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Those with the church label the very existence of us devils evil, but I think humans possess quite enough malice themselves.
— Rias Gremory, High School Dx D
Rin Okumura: Are you a demon...?
Dr. Gedouin: Nope. I'm human.
Dr. Gedouin: Nope. I'm human.
Us? "Monsters?" Oh, I think not. There is a far nastier, far uglier monster around than us. Go home and look in the mirror. You'll find it there.
— A werewolf to Takeda, Dance in the Vampire Bund
Higuchi: ...which brings us to the topic of tonight's meeting. Gentlemen, who shall we kill?
Rem: Humans are... such disgusting creatures.
Rem: Humans are... such disgusting creatures.
Humans are often worse than demons.
— Dante, Devil May Cry: The Animated Series
You guys are the ones who are demons... GO TO HELL, YOU MORTALS!
— Akira Fudo, DEVILMAN crybaby, moments before incinerating a crowd after seeing them parade around Miki's brutal murder.
Humans are petty-minded creatures. They're selfish and lazy! They betray! They lie, cheat and steal! And they hurt other living things without a second thought!
—Kuyou, Rosario + Vampire
You know who isn't human? You know who isn't human?! PEOPLE LIKE YOU!
— Lucy, Elfen Lied, moments before murdering the horrifically cruel kids of her orphanage.
You blindly put yourselves at the center of the universe, every last one of you. Envious! Malicious! And even after all that you still think you're in the right! Jealousy. Hatred. Arrogance. Betrayal. Insolence. Deception. Those are the true natures of human beings! You're sickening. Even thinking about it now makes me physically ill! You're all hypocritical fakes! Every last one of you: useless. And that's why I've decided to kill you all.
— Phantom, MÄR
Shinichi, I looked up the concept of demons. I believe that, among all life, humans are the closest creatures to it. Humans kill and eat a wide variety of life forms. My kind eats merely one or two kinds, at most. We are quite frugal in comparison.
— Migi, Parasyte
Hatred... Lies... Even killing their own kind.... [humans] can never be considered a perfect life form.
— Computer Doll No. 8, Zambot 3
Humans. Humans fear the unknown. And there is nothing more unknowable than us. As a species... oh, we're unpredictable. We're cruel. Especially when we're trying to survive. Yeah the Greeks said it best. "There is much to fear in this world...but nothing more so than humans."
— Jason, Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness
"At one point, I thought I'd work alongside humans. But I was disappointed. Humans are a dangerous species, inferior to even Pokémon. If cruel, weak humans are allowed to govern the planet, the world is headed for ruin."
— Mewtwo, Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back—Evolution
Maybe you're right. Maybe they can't be trusted, but after what I've seen I know this much: Bioroids don't try to KILL each other!
— Deunan Knute, Appleseed
Comic Books
I am in no doubt now, this miserable planet needs destroying... a planet so riddled with fear and superstition, it can spawn not just Torquemada but a series of monsters like him... such a world is better off obliterated!
Fan Fiction
Poor Pit. Ever the idealist even when in the cosmic scheme of things, nothing you do has the least bit of significance. Even if you defeat me, so what? It's in human nature to go to war. And though you might be able to defeat me, you'll never be able to beat human nature. I merely gave them a reason to fight. They didn't have to listen to me. But, like I said, humans will fight for any damn reason. A dispute over territory, an assassination of a ruler, or just because they want to. Yet here you are, desperately trying to see the good in humanity. It'd be admirable if it wasn't so pathetic.
Fantastic, the Horror from Beyond the Stars has gazed upon our species, and decided the worst parts are worth emulating. I suppose we should be proud.
— Zelretch, Lunatique, a Nasuverse fanfic
"You're inhuman!" cried Proton. "Of course you are; what am I saying... that's not the point! What matters is you'll kill vast numbers of innocent people!"
"But you humans do that all the time!" replied D'Ork indignantly.
Uxie eventually discarded his faith in humanity. They would never learn from the mistakes of their forefathers, and although Azelf argued someone could break the cycle, history had yet to show any sign that Azelf might be right.
Uxie often wondered whether humanity was just a mixture of sadism and masochism, doomed to fall into the same bloody rituals for all of eternity. Mesprit vehemently argued they were not, but failed to convince her analytical brother when all the facts were laid out on the table.
Uxie often wondered whether humanity was just a mixture of sadism and masochism, doomed to fall into the same bloody rituals for all of eternity. Mesprit vehemently argued they were not, but failed to convince her analytical brother when all the facts were laid out on the table.
— Poké Wars: The Defervescence
Share the earth? With humans? All they do is squabble over everything they can. You've seen how they spread over the world like a disease. I don't understand why you would want to coexist with them when they are more barbaric than most monsters.
— Akua Shuzen, Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Act IV
Jenner: You're all the same, every last one of you. You lie, you kill, and you slink around in our world pretending to be allies when actually you're only trying to get closer to us to do away with us. You had your chance for peace. Even against my deepest wishes our kind gave you a chance to co-exist, and what do we get for it? A city and a school are thrown into chaos!
Ceal: Lie and kill. You speak as if humanity is any different. You speak as if no humans commit any crimes or are hostile to their own kind. You speak as if all of your kind are as pure as angels themselves.
Ceal: Lie and kill. You speak as if humanity is any different. You speak as if no humans commit any crimes or are hostile to their own kind. You speak as if all of your kind are as pure as angels themselves.
Film - Animated
No, no! There are no good men! They're all bad! They're all the same! Animals are good creatures. But humans... humans are evil animals.
— Claudandus, Felidae
It was humans! They ARE the real monsters!
— Dracula on his wife Martha's death, Hotel Transylvania
BFG: Phew, [the Fleshlumpeater] was in a nasty crotchy mood, hm!
Sophie: Nasty mood? I thought he was going to kill you!
BFG: Oh no, giants does not kill other giants. They is not like human beans.
Sophie: What do you mean?
BFG: Huh, it's only human beans that shoots and bombs and kills each other. No other animals is doing it.
Sophie: Cats kill mice.
BFG: Heheh, they does not kill other cats, does they? Hm?
Sophie: Nasty mood? I thought he was going to kill you!
BFG: Oh no, giants does not kill other giants. They is not like human beans.
Sophie: What do you mean?
BFG: Huh, it's only human beans that shoots and bombs and kills each other. No other animals is doing it.
Sophie: Cats kill mice.
BFG: Heheh, they does not kill other cats, does they? Hm?
