History Main / SuperSupremacist

** The main antagonists of the series are especially powerful sapient [[TheHeartless curses]] who want their kind to take over the Earth. Geto is allied with them, which is mysterious given his previously shown goals, [[spoiler:especially when he wanted to eliminate curses entirely]].

* Some of the [[PsychicPowers Newtypes]] from the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise develop this attitude. Paptimus Scirocco of ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'' believes that "common people only hold back true genius" and plots to create some sort of Newtype matriarchy dictatorship, Haman Kahn of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ'' sneers at ordinary people "whose souls are held down by gravity", and by the time of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'' title BigBad and FallenHero Char Aznable has become one of these, ranting about how "the people left on Earth do nothing but pollute it" and telling [[TheHero Amuro Ray]] to "give those ignorant people your so-called wisdom" when they duke it out in Londonion.

* There's a few examples of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia.''

** Quirkless people are subjected to FantasticRacism, particularly as, by the time the story begins, it is expected Quirklessness will disappear altogether within one or two generations. One of the first things we see Bakugou do in the series is goad the Quirkless Midoriya into killing himself, on the logic that he might get lucky and come back with a Quirk.

* Choze from ''Manga/OnePunchMan'' claims to be from a clan of people who have practiced the greatest breeding program to create a superior race, and that they aim to rule the world becasue it's the natural order of things for a superior race such as themselves to rule over the inferior, weak and feeble races i.e everyone. [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Resembling the generic ideal of an 'Aryan Superman']], he's also a practitioner of the 'Fist of the Pure Blood Master Race' martial arts style. Upon becoming a monster, he decides that he is going to wipe out all of the 'inferior specimens' of humanity and only let the 'master race' survive, and one of his new attacks is even called 'Inferior Race Annihilation Shot'.

This is a bad guy with superpowers who believes that this gives them the right to rule over [[{{Muggles}} non-supers]]. The motives of such a villain may be that of a SocialDarwinist who believes superpowers to be the ultimate example of MightMakesRight, or someone who thinks non-supers should be ruled [[WellIntentionedExtremist "for their own good"]]. They may even see supers as a nascent MasterRace on a [[SuperiorSpecies higher]] [[EvolutionaryLevels evolutionary level]] than non-supers or [[ANaziByAnyOtherName take after a certain racial demagogic party]] when the author wants to make the implications especially transparent. May develop a [[AGodAmI literal god complex]] as well or come to think of themselves as an UltimateLifeform. Obviously, this sort of villain is a manifestation of the idea that [[BewareTheSuperman the existence of individuals with superpowers is inherently bad for those who do not possess them]].

A SubTrope of FantasticRacism and BewareTheSuperman. The OppositeTrope to ProHumanTranshuman, a superpowered individual who considers themselves equal to {{Muggles}}. SisterTrope to TranshumanTreachery and ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers. Contrast MugglePower for the inverse of non-supers seeing themselves as superior to supers. See also SmugSuper, when someone with superpowers merely uses them to gloat. A SupermanSubstitute often goes this route when an author wants to deconstruct the Superman archetype without incorporating [[TheCape the big blue boy scout]] himself. Pretty much guaranteed to be a VisionaryVillain.

* Most of the villains in ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' are militant NEXT, militant anti-NEXT or one being manipulated by the other. [[spoiler: The BigBad is a subversion; he wanted to improve the public image of NEXT initially, but he did evil things when he stopped caring about that and went after more money and power.]]

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Both Arlong and Hody Jones believe that fishmen like them should rule over humans because they're stronger. Arlong is shown ruling a village of humans, while Jones fully intents on making every human subservient to fishmen, starting from terrorizing the 4-yearly meeting between national leaders in the verse to make the strength of fishmen known.
* Choze from ''Manga/OnePunchMan'' claims to be from a clan of people who have practiced the greatest breeding program to create a superior race, and that they aim to rule the world becasue it's the natural order of things for a superior race such as themselves to rule over the inferior, weak and feeble races i.e everyone. [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Resembling the generic ideal of an 'Aryan Superman']], he's also a practitioner of the 'Fist of the Pure Blood Master Race' martial arts style. Upon becoming a monster, he decides that he is going to wipe out all of the 'inferior specimens' of humanity and only let the 'master race' survive, and one of his new attacks is even called 'Inferior Race Annihilation Shot'.

