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* ''{{Firefly}}''. Like ''TitanAE'', we take to the stars.

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* Humanity in ''TitanAE''. Aliens try to kill them off by blowing up Earth, years later those who were evacuated before said EarthShatteringKaboom are still hanging in there despite the loss of their planet, being on the bottom of the galactic totem pole and the fact that the nearest thing they have to a home is a bodged together space colony made out of old ships, not to mention that the aforementioned aliens are still out to get them.

In fiction, no matter how many other races are kicking around, if there's one species that seems to have a knack for avoiding extinction it's us. Genocidal aliens? [[TheEternalChurchill We fortify our position and fight back with everything we have.]] Earth becomes uninhabitable? We either head into space to find somewhere new to live or artifically create enclosed environments that are habitable. Our planet [[EarthShatteringKaboom gets blown up]]? Again, time to take to the stars. Global ice age? [[TruthInTelevision Been there, done that.]]

Differs from TheEternalChurchill in that while TheEternalChurchill is to do with humanity refusing to surrender even when the odds are heavily stacked against them, with the possibility of extinction not always being a factor, Human Are Survivors covers the way that humans as a species tend to be very, very hard to kill off, regardless of whether the ones attempting to do so are enemies, Mother Nature, the universe in general or even our own stupidity. There is a fair bit of overlap though. Can sometimes overlap with HumansAreSpecial. See also HumansAreWarriors, and HadToBeSharp.

** There are huge problems about space travel that we don't yet have technology to even adress.

* In the ''{{Metro 2033}}'' series (both [[[[Literature/{{Metro2033}} the two]] [[Literature/{{Metro2034}} books]] and [[[[VideoGame/{{Metro2033}} the two]] [[VideoGame/MetroLastLight video games]]), even after the apocalypse, even when you don't count [[OneManArmy Artyom]], humans are still the toughest and most badass species around. They eat shrimps[[note]]armored arthropods at the top of the food chain, a conclusion made with some careful observation and knowledge of ecology - nothing else eats them, even the mutated giant {{bear|sAreBadNews}}, who killed a big one but didn't eat it, an act that can only be surmised as territorial dispute[[/note]] with beer, kill demons[[note]]apex flying predators that compete with Librarians for prey and Shrimps for territory[[/note]], on a regular basis, and can slaughter nosalises and watchmen with [[KnifeNut knives and nothing else]] with some effort. It's reflected in-game, too: [[http://metrovideogame.wikia.com/wiki/Arena the combat analysis on this page]] shows how humans excel in all kinds of face-off, even when outnumbered, and don't suffer at all from ConservationOfNinjutsu like the other competitors[[note]]watchmen, nosalises and male shrimps[[/note]] often do - in fact, a quartet of humans can only consistently be matched by [[MirrorMatch four other humans]] or the PlayerCharacter.

* In the time that humans have been on this Earth[[hottip:*:which is admittedly brief compared to the many, ''many'' other species on Earth that exist today but predate us by millions of years]], we have experienced global drought, Ice Ages, drastic changes in sea level and weather patterns, numerous global epidemics, natural disasters, and many, many, many wars.

* The ''UFOAfterBlank'' series is built on this. [[TheGreys The Reticulans]] launched a global DepopulationBomb that wiped out the vast majority of humankind. But the small percentage that survived were ''pissed'' and motivated to both survive and seek out bloody vengeance, [[HumansAdvanceQuickly and went from a few scattered survivors to a technologically-advanced global military force]] [[HumansAreWarriors able to match the Reticulans' superior technology through prying it from their corpses, figuring out how it worked, and turning it back against the enemy]]. Depending on the ending of the first game, the humans either destroy the Reticulan forces or fight them to a standstill until the Reticulans agree to build a space station to house the surviving population.

