History Main / HumanityIsInsane

* There are [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters several]] [[HumansAreWarriors ways]] [[HumansAreCthulhu to interpret]] ''Literature/TheDamnedTrilogy'' by Creator/AlanDeanFoster, but in terms of tropes on this site this might be the best way to describe its portrayal of humanity. Humans evolved on a planet that shouldn't have been able to support life, in a way that shouldn't have produced a sentient species, and while as individuals we're usually decent, we display disturbing tendencies in our speech patterns and our art that are magnified when we're in large groups. We're also immune to MindReading, with [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth spectacular]] [[BrownNote results]] any time it's tried. [[spoiler:The Lepar, normally considered the least intelligent of the fully sentient species in the Weave, are immune to the countereffect resulting from using mind reading on humans. Because the Lepar can counterbalance the negative influence of humans, humanity is finally fully integrated into the Weave.]]

* ''Film/MenInBlack'': This could be why human thought is viewed as an infectious disease by some aliens. No wonder they don't want us to get our hands on a UniversalTranslator.

* This is a repeatedly appearing theme in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fandom. Mostly that's explored when the topic at hand is how Equestria's [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows carefully hand-crafted weather]] is bizarre to us, the staggering amount of independent nations and the history of wars between them, our lack of a defined destiny as depicted by ponies' cutie marks, or how some humans prefer this apparent bedlam over the more rigid order of the Equestrian world.

* ''Letter to a Phoenix'' ends thusly: "Only the insane destroy themselves. And only the phoenix lives forever." All other sapient species in the galaxy grow moribund and die out, but humanity survives because it periodically comes within a hair of wiping itself out. (The near-immortal narrator still hopes we never again get as far as the civilization that planet-busted the world between Mars and Jupiter, though.)

* In the backstory of ''Series/BabylonFive'' Earth Alliance had this reputation for a while due how they reacted to privateers from the far more powerful Centauri ended: when Earth Alliance met the Centauri the latters' House Jaddo, having established first contact, obtained a monopoly of Earth-Centauri trade, resulting in the other Houses sending privateers after Earth ships knowing nobody would risk war with the Centauri Republic, only to see [=EarthForce=] patrols chasing the privateers across the border with overwhelming numbers and shooting down anything short of a naval base with its battlefleet that tried to get in their way, and eventually [[NukeEm nuking one such base and its fleet]] when the commander of an Earth squadron took exception at [[BlatantLies the usual fake claim the privateers had been arrested and would be executed]]. This actually ''improved'' Earth-Centauri relations and prevented the Centauri conquest of Earth, as the Centauri emperor realized conquering these madmen would not be worth the losses but they were more than willing to trade fairly as long as their ships weren't attacked due Centauri internal politics.

* ''Fanfic/NoStarsInSight'': Indilic is a [[VideoGame/{{Destiny}} Psion]] (telepathic alien cyclops) who concludes that humans are "woefully short of reason" after seeing Ikharos kill a [[SeaSerpents Nïdhwal]] by [[EatMe charging into its mouth]] armed with only his [[BladeOnAStick glaive]].