Fantastic Racism / Western Animation

Fantastic Racism in Western Animation.

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• 101 Dalmatians: The Series: Pug, who constantly expresses his inexpiable hatred of cats, even around Sgt. Tibbs who is a cat. All the Dalmatians and other Animals groan in disapproval when ever he gets like this, often saying "Not this again!".
• The Adventures of Puss in Boots features Cleevil the orphan goblin, who is immediately disliked by the adults of San Lorenzo because all goblins are seen as no good troublemakers.
• The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode "True Colors" is obvious to the point of parody. Kooky von Koopa (AKA: Ludwig in the games) and Cheatsy Koopa (AKA: Larry) fly around painting half the Toads (and Luigi) red and half (and Mario) blue. They then disguise themselves as red and blue Toads to stir up resentment between the two halves of the population. The conflict is resolved when the Mario brothers manage to get the Toads to rally in defense of their princess. The similarities to real life racism is anviliciously lampshaded in the end by the brothers:
  Luigi: Think they'll ever learn that lesson in the real world?
  Mario: Yeah, when humans get as smart as mushrooms!
• The premise of A Kind of Magic is a fairy-tale family who had to move to the real world because of fantastic segregation: The mom is a fairy and the dad is an ogre, but interracial marriage is apparently outlawed in Fairyland.
• Genie from Aladdin: The Series fears Mukhtars, who are bonafide genie hunters, and hates imps, who are expert conmen.
• In Alfred J. Kwak, the titular character travels to a country called Atrique, where the original inhabitants, the black ducks, are under the oppressive and discriminative authority of the white geese. It is obviously South Africa before the abolition of Apartheid (the series was produced in the late 1980s), just with humanoid animals.
• The wolves in Alpha and Omega use the word "coyote" as an insult for one another. As implied via the other animals they talk to, wolves clearly aren't the only sapient species around.
• Parodied in American Dad!:
  Steve: I like the Berenstein Bears, I just wouldn't want one of them marrying my daughter.
• A subtle theme in the "Chicken Boo" segments of Animaniacs. Boo usually excels at whatever career he takes in his disguise, and is beloved by everyone who talks about him. However once he's outed as a Chicken, everyone turns on him, even to the point of siding with the oppressor that Boo had saved them from moments before.
  • Runt seems to have a big hatred of cats. The moment one is mentioned, he flies into a rage, threatening to rip the cat apart. Luckily, for his best friend, Rita, he's too dumb to realize that she's a cat herself, thinking she's just another dog. She just goes along with it.
• The Amazing World of Gumball has Gumball trying to frame Alan, a 3D talking balloon of being prejudiced towards 2D characters in "The Saint" after being tired of his positive attitude.
• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!, naturally tomatoes and humans hate each other after the Big War, therefore Tara’s identity as a tomato (if expose to salt, otherwise she looks like a pretty teenager, but still a tomato “inside”) is kept secret. Same with furry tomato F.T. who is presented as a deform red dog.
• Avatar:
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender:
    • The series heavily featured prejudice between four fictional human nations as a prevalent theme, given that there's a global conflict where the imperialistic Fire Nation has done a successful genocide against one of them (the Air Nomads), and is trying to violently subjugate the other two (Water Tribes and Earth Kingdom). Also some of these humans have the elemental powers of their respective nations, so the Fire Nation has a tendency to kill or capture all non-fire-benders.
    • Although not all the colonies do this, as shown in The Promise, where Earthbenders are shown as an accepted part of Fire Nation Society, with the ethnically-Fire Nation Mayor's daughter being an Earthbender like her mother.
    • Wan Shi Tong, an owl spirit and guardian of a hidden library, isn't exactly trusting of humans, as they tend to use the knowledge they seek to bring harm to each other. So, when he is deceived by the Avatar himself and his friends as they seek information to counter the Fire Nation, he is not happy about it, and tries to bury the library with them in it. They escape, though the scholar who joined them voluntarily stayed behind.
  • The Legend of Korra:
    • In the multi-ethnic Republic City, there exists Fantastic Racism between benders and non-benders. The main villain of Season 1 is Amon, the leader of an anti-bending "Equalist" movement that seeks to get rid of element-bending altogether, though Amon is secretly a water-bender himself, and his blatant hypocrisy destroys the credibility of his cause. On the other hand there's Tarrlok, who represents the extremist faction of the benders, and takes advantage of the growing current of anti-Equalist sentiment to establish his own rule over Republic City.
    • Aang's touchy relationship with being the last airbender apparently made him favor Tenzin over his other two non-airbending children. This can be seen as an analogue to mixed-race families where despite being related, kids that take on certain phenotypes may be given more advantages in life than their siblings. Similarly the Air Acolytes didn't even know Tenzin had any siblings, and mistook his more waterbender sister and non-bender brother for servants.
    • Season 2 expands upon the spirits, an assortment of various supernatural beings who are generally very xenophobic towards the human race. This is because the spirits have a radically different worldview, and they see humans as barbaric because of actions such as cutting trees to obtain firewood or hunting animals for food. Though as of the series finale, the spirits and humans are now more-or-less coexisting peacefully.
    • Because of what was mentioned above, Wan Shi Tong now distrusts all humans, leaving him no choice but to keep the library hidden in the Spirit World. So when Jinora, a human, shows up in his library, he immediately tells her to leave. When he learns she is a descendant of Aang, the previous Avatar, he instead keeps her long enough for Unalaq, the human antagonist who happens to be a friend of spirits, to capture her.
    • Season 4 brings back some of the old prejudice between users of different elements. The Earth Kingdom, which is now ruled by a military dictatorship known as the Earth Empire, has been imprisoning firebenders and waterbenders in internment camps.
• Animal Jingoism between rhinos and elephants is a common subject in Babar. Even when Rataxes' prejudice toward elephants is played as a characteristic of his villainy, Babar himself and other elephants are also shown to be prejudiced about rhinos, though maybe to a lesser extent. Rataxes' racism come to play in a Tear Jerker episode when he and his wife find an orphan baby elephant and he is opposed to adopting her only on the basis that she's an elephant and ends caring for her.
• Ben 10:
  • The original series episode "Big Fat Alien Wedding" revolved around Ben's first cousin once removed Joel marrying a Blob Monster alien known as a Leopan, who the Plumbers have had a long history of conflict with and nicknamed "sludge puppies". When Ben transforms to put out a fire, Joel's Plumber parents shoot at him saying that no alien can be trusted but later warm up to Joel's wife Camille. In Ben 10: Omniverse Ben uses the term "sludge puppy" in conversation with another Leopan, who reveals it to be a racial slur.
  • The Highbreed, who served as Big Bad of the first two seasons of Ben 10: Alien Force, looked down on any and all non-Highbreeds, especially humans, viewing them all as mongrels and vermin. They didn't even try to hide it: the Highbreed Commander that Ben fought in the pilot episode openly and relentlessly insulted him with remarks like "filth" and "scum", and when Ben bit his hand to escape a Neck Lift, freaked out and declared that Ben had "infected" him. Unusually, they were content to merely avoid contact with other species in the past. The reason they started their campaign to "cleanse" the universe is because they discovered that their species has become sterile and will go extinct in a generation or two. They just can't stand the idea of "inferior" beings outliving them. However, using the Omnitrix to hybridize them and cure their genetic damage, Ben convinces the Highbreed to drop their villainous ways and reform.
  • In Ben 10: Omniverse, Ben takes it upon himself to help resolve racial tensions between the two Gourmand (Upchuck) subspecies on their homeworld who devolved into infighting after their queen was captured by the Incurseans.
  • It can be argued that Ben's system of nicknaming his Omnitrix forms in various unflattering ways (eg. His Lepidopterran form is nicknamed 'Stinkfly') is at the very least racially insensitive. However, Ben did start nicknaming his alien forms when he was 10 years old and didn't know much about Alien races, so it is more a case of Innocently Insensitive.
• In Bojack Horseman, humans coexist with anthropomorphic animals. But for the most part, there's surprisingly very little (if any) tensions between members of different species. However, inter-species prejudice does get demonstrated a few times.
  • One thing that must be noted first is that in this show's world, human concepts about race/ethnicity/nationality also seem to apply the same way to non-human animals. For example in one episode where Todd Chavez spent some time in jail, he encounters two different prison gangs (one being white supremacists, while the other was Hispanic/Latino). Both gangs included human and non-human inmates who self-identified as either white or Latino.
  • The episode "Chickens". All animals are anthropomorphic, so how do they eat meat? A small minority of prey animals are selected to be bred for food; at birth they get injected with hormones, forcing them to behave like stupid beasts incapable of coherent thought or speech, so that there's "less" of a moral dilemma about butchering them. Not only is this outright discrimination, but also legalized slavery and cannibalism.
  • There's a very brief gag in which an elephant man gets offended at the popular idiom "Elephant in the Room", as he interprets that statement rather literally.
