Basic Trope: A child who's a result of an Interspecies Romance or an interracial romance faces prejudice and mistreatment because of their heritage.
- Straight: Eric, son of vampire Bob and human Alice, is shunned and occasionally harassed by both humans and vampires. Humans fear him because he's a "monster" who can pass as one of them. Vampires look down on him because his blood is "tainted."
- Exaggerated:
- Even before he was born (either at the time right after conception or Alice's pregnancy being known), people already hated him.
- Should Eric wander into a vampire- or human-only place, the occupants will immediately set their sights on getting rid of him.
- Downplayed:
- Only one side despises Eric while the other is indifferent to or approves of his half-breed status.
- Both sides are willing to claim Eric as one of their own, just ... of the lower-class kind.
- One-Drop Rule
- Justified:
- In Eric's case, such a hybrid could be a huge threat. There's a reason Hybrid-Overkill Avoidance was an unspoken rule for so long, after all...
- Eric's conception wasn't consensual.
- Inverted:
- Both sides adore the child, maybe due to the powers or the exotic beauty such a hybrid possesses.
- Eric is treated poorly by hybrid extremist groups for not being a hybrid at all or being purely human or vampire, and consider him a threat to their existence.
- Subverted: Eric goes to a bar, in the mood for a good drink. This happens:Bartender: Sorry, we can't serve you.Eric: Is it because I'm a Dhampyr? That's not exactly nice, pal.Bartender: No, it's because you're underage.
- Double Subverted: After Eric walks out, the bartender mutters, "Good riddance, half-breed."
- Parodied: Even though Eric looks almost exactly like a human, full-blooded humans run and scream at the sight of him, and call him monster because of his half-breed status.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Just how others treat these half-breeds varies from place to place, or from time to time.
- ...or what type of half-breed you are, because Eric's werepyre cousin Evelyn is adored.
- Averted: Half-breed or full-breed, these factors don't affect how society treats people.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "We don't admit people who are half human and half vampire."
- Invoked: Eric's parents get together being fully aware that their respective families will disown them and their children and won't accept them for a long time, if ever.
- Exploited: A Corrupt Corporate Executive offers Eric a bone in the form of a job ... albeit a low-paid, menial, and unpleasant job that doesn't use his higher skills well. Because Eric has no rights or supporters, he's unlikely to complain about anything.
- Defied: The other members of Eric's parents' communities recognize that he is just a child who has done no wrong and give him the chance to grow up and show his colors before passing judgment.
- Discussed: Eric tells a trusted confidant(e) about his mixed blood and asks for help planning for when he inevitably incurs discrimination based thereon.
- Conversed: "Well, I get the metaphor for racism, but I'm not sure where everybody is who thinks he might have gotten the best of both sides."
- Implied: We only see Eric at one party each of vampires and humans, where he tries to join conversations but is blown off in almost identical ways.
- Deconstructed:
- Eric ends up resenting his parents for bringing him into the world the way they did.
- Because both races favor the "full-blooded", they constantly inbreed to maintain "purity" in bloodlines. Eventually, this backfires with generations of inbreeding resulting in weak and/or insane offspring. Compared to the half-breed, who's far more capable, healthier, and stronger than they are thanks to having more varied genes.
- Reconstructed:
- Eric reconciles with his parents after learning that they got tired of the foulness in their respective communities.
- It turns out that inbreeding lends itself to fewer and/or less intense genetic problems than this sort of blend does.
- Played for Laughs: Eric has lots of slurs thrown at him ... which are bad portmanteaus of Fantastic Slurs hurled at humans and vampires. He goes through the narm of it unfazed.
- Played for Drama: Eric doesn't think about his half-bloodedness as a drawback and just wants to participate in either or both of the societies to which he's connected, but he's ostracized nevertheless and angsts about it.
- Played for Horror: Eric decides to be the monster he has been called all his life.
Back to Half-Breed Discrimination, because you're neither a trope nor a cliché, so you're not one of us.
