Fantastic Racism - Television Tropes & Idioms

In Darker Than Black, a man in charge of a secret operation tells the Contractor working under him, "Your whole kind is nothing more than filth, unfit to live without a patron's approval." That the man in charge is white and the Contractor black is incidental, though this possibly counts as a Lampshade Hanging.
Done in Peto Peto San, where Japanese mythological creatures are either humanoid or have mated with humans enough to do so. The problem is averted by the series taking a lighter tone, and the solution involves something everyone can get behind, dedicating the town to "Little Sister" Moe.
Mobile Suit Gundam had conflicts between "Earthnoids" (humans who lived on Earth) and "Spacenoids" (humans who lived in space). Closely related was the conflict between Newtypes (those with Psychic Powers, almost always Spacenoids) and Oldtypes (non-psychics, but also used as a slur for those stuck in the old ways).
- Gundam SEED had Naturals (normal humans) versus Coordinators (genetically engineered humans).
Naruto: People with tailed demons sealed in them, like the title character, are generally despised by the general population, who see them as monsters. Also, in an early arc, Haku explained that his mother was killed when it was revealed she and, by extension himself, had the ability to create ice, as people born with a kekkei genkai are seen by the non-ninja population as harbingers of war. He was forced to kill his own father, when the latter tried to kill him too. In addition, Sasuke seems to have a variation of this, stating that his clan is automatically superior to everybody else.
In the Blood+ episode "Turn the Palm of Your Hand Toward the Sun", James Ironside delivers a crazed rant about the Schiffs' inferiority to Chevaliers such as himself - while trying to torture a captured Schiff to death. The scene is even more chilling because James, black, seems to have no idea of the terrible irony of his words and actions.
- And also because his arms and the lower part of his body, which were destroyed and replaced with body parts from the Schiff, are now white. Being rejected by his capricious "mother" because of the replaced body parts is precisely what drove James (who is a fairly straightforward Renfield) insane, to boot. Even if this wasn't intended to be part of the irony, it was certainly unsettling.
A major theme of Trinity Blood is that vampires and humans can and should stop fighting and live in harmony.
In Armitage III, the title character is a Ridiculously Human Robot (in fact, she's so ridiculously human she can even reproduce, which is a plot point) working to investigate murders (of victims who turn out to be similar Ridiculously Human Robots) with a partner who's prejudiced against robots and cyborgs due to one causing the death of his previous partner. He is injured, and repaired with robotic prosthetics. Of course, he gets an Aesop about tolerance, and eventually marries his mechanical partner.
In Bubblegum Crisis, there's prejudice against Boomers, though oddly this has nothing at all to do with why they go rogue.
- Well, depends. Sylvie's group seem to have gone rogue due to a desire to not be treated as property. Also, the reasons have varied; it was largely because they go rogue in the original, while in later iterations it was because they're mindless drones taking away jobs from 'real' people [Crash managed to totally forget about Sylvie, Anri, Cynthia, Bogey, Frederick and the various other intelligent Boomers, but still feature Largo as an antagonist because the writers were complete idiots].
Done in both the manga and anime versions of Fullmetal Alchemist, with the persecution and attempted genocide of the Ishbalan people. They are visually identifiable by their red eyes and dark skin, and various characters use hats and sunglasses to 'pass'. Several aspects of the Ishbalans' portrayal hint more specifically at a metaphorically Islamic culture: their vaguely Middle Eastern dress, Ishbal's desert landscape, and their monotheistic religion and the tensions arising from its prohibition of alchemy and the Amestrians' contrasting dependence upon it.
- There's also the Ishbalan prejudice or prosecution of alchemists.
In Alfred J. Kwak, the titular character travels to a country called Atrique, where the original inhabitants, the black ducks, are under the oppressive and discriminative authority of the white geese. It is obviously South Africa before the abolition of Apartheid (the series was produced in the late 1980s), just with humanoid animals.
Probably the first & still one of the best examples in anime is Osamu Tezuka's Astroboy. Some choice examples: the robot revolutionary Blue Knight explicitly compares the robot nation he is trying to build to Israel, "The Tragedy of Bailey" storyline, where a Japanese-American cyborg brings Astro to America to try to protect the first robot to gain US citizenship from being lynched & the "Capetown Lulaby" story, which was inspired by issues of the time such as Apartheid & segregation & the latter half even takes place in South Africa. What's really strange is that the badguys from that story disguise themselves by putting on blackface.
Kind of the point in Elfen Lied. Although Diclonii are an actual threat to humanity as a species, from what we're shown it's humans who cause a lot of the threat, combined with the simple fact that children should not have weapons.
The battle of ESPers vs. "Normal People" in Zettai Karen Children is one of the underlying themes of the series. Almost all of the ESPers in the series are under the watch of the government, and it's shown that when someone is discovered to have powers, they're treated harshly for it. Good thing Minamoto serves as Morality Chain to The Children.
Witches in Rosario To Vampire are hated both by humans and youkai, since they're considered half-breeds, and neither side trusts them. Cute Witch Yukari gets this treatment during her first appearance (manga ch. 5), although part of it comes from her tendency to play magical pranks on others.
Akikan has aluminum and steel cans (the cans are cute girls here) holding some deep prejudice against each other. The first time this comes to light is when Melon and Yell begin slinging insults at each other based solely on the material they're made out of. The fact that this type of competition is encouraged doesn't help.
Even Pokemon has done episodes that evoke this. One example from the Kanto episodes is "Bulbasaur and the Mysterious Garden", where Ash's Bulbasaur's refusal to evolve causes the newly evolved Ivysaur and their chief, a Venusaur, to turn on him. Another episode during Johto featured a group of Remoraid (a fish-like Pokemon) that shunned one of their clan after it evolved into an Octillory (an Octopus Pokemon). Mewtwo and his army of clone Pokemon might even be seen as an example of this.
- Might?
Omnicidal Maniac Villain: Human and Pokemon can never be friends. [Forty Minutes Stock Aesop] I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.
- This is more so 4kids fault.
The fishmen in One Piece were discriminated against by humans 200 years ago... and still are on one island where their lives are considered worthless and they're enslaved on sight. Unsurprisingly, this makes the Strawhats a tad angry...
- The giants also get treated on the same level as a tank. They don't really like that. That's only really by the marines though, some are highly respected people and are treated as honorable guests.
- The fishmen are a particularly interesting example, because earlier in the series, some of them were in charge on Nami's home island and they wanted to invade the east blue because they considered themselves as better than the humans.
Fate has shown some evidence of this in recent chapters of Negima. Some of his internal monologues seem to indicate he doesn't consider the people of the Magic World to be real. Of course, it seems that this is less racism and more that they may in fact be artificial beings created by Fate's master along with the magic world.
- Kurt Godel even moreso. He opposes Fate and wants to save people, but only the humans, and even then only the humans in Megalomesembria, which only accounts for 67 million out of a population of 2 billion.
In the Angel Sanctuary manga, angels are created in vitro. Naturally-bred angels are looked down upon, and outright hunted whenever they can find an excuse (the rebellion helps on that). They are often born with pale skin and red eyes, which gives them the slur name of "rabbits". This often borders on Bullying A Dragon, since rabbits are often born with extreme and uncontrolled powers.
The saiyans of Dragon Ball Z were undoubtedly subjected to racism by Freeza and his men, leading up to Freeza single-handedly carrying out a genocide against them by destroying their planet. As we see in some episodes, the remaining saiyans had to deal with discrimination, and being called 'monkeys'.
There's the double whammy in Niea_7, where the aliens not only face discrimination by earthlings, but also maintain a kind of caste system for each other, in which lower-ranked aliens like Niea are regarded as worthless scum.

Anti-mutant sentiment in the various X-Men books is often treated this way. Especially well-referenced in the second movie:
Iceman's Mom: Have you tried... not being a mutant?
- Magneto's actor - Sir Ian McKellen aka Gandalf who is gay - was consulted to make the scene as much a parody/homage/satire as possible. The director is also gay.
In Alan Moore's miniseries Top Ten, robots (or "Ferro-Americans") are second-class citizens. Pete Cheney, one of the main characters in the series, has clear anti-robot sentiments, freely using the term "clicker", which is established as a major slur. When the robotic Joe Pi joins the police squad Cheney belongs to, Pete attempts to put Joe down whenever he can - however, Joe usually wins the resulting battle of wits. Joe also has to overcome the prejudices of his new partner.
- It's fairly quickly established that she doesn't dislike him because he's a robot, she dislikes him because He joined the force to replace her friend and partner Girl One, who had just been killed.
  - In an act of supreme irony, Girl One's replacement, another android of the same type, is shown shacked up with the unemployed Pete in a later series. He mistreats her, and she's supremely submissive by (re)design.
- In addition to "clicker", this series also featured another piece of slang regarding robots. At one point, a robot derides Joe Pi as being too human by calling him "spambo". Not only is this a variant on an actual ethnic slur, it's also similar to terms like "coconut" (brown on the outside, white on the inside) and "banana" (yellow on the outside, white on the inside), because Spam is "metal on the outside, meat on the inside".
- This is also reversed in the second issue when a robot calls Robyn Slinger aka Toybox "Wetware" - essentially the "cracker" to the "clicker" (essentially a euphemism for the n-word).
- Also, this is similarly played out with the Gang Banger son of Godzilla Expy Gograh, Ernesto, who accuses both Irma Geddon and Smax of being prejudiced toward Kaiju. Smax then goes on to make several implications about Ernesto which are pretty much verbatim for racist claims about black people having lower intelligence.
In the post-Zero Hour and the revised "original" versions of The Legion Of Superheroes, human prejudice against "impure" aliens is repeatedly used as a metaphor for real-world racism.
- The Reboot also had the White Triangle, a group of species-ists of several species who are ultimately pawns of a Nazi-esque regime-slash-religion that claims Daxamites are superior to all other species. Since Daxamites basically have all the powers of Kryptonians, they have some reason for assuming so - but in addition to being racist, they're also dirt-ignorant, superstitious, inbred, violent Jerk Ass thugs. Who can melt entire planets into slag, from orbit, by looking at them funny.
- The "revised original" version of Legion had a pretty important storyline: "Superman and the Legion of Superheroes". Not only did humans start putting aliens in concentration camps and kill them, but after Earth withdrew from the United Planets, nearly all of the different species decried Earth as "ignorant and backwater" and some even tried to lock up and kill anyone associated with Earth. The story ended with Supes and the Legion calling out both sides.
The original LSH had a story about how 'Shadow Lass' arrives from Talok to explain that her world has been conquered quietly by the Fatal Five. To infiltrate unnoticed, the Legionnaires adopt the identities of a rag-wearing desert-living minority. Later, it is revealed Shady is one of these people; she is slightly darker blue than the city folk. Lampshaded in a later story by having Shady look slightly African, while being blue, and dressed for the desert (think Arab).
Done pretty blatantly in the EC Comics story "Judgement Day", with its orange and blue robots. They are identical but for outer casings and programming, but the blue robots sit at the back of the bus, recharge in different stations, live in their own sector in town. The human evaluating the robot society - who happens to be black - does not let them progress to space until they can get over that, noting that Earth was like this once, and only owned the universe after humans learned to live together.
- You forgot to mention how the story almost wasn't published because the Comics Code Authority wouldn't allow the human astronaut to be black. So Yeah, Some Anvils Need To Be Dropped.
The Termight in Nemesis The Warlock is the Spanish Inquisition IN SPACE! and will kill any and all aliens on sight. Even the main antagonist, Tomas de Torquemada is a descendant of the original Torquemada with a few rounds of Historical Villain Upgrades.
In the Marvel Universe the Kree are an extraterrestrial race that have conquered many worlds. The Kree are divided into a majority population that is indistinguishable from humans of European descent and a population with blue skin. The blue skinned Kree view themselves as superior to the 'pink' skinned Kree and dominate the high ranking positions in the military and government.
Owly sometimes has undercurrents of this, with other creatures the eponymous Owly meets assuming the worst of him because he's an owl, and they usually eat smaller animals, rather than trying to befriend them. A Little Blue, in particular, entirely revolves around the interactions between Owly and a bluejay that initially assumes that every action Owly takes, no matter how benevolent or selfless, has a sinister ulterior motive.
In the Hellboy comics, some occasional anti-demon sentiment is present. In one of the issues of the BPRD spin-off, an agent is called out for being a "speciest" after making derogatory remarks about Abe Sapien.
For the longest time in Judge Dredd, mutants were forced to struggle to survive in the cursed earth because they were banned from entering the Mega-Cities. When Dredd himself managed to overturn this law, he suffers a reduction in rank and civil unrest plagues Mega-City One. Then, 2009's "Tour of Duty" storyline involved an effort to relocate mutants to outside ghettos where they would produce food for normals, with Dredd himself being unofficially exiled as punishment for letting them in in the first place.
Mutants are also treated as sub-human in Strontium Dog, to the point that the only way they can make a living is by bounty hunting.
[[Machine Man]] from Marvel Comics in Nextwave was awfully 'racist' about how awesome robots are compared to 'fleshy' humans. It didn't stop him from trying to save them, oddly enough.
