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14	->''"In opposition to this, the Volkish view recognizes the importance of mankind in its racially innate elements. In principle, it sees in the state only a means to an end, and as its end it considers the preservation of the racial existence of men. Thus it by no means believes in an equality of the races, but with their differences it also recognizes their superior and inferior values, and by this recognition it feels the obligation in accordance with the Eternal Will that dominates this universe to promote the victory of the better and stronger, and to demand the submission of the worse and the weaker. Thus in principle it favors also the fundamental aristocratic thought of nature and believes in the validity of this law down to the last individual."''
15	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler'''
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17	Rather than just feeling FantasticRacism towards a particular group, these people [[MoralMyopia look down]] on ''everyone'' who isn't them. They'll likely be TheEmpire or TheHorde (generally led by an EvilOverlord or a charismatic PresidentEvil), and might possibly be AlwaysChaoticEvil, though it's also possible most of them are simply fed on propaganda rather than seriously believing this. In any case, they'll hold to an ideology based around the idea that they and they alone deserve to rule the world/universe, and everyone else needs to fall into line or be exterminated. In extreme cases, they may simply want to exterminate ''everyone'' else without bothering to dominate them.
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19	See also ScaryDogmaticAliens, and there will likely be in- or out-of universe comparisons made to ThoseWackyNazis. If said comparisons are explicitly in-universe, they'll likely be [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Nazis By Any Other Name]] who go round PuttingOnTheReich. May show up as a central teaching of the ReligionOfEvil or PathOfInspiration. Contrast SuperiorSpecies, where the work itself presents a race as inherently better. They're almost always bad guys (as you can't play them as heroes without getting into a motherload of UnfortunateImplications, though individual members can be sympathetic, especially if MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch is in force) and they'll often show up as villains in works that are preaching AnAesop against racism. They aspire to become a ForeignRulingClass over lesser races.
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21	'''Note:''' Does not apply to races or cultures who think they're superior but have no interest in conquering the outside world. The Master Race wants to ''master'' the rest of the world, not be apart from it. They may already be served by a SlaveRace, ServantRace, or HenchmenRace, though some extreme examples are too xenophobic even for that. Compare and contrast the AbsoluteXenophobe, who skips the "mastering" part and goes straight for extermination.
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29	* Despite their nation only dating back to the colonization of Mars some three decades back, the people of the [[TheEmpire Vers Empire]] in ''Anime/AldnoahZero'' see themselves as superior to Earth's "Old Humanity". According to Martian doctrine, the immensely powerful LostTechnology, [[AppliedPhlebotinum Aldnoah]], that they discovered on their planet is a sign of the gods' favor. Meanwhile, Terrans are disdained and viewed as unworthy of the bountiful planet they inhabit. (Mars' agriculture being unable to fully support its population, Earth's plentiful resources are a cause of serious resentment.) This attitude was heavily encouraged by the Martian leaders, who finally used it to start an {{Inverted}} [[TheWarOfEarthlyAggression War of Earthly Aggression]] with the goal of conquering the planet.
30	* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
31	** [[Characters/DragonBallSaiyans The Saiyans]] fully see themselves as the strongest race in the universe bar none. They're not too far off the mark given how powerful Goku, Vegeta, and their descendants become throughout the series. There were stronger fighters in Frieza's force but these were all unusual {{mutants}}.
32	** Zamasu from ''Super'' sees the Kais as this. He does have a point since they are gods, but he has serious BlackAndWhiteInsanity: to him, everything the gods do is good because they are good, while everything mortals do is evil by definition. When the other Kais disagree with him on this, he just pulls a NoTrueScotsman.
33	%%* [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent The homunculi]] in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''.
34	* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}''
35	** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'': Zeon asserts this, with their leader [[TheGeneralissimo Gihren Zabi]] proclaiming that Spacenoids -- humans born in space -- are superior to the Earthnoids on Earth, and that it's Zeon's duty to conquer the Earth and cull the numbers of the Earthnoids in order to bring about peace. It's worth noting that Gihren may not really believe this, but is instead using its propaganda effect to keep Zeon behind him and in the war. It's doubly worth nothing, that Gihren's own father [[GodwinsLaw compared him to Adolf Hitler]] and he was [[InsultBackfire rather happy about that label]], although it's safe to say Gihren believed in [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans his own superiority]] most of all.
36	** ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'': Those within and Titans believe that it's Earthnoids who are the truly superior ones and that it's the Spacenoids who need to have their numbers brought down.
37	** Char Aznable also believes in the superiority of Spacenoids, particularly [[PsychicPowers Newtypes]], and in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'' he has an interesting plan to bring about Spacenoid supremacy -- by dropping an asteroid on Earth and damaging the environment to where the Earthnoids will all need to migrate off of it, thereby necessitating them to move into space and become Spacenoids.
38	** Patrick Zala and ZAFT of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' believe that Coordinators -- genetically modified humans -- the better race and that Naturals need to be destroyed. On the opposite end is Blue Cosmos, who tout that it's Coordinators that need to be eliminated and that Naturals are superior to them.
39	* ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'': The New Bloodline consist of people who consider themselves a new species of humanity, [[LamarckWasRight formed through the "evil intent" building up from one generation to another throughout centuries.]] Sicks, the leader of the group, seeks to wipe out humankind so his brethren will flourish in its place, citing it as just a natural process in which a superior race exterminates the presiding race to assert its dominance over the ecosystem.
40	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
41	** The Fishmen, most notably of the Arlong Pirates. In a world mostly made-up of water, being able to breath on both land AND water, and also just naturally be strong, is admittedly a very positive trait. Doesn't stop the Straw Hats for too long, though. However, several hundred chapters later, it was revealed that this was actually an attempt to undermine humans pulling this on ''them'', due to the humans's superior numbers and the presence of {{Charles Atlas Superpower}}'d humans who can mop the floor with any fishman, regardless of greater natural strength.
42	** The Celestial Dragons embody this trope to the extreme, however. They are a small group, descendants of the founding families of the one world government, who have come to believe that they are unspeakably superior to anyone else on the planet. They have the super-powered Admirals on speed dial to brutalize anyone who stands up to them, but aren't above shooting people (old, young, men, women, children) who get in their way and can't fight back. They'll also enslave commoners on a whim. They wear permeable bubbles around their heads when they leave their homeland, because they refuse to breathe the same air as lesser peoples.
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46	* ''ComicBook/AmericanVampire'': The Carpathian bloodline founded by {{Dracula}} considers themselves superior to not just humans, but other vampires species, having carried out a [[ANaziByAnyOtherName genocide against them during the 1700s]]. Its not surprising that during World War II, they sided with the Nazis and supplied them with soldiers in exchange for seeking out and destroying other vampires. Ironically, despite their arrogant attitude and being the most numerous vampire race in the planet, they are actually ''weaker'' compared to others, due to being vulnerable to sunlight and wood while other vampires introduced can walk during daytime and have more specific weaknesses (like copper and gold).
47	* In ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'', the polar races on Mars regard themselves as superior to the Red People and the Green barbarians, [[FantasticRacism as well as among themselves]]. Irony is that the White, Black and Yellow people are heavily reliant on enslaving these lesser people, who are most numerous, advanced and much more prepared to live on [[DeathWorld Barsoom]]. When the Red People go to war against them, the polar races are usually overwhelmed.
48	* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Some factions of {{Mutants}} believe they are a superior breed of humans and came up with the name ''homo sapiens superior'' to describe themselves. Magneto was one of the strongest proponents of this idea, though he has moved past it after realizing his actions ultimately hurt mutantkind instead of saving it. The fact that he, a Holocaust survivor, was spouting the same rhetoric as the Nazis responsible for the mass murder of his people probably helped.
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52	* Certain takes on ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureau'' will have the ponies see themselves as this, and thus believing themselves justified in carrying on an AssimilationPlot that aims to turn all humans into [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul constantly happy]] ponies. {{Deconstruction Fic}}s will add ANaziByAnyOtherName to the mix as well.
53	* ''Fanfic/TheCoffinOfRobouteAndHis20Sisters'': During the Age of Technology, the Emperor of Mankind personally witnessed the rise of a genetically-enhanced HumanSubspecies that dominated the rest of humanity until the Men of Iron wiped them out. Thousands of years later, when the Emperor and Malcador are contacted by a [[PeggySue time-displaced]] Roboute Guilliman from a GenderBentAlternateUniverse (Roboute is from the canon ''[[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 40K]]'' universe where the Primarchs were all male, while this fic is set in one where all the Primarchs are female), the two are almost immediately convinced that having a male Primarch interact with his twenty female counterparts will inevitably lead to them breeding yet another powerful transhuman subrace that could enslave mankind if left unmanaged.
54	* The Psyches are implied to be this in ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf''.
55	* ''Fanfic/IWokeUpAsADungeonNowWhat'': Khannate culture teaches that the Khannites are the most powerful race in this part of the world, and as such have the right to enslave and exploit all other races. They repeatedly reconquered and enslaved the Velthian cities of the south, and made a few stabs at enslaving the Ahriman lands to the west.
56	* ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'': The winged unicorns of Unicornicopia and their "god" known as Grand Ruler are seen as this. They themselves have no problem to call others out, on how inferior they are to them, because they live on the ground alone.
57	* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': Quoted directly from the Bloodline King in Chapter 15, in regards to Bloodliners:
58	-->'''Bloodline King:''' A Pokémon, my Emmisary, is but a tool. Just as we stand above humans with our superior strength of power, we stand above such miserable creatures with our superior strength of mind. As the bearers of both intelligence and might, it is our natural place to rule and do with each as we please.
59	* ''Fanfic/TheSecretReturnOfAlexMack'': [[spoiler: [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke The Collective]]]] wants to cull the numbers of lesser species in order to leave more resources for themselves (and rule over the survivors).
60	* ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': Martian society has been racially stratified for thousands of years, with Red Martians on top, believing themselves to have been divinely appointed to that role, and White Martians at the bottom. The fact that only Red Martians are trained as sorcerers tends to reinforce this. Then [[spoiler: they find out that the colour differences aren't caused by genetics, but by the Guardians' alterations and mental conditioning]]. In the Paragon timeline, there's widespread upheaval and demands for hasty reform. In the Renegade timeline, there's a civil war with massive casualties.
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64	* The aliens in ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'' ([[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch save one]]) see themselves as the supreme race, and the weak are seen as a threat to the gene pool. The leader of the saucer crew in particular likes to go on about this:
65	-->'''Ship Captain:''' We are the supreme race! We have the supreme weapons![[note]]'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo]]:''' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E04TeenagersFromOuterSpace We make the supreme pizzas!]][[/note]]
66	* How Sebastian Shaw and Magneto see mutants as a whole in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''.
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70	* ''Literature/BlackFleetCrisis'': The Yevetha view themselves as this, with all other species being simply "alien vermin".
71	* ''Literature/TheDeathGateCycle'''s [[TheEmpire Tribus Elves]] run a despotic empire where the lesser races are enslaved.
72	* {{Dracula}}'s obsession with blood goes a lot deeper than just wanting to drink it. He tells Jonathan Harker at length about the history of Transylvania, explaining that the Szekelys are descended from both [[ProudWarriorRace Vikings]] and [[BloodKnight Huns]] and thus his race is stronger and purer than the other noble dynasties of Europe. The second that technology provides him the ability to leave his provincial domain, he sets into motion his plan for world domination. So he's also a racist.
73	* Literature/TheDraka, who [[{{Ubermensch}} talk the talk]] and [[TakeOverTheWorld walk the walk]], [[MadeASlave enslaving]] the rest of [[SlaveRace humanity]]. [[FromBadToWorse Things only get worse]] once they [[EvilutionaryBiologist map the human genome]].
74	* ''Literature/TheElenium'': The Cyrgai in ''The Tamuli'' are a bit of a DeconstructiveParody. For a fun question, how do you ''really'', '''really''' piss off a Master Race? You seal them in an area so that anyone who tries to cross a line in the sand dies, no saves. After thousands of years of being isolated in this way, the Cyrgai suffered what would likely befall any master race given enough time: They've become so massively inbred and obsessed with their own physical perfection that they are a race of entirely beautiful, statuesque ''morons''.
75	%%* The [[OurElvesAreDifferent elves]] in ''Literature/TheHalfbloodChronicles''.
76	* Many pureblood families of wizards from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' view themselves this way; Voldemort, whose reasons for hating muggles are much more personal in nature, plays on this to attract followers.
77	* ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'':
78	** The Holy Therns (white Martians) and the First Born (Black Martians) both see themselves as being the Master Race (the First Born take this to the extreme of considering it beneath them to do any kind of work but fighting -- ''lesser'' beings work, and the First Born take what they need from them). Needless to say, the two races hate each other's guts, though in the third book the Thern PriestKing and a First Born nobleman pull a (very tense) VillainTeamUp against the eponymous hero.
79	** Subverted from the very first book when Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs explicitly tells the reader that the Red Martians are a blend of the best of the White, Black, and Yellow Martians. (The Green Martians are different -- they're not even humanoid, can't interbreed with the other Martian races ''or'' with humans, and are subtly implied at one point to be descended from carnivorous '''plants.''' But John Carter treats them as equals too, finding his best friend in one of them.)
80	* ''Literature/MarchViolets'': Anti-Nazi German Bernie Gunther attends the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. He watches Jesse Owens run a race, and thinks that Owens exposes Hitler's "master race" propaganda as nonsense. Bernie decides that if there is a master race, Owens is part of it.
