History Main / ScrewYouElves

* The ''WebOriginal/ElfslayerChronicles'': What happens when a DM beats players over the head with [[OurElvesAreDifferent beautiful]], [[CantArgueWithElves perfect]] elves (who have lots of gay sex) and [[HumansAreBastards evil, xenophobic, warlike humans]]? One player [[OffTheRails derails the whole thing]] by murdering a missing human prince, framing his elven lover, and getting away with it by being that damn good. In the archived discussion, not only does "Elfslayer" compare the DM's elves to the [[Film/{{Avatar}} Na'avi]] and Creator/ChristopherPaolini's elves, but another poster references this exact trope page. When the DM (and the only player who actually liked the setting) complained, "Elfslayer" pointed out that an "evil, xenophobic, warlike human" like himself would never tolerate his prince shacking up with an elf; on top of that, his mission was to serve the kingdom to the best of his ability, and the relationship becoming public knowledge would damage the kingdom's reputation, so in that case MurderIsTheBestSolution.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant This trope is not pornographic;]] well, ''[[RuleThirtyFour usually]]'' not pornographic. ScrewYouElves also doesn't apply when the elves aren't stuck-up in the first place, or when elves fail at something but no one InUniverse rubs their nose in it.

[[caption-width-right:350:The Thalmor came to prove the supremacy of Mer over Man. The [[PlayerCharacter Last Dragonborn]] had a few [[MakeMeWannaShout strong words]] for them.]]

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* During LetsPlay/TheDarkId's run of ''VideoGame/Drakengard3'', which is a prequel to the series, he for once sees a point with Verdelet.
-->'''Id:''' ...What? Verdelet was a dickhead, but I'm with him on the elf racism. Fuck elves. I've seen enough of those downtrodden orcs get butchered for funsies all the time. Where's the [[VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor Shadow of Mordor]]-esque game where you're an orc assassin making elves' heads explode and punting them down ravines?
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* ''ComicBook/BeastWarsUprising:'' One story ends with a pair of humans being the Elves. After showing up to take a plot device of theirs away, the two Cybertronian presents call them out on humanity's awful treatment of Cybertronians over the centuries (in this continuity, that consists of ludicrously levels of DisproportionateRetribution, attacking all Cybertronians regardless of faction, "sterilizing" entire planets of theirs for the same reason, and hemming them into a small "pemitted" sector by the time the story starts, shooting down anyone who tries leaving). The first calls them spoiled children who've never suffered any real hardship, and the second, Rampage, calls them out on judging all Cybertronians for what happened centuries ago.

* KickTheSonOfABitch or PayEvilUntoEvil, where said ManipulativeBastard is given his medicine (see page image).

->'''The Warden''': Elves have strange powers.\\
'''Sten''': Being easily conquered does not constitute a "power."

* At the end of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}} TRY'', the BigBad (a composite entity of two gods and a nearly immortal dragon) argues via MindProbe how inherently rotten the world is as a result of flaws introduced during its creation, and that the universe essentially needs a controlled reboot to flush out these flaws. As the good guys (mostly horribly guilt-ridden ancient angels, demons, and dragons) begin acquiescing to his criticism, Lina stands up to deliver an epic KirkSummation, declaring that grand cosmic screwups, ancient atrocities, or reincarnation into a better world mean nothing to mortals like her, and how DARE they presume to ignore all the life flourishing across the world as it is today.

* A hearty disdain for elves (and gnomes, albeit for entirely different reasons) is one of the running themes in the ''[=WoW=]'' machinima ''Machinima/OxhornShortShorts'', in which all elves are portrayed as stereotypical hippies.

