History Main / FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Judge Claude Frollo is a particularly disturbing example. Right from the moment he is first introduced, he is persecuting gypsies and even murders a gypsy woman with no remorse; [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk he only regrets doing so because now he has to do penance at the Archdeacon's insistence]] by watching over her child Quasimodo, whom he was going to murder as well before deacon's interference. Later in the film, he makes an analogy to Phoebus that gypsies are like ants that [[{{FinalSolution}} need to be squashed]], even though the ants he uses in his analogy are completely harmless. He claims he wants to kill the Roma because he believes they've been practicing witchcraft and that they will corrupt the other citizens of Paris with their ways, but these accusations are incredibly hollow at best. This all shows that ultimately Frollo is nothing more than a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain bigoted]] [[IrrationalHatred lunatic]] who will stop at nothing to get his way.

* Spoofed on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': Al and [[FunWithAcronyms NO MA'AM]][[note]]National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood[[/note]] often spoke this way about their wives or women in general (although, strangely, they erre perfectly fine with having women around as sex objects); in turn, Al's StrawFeminist neighbor Marcy sometimes said the same about men. In the end of a given episode, both sides are typically undermined by HypocriticalHumor.

* A variation in ''Series/GameOfThrones''; Theon expresses this feeling about Robb Stark in season 3, revealing how he always felt inferior to Robb and was never able to equal him, never mind surpass him. Though the sentiment is more of a GreenEyedMonster feeling against an individual rather than a bigotry against a whole group, he sums this trope up perfectly:
-->'''Ramsay:''' He [Robb Stark] lorded it over you?\\
'''Theon:''' He didn't have to. All he had to do was... ''be''.
* Spoofed on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': Al and [[FunWithAcronyms NO MA'AM]][[note]]National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood[[/note]] often spoke this way about their wives or women in general (although, strangely, they are perfectly fine with having women around as sex objects); in turn, Al's StrawFeminist neighbor Marcy sometimes said the same about men. In the end of a given episode, both sides are typically undermined by HypocriticalHumor.

* While there are plenty of xenophobic groups in ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'', the most standout example is the [[TheEmpire CoalitionStates]]. Their leader, Emperor Karl Prosek, turned his people's fear of the unknown into an irrational hatred of all those who are different (mages, [[FantasticRacism non-humans]], and to a lesser extent, psychics and mutants). Even the most mild-mannered citizen of the Coalition believes that wizards and D-Bees threaten his or her life merely by existing, and hates and fears them without reservation. Note that this mindset has been instilled not because of any genuine threat these groups pose (most would rather live and let live), but because fear and hatred of an outside force lets ThePowersThatBe in the Coalition High Command amass more and more power.

* A ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode ("Lessons Learned", on Season Two) has a mujahideen leader saying this is the reason he wages war against the Western world to Jason Gideon (it's said that he lost his wife and son to a drone strike and implied that he had [[MotiveDecay devolved]] into his current mindset). When Gideon asks if this would mean [[KillEmAll killing everybody on the planet (that doesn't follows him)]], the man just gives Gideon a smile and says that to him [[OmnicidalManiac there's no such thing as a "non-combatant"]] (bear in mind, the plot BAU helped defuse was that of nerve-gassing a mall in the middle of DC and he also gloated about thinking of bombing a school next time).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Judge Claude Frollo is a particularly disturbing example. Right from the moment he is first introduced, he is persecuting gypsies and even murders a gypsy woman with no remorse; [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk he only regrets doing so because now he has to do penance at the Archdeacon's insistence]] by watching over her child Quasimodo, whom he was going to murder as well before deacon's interference. Later in the film, he makes an analogy to Phoebus that gypsies are like ants that need to be squashed, even though the ants he uses in his analogy are completely harmless. He claims he wants to kill the Roma because he believes they've been practicing witchcraft and that they will corrupt the other citizens of Paris with their ways, but these accusations are incredibly hollow at best. This all shows that ultimately Frollo is nothing more than a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain bigoted]] [[IrrationalHatred lunatic]] who will stop at nothing to get his way.

