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* ''WesternAnimation/Nimona2023'': [[spoiler:The Director framed Ballister for murdering the Queen because she saw the Queen's desire to allow commoners to join the ranks of the knights (Ballister being the first) as an existential threat to the Kingdom that would ruin the kingdom through [[SlipperySlopeFallacy Slippery-Slope]] logic. She also seems to see the Kingdom's citizens as necessary casualties when Nimona starts rampaging through the city in the climax.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/Nimona2023'': [[spoiler:The Director framed Ballister for murdering the Queen because she saw the Queen's desire to allow commoners to join the ranks of the knights (Ballister being the first) as an existential threat to the Kingdom that would ruin the kingdom through [[SlipperySlopeFallacy Slippery-Slope]] logic. She also seems to see the Kingdom's citizens as necessary casualties when Nimona starts rampaging through acceptable casualties, as she's prepared to kill at least half the population by firing the laser cannons into the city in the climax.if it means killing Nimona.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/AsterixAndTheVikings'': Viking society, as a whole, is shown to be extremely sexist, where women [[StayInTheKitchen have to stay home while men go raiding and pillaging]], and before marriage they are physically dragged to the altar (sometimes ByTheHair) against their will. Women are also not allowed to inherit wealth or rank, which is why the cleric Cryptograf wants to make her son Olaf marry the chieftain's daughter so that he can become a HeirInLaw.
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** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas II Journey To A New World}}'', the people of England are fine with Pocahontas when she first shows up, [[spoiler:but when she protests the bear-baiting as "barbaric", the king decides she's just a savage and locks her up.]]

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** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas II Journey To A New World}}'', ''WesternAnimation/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld'', the people of England are fine with Pocahontas when she first shows up, [[spoiler:but when she protests the bear-baiting as "barbaric", the king decides she's just a savage and locks her up.]]
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* The villains of ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' are pretty racist towards ogres, but this is to be expected in the setting. Special mention, though, goes to the Fairy Godmother from ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', who is nasty not only to ogres but to everyone who isn't beautiful, because she is a firm believer of BeautyEqualsGoodness.

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* The villains of ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' are pretty racist towards ogres, but this is to be expected in the setting. Special mention, though, goes to the Fairy Godmother from ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', who is nasty not only to ogres but to everyone who isn't beautiful, because she is a firm believer of BeautyEqualsGoodness. Also, her characterization of the cross-dressing Big Bad Wolf as "gender-confused".
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* ''WesternAnimation/Nimona2023'': [[spoiler:The Director framed Ballister for murdering the Queen because she saw the Queen's desire to allow commoners to join the ranks of the knights (Ballister being the first) as an existential threat to the Kingdom that would ruin the kingdom through [[SlipperySlopeFallacy Slippery-Slope]] logic. She also seems to see the Kingdom's citizens as necessary casualties when Nimona starts rampaging through the city in the climax.]]
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* The villains of ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' are pretty racist towards ogres, but this is to be expected in the setting. Special mention, though, goes to the Fairy Godmother from ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', who is nasty not only to ogres but to everyone who isn't beautiful, because she is a firm believer of BeautyEqualsGoodness.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'': Captain Hook refers to the Native Americans on Never Land as "redskins". With the movie being a product of TheFifties, that term has since fallen out of favor today.

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* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'': Captain Hook refers to the Native Americans on Never Land as "redskins". With the movie being a product of TheFifties, that term has since fallen out of favor would certainly make him one today.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan': Captain Hook refers to the Native Americans on Never Land as "redskins". With the movie being a product of TheFifties, that term has since fallen out of favor today.

