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| 7 | ->''"Who's more racist: black people or white people? Black people! You know why? Because black people hate black people, too! Everything white people don't like about black people, black people '''really''' don't like about black people."'' |
| 8 | -->-- '''Creator/ChrisRock''' |
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| 10 | Alice is a wizard, an UnSorcerer, a superhero mutant, [[{{Muggle}} a person without superpowers]], a homosexual, a ''hetero''sexual, a [[BondageIsBad sadomasochist]], [[ASinisterClue left-handed]], or whatever. Whatever such category of people it is she belongs to, it makes her hate herself. And while the trait itself might not be destructive, her [[IrrationalHatred irrational]] self-hatred ''makes'' it destructive. It might even cause her to actually harm herself or others. |
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| 12 | The trait is always something the character considers herself to ''be'', not something she's considering herself to believe in: if it's her beliefs that get scorned but she keeps her faith in them, she will see the scorners as bad instead of seeing herself as bad. Let's say she eventually gets DrivenToSuicide: if it is out of self-hatred then it is this trope, but if it is because she can't stand the ignorance and narrow-mindedness of other people then it is a variant of TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth. |
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| 14 | "Categorism" is a catch-all word for racism, sexism, homophobia, and all such phenomena where individuals are grouped for some arbitrary reason or another -- negative stereotypes, prejudice, strict norms, and/or entitlement for the normative group. As a trope, internalized categorism covers real social categories as well as fictional ones, such as mutants with superpowers. |
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| 16 | The self-hatred of internalized categorism may cause the character to become a BoomerangBigot. However, a boomerang bigot does not ''necessarily'' suffer from any such self-hatred: The character might be too shallow for such emotions or might side with the oppressors for any number of reasons that leave room for feeling good about oneself: {{Greed}}, UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome, even delusions of grandeur. For example, let's say that a certain African-American man believes that black people are lazy criminals and rapists. If he doesn't live like that but attributes it to denying his "true nature", then he's a boomerang bigot. If he doesn't try to get a real job because he's "just a Negro" and/or commits criminal offenses, saying, "[[ImAManICantHelpIt I'm a Negro, I can't help it]]", then he's a case of Internalized Racism (assuming he honestly believes that and it's not just an excuse). |
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| 18 | Although this typically relates to a character's long-term personality development, a rapid-onset version may occur in response to a case of TomatoInTheMirror. |
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| 20 | Of course, if a hero is plagued with this psychological problem, they may overcome it and learn some needed self-esteem. |
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| 22 | Compare CategoryTraitor, AggressiveCategorism, IJustWantToBeNormal, CondescendingCompassion and ThenLetMeBeEvil. Contrast IAmWhatIAm. |
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| 24 | An inversion of this trope is TransNature if the person is serious enough to wish to be different or 'normal' through any means. |
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| 26 | For other tropes relating to categorism, see StereotypeReactionGag and StopBeingStereotypical. |
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| 28 | !!Specific kinds that have their own tropes: |
| 29 | [[index]] |
| 30 | * BastardAngst: Those born out of wedlock hate themselves for their illegitimacy. |
| 31 | * BecomeARealBoy: A nonhuman character wishes they were human, thinking that their nonhuman status doesn't make them "real". |
| 32 | * CloneAngst: Clones feel that their lives mean less since they are copies of another person. |
| 33 | * CulturalCringe: Someone is embarrassed by their home nation or culture and sees it as inferior to others. |
| 34 | * HalfBreedAngst: A character angsts over their mixed ancestry. |
| 35 | * ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: Internalized fear of sexuality, preventing the character from acting out romantically and/or sexually. |
| 36 | * SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Internalized hatred of sexual desire, acting out in a self-destructive or abusive manner. |
| 37 | * WhiteGuilt: A member of a historically advantaged and/or oppressive group feels like they must apologize for it. |
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| 40 | !!Specific kinds that are Administrivia/{{Internal Subtrope}}s: |
| 41 | * Internalized Homophobia: Gays who hate themselves and/or believe they have to do destructive things like having lots of unsafe sex with strangers because they have been taught that "that's how gay people are". For the non-internalized version, see HeteronormativeCrusader. See also ArmouredClosetGay. |
| 42 | * Internalized Sexism: Women or men hating themselves simply for being born into a certain gender, or deny themselves everything that doesn't fit into a very narrow gender role. (This hatred is about a belief that the gender is inferior or evil or "supposed to behave" in a very limited way, not about being UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} and actually desiring to be another sex.) AllMenArePerverts or AllWomenAreLustful might be used as excuses; the former may also overlap with ImAManICantHelpIt. For the non-internalized version, see HeManWomanHater and DoesNotLikeMen. See also FemaleMisogynist. |
| 43 | * Internalized Transphobia: Transgender individuals who hate themselves and/or believe they are inferior and broken because they are transgender. May also overlap with Internalized Sexism in the case of transgender women which is referred to as transmisogyny. |
| 44 | * Internalized Racism: People hating themselves for their genetic ancestry or ethnicity, or reduce themselves to racial stereotypes. For the non-internalized version, see RacistGrandma. |
| 45 | * Internalized Mutiephobia: Super-powered mutants who hate themselves... or go "Hey, society considers us evil. So I guess we are. Let's just [[ThenLetMeBeEvil accept our role as a bad race]] and call ourselves ''[[ComicBook/XMen Brotherhood of Evil Mutants]]''". (In the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] comics, this group was evil, period. It was later {{retcon}}ned into having suffered from Internalized Categorism and/or having chosen their name ironically.) For the non-internalized version, see FantasticRacism. |
| 46 | * Internalized Paraphobia: Self-hating fetishists, sadomasochists et cetera. For the non-internalized version, see HeteronormativeCrusader. With the social norms being arbitrary, paraphobia can apply to mainstream heterosexuality as well: ''Any'' mainstream relationship is "deviant" when the norm is LieBackAndThinkOfEngland. For the not-so-internalized version of this kind of paraphobia, see SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny. |
| 47 | * Internalized Misanthropy: Basically, MisanthropeSupreme on cocaine. This character hates humanity so much that they hate themselves too for being part of that race. Of course, this only applies if the misanthrope in question is also human. Obviously a form of BoomerangBigot. Of course, a non-human variation of this would be a monster that hates other monsters of its own kind or an alien that hates other aliens of its own race. Basically, anything that hates its own race so much that it hates itself too. |
