History Main / NobleBigot

* The Aryan from the ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' book "Allies" is meant to be used this way to get the players to ask themselves how they react to a fellow hero who's also a sane, well-intentioned fascist. He does honestly believe he's a member of the master race, but rather than seeing this an excuse to oppress other races he sees it as his moral imperative to protect and guide them. Hasn't kept him from being rejected for membership in every hero team out there, though.

* Grandpa Joseph from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' has a dislike of all things Japanese. This is because his daughter Holly married a Japanese jazz musician and moved away to Japan to be with her husband. As a result he doesn't get to see his daughter or grandson much, and blames Japan for tearing his family apart. It rarely comes up after the first few bits, however, and he's otherwise a very worldly sort of individual.

* Rorschach from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''. He DoesNotLikeWomen and is homophobic (both apparently the result of the abuses of his childhood that makes him recoil from any expression of sexuality), but he does try to do the right thing a lot of the time (albeit from his own effed up perspective). Similarly, earlier heroes [[TheCape Captain Metropolis]] and [[TheCowl Hooded Justice]], both seriously racist. (Not homophobic, though - in fact, they were a ''couple''.)

* Walt Kowalski from ''Film/GranTorino'', even toward the end of the movie after being adopted as a new grandparent by a Hmong family, still referred a particular Asian girl as "Yum Yum" when he couldn't pronounce her name.

* Charles Emerson Winchester III from M*A*S*H is a elitist snob who regularly demonstrates derision for those he says are beneath him, but he secretly has a charitable side.

* ''Series/SWAT2017'': Annie scolds Chris over explaining her polyamory to Lila, Deacon and Annie’s young daughter. Whilst she initially explains that it’s because Lila will now ask awkward questions about the relationship, Annie ultimately admits that she probably wouldn’t have asked Chris to be Victoria’s godmother if she’d known about it. Otherwise, she's a very sweet woman, and appears to have made up with Chris later.

** High Elves are virtually all Noble Bigots, being incredibly haughty, aristocratic and condescending towards all non-elves, but at the same time devoted to fighting the forces of Chaos and protecting the world and its people from destruction. The entire elven race is afflicted with a sense of its own superiority over everyone else, but where this causes the Dark Elves to despise and enslave others and the Wood Elves to ignore them, in the High Elves it manifests as a patronising tendency towards helping the poor "lesser" races who couldn't possibly survive without High Elf help. One or two High Elves are aware of their racial prejudices - Teclis for instance - but most see it as the natural order of things. That elvenkind is naturally gifted far beyond the race of man provides a foundation for their monstrous egos.

* Khelgar Ironfist from ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2''. Initally hates Neeshka because she's a tiefling. Hates Elanee because she's an elf. Through his sidequest though you can get him to see his attitudes are an injustice. If you complete that quest he never quite forget them but he far more willing to let the person's actions speak.

** On the boys side, (though less in the English [[AdaptationalNiceGuy version]]) we have Kaito Momota who says quite a few things that could be considered sexist. However like Tenko, he has his friends interests at heart.

** Claudus cares about and does a good job of ensuring the safety and well being of his people and Tygra has a good heart underneath his jerkish exterior, but both have a distinct dislike of Lizards, and Tygra holds a bad opinion of Dogs. These beliefs are common for most of the Cats living in Thundera though due to generations of conflict between the two.

* ''ComicBook/AllNewUltimates'': Played with Scorge takes this more along the lines of WellIntentionedExtremist levels while his actions combined with the hate speech after being captured puts him in PoliticallyIncorrectVillain territory his killing The Watchdog member who sprang his out showed how discussed his was by their rhetoric.

* The ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode "Troq" featured Val-Yor, an intergalactic space hero who enlists the Titans' help to defeat an otherworldly menace. Unfortunately, his people are extremely prejudiced against Starfire's people, and he repeatedly uses the slur "Troq" (meaning "nothing") when speaking to her. He gets along so well with the other titans (green-skinned elf boy, demon girl, black cyborg, and the TokenHuman) that they think "Troq" is a harmless term until she corrects them. He ultimately parts with the Titans on chilly terms.

The noble bigot prides himself -— it usually ''is'' a man, due to gendered stereotypes —- on doing the right thing and making sure that those in need are taken care of, yet in the same instance has no qualms with labeling those different from himself with [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero unreasonably prejudiced terms]] and [[YouAreACreditToYourRace backhanded compliments]]. Although the noble bigot basically wallows in his own {{jerkass}} nature, he's not considered truly villainous. His bigotry might even be motivated by a misguided desire to be good and "loyal" rather than a CategoryTraitor, and might even tie into his positive traits (i.e. he considers himself to be superior, and superior people are ''supposed'' to be polite, honorable, etc). Other characters either are constantly revolted by his nature, or brush it off as it just being in his nature, in the hope that others will get used to it. It may or may not prove to be PretendPrejudice.

