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* It goes without saying that any work shot through with a racially or culturally supremacist viewpoint is going to avoid this trope like the plague (''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' and ''The Eternal Jew'' perhaps the most noteworthy examples).

* Unless they're the protagonists, Jewish characters in many stories (where most of the characters are ''not'' Jewish and [[Informed Judaism|the one character's Jewishness is made explicit]]) will often be arrogant and obnoxious, talking down to Gentile characters with a "know-it-all" attitude. Almost any character portrayed by Jon Lovitz will come off this way. A well-known example is his portrayal of Artie Ziff, Marge Simpson's creepy former boyfriend on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' who acted snooty toward Homer back in high school. Marge once asked Artie if he knew why everyone disliked him, and his answer was "Anti-Semitism?" Marge then had to inform Artie that he was so hated because he was an insensitive [[Jerkass]].

* ''[[The Man Show]]'', as its name suggests, takes a [["Just Joking" Justification|(jokingly)]] male-supremacist attitude toward the world, even going so far in the very first episode to [[Refuge in Audacity|start up a petition to repeal women's suffrage]]. Somewhat softened in that most of the male characters - including the two hosts themselves - are hardly paragons of virtue, and also in that the treatment of the pretty girls on the show was generally with the relatively harmless "sex object" stereotype (although occasionally the gags would get crueller than that). One spoof episode even had the hosts get in touch with their "feminine" sides: while continuing to wear male clothing, they acted much less raucous and talked in gentle tones and [[Cute Kitten|cuddled some kittens]] in the finale. (However, recent radio-show remarks by Adam Carolla suggest that his chauvinistic attitude on the show may not have been just an act.)

* The 2000 stoner comedy ''[[Dude, Where's My Car?]]?'' has two white, Anglo-Saxon (though admittedly drug-addled) young men as its protagonists, and many of the butts of the movie's jokes are women, ethnic minorities, or other generally exotic or eccentric characters. There's the [[Sassy Black Woman|sassy black female cop]] who is mean to our heroes when they get arrested, as well as the obnoxious, screeching, [[You No Take Candle|barely articulate]] Asian immigrant who works the drive-thru speaker at the "Chinese Fooood" restaurant. The one French character in the movie is a [[French Jerk|sadistic pervert]]. Blonde beauty Christie Boner is an [[Brainless Beauty|idiotic slut]], while the protagonists' twin girlfriends are harpy-like and generally bitchy. On the other hand, Christie's boyfriend and his gang of (mostly) white bullies who torment our heroes certainly fall under the [[Jerk Jock]] stereotype.