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When people are not allowed to say slurs, or similar comments about a group of people, unless they are part of that group or otherwise granted special dispensation. Derogatory slurs are wrong. They are used as a way to imply that a whole group of people is inferior to another group in some way(s), or, as Richard Pryor memorably worded it, they "perpetuate [the] wretchedness" of a group of people. Yet, because words gain meaning from context, including the characteristics of the speaker saying those words, slurs are sometimes considered acceptable if they are spoken by people belonging to the group the slur is about, or someone given special dispensation by members of that group. The most notable is the word "nigger". Probably the most offensive word in the English language, it has been reclaimed and become a term of fellowship in American hip-hop culture, especially in the slang form "nigga". Yet, that fellowship only extends to those who have been accorded "N-Word Privileges". Putting it simply, some black people call each other this colloquially, generally when they are close friends; but if you address one of them with the word as a non-black (especially white) individual, it can be an exceptionally effective method for getting some very dirty looks (and if proof of this event happens to go viral on the Internet, as through social media, it's also a great way to lose your job, lose your spouse or significant other, have your business or brand boycotted, be expelled from school, be stripped of a title or an award, be doxxed and find yourself on the receiving end of nasty phone calls, and depending on the country, even going to jail for hate speech). So who has N-Word Privileges? Generally, those who are part of the group to whom the term originally applies usually get a free pass when speaking among themselves, at the risk of looking crass if saying it in mixed company. The occasional "honorary pass" (a concept that doesn't exist in every Black community) is given to others, such as Latinos saying the N-word, or straight women with lots of gay friends saying "fag", but this can be rather inconsistent, such as Jennifer Lopez catching flack for using the N-word in a song a while back, but the Latin rap group Terror Squad would use it all the time with no issue. On the rare occasions where white people receive it, it's usually under very specific circumstances (e.g., being the only white kid in an otherwise entirely black circle of friends) and it is also understood that outside of those circumstances, they are not to use it. Even with historical context, a single use of the N-word guarantees at least a TV-PG L rating on television. Some of My Best Friends Are X will generally not work here. Even if such friends "grant permission" to use the slur in question, it still has the possibility of horrifying or angering anyone else. May result in very unusual dialogue if combined with Fantastic Racism. Self-deprecating remarks and humour is often this on a more personal level. Just because you put yourself down, it doesn't mean other people are allowed to put you down - or even agree with such self-deprecation when applied to you. In other words, "only I'm allowed to put me down"! It also sometimes happens that a person is Innocently Insensitive or otherwise doesn't realize they said something offensive; in these cases they may be given a one-time pass and let off with a warning not to do it again. This rarely happens with the N-word itself, as there are very few people who don't already know how offensive it is, but may occur with more obscure slurs or dogwhistles. Compare and contrast Appropriated Appellation and Insult of Endearment for other ways people can turn around derogatory words. Note that simply using a slur is not enough. To be an example, the use of a slur must be considered acceptable for some people but unacceptable for others. If it's acceptable for everyone, or if it's never acceptable even for those who are part of the group to which the slur applies, it's not this trope. |
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"Nightwalkers" in Mary Shelley's Frankenhole is considered a derogatory slur for vampires. Only vampires are allowed to say it, and even then they pronounce it "nightwalkas". | |
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In Zettai Hero Project, after repeatedly referring to himself as a "loser underdog", Bizarro Frank gets very mad at Etranger when she does the same (because, unlike him, she isn't a loser underdog herself). | |
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A subtle one: in Real Life Comics, Mae's daughter Harper continues to call Mae "Daddy" well after Mae comes out as a trans woman, with no one commenting on it. Since the comic is based on real life, it's likely that the real Mae and Harper have the same interactions and Mae is fine with it. Mae herself has stated that she doesn't consider "daddy" a particularly gendered word. | |
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In Final Fantasy In A Nutshell's episodes of Final Fantasy XIV, parody this as Hyurbert does not have P-Word (potato) privileges, getting a nut punch from Lalafellon. One scene with Teledji Adeledji has him say the same word and show he has p-word privileges. Hyurbert doesn't learn the lesson and gets another punch. | |
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DEATH BATTLE!: During the rundown for Goro vs. Machamp, Wiz brings up how the former managed to beat Kenshi despite missing all four of his arms, prompting Boomstick to remark that if they threw Professor X into the mix, it'd be "the ultimate, and definitely most offensive, cripple threat match". After a period of awkward silence, Boomstick defends himself by pointing out he's only got one leg. Later on during Stitch vs. Rocket, Wiz tries to make a dig at Boomstick's ex-wife much like Boomstick himself frequently does, only for Boomstick and DUMMI to berate him for it, Boomstick even states that he can make those jokes because unlike Wiz, he pays her alimony. |
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Girls5eva: Dawn (who is white) is hesitant to say the drink negroni in front of the black Wickie. Gets a Call-Back in "Catskills" when she says she looked it up and she can say it because it was named for a real person (Count Camillo Negroni). | |
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One of the things that escalates the tragic situation at the end of Fruitvale Station is that a white BART cop mockingly repeats the phrase "Bitch ass nigger" after Oscar says it. When Oscar tells the cop that he doesn't get to say that, the cop repeats it again just to rub it in. | |
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Late Night with Seth Meyers has a segment titled "Jokes Seth Can't Tell", where in an attempt to circumvent Seth's status as a straight white man, he is joined by two of his writers, Amber (an African-American woman) and Jenny (a lesbian). Seth will set up a news-based black or lesbian joke, and one of the women will deliver the punchline in his stead. At the end of the segment, the two invariably pressure him to tell one joke, promising he won't get in trouble. When he tells the joke they call him out on his prejudice, and he calls them out for lying to him. | |
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Angel provides a Fantastic Racism example in electric-powered mutant Gwen: "What I don't appreciate, Elliot, is being called a freak. That's my word, and I get cranky when people like you use it." | |
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The second episode of Louie opens with Louie and his comedian friends discussing whether it's okay to say "faggot" (one of these friends being gay) on stage or not. Said gay friend says that he personally is not very affected, but for any other gay people who would be in the audience, the word's very powerful, as they've most likely had it hurled at them repeatedly, or said while they were being beaten. The gay friend also says while he has no problem with Louie using it because "he knows he's joking", he would not let another card buddy (who has a habit of always having to have the last word) use it, because "you really mean it". After an uncomfortable silence, said card buddy breaks the ice with a "faggot" joke, which causes all of them (including the gay friend) to burst into laughter. | |
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Treme: Delmond is offended by New Yorkers criticizing New Orleans, despite often saying the same things himself. "I get to say that. They don't!" | |
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One Polandball comic◊ parodied this trope by having India disguise himself as Niger for the purpose of repeatedly rapping the word "Niger". | |
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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle: In one scene, when Harold (Korean-American) and Kumar (Indian-American) encounter the extreme sports punks at a gas station, one punk taunts Kumar with "Thank you, come again!". Later, when Harold and Kumar steal their truck, Kumar says it back to them as they're driving away. | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Charlie is Mistaken for Racist in one episode because he repeats something said by Dee's black friend, which happened to include a use of the N-word. He's apparently unaware white guys aren't supposed to say it. Lampooned in another episode, where Dennis, Charlie and Mac get into a heated discussion about whether or not the word "Jew" is offensive. At one point, Mac argues that it's only okay to say if you're actually Jewish and surrounded by other people of the Jewish faith. This is the point of the episode "Hero or Hate Crime". In it, Frank calls Mac a "faggot" to save him from a falling piano, which results in them going to an arbiter to find out who gets a lottery ticket that each believe they have a claim to that they found during the incident. When Mac asks why Frank called him a slur, Frank claims he needed a word that would "cut right through", prompting Mac to ask what word that does that would he have used in the same situation to call to the arbiter, a black woman. After some stalling, Charlie suggests the N-word, but claims it's not hate speech because he was just suggesting it. They eventually conclude some words just should not be used, but proceed to argue over which words these are. During an episode where the characters perform a "Freaky Friday" Flip and all turn into black people, Frank is excited at the opportunity to finally say the n-word without repercussion and even sings a song about it, despite Dee repeatedly telling him not to. |
