History Main / HumansAreTheRealMonsters

* Implied in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgOAR4Xq4Y "Bolero" sequence]] of ''WesternAnimation/AllegroNonTroppo'': Life on a distant planet evolves out of a [[ShoutOut discarded]] [[Film/TheGodsMustBeCrazy soda bottle]]. Eventually, apes (who are [[DarkIsEvil masses of black, sketchy fur]] compared to the brightly-colored cartoon animals and have [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] set in [[BlackEyesOfCrazy black sclera]]) are revealed as cheating bastards who don't follow the animals' evolutionary path [[spoiler: and eventually mess up the planet by creating war, religion, and destructive cities. By the end they have evolved into humans but on the inside they're still vicious, unsatisfied animals.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/PeaceOnEarth'': Humans are portrayed as warmongering monsters who drove themselves to extinction through their constant conflicts, to the point that they finally went extinct when the last two humans alive shot each other. The animal society that arose in their wake, by contrast, is peaceful and essentially utopian.

** It's implied that Luz Noceda believes a Downplayed version of the trope. While Luz doesn't exactly hate humans, she has a very low opinion about her own kind (except for her own family) due to years of social isolation and pressure from society expectations, to the point she would rather get along with witches and demons from a DeathWorld who at least accept her for who she is, and the idea of interacting with another random human would literally freak her out out of social anxiety.
** PlayedStraight with [[spoiler: Philip Wittebane, a.k.a. Emperor Belos, a delusional WitchHunter from the 1600s, who wants to commit mass witch genocide out of FantasticRacism, and he even killed his own brother for daring to engage with a hot witch girl]].

* ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'': Batman forces Darkseid to return Supergirl to the heroes by threatening to destroy his planet. Darkseid commends him on such a ruthless maneuver, stating that it was believable coming from him (and would've failed were it done by a certain Kryptonian and Amazon) because humans are renowned for killing their own kind in order to win.

* Batman forces Darkseid to release Supergirl into the heroes' custody by threatening to destroy his planet. Darkseid commends him on such a ruthless maneuver, stating that it was believable coming from him (and would've failed were it done by a certain Kryptonian and Amazon) because humans are renowned for killing their own kind in order to win.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ha6xUVqezQ This add]] plays it straight then [[InvertedTrope flips it on its head]] in its GreenAesop. A young girl is frustrated because there is a monkey in her bedroom, it won't leave, and she doesn't know what to do. When she finally manages convince it to go, she gets curious about why it was there to begin with. The monkey tells her that [[IronicEcho there are humans in her forest, they won't leave, and it doesn't know what to do.]] it tells her that they killed its mother and almost did the same to her. She escaped the destuction and tried to hide in the girls bedroom for safety. The Spanish version is worse because the corporation workers also killed its friends. Touched by the monkey's story, the girl decides to help. It's slightly notorious because it shows both the worst in humanity (callousness/Enviromental damage, ruthless greed and cruelty/[[CorruptCorporateExecutive corruption]]) and the best ([[FriendToAllLivingThings unconditional compassion]], love and Environmental friendliness) putting it more into HumansAreFlawed territory.

* Melanie Gillman's "The King's Forest" uses this as the twist. A young, ailing girl who tresspasses in the titular forest to eat a magic flower ends up befriending the guardsman, all the while warning her of a beast with ten spikes and sharp black claws that loves to hunt children for sport. For the majority of the comic, the guardsman does not see this beast and only increasingly becomes skeptical. It's not until the end of the comic that we see the ill girl was talking about [[spoiler:the King, who reveals his true colors when he and his entourage fatally cut her down and then nonchalantly ask the guardsman to rid the forest of their unsightly "beast". [[ExactWords The guardsman]] [[DefectorFromDecadance obliges]].]]

* ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'' is a clear case in Marvel Comics; a whole story run on the premise of Time Lords trying to prevent the timelines with bad futures where humanity becomes an evil empire and conquers the universe. This plot thread has continued since ''Avengers Forever''; it drove the ''Maximum Security'' crossover and is arguably at the heart of the ''Infinity'' event.

** It’s implied that Luz Noceda believes a Downplayed version of the trope. While Luz doesn’t exactly hate humans, she has a very low opinion about her own kind (except for her own family) due to years of social isolation and pressure from society expectations, to the point she would rather get along with witches and demons from a DeathWorld who at least accept her for who she is, and the idea of interacting with another random human would literally freak her out out of social anxiety.
** PlayedStraight with [[spoiler: Philip Witterbane, a.k.a. Emperor Belos, a delusional WitchHunter from the 1600, who wants to commit mass witch genocide out of FantasticRacism, and he even killed his own brother for daring to engage with a hot witch girl.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': ** It’s implied that Luz Noceda believes a Downplayed version of the trope. While Luz doesn’t exactly hate humans, she has a very low opinion about her own kind (except for her own family) due to years of social isolation and pressure from society expectations, to the point she would rather get along with witches and demons from a DeathWorld who at least accept her for who she is, and the idea of interacting with another random human would literally freak her out out of social anxiety.

