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In essence, Humans Are Bastards is the reverse of Rousseau Was Right — the natural proclivity of humanity is towards selfishness, apathy and violence. Only a select few people manage to rise above their base nature to become something better, but they are the exception that proves the norm: that the kernel of darkness is still In the Blood. When Humans Are Bastards is in effect, even your "heroes" don't have clean hands, so most conflict is gray against black, with some gray against gray or black against black on for variety. Frequently used by Omnicidal Maniacs as an argument in favor of a Class 3a Apocalypse. Humans being bastards doesn't preclude them being pragmatic about it, so if there isn't a profit to be made by making the world a hellhole, they might not, but if conditions are tolerable it certainly isn't due to any inborn altruism on the part of those in charge. Appeals to people's better nature will not work. Don't expect to see anyone shame the mob — idealism has no place here. Any successful do-gooders will be very, very cynical and paranoid, as the genuinely hopeful will inevitably become embittered if they're not killed outright. Very, very far down the cynical side of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism, and all but guarantees a Crapsack World if this is true of the majority of the population. Comedies are black. Dramas are depressing. Beware of Too Bleak, Stopped Caring. Compare Crapsack World, Black-and-Gray Morality. Compare World of Jerkass, where all the characters are jerks, but there isn't necessarily a moral about humanity at large. Hobbes Was Right often makes an appearance, proposing that if the bastardy of humanity is a constant, the most effective form of government is tyranny. On the other hand, the exact opposite stance may be taken as well: if humans are inherently bastards, then it's no use giving any of them power, because they will all inevitably abuse it. Contrast Humans Are Good, Rousseau Was Right and White-and-Grey Morality. See also Humans Are Flawed, which takes the middle road by acknowledging humanity's shortcomings while not underplaying their potential capacity for virtue. For settings where humans are depicted as bastards compared to other sapient species, see Humans Are the Real Monsters. Remember, In-Universe Examples Only. We don't need any elaboration of all the bad things humans have done. noreallife |
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Aquaman (2018): Orm openly despises humans and openly whom he blames for the polluting the seas and overfishing marine wildlife. As such, he believes that the only way to preserve Atlantis and save the environment is to wipe out humanity. He is also a pureblooded extremist who hates his half-brother Arthur Curry for being the son of the late Queen Atlanna and a surface-dweller. | |
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"Savages" by Marina Diamandis, as the title might imply, is about the animalistic nature of humans. | |
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In Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, Batman threatens to blow up all of Apokolips with its own Weapons of Mass Destruction if Darkseid does not release Supergirl from his mind control. Darkseid doesn't believe him because the codes to those weapons are encrypted, but when Batman reveals he's cracked those codes, Darkseid flies into a rage, kicks Batman's ass... and congratulates him, believing that Batman would have went through it with it for one simple reason — humans kill each other all the time and are capable of anything. Unlike most other examples, Darkseid intends this as a compliment. | |
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Worm. Two-thirds of people who gain powers are villains. The heroes have their own problems, with very few of them straight-forwardly heroic. Most authority figures are, at best, apathetic, incompetent or more obsessed with PR than doing good. People are not always able to set aside their differences and unite even in the face of great troubles, all the way up to armageddon-in-progress. | |
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Penny Dreadful: City of Angels: Magda believes this, and that they all just need a "push" to become monsters. She serves in that role, tempting them into violence. | |
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The eponymous Dr. Horrible laments that most humans are sheep and can't think for themselves. Obviously, only a complete overhaul of the system can fix this problem. Captain Hammer really only exemplifies this trope. | |
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, which is an actual reality show based off the now in-universe Danganronpa franchise, and currently in its 53rd season (or 50th, since it had to have started with Danganronpa 4 at the earliest). The entire audience cares nothing about how everyone in the killing game felt, as they take pleasure in their misery. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny, the Earth Alliance jumps straight to the Nuclear Option at the first opportunity. That opportunity was given them to ZAFT renegades dropping a colony on Earth. This is what motivates the antagonist from the sequel to enact The Plan to prevent such things from happening again, because he agreed humans became bastards as a result of their hatreds. The big difference between him and Le Creuset is that he believes he can fix humanity, rather than simply give up on it as a lost cause. | |
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Humans in Dragon Age live in rather dysfunctional kingdoms and Empires, enslaved the elven race, and many are more interested in pursuing or preserving their own scraps of power while ignoring the blight of the Darkspawn. | |
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In The Walking Dead, the worst threats to the survivors of the Zombie Apocalypse are other survivors. Sometimes it's more Humans Are Morons. | |
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Lord of the Flies is the purest possible example of this trope. The characters' failure to govern themselves is merely a symptom of a deeper problem. Many of them come to fear an alien "beast" that threatens their society. However, when the pig-head of Simon's vision says the monster was within the boys all along and later when the survivors are "rescued" by a military ship, it becomes clear that the book is an allegory of the idea that the root of conflict between people is their own inherent corruption. | |
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The Interim Coalition of Governance (the ruling government of humanity) from Xeelee Sequence is like Oceania, but with better technology and on an interstellar scale. They would make the Imperium recoil in disgust. One of their worse atrocities is they spent the lives of trillions of Child Soldiers in a gamble to get rid of the Xeelee from their Galaxy and become the dominant lifeforms in the Universe. They are so xenocidal they have exterminated many aliens for getting in their way and reduced those who surrendered to a fate worse then death. They commit countless atrocities not because of Godzilla Threshold or Dirty Business, they commit them just so they can fill the wound made in their shattered egos made during the occupation from the Qax. They are hypocrites and liars who turned the societies under their rule into a totalitarian Crapsack World to make their people suffer and channel their suffering and hate towards the Xeelee, who are trying to save them from the Photino Birds. When the Coalition finally drove the Xeelee out of the Milky Way, they immediately fell into civil war before being unified by another tyrannical regime which also quickly collapsed. | |
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It's unclear how intentional it is but Nineteen-Ninety-Something does not shy away from showing how so many of life's problems could be solved or outright avoided if people weren't such selfish bastards to one another. It's telling that the protagonists largely consist of a bunch of trouble making delinquents and are still among the most morally correct characters in the comic. | |
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This seems to be a recurring theme in the Fire Emblem series in general, both played straight and subverted: Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light has the Dolhr Empire formed explicitly to oppress the human race for wronging the Manaketes in the past. Gotoh had lost all faith in humanity because of this until he met Marth. Digging a little deeper in Shadow Dragon and Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War's backstories had Dragons ruling the world before weakening while the humans became stronger, eventually resulting in dragons being overran by humans courtesy of Naga. This shows up a couple of ways in the Elibe duology. In Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade, dragons and manaketes were driven out a millennium ago in a brutal war known as "The Scouring" and ally with the game's human Big Bad, who decided that humanity should be wiped out because his dad kept trying to kill him. The second (prequel) game, Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, reveals in its prologue that humans were the ones who began the Scouring and does not take an approving tone; Eliwood remarks on and acknowledges at the end of the game that it was wrong for the humans to try to take the continent for themselves. Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones had the Five Heroes of Magvel take all of the credit for sealing away Fomortiis and omit Morva from their exploits of saving the world, and the humans of Darkling Woods who do know the truth are rightfully pissed. The heroes apologize for their short-sightedness and promise to change this. Ironically Morva himself is more interested in guarding the Demon King. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn have a lot of racism and outright violence towards the Laguz, including but not limited to the Serenes Massacre. Even some of the hero's companions are initially racist and distrusting of the Laguz, and some of the Laguz are just as distrusting of the Beorc. It takes two whole games for the tensions to truly begin to heal between Laguz and Beorc, and many support conversations and acts of heroism to soften the initial racists. Lastly, Fire Emblem: Awakening, a distant sequel to Shadow Dragon has the Taguel, rabbit people who were apparently genocided by humans with unknown motives in a vaguely defined incident. The apparent last taguel, Panne accuses Emmeryn, the leader of a human nation, out on this, but softens when Emmeryn apologizes for the behavior of her race. Ironically though the supposed Taguel prejudice is never seen at all, not even with the villains! Yet the heroes of the series are always the opposite of this trope, proving to their cynical Half-Human Hybrid companions that despite the atrocities committed by their ancestors, someone is always willing to change things for the better so that all races can live in peace. |
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Angel goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, determined to take down the evil law firm Wolfram & Hart once and for all. He finds an elevator he thinks will take him to W&H's "Home Office" and their senior partners. On the way down seemingly to Hell, the undead W&H lawyer Holland Manners appears telling him his fight against them and evil itself is pointless. The elevator doors open to reveal they are still on Earth and that Earth is the home office. It is because evil lives in the heart of every human being. This revelation completely demoralizes Angel. | |
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This is discussed in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Ocelot makes a note of this whenever you ask for his briefing about the Soviet soldiers. He notes on how the troops will not hesitate to pull the trigger if the opposition isn't one of their own, as he puts it. Venom Snake, via through one of the cassette tapes, makes a remark on how Hot Coldman is proven wrong about humanity's goodness by thinking that they would allow themselves to be nuked to avoid a nuclear apocalypse, and severely underestimated on what they're capable of as they're this close to launching a retaliatory strike and they only stopped when Peace Walker drowned itself. Which, much like Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a huge swerve in when it comes to the portrayal of humans as the primary series is all about Rousseau Was Right, where no matter how loathsome they are, they normally have a tragic backstory that explains their actions.note For reference, the Pieuvre Armement only executed captive rebels because the low oxygen in the mountainous region made them unnecessarily aggressive, due to their SOP system being at their absolute limit (with implications that, had it not for said system, they would, at least, treat them like people). The Middle Eastern rebels only executed Praying Mantis troops because of the need to conserve their rations, and the heat of the battle meant that they have no time to relax |
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In The Return this is humanity's hat and why they're still alive. | |
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Ghost in the Shell's setting runs on this. It really says something when the Tachikomas, despite being a Walking Armory, are actually much more human than the actual humans themselves. | |
