History Main / NobleBigotWithABadge

* ''Film/{{Narc}}'': Henry Oakes, for several reasons; not the least of which is that his "daughter" is actually a girl he had rescued from her sexually abusive father, after putting her in a squad car and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating the ever-lovin' shit out of her dad]].

* ''Film/TheProposition'' Morris Stanley gives people the SadisticChoice, beats up prisoners, discriminates against Irish people, is a bit blunt on the whole imperialism thing, and doesn't trust his wife with information that might upset her. The thing is, it's all out of a misaimed sense of duty and chivalry, and he's not really a bad guy, underneath it all.

*** As of ''Literature/{{Thud}}'', he lets a vampire join the watch though, [[spoiler:and lets her stay on even after she's revealed as a spy]].
*** Mainly because at first, he is forced to take her on, and after the fact because if he plays it right, no one will be able to tell him who he takes on ever again. He then wonders if Vetinari thinks like this all the time.

** Vimes tends to see two kinds of people, Watch officers and non-Watch officers. If you are part of the latter, then he mistrusts you, with only a few exceptions - he mistrusts most races - but if you are part of former, ''that'' is your race, in his eyes. Originally he considered everyone in the Watch a Watch ''man'' regardless of species or gender, but he got better about that.

** An interesting aspect of ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'' is Vimes's reaction to ''genuine'' racism. Firstly, when having dealt with a racially driven firebombing of a local Klatchian takeaway, he hears [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero Fred]] [[RacistGrandpa Colon]] casually drop a racist slur. He then summons Colon, who he's known for over 25 years, to his office and usually gives a great deal of latitude, to his office. [[TranquilFury No one hears what he says]], but Colon's almost shaking when he comes out again. His Klatchian counterpart points out that Vimes refused to consider a Klatchian could have been the killer because that was the sort of thing men like Rust would have thought. "Be generous, Sir Samuel. ''Truly'' treat all men equally. Allow Klatchians the right to be scheming bastards, hmm?"

->'''[=DiGeorgio=]''': Ah, that's one thing about our Harry. Doesn't play any favorites! [[HatesEveryoneEqually Harry hates everybody]]. [[LowerClassLout Limeys]], [[DublinSkanger micks]], [[GreedyJew hebes]], [[RambunctiousItalian fat dagos]], [[ScaryBlackMan ######]], [[HalfWittedHillbilly honkies]], [[ChineseLaunderer chinks]], you name it.\\
'''Gonzales''': How does he feel about Mexicans?\\
'''[=DiGeorgio=]''': Ask him.\\
'''Harry Callahan''': Especially [[LazyMexican spics]].

Subtrope of -- obviously -- NobleBigot and BigotWithABadge (those who ''lack'' the nobility or redeeming character traits required for this trope). Usually a PoliticallyIncorrectHero.

Subtrope of -- obviously -- NobleBigot. Usually a PoliticallyIncorrectHero. If they ''lack'' the nobility or redeeming character traits required for this trope, that's a BigotWithABadge.

* Chief Randall Crawford from ''WesternAnimation/ParadisePD'' is a racist, misogynistic, anti-semitic, homophobic, ableist, fatphobic asshole, who bases his viewpoints on politics and society on the crap he hears on FOX News and from Donald Trump's fraudulent Tweets. He is chief of police at the Paradise Police Department and many of the groups he's prejudiced against work for him; Gina (Woman), Fitz (Black), Hopson (LGBT), and Dusty (Fat). He gets along with them just well enough for them to complete their police work but he still makes a regular routine out of insulting and berating them all on the bases of their protected classes.

->'''[=DiGeorgio=]''': Ah, that's one thing about our Harry. Doesn't play any favorites! [[HatesEveryoneEqually Harry hates everybody]]. [[LowerClassLout Limeys]], [[DublinSkanger micks]], [[GreedyJew hebes]], [[RambunctiousItalian fat dagos]], [[ScaryBlackMan niggers]], [[HalfWittedHillbilly honkies]], [[ChineseLaunderer chinks]], you name it.\\

* Pretty much every non-corrupt cop in the ''L.A. Quartet''.
* Played with in ''Empire of the Wolves'' with Jean-Louis Schiffer. A retired police officer and somewhat of a legend (albeit a rather sinister one) among his colleagues, Schiffer is extremely knowledgeable about Parisian minorities and is apparently on speaking terms with community leaders. At the same time, he gleefully spouts racist slogans and is not averse to using JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on the suspects. The reader (and Schiffer's rookie partner, Netreaux) is not really sure what to make of him [[spoiler: until the end, when he is revealed to be deeply corrupt, serving as a middleman in heroin distribution. He is killed by his courier who has gone rogue and took off with a large shipment and whom Schiffer was tracking down throughout the novel.]]