** The Meta Human Liberation Army was a terrorist organization that sought to impose a society where people with powerful Quirks would rule above those with less powerful ones. [[spoiler:They're still active in the present, being led by a descendent of the original Army's founder. To make matters worse, their SocialDarwinist philosophy means anyone with sufficiently powerful Quirks could easily ascend to the top of their organization. When the Army tries to pick a fight with the League of Villains, Shiguraki trounces them and takes the reigns himself, putting their considerable connections and resources directly under the League's control. Shiguraki and the League don't subscribe to this philosophy in the slightest, but they've got no problem taking advantage of the people who do.]]

%%* The goal of the [[PsychicPowers Esper]] terrorist organization Claw and its leader, Toichirou Suzuki, is to [[TakeOverTheWorld overthrow the world government]] in favor of a world ruled by Espers, with Suzuki himself at the top. This naturally sends our protagonist, who is staunchly opposed to the idea that [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers having supernatural powers makes you above other people]], on a collision course with him. In general, the Super Supremacist mindset is quite common among Espers, especially very powerful ones, but Toichirou is one of the few with the power to conquer the world almost single-handedly if not for [[BigGood Mob]] being in his way.

** The mutants usually have to deal with [[MugglePower persecution directed at themselves by humans]], but some mutants conversely believe that ''Homo Superior'' was designed to rule over regular humans.
** ComicBook/{{Magneto}}, from [[DarkAndTroubledPast his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp]], believes that humans rightly fear mutants because mutants are their evolutionary replacements. DependingOnTheWriter, he believes that fear and prejudice are a product of their innate inferiority and that the inherent diversity within the mutant species would allow them to overcome said prejudices if freed from humanity's chains. He is [[DependingOnTheWriter (sometimes)]] unable to see the irony in how being a mutant supremacist makes him no better than a human supremacist. (But again, this depends on the writer.) At other times, he's just resigned himself to being the monster that mutants need to protect them. This places him in direct opposition to Professor Charles Xavier, who believes that humans and mutants can and should co-exist.

** ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}} is Magneto's philosophy taken to an even more frightening conclusion. Apocalypse not only believes that humans are obsolete, but also that there is no room for mutants who [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway lost the]] SuperpowerLottery and got BlessedWithSuck. To Apocalypse, [[SocialDarwinism survival of the fittest]] is all that matters, which means that there is no difference between a {{Muggle}} and a weaksauce mutant. Both equally deserve extinction.
** ComicBook/{{Mystique}} remorselessly threw her prepubescent son Graydon Creed into the streets upon realizing that he was not going to develop into a mutant. She was also responsible for transforming the [[Characters/XMenBrotherhoodOfMutants Brotherhood of Mutants]] from the stock comic book supervillain team it was under Magneto into the Super Supremacist form of a political activist group we know it as today.
** As of ''ComicBook/JonathanHickmansXMen'', all of the X-Men seem to have tacitly taken up this belief - or at least, a very passive[[note]]Though they are not above keeping even their worst criminals out of human justice systems now, they're at least not attacking humans outright yet[[/note]] and insular version of it - with a clearly-stated belief that they are set to become Earth's dominant species. They're only waiting around on their island state of Krakoa because they intend on simply waiting until mutants become the dominant species (as they will in the next 20 years or so). And all of this is overseen by Professor Xavier. There've been hints of this among certain X-Men before, but this is the first storyline that's had the team as a collective embrace this attitude. The in-universe justification for the attitude switch is, in a nutshell, that they '''tried''' the passive resistance and pursuit of integration approaches, and were met with repeated attempts at genocide. So now they're going to start being a bit more assertive about their rights, and if humanity doesn't like it? Then ''Tough luck''.
* ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'': The Hulk himself is an example, as the "Banner" portion of his mind is typically portrayed as the side that drives him to save and protect humans. Absent of Banner, Hulk absolutely hates humans (and many other species, such as HumanAliens) and finds them puny and not worth his time. In the BadFuture of ''Future Imperfect'', this mentality eventually led to him becoming The Maestro, a superhuman despot.
* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'''s High Evolutionary is constantly fiddling with genetics in an attempt to breed a race superior to humanity.
* ''ComicBook/DungeonTheEarlyYears'': A professor of magic started a complicated plot in which he mind-controlled important people around the city and fathered children with their bodies, granting him an army of brainwashed ChildSoldiers. He seemed to be on the WellIntentionedExtremist side (as Horus put it, "if you cannot make [[TheGoodKing kings into philosophers]], then [[BenevolentMageRuler philosophers should be kings]]") but is really just an asshole who wanted to take over the city (his plan doubled as realizing his voyeurism kink to boot). One night, he ordered the children to kill their parents, but was foiled at the last minute by a repentant Horus (who'd figured out his own son was among them) with a [[TheHero Hyacinthe]] and Marvin. Hyacinthe tells Horus to take every magician he can find and run before the city realizes what happened and call for a WitchHunt.
* ''ComicBook/TheBoys'': The Homelander's plot to get out from under Vought's thumb involved seizing power and ruling over humanity (supers already viewing humanity as nothing but an endless reservoir of victims). Complicated by the fact that [[spoiler:he was gaslit by his clone, Black Noir, into complete psychosis]], leading to his breakdown at being ordered around by a non-powered human.

