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{{quote|''"Anyone who resists is just a human, and therefore doesn't deserve to live."''|'''Threshold''', ''Dv8'' #1}}
In a world with [[Differently-Powered Individual|Differently Powered Individuals]], what use are [[
This usually serves as a motivation for individuals and groups who decide to "do something about it" rather than take it lying down.
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These people usually come to this conclusion by adding some paranoia ([[Properly Paranoid|justified]] or [[General Ripper|not]]) to [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke]] and [[Superpowerful Genetics|naturally born supers]] are out-pacing mundanes. They interpret the "obsolescence" of baseline humans as an edict to kill all [[mutants]]/[[Psychic Powers|psychics]]/[[Witch Species|witches]] in an "[[All of the Other Reindeer|Us or Them]]" fashion, fearing that supers will either forcibly take over or [[Viral Transformation|replace all humans]]. These types are usually spurred on by the villains attempts to do just that, and end up branding all supers as threats. Previously nice supers, in turn, will interpret this xenophobia as [[Cycle of Revenge|cause to exterminate or enslave all humans...]] This is usually the fear behind any [[Super Registration Act]]. Typically accomplished by calling the [[Cape Busters]].
Whether the story chooses to address the underlying insecurity or not [[Debate and Switch|varies]]. When it does, it usually justifies baseline human's existence with a nice [[An Aesop|aesop]] like: [[Humans Are Special|our limitations drive us to excel]], only humans [[Creative Sterility|can truly create]], a world of all supers would devolve into planetary [[Let's You and Him Fight|civil war]] (like [[Sarcasm Mode|we normals have done such a good job keeping peace without supers]])... or, that we're so [[Humans Are
[[Post Cyber Punk]] stories that include [[The Singularity]] often have [[Anti-Human Alliance|conflicts between humans and post-humans.]] Earlier stories had [[Mutants]] on higher [[Evolutionary Levels]] that likewise were generally incapable of coexisting with their predecessors.
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* [[Rich Bitch|Princess]] from ''The [[Powerpuff Girls]]'' wanted to be a Powerpuff Girl, but she didn't have any powers, so she got technology that imitated their powers. When the girls still wouldn't let her join the team (primarily because she got in their way), she became a villain, continuing to use powers similar to the Powerpuffs' granted by the tech.
* Almost completely averted on ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. Both benders and non-benders are pretty much treated the same, except for situations where the ability to bend would be necessary or useful. Toph does once, however, make the comment that their team consisted of ''three'' people (Aang, Katara and herself), because Sokka couldn't bend. When Sokka protests, she amends it to: "Okay, three people ''[[My Friends and Zoidberg|plus Sokka]]''".
** It ''does'' go a bit farther than that, though more
** Later played straight in the sequel series, ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'', where an anti-bending revolt threatens to tear the metropolis of Republic City apart.
** Actually, the series takes a fairly realistic approach in that there's no single, over-arching reaction to someone with the power. There's rarely outright oppression simply *because* you're a bender - not counting POW camps the Fire Nation sets up - but individuals range the entire spectrum from awe and wonder, to jealousy and bitterness, to "Meh, so he can punch a fireball."
*** Except that a majority of the major societies we see have benders in charge. The Fire Nation has the royal family and many of the officers seem to be fire benders and the cities of Omashu and Ba Sing Se are governed by an earth bending king and an earth bending secret police respectively. Not much is known about how important water benders were in the North or South tribes and the Air Nomads policy on regular humans is a moot point if almost all of them were air benders.
**** The Earth King of Ba Sing Se is not an Earth Bender. Sokka and Katara's father was the leader of the Southern Tribe and was not a Bender either.
***** Seeing how The Earth King was just a puppet to his [[Evil Chancellor]] (an Earth bender) and this bending [[
***** The chief of the Northern Water Tribe apparently wasn't a bender either.
****** The entire council that
* On ''[[Sabrina the Animated Series]],'' [[Fantastic Racism|Tim the Witch Smeller]] came to hate witches because of this trope—he grew up mocked for being a [[Muggle Born of Mages]], apparently a unique case in this series.
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