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Twofer Token Minority

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Black and Jewish? He's a diversity double-whammy!note And later on, he becomes a double amputee — so that makes him disabled, too!
"There's a lady newscaster. Look, see, she's black, Asian, Latino, and a woman. I think that's because corporate America doesn't seem to like to hire a lot of minorities, so they try to hire all their minorities in one."
— Christopher Titus, The Fifth Annual End of the World Tour

Called a "twofer" by media analysts, and usually spoken of as intersectionality in a Real Life context. A cast member or show participant who represents two Token Minority groups at once. More stark when most other participants on a show are white males.

Many news broadcasting teams have a white male, and a female minority member (usually Black, Asian, or brown — often of Hispanic heritage). This allows them to have a diverse appearing team even though the number of people on their crew is small. This "twofer" is a practice that is common in the industry and is commonly criticized by media watchdogs and minority interest groups. In particular, the complaint that comes up frequently is that it limits the roles and jobs available to men of color. Unfortunately, some of these complaints are themselves rife with Unfortunate Implications, since they tend to treat minorities as an either/or phenomenon, so e. g. only heterosexual males count as non-twofer representatives of an ethnic group, while gays and women, as well as members of religious minorities, fall under automatic suspicion.

Of course, women are not actually a minority in terms of numbers, but may count as such in media because of the long history of them being marginalized and are considered a 'sociological minority'.

Before adding examples, remember that the character must actually be a token within the context of the story. If a show focuses on Black and Hispanic lesbians, then the whole cast wouldn't fall under this trope because gay women of color are not presented as tokens. But if one character is transgender and disabled, they would. And Fantasy Counterpart Cultures only count if they're acknowledged as minorities in-universe.

Also, it should be noted that there can be strong correlations between belonging to one type of minority and another. For instance, in a global context, most adherents of non-Christian religions also happen to belong to non-"white" ethnic groups, which from Western perspective makes most Muslimsnote  although several Balkan countries have large Muslim but ethnically Slavic populations , Hindus, Buddhists, and others worldwide automatic "twofers" (and the female ones "threefers"). And strangely enough, many twofers are Black and Jewish, yet there is almost no acknowledgment of Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel). Not to mention the fact that race has no correlation with whether someone is LGBT, disabled, or otherwise a member of non-cultural minorities. In Real Life this is called a "double minority", with people who fit into these often having to face extra prejudices (e.g. lesbians of color struggle against racism, sexism, and homophobia).

Technically a similar concept to Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot except without having anything to do with the Rule of Cool.

Note: Obviously, this trope is not limited to combining just two Token Minority groups.

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    Anime & Manga 
  • Berserk: In early arcs, Casca is the only recurring woman, while also being Ambiguously Brown. Averted in later volumes as the cast expands and gets far more recurring female characters and other Ambiguously Brown characters from different parts of the world start to appear. The first anime plays this trope completely straight due to only adapting those early arcs.
  • Boruto: With most of the females in the cast being slender and very light-skinned, Chocho Akimichi is both dark-skinned and chubby.
  • Durarara!!: Simon Brezhnev is an Afro-Russian who sells Japanese sushi.
  • Isabelle of Paris: Count Red's gang is full of former disgruntled French soldiers, who are Always Male. The only exception to this is Irma, a red-headed Hot Romani Woman. Though Red encourages her to stay away from the battle scene, she persists anyway.
  • Lycoris Recoil: Mika is a black man who requires a crutch to walk, and is later revealed to be homosexual. The finale reveals that he faking the disability, keeping it hidden from both LycoReco and his former lover, Yoshimatsu.
  • Tweeny Witches: Lennon is the only mixed character in the franchise and the only male character to live by the culture of the Witch Realm.
    Comic Books 
  • Spoofed in the Italian parody comic A is for Ignorance, where Brullonulla (a Villain Protagonist who can do anything he wants because he haves a PHD and is known for being extremely racist towards anything) is lured in a trap by is enemies with the help of what is known as "the ultimate token character": a Black midget born without legs who is gay, Jewish, speaks with a lisp and haves "other generic handicaps", and also lives in San Marino and tastes like a dictionary if you lick him.
  • In the early 1990s, Archie Comics had the short-lived Black girl Anita in a wheelchair.
  • Even among the Five-Token Band cast of the original Atari Force, Li San O'Rourke stood out for being a Chinese/Irish character, just so the writers could squeeze in an extra ethnicity.
  • The Beano: In the early 2020s, DC Thomson added a number of Affirmative Action Girls to the Bash Street Kids (which had been suffering from The Smurfette Principle for seventy years), all of whom are Asian. Mandi also has anxiety issues, originally appearing in a mental health awareness strip.
  • Black Magick: Nichole is an African-American lesbian. She's the only named woman of color in the comic so far, which features more men than women. Nichole's also one of only two queer characters.
  • Kasper Cole from the Black Panther comic book series is the child of a white Jewish mother and an African-American father. He ends up fathering a child with his Korean-American girlfriend, who jokingly points out all the trouble the boy will likely end up having due to his unique heritage.
  • Jessie Wingo of Blake and Mortimer is not only a female FBI field agent (in the Fifties), but she's also of Native American origin.
  • Joe in Crimson is an Native-Mexican Catholic vampire.
  • Cyborg is Black and, well, a cyborg.
  • In the '90s, DC introduced a character who was half-Black, half-Vietnamese. Unfortunately, they named him Mngrel.
  • The time-travelling DC Comics hero 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. In the alternate timeline created when he saves his mother's life by erasing his own history, they adopt a little white girl, instead.
  • The Defenders: Magdelena Marie aka Veda from the Order is half German, half Mexican, as well as female. This is somewhat Lampshaded with her dropping her last name (Neuntauben) for the media because people had trouble pronouncing it. If you want to get technical, "Calamity" James Wa is an Asian amputee and Sgt. Milo Fields is a Black paraplegic, as well.
  • Doom Patrol has the villainous Monsieur Mallah, who is a threefer minority: French, homosexual, and a talking gorilla. Yes, there are enough in that last category on DC Earth for it to qualify as a minority rather than happenstance, they even have their own city in Africa.
  • Echo (formerly Ronin): Native American, Latina, female, and deaf. Also, a Crossdresser.
  • Sunfire from Judd Winick's run on Marvel's Exiles was a Japanese lesbian. She was also in an interracial relationship with an Alternate Universe version of Spider-Woman.
  • Ren Kimura from Fearless Defenders is Japanese-American and a lesbian. She's also an Inhuman.
  • Claremont's Gen¹³ run had a threefer - a wheelchair-bound Black Muslim. Fourfer if you count his having superpowers. The original Gen 13 also had the Apache lesbian Sarah Rainmaker.
  • Suki Leiber, the main character of Goofyfoot Gurl, is a teenage surfer girl who is half Jewish, half Japanese.
  • Connor Hawke, one of DC's Green Arrows, is a mix of White, Black and Korean. Artists and colorists sometimes don't bother reflecting this in his depiction. Mia Dearden, the second Speedy, is a twofer: female and HIV positive.
  • Jackson Hyde/Kaldur'ahm, the second Aqualad, is Black and gay.
  • Jem and the Holograms (IDW):
    • Jetta who is British and Black. She was white in the original cartoon but that was due to Executive Meddling. The executives wouldn't allow a Black villain but an Evil Brit one was fine. The comic combines her creator's original vision with the fact she is British in the cartoon.
    • There is also Blaze, who is a trans lesbian.
  • The 10 Captain Marvel or Ms. Marvel codename holders include several twofer token minorities, with all who use the codename being at least either female, alien or both. In the mainstream comics, the original Mar-Vell, his son, and Noh-Varr are the only males, and all are (Kree) aliens. Several of the women are racial minorities in the United States:
    • The first Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers, the most well-known holder of the names Ms. Marvel and Captain Marvel, is a female human/Kree hybrid. At one point she led the Avengers team.
    • The second Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau (currently using the name Spectrum), is female and African-American. At one point she also led the Avengers team.
    • The fourth Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, is female, Pakistani-American, and has Inhuman (alien species) genes. She is also the first Muslim to headline a Marvel comics series.
  • Memetic: Aaron Sumner, one of the protagonists, is a threefer given he's colorblind, deaf and gay. This is a plot point, because being colorblind means he's unaffected by the killer meme spreading around the world, and being deaf makes him unaffected by the screams of the people turned by it. In the end he decides to get infected by the meme, like most of the world's population, since he already always felt like an outcast anyway.
  • New Avengers (2015): Toni Ho is an Asian lesbian.
  • The New Warriors had Silhouette, who was half-Black, half-Cambodian, female, and fought crime on crutches.
  • In Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers, Shilo Norman (long established as the Black Mister Miracle) is also Ambiguously Jewish.
  • Scandal Savage from the Secret Six is a biracial (half white, half Native Brazilian) lesbian.
  • S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Jake Oh is Korean-American and gay.
  • Miguel and Gabriel O'Hara from Spider-Man 2099 are half-Mexican, half-Irish.
  • The Strange Academy has Zoe Laveau, a black lesbian. If we consider Marvel Earth's strange groups of people, we can add being a zombie to that list. By that logic, then her girlfriend Dessy would be a lesbian demon.
  • Hero Cruz of Superboy and the Ravers is a gay Puerto Rican American with African heritage.
  • In Supergirl: Being Super Kara Danvers/Supergirl's friend Dolly Granger is a lesbian Black girl.
  • The 2011 Teen Titans relaunch introduced Bunker, an openly gay teenage superhero from Mexico. He is the first gay member of the main Teen Titans branch.
  • Ultimate Marvel has introduced Miles Morales, a half Black, half Latino child, as the new Spider-Man.
  • Vote Loki included a joke about how the title character could become America's first supervillain and female president. Outside of the joke modern Loki is established to be bisexual (Young Avengers), and genderfluid (Loki: Agent of Asgard) in addition to classically being the fictional minority of Jotun-Asgardian.
  • The WildC.A.T.s character Voodoo is mixed-race (half-Black and half-white) and bisexual. She was also the first Black woman to have an ongoing solo series in the DC Universe.
  • In recent interpretations, Wonder Woman is Ambiguously Brown and is confirmed to be bisexual.
