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An extra-terrestrial, a vampire, a mythical or magical being, or maybe even a half-human being or a person who transforms into a monster or has somehow gained superpowers runs the risk of being found out. If the general public discovers their true nature, they could be dissected in a lab or suffer some equally unpleasant fate. Mind you, as sapient beings who look (and possibly are) quite human, they still should enjoy some basic civil rights (even if they aren't documented citizens; most Minuteman Militia members don't suggest dissecting illegal aliens). However, this does not stop the government from wanting to imprison the being (without trial, naturally) and use them as subjects in endless (probably painful) experiments. This means said being has to constantly run from the authorities as opposed to going to the nearest court and having a restraining order issued, or perhaps going to the media about it (this is especially jarring when the being can prove its claims), calling 911, or applying any of the myriad legal remedies that protect everyday people from what amounts to a metric buttload of civil rights violations and outright felonies committed against their person. Somehow, none of the "normal people" notice, and likely wouldn't care if they knew. The pursuers, who have the power of the FBI, CIA, or even the Postal Service (hey... don't sneer at the Post Office — the Postal Inspector's office is the only law enforcement arm of any government in the US with a perfect 100% conviction rate) behind them, never seem to realize that they could be arrested for their treatment of the being, losing their careers, reputations, and freedom because of it. Technically, extra-terrestrials, mermaids and other such beings aren't human, granted, so this might explain why they don't use any legal recourse. This technicality does not cover humans who have gained powers, however. Having the ability to fly does not make you non-human. Neither does being in the wrong time or from an Alternate Universe. Those are all still human beings, and people in any court of law. Likewise, humans who are legally dead still have rights, as nothing in the law restrict rights to only living people. In reality, dead humans still have property rights, that is to say, their estate, although someone else is needed to manage and dissolve it. The dead would presumably have other rights or protections under the law if they asked for them. And while death legally means cessation of brain activity, which vampires may not have, no doctor is going to declare someone dead when they're moving around and talking, so they probably aren't even 'legally dead' in the first place. Zombies and other non-sentient undead on the other hand, might indeed be brain dead, and a doctor might be willing to declare them so. Either way, it's not like a zombie is going to be demanding their rights be recognized. (Or demanding much more than "Braaains!!!"). The question whether or not non-humans could have legal rights in real life is a contentious issue and the answer may vary depending on the legal system and culture you ask. On the one hand, one might argue that "people" have rights, not "humans" (not that this isn't rocky territory). So if a writer wished to ignore the issue, they can mention that courts declared them "people", no need to rewrite any laws or constitutions at all. This isn't all that great a stretch, as Real Life courts have ruled that such bodies as governments, civic organizations and corporations can be recognized as 'persons' so that they can be legally represented and/or sued in criminal/civil cases. Fundamental rights of sentient non-humans could also be derived from natural law. But on the other hand, there are laws that specifically mention humans, such as article 1 of both the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the German constitution. The predominant opinion of lawyers and courts in the latter country, whose legal system is built around the concept of human dignity, is that only human beings are legal subjects. Note that this trope is only valid for places in which there are civil rights for humans to begin with. A perfectly ordinary human would have to escape a tyrannical government that was persecuting him as much as any mermaid or vampire. Of course, as many Real Life events have demonstrated to the world, even places with great (though rarely unassailable) reputations for upholding human rights for their own citizens, can and have blatantly ignored said rights when it suits. So maybe the writers really are on to something. A subtrope of Fantastic Legal Weirdness, What Measure Is a Non-Human?, and usuallynote Obviously, legal problems are easily fixed, but often no one ever bothers or sometimes even wants to do it. Hollywood Law. Overlaps with They Would Cut You Up. See also Zombie Advocate, when a character advocates for the rights of non-humans. Contrast with Undead Tax Exemption, where the issue is usually handwaved as the non-human easily creating a convincing fake identity. Examples |
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The setting of The Perks of Working in the Black Magic Industry has many fantasy races who are treated as people, but the undead are an exception. This allows the necromancer Vanita to use undead as slave labor. Eventually, the law is changed and Vanita does a Heel–Face Turn, employing the undead honestly. | |
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Inverted in ARTICLE 2. Equestrian law was not written with humans in mind, and therefore it does not apply to them. Luna even makes a joke that, legally, Shane, the human, would be considered a pet rather than a prisoner. | |
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Some-what averted in The Salvation War, which mentions of the legal nightmare the "second life" humans pose on the issues of inheritance, payment, abortion, the death penalty, what one should do with dead criminals who were ordered to serve 100+ year sentences, and other such issues, but never are basic human rights questioned. | |
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Hunter: The Vigil: Comes up often, especially when dealing with government entities like Task Force VALKYRIE and the Vanguard Serial Crimes Unit. While VALKYRIE engages in wetwork, they usually do so only after assessing that the supernatural population in question is a threat. Likewise, VASCU, as a subset of the FBI, makes sure that slashers get processed through the system - though they have a Gauntanamo-like facility on US soil for those who are maximum risks (you try getting a Mask to face its day in court without a hideous body count). The antagonist faction of the mages in the same setting, the Seers of the Throne, tend to control mortal governments just as thoroughly as their own shadow governments and trend toward situations where this is an issue. Their precursors in the Old World of Darkness, the Technocracy, _were_ the government and were basically mired in these issues at any time that a supernatural being other than a tradition mage was involved (tradition mages, of course, were pretty much kill on sight if the technocrat in question could get away with it). Heck, back in the day, the Technocracy would regularly conduct pogroms — and they were explicitly called Pogroms — to rout out any group of supernaturals, mage or otherwise, who could threaten consensus. They've fallen out of favor, but they still have their advocates... |
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The Ghouls in Tokyo Ghoul have no rights. In fact, the Ghoul Countermeasure laws make just being born a Ghoul a capital offense. Those who are captured are immediately executed, even children, which most humans are okay with. Anyone who tries to help or hide Ghouls from the CCG is subject to immediate imprisonment and seen as worse than someone who aided a human murderer. Then again, it's not hard to understand why, since Ghouls need to feed on human flesh to survive and there are some who see humans as an inferior species. | |
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise states that Motoko Kusanagi exists in a sort of legal limbo. As a person she's a Japanese citizen, but her cyborg body is the property of the Japan Self-Defense Force (due to the government footing the bill for creating cyborg bodies for her after she was injured in a car crash while in the womb) so for all practical purposes she's government property. She's emancipated at the end of the first episode. | |
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Hellboy: Averted. Hellboy (demon), Abe (fishman), Krausse (disembodied ghost) and Roger (homunculus) are all legally recognized as people with full rights through their service to the B.P.R.D., though there's some debate over Roger at first. Said debate involves a bomb being put in his chest. This is the first of a series of events that leads to Hellboy's dissatisfaction with, and eventually quitting, the B.P.R.D. | |
