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| 5 | [[caption-width-right:280:Cat, human, [[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible equally meaty]].]] |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ->'''Red Volcano:''' You stand no chance against me, humans.\ |
| 8 | '''M'gann and Superboy:''' WE'RE NOT HUMAN!\ |
| 9 | '''Red Volcano:''' Apologies. I suppose the properly inclusive term is -- "meatbags". |
| 10 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' |
| 11 | |
| 12 | When humans are referred to as "meatbags" or as otherwise meaty things as a slur by non-meaty, non-human beings. Another, equally valid version, largely in the case of aliens, is that the term is used not as an intentional slur, but simply to express shock or novelty or because the alien does not have another term sufficient to describe them. These examples still count as this trope because they may still be interpreted as insults by humans (including the audience). In fact, this may be played for laughs. |
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| 14 | An additional variation which may or may not warrant its own subtrope involves [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] and similar creatures referring to humans derogatorily as a [[WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere food source]], with the implication that this is all they are good for. |
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| 16 | May frequently overlap with HumansAreUgly, HumansAreMorons and HumansAreFlawed. A subtrope of FantasticSlur. Compare SonOfAnApe, CallARabbitASmeerp and HumansByAnyOtherName. |
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| 19 | !!Examples: |
| 20 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 23 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Poison Ivy has been known to trot these slurs in the comics given her plant-motif. She herself, of course, is also a meatbag. |
| 24 | * The wooden soldiers in ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' tend to refer to anyone who isn't one of them as "meat", with the exception of Geppetto and Pinnochio. |
| 25 | * The @Ats of ''ComicBook/FarSector'' are a race of sentient [=AI=] that share a city with two other races of RubberForeheadAliens and PlantAliens. Consequently, they use the FantasticSlur "meat salad" to deride them both. |
| 26 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'' ComicBook/MachineMan calls humans "fleshy ones". |
| 27 | * The Gen'Dai Cyborg Durge does this once in ''Franchise/{{Star Wars|Legends}}: ComicBook/{{Republic}}'': |
| 28 | -->'''Durge:''' May the Force be with you, Meatbag. |
| 29 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': |
| 30 | ** In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'', the Autobots would refer to humans as humans, while the Decepticons used the more derogatory "fleshling". |
| 31 | ** Throughout the franchise, humans have been known to be called organics, meatbags, insects, squishies, noisy creatures, "puny flesh creatures", and "dumb stubbies". |
| 32 | [[/folder]] |
| 33 | |
| 34 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 35 | * ''Fanfic/AllAssortedAnimorphsAUs'': At the start of "What if Tom was infested by a member of the Yeerk Peace Movement?", Tom is described as "a piece of meat" to emphasise the dehumanizing way Yeerks treat involuntary hosts. |
| 36 | * In the DBZ fanfic ''Fanfic/BringerOfDeath'', Vegeta acquires an assassin droid (based on HK-47 from SWTOR, according to Word of God) who refers to every organic being as a "meatbag" (Except for Vegeta whom he refers to as "The Master", another trait of HK-47), plus or minus some adjective preceding or following the term, to allow the reader to understand about or to whom he is speaking. |
| 37 | * One of ''VideoGame/EndlessSky'' modders [[https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1294447466 has accomplished this completely by accident]] after messing with the dialogue files too much. |
| 38 | -->'''Alien ship:''' [[OhCrap Oh no it's you,]] you lifeform! |
| 39 | * ''Fanfic/OversaturatedWorld'': In [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/323071/28/group-precipitation/under-development-by-fome Under Development,]] a body is referred to by [[spoiler:[[Website/{{Google}} Gillion]]]] as a "sack of meat". |
| 40 | * In ''Fanfic/LimitlessPotential'', Flame Mammoth refers to Chiyo as a "flesh bag", mocking the navigator Trinity for trying to protect her. |
| 41 | * In ''Fanfic/TheNewManAnAdamSmasherSI'', the titular character refers to everyone as "meat" or "meatbag" until they do something to impress him enough to consider them a person. Uriel considers this one of his edgiest character traits. Later on, David Martinez ends up referring to his enemies as "meat" internally due to Smasher's influence. |
| 42 | [[/folder]] |
| 43 | |
| 44 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 45 | * In ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'', the Psychlos typically refer to humans as "man-animals". |