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Justice League of America: While it never saw print, originally the Brown Bomber (a white guy whose power is to turn into a superpowered black guy for an hour by shouting the words "black power!") had a scene where he asked Vixen (a black woman) whether he could say the N-Word while in his black form; she said he definitely couldn't. In a meta-example, his question was cut at the last minute, but her reply was left in, leaving the entire page looking a bit bizarre and turning her response into an Orphaned Punchline. | |
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Subverted in Black Man. When Carl (a Brit of African decent) spends some time in a Florida jail he doesn't appreciate when his fellow black inmates uses their privilege. | |
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The Simpsons: Inverted when Homer complains about a gay character using "queer". "That's our word for making fun of you. We need it!" Parodied in the "The Haw-Hawed Couple" with the word bully, which only bullies are allowed to use. |
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Here We Go Again!: Lance Corporal Darian "Rampage" Wilkes Jr. USMC regularly uses this on the other members of his tank crew, despite one of them being white and another hispanic. It's also made clear that Wilkes loves them all like brothers. An early shining example as Horsemen Platoon rolls through the Gate into the Special Region with the joint JSDF/USMC expedition: |
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In one episode, there's a cutaway gag referencing Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, wherein Jim chastises him for saying "our word". Peter apologizes, saying he thought it was his name. He then asks, "Can you pass me that oar, N-Word Jim?" Jim politely thanks him and hands him the oar without fuss. | |
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In White Chicks, two black men under cover as white Rich Bitches make the mistake of singing along with a rap song on the radio, which they are clearly used to doing as black men but which is horrifying coming out of the mouths of what (ostensibly) appear to be white women. When the genuine Rich Bitches in the car with them get shocked, they respond, "No one's listening, right?" Cut to the whole car singing along with a Cluster N Bomb, grinning and giggling girlishly at their transgressiveness. | |
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Eddie Guerrero: "You wanna be Latino? If you're not cheating, you're not trying!" Basically, saying something bad about Latinos and or Mexicans would get the expected reaction, but Eddie, and later his nephew Chavo Guerrero Jr., got to act out negative Mexican and Chicano stereotypes with impunity because Eddie was just that humorous and popular with the crowds. Turing Eddie heel was almost an exercise in futility unless he was facing El Hijo Del Santo or Rey Mysterio Jr.. Chavo usually turned heel almost immediately when his uncle was absent. | |
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In Naruto the term jinchuriki means "power of the human sacrifice" and refers to people with bijuus sealed in them. The titular character (himself one of them) is enraged when people who view jinchuriki as tools use it to dehumanize them but accepts it when used as a technical term. He's also okay with it being used by current/former jinchuriki. | |
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The Newsroom: News anchor Elliot Hirsch reports on the real-life controversy over Texas Governor Rick Perry's ranch, saying that the ranch "has a name... and that name is Niggerhead." Smash Cut to network president Charlie screaming "What the hell, fellas?!" at Elliot and his producer Don. Don insists that they couldn't report the story without saying the name, to which Charlie insists they should have substituted something like "the N-word". | |
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In The Hebrew Hammer, Mordecai Jefferson Carver (Jewish) and Muhammad Ali Paula Abdul Raheem (black) address each other as "my kike" and "my nigger" when they first greet each other in the film. When the Token White Guy points out that they just called each other by racial slurs, they say, "It's OK when we say it." | |
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Referenced in Ultrasonic, a crossover fic between Zootopia and Miraculous Ladybug. At one point Marinette wonders whether Chat Noir's signature cat puns would be offensive in the world of Zootopia, coming from anyone other than a cat (as Marinette is at that moment). | |
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In Harry Potter, 'Mudblood' is a deeply offensive term for Muggle-born wizards. Hermione reclaims the term to refer to herself. | |
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Boston Public: An episode featured a white teacher using the standard slur when teaching a history class of mostly black students in order to start talking about Afrophobia and language, with the subsequent uproar. He was actually teaching them about the cultural impact about it because of two students — one black, one white. The black one referred to the white one as "his nigga", and in turn, let the white one refer to him as such. Both were completely comfortable with this situation. Enter third party, skin color black, plot ensues. The old Jewish teacher gets away with it because he's not only very very old (in his 80's) but he has a black son, grandson, and great-grandson. |
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Discussed briefly when Jimmy and Franklin hang out. | |
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The introduction to Turk in the first episode of Scrubs featured him and JD having a conversation about whether JD could say the "N word" if it comes up in a rap song to which they're singing along. (For the record, Turk said no.) | |
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A more literal example from Booker T. Obviously this accidentally slipped out, as Booker T later confirmed in an interview on youtube. He also mentioned he never used the N word again, but not long after that interview it slipped out again when he yelled it at Jonathan Coachman. This didn't get nearly as much notice because unlike Hulk Hogan, Coachman is black. Booker's promo took the #2 spot in the Kayfabe Commentaries "Wrestling's Most Botched" pollnote The Shockmaster was #1, obviously, in the video New Jack tells a funny story about dropping the n-bomb in a promo while working for SMW. |
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Leprechaun in the Hood and Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood have pretty much all the black characters regularly using the word to refer to each other, almost exclusively good naturedly. In the latter, when a minor white character cheerfully uses it during a drug deal everyone (including people in the background) just stare at him in disgust, with a record scratch noise (and the sound of a car braking) even being heard when the guy utters the word. Of note, at one point in the movie one of the main characters tells another that "nigga" is actually out and that the new word is "ninja". | |
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Ed Sheeran performed a cover of OT Genesis' "CoCo", which features a few instances of the N-word, when he visited Trevor Nelson's radio show on BBC Radio 1 Xtra in 2015. He replaced the ones in the refrain with "man" and "and" respectively, and changed the line "niggas thinkin' that I'm solo" to "if ya thinkin' that I'm solo". | |
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Discworld: The equivalent 'n-word' for Dwarfs is "lawn ornament" which is considered a capital insult for non-dwarfs but is used by one Dwarf boss to his crew in Moving Pictures. In Wyrd Sisters Hwel allows Vitoller to call him that, because they're old friends, but not anyone else ("Some things you earn"). For trolls, the equivalent slur is "rock". In Soul Music, Lias Bluestone explains to Imp y Celyn that humans should be rather careful about how they use the term. Imp, being an outsider, naively said "I don't like rocks" in reference to actual stones, so Lias gives him a pass for being Innocently Insensitive rather than, as would usually be the case, making him go a few blocks away to look for his head. In Jingo, Captain Carrot has entered a crime scene surreptitiously by pretending he's renting the flat, and then let Angua (a werewolf) through the window. When the landlady approaches, Carrot reminds Angua he was told he wasn't allowed women in his room, and Angua replies, "Or pets, so she's got me coming and going. Don't look at me like that, it's only bad taste if somebody else says it." Throughout the series, being called a monkey is the Librarian's Berserk Button (orangutans are apes, thank you very much). Even saying the word monkey, regardless of the context, will get his dander up. However, he has used the word monkey himself several times. In The Science of Discworld, he uses the phrase "Monkey see, monkey do" after teaching Roundworld's proto-humans to use tools. Rincewind replies, "I'm glad it was you who said it." The Librarian grants at least one person a temporary M-Word Pass; a couple of upperclassmen had told a new student that "Monkey" was an affectionate nickname for the librarian. The Librarian pats the kid gently on the head and takes out his wrath on the upperclassmen instead. It's a deadly insult to abbreviate a goblin's Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom, and goblins have little patience for human ignorance on the subject, given the horrible Fantastic Racism goblins regularly suffer. There's one example of a goblin who allows a trusted human friend to call him by a nickname — they're both cops, and the goblin reasons that in a fight it's easier for the human to call him the shortened name than the full name — and other goblins are mildly scandalized by it. |
