![]() One exception to this treatment happens when some non-humans, usually children, become pals with a human, again usually another child. Human culture is likely considered infectious and bad. Alien to the planet (despite being born of it, when they are native to it).Something akin to a Physical God, Sufficiently Advanced Alien or Eldritch Abomination, especially with how animals cannot comprehend Man's Technology/Magic.Always Chaotic Evil, or at least lethally careless in a Jerkass Gods/ The Gods Must Be Lazy way.To meet this trope, the non-humans must consider either individual (completely normal) humans or Man's civilization as a whole to be: Possibly the non-human society realizes that committing to major action against Man would risk breaking the Masquerade, crossing some sort of Moral Event Horizon, or is just plain suicidal. ![]() Whether it's born from survival instinct or cultural baggage, most will be reluctant at best to actively resist Man's activities, let alone be curious to know them, lest one would suffer in the most merciless manner at the hands of Man's Industrialized Evil. The non-human creatures will usually consider Man as Always Chaotic Evil, and treat it either with wary respect or an odd reverence as a divinity. If a story takes the point of view of animals or relatively weaker or more primitive non-humans, there'll be a Perspective Flip related to Clarke's Third Law where technologically-advanced, or, more rarely, magic-using humans shall be seen as unnaturally and nauseatingly inconceivable. Humanity isn't always on the apparently low end of the cosmic totem pole.
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