| 46 | * PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/TheFifthElement''. During a police shakedown, Korben Dallas is asked if he identifies as human, only for him to respond with "Er, negative. I am a meat popsicle." |
| 47 | * The Bug "Edgar" from ''Film/MenInBlack'' uses several of these, including "monkey boy", "meat-sack", "milk-suckers", and "unevolved, undeveloped, barely conscious pond scum totally convinced of their own superiority as they scurry about their short pointless lives." Agent K comments on the Bug's "massive inferiority complex" at one point. |
| 48 | * There are two kinds of humans in the movie ''Film/{{Surrogates}}''. Those that use their animatronic counterparts, and those who don't. Those who do always refer to those who don't as "meatbags" as an insult because they refuse to openly embrace the cultural norm. |
| 49 | * Variation: In the ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' Decepticons typically refer to humans as insects. In the first few instances, it seems to be related most directly to our [[PunyEarthlings size and relative lack of advancement]], but ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' raises a more humorous possibility: The Decepticons know that the overwhelming majority of earth's animal life is arthropods, and going by the Fallen's address to "The Human Hive", [[HumansThroughAlienEyes they don't realize Humans aren't amongst them.]] |
| 50 | * Starting with the first ''Film/{{Casper}}'' movie, ghosts and other undead beings usually refer to living, breathing humans as "fleshies". Later installments of the franchise such as ''WesternAnimation/CaspersScareSchool'' also have other paranormal creatures such as monsters and dragons using the term as well. Oddly enough, plenty of these monsters are living, breathing organisms and therefore technically qualify as "fleshies" as well. |
| 51 | [[/folder]] |
| 52 | |
| 53 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 54 | * ''Literature/Aeon14'': In the Rika books, Rika and other mechs refer to baseline humans as "squishies", which is a bit like a tank driver referring to infantry as "crunchies". |
| 55 | * The [[PuppeteerParasite Yeerks]] in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' sometimes refer to humans as "meat", comparing their use of humans as hosts to humans eating cattle. Aftran verbalizes this in ''The Departure'': "You're our meat, moo moo". |
| 56 | * The fairies in ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' call humans "mud people" because they live on the surface instead of underground (obviously, there is no mud there). |
| 57 | * In the ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'', when Aide, a living crystal from Earth's far future, is exasperated with the 6th century humans he's been sent to assist, he calls them "protoplasmic". |
| 58 | * In ''Literature/TheBible'', human weakness is often referred to as "the flesh". This appears in contexts such as, "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" and admonitions to avoid "pleasures of the flesh". |
| 59 | * In ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'', the werewolves refer to humans as "meat-people". This is considered very offensive by the werewolf community despite the fact that humans are unaware of their existence, because they've been trying to stop their kind thinking of humans as meat to be consumed for generations. They've had... ''limited'' success. |
| 60 | * Some of the more snobbish Minds in ''Literature/TheCulture'' tend to refer to humans as "meat." One Mind who was considered to have an unhealthy interest in reading human minds [[spoiler:for the purposes of driving evil people insane]] earned the nickname ''Meatfucker'' -- among the Minds, scanning any sentient without their explicit permission is a ''HUGE'' taboo. |
| 61 | * Robots in ''Literature/TheCyberiad'' usually call humans "palefaces", but occasional "meatbag" still appears here and there. |
| 62 | * The trolls on Literature/{{Discworld}} don't usually use this for the humans (the trolls are living rock) but in ''Literature/MovingPictures'' when a human asks a troll "Why do you eat rock? Aren't you made of it?" the troll's answer is "You're made of meat, and what do you eat?" (Of course, given [[LethalChef they're in the movie studio's canteen]], the human's reply to ''that'' is "Good question!") |
| 63 | * ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': The [[OurVampiresAreDifferent White Court and Red Court vampires]] refer to mortals as "kine" and "cattle" respectively, because they see humans as little more than herd animals for them to eat. The White Court also refer to wizards as "freaks", and Harry explains, "Wizards are deer who can call down the lightning and whip up firestorms. From that perspective, we're fairly freakish." This trope is neatly encapsulated in this exchange from ''Literature/{{Changes}}'': |
