Basic Trope: Bigotry or conflict involving a fictional sapient race or species.
- Straight: Humans treat goblins with a lot of open disdain (also maybe vice versa), and do not see them as their equals.
- Exaggerated:
- Humans enact laws and policies to suppress goblins' rights, perhaps even going far enough to attempt a genocide against them.
- There are a wide variety of fictional races and species in the work, and all of them hate each other.
- Downplayed:
- While some people may be very prejudiced, it's not bad enough to the point of legalized segregation or violent persecution.
- Annoying speciest stereotypes are dime a dozen, but more serious hate crimes are very uncommon.
- The story depicts a conflict between (completely ordinary) human beings from fictional countries or ethnicities; while they don't exist in real life, it's still far more plausible than a conflict involving semi-human or non-human beings.
- Bob doesn't really hate the neighborhood Starfish Aliens, but he is open on how much he doesn't really understand them and how they unsettle him.
- Justified:
- There's a very long history of ugly relations between two different races. People have long been indoctrinated with fear and hate of the "other".
- The two species can't help but dislike each other, as each puts out cues that trigger the other's instinctual threat responses.
- Goblins have a history of attacking humans, so humans believe they should fear goblins on instinct, even if some goblins disapprove of these practices.
- The Goblins are Always Chaotic Evil. There's literally nothing good about them.
- Human rulers have long instilled propaganda that paints goblins as a societal threat. The people who buy into this propaganda act accordingly.
- Humans and goblins are so separate in morality and culture that understanding each other is near-impossible.
- Inverted:
- Hatred between different races and species seems to be non-existent. In fact, people get along very well without any deep-seated bigotry.
- A fantastic setting has racism of the non-fantastic variety. For example, humans have no problem with goblins, but like to discriminate against other humans.
- Subverted: Bob makes a comment about goblins that sounded offensive, but he didn't intend so, and he sincerely apologizes for it.
- Double Subverted: Bob actually knew full well what he meant to say. The apology was insincere.
- Parodied: Pancake supremacists attack waffles for having that pattern on their surface.
- Zig Zagged: Some humans are prejudiced against some goblins and some goblins are prejudiced against some humans, but most goblins and humans are not prejudiced against each other.
- Averted: Neither unusual racism nor speciesism is depicted.
- Enforced: This trope is often used as an allegorical message against real-life bigotry.
- Lampshaded: "Why in the world would you be bigoted on purpose, when you have just met them?!"
- Invoked: Somebody starts spreading stereotypes about other species to sow distrust and fear.
- Exploited: A human kills a goblin, then uses stereotypes to get away with the murder.
- Defied: An effort is made to fight hatred and intolerance.
- Discussed: "No, we see all the other races as equals. Why would you think otherwise?"
- Conversed: "Why is it that whenever a writer has two different races living together in some setting, they always end up with bigoted views of each other?"
- Deconstructed:
- The oppressed races are so fed up with being discriminated that they retaliate, becoming just as cruel as their oppressors.
- Goblins have accumulated years of inherited trauma from human oppression, resulting in intense internalized hatred. Many goblins are trying to break this cycle and hopefully make peace with humans.
- Reconstructed:
- The fantastic racism exists for a reason; it will be difficult, if not outright impossible to negotiate with a race that is all hellbent on causing chaos and destruction, and the only option is to annihilate them.
- Understanding the prejudice can help with understanding the other race's thought process, which can make future dealings much easier.
- Played For Laughs: Offensive jokes and humor based on fantastic stereotypes.
- Played For Drama: The protagonist is subjected to horrible discrimination on a regular basis, which ruins their quality of life.
- Played For Horror: Racist humans commit a vicious massacre or genocide against innocent goblins, down to the youngest of them, and it's shown onscreen in full bloody detail.
- Implied: Humans and goblins treat each other with some casual rudeness, though it's not obvious if speciesism is to blame for it or not.
Go back to Fantastic Racism, you worthless humans!