** Superman himself, while completely averting this in his mainstream incarnation, sometimes turns in this direction in dark alternate universes. Glaring examples include ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'', in which his capsule crashes in the 1920s USSR instead of the USA and he becomes a Communist dictator of a vastly-expanded Warsaw Pact, and ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity: Mastermen'', in which his capsule crashes in 1930s Germany and he becomes a Nazi world dictator. Of course, since they still have the same personality as the normal Superman, both the Commie and Nazi versions of Supes ultimately become TheAtoner - and the former was AffablyEvil at worst (though this arguably made things more creepy), patiently waiting for nations to join his communist utopia of their own free will, and genuinely wanting to protect humanity, particularly after Stalingrad goes the same way as Kandor... which is what lines to Lex Luthor bringing him down with a single ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: "Why don't you just put the whole world in a bottle, Superman?"]]
** In stories where Superman's people the Kryptonians are brought back for any length of time some of them are depicted as looking down on non-powered humans. It's the entire shtick of [[KneelBeforeZod General Zod]] and his subordinates, and in the ''ComicBook/NewKrypton'' stories the most Zod-influenced Kryptonians look at humans as ants.
** In ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', most of students and teachers in Stanhope Elementary gain powers due to a strange radioactive meteorite, and they become total "I'm better than you because I have powers" jerkasses right away. Students with no powers are put into a special class in order to prepare them for their future lives as cannon fodder or innocent casualties in the battles between super-powerful beings. Ironically, [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} the most powerful superhuman in the school]] is the one who doesn't adhere to that school of thought and is even pretending to be a normal human.
--->'''Linda Lee:''' Um... Ms. Bigglestone? Aren't we all equal and stuff? I mean, just because we're not super-powered doesn't mean we should be treated any differently...\\
'''Ms. Bigglestone:''' I'm sorry, but no. That is incorrect. Your fate, which I am here to ensure you embrace, is one of mediocrity and fear. As non-super-powered citizens, you may stand back and witness the majesty of your betters. Or, perhaps, become pawns in their super-powered contests. Either way, what you do is of little importance.
** ''ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton'': As much as Reign -an alien turned into a sentient biological super-weapon via bioengineering- is concerned, people with superhuman abilities should rule over the rest.
--->'''Reign:''' We're not so different, you and I. We have the power of gods, and with it the right... the duty... to use that power. I thought that together we could conquer that pathetic planet and find the answers we both seek."

