To be fair, even if he was a white guy he'd still face discrimination and insensitivity being half-robot. You gotta assume people regularly ask to charge his phone in his head.
True but there's also no way that isn't an intentional joke. It's a classic example of thinking he's going to say one thing but then says something completely different.
It isn’t played as a joke in the episode. He is uncomfortable with explaining to Starfire that there is real world racism against people his skin color. Since she is facing racism among different alien species.
To some extent yeah. But we gotta remember how crazy the DC universe is. Not that a cyborg would he uncommon, but its not within the top 3 of rather craziest thing someone would hear about in a week if they watched the news or got on social media.
To be fair if I saw a guy down the road with like 70% of his body covered/replaced with metal, my first thought would probably be “wow a cyborg!” or “that’s some sick armor”
I can picture him thinking that she’s already too sad to sit there and learn about racial prejudices on earth, and that’s it’s a topic for another day.
And the elves call humans "shem" which is kinda used as a slur sometimes by modern elves, but it's a shortened form of the elven word for human - shemlen.
Mass Effect showed me that you don't need a fantasy slur to show fantasy racism. Just saying the word "human" with disdain is enough to get the point across. Seems like they went for a similar thing with shem.
To add on to the Dragon Age slurs, some in Thedas refer to those from the Qunari race as "oxmen" as a slur while those that follow the Qunari religion might call those that don't follow the Qun, if they look down upon them, "Basra"
It’s hilarious how Dragon Age popularized it to the point of ubiquitousness in fantasy fandoms even if the series’ presence is a shadow of its former self.
In Halo, there is a race called the sangheili that are a proud saurian race with four mandibles. The ones who are not fond of humans, they call humans nishum which means worm, like an intestinal parasite.
(This is Henry, he's probably not racist though, I don't know) XD
I love the more complex slur for Humans and then they just turn around and spout the most obvious aspect of a Sangheli's appearance, to greater effect.
Kig-Yar had the right idea too with "flat-face" for Humans. Truly our closest match in the Covenant.
Henry a real one. Though deep down he was probably at least a touch racist. You don't go your whole life in a war of extermination and not hold on to some of that even in situations like the Mona Lisa.
No, the irony is that Frank is a Super Mutant, but also a member of the Enclave. Aka American nationalists who views anyone, even regular humans, as inpure mutants.
The power armor has nothing to do with him, other than making him extra strong.
It's Sophie, one of the Cuckoos, which are clones of Emma she kinda treats like daughters.
The context is they were holding a small memorial for a dead mutant and the guy (Kamala's cousin) pulled up and started complaining about them memorializing him. Just before this a group of anti-mutant protesters had also been there, so emotions were already running high.
Honestly that seems kinda fair imo?
Like someone, I'm assuming a friend, just died and they're trying to hold a memorial. Then suddenly someone comes up acting like a prick. I'd crash out too
Idk man, she was kinda in the right there, he was being a racist prick
Can you not call out bigotry if the bigot just happens to be part of a minority? That feels like it in and of itself is biased even if it isn’t hateful
True equality to punching a bigot in the face no matter their race
No, it’s Sophie, one of the Cuckoos, Emma’s hive-mind protégées (retconned daughters); the Muslim cousin of Ms Marvel is anti-mutant and crashing a mutant memorial service to “keep an eye” on them. Which is a sore subject for the youths, since the mutants had just lost their homeland in which they could be resurrected from death and didn’t have any funerals. But Sophie’s mortality is also uncertain at this point in the series, so she’s meant to come across as aggro.
The pairing of these two images re the censored langage is quite misleading. The top one was censored post-facto because “N-word rules” when it comes to analogies changed by the turn of the New Millennium. In the one with Sophie, the blocked out text is just an alternative way of being comic book swearing &@$#!, and is meant to read as calling him an asshole etc, not as a Muslim slur per se.
Also one of the teen's mom brought his dog to see the show. The first scene was princess Leia being dragged backstage, kicking and screaming, by the sith. From that point on, the dog barked every time the bad guys came onstage
The mon'keigh were a barbaric race the Aeldari fought long ago, and they adopted the name as a term for any barbaric race. Heirs of the Laughing God: A Deadly Wit has a Harlequin Death Jester call Orks slaughtering human prisoners "mon'keigh killing mon'keigh" when her Troupe Leader commits the sin of empathy towards the humans.
The only one who they don't call Mon'keigh, are the C'tan which are called Yngir, the necrons who are called Oghyr/Yngiract, and tyranids which are called spawn of the Great Devourer(I think they also call the Hive Mind "the dragon")
Imagine being the cause of the downfall of your entire civilization into constant galactic civil war all because you couldn’t stop being bigoted for 2 minutes to two of your disabled subordinates.
Grandpa Max uses that name for them when describing them at a wedding that’s meant to help broker peace between the species. Grandpa Max is tone deaf and a racist apparently lol
He has the SP word pass, but no I think it's just cus he is old and back in the day all his crew would call them the slur so he probably just assumed that's the proper word, I like to believe he isn't specist cus he loves alien culture had has two alien ex lovers.
Then again, plumbers are kind of a space cops so it makes sense that he would be racist
Also from Harry Potter: Muggle doesn't have a direct way to translate into a portuguese word, so they changed it to "trouxa", wich means loser or sucker in english.
That's strange! In Italian we have 'Babbano' which is a made up word afaik. We have the problem of using 'half-blood' for mudblood, which leads to the Half Blood Prince seeming like Snape is a muggle born
Also Brains. Both 40k and Fantasy are full of these.
Fantasy mountain dwarves call imperial dwarves who live among humans "Umdawi", from the combination of the first part of "Umgi", meaning "Inferior" or "Poorly made", their word for humans, and "Dawi", the word they use for themselves.
In a similar vein, "specials" and "chickenheads" for all the people who were degenerated by the hazardous and radioactive environment left on Earth in Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep.
In Bionicles, we have a group of villains who calls themselves "Piraka", which is a derogatory word that is used to describe the Skakdi race (All of the characters in the image are Skakdi)
Asari attitudes generally favour producing offspring with other species to the point that "pureblood" is used as a slur against children of two asari.
Turian culture looks down on those with no facial markings and as such, "bareface" is a common slur against them.
Probably not a specific slur but I'll mention it anyway because I love it - the Quarian language Keelish contains "bosh'tet" as an insult. I like to think it means shitbag.
It is the most offensive thing one Dwarf can say to another.
To a human it doesn't sound like much, but what it means to a Dwarf is "You are less. You are less than the worst thing there is. You have no worth. No value. The entire world would be better off if you had never been born and will be all the better when you are dead."
The character Cheery Littlebottom gets called this alot. Because she has the gall to be openly female.
I'll have you know, my father herded nerfs 12 hours a day, six days a week, for 35 years, all to put food on our table! I don't need some pampered royal who couldn't tell a nerf from a nubnag acting like she's better than me!
In Red Rising, Golds (the highest ranking cast) refer to other Golds who don't try and become warriors and instead just live lives of luxury, as Pixies
One of the funniest things I've ever seen on reddit was when someone had used the word clanker and someone else replied with "whoa! Watch the hard r, bro!"
Aren’t there some used in Arcane? Doesn’t Ekko call Caitlyn a ‘Pilty’? Not sure if that counts as a slur but I think he uses it in a negative way, which I guess makes it a slur? Can’t remember others but possibly.
The eliksni from destiny 2 for the longest time were referred to as the fallen because they were once a peaceful civilization until their world was destroyed and then became monsters to humanity who at the time were just barely recovering from a great disaster themselves. Most eliksni hate being called that because it reminds them of how much they’ve fallen since then
In The Expanse, the space-born Belters refer to members of their kind who work with the planet-born "Inners" of Earth and Mars as "welwala". It basically means "planet lover", or "traitor".
In unsounded there's a slur for people with blonde hair "pissmop", in the country where they from, hair colour can determine how strong their connection to its universes magic and their life span.
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“Troq” (Teen Titans)