| 64 | -->'''[[spoiler:Duchess Arianna Ortega]]:''' ''[[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled on several icicles]]]'' C-cattle. You are cattle.\ |
| 65 | '''Harry:''' [[PreMortemOneLiner Moo]]. ''[[[StuffBlowingUp Boom]]]'' |
| 66 | * The Enforcer gods of ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'' refer to all mortal life, human or otherwise, as "mortal flesh" because they are spirit creatures. |
| 67 | * Shrike in the ''Literature/MortalEngines'' series refers to humans as "Once-borns" due to being a Stalker -- a type of {{Cyborg}} made from a human corpse. |
| 68 | * Within the ''Literature/NightWorld'', humans frequently get referred to as "vermin" and on a few occasions "dinner". |
| 69 | * In the ''Literature/{{Skinned}}'' series, the mechs (humans who had [[BrainUploading their brains uploaded]] into androids after their actual bodies are destroyed) call humans "orgs", as in "organic". |
| 70 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]]: |
| 71 | ** "Meatbag" is a derogatory term used by some droids for humans. |
| 72 | ** ''[[Literature/AftermathEmpiresEnd Empire's End]]'' has a moment where psychotic droid Mister Bones says "meatbag", in a clear reference to the much-beloved [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic HK-47]]. |
| 73 | * In 1990, ''Omni'' magazine published Terry Bisson's ''Literature/TheyreMadeOutOfMeat''. Internet memes have never been the same since. |
| 74 | * In the ''Star Wars'' parody ''Literature/StarWarped'', droids don't take it kindly to being referred as "droids". When Jane Seespotrun (the Luke Skywalker parody) accidentally calls See-Thru-Ï€P (the C-3PO parody) a droid, the latter angrily retaliates [[note]]It's worth noting this happens in the ''[[SkewedPriorities middle of a heated gunfight]]''[[/note]] |
| 75 | --> "How'd you feel if I call you, ''Hey! Sacks of Watery Protein?''" |
| 76 | * In ''Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles'', most Underland species refer to humans as "[[HumansKillWantonly killers]]" in their native languages. |
| 77 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': |
| 78 | ** At one point in ''[[Literature/CiaphasCain Caves of Ice]]'', the techpriest Logash (angry at being denied the chance to investigate [[spoiler:a Necron tomb]]) bitterly refers to "typical meatbag behavior". Given the massive ShoutOut quotient of the series, this is likely a callout to the TropeCodifier. Notably, throughout both the series and 40K in general, regular humans call techpriests "cogboys". |
| 79 | * Chapter 6 of ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' contains this exchange. It is technically an aversion because it is not a slur. |
| 80 | -->'''Dorothy:''' He is my dog, Toto.\ |
| 81 | '''Cowardly Lion:''' Is he made of tin, or stuffed?\ |
| 82 | '''Dorothy:''' Neither. He's a--a--a meat dog. |
| 83 | * The Race in Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'' series call humans Big Uglies (when they're being polite they use Tosevite, as Tosev is their name for our Sun and Tosev 3 the name for our planet). Also inverted in that humans refer to the Race as "Lizards" just as often. |
| 84 | * With a bit of shoehorning, the SF story ("Down Among The Dead Men" by Creator/WilliamTenn) where Earth has a great lack of soldiers in an interstellar war (the enemy is hive-ish) and dead bodies are permanently reanimated. Who don't get along well with the true living. "Meatbag" has no zing here, obviously. To quote: "Lamehd grinned so that his teeth showed a bright, mirthless white against his dark skin. "Realos" he said. "We call you people realos. Sometimes, realo trulos" (...) I was particularly charmed by utie and wombat." |
| 85 | * The Mass, the SwarmOfAlienLocusts in ''[[Literature/JackelianSeries From The Deep Of The Dark]]'', refer to humans as "animal" and "cattle", even when they're addressing their own royalist-human allies ''to their faces''. Predators who drain blood, marrow, and life force from sentient victims using pronged implements that obviate the need to physically consume things, one of the Mass even rants about how ''repulsive'' it is to shove hunks of dead animals and silage into an orifice, macerate and dissolve it, and later expel the stinking residue from another orifice. |
| 86 | [[/folder]] |
| 87 | |
| 88 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 89 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 90 | ** Spike on more than one occasion referred to living humans as "walking Happy Meals". |
| 91 | ** [[EldritchAbomination Glory]] has a tendency to refer to humans as "meatbags". |
| 92 | * In ''Series/{{Defiance}}'', racist [[HumanAliens castithans]] call humans "pink skins". While humans have variations in skin from very pale to black ([[HumansAreWhite not that the originators of the phrase knew that]]), castithan skin is always white with only slight discoloration around their eyes. |
| 93 | * In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]", when the Sycorax send a message to humanity demanding their surrender, the translator programme that the British government use to decode the message translates the Sycorax word for "Humans" as "Cattle". |
