Maligned Mixed Marriage/Playing With

Basic Trope: A relationship involving two people of different races recieves a negative reaction from those around them

• Straight: Society doesn't like that Alice, who is white, has gotten together with Bob, who is black.
• Exaggerated: Society doesn't like that Alice and Bob are together because she has blue eyes and he has brown eyes.
• Downplayed: Society doesn't like that Alice, who is white, has gotten together with Bob, who is black. They eventually relent once Bob is revealled to be not too black.
• Justified: Alice and Bob come from cultures that were at war just a few years ago.
• Inverted: Society doesn't like that Alice and Bob are of the same race.
• Subverted: At first, it looks like Alice's parents don't like her being with Bob due to his race, but then they tell her it's because they wanted her to be with Charlie.
• Double Subverted: ...Because he's white.
• Parodied: Society doesn't like Bob and Alice together, though it's because they're from different cities than that they're of different races.
• Deconstructed: The fact that people don't like people being in interracial relationships ultimately creates tensions that divide the society and cause everyone to suffer.
• Reconstructed: Eventually, the people learn that they just have to accept Alice and Bob's relationship. Or the couple moves to a different location, where interracial relationships are accepted.
• Zig Zagged: People don't like Alice (white) and Bob (black) getting together, but when Charlie (black) and Danielle (white) get together, no one has a problem with it.
• Averted: In a land full of racism, fantastic or otherwise, no one minds when Alice and Bob get together.
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded: "And here I thought we were beyond such silly things like disliking mixed race couples."
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: Frank knows that Alice and Bob are in an interracial relationship among very unaccepting people and uses this to bring both of them down.
• Defied: "Guys, really, who cares about their races? If they love each other, that's all that matters."
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???
• Played For Drama: The fact that people try to keep Alice and Bob apart ultimately drives one of them to kill several of the people trying to keep them from getting together

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