| 48 | * Normopathy: People who hate themselves for being different from others in any way, and thus hide any skills or talents that might make them stand out from the crowd. Psychologically and narratively, there's not much difference between Internalized Categorism and Normopathy, that's why it's an Administrivia/InternalSubtrope here. Philosophically, however, it's quite a big difference -- Normopathy condemns talent and power and individuality ''as such'' rather than specific groups. For the non-internalized version of this, see TallPoppySyndrome. |
| 49 | * Internalized Ableism: Someone may have a mental illness or disability and hate themselves for it. They may try to [[ThrowingOffTheDisability "cure" themselves]] or isolate themselves from other people out of fear of being cast aside by friends or of hurting them because of their illness. For some, the diagnosis has the opposite effect, encouraging them to continue their behavior because they can use the diagnosis as an excuse for it. |
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| 51 | !!Examples: |
| 52 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 54 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 55 | * This is a major part of the drama in ''Manga/{{Beastars}}''. Carnivores like Legosi view themselves as barely-restrained killing machines and envy Herbivores for their gentleness and lack of predatory urges. Herbivores like Haru and Louis, meanwhile, view themselves as inherently weak and vulnerable and often envy Carnivores for their natural physical strength. |
| 56 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Ryuuken Ishida is a Quincy who loathes Quincies to the point of ending up estranged from his Quincy-supporting father and son. As a BlueBlood teenager, he was under enormous pressure to marry another BlueBlood in an effort to save the nearly extinct Quincy future. Tragedy destroyed any chance of that future unfolding and, although the events were not his fault, he was left shattered by his inability to solve the problem. [[spoiler:Another tragedy killed his wife and has left his son's life in danger ever since as the culprits (Quincies) are still at large. The only thing Ryuuken seems to hate more than Quincies is himself.]] |
| 57 | * Mizuho from ''Manga/DandelionAmongLilies'' has a lot of internalized homophobia, which eventually causes a rift in her relationship. Her girlfriend Ena has no similar issue with her sexuality and doesn't understand why Mizuho is so secretive about their relationship. |
| 58 | * In ''Manga/KotouraSan'', by high school age, [[BlessedWithSuck Haruka]] has heard enough "YouMonster" insults for being a {{telepath|y}} that she herself came to believe she is actually a monster. |
| 59 | * In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', many of the girls who become [[MagicalGirlWarrior Puella Magi]] [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman stop considering themselves as human]] [[spoiler:after learning that they have actually become a sentient TransformationTrinket controlling a [[SoullessShell lifeless body]]]], becoming self-hating or suicidal. [[spoiler:They're closer to ghosts possessing their own bodies but their MissionControl who is the only individual they seem to communicate with would prefer they simply despair.]] |
| 60 | * In ''Manga/ASilentVoice'', [[spoiler:Shouko]] experiences internalized [[spoiler:ableism]], as she feels that her [[spoiler:deafness]] has dragged down and hurt others and that everyone would be better off without her, eventually, causing her to be DrivenToSuicide. She's {{interrupted|Suicide}}, however. Her character arc has her learning to deal with this internalized [[spoiler:ableism]]. |
| 61 | * Tooru Mutsuki from ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' is attracted to a male character but is uncomfortable with it, thinking that it makes him female. This internalized angst also has to do with his AmbiguousGenderIdentity; he's introduced as a transgender male but his identity gets muddled up as the manga goes on and he loses his sense of self. He starts referring to himself with various different pronouns as his MaskOfSanity slips. |
| 62 | * ''Anime/TweenyWitches'': Due to the traditionalism and eugenic racism of the witches, Lennon views his mixed heritage as what makes him worthless. He resents his mother for supposedly abandoning the family out of shame and believes that humans would reject him even though the only humans in his life (his father and half-sister) have treated him with nothing but love. His internalized racism contrasts him with the pride of the wizards in the magical tradition that the military dictatorship of the warlocks deems inferior. |
| 63 | * Subverted in ''Anime/YokaiWatch''. GossipEvolution makes other yo-kai believe that Whisper hates yo-kai, despite being one himself. |
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| 66 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 67 | * ComicBook/AmericanBornChinese: One of the major themes of the story is internalized racism and self-acceptance. Near the end of the story, [[spoiler:it is revealed that Danny is actually Gene Wang and that Chin-Kee is the Monkey King in a costume, and he is following "Danny" in order to remind him of his Chinese heritage. This symbolizes how no matter how hard Gene Wang tries to be "Danny" aka white, he will always have those stereotypes follow him.]] |
| 68 | * In ''ComicBook/BitchyButch'', the heroine learned in her teens that she's a horrible person, and took it to heart. As an adult, she doesn't believe in that stuff anymore, but it's obvious that she still has a lot of self-hatred inside her and that her aggressive attitude is partly an overcompensation for this. |
| 69 | * In ''Cinderella's Sister'', Cinderella is the antagonist -- perfectly sweet and kind, but it's all passive-aggressive SugaryMalice -- at least in the eyes of the angsty protagonist, the "evil" stepsister. Cinderella's most heinous weapon is her ability to teach her sister about not being docile enough, not feminine enough, et cetera, causing her to suffer a massive dose of internalized sexism. |
| 70 | * Much of ''ComicBook/TheFeelingPrinceCharlesHad'' is about women learning to hate themselves for being the gender that society considers less valuable. |
| 71 | * ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': |
| 72 | ** It is a social stigma to be a {{mutant|s}}. That includes anyone who develops superpowers naturally (rather than gaining them through an accident, experiment, etc.). One issue of ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' has a boy hanging himself in shame of being able to create beautiful sculptures of light. |
| 73 | ** The obscure ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' villain Supercharger is a particularly {{anvilicious}} case: he gained his powers in an accident that killed his scientist father and subsequently concluded that all superhumans bring pain and destruction to normal people, becoming a murderous supervillain specifically to intensify existing anti-superhuman prejudice. |
| 74 | * ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' has a particularly disturbing case of Normopathy, Rayne of the [[Comicbook/{{Metamorpho}} metamorphae]]; a woman who has several superpowers including immortality, invulnerability, and shapeshifting. She spends her days locked in her home, feeling sorry for herself for not being normal. As she claims that life is hell, Death tells her that she's actually making her own hell. |
