History Main / AlbinosAreFreaks

* ''Music/SoundHorizon'': In the song "El no Ehon - Majo to Lafrenze", Alte Rose cursed Lafrenze to born albino, forcing her mother to abandon her in a forest to keep her from being burnt as a witch.

* Music/KatyPerry's SurrealMusicVideo for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Sd5c4o9UM&pp=ygUNZXQga2F0eSBwZXJyeQ%3D%3D E.T.]]" plays with this trope. Perry releases [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Ross_(model) Shaun Ross]], a model with albinism, from inside a robotic spacesuit with a kiss that makes the metallic exterior disappear. But while Ross is depicted as ethereal, he's perhaps the ''least'' freaky part of the video. For starters, Perry herself plays an alien with SupernaturalGoldEyes, FemmeFatalons, and a series of bizarre outfits and hairstyles, who lands on a desolate, junk-covered future Earth and turns out to [[spoiler:have a satyr-like pair of gazelle legs below her waist]].

* The SurrealMusicVideo for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Sd5c4o9UM&pp=ygUNZXQga2F0eSBwZXJyeQ%3D%3D E.T.]]" features Music/KatyPerry releasing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Ross_(model) Shaun Ross]], a model with albinism, from inside a robotic spacesuit with a kiss that makes the metallic exterior disappear. Zigzagged in that, while Ross is depicted as ethereal, he's perhaps the ''least'' freaky part of the video. For starters, Perry herself is depicted as an alien with SupernaturalGoldEyes, FemmeFatalons, and a series of bizarre outfits and hairstyles, who lands on a desolate, junk-covered future Earth and turns out to [[spoiler:have a satyr-like pair of gazelle legs below her waist]].

* The SurrealMusicVideo for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Sd5c4o9UM&pp=ygUNZXQga2F0eSBwZXJyeQ%3D%3D E.T.]]" features Music/KatyPerry releasing [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Ross_(model) Shaun Ross]], a model with albinism, from inside a robotic spacesuit with a kiss that makes the metallic exterior disappear. Zigzagged in that, while Ross is depicted as ethereal, he's perhaps the ''least'' freaky part of the video. For starters, Perry herself is depicted as an alien with SupernaturalGoldEyes and FemmeFatalons who lands on a desolate, junk-covered future Earth and turns out to [[spoiler:have a satyr-like pair of gazelle legs below her waist]].

* ''Anime/RyuTheCaveBoy'': Because the cavemen view white skin as a curse, babies born with it are instantly taken away from their parents and murdered. Esta cried and begged the chief not to take Ryu away, but he ordered him to be FedToTheBeast anyway. Later, when Ryu returns to the village alive, they express disgust at his skin colour and tell him it would be better off for everyone if he died.

* {{Defied|trope}}. in ''Fanfic/BatmanRestlessDreams''. Although not much is known about her, Dr. Blanc seems like a shifty person. She has white hair despite not seeming elderly. The writer mentioned in the notes for Chapter 1 that he doesn't mean for her to be albino, because he doesn't like the stereotype that albino people are scary. The writer only gave her white hair to match the WhiteAndRedAndEerieAllOver color scheme of her outfit. The writer notes that he specifically gave her dark eyes because albino people tend to have pale-colored eyes. The fic doesn't mention her skin tone, though it doesn't mention ''anyone's'' skin tone either.

** The minor [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] villain Klaus Kristin a.k.a the Snowman is an albino. Originally, he is a famous and popular Olympic skiier, but he comes to see himself as a freak (this is mainly due to him being [[HalfHumanHybrid part]]-[[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti yeti]], but his albinism serves to highlight his difference from other people). Batman ends up defeating him by shining a bright light in his eyes which he can't stand to look at.

* ''Series/TheManInTheHighCastle:'' Discussed by the Marshall, a Nazi bounty hunter operating in the Neutral Zone, while an albino boy shines his shoes. It would appear it's possible to be ''too'' white in the American Reich.

* ''Literature/IJedi'': Albino [[WolfMan Shistavenen]] female Caet Shrovl relates that she was poorly treated by her people on their home world for her condition. As she believed the Empire caused this through an experiment which they performed on her mother, she grew to loathe them for it and joined a pirate group which despised the Imperials.

* In ''Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles'', gnawers (sapient rats that are typically human-sized) with albinism are exceptionally large and aggressive, to the point where a prophecy refers to one as "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Bane]]" and foretells that its birth will enable the gnawers to defeat their human foes. On the other hand the human Underlanders themselves avert this, as they all appear to have albinism--except for one boy who inherited his Overlander mother's dark hair and green eyes, and even he has translucent skin from living BeneathTheEarth.

