The issue of identity and difference is loaded with tensions and potentially irresolvable sets of politics of interpretation. Often on matters of race, identity, and difference, the conception of the “other” is fixed and leads to the dangerous penchant to demonize or galvanize one culture over another. In fiction a popular trope that is often used to safely explore these issues is the half human hybrid, a child created between a human mother and an inhuman intelligent species. The offspring of this merger become a metaphor to characterizing individuals who do not fit into normal human society. The metaphors of changeling, halflings, and other hybrids all identify as someone whose defining characteristics are non-human—someone who is wholly “other” when compared to the status quo. In popular culture these characters may have positive or negative valuation. An example of is that a changeling may be ethereally beautiful or grotesque and troublesome. When negatively-valued, these characters can be used to convey a sense of danger and provide reasons why the hybrid should not be integrated into society. But, when positively-valued, they convey a bridge into an otherwise unfamiliar culture. These hybrids also tend to pick up many of the advantages and powers of their non-human race with little of the disadvantages or weaknesses, though they frequently are portrayed as seeing these advantages in a negative light as they serve to further confirm the child’s in-humanness or otherness. Using books like Vampire Hunter D, Inuyasha, Sandman and the Dresden Files I’d like the chance to explore the topic of pop culture's narratives of the nonhuman with the guests of Denver Comic Con.