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* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan': ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'': Captain Hook refers to the Native Americans on Never Land as "redskins". With the movie being a product of TheFifties, that term has since fallen out of favor today.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan': Captain Hook refers to the Native Americans on Never Land as "redskins". With the movie being a product of TheFifties, that term has since fallen out of favor today.
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* Gaston in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' is very quickly established as a chauvinistic pig: "It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking." This turns out to be just the tip of the iceberg for a thoroughly nasty piece of work. There may have been a dose of [[{{Hypocrite}} sour grapes]] in there as well. The look he gives the book after he snatches it out of Belle's hands would seem to imply that it is well above his reading level.

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* Gaston in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' is very quickly established as a chauvinistic pig: "It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking." This turns out to be just the tip of the iceberg for a thoroughly nasty piece of work. There may have been a dose of [[{{Hypocrite}} sour grapes]] in there as well. The look he gives the book after he snatches it out of Belle's hands would seem to imply that it is well above his reading level.level[[labelnote:*]] [[FridgeLogic Despite him knowing and using words]] like “expectorating” in his VillainSong [[/labelnote]].
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* ''[[WebAnimation/QueerDuck Queer Duck: The Movie]]'' continues the original web series' usage of having homophobic villains.

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* ''[[WebAnimation/QueerDuck Queer Duck: The Movie]]'' continues the original web series' usage of having homophobic villains.
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* ''[[WebAnimation/QueerDuck Queer Duck: The Movie]]'' continues the original web series' usage of having homophobic villains.
** Queer Duck tries to organize a "gay day" at the theme park Happyland, only for the MockyMouse mascot to deny the gay men admittance while yelling "Beat it, you homos!"
** The movie's main villain is Reverend Vandergelding, a religious fundamentalist who spends a large amount of the film attempting to [[CureYourGays make Queer Duck straight]].
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* Claude Frollo from ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''. He wins extra points for being a ''genocidal'' racist. To be fair, while it is an unnecessary addition to the ''original'' character, the movie actually bends the plot around his racism -- it launches the plot by being the reason he gets stuck with Quasimodo in the first place (he chases and murders Quasi's mother coldly because he's racist); his attempted genocide helps to bond Esmeralda and Quasimodo while also pushing Phoebus to betray him; and it adds an extra layer to his crisis of faith about his lust for Esmeralda.

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* Claude Frollo from ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''.''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''. He wins extra points for being a ''genocidal'' racist. To be fair, while it is an unnecessary addition to the ''original'' character, the movie actually bends the plot around his racism -- it launches the plot by being the reason he gets stuck with Quasimodo in the first place (he chases and murders Quasi's mother coldly because he's racist); his attempted genocide helps to bond Esmeralda and Quasimodo while also pushing Phoebus to betray him; and it adds an extra layer to his crisis of faith about his lust for Esmeralda.

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* While it's surprisingly underplayed in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', there are the two JerkAss realtors who tell Tiana, after informing her that she was outbid on the building she was trying to buy, that "a woman of your...background, you're better off to stay where you are". Given the look on Tiana's face, she definitely gets all of the implications. Interestingly, Facilier implicitly tries to apply this trope to the town in general as an excuse for his behavior, which is very untrue.

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* While it's surprisingly underplayed in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', there are the two JerkAss realtors who tell Tiana, after informing her that she was outbid on the building she was trying to buy, that "a woman of your... background, you're better off to stay where you are". Given the look on Tiana's face, she definitely gets all of the implications. Interestingly, Facilier implicitly tries to apply this trope to the town in general as an excuse for his behavior, which is very untrue.


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* [[spoiler:King Runeard, Elsa and Anna's grandfather]], is identified as one of these in ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII''. He hated and feared the Northuldra people because [[FantasticRacism they lived in harmony with magic]], and therefore he imagined they would try rebelling against him. So what did [[spoiler:Runeard]] do to subjugate the Northuldra? [[spoiler:He built a dam to deprive their land of water and weaken them, and when the Northuldra leader tried negotiating with him, he lured him away from the rest of his people and killed him from behind.]] [[spoiler:Runeard's]] actions are the reason the Enchanted Forest and Arendelle were separated from one another by a veil of mist, and why the elemental spirits are attacking Arendelle at the start of the film.

