Persecution Flips in Live-Action TV series.
- The Bisexual: Leila's ex and her other lesbian friends act much like homophobes do when they learn she's slept with a man, coming out as being bisexual instead of a lesbian as they thought.
- Occasionally Played for Laughs in Goodness Gracious Me, which would feature skits of white people living in India experiencing the same kind of casual racism that British Asians had to deal with. The famous "Go For An English"
sketch, featuring a waiter in an English restaurant in Bombay serving a group of obnoxious drunken Indians who mock his accent and misunderstand his culture is a prime example. - Heathers (2018) flipped the original film on its head as part of its Setting Update, turning the eponymous conventionally attractive WASP Girl Posse into an overweight girl, a black girl posing as a lesbian for clout, and an AMAB genderqueer person. The three of them became the queen bees of the school by leveraging their traditional places as outcasts into social media clout — and with it, genuine power among their social media-obsessed peers.
- Homicide: Life on the Street, like The Wire, is set in Baltimore, and the way the BPD responds to that city's culture bites the Italian-African-American Lt. Al Giardello pretty hard. While he's expecting to be promoted to Captain, his superiors make a nod to affirmative action by promoting the less senior Megan Russert because she's white and female. Before long she takes a Sudden Principled Stand against them and is demoted all the way back down to Detective. The brass then promote Roger Gaffney, an all-out white racist, but one who will do what he's told and who hates Gee.
- Mohawk Girls: Anna views the discriminatory attitudes and laws of Mohawks toward those with less than 50% ancestry as racist itself in response to having suffered it themselves from white people, since though it's done for preserving their people, the practices just echo what they had suffered.
- Motherland: Fort Salem: A mild example as when Raelle uses a quote from the Gospels as a healing spell on Pagan Abigail, Abigail reacts much the way an Evangelical might react to having a Wiccan bless them. One of Libba's girls is similarly disgusted when Raelle uses the Gospels on her during an exercise, disparagingly calling Raelle "Christo-Pagan" (as she also engages in Pagan rituals).
- Noughts & Crosses: The series depicts an alternate world where seven hundred years ago a parallel Britain (i.e. Albion here) was conquered and colonized by the Aprican Empire. Due to this, white people (Noughts) live under the ruling black people (Crosses) as second-class citizens, suffering from segregation and police brutality.
- The Orville: In "Deflectors" it's revealed that among Moclans, people attracted to the opposite sex are viewed as bad. This is to the point of not only prejudice but expressing it being a crime which carries a life sentence.
- The Outer Limits (1995) has the rather prescient episode "Stream of Consciousness", where people 20 Minutes into the Future commonly wear brain implants that are connected to the internet and can look up and learn any information at any time. Studying and reading are things of the past, except for a minority of "neurologically-incompatible" people who are looked down by the rest as mentally deficient. At the end of the episode, all implants are inutilized, and the neurologically-impaired become teachers for the illiterate majority.
- The Power (2023): Much like in the book. As women learn of their newfound electricity power, they start to use this for fighting back against abuse, then inflicting it too.
- Women in highly partiarchal countries like Saudi Arabia start fighting back against oppression using it, despite this being banned. A young woman named Amal there having been beaten for this leads to a revolt by Saudi women, starting with one electrocuting a cop. Later another electrocutes a man (possibly her father, as he's older) trying to stop her being in a protest over Amal's beating. Saudi police shooting some of them makes others fight back lethally, electrocuting the cops. However, at first they show restraint when the police and soldiers are shamed into standing down rather than attacking them. Later though one tortures a wounded man using her power, with Tunde shocked as well after he tries to stop it. He's only saved from worse by Nourah claiming he's with her.
- Roxy, after threatening a bouncer at a nightclub, tells him to smile because he looks nicer when he smiles, clearly relishing being able to turn a common dismissive remark about women's looks upside-down.
- In one episode of Red Dwarf, the crew visit a parallel universe where women are the dominant gender. Their entire history is gender-flipped, so Hamlet was written by Wilma Shakespeare, Nellie Armstrong was the first person on the moon, and men organised equal rights marches and burned their jockstraps in the '60s. Oh, and it's the men who get pregnant.
