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* ''{{Spore}}'': As an Easter egg, Maxis included our own solar system in the galaxy, including Earth. However, aside from being in one NASA presentation and part of two achievements, the planet itself is pointless and has a T1 incomplete atmosphere (the lowest inhabitable atmosphere possible), making it even more insignificant that many other insignificant planets outside of novelty. To make things even worse, one of those achievements is gained for blowing it up. Hilariously, the achievement is called "Oh, the humanity!"

* ''UniverseAtWar'', Earth would had been on the next to be struck by the Hierarchy's Purifier (aka a PlanetBuster meant to collect materials for the war machine) if it wasn't a {{plan}} to destroy the Novus.

* Played with in StarCraft; The human faction of the game, the Terrans, is merely the result of criminals and dissidents exiled from Earth who ended up the Koprulu sector and built their own civilization. As a result, Earth is little more than a sour memory to them. As for the alien factions, WordOfGod states that the Protoss are aware of Earth's existence, but are frankly uninterested in visiting it, while the Zerg are likely aware of its location but are more concerned with the Koprulu sector than this far away planet. Ironically, Earth itself is ''terrified'' by the prospect of either of those two alien species reaching them one day, and ''Brood War'' has them sending an army to the Koprulu sector in order to preempt such attempts as a plot point.

* This is pretty much ''what'' attracted the [[DittoAliens Pict]] in ''AxisPowersHetalia: [[TheMovie Paint it White]].'' Said aliens expected Earth, with all its diverse countries and divisions to be a backwater that can easily be steamrolled. [[spoiler:They thought wrong.]]

* This is pretty much the reaction to any mention of Earth in ''Literature/TheHistoryOfTheGalaxy'' books. The second (by in-universe chronology) half of the books, at least. The first half usually deals with the devastating [[TheWarOfEarthlyAggression First Galactic War]] involving the [[TheEmpire Earth Alliance]] attempting to forcibly subjugate the various [[LostColony Lost Colonies]] and relieve some pressure from the overpopulated Earth. At the end of the long and bloody conflict, Earth is defeated and isn't even included when the [[TheFederated Confederacy of Suns]] is formed, based on five of the most developed colonies. One of the later books deals with a SpaceMarine discovering that his uncle died while studying something on Earth and goes there to check it out. He arrives to find an overgrown planet with dried up oceans and only a few million people living on it. The surviving major monuments were moved to safer locations near the remaining cities.

* While Earth is important culturally to all humans in the ''Literature/LostFleet'' series, nobody has actually bothered to go there in about a century due to the more pressing war between the Alliance and the Syndicate Worlds. The reason for the importance is widespread religion that reveres ancestors. And which planet is the source of all ancestors? Even in Geary's time, a single warship was sent to Earth every year as part of a pilgrimage, but that's about it. So imagine everyone's surprise when the newly-discovered "spider-wolf" aliens ask to be taken to Earth before any negotiations take place. Why? [[spoiler:To lay a dead human sailor to rest in his ancestral home region of Colorado]].

* In Harry Harrison's ''Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat'' novels, humans are all over the galaxy and their origin has mostly been forgotten. When the Rat has to go back in time, they're not even sure of the name: "Dirt, or Earth, or something" and dubious of its claim to be the ancestral home of mankind.

** And Earth is a synonym for dirt to humans, too. DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment?

** In the first ''{{Foundation}}'' novel, it's mentioned that Sol 3 (read: us) is one of a few possible sites of the original home of humanity, but even that possibility is long forgotten by ''Foundation's Edge'', which is set 500 years later.

** Even some humans. Nova rips into Tony Stark for many of Earth's superheroes (some of whom have cosmic-level powers) having been totally wrapped up in what was, at the base, a bureaucratic dispute in the United States while he, entire civilizations, and cosmic entities including Galactus were fighting to save the entire ''universe''.

* ''Beneath the PlanetOfTheApes'' ends with the [[spoiler: Earth being destroyed by the Doomsday Bomb.]] The [[Creator/PaulFrees somber voiceover man]] says, [[spoiler: "In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe, lies a medium-sized star, and one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead."]]

* Initially, the Data Integration Entity almost completely ignored Earth. It's mostly "inhabited" by creatures who actually have to use physical matter to interact with each other, something at best, slightly intresting. But then one [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Haruhi Suzumiya]] showed evidence of being capable of "Auto-Evolution" and they had to start paying some real attention. They still don't really care about anyone else on the planet though. (Yuki Nagato doesn't count.)

-->And crawling, on the planet's face//
Some insects, called the Human Race//
Lost in time and lost in space//
And meaning//

* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''. Implied.

* Creator/HenrikWergeland`s ''Magnum Opus'', ''Literature/CreationManAndTheMessiah'' has two celestial spirits ponder the newly created earth, with one of them asking "are God present in this lump"? Wergeland defined God as a being who literally spawned new planets while ''walking through cosmos'' ("planets are in his footprints").

* Creator/HenrikWergeland`s ''Magnum Opus'', Literature/CreationManAndTheMessiah'' has two celestial spirits ponder the newly created earth, with one of them asking "are God present in this lump"? Wergeland defined God as a being who literally spawned new planets while ''walking through cosmos'' ("planets are in his footprints").

* With the definition of [[http://www.businessinsider.com/r-new-map-shows-milky-way-lives-in-laniakea-galaxy-complex-2014-9 Supercluster Laniakea]], this can be taken UpToEleven]] with the definition of an insignificant little ''galaxy''!

* OlderThanFeudalism: ''Literature/TheBible'' sometimes invokes this trope, at least in the New Testament. The heavens are the glorious abode of God and His angels, where everyone lives forever, where as Earth is a degenerate realm of dirt and sin where all who trod upon it are destined to die after a handful of miserable decades.

* The TropeNamer, ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''[[note]]The full quote is, "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy, lies a small, unregarded yellow Sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 93 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, whose ape-descended lifeforms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."[[/note]]: Earth's entire entry in the Guide is "Harmless". After 10 years of research, Ford Prefect has a revised entry to submit to the guide: "''Mostly'' harmless." Ford initially submitted a much longer, painstakingly detailed entry -- part of which later appears in ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'', to his considerable surprise -- but nobody considered Earth to be important enough to warrant better than two words. And in any case, the Vogons made it somewhat academic early on; [[EarthShatteringKaboom there's not much more you can really say about a smouldering heap of rubble]]. Of course, it turns out the Earth was rather more important than anyone except for the people who put the Vogons up to demolishing it were aware of. [[spoiler:It also wasn't strictly speaking a planet.]]

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* In ''LiloAndStitch'', Earth is considered quite insignificant, but is left alone by the aliens primarily because they have declared it a protected wildlife sanctuary. For ''mosquitoes.'' (Since humans are a major food source for mosquitoes, that means humans are also protected.) That was a bit of a diplomatic coup by the black ops division charged with dealing with aliens.
** The "diplomatic coup" portion at the end was a [[ThrowItIn last-minute decision]] by the writers when they realized they'd need a good reason for Cobra Bubbles not to be surprised at all the aliens. It also made a neat [[TheMenInBlack explanation]] for why a social worker would look like a Secret Service Agent.
* In ''TitanAE.'', the aliens don't particularly care that Earth got destroyed. Those that do treat the surviving humanity as scum, teetering at the edge of extinction. [[spoiler:This proves to be a DespairEventHorizon for Korso, but he gets better.]]
** The aliens didn't care, but the humans sure did. In fact, the entire movie is based around finding a device that can rebuild Earth.

* All series of the WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}} franchise make it quite clear that in the eyes of almost every alien species in the Universe, Earth is nothing but a backwater planet with lowly advanced beings as the dominant species. This sometimes reach some ridiculous proportions, such as the [[SpacePolice Plumbers]] [[PoliceAreUseless being reluctant to "waste" their resources on it if there is no apparent threat]], aliens repeatedly threatening to destroy it for silly reason at least once in each series (''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' had an alien threatening to destroy Earth ''[[DisproportionateRetribution because one of its inhabitants wouldn't marry his daughter]]''), and the list goes on. This is partially why the planet suddenly being a major strategic point to conquer the Universe in "Frogs of War" came up as an AssPull in the eyes of some fans.

* In the final season of ''Manga/SailorMoon'', the main villain Sailor Galaxia, regards the earth this way. To the point, it's the last place she has in the Galaxy that she hasn't destroyed yet, which is the only reason she even bothers. Obviously she is proven wrong when the Senshi of earth actually beat her.

* The TropeNamer, ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'': Earth's entire entry in the Guide is "Harmless". After 10 years of research, Ford Prefect has a revised entry to submit to the guide: "''Mostly'' harmless." Ford initially submitted a much longer, painstakingly detailed entry -- part of which later appears in ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'', to his considerable surprise -- but nobody considered Earth to be important enough to warrant better than two words. And in any case, the Vogons made it somewhat academic early on; [[EarthShatteringKaboom there's not much more you can really say about a smouldering heap of rubble]]. Of course, it turns out the Earth was rather more important than anyone except for the people who put the Vogons up to demolishing it were aware of. [[spoiler:It also wasn't strictly speaking a planet.]]
** It's worse than that: not only was the Earth insignificant, but it was located at the "[[OutdatedOutfit unfashionable]] end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy."