A list of deities representing specific races and/or creatures. The "Creatures" are listed in alphabetical order, and the "Characters" are listed from House to House. Starting from the House of Ambiguity to the House of Weapons.
Ascended companies will be sorted by the species of all of its staff.
Warning: Beware of unmarked spoilers referring to the identity of certain characters.
Types of Humans
The most common kind of creature in the Pantheon is the Homo sapiens, since Most Writers Are Human. That said, with so damn many of them, categories are required, first being the non-Empowered, and the Empowered.
- To count as a non-Empowered Human, one should not have any supernatural or technological powers of any sort instilled in their body (except perhaps enhanced strength, durability, stamina, resilience, or instincts through Charles Atlas Superpower). Users of gadgetry (be they technological or magical) such as Batman still count as a non-Powered Human. Using Ki Manipulation in an external manner like energy blasts (such as Krillin or even Yamcha) will however count one as an Empowered Human. Humans with virtual avatars (like those in Sword Art Online) will count as non-Empowered, even if they can transform into their avatars in the Pantheon since that is usually a power granted by ascension and not something natural to them.
- As for what Empowered Humans are, they include magic users, Ki manipulators as seen above, metahumans, psychics, espers, being able to summon spirits (be they ghosts, Stands, or Personas), users of transformation trinkets or incantations if one isn't already magical or a cyborg or something, being able to explicitly fire energy projectiles (such as those from Street Fighter), harnessers of elements (such as through bending or jutsus), etc.
- While Cyborgs would normally fall under Empowered Humans, they will be categorized under Liminal Beings instead since not all cyborgs are part-human.
The next category is whether a Human comes from Earth or not. While this may seem simple, this classification is a little more nuanced on this page.
- To count as an Earth Human, one has to come from a human race that has originated from Earth, even if they have chosen to spread out from there and colonize other planets or live in space vessels. This counts all iterations of Commander Shepard, who is either born in a colony from another planet, born on Earth itself, or born in a space-faring vessel, but the human race they hail from still originates from Earth.
- If a human is from a fantasy world, another planet altogether (and whose origins cannot be traced back to Earth, such as those from Star Wars, if Earth even exists in their universe), or otherwise explicitly stated to not be from Earth (like the the Pokémon World), they count as Non-Earth Humans.
- Extra: For the purposes of this database, prehistoric humans like Neanderthals will still count as humans.
- Yes, Log Horizon is now technically set in a fantasy world, but the PCs started with virtual avatars, so there. Sure, Digimon are virtual beings, but since the Frontier team turns into them, they're technically virtual avatars. I'm also counting those who got turned into data such as Kevin Flynn.
What Counts As A Human?
Apart from those that appear human, the following will also be considered humans even if they don't look like such.
Even if there are humans as a separate race in the world of Hyrule, Hylians will be counted as Non-Earth Humans, and so will Sheikah.
With their references to Earth, even if it's never visited, the human denizens of Pandora will count as Earth Humans (unless they're cyborgs, in which they're categorized as Cyborgs).
Empowered Human Nuances
- The ninjas of Naruto use ki to do basically everything from energy attacks to walking on water. Although the author mistakenly referred to the energy as Chakra
, which is something completely different. By the time he realized his mistake it was too late to do anything about it so the term Chakra is still being used. (Ki Manipulator) - RWBY: All living things generate Aura. Huntsmen are trained to manipulate and amplify their Aura, giving them a Healing Factor and an invisible, defensive forcefield that prevents injury. With mastery, a Semblance can be unlocked, which gives each individual a single superpower such as Super Senses, Super Strength, area-effect barriers, telekinesis, and so on. Aura is finite and depletes with active use until it breaks, leaving a person vulnerable and unable to use Semblance. (Ki Manipulator)
- First implied in its QuickStrike trading card game, it is later revealed that the energy behind the bending disciplines on Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra is indeed chi. (Ki Manipulator)
- Newtypes will be considered Metahumans.
