Fantastic Racism / Web Original

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• Above Ground: Pretty much every race hates every other race, and there's the human/infected hatred to go on top of that.
• The Account: The third chapter introduces Alan Ruby, an accidental human visitor to a gas station in a diverse world of fantasy races. He freaks out, starts lobbing the word "monsters" at the goblins and gnolls around him, and gets smacked around for it. Earth-born humans face their fair share of prejudice as well, but there's a reason for that...
• Ad Astra Per Aspera: Not only is there virulent racism against aliens in the 28th century, but inhabitants of auszeit (parallel) universes are considered soulless copies of their counterparts in the "trueline" universe, which is used to justify their extermination, enslavement, and the conquest of their worlds.
• Adylheim: Treats this as a little more complex than most examples of Fantastic Racism do. Every race — even the human races! — is treated according to different stereotypes, some of which would at first glance seem to be positive. For example, the dragonkin, anthropomorphic dragons, are very rare in Adylheim, and it's considered good luck even to see one; but though this is a more "favorable" stereotype than any other race has, it also leads to them being harassed for favors at every turn, resented when they "won't" perform small miracles, and sometimes kidnapped and held to prevent their good luck from escaping or murdered for their body parts.
• AFK: Discussed as Brenda says the gamers who play dwarves, elves, humans and gnomes are dividing on racial lines with mutual antagonism.
• The Annoying Orange doesn't seem too fond of apples, as he would often tell other foods that they were being apples. Though, this could be Orange being his usual dim-witted self.
• ARCHON: Plays with this: Arglwydd repeatedly makes references towards Joule, the only human member of the group, as a dog. Both Averted and Played Straight within the lore: it is mentioned offhandedly by Jager that although discrimination isn't permitted within the Holy Kingdom and the Elven Lands, other nations are no-where near as fair.
• Battle for Dream Island: Throughout the show, a character called "Yellow Face" would advertise certain stuff, although in Season 1 Episode 24, a character named "Purple Face" appears when Yellow Face advertises Non-Slip Shoes So Ha, and Purple Face said that "Those shoes were almost 2 years ago!" and "No one buys non-slip shoes so ha anymore!", but Yellow Face tells him that "he does not know anything" because he's "purple", but Purple Face immediately calls Yellow Face out for being racist, and told him to get out of here, but Yellow Face ends up eating Purple Face and locking him in a box for 8 years, until he (Purple Face) is discovered again in BFB 21, and becomes a significant character by the finale. However, Yellow Face's racism does not end here. When Bomby won the prize in BFDIA 7 and was colored purple, Yellow Face immediately got reminded of Purple Face, and kidnapped him and killed him, turning him into a grape flavored gunpowder. Later on, during the challenge, W.O.A.H Bunch had to drink yucky rainwater, and then Yellow Face sells the powder to Needle, and it actually makes the rainwater taste refreshing. However, in the stinger, when W.O.A.H Bunch decides to celebrate their victory by eating hot chili peppers, Coiny starts feeling queasy, and at first Spongy thought he couldn't handle the heat, but then Coiny realizes Bomby is missing, and then he and Needle start accusing Yellow Face of killing Bomby, which he did, because "Bomby was purple and did not know anything". Then, everyone explodes, destroying their loser chamber. It DOES NOT STOP HERE. In BFDIA 8, Yellow Face started torturing Bomby AGAIN for being purple, and in BFB 11, when Lollipop said that the "non-slip shoes so ha" was 8 years ago, Yellow Face told her that "she does not know anything", refrencing her purple color.
• The British Railway Stories: In the first two episodes, "A Great Problem Goes West" and "Veto A V2", Sir Ralph Wedgewood, an LNER A4 Pacific, would vocally disapprove of engines from the Western Region of British Rail, and mixed-traffic engines respectively. The former because the LNER and the GWR were fierce rivals, and the latter because he considered them "half-breeds" and "dirty engines" who "don't know where they've been or what they're built for". This aspect of his is largely dropped in later episodes.
