History Main / FantasticSlurs

'''[[spoiler:Merkabah:''' ''[If you choose to join him]'' We, who ourselves are defiled by the Filth of civilization, are no exception.

---> '''[[spoiler:Merkabah]]''': All who deny me are Filth. All who will not cooperate are Filth.
---> '''[[spoiler:Merkabah (If you choose to join him)]]''': We, who ourselves are defiled by the Filth of civilization, are no exception.
* In ''VideoGame/StarControlIITheUrQuanMasters'', a conversation with a species of alien gas-giant dwellers ends with the cheerful exchange: "Goodbye, Slylandro gas bags." "Goodbye, human fluid sack!"
** May not actually be slurs, though, as the Captain and the Slylandro were obviously teasing each other with that exchange. The Slylandro in general just seem too ''friendly'' to have slurs against anyone.

* In Creator/ChristopherAnvil's ''Pandora's Planet'', the Centran commander of Earth deliberately encourages his soldiers to call the natives "puff-skulled, hairless, flatnosed lop-tails". Only the last part seems to stick. There is no mention of Earthmen calling the Centrans anything in particular, despite noting their resemblance to lions.

* ''WebVideo/MyLittlePonyTheMentallyAdvancedSeries'': Casual FantasticRacism abounds and with it come the Fantastic Slurs. Most commonly heard is "mudpony" for the AcceptableTarget earth ponies. Also heard are the slurs "bonehead" for the unicorns and "horsefly" for pegasi.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}'': Warmongers, a population of daydreamers who selectively bred themselves to lack their species' gray and yellow markings and only leave stark black-and-white patterns, refer to daydreamers with their normal colorations as "bile-bathers", as to them they look like they're covered in vomit.

* In the 1954 SF story ''Down Among The Dead Men'' by Creator/WilliamTenn, Earth has a great lack of soldiers for a BugWar so dead bodies are permanently reanimated. The protagonist isn't happy about being assigned to lead a squad of these 'zombie' soldiers, but realise the reverse is also true when they start openly discussing which Fantastic Slur he probably uses to describe them. Figuring that the reverse is also true, he breaks the ice by asking what term they use to describe his kind.

* Allen Steele's story "The Death of Captain Future" had "google" as a slur for the genetically-enhanced space people (they have large eyes). Of course, this was before [[Website/{{Google}} "google" meant "web search"]].

* ''Fanfic/AllAmericanGirl'': Ponies are often referred to as "kickstands", "tugs", "geldos", "roadshitters", "Cathyfuckers" by speciesists. Likewise, Ponies who adapt Human behaviors are often called "skingrafts".

** In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Frieza is known for his racial slur against all Saiyans such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSBV0Ez2UnI "MONKEY!"]] Or "FILTHY MONKEYS!" when he's [[VillainousBreakdown truly out of control]].
** He's not the only one since his soldiers and his brother Cooler's men refer to Saiyans as monkeys and apes, In the dub of ''Anime/DragonBallZCoolersRevenge'' Sauzer (TheDragon) reacted to [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide genocide]] of Saiyans by saying "there goes the monkey farm" in a [[FantasticRacism derogatory tone]]. Hell, it even extends outside the space guys as in ''VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse'' Demon God [[BigBad Demigra]] during his VillainousBreakdown will refer to a Saiyan PlayerCharacter as "[[https://youtu.be/tiPqYZ5cx-E?t=301 monkey brute]]". It does [[UnintentionallySympathetic kinda make you feel sorry for the Saiyans]] despite being jerks themselves that everybody in their universe and beyond [[DesignatedVillain treats]] them like dirt.

* ''Fanfic/AndSoWeFight'' has "fecacutis" (roughly "shit skin") as an unfathomably offensive slur for the Shiekah (and to a lesser extent, anyone dark skinned). It is considered so offensive, that academics will refuse to even write it down when translating documents; and a Shiekah is considered honor bounded to ''kill'' someone who uses it against them, and will face no legal repercussions for doing so.

* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/142256/citizen-weevil Citizen Weevil]]'': As FantasticRacism is one of the key themes, there're a lot of slang terms/slurs in reference to the many different species that live in the Six Points, the deprived multi-species district in Lower Manehatthan where the narrator, a middle-aged Changeling immigrant, and his family live. Examples include, but not limited to, "cockroaches" (changelings), "hornkies" and "horn heads" (unicorns), "dirt/mud ponies" (earth ponies) "feather brains" (pegasi), "pastels/pasties" (ponies collectively), and "mutts" (diamond dogs).

* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss: In "Western Energy", an InnocentlyInsensitive young child says out loud about the hospital letting "fire toads" in, an offensive slur for Imps like Blitzo, who is very, ''very'' angry about it. It really doesn't help that Imps are at the bottom of Hell's FantasticCasteSystem and are subject to [[FantasticRacism prejudice from other races]].

** In the alternate universe of Newman's ''Literature/DiogenesClub'', and particularly his ''Drearcliff Grange School'' subseries, "fluke" is the typical slur for Unusuals, i.e. people with inborn or acquired superpowers. Light Fingers, a politically-aware Unusual, has actively attempted to cultivate a corresponding term for Ordinaries (i.e. those ''without'' powers) in the interest of parity, but has yet to come up with a catchy one.

* Most of the human characters in ''Uller Uprising'' by Creator/HBeamPiper refer to Ullerans as "geeks"--except the Kragans, their closest native allies. The Ullerans, in turn, call the humans "sudabitt", the closest they can get to "son of a bitch". Even the Kragans take to calling all-natives-but-Kragans "geek".

* The intelligent [[OurZombiesAreDifferent flesh-eating undead]] in ''Dust'' by Joan Frances Turner call the living "hoos" for "human". There's also "maldie" as a derogatory term for a heavily-embalmed zombie, who are often stereotyped as ditzy and snobbish about their lack of decay. They do, however, view "zombie" as a gross slur when used by humans.

* in ''Literature/ToShapeADragonsBreath'', the Anglish have lumped all the Indigenous people of North Markesland together as "nackies" (after Nack Island) with little to no regard for the various names they use for themselves.

* In Creator/SergeyVolnov's ''Army of the Sun'' trilogy, the formerly-dominant humans are now relegated to second-class citizens after the success of the alien rebellion against the tyrannical rule of the [=EarthStella=] Empire. Once reverently called "Earthers", humans are now derogatorily called "Zems" (from Russian "Zemlya", meaning "Earth").

** In [[Recap/DimensionX41Courtesy episode forty-one]], an [[AudioAdaptation adaptation]] of Creator/CliffardDSimak's "{{Literature/Courtesy}}", Bat Ears Brady continually refers to the Landro natives as "Gimpoes".

* In [[Literature/DivineBloodNovels Divine Blood]], Lady Tinia refers to humans as "monkeys", Hel refers to Naiki as a "deep one", Naiki herself refers to smelling the presence of a "cuckoo" and is reminded that they prefer "changeling" and several people refer to untrained psychics as "akiras". Also, a killer who Mao eliminates in the first chapter is called a "Van Helsing" since he was killing non-humans after learning they existed.

* Mary Gentle's ''Literature/{{Grunts}}'' has elves referred to as "squeakies."

* In the Creator/PoulAnderson - Creator/GordonRDickson ''Literature/{{Hoka}}'' story "Joy in Mudville", a reptilian alien calls the protagonist a "slimeless conformation of boned flesh", provoking him to reflect that nonhumanoid insults are seldom meaningful to humanoids (and presumably vice versa). "It did not offend him at all to be told he was slimeless."

* In ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'' series, [[TheImmune the less than 1% of the global population immune to The Flare virus]] are derisively called "munies".

* The BioPunk ''Literature/MoreauSeries'' by S. Andrew Swann features "Morey", short for the uplifted animal Moreaus, and "Franks", short for the genetically enhanced human Frankensteins. As the protagonist tends to be a [[NobleBigotWithABadge Noble Bigot With A PI Badge]] in a CrapsackWorld, it's never clear if there's a polite term, but the few 'good' people we run into avoid them completely. "Nonhuman" is used by several news agencies, but the moreau protagonists react with scorn to the term.
* In Robert Asprin's ''Literature/MythAdventures'', natives of the dimension of Perv are "Pervects". Anyone referring to them as "Perverts" may expect a dose of percussive education to correct them. There's a reason for this--in later novels, we meet actual "Perverts" on Perv, who personify all of the negative stereotypes of Pervish natives.

