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** Even some humans. After ''ComicBook/{{Annihilation}}'' ComicBook/{{Nova}} rips into [[ComicBook/IronMan 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, [[ComicBook/CivilWar a bureaucratic dispute]] in the United States while he, entire civilizations, and cosmic entities including [[Characters/MarvelComicsGalactus Galactus]] were fighting to save the entire ''universe''.

* Although Earth is physically the approximate center of the terragen sphere in ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'', since expansion in any direction is limited by light speed, it isn't really very important any more. Ever since the Great Expulsion, only a tiny population of hippy rianths and other modosophonts live there, under the ongoing rule of the caretaker archailect GAIA, as she continues to restore Earth to its pre-human pristinity. Physically and politically, it's nothing more a wildlife reserve and an exclusive tourist destination, though it is remembered with some sentiment by terragens of all kinds as their original homeworld and one of the richest and most biologically diverse natural planets ever known.

* Despite a good number of its cast being from Earth, to the Space/Time Administration of ''Franchise/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' it's just "Non-Administrated World #97." Nobody looks down on earthlings, though, which somewhat both helps and hinders with its 'insignificance' status.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': 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 interesting. But then one Haruhi Suzumiya showed evidence of being capable of "[[RealityWarper Auto-Evolution]]" and they had to start paying some real attention. The agent they sent there (Yuki Nagato), does come to care about other beings on the planet, but her superiors still couldn't care less about anyone who isn't that specific Japanese teenager.

* In ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'', When the leaders of the human race caught wind of a plan to atomize Earth to find the [[MacGuffin Winslow]], they had a minor HeroicBSOD. Not because the Earth was destroyed, but because they realized that humanity had expanded so much as a species that their homeworld had become expendable.

* In Creator/AlastairReynolds ''[[Literature/RevelationSpaceSeries Revelation Space]]'' series, Earth is only mentioned a handful of times and none of the characters ever go there. Much of the plot takes place around the planet Yellowstone.
* In ''Literature/RogueStar'', Earth is Andy Quamodian's home, but as far as most of the people he knows and works with are concerned, it's "Planet 3, Star 7718, Sector Z-989-Q, Galaxy 5".

** They've also been so far the only world with a significant amount (or at least known) magic users. The Guardians of Oa were also responsible as they gathered a majority of the magic in the universe and sealed it on Earth, viewing magic as very dangerous.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' when they first meet the Terrans think EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse and the Vilani think that Earth is an Insignificant Little Blue Planet. After they spend two hundred years arguing the point it is finally agreed that EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse because after all [[HumansAreWarriors Terrans are warriors]], and AsskickingEqualsAuthority.

* This is pretty much ''what'' attracted the [[DittoAliens Pict]] in ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers: [[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.]]

** Subverted with Beerus the God of Destruction and Whis who like the planet for the food and the WorthyOpponent in Goku and Vegeta. In ''Dragon Ball Super'', [[spoiler:Champa wants Earth for the food and wants to make a 5-on-5 tournament in owning it because his own Universe 6's Earth was ravaged by war]]. Basically, food pretty much makes Earth important enough to be spared! Further subverted when Whis makes an observation that those who interact with Earth and its native inhabitants have a tendency to end up changed by the experience... something which has even happened to Beerus, which is highly unusual.

* 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 even then 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 even then 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

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4445937/1/The-Gift The Gift]]'': After [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji and company]] defeat {{God}}, thereby freeing their universe from God's interference, the demons of Hell largely ignore Earth. Sure, some of them stop by from time to time (mostly as a vacation), but they have an entire ''universe'' to use.

** Which of course they proceed to make even worse by [[spoiler:crashing a military starship into the surface]]. Granted, they did so to kill the Xenomorphs, but still...

* In the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', the Andalites basically view Earth this way, as they ''continually'' refuse to send aid against the Yeerk invasion. It's the [[PuppeteerParasite Yeerks]], actually, who realize that HumansAreSpecial… in that they make the ''perfect'' race to be conquered. And even then, that's purely due to our high population, as while human beings make better hosts than the Taxxons and the Gedds, most Yeerks would sooner have a Hork-Bajir or (far better) an Andalite to ride around in.

* Creator/OlegDivov's ''Literature/BrothersInReason'': After the events of ''Steel Heart'', Timofey Kostenko contacted some aliens and moved to their planet (he has a family there now). He still comes back every year or so. At first, it was a necessary part of his adaptation treatment. Then, it's mostly to satisfy his feelings of nostalgia and to visit the grave of his dead {{Love Interest|s}}. He explains to Igor Volkov that aliens view Earth as a garbage dump and turn their noses when passing it. Even for Timofey it's implied to be the last time he decides to visit his home planet, especially since he has just betrayed a childhood friend of his. On the other hand, not everyone has the luxury of being an extremely-powerful [[PsychicPowers psychic]] who can call aliens to him. Of course, the events of the novel do show that [[HumansAreBastards Timofey may be right]].

** Wergeland defined God as a being who literally spawned new planets while ''walking through cosmos'' ("planets are in his footprints").

* [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks]] has ''Literature/TheCulture'' roaming the galaxy in the 12th Century, and they're not the only ones. They don't know about Earth until one of their ships visits in 1977, and even then they decide [[YouAreNotReady not to contact us]]. Though ''Consider Phlebas'' has an appendix which calls itself part of a "Contact-approved Earth Extro-Information Pack" made in 2110, so presumably they came back by then. Dammit.

* 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 [[TheFederation 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.

* In Creator/VladimirVasilyev's ''Literature/WolfishNature'' duology, the wolves explain that the galactic races view Earth in this manner. The fact that it's located far from any possible strategic location also means that most aliens don't bother coming there. The wolves' leader points out that the only thing that TheEmpire may find of interest on Earth is the [[AlternateHistory dog-humans]]' [[AlternateTechline bio-]][[OrganicTechnology technology]], and even that is child's play compared to the Empire's tech level. The only time any alien was interested on Earth was 400 years ago, when they abducted a Medieval clan to [[HumansAreWarriors serve as their mercenaries]].

* The new ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' (and the old one for that matter) centers around a journey across the cosmos to find the legendary planet known as "Earth". Earth is built up to almost mythical status over the course of the series partly due to the fact that perfect habitable planets are [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale few and far between in the BSG universe]] (never mind that the series starts out in a set of four solar systems where there are, collectively '''[[ArcNumber 12]]''' of 'em) and every almost-Earth-but-not-quite planet turns out to be a CrapSackWorld. When they finally find Earth [[spoiler:it turns out to be just another CrapSackWorld, the original inhabitants having annihilated themselves millennia ago. After a period of much despair, the survivors happen upon a perfectly habitable planet due to angelic intervention seemingly sent by God, when they decide to cut their loses and settle on and dub it "Earth" just for the sake of saying they made it to Earth. That random planet turns out to be our Earth]].

* The theme of an entire season of ''Series/{{Lexx}}''... beginning with the episode "Little Blue Planet". Subverted; Earth is apparently insignificant to the main characters, who find it to be incredibly backwater largely because the technology level requires a giant rocket ship just to reach the moon (compared to their ''moth shuttles that flap wings'' and have tiny jets for vacuum travel) and also because the society they come from is so ridiculously different that they can't comprehend Earth cultures at all. However, in the series' cosmology, Earth is actually important; it's the last refuge [[spoiler: for the dead, and the final wall of {{Satan}}'s prison, after the Lexx [[ItMakesSenseInContext blows up the Afterlife]]]].

** Regardless, this is also defied in The Bible and Literature/TheQuran as despite Earth being insignificant to heaven, God still made Himself known to his creation and sent Prophets and Angels to deliver His word so that we may truly follow Him and ascend to paradise ourselves. In fact, while some have posited that it would be ridiculous for God to care about a tiny blue planet if He truly was the master of all reality, believers retort that God's omnipresence ''necessitates'' Him to care about not just Earth but ''every'' insignificant part of creation, which is also a sign of His omnibenevolence.

