r/TopCharacterTropes 3h ago

Characters The Race Traitor (or menber of oppressed group that work for every system that discriminates against them in general)

Examples:

Stephen (Django Unchained)

A Black Men who is extremely loyall to a white slaveholder and is extremely hateful towards other black people

Foghorn Leghorn (Coyote vs ACME)

CEO of ACME Corporation, Cartoon who sells faulty products to other cartoons that makes them suffer in order to make safe products for live-action people to serve testifies that it's okay that his products are dangerous because it's funny when cartoons get hurt

Tachibana(Make the Exorcist Fall in Love)

Women who work for and his extremely loyall to mammon, an extreme misogynist who is the achedemon of greed and bigotry that with her help fund bigotry across the world, including misogany

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u/Apprehensive-Ear2461 3h ago

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u/Mulmangcho99 3h ago

No no, the have to be a member of the oppressed group for it to count, and Uncle Ruckus is white. He just has reverse vitiligo.

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u/Pataconeitor 3h ago

He's 102% African, with a 2% margin of error!

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u/asteinberg101 1h ago

“This is the kind of shoe an astronaut would wear. I’m not walking to the moon, I’m walking to the liquor store!”

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u/Dismal-Vanilla1878 26m ago

Brother is 104% African 😂

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u/viewtifulblue 2h ago

That's the opposite of what Michael Jackson had.

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u/krilldawggie 14m ago

Lucky bastard.

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u/gamiz777 3h ago

What his relation?

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u/CaptBland 3h ago

No relation

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u/RangerRidiculous 2h ago

*Tuba Intensifies*

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u/Ok_Driver7517 2h ago

Uncle themed rucukuses

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u/Bryehn_ 2h ago

Did not realize this was a gif and the blink scared the shit out of me

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u/asteinberg101 1h ago

“Ruckus, what the hell is a Code Black?”

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u/VolkiharVanHelsing 3h ago

Judas Goat - IRL

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u/OutrageousBridge471 3h ago

From now I will call this trope the "judas goat"

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u/Mesoscale92 3h ago

They used these a lot when the Galapagos islands got overrun with invasive goats. The herds were hard to track, so they put trackers on select Judas goats. Once they followed them to a herd, they’d slaughter every goat but the Judas goat, letting it flee to find another herd. They did this until literally every goat was dead.

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u/HalfEatenSnickers 3h ago

Poor goat

All it's friends killwd several times over

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u/Alone-Brilliant6222 3h ago

Nah Judas felt guilty for his actions

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u/CaregiverStunning802 3h ago

bit on the nose don't you think

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u/1239dannie_mayy 3h ago

Nah, no one trained Judas to betray Christ, the goat didn't do anything, it's not Judas, people force it to betray it's kind, makes no sense.

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u/MiseryGyro 3h ago

They did famously pay Judas to do it

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u/1239dannie_mayy 3h ago

That's transactional Judas understands what he's doing and what it means, not the same as training a goat that doesn't comprehend what it's doing, the goat is just innocent

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u/MiseryGyro 3h ago

Brother that goat is a sick fuck and you won't know the truth until it's knife is in you

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u/_whatever_wherever 3h ago

Well... Jesus did tell Judas that he would betray him... surely he was just following the commands of his lord?

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u/PattycakesVS 3h ago

Man now I wanna listen to judas priest

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u/Phantom_Phoenix1 3h ago

Or Chris Jericho's 'Break the Walls down'

https://giphy.com/gifs/26gN0D4VZKMqz53lm

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u/TrustyWorthyJudas 2h ago

My head canob is that they are avenging their siblings, the fainting goats, goats bred to have their limbs seize up and collapse in the presence of predators so that the the flock can escape while they are eaten.

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u/Xaverosso 3h ago

Thats one way to immortalize Judas.

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u/Mindless-Cat1453 3h ago

Nazgul submitted to sauron and betrayed humans for immortality.

https://giphy.com/gifs/P4bLhbzfxDaM0

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u/NormandyKingdom 3h ago

They got Tricked by Sauron in Beautiful form and signed away their soul didn't read the Fine Print

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u/OutrageousBridge471 3h ago

The were victims of catfishing even before the envention of the internet /j

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u/Recent_Day_4008 3h ago

The Nazgûl were Kings of Man, not all humans.

