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This trope comes in several varieties:

Cute Monster Girls are often the mothers of [[Half-Human Hybrid]], while monstrous females rarely are. May be a subset of [[Stripperiffic]], and may therefore contribute to the alienation of some women from genre fandom.

 

 

For the male equivalent, see [[You Sexy Beast]].

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Mink from ''[[Dragon Half]]'', though granted, she's [[Half-Human Hybrid|half human]] herself; her mother is a dragon. Her mother is usually [[Shape Shifter|transformed]] into a humanoid form but tends to break it when she becomes angry.

** There is also a half-dragon Mink in the webcomic ''Darken''. Pretty, too.

* The series ''[[Petopeto San]]'' is entirely devoted to the concept of cute monster girls (some of which are [[Half-Human Hybrid|half human]]).

* Hazuki from ''[[Tsukuyomi Moon Phase]]''. Anyone unfamiliar with the story and character would NEVER assume she's a monster! The opening theme doesn't help.

* The title character of ''[[Karin]]'' (a.k.a, "Chibi Vampire")

** The student council in [[Ichiban Ushiro no Dai Maou]] has the exact same four characters.

* The Bugrom of ''[[El-Hazard: The Magnificent World]]'' mostly resembled giant neon cockroaches, with the exception of their queen, who resembled a normal attractive human female with antennae.

* Every single girl except for Kyoko (Tsukune's cute but human cousin) in ''[[Rosario + Vampire]]''. They spend the most of their time hiding their monster traits, though, so they look completely human except during fights.

** Well, Yukari doesn't really transform, though she's still cute!! And even when transformed, the main gals (and many of the supporting cast) are STILL cute (Moka is devastatingly so, Kurumu becomes ultra exotic, etc.).

** Let's not forget the earlier Angewomon, LadyDevimon, Lilymon and Rosemon. The [[Bishonen Line]] means most female Digimon are gonna end up like this at some point.

** However, if you want to keep the ‘monster’ in monster girl, you want the villainous Ranamon. Green, covered with seashell-themed, uh, head-things, and cute as a button. Her Beast Spirit form, Calmaramon, is much more monstrous, with a giant squidlike body beneath the humanoid portion. Though it wasn't used that way, you get the feeling the designer had in mind hapless victims approaching a "woman" in the water, and then out comes Cthulhu's little sister to '''kill you to death'''.

* Though the Zentradi from ''[[Macross]]'' and ''[[Robotech]]'' are [[Human Aliens]], the males range in appearance from ugly to average to handsome, with the occasional odd skin tone and/or cybernetic aspect, while the female Zentradi are always depicted as beautiful. The Zentradi designs in [[The Movie]], ''Do You Remember Love?'', are probably the strongest examples of this trope.

* Tons of them in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', especially during the tournament which features a cat-girl announcer and a dragon-girl referee. There are Monster Boys too, (Yoko) Kurama probably being the main one.

* Niche from ''[[Letter Bee]]'', as while her cuteness depends on who you ask, she certainly fills the monster and girl roles. And then there's {{spoiler|Niche's sister}}...

* {{spoiler|Miiru}} from the second volume of ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''. She is actually {{spoiler|a servant of Tenkou who became such because she and her brother were killed for [[Brother-Sister Incest|incest]] and wanted Tenkou's help to find a place where they could be happy}}. In the manga, her shadow is shown as a demon.

* ''[[Monster Soul]]'' has a few, with two of them being a mummy and a golem respectfully.

* All of the female mermaids in ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]''. The males tend to be less "cute" and more "[[Testosterone Poisoning|Manly]]". Except [[Even the Guys Want Him|Masa]].