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Y: The Last Man: The white Yorick's black bodyguard, Agent 355, tells him, "Nigga, please!" when asked if she's in love with him. Later, when asked if he's in love with her, he echoes her answer. She gives him a momentary look as if she's about to object, and then apparently decides to let it slide, implicitly extending him N-Word Privileges, at least in the context of that conversation. | |
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Killing and Dying: Old white republicans who are upset at black people but can't articulate why are the subject of a black aspiring comedian's joke. He says they probably say the n-word in private just to let it out. | |
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On MADtv (1995), a sketch called "Reality Check with Tova McQueen & Velma Buttons", Senator Trent Lott attempts to apologize to Velma and Tova for making offensive remarks toward the African-American community to which Velma refers to Senator Lott as a "Re-nigger", much to the shock of her co-host Tova, Velma justifies by pointing out that she has the right to say it because she's black. | |
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In Mean Girls, Janis claims calling Damian "too gay to function" is only funny when she (herself possibly gay or bisexual) says it; she gets upset over it being written in the burn book. | |
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On The Muppet Show, pigs are particularly sensitive to non-pigs who make reference to the meat of pigs, even the mention of Sir Francis Bacon as part of a panel discussion on whether he was the true author of works attributed to William Shakespeare. Pigs, on the other hand, can make such jokes freely. This is also seen The Muppet Movie, where Miss Piggy twice reacts visibly to pig jokes. First, a Mad Scientist threatens Kermit in front of her, which is already a bad idea in and of itself, but then he compounds the offense by claiming that soon Kermit wouldn't be able to tell her apart from "kosher bacon". Later, when Dr. Teeth is mentioning numerous policeman euphemisms, when he gets to the P-word, Miss Piggy crossly cuts him off before he can completely spell it out. | |
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The Daily Show: Senior Black Correspondent Larry Wilmore, discussing Barack Obama's potential choice of running mates, explained that he needed to choose someone who wouldn't turn him into a sidekick or the Magical Negro. Also spoofed on a segment specifically on the N word, where one of the (white) correspondents dragged Larry around with him on interviews for the sole purpose of saying it. (Members of other minorities made very brief cameo appearances to provide their own examples of slurs.) Spoofed in a Running Gag involving a minor controversy over a hunting camp with an unfortunate name regularly used by Rick Perry. Perry keeps avoiding saying its name for obvious reasons, and none of the Daily Show staff want to either, so whenever it comes up they replay a clip of Herman Cain explaining that "the place is called Niggerhead". For the "Wilmore Awards", one of the categories was "White people who think it's okay to use the N-word". Wilmore uses it to make a point, and then makes clear that no, adopting a black kid does not give you N-Word Privileges. |
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In The Big Bang Theory the girls are having a jewelry night and Howard comes saying "Look who's here to put the 'Jew' in 'Jewelry night.'" His wife Bernadette then complains that it is fine when he, a Jew, says it. | |
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Parodied in Family Guy Presents: Laugh It Up, Fuzzball where Lois and Peter's recreation of Leia and Han's sniping from the start of The Empire Strikes Back ends with Lois calling Peter a "nerf herder"... at which point Peter punches her in the face and yells, "You can't use that word! Only we can use that word!" Shortly after that, we see Peter and Brian are playfully calling each other "my nerf herder". | |
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Starting in Ultimate Pro Wrestling in 1999 was a wrestler who called himself "Lil' Cholo" (Lucha Underground viewers may know him as Mr. Cisco). While not anywhere near as strong as the "N Word", imagine a black wrestler calling themselves "Mulatto" or "Lil' Darkie". South of the border he has a contemporary who goes by "Cholo Azteca". | |
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X-Statix: The black team member Anarchist calls a black applicant a spear-chucker, and tells the Orphan (who is a purple-skinned Caucasian mutant) that he wouldn't be allowed to do the same. The Spike literally throws spears, as it happens. And this is all the more ironic when you consider that the Anarchist is adopted and his parents are white, so the Spike thinks he didn't have the right in the first place. | |
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Averted in Luke Cage (2016). The title character gets pissed at hearing this word, even and especially if another black person uses it. His reactions range from going into a Character Filibuster or "No More Holding Back" Speech or just plain kicking the user's ass. | |
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Chris and Ciara replace it with "jigger" during their rap-offs, and get very nervous about accidentally having said it. | |
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Spitting Image portrays a political version of this as one of Home Secretary Priti Patel's main purposes in Boris Johnson's government: as a woman of color, she can promote Tory policies that disproportionately hurt women and minorities, as well as voice a large amount of reactionary rhetoric on everything from immigration to single mothers to trans rights to Morris dancing, without the blowback that a white male politician would. In a sketch where Michael Gove visits "Mistress Patel's Boudoir", his kink is listening to Patel discuss "unpopular conservative opinions only [she] can get away with". | |
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Count Dankula is of Irish Catholic descent and on a few occasions had referred to himself as a Fenian, a sectarian slur. He invokes this when talking about the notorious Irish kingpin known as Martin Cahill, when mentioning that the latter's father had fifteen children. | |
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Parodied in Sinfest when Squigley, an anthropomorphic pig, berates the human Slick for calling him "pigga" as a term of endearment. He says that only pigs can call each other that (see the previous page). | |
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Quantum and Woody: An issue called "Noogie" starts with an intro explaining to the readers that they've been forbidden to use the "N-word", and will use the word "Noogie" instead. It then subverts it when a poor black character repeatedly calls Quantum "noogie". Quantum, who is black but whose costume covers his entire body, asks how the man knows he's black, and he responds "You're black? S-Word!" Meanwhile, Woody (unmasked, white, and a former resident of the same neighborhood as the poor black character above)) does throw "Noogie" around without anyone but Quantum complaining, demonstrating that he does have privilege, while Quantum does not. |
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In Jingo, Captain Carrot has entered a crime scene surreptitiously by pretending he's renting the flat, and then let Angua (a werewolf) through the window. When the landlady approaches, Carrot reminds Angua he was told he wasn't allowed women in his room, and Angua replies, "Or pets, so she's got me coming and going. Don't look at me like that, it's only bad taste if somebody else says it." | |
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Two Best Friends Play tend to do a lot of racist jokes and all of them have said nigga or nigger, especially when they play gangsta games from the early 2000s or quote rap lyrics. One of their members, Woolie, is black and the other joked that he empowered them. | |
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Chuggaaconroy has claimed several times that he's allowed to make fun of the French because he's part French himself. In his Super Paper Mario LP, he then goes on to say that pretty much all the stereotypes are true. | |
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In the episode of My Name Is Earl where Joy's affair with Darnell comes out in the form of a Chocolate Baby, Earl is (rightly) questioning Joy and how this could have happened. She doesn't want to admit she cheated, so she tells him that he might have "a repressed black gene", going on about how "his great great grandmother must have let a slave get in a few licks of his own." A black nurse in the room looks at her and says, "Excuse me?" to which Joy replies, "Oh, it's OK, I just had a black baby. I can say it." The nurse just rolls her eyes. In another episode, Earl and Randy are in Shady Grove, which is populated by members of a carnival Freak Show. Earl cautions Randy not to call them "freaks", even though they call each other that, saying that "It's like when black guys call each other...you know." |
