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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Ranma ½
** In a [[Filler]] episode in the anime about Shampoo's village sisters, Ranma makes a sexist comment and Shampoo [[What the Hell, Hero?|calls him out on it]]. In another storyline Ranma is distraught when he finds out Akane is stronger then him but this probably has to do with his inflated ego.
** Kuno and Mousse occasionally show mildly misogynistic attitudes- for example, Mousse trying to take "Chinese Amazon" Shampoo to a [[Kimodameshi]], which naturally offends her, or Kuno's apparent inability to comprehend that women might ''not'' be attracted to him. But it's all for [[Gag Series|laughs]].
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*** She does eventually give up on him, deciding that his perversion and stupidity are more then his wealth and looks can justify, finding happiness with [[Dogged Nice Guy|Inaba]]. A definitely ''Un''Licensed Sexist in the series is Mr. Fujinami, a chauvinist of the utmost degree, who everyone considers a psychotic maniac -- particularly his [[Abusive Parents|daughter]], who frequently [[Calling the Old Man Out|tries to beat some sense into him]]. He's such a lunatic he raised his daughter as a [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] and tried to fake a reputation as a [[Kavorka Man]] after his wife died, all because he doesn't think a girl can handle running a tea shop.
* Wufei from ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' in an early episode explains away an opponents weakness because "she's a woman". He then goes on to spare her life because "I don't kill weaklings or women" (thus equating women with weaklings). Eight episodes later another character (yes, a woman) helps pull his head out of his ass, and his [[Character Development]] gets him out of that mindset by the end of the series - but these [[Never Live It Down|epiphanies tend to get ignored by viewers]]. As for skilled female pilots, [[Team Mom|Noin]] can stand alongside the show's mains and do so [[Badass Normal|while piloting an inferior mecha]].
* Athena in ''[[
* The Nations of ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' constantly make extremely offensive jokes and slurs against each other. The entire thing is generally [[Played for Laughs]], owing to the fact that most of said Nations who do that sort of thing are just as hotheaded or stupid as the one they're insulting (also, the series pretty much runs on [[Refuge in Audacity]]).
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== Film ==
* ''[[Italian Spiderman]]''. For all his [[Hypocritical Humour|"Respecte la donna!"]], he's the biggest sexist of all time. And it's ''[[Crosses the Line Twice|hilarious]]''.
* A lot of monster movies have the girl falling in love with the biggest chauvinist in the cast. ''[[King Kong]]'' probably started it, but it's alive and well twenty years later in ''Them!'' and the [[
{{quote| "[[Double Entendre|But I've got a mantis in my pantis!]]"}}
* Jack Crow gets a two-for-one in ''John Carpenter's Vampires''. He's both sexist AND violently homophobic.
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* Mr. Wong in ''[[Norbit]]''.
* The Mole in ''[[South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut]]'' is a character who helps the boys rescue Terrance and Phillip, but can barely go 30 seconds without saying something extremely blasphemous.
* Gus, the dad in ''[[
* The truncated ending to ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' film segment "A Quality of Mercy" seems to suggest this, as Mr. Conner ends up shipped to off to his death in a concentration camp as punishment for simply being a bigot, with the [[Unfortunate Implications]] that bigotry not only should not be forgiven, but it ''cannot'' be forgiven. Of course, this message was not intended: Mr. Conner was going to be redeemed in the original ending after risking himself to save two young Vietnamese children, but a tragic [[Real Life Writes the Plot|freak accident on set]] forced the director to go with the much darker ending shown in the film.
* In ''[[Gran Torino]]'', the main character (played by Clint Eastwood) is a racist white veteran of the Korean War who has several disputes with his Hmong neighbors. Though he eventually warms up to them and they to him, he makes several politically incorrect jokes at the expense of Asians.
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* ''[[Chinatown]]'' is set in the 1930s and Jake has a um... ''period authentic attitude'' toward minorities.
** He also likes telling dirty jokes, usually unaware of women [[Right Behind Me|Right Behind Him]].
* Even the non-corrupt officers in ''[[
* He wasn't the protagonist, but the co-pilot in [[Snakes
* The titular character of ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' '''definitely''' qualifies:
{{quote| '''Gonzales:''' There is one question, Inspector Callahan: Why do they call you "Dirty Harry"?<br />
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== Literature ==
* [[Private Detective|Eddie Valiant]] from ''[[Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (Literature)]]'' (the book that inspired [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|the similarly-named film]]) starts out as a shameless [[Fantastic Racism|fantastic racist]], thinking of the Toons as second-class citizens incapable of behaving with dignity or even of feeling the same emotions as humans. Throughout the course of his adventures, however, he learns to chill out and treat everyone's needs equally, eventually understanding that though they're fundamentally different in many ways, Toons are people too. He never stops being a bitter [[Deadpan Snarker]], though.
* The Hunters of Artemis from ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' all hate men and boys, but are willing to help them for the greater good.
* Averted by [[Discworld|Commander Vimes,]] but played straight by Sergeant Colon, and both are discussed in the same discussion. Fred Colon gets the "product of his time" excuse; he's somewhere in late middle age when he's introduced in Guards! Guards!, and upgrades to "elderly" sometime before Thud! He's known to think of dwarfs and trolls as "gritsuckers" and "rocks" (speciesist slurs, both), and is a little too eager to buy into anti-Klatchian propaganda in Jingo. Vimes, by comparison, comes off as a bit speciesist on the surface, but A) nonhumans under his command put up with it because they know he's got their back when they're in trouble and B) he doesn't much care for humans, either.
** It can be summed up as "Sam Vimes only likes other coppers, his wife, their child, and their butler."
* In [[Stephen King|Stephen King's]] novel ''[[The Running Man (
* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: Oh, man. Books like ''Weekend Warriors'' and ''Vendetta'' show that a number of the Vigilantes are very anti-Asian. Kathryn went into a rant at Yoko Akio about how she's using the fact that she's Asian and different as an excuse to be wishy-washy. Yoko is not wishy-washy. One of their targets is a man named John Chai, who they keep calling "Chinese boy". They don't call him anything worse than that, but the fact that the book he's in blatantly uses [[Yellow Peril]] to justify putting him in the role of the villain implies that the Vigilantes are very anti-Asian, despite the fact that one of their members is Asian herself! Later on, the Vigilantes pretty much indicate that they are [[Straw Feminist|Straw Feminists]] and misandristic, which male readers will ''not'' appreciate!
* 'Fat Ollie' Weeks from the ''[[
* While he starts out in the story as a [[Designated Hero]], Kyle Kingsley of ''[[Beastly]]'' makes a number of comments about objectifying women, and explicitly states at one point that he knows what to do to manipulate his girlfriend into being happy enough to have sex with him. This is contrasted to how he eventually views Lindsey, valuing her intelligence and personality and wanting a meaningful relationship with her, all of which show his growth as a person.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Perhaps the Ur example for television (at least in the US) is Archie Bunker from ''[[All in The Family]]''. Racist, sexist, the whole nine yards. The only reason the show got away with it was because Archie was [[Troubled Sympathetic Bigot|portrayed as an idiot for having these views]].
* The titular character of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' says some pretty sexist things, but then he is pretty much [[Deadpan Snarker|an equal-opportunity insult-slinger]]. (Not that such a thing always stops complaints.)
{{quote| '''Cuddy''' (evaluating House) Your attitude towards supervisory personnel is disrespectful, and a disturbingly large proportion of your comments are racist or sexist.<br />
'''House''': [[I Resemble That Remark|That top makes you look like an Afghani prostitute]]...[[[Beat]]]...would be an example of that. }}
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**** I think Gibbs simply has difficulty taking orders from anyone, male or female, and had worked very very closely to Shepard in the field, so imagine taking orders you disagree with from one of your best friends.
** Mike Franks, Gibbs' mentor, fits this trope even better. His sexist views are FAR more blatant. When he found out Jenny Shepard was the director of NCIS, he laughed at her since she was a woman.
* Dennis Duffy on ''[[30 Rock
{{quote| "Dear Liz Lemon, Though other women have bigger boobs than you, no women has as big a heart and when I saw you getting ready to go out and get nailed by a bunch of guys last night, I knew for sure it was over between us and, for the first time since the '86 World Series, I cried. I cried like a big dumb homo. And if it were up to me, we'd be together forever, but there's this new thing called 'Women's Liberation' which gives you women the right to choose and you have chosen to abort me and that I must live with."}}
** And Jack Donaghy on the same show. ''Only'' Alec Baldwin could get away with the line "I like a woman with ambition; it's like seeing a dog wearing clothes".
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* Matt Dowd on ''[[Eli Stone]]''.
