History Main / NotEvenHuman

* Oogie Boogie from ''WesterAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' dies shortly after TheReveal that he's only a big colony of bugs ''pretending'' to be a person. With slight WhatMeasureIsANonHuman issues, though, since those seem to be talking bugs anyway.

* This ''may'' be the case with ''Manga/OnePiece'''s Kaido of the Beasts. As one of the Four Emperors, he's definitely a contender for WorldsStrongestMan... but no one ever refers to him as a 'man'. He's called the strongest "creature" in existence (Whitebeard was the "strongest man"), and Charlotte Linlin (herself an Emperor) refers to him as "that thing". He has also shown the ability to turn into a dragon, which ''might not be a devil fruit power'' (Another character has the fruit that turns you into a dragon).

* It appears rather often on ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', and in one case the whole episode ("Mr. and Mrs. Witch") plays itself out without the Charmed Sisters ever becoming aware of it. The MonsterOfTheWeek is in fact a demon, but he appears to be a human CorruptCorporateExecutive. The demon is quite aware that the Charmed Ones won't kill him as long as they think he's human, and in fact the Charmed Ones never do find out. The demon is still vanquished by his superiors for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing to accomplish their evil plan]]; and in fact, the Charmed Sisters read about this evil executive's "suicide" in the newspaper, without ever being the wiser that this was a demon who they could have dealt with by vanquishing him.

** In the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2013 Nickelodeon]] series the Turtles have a lot of difficulty taking down a bunch of surprisingly tough guys in suits. Mickey only finds that they're robots when he's cornered by one and lashes out with his hidden blade in self defense. Once all the turtle s are a ware that they're robots they're much easier to defeat. Inverted with the Footbots, the ordinary human members start quitting after being beaten by the turtles so often so they're replaced with robots, who conceal lots of saw blades and are tougher to defeat in general.

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

See WhatMeasureIsANonCute and WhatMeasureIsANonHuman.

Compare JustAMachine, which deals with this trope specifically for robots. Contrast TheManBehindTheMonsters, where everyone ''but'' the leader is a non-human.

* In ''{{Hellsing}}'', [[spoiler:it turns out that the Major is a full-conversion cyborg. Subverted in that he still claims humanity because he has a human brain, and that his enemies would be perfectly willing to kill him if he were human anyway due to him being a Nazi nutjob leading an army of artificial vampires against London itself.]]

* In ''TeenTitansTroubleInTokyo'', Robin apparently kills one of Brushogun's {{mook}}s. When he gets arrested for the act, he tries to play this angle without success.

* In the Ursula Vernon webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', when the creepy figures with black wordbubbles serving a buried god are revealed to be ordinary living hyenas.

* In the 90s ''WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}}'' animated series, there were a few instances of MechaMooks looking human at first, and the heroes having to [[ThouShaltNotKill pull their punches]]... until one got hit a little too hard, [[RoboticReveal showed circuitry]]... and the heroes realized they could smash and bash at will. (Animated {{ComicBook/Wolverine}} ''loved'' discovering MechaMooks, it let him act more like his comic-book self who got to slice up ''real'' Mooks.)

* Inverted in an early Creator/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.

* ''Film/TheyLive''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard 3}}'' put's this trope to disturbing effect in Four's DLC story. She set's out on Gabriella to shot down some pirate ships, [[spoiler:only for it becoming clear upon arriving that it's ships full of elves who are desperately trying to flee. Gabriella calls out Four on this but simply get's the answer that since they are not human then all the more reason to shoot them down, since if they are not human then they have to be evil, and it is fine to kill evil people. All this ends up serving to make it perfectly clear just how [[TautologicalTemplar twisted Four's moral code]] really is.]]

* 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.]]
** Though this is more of a case of OneWingedAngel, since she's [[spoiler:not really a dragon normally.]]

When someone denies the humanity of genuinely human enemies in order to justify violence or mistreatment against them, it's {{dehumanization}} instead; the closeness of this trope to that one sometimes leads to UnfortunateImplications.

* Inverted in ''{{Vandread}}''. The idea of ''harvesting body parts from humans'' is so repulsive to the main characters that they assume their foes cannot be human. [[spoiler:They ''are'' human, and from ''Earth'' to boot.]]

* Almost all of the human(oid) villains in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFire2'' reveal themselves to be some kinda of monster before they're fought. For example a Crooked arena organizer turns into a two headed humanoid wolf when challenged.

* Shortly after [[{{Marvel 2099}} Doom 2099]] has taken over the US, he learns that Avatarr, CEO of Alchemax and one of the main {{Big Bad}}s of the 2099 universe, is in fact an alien trying to rule the world via {{Mega Corp}}s. Of course, Doom only learned this after he [[EyeScream shot the guy's eye out.]]

* In ''TeenTitansTroubleInTokyo'', one of Brushogun's {{mook}}s is eventually revealed to just be a sentient glob of ink. Unusually for this trope, this isn't a valid excuse to kill him-- Robin gets arrested for the act anyway.

* The White Witch from ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' is actually [[OurGeniesAreDifferent half Jinn]] and [[OurGiantsAreBigger half Giant]].
** In ''The Silver Chair'', the Green Witch turns into a giant snake, at which point Rilian believes it's all right to kill her. Though this isn't just because she's no longer human, but because she's no longer a human woman; Rilian WouldntHitAGirl.

{{Subtrope}} of {{Dehumanization}}.

* In ''{{Hellsing}}'', [[spoiler:it turns out that the Major is a full-conversion cyborg. Subverted in that he still claims humanity because he has a human brain, and that they would be perfectly willing to kill him if he were human anyway.]]

->''"It's not people we're fighting against here, but simply animals."
-->-- '''Diary of Wilhelm Prüller''', ''[[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons Heer]]'' soldier, written in {{UsefulNotes/Belarus}} on 4/7/1941 [[note]] translated by H.C.Robbins Landon[[/note]]

Compare JustAMachine, which deals with this trope specifically for robots. Contrast TheManBehindTheMonsters, where everyone ''but'' the leader is a non-human. When someone denies the humanity of genuinely human enemies in order to justify violence or mistreatment against them, it's {{dehumanization}} instead.

Compare JustAMachine, which deals with this trope specifically for robots. Contrast TheManBehindTheMonsters, where everyone ''but'' the leader is a non-human.

* In Manga/{{Naruto}}, this is the opinion many people have in regards to jinchuuriki, and people doing so is a serious BerserkButton for the titular Naruto.
** When Naruto powers his way into the 4th Ninja War, he's told that the enemy army consists of plant-monsters and undead ninja. His response is basically, "Good! Now I don't have to hold back!" In this case, it's more a matter of "The enemy won't die so I can beat on them with impunity."

* 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' ostensibly-human enemy Roach Coach was dropped from a massive height, provoking a scared response about how its not ok for them to kill humans, then he's revealed to be an intelligent roach manning a human robot. Whom they decide to keep in a jar.

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': "Holy smoke, he's a toon!" Normal toons aren't evil, but the reveal that the villain is one as well makes him both inhuman and much scarier in hindsight. He has been gleefully Dipping his own kind, and actually invented the chemical mixture that rendered his essentially-indestructible fellows vulnerable. Meaning this makes him even ''more'' of a monster than had he been human.\\