81	* The [[AbsoluteXenophobe Itorloo]] from Creator/RaymondZGallun's "Seeds of the Dusk" (1938) who consider themselves this (despite being confined to a single dying planet), cruelly treat the numerous other sapient races inhabiting the Earth and plan to invade Venus and exterminate its inhabitants for no better reason than that they want a younger, warmer world. This story was written in 1938, when the real [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] were already well embarked on the career of aggression which would result in [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII global cataclysm]].
82	* The Wasp-kinden from ''Literature/ShadowsOfTheApt'' are hardly shy about declaring their supposed superiority, and the Empire they control is a militaristic powerhouse bent on conquering the rest of the known world. Non-Wasps are referred to as "Auxillians", and though it's theoretically possible for them to rise to positions of power, most are little better than slaves (one Auxillian, Drephos, reached the rank of colonel, but only because he was an indispensable mechanical genius the high-ups wanted to keep loyal, and even so most Wasps found "Colonel-Auxillian" an absurd title).
83	* The very aptly named Masters from ''Literature/TheStoneDanceOfTheChameleon''. Even within their own ranks, the weight of their votes is decided by blood purity.
84	* In the ''Literature/{{Tinker}}'' series, the oni are characterized by a LackOfEmpathy and a view of other species as breeding stock.
85	* Deconstructed with the Dúnedain in ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'' (adapted from the {{Atlantis}} myth) -- in many ways they ''are'' superior to other races of men, which leads them to ultimately turn themselves into TheEmpire, as well as arrogant and corrupt. Then their king makes [[BigBad Sauron]] his [[EvilChancellor chief advisor]], and he plays on these factors to lead the Dúnedain to ruin. By the time of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' there are very few pureblood Dúnedain left, and their culture exists in an AfterTheEnd of their own making.
86	* ''Literature/TheWitchOfKnightcharm'': Several students at an evil WizardingSchool believe that having magic makes them a superior species relative to people who can't cast spells. Some, such as Lily's clique, go so far as to want to rule over the mundane world, feeling that magicians are so superior that it's their right to make themselves into royalty while everyone else just serves them.
87	* The Race in ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}''. While not racist (speciest?) in the typical sense, they believe that it is not just their right but their duty to take over other intelligent races and add them to their empire. [[EvenEvilHasStandards They are horrified]] by UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, however. Even so, they're arrogant enough to conclude that they are the most advanced race in the galaxy after meeting only two other races and only looking in the galactic equivalent of a neighborhood. They also naturally assume that all intelligent life forms are like them, including their fear of change and an extremely methodical approach to everything. Then they come to Earth and they ''really'' don't like how different from them we are. How ''dare'' we have radar, [[TankGoodness landcruisers]], [[OldSchoolDogfighting killercraft]], etc., when we have absolutely no business having this technology in such a short (800 years) timeframe since their probe scanned Earth. As far as the Race are concerned, HumansAreBastards for not immediately recognizing the Race's superiority and submitting to their rule.
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91	* The Scourge in ''Series/{{Angel}}'', a small army of "pure-breed" demons bent on wiping out "half-breeds" like Doyle. The hypocrisy here is even thicker than usual, as all truly "pure" demons were colossal super-beings that were killed or banished before human civilization. Years after the show ended, the comics confirmed the Scourge were all talk when they tried to resurrect an Old One - and it wiped them all out.
92	* The Daleks from ''Series/DoctorWho'' actually refer to themselves as "the master race" during the WWII-set "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks Victory of the Daleks]]". There's also the Cybermen, as well as a number of less scrupulous Time Lords and the mockingly named [[{{Pun}} "Master Race"]] which comes into being in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]" when TheMaster temporarily [[CloneByConversion turns almost every human on Earth into a copy of himself]].
93	* The Scarrans from ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' consider themselves the master race of the galaxy. Their hides easily shrug off small-arms fire, they possess a natural AgonyBeam and have the strongest dreadnoughts. If a species cannot provide them with either servants or breeding stock, they will be marked for extermination.
94	* Shocker in ''Series/KamenRider'' are an evil organization of Nazis who took their ideals one step further -- they seek to ''create'' a {{transhuman}} master race by remodeling themselves and other select humans into monsters, which will then TakeOverTheWorld and [[SuperSupremacist subjugate humankind]].
95	* ''Series/LogansRun'': In "Crypt", Dr. Rowan hopes to create a master race by instilling Logan's innate courage in his emotionless makeshift army. Logan tells him that he has read about [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany a people who considered themselves a master race]] and that they planned to make the rest of the world their slaves or exterminate them.
96	* The White Martians in ''Series/Supergirl2015'' possess various Gestapo-esque tendencies, mercilessly capturing, torturing and killing as many of the more peaceful Green Martian race. Armek, M'gann's ex-husband and particularly fanatical member of their race, even admits that they exterminated them out of pride for their own race.
97	-->'''Armek:''' With the eradication of the vermin, Mars is a paradise. The way it was intended to be. The greens have been silenced... the ones who thought they were better than us. We're now one pure hive.\
98	'''M'gann:''' So who are we gonna kill next? What other species deserves to be obliterated because you decide you're better than them?\
99	'''Armek:''' Whichever one we choose.
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103	* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
104	** [[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed Khan Noonien Singh]] was considered the "ubermensch" ("superman" in German), mentally and physically superior to normal humans. Interestingly, this "ubermensch" was portrayed as an UsefulNotes/{{India}}n male rather than a white male. This might have something to do with the term "Aryan" having Indian (and UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}ian) roots, before the term was adopted by white supremacists like the Nazis. And yet, on screen, the actor portraying him is either a Mexican or a Brit. See RaceLift.
105	** In the very first original novel, ''Literature/MissionToHoratius'', the inhabitants of the planet Bavarya (''sic!'') are divided into artificially replicated people called "doppelgangers" (again, ''sic'') and biologically engendered people called the "Herr-Elite" (''sic, sic, sic'') -- obvious stand-ins for Nazi ''Untermenschen'' and ''Herrenvolk''. The "Herr-Elite" plan to invade the planets Neolithia and [[CorruptChurch Mythra]] and enslave their inhabitants. It turns out that the dictator, "Nummer Ein", [[BoomerangBigot is himself a doppelganger]]. DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything
106	* A running theme throughout ''Franchise/StarWars'':
107	** One of the underlying philosophies of TheEmpire in the original movies was that of human supremacy (termed "High Human Culture" in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends''), with most non-humans relegated to menial labor, slavery, or outright extermination. It's implied Emperor Palpatine himself never personally bought into this, but encouraged it to solidify the support of his subordinates and create useful scapegoats to distract the populace with. Nonetheless, a handful of particularly capable or well-connected non-humans did manage to hold positions of real power within the Empire.
108	** TheEmpire in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' believes that the True Sith and humans descended from them are the master race, with [[FantasticRacism other aliens being treated as second-class citizens]]. One quest on [[FirstTown Korriban]] has a Sith Lord even send you out to measure the blood purity of his associates so he could try to convince the Dark Council to enslave those he found "lacking". However, more [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatic]] Imperials such as Darth Malgus, Darth Marr, and potentially the PlayerCharacter look down on this policy as it means ignoring potentially useful allies.