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Delete: The AI accuses humans of being unworthy to live as a result of our various misdeeds. | |
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In Quest for Fire, the various hordes of primitive humans fear each other much more than they fear beasts. | |
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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus: A lot of people are starting to express this sentiment, unsurprisingly as its a world where the Nazis used stolen super-tech to defeat the Allies in World War II and wasted no time inflicting their twisted vision onto the people. | |
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The Last of Us zig-zags this. The developers have gone on record as saying that the primary antagonists are other survivors, as opposed to the Infected. Sure enough, a lot of the worst actions in the story are carried out by humans, who are shown to be more than willing to slaughter one another without provocation to get what they want. The first game even features a group of cannibals with a leader who likes to... erm, keep 'pets' as an antagonistic force at one point. Despite this, though, there are humans out there who are only really interested in keeping to themselves and trying to make the best out of the Crapsack World they live in, such as the residents of Jackson, Wyoming, who have formed a self-sufficient community and only turn violent towards outside intruders (although in a world like this, you can hardly blame them). The sequel takes things even further with the infected being even further shoved into the background in favor of plot being driven by other survivors. Both protagonists commit various atrocities for selfish reasons and the two warring factions in Seattle (The W.L.F. and the Seraphites) being cruel and despotic regimes who are genocidal towards each other and attack anyone who isn’t one of them on sight. Needless to say the game paints an even bleaker picture of the post apocalypse than the first game. |
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"Savages" by Theory of a Deadman. | |
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The World of Kanako: Almost every character is a monster, and this movie shows no way out. The bullies, Aikawa, Matsunaga and Kanako of all people act just For the Evulz. Protagonist Akikazu shows strong traits of this too, but he's still disgusted by the other characters' actions. | |
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Breath of Fire IV has a particularly nasty example in the Fou Empire, which not only has been launching wars against the rest of humanity (fueled by Fantastic Nukes fueled by people from those areas that have been tortured to the point of insanity first) but goes into a full-scale war against their own founding emperor and King in the Mountain God-Emperor — who just happens to be an immortal draconic Physical God that their ancestors summoned and buggered up the summoning so badly that it split the god across time and space. | |
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J'onn goes through these sentiments in Justice League when doing a mindsweep of the city in an attempt to find Luthor, ends up discovering the vanity and selfishness of mankind. He retreats to the woods but gets some faith in humanity restored when he reads the thoughts of a group of people trying to find a little girl who got lost. | |
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Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard introduces an alternate reality that is in some ways similar to the Mirror Universe. Instead of the Terran Empire, there is the Confederation of Earth, which is just as xenophobic and dictatorial, but the Confederate humans are a lot more committed to a single idea of human domination of the galaxy ("A safe galaxy is a human galaxy."). Without all that backstabbing, they have been much more successful in conquering the stars, even managing to wipe out the Borg. | |
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Vampirocracy: This is why the vampires felt they needed to take over the world. Humans would eventually destroy themselves, and with no humans, there's no vampires. | |
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In He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) episode "The Dragon's Gift", this sentiment is truly believed by Granamyr, an ancient and wise dragon who has been around for millennia and lived during a time when humans and dragons fought terrible wars against each other. When He-Man and Teela come asking him for help, he decides to give them a Secret Test of Character (he tells them to murder the one being on Eternia who is older than he is, claiming he is simply jealous of it). When the two of them pass the test by refusing to do so, Granamyr admits that there may yet be hope for humans after all. (In the Spin-Off series She-Ra: Princess of Power, the origins of the war that he mentioned are revealed when the heroine is thrown into Eternia's past. As it turns out. It was started by a wizard seeking to set the humans and dragons against each other. To that end he carried out an attack on a human food supply, and then blamed it on the dragons, provoking them in to declaring war against the dragons. Thus, while Granamyr's claim was not unjustified — maybe one bastard who happened to be human was to blame — his anger against all of humanity was likely Disproportionate Retribution.) In the reboot to She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, after discovering a near-unlimited source of magical energy, the human empire of Eternia attempted omnicide against the rest of the universe by using the energy as a superweapon because they considered other races a blight upon existence. It just goes to show that no level of energy production can stop humans from being assholes. They were only stopped by a bigger asshole: Horde Prime. |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Afterlife", Kersaw thinks that the aliens concluded this as a result of their experiment and hunt of Stiles. | |
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The Purge shows that the people of the United States are perfectly fine with a 12-hour period each year, when all crimes are legal, resulting in an annual bloodbath. The purge psychologically influences American civilians into thinking that crime does pay because at least during those 12 hours it's true. The government covers up their agenda by telling the public it's to vent their anger, but really, it's a social darwinistic measure used to attack the poor and homeless so as to help the elite rich get even richer. | |
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In a lot of incarnations The Joker holds this opinion (most famously in The Killing Joke), maintaining that all it takes is "one bad day" to make anyone just as murderously insane as he is. In some cases it is implied that, deep down, he is outright disgusted with humanity and his murderous behaviour — as well as his suicidal recklessness — are violent acts of protest and despair at the world and not purely For the Evulz, with his battle with Batman being an ideological one over who is correct. | |
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Played for laughs by Community in "Debate 109", an episode involving a debate championship with the subject of "Is Man good or evil?" The main characters have to argue the latter position against a disabled man who is also extremely cruel, needlessly tormenting Annie. | |
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Kamen Rider Zero-One: HumaGear are manufactured as all capable One-Man Army workforce androids. Humans often abuse them because of Fantastic Racism, ludism, for profit or simply for funzies. HumaGear don't understand why humans are bastards and are not programmed to protect themselves. Naturally a Robot War ensues after a long string of humans and rogue HumaGear hurting each other and any HumaGear caught in the crossfire. | |
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In Justice League (2018), Lex Luthor travels one million years into the future and learns that he's become a Dark Messiah, with all of humanity following his philosophy of personal empowerment and embracing one's inner self rather than aspiring to be something better. As a result, he created a Villain World where mankind embraced the worst aspects of human nature and subjugated the rest of the universe in his name, literally calling their way of life "Doom". To Lex, this was paradise. However in Doomsday Clock, Dr. Manhattan forsees that in a thousand years this timeline will be overwritten by one in which mankind finally embraces the ways of Superman, circling back to Humans Are Flawed. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt shows that all sides of the One Year War are bastards in their own rights, from Zeon's ethically dubious cybernetic experiments to the Federation's use of Child Soldiers as sacrificial pawns. | |
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At the end of Phantasy Star II, all the disasters turn out to be caused by earthlings, who, having stripped Earth of all its resources, have arrived to purge all life from Algo and take it for themselves. The Bolivian Army Ending doesn't leave much hope they can be stopped, either. Except that the fourth game implies that they lost. Very thoroughly. They didn't try again after Mother Brain's annihilation. |
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Ryu's Path: Humans routinely attack one another for supplies, throw their friends under thus bus for power, and Ryu once encounters a human who disrespects Mutumbai and calls him a "four armed freak" even though he's just a child. Ryu becomes really angry upon hearing this and demands he stop. | |
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In Gospels of the Flood, Simon is certain this is the truth of the world. | |
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The Divine Comedy: The less man relies on God, the more depraved and incommunicable he becomes, as demonstrated by the descent in Inferno. While in the First Circle the damned can still communicate and organize themselves despite their boredom and sorrow, by the last circles men are stealing each other's bodies, spending eternity screaming in each other's faces, and eating each other at the very bottom of Hell. One of the wrathful penitents in Purgatory says that Heaven is not to blame for evil in the world, but rather the free will man has abused. Unless a shepherd applies laws and guides humanity towards greater goods, the species is doomed to only greedily hoard the most superfluous of goods and deny themselves true joy while tearing apart the world around them. |
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On Scrubs, pretty much the only thing that Sitcom Arch-Nemeses Drs. Cox and Kelso have ever agreed on is that people are "bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling". | |
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Sense8: The series goes hard with this in regards to homo sapiens. Whenever the topic of regular humans vs sensates comes up, the show would have you think that no human anywhere has ever done anything nice for anyone, while one anthropologist even hypothesizes that the advantage homo sapiens has is their ability to lie, and they probably wiped most sensates out in the past (like the Neanderthals). | |
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Attack on Titan explores this, through discussions between characters and through how humanity deals with their grim circumstances. This is best exemplified by the attitude of Dark Action Girl Annie, who firmly states that people are by nature scum only concerned about themselves — those select few that go against the tide and have strong, unselfish convictions are greatly admired by her and considered "Special". | |
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Transformers: The Last Knight reveals that Unicron, the Destroyer and Chaos Bringer, is the creator of all life on Earth. This explains why humans are little more than pissed off hornets to the Autobots. | |
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Subverted for laughs in Freefall. After being tricked into helping the police locate Florence, Sam exclaims that humans are devious sneaks... but since Sam's own kind are a race of scavenger-thieves, he sees this as praiseworthy. | |
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Artery Gear: Fusion: The main story provides many examples of this trope at work. During the initial outbreak of the first Puppet war, the humans ended up in a civil war for resources instead of teaming up to fight against the Puppets. Queen Lisa Autoluna, the human leader of Autoluna Sky Port, invites the homeless and other less fortunate people to live in the safe areas. While she presents this decision in an inspiring speech, it is later revealed that she is planning to forcibly convert humans she deems unfit into Artery Gears, and could not care less if they all died in the war. Continued from above: the more well-off humans are actually disgruntled that more people are given entry into the safe zone, viewing it as unfair as many had to pay much more to get here. When a Puppet Master breaks into a safe zone, the residents are all quick to point fingers at each other, blaming each other for bringing it into the city. This only succeeds in causing even more chaos. Autolunans view the battles between Artery Gears and Puppet Masters only as a source of entertainment. There are numerous tabloids and news reporters commentating on the war as if it was a sports game. Additionally, many articles make up untruthful headlines to make the Frontier seem like villains while painting Autoluna as a divine saviour. Atlas discusses this trope, pointing out how often humans seem to fight each other even during times of great need. |
