History FantasticRacism / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'': Despite their position in society as members of the Military and often receiving the same courtesy's given to real-world soldiers (such as a man giving up his airplane seat for Tally), witches still face bigotry from [[{{muggle}} civilians]]. A man refuses to listen to Tally's orders and insults her, stating that since The Spree are witches all witches are the problem. Later the Witch Father tells General Alder that one of his men was assaulted by a police officer with "no reason given". The very continued existence of the draft is also a form of discrimination too as the {{muggles}} are not conscripted into the conventional military (which still exists). The disparity is so large that the term civilian is even synonymous with non-witch.

'''Zhaan:''' Do you have a problem with [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad people of color?]]\\

* 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. Another episode had a society of blue mammals who distrust dinosaurs ("[[TheMan the Lizard]]"), and are proved right when a record company steals their blue music and has it performed by a dinosaur to be more acceptable to a "mainstream" audience.

* On ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', the "Malibu Sands" episodes feature an example where a character's dislike of an entire state borders on this. Stacy Carosi initially has a rather fervent and irrational hatred of people from California, openly accusing them all of being airheads and Surfer Dude stereotypes, and declaring that she has no time for their supposed ditziness because "I'm from the East Coast." However, her FoeYay with Zack eventually turns into a romance and she ends up changing her mind about Californians, and Stacy actually ends up transforming into a friendly, ReasonableAuthorityFigure towards the end of her arc.

* 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 human-like emotions.

* Surprisingly, probably the biggest factor in the creation of ''Series/TheTwilightZone''. Creator/RodSerling was fed up with [[ValuesDissonance not being able to]] [[{{Anvilicious}} tackle contemporary issues]] (such as race relations) on television, but found out that the censors and networks would let it air [[SpaceWhaleAesop if it was fantasy or sci-fi oriented]].

* The ''Series/AlienNation'' TV series is largely devoted to the allegory of race relations through Newcomer/Human relations. Matt has a bad habit of using the nickname "Slagtown" for the Newcomer part of L.A., even after his Newcomer partner has made it clear he finds the term offensive. Naturally, the anti-Newcomer groups are fantastically multicultural.

** The British Men of Letters are even more extreme than regular Hunters, seeking to wipe out all supernatural beings and supernatural humans on earth. They will kidnap, torture, and experiment on people to accomplish this, even non-supernatural humans and non BMoL monster hunters.

** 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.

* Surprisingly, probably the biggest factor in the creation of ''Series/TheTwilightZone''. Creator/RodSerling was fed up with [[ValuesDissonance not being able to]] [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped tackle contemporary issues]] (such as race relations) on television, but found out that the censors and networks would let it air [[SpaceWhaleAesop if it was fantasy or sci-fi oriented]].

* ''Series/TrueBlood'' is a drama series with a classical 'Vampires vs Humans' theme. Vampires stand in for a number of groups. Vampires resemble homosexuals by "coming out of the coffin" to reveal their presence to humanity, and are opposed by fundamentalist Christian groups, who call them evil. Sometimes they resemble racial minorities. In one scene, Bill is mistreated and called "boy" by a classic, racist southern cop. Humans who have sex with vampires are dubbed fang-bangers and looked upon with scorn by most people, as mixed-race couples were in the past.

** The humans vs. vampires element suffered from some BrokenAesop. The overtly anti-vampire humans were constantly depicted as fanatical bigots, with heavy racism and homophobia metaphors, but on the other hand, by the end of the show, there were '''no''' sympathetic vampire characters who hadn't killed humans for food or for trivial reasons, and the majority of vampires were shown to still totally despise humans and only to be feigning a desire for peaceful coexistence. Alan Ball, who is openly gay and created the series, opposed this specifically because of that, but he was overruled by the higher-ups.

** 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 himself also a half-demon).

* 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 behavior.

** Monster Hunters of any kind in the SPN universe are incredibly Fantastic Racist against anyone who is in any way "supernatural", including full-blooded humans with supernatural abilities. They tend to think of them as and call them "things", and will kill them mercilessly, most of the time not even seeing it as murder. One of the Hunters' catchphrases/mottos is "Saving people, Huting things, the Family Business", which is more proof of how they view supernatural beings.
** The British Men of Letters are even more extreme than regular Hunters, seeking to wipe out all supernatural beings and supernatural humans on earth. They will kidnap, torture, and experiment on people to accomplish this, even non-supernatural humans and non-BMoL monster hunters.

