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Warhammer 40,000 is subject to deconstruct this trope, namely the Marines Malevolent, who are all a bunch of arrogant, prideful bunch that doesn't care for the lives of the average imperial citizen, claiming they are superior to these citizens. And they are loyalists, too. Needless to say, that kind of behavior triggered the Salamanders' Berserk Button during the Second War for Armageddon.

In the Magic: The Gathering fandom, this is how many, many people view blue decks (and many partially blue ones as well). Given that a large part of blue magic is built around counterspells ("yeah, that cool spell? No."), this was perhaps inevitable.

This is what the Pathfinder blog has to say about Alain the cavalier.
In Shadowrun we have Clockwork, a hobgoblin rigger and probably the most hate-filled, paranoid jackass on Jackpoint. At least his paranoia (the kind that isn't shared by every other Shadowrunner, of course) is relatively contained to technomancers, but it still was enough to make him try to sell Net Cat (a technomancer and fellow Jackpoint user) to the megacorps when he knew they'd perform horrific experiments on her and was practically freaking out when he learnt she was pregnant. When he mentions the child's eye colour at one point, Net Cat, Slamm-0! (the child's father) and their friends are suitably disturbed.

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