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* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'':
** The Andalites get quite a bit of this after it turns out they're not quite the benevolent saviors they first appeared to be, especially after it turns out [[spoiler:their big plan regarding the Yeerk invasion of Earth is to let as many Yeerks as possible crowd onto the planet before frying the whole thing.]] And every time the kids came into contact with the Andalites, they would beg for help. The whole time, the Andalites believed that the Animorphs were lying, in order to get special treatment. Naturally, Jake tells the Andalite generals to go stick it up their asses [[DoubleSpeak in the most polite way possible]].
** From #38:
--->'''Jake:''' Andalites are very fast, those snakes are faster. One move from your boys and they will die... Now we stop playing games, you're not the Andalite fleet, and I'm not going to snap a salute and say 'Yes Sir!' We deal as equals. Which, to be honest, is generous of us under the circumstances.\\
'''Gonrod:''' I command here. Am I clear on that?\\
'''Jake:''' No, sir. This is Earth. This is a human planet. We are not the Hork-Bajir, we know [[DestructiveSavior how you 'rescued' them]]. As long as you're on Earth, you'll get along with us. Am I clear on ''that?''
** In #40, Ax shows his species' ugly [[BullyingTheDisabled ableism]] when they meet disabled Andalites. The human Animorphs call him out on it, though he points out that [[{{Hypocrite}} humans are no better most of the time]].
* In the fairy tale "Literature/ChildeRowland", the King of Elfland kidnaps Burd Ellen and puts two of her brothers who come to her rescue into a magic coma. But after Myth/{{Merlin}} has advised the youngest brother Rowland how to evade the elves' baleful magic, the youngster can single-handedly make his way to the Tower of Elfland and defeat the Elf King, using nothing more than brute force with a sword.
* Salvatore's ''DemonWars Saga'' novels: While rangers Elbrayn, Brynn Dharielle, and Ancanadavar (all elven-trained) paint a much more gushing view of the elves in this world, it becomes increasingly apparent to less-indoctrinated individuals, the reader, and even the main elven character that his people's worldview, while not ''evil'', is still at times excessively callous, self-serving, and racist. Hints of the past showed that they used to be far more open and friendly, but when a war wiped most of them out, they became more closed off and self-serving as they are trying to avoid completely dying out. As such, [[PetTheDog with a few exceptions]], they typically don't help humans unless they have something to gain from it.
* Both Silvanesti and Qualinesti elves are called out on their bad things in the ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' novel ''Dragons of the Winter Night''. Too bad they refuse to accept that.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
** Harry Dresden tends to be fairly direct in telling arrogant fae (and anyone else) [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu what he thinks of them]]. Then he blows something up or sets something on fire, generally. This is probably done just to throw them off guard ([[SadClown and take his mind off of the fact that he generally knows exactly how horrible they could make his life, or the end of same]]) as much as anything else, though he just can't seem to help himself sometimes (there are only so many times you can hear the 'what you don't know' speech before you snap).
-->"I DON'T BELIEVE IN FAIRIES!"
** Part of the reason why Harry's bluntness hasn't gotten him killed yet is something known as a Death Curse. If a wizard has the presence of mind to concentrate for a few seconds before he dies, he can pack together all of his magic, including his life force (because why not, he's going to die anyway), and drop a big ol' "SeeYouInHell"-style megaspell on his murderer's head. It's incredibly powerful and almost unstoppable, able to at the very least permanently cripple even a HumanoidAbomination.
** In ''Literature/SkinGame'', Harry flippantly points out to yet another supernatural psychopath that claims to not be afraid of Chicago PD's 13,000 manpower, the hypocrisy of that statement when he admitted to hiding under a veil while going around the city. Really, Mr Butcher's whole series can be seen as this to the supernatural world in general, whenever he points out the pains they go through to hide from humanity as a whole since we've come a long way from having crossbows and longswords--which is proven conclusively in an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome in ''Literature/BattleGround2020'': [[spoiler:Southside Chicagoans crush an entire wing of the Fomorian army ''by themselves'' and Army National Guard helicopters massacre the surviving Fomorians at daybreak]].
* ''Literature/{{Dune}}'':
** At the final confrontation against the Bene Gesserit, a centuries old order claiming to have the moral high ground even as they ruthlessly manipulate people through multiple generations of eugenics, when TheChosenOne they've been trying to create actually arrives they're caught quite off guard when he's disgusted by them and refuses to follow their script.
** The Bene Gesserit consider anyone who cannot pass their test of humanness to be an animal. As this test is "the death-alternative test of human awareness" anyone who takes it and fails is a DEAD animal. They don't use it to decide who's suitable breeding stock (Feyd-Rautha was intended to be the mate of the girl who was supposed to be born in Paul's place, and he's no human by their standards), they use it to decide who's suitable to teach any of their skills to. (Since the test is administered only by Reverend Mothers, who have the whole range of skills, that means that anyone giving the test knows ''precisely'' what they're putting the subject through and does it anyway. This is only the beginning of what they have done in their quest to produce TheChosenOne.)
** Since the Gesserit were blindsided mostly because they actually screwed up the eugenics program (the savior arrived a generation earlier and one branch over from where it was predicted) the backlash is close to universal, since the savior is living proof of their fallibility in addition to some of his superiority resulting from [[spoiler: partially rejecting the Bene Gesserit skills and training, and training as a Mentat instead]].
* Glen Cook's Garrett of his ''Literature/GarrettPI'' series snarks right back when snarked at by anyone, including his [[VitriolicBestBuds best friend]] Morley Dotes (who is actually a half-elf, but let's not get technical...) and his regular adviser the Dead Man (who isn't an elf at all, but is a member of long-lived (sort of) race with a superiority complex definitely fits the bill).
* The Orc Marines of Mary Gentle's ''Literature/{{Grunts}}'' do so literally; ''[[BlackComedyRape "Pass me another elf Sergeant, this one's split!']]''.
** During the later stages of the book, when the Elf King has decided that buying orc guns is a good idea, the training the new Elf Marines receive gives the Orc cadre marines plenty of chances for this.
--->'''Lt. Gilmuriel:''' You don't like elves, do you, orc - I mean, Gunnery Sergeant?\\
'''Gunnery Sergeant Dakashnit:''' Me? Man, I'' love ''elf. Nothing beats roast and basted elf haunch. Unless it's breast of elf with chile peppers. %%it's spelt chile intentionally%%
* If one considers the Caamasi to be subject to Can't Argue With Elves, then the Caamas document crisis, a major plot in Creator/TimothyZahn's ''Literature/HandOfThrawn'' duology, was this trope taken to the extreme. The entire New Republic somehow managed to divide itself into two factions over whether to defend the Bothans or to make them pay reparations (with the Empire ready to capitalize on the inevitable civil war). Meanwhile, the few Caamasi left have their voices drowned out when they try to say, "Stop the fighting." Of course, most of the galaxy WAS using this as an excuse to pursue their own feuds, but still.
* Creator/MercedesLackey and Creator/AndreNorton approach this trope in ''Literature/TheHalfbloodChronicles''.
* In Creator/MCAHogarth's ''Literature/AnHeirToThornsAndSteel'' the human kingdoms banished the elves to a remote island centuries ago because, with few exceptions, elves are complete and utter bastards. They treat their human slaves and magically engineered {{Servant Race}}s as livestock, draining magic from them when their immortality [[spoiler: which the humans inflicted on them to limit their powers]] saps almost all of their own power. They constantly quarrel with one another and think nothing of killing their own family members. The few elves who are not assholes include the King, whose powers require pacifism and tends to be treated as a plaything and resource by the nobles, and the protagonist, who was [[ChangelingTale raised by humans]].
* John Grammaticus to Slau Dha in the ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' novel "Legion":
-->"[[UnusualEuphemism Fug]] you, you uptight Eldar bastard. Piss off and hide in whatever corner of the cosmos you deem safe."
** The sentiment is subverted about 10 seconds later when John realizes that his boss isn't a psychic projection. He's actually standing right in front of him.
* ''In the Company of Ogres'', by A. Lee Martinez has an elf side character who's attractive, adept with conjuring magic--and very overweight, though this doesn't stop her from getting men. The real "screw you" comes with the rank-and-file elves among the platoon, who are basically hothouse flowers who can't remotely compare to other races in matters of physical effort. Their greatest contribution to the final fight comes from the fact that demons love tasty, '''tasty''' elf meat and many get killed when they break off fighting and start eating elf corpses.
* In the ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'', [[EnsembleDarkhorse Murtagh]], who does ''not'' agree with the elf [[CantArgueWithElves worship]] prevalent in the rest of the series.
** The third book has a number of non confrontational Screw You, Elves! Where the main character comes to disagree with certain things he learned form the elves in the previous book (vegetarianism and atheism, respectively).
** Then comes the fourth book, where we find out that for the most part, humans are ''disturbed'' by the elves. Viewing them similarly to the Fae... The creepy Grimm Fae, not the happy Disney Fae. At least one human character mentions that he'd rather fight with Urgals than Elves. And humans generally ''hate'' Urgals.
** There's also Rhunön, an elf introduced in the second book who hates her own race. Or at least what it has become. A big chunk of her introduction scene is her complaining about elves.
*** Since she's [[TheOlderImmortal the oldest elf in the series]][[note]]She was old before the Dragon Riders existed, so at least 2500 years old[[/note]], this is partially a case of WhenIWasYourAge.
** Galbatorix justifies his tyranny by claiming that he is ''protecting'' humanity from the elves' influence and is the only person strong enough to do so. Considering that elvish Riders ruled Alagaësia before Galbatorix took power, [[VillainHasAPoint he has a point]].
* During ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'', the response of all orcs and many humans to elfish posturing is basically to pull on their pointy ears and then kick them in the nuts. Emily, in particular, has many choice words about elves and their culture: "They can’t understand a human’s need for food because starvation can’t kill them. They think we’re stupid barbarians because we can’t spend our lives doing mad science for shits and giggles". She follows up by forcing one such elf into a one-sided bargain.
* The Darhel in Creator/JohnRingo's ''Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata'' initially fall into CantArgueWithElves, being {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, however they are later argued with in an exceedingly violent manner.
* Justified and averted in Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/LordsAndLadies''. The elves cast a glamour to make people think they're wonderful, but if someone [[GlamourFailure breaks through that]] then they're usually downright pissed off. [[ShutUpHannibal Granny Weatherwax at one point tells the Queen of the Elves what she can do with with herself:]]
-->"Go back. You call yourself some kind of goddess, and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you. You're right. I'm older. You've lived longer than me, but I'm older than you. And better 'n' you. And madam, that ain't hard."
* Creator/MercedesLackey's ''[[Literature/TheObsidianTrilogy Obsidian Mountain Trilogy]]'': The elves think they know everything about fighting the endarkened, having done it before. It takes TheChosenOne Kellan to realize that this is all wrong because the endarkened have ''learned'' since then. He has to challenge their general to a duel to the death before they listen. But they do. And a thousand years later, they remember the lesson, and refuse to give the next Chosen One any advice to avoid repeating the mistake.
* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'':
** This is effectively the attitude of the last Númenórean kings, especially [[TheCaligula Ar-Pharazôn the Golden]]. This is coupled with RageAgainstTheHeavens, since his plan for getting what the Elves have, namely immortality, involves invading the home of the Valar, who are effectively the gods of the fantasy world.[[note]]Eru, the supreme god, does not interfere with his creation, and generally lets the Valar do their thing.[[/note]] [[CurbStompBattle The war situation developed not quite to his advantage]], and the plan wouldn't have worked anyway even if they somehow ''had'' succeeded in their conquest, but that's what you get when you take advice from [[BigBad Sauron]].
** Frodo himself (from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''), shortly after meeting elves, gets exasperated at Gildor's CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer. Frodo: "And it is also said, "Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes." An early InvertedTrope, Gildor was not offended and found Frodo's response truly funny; and clarified saying he was still making a decision and didn't want to say anything concrete yet.
* In ''The Sleeping Dragon'' by Johnny Nexus, humans view elves (not without justification) as "smug, superior, [[FantasticRacism speciesist]] bastards" and their fading into the West was just an epic sulk that humans didn't appreciate how wonderful they are. Presto the wizard in particular looks forward to getting in a WizardDuel with an elf and proving that just because they literally invented magic, that doesn't mean nobody else can be as skilled as them.
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
** Karen Traviss' Jedi are supremely overconfident, incompetent, and get killed really, really easily and without a qualm, mostly by Mandalorians, who are superior in every way imaginable. Most of the Jedi who appear in the ''Republic Commando'' series are pointed out as extremely capable, if overreliant upon their powers and bound up by their philosophy. Those Jedi who ARE killed are either 1. betrayed, 2. unarmed and otherwise trapped, or 3. if fought head-on, put up a huge fight and are only taken down with difficulty.
*** HilariousInHindsight as Traviss' portrayal of the Mandalorians quickly began to resemble 'elves' even more so than the Jedi as the series progressed, namely through the use of CantArgueWithElves and turning Mandalore into a MarySuetopia. Then it becomes even more confusing when Maze, one of the less psychotic characters, [[AuthorsSavingThrow calls out]] the Mandalorians for being a bunch of brainwashed psychopaths. Amusingly, in a bit of TakeThat, Troy Denning has Darth Caedus kick their ass easily.
** Now the Mandalorians are subject to this in ''Literature/FateOfTheJedi''. The Jedi [[CurbStompBattle easily curbstomp]] Mandalorian efforts to break into the Temple, and events in the series have essentially shown the galaxy that Mandalorians are evil.
** There is a ''lot'' of anti-Jedi sentiment. Even when Luke is popular, the Jedi are seen as a CorruptChurch and he's seen as unable to keep the Jedi under his control. Given that this is likely the result of Palpatine's smear campaign, this also counts as HeroWithBadPublicity. It's also likely because the Jedi tend to be a lot more forgiving of war crimes when they're perpetrated by other Force Users. Luke gives "Darth Vader was a nice guy at heart" lectures to his students, and later offers similar defenses on behalf of a student who also destroys an entire inhabited planet. Even some of his other students disagree, leading to some impressive examples of an Elf calling out the chief Elf.
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein does this [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]] in ''Literature/StarmanJones'', with centaurs standing in for elves. The entire second half of the novel is a massive TakeThat to the "horse people" part of ''Literature/GulliversTravels'': the characters encounter a horse-man tribe while lost on a distant planet, and it turns out the horse-people see themselves as much more technologically and morally advanced than the humans. They're in tune with the land, they have a complicated hierarchical court system, and they won't have the filthy humans settle on their paradise planet. In true Heinlein fashion, the main characters slaughter them and ''somehow'' come out as moral victors.
** The centaurs enslave the first humans they meet and beat an old member of the herd to death. The conflict quickly turns violent, though off camera, as the centaurs (it's implied) attempted to enslave the whole shipload of humans. Heinlein usually has his planets inhabited, often by intelligent life. And the odds are good that they'll be smarter than humans.
** It could be argued that seeing the horse people as a "take that" of the Houyhnhnms is a bit off the mark, as they were themselves a satire of the stereotypically "perfect" culture.
** By the time Heinlein wrote his stories, a lot of readers and literary critics often missed the satire part which was the point of ''Gulliver's Travels''. Many still do, since most do not understand the 18th century cultural context it was painted in.
* Peter F. Hamilton's Silfen from the ''Starflyer'' sequence and ''Literature/VoidTrilogy'' are basically alien Elves with sandworm maws for mouths. They go the whole hog, magic-style tech, capricious personalities, unintelligible riddles, the lot. Ozzie Fernandez Isaacs has many encounters with the Silfen, and always gets at the very least annoyed with them for being so bloody obtuse.
* Barryarans in ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' have this attitude toward Cetaganda and in some cases most galactics. But especially Cetaganda which once invaded them.
* In Andrzej Sapkowski's ''Literature/TheWitcher'' stories, Geralt mocks the leader of a band of elves [[spoiler:that have tied him up and are about to execute him to keep him from talking. Eventually the elf sets him free and concedes that he is right, after the local goddess condemns him. This is shortly after he breaks the nose of a particularly belligerent elf woman by headbutting her]]. In fact, all human-elf relations are built on this trope. No one gives a damn how elves were bright, educated, sophisticated and great, because, well, they ''were'' and now they are almost extinct. The elves themselves came into conflict with human settlers, but gave ground to the humans, thinking that they would just be content with some territory. Instead, the humans became stronger and kept expanding, and when the elves finally went to full-scale war with the humans, [[HumansAreWarriors the humans crushed them]] and sent them fleeing. By the time of the main storyline in the books, the elves have been reduced to hiding in barren mountains with little food, or became brutal guerilla fighters known as "Scoai'tael" who are little better than bandits. They do manage to carve out their own kingdom of Dol'Blathanna... but only by allying with the human Empire of Nilfgaard, who conquered and granted them the land, and to whom they are now vassals.
** Humans tend to be bastards, but there is still a fair amount of neutral and even decent ones. There is not a single elf in any of shorts stories nor five books long saga that isn't a decadent jerk or just plain monster.
** Cue the parallel world, ruled over by the [[TheFairFolk Aen Elle elves]] who form TheWildHunt, where they rule and treat humans as disposable slaves, along with exploring and conquering other worlds around the multiverse with superior magic and technology. Unlike the humans they didn't outbreed the local population for dominance, they likely killed off all of it, before kidnapping humans from the world of the Aen Seidhe to be their slaves. Unlike the Aen Seidhe who interbred with the humans and lost their lands in the process in conflicts, taught the humans magic, the Aen Elle simply slaughtered all of their enemies and remained powerful, the dominant force of their world and thriving for doing so.
* In Lisa Papademetriou's ''Literature/TheWizardTheWitchAndTwoGirlsFromJersey'', the main characters are annoyed by the snooty Sylvan elves and their ridiculously long-winded poetry. By contrast, the Kiblar elves (basically {{Hobbits}} who are the Sylvan elves' servants) are humble and down-to-earth. The protagonists shame the Sylvan elves into helping them by asking if they're not as brave as the Kiblar elf who is on their quest.