  • In "Fish Out of Water", Bojack Horseman travels to Pacific Ocean City, an undersea metropolis inhabited by aquatic animals. On the way there, Bojack rudely talks back to a fish woman for speaking to him in an incomprehensible language.
  • Perhaps the most obvious example happens in "The Judge". Princess Carolyn (a cat) is dating a mouse named Ralph Stilton. When Ralph invites Carolyn to meet his family, she is shocked to see that they celebrate a mouse holiday with blatant anti-cat themes (including a "death to all cats" chant), not even being considerate to how offensive this would be to Ralph's girlfriend.
  • One episode depicts stereotyping against humans by other animal species. There's an in-universe sports team called the "Chicago Baby Humans", and their mascot (Waa-waa) is an offensive caricature of a human baby; depicted as being Comically Cross-Eyed, Too Dumb to Live (drinking poison instead of milk from his bottle), and ridiculed for his furless, featherless skin. Diane Nguyen (a human) feels very uncomfortable about the mascot, while her boyfriend Guy (a bison) tells her that the mascot is part of Diane's "proud human heritage".
• In Bravestarr, a Space Western with a Native American hero, the indigenous "Prairie People" of New Texas (gnomelike sorts that burrowed like prairie dogs and had a vast underground kingdom) were the stand-ins for Native Americans, indigenous people treated with prejudice by the settlers.
• In The Brothers Grunt, the Poobah explains to viewers that in ancient times, the Grunts were persecuted by those who did not understand their ways.
• Amanda Killman from Bunsen Is a Beast is convinced Bunsen is evil, no matter how nice he is.
  "Back off, beast! You are different and therefore bad."
• Butt-Ugly Martians had a minor recurring villain named Dr. Brady Hacksaw. Unlike Stoat Muldoon, who only targets the Butt-Uglies out of concern that they might be a threat to Earth and is willing to accept that they are good aliens when presented with proof, Dr. Hacksaw wishes to dissect our heroes and is clearly shown to not care that they are sapient beings. At one point, he even comes close to admitting that he wants to kill all alien life forms before covering up with the facade of scientific interest at the last minute.
  Dr. Brady Hacksaw: I won't rest until every alien is captured and destroyed— I mean, studied.
• In Capitol Critters a few episodes dealt with a gang of rats at war with a gang of cockroaches the roaches were meant to symbolize minorities in general some spoke in African, Italian, Hispanic, and Yiddish accents, they constantly referred to each other as dirty and disease ridden scum.
• In the CatDog episode "The Cat Club", Cat joins a cat-only club, unaware that it's actually a hate group planning to get rid of every dog in the world.
• Centaurworld: The reason why Chee hates Horse so much is because some time ago he had a negative encounter with a horse centaur, so now he hates them, and since they're only half-horse, he thinks that Horse is twice as bad.
• In Chaotic, there is fantastic jingoism. One can interpret that all the land-based tribes of Perim are engaged in a four-way holy war over who is blame for having the Cothica disappear and ending the Golden Age. Then came the M'arrilians who exhibited big time Fantastic Racism by choosing to flood the planet by heat-ray melting of the ice caps, even though there is plenty of existing oceans assuming Perim is an Earth-like planet.
• Subverted in The Cleveland Show when Tim takes Cleveland in to meet his boss (who's hiring); the boss rather awkwardly expresses discomfort with Cleveland being black to Tim who's a talking bear.
  • Then there's this exchange from when Cleveland and Tim first meet.
    Cleveland: "AHHHH! A BEAR!"
    Tim: "Ahh! A black man! Ahh! You see? It doesn't feel so good, does it? Very reductive."
• The Courage the Cowardly Dog episode "The Mask" prominently features (one-sided) Animal Jingoism between the titular talking dog protagonist, and a talking cat he meets. Courage encounters a cat named Kitty, who violently attacks him without provocation. She admits to hating dogs, believing that all of them are evil due to some bad past experiences; her rabbit friend Bunny was dating Mad Dog, a jerkass canine gangster who abuses her. Fortunately, Kitty later realizes how wrong she was after learning that Courage went out to rescue Bunny from Mad Dog.
• In Danny Phantom, most ghosts don't like humans and most humans are terrified of the ghosts. Danny being half-ghost makes it worse, as he's hated period by most ghosts he meets and his alter ego is feared and hated by most humans except his Secret-Keeper friends/sister and the Alpha Bitch. It gets creepy when Danny hears about his parents discussing what to do with his alter ego's remains if they ever caught him.
  • Although in the humans' case, it's somewhat justified. The majority of humanity's first experiences with ghosts stemmed from an attack by a group of Danny's enemies from the Ghost Zone. Until that point, it was the people that believed in them were the ones that were ridiculed. The reason Paulina was among the first to stop hating Danny was because Danny outright saved her life, at which point she started to idolize him.
  • Somewhat strangely, as a whole the ghosts actually seem to be the more accepting of the two 'species', since non-hostile ghosts don't have any problem with Danny being half-human (they don't really seem to have any objections to humans either) and apart from one or two exceptions any hostility on the part of the ghosts that Danny fights with is more to do with him being in their way, their obsessions, and/or grudges about previous defeats rather than him being a halfa, not to mention that the events of "The Fright Before Christmas" heavily imply that in a weird way they see him as being one of them ("Tomorrow you'll see what *this* baby can do! /... But all ghosts share the truce... even half-ghosts like you. "). Blue-and-Orange Morality may apply.
• An episode of Dave the Barbarian had Dave, Fang, and Faffy believing that they'd found their true people (gorillas, monkeys, and lemons, respectively), and trying to integrate into their societies. But at the end of the episode, their new surrogate families flip out when they discover that they're actually human, human, and dragon; the gorillas hate humans because of their pink ears, monkeys hate them both for their lack of tails, and the lemons think limbs in general are just plain obscene. When Dave tries to point out the silliness of this and that their companions in the lynch mob also have the traits they despise, they realize the truth of this and admit they shouldn't fight humans... Instead, they should fight each other!
• In the Davey and Goliath episode, "The Polka Dot Tie", Davey and friends bully a boy (who was, in fact, black) for wearing a polka dot tie (It was because Davey's friend's father knew a guy with a polka dot tie who "he couldn't trust") In a later episode, Goliath doesn't like a white dog for being white. Actually, the main story of this episode was Davey's black friend Jonathan's, cousin, who didn't like white people, was in town, and he was blindfolded because he had an accident with his older brother's chemistry set. Jonathan tries to teach him a lesson by introducing him to Davey, who was white, and letting them become friends.
• The old MGM cartoon "Little Johnny Jet" features a talking, anthropomorphic B-29, who's "old and burnt out", and out of work because jets are getting all the jobs. As a result, he really hates jets, and seeing as they tend to mock him whenever he tries to get work, this isn't exactly undeserved. The final kick in the face seems to be when his newborn son turns out to be a jet. (He does, however, gain more respect for jets when his son saves his life and helps him win a race.)
• The Big Bad of Dino Squad, Victor Veloci, a velociraptor who somehow gained human form, hates humans with a passion, believing them inferior to dinosaurs. His reason? Because dinosaurs have been around for millions of years, and humans for only a few thousand.
• It seems to be the way of nature in Dinotrux for the various species of Dinotrux to only hang out with their own kind and to distrust other species. Things don't start changing until the main character realizes how much better things can be if they work together to build stuff.
• In The Dragon Prince, Callum and Rayla have probably had the first friendship among humans and elves for a thousand years. Once upon a time humans and elves lived together, but the elves displaced humans after some of them experimented with dark magic. Since then, both races live in different countries on the common continent, and avoid each other. Humans think elves are dangerous monsters that would kill a human for no reason at all. Elves, on the other hand, consider humans to be hypocritical, corrupt, untrustworthy and dishonorable.
  • Special minuses go to Runaan and General Amaya. Runaan tried to kill Callum simply because he was a human and happened to meet him. And Amaya sneakily tried to assassinate Rayla when she found her sneaking into a room in King Harrow's winter lodge.
  • This trope is played humorously when Rayla pretends to be a human, and in her disguise humorously comments on some of the customs of human society.
• Mildew's irrational hatred toward the dragons it's an important plot point in Dragons: Riders of Berk. Dragons are not considered people in-universe, just very intelligent animals, so this might be more a case of Fantastic Speciesism.
• In Exo Squad, humans often call Neosapiens "Sapes" or "Neos". (Note that "Neos" is considered an acceptable everyday term, while "Sapes" is more like a slur, and at one point an officer takes some time to dress down one of his troopers for using the latter term.) The Neosapiens themselves view themselves as the Superior Species, and thus call humans 'Terrans'. Neosapiens also show racism towards the Neo Warriors, a breed of animalistic warriors created to fight for them. General Shiva regards even the somewhat more advanced versions with rudimentary speech as simple animals.
• On The Fairly OddParents!, it's strongly implied that fairies tend to look down on other races, specifically anti-fairies, pixies, and genies. Aside from a few Fantastic Slurs, this is never really explored.
