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** Buwaro is also ridiculed by his fellow demons for having an angrl girlfriend, and the more fanatic demons are dismayed when they get to St. Curtis, the town they are supposed to [[RapePillageAndBurn sack]] and find their fellow demons have assimilated into its society.

* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': Kieri, an angel, is considered a traitor for her companionship with Buwaro, a demon.[[note]]Buwaro was adopted by an angel, but nobody outside the group knows that.[[/note]] One particular KnightTemplar angel attempted to kill her after she merely protected Buwaro. Her brother Kazai tries to write the relationship off as 'not your fault, you've been through a lot', but freaks out when she starts questioning the motives of Kazai's superior officer because of her new outlook on angels and demons; angels have indoctrinated themselves into following all orders and arbitrary customs at all times. Soon after, [[spoiler:the superior officer reveals she turned ''actual'' traitor because following orders prevented her from deciding who she could love]].
* Buwaro is also ridiculed by his fellow demons for having an angrl girlfriend, and the more fanatic demons are dismayed when they get to St. Curtis, the town they are supposed to [[RapePillageAndBurn sack]] and find their fellow demons have assimilated into its society.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', it's hard not to find a faction of humanity that others have labeled as "traitors" or "heretics". In particular, the Chaos Space Marines descended from the Emperor's traitorous sons. And as for humans who joined the Tau Empire voluntarily or involuntarily and their descendants, all Imperial factions get a bonus to close combat against them -- many of these "Gue'vesa"[[note]]Literally "Human helpers"[[/note]] fight for the Tau not because they admire the Greater Good ideology of their alien overlords, but simply because they know full well [[KillEmAll how the Imperium would embrace them]].

* ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'':
** Surprisingly averted. While StrawmanPolitical characters abound, particularly black ones, never at any point do any of the characters seriously suggest that the others are race traitors. Even Uncle Ruckus, a self-hating black man who constantly expounds upon the joys of Caucasian-hood, is never rejected by his friends, however misguided and extreme his actions become.
** Occurs in the Trial of R. Kelly where Tom is accused of being a self-hating black man because he's married to a white woman. However, he's accused of this by the white defense attorney.

Bob belongs to a certain group, or at least Alice considers him to belong to it, and thus she demands that he stay "loyal" to this group. It's beside the point whether or not the group [[StrawAffiliation actually exists as a relevant group and whether Bob actually sympathizes with it or not]].

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', some Japanese people consider "honorary Britannians" like Suzaku to lack dignity for having sought honorary citizenship from an occupying conqueror. Doesn't help that only a handful of Britannians are ever shown treating the Honorary Britannians with any respect.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Devilman}}'' franchise, Akira Fudo's seen as a traitor by the other demons, who keep on assuming that he's Amon and had simply lost his memories.
* In ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', the Devas and their master consider any Digimon who partners with a human (or for some, who have ever been partnered with a human) to be traitors to their kind.
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Goku's [[CainandAbel evil older brother]] Raditz views him as one to the Saiyan race when he refuses to accept his offer to join them in their violent conquest against Earth, along with many other planets. Vegeta and Nappa are also itching to kill him for his supposed "betrayal".
-->'''Raditz:''' I'm sorry, brother... but I was thinking about my offer, and I've changed my mind. You'd probably just slow the rest of us down. And for betraying the Saiyan race, YOU WILL ''DIE!!!''
* In ''Anime/LastOrderFinalFantasyVII'', Sephiroth considers all humans traitors to the Cetra, while he's betrayed [=SOLDIER=], Shinra and ruined his reputation as a great hero.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed'':
** Of course, ZAFT considers Kira a traitor because he fights for Earth while being a genetically modified Coordinator, but even his friends question his engagement sometimes. This mostly comes from the genocidal Patrick Zala, who also considers Lacus and other Coordinators that don't want the genocide of all Naturals this. Athrun thinks Kira is being manipulated instead, and nobody else in ZAFT knows Kira is actually a Coordinator. They think he's just a very good Natural that can pilot a mobile suit.
** On the flip side, the leadership of [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Blue Cosmos]] and LOGOS consider Naturals who have anything to do with Coordinators to be traitors. [[AxCrazy Lord]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny Djibril]] epitomizes this, employing weapons of mass destruction against Naturals who even accept protection from ZAFT.
* In ''Manga/PandoraHearts Retrace LXXIX'', [[spoiler:Glen]] deems [[spoiler:Gilbert]] as one of these to the Baskerville family when the latter defies the former by [[spoiler:using Raven to burn off his arm with the seal that controls him and then declaring his loyalty to Oz before escaping with him]].
* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': In the first season finale, Kuyou, after listing off multiple reasons why HumansAreTheRealMonsters, declares outright that Moka, one of his fellow monsters, deserves to die for fraternizing with humans like Tsukune.
* In ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'', the goddess and demon races reserve their most lasting and emotionally painful punishments for traitors to their own kind. Although they had been at war since forever, the leaders of both sides, the Demon King and Supreme Deity, immediately agreed that [[spoiler:Meliodas and Elizabeth]]'s coupling could not be tolerated and combined powers to curse them for eternity, because anything that threatens to end the [[ForeverWar eternal Holy War]] must be destroyed.
* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', the Ghoul Countermeasures Law codifies this with Article 119. Humans that aid a ghoul in ''any'' manner are subject to arrest, and face the Death Penalty for their crimes. When [[spoiler: Akira Mado]] protects a former comrade-turned-ghoul, they are immediately and brutally attacked by their subordinate and left mortally wounded. Treating their injuries proves to be difficult since their "betrayal" of humanity means they cannot seek traditional help from a doctor or hospital.

