Basic Trope: A character who's never been harmed by members of a certain group still hates that group anyway.
- Straight: Alice hates aliens, but every alien she's met has never meant any harm to her. She's just upset that they exist.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice has never even seen an alien before, but despises them and advocates for genocide against them.
- Alice hates everyone who's different from her, but nobody from those groups has ever done anything bad to her before.
- Alice is an Omnicidal Maniac who feels oppressed by the existence of everything.
- Downplayed: Alice doesn't outright hate aliens, but she is distrustful of them for no real reason.
- Justified:
- Alice has received incorrect information about aliens, such as hearing that they're Always Chaotic Evil, when aliens in this setting aren't necessarily malicious at all.
- Alice thought an alien was trying to harm her, but it was a case of Not What It Looks Like.
- Alice believes It's All About Me.
- Inverted:
- Alice's hatred of aliens is for a tragic reason — for instance, aliens killed her family.
- Alice loves aliens just because they exist.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice doesn't have any hatred for any group, especially without getting to know them first.
- Enforced: The creators are trying to set up a Prejudice Aesop.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice acknowledges that her prejudices are for no good reason, and tries to overcome them, becoming a Former Bigot.
- Discussed: "Have aliens actually done anything bad to you, Alice, or do you just hate them because they exist?"
- Conversed: ???
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