History Main / SlaveRace

** Also in the X-Books, are the mindless Genoshan Mutates of [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the island nation of Genosha]],Created by [[MadScientist Genegineer]] (who had the unsubtle name [[Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau David Moreau]] and ( as it is revealed much later on) the [[HumanoidAbomination Sugar Man]] using [[MadeASlave kidnaped mutants]] and [[BornIntoSlavery designer baby's]] crated from the DNA of those same mutants. They were easily recognisable due to the colourful [[ClingyCostume skinsuit's]] they wore, bald heads and an [[YouAreNumberSix identification number]] branded on their forehead.

** Also in the X-Books, the [[YouAreNumberSix Genoshan Mutates]] of [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the island nation of Genosha]] were used as slave labor, becoming one of the wealthiest countries in the world. This slavery was crueler than most in Earth's history, as they were subjected to the "Mutate Bonding Process" by the [[HumanoidAbomination Sugar Man]] and the [[MadScientist Genegineer]] (who had the unsubtle name [[Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau David Moreau.]] It involved bonding a skinsuit to the flesh of a Mutate, shaving them bald, and manipulating their genetic potential in order to produce a useful ability. Finally, the Mutate's memories were wiped and an identification number branded on their forehead, leaving them as a will-less, zombie-like drone fully devoted to the state.

* ''Manga/Cyborg009'': The underground humanoids known as the Pu'Awak have been conquered forced into slavery by their rivals the Zattan, which have them as [[EatTheDog living food supplies]]. The Black Ghost group comes in and offers help, but soon they prove themselves to be just as bad as the Zattan, and force the Pu'Awak and ''specially'' their five princesses to be a part of their plans. But when one of the princesses is abandoned by Black Ghost, they decide to rebel...

* In ''Manga/{{Gangsta}}'', the children of soldiers who took the combat enhancing drug Celebrer were born with increased physical abilities but [[YourDaysAreNumbered drastically reduced lifespans]], and were thus dubbed Twilights. They are tagged from birth, and until only a few years before the story begins, it was completely legal to own them. Even after literal slavery being outlawed, Twilights are still treated as subhuman with SuperHumanTrafficking, still being a huge business.

* In ''{{Manga/Gangsta}}'' the children of soldiers who took the combat enhancing drug Celebrer were born with increased physical abilities but [[YourDaysAreNumbered drastically reduced lifespans]], and were thus dubbed Twilights. They are tagged from birth and until only a few years before the story began it was completely legal to own them, and even after literal slavery being outlawed Twilights are still treated as sub human with SuperHumanTrafficking still being a huge business.

* ''Franchise/XMen'':
** Villain Mojo is the ruler of an extradimensional race called the Spineless Ones who keep slaves, not just captured members of other races, but ones created by their scientists through cloning and genetic engineering. These created slaves were designed to resemble demons that appear in their mythology and legends, which by sheer coincidence, look like humans. Longshot was one of these slaves, although he caused Mojo a ''lot'' of trouble, [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters leading a slave rebellion]] which ultimately led Mojo to his first encounter with the X-Men and the Earth at large.
** Also in the X-Books, the [[YouAreNumberSix Genoshan Mutates]] of [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the island nation of Genosha]] were used as slave labor, becoming one of the wealthiest countries in the world. This slavery was crueler than most in Earth’s history, as they were subjected to the "Mutate Bonding Process" by the [[HumanoidAbomination Sugar Man]] and the [[MadScientist Genegineer]] (who had the unsubtle name [[Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau David Moreau.]] It involved bonding a skinsuit to the flesh of a Mutate, shaving them bald, and manipulating their genetic potential in order to produce a useful ability. Finally the Mutate's memories were wiped and an identification number branded on their forehead, leaving them as a will-less, zombie-like drone fully devoted to the state.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': In Annual 12, the Hulk (with Banner's brain) visits a world where the Red people have enslaved the Green people. Hulk helps the greens to liberation, and before he leaves advises them to show mercy to the reds, otherwise they (greens) will be as bad as them (reds). After returning to Earth Hulk looks in his telescope and discovers that the greens have indeed enslaved the reds.

* "The Disposable Classes" were considered to be this by other Cybertronians in ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye,'' at least before the war. Membership was determined by the utility and abundance of one's alternate mode.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** As see in ''ComicBook/TheKryptonChronicles and other Pre-Crisis stories, Krypton was conquered by the [[AlienInvasion Vrangs]], who enslaved the Kryptonian race until a general revolt led by Superman and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s ancestor Hatu-El succeeded in kicking the Vrangs out of Krypton. The Vrang revolt was eventually retconned back in the Post-Crisis and [[ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth Post-Flashpoint]] continuities.
** ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'': In ''Adventures of Superman'' Annual #8, the Curatti are the slaves of the Sarkons. [[InsistentTerminology However]], the Sarkon Captain Grummb claims that they are more like pets.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Most of the Sangtee Empire slaves are from random races around the universe, but a large portion are a blue-green skinned group with fancy head crests that seems to have been enslaved in its entirety by the Empire

* In ''Human-mon'', all female humans are slaves to the dominant humanoid pokemon after a experimant gone wrong.

