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'''Type I: [[Elves in Space]]''' ''<small>(main article: [[Our Elves Are Better]])</small>''
Standard fantasy elves or [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|equivalent beings]] with [[Serial Numbers Filed Off]]... {{
'''Type II: Enlightened Mystic Race''' ''<small>(main article: [[Proud Scholar Race Guy]] (Type II)</small>''
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* The Loroi from the webcomic ''[[Outsider]]'' are Type I-B, blue space elves. Aside from being [[Blue Space Babe|mostly-female]] and psychic, they've got an explicit [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|"warrior elf"]] [http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/outsider050.html thing] [http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/outsider078.html going].
{{quote|'''Jardin:''' Ah, the old [[Good Cop, Bad Cop|"good elf, bad elf"]] routine. About ''fifty'' impertinent things to say raced through my mind...}}
* In the spanish webcomic [https://web.archive.org/web/20131109084934/http://www.afrikislife.net/eagerscout/ Eager Scout], Carl is a space prince elf...who travels along the sister of the most feared [[Space Pirates]] in the universe.
== Examples of Type II (Enlightened Mystic Race) ==
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* The Abh in ''[[Crest of the Stars]]'' are blatant type 2's, with a good helping of [[Can't Argue with Elves]]—they're world conquerors and we're supposed to ''sympathize'' with them.
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* The Guardians of the Universe from ''[[Green Lantern]]''. Not tall at all, but immortal? Check. Has incredible powers? Check (the Green Light that empowers the Corps). [[The Spock|Aloof and distant]]? Check. ''[[Can't Argue with Elves|Can't Argue With 'Em]]? [[Screw You, Elves|They'd like to think so...]]
** Also, an all-female offshoot of the Guardians called the Zamarons falls well enough into the [[Blue Skinned Space Babe]] variety.
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* The Minbari of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' like to see themselves as [[Our Elves Are Different|High Elves or Grey Elves]]. However when they think no one else is looking, they are not only highly arrogant and racist, but also extremely violent and brutal and start a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] for almost any offense. And their supposedly sacred rule of [[Ape Shall Never Kill Ape|Minbari Shall Never Kill Minbari]] gets ignored all the time. Think of Klingons that look like Vulcans.
** They are ''slightly'' better than that. They did manage to keep the No Killing-rule in effect for a thousand years, after all. Their claim about never lying is a total bull, though. But excluding the Soldier Caste they aren't too bad if the condescending attitude isn't a problem.
***The Minbari go down a bit easier for the viewers because the ones we see most are Deleen and Lenier who, while obsessed enough with tradition to make Maimondes think they are going a bit to far about it, are personable, cultured, and polite to everyone. Nor do they act as if they think a Minbari is automatically better then someone from another species.
* [[Star Trek|Spock and his Vulcan ilk]] are scholarly, long-lived, [[Pointy Ears|pointy-eared]], [[Four Humour Ensemble|phlegmatic]], and psychic.
** Vulcans are also vegetarian, and consider their way of life superior to humans'. There are already Vulcan examples in [[Can't Argue with Elves]]... because you can't.
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