History Main / LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces

* ''LightNovel/HaiToGensouNoGrimgar'': There are humans, elfs, dwarfs, goblins, kobolds, gnomes, ash elfs, undead, centaurs, a fish people called sahuagins, giants, a hybrid orcs named mugow, trolls, fox man called runaruka, a race similar to hobbit called Korrigan and gremlins, all that in grimgar, in other continents there is more, like people with three eyes and more, more races and let's not talk about the other worlds there many, many, many, many more.

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* China Miéville's ''Literature/BasLagCycle'' has at least 15 sapient races (and possibly several more whose identity as separate species or merely cultures hasn't been made clear), and that's not counting multiple types of undead, self-aware DungeonPunk robots, Demons, elementals and Wyrmen who seem to be a borderline case.

* The ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' setting contains millions of different "clades." Most of these are terragen (descended from Earth life) and include HumanSubspecies (some of which look more like StarfishAliens) and [[UpliftedAnimal provolved animals]]. There're also AIs, cyborgs, robots, sentient vehicles, and at least 17 extant xenosophont species that have been identified, and only about a 10,000 light-year radius sphere of the galaxy has been explored.
* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', several fleshed-out races exist in the world:

** [[ProudScholarRaceGuy Lefein]]. Look deceptively like humans yet live for thousands of years. They're collectors of wisdom and are at home with various machines which they keep inventing.

** OurOrcsAreDifferent: Orcs here are ProudWarriorRaceGuy with [[PigMan porcine features]]. While their unsavory reputation as savage raiders is both justified and [[GreyAndGreyMorality not as clear-cut as it appears]], they value courage, strength, and honesty and dislike cowardice. Senshi is on relatively good terms with the orcs, which in turn make them treat the party relatively well. They have different standards of beauty than other humanoid races; according to them, elves are hideous.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek''. The humans, the Vulcans (SpaceElves), the Romulans (the Vulcans' nastier cousins [So... Space Drow?]), the Klingons ([[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race Guys]]), the Borg (BeePeople), the Bajorans ([[ReligiousBruiser Religious]] [[LaResistance Revolutionaries]]), the Cardassians ([[PlanetOfHats spies and assassins]]), and the Ferengi ([[SpaceJews interstellar merchants]]) are the most prominent ones. A lot more that turn up only in individual episodes or plot arcs, and others are represented by a main character (Betazoids, Trill, Denobulans...) The ''Enterprise'' crew encounters a new alien race not quite OnceAnEpisode. [[JustifiedTrope Of course, that's their]] ''mission''. The result is a galaxy populated by at least hundreds if not thousands of races, of which all but a very few seem to be either HumanAliens, RubberForeheadAliens, or SpaceElves.

** Asuras, sometimes call Titans and Giants, are a ProudWarriorRaceGuy who are in constant war. Despite this its realm is not considered to be hellish, on the opposite is one of the three "upper" realms[[note]]The "upper realms" are those where suffering is the least; human, Deva and Asura, whilst those where the suffering is greater are animal, Pretta and Hell. It is often said that you can only attain Nirvana in the Upper Realms as animals can't fully comprehend Dharma and the other two suffer too much. However this is the reason why be born as human is considered also to be the best condition. Devas and Asuras can practice and learn Dharma, and attain Nirvana if they want to, but few do as in the case of Devas they are involved in so much luxury and pleasure that rarely look for spiritual practice and the Asuras are too involved in war[[/note]] and is said to be the place were violent people reborn.

* The ''Franchise/UltraSeries''. Along with its numerous {{Kaiju}}, it's also had plenty of aliens (referred as Seijin, meaning Star-People) over its [[LongRunners nearly 50 year run]]. While the original ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' and the preceding but lesser-known ''Series/UltraQ'' had some, it wasn't until the largely-{{Kaiju}}less ''Series/{{Ultraseven}}'' that the aliens became a regular part of the show. To name the most well-known, we've got Baltan Seijin, Metron Seijin, Zarab Seijin, Gutz Seijin, Knuckle Seijin, Temperor Seijin, Dada Seijin, Mephilas Sejin, Magma Seijin, Babalou Seijin, Hipporito Seijin, and Valky Seijin. [[LongList Phew!]]

* Just about every [[StockDinosaurs Stock Dinosaur]] (and even more Non-Stock Dinosaur) species has made an appearance on the island of Literature/{{Dinotopia}}.