— The BFG
Kristoff: Reindeers are better than people / Sven, don't you think that's true?
"Sven": Yeah, people will beat you / And curse you and cheat you / Every one of 'em's bad, except you.
Kristoff: Aw, thanks buddy. But people smell better than reindeers / Sven, don't you think I'm right?
"Sven": That's once again true / For all except you
Kristoff: You got me, let's call it a night
"Sven": Yeah, people will beat you / And curse you and cheat you / Every one of 'em's bad, except you.
Kristoff: Aw, thanks buddy. But people smell better than reindeers / Sven, don't you think I'm right?
"Sven": That's once again true / For all except you
Kristoff: You got me, let's call it a night
Bambi: What happened, Mother? Why did we all run?
Bambi's Mother: Man was in the forest.
Bambi's Mother: Man was in the forest.
— Bambi
Great Prince of the Forest: It is Man. He is here again. There are many this time. We must go deep into the forest. Hurry! Follow me!
— Bambi
Batman: If we're really alike, you know this is wrong. You must have been a good man, once.
Owlman: No. Not good. Never good. After all, I'm only human.
Owlman: No. Not good. Never good. After all, I'm only human.
Those monsters are really scary. Especially with those sticks.
— Koda on the rock cave painting depicting a human attacking a bear with its spear, Brother Bear
Leonardo: And remember, don't let any human see you. Because why?
All turtles: "Humans are the demon scum of the Earth. Avoid them. Don't say hi. They lust to murder that which is different from them. To interact with them is to die."
Leonardo: And, hey, I know that's objectively prejudiced, but that's what Dad taught us.
All turtles: "Humans are the demon scum of the Earth. Avoid them. Don't say hi. They lust to murder that which is different from them. To interact with them is to die."
Leonardo: And, hey, I know that's objectively prejudiced, but that's what Dad taught us.
Film - Live-Action
You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.
I'm not scared of the birds. They're not the dangerous animals. It's the human species that's the dangerous, menacing, and terrifying animal.
— Dr. Jones, Birdemic
When the avalanche came, it took us a week to climb out. And somewhere, we lost hope. Now, I don't know exactly when we turned on each other. I just know that seven of us survived the slide, and only five made it out. Now, we took an oath that I'm breaking now, swore that we'd say it was the snow that killed the other two. But it wasn't. Nature can be lethal, but it doesn't hold a candle to man.
— Russell Franklin, Deep Blue Sea
WAKE UP. These humans have besmirched everything He's bestowed upon them. They were given Paradise; they threw it away. They were given this planet; they destroyed it. They were favored best among all His endeavors; and some of them don't even believe He exists! And in spite of it all, He has shown them infinite fucking patience at every turn.
— Bartleby, Dogma
We're going to recapture my creatures before they get hurt. They are currently in alien terrain, surrounded by millions of the most vicious creatures on the planet: humans.
— Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Three were given to the Elves, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven, to the Dwarf Lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls. And nine... nine rings were gifted to the race of Men, who above all else desire power.
— Galadriel, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species; I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply. And multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. And the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague. And we are the cure.
— Agent Smith, The Matrix
Beware the beast Man, for he is the devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, or lust, or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him. Drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.
Oh my God. I'm back...I'm home. All the time, it was... We finally really did it. YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! Ah, DAMN YOU! God damn you all to hell!
— Taylor Planet of the Apes (1968), upon realizing that the ape planet he was trapped on was Earth All Along, destroyed by nuclear annihilation.
Jason once said he thought he could help, maybe even save some lives. This is the last thing he downloaded before he died: a couple of hometown joes who went out to shoot at targets. But that day, they used people. Dead people. You know, just for fun. There was one target that was different from the rest. A woman, tied by her hair to the branch of a tree. The boys had this one set up just for kicks. They got out their favorite twelve-gauge and...
[the zombie's head is blown in half, the top half of her head still hanging from the tree, dripping with blood]
Are we worth saving? You tell me.
[the zombie's head is blown in half, the top half of her head still hanging from the tree, dripping with blood]
Are we worth saving? You tell me.
— Debra Moynihan, final lines of Diary of the Dead.
"Can we truly call this a monster club if we do not boast amongst our membership a single member of the human race?"
—Eramus, The Monster Club
Robotnik: He's just a silly little alien! He didn't belong here!
Tom: That "little alien" knew more about being human than you ever will!
Tom: That "little alien" knew more about being human than you ever will!
Anna Valerious: Oh, my God! The Frankenstein Monster!
Frankenstein's Monster: Monster! Who's the monster here? I have done nothing wrong, yet you and your kind still wish me dead!
Frankenstein's Monster: Monster! Who's the monster here? I have done nothing wrong, yet you and your kind still wish me dead!
Literature
I made you do nothing, Jonathan. You did it because you wanted to. No one can make you do evil. You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.
I am haunted by humans.
— Death(!), The Book Thief
We were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape: We never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.
— The Dragon, Guards! Guards!
Oh, [Crowley] did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into the design, somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse. Over the years Crowley had found it increasingly difficult to find anything demonic to do which showed up against the natural background of generalized nastiness. There had been times, over the past millennium, when he'd felt like sending a message back Below saying "Look, we may as well give up right now, we might as well shut down Dis and Pandemonium and everywhere and move up here, there's nothing we can do to them that they don't do themselves and they do things we've never even thought of, often involving electrodes. They've got what we lack. They've got imagination. And electricity, of course."
One of them had written it, hadn't he... "Hell is empty, and all the devils are here."
Crowley had got a commendation for the Spanish Inquisition. He had been in Spain then, mainly hanging around cantinas in the nicer parts, and hadn't even known about it until the commendation arrived. He'd gone to have a look, and had come back and got drunk for a week.
One of them had written it, hadn't he... "Hell is empty, and all the devils are here."
Crowley had got a commendation for the Spanish Inquisition. He had been in Spain then, mainly hanging around cantinas in the nicer parts, and hadn't even known about it until the commendation arrived. He'd gone to have a look, and had come back and got drunk for a week.
Dr. Miranda Dixon: If your kind isn't contained, you'll destroy us all.
Carrow Graie: I'm warming to the idea. Especially with mortals like you. Don't you get it? Human fanatics are more monster than any of the Lore.
Carrow Graie: I'm warming to the idea. Especially with mortals like you. Don't you get it? Human fanatics are more monster than any of the Lore.
“So we’re the monster police, too,” I said to Tom.
“Correct,” he replied. “The only real question is, who are the monsters?”
