Awesome / Berserker

• In a battle against relics from an alien war, hostile to all life, the human race finds justification at last for its love of weapons: When the hour struck and our enemy came without warning, you were ready with swarming battlefleets. You were dispersed and dug in on scores of planets, and heavily armed. Because you were, some of you and some of us are now alive.
• The unarmed pacifist with a terminal illness, sent up to negotiate with an alien planet-cracker. He agrees to provide a piece of human flesh (his own) to prove that organic life is more complex than robotic, hence deserves to be protected rather than destroyed. The Berserker develops a bioweapon custom-made to attack the tissue sample, then tries to trick him into carrying said bioweapon back down to the planet and infecting it. What he gave it is a piece of his metastatic cancer, which the "bioweapon" cures.
• The Earth commander who takes refuge in an impenetrable capsule deep within the gravity well of a black hole, using it to stay (relatively) immortal until descendants of the humans he fought alongside can find a way to rescue him. Whenever supposed rescuers arrive, he tests them by telling them to "look around at the scenery for a while". Only the genuine humans are freaked out by it the way he was when he first saw it.
• In the story "Wings Out of Shadow," a human, along with a bunch of artificial personalities from human history, is captured by the berserkers. A "goodlife' human forces him to use the personalities to command small fighting spacecraft. Unfortunately, the personalities are recreations of the greatest aces of World War One and perceive the berserkers' ships as hostile aircraft. Cue one epic Curb-Stomp Battle.