History FantasticRacism / Videogames

* ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}''[='s=] antagonists are the [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Militia]], a [[MugglePower normal-supremacist]] gang trying to rid the city of New Marais of all [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual the superhuman Conduits]]. [[spoiler:Ironically, their leader [[CorruptHick Joseph Bertrand]] is not only a [[BoomerangBigot closeted self-hating Conduit]], but he was [[RunningBothSides also responsible for creating the Corrupted monsters]].]]

* Cap'n Cuttlefish from ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'', a veteran of the Great Turf War between the Inklings and the Octarians, has some biases against the Octarian empire. This is most evident in the ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' DLC Octo Expansion where he spends a lot of his time interacting with an amnesic Octarian (your PlayerCharacter) as well as Marina from Off the Hook. His character development throughout Octo Expansion is about trying to shed these outdated viewpoints and accept that Octarians and Inklings share an integrated society.

*** Introduces the Thalmor, High Elf supremacists who are for all intents and purposes [[ANaziByANyOtherName the Tamrielic equivalent to the Nazi party]], taking this UpToEleven. Not only do they have the usual Altmer hatred for mankind, they also view the other races of Mer as a result of "degeneration" and even [[NoTrueScotsman look down upon Altmer who do not support them]].

** The player-base often (jokingly) demonstrates a huge amount of hatred and disgust for the [[OurElvesAreDifferent Elves]], often going so far as to treat them as the mortal enemies of the [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwarves]]. 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 from cut down trees, 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. This isn't helped by the Elves [[ImAHumanitarian eating their enemies,]] and starting wars over the treatment of plants (then eating whoever they fight); they basically are designed to be as unreasonable as possible, whether or not they're at war with you. This is especially funny given the existence of a race that ''already'' behave as the Dwarves' and Humans' mortal enemies, the [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Goblins]].

** The Altmer have a particularly severe case of racism, putting a huge amount of emphasis on proper breeding and racial purity. Altmer who have "improper" breeding will be looked down on in High Elf society for mixing their blood with other races. Thus, they can be racist even to people of their own race for having even a bit of non-Altmer heritage. In extreme cases, newborn children can be abandoned or even killed for being racially impure or otherwise not meeting Altmer racial standards.

*** On top of that, [[spoiler:Edelgard and [[AbusivePrecursors those who slither in the dark]] (also known as Agarthans)]] express particular disdain for this game's take on the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent manaketes]], here called "Nabateans" or "children of the goddess." While Edelgard insists that she is motivated by the control she believes the Nabateans (namely [[spoiler:Rhea]]) exert over the continent and that she seeks to overthrow them to bring about an "era for humanity", she and her retainer Hubert also call them "beasts" derisively, echoing not only real-world comparisons of racial minorities to animals, but also the racist rhetoric of the Agarthans themselves. Notably, not only can she not accompany the party on the paralogue where they fight [[spoiler:the Nabatean Indech]], she also [[spoiler:cannot spare Seteth or Flayn, who are also Nabateans, like Byleth can]] and [[spoiler: celebrates their exctinction during her S support with Byleth]]. The Agarthans, meanwhile, go so far as to extend their hatred to ''[[MisanthropeSupreme literally everyone besides themselves]]'', thinking of people the world over as savages at ''best''.

* ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'' is practically nothing but a FantasticRacism, where the main character views humans as morons or "monkeys". However, the longer he stayed on the planet, the more his racisim degraded to PretendPrejudice.

** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is full of this. To start, you have Human racism against elves, up to and ''including'' considering them second-class citizens in some places, ''and'' racism against other humans, though the divide is more along geopolitical lines than being based on appearance. Then there's Elvish racism against humans, who are viewed as short-lived and thuggish by both City and Dalish elves, and even racism among City and Dalish Elves, with the Dalish viewing City Elves as acting "too human" and all too willing to cast aside their heritage in favor of living under humanity's boot in overcrowded slums, and City Elves seeing the Dalish as backwards savages who cling to their dying culture so tightly that they don't see their own numbers dwindling around them. In Dwarven society, discrimination is ''ingrained'' in the classism of the [[FantasticCasteSystem caste system]], and between Dwarves who remain underground and those that venture to the surface in search of a better life. ''All'' races commit a degree of [[BullyingADragon prejudice and mistrust]] against [[BlessedWithSuck mages]], including [[BurnTheWitch executions]] of mages deemed to be "dangerous" because they're not a part of a Circle. Religious intolerance, schisms, and Holy Wars...the more things change, the more they stay the same.