When humans are seen as uncivilized savages, see HumansAreMorons. When monsters are met with unexpected opposition, that's HumansAreWarriors. When humans are seen as monsters by lesser beings and animals, it's HumansAreCthulhu. For a much more minor scale, see HumansAreFlawed. For humans being inhuman toward their fellow humans in general, see HumansAreBastards. Frequently involves WhatMeasureIsANonHuman and HobbesWasRight.　May be paired with DeathMeansHumanity to invoke a more egalitarian change in perspective amongst the humans. Compare/contrast HumansAreSpecial, HumansAreGood, and AliensAreBastards.

** Olga and Chloe believe in this trope wholeheartedly, due to the FantasticRacism dark elves faced, together with their subsequent enslavement in Eostia. To say that they are not happy about relying on Kyril, a human [[spoiler:(well, [[HumanoidAbomination humanoid]], actually)]], for their GreatEscape is certainly an understatement.

* In the ''Fanfic/TheFaceless'' there's the Shinigami Servitors--a group of fanatical humans that feed the Shinigami "undesirables" so that they themselves won't be killed.

* Melanie Gillman's "The King's Forest" uses this as the twist. A young, ailing girl who tresspasses in the titular forest to eat a magic flower ends up befriending the guardsman, all the while warning her of a beast with ten spikes and sharp black claws that loves to hunt children for sport. For the majority of the comic, the guardsman does not see this beast and only increasingly becomes skeptical. It's not until the end of the comic that we see the ill girl was talking about [[spoiler:the King, who reveals his true colors when he and his entourage fatally cut her down and then nonchalantly ask the guardsman to rid the forest of their unsightly "beast". [[ExactWords The guardsman]] [[DefectorFromDecadance obliges]].]]

* ''Website/GoodbyeStrangers'': Many strangers kill humans in gruesome ways but you can't really hate them for it because they don't really have minds in the same way that people or animals do. Humans meanwhile [[MonsterOrganTrafficking extract drugs and other useful substances from them]], [[PoweredByAForsakenChild use them as living batteries]], and even [[BestialityIsDepraved sexually abuse them]].

* Although it's not directly stated, and not that the MoralGuardians cared, Music/TheRollingStones' "SympathyForTheDevil" strongly suggests that the Devil in question is humanity itself.

* ''Website/GoodbyeStrangers'': Many strangers kill humans in gruesome ways but you can't really hate them for it because they don't really have minds in the same way that people or animals do. Strangers end up becoming the real victims as humans [[MonsterOrganTrafficking extract drugs and other useful substances from them]], [[PoweredByAForsakenChild use them as living batteries]], and even [[BestialityIsDepraved sexually abuse them]].

* ''Website/GoodbyeStrangers'': Many strangers kill humans in gruesome ways but you can't really hate them for it because they don't really have minds in the same way that people or animals do. Strangers end up becoming the real victims as humans [[MainliningTheMonster extract drugs and other useful substances from them]], [[PoweredByAForsakenChild use them as living batteries]], and even [[BestialityIsDepraved sexually abuse them]].

* In ''Fanfic/{{Daemorphing}}: The Presence of Justice'', half of the Animorphs and Gonrod go on a mission to a mundane human prison. Marco is horrified to see so many people his age incarcerated there just because they're Hispanic, while Gonrod (who's from a species of infamously XenophobicHerbivores) is ''shocked'' that humans arrest minors.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': The one-shot villain Dick Hardly, in spades. A mere human manages to be the most evil character on the show. He wasn't born to be a monster like [[MadeOfEvil HIM]] nor is a TragicVillain like Mojo Jojo and other one-shot villains. However, what he lacks superpowers he makes up for in cruelty and malice.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'', humans are portrayed as a race that at first seemed defenseless and at the mercy of elves and dragons due to their lack of magic, then is revealed that humans are the cause of many calamities because of their will to destroy and exploit anything they come across to use dark magic, as humans were willing to betray the unicorns that helped them with primal stones, invade and destroy the land of Xadia and kill their prince Azymondias. There were a few humans willing to help xadia outof genuine kindness

* In a short story from ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'' the eponymous agents are dispatched into a forest to investigate a series of weird occurrences and find themselves surrounded by monsters once they get there. Upon meeting a somewhat-humanoid monster (had a smaller head on top of his normal one) though, it is revealed that these monsters are mostly inoffensive. They were aliens who [[TheArk escaped their planet in a spaceship]] because their planet was too polluted and wanted to find a better home on Earth...only to find out that [[GreenAesop Earth was just as polluted if not even worse]] and that [[MugglePower the locals were quite hostile to them]]. In the end, he and the rest of the monsters leave to find a more peaceful place, and while Filemón comments on how the monsters left, Mortadelo, [[UpToEleven disguised as a monster no less]], comments on how [[{{Anvilicious}} "the monsters actually stayed"]].

* Taken UpToEleven in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony,'' when is an actual reality show [[MetaSequel based off the now in-universe]] ''[[MetaSequel Danganronpa]]'' [[MetaSequel 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.

