History FantasticRacism / Videogames

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' universe, most angels are not fond of humans because of their origin -- humans of the Diabloverse are descended from the Nephalem, who were born from the union of angels and demons who were tired of fighting the Eternal Conflict and created the world of Sanctuary, which humans now call home. Many demons prefer to expunge humanity to the last -- Belial tells you that Azmodan will "exterminate you and every last one of your misbegotten kind" when you reveal him for who he really is, and Azmodan himself calls you and humanity in general "creation's greatest sin." The angels aren't that much different -- while a number of angels aren't fond of humanity (Imperius in particular would rather purge Sanctuary because "demons had a hand in making it exist"), some are, with Tyrael, Itherael and Auriel voting to spare Sanctuary from annihilation. Imperius was flat-out against; Malthael abstained (mainly because he was absent from the council due to Worldstone-related matters when the vote was made), but it was counted against. Zoltun Kulle, [[CompleteMonster twisted though he may be]], even lampshades this.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' universe, most angels are not fond of humans because of their origin -- humans of the Diabloverse are descended from the Nephalem, who were born from the union of angels and demons who were tired of fighting the Eternal Conflict and created the world of Sanctuary, which humans now call home. Many demons prefer to expunge humanity to the last -- Belial tells you that Azmodan will "exterminate you and every last one of your misbegotten kind" when you reveal him for who he really is, and Azmodan himself calls you and humanity in general "creation's greatest sin." The angels aren't that much different -- while a number of angels aren't fond of humanity (Imperius in particular would rather purge Sanctuary because "demons had a hand in making it exist"), some are, with Tyrael, Itherael and Auriel voting to spare Sanctuary from annihilation. Imperius was flat-out against; Malthael abstained, but was counted against. Zoltun Kulle, [[CompleteMonster twisted though he may be]], even lampshades this.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' universe, most angels are not fond of humans because of their origin -- humans of the Diabloverse are descended from the Nephalem, who were born from the union of angels and demons who were tired of fighting the Eternal Conflict and created the world of Sanctuary, which humans now call home. Many demons prefer to expunge humanity to the last -- Belial tells you that Azmodan will "exterminate you and every last one of your misbegotten kind" when you reveal him for who he really is, and Azmodan himself calls you and humanity in general "creation's greatest sin." The angels aren't that much different - while a number of angels aren't fond of humanity (Imperius in particular would rather purge Sanctuary because "demons had a hand in making it exist"), some are, with Tyrael, Itherael and Auriel voting to spare Sanctuary from annihilation. Imperius was flat-out against; Malthael abstained, but was counted against. Zoltun Kulle, [[CompleteMonster twisted though he may be]], even lampshades this.
---> ''"Angels are no better than demons. Did you know that they once voted to decide the fate of humankind? Only one vote spared us from extinction. Whatever Tyrael may be, he is the aspect of Justice... and there is no justice in murder."''

---> '''"Angels are no better than demons. Did you know that they once voted to decide the fate of humankind? Only one vote spared us from extinction. Whatever Tyrael may be, he is the aspect of Justice... and there is no justice in murder."'''

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' universe, most angels are not fond of humans because of their origin -- humans of the Diabloverse are descended from the Nephalem, who were born from the union of angels and demons who were tired of fighting the Eternal Conflict and created the world of Sanctuary, which humans now call home. Imperius in particular hates humans for this reason, and once voted to destroy Sanctuary after the Sin War, with only Tyrael's vote sparing humanity from extinction. Many demons share the same view as well -- Belial tells you that Azmodan will "exterminate you and every last one of your misbegotten kind" when you reveal him for who he really is, and Azmodan himself calls you and humanity in general "creation's greatest sin."

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' universe, most angels are not fond of humans because of their origin -- humans of the Diabloverse are descended from the Nephalem, who were born from the union of angels and demons who were tired of fighting the Eternal Conflict and created the world of Sanctuary, which humans now call home. Imperius in particular hates humans for this reason, and once voted to destroy Sanctuary after the Sin War, with only Tyrael's vote sparing humanity from extinction. Many demons share the same view as well -- Belial vows to "exterminate you and every last one of your misbegotten kind" upon being revealed for who he truly is, and Azmodan calls you and humanity in general "creation's greatest sin."

