Tropescilloscope: Fantastic Racism

Prejudice based on a difference in species. In other words, racism in fiction. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Demoted to Extra Hope Spot Mind Screw Insult Backfire "Awesome McCool" Name No-Sell Jerkass Training Montage My Greatest Failure Missing Mom Anyone Can Die Badass in a Nice Suit Fat Bastard Artistic License – Geography Television Movie Index Early Installment Weirdness After the End Public Domain Feature Films Not So Different Refuge in Audacity Death by Irony The Stoic In the Back Recycled IN SPACE! Black Best Friend Kick the Dog It's Personal Creator Cameo Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Dirty Coward Reasonable Authority Figure Toplessness from the Back Drives Like Crazy Lock and Load Montage Driven to Suicide Hollywood Darkness Sanity Slippage Not Using the "Z" Word Spell My Name with an "S" Wrong Genre Savvy What the Hell, Hero? Obstructive Bureaucrat I Have Your Wife Informed Ability There Is No Kill Like Overkill Amusing Injuries Parental Incest Deus ex Machina Fire-Forged Friends Annoying Younger Sibling Dark Is Not Evil Affectionate Parody Cat Scare Cat Fight One Steve Limit Morality Pet Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Handicapped Badass Mundane Made Awesome Evil Is Petty Lampshade Hanging Bar Brawl Danny Peary Cult Movies List Heroic BSoD Rule of Three Bald of Evil Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Visual Pun Better to Die than Be Killed Vomit Indiscretion Shot Meaningful Background Event Reckless Gun Usage No OSHA Compliance Amoral Attorney Red Right Hand Smug Snake Bunny-Ears Lawyer Captain Obvious Obfuscating Stupidity Noodle Incident Storming the Castle Unspoken Plan Guarantee Babies Ever After Overprotective Dad Character Development Crazy-Prepared Love at First Sight Adaptational Villainy Superhero The Smart Guy Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Ascended Extra The Lancer Cowboy Cop No Ending Canon Foreigner Advertised Extra Meet Cute Our Zombies Are Different Disappeared Dad Yandere Ambiguous Ending Make It Look Like an Accident Even Evil Has Loved Ones Monumental Damage Fiery Redhead Redshirt Army Disguised in Drag Index of Film Westerns Empathic Environment Extremely Short Timespan Defiant to the End Artistic License – Gun Safety Freeze-Frame Bonus Bland-Name Product MacGuffin Freudian Excuse Male Gaze Tranquil Fury Final Girl Spiteful Spit Badass Longcoat Made of Explodium Arch-Enemy Sequel Hook Green-Eyed Monster I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Becoming the Mask Last-Name Basis Narrator La Résistance More Dakka Rule of Symbolism World of Ham The Alcoholic The Big Guy Betty and Veronica Berserk Button Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Gilligan Cut Punch-Clock Villain Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Mama Bear Wounded Gazelle Gambit Gainax Ending Mr. Fanservice Ghost Fiction Nothing Is Scarier Horror Films Trailers Always Spoil The Stinger Artistic License – Military Coming-of-Age Story Market-Based Title Anti-Hero "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Fan Disservice Mistaken for Gay Humans Are Bastards Dogged Nice Guy Author Appeal Wicked Cultured The Oner Asshole Victim Big Eater Throwing Your Sword Always Works Diabolus ex Machina Adaptation Expansion Big-Bad Ensemble Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Japanese Films Distracted by the Sexy Chekhov's Skill Face–Heel Turn Only Known by Their Nickname Room Full of Crazy Fate Worse than Death Evil Brit Historical Villain Upgrade Due to the Dead Outrun the Fireball Broken Pedestal Call-Back It's All About Me Light Is Not Good Ominous Latin Chanting Straight Gay Death Glare How We Got Here Expy Martial Arts Movie Redemption Equals Death It Will Never Catch On The Bad Guy Wins Peek-a-Boo Corpse Take That! Daddy's