History Main / YouRebelScum

-->-- ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''

* In all games of the EuropaUniversalis series, rebels could pop up in provinces for various reasons, and until an expansion of the 3rd game differentiated them, they were automatically at war with all countries and actually referred to as "rebel scum".
* {{Mook}}s in VideoGame/RedFaction will occasionally yell this at [[PlayerCharacter Parker]] as they open fire on him.

* 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), or if the player otherwise manages to get their disposition up high enough (possible if one has sufficiently high personality and does the right quests), 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]]
** In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'', the guards greet any trouble with "[[MemeticMutation Stop right there, Criminal Scum!]]", if their disposition is low towards the player. (A lesser variant towards players they otherwise like is "Stop! You violated the law.")
** In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', variations of this phrase are thrown by both Imperials and Stormcloaks towards the other.

[[VillainWithGoodPublicity A villain of the series who is nominally an authority figure]] (especially one known for self-righteous priggishness), or a minion of said authority figure, captures the heroes, usually in some criminal (or at least 'anti-social') act, can't let it go without declaring 'You filth!' or some similar self-righteous epithet. Used to underscore the opinion of the law and most ordinary citizens that the [[HeroWithBadPublicity heroes]] are AlwaysChaoticEvil even though the audience knows that they are really heroes.

--> *cut to three sobbing stormtroopers held at gunpoint, digging their own graves and begging for their lives*

* In the family Guy parody of Return of the Jedi, "It's a Trap", this is actually justified. The Imperial Commander calls Han Solo "You Rebel Scum!" after catching him [[DigYourOwnGrave about to commit a war-crime]]. [[/folder]]

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* In ''Film/TheElusiveAvengers' and sequels, the protagonists are called Red scum, Bolshevik scum or even literally rebel scum so often that you can make a drinking game out of it.

->'''Imperial Officer Renz''': [[TropeNamer You rebel scum!]]\\
'''Han Solo''': [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne Scum?]]
-->-- ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''ReturnOfTheJedi''

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

* When provinces revolt in ''[[VictoriaAnEmpireUnderTheSun Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun]]'', the resultant fighting forces are referred to in-game as "rebel scum."

* {{Mook}}s in RedFaction will occasionally yell this at [[PlayerCharacter Parker]] as they open fire on him.

* "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=].

* Partial example: In the party-game "Mafia" (or "Werewolf"), the majority party (whose goal it is to figure out who the Mafia/Wolves are before they are killed) is called "Town" and the minority party (whose goal it is to kill the majority party without being discovered) is generally referred to with the blanket term "Scum".
** Especially in the more complex games with more than two factions: There, the "mafia" refers to the one specific faction, and "scum" refers to anyone whose win condition is incompatible with the Town's (or, anyone who town has to kill to win). (So mafia members are both mafia and scum, a cultist or SerialKiller is scum but not mafia, and survivors are not town-aligned, but are not scum since they can win with the town.)

->'''Imperial Officer''': You rebel scum!\\

'''Han Solo''': Scum?

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* "Rebel curs!" Or "Rebel scum!" is a common exclamation by [[EvilEmpire Palamecian soldiers]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII''. This statement might as well be changed to "[[BeefGate Game over if you talk to me.]]"

* Parodied in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "The Horns of Nimon", with a guard who addresses his prisoners as "weakling scum" every single time he speaks to them.

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* 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).

* Although he never actually uses the stock phrase, "you rebel scum," this seems to be how Javert sees the rebels in Theatre/LesMiserables. To use his own words: "One day more 'til revolution/We will nip it in the bud/We are ready for these schoolboys/Little schoolboys, wet with blood."

->''"You Rebel Scum!"''\\
''"Scum?"''
-->-- Imperial officer and Han Solo, ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''ReturnOfTheJedi''

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'' (of course, it's irrelevant that many of those bounty hunters are quite scummy by any objective measure). 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.

* ''{{One Piece}}'': [=CP9=], especially Spandam refers to the Straw Hats as "pirate scum" when they dared to infiltrate Enies Lobby and stand against them and the World Government. Spandam even calls them "tako-pirates" (octopus-pirates) for good measure.
* The "11s" from ''{{Code Geass}}''.

* The Titans in ''[[MobileSuitGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' are fond of this.

* The Empire in ''LegendOfGalacticHeroes'' refers to the [[TheFederation Free Planets Alliance]] as "Rebels", despite the fact that no FPA planet was ''ever'' part of Imperial territory.

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->''"You Rebel Scum!."''\\

-->-- ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''ReturnOfTheJedi''