It really is just white and Japanese for almost every property. You can consider Splatoon an exception, but well, Splatoon's aesthetic of awkwardly appropriated black culture doesn't make that feel like a point in Ninty's favor.
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No, it probably doesn't.
Everyone is forgetting about Pikmin smh
Oh, what examples?
Bernard, Yonny, Shepherd, and the player character of course.
Ah nice
Legend of Zelda has the Gerudo, which are portrayed in varying degrees from problematic to quaint depending on the title.
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To be fair a lot of Nintendo characters aren't even human.
This is a very good point.
Starfox is latino-coded and no i will not be explaining any further
Legend of Zelda has a bunch, obvious you mentioned Ganondorf but all the Gerudo have brown skin! They're not all enemies or villains in Breath of the Wild, they're just regular people.
There's the guy that trains you in Punch Out (besides Mike Tyson lol).
I'm sure there's some non Asian POC representation in street fighter or whatever, but I didn't play a lot of fighters.
There definitely isn't a lot though and even when you could customize your main character (like in Animal Crossing) they didn't do the best in representation either until, like, this decade.
Idk enough of LoZ lore but I read somewhere that the Gerudo are a tribe of thieves? I'm playing TotK and there was a line about how the Gerudo are extra dedicated to redeem themselves for following Ganandorf in the past
Same vibes as Lord of the Rings easterlings being the ontologically brown and evil races
But beyond that, yeah they are just yet another people in Hyrule. I don't get why they're all women though
Infinite genocide on the voe 
Ensemble style games sometimes do, like ARMS or F-Zero. But if you want racial diversity, Nintendo is only going to let you down.
Agreed.
Kirby is pink
Okay then...
Little mac from a 15 year old gane at most recent i think?
From a franchise that's only had two games in the entire series, ig
The one, the only, the GOAT, Mike Tyson in "Mike Tyson's Punch Out"
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! Around the time the Gold Version was released for a NES Open Tournament Golf competition,[19] Nintendo of America's founder and former president Minoru Arakawa attended a boxing match during the Heavyweight unification series that featured its future champion Mike Tyson. Arakawa became so astonished with the athlete's "power and skill" that he was inspired to use his likeness and the tournament itself in the upcoming game.[20] Tyson was rumored to have been paid $50,000 for a three-year period for his likeness. This transaction was something of a risk for Nintendo, as it occurred before Tyson won the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight championship from Trevor Berbick on November 22, 1986, which greatly increased the profit for the game.[21] Nintendo re-released Punch-Out!! in Japan.
Mike Tyson was written out due to licensing and also is personally just a monster. On the bright side, the expy character Mr. Sandman is alright
Can't forget about every national/racial stereotype in that game. Plus the black boxing coach.
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Fire emblem characters that are black top of my head Basilio (FE13) Flavia (FE13) Niles (FE14) Benny? (FE14) Rinkah (FE14) Gray (FE15) Dedue (FE16)
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