109	** The Yuuzhan Vong of ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' see all other species as scum to be forcibly converted to [[ReligionOfEvil the Great Doctrine]] or exterminated.
110	** The Rakata's Infinite Empire, first mentioned in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', is implied to be this, as they conquered many planets with their extensive technology and used the natives as slaves.
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114	* In ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', [[DesignerBabies Clan trueborns]] of the [[FantasticCasteSystem warrior caste]] hold this opinion of themselves and look down on the 'naturally born' freeborns of both their own and other castes, though the degree varies from clan to clan. [[TheBerserker Clan Smoke Jaguar]] was infamous for its internal racism of warriors over all, while Clans [[SoldierVsWarrior Hell Horses]], [[ThickerThanWater Ghost Bear]] and [[CombatPragmatist Star Adder]] had almost no inter-caste friction and other Clans like [[ProudMerchantRace Diamond Shark]] and [[TheSmartGuy Coyote]] gave other castes like merchants or scientist almost as much regard as the warriors. The Clans also looked down on the Inner Sphere as inferior, seeing [[TotalitarianUtilitarian Clan society]] as innately superior to the Inner Sphere's FeudalFuture and believing that conquering the Inner Sphere and resurrecting the Star League [[HomeByChristmas would be contemptibly easy]] -- needless to say, they were proven very, very wrong.
115	* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', the [[ElementalPowers Dragonblooded]] of [[TheEmpire The Realm]] often get this treatment, especially when used as the main antagonists of a campaign. Their religion goes so far as to state that especially worthy mortals might get the chance to be reborn as a Dragon-Blood in their next life.
116	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
117	** Dark elves don't get this nearly as often as [[OurElvesAreDifferent the regular sort of elf]], but the ones in ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' have never met a species they don't have some reason to look down upon. R.A. Salvatore's novels repeatedly and blatantly contrast this with the dark elves' [[AlwaysChaoticEvil inability to maintain a functioning culture]] without direct and ''repeated'' DivineIntervention. The drow grudgingly acknowledge illithids and beholders (and, in space, the neogi) as approximate equals... which mostly just makes them want to wipe out those races even more than they want to kill the surface-dwellers.
118	** The ''AD&D'' 2[[superscript:nd]] Edition splatbook ''The Complete Book of Elves'' often gets jokingly called "The Complete Book of the Master Race" for how it's basically just a long book ([[DeliberateValuesDissonance written from an elven perspective]]) about how elves are so much better than everyone else, with a truckload of overpowered mechanics for elf characters. The book is widely-mocked and the author [[OldShame actually issued a public apology for it]].
119	** ''TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}'':
120	*** The [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Scarlet Brotherhood]] is a secret society of assassin-monks who claim to be direct descendants of the ancient Suel Imperium and seek to infiltrate courts across the Flanaess so as to reestablish the glory of the Suloise race. Unlike examples in most D&D settings, the Scarlet Brotherhood discriminates against other human ethnicities as well as nonhumans. Their symbol is even a black four-spoked wheel on a red background, just in case it wasn't clear what group they're intended as a stand-in for.
121	*** Said to dwell deep in the Vast Swamp is the froglike demigod Wastri, whose portfolios literally include ''bigotry and self-deception''. Served by [[FrogMen bullywugs]] and deformed humans, he preaches to his followers about the inferiority of demihumans such as elves, dwarves, halflings and gnomes, while capturing humans to transform into toadlike monsters. The fact that Wastri is barely human himself is an irony lost on the godling.
122	* Over in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', aboleths view most of the rest of the universe as thralls, to the point where one of their species rules is that they're supposed to be controlling others.
123	* In ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'', the Daksha legacy is built on a philosophical foundation that melds the viewpoint of "Mages are the Master Race" with the viewpoint that [[TheMagocracy Mages therefor should be running the world]]. Their legacy even transforms them into {{ambiguous gender}}ed {{hermaphrodite}} {{genderbender}}s, with third eyes in the backs of their heads that can read the AkashicRecords, to further prove their "point" about being superior to ordinary humans (they built their entire Legacy around the assumptions of the "root races" right out of Theosophy, for just that extra soupcon of racism). Other Mages consider them ''very'' creepy, and would do even if they weren't working with the [[FantasticRacism Jnanamukti legacy]], who want to basically destroy all Sleeper civilization and technology in hopes of restoring Mages to their former power.
124	** Even the playable Silver Ladder faction have ideas of this sort, although the reason they're [[BlackAndGreyMorality the "grey" rather than the "black"]] is that they combine it with a sense of ''noblesse oblige'' and think they have [[ComesGreatResponsibility a responsibility]] to the mortals they're supposed to be ruling over.
125	* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has a few. Mostly [[CantArgueWithElves elves]]. Oddly not ProudWarriorRace types. Ironically, on the color wheel, ''black'' has Master Race attributes, in that black is more likely to not hurt other black cards. To give you an idea, white has Crusade, blue has Sunken City, but black has ''everything that has or grants Fear'', Bad Moon, Ascendant Evincar...
126	** Blue also has Invoke Prejudice, which doubles the cost of creatures your opponents play that don't share a colour with any of yours (and its art looks like black-robed KKK members with axes).
127	* Everything in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' that's intelligent enough to be political and isn't straight up omnicidal AlwaysChaoticEvil either belongs to or is subjected by one of these. Actual skin-color racism among humans seems to be nonexistent... not that they need something as petty as "reasons" to kill each other.
128	* ''{{TabletopGame/Warhammer}}'', The Skaven consider themselves to be the pinnacle of creation and demand the subservience of everyone they can enforce it over. The Dark Elves are pretty much the same way, albeit with a side-order of sexual sadism. Greenskins will follow anyone "bigga an' harda'" than them, and expect "da puny grotz" to fall in line. The Lizardmen are intent on restoring the world to the plan of the Old Ones, and consider anyone and anything else beneath notice.
129	** The High Elves and Dwarfs both consider themselves to be superior to Humans, but can (for the most part) swallow their pride for long enough to collaborate fruitfully with humans and will occasionally afford humanity some grudging respect.
130	* In ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' this role is filled by the Ultimates: a transhuman philosophy-slash-cult devoting themselves to be the pinnacle of humanity. As the setting developed, their depiction shifted further and further from "lead-by-example {{Warrior Poet}}s" towards "fascist cultish ubermensch wannabes" side of things, until they were dropped as a playable faction in the second edition of the game. (A splinter faction of MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch is still in play for those who wish to merely keep to leading by example.) Also, their posturing raises several issues in an explicitly transhuman setting: anyone can sleeve an Ultimate morph, but this won't make the ego inside a hardass mercenary, so any superiority they have lies in discipline and fanaticism; and on a different note, the setting also has Exhumans, [[TheHorseshoeEffect who the Ultimates fight but who do all they do without pretending to care about humanity]].
