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.
Subtropes include:
- Alternative Turing Test
- Ambiguously Human
- Animal Eyes
- Apparently Human Merfolk
- Artificial Human
- Cat Girl
- Demihuman
- Draconic Humanoid
- Dragon Ancestry
- Expressive Ears
- Fish People
- Five Races
- Frog Men
- Green-Skinned Space Babe
- Half-Human Hybrid
- Heavyworlder
- Human Aliens
- Human Outside, Alien Inside
- Human Subspecies
- Lightworlder
- Little Bit Beastly
- Little People
- Lizard Folk
- Mole Men
- My Brain Is Big
- People in Rubber Suits
- Petting Zoo People
- The Reptilians
- Rubber-Forehead Aliens
- Ridiculously Human Robots
- Snake People
- Speculative Fiction LGBT
- Token Heroic Orc
- Token Nonhuman
- Transhuman Aliens
- Uneven Hybrid
- Unusual Ears
- Witch Species
