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Basic Trope: A supremacist who fails to live up to the hype of their "master" race.


  • Straight: Bob, a Troper, considers himself better than the Wikistans despite being out of shape, ugly, bald, and a high school drop-out who can't hold a steady job and mainly lives off of petty crimes and welfare money.
  • Exaggerated: Aerith the Wikistan has a successful career, several beautiful children with a loving husband and a nice house. Bob the Troper (a repulsive individual both inside and out) still thinks he's better than her just because he's a Troper.
  • Downplayed: Bob, a Troper, is miffed that Aerith the Wikistan got a better test grade in high school. He thinks she only got a higher grade because she's a Wikistan.
  • Justified:
    • Bob's supremacist stance is the product of an Inferiority Superiority Complex. He knows he's sub-par by most standards, so he turns to racism because it lets him feel superior.
    • Bob never had a proper education, only being homeschooled by his very bigoted Troper parents who themselves shun modern education for its diversity. As a consequence, Bob grows into a failure of a man whose learned bigotry makes it hard if not impossible to succeed in modern society.
  • Inverted:
    • Despite being a handsome, muscular, wealthy, genius-level Troper, Bob constantly extols the superior virtues of the Wikistans- who turn out to be pretty below average.
    • Bob is a genuinely successful Troper who insistently attributes his achievements to his superior Troper genes.
    • Bob is a Troper who vocally espouses diversity between Tropers and Wikistans and is also a loser by modern society's standards.
  • Subverted:
    • It turns out Bob is wealthy and doing decently for himself despite being a slovenly bigot.
    • Bob was Mistaken for Racist against the Wikistans.
  • Double Subverted:
    • Bob is an Upper-Class Twit who inherited wealth but not class. He doesn't remotely deserve his success.
    • Bob was lying to save face.
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig-Zagged: Bob is very adamant that Tropers are inherently better than Wikistanians. However, Bob has an Inferiority Superiority Complex in that he considers himself worthless despite being a Troper, but still sees normal people as beneath him. The other Tropers do not condone his views and largely detest him due to his insanity.
  • Averted: Bob doesn't consider anyone to be inherently superior to anyone else.
    • Bob is a bigot, but is moderately successful in life, with it not having an impact on his success.
  • Enforced: The producers want to be sure that their bigoted character avoids Evil Is Cool to prevent a Misaimed Fandom among real-life bigots, so they make him a loser.
  • Lampshaded: "Bob, you can either dump your useless bigotry, or you can rot away achieving nothing. There's no middle ground here."
  • Invoked: The Brotherhood of Tropers launch a propaganda campaign about Troper superiority, aiming to attract Tropers who they know are disenchanted with their sub-par lives by giving them something to have (false) pride in.
  • Exploited: The Brotherhood of Tropers, a Troper supremacist organization, employs Bob and others like him into a separate group to cause chaos in order to distract Wikistanians and and non-prejudiced Tropers from the undercover members they and other similar organizations put in high positions of Troperia, who look conventionally attractive and fairly respectable to the average person.
  • Defied:
    • As Bob arrives at his Troper supremacist views, he decides to uphold the "superiority" of his race through self-improvement.
    • When The Corrupter tries to incite Bob against Wikistans for their alleged "inferiority," Bob notes that many of the characteristics used to condemn Wikistans also apply to him, and he thus rejects the ideology.
  • Discussed: "Man, I know Bob's a racist asshole, but it's still kinda sad. He clings to his bigotry because it's all he thinks he has."
  • Conversed: ???
  • Deconstructed:
    • Bob ends up completely wasting his life on his Irrational Hatred of Wikistans, constantly refusing to let go of it when it's clear that it's holding him back. He eventually reaches the point of committing grievous hate crimes and is arrested, and then dies in prison, either via suicide or another inmate killing him.
    • Bob ends up driving away anyone that could possibly help him move past his hatred, and never realizes that it's because of this hatred that he never gets any true friendships or relationships. By the time he passes away, all anyone knows him as is the local Racist Grandpa, completely overshadowing any other merits he might have had.
    • Bob is a complete moron who joined The Tropers for acceptance and kinship, only to be seen as a laughing stock by Wikistans, and he is eventually kicked out of The Tropers because they see him as an embarrassment to the organization and he makes them all look bad by promoting the stereotype that all Tropers are hate-filled morons who blame others for their inadequacies. Bob flaunted his membership in the organization and shamelessly attacked anyone he believed was a non-troper, which was embarrassing The Tropers and taking away their ability to be seen as a legitimate and respectable organization that wants to make changes in society so they could get recruits in the future and, eventually, political power.
  • They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste: Bob's character arc is that of growing more humble and out of his bigotry, and him growing Progressively Prettier represents him getting more moral.
  • Played For Horror: Bob becomes a Serial Killer who and eventually goes on a massive killing spree that ends with him killing himself, all fueled by the self-loathing of being an "inferior member of a superior race".

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