Politically Incorrect Villain / Literature

Politically Incorrect Villains in literature.

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• In Acid Row, Franek Kelowski is openly racist and sexist; he frequently disparages Sophie as stupid, weak and over-emotional because of her gender and is revealed to have been horrifically violent towards women in the past, and refers to Jimmy James as "a nigger" both to other people and to Jimmy's face.
• After the Revolution has the fanatical Christian theocracy of the Heavenly Kingdom. It is pretty much established out of the gate, when Sasha shortly after arriving in their territory witnesses their staging of a public mass execution of gay and trans people. A number of their officers are also blatant racists and/or anti-Semites too. While the Kingdom doesn't officially bar non-white people from joining, this appears to be just because it always needs more Cannon Fodder for their army, and non-white recruits are treated as lesser and given more dangerous jobs. Including being turned into a Brain in a Jar for a Suicide Mission.
• American Psycho: Patrick Bateman is an insane, sadistic serial killer, and also racist, anti-Semitic, elitist, sexist and homophobic. All his friends and colleagues are too, except of course the Jewish Paul Owen/Allen and the gay Luis Carruthers. Bateman having said qualities is more about how he's a cookie-cutter example 1980's Wall Street high society (aside from the serial killing... maybe) than specifically meant to portray him as despicable.
• The Hashashin in Angels & Demons is a psychotic misogynist who derives pleasure from violence against women. He hires a prostitute to abuse and degrade so badly she pretends to pass out so he can stop. He also briefly considers killing her during climax and later on, threatens to rape Victoria.
• Alex Rider's Russian Roulette: When Vladimir Sharkovsky is in the pool, it is revealed he has a Death to Zionism tattoo with a star of David on fire, even though anti-Semitism has no bearing on the plot whatsoever.
• Isaac Asimov's Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn: Sten Devoure is unabashedly racist and has a very narrow view of what constitutes a human being. The product of superior Sirian genetics, he refers to Bigman as "that thing" and "it". The insult becomes dangerous when he tells a group of robots that Bigman is not human, and orders them to "break it."
• The Barbarian and the Sorceress: Barnabus, who's not only Kira's owner, but claimed all women lack the intellect to learn magic (Kira later proves him wrong).
• Ben Safford Mysteries: Ben's fellow Democratic congressman Tony Martinelli is a staunch proponent of many admirable principles and positions. However, his reaction to the revelations about Supreme Court nominee Coleman Ives being a serial adulterer leaves something to be desired, when he says that at least it proves Ives isn't gay.
  Tony: [W]ho wants a f*ggot on the Court?
• Black Iris: Justified Trope. The lead character is a mentally ill bisexual girl going on a revenge spree targeting people who have been bigoted and violent towards her.
• Larry Bond released several Possible War novels in the years after the fall of the Soviet Union, a common theme being finding people that America might plausibly end up at war with now that the Soviets were no longer around to fit that role. In Vortex, the villains are a reactionary white South African government attempting to conquer its neighbors, and in Cauldron, they're the newly elected far-right governments of France and Germany, attempting to impose a fascist "European Confederation" on the continent (and the newly liberated East European nations especially). Needless to say, both of them qualify as this trope.
• Caliphate is depressingly common place with state-wide examples of this trope: South Africa is ruled by a white supremacist bloc that restored apartheid and slavery, while the titular Caliphate is not only deeply misogynistic but also bigoted towards Christians (whom they refer to a "Nazrani", which means Nazarene, as a slur), and female Christians are regarded as natural sluts and whores. This is surprisingly downplayed with the Imperial States of America which while fiercely anti-Islamic and repressive of anything considered "non-American", its welcoming to people from other ethnicities and countries (so long as they aren't Muslim) and they grant greater freedoms to women, like the right to join the army.
• Present, and lampshaded in, one of the Captain Underpants spin-off books. In a comic book created by the book's main characters, Harold and George, an evil scientist wants to create a female clone of an evil monster toilet so that he would have a servant to attend to all his domestic needs. His assistant lampshades this trope by pointing out: "You know, that's not very politically correct," to which the scientist replies that he doesn't care because he's the bad guy. Needless to say, this doesn't end well for them. (Also, the hygienic implications of having a toilet doing housework are apparently not even thought of...)