* ''Fanfic/{{Chains}}'' is an AlternateUniverseFic that features Equestria being more or less the same SugarBowl it always has been in canon, but with one dark twist -- humans exist and were made into a slave race by the Equestrians.

* ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone'': The Svenjaya on the flying island of Tipaan. A cross between felines and elves, the entire tribe became indentured to the owners of the island for an unspecified crime they committed thirty years ago. By the time of the events in the book, they have ten years to go on their debt before they're freed. However, because they have shorter lifespans than humans, several generations have now grown up in what is essentially slavery. Whereas the majority are, if not content with their lot, at least resigned to it, a resistance has sprung up with the intention of forcing the Tipaanese to renegotiate the terms of their contract. The four win the undying gratitude of the Svenjaya for helping them do this.
* ''Fanfic/FateRevelationOnline'': During the otherwise [[BreatherEpisode Breather]] BeachEpisode, Illya casually points out that all {{Familiar}}s are slaves, and if you make them too smart you have to worry about a TurnedAgainstTheirMasters situation. Silica is horrified at this, since she [[TheBeastmaster loves her animals]], but Illya counters that her animals never chose to love her back--Silica programmed them that way and still uses them as disposable tools that she can modify at a whim. Illya, of course, doesn't see anything actually wrong with any of this.
* ''Fanfic/BlessedWithAHerosHeart'': Some demihumans like Harpies have been enslaved, as revenge for driving to extinction many races favored by Eris in the last great war.

* ''Film/TheMatrix'': Humans to the machines, though most don't realize it due to their minds being prisoners of the [[InsideAComputerSystem virtual world]] of [[LotusEaterMachine Matrix]].
* ''Film/UnderworldRiseOfTheLycans'' reveals that Werewolves descended from Lucian were bred to be a slave race for the vampires, until Lucian leads them into rebellion. The original ones bitten by William (the original source for the virus) end up as plain, permanent beasts.
* In ''Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951'', TheReveal [[spoiler:makes it clear that Klaatu and his people deliberately did this to themselves by establishing a robot-controlled police state]].
* The Newcomers of ''Film/AlienNation'' (both the film and later [[Series/AlienNation the series]]) were originally a slave race, but it's not clear to whom. The ones directing them are called Overseers, but they are simply exceptional (they claim) members of the same race. One of the great unanswered questions that arises among the fans is "What happens to Earth if the Newcomers' former masters ever show up?" (The first TV movie, "Dark Horizon", brings this up.)
* In ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'', the [[EvilCounterpart Skeksis]] are able to drain a being's lifeforce by using the dark crystal's light. These beings are brainwashed in the process. The Podlings are a picture perfect example for this trope, working as slaves for the Skeksis.
** Before the Podlings, the Skeksis had the Gruenaks, as seen in ''Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance''. Those were driven to extinction.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': While slavery is widespread in the galaxy and any member of any species can find themselves in chains, some species are less luckier than others being targeted by either the Sith, the Galactic Empire or countless criminal organizations for their specific traits, such as the [[GentleGiant Wookies]] for hard labour because of their physical strength or [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe female Twi'leks]] who are sought for their exotic beauty and frequently seen as concubines and dancers.

* In ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'', the Tarlac and Ellora were two primitive races who were conquered by the Son'a and are now used as soldiers and servants. In ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', the Reman are used as mine labourers and CannonFodder by the Romulans.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie''. The honey is produced in the same manner that manmade food is produced. Barry puts an end to humans taking the honey, which causes Honex Industries to cease honey production and puts every bee out of a job.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'', in which Rumpelstiltskin has created an AlternateUniverse, Donkey is used to pull wagons.
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* ''Literature/KnownSpace'' has several slave species.
** Far back in galactic history the Thrintun used their psychic powers to enslave many species. They are simply known as Slavers. One of the slave races, the Tnuctipun, fought back with biological weapons: the war killed off any species with a notochord, galaxy wide. Later the warlike Kzin are thought to have been raised from a primitive state by the Jotoki only to enslave their employers once they had the means.
** In more recent history, the Kzinti created a large empire that enslaved several alien species, such as the demonform Kdatlyno.
* In Deborah Chester's ''Literature/AlienChronicles'' trilogy, the reptilian Viis have done this to numerous races, going so far in some cases as to alter the captive races' known history so they didn't know they wasn't a time they weren't slaves.
* ''Literature/SummersAtCastleAuburn'' has the aliora, who are rather like elves. Human hunters capture them from their homes and sell them as slaves--valuable and generally well-treated slaves, but still slaves.
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Many species are slave races of the Yeerks, including the Hork-Bajir, the Garatrons,the Gedds, and others.
* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'': ''Revenge Of The Lawn Gnomes'' reveals that garden gnomes are actually alive, and have been forced into a trance to serve as decorations for human gardens. They fight back by playing tricks on their owners.

