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* ''[[Blade]]'': The main character is a heroic half-vampire who contracted it not in the normal way (being bitten) but in-utero when his pregnant mother was bitten. Victims of bites are uniformly evil.

* [[Mutants]] in the ''[[X-Men]]'' mythos are feared and despised by having natural powers, yet people like [[Spider-Man]] and Mr. Fantastic are loved by the public, even though the only difference is that they got their powers in accidents.

** Mostly because newer writers keep forcing [[What Do You Mean It's Not Political?|thinly-veiled social allegory]] into the X-Men series, whereas writers from other superhero comics are more preoccupied with creating entertaining storylines.

 

* ''[[Wild Cards]]'' has Aces and Jokers — they have the same virus, but their reception by the public varies based on which manifestation of it they got. And they're not written necessarily sympathetically if they're pretty aces, or hatefully if they're deformed jokers either.

* In the [[James Bond]] novel ''[[Goldfinger]]'', Bond dislikes Pussy Galore's lesbianism until she tells him [[Rape and Switch|she was abused]] by her [[Creepy Uncle]]. So apparently (in the 1950s at least), lesbianism by choice was bad but lesbianism because of previous abuse by men was OK.

 

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