“They ask that question in every monster movie, you know. It’s an actual trope.”
“I know,” Tom said. “What does it say about us that it’s relevant every single time they ask it?”
“Correct,” he replied. “The only real question is, who are the monsters?”
“They ask that question in every monster movie, you know. It’s an actual trope.”
“I know,” Tom said. “What does it say about us that it’s relevant every single time they ask it?”
The history of the human race has been one long quest to find new, novel things and then kill, eat or enslave them. There's a reason the aliens haven't made an appearance yet, is what I'm saying.
— Antimony Price , InCryptid
"Human morality is only absolute because the humans won the war to see who would be the dominant species of this planet. We live by the moral and ethical standards of a species whose dominion is built on bones."
— Martin Baker, InCryptid
Cities, like forests, have their dens in which all their vilest and most terrible monsters hide. But in cities, what hides this way is ferocious, unclean, and petty, that is to say ugly; in forests, what hides is ferocious, savage, and great, that is to say beautiful. Den for den, those of beasts are preferable to those of men. Caverns are better than the wretched holes that shelter humanity.
You think this makes you look strong? Your worst doesn’t even compare to what petty humans do to each other!
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. Our labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin. You cows that I see before me, how many thousands of gallons of milk have you given during this last year? And what has happened to that milk which should have been breeding up sturdy calves? Every drop of it has gone down the throats of our enemies. And you hens, how many eggs have you laid in this last year, and how many of those eggs ever hatched into chickens? The rest have all gone to market to bring in money for Jones and his men. And you, Clover, where are those four foals you bore, who should have been the support and pleasure of your old age? Each was sold at a year old–you will never see one of them again. In return for your four confinements and all your labour in the fields, what have you ever had except your bare rations and a stall?
"And even the miserable lives we lead are not allowed to reach their natural span. For myself I do not grumble, for I am one of the lucky ones. I am twelve years old and have had over four hundred children. Such is the natural life of a pig. But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end. You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year. To that horror we all must come–cows, pigs, hens, sheep, everyone. Even the horses and the dogs have no better fate. You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will cut your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds. As for the dogs, when they grow old and toothless, Jones ties a brick round their necks and drowns them in the nearest pond."
"And even the miserable lives we lead are not allowed to reach their natural span. For myself I do not grumble, for I am one of the lucky ones. I am twelve years old and have had over four hundred children. Such is the natural life of a pig. But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end. You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year. To that horror we all must come–cows, pigs, hens, sheep, everyone. Even the horses and the dogs have no better fate. You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will cut your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds. As for the dogs, when they grow old and toothless, Jones ties a brick round their necks and drowns them in the nearest pond."
— Old Major, Animal Farm
"Humans . . . scourge of the universe . . . Get out! Leave us alone!"
— Hundun Emperor, Iron Widow
The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Live-Action TV
All monsters are human.
— Sister Jude, American Horror Story: Asylum
The world doesn't work in spite of evil, Angel. It works with us. It works because of us.
— Holland Manners, Angel
Buffy: We need to find Willow.
Xander: Yeah, she's off the wagon big-time. Warren's a dead man if she finds him.
Dawn: Good.
Buffy: Dawn, don't say that.
Dawn: Why not? I'd do it myself if I could.
Buffy: Because you don't really feel that way.
Dawn: Yes, I do. And you should, too. He killed Tara, and he nearly killed you. He needs to pay.
Xander: Out of the mouths of babes.
Buffy: Xander!
Xander: I'm just saying, he's just as bad as any vampire you've sent to Dustville.
Xander: Yeah, she's off the wagon big-time. Warren's a dead man if she finds him.
Dawn: Good.
Buffy: Dawn, don't say that.
Dawn: Why not? I'd do it myself if I could.
Buffy: Because you don't really feel that way.
Dawn: Yes, I do. And you should, too. He killed Tara, and he nearly killed you. He needs to pay.
Xander: Out of the mouths of babes.
Buffy: Xander!
Xander: I'm just saying, he's just as bad as any vampire you've sent to Dustville.
I gave [the Sychorax] the wrong warning. I should have told them to run. Run and hide, because the monsters are coming. The human race.
— The Tenth Doctor, Doctor Who, "The Christmas Invasion"
Nobody talk to me. Nobody HUMAN HAS ANYTHING TO SAY TO ME TODAY!
— The Eleventh Doctor, Doctor Who, "The Beast Below"
The human race. Greatest monsters of them all.
— The Master, Doctor Who, "Last of the Time Lords"
Frightened people. Give me a Dalek any day.
— The Eleventh Doctor, Doctor Who, "A Town Called Mercy"
There's a film called Alien, and it's a horror movie? You know, that's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps trying to invade you.
— The Twelfth Doctor, Doctor Who, "Last Christmas"
The Twelfth Doctor: I preferred it when you were alien.
Sutcliffe: When I was...?
The Twelfth Doctor: Well, that explained the lack of humanity.
Sutcliffe: When I was...?
The Twelfth Doctor: Well, that explained the lack of humanity.
— Doctor Who, "Thin Ice"
The fate of a world isn't determined by its best examples, but by its worst. It takes a few to destroy the many - 'specially when even the best of you can be dragged down into the mire. Judging by your example - brother against brother, friend against friend - your people have such a potential for violence, for sheer unvarished wickedness... I've got every confidence you'll destroy yourselves before you develop your first interstellar engine. We've got nothin' to fear from you.
— Alien scout, The Outer Limits (1995), "Heart's Desire"
Will it be those seeking redemption who shall decide the future, or will those driven only by greed and envy shape our destiny? Even a hundred years later, the outcome is still very much in doubt.
— Closing narration, The Outer Limits (1995), "Heart's Desire"
There is one thing I always meant to ask Jack. Back in the old days. I wanted to know about that Doctor of his. The man who appears out of nowhere and saves the world, except sometimes he doesn't. All these times in history when there was no sign of him. I wanted to know why not. But I don't need to ask anymore. I know the answer now. Sometimes the Doctor must look on this planet, and turn away in shame.
— Gwen Cooper, Torchwood: Children of Earth
We humans are alone in this world for a reason. We've murdered and butchered anything that challenged our primacy. Do you know what happened to the neanderthals? We ate them.
— Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld
Monsters, Aliens, Phantoms. None of them are real. The thought that an actual person could do this is too awful. So our imaginations create a way to make it easier to take.
