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The Indians said I was white by law
The White Man always called me "Indian Squaw"
Cher, "Half Breed"

So, you just happen to be the child of that army guy who went native and married The Chief's Daughter? Or perhaps the reverse applies and dear mum left home and joined dad on the ancestral family homestead back in rural Smalltownington. This of course is assuming both your parents are alive and love each other (Star-Crossed Lovers have a tendency to have it rough). You might, after all, be the product of accidental affairs, or worse yet, rape. And then you were born. Congratulations, you are now guaranteed to be despised by one or both sides of your family. Maybe it was that time you wore the ritual face paint to Sunday school...

The Moral Guardians of the local town have branded you the "Half-Breed." ("Half-caste" is a roughly synonymous term.)

Lucky for you, you (hopefully) have the love and support of your immediate family, and if you had a shaman/witch doctor/priestess in the family genes, you can most assuredly tell them where to stick their supremacist ideologies by unleashing the can of mystical whup-ass. Conversely, you may need to give the other side of the family the can of whup-ass if the tribe never accepts you as one of them, but let's not dwell.

Life may be difficult. If you bear a closer resemblance to one parent over the other, you might tend to stick out like a sore thumb. Fortunately, genetics is probably on your side. Not only are you likely to possess an exotic attractiveness, you may even have the ability to pass as either race at any given time.

A word of caution: any revelation of your parentage might bring down the wrath of a mob wielding Torches and Pitchforks of doom at any given moment. Always have an escape plan ready, even if it requires mass carnage. Hence this trope can result in, or can be the result of, Hiding Your Heritage.

If you happen to live in a fantasy or sci-fi world, you're probably a Half-Human Hybrid. Here's to hoping you at least have five fully functioning limbs. More specifically, if one of your parents happens to be an elf, then congratulations you are a half-elf who will be hated and despised by your "superior" elven family. If you're a half-orc, half-ogre or similar, you're likely even worse off, especially if your parents' races are at war, so either side may see only the blood of the enemy in you — or, as tactfully used to describe half-orcs, "their existence implies an interesting backstory that most would not like to dwell on." See also Raised by Natives.

Subtrope of Child of Two Worlds and Contempt Crossfire. Compare Maligned Mixed Marriage. And possibly, That Thing Is Not My Child!. Contrast But Not Too Foreign, in which people with mixed ancestry are treated better than ones who have only minority or foreign ancestry, as well as the One-Drop Rule, in which this ancestry is so far back on the family tree that nothing remains visible of it, and yet still causes this kind of harsh treatment. Compare and contrast Mixed Ancestry is Attractive, since fetishization often goes hand-in-hand with prejudice. See also Hybrids Are a Crapshoot, which may exacerbate this trope and/or add a layer of nuance to the anti-hybrid side.

The "tragic mulatto" is an old trope of period literature, and involves a character of mixed white and black or other ethnic ancestry who's not accepted by his or her community, often with tragic results.

Please note that in Real Life using the words half-breed and half-caste are frowned upon because of their demeaning undertones. "Mixed" is the most common everyday term, with "mixed-race" or "biracial" being used academically, but it varies by culture and individual.

Fantasy (or soft Science Fiction) works may include hybrids of different species, mostly Half Human Hybrids, sometimes Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrids. In these non-human or half-human cases, often overlaps with Half-Breed Angst, which focuses on internal rather than external conflict.


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    Anime and Manga 
  • Area 88: Josie was an orphan of mixed French and Japanese ethnicity. After her parents' deaths, her Japanese grandparents refused to take her in because they disapproved of her parents' marriage.
  • Attack on Titan:
    • Mikasa Ackerman had a white father and an Asian mother, and unfortunately, her Asian heritage was the reason they were targeted by human traffickers, and her parents both got killed due to the fact that Asians have almost entirely died out in the world setting. Mikasa was actually not considered as valuable as her mother due to her mixed heritage, but the traffickers settled for her after accidentally killing her mother.
    • Reiner Braun is actually half-Eldian and half-Marleyan. Laws prohibiting such relationships result in him concealing his true heritage and give him plenty of Daddy Issues as a result of never being permitted to meet his father.
  • Basilisk: Tenzen, though this comes off only in the anime. He's the product of a union between members of feuding Ninja clans hims, and his Iga mother was killed by his Koga father. He was cut from his mother's womb to be raised as a Koga. He later on defects to the Iga as part of a scheme to revenge himself on both groups by playing on their hatred for each other.
  • Beastars: There are preferences and support for animals to marry and have children with those of the same species, while hybrids tend to be excommunicated and distrusted. Hybrid children aren't even accepted into standard daycares. Legosi's mother feared this discrimination due to being half-wolf and half Komodo Dragon, and tried to look and act like a pure-blood wolf even as her father's scales started to appear on her. Meanwhile, gazelle-leopard hybrid Melon had his Start of Darkness in part from being bullied for his visible hybrid status.
  • Blue Exorcist: Rin gets harsh regard from his superiors due to being half-demon. Technically, though, half-demons are relatively common, it's just the issue of which demon his father is.
  • Claymore: The Claymores are hybrids of the monsters known as Yoma and normal Humans, all the Claymores are originally born human and then artificially transformed into half-breeds through a rather painful process that involves transplanting Yoma flesh and blood into them. As a result, Claymores are the only ones able to fight the Yoma and protect humans from them, but they end up being shunned and feared by common humans for their similarities to Yoma and of course the Yoma themselves have a dislike for those who exist only to hunt them down.
  • Blue Ramun: It is forbidden for members of the Blue Ramun tribe of the Silkdeep Empire to marry outside of their ethnic group and doubly forbidden for them to produce children with civilians. The children of such unions have a weakened version of their Blue Ramun parent's healing abilities, but not enough to train or work as full-fledged Blue Doctors. The Garicalege preys on these "illegal" children because their disappearances can't be reported without the parents admitting to the crime of conceiving a half-blooded child. When Jessie and Eagle rescue a young half-Blue Ramun girl from the Garicalege, Eagle uses his connections to have her sent North to the land of Seldia where there isn't legal prejudice against half-Blue Ramun kids.
  • Cyborg 009: This is the backstory of Joe - he was the son of a Japanese woman and a man of some unspecified Western ethnicity. Because of this, he was mocked as a "half-breed" and turned to delinquency as a result. The rest of his cyborg team, however, tell him not to be ashamed of his heritage, but to see it as the breaking down of barriers between groups.
  • Devil May Cry: The Animated Series: This is blatantly stated by Bradley to Dante. This is highly uncommon because demons tend to enjoy tormenting and killing humans. However, Dante's father was a demon who rebelled against the demon emperor and sided with humans. Afterwards, he ruled the human world and had twin sons, Dante and Vergil, before disappearing.
  • Inuyasha:
    • Inuyasha is son of a powerful dog youkai and a human aristocrat. When he was a kid he was feared and shunned by humans, and hunted and mocked by youkai for being a hanyou. His full-blooded-youkai brother used to bully him for his heritage until Character Development changed him into an Aloof Big Brother.
    • Shiori's mother is a human villager who married a powerful bat-youkai. The entire village hates them and tries to sacrifice Shiori to appease the bat-youkai who hunt the villagers. The leader of the Bat-youkai wants Shiori's Barrier Maiden abilities, but murdered his own son, Shiori's father, for producing the half-breed child in the first place.
    • Jinenji is the offspring of a human mother and powerful youkai with great healing abilities. They live in exile outside the village which holds him responsible for the youkai attacks they suffer. It takes Jinenji putting his life on the line to protect the very people who spent a lifetime bullying and torturing him to gain their acceptance.
    • Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon:
      • This was Subverted with Towa, who was ironically Sesshomaru's daughter, the main reason being that she was raised by the caring Higurashi family.
      • However this is also the reason why Towa, Setsuna, and Moroha were kept in hiding from youkais who would wish them harm, and specificialy from Zero, a Yandere, racist youkai who became jealous of Izayoi earning the affections of Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's father. This is most notable with Setsuna, who was taken in by Shiori and was reluctant to explore the human world.
  • Japan Sinks: While looking for a way off the sinking Japanese islands, the group comes across a group of Japanese nationalists operating a mega-float. When the group has the chance to board the vessel, they learn that the crew only wants to save pure-blood Japanese people and turn away the Mutoh children for being half-Filipino. Ayumu and Go Mutoh both being half-Japanese are briefly -albeit reluctantly- accepted spots on the vessel because to the nationalists, the two of them "make one whole Japanese person" much to the disgust of the group.
  • Sentarou from Kids on the Slope is half-white. His hair is lighter than his half-siblings and when he had longer hair, it's shown to be wavy. When he was younger he faced bullying due to his background.
  • Megalomania: Canon struggles with this, she's half-human, half-demihuman and she is pretty much hated by both groups.
  • In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, both Half-Demons Kotaro and Setsuna mention having problems fitting into either the Human or Demon world. Setsuna doubly so as her demon family considers her albinism to be taboo so she has to dye her hair to a more acceptable darker tone.
  • Pet Shop of Horrors: In one story, a Filipino woman marries a much older Japanese man and has a son with him. When her husband has a stroke and begins to suffer from dementia, the rest of his family makes no secret of how they think a mixed-race child is not fit to inherit and that the man's pure-blood Japanese grandson is a much better choice as a successor. Given that the family is shown as being incredibly dysfunctional (notably the grandson is selfish and kills his grandfather to please his mother while the mixed-race son is polite and kind), the story is firmly on the side of the Filipino woman and her son. D gives the woman a young man to help as a caretaker for her husband, who tells how he himself is biracial and was unable to fit in with his mother and father's homelands. The end of the story reveals that the man was actually a dog that was a mixed breed but very loyal and loving. Oh, and it turned out the man had been faking his dementia and ensured that his mixed-race son inherited everything, now that he saw how despicable the rest of the family was.
  • Princess Resurrection. Zig-zagged. Riza Wildman is a half-human/half-werewolf hybrid. We know her brother, who was full-blooded werewolf, accepted her, as he gave his life to protect her, and this was before we, the audience, had even met her, so it was undoubtedly genuine. However, a trio of werewolves who attack the mansion mock her for her half-breed status, one of them even asking her if her mother, the human in the relationship, conceived her while Riza's father was in human or wolf form. At least one other werewolf, Keziah, treats her amicably, but he was a friend of her late father.
  • Reborn! (2004): Hayato Gokudera is half Italian, half Japanese, which lead to him being rejected by every mafia family except for the one headed by the almost totally Japanese Tsunayoshi Sawada.
  • Rosario + Vampire:
    • Mostrels are hybrids of different monster races and are generally looked down upon for their mixed pedigree. They in turn despise the pureblooded monsters.
    • Witches are treated like this, even though they are a race of their own, being hunted by humans, and being shunned by monsters, due to the fact that they're neither human nor monster.
  • Saiyuki:
    • Half-human, half-youkai children are considered "taboo children" born with a curse and against the laws of heaven and tend to be looked down upon by both races.note  If Goyjo is any indication, they are more likely to end up on the youkai side yet compared to pure-blood youkai they're relatively powerless. It also doesn't help that some youkai aren't above raping human women on a regular basis, and that the "taboo children" are easily identified by their unnatural blood-red hair and matching eyes.
    • Homura from the anime Filler Arc is seen as an "unclean being" by Heavens due to being a product of a similarly forbidden relationship between a deity and a human.
  • Blue from Wolf's Rain is a wolf-dog. Upon meeting Cheza, the dog side of her virtually disappears and she joins the other wolves. In the end, it ultimately causes her to be denied reincarnation and she can't be with the other wolves.

