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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Kids Are Cruel "Shaggy Dog" Story Broken Bird The Reveal Disproportionate Retribution Artistic License – Law Genre Savvy Sequel Hook Throwing Your Sword Always Works Cowboy Cop Death Glare Boom, Headshot! The '60s Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Tranquil Fury Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Butt-Monkey The Vamp Amusing Injuries The Lost Lenore More Dakka Spiteful Spit Antagonist Title Black and Gray Morality Toplessness from the Back Show Within a Show Gilligan Cut Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Stinger Irony Villain with Good Publicity Lock and Load Montage Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Lampshade Hanging Camp Gay Evil Sounds Deep Dull Surprise Even Evil Has Standards Sinister Minister Mad Scientist Serial Killer Ax-Crazy Sealed Evil in a Can Cluster F-Bomb Depraved Bisexual Gratuitous English Obviously Evil Death Seeker Does This Remind You of Anything? A God Am I Light Is Not Good Defrosting Ice Queen Big-Bad Ensemble Car Fu Honor Before Reason Works Set in World War II Plucky Comic Relief Bittersweet Ending Stock Footage You Have Failed Me Early-Bird Cameo Chase Scene Didn't Think This Through "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Big Eater Celebrity Paradox B-Movie Hooker with a Heart of Gold Idiot Ball Mama Bear Adaptation Dye-Job Greater-Scope Villain Vacation Films A Father to His Men Super Strength Hollywood Law Cool Guns Bloodier and Gorier Easily Forgiven Science Fiction Films Vitriolic Best Buds Affably Evil Reality Is Unrealistic Blackmail Random Events Plot Obfuscating Stupidity Stealth Hi/Bye Artistic License – Physics Never Trust a Trailer Novelization Good Is Not Nice No Ending Guns Akimbo Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Took a Level in Badass Cool Old Guy Crucified Hero Shot Visual Pun Evil-Detecting Dog Skewed Priorities Wham Line One-Man Army Bitch in Sheep's Clothing How We Got Here Only Sane Man Downer Ending The Ghost You Killed My Father Unresolved Sexual Tension Cloudcuckoolander The Cameo Shell-Shocked Veteran Superhero The Smurfette Principle Rated M for Manly Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Bullying a Dragon Demoted to Extra Bunny-Ears Lawyer Tap on the Head Rousing Speech Cat Scare Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Stoner Parental Abandonment Adaptational Badass Deconstruction Only Known by Their Nickname Attempted Rape Demonic Possession Historical Hero Upgrade Loophole Abuse Sanity Slippage Groin Attack Contrived Coincidence Wicked Cultured The Musical Real Life Writes the Plot Dogged Nice Guy Not What It Looks Like Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Stealth Pun Driven to Suicide Evil Brit Bi the Way Unusual Euphemism Big Applesauce Animated Credits Opening BFG Shown Their Work Deliberate Values Dissonance All Men Are Perverts Red Right Hand Jerkass Has a Point Bland-Name Product Closed Circle As Long as It Sounds Foreign Leave the Camera Running Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Too Dumb to Live He Knows Too Much Bottomless Magazines Spanner in the Works Author Appeal Meet Cute It's Personal Anguished Declaration of Love Crazy Jealous Guy Only in It for the Money Shower Scene Psycho for Hire Adapted Out Accidental Misnaming Dramatic Gun Cock Implacable Man Video Credits Death by Adaptation Affectionate Parody Alpha Bitch Grey and Gray Morality Leaning on the Fourth Wall Trailers Always Spoil Male Frontal Nudity Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Brute Genre Throwback Vomit Discretion Shot Heroic Sacrifice Chewing the Scenery Peek-a-Boo Corpse Hero Antagonist Mugging the Monster Informed Ability Drill Sergeant Nasty Reality Ensues Call-Back Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Drugs Are Bad Disney Villain Death Distracted by the Sexy The Un-Reveal Riddle for the Ages Badass Normal Television Movie Index Sci-Fi Horror Agony of the Feet Corrupt Corporate Executive Translation Convention Imagine Spot German Films Properly Paranoid Pet the Dog Tagline Title Drop Dutch Angle What You Are in the Dark Anyone Can Die Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Jerk with a Heart of Gold O.O.C. Is Serious Business Zombie Stories Sacrificial Lion The '50s Names to Run Away from Really Fast You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Slap-Slap-Kiss Auto Erotica Nothing Is Scarier Flipping the Bird The Remake Slashed Throat Running Gag Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Morality Pet Damsel in Distress Slasher Movie Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Dark Action Girl No-Sell Bar Brawl Enemy Mine Heel Realization Fanservice Fantasy Films Early Installment Weirdness Epic Movie Shipper on Deck Cool Shades Love at First Sight Eagleland A.I. Is a Crapshoot Death by Irony Exact Words Unreliable Narrator Christmas Movies Index Stuff Blowing Up Mercy Kill Red Shirt