->'''[=DiGeorgio=]''': Ah, that's one thing about our Harry. Doesn't play any favorites! Harry hates everybody. Limeys, micks, hebes, fat dagos, niggers, honkies, chinks, you name it.\\

'''Harry Callahan''': Especially spics.

** An interesting aspect of ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'' is Vimes's reaction to ''genuine'' racism. His Klatchian counterpart points out that Vimes refused to consider a Klatchian could have been the killer because that was the sort of thing men like Rust would have thought. "Be generous, Sir Samuel. ''Truly'' treat all men equally. Allow Klatchians the right to be scheming bastards, hmm?"

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'': Knight-Captain Cullen is strongly opposed to granting freedom to the mages, but he's also the first templar to show mercy to them if they deserve it. By ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', [[CharacterDevelopment it's clear that he's regretful of the bigot part]].

* Rafael de la Cruz from ''Literature/{{Hometown}}'' is a tireless, hard-working, conscientious sheriff who cares deeply for his community. He is also a good father...and he considers it his duty, as a good father, [[PapaWolf to ensure that his daughter is protected]], even if she has no further contact with her lesbian best friend. Who knows what happened during all those sleepovers over the years?

** House is bigoted against ''everyone''. Racist, sexist, pick an -ist. He just doesn't like anyone, including himself. The times he makes racist and sexist remarks usually come across as him trying to push people's [[BerserkButton buttons]].

* ''Film/DarkBlue'': Subverted. Detective Eldon Perry sees himself as one of these, being a casual racist who catches bad guys. Others, including several black cops, point out that he's just a vile scumbag who abuses his power.

* ''Film/{{Victim}}'': Sergeant Bridie is outspokenly homophobic, but that doesn't stop him doing his utmost to bring the blackmailing ring to justice.

** In ''Film/TheEnforcer,'' Harry's initial reactions appear to add sexism to his prejudices; however, his respect for Kate as she proves her worth, and his interactions with various minorities in this and the other sequels, show that his real hate is for those who break the law, and his gibes are part of his KinightInSourArmor image.

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* Jack Moony from ''Film/HeartCondition''. Subverted in the end though, because of a heart transplant from a black man, who ended up [[GhostlyAdvisor staying around]] to make Moony see things differently.

* Police officer John Ryan from ''Film/{{Crash}}''. He starts off as just plain bigoted, then gets slightly more noble when he saves the life of the black woman he sexually assaulted before by risking his life to drag her out of a burning car.
* Similarly, the black drill sergeant Calhoun from the HBO film ''Film/FirstTimeFelon'' is arguably given a SympatheticPOV. He despises the black juvenile felons because he hates that when "white people look at me, they see you instead...I love black people, but I ''hate'' niggers." He [[StopBeingStereotypical hates the stereotypes that they help perpetuate of decent black people like him]]. He despises the felons so much he intentionally undermines their rehabilitation by provoking them to hit him. He even goes as far to say "I'm never gonna let you get released back on the streets! I'm gonna lock up your children, and their children's children!" The character can definitely be interpreted and dissected in many different ways.
** An AlternateCharacterInterpretation is that he's an embittered cynic who doesn't believe in redemption.
* Henry Oakes from ''Film/{{Narc}}'', for several reasons; not the least of which is that his "daughter" is actually a girl he had rescued from her sexually abusive father, after putting her in a squad car and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating the ever-lovin' shit out of her dad]].
* Variant: Detective Spooner from ''Film/IRobot'', whose prejudice against robots gets him involved in a mysterious case...
** Though this isn't so much ''hating'' robots as simply [[DoesntTrustThoseGuys not trusting them]]. It's also largely [[SurvivorGuilt justified]].
* Another Creator/WillSmith example: Officer Darryl Ward of ''Film/{{Bright}}''. Ward has a low opinion of orcs in general (though he did recently catch a 12-gauge to his flak vest from an orc shoplifter) and is an asshole to his orc partner, Officer Nick Jakoby. At the same time, he [[WhatYouAreInTheDark defends Nick when other LAPD cops insult him behind his back]] and makes a point of teaching his young daughter that all races (humans, elves, orcs, etc) are equal and should get along.
* Variant: small-town Police Chief Gillespie (Creator/RodSteiger) in ''Film/InTheHeatOfTheNight''. At the beginning, he seems the stereotypical obnoxious, racist redneck, but - also thanks to Steiger's Oscar-winning performance - slowly emerges as a decent (if bitter) man who befriends the black protagonist, Virgil Tibbs. It helps that Gillespie is shown to be significantly ''less'' bigoted than most of the rest of the town.
* The police officers in ''Film/SlumdogMillionaire'' hate lower-class Indians and use ElectricTorture as a matter of course. However, after the protagonist doesn't confess under torture, they start believing him and are even somewhat helpful.
* Sergeant Gerry Boyle, the main protagonist of ''Film/TheGuard'' is this in spades. He makes outright racist comments at a briefing ("I thought only black lads could be drug dealers. And Mexicans) and believes Americans to be overly idealistic. However, when his rookie partner's wife informs him that her husband is missing, he goes out of his way to solve the case. Even when [[CorruptCop every other guard in the area has been bribed to stay out]].

