History Main / ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld

* According to Peter Griffin of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':

** Homer's "Only two types of guy wear Hawaiian shirts - gay guys and big fat party animals! And Bart doesn't look like a big fat party animal to me!" Made even funnier by Marge's pointing out that [[DoubleStandard that logic presumably makes it fine]] for ''him'' to wear them...
** When Homer goes to college, he immediately separates the students into two groups: jocks and nerds. And then puts himself in the jock category.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In "Not Normal", Squidward tells [=SpongeBob=] that there are two kinds of people, people that are normal and [=SpongeBob=].

* From the [[Literature/ThePendragonAdventure Pendragon series]] the Quillian Games. After being given a room with a clown motif.

--> '''Andrew:''' Blast through the space-time continuum in a wormhole?
--> '''Jonathan:''' Gentlemen... [lights cigar with flaming bill] '''CRIME''' is our wormhole!
* In ''Series/{{Castle}}'', this is heard during the OpeningNarration for all of Season Two.

** "Masters and slaves/people who give orders and people who take them". This usually asserts that ''[[AppealToForce you shouldn't disobey]]''.
** "People who fit in/follow the rules, and people who change the world". The assertion here, conversely, is that [[DareToBeBadass you should be bold and take risks]]. G.B. Shaw's quote in the Literature section below is one of the most famous of this type.

** From the more self-aware nerds: "There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those that understand binary, and those that get laid."
** DoubleSubversion by Asymmetric Publication's [[http://twitter.com/#!/asym/status/5028992404 twitter]] (the guys who made ''[[VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing KoL]]''): "There are 10 types of people. Those who think binary jokes are funny, those who don't and 8 types on a scale between the first two."

* A variation appears in ''Manga/OutlawStar'':
-->'''Hilda:''' Well, it's just like it is with the stars; there are bright ones, and there are those that are dim.
* Parodied in ''Manga/MrFullswing'', where Amakuni says that there are two kinds of people in this world... those with clothes and those without. While that's, like, technically true, it means absolutely nothing.
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': "There are only two kinds of people: those who obey Freeza, and those who do not obey Freeza!"

* ''Anime/WakeUpGirls'' begins with Mayu saying that there are three ways to make people happy: Those who make many people happy throughout the world, those who make the people around them happy, and those who make themselves happy.

* ''ComicBook/BatmanEarthOne'': In classic villain fashion, Oswald Cobblepot gloats to a captive Batman that there are two kinds of people in Gotham: [[TheSocialDarwinist predators and prey]]. [[spoiler:Alfred [[ShutUpHannibal points out]] a third kind that he's forgetting: survivors.]]

* ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' seems to divide the entire population of its derailed Franchise/HarryPotter-verse into "Goths" and "Preps." (And, occasionally, posers -- preps who pretend to be goth but really aren't.)

* A variation in ''Film/{{Domino|2005}}'':
-->'''Domino Harvey:''' There are {{t|akeAThirdOption}}hree kinds of people in the world: the poor, the rich, [[TakeAThirdOption and everyone in between]].[[note]]Also a pretty useless observation. What she's literally saying is "[[CaptainObvious everybody fits somewhere in terms of wealth or lack thereof]]".[[/note]]
* ''Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding''. "There are two kinds of people in the world: Greeks, and people who ''wish'' they were Greeks."

