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** Lestat realizes that Louis is reluctant to kill humans because "You're ashamed of what we are." He's referring to them being vampires, but because Louis is a ClosetGay, there's a definite undercurrent of Louis feeling some degree of shame over his homosexuality (and by extension, his relationship with Lestat).

--->'''Lestat''': You don't bite the blood, you suck it. Yes, yes, that's better. Good.

** Because Lestat and Louis are LoverAndBeloved, the instruction the former imparts to the latter in the second episode has an underlying sexual connotation (just replace the word "blood" with a part of the male anatomy).

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': The romance between Louis de Pointe du Lac (who is biracial, specifically French and African descent) and Lestat de Lioncourt (a Frenchman) carries an uncomfortable colonial subtext. Although the series begins in 1910 New Orleans and France no longer has a presence in North America, France remains a colonial power that controls colonies in Africa and Southeast Asia.
** Lestat is a rich Frenchman who would've benefited at least indirectly from colonization, and he continues the trend that some Frenchmen indulge in of romanticizing and eroticizing their mixed race/non-Caucasian lovers. A famous example of this is the French poet Creator/CharlesBaudelaire whose longtime mistress and muse was Jeanne Duval, who was Haitian-born with both French and African ancestry. In Baudelaire's poem "[[https://fleursdumal.org/poem/132 Le Chat]]", he sensuously describes a beautiful brown cat -- the brown shade alludes to Duval. This mirrors Lestat's [[MixedAncestryIsAttractive constant praise of Louis' beauty]] and finding [[StarbucksSkinScale "cinnamon" skin]] alluring.
** While Lestat is in love with Louis and treats him with far greater respect than white Americans do, Lestat is not immune from the prejudices that come with his French background. Louis points out in the second episode that as a Creole, he's at a disadvantage compared to a full-blooded French person in France, and he believes that Lestat is at least subconsciously acting on his sense of French superiority because Louis hates it when Lestat refers to him as a "fledgling," which Louis equates with being called a slave.
** At the beginning of the third episode, Lestat enjoys learning about the history of Jackson Square, which he loves, because of its links to France, as it was designed after the Place des Vosges in Paris, it was formerly known as Place d'Armes (Lestat even prefers the original French name), and it was where the Louisiana Purchase was signed. However, he feels that France had sold the territory far too cheaply to the USA ("Penny-wise, franc foolish"). While not stated explicitly, his underlying musing is if New Orleans was still under French control, he wonders what his relationship with Louis would be like if the latter was born under the French flag instead of the American one. Louis abruptly stops Lestat's train of thought by informing his boyfriend that runaway slaves were decapitated here and their heads were placed on the iron gates as a warning. France had participated in the slave trade, so it was just as guilty as the USA when it comes to the atrocities committed against Louis' African ancestors. Naturally, Louis is annoyed that Lestat is idealizing ''La Nouvelle-Orléans'' under French rule, and while in this hypothetical scenario, Louis' ''Créole'' heritage would most probably be acknowledged (unlike America's OneDropRule), he's well-aware that Lestat would have a lot of power over him, especially if ''Nouvelle-France'' (which Louisiana was a part of) remained a French colony instead of an independent country.
** Louis and Lestat's romance being rooted in French colonialism is illustrated in a [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/e005d85d0a57212671a4811322e31db3/34f8dd0ee6cbd76d-89/s540x810/82e0be3bcc0ddb50ea2866f2265e49e524754dae.gif clip from the trailer]] where they're dancing together while dressed in lavish 17th-century French period costumes. This is arguably the era when France was at the peak of its power, and the French elite who wore this type of clothing profited the most from the exploitation of their colonies. The contrast of Louis' brown skin against his white outfit is a visual reminder that he wouldn't even ''exist'' without French colonialism (the ugly implication being that somewhere in his family tree, he has at least one French ancestor who likely raped a female slave). Lestat represents the side of privilege where Frenchmen could "sample" (Lestat's own word) any person under their control, although specifically in Lestat's case, he's a "gentler" [[note]]a relative term, since he's certainly gentler to Louis, but definitely NOT to Lily, a prostitute whom Lestat had murdered after having sex with her; like Louis, she's also biracial and a "misfit beauty" in Lestat's eyes[[/note]] variation of the same theme in a time when slavery has been outlawed. Moreover, Lestat is positioning his arm around Louis' waist, which suggests that the latter is the "woman" in their relationship; even European women had very few rights during the colonial period, let alone those who weren't Caucasian, so it further highlights the inherent inequalities between Louis and Lestat.