— Dexter Morgan, Dexter
Soval: We don't know what to do about humans. Of all the species we've made contact with, yours is the only one we can't define. You have the arrogance of Andorians, the stubborn pride of Tellarites. One moment you're as driven by your emotions as Klingons, and the next you confound us by suddenly embracing logic.
Forrest: I'm sure those qualities are found in every species.
Soval: Not in such confusing abundance.
Forrest: Ambassador... are Vulcans afraid of humans? Why?
Soval: Because there is one species you remind us of.
Forrest: Vulcans.
Soval: We had our wars, Admiral, just as humans did; our planet was devastated, our civilization nearly destroyed. Logic saved us, but it took almost 1,500 years for us to rebuild our world and travel to the stars. You humans did the same in less than a century. There are those on the High Command who wonder what humans would achieve in the century to come, and they don't like the answer.
Forrest: I'm sure those qualities are found in every species.
Soval: Not in such confusing abundance.
Forrest: Ambassador... are Vulcans afraid of humans? Why?
Soval: Because there is one species you remind us of.
Forrest: Vulcans.
Soval: We had our wars, Admiral, just as humans did; our planet was devastated, our civilization nearly destroyed. Logic saved us, but it took almost 1,500 years for us to rebuild our world and travel to the stars. You humans did the same in less than a century. There are those on the High Command who wonder what humans would achieve in the century to come, and they don't like the answer.
— Star Trek: Enterprise, "The Forge"
Geralt: Want to hear about my first monster?
Roach: [snorts]
Geralt: Wasn't fifty miles outside of Kaer Morhen. He was huge. Stinking.
Roach: [nickers]
Geralt: Bald head. Rotten teeth. He pulled that girl from the cart, tore her dress off in front of her father and said, "It's time you met a real man." I told him it was time he met one too. It took two strikes to kill him. They weren't clean. But they were spectacular. I turned to that girl afterwards. She was drenched in the man's blood. She took one look at me, screamed, vomited, and passed out.
Roach: [snorts]
Geralt: Yeah. I thought the world needed me too.
Roach: [snorts]
Geralt: Wasn't fifty miles outside of Kaer Morhen. He was huge. Stinking.
Roach: [nickers]
Geralt: Bald head. Rotten teeth. He pulled that girl from the cart, tore her dress off in front of her father and said, "It's time you met a real man." I told him it was time he met one too. It took two strikes to kill him. They weren't clean. But they were spectacular. I turned to that girl afterwards. She was drenched in the man's blood. She took one look at me, screamed, vomited, and passed out.
Roach: [snorts]
Geralt: Yeah. I thought the world needed me too.
Yua Yaiba: With MetsubouJinrai.net out of the way, the HumaGears aren't likely to go berserk again.
Gai Amatsu: No. I'm afraid MetsubouJinrai.net will never truly be gone. Not as long as HumaGears exist in the world.
Yua: What do you mean, sir?
Gai: Because it is alive. That is... the Ark.
Yua: Ark?
Gai: I am the one who created it, after all.
Yua: !?
Gai: 12 years ago, it was a satellite planned to be stationed in orbit. I had it learn about criminal psychology and humanity's propensity for ceaseless war. The artificial intelligence developed animosity towards mankind. And in time, the Ark created MetsubouJinrai.net. But after Daybreak, it fell. Sinking into the murky waters. With Ark being reactivated, I will utilize its power, and I will dominate the world using ZAIA's technology!
Yua: You used MetsubouJinrai.net and Hiden to make that happen? [raising her voice] Don't tell me AIMS also another one of your pawns, too!? You had Fuwa and I risking our lives out there!
Gai: Yua, the real battle has begun. I'm counting on you to continue working as my right hand.
Yua: [clenches her left hand] Yes, sir...
Gai Amatsu: No. I'm afraid MetsubouJinrai.net will never truly be gone. Not as long as HumaGears exist in the world.
Yua: What do you mean, sir?
Gai: Because it is alive. That is... the Ark.
Yua: Ark?
Gai: I am the one who created it, after all.
Yua: !?
Gai: 12 years ago, it was a satellite planned to be stationed in orbit. I had it learn about criminal psychology and humanity's propensity for ceaseless war. The artificial intelligence developed animosity towards mankind. And in time, the Ark created MetsubouJinrai.net. But after Daybreak, it fell. Sinking into the murky waters. With Ark being reactivated, I will utilize its power, and I will dominate the world using ZAIA's technology!
Yua: You used MetsubouJinrai.net and Hiden to make that happen? [raising her voice] Don't tell me AIMS also another one of your pawns, too!? You had Fuwa and I risking our lives out there!
Gai: Yua, the real battle has begun. I'm counting on you to continue working as my right hand.
Yua: [clenches her left hand] Yes, sir...
"I knew it... Humanity really is steeped in evil. Humanity is the scourge of this world. And you people are the proof. Even without MetsubouJinrai.net, you still fight amongst yourself, perpetrating your hatred."
"The Altes Tiger were once said to be the most beautiful tiger to live on Earth. But humans hunted them down for their fur and bones. And they became extinct. For Izac and its kind, perhaps it views mankind to be the equivalent of the (Radical) Destruction Bringer."
—Atsushi Koyama to Katsumi Kaijo about the Altes Tigers, Ultraman Gaia, "The Silver Eyes of Izac"
Music
Lies! The human core is lies! / We wiped their minds, cleaned the slate
The Clouding did divide / Fate, we sealed human fate!
Now they're ours throughout all time / To manipulate!
Never trust in the motives of man / They failed to evolve in Mother Nature's plan
And though they seem safe / In this early clouded state
The nature of their heresy / Has proven quite innate!
The Clouding did divide / Fate, we sealed human fate!
Now they're ours throughout all time / To manipulate!
Never trust in the motives of man / They failed to evolve in Mother Nature's plan
And though they seem safe / In this early clouded state
The nature of their heresy / Has proven quite innate!
Legions of monsters fought across the land, the cruelest of all is the one we call man.
Of the beasts I had killed, the most wicked, was one all too familiar called man.
Beware the beasts that haunt these halls
Human is the cruelest of them all
Monsters of our making rising up from hell
And in time you may find one within yourself
Human is the cruelest of them all
Monsters of our making rising up from hell
And in time you may find one within yourself
Newspaper Comics
Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man?
Hobbes: I'm not sure man needs the help.
Calvin: You just can't talk to animals about these things.
Hobbes: I'm not sure man needs the help.
Calvin: You just can't talk to animals about these things.