• Caging Skies has a Nazi Protagonist in the form of Johannes Betzler. Despite being a proud Nazi, he lusts over a Jewish woman named Elsa Korr and coerces her to be his wife. His attempts to live a normal life always go wrong, from being on the brink of poverty to being forced to work a Soul-Crushing Desk Job, and he's broken when Esla escapes.
• Cat Chaser: Jiggs Scully is a massive racist who repeatedly rants about how much he hates working for Latinos and Italians. He also casually uses racial slurs for black people.
• City Primeval: Clement Mansell is deeply racist and homophobic, and uses quite a lot of bigoted slurs in his narration and dialogue. He's also deeply offended by the idea of interracial relationships.
• Codex Alera: Steadholder Kord, High Lord Kalarus Brencis Majoris, and Kalarus Brencis Minoris are all raging misogynists. Additionally, both Senator Guntus Arnos and High Lady Invidia Aquitaine repeatedly show incredibly classist views of Aleran society, with the latter repeatedly calling Isana a “glorified peasant” and “camp whore” during their time together in First Lord’s Fury.
• In A Curse So Dark And Lonely, the main character Harper has cerebral palsy. Her love interest Rhen and the other heroic characters don't care about her condition especially after she proves her bravery and guile many times over, but the conventionally beautiful villain enchantress Lilith constantly belittles her as "broken" and can't understand why Rhen would be interested in someone like her.
• In the Dan Brown novel Deception Point, Senator Sexton at one point thinks to himself while discussing toning down his condemnation of same-sex marriage for campaigning purposes "If it were up to me, the faggots wouldn't even have the right to vote". His actions only get more despicable from there.
  • This trait seems rather shoehorned in, as until this point he has come across as a fairly typical conservative Senator who even makes a couple good points.
• The Divine Comedy: Most Hell-shades at least have enough medieval courtesy not to curse God, but a particularly vile thief that Dante encounters explicitly curses God and gives him a rude gesture equivalent to a middle finger. This demonstrates the defining trait of the lowest parts of Hell, the use of humanity's unique blessings (like communication) for evil.
• The Dresden Files:
  • Lord Raith, The Leader of the White Court of Vampires, is offhandedly mentioned as being virulently homophobic, to the point where his personal tastes regarding sex are responsible for why most of the modern Western world sees two drunken women making out as "hot" and not two drunken men doing the same thing. Lara Raith also mentions to Harry Dresden in a later novel that one of her main rivals in the White Court — the Lord of the House of Skavis — is a virulent misogynist.
  • The Red King of the eponymous Red Court of Vampires has made it so that only vampires of original Mayan ancestry can rise to the highest levels of the Red Court under his rule.
• Elantris:
  • King Iadon is really sexist. This winds up screwing him over, since he barely even remembers Sarene exists until she's got him backed into a corner and unable to do anything but concede to what she says.
  • Though not a bigot in any sense relevant to the real world, Dilaf is very determined to get rid of the Elantrians for good.
• Captain Shannon in The First Casualty by Ben Elton. His racism, misogyny, and homophobia are some of his nicer traits.
• Flashman is this in spades, and it's just one of his many endearing features. He's a serial adulterer who lies outrageously to woo other mens' wives, he treats the lower classes with condescension, and he's a shameless racist to boot.
• Very common in the Frederick Forsyth novels.
  • The Day of the Jackal: The title villain's been hired by members of the OAS, a terrorist group composed largely of people who want to preserve French domination over Algeria. (And the white settlers' status as a racial overclass).
  • The Odessa File: Probably the most obvious one, as the ODESSA is a mutual aid society for former Nazis (and specifically SS, the worst of the worst). The crime that has the protagonist on Eduard Roschmann's tail has nothing to do with this, however: we find out at the very end that he's the son of a Wehrmacht officer Roschmann murdered to allow a priority evacuation for himself and his friends.