* ''Film/ThreeDaysToKill'': The Albino is TheDragon of the Wolf, a ruthless arms-trafficker aiding terrorists. He has no physically distinguishing features but his albinism and, it appears, alopacia universalis (being entirely hairless), which make him look quite creepy. He likes to murder people by [[OffWithHisHead beheading]] too.

* A white missionary sent to evangelize a [[HollywoodNatives remote tribe]] in DarkestAfrica is summoned by the furious chieftain, as [[ChocolateBaby his wife has just given birth to an albino child]]. The missionary reassures him that he has nothing to do with it and it's simply an accident of nature, like the one black lamb in the chief's flock of sheep. The chief looks around and whispers "OK, I shut up about the baby [[BestialityIsDepraved and you shut up about the sheep]]."

* A missionary sent to evangelize a [[DarkestAfrica remote African tribe]] is summoned by the furious chieftain, as [[ChocolateBaby his wife has just given birth to an albino child]]. The priest reassures him that he has nothing to do with it and it's simply an accident of nature, like the one black lamb in the chief's flock of sheep. The chief looks around and whispers "OK, I shut up about the baby [[BestialityIsDepraved and you shut up about the sheep]]."

* Conversed in ''WebVideo/TBSkyen''[='=]s review on ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII''. He dislikes characters with the default look of [[OmnicidalManiac the Dark Urge]] being a [[WhiteAndRedAndEerieAllOver white dragonborn with red eyes and markings]], citing sources on how people with albinism are discriminated against, demonized, and even ''killed'' for that stereotype, and states that Creator/LarianGames probably shouldn't have picked a design that could be misconstrued as an albino person for a dangerously unstable serial killer.

** [[Characters/BatmanRasAlGhul Ra's al Ghul]] has the often-forgotten Dusan al Ghul, who had the good fortune to be born the son Ra's craved... only to be rejected as his heir because his father believed albinism meant the boy was crippled and worthless. Dusan nonetheless spent his entire life faithfully serving his sire in an attempt to gain his love, sacrificing his life to this end. A grief-stricken Ra's tragically understands how loyal and devoted to him Dusan was when it's too late.

* In Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/{{Micronauts|MarvelComics}}'' comic, Acroyear's twin brother Shaitan was born with albinism and sided with the villain Baron Karza partly because of how the rest of his race shunned him.
* The ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' villain Tombstone is an albino African-American who was [[FreudianExcuse regularly bullied in his youth due to his condition]].

* In ''ComicBook/TheThing: Freakshow'', one of the titular [[TheFreakshow freakshow's]] attractions is Istvan, also known as the Accursed Albino. For some strange reason he's a massive, deformed, drooling brute with shark teeth, who also appears to be intellectually disabled. No explanation for this is ever given, as he's not stated to have any condition other than albinism.

* ''[[Fanfic/TheNowakverse Under the Bridge]]'': Widget was born albino and missing an arm, and was dropped from an overpass by Monterey Jack when she was a baby. She was "reared" by an abusive street mother who called her "Li'l Freako" and used her to get handouts before [=ODing=], after which Widget had to fend for herself on the streets, building her own artificial limb.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' has Lord Shen, a white [[labelnote:*]]It's unclear whether Shen has albinism, leucism or neither. He has the red eyes associated with albinism, but he also has some pigment in the eyespots on his tail. [[/labelnote]] peacock who will stop at nothing to gain power, [[spoiler:even genocide]]. In an early version of his backstory, Shen's parents were ashamed of his colouring and so left him in the care of the Soothsayer, [[FreudianExcuse which fuelled his power-hungry nature]]. This information wasn't included in the film, [[AllThereInTheManual but made its way into the novel and the official website]].

* ''Film/ColdMountain'': Boisie is an albino PsychopathicManchild who takes sadistic glee in torturing and killing people. He gets a {{Nosebleed}} whenever he kills someone, which is apparently due to the actor playing him thinking that [[ArtisticLicenseMedicine albinism causes nosebleeds]], but is all too easy to read as some kind of fetishistic {{Bloodlust}}.

* In Christine's NightmareSequence in ''Film/EndOfDays'', the LaughingMad stranger who raves at her on the subway before [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattering to pieces]] is played by albinistic actor Victor Varnado, whose character is credited solely as the "Albino."