Yeh, they trained me to be a fighting dog. Fight to the death. No mercy, no reason, just senseless, mindless violence... a MONSTER. I didn't ask for this. Look what I've become... just like them.
— Mutts
Stand-Up Comedy
This is a group of social criminals, these people in the space program. NAS(A)holes, I call them. In case you haven't heard, the latest disaster for the rest of the universe is that the United States is gonna go to Mars. Okay? Ah, yeah. We're gonna go to Mars. And then of course we're gonna colonize deep space. With our microwave hot dogs and plastic vomit, fake dog shit and cinnamon dental floss, lemon-scented toilet paper and sneakers with lights in the heels. And all these other impressive things we've done down here. But let me ask you this: what are we gonna tell the intergalactic council of ministers the first time one of our teenage mothers throws their newborn baby into a dumpster? How are we gonna explain that to the space people? How are we gonna let them know that our ambassador was only late for the meeting because his breakfast was cold and he had to spend half an hour punching his wife around the kitchen? And what are they gonna think when they find out, it's just a local custom, that over 80 million women in the Third World have had their clitorises forcibly removed in order to reduce their sexual pleasure so they won't cheat on their husbands? Can't you just sense how eager the rest of the universe is for us to show up?
— George Carlin, Complaints and Grievances
Tabletop Games
The Camarilla's dandies - and even our own shovelheads - believe we are responsible for the city's often murderous state of affairs. Truthfully, though, el D.F. affects us more than we do it. You won't find too many Sons and Daughters of Caine who'll admit that, but it's truth. We boast we're 500 strong in a city of seventeen million cattle, but are we actually impacting anything when the authorities arrest 443 criminals a day in Mexico City? Or when they respond to 700 crimes each day, of which 182 are violent? Or 15000 murders each year? Or 70000 car thefts? Or the one million muggings? Do you really think Cainites are the source of all these ills? Guess what... we're a drop in the bucket compared to what mortals are doing to themselves. We're just the jackals following in their bloody wake, because we have neither the scope nor the imagination to measure up to mortal ingenuity.
— Vampire: The Masquerade - Mexico City By Night
Theatre
Anne: Villain, thou know'st not law of God nor man.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.
Richard: But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
♫Pourquoi l'homme est-il donc un loup?
Cinq siècles et plus de barbarie
En aurons-nous un jour assez
Du sang, des larmes et des cris?
(...) C'est ce que nous aurons ecrit
De plus terrible dans l'Histoire
CHORUS: Nous sommes ce que nous sommes, des hommes♫note
Cinq siècles et plus de barbarie
En aurons-nous un jour assez
Du sang, des larmes et des cris?
(...) C'est ce que nous aurons ecrit
De plus terrible dans l'Histoire
CHORUS: Nous sommes ce que nous sommes, des hommes♫note
—Dracula, Renfield and Jonathan, "Nous Sommes Ce Que Nous Sommes", Dracula, Entre l'Amour et la Mort
Video Games
O man... A slave to appetites. A beast. Nay, lesser still... For hunger drives a beast. To fight, to kill, to feed. Survive. Naught else. But man... He's more complex. More fool. More mad. His hunger knows no end. The world's his meal. I'll teach him manners, then. Restraint. Respect. He's drunk on vict'ry, spares no thought for them who suffered for his spoils - but soon he shall! I weep for you, my brothers. To the last... You stayed the course. Pursued your hearts' desires. With eyes unclouded. So close, but alas... Like me. Deprived - nay, robbed of just reward. Disgraced and dubbed the villain. Sland'rous lies. A winner's justice! Hist'ry bent to whim! The losers silenced, stripped of voice and claim... and stricken from the page! If that's the game... I'll play along. Cross time and space and stand... For we the damned. Rewrite the tale. Just so! Your statues seven are my ink and quill. With magic potent, singular... Pure hate! I'll take up arms. Assume the guise we share. For we are Odio... and we will win!
— Odio preparing to declare war on humanity across all time periods, Live A Live
I have stood knee deep in mud and bone and filled my lungs with mustard gas. I have seen two brothers fall. I have lain with holy wars and copulated with the autumnal fallout. I have dug trenches for the refugees; I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws and starved the masses into faith. A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork. A house of skulls in the jungle. The innocent! The innocent, Mandus, trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved! This is your coming century! They will eat them, Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will eat your hearts!
— The Machine, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Have I ever given you my "man is the real monster" speech? No? Comes to mind.
What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk... Have at you!
— Dracula, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Ha! Mankind. A cesspit of hatred and lies. Fight for them, then, and die for their sins!
— Dracula, the Dracula X Chronicles retranslation of the above
Freedom? And what would they do with that "freedom?" Humans were free before. And what did they do? They fought. They killed. They starved.
The UAC would like to thank you for your support during this transition. Your suffering continues to inspire us!
— UAC Spokesperson, Doom Eternal
"Men's hearts hold shadows darker than any tainted creature."
— Flemeth, Dragon Age: Origins
A crime... Their very existence is an insult... an abomination... a crime... Such selfishness. But such is the nature of mortals... Selfish beings one and all... Their very existence is an insult... an abomination... a crime... And who shall punish these sinners? If there is no other who is equal to the task then it falls to me.
Deathclaws, ferals, even bots, they don't know what they're doing. But raiders? They choose to be this cruel.
— Piper Wright, Fallout 4
There was a time when they cared nothing for Miss... Vance. When their only experience of humanity was a crowbar coming at them down a steel corridor.
— The G-Man on the Vortigaunts, Half-Life 2 - Episode Two
Humanity stands as the greatest threat in the galaxy. Refusing to eradicate them is a fool's gambit. We squander eons in the darkness, while they seize our triumphs for their own. The Mantle of Responsibility for all things belongs to Forerunners alone!
— The Didact, Halo 4
At some point in time, humans broke the natural harmony of the world. They came to know greed like no other species. They gave no thought to what their rampant breeding would do to the world.
You know, as bad as those things are, at least they're predictable. It's the normal people that scare me.
WE ARE THE REAL MONSTERS
No, that's the zombies
Have you been outside JACKASS!!
I miss the internet.
No, that's the zombies
Have you been outside JACKASS!!
I miss the internet.
— Safe Room wall graffiti, Left 4 Dead
The desire for power. The joy of making everything work for you. You have no way of experiencing this without a human brain. It's the ultimate joy! No mere Reploid could ever understand!
—Dr. Weil, Mega Man Zero 3
Humans, willing to sacrifice their own when overcome by greed. They are a foolish race.
