History Main / MasterRace

* ''Literature/TheWitchOfKnightcharm'': Several students at Myth/TheScholomance, an evil WizardingSchool, believe that having magic makes them a superior species relative to people who can't cast spells. Some, such as Lily's clique, go so far as to want to rule over the mundane world, feeling that magicians are so superior that it's their right to make themselves into royalty while everyone else just serves them.

** In the very first original novel, ''[-STAR TREK-] Mission to Horatius'' by Creator/MackReynolds, 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

* Both Gihren Zabi of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' and Patrick Zala of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' believe that because of who their factions are (spacenoids -- humans born in space -- for Zeon, and Coordinators -- genetically modified humans -- for ZAFT), that they are already the better race and that those on Earth (Earthnoids and Naturals respectively) need to be destroyed. Those within Blue Cosmos and Titans and, by extension, the Earth Alliance and the Earth Federation who feel that Naturals and Earthnoids-Earth race are the truly superior ones and that it's the Spacenoid and Coordinators that need to be eliminated respectively. It's worth noting that Gihren may not really believe this, but is instead using its propaganda effect to keep Zeon behind him and in the war. It's doubly worth nothing, that Gihren's own father [[GodwinsLaw compared him to Adolf Hitler]] and he was [[InsultBackfire rather happy about that label]] and generally behaved like an unholy union of Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo.

** They believed that Nordics (northern Europeans) were superior to everyone else, including the other four European races, defined as "Alpine" (most Western/Central Europeans, e.g. most French, most Austrians, Slovaks, Czechs, northern Italians), "Mediterranean" (most Southern Europeans, e.g. Greeks, central/southern Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, southern French), "Dinaric" (most Balkanites, e.g. Croats, Albanians, Bosniaks), and East Baltic (most Eastern Europeans, e.g. Russians, Belarusians, Poles, Ukrainians). They also claimed Ancient Greece and Rome as being ruled by [[CriticalResearchFailure "Nordic" nobles]] based on the fact that (supposedly) some of their leaders had light eyes and hair. They did the same to the Chinese, the Scythians, the Mongols, the Phoenicians, and the old Turks, and several others. One particularly amusing tidbit from Hans Günther's "The Races of European History" (favorite race-science book of Adolf Hitler) argues that Genghis Khan ''must'' have been a Nordic man ruling over inferior 'Eastern Asiatics', because of [[CircularReasoning "the very un-Asiatic behavior of the leaders of Mongolian and Turkish tribes, who led their tribesmen on far journeys of conquest, a distinctly Nordic thought process."]]

* {{Dracula}}'s obsession with blood goes a lot deeper than just wanting to drink it. He tells Jonathan Harker at length about the history of Transylvania, explaining that the Szekelys are descended from both [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Vikings]] and [[BloodKnight Huns]] and thus his race is stronger and purer than the other noble dynasties of Europe. The second that technology provides him the ability to leave his provincial domain, he sets into motion his plan for world domination. So he's also a racist.

* In ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', [[DesignerBabies Clan trueborns]] of the [[FantasticCasteSystem warrior caste]] hold this opinion of themselves and look down on the 'naturally born' freeborns of both their own and other castes, though the degree varies from clan to clan. [[TheBerserker Clan Smoke Jaguar]] was infamous for its internal racism of warriors over all, while Clans [[SoldierVsWarrior Hell Horses]], [[ThickerThanWater Ghost Bear]] and [[CombatPragmatist Star Adder]] had almost no inter-caste friction and other Clans like [[ProudMerchantRaceGuy Diamond Shark]] and [[TheSmartGuy Coyote]] gave other castes like merchants or scientist almost as much regard as the warriors. The Clans also looked down on the Inner Sphere as inferior, seeing [[TotalitarianUtilitarian Clan society]] as innately superior to the Inner Sphere's FeudalFuture and believing that conquering the Inner Sphere and resurrecting the Star League [[HomeByChristmas would be contemptibly easy]] -- needless to say, they were proven very, very wrong.

* ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'': The winged unicorns of [[MarySuetopia Unicornicopia]] and their [[GodModeSue "god"]] known as Grand Ruler are seen as this. They themselves have no problem to call others out, on how inferior they are to them, because they live on the ground alone.

*** The [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Thalmor]] are an Altmeri religious extremist faction which takes the aforementioned Altmer beliefs UpToEleven. Following the [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion Crisis]], they managed to take over key positions in the government of the re-formed Aldmeri Dominion and seek not just Altmeri dominance, but quite possibly ''[[OmnicidalManiac undoing creation itself]]'' in order to, as they believe, return their spirits to a state of pre-creation divinity, free from the limits of mortality.

