[a character holds and points at a book while speaking]
Of course I agree racism is bad
Anyway here’s my fantasy novel
[on the book’s cover, a lord watches over chained up slaves, and the book’s title reads]
What If Racism And Slavery Were Good Actually, The Book
https://thebad.website/comic/apolitical_fantasy
“Don’t you see? They’ll never get anywhere on their own!” A real thing an old man told me 🫠
I’m curious about any examples because I haven’t seen any similar book yet.
The Harry Potter series
Genuinely 75% of popular fantasy.
Be glad that you don’t have the type of mind that likes to think about the deeper implications of a setting’s worldbuilding.
Harry Potter, Chronicles of Gor, Wheel of Time, Chronicles of Narnia, Drizzt, Dungeon & Dragons, Conan the Barbarian, Twilight, Dragonlance, Redwall, every Isekai, the Belgariad… I’m actually having a harder time thinking of popular fantasy titles/series that don’t fit the trope. Even Tolkien confessed he struggled morally with the way he was portraying Orcs (but seemingly had no issue with the essentialism of other races), although he’s not a strong offender in this regard.
