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On the other hand, [[Creative Sterility|it may just]] [[Crazy Awesome|be the reason]] [[Humans Are Special]].
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== Anime And Manga ==
* ''[[Death Note]]'': This is pretty much the conclusion of [[Shinigami|Ryuk's]] ''[[All There in the Manual|Human Observation Journal]]'' (which he finds highly amusing.)
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* Semi-example in ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''. {{spoiler|At one point Kyubey says that [[Starfish Alien|in his culture]], [[Blue and Orange Morality|emotions are considered a mental disorder]]. Although he never comes out and says this, the implication is that he and his kind view all humans as insane for having emotion. There is also an implication of [[Power Born of Madness]] from their perspective, as they are trying to turn emotions into energy.}}
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▲== Comics ==
{{quote|'''[[The Joker]]:''' Faced with the inescapable fact that human existence is mad, random and pointless, one in eight of them crack up and go stark slavering buggo! Who can blame them? In a world as psychotic as this... any other response would be ''crazy!''}}
▲** Several of the Joker's more notorious schemes are attempts to prove this is true to everybody else—and maybe to himself. Otherwise, he'd have to face the possibility that maybe the world ''isn't'' crazy... that maybe it's just him.
== Film ==
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{{quote|'''Lieutenant Jack Gordon Shepherd (whose brain has been taken over by a Control Bug)''': "Poor creatures. Why must we destroy you? I'll tell you why. Order is the tide of creation. But yours is a species that worships...the one over the many. You glorify your intelligence... Because it allows you to believe ''anything''. That you have a destiny. That you have a right. That you have a cause. That you are special. That you are great. But in truth, you are born ''insane'' . And such misery...cannot be allowed...to spread!"}}
* In ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'', when telling Jake he will be taught the ways of the Na'vi, Mo'at says, "We will see if your insanity can be cured."
== Live-Action TV ==▼
* In ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' Spock often feels this way about humans. Particularly emphasized in the Leonard Nimoy song "Highly Illogical".▼
* The other aliens in ''[[Farscape]]'' only have Crichton as their example, so they try to imagine [[Planet of Hats|a whole world full of Crichtons]]. He usually comes off as bizarre and insane to them due to his incessant pop culture references that nobody but he understands. Given the sort of [[Mind Rape|mind raping]] and... more that Crichton goes through over the years, he truly does genuinely become a little insane (inasmuch as it is possible to be a 'little' insane), so their assuming this of humanity as a whole likely goes up.▼
* This seems to be a common view by the vast majority of [[Stargate Verse|Stargate]]'s aliens, granted even the transplanted humans seem to think this of the Tau'ri. Though this may reflect mostly on [[Stargate SG-1|SG-1]]... okay, mostly on Jack.▼
** [[Stargate Atlantis|And Rodney]].▼
== Literature ==
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** Interestingly, Kitai says in the third book that she also thinks the Canim are insane, if not quite so insane as the Alerans. It's the convoluted internal politicking both groups engage in that she finds so irrational.
* Bruce Coville's ''[[My Teacher Is an Alien]]'' series uses this trope, which is rare for a children's story. Humans are potentially the smartest creatures in the galaxy (due to [[90% of Your Brain]]), but also the only ones stupid enough to have war and poverty. Turns out that {{spoiler|all that extra brain matter was there to grant us telepathy long in the past. When there were too many humans, there was too much "noise", and we instinctively suppressed this ability to protect ourselves}}. Losing that power left us traumatized as a species, with both an inherent desire to come together and a need to stay apart, and resulted in us being somewhat sociopathic.
* ''[[Discworld]]'' approaches this at times
** It's most explicit in ''[[Thief of Time]]'', which portrays a "dangerously sane" character as effectively inhuman.
** [[Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]] uses the same recipe; Carcer Dun is not, technically, insane. It's merely that he's realized that all those little rules that keep society ticking over nicely only apply to you if you let them, and therefore the only thing between him and murdering a coach full of accordion players for shits and giggles is his own inhibitions. He is, in fact, more in tune with objective reality than the average man on the street; a sort of inverse psychosis if you will.
* In [[David Weber]]'s ''[[Out of the Dark]]'', the invading alien Shongairi are confused and flabbergasted by humanity's continuing resistance against them even after they've killed half of Earth's population. They eventually realize that, [[Humans Through Alien Eyes|by their own standards]], humans are clinically insane. The Shongairi, being a pack-based carnivorous species, have a psychology focused on pack-mentality, with the rest of the pack submitting instinctively to the strongest "alpha" once s/he has demonstrated superiority. All other species they've encountered are herd-based omnivores or herbivores, who will submit to deflect violence away from the herd as a whole. However, humans are family-oriented instead of pack- or herd-oriented, and as a result the act of bombarding entire cities off the map and killing half the population just ''pisses them off''. Since the need to protect family overrides submission, and pure, undiluted ''hate'' due to harming or killing family drives humans to keep fighting regardless, the humans come off as completely insane to the Shongairi.
▲== Live-Action TV ==
▲* In ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' Spock often feels this way about humans. Particularly emphasized in the Leonard Nimoy song "Highly Illogical".
▲* The other aliens in ''[[Farscape]]'' only have Crichton as their example, so they try to imagine [[Planet of Hats|a whole world full of Crichtons]]. He usually comes off as bizarre and insane to them due to his incessant pop culture references that nobody but he understands. Given the sort of [[Mind Rape|mind raping]] and... more that Crichton goes through over the years, he truly does genuinely become a little insane (inasmuch as it is possible to be a 'little' insane), so their assuming this of humanity as a whole likely goes up.
▲* This seems to be a common view by the vast majority of [[Stargate Verse|Stargate]]'s aliens, granted even the transplanted humans seem to think this of the Tau'ri. Though this may reflect mostly on [[Stargate SG-1|SG-1]]... okay, mostly on Jack.
▲** [[Stargate Atlantis|And Rodney]].
== Video Games ==
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{{quote|'''Shepard''': Maybe you're right. Maybe we can't win. But I'll tell you this: we will never give up. We will fight you to the last. Because that's what humans do!
'''Harbinger''': Inconceivable. }}
== Web Comics ==
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* On ''[[Mezzacotta]]'':
{{quote|[http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date{{=}}-1318-07-27 And I thought my species was weird].}}
* ''[[
== Web Original ==
* In the [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/16309898/images/1316140098051.png Veil of Madness] stories from 4chan's /tg/, this is explicitly the reason why humans have free run of a good chunk of the galaxy - Part of it drives anyone in it insane, but humans are all a little crazy already.
== Western Animation ==
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Madness Tropes]]
[[Category:Romanticism Versus Enlightenment]]
[[Category:Cynicism Tropes]]
[[Category:Humans Are Indexed]]
▲[[Category:Humanity Is Insane]]
[[Category:Tropes of Hats]]
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