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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She's Got Legs An Aesop Artistic License – Law Guile Hero Dull Surprise Every Car Is a Pinto Together in Death Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Remake Tagline The '90s Anti-Villain Honor Before Reason It Will Never Catch On No OSHA Compliance Toplessness from the Back Interrupted Suicide Action Survivor Arranged Marriage Hong Kong Films Soft Glass Rich Bitch And the Adventure Continues Noodle Incident Adaptational Heroism Curse Cut Short You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Anguished Declaration of Love Auto Erotica Country Matters Cruel and Unusual Death Paper-Thin Disguise Unusually Uninteresting Sight Combat Pragmatist Cassandra Truth Adult Fear Eagleland Those Two Bad Guys May–December Romance The Sociopath Have a Gay Old Time Blackmail Silent Movie Needs Wiki Magic Love The Brute Heroes Want Redheads Implacable Man Television Movie Index Married to the Job Film Series Big Bad Duumvirate Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Greater-Scope Villain Pet the Dog Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism The '70s Rousing Speech I Need a Freaking Drink Rasputinian Death Mooks Based on a True Story Revenge Ship Tease Poor Communication Kills Action Prologue Papa Wolf Male Gaze Outrun the Fireball Exactly What It Says on the Tin Humans Are Bastards Belligerent Sexual Tension Scenery Gorn Dying Moment of Awesome Villain Protagonist Knife Nut Evil Plan Groin Attack Animated Credits Opening Stealth Pun Japanese Films Mighty Whitey Offscreen Moment of Awesome Very Loosely Based on a True Story In Name Only Heel–Face Turn Mercy Kill Took a Level in Jerkass Our Zombies Are Different Vampire Fiction Cloudcuckoolander Well-Intentioned Extremist Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Disney Villain Death For the Evulz Mad Scientist Reality Ensues "Well Done, Son!" Guy Armor-Piercing Question One-Man Army Catch-Phrase The Ditz Obfuscating Stupidity Riddle for the Ages Genre Savvy Aww, Look! 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Dwindling Party Bond Villain Stupidity The Lost Lenore Eiffel Tower Effect Pretty Little Headshots Token Minority Meaningful Name Vomit Indiscretion Shot Setting Update Genre Throwback Jitter Cam Deadpan Snarker Cat Fight Market-Based Title Immune to Bullets Insane Troll Logic Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Death by Adaptation Bait-and-Switch Index of Film Westerns Call-Forward All There in the Manual Stealth Hi/Bye Beauty Is Never Tarnished Mundane Made Awesome Suspiciously Specific Denial Bad Boss Male Frontal Nudity Shipper on Deck Monumental Damage The Vamp Drives Like Crazy Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Wrong Genre Savvy Department of Redundancy Department Slasher Movie Abhorrent Admirer Darkest Hour Pay Evil unto Evil Gilligan Cut Science Fiction Films Big Brother Instinct The Ace No-Sell Serial Killer Gender Flip Distracted by the Sexy Only Known by Their Nickname Plucky Comic Relief Evil Is Petty Face Death with Dignity Animal Title Index Evil Laugh Coming-of-Age Story Big Bad Rape as Drama Brick Joke Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Unspoken Plan Guarantee Chekhov's Gunman Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Horror Films Broken Aesop Match Cut The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Here We Go Again! Stalker with a Crush Everyone Has Standards Knight Templar Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Only a Flesh Wound The Faceless Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Cavalry Killed Mid-Sentence Ghost Fiction Credits Gag Badass Boast Bilingual Bonus No Ending Totally Radical Pre-Mortem One-Liner Bolivian Army Ending Adaptational Attractiveness From Bad to Worse Sealed Evil in a Can Expository Hairstyle Change Naïve Newcomer Manly Tears Bowdlerise Insistent Terminology The Hero Boom, Headshot! Destination Defenestration Blood Knight Shower Scene