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Note- does not apply to races or cultures who think they're superior but have no interest in conquering the outside world. The Master Race wants to ''master'' the rest of the world, not be apart from it.

* The Daleks from ''DoctorWho''. And the Cybermen. As well as a number of less scrupulous Time Lords.

** Hell, the Daleks would count as the MostTriumphantExample.

* In the very first original ''StarTrek'' novel, ''[-STAR TREK-] Mission to Horatius'' by Mack Reynolds, the inhabitants of the planet Bavarya (''sic!'') are divided into artificially replicated people called "doppelgangers" (again, ''sic'') and biologically engendered people called the "Herr-Elite" (''sic, sic, sic'') -- obvious stand-ins for Nazi ''Untermenschen'' and ''Herrenvolk''. The "Herr-Elite" plan to invade the planets [[OneMillionBC Neolithia]] and [[CorruptChurch Mythra]] and enslave their inhabitants. It turns out that the dictator, "Nummer Ein," is himself a doppelganger. DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?

* Pretty much everything in ''{{Warhammer40000}}'' that's intelligent enough to be political and isn't straight up omnicidal AlwaysChaoticEvil either belongs to or is subjected by one of these.

** The Nazis actually believed the World Ice Theory because 1) it rejects Einstein's Relativity (rejecting the Jews is good enough), 2) its originator was an Austrian, and 3) the ice could explain Aryan supremacy. Atlantis, the HollowEarth, Lemuria, Mu...If there's a fringe idea, the Nazis hijacked it. Of course, the World Ice Theory [[RocksFallEverybodyDies ends with the Earth crashing into the sun]], so what's the point?
** Nazis, while the TropeNamer, did have a few peoples we don't consider "white" who they considered Aryans. These included the Iranians and Indian brahmins (natch), the Japanese (to explain the alliance), Tibetans (according to Theosophy, the Aryan homeland), and the Sioux (due to Hitler's love of Karl May novels). Only the Sioux were really hostile to the "Aryan" label, because it challenged ''their'' mythic phylogeny. A better example would be the label of "Caucasian", almost universal to imperial powers in the 19th century; oddly, that trope namer, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, was not really a racist, at least by 18th-century standards.
* Pretty much the entire driving force behind ConsoleWars and PCVsConsole. Your system = good, All other systems = shit. Get your heavy dose of FanDumb, HateDumb, and SeriousBusiness all into one. The PC elitists even call themselves the "glorious PC master race".

* Pretty much the entire driving force behind ConsoleWars and PCVsConsole. Your system = good, All other systems = shit. The PC elitists even call themselves the "glorious PC master race".
** Well the games do look and perform better on PC - but then again, that's pretty much what you'd expect when you try to squeeze a PC into a case the size of a digital cable box.

* [[{{The Draka}} The Draka]], who [[{{Ubermensch}} talk the talk]] and [[{{TakeOvertheWorld}} walk the walk]], [[{{MadeASlave}} enslaving]] the rest of [[{{SlaveRace}} humanity]]. Things only get worse once they [[{{Evilutionary Biologist}} map the human genome]].

Bombastic Alien: "We are the supreme race!"
Tom Servo: "We make the supreme pizzas!"

* The Race in Harry Turtledove's WorldWar. While not racist (speciest?) in the typical sense, they believe that it is not just their right but their duty to take over other intelligent races and add them to their empire. They are horrified by NaziGermany, however.

* In the very first original ''StarTrek'' novel, ''[-STAR TREK-] Mission to Horatius'' by Mack Reynolds, the inhabitants of the planet Bavarya (''sic!'') are divided into artificially replicated people called "doppelgangers" (again, ''sic'') and biologically engendered people called the ''Herr-Elite'' (''sic, sic, sic'') -- obvious stand-ins for Nazi ''Untermenschen'' and ''Herrenvolk''. The ''Herr-Elite'' plan to invade the planets [[OneMillionBC Neolithia]] and [[CorruptChurch Mythra]] and enslave their inhabitants. It turns out that the dictator, "''Nummer Ein''," is himself a doppelganger. DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?

* In the very first original ''StarTrek'' novel, ''[-STAR TREK-] Mission to Horatius'' by Mack Reynolds, the inhabitants of the planet Bavarya (''sic!'') are divided into artificially replicated people called "doppelgangers" (again, ''sic'') and biologically engendered people called the ''Herr-Elite'' (''sic, sic, sic'') -- obvious stand-ins for Nazi ''Untermenschen'' and ''Herrenvolk''. It turns out that the dictator, "''Nummer Ein''," is himself a doppelganger. DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?

* In the very first original ''StarTrek'' novel, ''[-STAR TREK-] Mission to Horatius'' by Mack Reynolds, the inhabitants of the planet Bavarya (''sic!'') are divided into "doppelgangers"(again, ''sic'') (artificially replicated people) and ''Herr-Elite'' (''sic, sic, sic'') (biologically engendered people) -- obvious stand-ins for Nazi ''Untermenschen'' and ''Herrenvolk''. It turns out that the dictator, "''Nummer Ein''," is himself a doppelganger. DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?

* In the very first original ''StarTrek'' novel, ''[-STAR TREK-] Mission to Horatius'' by Mack Reynolds, the inhabitants of the planet Bavarya (''sic!'') are divided into "doppelgangers"(again, ''sic'') (artificially replicated people) and ''Herr-Elite'' (''sic, sic, sic'') (biologically engendered people) -- obvious stand-ins for Nazi ''Untermenschen'' and ''Herrenvolk''. It turns out that the dictator, "Nummer Ein," is himself a doppelganger. DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?

* In the very first original ''StarTrek'' novel, ''[-STAR TREK-] Mission to Horatius'' by Mack Reynolds, the inhabitants of the planet Bavarya (''sic!'') are divided into "doppelgangers"(again, ''sic'') (artificially replicated people) and ''Herr-Elite''(''sic, sic, sic'') (biologically engendered people) -- obvious stand-ins for Nazi ''Untermenschen'' and ''Herrenvolk''. It turns out that the dictator, "Nummer Ein," is himself a doppelganger. DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?

* In the very first original ''StarTrek'' novel, ''[-STAR TREK-] Mission to Horatius'' by Mack Reynolds, the inhabitants of the planet Bavarya (''sic!'') are divided into "doppelgangers" (artificially replicated people) (again, ''sic'') and ''Herr-Elite'' (biologically engendered people) (''Sic, sic, sic'') -- obvious stand-ins for Nazi ''Untermenschen'' and ''Herrenvolk''. It turns out that the dictator, "Nummer Ein," is himself a doppelganger. DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?

** And the mockingly-named "[[IncrediblyLamePun Master Race]]" which came into being when TheMaster temporarily turned every human on Earth into a copy of himself.

* The Daleks from ''DoctorWho''. And the Cybermen. As well as a number of less scrupulous Time Lords.
** And the aptly-named "Master Race", which came into being when the Master temporarily turned every human on Earth into a copy of himself.

* The XMenEvolution episode ''Operation: Rebirth'' has this with discussion on the super soldier experiment used on CaptainAmerica.

** -->'''Logan:''' "The idea was to create super soldiers for WorldWarTwo."
** -->'''Xavier:''' "[[InvokedTrope A master race]]?"
** -->'''Logan:''' "Mmmrr...these were the good guys. They didn't mean it like that."
** -->'''Xavier:''' "Yes, they never do. At first."

* Most infamously, this was the whole basis of Nazi (TropeNamer) and white supremicist ideology, and racial supremacist ideology in general.