Kling Klang Klatch takes it to a whole new level: a town of talking teddybears stews race hate, with a minority of stuffed panda bears locked in mutual disdain with the regular teddies. There are other toys in this world: everyone's got someone to look down on, if only the drugged-out raggedy-anne dolls.
In Superman: Godfall, the Kandorians are incredibly xenophobic and racist against all non-native Kandorians, especially Empireths, who are mutants with psychic powers as well as the typical Kryptonian powers under a yellow sun.

In Underworld and Underworld 2: 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. This is very likely a commentary on how racial separatists see interracial coupling.
In Willow, the Daikini (humans) call the Neldwyn (Hobbits with the serial numbers filed off) "pecks" in a clearly offensive way.
- While milder, "Daikini" doesn't seem to be used in a very nice way either.
Humans themselves are subjected to Fantastic Racism in Titan AE, as the movie takes place 15 years after an Earth Shattering Kaboom, and what humans remain are penniless, homeless, and generally reviled by the other species.
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 the subsequent TV series (among the other racial and cultural allegories that it is largely devoted to dealing with), Matt has a bad habit of using the nickname "Slagtown" for the Newcomer part of L.A., even after his Newcomer partner has made it clear he finds the term offensive.
  - Naturally, the anti-Newcomer groups are fantastically multicultural.
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.
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.
Done in the at least one version of The Wind In The Willows. At Toad's trial, the judge gives him an extra twelve months' imprisonment for being green.
- There's also the unfortunate point about the Always Chaotic Evil ferrets, weasels and stoats (sound familiar?), who are pretty clearly stand-ins for Britains's enemies at the time.
Seen in the Wing Commander movie, against Pilgrims (humans mutated by radiation).
Pretty much the whole point of District 9. It's Apartheid... WITH ALIENS!
- For further lack of subtlety, the aliens land in '83, while Apartheid is still underway. The implication being that White and Black quite literally pulled an Enemy Mine and teamed up on green.
Cats Dont Dance is pretty much about the discrimination black actors faced in Hollywood during the late 30s/early 40s...but with ANIMALS!
The speciesist squirrel in Once Upon A Forest.
An American Tail is an obvious one, the mice represent the oppressed elasticities of the world and the cats represent their oppressors.
- "There are no cats in America." Because America is enlightened and free. So Yeah.
- You should note that America DID in fact have cats, and the second line of the song mentions the streets being paved with cheese. It's safe to say that this is just naivete on the mice's part. Also, I believe similar sorts of beliefs were held by human immigrants coming to America. Although they thought the streets were paved with gold, not cheese, obviously.
James Cameron's Avatar is a perfect example of this. The Na'vi and the humans are highly racist towards each other. Justified though, manly because Humans Are Bastards who really don't care about the Na'vi culture and destroy their homelands in order to find some rare resources. Heck, even the RDA adminstrator Parker and Colonial Quaritch resort to genocidal policies towards the Na'vi people by destroying the Hometree and gassing innocent civilians. Subverted as not all humans are racist towards the Na'vi. Dr. Grace and her colleagues highly sympathizes with the Na'vi people and are even willing to learn their culture. And there are some humans who are allowed to stay in Pandora after the Na'vi kicked the RDA army's asses. And there some humans who even adapt into their culture and literally becomes one of them, like Jake Sully.
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 saying he's the type of cop to call a black person a nigger.
The first The Land Before Time movie contains plenty of Fantastic Racism between the different species of dinosaurs. The "races," stay in their own groups at the movie's start, these being the Long Necks, the Three Horns, the Swimmers, the Fliers, and the Spike Tails just to name those of the main Five Man Band. Most, if not all, of the Fantastic Racism is gone by the movie's end, when all of the dinosaurs, sans Sharptooth, are living in the Great Valley in peace. Presumably, this doesn't show up in any of the numerous sequels.
- Actually, it does, though I forget which one. I seem to remember a saccharine song called "It Takes All Sorts" on the subject.

Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime: "ursism" is the discrimination against anthropomorphic talking bears, and it's Serious Business.
The Discworld books have always done this skillfully, using it, subverting it, and double-subverting it.
- Especially interesting is Commander Samuel Vimes of the City Watch. A self-described speciesist, Vimes has nonetheless allowed the Watch to become one of the most species-blind employers in the city, and recognizes better than most the value of its non-human members, such as dwarfs, trolls, and even vampires, for which he still admits an innate and intense dislike. Mind you, Vimes is also a big-time misanthrope, so his dislike stems from his job-inflicted tendency to treat everyone like a bastard until the opposite can be proven; the narrator in one of the books even states that Vimes hates all races and species equally.
  - As does Vimes himself, "I don't like dwarfs much," he tells dwarf recruit Cheery Littlebottom, "But I don't like humans much either, so maybe that makes it okay, I don't know."
  - Sam Vimes may hate everyone equally but to him a copper is a copper and a copper is to be treated with respect.
- The Discworld includes its own racial epithets equivalent to our N word - Rocks for Trolls, Lawn Ornaments for Dwarfs etc.
- Despite the quote at the top of the page, Pratchett later introduced plain non-fantastic racism between humans to the Discworld in Jingo, with its depiction of Morporkian bigotry against Klatchians and Klatchian bigotry against Morporkians. In either case it kind of backs up the previous assertion that plain old racism is not a major problem, as it seems to come down to nationalism more than anything else, with Fred's attempted racial justification for his dislike of Klatch diminished when it was pointed out to him that Omnians are pretty brown and he has no problem with them. All the same the series does imply there remains some racial prejudices, but being the exception rather than the norm, genuine such feeling restricted to Captain Quirk in Men At Arms and Lord de Worde in The Truth.
  - However, the depiction of anti-Klatchian prejudice in Jingo is very pointedly similar to outright racist British prejudice against South Asians, so I don't think you can put it down as just nationalism.
- Non-human species often show a lot of Fantastic Racism toward each other, as well, most prominently the conflict between dwarfs and trolls.
Dr. Seuss' story "The Sneetches" is a thinly disguised allegory on racism. It describes a conflict between two subgroups of the titular Sneetches, a race of bird-like humanoids. One group has stars on their bellies, and thinks themselves superior because of it, while the other group doesn't. The Aesop comes after a huckster with the unlikely name of "Sylvester McMonkey McBean" convinces the two groups to repeatedly alter who has stars and who doesn't, along with which of the two conditions are more desirable. By the time McBean packs up his operation and leaves, they don't remember who had stars to begin with and who didn't, and thus abandon their prejudices as worthless.
- Now if we could change skin colors and such in Real Life that easily...
  - Wouldn't work - as once noted in a Deadpool story, there would still be plenty of tells even without going down to the genetic level. Try looking at some pictures of African albinos - there's no way you'd mistake them for Caucasians, white skin or not.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder's Green-Sky Trilogy deals extensively with the tensions between the fair-skinned, tree-dwelling Kindar and the darker-skinned, underground race of Erdlings. In this case, the difference between the Kindar and Erdlings was as much cultural as ethnic (The Kindar were vegetarians and the Erdlings hunted; the Kindar believed in repressing all negative emotions, while the Erdlings were very expressive. Among other things).
Done four times in the Harry Potter series: first, in the way some "pureblood" wizards look down on Muggles and those who have Muggles in their ancestry; second, in Hermione's campaign on the behalf of house elves; third, the treatment of werewolves and "halfbreeds" such as Hagrid; and fourth, the Dursleys' bigotry against wizards. The second and third are part of a larger theme of non-humans being discriminated against, and centaurs fall into this category too; Dolores Umbridge hates them, and Firenze the centaur gets into trouble with his own people, who consider him an "Uncle Tom" and traitor for associating with humans. Lupin chooses to resign from school after everybody finds out he's a werewolf.
- And the "official" wizard attitude to the other magical races is clearly portrayed as a different kind of racism to the Nazi Death-Eaters, not open-minded egalitarianism; Harry is surprised to see a statue at the Ministry of Magic with a centaur and a goblin in submissive adoration of a wizard and witch; totally preposterous (unlike the house-elf in the same statue), but evidently the way the Ministry believes the world "should" work.
- And don't forget in the last book Dolores Umbridge's campaign to arrest all Muggle-born wizards with magical powers, under the assumption that they all must be Muggles who have found a way to steal wizard magic. The wizarding world actually does this, implying some pretty serious prejudice against the Muggle-born that must have already existed amongst the general wizarding world.
  - That wasn't really Umbridge's campaign, mind you, she was a pawn all along. Voldemort himself practically runs the magic world government by the last book, by intimidating people and putting Death Eaters in the seats and whatnot.
  - Actually, some people Voldemort himself doesn't fully count, as his racism is really just misplaced hatred of his father, Tom Riddle Senior, who neglected his pregnant mother on the account of her being a witch. Thus, he hates all who hate wizards & witches, which in turn translates into hating all muggles, which in turn results in him finding a niche among the proto-Death-Eaters (being the heir of Slytherin sure helped with that), which ends up in him "hiding his blood".
In JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth relations (actual contact as well as stories/myths) between various peoples are often less than rosy, both between races (Humans, Elves, and Dwarves; especially Elves Vs Dwarves), but also among peoples/nations of the same race. One of the themes of The Lord Of The Rings is the different races overcoming their differences in the face of a greater threat, posed by Sauron (though it should be noted Sauron himself is in control of basically a totally evil race, and so the alliance is also against them).
- Played to a ridiculous degree in the old animated Hobbit movie. The three forces are at war, slaughtering each other, and then the orcs cross the hill and the three generals start referring to themselves as old friends...
  - Some critics look at Tolkien's works with a broad eye and conclude there is regular, non-fantastic racism in them, since Men who have dark skin or who come from what is interpreted to be non-Western-influenced cultures are on the side of evil (Morgoth, Sauron). According to these critics there is a distinct "West equals good, East and South equal bad" theme, However, a closer look at the texts proves this is not as simple as it seems - in some instances one could say Tolkien Lampshaded the very points critics accuse him of espousing.
  - Tolkien was deliberately vague and sparing with descriptions of the enemy. One can just as easily say the "non-white" humans are not the enemy because they are "non-white", but rather because they are allied with—or under the power of—Sauron. Also, read Sam's reaction to the dead warrior of Harad. He wonders "whether he was really evil at heart, and what lies or threats had driven him on this march so long from his home, and whether he would have rather stayed there in peace."
  - Many of the later Númenoreans (island west of Middle-earth), the King's Men, and their colonies in Middle-earth, and the Black Númenoreans are also all white Europids and are still among the worst enemies of the free peoples; worshiping and serving Sauron will do that to you. Also, the directions of the compass depend entirely on the historic time and point of view from which you are looking: Human or Elf in the later part of the First Age? Big Bad is in the North. Middle-earth-er in the Second Age? Horrible humans with better technology coming in from the West, ruining your land. Wood-elf in Rhovanion? Everyone (including, no especially, other elves) coming from the West and bringing all their problematic shit with them. Third-Age Arnor? Getting ground to paste from northerly Angmar.
  - Also note, that J.R.R. Tolkien acknowledged the fantastic racism in LOTR. He was said to have strongly regretted his depiction of the Orcs as seemingly Always Chaotic Evil and irredeemable, because it conflicted with his devout Catholicism. He often later defended the Orcs in later writings, claimed that they were simply misled and manipulated, and even said that "we were all orcs in The Great War." Just as the "evil" humans were misled and manipulated.
  - Just as an interesting corollary, the Silmarillion mentions that, when the Númenoreans came back to Middle-Earth and fought Sauron at the end of the Second Age, that all races participated in that huge war. He mentions, briefly, that every general race had members on both sides, excluding the elves, who only fought in the Last Alliance. This rings true when you go down the list: Men, Dwarves, birds (Eagles and crows, for example), beasts (horses or wolves), and others all make sense. But this implies that some Orcs fought on the side of Elendil's banner. It's important to remember that The Silmarillion and most of the Lost Tales were written by Elvish authors, while the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings are told directly from Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam's hand, in the Red Book of the Westmarch. And Tolkien loved to mention just how many unknown and unexplained things existed in Middle-earth (like Tom Bombadil, the Watcher in the Water, etc.). Heroic Orcs could've been an intentional oversight by biased authors. Though they may get acknowledgment, like in the aforementioned line, they would be in no way lauded.
  - "All living things were divided in that day, and some of every kind, even of beasts and birds, were found in either host, save the Elves only. They alone were undivided and followed Gil-galad. Of the Dwarves, few fought upon either side; but the kindred of Durin of Moria fought against Sauron."
  - Orcs don't really count for that example, though, because for much of the Silmarillion they aren't even properly considered alive, they're more like automatons that are remote-controlled by Morgoth. However, Tolkien heavily retconned and re-retconned much of Middle-earth history during his life, so who knows what he thought in the end?
  - The Silmarillion describes the Orc as being orginally Elves who were corrupted and debased by Morgoth, the Great Enemy; so it's easy to see them as Fallen Elves rather than a completely seperate race.
  - In a way this was the creepiest part, because it really is possible to make humans into something not unlike "orcs" and it doesn't require the power of a Vala or Maia to do it either.