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* [[spoiler:King Runeard, Elsa and Anna's grandfather]], is identified as one of these in ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII''. He hated and feared the Northuldra people because [[FantasticRacism they lived in harmony with magic]], and therefore he imagined they would try rebelling against him. So what did [[spoiler:Runeard]] do to subjugate the Northuldra? [[spoiler:He built a dam to deprive their land of water and weaken them, and when the Northuldra leader tried negotiating with him, he lured him away from the rest of his people and killed him from behind.]] [[spoiler:Runeard's]] His actions are the reason the Enchanted Forest and Arendelle were separated from one another by a veil of mist, and why the elemental spirits are attacking Arendelle at the start of the film.
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* [[spoiler:King Runeard, Elsa and Anna's grandfather]], is identified as one of these in ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII''. He hated and feared the Northuldra people because [[FantasticRacism they lived in harmony with magic]], and therefore he imagined they would try rebelling against him. So what did [[spoiler:Runeard]] do to subjugate the Northuldra? [[spoiler:He built a dam to deprive their land of water and weaken them, and when the Northuldra leader tried negotiating with him, he lured him away from the rest of his people and killed him from behind.]] [[spoiler:Runeard's]] actions are the reason the Enchanted Forest and Arendelle were separated from one another by a veil of mist, and why the elemental spirits are attacking Arendelle at the start of the film.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool'', the cadets from the eponymous location's rivaling school frequently call attention to the fact that their opponents are girls and their plans to whoop their butts as a way of highlighting their {{jerkass}}ery. A downplayed example in that they appear to be young boys who don't know any better, but still worth nothing.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanVsTheElite'' keeps Manchester Black calling Superman calling Superman a "poncy twit" from the original "ComicBook/WhatsSoFunnyAboutTruthJusticeAndTheAmericanWay" and adds calling Supes in a debilitated state "spastic".

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* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanVsTheElite'' keeps Manchester Black calling Superman calling Superman a "poncy twit" from the original "ComicBook/WhatsSoFunnyAboutTruthJusticeAndTheAmericanWay" and adds calling Supes in a debilitated state "spastic".
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* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanVsTheElite'' keeps Manchester Black calling Superman calling Superman a "poncy twit" from the original "ComicBook/WhatsSoFunnyAboutTruthJusticeAndTheAmericanWay" and adds calling Supes in a debilitated state "spastic".
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* And what to think of Governor Ratcliffe from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''? To an extent, this is the whole point of his character, since he's basically a CompositeCharacter of the cruelty of European colonization. The lyrics to the song "Savages", which he leads, were so offensive to Native Americans people actually complained about the movie as a whole being racist -- despite it being the ''villain'' who was blatantly racist. And the fact in the song, the Native Americans called the Europeans "savages", and their chief made remarks such as "milky hide" and "paleface".
** The sequel plays with this. The people of England are fine with Pocahontas when she first shows up, [[spoiler:but when she protests the bear-baiting as "barbaric", the king decides she's just a savage and locks her up.]]

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* And what to think of Governor Ratcliffe Ratcliffe's entire character from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''? To an extent, this is the whole point of his character, since he's basically a CompositeCharacter of ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' represents the cruelty of European colonization. The lyrics to the song "Savages", which he leads, were so offensive to describes Native Americans people actually complained about in disparaging ways, painting them as inhuman and inciting violence upon them.
** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas II Journey To A New World}}'',
the movie as a whole being racist -- despite it being the ''villain'' who was blatantly racist. And the fact in the song, the Native Americans called the Europeans "savages", and their chief made remarks such as "milky hide" and "paleface".
** The sequel plays with this. The
people of England are fine with Pocahontas when she first shows up, [[spoiler:but when she protests the bear-baiting as "barbaric", the king decides she's just a savage and locks her up.]]
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* Gaston in ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' is very quickly established as a chauvinistic pig: "It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking." This turns out to be just the tip of the iceberg for a thoroughly nasty piece of work. There may have been a dose of [[{{Hypocrite}} sour grapes]] in there as well. The look he gives the book after he snatches it out of Belle's hands would seem to imply that it is well above his reading level.

