Fantastic Racism / Webcomics

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• In 8-Bit Theater, Black Mage has made the claim that White Mages cannot understand the experience of a Black Mage due to all of the discrimination against Black Mages because of the color of their spells. Let's not forget how Thief feels towards the Dwarves and vice versa. To the point of practically egging Black Mage on whilst they were in Dwarfland, and not objecting to all the destruction taking place. Then again, Thief never really does seem to object to the violence/crimes committed by the Light Warriors.
• In Alice and the Nightmare, the Fantastic Caste System puts Diamonds at the bottom of the pecking order and it sure shows. Three Heart girls tell Alice that hanging out with Diamond Edith would ruin her reputation and it's apparently bad enough that a teacher gives his students a lecture on importance of Diamonds.
• Archipelago:
  • Weresharks, due to their culture are not popular around the Archipelago, especially with wereorcas, who have a long-standing feud with them.
  • On the other hand, dragons, at least those from the eastern part of the Archipelago, are Fantastic Racists towards everybody, especially half-dragons, because they're crazy about racial purity. Anthony may have been an exception. Kroft, who lives in Quillotia, also doesn't seem to care.
• Aurora: Ferin, people cursed into lycanthropic or Beast Man forms, are deeply feared and distrusted in human and elf societies. Their curses make them stronger and tougher than others, and every child of a ferin is also a ferin. Mage society dislikes them because they resist magic and cannot use magic themselves, making a world with no mages seem inevitable. They're seen as inherent threats to others' safety and to civilization, and often considered to be essentially animals. When they're tolerated, this is often on the basis of their perceived threat level. "Prey ferin", with the nature of more docile animals, can make a life in urban areas, but "predator ferin" are usually forced out into the wilderness. Acceptance has been growing over time, and in more metropolitan areas ferin can live with a minimum of distrust, but it's slow going.
• At Arm's Length: Several magical races feel superior to mortals. Also, many of the more powerful races feel superior to other magic races. These races are in turn disliked by the "lesser" magic races.
• Avania:
  • Many Avian and Hequevar characters would appear to be racist against Osprans, at least owing to the context of war (particularly Hequevars, as their homeland was conquered and occupied by Osprian troops).
  • Major Beckinridge says some not nice things to say about Hequevars, seemingly holding their culture in low regard.
  • Valenvarius Narscio seems to revel in his elitism in general, but is particularly disdainful of the Avian races, describing them as "barbarians."
• Blonde Sunrise: Initially, like most humans, Leonard thinks of lycans as little more than monsters. As he spends more time around them he starts to change his mind.
• Blood Bank deals with a post-apocalyptic Steampunk society where vampires reign supreme. Humans are considered second-class citizens at best and livestock at worst, and the only reason they haven't been killed off entirely is that they serve as a convenient supply of blood.
• Blood is Mine:
  • Genetically modified humans are derisively called "lab meat" and treated more like objects than people. They are created to be disposable and no one cares what happens to them.
  • Mutants are discriminated against, though it's less because of their powers and more because they are poor (mutations only manifest in people who live in low tiers, where radioactivity is very high).
• Boyfriend of the Dead: On both sides,(human and zombie) there are those strongly against those different from them. Notable examples are the chef who tried to have Alex eaten in a restaurant full of zombies and the addict Slippy who insists that all the zombies are just "things"
• The Bug Pond: Flash has a jealous disdain for winged insects. This would come in conflict with his personal relationships when he learns that his best friend Eldwin can fly.
• In Castoff, there's some against elves, at least on part of the cart driver — then again, the elves don't seem so fond of him, either. As we learn later, the human kingdom of Alveria is pushing elves out of their territory, destroying their way of life, in the course of mining magi ore. Since their diplomats are summarily mocked by the human queen, some elves resort to guerilla methods.
• Captain SNES: The Game Masta: RPG sprites are considered arrogant, dumb and really angsty.
• In Chess Piece, the king's father is a bigot of just about everything while Jack Fenton is one towards ghosts. Interestingly, there are two countries of ghosts - one in a Phantom Zone called Purgatory, the other in Antarctica - and the King of Dalv has a best friend who happens to be a ghost and his general.
• In Chirault all supernatural creatures fall are called "demons". Some of them are non-sentient, aggressive, and homicidal, some are sentient, aggressive and homicidal... and others are peaceful and live normally among humans. Naturally, not all humans are OK with this.