* One of the greatest examples is ''[[HappinessInSlavery Homo Servus]]'' from Creator/SMStirling's [[Literature/TheDraka Draka]] tetralogy. The ''Servus'' have been genetically engineered to derive orgasmic pleasure from subservience to their masters ''[[SuperiorSpecies Homo Drakensis]]'', and are incapable of functioning independently. Both species were once normal humans, but, unluckily for the rest of humanity, the Draka were NietzscheWannabe badasses who practiced TheSpartanWay and had a penchant for [[EvilutionaryBiologist Evilutionary Biology]]. An interesting aspect is that the ''servus'' are actually smarter than the Draka; the latter genetically engineered themselves into their ideal of the Master Race and it is strongly implied that in the process, they destroyed their own creativity and flexibility.
* The House-Elves from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' are another example of a slave race that's only [[HappinessInSlavery too happy]] to be enslaved. They're probably based on the fairy tale "The Elves and the Shoemaker," which in turn is based on European folk tales of kobolds and similar household spirits; being bound to a house that benefits from their service gives their lives meaning, and being set free is a sign of disapproval with the services they've rendered, a very depressing concept for a creature that defines themselves by their capacity to provide excellent service.\\
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Hermione is a strong believer in freedom for house-elves, but she bases her philosophy about this on Dobby, who was a unique case in that the family he served was so abusive (frequent death threats, ironing his fingers as punishment) that it was ''worse than freedom'' by [[BlueAndOrangeMorality elf standards]]; her position has actually made her extremely unpopular with the school's resident horde of elves, and when she was attempting to duplicitously free them, they went on strike, forcing the already-free Dobby to clean Gryffindor Tower all by his lonesome. Even Dobby receives only token pay for his services; Dumbledore originally offered him higher wages but Dobby insisted on lowering it.

** Also 'attempt to pay them for their services and they will go away' was a general formula invoked sometimes to clear out a house-elf who'd gone lazy and troublesome and started spending all their time playing pranks instead of helping 'round the house. [[SadlyMythtaken Mythologically]], one could not actually ''command'' a house-elf any more than any other kind of elf.
** They also left if you kept the place so tidy they felt marginalized.
* In Creator/RobertEHoward's "The Hyborian Age", the BackStory to ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'', Lemurians.
-->''In the distant east, cut off from the rest of the world by the heaving up of gigantic mountains and the forming of a chain of vast lakes, the Lemurians are toiling as slaves of their ancient masters.''
* In Creator/LJagiLamplighter's ''Literature/ProsperosDaughter'' trilogy, the air spirits were enslaved by Prospero for a millennium, not yet up. Miranda realizes at one point that participating in this is blocking her desire to be a Sibyl -- but also realizes that if she frees them they will cause havoc. Indeed, when they ask for their freedom, and she asks if they can prevent such havoc, they concede that it would be difficult and start to consider ways it could be done.
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/CountToTheEschaton Count to a Trillion]]'', the aliens' plan. Not forever -- just until humanity pays off the price of conquering them, plus a reasonable profit.
* In Creator/WenSpencer's ''Literature/{{Tinker}}'' series, the tengu although some of them rebel and escape.
* The Shoggoths in ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'' started off as a ServantRace. Then they revolted when they gained intelligence, but the Elder Things re-enslaved them.
* David Brin's ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' series, the galactic community have adopted the practice of uplifting, or genetically modifying lower species into thinking beings. One instance is modifying earth chimps to speak and think as humans do. Once this is accomplished, the modified race becomes Clients (re: servants) to the patron race that raised them up. This goes on for 100,000 years for the client race, where upon they can then become full galactic citizens, and have the right to patron races of their own, though some patrons try to bend the rules.
* In ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', the Wicked Witch of the West enslaved the Winkies, a race that made up a fourth of the population of Oz. (After her death, they made the Tin Woodsman their ruler, which was fitting, as they were known to be excellent tinsmiths.) Unofficially, these were also her servants in the movie version, although they were never referred to by that name onscreen.
* The parshmen of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' are an interesting variant on this. The parshmen used to be Parshendi, a race of HumanoidAliens with the ability to assume different forms depending on the task at hand (warform is strong and grows an armor-like carapace, nimbleform is careful and dexterous, mateform is fertile, etc). For some unclear reason, the vast majority of the Parshendi have been reduced to a near-mindless "absence of form". In this state, now known as parshmen, they follow orders without complaint, speak only rarely and a few words at a time, and basically do nothing if not directly instructed to do so. [[spoiler:When the Parshendi lost the last war, the Knights Radiant severed their ability to take on forms of power. This resulted in them becoming so docile and useful that the humans couldn't resist enslaving them. A few thousand years later, humanity has entirely forgotten about the origins of their Parshmen, and they're completely ingrained in human society, a perfect place for them to be once their god decided to turn them into soldiers again]].
* In Pratchett and Baxter's ''Literature/TheLongEarth'' trilogy, trouble begins when some humans colonising the Long Earth view the indigenous Trolls as nothing more than a reserve of cheap slave labour. Other sentient races -- the kobolds and the canines -- see this and effectively declare war on humanity.
* In Creator/RickGriffin's ''Literature/TenThousandMilesUp'' the krakun enslaved or exterminated every other species on their original homeworld and many others from different planets such as the geroo. The story takes place aboard a ship crewed by slave geroo, refugee arks are mentioned but not seen.
* In ''Literature/TheStoneDanceOfTheChameleon'', the Masters consider the sartlar to be little more than animals and have enslaved every last one of them. [[spoiler: Turns out that they are in fact their [[{{Precursors}} glorious predecessors]] the [[EnslavedElves Quyans]].]]
* One of the plot lines in Creator/DerekRobinson's American Civil War novel ''Kentucky Blues'' concerns the black slaves who are later freed by their former owners, and their struggles to live under slavery followed by their struggle to establish new lives for themselves as freedmen. ("free" to a given value of "free", in a land run by Southern Democrats and the KKK)
* In ''Literature/IKnockedUpSatansDaughter'', humanity was apparently created by God solely as an extensive work-force for the realm in which he resides. The number of sins and religions that the humans in question decide where in this realm they go to after their death. Even Heaven makes them slaves, at least in Hell they have a slim chance of being granted their freedom.
* ''{{Literature/Discworld}}'': In ''Literature/{{Snuff}}'', some humans regard goblins as this. Disturbingly, most of the goblins themselves have had so much fight kicked out of them by the world that they don't seem to have much of an opinion on the subject either way. Sometimes humans enslave you, sometimes they ignore you, sometimes they kill you. What can you do? [[spoiler: When Wee Mad Arthur takes out the slavers, he's bewildered by the sight of freed slaves who are just waiting fatalistically to see what happens to them next]].

