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== General ==
* "Terran" (from the Latin ''Terra'', "Earth") is probably the most popular choice by far, which crept into all kinds of settings, from ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' to ''[[Blake's Seven
** Note that the French for Earthling is "Terrien", which reads and sounds pretty close to Terran. Thus, in many French-translated stories where 'Terrans' are involved, their name does not sound that cool and exotic (it even sounds dull when said with french phonetics).
** ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' uses the term "Terran" not to describe humans, but as a term to encompass any Earth-based sentient species, which includes humans, [[Uplifted Animal|gorillas, chimps, dolphins, and African and Indian elephants]]. And yet aliens still say, [[Fantastic Racism|"All you Terrans look alike to me"]].
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* An older established term was "Earthling" - something of a [[Discredited Trope]], as nowadays this brings to mind "naive children under the bootheels of little green martians", rather than "badasses". [[Puny Earthlings|It also immediately conjures up the word "Puny".]]
** ''[[Star Control]]'' used the term "Earthling Cruiser" to describe our Alliance starship in the first game. The subsequent game([[Canon Dis Continuity|s]]) switched to calling them "Human Cruisers" likely due to the word's discrediting.
* It's worth bearing in mind that there are several technical words for "beings closely taxonomically related to humans". "Hominid" used to mean "humans and their extinct relatives", but according to [[The Other Wiki]] [
** The term "humanoid" refers to anything relatively human-shaped (bipedal, upright, two arms, one head), including [[Ridiculously
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== Literature ==
* "Tellurian" (from the Latin ''Tellus'', a Roman earth-goddess) is a related example, most associated with ''[[Lensman]]'' author [[EE Doc Smith]], but also seen elsewhere, including several episodes of ''[[
** 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.
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'', the Reptites call humans "apes".
* Just to drive home the fact that it's not set on Earth, the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games since ''[[Final Fantasy XI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XI]]'' call humans Humes. And the ''Crystal Chronicles'' games has Clavats, but it's hard to tell whether or not they're actually supposed to be humans, as it has a [[Super
** ''[[Final Fantasy XI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XI]]'' in particular still preserves the word "human" in adjective form; an [[NPC]] describes the mannequins you can have assembled in a quest as "more human than Hume!"
* ''[[Final Fantasy XIV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIV]]'' refers to humans as "Hyur."
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== Web Original ==
* While being human in the modern sense is now very rare in ''[[Orions 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
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