History FantasticRacism / Videogames

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' has the elder Zoras showing contempt towards Link, a Hylian, due to their princess/champion Mipha being killed in battle and held him responsible for it. Because of their princess' death, the elder Zora use the event as an excuse to distrust and even hate Hylians simply because they failed to defeat Calamity Ganon. Some even went so far as to consider the Hylians partially responsible for the Great Calamity given that it was their idea to reactivate the Guardians and [[HumongousMecha Divine Beasts]] that ended up getting possessed by Ganon. The only exception to this was their king who knew that the Hylians weren't at fault. The younger Zora don't hold the same racist views as their elders due to them either not having been born during the tragedy or being too young to remember it. Once Link manages to appease the Divine Beast that's causing the Zora problems, the elders forgive Link and admit that their racist views were wrong.

* In ''VideoGame/SteamWorldHeist'', the Royalist [[DieselPunk dieselbots]] are constantly putting down the poorer frontier [[SteamPunk steambots]]. In addition, the dieselbots are hoarding all the water, even though they don't actually need it as much as the steambots do. [[spoiler:Then there are the voltbots, who just want to wipe out both steambots and dieselbots]].

* This is what essentially sparked off the story in the ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}'' series: Originally the Mudokons and Glukkons were neighbours, until a crater in the shape of a Mudokon pawprint appeared on one of Oddworld's moons. The Mudokons declared that this was a divne sign that they were the 'chosen race', which royally pissed off the Glukkons to the point of closing off their society, turning to industry and enslaving most of the species on Oddworld, starting with the Mudokons. [[SarcasmMode Congratulations.]]

* While this gets briefly touched upon in the first ''PhantasyStar'' game, and more expounded on in the second, the [=PS2=] game Phantasy Star Universe features this as an apparent plot point (and background story), where the Humans have created [=CASTs=] (androids/robots), Beasts, and Newmans to inhabit the Gurhal System with them and serve as labor... but the hierarchy gets inverted quite a bit when the [=CASTs=] become the supremacists, the Beasts become resentful and rogue-ish, the Newmans become deeply religious, and the Humans still think everyone can get along. CAST speciesism and racism ensues throughout the entire game.
* Subtly implied in [[PhantasyStar Algo]] here and there, with the Motavians especially; in ''II'', they live in a garbage dump because Mother Brain has terraformed the planet and destroyed their native ecosystem, and by ''IV'', Zio wipes out one of their only two established villages pretty much because he hates them. The Espers are also subject to genocide at the hands of Mother Brain, and over the course of the games become so completely reclusive that other humans on Dezolis don't trust them, even when they're doing their best to save plague victims.

** This trope is also some of the fuel between the conflicts of Eorzea and the Garlemald Empire. The Garlemald Empire came to be because the Eorzeans looked down and mocked them for being unable to use magic. In turn, when they were able to create {{Magitek}}, the Empire began to refer to them as "savages" because of their lack of technology.

* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' takes place after a massive global war between humanity and the artificially-intelligent Omnics. Racial tensions still brew between the two throughout the world, and some of the playable characters have varying degrees of misgivings towards machines, from simple distrust (Zarya is wary of Genji, even though Genji is a human who had been converted into a cyborg, and of Omnic characters like Zenyatta and Bastion) to full-blown hostility (Torbjorn praises the British for poo-pooing on Omnics and reacts with disgust when fighting in Numbani, a city where humans and Omnics co-exist peacefully).

* ''WoodruffAndTheSchnibbleOfAzimuth'': Humans towards Bouzouks.

* ''VideoGame/InFamous2'''s antagonists are the [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Militia]], a redneck gang trying to rid the city of New Marais of [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Conduits]]. [[spoiler:Ironically, their leader Joseph Bertrand is not only a [[BoomerangBigot closeted self-hating Conduit]], but he was [[RunningBothSides also responsible for creating the Corrupted monsters]].]]
** This gets taken further in the sequel ''VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon'', where the fear of Conduits has become so widespread, that a new government agency (the [[CapeBusters Department of Unified Protection]]) was created to persecute all "[[FantasticSlur Bio-terrorists]]". Ironically, the DUP leader Brooke Augustine [[HunterOfHisOwnKind is also one of them]], and her henchmen were all given her powers.

