History Main / HalfBreedDiscrimination

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaijudo}}'': Ray is half-Japanese/half-white, and regularly has to deal with bullies at school because of it. His {{Mon}} Tatsurion (Bob) is Armored Dragon/Beast Kin and is wanted by the former race for siding with the latter.
* ''WesternAnimation/KaijudoRiseOfTheDuelMasters'': Tatsurion The Unchained is half-dragon and half-quillspike. He was constantly made fun of by his mother's side of the family and practically ignored and constantly discriminated for his hybrid nature by his father's side, especially by his sister Moorna, who considers him to be a dishonor to her family and tries to kill him for it. This made Tatsurion an outcast in both the Fire and Nature civilizations, giving him the cynical personality he has today. It isn't until Ray helps him see a more positive side of his existence that he starts to open up more and feel better about himself.

* ''Fanfic/BreathOfTheWild'': This is a novelization of the [[Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild game of the same name]]. There's an OriginalCharacter named Lochlia, a Zora-Hylian hybrid girl. When Link meets her, she tells him that the people would give her dirty looks as her Hylian features became more and more apparent, and it really left a mark on her. It's especially sad, because [[spoiler:she's actually the Zora Princess, the daughter of Princess Mipha and Link from a prior relationship they had. As Mipha's daughter, she inherited her mother's healing gift, and even ''that'' wasn't enough to placate the bigotry of her people. This left Lochlia taking a massive reckless risk to finally prove herself to her subjects.]]

** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Tora Ziyal is the daughter of the Cardassian Gul Dukat and his Bajoran mistress Tora Naprem. During the first six months of the Dominion occupation of Deep Space 9, she spends time at a Bajoran art school and reports being the subject of racism from her Bajoran classmates. There's indications that she's not alone in this. (In fairness to the Bajorans this is less than six years after the end of a half-century of brutal military occupation by the Cardassians.) In an earlier episode, Ziyal had also indicated that she would never be accepted on Cardassia either.

* ''[[Fanfic/TheLightningStrike The Broken Day]]'' reveals that even the supposedly Wakanda has this when [[spoiler:a TimeCrash results in Shuri giving birth to a half-breed son who was conceived in a timeline she now cannot remember. While T'Chone has magical potential and seeks to serve his people, he has been effectively sequestered in the royal apartments for most of his life, with King T'Chaka and Queen Ramonda basically refusing to acknowledge his existence, even as T'Chone's mother and uncle do their best to support him before T'Chone's father Harry appears in this timeline and explains how he exists]].

* The half-white protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai'' lives in Japan after it cut itself off from the outside world in 1633. As a result, she's regarded as a monster or demon by everyone else, [[IAmAMonster including herself]]. The fact that she's a badass female samurai who can carve up anyone dumb enough to express this opinion to her face certainly doesn't hurt this monstrous impression.

* The protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai'' lives in Japan after it cut itself off from the outside world in 1633. As a result, she's regarded as a monster or demon by everyone else, [[IAmAMonster including herself]]. The fact that she's a badass female samurai who can carve up anyone dumb enough to express this opinion to her face, certainly doesn't hurt this monstrous impression.

* ''Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy'': Han surmises that Shug Nix has suffered from this due to his mixed background given Shug's wariness when they first meet, probably from Imperial officials mostly, as the Empire views anyone of such heritage as second-class citizens.

* ''Film/{{Belle}}'': Dido has an African mother and English father. It's {{played for drama}} as she's not only legally a slave due to her mother being one, but faces frequent racism as a "mulatto" even when her father's family treats her fairly well in contrast.

* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfDorsa'': The Terintant desert nomads hold people of mixed ancestry like Linna, whom they call ''salvik'' in their language, are inferior, and treat them as outcasts, forbidding marriage with their own as this would pollute the nomad bloodlines in their view. Linna, who's half nomad and half tinker, in fact was [[MadeASlave sold into slavery]] by her mother (a nomad) as a result of this.

* ''[[Fanfic/MyDeepestDarkestSecret 𝕸𝖞 𝕯𝖊𝖊𝖕𝖊𝖘𝖙, 𝕯𝖆𝖗𝖐𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝕾𝖊𝖈𝖗𝖊𝖙]]'': This is [[FurAgainstFang the main reason]] why Solon hides the fact that he's actually a werewolf-vampire hybrid from his brothers. His situation gets even more complicated when later chapters reveal that [[spoiler:hunters are looking for him, possibly so they can kill him]].

