"I don't think you're human if you don't acknowledge some prejudice."
Ugh, Tropers! I can't stand 'em.
Here are tropes that deal with biases, bigotry, discrimination, and prejudice involving different categories of people; including racism (realistic and fantastic), sexism, sexualism, sectarianism, etc. Or just any acts of (unfairly) judging others by some (arbitrary) physical attributes or mental behaviors.
Note: this index is not for tropes that you think have Unfortunate Implications. This is for tropes that are explicitly about in-universe prejudice.
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- Absolute Xenophobe: We will kill anyone who is not like one of us!
- Absurdly Divided School: Our clique is so much better than yours, and there's no way we can get along!
- Academia Elitism: My schooling is better than yours!
- Adult Hater: Adults ruin everything!
- Aggressive Categorism: You're stupid because you're a troper. Therefore, tropers are stupid.
- Albinos Are Freaks: Their pale skin and red eyes creep me out!
- All of the Other Reindeer: Ugh! I can't stand being near anyone who's much more different than us. They don't deserve to hang out with us.
- "Angry Black Man" Stereotype: I constantly feel pissed off by all the oppression that my people have suffered because of white supremacy, both past and present.
- Angry White Man: I constantly feel pissed off by all the complaints of so-called "bigotry" against straight white men such as myself, from all those annoyingly woke social justice warriors. Now stop being so offended whenever I try to degrade you!
- Anti-Intellectualism: I don't trust the opinions of egghead nerds who seem or act smarter than myself, or who challenge my opinions with their "facts".
- Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: You should treat the rest of our kind with proper respect... but you shouldn't be so generous to outsiders.
- Armoured Closet Gay: I hate homosexuals, even though I'm secretly one of them.
- Attractiveness Discrimination: I'll only go out with you if you're hot. I dislike ugly people.
- Bastard Angst: I get a hard time from others because my parents never married each other.
- Bigot with a Crush: Even though I despise those people, I'll admit that one in particular looks so... beautiful and charming?
- Bigotry Exception: I despise all tropers... except for that guy, he's the only good one.
- Bigot vs. Bigot: I hate that bigot just as much as I hate those tropers!
- Bigot with a Badge: I'm a cop and I can't stand those darn tropers!
- Breaking the Glass Ceiling: At last, I am the first troper to rise past a limit imposed by prejudice!
- Boomerang Bigot: I hate those people... despite the fact that I'm one of them.
- The Bully: I just dislike certain people for whatever reason, so I should be cruel to them.
- Bullying the Disabled: I dislike you because you're crippled.
- But Not Too Black: Your skin better not look too dark!
- But Not Too White: Your skin better not look too pale!
- Categorism as a Phobia: These people actually make me feel scared.
- Category Traitor: You're taking a liking to these folk? How dare you, you traitor!
- Child Hater: I despise children. So yes, I'm an ageist and I don't care.
- Teen Hater: Same goes for those obnoxious teenagers!
- Child of Two Worlds: I'm not sure about which of these two groups I personally identify with more, because I feel like I would never really belong with both of them.
- Condescending Compassion: Poor tropers. Wasting their pitiful lives on this website. I pity their kind.
- Contempt Crossfire: Even if you're a part of us, we hate you just as much as the other group! While the other group hates you for being associated with us, we hate you because you're not an ideal member of us!
- Cultural Posturing: My civilized culture is much better than your own backwards culture, you barbaric savages!
- Culture Justifies Anything: How can you object to the cannibalism and Human Sacrifice of this vibrant culture? Do you wish to deprive these poor people of their authentic cultural expression? Racist!
- Death by Racism: You tropers are worthless subhumans! You're all a bunch of— (Killed Midsentence)
- Dehumanizing Insult: Tropers aren't human, they're nothing but vermin!
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: Historical fiction should accurately depict such past attitudes, no matter how despicable they are today.
- Discriminate and Switch: I can't stand that guy's kind... and I mean the fact that he didn't wipe his feet in my house. Did you think I was hating him for being a troper or something?