* Celty from ''[[Durarara!!]]'' is a [[wikipedia:Dullahan|Dullahan]] that looks like a beautiful, though deathly pale, woman from the neck down. From the neck up? Well, [[Headless Horseman|she has no head]]. {{spoiler|When we ''do'' finally see her head, it's that of a cute, auburn-haired girl -- A far cry from the hideous, rotten-fleshed heads of the Dullahan of Celtic legend.}}

* Shia, from ''Pita-Ten'', is a demon/demon's apprentice (depending on whether you're reading the manga or watching the anime,) but she looks completely human and is also very, very, very cute. The males in canon all fawn for her and many develop actual feelings for her, as well. Although, another demon is also shown, Klaus, and he's also cute in a shoujo kind of way, himself.

* ''[[Ragnarok the Animation]]'' has Maya make friends with an "Alice" (a high-level humanoid monster). This is the impetus for explaining her [[Dark and Troubled Past]].

* The Seedrians from the third season of ''[[Sonic X]]'' are like this. The males are monsters that transform into Godzila-like creatures (and later become [[Transformers|Decepticon-like]] robots...for reasons that aren't thoroughly explained...), but the females are cute plant-girls, and Tails falls in love with one named Cosmo.

* Yuki-Onna/Tsurara from ''[[Nurarihyon no Mago]]''.

* ''[[Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?]]'' virtually every female introduced except Haruna a [[Magical Girl]] and the [[Those Two Girls|two girls]] who are [[Muggle]]s.

 

== Comic Books ==

* While the regular [[Incredible Hulk]] is generally seen as a berserk, hideously muscular, unintelligent monster when in Hulk form, [[She Hulk]] is basically just a somewhat larger, stronger, greener version of her human counterpart. The whole thing doesn't seem like too big a deal, and many would even consider her monster form sexier, in a cave girl sort of way (if cave girls dress like a New York fashion plate, that is). Originally, the explanation was that an individual mutated by gamma rays subconsciously determines their transformed appearance; the Hulk transforms into a hulking angry brute because of Bruce Banner's repressed anger, the Abomination transforms into a hideous freak due to his inner self-loathing, and She-Hulk transforms into an [[Amazonian Beauty]] because of her subconscious desire to look like the ideal woman.

** You could argue that Hulk fits as well. His love interests do find his Hulk form to be handsome. Especially Jarella and Caiera ([[You Sexy Beast]] effect?).

* Miss Martian from ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' looks like a cute [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]], but her true form is that of a ravenous, blood-thirsty alien monster. It was implied in one issue that if she ever lost control and reverted to her true form, she'd be powerful enough to slaughter her teammates in a matter of minutes.

** Kid Devil, who is a lean and muscular teenage demon and [[Walking Shirtless Scene|goes around shirtless]].

* ''[[Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose]]'' has many appearing throughout the series.

* ''[[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

 

== Fan Works ==

* The [http://www35.atwiki.jp/moemon Moemon] [[ROM Hack]] for ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue|Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen]]''. Your [[Mons]] become, well, [[Moe]] Mons. And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp7xhLxTs68 oh god], [[Moe Anthropomorphism|they're Moe]].

** In the same vein, the [http://pokedex.deviantart.com/ Pokemon Gijinka Project].

* A [http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/4388/1207092817856.jpg "cute girl"] version of a ''[http://magiccards.info/lw/en/139.html Shriekmaw]'' from ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'', complete with a legless salamander tail, neck-tentacles, and extra eyes on her chin.

* ''[[Travels Through Azeroth and Outland]]'' plays with this trope in the character of Daj'yah. Daj'yah is a troll described as being mildly attractive by human standards (she probably has the "cutefase" appearance seen on many female troll avatars in-game). Unfortunately for her, other trolls think she's hideous because of this.

 

== Film ==

* A [[Uncanny Valley|throughly creepy]] version of this trope arises in the 2001 version of ''[[Planet of the Apes]]''. All of the characters playing apes were made to look like gorillas, chimps, etc. Helena Bonham Carter, on the other hand, looked... well, like Helena Bonham Carter in chimp make-up, eyeshadow, and lipstick. She and the other female chimps (including one played by Tim Burton's ladyfriend Lisa Marie) even had humanlike eyebrows, which was thoroughly bizarre to see on a chimpanzee face. In attempting to make the female apes more realistic, they only made them more attractive. Contributing to the weirdness of the situation, she spent the entire movie flirting with the male ''human'' lead.

