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[[File:full metal jacket logo 889.jpg|link=Full Metal Jacket|frame|''This'' is humanity's [[Planet of Hats|Hat]].]]

{{quote|''"We poison our air and water to weed out the weak! We set off fission bombs in our only biosphere! We nailed [[Jesus|our God]] to a ''[[Crucified Hero Shot|stick]]!'' '''[[Humans Are the Real Monsters|Don't]] [[Precision F-Strike|fuck]] [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|with the human race!]]'''"''~~|[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2709630/ A forum post] ([[Four Chan|Post 2710017]], [[NSFW]])}}~~

{{quote|''"We poison our air and water to weed out the weak! We set off fission bombs in our only biosphere! We nailed [[Jesus|our God]] to a ''[[Crucified Hero Shot|stick]]!'' '''[[Humans Are the Real Monsters|Don't]] [[Precision F-Strike|fuck]] [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|with the human race!]]'''"''

|[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2709630/ A forum post] ([[Four Chan|Post 2710017]], [[NSFW]])}}

Somewhere between [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]], [[Humans Are Special]] and [[Humanity Is Superior]] lies this trope, the polar opposite of [[Humans Are Diplomats]]. Compared to the other races of the galaxy, or at least the other 'good' races, humans are violent, warlike savages who revel in chaos and destruction. This is not, however, a ''bad'' thing; at worst, the more 'civilized' races may look down on us, but they acknowledge that we're not a plague to be wiped out. Or at least they acknowledge that it might be somewhat [[Let's Get Dangerous|inadvisable]] to try.

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=== Live-Action TV ===

* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' :In the [[Backstory]], humanity explodes onto the galactic stage as a major power despite their youth and comparatively primitive technology when they enter the Dilgar war and are directly responsible for ending it within a year. Their later defeats in the Minbari War were primarily due to the technological disparity between the sides, as evidenced by Londo Mollari's quote:

{{quote|"The War. The humans, I think, knew they were doomed. Where another race would surrender to despair, the humans fought back with greater strength. They made the Minbari fight for every inch of space. In my life, I have never seen anything like it; They would weep, they would pray, they would say goodbye to their loved ones, and then throw themselves without fear or hesitation at the very face of death itself, never surrendering. No one who saw them fighting against the inevitable could help but be moved to tears by their courage. Their stubborn nobility. When they ran out of ships, they used guns, when they ran out guns they used knives and sticks and bare hands. They were magnificent. I only hope that when it is my time, I may die with half as much dignity as I saw in their eyes in the end. They did this for two years ~~they~~ never ran out of courage but in the end, they ran out of time."}}

{{quote|"The War. The humans, I think, knew they were doomed. Where another race would surrender to despair, the humans fought back with greater strength. They made the Minbari fight for every inch of space. In my life, I have never seen anything like it; They would weep, they would pray, they would say goodbye to their loved ones, and then throw themselves without fear or hesitation at the very face of death itself, never surrendering. No one who saw them fighting against the inevitable could help but be moved to tears by their courage. Their stubborn nobility. When they ran out of ships, they used guns, when they ran out guns they used knives and sticks and bare hands. They were magnificent. I only hope that when it is my time, I may die with half as much dignity as I saw in their eyes in the end. They did this for ''two years''. They never ran out of courage but in the end, they ran out of time."}}

* ''[[Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits]]'' is a reality miniseries where several ordinary and [[Beware the Nice Ones|quite likable]] contestants are [[Dare to Be Badass|put through a simulation]] of the old [[SOE]] training course. The course not only includes [[The Spartan Way|rigorous training]] but inevitably an uneasy though mild resemblance to the [[Manipulative Bastard|infamous Milgram experiments.]] After five episodes you get at least the illusion that the contestants ''could'' have been real state-sponsored-thugs if properly motivated. The situation is more amenable to "reality" than many reality shows as even though they obviously have cameramen following the real [[SOE]] would have had training observers following them. When you compare them with some of the real stories while [[Took a Level In Badass|watching them]] [[Let's Get Dangerous|change]], you do get the feeling that, yes, [[Humans Are Warriors]].

**The show gets kudos for a lot of special effects successes including period garb, cutting them off from the outside world and feeding them with period news pieces, and presenting the show in the [[Scenery Porn|Scottish Highlands]] where real training often took place. Professionals are also recruited to teach some of the skills including a retired ~~catburglar~~ turned security adviser.

**The show gets kudos for a lot of special effects successes including period garb, cutting them off from the outside world and feeding them with period news pieces, and presenting the show in the [[Scenery Porn|Scottish Highlands]] where real training often took place. Professionals are also recruited to teach some of the skills including a retired cat-burglar turned security adviser.

**The contestants include interesting people. One is an idealistic doctor who [[Does Not Like Guns]] but learns to use one reasonably well and gives the impression that if she had been sent to France, likely she would have died horribly but equally likely she would have [[Taking You With Me|taken someone with her.]] It also includes a pretty, petite, ~~softspoken~~,polite and intelligent [[English Rose]] ~~that~~ any guy in his right mind would want for a date, who claims bluntly that [[Lady of War|yes]], [[More Deadly Than the Male|she could kill someone.]] And proceeds to prove it. As well as a [[Never Mess With Granny|grandmother]] afraid of water crossing some of the coldest waters in Scotland. And a Pole whose Aunt really had been in the Polish Resistance-and executed by the Germans-who came to honor her [[Heroic Lineage|family heritage.]]

**The contestants include interesting people. One is an idealistic doctor who [[Does Not Like Guns]] but learns to use one reasonably well and gives the impression that if she had been sent to France, likely she would have died horribly but equally likely she would have [[Taking You With Me|taken someone with her.]] It also includes a pretty, petite, soft-spoken, polite and intelligent [[English Rose]] whom any guy in his right mind would want for a date, who claims bluntly that [[Lady of War|yes]], [[More Deadly Than the Male|she could kill someone.]] And proceeds to prove it. As well as a [[Never Mess With Granny|grandmother]] afraid of water crossing some of the coldest waters in Scotland. And a Pole whose Aunt really had been in the Polish Resistance-and executed by the Germans-who came to honor her [[Heroic Lineage|family heritage.]]

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':The Sontarans are genetically engineered super soldiers, supposedly the finest in the galaxy (and about 4' 10") with highly advanced technology. Once UNIT get around the technology that was jamming their guns (since it affected the bullets, they changed bullets), their speed, mobility and high rates of fire let them to go through the Sontarans like a hot knife through melting butter. Given their tendency to be a [[Redshirt Army]], it was... [[Doctor Who/Awesome|cathartic]].

** Dalek Sec, upon merging with a human, outright states that humanity 'has such a wonderful mind for war', and that they are the great survivors of the universe (since human's establish a series of interplanetary empires and are one of three species that still live at the end of the universe, he had a point).