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'''[[Proud Warrior Race Guy|St]][[Our Giants Are Bigger|en]]''': Being easily conquered does not constitute a "power".|''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' }}

 

 

[[I Thought It Meant|This trope is usually not pornographic.]] ''[[Rule 34|Usually.]]''

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* Puck, of ''[[Berserk]]'', is not only an elf of the [[Santa Claus]] variety, but also [[Small Annoying Creature|extremely annoying]]. When faced with his moralizing, Guts makes a habit of not only telling him exactly where to stick it, but demonstrating such with a [[BFS]] and several of his family members.

* Arlong of ''[[One Piece]]'' constantly goes on and on how great [[Fishmen]] are and how inferior humans are to them. Luffy rebuts with his fists.

** Turned on its head several hundred chapters later, when it's revealed that Arlong's whole crusade was an attempt to pull this trope on ''humanity''.

 

* In ''[[Elf Quest]]'' when Kahvi sneers at the trolls for their ancestor's mutiny causing the High Ones to crash on the World of two Moons Picknose's reply is "Slaves have a right to rebel!" In fact this seems to be the default attitude of trolls in general.

* In one storyline of ''[[The Flash]]'', Wally reacts this way to the society of the 64th century, which counts "individualism" as a crime and manages to make ''Abra-frickin'-Kadabra'' look like a heroic rebel.

 

* The ''[[Ranma ½]]'' and ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' crossover fiction "[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4284134/1/No_Chance_for_Fate No Chance For Fate]" has, as one of its main goals, to subvert and deconstruct the standard [[Fuku Fic]], Ranma, and Sailor Moon fandom tropes. One of these is Amazonian invincibility, which is so vaunted and bragged about that though amazons are human, the Amazons are practically elves themselves. One amazonian tradition, the Kiss of Death/Marriage, is a major plot point. If you're a woman and you beat an amazon, you get the Kiss. This means you have to run, as the Amazon who gave it will chase you to the ends of the earth to kill you. If you're a man and you beat an Amazon, you receive a kiss and are then married. In this fanfiction, an amazon was bested by the wife of a weak-looking man, so the amazon killed the woman and kicked the man out of the village. It turned out that the man was fairly high up in the Chinese Communist party, and came back with the Chinese army. Martial Arts does not stand up well against modern weaponry. Furthermore, the army let modern ideas sneak into the village, meaning that the formerly second-class men are now leaving or shaking up the social order. Shampoo states that the village was almost in a state of gender war when she left.

* The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fan fic, ''[[The Conversion Bureau|Ten Minutes]]'' ends with a truly ''epic'' "screw you" to the ponies: {{spoiler|Celestia, along with thousands of ponies, are lured into the blast radius of a [[Nuke'Em|nuke]]}}.

 

** Heck, the book version actually describes it as a "distinctly human" gesture.

* This is quite possibly the reason behind much of the appeal of [[Colonel Badass|Colonel]] [[Blood Knight|Miles]] [[Colonel Kilgore|Quaritch]] from ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]''. Yes, he is the [[General Ripper|bad guy]], and yes, he is somewhat of an [[Kill It with Fire|asshole]]; his writing off an entire sapient species as beneath notice and making increasingly ruthless attempts to crush them certainly puts him squarely in both categories. But after having to sit through an entire 2.5 hours of [[James Cameron]] [[Anvilicious|preaching]] about how the Na'vi are ''[[Superior Species|so]]'' [[Can't Argue with Elves|superior]] to us humans, it was a little too easy for many viewers to enjoy seeing Quaritch open up a sizable can of whoop-ass on the heroes. {{spoiler|Using the guns of [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Na'vi-owned]], as it were.}}

 

* Peter F. Hamilton's Silfen from the ''Starflyer'' sequence and ''[[Void Trilogy]]'' are basically alien Elves with sandworm maws for mouths. They go the whole hog, magic-style tech, capricious personalities, unintelligible riddles, the lot. Ozzie Fernandez Isaacs has many encounters with the Silfen, and always gets at the very least annoyed with them for being so bloody obtuse.

