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** The Khajit. They speak with Eastern European-style accents and tend to come in two varieties; Bandits and highwaymen or in traveling trading caravans (or as slaves in Morrowind). They also have racial bonuses that lean them towards thief/assassin territory. While the racial bonuses could be hand-waved by their nature as [[Cat People]], the rest sounds an awful lot like common stereotypes of [[Roma]]. Hardly helps that their homeland is the source of one of the Elder Scrolls' few true narcotics.

* In the original ''[[Star Control]]'', most of the Alliance (or "good") species didn't look very alien to humans (beautiful humanoid women, furry vulpine-lupine-rodent creatures, pretty silicon-based life forms, pterodactyl-like organisms, etc.). The Hierarchy (or "evil") species were invariably [[Starfish Aliens|ugly]], except for the humanoid Androsynth, who had [[Turned Against Their Masters]], so the use of [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]] was glaringly obvious. The sequel reversed this to some degree, since the player character had to ally with both cute and non-cute aliens, but none of the old Hierarchy species allied with him permanently, if at all. And even if you do agree that {{spoiler|[[Green-Skinned Space Babe|space aliens should only be allowed to have sex with humans if said aliens are attractive by traditional human standards]], the accidental invocation of [[Bring Out Your Gay Dead]] was unfortunate.}}

** Wham Bam Rock's appearance, meanwhile, was switched over to [[One-Winged Angel|Wham Bam]] ''[http://images.wikia.com/kirby/en/images/5/59/Whambamjewel.png Jewel]'', his on-steroids counterpart from "Helper to Hero". The lips are less massive, and he has three eyes, but he still resembles a blackface a bit too closely for comfort.

* ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'': The Valkyrur themselves. {{spoiler|The legendarily angelic Valkyrur are responsible for the Darcsen Calamity and installed a traitor family of Darcsen as rulers, thus letting the shame of their betrayal become the incentive to keep their non-Valkyrur heritage (and thus the true identity of the Valkyrur as vicious conquerors) a secret. They're powerful, but they're also emotionally manipulative liars who used the pain they caused to elevate their own reputation. Guess which gender their [[One-Gender Race]] is.}}

** And one of the two good Valkyria is {{spoiler|a little girl who has the social graces of a wild animal until she's civilized by your team}}. Yeah. Ouch.

*** Not to mention that the Darcsen function in the plot as an Expy for the Jews during WWII. Except they look Japanese and there's no Japanese Expy country or race, and so it gives the impression that the writers/character designers ''replaced'' the Jews with the Japanese for the purposes of the narrative.

** An enemy soldier has a touching death scene in a chapter entirely designed to humanize the opposing army and help the player realize that even the bad guys are people. Squad 7 members who die have a brief, but tear-jerking and characterful last words scene. {{spoiler|Selvaria and Faldio}} kill themselves after heartfelt speeches that show the player their plight. The entire Gallian Army is completely disintegrated. [[A Million Is a Statistic|No one cares.]] Enemy Mooks are people, but ally Mooks are cannon fodder.