Fantastic Racism / Live-Action Films

Examples of Fantastic Racism in live-action films.

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• In The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Black Lectroids and Red Lectroids have a history of racial tensions; the Big Bad of the movie (a Red Lectroid) is described as his planet's version of Hitler.
• Matt Sykes of Alien Nation has a black partner (they're cops) at the beginning of the story but refers to the alien Newcomers as "slags" before he's been told that his new partner will be a Newcomer. Of course, by the end Matt has been converted.
• In Antopia, there are tensions between bees and ants. Mr. Bee describes ants as "dastardly." When Buzz turns himself into a bee, he’s faced with harassment from the ants in Antopia who claim "his kind aren't welcome here."
• In Artemis Fowl, even Mulch Diggums's fellow dwarves refuse to accept him as one of them, despite his claims of being a "giant dwarf," or Dwarfus Giganticus. Only Commander Root actually seems to have some acceptance, telling him that a giant dwarf is exactly what she needs. At the end of the film, the MI6 interrogator shouts to him "Get back here, you filthy dwarf!" and he shouts back "Dwarfus Giganticus!"
• James Cameron's Avatar is a perfect example of this. The interactions between the alien Na'vi and the humans parallels indigenous cultures meeting Western explorers and colonists. Most humans see the Na'vi as primitive savages to be exploited for their land's natural resources, while a few scientists genuinely want to communicate with and study them. The Na'vi are distrustful toward the humans, whom they see as greedy invaders and culturally inferior barbarians.
• In Babe, dogs and sheep do not get along well at all. Dogs hate sheep for being irredeemably stupid, although when the pig protagonist actually tries speaking with them, they seem no less intelligent than any of the other animals. Sheep hate dogs because they are descended from the Always Chaotic Evil wolves that used to kill them, although Fly is a gentle and maternal dog and Rex isn't exactly evil, just a bit of a gruff jerk (and not even a total one).
• Big Top Pee-wee, the sequel to Pee-wee's Big Adventure, has a very strange example in that the grumpy old people who live in the little town where Pee-Wee has his farm are prejudiced against circus performers. One of them even refuses service to them in his general store, abruptly saying that the store is closed even though the performers have already walked in! There's no specific reason given for the anti-circus animosity, except perhaps that circus people are naturally fun and the people in the town want to be miserable. (Humorously, a Real Life example of this occurred when Tim Burton turned down the offer to direct the sequel because he said circuses creeped him out.)
  • In Real Life, people in small towns often expected circus performers, carnival personnel, show people in general, and even peddlers—anyone who could commit an offence and then move on—to be liars, thieves, and cads…and did in fact treat them in exactly these ways.
• In Blade, pureblood vampires treat people who have been turned into vampires with disdain. And all vampires see human beings as "cattle", and even enslave them on the rare occasions when they don't convert them to vampirism. For that matter, Blade himself gets a Politically Incorrect Hero moment when he tells the vampire Big Bad: "You're nothing to me but another dead vampire."
• In Blade Runner, we have humans using "replicants", who are seen as Just a Machine. The racism aspect comes in when one of the characters refers to replicants as 'skin-jobs'. In one of the editions, a lampshade is hung on this, with the protagonist comparing him to the type of cop who used to call a black person a nigger. To make matters worse, replicants aren't machines at all; they're Artificial Humans who have been bred to be infertile slaves.
• Bright takes place in a world mankind always co-existed with fantastical creatures since the dawn of time, and orcs are hated by pretty much everyone else because their ancestors sided with a Dark Lord who nearly took over the world 2,000 years ago. Then there are the elves, who pretty much rule the world and are disliked by both orcs and humans for being snotty and arrogant, and those are the good ones, the villanous elves are so much worse.
• In The Brother from Another Planet, an escaped alien slave who looks like a black man is pursued by two of his own kind, who look like white men. It turns out that the aliens are actually oblivious to the slave's skin color. They enslaved him because he's got three toes.
• Cloud Atlas: Against fabricants — just look at Sonmi's attempt to attend a university lecture. By her time, however, actual racism is completely gone.
• Crimes of the Future (2022): The government is opposed to humans evolving into new distinct forms, prohibiting this by law. Brecken's mother even killed him as a result of him developing a mutation which lets him digest plastic, saying it made him inhuman.