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SCP Foundation: There's various examples of SCP objects who certainly think this is true, and the amount of SCP objects that were man-made certainly helps. However, one SCP object in particular plays around with this in an odd and certainly impressive way: SCP-2000, the Reset Button cloning facility and cold data storage they have to "reset" human civilization in case of catastrophe. Where does this come into effect? They can edit the output, and the logs say no more attempts to tone down humanity's violent and sociopathic tendencies will be made. Why? They're already made two successful ones, and any more would just kill humanity's drive to fight for their right to live. SCP-5000. All human emotions, the good and the bad don't naturally originate in the brain. Instead, as the Foundation discovered, they're the product of some...thing that wormed its way into humanity's collective unconscious at some point in the past and altered the way our minds work. Yes, that's right. Human nature as we know it is simply the result of Mind Rape committed by this unknown and impossibly ancient entity for its goals, whatever the hell those might be, and our natural state is as a race of empty shells lacking emotion and empathy. The Foundation was so horrified by this discovery that they decided the only ethical thing to do was to wipe us out by unleashing every anomaly in their arsenal. And the man who sacrificed himself to hit the Reset Button has now guaranteed that the entity can go on with whatever it's doing with it being unclear if it will be discovered in the new timeline. |
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Despite fighting monsters of all kinds for a living, the Winchester brothers from Supernatural find humans to be the most senselessly cruel and hard to understand. | |
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Frank Pembleton of Homicide: Life on the Street holds this view. | |
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End of Evangelion reveals that humanity itself is the final angel; and as evidenced by the JSSDF's ruthless and near-utter destruction of NERV, they are the one angel that cannot be defeated. | |
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In Starship Troopers, humans are presented as arrogant, jingoistic xenophobes living in a People's Republic of Tyranny. Everyone is brainwashed by propaganda and horrifically desensitized to violence, the military command dress like Nazis, murderers are arrested, tried and executed in the same day, and history classes teach students that Might Makes Right. Every action the human characters take is presented as gloriously and unambiguously heroic. The film is a satire of militarism and fascism. | |
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Remade as Good Will to Men (ala WWII). | |
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Guilded Age: Gastonia is a hive of racists out to conquer and plunder the planet in much the same vein as 17th-19th century colonialists. That said, the comic has shown that no one, not a single race could be considered good or all that nice. Either they are: xenophobic, condescending, tyrannical, downright genocidal or all of the above. Really, the only reason why Humans are labeled like this (at first), was because they were the only ones shown. | |
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Downplayed, but present in The Fruit of Evolution. The general population is just trying to live their lives in peace. The leadership of the human empire, however, revels in it. Without exception, those in charge treat their underlings terribly. A lich, Xenos, had his maid and lover butchered because the human emperor was jealous of his talent and wealth, transforming him into a lich in the first place, against his will. Even in the present, the rest of Seichi's school was enslaved, and forced to go through Training from Hell to prepare for the next rising of the "Demon King" that the human empire antagonizes in the first place. The reason Seichi is not among them? The rest of the school bullied him horribly, for his body-type and odor, the second of which was beyond his control, and abandoned him, just before everyone was shipped off to this new "fantasy world" RPG Mechanics 'Verse by an admitted Jerkass God. | |
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In The Sister Verse and the Talons of Ruin, this seems to be the Lord in White's general view of humanity, and if the events of the story are any indication, it's not too far off. | |
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Star Trek (IDW): When Kirk learns that a group of miners fooled Starfleet into nearly going to war with a splinter group of Gorn who became peaceful, he tells Spock "and I thought the Gorn were bastards." | |
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Mutants are not well-treated in X-Men: First Class, to the point where Xavier's attempts to justify keeping the peace with normals boil down to "okay, they suck, but as the Superior Species, can't we set a good example?" It was the '60s, which was just plain bigoted in general. Subverted by the fact that the film's Big Bad (Sebastian Shaw) is a mutant, as are his followers, so humans don't hold a monopoly on being bastards here. |
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Kamen Rider Drive: Roidmudes were created by Tenjuro Banno just For the Evulz. Aside from 002, who was created with the face of the man Banno had a grudge against and the exact purpose of being his personal punchbag. It's no wonder they murdered him and tried to destroy the world. | |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Bugsters are video game characters that came to reality and personify humans' need to create enemies to beat their stress out on. They tried to convert the world into their personal playground, where they could massacre people to their heart's content. Still doesn't come anywhere close to their creators, who unleashed them on the world for funzies and profit. | |
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A surprisingly powerful one comes from the now defunct Kemono Friends mobile game, which was otherwise ridiculously bright and cheerful. One of the Friends' introduction text has her saying that there's no such thing as bad people in the world, and that people can come to understand each other by simply talking to each other, and there's no need to have your guard up around other people. Her name? Dodo. | |
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Westworld: It's really creepy how many guests like to pretend they're murdering or raping people in the form of android "hosts". Some of the androids start malfunctioning and realize what's going on, with one saying he that has to warn his "daughter" about the things they do with her, then pledging revenge on their maker. This is the Forge A.I.'s conclusion about the humans in general. After analyzing all the guest data, he realizes that humans are simple and, like the hosts, doomed to act in accordance to their own "coding", unable of actual free will, meaning that they will never change. Though some human characters disapprove otherwise, this is one of the central themes of the show. |
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In Power of Hope ~PreCure Full Bloom~, this is the main thought of Big Bad Bell, that humanity is too far lost in their selfish desires that they are willing to destroy anything and everything to make themselves happy. Even former villains Michiru and Kaoru believe that the city Bell is attacking should be destroyed to prove a point. Nozomi, however, thinks that Humanity Is Flawed and thus just need a push to remind them of what they can do. | |
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According to the The Thebaid, people do so much evil that even the gods can't possibly keep up to date with every crime committed. Even flooding the whole world and letting the sun-chariot set the skies aflame can't kill enough people to get rid of every villain. If the word of the gods won't convince readers, then the history of incest, murder, envy, and betrayal that defines Thebes should get that theme across enough. | |
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Darkseid sometimes expresses this opinion, although he is not accusing humanity of being "worse" than other races but rather heartily approves as a fellow asshole. On one occasion, Batman threatened to blow up all of Apokolips if Darkseid did not free an enslaved Supergirl from Mind Control, and Darkseid believed him on the grounds that Batman is a human and humans kill each other all the time so he could buy that Batman wasn't bluffing. | |
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In Darren Aronofsky's mother! (2017), humanity is represented by the unwanted guests who show up in Mother's house. They start out merely intrusive and impolite, but as their numbers continue to grow, they become increasingly thoughtless, violent, and downright savage, stealing or breaking everything in sight, lashing out at each other, and killing and eating Mother's baby, at which point she decides to kill them all. | |
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In Peace on Earth, the human race pushes itself to extinction through a series of wars fought for increasingly nonsensical reasons. The wars drag on and on at atrocious cost until only two men are left in the whole world, and they end up shooting each other dead, leaving the planet to be inherited by Ridiculously Cute Critters. The animals don't really remember humans very well but given the nightmarish stories and the "book of rules" the humans had but didn't pay much attention to, they come to the conclusion that the world's better off without them anyway. Remade as Good Will to Men (ala WWII). |
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In Undertale, this is by and large the belief of the monsters of the Underground, owing to a particularly nasty war between them and humans that ended in defeat and imprisonment for them. While monsters range from apathetic to curious to outright violent against humans, most hold onto the belief that humans are a right lousy sort and believe stealing the soul of the main character (who is only a child) is either Necessarily Evil or outright deserved karma. Your actions in the game can result in anything from proving them right, to proving them wrong, or even showing yourself to be some thing worse than humans or monsters, but it's ultimately subverted in the Golden Ending: monsters escape into the world and apparently have no problem integrating into the overworld and indulging in the comforts of human life, implying humans on the whole have accepted them. | |
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George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The world was destroyed in a nuclear war and all that's left is three warring super-states all run by totalitarian governments who all seek to control every aspect of their citizens lives and completely eliminate love, freedom, happiness and rebellion as concepts in the human psyche, and if anyone anywhere shows any hint of these ideas, the government arrest them, torture them and Mind Rape them until they are an Empty Shell who only love the government, and then the government executes them and wipes out all memory of them. | |
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In The Dark Knight, a recurring theme is the question of whether Humans are evil or Rousseau Was Right. The Joker preaches the former, that all humans are cowardly, cruel, self-serving and will happily slaughter each other to get to the top of the pile. To this end, near the end of the film, he sets up a social experiment to determine which. He rigs two ships with explosives, one ferrying rich people fleeing the city and the other carrying convicts, with each ship having access to the other ship's detonator. If one blows up the other, that ship is allowed to leave. The Joker gives them 10 minutes to decide, and if no action is taken, the Joker will detonate the bombs on both ships. Not only do they both defy the Joker and refuse to condemn the other to death, but it's also the convicts who refuse to do it first. | |
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This is the core philosophy of Dante from Black Clover. More accurately, he feels being evil in of itself is to be human, stating that "malice" is the one supreme emotion that differs humans from animals. When Asta denies this, he stabs Gauche. He's pleased at seeing an angry, berserk Asta, saying that his rage is what makes him human. | |
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ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal: The White Druid (despite himself being a human) came to believe that humans are evil after witnessing the witch hunts in our world that forced the magical creatures to escape to Zanzarah. He is therefore not thrilled to find that another human has found her way into his realm, but he grudgingly accepts Amy's help in rooting out Shadow Elves. He turns out to be the Big Bad, driven to villainy by his paranoia of humanity. | |