  • The X-Men and their spin-offs contain numerous members of various minorities, so it is no surprise that a great many X-characters belong to several at the same time, especially since the launch of the "All-New All-Different" team in 1975. Note that in the following list minority status may change according to whether persons are in or outside their native country:
    • Dr. Cecilia Reyes is a "threefer": an Afro-Puerto Rican female (technically a "fourfer" once you remember she is a mutant).
    • Along similar lines, Armando Munoz AKA Darwin is also Afro-Latino.
    • Ororo Munroe, a.k.a. 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.
    • Nightcrawler: German (especially language-wise), Roma (by adoption) and a Catholic.
    • Sunfire: Japanese and probably Shinto and/or Buddhist. (Which in Japan makes him distinctly part of the majority).
      • The Exiles' Sunfire, an alternate-reality Mariko Yashida, was Japanese, female, and homosexual.
    • Banshee: The original one is an Irish Catholic, his daughter (formerly Siryn) is also female.
    • Kitty Pryde: Jewish, female, and bisexual as confirmed by Marauders #12.
    • Magneto: Jewish and (after the writers finally made up their minds) German.
    • M (aka Monet St. Croix): A Muslim of French-Algerian parentage who's depicted as Ambiguously Brown. Her father is also generally depicted as a Black man, making him a Black Muslim.
    • Karma: Vietnamese immigrant, Catholic, lesbian, and an amputee.
    • Sunspot: Brazilian (speaker of Portuguese), son of a Black father and a white mother, Catholic.
    • Magma: Depending on her origin of mixed Roman and Amerindian descent, also Palaeopagan.
    • Jubilee: A Chinese-American woman of indeterminate religion. Also, an Undead-American and a single mother.
    • Psylocke: A white Englishwoman trapped in an Asian body. Revealed in Uncanny X-Force to be bisexual as well.
    • Gambit: Cajun, American Francophone, Catholic.
    • Bishop: African American, later retconned into being part Australian Aborigine.
    • Bling, one of the young Mutants trained at the Xavier Institute, is African-American and bisexual. Her crush on Rogue is used as a plot point in one story.
    • 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 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 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.
  • X-Wing Rogue Squadron comics don't usually touch on this trope, but "Rogue Squadron 1/2", a short comic taking place just before the run on the Death Star, has four pilots from Red Squadron on a mission. These pilots are Wedge Antilles, Biggs Darklighter, Jek "Piggy" Porkins, and Cesi "Doc" Eirriss. Doc is a Twi'lek woman, though unusually stocky and androgynous compared to how Twi'lek women are usually drawn, and she's the one who pulls a Heroic Sacrifice at the end of the comic. Everyone else is a human male. Everyone in Red Squadron, as seen in A New Hope, is human and male. Wedge's Gamble later tried to justify this, saying that the Rebellion, in the beginning, was almost entirely a human endeavor, with only a few nonhumans in until the movement started to get off the ground. Of course the Darklighter comic drew Doc as slinky, slender, and clinging to her human male WingMates, once again highlighting that one of these things is not like the others.
  • Young Avengers:
    • Wiccan is both Jewish and gay. His boyfriend (now husband) Hulkling is a gay Kree-Skrull hybrid.
    • Gay-Jewish-Mutant-Romani (from his sorta, "it's-a-long-story" mother, Scarlet Witch). Hmm.
    • The same series has former New Mutant Prodigy, who is Black and bisexual. Same with Miss America (lesbian of Latina descent) and Noh-Varr (Kree-cockroach hybrid, bi/queer).
  • Big Brother from Alan Moore's run on Youngblood (Image Comics), a paraplegic Black kid.
    Comic Strips 
  • In Francis, one of Pope Francis's fictional advisers is a Muslim woman👁 Image
    who is also a survivor of human trafficking.
    Fan Works 
  • Angel of the Bat II: Times of Heresy: Lupe, a character from the story's Star City segments, is Latina and transgender.
  • Dr. Warragul Wirrpanda of Bait and Switch is of Australian Aboriginal descent, making him effectively Black and South Asian simultaneously. He's also the Token Human in a command crew otherwise comprised entirely of Rubber-Forehead Aliens (two Bajorans, two Andorians, a Trill, and a Pe'khdar).
  • Deconstructed in the Danny Phantom one-shot A Shallow End👁 Image
    . 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 suicidal ideation.
  • There's a threefer in the Five Nights at Freddy's fanfic, Something Always Remains: Vanna Belrose is Asian/European, female, and asexual. 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, Gwen Carlisle, who's related to one of the missing children, and plays a key role in the Smiling Man's downfall.
  • In the Glee fanfic Story of Three Boys,👁 Image
    Puck mentions a few times that he suppressed his homosexuality more or less subconsciously for years, because it was bad enough that he was the poor, Jewish kid whose dad left.
  • Jikuu Bouken Doctor Who: Tomo Kajiura is the only female, non-Caucasian and non-British member of the main group of heroes, relative to the Doctor and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.
  • In The Legend of Total Drama Island, Leshawna is one of only two Black people out of 22 on the contestant roster (the other being the Jamaican man, D.J.) and the only francophone (i.e. speaks French as her first language), and is explicitly described at her arrival as a "minority 'double play'". Her African descent is canonical; her coming from Quebec is the author's invention because he needed one of the contestants to be familiar with a certain restaurant in Montreal, and although her name is distinctively African-American, it sounds French.
  • Love Feels Like Home: The main character, Sorey Shepard, is autistic and gay.
  • Pokémon: A Marvelous Journey: Merlin Knowles is both Black and autistic.
  • The protagonist of Pound the Table, lawyer Noa Schaefer, is female, Jewish, lesbian, and a mutant (and less than 5 feet tall), inserted into the Marvel Universe 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.
  • Charlene Bellis, the new controller of the North Western Railway in Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure Bad Ending is a woman of color who is also a lesbian.
  • Ten Versus Blight:
    • Theron Mahariel is a black gay Dalish elf.
    • Kallian Tabris is a biracial bisexual city elf. She stops being the Token Minority once Soris and Zevran join the party.
  • In Total Drama fanfic 'Lunch Date with a Goth, an Indie Chick, and a Wide-Eyed Bubble Boy'' Cameron, as he's both the only guy and Black raced in this story.
  • Infinity Train: Blossomverse: 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 ancestry (or the Pokémon equivalent for Gladion and Tokio).
    Films — Animation 
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Out of the main characters, Esmeralda is the only woman and the only character who was born and raised Romani.
  • In Turning Red, out of the main characters, Tyler, as a Blasian-Canadian, is the only one who is two visible minorities at the same time, Black and Southeast Asian.
    Films — Live-Action 
  • Across the Universe (2007): Most members of the cast are straight, white and male, with notable exceptions.
    • Prudence is a lesbian and played by an actress of East Asian descent.
    • Sadie has some obvious black ancestry.
  • Aniara: Isagel appears to be the only woman of color on the Aniara, since the cast are nearly all white. She's also one of only two queer main characters. Bianca Cruzeiro, her actress, is Brazilian-Swedish.
  • Anyone but You: The Beta Couple to the white, straight blonde leads is an interracial lesbian relationship. One bride-to-be, Halle, is the heroine's sister; the other, Claudia, is a biracial woman, half-black and half-white. The cast is otherwise straight and white, except for Claudia's black mother, who gets briefly seen.
  • As Good as It Gets: Frank Sachs is Black and gay (Word of God claims he's actually bisexual, but he never displayed any interest in women in the final film). He's the only man of color in the film, and one of just two queer characters.
  • Atomic Blonde: Delphine serves as the sole main character of color, played by Arab Sofia Boutella, and she's also a lesbian.
  • A.W.O.L.: The only person of color in the film with more than one scene is Haley, a black queer woman who Joey hooks up with. She's also one of just three queer characters.
  • Bird Box: Greg is the only Asian character, and he's also gay (the sole queer person in the cast).
  • blacklight: Mira, a young black woman, is the sole main character of color in a mostly white male cast.
  • Blitz (2024): Mickey, a labor leader who's also an air raid organizer, is Jewish and has dwarfism. He's the only disabled character or Jew in the film.
  • Blockers: Angelica, Sam's crush, is a lesbian of East Asian descent. She's the only character of East Asian descent, while the second LGBT+ person aside from Sam.
  • Bloodthirsty: Grey's girlfriend Charlie (who's a lesbian like her), is of East Asian descent. She's the only person of color in the film, and they're the film's two queer characters.
  • Bodies Bodies Bodies: Sophie and Jordan, the two black girls in the film, are both queer (everyone else being white).
  • Boys on the Side: Jane is a black lesbian, the only person of color in the cast (aside from Holly's baby daughter, who's biracial it turns out, with a black father, but she's only seen briefly).
  • The Condemned (2007): The two female contestants-Rosa is Latina and Yasantwa Black African. The rest are men (mostly white, along with the rest of the cast).
  • The Craft: Legacy: Along with a Black girl, Tabby (like the original film had), this one adds the Latina Lourdes, who's also a trans girl. They are the only two main characters of color.
  • Cube 2: Hypercube: Sasha, the only person of color in the cast, is a woman who's blind and of East Asian descent.
  • Cut to the Chase: Nola is a bisexual black woman, and the only woman of color in the film. She's one of just two queer characters as well.
  • Daddy Issues: Jasmine is the only person of color in the film who's a main character, with the rest being white. She's biracial, with a white mother and her unseen father being black, to judge by her looks. Jasmine's sexually fluid too, seeing an older man as her sugar daddy and dating Maya at the same time.
  • The Family Stone: Two examples: Thad, a deaf gay man, is engaged to a Black gay man named Patrick. All of the other characters are white and hearing.
  • Five Feet Apart: Poe is a gay Latino young man. He is the only person of color or LGBT+ character in the film.
  • The Great Silence: Pauline, who's a young black woman, is the only person of color in the film and one of the only women.
  • In The Half of It, Ellie is a Chinese-American lesbian, and feels very othered in the conservative Squahamish. She is the only woman of color and explicit queer person in the film.
  • Hearts Beat Loud: Sam and Rose, her girlfriend, are both Black lesbians. They are the only the people of color or LGBT main characters in the film.
  • Holly Slept Over: Holly is a black bisexual Englishwoman. The rest of the cast are white Americans, and mostly straight as well.