* ''Film/TheHeat'' has an albino DEA agent named Craig Garret who is generally antagonistic towards the protagonists and is even noted as looking "evil as fuck" by the CowboyCop. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he's not TheMole, but he is a misogynistic asshole according to his partner (who turns out to be the villain of the film).]] Mentioning his condition is also a BerserkButton for him and he sees [[EverythingIsRacist prejudice everywhere]], which Mullins ruthlessly exploits.
-->'''Mullins''': Are you okay? Because you look really pale.
-->'''Garret''': [[SuddenlyShouting IT'S A GENETIC CONDITION!]]
-->'''Mullins''': Fucking snow cone.
-->'''Garret''': [[SarcasmMode Oh, I get it! That's a good one, because I'm really white!]]
* One of Creator/ParisHilton's suitors in ''Film/TheHottieAndTheNottie'' is a weird StalkerWithACrush whose albinism is treated as one of the traits making him an AbhorrentAdmirer.

* ''Film/LethalWeapon'' has Mr. Joshua, a PsychoForHire who is the main threat of the film, and whose albinism serves to highlight his sinister nature.

* ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'': The Twins are an extremely [[CreepyTwins creepy]] pair of identical programmes that can turn into intangible, ghostly forms at will.

* ''Series/{{Carnivale}}'': in the episode "Black Blizzard", Gecko shudders at the mention of an albino and says he hates them. Gecko himself is a man with reptilian skin who works in a traveling carnival, which shows how low he considers them.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E19BloodOath Blood Oath]]", Dax teams up with three Klingons from the Original Series to hunt down a Klingon known only as "The Albino", who is shown to use methods that Klingon society regard as particularly dishonorable, killing the sons of the three Klingons with a virus, and trying to lure them into an explosive BoobyTrap instead of the honorable battle they're looking for.
* On ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', Voq, son of none (voq pagh puqloD) is an albino Klingon who is treated as a freak of nature and shunned by the great houses.

* ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'': In ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'', Mark Purayah II and Mark Parchezzi III are both albino due to being [[CloneDegeneration imperfect clones]], created by a flawed version of the procedure that produced Agent 47. The Praetorians from ''VideoGame/HitmanAbsolution'' have a similar appearance, which has led people to speculate that they were created by the same process.

-->'''Andrew''': ''(On being asked if he'll take part in a {{Kimodameshi}} event)'' He’s already so pale, he doesn’t even need a costume to play a ghost, right? That's what you were thinking, weren’t you, ya bastard? I’m just… sitting this one out…

* The Stowaway, one of your party members in ''VideoGame/{{Pyre}}'', is a young albino girl who was cast into [[EldritchLocation the Downside]] [[spoiler:literally just for being different. Her albinism and odd outlook on life (implied to be a result of autism) caused the corrupt nobility of the Commonwealth to deem her an annoying freak and [[EvilIsPetty exile her out of spite]].]]
* ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammer''. Inverted. Lizardmen see albinism as a favorable mark from the Old Ones, and those with the trait, such as Gor-Rok, are believed to be destined for greatness.

* The ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' villain Tombstone is an albino African-American who was regularly bullied in his youth due to his albinism.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}'': Albino blue-tailed chatterravens are usually killed at an early age, while melanistic chatterravens are valued so much that the trait has become highly prevalent within the species despite being recessive. Because of these attitudes, Brighteye has to defend his brother Whitecrown from being killed by Tyr-reet while Whitecrown is still a child.

* ''Film/TenThousandBC'' has a somewhat more positive example of "freakiness," in this case special plot relevance, in the form of a blind sage in the slave camp--played by [[https://www.thevillager.com.na/articles/6522/I-m-the-Jukebox-King-Nakale-ya-Nakale/ Sadrag Nakale]], a UsefulNotes/{{Namibia}}n actor with albinism. On a meta level, the real freaky part is the circumstances under which he's introduced to deliver exposition to our lead: the other slaves drag him out on a stretcher from under the floorboards, and he gives his {{infodump}} in a bizarre mewling whimper.

* In ''Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles'', gnawers (sapient rats that are typically human-sized) with albinism are exceptionally large and aggressive, to the point where a prophecy refers to one as "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Bane]]" and foretells that its birth will enable the gnawers to defeat their human foes. On the other hand the human Underlanders themselves subvert this, as they all appear to have albinism--except for one boy who inherited his Overlander mother's dark hair and green eyes, and even he has translucent skin from living BeneathTheEarth.