History Main / DehumanizingInsult

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' featured this trope heavily in the episode "Troq" In it, the Titans meet a muscular metallic alien named Val-Yor and happily introduce themselves. It's only when Starfire steps onto the scene that he says "I see you have a Tamaranian" Val-Yor goes on to ask the Titans for help with a mission of his and soon every one of the Titans is given an AffectionateNickname by their new companion except for Starfire, whom he begrudgingly refers to as [[FantasticSlurs "Troq"]] Or "Troqie." Cyborg asks what the word "Troq" means just as Starfire leaves to complete her part of the mission. She replies "It means 'nothing'" Having watched her successfully complete her task, Cyborg exclaims [[InnocentBigot "Way to go Troqie!"]] only for Starfire to become angry. Puzzled, Cyborg reminds her that she said it didn't mean anything. She promptly corrects him and [[PoorCommunicationKills explains that the word "Troq" means "nothing".]] and that when Val-Yor calls her that, he's saying she's worthless. Obviously, that doesn't sit well with the rest of the team and in the end all Val-Yor has decided is that [[YouAreACreditToYourRace Starfire must be one of the good Tamaranians.]] That still doesn't sit well with the team.

* ''Untermensch'' (German for under man, sub-man, sub-human; plural: ''Untermenschen'') is a term that became infamous when the Nazis used it to describe "inferior people", often referred to as "the masses from the East" - that is, Jews, Romani, and Slavs (including Poles, Serbs, Belarusians, Russians, and Rusyns.)

* Katsuki Bakugou from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has an incredible superiority complex. He sees himself as the greatest thing alive and the only one who can or ''should'' succeed in life. In the beginning of the series, he dismisses everyone around himself as "extras" who don't amount to anything.

* Literature/TogetherlyLong: The [[BigBad evil Emperor Von Mal]] says that sentient magical creature Chiisai is not a person or even an animal because of how odd she looks, and he says that she's nothing more than a "thing," immediately causing her to have to [[CryIntoChest cry into her best friend Oukii's chest]].

* In ''Videogame/BioShock'', Rapture's citizens refer to undesirables as "parasites". ''BioshockInfinite/BurialAtSea'' even reveals that Rapture's schools teach children about a RightWayWrongWayPair named Ryan the Lion and Peter the Parasite.

* Katsuki Bakugo from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has an incredible superiority complex. He sees himself as the greatest thing alive and the only one who can or ''should'' succeed in life. In the beginning of the series, he dismisses everyone around himself as "extras" who don't amount to anything.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', an insult used among Gems is "clod" - a chunk of dirt which, by implication, has no mind or form. It's practically become Peridot's {{Catchphrase}} at this point.

* ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' has the heroes refer to ethnic gangs, and people who disrespect American history or culture 'orcs.'

** Another frequently used insult is Half-breed, used for wizards with at least one non-human parent. Though more prejudiced wizards or witches, like Dolores Umbridge, also use this term to refer to creatures who resemble humans, but aren't related to them, like for example Centaurs and Mer-people.

-->'''Martin:''' What are we supposed to do? They're still human beings.\\

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' featured this trope heavily in the episode "Troq" In it, the Titans meet a muscular metallic alien named Val-Yor and happily introduce themselves. It's only when Starfire steps onto the scene that he says "I see you have a Tamaranian" Val-Yor goes on to ask the Titans for help with a mission of his and soon every one of the Titans is given an AffectionateNickname by their new companion except for Starfire, whom he begrudgingly refers to as [[FantasticSlurs "Troq"]] Or "Troqie." Cyborg asks what the word "Troq" means just as Starfire leaves to complete her part of the mission. She replies "It means 'nothing'" Having watched her successfully complete her task, Cyborg exclaims [[InnocentBigot "Way to go Troqie!"]] only for Starfire to become angry. Puzzled, Cyborg reminds her that she said it didn't mean anything. She promptly corrects him and [[PoorCommunicationKills explains that the word "Troq" means "nothing".]] and that when Val-Yor calls her that, he's saying she's worthless. Obviously, that doesn't sit well with the rest of the team and in the end all Val-Yor has decided is that [[YouAreACreditToYourRace Starfire must be one of the good Tamaranians.]]

* Racists insult this way all the time and [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment we leave it like that]].

* In the New 52 version of ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'', Wondy's fellow Amazons call her "clay" behind her back, referencing the fact that she was made of clay.

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* Racists insult this way all the time and [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment we leave it like that]].

* When columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. [[http://www.denverpost.com/2010/07/10/mel-gibson-and-the-banality-of-hatred/ wrote his reaction]] to Creator/MelGibson's infamous phone call to his wife where he called her a variety of slurs and said she would deserve it if she got "raped by a pack of niggers," Pitts made the following observation that the N-word was actually not the worst thing Gibson said. "Actually, it's just before that. After all, only animals hunt in packs."

Supertrope of NicknamingTheEnemy and MyFriendsAndZoidberg. Sub trope to {{Dehumanization}}. See CallAHumanAMeatbag for a common variant of {{robot|RollCall}}s or EnergyBeings insulting organic life forms, SonOfAnApe for nonhumans insulting humans (or humans insulting ''other humans'' who they consider primitive), or FantasticSlur when [[WhatMeasureIsANonhuman the target of the insult]] is a [[FantasticRacism sentient nonhuman]]. See also ItIsDehumanizing and YouMonster.

Supertrope of NicknamingTheEnemy and MyFriendsAndZoidberg. Sub trope to {{Dehumanization}}. See CallAHumanAMeatbag for a common variant of {{robot|RollCall}}s or EnergyBeings insulting organic life forms, SonOfAnApe for nonhumans insulting humans (or humans insulting ''other humans'' who they consider primitive), or FantasticSlur when [[WhatMeasureIsANonhuman the target of the insult]] is [[FantasticRacism a sentient nonhuman]]. See also ItIsDehumanizing and YouMonster.

Supertrope of NicknamingTheEnemy and AndZoidberg. Sub trope to {{Dehumanization}}. See CallAHumanAMeatbag for a common variant of {{robot|RollCall}}s or EnergyBeings insulting organic life forms, SonOfAnApe for nonhumans insulting humans (or humans insulting ''other humans'' who they consider primitive), or FantasticSlur when [[WhatMeasureIsANonhuman the target of the insult]] is [[FantasticRacism a sentient nonhuman]]. See also ItIsDehumanizing and YouMonster.

Supertrope of NicknamingTheEnemy and AndZoidberg. Sub trope to {{Dehumanization}}. See CallAHumanAMeatbag for a common variant of robot/energy being on organic variant, or FantasticSlur when [[WhatMeasureIsANonhuman the target of the insult]] is [[FantasticRacism a sentient nonhuman humanoid]]. See also ItIsDehumanizing and YouMonster.

* When columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. [[http://www.denverpost.com/2010/07/10/mel-gibson-and-the-banality-of-hatred/ wrote his reaction]] to [[MelGibson Mel Gibson's]] infamous phone call to his wife where he called her a variety of slurs and said she would deserve it if she got "raped by a pack of niggers," Pitts made the following observation that the N-word was actually not the worst thing Gibson said. "Actually, it's just before that. After all, only animals hunt in packs."