* The Darhel in [[John Ringo]]'s ''[[Posleen War Series]]'' initially fall into [[Can't Argue with Elves]], being [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]s, however they are later argued with. Severely. As in Humanity stopped juuuuuuuust short of actually committing genocide.

*** For those wondering why the "unfortunately"—humanity had ''very'' good reason what with the fact that the only reason the Darhel didn't leave us to fight the Posleen ourselves was because they needed us to fight for them. And they rather hoped neither species would survive the conflict in an organized group. This is not the first time they tried either. They uplifted Atlantis for the last war, then crushed them when they revolted.

* Salvatore's ''[[Demon Wars]] Saga'' novels: While rangers Elbrayn, Brynn Dharielle, and Ancanadavar (all elven-trained) paint a much more gushing view of the elves in this world, it becomes increasingly apparent to less-indoctrinated individuals, the reader, and even the main elven character that his people's worldview, while not ''evil'', is still at times excessively callous, self-serving, and racist.

** In spite of being jerkasses at times, the elves do on the rare occasion [[Pet the Dog|help humans when they have nothing to gain from it]] (though they usually have nothing to lose, either).

** During the later stages of the book, when the Elf King has decided that buying orc guns is a good idea, the training the new Elf Marines receive gives the Orc cadre marines plenty of chances for this.

'''Gunnery Sergeant Dakashnit:''' Me? Man, I'' love ''elf. Nothing beats roast and basted elf haunch. Unless it's breast of elf with chile peppers. <!-- it's spelt chile intentionally%% --> }}

* John Grammaticus to Slau Dha in the ''[[Horus Heresy]]'' novel "Legion":

** The sentiment is subverted about 10 seconds later when John realizes that his boss isn't a psychic projection. He's actually standing right in front of him.

* [[Robert A. Heinlein]] does this [[In Space]] in ''[[Starman Jones]]'', with [[unicorn]]s standing in for elves. The entire second half of the novel is a massive [[Take That]] to the "horse people" part of ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'': the characters encounter a horse-man tribe while lost on a distant planet, and it turns out the horse-people see themselves as much more technologically and morally advanced than the humans. They're in tune with the land, they have a complicated hierarchical court system, and they won't have the filthy humans settle on their paradise planet. In true Heinlein fashion, the main characters slaughter them and ''somehow'' come out as moral victors.

** By the time Heinlein wrote his stories, a lot of readers and literary critics often missed the satire part which was the point of ''Gulliver's Travels''. Many still do, since most do not understand the 18th century cultural context it was painted in.

* In the ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]'', [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Murtagh]], who does ''not'' agree with the elf [[Can't Argue with Elves|worship]] prevalent in the rest of the series.

* [[The Dresden Files|Harry Dresden]] tends to be fairly direct in telling arrogant fae (and pretty much anyone else) [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?|what he thinks of them]]. Then he blows something up or sets something on fire, generally. This is probably done just to throw them off guard ([[Sad Clown|and take his mind off of the fact that he generally knows exactly how horrible they could make his life, or the end of same]]) as much as anything else, though he just can't seem to help himself sometimes (there are only so many times you can hear the 'what you don't know' speech before you snap).

* The Andalites in ''[[Animorphs]]'' get quite a bit of this after it turns out they're not quite the benevolent saviors they first appeared to be, especially after it turns out {{spoiler|their big plan regarding the Yeerk invasion of Earth is to let as many Yeerks as possible crowd onto the planet before frying the whole thing.}}

** Best of all, every time the kids came into contact with the Andalites, they would beg for help. The whole time, the Andalites believed that the Animorphs were lying, in order to get special treatment. Naturally, Jake tells the Andalite Generals to go stick it up their asses [[Double-Speak|in the most polite way possible]].

