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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The earliest editions of ''[[
** Later became severely [[Depending on the Writer]], especially when one [[Justified Trope|tries to find]] in-'[[Verse]] reasons:
*** ''War of the Spider Queen'' shows how well most Drow fare when a tight grip of sadistic matriarchs and [[Religion of Evil]] constantly keeping them in check is released. Though this merely [[You Kill It, You Bought It|replaces]] the old Unfortunate Implications with "[[Physical God|I]] [[Omniscient Morality License|know you]] and so [[The Spartan Way|do it to you]] [[For Your Own Good]]!" successfully pulled by [[Chaotic Evil]] deity.
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** Not to mention ''[[Shadowrun]]'''s other little gaffes, like most of North America being taken over by [[Magical Native American|Magical Native Americans]], most of everything else being taken over by Evil Japanese [[Mega Corp|Mega Corporations]], most of the non-shadowrunning population being trideo-numbed idiots who don't have a clue that UCAS elections had been rigged for forty years, etc. This is due to most Cyberpunk being written around the time of Japan's (obvious, at least) technological dominance over all other nations, with a smidgen of wapanese worship here and there. (Elves being ridiculously Asian, most specifically 90%ish acting like modernized Japanese samurai)... Yeah, they're all intentionally hammy, although Orks are really closer to what we now call 'chavs' but with better musical taste, at least in the fluff this troper's read. (this goes for their slang, too.) Shadowrun has a well built world, but unfortunately suffers from trying to link every sci-fi trope ever made into a single world.
** This could also been seen as a case of [[Fantastic Racism]] in that even in the future, we will find a group to single out for prejudice.
* Most of ''[[Warhammer
* The ''[[Old World of Darkness]]'' had its share of, um... interesting ethnic interpretations:
** ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' had the Ravnos clan, a clan of [[Roma]] origin whose clan weakness was a roll to resist engaging in illegal activities. Rumor has it that the ham-fisted portrayal of Romani culture was why the writers chose to kill the clan's antediluvian (who took a good chunk of the clan with him) during the Time of Thin Blood.
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* The blog [http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/ Sociological Images] points out unfortunate implications in other media.
* The [[Mighty Whitey]] trope is itself Unfortunate because it implies that white people are automatically better at things non-white cultures can do, even if the non-white people have been training their whole life. Problem is, reaction to this trope often this carries the Implication that white people cannot/should not beat non-whites at anything from the non-white culture, ever. There are things white people should be good at, things non-whites should be good at, and there's no overlap.
* Some gay porn provides some strangely fascinating examples of this. It's terribly easy to find some where women are all [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]], [[Yaoi Fangirl|Yaoi Fangirls]], ''both'', or [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|not]] [[
** Here's some [[Unfortunate Implications]] for you: who are you calling "[[Transsexualism|not actually a woman]]"?
*** They might have been referring to the fact that the Internet is relatively anonymous and that sometimes people lie.
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