    Comic Books 
  • Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: When meeting Sabrina, who is half-witch and half-human, for the first time, her cousin Ambrose partially refers to her as "the half-breed" before fixing his wording and calling Sabrina by her name.
  • The DCU:
  • Green Arrow: Connor Hawke's mother is half Korean and half African-American. His father, Ollie Queen, is white. The trouble he had fitting in was what drove him to try and find peace in Buddhism and monkhood.
  • The post-Infinite Crisis, pre-Legion of Super-Heroes (2020) iteration of Mon-El, the Daxamite hero born as Lar Gand, is the descendant of Bal Gand, a Daxamite explorer and ambassador, and an unnamed Mesoamerican male, before the discovery of America. Bal, fearing this trope, made sure to entrust her unnamed son with a spaceship programmed to bring him to Earth at the first sign of xenophobia. While the unnamed Gand was able to subvert the pitchforks and live a fairly happy life, hiding his lineage, his still operative spaceship was later found by his distant nephew Lar, wishing to escape his oppressive homeland and travel in space as his ancestors did, starting the cycle anew.
  • Marvel Universe:
    • Daken, Wolverine's son, is half-Canadian and half-Japanese. His name even means Mongrel. He grew up in Japan right after World War II had just ended. Considering how the culture would be responding to an abandoned child of mixed descent at the time, his Jerkass nature becomes a little more understandable.
    • Young Avengers: Hulkling is half-Kree, half-Skrull. His Skrull grandfather even ordered his death, though now the Skrull Empire wants him back, as he's the only living member of the Imperial family. And the Kree would rather he join their ranks instead. The kicker? He considers himself more human than either Kree or Skrull due to being raised as one, and doesn't want to join either group.
    • Oxbow: Sam Matonabbe is half-white, half-Native American, and faced discrimination from the local natives and whites. This got into Bullying a Dragon territory, as he's seven feet tall and has super strength. You'd think hatred wouldn't run deep enough to get you to pick on that guy.
    • Sunspot from the New Mutants is Brazilian with a black father and white mother. His mutant powers first manifest when some fellow kids start beating him up for being both mixed and black.
  • Blacksad: Played with in Arctic Nation in regards to Blacksad himself. There's racism between the anthropomorphic animals based on fur color rather than species, so polar bears hang out with snowfoxes and black horses with rottweilers, etc. John Blacksad just happens to be a mostly black cat with a prominent white snout, so he attracts the distrust of both the Arctic Nation and the Black Crows.

    Fan Works 
  • A Young Girl's Guerrilla War: Japanese of mixed ancestry (hafu) are stigmatized one way or another. Tanya, being the blonde-haired daughter of a prostitute and an unknown Britannian sailor, looks more Britannian than Japanese and is initially distrusted by many of her Japanese allies. Kallen meanwhile, despite being the redheaded daughter of a Britannian noble, has to hide her Japanese ancestry when among the Ashford Academy students and is almost assaulted by gangs in Shinjuku who mistake her for Britannian.
  • The Myth of Link & Zelda: Breath of the Wild: This is a novelization of the game of the same subtitle. There's an Original Character named Lochlia, a Zora-Hylian hybrid girl. When Link meets her, she tells him that the people would give her dirty looks as her Hylian features became more and more apparent, and it really left a mark on her. It's especially sad, because she's actually the Zora Princess, the daughter of Princess Mipha and Link from a prior relationship they had. As Mipha's daughter, she inherited her mother's healing gift, and even that wasn't enough to placate the bigotry of her people. This left Lochlia taking a massive reckless risk to finally prove herself to her subjects.
  • The Broken Day reveals that even the supposedly enlightened Wakanda has this when a Time Crash results in Shuri giving birth to a half-breed son who was conceived in a timeline she now cannot remember. While T'Chone has magical potential and seeks to serve his people, he has been effectively sequestered in the royal apartments for most of his life, with King T'Chaka and Queen Ramonda basically refusing to acknowledge his existence, even as T'Chone's mother and uncle do their best to support him before T'Chone's father Harry appears in this timeline and explains how he exists.
  • Colors and Languages, a Teen Titans story, focuses on Lian Harper being driven to tears when a classmate says Lian must be adopted since she's got black hair and is Vietnamese while her father Roy is a white redhead. This manages to piss off Roy and everyone in the Titans, who then take it upon themselves to correct the classmate's assumptions (which they learn came from her father's own racist thinking).
  • The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum: Catseye is a unicorn/zebra hybrid who dyes her coat in order to pass off as a pure unicorn. The discrimination she faced and the acceptance she found once she began "passing" has colored her views up in a pretty ugly way, as she's an Absolute Xenophobe whose prejudices extend to half-pony hybrids of other species.
  • Crucible (Mass Effect): The human-turian Hybrids are hated, feared, and hunted by the majority of people. To elaborate, in the alt.timeline, it gets to the point that there's a bill that forbids Hybrids from wearing clan marks to make them stand out, and another bill in the making that would allow the Hierarchy to kill whichever child they want when their numbers are getting too numerous, or to take them away from their parents without reasons. Even before that, there are daily mob attacks on hybrid families and kill them while the government all but officially allows it. Basically, Hybrids are viewed to have fewer rights than cattle and their parents aren't allowed to leave the planet to act as breeding stocks.
  • In Cuckoo Bird, most changelings are given to human families either because they're hybrids of different kinds of fairies (like Izuku, who has an elf father and a puca mother), fairies and humans or fairies from different courts.
  • Delusions: Celestia and Luna were discriminated against prior to their ascension because they were born mules. Their infertility was used against them as proof that they were abominations. After gaining respect as alicorns, they began trying to change this commonplace prejudice against mules and even donkeys.
  • Dragon's Dance: Wataru is shunned by the other children in his village because his mother was an outsider. While the elder who teaches them does her best to impress upon them that blood isn't everything and that they shouldn't discriminate because it, it doesn't make a difference to the kids, especially when some of the adults in the village feel the same way about Wataru.
  • FNAFNG: Due to Paradigma and Enigma being rabbit-Slimer hybrids, they were often bullied when they were children and treated as outcasts.
  • Foxfire: While being physically mixed race doesn't bat any eyelashes, having the hated powers of the enemy will get one killed. Li and everyone who knows him have to keep Li's fire-bending a secret to avoid him getting killed. Tengfei casually mentions having to kill mixed-race children if they show signs of fire-bending.
  • In Gold Eyes To Red, Alphonse is half-Ishvalan and receives a lot of discrimination for it. One instance is when a hospital refused to take him after he broke his arm as a child.
  • In Heart of the Forest, Discord (who's a hinny) says that nowadays, most people don't take issue with ponies of different tribes falling in love, but interspecies romance is still frowned upon.
  • Insontis II: Kirk reflects on how badly Spock has been treated during his life and is privately thankful that he got the chance to support him.
  • Joys of the Parenthood - The Țepeș Edition: Olrox implies that Adrien does not belong in the Castle due to his human-blood.
  • Let Me Hear: Vampire hybrids often get looked down upon by pureblood vampires. Blake, being a faunus with vampire heritage (and a bit of aristocratic human as well), suffers from some of this on top of the Fantastic Racism she receives for being faunus.
  • In Chapter 6 of Little Miss Heropants, Lilac (who is half-water dragon) is called a "half-breed freak" by a guard at the border of Shuigang.
  • My Deepest, Darkest Secret: This is the main reason why Solon hides the fact that he's actually a werewolf-vampire hybrid from his brothers. His situation gets even more complicated when later chapters reveal that hunters are looking for him, possibly so they can kill him.
  • Pony POV Series: Although Princess Celestia did her best to stamp out racism between the pony tribes, it still happens from time to time. Trixie and her siblings were mocked in their hometown by Unicorns for having an Earth Pony father, often being called "Half-Dirt".
  • Sisterhood: Akira reveals that she was the only child of mixed race at her school and got picked on as a result. Fear of this persisting was the deciding factor in a LOT of decisions Lilly's parents made.
  • In Splint Rukhash mentions she sometimes gets crap from other orcs for being a "mongrel"; she's Uruk-hai on her mother's side and goblin on her father's (with a bit of human thrown into the mix as well). She mentions her siblings used to stick up for her if anyone made fun of her "goblin feet", while a clan of goblins refused to let her shelter with them on account of being badly treated by Uruks during the war.
  • A Thin Veneer: This becomes a major plot point — between close racial interactions, progressive social views, and advanced Federation technology, the Federation has many hybrids within their diverse populations and they are accepted and celebrated without prejudice or intolerance. To the much more insular, xenophobic, and reactionary Babylon 5-verse nations and cultures, however, this practice and tolerance is viewed with horror and disgust, contributing to the Minbari and even some Earthers perceiving the Federation as a "mongrel power" of depraved savages wielding technologies too advanced for their station whom they cannot surrender to or negotiate with. Some of the Minbari are so disgusted that one Alyt even outright declares that the Federation humans are worse than the Earther humans when he hears this from Kirk, and many keep fighting out of the misguided belief that defeat and surrender would result in the Federation spreading or even enforcing such practices upon them, diluting and degrading their gene pool and racial purity.
  • In Zero no Tsukaima: Saito the Onmyoji, Saito's familiar Kaede is a "silver oni", the child of a white oni and a black oni. Like most "metallic oni", she was treated as a second-class citizen by pureblood oni.
  • Zootopia: This trope is a popular one for fanfics where Nick and Judy or any other mixed-species couple have offspring. It also gets played up for real-life hybrids such as zorses, ligers, tions, and similar should they appear.
  • John Gage gets this in the Emergency! series by Tammy Billingham. Most of it is from his own extended family and tribe mates, first as a child, then when he returns home as an adult in the final parts of the series, because they resent his half-white background. A gang of full-blood tribesmen end up stabbing him and dragging him half naked through the snow tied to a horse, when he marries a tribeswoman. Her family is angry when they first fall in love, but let go of it later, with her father helping rescue John and stop a further attack on him.