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* ''Series/BabylonFive'': "Now get the hell out of our galaxy! Both of you!"
** Used on several occasions in ''Series/BabylonFive''. The highlights are Delenn shaming the Minbari Grey Council out of their non-interference policy, Sheridan similarly refusing to back down from pestering Kosh until the Vorlons give them a much needed victory against the Shadows, and of course Sheridan telling both the Vorlons and Shadows where they can stick it, ending the war by demonstrating to them that there was simply no point to it anymore now that the races they'd been manipulating had caught on to them.
** Humans have a saying: 'Minbari never tell anyone the whole truth.' Delenn, a Minbari herself, acknowledges that there is some justification for that expression.
** Sheridan's Screw You, Elves! speech to Kosh:
--->'''Sheridan''': Don't turn your back on me. Don't you even try to walk away from me. Just who the hell do you think you are? Wait. I know what you think you are, what you want us to believe. But I don't buy it. For three years now you've been pulling everyone's strings, getting us to do all the work and you haven't done a damn thing but stand there and look cryptic. Well, it's about time you started pulling your own weight around here. I hear you've got a saying, "Understanding is a three-edged sword." Well we've got a saying too. "Put your money where your mouth is."\\
'''Kosh''': Disobedient!\\
'''Sheridan''': Up yours!
** (paraphrased) "Zog? Zog ''what''!? Zog, yes? Zog, no? We're not going anywhere until you give us a proper answer!"
** A ''far'' more mundane (and funny) example: When Delenn is having some ''extremely'' [[GagHaircut embarrassing trouble]] with her [[ItMakesSenseInContext new human-style hair]], Ivanova asks what she's washing it in. Delenn gets her beatific Minbari [[SpaceElves ahh-our-beautiful-meaningful-rituals]] smile on and starts talking about how their daily chemical scrub symbolizes rebirth, and -- Cue Ivanova's "Yeah, no" expression.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The Doctor is not a human, but having sat through a fourteen-week KangarooCourt devoted to stitching him up and having suffered several years of pompous Time Lord arrogance and self-righteousness before that, the Sixth Doctor isn't shy about telling the Time Lords off at the end of "Trial of a Time Lord":
-->'''The Doctor:''' In all my travels through time and space I have battled against evil. Against power-mad conspirators. I should have stayed here! The oldest civilization -- decadent, degenerate and rotten to the core! Power mad conspirators? Daleks, Sontarans, Cybermen -- they're still in the nursery compared to us! Ten million years of absolute power. That's what it takes to be really corrupt.
** [[ColonelBadass Colonel Mace]] of [[BadassArmy UNIT]] shows this strongly during the Sontaran Stratagem. [[TechnicalPacifist The Doctor is being his usual self, insisting that nobody fights and that guns are bad]], and Colonel Mace (who is dealing with a hostile alien invasion) stops listening and gives out an ''epic'' RousingSpeech.
--->'''Colonel Mace''': "Thank you, Doctor. Thank you so much for your lack of faith, but this time I'm not listening." ''He pulls off his gas mask and dons his [[NiceHat badass hat]].''
* [[DeadpanSnarker Jack O'Neill]] has done this a few times in ''Series/StargateSG1'', most often to the Asgard.
-->'''Daniel:''' Well, let's just say that Jack made a reference to Freyr's mother...
** The Asgard must think it's funny. After all, they did name a class of starships after him (the namesake of the class got blowed up, but that was another story).
*** For Space Elves, the Asgard are pretty cool with less advanced races. Thor, at least, is not only ''friendly'' with humans (particularly Jack) but also ''respects'' them. Freyr and some of the others play the trope straighter — [[spoiler:but when the entire race basically wills all its stuff to humanity, you get a sense of how they really felt]].
** The Nox (aka the Bad Hair Elves) are even more irritating in that they NEVER get called on a 'pacifism' that relies entirely on being {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s that can restore the recently dead to life and completely hide their civilization from aggressors; leaving other species to be victimized while they enjoy their virtue and avoid contact with anyone willing to use violence for self-defense against a lethal enemy.
** The Tollan on the other hand got their comeuppance — after demonstrating the shallowness of ''their'' principles.
** The Ancients, despite being a race made almost entirely of gigantic dicks, don't really suffer from this. The few times they are called out, they ignore it (apart from a few exceptions). Then again, they are all either dead or AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.
** In ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Woolsey]] of all people delivers one to a group of un-ascended Ancients who returned to Atlantis after 10,000 years and immediately kick Humanity out on the curb. When the Ancients subtly mock the suggestion of Humanity remaining in the Pegasus Galaxy by pointing out that their recklessness reawoke the Wraith, he politely counters by pointing out that the Ancients were the ones who accidentally ''[[NeglectfulPrecursors created]]'' the Wraith in the first place!
** In early series, the [[TokenHeroicOrc Tok'ra]] are often on the receiving end of this, usually from Jack. He regularly lampshades their tendency to screw over their Human allies by not giving them crucial information, as well as hog some technological prize that [=SG-1=] busted their tails trying to acquire. They may not be evil like the Goa'uld, but they sure have their ''arrogance''.
* The Greek gods tend to consider themselves as better than us lowly humans and as the only thing keeping humanity from dying off. Series/{{Hercules|TheLegendaryJourneys}} and Series/{{Xena|WarriorPrincess}} tend to disagree with that.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVHoloship Holoship]]", we learn the titular Holoships are made out of the most capable members of the Space Corps. Creating a population of immortal, highly intelligent, nigh-indestructible [[ProjectedMan holograms]] out of what can be stated to be amongst the best of humanity also creates a population that [[InsufferableGenius is incredibly arrogant]]. So, when a member beams over and starts making snide and condescending remarks about the crew during his analysis, Lister mocks him back, ultimately culminating with threats backed by a holowhip, a device that can [[OhCrap actually cause pain to holograms.]] The observer decides that discretion is probably the better part of valour in this case and flees back to the Holoship.
* Everyone who isn't an elf thinks this about the elves of ''Series/TheShannaraChronicles''. Rovers[[note]]nomadic bandits[[/note]], in particular, seem to be of the opinion that Elves screwed them first, turning a blind eye to their poverty and homelessness while sitting in their nice comfortable castle (though the guy who expresses this belief is a known ConMan, so maybe take his words with a large amount of salt). All that said, Rover Eretria starts warming up to her traveling companions, Amberle and Wil (an elf princess and an elf/human hybrid, respectively), to the point where, by episode six, she has made romantic passes at both of them.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. [=McCoy=]'s attitude seemed to be very much "Screw you, Vulcans!" And the [[PowerTrio Big Three]] confronting the Vians for their use of torture to test the mettle of "lesser" races in "The Empath".
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Captain Picard is a master at these.
** In "When the Bough Breaks," after an advanced alien race [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers used their technology to steal all the children on the Enterprise,]] then tried to ease their consciences by offering "compensation" for taking them.
--->'''Picard''': (''slowly advancing on the viewscreen'') ''Compensation?'' You have stolen our children away from... away from their classrooms, away from their ''bedrooms,'' and you talk about compensation? You claim to be a civilized world, and yet you have just committed an act of '''UTTER BARBARITY!'''
** In "The Ensigns of Command", the Sheliak, a species that finds human language so inferior they insist on insanely long contracts and treaties that they constantly RulesLawyer in their favor, are demanding that the Federation remove a lost colony from Sheliak space, or they'll annihilate it. Picard finds a loophole to exploit (their treaty allows for the selection of a neutral party as arbiters, and Picard picks the Grizzelas, a species who are currently in hibernation for another six months) and takes much pleasure in leaving the Sheliak on hold for a good minute and a half, the way they've been doing to the ''Enterprise'' throughout the episode, before the Sheliak finally agree to his original offer of a three-week window for evacuation.
** Towards the end of "Allegiance", Picard is unaccepting of his abductors' apology, [[LaserGuidedKarma as he gives them a taste of their own medicine]].
--->'''Alien 1:''' We were merely curious. We meant no harm.\\
'''Alien 2:''' We did not, after all, injure you in any way.\\
'''Picard:''' Captivity ''is'' an injury, regardless of how it's justified. And now that you've had a taste of captivity, perhaps you'll reconsider the morality of inflicting it upon others. (''{{beat}}'') Now get off my ship.
** Picard also slips into this with Q, whenever the latter slips out of BlueAndOrangeMorality and into just being a pompous ass mocking Picard for how much better he is than humanity. For example, in "True Q":
--->'''Picard:''' Your... arrogant pretense at being the moral guardians of the universe strikes me as being hollow, Q. I see no evidence that you're guided by a superior moral code or any code whatsoever. You may be nearly omnipotent, and I don't deny that your... parlor tricks are very impressive. But morality, I don't see it. I don't acknowledge it, Q! I would put human morality against the Q's any day. And perhaps that's the reason that we fascinate you so - because our puny behavior shows you a glimmer of the one thing that evades your omnipotence: a moral center. And if so, I can think of no crueler irony than that you should destroy this young woman, whose only crime is that she's too human.\\
'''Q:''' Jean-Luc... [[LampshadeHanging Sometimes I think the only reason I come here is to listen to]] [[PatrickStewartSpeech these wonderful speeches of yours]].
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** The BaseballEpisode "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" starts out as Screw You Elves, thanks to Sisko's rivalry with his Vulcan opposite number, but winds up more along the lines of Let's Just Laugh at You, Elves. Especially in [=DS9=], many feel that the whole of the Federation is this way, and appreciate when, say, Klingons or Ferengi tell off the Federation's representatives. [[spoiler:Eddington]] in "For the Cause" rips a particularly nasty and bitter example of this trope in the form of a MotiveRant once he is [[TheReveal revealed]] to be with the Maquis, too.
** Since humanity (or the Federation) acts as the "elf" in the 24th century Star Trek universe (that is, after the death of Gene Roddenberry), it sometimes ends up on the wrong end of this trope. One example in "In the Pale Moonlight" where Quark takes a great delight in reminding Sisko that "every man has his price," for resorting to deception and treachery in spite of all the Federation arrogance about superior morality.
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'':
** Vulcans (other than T'Pol) are very arrogant, and Archer repeatedly calls them on it throughout the series. Culminating in a scene in "Home," after Soval (wrongly) blames Archer for the loss of a Vulcan crew and ship from "Impulse":
--->"Maybe that'd crew would still be alive if you'd been a little more helpful. ... You did everything you could to sabotage our mission. I got more help from the Andorians than I ever got from the High Command! ... This planet would be a cloud of dust right now if we listened to you!"
** In a later episode, Soval reveals ''why'' Vulcans act they way they do towards humans. They're ''terrified'' of us. It took Vulcans 2000 years to get from nuclear power to warp drive. [[HumansAdvanceSwiftly Humans did it in a little over a century]]. They're scared to imagine what we'll do next. Which, as it turns out, is found a multi-species Federation and bring some peace and order to our little corner of the Universe. Horrors.
*** To be fair to the Vulcans of this era humans also had the whole Section 31 thing going on in the background. Generally speaking bioweapons and political murders aren't exactly a good thing. Still, screw them and their pompous behavior.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** The angels have plans for Sam and Dean. [[spoiler:Specifically, they've planned for Sam to get himself possessed by Lucifer and kickstart the Apocalypse (with all the civilian casualties implied therein) so that the archangel Michael, while possessing Dean, can finish Lucifer off.]] Dean suggests that they take their plan and shove it. It's worth noting that only [[spoiler: the senior archangels apparently had this plan; they admit they had to appear to be preventing Lucifer's rise to avoid a rebellion by the grunts. Once it has already happened they figure everyone will fall in line in the face of the new threat, regardless of how he arose]].
** A more typical example occurs in "The End", when Dean meets Lucifer in person for the first time:
-->'''Dean''': [[KirkSummation You're not fooling me, you know that?]] With all this "sympathy for the Devil" crap. You're the same thing, only bigger. [[BadassBoast The same kind of evil cockroach I've been squishing my whole life.]] The only difference between them, and you, [[SmugSuper is the size of your ego.]]

