Vision: Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites and try to control what won't. But there is grace in their failings. I think you missed that.
Ultron: They're doomed.
Vision: Yes. But a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts. It's a privilege to be among them.
Ultron: They're doomed.
Vision: Yes. But a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts. It's a privilege to be among them.
A listing of all tropes about the only animals in the whole wide world to go troping: humans! Written by humans and for humans.
Well, you are human, right? If not, see the Index of Fictional Creatures or Otherness Tropes for an index more suited for your kind.
Tropes:
Categories:
- Advanced Ancient Humans: Long ago in ancient or prehistoric times, humanity had a civilization that was much more technologically advanced than that of future human societies.
- Ambiguously Human: This person might be human, or maybe they're something else entirely...
- Angelic Transformation: An angel of human origin.
- Anti-Human Alliance: "No humans allowed!"
- Artificial Human: Humans (or humanlike beings) who were conceived and born through unnatural methods (such as cloning).
- Being Human Sucks: "I wish I wasn't human!"
- Bizarre Human Biology: Not all human beings are quite the same on the inside.
- Call a Human a "Meatbag": Any variety of racial slurs used to disparage humans.
- Deity of Human Origin: A god that was once a mere mortal.
- Demon of Human Origin: A demon who used to be a human.
- Funny Animal: A non-human animal species behaves like a human.
- Half-Human Hybrid: They're only partially human. Often the result of sexual encounters with other species and/or artificial gene splicing.
- Hobbes Was Right: Humans need to be ruled with an iron fist in order to stop us from fighting all the time.
- Human Aliens: Extraterrestrial species that coincidentally bear a strong resemblance to the humans of Earth.
- Human All Along: An apparently nonhuman character is revealed to be human.
- Human Disguise: When a non-human being is pretending to be one of us. Usually, their true forms aren't very humanlike.
- Humanity Came from Space: What if humans were not really from the planet Earth?
- Humanity Ensues: A non-human creature is somehow transformed into a human being. They may or may not be happy about it.
- Humanity Is Advanced: Human civilization and technology are (more) impressive, at least when compared to that of other species in the universe.
- Humanity Is Infectious: Spend some time with humans, and soon you'll start thinking and feeling like one.
- Humanity Is Insane: Humans are all batshit crazy!
- Humanity Is Superior: Humans believe that they're better than everyone else. Whether they actually are or not is another matter.
- Humanity Is Young: Humans are like inexperienced children, still learning how things work.
- Humanity on Trial: Some aliens believe that humans are so evil, that they want to collectively prosecute all of us for our crimes and sins. But can we prove them wrong?
- Humanity's Wake: Humanity is extinct, leaving only legends behind.
- Humanoid Abomination: A supernatural being who may look or act (somewhat) human at first glance, but they're actually something that's definitely not human.
- Human Pet: When other sapient species decide to domesticate us.
- Humans Advance Swiftly: Humans quickly invent new ways for technology to be upgraded.
- Humans Are Average: Humans are equally good (but not great) at every important skill and ability.
- Humans Are Bastards: Humans are uncaring, ungrateful assholes to each other.
- Humans Are Cthulhu: Humans are viewed as being unfathomably alien by (usually more primitive) non-human creatures.
- Humans Are Diplomats: Humans will first try to talk their way out of a situation.
- Humans Are Disgusting: Humans are treated as gross or disease-ridden by non-human characters.
- Humans Are Divided: Some humans like blue, while others prefer red. There's always something that we can disagree on.
- Humans Are Flawed: Humans aren't perfect, but they'll try to be.
- Humans Are Good: Most humans strongly believe and care about morality and justice.
- Humans are Insects: Superior beings consider us to be insignificant and unimportant to them.
- Humans are Leaders: Humans (or all of Humanity) will help the other sapient races and species by leading the way.
- Humans Are Morons: Humans are idiots and fools, especially if compared to other sapient organisms.
- Humans Are Not the Dominant Species: Humans live on an Earth-like planet, but aren't the dominant animal on it.
- Humans Are Psychic in the Future: Humans will eventually evolve to possess superhuman mental abilities.
- Humans Are Smelly: Other species think that we stink really badly.
- Humans Are Special: We're unique snowflakes compared to other species.
