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When a character [[What Have I Become?|feels they are not human]], due to a [[Emergency Transformation|certain]] [[Baleful Polymorph|situation]] [[Vampire Refugee|that]] [[Karmic Transformation|occurred]], they may ask [[What Have I Become?]] and declare themselves as a monster or a freak. When the character is either [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?|not human]] or is a [[Half -Human Hybrid]], they may feel like a monster if others are scared of them or call them a freak. This trope can also apply to non human characters as well as long as something about them makes them stick out compared to other characters who are the same race/species. If a character utters [[My God, What Have I Done?]] (if they killed or hurt someone for example), this will very likely be followed up by [[I Am a Monster]] and declare themselves not human for doing such a sinful act. Once a character call themselves a monster, they will most likely tell supporting characters to back off and stay away from them so that they won't be hurt or hurt further.
 
"[[Be Yourself]]" may not be good advice here.
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'''SPOILERS AHOY''' for [[The Reveal|non-human and half-human characters]].
{{examples|Examples:}}
 
* At the end of day 2 in ''[[Parasite Eve]]'' Aya starts to grow afraid that because of her powers being similar to [[Big Bad|Eve]] (Aya is a human while Eve is a mutated human whose mitochondria have changed her), she may become a monster like her.
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* Alex in ''[[Madagascar]]'' says this once his lion instincts start kicking in out of hunger, and his friends start turning into [[Meat O Vision]] steaks.
* Blackarachnia of ''[[Transformers Animated (Animation)|Transformers Animated]]'' believes herself to be a freak and a monster due to her partially organic robot form (the result of using her powers while damaged by a giant alien spider's venom -- really), and subsequently joins the Decepticons and reinvents herself as a [[Femme Fatale]]. However, a lot of it [[Cursed With Awesome|seems to be in her head]], as she now posesses a number of spider-related powers in addition to her original abilities, and most of the non-Decepticon Transformers she encounters seem to find her [[Evil Is Sexy|smokin']] [[Freaky Is Cool|hot]].
* White Mage in [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/07/07/episode-867-night-and-day/ this] ''[[Eight 8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' strip.
** And in a literal example, [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2008/09/06/episode-1034-adjustment-period/ Red Mage].
* Vash from ''[[Trigun]]'' feels directly responsible for [[Evil Counterpart|Knives]]'s crimes and it is strongly hinted that he believes that independent plants are monsters who pose a direct treat to humankind. In the manga, he is terrified of their potential uses of plant power and is shown struggling with the ethical implications of his existence and Knives's. He even thinks at least twice that they shouldn't exist: at the end of the {{spoiler|Jenora Rock incident}}, he thinks that Knives and him {{spoiler|shouldn't have been born}}. At the end of the manga, he also tells Knives of {{spoiler|his decision that they should both die together because they are too powerful and have no place in the future of Gunsmoke}}. (Ironically, though, Vash and Knives are [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|strongly implied to be (fallen) angels come to pose judgement on humankind]]--which is what Wolfwood seems to believe.)
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** [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/470766 * wink!* ]
* A slight variation appears in ''[[Fire Emblem]] 8'', said by Myrrh to Saleh in their A support:
{{quote| '''Myrrh:''' It's because I'm a dragon. My father explained it to me. [[Half -Human Hybrid|We are both human and monster.]] And because we are both, we are also neither. [. . .] We have the power of dragons; therefore, we cannot live together with humans... We have the hearts of humans; therefore, we do not belong with monsters. We are outcasts in this world, never a part of either community. And so we live our lives alone, never to be understood by anyone.}}
* When {{spoiler|the Operative says the exact words of the trope title to Mal}} in Serenity, that is not an example of the trope. But when {{spoiler|River tells Simon after the brawl on Beaumonde that she should just put a bullet in her brainpan}} that is.
* Sousuke from ''[[Full Metal Panic]]'', especially in the novels, has instances where he thinks that others must think he's a monster for [[The Stoic|killing so many people and not feeling anything]]. In the novels, Kaname {{spoiler|actually starts thinking he is, reacting by flinching away from him and telling him he scares her}}.
* In the first season finale of [[Code Geass]], Lelouch and [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|CC]] have a discussion about this. CC reveals that everyone called her a witch because of her {{spoiler|immortality}}, to which Lelouch responds, "If you are a witch, then I am a warlock."
* From "Re: Your Brains" by [[Jonathan Coulton]]:
{{quote| I'm not a monster, Tom<br />
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{{quote| '''Magma:''' No, I'm not a hero. I'm an accident. Heroes had a choice, we had none. }}
* Dan from ''[[Dan and Mabs Furry Adventures|DMFA]]'', who has feared this since {{spoiler|learning his mother was a succubus and his own 'Cubi abilities emerging}}. This may be self-fulfilling, since Dan has been told by multiple people that not learning to control his new abilities (Dan refuses to attend the school {{spoiler|the 'Cubi}} have set up for just that purpose) dramatically increasing the chance that he'll lose control and become the monster he fears.
