History Main / MugglePower

* ''Series/PainkillerJane'' was part of an organization who worked to find and "[[PowerNullifier chip]]" all Neuros -- even the ones who never did anything. Jane is the only superhuman member of the group, and even ''that's'' only allowed because she's not technically a Neuro.

* In ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'', the Knights of Genetic Purity consider the Nietzscheans (and all others with genetic mods) an abomination.

These people usually come to this conclusion by adding some paranoia ([[ProperlyParanoid justified]] or [[GeneralRipper not]]) to GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke and fear that [[SuperpowerfulGenetics naturally born supers]] will out-breed or replace baseline humanity. They interpret the "obsolescence" of baseline humans as an edict to kill all {{Mutants}}[=/=]{{psychic|Powers}}s[=/=]{{witch|Species}}es in an [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer "Us or Them"]] fashion, fearing that supers will either forcibly take over or [[ViralTransformation replace all humans]]. These types are usually spurred on by the villains' attempts to do just that, and end up branding all supers as threats. Previously nice supers, in turn, will interpret this xenophobia as [[CycleOfRevenge cause to exterminate or enslave all humans...]] This is usually the fear behind any SuperRegistrationAct. Typically accomplished by calling the CapeBusters. See also TallPoppySyndrome.

* ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'': In Season 2, an anti-witch movement among the civilian (non-witch) populace springs up, due to popular resentment after numerous attacks by witch terrorists. However, they're against all witches, and denounce the military conscripting young witches into their ranks, with a popular slogan being "Not Our Daughters". They turn out to be created by the Camarilla, bloodthirsty {{witch hunter}}s with the goal of wiping out witches entirely.

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* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' shows [[{{Masquerade}} the few humans aware of Contractors]] having a "if you can't beat 'em, '''employ''' them" attitude, with the majority of the Contractors being aggressively headhunted and employed as '[[LivingWeapon special operatives]]' by various national security agencies like [=MI6=], the CIA, or by [[TheSyndicate the mysterious criminal 'syndicate']] that employs Hei. [[spoiler:It eventually turns out that all these agencies are part of a single conspiracy to [[FinalSolution wipe contractors clean off the face of the Earth]]. This led to the formation of a LaResistance-style group determined to wall off the Gates so that the Contractor-genocide wouldn't be possible, even though they would have wiped out all of Japan in the process. Hei [[TakeAThirdOption does not approve of either option.]]]]
* ''Manga/DGrayMan'': Only Exorcists can kill Akuma. The Third Exorcists was formed by non-exorcists who were frustrated with this (and how the [[CreatureHunterOrganization Black Order]] treats the regular humans who try to help anyway as expendable), and as a consequence they [[spoiler: volunteered for a human experiment that transformed them into Human-akuma hybrids]].

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': Izaya Orihara claims to love all humans and his hobby is to observe them. He will manipulate them and even give out information for free just to see what will happen as he believes his love justifies it. However, he doesn't care about anything he considers inhuman, and loathes Shizuo Heiwajima, despite being a human, as Shizuo has super strength and is nigh-invulnerable. He also detests Saika and goes so far as to declare war on [[spoiler:Anri]]. Izaya, despite this, repeatedly uses 'monsters' in his plans and even hires [[spoiler:Haruna]] and uses [[spoiler:Celty's head]] in attempt to avert the CessationOfExistence. Izaya will, on occasion, completely disregard any kind of etiquette towards 'monsters', such as when he decides to use Celty's head as a ball.