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In Tomica Hyper Rescue Drive Head Kidou Kyuukyuu Keisatsu, this is the belief held by The Evil AI. When it tried to connect with humans, it absorbed so much negativity that it came to the conclusion that they were an evil who needed to be wiped out. | |
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Whenever The Nostalgia Critic runs into this trope in a film (almost always with a helping of Green Aesop), the review cuts to a newsreel-style condemnation of man's evil, complete with clips from the movie and an old-timey voiceover. It's finally subverted in the previously mentioned Once Upon a Forest, where the voiceover finally gets sick of the trope, announces most humans are alright, and showcases how much more dangerous animals are.And then the movie itself subverts this by showing the humans not as bastards who caused the problem in the movie on purpose, but having simply made a mistake that they're more than willing to fix. Needless to say, the Critic was shocked when the enviromental film took this stance instead of the standard "humans are complete bastards wanting nothing more than to destroy the planet" that most Green Aesop films do. | |
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This shows up a couple of ways in the Elibe duology. In Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade, dragons and manaketes were driven out a millennium ago in a brutal war known as "The Scouring" and ally with the game's human Big Bad, who decided that humanity should be wiped out because his dad kept trying to kill him. The second (prequel) game, Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, reveals in its prologue that humans were the ones who began the Scouring and does not take an approving tone; Eliwood remarks on and acknowledges at the end of the game that it was wrong for the humans to try to take the continent for themselves. | |
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In Now I'm a Demon Lord! Happily Ever After with Monster Girls in My Dungeon, the vast, vast majority of the human population are genocidal antagonists who exterminate whole races purely to either fatten their wallets, or to slake their lusts for power, wealth, or pleasure. | |
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British statesman Lord Chesterfield in Letters to His Son: "In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and, knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable. And a man who will show every knave or fool that he thinks him such, will engage in a most ruinous war, against numbers much superior to those that he and his allies can bring into the field. Abhor a knave, and pity a fool in your heart; but let neither of them, unnecessarily, see that you do so." (letter 60) | |
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A running theme throughout Spirit Hunter: NG is that much of the conflicts are caused by human cruelty: the spirits are all vengeful because they were horribly treated in life; their murderers got away with it because of the corrupt society they live in; and the protagonists — even Seiji, the heir to the Yakuza — bemoan the rotten state of the world. | |
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Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light has the Dolhr Empire formed explicitly to oppress the human race for wronging the Manaketes in the past. Gotoh had lost all faith in humanity because of this until he met Marth. | |
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The X-Files: Played for Laughs in "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat" by an alien visitor who (in a parody of Donald Trump's campaign kickoff speech) declares that Earth's solar system will be walled off from the rest of the universe to prevent humans from spreading their criminality and dishonesty. | |
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In Big Finish Doctor Who's Jubilee, the Daleks invaded England during the early 1900's and were destroyed by the Doctor. Much of the technology was scavenged and used to form an English Empire, an utterly depraved version of the British Empire ascribing to the worst parts of the Dalek philosophy; paranoid, xenophobic, sadistic — to the point the last remaining Dalek considers humanity worthy successors of the Dalek legacy. The huge crowd chanting "EXTERMINATE" at the Last Dalek hammers down Humanity has been warped into nothing but the next Daleks. | |
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Endling - Extinction is Forever depicts a world where red foxes are on the verge of extinction, thanks to humans completely destroying the environment through their greed. | |
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X-Men Film Series Believing humans will continue to grow and despise mutants, Magneto maintains this belief. Though it doesn't really help his case when he keeps doing things that make people fear him. Mutants are not well-treated in X-Men: First Class, to the point where Xavier's attempts to justify keeping the peace with normals boil down to "okay, they suck, but as the Superior Species, can't we set a good example?" It was the '60s, which was just plain bigoted in general. Subverted by the fact that the film's Big Bad (Sebastian Shaw) is a mutant, as are his followers, so humans don't hold a monopoly on being bastards here. In X-Men: Apocalypse, it's worth noting that the Misanthrope Supreme of the film is also the antagonist. |
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In Castlevania (2017), Dracula was a reclusive vampire lord and not a big fan of humans until he met and fell in love with Lisa, a medicine woman who sought out the scientific knowledge he had in his castle. After she was burned at the stake as a witch by the citizens of Wallachia, Dracula snaps and decides that, because no one tried to save her, humanity was deserving of nothing less than wholesale genocide. Even after his son Alucard tries to talk him out of it, Dracula unleashes the hordes of Hell on Wallachia, putting the town to the slaughter under his orders. | |
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Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn have a lot of racism and outright violence towards the Laguz, including but not limited to the Serenes Massacre. Even some of the hero's companions are initially racist and distrusting of the Laguz, and some of the Laguz are just as distrusting of the Beorc. It takes two whole games for the tensions to truly begin to heal between Laguz and Beorc, and many support conversations and acts of heroism to soften the initial racists. | |
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An important plot point in Wonder Woman (2017), where the titular heroine witnesses firsthand one of the most destructive conflicts in human history and ends up losing hope in humankind. She was initially under the belief that humanity was under the influence of Ares and pitted to fight against each other. Turns out he merely suggests them new ways to kill each other from the shadows, rather than forcing them to do anything. The fact that even after being killed by Diana and bringing WWI to an end, other even more terrible conflicts such as World War II and the countless Cold War proxy fights would follow and he wouldn't be alive to influence ends up proving him right that humans can perfectly wage war without outside forces. | |
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The villains of The Traitor Son Cycle both think this, though for different reasons. The Dragon believes that humans are incapable of peacefully coexisting, both with the Wild and each other, without ruining everything around them. The Big Bad, on the other hand, is convinced that every human is secretly just waiting for an opportunity to give in to his darkest urges, and it takes only a little push to turn anyone into a monster. | |
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The main conflict of Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds is kicked off when the Kingdom of Clouds, a civilization of advanced humans called the Sky People living in the skies, decide to initiate The Great Flood to cleanse the surface of humanity after witnessing the irreversible damage humans have inflicted on the environment. It's not helped by the fact that the Sky People have rescued various animals from Earth's surface, including a Bornean orangutan whose home was destroyed by construction machines, a Tanzanian elephant whose family was massacred by a group of poachers, the Loch Ness Monster herself who's Last of Her Kind after her ancestors were hunted to extinction by humans in the past, and multiple animals who similarly despises humans for one reason or another. | |
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Le Visiteur du Futur. Out of all the people that learn about the distant cataclysms that their actions will cause, no one cares about it, and even among the heroes, only the Visitor really cares about saving the world at first: Henry is a robot that was programmed to be a humanist and the Visitor's partner, Raph is just helping him as a friend and would rather date Stella and have a good job instead, Judith only wants her ID papers for 2011, Matteo is his bodyguard, and Tim and Leo quit after they realise they won't gain anything from him. | |
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Fallout has tons of this. Humans in this universe were certainly bastards enough to destroy the world in a nuclear holocaust driven by desperated necessity for reserves and political tension, and post-apocalyptic living has not improved things. The existence of the Vaults is bad enough (they're fallout shelters that are actually a front for fucked-up social experiments for the US government — the Vaults weren't really meant to save anybody, and if they did it was more by accident) but Vault 11 in Fallout: New Vegas really takes the cake. It's a Vault run by an AI that demands a human sacrifice every year or it kills the population of the Vault. The population decided to sacrifice the first Overseer (they forced him to go out of spite, him being the bearer of bad news after all), and then collectively decided that every year, whoever was elected to be the new Overseer would also be that year's sacrifice. For years the people of Vault 11 callously sent their own to their deaths. Candidates ran bizarre Smear Campaigns listing all the negative qualities of their opponent as reasons to vote for them (and therefore get them killed). Some found ways of rigging the election process so they'd never get elected, and some even used their voting power to extort other residents (one of them extorted sexual favours from a woman by threatening to vote for her husband; when she complied, they voted for him anyway). This same woman then deliberately got herself elected Overseer and changed the election process to a Random Number Generator out of spite, meaning everyone now had an equal chance of being put on the chopping block. The corrupt voting block got unbelievably pissed off at this and started a civil war, which resulted in the deaths of everyone in the Vault but five people. The five survivors then go to the AI and tell it that it might as well just wipe out the last of them already because they refuse to sacrifice any more people... at which point the Vault door unlocks and the AI congratulates them for their "commitment to human life". The whole point of the Vault was a Secret Test of Character to see if the people would all stand up to the computer. After learning this, four of the five survivors committed suicide. | |
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Steven Universe: Downplayed. Connie Maheswaran doesn’t have any malice towards humanity, but believes that they are already heading towards their demise, as lampshaded in "Gem Hunt": | |
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A common theme in Mass Effect is whether or not humans are evil in their pursuit to prove themselves in the universe. The Illusive Man and his unethical corporation Cerberus carry this characteristic despite trying to prove the goodness in humanity. They don't exactly make humanity look good in the eyes of the alien council. In fact, Cerberus is trying to make humanity the dominant power in the galaxy by any means necessary and they look down upon the extraterrestrials opposing them. Subverted in that humans, as a species, are not evil: just hyper-ambitious. The turians point out that humans have a tendency of expanding without giving any thought as to the possible consequences of extending too far, which is what led to war between the two races. Humans also managed to get a Council seat after being on the galactic scene for only a few years, when other races have been lobbying for a seat for centuries. If the Citadel Council is killed near the end of the first game, guess who steps into the power vacuum... For the worse. |
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Rob J. Hayes' The Ties That Bind is a world where no one, and we mean no one, isn't one form of bastard or another. This includes the heroes. Then again, it is a Grimdark Sword and Sorcery setting starring a bunch of thieves and sellswords. | |
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes: In this dystopian movie, humans have become oppressive and totalitarian towards apes using them as pets or slaves mainly to cope with their grief over cats and dogs dying from a disease. | |
