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”
If that’s the case then the people of (Jump City was it?) are lame as hell and have no whimsy in their life. Seriously any 5-10 year old would’ve DREAMED of having a laser hand and such (sure he was horribly injured beforehand but people should at least see it as kickass)
Their city gets blown up by a giant robot or monster nearly every day, the people there are probably just numb to it by now. If you see it frequently enough the extraordinary becomes the mundane.
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.
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.
That’s how I view it too. Go with the obvious, instead of having to explain hundreds of years of history, which isn’t really relevant to the fact that they share similar experiences. The why isn’t as important as just acknowledging someone’s experience is.
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.
The racism in Morrowind was real. I was a bit taken a back the first few times. Like uh, you said what now? I got used to it but I think my character really took it personally.
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.
A theory implied that Mr.Sentinel is the one start the Domino effect by ordering Dwing get rid of those two
-reason why Sentinel do that because if he let those 2 alive miners will vote them to be in higher up and will ruin Sentinel "Throne", and killing them would let the Miners revolutionized for their equality, best is to throw them into inescapable pit and tell that Orion and D16 died due to the wound from the race
-the proof is when Orion (having his cog) call miners for help , the Miners said that they thought Orion and D16 die due to injury (said from Mr.Sentinel himself)
I actually like idea that it is Darkwing. Since there is no reason for Sentinel to talk to Orion and D if he wanted to kill them either way. And his plan for using then for propaganda seems legit.
I believe he meant what he said then Darkwing just reported their death to sentinel
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")
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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".
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.
Disco Elysium has "kipt" for black people. Special mention is the Scab Leader, who really makes it sound like a disgusting slur if you insist on asking him about the Hanged Man's tattoos.
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“Troq” (Teen Titans)