History Main / HumansByAnyOtherName

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfRebirth'' refers to humans as 'huma' and {{Beast M|an}}en as 'gajuma'.

* ''Literature/TheEdgeChronicles'' features LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces,. The species that the protagonists and most important people belong to look like humans with pointy ears and to all intents and purposes are humans, but goes unnamed for most of the series. They are eventually identified as "Fourthlings" and fill the traditional fantasy human role of being the most numerous "[[HumansAreAverage baseline]]" race.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' has Shisno, which means the excrement of the excrement of the most repugnant creature in the world. Though this is indicated to be a FantasticSlur; it's not mentioned what aliens friendly to humans call them.

* It's worth bearing in mind that there are several technical words for "beings closely taxonomically related to humans". "Hominid" used to mean "humans and their extinct relatives", but since ScienceMarchesOn and it's found out that gibbons (the lesser apes) branched off of the ape superfamily earlier than humans, according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae "hominids"]] now refer to all great apes (humans, chimps, gorillas, and orangutans). [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominini "Hominin"]] is sometimes used as a modern alternative, but taxonomically speaking, it includes both humans and chimps. TheMoreYouKnow...

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'' Dwarfs' word for "human" is ''Umgi'', which in dwarfen also means "shoddy". It's unclear whether the dwarfs' word for shoddy derives from their word for human, or ''vice versa''. In the former case, it means their word for "bad craftsdwarfship" literally means "like it's been made by a human", in the latter that dwarfs view humans as badly put-together dwarfs (which, [[FantasticRacism given dwarfen attitudes on practically every other sentient race in the]] ''[[FantasticRacism Warhammer]]'' [[FantasticRacism world]], is a lot more complementary to humans than you'd think).

* In ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', in the original Japanese, humans are written with the kanji for "human", but the pronounciation guide says "tall-man" in English. The official English translation uses the latter. They're also nicknamed "long legs", particularly by shorter races like the dwarves. In the translation, the term "human" is used to refer to the sapient races as a whole.

* In ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', in the original Japanese, humans are written with the kanji for "human", but the pronounciation guide says "tall-man" in English. The official English translation uses the latter. They're also nicknamed "long legs", particularly by shorter races like the dwarves.

* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', the humans are also referred as "Lilim", [[spoiler:and the entire human race is the 18th Angel]].

* In ''VideoGame/TheSims'', humans are called "Sims". Though [[AmbiguouslyHuman it's a bit unclear whether or not they ARE human.]]

* Out of the [[HumanSubspecies Twelve Tribes]] in''VideoGame/ChroniclesOfElyria'', the one almost identical to Earth humans is called "the Neran."

* ''Literature/TheEdgeChronicles'' features LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces,. The species that the protagonists belong to look like humans with pointy ears and to all intents and purposes are humans, but goes unnamed for most of the series. They are eventually named as "Fourthlings" and fill the traditional fantasy human role of being the most numerous "[[HumansAreAverage baseline]]" race.

* In ''Ride/ETAdventure'' at Ride/UniversalStudios, Bontanicus exclusively refers to the guests as "earth people".

It looks like a human, walks like a human, and talks like a human, yet, for some odd reason, it is not called "human".

* "Son of man" is a common term for humans in the [[Literature/TheBible Hebrew Bible]], especially when contrasting humans with God ("[[ God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind"). The term is frequently used in the ''Literature/BookOfEzekiel'' by God when calling Ezekiel. The ''Literature/BookOfDaniel'' also uses the term for a coming messianic figure, hence why "Son of Man" is one of the Christian titles for Jesus.

It looks like a human, walks like a human, and talks like a human, yet, for some reason, it is not called "human".

Sometimes indicative of FantasticRacism, though not as much as CallAHumanAMeatbag or SonOfAnApe. Not to be confused with HumanAliens, or OurHumansAreDifferent.

In SpeculativeFiction, the word "human" can seem out of place in a universe where every other species is named after their homeworld. Unless, of course, [[http://jbr.me.uk/lingo.html they come from Humus.]]

As a consequence of this, or perhaps just to sound "exotic", alien cultures often come up with their own monikers for PunyEarthlings. Indeed, the word "Earthling" itself is an example, and it also shows that most of the time, oddly enough, they name humans after our own terms for our planet and its surroundings, rather than whatever Earth or the Sun is named in ''their'' language.

A subtrope of this is PlanetTerra. Compare CallARabbitASmeerp.