Otherness Tropes

""All reality is virtual for an artificial mind.""

- The Animatrix

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
 * Fantastic Sapient Species Tropes
 * Index of Fictional Creatures
 * Dragon Tropes
 * Haunted Index
 * Mer Tropes
 * Tropes of the Living Dead
 * Vampire Tropes
 * Werebeast Tropes
 * Our Monsters Are Different
 * Robot Roll Call
 * Undead Index
 * Absolute Xenophobe
 * Admiring the Abomination
 * AI Is a Crapshoot
 * Alien Scrappy
 * Aliens and Monsters
 * Always Chaotic Evil
 * Always Lawful Good
 * Amusing Alien
 * Ancient Astronauts
 * Appearance Is in The Eye of The Beholder
 * Armless Biped
 * Artificial Human
 * As Long As There Is Evil
 * Beat It By Compulsion
 * Bee People
 * Big Brother Is Watching
 * Bio Augmentation
 * Bizarre Alien Biology
 * Alien Blood
 * Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism
 * Bizarre Human Biology
 * Black Speech
 * The Blank
 * Blue and Orange Morality
 * Broken Angel
 * But Your Wings Are Beautiful
 * By the Eyes of The Blind
 * Catgirl
 * Chupacabra
 * Clockwork Creature
 * Conjoined Twins
 * Contagious AI
 * The Corruption
 * Cute Monster Girl
 * Cyber Cyclops
 * Dancing Pants
 * Dhampyr
 * Did You Just Scam Cthulhu
 * Dilating Door
 * Discount Lesbians
 * Eldritch Abomination
 * Tortured Abomination
 * Elves vs. Dwarves
 * Emergent Human
 * Evil Albino
 * Extra Eyes
 * Exposition of Immortality
 * The Eyes Have It
 * Eyeless Face
 * Face Full of Alien Wingwong
 * Faceless Eye
 * The Fair Folk
 * Fantastic Racism
 * Fantastic Ghetto
 * Fantastic Slurs
 * Fantastic Science
 * Fat Bastard
 * Feel No Pain
 * Fighting a Shadow
 * Five Races
 * A Form You Are Comfortable With
 * Genius Loci
 * Giant Equals Invincible
 * God in Human Form
 * Good Wings Evil Wings
 * Green-Skinned Space Babe
 * Grotesque Gallery
 * Halfbreed
 * Half-Human Hybrid
 * Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?
 * Heinz Hybrid
 * Hermaphrodite
 * Heroic Albino
 * Higher Tech Species
 * Horde of Alien Locusts
 * Hordes From the East
 * Horror Hunger
 * Human Mom Nonhuman Dad
 * Humanoid Abomination
 * Human Outside, Alien Inside
 * Humans Are Psychic in The Future
 * Humans Through Alien Eyes
 * Hybrid Monster
 * Immortal Procreation Clause
 * Individuality Is Illegal
 * Informed Wrongness
 * Inhumanly Beautiful Race
 * Instant AI, Just Add Water
 * The Jersey Devil
 * Last of His Kind
 * The Legions of Hell
 * Lilliputians
 * Little People
 * Living Shadow
 * Mechanical Lifeforms
 * Metamorphosis Monster
 * Mole Men
 * Monster Mash
 * Monster Modesty
 * Monster Progenitor
 * Muggle and Magical Love Triangle
 * Multi-Armed and Dangerous
 * Multi Armed Multitasking
 * Multiple Head Case
 * Muppet
 * Mutants
 * Nature Spirit
 * Mother Nature
 * Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrid
 * Non-Human Sidekick
 * Non-Malicious Monster
 * Not Growing Up Sucks
 * Not Rare Over There
 * Oculothorax
 * One-Gender Race
 * One-Winged Angel
 * Operator Incompatibility
 * Oracular Head
 * Our Ancestors Are Superheroes
 * Paradox Person
 * People in Rubber Suits
 * Physical God
 * Picky People Eater
 * Brain Food
 * Planet of Hats
 * Protocol Peril
 * Proud Warrior Race Guy
 * Pure Magic Being
 * Purity Personified
 * Raised By Wolves
 * Remote Body
 * Replicant Snatching
 * Reptiles Are Abhorrent
 * Ridiculously Human Robots
 * The Right of a Superior Species
 * Robot Girl
 * Sand Worm
 * 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, AIs, etc.)
 * Son of an Ape
 * Spaceship Girl
 * Starfish Aliens
 * Starfish Language
 * Starfish Robots
 * Stronger With Age
 * Sufficiently Advanced Alien
 * Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids
 * Super Registration Act
 * Telepathic Spacemen
 * Thank the Maker
 * This Thing You Call Love
 * Token Heroic Orc
 * Token Non-Human
 * Transhuman
 * Unnecessarily Creepy Robot
 * Uncanny Valley
 * Unusual Ears
 * Van Helsing Hate Crimes
 * Vein O Vision
 * Viral Transformation
 * The Virus
 * The Corruption
 * Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere
 * Was Once a Man
 * We Have Those, Too
 * 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