• In The Fantastic Four (1978), the episode "The Olympics of Space" had Ben Grimm get caught in a conflict between two similar-looking alien races who hated each other for having different eye colors.
• Futurama, being set in the futuristic sci-fi world of Earth in the 31st century, has humans living alongside all types of strange beings, especially robot people, and also various alien immigrants from other planets. While the many different species coexist in a more-or-less well-integrated society, some bigotry and conflict do exist between them.
  • Human/robot prejudice seems to be a common plot device. Bender often proudly proclaims a hatred of the human species; he loves to say "meatbags" and "kill all humans", and in fact, he really does dream of waging war against mankind someday (though he'll make a few exceptions, such as his best friend Fry).
    • The most prominent example of this is the episode "Fear of a Bot Planet". Bender points out that (almost) all of the Blurnsball players are human, with the robots generally being relegated to labor duties. Right after the game is over, Farnsworth sends Bender and the rest of the Planet Express crew to Chapek 9, a planet inhabited by robot separatists who murder all humans on sight. Unsurprisingly, Bender defects from the team, and joins the planet's omnipresent anti-human movement (although soon concedes that he doesn't actually agree with their agenda to kill all humans, citing Fry and Leela as exceptions).
    • Ironically, Bender is also a strong advocate of robot rights. In "Ghost in the Machines", he decides to kill himself after he becomes convinced that Fry perceives robots' lives as being less valuable than humans'.
    • All robots in the episode "Crimes of the Hot" fall victim to racism as a whole, when they get scapegoated as the cause of Global Warming, getting to the point that President Richard Nixon's head attempts to commit genocide on them.
    • This also gets manifested as a less-than-subtle Fantastic Homophobia metaphor. Marital, romantic, and sexual relations between robotic and organic beings are frowned upon on Earth. The plot of "Proposition Infinity"^note (the title alludes to this controversial law) involves Bender and Amy, who were dating at the time, launching a political movement to legalize "robosexual" marriage (which was in fact already legal in Space Massachusetts).
  • And of course, xenophobia between Earthlings and extraterrestrials also gets demonstrated a few times.
    • The TV news anchorman Morbo is a green alien who seems to despise humans as much as Bender does. In fact, he's expressed a similar desire for his own people to destroy mankind. The only humans he does like (or at least tolerate) are his co-anchorwoman Linda and President Nixon.
    • Professor Farnsworth hates the Cygnoids for some reason, and dislikes how so many of them migrate to Earth. He also owns a Martian skull, and dismisses the Martian people's complaints of cultural disrespect as "whining".
    • Hermes Conrad is strongly implied to hate Decapodians, as evidenced by his interactions with Dr. Zoidberg. Hermes frequently and spitefully calls Zoidberg "ya filthy crab", an obvious fantastic slur (given how Decapodians resemble crustaceans). Hermes also tends to single out Zoidberg for more abuse and blame compared to all their other coworkers. While Hermes is never seen interacting with other Decapodians, the show does seem to heavily imply that Hermes hates Zoidberg because of his species.
    • There's also Zapp Brannigan's spontaneous, completely unfounded, and ridiculously over-the-top hatred of the Neutral people. Naturally, his idiocy fueled by this drives every single conflict of "Brannigan, Begin Again".
  • Aside from all the other examples above, the sewer mutants (a race of hideously mutated humans) are the one group that is truly marginalized, as the law forces them to live in the underground sewers beneath New New York; they're so segregated and invisible, that most surface-dwellers think they're just an urban legend. Leela was born as a mutant, but because she was far less ugly than the rest of her kind, her parents sent her to the surface so that she could live as an "alien" with more freedom.
    • There's also the sewer mutants' derogatory references to the alleged sub-sewer mutants, who are also similarly dismissed by some as being just a "suburban legend". However, it's not confirmed if they even exist at all.
    • Eventually, in "The Mutants Are Revolting", Leela leads all the other mutants to protest for their freedom, successfully achieving legal emancipation, so they can now live above ground.
• Bigotry and hatred of unfamiliar beings is a very prevalent theme throughout Gargoyles. The titular gargoyles are a species of semi-reptilian winged humanoid creatures who were (and still are) feared by humans just because of their monstrous, animalistic appearances. This shows up a lot in the series' backstory, and helps provide the current conflict.
  • Demona, a female gargoyle born in medieval Scotland, holds an extreme (even genocidal) hatred of all humans, because of how she was mistreated by humans in the distant past. Her gargoyle clan was responsible for defending a Scottish castle from enemy invaders, but were still treated like dirt by (most of) their own human allies. The final straw was when her clan was massacred by an enemy (Viking) general; leading her to spiral down into despair, rage, and madness, so she swore vengeance against all of humanity.
    • Though ironically, Demona has much more in common with the evil humans she detests than with her own kind. In fact, the aforementioned massacre was actually due to a botched secret plan which intended to rid the castle of its human residents and let the gargoyles take over, and it was orchestrated by Demona herself (she just didn't count on the Viking she conspired with to backstab her so horribly). For further irony, she eventually suffers a magic curse which causes her to turn human during daytime (which doesn't improve her low opinion of them).
  • Even Goliath himself showed some (lesser) shades of prejudice during the series premiere, telling Xanatos that he will never completely trust humans again. Though of course, it is completely justified because he still remembers how a thousand years ago, he had previously been double-crossed by two humans he knew and trusted (one of whom was the only man that didn't treat them like garbage). But Goliath soon gets over it after befriending Elisa, a loyal human whom he can trust and depend upon unconditionally.
    • Goliath and his fellow gargoyles often (un)intentionally scare off any humans in modern New York City they encounter, even the innocent civilians they're trying to help and protect. Despite this, they're still very determined to do whatever they can to try and make peace with people who may fear or even hate them (does this sound familiar?).
    • The above situation gets (sort of) inverted in "The Mirror", when Puck's magic spell temporarily transforms all humans in Manhattan into gargoyles (and soon afterwards, the original gargoyles are transformed into humans). The humans-turned-gargoyles are (still) frightened by the gargoyles-turned-humans, seeing them as "monsters"; the latter group exploit this by making scary faces to ward off some transformed citizens who were about to attack them.
  • When Demona began to indiscriminately attack humans, this in turn only made the persecution of gargoyles even worse. One of her surviving victims became the first of a very long series of Hunters who vowed to destroy every single gargoyle in existence (especially but not limited to Demona herself). This vendetta continues to the present day, with one of the Hunters' descendants founding the Quarrymen (see below).
    • In the third season (The Goliath Chronicles), after the gargoyles' existence is officially confirmed to the whole world, one of the aforementioned Hunters starts an anti-gargoyle hate-group called the Quarrymen, and are determined to exterminate the entire Manhattan Clan just for being the wrong species, exploiting the increasingly widespread (if totally unfounded) public distrust of them. They even wear KKK-esque hoods, and spout hateful slogans such as "Smash All Gargoyles". They won't even hesitate to attack other humans who show even the slightest tolerance towards the gargoyles.
  • One episode features the New Olympians, descendants of Greek mythical creatures who live on a secret island city. Their ancestors were persecuted by humans, so they continue to fear and hate humans themselves. They're so prejudiced and paranoid that they immediately detain Elisa for trespassing in their territory (while not doing the same to her gargoyle companions Goliath and Angela, as they have no beef with their kind). The local authorities eventually decide that indefinitely keeping Elisa imprisoned without any due process is the best way to deal with her; mostly because they don't trust her to not reveal their city's existence (she was never actually going to do this), and partly to "protect" her from an angry mob that seemed hellbent on trying to lynch her.
• Some amount of Fantastic Racism appears in Generator Rex against EVOs. They generally inspire fear or hatred when they appear, including main character, who is frowned upon by his own employer. There is also a guy who hunts teenagers down with a giant gun and believes in Kill It with Fire instead of using the cure. Considering that most of them are mindless monsters and sapient ones known to general public either cause major property damage (Rex) or perform various acts of terrorism in name of "equality" (The Pack) this treatment may be justified. There is no defined line humanity-EVOs, because this condition is in most cases curable and not only people can go EVO, but also animals, plants or even eggs.
  • White Knight at one point took this trope to the extreme as he fought Rex:
    White Knight: I don't trust anything with nanites! (attacks Rex)
    Rex: Everything has nanites!
    White Knight: Everything but me.
  • This seems to change and take on more active form, when Black Knight has taken over Providence and uses mind controlling collars to "turn an EVO curse into a blessing." They hunt down every EVO, including sapient ones. The worst part of it? Society seems to be awfully accepting, though this may be due to an official propaganda.
• The Canadian animated short The Girl With Pinhead Parents is built on this. But it replaces actual races with fantasy beings who have inanimate objects replacing various limbs. The titular character, a girl whose head is shaped like a pin, is forced to be science partners with a boy who has hockey sticks in place of his hands. She's incredibly uncomfortable with this, because her parents have forbidden her to associate with anyone who isn't a pin person and she knows they'll be angry.