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The same topic arises in the Angel episode "Unleashed" with an organization that meets once a month to dine on werewolves — who are human 90% of the time and return to human form on death (which means they must be eaten alive). | |
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In The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), the government lets Klaatu know that he doesn't have any rights they are under obligation to respect specifically because he (Klaatu) is not a human being regardless of what body he's wearing currently. | |
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In The Return you can be as law abiding as you want, but a bunch of scary mercenaries will still kick your door in at midnight, force you into a stress position and presume you are guilty of people eating on no evidence. Of course the various world Governments are in on this. It is made worse by the fact that being turned into a demon is more akin to rape than anything else, so after you've been victimised once, your government will come and do it to you again (one "raid" has the gunning down of a Succubus in a french maid's outfit by the Private Military Contractors in question. Turns out that she was the legal owner of a property that had been mind raped and forced into servitude). It turns out as a succubus you can live out your life without any recourse to the courts, or be shot. | |
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Santa Olivia has GMOs (genetically modified human beings) denied all rights under an amendment to the US Constitution. However, this is later challenged and repealed. | |
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In Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, it is against the "rules of war" to use nerve gas on your enemies; doing so will earn you the ire of all the other factions. But in the Alien Crossfire expansion, nobody bats an eyelash if you use the nerve gas on the Progenitor (non-human) factions (still, the Progenitor factions feel the same way toward humans, so this may explain things). The "rules of war" in SMAC are a mutually agreed upon set of regulations that can be disbanded by 67% majority vote. The Progenitors have never signed the treaty and therefore do not fall under its protection. Additionally, most CPU factions will push to remove the regulations if they ever think it will benefit them. Additionally, you can vote to initiate global warming/cooling in order to raise/lower the sea levels. Nobody bothers to ask if the Progenitors are ok with this. Furthermore, the progenitors state openly that their long-term goal is the extermination of mankind from Planet's surface. When they've flat-out told you beforehand that they're going to wipe you out anyway... |
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The antagonist faction of the mages in the same setting, the Seers of the Throne, tend to control mortal governments just as thoroughly as their own shadow governments and trend toward situations where this is an issue. Their precursors in the Old World of Darkness, the Technocracy, _were_ the government and were basically mired in these issues at any time that a supernatural being other than a tradition mage was involved (tradition mages, of course, were pretty much kill on sight if the technocrat in question could get away with it). Heck, back in the day, the Technocracy would regularly conduct pogroms — and they were explicitly called Pogroms — to rout out any group of supernaturals, mage or otherwise, who could threaten consensus. They've fallen out of favor, but they still have their advocates... | |
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Vampirella: Subverted in a issue in which our heroine does a job for the CIA and gets a USA passport (i.e., citizen rights) as a reward. (It certainly helped that she belongs to the good gals, looks human when she doesn't show her fangs or wings, and also otherwise makes a completely Unusually Uninteresting Sight. OK, maybe not the last part...) | |
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Agent Bishop, from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is head of the EPF, Earth Protection Force. This trope is his job. Consequently, he clashes with the turtles quite frequently and has tried to dissect them numerous times. Subverted in the rather maligned Fast Forward season. Bishop becomes the president, he makes Earth join an Alien UN-analogue and turns the Earth into a tolerant place respectful of non-humans. Being saved by an alien he was experimenting on changed his views. | |
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Averted in Lyrical Nanoha. The Time-Space Administration Bureau legally recognizes clones, cyborgs, Pure Magic Beings, Living Weapons, Familiars, and even Technically Living Zombies as people. Sure, they'll arrest people for making most of those things, but they aren't about to punish victims that didn't have any say in the matter. | |
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In Eberron, it is mentioned that monster races rarely receive the full rights of the more humanoid races. This causes trouble in parts of Breland (especially Sharn), where if a gnoll kills someone, it's murder — but the opposite is not true. The question of warforged rights have been a knotty tangle in the Five Nations. Legally, all signatories to the treaties that ended the Last War have to recognize them as autonomous persons, but in practice Thrane is known for keeping warforged in indentured servitude and many people in other nations are strongly prejudiced against them. Karrnath, meanwhile, also keeps legions of intelligent undead in storage much like other nations packed away weapons and armor. | |
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A lull in the action in The Headhunt has the all-alien cast discussing the Federation's humanocentric No Transhumanism Allowed policies (the rationale is Earth's Eugenics Wars, but they were centuries ago and most alien species didn't suffer anything similar), coming to the conclusion that banning genetic augments from public office or service in Starfleet actually violates discrimination clauses of the Articles of Federation. | |
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Shaman's Tears: Bar Sinister is a group of genetically uplifted animals. The evil corporation that created them felt justified in treating them as possessions as they had a court ruling stating that they weren't human. | |
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Dark Matter (2015): Artificial humans have no rights by Galactic Authority law, so they can be freely tortured. | |
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The rights of non-humans are an important theme in Freefall, with a squid-like alien protagonist, an anthropomorphic, intelligent, genetically engineered wolf who is technically still property, and a host of apparently sentient robots struggling with or ignoring the three robotics laws. In one story arc, robots have been dismantled against their will by other robots. As Sam asks: is this a crime or simply overly aggressive recycling? (Cue the Ironic Echo two strips later.) | |
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In the Heroes Unlimited universe (including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness), technology has outpaced the law, and mutant humans and animals can be legally treated as property and experimented on without any rights of any kind. This isn't a conscious development; rather, it's because there's a dearth of test cases before the courts, and the biotech companies and government black projects don't let their property get that far. Known superheroes are largely exempt from this and treated as human beings, but developing a legal public identity can be a real trick if your creator has declared you a public menace. The sourcebook Mutants Underground goes into this in more detail. | |
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The SCP Foundation takes the firm stance that their goal of containing the anomalous and upholding The Masquerade supersede the individual rights of any person. This means that any anomaly, regardless of how humanoid or sapient it might be, is to be imprisoned for life and experimented on as they deem necessary. They claim that doing so is a necessary part of preventing The End of the World as We Know It. Whether or not they're right is up to the writer, as well as the reader. | |
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In The Broken Earth Trilogy: Orogenes (humans with magical abilities, basically) were declared legally not humans, so that they can be killed, tortured, and imprisoned. | |
