History Main / YouAreWhatYouHate

** In Series 12 (Season 38), a partially converted Cyberman known as Ashad seeks to destroy all organic life and have all the Cybermen "ascend to full mechanization," despite being more organic than other Cybermen.

* Emperor Karl Prosek in ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' is rumored to be a magician.

* The general concept behind sanctioned psykers in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', who must wield the energies of the Warp to defend Humanity from, among other things, the creatures of the Warp.
** More importantly, psykers and navigators are needed for FTL travel and communication. The last time FTL travel went down caused the downfall of human civilization straight from golden to dark age during Age of Strife. And that was when the only major opponent of humanity were [[ComicRelief Orks]].
** Emperor is a psyker. Mention this around Ecclesiarchy personnel and you will burn. Literally.
** Adeptus Astartes are [[ProHumanTranshuman pro human transhumans]] in extremely racist/speciest Imperium. Uriel Ventris views this as a noble sacrifice for a cause far greater than himself. [[Literature/HorusHeresy Horus Lupercal]] views it as a proof that once Great Crusade is over, he will be disposed of and forgotten.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' is generally played with every player character as a "Troubleshooter" whose job is to hunt down various types of traitors, including unregistered mutants. Due to unacknowledged malfunctions in the cloning vats, everyone in the setting is a mutant. Bonus irony if they're also a member of the "Anti-Mutant" secret society, the members of which are completely unaware that [[FlockOfWolves there's not a single genetically pure human among them]].
** In a larger example, The Computer vehemently hates [[RedScare Communism]], and considers Communists to be a greater threat than mutants or members of any other secret society (even though the real Communists are [[ForbiddenFruit only around because of the Computer's crackdown]], and [[FutureImperfect have little to no knowledge of actual Communist ideology]]). In most editions of the game, Alpha Complex under the Computer's rule is, for all intents and purposes, a Communist dictatorship.

* ''Film/{{Surrogates}}'' features the Prophet, a man leading a group against the eponymous surrogates. [[spoiler:It turns out that he himself is a surrogate, controlled by the inventions' ''creator'' at that.]]

* As a result of pissing off JackassGenie Puck when he's actually trying to be nice to her, Demona of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' has her wish granted so she doesn't turn to stone during the day. Instead she turns into a human, the thing she despises more than anything.

* [[spoiler:Colin]] is the only character from ''Literature/OutOfPosition'' who despises Dev for being homosexual, whereas everyone else on the Firebirds team has lightened up to him. ''Uncovered'' reveals that [[spoiler:Colin is a closet homosexual who has sex with Argonne and still refuses to accept that he's gay, or that he's [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on his wife]]]].

* In the UltimateUniverse Magneto [[spoiler:and all mutants are actually human beings, who have been genetically altered by an airborne variation of the super-soldier serum.]

* In ''Manga/SoulEater'' [[spoiler: Having spent the series' early arcs rejecting any connection between himself, his father, and bad guys like [[BigBad Asura]] and Eibon, Death the Kid does not react well to the revelation that he and they are the same; [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch/Humanoid Abominations]]]] Even more so when he learns that [[spoiler:Asura is his ''older brother'', since he is also a fragment of Shinigami.]]

* In the UltimateUniverse Magneto [[spoiler:and all mutants are actually human beings, who have been genetically altered by an airborne variation of the super-soldier serum.]]

* Chris Haversam in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' is a human who believes himself to be a ghoul, since he began balding when working as Vault 34's reactor technician. Everyone around him (both human and ghoul) tries to convince him he's human, but he dismisses them as mocking or trying to trick him. And yes, he refers to you as "[[FantasticSlurs smoothskin]]", just like all the actual ghouls.[[note]]Ironically enough, Chris abandoning Vault 34 ensured the remaining people in the Vault would become ghouls themselves, since without him maintaining the reactor a radiation leak went unchecked.[[/note]]

** Peter Griffin starts hating on illegal immigrants only to discover he, himself, was one, [[CriticalResearchFailure or at least the writers' idea of what defined being an illegal immigrant]]. And since he has convinced the brewery to fire illegal immigrants, he was HoistByHisOwnPetard.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', Spinelli despises "The Ashleys" (a group of AlphaBitch-esque girls all named Ashley) yet becomes very defensive when it's pointed out that her own first name is Ashley since she despises the thought of being lumped in with them.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' has an interesting case: Hank Hill, proud Texan that he is, is initially horrified to find out he was actually born in [[FelonyMisdemeanor *gasp*]] NEW YORK! "[[MemeticMutation NEW YORK CITY?!?!]]"

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': The dwarven conspirator's motivation in ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant''. Dwarf women in Ankh-Morpork are increasingly able to admit and show their true gender. As an Uberwald dwarf, [[spoiler:Dee]] cannot, and is forced to pass as male by society. So she plots with werewolves to undermine a symbol of that society.

* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'': Throughout 2017 the Dewclaw family were being harassed by N.O.P.E., an anti-Mixed Species hate group. Lindesfarne, who suffered the brunt of the harassment due to the birth of her Mixed Species baby, had enough and tricked the N.O.P.E. members to spit on her car, which allows her to perform DNA tests. The result is that ''none'' of the members were pure-blooded as they thought to be. This has two effects: one member performs a Heel–FaceTurn and turns in the members who committed felonies, and the info revealed ensures no one in the group will trust each other ever again, leaving them decimated.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Francine is revealed to dislike left-handed people thinking of them as "the devil's minions". It's also revealed that Francine ''herself'' is naturally left-handed and dislikes lefties due to being stuck in the orphanage she was in as a child when using her left hand.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays "The Parting of the Ways"]], the Dalek Emperor created more [[AbsoluteXenophobe Daleks]] out of HumanResources. They consider any mention of them being "half-human" to be "[[AC:Blasphemy!]]", and the Doctor believes that this knowledge has driven them insane.

* The [[MonsterOfTheWeek Killer Of The Week]] on an episode of ''Series/ColdCase'' turned out to be a Jewish (or at least half-Jewish) member of a neo-Nazi group.

* Chris Haversam in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' is a human who believes himself to be a ghoul, despite everyone around him (both human and ghoul) trying to convince him he's human. And yes, he refers to you as "[[FantasticSlurs smoothskin]]", just like all the actual ghouls.[[note]]Ironically enough, Chris had come from Vault 34, abandoning it when he took some minor hair loss as evidence he had become a ghoul - in turn ensuring the remaining people in the Vault would become ghouls themselves, since he was the technician for the Vault's reactor, and him leaving it behind meant a radiation leak went unchecked.[[/note]]
* [[spoiler:Paladin Danse]] in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' subscribes to the Brotherhood's ideology of exterminating Super Mutants, ghouls and synths for the benefit of mankind, not realizing that he himself is a synth. When the truth is discovered, he asks you to put him down, insisting that he be an example rather than an exception, but can be convinced to find a new life outside the Brotherhood instead.

* In ''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokemon Platinum]]'''s Distortion World, Cyrus's StrawNihilist attitude gives way to a ''[[SanitySlippage screaming]] [[VillainousBreakdown tantrum]]'', revealing that he's an uncontrollable MoodSwinger who hates his own passions most of all.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver''. Silver considers Team Rocket a weak nuisance. It's revealed in an event in ''[=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=]'' that [[spoiler:he's Giovanni's son]].

* In the one-shot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11761475/1/Hate Hate]]'', the faunus hating Cardin is secretly a rabbit faunus himself (with a tail that he hides). His parents are human but Cardin's mother had rabbit faunus in her lineage, leading to a faunus child.

* Used in a very unusual way in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''. Goku Black [[spoiler:is a version of Zamasu who used the Super Dragon Balls to trade bodies with Goku before killing him. This is despite Goku being everything Zamasu ''hates'' about mortals like him hanging out with gods like he's their equal, fighting them in the battle, and being immature as well as being extremely powerful. It was his entire meeting with Goku that sent him on his StartOfDarkness. Yet, not only did he steal the body of the mortal he hates the most, but he takes many of his character traits like his need to fight, grow stronger, and be challenged. This gets lampshaded in the FinalBattle, where Vegetto points out to the [[FusionDance Merged Zamasu]] that even if he [[OmnicidalManiac wipes out all life]], Goku will live on forever as part of his body; Zamasu responds that he's fine with this, since Goku will serve as an eternal symbol of the gods' failures and the mortals' arrogance]].

This especially comes into play when [[RaceTropes ethnicity]] or [[QueerAsTropes homosexuality]] is involved. Such a character is likely to [[InternalizedCategorism believe in negative stereotypes about his own group]] ([[IrrationalHatred no matter how irrational]]), and hate himself for it, or live by those stereotypes so they become self-fulfilling prophecies. If FantasticRacism is in play, such as with {{Differently Powered Individual}}s, the person may try to suppress the trait that makes them part of the hated group, or use their power as a weapon against them.

In older shows this sometimes comes up with racist characters who are exposed as being light-skinned African-Americans who are "passing". Depending on the time frame of the media, the result may be either to show that the character should [[BeYourself love himself]] or, in very old media from before 1940 or so, to show that the character is a sneaky liar who wasn't ethical enough to accept his [[ValuesDissonance "natural" place in the order of things]].

* In ''Manga/SamuraiUsagi'' (not to be confused with ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'') a group of samurai-hating/murdering ''ronin'' [[spoiler: all come from samurai families so they know first-hand how horrible samurai can be]]. To their consternation they're matched with the Usagi Dojo, who [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits really clash]] with how they imagine samurai to be.

* Fujimoto in ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'' hates humanity even though he is very much awar the he is a (former?) human being himself. He also at first opposes Ponyo's attraction to Sosuke, even though that situation is very much akin to that of her parents (Granmammare and Fujimoto) when ''they'' first met.

* In the UltimateUniverse Magneto [[spoiler:and all mutants are actually human beings, who have been genetically altered by an airborne variation of the super soldier serum.]]

* Xander Payne from the ''ComicBook/MegaMan'' comic is leader of the anti-robot group Emerald-Spears, but is actually part robot himself. His brother had Xander's eye surgically replaced with a cybernetic implant after Elec Man fried it during Dr. Wily's first world domination attempt.
* In ''[[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor: God of Thunder]]'', the God Butcher, Gorr, lived his life believing gods did not exist, because he and his people suffered through so much tragedy, particularly those who deeply believed in the gods, that he thought there was just no way any one with that level of power would allow this stuff to happen... Then two gods in a grudge match crash land next to him, and he realizes that gods aren't helping people because they're too busy fighting ''each other'', so he kills the remaining god with the other's power. He then dedicated himself to killing all gods across all of time, so that everyone would have to learn to cherish what time they had, and would turn to ''each other'' for help. He does this by basically empowering himself into a god, and waging war on various pantheons. A god he is torturing asks him, if he is so powerful as to be able to do these things, who is more godly than he is? He... Does not react well.

* In the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' story "The Neon Knights", Dredd unmasks the leader of the eponymous robot-hating "Klan", revealing him to be...A CYBORG! "I thought his voice sounded synthetic; like all bigots he HATED HIMSELF and transferred that hatred to the thing he most resembled...Robots!" is Dredd's explanation.

* '''Catbug''' from very odd (Maybe Crackfic) or somewhat infamous (Likely Trollfic) Five Nights at Freddy's fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10780828/1/Bear-got-Diabetes Bear got Diabetes]] have Catbug implies hating himself not being an Catbug put he believes he Furry [[InsaneTrollLogic since he acting like much human as others when Fazbear crew take over Colorado and later some parts of Mexico and most the West coast of United States]] and turn all captured humans somewhat into [[WasOnceAMan titlar Furries]] for everything to make them Furry though Magic, Genetic Engineering and Cybermatics and Cybermatics is only for Mordecal except [[spoiler: it's really Mike Schmidt (The same human, that was captured by Fazbear crew) who turn into that Blue Jay Mordecal by Fazbears crew.]] Put Catbug tries getting attention by making an one of [[spoiler: Kuriva's giant Robot to win the war]].

** After Shen [[spoiler:destroys his family's home]] just to kill Po, Lianne tells him that he's becoming just as extreme as her father, whom he hates with passion.

* In the oneshot, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11761475/1/Hate Hate]]'', the faunus hating Cardin is secretly a rabbit faunus himself (with a tail that he hides). His parents are human but Cardin's mother had rabbit faunus in her lineage, leading to a faunus child.

* Brian from ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' hates Romans only for his mother to reveal that he is half Roman. He hates them because they have invaded his homeland, not because they are Romans, though.

** Enforced in ''Film/XMen1'', where Magneto's crew mutates Senator Kelly, the US government's biggest backer of mutant suppression. Although we don't really get too good a gauge of how he feels about it, since he dies as a result not too long after.

* The movie ''Film/{{Thor}}'' spends much of its arc following the self-destruction of Loki, setting him up for his role as the villain of ''Film/TheAvengers2012''. His racism against Frost Giants clearly has deep roots, but was never a major part of his life until it turned out he was one. Along with being a WellDoneSonGuy who seems honestly to be TheUnfavorite and regularly suffer AllOfTheOtherReindeer, ''and'' with knowing he's actually responsible for Thor's exile and the fact that they're currently at war, '''and''' combined with unexpectedly being temporary king, this violent undermining of his entire identity causes him to go completely insane.
** Insane actions taken include but are not limited to setting up a complex plot to allow him to 'heroically' kill his biological father in person and the attempted destruction of the Frost Giant home world. He attempts suicide at the end, but just comes back crazier.

* Averted in ''Literature/RobotsAndEmpire''. At the beginning, Dr. Mandamus tries to obtain evidence from Gladia that he is not the descendant of Elijah Baley, claiming Amadiro suspects him of being one, and that prevents him from making a career. While given enough evidence, he claims it won't be enough for Amadiro, yet still seems to leave triumphant. Daneel figures out the reason - there was enough evidence to convince ''Mandamus'', so now he can proceed with his plans to destroy Earth without being hindered by the trope.

* ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'': Tobias Brogan, who not only hates magic and its users, but leads the Blood of the Fold, a group intent on killing them all, himself has the gift. It's a secret his mother and sister kept hidden from him all of his life. The protagonist Richard Rahl is clearly able to recognize Brogan has the gift, confusing Brogan greatly during a discussion on defeating insidious evil, and telling him "Be careful the shadow you chase is not the one you cast." Brogan explicitly does not understand what Richard is hinting at. After he finds out, it drives him mad.

-->'''Closing Narration:''' In the past few weeks, Clayton Bigsby has finally accepted that he is a black man. And just three days ago, he filed for divorce from his wife. When asked why, after ''nineteen years'' of marriage, he replied, '''''"[[RefugeInAudacity Because she's a nigger-lover.]]"'''''

** It is not so much as in the books, but in the end of the day Cersei is a philanderer, a drunkard and an incompetent ruler, not unlike her hated late hubby (albeit in a different style and more malicious compared to his apathy).

** Kutner acts pretty hostile towards a group of high school bullies. His co-workers immediately assume he was bullied in high school (as Taub theorizes, being an Indian-American and having had his parents murdered in front of him most likely didn't help his popularity). However at the end of the episode, we see Kutner visiting a former classmate and apologizing to him about bullying him. A rare positive example?

** The fifth season introduces Marcia Langman's husband Marshall. Like her, he's a right-wing Christian fundamentalist horrified by the slightest hint of sexual deviation. He's also very obviously CampGay.

"And he was half Mexican!"\\

* The video for "Sugar, We're Going Down" by Music/FallOutBoy, is about a teenager with antlers, whose girlfriend's dad [[DatingWhatDaddyHates despises the fact she's dating a boy with antlers]]. At the end, dad gets hit by a truck while trying to shoot the kid, and as Antler Boy rushes over to help, it's revealed the dad has deer hooves.

** More importantly, psykers and navigators are the needed for FTL travel and communication. The last time FTL travel went down caused downfall of human civilization straight from golden to dark age during Age of Strife. And that was when the only major opponent of humanity were [[ComicRelief Orks]].

** ''Second Sight'' explicitly states that possessors of the two anti-psychic merits listed are latent psychics who have mental blocks preventing them from accessing their powers, and that this in turn makes them virulently skeptical.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' gives us Bryce Dawkins, Deputy Mayor of Liberty City, notorious for his vitriolic homophobic rants (and advocacy of family values) to appease to his right-wing base... all the while having an affair with Bernie Crane, a famously CampGay fitness trainer [[spoiler:and alter-ego of Florian Cravic, Niko Bellic's former comrade]]. Once their affair is leaked (as a postgame radio news indicates), blowing the closet open for the whole city to see, Dawkins apparently decides to enter rehab until the pressure has dissipated.

* During ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' 9S - an Android - is shown having complete disregard for Machines. He calls them mindless things, incapable of emotions and any evidence showing otherwise, he concludes that they're mimicking human behavior. [[spoiler: One of the reveals that leads to his SanitySlippage is him finding out Machines and Androids were built using the same foundation, and that Androids were made to be the more disposable of the two.]]

** Brian is a liberal dog who disapproves of racism, but instinctively barks at black men due to his upbringing.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Francine is revealed to dislike left-handed people thinking of them as "the devil's minions". It's also revealed that Francine ''herself'' is naturally left-handed and dislikes lefties due to being struck in the orphanage she was in as a child when using her left hand.

** Cartman hates "Gingers" (People with red hair, freckles, and pale skin) and insists they have no soul. As revenge Stan, Kenny, and Kyle draw freckles on him and dye his hair red in the middle of the night. He then hangs out with the gingers and whips them into a genocidal frenzy against everyone else. At a massive rally, they're about to kill everyone who isn't a ginger (starting with the "Daywalker", [[FieryRedhead Kyle]]) only to have Stan, Kyle, and Kenny reveal Cartman's not a ginger. Then he just goes back to ripping on gingers (though while also calming down the riot he just started). [[spoiler: And then in "201" it turns out Cartman's father was also Scott Tenorman's father, making Cartman half-ginger]]. Its also worth noting that Cartman is anti-semitic due to Jewish stereotypes he perceives as true such as Jews being frugal and carrying gold. This is ironic considering Cartman had no issues taking advantage of Walmart deals and ultimately isn't at all above doing absolutely anything for money, from scamming people to eating kilos of gold to smuggle it out of an attraction. He converts to Judaism after a prank seriously backfires and Kyle reluctantly goes to save him.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', Spinelli despises "The Ashleys" (a group of AlphaBitch-esque girls all named Ashley) yet becomes very defensive when it's pointed out that her own first name is Ashley, since she despises the thought of being lumped in with them.