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* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' has an episode in which Pugsleydel starts acting like a normal boy, finding interest in things like baseball, the Boy Scouts and a puppy. Of course this is outraging for the family as for them, being normal is incredibly deranged. In an example of tolerance, nevertheless, they do agree to allow him keep his "quirks" and even show [a pretend] interest in them. The funniest part is that this is the equivalent of a very mainstream family dealing with a Goth son but with the inverted roles.

** A militant group called the Watchdogs forms to attack Inhumans. One of their most prominent members is Shockley, a man who considers every Inhuman a complete monster--a belief that Senator Nadeer, who is secretly backing the Watchdogs, shares. Shockley suspects Senator Nadeer might be an Inhuman because her brother was, and thus exposes her to the Terrigen gas. [[spoiler:In a delicious irony, Nadeer is okay but ''Shockley'' turns out to be an Inhuman, the man screaming in horror as his body is covered by the gas. He turns out to have the power to make himself explode and reform]]. Despite now being an Inhuman, he still despises them, and continues to work with the Watchdogs until he is captured by S.H.I.E.L.D.

** 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. This gets a lampshade hung in one case where an ''Asian'' actor plays his (speciesist) part like a stereotypical "white supremacist".

* In ''Series/TheBoys2019'', Billy Butcher has made it his life's mission to bring down ([[VillainWithGoodPublicity the secretly villanous]]) [[SuperTeam The Seven]] and their parent company, [[Fiction500 the Vought Corp.]] becuase he believes that all Supes are evil, an idea he got after [[spoiler: his wife was raped by [[SupermanSubstitute Homelander]], the leader of The Seven, and went missing soon after]]. When Hugie, one Butcher's companions begins dating [[TokenGoodTeammate Starlight]], The Seven's newest member, he forces Hughie to use her as an asset to spy on Vought. When Hughie tries to tell him that she is a really nice person who is trying to do the right thing as a superhero, Butcher insists that she's nothing more than a superpowered freak with no redeeming qualities.

** 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, "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E15AsYouWere}} 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.

** Lorne: 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.

** Riley has this at first. He blasts the Scoobies and Willy the Snitch for harboring Spike and serving demons at his bar respectively, and later made negative comments on Willow's relationship with Oz, a werewolf. He grows out of it.

** 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 travelers.

** The watcher council has always denied in the period of its existence that there are also many good demons, so that every slayer that's under his control has no moral doubts about killing them.
** 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" is seen as a disgrace to his community.
** 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 they consider 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.

** The Silurians, the reptilian original rulers of Earth, call humans apes and have often tried to wipe them out. However not all Silurians are like this and often the humans are shown to be just as racist towards the Silurians.
** 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.

** The Doctor shows his dislike of true immortality in several serials. For example, in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius "The Brain of Morbius"]], he blasts the Sisterhood of Karn for using an elixir to extend their lives because they've completely stagnated, and says that [[TheNthDoctor regeneration]] is preferable because it brings change. This attitude seems to be shared by other Time Lords, who use the same elixir as medicine, but not to prevent their final death.
** The Fourth Doctor openly treated Leela as beneath him — her culture is roughly Neolithic but with the use of metal weapons and with some SchizoTech elements — and mocks her about it, calling her names and making her believe nonsensical things just because he can. While in most of his stories he retains a respect for her intelligence and she calls him out on it whenever he underestimates her or becomes unnecessarily cruel, [[DependingOnTheWriter this fluctuates depending on how good a grasp of Leela this week's writer has]]. In skilled hands he comes across as a [[VitriolicBestBuds Vitriolic]] TricksterMentor whose relationship with her is intentionally uncomfortable but ultimately loving and respectful ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath "The Robots of Death"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E1HorrorOfFangRock "Horror of Fang Rock"]]), but in unskilled hands as a racist, bullying {{Jerkass}} (a frequent criticism of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E2TheInvisibleEnemy "The Invisible Enemy"]]).

** Lady Cassandra from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E1NewEarth "New Earth"]] considers herself the last human. This is because the rest of humanity went to the stars and interbred with alien species, so Cassandra views them as "impure". As Rose points out, not only does Cassandra have a very narrow definition of "human", but she's had so many plastic surgeries she's just a face on skin attached to her BrainInAJar, so in a way she's no longer human either.

--->"I'm a time traveller. I ''point'' and ''laugh'' at archaeologists."