** [[Interspecies Romance|And then he]] [[Squick|kisses her at the end!]]

** Some of the [[Expanded Universe]] - ''The New Essential Guide to Alien Species'', namely - says that both male and female Twi'leks appear very comely to humans... when they're young. An old and ugly Twi'lek woman did try to flirt with a teenaged Han Solo in the novels, but honestly, you'd think that Twi'lek women don't live to ''get'' old.

** Cathar tend to have a ''huge'' gap. Male Cathar are basically very tall tailless anthropomorphic big cats with wide shoulders, big claws, thick necks and muzzles. Female Cathar? Small [[Catgirl|Cat Girls]]. It seems though that [[Depending on the Artist|no two artists can decide]] just how anthropomorphic Cathar are, drawing both genders as being everything between the two extremes; in their species's first comics appearance Sylvar and her mate Crado were about as different as two humans, both of them basically [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]].

* A rare male example comes up in ''[[Labyrinth]]''. All the goblins are diminutive, monstrous creatures with wart infested skin and bizarre bone structures... except for their king, Jareth, who just looks like [[David Bowie]] [[Department of Redundancy Department|with make up on]] (''[[Memetic Sex God|and very tight pants]]'').

* Fiona of ''[[Shrek]]'' is still fairly pretty for an ogress, despite indulging in the usual icky ogre habits.

* The females of Chaka's people in ''[[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Land of the Lost]]'' might qualify. The males look like they did in the series (i.e. like humanoid chimps). The females are [[Nubile Savage]]s.

* Dren in ''[[Splice]]''. The [[Fetish Fuel]] angle to her is played up to the hilt.

* Celia from ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]''.

* Ruby from ''[[The Hills Have Eyes]]'', both original and remake.

* In ''[[Species]]'', Sil is still pretty hot in her alien form. The creature designers specifically wanted her to still be beautiful as an alien.

* The eponymous character of ''[[Deadgirl]]'' is pretty good-looking... although probably not dating material, given everything that happens after she's found.

 

== Literature ==

** Female harpies in ''Xanth'' get unusually ugly when they have to mate with humans and vultures to reproduce their species. ''All'' harpies produced by crossing harpies with humans or vultures are female, and so the cycle became vicious on several levels. It probably took [[Time Travel]] to fix that mess.

* Robert Asprin's ''[[Myth Adventures]]'' series includes a dimension called Trollia where the males are all hulking monsters and the females are all drop-dead sexy. The explanation: The males are [[All Trolls Are Different|Trolls]], and the females are [[Ms. Fanservice|Trollops]].

* 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.}}

* 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.

* Junapur, in ''[[Cerberon]]'', is described as quite beautiful despite her various nonhuman traits and imposing Amazon physique.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

** Klingons fall into this trope even in ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''. In the episode "Day of the Dove" we get to see both Klingon men and women. The men all have brutish expressions concealed under thick [[Blackface]] makeup while the women have spray on tans, and garish blue eye shadow.

* ''[[Farscape]]'': War Minister Ahkna is noticeably more attractive and shorter than the rest of the Scarran species; most of whom that have been seen are male (we think). She's still quite reptilian, but it's a smoother, sleeker, sexier kind of reptilian than most Scarrans we've seen.

*** The '''We're So Screwed''' arc makes the castes explicit, and based on diet. Eating a rare flower (which grows commonly on Earth, to our hero's dismay once he learns how important it is) makes Scarrans more intelligent (and coincidentally look more human).

* Marilyn Munster in ''[[The Munsters]]''. Occasionally, others in her family mention how homely she is.

** A common trope with ''[[Super Sentai]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers]]'' villainesses. The majority of villain teams are 3-4 male [[People in Rubber Suits]] and one hot (and very human) [[Dark Chick]] whose monster-ness clearly appears to be worn and not integral. Every series except ''Zeo'' and ''Mystic Force'' has one.