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' universe, most angels are not fond of humans because of their origin -- humans of the Diabloverse are descended from the Nephalem, who were born from the union of angels and demons who were tired of fighting the Eternal Conflict and created the world of Sanctuary, which humans now call home. Imperius in particular despises humans for this reason and once tried to destroy Sanctuary after the Sin War, with only Tyrael's vote sparing humanity from extinction.

* In ''RuneFactory3'', protagonist Micah is (eventually) tasked with bringing the population of the human village and the monster encampment together in peace, though it seems that it's mostly the village leaders that are keeping up the conflict. It also seems to be the conflict is mostly between humans and the Unvir (basically unicorn elves), as the human village has four not-fully human residents (two are openly known, one is an OpenSecret, the fourth constitutes a major reveal).

** ''WorldOfWarcraft'', debatably, makes a ''lot'' of money off of keeping people interested in the 'us vs. them' mentality and the racist overtones between the orcs and the humans and their respective allies. When these mentalities were toned down in the Burning Crusade expansion, players [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks complained]]. Cue a 180' turn in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, where fueling said racism [[WildMassGuessing seems]] to be a part of the BigBad's XanatosGambit.

* ''MassEffect'' is replete with the speciesism the page quote describes. Salarians and krogans are on bad terms, as the latter are a bit miffed about the DepopulationBomb that's rendered their species impotent and dying. Turians and humans have strained relations, since FirstContact came in the form of [[ColonyDrop the turians bombing a human colony from orbit]], all because the Humans didn't not realise they were breaking intergalactic law by turning on a dormant Mass Relay. While the Turians believe they were right in upholding the law from a bunch of upstart newcomers, Humans are still miffed that the Turians never even bothered to inform them it was against the law before they started shooting. The batarians outright ''hate'' humans due to them encroaching on territory the batarians themselves want to develop for their own ends. Humans don't particularly like batarians for the latter's practice of slavery and their attacks on human colonies. Most of the alien species in general are sore toward humans due to their surprising expansionism, unprecedented growth, and their disproportionately powerful role in galactic politics. Humans themselves have formed extremist groups (Cerberus) and political parties (Terra Firma) encouraging something similar and reinforcing the idea they're trying to take over the Galaxy. And ''everyone'' ostracises the Quarians for creating the Geth, blaming them for the RobotWar that ''only'' affected their race and left the Quarians without a homeworld, with most planets actively refusing to even let their Migrant Fleet enter their space.
** This does get a lot of healing if you [[spoiler: save the Destiny Ascension and its ten thousand passengers]] at the end of the first game and carry that save file into the second. Bonus points if you put [[spoiler: Anderson on the council]], at least if you want [[spoiler: your Spectre status]] back.

*** Turns out she was ''right'' about worrying about alien nationals having full access to the ''Normandy'', as in the third game, the Quarian delegation shows up with a ''very'' familiar looking stealth-drive, implying that Tali copied the idea.

** Tali's loyalty quest in Mass Effect 2 revolves around a debate [[SpaceJews that resembles post-WWII debates about Israel]]: Whether the Quarians should maintain the status quo wandering around the galaxy, retake their homeworld from the Geth by force, re-enslave the Geth or colonize some other planet.

*** Though part of the problem with AIs according to the backstory, even after the war with the Quarians the Geth completely shut themselves off from the rest of the galaxy, and any ship sent to make contact with them was destroyed, along with any organics who entered their region of space for any reason, cementing their status as a threat. At the time the game takes place, most of the Geth would like to make peace with the rest of the galaxy. But the prejudice against them is only half of the problem: they don't really understand organics either, and they know they need to be cautious until they can find some common ground.

** Perhaps the most hated race, managing to surpass humans and quarians, are the Vorcha. No matter where you are, most races view them as nothing more than vermin.

** From ''MassEffect3'' we have Javik, [[spoiler: a ''Prothean'' who's been in stasis for 50,000 years. His FantasticRacism towards the "Primitives" of this Cycle is a prevalent aspect of his character, often coming across as dismissive of various races, bemoaning their lack of potential from what the Protheans had expected from them and occasionally indulges in light-hearted mockery. Naturally this characteristic has earned him EnsembleDarkHorse status among the Fandom and the sobriquet of [[FanNickname "The Oldest Troll in the Galaxy"]].]]

** Much of the plot of ''VideoGame/{{Tales of Symphonia}}'' involves racism against half-elves on the part of humans and elves. Like the ''Teen Titans'' example above, the word "racism" itself is never actually used: the word "discrimination" is always used instead, even when it's just describing racial hatred rather than actual unfair treatment.