Girl Setting Update Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Eagleland Closed Circle Your Head A-Splode The End... Or Is It? Victoria's Secret Compartment Documentary Deconstruction Karma Houdini Bowdlerise Five-Man Band Here We Go Again! Small Name, Big Ego Race Against the Clock Beauty Is Never Tarnished Brutal Honesty Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Brute Rasputinian Death War Is Hell Adaptation Dye-Job Tagline Match Cut Epic Movie Rousing Speech Big Bad Bittersweet Ending Black Comedy Rape Fatal Family Photo Guns Akimbo Intrepid Reporter Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Credits Gag Greater-Scope Villain Breaking the Fourth Wall Children Are Innocent Death by Sex Totally Radical Faking the Dead Pragmatic Adaptation Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Adorkable Gorn Pay Evil unto Evil Dying Moment of Awesome No Celebrities Were Harmed Belligerent Sexual Tension Time Skip Russian Films Death of a Child Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Jitter Cam Vacation Films Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Laser-Guided Karma The Lost Lenore The Smurfette Principle Double Entendre Gory Discretion Shot Suspiciously Specific Denial Take a Third Option Jerkass Has a Point Big Applesauce Not So Stoic Foil Dirty Cop Kill It with Fire I'm a Humanitarian Dramedy Break the Cutie Police Brutality Cool Guns Did Not Get the Girl Leaning on the Fourth Wall Malevolent Masked Men Re-Cut Adapted Out folderlabel Mercy Kill Serious Business Cool Old Guy Historical In-Joke Lighter and Softer Sexy Discretion Shot Scare Chord Together in Death Adaptational Attractiveness Mighty Whitey Happily Married Book-Ends Unusually Uninteresting Sight Action Prologue Police are Useless The Ace Comically Missing the Point Bad "Bad Acting" Retired Badass Dressing as the Enemy Central Theme Not Even Bothering with the Accent Retcon All for Nothing Manipulative Bastard Title Drop Deliberate Values Dissonance Age Lift Didn't Think This Through Film Series Woman in White Flipping the Bird Be Careful What You Wish For The Quiet One Darker and Edgier Improbable Aiming Skills Drugs Are Bad The Cameo The Alleged Car Posthumous Character Retirony Fatal Flaw Awesome, but Impractical Disproportionate Retribution Famous Last Words Paper-Thin Disguise Action Genre Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Animal Motifs Really Gets Around Pre-Mortem One-Liner Loads and Loads of Characters Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Abusive Parents For Want of a Nail Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping The Mafia Evil Laugh This Is Gonna Suck Dark Action Girl Thriller Developing Doomed Characters Parental Neglect Off with His Head! 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Agony of the Feet You Killed My Father Femme Fatale Fourth Date Marriage Rape as Drama Sacrificial Lion The Reveal Heroes Want Redheads Pimped-Out Dress Downer Ending Costume Porn Super Strength Alliterative Name German Films Country Matters Pyrrhic Victory Badass Bookworm Daylight Horror Chekhov's Gun Real Life Writes the Plot Genre Shift Slashed Throat The Sociopath Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Musical Fish out of Water Artistic License – Biology Villain Ball Chewing the Scenery Older Than They Look Maybe Ever After Psychopathic Manchild Abhorrent Admirer Soft Glass The Dog Bites Back Hell Is That Noise Beware the Nice Ones "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Ditz Bad Boss Even Evil Has Standards From Bad to Worse Dramatic Irony Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Dissonant Serenity The Great Depression Took a Level in Badass Adaptational Heroism Interrupted Suicide Determinator aka: The Determinator No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Villainous Breakdown Black Dude