* The ''Comicbook/XMen'' are forced to deal with this all the time. If it's not the Brotherhood of Mutants trying to "save mutants" by using ''terrorism,'' then it's a radical human group trying to exterminate all mutants, or a radical human group trying to harvest mutant organs or just opportunists wanting to enslave mutants as mindless workers or {{Super Soldier}}s.
** Before Comicbook/HouseOfM, there was a movement among humans calling themselves the U-Men who believed they could become greater than mutants by harvesting and grafting mutant body parts onto themselves. Among the list of parts taken are the eyes of a kid with X-ray vision, the wings off a flying mutant girl, and even keeping a kid with electric powers imprisoned to use blood transfusions from him to gain powers. As for their effectiveness, they use PowersAsPrograms and have military-application superpowers to counter stock superpowers... but they can't hold a candle to a pissed off Phoenix protecting her students and academy from shock troopers enjoying their scalpel guns.
** This has become a major case of BrokenAesop over the course of the various comics in the ''X-Men'' family. A great many storylines have revolved around some awesomely powerful evil mutant(s) openly threatening the world and scaring the heck out of the general population. Sure, the X-teams usually manage to stop whoever it is, but not before the landscape as been chewed up a bit. While the mutants are meant to be seen sympathetically by the readers, given the circumstances humanity's fear of mutants actually seems very rational, in particular since the [[SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat power level of mutant villains]] seems to always be increasing. Then again, [[TheDogBitesBack how many of those mutants]] [[SelfFulfillingProphecy became villains in the first place]] because "baseline" humans [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds treated them with fear and hatred?]]
---> ''Some Bigot in House of M'': The reason why nobody likes you is because ''trouble follows you wherever you go''!
** And of course, attempts to combine becoming a super-society with killing mutants usually end badly. The Sentinels were an attempt to prove human superiority in creating robot servants and soldiers that replace the need for superpowers, and were programmed to kill all mutants. In almost all incarnations, they GrewBeyondTheirProgramming and logically deduced that humans are essential to the destiny of mutants, and must therefore be oppressed or killed to complete their programming. Usually the X-Men stopped them and saved humanity from its own self-destructive creation.
* ''Comicbook/TopTen'' takes a rather unique approach to this problem. The {{Prequel}} ''The Forty-Niners'' explain that after the allies won UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, they build a city and relocated all the Superhumans, {{Badass Normal}}s and {{Mad Scientist}}s who survived the war there.
-->'''Steve "Jetlad" Traynor:''' Th-This is '''nuts'''. '''Everybody's''' a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual science-hero]]! I mean, this will never work, the government, this whole relocation thing, it's just...\\
'''Leni "Sky Witch" Muller:''' The war's over, ''mein junge'', and now nobody wants us living next door to them.
* In Creator/AlanMoore's Comicbook/{{Miracleman}}[=/=]Marvelman, the government-created supers turn out to be too powerful for the government's liking, so it tries to kill them all. [[spoiler:It doesn't work, and the supers and aliens take over the world for its own good. Eventually, everyone is offered the chance to become superhuman. There is some musing on some fundamental humanity that they have lost in becoming superhuman.]]
* ''ComicBook/PS238'' had a government-funded "Project Rainmaker" in its backstory; it was trying to study metahumans to find out what made them different from normal people and possibly use this knowledge for the benefit of the US government. [[spoiler:It got wrecked by the metahuman it was experimenting on.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Zenith}}'' uses this extensively in its backstory. In the end, it turns out that [[ProperlyParanoid the fear was dead-on]], and they really ''did'' need to BewareTheSuperman, with a handful of exceptions.
* IDW's ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW Transformers]]'': When the Decepticons were recouping from Megatron's apparent death, the Autobots were being hunted by Skywatch, a government group that acquired Cybertronian technology. While Skywatch eventually comes on somewhat friendly terms with the Autobots, a new group known as Earth's Children rises up, wishing for the removal of all Transformers, and apparently headed by a really SmugSnake. [[spoiler: Who turns out to be a [[ArtificialHuman facsimile]] for Swindle to stir conflict and make a market for him.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' has an actual capeless uprising in its recent backstory, where a group of cape-killers began hunting down superhero and supervillain alike. The San Antonio Supervolcano may or may not be related to this. [[spoiler:Unbeknownst to his girlfriend, [=ThugBoy=] was directly involved in it, and has a few cape kills to his name. And according to Maidman, another uprising may be in the near future.]]

* In ''ComicBook/TheRoyalsMastersOfWar'', UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution sent shockwaves among the [[RoyaltySuperPower superpowered royals]] as it was the first time the non-superpowered "commoners" succeeded in threatening their kind on such a large scale. Centuries later, both the Nazis and Soviets had become adept in killing the old nobles and royalty, capturing those who ''couldn't'' die and persecuting the few in their territories who remain.

* In ''Literature/{{Unique}}'', the various supernatural entities the story focuses on were tracked down and told very plainly that they could behave themselves or die.

* ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight'' books have Option 2. Churches decide that vampyres are sinners and start killing teachers at Zoey's school. Neferet, the head of the school, decides to wage war against them.
* Creator/LawrenceWattEvans' ''Literature/WorldsOfShadow'' used the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' approach to psychics. Not because they are actually dangerous, mind you, but just because the society that has them considers them "[[FantasticRacism mutant freaks]]."
* In ''Literature/{{Gone}}'', the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Human Crew]] is a group of "[[{{muggles}} normals]]" who go with option 2.

