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This is the implication that a character who dislikes a particular thing is secretly a practitioner of that thing.

When the character is ''openly'' a member of the group he despises, then that's a [[Boomerang Bigot]].

 

 

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** There were a variety of (nowadays disproven) theories postulating [[Adolf Hitler]] possessed Jewish ancestry, which he later tried to hide.

*** In ''[[Harry Potter]]'', [[Word of God]] states that {{spoiler|Voldemort}}'s own half-blood nature, coupled with his [[Fantastic Racism|obsession with wizard blood purity]], is based on said perceptions of Hitler.

*** Hitler was obviously not Aryan, though. Not even close.

** There are theories that Heinrich Himmler's [[Psycho for Hire]] [[The Dragon|Dragon]] Reinhard Heydrich possessed Jewish ancestry.

== Anime & Manga ==

 

* One of the more interesting elements lost in the adaptation of [[Go Lion]] to the series [[Voltron]] is that Prince Sincline is not only {{spoiler|the son of a human woman whom his father later disposed of, but that this woman was a citizen of Planet Altea, where his worst enemy lives.}} His reaction: kill {{spoiler|his own grandmother Honerva.}}

* In ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]'', {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] Atlantean-supremacist Gargoyle}} is actually {{spoiler|a human that was adopted by Atlanteans.}}

{{quote| '''Ryuk:''' But if you did that, you'd be the only bad person left.<br />

'''Light:''' [[Selective Obliviousness|Huh? I have]] ''[[Selective Obliviousness|no idea]]'' [[Selective Obliviousness|what you're talking about, Ryuk.]] }}

** A closer example would be Larry Trask, son of Sentinel-maker Bolivar Trask. He very nearly succeeded in having his giant robots wipe out all (then-known) mutants, but when his dad's friend Judge Chalmers ripped the power-suppressing amulet off of him, surprise surpise, Larry's a mutant too.

** A surprsingly large number of anti-mutant bigots from the X-Men's [[Rogues Gallery]] are ''cyborgs'' - including Donald Pierce, Akab, Cameron Hodge, Bastion and the Phalanx. So while they're not mutants, they're not exactly normal humans, either.

** The villain Magneto is also an example. He hates Nazis for what they did to him as his family, but as a result became a mutant-supremacist, hating all humans and just becoming a different kind of bigot.

* The "homophobes are all secretly gay" idea shows up in a few comics, including ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' and ''[[The Authority]].''

* [[Red Hulk]] is implied to be someone who really hates the Hulk. He turns out to be {{spoiler|General Ross}}.

* In ''[[Empowered (Comic Book)|Empowered]]'', {{spoiler|Mind???? takes a peek into (ex-)lover Spooky's memories and instantly grasps that her public persona has been subconsciously patterned after the same vain blonde bimbos she was so traumatized by. Both physically (sans actual Blondeness) and personality.}}

 

== Film ==

** That... [[Fridge Brilliance|actually explains a lot]].

* ''The Believer'' is about a Neo-Nazi of Jewish descent.

** He hates them because they have invaded his homeland, not because they are Romans, though.

** Isn't it? The film climaxes with what is simultaneously a display of humanity's inherent violence and a reminder that "peace was never an option." If two totally ideologically opposed nations are willing to join forces and obliterate a small band of people who just saved both their asses,it's pretty easy to see why diplomacy might be a bad idea.

** Although, he ''does'' have an justified [[Freudian Excuse]] for that one.

* In the third ''[[Die Hard]]'' movie, the character of Zeus is a black man with serious problems with white people, most especially white racists. Eventually McClane calls him out on the fact that he's acting like a racist himself.

 

'''from the Manual of Muad'dib by the Princess Irulan''' }}

* In Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby", the slave-owner Armand rejects his wife Desiree and their newborn son due to the son's obvious African heritage. He takes this to be proof that Desiree is also of mixed heritage, and she eventually gets fed up and goes back home to her parents with her son in tow. While throwing out Desiree's things, Armand eventually comes across letters from his deceased mother that reveal that she was one of his father's former slaves.

