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* ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]'' by [[George Orwell]] gives us the Proles, the underclass of apolitical nobodies who dwell in squalor and ignorance beneath the Party who run Oceania.

* The Orcs of ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' are [[Flip Flop of God|sometimes identified]] as originally Elves who were subverted by the will of Morgoth, Sauron's master from ''[[The Silmarillion]]''. Other times they're the result of Morgoth trying to create his own version of the children of Iluvatar (elves and men). Tolkien went back and forth on the matter repeatedly, and hadn't settled on a definitive version even when he died, mainly due to trying to reconcile his dislike of [[Always Chaotic Evil]] with his belief in Evil as inherently incapable of creativity.

* The Orcs of ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' are [[Flip-Flop of God|sometimes identified]] as originally Elves who were subverted by the will of Morgoth, Sauron's master from ''[[The Silmarillion]]''. Other times they're the result of Morgoth trying to create his own version of the children of Iluvatar (elves and men). Tolkien went back and forth on the matter repeatedly, and hadn't settled on a definitive version even when he died, mainly due to trying to reconcile his dislike of [[Always Chaotic Evil]] with his belief in Evil as inherently incapable of creativity.

* Jeff Long's ''The Descent'' and ''Deeper'', with their cave-dwelling cannibal hadals, owe a ''lot'' to this trope.

== [[Live Action Television]] ==

* ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]'' has occasionally portrayed the future of humanity this way. "Utopia," set at nearly the end of the universe, has ordinary humans plagued by the "futurekind," tattooed cannibals (or maybe technically not) with sharpened teeth, who seem barely capable of speech.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has occasionally portrayed the future of humanity this way. "Utopia," set at nearly the end of the universe, has ordinary humans plagued by the "futurekind," tattooed cannibals (or maybe technically not) with sharpened teeth, who seem barely capable of speech.

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

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