History Main / FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence

* In ''GoodOmens'', R.P. Tyler appears to be one of these, but lacks the passion to do anything but send letter after StronglyWordedLetter to the local newspaper complaining about everyone and everything that annoys him by its presence.

* In the 90's ''WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}}'' cartoon this is more or less the opinion and motivation of Graydon Creed ([[spoiler: Despite the fact he appears to be a baseline human born to two mutant parents...who were AbusiveParents, because of it [[FreudianExcuse to be fair]]]]). Keeping in mind he says the following as if it were fact;

At best, this is PlayedForLaughs, often running on RuleOfCreepy. (In this version, the "oppression" may come in the form of IHaveBoobsYouMustObey and be portrayed as real). At worst, it may make the character or author come across as a CompleteMonster.

* In ''ChickTracts'', the [[StrawLoser non-christians]] do this quite often. They feel insulted, threatened, even oppressed... not by how the Christians treat them, but by their very existence. Of course, the Christian characters are always loving & rightheous SoulsavingCrusader, never this trope. They never have any negative feelings towards Gays, Catholics or whatever... It's just that they find it unfortunate that they all deserve to get tortured and raped forever in hell and will get this well-deserved punishment soon enough.

* ''I Shot AndyWarhol'' is about * Valerie Solanas, who apparently came to believe this about all men and consequently published the infamous S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto.

* In ''GoodOmens'' R.P. Tyler appears to be one of these, but lacks the passion to do anything send letter after StronglyWordedLetter to the local newspaper complaining about everyone and everything that annoys him by its presence.

* An example of this attitude in sixth-century Ostrogothic Italy, as recounted in L. Sprague deCamp's novel ''[[GivingRadioToTheRomans Lest Darkness Fall]]'':

->''"You [[InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers stole me from my parents]]. You [[YouKilledMyFather had the FBI kill my brother]], and [[AndYourLittleDogToo now you're trying to kill my family]]. What have I ever done to'' you?"\\
"''You exist."''
-->'''Jarod''' and '''Mr. Raines''', ''ThePretender''

* Discussed by ''ZinniaJones'' in the episode [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlL-edhMILw Re: "Can't Even Go to the Park"]] regarding the blog post [[http://www.acceptingabundance.com/2011/08/cant-even-go-to-park.html "Can't Even Go to the Park"]] which gained international infamy for suggesting that the concepts of "freedom" and "Not outlawing the existence of gay people" are mutually exclusive.

* In TheElderScrolls, the Altmer believe that not just the existence of mankind, but the existence of the possibility of mankind, keeps the elves trapped in the normal world.

When this destructive hatred is not focused solely on one group but every human being is KillAllHumans. The next step up is the OmnicidalManiac, who wants to kill and destroy literally ''everything''.

[[NoRealLifeExamplesPlease We all know that some people think this way in Real Life. Let's just leave it at that]].

* Part of what distinguishes ''{{The Matrix}}'s'' BigBad Agent Smith from his fellow Machines is his belief that human beings are, by their very existence, a destructive virus that must be eradicated.

* In the neo-nazi novel ''TheTurnerDiaries, the aryan race is finally "liberated" as the protagonists let atomic, biological and chemical bombs rain over the entire planet, exterminating over 90% of mankind. [[AuthorTract This is portrayed as a happy ending]].

* ''TheKillingFields'' depicts the Khmer Rouge's applicatin of these principles to those of Vietnamese descent and "intellectuals," a category that included urban professionals and people who wore glasses.

-->"You don't like the Goths?\\
"No! Not with the persecution we have to put up with!\\
"Persecution?\\
"Religious persecution. We won't stand for it forever.\\
"I thought the Goths let everybody worship as they pleased.\\

-->"You don't like the Goths?"
-->"No! Not with the persecution we have to put up with!"
-->"Persecution?"
-->"Religious persecution. We wont stand for it forever."
-->"I thought the Goths let everybody worship as they pleased."
-->"That's just it! We Orthodox are forced to stand around and watch Arians and Monophysites and Nestorians and Jews going about their business unmolested, as if they owned the country. If that isn't persecution, I'd like to know what is!"

* Another Orwell example occurs in ''AnimalFarm'', where one of the revolution's slogans is "Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad." It's horribly subverted later in the story, however, as [[spoiler: the ruling class of pigs essentially become human, and start arguing that *some* two-legged animals are OK.]]

* This is how the [[Series/DoctorWho Daleks]] feel about ''all other forms of life''.

[[NoRealLifeExamplesPlease We all know this happens in Real Life. Let's just leave it at that]].

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* A lot of [[MoralGuardians the Christian right]] seem to feel oppressed by the mere existence of gay people and non-Christians.

* In the 90's ''Series/XMen'' cartoon this is more or less the opinion and motivation of Graydon Creed ([[spoiler: Despite the fact he appears to be a baseline human born to two mutant parents...who were AbusiveParents, because of it [[FreudianExcuse to be fair]]]]). Keeping in mind he says the following as if it were fact;