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A subtrope of [[Screw You Elves]]. Could be considered a kind of meta-revenge against [[Can't Argue With Elves]].
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== [[Films]] ==
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** ...that is, until one of the most peaceful and eccentric of their numbers inadvertently stumbles on the story's protagonist, Haplo, who had just entered their world. He ends up tagging along, seeing the rest of their world, and learning of the origin of the dwarves from Haplo. Later in the story, he returns to the Gegs, and leads them in casting off their elven lords. The twist from being an entire race of [[Comic Relief]] characters, to plunging their entire world into war and chaos (since the rest of the world is mostly reliant on the water produced by the Gegs' machine) is quite well-done.
* ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' ran a story, "An Elvish Sword of Great Antiquity" in which elves had been enslaved for a very long time, with obvious parallels with the enslavement of African-Americans and white attitudes towards them.
* In ''[[The Witcher]]'' (at least in the books), Elves were once a noble and proud race, before humans came. At the time of the books humans threaten them, with parallels to [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|European oppression of Native Americans]] in [[Real Life]]. And in last book {{spoiler|we can see a proud clan that escaped to another dimension to escape the fate of their fellow elves}}.
** {{spoiler|That proud clan of elves who escaped to another dimension butchered and enslaved the native humans there, instead.}}
* In [[Michael Moorcock]]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swords_Trilogy Swords Trilogy], the Nhadragh race was once highly advanced in both magic and culture. By the time of the stories, they had declined to the point that they were conquered and used as slaves by the Mabden (humans).
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/030805 this] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' strip we see that the [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|"Neebler" cookie elves]] have been slaves to the "Babisco" corporation since the company [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|bought the tree they lived in with some shiny beads]].
* In ''[[Linburger]]'', the [[Not Using the Zed Word|Cyll]] used to be a highly advanced race with immortality and magic. Then something happened. Nobody in-universe is quite sure what went wrong. But now the Cyll are second class citizens, reduced to poverty and slums. They're no longer immortal, and so far they haven't shown an ability to do magic. The current generation doesn't even care about their past.
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