->'''Astronaut:''' Navigation! Where are we?\\
'''Kevin Murphy:''' Well we're over the Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes, approaching Film/ThePhantomPlanet, right near the Film/PlanetOfTheVampires which is right across from the [[LostWorld Prehistoric Planet]].
-->-- Podcast/RiffTrax ''Film/PlanetOfTheDinosaurs''

->''"Species that don't change die. We've lost our way. We've allowed [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy our predatory instincts]] to dominate us. We disperse ourselves throughout the quadrant, [[TheUsualAdversaries sending ships in all directions!]] We've become a solitary race, isolated. We've spread ourselves too thin. We're no longer a culture! We have no identity!"''
-->-- '''Karr''', ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' ("The Killing Game")

->'''Kaidan:''' I haven't spent much time with krogan before, Wrex, and I have to say, you're not what I expected.\\
'''Wrex:''' Right. Because humans have a wide range of cultures and attitudes, [[SarcasmMode but krogan all think and act]] ''[[SarcasmMode exactly alike]]''.
-->-- ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''

->''"Listen, ladies. If you want a problem [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talked to death]], ask an [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas asari]]. If you want [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim a problem shot]], ask a [[ProudWarriorRace turian]]. If you want [[GoneHorriblyWrong a new problem]], ask a [[MadScientist salarian]]. If you want [[WhoYouGonnaCall a problem solved]], ask a [[HumansAreSpecial human]]."''
-->-- '''[[Franchise/MassEffect Renegade Shepard]]''' calls 'em like they see 'em, ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''.

->'''Warden:''' Tell me about the qunari.\\
'''Sten:''' No.\\
'''Warden:''' I wasn't expecting that.\\
'''Sten:''' Get used to disappointment. [[NonSequitur People are not simple.]] [[DefiedTrope They cannot be defined for easy reference in the manner of: 'the elves are a lithe, pointy-eared people who excel at poverty.']]
-->-- ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''

->''"The crew of the Enterprise discover a totally new lifeform which turns out to be a familiar old lifeform wearing a funny hat."''
-->-- ''[[http://greenfield.fortunecity.com/twyford/480/wesleygetslaid.htm 47 Things You'll Never See on Star Trek]]''

->''"Most of Israel’s critics, especially abroad, see the country as a one-dimensional monolith. As they see it, all its (Jewish) citizens are marching in lockstep behind their rightist government, consumed by a dark ideology, supporting occupation and settlements and committing war crimes. This, by the way, is a mirror image of the admirers of Israel in the world, who also see Israel as a one-dimensional monolith, with all citizens marching proudly behind their brave and determined leaders -- Binyamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Avigdor Lieberman. The truth is far removed from both these caricatures."''
-->-- '''Uri Avnery'''

->'''TheSpock:''' Oh look! It's [[RubberForeheadAliens a person who looks really weird!]]\\
'''TheKirk:''' Is it... an alien?\\
'''Alien:''' I. Am. An. Alien!\\
'''TheKirk:''' Oh, right. So whats's The Thing about you, then?\\
'''Alien:''' It's that we'll try to eat you after a bit.
-->-- ''[[Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook That Mitchell and Webb Sound]]'', "Space Trek And Wars"

->'''Leader of [[MeaningfulName Fedex]] 11''': It is time to meet your end, earthlings! We thank you for being weaker and dumber than us, and allowing us to steal your secrets so that we may rule the universe's delivery business!\\
'''Leela''': But why do you even ''want'' to?\\
'''Leader''': Hey, everybody's got their "thing". We love shipping and handling, all right?
-->--- ''Futurama Comics'' #2

