Times where somebody is accused of being a Category Traitor in Live-Action Films.
- 22 July: When Breivik attempts to call up a far-right thinker in his defense, the man is clear that he wants nothing to do with him for being a murderous lunatic. Breivik dismisses him as a coward for this.
- Assassination Nation: The first person to be hacked and have their secrets released is the town mayor, who, after spending the last few decades being a stereotypical "family values" right-wing politician, is exposed as being Armored Closet Gay and publicly offs himself. Bex, a trans woman member of the main quartet of cast members, says that his history of stoking bigotry against the LGBTQ+ community expunged any right he might have had to her sympathy.
- In Avatar, the humans are invading the planet Pandora, destroying the environment and escalating their hostility against the native Na'vi population towards genocidal proportions. When the human protagonist lives among the aliens as one of them — using the titular Avatar technology — he begins to sympathize with their cause and ultimately decides to become a Na'vi and help them fight his fellow humans. Colonel Quaritch accuses him of "betraying his species." Jake answers with a Na'vi-like snarl, telling Quaritch exactly what he considers his "species" to be.
- In The Birth of a Nation, the "radical republicans" are implied to have betrayed the white race, especially with Stoneman himself having an extramarital affair with a black woman — leading him to give power to the evil mulatto who later tries to rape his daughter.
- One of the central themes/conflicts of BlacKkKlansman is whether Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer in the early 1970s, is a race-traitor for joining the police force.
- Nick Jakoby from Bright has to put up with other many other orcs calling him a race traitor for being a cop. In the end, after fulfilling an ancient prophecy and performing an act of true bravery, he gains acceptance from the orc community.
- There's a clear example of this in Chasing Amy when, after a conversation where she's joking around with her friends, Alyssa tells them she's dating a man.[after the room goes silent]
Friend: Well, we lost another one. - In the Holocaust docudrama Conspiracy (2001), some of the Nazi officials are concerned with the plight of German spouses of the German Jews they want to murder when those people's husbands and wives are taken away. Others counter that they feel they're "race traitors" anyway and should be treated as such. SS General Heinrich Mueller goes so far as to say that he'd happily throw them all on the same transport if it were up to him.
- Django Unchained:
- According to Django, a black American slave whom Doctor Schultz rescued from a slave trader and freed, there's nothing lower than a black slaver, who captures and sells other black people into slavery. Django hates such people even worse than head house slaves, who often treat other slaves just as badly as the white slaveowners do.
- Stephen, Candie's head house slave and Hypercompetent Sidekick, is portrayed as part this, part Quisling: he treats other slaves with cruelty while enjoying a relatively comfortable life as de facto Number Two of the household, despite being legally Candie's property. When Quentin Tarantino pitched Samuel L. Jackson about playing Stephen, Jackson made sure to emphasize to Tarantino that, for this reason, he was asking him to play the arguably single most despicable black character in the history of cinema.
- The Eagle (2011): Esca is clearly considered this by the Seal Prince when he helps Marcus escape with the Eagle. Later the Prince significantly kills his son for not waking him (at Esca's request) in front of them, saying it's the punishment for traitors.
- In The Handmaiden, Kouzuki is Korean but idolizes English and Japanese people and culture. He despises Korea and being Korean, earned money and power by accommodating himself to the Japanese when they occupied Korea and now denounces his nationality, aiming for full naturalization as Japanese. This serves to establish him as particularly vile to Korean audiences, even before the extent of his depravity is revealed; the equivalent for a Western audience would be something like a French Jew trying to become a German Nazi aristocrat during the occupation of Paris.
- A Hidden Life: Franz is accused of being a "traitor to his race" by a staunch believer in Nazism from his village.
- In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indy accuses Mola Ram of betraying Shiva — a deity that neither of them worshiped. Mola Ram was a priest of Kali, who in this particular setting seems to be the evil half of a black and white dualism, locked in eternal battle with the good deity Shiva. However, Indy is actually saying the phrase in order to activate a defense mechanism in the stones that will cause them to turn against Mola Ram, so it's more a case of Indy Ploy here if nothing else.
- In Kong: Skull Island, Lt. Colonel Packard has an antagonistic relationship with anti-war photojournalist Mason Weaver because he blames people in the media like her for the negative portrayal of the soldiers in Vietnam through their coverage, and causing America to pull out of the war. Packard never explicitly accuses Weaver of being a traitor to their country but his attitude toward her heavily implies this.
- In The Last Witch Hunter, Belial seems to consider all witches that don't support his plans to resurrect their queen to be this, despite the fact that when she was alive, she almost wiped out the human race and civilization, both of which the witches are part of in present day.
- In The Learning Tree, Marcus the "Angry Black Man" Stereotype has been thrown in jail in 1920s Kansas for assaulting a white man. When a black preacher comes to his cell mouthing platitudes about Jesus, Marcus reacts scornfully, calling the preacher an Uncle Tom.
- Loving (2016): The white authorities clearly see Richard as this for marrying outside the race, to the point where one repeatedly calls him "boy", a slur frequently used against African-American men. In fact too, the entire white community who he's from are deemed this, as they live and work with black people amicably (i.e. rejecting the racist social mores demanded).
- The McKenzie Break: Schluter accuses the Irish Captain Connor of betraying his people by serving in the British army.
- Aunt 13 and Buck Teeth-Soo in Once Upon a Time in China adopted many Western customs and are regularly accused of being this by their fellow Chinese, including the main protagonist Wong Fei Hung in a Moment of Weakness. However, Buck Teeth's ability to speak perfect, unaccented English has saved the day twice in the first film, and Aunt 13's love of photography is ultimately treated as a reflection to create art.
- In Pixels, the Max Headroom alien accuses the Q*Bert alien of this, as Q*Bert decides to help the protagonists stop his species' destruction of Earth.
- In Pretty in Pink, "richie" Blaine dates Andie, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. When he takes her to a party at a large house, his friend Steff calls him out on it.Steff: Nobody appreciates your sense of humor, you know. As a matter of fact, everyone's just about to puke from you. If you've got a hard-on for trash, don't take care of it around us.
- Tales from the Hood 2: Councilman Henry Bradley, a Republican who is pushing for closing down polling stations in largely black (Democratic) neighborhoods in exchange for the returned endorsement of the Republican running for Governor, as he has aspirations to become Mayor. This leads to Emmett Till deciding that his martyrdom was a Senseless Sacrifice, so he'd simply apologize to the white men for flirting with a white woman, rather than suffer his fatal beating at their hands for refusing to do so.
- Thunderheart: The Lakota dislike Ray as a man with a quarter Lakota ancestry who's an FBI agent, unsurprisingly, mocking him as the "Washington Redskin". Ray for his part returns the antipathy, disliking them at first as well and disclaiming that heritage.
- War for the Planet of the Apes: Any ape who betrays the tribe and joins the humans is called "donkey".
- Within Our Gates, one of the earliest surviving feature films made by a black director (Oscar Micheaux), features "Old Ned", the preacher who grovels to white folks and says that black folks should know their place. He tells his congregation that blacks shouldn't worry about things like education and the vote because they're going to heaven. In private, he feels ashamed.Ned: Again, I've sold my birthright. All for a miserable mess of pottage. Negroes and Whites — all are equal. As for me, miserable sinner, hell is my destiny.
- A more serious example is Efrem, easily the most despicable black character in the film. He is described as an "incorrigible" tattletale, who frequently drinks his "master's" liquor, and whose only "pleasure was to take from one place to another" any gossip he can obtain. He also wastes no time in sucking up to white supremacists by wrongfully accusing fellow African-American Jasper Landry of murder, babbling about the accusation to every white shop in town, and even leading to a mob forming to hunt down the Landry family, forcing them to evacuate. In the end, the mob gets impatient with him after a week of failing to find the Landry family, turns on Efrem, and lynches him.
