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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': PlayedForLaughs in "[[Recap/SouthParkS8E8DoucheAndTurd Douche and Turd]]", where it is revealed that members of PETA frequently have intercourse with animals, resulting in {{Half Human Hybrid}}s; one of them, which seems to be part-duck, [[DeathSeeker pleads to passersbies to kill him]].

* ''Anime/TweenyWitches'': "Lennon's True Identity" reveals the titular character to be the ChildOfForbiddenLove between a witch and a human male. Painfully aware that his mixed blood makes him an outcast in the homeworlds of his parents, he resents his mother for supposedly abandoning the stigmatized family in pursuit of power. He gets better some episodes later, though.

* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': For most of his life, Inuyasha (half-human, half demon dog hybrid) was feared by humans and looked down upon by full-fledged demons because of his heritage. This is actually the reason why he wanted the Shikon Jewel to become a full-fledged demon at the start of the series.

* ''Manga/Inuyasha'': For most of his life, Inuyasha (half-human, half demon dog hybrid) was feared by humans and looked down upon by full-fledged demons because of his heritage. This is actually the reason why he wanted the Shikon Jewel to become a full-fledged demon at the start of the series.

* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts: Zigzagged. While Kipo does love being [[spoiler: an half-human, half-Jaguar Mute hybrid as result of her parents creating her as a "living science experiment"]], there are times where she is afraid that her [[spoiler: shapeshifting powers]] would scare off (Wolf) or accidentaly hurt (Benson) people she cares about.

* ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'': Tanthalas Half-Elven (Tanis) is a hhalf-elf and spends much of the earlier books being ''torn'' between his human and elven sides, including taking both a human and an elven lover. His case is made worse by the fact that he is the product of rape and suffered a great deal of abuse at the hands of the elves that raised him.

* ''Literature/Dragonlance'': Tanthalas Half-Elven (Tanis) is a hhalf-elf and spends much of the earlier books being ''torn'' between his human and elven sides, including taking both a human and an elven lover. His case is made worse by the fact that he is the product of rape and suffered a great deal of abuse at the hands of the elves that raised him.

** Legosi's mother was a mix between a Komodo Dragon and a Grey Wolf, and while she looked predominantly like a wolf, she began to grow scales, show more reptilian features, and acquire her father's natural poison. She was so afraid of the future of her children that she deliberately sought out another wolf so her kid wouldn't have to suffer as she did, and later killed herself.

* ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'': Phineas introduced himself as a Troblin, half-troll, half-goblin, pointing out that neither side of his family was particularly interested in being near him. Of course, any actual exploration of angst kinda took a backseat to the resurrection of the army of evil monsters bent on destroying the world.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Abby's classmate Blogg is half-troll and half-fairy, so he lives in a troll town but goes to a fairy school. He doesn't mind being half-troll at the fairy school, but when his classmates and teacher visit his hometown with him, he denies that he's half-fairy to the citizens and hides his wings.

** Alexander is a young boy who is three-quarters Klingon and one-quarter human, so he often has trouble deciding whether to have a Klingon culture or a human one.
** K'Elhyr was a lady who was half-human and half-Klingon. She hated Klingon culture and tried to suppress her anger whenever she got angry for fear of seeming "too Klingon" because Klingons are infamous in-universe for being aggro.

** Melon faced a lot of discrimination for being a child of a Leopard and a Gazelle, leading to him being bullied at school. On top of that, his mixed heritage leaves him unable to react to strong sensations, particularly taste, since his carnivorous and herbivorous palates conflict with one another. The realization that he feels like he's broken as an animal, in addition to learning that his mother didn't see him as either predator or prey (but refused to openly acknowledge it), made him snap and become the monster he is at present.

* ''Literature/SoonIWillBeInvincible'': Damsel's parents weren't even biologically compatible -- her mother was closer to a fish person -- and it took some major genetic tinkering to even make her. While technically an OppositeSexClone of her father Stormcloud with some of her mother's DNA added in, she's still alien enough she failed the blood test to join the Super Squadron, which didn't accept off-worlders (a personal dream of hers). She has superpowers but requires medication to keep her body from tearing itself apart due to the conflict of her designer genes.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Tora Ziyal is half Cardassian and half Bajoran, which causes a lot of angst for her because up until very recently, Cardassians oppressed Bajorans, so she feels out of place on both planets. It says something that the only people she seems truly comfortable around are Kira (a former Bajoran freedom-fighter) and Garak (an exiled Cardassian).

** Deanna Troi's father was a human but her mother is a Betazoid (a type of alien with {{Telepathy}}.) She usually doesn't mind, but some episodes have her angsting (such as in "Haven" when she doesn't want an ArrangedMarriage despite it being the Betazoid way and in "The Loss" when [[BroughtDownToNormal her powers go away]] and she wonders if this is what it's like being fully human).

** K'Elhyr was a lady who was half-human and half-Klingon. She hated Klingon culture and tried to suppress her anger whenever she got angry for fear of seeming "too Klingon" (because Klingons are infamous in-universe for being aggro).
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': When Spock was a boy, he was teased for being half-human and half-Vulcan (an alien species that [[TheStoic suppresses emotions]]) and didn't know which species to live the lifestyle of. Even though he chose the Vulcan way, his own father rejected him for choosing Starfleet over the Vulcan Science Academy and Vulcan society continues to ostracize him.

* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'': Alucard sees his vampiric half (being Count Dracula's son) as a curse.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'': Soren is one of the Branded -- half Laguz, half beorc. Soren was ostracized and abused by beorc and laguz alike since he was a child, and as a result has severe trust issues, expecting people to reject him upon finding out what he is. This is all despite the fact that being a Branded means virtually nothing.
%%* VideoGame/{{Shantae}} suffered from this in the first game, to the point where she lied that she was a full genie. Averted in later games, where is she mostly comfortable with being a half breed.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': B'Elanna Torres is half-human and half-[[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Klingon]]. Her (human) classmates used to [[FantasticRacism tease her for the ridges on her forehead]] and claim that her fiery personality was due to being half-Klingon. She also blames her Klingon side for driving her father away when she was a child. When she gets pregnant in "Lineage", she wants to defy this by genetically-engineering her future daughter so that she would have no forehead ridges and thus appear completely human, but Tom (her husband and the baby's dad) and the Doctor say no.

* ''Videogame/EverQuest'': The entire race of half-elves feel like they're stuck in between human and elven culture. In ''I'', the half-elves mostly live among humans and wood elves, but are often nomadic. In ''Videogame/EverQuestII'', they have taken to wild hairstyles, hair dye and facial piercings to emphasize how they don't quite fit in, basically becoming a race of disaffected teenagers.

* ''Videogame/{{EverQuest}}'': The entire race of half-elves feel like they're stuck in between human and elven culture. In [=EQ1=] the half-elves mostly live among humans and wood elves, but are often nomadic. In ''Videogame/{{EverQuest II}}'', they have taken to wild hairstyles, hair dye and facial piercings to emphasize how they don't quite fit in, basically becoming a race of disaffected teenagers.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': Terra is half human and half Esper. She has to contend with the fact that as half-Esper, she is viewed as a weapon of mass destruction that both sides of the conflict want to use.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': Terra is half human and half Esper. She has to contend with the fact that as half-Esper, she is viewed as a weapon of mass destruction that BOTH sides of the conflict want to use.

* In the third ''Literature/{{Silverwing}}'' book, Griffin is a hybrid Silverwing-Brightwing bat. He feels like a bit of a freak because he looks like a combination of his parents' species and doesn't completely fit in with the Silverwings that they live with.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has Terra, who is half human and half Esper. She has to contend with the fact that as half-Esper, she is viewed as a weapon of mass destruction that BOTH sides of the conflict want to use.

* VideoGame/{{Shantae}} suffered from this in the first game, to the point where she lied that she was a full genie. Averted in later games, where is she mostly comfortable with being a half breed.

* Glon (half-human, half-orc, though he believed himself to be half-elf at first) of ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'' had issues due to being RaisedByHumans, which goes against his more violent orc instincts (and since he'd never met a TokenHeroicOrc before meeting his mother, was in denial about his heritage as well).

* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' generally enjoys being a ChildOfTwoWorlds, but even at the start is afraid being half-human will hinder his abilities as a Crystal Gem. As time goes on, Steven starts to feel more insecure about his status as the only Gem hybrid in existence and struggles to find balance between his human half and Gem half.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': PlayedForLaughs in "Douche and Turd", where it is revealed that members of PETA frequently have intercourse with animals, resulting in {{Half Human Hybrid}}s; one of them, which seems to be part-duck, [[DeathSeeker pleads to passersbies to kill him]].

* ''Anime/TweenyWitches'': "Lennon's True Identity" reveals the titular character to be the ChildOfForbiddenLove between a witch and a human male. Painfully aware that his mixed blood makes him an outcast in the homeworlds of his parents, he resents his mother supposedly for abandoning the stigmatized family in pursuit of power. He gets better some episodes later, though.

* ''Anime/TweenyWitches'': "Lennon's True Identity" reveals the titular character to be the ChildOfForbiddenLove between a witch and a human male. Painfully aware that his mixed blood makes him outcast in the homeworlds of his parents, he resents his mother supposedly for abandoning the stigmatized family in pursuit of power. He gets better some episodes later, though.

May overlap with HalfBreedDiscrimination. See also FreakinessShame.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': PlayedForLaughs in "Douche and Turd", where it is revealed that members of PETA frequently have intercourse with animals, resulting in {{Half Human Hybrid}}s; one of them, which seems to be part-duck, [[DeathSeeker pleads with passersby to kill him]].
* Initially averted in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', but as time goes on Steven starts to feel more insecure about his status as the only Gem hybrid in existence and struggles to find balance between his human half and Gem half.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Tora Ziyal is half Cardassian and half Bajoran, which causes a lot of angst for her because up until very recently, Cardassians oppressed Bajorans, so she feels out of place on both planets.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': When Spock was a boy, he was teased for being half-human and half-Vulcan (an alien species that [[TheStoic suppresses emotions]]) and didn't know which species to live the lifestyle of.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': B'Elanna Torres is half-human and half-[[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Klingon]]. Her (human) classmates used to [[FantasticRacism tease her for the ridges on her forehead]] and claim that her fiery personality was due to being half-Klingon. When she gets pregnant in "Lineage", she wants to defy this by genetically-engineering her future daughter so that she would have no forehead ridges and thus appear completely human, but Tom (her husband and the baby's dad) and the doctor say no.

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