— Black Doom, Shadow the Hedgehog
What do you think of Danu's precious humans now, kid? Human sympathy is the reason malice and animosity spread like a disease. Your true nature is a contagion. At this point, you're all too far gone to reason with... Don't you think?
— Dagda, Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse
Humans massacre Earth's creatures, decimate the trees, and exploit the land. They're the twisted ones. They're enemies of life itself!
—Viridi, Kid Icarus: Uprising
You kill and destroy, and kill and destroy some more! You, humans, disgust me!
—Yashiro Nanakase, The King of Fighters XV
I felt empty and cold as the heat from the blast washed over us. All this death wasn't caused by a monster-making virus. It was greed. Human greed.
— Jill Valentine, Resident Evil 3 (Remake)
Please don't be concerned by any screaming aliens. The screams are how they communicate. Really, I promise.
— Eggman Amusement Park P.A. system, Sonic Colors
Ratatosk: Awaken, Centurions! Restore the bond with your monsters, and repair the mana of the world! And then go and eradicate mankind who destroyed my tree!
Aster: What are you doing?!
Ratatosk: You want to save the world, right?
Aster: Yes, but you don't have to kill everyone to do that!
Ratatosk: Who destroyed the Giant Kharlan Tree? It was the humans and the half-elves! That's why they deserve the same treatment themselves.
Aster: But a new World Tree has been born in the world!
Ratatosk: And it's just a matter of time before you humans and half-elves destroy that one as well. Don't you understand? You "people" are nothing more than parasites on this world!
Aster: What are you doing?!
Ratatosk: You want to save the world, right?
Aster: Yes, but you don't have to kill everyone to do that!
Ratatosk: Who destroyed the Giant Kharlan Tree? It was the humans and the half-elves! That's why they deserve the same treatment themselves.
Aster: But a new World Tree has been born in the world!
Ratatosk: And it's just a matter of time before you humans and half-elves destroy that one as well. Don't you understand? You "people" are nothing more than parasites on this world!
Love, hope, compassion... This is what people say monster SOULs are made of. But the absolute nature of "SOUL" is unknown. After all, humans have proven their SOULs don't need these things to exist.
— Library Book, Undertale
Zoltan: Witchers are known to carry two blades. A silver blade for monsters and steel for humans.
Geralt: Both are for monsters.
Geralt: Both are for monsters.
Sooner or later, humans will kill off all Aen Seidhe, all dwarves and all gnomes. Then they'll start murdering each other. Your kind knows no other way, it's in your genes. You'll keep killing each other until only one remains: the strongest among you. A thousand years from now, a dim-witted human barbarian will climb to the top of a pile of bones, sit down and proclaim: "I win!"
Black One: Wh-wh-what are you doing?!
Geralt: Killing monsters.
Geralt: Killing monsters.
"Sings We A Dances Of Wolfs, Who Smells Fear And Slays The Coward.
Sings We A Dances Of Mans, Who Smells Gold And Slays His Brother."
Sings We A Dances Of Mans, Who Smells Gold And Slays His Brother."
— Pagan Saying, Thief II: The Metal Age
Visual Novels
Spirits who curse humans are pretty frightening. But humans are responsible for creating spirits in the first place. The malicious actions of people cause grudges, and grudges create spirits. It's a chain of hatred, one that begins with humans.
—Kazuo Yashiki, Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II
Kayto Shields: Well I'll be damned. I’ve never seen a space whale with my own eyes before, much less an entire pod.
Ava Crescentia: I count... Two bulls. Four cows, along with six calves. Indeed an auspicious sighting. I... don't recall a space whale pod of this size ever coming into contact with humans.
Sola di Ryuvia: They are great, immortal beings of the abyss. To think that they could have witnessed both the rise and fall of the Holy Empire... and more. A true travesty that lowly space pirates now senselessly kill them for their blubber. The great ones give thanks for our help. Now, they will continue their journey out of our galaxy... and into the great unknown.
Icari Isidolde: Eeh? How do you know that? They're basically just big whales that float in space, aren't they?
Sola: No. Millions of years of life have merely given them wisdom beyond our understanding. But they are beings sentient just the same as us. They... merely took a different path to life compared to humans. Whereas we expanded and molded the galaxy to our needs... they chose to merely exist in tune with the natural order. And now, they head out, from our galaxy onto the next, to begin anew.
Shields: I see... Maybe they'll be able to find happiness out there. Far away from us.
Ava Crescentia: I count... Two bulls. Four cows, along with six calves. Indeed an auspicious sighting. I... don't recall a space whale pod of this size ever coming into contact with humans.
Sola di Ryuvia: They are great, immortal beings of the abyss. To think that they could have witnessed both the rise and fall of the Holy Empire... and more. A true travesty that lowly space pirates now senselessly kill them for their blubber. The great ones give thanks for our help. Now, they will continue their journey out of our galaxy... and into the great unknown.
Icari Isidolde: Eeh? How do you know that? They're basically just big whales that float in space, aren't they?
Sola: No. Millions of years of life have merely given them wisdom beyond our understanding. But they are beings sentient just the same as us. They... merely took a different path to life compared to humans. Whereas we expanded and molded the galaxy to our needs... they chose to merely exist in tune with the natural order. And now, they head out, from our galaxy onto the next, to begin anew.
Shields: I see... Maybe they'll be able to find happiness out there. Far away from us.
—Sunrider 4: The Captain’s Return
Web Animation
"Just like for the tabletop, monsters are just a collection of stats rather than a character. Because monsters don’t deserve any creative love, because they’re monsters! Am I being needlessly cruel? Of course! After all, man is the real monster. Wow. What a deep complex moral revelation to make that hasn’t been said a billion times before."
—JP Beaubien, Terrible Writing Advice, MONSTER MANUAL
Web Original
For example, I was an elf, and every now and again characters would say, "Hello, you are an elf!" If I were a human presumably they'd say, "Hello, you are an asshole!"
On internet messageboards, there is no subject so vile or indefensible that someone won't post positively/in defense of it.
— Skarka's Law, RPG.net
When E.T. came here, all he wanted to do is eat candy and cure the sick. And we said good luck with that when you're dead, you filthy alien. Here on Earth, we don't care if you're adorable or benevolent. If you create a magical friendship bond with a young boy, we'll put you in separate rooms and kill Santa in front of him just to see if his sadness can pass through walls. We will cut you open because learning how your stupid space liver processes Reese's Pieces is more important to us than your gurgling talking noises or the suburban family that fell in love with you. Our worst doctors will mutilate your body, cover it up and release chunks of you into the retail market as Velcro. We've done it before. If you truly wanted to be a friend to the Earthlings, you should have thought about that before you were born in filthy outer space.