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* Gaston in ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' is very quickly established as a chauvinistic pig: "It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking." This turns out to be just the tip of the iceberg for a thoroughly nasty piece of work. There may have been a dose of [[{{Hypocrite}} sour grapes]] in there as well. The look he gives the book after he snatches it out of Belle's hands would seem to imply that it is well above his reading level.



* Claude Frollo from ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''. He wins extra points for being a ''genocidal'' racist. To be fair, while it is an unnecessary addition to the ''original'' character, the movie actually bends the plot around his racism -- it launches the plot by being the reason he gets stuck with Quasimodo in the first place (he chases and murders Quasi's mother coldly because he's racist); his attempted genocide helps to bond Esmeralda and Quasimodo while also pushing Phoebus to betray him; and it adds an extra layer to his crisis of faith about his lust for Esmeralda.
* Inverted in ''Disney/{{Mulan}}''. Shan-Yu is one of the few male characters in the movie to never say anything sexist against Mulan, and he seems to appreciate her bravery. This could be because the Huns and other Steppe societies were less sexist against women than the Chinese, and while the women were generally expected to stay home, they were also respected as warriors in their own right and were more than capable of defending themselves while the men were away.
* And what to think of Governor Ratcliffe from ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}''? To an extent, this is the whole point of his character, since he's basically a CompositeCharacter of the cruelty of European colonization. The lyrics to the song "Savages", which he leads, were so offensive to Native Americans people actually complained about the movie as a whole being racist -- despite it being the ''villain'' who was blatantly racist. And the fact in the song, the Native Americans called the Europeans "savages", and their chief made remarks such as "milky hide" and "paleface".

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* Claude Frollo from ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''.''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''. He wins extra points for being a ''genocidal'' racist. To be fair, while it is an unnecessary addition to the ''original'' character, the movie actually bends the plot around his racism -- it launches the plot by being the reason he gets stuck with Quasimodo in the first place (he chases and murders Quasi's mother coldly because he's racist); his attempted genocide helps to bond Esmeralda and Quasimodo while also pushing Phoebus to betray him; and it adds an extra layer to his crisis of faith about his lust for Esmeralda.
* Inverted in ''Disney/{{Mulan}}''.''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''. Shan-Yu is one of the few male characters in the movie to never say anything sexist against Mulan, and he seems to appreciate her bravery. This could be because the Huns and other Steppe societies were less sexist against women than the Chinese, and while the women were generally expected to stay home, they were also respected as warriors in their own right and were more than capable of defending themselves while the men were away.
* And what to think of Governor Ratcliffe from ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}''? ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''? To an extent, this is the whole point of his character, since he's basically a CompositeCharacter of the cruelty of European colonization. The lyrics to the song "Savages", which he leads, were so offensive to Native Americans people actually complained about the movie as a whole being racist -- despite it being the ''villain'' who was blatantly racist. And the fact in the song, the Native Americans called the Europeans "savages", and their chief made remarks such as "milky hide" and "paleface".



* While it's surprisingly underplayed in ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', there are the two JerkAss realtors who tell Tiana, after informing her that she was outbid on the building she was trying to buy, that "a woman of your...background, you're better off to stay where you are". Given the look on Tiana's face, she definitely gets all of the implications. Interestingly, Facilier implicitly tries to apply this trope to the town in general as an excuse for his behavior, which is very untrue.