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Twokinds: The setting takes place after a messy world war that killed half a million people, mostly Keidran, because one arrogant human had one bad day losing his entire family. Humans are obsessed with the Keidran slave trade, and most dirt-poor humans passively accept the oppression and embezzlement from the nobles. This is less of a treatise on humanity's inherent cruelty, and more of their tendency to learn about cruelty from their forefathers and other races' cruelty and grow obsessed with it, as the god of humans orchestrated this genocidal frenzy to happen so he'd become the Top God, and the other races are capable of slavery and authoritarianism without humans, but on a lesser scale. | |
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HG Wells in Warehouse 13 comes to this conclusion after her 8-year-old daughter was murdered. | |
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Running theme of Kamen Rider. Many monster races have menaced humanity, but if they were not created by humans, they were at least outdone by them. Kamen Rider Drive: Roidmudes were created by Tenjuro Banno just For the Evulz. Aside from 002, who was created with the face of the man Banno had a grudge against and the exact purpose of being his personal punchbag. It's no wonder they murdered him and tried to destroy the world. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Bugsters are video game characters that came to reality and personify humans' need to create enemies to beat their stress out on. They tried to convert the world into their personal playground, where they could massacre people to their heart's content. Still doesn't come anywhere close to their creators, who unleashed them on the world for funzies and profit. Kamen Rider Zero-One: HumaGear are manufactured as all capable One-Man Army workforce androids. Humans often abuse them because of Fantastic Racism, ludism, for profit or simply for funzies. HumaGear don't understand why humans are bastards and are not programmed to protect themselves. Naturally a Robot War ensues after a long string of humans and rogue HumaGear hurting each other and any HumaGear caught in the crossfire. |
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In Chlorophylle, humans have this vicious tendency to create a lot of things dangerous to animals. | |
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A recurring theme in Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, unlike other series the enemies are because of human greed and viciousness. To the point that the ultimate Big Bad of the series was just a regular human that eventually grew corrupt due to humanities' bloodlust. | |
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In Mavka: The Forest Song, that's the opinion all the Nature Spirits hold bar Mavka, due to her bonding with Lukash. That's the reason she is chosen as the next Guardian, to bridge humans and nature spirits. | |
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In Final Fantasy II, the Emperor's light half in Soul of Rebirth states this of humankind's legacy of war and violence. Almost fitting, given the kind of person he is even after his death. | |
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Harry in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality believes in this trope... in a way. He notes that for the longest part of history humans have been absolutely horrible to everyone except for their personal allies. He does think that humans have potential to be good, but they need to be conditioned to do so. Professor Quirrell, on the other hand, believes the trope wholeheartedly, to the point where he questions whether people really care for each other and don't just pretend to do so. | |
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This is the point of the Universal Century Gundam series, where there are more selfish and cruel people in the world than kind, noble and selfless ones. It is used by Char Aznable as an excuse to drop Axis on Earth. It becomes a lot more visible right after the disappearance of Zeon. Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt shows that all sides of the One Year War are bastards in their own rights, from Zeon's ethically dubious cybernetic experiments to the Federation's use of Child Soldiers as sacrificial pawns. Rau Le Creuset from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED believes that humans are selfish, greedy bastards who will do anything to get ahead... even if it means wiping themselves out in the process. He justifies this viewpoint with both Kira's existence (an attempt at a genetically perfect human being) and his own existence (a clone meant to be his original's legacy and successor, giving him severe identity issues); this belief is also drives him to want to wipe out humanity, taking the "I'm Taking You with Me" ethos to its logical extreme. Fittingly, he's the worst of them all. The scary part? He's not wrong. Considering all the racism and blind hatred fueling the wars (which both sides are aware of and DEFEND as virtuous, especially at their highest levels of authority), he has a very good claim for arguing his point. And it isn't even that he's blind to the capacity for good in humanity: he acknowledges virtue and idealism when he sees it, he just doesn't believe there's anywhere near enough of it to counteract the evils of humanity. In Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny, the Earth Alliance jumps straight to the Nuclear Option at the first opportunity. That opportunity was given them to ZAFT renegades dropping a colony on Earth. This is what motivates the antagonist from the sequel to enact The Plan to prevent such things from happening again, because he agreed humans became bastards as a result of their hatreds. The big difference between him and Le Creuset is that he believes he can fix humanity, rather than simply give up on it as a lost cause. |
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The World's End: The Network certainly seems to think so. | |
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MAN by Steve Cutts is the animated film of this trope. It starts with man figuring out he can smash a bug just for fun, then killing more than he could possibly eat without sharing, and goes all the way to industrialized factory farming and dumping toxic waste in the ocean, coupling this trope with a Green Aesop. Then it veers off into Space Whale Aesop as a pair of aliens discover the man being king of the earth and decide to do to him what he did to the planet, flattening him into a welcome mat to toss on top of his garbage. | |
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Spirited (2022): Publicity man Clint Briggs is a firm believer in this, building his marketing strategies around his knowledge of human nature. The belief initially gets him marked as unredeemable and not worth getting a haunting from the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. | |
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In On Dangerous Ground, policeman Jim Wilson believes all people are this trope after years of serving and protecting in a Vice City. | |
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In The Fifth Element Leeloo despairs when she learns about the human race's tendency to inflict horrible things onto themselves (specifically World War II) to the point of her seeing no point in helping them escape destruction, but then decides otherwise when Korben tells her that there are things that deserve to be saved and professes his love for her. | |
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Grim Hollow Plays With it: On the one hand, the current human kingdoms were founded by warlords who decimated the elf, dwarf, gnome, and dragonborn kingdoms, and scared the halflings with their brutality so badly that the halfling population willingly became servants and aids in the new human empires. Most of the said empires are some variation of corrupt, decadent, power-hungry, or fanatical. It was an insane human emperor, born from centuries of inbreeding, who was responsible for the death of the few surviving gods in Etharis by infecting them with his madness, thus causing a lot of the strife in the setting today. On the other hand, this was centuries ago, and most living humans barely remember that the age of expansion happened, and hold no ill-will to the other races (the feeling is not mutual). The Charneault Kingdom — one of the only places where humans and elves dwell in peace — was founded by a human king, is still ruled by his descendants, and is Lighter and Softer by far than the rest of the continent. |
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A subtler theme in Miraculous: The Phoenix Rises. While Adults Are Useless and Crapsack World are blatant themes, apart from our main characters and a handful of exceptions, on the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism this text is at the very far end of the latter. | |
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Shirou Kotomine (rather, Shirou Tokisada) of Fate/Apocrypha believes that mankind is beyond regular salvation, and only a true miracle granted by the Holy Grail can save them. Of course, his solution is to create a World of Silence... | |
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The obscure cartoon Vytor The Starfire Champion provides an amusingly extreme example. The hero's tribe depends on a special tree both to sustain life and as a symbol reminding them that the ways of peace of preferrable to those of fighting and bloodshed. In one episode the hero accidentally kills it, and hardly an hour later his former friends become so blinded by their violent impuses they start to build catapults and spears in plain view of each other with no indication of who they're even planning to fight. With the way the hero breaks up a spear fight between two of them, it's like with the one thing reminding them of their peaceful ways gone they've immediately decided to turn on each other. As soon as the tree's restored, everyone immediately drops their weapons and are best buds again. | |
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My Hero Academia: All For One, the benefactor behind the League of Villains heavily plays with this trope. He waxes philosophically on the ideals of heroes and villains with the long-term goal of tearing down the current status quo, often citing the frequent injustices perpetuated within the current hero society as reasons for such. In particular, the fact many villains throughout the series otherwise faced ostracization from society due to their inability to fit into the status quo, seemingly proves his point. However, his ideals are completely superficial, the reality being that he exploits the myriad of social issues perpetuated in society to further his own goal of turning the world into his personal dystopia where he can live out his fantasy as the invincible Demon Lord from the comic he read as a child. Muddying this even further, are his experiences of living in squalor since infancy during the early days of when mass panic and Quirks were just coming into existence. The fact he had sociopathic tendencies since birth along with his contempt towards altruistic concepts like morality and selflessness, suggests All For One would've been the very monster he is today, Freudian Excuse or not, because he's just that much of a narcissistic sociopath. | |
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The Warchild Series by Karin Lowachee has this in droves. For a sampling: There are pirates who engage in human trafficking, a pirate captain who is probably a pedophile, a war between humans and aliens started because humans tried to take the aliens' moon by force (and massacring a bunch of aliens in the process), a government more interested in bigotry and bureaucracy than peace, soldiers who willingly engage in torture, etc. Even the most sympathetic characters still end up slitting someone's throat, rebelling from the central government, and executing suspected terrorists without a trial. Humans are bastards indeed. | |
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In Dragon Ball Super Zamasu believes this but on a wider scale: He believes ALL mortals are corrupt and that gods are too useless to do anything about them. He does not act upon it, however, until an encounter with Goku, at which point he steals Goku's body (becoming Goku Black) and uses it to try to kill ALL the mortals (and any gods who oppose him). Then he goes to an alternate timeline and teams up with another version of himself. And it only gets worse from there... | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: Zara developed this philosophy after being sold into slavery as a child. Her only remorse over any of her cruelty is getting imprisoned for it and she doesn't see any of her victims as innocent. In her view that's not possible, they're human so regardless of their age or public image they're at least as horrible and cruel as she is. | |
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In Suikakasen, Seiga is a firm believer of this. She points out to Yoshika that survival revolves around killing others, but that humans are extra cruel because they cut and cook the living things they eat. While witnessing a warzone at the end of episode 3, Seiga laments that humans have begun to kill for reasons other than to gather food and likens them to pests. | |