* In the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' module "The Immortal Storm" (from ''way'' back in 1986, the first module to use Immortal Rules) the players' goal is to collect essences of Sight, Sound, Touch, Taste, and Smell, traveling to five exotic locales among the universe for each. Or rather, ''four'' exotic locales, and a facsimile of Earth, which is described as "a dirty, primitive society" where no magic is usable. In fact, it's pretty much unknown; the natives in this version of Earth don't even have fantasy literature, but science fiction is popular, given their focus on technology. It's also something of AWorldHalfFull where "countries pursue an expensive nuclear hobby, spending vast sums on the creation of atomic weapons, but never using them, all the while ignoring widespread needs of the people, such as food, shelter, the arts, and so forth." This is supposed to challenge the players, by giving them a place where most of their methods just don't work, but it wasn't exactly well-received. (The players are Immortal, Epic Level heroes, and it's rather undignified for such characters to negotiate with street gangs.)

* In the ''VideoGame/StarControl'' series of games, Earth is just one of several planets that have banded together to fight the Ur-Quan. By the time of ''Star Control 2'', Earth finds itself defeated and enslaved along with the rest of its allies. Freeing it may be a big deal to the player (as it's his ''[[DoomedHometown home]]''[[note]] But not the ''protagonist's'', as he was from Vela[[/note]] and all), but ultimately nothing makes its liberation any more important that that of dozens of other planets the Ur-Quan have conquered. In fact, to win the game, other worlds must get priority to free up stocks of LostTechnology to use against the Ur-Quan. Though in terms of ''[[GameplayAndStorySegregation gameplay]]'', the trope is averted. Unless you're doing a [[SelfImposedChallenge no-starbase run]] of the game, Earth's space station is the only place to upgrade your ship, buy new ships (though you can find some elsewhere), get a special escape ability that allows you to run from combat. Basically, in a normal playthrough, you will come back there a lot and often.

* ''TabletopGame/TechInfantry'', especially in later seasons, when Earth has been devastated by an asteroid strike, abandoned, partially re-colonized by rebels against the now inaccurately-named Earth Federation, then effectively destroyed. Mars and the asteroid belt remain important industrial centers, but Earth is a burnt-out cinder whose top several miles of crust melted to magma when the Moon was blown up and the fragments rained down over several years. The Earth Federation moves its capital to the garden planet of Avalon, then to Wilke's Star, and pretty much never looks back.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', Hekapoo refers to Earth as a "stinky dirt rock". More to the point, the show's plot is even kickstarted by this trope: Star was originally sent by her parents to Earth because it was considered ''expendable''; if she caused devastation there with her [[IneptMage uncontrolled magic]] that had a tendency to [[PlayingWithFire set things on fire]] even when she wasn't trying to and even if the objects weren't actually flammable... well, better Earth than their own planet.

* The general view of Earth in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' by many of the Autobots and Decepticons is that Earth is a puny, primitive backwater filled with filthy, disgusting organics, and if the All Spark didn't crash here, no Cybertronian would ever admit going there. There are some exceptions (for instance, Jazz thinks any planet that could design his adopted funky vehicle alt-mode couldn't be all bad and Prowl is a FriendToAllLivingThings, from bugs to cats to trees, and Earth is absolutely ''teeming''). This is in stark contrast with pretty much every other continuity, with Earth either being a resource powerhouse, a prison for stranded factions, or housing a MacGuffin worth landing armies on (or sometimes a combination of at least two of the three).

* Dante's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': In ''Paradisio'', he makes this observation in Canto 22 after entering the Eighth Sphere of Heaven:

* In ''Saturn versus Earth'', Earth has ''nothing'' the Saturnian wants, and the war starts only because Earth better ''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 even then 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]].