• The Dark Crystal:
  • Before they united against the Skeksis, the Gelfling clans distrusted each other, with the possible exception of those who sent guards to the castle (the guard included, at the very least, Vapra, Stonewood, Spriton and Drenchen Gelflings who got along well with each other, though perhaps that's more owed to the discipline and camaraderie required for the job). One example of this racism is the time Juni, a Vapra Gelfling was sentenced to the Order of Lesser Service (Gelfling community service) after her parents caught her dating a Spriton Gelfling.
  • The Grottan arguably get hit with this the worst, since they are the most isolated of all the clans whereas the other six clans still maintain contact in some form (like through trading). Their Maudra is even the only one that doesn't show up for the coronation of Seladon, and judging by Seladon's reaction this is common for the Grottan.
  • They even look down on Pod People, with Duadran, the head of the Order of Lesser Services calling them the most filthy creatures on Thra. Although given the Podlings in question were actively playing in mud, this may have been meant literally.
• DC Extended Universe:
  • In Man of Steel, Zod has a hatred for anything he deems "inferior", which naturally includes humans, but his plan for using the Codex to create a new Krypton includes a fair bit of Fantastic Rascism against certain Kryptonians, as well.
    Zod: We'll start anew. We'll sever the degenerative bloodlines that led us to this state.
    Jor-El: And who will decide what bloodlines survive, Zod?... You?
  • In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, while a lot of people fear Superman because of his power, there are people who just flat out hate him for being an alien. When he arrives at the Senate hearing, a few "God Hates Aliens", and "Go Home" signs are seen in the largely hostile crowd. Bruce, while largely obsessed with the idea that Superman might be a threat to humanity, reveals his own xenophobia during their fight.
    Batman: You were never a god. You were never even a man.
• In District 9, aliens who arrive on Earth are treated as second-class citizens and forced into ghettos by the South African government. Parallels to apartheid are obvious, but the writer insists that it's not an allegory for apartheid. The film deals as much with hostility of black Africans toward the aliens as the white members of government. The director coaxed Enforced Method Acting performances from local South Africans by asking them what they thought of immigrants to use as "man on the street" criticisms of the aliens. The original short film, "Alive in Joburg," however, does specifically mention that the government used apartheid laws against the aliens.
• In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Newt Scamander is outraged because in the USA wizards and non-wizards (known as nomajs) are not allow to marry or befriend each other by law, something that apparently is frowned on in Europe. Probably an allegory of racial segregation that was common in the USA at the time and heavily criticized in most of Europe.
• In Gattaca, Designer Babies are so common that any one born through "old fashioned" means is thought to be inferior and can never get any decent job. The protagonist, himself one of the outcast, points out that discrimination is brought down to a science.
• Played for laughs in Jim Henson's Hey, Cinderella!. For some unspecified reason, no one but Cinderella and the prince are willing to listen to frogs. This means that poor Kermit spends the entire movie trying to clear up the misunderstandings, only to be ignored. The king also makes frogs the only exception to his proclamation that everyone in the kingdom is invited to the ball, and we later see that frogs aren't allowed to give testimony. We're also told that Cinderella's dog Rufus is unable to testify that she's telling the truth, but that might be justified as a dog being biased in favor of its owner.
• The Hobbit:
  • There were hints that there was racism towards the dwarves mirroring real-life Antisemitism and Antiziganism. Even Bilbo insensitively snapped a comment about the dwarves "not belonging anywhere" though he quickly apologized and was ashamed of it afterwards.
  • Also, Thorin openly dislikes elves and despises anything that is elvish due to his previous experience with them. He even is reluctant to wield Orcrist, a brilliant magic sword from the First Age just because it is elven-made.
  • Thranduil the Elf-king similarly has a very low opinion of the Dwarves. This gets explained further in the Extended Edition as the White Gems of Lasgalen they were spitefully keeping from him were a memento of his wife, and who he loved so much that even thousands of years after her death he could not speak her name.
  • Tolkien explicitly compared Dwarves to Jews in at least one of his collected letters. Their origin story has an echo of the sacrifice of Isaac, and their language resembles Hebrew.
  • Similarly, in The Lord of the Rings, only the bad guys tend to use the word "halfling" to refer to hobbits, and you sometimes can clearly see an irritated look on Merry or Pippin's face when they hear it. (Faramir is not a bad guy but he's hostile towards Frodo and Sam when he first meets them, interesting given he makes friends with Pippin later.)
• In The Happytime Murders, the puppets are established functioning as second class citizens in comparison to humans.
• In I, Robot, Spooner hates robots. His hatred of them stems from an experience, a car accident that sent him and another car into a freezing river, and a little girl was trapped in the other car. A passing robot calculated that it only had time to save one of them and that Spooner had a higher chance of surviving, so it saved him instead of the girl. In real life, rescue workers and medics are expected to make such decisions regarding who gets care first, it's called Triage. However, Spooner argues that a human would have understood that regardless of the girl's low survival chance, the life of a small child should take priority over the life of an adult.
• Xenophobia is a major theme of the 1953 movie It Came from Outer Space, as the aliens believe their hideous appearance will inevitably lead to conflict with humanity.
• Jupiter Ascending:
  • Splices are generally looked down upon.
  • Earth as well is looked down upon, but it is done subtly. For example, the Abrasax siblings don't refer to Earth as a planet, but as an industry. They treat the people as a commodity.
• The soviet socio-political satire film Kin-Dza-Dza! features this based entirely on whether a device pointed at someone shows a green light or an orange light, dividing them between "patsaks" and "chatlanians", the planet that most of the movie is set on is owned by the chatlanians and so the patsaks need to wear a bell clipped to their nose, squat in front of anyone who is higher than them in society and perform in cages. Add this to the fact that they have absolutely no rights and you have the basis for a near perfect example of this trope.
  • It also should be noted that, unlike many other examples on this page, patsaks weren't portrayed as being any better then chatlanians. On planets that belong to patsaks chatlanians have it exactly as bad as patsaks do on theirs.
• The Last Witch Hunter: the Witch Queen despises humans and considers them to be a blight upon Earth, which should be rightfully witches'. On the opposite side, several characters accuse Kaulder of witch-hating.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Played with in Thor. While there is no little amount of bad blood between Asgardians and Frost Giants, Odin adopts Loki, a Frost Giant by birth, raises him as one of his own, and has no prejudice against him. Oddly enough, Loki thinks that destroying the entire Jotun race would please his adoptive father. Thor's attitude towards the Frost Giants at first and Loki's comment below hint that racism and unacceptance are still present in Asgard.
    Odin: I wanted only to protect you from the truth.
    Loki: What, because I... I... I'm the monster parents tell their children about at night?
    • This essay interprets Loki's motives as Internalised Racism.
  • Rocket Raccoon gets treated with this in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). The Collector and one of the Nova officers call him demeaning things like pet and hamster while Drax and Gamora call him vermin and rodent. Plus it's implied that many people underestimate him or don't take him seriously just because he's an animal.
• Men in Black:
  • The Bug clearly despises humans, and refers to them by a variety of unflattering terms, including "undeveloped pond-scum," "monkey-boys," "meat-sacks" and "milk-suckers." The rest of his species, according to K, are probably very much the same.
  • This seems to be a major factor of most aliens as K explains that the Men In Black aren't supposed to have a universal translator since human thought is so primitive it's considered an infectious disease in the better galaxies.
  K: That almost makes ya proud, doesn't it?
  • Agent J uses this to provoke the Space Cockroach into attacking him by crushing normal cockroaches under his feet.
  Agent J: Don't start nothin'... (squish!) ...won't be nothin' (squish)
• While never stated outright, The Muppets seem to be social minorities and outcasts in many of their movies in contrast to the usually successful and exclusive human societies.
  • Of course, this could just be because their variety show, while entertaining to us, is considered inept within their fictional universe. And even with that, popular human celebrities were (almost) always thrilled to be appearing on their show, and rarely seemed to notice that the Muppets were not human.
• In Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the way that Blackbeard (and judging by the number of skeletons, numerous others that have gone questing after the Fountain) treat the mermaids. They even refer to her as "the creature" and revel in how cruel and torturous her suffering and death will be.
  • Although to be fair there were legitimate reasons to regard the creature this way, as the mermaids were highly predatory (essentially sharks) and she eventually killed even the man who rescued her simply because it was in her nature to do so (although the last bit is still debated).