** ''VideoGame/DeusExMankindDivided'' has this coming to a head in the aftermath of [[spoiler: the aug incident at the end of HR that caused augmented individuals to violently attack people indiscriminately]], resulting in ghettos for augmented people, where they are treated as less-than-human.

* ''VideoGame/Infamous2'''s antagonists are the [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Militia]], a redneck gang trying to rid the city of New Marais of [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Conduits]]. [[spoiler:Ironically, their leader Joseph Bertrand is not only a [[BoomerangBigot closeted self-hating Conduit]], but he was [[RunningBothSides also responsible for creating the Corrupted monsters]].]]

* In ''VideoGame/Scrapland'', the robot denizens of the city of Chimera HATE humans. As a result, when Bill arrives in Chimera, he's arrested instantly and blamed for the murders of several robots in the city.

** A slightly more minor one, but in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' Darmani, the chieftain of the Gorons, particularly hated Gerudos. This is mostly because their leader [[BigBad Ganondorf]] tried to coerce the Gorons into giving him the spiritual stone and sealed up their only supply of food when they refused. He might feel differently about Nabooru, who unlike the rest of her tribe openly opposed Ganon and is one of his fellow Sages.

*** General hatred of Super Mutants is widespread, given that only a few decades prior the Super Mutants had every intention of overrunning, destroying or mutating all life. Several mutants, including the one you can recruit, seem to still hold mutant elitist philosophy as well.
** In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' if you allow Fawkes (one of the two friendly Super Mutants in the whole game) to become your ally, he comments that people may hate him, but because of the player's reputation they'll never say anything.

** In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', the people of Massachusetts are constantly holding {{Witch Hunt}}s for [[FantasticSlur "synths"]], RidiculouslyHumanRobots created by the secretive and malevolent "Institute" to kill and replace various people in the wasteland as spies and insurgents. This would be all fine and dandy if it weren't for the fact that many synths are ''sentient,'' and a good number of them [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters hate the Institute as much as everyone else.]] The Brotherhood of Steel in particular are very anti-mutant as well as anti-Synth. [[spoiler:They don't even make an exception for one of their own loyal members when he's outed as a Synth]].

** In the background lore, the Bretons and [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orcs]] hate each other, the Nords and Dark Elves hate each other due to war, the Argonians and Dark Elves ''loathe'' each other due to slave raids and slavery by the latter, and the Khajiit and Wood Elves regard each other with hatred, both of them raiding each other's homeland. The High Elves and Dark Elves, in particular, are both racist against all other races.
** Even if you play a Dunmer in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', you're still considered an outlander. It's not a question of race so much as culture. And the Ashlanders consider ''all other Dunmer'' as outlanders. The absolute worst insult in Dunmer culture is "N'wah", which means "foreigner".
** This gets even worse in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' when you hear rumours of a countess interested in species 'purity' and torturing Argonians, then find a torture chamber in their castle.
** In the ''Shivering Isles'' expansion, one NPC is terrified of cats, and he has a pet dog. And he has the unfortunate problem of a Khajiit that happens to really like his dog, resulting in him being constantly wary. If you are a Khajiit yourself, you can't even take his sidequest, and he'll sic his dog on you!
** In the first game there were Jesters that would make offensive jokes about your race.
** Valen Dreth, the first NPC you meet in ''Oblivion'', has a nice rant to deliver against whichever race you may be, even if you're a Dunmer like him.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' takes this UpToEleven after introducing the Thalmor, High Elf supremacists who are for all intents and purposes [[ANaziByANyOtherName the Tamrielic equivalent to the Nazi party.]]

* The later ''Franchise/{{Ultima}}'' games show this between Britannians and the Gargoyles.

* ''Franchise/TalesSeries'':