• Counterspell: Everybody is welcome into Cantlin Falls... except for Orcs.
• Cracked: J.F. Sargent calls the very existence of Fantasy Counterpart Cultures one of the "5 Prejudices That Video Games Can't Seem to Get Over".
• Darwin's Soldiers: Snakes are considered to be repulsive by other species.
• Flash-Gitz Animation: Racist Mario (Warning NSFW) has the title character killing all non Nintendo characters and the ''race traitors'' because they invited them to go kart racing.
• The Gamer's Alliance: The anti-elven movement in Remon gets so bad that humans pretty much hunt down any elves they can find and vice versa until the dark elf Mori'sul finally manages to calm things down. The Sarquil tribes of Libaterra use dark-skinned desert elves as slaves and kill any lizardmen they can find. Demons see all non-demon races as inferior which in their view justifies that they can use these "lesser races" as slaves and food.
• GoAnimate: In the various "Grounded" videos, "baby show" characters such as Caillou and Dora the Explorer are subjected to this. Everyone, from their families to their classmates to random strangers absolutely hates them. They will gladly say that to their face and wish for their deaths at times. While these characters will do bad things to get grounded, when they do do good, they're still punished. When they're not punished with ridiculously lengthy punishments ranging in the Eleventy Zillion range of years, they're given "Punishment Days" which results in them being badly injured or even killed.
• Greek Ninja: During an encounter with centaurs, one of them reveals to Sasha that the founder of Ariadnio was a protector to them from humans, suggesting that there is racism towards centaurs.
• Hamster's Paradise
  • The harmsters as a whole are highly aggressive and xenophobic to pretty much all living things but there are cases we're this vitriol is more targeted.
    • The pyromaniac harmsters find the sapient splintsters hideous due to their mix of similar yet distinct traits giving them an Uncanny Valley effect, and the unfortunate splintsters are hunted down to extinction in decades.
    • The purebloods are a faction of highly traditionalist tundra harmsters that specifically despise the other tundra harmsters of the time for them being hybrids of the other harmster species and will kill any they see.
  • The calliducyons millions of years after the harmsters are much more peaceful and compassionate but that hasn't stopped some bad blood from forming between certain groups.
    • The outlanders are a civilization of the wolf-like southhounds that are descended from exiles of four of the other southhound cultures. As such, they hate them with a passion and will sometimes attack them in their own territories with intent to kill, something most southhounds don't do.
    • The white-eyes are one subspecies of southhound that possess human-like eyes and a mostly nonverbal language. The other southhounds find them creepy as a result and prefer to avoid them. Ironically however, the one faction who doesn't are the outlanders who see them more as spirits and fellow outcasts. Although the white-eyes prefer to distance themselves due to the outlanders violent tendencies.
    • The drysanders are a desert living culture of the more communal northhounds who are more xenophobic than the rest of their kind but have gotten into a more personal conflict with the riveners as they follow the great river of their continent which has led some into the drysander's basin and they quarrel due to the drysander's protectivness over water sources. They're also one of the only calliducyons known to be explicitly homophobic as they dislike same-sex relationships due to them not producing any offspring.
• Helluva Boss: Hell has a heiarchy based on physical power a demon possesses, with imps being seen as the bottom of Hell's society. In particular, it is considered shameful in some areas for a higher-class demon such as a Goetia or a Deadly Sin to be in a relationship with an imp. When Stolas, a Goetia, cheats on Stella for Blitzo, an imp, Stella appears to be more angry at the fact that he harmed her reputation by sleeping with an imp than cheating on her, and everyone cares more about the difference in class than them being a male/male relationship. King of Lust Asmodeus also poorly keeps his relationship with an imp, Fizzarolli, a secret, although in his case he also tries to present himself as someone above romantic love.