• Distrust and prejudice between monsters and humans is an important plot point in Gravedale High, as the series is basically a Fish out of Water story about human professor Schneider earning the trust of both his colleagues and his students in a monster high school even with the enormous prejudice against humans. Humans also show prejudice against monsters, of course. One episode deals with Frankentyke embarrassed of his father and trying to use a expy of his own creation for a parents’ meeting because his father is human, as is logical considering that he is a Frankenstein Monster.
• An important plot point in Gummi Bears is the prejudice that Gummies have over humans, especially in the case of Gruffy who is presented as the more traditional and conservative of the bunch. Justified in that several episodes show how Gummi Bears were persecuted to extinction by greedy humans who wanted their magic and mechanical abilities. Most Gummi that the main cast encounters are shocked to know that the Gummies befriended a human like Cavin.
• Granamyr the Dragon King from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) has a dislike for humans. He respects He-Man, but cannot resist throwing anti-human comments whenever he speaks. The Snake Men consider themselves the ultimate race and consider all other beings to be food or slave labor at best.
• Hotel Transylvania: The Series continues the theme of human-and-monster bigotry shown in the film series it serves as a prequel to. The main cast is generally shown to be terrified of humans, while one recurring character is Kitty Cartwright, a human novelist obsessed with proving her unfounded beliefs that monsters are a threat to humanity that must be destroyed.
• The Hunky and Spunky short "Snubbed by a Snob" involves the titular donkey duo visiting a thoroughbred horse farm where a colt is warned by his mother not to associate with their kind. The colt and Spunky sneak off the farm, prompting the colt's mother and Hunky to call for them while giving each other dirty looks. After Spunky saves the colt's life, the parents reconcile their differences and spend time together.
• The Irken race in Invader Zim look down on every other species, act superior, insult them openly and even enslave them. They don't look down on the other races because they're not Irken, but because they're shorter than the Irken leaders, the Almighty Tallest.
• Iron Man: Armored Adventures: Despite the show not focusing on the X-Men, Senator Robert Kelly is in fine form preaching anti-mutant propaganda to New York City. Luckily, it seems not many people are listening. Even Pepper feels a little of this due to an understandable fear of mutants. Naturally, she's over it by the episode's end. To drive the racism parallels home, Rhodey — who is black — is the one to shout down Pepper for being ignorant after she expresses some questionable views on mutant rights.
• In Jimmy Two-Shoes, Heinouses hate weavils with a passion. As a result, weavils tend to be treated as social pests, only good for doing dirty work. Not that this reputation isn't entirely undeserved.
• Kaeloo: Mr. Cat is extremely racist by these terms. One episode even had him, while trying to anger everybody else, claim that "cats are a superior race", and he claims to despise ducks and rabbits.
  • In the first episode of the series, Stumpy objects to being teamed up with Mr. Cat for a game because Cats Are Mean^note This may have been Early-Installment Weirdness, as in later episodes he willingly teams up with Mr. Cat..
  • In Episode 108, this becomes a plot point, with the main four arguing about which species is better. When Mr. Cat points out that cats were worshipped by Egyptians and get 10 million views on internet videos, Stumpy and Quack Quack get decide that they want to to become cats as well and get plastic surgery to look like cats.
• A very odd variant shows up in King of the Hill; when Hank Hill is Mistaken for Racist in the conventional sense, he's only able to prove his innocence by revealing he's not a racist, but a "jobist" — the eccentric patriarch of the Hill family has a deep resentment and dislike of professional repairmen, as it injures his pride in his own abilities as a self-reliant man when he is forced to turn to an outsider instead of just handymanning whatever issue around the house needs fixing.
• Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts:
  • Most Mute animals despise humans with pretty open hostility. They are also extremely tribal, with the vast majority outside rats and raccoons sticking purely to their own kind and showing disdain for others.
  • Meanwhile, Wolf hates Mutes right back, in particular wolves, due to having been Raised by Wolves who were actually training her to be suitable prey for their other children. It's implied that the animal pelt she wears is actually that of the wolf Mute she had considered a sister.
  • Scarlemagne hates humans, uses his pheromones to enslave them, and generally sees them as beneath Mutes.
• In the Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness episode "Serpent's Tooth", the cobra kung-fu master Fu-xi was a great hero until he was betrayed by mammals who believed Reptiles Are Abhorrent. When he returns to seek revenge, many of the villagers start distrusting Viper, because she's a snake as well. Even Po turns out to be an Innocent Bigot who says Viper isn't like "other snakes".
• Legends of Chima: Fluminox of the Phoenix Tribe is distrusting of the groundborn species of Chima due to the Ice Hunters planning to overthrow his tribe many years ago. This is exemplified in "Trial by Fire", where he immediately allows Eris of the Eagle Tribe to have Fire Chi while forcing Laval and Cragger to further prove themselves worthy.
• The Lion Guard:
  • Simba has shades of this as he is very persistent that the Lion Guard should only contain lions.
  • Fuli, a cheetah, has issues with how lions rule over the prideland.
  • Kion has many incorrect notions about hyenas, such as that they're Always Chaotic Evil or they don't understand the Circle of Life, that he learns aren't quite right when he befriends Jasiri. Jasiri herself doesn't trust lions 100% but they learn to deal with their differences.
• Zira is portrayed as more along this bent in her appearance in the show, even showing disgust at the Lion Guard for only having one lion in the group. Even her song 'Lions Over All' explains things as such.
• "The Big Feud" from Lloyd in Space. While researching their cultural heritages for a school project, Kurt and Douglas discovered that there was a dispute over the common moon that orbited both the ancestral homes of their respective races. Neither race forgave the other for the incident. Despite being best friends, Kurt and Douglas started to hate each other more and more over the course of the episode (with the help of their parents). This escalated to both sides recruiting help from the "old country" to drive the other race out of Intrepidville. Fortunately, by the end of the episode, Kurt and Douglas realized the error of their ways and spoke out against the whole feud.
  Douglas: Feel free to cling to the past if you will, but not at the price of my future!
• The Magic Key: The different types of tools in Tool World generally do not like each other and refuse to work together. Somehow, they get over all their prejudice immediately once Nadim gives them a speech about teamwork (along with a little bit of incentive to work together).
• Speciesism serves as the bedrock of many conflicts in Men in Black: The Series. It's mentioned that various alien races have been at war with each other or at least don't get along well. And of course, many of the villainous (or at least jerkish) aliens feel contempt for humans.
  • Most notably, there's the Fmeks and their obsession with wiping out the Arquillians, for no reason beyond the former's hatred of the latter species.
  • The villain of "The Head Trip Syndrome" turns out to be a human who really hates aliens. Edmund Clark Moffat is a paranoid conspiracy theorist who somehow discovered the existence of extraterrestrials and The Men in Black, so he resolves to use time travel to erase the MIB from history in hopes of stopping aliens from ever living on Earth.
  • A pretty obvious example of this is featured in "The Future's So Bright Syndrome". In a dystopian future world where Worms have become the dominant species on Earth, they persecuted humans to outright genocidal levels, with many people being enslaved on coffee plantations or just plain massacred. Simply being human and getting caught wandering around their cities is a crime punishable by death, as Agent J finds out the hard way.
  • Agent X is an alien cop who gets recruited by the MIB later into the series. Despite working for and alongside humans, and his job being to protect Earth and its people, Agent X openly expresses his belief that humans are an inferior and primitive species, much to the frustration of his partner Agent L.
• Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures touched upon prejudice between mice and cats in the episode "Me-Yowww!" when Mighty Mouse befriends a cat named Durf and their friendship results in Mighty Mouse being ostracized, losing his job, and being evicted from his home.
• Monster High:
  • In the original webisodes and movies, various monster types (vampires vs. werewolves; seawater creatures vs. freshwater creatures) traditionally do not get along well. Monster society seems to be separate from human society, too, and schools are also segregated. Not only are monster schools separate from human schools, but monster schools themselves are classified according to monster type. The titular school is the first school open to all types of monsters.
  • The G3 animated series has discrimination between humans and monsters as a recurring theme; Clawdeen faces prejudice for being half-human, and monsters are generally discouraged from interacting with humans. Inter-monster prejudices are also present; Deuce mentions that his mother was one of the first gorgons to play casketball, yetis were outright banned from attending Monster High in the past, and werecat Toralei hates Clawdeen for being a werewolf on top of being half-human.
• My Life as a Teenage Robot:
  • Sometimes it seems Jenny can't go anywhere without someone belittling her (like the Krust cousins) or telling her to GTFO (like the owner of Mesmer's diner) simply because she's a robot.
  • The Cluster thinks that robots are superior to humans, and refers to them as "meatbags".
• My Little Pony:
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: For a children's show about friendship and pastel-colored ponies, this shows up surprisingly often:
    • "Applebuck Season": Played for Laughs when Twilight refers to Applejack as being "stubborn as a mule", then awkwardly realizes there is an actual mule on the premises, though he takes no offense.