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WWE Diva Ashley Massaro once said in an interview that Kelly Kelly, who is reportedly Jewish (though with her blonde hair and light blue eyes, she doesn't look it), is a big fan of the movie Borat - which is chock-full of anti-Semitic "humor" so vicious that even Mel Brooks probably wouldn't touch it. | |
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Diamanda Hagan, despite being portrayed as (almost) utterly evil, still doesn't have these privileges, as she found out when trying to review a film with the n-word in the title. In that same video she is pissed when the censor machine goes haywire and it lets pass many other racial slurs, but one word is censored that she does have privilege to say (possibly "mick", as Diamanda is Irish). | |
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Schlock Mercenary: Gorillas have been uplifted to human level sapience, and since then a lot of primate-related phrases have been deemed as being racist. Unless you're a gorilla yourself, apparently. Same thing for elephant related jokes. Tagon makes one to a crowd of new recruits without realizing one of them is an elephant and they get into an argument about it. |
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In the Wizards of Waverly Place episode "Third Wheel", Alex and her new wizard friend make fun of media portrayals of wizards by donning pointy hats and beards. When Harper tries to join in the fun by holding her hair in front of her face and pretending it's a beard, both Alex and Justin tell her it's offensive. | |
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On Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher faced heavy criticism for joking about being a “house nigger� during an interview with Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE). The following week, both rapper Ice Cube and Bernie Sanders advisor Symone Sanders were guests on the show and explained why Maher could not use the word, even during a comedy routine. Ice Cube in particular deconstructed the logic by which many white people believe they can use but still cannot. A clip of his comments is linked here and is quoted here. | |
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A running gag of a Mind of Mencia sketch involves Carlos Mencia attempting to get a license plate with some permutation of letters similar to the N-word. (Claiming his family is Indian and their family name is Neega, etc.) Finally, he asks for a plate with the word "wetback" (an equivalent word, but used to attack Mexicans) and is immediately approved. | |
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Played with in American Dad!, episode "White Rice". Francine has a budding stand-up comic career based on her experiences growing up... as a white girl adopted by a Chinese family (she performs under her unmarried name, "Francine Ling"). Her catchphrase is "I can say it; you can't!". Her privileges are later revoked, however, as her sitcom is pulled after one Asian joke. | |
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Twice in the Real-Time Fandub of the Gravity Falls episode "Sock Opera", on-screen text points out that Sammi as Mabel can crack Nazi jokes to the "Aryan" Gabe since she's Jewish. | |
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From Ultra Fast Pony: | |
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In one non-Sidemen video, Simon decided to work around this by smearing Nutella on his face, going up to JJ, and saying the N-word to his face (which got bleeped out). JJ promptly broke down laughing. (They are lifelong best friends, by the way.) | |
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The Yo Videogames crew has two black members, Kenny and Steve, who use the term "ninja" as an alternative; however, they do slip up on occasion, as seen when the group played Overcooked and Steve's antics made Kenny drop half an N-bomb before he stopped himself. Then we have the incident where Max accidentally said the word (he combined "ninja" and "ginger" via slip of the tongue). Rather than permission, Max was more concerned with forgiveness, especially after a few Trolls tried to smear him as racist, which really got to him; Kenny and Steve both said it wasn't a big deal because they know he's a genuinely Nice Guy who'd never use any kind of ethnic slur intentionally. | |
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Leslie of Shortpacked! only lets people call her "the lesbian" if they sleep with her. This backfires the one time she invokes it against a woman she did just have a sexual encounter with. | |
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Grrl Power: Maxima is telling Sydney to get her Cluster F-Bomb tendencies under control, using her stubbing her toe and insulting every Irish person on camera as an example. Sydeny then asks if that means she shouldn't say stuff like "potato deficient famine jockeys", causing Maxima give a Big "NO!", and Harem to laugh, with a box saying Harem is allowed to laugh because she's part Irish. | |
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In the Harry Potter fanfic Imma Wiserd, the black narrator and the other Hogwarts characters (who are race lifted into blacks) use the word "nigga" repeatedly. When the narrator is jailed, a white police officer calls him a nigger and gets eaten by a dragon. | |
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She's Gotta Have It: Discussed at one point very seriously, as Jamie's son releases a song on Youtube that has the word in the title. He thinks it's okay because he has Black ancestry. Jamie makes it clear that in his opinion, that isn't appropriate even for Black people to say. | |
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A variation on this appears on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip when Matt writes a sketch in which Jesus Christ rises from the dead to become the president of network Standards and Practices. The result is that everyone in the scene ends up saying "Jesus Christ" a bunch of times—something standards would not ordinarily allow—and the ACTUAL Standards and Practices people would have had a hard time stopping him. | |
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Discussed in Big Mouth when mixed-race Missy visits her Black family in Atlanta. Missy’s cousins try to get her to say "nigga", asserting that she’s allowed to. Missy, at that time still voiced by a white actress, then looks at the camera and insists "It is definitely not okay for ME to say that word". | |
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Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance employs this. The Beorc (humanlike folk) refer to themselves as "human" and the Laguz (beastmen) as "sub-humans", with the latter being an ethnic slur. The Laguz have turned that on its head towards the Beorc. Thanks to the racist member of the party giving him the wrong impression, Ike thinks that "sub-human" is the correct term for Laguz but after realizing its real connotations he stops using it and starts addressing both races by their proper terms. | |
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The original productions of Porgy and Bess included at least twenty instances of the N-word, and all except one are used by Black characters to refer to each other. Though this was realistic for the setting of the piece, the use of the word eventually made audiences and performers uncomfortable enough that in the 1950s, Ira Gershwin, the sole surviving creator, replaced all mentions of it (for example, having a character sing of Porgy "I tell you that cripple's happy now" instead of what she originally sang). | |
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Inverted in Tropic Thunder: when black rapper Alpa Chino uses the word, Kirk Lazarus (an extreme method actor who stays in-character at all times and underwent cosmetic surgery to darken his skin in order to play the black Lincoln Osiris) gets dead serious and sternly chastises him for it, claiming that "for four hundred years, that word has kept us down". Predictably, this confuses the hell out of Alpa. Doubled down upon later in the film when Tugg says "You people". |
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The Green Inferno: When a passerby gives Kaycee a look after hearing her say something disparaging about Jews, she says "I'm Jewish" and shows her a Star of David pendant she wears. | |
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Victorious had an episode where Rex called himself a puppet. Robbie is confused, as he was told never to use that word around him. Rex responds by saying he can use it as he's a puppet. | |
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In another episode, Earl and Randy are in Shady Grove, which is populated by members of a carnival Freak Show. Earl cautions Randy not to call them "freaks", even though they call each other that, saying that "It's like when black guys call each other...you know." | |
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Seinfeld: Spoofed on an episode where Jerry suspects a dentist converted to Judaism just so that he could make Jewish jokes without causing offense. He also still tells Catholic jokes, justifying it by saying he used to be Catholic. Jerry theorizes that he's after "total joke-telling immunity" and is afraid that "if he ever gets Polish citizenship, there'll be no stopping him!". Later Jerry visits the dentist's former Catholic priest and tells him about this. | |
