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When most writers want to write about discrimination and oppression, they stick to real-world examples — after all, there are plenty of those. Some writers, however, wonder: "What if it were the other way around?" What if Black Africans had enslaved Europeans? What if India had colonised Britain, or the Aztecs had colonised Spain (perhaps giving rise to a Modern Mayincatec Empire)? What if women had all the power and men had to Stay in the Kitchen? And so on and so forth. There may be a semi-plausible Alternate History explanation for the switch, but just as often it simply is that way. Often this is not just an interesting what-if, but a way of making a point, saying to the privileged group "well, how would you like it if...?" This tends to be Anvilicious, though not always in a bad way. The message may also be that power corrupts, and no matter who's on top, things will always suck for the group on the bottom, and discrimination of any kind is wrong. On the other hand, in certain cases the barbarism of the now-powerful group can be played up too much and the whole thing can seem as though it came out of some dislike or distrust of the group in question ("Look how much worse things would be if they were in charge"). Or, alternatively, the work may be disparaging towards the now-oppressed group (which is usually an Acceptable Target due to being in power in the real world), and suggest that they deserve to be treated badly. Compare Just the Introduction to the Opposites, Turned Against Their Masters, Black Like Me, Color Me Black, and Humans Are Not the Dominant Species. Also compare Cycle of Revenge, which operates on similar "logic" (punishing those who have hurt you, regardless of the [moral] consequences), but typically happens on a smaller scale than entire ethnic groups, religions, etc. and tends to revolve more quickly (with aggressor and victim flip-flopping more often). The Other Wiki has more information on this concept, particularly in real life. |
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Predator: An alien hunts humans like humans hunt animals, down to butchering, skinning, and taking their skulls as trophies. Not even the top training and weapons of the mercenary protagonists are a match to his superior technology. | |
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Planet of the Apes involves apes keeping humans in cages and using them for experiments. | |
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"Cows Taking Over" is a Terminator spoof, except the Bad Future the time travelers come from is not dominated by machines, but cows (cows became the dominant species after all humans went vegan). | |
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In Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), Spider-Man travels to a Gender Flipped world. Spider-Girl (real name Petra Parker) is a bit disdainful of a boy taking on her title, there's a reference to Georgia Washington, and the female Green Goblin mocks Peter, so it can be assumed that sexism went the other way in this universe. Interestingly, both of these tropes combined means that the same people still discriminated against the same people throughout history. | |
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Race-swapped or "photonegative" productions of Othello are not unknown, most famously a 1997 production in Washington DC with Patrick Stewart in the title role and all other roles played by black actors. | |
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In Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, after a disease kills off a large percentage of the male population, feudal Japan becomes a female-dominated society, with women as leaders and warriors and men viewed as sex objects too delicate to fight (or farm, or fish, or...).note The country is trying to get back to its usual male-dominated feudalism, but by the time a cure is finally found, over ten arcs of political strife and backstabbing have made the female-dominant nobility too resilient to remove from power, and they move onto the next big oppression; foreigners. | |
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Zanna, Don't! (being gay is normal; being straight is stigmatized). The play makes reference to the use of surrogate mothers, sperm donors etc. explaining how they reproduce. | |
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In Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, when two white government agents shoot a time-travelling Abraham Lincoln, who's covering the Teens' escape in a wooden rocket (doesn't make much sense in-context, either), they suddenly find themselves tied to a horse-cart with a black slave driver cracking a whip at them. | |
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In Double Homework, when he goes to summer school (the real one), the protagonist, a famous jock, needs someone to rescue him from bullies. Lampshaded in the conversation that he has afterwards with his rescuer, Marco. | |
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Piecing Together the Ashes: Reconstructing the Old World Order: In the centuries since the Deluge, the states that have emerged from the devastated Europe have become satellites and colonies of the new, more powerful nations of Africa. | |
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Rick and Morty: In "Lawnmower Dog", dogs gain super-intelligence from one of Rick's creations and rebel against humans, turning the survivors into pets. | |
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In Spartacus the gladiators capture some Roman slavers and force them to fight for the rebellious slaves' amusement. | |
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A variation in Cowboys & Aliens; even though it is not the Native Americans doing the oppressing, the white Americans still find out what it's like to be completely outmatched by an invading army they could not have imagined and getting their people captured/wiped out and their land ravaged. The tie-in comic makes it far less subtle by having a white American loudly saying the aliens "can't do that just because they've got better weapons", then receiving a dirty look from a Native. | |
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Ultra Fast Pony gets weird with its Fantastic Racism. Fluttershy is a former slave, and the institution of slavery in Equestria is clearly a reference to slavery in the US. Now that she's freed, Fluttershy is actually angry that slavery was completely abolished, because she wants to have slaves of her own. She tries to make the animals her slaves instead, but she's "just so bad with animals!" | |
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In an episode of Tripping the Rift ("You Wanna Put That Where?") the crew find themselves on a gay planet where heterosexuals are condemned to die. They escape punishment by putting the community's leader as straight as a distraction, then presumably leave him to die. | |
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New Warriors: One storyline has a woman, who is in love with the cosmic-powered supervillain Sphinx, manage to alter reality so that Egypt is a major world power and has colonized America (the country is called United States of Assyria in this reality). Blacks are the dominant social group, while whites are treated more or less like blacks in our reality. Consequently, all the superheroes that have gotten their powers through special equipment or scientific accidents are black, including the Fantastic Four and The Avengers, with Nova being the Token White Avenger. The X-Men and related mutant characters are unchanged though, and in this reality are doubly-oppressed. | |
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The background for Hypnosis Mic states that once women were in charge of the government, the men were made second-class and forced to live in towns outside of the capital. | |
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Jeremiah: The comic had many Native Americans forming nation-states in post-apocalyptic America, who conducted raids on mostly-Caucasian settlements for slaves and resources. | |
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DeviantArt artist RvBOMally has made several Alternate History maps exploring this concept: The Black Man's Burden depicts a world where African civilizations became advanced colonial powers, while plagues kept Europe a backwater, leading to Africa colonizing Europe and the rise of four competing blocs: The League of Kings led by Monomotopa, the Collectivists led by Kemet, the Global Independence League led by the United Commonwealths, and the Grand League for Order and Security led by Anziku. The Yellow Man's Burden is similar to the above, but applied to Asians. The Point of Divergence is Ögedei Khan living a decade longer and allowing the Mongol Empire to expand into Europe, devastating Continental Europe and paving the way for Far Eastern civilizations to become major colonial empires, complete with a Japanese-speaking US-analogue. |
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Futurama: Chapek 9, the planet inhabited by robot separatists who hunt for any humans that may visit. Their movie industry includes spoofs of 50's monster films about humans coming from outer space to attack robots. "Spanish Fry" reveals that "human horn" (noses) is considered an aphrodisiac by some alien races and that there are poachers who illegally abduct humans and steal their noses to sell. This is an obvious reference to the myth that rhinoceros horn is consumed in Asia as an aphrodisiac (it's actually sold as a cure-all remedy and status symbol, with some consumers fully knowing it does nothing except show others that they have the money to buy it). |
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Code Geass involves Japan being occupied by the harsh Holy Britannian Empire, ironically mirroring Imperial Japan's escapades during World War II. | |
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Black Science: One alternate reality seen in an early issue depicts Native Americans with advanced technology invading and in the process of conquering Europe. | |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: Gloria is disappointed when she realizes that Moto-Moto only wants to date her because she is fatter than other female hippos. The message about not reciprocating suitors who are only interested in your looks is clear. | |
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Shadowrun: With the resurgence of magic, various Native Americans take the initiative of their newfound Shaman powers and conquer a sizable portion of mid-northwest America, turning it into a coalition of Native American states. Unfortunately, they proceed to treat 'non-natives' as second-class citizens at best and target practice at worst. Ute in particular is extremely anti-Angelo, and has suffered economically as a direct resultnote deporting all the non-Native Americans means deporting the engineers and businessmen maintaining the infrastructure. The Philippine anti-Japanese resistance Huk seeks to liberate Imperial Japan conquered areas, especially an island ghetto dedicated to torturing as many non-humans as possible. Unfortunately, their ranks also include terrorists and gang lords, who are eager to capitalize on the liberated areas and kill any Japanese citizens on their way through. |
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Manly Guys Doing Manly Things has a strip where Mad Max makes a homophobic comment at a barbecue, only to learn that he is the only person there who isn't openly bisexual. He is promptly run through persecution-flipped versions of various stock homophobic lines: "that's unnatural", "he just hasn't met the right guy yet", etc. | |
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A deleted song from Mary Poppins tells the story of the Chimpanzoo, a zoo where humans are locked up in cages for the animals to look at. | |
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House of M: In the miniseries, Wanda creates a new world through her reality-warping powers where mutants are the dominant species and humans are deemed second-class citizens and given the slur "Sapes." Most notably, Magneto and his family rule Genosha as an aristocracy, and super-powered individuals like Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel are only tentatively accepted as equals to mutants. | |
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Family Guy: One of Peter's many identical ancestors was an African slave, Nate Griffin. The flashback showing his enslavement reveals that Peter's friends Joe and Quagmire also have identical African ancestors that were friends with Nate and were enslaved and taken to America with him. On the other hand, the remaining friend (Token Black Cleveland) appears in the flashback as his identical white ancestor: the very man who went to Africa and enslaved them. Brian and Stewie briefly become trapped in an alternate universe where anthropomorphized dogs are the dominant species, the Griffin family are dogs and Brian is their pet human. When the human Brian learns they come from a dimension with dominant humans, he hijacks their ride back, but is run over by a car soon after they arrive. |
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In Jyu-Oh-Sei, the Penal Colony planet of Chimera is controlled by four "Rings" (Night, Ochre, Sun, and Blanc) which are primarily divided by skin color. When Thor and Rai are sent there, the Blanc Ring is least powerful of the four, and thus the formerly pampered twins (who are about as white as one can possibly be without having Albinism) find themselves at the bottom of the social ladder | |
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