* ''Fanfic/{{Foxfire}}'': While being physically mixed race doesn't bat any eyelashes, having the hated powers of the enemy will get one killed. Li and everyone who knows him have to keep Li's fire-bending a secret to avoid him getting killed. Tengfei casually mentions having to kill mixed-race children if they show signs of fire-bending.

* ''Series/{{ER}}''. Dr. Cleo Finch tended to see racism as the reason behind every slight or reprimand she or any other African-American physician dealt with. Her boyfriend Benton inadvertently insinuates that she's overcompensating because her mother is white. Ergo, she's displaying this trope against ''herself''.

* ''Series/{{Queen}}'' is based on the life of [[Series/{{Roots}} Alex Haley's]] paternal grandmother, who was the result of an affair between a slave and her owner. Throughout her life, she endures considerable trauma from both whites and blacks, who make it clear that she doesn't belong with either side.

** The pre-''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes2020 iteration of Mon-El, the Daxamite hero born as Lar Gand, is the descendant of Bal Gand, a Daxamite explorer and ambassador, and an unnamed Mesoamerican male, before the discovery of America. Bal, fearing this trope, made sure to entrust her unnamed son with a spaceship programmed to bring him to Earth at the first sign of xenophobia. While the unnamed Gand was able to subvert the pitchforks and live a fairly happy life, hiding his lineage, his still operative spaceship was later found by his distant nephew Lar, wishing to escape his oppressive homeland and travel in space as his ancestors did, starting the cycle anew.

** The current iteration of Mon-El, the Daxamite hero born as Lar Gand, is the descendant of Bal Gand, a Daxamite explorer and ambassador, and an unnamed Mesoamerican male, before the discovery of America. Bal, fearing this trope, made sure to entrust her unnamed son with a spaceship programmed to bring him to Earth at the first sign of xenophobia. While the unnamed Gand was able to subvert the pitchforks and live a fairly happy life, hiding his lineage, his still operative spaceship was later found by his distant nephew Lar, wishing to escape his oppressive homeland and travel in space as his ancestors did, starting the cycle anew.

Lucky for you, you (hopefully) have the love and support of your immediate family, and if you had a shaman/witch-doctor/priestess [[SuperpowerfulGenetics in the family genes]], you can most assuredly tell them where to stick their supremacist ideologies by unleashing the can of mystical whup-ass. Conversely, you may need to give the other side of the family the can of whup-ass if the tribe never accepts you as one of them, but let's not dwell.

If you happen to live in a fantasy or scifi world, you're probably a HalfHumanHybrid. Here's to hoping you at least have five fully functioning limbs. More specifically, if one of your parents happens to be an elf, then congratulations [[OurElvesAreDifferent you are a half-elf]] who will be hated and despised by your "superior" elven family. If you're a half-orc, half-ogre or similar, you're likely even worse off, especially if your parents races are at war, so either side may see only the blood of the enemy in you -- or, as tactfully used to describe half-orcs, "their existence implies an [[ChildByRape interesting backstory]] that most would not like to dwell on." See also RaisedByNatives.

** Mikasa Ackerman had a white father and an Asian mother, and unfortunately, her Asian heritage was the reason they were targeted by human traffickers and her parents both got killed due to the fact that Asians have almost entirely died out in the world setting. Mikasa was actually not considered as valuable as her mother due to her mixed heritage, but the traffickers settled for her after accidentally killing her mother.

* ''Manga/{{Beastars}}'': There are preferences and support for animals to marry and have children with those of the same species, while hybrids tend to be excommunicated and distrusted. Hybrid children aren't even accepted into standard day-cares. [[spoiler:Legosi's mother feared this discrimination due to being half-wolf and half Komodo Dragon, and tried to look and act like a pure-blood wolf even as her father's scales started to appear on her. Meanwhile, gazelle-leopard hybrid Melon had his StartOfDarkness in part from being bullied for his visible hybrid status]].

* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'': The Claymores are hybrids of the monsters known as Yoma and normal Humans, all the Claymores are originally born human and then artificially transformed into half-breeds through a rather painful process that involve [[BioAugmentation transplanting Yoma flesh and blood into them]]. As a result Claymores are the only ones able to fight the Yoma and protect humans from them, but they end up being shunned and feared by common humans for their similarities to Yoma and of course the Yoma themselves have a dislike for those who exist only to hunt them down.
* ''Manga/BlueRamun'': It is forbidden for members of the Blue Ramun tribe of the Silkdeep Empire to marry outside of their ethnic group and doubly forbidden for them to produce children with civilians. The children of such unions have a weakened version of their Blue Ramun parent's [[HealingHands healing]] [[ThePowerOfBlood abilities]], but not enough to train or work as full fledged Blue Doctors. [[spoiler:[[FantasticTerrorists The Garicalege]] preys on these "illegal" children because their disappearances can't be reported without the parents admitting to the crime of conceiving a half-blooded child. When Jessie and Eagle rescue a young half-Blue Ramun girl from the Garicalege, Eagle uses his connections to have the her sent North to the land of Seldia where there isn't legal prejudice against half-Blue Ramun kids.]]

** Jinenji is the offspring of a human mother and powerful {{youkai}} with great healing abilities. They live in exile outside the village which hold him responsible for the youkai attacks they suffer. It takes Jinenji putting his life on the line to protect the very people who spent a lifetime bullying and torturing him to gain their acceptance.

* Sentarou from '' Manga/KidsOnTheSlope'' is half-white. His hair is lighter than his half-siblings and when he had longer hair it's shown to be wavy. When he was younger he faced bullying due to his background.

* ''Manga/PrincessResurrection''. Zig-zagged. Riza Wildman is a half-human/half-werewolf hybrid. We know her brother, who was full-blooded werewolf, accepted her, as he gave his life to protect her, and this was before we, the audience, had even met her, so it was undoubtedly genuine. However, a trio of werewolves who attack the mansion mock her for her half-breed status, one of them even asking her if her mother, the human in the relationship, concieved her while Riza's father was in human, or wolf form. At least one other werewolf, Keziah, treats her amicably, but he was a friend of her late father.

** Half-human, half-youkai children are considered "taboo children" born with a curse and against the laws of heaven, and tend to be looked down upon by both races.[[note]]Although it is implied that the actual reason they're thought of as "cursed" and human/youkai relationships are forbidden is simply because "taboo children" are infertile.[[/note]] If Goyjo is any indication, they are more likely to end up on the youkai side yet compared to pure-blood youkai they're relatively powerless. It also doesn't help that some youkai aren't above raping human women on a regular basis, and that the "taboo children" are easily identified by their unnatural blood-red hair and matching eyes.

** The current iteration of Mon-El, the Daxamite hero born as Lar Gand, is the descendant of Bal Gand, a Daxamite explorer and ambassador, and an unnamed Mesoamerican male, before the discovery of America. Bal, fearing this trope, made sure to entrust her unnamed son with a spaceship programmed to bring him on Earth at the first sign of xenophobia. While the unnamed Gand was able to subvert the pitchforks and live a fairly happy life, hiding his lineage, his still operative spaceship was later found by his distant nephew Lar, wishing to escape his oppressive homeland and travel in space as his ancestors did, starting the cycle anew.

* ''Fanfic/CrucibleMassEffect'': The human-turian Hybrids are hated, feared and hunted by the majority of people. To elaborate, in the alt.timeline, it gets to the point that there's bill that forbidden Hybrids from wearing clan marks to make them stand out, and another bill in the making that would allow the Hierarchy to kill whichever child they want when their numbers are getting too numerous, or to take them away from their parents without reasons. Even before that, there are daily mobs attacks on hybrid families and kill them while the government all but officially allows it. Basically, Hybrids are viewed to have less rights than cattle and their parents aren't allowed to leave the planet to act as breeding stocks.

* ''Fanfic/{{Foxfire}}'': While being physically mixed race doesn't bat any eyelashes, having the hated powers of the enemy will get one killed. Li and everyone who knows him has to keep Li's fire-bending a secret to avoid him getting killed. Tengfei casually mentions having to kill mixed-race children if they show signs of fire-bending.
* In ''Fanfic/GoldEyesToRed'', Alphonse is half-Ishvalan and receives a lot of discrimination for it. One instance is when a hospital refused to take him after he broke him arm as a child.

* ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'': Although Princess Celestia did her best to stamp out racism between the pony tribes, it still happens from time to time. Trixie and her siblings were mocked in their home town by Unicorns for having an Earth Pony father, often being called "Half-Dirt".