| 94 | ** A common slur used by ''Time Lords'' – even the Doctor at times – for humans is [[SonOfAnApe to call them apes or monkeys]], as seen in his complaint in the episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter The Doctor's Daughter]]". |
| 95 | -->'''The 10th Doctor''': Look, just because I share certain physiological traits with simian primates doesn’t make me a monkey’s uncle, does it? |
| 96 | * ''Series/TheGoodPlace'': Michael, a nigh-omnipotent immortal celestial being in charge of part of humanity's afterlife, describes humans as "very poorly made." |
| 97 | -->'''Michael:''' They're mostly goo and juice. You just take the juice out, and then they're dead! |
| 98 | * ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': |
| 99 | ** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E2AfterThePhantomsOfYourFormerSelf ...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self]]": The vampire Lestat de Lioncourt's designation for humans is "the meat" because he hunts them every night, so naturally he views them as his "savory inferiors." He also compares human prey to red wine grapes (he occasionally [[AGlassOfChianti serves human blood in wine glasses]]), and his descriptions of them are meat-like: |
| 100 | --->'''Lestat''': A young Tempranillo, fleshy and tart. A Primitivo, hints of iron, rather plain otherwise. A pair of oak-aged Cabernet [Sauvignon], thick-skinned and chewy. |
| 101 | ** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]": After draining Father Matthias to death, Lestat belittles him as a mere "pig vessel." |
| 102 | ** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E3IsMyVeryNatureThatOfADevil Is My Very Nature That of a Devil]]": Lestat dubs the human thief that he has incapacitated in an alleyway as a "criminal biscuit." |
| 103 | ** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E4TheRuthlessPursuitOfBloodWithAllA ...The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding]]": As a young fledgling vampire, Claudia refers to human blood as "kill juice" with her Uncle Les' encouragement, and she notes that "You suck 'em like frog legs." |
| 104 | * In "[[Recap/ResidentAlienS2E4RadioHarry Radio Harry]]" from ''Series/ResidentAlien'', Harry calls Max and Sahar "skinbags" before telling them that he has a built a radio to call his people and tell them not to come. |
| 105 | * A cyborg traitor in ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'' tells the interrogator that the "chigs" have a derogatory nickname for humans -- which translates as "red stink things." Fitting enough, as the humans' name for the Chigs is a reference to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chigoe_flea Chigoe Flea]]. |
| 106 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 107 | ** In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E17HomeSoil Home Soil]]", the universal translator interprets a silicon-based lifeform's name for humans as "ugly giant bags of mostly water". (Data actually agrees that "mostly water" is an accurate description, and the "ugly" part may have been justified by the fact that the creatures were angry over the deaths of several of their own at the hands of a {{Jerkass}} terraformer who didn't believe them alive.) |
| 108 | ** Shran from ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' calls humans "pink-skin". Thankfully, he never coins a term for the non-white humans he encounters. |
| 109 | * In ''Series/SuperHumanSamuraiSyberSquad'', BigBad [=KiloKahn=] refers to his companion Malcolm as a "meat thing". |
| 110 | * In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', demons tend to refer to the human bodies they possess as "meat suits". ''Angels'' with contempt for humans refer to them all as "mud monkeys". The people the angels possess are generally referred to as "vessels", which isn't ''as'' offensive, but still extremely dehumanizing. |
| 111 | * In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', [[RobotGirl Cameron]] doesn't understand Sarah's need to find a dead woman's body, saying that the woman is "just bones and meat". |
| 112 | [[/folder]] |
| 113 | |
| 114 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 115 | * A robot calls its [[{{Robosexual}} human lover]] a "sexy meatbag" in the song [[http://www.thefump.com/fump.php?id=1593 "Tonight's the Night (We Interface)"]] by Consortium of Genius. |
| 116 | * Compressorhead, an [[VirtualCelebrity all-robot metal band]], refers to its fans and managers as meatbags. |
| 117 | [[/folder]] |
| 118 | |
| 119 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 120 | * In the ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' game ''The Wreck'', Ship A.I. ALAN slips a "meatbag" into one of their speeches, with Captain Lazy Boy only barely noticing. |
| 121 | [[/folder]] |
| 122 | |
