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Posted: November 4, 2018 at 8:43 pm

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Simply put, a Transhuman (sometimes called a Posthuman) is a person who has exceeded their normal mental and/or physical abilities/limitations. The how can be anything from magic to science, the only thing that's common among all of them is that they are somehow better than before.

A positive portrayal of transhumanism generally places a work on the Enlightenment side of the Romanticism Versus Enlightenment spectrum while a negative portrayal or conspicuous absence of it does the opposite. May be used as an aspect of a Post Cyber Punk or Cyberpunk setting.

And even though this trope is called Transhuman, it's not actually limited to humans. Other species or beings that are enhanced count as well.

Has nothing to do with Transsexuals; the shared root Trans [1] is the only commonality, and even then both terms use different definitions of it. The root trans here means being above and beyond a normal human.

This is a quite common trope, and thus related to all of the following:

See the The Singularity for the usual cause of "real" transhumans. For some of the abilities a Transhuman might have, see Stock Super Powers. See also No Transhumanism Allowed.

Examples of Transhuman include:

Syndrome: "And when everyone's super, no one will be."

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