** 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.
* On ''Series/TheExpanse'', racial politics between Earthers, Martians, and Belters drive a lot of action — Earth views itself as the only "real" planet, and the rest of the Solar System existing to support its overpopulation; Mars sees Earthers as hedonistic fools who have ruined their planet and want to drag everyone else down with them; both planets see the Belters as savages; and the Belters see them in turn as elitists who are trying to rob the Belt of their rightful resources, while treating them as second class citizens. And things are not helped by the fact that generations of living in radically different environments means that the Martians and Belters (especially the latter) are basically HumanSubspecies by this point.

** Smalljon Umber's hostile hatred for the Wildlings causes him to betray the house his house has been loyal to for centuries, and causes him to side with the monstrous Boltons. Jon Snow notes to the Wildlings that if the Boltons win the battle, Umber would go after women and children of the Wildlings, too.

* In ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' centuries-long brutal persecution of Wesen is common. Monroe even says that Pogroms and Witch Hunts were actually anti-Wesen attacks and also Nick’s ancestors sometimes killed even peaceful and harmless Wesens like the [[TurtlePower Genio innocuo]]. There’s also Wesen on Wesen racism; Monroe’s parents at first don’t approve Monroe’s relationship with Rosalee because he’s a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Blutbad]] and she’s a [[FantasticFoxes Fuchsbau]] (nor they approve Monroe’s and Nick friendship because Nick is a Grimm). Also a long term animosity between Blutbad and [[PigMan Bauerschwein]] exists. Monroe also seems to believe that [[NiceMice Mauzherz]] are dirty (or at least shouldn't run a restaurant).

* A common gag in ''Series/TheMunsters'' is how for the family's point of view (a family made of [[MonsterMash classic monsters]]) their niece Marilyn is hideous and an embarrassment for the family. The joke? She looks not only like a normal human but a particularly gorgeous one.
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Ingrid, Literature/TheSnowQueen, hates anyone who doesn't have ice powers like her, so the only person she tolerates is her niece [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa]], trying to convince her to join her while saying Elsa's normal sister Anna and everybody else can just die. [[spoiler:Ingrid makes an exception for Emma, because she had once raised her. She thus wants Elsa and Emma to be her family, at the expense of everybody else.]]

** 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 that [[HumansAreBastards organics would only try to enslave the Kaylons]]...so [[KillAllHumans all organics needed to die for the Kaylons to feel safe]]. ]]

** Even before the genocide took place, the Blackbloods had to put up with quite a lot of discrimination from their human neighbors. On the flipside, the Greyskins hate humans so much [[spoiler:they're trying to use colipsum, the addictive eggs of a parasite, to wipe them out]].

* In ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', Sabrina, a half mortal by way of her mother, and half witch by way of her father, was forced to live with her aunts, two older witches, because of the Witches Council's ban on witch-mortal relations. Since Sabrina inherited her father's powers, she's technically a witch, and is thereby forbidden to have any contact with her mother, [[BroughtDownToNormal unless she gives up her magic.]] The Witches Council also levies a penalty on a witch who reveals their power to a mortal, and a number of withces have been shown to use their powers to push around mortals for the hell of it.

* 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.

** "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E17TheOutcast The Outcast]]" has 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.

** Data also had to put up with this in Dr Pulaski's earlier episodes, in a fairly blatant attempt to recreate the Spock/[=McCoy=] dynamic with Data. This was something of a sore point with the fans, and majorly contributed to Pulaski's status as TheScrappy: unlike Spock, who could feel emotions and just worked to keep them under control as a matter of personal philosophy, Data literally ''couldn't'' feel emotions and ''wanted to''; additionally, Data was way too polite to fire back at Pulaski in the way Spock always did with Bones, meaning that instead of SnarkToSnarkCombat it came across as Pulaski bullying a disabled person who refused to respond in kind. In her earlier episodes, she referred to Data as "it" and pronounced his name wrong; when corrected, she replied, "What's the difference?" while laughing! The writers did attempt to show Pulaski learning to respect Data as a person, but by that point the damage was done and she was [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome unceremoniously booted]] at the end of the season.

** In "[[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.

** Xenophobia is still present among Romulans. Some Romulan-owned businesses on Vashti feature "Romulans Only" signs, and the planet is the hotbed for the Romulan Rebirth movement. The Zhal Makh, a form of Romulan meditation, is taboo to non-Romulans. The Romulan pejorative for humans is "round-ears" and the Romulan slur for xBs is "half-meat."
* 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.