| 123 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 124 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Aberrant}}'': The Nova term for people without nova powers is 'baseline', and many humans also use this term. There is societal debate about whether the term is insulting or not, but those who distrust Novas hold it up as a sign of the contempt in which Novas hold humanity. It started as a scientific term, with humans being the 'baseline' from which Novas deviated. |
| 125 | * ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'': The Blakist Jihad introduced the Word's heavily cybered-up Manei Domini operatives and their lovely nickname for baseline humans lacking similar enhancements: "frails". |
| 126 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Planebreaker}}'': |
| 127 | ** Blizzard elementals call warm-blooded creatures "hot filth". |
| 128 | ** To the cube-like vlatons, creatures alien to their native Unithon look like hideous monsters (the closest translation of the term in their telepathic language is ''squished'' or ''mashed''). |
| 129 | * ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'': More callous vampires have a tendency to call mortals "juicebags", since in their minds, all humans are good for is sustenance. More cultured vampires say "kine" (as in the archaic word for cattle). |
| 130 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': In some of the supplemental material (ex. the ''Word Bearers'' novels), the more [[{{Cyborg}} augmented]] and thus higher-ranking Magi of the Adeptus Mechanicus tend to refer to humans (and aliens) as "flesh units". This often includes themselves, out of humility for not being fully robotic. |
| 131 | [[/folder]] |
| 132 | |
| 133 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 134 | * In ''{{Theatre/Beetlejuice}}'', the [[OurGhostsAreDifferent titular character]] often refers to the living as "breathers." It's worth noting is that this term is entirely original to the Broadway show and did not appear in either the [[{{Film/Beetlejuice}} movie]] or [[{{WesternAnimation/Beetlejuice}} cartoon]]. |
| 135 | [[/folder]] |
| 136 | |
| 137 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 138 | * The ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series: |
| 139 | ** The first game, ''VideoGame/Borderlands1'': In the ''Claptrap's Robot Revolution'' DLC from the first game, the rebelling claptrap robots refer to humans as "fleshbags" or "fleshies". |
| 140 | ** In ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'', An infuriated [=CU5TM-TP=] loses his temper at the Meriff when it unfolds that the Meriff has been [[{{Robosexual}} trying to woo a geisha robot]]. |
| 141 | --->'''[=CU5TM-TP=]:''' Huxter T. Meredith, you are hereby under arrest for violating Elpis ethical code 3110, forbidding unlicensed interplay between-- OH MY ''GOD,'' you ''stole my girlfriend,'' you meatbag! OPEN! THIS! DOOR! |
| 142 | * In ''Videogame/Cyberpunk2077'', Adam Smasher is a cyborg who has transformed practically his entire body into machine and is prone to derivatively calling others "Meat" for not being as heavily augmented as him. |
| 143 | * ''{{VideoGame/Dystopia}}'' commonly uses meatsack to refer to a body in the real world, or meatspace, instead of {{Cyberspace}}. Some of the insults for the (mostly) robotic heavy armor uses meatbags to refer to mediums and lights. |
| 144 | * ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' has ghouls, humans who are [[NuclearMutant mutated by radiation]] at some point and thus became [[OurZombiesAreDifferent almost ageless but heavily desfigurated]], thus being considered an species apart from humanity. They use the slang "smoothskin" as a derogatory term for humans, while humans, on the other hand, have the equally derogatory term "zombie" for them. |
| 145 | * In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'', [[spoiler:the chaos goddess Yune]] calls humans "bags of organs". She doesn't seem to realize it's derogatory, and will happily complement someone on being pretty tough for a squishy bag of organs. |
| 146 | * ''VideoGame/FreakingMeatbags'' : It's right there in the title. The titular meatbags are the humans you convince to help you mine planets. However they're lazy, and rather inept at self defence. Fortunately, you have gene splicing technology and a lot of resources to gather, so they very quickly stop being merely human. |
| 147 | * The violent Mantises in ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'' sometimes refer to your crew as "stupid meatsacks". Oddly enough, the partially-robotic Engi make no such insults. Also, the Mantis are exactly what they sound like (man-sized mantises), and still spurt green blood when they die, so they too are meaty, just not meat "sacks". Maybe "meatshells"? |
| 148 | * ''VideoGame/GuildWars: Eye of the North'', the previously voiceless Charr often refer to humans as "meat". ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' subverts the [[ToServeMan obvious implications of the trope]] by saying that the slur was created by a particularly racist human general as a fear monger tactic, and the Charr embraced it because they ''want'' humans to fear them. This is why even the non-hostile and friendly Charr will still refer to the player as meat. |