* In ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'', there are two types of "girls", according to John Travolta's character. "You gotta decide now, Annette. Are you gonna put out? You're either gonna be a nice girl or a cunt."
* In the Brazilian film ''Tropa de Elite'' (a.k.a. ''Film/TheEliteSquad'') the (arguably) protagonist/narrator says Brazilian cops have three options: omit themselves, corrupt themselves, or go to war.
* In the Japanese movie ''Film/SwingGirls'', a jock-ish minor character seems to start all his sentences this way, leaving the protagonists on the negative end, of course. It isn't until the swing band's penultimate performance that he changes his mind.
* In ''Film/TheLongestDay'', during the battle for Omaha Beach, a ranking character dealing with getting the men off the beach and past the bunkers gives a variation on this trope: "Two kinds of people are staying on this beach! The dead and those that are going to die!"
* ''Film/TheButtercreamGang'' has the main character's ex-best friend say this line after he falls under a bad influence. "There are two people in the world: Your friends and your enemies." He doesn't seem to have anything in mind about people he's never met.
* In the 1962 adaptation of ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate'', there's a subtle example, in that there are "Those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and those that enter a room and turn the television set off."
* ''Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer'': "There's only two kinds of people in the world. There's women. And there's men."
* ''Film/TheBoondockSaintsIIAllSaintsDay'': Rocco's Shaw is that are "talkers" and "do-er's", and that "it's the do-er's that change this world."
* ''Film/FullMetalJacket'': "Only two things come out of Texas! Steers and queers!" Which comes with a GeniusBonus, since a steer could refer to a castrated bull.
* ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' A Shaw; "There are two kinds of boys: Astronauts and Astronomers" (kids who watch the sky, kids who dream of flying in it)
* ''Film/CowboysAndAliens''": Shaw. "Only two kinds of men get shot: criminals and victims."
* ''Film/TheMatrix'': Master/Slave. "Two kinds of people: Those with power, and those without."
* In the film ''Film/NothingToLose'' with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_Lose_%281997_film%29 Tim Robins and Martin Lawrence]].
-->'''Rig:''' There are two kinds of people in the world: Killers, and everybody else. [[ARealManIsAKiller Which one are you, huh]]?
-->'''Nick:''' ...I'm ''[[TakeAThirdOption married]].'' ''([[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands shoots Rig's gun]])''
* From Film/PinkFlamingos:
--> Connie: I guess there's just two kinds of people, Miss Sandstone, my kind of people and assholes. It's rather obvious which category you fit into. Have a ''nice'' day.
* ''Film/TheEliteSquad'' has a Shaw with Captain Nascimento's opening monologue:
--> '''Nascimento:''' There are three kinds of policemen in Rio. Those who are corrupt, those who look the other way, and those who go to war.
* In ''Film/{{Focus}}'', Nicky says, "There's two kinds of people in this world. There's hammers and nails. You decide which one you want to be."
* In ''Film/{{Insomnia}}'' Dormer's landlord says There Are Two Kinds of People in Alaska: Those who were born there and those who come there to escape something. Dormer's landlord says this after hearing his confession - and that [[DarkAndTroubledPast she wasn't born there]] - to tell him YouAreNotAlone.
* In ''Film/BladeRunner'', Chief Bryant throws the master/slave comparison at Deckard when he tries to refuse a case;
-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lru1Qxc1l8 "Stop right where you are! You know the score, pal. If you're not cop, you're little people!"]]
* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': Drax tells Peter that Gamora will never be with him because "There are two types of being in the universe--those who dance, and those who do not." Of course, Drax being LiteralMinded, this isn't an IceCreamKoan; he just means that Peter likes dancing and Gamora doesn't. He then tells Peter that he met his wife at a big village gathering where she was the only person besides himself who was not dancing.
* According to Janis from ''Film/MeanGirls'', "There are two kinds of evil people: People who do evil stuff and people [[BystanderSyndrome who see evil stuff being done and don't do anything to stop it]]."
* ''Film/FaustLoveOfTheDamned'': Claire, the devil's right hand and psychosexual sadist, claims that all women fulfill one of two roles: victim or whore. FemaleMisogynist doesn't begin to describe her.
* V.I.N.CENT, the snarky robot from ''Film/TheBlackHole'', believes there are three.
-->'''V.I.N.CENT:''' There are three basic types, Mr. Pizer: the Wills, the Won'ts, and the Can'ts. The Wills accomplish everything, the Won'ts oppose everything, and the Can'ts won't try anything.
-->'''Captain Holland:''' Well, do us all a favor, V.I.N.CENT, and try to be a Can't.

