History FantasticRacism / WesternAnimation

** In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'', [[HumansAreDiplomats Ben gets called in]] to help resolve a RaceWar between the two Upchuck subspecies on their homeworld. At one point he upsets one side after transforming into the wrong version when trying to negotiate with them.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce:'' The Highbreed, who served as BigBad of the first two seasons, looked down on any and all non-Highbreeds, especially humans, viewing them all as mongrels and vermin. They didn't even try to hide it: the Highbreed Commander that Ben fought in the pilot episode openly and relentlessly insulted him with remarks like "filth" and "scum", and when Ben [[ManBitesMan bit his hand]] to escape a NeckLift, freaked out and declared that Ben had "[[HumanityIsInfectious infected]]" him. Unusually, they were content to merely avoid contact with other species in the past. The reason they started their campaign to "cleanse" the universe is because [[spoiler: they discovered that their species has become sterile and will go extinct in a generation or two. [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum They just can't stand the idea of "inferior" beings outliving them.]] However, using the Omnitrix to hybridize them and cure their genetic damage, Ben convinces the Highbreed to drop their villainous ways and reform.]]

*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E1SchoolDazePart1 School Daze]]": The thing that ultimately causes Neighsay to shut down Twilight's school is when he finds out that it admits non-ponies, which he views as "dangerous creatures" and a threat to the pony way of life. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E16FriendshipUniversity Later]], he supports [[ConArtist Flim and Flam's]] school due to its pony-centric environment, and believes that the "ill manners" of Twilight's non-pony students are "contagious".

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'': Many steam engines and diesels have a strong dislike for one another. Some steam engines see the diesels as trying to take away their jobs, and some ([[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch but not all]]) diesels see the steam engines as outdated and deserving to be scrapped (which was the opinion of the actual British Railways in the 50s and 60s, especially after the publication of the Modernisation Plan of 1955). It was also a major driving force in the movie ''Calling All Engines''. In addition, one of the books, ''James and the Diesel Engines'', is all about the title character trying to overcome his prejudices against diesels.
** Interestingly, the Fantastic Racism in the ''Railway Series'' is actually Reverend Awdry's ''response'' to the Modernisation Plan, as he felt that the Plan was hasty and poorly implemented, as railways rushed to implement diesel locomotives and scrap steam locomotives, many of which were practically ''fresh out of the factory,'' only to find out that the diesels they acquired to replace them were unreliable and fraught with teething problems. This, in turn, resulted in ''massive'' infrastructural issues on the British Railways, as the brand new diesels were laid up in the sheds and they no longer had the more reliable steam engines to fall back on.

-->'''Luigi:''' Think they'll ever learn that lesson in the real world?
-->'''Mario:''' [[HumansAreMorons Yeah, when humans get as smart as mushrooms!]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Chaotic}}'', there is ''fantastic jingoism''. One can interpret that all the land-based tribes of Perim are engaged in four way holy war over who is blame for having the [[CrystalDragonJesus Cothica]] disappear and ending the [[{{Gotterdammerung}} Golden Age]]. Then came the M'arrilians who exhibited big time FantasticRacism by choosing to flood the planet by heat-ray melting of the ice caps, even though there is plenty of existing oceans assuming Perim is an Earth-like planet.

-->'''Cleveland:''' "AHHHH! A BEAR!"\\

-->'''White Knight:''' I don't trust anything with nanites! ''(attacks Rex)''\\

* "The Big Feud" from ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace''. While researching their cultural heritages for a school project, Kurt and Douglas discovered that there was a dispute over the common moon that orbited both the ancestral homes of their respective races. Neither race forgave the other for the incident. Despite being best friends, Kurt and Douglas started to hate each other more and more over the course of the episode (with the help of their parents). This escalated to both sides recruiting help from the "old country" to [[NotBigEnoughForTheTwoOfUs drive the other race out of Intrepidville]]. Fortunately, by the end of the episode Kurt and Douglas realized the error of their ways and [[CallingTheOldManOut spoke out against]] the whole feud.

-->'''Pops:''' "Oh, dirty raccoon! ''Three'' dirty raccoons? Raccoons' brains are three times smaller than normal. No, uh... Three out of three raccoons can't read!"

--> "Sea mammals, who needs 'em? This country would be a whole lot better off without 'em. In fact, we oughta take all the sea mammals, put 'em on a big boat, send it across the ocean, and sink it halfway."\\

** [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] in ''WebAnimation/TheCrystalGemsSayBeAntiRacist'' short ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJkVgGYm4xo See Color]].'' Amethyst points out that the common phrase "It doesn't matter if you're black, white, or purple" is little more than a form of {{Gaslighting}} to [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject shut down discussion of racism altogether]] and minimize the specific experiences various people of color deal with regarding the very real racism they experience.

