History Main / MostWritersAreHuman

** Humans are the main focus in most of the stories, to the point the ''Literature/HorusHeresy'', a {{Prequel}} dedicated to the backstory of the Imperium, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/1271n9c/factions_repartition_in_black_library_output_over/ has more books than ''all non-imperiual factions combined'']][[note]]And some of those "non-imperial books" are either anthologies of short stories, which ''also'' tends to be majorly Imperial-flavoured, or Chaos-focused, who are "[[EvilCounterpart evil humans]]"[[/note]].
** One of the most commonly-stated truths about the Eldar, meant to emphasize their cruel pragmatism and lack of care for humanity, is a declaration along the lines of "the Eldar would cause the deaths of a thousand humans just to save the life of a single Eldar." While certainly not a pleasant viewpoint, it leaves out the fact that the Imperium would ''also'' kill a thousand Eldar to save the life of a single human--indeed, they would kill a thousand Eldar [[AbsoluteXenophobe just for the sake of killing a thousand Eldar]]. Hell, in the case of the Imperium's leadership, it's pretty likely that [[WeHaveReserves killing a thousand humans]] just to kill one Eldar would be perceived as a pretty good trade.

* This trope was actually a fairly major factor in the writing of ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', with the human characters taking a somewhat larger role than is traditional for the franchise. (This was also for [[PragmaticAdaptation pragmatic]] reasons; ''every single frame'' of one Transformer or more that appears on screen took ''twenty-four hours'' to render.) According to the PowersThatBe, the main reason was [[CoconutSuperpowers the expense of the detailed robots]]. In [[Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen the second film]], however, there are many more non-humanoid Transformers, of all shapes and sizes, from insects to tiny spheres that roll through small spaces and assemble into one robot when it's gotten where it's going. One character is even [[spoiler:a trio of motorcycles, whose robot forms are all oddly-shaped beings who have one wheel instead of legs. These three bikes together make the new Arcee. They can combine into one in the comics, but they don't in the movie proper]]. There's also more robot screentime than in the previous film. The entire Franchise/{{Transformers}} franchise is prone to this trope. For a race of inorganic mechanical lifeforms with lifespans hundreds if not thousands of years old, more often than not they'll behave no differently than humans do.

* Where the story falls along the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism depends on how good, valuable, or justified the human condition is evaluated to be. In idealistic stories, a {{Transhuman}}, {{Cyborg}}, DeityOfHumanOrigin, GodInHumanForm, {{Human Alien|s}} or {{Ridiculously Human Robot|s}} will invariably PickYourHumanHalf, while ScaryDogmaticAliens and [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] who aren't beaten back or destroyed entirely will find ''something'' admirable or lovable about the old [[CallAHumanAMeatbag organ-sacks]]. They will find that having human emotions is good and human systems of morality work equally well or better than their own. Some of them may even [[HumanityIsInfectious yield to basic human drives/instincts]], such as [[BoldlyComing sexual]] [[RoboSexual relations]] [[DivineDate with]] [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu humans]].

* The hypothetical "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troodon#The_.22Dinosauroid.22 Dinosauroid]]," which was a proposed possible evolutionary descendant of the troodon had it not gone extinct. Dale Russell, the guy who thought up the concept, has been criticized by other paleontologists since the 1980s, many of whom point out that Russell's Dinosauroid is overly anthropomorphic. Most paleontologists think that any possible descendant of the troodon would appear more bird-like than human-like. Some of the criticisms went too far the other way -- one of them asserted, for instance, that a sapient evolved from a dromaeosaur would pick things up in its mouth, like a bird. Not implausible, since birds evolved from such dinosaurs and their hands turned into wings in the process, but picking things up is sorta what hands are for.

* For one species on one planet, humanity sure gets around in the fictional multi-[[TheVerse verse]]. Countless SpeculativeFiction settings without Earth include humans, usually [[LikeRealityUnlessNoted just like the ones we're used to]].