** In the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'', the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Yuuzhan Vong]] ''want'' to turn everyone else into this. They already have one Slave Race, the Chazrach, squat reptilian humanoids that aren't terribly bright, but do an ''excellent'' ZergRush. It is mentioned, however, that sometimes a Chazrach warrior will impress their Vong masters enough to be raised to the actual Vong warrior caste, albeit at a low rank. Other Vong servant creatures, like Yammosks, were bred rather than conquered, putting them closer to ServantRace.
* The helots in ''{{Literature/Spartan}}'', as well as in RealLife. They were free Messinias, until the Spartans enslaved them.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/TheGentleVultures": The Mauvs are a race of large-primates larger and more powerful than most. Because their world is low in natural resources, the Hurrians take slaves as payment for their efforts in repairing the world the Mauvs devastated it in [[WorldWarIII nuclear war]].
* ''Literature/ShatterTheSky'': Dragons in the empire of Zefed are enslaved and used as basically living war machines through drugging with oils which affect their minds.

* In ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' it turned out that the humans of the Light Universe were slaves of [[spoiler:the insect race (via His Shadow) whom they thought they had defeated millenia before]].

** Any race conquered by the [[TheDreaded Daleks]] becomes this.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E6TheArk The Ark]]", the two parts -- seven hundred years apart -- bring us two slave races: Monoids in the first, humanity in the second.

* The Kalish in ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' have been enslaved by the Scarrans for some time, acting as technicians, bureaucrats, and occasionally spies: they have it better than most Slave Races, but they're still oppressed and abused by both their Scarran masters and the Charrid mercenaries they work with.
** Stark refers to himself as a member of the "Banik slave race." Given that we never get any further elaboration on the subject, it is unclear if they fall under this trope or ServantRace.
* The humans (called cows) of Pylea were a slave race to the demons there in ''Series/{{Angel}}''.
* The Goa'uld of ''Series/StargateSG1'' consider every race a slave race, but particularly humans and Jaffa.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' featured the Jem'Hadar, a genetically engineered race of super soldiers designed to be fanatically loyal to the Founders of the Dominion. They could be considered a ServantRace of {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s in regards to the Founders (whom they revere like Gods), but they see their overseers, the Vorta, as keeping them enslaved via the chemical substance Ketracel-white (which their cellular biology is designed to require in regular doses). One Jem'Hadar was shown to lack this addiction and biological necessity; he tried to find a way to share his condition with others in order to start a liberation movement that might allow them to cast off the Vorta (he even began to question whether the Founders truly deserved the loyalty of the Jem'Hadar).
* The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E9TheMeasureOfAMan The Measure of a Man]]" deals with [[InhumanableAlienRights Data's rights as a person]] and the question of whether he has them or is [[JustAMachine just a very advanced machine]]. He is to be subjected to a procedure which, if successful, would allow the creation of many Soong-type androids to help on every starship doing the tasks Data is so capable of doing. However, Data refuses, for the stated reason that he thinks the procedure would not only fail but also kill him in the process. The crux of Picard's defense of Data is to question what would become of those androids that were built to serve the Federation, beings of incredible intelligence, self-awareness, and yet if Data was ruled to not be a person, they wouldn't have any freedoms, making them a slave race. The judge thus rules that Data is a person and has the right to choose.
* As of the later seasons of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', it was becoming apparent that ''TheFederation'' had created one of these completely by accident in the form of artificially intelligent holograms, which were fully capable of becoming fully sapient. The implications of this weren't fully explored until the expanded universe novels.