• Used all over the Planet of the Apes franchise. Apes have prejudice among each other due to Fantastic Caste System; Chimps are scientists and scholars, Orangutans are politicians and religious leaders and Gorillas are soldiers. Zira mentions that Dr. Zaius openly discriminates against Chimps and she herself holds prejudices against Gorillas regarding them with disgust. All apes treat humans as inferior animals (and to be fair, they do act as such) and only a few Chimps are more or less kind but as much as people is kind to wild animals (an anti-vivisection society exist tho). Once the existence of sentient humans is discovered the prejudice don't go away. It gets even more complex with further movies: in Beneath the Planet of the Apes we learn that post-human telepathic mutants exist and they regard normal humans as primitives and apes as barbaric. In Escape from the Planet of the Apes is the other way around and although Zira and Cornellius are well regarded by the mainstream society (as an oddity of sorts) the main antagonist holds a hatred against them fearful of the ape-dominated future. In Conquest of the Planet of the Apes we learn that Humans Are Bastards having apes as an Slave Race which is the reason they revolt in the first place, and finally in Battle for the Planet of the Apes the ape-human-mutant distrust still exists (thus the title), however it shows at the end that at least humans and apes learn to live like equals.
• In Pleasantville, when people and places start turning color, a backlash movement starts to keep Pleasantville "pleasant" and Deliberately Monochrome. This involves hanging signs saying "NO COLOREDS" and starting anti-color riots. It even features a courtroom scene that references the one in To Kill a Mockingbird, with the residents of color segregated to the balconies.
• In Predators, its revealed that the "Classic" Predators are hunted by the larger, more aggressive newer Predators. One of the classic Predators is kept chained up as a prisoner in the Predator camp, and combats the leader of the new Predators when released, but is killed.
• In Prehistoric Women, blondes are considered inferior by the ruling tribe of brunettes.
• The Revenge of the Nerds movies, although technically realistic (aside from being comedies) still uses the Nerds as stand-ins for Real Life persecuted minorities like ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. In the third movie they even organize a general strike in college with signs of "Nerd Power" and "Nerd Pride", and reference Nerd culture and Nerd Civil Rights. Of course, how "fantastic" this is may depend on your view, of course that anti-Nerd bullying is Truth in Television however how much urban tribes can be equalized to minorities is still under debate. There are some jurisdiction that do include attacking members of an urban tribe or subculture to be officially a hate crime.
• A very low key one in Sky High (2005) but those on "Hero Support" are often looked down upon by those deemed hero worthy. Said the least it becomes a plot point later on.
• In Starship Troopers, a TV presenter says he finds the very idea of intelligent Bugs offensive. This undercurrent is also hinted at after a soldier continues to angrily shoot an already dead Bug, covering himself with alien gore.
  Soldier: Ain't much to look at after you scrape them off your boot.
• In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, most of the crew of the Enterprise are prejudiced against the Klingons with only Spock and McCoy feeling otherwise. The Klingons are not that different with most of them also holding anti-Human feelings, but similarly some among them want to bury the hatchet.
• Star Wars has a few examples:
  • Droids, while apparently sentient, are clearly treated like second-class citizens at best and chattel slaves at worst. Also, Wuher the grouchy barman at the Mois Eisley Catina hates droids. While some people have pointed out that droids would just take up space in a dining establishment, the barman clearly states, "We don't serve their kind here," and "We don't want them," suggesting that he was deliberately withholding some sort of potential service.
    • In the Expanded Universe book Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina it's revealed that Wuher actually Hates Everyone Equally, but just lashes out at droids because they're the only creatures who won't fight back. The book does mention the proprietor, a Wookiee named Chalmun, who genuinely dislikes droids, but has a reason: they do not drink, and therefore occupy valuable space.
    • It is explained elsewhere in the EU that the Empire would use droids to spy on the bar patrons, making it impossible to carry out their dealings; hence the ban on droids.
    • It may also be because of the Clone Wars.
    • On the other hand, C-3PO is fantastically racist towards Jawas, Wookiees, and Humans.
  • The Empire is practically this incarnate and also has Fantastic Chauvinism. They not only hate non-humans, but specifically developed a virus to kill them in the most graphic, painful, and brutal way possible. They even have their own policy focused around racism, NhM, or Non-huMan. Grand Admiral Thrawn, one of the galaxy's best tacticians, was only accepted into the Imperial military's ranks by the Emperor himself, and that was only because of his tactical genius. Palpatine actually didn't have this view (he thinks anyone who isn't him is inferior to him), this was just something that was easy to exploit. The misery it caused all non-humans also likely appealed to his sadistic and petty side as well.
