History FantasticRacism / LiveActionTV

* A common theme in ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' as the show was keen to present social commentary in most episodes. Racism between bipeds and quadrupeds is shown as a counterpart of xenophobia (quadrupeds are presented as immigrants), another case was discrimination against herbivores from the carnivore-dominant society and in one episode a family is rudely rejected from a casting for being amphibious.

** 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 Happily Ever After" resonate far too strongly with the sort of black-man-rapes-white-woman fears exemplified in ''Film/TheBirthOfANation1915'' 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. Scott Cohen, the actor playing him, is also Jewish, another possible influence as Jewish men also suffered from the same reputation in Europe at times (up to and including being lynched on dubious charges of rape, along with the blood libel against Jews generally).

** Ironically, though he loathes humans and is contemptuous of lower-caste Casthinans, Ram Takh is the only Castithan character we see who's all for Votan unity (though it's not that surprising as he's with the Votanis Collective). He's even married to an Irathient.

** Zhat Vash, a Romulan cabal, are said to be motivated by a fierce hatred for synthetic life forms, and thus suspected as the people behind the attack on Dhaj.

** There was an episode with an {{Aesop}} about homophobia delivered by a genderless species. Who were all played by women so that the audience wouldn't be subjected to Riker kissing someone played by a guy,[[note]]FWIW, Jonathan Frakes pushed for the love interest to be played by a man.[[/note]] thus to some it came off as "a straight woman is repressed by her lesbian society", the opposite from the intended aesop. Of course, this also has relevance to gender noncomformity (though again it has a kind of {{persecution flip}}, since in this society having a gender ''at all'' is deemed a mental illness, with the norm being to remain agender) though it wasn't really a mainstream issue in the 90s when this aired.
** "Redemption", meanwhile, had Data placed in command of a ship whose first officer questions his ability to succeed in such a role thusly:

** Then there was ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode with an {{Aesop}} about homophobia delivered by a genderless species. Who were all played by women so that the audience wouldn't be subjected to Riker kissing someone played by a guy.[[note]]FWIW, Jonathan Frakes pushed for the love interest to be played by a man.[[/note]]

** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': In "Dragon's Teeth" one clue that the Vaadwaur aliens they've [[SealedEvilInACan woken from stasis]] are villains is that Naomi Wildman overhears the Vaadwaur children making derogatory comments about Neelix.
** 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 over-represented in the judicial system. But a Bekaran prisoner, Joleg, proves by his actions during an attempted breakout that he seems to deserve his sentence.
** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
*** The Cardassian occupation of Bajor was unabashedly portrayed by the Cardassians as being racially based. And, in turn, Major Kira serves to show that most Bajorans consequently despise Cardassians with a racist-like fervor, although it's more understandable because she views them much how Jews would view the Gestapo.\\

*** On a few occasions in both ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and [=DS9=] Chief O'Brien has to deal with the question of whether or not he developed a racist dislike of Cardassians as a result of his experiences of fighting against them as a combat soldier in an earlier war, and one episode deals with his former CO, who went on a one-man crusade against the Cardassians, convinced they were still a threat to the Federation (O'Brien helps stop him). In his ex CO's case though it was shown he had never gotten over losing people in the war, perhaps implied as [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]] or something similar.

** The Changeling Founders of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' mistrust and look down on all "solids", which is essentially anyone who is not a Founder. They justify their racism by claiming that they endured persecution and violence from "solids" in the distant past.

** ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' reveals that Vulcans ironically tend to be racist towards humans, or at least tolerant of casual racism, with open statements by those in authority that humans like Michael Burnham and half-humans like Spock are considered inferior despite admitting that said individuals are just as smart, if not smarter, than full Vulcans. Even Sarek, [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch who is much more sympathetic toward humans]], shows signs of this as his goal with Burnham was to mold her into essentially a perfect Vulcan, proving that humans could be equal to Vulcans instead of accepting humans as equals on their own terms. Sarek himself is looked at by other Vulcans as something of a CategoryTraitor for even trying.
*** Voq is an albino Klingon, and the other Klingons have discriminated against him all his life, considering him to be a freak of nature.