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* The sidhe in ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming''. The fact that their return from Arcadia knocked over hundreds of years of commoner fae-established rule and set up a new "divine right of kings" was ''not'' met with loving acceptance. Even after the Accordance War was settled (yes, there was a ''war'' over the sidhe), commoner groups still look at "the pointy-eared freaks" funny, and the game makes it clear that just because a sidhe has ''a'' sense ''of'' rule, that doesn't mean he or she has ''the'' sense ''to'' rule.
* The Fairest Kith in ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' of the ''New World of Darkness''. While the flavor of wonderment changes with individual seemings, the basic premise of the Fairest is that they ''are'' the fairest ones of all, and thus are egoists and manipulators by nature. For many players, a selfless, kind Fairest is actually ''more'' suspicious than one who acts like an arrogant prat.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** In the ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' setting you can quite easily argue with the elves. Some, like the Valaes Tairn, would like to disagree. The only problem is that you often have to beat whichever elf you argue with in single combat to prove you're right; considering the elves of the Valaes Tairn are the meanest cavalry on the planet (even more badass than the [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology dinosaur-riding]] [[{{Hobbits}} halflings]] of the Talenta Plains) it could also be filed under "played straight, with added violence".
** Happens a lot in ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''. Of course, elves ''did'' a lot in their time, but now... Not so much. Not surprising, as most elves there are at best {{noble|Savage}}-but-xenophobic savages and at worst bitter relics of a culture that fell past the decadence stage about a thousand years ago. Myth Drannor was their last attempt to take the situation under control that left fond memories to many non-elves -- [[LegendFadesToMyth most unsavory details being forgotten]]. Some sourcebooks even noted that there are ''elves'' out there that hold to the view that when elves try to do something big, especially with Elven High Magic, it tends to backfire, if not in a way that harms the elves, then at least in [[WellIntentionedExtremist going]] [[DisproportionateRetribution too far]]. Members of other races are generally kept from calling the elves on this by not knowing about [[NeglectfulPrecursors some moments of their history]] -- which led to several UnreliableExpositor in-jokes -- or the elven involvement in them, but at least there are [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch people around to try to remind elven leaders about previous mistakes]].
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': "Screw You, [[TheFairFolk Raksha]]!" is right there in the job description of the Creation-loving Exalts, especially Lunars. On broader scope, this is also an ongoing motif in Creation: to do in people who claim to be better than you. So far, it has been: Screw You [[EldritchAbomination Primordials]], Screw You [[{{Pride}} Solars]], and [[TheBlackDeath Screw You Living Beings]].
* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheReckoning'' and ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' are both entire gamelines of telling the elves just where they can stick their magic.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has toyed with this over the years:
** A "Goblins Vs. Elves" addition has choice quotes like "You don't live in forests, you ''burn'' them!", and most recently, ''Lorwyn'' block. Though initially, the elves are played up as pointy-eared Nazis (that is, they feel that beauty is everything, and nobody uglier than they has any right to live. Oh, and ''everyone else'' is uglier than them.) who never get their comeuppance, when the followup, ''Shadowmoor'' came out, they are taken from green-black to green-white, from ruling the idyllic, sunlit Lorwyn waited on hand and cloven foot ([[OurElvesAreDifferent they have hooves]]), to fending for their very survival as the only non-malevolent race in the darkness of Shadowmoor, fighting off everything that thinks they look tasty, and cutting their own hair.
** Also the Phyrexians [[http://magiccards.info/ps/en/55.html have their flavor of this trope]].
* ''TabletopGame/{{Talislanta}}'' makes a huge deal out of not having any elves, which is probably the first thing most people learn about it. Except for the Ariane, Danuvians, Mandalans, Marukans, Mirin, Muses, Phantasians, and Thaecians, who just happen to be slender and graceful, with pointed ears, [[OurElvesAreDifferent being descendants of mythical empires from the distant past and living in wondrous cities, where they retain their educated and spiritual societies]], but are not elves at all. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Really, they are not.]]
* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'': Vilani were more then a bit [[CantArgueWithElves like this]] despite the fact that they were only TransplantedHumans. But then the Vilani met the Terrans. And the Terrans said Screw You, Elves! by demonstrating [[HumansAreWarriors certain cultural habits]] on PlanetTerra. And after that no one ever said that Earth was an InsignificantLittleBluePlanet ever again.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
** It tends to be less Screw You [[SpaceElves Eldar]] and more "Brother Janus, xenos witch, FiveRoundsRapid". The only reasons the Imperium hasn't wiped out the Eldar yet are 1) being a race of psykers, they can use their foresight to protect themselves, and 2) Eldar [[GenerationShips craftworlds]] are extremely well protected, and whilst it is technically possible to attack and destroy them, (it has been done, by the Invaders Space Marines, though that was a ''very'' small Craftworld) it frequently isn't worth the losses (They've lost ''entire Battlefleets'' trying to take them down. Also, the survivors of that Craftworld got help from others and destroyed the Invaders Fortress-Monastery. They currently have ''12 Marines remaining''). It doesn't help that the Eldar have an unjustified sense of superiority to everyone that isn't one of them along with a NeverMyFault attitude (Like everyone else in the setting), despite the fact that the Eldar opened the [[NegativeSpaceWedgie Eye of Terror]] and caused a Chaos god to come into existence through their own hubris and hedonism (The Craftworld Eldar are the descendants of the Eldar who tried to stop the out-of-control hedonism before leaving, and the Exodites left long before then).
** In their 3rd edition backstory, this was the response of the Necrontyr, a sickly and short-lived race, to the nigh-immortal [[{{Precursors}} Old Ones]]: insane, bitter jealousy that caused a war of such scope and horror that the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Warp]], as a reflection of mortal souls, was transformed into a realm of nightmares. [[RetCon As of the 5th edition]], the war was started because the Necrontyr's leader [[GenghisGambit needed a common enemy to unite them against]].
** The Tau get a weaker version of this, in that their relatively reasonable approach (such as offering surrender, or pulling out of a quagmire) is considered cowardice by the Imperium. Note that this mostly applies to Imperial military, Imperial civilians are often glad to take up the Tau on their offer of better living conditions, medical science, etc. in exchange for joining the Greater Good.
* Present in ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'':
** Though the realms of mankind have often found common cause with Elvenkind against the likes of Chaos, many human characters aren't bothered by the fact that the elves are on their way to extinction, and "then all that remains shall be left for Man."
** In many parts of the Empire exists an "Ear Tax". A penny per pointed ear, to be paid for being an elf. On pain of removal.
** The Dwarfs had their moment four thousand years ago with the War of Vengeance (''[[InsistentTerminology not]]'' the War of [[SillyReasonForWar the Beard]]) against the High Elves, resulting in the death of the elven king, the capture of the Phoenix Crown, and the elves' retreat from their Old World colonies. Shame the conflict also left the dwarfs with a VestigialEmpire... To make things worse, the war was started because of ''dark'' elf raiders masquerading as high elves. The matter could have been solved relatively peacefully, but the then-king of the elves was a jackass who sent the dwarf ambassadors home with their beards shaved off.
** Sometimes this attitude backfires on the non-elves though. In the Storm of Chaos campaign, the Empire were getting wrecked by a huge army of Chaos daemons, when enters Loremaster Teclis[[note]]Arguably the greatest wizard in the world outside of Nagash and a few Slaan[[/note]] who ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome wipes out the entire Chaos daemon army with a single spell]]''. To thank him, the Grand Theogonist calls him a DirtyCoward [[InsaneTrollLogic for using magic]]. Teclis at this point gets annoyed and decides to show humans why you [[DoNotTauntCthulhu shouldn't taunt Cthulhu]] by pissing off and letting the ungrateful humans beat the daemons the old-fashioned and hard way, with steel and gunpowder (he knew they would win but wanted to teach them a lesson).
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* ''ComicBook/BeastWarsUprising:'' One story ends with a pair of humans being the Elves. After showing up to take a plot device of theirs away, the two Cybertronian presents call them out on humanity's awful treatment of Cybertronians over the centuries (in this continuity, that consists of ludicrously levels of DisproportionateRetribution, attacking all Cybertronians regardless of faction, "sterilizing" entire planets of theirs for the same reason, and hemming them into a small "pemitted" sector by the time the story starts, shooting down anyone who tries leaving). The first calls them spoiled children who've never suffered any real hardship, and the second, Rampage, calls them out on judging all Cybertronians for what happened centuries ago.
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* A hearty disdain for elves (and gnomes, albeit for entirely different reasons) is one of the running themes in the ''[=WoW=]'' machinima ''Machinima/OxhornShortShorts'', in which all elves are portrayed as stereotypical hippies.
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* Creator/MercedesLackey's ''[[Literature/TheObsidianTrilogy Obsidian Mountain Trilogy]]'': The elves think they know everything about fighting the endarkened, having done it before. It takes TheChosenOne Kellan to realize that this is all wrong because the endarkened have ''learned'' since then. He has to challenge their general to a duel to the death before they listen. But they do. And a thousand years later, they remember the lesson, and refuse to give the next Chosen One any advice to avoid repeating the mistake.

