Basic Trope: A character that might look human, but is far beyond human comprehension.
- Straight: Mr Evulz looks almost human, but has an unusual skin color, the ability to warp reality around himself, and doesn't care about humanity's notion of right and wrong or their safety.
- Exaggerated:
- Mr. Evulz is an omnipotent, sociopathic creature of humanoid but deformed appearance.
- Mr. Evulz looks identical to a human, and could easily be mistaken for one, but is also a sociopathic Reality Warper.
- Mr. Evulz looks like a human, but it's heavily implied that he's at minimum, 65 million years old.
- Physical God
- Downplayed: Mr. Evulz appears quite a nice and friendly person to anyone who talks to him, but has a bizarre sense of morality that, when combined with even weirder paranormal powers that Evulz displays every now and then, make a few wonder if Evulz really is human at all.
- Justified:
- Mr. Evulz is a human-like alien (or at the very least a bipedal one) whose combination of advanced technology and strange biology makes him look like a terrifying monster.
- Mr. Evulz is a Cosmic Entity that took a human form to safely interact with them, since his true form is too terrifying and weird for anyone to understand.
- Mr. Evulz is the child of a mortal human and an Eldritch Abomination.
- Mr. Evulz is a fairy.
- Mr. Evulz is a Transhuman Abomination who Was Once a Man, but has somehow been altered significantly but retaining some characteristics of a human.
- Mr. Evulz is Nyarlathotep.
- Inverted:
- Mr. Evulz is completely inhuman, but he's so weak and pathetic compared to the human race that, for him, we are the abominations.
- Mr. Evulz appears as something similar to an Eldritch Abomination and might even be mistaken as one, but in reality is a human.
- Subverted:
- Mr. Evulz looks like a powerful monster in human form, but that's all an elaborate prank to scare a few children and teenagers that annoy him.
- Mr. Evulz is indeed a bizarre quasi-deity with access to powers and eldritch knowledge beyond mortal ken, a fact that his terrifying appearance makes clear. Mentally, however, he's completely relatable to most humans, and mingles with them freely.
- Double Subverted:
- ... that's what he wants you to believe until it's too late to run.
- Despite his friendly nature however, Mr Evulz’s own off-putting actions, like the fact that he sometimes forgets to breathe and stands as perfectly still as a statue when his attention is piqued tend to make his presence extremely unnerving.
- Parodied: Mr. Evulz looks like a person with terrifying powers, but he only uses them to play pranks on people.
- Zig Zagged: Mr. Evulz appears to have supernatural powers and a bizarre sense of honor, but no one is sure if Evulz is an actual supernatural being or just a skilled illusionist trying to manipulate them.
- Averted: Mr. Evulz has nothing unnatural about him and is just a regular person.
- Enforced:
- The author wants to create a terrifying villain for his horror novel, and chooses one that looks quite humanoid, since the more "ordinary" the appearance of the villain, the creepier he becomes.
- The villain in the original novel is an Eldritch Abomination, but the producers want to use a human actor for the role since it saves a lot of money in special effects.
- Lampshaded:Bob: Mr. Evulz is a hell of a lot creepier than he looks!
Alice: Really, Bob? What tipped you off? His clown clothes and blue skin? His discussions on how the ability to sing is the best way to determine the value of a person? Or it would be the fact that he screws the laws of physics like a sex doll?- "What kind of man are you?" "I am not all parts of one man. I am one part of all men."
- Invoked:
- Evulz decides on a creepy humanoid form to terrify humans.
- Evuls assumes a human shape to interact with human beings better, but he's not the best at replicating human behavior and bits of his true nature constantly slip out.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Evulz refuses to choose a humanoid form because humanoid bodies are too weak.
- Deconstructed: Mr Evulz attempts to blend into a public place, but had forgotten how humans properly socialise, move, and behave. As a result, when he constructs a human body and tries to blend in, his rail-thin frame, odd mannerisms, the fact that he doesn’t walk so much as slide across the ground and the resulting terror of the people around him blows his cover almost immediately.
- Reconstructed: Aware of just how much he bungled his attempt at blending in, he retreats into hiding and remembers when he Was Once a Man, resolves to learn from his mistakes and thus, re-emerges into the public eye with a much more human appearance, his unnatural features and behaviour toned down to more tolerable, subtle levels. This ensures his pursuers would be hard-pressed to spot him amongst a crowd of people and allows him to escape them.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played For Laughs:
- Mr. Evulz' bizarre mindset, happy childhood and the magic of television have rendered him a sweet, gentle soul who wouldn't harm a fly. He's morally head and shoulders over the actual humans, taking all their crap with a smile. He then gets a job as a Page in a prominent TV studio, where (almost) everyone dismisses him as an eccentric.
- There's a Running Gag in the story where people are genuinely shocked to learn of Mr. Evulz's true nature despite his uncanny appearance and blatant use of eldritch powers. Or, maybe it's a running gag that even occult experts do not notice anything at all.
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