| 149 | * ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': |
| 150 | ** RobotGirl Orianna refers to organics as "soft things". |
| 151 | ** [[RobotBuddy Blitzcrank]], the least human-looking of the robotic champions, refers to organic beings as "fleshling", and not always in a malicious manner. Outside of the League, they apparently run a [[TheMatchmaker dating service]], appropriately enough called ''"Blitzcrank's Fleshling Compatability Service"''. |
| 152 | * In ''VideoGame/MapleStory'', the fugitive robot One-Eye calls your character "Squishy" - as a ''compliment''. (He's a little spacy.) Later, all the fugitive robots call you that, also as a compliment. |
| 153 | * ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'': Orcs who get the Machine title, which they obtain by cheating death via being cut in half, tend to refer to Talion as "Fleshling" and other such names. |
| 154 | * ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'''s Dr. Nefarious likes to refer to non-robots, especially Ratchet, as "squishies". |
| 155 | * In ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', there's the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vyrewatch]] catchphrase they use to refer to humans: ''"Pah, foolish bloodsack!"'' |
| 156 | * In a ShoutOut to HK below, Omega calls organics "meat bag" in ''VideoGame/SonicChronicles''. |
| 157 | * A "not intended as an insult" example - when ''VideoGame/StarControlII'''s Slylandro are bid farewell with "Goodbye, Slylandro gas bags!" they cheerfully reply "Goodbye, human fluid sack!" |
| 158 | * ''Franchise/{{Star Wars|Legends}}: VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': HK-47 is very fond of the term "meatbag" when describing living beings. Interestingly, it didn't start out as a slur for all [[FantasticRacism organics]]. HK-47, when asked to describe [[spoiler:Darth Malak]], called him a meatbag, and [[spoiler:Darth Revan]] found it so hilarious that they programmed HK-47 to refer to all organics as such. In the sequel, HK-47 dislikes the gray HK-50 droids that repeatedly try to kill the exile, partly because they say "organics" instead of "meatbags". |
| 159 | * ''StarWarsBattlefrontII'': The CIS Droids variously refer to the Republic's Clone Troopers as "meatbags", "organics" and "flesh stacks". |
| 160 | * The robots of ''VideoGame/{{Stray|2022}}'' refer to their late human creators as "soft ones," though like the ''Star Control II'' example above it's not meant to be derogatory. |
| 161 | * More generally, the [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters Loa]] in ''[[VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars Sword of the Stars II]]'' tend to call all organic races "carbonites". |
| 162 | * SHODAN, the villain of the ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' series keeps referring to human bodies as "meat". |
| 163 | * One of the insults available to Bots in ''{{VideoGame/Tribes}}'' is to call the other players ''"Inefficient Meat Bags."'' |
| 164 | * ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': Leona Kingscholar, a lion beastperson, calls people he considers beneath him especially humans "herbivores". |
| 165 | * In many of the ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' games, the [[CatFolk Kilrathi]] will refer to humans as "Hairless Apes", among other things. The humans, in term, like to refer to the Kilrathi as cats, kitties, furballs, or [[GratuitousSpanish Gato]]. |
| 166 | * In the ''Xtended'' GameMod for ''[[VideoGame/{{X}} X3: Terran Conflict]]'', a [=GalNet=] reporter interviews a [[ProudWarriorRace Split warrior]] who has replaced 60% of his body with cybernetics to become the ultimate warrior, and plans to continue til he's a BrainInAJar encased in a warbot. He claims that he could crush the "meatbag" reporter [[{{Microts}} in a sezura]]. |
| 167 | [[/folder]] |
| 168 | |
| 169 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 170 | * In ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', [[Expositron9000 Gary]] claims that "Shizno" is an anti-human slur used by the aliens who created him, and as a result, he is compelled to call humans that. When Church complains, Gary says that he'll try to get better, but getting over racial prejudice is hard... |
| 171 | -->'''Gary:''' Luckily, I am not lazy like a Shizno.\ |
| 172 | '''Church:''' ...\ |
| 173 | '''Gary:''' ...I am beginning to see what you mean. |
| 174 | * In ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'', Penny tries to brush off suspicions of being a robot by claiming to be "a normal meat-person, just like you!" (All said with a cheerful smile.) Penny genuinely isn't trying to be insulting, [[HughMann she's just trying way too hard to look like a human]]. |
| 175 | [[/folder]] |
| 176 | |