• City of Trees: A ride share driver initially refuses to let Ophidian, a dragon, into his car after learning he's a dragon.
  Kevin: No way. A bleeding dragon is the last thing I need in my car tonight.
• In City Under the Hill, some bars refuse to serve the undead.
• Crimson Flag: Red foxes ("reds") versus grey foxes ("greys"). There are other kinds of foxes, but so far there doesn't seem to be any antagonism involving them.
• In Crimson Knights the fairies living in the Northern Kingdoms are not respected at all by the men they live with.
• In The Croaking the world (or the island on which the story plays out, the only known place left unscathed by a global war decades ago) is populated by avians of different species, each differentiated by their wings (crow wings = crow, sparrow wings = sparrow,..). There is a caste system, with doves and raptors at the top (and eagles at the top of them) and other birds below them. Corvids, especially crows, sit on the lowest rungs and are discriminated against because they (presumably) started the war.
• Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures
  • Dan, as an adventurer, hates demons. Especially Succubi and Incubi. Learning that he's an incubus himself only worsens it, making him hostile to anyone who wants to teach him how to use his powers, fearing that they will "make him like them" à la The Virus. To be fair, most of them are Card Carryingly evil, mainly because they're powerful. The nice ones are the exception. (His first would-be teacher, Aaryanna, isn't exactly subtle about what she expects Dan to use his powers for, and Lorenda's mother has a blatant might-makes-right philosophy). Of course, as Abel explains, most Cubi are jerks because they were raised like that, not because they're Cubi. Dan and Abel are obvious examples since both were raised as Beings and neither is evil.
  • Also, Dragons and Cubi (or at least Clan Cyra Cubi) apparently don't get along very well.
  • There's also a species-wide restraining order against the fae that prohibits them from approaching either any Girl Scout in general or two girl scouts in particular (who may have died of old age by now).
  • In fact, it's noted that, while there's not open-warfare between the two categories, Beings and Creatures generally don't like each other. Beings object to the Creatures using their Blue-and-Orange Morality as an excuse to kill, eat and generally be unpleasant to Beings. Creatures object to Beings being willing to kill all Creatures on principle, assuming they don't object to the idea of Beings getting mad at the crimes Creatures commit.
• In Daughter of the Lilies, nobody likes cave elves. Considering their "diets", it's not hard to see why.
• In Deep Rise, Nobles believe themselves superior to all other forms of life other than the Royals. This goes to the point that they'll sometimes try to... improve other species through mutilation and mutation.
• In Doc Rat, there are problems with swine flu for pigs — and hedgehogs, and porcupines. . . .
• Dominic Deegan: Racism is rampant in the kingdom of Callan, specifically towards Orcs. It really came to a head with the Orc War. Callanians and Semashi don't seem to get along easily, either. Quite frankly, there isn't a nation on the planet that doesn't or at least hasn't indulged in this. Luna, a human with unusually large lower canines, has suffered spillover racism on occasion as well (her teeth look like orc tusks... at least to humans; orcs can easily tell the difference). That's the only thing she has in common with orcs, but nobody said racism was rational. Oddly enough Luna's colleague Melna, an actual orc, has suffered far more at the hands of other orcs in her homeland than she ever did in Callan.
• Draconia Chronicles: In a comic about tiger people and dragon people in a Guilt-Free Extermination War, this trope is inevitable. At one point, a dragon finds it "cute" that tigers have names:
  "It's almost like they think they're people!"
• Dragon Ball Multiverse: The Vargas don't seem to have a very high opinion of humans. In particular, they think all humans look the same.
• Drowtales is full of this.
  • The various elven races have a staggeringly low opinion of everyone else, regarding the “goblins” (the humans and orcs) as little better than animals and not having a much better opinion of the dwarves. In turn, the goblins think the elves in general and the drow in particular are murderous demons, and the dwarves hate the drow for having taken away their homelands.
  • This applies to relations between the elven races, too—there's animosity between the grey-skinned and dark-skinned drow, the city-dwelling drow have a fairly justified dislike of the nomadic Black Sun clan, the Black Sun in turn think the city drow are soft weaklings, and the light elves of Vanaheimr look down on the drow in general, calling them “darklings”.