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Zootopia: Apparently only other rabbits are allowed to call a rabbit "cute". This is treated more as a stereotype than an outright racial slur with Judy wanting to be judged on her actions and not dismissed due to being adorable, which is revealed to be a very real problem in Zootopia. | |
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The Colbert Report Colbert has a Running Gag of "I don't see race. My friends tell me I'm white, and I believe them because of (insert reason here)". One of the reasons was his not being allowed to say the "N" word. There is also Colbert's interview with Jabari Asim, author of The N-Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why: |
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Parodied in Keychain of Creation, when a Dragon-Blooded (one of the Exalted who currently rule creation) tries to greet a Solar, Lunar, and Abyssal (Exalted who they currently describe as hated demonic Anathema whou must be slaughtered) with "sup, my 'nathema"; Marena, a Lunar Exalt, responds with an irritated "that's our word." | |
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Every black character in Saints Row, however important they are to the story, uses the n-word at least once. Later games in the series also use this trope, but only in songs on the radio. Actual characters don't use the word. | |
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Dear White People: This is the cause of Reggie's fight with a white student, the latter having said the word in repeating the lyrics of a rap song. Sam later also tells Gabe she'll say it, but he can't, though light-heartedly. | |
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Used and discussed in The Fifth Season with "rogga", the Fantastic Slur for people born "cursed" with the Functional Magic of orogeny. Essun is very uncomfortable with fellow orogenes who call themselves roggas — one to destigmatize the word, another to emphasize how utterly nightmarish The Empire's Dehumanization of orogenes really is — but coldly tells a non-orogene newcomer not to say "rogga" because she hasn't earned that level of trust yet. | |
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Dragon's Teeth: Lanny talks on the phone with a friend of his, Italian-American journalist Pietro "Pete" Corsatti. He remembers with amazement Corsatti's habit of referring to his fellow Italian-Americans as "wops." | |
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The Office (US): In the episode "Diversity Day", the second episode of the series and the first to not be a remake of an episode of the British version, the plot begins after Michael does a Chris Rock routine resulting in the office undergoing diversity training. He at one point asks whether the reason the comedian can do it and he can't is because he is white and Chris Rock is black, but ignores this revelation and proceeds to make things worse. | |
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CJ DaChamp: Everybody in the mid-review sketches that CJ does throws around the N-word, but all of it is done as a term of endearment. CJ himself is black, as shown in every avatar of himself that he uses. It's played with in that everyone (including CJ) refers to everyone else with the N-word, even if they're not black, and nobody bats an eye. | |
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The creators of Hogan's Heroes cast Jewish actors for many of the characters (particularly the German ones) to dispel any potential complaints that the show's lightheartedness was a disservice to the victims of the Holocaust. | |
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Yusef from Grand Theft Auto IV The Balladof Gay Tony doesn't have this, but he still flings around the word anyway. | |
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30 Rock: Played with when Tracy calls Toofer by the "n" word. The square Toofer didn't know about how the term had been reappropriated, and he makes an official complaint about it to Jack, who gives a pretty good summary for why this trope is in play: "You see Toofer, the African-American community has adopted that word for everyday use, in an attempt to rob it of its meaning." This is made even funnier when Toofer then starts to come around to the idea and attempts to use the N-Word in the same way, only for everyone to react with offense that he has just "dropped the N-bomb", and Tracy wants to make a complaint - the joke being that although black, Toofer is so "whitefied" that it sounds like a slur coming from him. Interestingly, both of the N-words have to be obscured with sound effects. N-Word Privileges don't cut it with the censors. Jack and Liz are also under the impression that "Puerto Rican" works like this. In another episode, Liz refers to herself as a "sister" during a phone conversation with a black woman, only to quickly claim she meant it in the "feminist" way. She then tries to claim it's okay for her to use "sister" while talking to black people because she too is black, but ends up admitting she isn't when she realizes she's going to meet the woman in person anyway. And another example in "Argus", where Liz reads aloud from a note given to her by Grizz. |
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The premise of The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation N-W.O.R.D. is that the Penguins try to stop Donald Trump from saying the N-word, as that's racist. At the end, Barack Obama awards Skipper with an N-word pass for stopping racism, granting him N-word privileges despite not being black. | |
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The Celestia Code features a unicorn, Jigsaw, finding out about some of the things other ancient unicorns were doing, along the lines of tribal supremacy (in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic canon, the various kinds of ponies are referred to as tribes—and, in ancient times, they hated each others' guts). One insult that catches a shocked gasp from nearby Twilight is 'screwhead', referring to the horn. Jigsaw justifies it, being a unicorn herself: 'Hey, I'm a unicorn, I can use the S-word if I want!' | |
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The Kentucky Fried Movie has a spoofed aversion with the sketch "Rex Kramer, Danger Seeker". Rex, a (white) part-time daredevil, walks up to a group of African-American men playing dice in the street and plants himself in the middle of them. Once he has their full attention, he screams "NIGGERS!" at the top of his lungs and takes off running. After a collective "Say WHAT?", the African-American men chase after him. | |
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On NCIS, the recurring French Arms Dealer Rene Benoit calls himself La Grenouille, which means "The Frog". Only a Frenchman could name himself that without it being a horrible insult - and Benoit does not like to hear his nickname translated into English. | |
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Referenced in a The Cleveland Show episode: When Rallo accuses Cleveland of breaking his leg, eating all his fish sticks and tater tots, sitting in his chair, and calling him the N-word, Cleveland shrugs and says "I'm allowed to, right?" In another episode Lester, mistaking every black person he sees in New York as Cleveland, uses "that word you call Rallo all the time" off screen. He is going to be killed until Cleveland turns up to rescue him and invokes an apparently well-known rule to the crowd that he gets one free pass on use of the word if he has one black friend. And in the event that anyone sought to take advice on race relations from a cartoon, a helpful caption is placed onscreen reading "Warning: Results may vary." In a non-verbal example, one episode features a situation where Cleveland has disguised himself as Lester, complete with whiteface; Holt enters dressed as Cleveland in blackface, to which Cleveland angrily responds "We may dress up as you, but you may NEVER dress up as us!" In another episode, Cleveland, having been recently crowned "the whitest black person in America", responds with horror to the word "cracker" that "that word is just as offensive to them as the N-word is to us!" Token White Guy Federline corrects him that it's "not even close". In the "Pins, Spins and Fins! (Shark Story Cut for Time)" episode, Lester reacts this way to Cleveland calling him a "crumb bum". |
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In The Hero Business storyline "The All-New Bravado", Superman expy Bravado goes through a series of revamps to make him more relatable. During a brief "Hipper and Edgier" stint, he addresses a team of X-Men stand-ins as "muties", which causes outrage because he's not a mutant and that is their word. | |
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Discussed, parodied, and deconstructed in Clerks II. Randal and Dante get into a debate about the term "porch monkey". Dante feels it's a racist term aimed at black people while Randal feels it can just be used as a general term for people being lazy with no relation to race. Dante tries to argue that only black people can use the word because of its origins, only for Randal to point out that dictating what people are allowed to say based on their skin color is just as racist as using the word to begin with. Randal's subsequent attempt to "reclaim" the term (complete with a jacket that has "PORCH MONKEY 4 LIFE" stenciled on the back) goes as poorly as you'd expect. | |
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Parodied in Muh Phoenix, with "mugga" being said freely by mutant characters. Captain America says it too, and the only one to call him out on it is the milquetoast Wolverine, though he relents in hopes of still being his Token Mutant Friend. Cap also says the actual n-word at one point. | |
