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Author: Noaqiyeum

Apr 26th 2013 at 2:28:46 PM

...both of those are really good points for discussion, actually. The 'spectrum' description doesn't make a lot of sense because it isn't really a trope about appearance, but about the being's nature. So yes, 'outside' this trope (how fitting!).

However, I do think this trope is related to but mutually exclusive with UncannyValley. On the [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/UncannyValleyChart.jpg Uncanny Valley chart]], there's a 'peak' marking the point where the ease-of-recognition is maximised. Moving to the right enters the uncanny valley, where the mixture of signals for 'human' and 'inhuman' are mixed and the brain reacts with confusion. Moving to the left, however, is the realm of the MonstrousHumanoid, where the brain recognises that it has definitive human features but is overall not human. Does that make sense, kind of?

(Important note: We should probably not have that in the description solely on the grounds that it's kind of abusing the idea of the uncanny valley a bit. But it may help us clarify what we're looking for.)

Arawn: ...trick-ky. I don't ''think'' it belongs here, then. It ''might'' go on HumanoidAbomination, depending both on its apparent intelligence and sapience, but I think I personally would put it on AnimatedArmour.