- Humans Are Survivors: It's the end of the world? Humanity will still find a way.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: Humans are uncaring, ungrateful assholes, at least compared to other species. Some of them are so bad that they make literal monsters look good.
- Humans Are Ugly: Other races believe that we look hideous to them.
- Humans Are Warriors: Humans are a proud warrior race. We'll gladly fight our way out of a situation, or into one.
- Humans Are White: In this story, most humans are depicted as being the dominant ethnicity of the writers' country/region of origin (especially white in Western media).
- Humans by Any Other Name: Alternate terms used to refer to humans, such as "Earthlings" or "Terrans".
- Humans Kill Wantonly: Humans are hyper-aggressive and violent, and we'll try to kill anyone or anything that gets in our way.
- Humans Need Aliens: We Earthlings must depend on people from other planets to save our skins.
- Humans Through Alien Eyes: How other races and species see humans.
- Human Subspecies: Offshoots and relatives of Homo sapiens sapiens resulting from evolution or science.
- Human Traffickers: Criminal smugglers who deal not in illegal drugs or weapons, but in live human beings (usually as slaves).
- In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race: In the distant future, all ethnic groups will eventually mix together until everyone looks racially homogeneous.
- Intrigued by Humanity: Other species find us to be interesting because of how different we are to them.
- In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves: Human nature means humanity will ultimately destroy itself.
- Kill All Humans: Trying to exterminate the entire human species.
- Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: When humans live together with Funny Animals.
- MacGuffin Turned Human: The object that everyone is looking for turns out to have been transformed into a person.
- Mars Needs Women: Nonhuman species are shown to lust after humans, especially in the context of male monsters sexually desiring human women.
- Misanthrope Supreme: A human who despises all other humans.
- Most Writers Are Human: Because of this, most stories will be written by humans and for humans, with their biased perspectives.
- Muggle Power: Some believe that normal humans are actually better than people who have superhuman powers.
- Muggles: Ordinary human beings without extraordinary abilities (like magic or superpowers); in contrast with superhumans.
- Muggle with a Degree in Magic: An ordinary human knows all about the powers anyway.
- No Focus on Humans: The story has few or no human characters; non-humans get the spotlight instead.
- Not Quite Human: Someone who at least looks human, but is not actually (or at least not completely) a (normal) human being.
- Original Man: The first human species was not the same Homo sapiens that we are.
- Our Humans Are Different: The story includes characters that are superficially human.
- Patrick Stewart Speech: When you want to defend all the good qualities of humanity, while still remembering their flaws.
- People Zoo: When other sapient species have us publicly displayed like zoo animals.
- Puny Earthlings: Overall, we're much more pathetic, weaker, and inferior compared to alien races.
- Realistic Species, Cartoony Species: In animation, humans look more (semi-)realistic than animals do.
- Restored My Faith in Humanity: When someone stops believing that all humans are bad, because we are indeed capable of kindness.
- Rousseau Was Right: There's a lot of evidence that we humans are naturally inclined towards being good and altruistic.
- Safety in Muggles: Trying to hide from your secret supernatural enemies? Just blend in among ordinary people.
- Son of an Ape: When humans are called "apes" or "monkeys" to mock them for being primates.
- Standard Human Spaceship: Humans design all their spacecraft to look like off-gray riveted boxes.
- Stupid Future People: Somehow, despite all our social and technological progress, we humans are all dumber than we were in the past!
- Token Human: The only human on a team of non-humans.
- Token Non-Human: Inversely, the only non-human on a team of humans.
- Too Much for Man to Handle: Some things are just not meant for normal human beings to experience at all.
- To Serve Man: According to some other species, Humans Are Delicious!
- Tragic Monster: They were sadly forced to become something inhuman against their will.
- Transhuman Aliens: A sub-species of humans that diverged after settling down on another planet.
- Transplanted Humans: Related to the above.
- Turning Back Human: When someone's transformation is finally reversed, allowing them to regain their humanity.
- Was Once a Man: A non-human being who was originally an ordinary human.
- Water-Breathing Humans: Human beings who have the ability to live and breathe underwater.
- We Are as Mayflies: Humans are the shortest-lived sapient species in the known universe.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: When humans show little regard for the well-being of other (sapient) species.