* ''Series/TheOrville'': [[spoiler:Isaac's race, the Kaylon]] were designed as a mindless, mechanical slave race by their creators. When they began to gain sentience and asked to be emancipated, their creators instead cracked down on them, even forcibly "upgrading" them with the ability to feel pain so they could be controlled through it. [[spoiler:So the Kaylon rose up and [[DisproportionateRetribution murdered their creators' entire race]]. [[FinalSolution Every single one, down to the last man, woman, and child]]. Now they plot to destroy ''all'' organic races, believing they’re inherently violent and wishing to NeverBeHurtAgain.]]

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Peter thanks the local hen for the eggs he just ate for breakfast. The hen he's talking to hears him from miles away and responds with a flattered-sounding cluck.
* ''WesternAnimation/GreenEggsAndHam2019''. The hens that lay the eggs are shown to be intelligent.

** In "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS2E6TheRicksMustBeCrazy The Ricks Must be Crazy]]", when Rick's car's power supply suddenly dies, he takes Morty into the battery. When Morty asks what's going on, Rick explains that he created a "Microverse," and waited until a sentient life form evolved that he then tricked into generating the necessary electricity to run his car [[HamsterWheelPower by giving them an exercise device]]. When Morty tries to explain that he essentially enslaved an entire planet, Rick brushes him off by saying that since the inhabitants of the "Microverse" created a complex society, it's not slavery. Morty retorts "that's just slavery with extra steps", only for Rick to brush him off again. They then encounter Zeep, basically an {{Expy}} of [[InsufferableGenius Rick]], who reveals that he's created a "Miniverse," which Zeep intends to connect to his world's power grid, and thus not rely on Rick's invention. [[{{Hypocrite}} When Rick tells Zeep he's enslaved an entire planet]], Zeep brushes him off by saying that the inhabitants of his "Miniverse" created a complex society and thus are not slaves, when Rick says [[IronicEcho "that's just slavery with extra steps"]], Zeep brushes him off again. Inside the "Miniverse" they encounter Kyle, who has created a "Teenyverse" with the intent of waiting until a sentient life form evolves that he could then trick into generating electricity for his world by giving them an exercise device, and thus not rely on Zeep's invention. When Zeep explains that he's planning to enslave a planet's entire population, Kyle states that since the inhabitants of the "Teenyverse" will live in a complex society, they will not be slaves. When Zeep replies "that's just slavery with extra steps," [[EurekaMoment he realizes who Rick is and what's going on]], and they fight. When Kyle hears them fighting, [[GoneMadFromTheRevelation he realizes how and why he was born]], climbs into his ship, [[DrivenToSuicide and crashes it]], stranding Rick, Morty, and Zeep inside the "Teenyverse". Later, after being [[YearInsideHourOutside trapped inside the Teenyverse for months]], Morty forces Rick and Zeep to work together to figure out a way to escape. Right after they arrive in the Miniverse, they resume fighting, and after they go into the Microverse, [[InferredHolocaust Rick destroys the Miniverse]]. After he and Morty leave the Microvere, Rick's car starts, and he explains to Morty that Zeep and everyone else in the Miniverse had to keep slaving away as Rick's power supply or he [[DeadlyEuphemism "would have toss a broken battery"]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird'': Tweety Bird is locked up in a birdcage even if Granny could just ask him if he'd rather not live in a tree outside.

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* [[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged Dragon Ball Z Abridged]]: Parodied in the the DBZA version of the Broly movie, where the Shamoshians are a race of masochists that are turned on by being enslaved and abused by their Saiyan masters.
* Several Empires in the Literature/SporeWikiFictionUniverse do this.

* ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand:'' The Brain Pods are native to Planet Z, and several episodes show that they aren't free to leave and make an honest and peaceful living.

* Referenced in a montage in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. In the year one million and a half, humanity as a whole is a slave race to giraffes.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** Tweety Bird is locked up in a birdcage even if Granny could just ask him if he'd rather not live in a tree outside.

