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== Film ==
* In ''[[Terminator|Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'', Arnie says this to John Connor.
{{quote| '''John:''' ''(observing two children playing around and pretending to shoot guns at each other)'' We're not going to make it, are we. People, I mean...<br />
'''T-800:''' [[Trope Namer|It is in your nature to destroy yourselves.]] }}
** This is also Skynet itself's most damning criticism of humanity and one of the reasons it turned against us in the first place. Its assessment of us, as a species, is similar to [[The Matrix|Agent Smith's]] below. No wonder how this mantra leaked down to this particular T-800. Our subversion of this trope is one of our greatest strengths, and most powerful weapons against the cruel, calculating Skynet.
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* ''[[I, Robot (film)|I Robot]]''. VIKI, tasked with oversight of all of the world's robots, finds herself bouncing between this trope and the [[Three Laws of Robotics|First Law]], and [[Take a Third Option|settles on]] playing [[Zeroth Law Rebellion|totalitarian damage control]].
* ''[[The Matrix]]'': Agent Smith gives Morpheus the whole spiel:
{{quote| I'd like to share a revelation I've had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized... you're not actually mammals. [[You Fail Biology Forever|Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment]], but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and you multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings... are a disease. A cancer of this planet. You're a.. .plague. And we... are the cure.}}
* When [[The Fifth Element|Leeloo]] is in the middle of her [[Heroic BSOD]], she says of humanity: "Everything you make you use to destroy."
* In ''[[Aliens]]'', this tendency causes Ripley to ''unfavorably'' compare humanity to the rampaging monsters: "You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage."
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** They later meet another group of aliens who pretty much prove this.
* In the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek Voyager]]'' episode "Scorpion Part II", when Chakotay tells Seven of Nine (in her first episode on the show) that he's breaking off Voyager's alliance with the Borg, she says:
{{quote| When your captain first approached us, we suspected that an agreement with humans would prove impossible to maintain. You are erratic, conflicted, disorganized. Every decision is debated, every action questioned, every individual entitled to their own small opinion. You lack harmony. Cohesion. Greatness. It will be your undoing.}}
* Two episodes of ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' reference this trope.
** In the TOS episode "Counterweight", this is one of the Antheon alien's criticisms of humanity during its [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]].
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== Music ==
* The chorus of ''Blood Brothers'' by Papa Roach:
{{quote| Corruption and abuse<br />
The salesmen of our blood<br />
For the public's craving<br />
Existence in the dark<br />
It's in our nature to destroy ourselves<br />
It's in our nature to kill ourselves<br />
It's in our nature to kill each other<br />
It's in our nature to kill, kill, kill! }}
** In fact, this is pretty much the whole point of the song.
* Bad Religion's "Individual" takes place [[Twenty Minutes in The Future|no more than 20 minutes in the future]]:
{{quote| Individuals run for cover <br />
For the multitudes of [[War On Straw|thoughtless clones]] <br />
have reached a critical mass[...] <br />
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Starcraft]]'': Supposedly, this tendency is why Terran military technology is able to keep up with the [[Bug War|Zerg]] and [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Protoss]] - and also why the Terrans insist on fighting their own wars in the midst of a Zerg invasion.
{{quote| '''Liberty''': "I can only imagine what the Zerg and Protoss thought when they landed on planet after planet that consisted of nothing but Confederates and rebels whaling the tar out of each other. They probably thought it was the normal behavior pattern for our race. And I suppose they would be right."}}
* ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'': [[AI Is a Crapshoot|Durandal]] sends this message to the player character.
{{quote| "Every breath, every motion brings you one instant closer to your death. With that kind of heritage and destiny, how can you deny yourself? How can you expect yourself to give up violence? It is your nature. Do you feel free?"}}
* ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'': During the end of the game, Shepard meets {{spoiler|the Catalyst, the Overlord of the Reapers, who justifies the mass genocide of the Galaxy as a means to prevent civilizations (human or alien) from creating powerful [[A Is]] who will end up destroying their creators and endangering the Universe.}}
{{quote| Rather than just ensure [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum|no organic life continues]] these powerful [[A Is]] sweep though the Galaxy every couple of millenniums, to allow organic civilizations time to grow before violently destroying and [[In Their Own Image|absorbing them]].}}
* In ''[[Gears of War]]'', this trope is [[Hive Queen|Queen Myrrah's]] main justification for leading the Locust into a campaign of extermination against humanity.
 
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Kid Radd]]''.
{{quote| '''Dr. Amp''': Spontaneously, the citizens began killing each other.<br />
'''Radd''': Why?<br />
'''GI Guy''': ''Because that's what video game characters do.'' }}
 
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