• A Hero's War: Humans are generally distrustful of the demihuman Fukas and Elkas. It's suggested to be a result of their origins as genetic experiments in the distant past; lacking the same cultural bias, Cato finds both species to be perfectly neighborly (albeit the Elkas are rather isolationist) and with intriguing innate magical abilities.
• If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: Contrary to his canon depiction, the Emperor is actually fairly tolerant of other species, provided that they accept his idea of peace, not theirs (for example, Eldar's idea of peace is keeping humans like zoo animals, the Orks want to fight everyone forever, and the Tyranids just want to eat everything in the galaxy before moving on to the next). When he hears about the Tau Empire, one of the only major civilizations that is at least willing to try peaceful cooperation, he thinks it wouldn't be a bad idea for the Imperium to ally with them. He's dissuaded when informed that the Tau don't fight in melee, which he considers unacceptably cowardly of them.
  • Kitten, however, plays this straight when it comes to the Tau, although it's mostly covering up the fact that one of them broke his heart, and while Magnus has little respect for people incapable of seeing the Warp, he is willing to defend their worth from extermination (if only because they could prove useful in keeping the Imperium alive if properly controlled).
• Impractical Magic: Len being discriminated against is a reoccurring theme in Yam's chapters. Yam also discriminated against non-Len by calling them barbaric and assume they do not have 'Virtue' when they just do not follow his cultural ideals.
• JourneyQuest: Draws on this a lot. Human vs. undead, Elves Versus Dwarves, but most of all Orcs vs. humans. The Orcs have a blast whenever some potion lets them pretend they're human.
  Yart: Go on. Say something human.
  Grellnok: Oh, yes, you have to!
  Rilk: All right. Look at me! I'm a fat, pasty humie! I have no sense of smell. Let's all... eat a cow!
• Liar Town USA: A tumblr devoted to creating fakes of pretty much everything, had a fake anti-discrimination campaign for people with AB+ blood, "debunking" all the "hateful stereotypes": they can control bees with their mind, they're afraid of chairs, they can't meet the gaze of children, and for some reason "can't be trusted" with telephones.
• Looming Gaia: Pretty much every society on Gaia has some form of this. Some notable examples:
  • Modern Lindists and the Evangeline Kingdom think humans are the superior species and consider enslaving fae and gaians okay.
  • Only gaians have full rights in Etios Nation. Commoners are considered second-class and fae aren't allowed in the kingdom at all.
  • Commoners are rampantly discriminated against in Mogdir Kingdom due to their lack of magical ability.
  • Only red elves can legally own property in Damijana.
  • The Sovereign of Aquaria is leading a genocide against all non-aquatic peoples. He also considers cecaelia superior over sirene.
  • Satyrs are discriminated against everywhere due to their infamous hormone fluctuations and rowdy behavior. And even among satyrs themselves, Archtops are discriminated against due to them having more animalistic-looking faces than other satyrs. Fauns are also often mistaken for satyrs and given the same treatment.
  • And Gaia forbid if you're a monster. Many kingdoms will straight-up kill you on sight. Only Mogdir Kingdom and the Seelie and Unseelie Courts have limited rights for some monsters.
  • Commoners are not allowed at all in the Seelie Court, gaians are barely tolerated, and faerys have to mostly keep to their own districts. Kobolds are at the absolute bottom of the kingdom's hierarchy, not allowed to leave their slumbs before dark, and the only species that can legally be publicly executed by being fed alive to pigs.
• LPS: Popular: “Weiner dog” is a slur against dachshunds in the world of anthropomorphic animals. The main character, Savannah Reed, also feels like her dachshund body is inferior to other species.
• May Xnocens: Queen September thinks all ogres are evil, and imprisons any she runs into.
• My Little Pony: The Mentally Advanced Series: Makes all the characters significantly more cynical and intelligent. As a result, they have come up with some interesting slurs for each other: "mud pony" for earth ponies, "horsefly" for pegasi, and "bonehead" for unicorns. Though inter-racial friendship is permissible under Celestial law, all lesser ponies are expected to suck up to unicorns.