- Whatever Tolkien's own views, which certainly did change through his life, it should be pointed out that he set out, in the Lord of the Rings & related works to provide a grand mythology for western Europe, specifically England. He felt the region lacked this kind of time-before-time myth cycle of their own and set out to create an ersatz folk-history. In that context the interpretation that all the peoples of the east and the south are evil is justified. One of the first duties of real mythology is to point out how great 'we' are and part of that always seems to be pointing out what bastards everyone else is. Tolkien's fake mythology just plays to the trope, if one interprets it that way.
In the Wild Cards series, Jokers are basically reviled and treated as second-class citizens due to their wild card-induced mutations. On the other hand, Aces, who just gained superpowers, are treated reverently by modern media, but were the subject of cultural paranoia in the past (to the point where Joseph McCarthy blacklisted Aces, not Communists). In this case, despite the presence of visible mutants and superhumans, bog-standard bigotry still exists (two of the first big-name Aces were constant victims of it).
- "A Joker is a Joker except when it's Peregrine" (Peregrine is a character who is basically Tyra Banks with wings)
In The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries, there are several forms of racism. All the supernaturals think they're the best, and better than just plain humans, so there are segregations along supernatural lines:
- Vampires think they're better than Weres, Shifters, Faeries, and Witches.
- Weres think they're better than Shifters (Shifters don't turn into wolves. Weres only turn into wolves) and think Vampires are disgusting, to the point of slurring humans who associate closely with vampires. Shifters call themselves Weres when the wolf-type two-natured can't hear and think the wolven lycanthropes are thugs.
  - I thought shifters could shift into anything.
  - Anything except wolves; Otherwise, they are Weres.
- As you get to know the fairies, farther on in the series, they are shown to be prejudiced against anybody not-fairy. They're divided into two factions, one wants to kill all part-fairy hybrids.
- Witches have infighting between Wiccans and nastier factions, who abuse vampire blood like normal people abuse drugs.
- Humans are prejudiced against vampires, thinking God likes them better.
The trailmen and catmen in the Darkover series are the frequent targets of bigotry by the humans.
In Brave Story, animal people are frequent targets of discrimination by humans. The Corrupt Church in one creepy town advocates the hunting down and dominating of animal people. Creepy.
In Harry Turtledove's Darkness series, an allegory of World War II set in a fantasy world, the nonsense of prejudice is put front and center by making those with Aryan features (their oppressors call them "the blonds") the equivalent of Jews (the Polish analogues are the ones with more typically Jewish features). He also does this in War Between the Provinces, essentially the same thing for the Civil War with blond serfs as the equivalent of southern slaves.
Absolutely slaughtered in Tom Holt's book Someone Like Me. Humans and monsters in a post-apocalyptic Earth have been fighting and killing each other because each sees the other as evil. Told entirely from the human point of view, the novel ends when the protagonist finds that one of the monsters knows how to talk, and is just as human as he is. However, he kills it anyway, because he'd been killing them for so long he wouldn't be able to face thinking of them as people.
Explored in depth in the Temeraire series, where dragons are treated by most Europeans as nothing more than quite intelligent pack animals or weapons platforms. People will casually discuss breeding dragons for various traits, and even whether or not it would be a good idea to slaughter all feral (riderless) dragons - all this despite the fact that dragons can speak English (and often several other languages) extremely well and have a normal human range of intelligence. In this case, it's almost not even a metaphor for anything, because the books are set during the Napoleonic era, with all the racism and sexism of that time fully intact. After all, if people can decide that Asians, Africans, and women are inferiors, how much more a non-human intelligence?
In Who Censored Roger Rabbit, humans heavily discriminate against toons, the living cartoon characters they share their world with. Toons are treated in much the same manner African Americans were in pre-Civil Rights America, with elements such as segregated restaurants and schooling.
- In all fairness, you couldn't really expect kids to pay attention in class with a living cartoon in the room. Especially when toons have a basic compulsion to be wacky, even at inappropriate times.
  - Except that we're talking about the book, where the wackiness is very much an Informed Attribute.
  - "In all fairness", that was also one of the excuses made to justify segregation in Real Life. How could white kids concentrate with one of those in the room?
  - Besides, what you're forgetting here is that in this world, Toons are just a natural part of life. We couldn't realistically expect someone from Real Life to sit still if Roger Rabbit is sitting two desks away from you, but in this 'verse they're no different than any other ethnic minority, and something humans are used to seeing and interacting with.
In the Star Wars Expanded Universe, racism between humans and nonhumans, and between different species of nonhumans, sometimes comes up. The first kind is especially prominent in parts of the X Wing Series, where the nonhumans living in an alien's slum decide that a Rebel plotter's refusal to dance with one of them means that he is speciesist and can be killed as an example, despite sitting at a table with other nonhumans who defend him. Plots to exploit the unease between species pop up a lot in the more cerebral Star Wars novels.
- Oppression of non-human races was a stated part of Imperial Doctrine. Near-Humans got off a lot better, but not perfectly.
- Less mentioned is the plight of droids, ranging from mere automatons to thinking, feeling beings, all of them property with memories that can be wiped at a whim. It rarely comes up.
- Then there's some mild prejudice against cyborgs. A prosthetic eye or hand is one thing, but it seems like the more mechanical someone is, the less of a future people regard them with. Ton Phanan epitomizes this feeling.
  - "He's more machine now than man, twisted and evil." Obi-Wan very easily could have pointed out, hey, he slaughtered dozens of children, killed without warning or reason, and murdered his own wife. But the thing he picked out was how Vader was a cyborg.
  - Be fair, though, most of that stuff didn't exist until Lucas retconned the crap out of the Star Wars backstory with the prequel trilogy. Not to mention the fact that Return of the Jedi firmly established Obi-Wan as an Unreliable Narrator, who probably didn't want to completely freak out and alienate Luke by telling him his father was a mass-murdering child-butcher.
  - There's also C-3PO's explanation of his primary programming: "human-cyborg relations". So... cyborgs aren't humans?
- In Vision of the Future, this conversation between Han Solo and a clone of Baron Fel. At the time, no details about the Clone Wars were known, and Zahn like most other authors assumed that the clones hadn't been on the Republic's side, so the antipathy was a bit different in origin.
Han Solo: "So what's it like being a clone?"
Carib: "About as you'd expect. It's the sort of secret that gets heavier with time and age."
Han Solo: "Yeah. I can imagine."
Carib: "Excuse me, Solo, but you can't possibly imagine it. Every time one of us leaves this valley it's with the knowledge that every outside contact puts our lives and those of our families at risk. The knowledge that all it will take will be one person suddenly looking at us with new eyes, and the whole carefully created soap bubble of the ever-so-close Devist family will collapse into the fire of hatred and rage and murder."
- Some supplemental material for the Dark Forces Saga reveals that the prototypes for Dark Troopers, which are robotic stormtroopers, were old veteran clone troopers who had seventy percent or more of their bodies replaced by cybernetics, to explain why there are Dark Troopers in the [[Star Wars Battlefront]] games. Those that got to the battlefield were very effective, but most of them committed suicide. No one had bothered getting their permission.
This plays a large part in Karin Lowachee's books. For most of Warchild, EarthHub is at war with the alien strivs. They are seen as bestial, cannibalistic, and Always Chaotic Evil. Of course, once their society is explored, they're revealed to be a lot more complex than humans first thought. But given what the author seems to think of humanity...
Discrimination against Animals (yes, the capitalization is mandatory) is an important plot point in Gregory Maguire's Wicked. Elphaba, having green skin, suffers from this too, to the point of her mother considering killing her after her birth.
Isaac Asimov had this as a recurring theme in his works, most obviously in The Currents of Space and its Days Of Future Past spin on the cotton plantations of the old Deep South. Prejudice against Earth-born humans and against robots were also recurring themes - see The Caves of Steel for examples of both at once.
Quite a bit in Warrior Cats. Although trans-clan racism is mostly limited to stereotypes, the real racism is directed at half-Clan cats, kittypets, the Tribe of Rushing Water, and loners and rogues.
David Eddings' The Elenium/Tamuli books feature Elene contempt for Styrics (verging on medieval attitudes towards the Jews). The Styrics in turn detest the Elenes (with good reason, considering past atrocities) and the Delphae. Just for fun, people in the subject kingdoms of the Tamuli empire refer to their rulers as "godless yellow dogs" (a vile slur; as Oscagne points out, "We have gods. Give me a few moments and I might even be able to remember some of their names"). The distinctly Nazi-esque Cyrgai consider everyone inferior. And, to extend this a bit further, trolls don't like being called ogres.
In David Gerrold's Chess With A Dragon, human beings are treated with open contempt by other sentient species, for being mammals. Most sentient races in the galaxy evolved from dinosaur- or bird-analogues, and consider mammals to be revolting vermin, if not bite-sized snacks.
Vampires and werewolves in Twilight.
The fairies in Artemis Fowl are prejudiced against humans. This is presented as partly justified in the sense that, to some extent, Humans Are Bastards, but to some extent it's obviously a product of the fairies' recognisably human limitations of perspective. The main reason cited is how unecological human actions are, but a favorite complaint is also how disgusting it's human toilets are indoors. The fairy races are also intolerant of each other, but with at least one being Always Chaotic Evil, it's not surprising.
Done with a twist in Kit Whitfield's Benighted in that what we would regard as normal humans are a despised minority in a world of werewolves.
In The Witcher saga, the main character is threatened as a "freak", despite the fact that he saves people from monsters. Elves must lives in reservations, most of the people think that "good Elf is a dead Elf", and if you have an Elf in your family tree, you cannot, for example, get a weeding in a city. Other races are threatened in a similar way by humans. And in the last book, there's another group of Elves, that escaped to another dimension, murdered and enslaved its humans. And the Unicorns hate all the Elves for that.
In Generation Dead, teenagers all over America are coming back from the dead. Some are just like regular teenagers, only slower talking and with a lower body temperature. Others are very slow and can barely walk. The "zombies" are every minority that ever existed combined. How they are treated is almost like how black people were treated in the Deep South. The high and low functioning is almost like mental retardation. You get the picture.
This is the central theme in the novel Vampire High, which is about a boy whose family moves to a small town where about half of the inhabitants are Friendly Neighborhood Vampires who call themselves jenti. The town is very self-segregated, with an unspoken rule that humans will not go in to 'jenti' stores and vice versa. After getting kicked out of the public school, he ends up attending the jenti school because vampires will die in water and the school needs a water polo team.
In the Honor Harrington series, the use of genetically-modified troops during Old Earth's Final War has led to widespread prejudice against genetically-modified humans ("Genie" is sometimes cited as an in-universe slur against GM humans, though it rarely actually appears in dialogue).
Un Lun Dun features largely irrational racism between living beings and ghosts. Woe to the only known half-breed: everybody mistrusts him. All the more noticeable as the inhabitants of the eponymous city otherwise display extraordinary diversity and tolerance.
Because the titular human society is so militaristic and xenophobic, this trope is everywhere in the Codex Alera. The Marat are usually called barbarians, are constantly said to have sex with animals, and eat people (though that last one turns out to actually be true).
The Algebraist by Ian M Banks. AIs lose a Robot War against their fleshy friends. The survivors in hiding are reviled as abominations with over(mid and sub)tones of religious bigotry and racism. As the story progresses the AIs are implied to be most unlike the Killer Robot stereotype and the "war" begins to looks more like Kristallnacht.

This was a favorite subject for Star Trek. Probably the most Anvilicious example was the alien who was black on the left side and white on the right being chased by an alien who was white on the left and black on the right.
- Then there was the Next Generation episode with an Aesop about homophobia delivered by a genderless species. Who were all played by women so that the audience wouldn't be subjected to Riker kissing someone played by a guy.
Headdesk. Especially since the result was that the episode looked like a paranoid conservative fantasy of separatist lesbian feminists taking over society and oppressing straight women.
- Jonathan Frakes (who played Will Riker) was well aware of that problem and suggested a male actor for the part of the person he fell in love with. But Gene Roddenberry seemed to prefer women interpreting genderless species.
- That episode didn't air until half a year after Roddenberry's death and well after he'd effectively retired from major involvement in the series.
- The women who played the Talosians in "The Menagerie" were made to look far more masculine.
- Star Trek Voyager. In "Dragon's Teeth" one clue that the Vaadwaur aliens they've woken from stasis are villains is that Naomi Wildman overhears the Vaadwaur children making derogatory comments about Neelix. Good thing she never logged onto a fan forum.
- The Cardassian occupation of Bajor was unabashedly portrayed by the Cardassians as being racially based.
- Genetically engineered humans are treated as potential mass-murderers in the supposedly prejudice-free Federation, to the point of being legally forbidden to have certain jobs. Despite having superhuman aliens and even nearly-indestructible, superstrong, computer-brained androids serving in every position of Starfleet. My wall hurts.
  - The Eugenic Wars, when Khan Noonien Singh and his Ubermensch buddies ran amok, probably explain that last one. Badly (or not, given the Jerk Ass tendencies exhibited by those who weren't named Julian Bashir).