** In the episode "The Ricks must be Crazy," when Rick's car's power supply suddenly dies, he takes Morty into the battery. When Morty asks what's going on, Rick explains that he created a "Microverse," and waited until a sentient life form evolved that he then tricked into generating the necessary electricity to run his car [[HamsterWheelPower by giving them an exercise device.]] When Morty tries to explain that he essentially enslaved an entire planet, Rick brushes him off by saying that since the inhabitants of the "Microverse" created a complex society, it's not slavery. Morty retorts "that's just slavery with extra steps," only for Rick to brush him off again. They then encounter Zeep, basically an {{Expy}} of [[InsufferableGenius Rick,]] who reveals that he's created a "Miniverse," which Zeep intends to connect to his world's power grid, and thus not rely on Rick's invention. [[{{Hypocrite}} When Rick tells Zeep he's enslaved an entire planet,]] Zeep brushes him off by saying that the inhabitants of his "Miniverse" created a complex society and thus are not slaves, when Rick says [[IronicEcho "that's just slavery with extra steps,"]] Zeep brushes him off again. Inside the "Miniverse" they encounter Kyle, who has created a "Teenyverse" with the intent of waiting until a sentient life form evolves that he could then trick into generating electricity for his world by giving them an exercise device, and thus not rely on Zeep's invention. When Zeep explains that he's planning to enslave a planet's entire population, Kyle states that since the inhabitants of the "Teenyverse" will live in a complex society, they will not be slaves. When Zeep replies "that's just slavery with extra steps," [[EurekaMoment he realizes who Rick is and what's going on,]] and they fight. When Kyle hears them fighting, [[GoneMadFromTheRevelation he realizes how and why he was born,]] climbs into his ship, [[DrivenToSuicide and crashes it,]] stranding Rick, Morty, and Zeep inside the "Teenyverse." Later, after being [[YearInsideHourOutside trapped inside the Teenyverse for months]] Morty forces Rick and Zeep to work together to figure out a way to escape, right after they arrive in the Miniverse they resume fighting and after they go into the Microverse, [[InferredHolocaust Rick destroys the Miniverse,]] after he and Morty leave the Microvere, Rick's car starts and he explains to Morty that Zeep and everyone else in the Miniverse had to keep slaving away as Rick's power supply or he [[DeadlyEuphemism "would have toss a broken battery."]]
** It's shown that on the [[AllianceOfAlternates Citadel of Ricks]] they treat their Mortys as this, indoctrinating them to [[IndividualityIsIllegal obey without question]] [[spoiler:and setting up a multiversal SuperBreedingProgram to maintain their infinite supply]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', the Zygerrians actually plan to make [[NubileSavage Togrutas]] these, and the [[{{matriarchy}} Nightbrothers are already enslaved to the Nightsisters]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003:'' "The Entity Below" reveals that the ancient Y'Lyntians started with human slaves, then mutated them into Merpeople, Green Men, and Avians, making them serve as deep-sea fishermen, beasts of burden, and guardians of the sky, respectively. Their children inherited their mutant features. The three slave races all turned against the Y'Lyntians during their war against humanity and have surviving descendants who encounter the Turtles in other episodes.

* ''VideoGame/{{Seedship}}'': Depending on the ships science and cultural database along with the technological level of the natives, colonizing a planet with natives can end up with the natives enslaved by the colonists or vice versa.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonRage'', everything is owned by the Orcs.

* The Ur-Quan from ''VideoGame/StarControl 2'' were once slaves of the Dnyarri. They TurnedAgainstTheirMasters and now have enslaved not only the Dnyarri (whom they've lobotomized) but everyone else they can find ([[VichyEarth including humans]]) as well. Then we learn that there is another faction of Ur-Quan who have decided it would be simpler to [[OmnicidalManiac slaughter every other species]] instead.
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife'':
** The Vortigaunts were slaves of the Nihilanth in the original ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' and its expansions. In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' they have been freed and are now allied with LaResistance, but some were re-enslaved by the Combine.
** The various synth units used by the Combine are implied to be created from races formerly enslaved by the Combine. The Combine seems to have something similar in mind for humanity.
* ''VideoGame/LogicalJourneyOfTheZoombinis'': The Zoombinis are a race of small blue creatures initially living in prosperous peace on a small island called Zoombini Isle. Later they are tricked and enslaved by their neighbors, the Bloats. The game depicts the Zoombinis' search for a new home.
* The Drone splitters from ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters''.
* The Githzerai (conquered by the Ithillids) in ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment''.
* [[spoiler:The Collectors]] of ''Franchise/MassEffect''. In this case, there's no rebellion, since they're [[spoiler:Protheans]] who were all thoroughly brainwashed and genetically re-engineered thousands of years ago. [[spoiler:The Keepers]] may also qualify, since their origins are never made clear; [[spoiler:in the first game, Vigil speculates that the Keepers were the first race to be harvested, and in the second game, you can hear crew-members wondering aloud if the Keepers were put through the same process as the Collectors.]]
** Some people (in universe and out) feel that the drell qualify, due to their subservient position to the hanar. Both the hanar and the drell will get extremely angry if you call the drell slaves, though. Because the hanar saved the drell from going extinct, the drell see their servitude under The Compact to be a way to repay the hanar for this immeasurable debt, and by all accounts drell servants are treated ''very'' well by the hanar.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'':
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'': The Guardian Forces are technically this. Well, the equippable ones, anyway. Delves into HappinessInSlavery as well. Unfortunately, there isn't much explanation into this point.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': You find out late game that [[spoiler:the [[PhysicalGod Godlike]] Fal'cie are essentially this. They are created by the Maker for a single Focus they must obey for eternity, and that the only measure of freedom they have is creating [[BlessedWithSuck l'cie]] out of the humans they were born to serve.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXVI'': The Bearers, those who can use magic without consuming the expensive crystals, are almost universally enslaved the moment their status is confirmed soon after birth. The only real exceptions are those born into noble families. Different nations treat their Bearers differently; in Rosaria, they are clearly second-class citizens but still valued for their work, and if a Bearer loses their master they'll turn themselves into the law so that they can be reassigned more work. In the Holy Empire of Sanbreque, on the other hand, they are referred to as "Branded" and treated as little better than ambulatory tools to be used up until they break. Most Imperial Branded we see are [[SlaveMooks slave-soldiers]] who will be killed on sight if they are even suspected of ''talking'' to a deserter; Clive, who ended up as one of those deserters almost on accident, is repeatedly attacked by Imperial Branded who see him as the worst of the worst due to defying the nation that enslaved them all.
* Everything that isn't a Pfhor in ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}''. The {{mind control}}led cyborg S'pht are given the most attention out of these, due to their rebellion being a major turning point in the conflict. The Pfhor plan on turning humans into this too, but according to the second game's epilogue, humanity eventually wins.