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* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', the [[spoiler:Eldians living in Marley's ghettos]] blame the [[spoiler:Eldians living behind the Walls]] for their current situation. The most radical among them literally believe their mere existence makes their lives worse, and want a FinalSolution to be carried out.
* In ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'', Lord Demon believes that "The Strong Destroy The Weak" is the law of the monsters. He knows [[PunyEarthlings humans]] have been surpassed in power by Digimon and thus wants to destroy them, but can't because {{God}} designed the Digimon World to be free of humans. So Lord Demon spends the events of the series basically destroying enough of the Digimon World as he can so that humans can come in and give him a way to Earth, where he can finally exterminate the species with his virus. Most other monsters regard humans somewhere between snack food to beneath notice altogether, so they tend to be [[DisappointedByTheMotive nonplussed]] when Demon's true motivations become clear to them.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** This is Frieza's attitude towards Goku from the Namek Saga onward. In ''[[Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF Resurrection 'F']]'', he comes right out and says that he can't stand to live in the same ''universe'' as Goku, and won't even be able to sleep at night as long as he's still alive.
** Vegeta's attitude towards Goku for much of the series fits as well; the fact that he, the Saiyan Prince, is constantly AlwaysSecondBest to a low-class Saiyan drives him crazy, which eventually leads him to make a DealWithTheDevil by selling his soul to Babidi in exchange for power. During their subsequent fight, Majin Vegeta goes on a rant while beating Goku up, declaring that that Goku's very ''existence'' is an insult to him and a stain on his honor.
** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', this is how Zamasu feels about all mortal life. He eventually enacts a "Zero Mortals Plan" to exterminate all mortal life in the multiverse.
* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': This is the true root of Izaya Orihara's hatred of Shizuo Heiwajima. All the surface reasons he gives for his loathing (TooDumbToFool, SpannerInTheWorks) wouldn't be issues if Izaya stopped trying to work Shizuo in his plans somehow, if only just to kill him. Shizuo himself has expressed that he'd be perfectly content if Izaya just stayed out of his life completely — instead, Izaya often makes him a piece of his plans, frequently screws with him for kicks, and even outright provokes him at times. When it really comes down to it, Izaya can't stand the fact that someone like Shizuo exists, because he doesn't fit Izaya's purview of humanity. [[spoiler:Ultimately, this is what allows him to overcome his fear of death at the end of the series. By dying at Shizuo's hands, he'll finally prove to the world that his ArchEnemy isn't human, but a monster]].
* The BigBad [[spoiler:(the real one)]] of ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'' wants to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out all life in the universe]] because he [[TimeAbyss predates it]] and thinks all of that life is too noisy. He wants the universe to be a nice and quiet void again.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Robin's [[HeKnowsTooMuch forbidden knowledge]] of the language of the Poneglyphs makes her a prime target for execution by the World Government, while Spandam and [=CP9=] consider her mere existence a crime punishable by death. [[CreateYourOwnHero In a roundabout way, this witch-hunt is partially why she made herself an intentional threat to the World Government]].
** Played for laughs with Kalifa, who considers her boss [[SmugSnake Spandam's]] mere ''existence'' as sexual harassment.
** Hody Jones, ArcVillain of the Fishman Island arc, absolutely despises humans with a passion. He preaches to his fellow Fishmen and Merfolk about vengeance on humanity and considers anyone who is friendly with or seeks peace with humans to be NoTrueScotsman. Yet when Prince Fukaboshi demands to know what humans did to him to make him such a monster, [[spoiler:Hody's response is "nothing". Unlike other Fishman villains such as Arlong, Hody has ''never'' personally suffered at the hands of humans, and was just raised to hate them without even knowing ''why''.]]
* ''Anime/PsychoPass'': In Season 3, the influx of foreigners from wartorn countries migrating to Japan is one of the societal issues in the show where the Japanese public feels intimidated by their presence. For example in Episode 3, an old man complains to the hospital's receptionist about waiting in line and when he sees Kei and his wife, he insults them for being immigrants and tells them to get out. Even after Kei shows him his PSB badge and warns him not to cause trouble, the old man still insults him and complains about foreigners taking over the country.
* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': After being defeated by Tsukune, Kuyou dedicated himself to training and growing stronger solely to defeat and kill him. When he returns in Season II, he rants about he never had to train or expend any effort in his life beforehand, and that he considers the humiliation of losing to Tsukune a FateWorseThanDeath.
* In ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'', the inhabitants of [[spoiler:Barian World are apparently enemies of the inhabitants of the Astral World, and plan nothing less than genocide against them. Their leader, known simply as Barian, seems ObviouslyEvil, but his servants come in varying degrees of evil, from Gilag, who is pretty much DumbMuscle, to Alit (who seems to be a NobleDemon).]]
** [[spoiler:It's more complicated than it appears. Barian and Astral world were once one and the same, with Astral world's desire to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence leading it to expel everything in it that contained Chaos. This led to Barian World's creation. It's also revealed that Astral was specifically born to destroy the Barian World and that Astral World's goals are slowly killing the remaining inhabitants, who need chaos in order to live. Otherwise, they become sick and slowly die.]] In other words, [[spoiler:both sides literally cannot survive while the other exists]].
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* In the ''Film/DoctorSleep'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheResurrectionOfRose'', Rose the Hat comes to despise Abra so much, she decides to outright [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out the multiverse with a black hole]] because she couldn't stand living in the same universe as her.
* In the ''Fanfic/SuperwomenOfEva'' stories in which [[AdaptationalVillainy she's a villain]] (notably many written by OrionPax09), [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Asuka Langley Sohryu]] develops this attitude about the titular superheroines once they inevitably start trying to help during Angel battles and pulling her fat from the fire both in and out of the Eva (which Asuka deems kill-stealing and [[UnwantedRescue unwanted rescuing]], both unforgivable insults to her person in her book).
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fic ''[[http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,4895.0.html Rising Star]]'', an OriginStory for the cast of ''[[VideoGame/TouhouSeirensenUndefinedFantasticObject Undefined Fantastic Object]]'' written by the author of ''Fanfic/DolphinRiderKoishi'', it's made clear during Ichirin's backstory, and all but stated outright during the confrontation with the Hakurei shrine maiden who seals Byakuren, that youkai are not feared because of the threat they pose, but the threat they ''could'' pose. In the minds of humans, even youkai that supposedly ''don't'' hurt humans could decide to start at any time, and that's justification enough for them. It takes the Spell Card system and years of youkai-human confrontations not ending in death for either (and isolation from the rest of the world, resulting in a much smaller human population amidst the youkai) to get them to see reason, and by the story's end (just before the events of UFO), relations between humans and youkai have improved enough for the two species to be on speaking terms, as it's become a common human assumption that youkai are not only highly intelligent but make for wonderful conversational partners.
* In ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'', Chloe Cerise's hatred of Ash Ketchum is due to him just easily entering and charming her ChildhoodFriend Goh and her father Professor Cerise because of his love of Pokémon while she's...not that enthusiastic about them. This also makes it very hard for her to reveal what she wants to do or what she's into, as Ash just doesn't know to approach her and even when he did, she selfishly rejected him purely out of her own irrational hatred, this gets pointed out later on in the fanfic with Chloe herself realizing how pointless, petty and selfish her grudge against Ash really is.
* ''Fanfic/AMoonAndWorldApart'': Back in the days before the Longest Night, many ponies were offended by the existence of the night and the fact that others preferred it over the day, and harassed them over it until Luna had finally had enough and took her followers to the moon. When talking to Twilight in the first chapter, she says they still feel the same way, even a thousand years later.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13310518/1/In-Extremis In Extremis]]'': Malloy the leader of Humantown isolates the humans from the rest of Ooo and only allows other humans like Finn to enter. He soon reveals his hidden distain towards the current world claiming that humans live in the shadow of the Candy Kingdom [[UngratefulBastard despite the fact that Princess Bubblegum helped set up their colony out of the goodness of her heart]]. With his goal to take back the world involves wiping out everyone in the land of Ooo that he views as mutants or genetic dregs to make humans the true rulers of the world.
* A common plot in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfics is [[TheBully Bakugo]] turning into this regarding [[TheHero Izuku]], whether because he has a better Quirk or because he still tries to be a hero in spite of him being [[UnSorcerer Quirkless]].
* ''Fanfic/AtTheFoodCourt'' being a TakeThat to the fanfiction of Cori Falls, removes the ProtagonistCenteredMorality from her stories and shows [[DesignatedHero Jessie and James]] as delusionally convinced that Ash ruined their lives for having the temerity to not give up Pikachu the first time they demanded without a fight. They hate him so much that they [[spoiler:beat him so bad he suffers permanent brain damage]] and yet still are convinced [[NeverMyFault that they have never done anything wrong in their lives]].
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* ''Literature/BlackFleetCrisis'': The Yevetha find the very existence of aliens living in their home Koornach Cluster, even on other planets posing no threat to them, as an intolerable blight. Because of this (along with wanting every planet in the Cluster to colonize themselves) they commit genocide by exterminating them all (except for one survivor).
* In ''Literature/ChanceAndChoicesAdventures'', there's Judge Daniel Hall who is unreasonably outraged by the fact that [[MalignedMixedMarriage a caucasian woman and a half Native American]] are HappilyMarried. He annuls the marriage and when they stay together any way he basically decides to dedicate his life to destroying them.