  • The Dogs of War: Sir James Manson and his assistant Simon Endean, who are trying to organize a coup in an African republic to turn it into a puppet regime under the control of Manson's megacorp. The political incorrectness works against them, as they don't bother learning anything but the basics about the country they're plotting against and therefore are completely blindsided by the things that enabled Shannon's double cross.
  • Icon: The Union of Patriotic Forces are a fascist movement based in The New Russia, which is growing quickly enough that British and American intelligence are afraid it may soon be elected to run the country. (What sets off the plot is the discovery of "The Black Manifesto," a secret UPF memorandum detailing their political program when they get into power, a program that involves, among other measures, the extermination of Russia's ethnic minorities).
  • The villain of Avenger is a Serbian war criminal who murdered hundreds of Bosnian Muslims and Croatian Catholics during The Yugoslav Wars. (In the present day, he's an arms dealer based in South America, and enough of a Pragmatic Villain that he's trying to set up an arms deal with Osama bin Laden, despite the man's Muslim identity).
• In A Frozen Heart, a Tie-In Novel to Disney's Frozen (2013), most of the male members of the Southern Isles' royal family are depicted as misogynistic abusers who neglect their wives and/or consider them to be Baby Factories. Also, given how they ill-treat their subjects by overtaxing them while brutally suppressing any dissent to the regime, it's implied the royal family is elitist.
• The Grishaverse: Fjerda. Hoo boy, Fjerda. A nation whose culture heavily enforces Toxic Masculinity and Stay in the Kitchen, they have a Church Police dedicated to hunting down the Grisha, and are intending to invade the far more egalitarian nation of Ravka. While some individual Fjerdans (especially hapless civilians) are presented as good, the country and the system as a whole are treated as nothing but corrupt and discriminatory. Given author Leigh Bardugo (who is non-practicing Jewish) based the Grisha’s oppression off discrimination of Jewish people, that would make the Fjerdans…
• The Guns of the South: This being a Civil War novel, you'd think the Confederates, especially Nathan Bedford Forrest would count. But the Rivington men (really Afrikaner nationalists who have traveled back in time to arm the Confederates into winning the Civil War) somehow prove to be even worse. Forrest himself later goes after them after they try to assassinate President Robert E. Lee.
• The Republic of Gilead in The Handmaid's Tale is already in this territory given their attitude toward women, but for further dog-kicking, there's their attitude toward other religions. When expelling Jews from America, they sent large numbers of them on boats supposedly destined for Israel. The boats were deliberately sunk in the middle of the water.
• In the Harry Potter books, anyone racist is going to be evil.
  • Voldemort is a thinly veiled Hitler-analogue whose plan includes hunting down muggle-borns and enslaving and murdering muggles.
  • Most of the Slytherins are bigoted against Muggles, with Draco Malfoy serving as the first one we meet in The Philosopher's Stone.
  • One of the most egregious racists in the story is Dolores Umbridge, who treats anyone without a pure wizarding heritage as a lesser being, and anyone with a mixed-human heritage as something to hunted down and whom the Ministry of Magic assigned to Hogwarts in The Order of the Phoenix as an authority. She ends up becoming The Quisling just to have an excuse to have Muggle-borns locked up. According to Word of God, this earns her a life sentence in Azkaban after the events of Deathly Hallows.
  • Although not aligned with Voldemort in any way, Rita Skeeter is a very antagonistic character who all but says that Dumbledore is a pedophile.
  • Oddly enough, Uncle Vernon is very "old school" but isn't outwardly racist towards . He is anti-intellectual, and is vaguely homophobic (he doesn't want a "Nancy" for a son), but he genuinely likes having Kingsley Shacklebolt, who's black, as his bodyguard. Then again, Kingsley is one of the very few wizards in the story who can actually blend in with Muggle society, so Vernon might just be willing to look the other way for that reason.
• Ivo Taillebois in The Hereward Trilogy: "Do you know why I allowed those Jews to sully my hall with their unclean presence?"