*** Any character that isn't a pony ''will'' be subjected to this one way or another. Even {{lampshade|Hanging}}d within the show itself. If a character appears to be a major part in an episode, but isn't a pony, chances are they're going to be an [[ObviouslyEvil outright villain]], a DesignatedVillain, a mere {{Jerkass}} or just shown in a less sympathetic light if they aren't jerkish nor evil[[note]]and if none of this happens, it's because they're a returning character who went through it in a previous appearance[[/note]]. Double bonus if you happen to be a dragon. Yes, this even includes [[ButtMonkey Spike]]. The ''many'' examples below:

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'': Sometimes it seems Jenny can't go anywhere without someone belittling her (like the Krust cousins) or telling her to GTFO (like the owner of Mesmer's diner) simply because she's a robot.
** The Cluster thinks that robots are superior to humans, and refers to them as “meatbags”.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': For a children's show about friendship and pastel-colored ponies, this shows up surprisingly often:
** Any character that isn't a pony ''will'' be subjected to this one way or another. Even {{lampshade|Hanging}}d within the show itself. If a character appears to be a major part in an episode, but isn't a pony, chances are they're going to be an [[ObviouslyEvil outright villain]], a DesignatedVillain, a mere {{Jerkass}} or just shown in a less sympathetic light if they aren't jerkish nor evil[[note]]and if none of this happens, it's because they're a returning character who went through it in a previous appearance[[/note]]. Double bonus if you happen to be a ''dragon''. Yes, this even ''includes'' [[ButtMonkey Spike]]. The ''many'' examples below:
** PlayedForLaughs in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E4ApplebuckSeason Applebuck Season]]" when Twilight refers to Applejack as being "stubborn as a mule," then awkwardly realizes there is an actual mule on the premises, though he takes no offense.
** Subverted in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Bridle Gossip]]", where it initially seems that the ponies are fearful of the strange visitor to Ponyville because she's a zebra. Only when Twilight expresses skepticism as to their claims of her being evil do they explain their fear stems from her living in the Everfree Forest, which the ponies treat as an EldritchLocation because nature there doesn't behave the way [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows ponies think it should]].
*** As a matter of fact, the Ponyville ponies didn't even know what a zebra was in the first place and just assumed Zecora was some really weird and creepy pony witch.
*** Inverted in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E6TheCutiePox The Cutie Pox]]"; Zecora shows up in Ponyville to find everypony panicking and running for shelter, and initially assumes they're reacting this way to her before Twilight tells her what's actually scaring them.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Over a Barrel]]", there is animosity between the ponies and the bisons. It is motivated by a dispute over land rather than innate racial animosity, however, and ultimately given the opportunity to talk to each other they easily settle their issues. Doubles as a GeniusBonus when you realize the whole episode is an allegory for the disputes between Native Americans and the early settlers of the Western United States, which were in large part racially motivated.
** The [[ShowWithinAShow Play Within A Show]] in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve Hearth's Warming Eve]]" shows there was much hostility between earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns prior to the founding of Equestria, with each side viewing the others as inferior, which resulted in the [[{{Wendigo}} Windigos]], [[EmotionEater attracted by all the delicious hate thereby generated]], bringing an EndlessWinter. However, in modern day, this has largely faded out and the three races live in harmony. Specifically, the three tribes all have negative viewpoints on each other due to their different cultures and roles in society. Unicorns formed an aristocracy and were seen as a snobby elitist bourgeoisie, pegasi controlled the military and were viewed as violent, knuckle-dragging barbarians, and earth ponies were downtrodden farmers seen as uneducated serfs.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E21DragonQuest Dragon Quest]]" the dragons, or at least the teenage ones that Spike faces, look down on the ponies, which they view as weak, soft and laughable, and on any dragon that associates with them.
** Although it's more InnocentlyInsensitive than actual prejudice, Iron Will ([[ALoadOfBull a minotaur]]) from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]]" is referred as a monster by Pinkie Pie and Rarity, a term Fluttershy repeatedly takes offense to.
--->'''Fluttershy:''' Iron Will's not a monster, ''he's a minotaur!''
** Changelings were given a bad rap after their failed invasion in Canterlot during [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 A Canterlot Wedding - Part2]]. In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E17TheTimesTheyAreAChangeling The Times They Are A Changeling]], the Crystal Empire is on edge while finding a Changling spy. They find an innocent rogue Changling named Thorax and try to capture him, but Spike (who is regarded as a hero there) convinced them to treat Thorax as a friend, especially since Thorax has learned to share love rather than steal like his hive. This allows him to inspire his kind to adjust their EmotionEater habits. Come [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E26ToWhereAndBackAgainPart2 - To Where And Back Again - Part 2]], he helped usurped his former queen Crysalis and take over the hive, giving all of Changling-kind a better standing for the rest of Equestria.
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E19ADogAndPonyShow A Dog and Pony Show]]" has Rarity's reaction to being called a mule: She screams that mules are ugly and breaks down into tears. However, as stated above in "Applebuck Season", ''mules are shown to be a sentient "race" just like ponies.''
** Trenderhoof (a unicorn) in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E13SimpleWays Simple Ways]]" has a condescending variant, telling Applejack how he admires the work ethic of Earth ponies and trying to appropriate that "simple" aesthetic.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieRemarkPart2 The Cutie Re-Mark – Part 2]]", an alternate Rarity from a BadFuture looks down on Spike for being a dragon (the regular Rarity likes him).
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E15TripleThreat Triple Threat]]", in an example of less dogmatic and more casual racism, the dragon Ember comments that ponies all look alike to her, constantly mixing up Twilight Sparkle and Starlight Glimmer.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E1SchoolDazePart1 School Daze]]", the thing that ultimately causes Neighsay to shut down Twilight's school is when he finds out that it admits non-ponies, which he views as "dangerous creatures" and a threat to the pony way of life.
*** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E1SchoolDazePart1 Later]] he supports [[ConArtist Flim and Flam's]] school due to its pony-centric environment, and believes that the "ill manners" of Twilight's non-pony students are "contagious".
*** This is surprisingly averted on him in the season finale "School Raze", where Cozy Glow, ''a pony'', is the one who threatens Equestria, and he realizes the error of his ways.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E4FakeItTilYouMakeIt Fake It 'Til You Make It]]", once Fluttershy has completely [[BecomingTheMask lost herself in her upper-class storekeeper persona]], she takes to repeatedly referring to her trio of raccoon helpers as "rodents" and saying that they should "go back to the forest". The reaction of both the raccoons and other ponies to this is consistent with the use of a heavy racial slur.
--->'''Fluttershy:''' And you'll be pleased to hear that I've taken care of your ''rodent'' situation.\\

