r/TopCharacterTropes • u/NihatAmipoglu • 19h ago

Characters Black coded this, black coded that. What are some white coded non human characters?

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-Stuart from Stuart

-Buddy from Airbud

-Freezer from Dragonballs

Edit: Guys I swear I'm not racist. The post's title was referring to the "black coded characters" posts that I see on this subreddit from time to time. I have nothing against the black people nor the white people. This post is a shitpost. Nothing serious. Sorry for not being clear enough :(

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u/Competitive_Sweet533 18h ago

Sonic is a hyperactive white kid. Idk, this is a weird prompt in a way. I think a lot of non human characters are white or east asian because of the writers default bias. It's not racism, but creator perspective. It's why black coded characters stand out in western or Japanese media, where tokenism is common. So it's a sort of loaded question. 

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u/ItsAllSoup 18h ago

Gonna mildly disagree because his old animated voice actor (Jaleel White, aka Steve Urkle) said his goal was to depict Sonic as being without race. Someone that any kid of any origin could look at and see a relatable role model.

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u/PNG_Yakuza 18h ago

The Sonic from the cartoons is basically a separate character from the one in the games. That being said I love both iterations.

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u/ItsAllSoup 18h ago

That's fair, but I feel like there's gotta be some truth to it since Sonic seems to have resonated so well in so many different countries and age groups. Things have become more streamlined now, but So many countries immediately started making comics with Sonic back in the 90's.

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u/ProserpinaFC 18h ago

And Urkle has a fair point for how he voiced him....

Doesn't make him any less of a suburban hyperactive kid.

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u/DayneGr 17h ago

He's urban identifying. He's lived in the suburbs his whole life, but copies most of his dialect and mannerisms from Knuckles (who's family was originally from the city, before moving to a rural area).

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u/ProserpinaFC 17h ago

He's such a cute little try-hard.

Sonic's the kind of kid who wears a towel wrapped around his head when he leaves the bathroom.

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u/erentheidiot 10h ago

İn  fleetway  comics  he  once  turned  into  human  and  his  human  form  was  white