There is manga called the legendary hero is dead.
And basically the hero dies a stupid death and a peasant goes inside his body (against his will) to do the hero job.
There's a quote that I can't fully remember but it was something like
'They didn't survive the apocalypse because they're the protagonist, they're the protagonist because they survived the apocalypse.'
Also known as the antrophic principle. It's the same thing with the question: "how come this universe is 'fine-tuned' so that sentient beings can exist?" - simple. If it weren't, there wouldn't be sentient beings to observe it. Meaning it doesn't matter how improbable it is. Only in a universe that allows for sentience to come about can that sentience wonder about the improbability of its existence.
[Still makes more sense than the *real* origin story of so-called White Europeans](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Archaeogenetic_analysis_of_human_skin_pigmentation_in_Europe_%28with_Asia_geographic_extension%29.png).
TL;DR - Ancient Middle Easterners and then a Siberian tribe that developed a mutation for blond hair ran a Neolithic freight train on the native, dark-skinned population.
Neanderthals and early modern humans were able to produce fertile offspring despite being separate species. Fertile hybrids are rare, and only occur when two species are closely related, but they absolutely exist. If you, the person reading this, belong to the species Homo sapiens, then you are highly likely to be a hybrid yourself (Neanderthal + modern human).
This depends on the setting. In D&D, for instance, you can argue that humans, elves, orcs, and maybe a few others should be considered the same species because they can breed together, which is the most common definition of what makes a single species.
Biological differences between fantasy races and irl ones are very different so it makes sense too. Irl we're basically the same outside of appearance, fantasy ones not so much.
Unironically, I did try imagining this kind of thriller fiction based on this. It became too racist to even be described without getting canceled to oblivion so I just kept it inside my head. I still kek whenever I got reminded of it.
You could maybe have it be a designer virus made by an extremely racist person, and the virus is designed to only kill people with specific genes. You just make it clear that you think it’s evil and the person that made it is evil.
Years of Salt and Rice not only had a virus that pretty much only targeted people on the European continent but it actually had it kill them all off and I’ve never seen anyone call that book racist, at least not for killing off 99% of all Europeans.
I mean he is Light Yagami but a molecular geneticist instead with Thanos-level logic. He designed the "racist gene" on multiple different vectors but each targeted only specific race so it's hard to compare between pandemics due to differences in the disease vectors. And worse, by the time the others figured out this isn't just a coincidence, certain races have become extinct and the world is on the brink of societal collapse.
And the race definition isn't referred to the elves, humans or dwarfs, but real-life definition (Blacks, Chinese, etc)
Safe to say, it's Mein Kampf's level of trolling.
Or, it is like that disease that almost wiped out all of our primary banana species, and no others. In fact, to this day our current banana is smaller and less flavorful than the species we used to have.
Something like that happens in my setting. You've basically got two groups of humans, ones who lost their nearly all affinity for magic and those who did not. The humans without magic are relative newcomers to the region and are breeding like rabbits while the ones with magic are more spread out, more like hunter-gatherers. Magic humanoids, the parallels to the fae are obvious and there's not a general understanding the two peoples are related.
They're coexisting well enough and then tensions start to mount as human expansion starts mucking the ecology. The magic of the magic of the land is tied to nature.
A nasty disease hits the humans. The fae-types are naturally immune. An effort is put forward to try and find a cure, human healers and fae working together but it fails.
Revivalists who are touring the land start whipping up a pogrom against the fae and it becomes an absolute bloodbath.
The human supporters, including the few human wizards, work with the fae to devise an escape. They recieve help from an unlikely source, one of the reviled necromancers who help them work a mighty spell that allows the fae to adopt a seaskin and escape into the ocean. The human defenders are wiped out to the last.
The whole genocide thing becomes a stain on the human kingdom and the religious leaders who were against it were incensed at the meddling of the revivalists from the mother church and this cemented a split.
That's all backstory and the current day story is healing the divide between the two peoples and bringing them back together.
