Humans in popular culture

Humans are popular around the world primarily for their upright, bipedal posture, humorous walk, and their (in comparison to other mammals) general lack of fear towards other animals. Their unique tendency to wear clothes looking like other animals leads to many jokes about them being Furries.
Penguins as figures in pop culture experienced a resurgence in the mid-2000s thanks to films like Epic Movie, Johnny English, Disaster Movie, and Meet the Spartans
Portrayals
Humans are generally depicted as selfish, loathsome creatures. In many films, such as An Inconvenient Truth, they are depicted as being very selfish, and destroying much of the rest of The World.
Humans and Aliens
Despite many claims to the contrary, humans and extraterrestrial life have not yet encountered each other in a natural habitat. Despite this, it remains a popular misconception in popular culture, such as in Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Frasier.
Literature
*Pondus the Penguin is the eponymous main character in a 1968 photographed Danish children's book by Ivar Myrhøj.
*The children's book Cheaper by the Dozen details a family of humans with 12 children.
*Three classic children's stories -Cinderella, ', and The Princess and the Peafeature humans as the main characters.
*Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer features Scott, Rick, and the boss, three humnans who accompany the narration with humorous ongoings.
*' by Stephenie Meyer
*Xkcd by Randall Munroe
* Jacob M. Appel's "Hazardous Cargoes," which won the New Millennium Writings Award in 2007, recounts a hapless effort by humans to convey a truckloads of penguins across the country.
Film
Feature films
* In the major animated sequence of the film, Mary Poppins, Mary and Bert are a jolly pair of humans who are served lunch by penguins.
*One of the main villains of the movie Batman Returns was the Penguin who, in the film, is a human. In this movie he also formed an army of penguins to attack Gotham City, which was inhabited by humans. Their equipment included back mounted rockets and laser eye sights. He also appears in The Batman vs Dracula: The Animated Movie and Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman.
*In the 2004 romantic comedy, 50 First Dates Adam Sandler's character is human.
*The movie Billy Madison featued a human played by Adam Sandler that was the nemesis of a penguin in the film.
Documentaries
*The documentary Super Size Me (2004) details a month in the life of a human who eats nothing but food from McDonald's

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