Animated Film / Ambiguously Human


 * The Peddler from  Aladdin, whose rather caricatured look clashes with the movie's other human characters. Moreover, like the dwarfs and the Coachman, he has Four-Fingered Hands. This was originally setup to reveal he was Genie in disguise. The co-directors state this is still canon, though this contradicts the end of  Aladdin and the King of Thieves  which shows Genie and the Peddler separatelynote.
 * The Black Cauldron  has the Horned King. It's not clear if he's a demon, a very deformed human, some kind of undead, or something else entirely.
 * In the Animated Adaptation of Cun-Cun & Santi the titular characters are the Token Humans in a cast of Living Toys, while the game states that toys come to life only when Cun-Cun and Santi are around, the film is more ambiguous. The mere fact that they can talk to the toys, that they also hide from humans, are quite short and apparently can breathe in Mars in the third movie, lead many to believe that they may in fact be toys.
 * Mulan : Some of Shan-Yu's physical characteristics are quite alarming: he has clawed fingernails, fanged teeth, eyes that are definitely  not  a normal human's, and Super Strength. But it's never really made clear who or  what  he's supposed to be other than his given background as a vicious foreign conqueror.
 * The Nightmare Before Christmas  has Lock, Shock and Barrel. They don't seem to be monsters like the other denizens of Halloween Town and show no signs of having special powers. On the other hand, their appearances are distinctly off compared to the humans of Earth and what human children would be doing in Halloween Town is a mystery.
 * Despite Peter supposedly being human in the Disney incarnation of  Peter Pan  he has Pointy Ears.
 * Pinocchio :
 * The Coachman's evil Slasher Smile and what he does to the boys he collects has more than a few people wondering if he's human. Adding to this is the fact that unlike all the other humans in the film, the Coachman actually only has four fingers!
 * People also wonder about his hooded, hairy, shadowy minions: are they humans, gorillas, or are they demons? An illustration for the official storybook adaptation of the movie, which shows the thugs in a more well-lit scene, makes clear that they are indeed human: they have hairy, flesh-colored forearms, and their "black faces" are just executioners' hoods. But you can't know this from the movie proper.
 * The Polar Express  has the mysterious hobo who sits on the roof of the train. He claims to be the "king of the North Pole" but is obviously not Santa, he says, "Interesting" when the boy says that he doesn't believe in ghosts, and at one point, he vanishes into thin air.
 * Sleeping Beauty 's Maleficent appears humanoid, but is implied to actually be a fairy just like Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. Her film makes this explicit, and explains why she lacks wings like other fairies.
 * The dwarfs in  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . It's uncertain whether they are the fey race or simply elderly, short humans. It bears mentioning that the dwarfs have only four fingers on each hand, while Snow White and other characters are drawn with realistic five-fingered hands.
 * Zigzag from  The Thief and the Cobbler . He has blue skin and six-fingered hands, and apparently doesn't need to sleep to sustain his life (the whole point of a deleted scene being that he finds humans foolish to "sleep their lives away" while he "is quite awake"). On top of that, he has very long, coiled feet that spring outward as he walks.
 * Treasure Planet :
 * Silver seems to have a human appearance, but Word Of God states that he's really a bear-human alien mix with cyborg parts.
 * As most other characters are aliens, and animal-looking aliens exist, it's possible that Jim and his parents are Human Aliens. According to the art book, however, they're most likely humans.