• Nirvana the Band the Show: Matt has said something racist in nearly every episode.
• The Nostalgia Critic: After finally managing to settle down to review Doug, he grouches that he's never liked blue-colored people.
• Obscured Eyes: While Mother Mary has adopted cyclops and triclops children into her cult, she utterly hates any entity that can change its form at will, such as shapeshifters or fleshshifters. Tellingly, there are no children belonging to either species as part of her cult.
• Oculus Imperia is narrated In Character from the persepctive of an in-universe (specifically the Warhammer 40,000 universe) Imperial Historitor, and so the narrator displays the same biases against Xenos species that are expected of "good" Imperial citizens; in particular, he seems to really despise the Aeldari for some unexplained reason.
• Overly Sarcastic Productions: In her video Trope Talk: Robots, Red discusses how the coding aspects of this trope - where real world racial dynamics/conflicts are mapped onto a fantastical world - can be a double edged sword.
  • Seeing real-world racism acted out in fantastic settings can help draw needed attention to fixing the problem, but things get very complicated when non-human characters are involved. In the real world, racism is strictly a human-on-human affair, and barring any genetic differences we are all the same species. When non-human characters are meant to symbolically represent groups of marginalized or oppressed humans, it can feel like the creator is being very heavy-handed - even if that wasn't their intention - and audiences can take it the wrong way.
  • In the case of robots specifically, Red goes on to discuss how poorly written robot characters can end up with personality traits that are stereotypically associated with neurodivergence or the Autism spectrum. If these robots are in conflict with humans for whatever reason, the unintended similarities may not sit well with actual people who experience and struggle with those traits.
• Oxhorn Short Shorts: Takes this trope and sprints around the line with it. The main cast(s) are all Horde, and their sentiments against various Alliance races are stated and stated often. (Not Counting the Orcs In Space series,) there is scarcely a film that doesn't bash elves, gnomes, or common World of Warcraft player types, sometimes in song. To be fair, all elves are portrayed as hippie Camp Gay pricks, oftentimes the antagonists. They even go so far as to kidnap Oxhorn (main guy) in one of the holiday specials (Although it is because of the racism).
• Reverse Jurassic Park: The Velociraptors (except, naturally, Mr. Robustus) find that keeping a Dilophosaurus in captivity is unethical because he is as smart as they are, yet they have no problems with keeping humans in pens.
• The Runaway Guys: Played for Laughs concerning Yoshi and Donkey Kong.
• Running with Rats: Thoughtforms — people made out of lio, magical dreamstuff — are generally created to be slaves and assumed to lack any 'real' feelings. As you can imagine, they are not treated well.
• RWBY: Humans have traditionally ostracised, subjugated and abused Faunus; there have been protests, wars and even terrorism over Faunus rights; an island continent given to the Faunus is two-thirds uninhabitable and acts as a symbol of the divide between them. While Professor Ozpin is aware of just how much humanity's opinion of Faunus has improved over time, Blake points out there's much work left to be done. Volume 6 reveals that Ozpin and Salem are the last survivors of a Human race that was wiped out and replaced by lesser humans and Faunus, who were originally kept caged like animals. Ozpin is trying to unite the world to save it, while Salem is trying to divide the world to destroy it. He fights racism; she stokes it.
• The Salvation War: Several of the demon species were held with disdain by the more major "races," such as the Gorgons, who can do about anything, but far worse than any of the more specialized species. Orks (which were the original residents of Hell) have been reduced to slave labor. Humans were (in more ways than one) just food for the demons.
  • After Hell was conquered, it was mentioned that the demons had to be guarded mostly to protect them from the humans they have tortured.
• A Scientific Fantasy: In this online speculative evolution project, dinosauroids, humans and goblins don't seem to get along very well. However, they're treated like religions rather than races, seeing as dinosauroids offer humans as sacrifices and goblins worship a god called Allah.