* Frankie Stein from ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' who's basically a cute, if very tall, girl with a rubber forehead attachment.

* 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 ==

 

== Mythology ==

** Valkyries (like gorgons) are female creatures that were originally hideous but later on became to be known as incredibly beautiful maidens sought after by many a Norse hero (despite the fact that they weren't actually human). Also note that they're really only "beasts" depending on your interpretation of their title: Choosers of the Slain.

* The Asura in [[Hindu Mythology|Hindu]] and Buddhist myth: all the males are ugly and all the females are beautiful. And both are very violent.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** Medusas, [[Gorgeous Gorgon|unsurprisingly]], [[Zig-Zagging Trope|zigzag]] depending on the edition. Those in 1st edition were horribly ugly, 2nd edition made them very comely if you could look past the snake hair (without being [[Taken for Granite]]), 3rd edition kept the comely bodies but the effect was somewhat marred by the scales [[Butter Face|and a face that looked like a cross beween a viper and a hag]], and 4th edition seems to go for a middle-of-the-road approach. ''[[Pathfinder]]'' (aka [[Fan Nickname|D&D 3.75]]), meanwhile, takes the "playmate with mildly scaly skin and snakes for hair" road.

* Used to its fullest in the ''[[Talislanta]]'' game-setting with the [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism|Batrean race]], whose females are [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|green-haired space babes]] (except when they're ''[[Flip-Flop of God|blue]]''-haired) with [[Love Is in the Air|seductive pheromones]], and whose males are gangling hairy ogres. Technically also true of the singular race of Gnorls and Weirdlings, although not for the usual reasons: Although Gnorls (the females) look like someone's 80-year-old grandma, that's ''still'' prettier than their male counterparts, the Weirdlings (who look like anorexic Yodas in their skivvies).

* In ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'', a woman who has become a draconic Fairest is this by default, as Fairest are literally "the fairest of them all", and draconics have aspects of the Great Beasts of Faerie, such as [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|dragons]].

* ''[[Malifaux]]'' gives us the Neverborn, a literal race of Nightmares, including Pandora and Lilith, the latter described as "the very image of woman that creation intended, the beautiful vision that haunts the dreams of men", the former only being on the verge of adulthood.

 

* Kate Monster from ''[[Avenue Q]]'' was going to have a lot of fuzz, similar to Trekkie Monster, but was shaved before production so she would look better with a male (and human) love interest.

* Magda in ''[[Tanz der Vampire]]'' becomes a gorgeous vampiress after she's bitten (though some actresses in the part do subvert this by applying some rather distorted makeup after she's been turned). In addition, sometimes female chorus vampires fall into this as well. {{spoiler|Sarah is one by the end of the show, without exception between actresses.}}

** Herbert's a rather cute monster ''boy''.

 

== Video Games ==

** Female orcs and trolls have perfect posture compared to their hunched-over male counterparts, with slimmer builds (though female orcs are still relatively muscular) and less pronounced tusks. While the NPC's in the game have a variety of appearances, character creation provides 1 conventionally attractive face option for both, jokingly known as "Cutefase" (sic). The vast majority of female orc/troll player characters have these faces. With orcs, it's particularly bad because they only have one non-barbaric hairstyle as well. Meaning if you want to make a "pretty" orc girl, you ''will'' end up with the same face and hair as everyone else.

** Male Naga are dragon-like snakemen, and females are rather attractive, mildly elven snake women [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous|(with four arms)]].

** Done again in ''Cataclysm'' with female worgen, who have eyeshadow, mascara, and [[Cat Smile]]s. Less obvious with female goblins, but still evident: while they closely resemble their male counterparts, they're still clearly designed to be prettier.

* The Shura in the free MMO ''[[Dream of Mirror Online]]'' fit - the males are big hulking walls of flesh, with short, fleshy tails, and a (fleshy) horn on their forehead. The females are [[Catgirl|cat girls]].

