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The Space Jew is an alien, monster, animal, or other nonhuman creature that embodies stereotypical aspects of a real-world racial, ethnic, or religious stereotype, whether Jewish, black, Asian, white or whatever. Sometimes this trope is played intentionally, while other times it might simply be a subconscious or accidental move on the part of the authors.

Compare Fantastic Racism, Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?. Often overlaps with National Animal Stereotypes, when an animal that is traditionally associated with the country will be portrayed as a stereotypical person of that nation. See also Unfortunate Implications.

Don't mix this trope up with Fantasy Counterpart Culture, which deals with fantasy/sci-fi cultures that stand in for real life cultures but don't necessarily exhibit the stereotypes of whomever they are standing in for.

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Not to be confused with Space Amish, Space Cossacks, Space Romans, Space Elves or actual JEWS IN SPACE! Actual religious practices in a non-Earth setting would be more in-line with Crystal Dragon Jesus than this.

Compare National Animal Stereotypes.

Again: This trope is not about actual Jewish people in or from outer space!

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Anime & Manga

Comic Books

The Dominators, in DC Comics' Invasion! and subsequent appearances. Yellow skin, huge sharp teeth, bony clawed fingers, they resemble nothing so much as the Golden Age Yellow Claw except they have red circles on their foreheads.

In Fritz the Cat, crows stand in for black or African American people and rats stand in for Chinese people. The former carries over into the two movies.

In Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures fantasy novels, the race of "deveels" are hard-bargaining master traders and look like traditional red-skinned hoofed devils. When Phil Foglio adapted the first tome in the series as a comic book, he tossed in a lot of Jewish references and got hit with enough complaints that he (sort of) apologized in a later issue.

Fully intentional: Maus by Art Spiegelman. Since the trope is Invoked, it gets played with a lot, most notably in the later acts of the story where the teller begins to lose track of which characters were mice and which were cats as moral complexities are introduced to the situation.

Top 10: Robots are treated as urban low-income communities, listening to a hip-hop derivative called "scrap" music, and frequently being accused of taking people's jobs (a la illegal immigrants). They are called clickers by bigots, a term borrowed from the film Creation Of The Humanoids. The Forty Niners has vampires with vaguely Italian or Russian qualities (they claim to be Hungarians), to fit with their Generic Ethnic Crime Gang image. Smax: In Jeff's home universe, elves are treated much like Romani (he accuses them of abducting children and swindling people) while his dwarfish adopted parents resemble Jewish Alter Kocker stereotypes.



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Fan Works

Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Their version of Jeice is from Space Australia, which appears to have everything Earth Australia has, only more... spacey, such as Space Dingos. Any character who has an unusual skin color is likely to be treated as being African American. Piccolo is the most prominent example, but any Namekian, Android 15, and Mr. Popo (who is literally black) also get in on it. Dr. Briefs: Finally we're rid of all those dang n- Bulma: DAD! Dr. Briefs: I was going to say "Namekians". Bulma: [ Beat ] No you weren't. Dr. Briefs: No I wasn't.

Ultra Fast Pony portrays Fluttershy as a former slave with the vocal mannerisms of a Stepin Fetchit. She only listens to blues music, and insists that only other pegasi have P-word privileges. Oddly, the "pegasi as African Americans" metaphor isn't consistently applied to the rest of the cast: the other pegasus in the main cast, Rainbow Dash, is a Valley Girl instead.

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Literature

Live-Action TV

Podcasts

The Thrilling Adventure Hour lampshades this trope with the martians. They celebrate a holiday called Han-oo'Kah and their rite of passage for younglings is named B'at-mit zvah for females and B'ar-mit zvah for men. Interstingly, they also invert this trope. Commander Gene Peeples has none of the stereotypes associated with Jews, but when Pemily Stallwark wants to give him a gift for space-Christmas, he replies that he is space-Jewish. She then offers it as a gift for space-Hanukkah instead and he accepts.

Radio

The titular characters of The Space Gypsy Adventures are practically anthropomorphic fox versions of Roma in space.