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In Rush Hour, Carter (Chris Tucker) says, "Wassup, mah nigga!" to some of his friends at a bar — after having told Lee (Jackie Chan) to follow his lead. When Carter leaves the room to question an informant, Lee (who's new to the United States) cheerfully uses the same greeting with the bartender, completely unaware of any Unfortunate Implications. It doesn't go down so well. And when Lee is asked to repeat himself, he says it AGAIN, slowly and clearly... | |
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The Boondocks throws around "nigga" and "nigger" like no tomorrow, the episode "Granddad's Fight" using it a whopping 54 times alone. The appropriateness of its use (such as between blacks and whites) has been lampshaded a few times: In "The Garden Party", after Uncle Ruckus sings an incredibly racist song entitled "Don't Trust Them New Niggas Over There" for a bunch of rich white guests, the audience is shocked until one woman comments that she thinks it's okay for "them" (black people) to use the N-word. The audience then applauds politely. An entire episode called "The S-Word" parodies and deconstructs this trope. Riley and Granddad try to sue the school district, after a white teacher reflexively calls Riley "nigga". When Huey points out that they both use the word all the time, Granddad first denies doing so, then attempts to invoke N-Word Privileges and Appropriated Appellation as a justification. |
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IISuperwomanII: Lilly is proudly Indian, but that doesn't stop her from cracking jokes about her culture and heritage quite frequently. It's practically a Running Gag for her to make a snarky comment about an Indian stereotype, but preface it with, "I can say this because I'm Indian." | |
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The Good Fight has a scene where Adrian Boseman, a black lawyer appearing on a news show, is in a debate with a white panelist over whether there is racism against whites in America. When the newscaster overseeing the debate points out that black people can say the N-word in songs but he can't, Boseman just says, "So say it. Say the word you want to say." A lot of backtracking ensues. | |
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Adam Ruins Everything, in the episode "Adam Ruins Animals", two of the cats (represented by humans in costume) call each other "pussy". Adam claims it's OK when they say it, even though that's not the really true. | |
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The Good Place: Celestial entities from the Bad Place are annoyed whenever humans refer to them as demons, but they use that word to refer to themselves all the time. They also call entities from the Good Place angels without blinking, but it's a little unclear how the "angels" feel about that. Since the demons pretty much only do things to annoy people, they probably don't like it. | |
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VanossGaming & Company: This comes up a lot in their Cards Against Humanity videos, as BasicallyIDoWrk (Marcel) is the only black member of the crew. This leads to a few moments of the n-word privileges being raised: In one round, Tyler was reading out all the cards. When he came across one that said "I'M 100% NIGGA!", Marcel told him "I got you, Tyler". Marcel was saying that he would read the card himself, but Tyler thought that he was getting the all clear and went full speed ahead with it; during the resulting laughing fit, Marcel told the audience that Tyler gets a pass with the "Black stamp of approval". In another round, SMii7Y actually had Marcel join a game he wasn't originally in just so that he could get Marcel's written permission to say an n-word written on a card. He did get the permission before saying it, but Kryoz cut that part out of his own recording to make it look like he said it with no go-ahead. |
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Devotion (2022): Despite the film being set in 1950, the black protagonist Jesse Brown is the only character to use the N-word in the film. While this is in the context of him repeating past insults from white men as a Survival Mantra, no other character ever uses the word, including the racist Marine officer he tangles with a couple of times. | |
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In Fetch Clay, Make Man, Stepin Fetchit liberally employs "negro". Muhammad Ali vigorously objects to this. | |
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Ultimate X Men: Referenced, Fantastic Racism style. | |
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The Venture Bros.: In the episode "The Inamorata Consequence", during the 2nd Summit of The Treaty of Tolerance Between OSI and The Guild of Calamitous Intent, one of the OSI representatives brings up "good guys and bad guys", which infuriates The Phantom Limb, causing him to retort "Bad guys?! How DARE you!" The next episode, Dr. Mrs. The Monarch comfortably tells Watch & Ward "We're the bad guys. Let's own it, gentlemen", showing only the villains are put off by someone else calling them "bad guys". The In-universe preferred terms are "protagonists" and "antagonists". | |
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Kim's Convenience: Jung and Shannon go to a burger place run by Chinese staff, and they witness a funny conversation between the cashier and the cook. Jung recounts this to his co-workers and imitates their accents, which everyone laughs at. Then Shannon joins in and also imitates their accents, which everyone cringes at. She has to be told afterward that it's only okay for Jung to copy their accents because he's Asian like the burger staff, whereas it just sounds racist when coming out of Shannon who is white. | |
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Played with in Cabin Fever when a very redneck-looking man says his gun is "for niggers". The main characters are all thoroughly shocked and want to get away from him as soon as possible. Turns into a Brick Joke at the end of the movie when a bunch of Black guys show up and it is revealed that the white guy was just holding the gun for them and he really does have N-Word Privileges with them, since they're his friends. | |
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Rutherford Falls has a scene where a group of people of several different races and ethnicities discuss whether or not it's possible to truly seperate art from the artist, and how much an artist's identity and actions matter in the context of their work. A white man asks why it's unacceptable for him to say the n-word when rappers say it on the radio, and everyone there immediately shuts him down, with Nathan (also a white man) asking him why he'd even want to say it. | |
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Joe Jackson's "Real Men", released in 1982, features the lines "You don't want to sound dumb, don't want to offend, so don't call me a faggot, not unless you are a friend." Jackson himself came out as bisexual nearly 20 years after the song's release and explained that the song was based on his frustrations with people viewing sexuality as a straight/gay binary. | |
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The Summoner Trilogy: Subverted. Atilla at one point refers to some of his fellow dwarves as "half men," not in a reclaimed manner, but to simultaneously insult them for not being angrier at the humans and remind them of how many humans see them. Nowhere else is the term used by a dwarf. | |
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Played with in The Boondock Saints. Straight Gay detective Smecker acts like this in place and casually drops in homophobic slurs in conversation (including calling a one night stand a fag for cuddling), but the other gay men in the movie are clearly offended by it. | |
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The UK series of Big Brother 2007 ejected a housemate named Emily Parr because she had used the N-Bomb in conversation with fellow housemate Charley...who had also used it. Yet, Emily Parr was ejected, Charley remained. Charley was black, which is probably why she was allowed to get away with it. Of course similar controversies arose because she had also used the word and had used it several times throughout the series. (The incident in question happened early on.) | |
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iDubbbzTV averts as he freely admits that his style of humor is supposed to be offensive in nature and he finds himself desensitized to offensive words in general, saying them without missing a beat. He also doesn't judge the people in his Content Cop videos for using words that others would find offensive spoken outside of certain groups, unless they attempt to judge him for said words first. | |
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In Dope, Will comments that it doesn't seem fair that the main three can call him the word but he can't use it. He questions if Jib can say it, to which Jib cites that his DNA test says he's part African. | |
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On the Modern Family episode "Farm Strong", Clare tells Cam, given that he's from a farm in Missouri, that his sister was weird for bringing a pig to a party, which he takes offense to. | |
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When Sleeping With Sirens (which has a white singer) covered "Fuck You" by Cee Lo Green they didn't include the n-word. The previous line was repeated instead. | |
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In Disco Elysium, you can quote DMX's "Where the Hood At?" at one point at your Shivers skill, and it will quote you right back, but uses "brother" instead of "nigga". note In-universe, this is justified by most real-life slurs not existing in the game's Constructed World setting, including the N-word; the Elysium equivalent would be "kipt", which wouldn't go along with the lyrical flow. | |
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Baalbuddy: "Korone Don't Say It" has Korone Inugami singing N.W.A's "Fuck the Police." Pikamee is reacting in horror to Korone uttering the "gamer word" in the background. | |
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Undercover Brother. Conspiracy Brother (who is black) uses the N-word when talking to Conspiracy Brother, who is also black. None of the members of The Man's white supremacist organization (Mr. Feather, The Man himself, White She-Devil etc.) ever use the word, even though, being out-and-out racists, they logically would. | |
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Bamboozled has an in-character discussion of who is actually entitled to N-word privileges, based heavily on Spike Lee's personal gripe with Quentin Tarantino frequently using the word in most of his films. Wayans has a conversation with his white boss. The boss contrasts himself with the starch-suited, very carefully spoken, single and uptown-living Wayans, saying, "I have a black wife, black children, hell, I even used to live in the ghetto, so I feel I'm entitled to use that word". Wayans says he'd prefer his boss didn't, at which the boss scowls and proceeds to drop a cluster N-bomb, never at any point directing it at Wayans, just saying the word a lot. The scene (without apparent transition) then becomes a fantasy Wayans has of violently assaulting his boss and beating his face in all while screaming "Whitey! Whitey! Whitey!" | |
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Montel Vontavious Porter's song, Ghetto Strong Style, which he and Shelton Benjamin used as their tag team entrance music for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, makes liberal use of these privileges and includes a sampling of Booker T's infamous line. Also invoked and halfway defied in TNA, with his response to the inevitable, predictable criticism of his "Almighty Beat Down Clan" | |
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In Warhammer 40,000, mutants refer to each other as "twists", however a non-mutant use of the word is considered an insult. | |
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In Shadowrun, the word "trog" (short for "troglodyte," referring to orks and trolls) is used in much the same way as "nigger", including by certain orks and trolls who are trying to defang it. | |
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Blazing Saddles. The black characters in the movie use the N-word toward each other in a friendly manner, but all white characters who use it are stupid racists, including the little old lady. Mel Brooks stated that he intentionally wanted to overuse the word in the movie to the point that it became such nonsense that nobody could possibly be offended by it anymore. Screenwriter Richard Pryor and lead actor Cleavon Little actually had to reassure the actors who were not comfortable with the use of the word on set. Mel Brooks made a career of this. Hitler jokes would probably be a bad idea for most comedians, but a Jewish World War II veteran? He can cross the line so many times it looks like a one-man game of ping-pong, especially if he's making Jewish jokes. The kind of humor in Blazing Saddles would likely never fly with anyone other than Brooks and Pryor. |
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An example of privileges beings extended (sort of) to a out-group member from Brian's Song: during a workout/physical therapy session for his friend Gale Sayers (played by Billy Dee Williams), Brian Piccolo (played by James Caan) calls him a nigger, hoping to motivate Sayers by making him angry enough to forget his despondency over his low chances of recovery. As soon as he says it, Sayers stares at him, shocked, for a few seconds... then busts up laughing. | |
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In Valdez is Coming, Valdez does not like the various racial epithets that Tanner and his men casually hurl around ('nigger', 'coon', 'greaser', etc.), but he and his friend Diego have no problems in referring to themselves as 'greasers' when there are no Anglos about. | |
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Booker's promo took the #2 spot in the Kayfabe Commentaries "Wrestling's Most Botched" pollnote The Shockmaster was #1, obviously, in the video New Jack tells a funny story about dropping the n-bomb in a promo while working for SMW. | |
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Parodied by LoadingReadyRun in this CrapShot where Cam's character will let you know in uncertain terms that "racist" is "our word" and that he comes "from a long line of racists". | |
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Random Assault: One of Matt's friends regardless of race said "Fucking Niggas in the butt", in which a Hispanic woman who overheard it looked shocked and afraid. Kate often claims that Tony has granted her The Privileges. In fact, Tony mailed N-Word Privileges cards to all the hosts. | |
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Aquaman: Parodied in the second issue of Dark Nights: Metal, where Aquaman insists that only he is allowed to make fish jokes. | |
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In Down To Earth (2001), the main character tends to forget that he's a black man who's trapped in a white body. The first time he performs his regular comedy routine in his new body, the audience is shocked into silence. He later gets knocked out by a couple of black guys for singing N-word containing lyrics in public. | |
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Beached Az had the koalas that refer to everyone as "bear" but that's their word and the whale is not allowed to use it. | |
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The equivalent 'n-word' for Dwarfs is "lawn ornament" which is considered a capital insult for non-dwarfs but is used by one Dwarf boss to his crew in Moving Pictures. In Wyrd Sisters Hwel allows Vitoller to call him that, because they're old friends, but not anyone else ("Some things you earn"). | |
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Gran Torino: Averted by the otherwise Noble Bigot protagonist, Walter. When confronting some black gangsters, he refer to them as "spooks" even though it would have made more sense for a heavily racist man of his age to drop the n-word. Reviewers commented on it, saying it was obviously done that way because it would be incredibly hard for a white character to say that word in a modern film while still remaining sympathetic to the audience. | |
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Andy Sipowicz of NYPD Blue is a fairly mild - but still straight-up - racist in the show's early years (from a combination of his father's racist attitude influencing him, and his distaste at being placed undercover to infiltrate a left-leaning militant black group just after his return from Vietnam). He begins to get over it when he arrests a black man who taunts Sipowicz by saying that he is "dealing with a nigger who knows how the system works", causing Sipowicz to respond that he's "dealing with a nigger who's too dumb to know when someone's trying to help him." After the man's death, which Andy feels responsible for, Sipowicz apologizes to the man's young daughter for referring to her father with "that word". The man's wife coldly tells her daughter to remember that Sipowicz was "the man that called your daddy a nigger", causing Sipowicz to later emotionally lament the woman "telling that little girl to hate me", and also realize that his attitude is helping perpetuate the cycle. No one, apparently, objects to the man's original self-applied use of the word. | |
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The Mick: Sabrina gets a lot of flack in one episode over reciting a rap song by Biggie Smalls, as this includes the n word. | |
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Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me: With the n-word in question being "nerd". That is, host Peter Sagal claims the right to make fun of nerds due to being one himself. He says the same of jokes about Jews and New Jersey. | |
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Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I.: Dan finds the off-color monster jokes of his BHF (Best Human Friend) McGoo objectionable, but has no problem with the vampire jokes in Tiffany's open-mike comedy routine. When McGoo complains about the inconsistency, Dan points out that, being a vampire herself, Tiffany is "allowed" to tell jokes like that. | |
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Boyz n the Hood: Subverted. The black police officer Coffey uses the N-word freely... because he's a terrifying Boomerang Bigot who hates other blacks. When he uses it, it's with genuine mal intent. | |
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In A Straight Line Down Through the Heart, Cassie objects to Tom and Bonnie calling themselves "zombies" at first, but after they explain that it's nowhere near as bad as the other slurs for ex-hosts, Cassie concludes that it's okay for them to say it because they were Controllers for so long; Jake's parents are a grey area because they were only hosts for a few months, while she and Jake shouldn't say it at all because they were only briefly infested. | |
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Hell's Kitchen: Bret calls himself an "emotional ass n-word". Many fans were shocked at this to say the least. | |
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt had Virgil White doing several jokes about Native American stereotypes ("We wanted you to come back with us. That's why we came all this way in the great iron eagle. I'm kidding. I know what planes are. I was in the Air Force."). | |
