History FantasticRacism / LiveActionTV

** Actually, the doozers wanted their constructions to be eaten by the fraggles (they made them out of radishes afterall), but they initially thought of them as anything but noble and intelligent; [[spoiler:ironically, it was the two seemingly DUMBEST, laziest of the fraggles that convinced the doozers they were wrong about the fraggles.]]

** In ''Voyager'' episode "[[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Repentance_(episode) Repentance]]", Voyager helps a damaged Nygean prison transport. Neelix finds out one race, the Benkaran, make up a tiny proportion of the population in Nygean space, but are [[UnfortunateImplications over-represented in the judicial system]]. But a Bekaran prisoner, Joleg, proves by his actions during an attempted breakout that he, at least, deserves his sentence.

** In ''Voyager'' episode "[[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Repentance_(episode) Repentance]]", Voyager helps a damaged Nygean prison transport. It turns out that one race, the Benkaran, make up a tiny proportion of the population in Nygean space, but are [[UnfortunateImplications over-represented in the judicial system]]. The trope is then turned on its head when one Bekaran prisoner, Joleg, proves by his actions during an attempted breakout that he, at least, deserves his sentence.

*** The demon brothel in {{Angel}} won't service vampires.

*** Some Changelings are still the targets of fantastic racism. In the DS9 episode "A Man Alone", Odo is a suspect in a Bajoran's murder, and an angry Bajoran mob vandalizes his office and threatens to kill him.

** The Founders of "Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine" mistrust and look down on all "solids", which is essentially anyone who is not a Founder.

** The {{Buffy}} episode "Family" revealed that Tara's family harbors an incredible hatred for magic-users and raised her to believe that she was part demon on her dead witch mother's side. Shockingly, Tara's racist cousin Beth was [[PlayingAgainstType played by]] AmyAdams.

* Sometimes used in ''{{Buffy}}'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}'', particularly Lorne in the latter. Anyone who sees a green-skinned, horned demon immediately assumes he's a big nasty killer, when of course he's a lovable lounge lizard. Not entirely their fault, though, since ''most'' demons are indeed the people-killing kind.

** It's worth noting that even the main characters aren't immune to this trope, being that they have less issues killing a demon than they do a human, even if their human enemies are [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]] but the demons are simply following a tradition, ritual or their inborn nature - there are references to particular demon species being extinct and in one Buffy Season Six episode, 'As You Were', [[spoiler: Riley Finn]] mentions a demon species which is ''unfortunately'' not extinct yet. It was never made clear whether this species was peaceful or not, though.

* StargateAtlantis: When Michael reverts back to Wraith(ish) and escapes the humans, he expects to easily realign himself with the Wraith. To his dismay, they treat him with the same amount of disdain as they do humans (possibly more since he's not even useful as food); this causes him to reject both humans and Wraith and try to wipe them both out as a result.
* In a somewhat screwy application of this trope, KITT on the original ''KnightRider'' is prejudiced against motorcycles. I repeat: not against bikers, against their vehicles. This is played for laughs, not unreasonably.

* In the new ''BattlestarGalactica'' (and arguably the old one too), Humans and [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Cylons]] don't get along very well. [[spoiler: As it goes, we discover that Humans and Cylons can ''reproduce''!]] The humanoid Cylons are constructs of a completely fleshy nature, which makes the "toaster" epiphet just stupid. [[TruthInTelevision Like real-world epiphets]]. They call all Cylons, humanoid or mechanical, "toasters", and the humanoids also get called [[Film/BladeRunner "skinjobs".]]

* Although none of the in-series werewolves have encountered any, there are parties and individuals that think lycanthropes are abominations that should be eliminated.

** Racism wasn't too far below the surface in inter-species relations, however. The Centauri and Narn regarded each other as mutually unfit to live. Anti-alien racism appeared commonplace among humans not associated with either the station or the Rangers. The Minbari had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegenation anti-miscegenation]] laws and considered purity of the species so important that they ''forced '''[[CrystalDragonJesus Valen's]]''' children to flee Minbar.''

** At the same time, Sally and the other shepherdesses' (all noticeably Caucasian and mostly blondes) lustful pursuit of (dark-haired) Wolf despite his fake surname and his bushy wolf tail suggests the supposed irresistible temptation of an exotic race... while the Peep boys' apparently violent defense of their sisters' purity, and Wendell's assumption in Kissing Town that Wolf would "have [Virginia] on her back before you can say Happy Ever After" resonate far too strongly with the sort of black-man-rapes-white-woman fears exemplified in ''{{Birth of a Nation}}'' to be coincidence. Again, this would be simply an {{Anvilicious}} way of addressing racism in a fantasy setting, the entire point of this trope--in this case, in order to make it relevant to any children in the audience. Basically, Simon Moore [[ShownTheirWork showed his work]], and the fact the treatment of wolves/half-wolves comes off as so disturbingly familiar is due to the blatant, but entirely necessary, use of this trope to make a point.

** The {{Buffy}} episode "Family" revealed that Tara's family harbors an incredible hatred for magic-users and raised her to believe that she was part demon on her dead witch mother's side. Shockingly, Tara's racist cousin Beth was [[PlayingAgainstType played by]] {{Amy Adams}}.
** An early episode of ''Angel'' featured a group called The Scourge, a demonic Ku Klux Klan of sorts toward half-breed demons (much like Doyle) who would gladly die for their cause, making them hard to fight. They consider all half-human demons to be "no better" than humans, and seek to kill every last one. Especially ironic if you're a Buffyverse fanatic and know that in this particular universe, the only pureblood demons are the enormous, monstrous Old Ones, and that humanoid demons with mildly scary faces aren't exactly superior to the other "tainted" ones.