* The silent film ''Film/ThePlasticAge'' has an intertitle that informs us that, "There are two kinds of girls at every dance – those who prefer to dance – and those who prefer not to."
* ''Film/PulpFiction'': In a deleted scene, Mia Wallace states that the two types of people in the world are Music/ElvisPresley fans and Music/TheBeatles fans. She guesses correctly that Vincent is an Elvis man. This scene is why, in the final scene, Jules gives the nickname "Ringo" to the British robber Pumpkin, revealing that he's a Beatles man.
* Early in ''Film/TheRightStuff'', Pancho Barnes uses one of these to take a couple overly cocky future astronauts down a peg.
-->'''Pancho:''' I tell you, we got two categories of pilots around here. We got your prime pilots that get all the hot planes, and we got your pud-knockers who dream about getting the hot planes. Now what are you two pud-knockers gonna have?

* From ''Literature/TheGreatDivorce'' by Creator/CSLewis: There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor "Thy will be done."]]
* Subverted in ''Literature/HarryPotter'', where Sirius Black points out that the world isn't divided into good people and Death Eaters when Harry's suspecting Dolores Umbridge of being a Death Eater in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix''. He's right. Umbridge isn't a Death Eater, but she most certainly is ''not'' a good person either.
* There's a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' novelization which promisingly opened stating that there are two types of people in the world: people who catch and train Pokémon themselves and people who try to steal other people's Pokémon. The immediate audience reaction is: "What about those people who sit around and have no interest in Pokémon whatsoever?"
** [[HandWave The Pokémon world revolves around Pokémon.]] It is still a FalseDichotomy because there are plenty of people who just keep them as pets who are not actually trainers.

* [[http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/9/20warner.html This]] parody of David Brooks.
* ''Literature/FoucaultsPendulum'' claims there four kinds of people in the world: "cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics."
** Although at another point it goes for the more traditional two: "writers and editors".
* ''[[Literature/LegacyOfTheForce Invincible]]'' has Wedge Antilles, in hiding, hearing of his daughter Syal starting to date. He is not at all happy.
--> "There are two types of male pilots. Good men, such as the ones I never tried to break or run out of my squadrons, whom I would shoot before I ever trusted them with my daughter. And worse men, whom I would shoot if I caught them ''looking'' at my daughter."
* From ''[[Literature/TheActsOfCaine Blade of Tyshalle]]'':
--> "You know what they say. There are two kinds of people in the world: [[LampshadeHanging people who say things like 'There are two kinds of people in the world', and people who know those first people are full of shit.]]"

* Humorist Robert Benchley once noted that there were two types of people in the world: people who believe that there are two types of people in the world, and people who don't.
** This was parodied in Donald Westlake's short story ''[[http://www.donaldwestlake.com/shortstory2.html Don't You Know There's A War On?]]'', in which the inhabitants of a planet consist of two types of people: people who believe what Robert Benchley said about there being two types of people in the world, and people who don't.
* From the [[Literature/ThePendragonAdventure Pendragon series]] the Quillian Games. After being given a room with a clown motif.
--> There are two kinds of people in this world. People who hate and fear clowns... and clowns.
* A classic Master/Slave from Rainsford in ''Literature/TheMostDangerousGame'': "This world's divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted."

* ''[[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms Azure Bonds]]'' has a good Shaw:
--> '''Alias''': Riding a wagon along protected trading routes in a guarded merchant caravan doesn't make you an adventurer. Until you've hiked more than twenty miles a day, slept in a ditch, and eaten something that tried to kill you first, you're not an adventurer. Anyone who isn't an adventurer is a greengrocer.

* ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'' (first book of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''): Kaladin's father, a surgeon, told him a Shaw; that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who save lives, and those who take lives. When Kaladin asks about people who save lives by taking lives, his father tells him, "That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing." Later in life, at his DespairEventHorizon, Kaladin concludes that there is a third kind of people: the victims whose lives exist to be killed or saved.
* In the ''Literature/WellWorld'' series, retired space pirate Serge Ortega asserts that the universe contains only three kinds of people -- scoundrels, hypocrites, and sheep -- and that he is therefore proud to be a scoundrel.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'', "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIVMeltdown Meltdown]]": When Rimmer is inspecting the troops, he tells St. Francis: "There's only two kinds from Assisi, steers and queers -- which are you, boy?"
** Which is, of course, homage to ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' in reference to things that come from Texas.
* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'':
** In the first episode, "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresNYSInvasionOfTheBane Invasion of the Bane]]", Sarah Jane tells Maria and Luke; "There are two types of people in this world. There are people who panic, and then there's us."
** In "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E3E4TheDayOfTheClown The Day of the Clown]]", she gives new recruit Rani a similar speech:
-->'''Sarah Jane''': When it comes to getting a true glimpse of the universe, there are two types of people: [[WeirdnessCensor those who refuse to believe]], [[MasterOfDelusion that would tell themselves anything to deny the evidence of their eyes]], and those that [[JumpedAtTheCall embrace the universe and just how special life is]]. I want it to stay that way by keeping it safe and secret.
-->'''Rani''': And that's me?
-->'''Sarah Jane''': That's all of us.
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', "[[Recap/SmallvilleS02E16Fever Fever]]". Chloe's dad told her [offscreen] there are two kinds of girls, the ones you grow out of, and the ones you grow into. Well, the second part is straightforward enough, but there are girls you can grow ''out of'' in the Smallville 'verse? Who knew kryptonite infections could be so kinky?

* From the ''Series/PushingDaisies'' episode "Circus Circus", the French acrobat tells Ned and Emerson a Shaw; that there are two types of people in the world- circus performers, and "stubs", those that watch.
* Brian Kinney of Series/QueerAsFolk fame puts a homophobic spin on this trope with the oft-referenced quote: "There are two kinds of straight people in the world: the ones that hate you to your face, and the ones that hate you behind your back."

* ManipulativeBastard Tammy Swanson on ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': "There are two kinds of women in the world. There are women who work hard and stress out about doing the right thing, and then there are women who are cool."
* In ''Series/HarryEnfieldAndChums''. Perry on an Music/{{Oasis}} fanboy kick tells Kevin, "There's only two types of people, right? There's us and there's wankers."

* Kristen Wiig's parody of Kathie Lee Gifford on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': "You know, there's two types of people in the world; people that get it and people that don't. And the people that don't get it know who they are." ''[long silence]''
* From ''Series/CornerGas'' episode, "Whiner Takes All":
-->'''Hank:''' There are two kind of people in this world: losers, and those who ''lose'' to losers. And, my friends, you just lost to me!
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', "The Graduation Deterioration":
-->'''Howard:''' There are two kinds of people in this world: those who call tech support, and those who laugh at those who call tech support.

* In Season 2 of ''Series/BetterCallSaul'', it's shown that Jimmy's StartOfDarkness happened at a very young age. His father was very much StupidGood and would give money and/or free items from his store to any obvious scammer with a barely-thought-out sob story that a literal child could see through, never once entertaining the thought that these stories might be made up and even reprimanding Jimmy (the aforementioned child) for trying to point it out. When one of these scammers was alone in the store with Jimmy, he told Jimmy that there are two kinds of people in the world: wolves and sheep. Jimmy from that point resolved to be a wolf, and not a sheep like his father.
* This is Swartz's explanation to White Woz in ''Series/KamenRiderZiO''
-->'''Swartz''': There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who make use of others and those who get used.

* "The Way Things Are", the VillainProtagonist song from ''I Can Get It For You Wholesale''.
-->You're the catcher or the pitcher\\
You're bamboozled or you get richer\\
You get done to or you do it,\\
That's the way things are.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': [[Radio/GTARadio Tommy "The Nightmare" Smith's]] view on the world: "There's two kinds of people in this world: Those who like me... and those who can go to hell!"
** Trevor Phillips of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' says at one point, "There are people who are useful to you and people who ain't, and the [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness people who ain't got to go]]".

