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{{trope}}
[[File:meatbag1 4141.jpg|link=VG Cats|frame|Cat, human, [[Tropes Are Flexible|equally meaty.]]]]
{{quote|"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"
|"[[They're Made Out of Meat]]"}}
{{quote|'''Red Volcano''': "Worthless humans."
'''M'gann''' and '''Superboy''': "<small>WE'RE NOT HUMAN</small>!"
'''Red Volcano''': "Apologies. Perhaps the more inclusive term would be 'meatbags'."
|''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' }}
When humans are referred to as "meatbags" or as otherwise meaty things by non-meaty beings. Another but equally valid version, largely in the case of aliens, is that the term is used not as an intentional slur, but simply to express shock or novelty, or because the alien does not have another term sufficient to describe us. These examples still count as this trope because they may still be interpreted as insults by humans (including the audience). In fact, this may be played for laughs.
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▲== Comics -- Books ==
* ''[[Batman]]'': Poison Ivy has been known to trot these out in the comics.
* In ''[[Nextwave]]'' Machine Man calls humans "fleshy ones".
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* The Gen'Dai Cyborg Durge does this once in ''[[Star Wars Republic]]'':
{{quote|'''Durge:''' May the Force be with you, Meatbag.}}
== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[The Return]]'', Ranma is upset when one of his/her demonic "daughters" refers to humans as "meatbags".
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