• Shrapnel:
  • The Ugandan Knuckles aren’t very well liked or respected by . . . most people. When Reznya first meets their leader, she says "Oh no, you’re one of those things", and when Goggles goes to a bar with human clientele to seek shelter from a snowstorm, the robot bartender tells him to get out, because "We don’t serve your kind here".
  • Played with in the Fenri city of Candlesmoke, as they officially don’t allow humans in, and a fenri cult really seems to have it out for them, but some of the other locals seem to be more forgiving and level-headed when they hear there is a human child inside the city somewhere.
• SCP-1171: This SCP Foundation subject plays this for laughs. A Starfish Alien from another dimension...who has the personality of a white trash bigot.
  SCP-1171: "DON'T GET ME WRONG, I'M NOT RACIST OR ANYTHING. SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE HUMAN. BUT IF THEY'RE AS GOOD AS US, WHY DO THEY NEED SKIN? AM I RIGHT?"
• Serina: The daydreamers, sapient marine birds similar to orcas, are divided into a number of cultural groups, and these rarely get along well.
  • The shallow-water populations are divided between the fishers, who live nomadically and hunt small prey animals, and the pastoralists, who live in reclusive and sedentary clans and herd livestock descended from a species related to the daydreamers. Fishers view the pastoralists' diet as repulsive and some will discriminate against pastoralists who choose to join their communities, while pastoralist insularity can give way to plain xenophobia.
  • Warmongers, an open-ocean culture who prey on large marine animals, view all other beings as lesser, including the other daydreamers, making no distinction between either the fishers or the pastorialists who happen to be their closest cousins. As far as they're concerned, their cousins are both little more than meat.
• Played for Laughs in SMPLive, as a bit of a Running Gag with Pokay:
  • He gets sued for being racist towards pigeons and immediately starts ranting about how much he despises pigeons.
  • In "My Son is Attacked", he says to Cooper (an anthropomorphic fish), "Who cares about you? You're a fish". He later punches Cooper into Toxxxic and Dinkster's aquarium.
• 'Souls RPG: The coyotes of Inferni are racist against wolves, and the packs New Dawn and Sangilak only allow wolves.
• Springhole: Discussed in the article "Things in Speculative Fiction That Would Be Unforgivably Offensive If Only Everyone Was Human". It talks about how a lot of fantasy species are treated as subservient to humans or are clearly written in a way that establishes humanity as the default.
• Stickdeath.com: This website would frequently portray the green stick people as inferior to the blue ones, leading to them dying a lot more often, especially at the hands of the blue people. They've even been referred to by the slur "greeners" in a few videos. This was a nod to the rivalry between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers, the creator being from Illinois.
• Tales From My D&D Campaign: A major element of the world-building. The evil Kua-Toa consider themselves innately superior to every other race (their name literally means "Masters of All"), have enslaved all the other aquatic races, and want to do the same to the land races (and possibly offer them up as blood sacrifices, depending on which of the two major factions they belong to). But on the other side of the fence, racism is also a big problem in the human kingdom of Vistria, mainly due to the fact that they're surrounded by Kua-Toa on three sides and Orcs on the fourth.
• Tales of MU: Examines the prejudices of both human and non-human characters, which sometimes skirts right up against stereotypes like Noble Savage and Humans Are Bastards, but ultimately averts them by showing all sides warts and all.
  • An interesting example of this is the character of Steff, who, as a half-elf, has had to deal with the prejudices of elves and humans against each other (mild though they are compared to the kind of treatment Mack generally receives when people discover she's a half-demon). This, consequently, has caused her to express racist opinions towards both, thinking of humans as clumsy clods and elves as stuck-up assholes.
  • A blatant example of anti-nonhuman bias in the story is the assumption that nonhumans at MU prefer to be called solely by their first name and the appropriate honorific (with female nonhumans generally referred to with "Miss" rather than the typical "Ms."), rather than their last name and honorific. This is despite whether or not the nonhuman actually has a surname (supposedly this is done to respect the fact that some races don't use surnames). When Mack tried to politely request that one of her professors refer to her as "Ms. Blaise" as opposed to "Miss Mackenzie", a fellow student's reaction was essentially to question her sanity.
