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{{quote|Yes, Wong very racist. Don't like black. Don't like Jew either. But black and Jew both like Chinese food. Go figure.|'''Mr. Wong''', ''[[Norbit]]''}}
Usually, in modern stories, a character who's [[Politically
Sometimes, either due to an [[Author On Board]], [[Values Dissonance]], [[Rule of Cool]] or something else, a character can get away with opinions that are... controversial. If the excuse is well-done, it can work. If not, it seems like a [[Karma Houdini]]. Unless, of course, he is punished for it.
See: [[Bury Your Gays]] because it's disturbing how similarly these two often work. Also see [[Good Flaws, Bad Flaws]] for a more thorough analysis of "discrimination as a flaw".
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Ranma
** 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]].
* Ataru from ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]''. Which is even more of a [[Gag Series]] then Ranma.
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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.
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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 ''[[
{{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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** 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 (Film)|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.
* A rare female reference from ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|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!"
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{{quote| '''Leela:''' "I'm going to remind him he's human the way only a woman can."<br />
'''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
* Pakku from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' held sexist values for most of his life. When he was a teenager, his bigotry caused his fiancée Kanna <ref>Katara's future grandmother</ref> to leave him. After realizing this as an old man, he realizing that his ideas were wrong and starts to see women as equals. (For example, he trains Katara in combat waterbending, even though traditionally, female waterbenders are only allowed to use their powers for healing.) He even meets up with Kanna again, and after she realizes that he's changed, Kanna marries him, making him the grandfather of Sokka and Katara.
** Sokka is a bit sexist for the first few episodes, believing that women should [[Stay in The Kitchen]] and out of the fighting. After getting to know a group of female warriors firsthand and realizing their fighting capabilities, he realizes that his views were incorrect and learns to respect women and girls.
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