[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': In a flashback, Hispanic superhero El Hombre takes down a group of thugs who also happen to be Hispanic. One of them accuses Hombre of being a race traitor for always taking down Hispanic criminals (because he operated in a Chicano-heavy community) and Hombre is surprised by how much the insult stings; he knows it’s a baseless accusation and that the thug is, at best, just trying to weasel out of being arrested. Yet it stays in his head and causes him to feel doubt, kickstarting the events that led to [[FallenHero his fall from grace]].
* In ''ComicBook/BatmanHolyTerror'', Batman is dumbfounded to discover that the man managing the secret governmental lab conducting hideous, inhuman experiments to produce {{Super Soldier}}s is Dr. Erdel, a Jew; in the twisted Christian theocracy of this world, Jews are oppressed and restricted to the point that the government places strict limits on their population, refusing to let them have more than a certain amount of children -- which is even more amazing given that, in this world, abortion and contraception are both crimes.
* In ''ComicBook/BitchyButch'', Butchy is very quick to brand other women as gender traitors for not sharing her [[DoesNotLikeMen misandry]] (hatred & prejudice against men).
* A similar incident occurred in [[Creator/ChristopherPriestComics Christopher Priest]]'s ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'' run, where a group of impoverished black citizens claimed Black Panther was an Uncle Tom due to his associations with the Avengers and ComicBook/FantasticFour, as well as his general lack of concern for the well-being of black citizens.
* ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'': A major plot element of ''The Final Ark'' was a species war brewing between land and water animals, in which ducks and turtles were distrusted as traitors to their kins.
* In ''ComicBook/ContestOfChampions2015'', Jake Gallows, [[ComicBook/Marvel2099 Punisher 2099]], despises fellow skull-bearer Outlaw due to the latter retiring from the mission.
* Budroxifinicus of ''ComicBook/{{Copperhead}}'' is called such by Brexinfoyle due to their species' recent war against human civilization and Boo's employment by humans.
* A ''ComicBook/TheFalcon'' one-shot had a similar situation, where a Harlem citizen berated the hero for not acting as a role model for young black kids during his time with ComicBook/TheAvengers.
* In the X-Men graphic novel ''ComicBook/GodLovesManKills'', Kitty and Illyana's dance instructor, Stevie Hunter, is labeled this by the anti-mutant Purifiers.
-->'''Purifier:''' Once we deal with the mutie scum, there'll be plenty of time for [punishing] traitors like her.
* In ''ComicBook/IlEtaitUneFoisEnFrance'', Eva accuses her husband Joseph of being a traitor to the Jews, having acquired his wealth by selling their possessions and indirectly contributing to Nazi industry.
* Subverted in ''ComicBook/{{Manhunter}}''. Kate, who's white, tries this on Director Bones when he refuses to send back-up to help Kate rescue a group of Mexican women from superhuman organ-thieves. She insinuates that he has forgotten what color his skin would be since, despite the fact that he literally looks like a skeleton, Bones is in fact a black man. He [[http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx6vfqUDqu1qeenqto1_500.jpg immediately tears into Kate]] and essentially tells her "Shut up, you don’t know shit about being black, so don’t you dare patronize me and act like you understand what it means to be a minority."
* ''ComicBook/NemesisTheWarlock'': Torquemada and his AbsoluteXenophobe followers happily execute any human who associates themselves with aliens, or even merely object to his xenocidal crusades on alien worlds. In fact, his final plot is to trigger a device that will wipe out every alien and any human who has ever been in contact with one.
* During ''ComicBook/{{Shadowland}}'', the new Power Man insinuated that ComicBook/LukeCage was a race traitor because he joined ComicBook/TheAvengers and married a [[MalignedMixedMarriage white]] [[ComicBook/{{Alias}} woman]].
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** In one issue of ''Adventures of Superman'' #507, where the second Bloodsport (a white supremacist) is making his debut, he comes across a gang of thugs (two black, one white) about to rape a woman. He kills the two black thugs, then kills the white guy for being a "race traitor". Oddly enough, the woman in this example is initially shown to be white on the first page, but the next page shows her to be a black woman (who Bloodsport also kills before he shoots the white guy).
--->'''White guy:''' ''[Bloodsport has him at gunpoint]'' P-please--don't--\\
'''Bloodsport:''' SHUT UP! Think I want to do this? If there was any other--\\
'''Woman:''' What're you saying? You know what they were gonna do to me? Shoot him! Shoot the son-of-a--\\
''[Bloodsport shoots her instead]''\\
'''Bloodsport:''' ''[about the woman]'' They always knew their place. ''[to white guy]'' You're no better. You're a race traitor! ''[kills him]''
** ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}, when he was originally an organic Coluan named Vril Dox loyally served the Computer Tyrants, thus being hated by his own people as a result.
** In ''ComicBook/LastSon'' and ''ComicBook/NewKrypton'', both Superman and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} are called "race traitors" for protecting Earth from an army of Kryptonians led by General Zod.
* Nighthawk from ''ComicBook/SupremePower'' is a [[AngryBlackMan virulent black supremacist]] who accuses ''any'' black person who shows even the bare minimum of politeness to white people of being a race traitor. Because of this, he repeatedly hurls horribly racist insults like "house negro" at fellow black superhero Blur, who remarks at one point that he grew up in the DeepSouth yet ''never'' experienced racial discrimination firsthand [[{{Irony}} until he met his "fellow black man" Nighthawk]].
* Robot cop Joe Pi in ''Comicbook/TopTen'' is considered a traitor by some Ferro-Americans, who call him "Spambo" (metal outside, meat inside).
* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'': After the disbanding of the Decepticons, many still choose to cling to the badge and what it represents. Those interested in associating with the Autobots or the Camiens are looked down on. Sparkstalker sticking up for a bunch of Religious Camiens earns him the ire of Needlenose and the Decepticon recruiters, and Acid Storm even giving them the time of day leads to further derision.
* In ''Comicbook/UncannyAvengers'', Banshee from the X-Men chastises ComicBook/CaptainAmerica for not doing more to help the country of Ireland and its citizens during UsefulNotes/TheTroubles despite being the child of Irish immigrants.
* ''[[ComicBook/VampireTheMasqueradeVault Vampire: The Masquerade: Winter's Teeth]]'' stars a Brujah GothicPunk named Cecily Bain who betrayed the Anarchs to join the Camarilla. This was because she needed to find a safe place for her sister but she still feels awful about it.
* In ''ComicBook/WarMachine'' Vol. 2, Rhodey's mom mentions that her friends accused her of raising an Uncle Tom after he fought against ComicBook/BlackPanther and ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}} during ''ComicBook/CivilWar''.
* ''ComicBook/WhateverLoveMeans'' rants quite a bit about how men are expected and indoctrinated to be loyal to men in general, at the expense of women. Mostly at a more structural level than BrosBeforeHoes.
* In one of the ''Comicbook/XMen'' tie-ins to the ''Acts of Vengeance'' CrisisCrossover, Jubilee was accused of being a "[[OutsideInsideSlur banana]]" (Asian on the outside, white on the inside) by a Chinese youth who tried to hit on her.
* After the Apache mutant John Proudstar joins the ComicBook/XMen as the costumed hero Thunderbird, he is killed during a mission trying to capture the villainous [[BigBad Count Nefaria]]. His younger brother James, also a mutant, takes up the Thunderbird codename and joins the [[EvilCounterpart Hellions]] as part of a plan to kill Professor X, who he blames for John's death. When he finally has Professor X at his mercy, he finds that he can't bring himself to kill the Professor and ends up applying this trope to ''himself'', thinking that he's a disgrace to his Apache roots. The X-Men help him realize that this isn't the case and that John actually died a hero. James declines their initial offer to join the team, although he would later join the ComicBook/NewMutants and take on his own costumed identity as Warpath.
* Speaking of the ComicBook/XMen, during ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', mutants who sided with the Avengers, such as ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and Beast, got harassed for this. Let alone the fact that ''Schism'' has recently caused a BreakingTheFellowship among the X-Men, with those two on the side opposing Comicbook/{{Cyclops}}.

[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'':
** Surprisingly averted. While StrawmanPolitical characters abound, particularly black ones, never at any point do any of the characters seriously suggest that the others are race traitors. Even Uncle Ruckus, a self-hating black man who constantly expounds upon the joys of Caucasian-hood, is never rejected by his friends, however misguided and extreme his actions become.
** Occurs in the Trial of R. Kelly where Tom is accused of being a self-hating black man because he's married to a white woman. However, he's accused of this by the white defense attorney.
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': When they're holding meetings at their [[HeManWomanHater anti-girls club]], the former sometimes accuses the latter of being a traitor to the male sex because he actually finds women attractive.

[[folder:Fan Works]]
* As seen in ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant'', certain members of the White Fang consider Faunus who don't fight alongside them to be traitors to their race. The Lieutenant outright calls Makoto this in Chapter 52, and Adam's POV in Chapter 54 shows that he views any Faunus who either refuses to align themselves with the White Fang or walk away from it as unworthy of being called Faunus and deserving of a bloody death.
* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheDesert'', Scar calls the half-Ishavalan Edward a blood traitor for not only being a State Alchemist but for shielding Roy Mustang from his wrath.
* Due to Harry's lack of respect for Hogwarts custom and authority in ''Fanfic/ScionOfSorcery'', Harry prefers sitting with Neville at the Gryffindor table despite being a Slytherin student. At first, this got animosity from both houses, including the staff and prefects. However, due to Harry's charm and willingness to rile up his House's own Head (Snape), he gains the respect of a sizable portion of Gryffindors, most notably the Weasley Clan (sans Percy).
* ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'':
** "Slavosá" is a Faunus word used in this manner. It literally translates to "one who sleeps with the enemy". Blake gets called this by a Faunus who's angry at her for going on a date with Weiss and bringing her to a Faunus-specific club.
** Velvet accuses Blake of being a vaara (which literally translates to "those who reject [[EthnicGod Devi's]] blessing" and refers to a Faunus who wishes they were human) because she's Weiss' girlfriend and she hides her cat ears. Velvet herself is dating a human, but it's Blake hiding of her Faunus traits that upsets her.
* In ''Fanfic/DesertGold'', an Ishvalan kidnapper who holds Roy hostage calls the biracial Edward a "traitor" for siding with the military who had previously mass-murdered Ishvalans.
* Adam from ''Fanfic/{{Resurgence}}'' views anyone who doesn't side with his extremist views and the White Fang as a traitor to the Faunus race, specifically telling Blake as such.
* In ''Fanfic/AForceOfFour'', Franchise/WonderWoman calls her old enemy Badra " traitor to womanhood" for attempting to wipe the human race out. Wonder Woman's mindset is that a woman shouldn't want to inflict harm upon other women, let alone kill them, whereas Badra couldn't care less about female solidarity.
* In ''Fanfic/FourDeadlySecrets'', one White Fang assassin mocks Blake Belladonna for fleeing the organization and pursuing peace with humans, but lets her live with an invitation to return to the fold. Later, Team JNPR are surprised to see Neo and Mercury Black, both humans, working with the White Fang; Blake Belladonna is even more shocked (and outraged) to see White Fang Faunus taking orders from Roman Torchwick despite him directly calling them animals.
* ''Fanfic/{{SAPR}}'':
** Blake gets called this a few times after [[spoiler:becoming an Atlas penal soldier.]]
** Rainbow Dash also reflects on being insulted because she's a faunus working for the Atlesian military.
* In ''Fanfic/DevilsDiary'', Magneto labels Xavier as a traitor to mutantkind for training mutants and sending them against him.

[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* In ''Animation/SheepAndWolves'', the dark wolves certainly see Grey and his pack as traitors to their kind for bucking the natural order and living in peace with sheep. In fact, Gark's whole motivation in the film for targeting Grey is his bigotry towards prey animals and disgust towards his fellow alpha wolf for 'lowering himself' to their levels, wanting to either teach him a lesson or make an example out of him to other wolves.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TwentyTwoJuly'': When Breivik attempts to call up a far-right thinker in his defense, [[EveryoneHasStandards the man is clear that he wants nothing to do with him for being a murderous lunatic]]. Breivik dismisses him as a coward for this.
* In ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', the humans are invading the planet Pandora, destroying the environment and escalating their hostility against the native Na'vi population towards genocidal proportions. When the human protagonist lives among the aliens as one of them -- using the titular Avatar technology -- he begins to sympathize with their cause and ultimately decides to become a Na'vi and help them fight his fellow humans. [[ColonelBadass Colonel Quaritch]] accuses him of "betraying his species." Jake [[ShutUpHannibal answers]] with a Na'vi-like snarl, telling Quaritch exactly what he considers ''his'' "species" to be.
* In ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation|1915}}'', the "radical republicans" are implied to have betrayed the white race, especially with Stoneman himself having an extramarital affair with a black woman -- leading him to give power to the evil mulatto who later tries to rape his daughter.
* One of the central themes/conflicts of ''Film/{{BlacKkKlansman}}'' is whether Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer in the early 1970s, is a race-traitor for joining the police force.
* Nick Jakoby from ''Film/{{Bright}}'' has to put up with other many other orcs calling him a race traitor for being a cop. [[spoiler:In the end, after fulfilling an ancient prophecy and performing an act of true bravery, he gains acceptance from the orc community.]]
* There's a clear example of this in ''Film/ChasingAmy'' when, after a conversation where she's joking around with her friends, Alyssa tells them she's dating a man.
-->''[after the room goes silent]''\\
'''Friend:''' Well, we lost another one.
* In the Holocaust docudrama ''Film/Conspiracy2001'', some of the Nazi officials are concerned with the plight of German spouses of the German Jews they want to murder when those people's husbands and wives are taken away. Others counter that they feel they're "race traitors" anyway and should be treated as such. SS General Heinrich Mueller goes so far as to say that he'd happily throw them all on the same transport if it were up to him.
* ''Film/DjangoUnchained'':
** According to Django, a black American slave whom Doctor Schultz rescued from a slave trader and freed, there is no form of life lower than a black slaver. In the same breath, he makes it clear he has considerable contempt for the head house slave as well.
** Stephen, Candie's head house slave and HypercompetentSidekick, is portrayed as part this, part {{Quisling}}: he treats other slaves with cruelty while enjoying a relatively comfortable life as de facto NumberTwo of the household, despite being legally Candie's property.
* ''Film/TheEagle2011'': Esca is clearly considered this by the Seal Prince when he helps Marcus escape with the Eagle. Later the Prince significantly kills his son for not waking him (at Esca's request) in front of them, saying it's the punishment for traitors.
* In ''Film/TheHandmaiden'', Kouzuki is Korean but idolizes English and Japanese people and culture. He despises Korea and being Korean, earned money and power by accommodating himself to the Japanese when they occupied Korea and now denounces his nationality, aiming for full naturalization as Japanese. This serves to establish him as particularly vile to Korean audiences, even before the extent of his depravity is revealed; the equivalent for a Western audience would be something like a French Jew trying to become a German Nazi aristocrat during the occupation of Paris.
* ''Film/AHiddenLife'': Franz is accused of being a "traitor to his race" by a staunch believer in Nazism from his village.
* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', Indy accuses Mola Ram of betraying Shiva -- a deity that ''neither'' of them worshiped. Mola Ram was a priest of Kali, [[HijackedByJesus who in this particular setting seems to be the evil half of a black and white dualism, locked in eternal battle with the good deity Shiva]]. [[InvokedTrope However]], Indy is actually saying the phrase in order to activate a defense mechanism in the stones that will cause them to turn against Mola Ram, so it's more a case of IndyPloy here if nothing else.
* In ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', Lt. Colonel Packard has an antagonistic relationship with anti-war photojournalist Mason Weaver because he blames people in the media like her for the negative portrayal of the soldiers in Vietnam through their coverage, and causing America to pull out of the war. Packard never explicitly accuses Weaver of being a traitor to their country but his attitude toward her heavily implies this.
* In ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'', Belial seems to consider all witches that don't support his plans to resurrect their queen to be this, despite the fact that when she was alive, she almost wiped out the human race and civilization, both of which the witches are part of in present day.
* In ''Film/TheLearningTree'', Marcus the AngryBlackMan has been thrown in jail in 1920s Kansas for assaulting a white man. When a black preacher comes to his cell mouthing platitudes about Jesus, Marcus reacts scornfully, calling the preacher an Uncle Tom.
* ''{{Film/Loving}}'': The white authorities clearly see Richard as this for marrying outside the race, to the point where one repeatedly calls him "boy", a slur frequently used against African-American men. In fact too, the entire white community who he's from are deemed this, as they live and work with black people amicably (i.e. rejecting the racist social mores demanded).
* ''Film/TheMcKenzieBreak'': Schluter accuses the Irish Captain Connor of betraying his people by serving in the British army.
* Aunt 13 and Buck Teeth-Soo in ''Film/OnceUponATimeInChina'' adopted many Western customs and are regularly accused of being this by their fellow Chinese, including the main protagonist Wong Fei Hung in a MomentOfWeakness. However, Buck Teeth's ability to speak perfect, unaccented English has saved the day twice in the first film, and Aunt 13's love of photography is ultimately treated as a reflection to create art.
* In ''Film/{{Pixels}}'', the Max Headroom alien accuses the Q*Bert alien of this, as Q*Bert decides to help the protagonists stop his species' destruction of Earth.
* In ''Film/PrettyInPink'', "richie" Blaine dates Andie, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. When he takes her to a party at a large house, his friend Steff calls him out on it.
-->'''Steff:''' Nobody appreciates your sense of humor, you know. As a matter of fact, everyone's just about to puke from you. If you've got a hard-on for trash, don't take care of it around us.
* ''Film/TalesFromTheHood2'': Councilman Henry Bradley, a Republican who is pushing for [[RippedFromTheHeadlines closing down polling stations in largely black (Democratic) neighborhoods]] in exchange for the returned endorsement of the Republican running for Governor, as he has aspirations to become Mayor. This leads to [[spoiler: Emmett Till deciding that his martyrdom was a SenselessSacrifice, so he'd simply apologize to the white men for flirting with a white woman, rather than suffer his fatal beating at their hands for refusing to do so]].
* ''{{Film/Thunderheart}}'': The Lakota dislike Ray as a man with a quarter Lakota ancestry who's an FBI agent, unsurprisingly, mocking him as the "Washington Redskin". Ray for his part returns the antipathy, disliking them at first as well and disclaiming that heritage.
* ''Film/{{War For The Planet Of The Apes}}'': Any ape who betrays the tribe and joins the humans is called "donkey".
* ''Film/WithinOurGates'', one of the earliest surviving feature films made by a black director (Oscar Micheaux), features "Old Ned", the preacher who grovels to white folks and says that black folks should know their place. He tells his congregation that blacks shouldn't worry about things like education and the vote because they're going to heaven. In private, he feels ashamed.
-->'''Ned:''' Again, I've sold my birthright. All for a miserable mess of pottage. Negroes and Whites -- all are equal. As for me, miserable sinner, hell is my destiny.

