Humans Are the Real Monsters: Difference between revisions

Line 424:

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Undertale]]'' is an extremely literal example of this due to the "Humans VS Monsters" war in its backstory and the fact that it allows you (a human) to kill literally all of its so-called monsters in [[Fan Nickname|"Genocide" runs]]...well, that, and also the fact that nearly all of the aforementioned so-called monsters in said game are so ridiculously cute and/or nice that it quite-frankly feels wrong to even call them "monsters" (especially Papyrus, Temmie and Toriel).

* ''[[2027]]'': Titan will reference this if you {{spoiler|initate the Vladmir ending.}}

* In ''[[Strange Journey]]'', most of the humans and demons are mostly cool with each other. Humans from your investigation team tend to go somewhere between [[Lawful Neutral]] and [[True Neutral]], and the demons swing in a true diverse fashion, with virtually all alignments represented. Then again, demons like [[Complete Monster|Mitra]] appear. Turns out, Captain Jack and his all-too human pals are way, ''way'', '''''w[[Rule of Three|ay]]''''', too on par with Mitra for comfort, butchering demons (and by their willingness to torture and kill Jimenez, humans too) to create their own demon army. Especially when it turns out Jack and co. are [[Only in It For the Money]].

Line 503:

Line 502:

* The villains of the Orochi Saga in [[The King of Fighters]] , namely the aforementioned Orochi, (ancient Japanese snake-demon/deity)and his followers, strongly believe this. To them, humans have ruined their world&the environment, though aside from that, they don't consider them all that great in general, to the point where they believe humankind should be annihilated. (Though part of this may also be that they serve a higher power, 'Gaia', but regardless of whether or not they're being influenced, this is still what they believe.) The Edit-Team ending even outright states that while Orochi still needed to be stopped, humanity still wasn't that great either, and that we were partially to blame for Orochi's purpose being twisted into what it became. Still, some of our heroes (as in, the various teams,) acknowledge this to an extent, though they don't think that humanity is completely un-redeemable.

* Another work of SNK's, [[Last Blade]], (technically set in the same universe, but in the 1860's in Japan,) has a similar villain. Kagami is one of four individuals that were gifted with powers by the four Japanese Gods, with Kagami representing the phoenix, but with time, Kagami grew disgusted with humanity, and with that belief in mind, got to work opening the Hell Gate, with the intention to suck Earth into Hell. In the sequel however, he's reborn, (after being sucked into Hell's Gate in the first game,) and by the end, after being forced by the God's into service once more, decides to personally give humanity a second chance.

* Being in a [[Crapsack World]], everyone everywhere in [[The Witcher]] could be called a monster, whether its humans for oppressing nonhumans, elves for creating their own terrorist army that kills civilians and steals from hospitals to fight this oppression, or witchers themselves for taking just about any job if it pays since the decline of the monster population they were originally built to fight. However, the end of the game sums it up pretty well {{spoiler|when Geralt is about to kill the [[Big Bad]] Jacques De Aldersberg with his silver witcher's when Jacques knocks away his steel one with magic. He protests saying, "But... that sword... it's for monsters." Geralt's response is to silently stab him in the throat with it.}}

* Being in a [[Crapsack World]], everyone everywhere in ''[[The Witcher]]'' could be called a monster, whether its humans for oppressing nonhumans, elves for creating their own terrorist army that kills civilians and steals from hospitals to fight this oppression, or witchers themselves for taking just about any job if it pays since the decline of the monster population they were originally built to fight. However, the end of the game sums it up pretty well {{spoiler|when Geralt is about to kill the [[Big Bad]] Jacques De Aldersberg with his silver witcher's when Jacques knocks away his steel one with magic. He protests saying, "But... that sword... it's for monsters." Geralt's response is to silently stab him in the throat with it.}}

⚫

* ''[[Undertale]]'' is an extremely literal example of this due to the "Humans versus Monsters" war in its backstory and the fact that it allows you (a human) to kill literally all of its so-called monsters in [[Fan Nickname|"Genocide" runs]]...well, that, and also the fact that nearly all of the aforementioned so-called monsters in said game are so ridiculously cute and/or nice that it quite-frankly feels wrong to even call them "monsters" (especially Papyrus, Temmie and Toriel).

== [[Web Comics]] ==