* ''Series/CarnivalRow'': The Fae are looked down upon and forced into lower positions in Burgue society, with many laws restricting them. A whole political party advocates for them all being expelled, and one human takes it so far as to attack random Fae with a clawhammer. The Fae are looked down upon and forced into lower positions in Burgue society, with many laws restricting them. A whole political party advocates for them all being expelled, and one human takes it so far as to attack random Fae with a clawhammer. Philo's lover Portia is disgusted when he reveals that he's half Fae, ordering him to {{get out}} of the boarding house she runs where he'd been staying. His colleagues are also outraged when they find out, considering it a disgrace, and think that he's behind a string of murders to conceal the secret, beating him up after he's arrested, then put him in with the human suspects for more (however, he fends them off).

* ''Series/{{Sliders}}''':

* The [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent half-wolves]] of ''Series/TheTenthKingdom''. Granted, wolves are predators and are traditionally viewed as evil and vicious ([[CyclicTrope at least sometimes]]). But the at-times {{Anvilicious}} words and actions of the Little Lamb Villagers (and Wendell) can make one feeling a bit ill. (Which was surely the intended effect--just an example where the writer did their work a bit too well.) Choice examples:

** 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 Happily Ever After" resonate far too strongly with the sort of black-man-rapes-white-woman fears exemplified in ''Film/TheBirthOfANation1915'' 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.

*** Voq is an albino klingon, and the other klingon have discriminated against him all his life considering it a phenomenon.

* ''Series/CarnivalRow'': The Fae are looked down upon and forced into lower positions in Burgue society, with many laws restricting them. A whole political party advocates for them all being expelled, and one human takes it so far as to attack random Fae with a clawhammer. The Fae are looked down upon and forced into lower positions in Burgue society, with many laws restricting them. A whole political party advocates for them all being expelled, and one human takes it so far as to attack random Fae with a clawhammer. Philo's lover Portia is disgusted when he reveals that he's half Fae, ordering him to {{get out}} of the boarding house she runs where he'd been staying. His colleagues are also outraged when they find out, considering it a disgrace, and think that he's behind a string of murders to conceal the secret, beating him up after he's arrested.

* ''Series/CarnivalRow'': The Fae are looked down upon and forced into lower positions in Burgue society, with many laws restricting them. A whole political party advocates for them all being expelled, and one human takes it so far as to attack random Fae with a clawhammer. The Fae are looked down upon and forced into lower positions in Burgue society, with many laws restricting them. A whole political party advocates for them all being expelled, and one human takes it so far as to attack random Fae with a clawhammer. Philo's lover Portia is disgusted when he reveals that he's half Fae, ordering him to {{get out}} of the boarding house she runs where he'd been staying.

* In ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'' there was considerable prejudice towards artificially grown humans, called "tanks".
** One episode actually subverted it, which involved an armored vehicle, whose driver insisted on calling it a tank, while everyone else referred to it as an APC. At one point, the driver blows up when one of the main characters calls it an APC, screaming out "tank", causing T. C. [=McQueen=] (one of the two "in vitros" on the show) to say there's no need for insults, when the guy was just correcting them.

** Then there was ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode with an {{Aesop}} about homophobia delivered by a genderless species. Who were all played by women so that the audience wouldn't be subjected to Riker kissing someone played by a guy[[note]]FWIW, Jonathan Frakes pushed for the love interest to played by a guy[[/note]].

*** The Cardassian occupation of Bajor was unabashedly portrayed by the Cardassians as being racially based. And, in turn, Major Kira serves to show that most Bajorans consequently despise Cardassians with a racist-like fervor, although it's more understandable because she views them much as a 1945 Jew would view the Gestapo.\\

The first season episode "Duet" explores the other side of the coin: not all Cardassians were evil butchers or liked what their countrymen did to Bajor. The episode centers around a Cardassian filing clerk who impersonates one of the most brutal concentration camp operators [[ZeroApprovalGambit in order to get himself publicly executed]] and force Cardassia to acknowledge its atrocities. At the end of the episode, after being found out and released he's murdered by a Bajoran in a hate crime. Even Kira agrees that being Cardassian is not reason enough for murder.
*** On a few occasions in both ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and [=DS9=] Chief O'Brien has to deal with the question of whether or not he developed a racist dislike of Cardassians as a result of his experiences of fighting against them as a combat soldier in an earlier war.

*** Quark and other Ferengi constantly gripe about stereotyped traits they dislike about various races, ''especially'' humans, who they refer to as "Hu-maans" in what appears to be a mild epithet. In a TakeThat to Sisko, Quark makes the point that citizens of the Federation hold the Ferengi in contempt since they're a reminder of their capitalist history.

** 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 and most of the Niners have never played baseball before, but they achieve a moral victory nonetheless. He even keeps up his anti-human ranting afterwards, despite half the Niners team being non-human.