** From #38

'''Jake:''' No, sir. This is Earth. This is a human planet. We are not the Hork-Bajir, we know how you 'rescued' them. As long as you're on earth, you'll get along with us. Am I clear on ''that?'' }}

* An epic one at the end of ''[[Dune]]'' against the Bene Gesserit, a centuries old order claiming to have the moral high ground even as they ruthlessly manipulate people through multiple generations of eugenics, even referring to anyone they don't consider suitable breeding stock as "animals." When [[The Chosen One]] they've been trying to create actually arrives they're caught quite off guard when he's disgusted by them and refuses to follow their script.

** The Bene Gesserit consider anyone who cannot pass their test of humanness to be an animal. As this test is "the death-alternative test of human awareness" anyone who takes it and fails is a DEAD animal. They don't use it to decide who's suitable breeding stock (Feyd-Rautha was intended to be the mate of the girl who was supposed to be born in Paul's place, and he's no human by their standards), they use it to decide who's suitable to teach any of their skills to. (Since the test is administered only be Reverend Mothers, who have the whole range of skills, that means that anyone giving the test knows PRECISELY what they're putting the subject through and does it anyway. This is only the beginning of what they have done in their quest to produce [[The Chosen One]].)

* Mercedes Lackey's [[The Obsidian Trilogy|Obsidian Mountain Trilogy]]: the elves think they know everything about fighting the endarkened, having done it before. It takes the [[Chosen One]] Kellan to realize that this is all wrong because the endarkened have ''learned'' since then. He has to challenge their general to a duel to the death before they listen. But they do. And a thousand years later, they remember the lesson, and refuse to give the next [[Chosen One]] any advice to avoid repeating the mistake.

* Both Silvanesti and Qualinesti elves are called out on their bad things in the ''[[Dragonlance]]'' novel ''Dragons of the Winter Night''. Too bad they refuse to accept that.

 

* Another [[Patrick Stewart Speech|fine speech]] delivered by Captain Picard in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "When the Bough Breaks," after an "advanced" alien race [[Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers|used their technology to steal all the children on the Enterprise,]] then tried to ease their consciences by offering "compensation" for taking them.

** Picard is amazing at these. In the second episode of season 3, the Sheliak, a species that finds human language so inferior they insist on insanely long contracts and treaties which they constantly [[Rules Lawyer]] in their favor, are demanding that the Federation remove a lost colony from Sheliak space, or they'll annihilate it. Picard finds a loophole to exploit and takes much pleasure in leaving them on hold for a good minute and a half.

* ''[[Babylon 5]]'': "Now get the hell out of our galaxy! Both of you!"

** Used on several occasions in ''[[Babylon 5]]''. The highlights are Delenn shaming the Minbari Grey Council out of their non-interference policy, Sheridan similarly refusing to back down from pestering Kosh until the Vorlons give them a much needed victory against the Shadows, and of course Sheridan telling both the Vorlons and Shadows where they can stick it, ending the war by demonstrating to them that there was simply no point to it anymore now that the races they'd been manipulating had caught on to them.

** (paraphrased) "Zog? Zog ''what''!? Zog, yes? Zog, no? We're not going anywhere until you give us a proper answer!"

*** Delenn gets one or two "Screw you's" back:

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': He's not a human, but having sat through a fourteen-week [[Kangaroo Court]] devoted to stitching him up and having suffered several years of pompous Time Lord arrogance and self-righteousness before that, the Sixth Doctor isn't shy about telling the Time Lords off at the end of "Trial of a Time Lord":

** Basically, this is an elf telling the other elves off.

** The Doctor spends a lot of time trying to live down his "Elfness" doing good and helping people.

*** Ten is, however, ''impressively'' arrogant himself, and gets some of these lectures on his behalf.

* [[Deadpan Snarker|Jack O'Neill]] has done this a few times in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', most often to the Asgard.