- One episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch has Sabrina trying to teach the bullying Libby a lesson and get her out of her Alpha Bitch tendencies by turning her into a geek. Much to Sabrina's surprise, Libby adapts after a while and gets her new geek friends to bully her former cheerleader friends, instead.
- Sliders:
- The pilot episode has Quinn listening to a radio broadcast about Americans illegally crossing into Mexico in search of jobs. This is the same world where traffic lights are inverted (green means stop, red means go).
- A mild case in the first episode involving the Kromaggs, when the heroes slide into a world where the US was largely colonized by France, and Arturo is being made fun of for being English.
- In one episode, women are the dominant gender. Arturo gets involved in politics by running for mayor; Wade is against this, as she believes his "equal rights" campaign will ultimately lead to a patriarchy. Interestingly, Arturo actually wins the election, although a miscount results in him leaving before the official results are announced.
- In another episode, Mexico won the Mexican-American war, so Americans are the day laborers.
- Sexism and gender stereotypes are played with in the weird little German-UK SF series from the 1970s, Star Maidens. In this, two men escape from the planet Medusa which is ruled by women and where men are badly mistreated and head for Earth because one of the men has heard it's ruled by men. They are pursued by a couple of their female mistresses. Let's just say it wasn't subtle and leave it at that.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation:
- In "Angel One", a race of humanoids is ruled by women, while men are their servants and sexual playthings. They also have more diminutive bodies, just to reinforce this.
- In "The Outcast", an androgynous race views any gender identity as an illness to be cured. When one member attempts to declare herself female and have an openly heterosexual relationship with Riker, she brings down the wrath of her society on her. Her defense of her gender identity (and corresponding heterosexual relationship) is a mirror of the arguments homosexuals were using at the time to defend their orientation. While the episode receives flak for using a heterosexual relationship between Riker and a female actress for a Gay Aesop, this was necessary for the persecution flip.
- In "Parallels", Worf travels to an alternate universe where the Bajorans are enemies of the Federation and they overpowered the Cardassians.
- The Twilight Zone (1959): In the episode "The Eye of the Beholder", beauty is a pig nose and cleft palate while movie-star looks are a deformity. The 2000s series remakes it with a more realistic facial disfigurement.
- It's mentioned in Time Trax that, in the 22nd century, the One World Order has whites as a minority. Darien is once derogatorily called a "blanco" (Spanish for "white").
- One season of The Two Ronnies had a serial called "The Worm That Turned" in which men were oppressed in a fascist female-dominated future England. It was about what you'd have expected at the time.
- The Wheel of Time (2021): Due to how the male half (saidin) of the One Power's impossible to safely use, currently channelers are dominated by women, with all channeling men hunted down by women who openly despise them and say their using it is unnatural, very much inverting many common social dynamics (not completely, as many women don't hate them, while other people hate channelers of whatever gender, but even so).
- The White Lotus: Nicole thinks that straight white males have it quite hard now, due to the cultural climate where she feels there's a backlash against them (thinking particularly about son Quinn, who fits into these categories). Paula and Olivia react with incredulity at her claims.
- The White Queen: This happens several times throughout the story as the Yorks, Lancasters, Nevilles and Woodvilles all want to get the upper hand and lock each other out of power.
- Downplayed in The Wire. As Baltimore's population is overwhelmingly black, it's one of the few places in America where black people have an advantage in public service careers. A white politican, prosecutor and senior police office all complain that they likely can't rise any further in their careers due to their race (ironically all those people ended up reaching the pinnacle of their careers anyway as Mayor/gubernatorial candidate, a judge and police commissioner respectively). However, whites are still shown to enjoy a generally higher socio-economic status, wield significant power in the unions and, although many of the higher-ups are black, whites are significantly over-represented in the BPD.
- Y: The Last Man (2021): Discussed when Kimberly claims that in the US, men and boys are becoming oppressed. She relates how her son was penalized over having pushed a girl at school who also did something but wasn't, then says that all male instincts are being steadily repressed by social pressure.