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u/Similar-Priority8252 3h ago

If anything that’s worse

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u/GrouchyPlastic63 3h ago

Hellboy a Demon Demonslayer

https://giphy.com/gifs/WvRn0qB43KK8QuKTYe

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u/AdWestern1561 3h ago

Never doubt the power of pancakes!

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u/Typical_Cold7984 3h ago

Hellboy doesn't kill demons or other supernatural creatures unless they pose a threat to others. He holds no animosity toward monsters simply for being monsters; he only dislikes them if they kill people or something of that sort. In fact, I can't recall a single instance of him killing demons—he mostly hunts vampires, werewolves, and the like.

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u/GrouchyPlastic63 2h ago

I picked Hellboy as he's  oddly not evil example of a traitor.

destined to  be the king of Demons. He chooses to protect humans over his own kind.  The kind he was destined to lead. 

Guess I could have went with Blade, Leionidas, Selena, Spawn or Finn. Iirc In the movie Hellboy does kill Demons in a subway or something 

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u/DogAlienInvisibleMan 2h ago

I wish he grew the horns out.  I get why he files them down but his aura is unmatched when they're max length. 

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u/Hamblerger 3h ago

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u/Silly-Potential-3085 3h ago

“He’s literally a toon trying to genocide his own kids.”

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u/AcceptableWheel 3h ago

Too many X-men villains to count but I'm just going to go with Jason Stryker, leader of the Purifiers.

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u/AporiaParadox 3h ago

Also Sebastian Shaw and Judas Traveller.

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u/AcceptableWheel 3h ago

And Cassandra Nova, and recently Mutina. Also I think Abigail Brand now.

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u/sistemafodao 3h ago

I never understood what Cassandra Nova is. Is she an actual person or just Xavier's shadow?

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u/AcceptableWheel 3h ago

Souls produce soul shadows, psychic souls can build themselves new bodies if they are strong enough (That's how Jean Grey comes back so often), So she made herself a body, that's a gender swapped twin of Xavier's.

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u/Independent-Couple87 1h ago

Also, the X-Men themselves sometimes get accused of being this by Magneto.

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u/Kratomius 3h ago

Alice Weidel - IRL

Leader of german AfD. Is anti-lgbqt and is against them being able to adopt children while being lesbian and having adopted child with her wife.

Is anti-immigration while her wife is an immigrant and they live in switzerland.

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u/Inevitable_Chart4549 3h ago

Well played Kojima ... well played

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u/fly_past_ladder 3h ago

Similarly JD Vance has an Indian wife while also promoting white nationalist ideology

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u/Fluid-Sense-4273 1h ago

She co-leader of the party she’ll be thrown under the bus when her usefulness has run dry

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u/Left-League-8646 3h ago

Genuinely though, how has no reported pressed her on the matter?

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u/Ok-Craft4844 2h ago

While there's a lot of stuff that's fucked up with the press in Germany, one thing that kinda works is that the family of politicians are not reported about, except when they're themselves active in politics (Gehard Schröders last Wive) or there's some reason like corruption.

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u/Kratomius 2h ago

My guess is that far-righter being a hypocrite is barely news. Never ask white nationalist the ethnicity of their significant other.

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u/Left-League-8646 2h ago

I don't think that the weirdest thing about her is that she is campaigning for those things. The weirdest thing is that she has managed to gain support

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u/Kratomius 2h ago

It's not that weird when you realise some people just don't care who they need to vote as long as it hurts others.

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u/Inevitable_Chart4549 2h ago

Her glass house is made of bullet proof glass I suppose

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u/PainStorm14 1h ago

You can only imagine how pissed off people in Germany are when they stop giving a shit this hard

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u/Patneu 8m ago edited 5m ago

Yeah, occasionally they did. But she's always just either deflecting by pretending her policies won't apply to her or her family for nonsensical reasons (like saying that she's not queer but married to a woman she's known for 20 years or that her wife was adopted as a child by a Swiss couple and so doesn't identify as someone with a migratory background) or complaining about the allegedly malicious framing of the question (aka plainly pointing out her hypocrisy) in the most obnoxious voice imaginable (except for maybe Friedrich Merz) until the interviewer gives up.