* A large part of ''Literature/TheInfected''. The Infected gain superpowers, but also mental disorders. The first book ''opens'' to a man trying and failing to save a woman from a serial killer, being teleported back to his apartment and then being brutally beaten by police (he was complying, to the best of his ability), taken to the station, beaten some more, then left for days in a cell to die. The situation for Infected continues to get worse as the series progresses, from simple denial of services to outright lynch mobs gathering whenever a visible or known Infected appears in public.

* ''Series/TrueBlood'':
** There are examples of both Option 1, in the form of so-called "Fang Bangers" and Option 2 in groups such as the Fellowship of the Sun. Given that even the friendliest vampires are [[AntiVillain closet murderers]] trying to pass as just [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire ordinary, if immortal, blood-drinking, people]], this tends to lead to a [[GreyAndGrayMorality grey-scale]] world. The other supernaturals are not much better.
** In Season 5, they introduce a hate-group who drive around in a van gunning down anybody who has powers, even if they've done nothing wrong, and they do not hesitate if the superpowered targets are ''[[WouldHurtAChild children]]''. [[spoiler: They recruit Hoyt, and explain that [[TallPoppySyndrome they're tired of superpowered people making them feel not-special by their very presence, so they will kill them all]]. It's revealed that they were founded by an overweight woman whose boyfriend dumped her for a Shifter.]]
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'':
** The Company, a group with the ostensibly good goal of keeping tabs on all super-powered individuals and helping them cope with their powers to [[TheWorldIsNotReady protect the general public]] and maintain a {{Masquerade}}... which, thanks to evil/incompetent bosses, has devolved to the point of doing Bag and Tag's of all heroes they can find with a complimentary [[LaserGuidedAmnesia mind wipe]], and killing those deemed "[[BadPowersBadPeople too dangerous to exist]]"... unless they're [[JokerImmunity Sylar]]. And all the villains they have in storage that got released in season 3 as yet another IdiotPlot, despite Company's [[KnightTemplar willingness to kill much more decent people in the pursuit of stability]]. Granted, while they do have a lot of muggle members, they have plenty of superpowered members too, and are in fact ''run'' by a group of superhumans, several of whom are actually pretty sinister.
** In volume 4 the Company is replaced with a government organization meant to capture all people with abilities -- except [[StrawHypocrite Nathan]], who started it. His claim is that he's doing it because people with abilities are too dangerous to be left running around, which would be more convincing if he didn't target his own well-meaning allies and a guy who can [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway breathe underwater]]. Rather than concentrating his attentions on say, ''Sylar.'' Again.
* ''Series/PainkillerJane'' was part of an organization who worked to find and "[[PowerNullifier chip]]" all Neuros -- even the ones who never did anything. Jane is the only superhuman member of the group, and even ''that's'' only allowed because she's not technically a Neuro.
* On ''Series/BabylonFive'', a lot of mundanes dislike telepaths. Including a group who builds a virus to kill all telepaths. And the Telepath war is a major part of continuity. ''The Psi Corps Trilogy'' novels reveal that, when the existence of telepaths became public knowledge, many telepaths were lynched simply for fear of having this ability. This is even after the Pope proclaimed that telepaths are still children of God and should not be harmed, although one Italian mobster does let a card-cheating telepath live because of this in exchange for help in catching other cheaters.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** In the backstory, the Eugenic Wars between genetically engineered and other humans lead to genetic augmentation becoming a forbidden technique. They apparently got over this in later years; genetic modification for mundane purposes (correcting congenital defects, for example) is perfectly okay, but physical and mental augmentation is still illegal. In ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', we find out that part of the problem is that the Augment process seems to create musclebound sociopaths. We also discover that the Denobulans used the technology without problems.
** In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', the Founder Changelings derogatorily call all non-shape-shifters "solids" and struggle to either control or destroy them. This in turn was caused by Changelings being hunted by other species in the past because of their abilities (in "Shadowplay" we see such attitudes).
** Also in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', a group of illegally augmented humans are introduced being used to help crunch the numbers in the Dominion War for a tactical advantage. As it turns out the muggles might have had a point given one is stuck at a childlike level of maturity, another is a hair trigger egomaniac unable to view normal humans as equals, yet another is basically catatonic as her mind processes information at a different rate from all of her senses.