  • Hotel Artemis: Nice is one of three women who are main characters in the film, and she's also the only woman of color (played by Arab Sofia Boutella), along with the sole foreigner (being a Frenchwoman).
  • The House Bunny: Lily, the mostly silent Black girl with the Zetas (at first) is the only character of color in the film (she's also British).
  • Killer Body Count: Cami and Wyatt both are the only mixed race girls, while also the sole queer characters. For her part, Cami's dad is white while her mom at least was part black. Wyatt has a white grandmother, while clearing appearing to have black ancestry too. Cami turns out to be bisexual, with her attracted to boys but also Wyatt, who's a soft Butch Lesbian into her as well.
  • Kingsman: The Secret Service: In contrast to the majority-white male Kingsmen Gazelle is a woman of color with unknown ancestry (Sofia Boutella is French-Algerian-the movie never specifies Gazelle's ethnicity) double amputee woman. Her prosthetic legs, which have razor sharp blades at the ends, are her weapons. She's the only woman of color and disabled character in the film.
  • Margarita: The main character is a Mexican who's living without authorization in Canada. She is the sole woman of color and undocumented character.
  • My Animal: Jonny, a young black woman who reciprocates Heather's attraction to her, is the only person of color in the film. They are also the only two queer characters. It's set in a small town where this wouldn't be unusual.
  • My Old Ass: Chelsea, Elliot's girlfriend, is black and a lesbian. Ro is one of Elliot's best friends who's also black, while also queer and uses they/them pronouns. They are the only two people of color in the film, and aside from Elliot they're the only queer characters.
  • The New Mutants:
    • Dani is Native American (Cheyenne) and, we learn, also a lesbian. She's the sole Native American person, and one of two LGBT characters in the cast as a lesbian girl.
    • Rahne is the sole religious character as a Catholic, and also a lesbian, the other LGBT character with Dani (the girls become a couple).
  • A New York Christmas Wedding: Jenni is a bisexual Black Latina woman. She's the only woman of color in the film. Her Love Interest Gabby is the only other LGBT+ character.
  • The Novice: Dani, a Butch Lesbian who is of unclear 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. Alex, the protagonist, is the only other LGBT+ character.
  • The Order (2024): The only two main characters of color in the film are female African-American FBI Agent Joanne Carney, and Kimmy Bowen, who indigenous Canadian Morgan Holmstrom played. Most of the characters otherwise are white men.
  • Out at the Wedding: Alex's boyfriend Dana is a black Jewish man. Except for his father, he's the only person of color in the film.
  • Mako Mori in Pacific Rim is the sole female in the main cast and also Japanese.
  • Pitch Perfect: Cynthia Rose is the only Black member of the Barden Bellas, and also apparently the only lesbian.
  • Poor Things: A Black queer woman, Toinette's the sole woman of color and LGBT+ character (except for her girlfriend) in the film.
  • Revenge of the Nerds: Lamar is both the only African American and only gay member of the fraternity.
  • In Rising Sun (1993), Jingo, played by Tia Carrere (herself a twofer, being a biracial woman) is a video footage analyst with mixed African-American and Japanese parentage and a withered hand since birth. She explains that this led to her being ostracized and labeled an outcast in her native Japan.
  • Rough Night: Blair, a black woman, is the only person of color and she's also bisexual.
  • Seaside (2018): Daphne and her mother are black women, the only people of color in the film. Roger once lampshades this, saying she's the only black person a store in Seaside ever had in ten years. Daphne turns out to be biracial, with her birth father being white as well, while she's also bisexual.
  • Sheroes: Daisy is the one black woman in her friend group, and it turns out also a lesbian, while the rest are white. She's also the only woman of color in the film. Her girlfriend is the only other LGBT character.
  • Skin Deep (2022): The cast is all white except for Fabienne, whose black hair and olive skin indicate she may be Middle Eastern like her actress Maryam Zaree, who originally comes from Iran. Most characters in the film are also men.
  • Smokin' Aces: The two female main characters, Sharice and Georgia, are both black women and girlfriends with each other. Both are the only women of color or LGBT+ main characters.
  • Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball: The sole minority among the many assassins is Ariella Martinez, a Latina. She is also one of the two female main characters.
  • Star Trek Beyond: Sulu is the only Asian man and the only confirmed gay man among the Enterprise crew.
  • Star Wars:
    • Lando Calrissian was the first Black character in the franchise. Also, according to Word of Gay in the leadup to Solo, he's pansexual as well. For the early films, he was the only black person, period.
    • Rogue One's Chirrut Îmwe is Asian and blind. Saw Gerrera from the same film is a Black cyborg.
  • Steam (2007): Niala, who's proudly bisexual, is an Englishwoman with South Asian ancestry. She is the only foreign or Asian person in the cast, along with the sole bisexual.
  • Summer: Lena is a biracial young woman with a white mother and unseen black father, while she's also a lesbian. She's the only person of color in the film. Anna, another lesbian, is the only other LGBT+ character in the story.
  • Thelma (2017):
    • Thelma, a lesbian, is the only unambiguous queer person and the only character with extraordinary abilities in the form of telekinesis.
    • Anja, a young biracial woman, is the only character of color in the film, and (possibly) bisexual too.
  • In To All the Boys I've Loved Before, Lucas Krapf is a gay Black boy, while the other major characters are straight and white or Asian.
  • The Truth About Jane: The only person of color in the cast is Jimmy, a Black gay man. His identity gets discussed when he tells Jane that while she's a lesbian, she'll get it easier due to being White.
  • Uncle Frank: Wally, Frank's partner, is a gay Muslim Saudi Arab. He's the only person of color in the film, and Frank is the only other queer person.
  • When Evil Calls: Molly is a threefer as she's female, bisexual and East Asian. The film only has only a few people of color or queer characters.
  • When Night is Falling: Petra is Black and a lesbian. She's the only person of color in the film, with her girlfriend being the only other queer person.
  • With a Kiss I Die: Juliet, a black female vampire, is the sole person of color in the film, the Token Good Teammate among the vampires and only explicit bisexual, with her girlfriend Farryn being the only other known queer character.
  • Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings: The only two people of color in the cast are Sara, who's black, and Bridget (her actress has biracial parentage, Chinese/white). In addition, they're a lesbian couple, the only two queer characters.
    Jokes 
  • There is an old joke about a Jew and a Black man sitting next to each other on a plane. The Jew notices that the other guy is reading a newspaper in Yiddish and quips "Is being Black not enough for you?".
  • In Brazil, there is one where a Black Jew is asked if he suffers, and he answers in an Argentinian accent, "pibe👁 Image
    , vos aún no sabes lo peooorr!" ("you don't know the worst part!).
  • Comedian Jasper Redd talked about how Atlanta, Georgia had the highest percentage of gay Black men in the south:
    "That's unfortunate. Those are two things you really don't want to be in Georgia. The only way to make that worse is if you were a midget."
  • A popular radio show presenter was dropped from commercial radio in the north of England. The reason was that he created an on-air persona intended to be the meanest, tightest, most close-fisted miserly person anywhere in the world. To reinforce the point, he brought together the two ethnicities universally most regarded as being, er, careful with money, and created the twofer character of Angus McGoldstein (Scottish and Jewish). Listeners were not amused, and cases were brought.
    Literature 
  • In Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, the main character has deliberately hired a twofer:
    "Since most hackers are white males, their companies are disaster areas when it comes to diversity, and it follows that all of the diversity must be concentrated in the one or two employees who are not hackers. In the part of a federal equal-opportunity form where Randy would simply check a box labeled CAUCASIAN, Kia would have to attach multiple sheets on which her family tree would be ramified backward through time ten or twelve generations until reaching ancestors who could actually be pegged to one specific ethnic group without glossing anything over. And those ethnic groups would be intimidatingly hip ones — not Swedes, let's say, but Lapps, and not Chinese but Hakka, and not Spanish but Basque."
  • Susannah Dean of Stephen King's The Dark Tower is Black, female, legless and has multiple personality disorder; notably, every other member of her ka-tet is a white male, except for Oy, who is a billy-bumbler (but Oy is male as well).
  • Discworld: Angua in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. This is played with because only one of her minority statuses is evident. For example, she says "Is this because I'm a w—" and gets cut off before you know she's actually trying to say "werewolf," not "woman." In fact all the known female watch officers seem to be twofers: Angua is a werewolf, Cheri Littlebottom and Lars Skulldrinker are dwarfs (although Lars isn't openly female), Sally von Humpeding is a vampire, and Precious Jolson is Black. There is also an unnamed gorgon mentioned in Unseen Academicals.
  • Drop Dead (2024): Nadine dislikes that being a woman and 1/4 Chinese (as unlike her white-passing brother, she looks more ambiguous) gets her dragged into pointless, unpaid diversity initiatives and recounts a superior referring to her as a 'twofer' with distaste.
    Dekka: "But I'm Black and I'm a lesbian, so let me tell you: From what I know? Personal experience? There are always lines."
  • Idlewild (2023): Fay Rabinowitz-Vasquez is half-Latino, while also a gay trans man. She's the only minority main character.
  • Into the Drowning Deep: The cast are mostly white, straight and able-bodied people, but exceptions exist:
    • Jillian is a woman of Caucasian and Native Hawaiian ancestry. This goes as well for her daughter Lani with her estranged husband Theo, who's white.
    • Heather and Holly are deaf identical twin sisters.
    • Olivia is a lesbian and autistic.
    • Theo has a spinal injury which could have left him paralyzed, though he manages to walk but needs painkillers regularly.
  • In Island in the Sea of Time, the Nantucket islanders who get thrown back in time are a typical late-1990s New Englander community: mostly white and straight, and used to an all-male military. Along with them goes the Coast Guard training ship Eagle, whose captain, Marian Alston, is female, black, and lesbian. Alston promptly becomes critical to the islanders' survival, because she's also the only trained military commander available.
  • Just Juliet: Lacey is Black, though it's only mentioned briefly once near the end (mostly she's simply vaguely described as "dark-skinned"). She's the only person of color identified among the characters who is in more than just one scene.
  • Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet (set in Victorian-era America):
    • Discussed when Whitey Lovett notes that neither he nor Zeph can afford to be politically outspoken, because, "I'm a dwarf and a Jew. You're a Negro and legless. Add 'anarchist' and you've got the Trifecta of Fucked."