* Zeke Dunbar paraphrases Shaw prior to the finale of VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}:
-->''"The way I see it, there's basically two types of people. Most of them are guys like me. Guys that sit on the couch, we might not like the shit that happens to us, but we deal with it. Then there are guys like you."''
* Both Vladof and Dahl radio ads in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' have variations on this phrase. Vladof claims the two kinds of people are the oppressors and the oppressed ("Which one are ''you''?"); Dahl says the ''three'' kinds are people who need to be killed, the people who kill them, and the people who pay the 2nd group.
* In ''VideoGame/WargameEuropeanEscalation'' and its sequels, artillery units often say, "There are two types of people in this world: artillerymen, and targets."
* About a quarter of Andrew Ryan's dialogue in ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' is devoted to his personal interpretation of Shaw - that everyone can be divided into one of two groups: men (people in control of their destinies) and slaves (people who let others dictate their lives). [[ArcWords "A man chooses, a slave obeys."]] On occasion, he also draws distinction between men (here defined as innovators and creators) and parasites (those who cannot create and instead use society, government, and religion to feed on the work of men).
* Jeremiah Fink in ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' has a similar philosophy, one where the three groups are all mentioned under a single speech. Lions (those who are trusted and entitled to be in control), Cow/Cattle (those whom the Lions are meant to control and do not seek control themselves), and Hyenas (anarchists, bandits, basically everything that Jeremiah Fink despises in a person).

* In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' if the Sole Survivor's relationship with Hancock lowers, he'll have this to say:
-->"There are two types of people in the Commonwealth: those that help and those who harm. And right now, ''you ain't helping''!"
* In ''VideoGame/PokemonVietnameseCrystal'', one trainer says "THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF MEN IN THE WORLD, SAVVY AND NOSAVVY WHAT KIND OF YOU?"
* In ''VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland'', Admiral Casaba claims that in his experience there are only two types of pirates. "Those who are committing acts of wanton savagery, and those ''planning'' to commit acts of wanton savagery! If you allow groups of the latter to congregate for any lengths of time, they inevitably transform into mobs of the former!"
* Early in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'', [[TheMentor Al Mualim]] states that the Assassins choose their victims based on if they commit evil acts out of genuine malevolence or not. In the endgame, [[spoiler:[[MoleInCharge Al Mualim is revealed to be a traitor]] and brainwashes nearly all the Assassins. While [[TheHero Altaïr]] kills him to stop his evil scheme, the lucid Assassins keep the brainwashed ones occupied while doing their best to avoid killing the men who are not in control of themselves]].
-->'''Al Mualim''': Some do ill out of ignorance or fear. These men can be saved. Others suffer from corrupted wills, their minds poisoned and twisted. These men must be destroyed.
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash'', there's a Toad in Redpepper Crater drying himself off (shirtless) with a hair dryer. In the Spanish translation, if you talk to him, he says "There are two kinds of Toads in the world: those with no style... and me."
* In ''VideoGame/MaxPayne3'', Max asserts that there are two types of people: those who spend their lives building a future, and those who spend their lives trying to rebuild the past. He also admits to being stuck somewhere in between.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'': At the start of the chapter "Pale Flower of Darkness", Sonia says to Ursula that there are two types of people in the world, Ursula. "Those chosen to lead and those fit only to serve: human refuse". She considers herself the former, "a perfect specimen chosen by Lord Negal", and tells Ursula that to be like her she has to use the refuse to your advantage, "Treat them as equals and they will only drag you down".
* ''VideoGame/MurderInTheAlps'': When the protagonist writes about the shooting at the railroad traffic control building in her diary during ''Forgotten Memento'', she concludes that in such an unforeseen epicenter of chaos, people can be divided into two camps: "the risk-blind, reckless responders with wannabe-hero syndrome" or "the risk-averse, keep-your-head-down-type Darwinists". She adds that neither are really wrong.

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* In ''VisualNovel/AliceInTheHeartWonderfulWonderWorld'', Alice says there are "tow" types of people -- the kind that "upsets in an emergency" and the kind that "becomes clam down". Alice seems to be the second type.
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* To a [[Webcomic/FriendlyHostility Maharassa]], there are three kinds of people in the world: family to protect, bitches to sex up, and ''prey''.
* Implied in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' -- [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20050105.html "There are customers we serve, and then there are customers we service."]]
* The Mimic in ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'' [[http://rustyandco.com/comic/32/ observes]] that "There's really only two kinds'a vilains out there..."

