History Main / TragicBigot

* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', TokenEvilTeammate Astarion has the typical [[CantArgueWithElves elven haughtiness]] but holds the Gur, a FantasyCounterpartCulture to the UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}, especially in contempt because [[CreateYourOwnVillain they were the ones responsible for him becoming a vampire in the first place]]. When he was a magistrate they disagreed with a harsh ruling he made towards one of their own, leading to them beating him half to death with him being forced into a LeonineContract with the [[IHateYouVampireDad vampire lord Cazador]]. When he meets one of the Gur in Act I, he immediately starts hurling racially-charged insults before learning he's a HunterOfMonsters.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'': King Triton had a hatred for humans and everything human-related because his wife Athena was killed by pirates, as revealed in the prequel ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning''.

* Billy Butcher in ''ComicBook/TheBoys''. He constantly mocks gay and transgender people, calls Americans "Septics" (Septic Tank = Yank) and ([[InnocentlyInsensitive like many Brits]]) refers to Chinese food as "Chinky", but doesn't actually ''hate'' anyone [[NobleBigot on the basis of who they are]] other than [[FantasticRacism superheroes]] (a direct result of his DarkAndTroubledPast) – after all, he's happy to work with the Japanese Female and African-American Mother's Milk. Despite his [[SociopathicHero sociopathic tendencies]], he has an easy charm that allows him to get on well with almost anyone. He actually despises [[SleepingWithTheBoss Rayner]] because he sees ''her'' as racist towards Middle Easterners. [[spoiler: In the final arc of the series, he [[FaceHeelTurn snaps]] and tries to enact a FinalSolution [[HeWhoFightsMonsters against the supers]] knowing full well it would [[GenocideFromTheInside kill him and his friends too]], [[WellIntentionedExtremist as he could see no other way to protect people]] from [[EvilInc Vought's constant tyranny]].]]

* Ashley in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' is distrustful of aliens as a direct result of [[SinsOfTheFather her family being turned into pariahs]] by the FirstContact war. And then there's Wrex, who's not fond of the salarians or turians for inflicting a SterilityPlague onto his species.
* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' An asari in Illium lost her wife in the [[RobotWar Geth War]] and her daughters in the attack at the Citadel in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', and is convinced that if only the asari existed, the galaxy would be a better place. You can talk with her, get her to open up and break down in tears about this terrible tragedy and the pain it still causes her, and convincing her to honour their memory by forgiving the aliens she holds responsible... only to overhear two racist asari thoughtlessly bitching about her and her family, because she's pureblood and she married an asari.
** Just to make this one a tiny bit worse: It's implied that Shepard may have met both of her daughters on the Citadel. One was the Presidium receptionist; the other worked for the asari Consort.

*** Fisher Tiger (pictured above) is particularly tragic. In his early years, his prejudice against humans was relatively mild, but after he was MadeASlave, he began to hate them despite himself. In his mind, he knew all humans weren't alike and realized that hating them all was a horrible thing to do. He even freed both human and fishman when he attacked his former masters. But ultimately, he could never let go of how he was treated. He ''tried'', but he still couldn't stop himself from hating them. [[spoiler:To the point he died because he refused a blood transfusion from humans, much to his own disgust. He knew he'd die without it, he knew humans would gladly save him, but he ''still'' couldn't accept having human blood in him. However, he begged his crew not to tell the people of Fishman Island of his past as a slave or the ambush that killed him, hoping to stop the cycle of hate between the races.]]
** Arlong started off his career like this, his hatred of humans deriving from their treatment of fishmen and their role in the death and enslavement of his hero, Fisher Tiger. However, by the time we get to him in the story, he's lost all "tragic" elements, hiding behind his prejudice as an excuse to terrorize the East Blue and enslave the humans of Cocoyashi Village.
** This is subverted by Hody Jones, the BigBad of the Fishman Island arc. [[spoiler: What did humans do to him (personally) to make him hate them? As Hody himself explains, "nothing." He has, however, witnessed everyone he cares about being mistreated and decided to style himself as the spirit of Fishman Vengeance, lashing out against not only humans but even any fishmen sympathetic to humans.]]
** Jimbei and Hatchan think Nami is this since she has a bad childhood with Arlong (their former comrade). However, thanks to Hatchan's general kindness and Jimbei's story (as well as the incident in Sabaody involving Camie the mermaid), Nami had lost all of her negative opinions towards fishmen as a whole by the time the Straw Hat Pirates arrived on Fishman Island. She still hates Arlong and the likes of Hody, but only because of their personal actions and not because of their species.

* Skips from the ''Series/ColdCase'' episode "Family 8108" used to be best friends with an Asian-American boy named Billy. They both fought in World War II but Skips was sent to the Pacific front. There he witnessed horrible atrocities committed by Asians. He came back virulently racist towards them. He ends up killing Billy's father Ray when the man insisted that his late son deserved to be awarded with a Medal of Honor along with the other "Japs" who fought for America.

* Skips from the ''Series/ColdCase'' episode "Family 8108" used to be best friends with an Asian-American boy named Billy. They both fight in World War II but Skips was sent to the Pacific front. There he witnessed horrible atrocities committed by Asians. He came back virulently racist towards them. He ends up killing Billy's father Ray when the man insisted that his late son deserved to be awarded with a Medal of Honor along with the other "Japs" who fought for America.