* Buddhist cosmology is basically split as follows: there are six realms; human, animal, Deva, Asura, Pretta (hungry spirits) and Hell. Each of these realms is both a state of mind and a physical place (except for humans and animals who share the same location) however there are several sub-realms. Prettas are constantly hungry spirits who can be both living in their own ghostly realm or living invisible among us, and although not as bad as a hell is the second to worst fate. Hell is inhabited by both denizens in constant suffering and demons who torture them and there are up to ten with different environments (for example of cold, water, fire etc). None of these life forms is perpetual, they all would die and be rebirth again in another realm and is said that we all probably were reborn in one at least once. The only irreversible status is Enlightenment. Once attained, there are three types of Enlighted Beings; Arhats, Boddhisatvas and Buddhas.

** [[TheFairFolk Faerfolk]]. Mysterious protectors of the forests, they and elves have a connection. They possess fey magick which can be beneficial or dangerous to anyone who comes across them depending on circumstances.

* Creator/HPLovecraft mentioned or sometimes showed a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elements_of_the_Cthulhu_Mythos#Beings few dozen aliens and other unpleasant things]] that [[EldritchAbomination want to drive you insane, then eat you]] in the Franchise/CthulhuMythos. Subsequent authors and co-writer have expanded this greatly. That's not even getting into the godlike deity-aliens. Overall there are at least 30 intelligent races described.

The differences between each race also need not be incredibly large, and they might not even be entirely separate species. So long as the creater of a work makes a point of distinguishing between them in more than just culture, all of the races could be similar-looking HumanAliens.

* ''LightNovel/HaiToGensouNoGrimgar'': There are humans, elfs, dwarfs, goblins, kobolds, gnomes, ash elfs, undead, centaurs, a fish people called sahuagins,giants, a hibrid orcs named mugow, trolls, fox man called runaruka, a race similiar to hobbit called Korrigan and gremlins, all that in grimgar, in other continents there is more, like people with three eyes and more, more races and let's not talk about the other worlds there many, many, many, many more.

** Pure Lands are the opposite of Hells, in the sense that they are places of peace and confortability where the very lucky ones can reborn to practice Dharma in the best circumtances and attain Nirvana easily. However Pure Lands are not from the original canon and are believe to exist only from some branches, and are not a seventh realm they are part of the human realm as their denizens are mostly human, but can't be sense or reach by normal physical means, working more like a paradise PocketDimension. Pure Land Buddhism focus on reaching them after death.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' has a massive ammount colorful and unique races. The ones with bigger focus on them in the main platformer series alone are Humans, Toads, Koopas, [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld Yoshis]], [[VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine Piantas]] and [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy Lumas]], with many other minor friendly ones here and there. The sentient races that tend to stick to the {{Mook}} side of things add Goombas, Koopa Troopas (and their many variations), Lakitus, Shy Guys, Boos, Bob-ombs, and several others to the list. Take into account the races added by [[VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG the]] [[VideoGame/PaperMario RPG]] [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi subseries]], the many, many spin-offs, and the {{Shared Universe}}s with the ''Franchise/DonkeyKong'' and ''[[VideoGame/WarioLand Wario]]'' [[VideoGame/WarioWare series]], and the numbers skyrocket faster than you can say ''"Mamma Mia!"''.

** [[TheFairFolk Faerfolc]]. Mysterious protectors of the forests, they and elves have a connection. They possess fey magick which can be beneficial or dangerous to anyone who comes across them depending on circumstances.

** [[CatFolk Itica]]. Humanoid cat people who live a wandering lifestyle althouh other races rarely see them due to their preference to stay out of people's businesses. They have sharp senses.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', in addition to having eight PC races, also has the Garleans, an NPC race who hail from TheEmpire. There are also numerous Beastman races that appear over the course of the story, from hostile races such as the lizard-like Amal'jaa, the insectoid Gnath, and the snake-like Ananta to friendlier races such as [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter the Moogles]], [[WolfMan the Lupin]], and [[TurtlePower the Kojin]], as well as others of indeterminate temperament, from the small mercantile Namazu to the massive dragons of Draviania, just to name a few.

* The ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' film series (and especially the [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness TV show]]) utilizes pretty much the entire Chinese animal kingdom, including some species that you've [[SeldomSeenSpecies probably never heard of.]]

* China Miéville's ''Literature/BasLagCycle'' has at least 15 sapient races (and possibly several more whose identity as separate sepcies or merely cultures hasn't been made clear), and that's not counting multiple types of undead, self-aware DungeonPunk robots, Demons, elementals and Wyrmen who seem to be a borderline case.

* ''Literature/InCryptid'' mentions at one point that there are over 900 known cryptid species, over 80 of which are humanoid (not counting non-humanoid sapients like Aeslin mice). Even limiting it to sapient species who actually appear in the series, there are lilu, johrlac, bogeymen, three species of gorgons, lamia, chupacabra, ukupani, huldra, tanuki, waheela, fūri, jorōgumo, wadjet, dragon princesses, finfolk, sirens, sasquatch, ghouls, jinks, cornwives, caladrius, sylphs, mara, plus many unnamed species...

* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', several fleshed out races exist in the world:

** {{Kitsune}}. Shapeshifting magical foxes who are often confused for demons. Guardians of lost knowledge and bardic songs, they're a musical and mischievous race who can just as easily be benevolent or malevolent depending on the circumstances.

* While ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has [[MassiveRaceSelection 23 playable races]] as of ''Shadowlands'', the series has almost a hundred more unplayable races, with more and more added in every expansion. These include [[OurOgresAreHungrier ogres]], mogu, [[SnakePeople naga]], tol'vir, [[SpiderPeople nerubians]], [[BirdPeople arakkoa]], [[SlayingMantis mantids]], wolvar, [[EnergyBeing ethereals]], jinyu, [[WarmHeartedWalrus tuskarr]], [[LizardFolk saurok]], [[BigCreepyCrawlies qiraji]], [[BearsAreBadNews furbolgs]], kobolds, hozen, gnolls, [[PigMan quilboars]], grummles, [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpies]], murlocs, and so on.

A subtrope of LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' not only has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters but Loads And Loads Of Races as well, with at least one representative from any {{youkai}} ZUN wants to add. The first Windows era game only contains humans, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], fairies, a MageSpecies, and what is [[WildMassGuessing heavily suspected to be]] a Chinese dragon. However, other games introduce animals-turned-youkai, humans-turned-youkai, [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]], demons, [[OurAngelsAreDifferent celestials]], [[PhysicalGod gods]], [[SpaceElves Lunarians]], a {{shinigami}}, {{kappa}}, {{tengu}}, and [[HumanoidAbomination whatever the hell Yukari is]], and the list goes on.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek''. The humans, the Vulcans (SpaceElves), the Romulans (the Vulcans' nastier cousins [So... Space Drow?]), the Klingons ([[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race Guys]]), the Borg (BeePeople), the Cardassians ([[PlanetOfHats spies and assassins]]), and the Ferengi ([[SpaceJews interstellar merchants]]) are the most prominent ones. A lot more that turn up only in individual episodes or plot arcs, and others are represented by a main character (Betazoids, Trill, Denobulans...) The ''Enterprise'' crew encounters a new alien race not quite OnceAnEpisode. [[JustifiedTrope Of course, that's their]] ''mission''. The result is a galaxy populated by at least hundreds if not thousands of races, of which all but a very few seem to be either HumanAliens, RubberForeheadAliens, or SpaceElves.

* Franchise/TheDCU has a high number of sentient races. Humans, [[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} Atlantians]], [[Franchise/WonderWoman Gorgons]], [[Franchise/TheFlash Calorians ("Super Gorillas")]], [[WitchSpecies Homo Magi]], [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Merfolk]] and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Werewolves]] are earth residents across continuities. Extraterrestrials include [[ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} Coluans]], [[ComicBook/{{Valor}} Daxamites]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Durlans]], [[ProudWarriorRace Khunds]], [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Kreel]], [[ComicBook/{{Sinestro}} Korugarans]], [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle the Reach]], [[ComicBook/{{Starfire}} Tamaranians]] the last few [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kryptonians]] and [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter Martians]] along with innumerable others, with many represented in the Franchise/GreenLantern Corps. Then there are the many races which hail from other planes of reality like the [[TheFairFolk fey]] and gods.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' not only has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters but Loads And Loads Of Races as well, with at least one representative from any {{youkai}} ZUN wants to add. The first Windows era game only contains humans, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], fairies, a WitchSpecies, and what is [[WildMassGuessing heavily suspected to be]] a Chinese dragon. However, other games introduce animals-turned-youkai, humans-turned-youkai, [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]], demons, [[OurAngelsAreDifferent celestials]], [[PhysicalGod gods]], [[SpaceElves Lunarians]], a {{shinigami}}, {{kappa}}, {{tengu}}, and [[HumanoidAbomination whatever the hell Yukari is]], and the list goes on.

** Non-playable/historical BeastMan Races include the Bird Men (extinct BirdPeople native to ancient Cyrodiil who were hunted to extinction by the [[CatFolk Khajiit]]), Dreugh ([[FishPeople humanoid octopi]] who once possessed far greater intelligence and were said to have ruled the world at one point during the [[TimeOfMyths Dawn Era]], the Imga (Altmer-loving intelligent great apes native to Valenwood), Lilmothiit (extinct "fox folk" formerly native to the Black Marsh), Minotaurs (half-human [[ALoadOfBull half-bulls]] who trace their ancestry to the offspring produced by the first human Empress of Tamriel and her [[DivineDate bull demi-god lover]]), and the Sload (emotionless, isolationist, "slug-men" native to the Thras archipelago to the southwest of Tamriel).