• One of the easier ways to pick out the villain in an Honor Harrington novel is to find the guy whose inner monologue puts her down for being either a woman, or not born nobility, or both.
• The House of Night:
  • Loves itself some fundamentalists. For example, Zoey's Wicked Stepfather's opening line is "Get behind me, Satan!" and that's basically the sum of his personality.
  • A variant (Politically Incorrect Butt-Monkey?): Elliott spends the entire first book being mocked and abused by everyone, including a teacher and Zoey's narration, because he's a pudgy, sickly redhead, unlike all the other impossibly attractive vampyres. The authors may have noticed that he came off Unintentionally Sympathetic, so he calls Damien a "faggot" in a throwaway line.
• The Icarus Hunt: Johnston Scotto Ryland, the mob boss to whom protagonist Jordan is indebted, is part of a mostly human criminal organization and personally loathes aliens. Because of this, Jordan is careful never to have told him that his partner was a Kalixiri. It's noted that this attitude is fairly widespread in criminal organizations, and not just human ones.
• While villain might be too strong a word for her, Ada Haskill from In the Face of Danger is snobby, unpleasant, ungrateful and doesn't hesitate to look down on Megan, a 12-year-old girl, for being Irish.
• Fairly common in the Jack Ryan series. In this case, the villains' political incorrectness is intentionally contrasted with their progressive politics, showing them to be hypocrites who mouth slogans they don't actually live up to.
  • The ULA from Patriot Games are an extreme-left Irish Republican movement who view themselves as part of the struggle to free the world from the British and American empires that have enslaved it. Once they find themselves cooperating with an American black radical movement, it quickly becomes clear that they're also hideously racist, and while they mostly keep it to themselves as long as they need the Americans' help, they end up murdering them halfway through their last operation.
  • The Sum of All Fears: Similar setup, except that the American radical is a Native American, and his bigoted foreign partners are Arab (Palestinian) Nationalists. In this case, the Arabs are not only left-wing radicals but believing Muslims, with the attendant prejudice against what they view as a "pagan," which helps them to rationalize his murder.
  • Downplayed in Without Remorse. The two main villains are from different backgrounds, Henry Tucker a black gangster running a drug dealing and human trafficking organization, and Tony Piaggi an Italian-American gangster whose Mafia contacts allow him to distribute them. Both of them have the expected amount of racial prejudices towards each other; however, they largely keep it to themselves and don't allow it to get in the way of business. One of Piaggi's underlings, Eddie Morello, is a lot more open, resenting the feeling that the syndicate is valuing a black man more than himself and making no secret about it. This comes back to bite him hard when members of Tucker and Piaggi's organizations start turning up dead, as both of them quickly conclude that Eddie must be acting on his resentments and arrange to have him eliminated. He was actually innocent, and the murders were being committed by the very pissed off - and Navy SEAL trained - ex-boyfriend of a prostitute that had tried to escape from their organization.
  • The Chinese Politburo in The Bear and the Dragon. Prejudiced against essentially all religions, as per the Communist Party's doctrine of state atheism: the people we see persecuted are Chinese Christians, but allusions to the violent suppression of other religious groups like the Falun Gong or Tibetan Buddhists are also made. Their racial prejudice is less plot-relevant, but present nonetheless, though it's noted that this is widespread in Chinese society. And then there's the misogyny, with even the sympathetic ones expecting sex from the female secretaries.
  • Finally, while it'd be hard to pin it down to a single character or book, the entire Soviet system is shown to be fairly rife with prejudices; Arabs and Muslims, including those within the Soviet republics, are dismissed as savage and untrustworthy, Jews and Balts are largely denied advancement in the system, and the less said about their view of black people, the better.
• The Killer Angels: Not who you'd expect. Most of the Confederate characters arguably qualify, but their views on slavery are somewhat downplayed and the novel generally doesn't treat them as villains. A straighter example is Arthur Fremantle, the British observer assigned to the Confederate Army. He comes to wholeheartedly embrace and romanticize the Confederate cause, which he views as a rejection of all the bad parts of America (as opposed to the Union cause, which embodies them). It isn't the North's abolitionism that he dislikes, however (he tends to frown on slavery even as he glosses over it), but its indifference towards tradition, ethnic purity, and above all, class distinctions.
