1 | '''Basic Trope''': A monster who used to be human. |
2 | * '''Straight''': [[TheDreaded The Evil Thing]] used to be Bob Throperz, an ordinary man. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** All monsters were once humans. |
5 | ** The Evil Thing is a horrifying EldritchAbomination whose true form cannot be even comprehended by gods, let alone humans; those who even look at it are driven mad and reality itself breaks down in its surroundings. Yet the Evil Thing was once Bob, a RidiculouslyAverageGuy. |
6 | * '''Downplayed''': |
7 | ** [[GenderBender Bob becoming Alice]] is treated as this. |
8 | ** Bob was never actually a human to begin with, but was at least ''humanoid''. |
9 | ** The Evil Thing is a HumanoidAbomination. |
10 | * '''Justified''': |
11 | ** This is the only way new monsters can be created. |
12 | ** The BigBad [[YouHaveFailedMe converts humans into monsters as punishment]] and uses them as shock troops. |
13 | ** Bob [[TragicMonster ran afoul of something that horribly mutated his body, but left his mind intact.]] [[TheGrotesque His new form]] is hideous enough that he's usually attacked on sight, but it's also ImmuneToBullets. |
14 | ** Bob was infected by TheCorruption. |
15 | * '''Inverted''': Bob is a [[HumanityEnsues human who used to be a monster]]. |
16 | * '''Subverted''': Bob Troperz dissipated around the time the Evil Thing appeared, and people assume Bob became it. But no, it turns out that the Evil Thing was always a monster. |
17 | * '''Double Subverted''': ...Or so everyone thinks. It turns out the Evil Thing is so far gone it doesn't even remember being a man. |
18 | * '''Parodied''': |
19 | ** Bob gets turned into a cute bunny rabbit. |
20 | ** A friendly monster character mentions in passing that it used to be human, but didn't much like it. |
21 | ** The monster [[ExactWords was once named A. Mann]], but had its name legally changed. |
22 | ** The Evil Thing [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim insists it was once a man, despite clearly being a woman]]. |
23 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Bob keeps repeatedly changing between his human form and his monster form. |
24 | * '''Averted''': |
25 | ** Bob stays human. |
26 | ** No monsters were previously human. |
27 | * '''Enforced''': The writers wanted to give a psychological aspect to the horror by having it being once a man. |
28 | * '''Lampshaded''': "That thing... it wasn't always like this." |
29 | * '''Invoked''': Bob does everything he needs to do to become the Evil Thing. |
30 | * '''Exploited''': Since Bob used to be human, Alice obtaining this information lets her know that he still has a mostly-human psyche and makes it easier to talk to him. |
31 | * '''Defied''': Knowing that there is a very real chance that he may turn into a monster, Bob seeks to prevent it. |
32 | * '''Discussed''': "Oh my god... now we know what happened to Bob." |
33 | * '''Conversed''': "In stories like this, the most inhuman monsters were all once humans." |
34 | * '''Deconstructed''': Bob has a very hard time convincing anyone that he used to be a human. As such, he is no longer allowed access to his favorite places because of their humans-only policy. |
35 | ** [[NoSympathy People don't empathize]] with his fate due to him being an AssholeVictim as a human. |
36 | * '''Reconstructed''': Bob uses his LovecraftianSuperpower to intimidate shopkeepers into service. |
37 | * '''Implied''': The Evil Thing stops a rampage at some point to wistfully look at a photo of a man. This is [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment never explained]]. |
38 | * '''Played For Laughs''': The transformation is FauxHorrific. Nothing bad really happened, but Bob acts like he became a monster. |
39 | * '''Played For Drama''': The Evil Thing is a TragicMonster. |
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