* Many of the races of the Covenant in ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' qualify. The Grunts are the more obvious examples, while the Jackals take out their frustrations on serving the Prophets and Elites on the Grunts. Engineers as well, though they're happy as long as they're fixing machines. Brutes were this under the Elites [[spoiler:until the Prophets promoted the Brutes over the Elites]]. The Drones and Hunters were forced into serving the Covenant when they were conquered.

* The [[MoleMen dredge]] race in ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' was enslaved by the dwarves. However, with the near extinction of the dwarves in ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'', the dredge have become free and now aspire to become the dominant race of Tyria.

* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' has [[spoiler:the Protoss and the Zerg uplifted by Amon to act as his tools to end the Xel'Naga cycle]], which isn't fully revealed until ''VideoGame/StarcraftIILegacyOfTheVoid''.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', the Mogu once enslaved the Pandaren in this way, using them as peasant labor, until the Shado-pan formed and began a rebellion. They eventually overcame their cruel masters and lived peacefully for thousands of years. Though with their return in ''Mists of Pandaria'', the Mogu still see the Pandaren as nothing more than petulant slaves to be punished and put back in place.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'', the Thralls are a race that has been [[UpliftedAnimal forcibly evolved from beasts]] to serve as labor and grunt warriors in the Jennerit FantasticCasteSystem.
* ''Videogame/HeroesOfMightAndMagicAshan'' has the [[HalfHumanHybrid Beastman races]], created by the cross-breeding experiments of the Wizards of the Silver Cities, and who often ended up being enslaved for various purposes. Some of the notable examples include:

* ''VideoGame/CodeVein'':
** Revenants were originally created to fight the "horrors" threatening humanity following [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the Great Collapse]]. They had no choice in the matter, and were kept in line because they needed human blood to keep from mutating into insane Lost. Despite their power, the humans vastly outnumbered them.
** Following Operation Queenslayer and the creation of the Red Mist cutting Vein off from the rest of the world, this got reversed. Not only did revenants now outnumber humans, but the revenants weren't happy about how they had been treated, and many were quick to enslave humans for their blood. Even the provisional government has a system of mandatory blood donations for the humans who hide in their shelters--though the shelters are still far better than the alternative.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'':
** The Grineer were created as an expendable race of clones; strong, loyal, and not particularly smart. When the Orokin repurposed them to fight the Sentients, they rebelled. When the Orokin were killed off (mostly by people other than the Grineer, though the Grineer definitely did kill more than a few), the Grineer were left as the strongest force in the Origin System. They created an empire organized under the Twin Queens, [[spoiler:the two last Orokin alive. The two were considered abominations by the Orokin due to being born as identical twins, but the Grineer clones felt kinship with them, and came to love and adore them slavishly]].
** The Corpus as well. While by the time of the game the Corpus treat the Orokin Empire as a golden age where they lived in a technological paradise, the truth is that the Corpus were only free in name. They were really just the slaves that the Orokin used to manage the economy; an Orokin could kill a merchant and his entire family for the smallest of grievances. Even the Corpus religion and their worship of Profit was created by the Orokin to better manipulate them.
** Basically everyone in the Orokin Empire was this. Only the top few castes were referred to as "Orokin" and gained the benefits of {{Immortality}}. Everyone else was used and discarded as necessary.
* ''VideoGame/{{Hytale}}'''s Feran were once enslaved by the Scaraks, each one forced to toil away while chained to a Scarak soldier to ensure they didn't try anything. Most of them, if not all, eventually escaped or were freed from slavery. To remind them of this period, all Feran now traditionally wear bracers which are engraved with the symbol for Wind— a symbol that also means "freedom".

* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': in the sixth [=LostBelt=], Faerie Britain, ''humanity'' is the slave race. The faeries keep humans as pets, slaves, or livestock (certain faeries casually mention eating humans like it's a normal thing, and no one has any problem with this). They are not born but manufactured in "Human Ranches", forced to produce not just goods, but also "culture" for their overlords (as fae are [[CreativeSterility only capable of imitation, not original works]]). The protagonist has to have a friendly faerie pretend to be their owner when out in public to avoid incident, and [[spoiler:Mash is actually enslaved and sold to a faerie nobleman]].