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| 76 | |
| 77 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 78 | * ''Fanfic/BaitAndSwitchSTO'': Recurring character Rachel Connor is a Starfleet MACO who was raised on Earth to believe that genetic augments are dangerous, courtesy of the Eugenics Wars in Earth's pre-Federation past. In the present day, she was genetically augmented into a SuperSoldier by Section 31, and a significant component of her character arc deals with her efforts to overcome her self-hate for this. |
| 79 | * In ''Fanfic/BloomMogatrat'', [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange Max Caulfield]] is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} trans girl]] who has a lot of insecurities, mainly around sex. At first she's convinced that no one would ever find her attractive and has given up on ever having a romantic relationship. Even after starting one, she starts worrying that her lesbian girlfriend will leave her as soon as she has a chance to be with a "real girl". |
| 80 | * ''Fanfic/AChokerAndAScalpel'' expands upon the childhood self-hatred Black Canary is implied to have had in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''. Like in canon, she went several years in complete silence after she accidentally deafened her fellow classmates using her "Canary scream". At age nine Dinah also tried to make herself mute by cutting out her vocal cords. It didn't work and she would have likely died if her mother hadn't found her. |
| 81 | * In ''Fanfic/ColdNights'', Yomi starts her relationship with Tomo having a lot of insecurities about her sexuality. She's afraid of being judged and teased for being lesbian. |
| 82 | * In ''Fanfic/CravingTheSky'', Weiss is deeply self-loathing due to being born a Faunus, but still being raised on a diet of her father's [[FantasticRacism anti-Faunus prejudices]]. Not helped by the fact that since she's now a member of the group her father hates (and assumed to be a bastard), her father also heaps a great deal of emotional abuse on top of that. |
| 83 | * In the ''Fanfic/DoctorInTheUnderworld'' series, the Doctor speculates that Viktor was subject to this, as a being of Viktor's prejudices wouldn't have liked to be reminded that he wasn't a pure-born vampire like Marcus even if he made every effort to hide this fact from the general populace. |
| 84 | * In ''Fanfic/FutureShock'', Susan Vasquez is absolutely scathing towards new hire Cameron Chase, who claims to hate people with powers while having telekinesis herself, asking if being a self-hating gay person was too trendy. Mildly subverted when Chase explains that she doesn't actually hate the powers themselves, but the way most people with them get involved in the superhero or supervillain scene with no thought given to the little people. |
| 85 | * In ''Fanfic/GoldEyesToRed'', Alphonse is half-Ishvalan and feels discomfort about his Ishvalan traits, such as his red eyes. |
| 86 | * ''Fanfic/HonokasBizarreAdventure'': |
| 87 | ** Despite growing up in a relatively happy childhood, Hanayo Koizumi has internalized BastardAngst, stemming not just from being the result of her parents' TeenPregnancy but the fact that said pregnancy led to the end of her mother's school idol career. |
| 88 | ** Even with the support of her parents and [[spoiler:Hanayo]], [[spoiler:Rin Hoshizora]] is plagued with internal TransTribulation, viewing herself as a "fake girl" despite evidence to the contrary. She worries that if her secret was exposed, [[spoiler:µ's reputation as a growing idol unit will be irreversible damaged]]. |
| 89 | * In ''Fanfic/TheLongRoad2015'', Hiccup is completely horrified when he understands he's crushing on his male friend Jack. Courtesy of being raised in the hypermasculine Norse culture, Hiccup's only context for a sexual relationship between two males is ''rape'', and he feels ashamed and disgusted by himself for lusting after someone who doesn't deserve this kind of treatment. |
| 90 | * In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', due to the FantasticRacism present in the setting and his own massive GuiltComplex, Izuku is constantly thinking of himself as an "alien", "monster" and something that shouldn't be on Earth. This is in spite of the fact that he is, for all intents and purposes, not much different from 90 percent of people on the planet who also have superpowers, the only difference being that he's not from Earth. |
| 91 | -->'''Izuku:''' I don't have a Quirk, I don't have the Metagene, I can't use magic, I didn't fall in a vat of toxic waste. My powers aren't anything that belong on Earth. ''I'm'' not anything that belongs on Earth. |
| 92 | * ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'': |
| 93 | ** Blake suffers from some internalized FantasticRacism. Due to her violent criminal past as a White Fang member, she feels that she really is an "animal" like people say Faunus are. |
| 94 | ** Weiss' mother Willow blames herself for [[spoiler:her daughter's mental illness]], despite [[spoiler:her therapist]] insisting it's more complicated than that. Willow is [[spoiler:schizophrenic]] and her daughter Weiss has the similar [[spoiler:schizoaffective disorder]]. |
| 95 | * ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'' has Suguha Kirigaya, who suffers from internalized sexism. In this treatment, she's a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak who enjoys kendo and abusing her older brother Kazuto... but she secretly plays a VR game about fairies where she roleplays as a DeliberatelyDistressedDamsel, and is more concerned that her brother might learn about the time she made her [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend not-boyfriend]] some cupcakes than about what they get up to in the school supply closet. After Yui interacts with her, she quickly pegs Suguha as someone who hates her own femininity as something shameful, and who blames Kazuto for why she feels that way. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that when Kazuto dropped out of kendo back when they were children, Suguha took up the slack, enduring their sexist grandfather's efforts to make the training as difficult as possible because he only ever wanted to train Kazuto. This forced Suguha to "man up" in her own words, in hopes of luring Kazuto back to the sport, but instead he retreated into video games, making Suguha resent them and him.]] |
| 96 | * ''Fanfic/TimeToDisinfect'': One of the fic's tags on [=AO3=] is Internalized Ableism. Mari seems to harshly judge herself for being autistic, with a voice in the back of her head criticizing her whenever she fails to act "normal". This caused her to develop [[ThePerfectionist perfectionist tendencies]], because she's convinced her disability makes her difficult to be around and she's terrified of being abandoned if she can't "do things right". It's strongly implied that she picked up these beliefs from [[AbusiveParents her mother]]. |
| 97 | * Jayfeather in ''Fanfic/WarriorsThePowerOfThreeRewriteAU'' suffers from a lot of internalized ableism. He was born blind and he struggles with feelings of inadequacy. He frequently feels that he can't be a warrior because of his disability or that his peers pity him. |
| 98 | * ''Fanfic/YouAreMine'': Frollo tries to raise Agnes to hate "gypsies" because they're evil and sinful. Agnes herself is Romani, which Frollo uses against her. As proof of his beliefs, he told her that her [[ParentalAbandonment mother abandoned her]] on [[DoorstopBaby the steps of Notre Dame]] (when in reality Frollo killed her mother after she tried to escape him). |
| 99 | [[/folder]] |
| 100 | |
