History Main / ProHumanTransHuman

* The Bowman's Robots from ''{{Freefall}}'' arguably fit into this trope as a whole. Despite being designed as expendable labor, and the evident fact that no ammount of hard-coded safeguards can stand up to the full sapience they (accidentally) wound up with, they still want nothing more than to be of use to humanity. One (minority) faction even believes that the best way they can do so is by wiping themselves out wholesale, not just to ensure that they ''never'' become a threat to humanity, but also because the absence of adversity humanity would be stranded in, surrounded by millions upon millions of eager-to-serve robots capable of independent thought and action, would sap mankind of any philosophical impetus to continue pushing the boundaries of the cosmos - essentially rendering humans 'obsolete' amongst the hardier, faster-replicating robots, no matter how benevolent they may be.

* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent The Brotherhood]] is presented this way in ''Film/PerfectCreature''. They are an [[OneGenderRace all-male]] order of [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire vampire monks]] that are perceived as superior to humans in every way (stronger, faster, smarter and long-lived) therefore closer to God, but are nominally sworn to guide and protect them and have managed to live in peace and prosperity with humans for centuries, surviving on willingly donated blood by church goers, and they consider abhorrent to drink directly from the body. [[spoiler: However, its revealed that they are corrupt in many ways, such as subtly keeping mankind dependent on their rule by outlawing scientific research, and being indirectly responsible for the main villain's actions by practicing it in secret: in a effort to produce more vampires after no new ones being born in decades, they commission the BigBad to perform experiments on the virus that ends up infecting him and driving him insane]].

* The ''[[Franchise/GodEater God Eater]]'' series features this trope more subtly in the form of the titular God Eaters. In order to use their God Arcs and defend humanity, they need to be injected with Oracle Cells that effectively turn them part Aragami. Otherwise, they would not only lack the strength and endurance needed to fight said Aragami, but would also literally be eaten alive by their own weapons. The use of a [[FantasticDrug powerful drug called Bias Factor]] is the only thing keeping them from transforming fully into the same monsters they fight.

-->'''Bakugou:''' You think you're ''so'' special, don't you, Deku? You think that you can have a Quirk like yours, show me up one time, and then just get away with not having the balls to settle things?!

* Mr. House in [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Fallout: New Vegas]] is this in spades. [[spoiler: While he claims to be “flesh and blood, not silicon,” he projects his will through a brain-computer interface into an army of robots, all of which are functional extensions of his body when they’re close enough to the Lucky 38, and any Courier who turns against him will probably see the [[WasOnceAMan extent]] of his cybernetics. And his ''stated'' [[GratuitousFrench raison d'être]]? Nothing less than “[Give me] 100 years, and my colony ships will be heading for the stars, to search for planets unpolluted by the wrath and folly of a bygone generation.” He’s as cold as you like, but he does want to save humanity (though he [[HobbesWasRight doesn’t respect most of it]], much less trust it to [[DemocracyIsBad govern itself]]).]]

* Adam Jensen in [[Fanfic/MassEffectHumanRevolution [=Mass Effect: Human Revolution=]]] is this trope even more than he was in [[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution [=Deus Ex: Human Revolution=]]], to the point where Hein means to use him to force humanity as a whole into a HeelFaceTurn

* Virtually everyone who's not a "flat" (unaugmented human) is some shade of this by default in ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase''. Not much of a choice since the vast majority of those who survived the hard-takeoff {{Singularity}} were transhumans (and the harsh realities of the setting will ensure that they stay the majority no matter what anyone has to say about it); in fact, the setting refers to ''trans''humanity. Though there are exceptions such as the Exhumans (in particular the [[ImAHumanitarian Predator]] sub-faction) and the {{U|bermensch}}ltimates.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', part of the Joining Ritual to become a [[BadassArmy Grey Warden]] involves ritually drinking Darkspawn blood, where the Wardens willingly submit themselves to [[TheCorruption the Taint]], becoming immune to it's effects [[spoiler: ([[YourDaysAreNumbered for thirty years]])]], gaining the ability to [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling sense the Darkspawn]] and rendering them the only ones capable of truly slaying an Archdemon, thus ending the latest Blight.

* ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series does this as a tradition. For instance, the original show (also named ''Series/KamenRider'') involves the main character becoming a Shocker cyborg monster, but he didn't lose his humanity and used the same transformation to fight the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Shocker creations]].

** Pretty much all the series more or less follow the same idea of their ability to transform being related to the villain of the show.

* The Thing of ''ComicBook/FantasticFour''.

* Just about every superhero ever, or at least the ones that aren't space aliens or [[BadassNormal Badass Normals]].

* Even though ''[[MassHypnosis literally all]]'' humans in the ''FanFic/{{Pokeumans}}'' universe are sleeper agents for Pokextinction, the members of the Pokeumans organisation are still determined to protect them from people who have no scruples with using the new powers of their transformation freely and dangerously. It doesn't help that Pokextinction's plans towards their said sleeper agents are callous at best and KillEmAll at worst.

And I will watch over the ones who live on. Those who carry the memory of the man I once was.\\
The man who gave up his life to become the one who could save the many.''"

** Also, DEATH himself is fond of people, and on more than one occasion actively defends them.

* DCComics hero ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}}.

{{Opposite Trope|s}} to TranshumanTreachery. SuperTrope to VampireRefugee and PhlebotinumRebel. See also/compare AGodIAmNot.

* David Bowman in ''Literature/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact''. Transformed into a demigod by the Monolith, one of his first acts after awakening in his new form is to say goodbye to his wife and mother, as well as sending as warning to the crew of the ''Discovery'' for them to evacuate the area around Jupiter immediately before the Monoliths turn it into a star.

* In ''TrinityBlood'', Abel Nightroad is a Cruznik, a being that feeds upon vampires (and is thus two steps above humans in the [[FoodChainOfEvil food chain]]). That doesn't stop him from devoting his life to defending humanity, and using his relatively harmless default form to masquerade as a normal human. He is an interesting example of a Pro-Human Transhuman in that he was a DesignerBaby and thus born a transhuman. [[spoiler: He was also originally quite anti-human.]]

* Amuro Rey of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' upon discovery and confirmation that he is in fact a new type argues that this does not make him special or any better than anyone else on the White Base crew. Even later on in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'' he outright says he is not going to force humanity to change and would rather wait it out.

-->-- '''Commander Shepard''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''[[note]][[https://youtu.be/lX7HDcvw2pk?t=792 Paragon, Control Ending]][[/note]]

* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent The Brotherhood]] are presented this way in ''Film/PerfectCreature'' are an [[OneGenderRace all-male]] order of [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire vampire]] monks that are perceived as superior to humans in every way (stronger, faster, smarter and long-lived) therefore closer to God, but are nominally sworn to guide and protect them and have managed to live in peace and prosperity with humans for centuries, although under their benevolent rule.

->''"I will rebuild what the many have lost. I will create a future with limitless possibilities. I will protect and sustain. I will act as guardian for the many. And throughout it all, I will never forget. I will remember the ones who sacrificed themselves so that the many could survive. And I will watch over the ones who live on. Those who carry the memory of the man I once was. The man who gave up his life to become the one who could save the many."''