[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/DoraWilkSeries'':
** Joshua is considered this by his peers, as he's an angel who keeps company of devil and witch. While his grandfather (his only family) seems only a little distressed by the fact, ArchangelRaphael's faction tries to murder him a few times, as Raphael is a [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Racist]].
** Dora gets her share of it as well, being a witch who keeps company of devil and angel (magicals and Christians have a long history of wars, the latest of which was barely three hundred years ago -- not a long time for such a [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld long-living]] folk). It's weaker than in Joshua's case, though.
** Subverted in the case of Miron, the devil part of the Trio. Hellians find his choice of company a bit weird, but generally don't mind.
* UsefulNotes/FrederickDouglass's first autobiography, ''Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass'', recalls an incident he witnessed in the North after his escape from slavery where a freeborn black man got in a fight with an escaped slave and threatened to sell his whereabouts to slave catchers. The rest of the local black community ran the freeborn man out of town for this; Douglass is sure he would be lynched if he ever returned.
* In Margaret Coel's ''The Eagle Catcher'', a woman accuses Father John of being "White on the outside, Indian on the inside" because he didn't (even try to) talk her daughter out of marrying an Arapaho.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** The [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Death-Eaters]] consider wizardry to be in the blood.[[note]]Blood clearly isn't the whole story considering that Muggles can have magical children and wizards and witches can, more rarely, have children born without magic.[[/note]] They also feel that [[NoTrueScotsman all "real" wizards are obliged to be "loyal" to "their own kind,"]] and thus despise Muggles, as well as wizards with direct Muggle ancestry (who are derisively termed "mudbloods"). Wizards who are from pureblood backgrounds but don't hate Muggles and Muggle-born wizards, they refer to as "Blood Traitors." By the standards of particularly supremacist families like the Blacks, Blood Traitors are considered just as disgraceful as Muggles and Muggle-borns; Arthur Weasley's mother, Cedrella Black, had her name burned off of the family tapestry because she dared to marry Septimus Weasley, even though he was a pure-blood, thus putting her on the same footing as her great aunt Iola Black (who married a Muggle) and first cousin twice removed Andromeda Black (who married a Muggle-born wizard).
** In this case, the trope is actually eating itself; Arthur Weasley and Sirius Black both point out that thanks to blood purism and the overall low wizard population, pureblooded wizards are nearly all related and any attempt to maintain blood purity is doomed in the long (or even short) term. Also a matter of hypocrisy; the Death Eaters almost all have Muggle relatives because, as noted above, the wizard population is simply too small for it not to be the case. These inconvenient branches of the family tree are often stricken from the record. Voldemort himself has a Muggle father, though Death Eaters who know this are either smart enough to not bring it up, or not going to be alive very long.
** In an interesting look at things, even wizards who aren't Death Eaters have negative opinions on wizards who are a little too interested in Muggle affairs. Arthur Weasley is implied to be passed up for promotions (and thus means by which to better provide for his family) because of his unnerving enthusiasm for anything Muggle-related, which even the Minister Of Magic sees as disgraceful. Dumbledore also gets some grief for reading Muggle newspapers.
** Molly Weasley has a second cousin who's [[MuggleBornOfMages an accountant]], but the family "never talks about him." Mentioned early in the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone first book]], this was originally going to be followed up with a long plot arc where the accountant had a daughter who was a witch but didn't end up in the books so it's unclear exactly why they never talk about him.
*** WordOfGod says this was because he was rude to the Weasleys in the past
** In ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' it's revealed that the centaur herd living in the Forbidden Forest view any of their fellows deigning to work for wizards, and especially teaching them how to read the stars, is considered treachery to be punished by a painful execution by being kicked to death. Luckily Hagrid was able to save Firenze but only after they had already begun.
* John Grammaticus and Damon Prytanis, two human Perpetuals in the ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' series of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' novels, act as undercover agents for the sinister alien Cabal and are under no illusions that they are traitors to their own species for doing so. The Cabal's agenda appears to be the complete destruction of the human species as a way of saving the galaxy from the encroachment of Chaos. Damon is somewhat amoral and accepts his lot quite peacefully, but John has severe doubts about his species treachery and constantly seeks ways to get out of the situation he has found himself in.
* Literature/HuckleberryFinn's father (an uneducated, coarse slob) berated his son for [[TallPoppySyndrome taking up reading and doing quite well]], because all their family were illiterate prior to that moment. He even goes so far as outright calling his son a traitor.
* An EvilPoacher (who has [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapped]] several gorgon children) accuses Alex Price of this in the ''Literature/InCryptid'' novella ''The Measure of a Monster''.
-->'''Poacher:''' Wait, Alex? Alex ''Price''. What the fuck man? I thought your people were on humanity's side.
-->'''Alex:''' We're conservationists. The human race is currently of least concern. [[PreMortemOneLiner Now give me the keys, before I make you extinct]].
* In Ellison's ''Literature/InvisibleMan'', Lucius Brockway accuses the narrator of being a traitor to him and Liberty Paints when he walks out of a union meeting. The Narrator, a young man who just wants to get by, wanted nothing to do with the company's politics and stumbled into the union meeting by accident. It takes the Narrator literally beating some sense into Lucius to convince him otherwise.
* ''Literature/MarketOfMonsters'' takes place in a world occupied by regular humans and "unnaturals" (vampires, kelpies, ghouls, UnscaledMerfolk, and the like). There's a booming illegal trade in unnaturals and their flesh, blood, and body parts and plenty of the ones doing the kidnapping, murdering, and selling are unnaturals themselves, such as the heroine's mother and her buyer Boulder.
* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': Kimberly's rival school, Featherston Sorcery School, is vocal in its support for [[InhumanableAlienRights demihuman rights]], whereas Kimberly broadly speaking tends to view magical creatures as fodder for experiments. Some Featherston students the Sword Roses encounter in volume 4 accuse Katie of betraying the movement by attending Kimberly, which sets off a BarBrawl despite Oliver and Chela's efforts to defuse the situation. For her part, Katie counters that she wouldn't experience any personal growth if she was surrounded only by people who already agreed with her: she ''wants'' her viewpoints to challenge others and be challenged.
* ''Literature/TheSilerianTrilogy'': Betraying your own people is viewed as the worst thing any Silerian can do, and they punish it with death by slow torture.
* In ''Literature/SpocksWorld'', [=McCoy=] calls a Vulcan writer and eventually all of them out on violating the teachings of their planetary hero, Surak.
* In ''Literature/SurvivorDogs'', Axe calls Lick a "traitor to her own kind" because she's siding with dogs who aren't Dobermans.
* [[JerkJock Brett]] in ''Literature/TheTruthOfRockAndRoll'' considers Johnny to be this for dating a girl from the trailer park and treating her too well. Using her for sex would have been okay, but treating her like she's "as good as us" (they're both from "the Heights", a rich part of town) might give her ideas above her station.
* ''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries'' is built on this trope: the base premise is that being white without being a racist is a crime, the MoralEventHorizon of "betraying" your race. Considering that the book was written by a Neo-Nazi...yeah.
* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', the cats are very proud of their Clan, and in general of the Clans' warrior lifestyle. Speaking out against taking excessive action against another Clan/cat, or sometimes even ''talking in a friendly manner'' to non-Clan cats can result in accusations of being a traitor. Rejecting any part of the Clans' lifestyle (such as keeping your given name instead of taking on a Clan name when joining them) also is looked upon with suspicion.