* In ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'', ComicBook/BlackAdam is growing into one, and decides to act on his beliefs while most of the Justice League is busy fighting Dr. Manhattan, leaving Wonder Woman as the only one who can stop him.
* ''ComicBook/MsMarvel2014'' has Kaboom. "The Inhumans are coming. It's gonna be a brand new chapter in the whole history of planet Earth, and we are gonna answer to ourselves and no one else." Kamala, a fellow Inhuman, is furious that Kaboom is not only threatening regular humans, but also putting other Inhumans in danger by making them look dangerous.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has the usual example of [[Literature/HarryPotter the Death Eaters]] (Voldemort is, as usual, more out for himself than anyone else), while Magneto is a [[ReformedButNotTamed (mostly)]] reformed example. It's also noted that even benevolently inclined magical people tend to assume a kind of paternalistic attitude towards Muggles, horribly underestimating what they're capable of.
* In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', some bloodliners believe that they're superior to humans and Pokémon alike and thus deserve to rule over both. The most prominent examples are the Bloodline King, who directs an organization with aims of world domination, and one of the Seven Brothers of Orre, whose endgame plan involves [[spoiler: siring ''hundreds'' of bloodliner children in order to fulfill an ancient prophecy, and one of them is none other than ''Ash Ketchum''.]]

* In the ''Avatar the Last Airbender'' drabble ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/2552534 Dalits]]'', the Air Nomads are depicted as having had a caste system where they either kicked out Non-benders or forced them to work for them. Pema is the grandchild of a Non-bending Air Nomad who was kicked out. Pema is also a part of a Non-bender Equal Rights movement herself, showing that there's still problems between Bender and Non-Benders.

* Invoked in ''Fanfic/MyHeroPlaythrough'': Izuku's father briefly considered sending him to a boarding school for Quirkless children in order to spare him from being bullied by superhuman students.
* ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'': [[EvilKnockoff Satan]] [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Girl]] firmly believes Kryptonians -including Kryptonian clones as herself- and Daxamites are virtually gods thanks to their powers, but they're held back by their pitiful morality. "Luckily", she doesn't have that problem.
-->For Kryptonians and Daxamites were gods, off their homeworlds. They really were. What a pity their morality forced them not to realize that fact.

* Defied in ''Fanfic/TheVigilanteBossAndHisFailedRetirementPlan'' when Aizawa states heroes don't look down on people we protect.

** Inverted by the BigBad's plan. [[spoiler:Syndrome plans to sell all his inventions that make him equal to superheroes, so that "everyone will be super! And when everyone's super... no one will be."]]
** Bonus features on the supers reveal that superhero Gamma Jack believed this.

* ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'': Andrew and two of his friends gain superpowers from an alien EldritchAbomination. Due to several tragedies in his life, [[SanitySlippage Andrew's sanity slowly degrades]] over the course of the film and he starts espousing social darwinist ideas by calling himself an "apex predator", and later goes on a rampage against {{Muggles}}.
* ''Film/{{Scanners}}'': The bad guy, Darryl Revok, is a terrorist cult leader and the result of a BizarreBabyBoom that produced telepathic children known as 'scanners'. His own plot is to reproduce this previous accident by design, then train the next generation to be his foot soldiers on the path to creating a worldwide scanner supremacy.
* ''Film/SpiderMan1'': The Green Goblin/Norman Osborn in the first movie seems to fit this bill. "There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders. [[WeCanRuleTogether You, me? We're exceptional.]]"
* This is the general attitude of the Sith (adepts of TheDarkSide of TheForce) in ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'', and ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends''. This is perhaps most succinctly summed up by Desann, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/JediKnightIIJediOutcast'':
-->''"The Force is not a shield to protect the useless--but is, in reality, a weapon to empower the worthy."''
** ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' has plenty of cases where the attitude is not confined to Sith. Sith are merely [[AtLeastIAdmitIt very open about it]]. Jedi versions of this usually involve some form of HalfTruth, keeping non-Force wielding allies LockedOutOfTheLoop, expressing a [[DemocracyIsBad suspicion of democracy]], and isolating themselves in enclaves and temples while their backyards burn.