    Film — Animated 
  • Balto is bullied by the town dogs for being half wolf. The sequel has the same thing happening but with wolves looking down on him and his daughter for being half-dog and 3/4 dog respectively.

    Film — Live-Action 
  • Aquaman (2018): All of the Atlanteans except Vulko and Atlanna openly look down on Arthur for his half-human heritage, although Mera eventually gets better after spending enough time with him. Even the Karathen, the sea monster guarding Atlan's trident, expresses her disapproval for his half-breed nature, until he reveals that he can hear her.
  • Australia: The "Stolen Generations" is showcased by Nullah, a boy of mixed Aboriginal and white parentage, who gets removed from his Aboriginal family into a Christian Mission because children like him were viewed as a threat who had to be assimilated into white society.
  • Belle (2013): Dido has an African mother and English father. It's Played for Drama as she's not only legally a slave due to her mother being one, but faces frequent racism as a "mulatto" even when her father's family treats her fairly well in contrast.
  • The Big City: The real reason Edith, a half-British, half-Indian woman in 1963 Calcutta, got canned from her job. Mr. Mukherjee, Edith and Arati's boss, dislikes Anglo-Indian people on principle. So when Edith was home sick for a couple of days, he fired her.
  • Black Panther (2018): It's heavily implied that part of the reason King T'Chaka abandoned Erik in Oakland after killing N'Jobu is because he didn't consider the boy to be a true Wakandan due to having an American mother. N'Jobu had expressed concern about him not being welcomed to the country when he was alive, claiming the other Wakandans would consider him "lost".
  • Blade Trilogy: Natural-born vampires despise vampires who were "turned", seeing them either as upstarts who don't respect their traditions or outright Vampire Vannabes. There's also a bit of elitism to this since infected vampires outnumber the natural ones by a fair margin.
  • Born in the Maelstrom: Rebecca is the only biracial person in her community, seen as neither sufficiently black nor white for them as a result.
  • In Call Her Savage, half-Native American Moonglow tells Nasa the white girl that he knows his place as a half-caste, while she can do what she pleases. In the end, it turns out that she's a "half-breed" too (and the gross implication is that this makes it OK for them to be together).
  • Dead Man: Nobody the Native American was ostracized for being the child of two tribes, hence how he got his name. He gained a third ethnicity by being taken as a servant for white men, where he became very educated in English culture.
  • Free State of Jones: The issue at Davis Knight's trial is whether his great-great-grandmother was Rachel or Serena Knight. Assuming the former, he would be "colored" under Mississippi state law and thus forbidden to marry a white woman, as Rachel was mixed race. If the latter, he would be white and thus freed. The prosecutor lampshades how unusual this is, as generally it would be the father whose identity isn't clear. Eventually the Knight family Bible is uncovered, revealing that it was Rachel. David is therefore convicted (though it's later reversed on appeal). All this is based on the "one drop" rule where anyone who had a black ancestor was subject to racist laws, even when (like him) they are fully white passing.
  • Goodfellas: Despite all of their success in bringing in money for The Mafia, Henry Hill and Jimmy Conway never become "made men" because the group only accepts men with 100% Italian ancestry and they're both half-Italian, half-Irish.
  • Lo Dorman, the eponymous protagonist of The Half-Breed, is half-white and half-Native American, and as a consequence lives alone in the forest, not really welcome in either community.
  • The Invitation (2022): Mr. Field and Viktoria both make disparaging comments about Evie, who's biracial (without making it explicit), therefore unworthy of being among the white English aristocracy in their view. Or their master's bride, it's revealed.
  • Invitation to a Gunfighter: Jules Gaspard d'Estaing explains to Ruth what growing as a Creole of colour (with a white well-to-do Southern father and a quadroon mother) in New Orleans meant: was raised with a cultured background, grounded in English and French, taught to play the harpsichord, outwardly appearing erudite and gentlemanly in appearance and manner, but raised to know his Creole place.
  • Kill Bill: O-Ren Ishii is half-Chinese American, half-Japanese. Several of the Yakuza clan leaders had problems with it—but since O-Ren was an assassin since twelve years old, nobody mentions it in a negative light unless they want to lose their head.
  • The Searchers: Ethan Edwards shows quite a bit of this toward Martin Pawley, who is one-eighth Cherokee. However, the racist Edwards apparently considers it worse if a white woman sleeps with a Comanche, so eventually writes a will naming Martin his sole heir and cutting out his niece Debbie (abducted by a Comanche war party and now one of Chief Scar's wives). Martin very understandably throws that will in Ethan's face.
  • Star Trek (2009):
    • Spock has to deal with racism from Vulcans because of his human mother, including having his human side referred to as a liability by other Vulcans, which leads to a moment where he tells the Vulcan Science Academy where to shove it in classic Spock manner. He will also promptly beat the crap out of anyone who dares insult his mother or call her a whore, as three Vulcan boys and Kirk found out the hard way (though the latter proved to be a Batman Gambit to assume command of the ship, albeit in a rather Jerkass fashion).
    • Star Trek V: The Final Frontier has the "original" Spock showing that reaction to his mixed ancestry started at the tender age of 75 to 90 seconds. Especially ironic for Spock considering this movie shows his full-Vulcan half-brother EMBRACING the emotions that other Vulcans (and Spock) spend their lives suppressing and (at least for some of them) looking down on humans for.
  • The reason for Ursula's Gotta Kill 'Em All murder spree in Thirteen Women:
    Ursula: Maybe I am! But do you know what it means to be a half-breed, a half-caste in a world ruled by whites? If you're a male, you're a coolie. And if you're a female, you're... Well, the white half of me cried for the courtesy and protection that women like you get. The only way I could free myself was by becoming white. And it was almost in my hands, when you—you and your Kappa society stopped me! I spent six years slaving to get money enough to put me through finishing school, to make the world accept me as white. But you and the others wouldn't let me cross the color line.
  • The Twilight Saga: Renesmee — Bella and Edward's child. The Volturi believe she's a child immortal, which is strictly forbidden by the Volturi, since said children would easily destroy a town with their lack of control over their thirst. Also, keeping up the Masquerade required the Volturi to kill the rest of the town. When they find that is NOT the case, they still want the child executed — which is this trope.
  • What a Girl Wants: Daphne's love interest Ian invokes this when he bitterly muses about his upper-crust grandparents "taking pity on their miserable half-breed son" when his parents died, mentioning that one of his parents was a noble while the other was a commoner.
  • Where Hands Touch: Leyna suffers from this continually, as a result of her biracial ancestry, growing up in Nazi Germany. Simply having her appearance means she constantly stands out from everyone else, and she's under the threat of being sterilized for her ancestry. After she gets pregnant by a white German boy, both she and her child are put in mortal peril.
  • The World Unseen: Amina gets gossiped about negatively by Indians because she has some Black ancestry.
  • In Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold, Yellow Hair faces discrimination from both the Apaches and the whites. One of the Apache warriors is attempting to force her to become his wife, while Tortuga orders her tossed out of the saloon as "half-breed scum".

