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[[caption-width-right:224:Is he really a mermaid? What a silly question. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint He's a mer''man'']].]]

[[caption-width-right:224:Is he really a mermaid? What a silly question. He's a mer''man''.]]

* Go see an aversion in ''{{WALL-E}}'', and either you'll just fall right in love, [[YourMileageMayVary or]] you'll understand why this trope exists in the first place.
** Not exactly an aversion: the robots are all essentially human-shaped, and they express human emotions which drive the whole plot.

** For all the good that did. The camera shakes so much that most of the time you can't see a blessed thing.

*** The dialogue I have no problem with, it's the lemurs that bothered me. ''TheLandBeforeTime'' had nothing in it resembling humans and we related to the young dinosaurs just fine.
*** Which would have been [[MissedMomentOfAwesome completely fucking awesome]] and '''EXACTLY''' [[NeverTrustATrailer what the trailer seemed to promise]]. So thanks a lot, assholes.

* Also Literally averted by ''AtlantaNights'', where chapter 34 is produced by "Bonsai Story Generator". It fits as well in the story as any other 2 chapters not named 4 and 17 (which are exactly the same).

** They do seem physically human, but that's mostly given away in the details. The part that has always bothered me is that the cats eat plants as a natural medicine. And apprently, the plants have the same effects in cats that they do in humans. For example, poppy seeds are used in the series as a sedative/painkiller. While poppy is sometimes used in painkillers for ''humans'', it's actally poisonous to cats.

** ''{{GURPS}} {{Discworld}}'' briefly invokes HumansAreSpecial to explain why humanity dominates the Disc instead of trolls, dwarfs or banshees, before aknowledging that the ''real'' reason is that the setting was created by humans, for humans.

Can cause a certain amount of confusion if it turns out HumansAreBastards. For more, much more, on this subject, see [[http://limyaael.livejournal.com/tag/rants%20on%20nonhumans this series]] of LimyaaelsFantasyRants. See {{Xenofiction}} to compare/contrast..

All of them, really. [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy At least, as far as anyone knows.]][[hottip:*:There might be a gorilla or chimp dictating something through sign language somewhere, but chances are it'll never get very far once the novelty factor wears off, so Koko and Bubbles' masterpieces can be safely ignored for the purposes of this article.]]

All of them, really. [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy At least, as far as anyone knows.]]

All of them, really. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs At least, as far as anyone knows.]]

People prefer characters they can relate to. This is why most fictional characters are ''H. sapiens'' instead of, say, ''[[TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' or [[TalesOfAgriculture A. oryzae]].

* Subverted and played straight in {{Rifts}}. While the vast majority of D-Bees in the game are humanoid, there are quite a few playable races that qualify as StarfishAliens. Also, though a large percentage of the settings in the game are ruled by/predominantly human (it is [[CrapsackWorld Earth]], after all), there are several locations where humans coexist with aliens, are enslaved/dominated by aliens, or humans aren't found in large (or any) numbers.

* Subverted and played straight in Rifts. While the vast majority of D-Bees in the game are humanoid, there are quite a few playable races that qualify as StarfishAliens.