* The ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' film series (and especially the [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness TV show]]) utilizes pretty much the entire Chinese animal kingdom, including some species that you've [[SeldomSeenSpecies probably never heard of.]]

* While ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has [[MassiveRaceSelection 23 playable races]] as of ''Shadowlands'', the series has almost a hundred more unplayable races, with more and more added in every expansion. These include [[OurOgresAreHungrier ogres]], mogu, [[SnakePeople naga]], tol'vir, [[SpiderPeople nerubians]], [[BirdPeople arakkoa]], [[SlayingMantis mantids]], wolvar, [[EnergyBeing ethereals]], jinyu, [[WarmHeartedWalrus tuskarr]], [[LizardFolk saurok]], [[BigCreepyCrawlies qiraji]], [[BearsAreBadNews furbolgs]], kobolds, [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys hozen]], gnolls, [[PigMan quilboars]], grummles, [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies harpies]], murlocs, and so on.

** The continent of [[{{Wutai}} Akavir]], far to the east of Tamriel, has four (known) races of its own: the Ka Po' Tun "[[CatFolk Tiger Folk]]", the Tsaesci "[[SnakePeople Snake Vampires]]", the Tang Mo "[[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Monkey Folk]]", and the Kamal "[[EvilIsDeathlyCold Snow Demons]]".

* Franchise/TheDCU has a high number of seintient races. Humans, [[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} Atlantians]], [[Franchise/WonderWoman Gorgons]], [[Franchise/TheFlash Calorians ("Super Gorillas")]], [[WitchSpecies Homo Magi]], [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Merfolk]] and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Werewolves]] are earth residents across continuities. Extraterrestrials include [[ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} Coluans]], [[ComicBook/{{Valor}} Daxamites]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Durlans]], [[ProudWarriorRace Khunds]], [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Kreel]], [[ComicBook/{{Sinestro}} Korugarans]], [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle the Reach]], [[ComicBook/{{Starfire}} Tamaranians]] the last few [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kryptonians]] and [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter Martians]] along with innumerable others, with many represented in the Franchise/GreenLantern Corps. Then there are the many races which hail from other planes of reality like the [[TheFairFolk fey]] and gods.

* Seems to be the case in ''Fanfic/TheParselmouthOfGryffindor'', to Hermione's [[ZombieAdvocate growing dismay]], between regular sapient species whom the Ministry of Magic overlooks (goblins, giants, dementors, serpents, etc.) to artifical beings (portraits, gargoyles, the Sorting Hat) to the more confusing creatures that can become sapient, but aren't always, like owls and boggarts.

** BeastMan: Aside from the above mentioned kobolds, individuals known as "beastkin" exist who have their souls bound to an animal's by TheDarkArts, either turning them into half-animal chimeras permanently or allowing them to turn back and force.

* Creator/StevenErikson's ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' is brimming with them. In addition to baseline humans, you have the [[{{Precursors}} Four Founding Races]] -- [[LizardFolk the K'Chain Che'Malle]], [[KnightTemplar the Forkrul Assail]], [[OurOrcsAreDifferent the Jaghut]], and [[DemBones the T'lan Imass]] who used to be that {{verse}}s [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals cavemen]] before becoming collectively {{undead}}. There are also the K'Chain Nah'ruk, the K'Chain Che'Malle's ServantRace which rebelled. Then you have [[OurElvesAreDifferent the three Tiste races]]: Tiste Andii, Tiste Edur and Tiste Liosan, who are alien to the planet on which most of the series is set and who are known as the Children of Darkness, Shadow and Light, respectively. Then you have the [[OurGiantsAreBigger Tartheno Thelomen Toblakai]], who have splintered into various offshoot races, most notably the Teblor, and are themselves descended from [[AllTrollsAreDifferent the Thel Akai]]. Then you've got a bunch of nonhumans who are part of the same general family as humans and their actual evolutional predecessors, the Imass, including the Barghast and the Moranth. Then you've got the Great Ravens and the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Eleint]], both of which are sentient races. Finally, there's a whole plethora of sentient demons. This is justified, however, by the creators of the {{verse}} both being archaeologists and anthropologists and knowing ''exacly'' what they were doing when they created the setting, and evolution is an important factor in the development of all those different races, despite having a fantastic spin to their origins which includes [[PantheonSitcom a bunch of Elder Gods]] [[TheMaker playing creators]].

* ''LightNovel/HaiToGensouNoGrimgar'': There are humans, elfs, dwarfs, goblins, kobolds, gnomes, ash elfs, undead, centaurs, a fish people called sahuagins,giants, a hibrid orcs named mugow, trolls, fox man called runaruka, a race similiar to hobbit called Korrigan and gremlins, all that in grimgar, in other continents there is more, like people with three eyes and more, more races and let's no talk fromthe other worlds there many, many, many, many more.