• In El Goonish Shive:
  • The "other side of this universe" has prejudice against uryoums. The justifications for this include that they supposedly once tried to take over the world, and that magic lie-detecting doesn't work on them, but according to Liam the griffin, it basically boils down to "they came from somewhere else, and they're different". Their employment is limited, because they can't use magic and (because of the aforementioned alleged world-conquering) aren't allowed technology, to the point where Dwight the griffin freaks out because Virginia, an uryoum co-worker, picked up Elliot's cellphone. (He had previously assumed she was a lying traitor on flimsy evidence and hesitated while glaring at part-uryoum Grace before calling Elliot's group "people".) It turns out that he's just parroting (no pun intended^note Dwight is a cockatoo-griffin) what he's been taught, and when confronted with the fact this is a prejudice, he backs down.
  • It's also established that, despite the other side being The Magocracy and griffins being inherently magical, the specific magical aura that makes someone royalty just happens to only be posessed by humans.
• In Elf Only Inn, part of the backdrop is the racism between elves and dark elves. It's fun for characters of one race to hurl insults (and even weapons) at characters of the other race. However, one player (who plays a Duke Nukem persona) doesn't get it: He takes up the "cause" of the dark elves, calls Meghan a racist, and in general makes Meghan and the dark elf player agree to take up their battle another time.
  • Taking the metaphor further, Meghan starts to question whether they couldn't form a friendship between elves and dark elves. Offer hastily rescinded when she learns that the dark elf queen admits only two roles for regular elves: slave labor, or sacrifices to the spider god.
• Elwood (2015): Crossed over with Furry Reminder in the "D.W.'s Big Hit" strip, where a mean dog boy named Dennis makes racist (speciesist?) remarks towards a duck girl named Mallory Quackenbush, leading to him getting punched by D.W. for it.
• In Endstone, the higher animals are a Little Bit Beastly and indeed, interfertile with humans. They're still butchered for meat.
• In Enemy Quest, the alien Visitors invaded Earth from another dimension and started slaughtering humanity, beginning a war that lasted for over thirty years. Even though a truce was signed, officially ending the war, Visitors on Earth still suffer segregation and open hostility from their human neighbors due to the atrocities of the war.
• In Even In Arcadia the protagonist is foreigner Laelen Rojas, who is discriminated against by the local Fae for her ethnicity. So far in the story, the only Fae who doesn't treat her this way is her mentor, Odai.
• Exterminatus Now:
  • Eastwood's attitudes toward the people of anyplace he's not from are...undiplomatic, to say the least. This does not go down well with anyone. Although, as Virus put it, Eastwood isn't racist, he's just really ignorant and stupid.
  • Also, Morth's cult considers those with black-and-white fur/feathers/scales to be superior to all others (the leader is a badger). When Schaffer finds out about it, he tries to have all black-and-white colored people expelled from the Inquisition, which... doesn't go over well.
• In Finding Your Roots, the Mons are divided into racial groups based on their types. The main conflict explored is between the Elementals (Fire, Water, Grass, Electric, Ice) and the Earthens (Rock, Ground, Steel). Elementals view themselves as the Master Race and live in exclusive communities, while earthens were historically forced out of cities and made to live in the desert. While many earthens have returned to cities in the present, they still face discrimination. Cedar, the main character, is a Mudkip, who evolves to fit into both groups, leaving her with Half-Breed Angst. She identifies more as an earthen, which is met with mockery from her peers back home and rejection from other earthens.
• Furry Fight Chronicles has one of the main characters, Nyarai, being discriminated for being a Wild. One of her reasons for being a Combagal is to create a better society for Wilds. As such, being racist or prejudiced to Wilds in her presence will get your face deformed by her foot.
  • Besides Wilds, there's another ethnic group called the Kalandesians that also face prejudice, but they have yet to appear in the comic.
• In Freefall, Artificial Lifeforms, both robotic and genetically engineered, are treated as second-class citizens at best and as slaves at worst. Of course, it's often the very reason they exist in the first place (artificial, remember?).
• Frog Raccoon Strawberry has a little fun with this when Strawberry is seen by Marco, a real frog. He calls her "speciesist" and shows up later in a raccoon costume. Strawberry is not offended at all.
• Girl Genius:
  • Racism against constructs (those created or heavily modified by Sparks) is prevalent. Subverted with Krosp. Brother Ulm doesn't trust him, but not because he's a construct — it's because he's a cat.
  Ulm: They're all filthy liars, you know.
  Agatha: Oh, that's true...
  Krosp: Hey!
