History Main / ScrewYouElves

->I love nailing asari. So ageless and superior--then you get them, and they squeal like schoolgirls.
->--'''Gianna Parasini''' (She was talking about ''[[UnEntendre arresting them]]'', okay?), [[MassEffect Mass Effect 2]]

Compare CallingTheOldManOut, where parental figures are in place of elves, ShutUpHannibal, where it's a ManipulativeBastard, and DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu, where it's a ''GodOfEvil''.

[[IThoughtItMeant This trope is usually not pornographic.]] ''[[{{Rule34}} Usually.]]''

* Puck, of ''{{Berserk}}'', is not only an elf of the SantaClaus variety, but also [[SmallAnnoyingCreature extremely annoying.]] When faced with his moralizing, Guts makes a habit of not only telling him exactly where to stick it, but demonstrating such with a {{BFS}} and several of his family members.
* Arlong of ''{{One Piece}}'' constantly goes on and on how great fishman are and how inferior humans are to them. Luffy pretty much tells him they're nothing special during their fight.

--->[[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Live Long and Suck It.]]
* This is quite possibly the reason behind much of the appeal of [[ColonelBadass Colonel]] [[BloodKnight Miles]] [[ColonelKilgore Quaritch]] from ''{{Film/Avatar}}''. Yes, he is technically [[RootingForTheEmpire the bad guy]], and yes, he is kind of an [[KillItWithFire asshole]]; writing off an entire sapient species as beneath notice and making increasingly ruthless attempts to crush them will do that. But after having to sit through an entire 2.5 hours of {{James Cameron}} [[HeavyHanded preaching]] about how the Na'vi are [[SuperiorSpecies ''so'' superior]] to us humans, it was a little too easy for many viewers to enjoy seeing Quaritch open up a sizable can of whoop-ass on the heroes. [[hottip:* :Using [[IncrediblyLamePun The Guns Of Na'vi-own]], [[CrowningMomentOfFunny as it were]].]]

** The titular Lords and Ladies are more [[TheFairFolk Fae]] than Elves in behaviour, though most citizens of the disc call them Elves and assign them the common stereotypes of Elvish nature.

** The sentiment is subverted about 10 seconds later when John realises that his boss isn't a psychic projection. He's actually standing right in front of him.
* RobertAHeinlein does this InSpace in ''Starman Jones'', with {{Unicorn}}s standing in for elves. The entire second half of the novel is a massive TakeThat to the "horse people" part of ''[[GulliversTravels Gulliver's Travels]]'': the characters encounter a horse-man tribe while lost on a distant planet, and it turns out the horse-people see themselves as much more technologically and morally advanced than the humans. They're in tune with the land, they have a complicated hierarchal court system, and they won't have the filthy humans settle on their paradise planet. In true Heinlein fashion, the main characters slaughter them and ''somehow'' come out as moral victors.

* In the ''InheritanceCycle'', [[EnsembleDarkhorse Murtagh]], who does ''not'' agree with the [[OurElvesAreBetter elf]] [[CantArgueWithElves worship]] [[MarySuetopia prevalant in the rest of the series]].

** Best of all, every time the kids came into contact with the Andalites, they would beg for help. The whole time, the Andalites believed that the Animorphs were lying, in order to get special treatment. Naturally, Jake tells the Andalite Generals to go stick it up their asses [[DoubleSpeak in the most polite way possible.]]

** The Asgard must think it's funny. After all, they did name a [[strike: starship]] class of starships after him (The namesake of the class got blowed up, but that was another story).

*** Did Freyr even * have* a mother? They are a cloned race after all.

** The Tollan on the other hand got their comuppence - after demonstrating the shallowness of * their* principles.
* On ''{{Supernatural}}'', the angels have plans for Sam and Dean. [[spoiler: Specifically, they've planned for Sam to get himself possessed by Lucifer and kickstart the Apocalypse (with all the civilian casualties implied therein) so that the archangel Michael, while possessing Dean, can finish Lucifer off.]] Dean suggests that they take their plan and shove it. It's worth noting that only [[spoiler: the senior archangels apparently had this plan; they admit they had to appear to be preventing Lucifer's rise to avoid a rebellion by the grunts. Once it has already happened they figure everyone will fall in line in the face of the new threat, regardless of how he arose.]]