Dies First Destination Defenestration In Name Only May–December Romance N-Word Privileges Reality Ensues Aluminum Christmas Trees Gratuitous English Unreliable Narrator Affably Evil Real Life Ambiguous Disorder Big Fancy House Fantasy Films Karmic Death Homage Easily Forgiven The Faceless Funny Foreigner Shut Up, Hannibal! Does Not Like Shoes Scary Black Man Historical-Domain Character Laughing Mad Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Rule of Funny Properly Paranoid Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Bloodless Carnage My God, What Have I Done? Papa Wolf Show Within a Show Back from the Dead British Films Alpha Bitch Disney Villain Death Undying Loyalty Only One Name BFG Unusual Euphemism Camera Abuse Music Stories Butt-Monkey Deadpan Snarker Camp Gay Funny Background Event Genre Throwback Genre Savvy Armor-Piercing Question Oh, Crap! 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Badass Normal Artistic License – Physics Drowning My Sorrows Hong Kong Films Grey and Gray Morality The Load Arc Words Rule of Cool Stylistic Suck Slasher Movie As Himself Vomit Discretion Shot Pretty Little Headshots One-Word Title Improvised Weapon Darkest Hour Never Trust a Trailer Bury Your Gays Creative Closing Credits The Ghost Rewatch Bonus Parental Abandonment Made of Iron Ironic Echo Faux Affably Evil Translation Convention Those Wacky Nazis Ungrateful Bastard Fanservice Extra Deliberately Monochrome The Starscream Curse Cut Short Cool Old Lady Intergenerational Friendship He Knows Too Much The '50s Authority Equals Asskicking Offscreen Teleportation Shoot the Shaggy Dog Blatant Lies Irony Mood Whiplash As the Good Book Says... Author Avatar Unresolved Sexual Tension The Hero Dies Evil Is Hammy Dull Surprise Badass Boast Cold-Blooded Torture Knight Templar Crucified Hero Shot Manly Tears Epic Fail Accidental Misnaming Framing Device Shown Their Work Gone Horribly Right Dark and Troubled Past Only in It for the Money Naked People Are Funny Once More, with Clarity! Early-Bird Cameo Big "NO!" Manic Pixie Dream Girl Reality Is Unrealistic Race Lift Historical Hero Upgrade Bloodier and Gorier Brother–Sister Incest Major Injury Underreaction What You Are in the Dark Italian Films Reality Has No Subtitles A God Am I Leitmotif Woman Scorned Nice Hat Drill Sergeant Nasty '80s Hair Scenery Gorn Animal Title Index Grievous Bottley Harm Pragmatic Villainy You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Sci-Fi Horror Crazy Jealous Guy Neck Lift Chiaroscuro Gender Flip All There in the Manual She Cleans Up Nicely Death by Adaptation All Men Are Perverts Broken Aesop Logo Joke Too Dumb to Live Biopic Tap on the Head Frame-Up The Vamp Disney Death Auto Erotica Revenge Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Would Hit a Girl Spiritual Successor Henpecked Husband Corpsing The Power of Love Conspicuous CG Hooker with a Heart of Gold Stealth Pun Air-Vent Passageway Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Pretty in Mink Meaningful Echo B-Movie Black Comedy Psycho for Hire Call-Forward The Voiceless Eyepatch of Power Slap-Slap-Kiss As You Know Adult Fear Wham Shot Shirtless Scene My Beloved Smother Dies Wide Open The Dreaded Military and Warfare Films Artistic License – History Eureka Moment Kids Are Cruel Left the Background Music On Shower Scene Precision F-Strike Bring My Brown Pants Stepford Smiler Villain Protagonist Fainting Blackmail Fanservice Corrupt Corporate Executive Mooks Nice Guy Red Shirt Car Fu Groin Attack Unwitting Instigator of Doom Anachronic Order Blood from the Mouth Let's Get Dangerous! Australian Movies Artistic License – Law Manchild Guile Hero She's Got Legs And I Must Scream 20 Minutes into the Future The Atoner Combat Pragmatist Facial Horror Names to Run Away from Really Fast Beta Couple Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Expository