    • A special case were the various “Near-Humans” — beings in the Star Wars galaxy who would basically be humans except for their “unnatural” skin colors and/or relatively slight morphological differences. The stance taken by the Empire toward these peoples could be very inconsistent: Shug Ninx was denied a starship mechanic’s position at an Imperial base for being half near-human, while Thrawn gradually assumed control of the entire Imperial Navy! (Of course, Ninx had only three fingers on each hand, while Thrawn, despite being blue-skinned and red-eyed, had all the required ten fingers and bled red blood, so go figure.) Generally, the criterion for admitting near-humans into the ranks of the Empire seemed to be not physical appearance per se, but whether it could be determined that the person could be proven to have solely human ancestors. But this could be very difficult: short of a very precise DNA test, there was no way to be sure whether a human-looking “alien” was a descendant of humans subject to divergent evolution or a completely unrelated species subject to convergent evolution. The best double-check was probably an analysis of the Perlemian Trade Route — the first hyperspace lane used by ancient humans striking out from Coruscant — since any human-looking species found in the northeastern corner of the galaxy around that route were very likely to be “lost colonists” drawn from human stock, having evolved to look more “alien” since the earliest days of the Old Republic. Thus, it is reasonable to conclude that the Bimms of Bimmisaari and the Codru-ji of Munto Codru probably evolved from isolated human populations. However, complicating this theory is the uncannily advanced technology of the Celestials (the very first civilized species in the history of the galaxy), which made it possible for star systems (the Corellian system most famously) to be artificially created via “planetary repulsors”; thus, ancient humans (assuming the Celestials had plucked a few of them off of Coruscant) could have been moved to any point in the galaxy from the very beginning…meaning that all near-humans in Star Wars could ultimately be human. Or maybe they just look human. Who knows?
• Theodore Rex show us a movie wherein humans interact with genetically-modified dinosaurs, which are a discriminated-against minority. The police chief mentions Theodore as the station's "Token Dino", and Coltrane (who is black) is annoyed at the idea of having him as a crime-fighting partner.
• In the Michael Bay's Transformers Film Series:
  • Megatron has a justifiable reason. He was kept frozen for centuries, and his body was poked, prodded and studied by the guys at Sector 7, in order to help create modern technology, whilst referring to him with the demeaning acronym of "N. B. E.-01". And apparently, he was conscious the entire time this was happening.
  • Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen: the Fallen's only apparent reason for wanting to destroy Earth and starting the war that destroyed his homeworld was a general and strong hatred for humanity. Considering on his first encounter they were as dangerous to him as ants are to humans, one can only wonder.
  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Decepticons planning on enslaving the human race to rebuild Cybertron. Some humans give as good as they get and treat Transformers as just machines even though they are really Mechanical Lifeforms. This is one of the reasons Sentinel Prime hates humanity and is working alongside the Decepticons to enslave them. As a Prime he was a living god on Cybertron. On Earth, he's treated with as much respect as a toaster.
  • Transformers: Age of Extinction: Everything involving the work of Harold Attinger and Joshua Joyce treat the Cybertronians as a science project. Joyce explicitly calls Optimus "simply metal," which is enough encouragement that Optimus is ready to leave Earth to their own fate afterwards.
• In Underworld (2003) and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, the two races of immortals, vampire and werewolf spend entire centuries killing each other over a grudge. The vampires are more typically racist, calling the Lycans (werewolves) animals and vermin and generally hunting them to the brink of extinction. In the feudal era, the vampires kept the Lycans as slaves and pets to guard them during daylight hours. The lead vampire killed his own daughter because she fell in love with a werewolf and carried his child.
  • Although for several generations up to and including that one with the sole exception of Lucien werewolves WERE just animals...animals that needed to be hunted and controlled to prevent their indiscriminately wiping out the vampire's food supply and human peasants in general.
• In TRON: Legacy Clu and his regime, against the ISOs, and in turn the Users. The events of TRON: Betrayal indicate that Clu believed the ISOs were actually damaging the Grid by their very presence, which he believed was an anathema to the perfect, ordered system that Flynn had asked him to create.