* ''Fanfic/AThinVeneer'': This becomes a major plot point -- between close racial interactions, progressive social views and advanced Federation technology, [[FreeLoveFuture the Federation has many hybrids within their diverse populations and they are accepted and celebrated without prejudice or intolerance]]. To the much more insular, xenophobic and reactionary ''Babylon 5''-verse nations and cultures, however, this practice and tolerance is viewed with horror and disgust, contributing to the Minbari and even some Earthers perceiving the Federation as a "mongrel power" of depraved savages wielding technologies too advanced for their station whom they cannot surrender to or negotiate with. Some of the Minbari are so disgusted that one Alyt even outright declares that the Federation humans are ''worse'' than the Earther humans when he hears this from Kirk, and many keep fighting out of the misguided belief that defeat and surrender would result in the Federation spreading or even enforcing such practices upon them, diluting and degrading their gene pool and racial purity.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': This trope is a popular one for fanfics where Nick and Judy or any other [[InterspeciesRomance mixed-species couple]] have offspring. It also gets played up for real-life hybrids such as zorses, ligers, tions and similar should they appear.
* John Gage gets this in the ''{{Series/Emergency}}'' [[http://www.tbillingsemergencyfanfic.com/storiesbytammy.html series]] by Tammy Billingham. Most of it is from his own extended family and tribe mates,first as a child, then when he returns home as an adult in the final parts of the series, because they resent his half-white background. A gang of full blood tribesmen end up stabbing him and dragging him half naked through the snow tied to a horse,when he marries a tribewoman. Her family is angry when they first fall in love, but let go of it later, with her father helping rescue John and stop a further attack on him.%%Dead link, no title

* ''Film/BladeTrilogy'': Natural-born vampires despise vampires who were "turned", seeing them either as upstarts who don't respect their traditions or outright {{Vampire Vannabe}}s. There's also a bit of elitism to this, since infected vampires outnumber the natural ones by a fair margin.

* In ''Film/CallHerSavage'', half-Native American Moonglow tells Nasa the white girl that he knows his place as a half-caste, while she can do what she pleases. In the end it turns out that she's a "half-breed" too (and the gross implication is that this makes it OK for them to be together).

* ''Film/FreeStateOfJones'': The issue at Davis Knight's trial is whether his great-great grandmother was Rachel or Serena Knight. Assuming the former, he would be "colored" under Mississippi state law and thus forbidden to marry a white women, as Rachel was mixed race. If the latter, he would be white and thus freed. The prosecutor {{lampshades}} how unusual this is, as generally it would be the father whose identity isn't clear. Eventually the Knight family Bible is uncovered, revealing that it was Rachel. David is therefore convicted (though it's later reversed on appeal). All this based on the "one drop" rule where ''anyone'' who had a black ancestor was subject to racist laws, even when (like him) they are fully white passing.

* ''Film/TheInvitation2022'': Mr. Field and Viktoria both make disparaging comments about Evie, who's biracial (without making it explicit), therefore unworthy being among the white English aristocracy in their view. Or their master's bride, it's revealed.

-->'''Ursula:''' Maybe I am! But do you know what it means to be a half-breed, a half-caste in a world ruled by whites? If you're a male, you're a coolie. And if you're a female, you're... Well, the white half of me cried for the courtesy and protection that women like you get. The only way I could free myself was by becoming white. And it was almost in my hands, when you--you and your Kappa society stopped me! I spent six year slaving to get money enough to put me through finishing school, to make the world accept me as white. But you and the others wouldn't let me cross the color line.

* ''Film/WhereHandsTouch'': Leyna suffers from this continually, as a result of her biracial ancestry, growing up in Nazi Germany. Simply having her appearance means she constantly stands out from everyone else, and she's under the threat of being sterilized for her ancestry. After she gets pregnant from a white German boy, both she and her child are put in mortal peril.

* ''Literature/{{Deryni}}'': Morgan and Duncan come in for a great deal of criticism from the Camberian Council for their mixed parentage. They are frequently denigrated as "rogue half-breeds", and despite showing great promise as mages (including manifesting a Healing talent lost for centuries), they are extended official Counciliar protection only after much acrimonious debate in ''High Deryni''. Even their continued heroism and loyalty does not mitigate the stigma for some elder Deryni High Lords and Ladies. From the human side of things, since there is [[FantasticRacism an absolute taint (socially speaking) from magic]], their parentage does not make them any less reviled.

* ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'': It's a taboo for members of different Houses to have children with each other, and those who are the product of such unions are pariahs. The only House immediately open to them is the [[EqualOpportunityEvil Jhereg]], which will extend membership to anyone for a fee. Crossbreed characters have tended to be villains with a FreudianExcuse:

** Gritta, a character from the prequel series is the half-breed daughter of a disgraced courtier, and grows up in TheCityNarrows as a sort of [[Literature/LesMiserables Eponine]] expy, used in her father's schemes, and with some implication of being pimped by him. [[DirectLineToTheAuthor Paarfi, the "narrator"]] gives a probably FairForItsDay authorial comment in relation to Grita about how dislike of half-breeds is defended by stereotypes that they are immoral/criminal, and how this often becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Over the course of the series, Grita goes from her lowly origin to become a powerful EvilSorceress.

** Being a "half-blood" wizard, i.e. having one parent be a Muggle (or Muggleborn) and the other a wizard, doesn't have ''quite'' as much the stigma around it as being purely Muggleborn, but it's still kept quiet within the prejudiced Slytherin house. Notably, both Voldemort and Snape are half-bloods [[BoomerangBigot and yet they've expressed disdain for their own kind]]. That's not even counting for the fact that almost all of the most powerful wizards in the series have been half-blood, including the aforementioned two, Albus Dumbledore (hands down the most powerful wizard in the series), and Harry himself.

* ''Literature/TheLostWorld1912'': Many disparaging comments are made about the villains being "half-caste" (i.e. ''mestizo'', of mixed European and Indigenous South American ancestry). It's made uncomfortably clear that the heroes who say this think mixed race people have unpleasant traits inherently.

* ''Literature/ShadowsOfTheApt'': Half Breeds are treated as an inferior class by all other races (despite many of the different kinden living in peace with strong interracial friendships and couplings). However all the mixed characters we meet are either already being used for their blend of abilities or eventually rise above their racist superiors: Totho [[spoiler:is recruited by the Wasp military engineer Dariandrephos (another Half Breed who outshone his peers) who recognises his talent for designing weapons.]] Also [[spoiler:Tisamon's Half Breed daughter is a mix of the two most rivaled races Spider and Mantis. Unsurprisingly she also becomes grudgingly accepted among the Mantis kinden for her talent as a Weaponsmaster.]]

* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'': When discussing strategies for survival in prison, the crime lord Lung mentions that the most common one -- joining an established gang -- was closed to him from the beginning during his first prison stay in China. He was well-known to be half Chinese and half Japanese, and nobody wanted him in their group.

** This is typical of how vampires are treated by demons. Vampires are demonic spirits that inhabit human corpses. They have many weaknesses, and demons are usually stronger than them. [[RankScalesWithAsskicking An evil demon often has many vampires as subordinates]]. Later, however, demons who are friends with vampires are not discriminated against. Harmony later also becomes a celebrity, and makes the vampires suddenly become the stars of the demon world.

** Half-elves and half-fairies aren't treated any better. Despite his acumen, Professor Maxwell (half elf) is treated condescendingly by the authority figures of the Department of Magical Investigations. Tayla (half fairy) was raised by her human mother with magic she had no idea how to control, because the fairy half of her family tree refused to acknowledge her.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' plays the trope straight with Jothee, D'Argo's half Luxan-half Sebacean son, given the extreme adherence Peacekeepers have to keeping the Sebacean bloodlines pure. The trope is subverted with Scorpius, as he manages to become a very high-ranking Peacekeeper despite the fact that he's A) a half-breed and B) the other half is Scarran, the Peacekeepers' biggest enemies. Played straight with Scorpius's upbringing amongst the Scarrans, though; most of his childhood was spent being forced to cleanse himself of "Sebacean weakness" and prove himself worthy of being considered a Scarran- up until he stabbed his caretaker's eyes out with a coolant rod. [[spoiler:He is also later revealed to be a faux-spy for the Scarran leader, so he somehow managed to insinuate himself into the ranks of both halves despite their hatred of each other.]]

* ''{{Series/Jeremiah}}'': The black nationalist group Shadow of the Crescent dislike seeing Elizabeth when she comes with Kurdy to forge links with them for Thunder Mountain, because she's light-skinned, of mixed race descent and has a "white" name. Kurdy calls them out on this soundly, noting how many leaders in black empowerment (including the nationalists like Malcolm X) were themselves of mixed race descent, and certainly didn't reject those who were.