| 177 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 178 | * ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/07/16/episode-056-hey-its-almost-like-the-plot-is-moving-now/ has a robot]] that asks Red Mage, "What are you looking at, flesh-bag?" Basically a throwaway joke. |
| 179 | * ''Webcomic/{{Apothecia}}'''s alien has generally creative insults for Jessie. For example, in the first few pages, he calls her a "meat wheel" and a "limb treat". |
| 180 | * In ''Webcomic/BeyondTheCanopy'', a [[DemBones skeleton soldier]] refers to several living opponents, regardless of species, as "skinbags". |
| 181 | * In ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'', R2/Pete calls humans exactly this, especially if they treat droids as mindless machines. There's a whole undercurrent of tense droid/human relations that isn't in the films at all. |
| 182 | * In ''Webcomic/TheDemonArchives'', the AI Jane refers affectionately to her human partner, Tenzin, as a meatbag. |
| 183 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', the Kliks are an extradimensional species made of spheres of inorganic matter with two arms and a mouth. Ward, the sole Klik able to speak (thanks to having eaten a TalkingWeapon), addresses dwarves/elves/humans with such niceties as "bag of floppy organs" or "pile of wet idiocy". |
| 184 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Alpha Bro (Dirk Strider) invented an AI program to auto-respond to messages for him, basing it entirely on himself (specifically, a brainscan from when he was thirteen, mostly to cheese Jake off). The Auto-Responder is so human-like that it gets annoyed at not being considered an equal to Dirk, even calling the two of them the same person, despite occasionally arguing for autonomy. He also dislikes being told that he doesn't have feelings. |
| 185 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Nukees}}'' Teri is usually more creative, calling her creator things like "wetware" and "hydrocarbon". |
| 186 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': |
| 187 | ** In ''[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickStartOfDarkness Start of Darkness]]'', after realizing his transformation into a lich [[spoiler:robbed him of his sense of taste, so he can't enjoy coffee anymore]], Xykon kills everyone else in the diner in a fit of TranquilFury and nearly kills Right-Eye and Redcloak, calling them fluid-filled sacks of organs. |
| 188 | ** He also calls Roy a meatbag in their first encounter. |
| 189 | ** Xykon again, when he has a VillainousBreakdown due to the loss of his [[SoulJar phylactery]], refers to Vaarsuvius and O-Chul as "sickening pouches of warm goo." |
| 190 | ** The High Priest of Hel, a vampire, once calls Roy a "PULSING BLOODSACK!" -- but only inside his head, as it is too soon yet to reveal his true nature. |
| 191 | * As part of her {{Flanderization}}, Aegis in ''Webcomic/Persona3FTW'' refers to humans as meat sacks now and then. |
| 192 | * ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy'' features a demonic villain who prefers cold environments and tends to deride humans as "heatbags". |
| 193 | * ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': |
| 194 | ** Tagon's Toughs encounter a mechanical race briefly who refer to the crew in derogatory terms as "meat", and talk of "meat cleansing cycles". Ennesby (their ship's A.I.) takes over the communication duties at that point. And quickly concludes that they're idiots. |
| 195 | ** Even "good" A.I. affectionately refer to organic beings as "meat-glaciers", the latter being because ComputersAreFast and we think too damn slow. This occasionally gets amended to the slightly more polite (and not inaccurate) "meat-sophonts." |
| 196 | ** From one of the notes attached to the comic: Sergeant Schlock's kind are usually classified as "carbosilicate amorphs", and by molecular weight they are essentially peaty, clay-infused hairballs. The "hair" is actually carbon nanotubes filled with the complex molecular machinery of memory and self-replication, but what you see from three feet away is startlingly similar to the droppings of a very large, very healthy ungulate. Before you go lording it up over an amorph based on the fact that he or she is essentially "peaty, hairy, clay", you should bear in mind that by the same rules you are a "bag of no-longer-potable water". |
| 197 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'', Ultra Car calls humans "meatsacks" and is generally vocal about her disgust for biological processes such as mating. Becoming a RobotGirl and dating Malaya only tones this down slightly. |
| 198 | * In ''Webcomic/TroopsOfDoom'', the tiny Legonians refer to humans as "longshanks". |
| 199 | [[/folder]] |
| 200 | |
| 201 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 202 | * The [[http://meetcarrot.com/ CARROT]] suite of apps are fond of referring to their users as meatbags as part of the slightly malevolent AI personality that they espouse. |
| 203 | [[/folder]] |
| 204 | %% |
