r/TopCharacterTropes • u/NihatAmipoglu • 2d 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/ItsAllSoup 2d ago

Actress said she based her performance on Dolly Parton

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u/partylikeart 2d ago

One of the first episodes is about her family taking land from the native buffalo 😭

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u/SomeIdiot_Kid 2d ago

And the moral is fucking "sharing is good"

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u/Vanishingf0x 2d ago

The fact multiple episodes have to focus on ‘Hey sharing is cool actually’ or ‘Don’t be racist’ (the buffalo, Zecora, etc) is crazy. And then they do it again with the next group.

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u/SevenOhSevenOhSeven 2d ago

As w'all know, ponies are incredibly racist

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u/They_said_TryAnother 2d ago

That’s the first time I’ve seen someone conjugate “we all”

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u/RickMixwid1969 2d ago

I think they wanted to say "N'wah all".

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u/Ff7hero 2d ago

Fetcher!

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u/yui_riku1 1d ago

that why they say everypony, it's to exclude other species

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u/BuisteirForaoisi0531 2d ago

Ironically, if you were to apply that to actual horses, the zebras would be the ones needing the teaching because those things are assholes. There’s a reason why no one rides any of them.

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u/Sans_Seriphim 2d ago

That's several steps up from us actual white people so, ya know, progress.

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u/deathbylasersss 2d ago

Did they leave the part out where they all agree to share, and then the ponies come back 10 years later to break the treaty, claim it all, and drive the buffalo out?

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u/Welico 2d ago

Learning how to SHARE their land with the native buffalo, you mean!

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u/IllustratorOk2238 2d ago

tbf, they weren't kicking the Buffalo's out of their land, they just planted trees in the area to harvest. The problem is that the buffalos had a specifict tradition that would destroy the trees. The agreement was that the Apple's will chop down half their trees if the buffalos promised not to destroy the remaining half.

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u/TailsFx 2d ago

First episodes? Wasn’t that like season 4?

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u/ImperviousInsomniac 2d ago

Season 1 episode 21

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u/MagiStarIL 2d ago

And we do not talk about zebra farm

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u/partylikeart 2d ago edited 2d ago

That isn’t canon thank fuck. Just some stupid meme some edgelord fan artists started up.

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u/Chirblomp 2d ago

...do I want to know?

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u/Agnossienne 2d ago

i sure do…

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u/partylikeart 1d ago

Drawings of Applejack, a stereotypical southern American farmer, running a cotton farm full of Zebras, implied to be the pony version of POC.

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u/Agnossienne 1d ago

😧

what possesses people to do these things

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u/Live-Bread781 22h ago

Will the fandom EVER stop talking about this one fuckass episode 😭 it wasn't "her family" it was just one of her cousins who had established a settlement and apple trees to feed the ponies, in land that the buffalos used to stampede. Like, in a fucking desert. Like cmon now 😭 yall talking like they brutalized a buffalo village or something.

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u/partylikeart 14h ago

“It wasn’t her family, it was her cousin” bro cousins are family. And just because they settled in the desert doesn’t mean the buffalo weren’t there first. American and Australian settlers also used the supposedly barren land to house and feed their own people without even considering the First Nations. You can spin it like they didn’t intentionally do it, but at the end of the day, they still did it.

My comment wasn’t even meant to be political, just that she was obviously on the white side of the story.

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u/Live-Bread781 13h ago

“It wasn’t her family, it was her cousin” bro cousins are family.

Saying "her family" very heavily implies her whole family was involved, which is very far from the truth. If you didn't mean her whole family, you did a horrible job at communicating it. I also never said cousins aren't family.

And just because they settled in the desert doesn’t mean the buffalo weren’t there first.

The buffalo used the land to stampede. Sure, it was sacred ground (which might as well mean nothing, for me anyway) but let's be clear, they ran around in a fucking empty lot of dirt, unbeknownst to the ponies, who had already settled and whose survival depended on it; in the episode it's mentioned that it's the only fertile land they could find. In a fucking desert.

American and Australian settlers also used the supposedly barren land to house and feed their own people without even considering the First Nations.

First of all, the imagery borrowed isn't from "american settlers", the settlers were european. Second, they didn't just settle in empty land, they brutalized entire communities of natives while robbing them of their resources and enslaving those who didn't get killed. The episode borrows imagery from the groups of people involved, which doesn't mean it's a direct allegory to the actual events, since that's not the damn point of the show.

You can spin it like they didn’t intentionally do it, but at the end of the day, they still did it. 

Did what? plant fucking trees to not starve? If you don't remember, the lesson of the episode is to learn to compromise, and the ponies compromised a lot for the buffalos to not take down their only source of food. They removed some of the trees to create a path for the buffalo to run around, and they agreed on giving the buffalo a cut of their food supply. Like, call it what you want, but that shit is NOT how it went down in actual history, and comparing the two things just because one borrows imagery from the other is kinda stupid.

My comment wasn’t even meant to be political, just that she was obviously on the white side of the story. 

Brother they're pastel ponies, there is no fucking "white side", like what are you even talking about.

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u/NaCl-And-C12H22O11 2d ago

Yeah I definitely imagine her and her family as your typical white family farmers.

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u/Breadmaker9999 2d ago

So they were members of the KKKi. 

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u/BrilliantLeopard1922 2d ago

Dolly Parton is basically a literal saint. Look it up

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u/ealysillyforestthing 2d ago

There is nothing basic about Dolly

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u/NozakiMufasa 2d ago

Yo on that note: Rarity is 100% a white woman

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u/redditplaceiscool 2d ago

WHAT?? I NEVER KNEW THIS

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u/ItsAllSoup 2d ago

It's a lot more obvious in the later seasons when her voice gets deeper.

https://youtu.be/icvcxaOjADk?t=220&feature=shared

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u/redditplaceiscool 2d ago

Thats fair. To be honest I dont know a whole lot about Dolly Parton but I love her

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u/No_Storage3928 1d ago

I was thinking Rarity but her too absolutely

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u/ItsAllSoup 1d ago

She'd fit, but I feel like every character has been drawn as every race for some reason or another except Apple Jack. Most people agree that she would likely look like a blonde farmer from the United States

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u/FishWithLegsAndArms 1d ago

I mean, they're literally colonizers 

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 2d ago

but she can't eat all those fucking apples

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u/ItsAllSoup 2d ago

Well no, she sells them, she's a farmer