* ''Webcomic/TranquilityBase'' has two robots do it with style: "There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary and those who don't."
* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', Winston [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3200/fc03144.htm admits to Florence]] that he has sometimes been abruptly reminded of her doghood.
-->'''Florence:''' There are two kinds of people. Those who admit that I occasionally weird them out and those who lie about it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown'', Charlie Brown's party invitation prompts Lucy to say there are two kinds of people; people to invite and people not to invite. She assumes Charlie Brown was put on the wrong list.
* In ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'', there's Barricade who firmly believes there are only two kinds of mechanoids: Decepticons and losers.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Homer's "Only two types of guy wear Hawaiian shirts - gay guys and big fat party animals! And Bart doesn't look like a big fat party animal to me!" Made even funnier by Marge's pointing out that [[DoubleStandard that logic presumably makes it fine]] for ''him'' to wear them...
** When Homer goes to college, he immediately separates the students into two groups: jocks and nerds. And then puts himself in the jock category.
--->'''Homer:''' Hey pal, did you get a load of the nerd?\\
'''"Jock":''' I beg your pardon?
* When Two-Face threatened to release a binary poison on Gotham in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', he claimed there would be two kinds of people in Gotham: The dying and the dead.
* Parodied in "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000" of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' when Cartman is sent to juvie. When asked one reason why he shouldn't be beat up, Cartman says he's just like everyone else. The main guy says there are two types of kids: those who like WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} and those who don't. Despite getting the right answer about not liking Animaniacs, the situation isn't improved much as there are no friends in prison.
* In "Chuckie's Wonderful Life" on ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', BitchInSheepsClothing Angelica torments Chuckie under the guise of helping. No wonder he tried to run away [[SarcasmMode after these encouraging words]]:
-->'''Angelica:''' Chuckie, there are two kinds of people in this world, people like me who make things better, and people like you, who just seem to get in the way.
-->'''Chuckie:''' You really mean it, Angelica?
-->'''Angelica:''' I'm sorry, Chuckie. We'd all just be better off without you.

* ''WesternAnimation/WingCommanderAcademy'': Daimon Karnes, in "The Last One Standing", to Blair. The two kinds of people in the galaxy, according to him, are those who fly in order to get somewhere, and those who love to fly.
* One part of [[Series/WaltDisneyPresents Disney's "Mars and Beyond"]] was about what kind of people live on the planets in the solar system:
-->''[Animated depiction of two Venusians standing side-by-side with neutral expressions, flashing red and yellow. The right one suddenly hits the left one with a mallet, plumping him into the ground with his head out.]''\\
'''Narrator:''' There are two kinds of people on Venus: mild people and fierce people.\\
''[The left Venusian turns yellow and smiles (mild), the right Venusian turns red and frowns (fierce).]''

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In "Not Normal", Squidward tells [=SpongeBob=] that there are two kinds of people, people that are normal and [=SpongeBob=].

* ''VideoGame/MurderInTheAlps'': When the protagonist writes about the shooting at the railroad traffic control building in her diary during ''Forgotten Memento'', she concludes that in such an unforeseen epicenter of chaos, people can be divided into two camps: "the risk-blind, reckless responders with wannabe-hero syndrome" or "the risk-averse, keep-your-head-down-type Darwinists. She adds that neither are really wrong.

* In the ninth ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' movie, ''Anime/PokemonRangerAndTheTempleOfTheSea'', the BigBad says this phrase constantly, changing the actual contrast based on the current situation.

* The ''Anime/SandsOfDestruction'' anime has the show's episodes do this as part of IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming and also has a character say it as his CatchPhrase.

* Every single episode of ''Anime/SandsOfDestruction'' starts with a character saying this. For instance, Episode 1 starts with a character saying "There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who want to destroy it, and those who want to protect it."

