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[[File:BeatyAndBeast.jpg|link=Gargoyles|frame|Love knows no genetics.]]

The male is usually a monster physically, capable of great rage and destruction. The female is kind, smart, and emotional. She [[Morality Chain|brings out the best in him]]. She sees the good; [[Bodyguard Crush|he smashes anything that threatens her into itty-bitty pieces]].

** Subverted on an episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]''. Monstrous Doglion retells the story with guest-star-of-the-week in a speechless dance. At the end, when true love blossoms despite their differences, {{spoiler|she turns into a monster}} and they go away happily.

** Subverted again in another episode of ''The Muppet Show''. Guest star Ruth Buzzi, dressed as a princess-ish wife to slovenly [[Big Eater]] Sweetums, tries to get amorous, singing "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" while serving Sweetums, who, in turn, [[The Masochism Tango|cruelly rebuffs her]]. This escalates into Ruth [[Destructo-Nookie|proclaiming her love to Sweetums by whomping]] the (metaphorical) stuffing out of him in a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]].

* ''[[Hyper Police]]'': Tommy is a werewolf pretty much permanently stuck in wolf form, and deeply in love with Peau, a human woman. Though she rejects him at first, eventually they date, become a couple and even have children. A lot of children.

* [[Badass|Alucard]] and [[Action Girl|Integra]] from ''[[Hellsing]]'' could be considered an example of this too, especially after the ending.

'''Alucard:''' {{spoiler|[[Tear Jerker|I'm home, Countess]].}} }}

** Absolutely, a variation. Even with the girl's father sending her to deal with the 'beast'.

* [[Subverted]] in the horror spoof ''Slither''. Grant and Starla are married, Grant is forced to share a body with the head alien and ends up with [[Body Horror]] so extreme it makes most examples look adorable by comparison -- he's also made the whole town into his personal alien zombie army and wants to use them to take over the planet. Only thing is, the Grant part of him still loves Starla. She tells him she'll stand by him, blahblahblah marriage is sacred {{spoiler|Then stabs him in the face with a hairbrush handle, and five minutes later shoots to blow him up.}}

* In the [[B-Movie]] spoof ''[[The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra]]'' (2004) the [[Damsel in Distress]] faints at the sight of the alien Mutant who carries her off in a [[Mars Needs Women]] fashion, only for her to be returned unharmed.

* ''[[Penelope]]'' (2008) with Christina Ricci as a blue-blood woman with an inoperably deformed nose [[Gender Flip|Gender Flips]] the story.

* V and Evey from ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' (in both the movie and the graphic novel).

* Another [[Gender Flip]] takes place in ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]'' when green-skinned and dowdy Elphaba and the {{spoiler|rakish, charmingly handsome Fiyero}} fall in love.

* ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'' has the ugly [[Warrior Poet]] Cyrano fall in love with his beautiful [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|childhood friend]] ([[Kissing Cousins|and cousin]]) Roxane but never tell her until his deathbed, instead setting her up with the handsome-but-tonguetied Christian. When Roxane tells the dying Cyrano that she loves him, he jokes that [[Reality Ensues|he won't be magically made handsome and brought back to life]] like the Beast in [[Beauty and The Beast]].

But I remain the same, up to the last! }}

** In an even more tragic sense, it means that Roxane's love cannot surpass Cyrano's self loathing.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Pictured above are Goliath and Elisa Maza from ''[[Gargoyles]]''. During a Halloween episode, Elisa even dresses as Belle from the Disney version of ''Beauty and the Beast''. However, while they were good friends, they didn't really notice that other options might present themselves until Elisa was mystically changed, briefly, into a Gargoyle (and then, later, Goliath and the others became humans, also for a short time). Interestingly, it was Goliath (the "beast") who didn't find Elisa physically attractive at first, not the other way around. Elisa had always been attracted to him.

'''Elisa:''' *wryly* You mean you thought [[Humans Are Ugly|I was ugly?]]<br />

'''Goliath:''' Well, uhh... Careful! Updraft! }}