** The ''Elder Evils'' book does the same. Most of the CosmicHorror level entities in the book are, well, [[CosmicHorror Cosmic Horrors]] that have existed since before the dawn of history. Except Father Llymic. The suggested background for Father Llymic in the ForgottenRealms is that it's the elves' fault that he's there. Granted, they were the ones to [[SealedEvilInACan seal him in a can]], but still...

** Except for the (substantial, and genuine) Elven population of Tir Tairngire and Tir na nOg, who are for the most part even bigger [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]] than the aforementioned elf posers.

*** They didn't do too well out of that [[VestigialEmpire themselves..]].

* MagicTheGathering has toyed with this over the years, with a "Goblins Vs. Elves" addition, choice quotes like "You don't live in forests, you ''burn'' them!", and most recently, Lorwyn block. Though initially, the elves are played up as pointy-eared nazis (that is, they feel that beauty is everything, and nobody uglier than them has any right to live. Oh, and ''everyone else'' is uglier than them.) who never get their comeuppance, when the followup, Shadowmoor came out, they are taken from ruling the idyllic, sunlit Lorwyn waited on hand and cloven foot, ([[OurElvesAreDifferent they had hooves,]]) to fending for their very survival as the only non-malevolent race in the darkness of Shadowmoor, fighting off everything that thinks they look tasty (which is pretty much everything), and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking cutting their own hair.]]

* Some Elven [=NPCs=] in ''[[BaldursGate Baldur's Gate]]'' have the unfortunate tendency to come off as snobbish wankers, and the player (or, in his place, many of your party members) does indeed get the option of telling them where to stick it. The game does not punish you for this.
** [[spoiler: Irenicus]] actively refers to humans as ''vermin''. The proper way to say "screw you" to that (should you be playing a human) is to stave in his skull with Crom Faeyr.
*** Of course, [[spoiler: Irenicus also basically refers to everyone less powerful than himself as "insects". In this game without the expansion, "less powerful than Irenicus" would encompass everyone ''including Elminster''.]]

** Other Terrans generally respond by shooting them on sight or dropping tactical nuclear weapons on their heads. They're totally justified though: [[spoiler: the initial response of the Protoss to the Zerg onslaught was to [[EarthShatteringKaboom torch Terran planets]] without warning.]]

*** In versions past it was certainlly the case that any animal the elven merchants tried to sell you was generally crippled. Killing animals is clearly bad, but breaking all their legs and jamming them in a cage is A-OK.

*** Cannibalism does backfire though: enter [[MemeticBadass Cacame Awemedinade the Immortal Onslaught, Elven King of Dwarves!]] After his wife was eaten by another elf, he goes on an incredible RoaringRampageOfRevenge that impresses the Dwarves so much that they [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority make him king.]]

* Interestingly, while MassEffect provided a page quote, the game as a whole averts this. True, some of the aliens are jerks (the face of the Turian Councilor comes to mind), but there are also plenty examples of really nice ones such as the asari Liara and the quarian Tali (even [[{{TheSnarkKnight}} Joker]] and [[{{FantasticRacism}} Navigator Pressly]] likes [[{{WrenchWench}} her]]). Like Kaidan said, the aliens are actually quite human once you know them. Even [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the krogans]]. Don't know if '''Screw You Reapers''' counts though...

** Nonetheless, exactly because of that racial discrimination, elves also tend to act unncessarily hostile towards humans, if not all that condescending. Especially the Dalish. While they may be justified and there is a fair amount of good people among them, it can still sometimes create the desire in a player to just introduce them to his greatsword or to have a pack of werewolves come over them and wipe them out.
* A memorable moment in ''{{Tales of Phantasia}}'' happens somewhat toward the end. The uppity elves have finally agreed to accept humans in their HiddenElfVillage, but not [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Elves]], because they still blamed them for the debacle with the Mana Cannon a bit over a century ago[[hottip:* : and, probably, the [[TalesOfSymphonia Cruxis/Desian problem]] 4000 years before that]]. The elves claimed that the halfbreeds could not be trusted, since they possessed the power of elven magic but lacked the elven values to employ it responsibly. Cless then kindly tells them to shove it, as the whole reason halfbreeds had human values was that the elves kicked them out in the first place and they had no choice but to live among humans.

