Humans Are Warriors/Playing With

Basic Trope: Humanity's hat is war and conquest.

• Straight: Humans as a whole fight more than other races and usually wins.
• Downplayed: Every species fights, but humans are better at it.
• Exaggerated: Every human gets into a brawl at the slightest provocation no matter who they're facing.
• Justified: Humans have been killing each other for thousands if not millions of years.
  • Organized aggression is a survival instinct needed for Securing Food and purging predators. It is not inevitable for humans to fight each other but humans have always been warriors in a sense and always will be.
• Inverted: Humans Are Diplomats
• Subverted: Humans are fighting a war against an alien race, but try to establish peace talks.
• Double Subverted: ...Only to unleash a surprise attack on the unsuspecting enemy.
• Parodied: A group of aliens are making a reality show, and in order to ensure a proper amount of conflict, turn to the most violent species they know... humans.
• Deconstructed: Humans' violent tendencies make other races avoid them, refusing all trade agreements with humans. Humanity's economy collapses.
  • The Humans are Genre Savvy enough to realize this trope and pretty soon they start a war of conquest through the universe, leaving much death and destruction behind them.
• Reconstructed: The other races have respect for humans' resolve and battle prowess and know that it's much better to have humanity as a friend than an enemy.
• Zig Zagged: At first, it seems that all humans do is fight with other races. But then, we see that those humans are actually a band of outcasts; the rest of humanity are pacifists. Unfortunately, the entirety of the pacifists are killed off, meaning that the warring humans are the only humans left.
• Averted: Humans are not particularly violent.
• Enforced: "How can we make humans Badass?" "Let's make them always want to kick ass!!!"
• Lampshaded: "Now, as ambassador of the Klingon-I mean, Human Federation..."
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: An alien species has monitored humanity's broadcasts and suspects them to be warlike, so they enlist the humans in fighting a war for them.
• Defied: "Not all humans want to fight.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: Uh-Oh, the aliens declared war on Earth. They're in trouble now.
• Played For Laughs: Although belligerent, human technology is so laughable that they come across as overeager kids rather than bloodthirsty warriors.
  • Humans hire out as an interstellar version of professional wrestlers and mesmerize aliens with theatrical violence-porn while making no real attempt to harm each other.
• Played For Drama: The humans' war-mongering ways cause the other races to gang up against humanity, attempting to wipe all humans out once and for all.
  • Humanity's war-mongering ways cause all the other races to gang up against humanity, and humanity wins out through genocide.

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