Token Minority TV Tropes. The Token Minority is a character designed to get more minority groups into the plot. This serves several purposes. Allows the producers of the show to broaden the appeal of the show by giving more viewers protagonists they can identify with. Often the majority of the animal cast is made up of mammals and there is a token non mammal. Usually, the token non mammal is a bird, but reptiles, amphibians, and even invertebrates are certainly not unheard of. Sometimes, there are token Petting Zoo People in a group of Funny AnimalCivilized Animal tier animals. Sometimes, there are token animals, aliens, or monsters representing ethnic minorities in a group made of supposedly. This isnt out of contempt for minorities this trope simply causes problems with representation, where, for example, the single black guy is forced to be exemplary of his entire race. This is very likely to lead to Positive Discrimination and make him The Scrappy. 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