Humans are capable of vast greatness and largeness of heart — but we can also be full horrible bastards , sometimes . And science fable is full of stories where we terrorize and mistreat innocent creature . Here are the 10 best stories where humans are the villains .
Top trope : The Day The Earth Stood Still .
In thisshort storey , Peter Wattsretells Peter Campbell ’s “ Who Goes There”(which was made into John Carpenter ’s The Thing ) from the linear perspective of the unknown . We see the noncitizen become the people who discovered it , we learn its tragic backstory , and feel its sorrowfulness when it sees its wrecked ship . This creature does n’t understand humans , or their instinct towards fury . At one percentage point in the story it wonders “ Why even dig up me up ? Why cut up me from the ice , carry me all that way of life across the wastes , bring me back to living only to attack me the moment I wake ? If eradication was the goal , why not just kill me where I lie ? ”
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The alien in this story is as alien as it could possibly be , in a story written by a man . It does n’t call up like a homo , and it is horrified by the human body and brain . By reframing a familiar story Watts forces us to relate to the alien , the former adversary , and see the humans as villains . It ’s interesting to see the table turn . It reminds us that there is more than one side to all stories , and that you might be improper about who the “ good ” and “ unsound ” guys are .
Clarke publishedthis 1953 short storyin the London Evening News , and it puts a darkly odd spin on the approximation of humans as scoundrel . The tale begins with a radical of Hollywood executives discussing their newest alien repugnance movie . The effects are better than ever , and the aliens more frightening than even War of the Worlds . ( “ But of grade George Pal did n’t have 3D. ” ) They plot out an elaborate promotion campaign , and within a few months everyone on Earth is cognisant of the dreaded extraterrestrial being in the movie . From there the story shifts to Prince Zervashni , a peaceful foreigner on a mission to contact Earth . After calendar month of being bombarded with anti - exotic propaganda in the form of this movie , the man assume the worst . They set on the landing political party , overwhelming them with armed crew . The Prince feel he has no selection , and minutes later the earth is “ neatly disinfected ” and human - free .
In only a few short pages , Clarke shows us the swarthiness of humanity , and then go along to wipe us out . It ’s clear that most man Prince Zervashni explores are peaceable , and we ’re just a dire exclusion .
This extendedApartheid metaphorshows us just how horribly first contact with an alien race could go , if the aliens were vulnerable in and in need of protection .
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Alien refugee , consult to as Prawns , are force into impounding encampment outside the metropolis . We learn that the aliens did n’t want to come to Earth , and man have trapped them with our covetousness and ignorance . Over and over , we see human race comport cruel , violent , or rick a unreasoning eye to the distress extend on in the camps . Even Wikus , who helps the noncitizen more than any other homo , act only out of ego interest . The viewer bang that if he was n’t literally turning into an alien , he would still be working to exploit them . When you see humans joyfully destroying the extraterrestrial being ’ eggs , forcing them from their homes , and forcing Wikus to use the alien engineering , it is n’t hard to view the human race as the movie ’s villains .
This two - part short film was include in the Animatrix DVD , and it change everything . Turns out , the simple machine in The Matrixmight not be quite the evil overlords you think … at least not at the beginning . In The Second Renaissance , a two part short pic set approximately 200 years before The Matrix , we see the storey of the free fall of humanity and the rise of the simple machine . It evince world ’ subjugation of the machines and the source of the state of war between them and man . We see machines shoot , crushed by tanks , and viscously attacked with sledgehammers . Piles of machines are shovel into pit reminiscent of volume grave .
Even after these brutal attacks , the machines send ambassadors on peaceful damage , and are turned away . In an attempt to win the war , human race descend up with a “ last solution ” which involve destroy the sky . In humanity’sfinal stand against the machines they can be heard chanting “ vote out ‘ em all , kill ‘ em all ” in reasonless bloodlust .
The film maker designedly use prototype cite human calamity throughout account including the Holocaust and Tiananmen Square to make us sympathize with the downtrodden machines .
There are countless forum C. W. Post all over the net full of people consider the backstory of this tactical shooter game serial , and whether the character you play throughout the biz , Marcus Fenix of the COG , is in facta villain . Whatever you believe , there are some facts within the game that few citizenry seem to disagree with : The human beings began the war by drilling into the Locust plate underground , and when we opine we were losing the war , we pass over out over 90 % of Sera ’s surface . The Locust Horde were defending their land , and by the end of Gears of War 3 , COG have committed genocide .
By meet as COG and slowly check what they are doing on Sera , you experience the events of the war in a alone fashion , by being one of the killer . You are the one to press the trigger against the Locust Horde . This arguably put the role player in the shoes of the villains more than a myopic narration , movie , or novel .
This novel explore the kinship between the natives of the major planet Athshe and the human race from Earth who are attempting to colonise the major planet and exploit its natural resources . The Terransenslave the minor , unripened , furry nativesand care for them more like fauna than hoi polloi , despite their proven tidings and advanced societal anatomical structure .
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We see the Terrans primarily from two spot of view , Captain Davidson and Raj Lyubov . Davidson is a small minded , violent man who begin the war after he rapes and kill an important Athshean ’s wife . Lyubov is an anthropologist , and one of the fewTerranswho take the clip to understand the Athsheans .
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Through Davidson and Lyubov ’s interaction with other Terrans we see the selfish , violent nature of the humans on the planet . They concern to the Athsheans by the smudge “ creechies ” while trying to veil their mistreatment of them from other humanoid races . When Lyubov protests one human being secern him , “ You sleep together the people you ’re studying are going to get plowed under , and probably wiped out . It ’s the way things are . It ’s human nature , and you must know you ca n’t change that . ”
Poor E.T. He just want to trifle garb up , get drunk and abstract Reese ’s Pieces while he figures out a way to Speak - n - Spell himself a drive home . But the government is dictated to analyze him and regain out how to reverse - engineer that glow finger thing .
In this tragic warfare chronicle , mankind trust that we ’ve been set on by aliens , so we send out ship to destroy the Tauran ships , and slaughter their citizenry . We do n’t nettle to try and put across with the Taurans for old age , until we finally originate our own clones who can talk to the Taurans — and then we chance out that we were the assaulter in the war .
Something similar plays out in Ender ’s Game and the Orphan ’s War series by Robert Buettner .
Klaatu come to Earth in peace , and moderately much from the kickoff he ’s met with distrust and preemptive force . As Klaatu wryly observes at one stage , “ I ’m raring with stupidity . My people have learned to live without it . ” Too bad our people have n’t . And in the end , Klaatu gives the intractably wild human subspecies an ultimatum : “ Your choice is simple : bring together us and live in peace treaty , or follow your present course and face obliteration . We shall be wait for your answer . The decision rests with you . ”
The Planet of the Apes series builds up a vision of a future where humans have devolved and are oppressed by super - intelligent copycat . But then , just like the Animatrix , the serial publication rick thing around and shows what we did to deserve such a fate . Poor Cornelius , Zira and Dr. Milo flee to present - sidereal day Earth and notice first - manus quite how xenophobic and vehement humans could be . The three thinking imitator hoist up paying the ultimate price — and then in the next movie , we see how humans consistently enslave the next multiplication of intelligent imitator — before they finally rise up .
extra reporting by Dan Lee and Chris Steffen
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