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134	* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''
135	** This is a racial belief of the [[OurElvesAreDifferent Altmer (High Elves)]]. While they are indeed responsible for much of Tamriel's [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas art, science, philosophy, language, and religion]], and ([[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch while there are exceptions]]) they [[CulturalPosturing have no issue letting the other races know]] just how superior they believe they are. They are the direct descendants of the [[{{Precursors}} Aldmer]] and consider the other races of Mer as [[TheSocialDarwinist a result of "degeneration" over the ages]]. (And [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence don't even bother]] trying to bring up the [[HumansAreBastards races of Men]]...) Their religious beliefs state that they are the true descendants of [[OurGodsAreDifferent the Aedra]], and actively try to breed themselves back into their ideal, including, according to some sources, killing undesirable progeny. (They believe that doing so releases the spirit so that it has a chance to be [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnated]] in a better form.) Thrice in history they've formed and led the Aldmeri Dominion, an AntiHumanAlliance to oppose the expansion of the various Cyrodiilic Empires of the races of Men. It took [[TheConqueror Tiber]] [[GodEmperor Septim]] using the Numidium, a [[RealityWarper Reality Warping]] HumongousMecha of [[OurDwarvesAreDifferent Dwemer]] design, to bring the Altmer under the dominion of men by force for the first (and to date, only) time in history.
136	** Dremora are an intelligent race of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]] who are most commonly found in the service of [[DestroyerDeity Mehrunes Dagon]] as his LegionsOfHell. Dremora believe themselves to be superior to other lesser Daedra, even go so far as to refer to themselves as "The Kyn" ("The People" in the Daedric tongue). Seeing as most lesser Daedra aren't civilized or sentient, they do have a point. However, it is unknown what their view is on the other lesser Daedra that are sentient, such as the Mazken and Aureal, despite interacting with both races to some extent in ''[[VideoGame/AnElderScrollsLegendBattlespire Battlespire]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', respectively. [[PunyEarthlings And don't even get them started on mortals]]...
137	** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'':
138	*** The [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Thalmor]] are an Altmeri religious extremist faction. Following the [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion Crisis]], they managed to take over key positions in the government of the re-formed Aldmeri Dominion and seek not just Altmeri dominance, but quite possibly ''[[OmnicidalManiac undoing creation itself]]'' in order to, as they believe, return their spirits to a state of pre-creation divinity, free from the limits of mortality.
139	*** On the other side, the Stormcloak uprising believe that humans - particularly [[HornyVikings Nords]], who are a physically imposing ProudWarriorRace [[CultureChopSuey with Norse and Germanic]] influences - are the supreme race. In the Stormcloaks' home city, Windhelm, Dunmer (Dark Elves) and [[LizardFolk Argonians]] are forced to live in ghettos.
140	* ''VideoGame/EndlessSpace'' and its [[VideoGame/EndlessSpace2 sort-of sequel]] takes this to another level with the Horatio, which is an entire race cloned from a single person. Horatio the First, brilliant and [[MadScientist more than slightly insane]], was mistreated for his [[MyBrainisBig deformity]] until he came to believe that he was the most perfect being in the universe. Then he found an [[{{Precursors}} Endless]] cloning facility and decided to spread '[[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide perfection]]' throughout the galaxy.
141	* ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'':
142	** In the first ''VideoGame/Fallout1'', the Master of the Super Mutants tries to make his creations this, he even uses the trope name in one of his speeches. Emphasis on ''tries'' because he didn't take into account two variables: the Vault Dweller putting a stop to his plan and, most importantly, the fact that the Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) makes the Super Mutants infertile. If you talk to him about the latter flaw, he will realize that everything he's done was AllForNothing and is DrivenToSuicide.
143	** The Enclave from ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' considers everyone outside of their group to be a mutant that must be eliminated by any means necessary. Ironically, their living weapon, Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan, is a cybernetic Super Mutant himself, but he doesn't see himself as that.
144	** Similar to the Enclave, the Institute from ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' is incredibly xenophobic to those outside their organization and as such they conduct horrific experiments on those they kidnap or send synths, robots and Super Mutants to do their dirty work.
145	* The encyclopedia in ''VideoGame/GoldenSunDarkDawn'' heavily suggests that the [[{{Precursors}} ancestral Adepts]] were like this: their term for {{Muggles}} as an insult (roughly equal to "good-for-nothing"), and it is stated on-screen that they enslaved the beastmen to build [[spoiler:[[LightIsNotGood Apollo Sanctum]], where concentrated energy is strong enough to kill anyone... even ''with'' protective gear]].
146	* The Stone Summit of ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' believed this of dwarves and tried to enforce their vision of enslaving all non-dwarves in the Shiverpeaks.
147	** A more comic version is the Asura, whose natural intelligence leads them to look down on all other races as useful primarily for labor. Somewhat less comic are the Inquest, who exemplify the worst aspects of this belief, and the past attempts of the Asura to exterminate the intelligent skrit due to them being "vermin".
148	* The Viscanti in ''VideoGame/{{Lusternia}}'' - which is particularly ironic, since they were transformed by TheCorruption into a race of amoral mutants. They inbreed extensively to maintain their blood purity, and have no qualms about enslaving, murdering, and ''eating'' lesser races, though they do have a certain respect for the (markedly less intelligent) [[TheBerserker Taurian]] and [[MightyGlacier Orclach]] races, who they often utilize as front-line warriors.
149	** To a lesser extent, the Merian race. Their claim to being a master race is a little more justified, considering their long, illustrious history and innate intelligence, and they're much more accepting of other races (though still arrogantly self-assured about their own superiority). However, it was also the Merians who inadvertently released the aforementioned [[TheCorruption corruption]]. Unsurprisingly, the Merian and Viscanti ''hate'' each other.
150	* The leviathans in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''.
151	-->"We were the first, the apex race. We will survive."
152	** The Protheans as well, although they were more of a "Master ''Culture''". Javik says that many species eventually called themselves "Prothean" after being conquered.
153	** It is occasionally mentioned that some human biotics develop the attitude that they are the "evolution of humanity" and superior to other humans either because they're megalomaniacs to begin with or in response to anti-biotic prejudice, though this only comes up in one minor mission in the first game.
154	* The BigBad from ''VideoGame/MoonDiver'', Faust, is a child entity with godlike powers that believes the human race to be disgusting, self-conceited and extremelly arrogant and thus unworthy to inherit Earth from their Creator, so he takes it upon himself to drive them to extinction and replace them with a non-organic monstrous race of his own creation, which he sees as better-adapted and more deserving of taking over the planet.
155	* Grandmaster Meio in ''VideoGame/{{Strider}}'' wishes to exterminate all life on Earth so he can repopulate it with life created by his own hand. In the [[VideoGame/StriderArcade first two games]], Grandmaster Meio does this to justify his position as [[GodhoodSeeker the one and only God of Earth]], while [[VideoGame/Strider2014 the 2014 version]] directly address this trope stating how he's been disappointed in the people of Earth for "squandering" the gifts he has given them and his plan to replace them with a "perfect race" of his own making.
156	** Subverted in ''Strider 2'', which establish the Earth to be populated by Grandmaster Meio's created human race, which proves to be even worse than the original humans, bringing both Earth and themselves to the verge of extinction in the 2000 years between games. This is bad enough that Meio himself decides to ditch Earth entirely and search a new planet to start over.
157	* The Zuul from ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' are an artificially created race of {{Super Soldier}}s who believe in a divine purpose for their race, which is to enslave and kill off every other species but their own and their own creators, whom they dub the "Great Masters". WordOfGod says this is partially due to culture and partially built-in instinct; the Zuul were bred by a race of AbusivePrecursors as a living bio-weapon to exterminate other civilizations. In-game, making [=NAP=]s and alliances with Zuul is all but impossible: Their default state towards everyone is war.
158	** Slightly subverted in the sequel, where a faction of the Zuul breaks away and allies itself with the Liir. This is partly due to the Liir using their own PsychicPowers to imprint their views into their minds.
159	** Said "Great Masters" show up in the sequel. As can be expected from someone who would create the Zuul for use as tools, every last one of them (there are only seven left, but that's not about to stop them) have a slightly inflated sense of their importance ''vis a vis'' everything else in the galaxy and want to kill or enslave everything else.
160	* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', the fourth expansion, brings us the [[AbusivePrecursors Mo]][[DespotismJustifiestheMeans gu]], who fit this trope to a T. Let's see: AlwaysChaoticEvil? Check. FantasticRacism towards everyone but them? Check. Built an [[TheEmpire Empire]] by [[DespotismJustifiestheMeans enslaving the other races]] of Pandaria? Check. Their leaders are [[EvilOverlord despots who rule by iron fist and/or terror]], and becoming one involves executing a KlingonPromotion? Check. Created a ServantRace to police their empire for them, and created and army of {{Living Statue}}s [[spoiler:by [[AndIMustScream transfering the soul of captured slaves into the statues]]]] when said race rebelled? Check and check. They are back to try to conquer Pandaria, enslave it's inhabitants and kill them if they don't submit? Check, but arguably they wouldn't want to [[AbsoluteXenophobe exterminate everyone]] and would leave some population alive to be enslaved, especially since [[spoiler: their dark magics are [[PoweredbyaForsakenChild powered by fear]], and arguably not having slaves to bully/[[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] into fearing them would leave them unable to use magic.]]
161	** Garrosh, warchief of the Horde and BigBad of the fourth expansion, has shown some belief that this applies to the Orcs, and many of his elite soldiers agree. He looks down on Goblins and Blood Elves as useful but unreliable; he despises the Forsaken and views them as little more than cannon fodder; and he openly mocks the Darkspear for their long-standing difficulties reclaiming the Echo Isles, while ignoring or not caring to learn the reason why (Most of their numbers were enslaved by Zalazane, and as evidenced by their NPC presence in vanilla up until wrath, were occupied with backing the Orcs in their campaigns). It is rather telling that while visiting the former heart of the Mogu Empire, he ''praised'' the Mogu's approach to ruling.
162	*** This trend becomes evem more evident after the other races of the Horde rebel against Garrosh. Now Garrosh forces, composed of the aforementioned orc supremacists and goblin mercenaries whose loyalty can be bought, has taken to call themselves "[[NoTrueScotsman The True Horde]]", and are at war with basically the entire rest of the world.
163	** The Grimtotem believe that the Tauren are the true masters of Kalimdor, and all other races should be driven out or exterminated.
164	** ''Warlords of Draenor'' offers the Arakkoa and the Ogres who both believe themselves to be the true masters of Draenor. They are both {{Vestigial Empire}}s having lost most of their land and power in conflicts with each other and the Draenei, but firmly believe it is their right to rule the world. The Ogres view the other races as nothing more than slaves for labor and entertainment while the Arakkoa are more likely to exterminate other races.
165	* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'':
166	** Taken to its illogical conclusion: The Grineer are a race of clones, grown in industrial quantities, based off a few "perfect" genetic templates. Except the genetic templates have degraded significantly, leaving the clones as [[CloneDegradation sickly mutants who can only live a decade or two]] [[{{Cyborg}} and need constant cybernetic enhancements to survive]]. Not to mention it's doubtful that the original genetic templates were that great either, since the Grineer were designed as a SlaveRace. The Grineer ignore all this and constantly rant about their genetic superiority, and deem all other races as fit only to be ruled.
167	** The New Loka syndicate consider unaugmented humanity, before any {{Transhuman}} enhancements, to be the only "pure" race. It's to the point that they lionize the Tenno while hating the warframes that they use exclusively. The problem is ''everyone'' in the Origin System is transhuman at this point, including New Loka. They nearly have a breakdown when they discover that [[spoiler:the Silver Grove, their most sacred site, was actually created artificially by an Orokin]]. However, [[CharacterDevelopment they eventually calm down and decide that artificially created life can still be worth saving]].
168	** The Arbiters of Hexis syndicate believe that the Tenno are more than just heroes, but destined for even greater things. They are not Tenno themselves, however.
169	* Both the Tha'Roon and the Marines in ''VideoGame/WarWind'' consider themselves to be this, actively trying to subdue all other factions.
170	* ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' is pretty much the only UsefulNotes/WorldWarII game in recent memory to pull absolutely '''no''' punches in depicting just how socially reactionary, racist, genocidal and ''[[NightmareFuel downright terrifying]]'' the Nazi ideology was, particularly this aspect of it. As it turns out, if anything, 14 years of controlling the planet after their [[StupidJetpackHitler completely ill-begotten and undeserved]] [[VillainWorld victory over the Allies]] has given them plenty of time to buy into their Ubermensch bullshit, so they're even worse about it than they were in real life.
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174	* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Salem once argued to Ozma that the second incarnation of humanity were inferior, arguing that their guidance was required for creatures that were literally "godless". After their daughter demonstrated the ability to use magic, Salem suggested that they wipe out the "inferior" humanity, and replace them. This was the final nail in their marriage, and the beginning of their ancient war.
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178	* ''Webcomic/{{Galaxion}}'' has Miesti, {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s with a decidedly [[Series/StargateSG1 Goa'uld]] outlook. No glowing eyes, though.
179	* Aylee's species from ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance''. They see it as their goal to devour every living thing in the universe that isn't one of them (though Leon makes a possible exception for flowers).
180	* The elves in ''WebComic/EightBitTheater''. They're actually every bit as stupid as everyone else.
181	* ''{{Webcomic/Spinnerette}}'': The neo-Nazis naturally advocate the idea that they're part of this, and try to get Greta on their side by citing her being German. She points out that she's actually Brazilian (of German descent) and suggests the Jews are actually the master race as they claimed they're ruling the world. When the Nazis retort the Jews ''cheated'' at this, she innocently notes how this master race idea apparently has lots of rules.
