Baptiste: You sure you want me keeping you alive? I am a human, after all.
Ramattra: A helpful human would certainly be a welcome change of pace.
Ramattra: A helpful human would certainly be a welcome change of pace.
When it comes to bigotry, many bigots would prefer if the groups they hate were subjugated, exterminated, or separate from them. While some bigots might choose to act bigoted even if it disadvantages them, others are more practical by choosing to be more tolerant if it is more beneficial to their interests. These people might loathe the idea of having to treat those they look down upon as equals or having to tolerate them in general, but they will have no problem doing so if it serves their agenda.
There are a few ways bigots can choose to be practical about their bigotry. In societies where bigotry is widely unaccepted, someone who is a Slave to PR will avoid voicing their real opinions and try to make themselves look progressive so as to maintain good PR. A bigoted community or group that's normally hostile to certain peoples might tolerate them if allying with them is more useful than conflict. Even people with genocidal intentions towards certain groups might delay the actual genocide if leaving their hated groups alive is more useful at the moment. They may even be willing to compliment them in the moment if they prove useful. Of course, all of these attitudes only tend to last until the bigot feels those they dislike have outlived their usefulness.
While personal gain is one common motivation, another motive for this compromise is fear and self-preservation. For example, someone who is normally disparaging or contemptuous of certain groups of people might mind their manners if a member of said groups has more power over them. Even a group who has genocidal intentions towards another might be willing to play nice with those they hate if the latter are perfectly capable of fighting back due to strength or allies. If members of a hated group use threats and force, some bigots will make sure not to do or say anything prejudicial out of personal safety.
While this can be used as a sign of pragmatism, it can also be used to show hypocrisy. Because many forms of bigotry are ideologically based, the fact that someone is willing to compromise in their bigotry out of convenience shows that they aren't willing to follow their ideals when it would truly inconvenience or disadvantage them. It can also be used to undermine bigotry, as the fact that some bigots recognize that tolerating groups they hate can be useful indirectly proves that bigotry is unsustainable if taken to its logical conclusions. In addition someone who's tolerant out of fear or self-preservation can come off as dirty cowards due to sacrificing their personal prejudices when those they hate are capable of fighting back.
Often a form of Realpolitik. See also Hired by the Oppressor. Sub-Trope of Pragmatic Villainy. Compare The Quisling, for a member of an oppressed group who's willing to work with their oppressors.Contrast Noble Bigot and Noble Bigot with a Badge, for people who are willing to put aside bigotry for more moral reasons. A Politically Incorrect Villain who practices Equal-Opportunity Evil might be this if they tolerate groups they hate. Can overlap with Bitch in Sheep's Clothing if someone pretends to be progressive. See also Enlightened Self-Interest. Contrast Bigotry Before Reason, in which no amount of pragmatic reasons will stymie the bigot's hatred (and quite often leads to self-sabotage). Also contrast Pretend Prejudice, for when a non-bigoted person pretends to be a bigot.
Because this trope is about bigotry and, to a lesser extent, politics, No Real Life Examples, Please!
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- Black Lagoon: Alfred is a Nazi war criminal who is willing to hire the Lagoon Company which is led by Dutch, a black man, and whose other members include a Japanese man, a Chinese woman, and a Jewish man as part of a plot to retrieve a set of paintings. During a phone call with Dutch, while he does commend Dutch for being more competent than his incompetent soldiers, he makes it clear that he hates Dutch for his race, calls him a racial slur, and says he hopes his kind are wiped from the face of the Earth, but still pays him for accomplishing the job.
- Code Geass: The Britannian Empire is built on strict case of The Social Darwinist and racial supremacy, explicitly classifying conquered nations as numbered, second-class citizens (e.g., the Japanese are "Elevens"). Despite this deeply institutionalized racism, pragmatic Britanians such as Cornelia li Britannia readily recruit skilled Elevens into the military as "Honorary Britannians." They loathe the locals, but they aren't stupid—they willingly exploit their combat skills to bolster their own colonial military strength.
- Gundam:
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Downplayed; Zeon's leaders claim the war is against Earthnoids, "those still bound by the gravity of Earth". However, ancillary material shows that there are a number of military units made up of Earthborn Zeon soldiers. Justified in that Zeon's ultimate goal is to rule the Earth sphere as a whole, and so the distinction between Spacenoid and Earthnoid is merely for show.