    • Side character Enzo is a queer, disfigured Italian immigrant.
  • The Neanderthal Parallax: Two supporting characters are the only people of South Asian heritage and also from religious minorities in North America.
    • Naonihal Singh is a Sikh physician who treats Ponter after he gets injured entering our world.
    • Qaiser Remtullah is a Muslim Pakistani-Canadian and Mary's boss.
  • Presidential: Among the supporting characters, three are LGBT+ and black as well. Rebecca and Jill are lesbians; Elliot is nonbinary. The rest of the characters are white and generally straight.
  • Lampshaded by Reba in Red Dragon, the novel to which The Silence of the Lambs is the significantly better-known sequel. She herself is a blind woman who works for a photographic film processing company; she jokes that between her and another woman, the company managed to pack eight different minorities into two hires.
  • Something to Talk About: Jo started as a teenager playing an adopted Chinese-American girl raised by a white family. No other characters of color were on the show. She complained about it later in a column along with the racism which she'd suffered while acting. Jo makes sure her own show, Innocents, is more diverse (including with not only ethnicity but sexual orientation, as she's a closeted lesbian).
    Live-Action TV 
  • 4400: The cast is mostly Black, straight and able-bodied, with some exceptions.
    • Jessica is Indian, and Soraya is Bengali/Pakistani (she's a Muslim as well), while both are also lesbians.
    • Mildred is a white girl with a deformed hand, the only character who has a disability in the cast.
  • Almost Family: Edie and Amanda, the only women of color in the main cast, are also lesbians.
  • An episode of Andy Richter Controls the Universe has the main cast competing to find someone to fill a job opening, with the reward of a finders fee. Knowing they're looking for diversity, they try to one-up each other, culminating in Keith Richards having found a one-armed, gay, Native American little person (... who sadly wasn't a technical writer, but still).
  • Ares: Rosa (a biracial young woman) is the only person of color in the Ares Society. Aside from her, Rosa's black dad is the only other person of color in the series. They're also working class, with most other characters being very rich.
  • Avocado Toast: Several supporting characters are also LGBT people of color, with most being female or AFAB, among the mostly white, straight, able-bodied characters.
    • Rosie the lesbian bartender is of South Asian ancestry.
    • Sarah, one of Molly's students, is also of South Asian ancestry, and then tells her she's bisexual.
    • Marvin is a black disabled gay man.
    • Jordan is a black man and Camp Gay.
    • Naran, a patient of the female guru Omnira whom Elle meets, is an olive-skinned woman (perhaps-at least AFAB; the actor's genderqueer) who's Omnira's lover (this is pretty abusive given it's disguised as "therapy"). Actor Noah Lamanna is of partial Chinese ancestry.
  • Being Human (UK): Annie, a Black woman, is the only person of color in the main cast, which was also majority male.
  • Being Human (US): The cast is mostly straight white people, but exceptions exist.
    • For most of the show run, Sally's the only person of color (Indian-American, it turns out) and a woman too. She's also Ambiguously Bi.
    • Emily is a Jewish lesbian.
    • Zoe's last name, Gonzales, indicates she's a Latina, and is at least bisexual, given she had dated Nick and then Lori. However, she's still figuring our her sexual orientation.
  • Better Things: The main cast is mostly white and straight, but some minor characters aren't.
    • Sam meets an Indian-American gay man, Maneesh, and befriends him on a plane trip. Later she goes to his wedding.
    • In Season 3 Sam's pursued by Mer, an English lesbian who's also Black.
  • Big Sky: Of the girls in Season 2, Max is East Asian, and Harper Black. Both are also attracted to each other. They're in a mostly white, straight cast.
  • Bones:
    • Angela Pearly-Gates Montenegro Hodgins is a "threefer": a half Chinese, half white bisexual woman. She's also the daughter of Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top and picked her middle name from his guitar. She is the only main character who's LGBT+ and of Asian heritage for most of the series' run.
    • Arastoo, an Iranian Muslim, later joins as the show's sole man of color who's a main character.
  • The Boys (2019):
    • Kimiko is a quadruple minority even; she's the only woman of The Boys, the only East Asian, the only Supe, and is mute, making her the only one with an explicit disability.
    • Elena, Maeve's ex-girlfriend, is a Latina lesbian, which even got cited as a symbol of diversity when the latter was Forced Out of the Closet. There are no other Latinas or lesbian characters in the main cast.
    • In "The Big Ride" it's discussed as Ashley Barrett is seen introducing Homelander to a new possible member of the Seven, Blindspot, who is blind and of East Asian descent (albeit he has a disability superpower). She says that ideally their next member should be both "ethnic" and female too as Millennials like that, though he dismisses the idea.
    • "We Gotta Go Now" has it used In-Universe with the movie Dawn of the Seven. Ruby Cruz, Maeve's love interest, is not only lesbian but (to judge by her last name) also a Latina (no doubt purposefully matching with Elena, who's Maeve's real former lover, whom they want back together and made butch like Ruby).
  • Breaking Bad: Gus Fring is Chilean-American and he was romantically involved with his male business partner. He is the only person of Chilean ancestry, and the sole LGBT+ main character. Fring is also the only main character with Black ancestry, and thus the sole Black Latino too.
  • Brooklyn Nine-Nine:
    • Captain Raymond Holt is African-American and gay. He's actually this in-universe: after facing large amounts of racism and homophobia in his early days as a cop, it took years to get his own command, and Holt knows the brass only did it to make a big deal out of having an openly gay commanding officer.
    • While Rosa Diaz isn't the only female Latina (the other being Amy Santiago), she is the only of the two who is bisexual, making her a minority threefer.
  • Burden of Truth: The cast is mostly white and straight, with some exceptions.
    • Luna is half Indigenous/half Caucasian and a lesbian.
    • Stevie is an Indigenous lesbian whom Luna dates.
  • Chosen (2022): Emma is a teenage girl with black ancestry. She is the one girl of color living in Middlebo, a small town. Further, she's bisexual and one of just two queer people, along with lesbian Marie.
  • Condor: Several supporting characters are women of color and also sometimes LGBT+ in a largely straight, white cast.
    • Janice Wong is Joe's ex-girlfriend who's East Asian American.
    • Sarah Tan is East Asian American and also a lesbian.
    • Sharla Shepard is an African American and it turns out is also a lesbian whom Sarah was involved with.
    • Gabrielle Joubert is a Palestinian Israeli woman.
  • Conversations with Friends: Bobbi, who's a young black woman, is the only person of color in the main cast. She herself notes after living in her native New York City that Ireland is very much whiter. She's also a lesbian.
  • Creepshow: In "Lydia Layne's Better Half" Lydia's lover Celia is a Latina lesbian in a cast that's white except for her.
  • Criminal Minds: For the last four episodes of Season 11, following Morgan’s departure, Tara's the sole African-American member of the team and person of color. This is averted as of the Season 12 premiere with the arrival of Luke Alvez, although Tara remains the sole African-American before & after Stephen Walker’s tenure in the BAU in the second half of Season 12. Season 16 reveals that she's attracted to women, making her the sole LGBT+ main character too.
  • Crossing Lines: Arabela's the one black character on the team thus far. In the third season, it's revealed that she's also a lesbian, therefore the sole LGBT+ main character.
  • The Crowded Room: The cast is mostly straight, white and male, but exceptions exist.
    • Ariana is a bisexual black woman. It turns out she's an alternate personality of Danny's however, though he could be considered also as having bisexual and genderfluid aspects due to this, along with being mentally ill.
    • Jerome is a gay black man whom Danny (as Ariana) was involved with, and he discusses how navigating his identities has been very difficult at times.
  • CSI-verse:
    • CSI: NY:
      • For the first 6 seasons, Det. Stella Bonasera is a half-Greek female Grade 3 CSI in a main cast that only contains one other woman.
  • Dark Angel: Max is a Latina and transgenic (genetically enhanced) escaped Super-Soldier. "Original Cindy", her friend, is a Black lesbian. They are the only women of color in the main cast, while the Cindy's the sole LGBT+ main character.
  • Dark Matter: Two is a bisexual woman and also an Artificial Human. She is one of three LGBT+ characters on the show (her former girlfriend Irena Shaw only appears in her flashbacks) and the only synthetic person who's in more than a single scene.
  • Dash & Lily: Langston's boyfriend Benny is Latino of Puerto Rican descent. He is the only Latino on the show, and the sole queer person besides Benny.
  • Dates: Erica is both British Chinese and a lesbian. Kate could be said to be foreign and a lesbian, given her actress is Irish and her ethnic background wasn't established as well, though she sounds likely Irish. They're the only queer characters in the cast, which is mostly white English people.
  • Devil In Ohio: Isaac is a gay teenage boy who has East Asian ancestry. He's the only LGBT+ and East Asian male character.
  • Doctor Who: Lampshaded in "The Sound of Drums" when the Master points out the diversity of the Doctor's "little band" of suddenly-fugitives: Martha Jones is Black and female, Jack Harkness is a pansexual white male.
  • Domino Day: Verdite is the only South Asian main character, while her brother also appears briefly. She's also the only queer person besides Sammie.
  • Invoked in an episode of The Drew Carey Show, where Drew's brother Steve lost his job at Winnfred-Lauder due to being a crossdresser. After Drew manages to get Steve his job back, Drew asks if Steve is gay. When Steve replies he isn't, Drew says "That's a shame. If you were a gay crossdresser, I could have had you made vice president!" (paraphrased)
  • Dystopia (2021): Domenica, among the gathered LARPers, is the only person of color (her ethnicity's unclear, though she has dark brown skin, and may have black ancestry). She is also openly attracted to women, one of just two queer characters.
  • English Teacher: Invoked, Evan's students suggest countering the investigation by pointing out he's being discriminated against for being gay and Hispanic. They then get into an argument on whether "gay" still counts as a minority in 2024 and whether Evan talks too much like a straight white guy for it to work.
  • The Family (2016): Latina Bridey Cruz (who's also a lesbian or at least bisexual) was one of only two people of color in the main cast. She is one of three queer characters.
  • Feel Good: The cast is largely white with a smaller number of women, though there are exceptions.
    • Laura, a lesbian who has mixed-race heritage (white mother, apparently South Asian father) is the only person of color in the main cast.