  • Several times in the story characters have pointed out that the entire concept behind Harlowe Hall is inherently racist: there's no reason why a goblin would get along better with a mermaid (for example) than she would with a human.
• There she is!!: Gives cats and rabbits a dynamic with parallels to Japanese/Korean interactions (its creators being Koreans themselves). It's more enlightened in that neither species has anything in particular against the other and they get along okay, but romance between the two is so frowned upon that they actually have signs posted around the place just to remind people about it.
• This short little video, where people are judged based upon a number stitched on your chest. The protagonist's name is Zero. Guess where this is going.
• Transylvania Television: The subject of one of Furry's Vlogs.
• Trinton Chronicles: In the web novels, lizards and dragons are treated with both awe and fear by the rest of the mammalian populace.
• Twitch Plays Pokémon: Not quite as prominent, but mentioned in some of the written lore. So many runs have come and gone that almost everyone in that world has heard of some report of insane or possessed kids running around doing dangerous stunts. Kanto and Johto have some of the highest concentrations of kids possessed by the Mob — so much that when a boy moved over from there to Alola, one of the first things a kid asks him is "Are you the new Host?"
• Ultra Fast Pony: Gets a lot of awkward laughs out of Ponyville's rampant racism. They hate and fear other species (griffons like Gilda and zebras like Zecora), and they hate blue ponies. ("But Rainbow Dash is blue!" "We hate her, too.") Enslavement of pegasi was (and possibly still is) widespread. In one episode, Pinkie Pie volunteers to sing "the traditional song of the buffalo"; her song starts with the lyrics "Oh I'm a dirty brown buffalo!" and gets worse from there. Nearly all of these play out with references to Real Life racism: for example, Zecora is a Jive Turkey, and Fluttershy is a Steppin Fetchit whose only moment of showing backbone involves telling another character they're not allowed to say "pegger". Twilight tries to call the other ponies out on their racism, with limited success.
• Unforgotten Realms Live: Most races dislike each other to some extent, but there are those within these races who aren't Racist, so it's not an inheritable trait in Unforgotten Realms. However, Elven Racism to Goblins is so bad that Elves don't think Goblins are people; they will try to kill them on sight, even if the Goblin is peaceful or trying to be helpful.
• Void of the Stars: The Triarian Collective and Equestrian Empire. Somewhat justified as the Triarian Collective is oppressive and dystopian, and the Equestrians stole Triarian genetic material to create a slave subspecies.
• Welcome to Night Vale: Given the mishegas of strange species and mutant humans prevalent in the desultory plot, it surprisingly subverts this. when Hiram McDaniels (five-headed dragon, eighteen feet tall, breathes fire, in jail for insurance fraud) announces his intention to run for mayor, it's not the "five-headed dragon" part that people care about...it's the fact that he's in prison.
  Cecil: Now, isn’t it just like a career politician, such as Mayor Winchell, to make such unethical, ad hominem attacks on a great reptilian beast, simply because he is in jail?
  • Double Subverted later, when Cecil accuses the current mayor of being racist for insisting that a dragon can't be mayor and not giving any further justification than that.
  • Of course, McDaniels himself seems to hold some...interesting view-points of single-headed species, repeatedly calling them 'sacks of flesh' and constantly insulting their intelligence.
• Whateley Universe: All over the place. A huge number of baseline humans hate or fear mutants and their powers. There's a The Men in Black-like organization called the Mutant Commission Office that tracks (sometimes abducts, and possibly murders) mutants. 'Humanity First!' is a popular anti-mutie organization that has groups all over the world.
• World of Warcraft: Played for Laughs with a machinima called "The Anti-Elf Anthem" which has a Horde barbershop quartet sing about how much they hate elves.

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