    Literature 
  • Due to society's overall hatred of Humans in An Outcast in Another World, Elves in The Village with nonstandard Elven hair colors are considered to have Human blood in them, which is seen as a mark of shame. Interestingly, no instances are shown of this discrimination coming from external sources – Tarric himself is the only one who gets upset if people point out his hair color, even if they do so innocently.
  • The titular character in "Segregationist" is opposed to the idea of merging the human and Metallo (robot) forms by giving metal replacements to humans and fibrous/organic replacements to Metallos. They find the idea abhorrent, preferring to stay as close to their original creation as possible.
    "You'd get a hybrid," said the surgeon, with something that approached fierceness. "You'd get something that is not both, but neither. Isn't it logical to suppose an individual would be too proud of his structure and identity to want to dilute it with something alien? Would he want mongrelization?"
  • The Beast Player: Elin is the child of an Ahlyo and an outsider. The result of such a union is called Akun Meh Chai, a devil-bitten child, because their parents should have never met, let alone fall in love.
  • The Boundless: Mr. Dorian gets a lot of grief from people for being Metis (Half-Native American/Half-French). He occasionally hears people calling him slurs when they think they're alone.
  • Brother Cadfael: Olivier de Bretagne is the son of a Syrian mother and a white father. His parents loved each other but, just to make it worse, weren't married and his father left without knowing his mother was pregnant. He makes his way to England in the books, and encounters discrimination both on page (from one of the villains of The Virgin in the Ice) and off, although his liege lord doesn't seem to care a whit about his heritage and lets Olivier marry his ward and niece.
  • The Chronicles of Dorsa: The Terintan desert nomads hold people of mixed ancestry like Linna, whom they call salvik in their language, are inferior, and treat them as outcasts, forbidding marriage with their own as this would pollute the nomad bloodlines in their view. Linna, who's half nomad and half tinker, in fact was sold into slavery by her mother (a nomad) as a result of this.
  • The Crimson Shadow: It's said many elves and humans dislike half-elves, though we never actually see anyone express this.
  • The Daevabad Trilogy: "Shafit" human-daeva hybrids are second-class citizens in daeva society, facing limited legal rights and arbitrary government persecution. An earlier dynasty conducted mass murders of shafit in the belief that any human-daeva intermingling threatened divine retribution; the current dynasty simply wants to keep them down because they reproduce much faster than pure daeva and threaten to outnumber them.
  • Deryni: Morgan and Duncan come in for a great deal of criticism from the Camberian Council for their mixed parentage. They are frequently denigrated as "rogue half-breeds", and despite showing great promise as mages (including manifesting a Healing talent lost for centuries), they are extended official Counciliar protection only after much acrimonious debate in High Deryni. Even their continued heroism and loyalty do not mitigate the stigma for some elder Deryni High Lords and Ladies. From the human side of things, since there is an absolute taint (socially speaking) from magic, their parentage does not make them any less reviled.
  • The Devourers: The titular werebeasts don't fault the Stranger for being born to a human mother instead of transformed. However, they consider it an act of utmost depravity on the father's part, akin to bestiality, and worthy of death.
  • Doglands: Furgul is a Child of Forbidden Love between a racing greyhound and a wolfhound/greyhound mix, making him a lurcher. His mother helped him and his sisters escape their kennels so that they wouldn't be culled for being mutts. Once Furgul runs off and is taken in by humans, his new Bulldog housemate tells Furgul that lurchers aren't well-liked. People would rather have a purebred than a mixed-breed, thus they're usually ignored in exchange for purebreds. Mixes also tend to be euthanized quickly.
  • Dragaera: It's taboo for members of different Houses to have children with each other, and those who are the product of such unions are pariahs. The only House immediately open to them is the Jhereg, which will extend membership to anyone for a fee. Crossbreed characters have tended to be villains with a Freudian Excuse:
    • The villain of Jhereg, Mellar, has Dzur/Dragon ancestry from his mother and Jhereg ancestry from his father, and in revenge for being treated badly by everyone, planned a (nearly successful) Batman Gambit for decades to humiliate and/or destroy the Dzur, Dragons, and Jhereg.
    • Gritta, a character from the prequel series, is the half-breed daughter of a disgraced courtier and grows up in The City Narrows as a sort of Eponine expy, used in her father's schemes, and with some implication of being pimped by him. Paarfi, the "narrator" gives a probably Fair for Its Day authorial comment in relation to Grita about how dislike of half-breeds is defended by stereotypes that they are immoral/criminal, and how this often becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Over the course of the series, Grita goes from her lowly origin to become a powerful Evil Sorceress.
  • Dragonlance: Tanis is a half-elf who gets a fair amount of shunning from the humans as well. Many other half-elf characters in the same setting are treated poorly, too.
  • Earth's Children: Those born of mixed Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon heritage (called "children of mixed spirits" in the novels) are often treated badly because of their duel heritage. The Neanderthals consider them "deformed" and almost invariably cast them out at birth and the Cro-Magnons disparagingly refer to them as "animals" and "abominations".
  • The Empirium Trilogy: Marques were hunted down by both angels and humans, not just because of their half-breed status, but also because each marque possesses the unique power of crossing time and space.
  • In The Familiar of Zero, the Elf Council shunned Tiffania and called her "unclean" for having a human father.
  • The Godless World Trilogy has the nakyrim, half-human, half-woodwight hybrids who have significant magical powers, and are loathed by all. Most live in isolated communities, made up of their own kind in order to avoid discrimination. One of them, Aeglyss, after being thrown out of such a community, goes so far in his attempts to make the world accept him that he nearly causes the apocalypse, as his angst and pain poison the minds of everyone on earth.
  • The Han Solo Trilogy: Han surmises that Shug Nix has suffered from this due to his Half-Human Hybrid background given Shug's wariness when they first meet, probably from Imperial officials mostly, as the Empire views anyone of such heritage as second-class citizens.
  • Harry Potter:
    • Hagrid, a half-giant, introduces us to the Ministry's inclinations towards Fantastic Racism. Professor Umbridge takes this even further, biasing her review against him to make him seem extremely stupid and incapable of teaching a class in Order of the Phoenix. She even refers to centaurs as "filthy half-breeds" despite the fact that all of them are born of centaurs, not horses and humans.
    • Being a "half-blood" wizard, i.e. having one parent be a Muggle (or Muggleborn) and the other a wizard, doesn't have quite as much the stigma around it as being purely Muggleborn, but it's still kept quiet within the prejudiced Slytherin house. Notably, both Voldemort and Snape are half-bloods and yet they've expressed disdain for their own kind. That's not even counting the fact that almost all of the most powerful wizards in the series have been half-blood, including the aforementioned two, Albus Dumbledore (hands down the most powerful wizard in the series), and Harry himself.
    • Werewolves are counted as half-breeds under Wizarding law, and it's mentioned several times that they have difficulty finding jobs or being accepted in society. Lupin mentions that he was only able to attend Hogwarts because Dumbledore was headmaster and was kind enough to come up with ways to work around the condition. While it's somewhat understandable for wizards to be nervous about hanging around someone who turns into a monster every so often, the fact that they only transform during the full moon and the fact that the Wolfsbane Potion allows transformed werewolves to essentially be harmless makes the extent of discrimination against them pretty excessive.
  • InCryptid: Lloyd is a second-generation hybrid gorgon, who does not live with the other gorgons, instead passing for human. His mother Hannah is also a hybrid, being half-greater gorgon and half Pliny's gorgon, but is more accepted by her people and is in fact the leader of the gorgon community, since it was her parents who founded it in the first place.
  • In the Innkeeper Series, this is unfortunately common across the galaxy. More xenophobic vampires (predatory, sharp-toothed, very religious aliens) call mixed-species vampire children "erhissa", a derogatory term that refers to a type of poisonous hybrid snake with none of the useful traits of either parent species. The empire-building sislaf have a weird back-handed version, in that they often encourage interspecies reproduction, but have no cultural concept of being mixed. If you have more than 12% sislaf DNA, then you just are sislaf, with no consideration for the other side(s) of your heritage. One sislaf makes an off-hand derogatory comment about vampires in front of his half-vampire countrywoman, totally oblivious to the idea it might offend her (it does).
  • Iron Warriors: Honsou is descended from a mixture of the Iron Warriors' own geneseed and that of their worst enemies, the Imperial Fists. In the original Storm of Iron, he's the only "captain" in the Warsmith's army to not actually hold that rank, and both the full Captains really enjoy giving him crap about his half-breed status. Even after Honsou's own ascension to Warsmith, bringing up his DNA is a surefire way to press his Berserk Button.
  • Kire: Flora is half-hulder, half-nøkk , which makes her discriminated among the magical creature society, mostly because only elves are allowed to interbreed. Most humans who see her also see her mostly as a nøkk which scares them.
  • The Lost World (1912): Many disparaging comments are made about the villains being "half-caste" (i.e. mestizo, of mixed European and Indigenous South American ancestry). It's made uncomfortably clear that the heroes who say this think mixed-race people have unpleasant traits inherently.
  • In Loyal Enemies, it initially looks like the elves don't want to take in the orphaned half-elf girl Virra because she is a half-breed. As it turns out, they aren't being snobbish because of her human blood, it's the elven part they're not too happy about. Virra is part layne, belonging to an elven clan whose members have the killing touch and tend to work as assassins.
  • Malediction Trilogy: It's easier for a troll to have a child with a human than with another troll but since those children inherit only a part of their troll parent's power, they are always slaves in the troll society—even the ones who have so little human blood in them that they could pass for trolls.
  • The Mortal Instruments: Mark and Helen Blackthorn are half-shadowhunter and half-fairie. Because the shadowhunters despise and hate the fairies, they discriminate against the two. When Mark is kidnapped by evil fairies, they do nothing to save him. Helen, on the other hand, is banished to a secluded island, where she's separated from the Society of shadowhunters.
  • October Daye: Discrimination against changelings (mixed human-fae parentage) is near-omnipresent in the fairy world, with most simply accepting it as the natural order of things.
  • Michel from On the Spectrum was bullied in school by the white kids for being black, and by the four other black kids for having a white mother.
  • Outbreak Company: While elves and other nonhuman races experience some discrimination, it's far less than that experienced by half-elves. Both elves and humans view them with extreme prejudice bordering on disgust.
  • Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: Selvi, half-human, half-orc princess, orc father, human mother, who also was "looked down [...] for her mixed blood", as said in the first book.
  • In Re:Zero, half-elves experience extreme prejudice and fear. This fear is only heightened by the fact that Satella, the Witch of Envy that once threatened the entire world, was a half-elf. Main character Emilia experiences this prejudice to the maximum extent, since with her white hair and other features she's a perfect match for Satella's description.
  • Roots touches on this. It is repeatedly mentioned that Kunta Kinte has nothing but contempt for light-skinned blacks, once citing how a girl from his village was shunned for giving birth to a mixed-race baby after escaping from slave traders. As such, his daughter Kizzy is very dismayed at how light her Child by Rape is.
  • Sabina Kane: Sabrina is the product of a treaty-violating love affair between a vampire noblewoman and a mage. She is a pariah among her vampiric family with the only occupation open to her being hitwoman for the Dominae, and she was told from birth that her mage family wanted nothing to do with her. It's a lie: the mages never knew she existed until just before the story begins, and she has a twin sister who very much wants to meet her.
  • Seraphina: Relationships between humans and dragons in human form are forbidden by dragons and most human nations and the ityasaari, children born from such unions, are treated with distrust or outright hostility. That is why most of them try very hard to hide their origins—although in some cases the signs are so obvious that it is impossible.
  • The Serpent's Shadow: Doctor Maya Witherspoon gets a lot of flak for being the child of an English officer and a Brahmin priestess from India. Her maternal aunt tries to kill her for it, and did murder her father once her mother died.
  • Shadows of the Apt: Half Breeds are treated as an inferior class by all other races (despite many of the different kinden living in peace with strong interracial friendships and couplings). However, all the mixed characters we meet are either already being used for their blend of abilities or eventually rise above their racist superiors: Totho is recruited by the Wasp military engineer Dariandrephos (another Half Breed who outshone his peers) who recognises his talent for designing weapons. Also Tisamon's Half Breed daughter is a mix of the two most rivaled races Spider and Mantis. Unsurprisingly she also becomes grudgingly accepted among the Mantis kinden for her talent as a Weaponsmaster.
  • The Sharing Knife: Discussed with Calla and Indigo in Horizon. In farmer society, half bloods face fears of being witches and are not trusted. Lakewalkers do not accept them at all, unless they can demonstrate they can use their groundsense.
  • The Silerian Trilogy: Ronall is the son of a Valdan man and Silerian woman. As he laments, Silerians view him as a Valdan, even though he's lived in Sileria all of his life. Valdani, meanwhile, view him as a Silerian. Both dislike him for his heritage.
  • In The Stone Dance of the Chameleon, children of Masters and common people are called marumaga. As the Masters place a tremendous value on blood purity, the marumaga are technically slightly higher in the hierarchy than common people, but it doesn't really matter all that much.
  • Stray: Pufftail spends several days in a pet store window because no one wants to spend a fiver on a moggy kitten. His black-and-white brother looks appealing for a mixed-breed, but Pufftail's just a common brown tabby. Many people think he's too expensive and complain that they can get a kitten just like him for free elsewhere. He's eventually sold, alongside his more expensive brother, for only one pound.
  • The Sundering: Ushahin Dreamspinner is a half-Ellylon Child by Rape who is completely rejected by the Ellylon and eventually beaten nearly to death by humans.
  • Survivor Dogs: Alpha is a wolf-dog who grew up in a wolf pack. "Pup", as he was known as a pup, was teased due to being a half-breed. One scene involves him overhearing two adult wolves gossiping about how they can't believe his mother mated with a "filthy dog" and they believe that's why Pup was the only survivor of the litter.
  • The Tamuli: The god Cyrgon ordered that any child born from the union of a "pure" Cyrgai soldier and foreign woman was to be murdered. The bastards, known as Cynesgans, were eventually granted leniency when it was determined they made good cannon fodder. After the apparent demise of the Cyrgai race, the Cynesgans came to power but were looked down upon by every other race.
  • Warrior Cats: Relationships between cats from two different Clans are strictly forbidden, and half-Clan cats are usually looked down upon and seen as inherently disloyal. Some characters are more accepting of them, knowing that it's the cat inside and not their blood that determines who they are, but others mistrust them simply because they share the blood of another Clan. A notable example is Jayfeather in the fourth series — everyone trusted him before, but after his lineage is revealed, when he fails to save a drowning cat, he's accused of trying to murder said cat, even with witnesses. He points out that it's only because he's half-Clan that they don't trust him.
  • The Water and the Wild: Fife gets a lot of discrimination from others (except his friends and his mom) due to his being only half-wisp. Cynbel, the Captain of his mother's guard, doesn't think much of him.
  • The Whip: Emma is utterly rejected by her mother's side of the family and everyone connected to them, because her father had been a Spaniard. Her maternal grandmother with whom she was sent to live after her parents died forbade her to continue using her father's last name because it was "foreign." Dilly and Luke abused her physically while lampshading her halfbreed ethnicity. Even kind-hearted, non-abusing Barney who went on to marry her affectionately called her "a funny little Spanish onion."
  • Worm: When discussing strategies for survival in prison, the crime lord Lung mentions that the most common one — joining an established gang — was closed to him from the beginning during his first prison stay in China. He was well-known to be half-Chinese and half-Japanese, and nobody wanted him in their group.
  • A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: Rayona is half Native American and half African American, and finds that she fits in with neither culture.