** Louis and Lestat's romance being rooted in French colonialism is illustrated in a [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/e005d85d0a57212671a4811322e31db3/34f8dd0ee6cbd76d-89/s540x810/82e0be3bcc0ddb50ea2866f2265e49e524754dae.gif clip from the trailer]] where they're dancing together while wearing lavish 17th-century French period costumes. This is arguably the era when France was at the peak of its power, and the French elite who wore this type of clothing profited the most from the exploitation of their colonies. The contrast of Louis' brown skin against his white outfit is a visual reminder that he wouldn't even ''exist'' without French colonialism (the ugly implication being that somewhere in his family tree, he has at least one French ancestor who likely raped a female slave). Lestat represents the side of privilege where Frenchmen could "sample" (Lestat's own word) any person under their control, although specifically in Lestat's case, he's a "gentler" [[note]]a relative term, since he's certainly gentler to Louis, but definitely NOT to Lily, a prostitute whom Lestat had murdered after having sex with her; like Louis, she's also biracial and a "misfit beauty" in Lestat's eyes[[/note]] variation of the same theme in a time when slavery has been outlawed. Moreover, Lestat is positioning his arm around Louis' waist, which suggests that the latter is the "woman" in their relationship; even European women had very few rights during the colonial period, let alone those who weren't Caucasian, so it further highlights the inherent inequalities between Louis and Lestat.

** At the beginning of the third episode, Lestat enjoys learning about the history of Jackson Square, which he loves, because of its links to France, as it was designed after the Place des Vosges in Paris, it was formerly known as Place d'Armes (Lestat even prefers the original French name), and it was where the Louisiana Purchase was signed. However, he feels that France had sold the territory far too cheaply to the USA ("Penny-wise, franc foolish"). While not stated explicitly, his underlying musing is if New Orleans was still under French control, he wonders what his relationship to Louis would be like if the latter was born under the French flag instead of the American one. Louis abruptly stops Lestat's train of thought by informing his boyfriend that runaway slaves were decapitated here and their heads were placed on the iron gates as a warning. France had participated in the slave trade, so it was just as guilty as the USA when it comes to the atrocities committed against Louis' African ancestors. Naturally, Louis is annoyed that Lestat is idealizing ''La Nouvelle-Orléans'' under French rule, and while in this hypothetical scenario, Louis' ''Créole'' heritage would most probably be acknowledged (unlike America's OneDropRule), he's well-aware that Lestat would have a lot of power over him, especially if ''Nouvelle-France'' (which Louisiana was a part of) remained a French colony instead of an independent country.

** At the beginning of the third episode, Lestat enjoys learning about the history of Jackson Square, which he loves, because of its links to France, as it was designed after the Place des Vosges in Paris, it was formerly known as Place d'Armes (Lestat even prefers the original French name), and it was where the Louisiana Purchase was signed. However, he feels that France had sold the territory far too cheaply to the USA ("Penny-wise, franc foolish"). While not stated explicitly, his underlying musing is if New Orleans was still under French control, he wonders what his relationship to Louis would be like if the latter was born under the French flag instead of the American one. Louis abruptly stops Lestat's train of thought by informing his boyfriend that runaway slaves were decapitated here and their heads were placed on the iron gates as a warning. France had participated in the slave trade, so it was just as guilty as the USA when it comes to the atrocities committed to Louis' African ancestors. Naturally, Louis is annoyed that Lestat is idealizing ''La Nouvelle-Orléans'' under French rule, and while in this hypothetical scenario, Louis' ''Créole'' heritage would most probably be acknowledged (unlike America's OneDropRule), he's well-aware that Lestat would have a lot of power over him, especially if ''Nouvelle-France'' (which Louisiana was a part of) remained a French colony instead of an independent country.