*** For Space Elves, the Asgard are pretty cool with less advanced races. Thor, at least, is not only ''friendly'' with humans (particularly Jack) but also ''respects'' them. Freyr and some of the others play the trope straighter -- {{spoiler|but when the entire race basically wills all its stuff to humanity, you get a sense of how they really felt.}}

** The Tollan on the other hand got their comeuppance - after demonstrating the shallowness of ''their'' principles.

*** They're also unimaginative. After Anubis makes his ships immune to their ion cannons, he has them build weapons that can phase through ''anything'' in order to destroy Earth. They already had stockpiles of them. Narim initially assumes they're built as replacements for the ion cannons to defend the planet against Ha'taks. Why the hell they haven't just used them to blow up Tanith's Ha'tak and be done with it is a question that won't be answered.

** The Ancients, oddly, do not get this, despite being a race made almost entirely of gigantic dicks.

*** Well, Daniel tries it in the diner, but they don't even acknowledge him.

* On ''[[Supernatural]]'', the angels have plans for Sam and Dean. {{spoiler|Specifically, they've planned for Sam to get himself possessed by Lucifer and kickstart the Apocalypse (with all the civilian casualties implied therein) so that the archangel Michael, while possessing Dean, can finish Lucifer off.}} Dean suggests that they take their plan and shove it. It's worth noting that only {{spoiler|the senior archangels apparently had this plan; they admit they had to appear to be preventing Lucifer's rise to avoid a rebellion by the grunts. Once it has already happened they figure everyone will fall in line in the face of the new threat, regardless of how he arose.}}

* In ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', Holoships are made out of the most capable members of the Space Corps. Creating a population of immortal, highly intelligent, nigh-indestructible holograms out of what can be stated to be amongst the best of humanity also creates a population that is incredibly arrogant. So, when a member beams over and starts making snide remarks about the crew during his analysis, Lister mocks him back, ultimately culminating with serious threats backed by a holowhip, a device that can [[Oh Crap|seriously harm holograms]]. The observer decides that discretion is probably the better part of valour in this case.

* The Greek gods tend to consider themselves as better than us lowly humans and as the only thing keeping humanity from dying off. [[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys|Hercules]] and [[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]] tend to disagree with that.

 

{{quote|Oh look down your noses at me

Hating my identity

Oh but that don't mean a damn thing you see

 

* The sidhe in ''[[Changeling: The Dreaming]]''. The fact that their return from Arcadia knocked over hundreds of years of commoner fae-established rule and set up a new "divine right of kings" was ''not'' met with loving acceptance. Even after the Accordance War was settled (yes, there was a ''war'' over the sidhe), commoner groups still look at "the pointy-eared freaks" funny, and the game makes it clear that just because a sidhe has ''a'' sense ''of'' rule, that doesn't mean he or she has ''the'' sense ''to'' rule.

** The Fairest Kith in ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' of the ''New World of Darkness''. While the flavor of wonderment changes with individual seemings, the basic premise of the Fairest is that they ''are'' the fairest ones of all, and thus are egoists and manipulators by nature. For many players, a selfless, kind Fairest is actually ''more'' suspicious than one who acts like an arrogant prat.

* While we're here, ''[[Hunter: The Reckoning]]'' and ''[[Hunter: The Vigil]]'' are both entire gamelines of telling the elves just where they can stick their magic.

** In the ''[[Eberron]]'' setting you can quite easily argue with the elves. Some, like the Valaes Tairn, would like to disagree. The only problem is that you often have to beat whichever elf you argue with in single combat to prove you're right; considering the elves of the Valaes Tairn are the meanest cavalry on the planet (even more [[Badass]] than the [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying|dinosaur-riding]] [[Hobbits|halflings]] of the Talenta Plains) it could also be filed under "played straight, with added violence".

** In the ''[[Dark Sun]]'' setting, most elves were desert nomads. "Thieving, untrustworthy bastards" was a fairly accurate description of the stereotype.

*** Some sourcebooks even noted that there are ''elves'' out there that hold to the view that when elves try to do something big, especially with Elven High Magic, it tends to backfire, if not in a way that harms the elves, then at least in [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|going]] [[Disproportionate Retribution|too far]]. Members of other races are generally kept from calling the elves on this by not knowing about [[Neglectful Precursors|some moments of their history]]—which led to several [[Unreliable Expositor]] in-jokes—or the elven involvement in them, but at least there are [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|people around to try to remind elven leaders about previous mistakes]].