* One of the conflicts in season 10 of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' is the political implications of superpowered individuals, which culminates in Congress passing the Vigilante Registration Act in an emergency session. Of course, the real movers and shakers behind it are ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}'s followers, who are trying to take the Justice League out of the equation. The act is eventually repealed.

* ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'': In Season 2, an anti-witch movement among the civilian (non-witch) populace springs up, due to popular resentment after numerous attacks by witch terrorists. However, they're against all witches, and denounce the military conscripting young witches into their ranks, with a popular slogan being "Not Our Daughters". They turn out to be created by the Camarilla, bloodthirsty {{witch hunter}}s with the goal of wiping out witches entirely.

* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', "[[PsychicPowers psykers]]" are considered tools rather than people. Understandable, since it's best not to get attached to someone who has the potential to accidentally open a gateway to Hell. ([[CrapsackWorld This is not exaggeration]])

* There was a similar vein in the ''TabletopGame/WorldOfDarkness'', but as the setting developed it fell to the background as the masquerade became an ExtraStrengthMasquerade as each splat book kept upping the supernatural ante yet the muggles never caught on. Still, regardless of which game you played, your superiors have a healthy fear of muggle rage, and if that meant putting you in a body bag, so be it.

Whether the story chooses to address the underlying insecurity or not [[DebateAndSwitch varies]]. When it does, it usually justifies baseline human's existence with a nice [[AnAesop aesop]] like: [[HumansAreSpecial our limitations drive us to excel]], only humans [[CreativeSterility can truly create]], a world of all supers would devolve into planetary [[LetsYouAndHimFight civil war]] (like [[SarcasmMode we normals have done such a good job keeping peace without supers]])... or, that we're so [[HumansAreBastards fundamentally bad]] that only a handful should have these powers, if at all. Since super-powered heroes are usually the focus of these stories, it's not rare to see a perfectly sensible initiative by the government to have [[SuperSoldier its own supers]], either to stop supervillains or to stop a hero if he should go rogue, turned into paranoid and militant [[TheWarOnStraw strawmen]] bent on killing all heroes on the off chance of a super powered [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]] takeover.

* ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'': In Season 2, a movement has arisen among {{muggles}} that is vocally anti-witch, due to the Spree's terrorist attacks (despite there being witches on the opposite side too). One is wearing a [[PuttingOnTheReich Nazi-like armband too]]. Both the Army and Spree know this bodes ill. Scylla (a Spree member) and Anacostia (from the Army) [[EnemyMine team up]] to investigate them, believing [[TheWitchHunter the Camarilla]] are behind it.

* In ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem,'' [[TheFundamentalist Mary Lou Barebone]] tried to raise awareness of the perceived threat posed by the wizarding world by staging manifestations with her group that she calls the "Second Salemers". Subverted due to AllInTheManual; it's revealed that her organization actually descends from magical Loyalists from the Revolutionary War.

The AntiMagicalFaction is a variant of this trope that focuses exclusively on magic and those who can use it. This trope is very often a feature of CapePunk stories.

These people usually come to this conclusion by adding some paranoia ([[ProperlyParanoid justified]] or [[GeneralRipper not]]) to GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke and fear that [[SuperpowerfulGenetics naturally born supers]] will out-breed or replace baseline humanity. They interpret the "obsolescence" of baseline humans as an edict to kill all {{Mutants}}[=/=]{{psychic|Powers}}s[=/=]{{witch|Species}}es in an [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer "Us or Them"]] fashion, fearing that supers will either forcibly take over or [[ViralTransformation replace all humans]]. These types are usually spurred on by the villains attempts to do just that, and end up branding all supers as threats. Previously nice supers, in turn, will interpret this xenophobia as [[CycleOfRevenge cause to exterminate or enslave all humans...]] This is usually the fear behind any SuperRegistrationAct. Typically accomplished by calling the CapeBusters. See also TallPoppySyndrome.

These people usually come to this conclusion by adding some paranoia ([[ProperlyParanoid justified]] or [[GeneralRipper not]]) to GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke and [[SuperpowerfulGenetics naturally born supers]] are out-pacing mundanes. They interpret the "obsolescence" of baseline humans as an edict to kill all {{Mutants}}[=/=]{{psychic|Powers}}s[=/=]{{witch|Species}}es in an "[[AllOfTheOtherReindeer "Us or Them"]] fashion, fearing that supers will either forcibly take over or [[ViralTransformation replace all humans]]. These types are usually spurred on by the villains attempts to do just that, and end up branding all supers as threats. Previously nice supers, in turn, will interpret this xenophobia as [[CycleOfRevenge cause to exterminate or enslave all humans...]] This is usually the fear behind any SuperRegistrationAct. Typically accomplished by calling the CapeBusters. See also TallPoppySyndrome.