** It's inconsistent in the main series. You'd get that impression most of the time (and maybe the common people on the streets don't know) but information about Old Earth is mentioned in [[Literature/{{Dune}} the appendices]] as being the place where the Ecumenical Council created the Orange Catholic Bible, and Paul mentions it in [[Literature/DuneMessiah the sequel]] (though his information is garbled through thousands of years).
*** This is mercilessly {{retcon}}ned in [[Literature/GreatSchoolsOfDune more prequel novels]] as happened ''after'' the Butlerian Jihad, being met with a ''huge'' public outcry, as it basically told people of various faiths: "here, read and follow this book; forget all this other crap". The Commission of Ecumenical Translators was nearly lynched by the mobs, only protected by Emperor Jules Corrino's decree. That is until one of their number was caught possibly raping the Empress. Cue public beheadings.
** The ''Literature/DuneEncyclopedia'' has 'Terra' as stricken by a 'plantoid'. It is however re-seeded and set aside as a park by imperial edict.

* ''Literature/SpaceAcademyDropouts'' by Creator/CTPhipps has Earth as a minor power in the Community and not even the most advanced ''human'' planet due to TransplantedHumans. Earth has only been space-faring for two hundred years or so and much of its efforts are to try to build up its military and technological forces to galactic standard. It's sadly DoomedByCanon since the ''Literature/LucifersStar'' series says Earth is eventually destroyed centuries later with her colonies carrying on.

* The primary motive of the Terran Cult in ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'' revolves around this trope. At one time Earth was the center of a massive colonial empire that spanned a significant portion of the galaxy. However, Earth began to brutally exploit and repress the people of its colonies, which led to a bloody revolution. The colonies barely scraped by with a victory and Earth was left a hollow shell of its former self, becoming less and less significant as time passed by. The Terran Cult's plan is to use organized religion and terrorist actions in order to manipulate politics and history so that Earth is made the center of the Universe once again.

* ''Literature/SpaceAcademyDropouts'' by Creator/CTPhipps has Earth as a minor power in the Community and not even the most advanced ''human'' planet due to TransplantedHumans. Earth has only been space-faring for two hundred years or so and much of its efforts are to try to build up its military and technological forces to galactic standard. Its sadly, DoomedByCanon since the ''Literature/LucifersStar'' series says Earth is eventually destroyed centuries later with her colonies carrying on.

* In ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'', [[spoiler:the aliens that save Earth from another alien race say this, along with the fact that human life is meaningless. Destruction of life is simply "matter being reshaped."]] Even when the humans try to point out that [[spoiler:it must have some importance [[ShutUpHannibal considering that they themselves took a vested interest in Earth]] and saved it from destruction]], it simply says not to read too much into it.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': 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 interesting. But then one 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.)

* In the final season of ''Anime/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.
* In ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'', Earth is just an insignificant [unaware] colony/territory of Jurai, the ''actual'' center of the universe in importance. Earth is only ever actually relevant to the overall story at all because the Jurian Emperor got one of his wives here, and her son lay low here for a few hundred years.

* In ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'' [[spoiler:the aliens that save Earth from another alien race say this, along with the fact that human life is meaningless. Destruction of life is simply 'matter being reshaped.' Even when the humans try to [[ShutUpHannibal point out that the alien took a vested interest in Earth]],]] it simply says not to read too much into it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/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 by the aliens. It also made a neat [[TheMenInBlack explanation]] for why a social worker would look like a Secret Service Agent.

** ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': Our entire ''universe'' is not really significant and little, compared with all the others in the Wood Between The Worlds. Very little of the action takes place in our universe--most takes place in Narnia. And [[strike:Heaven]] Aslan's Country has this effect on ''any'' universe, seeing as it contains perfect versions of all of them.

* 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, and the only interesting part about it is [[TheHero Ben Tennyson]] living on it. This sometimes reaches 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 a 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. Then again, it's probably a strategic point ''because'' of Ben Tennyson. By that episode, he has saved the universe several times (once even ''recreating'' it) and fought off massive invasions, conquerors (especially Vilgax) and even played a part in defeating an EldritchAbomination. Targeting him and his world is a pretty wise move (not to mention the Incursians ''love'' war so they don't need a reason as much as an ''excuse.'')

* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': The conqueror Irkens, bent on taking over the entire galaxy, don't even know Earth exists. There's just a sticky note stuck to the edge of their vast map of the galaxy that reads "Planet?" in its place. Zim only ends up there because his leaders wanted to send the annoying, persistent eponymous character on a cosmic SnipeHunt, and when they do discover Earth exists, they naturally have zero interest in conquering the place because that would mean having to acknowledge Zim's existence. The one episode where it does seem they're planning a full-scale invasion [[spoiler:turns out to be Dib in a LotusEaterMachine]]. This is further highlighted when [[EnsembleDarkhorse Tak]] tries to conquer the Earth instead of Zim, specifically noting that it has no strategical value. However, since the point is more about retribution against Zim than anything, she just decides to ''make'' the planet valuable, hollowing it out and filling it with snacks the Almighty Tallests would like.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', Hekapoo refers to Earth as a "stinky dirt rock". And Star herself was originally sent by her parents to Earth because it was considered expendable; if she caused devastation there with her [[IneptMage uncontrolled magic]] that had a tendency to [[PlayingWithFire set things on fire]] even when she wasn't trying to and even if the objects weren't actually flammable... well, better Earth than their own planet.

* The general view of Earth in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' by many of the Autobots and Decepticons is that Earth is a puny, primitive backwater filled with filthy, disgusting organics, and if the All Spark didn't crash here, no Cybertronian would ever admit going there. There are some exceptions (for instance, Jazz thinks any planet that could design his adopted funky vehicle alt-mode couldn't be all bad and Prowl is a FriendToAllLivingThings, from bugs to cats to tree, and Earth is absolutely ''teeming''). Pretty much every other continuity averts this, with Earth either being a resource powerhouse, a prison for stranded factions, or housing a MacGuffin worth landing armies on (or sometimes a combination of at least two of the three).

* Literature/TheBible:
** 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 tread upon it are destined to die after a handful of miserable decades.
** The Christian view of geocentrism was quite the opposite of how we think of it today. To a 12th Century cleric, the geocentric model placed the other bodies ''above'' the Earth, making us the dumping ground of the universe.

* Numerous members of the Franchise/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.

* In ''Saturn versus Earth'', Earth has ''nothing'' the Saturnian wants, and the war starts only because Earth better ''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 vindicative streak and, after his death, the need for his potential successors to prove themselves worthy by succeeding where he failed, and even then 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'' - [[PragmaticVillain after all, Earth has nothing Saturn wants or needs and the war already cost too many lives]].

*** This is mercilessly {{RetCon}}ned in [[Literature/GreatSchoolsOfDune more prequel novels]] as happened ''after'' the Butlerian Jihad, being met with a ''huge'' public outcry, as it basically told people of various faiths: "here, read and follow this book; forget all this other crap". The Commission of Ecumenical Translators was nearly lynched by the mobs, only protected by Emperor Jules Corrino's decree. That is until one of their number was caught possibly raping the Empress. Cue public beheadings.

* In WesternAnimation/StarchaserTheLegendOfOrin, [[BigBad Zygon]] makes an allusion to Earth but doesn't mention it by name.
--> '''Zygon:''' "Thousands of years ago, on some obscure planet, a primitive chess computer was the first inorganic mind to beat man."

* ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'': Has Earth treated as this even by the titular character's superior officer and her colleagues, who describe it as a "nondescript, who-cares place" and dismiss most Earthlings as being hopelessly dumb creatures. Most aliens aren't even aware it exists, including [[BigBad Maximus]], which makes his goal of identifying, finding, and destroying the homeworld of this archnemesis quite difficult. In one episode, he almost destroys it by accident, picking a random planet to test a DoomsdayDevice on; when he finally does learn Betty's home planet is Earth, it doesn't take much effort to quickly convince him otherwise, with the characters hammering home how such a backwater location couldn't possibly be the home of one of the galaxy's greatest heroes. Earth's status as this is also why Galactic Guardian HQ is moved there that same season after the original location is destroyed, as no one would expect such an important organization to operate there.