** At the beginning of the third episode, Lestat enjoys learning about the history of Jackson Square, which he loves, because of its links to France, as it was designed after the Place des Vosges in Paris, it was formerly known as Place d'Armes (Lestat even prefers the original French name), and it was where the Louisiana Purchase was signed. However, he feels that France had sold the territory far too cheaply to the USA ("Penny-wise, franc foolish"). While not stated explicitly, his underlying musing is if New Orleans was still under French control, he wonders what his relationship to Louis would be like if the latter was born under the French flag instead of the American one. Louis abruptly stops Lestat's train of thought by informing his boyfriend that runaway slaves were decapitated here and their heads were placed on the iron gates as a warning. France had participated in the slave trade, so it was just as guilty as the USA when it comes to the atrocities committed to Louis' African ancestors. Naturally, Louis is annoyed that Lestat is idealizing ''La Nouvelle-Orléans'' under French rule, and while in this hypothetical scenario, Louis' ''Créole'' heritage would most probably be acknowledged (unlike America's OneDropRule), he's well-aware that Lestat would have a lot of power over him, especially if ''Nouvelle France'' (which Louisiana was a part of) remained a French colony instead of an independent country.

** At the beginning of the third episode, Lestat enjoys learning about the history of Jackson Square, which he loves, because of its links to France, as it was designed after the Place des Vosges in Paris, it was formerly known as Place d'Armes (Lestat even prefers the original French name), and it was where the Louisiana Purchase was signed. However, he feels that France had sold the territory far too cheaply to the USA ("Penny-wise, franc foolish"). While not stated explicitly, his underlying musing is if New Orleans was still under French control, he wonders what his relationship to Louis would be like if the latter was born under the French flag instead of the American one. Louis abruptly stops Lestat's train of thought by informing his boyfriend that runaway slaves were decapitated here and their heads were placed on the iron gates as a warning. France had participated in the slave trade, so it was just as guilty as the USA when it comes to the atrocities committed to Louis' African ancestors.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': The romance between Louis de Pointe du Lac (who is biracial, specifically French and African descent) and Lestat de Lioncourt (a Frenchman) carries an uncomfortable colonial subtext. Although the series begins in 1910 New Orleans and France no longer has a presence in North America, France remains a colonial power that controls colonies in Africa and Southeast Asia. Lestat is a rich Frenchman who would've benefited at least indirectly from colonization, and he continues the trend that some Frenchmen indulge in of romanticizing and eroticizing their mixed race/non-Caucasian lovers. A famous example of this is the French poet Creator/CharlesBaudelaire whose longtime mistress and muse was Jeanne Duval, who was Haitian-born with both French and African ancestry. In Baudelaire's poem "[[https://fleursdumal.org/poem/132 Le Chat]]", he sensuously describes a beautiful brown cat -- the brown shade alludes to Duval. This mirrors Lestat's [[MixedAncestryIsAttractive constant praise of Louis' beauty]] and finding [[StarbucksSkinScale "cinnamon" skin]] alluring. While Lestat is in love with Louis and treats him with far greater respect than white Americans do, Lestat is not immune from the prejudices that come with his French background. Louis points out in the second episode that as a Creole, he's at a disadvantage compared to a full-blooded French person in France, and he believes that Lestat is at least subconsciously acting on his sense of French superiority because Louis hates it when Lestat refers to him as a "fledgling," which Louis equates with being called a slave.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': The romance between Louis de Pointe du Lac (who is biracial, specifically French and African descent) and Lestat de Lioncourt (a Frenchman) carries an uncomfortable colonial subtext. Although the series begins in 1910 New Orleans and France no longer has a presence in North America, France remains a colonial power that controls colonies in Africa and Southeast Asia. Lestat is a rich Frenchman who would've benefited at least indirectly from colonization, and he continues the trend that some Frenchmen indulge in of romanticizing and eroticizing their mixed race/non-Caucasian lovers. A famous example of this is the French poet Creator/CharlesBaudelaire whose longtime mistress and muse was Jeanne Duval, who was Haitian-born and had both French and African ancestry. In Baudelaire's poem "[[https://fleursdumal.org/poem/132 Le Chat]]", he sensuously describes a beautiful brown cat -- the brown shade obviously refers to Duval. This mirrors Lestat's [[MixedAncestryIsAttractive constant praise of Louis' beauty]] and finding [[StarbucksSkinScale "cinnamon" skin]] alluring. While Lestat is in love with Louis and treats him with far greater respect than white Americans do, Lestat is not immune from the prejudices that come with his French background. Louis points out in the second episode that as a Creole, he's at a disadvantage compared to a full-blooded French person in France, and he believes that Lestat is at least subconsciously acting on his sense of French superiority because Louis hates it when Lestat refers to him as a "fledgling," which Louis equates with being called a slave.

** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS01E05StardustCityRag Stardust City Rag]]":

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': The romance between Louis de Pointe du Lac (who is biracial, specifically French and African descent) and Lestat de Lioncourt (a Frenchman) carries an uncomfortable colonial subtext. Although the series begins in 1910 New Orleans and France no longer has a presence in North America, France remains a colonial power that controls colonies in Africa and Southeast Asia. Lestat is a rich Frenchman who would've benefited at least indirectly from colonization, and he continues the trend that some Frenchmen indulge in of romanticizing and eroticizing their mixed race/non-Caucasian lovers. A famous example of this is the French poet Creator/CharlesBaudelaire whose longtime mistress and muse was Jeanne Duval, who was Haitian-born and had both French and African ancestry. In Baudelaire's poem "[[https://fleursdumal.org/poem/132 Le Chat]]", he sensuously describes a beautiful brown cat -- the brown shade obviously refers to Duval. This mirrors Lestat's [[MixedAncestryIsAttractive constant praise of Louis' beauty]] and finding [[StarbucksSkinScale "cinnamon" skin]] alluring. While Lestat is in love with Louis and treats him with far greater respect than white Americans do, Lestat is not immune from the prejudices that come with his French background. Louis points out in the second episode that as a Creole, he's at a disadvantage compared to a full-blooded French person in France, and he believes that Lestat is at least subconsciously acting on his sense of French superiority because Louis hates it when Lestat refers to him as a "fledgling," which Louis equates with being a called a slave.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': The romance between Louis de Pointe du Lac (who is biracial, specifically French and African descent) and Lestat de Lioncourt (a Frenchman) carries an uncomfortable colonial subtext. Although the series begins in 1910 New Orleans and France no longer has a presence in North America, France remains a colonial power that controls colonies in Africa and Southeast Asia. Lestat is a rich Frenchman who would've benefited at least indirectly from colonization, and he continues the trend that some Frenchmen indulge in of romanticizing and eroticizing their mixed race/non-Caucasian lovers. A famous example of this is the French poet Creator/CharlesBaudelaire whose longtime mistress and muse was Jeanne Duval, who was Haitian-born and had both French and African ancestry. In Baudelaire's poem "[[https://fleursdumal.org/poem/132 Le Chat]]", he sensuously describes a beautiful brown cat -- the brown shade obviously refers to Duval. This mirrors Lestat's [[MixedAncestryIsAttractive constant praise of Louis' beauty]] and finding [[StarbucksSkinScale "cinnamon" skin]] alluring. While Lestat is in love with Louis and treats him with far greater respect than white Americans do, Lestat is not immune from the prejudices that come with his French background. Louis points out in the second episode that as a Creole, he's at a disadvantage compared to a full-blooded French person in France, and he believes that Lestat is at least subconsciously acting on his sense of French superiority because Louis hates it when Lestat refers to him as a "fledging," which Louis equates with being a called a slave.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': The romance between Louis de Pointe du Lac (who is biracial, specifically French and African descent) and Lestat de Lioncourt (a Frenchman) carries an uncomfortable colonial subtext. Although the series begins in 1910 New Orleans and France no longer has a presence in North America, France remains a colonial power that controls colonies in Africa and Southeast Asia. Lestat is a rich Frenchman who would've benefited at least indirectly from colonization, and he continues the trend that some Frenchmen indulge in of romanticizing and eroticizing their mixed race/non-Caucasian lovers. A famous example of this is the French poet Creator/CharlesBaudelaire whose longtime mistress and muse was Jeanne Duval, who was Haitian-born and had both French and African ancestry. In Baudelaire's poem "[[https://fleursdumal.org/poem/132 Le Chat]]", he sensuously describes a beautiful brown cat -- the brown shade obviously refers to Duval. This mirrors Lestat's [[MixedAncestryIsAttractive constant praise of Louis' beauty]] and finding [[StarbucksSkinScale "cinnamon" skin]] alluring.