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The Cowboy Bebop episode "Jamming with Edward" has a bounty on someone using Kill Sats for large-scale vandalism, which the Bebop crew discover was the satellite network's own Artificial Intelligence. Even though they take said AI in, the government decide the "only living suspects" rule nullifies the bounties. Oddly, what they did with the (copy of the) AI given is unspecified; this was really just the government's excuse for being cheap. | |
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Discworld: Subverted in The Fifth Elephant when the conscientious Sam Vimes insists on going through proper police procedure, including asking the creature whether it is resisting arrest, before shooting a crazy werewolf. The ethics of killing "monsters" that are also sentient creatures in the Discworld is dealt with in several of its books. For instance, Granny Weatherwax insists on having an anthropomorphic wolf given a proper burial after it is killed at its own request. The Big Bad is bringing Fairy Tales to life. In the fairy tale, the Big Bad Wolf behaves like a human, but it's okay to kill him like a wolf. By burying him as if he were human, Granny is fighting the story. Terry Pratchett was playing with how the story of Little Red Riding Hood is an example of this trope. Carrot, whose freeing of Dorfl started the golems' own peaceful self-liberation, and who once arrested a dragon. The golems are an interesting subversion in how the police behave. Vimes at one point is asked to arrest Dorfl for committing a murder which the golem was confessing to, but he knew was innocent. To get out of this, he deliberately invokes this trope, pointing out that, legally, golems aren't people and thus can't murder anyone, and if anything, it's the golem's owner who's the murderer. The owner attempts to abandon his ownership of the golem, at which point Carrot points out he can't do that because it's littering. Carrot then buys Dorfl for a dollar and gives him to himself. Besides, if he owns the golem, which has no personhood, he should be liable for any crimes it commits. However, this exact predicament was avoided in Real Life by the law treating slaves or indentured servants as freemen if they did anything wrong. Of course, Golems have no choice but to obey their masters, whereas human slaves can choose to do otherwise, although this will often have painful consequences. Let us not forget the various races attempts at ensuring their rights, such as Reg Shoe's tireless (literally) crusade for Zombie rights. Several books mention "The Campaign for Equal Heights", which in a reference to the early NAACP has no dwarfs or gnomes on its board. A large part of Snuff is about whether Goblins should have rights and be protected by law. Regardless of prejudice against them by pretty much every other race on Discworld, when a crime is committed against them, such as the brutal murder of a young female as in the book, Vimes takes their side. In the end, Lady Sybil Vimes successfully lobbies the major governments of the Disc to pass laws granting full rights to goblins, but the murderer still cannot be prosecuted because killing goblins wasn't a crime at the time of the murder. Vimes' retainer takes care of that detail with a Vigilante Execution. |
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In Planescape, the ruling authorities of Sigil generally look down upon some human or demihuman adventurer treating the city like their own personal dungeon crawl, given all the "monstrous" citizens. After all, that goblin you just stabbed might be a respected member of a powerful faction, or at least pays his taxes. You're more likely to have your rights trampled for belonging to the wrong faction when the city guard passes on patrol. Outside Sigil, it all depends on the local climate. | |
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An episode of Earth: Final Conflict revolves around a murder trial in which the defendant is a Taelon who kills a former soldier in what appears to be self-defense. The Taelons are determined to keep the trial as human as possible in order to show that they're willing to abide by human rules and even request that Zo'or be put on the jury as a "peer". In fact, Zo'or does everything he can to convince the jury that the defendant is guilty of murder, even though the hospital video is clearly showing the soldier pulling a gun on him. Technically, this is not allowed, as new evidence (e.g., that Taelons are Energy Beings and cannot be harmed by bullets) cannot be introduced while the jury is deliberating. Zo'or wants to get the other Taelon convicted and punished (preferably by execution) to further his political goals. Then Boone manages to convince the judge to overturn the verdict and let the defendant go. The Taelon ends up killing himself at Zo'or's orders. | |
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And interesting variation occurs in The Conversion Bureau: Not Alone. Equestria is acknowledged by pretty much the rest of the world as a sovereign country, and most ponies that travel to other countries not only have human rights, but diplomatic privileges as well. But once the world declares war on Equestria, countries like South Africa and Brazil revoke all the ponies' rights but the most basic ones, and begin rounding them up — regardless of their diplomatic status — and placing them in prison camps as menaces to public safety. Pony scientists stationed the Arctic are given the chance to prove their loyalty to their human colleagues, and thus a few of them evade getting detained by the British Army, which makes this principle of "preventive detention" seemingly more subjective than it generally should be. | |
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A large part of Snuff is about whether Goblins should have rights and be protected by law. Regardless of prejudice against them by pretty much every other race on Discworld, when a crime is committed against them, such as the brutal murder of a young female as in the book, Vimes takes their side. In the end, Lady Sybil Vimes successfully lobbies the major governments of the Disc to pass laws granting full rights to goblins, but the murderer still cannot be prosecuted because killing goblins wasn't a crime at the time of the murder. Vimes' retainer takes care of that detail with a Vigilante Execution. | |
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Discussed in Forging a Better Future. After Laurel develops powers, General West briefly talks about "experimenting" to fully understand her powers, Oliver angrily cuts him off by pointing out that she is still a human and has basic rights. West counters that if she has powers, she may not qualify as human anymore. The President states that he agrees with Oliver, and orders the General to drop the subject. | |
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The Vorkosigan Saga novel Falling Free has the project which created the quaddies operating in a system where they could be classified as "Post-fetal experimental tissue cultures" and therefore have no rights. | |
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Stargate-verse: Stargate SG-1 explores this in "Enigma" when the NID tried to take the Tollans away with them to get their technology. Granted, the Tollan are human, just from another planet. It results in this exchange: In Stargate Atlantis, the Atlantis Expedition has performed experiments on some captured Wraith. This is called out as a war crime, but the protagonists respond that "if they were there when the Third Geneva Convention was signed, they would have eaten the attendees instead." This comes back to bite them, in the form of Michael. |
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Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl: Supergirl discovers that Lex Luthor murdered her baby cousin. When confronted about it, Luthor calmly — and smugly — says that killing an alien can't be considered a crime. | |
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Comes up often, especially when dealing with government entities like Task Force VALKYRIE and the Vanguard Serial Crimes Unit. While VALKYRIE engages in wetwork, they usually do so only after assessing that the supernatural population in question is a threat. Likewise, VASCU, as a subset of the FBI, makes sure that slashers get processed through the system - though they have a Gauntanamo-like facility on US soil for those who are maximum risks (you try getting a Mask to face its day in court without a hideous body count). | |