* In the fairy tale "Literature/ChildeRowland", the King of Elfland kidnaps Burd Ellen and puts two of her brothers who come to her rescue into a magic coma. But after Myth/{{Merlin}} has advised the youngest brother Rowland how to evade the elves' baleful magic, the youngster can single-handedly make his way to the Tower of Elfland and defeat the Elf King, using nothing more than brute force with a sword.
* Barryarans in ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' have this attitude toward Cetaganda and in some cases most galactics. But especially Cetaganda which once invaded them.
* In Creator/MCAHogarth's ''Literature/AnHeirToThornsAndSteel'' the human kingdoms banished the elves to a remote island centuries ago because, with few exceptions, elves are complete and utter bastards. They treat their human slaves and magically engineered {{Servant Race}}s as livestock, draining magic from them when their immortality [[spoiler: which the humans inflicted on them to limit their powers]] saps almost all of their own power. They constantly quarrel with one another and think nothing of killing their own family members. The few elves who are not assholes include the King, whose powers require pacifism and tends to be treated as a plaything and resource by the nobles, and the protagonist, who was [[ChangelingTale raised by humans.]]
* During ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'', the response of all orcs and many humans to elfish posturing is basically to pull on their pointy ears and then kick them in the nuts. Emily, in particular, has many choice words about elves and their culture: "They can’t understand a human’s need for food because starvation can’t kill them. They think we’re stupid barbarians because we can’t spend our lives doing mad science for shits and giggles". She follows up by forcing one such elf into a one-sided bargain.
* In ''The Sleeping Dragon'' by Johnny Nexus, humans view elves (not without justification) as "smug, superior, [[FantasticRacism speciesist]] bastards" and their fading into the West was just an epic sulk that humans didn't appreciate how wonderful they are. Presto the wizard in particular looks forward to getting in a WizardDuel with an elf and proving that just because they literally invented magic, that doesn't mean nobody else can be as skilled as them.
* ''In the Company of Ogres'', by A. Lee Martinez has an elf side character who's attractive, adept with conjuring magic--and very overweight, though this doesn't stop her from getting men. The real "screw you" comes with the rank-and-file elves among the platoon, who are basically hothouse flowers who can't remotely compare to other races in matters of physical effort. Their greatest contribution to the final fight comes from the fact that demons love tasty, '''tasty''' elf meat and many get killed when they break off fighting and start eating elf corpses.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Captain Picard is a master at these.
** In "When the Bough Breaks," after an advanced alien race [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers used their technology to steal all the children on the Enterprise,]] then tried to ease their consciences by offering "compensation" for taking them.
--->'''Picard''': (''slowly advancing on the viewscreen'') ''Compensation?'' You have stolen our children away from... away from their classrooms, away from their ''bedrooms,'' and you talk about compensation? You claim to be a civilized world, and yet you have just committed an act of '''UTTER BARBARITY!'''
** In "The Ensigns of Command", the Sheliak, a species that finds human language so inferior they insist on insanely long contracts and treaties that they constantly RulesLawyer in their favor, are demanding that the Federation remove a lost colony from Sheliak space, or they'll annihilate it. Picard finds a loophole to exploit (their treaty allows for the selection of a neutral party as arbiters, and Picard picks the Grizzelas, a species who are currently in hibernation for another six months) and takes much pleasure in leaving the Sheliak on hold for a good minute and a half, the way they've been doing to the ''Enterprise'' throughout the episode, before the Sheliak finally agree to his original offer of a three-week window for evacuation.
** Towards the end of "Allegiance", Picard is unaccepting of his abductors' apology, [[LaserGuidedKarma as he gives them a taste of their own medicine]].
--->'''Alien 1:''' We were merely curious. We meant no harm.
--->'''Alien 2:''' We did not, after all, injure you in any way.
--->'''Picard:''' Captivity ''is'' an injury, regardless of how it's justified. And now that you've had a taste of captivity, perhaps you'll reconsider the morality of inflicting it upon others. (''{{beat}}'') Now get off my ship.
** Picard also slips into this with Q, whenever the latter slips out of BlueAndOrangeMorality and into just being a pompous ass mocking Picard for how much better he is than humanity. For example, in "True Q":
--->'''Picard:''' Your... arrogant pretense at being the moral guardians of the universe strikes me as being hollow, Q. I see no evidence that you're guided by a superior moral code or any code whatsoever. You may be nearly omnipotent, and I don't deny that your... parlor tricks are very impressive. But morality, I don't see it. I don't acknowledge it, Q! I would put human morality against the Q's any day. And perhaps that's the reason that we fascinate you so - because our puny behavior shows you a glimmer of the one thing that evades your omnipotence: a moral center. And if so, I can think of no crueler irony than that you should destroy this young woman, whose only crime is that she's too human.
--->'''Q:''' Jean-Luc... [[LampshadeHanging Sometimes I think the only reason I come here is to listen to]] [[PatrickStewartSpeech these wonderful speeches of yours.]]