    Live-Action TV 
  • Angel:
    • This is typical of how vampires are treated by demons. Vampires are demonic spirits that inhabit human corpses. They have many weaknesses, and demons are usually stronger than them. An evil demon often has many vampires as subordinates. Later, however, demons who are friends with vampires are not discriminated against. Harmony later also becomes a celebrity and makes the vampires suddenly become the stars of the demon world.
    • The pureblood Scourge (who really aren't pure if you consider what Buffy the Vampire Slayer established) hate half-demons, and humans fear them because they look so strange. The kids only go out on Halloween.
    • The Groosalugg is a hybrid of human and demon. He's not a real half-demon — he has only human ancestors— but he's a kind of atavism that almost looks like a human. This is a great disgrace to his clan, so he's sent to dangerous missions where he was to be killed. It gets better for him, and later he became the king of his folk.
    • An unusual case is with the two half-demons Nash and Pearl. They discriminate against anyone who is NO hybrid. Both are of the opinion that people are smart, but at the same time weak. Demons, on the other hand, are strong, but also archaic. They both claim, however, that they have advantages from both sides as half-demons. And in fact, the only person treated well by them is the half-demon Whistler.
  • Any Day Now cites this when the dark-skinned Renee runs for District Attorney. Her campaign manager is a light-skinned, biracial woman, and the two almost immediately clash, with Renee taking every suggestion the woman makes as an example of But Not Too Black. Only when the woman finally blasts her for her nasty attitude and tells Renee that she will not apologize for being proud of her multicultural heritage does Renee realize that she's been just as bad. In another episode, when Renee's cousin Danny comes for a visit, she admits to M.E. that he's estranged from the family because he was relentlessly bullied over how light-skinned he is.
  • Blackish: Rainbow had dealt with a lot of social grief growing up from being half-white, feeling out of place wherever she went and switching between a Valley Girl and a Sassy Black Woman in order to not be ostracized by her peers. She still deals with discrimination that mostly comes from Ruby and occasionally from Dre.
  • The Bureau of Magical Things:
    • As a Tri-ling, Kyra deals with a lot of snide comments from fairies and elves alike, who consider her to be a human who gained magic she doesn't deserve. Historically, Tri-lings were discriminated for not being "pure", being only allowed as servants for fae or elven societies.
    • Half-elves and half-fairies aren't treated any better. Despite his acumen, Professor Maxwell (half elf) is treated condescendingly by the authority figures of the Department of Magical Investigations. Tayla (half fairy) was raised by her human mother with magic she had no idea how to control because the fairy half of her family tree refused to acknowledge her.
  • Centennial: Jacques and Marcel Pasquinel are sons of a French trapper father and Arapaho mother. They have a hard time fitting in, and it doesn't turn out well.
  • Cleverman: Aboriginal boys used to call his mother a "white whore" while bullying Koen because he's her son. Even his half-brother Warru echoes this, saying she must have been for having him, never mind that they share the same (Aboriginal) father.
  • Deadly Class: Marcus's dad was from Nicaragua, but his mom was from Kansas, making him a target of both the Soto Vatos and the white supremacists.
  • Dear White People: Sam mentions that people insult her sometimes over being mixed race. This gets much worse with the internet troll AltIvyW in Season 2.
  • ER: For a time during the seventh season, Dr. Cleo Finch tends to see racism as the reason behind every slight or reprimand she or any other African-American physician deals with. Her boyfriend Benton inadvertently insinuates that she's overcompensating because her mother is white. Ergo, she's displaying this trope against herself.
  • Farscape plays the trope straight with Jothee, D'Argo's half Luxan-half Sebacean son, given the extreme adherence Peacekeepers have to keep the Sebacean bloodlines pure. The trope is subverted with Scorpius, as he manages to become a very high-ranking Peacekeeper despite the fact that he's A) a half-breed and B) the other half is Scarran, the Peacekeepers' biggest enemies. Played straight with Scorpius's upbringing amongst the Scarrans, though; most of his childhood was spent being forced to cleanse himself of "Sebacean weakness" and prove himself worthy of being considered a Scarran- up until he stabbed his caretaker's eyes out with a coolant rod. He is also later revealed to be a faux-spy for the Scarran leader, so he somehow managed to insinuate himself into the ranks of both halves despite their hatred of each other.
  • Highlander has Charlie DeSalvo, who's half Black and half Italian, who tells Macleod that both groups bully him.
  • Jeremiah: The black nationalist group Shadow of the Crescent dislike seeing Elizabeth when she comes with Kurdy to forge links with them for Thunder Mountain because she's light-skinned, of mixed race descent, and has a "white" name. Kurdy calls them out on this soundly, noting how many leaders in black empowerment (including the nationalists like Malcolm X) were themselves of mixed-race descent, and certainly didn't reject those who were.
  • The King Loves: Won's father is the King of Goryeo (Korea) and his mother is a Yuan (Mongolian) princess. His father calls him a half-breed to his face and tells him his blood is mixed with barbarians'.
  • Law & Order: UK touches on this when DS Joe Hawkins is called a "mongrel" by a Jerkass dark-skinned suspect. It's one of the few instances that shows colorism can go both ways.
  • M*A*S*H: One episode has a half-Korean, half-white baby being left at the camp (presumably the child of a US soldier). They're told that her life would be in danger in a Korean orphanage because she represents a threat to racial purity. Since her father won't identify himself and callous American officials refuse to allow her to be sent to the US, the only option to protect her is to send her to a monastery to be raised by the monks.
  • mixed•ish: The kids’ first day of school was met with derision from the racially segregated student body and a few questions on what they were mixed with. Johan and Santamonica fit in easily by picking a side, black and white respectively, but Rainbow refuses to.
  • Mohawk Girls: Anna gets a lot of flack for only being half Mohawk, as she has a white mother, which she's deeply hurt by. She's regularly called "halfbreed" as an insult by many Mohawks. It turns out this is codified in the Mohawk band's law, with no one having less than a 50% blood quantum (overall Mohawk ancestry) considered one of them and eligible for membership.
  • Motherland: Fort Salem: Raelle, the child of a witch mother and muggle father, gets this a bit. Mostly it's just mild disapproval. In the Imperatrix's case, she openly tells Raelle to "choose better" than her mother did and marry a male witch (which implies she shouldn't exist). Raelle doesn't take this well of course (nor is she interested anyway, being a lesbian-the Imperatrix dislikes that as well).
  • Noughts & Crosses: Kamal strongly opposes the Prime Minister's proposal that interracial relationships be legalized, speaking contemptuously of the "mongrels and halfers" that would result.
  • Orange Is the New Black: Brook, who's half Japanese and half Scottish, suffers this from other inmates, either disclaiming her Asian ancestry entirely or simply hurling slurs at her over it.
  • The Orville: In "Gently Falling Rain" Teleya keeps her daughter with Ed secret, because most Krill would view her as an abomination due to having mixed species ancestry.
  • The Outer Limits (1995): In "The Grell" Paul is nearly killed by a human soldier who displays violent bigotry toward him for supposedly being half Grell. He slowly realizes due to this how wrong his own prior treatment of Grell was.
  • The Outpost: Most of the Masters loathed the son Aster fathered with a human, calling him an abomination and trying to kill him. By extension they hate all Blackbloods, who descend from him.
  • Penny Dreadful: Dr. Henry Jekyll's mother was Indian and his father British. He faced plenty of prejudice at the English boarding school his father sent him to, and much of the hostility of his "Hyde" side seems derived from his resentment about this.
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock: Marion is the illegitimate daughter of a white judge and an Aboriginal woman. It's made clear that due to her background, she will never be fully accepted into white society.
  • In Power Rangers Mystic Force, the Troblin (half Troll, half Goblin) Phineas is despised by both Trolls and Goblins.
  • Queen (1993) is based on the life of Alex Haley's paternal grandmother, who was the result of an affair between a slave and her owner. Throughout her life, she endures considerable trauma from both whites and blacks, who make it clear that she doesn't belong with either side.
  • The Shannara Chronicles: Cephelo tries to capitalize on the discrimination that Wil has endured all of his life as a half-Elf to get him on his side.
  • Special Ops: Lioness: Joe (who's black) is married to Neil (a white man) and they have two girls. The older, Kate, beats up a white girl from the opposing team while having a soccer match for insulting her with a slur based on her heritage, and says her dad can't truly understand after he tells her off about this.
  • Star Trek:
    • Star Trek: The Original Series: "This Side of Paradise" Kirk invokes this, insulting Spock's parentage to anger him so he'll snap out of the spores' influence. And then in "Amok Time," we get a verbal version. When Spock pleads with T'Pau to block Kirk from the kal-i-fee, she insults him for being so "human".
    • Star Trek: Discovery reveals that as a child, Spock was nearly assassinated for being a "half-human abomination".
    • Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "The Drumhead", a supposedly quarter-Vulcan medical technician named Simon Tarses is interrogated about an incident aboard ship. During the interrogation, he is questioned about his enlistment and accused of lying about his parentage. Specifically, his paternal grandfather was not Vulcan (a Federation race) as he stated on the application but instead was Romulan (an enemy). Tarses is devastated because he fears this will end his career, even though Picard assures him that he is a good man. While the novel Infiltrator claims Tarses was booted out of Starfleet for this, the video game Star Trek: Starship Creator and other novels instead showing him having a long and fruitful career.
    • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Tora Ziyal is the daughter of the Cardassian Gul Dukat and his Bajoran mistress Tora Naprem. During the first six months of the Dominion occupation of Deep Space 9, she spends time at a Bajoran art school and reports being the subject of racism from her Bajoran classmates. There's indications that she's not alone in this. (In fairness to the Bajorans this is less than six years after the end of a half-century of brutal military occupation by the Cardassians.) In an earlier episode, Ziyal had also indicated that she would never be accepted on Cardassia either.
  • Supernatural: Nephilim (half-human, half-angel offspring) are viewed as abominations by angels and the conception of them is forbidden, with the sentence for breaking this taboo usually being death of both the Nephilim and their angelic parent — although to be fair on the angels, this is at least partly motivated by the dubious belief that Nephilim cause entire worlds to die once they grow into their power. Season 13 reveals that Nephilim are naturally even more powerful than the angel who sired them.
  • S.W.A.T. (2017): Erika mentions she's biracial with Black and White parents, noting how the Imperial Dukes (a white supremacist group) would hate her for that, along with their having an interracial relationship. Sadly, they end up killing her (though it was during a shootout, not specifically due to her ancestry).
  • The Witcher (2019): After it's revealed Yennefer has a quarter elven blood, she is denied a post as court mage to a king. She has to go around the Brotherhood's back to get the position, and in retaliation is kicked out of the Brotherhood before she even officially joined.