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* The team in ''Series/{{Alphas}}'' has been accused of this by other alphas for helping track them down and hand them over to the Department of Defense, where they face indefinite imprisonment. Some members of the team clearly worry about this themselves.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'' uses this trope over and over again.
** The evil dictatorship that takes over the Earth argues that anyone who is pro-human should support them, and therefore that anyone who opposes them is anti-human.
** The Psi Corps does the same for telepaths.
** The Minbari have a civil war, with the Warrior Caste and the Religious Caste each accusing the other of being category traitors to the Minbari, and anyone who tried to de-escalate the civil war of being a category traitor to their caste. [[spoiler:Delenn takes over the religious caste, wins, but then hands power over to the [[HufflepuffHouse Worker Caste]], the ones who actually represent the base of the Minbari people and keep getting caught up in the middle when the Religious and Warrior castes quarrel with each other.]]
* ''Series/BeingHumanUK'': [[Characters/BeingHumanUK Milo]] is a werewolf who's working for the world domination-obsessed and very anti-werewolf Old Ones, and he freely admits that he can be called a "traitor" for selling out the human race and all other werewolves to the Old Ones' plans for world domination and enslavement.
* ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'': In "[[Recap/TheBookOfBobaFettS1E5ReturnOfTheMandalorian Return of the Mandalorian]]", Din Djarin is kicked out of the Children of the Watch by the Armorer when he fesses up to having removed his helmet in front of others in the last two episodes of season 2 of ''Series/TheMandalorian''; Paz Vizla calls him "apostate". (He appears to have returned to the cult hoping it wouldn't come up.)
* ''Series/BraveNewWorld'': The "savage" rebels/terrorists view people who entertain New Londoners as being traitors and ruthlessly gun them down along with the tourists.
* Angel in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}'', being a [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis vampire with a soul]] who feels that he has to [[TheAtoner atone]] for all the people he murdered back when he was evil (usually by [[HunterOfHisOwnKind helping Buffy kill vampires]]). Darla takes it particularly hard, given that she was the one who turned him into a vampire.
** Spike as well, after [[spoiler:the chip in his brain makes him unable to harm living beings (he can still harm demons, though, so none of them like him anymore)]].
* In ''Series/ChicagoPD'': Atawater, as an African-American police officer, is a frequent target of this. When the Chicago Police Department gets into conflicts with African-Americans (typically over an officer-involved shooting), each side expects him to side with them. He typically follows his heart, which depending on the specifics of the situation can be either supporting his fellow officers, or revealing the police acted incorrectly. Inevitably his choice angers the side he didn't take.
* ''Series/{{Condor}}'': Joubert is a Palestinian Israeli who served in Mossad. As such, she's viewed as a traitor by other Palestinians.
* Seen in ''Series/{{Coupling}}'' where Sally accuses [[GayConservative a gay man of being a traitor because he supports the Conservatives]].
* In ''Series/TheExpanse'', some [[AsteroidMiners Belters]] call Detective Miller "welwala", which means something like "traitor to your people" in their creole, because he works for Earth's LawEnforcementInc. "Wel-" possibly referring to "gravity well."
* ''Series/ForLife'': Veronica Marshall, a Black female defense lawyer, is accused of being this after she defends White police officer Edgar Lindsley for shooting Black man Andy Josiah in the back. She vehemently defends herself in an exchange with Aaron from the charge, but gets hate mail claiming this.
* ''Series/AFrenchVillage'': All collaborators, naturally, are viewed as traitors by French Resistance groups. Many are punished for treason as the war ends, whether after trials or with summary execution.
* This pops up frequently on ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' where its shown that many black people consider the Banks family this because of their wealth:
** In the first episode, Will tries to pull this on Uncle Phil by claiming that since becoming rich, he's forgotten what it's like to live in the hood. This backfires on Will when Phil angrily informs him that growing up, he faced bigotry and challenges far worse than anything Will ever faced in the Post-Civil Rights era, and that it was those memories that drove him to become a successful lawyer in the first place. "You have Malcolm X posters in your room. I heard the brother speak."
** A later episode has Phil's mother calling him out on the same issue, this time for betraying his roots as a country farm boy by acting as though his youth was an adversity he'd had to overcome, rather than the source of his moral fiber and strong work ethic that informed his success.
** In another episode, Will and Carlton try to join a black fraternity on campus. The latter is especially treated hard throughout Pledge Week. Top Dog, the leader of the fraternity, eventually reveals that he had no intention of taking Carlton in because of how preppy and rich he is, though they still offer Will a spot (which, obviously, he declines). When Carlton finds out the truth, he calls Top Dog out for his ignorance. After they return home and tell Uncle Phil and Aunt Vivian what happened, Phil laments: "You know, this... this really irritates me. I have worked very hard to give my family a good life and suddenly [[TallPoppySyndrome somebody tells me there's a penalty for success?]] I'm sorry you had to go through this, son. When are we going to stop doing this to each other?"
** Will isn't the only person who's tried to call Phil out for this. When an old activist friend implies that he's somehow less black because of his comfortable lifestyle, Phil bluntly reminds her that he was there with her when they faced police dogs and fire hoses in Birmingham and when Harlem was burned, that he's repeatedly used his legal practice to fight for civil rights and affirmative action, and that he uses his fortune to help sponsor activist causes for the black community.
** In another episode, Phil himself thinks that he is this to his old neighborhood after revisiting the small apartment he and his family once lived in back when he was a fiery idealistic young lawyer working for peanuts while offering legal aid. He wonders if becoming a judge who lives in a mansion in Bel-Air made him lose that fire.
* [[spoiler:Michael]] in ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' after he decides to help the humans and betray the Bad Place and the other demons.
* ''{{Series/Guerrilla}}'': Anyone who informs or otherwise cooperates with police is viewed this way by the black radicals.
* In the third series of ''Series/HoratioHornblower'', Irish midshipman Orrock gets this from both ends when he overhears (and corrects) the normally reasonable Matthews commenting that Hornblower might rather have a Frenchman in front of him than an Irishman behind him. Then, the Irish rebels who have allied with Napoleon call him a traitor to his own people for sticking with Hornblower rather than joining them.
* In ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', we have [[ThoseWackyNazis disgusting white supremacists]] whose entire dialogue makes one want to puke. [[spoiler:This includes the undercover agent in their ranks; she personally apologizes to Fin and Munch after she's revealed, saying she finds the language repulsive but she needed to keep her cover.]] When one member of the group cuts a deal to testify against the leader, [[spoiler:the leader's son shoots him while he's on the witness stand for being a "Race Traitor" before going on a shooting rampage with another member of the group, killing the judge and a guard and injuring another guard, Munch, and Elliot, the latter of whom would have been killed if the undercover agent didn't intervene.]]
** The episode "Limitations" focuses on the detectives trying to identify a SerialRapist who raped three women three days in a row 5 years ago and trying to arrest him before the statute of limitations runs out. It turns the third woman learned her rapist's identity and forgave him, and now refuses to name him. The other two women tear into her for this, one of them outright calling her "a betrayer of women".
* ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'': The defense attorney for Matt Devlin's killer, a black man, insinuates that he was a bigot and that Crown Prosecutor Alesha Philips, herself a black woman, is this for prosecuting the man, who is also black. Alesha angrily and tearfully declares, "This man was no racist!" and denies she's a sellout for wanting to see his murderer punished.
** Ironically, in an earlier episode, Alesha was on the other side of this when she implied that a black journalist was this for printing unflattering information about a victim, a Pakistani boy who had supposedly been killed in self-defense after raping a girl, only to receive the same sort of angry rebuttal from the reporter.
* In the fourth season of ''Series/TheManInTheHighCastle'', which involves a Nazi-controlled United States, Amy Smith calls her sister Jennifer a "race traitor" for listening to music sung by a black person.
* Though no one has accused him directly, Merlin from ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' has come up against several magical-users, both allies and enemies, who have suggested that he is a traitor (or at least hugely misguided) in supporting King Uther's anti-magical regime (he's not, he's just biding his time until Arthur is king). Although once Arthur ''does'' become king, things don't actually change for magic users, and Merlin [[BecomingTheMask doesn't make much of an effort to change things]].
** Merlin's mentor Gaius is a more straight example; a former sorcerer who renounced magic to get into Uther's good graces and was rewarded with the position of the Court Physician. He did manage to save a few friends from being killed, but for the most part as the Great Dragon and Nimueh pointed out he turned a blind eye to all the witches and wizards who were killed -- and that includes scores of innocent children who inherited magic from their parents. Gaius tries to assuage his guilt by claiming that magic was throwing the natural order of things into chaos and that Uther did what was necessary, but it comes off as nothing more than a hollow attempt to justify his cowardice. He becomes Merlin's mentor to atone for his mistakes.
* ''Series/NoughtsAndCrosses'': Callum is viewed as a traitor by many fellow Noughts after he joins the military academy (which only one other Nought cadet attends), feeling he's serving the ruling Crosses in doing so.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S3E7TheCamp The Camp]]", Prisoner 98843 is deemed a traitor when she starts working with the camp staff. It doesn't help that she can't tell them why, and also is given one of their uniforms. They also view the staff in general this way, believing they're humans (not androids).
* In ''Series/ThePeopleVOJSimpson'', Chris Darden prosecutes O.J. Simpson for double homicide, despite them both being black. When the defense attorney Johnnie Cochran offers to help Darden "back into the community," Darden is quiet for a few disbelieving moments before saying he never left.
* ''Series/ThePlotAgainstAmerica''
** Rabbi Bengelsdorf is an outspoken supporter of Charles Lindbergh, who has a history of antisemitic remarks, sympathy towards Nazism, and strong opposition toward intervening in World War 2. He faces heavy criticism within the Jewish community, but the Lindbergh administration uses him to make gentiles feel better about supporting antisemitic policies.
** Evelyn joins Bengelsdorf in his campaign and even dances with the Nazi Foreign Minister at a gala.
* In Brazilian soap-opera ''A Regra do Jogo'' when a [[GoldDigger gold digger's]] mark learns she's just faking her pregnancy, she simulates an aggression and accuses him of making her lose their unborn child, destroying his reputation. Two women who are his friends are accused by another woman of betraying their gender by believing him.
* On ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', little people who wear lifts in their shoes to seem taller are treated this way by other little people, which causes Mickey a great deal of trouble in "The Stand-In" when he is forced to get lifts so that he can keep his job as a stand-in for a child actor who had just hit a growth spurt.
-->'''Mickey:''' You don't understand. There's an unwritten code about this kind of thing. I could be ostracized. I remember when I was a kid, some guy tried to heighten. He lost his job, lost his friends, everything. Oh, I knew I was crazy to try this kind of thing, but I was so desperate!
* In an earlier episode of ''Series/SixFeetUnder'', Keith accuses the then-closeted David of acting in a way that betrays other gay people, and David retorts that a lot of African Americans would say the same of him for being in the LAPD. Keith responds badly to that comment.
* In ''Series/{{Snowfall}}'', Franklin's mother Cissy is a black woman who collects rent from black tenants at an apartment complex owned by a white man, which means that she's also often required to kick tenants out of their apartments when they fail to pay rent. This has earned her the enmity of a lot of other black women.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': "The Outcast". Riker falls for a J'naii, who secretly identifies as female. "Secretly" because among the J'naii, [[OneGenderRace identifying as male or female]] is treated as a perversion that must be stamped out for the good of the race.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** "Second Skin". Major Kira is captured by the [[StateSec all-powerful]] and [[SecretPolice much feared]] [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction Obsidian Order]] as part of a convoluted plan by top-level agent Entek to destroy the [[LaResistance Dissident Movement]] which is seeking to free Cardassia from the grip of the Order and the military. The only way the crew locate and rescue her is via [[TheExile Garak's]] help. When Entek realises Garak is helping Starfleet and the Bajoran Government to rescue Kira (and the Dissident leader he was trying to expose), he's absolutely baffled. Even though Garak's in exile for an unspecified crime, Entek still finds it incomprehensible that Garak would betray the Obsidian Order to save a Bajoran and a Dissident and warns Garak the Order will end his exile by killing him for this. It doesn't end well. For Entek, that is.
** Kira gets some of the same treatment early on in the series for working as the Bajoran liaison with Starfleet. She's there only reluctantly because she wants to make sure Starfleet's assistance to Bajor is on Bajoran terms since the decision to call in Starfleet was made well above her pay grade. Despite this, one of her former comrades in the Resistance openly accuses her of being a traitor and selling out to a new occupying force right after helping kick the previous one off Bajor.
** Kira gets a lot of this. When [[BigBad the Dominion]] takes over ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine [=DS9=]]]'', Kira stays on to try to limit the damage the occupation can do while waiting for [[TheCavalry the Federation counterattack]] to take back the station. This time, nobody accuses her directly of being a traitor; she herself realizes that despite her good intentions, she's become nothing more than [[LesCollaborateurs a collaborator]] and secretly founds LaResistance.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': By virtue of being a Qowat Milat acolyte (only his gender prevents him from a being a full-fledged member), Elnor is a traitor to his own race in the eyes of the [[SecretPolice Tal Shiar]] and the Zhat Vash because this sect of warrior nuns preach [[CulturalRebel the Way of Absolute Candor, a subversive philosophy]] which is at odds with mainstream Romulan culture. When Elnor is attacked by Narissa (a Zhat Vash operative) and her goons, it's not just because he's allied with Hugh, it's also because he's a Qowat Milat, and therefore he's their ArchEnemy.
* Season 4 of ''Series/Supergirl2015'' is all about this, since it attempts to [[RippedFromTheHeadlines apply the current state of American politics to the show's setting]]. Anti-alien hatred is rampant across the nation. Anyone arguing for peaceful coexistence is labeled an "Earth traitor" by the other side. Even aliens are being called traitors, which makes zero sense (then again, hatred doesn't have to). In a few cases, the word "traitor" is also thrown back, such as when Nia Nal defends Brainy, whose true nature is revealed to a pizzeria owner, who immediately grabs his bat. When President Marsden is revealed to be an alien, many are also calling her a traitor, and it can be argued that it's true, since she violated Article 2 of the Constitution the swore to uphold (she's not a natural-born citizen). She does, however, immediately resign in order to avoid a constitutional crisis.
** A villain in Season 5 is J'onn's brother Malefic. J'onn doesn't immediately recognize him and didn't even know he had a brother. Then he is able to overcome a mental block and learns that Malefic betrayed the Green Martians during the civil war and helped the White Martians kill his own kind. For that, he was cast into the Phantom Zone and all memory of him was erased.
* Various monsters, demons, angels and some hunters get accused of being this in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. Lucifer especially is seen as the first Category Traitor by nearly everyone and regards his brothers siding with humans as just the same ("For a girl?").
* ''Series/TrueBlood'' uses this one a lot as well. Faeries, werewolves, shifters, witches, all have characters who march in, declare what's best for their race, and immediately attack anyone who disagrees as a category traitor. Vampires have it both ways: the Authority insists that anyone who opposes peaceful vampire/human coexistence is a traitor to all vampires, and the Sanguinistas claim the same thing about people who support peaceful co-existence.
* ''{{Series/Underground}}'': Cato is loathed by the other slaves for becoming an overseer, even having a whip like the white men. After he helps seven escape, initially this changed. However, he proves himself willing to betray anybody else for his own benefit.
* ''{{Series/Vida}}'': Emma and Lyn are accused of not being "real" Latinas frequently, using derogatory terms for them like "coconut" or "White-ina", because they left the neighborhood, then came back to do some stuff differently with their mom's bar. Nelson is also accused of this, though with far more justification in his case, as he's actively gentrifying at the cost of the residents plus shows contempt for most Latinas. Marisol also calls a Latino ICE agent one as well, again with more justification as he's rounding up fellow Latinos.

