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== Comics ==
* The [[Ultimate Marvel]] version of [[Captain America (comics)]] has many outdated views since he is a [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]] but he gets over it for the most part.
* Marv from ''[[Sin City]]'' once told his lesbian parole officer that it was a shame she was gay since she had such a great body. She slugged him for it.
* In ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'', Captain Nemo of actually hates the English, despite working for them. Being an Indian prince ([[Alan Moore]] actually [[Shown Their Work|went back and researched]] and discovered [[Jules Verne]] had never intended Nemo to be [[Ink Stain Adaptation|white]]), he's understandably bitter about [[The British Empire]] [[The Raj|dominating his Homeland]], bus takes his homicidal rage [[Up to Eleven]] when there's a crowd of English Mooks to mow down. Most of the casual racism and sexism is pretty much [[Played for Laughs]] or [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]], [[Sociopathic Hero|Griffin and Hyde]] notwithstanding.
* Lance Blastoff from [[Frank Miller]]'s ''Tales to Offend''. It's probably intended as parody but, with Miller, it's sometimes hard to tell.
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* Gus, the dad in ''[[My Big Fat Greek Wedding]]''.
* 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.
** He's also shown to good-naturedly swap ethnic barbs with his white friends ("What's happening, ya greasy dago" "Not much, ya dumb Pollack"), suggesting his slurs are necessarily mean spirited. Racial sensitivity is just something he never learned.
* ''[[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 ''[[L.A. Confidential]]'' are slightly racist towards African Americans.
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* Arguably, Dr. Christian Troy from ''[[Nip Tuck]]'': pathologically oversexed, determinedly shallow, given to anything from sexual harassment on up to psychological warfare as seduction tactics (see, for example, the scene in the ''pilot'' where he strips his latest conquest naked, stands her in front of a full-length mirror, and uses a red lipstick to indicate flaws he finds surgically improvable), and an overwhelming fan favorite. Possibly because of the hotness, possibly because of the tragic backstory, possibly because he's the only major character who isn't an insufferable hypocrite.
* [[Big Bad]] Ari from ''[[NCIS]]'' is constantly being paired off with members of the main cast- male and female- including the ''woman he shot in the head'' and all the people he's attempted to do so to. (Probably Gerald, too. Shiver.) He's also got a healthy streak of sexism to go with his sadism, dad issues and thrill seeking. A [[Magnificent Bastard]], but maybe less than magnificent.
** Also Gibbs. Ari killed one of his female agents precisely because Gibbs would be more upset about it than if he'd lost a male subordinate. He shows no respect for his female boss (unlike her male predecessor), and it's suggested that he has trouble taking orders from a woman.
*** It's worth noting that Gibbs has lost a lot of women close to him in his life (his daughter, for example), and his relationships with many of the women working at NCIS is something of a father/daughter type of thing, especially with Abby. As for Jenny Shepard, he shows even less respect for the male boss who replaced her, so it could be that he just doesn't like the way they operate compared to his former boss. He also worked with Jenny in the field before, if that means anything. Of course none of those things means he doesn't feel that way about women, but they're just worth noting.
**** 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|Thirty Rock]]''. He's a sexist, homophobic, racist lout who calls Liz "Dummy" and embarrasses her in public. Oh, and did we mention he happens to be an Internet predator? (Actually he was apparently later exonerated) Well, Liz sporadically dates him and some fans seem to like [[Shipping]] them together. Witness a break-up speech he delivered:
{{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."}}
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** 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 ''[[Star Trek Nemesis]]''.
*** 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.
**** It's interesting to note that while fans, and the episode itself, focuses on Worf's refusal to donate blood, given much less attention is that the ''Romulan says he doesn't want Worf's blood''. The Romulan is just as openly racist towards Worf, if not moreso, and essentially refuses treatment... not that the patient's express wishes ever stopped Doctor Crusher from doing whatever she wanted.
* A rare female reference from ''[[Doctor Who]]'': In "The Family of Blood", love-interest Joan Redfern explains at length why Martha cannot possibly be a doctor. Martha's response may well constitute a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. In her defence, Joan Redfern lives in 1913, when women practicing medicine as doctors in British society was a rarity and genuinely ''was'' thought to be impossible by many people, let alone ''black'' women doctors...
** 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.
* Buz Murdock of ''[[Route 66]]'' is a Licensed Sexist, and made at least two cringe-inducing speeches about a woman's place as helper and subordinate to her man during the show's run. He's the lead character and portrayed sympathetically: the women ''agree'' more often than not, and see the "error" of their ways! His view of relations between the sexes is, arguably, a bit of [[Author Appeal]].
* A recurring character in Series 3 of ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]'' is Captain Todger, a superhero with an outdated, Bernard Manning sense of humour, whose emblem is a crude drawing of a penis.
{{quote|'''Mayor:''' ''"He'll never [[Kneel Before Zod|kneel]], because he is our greatest hero, and has saved humanity countless times!"''<br />
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