* There's also a degree of this in ''VideoGame/{{Tales of Phantasia}}'', although it's less central to the plot. It's not surprising, because [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Tales of Symphonia}}'' is implied to be set in the distant past of the same world as ''VideoGame/{{Tales of Phantasia}}'']].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Tales of Eternia}}'', the Inferian perception of Celestians is of warmongering, bloodthirsty monsters.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tales of Legendia}}'' has the Orerines (land dwellers) and the Ferines (sea dwellers).

** And in the latter half of ''VideoGame/{{Tales of the Abyss}}'', society must learn to accept "Replicas," exact copies of humans, exploring the question of WhatMeasureIsANonHuman.
* ''VideoGame/{{Tales of the Tempest}}'' had this trope as its entire plot. The fandom was not amused.
* ''VideoGame/{{Tales of Innocence}}''. A good slice of humanity is gaining powers from their status as reincarnations, and the government is kidnapping them for research purposes. Bonus points: the reincarnatees were having a race war with ''each other'', which is bleeding into the awakened reincarnated humans. A real world war is being thrown into chaos because some of the soldiers have decided to fight the heaven war instead of the Earth war, and the divisions don't always match up.
* Half the point of the ''{{Zone of the Enders}}'' series. In fact, "Ender" is a pejorative term by Earthlings referring to those born on Mars and the outer colonies. In turn, the Martians use it for those living on the outskirts of the solar system.

* The orcs of ''[[ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura]]'' are consistently oppressed, discriminated against, and stereotyped as near-mindless subhumans. There's even a political screed in the game titled "The Orcish Problem". Half-orcs got the same treatment as orcs even though there was no difference in intelligence between them and humans. A half-orc labour organiser is one of the most eloquent [=NPCs=] in the game. The trope is also subverted via the game's SpaceJews, the stereotypically Jewish gnomes, who [[spoiler:really ''are'' engaged in a globe-spanning ''Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion''-style conspiracy to manipulate the other races of the world for profit and power]].

** From ''MassEffect3'' we have Javik, [[spoiler: a ''Prothean'' who's been in stasis for 50,000 years. His FantasticRacism towards the "Primitives" of this Cycle is a prevalent aspect of his character, often coming across as dismissive of various races, bemoaning their lack of potential from what the Protheans had expected from them and occasionally indulges in light-hearted mockery. Naturally this characteristic has earned him EnsembleDarkhorse status among the Fandom and the sobriquet of [[FanNickname "The Oldest Troll in the Galaxy"]].]]
* This is part of the reason for the hostile relations between Horde and Alliance in ''{{World of Warcraft}}'' after they formed an alliance against the demons in ''WarcraftIII''. There are other instances of this all over the place in the backstory novels. For instance, in the first war against the demons, the night elf nobles initially refuse to accept the help of other races (at that time, dwarves, the ursine furbolg and the tauren), and the demons manipulate the orcs into fighting the draenei by fueling the mistrust.

** ''{{World of Warcraft}}'', debatably, makes a ''lot'' of money off of keeping people interested in the 'us vs. them' mentality and the racist overtones between the orcs and the humans and their respective allies. When these mentalities were toned down in the Burning Crusade expansion, players [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks complained]]. Cue a 180' turn in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, where fueling said racism [[WildMassGuessing seems]] to be a part of the {{Big Bad}}'s XanatosGambit.

*** Also, many of the Stormcloaks have this attitude. Especially in their capital of Windhelm, where the Dunmer are forced to live in a slum and the Argonians are only allowed to live and work on the docks. According to one of the Nords in the city, Ulfric will not even lift a finger to help non-Nords in his hold of Eastmarch.

* Anti-nonhuman prejudice is touched on in ''{{Knights of the Old Republic}}''. On Taris, the only nonhumans who can walk around in the Upper City work for the local Exchange boss or are pretty Twi'lek shopkeepers. Others get pelted by stones thrown by children, as seen once. There is a street preacher calling nonhumans a "plague that sweeps through our streets". A seedy hotel has alien occupants despite this being illegal. The slum-like and generally miserable Lower City, overrun by gangs, is where most of the nonhumans live. The racism [[spoiler: Juhani]] experienced as a child on Taris is a major point in her sidequest.

** Not to mention the general hatred of Super Mutants. Given that only a few decades prior, the Super Mutants had every intention of overrunning, destroying or mutating all life, this may be a JustifiedTrope. Several mutants, including the one you can recruit, seem to still hold mutant elitist philosophy as well.