** The Moclans in general are like the religious right of the Union. They enforce their unpopular beliefs on everyone else, constantly play withh victim despite holding immense power, insist they are the most moral while regularly trampling over the rights of others, act independent of the Union central government, defy its principles and justify it all by claiming those principles are against their [[CultureJustifiesEverything culture]].

* A prominent theme in ''Series/Supergirl2015'' is the FantasticRacism against aliens, which is presented as analogous to real-world anti-immigrant xenophobia. Season 4 takes this even further, with the main antagonists being [[BigBad Agent Liberty]] and his growing [[MugglePower anti-alien hate group]], who are clearly meant to mirror the much-discussed rise of white supremacy and anti-immigrant sentiment following the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Retatedly, Nia directly compares the aliens getting outed then attacked for it with how trans people such as herself have been treated while explaining why she felt it necessary to stand up for Brainy.

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': All over the place. Superheroes are used to satirize how celebrities use their power and influence to behave unethically and then escape consequences.
** Robin's death at A-Train's hands is a blatant parallel of a DUI hit-and-run. A-Train later uses Compound V to win at a publicity race, a reference to countless steroid abuse stories from professional sports.
** The popularity of superhero movies and media gets lampshaded mercilessly, with the Seven constantly being concerned about PR and merchandising.
** The backstory of both Popclaw and Mesmer is clearly meant to evoke a dysfunctional FormerChildStar whose career was ruined by scandal and drug abuse.
** Stormfront's public M.O. is deliberately designed to invoke the new wave of young alt-right political commentators, who are often very web-savvy, know exactly how to play to their audience on social media, and manage to be overt about their political agendas without watering down their appeal to their target demo and remaining relevant and trendy. It's very easy to imagine Stormfront standing alongside the likes of Tomi Lahren and Faith Goldy.
** In "[[Recap/TheBoysS0207ButcherBakerCandlestickMaker Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker]]" Homelander and Stormfront's rhetoric is almost exactly like right-wing anti-immigration claims, simply with the addition of ''superhuman'' terrorists as allegedly infiltrating the country.

** "Majority Rule" has a society whose punishment of minor social infractions takes real-world online mobbing and demands the perpetrators apologize for them UpToEleven, as citizens have the right to vote on whether they're forgiven when an apology is deemed sincere enough, or [[DisproportionateRetribution put to death]].

** "A Tale of Two Topas" features the titular character realizing she's a girl and had been misassigned shortly after birth. Basically a standard transgender experience, except Topa was born female to begin with and surgically resigned after which she'd been raised as male due to her culture's misogyny.

** "About A Girl" mirrors the common practice of "correcting" intersexed babies' genitals if they are "ambiguous" (that is, do not align neatly as either male or female). In this case, the baby is not intersexed, but female, and the Moclans enforce an all-male society (female babies are very rare among them). There are also the issues of how much parents should be allowed to determine children's futures, and specifically regarding surgery that isn't medically necessary (circumcision, a real-life issue where this comes up, is one example used). Plus sex reassignment surgery in general of course.
** "Majority Rule" has a society whose punishment of minor social infractions takes real-world online mobbing and demands the perpetrators apologize for them UpToEleven, as citizens have the right to vote on whether they're forgiven when an apology is deemed sincere enough, or [[DisproportionateRetribution put to death]].

** In "Sanctuary" it's revealed there's a secret network that brings [[spoiler: Moclan females]] to a hidden colony world where they can be safe, reminiscent of the Underground Railroad.

* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'':

** Spike's EnemyMine alliance with Buffy is treated like infidelity. Their FoeYay became much more apparent later on in the series and Drusilla broke up with Spike because even she could see it.

%% *** Drusilla broke up with Spike because she could sense what he'd done in order to save her. Spike and Buffy's FoeYay came much, much later and doesn't make sense if you believe the clunky attempted RetCon. It was made very clear that seasons were planned little more than one ahead, so there was no plan in S2/3 to have Spike as a love interest for Buffy in S5/6.