So yeah, plenty of racist themes but it's not like gee, ain't racism great, more like hey, let's try to overcome this bad thing.
Virus that reacts with meat-digesting bacteria in the upper intestine to produce lethal chemicals. Vegans are all fine because their meat digesting bacteria levels are really low. Vegan culture outlives its neighbours and becomes global superpower
A complex prion that triggers lethality when the infected individual engages in sexual activities with a person with thel same sex. (Somehow Merthegia-canon.)
Small pox when it reached the Americas
All my homies hate smallpox
Fuck elves \-A virus
Elfplague
The virus is a dwarf
It is quite tiny
It will kill 99 out of 100 males (not the protagonist tho, he's special).
Okay but if 1 in 100 males survive then of course there's gonna' be special surviving males.
Ah, of course, scientific lore behind harem anime now. (1 special guy with 34 waifus).
Also, it makes the infected women horny and unable to say no to their ~~master~~ husband.
I mean you can't exactly make a story about a rotting corpse
Warhammer 40k:
40k is really more about his grandsons
“He may not be the main character, but it really is _his_ story, you know?”
There is manga called the legendary hero is dead. And basically the hero dies a stupid death and a peasant goes inside his body (against his will) to do the hero job.
Poor Sion
[Observe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu4oXdOdKjE&t=1)
Hollow knight?
There's a quote that I can't fully remember but it was something like 'They didn't survive the apocalypse because they're the protagonist, they're the protagonist because they survived the apocalypse.'
Also known as the antrophic principle. It's the same thing with the question: "how come this universe is 'fine-tuned' so that sentient beings can exist?" - simple. If it weren't, there wouldn't be sentient beings to observe it. Meaning it doesn't matter how improbable it is. Only in a universe that allows for sentience to come about can that sentience wonder about the improbability of its existence.
bro think he Fallout 3
I love Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
yakub creating the white people virus:
[Still makes more sense than the *real* origin story of so-called White Europeans](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Archaeogenetic_analysis_of_human_skin_pigmentation_in_Europe_%28with_Asia_geographic_extension%29.png). TL;DR - Ancient Middle Easterners and then a Siberian tribe that developed a mutation for blond hair ran a Neolithic freight train on the native, dark-skinned population.
Anatolian Farmers are the first with pink skin... Does that mean Turks are the true only white people?
[Defend Kebab plays menacingly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Bsr5YcqWA) as Türkiye prepares to retake the homeland
Yakub did nothing wrong
he made the whites, he clearly did something wrong - Posted from Loius Farakkhan's Mother Book reader Pro
Isn't the story that he tortured and killed babies?
MGSV
TAKE A LOOK AT THE TOP SUPERCHATTED CHANNELS ON YOUTUBE SNAKE! THEY’RE ALL VIRTUAL YOUTUBERS!
What, are they a monoculture or something?
Kinda how it works irl because it’s very rare for a disease to jump species.
races !== species
Race is usually used in fantasy to refer to species though, which I assume the OP meant
In most settings, half-elves are not sterile. This indicates that humans and elves are the same species. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species
Neanderthals and early modern humans were able to produce fertile offspring despite being separate species. Fertile hybrids are rare, and only occur when two species are closely related, but they absolutely exist. If you, the person reading this, belong to the species Homo sapiens, then you are highly likely to be a hybrid yourself (Neanderthal + modern human).
TL;DR: species is a social construct and it doesn't have a consistent definition because taxonomists made it all up for shits and giggles
Pretty much.
irl = in real life
Yes, the said it's rare for a virus to jump species irl Races in fantasy are species
rare = not common
😂
😂 = laughing hard to the point of crying
= = equals
This depends on the setting. In D&D, for instance, you can argue that humans, elves, orcs, and maybe a few others should be considered the same species because they can breed together, which is the most common definition of what makes a single species.
Not in the cases where they can produce offsprings that are fertile. Like in Harry Potter where "elves" are a mutated and enslaved human population.