    • "Bridle Gossip": Subverted. It initially seems that the ponies are fearful of the strange visitor to Ponyville because she's a zebra. Only when Twilight expresses skepticism as to their claims of her being evil do they explain their fear stems from her living in the Everfree Forest, which the ponies treat as an Eldritch Location because nature there doesn't behave the way ponies think it should. As a matter of fact, the Ponyville ponies didn't even know what a zebra was in the first place and just assumed Zecora was some really weird and creepy pony witch.
    • "The Cutie Pox": Inverted; Zecora shows up in Ponyville to find everypony panicking and running for shelter, and initially assumes they're reacting this way to her before Twilight tells her what's actually scaring them.
    • "Over a Barrel": There's animosity between the ponies and the bisons. It is motivated by a dispute over land rather than innate racial animosity, however, and ultimately given the opportunity to talk to each other they easily settle their issues. Doubles as a Genius Bonus when you realize the whole episode is an allegory for the disputes between Native Americans and the early settlers of the Western United States, which were in large part racially motivated.
    • "A Dog and Pony Show" has Rarity's reaction to being called a mule: She screams that mules are ugly and breaks down into tears. However, as stated above in "Applebuck Season", mules are shown to be a sapient "race" just like ponies. Although she may have just been trying to irritate the diamond dogs, rather than making a statement which she genuinely believed.
    • "Hearth's Warming Eve": The Play Within A Show shows there was much hostility between earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns prior to the founding of Equestria, with each side viewing the others as inferior, which resulted in the Windigos, attracted by all the delicious hate thereby generated, bringing an Endless Winter. However, in modern day, this has largely faded out and the three races live in harmony. Specifically, the three tribes all have negative viewpoints on each other due to their different cultures and roles in society. Unicorns formed an aristocracy and were seen as a snobby elitist bourgeoisie, pegasi controlled the military and were viewed as violent, knuckle-dragging barbarians, and earth ponies were downtrodden farmers seen as uneducated serfs.
    • "Dragon Quest": The dragons, or at least the teenage ones that Spike faces, look down on the ponies, which they view as weak, soft and laughable, and on any dragon that associates with them.
    • "Putting Your Hoof Down": Although it's more Innocently Insensitive than actual prejudice, Iron Will (a minotaur) is referred as a monster by Pinkie Pie and Rarity, a term Fluttershy repeatedly takes offense to.
      Fluttershy: Iron Will's not a monster, he's a minotaur!
    • "Simple Ways": Trenderhoof (a unicorn) has a condescending variant, telling Applejack how he admires the work ethic of Earth ponies and trying to appropriate that "simple" aesthetic.
    • "The Cutie Re-Mark – Part 2": An alternate Rarity from a Bad Future looks down on Spike for being a dragon (the regular Rarity likes him very much).
    • "Triple Threat": In an example of less dogmatic and more casual racism, the dragon Ember comments that ponies all look alike to her, and constantly mixes up Twilight Sparkle and Starlight Glimmer.
    • "School Daze": The thing that ultimately causes Neighsay to shut down Twilight's school is when he finds out that it admits non-ponies, which he views as "dangerous creatures" and a threat to the pony way of life. Later, he supports Flim and Flam's school due to its pony-centric environment, and believes that the "ill manners" of Twilight's non-pony students are "contagious". Ultimately, it's Cozy Glow, a pony, who used said knowledge to conquer Equestria, and Neighsay soon sees the error of his ways.
    • "Fake It 'Til You Make It": Once Fluttershy has completely lost herself in her upper-class storekeeper persona, she takes to repeatedly referring to her trio of raccoon helpers as "rodents" and saying that they should "go back to the forest". The reaction of both the raccoons and other ponies to this is consistent with the use of a heavy racial slur.
      Fluttershy: And you'll be pleased to hear that I've taken care of your rodent situation.
      [raccoons chitter in shock, one faints]
      Pinkie Pie: Will somebody tell her to stop saying it?
  • Changelings are given a bad rap after their failed invasion in Canterlot during A Canterlot Wedding - Part2. In The Times They Are a-Changeling, the Crystal Empire is on edge while finding a changeling spy. They find an innocent rogue changeling named Thorax and try to capture him, but Spike (who is regarded as a hero there) convinces them to treat Thorax as a friend, especially since Thorax has learned to share love rather than steal like his hive. This allows him to inspire his kind to adjust their Emotion Eater habits. Come To Where and Back Again - Part 2, he helps usurp his former queen Crysalis and take over the hive, giving all of changeling-kind a better standing for the rest of Equestria.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Sunset's Backstage Pass: Adagio, still as selfish and mean as ever despite losing her powers, quietly calls her audience "human scum."
  • My Little Pony: A New Generation: The three pony breeds of Equestria live separately from one another, and each sees the other two as being hostile and dangerous to the point that seeing even one pony of a different breed is cause for panic. Earth ponies seem to be the most fearful, in large part due to CanterLogic's business model relying on stoking fear to create a market for their products. There is also plenty of racist propaganda being taught as historical fact. In particular:
    • Earth ponies are seen as disgusting, lazy, and stupid. ("They have very tiny brains.")
    • Pegasi are seen as violent brutes who attack and kidnap ponies from above.
    • Unicorns are thought to read minds, zap ponies' brains with their horns, and use their magic in mysterious evil ways.
      Izzy Moonbow: I thought earth ponies were the pony ladder's bottom rung. I heard the pegasi were brutes you'd hate to be among. [To Sunny and Hitch] You smell like fishes, [to Pipp and Zipp] you're vicious, I bet you eat your young! Meet any one of you, the thing to do is run away.
• In Ninjago, Kalmaar hated all land-dwelling animals because of the fact that he believed the First Spinjitzu Master had unfairly claimed the island of Ninjago from the Endless Sea. As such, he went on a mission of awakening the ancient sea serpent Wojira, with goal of having her flood the island of Ninjago, drowning everything on the island. He succeeded in awakening Wojira, but it did not end well for him.
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: Brought up in an episode where Rad becomes a celebrity and is thrown into show business. However, since he is an alien, he is typecast into movie roles where he shouts stereotypical alien lines and speaks in broken English a la Jar Jar Binks. Unsurprisingly, he ends up quitting, and a human man dressed as an alien takes his place.
  • Kappas like Dendy are subject to an even stronger form of prejudice. The majority of people apparently view kappas as dangerous creatures who pull people underwater to drown them, despite this claim being entirely false. Because of this, kappas are considered monsters who do not possess the capabilities for heroism.
  • Implied. It appears that Foxtail considers people without powers useless. She thinks taking away a hero's power makes them useless, and there's also how she treats Greyman and Carol. She fires Greyman on the spot when he calls her out on her actions, remarking that Greyman's powerlessness means he has no place in POINT anymore. However, it appears she's still respectful to Carol; when Carol goes on her mission and has to bring K.O. with her, Foxtail goes along with Carol in pretending it's a scavenger hunt.
• The Owl House:
  • Humans are not thought of highly in the Boiling Islands, and Luz has to hide her identity to study magic. This is somewhat downplayed, however: Luz is still able to enroll in Hexside (with Principal Bump even favoring it), and she was able to perform in a tournament without much issue.
  • In regards to witches themselves, illusionist witches are often looked down upon because of the assumption that they are weaker. Such is the case due to the Boiling Isles running on Social Darwinism rhetoric.
  • The human Philip Wittebane is very prejudiced toward witches, considering them to be nothing more than savage barbarians who do not deserve to live. Anyone sympathetic towards witches gets the same treatment — he has zero qualms about killing Luz, a 14 year-old girl and the only other human on the Boiling Isles, after learning she's made friends with witches, and paintings in the background of the episode "Hollow Mind" suggest that he murdered his own brother for marrying and having a child with a witch.
    • In the present day, Philip has adopted the mantle of Emperor Belos. Over the centuries he's been alive, he's managed to conquer the Boiling Isles and force everyone into Covens, with sigils on their wrists that limit their magic to one specific type. On the Day of Unity, Belos planned to use these sigils to power the Draining Spell, a spell that would suck the magic out of everyone with a sigil and kill every single witch on the Boiling Isles.
• In Pinky and the Brain, The Brain shows shades of this towards Pinky's girlfriend, who is a horse.
  Brain: That is a horse, Pinky. You are a mouse.
  Pinky: Oh, don't start that again, Brain.
  • This is probably a subversion with the Comically Serious Brain pointing out the absurdly physical impossiblity of the relationship and Pinky mistaking it for this trope.
• Pocket Dragon Adventures: Knights like Sir Kenneth hunt dragons despite the fact that in this fantasy world, full-sized dragons are sapient bipedal civilized and every bit as intelligent as humans.
• Popeye and Son episode "There Goes the Neighborhood" deals with An Aesop about prejudice when a new kid in school turns out to be a werewolf from a family of monsters. Bluto even organizes the town into a Torches and Pitchforks lynching, only for the monsters to end up saving them from a fire, thus learning the lesson against racism.