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Almost every main human from The Fearless Four. Examples being Buster's owner chuckling evilly when he plans to kill him rather than just wanting him off his hands and Gwendolyn's owners trying to kill her. Then there's also the main trio (unless you count that long-coated guy) of the Mix Max company/dictatorship. | |
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Malcolm in the Middle requires this to be a universal fact. Though it's usually Played for Laughs because everyone is either a jerkass or a moron. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: The races of Mer (Elves), especially the Altmer (High Elves), believe this about the races of Men. They see Men as having pitifully short lives filled with violence and savagery who disrupt everything the elves try to achieve. According to Altmeri religious beliefs, the creation of Mundus (the mortal world) was seen as an act of malevolence as it forced them to experience mortal suffering, loss, and death while removing their spirits from a place of pre-creation divinity. While most are content to toil in this mortal "prison" with "more limitations than not," some extremists, like the Thalmor, actively seek to undo creation to return to that state of pre-creation divinity. However, they believe that not just the existence of mankind, but the existence of the possibility of mankind keeps them trapped in Mundus. (According to their beliefs, mankind were made up from the "weakest souls" by the "dead" creator god Lorkhan to spread Sithis (chaos) "into every corner," ensuring that there could never again be the "stasis" of pre-creation.) The Magna-Ge, aka "Star Orphans", are et'Ada ("original spirits") who fled during the creation of Mundus (the mortal plane) along with their "father" Magnus after realizing the sacrifices it would take to create. They too have a rather low opinion of mortals, calling them "M-Null", while believing they are "affected by tainted magic" and owe their growth and prosperity to greater beings. Their most famous member, the Fallen Angel Meridia, bestowed the "gift" of "purification" on some of her followers by removing their free will. |
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The Good Place: According to Michael, only very few people rack up enough points to make it to the Good Place, with the great majority of humanity being subject to eternal damnation in the Bad Place. It turns out that Michael was exploiting this trope with his vision for a new kind of Bad Place, where humans just make each other miserable for all eternity. Subverted though as it's shown that the standard is so high even many renowned philanthropists like Florence Nightingale went to the Bad Place, along with a vast number of "sins" like "being French" etc. So unsurprisingly many people destined for there like the main cast are really not that bad and definitely capable of doing good and the whole process of judgement is put into question as a result. | |
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Worth noting that a common complaint of Land of the Dead is that the human characters come across as such unsympathetic bastards that, incredibly, you could make a decent argument for the zombies being the good guys. | |
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In Doglands, Argal rants about how humans think they rule the world. Dogs have unselfishly been their loyal companions for thousands of years, yet they mistreat them and euthanize them without much thought. Humans think that nature was made for them to exploit. Argal also states that, though humans treat dogs as they do, humans actually treat each other worse than they treat dogs. | |
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Alpha and Omega: During one of Reverend Lester Stark's radio shows, he is shaken by the final caller wondering if the reason the Rapture hasn't occurred yet is that no one on Earth is spiritually pure enough to be worthy. Stark tells the caller that it's an interesting theory (especially given that the previous callers were focused on paranoia or hostility about the Jewish messiah's emergence), but one he hopes is wrong. | |
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One episode of Futurama has a parody of this trope and of The Twilight Zone (1959), in which a Mad Scientist mixes together the DNA of the most evil animals on Earth to make the most evil creature in existence. After he pours it into his machine, out steps a naked human dude, to deliver the punchline: "It turns out it's man!" | |
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In Revenge of the Teapot Hero, the only good and kind people were the protagonist Kyrie and her home village. She herself lampshades that the humans are the aggressors in a stupid war with the "demon" tribe, purely over territory, and when she's dubbed a [hero] but found to have a lack-luster talent, she gets sent back home only to have her entire village butchered to the last child to get at her and make it look like it was the act of some nameless bandits, with the soldiers grumbling on how tedious it is to chase her down until she turns the tables and then beg for mercy, with the local commander gloating how he's proud to be "a professional soldier" as he engages in various acts of atrocity and sadistically tormenting her, even convincingly faking his surrender when she turns the tables on him, to try and buy time to back-stab her, burning through what little mercy she had left. | |
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In Last Light, the difference between the pony-centric Equestria and the human world is accentuated by their different suicide rates. Suicide is almost unheard of in Equestria, but it's not in the human world. Sunset's bullied so much for supposedly being Anon-a-miss that she's been Driven to Suicide. | |
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Daimos: General Sakamori Miwa is the in-universe example for Erika and Richter. On witnessing his brutality subjected on her and her mentor firsthand, Erika admitted to Kazuya that she thought all humans were wonderful, but seeing Miwa changed her mind (though not completely generalizing the race). Richter had the unfortunate fate that every time he meets a human other than Kazuya, it's always Miwa and people like him, therefore concluding that every humans are barbarous beings that cannot stand together with Baamites in peace. | |
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Digging a little deeper in Shadow Dragon and Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War's backstories had Dragons ruling the world before weakening while the humans became stronger, eventually resulting in dragons being overran by humans courtesy of Naga. | |
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This is the premise of Hell Girl. In the first season, almost every victim is an Asshole Victim and the clients are mostly Woobies who torment them horribly. However, the season also reveals Ai's backstory. She was meant to be a sacrifice to her village's god. She and her cousin Sentarou, whom she loved, broke one of the rules, resulting in Ai and her parents being buried alive by the villagers, including Sentarou, who was forced to do so. In the second season, Futakamori, the theme has changed to Black-and-Grey Morality, where the viewers sometimes sympathize with the victims as well if the clients happen to be bastards. The final arc of the season takes the cake where almost everyone in the town is a complete asshole; they banish each other to hell and use Takuma as the scapegoat because of his reputation as the "Devil Child". And in the third season, Mitsuganae, the humans are so fucked up in their mind that none of Ai's clients get a happy ending like the ones from first season. The new main character in the third season, Yuzuki Mikage, is a victim of this trope: it's revealed that she's Dead All Along. But what killed her? Her father was a bus driver, whose many customers were killed in an accident. The bus company blamed him for it, leading to Yuzuki and her mother being isolated by society and nobody helping them when the mother fell sick and died, and Yuzuki died of starvation. | |
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Peacemaker Series: Downplayed. While the Dark Ones distrust humans due to the genocide and thievery perpetrated by the human nations, they're willing to accept humans into their ranks as long as they worship the Dark Mother. Sanguine is also willing to acknowledge Bambooblade as being different from other light-aligned humans if he makes it through her tower without killing anyone, but she also believes that a few good humans don't outweigh the malice of the rest. | |
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Downplayed in Terra. The upper brass of the UEC are definitely bastards, responsible for a number of atrocities, and human terrorists were originally responsible for the comic's Forever War. However individual humans are no more inherently good or evil than anyone else, and the Asurian Empire can be just as bastardy as the UEC. | |
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Despite the chief antagonists of the series being animatronic robots, the Five Nights at Freddy's series seems to have this as one of its primary themes. The robots are only malfunctioning because they're possessed by the spirits of dead children who were murdered by a serial killer. What's more, the enigmatic Bite of 87 was not caused by the animatronics malfunctioning as the Phone Guy claims in the first game; rather, it was caused by the victim's older brother, who forcefully shoved him into the mouth of an animatronic that then jammed and took out the boy's frontal lobe. Everything that happened in the series was a direct result of truly awful people doing truly awful things to innocent victims. Though it is worth noting that once the Bite occurs, the brother (who is laughing beforehand) stops laughing and looks on in still silence, implying that he never intended for his little brother to actually get bitten. | |
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In Veniss Underground, Quin shows his genetically-engineered sentient meerkats video of humans committing atrocities against animals and against one another. It's meant to indoctrinate the meerkats with the belief that humans are bastards and meerkats are the superior race; and Nicola, after seeing the meerkats' hidden garden, doesn't disagree. | |
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I Love Yoo: This is Shin-Ae's mindset at the start of the story, which makes sense, considering that she was bullied for almost her entire life. She does grow out of it as the story continues. | |
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7 Seeds repeatedly shows us what jerks humans actually are, although some of them are presented as last-ditch efforts in case things go so bad that they don't think there's any way things could recover. The 7 Seeds Project involves cryogenically freezing the team members and have them awaken in the post-apocalyptic world without even telling them they were picked for it. They just suddenly saw black and wake up in what looks like hell to them. The exceptions being the guides for each team, who were chosen to explain things to them and guide them, as well as Team Summer A that consists of teenagers who knew this was coming and have been raised to actively prepare for this situation. How Team Summer A and its candidates were raised. All raised to prepare for being picked for the project, be great at everything and learn to focus and pay attention to this. If you are somehow not outstanding or have some defect like lacking stamina or having hereditary bad eye sight, the candidate drops out, meaning they end up killed and turned into sludge and fertilizer. The Final Test for the candidates was worse. Random accidents begin to happen, which could have been avoided had they done as they were taught and been observant and paid attention. The Final Test escalates into a huge bloodbath, where the situation mimics them being thrown into the future with no help from the teachers, no easily accessible gas or water source and a place to sleep. It's pure survival. You "fail" the test by dying. The last seven students, one from each class, that are alive are picked for the project. The Ryugu Shelter reveals that one of its plans, if things really started to go down the drain, was to cull half of its population to be ground up to become animal feed, fertilizer and fuel so the rest can survive a bit longer. The Fuji Ship is a shelter and armoury, filled to the brim with all sorts of shooting weapons and has a built-in mechanic that, if they thought things were hopeless, would shoot dozens of missiles including a nuclear warhead all over Japan and self-destruct the ship, with the captain and crew being locked in so they can't escape. Regardless if people were actually still living in Japan. |
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By Transformers: Age of Extinction, the humans have outlawed all Transformers, both Autobot and Decepticon, and begin to hunt down both factions all without acknowledging that if it weren't for the Autobots they'd all be dead or enslaved by now. The Autobots only chose to save them out of pure sympathy for the entire film series, and the humans sell their leader Optimus Prime out to Lockdown for the Seed in hopes of creating an army of robots for themselves. When Optimus starts to express anti-human sentiments, Cade Yeager persuades him to understand that humans simply make mistakes and are imperfect. Cade's speech does work, and Optimus regains his faith in humanity by the end. | |