->''"Nonhuman fantasy races tend to have their differences from humans defined not just physically (pointy ears and what have you) but psychologically. You might think this would entail making them really alien but that's difficult and often winds up making them hard for the average reader or gamer to relate to. What it more often means in practice is that members of the imaginary race wind up all sharing certain personality traits in common. ALL elves are tree huggers, ALL dwarves are dour, stubborn, and acquisitive, etc.\\
And that makes it tough for the writer to have the critters seem like there are significant personality differences among them. I know, I was constantly trying to solve this problem while writing my drow novel.\\
That, I think, is, from the author's point of view, part of the appeal of what I call Chinese menu fantasy, where the Tolkienesque band of protagonists has [[StandardFantasyRaces one archetypal elf, one archetypal dwarf, etc.]] It's much easier to make the characterization work. And I'm not denigrating this approach. I wouldn't dare, now that I've done the diverse band of heroes myself in my dragon thingie.\\
Of course, there's at least one other advantage to this approach, also. Frequently, much of the point of a fantasy is to give the reader the chance to explore an exotic imaginary world, and by giving him extended commerce with characters who represent many of its races and cultures, the writer facilitates this process."''
-->-- '''Richard Lee Byers''', the author of ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' trilogy ''Literature/TheYearOfRogueDragons'' [[note]]in which two of the protagonists left their tribes to see the wider world and two others had crippling problems due to who they are[[/note]] and ''Dissolution'' [[note]]the first book of ''Literature/WarOfTheSpiderQueen'', introducing a bunch of Drow characters, rather lively and individual yet recognizably Drow[[/note]], [[http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6440&whichpage=8#128467 on Candlekeep forums]].

->'''Astronaut 2''': Dude! Wizard planet!\\
'''Wizard''': [[AvertedTrope It's not a "Wizard Planet".]] It's a planet with a few wizards on it.\\
'''Astronaut 2''': That sounds like a Wizard Planet to me.\\
'''Wizard''': That would be like calling an ocean "Shark Ocean."\\
'''Astronaut 1''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Now that's a badass ocean!]]
-->-- ''Webcomic/MountainTime''

->''"Remember: one culture per alien planet. More than that, and you're just showing off."''
-->-- [[https://twitter.com/WorstMuse/status/491981104992116736 The Worst Muse]]

->''"Oh my God... get in the ship, sweetie. GET IN THE GODDAMN SHIP! '''EVERYTHING IS ON A COB! THE WHOLE PLANET IS ON A COB! GO, GO, GO!"'''''
-->--'''Rick Sanchez''', ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''

->''"Hand the sticks to the Senior [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuz Horde]] and [[ProudMerchantRace let them tend our herds]], hand the pens to the Middle Horde and [[ProudScholarRace send them to the debates]], hand the spears to the Junior Horde and [[ProudWarriorRace show them our enemies]]."''
-->--'''An old [[UsefulNotes/{{Kazakhstan}} Kazakh]] saying.'''[[labelnote:In Kazakh...]]Ұлы Жүзді таяқ беріп малға қой, Орта Жүзді қалам беріп дауға қой, Кіші Жүзді найза беріп жауға қой.[[/labelnote]]

->Kin lay in her bunk, thinking. She thought about how attitudes to aliens got stereotyped. [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Kung]] were [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy paranoid, blood-thirsty and superstitious]]. [[BearsAreBadNews Shandi]] were [[DissonantSerenity calm, blood-thirsty]] and [[MonstrousCannibalism sometimes ate people]]. Shandi and kung thought that [[HumansAreInsane humans were blood-thirsty, foolhardy and proud]]. Everyone thought [[HufflepuffHouse the Ehfts]] were funny and nobody knew what the Ehfts thought about anyone.
->It ''was'' true that, once, four kung had boarded a grounded human ship during the bad old days and killed thirty-five crew before the last kung went down under the weight of Clipe needles. It ''was'' true that on certain diplomatically-forgotten occasions, shandi had, with great ceremony, eaten people. So what? How could you evaluate this unless you could think [[BizarreAlienPsychology like an alien]]?
->We dismiss each other with a few cliches, she thought. It's the only way we can live with one another.
-->--''Literature/{{Strata}}''

->''It's attacked by Klingons and luckily crashes down on a cornfield planet (planets are only allowed to be one thing in the Star Trek universe).''
-->--a Cracked.com [[https://www.cracked.com/article_27767_completely-moronic-plot-twists-tv-movies-needs-to-retire.html article]]

->'''Kim:''' I was created by the Death Priests of M'argle'Tstrxlt as one of their Avatars of the Icy Beyond. For the first twenty years of my life, I mastered all of the deadly arts. [...]\\
'''Astro's son:''' I thought M'argle'Tstrxlt was the moon that does those amazing toffee apples.\\
'''Kim:''' [[DefiedTrope A planet can have multiple things.]] [--Also, they don't really advertise the death cult.--]
-->-- ''[[https://waitingforthet.tumblr.com/post/711757306755432448/the-further-adventures-of-astro-astrolovich-space The Further Adventures of Astro Astrolovich, Space Guy]]''
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