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The Magical Negro is a supporting stock character in fiction who, by means of special insight or powers often of a supernatural or quasi-mystical nature...

provides examples. Some character archetypes, the more universal foundations of fictional characters, are also listed. Some characters that were first...

The Mary Sue is a character archetype in fiction, usually a young woman, who is often portrayed as inexplicably competent across all domains, gifted with...

Damsel in distress Foil (fiction) Gamine Johanson analysis Magical Negro Mary Sue Smurfette principle Rabin, Nathan (January 25, 2007). "My Year Of Flops...

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as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s. Trends in the planet's portrayal have largely been influenced by advances in planetary science...

character in fiction who dies soon after being introduced. The term originates from the original Star Trek (NBC, 1966–69) television series in which the...

disproportionately face. The magical Negro (or mystical Negro) is a stock character who appears in a variety of fiction and uses special insight or powers...

accusation of inter-racial rape, truncated schooling, and chattel slavery. Film portal Magical Negro List of Magical Negro occurrences in fiction Noble savage...

and are sometimes out of place in their own society until they lead minorities or foreigners. Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness labels the...

(1926). Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. p. 320. Anderson (2002). Conjure in African-American Society...

an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. Born in Providence, Rhode Island...

comic strips on Yennega and the Mulatto Solitude All-Negro Comics No. 1, published out of Philadelphia in mid-1947, was the first known comics magazine written...

Negroes. In the mid-20th century, the German scholar Carl Meinhof (1857–1944) claimed that the Bantu race was formed by a merger of Hamitic and Negro...

Prisoners of Gravity was a Canadian public broadcasting television news magazine program that explored speculative fiction — science fiction, fantasy,...

title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Kindred Reader's Guide: An Interview With Octavia Butler; part of Writers & Books "If All of Rochester...

"authentic" instances of discrimination, mostly taken from reliable sources. He said, "Whatever the sins of the nation against the Negro—and they are many...

speaking in a stereotypical "Negro dialect" – were omitted from DVD/Blu-ray releases. Notably the other two – Fraidy Cat, showed Tom biting Mammy in the rear...

stories of Latin American magical realism. A number of small publishers in the 1990s, changed the format and distribution of their comics to more closely...

killing everyone. Mystical darkle - Like the old Magical Negro stereotype, the mystical darkle has some sort of magic powers that he or she uses to help or...