Why is it, that most of the fictional disgusting subhuman races

people can empathise with other things in the rough order
>other humans
>mammals
>birds
>reptiles
>insects
>fish
>molluscs

reptiles are the lowest type on the list who can still be anthropomorphised and look ok

Reptiles tend to be naturally off-putting to us warm-blooded, non-scaly humans, so they're visually striking and effective at conveying lack of empathy in some way

There's also the age old trope that reptiles are "less evolved" than mammals and humans.

>>89595095
As >>89595231 pointed out, the less human something is, the less we're able to emphasise with it and reptiles - being the cold-blooded, slit-eyed, scaly abominations that they are - just happened to draw the evolutionary short straw.

Think of every person you've ever known who's been openly affectionate towards reptiles. They were all weirdos, right? Probably sex offenders too. That's all reptiles get: sex offenders and weirdos and sometimes Australians.

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>>89595231
oh fuck you

we need more good guy insect characters who are actually insecty

even as chewbacca-type sidekicks

>>89595323
Even the good insectoid and reptilian characters are heavily anthropomorphised in order to make them more appealing.

>>89595315

Depends on the kind of reptile to be honest.

I know one girl that fawns over her pet tortoise. She thinks he's the cutest thing ever and goes out of her way to give him a cool as terrarium, and I'm pretty sure it eats fresher vegetables than most people.
Yet she's also one of those pretty girly girls that has a social life, a decent job, and only ever plays the vidya that her boyfriend does. She just really, really loves that tortoise.

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Lizards can be cute too.

>>89595231
>insects above fish
Roach detected

They should introduce them in zootopia 2 to fight against another hurtful stereotype

>tfw, no lusty argonian maid

>>89595401
I don't want to drop this truth bomb on your brain hiroshima, anon, but your female friend is probably a serial killer, a serial rapist or a politician.

>>89595433
Source?

Reminder that Starfire slobbered over Gordanian cawk for ten years

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>>89595574
Don't remember. I saved these pages from a thread on /tg/. What I do remember was that it was from a few chapters of some fantasy manga, but these lizards aren't part of the whole thing, sadly.

I can dump the rest of what I saved if you like.

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>>89595891
Aaand just dumping the next page 'cos her reaction is fucking adorable (all these pages are adorable, really)

>>89595574
It should be the Overlord manga.One of the volumes deals with a story seen from the lizards' point of view.

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>>89595231
>insects
Oh...

Okay....We know when we're not wanted....

>>89595908
POST THE NEXT PAGE

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>>89596110
Guess I'm storytiming this.

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>>89596132
Btw, when this was being dumped on the /tg/ thread, I'm not sure if a bunch of pages or chapters got left out, I just saved what was there.

Just giving you a heads up.

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>>89596176
Oh my...

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>>89596182
>*Courting growl

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>>89596235
>L-Lewd!

How many pictures of storefronts does captcha want?

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>>89596259
Wait for it...

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>>89595344
Pokemon actually proves you wrong

>>89595401
tfw it will outlive her

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>>89596273
... AND CROC BLOCKED

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>>89595482
>or a politician

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>>89596328
I love how much she looks like she wants to kill him.

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>>89596356

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>>89596372
And now here's a pet hydra.

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>>89596385
Top right has to be my favorite pic of her

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>>89596399
Top right panel here is a perfect
>B-But that's forbidden love

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>>89595231
What I would give for a mollusk race in fantasy.

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>>89596437
And that's all. Hope you enjoyed the dump.

>>89595997
Like the game Overlord?

>>89596453
I have no idea what I've just read, but I'm confident the world would be a better place if it had more things like it.

>>89596453
This makes me wish the Overlord anime had not been as rushed as it was...

>>89596453
Sure did! Would read an entire series just about this.

>>89595095
Instinctive mammal revulsion

Alien otherness coupled with the nagging feeling that we were once the same

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You know, reptilian/coldblooded races would actual rather like humans. We are warmblooded and pump off a lot of heat. How soft and smooth our skin would feel to them covered in scales would probably give them a kick. The fact humans would also live in very cold places would most likely impress the hell out of them. Our hair would also fascinate them.
Wish more media would have big/scary looking aliens/fantasy races being overly friendly towards humans and wanting to be friends with humanity.

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>>89598759
would you hug them?

>>89598972
Yes

>>89598972
>Lizards
>Breasts
Why?

But yes.

>>89599199
because the Hist wanted titty lizards

>>89599212
Fair enough, I'm not going to argue with the Hist’s tastes.

>>89596194
>Courting growl
Wew muh god

>>89599199
If we consider the fact, that how argonians are known as either skooma dealers or sex material, jokes about argonian concubines and book about lusty argonian maid, it may be, that human and elven mages altered them for...obvious reasons.

>>89599305
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlLuC7257pc

>>89596274
Pokemon are just animals.

>>89599344
I should've listened to my ten-year-old self and become a zookeeper

>>89595095
Are they though? I thought the more common trope was degenerate ape-like people? Or maybe that isn't PC anymore so lizards are the new apes?