*** ...and it's all ''cuddly'' compared to [http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5812&whichpage=1#117167 the early Realms vision] for decadent elves, cancelled when the drow were introduced. Because even dark elves in early R.A. Salvatore style with all the rampage [[For the Evulz]] and juggling [[Villain Ball|villain balls]] still occasionally fall short of this.

* Also present in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'', if not to such planet-shattering extremes. Though the realms of mankind have often found common cause with Elvenkind against the likes of Chaos, many human characters aren't bothered by the fact that the arrogant elves are on their way to extinction, and "then all that remains shall be left for Man."

** The Dwarfs had their moment four thousand years ago with the War of Vengeance (''[[Insistent Terminology|not]]'' the War of [[Silly Reason for War|the Beard]]) against the High Elves, resulting in the death of the elven king, the capture of the Phoenix Crown, and the elves' retreat from their Old World colonies. Shame the conflict also left the dwarfs with a [[Vestigial Empire]]...

* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' has toyed with this over the years, with a "Goblins Vs. Elves" addition, choice quotes like "You don't live in forests, you ''burn'' them!", and most recently, Lorwyn block. Though initially, the elves are played up as pointy-eared nazis (that is, they feel that beauty is everything, and nobody uglier than them has any right to live. Oh, and ''everyone else'' is uglier than them.) who never get their comeuppance, when the followup, Shadowmoor came out, they are taken from ruling the idyllic, sunlit Lorwyn waited on hand and cloven foot ([[Our Elves Are Different|they had hooves]]), to fending for their very survival as the only non-malevolent race in the darkness of Shadowmoor, fighting off everything that thinks they look tasty (which is pretty much everything), and cutting their own hair.

** Also the Phyrexians [http://magiccards.info/ps/en/55.html have their flavor of this trope.]

 

* Some Elven NPCs in ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' have the unfortunate tendency to come off as snobbish wankers, and the player (or, in his place, many of your party members) does indeed get the option of telling them where to stick it. The game does not punish you for this.

** {{spoiler|Irenicus}} actively refers to humans as ''vermin''. The proper way to say "screw you" to that (should you be playing a human) is to stave in his skull with Crom Faeyr.

*** And when you find out just how much the elves screwed up, you and some of your party members get to tell them where to stick it.

*** Despite being an elf himself, Xan is happy (or not) to remind other elves of how doomed they are. Of course, he has [[The Eeyore|this attitude]] towards everyone and everything...

** Although that was slightly a case of [[I'm Standing Right Here]].

** Other Terrans generally respond by shooting them on sight or dropping tactical nuclear weapons on their heads. They're totally justified though: {{spoiler|the initial response of the Protoss to the Zerg onslaught was to [[Earthshattering Kaboom|torch Terran planets]] without warning.}}

** Several of which have arrogant [[Hannibal Lecture]]s beforehand.

** Given that the main continent was ruled by the Ayleids, [[Abusive Precursors|an elven people remembered for their decadence, cruelty, and arrogance]], who were thoroughly [[Turned Against Their Masters|overthrown and driven off]] by their human slaves,''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' has this trope as the cornerstone of its in-game history.

*** Take note: killing any NPC in any hold who didn't provoke the attack will slap you with a rather large one thousand septim bounty for murder. Any NPC, that is, save for Thalmor. You'll still get the forty septim bounty for assault, but killing a Thalmor NPC incurs '''zero''' bounty. You can even get around this by first provoking the Thalmor into attacking you, which prompts any nearby city guards into attacking ''them''. That's right, brutally murdering half a dozen elves in front of the city guard gets you little more than a slap on the wrist (''[[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections|and even that can be tossed out if you're a thane]]''). That goes to show just how much the Thalmor are hated in Skyrim.

* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]''. [[Elves Versus Dwarves|Dwarves generally don't like elves]], due to their strongly differing views on various ethical topics like making trophies from kills and [[I'm a Humanitarian|eating sentients]]; sometimes they'll end up on friendly terms during world generation, but war is pretty typical in most cases. Players do not like elves because said elves are often condescending or even rude ("A hairy drunkard has come hither to once more disrespect the sanctity of life, I see"), order dwarves to limit their tree-cutting (depending on the fortress' industries and climate, this can be anywhere from easily obeyed to utterly unreasonable), and generally bring subpar goods—occasionally mixed with something useful, like [[Mighty Glacier|elephants]] and [[Everything's Worse with Bears|bears]]. Dwarves in worldgen say "screw you" by slaughtering elves in combat a hundred to one ([[Curb Stomp Battle|elven armor and weapons are wooden, dwarves have steel]]), while players get [[Death Trap|very]] [[Kill It with Fire|brutally]] [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|creative]] in their methods.

** It's actually suggested to be on rather poor relations with the Elves, at least in 40d. According to the Elves, bringing cloth is far more important than bringing exotic animals. If your relations were very good then you'd keep getting bins and bins full of cloth.

* Interestingly, while ''[[Mass Effect]]'' provides a quote, the game as a whole averts this. True, some of the aliens are jerks (the face of the Turian Councilor comes to mind), but there are also plenty examples of really nice ones such as the asari Liara and the quarian Tali (even [[The Snark Knight|Joker]] and [[Fantastic Racism|Navigator Pressly]] likes [[Wrench Wench|her]]). Like Kaidan said, the aliens are actually quite human once you know them. Even [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|the krogans]].

** The asari kinda-sorta fit the trope, due to their immense age and wisdom, and are held in very high regard by virtually every other species ([[Boldly Coming|for a couple of reasons...]]). As the quote page shows, however, they're not perfect.

** Possibly the most effective example of this trope in the entire series is {{spoiler|Shepard [[Cavalry Refusal|leaving the Destiny Ascension, ten thousand people, and the Citadel Council to die]] so humanity can take control of the Citadel}}.

** There's also the end of the Thessia mission in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', where you discover {{spoiler|the asari were hiding a Prothean beacon on the planet for thousands of years and effectively controlling the galaxy through the advanced technology that they got from it}}, something they made ''illegal'' under Citadel law when the Council was first established.

** Nonetheless, exactly because of that racial discrimination, elves also tend to act unnecessarily hostile towards humans, if not all that condescending. Especially the Dalish. While they may be justified and there is a fair amount of good people among them, it can still sometimes create the desire in a player to just introduce them to his greatsword or to have a pack of werewolves come over them and wipe them out, with Velanna of ''Awakening'' being a prime example of a Dalish Jerkass.

*** The Dalish arguably act worse toward their City Elf cousins, whom they frequently see as [[Straw Traitor]]s. Even the nice ones tend to berate City Elves for not caring enough about their lost heritage or the plight of their people. As a result, the harshest "Screw You, Dalish!" burns in the series generally come from City Elves as opposed to humans, such as Fenris in ''[[Dragon Age 2]]'':

'''Fenris:''' The smug sense of superiority does give you away. }}

* A memorable moment in ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'' happens somewhat toward the end. The uppity elves have finally agreed to accept humans in their [[Hidden Elf Village]], but not [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-elves]], because they still blamed them for the debacle with the Mana Cannon a bit over a century ago.<ref>and, probably, the [[Tales of Symphonia|Cruxis/Desian problem]] 4,000 years before that</ref> The elves claimed that the halfbreeds could not be trusted, since they possessed the power of elven magic but lacked the elven values to employ it responsibly. Cless then kindly tells them to shove it, as the whole reason halfbreeds had human values was that the elves kicked them out in the first place and they had no choice but to live among humans.