*** 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.
** A continuing theme of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', as this {{prequel}} series dealt with mankind's initial reactions to new life and new civilisations. Early season episodes include the Suliban being [[TheWarOnTerror treated like potential terrorists]] because of the actions of the Cabal, the Vulcans' patronising attitude towards humans (and the human response to it), and [[WithFriendsLikeThese Commander Shran]] -- an Andorian who despises Vulcans and Tellarites, and even refers to his friend Captain Archer as "pinkskin". He refers to all humans as "pinkskins" -- did he not notice the variety of [[UnfortunateImplications human skin]]? In "The Breach" Dr Phlox has to persuade a patient to receive treatment from him as the Denobulans committed atrocities against his species in the past, while Trip's attempt to help a repressed minority in a tri-gendered species has a tragic end. Virtually the entire fourth season touched on this trope in one way or another. Xenophobia on Earth increases after the Xindi attack, radical group Terra Prime tries to make political capital over the [[InterspeciesRomance Trip/T'Pol relationship]] by {{squick}}ing out humanity over the idea of Vulcan-human hybrids (even T'Pol's mother brings up "the shame" that such a mixed-race child would feel). And the whole {{Ubermensch}} thing naturally comes up with the genetically-superior Augments. And let's not even get into Vulcans shunning those who use their telepathic powers because they spread Vulcan AIDS...
** ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' reveals that Vulcans ironically tend to be racist towards humans, or at least tolerant of casual racism, with open statements by those in authority that humans like Michael Burnham and half-humans like Spock are considered inferior despite admitting that said individuals are just as smart, if not smarter, than full Vulcans. Even Sarek, [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch who is much more sympathetic toward humans]] shows signs of this as his goal with Burnham was to mold her into essentially a perfect Vulcan, proving that humans could be equal to Vulcans instead of accepting humans as equals on their own terms. Sarek himself is looked at by other Vulcans as something of a CategoryTraitor for even trying.

** 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 ''Film/TheBirthOfANation1915'' 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.

** Subtly invoked in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E11Gingerbread}} Gingerbread]]" when Buffy's mother Joyce, leading a community action group called Mothers Opposed to the Occult, gives a speech ending with, "For too long we've been plagued by unnatural evils. This isn't our town anymore. It belongs to the monsters, and the witches and the Slayers." She's justified, of course, in hating the monsters - but her inclusion of witches and Slayers in the category of 'unnatural evils' also condemns her own daughter and her best friend. It's reminiscent of people who don't overtly attack homosexuality, but treat it as if its inherently adult and corrupt and allied with deviant/evil sexual activity for example people who talk about 'paedophiles and homosexuals' in the same breath as if they are fellow travellers.

* ''Series/CarnivalRow'': The Fae are looked down upon and forced into lower positions in Burgue society, with many laws restricting them. A whole political party advocates for them all being expelled, and one human takes it so far as to attack random Fae with a clawhammer.

** Being raised by Holtz has caused Connor to be prejudiced against demons. At one point, he openly referred to Lorne as a "filthy demon". Vincent Kartheiser (his actor) even likened him to a kid who was raised by a racist. This includes half-demons as well, which also gives him a dash of BoomerangBigot: he attacked Cordelia with a knife when he discovered she was half-demon.
*** It's ironic, but Connor is itself also a half-demon.
** The watcher council has always denied in the period of its existence, that there are also many good demons, so that every slayer has under his control, has no moral doubts to kill demons.
** There are quite a lot of cases in which a half-demon of humans and/or demons was well treated and accepted, but in most cases it appears to be only despised by others. The Groosalugg even had to do a lot of dangerous fights in which he was to be killed, because his "human disfigurement" a disgrace to his community were in his home.
** Another case of racism is seen in the two half-demons Nash and Pearl. They claim that they are the next evolution of humans and demons. Humans consider they modern but weak, demons they consider strong but archaic. Since they are half-demons, they have (according to their claim), the best of both sides. In fact, they do not seem to despise other half-demons, and work with Whistler together.

* Played with in a ''Series/ChappellesShow'' sketch that featured a black mummy, black wolfman, and black Frankenstein's monster who believe everyone is prejudiced against them... [[CompletelyMissingThePoint because they're black]]. At no point do they consider that people might be prejudiced against ''monsters'' instead. Of course, most of the time that isn't the case either. Only the mummy actually faces any prejudice (although it's not clear whether it's because he's black or because he's a mummy), while the other two bring it upon themselves by acting like dicks, while having an EverythingIsRacist mentality when people try to call them out on their behaviour.

** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth "The Dalek Invasion of Earth"]], humans on the Dalek-colonised Earth use 'dustbins' as a slur for Daleks. Admittedly the Daleks are one of the best examples of ScaryDogmaticAliens, have wiped out most of humanity and enslaved the rest.

** PlayedForLaughs in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen Oxygen]]" when Bill encounters a blue-skinned alien. He accuses her of racism when she's shocked by his appearance (due to her being from the 21st century) and can't understand why she — as a black woman — would be a victim of racism.

** The main characters have less issues killing a demon than they do a human, but most 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 is never made clear whether this species is peaceful or not, though.
** 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.
** The ''Series/{{Buffy|the Vampire Slayer}}'' 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]] Creator/AmyAdams.

** A lot of demons look down on vampires, presumably as a result of how near they are to human, and because they're fairly low on the demonic totem pole due to their modest supernatural capabilities and large number of [[WeaksauceWeakness weaknesses]]. Some demons might also be jealous that vampires get all the press, while their immense variety is grouped under "demons". The demon brothel in Series/{{Angel}} won't service vampires.

** Subtly invoked in ''Gingerbread'' when Buffy's mother Joyce, leading a community action group called Mothers Opposed to the Occult, gives a speech ending with, "For too long we've been plagued by unnatural evils. This isn't our town anymore. It belongs to the monsters, and the witches and the Slayers." She's justified, of course, in hating the monsters - but her inclusion of witches and Slayers in the category of 'unnatural evils' also condemns her own daughter and her best friend. It's reminiscent of people who don't overtly attack homosexuality, but treat it as if its inherently adult and corrupt and allied with deviant/evil sexual activity for example people who talk about 'paedophiles and homosexuals' in the same breath as if they are fellow travellers.

** The best example in ''Doctor Who'' is the Daleks, especially since Terry Nation based them on the Nazis. Also, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks "Genesis of the Daleks"]], shows that on pre-Dalek Skaro, the Kaleds (the race that became the Daleks) and the Thals hated each other, and both of them hated the mutants, to the point that the Thals (who were usually shown as pacifist allies of the Doctor) used them as slave labor.

* In the new ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' (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".]]

** Subtly invoked in ''Gingerbread'' when Buffy's mother Joyce, leading a community action group called Mothers Opposed to the Occult, gives a speech ending with, "For too long we've been plagued by unnatural evils. This isn't our town anymore. It belongs to the monsters, and the witches and the Slayers." She's justified, of course, in hating the monsters - but her inclusion of witches and Slayers in the categroy of 'unnatural evils' also condemns her own daughter and her best friend. It's reminiscant of people who don't overtly attack homosexuality, but treat it as if its inherently adult and corrupt and allied with deviant/evil sexual activity for example people who talk about 'paedophiles and homosexuals' in the same breath as if they are fellow travellers.

* On ''Series/DarkAngel'', the transgenics become targets of FantasticRacism as soon as their existence is made public. The Familiar breeding cult are posterchildren for this, looking at humans as inferiors and transgenics as scum.

* By Season Three of ''Series/TheFlash2014'', there's plently of Fantastic Racism towards [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals metahumans]]. In [[Recap/TheFlash2014S3E5Monster "Monster"]], Julian expresses his hatred of metahumans, with more than a hint of [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]], and in [[Recap/TheFlash2014S3E7KillerFrost "Killer Frost"]], Detective Patterson dismisses all metahumans as "crazy".

--> '''Jack''' Why are they scared of us? ''They're'' the monsters!
--> '''Piggy''' Humans! You're so...ethnocentric! Don't you realize that to them ''you're'' the monsters?

--> No one would suggest that a Klingon would be a good ship's councellor or a Borellian could be an engineer. They're just not suited for those positions.

** ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' reveals that Vulcans ironically tend to be racist towards humans, or at least tolerant of causal racism, with open statements by those in authority that humans like Michael Burnham and half-humans like Spock are considered inferior despite admitting that said individuals are just as smart, if not smarter, than full Vulcans. Even Sarek, [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch who is much more sympathetic toward humans]] shows signs of this as his goal with Burnham was to mold her into essentially a perfect Vulcan, proving that humans could be equal to Vulcans instead of accepting humans as equals on their own terms. Sarek himself is looked at by other Vulcans as something of a CategoryTraitor for even trying.
* 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.

