In Speculative Fiction, it is very common to have characters who are basically normal humans, except that they aren't human. This Super-Trope/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:
- Alien Blood: A character bleeds a strangely colored substance that isn't the red blood of humans, usually to either reveal or emphasize that the character isn't actually human.
- 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: An otherwise human character's eyes resemble those of an animal.
- Apparently Human Merfolk: Merfolk who outwardly resemble regular humans.
- Artificial Human: A human being who was artificially constructed rather than born.
- Beast Man: A humanoid animal.
- Cat Girl: Women who resemble female humans but with minor feline traits such as ears and tails.
- 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: A humanoid with dragon traits.
- Dragon Ancestry: A human or humanoid with one or more dragons in their family tree.
- Expressive Ears: Mobile ears that showcase one's emotion.
- Fish People: Humanoid fish.
- Frazetta Man: Stereotypical cavemen enemies.
- Frog Men: People with amphibian traits.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: Women with abnormal skin colors.
- Half-Human Hybrid: The hybrid offspring of a human and a non-human.
- Heavyworlder: An usually stout, strong human from a high-gravity environment.
- Human Aliens: Aliens that look exactly like human beings.
- Human-Demon Hybrid: The hybrid of a human and a demon.
- Human Outside, Alien Inside: An alien who looks human on the outside, but not on the inside.
- Human Subspecies: Divergent breeds descended from or related to baseline humans.
- Inhuman Eye Concealers: Using glasses, blindfolds, eyepatches etc. to cover up your weirdness.
- Lightworlder: Those usually tall and frail humans that fit into a low-gravity environment.
- Little Bit Beastly: Humans with a few human traits.
- Little People: Super-Trope for all the small people in fantasy.
- Lizard Folk: Humanoid reptiles.
- Mage Species: Humans + magic.
- Mole Men: Parallel developed species that either evolved for the underground or are literally moles.
- The Morlocks: Humans that have adapted to subterranean environments, cannibalism a plus.
- My Brain Is Big: A character has a large head to indicate that they are highly intelligent.
- People in Rubber Suits
- 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: Humanoid snakes.
- Speculative Fiction LGBT: The future will let us explore our sexuality.
- Standard Fantasy Races: The traditional races of fantasy.
- Token Heroic Orc: The one member of an Always Chaotic Evil species who isn't evil.
- Token Non-Human: The only member of the group who isn't human.
- Transhuman Aliens: Our future descendants will be alien to us.
- Uneven Hybrid
- Unusual Ears: Ears that are not the normal human kind.