* A recurring theme in the ''{{Overlord}}'' games. Elves, being one of the "[[DesignatedHero Good]]" races serve as {{Hero Antagonist}}s to your EvilOverlord. They're usually not all that much better than humans, serving mostly as SnarkBait for EvilChancellor Gnarl and are usually screwed over royally throughout the game. The first game has them being enslaved by the Dwarves (with an option to ensure their extinction by choosing to save a sack of gold over the last Elven women) and the second one has most of them being enslaved by TheEmpire, with the remaining free elves all a bunch of annoying hippies and you later commit a MoralEventHorizon towards them by [[spoiler:poisoning the soul of [[TheHighQueen Queen]] [[BigGood Fay]] with your dark power, driving her insane and making her a FallenHero.]]

* Thief from ''[=~8-Bit Theater~=]'' is certainly pretentious enough. But all of the Light Warriors are [[JerkAss jerks]] (except Fighter who's just really stupid, and possibly Red Mage as he veers into {{Cloudcuckoolander}} territory.) . And on [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/04/04/episode-681-of-civilizations/ this page]], Thief's arrogance is ''gloriously'' shot down.

* Done in TheMeek with Emperor Luca deSadar and the Ambassadors from Caris in chapter two. Caris is implied to be very proud and considers the Northern Territories inferior. When the ambassador from Caris claims that the queen cannot and will not pay reparations for the [[SinsOfOurFathers acts of her father while he was]] [[CompleteMonster king.]] Luca [[BerserkButton did not take it well...]]
--->'''Luca:''' With respect, ambassador. Your king alone did not uphold an [[PuttingOnTheReich entire country's institution of torture and murder against my people.]]

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* I've sometimes thought that about the whole federation and am sometimes pleased when Klingons or Ferenghi say that to those sanctimonious "We built a perfect universe" feds.

** Happens a lot in ''ForgottenRealms'' (see the page quote). Of course, they ''did'' a lot in their time ([[HorribleHistories not all of which]] they would [[NeglectfulPrecursors care]] to [[DisproportionateRetribution advertise]]), but now they got more of haughty show than any real actions or abilities. Not surprising, as most elves there are at best [[NobleSavage noble]], but xenophobic savages and at worst bitter relicts of the culture that fell past the decadence stage about a thousand years ago.

*** How about ''successful'' genocide?
** This was the Necrontyr's reaction to the Old Ones. The resultant war led to both being wiped out, the Necrontyr reborn as the Necrons and the Old Ones creating the Eldar and Orks in the process. The sheer horror of it turned the previously safe Warp into what we know and... well... know in the 41st millennium, as well as nearly sterilizing the entire galaxy.

*** Cannibalism does backfire though: enter [[MemeticBadass Cacame Awemedinade the Immortal Onslaught, Elven King of Dwarves!]] After having his wife eaten by another elf, he goes such elf-hating rage that DWARFS ELECT HIM AS A KING.
*** Of course, you can always just prevent their coming... with a [[WaveMotionGun huge,]] [[KillItWithFire fiery]] [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Boatmurdered/ sea of lava]].

* Interestingly, while MassEffect provided a page quote, the game as a whole averts this. True, some of the aliens are jerks (the face of the Turian Councilor comes to mind), but there are also plenty examples of really nice ones such as the asari Liara and the quarian Tali (even [[{{TheSnarkKnight}} Joker]] and [[{{FantasticRacism}} Navigator Pressly]] likes [[{{WrenchWench}} her]]). Like Kaidan said, the aliens are actually quite human once you know them. Even [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the krogans]]. Don't know if '''Screw You Reapers''' count though...

* In ''{{Homeworld}}: Cataclysm'' the protagonist captain viciously scolds ancient aliens Bentusi for an attempt to run away from a galactic threat instead of helping the humans to fight it. Note that he did it ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome while they were decimating his fleet for hampering their escape]]''. Admittedly, Bentusi were generally nice guys, not at all arrogant or condescending to humans. They were just VERY afraid of the said threat and the fear embitterned them.

** Garithos in Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne also has a habit of picking on elves at every chance he gets (other races too). He puts the blood-elves to do construction work, and berates them for being late even if they were attacked by undead on the way, and eventually blames them for betraying the alliance when the naga decides to help them out.
** There's also a SWORD that does this to the Blood Elves in World of Warcraft. To elaborate there is a rare drop in the Icecrown Citadel instances that starts a long quest chain to reforge an old weapon given to the High Elves by the dragons. At one point you have to take the sword and submerge it in the sunwell, the Blood Elves' power source. After you do so, they assume you are returning the sword to them. Their leader tries to take it off you. Except the sword has chosen you and instead sends him flying. They're furious, even more so if you're a member of the Alliance. It doesn't play out this way if you're a blood elf of course where they're eager to assist you.