* "Music/ATrickOfTheTail" by Music/{{Genesis}} involved a satyr-like "Beast" venturing from his paradise out of boredom and coming across the human race. Not only did he consider the beings strange, he was subject to their mistreatment as he was caged as an exhibit.

* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7170477/1/Renegade_Reinterpretations Renegade Reinterpretations]]'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect'' fanfiction, the human race's first contact with the wider galaxy happened much earlier, and with the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Batarians.]] Humanity spends the next hundred years playing catch-up, and is only able to survive by stooping to the barbarians level. In this timeline, Cerberus are viewed as ''heroes'' for experiments that even the ''canon'' Cerberus would have thought appalling. Once Humanity decides to go on the warpath against the Batarians (and is capable of doing so), the Citadel offers to make humanity a member race, give them reparations, money, land, medicine, technology, and all former Batarian territory. All they had to do was '''NOT''' invade the Batarian Homeworld. Humanity's response? "They went to the trouble of looking up what the largest fleet in the galaxy had been so they could surpass it by a time and a half."

* ''Fanfic/WeightlessMassEffect'': Shepard preferred other species (turians in particular) to her own. At one point, she flat out said "I hate humanity" to Karin. Her greatest enemy in this story, according to WordOfGod, is her own disbelief in the value of her species. As [[spoiler: Nihlus]] said ''"He had never, in all his travels, seen a species so cruel to its own children."''
* That's the whole cause of the Tarbes Arc of ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8903072/1/Halkegenia-Online Halkegenia Online]]''. If [[spoiler: Fernand hasn't destroyed Sayuri's garden]], the pixies would not have attacked the village in the first place.
* In the ''Fanfic/TheFaceless'' there's the Shinigami Servitors--a group of fanatical humans that feed the Shinigami "undesirables" so that they themselves won't be killed.
* Played with in ''Fanfic/GoddessRebornChronicle'' in that humans ([[LightIsNotGood and angels]]) can be as evil as demons are reputed to be but [[NobleDemon demons are capable as being absolutely good and noble]]. [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei This it inherited from its parent source]] but the point is made that choices are always possible, it being its foremost theme-even if the choices are hard or cruel, those choices still exist.

* ''Fanfic/AmbienceAFleetSymphony'': While ship girls are flawed, some very much so, it's baseline humans who commit or order most of the worst atrocities in the story. As Damon himself says on a few occasions, despite their artificial nature, ship girls generally are more humane than the actual humans.
* Actually ''inverted'' in the second ''Fanfic/BigHumanOnCampus After School'' omake, which is from the point of view of Guile, one of Ranma's pet giant spiders. Turns out, spiders see humans as gods, due to their civilization-creating abilities. Monsters are considered false gods, base creatures who can only destroy and ape humanity's form because they're jealous. Spider-monsters are "demigods". Even witches (who are a halfway point between humans and monsters, being biologically human but with magical abilities) are considered lesser creatures than humans.
** The main story also loves subverting and deconstructing it. While humans have done bad things, these were mostly out of ignorance and are nowhere ''near'' the level of horrific violence that is considered normal at [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Youkai Academy]]. Monsters, on the other hand, tend to very deliberately inflict DisproportionateRetribution on humans for these slights. For example, humanity's conflict with Oyakata. They wanted to turn an uninhabited (to their knowledge) knoll into a garbage dump. Oyakata, in return, wants to kill ''thousands'' of humans, using invasive species that would themselves be very bad for the knoll.
* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' shows that there are many Pokémon who hold the view of humans being "violent, unruly and destructive". Iris' Dragonite grandfather acknowledges they're capable of great destruction, having witnessed Nimbasa City being razed to the ground in the past.
* Humans in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11052334/1/Stockholm-Syndrome Stockholm Syndrome]]'' manage to be pretty terrible even compared to their portrayal in [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} the original.]] Their FantasticRacism goes so far that most humans see no problem in enslaving the faunus and treating them in a way that borders on StupidEvil, as they are actively damaging their own property. Apparently, they even keep stones in the public areas just to throw them at any stray faunus. Yang, [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch being something of an exception]], admits that humanity is messed up and doesn't even try to make Blake hate humans any less.

* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'':
** Olga and Chloe believe in this trope wholeheartedly, due to the FantasticRacism dark elves faced, together with their subsequent enslavement in Eostia. To say that they are not happy about relying on Kyril, a human [[spoiler:(well, [[HumanoidAbomination humanoid]], actually)]], for their GreatEscape is certainly an understatement.
** Also a prevalent view amongst [[BeastMan Wild]] [[CatFolk Ones]], the tribes who have lived here before the Eostians took over and forced them out of their homes. At present, many of them find themselves on the receiving end of the Leaping Lizards, who are human slavers.

** This is the theme of [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/515086/you-know-nothing-of-agony You Know Nothing Of Agony]]: the tortures man can inflict on another man surpass anything an Equestrian villain would ever dream of.