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A similar sort of remark is almost always made by an underling if the [[Big Bad]] has to make a deal with some underhanded or socially outcast allies; for example, the line 'Bounty hunters. We don't need that scum!' in ''[[Star Wars|The Empire Strikes Back]]''. If one of the heroes of the series says something like this under those circumstances, it's usually a setup for an [[An Aesop]] about tolerance.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The Titans in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam|Zeta Gundam]]'' are fond of this.
* The dub ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' has Slifer Red students being frequently referred to as "Slifer slime" and "Slifer scum". (In the original, they were mostly referred to as "dropout boys").
** ''Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds'' has Ushio/Trudge, who calls Satellite residents (especially Yusei) "trash" on every occasion. He stops after his [[Heel Face Turn]].
* ''[[One Piece]]'': CP9, especially Spandam refers to the Straw Hats as "pirate scum" when they dared to infiltrate Enies Lobby and stand against them and the World Government. Spandam even calls them "tako-pirates" (octopus-pirates) for good measure.
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* The [[Trope Namer|eponymous case]] in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''. And just because this trope can fit into each movie of the original trilogy, there was Leia being denounced as "part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor" in ''[[A New Hope]]''.
** The random lines spouted by troops in Battlefront2 include "you Rebel scum!" for Imperial officers and [[Verb This|"Rebel scum this!"]] for various Rebel troops.
** "Rebel scum" turns up in a lot of [[Star Wars]] games. "Stop, rebel scum!" was one of the stormtrooper dialog choices for when one first noticed the player in ''[[Star Wars: Dark Forces
* The Agents (especially Smith) in ''[[
* In ''[[Hotel Rwanda]]'', the Hutu militants refer to their enemies as "Tutsi cockroaches".
== [[Literature]] ==
* The Orcs in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' seem to use 'scum' as their preferred insult. 'Maggot' crops up once or twice as well, but only when referring to other orcs who are their direct inferiors.
* The [[
** On the flipside, Andalites (including Ax) are awfully fond of using "Yeerk filth" themselves.
* The security guard in ''[[The
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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** A more straight example of this trope: every Goa'uld or enemy Jaffa will call Teal'c a "shol'va" (which is Goa'uld for "traitor"). Every one. Without exception.
*** [[Insult Backfire|Not that he really objects]], and as the [[La Résistance|Jaffa resistance]] grows he's still called that, though not in quite the same way...
* In ''[[
* [[The League of Gentlemen|Dole scum.]]
* In the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "Bushwhacked", this is the reaction the commander of the Alliance ship has toward Mal and his crew once they arrest them. Aside from the fact that Mal was on the Independents' side of the war, they found {{spoiler|a second-generation Reaver on the ship}}, thinking he was a tortured prisoner, and the commander assumed that because Mal was an Independent, he was a psychotic terrorist, too.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The same line was used once in ''[[Starcraft]]''. Somewhat of a subversion, as the person saying it is an unarmed civilian scientist who immediately gets killed along with his colleagues by said rebel scum.
* Various enemy soldiers in ''[[Crusader:
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] III: Morrowind'', the guards in the city of Vivec (Which according to ingame dialog did not allow "outlanders" into the main city until recently) are commonly heard to say things like "We're watching you, scum." and "Move along scum." to the player. They become nicer to the player if he joins and advances in the Tribunal Temple (who they serve), but become would be lynchers if {{spoiler|the player is acknowledged as [[The Messiah]], but hir claim is not backed up by one of their gods}}
** ''Oblivion'': [[Memetic Mutation|STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!]]
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** Especially in the more complex games with more than two factions: There, the "mafia" refers to the one specific faction, and "scum" refers to anyone whose win condition is incompatible with the Town's (or, anyone who town has to kill to win). (So mafia members are both mafia and scum, a cultist or [[Serial Killer]] is scum but not mafia, and survivors are not town-aligned, but are not scum since they can win with the town.)
* [[Muammar Gaddafi]] and his sons were fond of this, frequently referring to NTC partisans as "rats" and "dogs".
* Insults like this are a staple of [[People's Republic of Tyranny|authoritarian regimes]], eg. the Nazis' "[[Dirty Communists|Jewish Bolshevists]]", [[Reds
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