A collection of tropes concerning ethnic/national/racial stereotypes used as heroes. This index also enlists fictional races that are usually depicted as all being good/benevolent.
Compare Benevolent Monsters for the fantasy equivalent, and Pleasant Animals Index for the animal/mammal equivalent. Contrast Evil Race Tropes. Not to be confused with Politically Incorrect Hero and Noble Bigot. Can lead to Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales if the Real Life counterpart of the stereotype finds said stereotype acceptable or positively funny.
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General
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: When a white male hero gets a successor who is female or belongs to a minority.
- Always Lawful Good
- Captain Ethnic: A superhero whose theme is their ethnicity or nationality.
- Captain Geographic: A superhero with a name, outfit and/or characteristics based around their country of origin.
- Captain Patriotic: A superhero who serves the ideals of their nation.
- Five-Token Band: Every member of the heroic group is a minority not represented by the rest of the team.
- Multinational Team: A team of heroes has members from different countries, race or ethnicity.
Specific Stereotypes
- The All-American Boy
- America Saves the Day: When the USA portrayed as the main good guys ready to solve any global crisis.
- Asian and Nerdy: An intellectual character of Asian descent serves the role as The Smart Guy of the hero team.
- Awesome Aussie: Australians who can be quite heroic and brave at certain points.
- Badass Native: When the native tribespeople are defending their village from an invading tribe or colonial soldiers.
- Black and Nerdy: An intelligent character of African ethnicity serves the role as The Smart Guy of the hero team.
- Brave Scot: The Scottish are depicted as honorable, noble and fearless.
- Chummy Commies
- Courteous Canadian
- Dashing Hispanic: Several of these characters can have a fearless and/or altruistic outlook of life.
- Eagle Land: The Type 1 "Beautiful" flavor is explicitly a positive stereotypical depiction of either the United States or American culture as a whole.
- English Rose
- Fighting Irish: Some Irish are good-natured, even when in conflict.
- The Friendly Texan
- Good Ol' Boy
- Gorgeous Greek: Sometimes depicted positively.
- Heroic Russian Émigré: Anti-bolshevik Russian expats are portrayed as good guys.
- Indian Maiden: They are the calming force behind her father or chieftain, aiding him through the difficult times of woe in an age that threatens their way of life.
- Japanese Politeness: A polite Japanese character, and/or the tendency of Japanese people to be very affable and benevolent.
- Japanese Spirit (as it shows itself as a plethora of virtues, as well a Sub-Trope of Heroic Spirit.)
- Magical Asian
- Magical Jew
- Magical Native American
- Magical Negro
- Magical Romani: A Romani with supernatural powers who is normally portrayed positively.
- Mighty Whitey
- Minnesota Nice
- Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters: When The Mafia and/or the Japanese Yakuza are portrayed in a positive light.
- Nice Jewish Boy: A mild-mannered Jewish young man who is seen as an ideal role model.
- Noble Savage
- Officer O'Hara: An Irish (or Irish-American) police officer who sometimes helps keeping peace in the city.
- Old-Fashioned Copper: British bobbies are characterized for being morally upstanding law enforcers.
- Quintessential British Gentleman: A British who can be depicted as good guys in some stories.
- Rambunctious Italian: Several of these Hot-Blooded Italians tend to be good-natured Boisterous Bruisers in fighting or Guile Heroes whose skill at talking exceeds their combat abilities.
- Scary Black Man: Some of these characters can be portrayed as good guys (whether they're Gentle Giants or otherwise).
- Southern Gentleman: A polite and proper guy from the American south, typically with a few unpleasant traits.
- White Man's Burden: A white character sets out to help improve the lives of a (usually racial) minority.
- Yamato Nadeshiko