** ''The Legend Of Zelda'' tends to be a very bizarre case. Hylians, who form the general "human" population of Hyrule, are said to be the chosen race of the goddesses. This actually ''does'' place them on a superior level to all other races, and only the Gerudo seem all that bothered by it. One of the lamentations of the Downfall Timeline leading to the classic games and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'' is that due both to interracial breeding and a war after ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything purebloods of the "chosen race"]] are nearly extinct.

** ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIII'' has its own particular variety. In the story, mankind divided between two factions, led by people named Orakio and Laya. Each side hates the other with a passion; Orakians are {{muggle}}s who are strong, hardy, but otherwise unremarkable, while Layans are a WitchSpecies able to use techniques and command monsters.

*** On top of that, [[spoiler:Edelgard and [[AbusivePrecursors those who slither in the dark]] (also known as Agarthans)]] express particular disdain for this game's take on the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent manaketes]], here called "Nabateans" or "children of the goddess." While Edelgard insists that she is motivated by the control she believes the Nabateans (namely [[spoiler:Rhea]]) exert over the continent and that she seeks to overthrow them to bring about an "era for humanity", she and her retainer Hubert also call them "beasts" derisively, echoing not only real-world comparisons of racial minorities to animals, but also the racist rhetoric of the Agarthans themselves. Notably, not only can she not accompany the party on the paralogue where they fight [[spoiler:the Nabatean Indech]], she also [[spoiler:cannot spare Seteth or Flayn, who are also Nabateans, like Byleth can]]. The Agarthans, meanwhile, go so far as to extend their hatred to ''[[MisanthropeSupreme literally everyone besides themselves]]'', thinking of people the world over as savages at ''best''.

* Spoofed in ''VideoGame/{{Atelier Annie|Alchemists of Sera Island}}''. 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.

** One of the most prominent examples from the background lore comes from the Alessian Order, a highly influential religious sect in the First Era Alessian Empire which preached radical religious beliefs. Led by the "[[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Monkey Prophet]]" Marukh, believed to be an Imga (Great Ape) from Valenwood, it was a very solemn, strict, severe, spartan, and sometimes outright ''cruel'' [[TheTheocracy Theocracy]]. They attempted to completely {{Unperson}} the Ayleids, still harboring a significant grudge against them for their [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslavement of mankind]]. Further, despite the status of Belharza (believed to have been the first [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent Minotaur]]) as Emperor and the Minotaur race's loyalty/devotion to the Alessian Empire, the Alessian Order demonized them as well. Minotaurs were re-classified as "monsters" and driven from civilized areas, with whatever culture they had being destroyed.

*** And despite what you would think Dwarves and Elves get along fairly well too. Dwarves take some issue with living on the surface as they do with humans but have no other issues with them and do not share the racism and slave history them that humans do. "Surfacers" are the same in their eyes, human or elf. Elves meanwhile appreciate Dwarven craftsmanship and respect them as "Children of the Stone".

** One of the most prominent examples from the background lore comes from the Alessian Order, a highly influential religious sect in the First Era Alessian Empire which preached radical religious beliefs. Led by the "[[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Monkey Prophet]]" Marukh, believed to be an Imga (Great Ape) from Valenwood, it was a very solemn, strict, severe, spartan, and sometimes outright ''cruel'' [[TheTheocracy Theocracy]]. They attempted to completely {{Unperson}} the Ayleids, still harboring a significant grudge against them for their [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslavement of mankind]]. Further, despite the status of Belharza (believed to have been the first [[ALoadOfBull Minotaur]]) as Emperor and the Minotaur race's loyalty/devotion to the Alessian Empire, the Alessian Order demonized them as well. Minotaurs were re-classified as "monsters" and driven from civilized areas, with whatever culture they had being destroyed.