--> "There's two things you can be in life, Axel. Either you're the trickster, or you're the one gettin' tricked!"

** And from [[{{Comicbook/Hitman}} another]] Creator/GarthEnnis [[{{Comicbook/Hitman}} series]]: "...People who like Creator/ClintEastwood movies, and dweebs."

* ''Comicbook/BatmanEarthOne'': in classic villain fashion, Oswald Cobblepot gloats to a captive Batman that there are two kinds of people in Gotham: [[TheSocialDarwinist predators and prey.]] [[spoiler: Alfred [[ShutUpHannibal points out]] a third kind that he's forgetting: survivors.]]

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* In ''Film/TheLongestDay'' during the battle for Omaha Beach, a ranking character dealing with getting the men off the beach and past the bunkers gives a variation on this trope: "Two kinds of people are staying on this beach! The dead and those that are going to die!"

* In ''Film/TheManchurianCandidate'' there's a subtle Shaw, in that there are "Those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and those that enter a room and turn the television set off."
* ''Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer'' : "There's only two kinds of people in the world. There's women. And there's men."

* Sena from ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}'' has this to say: "... There are two types of women. Ones that I can get along with, and all the other bitches. All those bitches who I can't get along with should just die..."
* According to LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya in Remote Island Syndrome, there are two kinds of people when you're in a mystery, those who are suspicious, and those who are suspicious for not being suspicious.

* Naotsugu in ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'' believes with a passion that AllMenArePerverts and that they are either openly perverted like him or [[CovertPervert closet perverts]].

* In the ''Literature/WellWorld'' sereies, retired space pirate Serge Ortega asserts that the universe contains only three kinds of people -- scoundrels, hypocrites, and sheep -- and that he is therefore proud to be a scoundrel.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': Obi-Wan's infamous line in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', "Only the Sith deal in absolutes!" combines this with bizarre hypocrisy. [[JediTruth Not that bizarre hypocrisy is anything new for him.]] It's even more bizarre when you realize that the ''refusal'' to deal in absolutes is precisely what caused Anakin Skywalker to turn to the dark side. He believed Palpatine's rationalization that it was acceptable to employ the dark side of the Force if the outcome was a benevolent one (in this case, saving his wife).

-->'''Mitch:''' There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who get stomped on and those who do the stomping.
-->'''Kathy:''' Where did you come up with that theory?
-->'''Mitch:''' That famous guy said it. What's his name? Oh yeah, Jesus!

* In the [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] Radio 4 comedy ''Radio/AbsolutePower'' (but not the TV version) Charles Prentiss has a variety of poetic versions to put down Maurice the waiter (usually after Maurice has corrected his [[MaliciousMisnaming pronunciation of Maurice]]).

** It seems that Parker and Stone are a bit more "ha ha only serious" than they originally let on, there. You can see the same speech given by another libertarian luminary, Bill Whittle. He calls it [[http://pajamasmedia.com/ejectejecteject/2009/10/07/tribes-2/ TRIBES]], and the three groups are "sheepdogs (protect sheep, attack wolves)", "sheep (protected by sheepdogs, attacked by wolves)" and "wolves (attack ''everyone'')", respectively, but it's the same basic idea.

* In ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'', there are two types of "girls", according to John Travolta's character. "You gotta decide now, [[strike:Sandy]] Annette. Are you gonna put out? You're either gonna be a nice girl or a cunt."

** This line was done in ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: Big Red One'' as either a ShoutOut to the film, or as a reference to a real story about an officer running along the beach yelling it at his men.

** "Masters and slaves/people who victimize others and people who are victims". This asserts either that you should be ruthless or you ''[[AppealToForce shouldn't disobey]]''.
** "People who follow the rules/obey X, and people who change the world". The assertion here, conversely, is that [[DareToBeBadass you should be bold and take risks]]. Shaw's quote in the Jokes section below is one of the most famous of this.

