History Main / PersecutionFlip

* PersecutionFlip/FanWorks

Compare JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites, TurnedAgainstTheirMasters, BlackLikeMe, ColorMeBlack, and HumansAreNotTheDominantSpecies. Also compare CycleOfRevenge, which operates on similar "logic" ([[{{Revenge}} punishing those who have hurt you]], [[HeWhoFightsMonsters regardless of the [moral] consequences]]), but typically happens on a smaller scale than entire ethnic groups, religions, etc. and tends to revolve more quickly (with aggressor and victim flip-flopping more often).

* ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'': One storyline has a woman, who is in love with the cosmic-powered supervillain Sphinx, manage to alter reality so that Egypt is a major world power and has colonized [[DifferentStatesOfAmerica America]] (the country is called United States of Assyria in this reality). Blacks are the dominant social group, while whites are treated more or less like blacks in our reality. Consequently, all the superheroes that have gotten their powers through special equipment or scientific accidents are black, including the ComicBook/FantasticFour and ComicBook/TheAvengers, with Nova being the TokenWhite Avenger. The Franchise/XMen and related mutant characters are unchanged though, and in this reality are doubly-oppressed.

** "Cows Taking Over" is a ''{{Franchise/Terminator}}'' spoof, except the BadFuture the time travelers come from is not dominated by machines, but cows (cows became the dominant species after all humans went vegan).

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWsTwvtyOI This]] South African ad shows white people disadvantaged and black people in positions of privilege. Essentially, it's a reverse of Apartheid.

* ''WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa'': Gloria is disappointed when she realizes that the wild hippo Moto-Moto only wants to date her because she is fatter than other female hippos. The message about not reciprocating suitors who are only interested in your looks is clear.

* DownplayedTrope in ''WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa'': Gloria gets the attention of the wild hippo Moto-Moto, but he only likes her because she is fatter than other female hippos. Otherwise the message about not dating people who are only interested in your looks is clear.

* DownplayedTrope in ''WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa'': Gloria gets the attention of the hunk wild hippo Moto-Moto, who only likes her because she is "huge". Otherwise the message about not dating people who are only interested in your looks is clear.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': One of Peter's many [[IdenticalGrandson identical ancestors]] was an African slave, Nate Griffin. The {{flashback}} showing his enslavement reveals that Peter's friends Joe and Quagmire also have identical African ancestors that were friends with Nate and were enslaved and taken to America with him. On the other hand, the remaining friend (TokenBlack Cleveland) appears in the flashback as his identical ''white'' ancestor: the very man who went to Africa and enslaved them.

* ''Creator/ECComics'': In the story "Hate!", an all-American everyman who leads a mob to kill his Jewish neighbors by burning their house down finds out that he was adopted and that his real parents were Jewish. He then is victimized by his Jew-hating former friends.

Compare JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites, TurnedAgainstTheirMasters, BlackLikeMe, and ColorMeBlack. Also compare CycleOfRevenge, which operates on similar "logic" ([[{{Revenge}} punishing those who have hurt you]], [[HeWhoFightsMonsters regardless of the [moral] consequences]]), but typically happens on a smaller scale than entire ethnic groups, religions, etc. and tends to revolve more quickly (with aggressor and victim flip-flopping more often).

* UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} went from being on the receiving end of American and European GunboatDiplomacy for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakumatsu a decade and a half]], to [[UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration rapidly industrializing its economy and military]] until they had the UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks and the European colonial powers [[WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific on the ropes in their Pacific colonies]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (though the first bellwether of Japan's burgeoning power was the UsefulNotes/RussoJapaneseWar several decades earlier). Played with in that this was less out of hostility to Europeans (after all, UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan infamously teamed up with UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and UsefulNotes/FascistItaly) than out of a desire for international power for its own sake; in fact, ''other Asians'' bore the brunt of Japanese colonial brutality. Sino-Japanese relations are another example, with Japan going from tributary status during the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muromachi_period Muromachi period]], to imperialist domination of China that started with the UsefulNotes/FirstSinoJapaneseWar and culminated in the horrifically bloody UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar.

* UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} went from being on the receiving end of American and European GunboatDiplomacy for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakumatsu a decade and a half]], to [[UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration rapidly industrializing its economy and military]] until they had the UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks and the European colonial powers [[WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific on the ropes in their Pacific colonies]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (though the first bellwether of Japan's burgeoning power was the UsefulNotes/RussoJapaneseWar several decades earlier). Played with in that this was less out of hostility to Europeans (after all, UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan infamously teamed up with UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and UsefulNotes/FascistItaly) than out of a desire for international power for its own sake, and ''other Asians'' bore the brunt of Japanese colonial brutality. Sino-Japanese relations are another example, with Japan going from tributary status during the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muromachi_period Muromachi period]], to imperialist domination of China that started with the UsefulNotes/FirstSinoJapaneseWar and culminated in the horrifically bloody UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar.

* UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} went from being on the receiving end of American and European GunboatDiplomacy for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakumatsu a decade and a half]], to [[UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration rapidly industrializing its economy and military]] until they had the UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks and the European colonial powers [[WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific on the ropes in their Pacific colonies]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (though the first bellwether of Japan's burgeoning power was the UsefulNotes/RussoJapaneseWar several decades earlier). Played with in that this was less out of hostility to Europeans (after all, UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan infamously teamed up with UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and UsefulNotes/FascistItaly) than out of a desire for international power for its own sake, and ''other Asians'' bore the brunt of Japanese colonial brutality. Sino-Japanese relations are another example, with Japan going from tributary status during the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muromachi_period Muromachi period]] to imperialist domination of China starting with the UsefulNotes/FirstSinoJapaneseWar and culminating in the horrifically bloody UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar.

* UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} went from being on the receiving end of American and European GunboatDiplomacy for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakumatsu a decade and a half]], to [[UsefulNotes/MeijiRestoration rapidly industrializing its economy and military]] until they had the UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks and the European colonial powers [[WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific on the ropes in their Pacific colonies]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (though the first bellwether of Japan's burgeoning power was the UsefulNotes/RussoJapaneseWar several decades earlier). Played with in that this was less out of hostility to Europeans (after all, UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan infamously teamed up with UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and UsefulNotes/FascistItaly) than out of a desire for international power for its own sake, and ''other Asians'' bore the brunt of Japanese colonial brutality.

* The Republic of Venice, which went on to sack Constantinople and rule several Greek islands and fortresses centuries later, originated as a farflung Byzantine outpost. The Venetian leader's charge (Doge) is etymologically related to ''Dux'' (which also originated "Duke"), the Roman name for a general.
* Jane Goodall's son Grub was born in Gombe and raised there until he was six. Sometimes, he would be placed in a large cage with his toys to keep him safe from the park's free-ranging chimps and baboons.

* 'Creator/ECComics'': In the story "Hate!", an all-American everyman who leads a mob to kill his Jewish neighbors by burning their house down finds out that he was adopted and that his real parents were Jewish. He then is victimized by his Jew-hating former friends.

* In the Creator/ECComics story "Hate!", an all-American everyman who leads a mob to kill his Jewish neighbors by burning their house down finds out that he was adopted and that his real parents were Jewish. He then is victimized by his Jew-hating former friends.
* In the ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' miniseries, Wanda creates a new world through her reality warping powers where mutants are the dominant species and humans are deemed second-class citizens and given the slur "[[FantasticSlurs Sapes]]." Most notably, Magneto and his family rule Genosha as an aristocracy and super-powered individuals like Franchise/SpiderMan and Miss Marvel are only tentatively accepted as equals to mutants.
* In Marvel Comics's ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'' of all things, there is a epic storyline where a woman in love with the cosmic-powered supervillain Sphinx manages to alter reality so that Egypt is a major world power and has colonized [[DifferentStatesOfAmerica America]] (the country is called United States of Assyria in this reality). Blacks are the dominant social group, while whites are treated more or less like blacks in our reality. Consequently, all the superheroes that have gotten their powers through special equipment or scientific accidents are black, including the ComicBook/FantasticFour and ComicBook/TheAvengers, with Nova being the TokenWhite Avenger. The Franchise/XMen and related mutant characters are unchanged though, and in this reality are doubly-oppressed.
* ''ComicBook/{{Jeremiah}}'' had many Native American forming nation-states in post-apocalyptic America, who conducted raids on mostly-Caucasian settlements for slaves and resources.
* One alternate reality seen in an early issue of ''ComicBook/BlackScience'' depicts Native Americans with advanced technology invading and in the process of conquering Europe.

* In Marvel Comics's ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'' of all things, there is a epic storyline where a woman in love with the cosmic-powered supervillain Sphinx manages to alter reality so that Egypt is a major world power and has colonized [[DifferentStatesOfAmerica America]] (the country is called United States of Assyria in this reality). Blacks are the dominant social group, while whites are treated more or less like blacks in our reality. Consequently, all the superheroes that have gotten their powers through special equipment or scientific accidents are black, including the Franchise/FantasticFour and Franchise/TheAvengers, with Nova being the TokenWhite Avenger. The Franchise/XMen and related mutant characters are unchanged though, and in this reality are doubly-oppressed.

** Protestants and Catholics taking turns persecuting each other during the European Wars of Religion (including the UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar) whenever the ruler changed (either through succession, conversion, KlingonPromotion, or conquest). England's history is a prime example: Henry VIII was famous for persecuting Protestants mercilessly until that whole divorce thing, at which point he started persecuting Catholics; when his Catholic daughter Mary became Queen, she persecuted Protestants; and when Mary was succeeded by Elizabeth, she started persecuting Catholics again.

** Hernán Cortés was helped in his conquest of the Aztecs by the Otomis, who had been conquered after a long war 20 years prior by the Aztecs, and particularly by the Tlaxcalans, who were being constantly invaded and on the brink of defeat when the Spanish appeared, ruling only a small territory. Under the Spanish, the Tlaxcalans became the primary occupation force in the Aztec capital and later established colonies all over Mexico, Central America and Texas. Some even took part in the Spanish conquest of the Philippines. Their privileges were unmatched by any other natives under Spanish rule, and their homeland survives today as Mexico's smallest state.

** Averted with post-Apartheid UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica. There was the fear that the new regime would actively persecute white people with violence equal to those used by the Apartheid regime. Nelson Mandela went out of his way to make sure this did not happen and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission underscores just how far his presidency went to try and appease both white and black people.

** Haiti also invaded and annexed the Dominican Republic in 1822. As in the home country, the freed black slaves replaced the whites as dominant class and banned them from owning land. They also confiscated all properties of the Catholic Church and severed relations with the Vatican. The Dominicans later rebelled and secured their independence in 1844. By then, they were so fed up with Haitian black rule that "black" became synonymous with "Haitian" in the country, and black Dominicans would claim to be mixed (''Trigueño'') or "Indian". Nowadays, the Dominican Republic is richer than Haiti and Haitians often live there as illegal immigrants and second-class citizens.

Compare JustTheIntroductionToTheOpposites, TurnedAgainstTheirMasters, BlackLikeMe, and ColorMeBlack.

* Website/DeviantArt artist [[Creator/Rvbomally RvBOMally]] has made several AlternateHistory maps exploring this concept: