Tragic Mulatto: Difference between revisions

See also [[Pass Fail]]. Compare [[Halfbreed]].

 

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* [[Cute Witch]] Yukari Sendou of ''[[Rosario to Vampire]]'' is played at this on introduction. As a "border being", her race is neither pure human nor pure youkai. Because of this, neither race trusts or likes her people.

** Ruby suffered a somewhat worse case.

** In the last war, the strongest and most loyal of the crossbreeds of Shin Makoku (the main character's adopted country and where they get the ''best'' treatment) formed a patriotic unit which was intentionally sent ''by his uncle'' on the suicide mission of defending Rutenburg Pass, out of which only Conrad and Yozak emerged alive. They won. They just ''all died''. This trope is at least seventy percent of why Conrad is [[Stepford Smiler|so weird]].

*** Note that said uncle was serving as regent for his mother, the actual ruler at the time, who loves him very much but didn't ''do anything''.

** It is treated in several different ways, but particularly fascinating is when in "Day of the Dove" Spock and McCoy have started hitting well below the belt in their normal racial sniping, it's Kirk bursting in with "stop it, Spock, you're half human!" that is the [[Something They Would Never Say|Unforgivable Thing]] that clues them in to the rage-inducing entity messing with them.

*** Also used deliberately by Kirk in an earlier episode, "What Are Little Girls Made Of", as a [[Something He Would Never Say]] clue to raise Spock's suspicions.

** Played very straight in ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]'' with B'lanna Torres, who denies her Klingon heritage because she believes her father left their family because of it. The children of the human colony she lived on tormented her, and Klingons meeting her would refer to her as a 'mongrel'. When she became pregnant, she attempted to genetically alter her child to remove all traces of Klingon DNA because she believed the child would suffer for it as she did.

** Also played straight with [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine|Tora Ziyal]], the half-Bajoran daughter of Dukat, shunned on Cardassia and Bajor; the only place she ever truly found a home (other than at her father's side briefly) was the titular station.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

** The two most common half-races--Half-Elves and Half-Orcs--respectively play up the positive and negative aspects of being mixed. In general, Half-Elves are seen as beautiful and socially accepted by both sides (if a little condescended by full elves), while Half-Orcs are considered brutes by humans and weaklings by full orcs...and are often products of [[Child By Rape|war atrocities]].

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==