is commonly burnished, so she perceives Louis as having copper-toned skin[[/note]] complexions."
118	** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E4TheRuthlessPursuitOfBloodWithAllA ...The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding]]": While Lestat isn't sexually attracted to his vampire daughter Claudia (who is also biracial), he nonetheless uses similar terms to describe her as he does with Louis and Lily (e.g. "pretty little head," "belladonnic beauty"). Considering that Lestat's [[ILoveYouVampireSon vampire son Louis is his lover]] and he had sex with Lily, the ''only'' reason why Lestat doesn't fetishize Claudia is because [[NotGrowingUpSucks she doesn't have the body of an adult]], and this is confirmed in "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart]]" where there's IncestSubtext when Lestat explains to Claudia (who demanded to know which of her two vampire fathers will fuck her) that he won't have sex with her because she lacks a fuller figure.
119	* Taken to extremes in ''Series/{{Letterkenny}}'' when Reilly, Jonesy, Ronsy and Daxy all compete in a "takedown" tourney" to bed the most the most sexual partners.
120	--> '''Reilly:''' Took down an Austral‐Asian just last week.\
121	'''Ronsy:''' How exotic.\
122	'''Jonesy:''' Smashed an Indo‐Laotian two nights ago.\
123	'''Daxy:''' Festive. You ever smashed an Arctic‐Kuwaiti?\
124	'''Reilly:''' No. Ever smashed an Ecuadorian‐Albanian?\
125	'''Ronsy:''' 'Course. Ever smashed a Sierra Leonean‐Saudi?\
126	'''Jonesy:''' No. Ever smashed a Sri Lankan French citizen?\
127	'''Daxy:''' Several. You ever smashed a Uruguayan‐Israeli?\
128	'''Reilly:''' What?\
129	'''Ronsy:''' How about a Croatian‐Quebecer?\
130	'''Reilly and Jonesy:''' Likely?\
131	'''Daxy:''' You ever smashed a Tibetan‐New Zealander?\
132	'''Jonesy:''' No.\
133	'''Ronsy:''' How about a Moroccan‐Hong Konger?\
134	'''Reilly:''' No.\
135	'''Daxy:''' Ever smashed a Cuban‐Uzbek?\
136	'''Jonesy:''' Come on.\
137	'''Ronsy:''' You ever smashed a Maltese‐Congolese?\
138	'''Reilly:''' Boys, I think that's a dog.\
139	'''Daxy''': You ever smashed a Baltic‐German‐Spaniard?\
140	'''Jonesy:''' That's for sure a dog, buddy.\
141	'''Ronsy:''' How about a Baltic‐Russian‐Iraqi?\
142	'''Daxy''': You've for sure smashed a Peruvian‐Turk.\
143	'''Ronsy:''' Everyone has. Same way everyone's smashed a Welsh‐Nigerian.\
144	'''Daxy''': Gimme a Swedish‐Filipino for dinner.\
145	'''Ronsy:''' And a Guatemalan‐Slovak for dessert.\
146	'''Daxy''': Oh...gimme a Tamil‐British Virgin Islander, Ronsy.\
147	'''Ronsy:''' Gimme a Kosovar‐Greenlander, Daxy, I"m gonna gobble him all up.\
148	'''Reilly:''' We could be in trouble in this takedown tourney, buddy.\
149	'''Daxy''': Gimme a Qatari‐Montenegrin, Ronsy.\
150	'''Ronsy:''' Gimme a St. Lucian‐Luxembourger, Daxy.\
151	'''Jonesy''': I think we're ''in'' trouble, buddy.\
152	'''Daxy''': I'm gonna fuck a Dutch‐Afghan!\
153	'''Ronsy:''' I'm gonna fuck a Falkland Island‐Serb!\
154	'''Daxy''': I'm gonna fuck a Somali‐Chinese Mainlander!\
155	'''Ronsy:''' I'm gonna fuck an Islamic‐Spartan!\
156	'''Daxy and Ronsy''': This is Islamic‐Sparta!
157	* ''Series/NewGirl'': In addition to his consistent comments fetishizing Cece's Indian background, Schmidt has also made several comments about how attractive their babies would be.
158	-->'''Schmidt:''' An Indian-Jewish baby, who wouldn't want that? Think about the bone structure.