* ''Literature/CodexAlera'': A more or less {{Justified}} example as the yeti-esque Icemen use a form of water magic for both {{Telepathy}} and [[AnIcePerson manipulation of ice and snow]]. Any Aleran with [[PlayingWithFire Firecrafting]] would be using a minor form of it constantly to keep warm in the northern weather. Unfortunately, these forms of fire and watercrafting don't mix- when brought into close proximity, a HatePlague is the result. Because of this, the Alerans and the Icemen have been fighting as long as anyone can remember just because each thinks the only way the other would stop fighting is if they were dead. [[spoiler:This state of affairs lasts until the Alerans get desperate enough to send a legit request for peace, and send along Isana, who can't firecraft and is sharp enough to realize what happens when her Firecrafter friend starts acting too aggressive for the situation. Both sides are left baffled and feeling rather silly when the dots are connected, and by the time of the epilogue, there's an Iceman attending [[AwesomeMomentOfCrowning Tavi's coronation]].]]
* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': Lindon finds himself on the receiving end of this a ''lot''. First off, as an [[UnSorcerer Unsouled]], in his home he is considered completely worthless and could be murdered by anyone at any time with no fear of reprisal. In the first book, some teenagers blame him for ruining their (illegal) hunt because he happened to be nearby, he is blamed for winning two different impossible fights that he was forced into, and near the end, someone is mad that Lindon survived a trial while someone else didn't--Lindon wasn't even ''nearby'', but he still gets blamed. This tapers off once he leaves Sacred Valley since outside he is merely seen as weak rather than an abomination, but stronger people repeatedly call him an honorless coward for ''not dying'' [[CrimeOfSelfDefense when they decide to attack him for whatever random reason]].
* ''{{Literature/Discworld}}'' has a couple of cases:
** In ''Literature/GuardsGuards'', most of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night feel like this in their low-grade, resentful way. Their leader recruited for this trait. Notably, this is played for ''laughs''.
--->'''Brother Plasterer''': I reckon my brother-in-law's been oppressing me with this new flashy carriage of his. I mean, ''I'' haven't got a carriage. That's oppression, that is.
** The Auditors of Reality apply this trope to every single lifeform (and in fact, inert matter would probably ''still'' irritate them), but have a particular hatred for the too-chaotic humanity.
--->'''Death''': [[AC:Down in the deepest kingdoms of the sea, where there is no light, there lives a type of creature with no brain and no eyes and no mouth. It does nothing but live and put forth petals of perfect crimson where none are there to see. It is nothing but a tiny ''yes'' in the night. And yet... And yet... It has enemies who bear it a vicious, unbending malice, who wish not only for its tiny life to be over but also that it had never existed. Are you with me so far?]]\\
'''Susan''': Well, yes, but--\\
'''Death''': [[AC:Good. Now, ''imagine what they think of humanity.'']]
* ''Literature/DungeonCrawlerCarl'': The Syndicate regularly "reclaims" planets, killing 99% of the population, allowing the rest to wander into the World Dungeon, and then publicizing the horrific deaths of the remainder as they advance through the levels. Then there is the political party known as the Bloom, who are running the current Crawl. They think ''this is too nice'' and wish they could just quietly exterminate everyone else so that they can live in their own system.
--> '''Carl''': Why are you so angry all the time, Loita?\\
'''Loita''': You. Your cat. Your people. Your ugly culture. This is a cancer upon the Bloom, and we should not be doing this.\\
'''Carl''': Doing what?\\
'''Loita''': We should not be celebrating your culture. Spreading your filth so the fry may see.\\
'''Carl''': Celebrating? You call this celebrating our culture? You're exterminating us and profiting upon our ashes.\\
'''Loita''': If it were up to me, we'd simply exterminate you and nothing else. You're filthy. You're dry. You're a rot upon the Bloom.
* In ''Literature/ForWeAreMany'', this is the main reason [[spoiler:the creator of the Australian replicant tech is working with VEHEMENT. He doesn't care about their philosophy. All he wants is to destroy the Bobs. Why? Because FAITH stole his tech and made their own replicants. He hates the Bobs for what they represent and he's perfectly willing to end humankind if it means the Bobs are destroyed]].
* In ''Literature/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 -- including the fact that the paper doesn't publish all of them because if they did they wouldn't have any room in the Letters to the Editor section for anyone ''else's'' letters.
* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', the FantasticRacism against "Mudbloods" has a lot of this, especially in ''Deathly Hallows''. Prejudice in the books is more or less irrational and directed towards general hatred rather than anything real.
** During a flashback in the fifth book, teenage Lily Evans asks James Potter what Severus Snape did to him to deserve the barrage of bullying hexes he has just cast upon him. James replies "it's more the fact that [Snape] ''exists''". The real reasons are that James detests Snape for embracing dark magic and Lord Voldemort and his followers' ideology, coupled with the fact [[spoiler:he's jealous that Lily maintains a friendship with Snape in spite of this.]]
* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'':
** The Silastic Armorfiend of Striterax from ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'':
--->''The best way to pick a fight with a Silastic Armorfiend was just to be born. They didn't like it, they got resentful. And when an Armorfiend got resentful, someone got hurt.''
** And, of course, the inhabitants of the planet Krikkit, around whom the events of ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'' revolve. They are a charming, sports-loving, easy-going -- if a little whimsical -- race who just happen to desire the annihilation of the rest of the universe [[spoiler: because their whole history has been manipulated by the super-computer Hactar to bring them to this way of thinking]]. Having evolved shielded from knowledge of the possibility of anything existing outside their own planet, they are appalled when a spaceship crash-lands on their world, at once blowing apart their idea of existence. They debate -- charmingly, whimsically -- the implications of a universe outside their planet and come to one conclusion:
--->''It'll have to go.''
* Creator/LSpragueDeCamp's ''Literature/LestDarknessFall'': This story presents an example of this attitude in sixth-century Ostrogothic Italy, where the Orthodox feel offended that other religions are allowed to worship without oppression.
-->"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."\\
"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!"
* ''Literature/TheLostFleet'': This is why the corporate rulers of the Syndicate Worlds want to destroy TheAlliance. Since they oppress their people, they can't afford to have a powerful democratic polity just sitting out there as a constant reminder to the oppressed masses that another way is possible. [[spoiler: Ironically, the alien race on the other side of their territory that's been playing both ends against the middle to keep the ForeverWar going is motivated by pretty much the exact same line of reasoning. It's not clear whether or not the Alliance, whose leaders are fairly elected and at least grasp the concept of negotiating in good faith, would have handled FirstContact any better than the Syndics.]]
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/AMidsummerTempest'', a Puritan bringing a young woman through France explains how oppressive it is, in that people who want to purify the Church are prevented.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/NotFinal": The [[{{UsefulNotes/Jupiter}} Jovians]] believe that they are the only intelligent form of life. Once they realize that they have been communicating with non-Jovian life (that is, humans), they are offended and announce that they are the natural masters of the universe and [[FinalSolution the vermin will be eliminated]].
* In ''Literature/TheReluctantFundamentalist'', Changez professes a distaste in American affairs in Pakistan and says that he was pleased by the September 11th attacks, despite openly admitting that he was never personally harmed by Americans, that he himself went to the United States to study and work, and that he's not even a particularly model Muslim (i.e. having sex outside of marriage).
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': Creator/DianeDuane's ''{{Literature/Rihannsu}}'' (Romulans) novels use this as their basis for their isolationism and imperialism. After Vulcan's First Contact with another species turned out to be a band of marauding pirates that took half the planet's leaders hostage and massacred the rest, a major splinter group left the planet (after the Vulcans brutally slaughtered the pirates), heading to the least hospitable part of the galaxy they could find. Once they set up shop, they blew up any ship that came near their planet, because the alien was something to be feared.
* In ''Literature/TheSupervillainySaga'' by Creator/CTPhipps, this is the level of hatred that Supers receive from some segments of the public. The public hates Supers less for the danger they represent and more for the fact that they make them feel inferior simply by existing. Gary notably gets particularly defensive about this due to the fact his sister and daughters are Supers. Gary, amusingly, is not due to being a wizard (i.e. tools and learned magic) rather than possessing inborn powers.
* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's AlternateHistory ''Literature/Timeline191'', the Freedom Party (a Confederate {{expy}} of the Nazis) advocates a CSA "free" of any black population.
* ''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries'': In this Neo-Nazi novel, the Aryan race is finally "liberated" as the MainCharacters let atomic, biological, and chemical bombs rain over the entire planet, exterminating over 90% of mankind. [[AuthorTract This is portrayed as a happy ending]].
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* In ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'', the mutated Purple Tentacle rules a BadFuture where he and his most loyal followers blame all humans for Dr. Fred's creation of their "ungainly forms" and so wish to exterminate them all. (Of course, the Tentacles could easily escape their miserable existence by killing themselves, but why should ''they'' be the ones who have to die?)
* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', the creation story of most religions of Tamriel states that, from the aftermath of the struggle between "stasis" and "chaos/change" over the idea of "creation", a number of "original spirits" (AKA "et'Ada") emerged. One of these spirits, [[IHaveManyNames known by many names]] but most prominently as Lorkhan, led a few of these spirits in creating the mortal plane, Mundus. However, these spirits who participated (the Aedra, or "our ancestors" in [[ClassicalTongue Aldmeris]]) were forced to sacrifice large portions of their power in the process. According to [[OurElvesAreDifferent Altmeri (High Elf)]] religious beliefs, they are the descendants of those spirits who stayed within Mundus and populated it. Their religion teaches that the creation of Mundus was a cruel trick which forced their divine ancestors to experience mortal suffering, loss, and death. To them, Mundus is a prison, where their immortal souls are trapped in mortal flesh with "more limitations than not." Some of the more extremist Altmeri religious sects, such as [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the Thalmor]], take this even further. They actively seek to ''[[OmnicidalManiac undo creation]]'', which they believe will return them to [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence a state of pre-creation divinity]]. However, they believe that not just the existence of mankind, but the existence of the ''possibility'' of mankind, keeps them trapped in Mundus. (According to their beliefs, mankind were made up from the "weakest souls" by Lorkhan to spread Sithis (chaos) "into every corner," ensuring that there could never be the "stasis" of pre-creation again) Officially, the Thalmor espouse the belief that Talos, a [[DeityOfHumanOrigin formerly mortal man]] ([[MergerOfSouls or men]], depending on the version of the story) who ascended to godhood, cannot ''truly'' be a god equal to the Aedra. Thus, they have forced the Empire to ban the worship of Talos. Unofficially, the Thalmor believe that Talos may be [[BarrierMaiden the last thing]] keeping the mortal world extant. "[[KillTheGod Killing him]]" by depriving him of mankind's worship would, in their minds, undo creation. (And terrifyingly, there is evidence that they may be ''right'' about this...)
* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', Dean Domino betrayed his best friend Frederick Sinclair, [[NoOSHACompliance sabotaged the villa]] that Sinclair dedicated his life to building, and tried to rob him for everything he had. His reason for doing all that? Because Sinclair was ''happier'' than Dean, and [[EvilIsPetty Dean took it as a personal insult]].
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** Most people see the geth as AIIsACrapshoot because they think that the geth are classic Robot Overlords. [[spoiler:The quarian leaders proceeded to have a civil war to eradicate the geth, the geth took revenge for the individual quarians who they cared about, and then said leaders founded a new scavenger society rather than rebuild on a new planet. We see in ''Videogame/MassEffect3'' that this ties to the plot, as one of the leaders is indeed a paranoid GeneralRipper who can actually bring about the fall of his race through ignorance and ruthlessness.]]
* This seems to be a recurring issue in the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series. Especially in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', as one character, [[BitchInSheepsClothing Sister]] [[SinisterMinister Petrice]], actively tries to incite violence against the group of Qunari that are stranded in Kirkwall, who have a different philosophical / religious viewpoint from The Chantry. Even though the Qunari are staunchly expansionist and as a whole aim to unite all of Thedas under the Qun, and even though the Arishok himself states that there will probably come a time he's forced to "enlighten" the people of Kirkwall, he and his men weren't actually doing anything but minding their own business until provoked by three events which are vastly disrespectful to their culture. In particular. Petrice sees the mere existence of a non-Chantry belief system as an offence worthy of death.
%%* This is the motive of the BigBad of ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''. Who oppresses him? HUMANITY!
* [[BigBad Clockwerk]] from ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' felt this way towards the entire Cooper family, devoting his entire existence to killing them and [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul replacing most of his body with machinery]] just so he could keep living to torment them across centuries. His hatred of their mere existence is so powerful that [[ThePowerOfHate it's literally become his power-source]].
* In ''VideoGame/StarControl II'', this is the motivation behind the Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah's extermination campaigns. Much like the Daleks, they consider all non-Ur-Quan life to be abhorrent. They also think they're doing the universe a favor, since they believe in reincarnation and without any other species to be born into, every soul will eventually become an Ur-Quan. Their FreudianExcuse is that they were psychically enslaved by an evil race of lazy [[HypnoticCreature hypnotic toads]] for generations. After freeing themselves and lobotomizing their former slavemasters, the Ur-Quan are deadset on [[NeverBeHurtAgain making sure no one can ever enslave them again.]] The Kohr-Ah believe this can only be possible if no other species exist.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'': In "Edge of the Darkness", Goose crashes on Ozark, a planet where the locals - excepting Anne, his saviour - have notolerance against off-worlders. Even after he saves a local child from drowning, the xeriff still wants to kill him, and [[BigDamnHeroes only the arrival of Goose's friends saves his life]]. Although the other locals cheer up when Doc "heals" Goose from the collateral effects of a black hole, hinting that Anne wasn't the only one to disagree with the xeriff, but the others feared him and his posse.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' we meet Adwaita. He is first seen as the EvilOverlord who rules Ledgerdomain, the dimension where {{Mana}}, which is both LifeEnergy and the fuel for magic, comes from. He felt that ''all life'' was stealing from him by having that energy. Mind you, he was from a race of peaceful philosophers who really didn't even lie. All that changed when he came into possession [[PowerCorrupts of the Alpha Rune, the source of magic.]] Needless to say, he went completely mad with power.
** Also, that's how the Forever Knights see all the aliens as well the half-aliens like Gwen, Ben and Kevin. One of their squires is sternly admonished for being friendly to Gwen. Oh, and [[spoiler: they killed Pierce, too.]]
* Evil Seed from the 2002 ''[[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'' hates humans because they eat plants, which inspires him to try and take over their lands.
* Zigzagged with Chancellor Neighsay in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. On one hand, the changelings ''have'' attacked Equestria numerous times and have only been allies for a very short amount of time, the yaks were [[AssInAmbassador complete brutes and maniacs]] in their first and only visit to Equestria, and the dragons would have gleefully burned Equestria to the ground for no reason at all had Garble won the Gauntlet of Fire instead of Ember, so [[StrawmanHasAPoint you can understand why he views them as potential threats]]. On the other hand, he also acts this way toward the hippogriffs, sea ponies, and griffons, who have been nothing but allies to Equestria since day one so it's pretty likely he'd have applied this attitude toward the others even if they'd never once done anything to the ponies.
* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': Lord Boxman has had an IrrationalHatred for the Lakewood Plaza Turbo--a plaza for heroes and friends to hang out--since the time Gar started building it across the street from Boxmore, apparently just because of the fact that he hates friendship. Even though his friend Mr. Logic tries to point out that having it there would [[PragmaticVillainy actually benefit Boxmore as a company]] (since having more heroes around would lead to more villains wanting to buy robots), Boxman doesn't care and insists on trying to destroy it, which ruins his friendship with Logic and almost runs his business into the ground.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': The motivation behind Emperor Belos' plans. [[spoiler: As Philip Wittebane, he was born and raised in a time when witches (or, likely more often, humans mistaken for witches) were killed in the Human Realm, so he thought that all the inhabitants of the Boiling Isles were monsters that had to be exterminated. His hatred for them is so strong that he killed Caleb, his only human companion, because the latter fraternized with a local woman, and he considers Luz to have been tainted for the same reason, only sparing her at first because she was part of a StableTimeLoop, and later only sparing her because she points out that witch hunts aren't a thing in the modern United States and he'll come off as a lunatic without actual proof.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** The episode "Bart After Dark" infamously has Marge behaving this way when she discovers the existence of a burlesque house in Springfield, screeching "Get outta my town!" at the owner and strong-arming the rest of the townsfolk into trying to tear it down. What makes it worse is the fact that there was a legitimate reason for her to be upset, namely the fact that Bart was working there as a {{Bouncer}}[[note]]LongStoryShort, he accidentally damaged part of the house and Homer sent him to WorkOffTheDebt without knowing what it was[[/note]], but all she seems to care about is how the house is supposedly damaging the town's morals and values just by being there.
** The episode "The Great Wife Hope" has Marge going on the warpath to get Mixed Martial Arts shut down in Springfield, flat-out saying that if she hates something, ''nobody'' should be allowed to see it. The fact that the tournament's organizer Chett Englebrick is [[HateSink a complete asshole]] (for one thing, he's a domestic abuser) makes Marge look RightForTheWrongReasons ''at best'' when she denounced it as "morally unwholesome".
* {{Parodied|Trope}} in the episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' that has "poor" people feel threatened by the arrival of rich people in their town (note: in this case the town is almost all white and all the rich newcomers are black, so here "richness" is used as an {{Acceptable Target|s}}), for fear of [[InvertedTrope their property taxes increasing from the nice houses being built]]. This is silly, as all the rich people are very nice and do not consciously hurt anyone; at their very worst they are InnocentlyInsensitive, wondering why in the world the native townsfolk would watch movies on a "VHS" instead of a DVD player. But the "poor" people just will not stop complaining about them, even arguing that the rich people are going to make their children go to school with rich children and try to turn ''them'' into "richers".
** And played straight at the end, as Mr. Garrison -- who'd led the charge and came up with the ideas -- points out that now the townsfolk can get rich by selling off the freshly-built property.
--->'''Randy:''' Yeah, you'll become what you hate.\\
'''Mr. Garrison:''' ...Yeah, but at least I got rid of all those damn [[CurseCutShort ni]]--''[[[InterruptedByTheEnd end credits roll]]]''
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': The Shredder's hatred of Hamato Yoshi/Splinter runs so deep that he considers Splinter still being alive another day a stain on his honor.
* The Utrom Shredder from ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' is perhaps even worse. He was already at wits end by ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'', but seeing the multiverse and all the other incarnations of the Turtles out there results in him going full-on OmnicidalManiac.
* In ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', this initially seems to be the opinion and motivation of Graydon Creed ([[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope though it's more likely]] that his anti-mutant extremism comes from being [[MuggleBornOfMages an unpowered human born to two mutant]] AbusiveParents]]). Keeping in mind that he says the following as if it were fact ''in the middle of torture'':
-->'''Jubilee:''' Why do you hate us?! What did we ever do to you?!\\
'''Creed:''' ''(with a SlasherSmile)'' You were born!
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Robin's [[HeKnowsTooMuch forbidden knowledge]] of the language of the Poneglyphs makes her a prime target for execution by the World Government, while Spandam and [=CP9=] consider her mere existence a crime punishable by death. [[CreateYourOwnHero In a roundabout way, this witch-hunt is partially why she made herself an intentional threat to the World Government]].
** Played for laughs with Kalifa, who considers her boss [[SmugSnake Spandam's]] mere ''existence'' as sexual harassment.
** Hody Jones, ArcVillain of the Fishman Island arc, absolutely despises humans with a passion. He preaches to his fellow Fishmen and Merfolk about vengeance on humanity and considers anyone who is friendly with or seeks peace with humans to be NoTrueScotsman. Yet when Prince Fukaboshi demands to know what humans did to him to make him such a monster, [[spoiler:Hody's response is "nothing". Unlike other Fishman villains such as Arlong, Hody has ''never'' personally suffered at the hands of humans, and was just raised to hate them without even knowing ''why''.]]