* In ''[[Homeworld]]: Cataclysm'' the protagonist captain viciously scolds the Bentusi, an ancient alien race, for an attempt to run away from a galactic threat instead of helping the Kushans to fight it. Note that he did it ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|while they were decimating his fleet for hampering their escape]]''. Admittedly, Bentusi were generally nice guys, not at all arrogant or condescending to Kushans. They were just VERY afraid of said galactic threat and the fear embittered them.

* The Dragon Campaign in ''[[Legend of Dragoon]]'', in which humans waged war against the Winglies who ruled over them, was essentially this.

** There's also a SWORD that does this to the Blood Elves in ''World of Warcraft''. To elaborate there is a rare drop in the Icecrown Citadel instances that starts a long quest chain to reforge an old weapon given to the High Elves by the dragons. At one point you have to take the sword and submerge it in the sunwell, the Blood Elves' power source. After you do so, they assume you are returning the sword to them. Their leader tries to take it off you. Except the sword decides it likes you better and sends him flying. They're furious, even more so if you're a member of the Alliance. It doesn't play out this way if you're a blood elf, of course, in which case they're eager to assist you.

* With all the crap that elves of ''[[Shadow Bane]]'' are responsible for (they made pacts with demons, worshiped the Beast Lords, and even waged war against the All-Father, slew the Archon of Peace with Shadowbane (when ended very badly for them), created the art of Necromancy, bread minotaurs from human slaves) it's pretty easy to understand why the Temple of the Cleansing Flame wants to burn them at the stake.

 

** [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2008/11/29/episode-1065-team-up-spectacular/ This] strip also mocks Elven niceties, such as they are.

** In fact, the ''8-Bit Theatre'' setting in general: elves are ''all'' rampaging sociopaths.

** As well as killed several elves, one of them with a shot to the stomach.

** And when the elves arrogantly suggest using Sara as an anti-[[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|Ian]] weapon because "That's what they ([[Touched by Vorlons|The Ensigerum]]) were created for.":

** And that's not even mentioning {{spoiler|the carnage Ian has caused on his [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]}}

** Sarine also likes to join into these speeches, as part of her [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]-attitude.

** Redcloak has it pretty much as his main motivation, wanting to tell all player races like humans or elves and espetially all paladins, exactly where they can stick their superiority and idea that they can kill goblinoids without consequences. On a planetary scale.

* Done in ''[[The Meek]]'' with Emperor Luca deSadar and the Ambassadors from Caris in chapter two. Caris is implied to be very proud and considers the Northern Territories inferior. When the ambassador from Caris claims that the queen cannot and will not pay reparations for the [[Sins of Our Fathers|acts of her father while he was]] [[Complete Monster|king]]. Luca [[Berserk Button|did not take it well...]]

** Then later he melts the other one's eyes. Turns out maybe your diplomatic position should be a little more accomodating when the other guy is backed by some crazy giant god-tiger.

** Just to clarify things here, this is a world of [[Grey and Grey Morality]]. Luca is correct in that his people suffered greatly, but the men responsible for such atrocities are ''dead'', and there is no evidence whatsoever that the current government of Caris had any involvement with those crimes (though that may change in the future).

* ''[[DM of the Rings]]'': In ''[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=762 Fire Safety]'', the players decide they've had enough of these stupid Elves and their stupid trees and stupid songs and stupid... dirt.

 

* [http://everything2.com/title/Fifteen+Elvish+ways+to+die "Fifteen Elvish ways to die"]

* The punchline of [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12730648/images/1289268890462.png this copy-pasta]. {{spoiler|It's also on the [[Colony Drop]] page.}}

* The dwarves from ''[[Bravemule]]'', a ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' [[Let's Play]], tend to refer to everything bad (or simply non-dwarven) as "elf", even though no real elf has shown up in the story so far.

* A hearty disdain for elves (and gnomes, albeit for entirely different reasons) is one of the running themes in the ''WoW'' machinima [[Oxhorn Short Shorts]], in which all elves are portrayed as stereotypical hippies.

 

** Made a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when Lion-O ''listens'' to him and gets his father to let the Lizardman and his friend go. So not only where the Elves called out, one was actually humble enough to ''pay attention''.

 

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