  Fremantle: The great experiment. In democracy. The equality of rabble. In not much more than a generation they have come back to class. As the French have done. What a tragic thing, that Revolution. Bloody George was a bloody fool. But no matter. The experiment doesn't work. Give them fifty years, and all that equality rot is gone. Here they have the same love of the land and of tradition, of the right form, of breeding, in their horses, their women. Of course slavery is a bit embarrassing, but that, of course, will go. But the point is they do it all exactly as we do in Europe. And the North does not. That's what the war is really about. The North has those huge bloody cities and a thousand religions, and the only aristocracy is the aristocracy of wealth. The Northerner doesn't give a damn for tradition, or breeding, or the Old Country. He hates the Old Country. Odd. You very rarely hear a Southerner refer to "the Old Country". In that painted way a German does. Or an Italian. Well, of course, the South IS the Old Country. They haven't left Europe. They've merely transplanted it. And that's what the war is about.
• Stephen King loves this trope. Nearly all of his villains are racist or sexist in some way.
  • IT:
    • Henry Bowers hates Stanley Uris because he's Jewish, Mike Hanlon because he's black, Eddie Kaspbrak because of his asthma, Bill Denbrough because of his stutter, Richie Tozier for his glasses and his smart mouth, Ben Hanscomb because of his weight, and Beverly Marsh because she's female and poor. Really, he's an all-around asshole. After killing Mike's dog, Henry tells his father, who actually praises him for doing so, and invites the boy to drink a beer with him. This is one of the only times he takes any time to bond with Henry.
    • Henry's father is a racist, who blames black people for all of his misfortunes. He uses multiple excuses to beat his son, who (in his embittered mind, anyway) needs weaker people (especially if they are outcasts) to bully in order to cope with his rage. This demonstrates a cycle of violence for the reader to attach to the concept of bigotry.
    • Eddie Kaspbrak's mother, who serves as a lesser antagonist along with the other Abusive Parents of the Losers, is given a brief POV section in which she reacts with horror at discovering one of her son's friends is a "nigger".
  • The Shining: The Overlook Hotel refers to Halloran as a "jungle bunny". Even the buildings are racist in the King-verse.
  • Rose Madder: Norman Daniels is an abusive husband, a Dirty Cop and an outright murderer. He's also virulently misogynistic, racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic.
• James Bond:
  • Diamonds Are Forever: While Ian Fleming was never the most socially-conscious writer even for The '50s, this was probably the intended effect with how brutally Wint and Kidd treat the Black attendant at the Saratoga mud-baths. It's taken up to eleven with the Spangs' inside man at the diamond mines, an Afrikaner whose "hatred for all black things" extends even to insects.
  • Moonraker: Justified Trope with Sir Hugo Drax, who is actually a Nazi saboteur named Graf Hugo von der Drache. Obviously, he's going to be anti-Semitic, as he gloats about beating a Jewish banker to death after WWII and bullying his partner, Meyer, during the poker game with 007. This is inverted with his film counterpart, who is more of an Equal-Opportunity Evil villain despite the Social Darwinist leanings and all references to his Nazi background are removed.
  • Icebreaker: Count Konrad von Glöda, whose real name is Aarne Tudeer, is a former SS officer turned neo-Nazi terrorist seeking to restore the Nazi Reich. This provokes the leading spy agencies (KGB, MI6, Mossad and CIA) to form an Enemy Mine to stop von Glöda.
• The Last Hurrah (both the novel and the film) has newspaper editor Amos Force, who runs a paper that is most definitely not the Boston Globe. He is an old-money WASP who despises Irish Catholics in general and Frank Skeffington in particular. If you know anything about the history of the Boston Globe, this is not the least bit implausible.