** Samuel Sullivan is the opposite end of the spectrum. He wants to kill all humans.
* In the new ''BattlestarGalactica'' (and arguably the old one too), Humans and [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Cylons]] don't get along very well. [[spoiler: As it goes, we discover that Humans and Cylons can ''reproduce''!]] The humanoid Cylons are constructs of a completely fleshy nature, which makes the "toaster" epiphet just stupid. [[TruthInTelevision Like real-world epiphets]]. They call all Cylons, humanoid or mechanical, "toasters", and the humanoids also get called [[BladeRunner "skinjobs".]]

* On ''{{Wizards of Waverly Place}}'' there are definite problems between wizards, werewolves and vampires. Giants seem to be more accepted but there are still tasteless jokes.

** There's also racism within the supernatural community. Shifters such as Sam hate werewolves, and werewolves hate werepanthers (weres tend to stick to their own species).
*** Sookie lampshaded this in a recent episode where she says it's hard to keep track of which supes hate which.
* Uther's pogrom against magic users in ''{{Series/Merlin}}''.
* Parodied in the ''MrShow'' sketch "Byron De La Beckwith VII: Racist in the Year 3000."

** And Darrin returns the prejudice with interest. He's much like someone who marries a (fill in the blank with favorite minority) woman but wants her to keep it hidden.

* The humans and angels in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' tend to dislike each other on principle. One angels or another is always calling humans filthy and primitive worms or maggots, due to their mammalian biology, short lives and to protest how angels were created by god to be the indentured servants of mankind. Humans (particular the main characters) mainly just hate the angels because they are sick of getting messed around, and because monster hunters instinctively hate sentient non-human beings. Dean repeatedly calls them "dicks with wings". Most angels behave pretty badly in-series but lots of them aren't totally evil or are as sympathetic as the humans( Cas, Anna, the members of Cas' garrison who disapproved of the apocalyptic plans got slaughtered, the Cupids) and they are all able to feel and express humanlike emotions.
** Despite Dean and Castiel being fairly close friends, Dean continually makes racist comments about the angels, often when Cas is standing right next to him. This might be justified given Dean's experiences and personality, but sometimes you have to wonder why Cas doesn't call him out on it, or physically assault him more often. It's almost like Cas agrees with Dean's assessment. Maybe he's just a BoomerangBigot?

* ''{{Series/Highlander}}'' had a group of [[MysteriousWatcher Watchers]] who went rogue and wanted all immortals killed off, calling them 'abominations'. They were known as the Hunters and were led by the brother in law of Duncan's Watcher friend Joe Dawson.

* ''{{Series/Highlander}}'' had a group of [[TheWatcher Watchers]] who went rogue and wanted all immortals killed off, calling them 'abominations'. They were known as the Hunters and were led by the brother in law of Duncan's Watcher friend Joe Dawson.

* ''{{Series/Highlander}}'' had a group of [[TheWatchers Watchers]] who went rogue and wanted all immortals killed off, calling them 'abominations'. They were known as the Hunters and were led by the brother in law of Duncan's Watcher friend Joe Dawson.

* In a somewhat screwy application of this trope, KITT on the original ''KnightRider'' is prejudiced against motorcycles. I repeat: not against bikers, against their vehicles. This is played for laughs, not unreasonably.

* The old DisneyChannel show ''Series/AdventuresInWonderland'' had an episode centered around this, when the residents of Wonderland were nervous about a walrus moving into the neighborhood because they had heard a lot of bad stereotypes about walruses. But Alice herself meets the Walrus and finds out that he's actually a PrettyCoolGuy.

** The show also has a backstory that in the face of all kinds of alien races, humans decided that all humans are pretty much like one another and did away with 20th century prejudices, so we get scenes like two male characters going undercover as a married couple with no one batting an eye, and a passing reference to the Pope being female (which resulted in more letters to the show than anything else in it). However, there are a sizable number of humans prejudiced against aliens, and we also get something of the "new black" in humans born on Mars.

* ''{{Smallville}}'s'' Kara Zor-El dropped a few rungs on the likeability ladder when she called MartianManhunter "Red-Eyes." As seen [[http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville7-ep04 here]], although YourMileageMayVary.

** An episode of [=DS9=] "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" featured a Vulcan Starfleet captain who openly espouses Vulcan superiority to humans, has written dozens of academic papers on the topic, and even commands a Starfleet starship with an all-Vulcan crew. And yet, amazingly, no-one in Starfleet seems to have a problem with this other than Sisko, for whom it is personal rather than on principle. This flagrantly racist behaviour is never labelled as such, even when the captain challenges Sisko and his crew to a game of baseball just to further underscore the point that Vulcans are so superior, they can even beat humans at their own game. Sisko's crew naturally lose, since Vulcans are biologically faster and stronger than humans, but they achieve a moral victory nonetheless.

* StargateAtlantis: When Michael reverts back to Wraith(ish) and escapes the humans, he expects to easily realign himself with the Wraith. To his dismay, they treat him with the same amount of disdain as they do humans (possibly more since he's not even useful as food); this causes him to reject both humans and Wraith and try to wipe them both out as a result.

** There's a very {{Anvilicious}} treatment in "That Old Gang of Mine" (Series/{{Angel}} season 3 ep 3), in which Gunn's former gang are slow to learn that Not All Demons Are Evil, while all the major characters had caught on long ago and quickly.

* ''GetSmart'''s Hymie the Robot complains that people look at him funny in the street, he can't get a cab, and even Max never takes him to his club.

* The old DisneyChannel show ''AdventuresInWonderland'' had an episode centered around this, when the residents of Wonderland were nervous about a walrus moving into the neighborhood because they had heard a lot of bad stereotypes about walruses. But Alice herself meets the Walrus and finds out that he's actually a PrettyCoolGuy.