Humans Are the Real Monsters: Difference between revisions

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** The game either tries to mitigate this or is hopelessly hypocritical in that at least half of the other races (besides Viera) are not just criminals, but scum sort of criminals like slavers. And the Viera themselves are basically just a reskin of ''Enterprise'' era Vulcans in their manner.

* Shows up again in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]''. Your party spends a good chunk of the game on the run from the [[Evil Army]] while everyone else on Cocoon hates and fears you, even little kids. The populace of Cocoon even support complete Purges of residential areas where L'Cie have been spotted due to their extreme paranoia concerning anything Pulse related. To be fair, most of them only act this way because they believe Pulse L'Cie are horrible monsters that want to destroy everything they know and love. Furthermore, {{spoiler|the Fal'Cie are the ones actively nurturing the populace's worse traits to lead them to destroy themselves}}. The only human portrayed to be a [[Complete Monster|total bastard]] is Jil Nahbaat. {{spoiler|Dysley's a bastard too, but he's disqualified since he isn't human.}}

* ''Lineage II'' also has this to an extent. While the other races are pure and beautiful children of the elements, humans [http://www.lineage2.com/background/legends02.html were made from the corrupted remains of each], and upon their creation, were immediately recognised as scum by everyone save their twisted creator.

* ''Lineage II'' also has this to an extent. While the other races are pure and beautiful children of the elements, humans [https://web.archive.org/web/20111028000302/http://www.lineage2.com/background/legends02.html were made from the corrupted remains of each], and upon their creation, were immediately recognised as scum by everyone save their twisted creator.

** This is quickly subverted in that the humans were enslaved by the other species and treated like trash for being second best at everything. Which won them the war in the end. ""So. Is it not ironic that the lowest creatures of all, the humans, ultimately attained ownership of the land? But that is the result of human will. Even the gods did not imagine that humans would ever become rulers of the earth."

* At the end of ''[[Phantasy Star]] II'', all the disasters turn out to be caused by {{spoiler|earthlings, who, having stripped Earth of all its resources, have arrived to purge all life from Algo and take it for themselves. The [[Bolivian Army Ending]] doesn't leave much hope they can be stopped, either.}}

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* ''[[Terinu]]'''s race was wiped out by the humans, after it was discovered that {{spoiler|they were the power source of the [[Big Bad]]}}. Made worse because Ferin are inherently adorable critters.

** [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?|Oh, so if they were ugly you wouldn't care?]] Plus {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] isn't very nice as well what with enslaving races and making them their power source}}

* In ''[http://kameira.deviantart.com/art/ZENITH-Page-62-115166354 Zenith]'', Zenith suffers a [[Heroic BSOD]] after getting shot at by humans and his [[Mama Bear]] dying because of them... well, sort of [[My Greatest Failure|Zenith's fault]] for not [[Made of Plasticine|being a man]] and [[Made of Iron|dealing with]] a [[Improbable Aiming Skills|shot at his fin]], but the [[Miniature Senior Citizens|other dolphins of the steel harbor]] tell him [[You Did Everything You Could]].

* In ''[http://kameira.deviantart.com/art/ZENITH-Page-62-115166354 Zenith]{{Dead link}}'', Zenith suffers a [[Heroic BSOD]] after getting shot at by humans and his [[Mama Bear]] dying because of them... well, sort of [[My Greatest Failure|Zenith's fault]] for not [[Made of Plasticine|being a man]] and [[Made of Iron|dealing with]] a [[Improbable Aiming Skills|shot at his fin]], but the [[Miniature Senior Citizens|other dolphins of the steel harbor]] tell him [[You Did Everything You Could]].

* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' had a particularly good example as to ''why'' [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1670#comic Humans Are Bastards]

* In ''[[Freefall]]'', [[Zig Zagged]] heavily. Some people treat the AIs (technically including Florence) as just slaves. Many others treat them, and her in particular as people.