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9	->'''Zoidberg:''' I'm confused, Fry. I'm feeling a strange new emotion. Is it love when you care about a female for reasons beyond mating?\
10	'''Fry:''' Nope. Must be some weird alien emotion.
11	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E5WhyMustIBeACrustaceanInLove Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?]]"
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13	A character with emotions or feelings that are beyond human (well, [[NotQuiteHuman most humans]]), or at the very least, different from humans. [[SuperSenses Their pain and pleasure can be magnified to points we would find unbearable]], they might have an extreme sense of [[TheEmpath empathy]], or they might even have emotions that don't even exist for us. Or all of the above, and more.
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15	It's often found in a SuperiorSpecies, because what better way is there to denote superiority than simply being able to experience ''more'' than [[PunyEarthlings you]]. Likewise, an EldritchAbomination almost always has this aspect as well, usually to shape part of their BlueAndOrangeMorality.
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17	Characters with inhuman emotions are prone to having SuperSenses as well.
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19	Subtrope of BizarreAlienPsychology. For a different kind of non-human feelings, see BizarreAlienSenses.
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27	* In the final issue of ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'', it turns out that Superman's empathy and altruism are also superhuman due to his [[SuperSenses enhanced senses]]. The temporarily empowered human [[spoiler:Lex Luthor]] finds this out personally and [[spoiler:seemingly reforms as a result]].
28	%%* Kind of the point of ''ComicBook/{{Supergod}}''.
29	* According to Doc Samson in an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'', everyone with gamma powers has an inhuman level of rage within them. When a telepath tries to get into his mind, he overwhelms her with a dose of his.
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33	* In ''Project Future'', a fan-made spinoff comic of ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'', as in the original comic, the cubi feel all emotions far more intensely than other species do. [[http://www.projectfuturecomic.com/epsilon.php?strip=04-07 One cubi]] takes this as evidence that beings (the comic's human equivalent race) are [[FantasticRacism not fully sentient]].
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37	* ''Film/StarTrek2009'': Sarek (a Vulcan) says that "emotions run deeply within our race, perhaps more deeply than in humans". The ExpandedUniverse and the later ''Franchise/StarTrek'' TV series have gone into more detail about this; the reason why Vulcan culture is so big on logic and rationalism is that before that sort of thing caught on, they fought more and bloodier wars than any other notable ''Trek'' race except possibly the Klingons, culminating in at least one nuclear exchange.
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41	%%* All over the place in Creator/CliffordSimak's books with his numerous super-advanced aliens that the human protagonist befriends.
42	* Inverted in ''Literature/TheColorOfDistance''. The Tendu feel most major human emotions, but due to their BizarreAlienReproduction, which lacks a stage involving parents caring for helpless offspring for years, they find a human's bond with her baby to be unlike anything they've experienced.
43	* In ''Literature/Foreigner1994'', the social structure of the atevi is determined by the emotion "manchi", which is not exactly understood by humans, though it has similarities to human notions of loyalty.
44	* Something like this is up with the Cenobites as described in ''Literature/TheHellboundHeart''; they're so obsessed with pushing the fringes of sensory experience that they can't distinguish between pleasure and pain. Hence the problem with summoning them: if you ask them for the new kinds of pleasure they can give, they'll introduce you to ''every'' sensation they've experienced.
45	* In ''Literature/PeterPan'', fairies like Tinker Bell can only feel one emotion at a time, and that emotion consumes their entire being in that moment.
46	* In ''[[Literature/ProsperosDaughter Prospero Regained]]'', the characters reach the deepest pits of Hell and feel the temptations of the creatures imprisoned there -- the insane temptations.
47	* The Parshendi of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' experience emotions as a series of rhythms to which they can attune their thoughts and words (Resolve, Irritation, Praise, etc.). A Parshendi can actively choose to attune a specific rhythm, but otherwise automatically attunes the one that matches their own emotions.
48	%%* The cherubim Proginoskes in ''Literature/AWindInTheDoor'' (yes, 'cherubim' should be plural).
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52	* ''Series/AvataroSentaiDonbrothers'': Sonoza of the Noto Trio is a mentally disturbed man with a great interest in human emotions who is seemingly only capable of a superficial understanding of them. He tries to learn more about them by imitating any kind of reaction he witnesses and then asking anyone on the vicinity if what he did is the correct display of emotion for that situation in particular. Specifically, laughing seems what has caught his attention the most, wondering what it is and why humans do it.
53	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
54	** Daleks are said to feel no emotions other than hatred -- incredibly intense hatred -- [[AbsoluteXenophobe for anything non-Dalek]]. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]" shows that they are capable of going insane, but this only magnifies the hatred they feel to the point that it can't be properly directed (the sane Daleks consider such pure hatred to be beautiful). However, several episodes have indicated that Daleks can feel at least one other emotion: [[OhCrap fear]].
55	** The Fourth Doctor tells Sarah Jane that he doesn't experience the same emotions that humans do. His incarnation in particular has some notably weird emotional responses to things, but whether or not this is true for the Doctor tends to depend on the writer and on interpretation. For example, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars Pyramids of Mars]]" has him explain his apathy towards a man's death as being due to being inhuman, but the story starts with a scene of the Doctor sulking about how he's a Time Lord that's [[PlayedForLaughs played for midlife crisis laughs]], suggesting that it may well be a pretentious affectation. The [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations novelisation]] of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]" plays this for laughs by quickly having Romana's internal narration [[InformedAbility announce]] that both she and the Doctor are aliens and do not feel the same emotions as humans, followed up by her reeling off a list of extremely human emotional reasons why she and he are or aren't doing certain things.