  • The first print novel expands on this, stating that while the Wulfenbach empire has laws against discrimination of Constructs, these laws are often ignored in the parts of the empire that rarely see the Baron's forces, such as Beetleburg. As a result, Constructs often move into the larger, more cosmopolitan town and cities where the Baron's forces maintain a constant presence or try to stay Beneath Notice as best as they can.
• Gloomverse: Against the monochrome Inversians in the colorful world.
• Goblins is built around this trope. The "goodly" races, such as humans and elves, hate the goblins and all other monster races. In turn, most goblins also hate humans ( and the White Terror has a perfectly good reason for this). The central characters of this story have, through their battles with each other and their own kin, come to question these distinctions. Of course, there are deeper difficulties involved in overcoming this inherent prejudice, namely that the "monster" races tend to be very different from the "good races" on fundamental levels. For a human from a society of monogamous relationships, finding out the usual method of reproduction for the Yuan-ti is essentially a giant ball of males try to impregnate a single female is a bit much.
• Grayscale has some pretty nasty racism between (humanoid appearing) dragons, and (Humanoid appearing) Phoenixes.
• Guilded Age bases most of its plot on this. The Gastonians (humans) mistrust humans who aren't Gastonian, then view just about every other species as some degree of inferior, with the more "acceptable" ones being those that happen to be useful to or allied with humans. They've been known to attack and wipe out entire villages populated by the races they deem "savage." While the worst of the prejudice is shown coming from the humans, no race is immune. Even the "savage races" rebelling against Gastonia see no problem using orcs as slave labor and view them as so stupid they can't even comprehend the idea of doing something to improve their future (namely, working hard so that they won't be whipped.)
• This comes up from time to time in Harbourmaster with folks genuinely not understanding the various ways other (often alien) species think. Usually, it's just a matter of honestly not getting it, but there are outliers. The Aquaan are somewhat exempt from this, but only because they altered their own biology to be more human. They were created to be somewhat similar to humans in mindset, anyway. But on Tal's home planet of Veras, the Aquaan race are reviled, at least in the aristocratic caste. The Veran doctrine states that they don't even have souls.
• In Harkovast, every race is even a different species and generally mistrust the other races. Sometimes they can have children between them, and the "half-caste" offspring are left with the dilemma of following one side or the other's culture, where they might not be accepted in either.
• Heart of Keol: Most humans believe that Rencho are hermaphrodites with an uncontrollable sex drive, and require them to routinely drink a libido-inhibiting tea.
• Homestuck:
  • The Trolls have a caste system based on blood color, with rust being the lowest (not counting mutant blood colors, which are even lower) and fuchsia the highest. Equius, a literal blue-blood, considers himself superior to the other trolls and is conflicted about his feelings for rust-blooded Aradia. Ironically, Gamzee, the third-highest-ranking of the twelve trolls by blood color and Equius's direct superior, is a lovable idiot with rather base tastes for a member of the aristocracy who doesn't seem to care about class.
  • The sea-dwelling Eridan may or may not ascribe any serious value to his "kickass royal blood," but he hates land dwellers and has expressed the desire to kill them all.
  • Eridan's best friend Feferi, whose blood is fuchsia (a colour only shared by the Empress of all trolls, making Feferi the heiress), believes the hemospectrum is arbitrary and meaningless and shouldn't inform one's interactions with other trolls. She's heard Eridan's aquatic-supremacist rhetoric so much that their first in-story conversation starts with her cutting him off and giving him a lecture about the fundamental equality of all trolls regardless of hemochroma or habitat before he can start in on another tiresome rant.
  • A fan once pointed out how illogical it is that the difference between the highest and lowest possible blood colors would be nothing more than a fraction of a shade. The author responded that of course the system is irrational. Racism isn't supposed to make sense. That said, there are numerous physical differences between the warm- and coolbloods, most notably the latter having a far greater lifespan and resistance to Psychic Powers than the former (though it's the warmbloods who possess Psychic Powers at all, with very few exceptions). It comes up in the pre-Scratch troll universe, where there's more of a condescending (and vastly irritating for some) White Man's Burden thing going on rather than outright oppression and culling.
  • The Condesce drives humanity to extinction because she finds human reproduction distasteful and tried to force them to follow Trollian mating practices. She's also a horrible ruler to the Carapaces, though Dirk surmises (correctly) that she probably wasn't much nicer to her fellow Trolls.