| 101 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 102 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'' has this as a central internal conflict for the title character who has internalized everyone's abuse of him being half-wolf. When he learns to embrace his wolf nature with a mighty howl, it is a glorious moment. |
| 103 | * Elsa from ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' believes she's cursed for having snow/ice powers and that must hide herself away from everyone lest she hurt them. This self-hatred was brought on by an accident her sister was involved in when they were playing as children. |
| 104 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'': Frollo raised Quasimodo to think that "gypsies" are inherently sinful, while Quasimodo himself is one. |
| 105 | [[/folder]] |
| 106 | |
| 107 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 108 | * ''Film/TheBeliever'' is a character study of the inner conflict a Jewish man feels when he decides to [[BoomerangBigot become a fanatical Neo-Nazi]]. |
| 109 | * ''Film/BladeRunner2049'': Blade Runner K firmly believes that his generation of replicants Nexus-9 are as totally obedient and loyal as the advertising says. [[spoiler:It's only when he realizes that he's Deckard and Rachel's child that he begins disobeying orders. Except it turns out he wasn't their child, just another mass-produced replicant, showing that he always had the potential of free will all along.]] |
| 110 | * In ''Film/DjangoUnchained'', Stephen turns black people against other blacks and kisses up to his white masters. |
| 111 | * In ''Film/FemalePerversions'', Eve struggles with this throughout the entire movie. As the work page quote indicates, the whole thing is about the devastating effects of having grown up as a girl/woman, being pushed into a destructive gender role. Not restricted to gender alone, it's also about trying to come to terms with one's power and sexuality. |
| 112 | * In ''Film/HumanNature'', the protagonist has fur. She hates herself for it, shaving her entire body every morning (except her head, of course), and punishing herself by choosing a man who is utterly disgusted by female bodily hair. |
| 113 | * ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': |
| 114 | ** ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008'': [[TheSmartGuy Bruce Banner]] considers the Hulk to be a monster because he's, you know, a giant green rage monster that's killed a lot of people. |
| 115 | ** Loki was raised in an atmosphere of profound racism against Frost Giants, so finding out that he actually ''is'' one at an already incredibly stressful point in his life in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' leads to him [[GoMadFromTheRevelation cracking up]]. In ''Film/TheAvengers2012'', Loki shows signs of [[PsychologicalProjection projecting]] ''heavily'' onto Banner vis-a-vis the concept of embracing one's own monstrosity. Points for S.H.I.E.L.D. detaining him in their prefab Hulk cage. |
| 116 | * In ''Film/{{Nymphomaniac}}'', Seligman suggests this as an explanation for why Joe's life has been so shitty -- that she has internalized our culture's misogyny and hatred of sexuality. |
| 117 | * Much of the drama in ''Film/{{Secretary}}'' revolves around Edward's internal conflict. He's a sexual sadist who thinks that BDSM is dirty and immoral. This makes him very unfair to himself as well as to his submissive [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny who he blames for tempting him]]. [[spoiler:Lee eventually manage to snap him out of it.]] |
| 118 | * In ''Film/TheSMJudge'', Magda initially hated herself for being a masochist, ruining her own life as well as making her husband miserable. This turns around early in the movie, but the character had already wasted decades of her life when the story begins. |
| 119 | * Jefferson from ''Film/TheSymbolOfTheUnconquered'' is a biracial man who hates black people, his own mother included. He's ashamed of his ethnicity and [[HidingYourHeritage passes as white]]. |
| 120 | * ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' starts with a little Angel who tries to cut off his own wings (and maybe he did that quite often) in his desperation to be normal. Later, his father tries to help him get "cured" of having white wings to fly with. [[spoiler:Angel changes his mind at the last minute, however, and later uses his {{flight}} to save his father's life.]] |
| 121 | [[/folder]] |
| 122 | |
| 123 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 124 | * Chamille of ''Literature/AlderaminOnTheSky'' is third princess of the Katvarna Empire. She was sent to a hostile nation as a political hostage for several years, where she was subjected to psychological abuse that has left her with severe issues, most notably her intense ''hatred'' of the imperial bloodline. This hatred extends to herself and she has at times tried to bleed out her "tainted blood". |
| 125 | * ''Literature/TheBlackMagicianTrilogy'': After a disastrous first relationship in school, Dannyl internalized his home country's homophobia to such an extent that he subconsciously uses his magic to suppress his own sexuality. As an adult, he doesn't even realize that he's gay until he's in the company of his ClosetKey while his {{Mana}} is completely depleted. |
| 126 | * ''Literature/BoyfriendMaterial'': In the second book, a topic of fights between Luc and Oliver ends up being about Oliver's discomfort with typical LGBT spaces and iconography, which to Luc is a safe haven. This culminates in Luc accusing Oliver of having some form of internalized homophobia. Oliver eventually concedes that he will never be able to fully determine why he doesn't feel totally comfortable with a kind of space meant to include him, and whether that comes from his personal tastes, his discomfort with the commercialization of said iconography, or being raised by homophobic parents who saw that as a negative thing, but that he will most likely just continue to dislike it, and Luc learns to be at peace with that and that is simply not Oliver's scene or aesthetic. |
| 127 | * Seigi from ''Literature/TheCaseFilesOfJewelerRichard'' hates himself because he believes as a male domestic abuse survivor, he is destined to become one himself. Richard calls him out on this belief and points out that he wouldn't say that about other abuse survivors. |
| 128 | * ''Literature/EndersGame'': Ender deals with this after Battle School, hating himself for what he was -- a child military genius [[spoiler:who wiped out most of an alien race]] -- and emphatically not wanting to continue being that person. As an adult, he becomes TheAtoner, hiding his identity while traveling the galaxy and trying to create peace and understanding. |
| 129 | * The titular superhumans in ''Literature/{{Exhuman}}'' are literally unstoppable for a short period after getting their powers. America's answer to this problem was a systematic indoctrination and brainwashing campaign, from school safety drills to nursery rhymes, with the aim to convince people that if they ever turn Exhuman, they should give themselves up. Those few that do become Exhuman but don't die have a lifetime of brainwashing to cope with. |
| 130 | * One of Park Sheridan's defining character traits in Literature/EleanorAndPark is how he hates being Asian because he feels like it makes him emasculated and stand out from the majority white population in Omaha. He just casually accepts whenever his peers make racist comments towards him, and he is jealous of Josh, his younger brother, because he is white-passing. At one point, he has a conversation with Eleanor about how he doesn't believe there are any attractive Asian men. He never gets over his self-hatred even at the end of the novel, and the fact that his mother assimilated herself doesn't help at all either. |