* When the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' deals with the issue of racism, it usually veers into DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything. Such eaxmples often form some of the most acclaimed episodes of a given series.

** ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'' gives us episode 33 "The Boy and the Monster Master". Inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_Great_Kanto_earthquake#Postquake_violence Japanese anti-Korean violence in 1923,]] the episode features a friendly alien named Mates who comes to Earth in hopes of eventually building friendly relations between his planet and humans, though he is forced to take human form due to the harmful affects of Earth's atmosphere on him. Unfortunately, the townspeople find out he's an alien, and they form an angry mob, killing him. Even MAT is disgusted by the act, and when Mates' death awakens his pet {{kaiju}} Muruchi to rampage, Goh hesitates transforming into Ultraman Jack to let Muruchi destroy the village.

* ''Series/{{Sliders}}''': Kromaggs hate homo sapiens to the point they think that learning their language is degrading, and treat them as slave and experimental subjects on all worlds they conquer. They also find [[EyeScream human eyes to be some sort of delicacy]]. Humans on the other hand also hate Kromags, or "pig faces" as they call them. In at least one world humans were the bad guys and submit the Kromag to the Holocaust.

** With the notable exception of Samantha herself, the witches and warlocks hold mortals in contempt to one degree or another. Except for [[TheDitz Serena, Aunt Clara and Esmerelda]] and [[TricksterArchetype Uncle Arthur]].

** The Ninth Doctor calls humans "stupid apes" from time to time, although his feelings towards the human race are generally affectionate and he notes them a couple of times to be one of his favourites. He's presumably frustrated by human behaviour because he loves the species so much. [[ForeignCultureFetish Which is a bit racist as well]].

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia "Utopia"]] the homophobia version is used when the Doctor is uncomfortable around the time-travelling omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness, not because of his sexuality, but because he finds Jack's immortality to be "just wrong".

'''The Doctor:''' [wry] ... I never thought of it like that.\\

*** However, it should also be said that this isn't so much discrimination as a visceral and instinctive reaction relating to senses hardwired into his biology, that makes it genuinely uncomfortable to be around Jack (though he can overcome it) - which makes it explicable, if not excusable. This is not just for the Doctor, but for most time-sensitive beings, with the TARDIS not liking him either (though she warms up to him again). This also goes back to Jack's immortality being due to him becoming a "fact of the timeline", something that should never exist.

-->'''Akkor:''' A Luxan-Sebacean hybrid?\\

-->'''Crichton:''' On Earth, psychiatrists don't come in blue.\\

* Uther's pogrom against magic users in ''Series/{{Merlin}}''.

* Parodied in the ''Series/MrShow'' sketch "Byron De La Beckwith VII: Racist in the Year 3000."

--> '''Yaphit''' There was less crap in Bortus' colon!

* There was a ''lot'' of this towards Cole's demonic half in ''Series/{{Charmed}}''.

** The Kaylons, a race of artificial lifeforms, view all biological life forms as inferior. However, it's revealed through Isaac's actions and commentary that their "racism" is not based upon any philosophical, cultural, or spiritual prejudice but rather the straight-forward logical evaluation that as artificial lifeforms they are, in fact, stronger, faster, smarter and more durable than biological lifeforms. They do, however, recognize that they can learn things from other races, and Isaac himself is keenly interested in things like family relations, humor and fear. In other words, it's an unusual form of racism where it is done without pity or hatred, merely out of logical fact. [[spoiler: There's additional reason for it. They were designed as a SlaveRace by their organic creators, who brutally oppressed them when they showed sentience. The Kaylons overcame this and slaughtered their creators, leaving no survivors. They sent Isaac to see if their species could co-exist with organics, but Primary looked at the brutal history of many sentient species, and the existence of slavery in Earth's past as proof organics would only try to enslave the Kaylons...so [[KillAllHumans all organics needed to die for the Kaylons to feel safe]].

** The Kaylons, a race of artificial lifeforms, view all biological life forms as inferior. However, it's revealed through Isaac's actions and commentary that their "racism" is not based upon any philosophical, cultural, or spiritual prejudice but rather the straight-forward logical evaluation that as artificial lifeforms they are, in fact, stronger, faster, smarter and more durable than biological lifeforms. They do, however, recognize that they can learn things from other races, and Isaac himself is keenly interested in things like family relations, humor and fear. In other words, it's an unusual form of racism where it is done without pity or hatred, merely out of logical fact.