  - In Enterprise Archer and Phlox discuss this a bit, and Phlox intimates that humanity's bugaboo about genetic augmentation is indeed a largely irrational knee-jerk bias stemming from an unfortunate incident in their past, and that there are other species who use genetic engineering therapeutically without any such issues.
  - Julian Bashir didn't have Jerkass tendencies?
  - No, he was just smug.
- And then of course intermixed with the Human-Klingon Cold War analogy is a healthy dose of this trope, which comes to a head in Star Trek VI.
- A continuing theme of Star Trek Enterprise, as this prequel series dealt with mankind's initial reactions to new life and new civlisations. Early season episodes include the Suliban being treated like potential terrorists because of the actions of the Cabal, the Vulcans' patronising attitude towards humans (and the human response to it), and Commander Shran - an Andorian who despises Vulcans and Tellarians, and even refers to his friend Captain Archer as "pinkskin". He refers to all humans as "pinkskins" - did he not notice the variety of human skin? In "The Breach" Dr Phlox has to persuade a patient to receive treatment from him as the Denobulans commited atrocities against his species in the past, while Trip's attempt to help a repressed minority in a tri-gendered species has a tragic end. Virtually the entire fourth season touched on this trope in one way or another. Xenophobia on Earth increases after the Xindi attack – radical group Terra Prime tries to make political capital over the Trip/T'Pol relationship by squicking out humanity over the idea of Vulcan-human hybrids (even T'Pol's mother brings up "the shame" that such a mixed-race child would feel). And the whole Ubermensch thing naturally comes up with the genetically-superior Augments.
In Doctor Who, the homophobia version is used when the Doctor is uncomfortable around the time-travelling omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness, not because of his sexuality, but because he finds Jack's immortality to be "just wrong".
Jack: So, you're saying that you're... prejudiced?
The Doctor: ... Never thought of it like that.
Jack: (smiles) Shame on you.
- Doubly funny because they've shared a kiss and Jack's omnisexuality has been all up in the Whoniverse.
- It's not that so much; it's because of Jack's status as a 'fixed point in time'-the particulars of Jack's enforced immortality at the hands of Rose bother the Doctor's Time Lord senses. The Doctor was fine being around Jack before he became immortal, even took him on as a traveling companion and if his comments in 'The Doctor Dances' were anything to go by, it certainly wasn't the Doctor who was bothered by Jack's omnisexuality.
- He's nine hundred years old!!
  - Doesn't mean the Doctor cannot die at all.
  - The Doctor shows his dislike of true immortality in earlier serials as well. For example, in "The Brain of Morbius", he blasts the Sisterhood of Karn for using an elixir to extend their lives because they've completely stagnated, and says that regeneration is preferable because it brings change. This attitude seems to be shared by other Time Lords, who use the same elixir as medicine, but not to prevent their final death.
  - This is the entire premise of the climax of "The Five Doctors". When they encounter the Tomb of Rassilon and Borusa is condemned to eternal stasis as the price of true immortality; ~~William Hartnell's~~ Richard Hurndall's Doctor clearly knew what the fate of anyone who sought such immortality would be, and states that Rassilon knew that "immortality is a trap", and therefore set up his game to ensnare anyone who actively sought it.
  - It's interesting that the Doctor seems to recognize this as an irrational prejudice in himself: he acknowledges that he's being unfair to Jack but can't help himself because Jack's immortality Squicks him.
  - The Doctor has nothing on the TARDIS: it jumps to the end of the universe just to try and get away from Jack.
- Like Star Trek, Doctor Who has got a lot of milage of this. The best example is the Daleks, especially since Terry Nation based them on the Nazis. Also, Genesis of the Daleks, shows that on pre-Dalek Skaro, the Kaleds (the race that became the Daleks) and the Thals hated each other, and both of them hated the mutants, to the point that the Thals (who were usually shown as pacifist allies of the Doctor) used them as slave labor.
This is actually part of the setup of Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock. The Gorgs mostly treat Fraggles as garden pests and the Fraggles thus see the Gorgs as ogrish monsters. The Fraggles mostly treat Doozers as being on the level of social insects, and conversely, the Doozers have... let's say complicated feelings towards the Fraggles eating their constructions. On top of all of this, the humans don't even know any of the other races really exist. Many of the episodes dealt with the various characters getting to understand each other, and were often quite poignant.
Lampshaded in the Babylon 5 episode "The Geometry of Shadows", where it is revealed that the Drazi randomly split up into two groups - the "green" and the "purple" - every few years by drawing pieces of cloth out of a barrel. The two groups then fight for supremacy. Attempts by Ivanova to solve this diplomatically and get them to see the other side's view don't work, since there are no differing views, just "Green fights Purple". Fortunately, she solves it by putting the murderous faction in their opponents' shoes (or should we say, sashes) as she accidentally usurps the position of local leader and upon finding this out, promptly orders them to dye their sashes to their opposing color.
- The show also has a backstory that in the face of all kinds of alien races, humans decided that all humans are pretty much like one another and did away with 20th century prejudices, so we get scenes like two male characters going undercover as a married couple with no one batting an eye, and a passing reference to the Pope being female (which resulted in more letters to the show than anything else in it). However, there are a sizable number of humans prejudiced against aliens, and we also get something of the "new black" in humans born on Mars.
- Racism wasn't too far below the surface in inter-species relations, however. The Centauri and Narn regarded each other as mutually unfit to live. Anti-alien racism appeared commonplace among humans not associated with either the station or the Rangers. The Minbari had anti-miscegenation laws and considered purity of the species so important that they forced Valen's children to flee Minbar. The Drakh were portrayed as so inherently and uniformly evil that they could be massacred at first contact without any moral qualms whatsoever.
  - Since Crusade was cut down before it really had a chance to get going it remains to be seen if the Drakh wouldn't have developed into more three-dimensional beings in time.
- This Editor has always found the following quote one of the most profound things he has ever seen on a popular entertainment program. Kosh, in the guise of G'Kar's father, is trying to teach G'Kar to overcome his hatred of the Centauri.
  G'Kar:: "But they started it!"
  Kosh:: "and will you finish it?....will you keep fighting until there are no more Narn, and no more Centauri? If both sides die no one will care anymore who started it. It no longer matters who started it, only that people are suffering."
  - That's a silly response though, at least for people on the side that didn't start it. I'm black for example, and if I pointed out that my people were being killed in the street, and someone said "Well, someone has to finish it! Be nice!" I'd kindly ask them to go tell the guy who actually started the killing to play nice. That's like asking wolves and rabbits to be friends, but the rabbit has to reach out first. And frankly it's oversimplifying the actual problem: whoever started it has a vested interest in keeping the status quo, and would never think of "finishing" it...at least not if "finish" means "hold hands and sing 'I'd Like To Buy The World A Coke' together". Why shouldn't the oppressor be forced to make nice? What possible reason would the oppressed have to do so? And who gave the Vorlons (almost stereotypical Neglectful Precursors) the authority to say a damn thing about it, since they obviously didn't care enough to stop it. Or was Centauri "order" better than Narn "chaos".
  - The line was really "Continue it", meaning mutual extinction. You'll notice that even after that encounter G'kar still continued trying to free his planet (and eventually succeeded.) Kosh was not saying that people shouldn't defend themselves, but mind-raping the Centauri ambassador isn't self defense.
- One of the major ways President Clark used to discredit the rebellious Babylon 5 station was to claim that Captain Sheridan was a tool of alien manipulation, given that he was planning to get married to an alien, and that Babylon 5 had formed the alliance against the Shadows.
- The Vorlons' behavior towards the Shadows could be considered this too. The Shadows were chaotic and rather too fond of causing cultural advancement in other species by provoking horrible devastating war, but the Vorlons spent the past millenia manipulating humans, Minbari, and other races to convince them that the Shadows were in fact Always Chaotic Evil.
  - It's more of a philosophical/cultural difference between groups whose members, being basically immortal, fell into habitual thinking that was never overturned or challenged because they had no rebellious youth.
The half-wolves of The Tenth Kingdom. Granted, wolves are predators and are traditionally viewed as evil and vicious (at least sometimes). But the at-times Anvilicious words and actions of the Little Lamb Villagers (and Wendell) more than once left this editor feeling a bit ill. Choice examples:
- From the rigged trial (itself hearkening back to the legal woes of many a black man in the South between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Era):
  Virginia: "Look at my client! Is he a killer? No! But he is a stranger, and stranger equals wolf, and wolf equals killer. Is that what we're saying?"
  Judge:: "Very well put, on to the sentencing!"
- After Virginia agrees to defend Wolf:
  Virginia: "I don't think he killed anyone!"
  Tony: "That's what you want to think. There's a dead girl out there, that could've been you! He's a wolf, that's what wolves do!"
  Wendell: "That's the first intelligent thing you've said, Anthony."
- At the same time, Sally and the other shepherdesses' (all noticeably Caucasian and mostly blondes) lustful pursuit of (dark-haired) Wolf despite his fake surname and his bushy wolf tail suggests the supposed irresistible temptation of an exotic race... while the Peep boys' apparently violent defense of their sisters' purity, and Wendell's assumption in Kissing Town that Wolf would "have [Virginia] on her back before you can say Happy Ever After" resonate far too strongly with the sort of black-man-rapes-white-woman fears exemplified in Birth Of A Nation to be coincidence.
Sometimes used in Buffy and Angel, particularly Lorne in the latter. Anyone who sees a green-skinned, horned demon immediately assumes he's a big nasty killer, when of course he's a lovable lounge lizard. Not entirely their fault, though, since most demons are indeed the people-killing kind.
- Lorne was pretty nasty in his first batch of episodes. It was common for him to advise baby-eating horrors on how to be more efficent in life.
- There's a very Anvilicious treatment in "That Old Gang of Mine" (Angel season 3 ep 3), in which all the black characters are slow to learn that Not All Demons Are Evil, while all the major white characters had caught on long ago and quickly.
- The Buffy episode "Family" revealed that Tara's family harbors an incredible hatred for magic-users and raised her to believe that she was part demon on her dead witch mother's side. Shockingly, Tara's racist cousin Beth was played by Amy Adams.
Smallville's Kara Zor-El dropped a few rungs on the likability ladder when she called Martian Manhunter "Red-Eyes." As seen here, although Your Mileage May Vary.
Danko of Heroes is the poster thug for this trope. Anyone with an ability is automatically a threat as far as he's concerned.
In the new Battlestar Galactica (and arguably the old one too), Humans and Cylons don't get along very well... "Toasters", anyone? As it goes, we discover that Humans and Cylons can reproduce! The humanoid Cylons are constructs of a completely fleshy nature, which makes the "toaster" epiphet just stupid. Like real-world epiphets. They call all Cylons, humanoid or mechanical, "toasters", and the humanoids also get called "skinjobs".
- There's the Sagittarons as well, who are looked down on by the other Colonials for their primitive, isolationist ways. Ironically "skinjob" Athena is grateful for their presence on Galactica, as it diverts attention from her.
- Taurons are frequently referred to as "dirt-eaters" in "Caprica".
In The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the relations between humans and machines are strained, to say the least, especially between the human Techcom resistance fighters and the reprogrammed Terminators working under them. This is especially prevalent among Sarah Connor and Derek Reese, who are both prejudiced against machines (for good reason). At one point late in the second season, when Riley is killed, both Sarah and Derek immediately blame Cameron for it despite a lack of real evidence she was behind it, and both consider destroying her because of it.
- Also, the disapproval expressed by pretty much everyone towards John and Cameron's relationship seems rather reminiscent of the prejudices against interracial relationships. Sarah implicitly states that she does not believe that Cameron actually loves John, and the idea that the two might be having sex plays a role in an extended dream sequence meant to represent her anxieties; Derek is openly hostile to their relationship; and Jesse even goes out of her way in order to try and break them up.
- One entire episode, "The Last Voyage of the Jimmy Carter," dealt with the inherent distrust between humans and the machines. It got to the point where the human Too Dumb To Live submarine crew, under the command of a Terminator with specific orders from John Connor, began to mutiny because they did not trust the submarine's captain.
Happens quite a bit in Farscape, especially with the Peacekeepers - all of whom are Sebacean (with the exception of half-Sebacean, half-Scarran Scorpius), and who deem other species to be inferior. If a Peacekeeper is to spend prolonged time and contact with another species, they will be deemed "irreversibly contaminated" and rejected.
- Half-breeds are also the subject of considerable discrimination by the Peacekeepers, with at least one honor killing on record. Once again, Scorpius is the exception, having proven himself too valuable to execute. Of course, anti-hybrid sentiment is discouraged among Scorpius' troops and officers:
Akkor: A Luxan-Sebacean hybrid?
Braca: Despite Peacekeeper Command efforts to keep the bloodlines pure, there seems to be a few more of them every cycle.
Scorpius: (Emerging from the shadows) Have you got something against hybrids, hmmm?
Braca: (very quickly) No! Of course not sir. Not at all.
On Dark Angel, the transgenics become targets of Fantastic Racism as soon as their existence is made public. The Familiar breeding cult are posterchildren for this, looking at humans as inferiors and transgenics as scum.