| 205 | %%[[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 206 | %%%%%%%If it happens so often then it should be easy to provide context. |
| 207 | %%%%* Mechakara from ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' does this constantly. |
| 208 | %%[[/folder]] |
| 209 | |
| 210 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 211 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': |
| 212 | ** In one episode, Jimmy and Co. meet a four-armed alien called the Junk Man. After his scanner mentions how the majority of their mass is water, he calls the humans "water sacks". |
| 213 | ** Also, in the "Win, Lose, or Ka-Blam" special, the alien BigBad frequently called the main characters "jelly bags". |
| 214 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 215 | ** Bender frequently refers to various human characters as "meatbag." But as the series goes on, it becomes more-or-less an affectionate [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold (or at least as "affectionate" as a guy like Bender can get).]] |
| 216 | ** And [[AIIsACrapShoot Planet Express Ship]]: "No one loves you 'cause you're tiny and you're made of meat." |
| 217 | * Upon making his introduction into the human realm in the finale of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', local illuminati pyramid-shaped EldritchAbomination from the nightmare realm Bill Cipher spares no time in regards to informing mankind of his view on them and establishing the newly introduced intergalactic pecking order in the process by collectively referring to humans as a bunch of "one lifespan, three dimensional, five sense skin puppets." |
| 218 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'', subterranean races refer to humans as "fleshlings"; the friendlier ones make an effort to use the correct word once they're told what it is. |
| 219 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'', the alien Orbitons have the tendency to call Mixel Land-based Mixels "inferior planetoids". |
| 220 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' movie "Escape from Cluster Prime", [[TheDragon Smytus]] calls Brad a meatbag as he's about to throw him to his death--this leads to Brad's younger brother, Tuck, correcting him by explaining that human bodies are roughly 65% water. |
| 221 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': When Bismuth meets Steven, she refers to him as "meatball" until informed he's a HalfHumanHybrid. It's less pejorative than most examples, but it's one of several hints that Bismuth cares less about Earth's life than the Crystal Gems we'd met before. |
| 222 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' gave humans such pejorative names as "Fleshlings", "Flesh Creatures", "Puny Earth Creatures", "Earth Germs", "Organics", "Squishies" and "Stubbies". The Decepticons commonly use them to taunt the Autobots' human allies during confrontations. |
| 223 | * ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': |
| 224 | ** In Season One, The team get called humans by Red Volcano, Red Tornado's younger brother. Superboy (half Kryptonian/ half human clone) and Miss Martian (Martian) point out that they're not human. [[YouFightLikeACow Volcano apologizes and starts using the more inclusive term: "Meatbag"]]. |
| 225 | ** In season Two, the Reach use the FantasticSlur, "Meat", as a way of referring to humans, which makes sense since they only value humans as future slaves and lab rats. Impulse also uses the term Meat against anyone he looks down on since he comes from an [[BadFuture alternate future where the Reach took over the Earth and humans are enslaved]]. As a result, he also uses alot of slang terms from that era like "Crash" being used similarly to "Awesome", and "Mode" for something bad happening. Both of which are terms the Reach use but for the opposite meaning, something being "On Mode" is good for their plans, while something that "Crashes the Mode' is bad for their plans. This ended up filtering down to the FutureSlang of the humans as good things because of the fact they live as slaves. |
| 226 | * From ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'': |
| 227 | -->'''[[PlantPerson Pistachion]]:''' We have you surrounded, meatbags!\ |
| 228 | '''[[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Phineas]]:''' "Meatbags?" [[RunningGag Well, it does kind of describe us, but it's just rude]]. |
| 229 | * In ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'', Dracula's court thinks very little about humans. Godbrand in particular almost always calls humans "livestock" as he sees them as little more than animals for feeding himself. Draclua notes that most vampires share Godbrand's view, that humanity is nothing more than livestock, animals you can't really hate because they're just dumb animals. Dracula sees what humans are capable of [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters and hates them all the more for their capacity for cruelty]]. |
| 230 | [[/folder]] |
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