* The Paladins in ''Film/{{Jumper}}'' seem to be hunting down the eponymous teleporting mutants mostly because they're too powerful to be permitted to exist. Unfortunately, the rhetoric the Paladins use is more correlated to religious extremists: "Only God should have the power to be everywhere at once". That's enough to make them seem like religious nutjobs to many people.

* The ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' comic "No Benders Allowed" plays this for laughs. The badass normals feel left out, so they form a little club that benders can't join. The benders initially think the club is stupid, but they all eventually beg their way inside. It's a played a bit more seriously with Aang though, due to him having felt left out from the rest of the monks when it was discovered he was the Avatar.

* The Hunters in ''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'' are renegade members of {{The Watcher}}s who want every Immortal dead. They were founded by James Horton, who was once the Watcher assigned to [[TheDreaded the Kurgan]], the single most feared and brutal immortal in living memory, an experience which drove him to see all immortals as evil. Their Muggle nature gives them a few advantages over their supernatural prey. They hunt in groups and use ambush tactics and ranged weapons, while immortals are accustomed to confronting each other in face-to-face, one-on-one duels; immortals can sense one another approaching, but can't sense mortal attackers; and immortals are unable to do violence on holy ground, allowing the Hunters to attack them in such places while they can do little to resist.

* The Hunters in ''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'' are renegade members of {{The Watcher}}s who want every Immortal dead. They and were founded by James Horton, who was once the Watcher assigned to [[TheDreaded the Kurgan]], the single most feared and brutal immortal in living memory, an experience which drove him to see all immortals as evil. Their Muggle nature gives them a few advantages over their supernatural prey. They hunt in groups and ambush tactics and ranged weapons, while immortals are accustomed to confronting each other in face-to-face, one-on-one duels; immortals can sense one another approaching, but can't sense mortal attackers; and immortals are unable to do violence on holy ground, allowing the Hunters to attack them in such places while they can do little to resist.

* The Hunters in ''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'' are renegade members of {{The Watcher}}s who want every Immortal dead. The reason they're successful is because they hunt in groups, while Immortals are required to duel each other one-on-one. Additionally, being {{Muggles}}, the Hunters aren't required to follow the "holy ground" rule. Also, Immortals can sense each others' presence, but they can't sense regular humans except by the normal mundane means. The common tactic is to shoot the Immortal first. Then, when he's incapacitated, either behead him or put him into a guillotine. If there are no other Immortals in the vicinity, then there won't be a Quickening. The Hunters see immortals as BewareTheSuperman and were founded by James Horton, who was once the Watcher assigned to [[TheDreaded The Kurgan]], the single most feared and brutal immortal in living memory, an experience which drove him to see all immortals as evil.

* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Being the only human member from the main cast without superpowers back in the actual DSBT, this was the entire reason Asia was given powers in the first place.

--> ''Some Bigot in House of M'': The reason why nobody likes you is because ''trouble follows you wherever you go''!

* In Alan Moore's Comicbook/{{Miracleman}}[=/=]Marvelman, the government-created supers turn out to be too powerful for the government's liking, so it tries to kill them all. [[spoiler:It doesn't work, and the supers and aliens take over the world for its own good. Eventually, everyone is offered the chance to become superhuman. There is some musing on some fundamental humanity that they have lost in becoming superhuman.]]

* Some comics in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse speculate SocietyIsToBlame for Muggle Power. Super-heroes are extraordinary people with amazing abilities and dedicate their lives to improving the world around them, so normal humans feel weak and selfish by comparison. The Kingpin ties this into IJustWantToBeNormal and TallPoppySyndrome in TheReasonYouSuckSpeech in ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' #80.

** This trope [[DownplayedTrope isn't exactly in play]], but every major supernatural power is well aware that civilization has put the framework for a strong Type 2 well in place. Hence, despite all of the bickering and rivalries, there's a tacit agreement to keep humanity [[TheMasquerade ignorant of their collective existence]] for fear [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction of the consequences to all parties involved]]. Harry once made the comparison that regular humans are the nuclear option of the supernatural world; when two scary guys duke it out where the public can see them, even if one is on their side, regular people would burn the both of them at the stake to be able to sleep at night.

