History Main / HateCrimesAreASpecialKindOfEvil

Don't expect these characters to reform by the end of the story. Most times, they won't even recognize their own evil. Unlike the NobleBigot, who can, with some CharacterDevelopment, be brought to see the error of their ways, the villain who engages in hate crimes is typically seen as irredeemable by the audience. Hate crimes are frequently a hallmark of the PoliticallyIncorrectVillain, who will either be, or be protected by a BigotWithABadge.

* In one episode of ''Literature/KinosJourney'', Kino visits a nation where the wars between them and their neighboring nation are now settled by seeing how many members of an indigenous tribe can be killed by the competing armies. The people targeted had nothing to do with the war between the two nations, and are targeted because they aren't part of either nation, and also incapable of defending themselves against the superior weaponry their oppressors possess. Though little is said, it is clear that these two nations have Kino, who rarely if ever expresses a moral judgement of the nations traveled through, disgusted.
* ''Manga/{{Radiant}}'': Konrad de Marbourg. He orchestrated a plan in secret to have a sorcerer use her abilities to stir up Rumbletown's fear of the "infected" and whip the people into a violent frenzy to unleash them on immigrants because they are "cockroaches soiling his town" (even going so far as to try and sacrifice natives in the process). Eventually, both he, and the entire town, are told the [[DarkAndTroubledPast truth]] and called out on their actions by said sorcerer.

* ''Series/{{The Boys|2019}}'': New member of The Seven, [[Characters/TheBoys2019Stormfront Stormfront]], joins the team as a "Take-no-shit", "Tell-it-like-it-is" superheroine that becomes a social media darling and gains a number of fans for her provocative and hilarious memes, often poking fun at acceptable targets (and team leader Homelander). [[spoiler:It's later revealed that she is a literal [[TheAgeless Ageless]] Nazi whose end goal is to steer American public opinion towards fascism and white supremacy. In addition to supporting the standard Nazi war crimes, Stormfront is shown to have framed and maimed an innocent black man for crimes he never committed. Onscreen, she [[BlamingTheVictim tears down a traumatized Starlight]] for being raped by their teammates, murders a community of African-Americans, and tortures and kills an Asian man when out of the public eye, spearheads a master plan to [[SuperSupremacist stop non-whites]] from getting access to the SuperSerum, and murders a child's mother in front of him because he "belonged with [their] kind". Her vile actions make her the enemy of almost ''every'' character in the story, especially after her identity as a Nazi is exposed. Even Homelander, the man she loves, has to publicly disavow her in order to salvage his reputation as a superhero, and an [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe movie]] has to change her role to that of a villain, resulting in a TroubledProduction because the public will not accept a literal Nazi being portrayed in a positive light. Vought International CEO Stan Edgar later has trouble selling a variant of Compound V to the Department of Defense because of her, since the public now associates Compound V with Nazis and it has become politically radioactive as a result.]]

** "Fear and Loathing" is played with. The unsub is targeting black teenage girls (and in once case, the girl's white ex-boyfriend), there was a swastika at the last crime scene, and one of the girls received a "racist note" shortly before being killed. All of which riles up racial tensions in the community to a frenzy and ultimately leads to the black police chief being killed by a white citizen who saw a non-uniformed black man poking around the neighborhood (investigating a tip) and assumed he was a criminal. However, both the unsub and note writer (different people) were ''black.'' The unsub was a run of the mill serial killer who targeted black girls because that's who he found most attractive (which the team notes as standard serial killer logic, at least in-universe), and the note came from the white boy's other black ex-girlfriend who wanted him back, so she ''was'' trying to threaten the victim, but race wasn't the reason. However, they both played into the media's assumptions of hate crimes so they could fly under the radar. Despite seeing through these charades almost immediately, the BAU still fell into problems by not taking this trope into account. They somehow thought that stepping into a racially charged situation and announcing the killer was black was going to make the situation ''better'', as if those tensions would simply dissipate.

** In the episode "Duet", a Cardassian named Marritza has altered his appearance and feigns being the cold monster who ran a forced labor camp, Gul Darhe'ell, who was guilty of war crimes against the Bajorans. When he's finally revealed as Marritza, a mere file clerk, he tearfully tells Kira that he took on this role to try and force Cardassia to own up to its sins, that he used to go to bed in that camp at night, weeping to the sound of the torture his own people were causing, feeling horrible for the people who were suffering, and calling himself a coward for not doing anything about it. Kira, who has been hostile to him while believing he was Darhe'ell, now is sympathetic to him, and arranges for his release. He is immediately murdered in front of Kira by a fellow Bajoran.

*** The First Aldmeri Dominion was created as an attempt to spread Altmer (High Elf) leadership across Tamriel, and even though Queen Ayrenn forbade violence or other prejudice, the player continually stumbles across rogue Aldmeri who try to secretly slaughter, enslave or "reeducate" other races behind the leadership's back which (as one of Ayrenn's most trusted aides), it is your duty to eliminate.
*** The Thalmor are a faction of Altmer that not only believe in Elven supremacy, but their religious doctrine flat out ''demands'' the destruction of mankind and all their gods to escape the prison of mortal flesh and regain the Elves' ancient immortality. The Third Aldmeri Dominion was created by the Thalmor strictly to crush every other race in Tamriel, especially humans. In addition to genocide, they are known for their cruel and horrific use of torture on captives, to the degree that one former captive, Ulfric Stormcloak, develops an intense hatred of Elves and starts a civil war in Skyrim when the Empire and the High King refuse to stand against them.

** King Radovid is a [[FantasticRacism human supremacist]] who shows complete contempt for not only monsters and nonhumans species, but also [[MageKiller mages]] and any other humans with even a whiff of anything unnatural about them.[[note]]One of his standard tactics being to "tolerate" some people like Dwarves or Witchers, only to eventually turn against them too once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they've eliminated the more pressing targets]].[[/note]] He is portrayed as one of the vilest and most despicable characters in the entire story, with the ending in which he wins the war against Nilfgaard being considered an unofficial "bad end" as the city of Novigrad becomes a hellscape of witch hunts, torture, and mass executions. By contrast, the side mission in which he is dealt with is riddled with CatharsisFactor, wherein several characters whom he has crossed, betrayed, or maimed (including Geralt and the sorceress Philippa) trap and assassinate him.

** Nowhere is the Cardassian occupation mentality put more on display than in the episode "Waltz", when Gul Dukat goes on a rant to Sisko, unironically claiming that he wasn't evil.

* The BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', [[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]], [[spoiler:turns out to actually be a human named Philip Wittebane who was originally born and raised during the 1600s and the [[WitchHunt Connecticut Witch Trials]]--when hatred, fear, and suspicion of witches and [[BurnTheWitch desire to kill them]] was at its peak--and entered the Demon Realm in search of his brother, where witches (who, in this series, are a separate humanoid species rather than just humans who practice magic) are the primary inhabitants. His centuries-long EvilPlan that he tries to implement during the course of the series is an attempt to commit genocide against the entire population of the Boiling Isles because he believes that all witches are inherently evil and sinful. Though this viewpoint originally spawns from the environment Philip grew up in, it's made clear numerous times that there's so much selfishness and self-righteousness mixed into his motivations that he's way too far gone and has committed atrocities far too vile for him to be redeemed, and Belos's final fate is being snuffed out by Raine, Eda, and King once and for all after the latter two and Luz defeat him.]]