--->'''Sheridan''': Don't turn your back on me. Don't you even try to walk away from me. Just who the hell do you think you are? Wait. I know what you think you are, what you want us to believe. But I don't buy it. For three years now you've been pulling everyone's strings, getting us to do all the work and you haven't done a damn thing but stand there and look cryptic. Well, it's about time you started pulling your own weight around here. I hear you've got a saying, "Understanding is a three-edged sword." Well we've got a saying too. "Put your money where your mouth is."
--->'''Kosh''': Disobedient!
--->'''Sheridan''': Up yours!

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. [=McCoy=]'s attitude seemed to be very much "Screw you, Vulcans!" And the [[PowerTrio Big Three]] confronting the Vians for their use of torture to test the mettle of "lesser" races in "The Empath".
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** The BaseballEpisode "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" starts out as Screw You Elves, thanks to Sisko's rivalry with his Vulcan opposite number, but winds up more along the lines of Let's Just Laugh at You, Elves. Especially in [=DS9=], many feel that the whole of the Federation is this way, and appreciate when, say, Klingons or Ferengi tell off the Federation's representatives. [[spoiler:Eddington]] in "For the Cause" rips a particularly nasty and bitter example of this trope in the form of a MotiveRant once he is [[TheReveal revealed]] to be with the Maquis, too.
** Since humanity (or the Federation) acts as the "elf" in the 24th century Star Trek universe (that is, after the death of Gene Roddenberry), it sometimes ends up on the wrong end of this trope. One example in "In the Pale Moonlight" where Quark takes a great delight in reminding Sisko that "every man has his price," for resorting to deception and treachery in spite of all the Federation arrogance about superior morality.
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'':
** Vulcans (other than T'Pol) are very arrogant, and Archer repeatedly calls them on it throughout the series. Culminating in a scene in "Home," after Soval (wrongly) blames Archer for the loss of a Vulcan crew and ship from "Impulse":
--->"Maybe that'd crew would still be alive if you'd been a little more helpful. ... You did everything you could to sabotage our mission. I got more help from the Andorians than I ever got from the High Command! ... This planet would be a cloud of dust right now if we listened to you!"
** In a later episode, Soval reveals ''why'' Vulcans act they way they do towards humans. They're ''terrified'' of us. It took Vulcans 2000 years to get from nuclear power to warp drive. [[HumansAdvanceSwiftly Humans did it in a little over a century]]. They're scared to imagine what we'll do next. Which, as it turns out, is found a multi-species Federation and bring some peace and order to our little corner of the Universe. Horrors.
*** To be fair to the Vulcans of this era humans also had the whole Section 31 thing going on in the background. Generally speaking bioweapons and political murders aren't exactly a good thing. Still, screw them and their pompous behavior.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** The angels have plans for Sam and Dean. [[spoiler:Specifically, they've planned for Sam to get himself possessed by Lucifer and kickstart the Apocalypse (with all the civilian casualties implied therein) so that the archangel Michael, while possessing Dean, can finish Lucifer off.]] Dean suggests that they take their plan and shove it. It's worth noting that only [[spoiler: the senior archangels apparently had this plan; they admit they had to appear to be preventing Lucifer's rise to avoid a rebellion by the grunts. Once it has already happened they figure everyone will fall in line in the face of the new threat, regardless of how he arose]].
** A more typical example occurs in "The End", when Dean meets Lucifer in person for the first time:
-->'''Dean''': [[KirkSummation You're not fooling me, you know that?]] With all this "sympathy for the Devil" crap. You're the same thing, only bigger. [[BadassBoast The same kind of evil cockroach I've been squishing my whole life.]] The only difference between them, and you, [[SmugSuper is the size of your ego.]]
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVHoloship Holoship]]", we learn the titular Holoships are made out of the most capable members of the Space Corps. Creating a population of immortal, highly intelligent, nigh-indestructible [[ProjectedMan holograms]] out of what can be stated to be amongst the best of humanity also creates a population that [[InsufferableGenius is incredibly arrogant]]. So, when a member beams over and starts making snide and condescending remarks about the crew during his analysis, Lister mocks him back, ultimately culminating with threats backed by a holowhip, a device that can [[OhCrap actually cause pain to holograms.]] The observer decides that discretion is probably the better part of valour in this case and flees back to the Holoship.

* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheReckoning'' and ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' are both entire gamelines of telling the elves just where they can stick their magic.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Talislanta}}'' makes a huge deal out of not having any elves, which is probably the first thing most people learn about it. Except for the Ariane, Danuvians, Mandalans, Marukans, Mirin, Muses, Phantasians, and Thaecians, who just happen to be slender and graceful, with pointed ears, [[OurElvesAreDifferent being descendants of mythical empires from the distant past and living in wondrous cities, where they retain their educated and spiritual societies]], but are not elves at all. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Really, they are not.]]
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has toyed with this over the years:
** A "Goblins Vs. Elves" addition has choice quotes like "You don't live in forests, you ''burn'' them!", and most recently, ''Lorwyn'' block. Though initially, the elves are played up as pointy-eared Nazis (that is, they feel that beauty is everything, and nobody uglier than they has any right to live. Oh, and ''everyone else'' is uglier than them.) who never get their comeuppance, when the followup, ''Shadowmoor'' came out, they are taken from green-black to green-white, from ruling the idyllic, sunlit Lorwyn waited on hand and cloven foot ([[OurElvesAreDifferent they have hooves]]), to fending for their very survival as the only non-malevolent race in the darkness of Shadowmoor, fighting off everything that thinks they look tasty, and cutting their own hair.
** Also the Phyrexians [[http://magiccards.info/ps/en/55.html have their flavor of this trope.]]
* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'': Vilani were more then a bit [[CantArgueWithElves like this]] despite the fact that they were only TransplantedHumans. But then the Vilani met the Terrans. And the Terrans said Screw You, Elves! by demonstrating [[HumansAreWarriors certain cultural habits]] on PlanetTerra. And after that no one ever said that Earth was an InsignificantLittleBluePlanet ever again.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': "Screw You, [[TheFairFolk Raksha]]!" is right there in the job description of the Creation-loving Exalts, especially Lunars. On broader scope, this is also an ongoing motif in Creation: to do in people who claim to be better than you. So far, it has been: Screw You [[EldritchAbomination Primordials]], Screw You [[{{Pride}} Solars]], and [[TheBlackDeath Screw You Living Beings]].

* In ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'', this attitude is copped by the entire [[TheEmpire Souballo Empire]] and there is a lot of racial tension on the main continent because of this.
* ''Webcomic/FriendshipIsDragons'' has two examples so far. The Red Dragon's attempt at a [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]] about ponies' hypocrisy is interrupted by Dash attacking; however, the head of the Diamond Dogs delivers a blistering rant to Rarity about the stupid, smug po-nies.
* ''Barbie the Barbarienne'' reveals humanity did this about a millennia or so ago to the elves who thought we were just big stupid short-lived oafs ripe for the conquering and got magically stranded on a deserted island for trying to do so. They still haven't learned a damn thing since then, but they're so simultaneously [[SmugSnake arrogant]] and [[IncompetenceInc incompetent]] that they best they've done since then is [[GoneHorriblyRight breed a god-level Elf-Imp hybrid more dangerous to them than the rest of the world]] and MindControl one PirateGirl that ended up on the same island.
* ''Webcomic/GuildedAge'': While supposed an ancient, powerful and all advanced civilization, the Sky Elves where easily cowed by [[AxCrazy Frigg]] after she had enough of their pretentiousness. Even Syr'Nj told them that it would be better to get in a good relationship with Gastonia before... [[UnusualEuphemism they get diplomatic.]]
* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'', [[HigherTechSpecies Nemesites]] tend to act condescending to humans, even [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Voluptua]] who's probably the nicest of them. Jean has no patience with this and is always quick with a sarcastic retort.
* ''Webcomic/DaughterOfTheLilies'': Historically, elves thought that orcs were "stupid" enough that their homelands would be an easy target for invasion. Some elves are still [[http://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/814 quite sore]] about the resulting military defeat.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Tara has had it with Voltaire once it becomes evident he's been manipulating her so she drops the respectful demeanour she had toward him and threatens him into leaving.

* The punchline of [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12730648/#12730737 this copy-pasta]]. [[spoiler: It's also on the ColonyDrop page.]]
* [[https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mgYTtV3rWV4J:https://terra-arcanum.com/forums/index.php%3Fthreads/elven-arrogance-quoted.17067/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=pl&client=firefox-b-is-oem1 This speech]]. From an Orc, no less.

* The dwarves from ''LetsPlay/{{Bravemule}}'', a ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' LetsPlay, tend to refer to everything bad (or simply non-dwarven) as "elf", even though no real elf has shown up in the story so far.
* The ''WebOriginal/ElfslayerChronicles'': What happens when a DM beats players over the head with [[OurElvesAreDifferent beautiful]], [[CantArgueWithElves perfect]] elves (who have lots of gay sex) and [[HumansAreBastards evil, xenophobic, warlike humans]]? One player [[OffTheRails derails the whole thing]] by murdering a missing human prince, framing his elven lover, and getting away with it by being that damn good. In the archived discussion, not only does "Elfslayer" compare the DM's elves to the [[Film/{{Avatar}} Na'avi]] and Creator/ChristopherPaolini's elves, but another poster references this exact trope page. When the DM (and the only player who actually liked the setting) complained, "Elfslayer" pointed out that an "evil, xenophobic, warlike human" like himself would never tolerate his prince shacking up with an elf; on top of that, his mission was to serve the kingdom to the best of his ability, and the relationship becoming public knowledge would damage the kingdom's reputation, so in that case MurderIsTheBestSolution.