Carole, depicted as a Black Earth refugee with darker skin and afro-locs, drives much of the refugee and xenophobia plotline tied to her backstory, while Tuesday's mother Valerie runs an explicitly anti-immigrant presidential campaign framed as divisive fear-mongering. This evolves into protest songs and a supergroup performance opposing her policies, serving as a direct allegory to contemporary immigration debates and systemic barriers. Creator Shinichiro Watanabe intentionally crafted a multicultural cast and included queer/non-binary characters like Desmond (non-binary/intersex) and Cybelle (ambiguously lesbian with gender-neutral elements in the Japanese version) to reflect a Blade Runner-inspired diverse future, with statements emphasizing ethnic, racial, and gender mixing as core to his world-building.