* The ''UFOAfterBlank'' series is built on this. [[TheGreys The Reticulans]] launched a global DepopulationBomb that wiped out the vast majority of humankind. But the small percentage that survived were ''pissed'' and motivated to both survive and seek out bloody vengeance, and went from a few scattered survivors to a technologically-advanced global military force able to match the Reticulans' superior technology through prying it from their corpses, figuring out how it worked, and turning it back against the enemy. Depending on the ending of the first game, the humans either destroyed the Reticulan forces or fought them to a standstill until the Reticulans agreed to build a space station to house the surviving population.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Renegade}}'' (a ''MassEffect/[=/=]CommandAndConquer'' FusionFic), mankind survived living on a planet where, thanks to the Scrin and their GreenRocks, [[DeathWorld the ground was trying to eat them.]] Naturally, this coupled with [[HumansAreWarriors humans constantly being at war]] made humanity [[HadToBeSharp even tougher]]. Even the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy krogan]] respect humans.

Differs from TheEternalChurchill in that while TheEternalChurchill is to do with humanity refusing to surrender even when the odds are heavily stacked against them, with the possibility of extinction not always being a factor, Human Are Survivors covers the way that humans as a species tend to be very, very hard to kill off, regardless of whether the ones attempting to do so are enemies, Mother Nature, the universe in general or even our own stupidity. There is a fair bit of overlap though. Can sometimes overlap with HumansAreSpecial. See also HumansAreWarriors, and HadToBeSharp

Differs from TheEternalChurchill in that while TheEternalChurchill is to do with humanity refusing to surrender even when the odds are heavily stacked against them, with the possibility of extinction not always being a factor, Human Are Survivors covers the way that humans as a species tend to be very, very hard to kill off, regardless of whether the ones attempting to do so are enemies, Mother Nature, the universe in general or even our own stupidity. There is a fair bit of overlap though. Can sometimes overlap with HumansAreSpecial.

* In the time that humans have been on this Earth[[hottip:*:which is admittedly brief compared to the many, ''many'' other species on Earth that exist today but predate us by millions of years]], we have experienced global drought, Ice Ages, drastic changes in sea level and weather patterns, numerous global epidemics, natural disasters, and many, many, many wars.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Renegade}}'' (a ''MassEffect/[=/=]CommandandConquer'' FusionFic), mankind survived living on a planet where, thanks to the Scrin and their GreenRocks, [[DeathWorld the ground was trying to eat them.]] Naturally, this coupled with [[HumansAreWarriors humans constantly being at war]] made humanity [[HadToBeSharp even tougher]]. Even the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy krogan]] respect humans.

*** And there's more of us than ever before.
**** Which can actually be seen as a bad thing

* ''DungeonsandDragons'' 4th Edition uses this trope as part of its (successful) attempt to take humans from being simply TheMario to being HumansAreSpecial, and it crops up all over the game's human-specific support material. In fact, it would not be far off base to wager that a full third or more of human specific feats, as well as the racial paragon path, are devoted to setting up human beings as hyper-adaptable, survival {{Determinator}}s, either (read: usually) by adding bonuses to saving throws, or occasionally more directly by adding HP or defense bonuses. Seriously, some of the humans' most iconic feats have names like: Human Perseverance, Die Hard, Human Resolve, Frantic Recovery, Don't Count Me Out...you get the idea.

* In the time that humans have been on this Earth[[hottip:*:which is admittedly brief compared to the many, ''many'' other species on Earth that exist today but predate us by millions of years]], we have experienced global drought, Ice Ages, drastic changes in sea level and weather patterns, numerous global epidemics, natural disasters, and many, many, many wars. We're still here.

** In "Evolution of the Daleks", Dalek Sec [[spoiler:merges with a human to become a HalfHumanHybrid]] specifically because HumansAreSurvivors [[spoiler:and wants to impart that resilience to a new generation of Daleks]]. At first he believes this is because of humanity's ambition and "genius for war", but eventually thinks it's because of Humanity's better qualities instead.