Earth? That old dirtball? Who cares about that boring, useless planet crawling with its [[HumansAreMorons clueless]] lifeforms?

The opposite of EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse. Seems, if not the above, the main action is set on another civilized planet, and Earth is either radioactive, lost, forgotten, generally meaningless, or outright nonexistent in the setting of the work. It's not on any cosmic EvilOverlord's [[TakeOverTheWorld Take Over]] list, nor is it covered in any Milky Way Geography classes.

If the people on Earth think they're the [[EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse center of the universe]], but everyone else thinks they are just an Insignificant Little Blue Planet, then you can probably expect some sort of [[DuringTheWar conflict]] over this or, at least, a few words about [[HumansAreMorons how stupid humans are]] for thinking that way.

** Most of the aliens and gods in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' have this view of Earth. It was more or less said in ''Dragon Ball Minus'' (by the aforementioned Jaco, who even considered ''the annihilation of earthlings'') and ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'' that Frieza would have no interest in Earth, and King Cold is famous for calling it (in the Funimation dub) an insignificant mudball.

** In another strip, Calvin is looking at the stars with Hobbes and talks about how small and insignificant Earth is in the universe... then says: [[MoodWhiplash "I wonder what's on TV now?"]].

* In ''Saturn versus Earth'', Earth has ''nothing'' the Saturnian wants, and the war starts only because Earth better ''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 vindicative streak and, after his death, the need for his potential successors to prove themselves worthy by succeeding where he failed, and even then it's so insignificant that [[spoiler:Tundro, Rebo's secret son]], is able take over Saturn while ''openly admitting he plans to make peace'' - [[PragmaticVillain after all, Earth has nothing Saturn wants or needs and the war already cost too many lives]].

* In ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'', the aliens stationed on our [[AfterTheEnd post apocalyptic]] planet hate it because it's boring, small and the gravity's too low. They use any humans they can catch as slave labor but the captain of the settlement says that he would much rather use dogs. At first he saw them as more useful, but they lack the appendages needed for certain jobs. Most of the aliens are convinced that humans have no language and are too stupid to learn whatever the aliens speak in. [[spoiler:The blow is softened a little when a man does learn the alien language and the captain enjoys explaining to him how it only took his ancestors 15 minutes to destroy all human civilization after finding Earth. Softened in that even though humanity's last stand was pathetic, he purposely wanted his staff not to know humans had some intelligence.]] Even the defense wasn't that pathetic; they teleported in a massive number of gas weapons in a move no race had survived in three universes of conquests.

* Discussed in ''Film/HellraiserBloodline'' when Pinhead says that the insignificant creatures that walk the Earth only look to the light and are oblivious to the untold darkness beyond. He's delighted to see it reduced to a world of suffering and death when he takes over.

* In Gene Wolfe's ''Literature/BookOfTheNewSun'', Earth is an insignificant backwater planet that isn't even regularly visited by ships anymore. Since there's virtually no trade, society has degenerated into a near feudal state, with armies using a mix of medieval weaponry and the vanishingly few higher tech weapons. Even the Moon is considered more significant than Earth.

** ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': Our entire ''universe'' is insignificant and little, compared with all the others in the Wood Between The Worlds. Very little of the action takes place in our universe--most takes place in Narnia. And [[strike:Heaven]] Aslan's Country has this effect on ''any'' universe, seeing as it contains perfect versions of all of them.

* The theme of an entire season of ''Series/{{Lexx}}''... beginning with the episode "Little Blue Planet". Subverted; Earth is insignificant to the main characters, who find it to be incredibly backwater largely because the technology level requires a giant rocket ship just to reach the moon (compared to their ''moth shuttles that flap wings'' and have tiny jets for vacuum travel) and also because the society they come from is so ridiculously different that they can't comprehend Earth cultures at all. However, in the series' cosmology, Earth is actually important; it's the last refuge [[spoiler: for the dead, and the final wall of {{Satan}}'s prison, after the Lexx [[ItMakesSenseInContext blows up the Afterlife]]]].