** In Season 5, they introduce a hate-group who drive around in a van gunning down anybody who has powers, even if they've done nothing wrong, and they do not hesitate if the superpowered targets are ''children''. [[spoiler: They recruit Hoyt, and explain that [[TallPoppySyndrome they're tired of superpowered people making them feel not-special by their very presence, so they will kill them all]]. It's revealed that they were founded by an overweight woman whose boyfriend dumped her for a Shifter.]]

* Lena Luthor in ''Series/Supergirl2015'' takes a Type 1 stance from Season 3 onwards, in light of the apparent menace that superpowered aliens become to Earthlings. This leads her to try and experiment with the remains of the Harun-El stone when she discovers it could potentially give powers to humans.

** The backstory of the film is that everybody loved supers, at first, and then they literally sued them out of existence; after Mr. Incredible was sued for his slightly rough thwarting of a man's attempted suicide, it opened the gateways for a wave of such claims, until the government forced the supers to go underground. Making things worse, one could argue that this was ''all Buddy's fault''; things might have just stopped with that first {{Jerkass}} if not for the fact that, on the same night, his disastrously malfunctioning rocketboots smashed a train-tracked bridge, and the passengers from that train then sued Mr. Incredible for ''stopping them from crashing''.

* ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'': [[NebulousEvilOrganisation TAROT]] funds a lot of anti-superhuman "grassroots" organizations, and bribes politicians worldwide to legally restrict superheroes. The ultimate goal, of course, is to make it harder for the heroes to interfere with their operations, but a side effect is a growing hostility in some quarters between normal human beings and supers.

Opposite of ComesGreatResponsibility and MugglesDoItBetter.

* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' shows [[{{Masquerade}} the few humans aware of Contractors]] having a "if you can't beat 'em, '''employ''' them" attitude, with the majority of the Contractors being aggressively headhunted and employed as '[[LivingWeapon special operatives]]' by various national security agencies like MI6, the CIA, or by [[TheSyndicate the mysterious criminal 'syndicate']] that employs Hei. [[spoiler:It eventually turns out that all these agencies are part of a single conspiracy to [[FinalSolution wipe contractors clean off the face of the Earth]]. This led to the formation of a LaResistance-style group determined to wall off the Gates so that the Contractor-genocide wouldn't be possible, even though they would have wiped out all of Japan in the process. Hei [[TakeAThirdOption does not approve of either option.]]]]

** Before Comicbook/HouseOfM, there was a movement among humans calling themselves the U-Men who believed they could become greater than mutants by harvesting and grafting mutant body parts onto themselves. Among the list of parts taken are the eyes of a kid with X-ray vision, the wings off a flying mutant girl, and even keeping a kid with electric powers imprisoned to use blood transfusions from him to gain powers.
** This has become a major case of BrokenAesop over the course of the various comics in the ''X-Men'' family. A great many storylines have revolved around some awesomely powerful evil mutant(s) openly threatening the world and scaring the heck out of the general population. Sure, the X-teams usually manage to stop whoever it is, but not before the landscape as been chewed up a bit. While the mutants are meant to be seen sympathetically by the readers, given the circumstances humanity's fear of mutants actually seems very rational, in particular since the [[SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat power level of mutant villains]] seems to always be increasing. Then again, [[TheDogBitesBack how many of those mutants]][[SelfFulfillingProphecy became villains in the first place]] because "baseline" humans [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds treated them with fear and hatred?]]

* ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt''[='s=] [[TheRival Copen]] lives in a future where people with powerful psychic abilities known as Adepts have ravaged the world outside of the city where the game and its sequel take place, and the MegaCorp that practically owns the city subjugates the ones that do live within the city to further their grip on the world. His solution? [[PowerCopying He copies of powers of fallen Adepts]] using his advanced weapons and uses them to further his goal of wiping Adepts from the face of the planet, including TheHero, because [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity he believes Adepts are irredeemable monsters who are too dangerous to be allowed to live]]... [[{{Revenge}} and because one killed his father]].

** By contrast, Agent Liberty, the BigBad of Season 4, and his anti-alien [[FantasticRasicm hate group]] take the Type 2 stance, seeing all aliens as dangerous invaders and seeking to expel them from Earth and/or exterminate them, in a fairly blatant [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything allegory]] to real-world xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment.