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# [[Shaped Like Itself|Tautologies]]: "There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who fit, and those who don't." Logically, this statement is self-evident: [[Captain Obvious|either you are, or you aren't]]. ("X, and everyone else" is another variation.)

{{quote|''The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.''}}

 

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== Advertising ==

* For Volkswagen, it's "passengers" and "drivers", with the hope of encouraging more people to be drivers.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* Sena from ''[[Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai]]'' has this to say: "... There are two types of women. Ones that I can get along with, and all the other bitches. All those bitches who I can't get along with should just die..."

* According to [[Haruhi Suzumiya]] in Remote Island Syndrome, there are two kinds of people when you're in a mystery, those who are suspicious, and those who are suspicious for not being suspicious.

 

== Comic Books ==

* From ''[[Y: The Last Man]]'':

{{quote|'''Alter:''' There are only two kinds of people, those above the earth and those beneath it. Which side do you choose?}}

* A piece of advice from the second Trickster's father in ''[[The Flash]]'':

{{quote|"There's two things you can be in life, Axel. Either you're the trickster, or you're the one gettin' tricked!"}}

 

== Fan Works ==

* The Joker from ''[[The Joker Blogs]]'' has a version with three kinds of people: "The optimistic who find the glass half full, and the pessimistic that see it as half-empty. Then there's the paranoid; they just think someone's drinking out of their glass." Of course, the Joker makes himself [[Take a Third Option|a fourth option]]: someone who tips the glass over.

 

== Film ==

* Blondie and Tuco from ''[[The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly]]'' have this kind of thing going:

{{quote|'''Tuco:''' There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend. Those with a rope around their neck, and the people who have the job of doing the cutting.}}

{{quote|'''Blondie:''' There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend. Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.}}

{{quote|'''Tuco:''' There are two kinds of spurs in the world, my friend. Those that come by the door, and those that come through the window.}}

** It's even more bizarre when you realize that the ''refusal'' to deal in absolutes is precisely what caused Anakin Skywalker to turn to the dark side. He believed Palpatine's rationalization that it was acceptable to employ the dark side of the Force if the outcome was a benevolent one (in this case, saving his wife).

* From the movie ''[[Dirty Work]]'':

{{quote|'''Domino Harvey:''' There are [[Take a Third Option|three]] kinds of people in the world: the poor, the rich, [[Take a Third Option|and everyone in between]].<ref>Also a pretty useless observation. What she's literally saying is "[[Captain Obvious|everybody fits]] ''[[Captain Obvious|somewhere]]'' [[Captain Obvious|on the wealth scale]]".</ref>}}

* ''[[My Big Fat Greek Wedding]]''. "There are two kinds of people in the world... Greeks... and people who ''wish'' they were Greeks."

{{quote|'''Gary Johnston'''': ''We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong Il is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes: assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate - and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves... because pussies are an inch and half away from assholes. I don't know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don't let us fuck this asshole, we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!''}}

* In ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'', there are two types of "girls", according to John Travolta's character. "You gotta decide now, <s>Sandy</s> Annette. Are you gonna put out? You're either gonna be a nice girl or a cunt."

* In the Brazilian film ''Tropa de Elite'' (a.k.a. ''[[The Elite Squad]]'') the (arguably) protagonist/narrator says Brazilian cops have three options: omit themselves, corrupt themselves, or go to war.

* In the Japanese movie ''Swing Girls'', a jock-ish minor character seems to start all his sentences this way, leaving the protagonists on the negative end, of course. It isn't until the swing band's penultimate performance that he changes his mind.

* The infinitely preachy, [[So Bad It's Good]] film The [[Butter Cream Gang]] has the main characters ex-best friend say this line after he falls under a bad influence. "There are two people in the world: Your friends and your enemies." He doesn't seem to have anything in mind about people he's never met.

* ''[[The Boondock Saints|The Boondock Saints 2]]: All Saints Day'': Rocco tells us that there are "talkers" and "do-er's", and that "it's the do-er's that change this world."

* [[Full Metal Jacket|"Only two things come out of Texas! Steers and queers!]]

** Which comes with a [[Genius Bonus]], since a steer could refer to a castrated bull.

* ''[[Jurassic Park]] III'' "There are two kinds of boys: Astronauts and Astronomers"

* ''[[The Matrix]]'': "Two kinds of people: Those with power, and those without."

'''Nick:''' ...I'm ''[[Take a Third Option|married]].'' ''([[Blasting It Out of Their Hands|shoots Rig's gun]])'' }}

 

* There's a ''[[Pokémon]]'' novelization which promisingly opened stating that there are two types of people in the world: people who catch and train Pokémon themselves and people who try to steal other people's Pokémon. The immediate audience reaction is: "What about those people who sit around and have no interest in Pokémon whatsoever?"

** Those are called dead people.

{{quote|It is said that there are two types of people in the world: those who look at a glass that is exactly half full and say, "This is glass is half full," and those who look at the same glass and say, "This glass is half empty." But the world is ''ruled'' by the people who look at the glass and say, "Excuse me? ''Excuse'' me? This is ''my'' glass? I don't ''think'' so. My glass was full. And I had a bigger glass!"}}

{{quote|'''Detritus''': Only ... ''(counts fingers)'' only two-er things come from Slice Mountain. Rocks, an' ... an' other sorts of rocks!}}

* ''[[Foucault's Pendulum]]'' claims there four kinds of people in the world: "cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics."

** Although at another point it goes for the more traditional two: "writers and editors".

* From ''[[The Acts of Caine|Blade of Tyshalle]]'':

{{quote|"You know what they say. There are two kinds of people in the world: [[Lampshade Hanging|people who say things like 'There are two kinds of people in the world', and people who know those first people are full of shit.]]"}}

* Humorist Robert Benchley once noted that there were two types of people in the world: people who believe that there are two types of people in the world, and people who don't.

{{quote|There are two kinds of people in this world. People who hate and fear clowns... and clowns.}}

* A classic one from Rainsford in ''[[The Most Dangerous Game]]'': "This world's divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted."

* Fisk tries to use this in the ''[[Knight and Rogue Series]]'' to describe what kind of nobleman Michael's father is, but can't help but admit that if he bothered to think about it he'd probably come up with at least thirty types.

{{quote|'''Alias''': Riding a wagon along protected trading routes in a guarded merchant caravan doesn't make you an adventurer. Until you've hiked more than twenty miles a day, slept in a ditch, and eaten something that tried to kill you first, you're not an adventurer. Anyone who isn't an adventurer is a greengrocer.}}

 

* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', "Meltdown": When Rimmer is inspecting the troops, he tells St. Francis: "There's only two kinds from Assisi, steers and queers -- which are you, boy?"

** Which is, of course, homage to [[Full Metal Jacket]] in reference to things that come from Texas.

** It also doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], especially when you consider that had anyone else said that, it probably would have sounded rather arrogant. Somehow Sarah Jane saying it just makes it ''work.''

* From a season 7 episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'': "There are two kinds of people: those who move on, and those who can't."

* From the [[Pushing Daisies]] episode ''Circus Circus'', the French acrobat tells Ned and Emerson that they are two types of people in the world- circus performers, and "stubs", those that watch.

* The good people of [[Law and Order]] love this trope.

** Notable example; in the Fifth Season premiere(which introduced Jack McCoy and Detective Van Buren) the case involved a woman who died from a dangerous alternate treatment for breast cancer. Van Buren observed, "There are two kinds of women in this world; those who are afraid of getting breast cancer, and those who already have it."

 

== Music ==

* "Two kinds of people in this world. Winners, losers." - [[Fleetwood Mac|Lindsey Buckingham]], "Go Insane".

* Subverted by the ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]'' introduction to the song "A Kiss is Not a Contract":

{{quote|"There are two kinds of people in the world. I'm one kind..." "And I'm the other."}}

* The Magnetic Fields song "Two Kinds Of People".