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* While it's surprisingly underplayed in ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', there are the two JerkAss realtors who tell Tiana, after informing her that she was outbid on the building she was trying to buy, that "a woman of your...background, you're better off to stay where you are". Given the look on Tiana's face, she definitely gets all of the implications. Interestingly, Facilier implicitly tries to apply this trope to the town in general as an excuse for his behavior, which is very untrue.
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* Gaston in ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' is very quickly established as a chauvinistic pig: "It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking." This turns out to be just the tip of the iceberg for a thoroughly nasty piece of work. There may have been a dose of [[{{Hypocrite}} sour grapes]] in there as well. The look he gives the book after he snatches it out of Belle's hands would seem to imply that it is well above his reading level.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coonskin}}'' by Creator/RalphBakshi, being an animated BlaxploitationParody film, had many racist characters and racial stereotypes throughout the movie. But we see the most blatant example in Officer Madigan, a cop of the mobs payroll. He's both racist and homophobic even towards the son of his mob boss who is a blatant homosexual. He goes as far as to refuse to bathe before meeting with some black street level thugs who also work for his boss (in his words, they ain't worth it). He gets a combo of DeathByRacism and ColorMeBlack, when "Brother Rabbit" drugs him with some acid leaving him in full blackface, armed, and wearing a dress. This caused him to fly off the handle and shoot it out with some other cops and get riddled with bullets.
** There's also [[MalcolmXerox Simple Savior]], who spouts phony pro-black propaganda, and claims to be cousin to Black Jesus. He uses this scam to con "donations" from the people of Harlem so he can "buy guns to kill whites". In reality his money gets kicked up to the mafia who gladly exploit and oppress Harlem to their disposal.
-->'''Doorman:''' This here's where Simple Savior runs his black revolution, brother. Natural black Jesus is the reverend's cousin, too. He gives people the strength to kill whites.\\
'''Brother Bear:''' Kill whites? You hear that shit? Any whites?\\
'''Doorman:''' Yeah, any whites.\\
'''Brother Bear:''' Ain't this a bitch?\\
'''Preacher Fox:''' Anyone we want?\\
'''Brother Bear:''' Ain't this a bitch!\\
'''Preacher Fox:''' Huh. We can kill anyone we want?\\
'''Doorman:''' Any whites.
* Claude Frollo from ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''. He wins extra points for being a ''genocidal'' racist. To be fair, while it is an unnecessary addition to the ''original'' character, the movie actually bends the plot around his racism -- it launches the plot by being the reason he gets stuck with Quasimodo in the first place (he chases and murders Quasi's mother coldly because he's racist); his attempted genocide helps to bond Esmeralda and Quasimodo while also pushing Phoebus to betray him; and it adds an extra layer to his crisis of faith about his lust for Esmeralda.
* Inverted in ''Disney/{{Mulan}}''. Shan-Yu is one of the few male characters in the movie to never say anything sexist against Mulan, and he seems to appreciate her bravery. This could be because the Huns and other Steppe societies were less sexist against women than the Chinese, and while the women were generally expected to stay home, they were also respected as warriors in their own right and were more than capable of defending themselves while the men were away.
* And what to think of Governor Ratcliffe from ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}''? To an extent, this is the whole point of his character, since he's basically a CompositeCharacter of the cruelty of European colonization. The lyrics to the song "Savages", which he leads, were so offensive to Native Americans people actually complained about the movie as a whole being racist -- despite it being the ''villain'' who was blatantly racist. And the fact in the song, the Native Americans called the Europeans "savages", and their chief made remarks such as "milky hide" and "paleface".
** The sequel plays with this. The people of England are fine with Pocahontas when she first shows up, [[spoiler:but when she protests the bear-baiting as "barbaric", the king decides she's just a savage and locks her up.]]
* While it's surprisingly underplayed in ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', there are the two JerkAss realtors who tell Tiana, after informing her that she was outbid on the building she was trying to buy, that "a woman of your...background, you're better off to stay where you are". Given the look on Tiana's face, she definitely gets all of the implications. Interestingly, Facilier implicitly tries to apply this trope to the town in general as an excuse for his behavior, which is very untrue.

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