** Darcsen-hating is institutional in Europa, especially in the Empire (which is happy to round them up, burn their homes, and send them to work camps). In Varrot's side mission, Geld is court-martialed "for torturing ''non-Darcsen'' civilians."
** The sequel ''ValkyriaChronicles 2'' makes racism a bigger plot point [[spoiler: as the antagonists are a Gallian Noble House that didn't take well the whole revelation of Gallia's ruling family being Darcsens]].

* ''{{City of Heroes}}'' has two primary alien races. There's the Rikti, most of which want to kill every human on the planet. Then there's the Kheldians, half of which are good, half of which are evil. There's many people, players and {{NPC}}s, who believe ''all'' Kheldians are evil, and believe the policy should be to shoot first and ask questions later. [[spoiler: The Rikti also have a few "good" ones. They've been tricked by Nemesis into the war they're waging on humanity, and most of the ones who are still fighting are the ones who don't know this or don't believe it.]]

* Ferals (beastmen) to humans in ''{{Sands of Destruction}}''. Sure, there's a few places where they're more or less equal, but the rest of the world? There's a reason why Morte's a part of the World Annihilation Front.
* The player-base for ''DwarfFortress'' often (jokingly) demonstrates a huge amount of hatred and disgust for the [[OurElvesAreBetter Elves]], often going so far as to treat them as the mortal enemies of the [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwarves]]. This flies in the face of the existence of a race that ''already'' behave as the Dwarves' mortal enemies, the [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Goblins]]. Most of this is due to how the Elves subtly insult the Dwarves when trading, try to instate limits to how many trees the Dwarves can cut down for wood, bring crappy trade goods, refuse to buy anything made of wood (even though they themselves sell items made from wood), and if they siege the player, they attack in their thousands and wear crappy armor that the Dwarves can't wear or smelt down into metal bars.

* {{Legacy of Kain}} has a three way racial conflict. The Ancient vampires and the Hylden were two {{Precursor}} races who considered themselves godlike. The Ancients began a holy war against the Hylden because the Hylden would not submit to their god. Hylden were banished to a hell dimension, but cursed the Ancients with blood thirst in revenge. Humans began to hate vampires, seeing them as a pestilence. As the vampire population became more turned humans than originals, they began to see themselves as dark gods, superior to humans and rightfully deserving to rule the humans. The Hylden, meanwhile, had a bitter hatred for vampires for their banishment, extending to vampires turned from humans who were so far removed from the original vampires that they didn't even know the ancient history. The Hylden also looked down on humans as inferior beings, but for the most part, the humans are unaware of the Hylden's existance.

* In [[TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]], certain shop owners refuse to do business with a species other than their own.

* The Humans Against Monsters (or H.A.M.) organisation in ''{{RuneScape}}'' are human supremacists, seemingly believing that humans are the chosen people of [[CrystalDragonJesus Saradomin]].

* Spoofed in ''VideoGame/AtelierAnnie''. When Fitz is nice to Annie, but mean to her fairy master Pepe, he assumes that this trope has spontaneously manifested in a world completely devoid of it - it's actually because Fitz has a [[LesYay fawning]] [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship girl-crush]] on Annie, and is jealous that Pepe gets to spend all his time with her.

* ''MassEffect'' is replete with the speciesism the page quote describes. Salarians and krogans are on bad terms, as the latter are a bit miffed about the DepopulationBomb that's rendered their species impotent and dying. Turians and humans have strained relations, mostly on the human side, as FirstContact came in the form of [[NukeEm the turians bombing a human colony from orbit]]. The batarians outright ''hate'' humans due to them encroaching on territory the batarians themselves want to develop for their own ends. Humans don't particularly like batarians for the latter's practice of slavery. Most of the alien species in general are sore toward humans due to their surprising expansionism, unprecedented growth, and their disproportionately powerful role in galactic politics. And humans themselves have formed extremist groups (Cerberus) and political parties (Terra Firma) encouraging something similar.

* The player-base for ''DwarfFortress'' often (jokingly) demonstrates a huge amount of hatred and disgust for the [[OurElvesAreBetter Elves]], often going so far as to treat them as the mortal enemies of the [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwarves]]. This flies in the face of the existence of a race that ''already'' behave as the Dwarves' mortal enemies, the [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Goblins]]. Most of this is due to how the Elves subtly insult the Dwarves when trading, try to in-state limits to how many trees the Dwarves can cut down for wood, bring crappy trade goods, refuse to buy anything made of wood, and if they siege the player, they attack in their thousands and wear crappy armor that the Dwarves can't wear or easily destroy.

