History Main / HumansAreTheRealMonsters

* ''Franchise/Ben10'': Most of Ben's RoguesGallery is made up of your usual evil aliens and supernatural beings, but one of his most ruthless and darkest enemies that unnerves him the most winds up being Captain Nemesis, a totally mundane human who has no real powers, but is a cold-blooded and vindictive murderer who has no compunctions about leaving a trail of corpses in his wake in his [[AttentionWhore desperate desire for fame]]. Notably, he ends up being one of the few villains to explicitly kill another human onscreen, via murdering one of his own henchmen with a meat hook after the man outlives his usefulness.

* A ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' story featured in the 17th issue of ''Cartoon Network Action Pack'' had an AnimalWrongsGroup trick Jack into freeing a bunch of large and vicious animals in hopes that they would kill everyone in the city that were kept safe by caging the beasts. Jack ends up [[ShootTheDog slaughtering the creatures to prevent them from killing anyone]] and has the three insane animal rights activists locked up in the cage that once held the beasts. One of them laments the demise of the "poor beautiful monsters", causing Jack to tell the trio who remorselessly endangered an entire city that they are the ones who are monsters.

* In general ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Fanfic that involves humans features this trope in one way or another. Even if the humans aren't actively malevolent, they'll still be brooding over how embarrassed they are of humanity's evil compared to that of the ponies (who are sometimes painted up by the authors as completely saintly, even though the canon itself shows that's not the case at all), or become an unwitting gateway through which evil and corruption enters the pony universe.

* Christianity states this is the whole reason for the Incarnation and Sacrifice of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}. Paul even yells at other Christians for [[{{squick}} having sex with their stepmothers]] (1 Corinthians 5)

* [[NewAge New agers]] often believe that there are many alien races out there watching over humanity, but are withholding assistance because we're too violent and nasty to each other and aren't PerfectPacifistPeople like they are.

This is a SuperTrope to BewareTheLiving, which is this trope in the context of a ZombieApocalypse.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14305553/16/Mr-Fixit Mr Fixit]]'': Greg Veder aka the Unknown Parahuman views the Slaughterhouse Nine as far worse than the Endbringers, despite a much lower kill count. His power lets him know that the Endbringers are either programmed or forced to attack cities (he's not sure which) and there's no emotional investment in it; they're basically just doing their jobs. But the Slaughterhouse Nine choose to commit their atrocities and openly enjoy them, including leaving behind traps for anyone trying to help in the aftermath. To a lesser extent, he feels similarly about heroes and villains in general, stating that most of them are just making the world worse, even if they don't intend to. He only does Search and Rescue work specifically because he wants help as many people as possible.

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* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony,'' [[spoiler:which is an actual reality show [[MetaSequel based off the now in-universe]] ''[[MetaSequel Danganronpa]]'' [[MetaSequel franchise]], and currently in its ''53rd season'' (or 50th, since it had to have started with ''Danganronpa 4'' at the earliest). The entire audience cares nothing about how everyone in the killing game felt, as they take pleasure in their misery]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'': In a show where MIB faces hundreds of extraterrestrial threats, their biggest one is a human. More specifically, one of their former agents Alpha. His start of darkness began when he found a device that can meld beings together. After betraying K, he spends the next twenty years travelling the galaxy, removing body parts from aliens to graft them to his body. The biggest threat comes from the fact that he was one of the founders of MIB, so he has the biggest insight on how they operate. Alpha’s corruption essentially justifies why MIB should just keep TheMasquerade as well as [[TheWorldIsNotReady labelling some technology forbidden]], as humans can quickly exploit aliens and their technology.

* The secret history of ''TabletopGame/KULT'' has it so that, before being enslaved by the Demiurge, humans were once immortal, transcendent, genderless starchildren who played with reality like clay and danced about to their passionate whims. They were also ''absolute tyrants'' who created and tossed aside lesser beings after subjecting them to an endless array of delights and horrors, to the point that most other "horrors" in the night view the idea of humans breaking the Illusion and reclaiming their mantle with utter dread.