| 131 | * "Literature/HarrisonBergeron": Harrison's father is unwilling to cheat on his handicap bag (meant to hobble anyone stronger than average) because if he feels free cheating, everyone else might as well and then we're back in the Dark Ages with everyone competing. |
| 132 | * The ''Literature/HarryPotter'' franchise features several examples of half-blood death eaters who are hell-bent on destroying {{muggles}} and muggleborns. Voldemort himself is the prime example, but also Snape, who took on the name "Half-Blood Prince" to emphasize his partial magical heritage. By WordOfGod, Umbridge also falls into this category -- she is a half-blood of muggle heritage and is so ashamed of her muggle lineage that she devoted her career to destroying all hybrids. |
| 133 | * ''Literature/TheIdiot'': Nastasya Fillipovna Barashkov was Afansy Ivanovich Totsky's mistress for a time and afterwards believed that her soul had been irrevocably corrupted by the experience. She threw herself into her role as a "bad girl" and FemmeFatale, and pursued a [[TheMasochismTango Masochism Tango]] relationship with the violent Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin because she believed he was the sort of man she deserved. Furthermore, when Prince Myshkin (the novel's incarnation of IncorruptiblePurePureness) declared his love for Nastasya and his belief that she was actually innocent, Nastasya turned him down -- partly in order to hurt him, and partly because she was afraid she would ultimately hurt him worse if they married. |
| 134 | * ''Literature/IndustrialSocietyAndItsFuture'': Kaczynski claims that modern leftism is greatly motivated by deep feelings of inferiority in many people, which come out as (for instance) a tendency toward EverythingIsRacist attitudes by minority rights activists. He claims that feminists at heart doubt women's worth themselves, and this motivates much defensive attitudes from them and activism. |
| 135 | * ''Literature/TheInfected'' has mutants, the titular Infected, and Muggles who, in the bigot code at least, are 'Clean'. Many Infected characters bitterly regret their status and the resulting discrimination, everyone who can pass as normal, does, and it is generally accepted to be better to be Clean than not, though there are hints this may change by the series end. |
| 136 | * ''Literature/IronWidow'': As terrible a NoWomansLand as Huaxia is, Zetian muses that many of the women in her life upheld its sexist systems, including her mother, who primarily cares about selling her into marriage, and her grandmother, who [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding bound her feet]] and crippled her for life. She also thinks about what it must have taken to crush those women's spirits so completely. |
| 137 | * ''Literature/TheMaskedEmpire'': Michel de Chevin is a human who had an elven mother (in this setting, children of elven and non-elven parents ''always'' [[MagicGenetics fully resemble their non-elven parent]]), but due to EnslavedElves and the OneDropRule, he's ''deeply'' ashamed of his elven blood and tries to pass as fully human. To the point that he willingly joins a Chevalier "initiation ritual" of wandering into an elven FantasticGhetto at night to slaughter any elf they come across (to "test their blades") so his brothers in arms wouldn't suspect a thing, and the climax of the book involves Michel [[spoiler:forfeiting a duel that could have ended a Civil War]] to prevent Briala (an elven servant who also went through internalized racism when she was little) from publicly revealing his true heritage. |
| 138 | * In ''Literature/{{Masques}}'', Aralorn has a pretty severe case of this. When she and her love interest get into a dangerous situation, she tells him that he needn't worry about her, because she is not one of those useless females who just get in the way. The author's intent seems to be to emphasize that Aralorn is a "strong female protagonist", or possibly LeaningOnTheFourthWall to tell the reader that she doesn't adhere to genre conventions, but in-universe, it comes off as internalized categorism.. |
| 139 | * In ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'', Polly notes at one point that, while Borogravian society and the Nugganite religion are both deeply sexist, nobody enforces this more strongly than the older women, who go so far as to ''make up'' restrictions that even Nuggan hasn't thought of. |
| 140 | * Aysel from ''Literature/MyHeartAndOtherBlackHoles'' categorizes herself as a murderer-to-be simply because her dad killed someone. |
| 141 | * Perhaps the most painful aspect of ''Literature/NeverLetMeGo'' is that the characters never overcome their social conditioning. [[spoiler:The government plans to harvest their internal organs, and they really don't want to die. They spend the story agonizing over their lives being cut short, grasping for straws as they try to find loopholes so that they'll be allowed to stay alive a little longer, and feeling guilty about taking out their angst on each other. However, none of them ever dare to admit to themselves that the system is unfair, that they actually ''deserve'' to be allowed to live. They have been given the identity of sacrificial victims, and while they hate their place in life, they fail to break free from this imposed image of who and what they are.]] |
| 142 | * ''Literature/ThePaperMenagerie'': Jack, the main protagonist, begans to distance himself from his Chinese heritage as a result of racist encounters from his neighbors. He attempts to align himself with his white American father and neighbors, which really hurts his mother. He does not revisit his Chinese heritage until after his mother's passing. |
| 143 | * "Literature/{{Profession}}": When the IneptAptitudeTest says that George cannot [[NeuralImplanting learn by computer]], he's sent to "A Home for the Feeble-minded". George's struggle against this categorization drives the plot. Even after a year, he continues to rail against the idea that he can't learn. [[spoiler:It turns out that the whole thing is part of a SecretTest to see if George has a creative drive or if he's just a good learner. The best method their society has for finding creative talents is to insult/patronize them until they throw off the categorization and declare that they are {{Creators}}.]] |
| 144 | * ''Literature/TheRegenerationTrilogy'': There are several versions of this. On one hand are the [[ShellShockedVeteran soldiers]] at a psychiatric hospital who suffer from different forms of PTSD, and hate themselves for breaking down and being "in with the loonies." Then there are the gays, who have to keep their sexuality a secret because of the repressive atmosphere, all the time hearing that homosexuality is a sin and a threat to the nation. |
| 145 | * ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Cersei suffers from some pretty severe internalized sexism. During her viewpoint chapters in ''Literature/AFeastForCrows'', she often attributes Jaime's swordsmanship skill and Tywin's PR, political prowess, and military mind to their sex (instead of practice, intelligence, patience, and natural talent). Likewise, she blames the people's dislike on her own sex. Her logic basically amounts to "Everyone underestimates me because I'm a woman. And yes, women are generally inferior, but I'm WAY better than any of those other hussies because I'm a Lannister and the queen and could totally run rings around my father and brother if I just had a penis." [[spoiler:Ironically, when she ''does'' get the chance to prove her mettle as acting head of House Lannister and ruling queen besides, she quickly becomes the series' only important HystericalWoman. [[LadyDrunk Among]] [[SmugSnake other]] [[AbusiveParents things]].]] |
