In Speculative Fiction, it is very common to have characters who are basically normal humans, except that they aren't human. This supertrope / index is intended to cover all situations where a non-human appears to be human, differing only on a few relatively minor points. The supertrope of this index is Fantastic Sapient Species Tropes.
Not to be confused with the book series Not Quite Human, which provides an example of this trope, or Not Even Human.
These tropes can be justified in that a species can superficially appear similar to another unrelated species. Humans are no exception.
Sub-tropes:
Sub-indexes:
- Alternative Turing Test
- Ambiguously Human: A character appears to be human, but has certain quirks that give the impression that they might actually be something that isn't human.
- Animal Eyes
- Apparently Human Merfolk
- Artificial Human: A human being who was artificially constructed rather than born.
- Beast Man: A humanoid animal.
- Cat Girl
- Clown Species: Clowns are depicted as being their own species instead of humans wearing costumes and makeup.
- Divine Parentage: One or more of a person's parents happens to be a god.
- Draconic Humanoid
- Dragon Ancestry
- Expressive Ears
- Fish People: Humanoid fish.
- Five Races
- Frog Men
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: Women with abnormal skin colors.
- Half-Human Hybrid: The hybrid offspring of a human and a non-human.
- Heavyworlder
- Human Aliens: Aliens that look exactly like human beings.
- Human Outside, Alien Inside: An alien who looks human on the outside, but not on the inside.
- Human Subspecies
- Lightworlder
- Little Bit Beastly
- Little People
- Lizard Folk: Humanoid reptiles.
- Mole Men
- My Brain Is Big: A character has a large head to indicate that they are highly intelligent.
- People in Rubber Suits
- The Reptilians
- Rubber-Forehead Aliens: Aliens look like humans with prosthetic makeup.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: Robots somehow have the same interests, behavior and needs as human beings.
- Snake People
- Speculative Fiction LGBT
- Token Heroic Orc: The one member of an Always Chaotic Evil species who isn't evil.
- Token Nonhuman: The only member of the group who isn't human.
- Transhuman Aliens
- Uneven Hybrid
- Unusual Ears
- Witch Species