 

 

'''Jones''': I didn't say you were. }}

* Hazel on ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' is rude to the Muslim girl on Culture Day and secretly pretends to be Jamaican, until the Muslim girl's exhibit is vandalized (context: this was only a few months after 9/11) and Hazel comes clean about her Somali heritage.

** More 'you hate what you were' than 'you are what you hate'. Inverted, maybe?

* Jocelyn Jee Esien's sketch show featured the character of Fiona, a black woman who dislikes black people and fears they will "out" her to her white co-workers, who (she believes) do not know that she's really black.

{{quote| ''In the past few weeks, Clayton Bigsby has finally accepted that he is a black man. And just three days ago, he filed for divorce from his wife. When asked why, after nineteen years of marriage, he replied, '''''"Because she's a nigger lover"'''''.''}}

* Extremely southern Blanche from ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' discovers when attempting to join "The Daughters of the South" (an ''expy'' for "Daughters of the Confederacy") that not only is her great-grandmother a Yankee from Buffalo NY, but was nee Feldman.

* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', when after years of enduring his taunts surrounding her heritage, [[Canada, Eh?|Robin]] finds out that Barney is one-quarter Canadian.

 

 

== Music ==

 

 

* In the ''[[Ravenloft]]'' setting, Malocchio Aderre seized political control of Invidia and initiated a pogrom against the Vistani. Malocchio's mother, whom he ousted from power, is part Vistani herself.

* The general concept behind sanctioned psykers in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', who must wield the energies of the Warp to defend Humanity from, among other things, the creatures of said Warp.

* ''[[Paranoia]]'' is generally played with every player character as a "Troubleshooter" whose job is to hunt down various types of traitors, including unregistered mutants. Due to unacknowledged malfunctions in the cloning vats, everyone in the setting is a mutant. Bonus irony if they're also a member of the "Anti-Mutant" secret society, the members of which are completely unaware that [[Flock of Wolves|there's not a single genetically pure human among them]].

 

 

== Video Games ==

* In [[Grand Theft Auto IV]], a politician is having an affair with [[Camp Gay|Bernie Crane]], while campaigning against same-sex marriage in order to appease his right-wing voter base.

* Adrian from [[X Men Destiny]] is a Purifier-in-training and despises mutants. Turns out he is one, though he had no way of knowing until the events of the game.

** Although Cole points out that he most likely is jealous of the fact that whilst others became shiny supermen, he got to be a big bug. So maybe instead of "you are what you hate," he falls more under "you hate that others like you possess awesome powers yet yours suck."

 

 

== Western Animation ==

** For clarification he hated them before he ate them because he's ''Squidward'' and he's a grump but after he ate one, he loved it but lied to everyone, including Spongebob who later finds Squidward eating thousands of Krabby Patties. Which go straight to his thighs. And then he blows up. (Run-on sentences without context are fun!)

** [[Critical Research Failure|Or at least the writers' idea of what defined being an illegal immigrant]].

** [[Memetic Mutation|NEW YORK CITY?!?!]]

** {{spoiler|And then in 201 it turns out Cartman's father was also Scott Tenorman's father, making Cartman half-ginger}}.

** Mr Garrison is homophobic in the early seasons, and is in denial about his sexuality throughout seasons 1-3 until he admits to himself that he is gay in the fourth season. When his sex change results in Mister Slave breaking up with him, he goes back to being hateful to homosexual men, and when it turns out Mister Slave is going to marry Big Gay Al, Garrison becomes an angry opponent of gay marriage. Then there's a mini-arc where ''Mrs.'' Garrison thinks it's "wrong" to be with another woman, but enjoys it and claims to then be a lesbian... And then there's a reverse sex change and Garrison becomes a man again, and almost immediately uses a homosexual slur. There's a quote from one of the creators that goes something along the lines of, "Garrison just hates whatever he happens to be."

* In ''[[Recess]]'', Spinelli despises "The Ashleys" (a group of [[Alpha Bitch]]-esque girls all named Ashley) yet becomes very defensive when it's pointed out that her own first name is Ashley.

** Actually it doesn't appear that she hated her first name, she just hated the fact that it grouped her with those Ashleys as she was clearly [[Tomboy|anything but]] [[Girly Girl]].