  • Trolls are bigoted towards pretty much all other sentient races in general, with the Condesce trying to conquer the galaxy using her psionically-powered starfleet. Act 5 Act 2 reveals that in the Pre-Scratch universe the trolls were an extremely tolerant and peaceful race. This was viewed as making them unsuitable for winning in Sburb because they weren't competitive enough. After the Scratch was activated Lord English, Doc Scratch, and the Condesce manipulated and twisted the trolls into being a race of violent xenophobes to try and make them more aggressive and thus more likely to win the game and follow Lord English's plan.
  • Even accounting for the caste system, Karkat gets an extra dose of this due to his bright red blood (the same color as human blood). That color isn't even on the "hemospectrum" and marks him as a mutant and an outcast. Hence why he is very secretive about it and takes a very long time to reveal it to his friends (by which point the blood spectrum didn't matter much anymore).
• Hooky: Witches are regarded with fear and hatred by many non-witches. In turn, many witches hate non-witches. The conflict is not helped at all by the long and bloody history between the two sides.
• Hotblood! has humans and centaurs living in close proximity, so this is bound to happen, Fantastic Slurs included.
• In Impure Blood, racism against Ancients is prevalent, and now focused on their hybrid descendants.
• In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, there is tension between the dragons of planet Butane and the Nemesites who rule them, as depicted here.
• In Intragalactic, Androids and Snaffets are not considered "people"; Androids can have their children killed in front of them for not doing their jobs properly, and Snaffets are considered vermin. In fact; Scratchi (The Team Pet) was orphaned when her mother ran afoul of a mousetrap.
• In Just a Goblin, adventurers view goblins as nothing more than another monster to hunt despite goblins being clearly sapient and capable of conversation, technology, and societal structures. After being hunted by adventurers for centuries, most goblins view adventurers as naught more than murderous barbarians and consider the idea of trying to make peace with them a bad joke at best.
• In The Kenny Chronicles, Tarneckis (genetically engineered human-like animals created by pirate scientists) aren't allowed the same rights as humans and the attitude that they shouldn't is apparently prevalent enough that claiming your political opponent supports giving them rights constitutes mud-slinging. Is it any wonder why the majority of Tarneckis live on cruise ships where humans aren't allowed.
• In Kevin & Kell, there's a lot of prejudice between herbivores and carnivores (justified, what with one group habitually eating the other), and the central couple's 'mixed marriage' causes a lot of consternation in polite society at first — though there's indications of a growing acceptance in society. (That, or the writer has just run out of racism-based jokes.) Of interest is the perspective of a human from our world who accidentally fell into theirs (and got furry-fied on the way): She more or less states outright that the human world's version of Kevin and Kell were an interracial marriage, and later, when noticing that this world has exactly zero prejudice based on sexual preference, comments that a society apparently only has room for so many irrational dividers. Taken to horrifying extremes with N.O.P.E., a carnivore supremacy terrorist group made up of canines who ends up trying to murder Lindesfarne's half-hedgehog, half-bat daughter because they view her as an affront to their 'genetic purity'. The group ends up disbanded when DNA testing reveals all of them are mixed as well (one of them even having hamster in his DNA.)
• The Law of Purple has the planet Caligula, where skin color is random, there are barely any sort of religious traditions, and the culture is as non-sexist as a sexually dimorphic species can get it. So they divide themselves into two races based solely on ear shape, and "2nd Kind" are generally condemned to live in horrendous conditions as a result.
• This is one of the themes of the furry Space Opera Lancer: The Knights of Fenris. The story is set in a Feudal Future where the mammalian species have organized into noble houses that sometimes come into conflict, but they're forced to unite in self-defense when the Drogahri, a race of warlike reptilians, threaten to conquer them all. However, bigotry between mammals doesn't just fade away; Jake Marshall, a mixed-breed canine, faces discrimination for being a "mutt".
• League of Super Redundant Heroes has this strip (not to mention this one).
• In Linburger Demi Humans are treated as second class citizens and are heavily discriminated against. They even have to surrender a seat on the subway if a human wants their seat. Likely related to their hedonistic lifestyles. Most ironic, is that the Cyll used to live in upper-class society. Then Gotterdamerung happened, the Cyll lost their power, and now they live the way do. Unknown if the other Demihuman races had a similar origin.
• Lucaslife: From the very first strip it is made clear some humans look down on robots as inferior and justifie hurting them by saying they can't feel pain.
• The Lydian Option: Hodges is a member of the Terran Brotherhood, a racist group of humans, and believes in a conspiracy to use human genes to create human-alien hybrids.
