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* ''[[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."}}

* ''[[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 ~~you get an uneasy feeling and~~ [[Took a Level In Badass|~~watch~~ them]] [[Let's Get Dangerous|change]], you do get the feeling that, yes, [[Humans Are Warriors]].

* ''[[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.

* ''[[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).