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While most of the monsters of the week on The X-Files could at least pass as human, "The Host" has this as a major roadblock — the Flukeman has been captured alive and does not appear to be human or even sapient, but Skinner still wants it given a psych evaluation so that they can figure out whether or not to prosecute it for the murder of several individuals. Of course, it then escapes in transport, so... | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: In the Forgotten Realms, Netheril was a very human-centric culture, respecting only dwarves and conceding that elves are, more or less, equal, even if somehow backward. They enslaved or slaughtered most others and when their spelljamming exploration began they started to vivisect anything they ran across. Naturally, soon the Netherese were treated much the same way as Illithids, and attempts of more sane mages to fix this reputation mostly failed. The net result was that with their ships attacked on sight Netheril has no trade partners and the defense grew so expensive that in a hundred years from the first lift-off they were forced to abandon space travel altogether, uber-wizards or not. In Eberron, it is mentioned that monster races rarely receive the full rights of the more humanoid races. This causes trouble in parts of Breland (especially Sharn), where if a gnoll kills someone, it's murder — but the opposite is not true. The question of warforged rights have been a knotty tangle in the Five Nations. Legally, all signatories to the treaties that ended the Last War have to recognize them as autonomous persons, but in practice Thrane is known for keeping warforged in indentured servitude and many people in other nations are strongly prejudiced against them. Karrnath, meanwhile, also keeps legions of intelligent undead in storage much like other nations packed away weapons and armor. |
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Comes up in Farscape, unsurprisingly. "A Human Reaction" reveals that John thinks his alien shipmates would suffer from this sort of treatment if they ever made it back to Earth. Subverted when they do get back in "Terra Firma"; the aliens are treated like celebrities, put up in a beautiful mansion, provided with all the material goods they want... though they are still prisoners. Things may have gone differently if John's dad hadn't been part of the team that discovered Moya. It couldn't have hurt that the humanish-looking Sikozu made first contact and could speak English (and the terrifying Scorpius was not onboard). | |
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Stargate SG-1 explores this in "Enigma" when the NID tried to take the Tollans away with them to get their technology. Granted, the Tollan are human, just from another planet. It results in this exchange: | |
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In Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures, there are several races of people, some of which are about as tough as a normal human, and others which are extremely powerful and long-lived. When someone commits a crime against a member of another race, he's judged and sentenced by members of his own race, which may lead to a sentence of community service for a murder conviction in more extreme cases. This leads to a lot of vigilante justice in the form of "adventuring". | |
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A central conflict of the Stardoc series through Rebel Ice stems from the fact that Cherijo, as a genetically engineered clone, is legally nonsentient and the property of her creator Dr. Joseph Grey Veil according to Terran law (a law which Joseph himself lobbied for). The citizens of Kevarzangia Two, whom Cherijo had saved from an epidemic, uniformly disagreed with this but the judge proved unwilling to overrule Terran law. The clan of Cherijo's deceased Jorenian husband Kao Torin took a more direct approach and simply staged an armed assault on the courthouse to break her out; the Jorenian government broke off all diplomatic ties with the League afterward. Joseph dies helping her escape at the climax of Shockball, and in Rebel Ice the Jorenians acquire sufficient leverage to force the League to drop their grievance and arbitrate an end to the war with the Hsktskt in the process. | |
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The Felix Castor series has a version of this for the undead — who are human, just postmortem, and have no clear legal status. And for demons, too. (And the resident evil scientist would definitely cut up anyone in either category as long as she could get away with it.) | |
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In the Forgotten Realms, Netheril was a very human-centric culture, respecting only dwarves and conceding that elves are, more or less, equal, even if somehow backward. They enslaved or slaughtered most others and when their spelljamming exploration began they started to vivisect anything they ran across. Naturally, soon the Netherese were treated much the same way as Illithids, and attempts of more sane mages to fix this reputation mostly failed. The net result was that with their ships attacked on sight Netheril has no trade partners and the defense grew so expensive that in a hundred years from the first lift-off they were forced to abandon space travel altogether, uber-wizards or not. | |
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Explored hardcore in District 9. In theory, the aliens are legal residents of South Africa, with all the standard rights to life, liberty and property that entails. In practice, they're confined to an uninhabitable trash-heap, exploited as sub-minimum wage labor, forced to subsist off offal and cat food (although they love the cat food, that's because it's a highly-addictive Fantastic Drug to them), left to fend for themselves against crime syndicates that the police have no interest in dealing with, and are generally treated little better than animals. When an "unlicensed" nest of alien eggs is discovered by the military, they proceed to "abort" the unborn aliens. With a flamethrower. note It's not like South Africa hasn't gone through this before. See The Apartheid Era. | |
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The Gems of Steven Universe don't normally have to worry about their rights before Earth government's too much, as they have peaceful relations with the local government, rarely interfere with human affairs, are completely self-sustaining, and are far stronger than humans that might attempt to harm them. It is noted by Pearl in one episode however that she is neither a human nor a US citizen, and so she cannot acquire a driver's license. Greg's cousin Andy also assumes being aliens makes them illegal immigrants, though it's not clear if he's right (with the exception of Peridot, all the active gems have lived in modern US territory since thousands of years before the country was founded). | |
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Avatar: The only problem the humans (or at least the company and security leaders) have with killing the Na'vi is public relations. The Na'vi have no issues with killing humans, either. It should be noted, though, that the humans are on the Na'vi planet, far away from any government-controlled land, so the law won't touch them. And the Na'vi aren't united enough to need a standing government or strict legal system. | |
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In Base Raiders none of the assorted aliens, supernatural beings, or even humans from alternate universes scattered throughout the post-superhero world have human rights. Natural mutants (so long as they don't look too inhuman) are considered human though. And acquiring superpowers is a crime. All things considered, this tends to lead a lot of sophonts into organized crime, such as baseraiding. | |
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The Flash (2014) has this happen to the metahumans (who are technically just humans who've gained special abilities): when Barry & co. catch one who has broken the law, they simply lock them up in a secret makeshift prison without trial. This example is a lot more understandable than most, as the metahumans are far too dangerous for any normal prison and any attempt to put them on trial would only put innocent lives at risk. Later when the masquerade is lifted, they're sent to prison with special cells to confine them. No-one mentions that Barry & co could be prosecuted and/or sued for false imprisonment after it's revealed. Luckily, there is now a metahuman wing in Iron Heights so metahuman criminals can be judged with due process. General Eiling never faced any kind of legal penalties for his experiments on Metahuman Bette San Souci (nor for her murder) or the abduction of Martin Stein. He also repeatedly referred to Bette as " his asset" rather than as a person. | |