* ''Literature/TheInfected'': A subtler example than usual, the villains of The Infected, Alpha Team, don't seem to bear regular humanity any ill will or believe their power gives them the right to rule. But in a world that has skewed so far into MugglePower, a war between the Infected and normals is inevitable. So is their ultimate victory. So why not get it over and done with already?

** Gellert Grindelwald planned a revolution in order to establish the wizards' power over the muggle world. Even Dumbledore bought into these ideas for a while, though his motive was a personal one: his sister was tormented by a group of Muggle boys, which had tragic consequences for all his family, and he believed that this sort of regime is the only way to prevent such things from ever happening again.

* ''Literature/{{Patternist}}'': ''Mind of My Mind'' shows the origin of the titular {{Psychic|Power}}s. Once they organize, they casually make mind-controlled puppets out of the {{Muggles}} in their town, "programming" them to serve the Patternists' whims. One member inadvertently reduces his muggle girlfriend to an obedient EmptyShell over time by reflexively pushing any inconvenient thoughts out of her head and doesn't care at all.
* In ''Literature/XMenMutantEmpireTrilogy'', Magneto and his Acolytes have this attitude. Their plan is to establish Manhattan as a mutant-ruled city, with the remaining humans as an underclass.
* Star Wars Legends novel ''Literature/OutboundFlight'' has Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth, a supremely haughty and arrogant [[SmugSuper Smug Super]] who believes in the superiority of Force users, and Jedi in particular, and that this gives them the right to rule over any non-Force sensitive, up to and including the Chancellor. Unsurprisingly, these traits are shared by his insane clone over thirty years later.

* ''Series/{{Alphas}}'': Red Flag/Stanton Parish, the main antagonist from season 1, believes that war between superhumans and normal humans is inevitable and that the superheroes deserve to win. Its more morally complex than usual, however, as it is finally revealed that he believes there would be NoPlaceForMeThere and his true intent is to convince the leader of the heroes, Dr. Rosen, to take over after he's exterminated the normal humans and rule as a genuinely benevolent leader. Rosen is not impressed.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Many human telepaths secretly feel this way, largely because the Psi Corps ingrains these beliefs into them from a young age. They believe that a war is coming between the telepaths and the "[[{{Muggles}} mundanes]]". They are also generally ''very'' displeased with any "mundane", who kills a telepath, even if said telepath was a rogue one. One such "mundane" got ThrownOutTheAirlock in hyperspace, and the telepath pushing the button treated it as both a rite of passage and a loss of her virginity. This ultimately culminated in the Telepath War, which the telepaths lost, resulting in the Earth Alliance creating the Psionic Monitoring Commission to hunt down the remaining Psi Corps members and to re-integrate telepaths back into mainstream society to avoid a repeat of this trope.

** The show has, like the original comic book listed above, Homelander, who uses his powers to fuel a GodComplex - he tells Starlight "we're a different breed" and that she shouldn't be helping "these mud people".
** Stormfront thinks her powers make her above people without them, coupled with regular racism. She also plans on escalating a Supe arms race to create more Supes.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' In Season 3, rogue Slayer Faith Lehane spouts some of Super Supermacism towards Buffy when Faith tries to flee Sunnydale and deflect blame for her AccidentalMurder of Deputy Mayor Allan Finch, arguing that MightMakesRight in the process.
* ''Series/JessicaJones'': Kilgrave has shades of this, having stated multiple times that he and Jessica belong together because they are both superpowerful.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Some SpaceMarines get into this mindset via MightMakesRight, being vastly superior to standard humans in every way and thus asking why they should fight and die for them. Falling to Chaos is not the inevitable outcome, but it's a common fate.
* Present in ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'', although executed unusually (and not related to inheritance because magic is an EnlightenmentSuperpower). Two main groups of mages believe that mages are superior to [[{{Muggles}} Sleepers]]. The group who are more likely to be protagonists, the Silver Ladder, see their role as rightful rulers of the Sleepers as one of a guide and protector, essentially believing that while they're ''supposed'' to rule over the Sleepers, with that authority ComesGreatResponsibility. They also try to turn more Sleepers into Awakened, as they believe everyone will Awaken one day. On the other hand, the antagonistic Seers of the Throne couldn't care less about responsibility; they see Sleepers as little more than sheep, fit only to be pawns of the Seers.

* ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt'': [[spoiler:your commanding officer Asimov]] is revealed to be this, with him claiming that [[PsychicChildren Adepts,]] himself included, shall rule over the world and KillAllHumans. Our hero - an Adept himself - disagrees with the idea.

** In ''VideoGame/LuminousAvengerIX'', the Sumeragi, who used to [[SuperhumanTrafficking oppress Adepts instead]], now embraces Adepts and has been very good at wiping out humans/"minos". That's not to say they've stopped oppressing Adepts, however, as Sumeragi [[MutantDraftBoard forcibly conscripts]] even Adepts who want nothing to do with killing minos into their ranks by threatening their lives or those close to them. Later it turns out this change of stance is because of [[spoiler:the aforementioned Asimov having taken over the organization, with the game itself taking place in a BadFuture where Asimov killed Gunvolt and Joule]].
* Cole [=MacGrath=] (should the player choose [[KarmaMeter Evil Karma]]) from ''VideoGame/{{Infamous}}'' becomes corrupted by his conduit powers, developing a God complex and a MightMakesRight attitude over all of the “normals.” This is taken UpToEleven in the bad ending of ''VideoGame/Infamous2'', the [[EarnYourBadEnding Evil]] [[AlignmentBasedEndings Ending]] having Cole deciding not to fire the [=RFI=] and joining with John/the Beast's plans, activating all Conduits at the expense of all other humans (sacrificing millions for only a few thousand).
* ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' and its continuation (and the comics set within the universe) all showcase the tale of a Superman that becomes this after ComicBook/TheJoker nukes Metropolis and makes him an important part of the plan to make it happen (which makes him kill ComicBook/LoisLane and his unborn child) [[ForTheEvulz for the sake of "playing on easy mode" for once.]] As well, about half of the Justice League decides to jump on the fascist bandwagon right behind him, and they slide down the slippery slope like there's no tomorrow, starting with getting a hell of a lot (read "murderously") tougher on crime and ending [[spoiler:([[DownerEnding on the "Power" Ending of ''Injustice 2'']]) with Superman turning all of Brainiac's collected worlds and technology into his own private army and Batman into a roboticized slave with plans to conquer the universe (and on his Ladder ending, '''multiverse''') for the sake of his idea of order.]]

* [[spoiler: Ward]] from ''Webcomic/AngelDown'' becomes one of these after his FaceHeelTurn, believing that normal humans are incapable of effective self rule, and that Paladins should control the world.
* In ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'' this is a common motivation for the BigBad [[VillainOfTheWeek of the month]]. Usually, even the "bad guys" in the comic are {{Harmless Villain}}s at worst, but many if not most of the leaders of the various factions think their people should be in charge. Thus, on the rare occasion that one leader decides to actually do something about it, some combination of Heroes, {{Hero Antagonist}}s , and {{Harmless Villain}}s end up working together to stop things from getting completely out of hand.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Part of the BackStory concerning the FantasticRacism seen in the series is that, when the first scientific understanding of mutation and mutant powers came to the public attention in the late 1950s and early 1960s, there was a large moral panic over the possibility of this, with mutants being portrayed as ANaziByAnyOtherName in several well-known books and films of the time. The fact that a number of mutant supervillains grabbed this VillainBall and ran with it didn't help calm public fears over this.
* ''Fanfic/ThatGuyDestroysPsionics'': The BigBad was pretty much Magneto, but with psionic powers instead of being a mutant. Pity that he was facing [[GameBreaker Elsimore]].