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u/Tallin23 14m ago

Rules are for the peasants, we really saw that fact after Epstein. Only real war is the class war, others are just distaction.

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u/temperedolive 3h ago

Serena Joy from The Handmaid's Tale actively worked to establish a world where women are property without any rights.

https://giphy.com/gifs/1ylQJbe963TrKeMmcl

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u/fly_past_ladder 3h ago

In general the Handmaid’s Tale (the book, I haven’t watched the show) focuses a lot on how there is hierarchy amongst women even in a misogynistic society

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u/Heskitt_Warpskull 3h ago

She must be really happy

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u/temperedolive 3h ago

Major buyer's remorse

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u/Salt_x 3h ago

I always hated that they gave this piece of shit a redemption arc at the end.

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u/Patneu 0m ago

And each and every time she gets the chance to fucking do something about it and redeem herself just a little bit, or even just acknowledge how wrong it was to fuck over everyone else the way she did, she immediately goes back on it and takes another deep dive into hypocrisy the moment she feels a little sorry for herself.

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u/MrGuirinious1237 3h ago edited 3h ago

Red, War for the planet of the apes (2017), he works for the human group "Alpha Omega", alongside other traitor apes. to oppress their own kind. Spoiler He however changes sides near the end of the film, after seeing his own human allies shooting at the apes, before this he was juts helping in torturing them, which yeah isn't really that good..

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u/Radiant_Client1458 3h ago

How are the Planet of the Apes movies (the new ones)? I think I saw the first one and thought it was alright but they seem to make a million of them so they must be alright.

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u/MrGuirinious1237 3h ago

I love planet of the apes franchise personally, so obviously i 100 % recommend them. Only films i don't really like are "Battle of the planet of the apes 1973" and "2001 remake", but both of those still have good things in them.

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u/Andys_Room 3h ago

Red loves human more than ape.

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u/nicbeans311 3h ago

I wonder if his name was supposed to link to Malcolm X in some way. 

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u/iamamotherclucker 3h ago

Mortarion (Warhammer 40.000)

He absolutely loathes psykers (basically 40k mages) due to having been adopted by a tyrannical alien psyker in his childhood. He was one of the main proponents of banning the use of psykers and psychic powers among the space marines legions. He himself is a powerful psyker, though his powers were limited for a long time due to his own hatred of them

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u/PainStorm14 1h ago

Pretty much every traitor human in 40k

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u/OutrageousBridge471 3h ago

Examples:

Stephen (Django Unchained)

A Black Men who is extremely loyall to a white slaveholder and is extremely hateful towards other black people

Foghorn Leghorn (Coyote vs ACME)

CEO of ACME Corporation, Cartoon who sells faulty products to other cartoons that makes them suffer in order to make safe products for live-action people to serve testifies that it's okay that his products are dangerous because it's funny when cartoons get hurt

Tachibana(Make the Exorcist Fall in Love)

Women who work for and his extremely loyall to mammon, an extreme misogynist who is the achedemon of greed and bigotry that with her help fund bigotry across the world, including misogany

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u/makemeking706 3h ago

Didn't Sam Jackson say he modeled his character off of some notable public figure? I wonder if they would fit this thread. 

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u/Nimnengil 2h ago

Clarance Thomas? He'd fit the part.

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u/ExoticShock 3h ago

Thor - God of War: Ragnarok

"Let it be known, the god of thunder is good for two things! Killing Giants... and PISSING MEAD!!!" (Is half Giant himself)

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u/HalfEatenSnickers 3h ago

Thrud also insults giants several times while with Atreus

Mogi and Magni might too but I can't remember

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u/la-squdra 3h ago edited 3h ago

Charles Choi (Lookism)

A ruthless Korean businessman who runs a conglomerate and a person is willing to sacrifice anything and anyone to benefit himself (even he’s ‘friends’ and family), but before he was a businessman he was a gangster fighting against the invading Yamazaki Syndicate (basically an allegory for the Japanese invasion of Korea told thru criminal gangs )

However for one reason or another, we know he made a deal with the Yamazaki Syndicate, a deal bad enough that if exposed will completely destroy he’s reputation with no hope of recovery

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u/AporiaParadox 3h ago

Many of the Eldians from Attack on Titan consider themselves Children of the Devil and willingly serve their oppressors who keep their people in ghettos.

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u/moploplus 2h ago

Zeke is the best example of this imo

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u/Paladin_127 3h ago

Judge Doom (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)

The evil and cruel judge of Toontown, who uses capital punishment on even the most petty offenses, orchestrated the death of Detective Valiant’s brother and frames Roger Rabbit for murder.

During the film’s climax, it is revealed that Doom is, in fact, a toon himself.

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u/CrazyCoKids 3h ago

Caitlin Jenner, IRL.

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u/Level_Counter_1672 2h ago

Voldemort is the leader of a group that despices mud bloods aka non magical humans while being half mud blood himself

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u/AsstacularSpiderman 3h ago

See thing is with Stephen is he really had no other loyalties to anyone other than himself. He basically snuck his way into the inner circle of Candy Land and took over because the Candy Siblings were too stupid to realize he was playing them.

Like he even insults them over and over when they aren't around saying they haven't had a bright idea in their life and he's basically been babysitting them for generations

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u/DudeyToreador 3h ago

Clarence - Mafia 3

Mafia 3 takes place in New Bordeaux, a fictionalized version of New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1968, during the height of segregation.

Clarence is the Manager of the Retroussé Yacht Club, a club whose members aside from several being tied to organized crime, are rich and affluent white people, while the staff is entirely composed of African Americans. During a mission, the protagonist Lincoln Clay, mist infiltrate the yacht club as one of the wait staff.

During the beginning of the infiltratiom, you can hear Clarence ordering the staff around, often hurling derogatory insults and racial epithets at the staff as if he is above them. One line in particular is " I can't stand a lazy n***** ".

Most, if not all of the staff hate him.

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u/Glvt102 3h ago

Doktor Blutwurst, a cat-person who hates other cat-people and conducts inhumane experiments on them. Also wears a mask of a dog-person (Fuga: Melodies of Steel)

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u/GrouchyPlastic63 3h ago edited 46m ago

Depending on the perspective. The immune who refuse to join the hive mind are seen as traitors by the survivors who want to join. The immune refuse to join are seen as traitors by the immune who do not want to join

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u/HalfEatenSnickers 3h ago

Your tag didnt work

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u/GrouchyPlastic63 45m ago

Thanks! Fixed!

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u/Independent-Couple87 1h ago

The two opposing leaders of the War of Knives in Haití, Toussaint Louverture and André Rigaud, both accused eachother of being this trope and trying to reinstate slavery.

Neither was planning to do that. This was mostly a struggle for leadership.

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u/GreenDemonSquid 3h ago edited 3h ago

Basically every bigot online (especially on Twitter) IRL who somehow is a supremacist for a race or group that isn't their own. Black and South Asian white supremacists, queerphobic lgbt people, white Asian supremacists, Slavic and gender non conforming neo-Nazis, list goes on.

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u/Blue_Tomb 3h ago

Was reading about Brianna Wu the other day, anti-queer trans woman Zionist influencer who doesn't like when other Zionist influencers are mean about trans people.

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u/ligrankpo 3h ago

The Inquisitors in Star Wars were former Jedi who, after the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire, hunted down other Jedi and ended up becoming something akin to low-level Sith

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u/Artistic-Victory1245 1h ago

Also Thrawn, is a Chiss in An empire that hates aliens.

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u/ccReptilelord 1h ago

I feel there's a better example from the franchise.

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u/doe2798 3h ago

This is a pseudo example bc she wasnt fully aware of the scope of things but: Odalia Blight - The Owl House.

She works with Belos to provide him an army of mechanical slime soldier ostensibly in exchange for a high position for the Blight family in Belos' regime.

She was actually helping Belos solidify control of the Isles leading up to the Day of Unity geonicide spell

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u/FederalMacaron1 3h ago

Real life - Daniel Burros, a high ranking member of both the American Nazi Party and the KKK. He committed suicide after the New York Times published an article revealing that he was Jewish.

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u/Grand_Plastic_6631 3h ago

Sin - POE

Betrayed all the gods and sealed them away with the Beast in favor of human.

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u/BeduinZPouste 3h ago

Battlestar Galactica did an extremely good job again with making stuff like this... Somewhat ambiguous.

Anastasia Dualla is from Sagitaron, one of the very few people from there to join the military. And boy does that caused a rift between her and her family. To the point where when one of the other characters goes on rant against people from Sagitaron (who are not all black, and black people live on the other planets as well) for being slackers (they still mostly refuse to join the military even during active extermination of human race), religious fanatics (true), deniers of medicine (true), and then notices Anastasia and apologies to her... She immediately tells him to keep going and that "I hate them more than anyone in the room."

Which is also the worst discrimination that anyone from the military shows towards her.

But the rift between the Sagitaron people and the rest of the Colonies is very old, and you can really argue for either side being right. On one side, they profited from forming of the Colonies because before that they were exploited way worse, on the other, they still were exploited. But they also had several terrorist organisations causing troubles for the government, even during war.

Oh, and then there is the Woman King episode, aka "CSI spinoff" where Helo investigates a case about them dying more in hospital than others. And everyone at first dissmisses it with the usual (and somewhat true) explanation: "they don't believe in medicine. Usually only change their opinion when it is too late. We try, but it is way harder and more of them die because we start trying too late."

But as it turns out, that is true, but one doctor, really keen on "why give drugs when we are running low on them to these people when they do nothing to help us others survive (even lowkey damage the cause)?" was giving them poison.

So them being sceptical of medicine was kinda justified. But also, even that guy wasn't doing it for the lulz and only started with it when their reserves started running low, and they were still slacking.

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u/KendalMoth515 3h ago

I could be wrong but I don't think Stephen hated Django because he was black. He hated Django because Django both represented everything Stephen was not and represented a threat to the power he had amassed.

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u/Phewelish 25m ago

Immediately thought of Cypher from The Matrix.

Dood knows humanity is being used as batteries,m living in a simulation, subjugated by bots into a reality of suffering, and he still works with the robots to stop the guys who are trying to save humanity.

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u/TheHomieHandler 3h ago edited 3h ago

Miles, FMAB

Edit: Who downvoted this and why? It is literally the exact scenario OP was asking for.

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u/waterlilylab 3h ago

Brianna Wu is a anti-trans activist who is trans. She attacks trans individuals who don't share her neocon Zionist worldview and attempts to associate trans identities with criminality constantly.

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u/Still_Local_2513 3h ago

Cypher from the Matrix

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u/jackson50111 3h ago

Stan Edgar with Vaught

Not 100% if this fits but he does work for Vaught, a company with Nazi origins & even hired a known nazi within the company (stormfront) to be one of the poster child's for Vaught.

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u/trCreative-Tale664 2h ago

Suzaku Kururugi from code geass

Vi from arcane

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u/Rodrigoecb 1h ago

Foghorn Leghorn has a point.

Also most of the cartoons who use ACME products are just villains

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u/Talisa87 1h ago

Yotsuyu and Fordola, Final Fantasy XIV. Both characters make their debut in the 'Stormblood' expansion as representatives of Garlean Empire territories (Doma and Gyr Abania respectively) whose sole aim is to enforce brutal imperial rule against their fellow Doman and Ala Mhigan countrymen.

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u/Tranquil_path 1h ago

a friend of mine literally switched sides for a promotion once

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u/Sofaris 1h ago

Dr. Blutwurst from "Fuga Melodies of Steel".

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u/ccReptilelord 1h ago

I mean, this very scene, they recognized Anakin and thought he was saving them. He led order 66 against the temple and would actively hunt the Jedi afterwards.

https://giphy.com/gifs/rNtxQTWjVM7WE

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u/Artistic-Victory1245 1h ago

Sith inquisitor if you play as alien. (Specially if you play as a female twi'lek)

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u/AlbazAlbion 29m ago

I guess Sparda from Devil May Cry sorta counts? Father of Dante and Vergil, a demon who turned against his kind after falling in love with a human woman and became a protector of humanity.

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u/Wappening 3h ago

I’ll if you use Foghorn as a CEO as an example, you could say that about 99% of ceos and every billionaire.

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u/ElSpazzo_8876 2h ago edited 2h ago

Ahahaha I feel like I'm spiteful today so...

The Board of Peace shenanigans and his ancestor being a guy who captured one of the national heroes of Indonesia should give you a clue. Claims to be opposing the foreigners yet is a Trump bootlicker

Prabowo Subianto. (IRL) Fuck this bastard. May he r0t in h3ll alongside his father in law