* ''Series/{{Mash}}'': One episode has a half-Korean, half-white baby being left at the camp (presumably the child of a US soldier). They're told that her life would be in danger in a Korean orphanage because she represents a threat to racial purity. Since her father won't identify himself and [[ObstructiveBureaucrat callous American officials]] refuse to allow her to be sent the US, the only option to protect her is to send her to a monastery to be raised by the monks.

* ''Series/MohawkGirls'': Anna gets a lot of flack for only being half Mohawk, as she has a white mother, which she's deeply hurt by. She's regularly called "halfbreed" as an insult by many Mohawks. It turns out this is codified in the Mohawk band's law, with no one has less than a 50% blood quantum (overall Mohawk ancestry) considered one of them and eligible for membership.

** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Tora Ziyal is the daughter of the Cardassian Gul Dukat and his Bajoran mistress Tora Naprem. During the first six months of the Dominion occupation of Deep Space 9 she spends time at a Bajoran art school, and reports being the subject of racism from her Bajoran classmates. There's indications that she's not alone in this. (In fairness to the Bajorans this is less than six years after the end of a half-century of brutal military occupation by the Cardassians.) In an earlier episode, Ziyal had also indicated that she would never be accepted on Cardassia either.

** Half-drow. Many of them choose to leave the culture of drow, and do good. But for the other races, they look in no way different from the drow. Among the drow they are despised again, because they have in half the "inferior" blood of another race. This does not apply universally as they are tolerated by Drow worshippers of Eilistraee (due to having rejected Lolth's culture along with having non-Drow followers) and Dambrath (due to being a kingdom ruled by half-Drows).

** Tieflings -- the descendants of humanoids and fiends -- are treated very poorly in most nations, and rarely enjoy better treatment from fiends. The people of Cheliax routinely summon and bind devils, but see this relationship as strictly one of master and servant -- and so do the devils, although they have different ideas as to who has what role; consequently, both sides see tieflings as essentially the result of someone being indiscreet with the maid. Tieflings in the demon-infested Worldwound (a location prominent in the ''Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path'' and its [[VideoGame/PathfinderWrathOfTheRighteous CRPG adaptation]]) fare little better, as humanoids see them as a reminder of their fate and demons as mortal cattle like the rest.

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'': Connor Kenway (born Ratohnhaké:ton) is the son of a Native American and a British colonist. A core premise of his character is that he's unable to truly fit in with either society, and falls in with the Assassins as they are the only ones who welcome him for what he is. Although he fights alongside the Continental forces in the American Revolutionary War, he is [[NotInThisForYourRevolution not in it for their freedom]], because he knows they aren't in it for ''his''.

** [[spoiler:Humans]] have gotten this too, though they don't realize it. Unlike the gods, demons and other beings who have ordinary souls, they''by definition'' are [[AnatomyOfTheSoul comprised of two elements]]: a [[OurSoulsAReDifferent soul]] (like every other living thing) and [[spoiler:"humanity"]], a different sort of substance that's like a soul, but somehow different. [[JigsawPuzzlePlot Putting the pieces together]], however, reveals that [[spoiler:"humanity" ''is'' a soul; specifically, [[PiecesOfGod a piece of the Dark Soul]], the fourth great Lord Soul in opposition to the other three. As with Priscilla, the gods are very, very wary of humans, and the DLC once again proves [[ProperlyParanoid they had every reason to be afraid of what humanity could do if left unchecked]]. Of course, it was this discrimination that ''led'' to the corruption of the Dark Soul in the first place...]]

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', the Gray Prince, a champion gladiator had an Orc mother and an Imperial father. As you learn in a related quest, his father was also a vampire. This is the the part the Gray Prince takes much harder than the human father part itself.

** When [[HalfHumanHybrid Ruthia]] tries to help the Cainites trapped in Mount Sinai, the first one she runs into attacks her while mistaking her for an Idinite, since she inherited physical traits from both Cainites and Kenomans. However, most of the Cainites in Ur treat her well, since they respect her Kenoman mother.

* ''VideoGame/PathfinderWrathOfTheRighteous'': Tieflings, {{uneven hybrid}}s of humanoids and fiends, come in for a ''lot'' of hatred in Mendev and its surrounds due to a century of war with demons coming out of the Worldwound, a planar breach that opened the year the god Aroden died. Tiefling {{Player Character}}s get a lot of unique dialogue responding to this and can commisserate with their tiefling party member Woljif Jefto, a former member of an all-tiefling street gang, over [[ASharedSuffering their shared history of discrimination]].