Get Smart's Hymie the Robot complains that people look at him funny in the street, he can't get a cab, and even Max never takes him to his club.
- Lampshaded by the fact that his name is an ethnic slur.
On Wizards Of Waverly Place there are definite problems between wizards, werewolves and vampires. Giants seem to be more accepted but there are still tasteless jokes.
True Blood is drama-series with classical 'Vampires vs Humans' theme.
- This show is interesting in that sometimes the vampires are stand-ins for homosexuals and sometimes for blacks, while other times the gay or black characters will address the prejudice directly.
Uther's pogrom against magic users in Merlin.
Parodied in the Mr Show sketch Byron De La Beckwith VII: Racist in the Year 3000.

The Sesame Street song "Being Green" was originally written as a plea to understand people who are different and not judge by appearance.
Rush recoreded "Trees", a song about bigotry between different species of trees in a forest; "The maples want more sunlight and the oaks ignore their pleas." The war between the oaks and the maples is ended by sudden deforestation; "Now the trees are all made equal by hatchet, axe and saw."

Rifts uses this quite a bit. It appears chiefly with the Coalition States, who have a xenocidal policy toward D-Bees (dimensional beings) and creatures of magic, and monstrous societies such as the Splugorth of Atlantis, where humans are at best slaves, and at worst a snack.
An important background element in the Fantasy meets Cyber Punk RPG Shadowrun, where racist tensions between humans and "metahumans" such as Orks, Dwarves, Trolls and Elves (not to mention the ghouls) are present, complete with extreme right-wing party humans advocating their persecution. Even though Shadowrun takes place Twenty Minutes Into The Future of our world, normal racism has fallen by the wayside, having been mostly subsumed by the fantastic variety (as the rulebook puts it, "Why worry about the guy with dark skin when that horned thing has fists the size of your head?")
- Early editions of Shadowrun had the other races refer to humans as "breeders", implying an analogy to gays (this being an actual slur used by gays towards straights).
- The creators of Shadowrun have stated that the racism toward Orks, Trolls and Ghouls in the game was specifically so that typically dystopian racism could be in the game as an Aesop toward real racism.
- That said, both the Japanese and Native American Nations have a degree of racism directed towards them; in both cases, this is due to the power that they've gained, as well as the shattering of the USA and Canada by Native American shamans, the rise to power of nations such as Aztlan (in Middle and South-America) and a revival of long-persecuted ethnic minorities in general, there is a backlash against "white" people in parts of the world, especially against former colonial masters.
  - Meanwhile, the Japanese are arguably the most heavily bigoted group in the setting, not only actively persecuting any and all metahumans to a degree disturbingly similar to that of Nazi Germany (stopping just short of concentration camps), but being as prejudiced against non-Japanese humans as Japan of that same time period; this goes a long way towards explaining why everybody else dislikes them. There is one funny aversion to this bigotism: the Japanese emperor is fond of Onis, the Japanese metavariant of Orks, and has hired alot of them to be guards around his palace and other imperial buildings, much to the displeasure of the rest of the imperial residents, who do not look as favoribly upon the Oni.
  - Before the current Emperor there was a concentration camp of a sort, the island of Yoni, on which metahumans, especially Onis and Trolls were dumped to survive as best they could in what was basically a Lord of the Flies environment. After the rebellion of the Phillpines (where Yoni was located) and the withdrawal of Imperial trrops this was disbanded.
- In the Elvish principalities of Tír Tairngire (the former Oregon) and Tir na nOg (Ireland), elves look down on anyone not an elf, and non-elves are officially second-class citizens (if they have citizen rights at all). Similarly, in the dwarven enclaves and the troll kingdom Schwarzwald in the ADL (Allianz Deutscher Länder, former Germany) there is subtle racism against non-metatypes.
One of the more famous quotes from Warhammer 40000 is "Fear the alien, the mutant, the heretic." Considering the Imperium of Man is rabidly human-centric, the Eldar view every other species as mindless pawns to be used to their own ends, the Tau are divided into genetically "pure" castes based on their physical specializations, the Orks tend to "crump any o' 'dose gits what ain't Orky enuff!", and everything else is trying to kill everything else, it's mostly understandable why most humans think that way.
- Old fashioned inter-human bigotry also exists. The most spectacular example is probably Lastrari, which when cut off from the Imperium was taken over by the Divine Army, which instituted planet-wide purges of anyone who did not match up to their ideals. The genetically targeted diseases are positively tame compared with the 5300-mile road lined with the bodies of those who spoke out. When the Imperium regained contact, the population had been reduced from 14 billion to a mere two and a half million!
  - Which, by 40K standards, makes them only marginally more nasty than usual.
  - No, it actually is a lot more nasty than usual. 40k has surprisingly small numbers, so yes... the deaths of almost 14 billion people on one planet is extremely remarkable.
  - Actually if you go by the Necromundo source book there are about 1,000 hive worlds in imperium, each hive has 1 to 50 billion people in it, and each planet has to have at least 1,000 hives on it to be considered an official hive world. That means there's somewhere between 1 and 50 quadrillion humans in the Imperium's hive worlds alone. 14 billion is chicken feed. Albeit a lot of chicken feed.
- "Men have been denounced as mad for simply putting into practice what the Saints have preached." In principle, the Imperium would love to do this on every world it has, but most recognize that would be disastrous while they still have a War to fight. As the Rallying cry goes...
  KILL THE MUTANT!
  BURN THE HERETIC!
  PURGE THE UNCLEAN!
- The Gaunts Ghosts novel necropolis is rife with inter human racism, particulary by the higher ups in vervunhive, who regard the imperial guard regiments saving their asses as inferior even after displaying complete incompetence at defending themselves, they even go as far as to try and have a tank commander put on trial, in the middle of the war because he knocked down a couple of buildings due to a traffic jam the vervunhivers created, this quote by VPHC Tarrian towards gaunt seconds before he gets shot really seals the deal.
  Tarrian: Gak you you wretched offworld scum!
  - On the other side, all Aliens view humans with a mixture of hatred, fear and contempt. The Imperium has destroyed thousands of Xeno civilizations over the millenia, and still strives to elliminate the survivors, with varying degrees of success.
  - From the depths of /tg/: " They took the galaxy for mankind. In the process, they destroyed countless alien races for the crime of not being human, as well as killing millions of humans for the crime of not being Terran enough. But they did it for great justice, so that makes it okay."
Good old fashioned Warhammer has its share of speciesism and good old fashioned racism. People from the Empire are horrifically prejudiced about Dwarfs, Elves as well as humans not from the Empire, humans from different provinces in the Empire... and of course these are the ones they'll actually talk to (maybe). Anything else will pretty much get attacked on sight. On the other hand Dwarfs consider humans to be soft and elves to be even softer as well as arrogant magic using bastards. Elves have racism within the three different factions - each hating each other to various degrees (though the worse is between the Dark and High elves) in addition to considering any other race to be little more than backwards pawns for them to use or exterminate at will.
- Minus the Lizardmen since they're older than the elves (and would kick there asses)
Dungeons And Dragons players, as opposed to the official game universe, traditionally work out their prejudices by abusing (at least verbally) Halflings and Half-Orcs. Half-orcs are the "Dumb Brute" of the D&D game, strong, stupid, brutish, and usually unbathed. Halflings are an odd combination of every group stereotype of smaller people, including your spoiled creep of a kid brother. In an RPG, everyone can be a bully, and when they are, they generally are bullying a halfling (or a gnome). This is to say nothing of players who hate certain races for statistical or lore reasons (i.e. "Elves are always portrayed as so perfect, but they're such pushovers"; "All halflings are kender", "the rulebook says elves dislike dwarves and vice versa"), and take out those prejudices on people with favorable attitudes towards those races, in or out of game.
- Always Chaotic Evil does little to help this fact. "Of course they're all scumbags, the Monster Manual says so right here!"
  - This editor has heard several stories where players up to and including those playing paladins are perfectly fine with killing orc noncombatants. In one particularly bad example a half-orc ranger did a Heroic Sacrifice to save the elf paladin, who buried the unlooted corpses of human enemies. When it was suggested he do the same for the half-orc he responded "It's only an orc" several times, despite copious DM warning, and fell from grace for reasons the player could not understand.
  - This troper once played in a game where another player had stomped the heads of lizardman babies into a fine paste and thought nothing of it. Of course, they were trying to gnaw his leg off at the time, but even so...
  - This editor was once playing an Orc barbarian, listening to the human bard and human rogue talking about The Black Dude Dies First. When the rogue said "It's racist," the orc perked up and responded, "That's silly. How can humans be racist towards each other?"
- Here's a "little" comment about drow, with some digging below Adaptation Distillation layers, down to first edition...
- Eberron both plays this trope straight and subverts it. People of various nations are racist towards other races they've been at war with (There is also non-fantastic racism as they can be hostile to people of the same races coming from former enemy nations). Generally Goblinoids and the Warforged get the worst end of the racism. The subversion occurs in the Goblinoid Nation of Darguun. A war-torn land where the Goblinoid clans are at each other's throat, the central government bare holds everything togheter and slavery is both legal and regularly practiced. Despite their flaws, Goblinoids are surprisingly opened minded on the race issue, being willing to accept members of other races into their clans, should they prove worthy. Meanwhile, unlike other settings, Orcs get little racism directed at them (they don't travel abroad too much) and are also quite willing to welcome other races into their tribes (in fact, most Orc tribes often have a lot of human and half-orc members).
- Warforged, Shifters, and Changelings all suffer from racism in Eberron as well. The Warforged are an artifical race of sentient constructs built as soldiers for The Last War. When the war ended, Khorvaire found itself with a sizable population of Warforged left over-machines that think, and feel as richly as their creators, but now without purpose. Some regard them as freaks that should never have been built, others hate them for stealing jobs (they have no need to eat or sleep), and still others would happily enslave them all again. Shifters are the diluted descendants of Eberron's lycanthropes, and many still fear them for their bestial appearance and often savage nature, as well as memories of their predecessors (who were all nearly genocided into oblivion by the local Lawful Good Crystal Dragon Jesus religion, even the nonevil ones). Changelings can alter their appearance and gender at will, leading many to be paranoid of anyone they suspect to be a changeling-especially if they happen to actually know a changeling is in the area. Even one area of work changelings naturally excel at if they must, prostitution, has become a subject of racism and paranoia on suspicions that any given prostitute is actually a changeling-and quite possibly male in "her" native form.
- In Ravenloft, demihumans are rare enough, and human superstition prevalent enough, that demihumans who would be tolerated in other campaign settings are objects of fear in many domains. Some domains extend this to spellcasters as well, forcing wizards to hide their powers or risk being burned alive. Even domains that don't lynch demihumans on sight usually treat them as second-class citizens.
  - Given the abundance of predatory monsters that look almost human in the Land of Mists, being leery of demihumans may be a rational reaction.
  - The Vistani, Ravenloft's equivalent of Hammer-movie "gypsies", are the targets of human-on-human racism within the game. Out of character, their similarity to the IRL Romani can have Unfortunate Implications too.
  - The 3E Ravenloft products introduced the race of calibans: deformed offspring of humans afflicted by evil magical influences. They're treated like menial grunt-laborers at best, and usually like Berthas In The Attic.
In the old World Of Darkness, racism between vampires and werewolves was built into the setting (and the various supernatural factions considered themselves superior to the "Sleepers" a.k.a. normal humans). But certain gamelines, most notably Changeling: The Dreaming, offered players ready-made prejudices and feuds between the various fairy races, under the heading "What [insert name here] group thinks of the others". The ancient immortal Sidhe, who only recently returned from Arcadia when the doors between Fairy and Earth opened again after several centuries, get it especially hard (as if being stuck in mortal human bodies wasn't bad enough). They're faery nobility, so each and every one of them must be a snobbish arrogant prick out to push the poor commoners around, go figure. Their reputation is even worse than that of the brutal Redcaps or the creepy Sluagh. Of course, it's an US American roleplaying game, so the "nobles vs commoners" stereotypes are milked for all its worth, including a storyline clearly patterned after the American War for Independence, with the brave commoner changelings fighting the newly returned Sidhe (the British) for their political freedom.
- If one looks a bit more closely at the world background revealed in various sourcebooks, though, one might notice that the tale about how the Sidhe cowardly abandoned the Commoners and fled to Arcadia while the Glamour was fading during the time of the Plague and shut the doors of Arcadia in the Commoners' faces is so much propaganda and lies (see Kithbook Trolls and Kithbook Pooka). Likewise, if the Commoners disliked being lorded over by nobility so much, why didn't they abolish feudalism in their new society? They didn't; instead, some Commoner changelings set themselves up as the new nobility, as barons and dukes, and took over the Sidhe's old principalities, and when Europe invaded the Americas, European changelings conquered new land from the Native American fae.
