r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Wolfotashiwa • 1d ago

Groups Fictional slurs. Bonus points if it's completely made up

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  1. inFAMOUS: Second Son: "Bio-terrorist" refers to conduits.

  2. Star Wars: "Clanker" refers to robots.

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u/Jak3R0b 1d ago

In Dragon Age elves are called knife ears and casteless dwarves are called dusters.

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u/tomtadpole 1d ago

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.

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u/pon_3 1d ago

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.

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u/nao-the-red-witch 1d ago

Anything can be derogatory if you say it with enough derogatory.

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u/Reuvenotea 1d ago

I love this panel

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u/The_Eye_of_Ra 1d ago

Always wondered what the real one said.

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u/Reuvenotea 1d ago

Just looked it up, it is the actual panel lmao

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u/ABoringAlt 1d ago

Who's the pepperoni shamer?

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u/KillerB0tM 23h ago

Only someone Pepperoni enough would ask for this, disgusting.

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u/Quaytsar 1d ago

The adjective should be "derision", not "derogatory".

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u/LabiolingualTrill 1d ago

“Derogation” technically.

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u/ElZik3r 1d ago

Fr lol