* In ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'', the inhabitants of [[spoiler:Barian World are apparently enemies of the inhabitants of the Astral World, and plan nothing less than genocide against them. Their leader, known simply as Barian, seems ObviouslyEvil, but his servants come in varying degrees of evil, from Gilag, who is pretty much DumbMuscle, to Alit (who seems to be a NobleDemon).]]
** [[spoiler:It's more complicated than it appears. Barian and Astral world were once one and the same, with Astral world's desire to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence leading it to expel everything in it that contained Chaos. This led to Barian World's creation. It's also revealed that Astral was specifically born to destroy the Barian World and that Astral World's goals are slowly killing the remaining inhabitants, who need chaos in order to live. Otherwise, they become sick and slowly die.]] In other words, [[spoiler:both sides literally cannot survive while the other exists]].
* The BigBad [[spoiler:(the real one)]] of ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'' wants to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out all life in the universe]] because he [[TimeAbyss predates it]] and thinks all of that life is too noisy. He wants the universe to be a nice and quiet void again.
* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', the [[spoiler:Eldians living in Marley's ghettos]] blame the [[spoiler:Eldians living behind the Walls]] for their current situation. The most radical among them literally believe their mere existence makes their lives worse, and want a FinalSolution to be carried out.

* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': After being defeated by Tsukune, Kuyou dedicated himself to training and growing stronger solely to defeat and kill him. When he returns in Season II, he rants about he never had to train or expend any effort in his life beforehand, and that he considers the humiliation of losing to Tsukune a FateWorseThanDeath.

