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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' has Porlyusica, who hates humans.
* Done with no laughs at all with [[The Dragon|Legato]] in ''[[Trigun]]''. He's human, but is an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] who wants to kill all humans and anxiously awaits the day when his own boss will kill him. He hates himself and [[Mad Love|everyone else that is not Knives]]. If Knives weren't an [[Omnicidal Maniac]], Legato would probably hate everyone anyway.
* Alucard from ''[[Hellsing]]'' fits this, since he's actually {{spoiler|the first vampire, and seems to think that he has the right and obligation to decide which
* 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}}
* At one point in ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'', Maria, [[The Illegal]] becomes fascinated with [[Manzai]] which leads to her becoming a right wing ultra-nationalist for reasons which make slightly more sense in context. She is shown denouncing the Prime Minister in front of Parliament for charges which include the influx of illegal immigrants in Japan.
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', Jirobo of the Sound Four enjoys making fun of Choji's weight during his fight with him, despite being fatter than he is.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Played for Laughs]] in a classic Gyro Gearloose story by [[Carl Barks]] where a rival inventor moves next door to Gyro. Gyro angrily declares that he never could stand any kind of inventors or geniuses.
== [[Film]] ==
* The insane asylum in 1963's ''Shock Corridor'' has a self-proclaimed black Klansman.
* Walt Kowalski from ''[[Gran Torino]]'' is a white Pole who throws derogatory slurs at everyone, including the Polish and whites.
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* 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.
* Played for laughs in ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''. Edward says "Never trust a vampire. Trust me."
* ''Get On The Bus'' has a [[Honest John's Dealership|successful car salesman]] who
{{quote|Bernie Mac's character: [[Ironic Echo|Niggers need coat! Coat need Niggers!]]}}
* A mild example in the Korean War film ''[[
* ''[[Django Unchained]]''; Calvin Candi is a bigot so vile that even [[Quentin Tarantino]] has claimed he hates him, but Calvin's [[Scary Black Man]] henchman Stephen (played by [[Samuel L. Jackson]] is just as rotten and hateful as his boss.
== [[Literature]] ==
* 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.
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* In the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' Grand Admiral Danetta Pitta is the fiercest proponent and perpetrator of the Empire's bigotry against non-humans. While it's a closely kept secret, Pitta isn't human. Instead he's a crossbreed of two alien species that are human except for the skin color and the two have combined into a human skin tone.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Chappelle's Show]]'' had a skit called "Black White Supremacist" set in the [[Deep South]]. Clayton Bigsby is a blind black man who grows up under the impression that he is white; he becomes a prominent [[You Are What You Hate|white supremacist writer and Klan leader]]. His fellow Klan members never see him out of his robes (and those that do know he's black don't tell him in fear he would kill himself so there will be one less black person in the world), and when he finally finds out he's black, he leaves his wife, [[Crosses the Line Twice|accusing her of being a "nigger lover"]].
** [[wikipedia:Leo Felton|Leo Felton]] is a [[Real Life]] version of the character.
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* Col. Potter on ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'': "Damn colonels! Can't trust any of them!"
== [[Music]] ==
* [[Blue Öyster Cult]] got into critical trouble with a song called "ME 262", a song about the last days of [[WW 2]] seen from the viewpoint of a Luftwaffe fighter pilot tasked at the behest of Hitler and Goering with knocking down ''English planes'' and seeing them ''go burnin'''. This song, with its interludes of air-raid sirens, bombs exploding and marching jackboots, was held to be a fan-anthem to Nazism, and accusations the band members were closet Nazis failed to take into account that three of them are in fact Jewish. This was either heavy-metal gormlessness of the [[Up to Eleven]] variety, or just maybe a case of Boomerang Bigot in action. (The song also sucked as history, as most of the time the ME 262 was employed against American bombers flying by day.)
* [[Rammstein]] too has been accused of Nazism, to the point of becoming [[Trope Namer]] of [[Music to Invade Poland To]]. If this were true they would be a band consisting primary of [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Nazi Marxist Jews]].
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* [[George Carlin]] reserved some of his more searing criticisms for white people.
* Chris Rock's division of north Americans of color into "black people" and "niggers".
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'' 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.)
* ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]'': Banishers really, ''really'' hate mages, despite the fact that the two groups went on the same trip to the Supernal Realms and came back with knowledge of magic. The differences is that while regular mages viewed the experience as akin to religious awakening, Banishers viewed it as more like [[Mind Rape]] and feel an instinctive revulsion every time they use magic.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Wild ARMs 5]]'', Volsung is fanatically dedicated to making sure nobody ever "crosses the wall" between Veruni and human, despite {{spoiler|he himself being half-Veruni and half-human and hence a living example of crossing the wall}}.
* In ''[[Dragon Age]]'', Morrigan has such a moment with Zathrian.
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* In ''[[Deus Ex]]'', the augmented player character can choose to side with anti-augmentation zealots in ''Human Revolution'' and ''Invisible War.''
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has Othar Tryggvassen, '''[[Gentleman Adventurer]]'''. 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. His "solution", however, wouldn't fix anything, only upset the old balance of power - leading to more wars and dangerous mistakes as the new mad scientists establish new pecking order, and leave much more openings for ''more dangerous'' maniacs (up to and including [[Big Bad|The Other]]) while there are too few people who can notice and stop them.
* Chiniride from ''[[Drowtales]]'' vigorously supported her clan's religious intolerance to half-breeds, even though she is the daughter of a light elf and gray drow herself. (And she knows this and even contemplates killing herself to purify the world from her own kind.) {{spoiler|It was revealed later that, in the world of Drowtales, gray drow are the same race as light elves, just as black drow are related to dark elves. She's since become ''much'' less zealous and more reasonable.}}
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* ''[[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].
== [[Web Original]] ==
* A hilarious variation occurs in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' when [[Land Down Under|Brendan Wallace]] laments about how America brought the whole terrorist plot down on themselves, and blames them for everything. He then proceeds to mentally list off his friends, claiming they didn't do anything to deserve this... who are all Americans.
* [http://www.bash.org/?110 This guy] on [[bash.org]].
* In episode 4, volume 2 of ''[[RWBY]]'', Roman gives a rather flamboyant speech full of anti-human rhetoric in front of a crowd of White Fangs, condemning humanity's greed and hatred, particularly their leadership. This at first suggests this Trope, but in truth, it's an act; he's simply [[Pandering to the Base]] in order to sway them to his side, as the White Fangs aren't too fond of humans. And several episodes later, Roman shows that he really doesn't like them either.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[wikipedia:Uncle Ruckus|Uncle Ruckus]] from ''[[The Boondocks]]'' can be basically described as a black Klansman-wannabe.
* Played for laughs on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'':
{{quote|'''Groundskeeper Willie:''' "Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!"}}
** ''The Simpsons'' also subverts this when Krusty comes to doubt his own credentials as a Jew:
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* Helga from ''[[Pasila]]'' is a female [[He-Man Woman Hater]] (with an emphasis on "he-man", even though that's not even part of the trope), taking after her father who never remotely accepted her.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* As the George Carlin example above illustrates, white stand-up comedians who want to do insult humor are usually forced into this by a combination of [[N-Word Privileges]] and [[Acceptable Targets]].
* Industrialist and automotive pioneer Henry Ford could qualify as this: while he espoused
* Ernst Röhm, co-founder of the Nazi SA (Hitler's private guard in the early years), was gay. As fascist movements are generally homophobic, he, along with other early members of the party, were killed in an intra-party purge called the "Night of the Long Knives", which consolidated Hitler's power by eliminating most of the people who could challenge his power (or were now an embarrassment). There are [[wikipedia:The Pink Swastika|conspiracy theories]] that the Nazis were somehow a gay organization, but they don't really hold water.
** Although prior to The Night of Long Knives, Hitler and the Nazi Party had not adopted an aggressive stance towards homosexuality, and for some early anti-Nazis, e.g. among Catholics and the military, the Nazis' pre-1935 "acceptance" of homosexuals and in particular Röhm's prominent and high position in the party hierarchy were important or at least contributory reasons as to why they opposed Nazism. And for many in the military who started out distrusting Hitler, the Night of the Long Knives proved that he was okay after all. This included Stauffenberg, who eventually changed his mind again and in 1944 would attempt to blow Hitler up.
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