History Main / NotEvenHuman

* Every evil human being in the second ''Arc the Lad'' game turns into a monster of some sort before fighting the main characters.

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**** Actually, a lot of people back then who had slaves could do that. They legally ''owned'' them. And the slaves weren't even of a specific ethnic group or anything: they were war prisoners and kidnapped people from other lands. They could also earn freedom through hard work. In the old days, societies weren't as prejudiced. (*sniff* I miss the good ol' days. *sobs with nostalgia*)

* Inversion: ''The 13th Warrior''. The fact that the ImAHumanitarian monstrous attackers are human prompts the hero (and by extension, the audience) to be more horrified than when we thought they were monsters. After all, people have a choice.

** Well, it still allowed him to be treated a lot more brutally than a human character - no need to worry about blood and guts.

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* Inverted in an early HPLovecraft story, in which a man lost in a pitch-black cave hears something large and mysterious shuffling nearby and kills it with a rock. When his guide returns with a lantern to find him, they realize that the dying creature is a human being who'd been wandering in the cave for years, degenerating into an ape-like state.

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* ''Snake's Revenge'', the [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canonical]] NES sequel to the original ''MetalGear'', has Big Boss revealing at the end that he was forced to undergo a transformation into a cyborg in order to survive the injuries he sustained in the first game.

* Every evil human being in the second ''Arc the Lad'' game turns into a monster of some sort before fighting the main characters.

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*** This references an incident early in the New Teen Titans comic book. Starfire, newly arrived on earth and before learning the language, is involved in the Titans' action against some apparent drug smugglers: she blasts them to pieces. Tackled to the ground by Robin, she kisses him and learns the language. The point was that she casually killed several minor villains, who providentially turned out to be robots.

* Technically, Malificent of ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'' was never human to begin with, she's more of a dark fairy of somesort. To any rate, she does have a human-like appearance. As such, [[spoiler: in order for Philip to kill her in the final battle, she has to be transformed into a giant, fire-breathing dragon to make it 'okay' for her to get stabbed.]]

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[[caption-width:206:Johnny Turbo's unprovoked attack on FEKA is [[http://sardoose.rustedlogic.net/reviews/jturbo/index.htm vindicated]].]]

-->The Feka goons aren't just toothy blues brothers fanatics who want to sell a video game system. They go way beyond merely wanting to produce video games and make a profit. No, no. It's much more than that. They're not even human. Please take a moment and let that sink in. They're not even human. Just think about it - the weight behind this statement. In a last ditch effort to discredit Sega, the advertisers behind this atrocity decided that the best way to strike back at their biggest competitor was to make the argument that the people who made the {{Sega}}CD are evil, soulless, redeyed, communist robots who want to steal your money and eat your children. Oh my God indeed. Oh. My. God.
-->--''The Johnny Turbo Story''

**** Except that the Spartans' slaves, the Helots ''were'' an ethnic group, had absolutely no means of escaping their status, and killing one was a part of every Spartan boy's rite of manhood. Also, hundreds of them accompanied the fabled 300 warriors to the battlefield and died with them, but how often you hear about their sacrifice?

**** Actually, a lot of people back then who had slaves could do that. They legally ''owned'' them. And the slaves weren't even of a specific ethnic group or anything: they were war prisoners and kidnapped people from other lands. They could also earn freedom through hard work. In the old days, societies weren't as prejudiced. (*sniff* I miss the good ol' days. *sobs with nostalgia*)

This phrase actually shows up in comics a fair amount used by villains against heroes who are not technically human. Of course, from the reader's perspective they always fall on our side of WhatMeasureIsANonHuman, so it just makes it seem like sadists for being willing to torture a sentient being.

* Played straight AND inverted in an episode of the more modern "TheOuterLimits." A team of commandos is hunting a monster in the forest; said monster is very cunning and manages to kill all but one of the commandos, who is captured and taken to its lair. Turns out the monster is really a disheveled human. The reason why he's hunting people? The commandos, the people in the city, ''everyone'' is really an android; they overthrew humans long ago and copied their society.

* In ''{{Bionicle}}'', Kiina and Ackar are reluctant to kill the seemingly-humanoid Rahkshi. However, after one attacks Kiina, Ackar decapitates it and its {{WetwareCPU Kraata}} falls out, revealing that "They're just slugs in armour". Our heroes have no problem hacking them to pieces after that.

** And, in the case of Harry and his friends, it's also self defense, as he's trying to kill Harry.

* The White Witch from ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' is actually half [[OurGeniesAreDifferent half Jinn]] and [[OurGiantsAreBigger half Giant]].

** Although no one suggests that it's okay to kill him because of that, it seems it's okay for the heroes to try to kill him because he's a murdering psychopath specifically trying to kill Harry. And [[spoiler:: he eventually gets killed in self defense. Although destroying the horocruxes is, in a way, partially killing him, and that is not done in strict self-defense.]]
And, in the case of Harry and his friends, it's also self defense, as he's trying to kill Harry.

* ''MartianSuccessorNadesico'' pulls [[spoiler:a similar inversion [[TheReveal reveal]] to ''The 13th Warrior'', above, when it turns out the Jovians are really rebellious colonists with a lot of ImportedAlienPhlebotinum. And like ''The 13th Warrior'', this just turns Akito from "scared" to "pissed off"]]. In this case, it actually ''is'' an important plot point.

* Averted with [[spoiler: Doomsday. Everybody else is trying to convince Clark that his true form is a mindless killing machine, but Clark refuses to give up on the fact that there's a perfectly ordinary human/kryptonian/something that would be killed in the process.]]

-->The Feka goons aren't just toothy blues brothers fanatics who want to sell a video game system. They go way beyond merely wanting to produce video games and make a profit. No, no. It's much more than that. They're not even human. Please take a moment and let that sink in. They're not even human. Just think about it - the weight behind this statement. In a last ditch effort to discredit Sega, the advertisers behind this atrocity decided that the best way to strike back at their biggest competitor was to make the argument that the people who made the SegaCD are evil, soulless, redeyed, communist robots who want to steal your money and eat your children. Oh my God indeed. Oh. My. God.

TheReveal that the BigBad is actually not even human ([[OneWingedAngel or at least not anymore]]) but rather a monster, alien, [[RoboticReveal robot]], or some other manner of [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute non-cute]] and thus [[AlwaysChaoticEvil evil]] and [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman okay to kill after all]].

* ''TheLawnmowerMan'' brings up the trope by name near the end.

* Subverted in ''MegaMan 2''. In the final battle, Dr. Wily reveals himself to be an alien of some sort, but after defeating him you find that the alien was really just a hologram that Wily controlled from a machine in the corner of the room.

* Dr. Doom in countless appearances anywhere in the MarvelUniverse will turn out to be a Doombot. In ''{{Runaways}}'', [[spoiler: it was a Doombot working for Ultron.]]

* Also inverted in the ''{{Supernatural}}'' episode "The Benders," where it turns out that [[spoiler:a family of hillbillies, not a MonsterOfTheWeek,]] has been abducting and killing people. Dean said it best:

** It should be noted that this episode aired nearly a year before the ''{{Torchwood}}'' episode, and yet they're [[FollowTheLeader strangely similar]].

* Played straight AND Inverted in an episode of the more modern "TheOuterLimits." A team of commandos is hunting a monster in the forest; said monster is very cunning and manages to kill all but one of the commandos, who is captured and taken to its lair. Turns out the monster is really a disheveled human. The reason why he's hunting people? The commandos, the people in the city, ''everyone'' is really an android; they overthrew humans long ago and copied their society.