    Music 
  • Cab Calloway: "Yaller":
    Ain't even bad, I ain't even good,
    I don't understand and I ain't understood,
    Not a friend sticks to the end when you're yaller.
  • Cher's hit single "Half Breed" is about the tumultuous life of a half-white, half-Cherokee woman rejected by both races.
  • Irish Rovers: "The Orange and the Green" tells the tale of an Irish boy with a Protestant father and Catholic mother. This is possibly an inversion, given that both sides dote on him in an attempt to get him to convert to their side.

    Professional Wrestling 
  • Aja Kong's father was a black member of the US Military stationed in Japan and she suffered from this during her childhood as a result.

    Tabletop Games 
  • Inverted in Eberron with the Scar Enforcer Prestige Class, they're half-elf racists who go after both their ancestor species.
  • Forgotten Realms
    • Half-drow. Many of them choose to leave the culture of drow, and do good. But for the other races, they look in no way different from the drow. Among the drow, they are despised again because they have in half the "inferior" blood of another race. This does not apply universally as they are tolerated by Drow worshippers of Eilistraee (due to having rejected Lolth's culture along with having non-Drow followers) and Dambrath (due to being a kingdom ruled by half-Drows).
    • Half-orcs. Humans often see half-orcs as nothing but savage thugs fit only for menial labor and fighting. Orcs begrudgingly accept them as while half-orcs are weaker than regular orcs it's only a minor difference in strength and their greater intelligence makes them useful to have around.
    • Half-elves generally fare far better than other mixed races but still get some flak from their elven peers, mostly due to the fact that dead elves reincarnate into newborn members of the race and some feel the existence of half-elves disrupt the natural order of things.
  • Pathfinder:
    • Half-orcs are generally despised by both parent species — humans see them as barely better than orcs, who are despised in most human societies due to their brutal raids and wars, while orcs see them as tainted by human frailty and weakness.
    • Tieflings — the descendants of humanoids and fiends — are treated very poorly in most nations and rarely enjoy better treatment from fiends. The people of Cheliax routinely summon and bind devils, but see this relationship as strictly one of master and servant — and so do the devils, although they have different ideas as to who has what role; consequently, both sides see tieflings as essentially the result of someone being indiscreet with the maid. Tieflings in the demon-infested Worldwound (a location prominent in the Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path and its CRPG adaptation) fare little better, as humanoids see them as a reminder of their fate and demons as mortal cattle like the rest.
  • Warhammer 40,000: Older editions of the game mention that humans and Eldar were both created by the Old Ones and can have children together. Most were looked down on by both parent species, as both humans and Eldar are highly xenophobic and see such relationships as essentially bestiality. A major exception is Illiyan Nastase, who held the rank of Ultramarine Chief-Librarian.

    Theater 
  • In Abraham's Bosom: The central theme of the play. The rather gross and racist message seems to be that Abraham's half-white, half-black ancestry is his problem; that his whiteness is making him raise himself up above his station and try for things that black people have no business trying to achieve.
    Lije: Abe is bad mixed up all down inside.
    Bud: White and black make bad mixtry.
    Lije: Do dat. (Thumping on his chest) Nigger down heah. (Thumping his head) White mens up heah. Heart say do one thing, head say 'nudder. Bad, bad.
  • In Miss Saigon, Kim is trying to prevent her son by an American GI from experiencing this. The fact that her cousin Thuy tries to kill the little boy tells you how rampant the hatred towards these children are. Later in the show, we see that one of the soldiers has formed an organization for these children, called "Bui-Doi" (many of whom have been abandoned by their mothers) trying to either reunite them with their American fathers or find loving adoptive homes for them. Even the Engineer gets a little of this. At some point in the show, we learn he's the result of his prostitute mother's liason with her French customer. One wonders if he may have had the chance to be more than a pimp had this not been the case.

