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== Comic Books ==

* This is what [[Paperinik New Adventures|The Evrons]] trasform the inhabitants of every planet they conquer into.

 

* Humans have become this to apes in ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' (after taking apes as this first in the movie sequels).

* Humans in ''[[The Matrix]]'', though most don't realize it.

* In ''[[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}}.

* 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.

 

 

* In Deborah Chester's ''[[Alien Chronicles]]'' trilogy, the reptilian Viis have done this to numerous races, going so far in some cases as to alter the captive races' known history so they didn't know they wasn't a time they weren't slaves.

* ''Summers At Castle Auburn'' has the aliora, who are rather like elves. Human hunters capture them from their homes and sell them as slaves--valuable and generally well-treated slaves, but still slaves.

* In ''Farewell to the Master'', {{spoiler|''Gnut'' is the master}}.

* One of the greatest examples is ''[[Happiness in Slavery|Homo Servus]]'' from [[S.M. Stirling]]'s [[The Draka|Draka]] tetralogy. The ''Servus'' have been genetically engineered to derive orgasmic pleasure from subservience to their masters ''[[Superior Species|Homo Drakensis]]'', and are incapable of functioning independently . Both species were once normal humans, but, unluckily for the rest of humanity, the Draka were [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] [[Badass|badasses]] who practiced the [[Spartan Way]] and had a penchant for [[Evilutionary Biologist|Evilutionary Biology]]. An interesting aspect is that the ''servus'' are actually smarter than the Draka; the latter genetically engineered themselves into their ideal of the Master Race and it is strongly implied that in the process, they destroyed their own creativity and flexibility.

*** They also left if you kept the place so tidy they felt marginalized.

** Everything we know about wizarding society indicates they'd have felt themselves perfectly justified in casting spells to make sure that no House Elf ever overstepped its bounds again. And this was in the seventeenth century, before the idea of 'rights' had made much headway even for humans.

{{quote| ''In the distant east, cut off from the rest of the world by the heaving up of gigantic mountains and the forming of a chain of vast lakes, the Lemurians are toiling as slaves of their ancient masters.''}}

 

 

* In ''[[Lexx]]'' it turned out that the humans of the Light Universe were slaves of {{spoiler|the insect race (via His Shadow) whom they thought they had defeated millenia before}}.

* The Ood from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' were enslaved by humanity, most of whom believed they were a naturally servile race who enjoyed laboring for them. They were wrong.

** Also from ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Slab might be this, but are more likely machines, it's left vague. ("Solid leather, all the way through. [[Hell-Bent for Leather|Someone has got one hell of a fetish.]]")

** In "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S18 E5 Warriors Gate|Warriors' Gate]]", the Tharils, exploited for their navigational ability. To be quite just, they had exploited those abilities to act as slavers. One Tharil pleads with the Doctor that they have suffered long enough for what they did.

** In ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S3 E6 The Ark|The Ark]]'', the two parts -- seven hundred years apart -- bring us two slave races: Monoids in the first, humanity in the second.

** ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S10 E4 Planet of the Daleks|Planet of the Daleks]]'' features the Spiridons.

* The Goa'uld of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' consider every race a slave race, but particularly humans and Jaffa.

 

 

* The human ancestors of the [[Dungeons and Dragons|githyanki and githzerai]] were enslaved by [[Cthulhumanoid|mindflayers]] for millenia and subjected to [[Body Horror|horrific experiments]], but they [[Turned Against Their Masters]].

** 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.

** One of the [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=131006 cards] in ''Planar Chaos'' discusses an alternate timeline, in which Mirri befalls Selenia's curse, eventually ascends to the position of evincar, and exterminates the moggs in favor of the [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|the Kor]].

** The Neurok were slaves (or at least a subordinate race) to the Vedalken, at least [[Turned Against Their Masters|until they took over Lumengrid]].

* The Ur-Quan from ''[[Star Control]] 2'' were once slaves of the Dnyarri. They [[Turned Against Their Masters]] and now have enslaved not only the Dnyarri (whom they've lobotomized) but <s>several other races</s> everyone else they can find ([[Vichy Earth|including humans]]) as well.

** The slavers are the good Ur-Quan. Bad ones just decided to kill everyone else.

** The Vortigaunts.

** The various synth units used by the Combine are implied to be created from races formerly enslaved by the Combine. The Combine seems to have something similar in mind for humanity.

** Some people (in universe and out) feel that the drell qualify, due to their subservient position to the hanar. Both the hanar and the drell will get extremely angry if you call the drell slaves, though. Because the hanar pretty much saved the drell from going extinct, the drell see their servitude under The Compact to be a way to repay the hanar for this immeasurable debt, and by all accounts drell servants are treated ''very'' well by the hanar.

** [[Final Fantasy VIII|Guardian Forces]] are technically this. Well, the equippable ones, anyway. Delves into [[Happiness in Slavery]] as well. Unfortunately, there isn't much explanation into this point.

* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' elves are a [[Slave Race]] to the [[Evil Empire|Tevinter Empire]]. They may enslave other races, but elves are a traditional preference, with none of the political or social complications to their abductions. Technically, they've been freed by governments that once belonged to the Tevinter Empire (Ferelden, Orlais, etc.). ''Technically''. They still live in "alienages" (ghettos), and are treated almost universally poorly by the humans, in some cases as little better than slaves.

** The Falmer (Snow Elves) spent generations as slaves to the [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|Dwemer]], until, for unrelated reasons, the Dwemer all disappeared.

 

 

== Webcomics ==

* The boetheri from ''[[Twisted Mirrors]]''.

* ''[[Alien Dice]]'' has an interesting case of this, as {{spoiler|the Rishan are abducted humans}} who were genetically modified to be slaves. Whether they were [[Servant Race|happy]] or not is never discussed.

== Western Animation ==

* Referenced in a montage in ''[[Futurama]]''. In the year one million and a half, humanity as a whole is a slave race to giraffes.

 

 

== Mythology and Religion ==

* [[The Bible]]: The Jews were a slave-race in Egypt for generations, until some dude named Moses told 'em to let his people go. The Pharoah eventually did so, after a series of plagues brought the country (formerly the greatest power in the region) to its knees.