* Gleb Zheglov in ''Film/TheMeetingPlaceCannotBeChanged'' is a notorious CowboyCop who, while not given to prejudice, is nevertheless essentially a vigilante with a badge, having no qualms of opening first and planting the evidence to put the notorious thief behind the bars, circumstances be damned. It is even more pronounced in the [[FilmOfTheBook original book]], where he verges on a SociopathicHero.
* Subverted in ''Film/DarkBlue''. Detective Eldon Perry sees himself as one of these, being a casual racist who catches bad guys. Others, including several black cops, point out that he's just a vile scumbag who abuses his power.
* As the page quote shows, [[Film/DirtyHarry Harry Callahan]] is one. He's very [[HatesEveryoneEqually equal opportunity]] in his hate. That said, the conversation in question was more hazing the new guy (Gonzales) than actual bigotry, as he gives a wink to [=DeGiorgio=] after saying "especially Spics" and shows no obvious issues working with his new Mexican partner.

* Subverted in ''Film/SuperTroopers'' with Foster. He swings by the police station with some important files and seems adamant about giving them to a ''male'' police officer rather than Ursula. It turns out the folder is empty and he was asking for the males because she's the only female police officer and he wanted to make sure no one else was around so he could [[DoggedNiceGuy try and romance her.]]
* A sci-fi twist in ''Film/AlienNation'', with Matt Sykes. As the film opens, he's merely annoyed by and contemptuous of Newcomers. Then, when his partner Tug is killed by one in "Slagtown," his casual bigotry becomes full-on hatred. It begins to dissipate when he comes to like and respect George, the Newcomer cop he requests to be partnered with so he can solve Tug's murder. By the end, the two are friends as well as partners, and Matt's view of Newcomers has improved considerably.
* Sergeant Bridie in ''Film/{{Victim}}'' is outspokenly homophobic, but that doesn't stop him doing his utmost to bring the blackmailing ring to justice.

* Knight-Captain Cullen in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' is strongly opposed to granting freedom to the mages, but he's also the first templar to show mercy to them if they deserve it. By ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', [[CharacterDevelopment it's clear that he's regretful of the bigot part]].
* Reggie Rowe of ''Videogame/InfamousSecondSon'' openly regards Conduits as threats to society (generally referring to them as [[FantasticSlur Bio-Terrorists]]) and thinks of his brother Delsin as infected with a disease of sorts when he first gets his powers. Nonetheless, he can be convinced to give them a chance and is generally helpful (if somewhat reluctant) when it comes to Delsin.
* Rusty Galloway in ''Videogame/LANoire''.

* Agent Milton from ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' has signs of racism. Such as believing that Native Americans are savages that need to be cleaned out for the sake of civilization and during his second encounter with the gang, he condescendingly calls a black member "Boy."
* In ''VideoGame/XCOMChimeraSquad'', agent Torque is distrustful of offworlders, especially aliens that underwent gene therapy to change their appearance to be more human-like. The twist is, Torque is a [[SnakePeople Viper]], but since she was born on Earth, she considers herself a native. The fact that she has scales, fangs and venom sacs just proves that "some Earthlings are hatched lucky."

Stereotypical smart mouth, racist, big-city cop -- but with a SympatheticPOV, which makes all the difference. Almost always written as a noble, misunderstood "good guy" (or girl). This could give the impression that the writer(s) are downplaying bigotry -- or, in a passive-aggressive way, justifying bigotry in certain situations--to the point of making "loyalty" to "your own group" a virtue, thus making lack of bigotry come across as CategoryTraitor.

The "noble" part frequently takes the form of not allowing his prejudices to interfere with police work--you won't see him charge a black guy with a crime he knows he didn't do. Is almost always white, but can also be of color. The ethnic version exists for the character to [[BoomerangBigot critique their own gender or race]] without the writers worrying about being called racist. Kinda like an inversion of NWordPrivileges by proxy.