- Does Not Like Men: I hate men.
- Doesn't Trust Those Guys: I don't trust those tropers!
- Double Standard: X did Z? Eh, whatever, good for them. Y did Z? How dare they!
- Equal-Opportunity Evil: I really don't give a damn about who I hire to do my nefarious work, or what they look or act like, just as long as they get the job done.
- Eurabia: Muslim people scare me. Those Arab bastards are trying to conquer the West!
- Everything Is Racist: Are you insulting my race, you intolerant douchebag?!
- Evil Colonialist: I serve a powerful colonial empire. Strongly believing in our innate superiority, I help them with conquering weaker nations and subjugating inferior races.
- Fantastic Ableism: Not even people with fictional disabilities are exempt from discrimination.
- Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: Those tropers have never done me any real harm, yet I hate their damned guts anyways.
- Female Misogynist: I dislike women, despite having XX chromosomes as well.
- Final Solution: We want the complete, bloody annihilation of certain races we have deemed as worthless. What our opponents would call "genocide", we instead call it "pest control".
- Former Bigot: I used to really hate those people, but later I changed my mind about them. They're really not so bad after all.
- The Fundamentalist: Society should adhere strictly to my religious principles, and any sinners or nonbelievers who disagree will just go to Hell.
- Gayngst: It really sucks to be gay in this world.
- Gayngst-Induced Suicide: Normal, healthy people hate homosexuals like me. God hates me. I'm worthless. So I might as well just kill myself.
- Half-Breed Angst: It sucks to have mixed racial heritage, because I can't fully identify with either one of my parents' communities, and all those racist pricks will never accept me as being one of them.
- Half-Breed Discrimination: We hate you because you're a filthy, genetically impure mixed-breed. Your parents should've never dared to conceive you!
- Hate Crimes Are a Special Kind of Evil: Violent bigotry is irredeemably wicked.
- Hates Everyone Equally: I'm not a bigot, I don't discriminate. I despise every group of people, including my own!
- Hates Rich People: I despise the rich.
- Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?
- He-Man Woman Hater: I hate women.
- Heteronormative Crusader: I can't stand those damn gay people, always plaguing our world with their disgusting lust for the same sex.
- Homophobic Hate Crime: Gays deserve to be attacked and killed!
- Innocent Bigot: Sorry, I honestly didn't mean to offend you.
- Internalized Categorism: The fact that I'm one of those people, it really makes me feel insecure and hate myself.
- Intimidating White Presence: White people intimidate black people because of their race (either explicitly or implicitly).
- Irrational Hatred: I can't stand those people, but I don't really know why.
- Karmic Transformation: Dammit, karma's a bitch. I've never dreamed of becoming one of those stupid tropers myself!
- The Klan: We're the apex of white supremacy in America. We desire a return to the good old days of racial segregation, when non-white people lived in fear of us.
- Klingon Scientists Get No Respect: You don't follow our hat, you aren't truly one of us!
- Lingering Social Tensions: Discrimination may be over (at least officially) in a society, but the people still hate each other.
- Loners Are Freaks: I don't like loners. They're nothing but freaks or social deviants.
- Malcolm Xerox: I'm a black nationalist of the same vein as Malcolm X. I desire to achieve freedom for my people by any means necessary.
- Maligned Mixed Marriage: X and Y should never try to mate together. How dare they taint their racial purity!
- Master Race: We believe ourselves to not just be a superior race, but the best race in the world.
- Misanthrope Supreme: I really hate all of humankind, even though I'm another stinkin' member of Homo sapiens.
- Misplaced Nationalism: My country is the best, and your country sucks!
- Mistaken Ethnicity: Wait a minute, you're not really of Troperian descent?
- Mistaken for Foreigner: I didn't realize you're actually from here.
- Mistaken Nationality: I thought you were from Troperland.