** Played straight with Cicada/Orlin Dwyer who blames Metas for the events during the Enlightening that injured him, claimed the lives of his brother and sister-in-law, and left his niece, Grace Gibbons, in a coma. A [[KidFromTheFuture future version of Grace]] also takes up this trope but is not ''nearly'' as sympathetic.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Olly's immense hate for the wildlings stems from his FreudianExcuse - his parents and hometown being wiped out by wildlings.

** Weiss Schnee has a [[FantasticRacism strong distrust]] of [[LittleBitBeastly faunus]] because the White Fang (an [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters extremist]] group fighting for Faunus rights) have attacked her father's company which she implies made him an [[AbusiveParents abusive father]]. Though Weiss seems to just hate Faunus involved with the White Fang rather than Faunus in general, she also has an unfortunate tendency to assume any Faunus criminals are automatically White Fang.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' sees Vigilante depicted as this in "Hunter's Moon", the first episode he had a major role in, as he was tortured by the Thanagarians during their occupation of Earth during the events of "Starcrossed", resulting in FantasticRacism towards the species, including [[TheAtoner Shayera Hol]].

* Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie ''Fanfic/ThePriceOfFreedom'' expands Hugh [=MacGregor=]'s hatred of Indians when, shortly after the events of Season 4's episode "Freedom Flight" in which he troed to have a group of Sioux Indians wiped off. He served during the Dakota War, along with his older sons, both of whom were killed by Indian warriors, who in addition raped his daughter. Now, he can't let go of his hatred. Dr. Baker, who tells Charles this baclstory, makes it clear that his grief does not justify his actions, especially when he's willing to target innocent people who had nothing to do with his losses.

* Roger Sterling in ''Series/MadMen'' has a deep-seated hatred of the Japanese because he served in the US Navy in the Pacific War and is implied to have seen Japanese soldiers commit many horrible brutalities. He purposely sabotages a deal with Honda when his colleagues go behind him for the good of their company and has an emotional talk about it with Joan later on who tells him to leave the past behind.

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'''s version of Galadriel is a byronic nominal heroine at best who has an destructive desire for revenge and hatred for the Orcs. Not only she sees them as this iredeemable AlwaysChaotic evil race, but also thinks they are unworthy of existing and vows [[FinalSolution to eradicate all of them.]] Even worse, the Orcs she hates were formerly Elves themselves and got turned into Orcs by Morgoth against their own will. She indeed lost many of her kin and family members to Orcs, leaving her completely traumatized.

* Nighthawk from ''ComicBook/SupremePower'' is kind of a double whammy. His parents were murdered by white supremacists so he hates white society, but he ALSO targets people like black drug dealers or pimps because he considers them race traitors who prey on their own kind. He also doesn't like fellow black superhero Blur and considers him an [[UncleTomfoolery Uncle Tom.]]

* Derek from ''Film/AmericanHistoryX'' became a neo-Nazi after his father, a fireman, was murdered by black drug dealers when he tried to extinguish a fire. [[spoiler:Although the end of the movie shows that dear old dad was already planting some racist thoughts in a young Derek's mind prior to dad's death. These were ''far less'' racist and hurtful things than what Derek later wound up swallowing wholesale from the neo-Nazis, but nonetheless...]]

** There's also Zathrian, the Elven Keeper, who is extremely bigoted against humans and werewolves since the werewolves are actually descendants of a group of humans who killed his son and raped his daughter centuries ago, [[spoiler:and whom he personally cursed to turn them into monsters]].

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': There are several Amazons who just can't get over their misandrist views even after Themyscira opens its borders, however, they are women who were abused and murdered by men and then given new life in clay-formed bodies, and then betrayed by ComicBook/{{Hercules|Unbound}} and his men and turned into sex slaves before spending centuries in an isolationist state, and their experiences have understandably colored their opinions.

*** [[BigBad Amon]], who claims to hate all benders because a firebender murdered his family. [[spoiler:It's a lie, but he still came to hate benders because his traumatic childhood convinced him that bending was evil.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "The Color Ruckus" we learn why Uncle Ruckus hates the African-American race so much ([[BoomerangBigot also his own race]]). It's because he had to endure a lot of abuse from his father and grandmother when he was a child, all while being brainwashed into believing the white race is superior and the black race inferior by his delusional mother.

* ''Heavily'' deconstructed in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''. [[spoiler:Part of the reason Belos/Philip hates witches so much is because his older brother Caleb was lured into the Demon Realm by a witch named Evelyn, never to be seen again. However, his hatred of witches clearly trumps his love of Caleb, because when Philip went into the Demon Realm to save his brother and discovered that Caleb actually went in ''willingly'' to enter a romantic relationship with Evelyn, he flew into a rage, ''[[SiblingMurder stabbed Caleb to death]]'', and proceeded to spend over 400 years desecrating his corpse in his attempts to make a [[ReplacementGoldfish Grimwalker]] of Caleb that would obey him without question. Even his stated goal of protecting humanity from evil falls apart under the slightest scrutiny, since he has absolutely zero qualms about tormenting and trying to kill Luz, a 14 year-old human girl. In "Watching and Dreaming", the Titan spells out Belos's true motivations as "wanting to be the hero in his own delusion", thereby fearing what he can't control.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', in contrast to Garnet and Amethyst who are quite well-adjusted to life on Earth and have managed to build positive relationships with human beings, Pearl was noticeably the most [[FantasticRacism prejudiced]] toward humans, which is implied to be because Rose, the gem she loved the most, fell for Greg, a human, instead, and later gave birth to Steven, which [[DeathByChildbirth resulted in her demise]]. Eventually, CharacterDevelopment kicks in and Pearl decides to be more open toward Earth's culture and customs.