* In the first ''VideoGame/Fallout'', the Master of the Super Mutants tries to make his creations this, he even uses the trope name in one of his speeches. Emphasis on ''tries'' because he didn't take into account two variables: the Vault Dweller putting a stop to his plan and, most importantly, the fact that the Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) makes the Super Mutants infertile. If you talk to him about the latter flaw, he will realize that everything he's done was AllForNothing and is DrivenToSuicide.

** [[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed Khan Noonien Singh]] was considered the "ubermensch" ("superman" in German), mentally and physically superior to normal humans. Interestingly, this "ubermensch" was portrayed as an UsefulNotes/{{India}}n male rather than a white male. This might have something to do with the term "Aryan" having Indian (and UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}ian) roots, before the term was adopted by white supremacists like the {{Nazi}}s. And yet, on screen, the actor portraying him is either a Mexican or a Brit. See RaceLift.

* ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'': The [[MarySue winged unicorns]] of [[MarySuetopia Unicornicopia]] and their [[GodModeSue "god"]] known as Grand Ruler are seen as this. They themselves have no problem to call others out, on how inferior they are to them, because they live on the ground alone.

** Nazis, while the TropeNamer, did not have a real concept of "white" (they felt East Baltic Europeans to be almost as inferior as blacks, and no Europeans to be truly equal to the Nordics), so there were non-Europeans who they considered Aryan ("Aryan" being an umbrella grouping which included the aforementioned Nordics). These included East Asians (referred to as ''Culture Preservers'', and the Nazis were particularly fond of the Japanese's perfectionist ideals of [[HonorBeforeReason Bushido]]), Iranians and Indian brahmins (natch), Tibetans (according to Theosophy, Tibet was the Aryan's primordial homeland), and the Sioux (due to Hitler's love of Creator/KarlMay novels). Only the Sioux were really hostile to the "Aryan" label, because it challenged ''their'' mythic phylogeny. Not that the Nazis cared what the actual definition of "Aryan" was (tip: the actual Aryans don't include anyone north or west of Iraq).
*** The term "Aryan" in fact originates from the UsefulNotes/{{India}}n and UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}ian cultures ("Aryan" is a popular male name in the Indian subcontinent and Iranian plateau). Linguists used the term to refer to the Indo-Iranian languages (a branch of the Indo-European languages), before white supremacists began applying the term to all Indo-European peoples and assumed the original Aryans to be white. In Nazi Germany, this led to the "Gypsy Question" since the Roma ("Gypsies") originated from the "Aryans" of India, but they were still killed in UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust for lacking the "racial purity" of Nordic Germans. The Finns and Japanese (the former were thought to be of a race called 'Inner Asiatics' like the Tatars and some Mongols, and therefore not Europeans) were declared "Honorary Aryans" and Nazi party ideologues went to great pains to explain this label.
** Averted ([[FairForItsDay to a relative extent]]) with Italian Fascist leader UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini, who in addition to being nowhere near the anti-Slav and antisemite that Hitler was (many prominent Italian fascists were Jews), wanted to unify his country and and stamp out what he saw as a "Nordic inferiority complex" among the Italian people. Contemporary racial theory held that Italy was mostly of the so-called Mediterranean race, with some Alpines and Nordics in the north, and that Northern Italians therefore qualified as racially distinct from central/southern Italians; Hitler himself called Mussolini (from Emilia-Romagna, in the north) a fabulous example of the Alpine race while also saying that the ruling class of Rome, originally Nordic, denigrated itself by mixing with the Mediterranean masses. This really annoyed Mussolini, who very much wanted the perception that the people of Italy were of separate races to disappear, which prompted Hitler and various northern Italian fascists to downplay this part of their propaganda, eventually characterizing Mediterraneans as sharing a close link with Nordics. Notably there's a quote from Mussolini saying race is a feeling, not a reality and that the racial pride was a delirium. However, once Italy was fully aligned with Germany in, 1938 they enacted antisemitic laws too and issued a "Manifesto on Race" which echoed German Nazi veiws, although even then their policies were less vehement, executed mainly by pressure from the Nazis. The Holocaust only began there once the Germans occupied northern Italy (albeit Italian fascists aided in it).

* Before the 20th Century, there was The Confederate States of America, which was ''literally'' founded upon "the great truth that the Negro is not Equal to the White man; that slavery, subjugation to the superior race, is its natural and normal condition", with several seceding states declaring that their reasonfor seceding from the United States was to protect their "peculiar institution". That's right, they rebelled against the US government for the sake of keeping black people as slaves. Despite the abolition of slavery, Afro-Americans were subject to racism and segregation due to Jim Crow’s laws that existed before 1965 too on this basis, most heavily in the South (with the former slaves essentially losing most rights after Reconstruction ended) though the North hardly was/is free of racism either.