- When it comes to people from the world of Fire Emblem, whether they count as a Magic User or not depends on whether they can Reclass into one that can use magic (their abilities in Fire Emblem Heroes won't be considered). If not, then they're just a Non-Earth Human (if they're human in the first place).
Genetic Alteration?
- Coordinators count as Genetically Enhanced/Altered Beings. Sure, it started in the womb, but that still counts.
What Makes A Cyborg?
You'd think that classifying a cyborg would be easy, right? They're partly mechanical, right? Well, you'd be surprised by how many ways this can be interpreted.
- You think Artificial Limbs automatically make one a Cyborg? How about if that arm was wood, or if you have a peg leg? Does a Hook Hand make you a Cyborg since it's made of metal and it replaces your hand? How technologically advanced must that limb be to make you count as a cyborg?
- While there are no electronics, Wolverine's skeleton is entirely metallic. Adamantium, to be exact. Does that make him a cyborg?
- Should Terminators count as cyborgs given their part-mechanical and part-organic nature despite the first half being their original?
- Does having small cybernetic implants while still having most of your organic body intact still make you a cyborg, especially if it allows for the use of nanomachines to protect the body (such as Senator Steven Armstrong)?
- What about things like pacemakers, cochlear implants, hearing aids, Bionic eyes, Artifical arms, Dentures, or Joint replacements? In the broadest sense, glasses, contact lenses, and even clothes can make someone count as a cyborg. Obviously, that mostly won't be the case here, but where should we draw the line?
Well, here are the rulings where this database will consider someone as a cyborg or not. It will look through the following in order.
- If the work's trope page, the Cyborg trope page, and/or story canon considers the character a cyborg, then they're a cyborg, no questions asked.
- If the character has an artificial limb that isn't just a static piece like a Hook Hand or a peg leg (be it out of wood, or metal like Hiccup), then they're a cyborg. (e.g. Zangetsu from Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night sports a wooden prosthetic right arm, and uses a special ofuda spell to animate it to nearly the same level of mobility he had with his original arm. Despite the arm not running on electronics or being made of any sort of metal, this ruling will consider him a cyborg.)
- Even if the only complexity of someone's artificial limb is being able to have joints (such as Junkrat or MEC Troopers), they count as cyborgs.
- Artificial Limbs made from flesh will not be considered Cyborgs and may count as Mutants instead.
- If one's artificial eye is a simple wooden/glass eye or doesn't alter vision in any way, then they're not a cyborg. If Electronic Eyes is in effect, or if it's a Magical Eye like with Alastor Moody, then they're a cyborg. (e.g. Ragetti with his wooden eye doesn't count, but Maria Calavera with her Electronic Eyes does since they're not just supercool glasses.)
- Simply possessing implants for compensating disabilities like pacemakers and hearing aids, chips affecting the brain or tracking one's location (and little else), do not a cyborg make in this database. But if that implant enhances the body to a much greater degree than is standard for a being of its species, such as vision into different spectra (from seeing in infrared to seeing ghosts), emissions of aromas, communications equipment, or controlling Nanomachines (e.g. Steven Armstrong, Max Steel, Iji Kataiser), then they will be considered cyborgs. Manipulating nanomachines via external devices (like with Yokai) do not count.
Spirits and Ghosts
Ghosts need to have been alive once and died at some point or at least be specifically called a ghost at some point. Spirits don't necessarily have to.
Gods of Death
Gods of the underworld such as Hades do not count as these, though they may have Gods of Death under their employ.
Living Inanimate Objects
Living drawings count for this.
Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Lifeforms
Brains in a Jar will be counted as Robots if their new body is mechanical.
Embodiments
Living Dreams and Dream People will count for this, as they are embodiments of someone's dreams, or mutliple someones' dreams.
Celestial Bodies/Objects (stars, planets, moons, comets, black holes, nebulae, etc.)