** Artie is also a genuinely good person, but so hyper-intelligent that he has trouble relating to people and is often condescending to those he considers beneath him.

* Film/DirtyHarry Callahan "doesn't play favorites." He hates all races, including his own.

** Harry, the Gryffindors, and the other Houses could be considered this, given their attitude about [[AmbitionIsEvil Slytherin House]]. It's open for interpretation, as the books present them as being in the right to not trust any Slytherin.

*** He also (maybe) acknowledges that Lady Margolotta (a vampire) isn't a ''complete'' monster (though he doesn't like her and as she admits, vampires are predators by nature and even the ones who try to be good aren't necessarily very nice), and highly values Angua (a werewolf), Detritus (a troll), Cheery (a dwarf), and all the other Watchmen he works with, because they're no longer just dwarves/trolls/werewolves/vampires... they're [[TrueCompanions watchmen]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}

* Virtually every good or even heroic Imperial human in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' is also a bigot at the very least. Standard Imperium policy holds the AbsoluteXenophobe as the '''ideal''', with every citizen conditioned to hate and fear the unknown. They are further encouraged to kill every mutant, heretic, and alien they encounter (if possible). Even characters who get on reasonably well with aliens like Literature/CiaphasCain have to work through their disgust while holding a conversation. With characters from the [[SuperSoldier Adeptus Astartes]], respect for the xeno only comes if they prove a [[WorthyOpponent worthy foe]].

A well-drawn NobleBigot can be used for AnAesop against self-righteously writing others off because of aspects of their character.

** On the boys side, (though less in the English [[AdaptatioalNiceGuy version) we have Kaito Momota who says quite a few things that could be considered sexist. However like Tenko, he has his friends interests at heart.

** [[spoiler: Depending on who you ask, Kokichi could also be this as while he messes with Keebo about his robot body, he does seem to care about his friends in the end dying having known he saved Maki's life.]]

** On the boys side, (at least in Japanese) we have Kaito Momota who says quite a few things that could be considered sexist. However like Tenko, he has his friends interests at heart.

* Haruka Suzushiro of ''Anime/MaiHime'', the upstanding if somewhat overzealous head of the disciplinary committee, implies that she finds lesbianism disgusting.

* Rorschach from ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}''. He DoesNotLikeWomen and is homophobic (both apparently the result of the abuses of his childhood that makes him recoil from any expression of sexuality), but he does try to do the right thing a lot of the time (albeit from his own effed up perspective). Similarly, earlier heroes [[TheCape Captain Metropolis]] and [[TheCowl Hooded Justice]], both seriously racist. (Not homophobic, though - in fact, they were a ''couple''.)

* ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'': ''Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}'' is very biased against parahumans, and she doesn't even trust super-powered crimefighters. Even so, she's a crime-fighter who is committed to protecting people, she at least respects Franchise/WonderWoman a bit and befriends ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'', and at the end, she appears to have gotten over her bigotry a bit. And she isn't as bad as ''Comicbook/LexLuthor'' at any rate (She merely wants parahumans out of her city. Luthor wants them dead and doesn't even regard them as human beings)

* ''FanFic/DumbledoresArmyAndTheYearOfDarkness'' has various DA members who happen to believe in pureblood supremacy. Rather oddly handled, though - in many cases, their only noble quality is being willing to fight Voldemort, and they still seem to hate all the mudbloods and non-bigots they're fighting with.

* Aizawa proves himself to be one in the ''FanFic/SleeperHitAU''. In order to make room in his class for Shinsou, he decides to expel the student who scores the lowest in his Quirk Assessment test... only to fudge the results after the [[UnSorcerer Quirkless Midoriya]], who trained extensively to compensate for that, scores higher than Hagakure. Deciding that her invisibility has much more potential, he claims that Midoriya scored the lowest, even [[InternalReveal outing him as Quirkless]] to the whole class while declaring that he won't get any 'special treatment'. While he ''does'' come to regret this decision, and attempted to compensate for his actions long before the truth comes out, it still [[BrokenPedestal shatters the regard]] others once held him in.

* ''FanFic/ATacticiansTestimony'': Early on, Katri is prejudiced against Sacaeans, but nonetheless makes friends with Lyn and helps her out of gratitude, since Lyn saved her life. After the events of "Blood of Pride," in which [[{{Jerkass}} Marquess Araphen]] refuses to help them against Lundgren out of FantasticRacism and openly demeans and [[DehumanizingInsult dehumanizes]] Lyn to her face, Katri is [[JerkassRealization disgusted]] that she used to think of Sacaeans the same way as him and does a complete 180.