* ''Literature/TheDeathGateCycle'''s [[TheEmpire Tribus Elves]] run a despotic empire where the lesser races are enslaved.

* The Race in Harry Turtledove's ''Literature/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. [[EvenEvilHasStandards They are horrified]] by UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, however.
** They are arrogant enough to conclude that they are the most advanced race in the galaxy after meeting only two other races and only looking in the galactic equivalent of a neighborhood. They also naturally assume that all intelligent life forms are like them, including their fear of change and an extremely methodical approach to everything. Then they come to Earth and they ''really'' don't like how different from them we are. How ''dare'' we have radar, [[TankGoodness landcruisers]], [[OldSchoolDogfighting killercraft]], etc., when we have absolutely no business having this technology in such a short (800 years) timeframe since their probe scanned Earth. As far as the Race are concerned, HumansAreBastards for not immediately recognizing the Race's superiority and submitting to their rule.

* Before the 20th Century, there was The Confederate States of America, which was ''literally'' founded upon "the great truth that the Negro is not Equal to the White man; that slavery, subjugation to the superior race, is its natural and normal condition", with several seceding states declaring that their reasonfor seceding from the United States was to protect their "peculiar institution". That's right, they rebelled against the US government for the sake of keeping black people as slaves. Despite the abolition of slavery, Afro-Americans were subject to racism and segregation due to Jim Crow’s laws that existed before 1965 too on this basis, most heavily in the South (with the former slaves essentially losing most rights after Reconstruction ended) though the Northe hardly was/is free of racism either.

* The UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars are ''widely'' based on subjective measures of quality and superioritu; but one thing fans of any platform tend to agree on is that many PC gamers are supremacists [[SeriousBusiness who look down on people for using consoles]] instead of [[SeriousBusiness blowing more than necessary cash on high-end gaming computers]]. So much so, in fact, that PC gamers are often explicitly referred to tongue-in-cheek as [[GodwinsLaw "the glorious PC gaming Master Race"]], which originated as a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech joke]] from WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation regarding control schemes. These days [[InsultBackfire PC gamers themselves use this title quite often]], and it has become the tongue-in-cheek slogan for those who prefer creating their own powerful [=PCs=][[note]]Which ''[[AceCustom absolutely]]'' blow consoles out of the water, [[CrackIsCheaper at the cost of a small fortune]][[/note]] or the freedom of choice that comes with not being on a [[MyWayOrTheHighway closed system]].

** They believed that Nordics (northern Europeans) were superior to everyone else, including the other four European races, defined as "Alpine" (most Western/Central Europeans, e.g. most French, most Austrians, Slovaks, Czechs, northern Italians), "Mediterranean" (most Southern Europeans, e.g. Greeks, central/southern Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, southern French), "Dinaric" (most Balkanites, e.g. Croats, Albanians, Bosniaks), and East Baltic (most Eastern Europeans, e.g. Russians, Belarusians, Poles, Ukrainians). They also claimed Ancient Greece and Rome as being ruled by [[CriticalResearchFailure "Nordic" nobles]] based on the fact that (supposedly) some of their leaders had light eyes and hair. They did the same to the Chinese, the Scythians, the Mongols, the Phoenicians, and the old Turks, and several others. One particularly amusing tidbit from Hans Gunthers' "The Races of European History" (favorite race-science book of Adolf Hitler) argues that Genghis Khan ''must'' have been a Nordic man ruling over inferior 'Eastern Asiatics', because of [[CircularReasoning "the very un-Asiatic behavior of the leaders of Mongolian and Turkish tribes, who led their tribesmen on far journeys of conquest, a distinctly Nordic thought process."]]

** 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. The World Ice Theory [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt ends with the Earth crashing into the sun]], so what's the point?
** Nazis, while the TropeNamer, did not have a real concept of "white" (they felt East Baltic Europeans to be almost as inferior as blacks, and no Europeans to be truly equal to the Nordics), so there were non-Europeans who they considered Aryan ("Aryan" being an umbrella grouping which included the aforementioned Nordics). These included East Asians (referred to as ''Culture Preservers'', and the Nazis were particularly fond of the Japanese's perfectionist ideals of [[HonorBeforeReason Bushido]]), Iranians and Indian brahmins (natch), Tibetans (according to Theosophy, the Aryan homeland), and the Sioux (due to Hitler's love of Creator/KarlMay novels). Only the Sioux were really hostile to the "Aryan" label, because it challenged ''their'' mythic phylogeny. Not that the Nazis cared what the actual definition of "Aryan" was (tip: the actual Aryans don't include anyone north or west of Iraq).

