Discussion Main / AnthropomorphicShift

• the Matriarchy of the Classic Silurians was a big plot twist made possible by how all the female Silurians look quite masculine to human eyes.

When was this plot twist revealed? TARDIS Wiki seems entirely ignorant of it, and assumes all the Classic Silurians who appeared on screen were male.

The Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) entry says:

These changes were polarizing for the fans as well, some appreciated the greater visual consistency but also believed that the new style was way too rigid and makes every species look too similar, while some fans thought the old style was more interesting and made Sonic's world more diverse.

So the fans were divided because some of them thought the new style made the characters too similar, and others thought the old style made the characters more diverse?

I think this works if you cut "but also believed...", but I don't know enough about the fandom to know if that would make it less accurate.

So with this trope, I think a qualifier should be that there is no in-universe reason as to why the animal characters become more human. Otherwise, it would go into Anthropomorphic Transformation.

Joe Sushi received this when he was adapted into Rotor Walrus, in Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM).

Removed the following examples from the page.

Not An Example—the trope is about a progression in a character, not a single isolated instance before reverting to the status quo:

• Honeycomb Cereal's Crazy Cravings are usually Cephalothoraxes. However, in one commercial, when a male Crazy Craving discovers bears surrounding an RV holding the cereal, he becomes Goldilocks, complete with a torso to show off "her" dress.

This entry mentions no clear use of the trope, only meta discussion outside the work with a sidenote about other authors treatment of the same universe:

• As stated elsewhere, Dinotopia author/illustrator James Guerney never met an animal-related trope he liked. He strongly dislikes it when animal characters act too human and has written in his blog about how he himself has has struggled to avoid this. It's worth noting that a few of the spinoff novels and the films have featured animal characters that are indeed anthropomorphic or nearly so. Canon Discontinuity? You betcha.

Should someone remove the Moogle reference? I think it's probably been established as a bad example