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185	* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', the white supremacist groups -- particularly Empire Eighty-Eight and Fenrir's Chosen -- subscribe to this philosophy.
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189	* [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFireNation The Fire Nation]] from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. They believe fire to be the "superior element" of the four, and their propaganda casts their war of conquest as a glorious mission to share their greatness and prosperity with other cultures.
190	* The Highbreed in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', believe themselves to be this, arguing they were the first race in the universe (of course, there is most likely no way to prove if they are right or not). This attitude also drives their FreudianExcuse of attempting to wipe out all other life in the universe: they were so obsessed with making themselves "pure" that they ''sterilized'' themselves from excessive inbreeding and are slowly dying out. Their entire plan is just a SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum designed to wipe out every other race just because they can't stand the thought of any "inferior" race outliving them.
191	* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': Fanon usually takes this approach towards the [[Characters/InvaderZimIrkenEmpire Irken Empire]] -- that they're not just taking over the universe ForTheEvulz, but because they view themselves as the superior race. Some pieces of dialogue do support this:
192	-->'''Zim:''' I'd just like to say that if I were a member of an alien race -- ''[[HughMann which I'm not]]'' -- I'd have to take this opportunity to say -- filthy Earth creatures! It is clear who the superior species is! Isn't it? ''Isn't it?!'' You stink!
193	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' episode "Baby, It's Cold Outside", King Charlatan declared penguins were the superior race and attempted to exterminate all others by triggering an EndlessWinter.
194	* In ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'', the CatFolk of TheEmpire of Thundera are a {{Proud Warrior Race\|Guy}} who are [[CatsAreSuperior genuinely excellent]] fighters, have an [[TheOrder order]] of KungFuWizard[=/=]{{Magic Knight}}s and possess powerful {{Ancient Artifact}}s. As a result, they do much CulturalPosturing around believing their own press, that they were and are the great civilizers of their planet, who "brought law and order to a [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals world of warring animals]]", conveniently justifying [[AnimalJingoism jingoistic]] FantasticRacism against other [[BeastMan Animals]]. They place minorities like [[{{Dogfaces}} Dogs]] in a FantasticGhetto to be victimized by "Alley Cats", while in their war with enemy the [[LizardFolk Lizards]], the Cats [[MadeASlave enslave]] the hungry Lizards they catch raiding crops (due to the Cats' monopolization of arable land) even [[VigilanteExecution lynching]] them, if they feel like it. A FantasticCasteSystem is also in effect, with tailed Cats confined to a life of poverty in the slums, while tailless BlueBlood live lives of privilege, and only Lions have [[KingOfBeasts right-to-rule]].
195	* The ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' episode "Operation: Rebirth" has this with discussion on the SuperSoldier experiment used on ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.
196	-->'''Logan:''' The idea was to create super soldiers for UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.\
197	'''Xavier:''' [[InvokedTrope A master race]]?\
198	'''Logan:''' Mmmrr... these were the good guys. They didn't mean it like that.\
199	'''Xavier:''' Yes, they never do. At first.
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203	* The ruling class of [[UsefulNotes/AncientGreece ancient Sparta]] had a major case of this going on, thus becoming the trope namer for TheSpartanWay. They practiced strict eugenic breeding and mass infanticide in order to weed out the weak. Then they made the attainment of full citizenship conditional on completing an incredibly brutal military training regimen. Ultimately the system became self-defeating however. Since the citizens of the most ideal fitness were the warrior class, attrition took its toll on them over time. Combined with a comparatively low birth rate and deliberately high infant mortality, the population of "superior" Spartans eventually declined below the point where they could sustain their master race.
204	* The UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars are ''widely'' based on subjective measures of quality and superiority; but one thing fans of any platform tend to agree on is that many PC gamers are supremacists [[SeriousBusiness who look down on people for using consoles]] instead of [[SeriousBusiness blowing more than necessary cash on high-end gaming computers]]. So much so, in fact, that PC gamers are often explicitly referred to tongue-in-cheek as [[GodwinsLaw "the glorious PC gaming Master Race"]], which originated as a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech joke]] from WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation regarding control schemes. These days [[InsultBackfire PC gamers themselves use this title quite often]], and it has become the tongue-in-cheek slogan for those who prefer creating their own powerful [=PCs=][[note]]Which ''[[AceCustom absolutely]]'' blow consoles out of the water, [[CrackIsCheaper at the cost of a small fortune]][[/note]] or the freedom of choice that comes with not being on a [[MyWayOrTheHighway closed system]].
205	* Most infamously, this was the whole basis of Nazi (TropeNamer) and Nordicist ideology, and racial supremacist ideology in general.
206	** They believed that Nordics (northern Europeans) were superior to everyone else, including the other four European races, defined as "Alpine" (most Western/Central Europeans, e.g. most French, most Austrians, Slovaks, Czechs, northern Italians), "Mediterranean" (most Southern Europeans, e.g. Greeks, central/southern Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, southern French), "Dinaric" (most Balkanites, e.g. Croats, Albanians, Bosniaks), and East Baltic (most Eastern Europeans, e.g. Russians, Belarusians, Poles, Ukrainians). They also claimed Ancient Greece and Rome as being ruled by "Nordic" nobles based on the fact that (supposedly) some of their leaders had light eyes and hair. They did the same to the Chinese, the Scythians, the Mongols, the Phoenicians, and the old Turks, and several others. One particularly amusing tidbit from Hans Günther's "The Races of European History" (favorite race-science book of Adolf Hitler) argues that Genghis Khan ''must'' have been a Nordic man ruling over inferior 'Eastern Asiatics', because of [[CircularReasoning "the very un-Asiatic behavior of the leaders of Mongolian and Turkish tribes, who led their tribesmen on far journeys of conquest, a distinctly Nordic thought process."]]
207	** Note that the Nazis did not believe ''all'' Germans were Nordic, and that some were Alpine or even partly East Baltic instead; Gunther and Hitler both framed this as an issue to correct via selective breeding. As for the 'Nordic race', the Nazis defined it physically as: "tall stature (average 1.74 meters), long-headed, narrow-faced, with prominent chin; narrow nose with high bridge; soft, smooth or wavy light hair; deep-sunk light eyes; rosy-white skin."
208	** The Nazis actually believed the World Ice Theory because 1) it rejects Einstein's Relativity (rejecting the Jews is good enough), 2) its originator was an Austrian, and 3) the ice could explain Aryan supremacy. Atlantis, the HollowEarth, Lemuria, Mu... If there's a fringe idea, the Nazis hijacked it. The World Ice Theory [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt ends with the Earth crashing into the sun]], so what's the point?
