Path Pavers and Record Holders
This actress became the first Latina woman to win an Oscar for her performance in West Side Story
Who is Rita Moreno
Though now many have pointed out she can fall into the “strong female character” stereotype, this show is one of the first long running popular shows with a fully 3-dimensional female protagonist.
What is Buffy
Characters such as Lexa from The 100, Quentin from The Magicians, Castile from Supernatural, and Adam from Voltron Legendary Defenders are all victims of this trope.
What is bury your gays
This new MCU addition has recently been praised on twitter for it’s surprisingly accurate portrayal of Disassociate Identity Disorder as well as it’s Latino lead actor
What is Moon Knight
The characters Mako Mori from Pacific Rim, Nikki Wong from 6teen, Gogo Tomago from Big Hero 6, and Yukio from Deadpool 2 all fall into this sadly nameless but very specific trope regarding how one dimensional Hollywood views this type of “strong female character”
The East Asian “badass” with a colored streak in her hair
This artist had the first kpop music video to hit 1 billion views on youtube
Who is Psy
This sci-fi legend was originally written as a man however when Sigourney Weaver was cast instead they decided to make the character female by changing the pronouns used and nothing else.
Who is Ellen Ripley
Inspired by a page in a Green Lantern, this term was coined to describe when a female love interest is either killed or incapacitated to further the male protagonist’s plot or character development
What is fridging
This animated movie in total won 40 awards and was nominated for 71 including the first African American to be nominated for and win Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
What is Into the Spiderverse
Co-Director Peter Ramsey
This NFL team who won Super Bowl 54 has been under fire for having a heavily racist and stereotypical name, mascot, and stadium name.
Who are the Kansas City Chiefs
What is Star Trek The Original Series
At 19 weeks this gay artist’s song was the longest running number one song since the Billboard Hot 100 chart was created in 1958 and was the most nominated male artist at the 62nd Grammy Awards
Who is Lil Nas X
Movies such as The Help, The Blindside, and Green Book are often described as this, where a white protagonist is inserted or created to tell the story of POC and “solve” their issues usually involving racism.
As a subversion of the “Magical Native” trope, this Parks and Recreation character uses the racist assumptions the white characters make about them to trick them into moving an event off of the site of a historical native massacre
Who is Ken Hotate
An example of the “evil disabled person” stereotype, this character serves as the bad guy in the Unbreakable series
Who is Mr Glass/Elijah Price
This EGOT recipient was the first female Grammys host in 1992
Who is Whoopi Goldberg
This group was the first female kpop artist to hold a stadium concert in the United States and the second kpop group ever.
Who are Twice
This trope is concerningly common in children’s media, with characters such as PJ from A Goofy Movie, Soos from Gravity Falls, Ivy from Good Luck Charlie, and Neil from ParaNormal falling into this trope
Who is The Fat Friend/The Fat Funny Friend
This popular DC sidekick recently came out as queer and got a boyfriend
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Who are Tim Drake(Red Robin) and Jon Kent(Superboy)
Created by the singer Sia, this movie was heavily criticized sed for it’s dangerously incorrect representation of Autism
What is Sing
This is the only non-English movie to ever win the academy award for best animated feature
What is Spirited Away
This artist is the only female entertainer to have both a number one album and number one film simultaneously in the United States
Who is Jennifer Lopez
Album J.Lo
Movie The Wedding Planner
Characters such as Clementine from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sam from Garden State, Tamaki Suoh in a rare male example from Ouran High School Host Club and Ramona from Scott Pilgrim vs the World all fall into this stereotype.
This show gained praise from many due to its two main male characters of colors being well developed as well as subversive when it came to stereotypes that could have been played into.
Characters like Toph from Avatar the Last Airbender, Chirrut from Rogue One, Eli in The Book of Eli and this witch from American Horror Story all fit under the “disability superpower” stereotype, specifically with their blindness giving them extra abilities or powers that other don’t have
Who is Cordelia Goode