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== [[Comics]] ==
* A favorite for [[Alan Moore]] when he writes anything about aliens interacting with humans, occasionally referring to humans derogatorily as [[Fantastic Slur|"chimps" and "apes."]]
** In ''Skizz'' a peaceful alien is stranded on Earth ''a la [[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|E.T.]]'', which, to his own species, is classified as a "hellworld" planet for many reasons, among them being that human civilization is far too primitive and undeveloped for people to handle alien contact. The first encounter the alien has with humans is discovering drunk skinheads pummeling each other with their fists; the revelation that he's stranded on a planet where the locals are '''''that''''' primitive is more than enough to make him cry.
*** The [[Big Bad]] in the story, a government agent known only as "Van Owen," could be interpreted to an extent as an example of [[Hanlon's Razor|the overlap]] between this and [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]. No matter what anyone says or asks him, he's convinced in his own mind that the peaceful alien is a secret spy looking to destroy the planet.
** "[[D.R. & Quinch|DR and Quinch]] Have Fun on Earth" features the title characters manipulating humanity throughout history in an [[Chessmaster|elaborate scheme]] that relies on humans developing a space travel program. When humans finally reach the characters' corner of the galaxy and encounter "their first real, actual people," they're given a civic reception at "The League of Disadvantaged Planets' Charity Hall" as ''everyone'' sees humans as stupid, mindless life-forms.
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** They also act like little children who constantly have to be told ''not'' to lick everything in sight because they may get sick. Especially on an alien planet.
* [[Jackass]], a series of movies (and a TV series at first) that uses this trope and [[Rule of Funny]], did well enough at the box office to have sequels.
** America's Dumbest/Funniest Home Videos is similar.
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* In the book ''The VMR Threory'', this is the view held by many races that first contact humans, given that the human individuals who are in charge of first contact situations are complete idiots to the point that other species think that humanity is [[Too Dumb to Live]]. This has sparked two theories of how it's possible for humanity to have been able to reach space and survive as a species. The first is that there's smart humans and dumb humans, and if they mess with the dumb humans, the smart humans will come and kick their asses. The second is that there is a specific race out there guiding humans that is infinitely more dangerous than all of humanity. The most popular theory of who this master race is happens to be [[Title Drop|The Vampire Master Race]].
* In ''[[Earth (The Book)]]'', anything that doesn't make us look [[Humanity Is Insane|crazy]] or [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|evil]] makes us look like complete idiots. For instance, "not masturbating on a mass-transit system" is the example used to explain the "harsh, at times maddeningly frustrating trade-offs" that served as the basis for a '''social contract'''.
** Another example comes at the end of the FAQ Section on Chapter 2: Life, revolving around the author refusing to explain to aliens what creationism is, despite "billions of people" believing in it as the origin of life up until the end.
{{quote|'''Q. Come on.'''
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** His later incarnations seem to have pretty much the same thought. Indeed, when he's not going on about the marvelousness of humanity (a particular feature of the Tenth Doctor), he's ranting about how stupid/blind/ignorant they are. Sometimes in the same episode.
** The Ninth Doctor was particularly fond of calling humans "stupid apes" whenever he was angry at us.
** This trait in humans is why the Tenth Doctor in particular finds the human race to be amazing. In the episode ''Utopia'', The Doctor visits a human refugee base in the year 100,000,000,000,000 AD, a time in which the Universe was ending and most races had gone extinct, and states his wonderment at how the human race is one of the few races to survive to the very end of existence.
{{quote|Doctor: [While walking through the hordes of human families living in the base] "This is fantasic! You humans with your simple, STUPID ways...with all your soap dramas and gossip mags, micowave dinners and ipods... Your pathetic small brains and your simple homes, your greed and your sins, your bad ways and your poor souls, with your ignorant nature and your frankly appalling manners at times...with all that you STILL manage to amaze me. Look at you lot, here at the end of TIME ITSELF and you're living! The human race, the race of passion! Indomitable! That's the word...indomitabe! }}
* In ''[[Spaced]]'', Tim defends the Sci-Fi genre arguing that "the thoughts and speculations of our contemporary authors and thinkers have probably never been closer to the truth." [[Gilligan Cut|Cut to]] a group of aliens outside the comic book shop laughing at how ridiculous everything on display is.
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* Even that damn squirrel, [[Neurotically Yours|Foamy]], thinks this about us!
* A theme in ''[[Banana-nana-Ninja!|Banana Nana Ninja]]'', very much akin to that in ''[[Invader Zim]]''.
* [[(The Customer is) Not Always Right]] catalogs ''a lot'' of stories about people being stupid.
* The [[Darwin Awards]] is also a catalog of human stupidity.
* As is [[FSTDT]].
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