** And when the elves arrogantly suggest using Sara as an anti-[[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Ian]] weapon because "That's what they ([[TouchedByVorlons The Ensigerum]]) were created for":

* In ''[[http://inverloch.seraph-inn.com/ Inverloch]]'', one of the villains is trying to sever Elves from magic (which is also the source of their immortality) as a revenge for them killing his father years before... and the second villain, a mage, helps the first one in what is essentially a genocide attempt because he thinks Elves are too arrogant to deserve life.

** Similarly, he pretty much tells Darth V that he earned his epic power, while V didn't.
* Done in TheMeek with Emperor Luca deSadar and the Ambassadors from Caris in chapter two. Caris is implied to be very proud and considers the Northern Territories. When the ambassador from Caris claims that the queen cannot and will not pay reparations for the [[SinsOfOurFathers acts of her father while he was]] [[CompleteMonster king.]] Luca [[BerserkButton did not take it well...]]

* In ''WIGU'', seven-year-olds Wigu and Hugo reject the [[TheChosenOne Elf Queen's prophecy]] and [[http://wigucomics.com/adventures/index.php?comic=550 scare the poop]] out of the retarded Hillbilly Elves.

** If one considers the Caamasi to be subject to Can't Argue With Elves, then the Caamas document crisis was this trope taken to the extreme. The entire New Republic somehow managed to divide itself into two factions over wether to defend the Bothans or to make them pay reparations (with the Empire ready to capitalize on the inevitable civil war). Meanwhile, the few Caamasi left have their voices drowned out when they try to say, "Stop the fighting." Of course, most of the galaxy WAS using this as an excuse to pursue their own feuds, but still.

->I love nailing asari, so ageless and superior... and when you get them they squeal like schoolgirls.

* RobertAHeinlein does this InSpace in ''Starman Jones'', with {{Unicorn}}s standing in for elves. The entire second half of the novel is a massive TakeThat to the "horse people" part of ''Gulliver's Travels'': the characters encounter a horse-man tribe while lost on a distant planet, and it turns out the horse-people see themselves as much more technologically and morally advanced than the humans. They're in tune with the land, they have a complicated hierarchal court system, and they won't have the filthy humans settle on their paradise planet. In true Heinlein fashion, the main characters slaughter them and ''somehow'' come out as moral victors.

** I don't think this counts. Other than pointy ears, the Hylians have very little in common with Elves.
*** It doesn't. In Twilight Princess, Link's 2 forms are listed as "Wolf" and "Human" so Hylian is supposedly the human equivelant.

** Amusingly, in a bit of TakeThat, Troy Denning has Darth Caedus kick their ass easily.

[[IThoughtItMeant This trope is not necessarily pornographic.]] ''[[{{Rule34}} Necessarily.]]''

* In the ''InheritanceCycle'', [[EnsembleDarkhorse Murtagh]], who does ''not'' agree with the [[OurElvesAreBetter elf]] [[CantArgueWithElves worship]] prevelant in the rest of the series.
* [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] tends to be fairly direct in telling arrogant fae (and pretty much anyone else) what he thinks of them. Then he blows something up or sets something on fire, generally. This is probably done just to throw them off guard (and take his mind off of the fact that he generally knows exactly how horrible they could make his life, or the end of same) as much as anything else.
** There's also some indication that he just can't ''help'' himself sometimes.
** There are only so many times you can hear the 'what you don't know' speech before you snap.

--->'''Luca:''' With respect, ambassador, your king did not uphold a [[PuttingOnTheReich entire country's institution of torture and murder against my people.]]

* Glen Cook's Garrett snarks right back when snarked at by anyone, including his [[VitriolicBestBuds best friend]] Morley Dotes (who is actually a half-elf, but let's not get technical...) and his regular advisor the Dead Man (who isn't an elf at all, but is a member of long-lived (sort of) race with a superiority complex definitely fits the bill).

* Done in TheMeek with Emperor Luca deSadar and the Ambassadors from Caris in chapter two. When the ambassador claims that the queen cannot and will not pay reparations for the [[SinsOfOurFathers acts of her father while he was]][[BerserkButton king]] Luca [[BerserkButton did not take it well...]]