159	* Played for laughs in ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''. Ann's [[AmbiguouslyBrown ethnic ambiguity]] [[note]]though her family is not seen in the show, she is played by the black/Jewish Creator/RashidaJones[[/note]] is frequently praised by Leslie ("Nobody can match your ethnic hybrid energy."), who also suggests this will reflect positively on any children she has.
160	-->'''Leslie:''' But you are so brilliant and kind and stupid hot, you're definitely going to find a wonderful guy who loves you and respects you and fills your home with multiethnic genius babies.
161	* ''Series/TheSopranos'': Italian-American Tony Soprano is immediately interested in Richie's beautiful and playful new mistress Valentina, and is even more intrigued when she tells him she's [[SpicyLatina half-Cuban]] and half-Italian. He calls it a dangerous combination.
162	* Comes up several times in different seasons of ''Series/TerraceHouse'' due to the show featuring many half-Japanese people. Notably:
163	** ''Boys & Girls in the City'': Half-Italian Hikaru Ota was highly sought after by Misaki and both the girls in the house and the commentators noted that his mixed background gave him his handsome appearance.
164	** ''Opening New Doors'': Both Shion (half white American) and Noah (half-Austrian) were considered "high spec" prospects by house members and the commentators in part because of what they considered to be exceedingly good looks due to their mixed ancestry. Both would be the focal point of {{love triangle}}s during their stay in the house.
165	* In ''Series/ToddlersAndTiaras'', one of the families is mixed-race and the white mother says how her mixed-race children are cuter than her white daughter.
166	* ''Series/WillAndGrace'': When Will learns Grace is about to dump a black boyfriend, he wonders why since not too long before, Grace was [[StarbucksSkinScale pouring milk in her cappuccino to show him what pretty colors their kids would be]].
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170	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': The ''Blood of Angels'' book for 1st Edition states that aasimars, humanoids with [[UnevenHybrid partial descent]] from a [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Good-aligned outsider]], generally appear to be particularly physically attractive versions of the base creature thanks to inheriting some of [[AngelicBeauty the beauty of their celestial ancestor]]. The same is not generally true of tieflings, who tend to look stereotypically demonic and are widely feared due to their [[OurDemonsAreDifferent fiendish ancestry]].
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174	* ''Theatre/ForColoredGirls'': Nyla and Tangie are both mixed race, with a White father and Black mother. Their grandfather arranged this, since he considered [[ButNotTooBlack lighter skin more beautiful]].
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178	* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Ann Takamaki is 3/4 Japanese and a 1/4 white American and is considered in-universe to be very beautiful, even modeling part-time. However, this also leads to HalfBreedDiscrimination since because she is attractive with features (light hair and eyes) associated with {{Gyaru Girl}}s, her classmates assume she is [[ReallyGetAround promiscuous and sleeping around]], and [[SlutShaming shun her for it]]. Her looks also attract the attention of skeevy and abusive PE teacher Kamoshida.
179	* ''VisualNovel/ShiningSongStarnova'': Julie Watanabe is half-Japanese and half-American, and is an attractive young woman with blonde hair and a flirty bad-girl attitude. [[spoiler:It's later revealed she's trying to exploit both this and the GorgeousGaijin tropes by dying her hair blonde and exploiting Japanese stereotypes of foreigners as promiscuous in order to get by... and hide that she is having trouble navigating the cultural differences between Japan and America]].
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183	* ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'': Goria White-Eye (an orc) was sold to a brothel where she eventually gave birth to a half-human half-orc daughter. The brothel's owner thought the girl would be an excellent investment in several years as an "exotic". Goria fled, but later had the same offer made by a different pimp.
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187	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamKnight''. In "Field Test", Bruce Wayne begs off a meeting because he has a prior appointment (actually because he's planning to bust up a meeting between TheMafia and TheMafiya). Well aware of Bruce's reputation, the man's he's talking to jokes "BlondeBrunetteRedhead?" and is impressed with the reply: "Half Russian, half Italian."
188	* Lampshaded in ''{{WesternAnimation/Archer}}'' in the episode "Blood Test", when Ray predicts that Lana, upset over Archer having a son, is going to get drunk and jealous and ask him to have a baby with her.
189	--> '''Pam''': No, you guys should totally do that! The mochaccino ones are the cutest!
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