Species: humanoid

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An character that closely resembles a human in anatomy and/or form but also has 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 arms 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.

Typically what counts as humanoid, but is not limited to:

Fantasy species such as dwarves, elves, fairies, goblins, and orcs.
Human-like aliens, angels, demons, gargoyles, monsters, robots, and undead.
Human-like Pokémon like Jynx, Gardevoir, and Meloetta.
animal humanoids, monster girls, and other forms of moe-esque anthropomorphism.
Animal head, object head, and other creatures with non-human heads on human bodies.
Legless human-like genies, ghosts, and lamia.

Not to be confused with:

Note that 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.

Tags About Humanoids

Types of humanoid

animal_humanoid

elemental_humanoid

aircraft_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 bodyform but not a default.

alien

Proportions & anatomy

size_difference

humanoid_nose

Actions

humanoid_penetrating

Clothing

Misc.

Perspective

Transformation

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(?)