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* Humans in ''[[The Matrix]]'', though most don't realize it.
* The ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]'' prequel ''Rise of the Lycans'' reveals that Werewolves descended from Lucius were bred to be a slave race for the vampires, until Lucius leads them into rebellion. The original ones bitten by William (the original source for the virus) end up as plain, permanent beasts.
* In ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'', [[The Reveal]] {{spoiler|makes it clear that Klaatu and his people deliberately did this to themselves by establishing a robot-controlled police state}}.
* The Newcomers of ''[[Alien Nation (film)|Alien Nation]]'' (both the film and later [[Alien Nation (TV series)|the series]]) were originally a slave race. One of the great unanswered questions that arises among the fans is "What happens to Earth if the Newcomers' former masters ever show up?"
* In ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'', the [[Evil Counterpart|Skeksis]] are able to drain a being's lifeforce by using the dark crystal's light. These beings are brainwashed in the process. The Podlings are a picture perfect example for this trope, working as slaves for the Skeksis.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''Star Fleet Battles''. The Klingons have a number of "subject races" who serve aboard their starships, including the Dunkars, Slidarians, Hilladarians, Zoolies and Cromargs.
* [[Warhammer
* In ''[[Exalted]]'', the oddly coloured Djala pygmies are mostly this, and most assuredly do not [[Happiness in Slavery|like the situation]]. One canon character is a Djala, and working to change things.
* The human ancestors of the [[Dungeons
** In the ''[[Greyhawk (Tabletop Game)|Greyhawk]]'' setting, the [http://www.canonfire.com/wiki/index.php?title=Derro derro] are the descendants of human/dwarf hybrids who were bred as a slave race of miners by a [[Magocracy]]. After the empire fell, they fled underground and descended into barbarism.
* In the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' storyline, during the ''Tempest'' expansion/StoryArc, the evincar Volrath employs moggs—goblins who are larger, more brutish, and less intelligent—as a slave race.
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** [[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]]. The African version of slavery varied over time and space, but in many areas, it was relatively benign—obvious stress on the word "relatively". Native American slavery, on the other hand, could be extremely vicious—basically, the slave was a war captive and wasn't being allowed to live as much as they were having their deaths deferred(It is now generally believed that both European and Middle Eastern slavery got started with this mentality as well). Unlike in Africa, however, Native American slavery north of Mexico was fairly rare and only practiced in a few select regions—do note that this was not due to any abnormal advances in moral standards, but because most pre-Colombian aboriginal economies couldn't really support slavery.
* The Helots, slaves/serfs of the Spartans, who outnumbered the Spartan citizenry by so much that the Spartans had a tradition of hunting them down and killing them. This wasn't considered murder; one of the duties of the ephors (Spartan magistrates) was to declare war on the helots every year so that Spartan citizens could legally kill them (the fact that they were surrounded and vastly outnumbered by slaves who had every reason to hate them is believed by some to account for the Spartans' extreme militaristic badassery). The people from Sparta certainly considered themselves to be a breed apart. To the point that, in order to be a Spartan soldier, you had to be able to trace your origins back several generations of pure-blooded Spartans. This... did not work out so well for them, as being so incredibly exclusive in who can be a "soldier" tends to result in running out of trained soldiers. Not all wars are fought in very narrow mountain passes where numbers don't matter.
** It is pretty much universally accepted that Spartan [[badass]]ery and the helot system were heavily intertwined... besides the perpetual siege mentality, the helot population gave the Spartans the luxury of being able to do things like live in a barracks like a monk until age 30 by, you know, running the local economy. Funny thing about [[Training
* This is what [[Nazi Germany]] had in mind for practically all of Eastern Europe during [[World War II]], including the Poles, Ukrainians, and Russians. Their lands would be settled by Germans, and the remainder of the local "subhumans" would be their slaves. The ''remainder'', mind you. After about two thirds of the natives would already have been exterminated through organized starvation and ethnic cleansing.
** The Nazis even invoked the above example; Heinrich Himmler once said that the Russian people would be the Helots to Germany's Spartans.
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