    • David, a gay man who's a person of color (maybe with South Asian heritage) appears as the host at Narcotics Anonymous meetings Mae goes to.
    • George runs into a feminine Black lesbian at a wedding.
    • Elliot, George's boyfriend in Season 2, is a Black bisexual, polyamorous man.
  • Fellow Travelers: Marcus, Frankie and Jerome are gay African Americans. The Butch Lesbian and drag king Stormé DeLarverie, a real historical figure from the era, is also a minor black character (Frankie's friends with her). The cast is white other than them.
  • First Day: A supporting character is a boy of East Asian descent who's also gay.
  • The Flash (2014):
    • Captain Singh is a Hindu of Indian descent and also gay. He is the only main character in these categories.
    • Nora turns out to be the child of Barry (who's White) and Iris (Black) making her biracial, while she's also a lesbian. She's the only biracial person in the cast, plus the only lesbian.
  • Flowers (2016): Abigail is a young black woman whom the Flowers family meets. She's apparently bisexual as well, being involved with a man but returning Amy's affection too. Abigail's the sole woman of color in the main cast, and one of just three queer people.
  • Forbidden Science: In "Tarot" the title character, who has an Eastern European accent, is also bisexual. She's one of only three LGBT+ characters on the show, and the sole foreign-born one.
  • For Life: Safiya Masry is an Arab-American (specifically of Egyptian descent) woman who's also a lesbian, as we learn early on. She's the only main character who's North African or an LGBT+ woman (her wife appears briefly).
  • A plot point in Gen V 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 instead pushes Andre and Marie (who are black), although they did little more than stand by, because they're considered more palatable and will score points with the NAACP.
  • Ginny and Georgia: The cast is mostly white and straight, with certain exceptions.
    • Max's Love Interest Sophie is a Latina who's been in relationships with both boys and girls on the show. She is the only Latina so far.
    • Gabriel, who's played by a Filipino-Canadian actor, is gay. He is the only East Asian male character.
    • Padma is the only woman of South Asian ancestry, played by Indo-Guyanese-Canadian actress Rebecca Ablack.
    • Tris is a Butch Lesbian teenage girl who Abby begins dating. She is clearly a girl of color too (played by actor Noah Lamanna, who's part Chinese).
  • The Good Wife:
    • Kalinda Sharma, an Indian-American woman, serves as the only major character of color for the first six seasons of the show. She's also the main LGBT+ character, having had relationships with both men and women. After she leaves the series at the end of season six, she's replaced in the role by Afro-Caribbean Lucca Quinn.
    • Played for Laughs in-universe, when Cary is asked to name the other associates he’s leaving with. He immediately names the associates who fall under as many minority headings as possible, just to piss off Diane because she can't fire them en masse without looking discriminatory and risking a Title VII lawsuit.
  • Hacks: The cast is mostly white, straight and otherwise mainstream, but with certain exceptions.
    • Ava is a Jewish, atheist bisexual.
    • Deborah's assistant Marcus is a black gay man. His boyfriend is also a man of color, played by a Latino actor.
    • Ava's ex-girlfriend Ruby is Latina.
    • Both the lesbians who Ava (nearly) hooks up with on the cruise are women of color, one with East Asian ancestry, the other olive-skinned with an unknown ethnicity.
    • In Season 4, Ava gets into a relationship with a married couple. The woman in the couple, Emily, is also queer, with olive skin and curly dark brown hair. She's played by Medalion Rahimi, who's of Iranian heritage.
  • Hawkeye (2021): Maya is a female Native American who's deaf and an amputee, while she's the only character with all of those traits. Even in Echo (2024) after she visits her home Choctaw community she's still the only disabled character.
  • Heated Rivalry:
    • Shane Hollander is half-white/half-Japanese, the only prominent Asian in the whole cast aside from his mother, and once he figured himself out it's shown he's also gay. Adding to that, his confirmed autism makes him also a threefer.
    • Svetlana Vetrova's a biracial young woman with a white father and black mother, and is the only Russian character of color. Justified, as Russia is a very monoracial country in real-life with most of the ethnic subgroups still primarily being of northern European descent. It's not common to find Russian people with prominent nonwhite ancestry. It's clarified later that she's an American citizen, meaning her mother is likely an African-American woman. She's a dual citizen of the US as a result. Given this, she's the only character with dual citizenship, while as the cast is mostly male she would be a threefer too.
  • Hightown: Jackie is a woman of Dominican heritage and a Butch Lesbian. While the cast has other Latino people and lesbians, she's the only one who's both. The other lesbians are also largely feminine and mostly white.
  • Hit & Miss: Riley is a biracial girl (white mother, unseen black father), the sole person of color in the otherwise all white cast, which is mostly male too.
  • House of the Dragon:
    • Laenor Velaryon, in addition to having his homosexuality which was implied in the book be confirmed, also has a Race Lift to be dark-skinned with a black (equivalent) father and white mother. He's the only biracial man and LGBT+ male main character.
    • Mysaria is the main foreign character on the show, who it turns out is attracted to other women when she kisses Queen Rhaenyra. She's played by a mixed race actress of Argentine, white English and Japanese heritage.
  • How I Met Your Mother plays this for laughs in "Single Stamina" when introducing James, Barney's half-brother. Before Robin meets him, Ted warns her not to be surprised that he's gay... And then James walks through the door, revealing that he's also black.
    Robin: (to Ted) Thanks for the heads up.
  • iCarly (2021) introduces Carly's roommate and new best friend Harper, a pansexual black woman. Then there's her boss, internet pop starlet Double Dutch, who's Asian and sexually attracted to women since she and Harper kiss in the first season finale.
  • Industry: The main cast is mostly white, with a few exceptions:
    • Gus is both gay and Black; this is lampshaded by the President of Pierpoint London who suggests hiring a highly-intelligent minority would make the firm look good.
    • Yasmin is apparently of Arab descent while she's into women along with men it turns out.
  • In Justice (2006): Swain wants to make his staff look more diverse, though he only has two people of color at the time, a black woman and Asian woman. He gets a black workman who pretends he's one as well, and later hires the Latina Sonya as well. The staff is mostly white and male overall.
  • In My Skin: Cam is a black girl, who's also a lesbian, becoming Bethan's girlfriend. She's also the only character from England (Manchester, it turns out) in an overall Welsh cast, with a French father too. She's also biracial, it's revealed, her mother being black and her father white. Cam is also one of the queer people in a majority straight cast.
  • In the Dark: The cast is mostly straight, and white, with certain exceptions:
    • Jess, her friend and housemate, is a lesbian who's olive-skinned.
    • Jess' first girlfriend, Vanessa, is also olive-skinned (played by Latina actress Humberly González, who's Venezuelan-Canadian).
    • Sam is a black lesbian who serves as one of Nia's enforcers.
  • Irma Vep: Mira's ex-girlfriend Laurie, who's in a couple episodes though only a few scenes, is a bisexual like her who's olive-skinned (played by a Latina). She is one among a few people of color, and only four queer characters.
  • Similarly in an older example from The John Larroquette Show, a manager position opens at the bus company which John mentions applying for. As the main cast boasts their ethnic background advantages over John being a white male, the next interviewee enters, a Black, blind woman in a wheelchair. Everyone else immediately gives up and leaves.
  • Jupiter's Legacy: Gabriella and Jacinda are queer women in a relationship, plus Latinas to judge by their names. No other characters are LGBT+ or Latino.
  • Kiss Me First: The two people of color in the main cast, Tess/Mania and Tippy, are both girls, while it has slightly more male characters. Tess is Black, Tippy gets revealed to be East Asian (apparently of Japanese ancestry, with her legal name being Tomiko Toshima).
  • La Brea: The main characters on the show are mainly white, straight and able-bodied, with some exceptions.
    • Scott is an atheist of South Asian ancestry.
    • Izzy Harris is a female amputee with a prosthetic leg.
    • Sophia is Ambiguously Brown (played by an Australian of Indian ancestry), and she's cut off from her female partner Diana.
  • L.A.'s Finest: In Season 2, it turns out that Syd has just slept with Ryan, another queer black woman-the two are shown together afterward. Later too she runs into a queer Latina who flirts briefly with her. Both only appear in a single scene. Syd is the sole black woman who's a main character. Additionally, she's the only queer main character.
  • Law & Order: The cast was invariably mostly white and male, but exceptions exist.
    • Lt. Van Buren, Black and female. This is lampshaded in one episode, where she notes that people probably think she got the job as police lieutenant for diversity reasons. In reality, that was the point of casting the actress. Originally, the cast of Law & Order consisted of six males, only one of whom was a minority. Two men were dropped from the cast (including the Black male) and replaced with a white woman and a Black woman.
    • In the later seasons, Connie Rubirosa got the double whammy of being a Latina and a woman, working directly under conservative Michael Cutter and old-guard liberal Jack McCoy.
  • Law & Order: Organized Crime: The main cast is mostly straight white people, but with a couple exceptions.
    • Ayanna Bell is a threefer; as she points out, she's black, gay, and a woman. She notes to Stabler that due to his Cowboy Cop tendencies making him a pariah and her own multiple minority statuses in the straight white male hierarchies of the NYPD, the two of them are alike in how they've had to, at different points, avoid stepping out of line.
    • In Season 2 we get a second Black lesbian, Nova, who's a gayngster. Or at least so it seems until we learn she's an undercover cop.
    • Season 3 introduces another in Isabelle Chang, who's a Chinese-American woman and a lesbian as well (she mentions an ex wife). Her and Bell become close friends.
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
    • Dr. George Huang is Asian-American and gay. He was, for most of the show, the only Asian or LGBT+ character.
    • Kat's the second Asian main character in the show's history since George Huang's departure in Season 12. Like Huang, she is also LGBT+, in her case being bisexual. More specifically, Kat is the first Middle Eastern main character. Of course she's also the first woman who fits into those categories as well. She was, at the time, the only Asian or LGBT+ character like Huang had been.
    • In "Transitions" Jackie Blaine is an African-American trans woman. She's the only woman of color in this episode, along with the second trans female character.
  • On Law & Order: UK, Freema Agyeman (who is a Black woman) portrays the assistant prosecutor. She is the only person of color in the main cast, which was mostly male as well.