- Mistaken for Gay: Wait a minute, you're actually straight? I thought otherwise.
- Mistaken for Misogynist: No, seriously. I like and respect women.
- Mistaken for Pedophile: How dare you, as a man, try to get so close and friendly with any children? I don't care if you claim to just being really nice and good with kids, or even their literal father, as I know you can only be some sick creepy pervert!
- Mistaken for Racist: Wait, how am I being racist?
- Mistaken for Terrorist: I'm suspicious of that weird Muslim guy, I think he must be a member of ISIS!
- Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: That guy doesn't have any friends or talk to anybody, he must be some kind of evil monster. I don't have to actually know him to know that he's bad news.
- N-Word Privileges: You called us what? Only we're allowed to call each other that!
- A Nazi by Any Other Name: We're not exactly literal Nazis, but our xenophobia is very comparable.
- No Equal-Opportunity Time Travel: WARNING: If you're a queer black woman, it's probably a very ill-advised idea to use this Time Machine to visit Alabama in the year 1920.
- No True Scotsman: You're being nice to those people? No true member of this group would ever do such an awful thing!
- Noble Bigot: I may dislike tropers, but I do have a heart.
- Noble Bigot with a Badge: I may not like tropers much, but I still have a duty to serve and protect people, even their kind.
- Not Blood, Not Family: If you don't share blood, you're not family!
- Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: I swear I'm not a bad guy, you assholes just assume the worst from me!
- Not Like Other Girls: I'll admit miss, I think you're not stupid like other girls are.
- Offended by an Inferior's Success: I can't stand it when their kind is more successful than me!
- Opinion Override: How dare you mock this group of people that I'm not apart of! What do you mean they actually liked that offensive joke?!
- Oppressed Minority Veteran: Even though I fought for my country during the war, I still get treated like garbage by my fellow citizens and the government.
- Outside/Inside Slur: A pejorative term for someone who seems to be part of one group, but shares some traits with the opposition.
- Period Shaming: Ostracising and shaming people for menstruating; often rooted in sexism/misogyny.
- Persecution Flip: AKA reverse discrimination; for when a (usually) privileged group of people find themselves getting treated like dirt by the (usually) oppressed underclasses. A very harshly ironic form of social role reversal.
- Politically Correct History: Or we could just pretend it was never actually a big deal, because we really don't want to offend anyone.
- Politically Correct Villain: Just because I'm a villain, it doesn't mean I'm some sort of bigot, and in fact I despise discrimination.
- Political Correctness Is Evil: Media Watchdogs and Moral Guardians are overly sensitive and get way too easily offended.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: Just because I'm a hero, it doesn't mean I like certain groups of people.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: I'm a villain, and that means I can be very hateful against certain groups of people!
- Political Overcorrectness: Media Watchdogs and Moral Guardians can be so silly sometimes.
- Prejudice Aesop: I used to be prejudiced until I learned a valuable lesson on why it's bad.
- Pretend Prejudice: Honestly, I was just kidding about whatever bad things I said about tropers! I didn't mean any of it!
- Prom Is for Straight Kids: Only hetero couples can attend prom, not you homos!
- Psychological Projection: I'm not the bad guy, it's those awful tropers who are the evil ones here!
- Pulling Your Child Away: Stay away from my child, you filthy brute!
- Punished for Sympathy: You spared Alice, even though we have orders to take care of all of those people? You'd better be able to explain yourself to the Comrade Commissar, troper!
- Racist Grandma: Because I'm really old, you shouldn't expect me to act PC toward other races.
- Rainbow Lens: A character experiences prejudice for a queerness-unrelated trait in a very similar way to how a person would experience prejudice related to queerness.
- Revenge Against Men: I've been hurt by men, and I'm going to take revenge on men in general!
- Robosexuals Are Creeps: Screwing robots results in disgusted reactions from everyone else.
- Scary Minority Suspect: I know that the Token Minority must've committed the crime, they have an evil look about them!