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsSunsetsBackstagePass'': Adagio, [[RetiredMonster still as selfish and mean as ever]] [[BroughtDownToNormal despite losing her powers]], quietly calls her audience "human scum."
* Brought up in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'', where Rad becomes a celebrity and is thrown into show business. However, since he is an alien, he is typecast into movie roles where he shouts stereotypical alien lines and speaks in broken English a la Jar Jar Binks. Unsurprisingly, he ends up quitting, and a human man dressed as an alien takes his place.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Humans are not thought of highly in the Boiling Islands, and Luz has to hide her identity to study magic.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'': Many steam engines and diesels have a strong dislike for one another. Some steam engines see the diesels as trying to take away their jobs, and some ([[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch but not all]]) diesels see the steam engines as outdated and deserving to be scrapped (which was the opinion of the actual British Railways in the 50s and 60s, especially after the publication of the Modernisation Plan of 1955). It was also a major driving force in the movie ''Calling All Engines''. In addition, one of the books, ''James and the Diesel Engines'', is all about the title character trying to overcome his prejudices against diesels.

** Interestingle, the Fantastic Racism in the ''Railway Series'' is actually Reverend Awdry's ''response'' to the Modernisation Plan, as he felt that the Plan was hasty and poorly implemented, as railways rushed to implement diesel locomotives and scrap steam locomotives, many of which were practically ''fresh out of the factory,'' only to find out that the diesels they acquired to replace them were unreliable and fraught with teething problems. This, in turn, resulted in ''massive'' infrastructural issues on the British Railways, as the brand new diesels were laid up in the sheds and they no longer had the more reliable steam engines to fall back on.

** Interesting, the Fantastic Racism in the ''Railway Series'' is actually Reverend Awdry's ''response'' to the Modernisation Plan, as he felt that the Plan was hasty and poorly implemented, as railways rushed to implement diesel locomotives and scrap steam locomotives, many of which were practically ''fresh out of the factory,'' only to find out that the diesels they acquired to replace them were unreliable and fraught with teething problems. This, in turn, resulted in ''massive'' infrastructural issues on the British Railways, as the brand new diesels were laid up in the sheds and they no longer had the more reliable steam engines to fall back on.

'''Tim:''' "Ahh! A black man! (beat) See it's not nice."