• In the Pound Puppies (1980s) episode "Tuffy Gets Fluffy", Whopper and Bright Eyes are shown to have negative feelings about cats. Thankfully, they learn in the end that not all cats are bad.
• In Ready Jet Go!, Jet's cousin Zerk is quite discriminatory towards humans, or as the show calls them, "Earthies":
  • In "Whole Lotta Shakin'", he says that Earthies aren't very good builders.
  • In the TV movie Back to Bortron 7, Zerk takes Sean and Sydney to see how much better Bortron 7 is than Earth. Since Bortron 7 has 3 moons, Zerk even says that Earth having one moon must be weird.
• Exaggerated to the point of lampshading in the third season of ReBoot, as Enzo repeatedly encounters bigoted Mainframers who insist that only blue Sprites could make acceptable Guardians, each one spouting the refrain that "Green is no colour for the defender of the system!" At one point, a young toddler becomes incensed at the sight of him, and angrily hurls its (blue) Guardian plush toy in his face; "Everyone's a critic!", he groans. It should be noted that after hearing that line, Megabyte played up the racism angle with a propaganda campaign.
• Regular Show: Used for a quick gag in the episode "Jinx". Rigby (a little raccoon man) gets jinxed by his friend Mordecai, who now punches Rigby whenever he speaks. Rigby desperately looks for someone to break his jinx so he can talk again, however Pops^note (it should be noted that he's a Nice Guy who's genuinely kind and friendly to everyone) assumes that the mute Rigby is playing a game of charades, and Pops makes some rather random comments about raccoon hygiene and intelligence:
  Pops: "Oh, dirty raccoon! Three dirty raccoons? Raccoons' brains are three times smaller than normal. No, uh... Three out of three raccoons can't read!"
• In the season two episode of Rick and Morty, "Auto Erotic Assimilation," Rick hooks up with an alien hive-mind called "Unity" who had recently assimilated an entire planet of aliens. Summer and Morty convince unity that life would not necessarily be better without her, but just normal life. When Unity does leave, the aliens almost immediately get into a race war between people with pointy nipples and people with spirally nipples.
• Rocko's Modern Life:
  • Filbert and Paula's families don't approve of their upcoming nuptials because "cats and turtles don't mix". It's later revealed that Paula's father is a turtle, and her mother is just crazy. The two end up going to a drive-thru chapel instead of having a big-to-do ceremony in front of their Feuding Families.
  • In another episode, Rocko has lost Spunky at the supermarket, and sees that Spunky has been packed in one of those shrink-wrapped Styrofoam trays meat comes in, and has been mistaken for meat by another customer. Rocko tries to get Spunky back by talking about how gross dog meat is, how polluted it is, and eventually by spinning a sob story about how sea creatures are trapped when dogs are caught in the wild. The guy in line says the following:
    "Sea mammals, who needs 'em? This country would be a whole lot better off without 'em. In fact, we oughta take all the sea mammals, put 'em on a big boat, send it across the ocean, and sink it halfway."
    Gorilla next to sobbing dugong(?): "HEY, BUDDY! MY WIFE'S A SEA MAMMAL!" Cue Curb-Stomp Battle.
  • In "Who's For Dinner", Heffer invites Rocko over to his family's house for dinner (his family are all wolves), but warns him that his grandfather hates wallabies, but is very nearsighted. Heffer tells his grandfather he's a coyote, but Heffer's grandfather states he's a beaver. He proceeds to make several rather racist-sounding remarks about beavers during the episode, such as stating that they better not be letting Rocko eat off the good china, else they'll have to smash the plates.
• Rolling with the Ronks!: Mormagnon resents Flash for being an alien.
• Possibly the earliest televised example of this was Rankin Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, where Rudolph was a perfectly normal, healthy baby reindeer...whose nose happened to glow red on command. Almost everyone the poor thing encountered, from his own father to Santa Claus, rejected him because of it. (At least his mother loved him just the way he was). Actually any character that was different suffered this fate, from the Elf who wanted to be a dentist to the Island of Misfit Toys.
• Surprisingly enough, Rupert showed some examples of this.
  • Podgy Pig expresses unfounded contempt towards snakes in "Rupert and the Crocodiles" and tries to warn Rupert Bear against saving a snake claiming to be the Serpent King. Fortunately, Podgy eventually sheds his prejudices and is shown to be grateful when he, Rupert, a ship captain, and the captain's first mate are later rescued from a tribe of bipedal crocodiles that attempted to eat them by the Serpent King and many other snakes.
  • "Rupert and the Twilight Fan" had Rupert and the Professor's assistant go to the Bird Kingdom to find the tail feather of a rare bird so that it can be used to awaken Tiger Lily from a sleeping spell. The sapient birds who inhabit the kingdom attempt to imprison Rupert and the Professor's assistant for daring to arrive in a flying machine, believing that only birds are allowed to experience flight. Some penguins native to the Bird Kingdom eventually take the flying machine for a ride, which makes the king of the Bird Kingdom realize how selfish his people have been by trying to deny the flightless a chance at experiencing flight.
  • More prejudice from the Bird Kingdom is shown in "Rupert and the Firebird". Rupert visits the Bird Kingdom to find help for his new pet firebird Bernie, who got sick after being exposed to water by accident. The owl guards promptly throw Rupert into the dungeon simply because he isn't a bird and laugh at his claims that he is friends with the Bird King. Rupert only manages to escape by hiding in a pelican's beak, and the owl guards keep searching for Rupert until the wiser Bird King talks them out of it.
• Tim the Witch Smeller in Sabrina: The Animated Series. In Tim's first episode, after Uncle Quigley gives an Anvilicious speech about how not all witches are bad, Tim appears to have seen the error of his ways. Tim apologises to Sabrina and her aunts and claims that he will turn over a new leaf. But once they forgive him he reveals he was only putting on an act and goes right back to trying to capture them now that they've let their guard down.
  • Tim's own Freudian Excuse also deals with this trope, since he was a Muggle Born of Mages who grew up constantly mocked by his peers.
• Samurai Jack:
  • In Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie, Jack gets into a bar fight trying to defend himself from a gang of alien criminals, who got angry that a human had even dared to walk into the bar and stare at them. Even after Jack apologizes for not knowing any better, they still try to murder him.
  • In "Jack, the Woolies, and the Chritchellites", a hostile alien race called the Chritchellites had invaded the land of the Woolies and enslaved them all. Even though the Woolies are a peaceful and civilized race, the Chritchellites view them with nothing but contempt, and treat them like domesticated animals.
  • In Season 5, the android assassin Scaramouche encounters members of a race of anthropomorphic canines. Being the rude jerkass that he is, Scaramouche unapologetically calls them "dogs" and "Rover", which greatly offends them, to the point that the canines throw him overboard off a ship.
• One of the underlying themes of Shadow Raiders, though partially justified in this case because each of the Single Biome Planets is rich in one resource that the others lack (Bone produces food, Ice produces water, Fire produces energy, and Rock presumably produces metal and whatever other mineral-based Applied Phlebotinum is needed), so all of the planets have been raiding and warring with each other for centuries. Particularly evident in the populace of planets Ice and Fire, where each species believes that merely touching their counterpart species will kill them.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: The Horde teaches its admittedly pretty varied minions that the Princess Alliance exhibits this. In particular, Scorpia says her family of Scorpion People was never accepted by the other princesses, implied to be because of their inhuman traits like pincers and a stinger tail. Ultimately averted; the Horde's claims of this were just propaganda. The Rebellion is shown to accept multiple humanoid species, and when Scorpia pulls a Heel–Face Turn and tries to join the Princess Alliance, the only hostility she faces is because of her past with the Horde; nobody is shown to dislike her for her species, and Frosta in particular thinks the giant claws are awesome.
• In the Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century episode based on "The Five Orange Pips", the villains are an anti-robot group working with Moriarty. In the original story, they were the Ku Klux Klan.
• Parodied in The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XIX segment "It's the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse". Nelson threatens a yellow pumpkin with a knife in order to not be eaten by the Grand Pumpkin, who just points out that he doesn't care about yellow pumpkins. When Nelson calls the Grand Pumpkin a racist, he claims that "All pumpkins are racist, the difference is that I admit it." Not to mention that upon death, Grandie spouts something about "Pumpkin segregation forever!"
• In Sitting Ducks, ducks are encouraged to be scared of alligators and loathe them, and in the neighboring town of Swampwood, the alligators are encouraged to see ducks as nothing more than a meal. Bill and Aldo's friendship to the masses is treated as a biracial friendship to the ducks and gators who both oppose it for differing reasons.
