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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* Though there is no Earth in ''[[Star Wars]]'', most humans are referred to by their planet of
** This goes for some other species in ''Star Wars'', too. For example, Zabrak from their homeworld Iridonia are commonly called Iridonians.
* In ''[[Willow]]'', humans are referred to as "Daikini".
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** In addition, Solarian is the term used to describe the races native to the Solar System: Tellurians, Martians, and Venerians.
* [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''Cluster'' books used the term "Solarian", named after the star, as opposed to the planet.
* Similarly, the Lizards in [[Harry Turtledove]]'s ''[[Worldwar]]'' novels refer to humans as "Tosevites"
* Arthur Dent of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' gets called Earthman, although he is one of only two remaining humans. (Trillian is only ever "Trillian".)
* ''[[Animorphs]]'' averts the convention that aliens are named after their own home world, and instead, they call their planets "the Andalite home world," "the Hork-Bajir home world," and so on; it's mostly unclear whether they have any other names for these planets. Despite the fact that they use this convention for every other inhabited planet, they still call this planet "Earth" rather than "the human home world."
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* In the [[Antares]] novels by Michael McCollum, the Ryall aliens refer to humans as "Monsters".
* In [[Fred Saberhagen]]'s ''[[Berserker (Literature)|Berserker]]'' universe, ''all'' sapient life forms are called Human. Homo Sapiens is called the E.D., or Earth Descended "theme" of humanity. (Non-human Earthlife is also referred to as E.D. lifeforms.)
* In [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[Known Space]]'' stories, humans get different titles based on what planet they're from. Few of of these are references to the name of the planet. Earth humans are Flatlanders, humans from the asteroid belt (or any asteroids in the Solar System) are Belters, those from "We Made It" are Crashlanders (Guess how
* [[Robert Sheckley]]'s ''The Monsters'' features aliens identified in the text as "humans," who regard the visiting actual humans as (you guessed it) "monsters."
* In ''[[The Culture]]'', humans are the most common species - apparently capable of interbreeding - despite evolving independently on thousands of different worlds, and the word "human" is generally understood to refer to all of these people.
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*** It goes a bit further than that. The actual Ancient language is supposed to be similar to Latin in universe. Odds are it is a matter of certain parts of the universe lore pre-dating the point in the series where the Ancients began to be fleshed out in more detail rather than intentional.
** Played with in the ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode "Letters from Pegasus". Carson Beckett is recording a letter to his mom, and starts going off on a tangent about how "Earthlings are a scrappy bunch". Ford immediately stops him, assuming the use of the word "Earthling" as opposed to "human" to be a security breach. Carson matter-of-factly states, "She's knows I'm from Earth."
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', humans are sometimes referred to as "Earthers". Fairly well [[Justified Trope|justified]] as most humans are ruled by the Earth Alliance, their military is called Earthforce, and most if not all the other races have names derived from their
** Rebels attempting to free Mars from Earth control call their fellow humans from Earth "Earthers".
** Gaim are from N'chak'fah, Drazi are from Zhabar, Hyach are from Shir-shraba, Abbai are from Ssumssha, Yolu are from Pa'ri, Llort are from Vartas, and Hurr are from Androma.
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* In ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', the Eldar race refers to humans as "Mon-keigh" (this being the eldar word meaning 'inferior', not to mention one of the [[Anvilicious|least subtle]] puns ever). The Tau race use the term "Gue'vesa" or "Gue'la" (derived from a Chinese word for foreigners), depending upon whether said human(s) are allies or no. The remaining species of the universe (Orks, Necrons and Tyranids) refer to humans as "'umies", "the living", and "dinner", respectively.
** The Tyranids were retconned to actually be named after a world - Tyran, the first Imperial planet they ''ate''. Knowing the Imperium, the name probably came from some filing protocol: the Tyranids were first properly identified on the planet Tyran, and thus the data probably got filed under "Tyran-ID" and the name stuck.
* The chock-fulla-weird-races ''[[Talislanta]]'' game system generally refers to humans by their nationality, and virtually ''never'' as "humans". The fact that some of those "human" nationalities lie well outside the range of physical types known on
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** Androsynth are refered as Androsynth, as they are no longer Earth-connected AND make pretty clear that they are not in friendly terms with Humans. Not that we can blame them. 100 years of racism and slavery can cause it, just because you are born normal way.
* The human factions in the ''[[X (video game)|X]]-Universe'' series are called the Argon and [[Planet Terra|Terrans]]. The Argon Federation is a [[Lost Colony]] cut off from Earth.
* Averted in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' - humans are still referred to as humans. The only exception is the volus, who refer to humans as "Earth-clan". This extends to aliens as
* ''Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance" has two races of characters: Beastmen are known as "Laguz" and Humans are known as "Beorc". 'Human' can also be used, but it's actually a [[N-Word Privileges|racist remark unless said by another Beorc]] (the equivalent of calling a Laguz 'sub-human').
** Yune, the goddess of chaos in ''[[Fire Emblem]] Radiant Dawn'' has all sorts of names to refer to the player characters. "Meat puppet" is by far my favorite.
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== Web Original ==
* While being human in the modern sense is now very rare in ''[[Orion's Arm]]'', the term terragen is used to denote anything with an ancestry going back to Earth.
* Nepleslians of ''[[Star Army]]'' are displaced humans who were taken from the [[Earth-That-Was]] to [[A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away|a distant sector of space]]. Naturally, they're the setting's main source of [[Badass Normal
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