An Arm and a Leg Meaningful Name Abusive Parents Jump Scare Big Bad Overly Long Gag It Will Never Catch On Cain and Abel Not Even Bothering with the Accent Mistaken for Gay Babies Ever After Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Bad "Bad Acting" Bolivian Army Ending Scare Chord Product Placement Badass Bookworm Maybe Ever After Recycled IN SPACE! Villain Ball Eye Scream Moment Killer Same Language Dub Cassandra Truth Narrator Stylistic Suck Mighty Whitey Male Gaze I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Insult Backfire Establishing Character Moment Character Development Crazy-Prepared Fatal Family Photo Blood from the Mouth Deadpan Snarker Tempting Fate Man on Fire Take That! Once More, with Clarity! Amoral Attorney Never Found the Body Homage Martial Arts Movie Grievous Bottley Harm Bloodless Carnage All There in the Script No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Insane Troll Logic Hidden Depths Major Injury Underreaction Calling the Old Man Out Really Gets Around Adorkable Fish out of Water Dark and Troubled Past Flashback Dark Reprise Together in Death A Date with Rosie Palms Say My Name Stepford Smiler Big Damn Heroes The Mafia Book-Ends Hero of Another Story Jitter Cam The Oner Anachronism Stew Sir Swears-a-Lot Dying Moment of Awesome This Is Gonna Suck Funny Foreigner Manly Tears Foregone Conclusion Let's Get Dangerous! Advertised Extra Heterosexual Life-Partners The Atoner Brainless Beauty Badass Grandpa Getting Crap Past the Radar Star-Crossed Lovers Police are Useless Index of Film Westerns Anti-Villain Arch-Enemy Anti-Hero Four-Temperament Ensemble Creepy Child Apocalypse How Rape as Drama Taking the Bullet "Well Done, Son!" 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Or Is It? 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Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Unusually Uninteresting Sight Documentary Determinator aka: The Determinator Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Rasputinian Death The '90s The Stoic Hypocritical Humor Darkest Hour Improbable Aiming Skills Those Wacky Nazis Historical-Domain Character Get Out! Mexican Standoff Hate Sink The Voiceless And the Adventure Continues Madness Mantra Bury Your Gays The Ditz Chekhov's Gun Manchild Bavarian Fire Drill Music Stories Scenery Porn Small Name, Big Ego Fingore Fantastic Racism Bilingual Bonus Pimped-Out Dress Creative Closing Credits Red Herring Suddenly SHOUTING! Card-Carrying Villain Stalker with a Crush Expository Hairstyle Change The Dreaded After the End Off-into-the-Distance Ending Children Are Innocent Spared by the Adaptation Frame-Up Death of a Child Henpecked Husband A Minor Kidroduction Put on a Bus Alliterative Name Dropped a Bridge on Him The Ace Politically Incorrect Villain My Beloved Smother Our Zombies Are Different Laser-Guided Karma Better to Die than Be Killed The '70s Curse Cut Short Hoist by His Own Petard Daylight Horror Corpsing Redemption Equals Death She Cleans Up Nicely The Chick It's All About Me Kill It with Fire Face Death with Dignity Loads and Loads of Characters Catch-Phrase Market-Based Title Thriller Due to the Dead The Lancer Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Captain Ersatz Kubrick Stare Department of Redundancy Department In the Back My God, What Have I Done? Re-Cut Canon Foreigner Make It Look Like an Accident Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Actor Allusion Casting Gag Silent Movie Faking the Dead Fanservice Extra Scenery Gorn Beware the Nice Ones Mood Whiplash Coming-of-Age Story Your Cheating Heart Hollywood Darkness Animal Title Index I'm a Humanitarian Ship Tease Mooks Parental Neglect Adult Fear Mind Screw Author Avatar Ambiguous Disorder Cat Fight From Nobody to Nightmare Slasher Smile Captain Obvious Fiery Redhead Action Survivor Rewatch Bonus Military and Warfare Films Final Girl An Axe to Grind True Companions Not Quite Dead British Films Evil Counterpart Villain Protagonist Bring My Brown Pants Truth in Television The Place Offscreen Moment of Awesome Beauty Is Never Tarnished Foil Undying Loyalty Framing Device Funny Background Event Dwindling Party Faux Affably Evil Outrun the Fireball Soft Glass Spiritual Successor Scary Black Man Drowning My Sorrows Gold Digger Ironic Echo The Great Depression "The Reason You Suck" Speech As the Good Book Says... 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Artistic License – History Bond Villain Stupidity Freudian Excuse Cruel and Unusual Death Biopic The Chessmaster Bloody Hilarious Artistic License – Biology Evil Laugh I Have Your Wife Bald of Evil Retcon Broken Pedestal Evil Plan Cool Old Lady Dirty Old Man Mythology Gag Taking You with Me Knife Nut Adaptation Expansion Pragmatic Adaptation Interrupted Suicide Our Vampires Are Different Authority Equals Asskicking MacGuffin Fake Shemp Call-Forward Sassy Black Woman Breaking the Fourth Wall Motor Mouth Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Credits Gag Large Ham 20 Minutes into the Future Arc Words