* Female vampires, demonesses, cyborg girls, and of course catgirls are very common in the ''[[City of Heroes|City of Heroes/City of Villains]]'' games. The character creator includes options such as horns, pointy ears, tails, hooved/clawed feet, etc. Even one of the NPC heroines is a catgirl.

* A large number of the enemies and villains in ''[[Shantae]]'' are Cute Monster Girls. Among them: Cute Scorpion-Girls, Cute Water Lobster Thing Girls, Cute Snake Girls, and even ''Cute Zombie Girls''.

* Nearly every single ''[[Touhou]]'' character ([[Loads and Loads of Characters|and there are a lot]]) is one of these, with [[Little Bit Beastly]] individuals rampant, and even some of the most horrendous mythological creatures appearing [[Human Aliens|almost indistinguishable to humans]]. For only some examples, Nitori is supposed to be [http://www.obakemono.com/obake/kappa/ a kappa], Aya and Hatate are supposed to be [http://www.obakemono.com/obake/tengu/ (crow) tengu], Suika and Yuugi are supposed to be [http://www.obakemono.com/obake/oni/ oni], Mamizou is supposed to be [http://www.obakemono.com/obake/tanuki/ a tanuki], [[Species Surname|Satori]] and Koishi are supposed to be [[wikipedia:Satori (folklore)|Satori]], and Yamame is meant to be a [[Giant Spider]], and yet at most they only have one or two features that indicate them as such. The few male characters in the series tend to appear more monstrous (and old), with Genji being a talking turtle and Unzan being a cloud.

* Most, if not all, the female demons & deities in the ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' series of games, especially ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne]]'', as even the ones who are officially supposed to be hideous still manage to look really sexy (with perhaps the only exception definitely being the "Old Hag" type of demoness)!

** Mother Harlot has a pretty nice body. [http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnayixWLTB1qlhbe8o1_500.jpg Her face, on the other hand, could use some work.]

* Yeto of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'' is a big, hulking yeti with a face that one would expect a yeti to have. His wife Yeta, on the other hand, is a walking ball of fur with a much cuter face. {{spoiler|At least when she's not possessed by the dungeon boss, then her face [[Nightmare Face|goes all scary-like]]...}}

** The eponymous Twilight Princess: regular twilight citizens aren't so much ugly as featureless (most of them being black mannequin-like when not under Zant's curse) she's absolutely ''gorgeous'' and looks mostly like a woman with a weird skin-tone.

** It should be noted though that the "standard" demon race of the Netherworld does have females of several different body types, like valkyries, healers and magic knights (all of them cute, of course).

** ''Disgaea 2'' introduces the Flora Beast (something similar to a Nymph). There's one named Bridget, with all of the traits you would expect from ''[[Guilty Gear|that]]'' [[Unsettling Gender Reveal|Bridget]].

** Annah also wears a leather version of a [[Breast Plate]], including hooker boots. The PC can [[Lampshade Hanging|hang a lampshade]] on this by suggesting she strip it down further, adding a few more slashes, to distract her marks. She gets flustered by this remark, and he comments he thought that's what it was for in the first place. She claims she gets hot, and "suspects it's the fiend blood in me".

* The aforementioned ''[[Lineage 2|Lineage II: The Chaotic Throne]]''. Male dwarves look like their counterparts in ''WoW'' and similar games... but ''female'' dwarves look like baby-faced teenage jockettes, scaled down to size. (They also narrowly skirt the [[Uncanny Valley]].)

* Subverted in ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]]''. Jim's girlfriend, Princess What's-Her-Name, is big-eyed, wasp-waisted (and an insect, haha), and extremely well proportioned. On her homeworld, she's considered hideously deformed. Her sister, Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-Filled, Malformed Slug-For-A-Butt, who looks something like a giant termite queen, is the pinnacle of beauty to her people.

* The Pixie species from ''[[Monster Rancher]]'' is an entire race of cute, impish girls with demon horns, wings, tails, and [[Cute Little Fangs]]. It's implied in some games that they are [[Always Female]], but the ''names'' bestowed on some Pixie NPC monsters seems to suggest that there are some males—they just look exactly the same as the females.

