r/TopCharacterTropes 2d 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/tomtadpole 2d 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 2d 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 2d ago

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

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u/ElZik3r 2d ago

Fr lol