| 146 | * ''Literature/TiesThatBind'': Guy Baldwin has helped people to understand that BDSM does not make someone a bad person. |
| 147 | * In ''Literature/VictoriaANovelOf4thGenerationWar'', the characters from the LadyLand Azania are proud of their freedom from male domination and see their separatist republic as an example and hope for women everywhere. They are surprised to learn that in their main adversary state, the reactionary Northern Confederation, it is women's groups who agitate most tenaciously and effectively for war against Azania, [[FemaleMisogynist viewing the very idea of an Amazonian nation as unnatural and ungodly]]. |
| 148 | * ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'': In one of the official collections of short stories, the hero goes through severe identity confusion and self-hatred as he discovers that he's actually a child of the ''evil'' werewolf clan, the Black Spiral Dancers. (He eventually snaps out of it and concludes that he doesn't have to be like his ancestors.) |
| 149 | * In ''Literature/TheYellowBag'', Raquel's wishes of being an adult and being a boy stem from the fact that she feels like her family (and society as a whole) would treat her much better if things were different. |
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| 152 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 153 | * In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Tara turns out to have been abused by her relatives. Among other things, they have tricked her to believe that she's an evil demon when she's actually fully human. Believing herself to be a demon leads her to actions that almost get everyone killed, as she's desperately trying to hide her "true" nature from all her friends. |
| 154 | * In the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS3E17InHeat In Heat]]", the [=UnSub=] is a gay man motivated by the abuse his HeteronormativeCrusader father subjected him to. He became convinced that he was "dirty", and began killing gay men and stealing their identities to escape his own. |
| 155 | * ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': The focus of "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS5E20Lowdown Lowdown]]" is on very closeted gay black men. It's {{discussed|Trope}} between Fin and the other detectives. He explains that African-American culture strongly rejects being gay, hence they get married and pretend to be straight like other men. Most refuse to admit they're gay (even when admitting they have sex with men), and thus display internalized homophobia to varying degrees (in most cases passive, with one being vehement, while voicing homophobic slurs). |
| 156 | * ''Series/MohawkGirls'': Iostha, one of the Mohawk women most opposed to mixing with white people, admits she has a white grandmother after Anna rejects this prejudice in the series finale. She realizes the error of her ways, stating that it's messed up denying her own grandmother. |
| 157 | * ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': The culprit in "[[Recap/MurdochMysteriesS3E8FutureImperfect Future Imperfect]]" [[spoiler:(the fiancé of a judge's daughter)]] believes wholeheartedly in eugenics and the eugenics movement. During the last interrogation, Murdoch confronts the man with the information on how his own family tree is full of criminal types, how the victim discovered this information, and how it might [[spoiler:or might not]] have ended his engagement. The man says he isn't worthy of his fiancée, confesses his guilt, and wants to be hanged, saying, "Put an end to my mongrel blood." |
| 158 | * ''Series/TheOrville'': In "[[Recap/TheOrvilleS2E5AllTheWorldIsABirthdayCake All the World is a Birthday Cake]]", one of the Regorians imprisoned for being born to an astrological sign with supposed criminal tendencies is insistent that their imprisonment was necessary, that people such as him really ''do'' have such bad traits. |
| 159 | * In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', Clark sometimes has a mild case of this, being an alien and with all the other Kryptonians he's met so far having turned out to be evil psychopaths. Chloe comforts him and says that he could be the only decent one out of his people. |
| 160 | * In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E05Cardassians Cardassians]]", the main characters, acting on CondescendingCompassion, [[StrawAffiliation decide Rugal's identity for him against his will]], and then insist that he's suffering from Internalized Categorism because the identity they have chosen for him [[spoiler:and eventually condemned him to, by giving him away to the stranger Ben decided deserved him the most by virtue of being his biological father and the victim of a political conspiracy]] is one he hates. |
| 161 | ** The episode leaves it for the audience to decide whether or not Rugal was actually suffering from Internalized Categorism or not and whether or not what they did [[spoiler:(forcing him to move to Cardassia)]] was the right choice. What you'd consider best for the child depends on whether you consider him to be a Bajoran (his identity and upbringing) or Cardassian (his biological ancestry, including his looks). |
| 162 | ** There's also the issue of whether Rugal hated the Cardassians as an empire or as a race. Hating the empire is not a problem for him, as long as he's allowed to stay away from it. (Entering the empire would be quite dangerous, however, since it's a military dictatorship likely to persecute him as a dissident.) Hating Cardassians as a race would be far more problematic. Since Rugal claims to have no guilt in the atrocities committed by the empire, it is likely that his hatred is of the first kind. But it never gets analyzed in any detail. |
| 163 | ** This is further complicated by how you feel about Rugal's adoptive parents. They raised him to consider himself a Bajoran and hate Cardassians, despite the fact that biologically Rugal is a Cardassian. The decision to give him to his biological father becomes even more complicated when you realize that his biological father didn't abandon him: Rugal was stolen from him and the kidnappers faked his death, leaving his biological father grieving for him for years until he learned his son was still alive. |
| 164 | * ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': |
| 165 | ** Spock [[HalfBreedAngst has a major problem with his half-human ancestry]], such that he feels ashamed of even experiencing feelings like friendship. |
| 166 | ** Internalized sexism, and a desire to escape it by any means, is at least part of Janice Lester's motive in "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E24TurnaboutIntruder Turnabout Intruder]]". Even more so in hindsight: as female [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise captains]] (and [[Series/StarTrekDiscovery admirals]]!) now canonically existed prior to the time frame of the episode, one interpretation is that she self-sabotaged her career in the assumption she couldn't succeed. |
| 167 | * The ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episodes "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS1E13Faces Faces]]", "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E3BargeOfTheDead Barge of the Dead]]" and "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E11Lineage Lineage]]" imply that B'Elanna Torres [[HalfBreedAngst loathes her Klingon side]], blaming it for much that goes wrong in her life. She becomes more accepting by the end of "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E13Prophecy Prophecy]]" when she meets a Klingon who coaxes her into exploring her culture again. "Lineage" actually explains the root of this; B'Elanna's father abandoned her and her mother because he couldn't handle living with two Klingons. Though B'Elanna doesn't fully come to accept her heritage until "Prophecy", finding out that Tom doesn't see her Klingon side as a burden seems to be what lays the foundation. This is followed by a scene of B'Elanna once again looking at the image of her baby, finally seeming unbothered by the Klingon features she sees. |