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer: When the Silver Surfer is captured, an interrogator specifically brings up this trope. He's forbidden to use his favorite tactics since they're violations of human rights. But the silver surfer is not human, so it's implied he's free to use whatever torture methods he can think of. | |
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In the film version of I, Robot, the head of U.S. Robotics outright states (and does so accurately, as a matter of fact) that the death of a human being at the hands of a robot isn't a murder, because legally, murder is defined as one human unjustly, intentionally killing another. A robot killing a human is "an industrial accident". On the other hand, if somebody reprogrammed the robot to kill a person, then that would be murder, though of course the programmer, rather than the robot itself, would be charged. Later on it turns out that Sonny did kill him (for good reasons), but can't be charged by that same definition: Sonny's creator ordered Sonny to kill him, making it legally a suicide. | |
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In Kitty Norville, Kitty is kidnapped so that the kidnappers can televise themselves forcing her to turn into a werewolf on live television. They even allow her to do a piece for the camera first. They think they'll get away with it because they'll be revealing her true demonic nature. The sight of a terrified wolf cowering away from the silver-painted walls of her cell doesn't do them any PR favors (nor does the fact that when she didn't become aggressive, the guy who kidnapped her tried to force her into attacking an innocent bystander by shoving the man's arm into her cage). | |
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Deviant: The Renegades: Because of how deeply the Conspiracies lay, being caught by any local law enforcement runs major risks for an escaped Deviant. Even if the people who find them bear no ill will against them, they will inevitably be in the pocket of a grander Conspiracy who wishes to keep their creations secret. | |
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Early in Accelerando, the main character delivers an impassioned (and eventually mostly successful) plea for the rights of digitally uploaded personalities. | |
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Animorphs: Over the course of the series, the Hork-Bajir free more and more of their people from the Yeerks. Toby does this knowing that she'll need backup even after victory over the Yeerks, as she rightfully doesn't trust humans to have the Hork-Bajir's best interests at heart. Tobias can't fault her for it, and in the last few books, Naomi helps them write a constitution. After the war, the Hork-Bajir are given a reserve in Yellowstone National Park (though one thinks Sequoia National Park would make more sense), similar to Native American tribes, and Toby becomes a non-voting member of Congress representing them. This is a huge issue in the postwar trial of Visser Three, since for most of the war anyone who wasn't a Controller or an Animorph had no idea aliens even existed. Now they have to decide if a) they legally count as "people", b) if human courts and governments have jurisdiction over them, and c) does regarding them as "people" make what the Animorphs did count as war crimes?note This last point is the cause of a massive Broken Base in the fandom — for the record, the concept of war crimes was created with human conventional warfare in mind, not aliens with spaceships and ray guns. Plus, the Yeerks are not a party to any human treaties. |
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One of the Jason Wood stories has Jason defending a werewolf in a murder trial, specifically because he wants to establish that non-human sentients are entitled to the same basic legal protections as humans under the law. He gets the werewolf off by demonstrating that under the circumstances, what she did was legally self-defense — and then has her arrested for a killing she committed that could not be justified on those grounds as she left the courthouse, establishing the necessary corollary, that non-human sentients are also subject to the same punishments under the law as humans when they commit crimes. A later story continues this trend by Jason having a man arrested for a crime committed against a werewolf. | |
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In All-American Girl (Shinzakura) though the pony DJ is raised as a human, she's not seen as one and has to endure being treated more than once as a pet (much to the anger of her adoptive human parents) until the Supreme Court rules on her tenth birthday that all sapient creatures are legally persons. | |
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The Nai'ka in This Is the Worst Idea You've Ever Had! are given animal rights instead of human rights. One of the main plotlines of Chapter Two demonstrates that if you were to kill a Nai'ka (which is a common occurrence, as their blood can act as a Fantastic Drug that can allow humans to use magic for a brief time), it would be considered animal abuse instead of homicide, and the police really won't treat the matter with any kind of respect, nor is it a priority of theirs. Made even worse by the fact that many Nai'ka are quite naive, and therefore easy to exploit. The spin-off comic Sin Pararse shows an even darker side to this trope with Rei, who was found in a brothel and was implied to have been a Sex Slave for nearly a decade. | |
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The Infected: The titular Infected have superpowers, and also mental illness, and the debate on their human status is ongoing, with concentration camps proposed as a serious solution to the problem of near-weekly Infected rampages. Any Infected above the threat level of Class Three (equivalent of an armed man) is by law conscripted into the government's shady Infected Protection Bureau (but they're good people, really!) or quietly disposed of. A specific infector, or someone who is actually contagious and can spread the Infection around, is always killed out of hand. | |
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Splash: Semi-justified in that Madison didn't know her rights in the first place. The scientist who was after her could well be arrested for stalking, among other things. When she's eventually captured by scientists they treat her like an animal, even though she's a sentient human-like being who speaks English; they keep her confined in a lab and plan to dissect her. | |
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Cassandra Kresnov: Whether Sandy, an Artificial Human built by an enemy government as a Super-Soldier for a war that ended relatively recently, is legally a person or a weapon is a major component of the first book's plot. She convinces Callay to grant her political asylum and citizenship partly by proving her morals by foiling the assassination of the planetary governor. This over the attempts of the Federation Intelligence Agency to abduct her and take her apart to learn more about GIs. | |
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Axiom's End: In the second book, following the revelation that the US government has been holding a group of aliens in custody for decades, a vast national debate emerges regarding whether aliens have human rights. Unfortunately, the political climate of the time helps the far-right Third Option gain popularity, which says aliens do have rights... as second-class citizens. | |
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In The Man Who Fell to Earth, Newton is captured and held captive by the government, slowly studied and examined against his will. He's finally let go when they've found everything they need from him, and it's too late for him to return home, leaving him on Earth. | |
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In the Dante Valentine series, Psions were underworld commodities until relatively recently, when the politically powerful Nichtvren successfully lobbied for the Parapsychic Act and Paranormal Species Act, which granted full citizenship to human Psions and paranormal creatures and laid down the ground rules for Psions' training and employment. Fantastic Racism is still a serious problem though, and the laws aren't always enforced. | |
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Zigzagged in Overwatch: because of the Omnic Crisis 30 years beforehand (and the terrorist attack by Null Sector 7 years previously), omnics are given no human rights in the UK. Omnics are frequent targets of the Los Muertos gang in Mexico. In Russia, a Second Omnic Crisis rages between the omnium and the Russian military. But in Numbani, humans and omnics coexist peacefully. | |