  • The Lazarus Project: Archie (an Englishwoman with South Asian ancestry) and Zhang (a Chinese woman) are together the only Asian characters. They're both also queer and become a couple, being the only LGBT+ characters seen on the show.
  • Lovecraft Country: The cast is largely Black, straight and cisgender, with a few exceptions:
    • Yahima was Native American (Arawak specifically), and Two-Spirit.
    • Christina, who's white, may be a lesbian or bi woman, though a straight trans man is also a possibility.
  • Malcolm in the Middle:
    • Stevie Lampshades this, noting that as a Black, asthmatic man with one lung in a wheelchair, he can get pretty much any job he wants with his "tokenism".
    • Hal is this among his friend group, being the Token White among them and the only one who is from the working class. His friends have all a much higher income than him (dentist, doctor, lawyer, etc.), which irks him a lot during his first poker session with them. When they are playing in a band, Hal plays the least impressive instrument and doesn't get as many singing parts as the others, although he's not bothered by that.
  • Manifest: Saanvi was involved with another woman. Both are also women of color (Saanvi's Indian-American, while her ex-girlfriend's African-American). Saanvi is thus far the only woman of color or LGBT character in the main cast. There is also the flight attendant Bethany, an African-American woman with a wife, and her cousin Leo who was also gay and black, among the minor characters.
  • The Mick: In Season 2, Sabrina dates a girl named Alexis, a Lesbian Jock who's played by Pakistani-American actress Sophia Ali. She is the only character of Asian ancestry, while also among the few queer characters.
  • Midnight Sun (2016): Kahina is French police detective from Algeria originally. She is the only foreigner and person of color in rural Kiruna, Sweden, while she's there.
  • In Modern Family, 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.
  • Mom: Bonnie's half-brother, Ray Stabler is both black and gay.
  • Murder in the First: Two women of color featured briefly on the show, South Asian Jasmin and Raffi, an olive-skinned Jewish woman. Both were the only characters of their ethnicities.
  • The Murders: The cast is mostly white, straight and able-bodied people, but exceptions exist:
    • Kate, the main character, is a biracial young woman with a black father and white mother, who feels she's being used as a token during her mom's campaign for mayor at one point when pledging she'll make the police force more diverse, to her annoyance. She later apologizes however, realizing that her mom does mean well.
    • Meg's wife Emily is a deaf lesbian, as we learn during her sole appearance in "Toxic".
    • In "Black & Blue", a rapper and his friend, both of them young black men, are revealed to have been involved before (the latter bisexual as he's with his girlfriend now). They all get together with her instigation.
  • Murdoch Mysteries:
    • Doctor Emily Grace, the coroner from seasons 5 through 8, is an Ambiguously Bi female. While the show has several prominent female characters (notably Doctor Ogden, who was a main character from the beginning up to her actress' departure in season 17), they're nonetheless a minority to male characters, and homosexuality is rarely depictednote Somewhat justified by the setting, where homosexuality is illegal; Doctor Grace was the first, and to date only, bisexual character of any gender.
    • Rebecca James, the mortuary assistant in seasons 9 and 10, was the only prominent black female character during her tenure.
    • Violet Hart, introduced as a mortuary assistant in season 11 and promoted to coroner in season 12, took over for Miss James as the show's sole major black female character.
    • Nomi Johnston, Inspector Brackenreid's illegitimate daughter, was the show's only recurring mixed-race female character.
    • Detective Llewellyn Watts is a downplayed example: he's the only homosexual member of the main cast (and one of a small number of prominent homosexual characters on the show in general), and the only major Jewish character. He's downplayed due to a heavy dose of Informed Judaism: he didn't learn about his Jewish heritage until adulthood (the revelation actually occurs on the show), and it doesn't impact his character in any meaningful way.
  • My Dead Ex: Wren is the only person of color in the main cast, a girl with unclear ethnicity but clearly not white (her actress Medalion Rahimi is Iranian-American) and also a lesbian (or maybe bisexual).
  • Naomi (2022): The cast is largely white, with a few exceptions.
    • Naomi (who is also an alien) says she grew up being the only black girl in her school and town several times before moving to Port Oswego, which made her feel like a permanent outsider. She's also bisexual.
    • Her adoptive mother Jennifer is played by an Indian-American actress.
    • Lourdes is a queer Latina girl at Naomi's school with a crush on her.
  • The Night Agent:
    • Chelsea Arrington is the only black female Secret Service agent we see. The rest are mostly white men.
    • Dani is a woman of color in Jacob Monroe's goon squad with an English accent. The rest are mostly white American men.
  • In Nightflyers, Mel Jhirl is a Black woman who's also in a relationship with another woman, with the cast almost wholly white beside her.
  • The Office (US) has Oscar, who is the only gay and only Latino employee at Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch. This has been lampshaded by Michael and Dwight.
  • One Tree Hill: The cast is almost entirely White and straight, with a couple exceptions:
    • Anna Taggaro is a threefer — she's female, Latina, and bisexual and was in fact the very first bi character of color in the history of television.
    • Gigi Silveri is female and of East Asian descent.
  • Only Murders in the Building: The cast is largely straight and white, with a few exceptions.
    • Mabel, a Latina, is the main woman of color in the cast who's revealed to be bisexual when she dates Oscar and then Alice.
    • Additionally Detective Williams and her wife are both black lesbians.
    • Jonathan, a black gay man, becomes a supporting character in Season 2.
  • The Order (2019): The cast is mostly straight, white and male, with a few exceptions.
    • Lilith is Ambiguously Brown, having shown attraction to first Randall and later Nicole, which establishes she's bisexual.
    • Nicole is black and shares Lilith's attraction.
    • Gabrielle is Asian-American, implied to be a Filipina like her actress.
  • The Outer Limits (1995):
    • In "Lithia" the only person of color in the episode (and her entire community) is Pelé, a Black or mixed-race woman who's also a lesbian.
    • In "Abduction" the only person of color in the group is a Black girl, Brianna.
  • Persons Unknown: There are only two main characters of color.
    • Sergeant Graham is Black and Muslim.
    • Erika is Black and also queer.
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock: Marion, a girl with white and Aboriginal parentage, is the school's only person of color. This was very progressive at the time, and her rich father's influence is the reason she's able to access it. She's also secretly involved with a female teacher.
  • Cambridge on Pie in the Sky (Black and female) — may not count, since the series has multiple female recurring characters, but worth mentioning because she's a Twofer Token Minority in-story, picked by her Pointy-Haired Boss as an efficient way of demonstrating his equal-opportunity-employer credentials.
  • Pivoting: Sarah's a bisexual woman of East Asian heritage. The queer women who she's shown as attracted to are either black or women of color with unclear ethnicity as well, all being supporting characters. Otherwise, the cast is largely straight white people.
  • The Republic of Sarah: The town is mostly straight white people, but exceptions exist.
    • AJ (Amy) Johnson is a Black woman, along with being a closeted lesbian.
    • Maya is Latina. Her father Luis is both Latino and gay.
    • Alexis is olive-skinned (played by a Latina), and a closeted lesbian or bi woman.
  • Resident Alien:
    • Sahar's a Muslim girl of color and wears the hijab (the only one so far aside from her mother, which isn't surprising in a small town).
    • Jay is a biracial woman of Native American and white ancestry, who's also queer; in season 3, it's revealed that she has a girlfriend. So far she is the only biracial and the main queer female character.
  • Revival (2025):
    • Ibrahim Rahim, a CDC doctor in town investigating the Mass Resurrection, serves as the sole main character of color. Since this is a small town in Wisconsin, it isn't surprising. He's played by Andy McQueen, who's of Indian descent. He later also turns out to be a Muslim, and thus the only religious minority.
    • May is the sole East Asian female character. It turns out that she and Rose, the only indigenous female character, were girlfriends.
  • Roswell, New Mexico:
    • In Season 3, Isobel begins dating Anasta, a black lesbian.
    • Shivani Sen, a wealthy businesswoman, is married to Allie Meyers and played by Rekha Sharma. Her name indicates she's of Indian descent like Sharma is. She's the only Asian person on the show.
  • On RuPaul's Drag Race, most of the contestants are queer men who perform drag. Thus, the queens that are also racial/ethnic minorities would only tick one extra box, but there are some exceptions:
    • Interestingly, the majority of the transgender/non-binary contestants have also been queens of color: Carmen Carrera (Hispanic), Stacy Layne Matthews (Black/Native American), Jiggly Caliente (Asian), Monica Beverly Hillz (Hispanic), Gia Gunn (Asian), Peppermint (Black), Aja (Black/Middle Eastern and Pagan), etc.
    • Season 5 winner Jinkx Monsoon is white but "Seattle's premier narcoleptic Jewish drag queen," in addition to later coming out as non-binary.
    • Season 11's Mercedes Iman Diamond is Black, Muslim, and an immigrant from Kenya. Other POC immigrant queens include Bebe Zahara Benet (Cameroooooooon), Vivacious (Jamaica), and Kim Chi (South Korea).
    • Drag Race UK tries to feature at least one queen each season from outside England. Thus, Season 2's Tayce counts for being both Black and Welsh.
  • SAS: Rogue Heroes: Eve Mansour is the only woman in the main cast. The rest are also white, and she's Algerian.
  • Parodied in the sketch "Simu & Bowen" from Saturday Night Live, where the final punchline is that Bowen Yang's Overly Narrow Superlative representation milestones are worth more than Simu Liu's because Yang is also gay. So while Simu Liu gets an award for being the first Asian to be deadpan on Splash Mountain, Bowen Yang gets the same award for being the first gay Asian to do it.
  • Schitt's Creek has Ronnie Lee, an African-American lesbian town counselor. In contrast the titular family and most of their associates are white and straight.
  • The Sex Lives of College Girls:
    • Bela is the only student of South Asian ancestry. She's the only South Asian in the cast aside from her parents, who are seen a couple times. This changes in Season 3 when Arvind gets introduced, who's South Asian like her. Later in Season 3 it turns out she's bisexual too.
    • Alicia is one of the two characters in the cast with East Asian descent, who's also into women.
    • Taylor is the next LGBT+ main character, as a queer woman, after Leighton and Alicia leave the series, while she's also the first explicitly foreign character, as an Englishwoman.