• Marionetta: The country of Kalgratt discriminates against three-eyes (people with three eyes) or Ah'kon. Any discovered Ah'kon will be detained and used in experiments. The entire country is taught from their childhoods that Ah'kon are extremely dangerous and to report them to the police.
• Murphy's Law: Matt hates elves, mainly due to envy; according to Word of God, the only reason that some elves are stuck-up jerks is that, well, they're people too.
• In A Mad Tea-Party, humanity is united at last, but there sure is a lot of racism against aliens and genetically engineered people.
• My Middle Name's Adventure:
  • Winston the Dragon complain about the world's stereotypical view on dragons.
  • The Hero seems to show bias against pixies as well. [1]
• Narbonic: Genetically engineered lifeforms (the "transgenic community") face prejudice (at least among people who acknowledge they even exist). Skin Horse is about the Black Ops Social Services trying to help them.
• The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: Spoofed in this strip , with gay not-Transformers.
• Nuzlocke Comics: Played for laughs. Since Unova is a Type-2 Eagle Land, they tend to employ national stereotypes towards other regions. For instance, Johto residents drive up phone bills and Hoenn natives are obsessed with water and brass instruments. Political correctness is a regular topic, especially given that main character Ruby is from Hoenn and ends up exhibiting a lot of the usual traits.
• In Off-White, a snow leopard refers to humans as "wretched apes." Also some of the humans really don't like wolves.
• Orange Marmalade:
  • Humans aren't overly fond of vampires. They've been able to live in society for around two hundred years and aren't how they used to be due to the lack of human blood, etc. But many people refer to them as blood-sucking murderers and say how they should all die out.
  • There's a mixed opinion on how vampires see humans. Some want to live happily with them and some think they're parasites.
• The Order of the Stick:
  • Redcloak, The Dragon, is a goblin and treats hobgoblins like dirt until one saves his life, at which point he becomes a goblinoid supremacist (Technically, he says he hates all humans equally, admitting that he may be a speciesist, he never wanted to be a racist).
  • In the Start of Darkness print prequel, it's revealed that the Always Chaotic Evil races are that way because they were specifically created by the gods to be defeated (or at least, that's what Redcloak relays from the Dark One), and their ultimate plan is an attempt to create equality for themselves.
    • It's later explained to Durkon by his patron god Thor that this wasn't intended to be the case. During the gods' creation process for this iteration of the world, Fenris, Northern God of monsters, had the idea that races of people that aged and bred quickly (not unlike mice or other rodents) would ultimately outcompete other groups. However, when he created the goblinoid races and his theory didn't work out as he intended, he grew disinterested and turned his focus to more 'fun' monsters instead. Roy and Durkon discuss this afterwards, coming to the conclusion that Redcloak isn't entirely wrong in his pursuit to better the lot of his kind, even if they oppose the way he's approaching it.
  • Yok-yok, Redcloak's village, and metal-head orcs are treated by Good adventurers (in at least one case PALADINS) as expendable, regardless of guilt or innocence, down to innocent civilians, including children. The adventurers don't get their alignments changed over it, nor do the Paladins lose power over it. The Giant lampshades that the D&D settings themselves have Fantastic Racism, and commented in the comic's forums that at least some of the Paladins may have fallen "off screen".
  • Blackwing is a cladist, identifying with other birds and dinosaurs in preference to mammals. Played for laughs and chiefly consists of cheering on dinosaurs. The one instance that could have had consequences — telling V "you're on your own, mammal" — was thoroughly justified by V's prior behavior toward Blackwing.
• Ozy and Millie: Though it's only ever mentioned when discussing their version of events surrounding the American Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, the setting apparently has mammals playing the part of the whites and reptiles of the blacks.
• Pandora's Tale: The Helpers are sentient beings who are bred and sold as luxury merchandise for the rich. They have no legal rights and many do not consider them to be people.
• Paranatural: Spirits are often antagonistic to spectrals, which are living humans with the ability to see and interact with apparitions. Part of it is due to the fact that spectrals gain power by partnering with a spirit in a lopsided relationship that benefits the human more.
  Whale-Frog: Jailer! Parasite! Tell me spectral — have they chosen which of my kind's fallen you'll cheaply imitate? Or is it a yet-empty prison I now destroy?
• Penny Arcade made a strip about the subject, lampshading the tendency for it to be very-thinly-veiled versions of real-life racism.
