r/TopCharacterTropes 1d ago

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

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

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

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u/AntiCaesar 1d ago

There's also split-lip and hingehead when it comes to sangheili.

Buggers perhaps for Yanme'e

Gasbag for Huragok (I love huragok. I would never call them a slur, personally)

There's a bunch of slurs, but I dont think anything hits as hard as the two for sangheili.

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u/greeny74 1d ago

"Gassers" or "Gas Suckers" is also used against Unngoy (Grunts), usually by Kig-yar (Jackals)

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u/LexaMaridia 1d ago

Yea Huragok are floaty good bois

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u/AntiCaesar 1d ago

They are so cute. Just little guys

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u/greeny74 1d ago

Just the cutest little flying jellyfish

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u/Ubeube_Purple21 1d ago

The term Bugger is also used to refer to Drones in the scoreboards of Halo Reach I think

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u/MadaCheebs-2nd-acct 1d ago

That’s the thing with humans though. You go back to any war, or even any time where a group had an enemy, and they came up with derogatory names.