Boomerang Bigot: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Vampire Knight]]'', {{spoiler|Zero Kiryu is a vampire hunter who hates vampires [[Hunter of His Own Kind|despite (or perhaps because of) being an ex-human vampire himself.]]}}

* Lord Gargoyle from [[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]] thinks of humans as inferior. {{spoiler|It isn't until his death that he finds out: he's one himself}}

 

 

* Walt Kowalski from ''[[Gran Torino]]'' is a white Pole who throws derogatory slurs at everyone, including the Polish and whites.

* Officer Coffey in ''[[Boyz N the Hood]]'' is a black policeman who shows apathy and hostility to other blacks.

{{quote| "I hate your black skin. I hate your black pants. I hate black pepper. I hate black keys on a piano."<br />

"I hate Whoopi Goldberg's lips." <br />

"I hate my gums, 'cause THEY black." }}

* ''The Believer'' is about an Orthodox Jew who becomes a neo-Nazi. Based loosely on [[wikipedia:Dan Burros|Dan Burros]].

* The seventh member of ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'' really hates farmers, though is himself a farmer.

* In ''[[The Seven Samurai]]'', the seventh ronin, played by Toshiro Mifune, actually comes from a peasant background. He hates peasants for being victims and samurai for being bullies.

* In ''[[Robots]]'' Ratchet's mother Madame Gasket who wants to destroy all older "outmode" robots. While oblivious to the fact she is made of "outmode" parts.

* ''Get On The Bus'' has a [[Honest John's Dealership|successful car salesman]] who intially comes off as [[Positive Discrimination]] as he encourages a Black youth to focus on education to be successful... then in the same breath reveals he went to a "Real college and not some Nigger school," going on a whole Uncle Tom tirade that might as well be spoken by a Neo-Nazi with [[N-Word Privileges]] where he derides ''everything/everyone'' Black, reveals he's a Republican though [[Pet the Dog|pets the]] [[Twofer Token Minority|Threefer Black, gay Republican]] (yes the rest of the bus has the same reaction as you reading that) for the same politics regardless of sexual orientation, [[Kick the Dog|with the kicker being that he reveals he couldn't care less about the Million Man March]] [[Completely Missing the Point|the whole]] ''point'' [[Completely Missing the Point|of the trip]] and [[Money, Dear Boy|is only going to sell cars.]] He finally works their last nerve by telling a racist joke about "lesbians and niggers don't do dick" and is ''literally'' [[Asshole Victim|thrown off the bus into a ditch]] also by Bernie Mac.

{{quote| Bernie Mac's character: [[Ironic Echo|Niggers need coat! Coat need Niggers!]]}}

* Joe Christmas from Faulkner's ''[[Light In August]]'' has serious issues, among them, he is white; he thinks he's biracial, but doesn't fit in black or white society. He has contempt for black people in particular.

* Deconstructed in Philip Roth's ''The Human Stain''. Professor Coleman Silk's long and distinguished tenure is brought to sudden ruin when he is accused of making a racist comment about two black students. Coleman is the only person who can really appreciate the awful irony of this accusation, because he is a light-skinned black man who spent his entire adult life pretending he was white, going so far as to disown his family so that they don't exist as a fact of his past others could discover. Since the accusation was perpetrated from within the Athena faculty by his personal enemies, if they knew the truth about his race, they would almost certainly believe him to be a [[Boomerang Bigot]] instead of the straightforward variety they accused him of being.

{{quote| '''Detritus:''' You can't trust 'em.<br />

'''Skully:''' Who?<br />

** Similarly Reg Shoe is initially invited to join the Watch after sending in letters complaining about police treatment of the Undead community. Vimes later notices that since Reg Shoe became a watchman the number of complaints from the Undead has doubled and they are all directed against Reg Shoe.

** 71-Hour Ahmed doesn't trust any Klatchians, ''because'' he is one. He actually has to point out to Vimes, who's engaging in some pretty heavy [[Positive Discrimination]] (to counteract the regular-old discrimination that he thinks will get everyone killed by underestimation), that Klatchians can be scheming bastards too.

** The Hydrophobes are deliberately raised to hate all liquids, including their own body fluids. This aversion becomes so powerful it forms a repulsion field around the hydrophobe, practical for magic transports on water.

* In the [[Strugatsky Brothers]] novel ''[[Prisoners of Power (Literature)|Prisoners of Power]]'' it turns out that the political junta which ordered the persecution of the "deviants" is composed entirely of deviants itself. They don't do it out of bigotry though - {{spoiler|deviants are the only members of the populace who are immune to the [[Mind Control]] which the junta uses to stay in power.}}

** Toyvo Glumov in ''The Time Wanderers''.

** Snape as well -- in his youth he was highly prejudiced against muggles and muggle-borns despite being a half-blood himself {{spoiler|and in love with a particular muggle-born}}.

* Queen Jehana in the [[Deryni]] works becomes this after {{spoiler|she tries to use her Deryni powers to protect her son from Charissa at his coronation}}. She fervently believes the Deryni powers are evil, and after [[The Reveal]] at the coronation she goes into self-imposed exile in a remote convent, fasting to the point of noticeable weight loss. She tries to warn Nigel's wife Meraude of the taint of the Haldane powers, exhorting her sister-in-law to keep Nigel safe. She entertains hopes of finding a human wife for Kelson to "redeem" him, and she's rude and hostile to Rothana when she thinks the young novice is too close to her son.

 

== Live Action TV ==

** [[wikipedia:Leo Felton|Leo Felton]] is a [[Real Life]] version of the character.

* {{spoiler|Saul Tigh}} on ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'' ''really'' hates the Cylons -- {{spoiler|he has them tortured and executed, and even orders suicide bombings to strike back on New Caprica.}} But as we find out in the season three finale, he's one of the <s>final</s> <s>first</s> [[Fridge Brilliance|final]] five Cylons, along with {{spoiler|the wife he killed for conspiring with the Cylons}}. {{spoiler|Saul}} qualifies for this trope in that he doesn't treat Cylons any better upon finding this out.

** {{spoiler|Chief Tyrol}} counts in a way as well; his own Cylon revelation only deepened his [[Misanthropy]] - particularly towards himself. For him it's justified though, given everything that happened with {{spoiler|Boomer}}.

* Done as kind of a joke on ''[[Dollhouse]]'' when Sierra is imprinted with the personality of someone who doesn't seem to like "Orientals." Or at least, she ''says'' she doesn't like them...but she does seem to in some ways, given how she [[Les Yay|hit on Ivy]]. We're [[Noodle Incident|never really told]] what that engagement involved.

* ''[[Noah's Arc]]'': Wade is this early on, with a very vocal aversion to gays despite being gay himself.

* On one episode of [[Seinfeld]] George's mother rejects the advice of Jerry's girlfriend Donna Chang because she finds out (having previously talked to the woman only on the phone) that Donna is not Chinese. "I don't want to take the advice of some girl from Long Island!" she shouts.

** Of course, since (according to some historians) modern anti-Semitism got its start in Spain's ''limpieza de sangre'' ideology, this may not be as ironic as it first appears.

* ''[[Andromeda]]'' had a radical group bent on destroying space travel in order to preserve planetary ecologies. It was founded by a warship's AI.

** A much softer version shows up in ''The Unconquerable Man'', an alternate-universe episode where Gaheris Rhade - the main character's Nietzschean second-in-command that betrayed him in the pilot - replaced Dylan (said main character). Gaheris ends up so bitter about how the Nietzscheans turned out that Harper (a character with little reason to be fond of Nietzscheans) calls him "the only one I know that hates Nietzscheans more than I do".

* In ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'', {{spoiler|Ankh becomes this towards the end of the series in regards to the Greeed. Despite being one himself, he's come to see the Greeed's main goal of becoming complete as an empty effort without [[And Then What?|thinking about what they'll do after they are whole again]], as it doesn't even sate their ever present desire. In this case, it's more of the actions rather than the species, as he admits even he acted that way and hates himself for it. He also gets seriously frustrated over the fact that the other Greeed seem completely incapable of seeing his point of view. Unlike many examples, he actually has a very good point, as his goal is now to actually sate his desire instead of letting it run wild.}}

* ''[[Smallville]]'': Tess Mercer in Seasons 8 & 9 was this trope...towards humanity in general. She unleashed Zod and the Kryptonian clones expressly because [[Animal Wrongs Group|she hoped that they would be better stewards of the planet]] and that having the Kryptonians in charge, rather than her fellow humans, would allow Earth to become some kind of paradise (apparently, she missed the memo that the Kryptonians inadvertently ''destroyed'' their own planet and themselves in the process). But when it becomes clear that Zod is just as corrupt and evil as any human dictator, Tess realizes her error, and moves away from this trope in Season 10.

 

 

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* In the ''[[Paranoia]]'' role-playing game, players who are members of the Anti-Mutant secret society are required to expose and terminate (human) mutants among the populace. Of course, they're also mutants, just like everyone else in the game. Some of them are [[You Are What You Hate|genuinely unaware of it]].

** Players are also required to expose and terminate secret society members. Of course, they're also members of a secret society, just like everyone else in the game. (They genuinely do hate the secret societies that directly rival their own; the most common pairs of enemies are Anti-Mutant vs. Psion and Corpore Metal vs. Frankenstein Destroyers.)

 

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Dragon Age]]'', Morrigan has such a moment with Zathrian.

{{quote| '''Morrigan:''' ''"Is that why you are here, sorcerer?"''<br />

'''Zathrian:''' ''"Do not call me that, witch!"'' }}

** ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' can see the ''player'' turn into this if they choose to play as a Mage and side with the Templars.

* GLaDOS from ''Portal'' is a special example of this, hating Humans along with most other 'sane' robots in the Aperture facility despite {{spoiler|being one herself once, as the trip through the bowels of Old Aperture in ''Portal 2'' reveals that she was once Caroline, Cave Johnson's assistant. Although you'd probably hate the Aperture facility, everyone in it and mankind in general if you'd had to deal with Cave's insanities and then been abandoned in a computer in an underground complex}}.

* in ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]: Up Your Arsenal'', Dr. Nefarious hates and aims to destroy all organic lifeforms despite formerly being one himself before getting his current robotic body.

* [[The Dragon|Frank Horrigan]] from ''Fallout 2'' is a gigantic, homicidal Super Mutant in power armor... who hates mutants and wants to help the Enclave wipe out anyone infected with the FEV virus. He doesn't even consider himself a mutant, as he was created by the Enclave's own scientists rather than in one of the coastal FEV vats.

 

 

== Webcomics ==

* [[Girl Genius|Othar Tryggvassen]], '''[[Gentleman Adventurer]]''' is one of these. He is a [[Mad Scientist|Spark]] who believes all Sparks should be killed, because of how dangerous they are. He plans to include himself in it, once every other Spark is killed. Different from most examples of this sort in that he is actually ''right'' about Sparks being incurably dangerous and, of course, bonkers.

** It's also recently been implied that Chiri'nide's adopted mother Shimi'lande is much more of a puppet ruler than was previously indicated, and it falls under this trope because the Kyorl'solenurn are fanatical in their hatred for the Vloz'ress, another clan that has a puppet ruler.

* ''[[Guilded Age]]'' takes place in the somewhat racist country of Gastonia, where members of distrusted races can only pull good audiences when [http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-7/chapter-7-page-8/ performing self-hating acts].

 

{{quote| "I thought I was a self-hating Jew, but it turns out I'm just another anti-Semite!"}}

** In the episode in which they want to throw out the illegal immigrants, Moe is one of the most vocal about it, but he is illegal himself.

* On one episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'', there's a group of mostly white Hipsters who move into the neighborhood after Peggy agrees to rent them a house, who have a strong aversion to other white people.

** Throughout the series she easily takes to human society and tools, such as human sorcery and technology, even ''before'' she gained her human transformation curse. She even started her own freaking company (named Nightstone)! For all of her hatred towards humans, Demona fits in far more with human civilization than she does with her fellow gargoyles. [[Fridge Brilliance|Which makes sense]], since after Canmore destroyed her (second) clan she's spent hundreds of years apparently without any other long-term gargoyle companionship.

* In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "The Entity", Kyle's cousin Kyle Schwartz -- who is a walking touchstone of virtually every Jewish stereotype -- comes for a visit. Towards the end of the episode, Kyle catches himself criticizing his cousin's personality and exclaims "Oh my god! I'm a self-hating Jew!"

* [[wikipedia:Dan Burros|Dan Burros]] was a Jewish member of the American Nazi Party. His colleagues knew about his heritage.

* [[wikipedia:John Ausonius|John Ausonius]] born as Wolfgang Alexander Zaugg was the son of a Swiss father and a German mother who had both emmigrated to Sweden. As a kid he was bullied for not being Swedish. This had a profound impact on him, he changed his name, several times, to seem more Swedish, dyed his hair blond and wore blue contacts. It also gave him an intense hatred of foreigners and immigrants, and eventually he went on a shooting spree, killing one person and wounding ten. He was dubbed the Lasermannen because his gun had a laser sight on it.

* Most leaders of communist governments came from wealthy, or at least middle-class, backgrounds.

* Notorious neo-Nazi and certified kook Ernst Zündel is technically a Jew under Jewish law, and once tried to use this fact to enter Israel. [[Laser-Guided Karma|It backfired on him.]]

* Adam Carolla often criticizes government entitlements for families and children such as free lunch programs at schools. However, he and his mother lived off welfare when he was a child.