* Played straight in ''[[Gears of War]] 2'' to the surprise of pretty much everyone (including Delta squad, Cole saying: [[Lampshade Hanging|"I thought she was supposed to be butt ugly."]]), with {{spoiler|the Locust Queen}}, who appears almost exactly like a human woman (albeit wearing a squid on her back and a kinda grey skin tone).

** Similarly, the tiefling Valen of the ''Hordes of the Underdark'' expansion to the original ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' is another male example, being uncharacteristically attractive for a fiend.

** Neeshka. A tiefling rogue in ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'' with horns and (provided the game is updated) a tail. Considered by many fans to be the cutest girl in the game, Neeshka and a male main character is the [[Fan-Preferred Couple]] to such an extent that an add-on module has been released to reinstate her as a romance option, after it was cut during development due to time restraints.

** Hsien-Ko is the most obvious, but Q-Bee is probably the most horrible. While her entire race act pretty much like normal bees, they've developed one evolutionary trait to help them hunt their prey: their eyes. Those gigantic bulbs on her head? ''Those are her real eyes''. The ones on the front of her face are there to trick people into thinking she's a dimwitted chick. This is why her fighting pose is animated so her head looks like it's pointing down, her actual eyes are completely focused on her prey.

* [[Cthulhu Mythos|Cthylla]] in ''[[Chaos Code]]'', if one can look past her shark-like dentition and penchant for blowing venomous ink in her opponents' faces.

* The Vieras and the Grias from ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'' and its [[Final Fantasy Tactics A2|sequel]], the former being a tanned, white haired race of warrior women with bunny ears, and the latter incredibly cute female dragon humanoids.

** The [[Pig Man|Seeq]] avert this: the couple female Seeq NPCs look almost identical to male Seeq.

* In the first ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' game male Harmonixer Yuri Hyuga transforms into almost completely inhuman monstrosities when he fuses with a monster soul- he'll usually still have 2 arms and 2 legs (usually), but only Seraphic Radiance/Dark Seraphim looks even ''remotely'' human- and it still has eerie pale skin and giant black wings. On the other hand, in ''Shadow Hearts: From the New World'', hot female harmonixer Shania transforms into beautiful non-human creatures which are still ''abundantly'' female and wearing [[Stripperiffic|even less than she usually does]]. Yuri hits the middle ground, however, with his Level 1 Fusions in ''Shadow Hearts: Covenant'', which are generally attractive male non-human creatures wearing less than Yuri usually does.

* In ''[[Grandia II]]'', a large, ugly, ''male'' beastman named Marag joins your party early on. This isn't so bad until you visit his village later in the game and find out that, apparently, the rest of his species is comprised of cute and/or hot [[Catgirl|Cat Girls]].

** Similarly, from the original ''[[Grandia (video game)|Grandia]]'', a character named Milda joins your team. She's an older (beast)woman who, though not necessarily cute, has curves in all the right places and is marred only by having horns, sharp teeth, and a tufted tail. Eventually you reach the village where her tribe lives and get to see the men—all of whom are BIPEDAL COWS.

** Several other Pokemon seem to be this (though again they appear identical regardless of gender), including Ninetales, Mismagius, Mawile and Froslass.

** Bellossom, Roselia, Roserade and Lilligant can be seen as Cute Plant Girls, while Leavanny is a Cute Bug Girl.

* Fenia from ''[[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]''; the best mage [[mons]]ter in the game, talks, and plays this trope perfectly straight.

** May be averted, as Fenia isn't technically a monster. She's a [[Continuity Cameo|Cameo]] from [[Tales of Rebirth]] She's merely placed there as a monster so she can be in the party.

*** She can actually enter a more beastly form, which is actually largely indistinguishable from the werewolf/wolfman monsters. It's also a bit of a [[Game Breaker]].

* The [[H-game]] [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Monster Girl Quest]]'' is filled with these. They are actually all a [[One-Gender Race]] who rely on human males to reproduce. [[Erotic Eating|And as a food source]].

