1) Corlys Velyaron and his family were changed from white in the Fire and Blood book to black in the House of the Dragon adaptation. On the surface a good representation as Corlys is the richest man in the Seven Kingdoms and a powerful but self-made lord. However Corlys’s story involves his daughter-in-law trying to pass off her bastard sons as his heirs, disregarding his daughter and granddaughters as potential heirs, cheating on his wife and putting his bastard sons over his legitimate granddaughters, and losing everything as he tries to climb the social ladder, it has created a lot of unnecessary fandom discourse despite the only change to his character being his skin color.

2)In the new Harry Potter series, Paapa Essiedu has been cast as Severus Snape. This has been a controversial subject as Snape’s storyline centers around his obsessive love for Lily Evans-Potter, still a White Woman, his bullying at the hands of James Potter, still a White Man, and his abusing his position as a teacher to torment young students because of his irrational grudges.

Corollary to this Trope: the Even Worse Fixes

3) Scarlett Johansson’s casting as Major Mokoto Kusunagai in the 2017 Ghost in the Shell movie was already controversial choice considering the character was explicitly Japanese. However in the movie it’s revealed the Johansson’s character was originally a Japanese woman who chose to upload her mind into a cyborg body that looks like a White Woman.

4) In Stark Trek: Into Darkness, Benedict Cumberbatch’s Character John Harrison was revealed to actually be classic Star Trek Villain, Khan Noonien Singh, an Augmented Human designed to be genetically superior to baseline humans. This was explicitly done to avoid the Brown=Terrorist Trope but was absolutely derailed as unnecessary considering Khan’s storyline involved him being forced into terrorism because a white man holding his family hostage. Further more, the choice to have Khan be a man of color was explicit on Gene Roddenberry’s part as the Original Star Trek premiered less than twenty years after the end of the Nazi Regime and as America was in the throes of the Civil Rights movement.

Into Darkness’s casting choice was made worst in the Tie-In Comics, when it was revealed that Khan is still a man of color. He was just forced to undergo advanced plastic surgery to make him look like a white man.