56	* In ''Series/{{V 2009}}'', the HiveQueen alien Anna and [[spoiler:most members of]] her species insist that they do not feel human emotions [[spoiler:despite the influence of their human skin]]. However, Anna is also a diligent {{Determinator}} who wants her species to survive and is ready to make great sacrifices for it. She later seems strangely overjoyed at the thought that her daughter will grow up to be just like her and save the species, despite the fact that she jeopardizes her well-being and safety without remorse to help the species. Eventually, this becomes a sort of ChekhovsSkill when [[spoiler:her first human emotion is pain over her species being endangered by an attack. She cries, goes completely berserk and later feels maternal for the first time]].
57	* The vampires of ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' have an odd relationship with human emotion. They can voluntarily switch their emotions on or off as it suits them, though this ability is said to fade with age. When they do experience emotions, they experience the same emotions that they would have as their human selves, but magnified exponentially. For example, joy becomes ecstasy, fear becomes terror, anger becomes rage, sadness becomes despair, etc. -- or, as Caroline puts it:
58	-->'''Caroline:''' So you're saying that now I'm basically an insecure, neurotic control freak... ''on crack.''\
59	'''Stefan:''' Well, I wasn't gonna say it like that, but...
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63	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
64	** The [[SpaceElves Eldar]] are forced to be TheStoic as a race, because they are so incredibly emotional, whenever they allow themselves an outburst their [[GodOfEvil evil god]] ''rips their souls from them and devours them''.
65	** {{Space Marine}}s also feel emotions more strongly than normal humans (except, [[DependingOnTheWriter allegedly]], fear). The fan-created Angry Marines feel rage to an extent that boggles even other Space Marines; they have made unbridled righteous fury an art form.
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69	* In ''VideoGame/HowToRaiseADragon'', the player plays a dragon. During the 'adolescence' phase, the wizard who captured the dragon as a hatchling is lying sick in bed, leaving the dragon free to choose a breath power and escape. However, if the dragon chooses [[HealingHands healing breath]], it can cure the wizard.
70	-->'''Forgiveness'''\
71	Occasionally, a captive dragon will forgive its captor and perform an act of kindness in a time of need.\
72	The dragon is in every way a superior beast to the human: superior in mind, superior in body, superior in heart. When a dragon shows anger, it burns brighter than any human rage, but draconic forgiveness shines even brighter. Only the most callous of captors could resist releasing such a noble beast.
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76	* Cubi from ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' are suggested to have far more [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1207.php intense emotional reaction]] to things than other races.
77	* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' mentions that a demon can suffer more than any mortal, at least in one character's reasoning.
78	* Cultural example -- the trolls in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' have a different perception of romance to humans, dividing it into four different kinds, with two of them sexual and two of them platonic; and consider true hate as erotic and stable an emotion as they consider true love. For the most part, the feelings themselves aren't that alien -- what's alien is that trolls embark upon, say, negotiating between two people in a destructive romance with the same ferocity that we fall in love with people. In this case, it's BlueAndOrangeMorality, and the trolls are simply different from humans -- not better, and not worse.
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82	* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td2x8s9GZlo "BLUE_CHANNEL: THALASIN"]], a short AnalogHorror video by Gooseworx of ''WebAnimation/LittleRunmo'' fame, taking [[FantasticDrug Thalasin+]] will let you experience some, albeit with [[NightmareFace side effects]].
83	* In ''Literature/NESGodzillaCreepypasta'', Face is a being who appears early in each of the game's levels to give a quiz of Yes or No questions, which range from normal, to disturbing to nonsensical and shows a reaction to each answer, which more often than not, [[BlueAndOrangeMorality seems to make sense only to Face itself]]. Adding to this, while he has normal reactions like happiness, sadness, surprise, anger, etc. he also has a set of strange, nonsensical reactions like flipping upside-down, becoming a cyclops or getting FishEyes.
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87	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
88	** Parodied in "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E5WhyMustIBeACrustaceanInLove Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?]]". Decapodeans like Zoidberg do not "love" in the romantic, human sense of the term, but go through mating seasons where they pick a mate [[spoiler:and die shortly after they mate]]. When Zoidberg has his eye on the female Edna, he receives wooing advice from Fry, eventually developing genuine romantic feelings for her in the process. When Zoidberg [[WhatIsThisFeeling asks if the non-sexual infatuation he has for Edna is "love"]], Fry dismisses this as some sort of alien emotion.
89	** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E18AnthologyOfInterestII Anthology of Interest II]]", Bender references the emotionless state of a robot: "We don't have emotions, [[TinMan and sometimes that makes me very sad]]." In comparison to robots, at least, he may be exhibiting Inrobot Emotion.
90	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E3TreehouseOfHorror Treehouse of Horror]]", Kang informs the Simpsons that if they had accompanied him to his home planet, they "would have experienced emotions a hundred times greater than what you call love and a thousand times greater than what you call fun."
91	* Raven's anger in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''. When she loses control and her demonic side takes over, she sprouts dark tentacles of black magic that can drag victims under her cloak, where they are [[MindRape psychologically scarred]].
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