• In Layer Cake, as he sells out his employees to a Dirty Cop, gangster Jimmy Prince makes racial slurs against black associate Morty and is homophobic towards the protagonist, who, while not gay, is not sufficiently "manly" for Jimmy's standards. Thanks to a Magnificent Bastard fellow gangster, Jimmy's crew are made privy to a tape of these comments and the protagonist shoots him in the head.
• Zaroff of The Most Dangerous Game got bored of hunting animals and decided to name a trope. He justifies this by mostly hunting what he considers "lesser races." (Incidentally, he applies this racism to himself—as a Cossack, he believes that savagery is an essential part of his nature.)
• The killer in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd makes an offhand insulting comment about Jews at one point in the novel.
• Nelly the Monster Sitter has Nelly's twin sister Asti, who openly hates the monsters that Nelly has to babysit for. When a Huffaluk family arrive at hers and Nelly's birthday party, she is quick to make her best friend turn against them, making snide comments about how ugly she finds the creatures, and even claims that she caught fleas off the Huffaluk daughter. Nelly often hops in to defend, telling Asti off for using "it" to describe Freeb (and other monsters she later meets), but negative karma catches up with Asti, leading her to being thrown on the roof of her house and left up there by the family for the rest of the afternoon. Even her friend abandons her post!
• Max Dembo, the Tragic Villain Protagonist of No Beast So Fierce, is virulently homophobic, racist, and sexist, and is prone to throwing slurs around.
• Jane Austen uses this Northanger Abbey as yet another mark of John Thorpe's boorishness. In addition to being a Know-Nothing Know-It-All, overfamiliar, and foul-mouthed by the standards of the Regency, Thorpe also makes disparaging comments about refugees from the French Revolution and throws around the phrase "rich as a Jew" when talking about people's finances.
• Överenskommelser by Simona Ahrnstedt has three villains (because one creep clearly wasn't enough), whose views on women are disgusting even by the standards of the time they live in (the 1880s). Not only do they feel that men and women have different roles in life, which would have been the consensus of the era. But these guys also feel that a man has the right to treat women like dirt, or even become a serial abuser of women. And as much as Beatrice, the story's female protagonist, becomes the most obvious victim of their abuse and their schemes, many other people are harmed as well. Even other men in the story are repulsed by them.
• The Pilgrim's Regress: Mr. Sensible doesn't seem to consider his servant "Drudge" a person and calls Reason (personified as a female knight) "baggage" whose only positive aspect is her pretty face.
• In Rivers of London, it's implied that the Faceless Man's fantasies of a better England are at least slightly racist — he at one point explains to our mixed-race hero that it's not his fault he's not properly English, but... Minor villains are frequently more blatant about it, such as the thug in one of the comics who tells Peter and his Muslim colleague Guleed "You don't look like police", prompting Peter to sarcastically think "Never get tired of hearing that."
• Late in Sabina Kane: Red-Headed Stepchild, Sabina takes one of Clovis' men hostage at gunpoint. Clovis tells her to go ahead and kill the hostage because he deserves it for getting beaten by a girl.
• Shtetl Days: The Nazis, who have exterminated the world's Jews, wiped out the gypsies, and enslaved the Poles. The SS officer is enraged to hear even a little bit of Yiddish.
• Sisterhood Series by Fern Michaels: This sort of villain has popped up a number of times. FBI assistant director Mitch Riley refers to Harry Wong as a "slant-eye" at one point in the book Hide And Seek. Deputy Clyde calls Harry Wong by that racial epithet in the book Under The Radar, which Harry happily repays by tweaking the scum's nose and knocking him out. Before the book Lethal Justice, Alexis Thorne reveals in her thoughts that her employers chose to frame her for their crimes because she is black. Strangely, that is never brought up in the book where Alexis pays them back.
• Snow Crash: At one point, Hiro (who is half-Asian, half-black) encounters a white supremacist who hurls racial slurs at him. Hiro asks why the man and his friends don't hang out at the New South Africa franchise nearby if they hate minorities so much, to which the man responds that they can't beat them up there.