** Averted ([[FairForItsDay to a relative extent]]) with Italian Fascist leader UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini, who in addition to being nowhere near the anti-Slav and antisemite that Hitler was (many prominent Italian fascists were Jews), wanted to unify his country and and stamp out what he saw as a "Nordic inferiority complex" among the Italian people. Contemporary racial theory held that Italy was mostly of the so-called Mediterranean race, with some Alpines and Nordics in the north, and that Northern Italians therefore qualified as racially distinct from central/southern Italians; Hitler himself called Mussolini (from Emilia-Romagna, in the north) a fabulous example of the Alpine race while also saying that the ruling class of Rome, originally Nordic, denigrated itself by mixing with the Mediterranean masses. This really annoyed Mussolini, who very much wanted the perception that the people of Italy were of separate races to disappear, which prompted Hitler and various northern Italian fascists to downplay this part of their propaganda, eventually characterizing Mediterraneans as sharing a close link with Nordics.
Notably there's a quote from Mussolini saying race is a feeling, not a reality and that the racial pride was a delirium.

* More recently, UsefulNotes/NorthKorea has given up on even pretending to be communist and adopted something which very much resembles race-based fascism, but with a twist. Koreans are the "cleanest race", but they're also child-like and guileless because they's so darn pure. This conveniently explains why they need a strong leader to protect them and why government censorship is necessary to preserve their innate innocence. The Americans and the Japanese are AlwaysChaoticEvil, of course. The Chinese are second best to the Koreans, but still not good enough for race-mixing. North Korean women who get pregnant from Chinese men are forced to have abortions, in order to avoid the "pure" Korean race being defiled.

* Before the 20th Century, there was The Confederate States of America, which was ''literally'' founded upon "the great truth that the Negro is not Equal to the White man; that slavery, subjugation to the superior race, is its natural and normal condition", with several seceeding states declaring that their reason of seceeding from the United States was to protect their "peculiar institution". That's right, they rebelled against the US government for the sake of keeping black people as slaves.
** Despite the abolition of slavery,Afro-Americans were subject to racism and segregation due to Jim Crow’s laws that existed before 1965.
* One interesting example comes from Paraguay, which, in order to create a racially homogenous and 'superior' state, mandated interracial marriage between Spainiards and native groups for a number of years before the War of the Triple Alliance ended the Francia regime responsible. Even today Paraguay's population is mostly racially homogenous as a result.

* The [[OurElvesAreBetter elves]] in ''Literature/TheHalfbloodChronicles''.

** Dark elves don't get this nearly as often as [[OurElvesAreBetter the regular sort of elf]], but the ones in ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' have never met a species they don't have some reason to look down upon. R.A. Salvatore's novels repeatedly and blatantly contrast this with the dark elves' [[AlwaysChaoticEvil inability to maintain a functioning culture]] without direct and ''repeated'' DivineIntervention. The drow grudgingly acknowledge illithids and beholders (and, in space, the neogi) as approximate equals... which mostly just makes them want to wipe out those races even more than they want to kill the surface-dwellers.

** This is a racial belief of the [[OurElvesAreBetter Altmer (High Elves)]]. While they are indeed responsible for much of Tamriel's [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas art, science, philosophy, language, and religion]], and ([[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch while there are exceptions]]) they [[CulturalPosturing have no issue letting the other races know]] just how superior they believe they are. They are the direct descendants of the [[{{Precursors}} Aldmer]] and consider the other races of Mer as [[TheSocialDarwinist a result of "degeneration" over the ages]]. (And [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence don't even bother]] trying to bring up the [[HumansAreBastards races of Men]]...) Their religious beliefs state that they are the true descendants of [[OurGodsAreDifferent the Aedra]], and actively try to breed themselves back into their ideal, including, according to some sources, killing undesirable progeny. (They believe that doing so releases the spirit so that it has a chance to be [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnated]] in a better form.) Thrice in history they've formed and led the Aldmeri Dominion, an AntiHumanAlliance to oppose the expansion of the various Cyrodiilic Empires of the races of Men. It took [[TheConqueror Tiber]] [[GodEmperor Septim]] using the Numidium, a [[RealityWarper Reality Warping]] HumongousMecha of [[OurDwarvesAreDifferent Dwemer]] design, to bring the Altmer under the dominion of men by force for the first (and to date, only) time in history.

* The White Martians in ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' possess various Gestapo-esq tendencies, mercilessly capturing, torturing and killing as many of the more peaceful Green Martian race. Armek, M'gann’s ex-husband and particularly fanatical member of their race, even admits that they exterminated them out of pride for their own race.