* [[spoiler:Foxtail]] in ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'', is revealed to be an especially extreme example. Her SocialDarwinist attitude doesn’t just cover civilians, she also perceives heroes who [[BadassNormal lack powers]] or [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway have weak ones]] as cannon fodder at best; [[spoiler:when Dr. Greymann finds out about her honor student conspiracy and objects to it, she fires him and bluntly says she was probably going to do it anyways because she believes [[BroughtDownToNormal him losing his powers]] has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness rendered him useless]].]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'', Kite-Man's parents, a [[AnIcePerson cryokinetic]] father and a {{Flight}}-capable mother, openly believe that having superpowers makes a person superior, and are minor supervillains in their own right. As Kite-Man [[MuggleBornOfMages inherited no powers at all]], his parents use this as one of many excuses for [[AbusiveParents treating him like garbage]], to the point that even ''ComicBook/PoisonIvy'' is [[EvenEvilHasStandards repulsed by their attitude towards him]].
* WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender: [[BigBad Fire Lord Ozai]] is a particularly villainous example: he's the most powerful fire bender on the planet and [[SmugSuper he knows it,]] with only the Avatar being powerful enough to stand up to him. He also regards non-benders as worthless inferiors [[TheSocialDarwinist to be enslaved by benders and other powerful people.]] [[spoiler: [[LaserGuidedKarma Fittingly,]] he gets energy bent during the final battle with Aang, which permanently [[BroughtDownToNormal takes away all his bending abilities,]] turning him into the very thing he regarded as inferior.]]

** ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' has plenty of cases where the attitude [[NotSoDifferent is not confined to Sith]]. Sith are merely [[AtLeastIAdmitIt very open about it]]. Jedi versions of this usually involve some form of HalfTruth, keeping non-Force wielding allies LockedOutOfTheLoop, expressing a [[DemocracyIsBad suspicion of democracy]], and isolating themselves in enclaves and temples while their backyards burn.

** Magneto's [[ComicBook/UltimateXMen Ultimate counterpart]] takes this to frightening extremes, outright believing that normal humans deserve to be exterminated.

* Are a few examples of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia.''

* The Meta Liberation Army from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' was a terrorist organization that sought to impose a society where people with powerful Quirks would rule above those with less powerful ones. [[spoiler:They are still active in the present, and after a war with the League of Villains they join forces with them, placing themselves at Shigaraki's command.]]
** Quirkless people are subjected to FantasticRacism, particularly as, by the time the story begins, it is expected Quirklessness will disappear altogether within one or two generations.

** As of ''ComicBook/JonathanHickmansXMen'', all of the X-Men seem to have tacitly taken up this belief - or at least, a very passive[[note]]Though they are not above keeping even their worst criminals out of human justice systems now, they're at least not attacking humans outright yet[[/note]] and insular version of it - with a clearly-stated belief that they are set to become Earth's dominant species. They're only waiting around on their island state of Krakoa because they intend on simply waiting until mutants become the dominant species (as they will in the next 20 years or so). And all of this is overseen by Professor Xavier. There've been hints of this among certain X-Men before, but this is the first storyline that's had the team as a collective embrace this attitude. The in-universe justification for the attitude switch is, in a nutshell, that they '''tried''' the passive resistance and pursuit of integration approaches, and were met with repeated attempts at genocide. So now they're going to start being a bit more assertive about their rights, and if humanity doesn't like it? ''Tough''.

** The show has, like the original comic book listed above, Homelander, who uses his powers to fuel a GodComplex - he tells Starlight "we're a different breed" and that she shouldn't be helping "these mud people ".

** Superman himself, while completely averting this in his mainstream incarnation, sometimes turn in this direction in dark alternate universes. Glaring examples include ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'', in which his capsule crashes in the 1920s USSR instead of the USA and he becomes a Communist dictator of a vastly-expanded Warsaw Pact, and ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity: Mastermen'', in which his capsule crashes in 1930s Germany and he becomes a Nazi world dictator. Of course, since they still have the same personality as the normal Superman, both the Commie and Nazi versions of Supes ultimately become TheAtoner - and the former was AffablyEvil at worst (though this arguably made things more creepy), patiently waiting for nations to join his communist utopia of their own free will, and genuinely wanting to protect humanity, particularly after Stalingrad goes the same way as Kandor... which is what lines to Lex Luthor bringing him down with a single ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: "Why don't you just put the whole world in a bottle, Superman?"]]

