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Basic Trope: An evil non-human who looks down on humans and doesn't give an eff about them.

  • Straight: Troh'prs think humans are Pitiful Worms who don’t achieve much in their short existence.
  • Exaggerated: Troh'prs fail to so much as acknowledge the existence of humanity, who have the lifespan of a free neutron and are so small they're pretty much non-existent.
  • Downplayed: Troh'prs think humans are pathetic, but do have some redeeming qualities.
  • Justified: Humans live on Insignificant Little Blue Planet that Troh'prs have only recently discovered in a faraway galaxy, and not a lot of them are interested to learn about us.
  • Inverted:
  • Subverted:
    T'lyyk the Troh'phr: Your kind is so small, so weak and minuscule…and yet, you're one of the bravest and cleverest species our race has ever known.
  • Double Subverted: T'lyyk’s whole “bravest and cleverest species” speech was a total lie. Humans are nuisances, but they’re simple-minded, and empty praise will easily fool them into declaring piece and foregoing their annoying little attacks.
  • Parodied: Humans are literally bugs.
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Averted:
    • No aliens look down upon humans.
    • No aliens are present.
    • No humans are present.
  • Enforced: The writers need to justify the aliens not forming an alliance with humans.
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: Humans take advantage of how little Troh'prs think of them by planning a gradual takeover, in hopes to overthrow the aliens’ tyrannical government. The Troh'prs don’t consider humans a threat, but even tiny insects are powerful in a swarm.
  • Defied:
    • Two very particular humans, Flash Young and his girlfriend Alicia P. Navarro, proceed to show Troh'prs (and every other alien out there) that humans, or at the very least a select group of them, are not all that depressing in comparison.
    • The entire human race decides to forge a device so chaotically destructive that it can cause a Class Z apocalypse. Needless to say, Troh'prs (and every other alien out there) see humans as practically eldritch abominations.
  • Discussed: "You may be a hotshot here on Earth, but to the aliens, you might as well be a stinkbug."
  • Conversed: ???

Back to Humans Are Insects, you puny worm!

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