- In the world of glamour that changelings and fae live in, oaths and vows are literally magically binding; they are enforced by the Dreaming. The Sidhe were born from the Dreaming to be just and noble rulers and judges, they were created by the Dreaming to be nobility, just as all the other fae races were created to fulfill their own roles, which come with certain preselected psychological traits (a troll is noble and loyal, an ogre is brutish, a knocker is a foul-mouthed tinkerer, a sluagh is quiet and secretive, a pooka is a trickster). Humans may be able to chose their own path, but fae souls cannot. They ARE what they are; a fairy cannot change what it is anymore than a human can turn into an elephant or a daisy. (Something many players don't seem to understand, perhaps because the rulebooks never blatantly spell it out. Otherwise, why else would some people chose to play i.e. a troll character, only to have the character behave totally contrary to the traits a troll is supposed to embody, and then complain that they demand the "freedom" to play the character as they see fit? Why not play something different then?) Of course, Commoner changelings are part human soul, part faery soul, merged in a mortal body, which creates cognitive dissonance but also a chance to overcome their faery traits, on the price of banality. Sidhe, on the other hand, are faery souls stuck in mortal bodies; they do not reincarnate like Commoners, they only live once and then die, their soul disappearing to unknown places. But when the Sidhe souls returned to Earth in 1969, desperately in need of Glamour to survive in the mortal world, and expected the Commoners to honour the ancient oaths that bind liege lord and subjects, the Commoners betrayed them and rebelled.
In the new version of The World Of Darkness, things are roughly similar. Every subgroup of each of the supernaturals has a column marked "Stereotypes", giving a quick rundown of what they generally think of the others of their kind and the Main Quadology (vampire, werewolf, mage, human). The books do note, however, that it's suicide to think the others conform to that. This is doubly true for, ironically, Changeling - the new setting has "hang together or hang separately" as its theme, so whatever you think of the other seemings, you had best be willing to at least pretend to get along with them or say hello to Arcadia once again.
- What, nobody's going to talk about mages? While schools of magic differ, a lot of the schools of magic (Mastigos particularly) consider the entirety of Werewolves to be too dumb to even use as proper slaves. Most of them treat mortals, especially those with a chance at becoming mages, as pawns at best, if they're even viewed as being worthy of attention. And a lot of potentially misguided players consider these the good guys of new World of Darkness.
The elves of Magic: the Gathering's Lorwyn setting apparently have no problem whatsoever with the concept of casually hunting down and killing intelligent beings that offend their sensibilities by diverging too far from their ideal of beauty...which is, of course, an elf.
- In Lorwyn's Mirror Universe, Shadowmoor, the kithkin (formerly superstitious but generally decent) become hugely xenophobic, while most everybody else is Always Chaotic Evil - except the elves, who are about the only good people around.
The Savage Worlds setting Winterweir mentions this is a constant problem in the continent of Alacarn. Humans are not prejudiced against each other by skin but they loathe people from other nations and anyone who isn't a member of their own race.
Eclipse Phase's Fantastic Racism is mostly (with the exception of bioconservative enclaves) directed at artificial intelligences, the Artificial Human "pods" and the "clanking masses", human refugees from The Singularity who were mass-uploaded rather than being lifted into orbit, and later given cheap robot bodies so they didn't have to live in virtual reality. The nature of the setting means that many of these prejudices are just a re-sleeve away. Notably, it also explicitly mentions the Uncanny Valley as one of the issues with using a robot (or heavily modified human) body, a problem that doesn't crop up with more radical bodyplans.

The Witcher...a major theme of the game...both the humans and the non-humans (elves and dwarves) display this, which leads to armed groups like the religious fanatical Order of the Flaming Rose and the terroristic Scoia'tel to commit horrific atrocities against the other race. Geralt himself is also a target of the racism.
Inphyy in Ninety Nine Nights has a problem with goblins. Other people fight them and their evil leader. She hunts down their women and children to the dismay of her comrades.
Several games in the Tales Series invoke this trope to varying degrees.
- Much of the plot of Tales Of Symphonia involves racism against half-elves on the part of humans and elves. Like the Teen Titans example above, the word "racism" itself is never actually used: the word "discrimination" is always used instead, even when it's just describing racial hatred rather than actual unfair treatment.
  - In one part of the sequel, you see a member of the Sylvarant La Resistance complain that the Te'theallan Church of Martel treats people from Sylvarant like they were half-elves. Note he doesn't complain about the treatment of half-elves itself, merely the comparison.
  - Also, although not much is made of it, there seems to be a level of distrust of people from Mizuho.
  - Ozette too, because they oppose the Church of Martel.
- There's also a degree of this in Tales Of Phantasia, although it's less central to the plot. It's not surprising, because Tales of Symphonia is implied to be set in the distant past of the same world as Tales of Phantasia.
- In Tales Of Eternia, the Inferian perception of Celestians is of warmongering, bloodthirsty monsters.
  - A library book reveals that Celestians have only a slightly better view of the Inferians.
- Tales Of Legendia has the Orerines (land dwellers) and the Ferines (sea dwellers).
- This trope comes front and center in Tales of Rebirth with the humans versus the Gajumas (beast people).
- And in the latter half of Tales of the Abyss, society must learn to accept "Replicas," exact copies of humans, exploring the question of What Measure Is A Non Human.
- Tales of the Tempest had this trope as its entire plot. The fandom was not amused.
- Tales Of Innocence. A good slice of humanity is gaining powers from their status as reincarnations, and the government is kidnapping them for research purposes. Bonus points: the reincarnatees were having a race war with each other, which is bleeding into the awakened reincarnated humans. A real world war is being thrown into chaos because some of the soldiers have decided to fight the heaven war instead of the Earth war, and the divisions don't always match up.
Half the point of the Zone Of The Enders series. In fact, "Ender" is a pejorative term by Earthlings referring to those born on Mars and the outer colonies. In turn, the Martians use it for those living on the outskirts of the solar system.
In Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, the main character Marche unknowingly refers to a bangaa (a race of reptilian humanoids) as a "lizard", which is soon revealed to be a form of ethnic slur against them. Though this is probably similar, if not equivalent, to someone calling you an 'ape' (Something that happens a few times to Humans in fiction, too) The lizard comment is used by some NP Cs in FFXII as well.
- Similarly in Final Fantasy IX, the Burmecians are referred to as 'rats' and 'rodents' as a racial slur by those attempting their genocide.
- In Final Fantasy X, the stateless Al Bhed tend to be looked down on by regular humans, with the Church of Yevon being particularly harsh due to the Al Bhed violating Yevon's restrictions on the use of technology. Even Wakka is shown throughout the game to be distrustful of Al Bhed, though he becomes less so the further along the story gets.
- Used to hell and back in Final Fantasy XI. Beastmen hate the player races, the player races hate Beastmen, Humes exploit ~~African-Ameri~~ ~~Native-American~~ Galka, Elvaan are snooty to everyone, and even the cutesy Tarutaru have performed genocide on walking, talking frogs. To top it all off, the Precursors hate everyone but them. If there's a solid theme to FFXI, it's Fantastic Racism.
- A lot of the villains in Dissidia have a habit of referring to Zidane & Kuja with terms like "simian," "monkey," etc.
The ninth and tenth Fire Emblem games have the Beorc (basically normal humans) and Laguz (humanoid shapeshifters). Despite being created equally by the universe's goddess, they both tend to have a tremendous amount of contempt for the other, as well as for hybrids between the two.
- And in the 7th game, there was Marquess Araphams hatred for the nomadic people of Sacae, which includes our plucky heroine and his very own captain of the guard.
Averted in Game Arts' Lunar and Grandia series. Despite being populated with many different humanoid species, all games in both series avoid this trope with one exception.
The orcs of Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura are consistently oppressed, discriminated against, and stereotyped as near-mindless subhumans, despite apparently being lower-class humans who have undergone a magical and wholly cosmetic transformation. There's even a political screed in the game titled "The Orcish Problem". The trope is also subverted via the game's Space Jews, the stereotypically Jewish gnomes, who really are engaged in a globe-spanning Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion-style conspiracy to manipulate the other races of the world for profit and power.
- I was under the impression that magical and wholly cosmetic transformation was a case of but a single "Orc" - any other Orc in the game is your typical, dumb, member of a different than Human race, Orc.
- The hostility between Mages and Technolist also counts. (This makes sense, considering one critically fails in the presence of the other...)
Mass Effect is replete with the quotation-on-the-top-of-the-article's content - salarians and krogans are on bad terms, as the latter are a bit miffed about the Depopulation Bomb that's rendered their species impotent and dying. Turians and humans have strained relations, mostly on the human side, as First Contact came in the form of the turians bombing a human colony from orbit. The batarians outright hate humans due to them encroaching on territory the batarians themselves want to develop for their own ends. Most of the alien species in general are sore toward humans due to their surprising expansionism, unprecedented growth, and their disproportionately powerful role in galactic politics. And humans themselves have formed extremist groups and political parties encouraging something similar.
- Not to mention the turian representative on the council will call out you out for commiting genocide if you kill the rachni queen... and call you a fool if you spare it, exclaiming they will be lucky if the rachni don't overrun the galaxy now.
  - He is at least consistent; his remarks on the player's handling of the Zhu's Hope situation on Feros are similarly negative regardless of whether Shepard managed to save the Thorian-controlled colonists or simply killed them all.
- The game also features a clever inversion of expected prejudices. The all-female asari species can reproduce with any other species. If you discuss this with your asari teammate, she'll explain that union between two asari is looked down upon as nothing has been gained. Indeed, she herself suffers under the stigma of being a *shudder* 'pureblood.'
- Ashley also shows what looks like outward hints of fantastic racism by not trusting the alien teammembers at first, though a lot of her concerns are justified by the fact that she is pretty much in charge of operational security on the Normandy, and the alien crewmembers include a turian (whose species have had a violent history with humanity), a self-admitted quarian drifter, the asari daughter of the Big Bad's second in command, and a krogan mercenary - pretty much the most untrustworthy thing in the galaxy.
  - She's untrusting of aliens because of family ties: her grandfather was the one who surrendered to the Turians during the First Contact War and he was promptly shunned for it, as was her father and herself.
  - That's more why she feels a need to overachieve and compensate and less (though certainly a part of) why she dislikes aliens (and turians specifically). In at least Wrex's case, it's partially justified as Wrex seriously considers betraying Shepard if only to retrieve the potential cure that will save his race from extinction.
  - Yet Wrex is something of a subversion. He's one of the only Krogans in the universe who wanted to abandon the whole "fight to the death" with everyone and everything - a view counter to even his own warmonger father's view which ultimately lead to Wrex killing said father.
- Then there's the quarians, No one likes them. The labor unions hate them because they're scabs, the council hates them because they made the geth. All the other aliens see them as beggars and thieves, plus their habit of dumping their criminals on their planets.
- Notably, A Is suffer extensively more so than even the quarians. Roughly half of the A Is one encounters in the game have justified reasons for being misguided antagonists.
  - The other half aren't even antagonists - their inability to communicate means they can't even protest when people kill them. The best they can do is self-defense which, naturally to many in the setting, looks like an AI gone rogue.
- There's also some of this toward the krogan by the other Citadel species, who dropped the genophage on them during the war, and once the war was won they were in no particular hurry to cure it, leading to the krogans' slow depopulation and extinction.
- It's also rather rude to tell the ammonia-breathing Volus to "take a deep breath," and they react to it like you'd said a racial slur.
This is part of the reason reason for the hostile relations between Horde and Alliance in World Of Warcraft after they formed an alliance against the demons in War Craft III. There are other instances of this all over the place in the backstory novels. For instance, in the first war against the demons, the night elf nobles initially refuse to accept the help of other races (at that time, dwarves, the ursine furbolg and the tauren), and the demons manipulate the orcs into fighting the draenei by fueling the mistrust.
- And of course, who can forget Grand Marshal Garithos from the Frozen Throne expansion, probably the biggest fantastic racist in the series. His comeuppance was exquisitely satisfying because of it.
- World of Warcraft, debatably, makes a lot of money off of keeping people interested in the 'us vs. them' mentality and the racist overtones between the orcs and the humans and their respective allies. When these mentalities were toned down in the Burning Crusade expansion, players complained. Cue a 180' turn in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, where fueling said racism seems to be a part of the Big Bad's Xanatos Gambit.
- In an interesting take on this trope, you'll find plenty of "racism" in the player base against gnomes.
  - /tg/ coined the memorable phrase, "Friends don't let friends be gnomes".
  - But that doesn't really apply to World Of Warcraft at all, given that /tg/ as a rule utterly despises World Of Warcraft.
  - The Horde counterpart is the Blood Elves, who are the only "pretty" race among the Horde. And considering that the Blood Elves were added in the Burning Crusade expansion, Suffers Newbies Poorly is probably a contributing factor. No such Freudian Excuse is available for gnome haters.
  - Heck, Oxhorn Short Shorts has an epic sea shanty/ballad called 'Gnome Overboard'. It's about how 'five curses and spite live in each gnome', and that you should blame the gnome when your ship sinks and you die, and you'll go to heaven and he'll go to hell 'as Roper justly decreed'. To be fair, the author, the song-singer, and the main cast are all either Horde or Horde players, and gnomes are portrayed as being hyperactive midgets on helium. And that's not even getting close to what he says about elves.