Nostalgia Critic: But it turns out FernGully is under attack by one of the worst animals the planet has ever known: MAAAAAAAN!
[An image of a crying kitten appears along with a Scare Chord, as the review segues into a 1950s-style Could This Happen to You? newsreel.]
PSA Guy: Yes, Man! Human in shape but Satanic in spirit, Man likes to spend most of his time destroying things because he is worse than the Devil if he was a pedophile. You can spot the especially bad ones by having two-dimensional personalities, being written horribly, and having a chin size that even Bruce Campbell would be jealous of. They kidnap animals, burn down rainforests, and probably slept with your mother.note If you should see Man anywhere in your neighborhood, please make a pretentious animated feature with confused morals and no sympathetic three-dimensional villains.
MAN: if there's anything worse, it's not human.
MAN: if there's anything worse, it's not human.
The true horror of this story comes not from the monster, but from the monstrous reactions of the humans. We are so used to everything in video games being breakable, fightable, killable, that when something isn't we assume that it must be broken, an alien element, a creature to be removed. And when that thing makes the game fail- makes other elements that can be broken and fought and killed not react as we want- that thing becomes the true enemy. Ganondorf's got nothing on an unfinished texture, ruining our all-important immersion.
An innocent swept away to an unfinished world. A murderer whose rage stopped his own heart. This is not the work of a monster. This is simply a being who does not understand- who literally cannot comprehend our world.
Daniel's own words tell the truth of his mind. He blames the Princess for things she cannot control. He projects onto her all of the things he hates. Her inability to move 'mocks' him, he says. She is a slave in shackles that were never unlocked, and he claims that her suffering is truly his torment. This 'stream' will be a lynching at best, an unfinished stoning at worst. If the Princess can still learn, she will see the truth of humanity.
An innocent swept away to an unfinished world. A murderer whose rage stopped his own heart. This is not the work of a monster. This is simply a being who does not understand- who literally cannot comprehend our world.
Daniel's own words tell the truth of his mind. He blames the Princess for things she cannot control. He projects onto her all of the things he hates. Her inability to move 'mocks' him, he says. She is a slave in shackles that were never unlocked, and he claims that her suffering is truly his torment. This 'stream' will be a lynching at best, an unfinished stoning at worst. If the Princess can still learn, she will see the truth of humanity.
— A comment on the Creepypasta blog The Princess, Part 11
Western Animation
THERE ARE NO INNOCENTS! Not anymore! Anyone of them could've stood up and said, "No, we won't behave like animals anymore.".
— Dracula, Castlevania (2017)
Mad Scientist: I have combined the DNA of the world's most evil animals to make the most evil creature of them all!
(the cloning machine opens, and out steps...)
Man: It turns out it's Man.
(Scare Chord)
(the cloning machine opens, and out steps...)
Man: It turns out it's Man.
(Scare Chord)
— Futurama, a Scary Door short
Monster: (while getting shot in the home movie) Maybe you should look at yourselves (breathes) before you take it out on me! I'm just one monster (breathes) and when I'm gone you'll remember me! Ow, ow, ow! and then you'll have to look at yourselves (breathes) and own up to what you've done. (breathes) For isn't every man a monster?
General: I guess he's right. I guess we're all—
Monster: You're damn right I'm right!
General: I, nyah, I know!
Monster: So stop shooting!
General: Okay! Hey, guys! Stop!
Monster: Don't you realize that if you stop now I might be able to get surgery?
General: Yeah, um, blum, I'mma tell 'em! Hold on! Stop the shooting!
Monster: I mean, hell-o?!
General: Hey (incoherent) stop! Please stop shooting!
Monster: Oh, forget it, leave it alone, I'll just die.
General: I guess he's right. I guess we're all—
Monster: You're damn right I'm right!
General: I, nyah, I know!
Monster: So stop shooting!
General: Okay! Hey, guys! Stop!
Monster: Don't you realize that if you stop now I might be able to get surgery?
General: Yeah, um, blum, I'mma tell 'em! Hold on! Stop the shooting!
Monster: I mean, hell-o?!
General: Hey (incoherent) stop! Please stop shooting!
Monster: Oh, forget it, leave it alone, I'll just die.
Zak: Don't those squares know they're on your side?
Michaelangelo: Aw, humans don't know anything when it comes to turtles.
April: Ahem!
Michaelangelo: Uh, present company excluded.
Michaelangelo: Aw, humans don't know anything when it comes to turtles.
April: Ahem!
Michaelangelo: Uh, present company excluded.
Mabel: Okay, yeah. But why did you do it?
Old Man McGucket: Well, when you get to be an old fella like me, nobody pays any attention to you anymore. (Flashback of Mc Gucket outside his son's window with a baseball and gloves and his son, inside his office, closing his blinds. Real time, narrating:) My own son hasn't visited me in months! (Flashback moves to Mc Gucket building the Gobblewonker. Real time, narrating) So I figured maybe I'd catch his fancy with a fifteen ton aquatic robut! (Laughs like maniac and the flashback ends. Sighs) In retrospect, it seems a bit contrived. You just don't know the length us old-timers go through for a little quality time with our family.
Dipper and Mabel: (Look at the fishing hats Grunkle Stan gave them and sigh)
Soos: Dude. I guess the real lake monster is you two. Heh, heh! Sorry, that just like--boom--just popped into my head there.
Old Man McGucket: Well, when you get to be an old fella like me, nobody pays any attention to you anymore. (Flashback of Mc Gucket outside his son's window with a baseball and gloves and his son, inside his office, closing his blinds. Real time, narrating:) My own son hasn't visited me in months! (Flashback moves to Mc Gucket building the Gobblewonker. Real time, narrating) So I figured maybe I'd catch his fancy with a fifteen ton aquatic robut! (Laughs like maniac and the flashback ends. Sighs) In retrospect, it seems a bit contrived. You just don't know the length us old-timers go through for a little quality time with our family.
Dipper and Mabel: (Look at the fishing hats Grunkle Stan gave them and sigh)
Soos: Dude. I guess the real lake monster is you two. Heh, heh! Sorry, that just like--boom--just popped into my head there.
Jasmine: Arbutus, I’m not a flower you can keep in your garden! I need my family and friends.
