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An awful relic from less enlightened times, or a sign that the attitudes from those times have not gone away completely. Comic relief characters in the Small Annoying Creature or The Scrappy mold whose strangeness in appearance and behavior is put down to their being of a different race or ethnicity to the heroes. Often highlighted by their being extreme gonks in an otherwise normal cast. Sometimes, ironically, they were put in precisely because the creators wanted some diversity in the cast. This is definitely one case where Monochrome Casting would have been a lot less offensive.

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  • Ethnic Scrappy
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  • An awful relic from less enlightened times, or a sign that the attitudes from those times have not gone away completely. Comic relief characters in the Small Annoying Creature or The Scrappy mold whose strangeness in appearance and behavior is put down to their being of a different race or ethnicity to the heroes. Often highlighted by their being extreme gonks in an otherwise normal cast. Sometimes, ironically, they were put in precisely because the creators wanted some diversity in the cast. This is definitely one case where Monochrome Casting would have been a lot less offensive.
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  • An awful relic from less enlightened times, or a sign that the attitudes from those times have not gone away completely. Comic relief characters in the Small Annoying Creature or The Scrappy mold whose strangeness in appearance and behavior is put down to their being of a different race or ethnicity to the heroes. Often highlighted by their being extreme gonks in an otherwise normal cast. Sometimes, ironically, they were put in precisely because the creators wanted some diversity in the cast. This is definitely one case where Monochrome Casting would have been a lot less offensive. This is a mostly Discredited Trope, fit only for Lampshading. It is, however, still sometimes used straight (see picture), and annoying Jive Turkey black characters are not uncommon. Modern remakes tend to remove the racism and comic nature of such characters. See also Uncle Tomfoolery and But Not Too Foreign. Contrast Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales. Examples of Ethnic Scrappy include:
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