-->'''Jesus''': Sorry, I didn’t knew I was surrounded by Samy lovers.

** The humans vs. vampires element suffered from some BrokenAesop. The overtly anti-vampire humans were constantly depicted as fanatical bigots, with heavy racism and homophobia metaphors, but on the other hand by the end of the show there were '''no''' sympathetic vampire characters who hadn't killed humans for food or for trivial reasons, and the majority of vampires were shown to still totally despise humans and only to be feigning a desire for peaceful coexistence. Alan Ball, who is openly gay and created the series, opposed this specifically because of that, but he was overruled by the higher-ups.

** In ''Series/UltramanMax'' and ''Series/UltramanMebius'', it's revealed that due to the countless {{Alien Invasion}}s and examples of AliensAreBastards that humans encounter, widespread racism towards extraterrestrials is perfectly ''normal'' on Earth. ''Max'' tackled the issue with an alien named Keef who is horrified to discover this and does everything he can to dispel the stereotype -- only for an evil alien to attack Earth without reason. In ''Mebius'', it was mentioned in passing in an early episode involving a friendly alien, but they also tackled it in a SequelEpisode to the above-mentioned ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'' example, in which Mates' son Beo comes to Earth to continue his father's plans, only to encounter more prejudice an switch to avenging his father's death with a new and improved Muruchi.
* On ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' there are definite problems between wizards, werewolves and vampires. Giants seem to be more accepted, but there are still tasteless jokes.

** 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.\\
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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 was aghast, saying 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, 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.

** Because a bunch of rogue synthetics destroyed the base on Mars, they have been banned within the Federation. Also, in the flashback at the start of "Maps and Legends", the human characters treat their synth counterparts with little to no respect.
** Also, Admiral Clancy reminds Picard that several races threatened to secede from the Federation if the Romulan rescue mission went ahead as planned.

** The humans vs. vampires element suffered from some BrokenAesop. The overtly anti-vampire humans were constantly depicted as fanatical bigots, with heavy racism and homophobia metaphors, but on the other hand by the end of the show there were '''no''' sympathetic vampire characters who hadn't killed humans for food or for trivial reasons, and the majority of vampires were shown to still totally despise humans and only to be feigning a desire for peaceful coexistence. Creator/AlanBall, who is openly gay and created the series, opposed this specifically because of that, but he was overruled by the higher-ups.

** One entire episode, "The Last Voyage of the Jimmy Carter," dealt with the inherent distrust between humans and the machines. It got to the point where the human TooDumbToLive submarine crew, under the command of a Terminator with specific orders from John Connor, began to mutiny because they did not trust the submarine's captain.
*** It's that distrust that causes all the deaths among the crew and the loss of the submarine.

* ''Series/TrueBlood'' is a drama-series with classical 'Vampires vs Humans' theme. Vampires stand in for a number of groups. Vampires resemble homosexuals by "coming out of the coffin" to reveal their presence to humanity, and are opposed by fundamentalist Christian groups, who call them evil. Sometimes they resemble racial minorities. In one scene, Bill is mistreated and called "boy" by an classic, racist southern cop. Humans who have sex with vampires are dubbed fang-bangers and looked upon with scorn by most people, as mixed-race couples were in the past.

** The humans vs. vampires element suffered from some BrokenAesop. The overtly anti-vampire humans were constantly depicted as fanatical bigots, with heavy racism and homophobia metaphors, but on the other hand by the end of the show there were '''no''' sympathetic vampire characters who hadn't killed humans for food or for trivial reasons, and the majority of vampires were shown to still totally despise humans and only to be feigning a desire for peaceful coexistence.

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Ingrid, Literature/TheSnowQueen, hates anyone who doesn't have ice powers like her, so the only person she tolerates is her niece [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Elsa]], trying to convince her to join her while saying Elsa's normal sister Anna and everybody else can just die. [[spoiler:Ingrid makes an exception for Emma, because she had once raised her. She thus wants Elsa and Emma to be her family, at the expense of everybody else.]]

** A continuing theme of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', as this {{prequel}} series dealt with mankind's initial reactions to new life and new civilizations. An 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/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). The topic of fantastic racism is explicitly contrasted with human racism when Sophie notes that humans have moved beyond prejudices over skin color (however this isn't entirely true-her own father disparaged her mother for having Pharaonic ancestry), but the differences between humans and Fae are more than just "skin deep".