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This trope is also fueled by several out-of-universe factors. One, for example, is the [[Rule of Perception]]: You can only add so much [[Sculpted Physique|horrid detail]] to a monstrous creature before the design becomes busy and adding extra eyes, putrid tentacles, etc. just does not make that much of a visual impact any more. The only possible way left to get the audience's attention and signal "major change" is, paradoxically, to take all the monstrous features away. Also, drawing or rendering an ever-expanding monster is taxing in terms of resources; this is a particularly important consideration in animation or sequential art, where the same thing must be drawn over and over again -- so much so that in those mediums, you can probably expect the humanoid form to appear in more episodes than the monstrous form.

 

 

Compare [[The Man Behind the Monsters]] for an exogenous demonstration of this, and [[Crystal Spires and Togas]], which is more or less this trope applied to entire civilizations.

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