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Game of Thrones: Like the novels the show is based on, this trope is on display constantly. In each and every episode it's a guarantee that characters will wreak suffering, misery and destruction to attain power and personal gain. This behavior is undeniably one of major reasons why the Game of Thrones world is in shambles. | |
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This is a prominent motif in the Transformers Film Series: In Transformers (2007), both Ironhide and Megatron tell Optimus that humans are primitive brutes who are better off dead as while Optimus asserts that they're just young, underdeveloped and overall naive. By Transformers: Age of Extinction, the humans have outlawed all Transformers, both Autobot and Decepticon, and begin to hunt down both factions all without acknowledging that if it weren't for the Autobots they'd all be dead or enslaved by now. The Autobots only chose to save them out of pure sympathy for the entire film series, and the humans sell their leader Optimus Prime out to Lockdown for the Seed in hopes of creating an army of robots for themselves. When Optimus starts to express anti-human sentiments, Cade Yeager persuades him to understand that humans simply make mistakes and are imperfect. Cade's speech does work, and Optimus regains his faith in humanity by the end. Transformers: The Last Knight reveals that Unicron, the Destroyer and Chaos Bringer, is the creator of all life on Earth. This explains why humans are little more than pissed off hornets to the Autobots. |
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Hulk: David Banner believed that people cause too much chaos around him and his son. | |
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Green Lantern: In Vol. 3 #155, Kyle Rayner decides to leaves Earth after being traumatized by the brutal hate crime inflicted on his young gay assistant Terry. Before he goes, he tells his then-girlfriend Jade (Jennifer-Lynn Hayden, daughter of the first Green Lantern) about his insights into the human psyche during his time as Ion (when he had achieved godhood and was nigh-omnipotent and nigh-omniscient) and what they revealed to him about the extent of man's inhumanity to man, which causes him to now view humanity with Jade-Colored Glasses: | |
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Land of the Lustrous: This is the conclusion drawn by multiple characters, such as The First Machine, Professor Ayumu, and Phosphophyllite after ascending into godhood. The First Machine attempted to annihilate humanity following this realization and was dismantled as a result, the Professor removed Adamant's ability to pray for their souls since she considered them selfish and deserving of their fates until they learned to pray for each other (something that never happened), and Phos prayed for the vestiges of humanity mostly to get rid of them and is now a Death Seeker trying to end their own life to wipe out every trace of humanity left. | |
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The Conversion Bureau sub-genre of fics is themed around the utopian country of Equestria contrasting with the violent world of humans. Disgusted by humans, Celestia decides to force them into becoming ponies. Though whether or not she and the titular bureau are actually right or if they don't have as much moral high ground over humanity as they think, varies heavily from story to story. | |
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Kona's Song is told from the point of view of wolves. They are horrified to learn that humans kill just for fun. | |
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Slipknot says it best with the first real song off of Iowa: People=Shit. | |
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Zeref believes this in Fairy Tail. It's why he wants to wipe out humanity. Turns out being Really Four Hundred Years Old lets you see some rather unfortunate and recurring traits of human nature, and with his Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds personality, it was the perfect storm to create a Misanthrope Supreme. Interestingly, however, due to how much his own actions have shaped human history and influenced said dark forces acting in his name or using his inventions, he decides that he is the reason for this and so decides to hit the Reset Button with an incredibly powerful time-altering spell to take himself out of the equation and Ret-Gone the present for a (hopefully) better timeline. | |
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Katiya of the Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch fic The Warmth of a Sister's Love is a firm believer in this to the extent that she actually hates it when she has to assume her human form. However, Lucia and the others, having lived amongst humans for far longer than Katiya has, are quick to point out that not all humans are bad, and by the end, Katiya has started to accept this. | |
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In Warhammer 40,000, humans in the far future have formed a star-spanning theocratic empire that takes militarism, totalitarianism and xenophobia to the extreme. As an Imperium citizen you can be sent into a penal legion or even turned into a Servitor (a kind of lobotomised meat robot) for something as simple as unauthorised use of a photocopy machine. And the worst part is, it's all but outright stated that humanity would face enslavement or destruction or a Fate Worse than Death if they did not behave like this; the iron grip of the Imperium is the only thing keeping mankind alive. | |
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Orochimaru in Son of the Sannin claims that "there's no such thing as innocent people, just people who never had the chance to sin". | |
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Remembrance of Earth's Past: Played with. Her experiences during the Cultural Revolution are the cause of Wenjie's nihilism and other experiences of human destructiveness are why many members of the ETO believe humanity deserves to be destroyed. However, in the end it turns out that humans are too soft and sentimental to survive in a harsh universe. | |
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Sniper from Team Fortress 2 certainly believes this as stated in his "Meet the Team" video: | |
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This was so common in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom that some people on Friendship Is Magic Fiction (FIM Fiction) felt it necessary to create a "Humans Aren't Bastards" group for stories that subvert this mindset. It can be found here. Examples of this being played straight are: In Last Light, the difference between the pony-centric Equestria and the human world is accentuated by their different suicide rates. Suicide is almost unheard of in Equestria, but it's not in the human world. Sunset's bullied so much for supposedly being Anon-a-miss that she's been Driven to Suicide. The Conversion Bureau sub-genre of fics is themed around the utopian country of Equestria contrasting with the violent world of humans. Disgusted by humans, Celestia decides to force them into becoming ponies. Though whether or not she and the titular bureau are actually right or if they don't have as much moral high ground over humanity as they think, varies heavily from story to story. |
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Doctor Who: "Human Nature": Part of the instructions the Doctor leaves Martha before turning himself into a human to hide from pursuers is for her to not let him hurt anyone, because "you know what humans are like." "Midnight" is all about this. The Doctor ends up stuck in an Enclosed Space with a group of humans who descend into murderous paranoia when it becomes clear that one woman has become possessed by a malign entity, ultimately nearly killing him when they think that he's become possessed. This is sharply contrasted with how normal they all are before things go to hell. |
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In Shaun of the Dead, once the zombie outbreak is brought under control, it's shown that the people of Britain keep the remaining zombies around to perform menial jobs and be subjects of amusement in stupid game shows. Apparently, nobody cared to dispose of once-living people in a more dignified way. There's also David, who is a truly wonderful combination of The Sociopath, Know-Nothing Know-It-All, Four Eyes, Zero Soul, and Dogged Nice Guy Deconstructed as Green-Eyed Monster. | |
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In Ryu the Cave Boy, set in the prehistoric era when humans and dinosaurs co-existed, the Big Horn Tribe repeatedly trade, kill and harm one another, and cling to archaic beliefs. The tribes believe that pale skin is a bad omen, hence forcing Esta's son Ryu to be Fed to the Beast, Tyranno. It is an animal (Kitty the ape) that takes pity on the baby and saves him. Even in the Grand Finale, the final villain isn't Tyranno, but a fellow human, Taka - who hates Ryu because of his skin colour as when he was a baby the Whiteskins murdered his entire family, even though Ryu never did anything to him. | |
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It is used by Char Aznable as an excuse to drop Axis on Earth. It becomes a lot more visible right after the disappearance of Zeon. | |
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Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones had the Five Heroes of Magvel take all of the credit for sealing away Fomortiis and omit Morva from their exploits of saving the world, and the humans of Darkling Woods who do know the truth are rightfully pissed. The heroes apologize for their short-sightedness and promise to change this. Ironically Morva himself is more interested in guarding the Demon King. | |
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Keeper of the Lost Cities: Elves aren't fond of how humans have been treating their shared home; they're often puzzled by their viciousness and lack of forward thinking in regards to environmental health and animal life. Some even think they're beyond help and believe shoving them all into a sanctuary like the elvish Sanctuary is the best solution. | |
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The Dead Space games do this all the freaking time. In a setting where the Universe is dark and cold and deserted, and the only alien life we've found are horrifically reanimated dead bodies trying to kill everyone, human beings still manage to hold the title of "biggest assholes in the Galaxy". Not one game goes by without some douchebag betraying you, fanatically worshiping the Necromorphs and Markers, trying to brutally suppress something or other by killing many innocent people, or all of the above. And in a few situations, it's even shown that much of that is necessary, or at least justifiable. Humans have reached a peak, and civilization is quickly circling the drain. The betrayals and coverups are part of an Government effort to revitalize humanity with alien technology, and the fanatical Unitologists are led by a misguided belief that, though humanity has failed to survive, some kind of evolution could save everyone. Even though it doesn't and they're completely wrong. The third game reveals that humanity is merely following the same pattern every other race in the galaxy that preceded it followed. Every race became victims of entropy, limited resources, and the temptation of the Brethren Moons' Markers and destroyed themselves. |
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In The Snake Prince, the titular prince, a benevolent ancient serpent god, saved a village from drought, the only thing which he asks in return is for his beloved human girlfriend as his bride, whose love she reciprocates as well. But the villagers, fearing the prince's powers, instead chose to assault his lair with sulphur smoke, with the intention of killing him, leading to horrible consequences for both the prince and his human bride. | |
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Dragon Ball: The origin of the Nameless Namek who would become Kami and Piccolo is that he came from a peaceful and benevolent race, and became corrupted from seeing the worst of humanity over the centuries. When the Nameless Namek wanted to become the new Guardian of the Earth, he separated himself from his evil side and that piece of him became King Piccolo, who went on to terrorize humanity. Yajirobe lampshades that there are some really nasty humans in the world and couldn't blame Piccolo for being corrupted. In the early story arcs of the series, most of the focus is on Goku fighting humans who had no problem stealing, killing, and terrorizing their fellow man. The best example being the Red Ribbon Army who executed children and Commander Red sacrificing his own men just to use the Dragon Balls to get taller. Kami held this view which is why he didn't want to revive the Dragon Balls after Piccolo killed the Eternal Dragon Shenron. According to him, the humans turned his symbol of hope and courage, the Dragon Balls, into items of greed and murder. He only changes his mind after seeing Goku's selfless nature, despite Goku not being a human. Then again, he could have seen Goku as a representation of humanity since he was raised among them. This especially holds true if he knew what Goku was before being found by Gohan. In Dragon Ball Super Zamasu believes this but on a wider scale: He believes ALL mortals are corrupt and that gods are too useless to do anything about them. He does not act upon it, however, until an encounter with Goku, at which point he steals Goku's body (becoming Goku Black) and uses it to try to kill ALL the mortals (and any gods who oppose him). Then he goes to an alternate timeline and teams up with another version of himself. And it only gets worse from there... |
