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* The original depiction of zombies in UsefulNotes/{{Voudoun}} mythology. Unlike their modern portrayals, which often depicted them as [[AlwaysChaoticEvil violent]] [[FleshEatingZombie carnivorous brain-eaters]] capable of bringing about the ZombieApocalypse ([[FriendlyZombie with a few exceptions]]), [[VoodooZombie the zombies in Voudoun]] are damned souls forced to obey a Bokor, the culture's version of a {{Necromancer}}, [[AndIMustScream in a form of slavery that not even death can save them from]], complete with not being able to form their own free will or save their former friends if their Bokor is malicous and uses them for extortion or abuse.

* The original depiction of zombies in UsefulNotes/{{Voudoun}} mythology. Unlike their modern portrayals, which often depicted them as [[AlwaysChaoticEvil violent]] [[FleshEatingZombie carnivorous brain-eaters]] capable of bringing about the ZombieApocalypse ([[FriendlyZombie with a few exceptions]]), [[VoodoZombie the zombies in Voudoun]] are damned souls forced to obey a Bokor, the culture's version of a {{Necromancer}}, [[AndIMustScream in a form of slavery that not even death can save them from]], complete with not being able to form their own free will or save their former friends if their Bokor is malicous and uses them for extortion or abuse.

* The original depiction of zombies in UsefulNotes/{{Voudoun}} mythology. Unlike their modern portrayals, which often depicted them as [[AlwaysChaoticEvil violent]] [[FleshEatingZombie carnivorous brain-eaters]] capable of bringing about the ZombieApocalypse ([[FriendlyZombie with a few exceptions]]), the zombies in Voudoun are damned souls forced to obey a Bokor, the culture's version of a {{Necromancer}}, [[AndIMustScream in a form of slavery that not even death can save them from]], complete with not being able to form their own free will or save their former friends if their Bokor is malicous and uses them for extortion or abuse.

* The ISOs from ''Franchise/{{Tron}}''. Beautiful lifeforms that just [[CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen emerged spontaneously]] from Flynn's tinkering inside The Grid. "Naive and infinitely wise," Flynn called them, convinced they could rewrite everything from science to religion and change the world. Unfortunately, the Programs had no context for what to make of them. Worse, ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'' and the ''Betrayal'' comic showed that just by existing, they were destabilizing the system and endangering every life on it. Add a magnificently done FalseFlagOperation from Clu that framed them as terrorists, and spread the lie that they could infect and kill Programs with just a touch, and the Programs were convinced that the only way to save themselves was siding with Clu and exterminating them all.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': The [[Film/KongSkullIsland Skullcrawlers]] end up being this in this ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' fanfiction. From the chapter they're introduced into the fic, their sole purpose in the plot is to fall prey to [[TheAssimilator the Many]] and their FateWorseThanDeath, practically becoming the Many's go-to source of fresh meat.
* Roleplay/MassEffectAlteredHumanity: The quest does this to the Batarians, surprisingly enough. [[spoiler:They make FirstContact with the warlike and more technologically advanced [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Krogan]], who proceed to steamroll through their systems, eventually forcing the Batarians into vassalage. Then the Terran Dominion and Turians show up to liberate them, only for the Krogan [[HumanShield use the Batarians as shields]] and [[TakingYouWithMe detonating nukes under Batarian cities if they lost to the Human-Turian ground forces]], which forces the Humans and Turians to use {{Orbital Bombardment}}s as it posed less risk and almost results in the near-extinction of the Batarians. Then after the war the Batarians are given a handful of colonies to rebuild, but they eventually abandon them to become SpaceNomads and just want to be left alone. Unfortunately they keep running into every other race, meaning they have to give up their self-imposed isolation and join a galactic community they'd rather not be a part of. Then after they became member of the United Galactic Directorate, despite having the same amount of votes as Yahg Imperium, United Rakhana Nations, and Courts of Dekkuna combined, they don't have the same voting power as the three blocs, meaning they are subject to Directorate’s laws, but have no ability to determine which laws are ratified. One Batarian remarks that they saw their colony turn into a GhostTown due to the free trade legislation making it so there was nothing protecting local manufacturers from being driven out of business by imports.]]

* ''PhineasAndFerbTheMovieCandaceAgainstTheUniverse:'' Phineas and Ferb encounter a species of cowards called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Cowards]] living in a hidden city called Cowardalia on the planet Feebla-Oot. The rest of the Cowards are a SlaveRace being mind-controlled.

** In the Ultimocene multiple apex predator endlings such as the last Sea Rex and the last scissortooth may count, given their status as among the greatest of carnivores, and seeing how the mighty have fallen is a surprisingly heartbreaking conclusion given that they too were the last remnants of entire clades.

