"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.
Tropes:
Categories:
- Alien Tropes
- Angelic Tropes
- Animal Tropes
- Attraction to Outliers
- Bizarre Alien Biology
- Cosmic Entity
- Doppelg?nger
- 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
- Absolute Xenophobe
- Abstract Apotheosis
- Abstract Eater
- Admiring the Abomination
- Alien Blood: Blood of an unusual color.
- Alien Hair
- Aliens in Cardiff
- Alternative Turing Test
- Always Chaotic Evil
- Always Lawful Good
- Amazing Technicolor Population
- Amusing Alien
- Ancestor Veneration
- Ancient Astronauts: Aliens came to Earth in ancient times, and aided human advancement.
- Ancient Evil
- Appearance Is in the Eye of the Beholder: A being looks different to different people.
- Armless Biped: Two legs, no arms.
- Artificial Human
- Beast with a Human Face: A humanlike face on an animalistic body
- Beat It by Compulsion
- Bee People
- Bio-Augmentation
- Bizarre Alien Psychology: Nonhuman minds work differently.
- The Blank: No face.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: A sense of morality far removed from traditional notions of good and evil.
- Body Horror
- Brain Food: Consuming brains.
- Broken Angel
- Brown Note Being: Merely being in their presence causes adverse effects.
- By the Eyes of the Blind
- Can't Live Without You
- The Corruption
- Death Means Humanity
- Dehumanization
- Emergent Human
- Exotic Eye Designs: Eyes with unusual shapes or patterns.
- The Eyes Have It
- Fang Thpeak: Thpeaking with a lithp becauthe of one'th fangth.
- Fantastic Anthropologist
- Fantastic Arousal
- Fantastic Diet Requirement: Beings who need something unusual in their diets.
- Fictional Disability
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: A bizarre or incomprehensible being appears to the characters in a more mundane form.
- Genius Loci: A living location.
- Grotesque Gallery
- Have I Mentioned I Am a Dwarf Today?: Non-humans who regularly mention their non-humanness.
- Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?
- Horror Hates a Rulebreaker
- Kaleidoscope Hair: Hair that regularly changes color.
- Last of His Kind
- Liminal Time
- Maker of Monsters
- Mark of the Supernatural
- Mechanical Insects: Robo-bugs.
- Mentally Unwell, Special Senses
- Mix-and-Match Man
- Monochromatic Eyes: Eyes of one solid color.
- Monster and the Maiden
- Monster Mash
- Monster Modesty: A monster who wears something over their private areas.
- Monster Progenitor
- Monster Roommate
- Monstrosity Equals Weakness
- Monstrous Humanoid
- Mother of a Thousand Young
- Muggle and Magical Love Triangle
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Extra arms used in combat.
- Multi-Armed Multitasking: Extra arms used to do multiple tasks at once.
- Multiple Head Case: A character has multiple heads that don't get along.
- Muppet
- Mutants
- Mystical White Hair: Natural white hair on a non-elderly supernatural character.
- Neurodiversity Is Supernatural: Mental conditions are linked to the supernatural.
- No Biological Sex: A nonhuman is physically sexless.
- Non-Human Sidekick
- Non-Humans Lack Attributes: Non-human creatures have no visible genitals even if the spot where they should be is exposed.
- Non-Malicious Monster: Just because someone is a monster doesn't mean they're evil or hostile.
- Not Rare Over There
- Oculothorax: An eye on the torso.
- Odd Organ Up Top: Another body part in place of the head.
- One-Gender Race: A species that's entirely male or entirely female.
- 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
- Peripheral Heads: Extra heads that don't have separate minds or personalities from the main head.
- Perpetually Protean: A shapeshifter who’s always transforming.
- Physical God
- Picky People Eater
- Prefers the True Form
- Prehensile Hair: Hair that acts as limbs.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy
- Pure Magic Being
- Purity Personified
- Raised by Orcs
- Raised by Robots
- Raised by Wolves
- Raised in a Lab
- Remote Body
- Replicant Snatching
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Reptiles are depicted as evil or monstrous.
- Ridiculously Human Robots
- The Right of a Superior Species
- Robot Girl
- Sand Worm: An enormous worm-like predator that travels underneath desert sands.
- Sapient Eat Sapient: Having humanlike intelligence doesn't always break the food chain.
- Sapient Fur Trade
- Scary Amoral Religion
- Scary Dogmatic Aliens
- Sense Freak: A character who's obsessed with sensory experiences.
- Sense Loss Sadness
- Sirens Are Mermaids: Sirens in Greek myths are usually bird-like humanoids, but many works depict them as a form of merpeople instead.
- 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: In a world with fantastical beings, LGBTQ+ characters are more common and often less othered.
- Starfish Aliens: Aliens who are extremely different from humans.
- Starfish Language: A language with a structure much unlike any existing human language.
- Starfish Robots
- Stock Monster Symbolism
- Stronger with Age
- Sufficiently Advanced Alien
- Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious
- Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Robots with much more power than needed for their intended purpose.
- Super Registration Act
- Technicolor Eyes: Eyes of an unusual color.
- Telepathic Spacemen
- Tentacled Terror: A tentacled monster.
- Tentacle Hair: Head tentacles in place of hair.
- Thank the Maker
- Third Eye: A character with three eyes that has some sort of mystical sight.
- Token Heroic Orc: The one good member of a largely evil race.
- Token Non-Human: The one nonhuman in a group of humans.
- Tortured Monster
- Transformation Exhilaration
- Uncanny Valley: Beings who look just barely off from a normal human can sometimes be unsettling.
- Uneven Hybrid
- Unnecessarily Creepy Robot
- Unusual Ears
- Unusual Eyebrows
- Van Helsing Hate Crimes
- Vein-o-Vision: Vampires can sense their targets' veins.
- Viral Transformation: A contagious transformation.
- The Virus
- Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere: A human-eating character decides to stop eating people, which makes everyone they see seem even more delicious.
- 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: Fiction from the perspective of a nonhuman.
- The Xenophile
- You Cannot Grasp the True Form
- You Sexy Beast
