Times where somebody is accused of being a Category Traitor in Comic Books.
- Astro City: In a flashback, Hispanic superhero El Hombre takes down a group of thugs who also happen to be Hispanic. One of them accuses Hombre of being a race traitor for always taking down Hispanic criminals (because he operated in a Chicano-heavy community) and Hombre is surprised by how much the insult stings; he knows it’s a baseless accusation and that the thug is, at best, just trying to weasel out of being arrested. Yet it stays in his head and causes him to feel doubt, kickstarting the events that led to his fall from grace.
- In Batman: Holy Terror, Batman is dumbfounded to discover that the man managing the secret governmental lab conducting hideous, inhuman experiments to produce Super Soldiers is Dr. Erdel, a Jew; in the twisted Christian theocracy of this world, Jews are oppressed and restricted to the point that the government places strict limits on their population, refusing to let them have more than a certain amount of children — which is even more amazing given that, in this world, abortion and contraception are both crimes.
- In Bitchy Butch, Butchy is very quick to brand other women as gender traitors for not sharing her misandry (hatred & prejudice against men).
- Black Panther: A similar incident occurred in Christopher Priest's Black Panther (1998) run, where a group of impoverished black citizens claimed Black Panther was an Uncle Tom due to his associations with the Avengers and Fantastic Four, as well as his general lack of concern for the well-being of black citizens.
- Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!: A major plot element of The Final Ark was a species war brewing between land and water animals, in which ducks and turtles were distrusted as traitors to their kins.
- In Contest of Champions (2015), Jake Gallows, Punisher 2099, despises fellow skull-bearer Outlaw due to the latter retiring from the mission.
- Budroxifinicus of Copperhead is called such by Brexinfoyle due to their species' recent war against human civilization and Boo's employment by humans.
- A The Falcon one-shot had a similar situation, where a Harlem citizen berated the hero for not acting as a role model for young black kids during his time with The Avengers.
- In the X-Men graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills, Kitty and Illyana's dance instructor, Stevie Hunter, is labeled this by the anti-mutant Purifiers.Purifier: Once we deal with the mutie scum, there'll be plenty of time for [punishing] traitors like her.
- In Il était une fois en France, Eva accuses her husband Joseph of being a traitor to the Jews, having acquired his wealth by selling their possessions and indirectly contributing to Nazi industry.
- Subverted in Manhunter. Kate, who's white, tries this on Director Bones when he refuses to send back-up to help Kate rescue a group of Mexican women from superhuman organ-thieves. She insinuates that he has forgotten what color his skin would be since, despite the fact that he literally looks like a skeleton, Bones is in fact a black man. He immediately tears into Kate
◊ and essentially tells her "Shut up, you don’t know shit about being black, so don’t you dare patronize me and act like you understand what it means to be a minority." - Nemesis the Warlock: Torquemada and his Absolute Xenophobe followers happily execute any human who associates themselves with aliens, or even merely object to his xenocidal crusades on alien worlds. In fact, his final plot is to trigger a device that will wipe out every alien and any human who has ever been in contact with one.
- Shadowland: The new Power Man insinuated that Luke Cage was a race traitor because he joined The Avengers and married a white woman.
- Superman:
- In one issue of Adventures of Superman #507, where the second Bloodsport (a white supremacist) is making his debut, he comes across a gang of thugs (two black, one white) about to rape a woman. He kills the two black thugs, then kills the white guy for being a "race traitor". Oddly enough, the woman in this example is initially shown to be white on the first page, but the next page shows her to be a black woman (who Bloodsport also kills before he shoots the white guy).White guy: [Bloodsport has him at gunpoint] P-please—don't—
Bloodsport: SHUT UP! Think I want to do this? If there was any other—
Woman: What're you saying? You know what they were gonna do to me? Shoot him! Shoot the son-of-a—
[Bloodsport shoots her instead]
Bloodsport: [about the woman] They always knew their place. [to white guy] You're no better. You're a race traitor! [kills him] - Brainiac, when he was originally an organic Coluan named Vril Dox loyally served the Computer Tyrants, thus being hated by his own people as a result.
- In Last Son and New Krypton, both Superman and Supergirl are called "race traitors" for protecting Earth from an army of Kryptonians led by General Zod.
- In one issue of Adventures of Superman #507, where the second Bloodsport (a white supremacist) is making his debut, he comes across a gang of thugs (two black, one white) about to rape a woman. He kills the two black thugs, then kills the white guy for being a "race traitor". Oddly enough, the woman in this example is initially shown to be white on the first page, but the next page shows her to be a black woman (who Bloodsport also kills before he shoots the white guy).
- Nighthawk from Supreme Power is a virulent black supremacist who accuses any black person who shows even the bare minimum of politeness to white people of being a race traitor. Because of this, he repeatedly hurls horribly racist insults like "house negro" at fellow black superhero Blur, who remarks at one point that he grew up in the Deep South yet never experienced racial discrimination firsthand until he met his "fellow black man" Nighthawk.
- Robot cop Joe Pi in Top 10 is considered a traitor by some Ferro-Americans, who call him "Spambo" (metal outside, meat inside).
- In The Transformers: Robots in Disguise: After the disbanding of the Decepticons, many still choose to cling to the badge and what it represents. Those interested in associating with the Autobots or the Camiens are looked down on. Sparkstalker sticking up for a bunch of Religious Camiens earns him the ire of Needlenose and the Decepticon recruiters, and Acid Storm even giving them the time of day leads to further derision.
- In Uncanny Avengers, Banshee from the X-Men chastises Captain America for not doing more to help the country of Ireland and its citizens during The Troubles despite being the child of Irish immigrants.
- Vampire: The Masquerade: Winter's Teeth stars a Brujah Gothic Punk named Cecily Bain who betrayed the Anarchs to join the Camarilla. This was because she needed to find a safe place for her sister but she still feels awful about it.
- In War Machine Vol. 2, Rhodey's mom mentions that her friends accused her of raising an Uncle Tom after he fought against Black Panther and Storm during Civil War (2006).
- Whatever Love Means rants quite a bit about how men are expected and indoctrinated to be loyal to men in general, at the expense of women. Mostly at a more structural level than Bros Before Hoes.
- In one of the X-Men tie-ins to the Acts of Vengeance Crisis Crossover, Jubilee was accused of being a "banana" (Asian on the outside, white on the inside) by a Chinese youth who tried to hit on her.
- After the Apache mutant John Proudstar joins the X-Men as the costumed hero Thunderbird, he is killed during a mission trying to capture the villainous Count Nefaria. His younger brother James, also a mutant, takes up the Thunderbird codename and joins the Hellions as part of a plan to kill Professor X, who he blames for John's death. When he finally has Professor X at his mercy, he finds that he can't bring himself to kill the Professor and ends up applying this trope to himself, thinking that he's a disgrace to his Apache roots. The X-Men help him realize that this isn't the case and that John actually died a hero. James declines their initial offer to join the team, although he would later join the New Mutants and take on his own costumed identity as Warpath.
- Speaking of the X-Men, during Avengers vs. X-Men, mutants who sided with the Avengers, such as Wolverine and Beast, got harassed for this. Let alone the fact that Schism has recently caused a Breaking the Fellowship among the X-Men, with those two on the side opposing Cyclops.