{{quote|There are two kinds of people: A) My love and I, B) Other.}}

 

== Radio ==

* In [[The BBC]] Radio 4 comedy ''[[Absolute Power (radio)|Absolute Power]]'' (but not the TV version) Charles Prentiss has a variety of poetic versions to put down Maurice the waiter (usually after Maurice has corrected his [[My Name Is Not Durwood|pronunciation of Maurice]]).

 

== Theatre ==

Look at me, Mrs. Lovett, look at you! }}

* "The Way Things Are", the [[Villain Protagonist]] song from ''I Can Get It For You Wholesale''.

 

== Video Games ==

*** Or the ones that slaughter the heroes? [[Anti-Hero|Or the ones who don't get the clapping?]]

* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' example: "There are two sorts of men in this world: the sort with [[Boom! Headshot!|blood pouring out of a hole in their heads]], and the sort holding the [[Hand Cannon|Ambassador.]]"

* ''[[Fallout 2]]'' has a hilarious example:

{{quote|"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."}}

** And it's actually necessary to say this line: Lloyd buried a landmine which will blow up in your face if you dig yourself.

** [[Older Than They Think|And this is of course a reference to the above-mentioned line from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly]]

{{quote|''"The way I see it, there's basically two types of people. Most of them are guys like me. Guys that sit on the couch, we might not like the shit that happens to us, but we deal with it. Then there are guys like you."''}}

 

* To a [[Friendly Hostility|Maharassa]], there are three kinds of people in the world: family to protect, bitches to sex up, and ''prey''.

* Implied in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' -- [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20050105.html "There are customers we serve, and then there are customers we service."]

* Luke Surl found [http://www.lukesurl.com/archives/2944 another two].

* [[A Softer World]]: [http://asofterworld.com/index.php?id=648 In this world, there are two kinds of people], people like me, with [[Knife Nut|knives]], and people like you, with [[Eye Scream|eyeballs]]

 

== Web Originals ==

{{quote|'''Homer:''' Hey, did you get a load of that nerd?

'''Jock:''' I beg your pardon? }}

* When Two-Face threatened to release a binary poison on Gotham in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', he claimed there would be two kinds of people in Gotham: The dying and the dead.

* Parodied in "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000" of ''[[South Park]]'' when Cartman is sent to juvie. When asked one reason why he shouldn't be beat up, Cartman says he's just like everyone else. The main guy says there are two types of kids: those who like [[Animaniacs]] and those who don't. Despite getting the right answer about not liking Animaniacs, the situation isn't improved much as there are no friends in prison.

'''Zoidberg:''' Uh, excuse me, which is the one people like to hug?

'''That Guy:''' Gutsy question. You're a shark. Sharks are winners. And they don't look back. 'Cause they don't have necks. Necks are for sheep. ''(Everyone hunches their shoulders except Bender, who physically retracts his head)'' I am proud to be the shepherd of this [[Mixed Metaphor|herd of sharks.]] }}

 

== Real Life ==

* "There are two types of vessels - submarines and targets".

* "There are two kinds of aircraft - stealth aircraft and targets".

* "There is three kind of people in the world: those who can count, and the others."

* Slight modification: there's a tale floating around Parris Island (the US Marine Corps training facility) that during the height of the Vietnam War a Drill Instructor asked his squad of new recruits if they had any questions. One recruit asked the rather naive question of what the squads chances of going overseas were, with the DI giving the following answer.

* There are two kinds of pedestrians in Rome: the fast ones and the dead ones.

* There are two types of people in this world. One is people who can infer based on what they're given.

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* Probably not the last word on the subject, but there are two types of people in the world: Those who divide people into two types and those that don't.

* There are two kinds of women who enlist in the Navy: [[Really Gets Around|Bikes]] and [[Butch Lesbian|Dykes]].

* There are two kinds of women in the world: Sluts and my Mother.

* [[Billy West]] was sufficiently disgruntled after working with [[The Ren and Stimpy Show|John Kricfalusi]] that his website once separated people into two categories: "''Ren And Stimpy'' fans" and "human beings".

 

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