History Main / YouRebelScum

->''Rebellions!''
-->'''Every Palamacian Guard''' of ''FinalFantasyII'' (unreleased NES port)

* [[TheLeagueOfGentlemen Dole scum.]]

** In ''AttackOfTheClones'', when C-3PO is [[ItMakesSenseInContext unwittingly fighting the Jedi with his head on the body of a battle droid]], he shouts "Die, Jedi dogs!", making him exclaim "What did I say?!" afterwards.
* The Agents (especially Smith) in ''Film/{{The Matrix}}'' trilogy derisively refer to the resistance fighters as [[PunyEarthlings "only human."]]
* In ''HotelRwanda'', the Hutu militants refer to their enemies as "Tutsi cockroaches". TruthInTelevision.

* ''{{Firefly}}'':

->''[[BlindIdiotTranslation Rebellions!]]''

** ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' Returns to this trend with [spoiler]Sora[/spoiler] referring to the Xyz duelist as "Xyz Scum" after his defeat at the hands of [spoiler]Shun in the Youth Championship[/spoiler]. Bonus points for actually being part of a rebellion.

** ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' Returns to this trend with [spoiler]Sora[/spoiler] referring to the Xyz duelist as "Xyz Scum" after his defeat at the hands of [spoiler]Shun in the Youth Championship[/spoiler].

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', the guards in the city of Vivec (Which according to ingame dialog did not allow "outlanders" into the main city until recently) are commonly heard to say things like "We're watching you, scum." and "Move along scum." to the player. They become nicer to the player if he joins and advances in the Tribunal Temple (who they serve), but become would be lynchers if [[spoiler:the player is acknowledged as an AllLovingHero, but his claim is not backed up by one of their gods]]

A similar sort of remark is almost always made by an underling if the BigBad has to make a deal with some underhanded or socially outcast allies; for example, the line 'Bounty hunters. We don't need that scum!' in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''. If one of the heroes of the series says something like this under those circumstances, it's usually a setup for an AnAesop about tolerance.

* In the ''{{Firefly}}'' episode "Bushwhacked", this is the reaction the commander of the Alliance ship has toward Mal and his crew once they arrest them. Aside from the fact that Mal was on the Independents' side of the war, they found [[spoiler: a second-generation Reaver on the ship]], thinking he was a tortured prisoner, and the commander assumed that because Mal was an Independent, he was a psychotic terrorist, too.

** In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'', the guards greet any trouble with "[[MemeticMutation Stop right there, Criminal Scum!]]"

* In early MarvelStarWars, the Imperials call Rebels "slime-lickers" quite often. Soon enough the Rebels start using that epithet too, though.

** "Rebel scum" turns up in a lot of StarWars games. "Stop, rebel scum!" was one of the stormtrooper dialog choices for when one first noticed the player in ''[[VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga Dark Forces]]''. "Republic scum" is also pretty common in works set after ''Return of the Jedi''.

* The Orcs in ''TheLordOfTheRings'' seem to use 'scum' as their preferred insult. 'Maggot' crops up once or twice as well, but only when referring to other orcs who are their direct inferiors.

* MuammarGaddafi and his sons were fond of this, frequently referring to NTC partisans as "rats" and "dogs".

* Insults like this are a staple of [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny authoritarian regimes]], e.g. the Nazis' "[[DirtyCommunists Jewish Bolshevists]]", [[RedsWithRockets Soviet Russia's]] "bourgeois scum", [[RedChina Maoist China's]] "feudalists" and "capitalist roaders" ('bourgeois' and 'capitalist' having [[CorruptCorporateExecutive certain connotations in those societies]], Brazilian "subversivos" during the Brazilian dictatorship and so on.

** In another episode, a belligerent drunk starts insulting Mal for wearing a brown coat and therefore being an Independent sympathizer. [[MyFistForgivesYou Mal's response is to deck him across the face.]]

** Garrosh Hellscream, [[FaceHeelTurn Ex]] Warchief of the Horde, said many variations of this about the Alliance.

** Garrosh Hellscream, Warchief of the Horde, says many variations of this about the Alliance.

** In ''AttackOfTheClones'', when C-3PO is [[ItMakesSenseInContext unwittingly fighting the Jedi with his head on the body of a battle droid]], he shouts "Die, Jedi dogs!", making him mutter "What did I say?!" afterwards.

* In ''HotelRwanda'', the Hutu militants refer to their enemies as "Tutsi cockroaches".

* Insults like this are a staple of [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny authoritarian regimes]], eg. the Nazis' "[[DirtyCommunists Jewish Bolshevists]]", [[RedsWithRockets Soviet Russia's]] "bourgeois scum", [[RedChina Maoist China's]] "feudalists" and "capitalist roaders" ('bourgeois' and 'capitalist' having [[CorruptCorporateExecutive certain connotations in those societies]], Brazilian "subversivos" during the Brazilian dictatorship and so on.

* The same line was used once in ''StarCraft''. Somewhat of a subversion, as the person saying it is an unarmed civilian scientist who immediately gets killed along with his colleagues by said rebel scum.

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* In the MMO ''Dofus'', the militia members of the warring cities of Brakmar and Bonta will refer to you along these lines if you speak to them whilst showing the opposite alignment's wings (works like badges, only more feathery).
* "Filthy Alliance!/Filthy Horde!" is a stock phrase among the players in ''WorldOfWarcraft''. In-game, "Alliance dogs" and "Horde savages" are sometimes used by [=NPCs=].
** Garrosh Hellscream, Warchief of the Horde, says many variations of this about the Alliance.

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* Insults like this are a staple of [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny authoritarian regimes]], eg. the Nazis' "[[DirtyCommunists Jewish Bolshevists]]", [[RedsWithRockets Soviet Russia's]] "bourgeois scum", [[RedChina Maoist China's]] "feudalists" and "capitalist roaders" ('bourgeois' and 'capitalist' having {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}} certain connotations in those societies), Brazilian "subversivos" during the Brazilian dictatorship and so on.

** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'', the guards greet any trouble with "[[MemeticMutation Stop right there, Criminal Scum!]]"

** In ''VideoGame/TheElderScroolsVSkyrim'', variations of this phrase are thrown by both Imperials and Stormcloaks towards the other.

** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'': [[MemeticMutation STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!]]

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', the guards in the city of Vivec (Which according to ingame dialog did not allow "outlanders" into the main city until recently) are commonly heard to say things like "We're watching you, scum." and "Move along scum." to the player. They become nicer to the player if he joins and advances in the Tribunal Temple (who they serve), but become would be lynchers if [[spoiler:the player is acknowledged as TheMessiah, but his claim is not backed up by one of their gods]]

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** Would-be KnightTemplar Pucelle, on seeing that [[TheVamp Vamp]] was meeting with the Bad Seeds, delcared that she was obviously drawn to the 'vilest scum' on campus. [[LiteralGenie Jobe]] replies that the vilest scum on campus is, in fact, in a petri dish in her lab.