The background lore in The Elder Scrolls series makes heavy use of this trope. The most obvious examples? The Bretons and Orcs hate each other, the Nords and Dark Elves hate each other due to war, the Argonians and Dark Elves loathe each other due to slave raids and slavery by the latter, and the Khajiit and Wood Elves regard each other with hatred, both of them raiding each other's homeland. The High Elves and Dark Elves, in particular, are both racist against all other races; ironically, the Redguards,(who are to all extent Blacks) are treated in a pretty much neutral light.
- Although since they did not descend from the Nedes proto-human race in the same way as the Nords and Imperials, you could argue that they're technically not human.
- To its credit, the series tends to portray these tensions as somewhat-realistic social and cultural problems, rather than issues arising solely from inherent racial characteristics. For instance, it's less "dark elves are racists" and more "Morrowind is insular and xenophobic".
  - That's a good point - most of the quarrels are less due to good old fashioned racial prejudice, but are instead based on good old fashioned dislike of whoever happens to live in the next valley over. Notice that all the above examples live next to each other. The reason Redguards get off easy, though, is mostly because whatever people used to live in the land they invaded were more or less genocided.
- Even if you play a Dunmer in TES 3, you're still considered an outlander. It's not a question of race so much as culture. And the Ashlanders consider all other Dunmer as outlanders.
This gets even worse in Oblivion when you hear rumours of a countess interested in species 'purity' and torturing Argonians, then find a torture chamber in their castle. This trooper had a strong urge to knife the count and countess in question.
- You may be interested to know then that she's not plot important enough to get back up after a good stabbing...
Despite the game's humorous, light-hearted nature, one of the central underlying themes of Disgaea (mostly the first game) is racism, particularlly the issue of judging a group without actually knowing them. Lamington talks about this before the final battle. Almaz says something similar in the third game, even admiting his own pre-game prejudices.
Wild ARMs 5 has this trope as its Anvilicious morality tale - the tall, beautiful Bishounen/Bishoujo Veruni constantly oppress the smaller, weaker humans, while the protagonists work tirelessly to prove The Power Of Friendship and how we're all really the same inside. Unusually, this is because they are - the Veruni used to be humans long ago, before they left for space.
Anti-nonhuman prejudice is touched on in Knights Of The Old Republic. On Taris, the only nonhumans who can walk around in the Upper City work for the local Exchange boss or are pretty Twi'lek shopkeepers. Others get pelted by stones thrown by children, as seen once. There is a street preacher calling nonhumans a "plague that sweeps through our streets". A seedy hotel has alien occupants despite this being illegal. The slum-like and generally miserable Lower City, overrun by gangs, is where most of the nonhumans live. The racism Juhani experienced as a child on Taris is a major point in her sidequest.
- Alternatively, it can be interpreted that Juhani suffered from prejudice against her sexuality and inter-species relationships rather than her race specifically. Hard to say since that content wasn't fleshed out all that much.
  - Given that her parents also were affected by this, when Juhani was still a kid, it really can't.
In Fallout 2, Vault City residents hold themselves superior to all others, having achieved instant success at society-building from the moment they left their Vault. Their leader, First Citizen Lynette, is a black woman with strong prejudices bordering on genocidal, against ghouls, mutants, savages and anyone living above-ground when the bombs landed.
- Not to mention the general hatred of Super Mutants. In fact, if you allow Fawkes (one of the two friendly Super Mutants in the whole game) to become your ally, you become hated by nearly everyone in the Wasteland.
  - That's Fallout 3, and not if you have a high enough reputation. (Which Fawkes will comment on)
In Valkyria Chronicles, Rosie really hates the Darcsens often taking out rage her on Isara. Rosie eventually comes around and stops hating Darcsens.
- Which is a pity since Isara's death is argueably the reason she stopped.
  - Rosie started to curb her racism during Fauzen, after which talking to Isara and Zaka got her to soften up some more. She was already stopping before that happened.
  - Her side-chapter (shortly after Isara's funeral) reveals said hate was product of having her hometown and family lost by Imperials during a Darcsen hunting raid. Techninically, from finishing that report and on, her opinions on Darcsens take a U-turn as she gains a potential that makes her stronger by being near them.
- Its sequel makes the discrimination a bigger plot point as the antagonists are a Gallian Noble House that didn't take well the whole revelation of Gallia's ruling family being Darcsens.
While not in-game, per se, Halo suffers a bit with the Elite specisim. This may have something to do with "They're harder to headshot from behind" regarding SWAT, but the slur "Dinosaur" seems to come up too many times for it to be just that. Seriously, try making a thread on the forum about those guys, and you will invariably get at least one comment about "they're dinosaurs" and about -5 posts about how they're fun to play as. Say anying about liking to play as them, and you'll get called out on it because of the aforementioned headshot problem.
- Also not helped by the very tiny non-existant hitbox on the neck, which pretty much requires Improbable Aiming Skills to hit, but is constantly called out on (this was done so that the hitboxes will be equal, but few people seem to get that).
The Vektans of Killzone view the Helghast as mutants while the Helghast view the Vektans (and by extension, the United Colonial Army) as evil oppressors.
While this gets briefly touched upon in the first Phantasy Star game, and more expounded on in the second, the PS 2 game Phantasy Star Universe features this as an apparent plot point (and background story), where the Humans have created CAS Ts (androids/robots), Beasts, and Newmans to inhabit the Gurhal System with them and serve as labor... but the hierarchy gets inverted quite a bit when the CAS Ts become the supremacists, the Beasts become resentful and rogue-ish, the Newmans become deeply religious, and the Humans still think everyone can get along. CAST speciesism and racism ensues throughout the entire game.
Kingdom Hearts II gives us this little gem from DiZ. "A Nobody doesn't have a right to know. Nor even does it have the right to be." Yeah, they're basically a person who's missing half of what makes them, but does that give you a right to treat a sapient being like a nothing?
- Well, they are called Nobodies.
- To be fair to DiZ, the only Nobodies he had met before had throughly screwed him over and destroyed his entire world back when they were human, so he has a right to be bitter. He did apolgize to Roxas after learning he was capable of feeling emotion before exploding.
  - Then there are replicas who even Nobodies treat like dirt. Repliku was brainwashed into thinking he was the real Riku then had his heart destroyed by Namine. Xion was treated like dirt by Saix and was "reprogramed" after she tried to escape. In both cases replicas are treated than little more as puppets.
City Of Heroes has two primary alien races. There's the Rikti, most of which want to kill every human on the planet. Then there's the Kheldians, half of which are good, half of which are evil. There's many people, players and NP Cs, who believe all Kheldians are evil, and believe the policy should be to shoot first and ask questions later. The Rikti also have a few "good" ones. They've been tricked by Nemesis into the war they're waging on humanity, and most of the ones who are still fighting are the ones who don't know this or don't believe it.
In Chrono Trigger, the player encounters a land inhabited by 'fiends' (monsters) who built their own civilisation after the human-fiend war. Although the first fiends you encounter are friendly towards humans since the war ended 400 years ago, everyone else either attacks you, sells things for exhorbitant prices ('you think I'd give a human the going rate?') or expresses rather loudly that the Fiendlord should have eradicated the human race when he had the chance, which is mildly disturbing. Humans mostly seem to have gotten over it though, since it's hardly mentioned, and they believe that 'some' monsters can live among humans.
- Regular humans don't seem to believe that ever happened, what with the monster village being somewhat secluded and the human-fiend war having happened during what would be the middle ages, they feel they are Over Such Silly Superstitions. Also, most "monsters" that attack you in the present are just animals. A better example would be the "Dark Ages" segregation between Earthbounds and Enlighteneds. The later ones use magic and live happy in dreams (pretty literally), whereas the former don't, and live in utter misery. That is, until the source of Zeal's power goes boom.
Spoofed in Atelier Annie. When Fitz is nice to Annie, but mean to her fairy master Pepe, he assumes that this trope has spontaneously manifested in a world completely devoid of it - it's actually because Fitz has a fawning girl-crush on Annie, and is jealous that Pepe gets to spend all his time with her.
Arc The Lad gives us the people from Holn (hometown of one of the main characters) who are distrusted by the Game's expy of Switzerland because of their ability to communicate with monsters. In Twilight of the Spirits, Human and Deimos (intelligent humanoid monsters) are locked into a cold war pretty close to heat up.
In Gaia Online racism plays a pretty large role in a lot of the events involving multiple races (beginning with humans-versus-zombies, humans-versus-aliens, humans-versus-vampires... see any trends?), especially Halloween 2008's "humans-versus-vampires-versus-elves-versus-zombies" free-for-all (due to a misinterpreted prophecy).
- An ongoing example of this trope is Louie, who tends to be just a little too quick to pull the (vampiric) race card in his shop dialogue (calling those who ask if he sparkles "borderline racist" comes to mind).
- Also the possibility that Gaia's orcs have been enslaved (which is canonly asked about by Josie, who is black).
Dragon Age Origins is full of this. Human racism against elves. Elvish racism against humans or elves who act "too human". Human racism against humans of other ethnicities and nationalities. Classism in the Dwarven caste system. Prejudice against non-Circle mages. Religious intolerance. There's probably not a permutation of this they don't cover.
Seems like any and all games that have Petting Zoo People interacting with each other.
In Star Fox 64, almost all of the bosses/main villains are anthropomorphic monkeys.
The Big Bad of Ratchet And Clank: Up Your Arsenal is a robot who hates organic beigns and wants them destroyed.
Ferals (beastmen) to humans in Sands Of Destruction. Sure, there's a few places where they're more or less equal, but the rest of the world? There's a reason why Morte's a part of the World Annihilation Front.

In Girl Genius, racism against constructs is prevalent. There's also prejudice against Sparks, but it tends to be more justified, due to the way their Science Related Memetic Disorder works.
Ugly Hill, has the minority one-eyed monsters discriminated against by the majority two-eyes.
Spoofed in this strip from The Non Adventures Of Wonderella, with gay not-Transformers.
In Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire, prejudice against orcs is commonplace, as seen here. Luna, a human with unusually large lower canines, has suffered spillover racism on occasion as well (her teeth look like orc tusks... at least to humans; orcs can easily tell the difference). That's the only thing she has in common with orcs, but nobody said racism was rational.
In Elf Only Inn, part of the backdrop is the racism between elves and dark elves. It's fun for characters of one race to hurl insults (and even weapons) at characters of the other race. However, one player (who plays a Duke Nukem persona) doesn't get it: He takes up the "cause" of the dark elves, calls Meghan a racist, and in general makes Meghan and the dark elf player agree to take up their battle another time.
- Taking the metaphor further, Meghan starts to question whether they couldn't form a friendship between elves and dark elves. Offer hastily rescinded when she learns that the dark elf queen admits only two roles for regular elves: slave labor, or sacrifices to the spider god.
Order Of The Stick uses this in several ways. Redcloak, The Dragon, is a goblin, and treats hobgoblins like dirt until one saves his life - he then becomes a goblinoid supremacist (Technically, he says he hates all Humans equally, admitting that he may be a speciesist, he never wanted to be a racist). Wizards, who gain magical power through study, are contemptuous of sorcerers, whose magic is a genetic gift and of clerics whose magic is a gift from the gods. And in the Start Of Darkness print prequel, it's revealed that the Always Chaotic Evil races are that way because they were specifically created by the gods to be defeated, and their ultimate plan is an attempt to create equality for themselves.
- Fridge Logic: Redcloak is the High Priest of The Dark One, the god of all goblinoids. Shouldn't his god object if Redcloak treats hobgoblins as expandable?
  - Perhaps the Dark One sees his own followers as expendable as long as purposes are advanced?
  - Considering his purposes involve all reality being overwritten, yes.
- In a purely comic example, Celia's retort to Haley calling her an "airhead" is "Hey! There's no need for racial slurs!"
- Frequent elephant-in-the-room example: Yok-yok, Redcloak's village, and metal-head orcs are treated by (in at least one case, Lawful) Good adventurers (in at least one case PALADINS) as expendable, regardless of guilt or innocence, down to women and children. The adventurers don't get their alignments changed over it, nor do the Paladins lose power over it. The Giant lampshades that the D&D settings themselves have Fantastic Racism.
In Dan And Mabs Furry Adventures, Dan, as an adventurer, hates demons. Especially succubi and incubi. Learning that he's an incubus himself only worsens it, making him hostile to anyone who wants to teach him how to use his powers, fearing that they will "make him like them" à la The Virus.
- To be fair, most of them are card-carryingly evil, mainly because they're powerful. The nice ones are the exception. (His first would-be teacher, Aaryanna, isn't exactly subtle about what she expects Dan to use his powers for, and Lorenda's mother has a blatant might-makes-right philosophy.)
  - Of course, as Abel explains, most Cubi are jerks because they were raised like that, not because they're Cubi. Dan and Abel are obvious examples, since both were raised as Beings and neither is evil.
  - And in Dan's mind, the fact that his own mother was apparently the worst of the lot (she got better) only cements the fact that he'll turn into them - leaving the fact that if he doesn't learn to control his powers properly, he's liable to hurt his friends, as the only reason he finally agrees to go along.
- Also, Dragons and Cubi (or at least Clan Cyra Cubi) apparently don't get along very well.
