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* \'\'{{Calvin and Hobbes}}\'\' brings this theme up a lot. One particular strip reveals that [[GenerationXerox Calvin might have gotten his misanthropic viewpoint from his parents]], albeit for different reasons. Calvin\'s parents don\'t like people because they feel that manners and politeness are declining, whereas Calvin himself doesn\'t like people because of humanity\'s conflicted relationship with nature. As he says in one strip, \
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* \\\'\\\'{{Calvin and Hobbes}}\\\'\\\' brings this theme up a lot. One particular strip reveals that [[GenerationXerox Calvin might have gotten his misanthropic viewpoint from his parents]], albeit for different reasons. Calvin\\\'s parents don\\\'t like people because they feel that manners and politeness are declining, whereas Calvin himself doesn\\\'t like people because of humanity\\\'s conflicted relationship with nature. As he says in one strip, \\\"I think the best sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us yet\\\".
** Or \\\'do you think Satan exists, that there is a being devoted to making mankind commit evil\\\' Hobbes: \\\'I\\\'m not sure people need the help\\\'.
** Hobbes is named after philosopher Thomas Hobbes, known for his [[HobbesWasRight misanthropy]].
*** It helps to note that Bill Watterson, the artist, is a noted misanthropist and an extremely ReclusiveArtist, and most of the characters are simply {{author avatar}}s espousing his views on things he dislikes in general.
* \\\'\\\'{{Pride of Baghdad}}\\\'\\\': Four lions living in the Baghdad zoo get bombed on, talk to a turtle who whines about how human pollution killed his entire family in previous war. [[spoiler:They\\\'re shot dead by soldiers, who were spooked at the sight of them. The animals, however, were pretty damn bad at this.]]
* Every single comic made by JhonenVasquez. Interestingly, Jhonen is a fairly cheerful guy in real life, which may indicate that this is just the brand of humor he likes as opposed to a statement. He\\\'s also stated that he doesn\\\'t mean to make fun of any one group in particular, pointing out that you can find a bit of nastiness in every sub culture.
* In ThePunisher one-shot \\\"The End,\\\" Frank Castle\\\'s last surviving act in the wake of a catastrophic nuclear war is to wipe out the architects behind said war - the only known surviving humans in the world. After killing them, he explains his actions simply by saying \\\"The human race. You\\\'ve seen what that leads to.\\\" Possibly subverted by the fact that Frank Castle ([[DependingOnTheWriter usually]]) isn\\\'t portrayed as [[BloodKnight completely]] [[AxCrazy sane]].
* \\\'\\\'Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection\\\'\\\' has NoEnding, as the ApocalypticLog, like most such logs, suddenly cuts off. However [[spoiler:there\\\'s a strong implication that the people in the supposed safe haven the protagonist reached killed him. We also encounter a rather unpleasant gang of raiders who kill and torture for fun, and, if the protagonist\\\'s theory about zombies came about is right, we also have the company that was putting C-88 in food.]]
Not sure about the \\\'\\\'SevenSoldiers\\\'\\\' example, since the entry doesn\\\'t explain whether the work includes non-human sentients or not. Leaving it in for now; someone who knows the work can deal with it.
** Or \\\'do you think Satan exists, that there is a being devoted to making mankind commit evil\\\' Hobbes: \\\'I\\\'m not sure people need the help\\\'.
** Hobbes is named after philosopher Thomas Hobbes, known for his [[HobbesWasRight misanthropy]].
*** It helps to note that Bill Watterson, the artist, is a noted misanthropist and an extremely ReclusiveArtist, and most of the characters are simply {{author avatar}}s espousing his views on things he dislikes in general.
* \\\'\\\'{{Pride of Baghdad}}\\\'\\\': Four lions living in the Baghdad zoo get bombed on, talk to a turtle who whines about how human pollution killed his entire family in previous war. [[spoiler:They\\\'re shot dead by soldiers, who were spooked at the sight of them. The animals, however, were pretty damn bad at this.]]
* Every single comic made by JhonenVasquez. Interestingly, Jhonen is a fairly cheerful guy in real life, which may indicate that this is just the brand of humor he likes as opposed to a statement. He\\\'s also stated that he doesn\\\'t mean to make fun of any one group in particular, pointing out that you can find a bit of nastiness in every sub culture.
* In ThePunisher one-shot \\\"The End,\\\" Frank Castle\\\'s last surviving act in the wake of a catastrophic nuclear war is to wipe out the architects behind said war - the only known surviving humans in the world. After killing them, he explains his actions simply by saying \\\"The human race. You\\\'ve seen what that leads to.\\\" Possibly subverted by the fact that Frank Castle ([[DependingOnTheWriter usually]]) isn\\\'t portrayed as [[BloodKnight completely]] [[AxCrazy sane]].
* \\\'\\\'Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection\\\'\\\' has NoEnding, as the ApocalypticLog, like most such logs, suddenly cuts off. However [[spoiler:there\\\'s a strong implication that the people in the supposed safe haven the protagonist reached killed him. We also encounter a rather unpleasant gang of raiders who kill and torture for fun, and, if the protagonist\\\'s theory about zombies came about is right, we also have the company that was putting C-88 in food.]]
Not sure about the \\\'\\\'SevenSoldiers\\\'\\\' example, since the entry doesn\\\'t explain whether the work includes non-human sentients or not. Leaving it in for now; someone who knows the work can deal with it.
