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{{quote|''My girlfriend is smart, beautiful, and totally in love with me. The only problem is that she really enjoys the taste of human blood. Should I be at all concerned about this?''

This probably occurs more often with [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires]] or [[Our Ghosts Are Different|ghosts]] than with any other form of undead creature. Romance with ''actual'' [[Our Ghouls Are Different|ghouls]] is fairly rare, but the pun was too good for us to resist.

 

 

A subtrope of [[Interspecies Romance]]. May be a case of [[Mayfly-December Romance]]. See also: [[Kiss of the Vampire]], [[Lesbian Vampire]], [[Cute Ghost Girl]], [[Woman in White]], [[I Love the Dead]]. May invoke the [[Hemo-Erotic]].

 

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* ''[[Rosario + Vampire]]'': Boy meets vampire; she turns him into a ghoul, albeit accidentally. For some reason this doesn't threaten the relationship at all, despite creating the extreme likelihood of him turning into a mindless berserker.

** And of course, Boy also meets [[Horny Devils|Succubus]], [[Cute Witch|Witch (twice!)]], [[An Ice Person|and Snow Girl]]. And although Boy makes it clear that he's only interested in meeting Vampire, [[Unwanted Harem|they make it equally clear they don't care]].

* A [[Will They or Won't They?|possible romantic, or possibly not romantic example]] kickstarts ''[[Bleach]]'': [[Perpetual Frowner|Frowning]] [[The Hero|teenage guy]] [[I See Dead People|who sees ghosts]] meets [[You Can See Me?|understandably surprised]] [[Cute Ghost Girl|Shinigami]] [[Big Entrance|who comes in]] [[There Was a Door|through his window]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]], along with over 400 chapters.

** Then the [[Filler]] did this with [[I See Dead People|the guy's little sister]] and a [[You Can See Me?|certain]] [[An Ice Person|Taicho]] [[Insistent Terminology|who is not]] [[Running Gag|an elementary student]]. Eleven [[Really 700 Years Old|or not,]] the [[Toy Ship|shippers]] went [[May–December Romance|crazy]].

* The main plot of Tokyo Pop's original English language manga ''My Dead Girlfriend''.

* ''[[Madman (Comic Book)|Madman]]'' has a normal girl in love with a dead guy who looks weird enough in the costume he almost always wears, but beneath that mask is a person who looks very much like a corpse.

 

* Novembersmith's RPS fan-novel ''[[The Anatomy of a Fall]]'' is based on a boy meets ghost scenario.

* In ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'' fan art, Gumball/[[Cute Ghost Girl|Carrie]] is [http://gumballxcarriefans.deviantart.com/ a popular pairing].

 

* Original ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]'': Boy meets vampire {{spoiler|and turns into a [[Fur Against Fang|werewolf]] himself}}.

* In [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Corpse Bride]]'', the boy meets a dead girl, and ends up accidentally married to her.

* ''[[Near Dark]].'' Boy meets vampire and her family of psychotic hillbilly bloodsuckers. Carnage ensues.

 

* ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'': Girl meets vampire and werewolf and love triangle ensues.

* ''[[Bloodsucking Fiends]]'': Boy meets freshly turned vampire on the rebound.

* ''The Peony Lantern'': Boy meets ghost. It doesn't end well.

* ''The Gravesavers'' by Canadian author Sheree Fitch had a girl met a boy, who {{spoiler|turned out to be a ghost from the wreck of the RMS Atlantic.}}

 

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' has a number of these, most notably Buffy and Angel.

** And pretty much every single girl Xander's ever dated. It was even lampshaded at times.

* The ABC/BBC co-production ''[[Dead Gorgeous]]'' plays with this by having "Living Ghost" Rebecca fall for living boy David. However, he seems to not be particularly interested.

 

* "Date With A Vampire" by the Screaming Tribesmen.

* "Little Ghost" by the White Stripes.

* "The Zombie Song" by Stephanie Mabey. "I'd never eat your brain, I just want your heart."

 

* A possibility for characters in ''[[Promethean: The Created]]'', especially Galateids. On some occasions, it might help with a Promethean's Pilgrimage, but more than likely it will end very badly, thanks to their Disquiet.

 

* ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' has Boy meets Ghost Paladin. Somehow, none of the issues that would create ever come up in the game, though it is implied that she gets a new body after you return to the world of the living.

* ''[[Tsukihime]]'' features boy meets vampire princess among its many flavors of [[Interspecies Romance]].

* ''[http://www.kongregate.com/games/krangGAMES/i-saw-her-standing-there I Saw Her Standing There]'' has this as its premise. You have to lure a zombie girl to a cage in each level, with each "act" introducing a new gameplay twist. All the while, there is narrative text describing the love between the main characters.

 

* The webcomic ''Ghost Friend'' was based on this trope.

* ''[[Xkcd]]'' has [http://xkcd.com/348/ this little comic], where the boy's love interest seems to be a bit deader than most.

* ''Unlife Is Unfair'' is about the other way around, a nice zombie (nando) meets a girl and falls in love of her. She only wants to be his friend though. {{spoiler|Later on she discovers feelings for him, which can be kind of harring.}}

* Tsukiko of ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' is a weird mixture of this and [[I Love the Dead]]. As a necromancer with necrophilia who [[Insane Troll Logic|believes the undead and sweet, gentle beings because they are the opposite of the living and the living are bastards]], she has a habit of raising corpses as undead minions and then sleeping with them. For an extra dosage of [[Squick]], she also manages to combine these already unsavory cocktail with [[Parental Incest]], because she also treats herself as their mother.

 

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