- Some material describes that in the aftermath of the Titans' defeat in the Gryps War, some of the survivors fled all the way to Mars. There, they were taken in by survivors of the Principality of Zeon who had also fled there. The Titans were formed to hunt Zeon remnants and the Zeon remnants hate the Titans for being part of the Federation military (at least until they were stripped of their status and declared traitors), but they are forced into working together since the Titans' tech is superior to the Mars Zeon but the Mars Zeon have the logistics and infrastructure to keep everyone alive.
- One Piece: Arlong is a Fishman supremacist who oppresses humans in the group of islands he rules over. However, despite this, he places profit over his racial hatred, running a Protection Racket where he will let human villages who can pay his fees live, and gives a local corrupt Marine a cut of his money in exchange for downplaying his crimes because he doesn't want to pick a fight with the World Government.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS: Lightning is an A.I. that wishes to Kill All Humans and make A.I. the rulers of the Earth. However, he states that he doesn't plan on exterminating humans right away, because they need humans to make equipment for them to survive and expand. He states that he first plans to reduce the humans' numbers in order to enslave them, have said enslaved humans create equipment for them, and once A.I. are able to live independently, he then plans to make humans fully extinct.
Comic Books
- Crossover (2020): Father Lowe despises all fictional characters, and wishes for nothing more than to send them back to the pages they came from. Negan of The Walking Dead wants Author Powers and a world to use them in, and so they put their violent tendencies together to hunt down an author who can write Negan a new reality.
Lowe: I want this world free of your kind, no offense.
Negan: None taken. And see, me? I want the same thing. I want to go the fuck home. - Marvel Comics:
- Discussed in Acts of Vengeance (1989), a major Crisis Crossover that brought together Marvel's Big Bad level villains of the era: Doctor Doom, Magneto, Red Skull, the Kingpin... and the Wizard. The other villains express surprise Magneto is willing to work with them, considering his ultimate goal is mutant supremacy. Magneto acknowledges that this is true, but he's willing to put that aside for the time being since he believes working together will be more effective for the time being. He actually wants to join so he can get within striking range of Red Skull, as Magneto is a Holocaust survivor who spent time in a concentration camp and Red Skull is an honest-to-goodness World War II "Heil Hitler" Nazi.
- Downplayed example with Magneto. Magneto is often willing to work with human criminals or supervillains to achieve his goals. Part of this is because he's after mutant supremacy, not human extinction.
- The Transformers (Marvel): This trope unintentionally demonstrates one of the reasons why Grimlock was an awful leader of the Autobots while Ratbat an excellent leader of the Decepticons. It was during their stints as faction leaders that the cast of The Headmasters arrive from Nebulous to join the main groups. Grimlock is so outraged at the idea of an organic (Galen, the Nebulan leader who transforms into the head of Fortress Maximus) leading Autobots that he challenges him to a duel to the death for undisputed leadership. Ratbat meanwhile is no less outraged at the idea of Lord Zarak (a Nebulan who becomes the head of Scorponok) leading a force of Decepticons, but recognises that anyone who can keep Decepticons in line via nothing but intelligence, ruthlessness and charisma is not someone to be underestimated.
- Mark, by Robin Wood, is a post-apocalyptic comic where civilization is destroyed by a toxic cloud that kills the vast majority of humans and transforms many others into yellowish-skinned, scaly mutants. Beast is the leader of the mutants, who hates normal humans and wants to exterminate them and take over the planet. However, he has no qualms about having human collaborators, whether they are scientists who build advanced weapons or spies he sends to human colonies, though he only intends to exterminate them once they have served their purpose.
Fan Works
- Flat Dreams: Subverted by the rebelling Flatlanders trying to find a way to stop Bill, and lampshaded by Bill himself. Despite many Flatlanders agreeing that Bill needs to go down, none of them can let go of their old strict caste system long enough to listen to each other: the polygons won't listen to the triangles, the triangles won't listen to the women, the women won't listen to the Irregulars, and there are so few Irregulars in existence that they can't form a strong group. A disgusted Bill notes that they'd stand a better chance if they all let go of their petty biases for a second and worked together. They'd still fail, but at least they'd be more organized.