* In the [[Final Fantasy VII]] prequel ''Crisis Core'', {{spoiler|Angeal displays his degeneration-wing and announces that he's become a monster.}} Zack, the protagonist, replies that {{spoiler|[[But Your Wings Are Beautiful|it is the wing of an angel]]}}. [[One -Winged Angel|Not that it's *that* reassuring]]...
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Angeal:'''}} Don't monsters usually want either world domination or revenge?}}
** He later ''[[Invoked Trope|invokes]]'' the '[[What Measure Is a Non -Human?|makes it easier to kill 'em]]' facet of [[One -Winged Angel]] in order to make his protegee deliver him an honorable [[Suicide By Cop|Suicide By SOLDIER]].
*** This is [[What the Hell, Hero?|rather cruel of him]], but compared to [[Omnicidal Maniac|the other two]] he's practically a saint.
* Setsuna, ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'s'' local [[Heroic Albino|albino]] [[Half -Human Hybrid|half]]-[[Ravens and Crows|tengu]] [[Hunter of His Own Kind|demon hunter]], has severe personal issues about her past. This is somewhat fixed by Konoka going [[But Your Wings Are Beautiful]] and Setsuna becoming an fairly importent part of Negi's Nakama.
** As of chapter 288, {{spoiler|Negi himself}} feels this way after {{spoiler|seeing his [[Super -Powered Evil Side]] in a dream}}.
* As the page quote indicates, this is actually a survival mechanism in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game)|Vampire: The Masquerade]]''. Since you're now a vampire, you're going to have to assault people for blood. You can do it secretly as part of seduction, or you can do it in a flat-out ambush, but odds are, they never asked for it. But by admitting that what you're doing is awful and knowing when to stop, that keeps you from seeing killing as "just another thing" and losing yourself to [[Enemy Within|the Beast]]. Well, unless you're [[Always Chaotic Evil|Sabbat]], in which case, good luck.
** Not quite. The quote's meaning is closer to "I hunt humans and drink their blood so I don't turn into a mindless, frenzied beast in desperate hunger, because that's not pleasant for anybody." It's one part [[I Am a Monster]], one part [[I Did What I Had to Do]].
* The intro of ''[[Prototype (Video Game)|Prototype]]'':
{{quote| '''Alex Mercer:''' My name is Alex Mercer. I'm responsible for all of this. They call me a murderer, a terrorist, a monster. I'm all of these things.}}
* In ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]'', once she's in the throes of full-blown [[Ax Crazy|Ax Craziness]], {{spoiler|Shion}} has a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment after a particularly barbaric act, then promptly declares this as [[Ignored Epiphany|an excuse to go slaughter some more innocents]].
** In Someutsushi-hen, {{spoiler|Natsumi}} decides the exact same thing in a similar state, after {{spoiler|having tried to strangle her boyfriend}}. It ends about as well as the other case.
* Played with in the manga Takumi Dash. Takumi plays this straight in the series proper, but in the one volume long Mirror Universe, his counterpart has a very different view on being [[Blessed With Suck]].
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* This seems to be the near constant mindset of [[Morbius]] which he's more than willing to [[Wangst|monologue about]].
* [[The Wolfman|I am what they say I am...a monster]]
* {{spoiler|Jack}}, one of the [[Half -Human Hybrid|half-human]] protagonists of ''[[Morphic (Fanfic)|Morphic]]'', [[Driven to Suicide|considers suicide]] because of this trope. {{spoiler|He's [[Interrupted Suicide|talked out of it]] by Gabriel, a former [[Nice Guy]] who just [[Playing With Fire|set a villain on fire]] and [[Blood Knight|discovered that he liked it]]. The way Gabriel sees it, if Jack's a monster, Gabriel's far worse--so he won't let Jack die for his supposed evil.}}
* In [[John Dies At the End]], {{spoiler|Dave}} discovers that he is actually {{spoiler|an "evil" clone that killed and replaced the real Dave}}, and has been this way for quite a while. After this revelation, his friends don't let him be alone for fear that he might try to kill himself. {{spoiler|Again. His friends are aware that he's only done good deeds up to that point (aside from killing the real Dave, which he has no memory of), and eventually convince him to live. In the end, it turns out to not really matter, and his true nature only comes up occasionally when John jokingly refers to him as Monster Dave.}}
* ''[[Dexter]]'' has become so comfortable with the notion that he's a monster that he usually just mentions it in passing, cracking [[Inner Monologue]] jokes about it. The most dramatic it ever gets is when it occurs to him that he may not be as monstrous as he previously thought.
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