* In ''ComicBook/BitchyBitch'' and ''ComicBook/BitchyButch'', this trope is a stock complaint from various versions of TheFundamentalist, feeling oppressed by the existence of Atheists and Gays and so on. Even when the Atheists and Gays are simply minding their own business. We also have Butchy herself, who feels threatened by the mere existence of men and heterosexuals.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': When the second group of X-Men joined up, Angel and Iceman of the first group got really territorial. [[LightningBruiser Thunderbird I]] was quick to set them straight. And of course, the whole franchise has a lot of mutant-haters who feel this way about all mutants (often because mutants, "Homo Superior", ''technically'' pose a "threat" to baseline humans, "Homo Sapiens", as the [[EvolutionaryLevels "next step" in evolution]]). This sentiment and the persecution it inspires lead some mutants to feel this way about all ''baselines.''

* Lord Farquaad from ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' despises fairy-tale creatures, such as ogres, and considers it "rude enough being alive when no one wants you."

* ''Film/TheKillingFields'' depicts the Khmer Rouge's application of these principles to those of Vietnamese descent and "intellectuals", a category that included urban professionals and [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses people who wore glasses]].
* ''Film/HotelRwanda'' depicts the genocide in that country as a consequence of this logic.
* ''I Shot Creator/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.

* Part of what distinguishes ''Film/TheMatrix'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. He later [[OmnicidalManiac extends this view to all of existence]], his former masters included.

* ''Film/TronLegacy'': Clu was frustrated with the Isos existing, but could not do anything about it while Flynn was in charge. Once he executed his coup, he is not only all too willing to exterminate ''every'' Iso, and Program that does not fit his self-created template of "perfection," but he's itching to take his crusade to the User world because he feels oppressed by human existence as well. And then we see that there's more to it than that. Clu wasn't a person, he was a program and it was his innate desire and purpose in existence to fulfill the mandate of his User. Flynn ordered him to "create the perfect system", not realizing what that would mean [[LiteralGenie if taken to a literal-minded extreme]] [[AIIsACrapshoot by a computer program basically incapable of nuance]]. To Clu, he was merely doing what he was built to do by his Creator himself and he felt confused and betrayed when he was condemned for his efforts. As a result, he became consumed with self-loathing and hateful of Flynn as only a betrayed child could, and so he rebelled. Flynn himself realized this in the end, and he apologized to Clu and took responsibility for his mistakes.

* Lex Luthor in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' has this in common with the comics version, though his reasoning here is that he feels that power can't go hand in hand with benevolence thanks to years of abuse by his father, and thus views Superman as an affront to his worldview, i.e. he apends the philosophical [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil Problem of Evil]] to Superman as the closest stand-in for {{God}}.
-->'''Lex:''' I don't hate the sinner... I hate the sin. And yours, my friend, is existing.
* In ''Film/KinDzaDza'', the people of Hanud really wanted to "trankluck" their twin planet. Why? Because it was always there, floating overhead. The other race ended up "tranklucking" Hanud first as a pre-emptive strike. [[GracefulLoser The surviving Hanudians find it fair.]]
* In ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', President Simmons of the [[MegaCorp Apex Corporation]] ends up [[spoiler:creating MechaGodzilla because he feels this way about the Titans. MechaGodzilla is intended to kill Godzilla so that humanity can be on the top of the food chain again. Of course, it doesn't work out for him because when you use the brain of an alien space-dragon that was Godzilla's arch-enemy to run the thing, it pulls TurnedAgainstTheirMasters at the first opportunity and kills him.]]

* ''Film/HailSatan'': Christians shown in the film clearly can't stand that the Satanists even exist or take legal action against them, due to association with the archenemy per Christian doctrine (even when it's symbolic for them) and the wider HollywoodSatanism trope.

* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/AMidsummerTempest'', a Puritan bringing a young woman through France explains how oppressive it is, in that people who want to purify the Church are prevented.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/NotFinal": The [[{{UsefulNotes/Jupiter}} Jovians]] believe that they are the only intelligent form of life. Once they realize that they have been communicating with non-Jovian life (that is, humans), they are offended and announce that they are the natural masters of the universe and [[FinalSolution the vermin will be eliminated]].

* ''Literature/CodexAlera'': A more or less {{Justified}} example as the yeti-esque Icemen use a form of water magic for both {{Telepathy}} and [[AnIcePerson manipulation of ice and snow]]. Any Aleran with [[PlayingWithFire Firecrafting]] would be using a minor form of it constantly to keep warm in the northern weather. Unfortunately, these forms of fire and watercrafting don't mix- when brought into close proximity, a HatePlague is the result. Because of this, the Alerans and the Icemen have been fighting as long as anyone can remember just because each thinks the only way the other would stop fighting is if they were dead. [[spoiler: This state of affairs lasts until the Alerans get desperate enough to send a legit request for peace, and send along Isana, who can't firecraft and is sharp enough to realize what happens when her Firecrafter friend starts acting too aggressive for the situation. Both sides are left baffled and feeling rather silly when the dots are connected, and by the time of the epilogue, there's an Iceman attending [[AwesomeMomentOfCrowning Tavi's coronation]].]]
* Creator/LSpragueDeCamp's ''Literature/LestDarknessFall'': This story presents an example of this attitude in sixth-century Ostrogothic Italy, where the Orthodox feel offended that other religions are allowed to worship without oppression.
-->"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."\\
"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!"

* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's AlternateHistory ''Literature/Timeline191'', the Freedom Party (a Confederate {{expy}} of the Nazis) advocates a CSA "free" of any black population.
* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': Lindon finds himself on the receiving end of this a ''lot''. First off, as an [[UnSorcerer Unsouled]], in his home he is considered completely worthless and could be murdered by anyone at any time with no fear of reprisal. In the first book, some teenagers blame him for ruining their (illegal) hunt because he happened to be nearby, he is blamed for winning two different impossible fights that he was forced into, and near the end, someone is mad that Lindon survived a trial while someone else didn't--Lindon wasn't even ''nearby'', but he still gets blamed. This tapers off once he leaves Sacred Valley since outside he is merely seen as weak rather than an abomination, but stronger people repeatedly call him an honorless coward for ''not dying'' [[CrimeOfSelfDefense when they decide to attack him for whatever random reason]].
* In ''Literature/TheSupervillainySaga'' by Creator/CTPhipps, this is the level of hatred that Supers receive from some segments of the public. The public hates Supers less for the danger they represent and more for the fact that they make them feel inferior simply by existing. Gary notably gets particularly defensive about this due to the fact his sister and daughters are Supers. Gary, amusingly, is not due to being a wizard (i.e. tools and learned magic) rather than possessing inborn powers.
* In ''Literature/TheReluctantFundamentalist'', Changez professes a distaste in American affairs in Pakistan and says that he was pleased by the September 11th attacks, despite openly admitting that he was never personally harmed by Americans, that he himself went to the United States to study and work, and that he's not even a particularly model Muslim (i.e. having sex outside of marriage).
* ''Literature/BlackFleetCrisis'': The Yevetha find the very existence of aliens living in their home Koornach Cluster, even on other planets posing no threat to them, as an intolerable blight. Because of this (along with wanting every planet in the Cluster to colonize themselves) they commit genocide by exterminating them all (except for one survivor).
* ''Literature/DungeonCrawlerCarl'': The Syndicate regularly "reclaims" planets, killing 99% of the population, allowing the rest to wander into the World Dungeon, and then publicizing the horrific deaths of the remainder as they advance through the levels. Then there is the political party known as the Bloom, who are running the current Crawl. They think ''this is too nice'' and wish they could just quietly exterminate everyone else so that they can live in their own system.
--> '''Carl''': Why are you so angry all the time, Loita?\\
'''Loita''': You. Your cat. Your people. Your ugly culture. This is a cancer upon the Bloom, and we should not be doing this.\\
'''Carl''': Doing what?\\
'''Loita''': We should not be celebrating your culture. Spreading your filth so the fry may see.\\
'''Carl''': Celebrating? You call this celebrating our culture? You're exterminating us and profiting upon our ashes.\\
'''Loita''': If it were up to me, we'd simply exterminate you and nothing else. You're filthy. You're dry. You're a rot upon the Bloom.