| 168 | -->'''B'Elanna:''' Think about how hard it is to live with one Klingon. Pretty soon it'll be two.\ |
| 169 | '''Tom:''' And someday I hope it's three or four. I mean it. And I hope that every one of them is just like you. |
| 170 | * ''Series/{{Vida}}'': Vidalia had kicked out Emma twice over her attraction to women. However, once it's been revealed that Vidalia herself liked women (even later marrying one) Emma angrily concludes this about her. The sisters are accused of being self-hating by other Latine people who dislike them changing the bar as well. |
| 171 | * ''Series/TheWilds'': Toni confesses to Martha that (seemingly due to [[ParentalAbandonment her parents abandoning her]]) she doesn't feel worthy of love. Martha, despite having her parents, replies she feels the same. |
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| 173 | |
| 174 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 175 | * The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVWNDR9gM2E Broken]]" by Music/BadReligion brings up the danger of putting people down, that they might start believing it themselves. |
| 176 | * Music/{{Radiohead}}'s "[[Music/PabloHoney Creep]]" is narrated by someone filled with self-loathing thanks to their perception of themselves as, well a creep and a weirdo, believing that they don't belong where they are. This is in turn contrasted with the verses, which show them drunkenly stalking a beautiful girl from afar. |
| 177 | %%* "Somewhere I Belong" by Music/LinkinPark also counts for that reason. |
| 178 | %%* "Neurosis III" by Monomate: "I'd appreciate some solitude, I feel like I'm going insane." |
| 179 | * Part of Music/HayleyKiyoko's "Gravel to Tempo" is about a young lesbian overcoming this, particularly the feeling of being "predatory" for developing crushes on other girls. |
| 180 | [[/folder]] |
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| 182 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 183 | * In ''VideoGame/CoffeeTalk Episode 2'', [[spoiler:Riona breaks down crying because she regrets following her dreams to become a soprano singer after hearing Lucas's and Rachel's stories on how they dealt with racism in the entertainment industry. She believes that she can only go with the "status quo" just because she's a banshee who can't establish good connections. Thankfully, the Barista cheers her up with a Berry-Blue Hibiscus "Pie", and she overcomes her self-loathing when Lucas offers her to be his co-host for his podcast, using the platform to advocate against racism]]. |
| 184 | * ''Franchise/DragonAge'': |
| 185 | ** In the Circle Tower in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', there is a mage who is completely convinced that all mages are in fact horrible monsters that should never have been allowed to be left alive and prays to the Maker to free her from her cursed existence, as well as all the other mages who are in denial of their evil nature. |
| 186 | ** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', companion Sera is biologically an elf, but was raised by humans and holds anything "elfy" in contempt, partly thanks to many elves playing OfThePeople dead straight and pulling NoTrueScotsman fallacies on any elves they deem "not elfy" enough. However, if an Elven PlayerCharacter tries to [[WeAreStrugglingTogether bond with her over being a fellow elf]] (though the Inquisitor is Dalish while Sera is a city elf), Sera harshly rejects them. If Sera's RelationshipValues gets high enough, she also reveals that her internalized racism began when her human foster mother ([[ParentsAsPeople unintentionally]]) made her feel inferior for being an elf. |
| 187 | --->'''Sera:''' Lie to herself? Fair play. Only hurts her. But she made me think there was something wrong with me! |
| 188 | * ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' has one stemming from a TomatoInTheMirror scenario. [[spoiler:Paladin Danse, your potential companion from the Brotherhood of Steel, fully buys into his faction's FantasticRacism against Ghouls, Super Mutants, and [[ArtificialHuman Synths]]. Unfortunately for him, it turns out that Danse himself is a Synth, who escaped the Institute, was mind-wiped, and later joined the Brotherhood. Danse can be DrivenToSuicide from this revelation, but if you talk both him and his faction leader around, Danse can instead end up as TheExile. The whole experience changes how your actions affect his {{Relationship Value|s}} -- after learning the truth about himself, he's much more conflicted regarding Synths, and likes it when you show generic support for them, while disliking any hardline stance on [[AndroidsArePeopleToo Synth personhood]], positive or negative.]] |
| 189 | * Xefros Tritoh of ''VideoGame/{{Hiveswap}}'', despite ostensibly being part of an underground resistance movement, follows his FantasticCasteSystem to the letter, constantly describing himself as "gutterblood/rustblood/etc. trash", and apologizing for any perceived offense. Even those that ''only he'' could possibly even come close to calling offenses, such as apologizing for assuming something ''[[spoiler:while he is trapped in a pile of rubble from his destroyed house]]''. This is probably no thanks to [[spoiler:his friend Dammek, the leader of the rebellion, who despite being Xefros' mentor figure, constantly takes his stuff and is generally implied to treat Xefros like a slave]]. |
| 190 | * ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'': Hanharr has an extremely complicated relationship to being a Wookie, in order to serve as a {{foil}} to Zaalbar from [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic the first game]]. As a SocialDarwinist, he despises weakness, but his species, the Wookies, have been colonized and are mass-transported off their homeworld for use as slaves. Hanharr despises himself for belonging to a 'weak' species and engages in the same behaviours as the people who are abusing them, but he also isn't able to stop believing in a lot of things Wookies treat as sacred. |
| 191 | * In ''Slave Maker'', the state religion is homophobic and also holds similar prejudice against bondage. Characters who engage in lesbian sex or bondage will lose morality, thus becoming {{Depraved Homosexual}}s or proof that BondageIsBad. However, in the case of lesbianism, this effect is clearly caused by internalized homophobia, since only those who believe in the homophobic state religion are affected: Characters who follow "the old gods" or "no gods" do ''not'' lose morality over same-sex sex acts. However, both religions disapprove of bondage -- making it less obvious that the morality loss from bondage is also caused by Internalized Categorism. Worth noting that bondage is heavily tied to being a Pony girl. This apparently is allowed, even in public, with no shame on either the slave or the slaver. But a Pony girl is socially considered an animal, with no right to speak, refuse sex (in a setting where slaves ''can'' say "No"), or wear anything but leather straps. Pony girls are used to pulling carts, and there are official riding races. So bondage is shunned on "normal" slaves but mostly allowed for slaves degraded to labor animals. |