Arbutus: Ah yes, human needs. Like you need to hack down my gorgeous trees and chop them into lumber!
Jasmine: It's not that simple!
Arbutus: Indeed! You burn them for warmth, creating smoke to block our life-giving sun!
Jasmine: We don't do that on purpose!
Arbutus: Is it an accident when you rip and pluck my flowers, condemning them to a slow death in a vase!?
Jasmine: ...slow death?
Arbutus: Your kind, you're all the same! You treat my beautiful living creations as things! Why should I treat you any differently?
Jasmine: Arbutus, I... I think I understand.
Arbutus: Ah yes, human needs. Like you need to hack down my gorgeous trees and chop them into lumber!
Jasmine: It's not that simple!
Arbutus: Indeed! You burn them for warmth, creating smoke to block our life-giving sun!
Jasmine: We don't do that on purpose!
Arbutus: Is it an accident when you rip and pluck my flowers, condemning them to a slow death in a vase!?
Jasmine: ...slow death?
Arbutus: Your kind, you're all the same! You treat my beautiful living creations as things! Why should I treat you any differently?
Jasmine: Arbutus, I... I think I understand.
— Aladdin: The Series, "Garden of Evil"
Mariner: I just wish we could've figured out how this little guy got out in the first place. I mean, it clearly wasn't Narj; dude was brimming with bones.
Ransom: Let's get these humans out of here. Starfleet Security can figure it out.
Gary: Well, at least it wasn't our fault. You know, humans are always blamed for being dangerous, but we don't have claws or fangs or...
Mariner: Hey, that umbrella is upside-down, yeah?
[The panel Mariner noticed falls off the wall. The woman in the enclosure hurriedly stops it from falling, grinning nervously. This causes the moopsy's cage to open.]
Mariner: [hurriedly closes the moopsy's cage before it can escape again] Did you [bleep]ers rewire the moopsy door?! You could've got us all killed!
Ransom: Wow. I guess humans really are the most dangerous game.
Gary: Damn it.
[cut to a shot of the Cerritos]
Mariner: Lieutenant junior grade's... log... nope, no, too weird. Uh, let's go with Mariner's log. So yeah, of course, it was the humans in the menagerie that set the moopsy free. They'd seen how profitable they were as an attraction, so they wanted to kill Narj and keep the station for themselves. Humans. We really are the worst. So anyway, instead of bringing them to the Cerritos, we left them in the menagerie until somebody else has time to pick them up. Could take a while.
Ransom: Let's get these humans out of here. Starfleet Security can figure it out.
Gary: Well, at least it wasn't our fault. You know, humans are always blamed for being dangerous, but we don't have claws or fangs or...
Mariner: Hey, that umbrella is upside-down, yeah?
[The panel Mariner noticed falls off the wall. The woman in the enclosure hurriedly stops it from falling, grinning nervously. This causes the moopsy's cage to open.]
Mariner: [hurriedly closes the moopsy's cage before it can escape again] Did you [bleep]ers rewire the moopsy door?! You could've got us all killed!
Ransom: Wow. I guess humans really are the most dangerous game.
Gary: Damn it.
[cut to a shot of the Cerritos]
Mariner: Lieutenant junior grade's... log... nope, no, too weird. Uh, let's go with Mariner's log. So yeah, of course, it was the humans in the menagerie that set the moopsy free. They'd seen how profitable they were as an attraction, so they wanted to kill Narj and keep the station for themselves. Humans. We really are the worst. So anyway, instead of bringing them to the Cerritos, we left them in the menagerie until somebody else has time to pick them up. Could take a while.
"Who is the enemy of the platypuses? Or platypi? Or platypeople? Or… well, you know what I mean… The platypus is one of our greatest friends in nature; a humble but key component in Mother Nature's delicate cycle of life. But as of late, worldwide populations have been declining to near endangerment. But why? Who is the enemy of the platypuses? Or… well you know what I mean. Historically, the enemies of the platypus were well known: the poisonous swamp viper; the snaggletoothed badger; and duplicating imitable stunts seen on television. But there is a new enemy of the platypus. One whose tireless development paves over the platypus' woodland homes… the greatest enemy of the platypus… is man."
Real Life
Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
— Wendell Berry
One index of human impact is the extinction of species, now estimated to be at about the same rate as it was 65 million years ago when an asteroid hit the Earth. That is the presumed cause for the ending of the age of the dinosaurs, which opened the way for small mammals to proliferate, and ultimately modern humans. Today, it is humans who are the asteroid, condemning much of life to extinction.
— Noam Chomsky
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It sets one dreaming - to interchange thoughts with beings whose thinking had an organic background wholly different from ours (other senses, other appetites), to be unenviously humbled by intellects possibly superior to our own yet able for that very reason to descend to our level, to descend lovingly ourselves if met innocent and childlike creatures who could never be as strong or as clever as we, to exchange with the inhabitants of other worlds that especially keen and rich affection which exists between unlikes; it is a glorious dream. But make no mistake. It is a dream. We are fallen. We know what our race does to strangers. Man destroys or enslaves every species he can. Civilized man murders, enslaves, cheats, and corrupts savage man. Even inanimate nature he turns into dust bowls and slag-heaps. There are individuals who don't. But they are not the sort who are likely to be our pioneers in space. Our ambassador to new worlds will be the needy and greedy adventurer or the ruthless technical expert. They will do as their kind has always done. What that will be if they meet things weaker than themselves, the black man and the red man can tell. If they meet things stronger, they will be, very properly, destroyed.
— C. S. Lewis, "Religion and Rocketry"
Thus they let their anger and fury take from them the sense of humanity, and demonstrated that no beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
— Plutarch, "The Life of Cicero"
Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one - the solitary one - that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices - the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also - in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind.
"Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster. Wisdom is understanding that Frankenstein is the monster."
— Jacob Bailey
"Scooby-Doo taught us that the real monsters are always humans."
— Anonymous
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Although there are many non-human species — especially carnivores — that also cause a lot of suffering, humans have the unfortunate distinction of being the most destructive and harmful species on earth. The amount of suffering in the world could be radically reduced if there were no more humans. Even if the misanthropic argument is not taken to this extreme, it can be used to defend at least a radical reduction of the human population.
“I couldn’t possibly write Jaws today. We know so much more about sharks - and just as important, about our position as the single most careless, voracious, omnivorous destroyer of life on earth - that the notion of demonizing a fish strikes me as insane.”
— Peter Benchley, in 1998