* The DLC ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep'' for ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' has a twistedly-meta example. Try and follow. One of the main game's [=PCs=] is Salvador. While not as diminutive as the game's many "[[DepravedDwarf midgets]]", Sal is certainly [[PintSizedPowerhouse short and stumpy]], and his default head sports an [[BadassBeard impressive beard]]. The DLC has the players (you) controlling the same characters, but now they are effectively "[=PCs=] of [=NPCs=]", because everything is a [[DeepImmersionGaming visualization of a tabletop RPG]] that Tiny Tina is [[RPGEpisode running]] to entertain the [=PCs=] of ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' '''1''', such as Lilith. (The "real" ''Borderlands 2'' [=PCs=] are downstairs interrogating a prisoner.) One leg of the story has dwarves as the main enemies, and they all use a model based on Salvador's. Tina must have narrated this description to her players, although we don't hear it, because there is this exchange:

** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is full of this. To start, you have Human racism against elves, up to and ''including'' considering them second-class citizens in some places, ''and'' racism against other humans, though the divide is more along political and societal lines than being based on appearance. Then there's Elvish racism against humans, who are viewed as short-lived and thuggish by both City and Dalish elves, and even racism among City and Dalish Elves, with the Dalish viewing City Elves as acting "too human" and all too willing to cast aside their heritage in favor of living under humanity's boot in overcrowded slums, and City Elves seeing the Dalish as backwards savages who cling to their dying culture so tightly that they don't see their own numbers dwindling around them. In Dwarven society, discrimination is ''ingrained'' in the classism of the [[FantasticCasteSystem caste system]], and between Dwarves who remain underground and those that venture to the surface in search of a better life. ''All'' races commit a degree of [[BullyingADragon prejudice and mistrust]] against [[BlessedWithSuck mages]], including [[BurnTheWitch executions]] of mages deemed to be "dangerous" because they're not a part of a Circle. Religious intolerance, schisms, and Holy Wars...the more things change, the more they stay the same.

* ''VideoGame/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." The only Nobodies he had met before had thoroughly screwed him over and destroyed his entire world back when they were human, so he has a right to be bitter. He did apologize to Roxas after learning he was capable of feeling emotion.
** It doesn't stop with [=DiZ=], either. The whole world of the game has it out for these "abominations":

* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'': Raz's dad hates psychics because they [[SuperDrowningSkills cursed his whole family to die in water.]] [[spoiler:Or so Raz thinks; in actuality, Raz's dad is himself a psychic. Raz misinterpreted TrainingFromHell to help him control his powers as an attempt to work him to death.]]

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'' and its prequel, ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'', the nomadic people of Sacae are disparaged by the "civilized" countries of the continent. In ''The Binding Blade'', Bern carries out an ethnically-motivated slaughter of the Sacaeans and one recruitable character is dead-set on revenge [[spoiler:when he escaped thanks to looking more like someone from Bern due to his MixedAncestry]]. In ''The Blazing Blade'', there is Marquess Araphen's hatred for the nomadic people of Sacae, which includes our plucky heroine Lyndis and his very own captain of the guard Rath. After the Marquess snubs Lyndis, Rath promptly tells Araphen to shove it (Araphen trying to tell him [[YouAreACreditToYourRace he is one of the "good ones"]] just makes it worse), looted his treasury, and storms off to join Lyndis.

** Gridania, one of the starting city-states, is incredibly xenophobic. This is in part due to the Twelveswood being ruled by the Elementals, who are more than willing to punish its corporeal residents if they perceive them to be misusing the forest, but it results in a lot of hostility towards anyone the Gridanians perceive as outsiders. Numerous [=NPCs=] warn the player character that it's only the Seedseer's word that keeps them from being ejected from the city on sight and even healing is denied to people if the Hearers believe that the Elementals would disapprove. The ones who are most victimized are the Duskwight Elezen, despite being ancestral residents of the Twelveswood, and Keeper of the Moon Mi'quote. More than one questline involves someone from these two races being driven over the edge by the bigotry they experience.