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!!Examples

[[folder:Comics]]
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
-->Test question: "What was the significance of the Erie Canal?"
-->Calvin's answer: "In the cosmic sense, probably nil."
** In another strip, Calvin is looking at the stars with Hobbes and talks about how small and insignificant Earth must be compared to the universe... then says: [[MoodWhiplash "I wonder what's on TV now?"]].
** In yet another strip, Calvin is again looking at the stars with Hobbes:
--->'''Hobbes:''' What a clear night! Look at all the stars. Millions of them!
--->'''Calvin:''' Yes, we're just tiny specks on a planet particle, hurling through the infinite blackness. ''(beat)'' Let's go in and turn on all the lights.
** In another, he's looking at the stars alone:
-->'''Calvin:''' I'M SIGNIFICANT!
--> ''([[BeatPanel Long beat]])''
-->'''Calvin:''' ...screamed the dust speck.
* Numerous members of the ComicBook/GreenLantern Corps in Franchise/TheDCU look down on Earth--partly because of Hal Jordan's actions as Parallax. Many others have never even heard of the planet or of the species that inhabits it.

* Most of the alien races in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse view Earth in this way. Though while Earth is insignificant, population wise, it's in a pretty good area outside all the major intergalactic empires.

** In ''Comicbook/{{Nextwave}}'', the Celestials derisively refer to Earth as an "orbiting trashcan".

* Similarly, the universe where most of Marvel's stories take place is numbered Earth #616 by at least one inter-dimensional organization.
** Several stories have subverted this by pointing out that this Earth is the most important one in the Multiverse. The numbering might be an intentional way of disguising its importance.
** See NumberOfTheBeast. There are conflicting stories about where that number for the "core" universe comes from.
* Most of the aliens ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician has encountered (and for a crime-fighting stage magician, he has encountered surprisingly ''many'' aliens) have this view of Earth.

* In ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' the Evronians, who are currently trying to invade Earth, view it as so insignificant that the members of the Imperial Council have problem recalling its name. And the ''only'' reason they even bothered learning it is a combination of Earth being scheduled to have its oceans being used to ''cool off the engines of their PlanetSpaceship'' and Earthling being relatively tough to conquer (enough they can't just bulldoze in). Later {{subverted|Trope}}: the Evronians are {{Emotion Eater}}s who [[PoweredByAForsakenChild fuel most of their technology with stolen emotions]] with a process that drains the victim completely and forever, but Earthlings are so emotionally rich that a single shot of their Evronguns often isn't enough and they can recover... [[BlessedWithSuck Meaning that humanity is an unending banquet and the possible solution to Evron's impending energy crisis]]. The Imperial Council ''still'' has trouble remembering the name.
* In the Italian comic ''Saturn versus Earth'', Earth has ''nothing'' the Saturnian wants, and the war starts only because Earth is a convenient ''staging area'' to attack the actual target - ''[[PlutoIsExpendable Pluto]]'', [[SubvertedTrope of all planets]] (in this universe Pluto is incredibly rich of radium, and getting his hands on it would allow [[BigBad Rebo]] to become a GalacticConqueror). Later attacks are motivated by Rebo's vindictive streak and, after his death, the need for his potential successors to prove themselves worthy by succeeding where he failed, and it's so without effect that [[spoiler:Tundro, Rebo's secret son]], is able take over Saturn while ''openly admitting he plans to make peace'' - [[PragmaticVillainy after all, Earth has nothing Saturn wants or needs and the war already cost too many lives]].
* The ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' miniseries "Donald versus Saturn" reuses Rebo and the Saturnians (at the time the rights for ''Saturn versus Earth'' and the Disney comics in Italy were held by the same publisher), if in a more farcical manner, and once again Earth is inconsequential to Rebo's plans, whose goal is to conquer Jupiter and obtain useful technologies for his plans to [[GalacticConqueror conquer the universe]]. Earth ends up involved only because Rebo wants ''individual people'' on it: as the Saturnians' numbers have been reduced to ''three'' (Rebo and his two assistants) by [[ForeverWar millions of years of warfare]], Rebo plans to fill the ranks with {{Robot Soldier}}s, and since their skills at making robots are abysmal (Rebo's latest attempt resulting in a ''pacifist'' robot) they want to kidnap Gyro and have him design the robot, only for the assistants to mistake Donald for him; in the following story, instead, Rebo holds a grudge against Donald for (accidentally) wiping out his entire fleet and against Scrooge for putting Donald where he could be mistaken for Gyro, so he has them kidnapped. The last two stories are set on Earth because Rebo was stranded there, and his main goal remains to go back to Saturn and its war factories, as he has already solved the robot problem and the only things he needs from Earth are a spaceship back home and

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[[caption-width-right:180:"[[Creator/CarlSagan Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us.]]"]]

Earth? That old dirtball? Why care about a place where the same boring things happen, a hardly-if-ever-useful planet crawling with its so-often [[HumansAreMorons clueless]] lifeforms?