Canon Foreigner Superhero The Lancer Bare Your Midriff B-Movie Artistic License – History Get Out! Your Cheating Heart Sanity Slippage Brother–Sister Incest Anti-Hero Humiliation Conga Badass Normal Hate Sink Made of Iron BFG O.O.C. Is Serious Business Butt-Monkey Green-Eyed Monster Historical-Domain Character Wham Shot Parental Abandonment Spell My Name with an "S" The Bad Guy Wins One-Word Title Whole Plot Reference Fatal Family Photo Frame-Up '80s Hair Affably Evil And Starring Vacation Films Mexican Standoff Slashed Throat Madness Mantra Conspicuous CG 20 Minutes into the Future Precision F-Strike Really Gets Around Chekhov's Skill Heroic Sacrifice Crazy-Prepared Face–Heel Turn Canadian Movies Maybe Ever After Final Girl Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Documentary Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Took a Level in Badass Mythology Gag "The Reason You Suck" Speech Earn Your Happy Ending Arc Words Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Berserk Button The Cameo Lock and Load Montage Kubrick Stare Hooker with a Heart of Gold Expy Too Dumb to Live All Just a Dream Actually Pretty Funny Fantastic Racism Catapult Nightmare Covers Always Lie Not So Stoic Better to Die than Be Killed Cool Car Bloodless Carnage Accidental Murder Fan Disservice Hope Spot Shoot the Shaggy Dog Film Noir Index Punch-Clock Villain Punny Name Dramedy Due to the Dead Cain and Abel Cool Old Guy Ambiguous Disorder Blatant Lies Adaptational Villainy The Alcoholic He Knows Too Much Kill 'em All Say My Name Funny Background Event Framing Device Gold Digger Disproportionate Retribution Flashback The Power of Love Man on Fire Cool Shades Badass in a Nice Suit Posthumous Character Gainax Ending Never My Fault Grievous Bottley Harm Star-Crossed Lovers Meaningful Echo The Stoner The Chick Disguised in Drag Chekhov's Gun Kick the Dog He Who Fights Monsters Bloody Hilarious Age Lift Dropped a Bridge on Him Pre-Asskicking One-Liner After the End Faking the Dead Annoying Younger Sibling For Want of a Nail Improbable Weapon User Hero of Another Story Woman Scorned True Companions Thriller Police are Useless Nice Hat Becoming the Mask Mr. Exposition Woman in White Retcon Early-Bird Cameo Happily Married Famous Last Words Translation Convention Yandere Obviously Evil Last-Name Basis You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Show Within a Show The Big Guy Vitriolic Best Buds Body Horror The Load Good Is Not Nice Babies Ever After Fanservice Would Hurt a Child As the Good Book Says... Bar Brawl Big-Bad Ensemble Creepy Child Unusual Euphemism Deus ex Machina Ass Shove Sassy Black Woman Italian Films Music Stories Apocalypse How Bittersweet Ending She Cleans Up Nicely Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Brutal Honesty The Atoner Decoy Protagonist Beard of Evil Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Tap on the Head Take That! Red Oni, Blue Oni Protagonist Title Scare Chord Historical In-Joke Irony Determinator Black Comedy Rape Fingore All Girls Want Bad Boys Bavarian Fire Drill Australian Movies Works Set in World War II Fantasy Films Even Evil Has Loved Ones Stuff Blowing Up Lampshade Hanging The Ghost Casting Gag Artistic License – Military Adorkable Anyone Can Die Sequel Hook Room Full of Crazy In the Back Daddy's Girl I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Red Right Hand "Awesome McCool" Name Re-Cut Calling the Old Man Out All for Nothing Wicked Cultured Psycho for Hire Politically Incorrect Villain Slasher Smile Call-Back Spared by the Adaptation The Dreaded Be Careful What You Wish For Running Gag Zombie Stories Affectionate Parody Rule of Cool Character Development Costume Porn Public Domain Feature Films French Films Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Not So Above It All Black Comedy Wham Line The Mafia Alliterative Name Actor Allusion Video Credits Rewatch Bonus Composite Character Men Are the Expendable Gender Psychological Thriller Parental Incest Heel Realization Big Fancy House The Musical