* The House elves in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' have a physiological compunction to serve and be ordered around by other species. There is a big element of HappinessInSlavery, but it's clear that most House elves outside of Hogwarts are viciously abused and mistreated.

* ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'': The splintsters are bipedal rodents resembling a trunked kangaroo, which are the second species on the planet HP-02017 to attain sapience. However, their budding society is cruelly cut short by the ''first'' sapient species, the brutal, BloodKnight [[PunnyName harmsters]], who hunt them for sport and ultimately eradicate them just at the dawn of their civilization.

** ''Series/KamenRiderFaiz'': The Orphnochs are humanity's next evolutionary step, but in order to achieve this step, most Orphnochs will have had to have die once, and to make matters worse, all Orphnochs suffer from an extremely limited life-span that can only be fixed if the Orphnoch King corrects their genetic deformity which also prevents them from being able to assume a human form again. While most Orphnochs are depicted as wanting to live in peace with humanity, many are coerced by villainous Orphnochs into attacking humans lest they themselves be targeted, and when their existence becomes known to the public? Humanity attempts to exterminate them.

* For the first time, the Orcs of the ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'' are presented as such in ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' to the point where the both the fans and the haters of the show are rooting for them. They are introduced as the AlwaysChaoticEvil race like in the movies and books, seeing other races as animals to exploit and enslave, but as the show goes, they are shown to be more {{Tragic Monster}}s. The show goes with one of Tolkien's ideas for their origins, where they are Elves corrupted by Morgoth. After Morgoth's defeat, they followed Sauron hoping to be better treated only for Sauron to use BloodMagic on them for his own ambitions. Adar, getting tired of seeing the Orcs constantly exploited, kills Sauron and does anything in his power to make sure the Orcs have a home home, too. Sure, their treatment of the people they kidnapped is not nice; they are just as guilty of FantasticRacism, but they had to resort to such methods because they cannot stay in the sun. And when the other races think you are only capable of evil, need to be exterminated no matter what, and would more likely refuse any sort of cohabitation, you can only make a place for yourself in the world by using force and taking their home if necessary. What's even more tragic is that Sauron is back in the game, ready to subjugate them again, right when they finally got a home without any other master to corrupt them to even more evil, stomping crushing any change hope for them to develop into a proper society or even civilization.

* For the first time, the Orcs of the ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'' are presented as such in ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' to the point where the both the fans and the haters of the show are rooting for them. They are introduced as the AlwaysChaoticEvil race like in the movies and books, seeing other races as animals to exploit and enslave, but as the show goes, they are shown to be more {{Tragic Monster}}s. The show goes with one of Tolkien's ideas for their origins, where they are Elves corrupted by Morgoth. After Morgoth's defeat, they followed Sauron hoping to be better treated only for Sauron to use BloodMagic on them for his own ambitions. Adar, getting tired of seeing the Orcs constantly exploited, kills Sauron and does anything in his power to make sure the Orcs have a home home, too. Sure, their treatment of the people they kidnapped is not nice nice; they are just as guilty of FantasticRacism, but they had to resort to such methods because they cannot stay in the sun. And when the other races think you are only capable of evil, need to be exterminated no matter what, and would more likely refuse any sort of cohabitation, you can only make a place for yourself in the world by using force and taking their home if necessary. What's even more tragic is that Sauron is back in the game, ready to subjugate them again, right when they finally got a home without any other master to corrupt them to even more evil, stomping crushing any change hope for them to develop into a proper society or even civilization.

* For the first time, the Orcs of the ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'' are presented as such in ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' to the point where the both the fans and the haters of the show are rooting for them. They are introduced as the AlwaysChaoticEvil race like in the movies and books, seeing other races as animals to exploit and enslave, but as the show goes, they are shown to be more of {{Tragic Monster}}s. The show goes with one of Tolkien's idea for their origins, where they are Elves corrupted by Morgoth. After Morgoth's defeat, they followed Sauron hoping to be better threated treated only for Sauron to use BloodMagic on them for his own ambitions. Adar, getting tired of seeing the Orcs constantly exploited, kills Sauron and does anything in his power to make sure the Orcs have a home home, too. Sure, their treatment of the people they kidnapped is not nice nice; they are just as guilty of FantasticRacism, but they had to resort to such methods because they cannot stay in the sun. And when the other races think you are only capable of evil, need to be exterminated no matter what, and would more likely refuse any sort of cohabitation, you can only make a place for yourself in the world by using force and taking their home if necessary. What's even more tragic is that Sauron is back in the game, ready to subjugate them again, right when they finally got a home without any other master to corrupt them to even more evil, stomping crushing any change hope for them to develop into a proper society or even civilization.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}'':