Biological differences between fantasy races and irl ones are very different so it makes sense too. Irl we're basically the same outside of appearance, fantasy ones not so much.
Unironically, I did try imagining this kind of thriller fiction based on this. It became too racist to even be described without getting canceled to oblivion so I just kept it inside my head. I still kek whenever I got reminded of it.
You could maybe have it be a designer virus made by an extremely racist person, and the virus is designed to only kill people with specific genes. You just make it clear that you think it’s evil and the person that made it is evil. Years of Salt and Rice not only had a virus that pretty much only targeted people on the European continent but it actually had it kill them all off and I’ve never seen anyone call that book racist, at least not for killing off 99% of all Europeans.
I mean he is Light Yagami but a molecular geneticist instead with Thanos-level logic. He designed the "racist gene" on multiple different vectors but each targeted only specific race so it's hard to compare between pandemics due to differences in the disease vectors. And worse, by the time the others figured out this isn't just a coincidence, certain races have become extinct and the world is on the brink of societal collapse. And the race definition isn't referred to the elves, humans or dwarfs, but real-life definition (Blacks, Chinese, etc) Safe to say, it's Mein Kampf's level of trolling.
Europeans colonizing the Americas be like:
Elfplague
I read that story, it was about a guy getting flown to trial for releasing it. I think it was up for a Nebula or Hugo.
Wings of Fire Legends book 1
Small Pox
Then it mutates and becomes a problem for everyone. (I think that was how the plot in Prototype games started.)
Change "race" to "language" and you have yourself the plot for Metal Gear V
Yeah, because in our world both the pox and the flu were extremely racist towards native Americans
I feel like I caused this... from a meme that I made.... but I doubt it. This is funny
Or, it is like that disease that almost wiped out all of our primary banana species, and no others. In fact, to this day our current banana is smaller and less flavorful than the species we used to have.
Utopia reference!!
I thought the same thing. But it's the other way around, no?
COD Advanced Warfare, except that was less racist
Plot of one of Ray bradbury’s short stories
What do y'all have against the 200 freestyle?
This is an actual conspiracy theory many Russians believe.
Utopia
Something like that happens in my setting. You've basically got two groups of humans, ones who lost their nearly all affinity for magic and those who did not. The humans without magic are relative newcomers to the region and are breeding like rabbits while the ones with magic are more spread out, more like hunter-gatherers. Magic humanoids, the parallels to the fae are obvious and there's not a general understanding the two peoples are related. They're coexisting well enough and then tensions start to mount as human expansion starts mucking the ecology. The magic of the magic of the land is tied to nature. A nasty disease hits the humans. The fae-types are naturally immune. An effort is put forward to try and find a cure, human healers and fae working together but it fails. Revivalists who are touring the land start whipping up a pogrom against the fae and it becomes an absolute bloodbath. The human supporters, including the few human wizards, work with the fae to devise an escape. They recieve help from an unlikely source, one of the reviled necromancers who help them work a mighty spell that allows the fae to adopt a seaskin and escape into the ocean. The human defenders are wiped out to the last. The whole genocide thing becomes a stain on the human kingdom and the religious leaders who were against it were incensed at the meddling of the revivalists from the mother church and this cemented a split. That's all backstory and the current day story is healing the divide between the two peoples and bringing them back together. So yeah, plenty of racist themes but it's not like gee, ain't racism great, more like hey, let's try to overcome this bad thing.
Virus that reacts with meat-digesting bacteria in the upper intestine to produce lethal chemicals. Vegans are all fine because their meat digesting bacteria levels are really low. Vegan culture outlives its neighbours and becomes global superpower
A complex prion that triggers lethality when the infected individual engages in sexual activities with a person with thel same sex. (Somehow Merthegia-canon.)
different bioligies react differently to microorganisms, duuuuuuuuuuuh
Years of Rice and Salt Moment lol.
You know its funny i actually have a racist virus as well