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* ''VideoGame/ArmiesOfExigo'' have the the Beast and Fallen faction. The foot soldiers of the Beasts are mostly BeastMan types and [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent cow-riding, boomerang-throwing goblins]]. The Fallen have Dark Elves with a twist such as the Fallen Matriarch -- a fugly, hairless mutant of a female dark elf sorceress with octopus tentacles for legs and the Avenger -- a magic immune dark elf sealed inside a walking tree and generates magic blasts as a siege engine. The Fallen also have beings from another dimension that are so alien they border on being {{Humanoid Abomination|s}}, such as [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} the Void Walker]].

* ''VideoGame/ArmiesOfExigo'' have the the Beast and Fallen faction. The foot soldiers of the Beasts are mostly BeastMan types and [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent cow-riding, boomerang-throwing goblins]]. The Fallen have Dark Elves with a twist such as the Fallen Matriarch -- a fugly, hairless mutant of a female dark elf sorceress with octopus tentacles for legs and the Avenger -- a magic immune dark elf sealed inside a walking tree and generates magic blasts as a siege engine. The Fallen also have beings from another dimension that are so alien they border on being HumanoidAbomination, such as the Void Walker, who looks like a [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} Mind Flayer]]

* ''VideoGame/ArmiesOfExigo'' have the the Beast and Fallen faction. The foot soldiers of the Beasts are mostly BeastMan types and [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent cow-riding, boomerang throwing goblins]]. The Fallen have Dark Elves with a twist such as the Fallen Matriarch - a fugly, hairless mutant of a female dark elf sorceress with octopus tentacles for legs and the Avenger - a magic immune dark elf sealed inside a walking tree and generates magic blasts as a siege engine. The Fallen also have beings from another dimension that are so alien they border on being HumanoidAbomination, such as the Void Walker, who looks like a [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} Mind Flayer]]
* ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'' has [[WasOnceAMan Sammy Lawrence,]] a former coworker of Henry's who has been turned into an inky humanoid with four fingers and the ability to teleport by the time Henry meets him again in Chapter 2.
* In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim's]]'' Dawnguard DLC, [[BigBad Lord Harkon]] is featured as a seemingly ordinary man with unnerving eyes, but has the ability to turn into [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a humanoid bat-like monstrosity]].
* Sephiroth, the BigBad of ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVII'', was infused with [[EldritchAbomination Jenova]] cells while a fetus. He has long white hair, glowing green eyes with HellishPupils, and is touted as the strongest Soldier First Class in existence. He later merges with Jenova, graduating to a full-blown HumanoidAbomination.

* The vast majority of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' in the "Human-Like" Egg Group.
* The [[OurZombiesAreDifferent J'avo]] from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' look and behave human enough to pass as one. At least until they lose their mask or bandanas and you see that they have eyes where there shouldn't be eyes. It gets even worse when they lose a limb and [[BodyHorror insect parts]] erupt from their bodies to replace them.
** And if they burst into flames and spin a cocoon, well, '''[[DemonicSpider run]]'''.
* Nightmare, the BigBad of the Videogame/SoulSeries, starts off as the SuperPoweredEvilSide of ''Soul Edge'''s protagonist Siegfried Schtauffen in ''[=SoulCalibur=] I'' and ''II'', but later becomes a suit of AnimatedArmor in ''III'' and ''IV'' before gaining a new host in ''V''. His defining characteristics are a blue suit of armour, [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]], a [[RedRightHand grotesquely mutated right hand]], and a living {{BFS}} called Soul Edge.

* Played with in ''Webcomic/{{TREVOR}}'', as while Trevor is still ''technically'' human, he appears to have mutated into something much more horrifying.

* The Witiku in the Series/DoctorWho Recap/NewSeriesAdventures novel ''The Price Of Paradise'' are humanoid monsters that are described as being two meters tall with thick dense fur, red eyes, sharp fangs and long claws.

* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti (When the creature is depicted as savage and malicious)

* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti (When the creature is depicted a savage and malicious)

* An actual creature type in 3rd edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' and its SpiritualSuccessor ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', differentiated from normal humanoids by their monstrous or animalistic features. The best-known kinds are [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent minotaurs]], [[WitchSpecies hags]], [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs]], [[TheMorlocks grimlocks]], [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpies]], [[SharkMan sahuagin]], {{medusa}}s, and [[SnakePeople yuan-ti]].

* An actual creature type in 3rd edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' and its SpiritualSuccessor ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', differentiated from normal humanoids by their monstrous or animalistic features. The best-known kinds are [[ALoadOfBull minotaurs]], [[WitchSpecies hags]], [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs]], [[TheMorlocks grimlocks]], [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpies]], [[SharkMan sahuagin]], {{medusa}}s, and [[SnakePeople yuan-ti]].

