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humanoid

📅 Updated:2026-08-23
🕒 Created:2014-09-25
🆔 ID:5284

Description

The body type of a character that is effectively human in anatomy and/or form but also having some added visible features that are strictly non-human.
Humanoids are generally not furry, with the exception of animal humanoids and animal head characters.
Humanoids are always upright, usually have a featherless/ furless/ scaleless upper body, have at least one set of hands or shoulders that articulate like a human's, and will usually have a flat more or less vaguely human facial shape with the exception of object & animal head characters.
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Tagging notes

- Not to be confused with anthro, biped, or human.
- Review before uploading: uploading_guidelines#humans
- For tagging purposes, a character cannot be both anthro and humanoid, with the exception of transformation sequences where a character transforms from anthro to humanoid, or vice versa.
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Tags about humanoids

Types of humanoid
Common named humanoid species
- Please note some depictions of the species below may not actually fit under humanoid, tag with care. Listed species are common to the humanoid body type but not a default.
- Incomplete list
Proportions & anatomy
Actions
Clothing
Misc.

See also:

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Forum discussion:

  • topic #12281 - The case of not_furry (and humanoid to some extend) dilemma (2015)
  • topic #15776 - Advanced tag discussion: Mutually-exclusive Body Types/Styles (Apr. 2016)
  • topic #20762 - human or humanoid (2017)
  • topic #20718 - Should Shyguys be considered humans or humanoids? (2018) ~ hooded/masked characters discussion
  • topic #28526 - Should [animal]_humanoid posts also be tagged with [animal] (2021)
  • topic #40813 - Vivi Ornitier is really a human? Also Humanoid !=Human (2023) ~ shrouded characters, anons, stick-men discussion
  • topic #39406 - Remove species -> humanoid implications (2023) ~ Alien tag issues discussion
  • topic #46395 - Anthro vs. Animal_Humanoid (2024) ~ renaming humanoid(?)
    • topic #46562 -(Planning BUR) Project Destroy All Humanoids (2024)
  • topic #54588 - Merfolk aren't humanoid?
    • topic #65135 - Tag implication request: humanoid_merfolk -> humanoid
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