• A Song of Ice and Fire:
  • If he wasn't bad enough, The Mad King Aerys is also very racist towards the Dornish. He reportedly dislikes his half-Dornish granddaughter Princess Rhaenys for smelling like one.
  • A lot of characters in the series are classist, even the sympathetic ones. Fitting, given that many of the point-of-view characters are literal gentry. But few go beyond the pale quite like Tywin Lannister, who routinely disparages the smallfolk of Westeros in word and deed. He is personally responsible for overturning protections provided for the peasants of Westeros by a previous King during his tenure as Hand of the King, and his rhetoric of not seating "dogs" at the high table is contrasted by Eddard Stark's practice of seating a lowborn subject at his table so that he might govern his realm better.
  • The series' setting in general is rather sexist, but some villainous characters stand out for their misogyny:
    • Kraznys mo Nakloz, the Good Master of Astapor who barters the Unsullied army for Drogon. He continuously belittles Daenerys Targaryen as a whore and slut, which she pretends not to understand, so his translator slave Missandei has to tone them down as best as she can. The Bilingual Backfire moment when she reveals that she did know what he had been saying about her, followed by her commanding Drogon to burn him alive and free the slaves, is one of the series' finest awesome moments.
    • Ramsay Snow, whose hobby consists of hunting women set loose on forests as if they are game, and continuously beats and rapes Jeyne Poole after she becomes his wife.
    • Randyll Tarly is extremely abusive to his very un-macho eldest son, Samwell. He first tries to arrange a "hunting accident" for Sam, and when that didn't work, sends him to the Wall, even though making him study to be a maester is more appropriate for him, because being a maester is unmanly. Randyll also victim-blames Brienne of Tarth when she becomes the subject of The Bet.
    • The aforementioned Tywin Lannister's preferred method of punishing women who he believes exceed their station is sexual humiliation. He forced his father's mistress to do a walk of shame naked across the entire city. He has his son Tyrion's first wife, a common-born thirteen-year-old girl gang-raped by his garrison and forces Tyrion himself to participate.
• In Spock's World, a group of racists attempt to drive Vulcan to secede from the Federation.
• Star Wars Legends:
  • While Lucas seems to have intended there to be some parallels between The Empire and the Nazis, relatively little of that shows up explicitly on screen. In books, comics, etc., both individual villains and The Empire as a whole are depicted as speciesist against non-humans. (And in fact an easy way to tell which side is the bad guy side in whatever time period it might be is if they ever make a comment about human superiority). Pretty blatant, really.
  • The Yuuzhan Vong of the Expanded Universe display extreme intolerance for anyone who doesn't follow their religion and lifestyle.
  • Seems like the EU came up with a good explanation for why you don't see too many nonhumans in the Imperial military, although they apparently don't mind hiring them as bounty hunters and such. The EU also makes it pretty obvious that Palpatine himself doesn't buy into such nonsense (he considers everyone to be inferior to himself). He just finds it a useful way to manipulate people, since humans are the majority of the Empire's population and center of galactic wealth and power (the Core Worlds) is also where human supremacist feelings are most widely accepted. Ensuring the loyalty of the Core World elite by oppressing the aliens is rather quicker and easier than doing the reverse.
  • The Diversity Alliance, an anti-human terrorist organization who plan on killing all humans with a bio-weapon that only targets humans.
• Bob Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird is considered an extreme bigot even in the Depression-era Deep South town of Maycomb, where the book is set. (In fact, portraying such a man as a villain was the whole point of the novel, which was written during the Civil Rights Era.)
• The Gallish knights from The Traitor Son Cycle, on top of being highly misogynistic and notorious rapists, have nothing but disdain for the common people. At one point, Jean de Vrailly proudly admits to having slaughtered countless peasants who dared to defy him, and angrily claims that in Galle, women stay quiet and don't make trouble for men.^note Notably, one of his own men points out that this last part is nothing more than de Vrailly's wishful thinking.
• In The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Captain Jaggery fits this trope to a T (granted, it is 1832). While holding the 13-year-old Charlotte on trial for allegedly murdering the first mate, he reaches this conclusion:
  "So what we have here is a girl who admits she owns the weapon that murdered Mr. Hollybrass. A girl who lied about where she got it. A girl who was taught to use a blade, and learned to use it, as Mr. Grimes would have it, 'uncommon' well. A girl, who all agree, is unnatural in every way she acts. Gentlemen, do we not, as natural men, need to take heed? Is it not our duty, our obligation, to protect the natural order of the world?"
• Vorkosigan Saga: General Metzov in The Vor Game is not only a hardliner ultra-nationalist, but he is a sexist jerk as well. He is paired with the much smarter female villain Cavilo, but in a Just Between You and Me moment tells the heroes that he's just manipulating her, since no woman would be smart enough to lead. His political incorrectness leads to his death (and an example of Eviler than Thou) when his last words (before Cavilo shoots him in the head) are "open your legs to me bitch". Cavilo is actually more evil than Metzov, but because of his Politically Incorrect Villain traits, it's hard not to give her some sympathy or at least applause at the moment she kills him.
• Warhammer 40,000: In Ciaphas Cain novel The Traitor's Hand Commissar Tomas Beije goes from a slightly annoying mix of Divided We Fall, Unknown Rival, and Obstructive Bureaucrat who barely has any time in the main plotline to being quite hateable the moment he starts throwing out sexist insults towards Colonel Kasteen.
• Warrior Cats: Tigerstar. Very much Tigerstar. As well as his #1 follower, Darkstripe. Tigerstar parallels Hitler in several ways, and has attempted genocide in the form of public executions during a propaganda rally where he called halfClan cats "filth". Although probably the most flagrant example, it certainly isn't the only one.
• Worm: The supervillain group The Fallen epitomize this trope. First off, they're a Religion of Evil that worships The Endbringers, calling on them to destroy humanity and regularly try to grab as much attention as they can with disgusting comments about the victims of every Endbringer attack deserved to die. They're also openly and proudly xenophobic; full spectrum racism, homophobia, prejudice against Case-53's are all par for the course with them. They've also been known to kidnap women to marry them off to members and making them baby factories, gelding them if the children are unhealthy and even forcing them to grow their hair long as a sign that they're "sluts." Finally, as if that weren't bad enough, they also practice incest as a way to encourage more parahuman members are born. Word of God even states that they’re based on the Westboro Baptist Church.
  • There’s also Empire Eighty-Eight, a Brockton Bay gang that are basically Neo-Nazis with superpowers.
• Yellowface: June is a Villain Protagonist version. She considers herself an enlightened liberal, but her narration makes it clear she holds a lot of racist beliefs and deeply resents any acknowledgement of her privilege as a white woman, while also exploiting that privilege to get what she wants. Because she's not a hardline conservative and never does anything obviously bigoted, like calling people slurs or outright saying she's better than people of color, she's able to fly under the radar a lot of the time, with people who call her out being told they're overreacting. Even she seems oblivious to how bigoted she actually is.
• Zorro (2005): All over the place.
  • The Establishing Character Moment for the Big Bad, Rafael Moncada, involves him striking Bernardo in frustration after something Diego did. He's stunned when Diego reacts by challenging him to a duel on the spot, as he couldn't conceive of an assault on a servant deserving such a reaction.
  • Towards the end of the book, when Moncada is made a Crown envoy to California, he quickly takes into his confidence people that we'd seen abusing Indians during Diego and Bernardo's childhood. He also starts up an illegal trade in undeclared pearls... retrieved by Indians that he's had kidnapped and enslaved.
  • The secret society La Justicia basically exists to fight such people: it was created two hundred years earlier to help shelter Jews, Protestants, and other accused heretics from The Spanish Inquisition. The issue has abated in recent times, but La Justicia has simply broadened its mandate to include fighting other forms of oppression, such as Napoleon's invasion of Spain, or slavery in the colonies. It's no surprise that Diego eagerly joins them, and it's under their tutelage that he first becomes Zorro.

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