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* ''Film/ComePlay'': The monster of the film walks upright and looks relatively human, aside from its longer-than-natural limbs and very pale color. However, it isn't from our world and has unusual abilities (such as controlling electronic devices), which it uses to stalk its chosen "friend."
* The Pale Man from ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' is a pale, skeletal, humanoid [[TheFairFolk creature]] with [[EyesDoNotBelongThere eyes on the palms of his hands]] that usually sits at the head of a table laden with an [[FoodChains enchanted feast]]. Anyone who eats the food wakes him up and, [[IAmAHumanitarian well...]]
* The Immortals in ''Film/ThreeHundred'' are visualized as some undefined race of humanoid monsters with killer teeth fighting for dark emperor Xerxes. They seem human at first because they're all wearing ominous masks, but when one of them has his mask blown off, the Spartan who did so shows visible dread when he sees that his opponent isn't even human.
* ''Film/TheNightFlier'': Far from a handsome gentleman, the vampire Dwight Renfield will always appear as a barely-human bat-like monster to his victims.

* Grendel in ''WesternAnimation/{{Beowulf|2007}}'', he is depicted as a misshapen humanoid that is tall and lean and parts of him are inside out.

* The Pale Man from ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' is a pale, skeletal, humanoid [[TheFairFolk creature]] with [[EyesDoNotBelongThere eyes on the palms of its hands]] that usually sits at the head of a table laden with an [[FoodChains enchanted feast]]. Anyone who eats the food wakes him up and, [[IAmAHumanitarian well...]]

* ''Webcomic/{{TREVOR}}'': Played with, as while Trevor is still ''technically'' human, he appears to have mutated into something much more horrifying.

* The Parshendi in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' are of roughly human shape [[spoiler:in their base forms, at any rate]] and can in fact speak Alethi (the language of the protagonists). However, they have red-and-black marbled skin, mysterious telepathic powers, [[spoiler: and are actually limited shapeshifters. They can assume a number of different forms to suit the task at hand. The five known so far are warform (causes them to grow armor plate and become physically strong), workform (much like warform, but without the armor and with a block against violence), mateform (in which they are fertile and obsessed with sex), nimbleform(dexterous and careful), and dullform (their baseline form, has no special features or powers). They also may be able to turn into this world's version of demons]]. They also are noted for killing King Gavilar of Alethekar ''on the same night they signed a peace treaty with him'', for no reason anyone's been able to figure out.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': From the back, Salem looks like a human woman with white hair that is worn in a bun. However, her skin is a ghastly white covered in reddish veins that are visible on her arms and face. Her eyes are black pits where the sclera should be, with glowing red irises and pupils that are vertically slit like a domestic cat's. Her appearance and colour scheme are shared with the Monsters of Grimm. [[spoiler:The Grimm are spawned from the Pools of Grimm, pools of annihilation and infinite destruction, found in what used to be the God of Darkness's domain. When Salem dived into the pool with the hope of destroying her curse of immortality, she was instead transformed into a being possessed of both infinite life and infinite destruction.]]

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': From the back, Salem looks like a human woman with white hair that is worn in a bun. However, her skin is a ghastly white covered in reddish veins that are visible on her arms and face. Her eyes are black pits where the sclera should be, with glowing red irises and pupils that are vertically slit like a domestic cat's. Her appearance and colour scheme are shared with the Monsters of Grimm, but it's not clear whether she's a humanoid Grimm or was once a human that has been dehumanised via infection or possession by a Grimm.

* An actual creature type in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', differentiated from normal humanoids by their monstrous or animalistic features. Examples include minotaurs, hags, centaurs, and yuan-ti.

** [[BigBad Naraku]] was a mutilated thief named Onigumo before he assimilated countless demons into his body, gaining the ability to go from a Bishonen human form to a [[LovecraftianSuperpower gigantic mass of tentacles, insectile legs, razor sharp diamonds]], and spiritually poisonous acid-gas at will.
** Moryomaru is an artificial yokai created by Naraku's offshoot [[TheStarscream Hakudoshi]], and later acts as a Lovecraftian bulletproof vest for Akago, Naraku's telepathic FetusTerrible SoulJar. He eventually becomes [[AlwaysABiggerFish powerful enough to take on Naraku]], and [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope is eaten from the inside out]].]]

* ''Anime/{{Claymore}}''

* The "[[HumanoidAbomination Fractured Humans]]" from ''{{Manga/Jagaaaaaan}}'' are a prime example as their monstrous appearances is BodyHorror galore, as they morph their bodies to mirror their suppressed urges, warping their heads and forms beyond reasoning as they manifest, making every case unique as it manifests.

!!Subtropes

* BeastMan
** {{Beastess}}, where Beast Man meets AmazonianBeauty or BrawnHilda.
** DraconicHumanoid
** FishPeople
** FrogMen
** LizardFolk
** RatMen
** SharkMan
** SnakePeople
** WolfMan

More monstrous examples of [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires]] may qualify as well. Many [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent Spirits]] are often depicted this way.

Compare and contrast HumanoidAbomination, where the creature is not '''a''' humanoid, but just humanoid.

* Alex Mercer, James Heller, and the Evolved from the

''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' series are the avatars of a viral bioweapon called the BLACKLIGHT Virus, which grants them an array of {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}s. Elizabeth Greene, the Big Bad of the first game, is a HumanoidAbomination who is the avatar for the beta version of the BLACKLIGHT Virus, REDLIGHT.