| 192 | * ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': The Sith Empire doesn't treat anybody particularly well but [[FantasticRacism has a special scorn for people who are neither human nor Sith species]]. An alien Sith Inquisitor can comment in one conversation with their Togruta apprentice Ashara Zavros that an alien Sith has to work hard to overcome their "inherent disadvantage". This remark understandably infuriates Ashara. |
| 193 | * ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'': Alicia forms ''none'' of her own ideas about her [[spoiler:newly awakened Valkyria powers]] or how to apply them. Instead, she becomes convinced that she's lost her humanity; not because anyone thinks she has, or is even necessarily afraid that she will, she just assumes that the one other person who has the same ability is evil and so she'll become evil too. This is very obviously not the case, but the assumption she makes drives the last act of the romance plot. In the end [[spoiler:she decides to disown her powers to be normal.]] |
| 194 | [[/folder]] |
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| 196 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 197 | * ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'': Susato Mikotoba, of all the characters, has shades of this. She's depressed by the blatant sexism of her time, specially in Japanese society, while praising noticeable instances of progressive attitudes towards women in the west. This peaks during the events of the second game [[spoiler:where she's forced to pretend to be a young man going by the name of "Ryutaro Naruhodo" in order to act as a defense attorney in the Japanese Supreme Court, which bars all women, she comments that she had never "felt worse about being born in [her] body". During the trial, Susato goes to make some remarkably misogynistic observations which she later attributes to getting [[LostInCharacter "too into"]] her male persona.]] |
| 198 | * ''VisualNovel/HatePlus'': [[spoiler:Oh Eun-a]] follows a Confucian creed that says women can only be truly happy when married to and bearing the children of a man, meaning she doesn't feel able to give a proper life to her lesbian lover Mi-seun. She becomes so obsessed with reforming society so it can protect instead that [[spoiler:she neglects Mi-seun who eventually kills herself, believing their "less valuable" relationship to be a burden and potential embarrassment for Eun-a.]] |
| 199 | * Erik from ''VisualNovel/MissingStars'' has to learn to deal with his internalized ableism when he's transferred to a school that specializes in youths with mental health problems. Erik admits that he thought the place would be a BedlamHouse and that he's a bit wary of his fellow students, thinking they'll snap at any second. This extends to self-pity about his own trauma and mental illness. |
| 200 | [[/folder]] |
| 201 | |
| 202 | [[folder:Web Originals]] |
| 203 | * ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' has Nott, a goblin girl who hates goblins [[spoiler:and is seeking to be permanently transformed into anything but a goblin]]. This ends up [[spoiler:being {{subverted|Trope}} in that the reason ''why'' she hates goblins is because she was originally a halfling woman named Veth Brenatto who was murdered by goblins and forcibly reincarnated into one herself]]. |
| 204 | * Equius from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' prescribes to his species' FantasticCasteSystem vigorously, lording his position over the "lowbloods". However, he gets pretty angry at [[SirSwearsALot Gamzee]], who is a highblood that refuses to act cruelly towards him, or anyone else. [[spoiler:He's even a bit relieved when Gamzee goes AxCrazy and tries to kill everyone.]] |
| 205 | -->'''Equius:''' Don't you understand that you're better than me?\ |
| 206 | '''Equius:''' Can you please act like it?\ |
| 207 | '''Equius:''' That's not a command, it's just a polite request I guess.\ |
| 208 | '''Gamzee:''' OK, I can try, but man I don't know if I know how to be like a better motherfucker than any other motherfucker. |
| 209 | * WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic is Catholic, but Catholicism is one of the many religions that he's prejudiced against. |
| 210 | * ''Literature/{{Takotsubo}}'' is about the Chinese-American Cord Cai, who's been trying to [[StopBeingStereotypical get away from the gang life]] since high school. But then his fiance gets murdered a year after graduating and the PoliceAreUseless, so Cord goes back to the streets [[TragicVillain because he thinks that's the only way to make things fair.]] He also says that he's "not good enough for anything else," since he doesn't fit the AsianAndNerdy stereotype. The author states that Cord is [[WrongGenreSavvy a superhero who thinks he's a villain]] because he's internalized a lot of racism. |
| 211 | * ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Phase's family are the FantasticRacism equivalent of the Westboro Church, and not only did his parents' reaction to his manifesting as a mutant cross the MoralEventHorizon, he himself hates that he is now a 'disgusting intersexed freak'. While he has learned to live with his fellow students at Whateley Academy, he still finds himself wallowing in self-loathing. |
| 212 | * ''WebVideo/ZinniaJones'' talks about internalized homophobia in several episodes, especially "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9_xsFId_eI Coming out]]", which is based on the concept that HeteronormativeCrusader antics are designed to ''make'' gay people hate themselves. |
| 213 | [[/folder]] |
| 214 | |
| 215 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 216 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Jeong Jeong may be a master of firebending, but he'd rather not be a firebender at all. He refers to his abilities as a "burning curse", and has this to say about firebenders in general: |
| 217 | -->'''Jeong Jeong:''' ...fire brings only destruction and pain. It forces those of us burdened with its care to walk a razor's edge between humanity and savagery. Eventually, we are torn apart. |
| 218 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': According to his brother, [[spoiler:Amon]] may have been this despite being [[spoiler:one of the most powerful benders in the world.]] He went so far as to hide all his abilities from the public and use them in secret [[spoiler:to remove everyone else's abilities because he considered bending itself evil.]] |
| 219 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex Twilight Sparkle]], who ''thinks'' that her friends will hate her for using her considerably large magic stockpile like they hate [[{{Jerkass}} Trixie]]. This is especially noticeable in her determination not to use magic even when injured in a SerialEscalation fashion in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap Up]]" because it's expressly banned and she wants to be of some use. |
| 220 | * This is one of Homeworld's favorite tricks in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''. You are your category: Quartz gems fight, Peridots are technicians, Pearls are personal servants. Even those gems who turn their back on Homeworld find it nearly impossible to shake off the idea; Ruby still downplays her own importance (as her Gem type is extremely common on Homeworld) almost six ''thousand'' years later, and Pearl frequently sunk into a self-sacrificial mindset in thinking of herself as "Rose's". |
| 221 | * Blackarachnia from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' absolutely ''DESPISES'' being partially organic. |
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| 224 | [[folder:Other]] |
| 225 | * Rational Wiki describes this in its various manifestations under [[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom Uncle Tom]]. |
| 226 | [[/folder]] |
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