- The Social Darwinist: "Survival of the fittest" means that the strongest people deserve to dominate and/or eliminate anyone weaker than them.
- Some of My Best Friends Are X, so thus I can't be biased or bigoted against them!
- Still Fighting the Civil War: The loser(s) of a long-past war continues to hold prejudices against the winning side.
- Straw Feminist: All men are nothing but dirty, lustful pigs!
- Straw Misogynist: All women should just shut the hell up, and Stay in the Kitchen!
- Sub-Par Supremacist: A character claims that one group of people is superior to all others, but fails to meet the criteria of that group.
- Tall Poppy Syndrome: I feel intense envy against people who are better than myself.
- Taught to Hate: I hate you because authority figures told me to.
- Those Wacky Nazis: We're the apex of fascism in Europe. We desire Germanic racial supremacy, and the total extermination of Jews, Romani, Slavs, etc.
- Too Qualified to Apply: Sorry, you exceed our expectations, so we won't hire you.
- Tragic Bigot: A lousy past made me feel resentful against those people.
- Trans Equals Gay: Those ridiculous SJWs with their "polite" words for 51 genders! Trannies, fags, drag queens, it's all the same thing, anyway—just creepy men in dresses. (Trans men? What are those?)
- Trans Equals Hypersexual: Transgender or gender-nonconforming characters are depicted as having an Extreme Libido, no sexual boundaries, bizarre kinks, or otherwise over-the-top sexual proclivities.
- Trans Relationship Troubles: No one wants to date me because I'm Transgender.
- Trans Tribulations: Trans people are freaks and belong at the funny farm... Or at least, far away from me and my friends!
- Troubled Sympathetic Bigot: I don't hate that nice person, Alice, or even really her kind of people, bad as they are. But it's gone too far, it's them or us now. I'll be doing my duty, may God forgive me. I just wish there could be another way! Alas...
- Unsettling Gender-Reveal: The pretty girl I was flirting with is really some kind of gay freak in drag?!
- Urban Segregation: We just don't want to live next-door with a particular class or category of folks.
- Values Dissonance: Unfortunately, some prejudices were considered far more acceptable in the past, and this can show up in older media.
- Van Helsing Hate Crimes: To save humanity, all vampires must be destroyed. Even if you can point to some one-in-a-million exception that is not a murderous freak, why should I care? It's still a carrier of the disease that might yet doom us all.
- Warring Natures: I'm the child of two parents from different races. And those two races also happen to violently hate each other. Do I really have to choose a side?
- Weeding Out Imperfections: If the world is like a garden, filthy weeds don't deserve a place in it! Who cares if they're "people just like us"?!
- "Which Restroom?" Dilemma: Bigots won't let me use the ladies' room, just because I'm physically male, even though I identify as a woman. Where's the all-gender bathroom when I need it?
- White Guilt: Past and present injustices against people of color make me feel ashamed of what people of my race have done to them.
- Wishful Projection
- Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide": What "genocide"? We're not trying to exterminate that pesky inferior race, we just want to put these subhumans in their proper place.
- Yellowface: Look, yes, I'm white but it's totally okay to use makeup to pretend I'm Asian. And to try speak like an Asian foreigner.
- Yellow Peril: Asian people scare me. Those Chinese and Japanese bastards are trying to conquer the West!
- You Are a Credit to Your Race: I'll admit it, you make other tropers proud. Even if the same can't be said for the rest of them.
- You Are What You Hate: I hate tropers. What? I am a troper?
- You Hate What You Are: I hate myself, and all the other tropers like me!
- You Know I'm Black, Right?: You have a lot of nerve saying such bigoted things about tropers when we're standing right here!
- You Know What They Say About X...: You know what they say about them tropers? They're ruining their lives.
- Zombie Advocate: It's racist to assume all vampires are murderous! Well, okay, all the ones we've met so far have been, and all the ones we've heard about, but maybe the next one will be the first nice one! Everyone deserves to be treated as an individual!