• Pilot: The Objectheads face an awful lot of this, with people getting nervous around them even if they're just standing around and playing with their phone heads. It's mostly because the OB Mafia is made up entirely of Objectheads.
• Planes of Eldlor has dark elves and orcs which are generally reviled among the other races.
• Poppy O'Possum: Opossums are treated like second-class citizens — being charged more for items at shops, being refused jobs or shelter, being called rude names, and even attacked at times. Poppy tells her daughter that it's a result of the Creation Myth that opens up the story, but regardless of the veracity of the claim, it's very much present.
• Roommates: There seems to be a fair amount of prejudice against any Original Character until proven innocent. Also there is The Fair Folk's trademark superiority complex against mortals (which doesn't stop them from romancing / procreating with mortals by the way).
• Royal Blue: Steira has strict anti-Deviant laws in place. Deviants are arrested and put into the dungeons because they pose a threat to the crown.
• In Schlock Mercenary, there seem to be elephant jokes. Also, "Terrans all look alike". Thanks to widespread uplifting, said group of Terrans includes chimps, a gorilla, and an elephant.
• In Skyvein, both fantastic racism and earthly racism exist.
• Slightly Damned: There is a lot of tension between angels and demons. It's so bad that one Knight Templar angel actually attempted to kill another angel, as well as an old friend of his, simply because they were protecting their friend (a demon). It's not as prominent, but Medians aren't too fond of demons either, and there is mention of some friction between the various Median species.
• In Snarlbear, Flint is subjected to this when passing through the gates of Sapphire Town. Apparently, in the Rainbow Dimension, being grey is not good.
• Sorcery 101: The "light" side of the supernatural (consisting of mages and angels) really hates the "dark" side (consisting of everyone else), to the point where for members of the Mage Council the penalty for fraternization with a dark creature is death. This creates problems for mage Ally when she marries a werewolf and has a werewolf daughter. Then there's Pat, a former mage turned vampire who, although he has maintained his Fantastic Racism after decades of being what he hates, continues to prefer living to dying. Also, vampires traffic in shapeshifters. As in, literally sell them at auction.
• In Spacetrawler, the Tornites were legally declared non-sentient by the galactic government because of their terrible fashion sense. Similarly, the Eebs are exploited because it's so lucrative; to make this easier, the government claimed their lack of willpower makes them non-sentient.
• Star Mares re-emphasizes the racial tensions that existed in the far past of Equestria, giving earth ponies the most cultural prestige, rendering other ponykind second-class citizens, and making non-ponies barely citizens at all.
• In Strays, Holland contacts Feral to deal with a man preaching discrimination and murder.
• Strong Female Protagonist: There is at least one recognized hate group that targets biodynamics, though they generally only attack low-level ones who lack combat powers (or, in the case of the attack on Feral, ones who are helplessly Strapped to an Operating Table).
• The Strongest Suit: The four card suits are also castes, with Hearts and Spades as the lowest-ranking Suits.
• Templars of the Shifting Verse: There is tension between the pointed-eared humans of the Barrucian continent and the rounded-eared humans of the Aramorian continent.
• This Is the Worst Idea You've Ever Had! uses this trope with both the Nai'ka, who are magical humanoid creatures, and the Beastmen, who are humans which have animal features. The racism against the Nai'ka is much more explicit, as they have animal rights instead of human rights and are often exploited or abused with no care from human law enforcement. Beastmen, however, are considered human, but are often discriminated against anyway — the arrest rates for beastmen are higher than for normal people, and they're less likely to find employment.
• Trace: When extraterrestrial creatures come to earth, the energy they release cause some mutation among some humans turning them into traces who for the most part simply exist to fight troubles. There are agencies devoted to the training and protection of Traces. Though hiding that you're a trace automatically gets you put in jail for roughly three months, and if you happen to become a trace when you already have a family, the situation rapidly goes From Bad to Worse.
• Trial of the Sun: Sapient birds are treated less than respectfully by the humans, ranging from "I don't mind him being around per se, just don't let him on the porch" to getting stoned by children... which is confirmed to be potentially fatal, but hey, it's just a bird.
• TwoKinds: Most of the backstory revolves around the three main races hating each other. Humans and anthropomorphic animals, for one, hate each other or see each other as ugly. Seen pretty well here. Spoilers ahead. For another, eastern Basitins see the other two groups as ill-brought-up for their respective personal independance and Ethical Slut tendencies respectively. Western basitins they hate worst of all, being the orc to the easterners dwarf.
