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** This trope [[DownplayedTrope isn't exactly in play]], but every major supernatural power is well aware that civilization has put the framework for a strong Type 2 well in place. Hence, despite all of the bickering and rivalries, there's a tacit agreement to keep humanity [[{{Masquerade}} ignorant of their collective existence]] for fear [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction of the consequences to all parties involved]]. Harry once made the comparison that regular humans are the nuclear option of the supernatural world; when two scary guys duke it out where the public can see them, even if one is on their side, regular people would burn the both of them at the stake to be able to sleep at night.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': Monarch seeks to achieve a completely benevolent Option I with the [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]] by building a human-controlled HumongousMecha, [[spoiler:Kiryu MK I]], so they can contribute meaningfully to Godzilla and the benevolent Titans' future [[BehemothBattle battles]] against hostile monsters. [[spoiler:However, Monarch's collaborators on the project, [[EvilInc Apex Cybernetics]], are implicitly interested in a much more sinister form of this trope per their canon plan]].

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': Monarch seeks to achieve a completely benevolent Option I in regard to the [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]], by building [[spoiler:Kiryu MK I]] as a human-piloted artificial Titan so they can contribute meaningfully to Godzilla and the benevolent Titans' future {{Behemoth Battle}}s. However, [[spoiler:Monarch's collaborators, [[EvilInc Apex Cybernetics]],]] are implicitly interested in a much more sinister form of this trope.

* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': This is [[Characters/MonsterVerseHumans Apex Cybernetics]]' justification for creating Mechagodzilla. Their CEO does not trust Godzilla at all, and believes humanity should retake its place as the sole dominant species by usurping Godzilla and thereby dominating all the other Titans (specifically, Simmons wants to ''himself'' be the one credited with making that way to fight back). Apex have a bit of both Options 1 and 2: they want to kill Godzilla (and implicitly any other Titan that they deem a threat) and replace Godzilla as the Alpha Titan with a HumongousMecha deliberately made in Godzilla's image, dominating any Titan they want to via the same BehemothBattle method that the Titans use to settle disputes among themselves.

** ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasqueradeFifthEdition'' has brought this conflict to the forefront, with human intelligence agencies learning about vampires after discovering the Vampire internet network and starting the Second Inquisition to hunt down the creatures of the night in a secret war.

''Series/StarTrekPicard'' portrays the one on-screen geneticist, Adam Soong, as an absolutely horrible person with fascistic attitudes and implies that other geneticists were much the same, giving a reason such attitudes would survive to the days of the otherwise-progressive Federation[[note]]the only other mainstreamed bigotry is towards Romulans, who united the founding members of the Federation against them in a failed attempt to tear them apart, and Cardassians, whose government for much of their on-screen tenure is a far-right military junta[[/note]] and suggesting this is why it went so wrong for humanity but not the Denobulans or [[Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds Illyrians]].

** In the backstory, the Eugenic Wars between genetically engineered and other humans lead to genetic augmentation becoming a forbidden technique. They apparently got over this in later years; genetic modification for mundane purposes (correcting congenital defects, for example) is perfectly okay, but physical and mental augmentation is still illegal. In ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', we find out that part of the problem is that the Augment process seems to create musclebound sociopaths. We also discover that the Denobulans used the technology without problems. ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' portrays the one on-screen geneticist, Adam Soong, as an absolutely horrible person with fascistic attitudes and implies that other geneticists were much the same, giving a reason such attitudes would survive to the days of the otherwise-progressive Federation[[note]]the only other mainstreamed bigotry is towards Romulans, who united the founding members of the Federation against them in a failed attempt to tear them apart, and Cardassians, whose government for much of their on-screen tenure is a far-right military junta[[/note]] and suggesting this is why it went so wrong for humanity but not the Denobulans or [[Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds Illyrians]].

** In the backstory, the Eugenic Wars between genetically engineered and other humans lead to genetic augmentation becoming a forbidden technique. They apparently got over this in later years; genetic modification for mundane purposes (correcting congenital defects, for example) is perfectly okay, but physical and mental augmentation is still illegal. In ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', we find out that part of the problem is that the Augment process seems to create musclebound sociopaths. We also discover that the Denobulans used the technology without problems. ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' portrays the one on-screen geneticist, Adam Soong, as an absolutely horrible person and implies that other geneticists were much the same, giving a reason such attitudes would survive to the days of the otherwise-progressive Federation[[note]]the only other mainstreamed bigotry is towards Romulans, who united the founding members of the Federation against them in a failed attempt to tear them apart, and Cardassians, whose government for much of their on-screen tenure is a far-right military junta[[/note]] and suggesting this is why it went so wrong for humanity but not the the Denobulans or [[Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds Illyrians]].