Times where you Can't Argue with Elves in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Downplayed in Exitium Eternal
. The Exalted Exitium are noticeably condescending, if unintentionally so, towards the Citadel races when it comes to magic or any other matters in which they are experts. Saren chafes at being treated like a teenager who barely understands combat when he's one of the best Spectres in the galaxy. On the other hand, the Exalted Exitium has no problem deferring to others who have more experience in other matters. Most notably, they have been at war for longer than their government has existed and have zero experience with diplomacy or peacetime politics. - Fighting for a Purpose has the Allied Species (a faction made of Humans and the Covenant races, minus the Prophets). They have no problem with burning entire planets, the humans in their military are basically an army of super-soldiers, and the weaker Covenant races have inexplicably become more badass. They also seem to have an endless supply of soldiers and warships, which doesn't make sense given that in the backstory there were two Covenant Civil Wars in the last forty years. This faction should be much weaker than it is. That aside, the Allied Species spend much of the story criticizing the Jedi and the Republic(with whom they happen to be in an alliance) in general, while their own flaws are never mentioned. The Allied Species are always right and the Jedi are always wrong.
- In the Star Wars/Mass Effect crossover Fractured (SovereignGFC), the Star Wars far-future faction (Trans-Galactic Republic) ends up acting like this simply because they can, though it's not out of malice and more of "If you want us to solve your Reaper problem then here's what you should do..." Thinking they "know better" actually ends up backfiring and dis-unifying the races of Mass Effect's galaxy, so a totalitarian government forms and that never goes wrong. In the sequel, Origins, both the Trans-Galactic Republic and Asari try to use this trope. Fittingly, their respective representatives call each other out on it.
- My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic: The Unicornicopians are portrayed as always right, whether it's imposing martial law, stating that they're superior to Equestrians, killing opponents, brainwashing dissidents, etc.
- In Someone has heard them scream, Benezia is convinced that the asari are superior to all other races, and took the humans refusing to submit to the Citadel's authority poorly, and it's speculated that this is why she got involved with Saren's conspiracy.
- A Different Dursley Family: While Vernon and Petunia have various grievances with the Wizarding World, they find themselves unable to fight back, no matter how legitimate their concerns are shown to be.
- In The Girl Who Lived, the protagonist, Rose Potter, becomes a druid, who are basically to wizards what wizards are to Muggles. She does a lot of condescending to the wizarding world for not being as enlightened as the druids.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Deconstructed in the "Human" fic, What Separates. Twilight initially takes the "elf" role after the arrival of a human soldier from 20 Minutes into the Future, but over time realizes that 1) some of the stated flaws of humanity are based on unfair assumptions or generalizations; and 2) the Ponies can live a more idyllic lifestyle because they have magic and, with that, a much greater degree of control over their environment.
- The Coffin of Roboute and His 20 Sisters: Averted by the Exodite Eldar, though played straight by the Craftworld and Dark Eldar; if anything, they're almost Tolkienesque, valuing family, honor, laughter, and goodness, and don't look down on other races the way their city-dwelling and nomadic kindred do. They're the first to swear themselves to Roboute's cause when they learn he plans to rescue Isha.