    Video Games 
  • Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura: Half-orcs are looked down upon because everyone assumes they only exist because male orcs rape human women, and half-ogres, who have a reputation for being Dumb Muscle (but don't let one hear you say that). Averted by half-elves, who are generally well-liked despite pureblooded elves having a reputation for being haughty snobs.
  • Assassin's Creed III: Connor Kenway (born Ratohnhaké:ton) is the son of a Native American and a British colonist. A core premise of his character is that he's unable to truly fit in with either society and falls in with the Assassins as they are the only ones who welcome him for what he is. Although he fights alongside the Continental forces in the American Revolutionary War, he is not in it for their freedom, because he knows they aren't in it for his.
  • Dark Souls:
  • Diablo: Humans in general are victims of this trope; they were born from forbidden unions between angels and demons, and the first generations of humans, the Nephalem, were said to have the potential to surpass both their parent races in power, leading to both races fearing them. The archfiend Azmodan has described the existence of Nephalem as "Creation's greatest sin", and the angel Imperius tried to get heaven to vote in favor of exterminating them for the good of creation (they were spared, but only by a single vote).
  • Dota 2: Sven's heritage as half-Pallid Meranth (from his mother) and half-human/Vigil Knight (from his father) caused people of both races to completely shun him and his mother while his father got executed when his affair was discovered. As a result, Sven grows to become a bitter Rogue Knight in Sour Armor.
  • Dragon Age: Played with. When a human and an elf conceive, the child is considered basically human in almost all cases (no Pointy Ears, for a start). Dragon Age II tried to give elves a more distinct look, and introduced a "half-breed" NPC who was taller than the average elf but lither and with sharper features than a human. He feels like a Fish out of Water almost anywhere he goes.
  • The Elder Scrolls
    • Generally averted or at least significantly downplayed throughout the series, as several in-game books and backstory details indicate that each race of Men (Imperial, Breton, Redguard, Nord) and Mer ("Elves" - Altmer, Dunmer, Bosmer, Orsimer/Orcs) can indeed interbreed, with the race of the offspring being virtually identical to the mother (averting All Genes Are Codominant) with a few of the father's traits potentially sprinkled in.note  For example, if an Altmer father and Nord mother produce a child, it wouldn't be a Magic Knight combination of each race. Instead, the child would be almost entirely Nord with the potential of having some Altmeri traits, such as slight points to his ears, higher cheekbones, or a slightly different skin tone. Downplayed in large part simply because it is difficult to distinguish the offspring from the race of the mother, so only those who are aware of the race of the father would be in a position to discriminate. It is possible for more hybridization to emerge, but only by generations of interbreeding — the Bretons (as a matter of historic record) and Bosmer (according to legend) both come from Mannish and Merish ancestors, with some according traits, but they are still definitely Men and Mer, respectively.
    • In Oblivion, the Gray Prince, a champion gladiator had an Orc mother and an Imperial father. As you learn in a related quest, his father was also a vampire. This is the part the Gray Prince takes much harder than the human father part itself.
  • Elohim Eternal: The Babel Code:
    • Those with both Jehudan and Attikan ancestry face discrimination due to the grudge between the lineages. Even after becoming a Judge, Beyoz gets crap from Alkandros for his mother's bloodline.
    • When Ruthia tries to help the Cainites trapped in Mount Sinai, the first one she runs into attacks her while mistaking her for an Idinite since she inherited physical traits from both Cainites and Kenomans. However, most of the Cainites in Ur treat her well, since they respect her Kenoman mother.
  • Final Fantasy X:
    • Seymour Guado had to put up with this crap as a child. The Guado had trouble accepting someone with a Guado father and a human mother. His father was too useless to protect his family, so Seymour and his mother were exiled. Then mom sacrificed herself to become an aeon so Seymour would have the power needed to become a savior that everyone would accept. The Guado do eventually accept Seymour as their new leader, and the rest of Spira comes to love him as a maester of Yevon. Unfortunately, it was too late; his crappy childhood had come to shape his worldview, turning him into a Straw Nihilist who wants to kill everyone.
    • Averted with Yuna, who's half Al Bhed (viewed with suspicion by Yevonites for using technology), as her father brought a ten-year period of respite from Sin.
  • Fire Emblem
    • Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade: Inverted with Rutger. He was the only person spared in the Bulgar Massacre because one of his parents was a native of Bern, and the Bern soldiery took him for one of their own... leaving him alive to hotly pursue Revenge on them across the continent.
    • Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade: Lyn, the child of a Lycian noblewoman and a Sacaen chieftain, is subjected to this upon arriving in Lycia. The embittered Marquess Araphen (who hates Sacaens because he loved Lyn's mother Madelyn but was spurned) and her granduncle Lundgren (who tries to murder his brother for the Marquess of Caelin title) both refer to her as a "mongrel" for her mixed blood; in both cases though, this is more of adding insult to injury as the Sacaen plainsfolk are, as a whole, discriminated against in Lycia especially by the nobility - Lyn never mentions any hardships in Sacae proper and was quite happy in her tribe before they were slaughtered by bandits (although she mentions that the few survivors refused to follow her, which may have been for more reasons than she realised...)
    • In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn, the Branded, those with both laguz and beorc blood, are subject to discrimination by both races, consummation of such an Interspecies Romance being a "crime against the goddess". It is revealed late in Radiant Dawn that when a child is born to such parents, the laguz parent loses the ability to transform, and becomes something belonging to neither species. This was discovered roughly eight-hundred years earlier when Altina gave birth to a child fathered by Lehran; the first beorc-laguz hybrid ever. Before the birth, everyone was excited because it seemed like the ultimate proof of the new peace between the two races. Then Lehran lost all of his powers after the child's birth, everybody panicked thinking that a new race war would result from laguz fears of being breeded out, and such unions were outlawed, which increased tensions and ensured continuous violence between the two sides for centuries more.
    • Fire Emblem: Awakening: Nah, the daughter of the manakete Nowi and a human male, describes having experienced this sort of discrimination in the foster home she was sent to after her parents' deaths in the Bad Future; her foster family was disgusted by her mixed ancestry and no matter how hard she tried to please them without complaint their treatment of her never became any warmer. This made her very straight-laced and serious (albeit more childish than she would admit to being), and she is shown to desperately crave some positive attention from her parents due to this lack of acceptance in her life.
    • Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Claude is similar to Lyn in this way, being the son of an Almyran father and a Fodlanese mother. His father is the current King of Almyra during the events of the game, while his mother was the daughter of the leading Duke of the Leicester Alliance; her running away to be with Claude's father combined with the death of her brother/Claude's uncle, Godfrey (expected to lead the Alliance at the time), threw Leicester into a major Succession Crisis until Claude's grandfather announced him as his new heir. His childhood in Almyra was rife with assassination attempts and abuse due to his Fodlan blood, and the fact that Almyrans are seen as violent brutes by the Fodlanese makes his transition into Fodlan society quite difficult. As a result, Claude has an extremely difficult time trusting others and prefers to keep people at arm's length through a veneer of teasing and secrecy.
  • In League of Legends, Sett faced plenty of discrimination in his youth for being born to a human and a vastaya, a taxonomy of innately magical half-animal hybrids (meaning Sett is roughly closer to a quarter-breed). This is because the vastaya are a Dying Race losing more of their influence and magic power each day, and thus any intermingling is considered taboo on both sides. Even when Sett first made a name for himself in the underground fighting pits, he was given the moniker of "The Beast-Boy Bastard".
  • A Little Lily Princess: Lavinia is the daughter of an Englishman who lives in India just like Sara, but, unlike her, doesn't like to talk about her early childhood in India much. There turns out to be a reason for this: her mother is Indian and she has deep-seated fear that the fact being discovered will keep her from being accepted in English higher-class society.
  • Mass Effect: Inverted with the asari, where being a pureblood is considered offensive as it indicates that neither parent asari was interested in expanding the asari genetic memory by mating with another species. It's an indication of extreme selfishness according to Liara. Plus pure breeds tend to have a higher tendency to produce Ardat-Yakshi, their psycho space sex vampires.
  • My Child Lebensborn: The child is the product of a relationship between a soldier from Nazi Germany and a Norwegian woman. They are also an Abandoned War Child that was adopted by the Player Character by the time the game happens. To the Norwegians around them, the child being half-German is enough for them to be a prime target on whom to take out any resentment towards Nazi Germany.
  • Neverwinter Nights 2: In Mask of the Betrayer, Hagspawn tend to get a poor welcome from both sides of their heritage; humans shun them for being ugly brutes spawned from monsters, while hags are just evil in general and don't grant exceptions to their offspring (especially offspring with none of their magical talent). Gannayev, your hagspawn, gets the extra bonus of being disliked even by other hagspawn, as he has little in common with them both in appearance and demeanor (which is because his parents were actually in love when he was conceived instead of the usual Child by Rape origin story). Human girls like him though. Much to the ire of their fathers.
  • Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous: Tieflings, uneven hybrids of humanoids and fiends, come in for a lot of hatred in Mendev and its surrounds due to a century of war with demons coming out of the Worldwound, a planar breach that opened the year the god Aroden died. Tiefling Player Characters get a lot of unique dialogue responding to this and can commiserate with their tiefling party member Woljif Jefto, a former member of an all-tiefling street gang, over their shared history of discrimination.
  • Sa Ga Frontier: Asellus is the only Half-Mystic in the game due to being a human that got a blood transfusion by the lord of Mystics Orlouge. Other Mystics, save a few that are her friends, shun her, while other humans are scared of her. Depending on how she carried the game, Asellus may get over the issue, or snaps and becomes evil as a result.
  • Skylanders: Whirlwind suffered from this in her backstory. Being the child of a Unicorn and Air dragon, she was shunned by unicorn and dragon alike, with neither of them liking the traits the other race gave her: dragons shunned her for her beauty and horn, while unicorns disliked her wings and ability to fly. As a result, she became a solitary individual, learning to harness her Weather Manipulation powers in storm clouds. However, when Trolls began hunting both dragons and unicorns alike, Whirlwind didn't hesitate to defend them, making dragons and unicorns look at her in a different light while also becoming The Dreaded for Trolls, and Master Eon decided to make her a Skylander as a result of her actions.
  • In Tales of Rebirth are there constant fighting between the Huma and Gajuma, but the ones having it worst is the halves between the two. The discrimination against them might make one put the game down and take a break for a while before continuing. This and other serious matters are never Played for Laughs. This is the Darker and Edgier ''Tales of'' game after all.
  • Tales of Symphonia features a lot of discrimination against half-elves. They're used as everything from scapegoats to slave labor, with even the Big Bad of the game starting off his campaign of carnage because he's a half-elf who was abused in his mortal lifetime.
  • Warcraft III: Rexxar is a Mok'nathal — half orc, half ogre. When he first meets the orcs, they grudgingly let him in with "You've got the look of an ogre, half-breed." (and even then, only because he's bringing a message from a dead orc messenger). When he tried to get a clan of Ogres to join the horde they consider him weak for being half orc. By the end of the campaign, he's Thrall's Number Two and general, leader of the Stonemaul ogres, and leading the Horde to victory over the humans.
  • In Xenoblade Chronicles 1:
    • A few High Entia tend to look down on their half Homs namesakes, especially those who belong to the Bionite Order. Even considering the many that have no qualms with them, there's still a general stigma when it comes to their involvement in royal affairs which forces the party member Melia, the crown princess of the High Entia, into a dangerous trial to prove herself to her ancestors. A side quest heavily hints that this sentiment is fostered by the Bionis itself.
    • Inverted in the Future Connected post-game scenario, where a few of the surviving High Entia are engaging in half-breed supremacy, since the pure-blooded High Entia were almost all transformed into Telethia. Melia is just as disgusted by this as she was by the earlier prejudice.

    Web Animation 
  • Dream Come True: Flo gets made fun of by the horses for being a mule. Her ears are especially a point of mockery.

    Webcomics 
  • 180 Angel: Due to Nephilim reviving themselves and telling humans about the afterlife, Heaven has a "kill on sight" order out for them.
  • Dragon Sanctuary: While the world has plenty of hybrids that are accepted easily, some aren't as well received in one culture or another.
    • Dean is shunned in his village because his fae blood leads him to wander off and get into more trouble than he's worth.
    • Nima is shamed for being half-human in elven society, as her existence lost her father his wife and she must constantly wear a veil in order to hide who she is. It didn't help that she grew up five times faster than elven children and there was never a chance to hide her parentage.
  • In Drowtales Drowolath/Drowussu hybrids have it particularly rough in the Crapsack World of the setting, since the two cultures are not supposed to mix. They have a few places they can go and be respected, but one of the major clans that accepted them fell apart and sent many to the streets or to other clans. Chiri'nide also experiences some of this since her father was a Light Elf until it turns out that Drowussu are descended from Light Elves anyway, so she doesn't really count.
  • Banquo of Goodbye Chains. His character profile proudly describes him as "half-Mexican and half-Swedish, and also a colossal dick." He was the result of a one-night stand between an actress and a mestizo Mexican man, and faces quite a bit of racism because of his background. His Distaff Counterpart and part-time lover Cordelia is half-Ute, but there are certainly no parallels between them and how they treat their companions, no siree.
  • Kevin & Kell: The local "race" definition is based on diet more than species in the strict sense — a fox/wolf hybrid won't face serious issues, for instance, but any herbivore/carnivore cross will. People prejudiced against any mixed breeding are portrayed as a group of small extremists and this is much less accepted.
  • Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic:
    • Jone Half-Orc's mother Goria, while a full-blooded orc, got this from both orcs and humans. She was exiled from her clan for bearing a half-human child, and the humans grudgingly let her live on the outskirts of their town, but never made any effort to conceal their contempt (or lust). And just when things seemed to be getting better (having found acceptance amid the multicultural Black Mountain, and discovering that Goria was the last of a legendary orc clan), Jone was personally corrupted by the god of orcs to become an Omnicidal Maniac.
    • Glon Smitharm was also discriminated against at every turn and lashed out angrily at those who made fun of him. While he knew he was half-human, he was certain he was half-human, half-... elf. It took him a while to accept that he was half-orc (having a mother who loved him helped with that), then discovering his father was the lord he worked for before he got better.
    • In the past, Queen Glamour tried to foster peace between humans and orcs... vigorously. Her plans were wrenched when the king of the orcs was usurped and executed for trying to promote his half-human son as his heir. When the mob murdered her firstborn daughter for being a half-orc, she went insane. The other daughter immigrated to the hobgoblin lands and died in obscurity.
    • Most of the wildlings are discriminated for being half of everything.
  • The online comic Puppity has the titular half-dog, half-cat character being noted by their cat friend's mother for being "one of the good [dogs]".
  • In the world of Forestdale, breeding outside of one's species is largely frowned upon by society. Thus Jake Noel, a half-deer and half-wolf hybrid, is often subjected to this sort of treatment for being the product of such a union.

    Web Original 
  • In The Gamer's Alliance, many people with mixed ancestry end up being frowned upon or worse. Suffering from her half-elf heritage at the hands of elven bullies eventually drives Shyralis into villainy, and Refan's half-demon bloodline comes back to haunt him and causes all sorts of trouble.
  • Racebending discusses this trope here. They argue that the film industry prefers to use this trope in order to make white-looking characters the victims of Asian racism while ignoring stories about white racism against Asians.
  • The Anime Man discusses his experiences in "Do I Hate Being Half-Japanese Living in Japan?", noting that while he has received some racial discrimination due to being only half-Japanesenote , it's mainly from older Japanese citizens, and he usually shuts them up pretty quickly by speaking in fluent Japanese to them. He has felt some existential angst about the situation, but overall is proud to be a "hafu" and doesn't let the issues it sometimes causes get to him.

    Western Animation 
  • The half-white protagonist of Blue Eye Samurai lives in Japan after it cut itself off from the outside world in 1633. As a result, she's regarded as a monster or demon by everyone else, including herself. The fact that she's a badass female samurai who can carve up anyone dumb enough to express this opinion to her face certainly doesn't hurt this monstrous impression.
  • Family Guy:
    • In one episode, Peter discovers he has a black ancestor, Nate Griffin. Peter briefly tries to embrace his black heritage but becomes a pariah in the eyes of both races — the whites because he won't shut up with the "white devil" rhetoric and the blacks because he grossly abuses his affirmative-action privileges and makes them look bad.
    • Alluded to in another episode, which shows Nate Griffin fathering a mixed-race family with a white woman. One of the children naively comments that the great thing about being mixed-race is, when he grows up, he's going to be accepted by everyone.
  • Kaeloo: Downplayed. In Episode 85, during a fight, Kaeloo refers to Mr. Cat (a cat) being mixed breed instead of a pedigree cat. However, this does not ever impact him negatively in any way on the show, and none of the other major characters are cats so it has yet to be seen if this is an actual problem in the show's society.
  • Kaijudo: Ray is half-Japanese/half-white, and regularly has to deal with bullies at school because of it. His Mon Tatsurion (Bob) is Armored Dragon/Beast Kin and is wanted by the former race for siding with the latter.
  • Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters: Tatsurion The Unchained is half-dragon and half-quillspike. He was constantly made fun of by his mother's side of the family and practically ignored and constantly discriminated for his hybrid nature by his father's side, especially by his sister Moorna, who considers him to be a dishonor to her family and tries to kill him for it. This made Tatsurion an outcast in both the Fire and Nature civilizations, giving him the cynical personality he has today. It isn't until Ray helps him see a more positive side of his existence that he starts to open up more and feel better about himself.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: This is implied, though it seems to be accidental on the writer's part. Donkeys and ponies are both treated perfectly fine, but mules are the pun of Fantastic Racism jokes. Rarity starts sobbing when called a mule and believes mules are "old and ugly".
  • Sabrina: The Animated Series: One film has Sabrina conceal her half-witch status from her friends in the Witch Academy. When her new friend's half-witch status is discovered, she's ridiculed by the rest of her classmates until she and Sabrina decide to journey to the Witch's realm so they can both become full witches.
  • Steven Universe
    • Zig-zagged concerning the main character. Steven is a Half-Human Hybrid, with his non-human half being Gem. Humans don't generally recognize Steven (or even full Gems) as different from humans, while the Gems Steven grew up around were his loving family. However, Gems don't reproduce naturally, so the concept of a Gem hybrid is completely unheard of. Most Gems discriminate against Steven by refusing to acknowledge his existence (or just not comprehending him) as an individual separate from his mother— he has Rose's gemstone, thus to Homeworld (and during his infancy, the Gems in his own family) he's just Rose in a different (ugly) form. On the other hand, the only time a Homeworld Gem recognized Steven's mixed nature was calling him "some sort of hybrid abomination", and given that Homeworld values conformity above all else and see organic life as worthless, the concept of a Gem hybrid would presumably be seen as despicable. Jasper was plenty disgusted at "Rose" fusing with a human to form Stevonnie.
    • The closest thing Homeworld has to hybrids are cross-Gem fusions. Fusion is allowed on Homeworld, but only between Gems of the same type and for combative purposes. "The Answer" reveals that when Ruby and Sapphire (accidentally) fused for the first time, the Gems around them were outraged to the point that Blue Diamond ordered that Ruby be shattered for fusing with a member of her court. "Off-Colors" shows that cross-Gem fusions like Rhodonite and Fluorite are forced to hide underground with Gems who are also "defective", that is, those who cannot or will not fulfill their intended purposes. If found, they are shattered on sight. Many are Romantic Fusions, which crosses over with Maligned Mixed Marriage.
  • Voltron: Legendary Defender: Galra hybrids born through interspecies relationships are more or less accepted and can work their way up to high positions, but there's a sizable contingent of traditionalists in the military who think half-breeds are shameful and shouldn't be allowed to be soldiers. The Galra Empire pretty much runs on the Galra themselves being the Master Race above everyone else, so hybrids and their legitimacy for positions in Galra society seems to be a controversial grey area.

 
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