Cute Monster Girl: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Invincible]]'' has a heroine who transforms into a monstrous form. While the monster transformation isn't exactly cute, the actual girl {{spoiler|who is really older than she appears}} is

* [[Cute Mute]] assassin and enforcer Miho from ''[[Sin City]]''. As [[Frank Miller]] has [[Word of God| confirmed]] she is a "demon" of sorts in the guise of a human. He claims the same thing about Kevin (who is far more malevolent than Miho) but he is clearly not this Trope.

 

== Fan Works ==

* In the fifties film ''[[The Mole People]]'', a girl named Adad was born to a race of subterranean albinos, but has none of their features, and thus is hated and shunned by her folk. One of the archaeologists falls madly for her and promises to help her escape this hell with them. Sadly [[Downer Ending|Adad is killed by a falling pillar moments after she sees the surface world for the first time]].

* [https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Siren_Sara Siren Sara] from ''[[Willy's Wonderland]]'', though her eerie beauty is clearly "only skin deep". As the movie progresses, her wounds (''and'' the wounds she inflicts on victims) give her a horrific [[Glasgow Grin]] that makes her far ''less'' cute

 

== Literature ==

* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' books female Igors, known as Igorinas, are every bit as svelte and beautiful as their male counterparts are deformed, hunchbacked, and misshapen. Handwaved by the fact that Igors of both sexes are crazy-talented at all forms of surgery, including plastic, and as Igors are devoted followers of "tradithion" it is probably that male Igors remain ugly because male assistants to [[Mad Scientist]]s are ''supposed'' to be ugly, just as female assistants are meant to be beautiful.

* Asenath Waite from "The Thing on the Doorstep", part of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s fiction, ''might'' qualify, sort of. She's a Deep One hybrid from Innsmouth described as "dark, smallish and very good looking except for over-protuberant eyes." Unlike most of her brethren, she doesn't seem to perpetually smell like fish. The fact that Deep One ancestry often doesn't show up too much until you're 25 to 30 if you're a late-bloomer probably helped her, that and {{spoiler|the fact that her [[Evil Sorcerer]] father probably made arrangements so his [[Body Surf|current host body]] could interact with polite society long enough to find a more suitable one.}}

** The ''Shadow over Innsmouth''-based [[B-Movie]] ''[[Dagon]]'' throws in a Deep One Cute Monster Girl by way of [[Our Mermaids Are Different]]. They still get to play the initial reveal of her monstrous, octopoidal features for Horror somehow. This trope allows the movie to play a {{spoiler|romantic angle on the original [[Tomato in the Mirror]] ending}}, giving it minor justification.

* Used as a major plot device in the [[Neil Gaiman]] short story "Talking to Girls at Parties", where a bunch of attractive adolescent girls turn out to be odd extraterrestrial visitors.

* Subverted in the ''[[Codex Alera]]''. Her Imperial Bugginess the [[Hive Queen|Vord Queen]] ''tries'', but mostly just manages to [[Uncanny Valley|give everyone the creeps]] by combining a "[[Green-Skinned Space Babe|green]] [[White-Haired Pretty Girl|Kitai]] with [[Rapunzel Hair]]" look with a few too many insectile features and a frightening lack of understanding of human emotion.

* Illyria from ''[[Angel]]''. An [[Eldritch Abomination]] trapped in a human corpse, basically her only non-human attributes (physically, at least) are blue lines on her face and blue streaks in her hair.

* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', though they all look human, the male reapers all look like balding old people that can keel over anytime, while female reapers are all at least conventionally attractive.

 

== Music ==

* ''[[Martin Mystery]]'' has Diana becoming a half-lizard girl in the second part of the third season finale. The eponymous character even jokingly compliments that she's only a mini-mutant because her eyes changed and she has a tail.

* April O'Neil had the misfortune of being turned into one ''twice'' in ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''; she was turned into a feral [[Cat Girl]] in one episode and into a Fish Girl later, courtesy of a [[Mad Scientist]]. Fortunately, it was reversible both times. Donatello told her the second time she might have looked better with green skin and a shell...

* In ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'', Wasp becomes one when she's mutated by Gamma Radiation.

* {{spoiler|Lena Dupree}} from ''[[Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island]]'' is an... interesting variation. She's certainly [[Moe|cute]], and she's certainly a monster, but her monster form itself? NOT. CUTE.

 

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