• Played for Laughs in Solar Opposites where the aliens constantly complain about how the humans are bigoted racists for constantly mistreating them and stereotyping them as evil alien invaders who are a threat to humanity with their alien tech, and take great offense to being accused of being responsible for the weird or bad things going on, and act as if the only reason humans do any of this is because they are aliens. Of course, they actually are evil alien invaders who are a threat to humanity, as they are there to obliterate mankind and destroy Earth to terraform it into a planet for them to live on. Even with that aside, they are terrible people who constantly and casually maim, mutate, kidnap, and kill humans for the hell of it and actually are always responsible for all the wierd or bad things they are accused of, meaning the humans are actually right to treat them the way they do. In fact, the only time in the entire series they were actually Misblamed for an incident was when some people got sick of them constantly getting away with the horrible stuff they do and decided to frame them so they'd get some Laser-Guided Karma. And, as icing on the cake, before they pull any weird or evil stuff, the humans tend to treat them at best quite well and at worst with casual indifference.
• The South Park episode "Goobacks" features immigrants time traveling from an overpopulated Bad Future to find work in present-day Earth and work for minimal wages and invest it to support the people of their own time period. When Stan complains about all the jobs they are taking from South Park's citizens, his father accuses him of being "timecist".
• The premise of Spider-Man Unlimited has Spider-Man ending up in a parallel reality known as Counter-Earth, which is inhabited by both humans and uplifted animals called Bestials. A recurring theme is that humans and Bestials are bigoted toward each other, which is first made apparent by showing humans living in the slums and being treated like vermin by the more well-off Bestials. The two-part premiere episode even has John Jameson attempt to shoot some Bestials after they've been freed from the symbiotes that took control of them simply because they're Bestials, only relenting when Spidey points out to him that callously killing the Bestials would prove that humans are just as bad as them.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • It is hinted that Sandy is sometimes ridiculed and not well-liked, because she is a land mammal and lives underwater with sea creatures.
    • In "Karate Choppers", after Mr. Krabs gives SpongeBob a second chance to keep his job, he sniffs Sandy, gives a disgusted look and snarls the word "mammals".
    • There's also "Squirrel Jokes", in which SpongeBob becomes a popular comedian through "squirrel jokes", which imply squirrels to be "so darn stupid", resulting in Sandy being belittled and treated differently by the people of Bikini Bottom. Though SpongeBob later makes it up to his friend by making equal-opportunity jokes against all the undersea animals, including his own species.
    • The episode "Pressure" has Krabs, Squidward, Patrick, and SpongeBob belittling Sandy for not being like them, and challenging her to remove her survival suit. However, Sandy isn't above engaging in some racism herself, to the point where she brags about land-dwelling creatures being good at fishing. Yeesh.
    • However this isn't always present in an episode. For example in "Texas", she wanted to return home to Texas, but SpongeBob convinced her to stay, and we see that Mr. Krabs and other Bikini Bottomities do like her and wanted her to stay in Bikini Bottom, and had no ill-will towards her.
    • Though conversely in "Kenny the Cat", Sandy thinks that cats are scoundrels and can't be trusted. Now replace "cats" with another race like for example "blacks". See the problem? Then again, back home on dry land, cats kill and eat squirrels.
  • The episode "Squidville" contains an example of fantastic segregation. Squidward moves to a gated community called Tentacle Acres, which only allows cephalopods like himself to live there; when SpongeBob and Patrick try to enter, a security guard outright tells them that "your kind isn't allowed here", and was about to send his partner to beat them with his nightstick.
  • Another case of this turns up in "SpongeGuard On Duty", when SpongeBob tries to deter people from going into the water by warning that there are sharks in there, only to offend a family of sharks. He then tries to say that the water isn't safe because sea monsters are there, but that isn't any better and results in a bespectacled sea monster replying with "You know, we sea monsters have made great strides in the fields of science and literature", before slapping SpongeBob with his tailfin.
• Star Trek: Lower Decks:
  • Ensign Tendi is sometimes subject to this because she's an Orion, who are known for being "hyper-capitalist libertarian gangster pirates" and Green Skinned Space Babes even though many of them haven't been for about five years. She's pissed off when Mariner casts her as a stereotypical Orion space pirate in a holodeck program, and that same program has a crew member call her a "filthy Orion" — which, since it's based on the crew's personal logs, is presumably the real opinion of that officer. In the second season a Collector of the Strange constantly refers to her derisively as "Orion" and tries to pin his own theft of an artifact on her.
  • "Temporal Edict": The crystal-revering Gelrakians hate the wood-worshippers of Mavok Prime, and declare war on the Cerritos when they're accidentally given a diplomatic gift meant for the Mavokians.
  • "Veritas": Tendi overhears some Romulan guards complaining about how much they hate Remans.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil:
  • Though the show is light hearted and colorful with the occasional dose of black comedy, the show slowly reveals a fairly harsh case of this. The monsters Star gleefully fights turn out to have few other employment options other than as the Mooks to a Manchild. According to "Mewnipendence Day", Star's ancestors drove the monsters off their lands, and as seen in "On the Job", they jealously guard the food they grow, forcing the monsters to scrape a living in the swamps.
  • In "Starfari", Star tries to go about making things better for Monsterkind, and thinks she's found a kindred spirit in Jelly Goodwell, the Royal Monster Expert. It gradually dawns on Star, however, that Ms. Goodwell thinks the Monsters are little more than animals, and her Condescending Compassion for the Monsters (and ill-conceived plan to blow up a dam and isolate them in the middle of a lake) is almost as bad as the blatant racism of other Mewmans.
    Star: Listen, we can't just go around pulling up dams and imprisoning Monsters! That's crazy! Mewmans have been deciding what's best for Monsters for way too long!
    • This chapter also explores the relationship between classism and racism, when Star questions why Tom Lucitor is not considered a monster, despite having three eyes, tail and horns. His mother's response is that "they have been our allies for a long time" and "They are rich!" Tom later acknowledges that despite being very rich and clearly privileged, he also receives looks of disgust from mewmans who do not see in him more than a monster.
  • Star's alleged great-times-seven grandmother Queen Solaria is an extreme case of this, believing monsters would be happier brutally slaughtered than alive, and was aiming to make a spell that will result in the extinction of all monsters. Thankfully, she never completed it, and handed off that duty to her daughter, Eclipsa, who has absolutely no intent on ever finishing that spell.
• Star Wars Rebels:
  • The Empire looks down on aliens, and it's rare for them to serve in high-ranking positions within the Empire. The Inquisitors and Grand Admiral Thrawn are the only exceptions.
  • Agent Kallus seems to be this, though most of it has been against Lasats. It turns out it's from a misplaced grudge, due to trauma from seeing his first unit getting killed by a mercenary that just so happened to be a Lasat. He once tried to harass Hera for being a Twi'lek when they met in "Vision of Hope", as well as Rex (a clone) in "Relics of the Old Republic".
• Steven Universe:
  • Peridot does not think highly of pearls and fusions, to say the least. Some fans jokingly refer to her prejudice as "gemist". Peridot's prejudice is the result of her adherence to Homeworld's Fantastic Caste System, and is likely shared to some extent by any Homeworld gem. Pearls and Fusions aren't considered people, and Peridot doesn't care for taking orders from them. Oddly, she doesn't have much issue with hybrids like Steven, presumably because Steven's completely unique and doesn't fit in any pre-established caste system. Also, before discovering Steven's status as a hybrid, she assumes that Steven is a type of quartz (which isn't entirely wrong), and as seen with her interactions with Amethyst, she legitimately does respect quartzes. She gets better after spending time with Pearl and especially Garnet.
  • Gems in general tend to be pretty dismissive of humans, with even the heroic Crystal Gems rarely treating them as equals. Pearl in particular can be very smugly dismissive. However, they are a vast improvement over the rest of Homeworld, who tends to view all organic life with disdain and don't seem to consider organic lifeforms people.
    • Even after seeing how humanity has grown and having found her own kind in order to save them, Rose Quartz still has trouble understanding them until Greg calls her out on it.
  • Homeworld finds the idea of two different kinds of gems fusing unacceptable.
  • The Off Colors are persecuted for these reasons and more. Padparadscha is a defective orange Sapphire whose precognitive abilities are horribly inverted, causing her to see visions of events that have just happened in the immediate past. The Rutile Twins were created from the Kindergarten malformed, with their humanoid form appearing as two one-armed torsos conjoined at a single waist. Rhodonite and Fluorite are both fusions born of love between at least two different Gem types; Rhodonite is a Ruby and a Pearl whose negative personality traits have been magnified, while Fluorite is a polyamorous fusion of six Gems and is open to adding more if they are compatible and speaks incredibly slowly. The only way they overcome their "defects" is under the leadership of Lars Barriga, who unwittingly stowed away to Homeworld with Steven, died, and was then brought back to life by Steven and now has powers similar to Lion.
  • There's also this exchange when they see Yellow Diamond's Pearl:
    Steven: Who's that?
    Pearl: (annoyed) Not all Pearls know each other, Steven.
    • Although that one turned out to be a case of Exact Words as she does know that Pearl.
  • Deconstructed in The Crystal Gems Say be Anti-Racist short See Color. Amethyst points out that the common phrase "It doesn't matter if you're black, white, or purple" is little more than a form of Gaslighting to shut down discussion of racism altogether and minimize the specific experiences various people of color deal with regarding the very real racism they experience.