* [[HunterOfMonsters Rashel]] refers to vampires as "leeches" and werewolves as "puppies" in ''[[Literature/NightWorld The Chosen]]''.

* In Creator/ChristopherAnvil's Pandora's Planet, the Centran commander of Earth deliberately encourages his soldiers to call the natives "puff-skulled, hairless, flatnosed lop-tails". Only the last part seems to stick. There is no mention of Earthmen calling the Centrans anything in particular, despite noting their resemblance to lions.
* In Creator/MCAHogarth's ''Literature/{{Paradox}}'' series "furry" is insulting to the [[HalfHumanHybrid Pelted]], conversely "skinny" and "devvy" ("devolved") are used on their creators.

* In ''Literature/TheQuantumThief'' the Zoku call their rivals, the Sobornost, as well as anyone else who devotes their life to an abstract ideal "meme zombies", while the Sobornost, who have a massive bone to pick with the Uncertainty Principle, itself, refer to the Zoku as "quantum filth".

* The ''Literature/{{RCN}}'' series adopted a racist term from English--"wog"--with the alteration that it no longer has anything to do with skin color. In the eyes of Cinnabar's spacers, you can be whatever race or ethnicity (including as blond, blue-eyed, and whiter than white as a Nazi's wet dream), but you're still a wog if ''you're not from Cinnabar''.
* In Creator/AlastairReynolds' ''[[Literature/RevelationSpaceSeries Revelation Space]]'' series, Yellowstonian Demarchists call Conjoiners "spiders" and rogue Demarchists, Skyjacks and Ultras "zombies". The "spider" nickname was also used by the Coalition for Neural Purity seen in the chronologically earliest installments of the series. Conjoiners refer to baseline humans as "the retarded".
* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Robot'' novels, the people who live on Earth refer to robots as "boy". There's also the mutual distinction and disdain between Earthers and "Spacers".
* In the ''Literature/RowanOfRin'' series, the people of Rin call the Travellers "slips", after the slip-daisy weed, because of their carefree nature, which is deemed useless by the seroius, hard working people of Rin.
* In the novel series ''Literature/SaveThePearls'', blacks are now the [[PersecutionFlip dominant race]] and have re-named all the races. Whites are called "pearls", Asians are called "Ambers", Latinos are called "Tiger's Eyes" and blacks are called... [[UnfortunateImplications "coals"]]. While whites are supposedly at the bottom of the hierarchy, many critics have noted that their name is the only one that denotes value, beauty, and rarity.

* In the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, the Yuuzhan Vong are repeatedly referred to simply as "Vong" until they get to explain that using just that part of the name implies that the person is without the favor of the gods. Some people go on using it; others begin calling them "scarheads" for their badge-of-honor bodily mutilations. Also worth noting, the ''Franchise/StarWars'' fandom tends to use "Vong" for convenience.

* B.E.M. is also used as an insult by a human de-frosted from stasis in ''Literature/{{Strata}}'' by Creator/TerryPratchett. The insult is so archaic that only one person there, an alien historian, gets what it means, the one other human present is clueless.

