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* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': Lindon is an "unsouled," someone with no affinity for the [[SupernaturalMartialArts sacred arts]]. Since the sacred arts are used for everything, this means that he is completely useless to the clan. He is told, repeatedly, that if someone were to murder him the clan would have to apologize ''to his murderers'' because by killing him they cost the clan nothing. This also means that everyone completely refuses to acknowledge his actual contributions; when he risks his life collecting a rare spirit fruit, his parents take it as obvious that he won't "waste" any of it on himself (thankfully his sister agrees to share), and when he wins fights in a tournament, which normally would earn the clan respect, everyone is offended by an unsouled competing and his clan patriarch goes out of his way to punish him. Nearly everyone from outside his culture, despite coming from very harsh AsskickingLeadsToLeadership cultures themselves, find his treatment terrible. And then, on top of all that, Lindon discovers that his "disability" is so minor that outsiders don't even consider it worth mentioning; he has a small magical deficiency that takes a bit of extra training or medicine to make up for. That's it. His entire situation is like a culture declaring someone who is far-sighted should never be allowed to read.
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* In ''VideoGame/SinsOfASolarEmpir'', the Advent treats people who are unable to receive telepathy, whom they ironically refer to as the "Silent Ones", as social pariahs.

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* In ''VideoGame/SinsOfASolarEmpir'', ''VideoGame/SinsOfASolarEmpire'', the Advent treats people who are unable to receive telepathy, whom they ironically refer to as the "Silent Ones", as social pariahs.
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* In "VideoGame/SinsOfASolarEmpire", the Advent treats people who are unable to receive telepathy, whom they ironically refer to as the "Silent Ones", as social pariahs.

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* In "VideoGame/SinsOfASolarEmpire", ''VideoGame/SinsOfASolarEmpir'', the Advent treats people who are unable to receive telepathy, whom they ironically refer to as the "Silent Ones", as social pariahs.
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* ''Manga/BlackClover'': [[EveryoneIsASuper All humans have Mana to varying degrees]], with those who have a higher natural reserve of Mana being regarded as the best-of-the-best and those with low amounts (or none, as with Asta) are seen as subhuman and relegated to a life of misery, [[FantasticCasteSystem with a family's Mana quality determining their social status]]. This even extends to in those families, with Noelle and Finral among others being seen as black sheep for their relatively low magic power. The nobles openly despise those with low Mana and resent the Clover Kingdom's Wizard King Julius for [[TheGoodKing daring to treat them as human beings]].

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* ''Manga/BlackClover'': [[EveryoneIsASuper All humans have Mana to varying degrees]], with those who have a higher natural reserve of Mana being regarded as the best-of-the-best and those with low amounts (or none, as with Asta) are seen as subhuman and relegated to a life of misery, [[FantasticCasteSystem with a family's Mana quality determining their social status]]. This even extends to in into those families, with Noelle and Finral among others being seen as black sheep for their relatively low magic power. The nobles openly despise those with low Mana and resent the Clover Kingdom's Wizard King Julius for [[TheGoodKing daring to treat them as human beings]].

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** In the crossover fic ''Fanfic/MyDriverAcademia'', the discrimination against the quirkless is so bad that very few Quirkless reach high-school age, much less adulthood. Quirkless are forced to wear red shoes unless they are rich enough to afford otherwise, and all build up [[FeelNoPain exceptional pain tolerance]] due to being beaten so much. Izuku in particular barely feels levels of pain that make [[LivingWeapon Blades]] flinch. There are also unique slurs against the quirkless like "baseline", and quite a few people in the story are openly racist. The fact that the Quirkless have an easier time harmonizing with Blades that Quirked people is nooted InUniverse to be deliciously ironic.