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Out of the Silent Planet: Both played straight with what rights the human would-be colonisers of Malacandra/Mars Weston and Devine think a non-human should be afforded (none); and inverted in how the Martians in turn treat the alien human visitors to their world. Weston has no problem shooting Hyoi (who as a hross looks seal-like and not humanoid like Weston expected) on sight without bothering whether he may be murdering a sentinent person. Even later when he knows the victim was a person just as he is, he shows no remorse and maintains that the only life of value is human life. Later still (in how he acts towards Elwin - the protagonist) it becomes clear he doesn't even value individual human lives; or even the human species as it now is, but just that some creature that has some origin in humanity (however vague) continues to conquer and plunder. By contrast to the aforementioned, the Martians are actually perfectly moral and have no difficulties acknowledging the full personhood of a human (just like every other hnaunote person). it probably helps that there are four species of sentient life that fall under hnau on Mars already. Weston is given a fair trial for the murder of Hyoi. The Martians also realise that the human Elwin Ransom was abducted by the other two against his will; so he is just as much of a victim of their havoc as their Martian victims, instead of being in any way responsible. The only thing they blame him for is not coming to them for help against his abductors sooner when he managed to escape. However, they also acknowledge that he had no means to divine whether or not they might be hostile, and was thus rationally fearful to make contact. |
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Civil War (2006): The crossover between Young Avengers and Runaways mines this a lot: S.H.I.E.L.D. "cape killers" feel okay with firing on Victor because he's "just a robot", and Hulkling, Karolina, and Xavin are all lined up by a Mad Scientist for dissection because they don't have any legal rights as aliens. Subverted in the "Battle Damage Report" when Iron Man notes that while Karolina isn't human, she technically should have had rights as a U.S. citizen because she was born in California. | |
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In Origin Story, Alex Harris is specifically told that she doesn't have any rights anyone in law enforcement need to respect, because officially she is not a person but a walking, talking weapon of mass destruction. In addition, Henry Peter Gyrich at one point makes the argument that, as she is not a human being despite appearances (Alex is actually a Kryptonian), his office has classified her as a strategically useful animal and thus is the property of the U.S. government. This pisses off Tony Stark (who at that moment on the fic's timeline is still on his hard-core fascist Jerkass pro-reg period), who fires back that this is a declaration similar to what was done to shut down a proposal planted during the American Civil War that would have given any slaves willing to volunteer to serve on the Confederate Army freedom once their service ended (and thus this implication is one of the things that make him decide to try to reform the SHRA from the inside). | |
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Semiosis: Invoked by the Constitution of the human colony on Pax; anyone who knows the Constitution and declares themself a citizen becomes one. After 60-odd years of cohabitation with the humans, Stevland the sapient bamboo Plant Alien does so. | |
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In The Adventures of Fox Tayle (an online story/book), Fox Tayle is a government experiment running from the FBI. At one point, when confronting a lone agent, he cites part of the Declaration of Independence, but is told that it doesn't apply to him because he's an animal. | |
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In Aeon 14, the Phobos Accords provide for the civil rights of sapient Artificial Intelligences, and additionally dictate rules on their creation and upbringing as well as creating a separate legal system to prosecute A.I.s that commit crimes. Unfortunately, the partial collapse of civilization in the Time Skip after book three causes the Accords to be abandoned. | |
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Reversed in Planet 51, where the native military wants to dissect the human astronaut. | |
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Rewind (Terry England) revolves around seventeen adults who get deaged to nine-year-old children. They suddenly find themselves with a whole lot less rights as a result. For instance, Aaron's wife wanted a divorce; after he's rewound, she gleefully seizes all of his assets and sells him to an interested buyer. | |
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Next has quite a lot to say about this issue as it has a few transgenic animal/humans in its cast of characters (and indeed, Dave's backstory is very sad). That said, it eventually gets to the point where even the rights of individual cells are questioned. | |
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The ghosts from Danny Phantom. Yes, they used to be human (some of them, anyway) but now they're dead, powerful and all obviously evil, so it's perfectly within human jurisdiction to experiment and destroy them without trial. No wonder Danny doesn't want his secret revealed. | |
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In The Star Beast, in the back-history of The Federation, we have the Cygnus Decision, which established that: Beings possessed of speech and manipulation must be presumed to be sentient and therefore to have innate human rights, unless conclusively proved otherwise. Lummox's problem was the lack of manipulative organs, until she grew two arms and hands partway through the novel. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Because Humans have been subjugated and treated horribly by aliens in the past, they had a policy which stated that hostile species be suppressed, though that was later bastardized to a general zero-tolerance policy. The anthropocentric Imperium of Man, as a rule of thumb, will actively work to exterminate aliens. As a few notable alien species have proven, if they may prove to be useful to the Imperium through any unique talents (like the Jokaero), then agents of the Imperium will try to subjugate and exploit them instead. In a few certain cases, the Imperium will have to practice Realpolitik if the only other options are poorer. The Tau, for example, have a growing empire in a region of space Humanity has dwindling resources and increasing enemies in, so they're letting the Tau defend that area while both sides are engaged in Cold War, trading territory and occasional blows. Other times, Humanity will reluctantly ally with the Eldar if a greater mutual threat presents itself. The Imperium also has a varying level of tolerance of Mutants that varies world-to-world, ranging from second-class citizens (or third, or fourth, or fifth, such is life) to "kill on sight". Any that tolerates the Mutants probably will use them as a source of disposable labor in harsh conditions and next to no pay. Humanity also tend to look down on Abhumans, but they tend to be lucky enough to run their own worlds (if they're smart enough to do so), they are definitely above any random mutants due to being genetically stable and can serve in the military. Within the Tau empire, it's ultimately ambiguous if all citizens share the same rights, or if the Tau have greater rights than other species. On one hand, they have the highest general standard of living, but they're also maybe-controlled by the highest Caste of the Tau. |
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Metahumans and the Awakened in Shadowrun have had an uphill battle for civil rights that would have been a non-issue if they hadn't expressed. Most civilized countries have decided that they share the same rights as their non-magical, non-metahuman peers. The newest group to suffer like this are technomancers, outwardly normal people who can interact with the Matrix without technology and do things with code that leave the most elite hackers scratching their heads. | |
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Transformers: Animated: Porter C. Powell has his own opinion after the Headmaster is arrested for stealing Sentinel Prime's body and attacking Optimus Prime with it. While asking exactly what is being charged with, one of his statements is "Assault? Since when does an alien robot have rights?" Later this gets turned around on him when Optimus Prime and Grimlock take a device from him, return it unusable, and abuse him a bit (harmlessly, except to his suit) in the process; Powell can't get the police to do anything to them (partially because Captain Fanzone hates Powell's guts). | |