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* Appears a few times in ''Radio/TheSpaceGypsyAdventures''. DC Bones, as well as being a Federal Alliance officer, is also a Space Gypsy, like protagonist Gemma. This doubles as a MortonsFork for him, because he knows that to side with the Alliance would label him as a traitor to his clan, but to side with his clan would label him as a traitor to the Alliance. More often than not, he'll let his devotion to the Alliance preside over his loyalties to the Space Gypsies. This means that poor Bones is unable to try and reach out to Gemma, and convince her that he's not ''entirely'' bad, when he tries to talk to her in ''The Christmas New Arrival''.

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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', it's hard not to find a faction of humanity that others have labeled as "traitors" or "heretics". In particular, the Chaos Space Marines descended from the Emperor's traitorous sons. And as for humans who joined the Tau Empire voluntarily or involuntarily and their descendants, all Imperial factions get a bonus to close combat against them -- many of these "Gue'vesa"[[note]]Literally "Human helpers"[[/note]] fight for the Tau not because they admire the Greater Good ideology of their alien overlords, but simply because they know full well [[KillEmAll how the Imperium would embrace them]].
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* [[Literature/EpistlesOfJohn 1 John 2:15]] warns Christians to not associate with nonbelievers.
-->''"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the [[{{God}} Father]] is not in him."''
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[[folder:Theater]]
* In ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'', the protagonist Tevye (a good Jew in a really conservative society, who is struggling with [[TroubledSympatheticBigot his prejudices and social pressure versus the emancipation of his daughters]]) considers his beloved daughter Chava to be past the MoralEventHorizon simply for wanting to marry a guy who isn't Jewish. Of course, {{it makes sense|InContext}} [[ValuesDissonance in the historical context]] of pre-revolutionary Russia, given the tension in that time and place between Jewish and Christian communities (who often violently harassed Jews or forced them out of their homes, and we see both in the musical). And considering that Chava had to [[ConvertingForLove convert]] to marry a Christian man, it makes sense for the devoutly Jewish Tevye to see it as a [[BetrayalByOffspring personal betrayal]] as well.
* In ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', Maria is pressured to marry Chino simply because they are from the same ethnic group. When she falls in love with an outsider, all hell breaks loose. Interestingly, Chino never gets any EntitledToHaveYou lines, but that's probably because he's such a minor role in the first place.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
** Mages with differing politics sometimes accuse each other of this. Those who willingly join the [[MutantDraftBoard Circle]] are accused of siding with the Templars and betraying their own kind, while apostates are accused of validating everyone's fears about magic (especially if BloodMagic is involved). In the sequel, Anders' opinion of Bethany drops sharply if she goes to the Circle.
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'':
*** The Dalish often regard their City Elf cousins as this. There is a common belief that because the "[[FantasticSlurs Flat-Ears]]" have accepted submission and being treated like second-class citizens by the humans, they are no longer truly Elven. Opinion seems to be divided between those who regard their cousins as little different than humans, and those who believe they are little better than ''pets''.
*** City elves and Dalish elves both also look down even more on elves who have attempted to integrate into human society.
*** You get the opportunity to level this accusation against an elf who joins in with the Tevinter operation to enslave elves. Regardless of what race the PlayerCharacter is, you can ask her how she could be a part of it, to which she contemptuously asks why she should feel any particular kinship to them, and states that she is a citizen and soldier of the Imperium first and foremost. Though her rebuff to this trope is valid enough, the fact that [[MoralEventHorizon she is involved in slavery]] makes it rather unlikely that anyone will see her as anything less than a monster, although (possibly due to the problems of this trope) the game doesn't actually treat her as any worse than the humans who enslave elves.
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', during her romance arc, this is the reason why Merrill is initially unwilling to act upon her feelings for Hawke. As a member of the Dalish Elves and the former apprentice to her clan's Keeper, she more than anyone desires to see the Elves rebuild their civilisation after its near-destruction by humans (''twice'') and admits to feeling like she's betraying her people by falling in love with one of them.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect:''
** Shepard gets this accusation a few times. An Alliance admiral in [[VideoGame/MassEffect the first game]] accuses you of putting the Council's agenda before humanity's, and asks "Do you still know what color your blood is?". In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' ''Citadel'' DLC, the BigBad ([[spoiler:your own clone]]), expresses similar sentiments, derisively saying that Shepard has saved more alien lives than human ones. You can retort that all lives matter, or that the BigBad has only taken lives, and as such has no place to talk.
** Cerberus and the Illusive Man get this in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', due them fighting the Alliance and other Council Species while the Reapers are waging war against the galaxy. The Illusive Man strongly resents this, insisting that everything he does to better humanity, even if no one else sees it. [[spoiler:He's indoctrinated by this point, which excuses much.]]
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''
** The Altmer ("[[OurElvesAreDifferent High Elves]]") believe themselves to be last "pure" remnants of the original [[{{Precursors}} Aldmeri]] race (who in turn believed themselves to be the purest descendants of the [[{{Precursors}} Ehlnofey]] and thus, the gods themselves). The Altmer consider it ''utter betrayal'' to marry or interbreed with other races. Marriage and breeding are a carefully-selected process that is meant to ensure that people are paired based on compatible status and bloodlines; marrying or breeding for love is frowned upon but not unheard of between Altmer themselves, but is ''cultural suicide'' with any other race.
** In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', you can join the Stormcloaks, who want to kick all non-Nords out of Skyrim, even if you aren't a Nord, and can tell an NPC that yes, you genuinely believe Skyrim should be for Nords only and your people deserve to be kicked out and don't have the right to be there. He's understandably confused by this. (You can also remind him that more people than just Nords live in Skyrim and may support the Stormcloaks for reasons other than Nordic nationalism.)
* In ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'', the [[ProudWarriorRace Wenja tribe]] are at war with the [[CannibalTribe cannibalistic]] [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals Udam]] [[CannibalTribe tribe]], who are trying to murder them to establish dominance over the valley of Oros. PlayerCharacter Takkar [[TheBeastmaster the Beast Master]], however, discovers that [[spoiler:the Udam are dying from a sickness they call "skull fire", and they believe they can only cure themselves by eating uninfected Wenja]]. Later on in the game, he captures an Udam commander called Dah and instead of killing him, brings him to the Wenja village alive as a captive so that he can teach them how to craft [[PoisonedWeapon rot bane bombs]] that they can use against the Udam. The Wenja, however, are disgusted at Takkar for bringing someone from a race they see as their enemy (especially [[ActionGirl Sayla]], who lost her family to the Udam and is implied to [[HearingVoices still hear their screams]]), and they take Dah down to a flooding cave to submit him to a VigilanteExecution. ''Sayla actually tries to hit Takkar with her club when she calls him out for bringing an Udam to their home!'' Takkar, however, is in no mood to have his power as the ''de facto'' Wenja chief challenged, and saves Dah's life while telling the tribe why he's letting Dah live.
-->'''Wenja villager''': [[WhatTheHellHero You save Udam]]?!\\
'''Takkar:''' ''[[ShutUpHannibal Who speaks]]?!''\\
* [[StunnedSilence All Wenja villagers fall silent]]*\\
'''Takkar:''' I bring Dah to Wenja. He gives us rot bane. Shows Wenja how to be strong! [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou Dah dies when I say he dies. Today I say he lives]].
** That said, this is the only point in the game at which the Wenja accuse Takkar of being a Category Traitor. They are considerably less antagonistic when Takkar later brings back Roshani of the [[PyroManiac Izila]] tribe, [[spoiler:and Ull the Udam warchief's children by the end of the game]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Ib}}'' "The Liar's Room" has several paintings that try and lead Ib astray, except for one that tells her the truth. The other paintings murder him while Ib is in the other room.
* In ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'''s post-Season 11 version of the mirror universe, a Bajoran member of the Terran Imperial Starfleet comments to the player character that her plan in joining the occupying military was to restrain its excesses to protect her people. It backfired: the Terrans view her as a possible spy on top of the existing FantasticRacism and extreme sexism, while other Bajorans consider her a traitor.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', this happens to the Horde. Garrosh, having alienated the rest of the Horde to the point at which the Darkspear Trolls start a rebellion against him, and the other member races join them, essentially calls his mainly Orcish side of the Horde the "True Horde". During the final confrontation, he accuses Thrall of no longer being an orc for wanting to make alliances rather than take the world for his people. [[{{Hypocrite}} Despite his rhetoric]], his army is ''not'' entirely orcish, as one might expect. He works with a large cadre of [[ProudMerchantRace goblins]] (dwindling due to his BadBoss tendencies, but still quite high in numbers) who are emphatically OnlyInItForTheMoney. Despite the fact that he loathes the money-grubbing goblins and their tiresome independence, he relies heavily on their services and has made one his second-in-command solely due to [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys their marvelous talent for weapon design]].
* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'', [[AbsoluteXenophobe Alex]] accuses the player of being one, assuming the player came to attack him for his attempted murder of friendly xenos. In reality, Alex is this, seeing as how he conspired with the Ganglion, the kind of xenos that were responsible for the destruction of Earth (hence Alex's hatred).
* In ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'', The Council and Bradford specifically calls EXALT "traitors" rather than just enemies. This is probably one of the only times in fiction where this is ''completely'' {{justified}}, as EXALT is composed of [[TheQuisling humans who are trying to helping aliens take over the Earth.]]
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* ''WebAnimation/FreedomToons'': When a black guest on ''The Echo Chamber'' disagrees with the racial victimhood narrative, Dr. Mac somehow finds a way to declare him a white supremacist.
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
** Blake was a former member of the White Fang, an organization devoted to fighting for the rights of the faunus, a race of part-animal, part-humans. Blake ended up leaving the organization because they had slid into extremism and violence, and Adam, the leader of the branch she was in, declared her a traitor for leaving ...although he had [[StalkerWithACrush other reasons for being upset at her as well]].
** In Volume 5 when Blake's father Ghira tries to tell the people of Menagerie that the only way to stop Adam's plan to kill High Leader Sienna Khan and destroy Haven Academy is to protect Haven Academy (and therefore all the humans there), Ilia Amitola, an EvilFormerFriend of Blake's who works with the White Fang, publicly denounces the Belladonna family as traitors and "the worst kind of Faunus" for even suggesting that.
** The Branwen twins, Qrow and Raven, were raised by bandits before becoming huntsmen. Raven eventually left the huntsmen and returned to the bandits while Qrow didn't. As such, they both see the other as a traitor to the faction they're loyal to.
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'': Multiple characters call out the main characters for being monsters that took on adventuring, especially the part about leveling up like regular Player Characters. They usually counter with how badass class abilities and plot armor make them.
** Duv declares Dies-Horribly and Saves-a-Fox traitors to goblinkind when they refuse to submit to her goals of goblin supremacy.
* In ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'':
** Kevin says his family of rabbits considers him and his adopted hedgehog daughter Lindesfarne "traitors" because of his MalignedMixedMarriage to Kell, a predator. Kell's wolf family doesn't go this far, but it's clear that early on, they disapprove of Kevin. The rabbits eventually accept Kevin back as one of them when they realized his hybrid daughter Coney is an asset to them, and Kell eventually won them over when she banned the hunting of rabbits during her brief stint as CEO of Herd Thinner.
** When Fiona's ears came in (fennec foxes have rabbit-like ears, Fiona initially took after her red fox mother) she briefly joined the Fennec Pride movement but left when they objected to her being in a relationship with a non-fennec (Rudy). She almost got her ears shortened as a result, but Rudy convinced her that she could still be proud of who she is, even if the movement didn't accept her.
** Kevin's ex-wife Angelique eventually lost the right to call herself a rabbit altogether after she betrayed her species by revealing some of their secrets to R.L., CEO of Herd Thinners. She just had plastic surgery to look like a rat and claimed she was that instead. ''Years'' later, she shows that she's still a traitor by directing Herd Thinners to exclusively go after rabbits, forcing the main characters to literally scare her straight.
* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': Kieri, an angel, is considered a traitor for her companionship with Buwaro, a demon.[[note]]Buwaro was adopted by an angel, but nobody outside the group knows that.[[/note]] One particular KnightTemplar angel attempted to kill her after she merely protected Buwaro. Her brother Kazai tries to write the relationship off as 'not your fault, you've been through a lot', but freaks out when she starts questioning the motives of Kazai's superior officer because of her new outlook on angels and demons; angels have indoctrinated themselves into following all orders and arbitrary customs at all times. Soon after, [[spoiler:the superior officer reveals she turned ''actual'' traitor because following orders prevented her from deciding who she could love]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Ruffle's brother and the other older Inak in her village berate her for befriending humans, and when they lock her in a closet she reveals that by this point she wants to ''be'' human rather than Inak and sees herself as fitting in more with her human friends than her own people.
* Played with in ''Webcomic/TheWotch''. At the beginning of the feminist arc, Anne gets mad with [[GenderBender at-the-moment Sonja]] because she reminds her that he IS a man, and not "a woman that sometimes is a guy" as Anne was saying.
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* Phase of the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' gets it going and coming. He '''was''' a scion of the mutant-hating Goodkind empire, until he manifested as a mutant. His family sees him as a traitor to their cause. Now he's at [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]], surrounded by most of the teenaged mutants on the planet. Lots of them know he's a Goodkind and treat him as a traitor to mutant-dom.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Terry is angered that Greg is a member of the [[GayConservative Gay Republicans]].
* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman", where Huey becomes vilified by the black community for being the one African-American (besides [[BoomerangBigot Uncle Ruckus]]) who didn't worship the ground UsefulNotes/BarackObama walked on. Simply saying "eh" when asked about him by Creator/WernerHerzog was enough to have an AngryMob burning effigies of him.
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}},'' a good portion of the student body blames her for getting the yearbook to devote fewer pages to sports and clubs (which [[MisBlamed isn't true]], but she supports the decision anyway).
-->'''[[DumbJock Kevin]]:''' Hello, ''traitor''. It's a nice day, isn't it? -- for a traitor!\\
'''[[TheSnarkKnight Daria]]:''' How can I betray something I don't believe in?
* The ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Orange You Sad I Did Say Banana?" revolves around Kahn's reaction to being accused of being a "[[OutsideInsideSlur banana]]" by one of his fellow Laotian-Americans, including his idol Ted Wassonasong. After they push him around most of the episode, he tells them to shove off when they try to get him to participate in a coup d'etat that will most likely fail and result in his death.
-->'''Kahn:''' You want to play a round of golf at Nine Rivers? Give me a call. You want someone to feel guilty about the way they live their life? Call someone else!
* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': In "Whole Lotta Shakin'", it's revealed that Zerk believes that Jet is a sell-out for associating with humans. He denies Jet's clearly alien traits and has the audacity to call him an "Earthie".
* Slimer on ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' and later ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters''. He's the team mascot, lives in the firehouse, and often helps out on cases. So, of course, Slimer is positively hated by the kind of malicious ghosts that the Ghostbusters regularly deal with. Samhain personally denounced him as a traitor and threatened to destroy him if he didn't submit to his rule. Even worse, Surt wanted to perform eternal torture on the spud as retribution for helping the Ghostbusters trap him.
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Wieners Out", where Butters becomes a raging misogynist and criticizes Kyle for wanting to make peace with the girls after their mass break-up campaign, constantly calling him "Uncle Kyle".
* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'':
** Young prince Lion-O, already known among his people as a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, defends some {{stock|Punishment}}aded {{Lizard|Folk}} slaves from a PowderKegCrowd of his fellow {{Catfolk}}. This backfires spectacularly, stirring them up into an AngryMob demanding a full-blown VigilanteExecution, calling him "[[FantasticSlur Lizard lover]]" and threatening to put him in the stocks themselves.
** [[spoiler:Also one of the reasons why Pumyra hates Lion-O.]]
** [[spoiler:Ironically, the Cats were allies with the other animals, including the Lizards, when they overthrew Mumm-Ra centuries ago.]]
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* Speaking of the ComicBook/XMen, during ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', mutants who sided with the Avengers, such as {{Wolverine}} and Beast, got harassed for this. Let alone the fact that ''Schism'' has recently caused a BreakingTheFellowship among the X-Men, with those two on the side opposing Comicbook/{{Cyclops}}.