  • Shadow and Bone: The characters are mostly white, straight people, with some exceptions.
    • Nadia is one of the few black Grisha seen and her narrative purpose is "be Alina's friend". She's revealed to be a lesbian, ending up girlfriends with Tamar.
    • In Season 2 Tamar is mixed Ravkan and Shu. She's also a Butch Lesbian who gets involved with Nadia.
  • Sherlock & Daughter: Amelia Rojas is a young American woman who's mixed race of white and Native American heritage in a cast of mostly white Englishmen.
  • Smoke (2025): Michelle Calderone is black, the sole woman of color who's a main character in a mostly white male cast.
  • The Society: The cast is largely straight, white and seem nonreligious, with some notable exceptions.
    • Gordie's Jewish and implied to be Latino as well (his actor is Latino, and his surname— Moreno— is a Spanish and Sephardic Jewish surname common in Latin America, indicating that he is probably Sephardic Jewish).
    • Sam is a deaf teen, and he is also the only openly gay guy in the society.
    • Helena is a Christian girl with East Asian ancestry.
    • Bean is a Muslim girl of West Asian descent.
  • Spartacus: Blood and Sand: In House of Ashur Achillia, the first female gladiator, is also Nubian with the rest being mostly Europeans.
  • The Spencer Sisters: The cast is mostly white, male and straight, with a few exceptions.
    • Zane is black and also gay. Paolo, Zane's husband, is a Latino.
    • Des, who's also black, starts dating Darby later. In "The Winemaker's Woe", the episode focused on him, more black people also appear (his family and friends), including two queer girls.
    • Lindsay Yip, Luke's new fiancee, is at least part Chinese (and played by a mixed race actress of Chinese and white parentage).
  • Spin City:
    • Carter (Black and gay). Lampshaded in an episode where Carter refers to himself as a minority and a character sarcastically remarks "What do you mean, a "minority"? You're Black and you're gay. You cover up two-thirds of the Earth's surface. You're like water." Ironically, when his parents came to visit, he freaked out. Why? Not because he's gay, they're okay with that. But dating a white guy?
    • There was Janelle, a Black woman, which came in handy when the Mayor was accused of being a racist. Not only did he bring up the various civil rights marches he took part in, but he also states "I'm even dating a Black woman."
  • Star Trek: Uhura is Black and female (and was almost the only recurring character with either of these characteristics).
  • Geordi LaForge on Star Trek: The Next Generation is the only black main character. As a blind man he's also the only disabled main character, though his visor lets him see (albeit not with ordinary human vision).
  • Station Eleven:
    • Miles is the only African-American man, who's also gay.
    • Arthur is one of the only foreign-born characters, who's also Latino (Mexican specifically), thus the sole Latin American character.
  • Strike Back: Gracie Novin is the only queer woman or Australian character in the main cast for most of the series.
  • Supergirl: The main cast is mostly white, straight, cisgender humans, but with notable exceptions:
    • Maggie is lesbian, and also revealed to be Mexican-American.
    • Nia is a half-alien trans woman.
    • Kelly is Black, and later reveals she's lesbian.
    • Nia's roommate Yvette is a Black trans woman.
  • Super Store: Garrett, who is Black and disabled. This is Lampshaded in the second episode when the company magazine wants him on the cover because of it.
  • S.W.A.T. (2017): The cast is mostly white, straight, and male, although there are also several minority members.
    • Chris is the only woman on the team at the start and a bisexual Latina as well. She's had to deal with discrimination being a woman in SWAT since not a lot of female LAPD officers are serving in the unit. Chris is well aware that some people think her presence is pandering and that some higher-ups think that they don't need to promote any other women to field work because of her.
    • Cortez lampshades the fact she's an immigrant Latina—so a Threefer Token Minority—as having been a problem getting promoted within the LAPD and puts on her on very shaky ground if her secret relationship with Hondo is ever discovered.
    • Erika is a biracial women (her parents are black and white, she reveals). At the time, she was only the second woman of color in SWAT besides Chris.
    • Alexis Cabrera is another Latina who's on 50-Squad, and the only woman of color they have after Erika dies.
    • Zoe Powell is also a Latina, the second female officer on the squad.
    • Devin Gamble joins in Season 8 as the first black woman who has been on 20 Squad.
  • Switched at Birth: Natalie is queer, and also a woman of color (though the second was unexplored in the show; her actress is Puerto Rican). She is among just two women of color who were in the main cast.
  • Talamasca: The Secret Order: Olive is a black bisexual woman. Among the main cast, she's the only woman of color and queer female character.
  • Tales of the Gold Monkey: Princess Koji is one of the few characters to be half-Japanese in a predominantly white cast, and she is also half-Irish.
  • Teenage Bounty Hunters: Ezequiel's a black, disabled gay boy. He seems to be the only black, disabled and gay male student at his school.
  • Tidelands (Netflix): Some of Adrielle's underlings among an overall straight, white cast.
    • Leandra is a woman of East Asian descent who's also a lesbian.
    • Violca is a woman who's clearly part Aboriginal Australian.
  • Timeless: Denise is a threefer — a woman, of Indian descent, and also a lesbian. The other female character, Jiya, is a straightforward twofer: female with Lebanese ancestry.
  • Trinkets: The cast is mostly straight and mentally well, aside from one of the protagonists: Elodie is mentally ill and gay.
  • True Blood: Tara is described as being one by somebody she went to high school with, following her change to a vampire. Even prior to this, she not only was the resident Black woman but had come out as bisexual, before being the only Black female vampire.
  • The Tunnel:
    • Elise is neurodivergent somehow (probably autistic) and bisexual, the only queer main character.
    • Louise Renard, a black female detective, appears to be the only person of color in Elise's unit with the Calais police, which has mostly white male cops.
  • Two Sentence Horror Stories: In "Teeth" Olivia is a young black woman who's a lesbian and later turns out to be the only vampire as well. Her girlfriend Cara is clearly part East Asian. Everyone but them is white and male in the episode, while the two are also the only queer characters.
  • Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Titus is black and gay. Lampshaded when he realizes he's getting old as well - he won't know what box to check on the Hate Crime form.
  • The Undeclared War: Saara is an English Muslim woman of South Asian ancestry. When it's pointed out how GCHQ is mostly white and male, she's unnerved thinking she'd been hired just to get some color into the place, though she gets assured this isn't the case. It turns out she's bisexual too later, falling for the African-American NSA liaison at GCHQ, Kathy Freeman, who's a lesbian. Otherwise, the cast is nearly all white except for Saara's family.
  • Vagrant Queen: Elida is a dark-skinned woman (played by African-American Adriyan Rae) from the Arriopan species who's revealed to be into other women when she's attracted by Amae. Most aliens are played by white actors, and they're the only two queer characters.
  • Vida: In 2x1 it's discussed with Emma for her firm, where she views herself as being mostly there to serve their optics as the token Latina, though her boss denies it. Everyone else who we see from there are white men.
  • The White Lotus: Armond is a gay Australian in the otherwise straight, American cast.
  • Wild Cards (2024):
    • Max is a Black Canadian woman in an otherwise mostly white male cast. She's the sole criminal among cops too.
    • In "Show Me the Murder", one of the suspects in the murder of sports agent Jake Boshep is Hailey Chen-Lin, a queer Chinese-Canadian former equestrian who now races dirt bikes.
    • Another of the characters in "Show Me Murder" is Summer Lake, a female MMA fighter who's olive-skinned, though her ethnicity is unclear.
  • World on Fire: Albert is a black Frenchman, and he's gay as well. He's the only main character of color in the first season. Albert even got into an argument about it with Eddie, who had this to say:
    Eddie: Coloured and queer, with Nazis in charge. Good luck with those chances.
  • Wynonna Earp: Jeremy's of Indian descent, and also gay. Once Dolls dies, he's the only man of color on the show. He's also the main gay male character, though his boyfriend (who's white) is in a supporting role on the show. In the series finale "Old Souls", he meets a black gay man named Damon, after which they agree to a date.
  • Yellowjackets: The cast is mostly white and straight, but with significant exceptions too.
    • Taissa, the main Black girl on the team, it turns out is a lesbian. She's married to a woman in 2021, and they have a son as well. Her wife is a Black lesbian too.
    • Lottie is a biracial girl, with a white father and East Asian mother as shown in her flashbacks. She also has precognitive abilities and implied schizophrenia, traits no other person has. Lottie is the only cast member of her heritage, while also the first to show any apparent psychic gift. Her actress Courtney Eaton is also part Maori, and while Lottie hasn't been shown to have that background, she did request that her adult self be played by someone who does, as Simone Kessell has.
    • Coach Scott's a gay man in a group of (mostly) teenage girls. He can even be considered as a "threefer" considering that he's the only surviving adult in a group of teens.
    • Travis and Javi are Latino boys in a group of mostly white teen girls.
  • Yes, Minister: "The perfect representative on a government committee is a disabled Black Welsh woman trades-unionist."
  • You Me Her: In Season 4 one of the new neighbors, Marty, is a gay black man. He is the only black person that season.
    Music 
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic invoked this with a threefer in the song "Jerry Springer".
    "It's been three days since the bitter feud between the KKK and that gay Jewish Black dude."
    Podcasts 
  • Welcome to Night Vale:
    • Carlos the Scientist is a gay Latino man. Possibly some others count also, but character descriptions are kept deliberately vague, so it's hard to be sure. His boyfriend, Cecil, was confirmed by Word of God to be Jewish (though in the show he says he isn't religious).
    • "Lost in the Mail" features Basimah, a lesbian Muslim.
    Tabletop Games 
  • Larimore Burman was added to BattleCON: Fate of Indines as the Designer's Choice because he's black and the expansion mostly consisted of White women. Also a rare case where being male makes him a token character.
    Theatre 
Hapgood: Occupation?
Martin: Going to schools, riding in buses, eating in restaurants.
Hapgood: Isn't that line of work getting rather easy?
Martin: Not for me. I'm Jewish.
    Video Games 
  • Amber Isle: Asra is the only non-binary and invertebrate paleofolk in the game.
  • Dragon Age games:
    • Elves are an oppressed minority and mages are hated and feared due to their powers and vulnerability to demonic possession. As a result, many players find it satisfying to create a character who's an elven mage. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, there are a few unique conversations if your character is this combination.
