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* In [[Roald Dahl]]’s ''[[The BFG]]'', the title character tells human girl Sophie that humans are just as bad as giants because “humans are the only animals that kill their own kind” (which [[Did Not Do the Research|isn’t even close to being true]], incidentally). This is part of a fairly long and [[Anvilicious]] conversation about how [[You Suck|humans suck]].
* In [[Roald Dahl]]’s ''[[The BFG]]'', the title character tells human girl Sophie that humans are just as bad as giants because “humans are the only animals that kill their own kind” (which [[Did Not Do the Research|isn’t even close to being true]], incidentally). This is part of a fairly long and [[Anvilicious]] conversation about how [[You Suck|humans suck]].
** Much of Dahl’s work for both children and adults reveals a misanthropic streak. At the extreme, we find ''Fantastic Mr. Fox'', which has a plot only inasmuch as it enables him to elaborate on the physical and mental grotesqueness of the three farmers and/or the noble brilliance of the fox they harass (since they’re clearly too greedy to grudge him a chicken or two).
** Much of Dahl’s work for both children and adults reveals a misanthropic streak. At the extreme, we find ''Fantastic Mr. Fox'', which has a plot only inasmuch as it enables him to elaborate on the physical and mental grotesqueness of the three farmers and/or the noble brilliance of the fox they harass (since they’re clearly too greedy to grudge him a chicken or two).
*** ''[[Perry Bible Fellowship]]'' has an [http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF106-Billy_the_Bunny.jpg interesting spin] on the “greedy farmer” notion.
*** ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]'' has an [http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF106-Billy_the_Bunny.jpg interesting spin] on the “greedy farmer” notion.
* In [[Philip Jose Farmer]]’s ''Venus on the Half‐Shell'' every alien race points out that humans smell awful. So humans create a huge industry of special deodorants. Wondering why humans smell so bad to other races, some of whom smell like a sewer, it is pointed out that human morals stink, so that makes our smell stink. Yes, it’s a strange book.
* In [[Philip Jose Farmer]]’s ''Venus on the Half‐Shell'' every alien race points out that humans smell awful. So humans create a huge industry of special deodorants. Wondering why humans smell so bad to other races, some of whom smell like a sewer, it is pointed out that human morals stink, so that makes our smell stink. Yes, it’s a strange book.
* Inverted in the Bill Peet children’s book, ''The Wump World''. If you read the part in the opener for this trope about mankind’s chance to be such bastards on other planets via interstellar travel, the blue‐skinned aliens in the book have us beat.
* Inverted in the Bill Peet children’s book, ''The Wump World''. If you read the part in the opener for this trope about mankind’s chance to be such bastards on other planets via interstellar travel, the blue‐skinned aliens in the book have us beat.
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