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** In the crossover fic ''Fanfic/MyDriverAcademia'', the discrimination against the quirkless Quirkless is so bad that very few Quirkless reach high-school age, much less adulthood. Quirkless are forced to wear red shoes unless they are rich enough to afford otherwise, and all build up [[FeelNoPain exceptional pain tolerance]] due to being beaten so much. Izuku in particular barely feels levels of pain that make [[LivingWeapon Blades]] flinch. There are also unique slurs against the quirkless Quirkless like "baseline", and quite a few people in the story are openly racist. The fact that the Quirkless have an easier time harmonizing with Blades that Quirked people is nooted InUniverse to be deliciously ironic.



** ''Fanfic/WhatItMeansToBeAHero'': The FandomSpecificPlot of Quirkless discrimination is subverted -- ableism against Quirkless is both uncommon and illegal, so the fact that Izuku has been dealing with this ''daily'' is a sign that something is very, very wrong. [[spoiler:Turns out his entire school district was founded by the SuperSupremacist Meta Liberation Army to indoctrinate youths to their ideology. Izuku, as a Quirkless, was the school's punching bag because all the staff were part of an ableist cult]].

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** ''Fanfic/TheScorpionJar'': The Quirkless Protection laws in Japan aren't worth the paper they're written on; many non-hero jobs illegally require applicants to have a Quirk. As a result, many Quirkless graduates have to move to other countries where the protection laws are actually ''enforced'', contributing to Japan's declining population.
** ''Fanfic/{{Statistic}}'': Toshinori goes undercover at [[SuckySchool Aldera]] as a Quirkless teacher. Katsuki and most of the students immediately decide that his Quirklessness means he's not worth listening to, his coworkers dismiss and demean him, and turn a blind eye towards all the {{Barbaric Bully}}ing going on while smugly insisting that [[CassandraTruth nobody will ever believe him]].
** ''Fanfic/WhatItMeansToBeAHero'': The FandomSpecificPlot of Quirkless discrimination is subverted -- ableism against Quirkless is both uncommon and illegal, so the fact that Izuku has been dealing with this ''daily'' is a sign that something is very, very wrong. [[spoiler:Turns out his entire school district was founded by the SuperSupremacist Meta Liberation Army to indoctrinate youths to their ideology. Izuku, as a Quirkless, was the school's punching bag because all the staff were part of an ableist cult]].cult.]]
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** ''Fanfic/{{Anyone}}'' shows the discrimination against the quirkless to go far beyond just bullied. The quirkless are denied job opportunities at every level, and most of them commit suicide. This is despite public use of quirks being illegal. At one point a family who suspects their daughter may be quirkless asks Izuku what to do, and he tells them that while a lack of quirk won't affect her ''capabilities'', it's best if they fake her having a quirk that can't be proven and blame it on a distant relative, because the discrimination is that bad. It's to the point that an organization that fights for the rights of mutant quirks (another target of FantasticRacism) had to be told to fight or the quirkless too, with one member not even knowing they're a thing. All Might notes that the situation was much better in his youth.


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** In the crossover fic ''Fanfic/MyDriverAcademia'', the discrimination against the quirkless is so bad that very few Quirkless reach high-school age, much less adulthood. Quirkless are forced to wear red shoes unless they are rich enough to afford otherwise, and all build up [[FeelNoPain exceptional pain tolerance]] due to being beaten so much. Izuku in particular barely feels levels of pain that make [[LivingWeapon Blades]] flinch. There are also unique slurs against the quirkless like "baseline", and quite a few people in the story are openly racist. The fact that the Quirkless have an easier time harmonizing with Blades that Quirked people is nooted InUniverse to be deliciously ironic.
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* ''Manga/BlackClover'': [[EveryoneIsASuper All humans have Mana to varying degrees]], with those who have a higher natural reserve of Mana being regarded as the best-of-the-best and those with low amounts (or none, as with Asta) are seen as subhuman and relegated to a life of misery, [[FantasticCasteSystem with a family's Mana quality determining their social status]]. This even extends to in those families, with Noelle and Finral among others being seen as black sheep for their relatively low magic power. The nobles openly despise those with low Mana and resent the Clover Kingdom's Wizard King Julius for [[TheGoodKing daring to treat them as human beings]].

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