Extreme Doormat Throwing Your Sword Always Works Shown Their Work Creative Closing Credits Military and Warfare Films Spanner in the Works Creator Cameo Only One Name The Bully More Dakka Evil Brit Badass Bookworm The '80s Plot Hole Manic Pixie Dream Girl Hell Is That Noise Novelization Intrepid Reporter Smug Snake Double-Meaning Title Love Triangle Dirty Cop Loophole Abuse Mugging the Monster Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Never Found the Body Back from the Dead Retirony There Is No Kill Like Overkill How We Got Here Fourth Date Marriage Breaking the Fourth Wall Martial Arts Movie Foil Shout-Out Major Injury Underreaction Evil vs. Evil Mystery and Detective Films Car Fu Drugs Are Bad Roaring Rampage of Revenge Dramatic Irony Pyrrhic Victory Up to Eleven Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Important Haircut The Smurfette Principle Bunny-Ears Lawyer Accidental Misnaming Would Hit a Girl World of Ham Badass Longcoat Oh, Crap! NO INDOOR VOICE Storming the Castle It's Personal No Celebrities Were Harmed Cool Old Lady Fire-Forged Friends Early Installment Weirdness Historical Hero Upgrade Half the Man He Used to Be Depraved Bisexual Dark Action Girl Hypocrite Handicapped Badass A God Am I Made of Explodium Skewed Priorities As You Know The Place Sole Survivor The Un-Reveal Obstructive Bureaucrat Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Cat Scare Adaptation Expansion Death Seeker Henpecked Husband Improvised Weapon Driven to Suicide Book-Ends Ambiguously Gay Friend to All Children folderlabel Cool Guns Anachronic Order Epic Fail Logo Joke Your Head A-Splode Adaptational Badass Horror Comedy Adults Are Useless Peek-a-Boo Corpse Fat Bastard Wounded Gazelle Gambit It Can Think Big Applesauce A Father to His Men Title Drop Bald of Evil Loads and Loads of Characters Pretty in Mink Abusive Parents Artistic License – Gun Safety Captain Ersatz My Beloved Smother Comically Missing the Point The Chessmaster The Mole Fake Shemp The '60s Villain Ball The Stoic Diabolus ex Machina Karma Houdini Author Appeal Product Placement Didn't Think This Through Lighter and Softer Aluminum Christmas Trees Brainless Beauty Those Two Guys No Antagonist Villain with Good Publicity Never Trust a Trailer Failed a Spot Check Red Herring Moment Killer This Is Gonna Suck Love at First Sight Film Noir Not Even Bothering with the Accent Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Only in It for the Money Not So Different Put on a Bus Leave the Camera Running Aside Glance Award-Bait Song Almost Kiss A Minor Kidroduction Closed Circle Those Wacky Nazis The Smart Guy What Happened to the Mouse? Mr. Fanservice Red Eyes, Take Warning British Films Mind Screw Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Evil-Detecting Dog Names to Run Away from Really Fast It's All About Me Betty and Veronica Older Than They Look Corpsing Nice Guy The Quiet One Hoist by His Own Petard Disappeared Dad Dissonant Serenity Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Did Not Get the Girl Badass Grandpa Intergenerational Friendship Broken Pedestal Faux Affably Evil Stylistic Suck Reasonable Authority Figure Jerk with a Heart of Gold Adaptation Distillation Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Naked People Are Funny The Starscream Our Vampires Are Different A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Dog Bites Back A Date with Rosie Palms Crucified Hero Shot Tranquil Fury War Is Hell Hollywood Law Corrupt Corporate Executive Romantic Comedy Anachronism Stew Crapsack World Imagine Spot Adapted Out Fate Worse than Death Redshirt Army All Men Are Perverts Sir Swears-a-Lot Rated M for Manly Adaptation Name Change Easily Forgiven Dark Is Not Evil I Did What I Had to Do Genre Shift Damsel in Distress Big Damn Heroes Grey and Gray Morality Dual Wielding What You Are in the Dark Race Lift Getting Crap Past the Radar Dramatic Gun Cock Bloodier and Gorier Big Eater La Résistance Insult Backfire Not Quite Dead Determinator aka: The Determinator Shell-Shocked