History Main / YouRebelScum

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

* Some of Fate Averruncus' minions in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', especially [[PyroManiac Homura]] and to a lesser extent [[DreadfulMusician Shirabe]].

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

** The random lines spouted by troops in Battlefront 2 include "you Rebel scum!" for Imperial officers and [[VerbThis "Rebel scum this!"]] for various Rebel troops.

'''Han Solo:''' ''[offended]'' Scum?

Though not to their faces, Lady Cassandra Mallory makes disparaging remarks about the Rogues in the interactive romance novel, ''VideoGame/{{Moonrise}}''.

* Some of Fate Averruncus' minions in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', especially [[PyroManiac Homura]] and to a lesser extent [[DreadfulMusician Shirabe]].

* 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'll be ready for these schoolboys/They will wet themselves with blood."

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''

* 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).

->'''Imperial Officer Renz:''' [[TropeNamers You rebel scum]]!\\

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

->'''Imperial Officer Renz''': You rebel scum!\\
'''Han Solo''': ''[offended]'' Scum?

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[[folder:{{Film}}]]
* The [[TropeNamer eponymous case]] in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. And just because this trope can fit into each movie of the original trilogy, there was Leia being denounced as "part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor" in ''Film/ANewHope''.

--> '''Phasma''': You were always ''scum''.\\
'''Finn''': ''Rebel'' scum.

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* The Orcs in ''Literature/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.
* The Literature/{{Animorphs}}' enemies, the Yeerks, refer to them as "Andalite bandits," "Andalite filth," and "Andalite scum," in that order of frequency. Not knowing the Animorphs' own name for their team, the Yeerks have made "bandits" the standard word they always use to refer to said team.
** It's so ingrained in some of the Yeerks that the knee-jerk reflex can blow their cover. In one instance [[spoiler: Jake]] blurts out "Andalite scum!" upon seeing Ax in Andalite form, cluing everyone else in that one of their teammates is hosting a PuppeteerParasite.
** On the flipside, Andalites (including Ax) are awfully fond of using "Yeerk filth" themselves.

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* Whenever the main characters are captured in ''Series/StargateSG1'', a Jaffa or Goa'uld will usually say something like this. Usually involving something like "You dare stand up against your [[AGodAmI Gods]]?". The most common response, especially when [[DeadpanSnarker Jack O'Neill]] is present, is something to the effect of: "Well, duh!"
** A more straight example of this trope: every Goa'uld or enemy Jaffa will call Teal'c a "shol'va" (which is Goa'uld for "traitor"). Every one. Without exception.
*** [[InsultBackfire Not that he really objects]], and as the [[LaResistance Jaffa resistance]] grows he's still called that, though not in quite the same way...

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* "Filthy Alliance!/Filthy Horde!" is a stock phrase among the players in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. In-game, "Alliance dogs" and "Horde savages" are sometimes used by [=NPCs=].
** Garrosh Hellscream, [[FaceHeelTurn Ex]]-Warchief of the Horde, said many variations of this about the Alliance.

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* In the Literature/WhateleyUniverse, mutants are often referred to as 'gene filth' by Humanity First! members.

[[folder:{{Western Animation}}]]

--> '''Han Solo''' [played by Peter Griffin]: "Alright everybody hands in the air!"
--> '''Navy Troopers''': *raise hands*
--> '''Han Solo''': "Alright now I want you to [[DigYourOwnGrave take off your helmets, go outside, and dig your own graves with them!]]"
--> [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qanBnogRS0M *cut to three sobbing Navy Troopers held at gunpoint, digging their own graves and begging for their lives*]]

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* Insulting terms which completely dehumanise the targeted group are often used when genocide is happening and/or being prepared. The Jews were called "rats" during the Holocaust, the Tutsis "cockroaches" during the Rwandan genocide, and the list goes on.

->''"[[Podcast/RiffTrax You imperial]] '''[[Podcast/RiffTrax slut]]'''!"''

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

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* Bryagh announces his arrival on the field of battle in ''WesternAnimation/TheFlightOfDragons'' with a defiant bellow of '''"[[YourLittleDismissiveDiminuative Puny]] scum of Carolinus!"'''

* In the family Guy parody of Return of the Jedi, "It's a Trap", this is actually justified considering what Imperial Officer Renz caught Han Solo doing in this version of the story.
--> Han Solo [played by Peter Griffin]: "Alright everybody hands in the air!"
--> Navy Troopers: *raise hands*
--> Han Solo: "Alright now I want you to [[DigYourOwnGrave take off your helmets, go outside, and dig your own graves with them!]]"

* Often said by the Storm Troopers on ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' especially towards Sabine.

** In ''Film/TheLastJedi'', the line is ''magnificently'' [[AppropriatedAppellation appropriated]] by [[spoiler:[[MookFaceTurn Finn]], moments before the death of his former commander, Phasma.]]
--> '''Phasma''': You were always ''scum''.
--> '''[[spoiler:Finn]]''': ''Rebel'' scum.

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--> Storm Trooper: *raise hands*

--> [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qanBnogRS0M *cut to three sobbing stormtroopers held at gunpoint, digging their own graves and begging for their lives*]]

--> '''Phasma''': You ''scum''.

* 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). It also happens in democratic nations with such insults as pinko, reds, commies and subversives being attached to 60s anti-war activists and other PersecutedIntellectuals during the RedScare
* Insulting terms which completely dehumanise the targeted group are often used when genocide is happening / being prepared. The Jews were called "rats" during the Holocaust, the Tutsis "cockroaches" during the Rwandan genocide, and the list goes on.

'''Han Solo''': Scum?

* In the WhateleyUniverse, mutants are often referred to as 'gene filth' by Humanity First! members.

--> Han Solo {played by Peter Griffin]: "Alright everybody hands in the air!"

--> Han Solo [played by Peter Griffin]: "Alright now I want you to [[DigYourOwnGrave take off your helmets, go outside, and dig your own graves with them!]]"