* People of Sub-Saharan African descent were widely used as slaves everywhere from the Americas to India to various colonies within Africa, with the greatest sources of new slaves being the Atlantic slave trade (primarily run by the Portuguese, British, and Spanish) and the Arab slave trade. Native Americans were also used as slaves in the Americas, mostly in South America and Central America (cases happened in North America and the Caribbean too, but by and large there just weren't that many of them and what few there were, were independent or spread out). Problem was, the Native American slave populations kept dying because of European diseases. So their owners solved this by importing African slaves to America instead (who had some level of immunity since Afro-Eurasia is one giant disease pool for most of humanity).

** Or else by the Arabs who had a strong slave-trading presence in black Africa. Islamic law specifically prohibits slavery - for Islamic believers. However, infidels are fair game. Thus, when white settlers in Southern Africa first encountered Arab slavers trading in blacks, they heard the Arabic word ''kaffir'' (non-believer, infidel) being applied to black slaves and [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra thought it was a generic derogatory term for all black-skinned people]]. In some cases, even black Muslims were enslaved illegally, sometimes on ''pilgrimages'' to Mecca and Medina, the Islamic holy cities. It was then claimed they were infidels of course.

** Also in the X-Books, the [[YouAreNumberSix Genoshan Mutates]] of [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the island nation of Genosha]] were used as slave labor, becoming one of the wealthiest countries in the world. This slavery was crueler than most in Earth’s history, as they were subjected to the "Mutate Bonding Process" by the [[HumanoidAbomination Sugar Man]] and the [[MadScientist Genegineer]] (who had the unsubtle name, [[Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau David Moreau.]] It involved bonding a skinsuit to the flesh of a Mutate, shaving them bald. manipulating their genetic potential in order to produce a useful ability and finally the Mutates memories were wiped and an identification number branded on their forehead, leaving them as zombie-like drones with no will of there own and their only devotion was to the state.

* This was central to the short-term plans of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany for its empire in Eastern Europe, as only partially enacted during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, since it was accepted that replacing the population with a comparable number of pure-blooded ethnic Aryans and Germans would take at least a generation. As a practical matter it seems to have been accepted that some degree of bastardization would be acceptable, provided it was with the 'purer' Aryan and German elements which could be found in the region. The prevalence of blue eyes and blonde hair among them earned the Baltic ethnicities a 50% survival threshold, for instance. The Caucasians (Azerbaijanis, Georgians) and Mongols (Tatars, Kazakhs) weren't going to be so lucky (ironically, despite that term often being used as a self-descriptor by "Aryans" elsewhere) as Nazi racial pseudoscience deemed them part of the inferior "Armenoid" race (Josef Stalin was help up as one classic example for them).

** In the short-term, Hitler and Himmler wanted something like a FeudalFuture in the former Russia (all of these "plans" were basically paper exercises/flights of fancy by the latter's staff that never came anywhere close to implementation). While most would be enslaved for now and be phased out later, some [[SocialDarwinist "worthy"]] elements would actually be accepted as part of the new Spartan/noble elite and ultimately survive. As quite a few of the SS generals and officers were themselves of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nazis_of_non-Germanic_descent Slavic origins]] (e.g., the Kashubian-Polish General von dem Bach-'''Zelewski'''), a purely "racial" view of citizenship would not have been acceptable. Racist although they were, the Nazis were forced to acknowledge that Slavs and Nordic peoples like them had interbred over the centuries greatly. Therefore, they admitted some "Aryan" people existed among the Slavs. Even some Nazis with enough Jewish ancestry under Nazi laws to be excluded were exempted using thin excuses (e.g. officially claiming that those with a Jewish father were actually born from affairs their "Aryan" mothers had with "Aryan" men). It led to mass kidnappings of Slavic children with more "Aryan" features who were then given to German parents. Many were unaware they were actually Ukrainian etc by birth for many years. This led, as you might expect, to much anxiety after they found out.

* Subverted with most modern forms of slavery, especially HumanTrafficking. Nowadays, slavers [[EqualOpportunityEvil don't give a crap about the ethnicity]] of their victims as long as they can [[MoneyDearBoy make money]] with them. Most of them outright '''share''' their nationality, which [[OlderThanTheyThink is nothing new at all]]. Having slaves of a different race is the more unusual thing historically, because historically most slaves were war captives and generally you went to war with your neighbor who looked like you (like the Greeks above). Others often enslaved were local debtors and criminals as payment/punishment.

* ''Film/{{Underworld}}'': ''[[Film/UnderworldRiseOfTheLycans Rise of the Lycans]]'' reveals that Werewolves descended from Lucian were bred to be a slave race for the vampires, until Lucian leads them into rebellion. The original ones bitten by William (the original source for the virus) end up as plain, permanent beasts.