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** The Showa-era shows (1971-1989) were about ordinary people being subjected to UnwillingRoboticisation by evil organizations or cults, only to escape with their free will intact and use their newfound powers to protect humanity. The few exceptions are [[Series/KamenRiderV3 V3]] and [[Series/KamenRiderStronger Stronger]] (who willingly became cyborgs so they could fight the bad guys) and [[Series/KamenRiderAmazon Amazon]] (whose powers come from a {{Mayincatec}} artifact).

** After coming BackFromTheDead it's revealed that his plans were ''always'' to fight the Burning Legion and that any 'evilness' on his part up to the point of his death was him being an UnscrupulousHero believing the GodzillaThreshold was in effect.. and being ''really bad'' at explaining his actions to those who didn't believe it. By the point of his resurrection, the GodzillaThreshold truly is in effect, and so despite being more demon than elf and, you know, dying at the hands of the people who now resurrected him, he is still resolutely focused on the big picture: Demons bad; KillEmAll.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonMonsterX Vivienne Graham]] has been resurrected as half of a TwoBeingsOneBody Titan alongside San, yet she's not only on the side of humanity overall, she's also liable to go out of her and San's way to try and help any humans in mortal peril in the hybrid's immediate vicinity, showing concern for individual human lives to an extent that goes beyond Godzilla's and even Mothra's pro-human compassion.

* ''Film/AlienResurrection'': Although she really seems to connect with the Xenomorphs that were created from her, the Xenomorph DNA-tainted [[Characters/Characters/AlienResurrection Ripley 8]] ultimately sides with the human cast in fighting off the Xenomorphs with deadly force and trying to get off the ''Auriga'' with their lives.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has [[SoullessShell Sam when he was temporarily soulless]], he still dedicated his life to hunting (though [[ShootTheDog a bit]] [[TheUnfettered differently]]) and still seemed to care about pleasing his brother.
* ''Series/SweetHome'': Hyun-su, despite being mistrusted and mistreated, decides to help his fellow survivors. It pays off as they make {{Heel Realization}}s and accept him over time.

* [[OurVampiresAreDifferent The Brotherhood]] is presented this way in ''Film/PerfectCreature''. They are an [[OneGenderRace all-male]] [[ReligiousVampire Christian 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 churchgoers, and they consider it abhorrent to drink directly from the body. [[spoiler: However, it's 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 an 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]].

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* The female lead hero ''WesternAnimation/CyberSix'' from the animated show of the same name. While pretending to be a "normal" human by day and "becoming" the hero Cybersix and fighting monsters by night.

* Sergeant Tarkus from ''[[VideoGame/DawnOfWar Warhammer 40K: Dawn Of War II]]'', to the point where he has the FanNickName of "Grim Dark Kenshiro" by 1d4chan.

** ''TabletopGame/DeadlandsHellOnEarth'': The Doomsayers are mutants with radiation-based superpowers, who walk the Earth preaching about how the Atom took Earth from the humans and mutants are destined to take over the planet. They are also generally kind and compassionate, and willing to help non-mutants in trouble. They still think they're better than you and that you are doomed to extinction, but see no reason to be assholes about it. That said, there are [[EvilCounterpart Dark Doomsayers]], who are disappointed at the slow rate of humanity's extinction and are more than willing to help it along.

* Defied in ''Film/{{Ultraviolet}}'', where a human tries to reason with the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent not-vampire]] heroine, saying she was human once, too. She dismisses it, saying that humans were who made her that way and then wanted her dead, so she owes them no loyalty.

* In ''Literature/Echopraxia'' [[TheProtagonist Daniel Brüks]] is a biology professor who takes mental enhancement pills and uses lucid dreaming learning, but this to keep to up with his peers, as Daniel is an otherwise normal human in a world where transhumanism is running rampant. One other character consistently call Daniel "Roach", a term for baseline humans. It turns out that it isn't a slur, but a term of patronizing affection; while transhumans are typically stronger or smarter than unaugmented humans by an order of magnitude, they stay on the bleeding by constantly upgrading with experimental technology. The tradeoff is that transhumans are prone to hacks, buggy or manipulated biological and cybernetic enhancements, and exotic means of attack. Unaugmented humans, though physically unimpressive and/or kind of stupid in comparison, remain a fine-tuned survival machine, shaped by millions of years of evolution. [[spoiler:By the end of the story, Daniel, and arguably [[OldSoldier Jim]], are the only characters that survive, though Daniel's tenure as "human", even by the loose standards set by the transhumans, is clearly at an end.]]

* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', [[spoiler:Eren is a human who can transform into a Titan.]] He is firmly on the side of humanity [[spoiler:unlike the other Titan Shifters, who are either TheMole, or, in case of Ymir, a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor.]] Unfortunately, this is subverted when Eren and the cast learn the cold hard truth [[spoiler:about the humans outside the walls who want them dead because they see them as "devils". By then, Eren decides to use his abilities to wage war against the rest of humanity to free his people.]]

* In Creator/LarryNiven's ''Literature/KnownSpace'' Pak Protectors evolved to be this, they are hardwired to protect their descendants no matter what, however they will attempt to exterminate any other sapients including other Paks (except for the rare few whose descendants are all dead and have dealt with it by protecting the whole species), and will even kill their descendants who have mutations. Humans evolved from a LostColony of Pak Breeders and have differentiated so far that Pak Protectors will destroy them if given the chance, however humans can become Protectors and are intelligent enough to rationalize that they should protect all of humanity. Unfortunately [[TheUnfettered this includes using the virus]] that causes Protector transformation on an entire planet to [[WhatTheHellHero kill off everyone too young or too old to become a Protector]] and create an army of childless Protectors [[IDidWhatIHadToDo to fight off the coming Pak invasion fleet]].

** Taken even further in ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}} 3'', where a protracted nanotech FusionDance has you playing as [[spoiler:an amalgam one dead guy's body, another dead guy's personality, and both of their memories, with an artificially intelligent suit of PoweredArmor holding it all together.]] You're about as transhuman as it gets, but still firmly on the side of humanity and more badass than ever.

* Stephen from ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' may not be human anymore, but as the representative for the Neutral alignment, he wholeheartedly believes that the world doesn't need to rely on gods or demons to prosper. This reflects the ethos of the real Stephen Hawking, in that he doesn't reject gods but doesn't view them as necessary either.

* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', [[spoiler:Eren is a human who can transform into a Titan.]] He is firmly on the side of humanity [[spoiler:unlike the other Titan Shifters, who are either TheMole, or, in case of Ymir, a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor.]]

* [[BlobMonster Rimuru Tempest]] in ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'', as the name suggests, WasOnceAMan but died and was reincarnated into a fantasy world as a powerful non-humanoid monster. Although he has so far hidden himself from humans out of concern that they might attack him on sight, when he finds himself the ruler of a tribe of goblins, the first rule he establishes is to never attack humans, though he is willing to let self-defense slide by.

* The ''Literature/Aeon 14'' shared universe abounds with pro-human transhumans. Indeed, the average person in 9th millennium advanced societies such as the the FGT, The Transcend, and New Canaan could be considered transhuman given the ubiquity of biological mods, cyberization, and integrated nanotech. Particularly applies to ascended AI's and humans, such as Bob, Tangel, and the Bastions of Star City, who ally themselves with the corporeal humans and Sentient AI's.

* In ''Literature/TheBoojumverse,'' Christian Cultists modify their bodies in ways that make it easier to maintain starships and space stations in order to keep everyone else safe from the horrors of tge universe.

** It does actually vary by Chapter to Chapter on whether they're the protectors of humanity or the executioners of the Emperor's enemies. Some of the nicer Chapters including the Ultramarines (who run a LawfulGood and comparatively pleasant sector of the Imperium), the Space Wolves (who pulled an ''epic'' WhatTheHellHero on the Inquisition and actually had a small war with them at one point over it), the Raven Guard (who will save ''everyone'' or die trying due to their TearJerker past), and the Salamanders (who are the only chapter who actively protect civilians, making them something of an EnsembleDarkhorse in the fandom) count especially as this trope. The [[SociopathicSoldier Flesh Tearers]] and [[SmugSuper Marines Malevolent]], and ''especially'' the [[EvilCounterpart Chaos Space Marines]], however...

* Most of the characters in ''Manga/{{GUNNM}}'' [[MarketBasedTitle /]] ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'', largely justified by the fact that, because the percentage of {{Hollywood Cyborg}}s in the setting is roughly equal to the percentage of the Americans owning cars, the question of WhatMeasureIsANonHuman simply doesn't come up. It is still played straight in cases of [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Caerula Sanguis]] and [[PersonOfMassDestruction the protagonist]], though. In fact, even [[BigBad Aga]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Mbadi]] is in it just for the [[PresidentEvil world]] [[EvilOverlord domination]].

* Sergeant Tarkus from [[VideoGame/DawnOfWar Warhammer 40K: Dawn Of War II]], to the point where he has the FanNickName of "Grim Dark Kenshiro" by 1d4chan.

* 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]]).]]