209	** Nazis, while the TropeNamer, did not have a real concept of "white" (they felt East Baltic Europeans to be almost as inferior as blacks, and no Europeans to be truly equal to the Nordics), so there were non-Europeans who they considered Aryan ("Aryan" being an umbrella grouping which included the aforementioned Nordics). These included East Asians (referred to as ''Culture Preservers'', and the Nazis were particularly fond of the Japanese's perfectionist ideals of [[HonorBeforeReason Bushido]]), Iranians and Indian brahmins (natch), Tibetans (according to Theosophy, Tibet was the Aryan's primordial homeland), and the Sioux (due to Hitler's love of Creator/KarlMay novels). Only the Sioux were really hostile to the "Aryan" label, because it challenged ''their'' mythic phylogeny. Not that the Nazis cared what the actual definition of "Aryan" was (tip: the actual Aryans don't include anyone north or west of Iraq).[[note]]The term "Aryan" in fact originates from the UsefulNotes/{{India}}n and UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}ian cultures ("Aryan" is a popular male name in the Indian subcontinent and Iranian plateau). Linguists used the term to refer to the Indo-Iranian languages (a branch of the Indo-European languages), before white supremacists began applying the term to all Indo-European peoples and assumed the original Aryans to be white. In Nazi Germany, this led to the "Gypsy Question" since the Roma ("Gypsies") originated from the "Aryans" of India, but they were still killed in UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust for lacking the "racial purity" of Nordic Germans. The Finns and Japanese (the former were thought to be of a race called 'Inner Asiatics' like the Tatars and some Mongols, and therefore not Europeans) were declared "Honorary Aryans" and Nazi party ideologues went to great pains to explain this label.[[/note]]
210	** Averted ([[FairForItsDay to a relative extent]]) with Italian Fascist leader UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini, who in addition to being nowhere near the anti-Slav and antisemite that Hitler was (many prominent Italian fascists were Jews), wanted to unify his country and and stamp out what he saw as a "Nordic inferiority complex" among the Italian people. Contemporary racial theory held that Italy was mostly of the so-called Mediterranean race, with some Alpines and Nordics in the north, and that Northern Italians therefore qualified as racially distinct from central/southern Italians; Hitler himself called Mussolini (from Emilia-Romagna, in the north) a fabulous example of the Alpine race while also saying that the ruling class of Rome, originally Nordic, denigrated itself by mixing with the Mediterranean masses. This really annoyed Mussolini, who very much wanted the perception that the people of Italy were of separate races to disappear, which prompted Hitler and various northern Italian fascists to downplay this part of their propaganda, eventually characterizing Mediterraneans as sharing a close link with Nordics. Notably there's a quote from Mussolini saying race is a feeling, not a reality and that the racial pride was a delirium. However, once Italy was fully aligned with Germany in, 1938 they enacted antisemitic laws too and issued a "Manifesto on Race" which echoed German Nazi views, although even then their policies were less vehement, executed mainly by pressure from the Nazis. The Holocaust only began there once the Germans occupied northern Italy (albeit Italian fascists aided in it).
211	* The reason [[TruthInTelevision why various supremacist groups and governments exist after all]], with most being violent and indiscriminate on races and ethnicities other than themselves, which is surprising seeing the ''gall'' they exhibit when [[LaserGuidedKarma one of their own is arrested under worse charges]].
212	* More recently, UsefulNotes/NorthKorea and UsefulNotes/{{China}} has given up on even pretending to be communist and adopted something which very much resembles race-based fascism, but with a twist.
213	** Koreans are the "cleanest race", but they're also child-like and guileless because they're so darn pure. This conveniently explains why they need a strong leader to protect them and why government censorship is necessary to preserve their innate innocence. The Americans and the Japanese are AlwaysChaoticEvil, of course. The Chinese are second best to the Koreans, but still not good enough for race-mixing. North Korean women who get pregnant from Chinese men are forced to have abortions, in order to avoid the "pure" Korean race being defiled. There are claims the government has began separating disabled people from the rest and or killing them, again to maintain "purity" for the race (which echoes Nazi policy).
214	** The Chinese Communist Party (and the nationalist [read:Jingoist] population) believes that the Han Chinese are superior to any race, and one that is destined by an ancient decree to rule the world, with them as the highest ruling caste. They view minorities (and those not of the Han) as inferiors treated as second class citizens and slaves at best, or as vermin that needed to be erased at worst. They are friends with Russia and North Korea, but simply view them as an honorary vassal (rather than as equals). Conversely, they view UsefulNotes/{{Taiwan}} as a separatist group and a race traitor for the gal of declaring themselves to be separate from the mainland, and has vowed to seize the island through force if necessary.
215	* A variant of this was common in the more tyrannical communist regimes of the 20th century, but with social classes rather than races. Most people harassed and/or interrogated and/or sent to 're-education camps' under Stalin and Mao were well-to-do-farmers, landlords, priests, lawyers, doctors, journalists, managers, clerks, accountants, schoolteachers, university lecturers and researchers, scientists, civil servants, police and military officers - jobs with 'bourgeoisie', 'rightist', 'capitalist', and/or 'feudal' leanings. This was all done in the name of empowering ''the peasantry/proletariat''. This even extended--and extends--to ''descendants'' of people from the wrong social classes, regardless of their own actual jobs. This is quite definitely ''not'' what Marx had in mind, but in the 1960s Maoist China needed targets for the Cultural Revolution and, well, [[PromotedToScapegoat there they were]]...
216	* Before the 20th Century, there was The Confederate States of America, which was ''literally'' founded upon "the great truth that the Negro is not Equal to the White man; that slavery, subjugation to the superior race, is its natural and normal condition", with several seceding states declaring that their reason for seceding from the United States was to protect their "peculiar institution". That's right, they rebelled against the US government for the sake of keeping black people as slaves. Despite the abolition of slavery, Afro-Americans were subject to racism and segregation due to Jim Crow laws that existed before 1965 too on this basis, most heavily in the South (with the former slaves essentially losing most rights after Reconstruction ended) though the North hardly was free of racism either (as one example, many "sundown towns" in the North forbade Black people (or Latinos, Asians etc.) from staying there past sundown (thus the name), let alone settling permanently either).
217	* One interesting example comes from Paraguay, which, in order to create a racially homogenous and 'superior' state, mandated interracial marriage between Spaniards and native groups for a number of years before the War of the Triple Alliance ended the Francia regime responsible. Even today Paraguay's population is mostly racially homogenous as a result.
218	* Going hand in hand with the Paraguay entry above, Latin America struggle with downplayed examples of this tropes. While nowhere as bad as the Nazis and other modern example, the Caucasian man (especially those of origin from the Iberian peninsula) is top of the traditional hierarchy in former Hispanic and Luso colonies and people of various admixtures with white people taking up different levels of social strata based on their purity,skin color, and facial features with those mestizos closer to pure European being placed higher on the ladder. There were multiple attempts at "blanquemento" policies across the continent where government officials tried to bring in new immigrants from Europe and North America to make the already relatively caucasoid castia class even more pure and to whitify the wide mostly dark skinned and indigenous or negroid general populace by interbreeding in hopes of making nations eventually replaced by white passing mestizos.
219	* Pretty much ''any'' racial group has its nutters who call themselves this.
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