* Kormac the Templar from ''Videogame/{{Diablo III}}'' considers the WitchDoctor and [[BarbarianHero Barbarian]] to be uncultured savages, but will still travel and fight alongside them if they request his assistance and will praise the barbarian for their courage and incorruptibility. Towards the end of the game, he will express gratitude that his time spent alongside the heroes has given him cause to challenge his own prejudices.
* Maximilian Strauss from ''Videogame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' manages to be ageist, sexist, racist ''and ''classist, but still manages to be quite decent. His prejudice is far more patronising than vitriolic, he is generally quite helpful and unfailingly polite, and he is also very self-aware and never refuses to consider that his prejudices may have caused lapses in his judgement.

* The Brotherhood of Steel are portrayed as Noble Bigots in ''Videogame/{{Fallout 4}}'', particularly their leader, Arthur Maxson, and Paladin Danse. They believe in the protection of the Commonwealth, and the need to ruthlessly exterminate its ghoul, Super Mutant and Synth inhabitants to make it a safer place for humans.

[[folder:Web Comics]]

* ''WebComic/SkinHorse'': Sweetheart does her level best to be a good Civil Servant and help her charges as best she can. However, she is also a self-loathing homophobic closeted lesbian and has been known to go off on blisteringly racist rants when drunk.

* Grandpa Joseph from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' has a dislike of all things Japanese. This is because his daughter Holly married a Japanese jazz musician and moved away to Japan to be with her husband. As a result he doesn't get to see his daughter or grandson much, and blames Japan for tearing his family apart. It rarely comes up after the first few bits, however, and he's otherwise a very worldly sort of individual.

* *Mute from the visual novel ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'' is extremely open about her sexism and homophobia, yet shows compassion and even admiration for actual women and lesbians, if heavily filtered by her prejudices. In ''VisualNovel/HatePlus'' in the aftermath of [[spoiler:*Mute's suicide]] you learn that [[spoiler:her original, factory-state programming has no such bigoted ideas--they were very much taught and in large part literally programmed by the patriarchal Ryu dynasty.]]

The noble bigot prides himself -— it usually ''is'' a man, due to gendered stereotypes —- on doing the right thing and making sure that those in need are taken care of, yet in the same instance has no qualms with labeling those different from himself with [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain unreasonably prejudiced terms]] and [[YouAreACreditToYourRace backhanded compliments]]. Although the noble bigot basically wallows in his own {{jerkass}} nature, he's not considered truly villainous. His bigotry might even be motivated by a misguided desire to be good and "loyal" rather than a CategoryTraitor, and might even tie into his positive traits (i.e. he considers himself to be superior, and superior people are ''supposed'' to be polite, honorable, etc). Other characters either are constantly revolted by his nature, or brush it off as it just being in his nature, in the hope that others will get used to it. It may or may not prove to be PretendPrejudice.

The noble bigot prides himself — it usually ''is'' a man, due to gendered stereotypes — on doing the right thing and making sure that those in need are taken care of, yet in the same instance has no qualms with labeling those different from himself with [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain unreasonably prejudiced terms]] and [[YouAreACreditToYourRace backhanded compliments]]. Although the noble bigot basically wallows in his own {{jerkass}} nature, he's not considered truly villainous. His bigotry might even be motivated by a misguided desire to be good and "loyal" rather than a CategoryTraitor, and might even tie into his positive traits (i.e. he considers himself to be superior, and superior people are ''supposed'' to be polite, honorable, etc). Other characters either are constantly revolted by his nature, or brush it off as it just being in his nature, in the hope that others will get used to it. It may or may not prove to be PretendPrejudice.

* [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Fenris]] has a deep hatred and mistrust of mages, having been a slave in the Imperium and seen firsthand the depravities they're capable of. He also hates slavers and is one of the more morally centered party members. To his credit, Fenris recognizes that while he holds his attitude for mages in general exceptions can be found in individuals, and if pointed out will admit that some of his views are hypocritical. He will thank mages (Hawke) that have assisted him, and the worst he'll do with unproven mages is keep an eye on them.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition''has Solas, a very strange case. He appears to be simply an elven supremacist who longs for the "good old days" of elven society. He also views non-elves as little more than children. Of course, it turns out [[spoiler: he's a nihilistic omnicidal god.]]

[[folder:Fan Fiction]]

* In the ''Manga/OnePiece''/''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' crossover ''Fanfic/AGemInTheRough", Pearl's character arc is seemingly to overcome this. Even though she respects and admires the humans in the Grand Line (especially Zoro, whom she even emulates his Santoryu style during the fight with Mr. 1), she truly believes that Gems are stronger than any human. It takes the combination of [[spoiler: a dream version of Mihawk]] and Admiral Aokiji to make her realize how wrong she is.

* The Elven hero Nasrudin in ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura''. Founded the Elven Council, devoted much of his life to righting wrongs and fighting evil, and became the inspiration for the Panarii religion...at the same time, an arrogant supremacist who was motivated to heroics by a belief that [[OurElvesAreBetter elves were the greatest, wisest race]], and who felt it was his duty to act as shepherd and protector toward what he regarded as 'lesser races.'

* ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'':