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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[The SM Judge]]'', Magda initially hated herself for being a masochist, ruining her own life as well as making her husband miserable. This turns around early in the movie, but the character had already wasted decades of her life when the story begins.
* ''[[X-Men (
* In ''Human Nature'', the protagonist has fur. She hates herself for it; shaves her entire body every morning (except her head, of course), and punishes herself by chosing a man who is utterly disgusted by female bodily hair.
* In ''[[Never Let Me Go]]'', perhaps the most painful aspect of the story is that the characters never overcome their social conditioning. {{spoiler|The government plans to harvest their internal organs, and they really don't want to die. They spend the story agonizing over their lives being cut short, grasping for straws as they try to find loopholes so they'll be allowed to stay alive a little longer, and feeling guilty about taking out their angst on each other. But none of them ever dare to admit to themselves that the system is unfair, that they actually ''deserve'' to be allowed to live. They have been given the identity of sacrificial victims, and while they hate their place in life, they fail to break free from this imposed image of who and what they are.}}
* Much of the drama in ''[[Secretary]]'' revolves around Edward's internal conflict. He's a sexual sadist who thinks that BDSM is dirty and immoral. This make him very unfair to himself as well as to his submissive, who he [[Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny|blames for tempting him]]. {{spoiler|Lee eventually manage to snap him out of it.}}
* In ''[[Female Perversions]]'', Eve struggles with this through the entire movie. As the work page quote indicates, the whole thing is about the devastating effects of having grown up as a girl/woman, being pushed into an destructive gender role. Not restricted to gender alone, it's also about trying to come to terms with one's power and sexuality.
* ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter]]'', some of the meanest people are said to hate themselves because they are squibs — and taking this self-hatred out on young wizards of whom they are jealous. While more ambiguous, it is also possible that Tom Riddle (Voldemort) himself was embarrassed over being a half-blood and that his [[Fantastic Racism]] was partly a overcompensation for this.
* In one of the official collections of shortstories for ''[[
* There are several versions of this in ''[[The Regeneration Trilogy]].'' On one hand are the [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|soldiers]] at a psychiatric hospital who suffer from different forms of PTSD, and hate themselves for breaking down and being "in with the loonies." Then there are the gays, who have to keep their sexuality a secret because of the repressive atmosphere, all the time hearing that homosexuality is a sin and a threat to the nation.
* ''[[Ender's Game]]'' deals with this after Battle School. He hates himself for what he was--a child military genius {{spoiler|who wiped out most of an alien race}} and emphatically does not want to continue being that person. As an adult, he becomes [[The Atoner]], hiding his identity while traveling the galaxy and trying to create peace and understanding.
* In ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the [[Criminal Minds]] episode In Heat, {{spoiler|the unsub was a gay man motivated by the abuse his [[Heteronormative Crusader]] father subjected him to. He became convinced that he was "dirty," and began killing men and stealing their identities to escape his own.}}
* In [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]], {{spoiler|Tara}} turns out to have been abused by her relatives. Among other things, they have tricked her to believe that she's an evil demon when she's actually fully human. Believing herself to be a demon lead her to actions that almost get everyone killed, as she's desperately try to hide her "true" nature from all her friends.
* In the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode ''Cardassians'', the main characters do one of [[Pitying Perversion]] by [[Straw Affiliation|deciding Ruko's identity for him against his will]], and then insisting that he's suffering from [[Internalized Categorism]] because the identity they have chosen for him {{spoiler|and eventually condemned him to, by giving him away to the stranger Ben decided deserved him the most - by virtue of being his biological father and the victim of a political conspiracy}} is one he hates.
** The episode leave it for the audience to decide whether or not Ruko was actually suffering from Internalized Categorism or not and whether or not {{spoiler|forcing him to move to Cardassia}} was the right choice. What you'd consider best for the child depends on whether you consider him to be a Bajoran (his identity and upbringing) or Cardassian (his biological ancestry, including his looks).
** There's also the issue of whether Ruko hated the Cardassians as an empire or as a race. Hating the empire is not a problem for him, as long as he's allowed to stay away from it. (Entering the empire would be quite dangerous, however, since it's a military dictatorship likely to eventually having him executed.) Hating Cardassians as a race would be far more problematic. Since Ruko claim to have no guilt in the atrocities committed by the empire, it is likely that his hatred is of the first kind. But it never gets analyzed in any detail.
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== Web Original ==
* [[Zinnia Jones]] talks about [[Internalized Homophobia]] in several episodes, especially [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9_xsFId_eI ''coming out''], which is based on the concept that [[Heteronormative Crusader]] antics are designed to ''make'' gay people hate themselves.
* [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In an episode of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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