** A few High Entia tend to look down on their [[HalfHumanHybrid half Homs namesakes]], especially those who belong to the Bionite Order. Even considering the many that have no qualms with them, there's still a general stigma when it comes to their involvement on royal affairs [[spoiler:which forces the party member Melia, the crown princess of the High Entia, into a dangerous trial to prove herself to her ancestors. A side quest ''heavily'' hints that this sentiment is fostered by the ''[[EvilGod Bionis]] itself''.]]

** Nima is shamed for being half-human in elven society, as her existence lost her father his wife and she must constantly wear a veil in order to hide who she is. It didn't help that she gew up five times faster than elven children and there was never a chance to hide her parentage.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' Drowolath/Drowussu hybrids have it particularly rough in the CrapsackWorld of the setting, since the two cultures are not supposed to mix. They have a few places they can go and be respected, but one of the major clans that accepted them fell apart and sent many to the streets or to other clans. Chiri'nide also experiences some of this since her father was a Light Elf, until it turns out that [[spoiler:Drowussu are descended from Light Elves anyway, so she doesn't really count]].
* Banquo of ''Webcomic/GoodbyeChains''. His character profile proudly describes him as "half-Mexican and half-Swedish, and also a colossal dick." He was the result of a one-night stand between an actress and a mestizo Mexican man, and faces quite a bit of racism because of his background. His DistaffCounterpart and part time lover, Cordelia, is half-Ute, but there are certainly no parallels between them and how they treat their companions, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial no siree]].

** Jone [[MeaningfulName Half-Orc]]'s mother Goria, while a full-blooded orc, got this from both orcs and humans. She was exiled from her clan for bearing a half-human child, and the humans grudgingly let her live at the outskirts of their town, but never made any effort to conceal their contempt (or lust). And just when things seemed to be getting better ([[spoiler:having found acceptance amid the multicultural Black Mountain, and discovering that Goria was the last of a legendary orc clan), Jone was personally corrupted by the god of orcs to become an OmnicidalManiac.]]
** Glon Smitharm was also discriminated against at every turn, and lashed out angrily at those who made fun of him. While he knew he was half-human, he was certain he was half-human, half-... elf. It took him a while to accept that he was half-orc (having a mother who loved him helped with that), then discovering [[spoiler:his father was the lord he worked for]] before he got better.

** In one episode, Peter discovers he has a black ancestor, Nate Griffin. Peter briefly tries to embrace his black heritage, but becomes a pariah in the eyes of ''both'' races -- the whites because he won't shut up with the "white devil" rhetoric and the blacks because he grossly abuses his affirmative-action privileges and makes them look bad.
** Alluded to in another episode, which shows Nate Griffin fathering a mixed race family with a white woman. One of the children naively comments that the great thing about being mixed race is, when he grows up, he's going to be accepted by everyone.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Downplayed. In Episode 85, during a fight, Kaeloo refers to Mr. Cat (a cat) being mixed breed instead of a pedigree cat. However, this does not ever impact him negatively in any way on the show, and none of the other major characters are cats so it hs yet to be seen if this is an actual problem in the show's society.

Subtrope of ChildOfTwoWorlds and ContemptCrossfire. Compare MalignedMixedMarriage. And possibly, ThatThingIsNotMyChild. Contrast ButNotTooBlack and ButNotTooForeign, in which people with mixed ancestry are treated ''better'' than ones who have only minority or foreign ancestry, as well as the OneDropRule, in which this ancestry is so far back on the family tree that nothing remains visible of it, and yet still causes this kind of harsh treatment. Compare and contrast MixedAncestryIsAttractive, since fetishization often goes hand-in-hand with prejudice. See also HybridsAreACrapshoot, which may exacerbate this trope and/or add a layer of nuance to the anti-hybrid side.

* ''Series/AnyDayNow'' cites this when the dark-skinned Renee runs for District Attorney. Her campaign manager is a light-skinned, biracial woman, and the two almost immediately clash, with Renee taking every suggestion the woman makes as an example of ButNotTooBlack. Only when the woman finally blasts her for her nasty attitude and tells Renee that she will not apologize for being proud of her multicultural heritage does Renee realize that she's been just as bad. In another episode, when Rene's cousin Danny comes for a visit, she admits to M.E. that he's estranged from the family because he was relentlessly bullied over how light-skinned he is.