* Barney on ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', as per his role as the [[Casanova]], tends to treat women like objects, but has enough [[Magnificent Bastard|style]] and goes [[Refuge in Audacity|far enough over the top]] that people still love him.
** He also has enough genuinely decent moments to keep him firmly in the [[Jerk
{{quote| '''Barney:''' At one point, I'm pretty sure I sold a woman. I didn't speak the language, but I shook a guy's hand, he gave me the keys to a Mercedes, and I left her there.}}
* Chief O'Brien on ''[[Star Trek:
** Kira follows a similar, more dramatic character arc. Her absolute hatred of the Cardassians was pretty justified, since she spent her entire life fighting against their horrifically brutal occupation of her planet. Over the course of the series, she came to accept that not all Cardassians are evil, and even began to sympathize with them when ''their'' planet is occupied.
*** Kira's actually focused more tightly than that; she only hated military Cardassians (which is, to be fair, the majority of them.) See the season 1 episode Duet for an example of her quickly getting over her fantastic racism once she got to know the man personally.
** To make this understandable, it should be noted that the Cardassians as a species are not very far from [[Always Chaotic Evil]]. Their [[Those Wacky Nazis|regime is horrible]], and most Cardassian characters are representatives of that regime in one way or another (though we do meet some genuinely noble ones).
** Commander [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Worf]] is openly racist toward Romulans, to the point that simply admitting that Romulans fought honorably in their failed [[Gunship Rescue]] is treated as legitimate character growth in ''[[
*** Worf once refused to donate blood to a critically wounded Romulan, {{spoiler|resulting in his [[What the Hell, Hero?|death.]]}} He's also portrayed as quick to violence and slightly sexist.
* A rare female reference from ''[[
** Lampshaded in "The Shakespeare Code", when Shakespeare becomes smitten with Martha. She is initially offended by him calling her an Ethiopian and such things, until she realizes that he's trying to compliment her. The Doctor comments on all of this with "It's political correctness gone mad!"
* Douglas Reynholm in ''[[The IT Crowd]]'' plays this for laughs.
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* The [[Firefly|Browncoats]] fought an entire war simply to live out [[The Wild West|a 19th century lifestyle]] in space. Much is made about the [[Slobs Versus Snobs|rugged freedom-loving Browncoats and the cold, faceless Alliance.]]
** Mal also makes a number of jabs at Inara's job, which he refers to as prostitution. Interestingly, it stops at insulting the job, seeing as he treats his other female crew members with respect, is perfectly fine with the prostitutes he's hired to help in "Heart of Gold", and decks a guy for insulting Inara herself.
* ''[[Married...
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* [[Mass Effect|Renegade!Shepard]] can be quite racist. Some of the squad members edge into [[Noble Bigot]] territory: Ashley believes humans should be able to stand on their own, and is hesitant about placing too much trust in allies from other species, while Garrus can be pretty insensitive in his conversations with Wrex and Tali (he wises up).
** In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', one of the artifacts at the original Normandy crash site is the personal journal of the deceased Exo Presley. Over the three pages that survive, his attitude shifts from one of blatant [[Fantastic Racism|xenophobia]] to grudging acceptance to complete trust in his alien fellow crew members as well as shame over his old attitude displayed on the first page.
* Varian Wrynn and Admiral Proudmoore fall afoul of this in [[
** Maybe because of the fact that the orcs are not really evil but were manipulated at the time? If they stopped with the racism, they might actually learn to live together and solve far more of the worlds problems than they are able to right now, take a look at the battle of Mount Hyjal, for one.
** Proudmore lived and fought through the Second War. His eldest son was killed by an orc-controlled dragon. It's no wonder he hates them so much.
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'''Farnsworth:''' "You're going to do his laundry?" }}
*** When stuck at Roswell in 1947, Leela and the Professor dressed in hilariously stereotyped clothes go to an appliance store to acquire a microwave oven, not realizing they aren't invented yet. While the salesman ignoring Leela and focusing his pitch to her "husband" could be somewhat handwaved as the sexism prevalent to that era, the Professor gleefully partaking in the jokes certainly wasn't excusable, as Leela reminds him by [[Laser-Guided Karma|setting his tie on fire with an oven]].
* Pakku from ''[[
** Sokka is a bit sexist for the first few episodes, believing that women should [[Stay in
* ''[[Teen Titans (
* In ''[[The Princess and
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