    Amethyst: Ugh, who wrote this? I think it kinda does matter that I'm purple. I mean, I'm purple because I'm literally an alien. (...) I just think it's messed up to compare me being alien to you two [a black and a white girl] being different races. You're both human, you're totally biologically the same. Adding purple people to a lesson about human racism makes no sense.
• In an episode of Superjail!, Jared tries to order bunny suits for everyone, but the Twins end up messing with the order so that half the prison population gets bunny suits and the other half gets wolf suits.
• The Teen Titans (2003) episode "Troq" features Starfire suffering speciesism from another alien named Val-Yor, who has a strong dislike of her kind (Tameranians), and he even calls her "Troq" until the end of the episode.
  • Starfire tells Cyborg that the name meant "nothing". Thinking it as a nickname, he calls her that once at one point and she immediately snaps at him. Though he thought she meant the name didn't mean anything, he is upset when Starfire clarifies that Val-Yor was actually calling her "a nothing". When the rest of the team learns about this, they immediately tell Val-Yor to leave after their mission, even (or especially) after he started respecting for Starfire and calling her "one of the good ones"
  • However, the message may have been kind of mishandled, as the Titans go on to commit genocide against a (malevolent) robotic race, only on the word of a known bigot that they were a threat. However, there was no evidence to contradict Val-Yor's claims that the robots were purely evil entities (indeed, they were attempting galactic domination, and they weren't really treated as actual living beings by the narrative).
• Thomas & Friends:
  • Many steam engines and diesels have a strong dislike for one another. Some steam engines see the diesels as all obnoxious and mean engines trying to take away their jobs, and some diesels see the steam engines as outdated and deserving to be scrapped (which was the opinion of the actual British Railways in the 50s and 60s, especially after the publication of the Modernisation Plan of 1955). It was also a major driving force in the movie Calling All Engines. In addition, one of the books, James and the Diesel Engines, is all about the title character trying to overcome his prejudices against diesels. Interestingly, the Fantastic Racism in The Railway Series is actually Reverend Awdry's response to the Modernization Plan, as he felt that the Plan was hasty and poorly implemented, as railways rushed to implement diesel locomotives and scrap steam locomotives, many of which were practically fresh out of the factory, only to find out that the diesels they acquired to replace them were unreliable and fraught with teething problems. This, in turn, resulted in massive infrastructural issues on the British Railways, as the brand new diesels were laid up in the sheds and they no longer had the more reliable steam engines to fall back on.
  • Daisy the Diesel Railcar is particularly rude to coaches. This is because as a diesel railcar, she can go wherever she wants whenever she wants, something she considers up-to-date, whereas coaches can't move by themselves and have to have an engine pull them, something she considers outdated. In her debut episode, she calls Annie, Clarabel, and Henrietta rubbish, and since the coaches don't want to stay in the same shed as her so they can be insulted, Percy and Toby have to spend half the night soothing their hurt feelings. In "The Railcar and the Coaches", she says rude things about Annie and Clarabel when she substitutes for Thomas on his branch line, which inspires the coaches to say rude things about her in retaliation.
  • Some road vehicles such as Bertie the Bus are friends with the engines, and although they sometimes tease them about their railways, they would never want to see them ripped up. Other road vehicles such as Bulgy the Double-Decker Bus and George the Steamroller hate engines and desire for their railways to be ripped up and turned into roads, believing road vehicles to be much more reliable than engines.
• In ThunderCats (2011) the Cats' empire of Thundera is full of this, and the people on top justify it with Might Makes Right Social Darwinism. The Cats look down on the other races of Animals, especially their archenemies the Lizards, and the Lizards despise the Cats in turn. The Cats also segregate their own species based on tails — those who have them, such as the Thunderkittens, are treated as second class citizens.
• The Transformers franchise has a long history of exploring this trope:
  • The Quintessons hold every other sapient race in contempt. Most notably Transformers and humans.
  • Megatron in Beast Machines is arguably the WORST example in the franchise by far. To put it simply, he hates organic life with every fiber of his being; viewing it as an abomination and plague. As such, he's been trying to exterminate the Maximals for their Beast Modes and trying to remove all of the organic components of his own.
  • Transformers: Animated:
    • Sentinel Prime has severe issues with organics. While the trauma of having his friend killed by giant spiders might have something to do with it, there's something very wrong with a guy who tells his not-so-dead friend, who is now part-organic, that she would have been better off dead and then tries to kill her himself.
    • This seems to be common throughout the Cybertronian population. "This Is Why I Hate Machines" has Capt. Fanzone accidentally coming to Cybertron. Most of the natives are either terrified of him or try to squish him, and none refer to him as anything but "the Organic." And these are all Autobots. Mind you, this happens after the aforementioned Sentinel Prime becomes Magnus and begins a propaganda campaign against organics.
  • In Transformers: Cyberverse, Shockwave turns out to have some neo-functionist leanings, believing Seekers are stupid and need easy-to-follow instructions for the simplest of tasks.
  • Megatron in Transformers: Prime hates humanity so much that he refuses to scan an Earth vehicle mode, preferring to stick with his Cybertronian jet mode. A wolf, he reasons, has no need to hide amongst sheep.
    • Ratchet of the Autobots is also openly contemptuous of flesh-creatures, their technology and culture. He so assured of Cybertronian superiority that he does not even bother to learn about human physiology and medicine: This comes back to haunt him big-time when a human child that he has unwittingly come to love is mortally-wounded by Megatron, and he panics in desperation as he does not know the first thing to do to save his life.
    • Additionally, Starscream has called humans vermin on more than one occasion, and Knock Out once refers to one as "skinjob".
• When Keith is revealed to be part-Galra on Voltron: Legendary Defender, Allura, whose planet has been at war with the Galra empire for ten thousand years, begins treating him coldly despite him having nothing to do with the people who destroyed her planet besides genetics.
• Wakfu displays a world with a multitude of races, all of whom are smugly condescending to each other on a regular basis. In particular, the Iop ethnicity is treated collectively as a pack of over-aggressive meatheads; you could make a drinking game using every time someone being stupid is referred to as "Iop-brain".
• Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? had this happen both ways. The title character is frequently ridiculed and ostracized for being a robot, while his family often views humans as being inferior to robots.
• In one episode of The Wild Thornberrys, Eliza and Darwin had to deal with a feud between two groups of monkeys, one with long tails and one with short tails.
• One episode of Saban's X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon took the theme of prejudice against mutants and turned it on its head when Storm (an African) and Wolverine (a white Canadian) traveled back in time to the 1950s. When the waiter at a restaurant refused them service because Storm was black, she indignantly replied, "That's so pathetic it's almost quaint!"
  • It was made even more of a sore spot because this version of Storm and Wolverine came from an alternate timeline in which they were married. Needless to say, Wolverine didn't take it well.
  • In keeping with the theme of the comic, all the X-Men TV series have addressed Fantastic Racism. It becomes the major theme in the third and fourth seasons of X-Men: Evolution, after the mutants are revealed to the world, and it seems like pretty much every human hates the mutants.
• The Xiaolin Chronicles episode "Planet of Dragons" has the Xiaolin monks and Dojo travelling to a future where the humans are treated as slaves and as being inferrior by the dragons. And all of that happened because the monks gave Dojo too many chores, which they could easily do by themselves. Granted, Dojo didn't want the dragons to rule the world, he just wanted to free them from slavery, but his many greats-grandson wanted, and due to being his descendent to the throne, the world got worse for the humans once he became the ruler.
• Young Justice (2010):
  • When talking about race conflicts in class, Megan (Miss Martian) mentions to Conner (Superboy) that on Mars, there is a lot of discrimination against the White Martian minority by the Green Martian majority. It turns out that Megan is actually a White Martian who's insecure about her true self, having disguised herself as a Green Martian and took a more humanoid form to avoid ostracization on Earth.
  • Red Volcano's goal was essentially to wipe out all organic life on Earth, so that he and his fellow robots could rule the world. When expressing his disgust against humans at Miss Martian and Superboy (both of whom are aliens), he corrects himself and calls them "meatbags". Oddly this plan seems to have come from his human creator, though it's a bit hard to tell since the T.O. Morrow we originally see was really a robot too (albeit he believes that he's human; it's a long story).
  • In Season 2, the TV news anchorman G. Gordon Godfrey is trying to encourage xenophobia by suggesting that the Justice League may be harboring more aliens than the publicly accepted Martian Manhunter and Superman, and it works. Though ironically enough, Godfrey is actually a New God from Apokolips, and was only spreading anti-alien/superhero propaganda under Darkseid's orders.
  • The tie-in comic has a story revolving around a group of Atlantean extremists who try to incite violence against the citizens who do not look fully human such as Lagoon Boy, or even Kaldur himself, who has visible gills and webbed digits. In a later issue, La'gaan tells M'gann that he came to the surface in order to escape such prejudice, same as she did.

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