"All reality is virtual for an artificial mind."
All about how to construct otherness and personhood in a setting, such as aliens, fantasy races, robots and other sentient creatures.
Categories:
- Alien Tropes
- Angelic Tropes
- Animal Tropes
- Attraction to Outliers
- Bizarre Alien Biology
- Cosmic Entity
- Doppelgänger
- Dragon Tropes
- Elf Tropes
- Fairy Tropes
- Fantastic Racism
- Fantastic Sapient Species Tropes
- Genie Tropes
- God Tropes
- Index of Fictional Creatures
- Infernal Tropes
- Interracial and Interspecies Love Index
- Liminal Being
- Mer Tropes
- The Needless
- Not Quite Human
- One with the Index
- Our Clones Are Identical
- Our Monsters Are Different
- Plant Tropes
- Robot Roll Call
- This Index Will Live Forever
- Transhuman
- Tropes of the Divine
- Undead Index
- Werebeast Tropes
Tropes:
- Absolute Xenophobe
- Abstract Eater
- Abstract Apotheosis
- Admiring the Abomination
- Alien Blood
- Alien Hair
- Aliens in Cardiff
- Alternative Turing Test
- Always Chaotic Evil
- Always Lawful Good
- Amazing Technicolor Population
- Amusing Alien
- Ancestor Veneration
- Ancient Astronauts
- Ancient Evil
- Appearance Is in the Eye of the Beholder
- Armless Biped
- Artificial Human
- Beast with a Human Face
- Beat It by Compulsion
- Bee People
- Bio-Augmentation
- Bizarre Alien Psychology
- The Blank
- Blue-and-Orange Morality
- Body Horror
- Brain Food
- Broken Angel
- Brown Note Being
- By the Eyes of the Blind
- Can't Live Without You
- The Corruption
- Death Means Humanity
- Dehumanization
- Eat Brain for Memories
- Emergent Human
- Exotic Eye Designs
- The Eyes Have It
- Fantastic Anthropologist
- Fantastic Arousal
- Fantastic Diet Requirement: Beings who need something unusual in their diets.
- Fictional Disability
- A Form You Are Comfortable With
- Genius Loci
- Grotesque Gallery
- Have I Mentioned I Am a Dwarf Today?
- Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?
- Horror Hates a Rulebreaker
- Ingesting Knowledge
- Kaleidoscope Hair
- Last of His Kind
- Liminal Time
- Maker of Monsters
- Mark of the Supernatural
- Mechanical Insects
- Mentally Unwell, Special Senses
- Mix-and-Match Man
- Monochromatic Eyes
- Monster and the Maiden
- Monster Mash
- Monster Modesty
- Monster Progenitor
- Monster Roommate
- Monstrosity Equals Weakness
- Monstrous Humanoid
- Mother of a Thousand Young
- Muggle and Magical Love Triangle
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous
- Multiarmed Multitasking
- Multiple Head Case
- Muppet
- Mutants
- Mystical White Hair
- Neurodiversity Is Supernatural
- No Biological Sex
- Non-Human Sidekick
- Non-Humans Lack Attributes
- Non-Malicious Monster
- Not Rare Over There
- Odd Organ Up Top
- Oculothorax
- One-Gender Race
- One-Winged Angel
- Operator Incompatibility
- Oracular Head
- Otherworldly and Sexually Ambiguous
- Otherworldly Communication Failure
- Our Ancestors Are Superheroes
- Our Clones Are Different
- Paradox Person
- People in Rubber Suits
- Perpetually Protean
- Physical God
- Picky People Eater
- Prefers the True Form
- Prehensile Hair
- Proud Warrior Race Guy
- Pure Magic Being
- Purity Personified
- Raised in a Lab
- Raised by Orcs
- Raised by Robots
- Raised by Wolves
- Remote Body
- Replicant Snatching
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent
- Ridiculously Human Robots
- The Right of a Superior Species
- Robot Girl
- Sand Worm
- Sapient Eat Sapient
- Scary Amoral Religion
- Scary Dogmatic Aliens
- Sense Freak
- Sense Loss Sadness
- Sirens Are Mermaids
- Some of My Best Friends Are X (when applied to fantastical creatures, aliens, A.I.s, etc.)
- Son of an Ape
- The Soulless
- Spaceship Girl
- Speculative Fiction LGBT
- Starfish Aliens
- Starfish Language
- Starfish Robots
- Stock Monster Symbolism
- Stronger with Age
- Sufficiently Advanced Alien
- Supernatural Gold Eyes
- Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious
- Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids
- Super Registration Act
- Technicolor Eyes
- Telepathic Spacemen
- Tentacle Hair
- Tentacled Terror
- Thank the Maker
- Third Eye
- Token Heroic Orc
- Token Nonhuman
- Tortured Monster
- Transformation Exhilaration
- Uneven Hybrid
- Unintentional Uncanny Valley
- Unnecessarily Creepy Robot
- Uncanny Valley
- Unusual Ears
- Unusual Eyebrows
- Van Helsing Hate Crimes
- Vein-o-Vision
- Viral Transformation
- The Virus
- Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere
- Warring Natures
- Was Once a Man
- We Have Those, Too
- What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?
- Wipe That Smile Off Your Face
- The Wonka
- Xenofiction
- The Xenophile
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form
- You Sexy Beast