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A very dark version appears in The Laundry Files. In The Jennifer Morgue, it's a reasonably major plot point that the CIA doesn't consider anyone with demonic ancestry to be legally human, per a secret Supreme Court ruling that human and civil rights protections only apply to actual humans, freeing up the American occult intelligence service the Black Chamber to treat nonhumans (or anyone with nonhuman blood, such as the half-Deep One Ramona Random) however they like. In fairness, A.) the Chamber doesn't treat humans much better and B.) most nonhuman life in the series thinks that human souls are crunchy and good with ketchup. | |
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Blade Runner. They don't call killing a replicant murder, they call it "retirement". This is taken to the extreme when Rachael asks Deckard if he has ever "retired" a human. In this case, of course, this would be murder not "retirement". | |
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ALF was in part hiding out over concerns that he'd be dissected-explicitly stated in the pilot and the Made-for-TV Movie Reunion Show (in which he was the only returning character, so can it be said that it was a reunion?). | |
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In Witch Girls Adventures, witches (as well as otherkin such as the Fae, Immortals, and Nightlings such as Vampires or Shape Shifters) are a separate species from humans (although they can interbreed, the traits appear to be recessive at least with Witches, which muddies the waters) which probably leads to how organizations such as Malleus Maleficarum treat them with an 'execute on sight' policy or how the Arbus Society views them as aliens from outer space who lack privacy rights. | |
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In Monster Hunter International, the U.S. government pays bounties on anything deemed a "monster." While many such creatures are quite happy killing and eating humans every chance they get, there are also a large number who just want to be left alone and have no hostile intentions towards any human- some are even pacafists. They're still considered fair targets unless an individual monster wishes to sign up for the government's black-ops monster squad, at which point they're forced to be a deniable, expendible asset for all sorts of dirty operations around the globe for several years. If they manage to survive (not easy given that their handlers really don't have any concern for their wellbeing), they're given a token saying that they're now free, but that's only good so long as the government doesn't feel like they want that monster working for them again. | |
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Eleutherophobia: It's mentioned a few times that some humans are uncomfortable with the Hork-Bajir presence on Earth. Most of those Hork-Bajir were born in Yeerk slavery and have no means or will to return to their species' home world, so leaving them to inhabit Yellowstone is the best option as it was in canon. However, Cassie darkly mentions that certain humans want Hork-Bajir classified as animals to have free reign over them and their new habitat, while the authorities who allowed for Hork-Bajir rights care more about surface victories like "Hork-Bajir friendly stairs", never mind that Hork-Bajir are perfectly capable of climbing human stairs and don't regularly hang out in human buildings, being an arboreal species. | |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003): For understandable reasons, the survivors of the Cylon massacre of the Twelve Colonies aren't inclined to play nice with any captured Cylons, happily torturing and spacing them, and giving a crew member who pulled a Jack Ruby on the Number Eight that shot Adama 30 days in the brig for illegal discharge of a firearm. This rather pointedly motivates the Boomer carrying Helo's child to prove her Heel–Face Turn very fast, which she does by foiling a second assassination attempt from one of Tom Zarek's followers. | |
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In Chrysalis Visits The Hague, this is invoked and subverted: Judge Mullan advises the lawyer Estermann to portray changelingkind as a race of unintelligent animals to free them of their obligation to obey the rule of law (both human and Equestrian, that is, which are assumed equal in this setting). This turns out to be a terrible idea in the long run, as it could likewise also deprive them from all their rights. | |
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Gold Digger: This is why Serisha was able to run her horrific experiments on Summoner/Array without interference from Agency Zero. | |
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Shadow Ops has mages being automatically conscripted, while 'probes' or mages with prohibited powers (necromancy, portals, entropy magic, creating elementals) are killed out of hand, in theory. In actuality, several are kidnapped to another world (the Source) and put to work for shady corporate/government interests, where it is made clear defiance is punishable by death or lobotomy. | |
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Rivers of London: Becomes a bone of contention in Moon Over Soho where new guy PC Grant quotes the sections of the Human Rights Act that in theory deals with not summarily executing sentient beings (pointing out that it only says "Human" rights in the title-the actual text says "persons" a rather more vaguely defined word), old hand DCI Nightingale points out that this would blow the Masquerade wide open. Then the suspects in question kill themselves and resolve the issue neatly. Becomes a further bone of contention in Broken Homes, with Peter and especially Lesley getting rather impatient with magical beings who think they should get the rights that come with modern civilization and policing, while at the same time being left alone to do whatever they like. Efra points out the Human Rights Act does say that your rights under the law aren't contingent on obeying the law yourself; the police cannot decide that suspects don't have rights if it suits them. |
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Subverted in True Blood where vampires have been legally declared citizens, more or less, in a not-even-remotely-veiled analog to the real-life homosexual rights movement ("God hates fangs"). True Blood also demonstrates the flip-side of this trope; namely, vampires do not consider themselves as equal to humans, but rather superior. In addition, the human justice system is nowhere near equipped to deal with them, and vampires in the show kill with relative impunity. One even torpedoes the in-universe constitutional amendment to grant vampires equal rights to marry, own property, etc. by killing a reporter on live television because he doesn't want to be equal. By Season 5, the governor of the state of Louisiana has essentially invalidated the citizenship and rights of all vampires within the state: vampires seen outside their homes at night are breaking a curfew set for them, and subject to being shot on sight by SWAT teams and arrested (really sent to a special lab where experiments are done on them). The show never mentions how massively unconstitutional such actions would be. Near the finale, Bill is told he's not able to leave someone else his estate, because as a vampire Louisiana law considers him to have legally died after he was turned and thus it goes to his nearest living kin. It is mentioned that this law's being challenged in court, but it'll take years for them to rule either way on whether it's constitutional. |
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The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: While Bob's Shaming the Mob gambit seems to have gotten the people of Generictown to trust Molly the Monster, Jean is still afraid of exposing her much outside of town, or to the scientific community, for fear that they might vivisect her or something. | |
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In Stellaris, this is what combining Xenophobe and Egalitarian ethos leads to. Such a civilization grants all the rights of a modern democracy and great or utopian living standards to their own species, but any filthy xenos on planets they conquer are chased off, enslaved, targeted for genocide, or simply eaten. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Touched on in "New Moon Rising" with the Initiative's treatment of Oz the werewolf. They want to experiment on him despite the fact that he, unlike most of the demons and monsters they dealt with, had a legal existence as a person and a student. The robot thing comes up, weirdly, in Buffy, as well-there are three apparently sapient androids in the series. The first, in "Ted", is a serial killer they get rid of, but April the sexbot from "I Was Made to Love You" is treated as a mentally disabled person unfairly created and discarded. The Buffybot has a long and storied career, and never achieves enough self-awareness to worry about her rights, but is definitely treated as capable of suffering. Not to mention the demon who was trapped in a book, accidentally scanned into the internet, and then had himself downloaded into a robot in "I Robot, You Jane". |