- If Wishes Were Ponies...: Many wizards believe that humans stand above every other sentient species, and that magical humans are superior to non-magicals. But when the wizarding community realizes just how much the Equestrians outclass them in magical prowess, wealth, population, blood purity status, etc. (basically everything that wizards deem important), even the most bigoted of wizarding families swallow their pride and play nice. Dolores Umbridge learned the hard way why no wizard or witch should try to tick them off.
- Petrification Proliferation: After her husband's arrest, Narcissa Malfoy immediately begins publicly toning down her prejudiced views in part because she hopes she might be able to reconnect with the remaining members of her natal family who aren't dead or imprisoned, because they are all more progressive about blood purity than she is.
- Quiververse: Colonel Stormfront is a pegasus supremacist, and is biased against both non-pony races and other pony tribes. His bias against the former wins out over the latter, however, and he's happy to work with unicorns to kill a trade agreement with the zebra nation of Farasi. Those he's working with, however, care little for racism, and are more concerned with maintaining the status quo by any means necessary. After Stormfront is exposed, they decide that he has outlived his usefulness and have him killed.
- The Unexpected Rookie: In the sequel, Chick Hicks is recruited into the Decepticons as part of Megatron's plan to destroy the Autobots and Radiator Springs (since they took part in his humiliation at the Battle for Dinoco). This trope is seen on both sides of the deal: Megatron thinks that the Cars are inferior to Cybertronians and are only useful as long as he can get something out of them. Likewise, Chick sees the Cybertronians as alien freaks and (if not for Megatron contacting him via Soundwave) would've never had anything to do with them). But they both hate the Autobots, Lighting McQueen, and Radiator Springs more than each other, thus their alliance. Although Chick quickly realizes he's made a Deal with the Devil...
- We Are All Pokémon Trainers:
- Despite their dracosupremacist views, the Seven Jerk Dragons are willing to use non-Dragon-types as auxiliary forces, with Dragonbloods (Non Dragon-types in the Dragon egg group) being considered highest amongst them, but they're still considered second class at best.
- Finnegan hates Aurics and has trained to become an anti-Auric assassin, but is willing to work under his psychic boss Constantin because of the free range he gives him, though that starts to strain by the time of the Paldea Arc, as Finnegan's managed to form his own power base independent of Constantin.
- Wish Carefully: After the Death Eaters are given control of Wizarding Britain by the Light, they are initially ecstatic to no longer have to deal with Muggles, Muggleborns, and blood traitors in their society, and are also initially fine with being forced to have nothing to do with Muggles or Light aligned nations on pain of losing their magic. However, when the Death Eaters' isolationism and racism start to hurt them, they reluctantly compromise their ideals for convenience.
- After kicking out the Muggleborns and blood traitors, it's discovered that due to most Death Eaters consisting of the upper classes and the criminal underclass, there is a severe labor shortage. Despite their disdain for non-humans, they decide to hire goblins as contract laborers to perform the necessary jobs to stabilize the economy.
- Due to the Death Eaters' small, mostly pureblood population, this results in increased amounts of inbreeding from lack of genetic diversity, which in turn results in increased amounts of genetic disorders among their populations. To mitigate these effects, the Death Eaters decide to kidnap witches from overseas, some of whom are half-bloods rather than purebloods, to add to their genetic diversity.
- Despite the Death Eaters wanting to live separately from Muggles and agreeing to not get involved with them as part of the deal for control of Wizarding Britain, when their economy starts suffering, some try to get around the law by investing in Muggle businesses. Unfortunately for them, this backfires on them by causing them to lose their magic, because deliberately involving themselves with Muggles, even indirectly, counts as breaking the deal.
Film — Animated
- Cars 1: Lightning McQueen flat out says to Mack he hates rusty cars (rust being treated like a disease, thus being a case of Fantastic Ableism) and doesn't like associating with them, but agrees to be a sponsor to a group of them making a bumper ointment formula for the condition and get his big break into Dinoco 500. He looks for ways to get a better sponsor, but keeps up appearances in the mean time. This trait disappears after he takes a level in kindness, especially after becoming friends with the rusty Mater.
- Flushed Away: As much as The Toad hates the rats and wants them dead, he is still pragmatic enough to realize that they can be useful for his plans. To that end, his main henchman are rats, either as minions or providing other services.
- Shrek 1: Shrek is ostracized for being an ogre, and Lord Farquaad hates him enough to want him dead. However, Lord Farquaad decides to strike a deal with Shrek to rescue Princess Fiona in exchange for giving him back his swamp, especially since Shrek took out all of Farquaad's knights.
- Zootopia (2016): Jerry Jumbeaux Jr. initially refuses to give Nick a popsicle due to being a fox, but gets blackmailed by Judy into doing so when she threatens to write Jerry up for health code violations.
Film — Live-Action
- American History X: While in prison, Derek is distraught at seeing his fellow Neo-Nazis participating in the drug trade with black and Hispanic prisoners. Their response is brutally raping him.
- Con Air: Diamond Dog is a staunch black militant who believes in the superiority of his own race over the white man. Still, in order to escape his imprisonment with the rest of the convicts he's trapped in the air with, he's willing to work with an all-white team of convicts to reach freedom, as he explains to Poe when the inconsistency is pointed out.
- Conspiracy (2008): Rhodes is a white supremacist who hates South American immigrants, to the point he and his local militia regularly murder people crossing the border. That doesn’t stop him from employing these same immigrants as cheap labor to build condos and luxury properties. As Rhodes proudly brags, these properties will drive up the property rates in the area, forcing the immigrants to leave just like he wants once he doesn’t need them anymore.
- C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America: The Confederate States are a white supremacist nation who retain slavery into the modern day. During War War II, they ally with Nazi Germany due to having similar ideals, though they are opposed to the Holocaust because they think it would be more profitable to enslave the Jews rather than exterminate them. They also offer refuge to Albert Einstein despite the ban on non-Christians due to his scientific expertise.
- William Hale from Killers of the Flower Moon presents himself publicly as an affable ally to the Osage, all the while masterminding the systematic murder of their people in order to secure the land rights pass on to himself and his allies.
- Implied in Kingsman: The Secret Service; several members of a highly prejudiced church have installed Valentine's sim card on their phones, suggesting they're willing to accept free wifi even if it's provided by a child of Ham.
- One Battle After Another: The Christmas Adventurer's Club are a wealthy, powerful secret society of white supremacists. They're obsessed with racial purity, staunchly anti-immigration, and hate anyone who isn't "homegrown" like them. That doesn’t stop them from employing immigrants as cheap labor for their factories or employing a Native American bounty hunter, a contradiction to their ideology they don't even register.
- Star Wars: The Galactic Empire has some of this in some slightly unusual ways. The Empire is quite human supremacist and often looks down upon and oppresses (including enslaving) various non-human species. However, they are still willing to employ and/or work with several non-humans if they are particularly useful with the extremely competent Grand Admiral Thrawn being a high-ranking imperial, along with forming an informal truce and keeping around the Hutt Clan so they didn't need to actively police the entire Outer Rim, and buying supplies from them during the Galactic Civil War.
- This also applies, in a different way, to Palpatine himself. He wasn't as much a human supremacist, only ever seeing bigotry as a tool he could use to gain support, mostly because he viewed 'everyone as inferior to him. Though he did habor some views of seeing non-force sensitives below those with force capabilities, but, since most of the Empire he led was made up of non-force sensitives, it clearly wasn't that big of an obstacle for him to use them, and considering that he is trying to keep the fact he is a Sith Lord hidden, he isn't exactly eager to announce that.
- Tales from the Hood:
- Gubernatorial candidate Duke Metzger is a white supremacist and a former Klansman, but he thinks nothing of hiring the black Rhodie to work as his campaign manager. Duke hires Rhodie mainly so he can advice Duke on how to hide his racism enough to woo more voters, but Duke sincerely seems to like him and attends his funeral.
- After being arrested, black drug dealer Crazy K finds himself imprisoned next to a Neo-Nazi. The Neo-Nazi declares that he and Crazy K are the same since they both kill black people, and the Neo-Nazi tells Crazy K that black people like him will be spared when the black population is exterminated. Crazy K is naturally disgusted, but unable to retort to the Neo-Nazi's Armor-Piercing Question.
Neo-Nazi: Those guys you killed. What color were they?
- Thunderheart: FBI Agent Frank Coutelle is the racist leader of a team cracking down on Lakota Sioux activists, and the architect of an illegal uranium mining operation that will poison the reservation. Despite his disdain for the locals, he's more than willing to work with the Lakota Corrupt Politician Jack Milton and the mixed-race Agent Ray Levoi to accomplish his mission. Coutelle is a more complex example than most as he isn't aware of his prejudice. At various points, he shows empathy for the locals but rationalizes his actions as the way the world works.
Coutelle: They're a proud people. But they're also a conquered people. That means their future is dictated by the nation that conquered them. Rightly or wrongly, that's the way it works, down through history.
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Judge Doom, Toontown's chief justice, views its denizens as little more than destructive pests fit only to be subjugated and exterminated. Despite this, his "Toon Patrol" is made up of Toon weasels, claiming that "they have a special gift for the work". Downplayed in that he himself is revealed to be a Toon, which turns him into a Killer Of His Own Kind.
- X2: X-Men United: Xavier observes that for someone who violently hates mutants, Colonel William Stryker has no issue using mutants to do his dirty work. Granted, Stryker uses a special drug to keep them Brainwashed. His dragon, Lady Deathstrike, is a mind controlled mutant whom he passes off as his personal aide to the public, which would require a considerable amount of discipline on his part given his genocidal goals for her kind. This expanded on even further in the prequel film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, where Stryker is shown assembling a black ops team largely comprised of mutants in the past despite seeing them as inherently dangerous even back then.
Literature
- Animal Farm (1945):
- Animal Farm's official policy is that all animals are comrades and humans are the enemy. As the pigs attain power and become more corrupt, they go from treating humans as the enemy to entering trade agreements with them, sometimes at the expense of other animals, with a prominent example being selling the injured Boxer to a glue factory to obtain money for whiskey.
- Many of the humans initially look down on the animals, insisting that they are incapable surviving on their own and even trying to attack the farm to take it for themselves at times. However, once they realize that Animal Farm is capable of defending and providing for themselves, some humans decide to trade with the pigs.
- Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident: Played with - Briar Cudgeon and Opal Koboi hire the Bwa Kell Goblin Triad to act as their Mooks during their planned attack on Haven, despite Briar finding goblins disgusting. However, the ultimate goal of their plan is to betray the goblins once they're no longer useful and manipulate the chaos following the attack to make themselves look like heroes. They also employ a human, Luc Carrere, as part of their smuggling operation because "a chain consisting entirely of goblins is one dumb chain."
- The Beginning After the End:
- The asuras look down on the so-called lessers, but are willing to use them as pawns in their Proxy War due to the Alien Non-Interference Clause. Then again, both sides of the Divine Conflict could not care less if the lessers all got wiped out in the process.
- The Alacryans look down on the Dicathians as racially and culturally inferior, especially the elves and dwarves due to them being more deviant than the humans. In particular, the dwarves had been infiltrated by the Alacryan spy network and by the time the war begins are willing allies of the invaders. That being said, Arthur eventually learns that the Alacryans' tolerance of the dwarves is very much pragmatic; at the Victoriad he sees captive dwarves being treated no better than the elves in being Fed to the Beasts. When he returns to Dicathen to reconquer it, he allows any Alacryan collaborator to go with the invaders back to Alacrya, knowing they will receive the same fate.
- Harry Potter:
- The Death Eaters are pureblood supremacists who hate both Muggleborns and non-humans. However, they are willing to form alliances with members of the latter groups such as giants, werewolves, and goblins, for the sake of bolstering their ranks.
- According to Pottermore, the Malfoys (unlike most pureblood supremacist families who would resort to inbreeding to prevent Muggle blood from entering their bloodlines) had enough sense to understand that this would be detrimental in the long run, and occasionally married unrelated half-bloods if no unrelated purebloods were available.
- The Turner Diaries: A libertarian member of the racist organization early in its existence argues (quite correctly) that their wave of terror is doing nothing more than causing the government to clamp down even harder on normal Americans and that they're killing too many innocents which is causing the general public to hate them, which is entirely true. Of course, the main character/narrator ignores the man's observations and has him executed for not being fully committed to the cause.
Live-Action TV
- The Orville: A combination of hatred for the Union and fear of the Kaylon force the Krill and the Moclans to form an alliance. The Moclans are so misogynistic they consider being born female a birth defect, yet are willing to work with Teleya, the female Supreme Chancellor of the Krill. Meanwhile, the Krill are such Fantastic Racists they don't recognize any non-Krill's right to exist, and Teleya attained power by being even more of a fundamentalist than the average Krill, but must now work with aliens.
- The Sopranos: Tony Soprano is generally very racist and homophobic, but is personally willing to overcome these faults purely due to greed.
- He's willing to work with black criminals on certain schemes out of Pragmatic Villainy; the crimes are far less likely to tie back to him if people outside his ethnic group commit them for him.
- He's disgusted by the idea of male homosexuality, but is willing to overlook Vito's homosexuality because he was a big earner, and feels it's a waste of a valuable captain to whack him just for that. It's only when his less pragmatically bigoted compatriots put pressure on Tony to do something about Vito that he's forced to sanction the hit.
Tabletop Games
- Warhammer 40,000:
- The Imperium of Man's entire religion and culture is built on absolute human supremacy, and is deeply xenophobic as a result. Despite this, the Imperium repeatedly enters into temporary, tense alliances of convenience with Xenos races like the Eldar or the T'au Empire when facing existential threats like Chaos or Tyranids. More radical members of the Inquisition's Ordo Xenos will readily use alien tech and make alliances with aliens to further their ends, something frowned on by more puritan-minded Inquisitors. Rogue Traders, individuals legally licensed to do whatever they see fit to expand humanity's reach into the galaxy, have free rein to cut deals, trade, and associate with aliens if it's for the financial and territorial benefit of the Imperium.
- The Imperium reveres the "holy human form" and teaches that mutants are inherently evil by virtue of being mutants. However, the fact remains that the Imperium is utterly dependent on mutants to sustain itself with its use of abhumans (Human Subspecies who evolved different traits due to living on different planets), psykers (humans with Psychic Powers due to genetic mutations), nulls (humans who are anti-psychic), and Navigators (psychic mutants who are essential for humanity's ability to use the Warp for FTL travel). In addition, despite the Imperium equating Space Marines to holy angels, they possess so many genetic modifications that it is questionable if they even count as still being human.
- While the Imperium is a theocracy that teaches that the Emperor is the only god and is intolerant of Heresy and different religions, in practice the Empire is more tolerant than it would like to be due to circumstances.
- For starters, even though almost every planet within the Imperium is required to submit to the Imperial Cult, due to the sheer impracticality of enforcing a single, monolithic faith onto millions of planets, most priests settle for merging existing religions into the Imperial Cult rather than forcefully converting the locals, which means that the Imperial Cult contains surprisingly diverse beliefs and practices for what is supposed to be a dogmatic religion.
- While the Machine Cult practiced by the Adeptus Mechanicus is effectively a different religion, due to the sheer necessity of the Mechanicus' technological knowledge and expertise, the Imperium is forced to tolerate it, officially proclaiming that the Machine God worshiped by the Mechanicus is just the God-Emperor under a different name, though many members of the Mechanicus don't actually believe that.
- Most Space Marines don't actually believe in the Emperor's divinity. Rather than following the Imperial Cult, they instead follow various Chapter Cults that view the Emperor as an exemplar of human potential. While this belief would be considered blasphemy if anyone else espoused it, the Imperium lets them get away with it because the Space Marines are absolutely vital to the Imperium's military might, and their direct genetic ties to the Emperor via the Primarchs mean that most of the Imperium's people see them as holy enforcers of the Emperor's will, hence their nickname "Angels of Death". Thus, any serious attempt to get rid of them would be considered blasphemous in its own right.
Toys
- Transformers: The Decepticon attitude towards humanity varies from "insignificant germs not worth considering" to "dangerous Autobot allies". Despite this, they are more than willing to work with humans for a common goal. There are a number of crossovers where they work with Cobra, for example. An extremely unusual case is Deathsaurus of Transformers Victory whose toy bio describes him as brutal and merciless, but his one major weakness is his soft spot for human children. While not used in the anime, in the manga he was once defeated by Star Saber when he turned around to save Star Saber's own adopted human son.
Video Games
- Disgaea: Hour of Darkness: Vulcanus is a Malevolent Angel who believes that demons are Always Chaotic Evil and should be exterminated. However, in the final chapter, he hires an army of demons in order to fight the heroes in order to fulfill his goals.
- Fallout:
- Fallout Tactics: The Midwestern Brotherhood still considers mutants subhuman like the rest of their organization despite being a splinter faction, but is willing to accept ghouls and super mutants into their ranks because they need the manpower and recognize their usefulness, such as their immunity to radiation.
- Fallout: New Vegas: Caesar, the leader of Caesar's Legion, runs an empire heavily built on systemic misogyny, treating women as second-class citizens or literal slaves with zero rights. However, if a female Courier proves herself to be an elite, indispensable mercenary, Caesar will completely suppress his faction's ideological rules. He will readily grant her full access to his camp, discuss high-level strategy with her as an equal, and hire her to execute critical, high-profile missions for the Legion simply because her competence outweighs his doctrine.
- Mass Effect: Cerberus is a downplayed example. Cerberus is a pro-human organization founded and led by the Illusive Man whose goal is to help humanity become the dominant force in the galaxy. One of Cerberus' agents, Miranda Lawson, briefly mentions that Cerberus has nothing against the Citadel or the Council races and finds it unfortunate that Cerberus' pro-human agenda attracts those who are prejudiced against aliens. However, all the Cerberus agents on the Normandy II, including Miranda, were hand picked by the Illusive Man to provide a friendlier, more approachable view of Cerberus in order to convince Shepard to ally with them, and the events of Mass Effect 3 show that Miranda didn't know as much about the inner workings of Cerberus as she'd thought, making it a much straighter example until you learn that the Illusive Man and a large amount of Cerberus members were indoctrinated by the Reapers, with only the Illusive Man proving capable of resisting it and only long enough to shoot himself at the very end if the correct dialogue choices were made. Miranda's ilk are still a minority however, and rescuing them from indoctrinated personnel and preventing other attacks by the rest of Cerberus is a major campaign in its own right.
- Metaphor: ReFantazio: Louis Guiabern is willing to recruit people based on their merits regardless of tribe, making him seem more tolerant compared to the Sanctist Church, but during his Destroyer Charadrius phase, he turns out to despise all tribes other than his own, the elda. His seeming acceptance of marginalized tribes is really a means to gather useful and disposable pawns.
- Neverwinter Nights 2: The demon Baalbisan is a misogynist of epic proportions, making several disparaging remarks against any female party members you bring to the area he appears in, and insulting the Player Character regardless of their gender because he mistakes male characters for "weak females". The only woman he's ever shown to speak to with anything resembling respect is Shandra Jerro, and that's only because he's trapped in a summoning circle and she has the only means to free him.
- Overwatch: Ramattra is an omnic Dark Messiah who hates humans, seeing them as a scourge to his fellow omnics, conducting a worldwide operation to "liberate" his brethren to a world beyond them. This does lead him into a tenuous alliance with Talon, a largely human-led international terrorist organization, as a way to amass firepower for a widespread invasion, though he demonstrates no loyalty to them or their social Darwinist ideology, and as soon as he gets what he wants, he and his forces disappear into the aether. In PvP gameplay, he has at least a few conversations where he admits that while he hates humans on principle and certainly isn't fond of working with them, they're not exclusively devoid of value to the cause.
- Resident Evil 2 (Remake): Brian Irons is a misogynistic Serial Killer who practiced taxidermy on the women he killed. As part of his Villain with Good Publicity act, he donated to money to support abused women.
- Wolfenstein: The New Order: In this universe, the Nazis make an enormous technological leap thanks to technology that is ultimately revealed to have been stolen from the Da'at Yichud, a Jewish secret society. This is in marked contrast to the actual Nazis, who actively rejected
scientific advances that they considered had Jewish influence.
- Yandere Simulator:
- Ayano's father Jokichi is said to be conservative and homophobic, but he will accept his daughter being in love with a woman because he thinks it would be the end of the Aishi bloodline (apparently not considering that artificial insemination could still happen).
- Saisho Saikou is a Corrupt Corporate Executive who practices eugenics, admires Imperial Japan, and thinks the acceptance of the LGBT community will lead Japan into "degeneracy and hedonism." However, being a public figure who is the head of a large corporation, he's smart enough to keep his opinions private because he knows it will hurt his business interests with other countries and will alienate the more socially liberal Japan.
Web Animation
- Helluva Boss:
- Moxxie's father Crimson is a homophobe who thinks his son is an embarrassment for being bisexual and referred to Moxxie's past relationship with Chaz as a "sissy lifestyle". However, when Chaz lies to Crimson that he's rich in "Exes and Oohs", Crimson shows no issue with trying to force his son into an involuntary gay marriage despite Moxxie being married to Millie, a woman, simply to get his hands on Chaz's (supposed) money, with it also being made clear that Crimson is still a homophobe.
- Mammon of the Seven Deadly Sins shows classist views in "Mastermind", mocking fellow sins Beelzebub and Asmodeus for being friendly with the lower classes and calling the Hellhound Vortex (Bee's boyfriend) a mutt. However, as befitting the Sin of Greed, he himself regularly associates with the lower-class imps when it will gain him profit, with his (former) star performer Fizzarolli being an imp and much of his customer base also consisting largely of imps.
- RWBY:
- Adam Taurus is a Faunus supremacist who turned the White Fang from a peaceful civil rights organization to a Faunus Supremacist one, with his end goal being to have the humans enslaved by Faunus. However, despite his fanatical prejudice, he's willing to ally with the humans Cinder Fall and Roman Torchwick first for money and Dust, and later out of self-preservation when Cinder Fall kills some of his members to threaten him into keep working for her.
- Roman Torchwick is a crook who is racist towards Faunus, viewing them as animals, but he's willing to work with the White Fang themselves for profit.
Western Animation
- Avatar: The Last Airbender: Princess Azula of the Fire Nation believes in the Fire Nation's supremacy and divine right to rule the world. Despite that, when the Dai Li, a State Sec group of Earthbenders, demonstrate their loyalty to her, she is more than willing to allow them to defect to the Fire Nation to take over Ba Sing Se, and they even become her own personal Praetorian Guard during the Day of Black Sun.
Azula: "Have you met the Dai Li? They're earthbenders, but they have a killer instinct that's so Firebender...I just love it."
- BoJack Horseman: Vance Wagonner makes a lot of racist, xenophobic, antisemitic, and misogynistic comments. However, he is willing to work with people from the groups he badmouths to keep his career afloat, often making fake apologies to make it appear like he changed for the better.
- Harley Quinn (2019): Implied with the Legion of Doom; a good number of the men possess sexist attitudes towards women and while they were fine with Dr. Psycho brainwashing Giganta into being his obedient wife, they seemed to draw the line at him calling Wonder Woman the C-word in public and kicked him out for it, which implies that while they are sexist, they avoid being too blatant about it for PR purposes.
- Lilo & Stitch: The Series: As with his depiction in his debut, Gantu has a particularly strong disgust for artificially engineered lifeforms even by the standards of his society, with "trog" being his slur of choice for the Experiments. Despite that, and even discounting his default (and largely one-sided on his part) Vitriolic Best Buds relationship with 625, Gantu is willing to recruit multiple Experiments for his own goals of capturing other Experiments and getting out from under Hämsterviel's thumb throughout the series, and even strikes up something of a Villainous Friendship with 627, who's about the only Experiment who's really as mindlessly destructive and borderline non-sapient as he claims the Experiments are.
- The Owl House: Philip Witterbane, a.k.a. Emperor Belos is a fanatical Puritan Witch Hunter who believes that witches and demons are Always Chaotic Evil and plans to destroy every single witch and demon in the Boiling Isles. Despite his hatred, he spent centuries masquerading as one of them, creating alliances, laws, and making deals with them as part of his long-term goal to kill them all. In addition, despite believing that Magic Is Evil, he became a skilled practitioner of it due to how useful it is. Finally, although he's a human supremacist, he has no problems with keeping himself alive past his natural human lifespan by warping himself into a Humanoid Abomination in order to fulfill his goals.
- SpongeBob SquarePants: In the episode "Karate Choppers", it's implied that Mr. Krabs is prejudiced against Sandy for being a land animal. However, the ending of the episode has him hire Sandy alongside Spongebob to use their karate skills to cook Krabby Patties, all for the sake of profit.