* In ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'', the mutated Purple Tentacle rules a BadFuture where he and his most loyal followers blame all humans for Dr. Fred's creation of their "ungainly forms" and so wish to exterminate them all. (Of course, the Tentacles could easily escape their miserable existence by killing themselves, but why should ''they'' be the ones who have to die?)
* In ''VideoGame/StarControl II'', this is the motivation behind the Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah's extermination campaigns. Much like the Daleks, they consider all non-Ur-Quan life to be abhorrent. They also think they're doing the universe a favor, since they believe in reincarnation and without any other species to be born into, every soul will eventually become an Ur-Quan. Their FreudianExcuse is that they were psychically enslaved by an evil race of lazy [[HypnoticCreature hypnotic toads]] for generations. After freeing themselves and lobotomizing their former slavemasters, the Ur-Quan are deadset on [[NeverBeHurtAgain making sure no one can ever enslave them again.]] The Kohr-Ah believe this can only be possible if no other species exist.
%%* This is the motive of the BigBad of ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''. Who oppresses him? HUMANITY!

* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', Dean Domino betrayed his best friend Frederick Sinclair, [[NoOSHACompliance sabotaged the villa]] that Sinclair dedicated his life to building, and tried to rob him for everything he had. His reason for doing all that? Because Sinclair was ''happier'' than Dean, and [[EvilIsPetty Dean took it as a personal insult]].

* ''WebSite/SFDebris'' has a "Stupid Neelix Moment" for just about every ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode. Just the mere ''appearance'' of the character warrants this award.
-->[[PlayedForLaughs "Neelix walked into a room and handed the Doctor a pad. This offended me."]]
* Every devout Khersian thinks this way about Mack in ''Literature/TalesOfMU''. Considering she's half-demon and Khersis exists to purge the world of demons, and demons feed on humans, there is some justification. But since she's the protagonist, we are sympathetic to her situation. It doesn't help that the characters who most dehumanize demons in the setting are either {{Jerkass}}es like Gloria and Ariadne or the bastard Mercy.

* Discussed by the "Bitch Eating Crackers" meme, which reads "When you hate someone, anything they do is offensive. As in, 'Look at that bitch just eating crackers like she owns the place.'"

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'' : In "Edge of the Darkness", Goose crashes on Ozark, a planet where the locals - excepting Anne, his saviour - have notolerance against off-worlders. Even after he saves a local child from drowning, the xeriff still wants to kill him, and [[BigDamnHeroes only the arrival of Goose's friends saves his life]]. Although the other locals cheer up when Doc "heals" Goose from the collateral effects of a black hole, hinting that Anne wasn't the only one to disagree with the xeriff, but the others feared him and his posse.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** The episode "Bart After Dark" infamously has Marge behaving this way when she discovers the existence of a burlesque house in Springfield, screeching "Get outta my town!" at the owner and strong-arming the rest of the townsfolk into trying to tear it down. What makes it worse is the fact that there was a legitimate reason for her to be upset, namely the fact that Bart was working there as a {{Bouncer}}[[note]]LongStoryShort, he accidentally damaged part of the house and Homer sent him to WorkOffTheDebt without knowing what it was[[/note]], but all she seems to care about is how the house is supposedly damaging the town's morals and values just by being there.
** The episode "The Great Wife Hope" has Marge going on the warpath to get Mixed Martial Arts shut down in Springfield, flat-out saying that if she hates something, ''nobody'' should be allowed to see it. The fact that the tournament's organizer Chett Englebrick is [[HateSink a complete asshole]] (for one thing, he's a domestic abuser) makes Marge look RightForTheWrongReasons ''at best'' when she denounced it as "morally unwholesome".

* In ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', this initially seems to be the opinion and motivation of Graydon Creed ([[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope though it's more likely]] that his anti-mutant extremism comes from being [[MuggleBornOfMages an unpowered human born to two mutant]] AbusiveParents]]). Keeping in mind that he says the following as if it were fact ''in the middle of a torture'':

'''Creed:''' ''[with a SlasherSmile]'' You were born!

* Wiki/RationalWiki captures this phenomenon fairly well on the [[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Persecution_complex persecution complex]] page.

* In one drunken rant, ''Arne Anka'' claims to be a victim oppressed by the existence of beautiful women.

Far more often, this is expressed as a stock complaint of hyperpatriotism or chauvinism or just plain bigotry in general. For example, "foreigners" are taking over one's country (or community, or whatever) and are going to outbreed or even replace the native people—and, worst of all, just might be plotting to [[OurVampiresAreDifferent turn everyone else into]] ''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent them]]'', whether genetically or just culturally.[[note]] Some anti-immigrant partisans have sardonically noted that [[PositiveDiscrimination it was (and is) okay for American Indians to feel this way about the European settlers]], in part because their fears happened to be well-founded. [[/note]]

* Lex Luthor in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' has this in common with the comics version, though his reasoning here is that he feels that power can't go hand in hand with benevolence thanks to years of abuse by his father, and thus views Superman as an affront to his worldview.

* WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse: The motivation behind Emperor Belos' plans. [[spoiler: As Phillip Whitebane, he was born and raised in a time when witches were killed in the human world, so he thought that all the inhabitants of the Boiling Islands were monsters that had to be exterminated. His hatred for them is so strong that he killed Caleb, his only human companion, because the latter fraternized with a local woman.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Gaston easily convinces the villagers that Beast's existence is a menace for their wives and children. Of course, he wanted to kill Beast because he noticed Belle loved the latter, but the point is that the villagers promptly agreed with him, not caring that Beast never had made any harm to the village. Their bigotry against anything they don't consider normal (besides their mistreatment of Belle and Maurice) is expressed well in The Mob Song:

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'' : In "Edge of the Darkness", Goose crashes on Ozark, a planet where the locals - excepting Anne, his saviour - have notolerance against off-worlders. Even after he saves a local child from drowning, the xeriff still wants to kill him, and [[BigDamnHeroes only the arrival of Gooses' friends saves his life]]. Although the other locals cheer up when Doc "heals" Goose from the effects caused by being dragged through a black hole, hinting that Anne wasn't the only one to disagree with the xeriff, but the others feared him and his posse.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': The Shredder's hatred of Hamato Yoshi/Splinter runs so deep that he considers Splinter still being alive another day a stain on his honor.
* The Utrom Shredder from ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' is perhaps even worse. He was already at wits end by ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'', but seeing the multiverse and all the other incarnations of the Turtles out there results in him going full-on OmnicidalManiac.
* In ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', this initially seems to be the opinion and motivation of Graydon Creed ([[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope though it's more likely]] that his anti-mutant extremism comes from being [[MuggleBornOfMages an unpowered human born to two mutant]] AbusiveParents]]). Keeping in mind that he says the following as if it were fact ''in the middle of a torture'':
-->'''Jubilee:''' Why do you hate us?! What did we ever do to you?!\\
'''Creed:''' ''[with a SlasherSmile]'' You were born!

* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': Lord Boxman has had an IrrationalHatred for the Lakewood Plaza Turbo--a plaza for heroes and friends to hang out--since the time Gar started building it across the street from Boxmore, apparently just because of the fact that he hates friendship. Even though his friend Mr. Logic tries to point out that having it there would [[PragmaticVillainy actually benefit Boxmore as a company]] (since having more heroes around would lead to more villains wanting to buy robots), Boxman doesn't care and insists on trying to destroy it, which ruins his friendship with Logic and almost runs his business into the ground.
* Zigzagged with Chancellor Neighsay in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. On one hand, the changelings ''have'' attacked Equestria numerous times and have only been allies for a very short amount of time, the yaks were [[AssInAmbassador complete brutes and maniacs]] in their first and only visit to Equestria, and the dragons would have gleefully burned Equestria to the ground for no reason at all had Garble won the Gauntlet of Fire instead of Ember, so [[StrawmanHasAPoint you can understand why he views them as potential threats]]. On the other hand, he also acts this way toward the hippogriffs, sea ponies, and griffons, who have been nothing but allies to Equestria since day one so it's pretty likely he'd have applied this attitude toward the others even if they'd never once done anything to the ponies.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'' : In "Edge of the Darkness", Goose crashes on Ozark, aplanet where the locals have a policy of high intolerance against off-worlders. Even after he saves a local child from drowning, the xeriff still wants to kill him, and [[BigDamnHeroes only the arrival of Gooses' friends saves his life]]. Although the other locals cheer up when Doc "heals" Goose from the effects caused by being dragged through a black hole, which suggests that many of them disagreed with the xeriff but feared him and his posse.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Gaston convinces the villagers easily that Beast's existence was a menace for their wives and children. Of course, he wanted to kill Beast because he noticed Belle loved the latter, but the point is that the villagers promptly agreed with him; it doesn't occur anybody that, until then, Beast never had made any harm to the village, so why would he do that now? But, taking into consideration that the villagers were pretty biased against Belle and her father at the point of helping Gaston to blackmail her into marrying him, it's not so surprising.

* WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse: The motivation behind Emperor Belos' plans. [[spoiler: As Phillip Whitebane, he was born and raised in a time when witches were hunted and killed in the human world, so he thought that all the inhabitants of the Boiling Islands were monsters that had to be exterminated. His hatred for them grew so strong that he killed Caleb, his only human companion because the latter fraternized with a local woman.

* ''WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess'' says UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler is "mad at the Jews for existing"

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

'''Creed:''' ''(with a SlasherSmile)'' You were born!

* Parodied in the episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' that has "poor" people feel threatened by the arrival of rich people in their town (note: in this case the town is almost all white and all the rich newcomers are black, so here "richness" is used as an AcceptableTarget), for fear of [[InvertedTrope their property taxes increasing from the nice houses being built]]. This is silly, as all the rich people are very nice and do not consciously hurt anyone; at their very worst they are InnocentlyInsensitive, wondering why in the world the native townsfolk would watch movies on a "VHS" instead of a DVD player. But the "poor" people just will not stop complaining about them, even arguing that the rich people are going to make their children go to school with rich children and try to turn ''them'' into "richers".
** And played straight at the end, as Mr. Garrison - who'd led the charge and come up with the ideas - points out that now the townsfolk can get rich by selling off the freshly-built property.
--->'''Randy''': Yeah, you'll become what you hate.\\
'''Mr. Garrison''': ...yeah, but at least I got rid of all those damn [[CurseCutShort ni-]](''End credits roll'')

* Lord Demon believes that "The Strong Destroy The Weak" is the law of the monsters. He knows [[PunyEarthlings humans]] have been surpassed in power by Digimon and thus wants to destroy them, but can't because {{God}} designed the Digimon World to be free of humans. So Lord Demon spends the events of ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'' basically destroying enough of the Digimon World as he can so that humans can come in and give him a way to Earth, where he can finally exterminate the species with his virus. Most other monsters regard humans somewhere between snack food to beneath notice altogether, so they tend to be [[DisappointedByTheMotive nonplussed]] when Demon's true motivations become clear to them.

* In ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'', Col. Strickland feels morally offended by the existence of the [[FishPeople Amphibian Man]], calling him "an affront." For good measure, the movie also mixes some [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain mundane bigotry]] into his character as well.

'''Copen:''' Our human world is infested with freaks, fiends, inhuman terrors... That is exactly... what all of you Adepts are. Your mere existence in our world is a crime.

* In ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'', Chloe Cerise's hatred of Ash Ketchum is due to him just easily entering and charming her ChildhoodFriend Goh and her father Professor Cerise because of his love of Pokémon while she's...not that enthusiastic about them. This also makes it very hard for her to reveal what she wants to do or what she's into, as Ash just doesn't know to approach her except through Pokémon, only exasperating her anger against him.

* This is the motive of the BigBad of ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''. Who oppresses him? HUMANITY!

* In ''VideoGame/StarControl II'', this is the motivation behind the Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah's extermination campaigns. Much like the Daleks, they consider all non-Ur-Quan life to be abhorrent. They also think they're doing the universe a favor, since they believe in reincarnation and without any other species to be born into, every soul will eventually become an Ur-Quan. Their FreudianExcuse is that they were psychically enslaved by an evil race of lazy [[TheHypnotoad Hypnotoads]] for generations. After freeing themselves and lobotomizing their former slavemasters, the Ur-Quan are deadset on [[NeverBeHurtAgain making sure no one can ever enslave them again.]] The Kohr-Ah believe this can only be possible if no other species exist.

* In''Literature/TheSupervillainySaga'' by Creator/CTPhipps, this is the level of hatred that Supers receive from some segments of the public. The public hates Supers less for the danger they represent and more for the fact that they make them feel inferior simply by existing. Gary notably gets particularly defensive about this due to the fact his sister and daughters are Supers. Gary, amusingly, is not due to being a wizard (i.e. tools and learned magic) rather than possessing inborn powers.