* Cole [=MacGrath=] (should the player choose [[KarmaMeter Evil Karma]]) from ''VideoGame/{{Infamous}}'' becomes corrupted by his conduit powers, developing a God complex and a MightMakesRight attitude over all of the “normals.” This is taken UpToEleven in the bad ending of ''VideoGame/Infamous2'', the [[EarnYourBadEnding Evil]] [[AlignmentBasedEndings Ending]] having Cole deciding not to fire the Ray Sphere and joining with John/the Beast's plans, activating all Conduits at the expense of all other conduits (sacrificing millions for only a few thousand).

** ''ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton'':
As much as Reign -an alien turned into a sentient biological super-weapon via bioengineering- is concerned, people with superhuman abilities should rule over the rest.

* Some of the [[PsychicPowers Newtypes]] from the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise develop this attitude. Paptimus Scirocco of ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'' believes that "common people only hold back true genius" and plots to create some sort of Newtype matriarchy dictatorship, Haman Kahn of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ'' sneers at ordinary people "whose souls are held down by gravity", and by the time of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'' title BigBad and FallenHero Char Aznable has become one of these, ranting about how "the people left on Earth do nothing but pollute it" and telling TheHero Amuro to "give those ignorant people your so-called wisdom" when they duke it out in Londonion.

* ''Franchise/XMen'': The mutants usually have to deal with [[MugglePower persecution directed at themselves by humans]], but some mutants conversely believe that ''Homo Superior'' was designed to rule over regular humans.

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'' has, like the original comic book listed above, Homelander, who uses his powers to fuel a GodComplex - he tells Starlight "we're a different breed" and that she shouldn't be helping "these mud people "- and also Stormfront, who is ANaziByAnyOtherName.

* ''ComicBook/TheBoys'': The Homelander's plot to get out from under Vought's thumb involved seizing power and ruling over humanity (supers already viewing humanity as nothing but an endless reservoir of victims). Complicated by the fact that [[spoiler:he was gaslit by his clone into complete psychosis]], leading to his breakdown at being ordered around by a non-powered human.

Usually {{supervillain}}s don't care about who is superpowered and who is not. They just [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers use their abilities to commit crimes]] or TakeOverTheWorld for egotistical reasons. This guy, however, is specifically motivated to get power so those like him would rule, not just for himself.

* ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' and its continuation (and the comics set within the universe) all showcase the tale of a Superman that becomes this after ComicBook/TheJoker nukes Metropolis and makes him an important part of the plan to make it happen (which makes him kill Lois Lane and his unborn child) [[ForTheEvulz for the sake of "playing on easy mode" for once.]] As well, about half of the Justice League decides to jump on the fascist bandwagon right behind him, and they slide down the slippery slope like there's no tomorrow, starting with getting a hell of a lot (read "murderously") tougher on crime and ending [[spoiler:([[DownerEnding on the "Power" Ending of ''Injustice 2'']]) with Superman turning all of Brainiac's collected worlds and technology into his own private army and Batman into a roboticized slave with plans to conquer the universe (and on his Ladder ending, '''multiverse''') for the sake of his idea of order.]]

* The goal of the [[PsychicPowers Esper]] terrorist organization Claw and its leader, Toichirou Suzuki, is to [[TakeOverTheWorld overthrow the world government]] in favor of a world ruled by Espers, with Suzuki himself at the top. This naturally sends our protagonist, who is staunchly opposed to the idea that [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers having supernatural powers makes you above other people]], on a collision course with him. In general, the Super Supremacist mindset is quite common among Espers, especially very powerful ones, but Toichirou is one of the few with the power to conquer the world almost single-handedly if not for [[BigGood Mob]] being in his way.

*** His [[ComicBook/UltimateXMen Ultimate counterpart]] takes this to frightening extremes, outright believing that normal humans deserve to be exterminated.