Hairstyle Change The '80s Took a Level in Jerkass Double-Meaning Title Put on a Bus "Well Done, Son!" Guy Cool Shades Cruel and Unusual Death Parental Substitute Rated M for Manly Tempting Fate Hypocrite Bound and Gagged Depraved Bisexual From Nobody to Nightmare The Hero No Antagonist Arranged Marriage Dual Wielding The Stoner Stalker with a Crush Shell-Shocked Veteran Ass Shove The '90s And the Adventure Continues Adaptation Name Change Actor Allusion Big Bad Duumvirate Line-of-Sight Name Offscreen Moment of Awesome Jerk with a Heart of Gold Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Beard of Evil A Date with Rosie Palms Killed Mid-Sentence Jerk Jock It Can Think Red Herring Failed a Spot Check Self-Deprecation Neck Snap Foreshadowing I Need a Freaking Drink Red Eyes, Take Warning Vitriolic Best Buds Mr. Exposition Mythology Gag Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Continuity Nod Mugging the Monster Bullying a Dragon The Film of the Book The Bully The Casanova Evil-Detecting Dog Roaring Rampage of Revenge Eldritch Abomination Meaningful Name timeperiod Needs Wiki Magic Love Stock Footage Bait-and-Switch Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Worthy Opponent Loophole Abuse Only Sane Man Well-Intentioned Extremist Improbable Weapon User Important Haircut Science Fiction Films Our Vampires Are Different One-Man Army Not What It Looks Like A Minor Kidroduction Casting Gag Romantic Comedy Up to Eleven Face Death with Dignity Men Are the Expendable Gender Video Credits Sinister Minister Boom, Headshot! Despair Event Horizon Knife Nut Canadian Movies "Shaggy Dog" Story Decoy Protagonist Silent Movie Heel Realization Obviously Evil Wretched Hive Insane Troll Logic Shout-Out I Did What I Had to Do Gold Digger As Long as It Sounds Foreign Badass Grandpa Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Hero Antagonist Mexican Standoff Actually Pretty Funny Contrived Coincidence Idiot Ball Almost Kiss Film Noir Index Getting Crap Past the Radar Hair-Trigger Temper Catapult Nightmare True Companions Bavarian Fire Drill Accidental Murder Spanner in the Works Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Bottomless Magazines O.O.C. Is Serious Business Animated Credits Opening Sassy Black Woman Establishing Character Moment Dramatic Gun Cock Based on a True Story Pet the Dog Skewed Priorities What Happened to the Mouse? Brick Joke Chase Scene Fun with Acronyms Alas, Poor Villain Enemy Mine Non-Indicative Name Humiliation Conga An Arm and a Leg Big Damn Heroes Plot Hole Married to the Job Demonic Possession Black and Gray Morality A.I. Is a Crapshoot For the Evulz Catch-Phrase Evil vs. Evil Does This Remind You of Anything? Heterosexual Life-Partners Mad Scientist Sealed Evil in a Can Psychological Thriller All Girls Want Bad Boys Moment Killer The Remake Kill 'em All Not Quite Dead Action Girl Fingore Action Survivor Product Placement Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Stuff Blowing Up Bond One-Liner Hollywood Law Taking You with Me Flashback Instant Death Bullet Soundtrack Dissonance Kick the Son of a Bitch Dutch Angle Only a Flesh Wound Defrosting Ice Queen He Who Fights Monsters Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Covers Always Lie Male Frontal Nudity Same Language Dub A Father to His Men Immune to Bullets Never Found the Body Curb-Stomp Battle Random Events Plot Protagonist Title Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Large Ham French Films Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Chessmaster Plucky Comic Relief The Dragon Earn Your Happy Ending Those Two Guys Exact Words Batman Gambit Get Out! Spared by the Adaptation An Axe to Grind Apocalypse How Honor Before Reason No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Ms. Fanservice Adaptation Distillation Never My Fault Bolivian Army Ending Novelization