* ''{{Literature/Tasakeru}}'' has the slurs "stinktails" for skunks, "taints" for wolfoxes, and "snake", used by the squirrels as a vicious insult.
* In Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium, the Dunlendings call the Rohirrim "[[PeopleOfHairColor straw-heads]]". However, the term later became [[InsultOfEndearment less derogatory]] when relations between the two people started to improve after the [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings War of the Ring]]. Hobbits also call men "big folk", though that's not always meant as an insult.
* Creator/TamoraPierce has fairly generic slurs used against non-white people in her Literature/TortallUniverse (e.g. "sand lice" for [[FantasyCounterpartCulture the Arab-analagous Bazhir]]), and the Literature/CircleOfMagic books introduce the word "''kaq''", which is… confusing. We're told first that it's used by the Tsaw'ha or Traders to refer to non-Traders, that it's very insulting, and that its main connotation is ignorance of the superior Trader way of life. Trader-ness seems to be an ethnic and/or cultural designation rather than a racial one; the only Traders whose races we're told are black, but there's an ambiguous reference to the notion of a white Trader as if it wouldn't be remarkable, and we meet plenty of black people who aren't Traders. So it appears it's more an issue of cultural xenophobia than of racism. The main Trader character, Daja, soon stops using it about the other three protagonists as they become FireForgedFriends, but continues thinking of other non-Traders whom she ''doesn't'' like as kaqs, apparently feeling no obligation to stop thinking along generalized lines--and her non-Trader friends adopt it for similar use against people who piss them off, as if it ''only'' means "ignorant person". So it's likely that it means some variation of "gullible idiot" and that it's use for non-Traders stems from historical attitudes of Trader cultural superiority. Probably the most literal translation would then be "Not one of us and we don't want them."
* The werewolves in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' have called the vampires "leeches" and "bloodsuckers", among others. The vampires tend to use "dog" like a slur as well.

* Mario Acevedo's ''[[VampireDetectiveSeries Felix Gomez]]'' series has "blunt tooth" as a vampire term for humans.

* Gregory Maguire's ''Literature/TheWickedYears'', a DarkerAndEdgier revisionist retelling of Creator/LFrankBaum's ''[[Literature/LandOfOz Oz]]'' books, {{retcon}}s "Winkie" into an insulting term for the inhabitants of the Vinkus (the ''proper'' name for "Winkie Country"). In Maguire's take on the Oz mythos, the Vinkus is reimagined as a tribal society roughly analogous to Africa or the Middle East, and it's shown to suffer from imperialist aggression at the hands of the wealthier regions of Oz; not surprisingly, the people of the Vinkus face casual racism on a regular basis, and the term "Winkie" is tossed around so frequently that most people think it's what they're actually called.
* Literature/TheWiseMansFear gives us "ravel," a slur against the Edema Ruh race to which the protagonist belongs.

* In Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin's ''Literature/TheWordForWorldIsForest'', the human slur for the Athsheans is "creechies".
* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/WorldWar'', the Race quickly takes to calling humans Big Uglies. Humanity responds by coining Lizards to refer to the Race.
* In ''Literature/XandriCorelel'', the [[AbsoluteXenophobe Zechak]] are referred to as "Orcs." It's considered a highly offensive slur, but the Zechak are hated enough that lots of people use it anyway.

Not exactly a ''racial'' slur, but MLP fanfiction occasionally depicts the terms coltcuddler and fillyfooler, fanmade terms that are used in-universe to refer those who aren't straight, as homophobic slurs, or at least vulgar.\\
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There's also a never usually fully written out "[[TWordEuphemism Z-Word]]" used for zebras, serving as an exact equivalent to the n-word. It goes through several depictions, both serious and not-so-serious, and often tends to be spelled near-identically to its real-world counterpart, with the implication that it refers to to a zebra's zig-zagging stripes.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Played with in a sketch about a third ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' sequel painting Lightning as an AdaptationalJerkass, much to actor Creator/OwenWilson's chagrin. He calls Mater "the 'R' word," startling Wilson, but it's actually "rusty," an insult to cars. However, Lightning also spends the next several pages calling Mater the ''real-life'' "R" word.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': "Bonehead" for Minbari among humans, and "Snakehead" as a generic term for non-humans. Interestingly, this seems to be a human thing, as none of the often equally racist aliens bother to come up with these kinds of slurs for humans, or each other.
** Bonehead still has its original meaning, which led to a few awkward situations.
** In the pilot, a Minbari warrior taunts Sinclair by saying "You have a hole in your mind!" -- Delenn later tells Sinclair that this is a repulsive Minbari insult. {{Subverted|Trope}}, however, as it's clear that the Minbari was referencing Sinclair's partial amnesia of the Battle of the Line, and that Delenn [[spoiler:(who is partially responsible for [[LaserGuidedAmnesia wiping Sinclair's memory]])]] isn't being entirely truthful.