Tabletop Games

The Star Wreck Role-Playing Game takes a stab at Space Gypsies: The Ferrets are a disgusting culture who look like chimpanzees made up as Prince Charles. They dress in scarves, gold jewelry, vests, and caftans, and often act as travelling thieves, peddlers, or money-lenders. The PR department of the Ferret Corporation is quick to point out that they have no connection with any possible stereotypes of any ancient Earth cultures. None whatsoever. The very idea is insulting. Then they will try to cheat you out of your money, the little bastards.

Warhammer 40,000: Aside from being the "Predators of the 40k Universe", the Kroot are heavily based on stereotypical Native Americans in looks, to the point that one of their legendary chief's name translates to "Sitting Krootox". Being of a lower-than-average technology level (albeit still possessing technology from firearms to FTL travel) doesn't make things better. They also play on the belief once prevalent in many tribal cultures (most famously the Iroquois) that eating a defeated enemy allows you to absorb their strength. Their Bizarre Alien Biology lets the Kroot absorb DNA from their meals into their own genetic code. "Together, we will eat them all!" The Death Korps of Krieg is a World War I-themed Imperial Guard army. They are ruthless, dehumanised soldiers specialised in trench warfare who are absolutely disciplined, will always follow orders to the letter, and have little regard for human life, similar to how the Germans were depicted in British propaganda. Similarly, the Valhallans are based heavily on Russian stereotypes, iceworlders who tend to rely on massive artillery barrages and human wave tactics. Also the same affinity for Tea.

Warhammer: The Beastmen, according to Word of God, are based on how Roman writers who didn`t show them as Noble Savages portrayed Germanic tribes: a horde of stupid, smelly, civilization-hating thugs who wanted to tear down Rome for no real reason.

Werewolf: The Apocalypse features a variety of werewolf tribes that players had to select from, relating to the ethnic stereotypes of their homelands. Just to drive the point totally home, they have powers relating to those stereotypes. So the Irish Fianna have powers relating to drinking, the Shadow Lords (both Japanese and Eastern European, somehow) are ruthless, deceptive and power-hungry, and the Bone Gnawers (ghetto-dwellers, including African-Americans) are poor and despised. The World of Darkness explains this by asserting that mythological creatures are the origin of various racial and ethnic stereotypes.

Twilight Imperium: One of the races players can choose from is the "Emirates of Hacan." Reading the fluff on the back of their race card reveals that they are the trade masters of the galaxy, having secured vast riches from sales of opiates and other narcotics that grow exclusively on their homeworlds (they have 3). This description, combined with their in game abilities to stockpile ridiculous amounts of Trade Goods has led them to being colloquially named by players "Lion Space Jews."

Theater

Richard Wagner is often accused of this, with entire books dedicated to finding anti-Semitic stereotypes in his operas. Most Wagner scholars today would agree that Klingsor from Parsifal was intended as this trope. Other Wagner villains considered to be Space Jews are the Nibelungs (dwarfs who mine gold underground and are led by the Big Bad), specifically Alberich and Mime, from Der Ring des Nibelungen, though the evidence there is considerably weaker and it's less widely-accepted. The Nazis considered Alberich's son, Hagen, who impales Siegfried in the back to retrieve the ring in Götterdämmerung, as a personification of Jews, while they considered Siegfried as a pure Aryan-blooded hero. They also loved his music, and Wagner was admittedly antisemitic.

Video Games

Web Animation

The web video, found on Newgrounds , is called We Are Native American Cats, which has domestic cats represent Native Americans.

, is called We Are Native American Cats, which has domestic cats represent Native Americans. Jeice in Dragon Ball Z Abridged speaks in a very stereotypical Australian accent. He claims to be from Space Australia, specifically space Brisbane.

Web Comics

Web Original

Parodied by The Onion here , where a self-help guru encourages people to fight stress by envisioning it as a greedy, hook-nosed race of fantasy creatures.

Western Animation