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South Park spoofs this in the episode "It Hits The Fan" (also known as the "shit" episode because they say shit 162 times), with Mr. Garrison explaining that even though they could all say "shit" without getting bleeped, he was the only one who could say "fag", since he is gay. Uncle Jimbo then inadvertently outed himself by saying "fag" without getting bleeped. (In a later episode, everyone can say "fag" without being bleeped as long as they're only using it as a generic insult and not a homophobic slur.) | |
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For trolls, the equivalent slur is "rock". In Soul Music, Lias Bluestone explains to Imp y Celyn that humans should be rather careful about how they use the term. Imp, being an outsider, naively said "I don't like rocks" in reference to actual stones, so Lias gives him a pass for being Innocently Insensitive rather than, as would usually be the case, making him go a few blocks away to look for his head. | |
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Kendrick Lamar mentions this in his song "Auntie Diaries". In "Euphoria", a diss track towards Drake, Kendrick says he cringes when Drake uses the word, and ends the song with a refrain "we don't wanna hear you say nigga no more", citing both Drake's biracial background, and upbringing in Canada, which in Kendrick's eyes separates Drake from the same heritage as black people in the United States. |
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In Rifts' Underseas, members of the Amphib race (humanoid mutants with fish- or frog-like features) are sometimes teased with names like "Froggy" or "Fish Face" as children. But since Amphibs have been accepted in Tritonian society since before the Great Cataclysm, it's treated as no big deal, and something that the kids eventually outgrow. In other words, Tritonia has F-Word Privileges. | |
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Blindspotting: Ashley and Miles have a serious talk with their son Sean in Season 2 about this. Even though he has black ancestry, they tell Sean not to say it until he's 14 (and then only affectionately with other black people) as he won't understand fully until then. They explain that, due to the US' history of racism, other uses just aren't acceptable (even by Miles, who's white). | |
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Does Not Play Well With Others: Naga's Twitch stream gets flagged and demonitized due a complaint she was using a slur: "Naga". The person who made the inital complaint turned out to be another naga streamer, intentionally abusing the system to harm a competitor. | |
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Rat-Man: Utterly spoofed, where Brakko, who's black, is always at the receiving end of horribly racist insults from his mother-in-law... Who is black too but thinks she's white, and only gets away with her insults because nobody has quite figured out how to point that out to her. | |
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Deep Cover: Played with. Lt. Carver interviews three different black police officers to see if they can be recruited for his undercover program by bluntly asking each of them "What's the difference between a black man and a nigger?". The first one tries to awkwardly answer the question thus showing that he's too docile, the second one flies into a rage which shows that he's too easily provoked, but the third calmly tells him "only a nigger would answer that question" to show him as more cunning and diplomatic than the previous two. At the end of the film, he does repeat the question and punches Carver in the stomach. | |
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Family Guy: Parodied in Family Guy Presents: Laugh It Up, Fuzzball where Lois and Peter's recreation of Leia and Han's sniping from the start of The Empire Strikes Back ends with Lois calling Peter a "nerf herder"... at which point Peter punches her in the face and yells, "You can't use that word! Only we can use that word!" Shortly after that, we see Peter and Brian are playfully calling each other "my nerf herder". In the "April in Quahog" episode, everyone thinks the world is ending so they're living for the moment. Peter tells Lois that he's going to go to a majority black neighborhood and shout "the you-know-what word"note In the DVD version, he outright says "the N-word" and shows him arriving in said black neighborhood about to say it. to see what happens. He returns wearing Requisite Royal Regalia and a sash that reads "King of the Black People", informing Lois "They respected me for saying it". In one episode, there's a cutaway gag referencing Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, wherein Jim chastises him for saying "our word". Peter apologizes, saying he thought it was his name. He then asks, "Can you pass me that oar, N-Word Jim?" Jim politely thanks him and hands him the oar without fuss. |
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Ash vs. Evil Dead: Ash's mean boss believes he's allowed to call Ash a "retard" because his "gardener is a huge one". | |
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The hosts of Queer Eye routinely call themselves and each other "fag", "queen" and so on, while the straight guys they make over stick with "gay". (Even the title was a bit edgy at the time the show premiered, since positive uses of "queer" weren't much heard in the straight world outside of academia.) | |
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In one episode of How I Met Your Mother Marshall says 'something' that offends his travel buddy Daphne, and she is shown yelling "You don't get to call us that! Only we're allowed to call ourselves that!" To which he responds "...I'm sorry I called you a Trekkie." | |
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Atlanta: Alfred explicitly asks the Ambiguously Brown Zan "Are you even black?" when Zan casually uses the word. Zan says that yes, he is. | |
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Key & Peele has a sketch which is an advertisement for a smartphone app called the "negraph", which examines the darkness or lightness of the user's skin and determines whether they have N-word privileges. Dark-skinned individuals and families cheerfully announce, "We can say it!" while a white man in a suit and tie announces, just as cheerfully, "Not a chance! I'd like to, but now I know I can't." | |
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Sidemen: Only the two black members, KSI and TBJZL, are allowed to say the N-word. This is apparent whenever they play Cards Against Humanity, as whenever there's a card that contains the N-word, they will let any of the two who is participating in the session to say the word regardless of who the current Card Czar is. Should neither JJ nor Tobi participate in the session, then the others will censor the N-word as "Nigel" instead. In one non-Sidemen video, Simon decided to work around this by smearing Nutella on his face, going up to JJ, and saying the N-word to his face (which got bleeped out). JJ promptly broke down laughing. (They are lifelong best friends, by the way.) |
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In Artemis Fowl, Foaly notes that it is only acceptable to call a fairy by their species name if the speaker is a close friend. This presumably glances off the real-world use of "fairy" as an insulting term for homosexual males. (There are no concerted attempts by gay men to reclaim that word.) | |
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Subverted in The American Society of Magical Negroes; Aren the protagonist is black, but is uncomfortable saying the society's full name out loud. | |
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black•ish: One episode revolves around this discussion after Jack gets in trouble for saying the word while singing "Gold Digger" (uncensored) at a school talent show. Whether or not it was okay for him to use the word in public even though he's black is debated back and forth, as well as who else can say it (Dre angrily argues that white people are trying to punish his child because they're jealous of his N-Word Privileges. The school principal, who is also black, feels that the school's no tolerance for hate speech policy should apply to everyone). It's mentioned at one point that certain Latinos can say the word if they're street enough (Fat Joe is allowed, Ricky Martin is not). In the end, Dre comes to understand that the word has different meanings to other people (including other black people) and it's best that it not be used in mixed company while the school lets Jack off the hook since he clearly wasn't using the word with hateful intent. | |
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In Dirty Grandpa, Robert De Niro's character sings "It Was a Good Day" on Karaoke. When he gets to the n-word in the song he asks for permission from the black people in the audience, who all cheer him on. | |
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Trans Girl Next Door: Kylie, a trans woman, gets mad at a waiter who misgenders her friend, another trans woman. While discussing the matter, Kylie playfully calls her friend "bro", and the two girls laugh about it. | |
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Strontium Dog: In one story, Johnny and Wulf receive some information from a fellow Bounty Hunter, Cecil 'Frog' Parsons. Wulf thanks him for this, referring to him as 'Frog', which causes Frog to fly into a rage about people who refer to him by his mutation instead of his name. Wulf apologizes, and then Johnny gives Frog a payment for the info, also calling him 'Frog'. When Wulf asks why he didn't get angry at Johnny, Frog matter-of-factly points out that Johnny is also a mutant, so it's different. | |
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Parodied in Gravity Falls with Show Within a Show Duck-Tective, where the eponymous duck detective shares a Bond One-Liner with his penguin partner: | |
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Cobra Kai: Discussed. | |
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