History Main / MistakenForRacist

* As ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'' is white and his ArchEnemy Black Manta is black, Arthur has on occasion come off looking like a racist, which is only emphasized by the fact that Aquaman has superpowers and Manta does not. Most notably, Manta once goaded Aquaman into attacking him in public when Manta didn't have his PowerArmor on, making it look like Aquaman had decided to just beat up a random black guy in broad daylight for no reason.

** Ever since the events of ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen and ComicBook/DeathOfX, The Avengers' relationship with the ComicBook/XMen has been pretty heated, especially with [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]]. This has caused Marvel's Mutants and their Fanbase to develop a, quite frankly justified, AlternativeCharacterInterpretation [[FantasticRacism of the opposing team's views on Mutant rights]]. ComicBook/CaptainAmerica especially. From defending the Inhumans who were [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything gassing mutants to death]], to policing a hate rally of mutants in an Issue of Uncanny X-Men (2019). Captain America claims that he believes in the sanctity of the individual, to make up your own opinions and thoughts, even if they are those of a bigot. His mind hasn't changed even after Magneto [[ItMakesSenseInContext used his mind altering helmet to erase any Anti-Mutant thoughts]], revealing that there weren't any in the first place. Nevertheless, in an issue of Uncanny X-Men (2013), Cyclops delivers a well deserved ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Captain America and the Avengers for their inaction towards hate crimes commited against Mutants, stating they're just as bad as the people oppressing them.

* Played for laughs in issue #9 of [[ComicBook/ActionComicsNew52 Grant Morrison's run]] on ''ComicBook/ActionComics'', which focused on AlternateUniverse where Franchise/{{Superman}} was [[RaceLift black]]. The Lex Luthor of that Earth is still a light-skinned man, and upon being arrested, is shown arguing that he is not a racist and hates Superman because [[FantasticRacism he's an alien]], not because he's black.

** Happens with the fame-hungry villain Screwball in ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan''. She refuses to attack a woman she deems to be "too ethnic" because she's worried that it would make her seem like a racist.

** In volume 2, issue 76 ("No Evil Shall Escape My Sight"), Hal Jordan enters a neighborhood full of African-American families to deal with a mugging, and is quickly accused of racism by everyone. An elderly black man points out that Hal patrols the galaxy helping and protecting aliens, but hardly ever helps the black people. Hal is very shaken up by this, apparently forgetting that when he saves the world as part of the Corps or the Justice League, he saves it for, you know, every single race and ethnicity, not just light-skinned people. Then again, a recurring Inuit member of his support characters was "lovingly" referred to as Pieface (which all modern incarnations establish said character only being called that by actual racists).

* ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'': One factor in the PoorCommunicationKills between Dys and Tang is that twins started drifting apart right around the time Tang got gene therapy to get a body of the right sex, and everyone assumed that Dys had a problem with it. In reality, as Dys himself puts it, he knew Tang was a girl "five minutes after she knew" and considered her his sister long before anyone else did. What really happened is that Tang's already prolific intelligence latched onto the science behind her transition and gave her a newfound motivation to excel academically, with the nasty side effect of turning her into an InsufferableGenius. This interacted badly with their family's history of chronic depression, worsening a bad patch Dys was having independently. By the game's beginning, Tang is genuinely worried about Dys but expresses it in a way that is easy to read as her only pretending to worry because she's expected to do so as his sister, while a BookDumb Dys is living on the fringes of the colony's society with a severe case of SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome.