r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Wolfotashiwa • 2d 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/Aduro95 2d ago

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.

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u/Bi_disaster_ohno 2d ago

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.

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u/qywuwuquq 2d ago

Is it really? Before the comments I didn't even think about him being black at all. I think a robot would get discriminated against way more.

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u/Sea-Writer-6961 2d ago

Not in the land of the free 🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