• In Us, Red implicates that the Tethered were a failed science experiment to control the population above ground. Adelaide expresses nothing but contempt towards the Tethered for a duration of the film only for the ending to reveal that she herself was a Tethered.
• In Warcraft (2016), the prevailing opinion among humans is that orcs are nothing more than beast-like savages. More heroic characters, like Llane or Taria, look past this.
• Waterworld: Ordinary humans loathe mutants who can breathe underwater, despite the obvious usefulness of this ability.
• In the children's video series Wee Sing, this is the main conflict of Wee Sing in Sillyville. All the different groups of Sillyville citizens wear different colors – the Spurtlegurgles wear yellow, the Twirlypops wear blue, the Jingleheimers wear green, the Bitty Booties wear red, and Pasha wears purple – and no one will talk to anyone who wears a different color than they do. The problem is eventually solved when Sillywhim, the one mutual friend of all the groups, injures her ankle, and they all work together to bandage it with their different colored scarves and ribbons.
• In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, toons aren't allowed in certain clubs (despite being the main performers), Eddie has a slight dislike for toons after one killed his brother, and when Roger is accused of murder, he potentially faces execution without any chance of a fair trial. Judge Doom also outright murders a toon shoe that had literally committed no crime at all, and gets away scot-free.
  • Oh, and did I mention that Doom has plans to wipe out all of Toontown, where these toons live, and replace it with a freeway? And the plans are being concocted by someone who is actually a toon himself? Fantastic Racism, indeed!
  • The movie (compared to the book) has a possibly-justified reason for toon segregation in the form of Toontown: Toontown embodies Toon physics— and humans who go there are subject to Toon physics as well. Hard to say how many humans could live under those conditions...
  • According to urban legend, there is a moment when Donald Duck (a white duck) calls Daffy Duck (a black duck) the N-word, although according to the script he says "nitwit", which sounds just enough like the N-word with his speech impediment.
• In Willow, the Daikini (humans) call the Neldwyn (Hobbits with the serial numbers filed off) "pecks" in a clearly offensive way. Even Madmartigan, who later becomes Willow's friend, calls him this when they first meet. "Daikini" itself seems to be a mildly offensive term.
• Seen in the Wing Commander movie, against Pilgrims (humans mutated by radiation).
  • This has more to do with the fact that the Pilgrims went to war with the rest of humanity before the Human-Kilrathi War.
• The World's End: To the 'Blanks' After the End.
• As in all X-Men material, mutant/human relations are key to the films.
  • William Stryker, towards all mutants in X2: X-Men United. He takes it farther than any other character in the films, trying to actively enact genocide (and getting pretty damn close). Played with in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and X-Men: Days of Future Past, where he doesn't seem to hate mutants as much, or at all for that matter. He even says he doesn't hate them, just that he knows what they can do and that they should be prepared for it and he expresses surprised amusement at Trask's apparent Fantastic Racism. Other than the incident with his son, one has to wonder what the hell happened between then and X2: X-Men United.
  • Taken to new heights in X-Men: First Class; Shaw wants to start a nuclear war that will wipe out humanity, while humans respond to knowledge of the mutants' existence and powers by trying to kill the people who just averted said war.
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past:
    • Bolivar Trask doesn't hate mutants, and admires them in many ways. But he believes that a war between them and humanity is inevitable — and in a war against a superior enemy, your only choice is to strike hard and fast. He still thinks of them as research material rather than people, though. Emphasized when Mystique gets into the presidential safe-room, and Trask insists that they not shoot it, because he needs her for research purposes.
    • Meanwhile, Magneto grows stronger in his loathing of humanity.
    • Averted with Richard Nixon; though he is as understandably concerned with mutants as anyone holding power would be, he doesn't harbor hatred for them. When Mystique proves that mutants are not all terrible by saving his life from Magneto, he pardons her and cancels the Sentinel program.
  • X-Men: Apocalypse:
    • Although mutants are generally treated better in the Alternate Timeline, some places are less tolerant than others (e.g. the East Berlin fight club exploits mutants for entertainment), as Raven points out to Charles.
      Raven: Out there, mutants are still running, hiding, living in fear. Just because there's not a war, doesn't mean there's peace.
    • A news report near the end of the film points out that society was just beginning to accept mutants (as evidenced by nobody batting an eye at Kurt Wagner walking around in the mall in plain sight), but the events of this movie suggest that tensions are likely to rise again.