A collection of tropes concerning ethnic/racial stereotypes used as villains. This index also lists fictional races or species that are generally depicted as all being evil.
Sub-trope of Villain by Default. Compare Scary Animals Index. Contrast Positive Stereotype Tropes. Not to be confused with Politically Incorrect Villain.
Real Races
- African Terrorists: Terrorist organizations from subsaharan Africa.
- All Germans Are Nazis: All German people are aligned with Nazi Germany.
- Amoral Afrikaner: A white South African who is evil, and likely racist.
- Angry White Man: A white person who feels persecuted due to a high minority presence.
- Arab Oil Sheikh: A wealthy Arabian oil baron, often a Corrupt Corporate Executive.
- Balkan Bastard: Eastern Europeans are depicted as evil.
- Barbarian Tribe: When applied to real-life "barbarian" cultures.
- Cannibal Tribe: A native tribe, usually dark-skinned, who eat other humans.
- The Cartel: Latin-American organized crime/drug rings.
- Darkest Africa: Africa and its native tribesmen are terrifying and uncivilized.
- Dragon Lady: An East Asian Femme Fatale.
- Evil Brit: A villain hails from England.
- Evil States of America: The U.S.A. is a horrible place.
- Far East Asian Terrorists: An extremist group from the far east.
- Fighting Irish: Irish people are aggressive brawlers at heart.
- Foreign Wrestling Heel: A pro wrestling heel from a foreign nation.
- French Jerk: Frenchmen are supreme Jerkasses.
- "Great Replacement" Conspiracy Theory: Nativist conspiracy theory that foreigners or minorities in a country are scheming to overthrow and replace the present majority.
- Greedy Jew: Jewish people are stereotyped as greedy and stingy.
- Hillbilly Horrors: Deranged, usually inbred psychopaths from the Deep South.
- Hordes from the East: Mongols or other "Eastern barbarians" are depicted as malevolent warmongers.
- Humans Are Bastards: Human beings as a whole are immoral.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: In a work with fictional beings or monsters, humans are even worse than them.
- Intimidating White Presence: White people used as a source of fear for minorities.
- Irish Explosives Expert: An Irish demolition man who learned his skills in The Troubles.
- The Irish Mob: Irish organized crime.
- The Klan: Fictional depictions of the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist terrorist group.
- Kosher Nostra: Jewish gangsters; sometimes overlaps with Greedy Jew.
- London Gangster: British mobsters.
- The Mafia: Italian mobsters.
- The Mafiya: Russian mobsters.
- Malcolm Xerox: A black rights activist depicted as an unhinged radical.
- Middle Eastern Terrorists: Terrorists hailing from the Middle East, often Islamic fundamentalists.
- Northern Irish and Nasty: An evil Northern Irishman.
- Renegade Russian: A villan hailing from Russia.
- Roguish Romani: Romani people are stereotyped as thieves.
- Ruthless Foreign Gangsters: Foreign criminals are scary.
- The Savage Indian: Native Americans depicted as scary, amoral barbarians.
- Scary Black Man: An intimidating man of African heritage
- Scary Minority Suspect: A non-white suspect in a murder case who, if not guilty, is still threatening.
- South Asian Terrorists: Extremist groups from South Asia.
- The Triads and the Tongs: Chinese organized crime.
- Violent Glaswegian: Scottish people are rude, billigerent and violent.
- Western Terrorists: A terrorist organization founded in the West; often white supremacists.
- White Gangbangers: Street gangs who are white instead of black.
- Yakuza: Japanese organized criminals.
- Yellow Peril: East Asians are depicted as sinister conspirators against Western civilization.
Fantasy Races
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: A computer given sentience will always turn evil.
- Aliens Are Bastards: When extraterrestrials are hostile towards humans.
- All Trolls Are Different: Whatever the writer decides a "Troll" is, they're often to not be too friendly.
- Always Chaotic Evil: These creatures don't feel pity or remorse; they just want you dead.
- Amanojaku: A Japanese Yōkai characterized as a malevolent trickster.
- Demon/Devil Distinction: Demons and devils are different, and sometimes have different moral codes (though oftentimes, both are evil).
- Demonic Vampires: Vampires are explicitly connected to the demonic and the infernal.
- Dragons Are Demonic: When dragons are depicted as evil or demonic.
- Eldritch Abomination: A creature that defies all logic within the story, internal or otherwise; often evil, if they can even conceive of "evil."
- Evil Counterpart Race: An Always Chaotic Evil species that serves as the Evil Counterpart to an Always Lawful Good species.
- The Fair Folk: When fairies are amoral or malicious.
- Fierce Unicorn: Unicorns are hostile creatures.
- Humanoid Abomination: An Eldritch Abomination that has a human shape.
- Jerkass Gods: When the Gods themselves are malicious or evil.
- Killer Robot: A robot designed only for murder.
- The Morlocks: An underdwelling human subspecies that either wants to eat you, enslave you, or both.
- Our Dark Elves Are Different: A Darker and Edgier subspecies of elf; usually evil.
- Our Demons Are Different: Malicious spirits and/or creatures hailing from Hell.
- Our Ghouls Are Creepier: Another subspecies of zombie, usually gaunt and ghastly.
- Our Goblins Are Different: If they aren't synonymous with Orcs, they're often the next worst thing.
- Our Imps Are Different: Smaller demons who are often malicious tricksters.
- Our Ogres Are Hungrier: Big, lumbering creatures with a hankering for human flesh.
- Our Orcs Are Different: Savage, war-loving humanoid monsters; usually (but not always) Always Chaotic Evil.
- Our Perytons Are Different: Predatory bird-deer hybrids.
- Our Vampires Are Different: Undead creatures who feed on human blood.
- Our Werebeasts Are Different: A human who can transform into an animalistic form, with all the savagery it implies.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: A human who turns into a wolf-like form, usually overlapping with Horror Hunger.
- Our Wights Are Different: A subtype of zombies, often far more dangerous than their brethren.
- Our Zombies Are Different: Hostile, reanimated corpses, and/or humans infected with a degenerative virus.
- Scary Dogmatic Aliens: Aliens Are Bastards because of their ideological leanings.
- Succubi and Incubi: Demons associated with lust and sexual desire; often either seducers or rapists.
- Space Orcs: An alien race whose hat is being primitive, uncivilized and bloodthirsty.
- The Undead: Something dead coming back to life is almost never a good sign...
- Wendigo: Monsters of Native American myth that used to be human cannibals, but are now closer to ghouls or zombies.