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Ghosts in Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt can be openly killed by the Anarky sisters presumably because ghosts are near-universally threatening if not murderous with their goals. The episode "1 Angry Ghost" has it as a plot point that Token Heroic Orc Mr. Petter was the only ghost to ever gain legal citizenship and rights, making his death a murder. | |
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In Stargate Atlantis, the Atlantis Expedition has performed experiments on some captured Wraith. This is called out as a war crime, but the protagonists respond that "if they were there when the Third Geneva Convention was signed, they would have eaten the attendees instead." This comes back to bite them, in the form of Michael. | |
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How non-humans are treated in Rifts by the Coalition States. Mages have no rights at all (even if it's involuntary like a Mystic), psychics' are limited (second-class citizens who must be implanted with trackers), and Dog Boys have barely more than pets. | |
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In Paperinik New Adventures, the rights of droids in the 23rd century is a frequently brought up subplot, with Paperinik himself being famous for his ardent support of droid rights and disgust with those who treat them like lessers. Droid rights are eventually codified in law in Fragments of Autumn, which leads into a court drama where Paperinik's friend Lyla becomes the first droid put on trial for accidentally shooting a colleague (previously she would've simply been terminated), with the prosecution sponsored by a politician running an anti-droid platform. | |
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The Transformers (Marvel): The series practically takes this to Humans Are the Real Monsters level: The government organisation Triple I and the RAAT military group they sponsor treat all giant robots as a menace, resulting in them firing on any Autobot they see without provocation, capturing and dissecting them, and ultimately trying to execute a group of captured Autobots in retribution for a Decepticon attack. (Their bodies are crushed but the one man in the organisation who's twigged they're on different sides saves their brain modules.) | |
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Star Trek: Voyager explores the rights of the holographic doctor, including his right to have a say in his treatment. In "Latent Image", rather than delete months of his memory (and personality), Janeway eventually allows him to work through psychological problems that could have kept him out of Sickbay for weeks or even months, despite the risk this might pose to the crew. Janeway had initially decided to just reboot the Doc, but changes her mind upon talking to Seven of Nine. When Janeway points out that the Doc is more like a Matter Replicator than a human, Seven points out that she, too, being Borg, is composed of parts not unlike the replicator, and wonders whether Janeway would eventually override her free will as well. In "Author, Author", the Doctor has written a novel and submitted a draft, pre-editing, that the publisher thinks is delightfully salacious in the way it seems to impugn the Voyager crew, and promptly starts distributing. The Doctor sues to have it stopped; the publisher argues that he can't sue because he isn't a person. The Federation quite sensibly has no desire to extend suffrage to an easily replicated computer program that can be given whatever personality, desires and values the programmer wants it to have (not to mention have its Ethics directory deleted with a push of a button). For what it's worth, the final decision is a bit of a subversion of the usual outcome: the court decides that the Doctor is not legally a "person". However, in an instance of a Meaningless Villain Victory, the court decides that while he does not qualify as a "person", he does qualify as an "artist", and therefore is granted ownership rights to his holonovel anyway. There have been instances of respecting non-Doctor holograms, though, such as Janeway putting the ship at risk to save the holographic town of Fair Haven. Except that the town's achievement of self-awareness was treated as a malfunction to be fixed-a malfunction specifically caused by running too long, the usual cause of sentient holograms. |
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Buffyverse: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Touched on in "New Moon Rising" with the Initiative's treatment of Oz the werewolf. They want to experiment on him despite the fact that he, unlike most of the demons and monsters they dealt with, had a legal existence as a person and a student. The robot thing comes up, weirdly, in Buffy, as well-there are three apparently sapient androids in the series. The first, in "Ted", is a serial killer they get rid of, but April the sexbot from "I Was Made to Love You" is treated as a mentally disabled person unfairly created and discarded. The Buffybot has a long and storied career, and never achieves enough self-awareness to worry about her rights, but is definitely treated as capable of suffering. Not to mention the demon who was trapped in a book, accidentally scanned into the internet, and then had himself downloaded into a robot in "I Robot, You Jane". The same topic arises in the Angel episode "Unleashed" with an organization that meets once a month to dine on werewolves — who are human 90% of the time and return to human form on death (which means they must be eaten alive). |
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In Merlin (2008), "practicing sorcery" is a capital crime. However since people are born with sorcerous abilities and can use them instinctively without contemplated intent, it is tantamount to outlawing sneezing or having a patellar reflex, so humans with sorcerous abilities are treated pretty much like a criminal subspecies. | |
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Inverted and subverted in the Babylon 5 episode "Grail". A human is suing a Vree for damages resulting from the alleged kidnapping of his grandfather. The plaintiff claims to have found proof in Vree records, while the Vree enters his plea in a language nobody in the court understands forcing them to recess and find an interpreter. We never hear how it ends. | |
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Transformers: Optimus Prime has a very clear opinion on this, with his famous "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings." motto. Transformers: Animated: Porter C. Powell has his own opinion after the Headmaster is arrested for stealing Sentinel Prime's body and attacking Optimus Prime with it. While asking exactly what is being charged with, one of his statements is "Assault? Since when does an alien robot have rights?" Later this gets turned around on him when Optimus Prime and Grimlock take a device from him, return it unusable, and abuse him a bit (harmlessly, except to his suit) in the process; Powell can't get the police to do anything to them (partially because Captain Fanzone hates Powell's guts). |
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Jill Kismet mentions that the FBI and CIA operate hunter and Were units, on top of the title character's own work as a consultant with the police and law enforcer in the supernatural community. FEMA funds are also available for supernatural disasters. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: The series explores this question a number of times, primarily with the android Data. In "The Measure of a Man", he is the subject of a hearing by a Starfleet JAG officer to determine his legal status: is he property or a person? The judge mentioned that they were "dancing around the basic issue: does Data have a soul?", which she concluded could not be proven or disproven, just as it could not proven or disproven for humans and other organic sentients. Later episodes on the topic featured Data defending the right of other artificial sentients to life and liberty, and the question of Data's rights as a "parent" when he creates his "daughter", Lal, in "The Offspring". This is done again in "The Quality of Life" with polymorphic tools called Exocomps that are proven to have gained low-level intelligence and are excellent problem-solvers. |
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