    • Even more scandalizing is a Mage Qunari mercenary, as typical mages of the Qun have their faces sewn shut and are treated as disposable hardware. Mercenaries are heretics to the Qun religion, while Qunari are shunned in human lands due to their previous conquests (in addition to how the humans view mages), so your existence would basically be anathema to the face of the world if you weren't busy saving it.
    • In Inquisition, party member Sera is an elf and a lesbian.
  • Pastor Jeremy Jeffries in Far Cry 5 is a Black Catholic priest deep in rural Protestant Montana.
  • Barrett Wallace of Final Fantasy VII is the only human party member who is Black and disabled (he is an amputee who uses a prosthetic device).
  • Paper Perjury: Luna is transgender and deaf.
  • The Pico series has Nene, who is Asian and the only female of the Token Trio consisting of her, Pico, and Darnell.
  • Rival Stars Horse Racing: TJ is both black and gay; only the latter is relevant to the narrative.
  • Saints Row
    • The customizable player character can be this if the player chooses. So can the other Saints since many of them are women and/or minorities. Thanks to the "Romance" option in Saints Row IV, the Boss can choose to sleep with any Saint regardless of their (or the Boss') gender.
    • By default, there's:
      • Lin from Saints Row 1 is Asian and the only female Saint in that game (the protagonist can only be male in Saints Row). Then there's Aisha, a Black woman, though she's not officially a Saint.
  • Splatoon:
    • Marina from Off the Hook in Splatoon 2 is an interesting case in that the two minorities in question are split between in-universe and out of it. Out of universe, she was the only major NPC at the time that was Black, which is still treated as a minority in the real world; in-universe, on the other hand, she's an Octoling in a sea of Inklings, which made her stand out immediately.
    • Big Man of Splatoon 3 is the sole nonhumanoid of Deep Cut (a Funny Animal manta ray compared to the more human-looking Inklings and Octolings), as well as The One Guy among the idols.
  • In almost every game he appears in, Moby Jones of SSX is both the only Black and the only British character. The exception was SSX Tricky, where he was joined by Seeiah, an African-American woman.
    Web Animation 
  • Burger Brawl
    • Razu, Space and Vince identify as non-binary but are also respectively Bisexual (According to the stripes on their scarf), armless and the only Brit in the show.
    • Planty is the only legless contestant and a transgender female who transitioned between episodes.
    • Threefer, Tippers is the only armless female contestant, is of Mexican-Filipino descent and identifies as pansexual.
  • Clash To Be Champion: Glitchy is the only non-binary and non-object in a cast of Animate Inanimate Objects.
  • Disventure Camp: Karol is Latina and a lesbian.
  • In a Heartbeat: Jonathan is mixed-Latino and gay.
  • Object Terror: Trowel is from Romania according to his accent and is later revealed to be in a relationship with another guy (Beer).
  • The Debbie and Carrie Show: Lucy Sims is African-American, atheist, lesbian, and was raised a Jehovah's Witness. A marginalized minority doesn't even begin to describe her issues.
    Webcomics 
  • Concerning Matters of Blood: Of a sort — Lochlann half-jokingly quips that in 19th-century California, him being undead is less of a stigma than him being Irish.
  • Nice Show For Weenies
    • Blockbuster (The only transgender contestant and gay) and Goodwill (armless and gay) are this which gets squared since they are officially together, making them a Twofer Token Minority Couple. Their demonic counterparts Badbuster and Badwill are in the same boat though the latter is bisexual instead of gay.
  • Princess Princess (2012): 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).
  • Spinnerette: Mecha Maid is a threefer actually: East Asian (specifically Korean), disabled (as she has ALS), and a lesbian. She is the only disabled and or East Asian main character.
    Web Videos 
  • CaFae Latte: Most of the main cast is this, with almost all major characters being some combination of queer, nonwhite, and nonhuman. Rethu probably takes the cake, being genderfluid, demisexual, Jewish, and also a dragon.
  • Channel Awesome:
  • Travon Free from The Gentlemen's Rant👁 Image
    is the only Black cast member, and came out as bisexual in 2011. Ironically, the WASP Will is labeled as "the gay one".
  • Sky Williams is gay and Black, and he discusses this trope in "15 Questions I have for YouTube". One of the questions he has is why the strike on his channel was reversed while other popular YouTubers' channels still had suspiciously similar strikes. Sky openly admits that this trope could have played a role, given YouTube's wording of "Your voice is core to who we are."👁 Image
    But he refuses to believe that is the reason.
  • In his Zero Punctuation reviews, Yahtzee will occasionally make cynical reference to this trope whenever he encounters a character that he deems to be blatantly trying to meet a diversity quota within a single character, such as Sitara Dhawan and the aforementioned Kamala Khan.
    Western Animation 
  • Archer: Conway Stern in the episode "Diversity Hire" is Black and Jewish. As the episode name suggests, he was hired specifically so ISIS could maintain its minority quotas, with Malory even introducing him as a "diversity double-whammy". Of course, as he later reveals that his identity was fake and insists that Conway Stern isn't his real name, it could mean that he lied about being Jewish. In "Three to Tango", Conway returns and reveals his name really is Conway Stern, so he may actually be Jewish. Then again, considering that Archer says he isn't circumcised, it seems rather unlikely that he is Jewish. He has lost both hands and one foot in the course of the show, making him a triple amputee.
  • Ji-Yoo from Barbie: A Touch of Magic is a Korean teenage girl that's also gay.
  • Baymax!: Mbita is African-American and gay.
  • Bro'Town: Mack is a Scottish-Jewish-Samoan and Ambiguously Gay.
  • Both of the main leads of Dead End: Paranormal Park qualify.
    • Barney is trans, gay, and Jewish.
    • Norma is bisexual, autistic, and Pakistani.
  • Doozy Bots: Cole is Black and disabled, using a wheelchair. If the pilot had been picked up, he would have continued to been disabled even, in his "Doozy Bot" form, as it was the GunTank
  • The Dragon Prince: Amaya is deaf, of Asian descent, and in a lesbian relationship.
  • Futurama: Bender is a robot, making him somewhat marginalized in future society. He is also treated as though he is of Latino heritage (he was made in Mexico and somehow his last name is Rodriguez) and of the Jewish faith (specifically Robot Judaism, unless he just made that up to get off work).
  • Gargoyles:
    • Elisa Maza is originally the only major female hero, with a Black mother and Native American father. Word of God is that this is a big part of why she was willing to accept the gargoyles; Eliza's own experience as a minority who can't be easily classified makes her slower to judge others on their looks.
  • The Ghost and Molly McGee:
    • The McGees are a Thai-Irish-American family; Molly and Darryl are Thai on their mother's side and Irish on their father's side.
    • Libby Stein-Torres is Argentinean-German-American Jewish.
    • June Chen is Chinese and Autistic
  • Glitch Techs: Zahra is both female and Muslim, proudly sporting a hijab even while on the job.
  • Gravity Falls: Sheriff Blubs is black and gay.
  • Hazbin Hotel:
    • Vaggie is the only Latina (or at least, Latina-coded individual) and a lesbian, plus is later revealed to be a former Exorcist, making her an angel working in a hotel populated by demons and Sinners. The former was confirmed by the creator in both a livestream👁 Image
      and a tweet.👁 Image
    • Alastor is asexual and of Creole heritage.
  • Blackstein from High School U.S.A. is, as his name implies, Black and Jewish.
  • Melissa of Home Movies makes it up with being a girl and Black(?)
  • Agura of Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5 is a Black female in a team of guys.
  • When Dale on King of the Hill is being opposed for Gun Club President, he states that his opponent has "already got the Black vote — Earl — and the gay vote — Earl."
  • Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts:
    • Benson is a gay African-American teenager.
    • Troy is also mixed Asian-Latino and pansexual, and Benson’s boyfriend.
  • The Legend of Korra has a lot of diversity in terms of gender and ethnicity among its cast, but Korra herself is still notable for being a mixed-race female lead character. In fact, she's a threefer or fourfer, since she was wheelchair-bound for some time and bisexual.
  • The Loud House:
    • 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.
    • Leni's friend Miguel is gay and Hispanic.
  • Luz from The Owl House is Afro-Latina, bisexual, and has ADHD (in addition to being the Token Human in a cast of witches and demons).
  • Isabella Garcia-Shapiro from Phineas and Ferb — half Hispanic (specifically Mexican) and half Jewish.
  • Michael Collins from The Proud Family. 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 The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder). The reveal series also has Randy Leibowitz-Jenkins, who is black and gay.
  • Surprisingly enough, Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty is pansexual, autistic, and has been confirmed to be of Hispanic descent by Word of God.
  • Rugrats (2021): Betty DeVille is of Latina descent and a lesbian.
  • South Park:
    • Kyle Broflovski. Jewish, ginger, and from New Jersey.
    • Tolkien "Token" Black, as his name suggests, is the only Black student at South Park Elementary (until Nichole Daniels came along) and his family is rich.
  • The Simpsons: Julio is gay and of Latino descent (stated to be Costa Rican in one episode and Cuban in another).
  • Not the first time a Nerd Corps show used this trope as, before Agura, there was Piper of the Storm Hawks — who is also Ambiguously Gay. (In both cases, one can argue for another character sharing one of their minority traits: the Storm Hawks also have the dark-skinned rhino-like Junko, while the Battle Force 5 get their intel from a female sentient, and another of the 5 guys is from Thailand.)
  • Total Drama:
    • Raj is gay and Indian.
    • Zee is an amputee and, according to Word of God, Hispanic.
  • Voltron: Legendary Defender: Shiro is Asian, has PTSD, is an amputee, was revealed to be attracted to men, and has been suffering from a chronic terminal illness for most of his life. His deceased boyfriend Adam could also count, being gay and Ambigously Brown, as well as his newlywed husband Curtis in the Grand Finale.
  • Totally Spies!: Alex is revealed by the show's creator to be of Asian and Latin-American descent. This also doubles as Truth in Television since Latin America is extremely diverse and has a well-established Asian immigrant population.
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Selwin

Sam calls Selwin an "HR Bargain" because he's a black dwarf.

Alternative Title(s): Multi Token Minority, Manyfer Token Minority

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Sam calls Selwin an "HR Bargain" because he's a black dwarf.

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