- Also from DMFA, there is a species-wide restraining order against the fae that prohibits them from approaching either any girl-scout in general, or two girl-scouts in particular (who may have died of old age by now).
Yamara: "There's no racism like fantasy racism. Like no racism I know."
The Law of Purple has the planet Caligula, where skin color is random, there are barely any sort of religious traditions, and the culture is as non-sexist as a sexually dimorphic species can get it. So they divide themselves into two races based solely on ear shape, and "2nd Kind" are generally condemned to live in horrendous conditions as a result.
In the Captain SNES universe, RPG sprites are considered arrogant, dumb and really angsty.
- One wonders how Mario maintains his image.
  - A: His game was basically a Mario Game translated into RPG format, removing the angst and arrogance aspects, and B: He's the Goddamn Mario!
In Harkovast, every race is even a different species and generally mistrust the other races. Sometimes they can have children between them, and the "half-caste" offspring are left with the dilemma of following one side or the other's culture, where they might not be accepted in either.
Crimson Flag: red foxes ("reds") versus grey foxes ("greys"). There are other kinds of foxes, but so far there doesn't seem to be any antagonism involving them.
In The Inexplicable Adventures Of Bob, there is tension between the dragons of planet Butane and the Nemesites who rule them, as depicted here.
In Freefall, Artificial Lifeforms, both robotic and genetically engineered, are treated as second class citizens at best and as slaves at worst. Of course, it's often the very reason they exist in the first place ("artificial", remember?).
In Linburger Demi Humans are treated as second class citizens, and are heavily discriminated against. They even have to surrender a seat on the subway if a human wants their seat. Likely related to their hedonistic lifestyles.
- Most ironic, is that the Cyll used to live in upper class society. Then Gotterdamerung happened, the Cyll lost their power, and now they live the way do. Unknown if the other Demi Human races had a similar origin.
In 8-bit Theater, Black Mage has made the claim that White Mages cannot understand the experience of a Black Mage due to all of the discrimination against Black Mages because of the color of their spells.
- Let's not forget how Thief feels towards the Dwarves, and vice versa. To the point of practically egging Black Mage on whilst they were in Dwarfland, and not objecting to all the destrution taking place. Then again, Thief never rally does seem to object to the violence/crimes comitted by The Light Warriors...
In Chess Piece, the king's father is a bigot of just about everything while Jack Fenton is one towards ghosts. Interestingly, there are two countries of ghosts - one in a Phantom Zone called Purgatory, the other in Anartica - and the King of Dalv has a best friend who happens to be a ghost-and his general.
In The Kenny Chronicles Tarneckis (genetically engineered human-like animals created by pirate scientists) aren't allowed the same rights as humans and the attitude that they shouldn't is apparently prevalent enough that claiming your political opponent supports giving them rights constitutes mud-slinging. Is it any wonder why the majority of Tarneckis live on cruise ships where humans aren't allowed.
In the published webcomic Trace, when extraterrestrial creatures come to earth, the energy they release cause some mutantion among choice humans turning them into traces who for the most part simply exist to fight troubles. There are agencies devoted to the training and protection of Traces. Though hiding that you're a trace automatically gets you put in jail for roughly three months, and if you happen to become a trace when you already have a family well... yeah.

Goblins is built around this trope. The humans (and other PC races) hate the goblins (and other monster races). In turn, most goblins also hate humans ( the White Terror has a perfectly good reason for this though). The main characters subvert this, as they realize that not all humans are evil, and try to avoid confrontation with them.

The third chapter of The Account 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...
Done well in Tales Of MU, which 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 blantant 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. It's implied that the reason the Leightons behave the way they do is because they've been forcibly put with individuals they have nothing in common with because their bodies were fused together.
All over the place in the Whateley Universe, where a huge number of baseline humans hate or fear mutants and their powers. There's a Men In Black-like organization called the Mutant Commission Office that tracks (and maybe kidnaps) mutants. 'Humanity First!' is a popular anti-mutie organization that has groups all over the world.
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" stereoytpe 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.
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).
Sam Bak Za'z "There She Is" series gives cats and rabbits a dynamic with parallels to black/white interaction post emancipation. 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.
- Sam Bak Za are Koreans. The series is more about relationships between Japanese and Koreans. There's still a lot of hostility between them today, holdovers from historical rivalries. Same deal, though.

In one episode of The Wild Thornberries, Eliza and Darwin had to deal with a feud between two groups of monkeys, one with long tails and one with short tails.
Exaggerated to the point of lampshading in the third series of ReBoot, as Enzo repeatedly encounters bigoted Mainframers who insist that only blue Sprites could make acceptable Guardians, each one spouting the refrain that "Green is no colour for the defender of the system!" At one point, a young toddler becomes incensed at the sight of him, and angrily hurls its (blue) Guardian plush toy in his face; "Everyone's a critic!", he groans. It should be noted that after hearing that line, Megabyte played up the racism angle with a propaganda campaign.
One particularly heavy-handed episode of Teen Titans, "Troq", dealt with Starfire dealing with the racism Tamaraneans apparently are known to receive (Troq being an extreme slur for Tamaranians). She then gives a short speech at the end of the episode about racism, without actually using the word.
- The issue of racism almost comes up directly when Cyborg, who's black, tells her that he understands what it's like being judged by his appearance. He then pauses for a second and finishes with "I'm half robot".
The last season of the Gargoyles animated series featured a group of villains called the Quarrymen, who schemed to rid New York of the title characters due to their vaguely reptilian appearance (though there are much deeper reasons as well). With their full body suits and triangular hoods, the Quarrymen looked disturbingly like the Ku Klux Klan.
- This trope is actually fundamental to the show as a whole. Demona, the Big Bad, actually became a genocidal maniac because of the constant prejudice she dealt with from the humans she and the other gargoyles protected each night. The massacre of most of her clan and her downward spiral resulted from this. Ironically, Demona has more in common with the evil humans she detests than with her own kind.
- Early in the show, the three youngest members try to get a taxi and fail, but this is perhaps understandable, since the taxi driver just saw what looked like a winged monster jumping in front of his car. Few characters take their first gargoyle sighting in stride.
One episode of Saban's X-Men cartoon took the theme of prejudice against mutants and turned it on its head when Storm (an African) and Wolverine (a white Canadian) traveled back in time to the 1950s. When the waiter at a restaurant refused them service because Storm was black, she indignantly replied, "That's so pathetic it's almost quaint!"
- It was made even more of a sore spot because this version of Storm and Wolverine came from an alternate timeline in which they were married. Needless to say, Wolverine didn't take it well.
While the humans, robots, and aliens appear to be more or less well integrated in the world of Futurama, there is still a certain amount of hatred and rivalry that exists between the three groups - but the sewer mutants are the one group that is truly marginalized, as they're forced to remain underground. Something of a subversion in that the sewer mutants aren't portrayed in a sympathetic way, not even the main characters really care that the mutants are hated and forced to live in a sewer. Even when it's revealed that Leela isn't an alien, but actually a mutant herself (although human looking enough to pass for alien, she still lives on the surface after this episode), she still doesn't seem to be bothered much that her parents are considered freaks and they must live in a sewer.
- Then again, the mutants don't seem to care much either.
- There's also the sewer mutants' derogatory references to sub-sewer mutants.
  - Please, they're just a sub-urban legend.
In the Sherlock Holmes In The Twenty Second Century episode based on "The Five Orange Pips", the villains are an anti-robot group working with Moriarty. In the original story, they were the Ku Klux Klan.
Bluebeard in the animated film Felidae refers to humans as "Can Openers" believing that the only thing a human is good for is opening cans of food for cats to eat. Yes, a cat making racist remarks about a human. Yup...
A major focus of the The Animatrix was the growing distrust between humans and robots, growing out of humans treating robots as inferior slaves; ultimately this led to a robot purge, followed by the surviving robots leading a successful rebellion. The historicals parallels are plentiful.
- Its also to show how in fighting against blatant specism, the robots themselves became what they fought against. In the end, the oracle from The Matrix didn't want humans to have revenge on all machines, but to end the senseless, endless war between humans amd machines, to have peace and love...though it helps that the oracle herself is part of the machines; a piece of code that has seen the rise and fall of humanity, several versions of Zion, and several "The One"s...
In Transformers Animated, Sentinel Prime has severe issues with organics. While the trauma of having his friend killed by giant spiders might have something to do with it, there's something very wrong with a guy who tells his not-so-dead friend, who is now part-organic, that she would have been better off dead and then tries to kill her himself.
- This seems to be common throughout the Cybertronian population. "This Is Why I Hate Machines" has Capt. Fanzone accidentally coming to Cybertron. Most of the natives are either terrified of him or try to squish him, and none refer to him as anything but "the Organic." And these are all Autobots.
Parodied in the Super Mario Bros Super Show. In one episode titled "True Colors," Kooky von Koopa and Cheatsy Koopa fly around painting half the Toads (and Luigi) red and half (and Mario) blue. They then disguise themselves as red and blue Toads to stir up resentment between the two halves of the population. The conflict is resolved when the Mario brothers manage to get the Toads to rally in defense of their princess. The similarities to real life racism is lampshaded in the end by the brothers.
One of the underlying themes of Shadow Raiders, though partially justified in this case because each of the Single Biome Planets is rich in one resource that the others lack (Bone produces food, Ice produces water, Fire produces energy, and Rock presumably produces metal and whatever other mineral-based Applied Phlebotinum is needed), so all of the planets have been raiding and warring with each other for centuries. Particularly evident in the populace of planets Ice and Fire, where each species believes that merely touching their counterpart species will kill them.
In Bravestarr, a Space Western with a Native American hero, the indigenous "Prairie People" of New Texas (gnomelike sorts that burrowed like prairie dogs and had a vast underground kingdom) were the stand-ins for Native Americans, indigenous people treated with prejudice by the settlers. The Pilot Movie and several episodes of the show used prejudice against Prairie People as an allegory for its Aesops about tolerance. This led to Unfortunate Implications, however, since the Prairie People were infantilized characters speaking broken English, sometimes in exaggerated "Western" accents reminiscent of minstrel-show black stereotypes. Imagine Ewoks with Jar-Jar voices.
Tim the Witch Smeller in Sabrina: The Animated Series. In Tim's first episode, after Uncle Quigley gives an Anvilicious speech about how not all witches are bad, Tim appears to have seen the error of his ways. Tim apologises to Sabrina and her aunts and claims that he will turn over a new leaf. But once they forgive him he reveals he was only putting on an act and goes right back to trying to capture them now that they've let their guard down.
In Danny Phantom, most ghosts don't like humans and most humans are terrified of the ghosts. Danny being half-ghost makes it worst, as he's hated period by most ghosts he meets and his Alter Ego is feared and hated by most humans except his Secret Keeper friends/sister and The Libby.
Subverted in The Cleveland Show when Tim takes Cleveland in to meet his boss (who's hiring); the boss rather awkwardly expresses discomfort with Cleveland being black to Tim who's a talking bear.
In Exosquad, humans often call Neosapiens "sapes".
Thomas the Tank Engine: Many steam engines and diesels have a strong dislike for one another. Some steam engines see the diesels as trying to take away their jobs, and some (but not all) diesels see the steam engines as outdated and deserving to be scrapped. It was also a major driving force in the movie Calling All Engines. In addition, one of the books, James and the Diesel Engines, is all about the titular character trying to overcome his prejudices against diesels.
On The Fairly Oddparents, it's strongly that implied fairies tend to look down on other races, specificaly anti-fairies, pixies, and genies.Aside from a few Fantastic Slurs, this is never really explored.
Possibly the earliest televised example of this was Rankin Bass's Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, where Rudolph was a perfectly normal, healthy baby reindeer...whose nose happened to glow red on command. Almost everyone the poor thing encountered, from his own father to Santa Claus, rejected him because of it. (At least his mother loved him just the way he was.)
In an episode of Superjail, Jared tries to order bunny suits for everyone, but the Twins end up messing with the order so that half the prison population gets bunny suits and the other half gets wolf suits. Hilarity ensues.
In Chaotic, there is fantastic jingoism. One can interpret that all the landbased tribes of Perim are engaged in four way holy war over who is blame for having the Cothica disappear and ending the [[Gotterdammerung Golden Age]]. Then came the M'arrilians who exhibited big time Fantastic Racism by choosing to flood the planet by heat-ray melting of the ice caps, even though there is plenty of existing oceans assuming Perim is an Earth-like planet.

The late lamented we're-not-otherkin-honest website Foundation for Awakening and Enlightenment (the source of the elven holocaust meme, itself a tasteless yet amusing example of this trope) had this to say on its homepage: "This site does not appreciate, nor will it tolerate trolling."
- N Word Privileges?
  - Actually, the ethymology of "trolling" - a type of fishing - doesn't have anything to do with the mythical being. Make of this what you will.
- A few years back, an article in a UK newspaper told of a black man filing a complaint with an electricity/gas company for sending him a letter addressed to 'Mr Jungle Bunny'. The employee responsible was removed from his job and a hasty apology sent to the gentleman in question.
  - That's not fantastic racism, that's just racism.

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