Veteran Ironic Echo Redemption Equals Death Foregone Conclusion Darker and Edgier Beware the Nice Ones Sadistic Choice Overprotective Dad Break the Cutie Same Language Dub Demoted to Extra Camera Abuse Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Improbable Aiming Skills Extremely Short Timespan Parental Neglect The Voiceless Daylight Horror Laughing Mad Random Events Plot Empathic Environment The Reveal Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Great Depression Only Sane Man Kick the Son of a Bitch Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Unwitting Instigator of Doom Drill Sergeant Nasty Nothing Is Scarier Arch-Enemy Black and Gray Morality Chiaroscuro Straight Gay Malevolent Masked Men Central Theme What the Hell, Hero? Playing Gertrude Karmic Death Villainous Breakdown Defrosting Ice Queen Bi the Way Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Five-Man Band Off with His Head! Hero Antagonist Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Jerkass Tempting Fate Celebrity Paradox MacGuffin Unresolved Sexual Tension Card-Carrying Villain Enemy Mine Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Ungrateful Bastard Silence Is Golden Deconstruction Jump Scare Historical Villain Upgrade Dirty Old Man Bound and Gagged One Steve Limit Left the Background Music On Femme Fatale Neck Snap Fish out of Water From Nobody to Nightmare Evil Counterpart Kill It with Fire Chewing the Scenery Beta Couple Deal with the Devil Adaptation Dye-Job Eureka Moment Break the Haughty Broken Bird Death by Irony Sexy Discretion Shot Real Life Writes the Plot Action Girl Ax-Crazy Dirty Coward Bring My Brown Pants Evil Is Hammy Not What It Looks Like Dumb Blonde Laser-Guided Karma Worthy Opponent Asshole Victim Victoria's Secret Compartment As Long as It Sounds Foreign No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Establishing Character Moment Super Strength Epic Movie Evil Sounds Deep Facial Horror Authority Equals Asskicking Ascended Extra Camp Gay Large Ham Smoking Is Cool Romantic False Lead Parental Substitute Artistic License – Geography Kids Are Cruel Dogged Nice Guy Batman Gambit In Medias Res Rule of Funny Disney Death Black Dude Dies First Mood Whiplash Spiritual Successor Gone Horribly Right Pragmatic Adaptation Scary Black Man Let's Get Dangerous! Reckless Gun Usage Sequel Escalation Twist Ending And I Must Scream Neck Lift The Hero Dies Death by Sex Missing Mom Line-of-Sight Name An Arm and a Leg Undying Loyalty Take a Third Option Deliberately Monochrome The Alleged Car Four-Temperament Ensemble Ripped from the Headlines Cluster F-Bomb timeperiod Big "NO!" Meaningful Background Event Heroic BSoD Blood from the Mouth Race Against the Clock Self-Deprecation "Shaggy Dog" Story Animal Motifs Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Despair Event Horizon Suspiciously Similar Substitute Artistic License – Biology Red Shirt Homage Dark and Troubled Past Action Genre Heterosexual Life-Partners N-Word Privileges Word of God Meet Cute German Films Taking the Bullet Captain Obvious Hair-Trigger Temper Dutch Angle Reality Has No Subtitles Dies Wide Open Bond One-Liner Alas, Poor Villain Cowboy Cop Properly Paranoid Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Crazy Jealous Guy Time Skip Sinister Minister Demonic Possession Sacrificial Lion Spiteful Spit Sci-Fi Horror Stepford Smiler Continuity Nod Fun with Acronyms Hollywood Darkness My Greatest Failure Contrived Coincidence Curb-Stomp Battle Real Life Does Not Like Shoes Ominous Latin Chanting The X of Y Drowning My Sorrows Defiant to the End Gratuitous English Pimped-Out Dress Hypocritical Humor Psychopathic Manchild Suddenly SHOUTING! Manchild Light Is Not Good Attempted Rape Retired Badass Police Brutality Double Entendre Non-Indicative Name Serious Business Soundtrack Dissonance Villain Song Domestic Abuse Advertised Extra Vomit Discretion Shot No Name Given Sports Stories Morality Pet Instant Death Bullet Antagonist Title Deliberate Values Dissonance Danny Peary Cult Movies List