Humans Are the Real Monsters: Difference between revisions

** In the episode "The Cabinet of Calamari", the Great Calamari (aka, [[I Have Many Names| the Great Spumoni, The Great Linguini, Antipasto the Magnificent]]- the guy changes stage names a lot) is a [[Stage Magician]] and [[Escape Artist]] whose act is being sabotaged by a ghost who seems intent on doing him in. Turns out, this is the ghost of [[Harry Houdini]] himself, and Calamari - who changes his names because he's in trouble with the law - is a thief who [[Plagiarism in Fiction| stole his journals, copying his act.]]

* While the live action ''[[The Matrix]]'' movies stick with heroic humans battling evil machines to keep the box office gross up, the Wachowskis apparently felt free to tell the '''real''' story in ''[[The Animatrix]]'', where it's revealed that not only did humans start the [[Robot War]] purely out of [[Fantastic Racism]] (the robots literally came before humanity bearing flowers and open arms) and that the robots locked humanity in the Matrix purely as self-defense against genocide (and not to mention attempting to give them an utopia which human minds did not want), but that humans continue to do evil, twisted things to the robots in the "present day" of the series, tricking them and brainwashing them into thinking humans are their friends, and thus turning them into cannon fodder.

** Making this even more hilarious, this actually is the plot of an episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'', with ''Futurama'''s version just getting straight to the point.

* The third episode of ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' both provides an example and subverts this trope in a matter of seconds. Upon witnessing rioting and looting, [[Wonder Woman]] comments that perhaps her mother was right about humanity being savages. A moment later, [[Green Lantern]] is shown helping a couple of burly, typically biker-type individuals rescue two children from underneath some debris.