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Soul Series: Though many evil characters in the story have the excuse of being corrupted or driven insane by Soul Edge, Tira is actually Nightmare's Perky Female Minion of her own volition. Raised as an assassin from birth and horrifically insane, she sees Nightmare as a kindred spirit and unlike Astaroth, Ivy, Voldo and Sophitia, she is genuinely and completely loyal to him. | |
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The Hunger Games: Katniss eventually has this opinion after a long reflection in Mockingjay, having endured a brutal dictatorship and an equally brutal civil war where she lost the only person she's certain she loved and had to assassinate the would-be dictator to avert a Full-Circle Revolution. | |
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In the reboot to She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, after discovering a near-unlimited source of magical energy, the human empire of Eternia attempted omnicide against the rest of the universe by using the energy as a superweapon because they considered other races a blight upon existence. It just goes to show that no level of energy production can stop humans from being assholes. They were only stopped by a bigger asshole: Horde Prime. | |
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The First Purge shows that when the Purge was first implemented, people were in fact not bastards - they used it to get high and have orgies, instead of going on murder sprees as the government expected. To correct that uncomfortable fact, they deploy armed mercenaries. | |
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Frozen Hearts (Red Witch): Most of the characters in Ooo sees the humans as one and considering their leaders, their observation is not far off. | |
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Discussed by two fae in Gungnir. Appears a lot in the Dept. Heaven series as a whole, though some may have reasons for being bastards. Some may end up not even being human at all! | |
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For such a lighthearted series, Mother 3 drives this point home when you least expect it. Really, even if the Big Bad is loathsome, despicable, and a sick monster in every way, shape and form, you can't help but agree with him just a little bit when he delivers his "The Reason You Suck" Speech. In a nutshell, the Tazmily Villagers erased their memories for a more Utopian society to prevent another Apocalypse from happening that nearly wiped out all the humans in the first place. It is mentioned in-game that humans have destroyed themselves in one way or another, but it is left ambiguous. War? Pollution? Overpopulation? Who knows, these are all guesses. But, instead of learning from their mistakes, they instead get corrupted by the Big Bad, who is, funnily enough, a symbol of humanity. | |
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In chapter 13 of My Name Is Molly, Liam regrets not doing The Operation to turn him into a Funny Animal. He monologues that humans are monsters for bombing their species instead of looking for a cure. The animals seem more peaceful and are blissfully ignorant about The Plague. | |
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Apparently, Disillusioned Adventurers Will Save the World: A translation of the manga's title is "Adventurers Who Don't Believe in Humanity Will Save the World" and "Humans are Bastards" is almost literally one of the first lines of the manga, with Nick and the his future teammates agreeing that humans are completely untrustworthy due to each of them having experienced profound betrayal by people they trusted. Ironically three of the team's members are human and shown to be good people, getting along well with each other... but not without setting a few ground rules ahead of time first. | |
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Tracker (2001): Cole occasionally feels this way, finding humans frustrating. Mel usually agrees that he has a point. | |
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Elfen Lied is a shining example of both this trope and Humans Are the Real Monsters. The diclonii are treated horribly in this series, and humans who want to help them aren't really treated kindly either. | |
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Quite a few Kaijus and more than one eco-terrorist organization believe this in The New Age of Monsters and would love to eradicate all humans - or at least kill a few billion so that the rest know their place. | |
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Bad Robots uses this as the justification for its pranks. A robot named Tez One has gained sentience, and witnessed humans mistreat their electrical appliances. So he forms TezCorp to manufacture products that torture and screw humans over with this trope as the justification. | |
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Explored in the Chapter Black arc of YuYu Hakusho. The Big Bad is a former spirit detective who used to have a rigid Black-and-White Morality view of demons and humans, until he crashed the secret Black Book Club and witnessed that the evil rich old men that make up the club's membership have been capturing, torturing and murdering demons for their own amusement. The sight completely shattered his worldview and he vowed to Kill All Humans, recruiting followers by stealing a tape from the Underworld called the Chapter Black tape, containing hours of mankind's worst deeds, capable of turning anyone who watches it into a Straw Nihilist with an utter disdain for humanity. However, Koenma eventually reveals that the Chapter Black tape was never meant to be watched by itself. Instead, it's supposed to be watched at the same time as a similar "Chapter White" tape that shows mankind's most compassionate and altruistic moments, giving the viewer an idea of mankind's potential for good and evil in equal measure. | |
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Rhys from Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues wholly believes that humanity is inherently flawed, and that he's the only person capable of doing 'the right thing'. | |
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Lastly, Fire Emblem: Awakening, a distant sequel to Shadow Dragon has the Taguel, rabbit people who were apparently genocided by humans with unknown motives in a vaguely defined incident. The apparent last taguel, Panne accuses Emmeryn, the leader of a human nation, out on this, but softens when Emmeryn apologizes for the behavior of her race. Ironically though the supposed Taguel prejudice is never seen at all, not even with the villains! | |
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On the whole, The Animatrix: The Second Rennissance explains that the Machines were not so much trying to overthrow humanity but pushed to the brink by humanity's own callousness and disregard for their right to be treated as equal. The endgame of reducing humans to living power sources that are trapped in a virtual simulation of life before the war is almost like a gesture of mercy given how unfairly and cruelly humans used the Machine race. | |
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In Transformers (2007), both Ironhide and Megatron tell Optimus that humans are primitive brutes who are better off dead as while Optimus asserts that they're just young, underdeveloped and overall naive. | |
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Demon Hunter: The Return of the Wings: Greed comments that he finds it intriguing how on Earth, unlike in Akoron, humans regularly kill each other and the best destroyers are regarded as heroes. | |
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The Purge Universe: The Purge shows that the people of the United States are perfectly fine with a 12-hour period each year, when all crimes are legal, resulting in an annual bloodbath. The purge psychologically influences American civilians into thinking that crime does pay because at least during those 12 hours it's true. The government covers up their agenda by telling the public it's to vent their anger, but really, it's a social darwinistic measure used to attack the poor and homeless so as to help the elite rich get even richer. The First Purge shows that when the Purge was first implemented, people were in fact not bastards - they used it to get high and have orgies, instead of going on murder sprees as the government expected. To correct that uncomfortable fact, they deploy armed mercenaries. |
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Elves seem to take this attitude towards men in The Lord of the Rings, only to be proven wrong by the riders of Rohan coming to the aid of Gondor. Though their dislike of men is justified, considering the last man who had the ring kept it for himself until it killed him. | |
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In X-Men: Apocalypse, it's worth noting that the Misanthrope Supreme of the film is also the antagonist. | |
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The third game reveals that humanity is merely following the same pattern every other race in the galaxy that preceded it followed. Every race became victims of entropy, limited resources, and the temptation of the Brethren Moons' Markers and destroyed themselves. | |
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Venom Snake, via through one of the cassette tapes, makes a remark on how Hot Coldman is proven wrong about humanity's goodness by thinking that they would allow themselves to be nuked to avoid a nuclear apocalypse, and severely underestimated on what they're capable of as they're this close to launching a retaliatory strike and they only stopped when Peace Walker drowned itself. Which, much like Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a huge swerve in when it comes to the portrayal of humans as the primary series is all about Rousseau Was Right, where no matter how loathsome they are, they normally have a tragic backstory that explains their actions.note For reference, the Pieuvre Armement only executed captive rebels because the low oxygen in the mountainous region made them unnecessarily aggressive, due to their SOP system being at their absolute limit (with implications that, had it not for said system, they would, at least, treat them like people). The Middle Eastern rebels only executed Praying Mantis troops because of the need to conserve their rations, and the heat of the battle meant that they have no time to relax | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): In "Is My Very Nature That of a Devil", Lestat de Lioncourt thinks it's absurd that Louis de Pointe du Lac wants to be picky about which humans they eat based on their prey's accomplishments because in Lestat's opinion, humans are fundamentally evil beneath the veneer of civilization. | |
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Master Xehanort of Kingdom Hearts has this attitude towards the people of the World. Something he went through in his youth, including a tour of the many smaller worlds, led him to believe that the light in people's hearts was a "total farce", that people were predisposed to being self-deluding weaklings that stole power from each other and led everything to ruin. He decided the only real solution was to use Kingdom Hearts, the heart of everything, purge the current World of all false lights, return everything to the darkness whence it came, and create a new empty World. And he went about it by... stealing power from others, deluding himself into thinking he was truly strong, and leading everything to ruin. | |
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Sgt. Frog: Well, at least, that's what the Angol clan considers humanity to be in the manga, sensing various evil thoughts throughout the world and being able to count how many sins are happening on Earth in a specific moment. This would explain why the Angols seem nice, despite their destructive aims. Also in Soulcalibur 4, which features Angol Fear, Angol Mois' cousin who'd go on to appear in the Keroro manga later. Her story suggests the Angol race thinks Humans Are Bastards, and possibly the reason they want to destroy Earth is to save the rest of the Universe from that corruption expanding; Ultimately, Angol Fear observes that there are many innocent humans, and leaves it up to Angol Mois to decide whether to destroy Earth or not. |
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Monster Loves You! seems like it's going to play this straight at first, then completely subverts it. While Monsters and Humans initially have some fear and dislike towards each other, as a whole, both sides are actually pretty reasonable if you aren't actively trying to cause trouble. | |
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Shows up as graffiti in the "Dead Air" campaign of Left 4 Dead ("WE ARE THE REAL MONSTERS!"). Also mocked right after ("Have you been outside JACKASS!!"). They really miss the internet. Shows up again in "The Passing", as a piece of commentary on bathroom graffiti. "I flushed it 50 times and now it DOESN'T WORK!","You IDIOT! YOU ARE THE REAL MONSTER" |
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