--->'''Amethyst:''' [[WhoWritesThisCrap Ugh, who wrote this?]] I think it kinda does matter that I'm purple. I mean, I'm purple because I'm [[LiteralMetaphor literally an alien.]] (...) I just think it's messed up to compare me being alien to you two [a black and a white girl] being different races. You're both human, you're totally biologically the same. Adding [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation purple people]] to a lesson about human racism [[{{Metaphorgotten makes no sense.]]

** [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheCrystalGemsSayBeAntiRacist'' short ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJkVgGYm4xo See Color]].'' Amethyst points out that the common phrase "It doesn't matter if you're black, white, or purple" is little more than a form of {{Gaslighting}} to [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject shut down discussion of racism altogether]] and minimize the specific experiences various people of color deal with regarding the very real racism they experience.

*** Although that one turned out to be a case of ExactWords [[spoiler:as she does know that pearl]].

*** This also gets manifested as a less-than-subtle Fantastic Homophobia metaphor. [[InterspeciesRomance Marital, romantic, and sexual relations]] [[{{Robosexual}} between robotic and organic beings]] are frowned upon on Earth. The plot of "Proposition Infinity"[[note]](the title alludes to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_(2008) this controversial law]])[[/note]] involves Bender and Amy, who were dating at the time, launching a political movement to legalize "robosexual" marriage (which was in fact already legal in [[SpaceX Space Massachusetts]]).

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* In ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHigh'' the monsters call the humans the vaguely racist- or in this case, speciescist- word "normies".

** The Off Colors are persecuted for these reasons and more. Padparadscha is a defective orange Sapphire whose precognitive abilities make give her visions of things that have happened in the immediate past. The Rutile Twins were created from the Kindergarten malformed, with their humanoid form appearing as two one-armed torsos conjoined at a single waist. Rhodonite and Fluorite are both fusions born of love between two Gems; Rhodonite is a Ruby and a Pearl whose negative personality traits have been magnified, while Fluorite is a polyamorous fusion of six Gems and is open to adding more if they are compatible and speaks incredibly slowly. The only way they overcome their "defects" is [[spoiler:under the leadership of Lars Barriga, who unwittingly stowed away to Homeworld with Steven, died, and was then brought back to life by Steven and now has powers similar to Lion.]]

*** There's also "Squirrel Jokes", in which [=SpongeBob=] becomes a popular comedian through "squirrel jokes", which imply squirrels to be "so darn stupid", result in Sandy being belittled and treated differently by the people of Bikini Bottom. Though [=SpongeBob=] later makes it up to his friend by making equal-opportunity jokes against ''all'' the undersea animals, including his own species.

*** There's also "Squirrel Jokes", in which [=SpongeBob=] becomes a popular comedian through "dumb squirrel" jokes, which result in Sandy being belittled and treated differently by the people of Bikini Bottom. Though [=SpongeBob=] later makes it up to his friend by making equal-opportunity jokes against ''all'' animals, including his own.

* The ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinChronicles'' episode "Planet of Dragons" has the Xiaolin monks and Dojo travelling to a future where the humans are treated as slaves and as being inferrior by the dragons. And all of that happened because the monks gave Dojo too many chores, which they could easily do by themselves. Granted, Dojo didn't want the dragons to rule the world, he just wanted to free them from slavery, but his great x6 grandson wanted and due to being his descendent to the throne, the world got worse for the humans once he became the ruler.

** ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' featured prejudice between four fictional human nations as a prevalent theme, given that there's a global conflict where the imperialist [[PlayingWithFire Fire Nation]] has done a successful genocide against one of them (the [[BlowYouAway Air Nomads]]), and is trying to violently subjugate the other two ([[MakingASplash Water Tribes]] and [[DishingOutDirt Earth Kingdom]]). Also some of these humans have the {{elemental powers}} of their respective nations, so the Fire Nation has a policy of killing or capturing all non-[[PlayingWithFire fire]]-benders.
** Wan Shi Tong, an owl spirit and guardian of a hidden library, isn't exactly trusting of human, as they tend to use the knowledge they seek to bring harm to each other. So, when he is deceived by the Avatar himself and his friends as they seek information to counter the Fire Nation, he is not happy about it, and tries to bury the library with them in it. They escape,[[spoiler: though the curator who joined them voluntarily stay behind]].

*** Season 2 expands upon the [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent spirits]], an assortment of various supernatural beings who are generally very xenophobic towards the human race. This is because the spirits have a BlueAndOrangeMorality, and they see humans as barbaric because of actions such as cutting trees to obtain firewood or hunting animals for food. Though as of the series finale, the spirits and humans are now more-or-less coexisting peacefully.