# Unitary Groupings: "People who have had X happen to them, and people who ''will'' have X happen to them." The two or three groups are actually a single one divided up into future, past, and sometimes present tense.[[note]]Differs from a Tautology mainly in not truly being self-evident as defined: the hidden message here is that if you're part of group A, event B ''will'' happen to you.[[/note]]
# Meta-jokes: "There are two kinds of people in the world: The kind who puts everyone into two groups, and everyone else" These play off of the structure of the phrase. Most of these, once the joke is understood, [[OverusedRunningGag fall into one of two classes]]: A Tautology utilizing the theme of the joke or a Subversion of the phrase itself.

* One Internet ad uses false dichotomy form of this trope. It asks viewers whether or not China is the world's (only) major superpower. Above the "yes" was an image of the PRC's flag, while above the "no" was an image of the USA's flag. This essentially implies that people who answer "no" believe that the USA is the world's (only) major superpower. The set-up also doesn't allow for ''both'' the USA and PRC to be superpowers, let alone India and the EU. Finally, the question kind of implies that the world's Great Powers and Secondary/Regional Powers don't matter in Geopolitical matters.

* ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' seems to divide the entire population of its derailed Franchise/HarryPotter-verse into "Goths" and "Preps." (And, occasionally, posers -- preps who pretend to be goth but really aren't.) That there could be living, breathing people who neither belong to nor care about ''either'' of these two social groups simply never occurs to the author.

* "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw

* Probably not the last word on the subject, but there are two types of people in the world: Those who divide people into two types and those that don't.

** "Masters and slaves/people who give orders and people who take them". This usually asserts that ''[[AppealToForce you shouldn't disobey]]''.
** "People who follow the rules/obey X, and people who change the world". The assertion here, conversely, is that [[DareToBeBadass you should be bold and take risks]].

* Solo Wing Pixy from ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'' states "There are three kinds of [[AcePilot aces]]: Those who seek strength, those who live for pride, and those who can read the tide of battle."

# [[ShapedLikeItself Tautologies]]: "There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who fit, and those who don't." Logically, this statement is self-evident: [[CaptainObvious either you are, or you aren't]]. ("X, and everyone else" is another variation.) This has two common variants;
** There are masters, and there are slaves; either you're one of the people giving orders, or one of the ones taking them. This usually asserts that ''[[AppealToForce you shouldn't disobey]].''
** Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw's ''Maxims for Revolutionists'' #124; "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." This usually asserts ''DareToBeBadass.''
# {{False Dichotom|y}}ies: "There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who like X, and those who have no taste." To a [[TheSpock humorless logician]], these are just false. To everyone else, there are two kinds of this joke: the ones that fall flat and offend everyone, [[RuleOfFunny and the ones that are funny regardless]].
# Unitary Groupings: "There are three kinds of Marines: Those who are '''about''' to go overseas, those who '''have been''' overseas, and those who '''are''' overseas." The two or three groups are actually a single group, divided up into ''future'', ''past'', and sometimes ''present'' tense.[[note]]Differs from a Tautology mainly in not truly being self-evident as defined: the hidden message here is that if you're part of group A, event B ''will'' happen to you.[[/note]]

* There are two types of bikers in the world. Those who have come off their bikes, and those who are ''going'' to come off their bikes

* "There are two types of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data..."

* From the ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' zombie PSA: "There are two kinds of people in the world, Doc. Those who have a plan prepared for when the zombies take over the Earth, and those who don't. We call those last people 'dinner'."

* ''Webcomic/ASofterWorld''. Master/Slave: [[http://asofterworld.com/index.php?id=648 In this world, there are two kinds of people]], people like me, with [[KnifeNut knives]], and people like you, with [[EyeScream eyeballs]]

* Website/{{Cracked}}: [[http://www.cracked.com/article_15636_the-10-most-terrifyingly-inspirational-80s-songs.html "There are two kinds of people in this world]]: People who love Music/{{Journey}} ironically and people who love Journey genuinely."

* Kagerou of ''Manga/InuXBokuSS'' takes this UpToEleven by [[LargeHam constantly declaring]] that ''everything'' in the world, even ''inanimate objects'', is either a sadist or a masochist.