• Ugly Hill, has the minority one-eyed monsters discriminated against by the majority two-eyes.
• Unit-M: Humans and Monsters co-exist, but humans hate and fear Monsters.
• Unholy Blood: Thinly veiled versions of far-right groups go out looking for vampires on campus at the university. Interestingly, the police treat people who were turned into vampires against their will and don't commit crimes differently than those who do.
• unOrdinary: Those with no powers are considered crippled, and a parasitic drain on society. The ranking system the Authorities enforce encourages them to be attacked, beaten down and forced out of nice towns and cities.
• Unsounded: Contains both prejudice between species and cultural and racial prejudice and violence between humans.
  • The two-toes or Inak are a declining race of humanoid lizards who are generally treated as second-class citizens. Their state is explained as being because they used to live on top of some highly valuable natural resources, so humans ended up... displacing them; most humans see them as scavengers and don't know the history. They do not have Kassylinian souls which the two main human religions teach make them unique and better than other living things and ensures that many humans see enslaving and killing off the Inak entirely as a noble goal.
  • There used to be intelligent lion like beings in the setting but humans eradicated them and all other felines after a lion became the symbol of a religion considered heretical by the primary religion in the setting.
  • Inak and the intelligent senet consider humans, or “spider paws”, to be inherently violent thieves and liars who cannot be trusted and will destroy everything if given a chance. Many talk like these traits are unique to humans even though Inak and senets are also prone to tribalism, murder and trickery with some senets actually having hunting other beings or manipulating them as an inherent unavoidable trait.
  • Sharteshane's dodgy reputation, Cresce's method of controlling employment and Peacegaurd policing system, and Alderode's double whammy of patriotic xenophobia and internal People of Hair Color caste system mean that people of the three major superpowers in the setting distrust and hate people from the others tending to paint everyone from these countries with the same brush as gangsters, controlling cops wholly dedicated to their queen or violent misogynistic heretical warmongers.
  • Alderode’s government uses the caste and ghers systems to ensure internal tensions and bigotry is aimed between those groups instead of at the controlling government and further does everything in its power to ensure citizens despise Crescians and will slaughter them on sight including offering financial rewards for a flayed Crescian’s skin. This means most Alds who are born without the Dammakhert sorting them into a caste look exactly like Crescians and are also targeted as Crescians.
  • Despite most surviving efheby avoiding humans they have been hunted to near extinction because of their venom’s ability to destroy Kassylinian souls, and the fact that some efheby have become addicted to devouring human memories.
  • Llemulin are seen as gross, stupid and dangerous and are hunted and destroyed despite them being intelligent and capable of human speech because most don’t bother. In the past they were worshipped for their ability to control the weather but now are considered incomplete sketches of a primitive era and have been hunted as heretical gods by Gefendur paladins. In return waterwomen drown any humans in their waters and despise them as untrustworthy murderers, remaking those of their kin who disagree and value any humans as unique individuals.
  • Duane is treated as a gross mockery of human life and probable experimental weapon by those who know of his undead status as his personality is considered an experimental AI rather than his own human soul bound to his shambling corpse since such a thing is thought to be impossible. His own religion teaches that anyone whose body is allowed to decay is dammed and that plods are an abomination far worse than enslaving living humans so he is a damned horror that ought to be put down and burned to ash in their eyes.
• Vampire Girl: Vampire Hunter seems to view all vampires as being evil beings who have no business living amongst us and sucking our blood; he also doesn't seem to have any qualms about using the word "vamp" like a slur.
• Visseria features the lizard-like cavelings being conquered and suppressed by humans. The cavelings in turn consider humans to be ogre-like brutes who need to be wiped out.
• The Weave: The Fair Folk look down on offspring of fairy-human relationships.
• Yellow Brick Ramble: This is a comic-slash-graphic-novel adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz, the second novel of the Oz series. And starting in chapter 7 of the comic, when the characters first arrive at Emerald City, we begin seeing a few signs of the type of anti-Animal racism that was one of the major plot points of The Wicked Years series of novels.
• In The Zombie Hunters, people who get scratched by zombies or are infected with their blood or saliva become "infected", but not zombies, so long as they don't die and aren't actually bitten. Although technically there isn't supposed to be any racism between infected and uninfected, it's actually extremely common, with infected living separately from uninfected, often being pressured into taking dangerous jobs such as going into zombie-infested territory (as they can't be infected again) and being forced to wear armbands publicly identifying them as infected.

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