* In ''{{Fallout}} 2'', Vault City residents hold themselves superior to all others, having achieved instant success at society-building from the moment they left their Vault. Their leader, First Citizen Lynette, is a black woman with strong prejudices bordering on genocidal, against ghouls, mutants, savages and anyone living above-ground when the bombs landed.

* Averted in ''{{Fallout 3}}'' if you allow Fawkes (one of the two friendly Super Mutants in the whole game) to become your ally. The only type of character he's willing to follow is one with a high positive karma - more or less a walking saint. The people may in fact hate him, but because of the player's reputation they'll never say anything. Fawkes comments on this in game.
** ''{{Fallout 3}}'' does, however, use this trope a lot when dealing with the ghouls; People who have been hideously mutated by prolonged exposure to radiation. There are feral ghouls which can't be reasoned with and attacks anything on sight, and there are civilized ghouls, which are pretty much just friendly [=NPCs=] without skin. Naturally, the population of the wasteland tend to mix this up and treat all ghouls as monsters. This conflict is vital to the quests "You gotta shoot 'em in the head" and "Tenpenny Tower."

* Somewhat subverted ''Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel''- having to recruit tribals from outlying settlements goes against their own ideals just on its own, but the epynomous organization also accepts ghouls and intelligent deathclaws into their ranks despite the objections from Simon Barnaky. After [[spoiler:he is captured and Dekker takes command]], super mutants and reavers are also allowed to join. Keep in mind, this straying away from the original ideals of the Brotherhood of Steel is done more out of necessity in most cases, as their own numbers without them are too few.

** And of course, who can forget [[TheNeidermeyer Grand Marshal Garithos]] from the ''Frozen Throne'' expansion, probably the biggest [[FantasticRacism fantastic racist]] in the series. His comeuppance was exquisitely satisfying because of it.

** Don't forget Valen Dreth, the first NPC you meet in ''{{Oblivion}}'', who has a nice rant to deliver against whichever race you may be.

* Averted in ''{{Fallout 3}}'' if you allow Fawkes (one of the two friendly Super Mutants in the whole game) to become your ally. The only type of character she's willing to follow is one with a high positive karma - more or less a walking saint. The people may in fact hate her, but because of the player's reputation they'll never say anything. Fawkes comments on this in game.

* Another Bioware game, Neverwinter Nights, also pulls on this, moreso in the first game than the second. In the first game, talking to common people on the streets would garner variable responses depending on your race or even ''class''. The only race not discriminated was (surprise surprise) Human, but even then, if you were a Sorcerer or Barbarian, expect some hatred. It isn't like that in the second game as much, but there is some racism taken for laughs (like Neeshka the Tiefling calling dwarves "squat, smelly drunks" and Kelgar the Dwarf calling Tieflings "backstabbers").

* Spoofed in ''AtelierAnnie''. When Fitz is nice to Annie, but mean to her fairy master Pepe, he assumes that this trope has spontaneously manifested in a world completely devoid of it - it's actually because Fitz has a [[LesYay fawning]] [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship girl-crush]] on Annie, and is jealous that Pepe gets to spend all his time with her.

* While Undead in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' run a danger of becoming mindless, violent hollows should they lose all of their humanity, undead that still have their sense are brutally mistreated, imprisoned and sacrificed to maintain the First Fire.

* ''KingdomHeartsII'' gives us this little gem from [=DiZ=]. "A Nobody doesn't have a right to know. Nor even does it have the right to be." Yeah, they're basically a person who's missing half of what makes them, but does that give you a right to treat a sapient being like a nothing?

* The "AceAttorney Universe" features the fictional country of Borginia. In "ApolloJustice", case 3 is centred quite heavily around this country and many characters make remarks that could be considered extremely racist if said country was real. These include people stating how "lying must be a Borginian pastime" over and over again.

* In ''FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'', the main character Marche unknowingly refers to a bangaa (a race of reptilian humanoids) as a "lizard", which is soon revealed to be a form of ethnic slur against them. Though this is probably similar, if not equivalent, to someone calling you an 'ape' (Something that happens a few times to Humans in fiction, too) The lizard comment is used by some [=NPCs=] in FFXII as well.