* ''LightNovel/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': Kimberly's rival school, Featherston Sorcery School, is vocal in its support for [[InhumanableAlienRights demihuman rights]], whereas Kimberly broadly speaking tends to view magical creatures as fodder for experiments. Some Featherston students the Sword Roses encounter in volume 4 accuse Katie of betraying the movement by attending Kimberly, which sets off a BarBrawl despite Oliver and Chela's efforts to defuse the situation. For her part, Katie counters that she wouldn't experience any personal growth if she was surrounded only by people who already agreed with her: she ''wants'' her viewpoints to challenge others and be challenged.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', it's hard not to find a faction of humanity that others have labeled as "traitors" or "heretics". In particular, the Chaos Space Marines descended from the Emperor's traitorous sons. And as for humans who joined the Tau Empire voluntarily or involuntarily and their descendants, all Imperial factions get a bonus to close combat against them -- many of these "Gue'vesa" fight for the Tau not because they admire the Greater Good ideology of their alien overlords, but simply because they know full well [[KillEmAll how the Imperium would embrace them]].

* In ''ComicBook/ContestOfChampions'' Vol. 3, Jake Gallows, [[ComicBook/Marvel2099 Punisher 2099]], despises fellow skull-bearer Outlaw due to the latter retiring from the mission.

* In ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'', the goddess and demon races reserve their most lasting and emotionally painful punishments for traitors to their own kind. Although they had been at war since forever, the leaders of both sides, the Demon King and Supreme Deity, immediately agreed that [[spoiler:Meliodas and Liz]]'s coupling could not be tolerated and combined powers to curse them for eternity, because anything that threatens to end the [[ForeverWar eternal Holy War]] must be destroyed.

* In ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'', the goddess and demon races reserve their most lasting and emotionally painful punishments for traitors to their own kind. Although they had been at war since forever, the leaders of both sides immediately agreed that [[spoiler:Meliodas and Liz's]] coupling could not be tolerated and combined powers to make them ''cut that shit out''.

* In Literature/SpocksWorld, [=McCoy=] calls a Vulcan writer and eventually all of them on violating the teachings of their planetary hero, Surak.

** In another episode, Will and Carlton try to join a black fraternity on campus. The latter is especially treated hard throughout Pledge Week. Top Dog, the leader of the fraternity, eventually reveals that he had no intention of taking Carlton in because of how preppy and rich he is, though they still offer Will a spot (which, obviously, he declines). When Carlton finds out the truth, he calls Top Dog out for his ignorance. After they return home and tell Uncle Phil and Aunt Vivian what happened, Phil laments: "You know, this... this really irritates me. I have worked very hard to give my family a good life and suddenly somebody tells me there's a penalty for success? I'm sorry you had to go through this, son. When are we going to stop doing this to each other?"

* ''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries'' is built on this trope: the base premise is that being white without being a white nationalist is a crime, the MoralEventHorizon of "betraying" your race. Considering that the book was written by a Neo-Nazi...yeah.

* ''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries'' is built on this trope: the base premise is that being white without being a Nazi is a crime, the MoralEventHorizon of "betraying" your race.

* ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'': In "[[Recap/TheBookOfBobaFettS1E5ReturnOfTheMandalorian Return of the Mandalorian]]", Din Djarin is kicked out of the Children of the Watch by the Armorer when he fesses up to having removed his helmet in front of others in the last two episodes of season 2 of ''Series/TheMandalorian''. (He appears to have returned to the cult hoping it wouldn't come up.)

* In ''ComicBook/WarMachine'' Vol. 2, Rhodey's mom mentions that her friends accused her of raising an Uncle Tom after he fought against ComicBook/BlackPanther and ComicBook/{{Storm}} during ''ComicBook/CivilWar''.

** The [[WitchSpecies Altmer]] ("[[OurElvesAreDifferent High Elves]]") believe themselves to be last "pure" remnants of the original [[{{Precursors}} Aldmeri]] race (who in turn believed themselves to be the purest descendants of the [[{{Precursors}} Ehlnofey]] and thus, the gods themselves). The Altmer consider it ''utter betrayal'' to marry or interbreed with other races. Marriage and breeding are a carefully-selected process that is meant to ensure that people are paired based on compatible status and bloodlines; marrying or breeding for love is frowned upon but not unheard of between Altmer themselves, but is ''cultural suicide'' with any other race.