* ''[[Dark Souls]]'' has a few of these, most notably Priscilla the Crossbreed, a 20 foot tall giant [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]] who happens to be half dragon. Quelaag and her [[No Name Given|sister]] are beautiful women with horrible lava spiders for lower bodies.

 

* Grace Sciuridae/Shade Tail in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' is a [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke|genetically engineered]] [[Shape Shifter|shapeshifting]] assassin created to fight the [[Big Bad]] Damien. However, she proves to be a pacifist by nature [[Unstoppable Rage|except under the worst provocation]]. (Her brothers are less human-looking in their hybrid forms, though they can appear human, and quite good-looking, when they choose.) Her male [[Evil Counterpart]] from another dimension is much scarier.

* Modest, the gorgon protagonist in ''[[Modest Medusa]]'', seems to be [[Gorgeous Gorgon|a cute and fairly harmless child]], without the ability to turn people to stone or the aggression normally associated with the medusa/gorgon type of monster. Instead she's easily distracted and seems to enjoy video games and junk food.

* ''[[The Wotch]]'' has Ti'el, a cute green-haired alien with tentacle hands, and Myrrh, Lord Sykos' half-liquid maid. Due to the [[Shapeshifting]] that goes on, many characters have been a Cute Monster Girl at least once or twice.

* The demon heroine Raven in ''[http://faith.rydia.net/ Demonology 101]'' is a cute teenage girl whose only demonic attributes are reddish eyes and [[Unusual Ears|oddly shaped ears]] (justified since Raven is {{spoiler|only a half-demon}}). The other demons portrayed (both male and female) are also fairly human-looking (and usually somewhat attractive).

** Subverted and parodied in with a female Lizardfolk prostitute. At first she appears to look much more human than a typical member of her species, with blonde hair and [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]]. But it turns out these are a wig and implants, which she got to attract more business. Without them she'd look just like a standard Lizardfolk. (And the other lizardfolk hooker is disgusted by her.)

* [http://www.krakowstudios.com/krakow/archive.php?date=20060202 This] ''[[Krakow]]'' strip.

* ''[[Goblins]]'' has Saves-a-Fox (admittedly she wears a ''wig'', but still...) and snake girl Kin.

** Female Goblins are drawn sexier than their male counterparts in several panels, especially when the male leads are fantasizing.

* [[Discussed Trope|Mentioned occasionally]] in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''.

** [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040916.html "You 'member dem comics where da alien girls were all pretty an' stuff?" "Comic book artists don' get out much, I don' think."]

** Maxim and Oggie fall under the heading of Cute Monster ''Boys''.

** DuPree, for a [[Faux Affably Evil|certain]] value of "[[Complete Monster|monster]]"—at least, [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090126 monstrous enough for Grantz].

* The Creo in ''[[Terinu]]'' start out as petite and cute when they're young, but upon reaching adulthood they gain the same bulky musculature as a male. Ferin does and bucks, on the other hand, retain disturbingly small and cute their entire lives, even as they sported spiky horns and tails.

* Nitrine of ''[[Flaky Pastry]]'' is a small, cute human-looking young woman with green hair and lips. She is also a goblin and has had some rather classical male goblins hanging around.

* All orcs in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' look close enough to humans to be mutually attractive once you get past the [[Cute Little Fangs]] (played straight with Luna, who is fully human and has fangs) and, yes, the green skin. This applies to both male and female orcs, however, so it's partly justified.

* Pretty much all of the main characters in ''[[School Bites]]'' are cute vampire girls, some going into the catgirl variety.

* ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'' has both Marena (Lunar [[Exalted]], literally 'foxy', and arguably the [[Ms. Fanservice]] of the strip) and Secret (''Abyssal'' Exalted and thus effectively a kind of undead, but undeniably cute). And if a [[Genius Ditz]] robotic mad scientist who {{spoiler|can turn into a giant robot cat}} is more your thing, there's always Elegant Nova of Progression.

* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' has this title for a reason. The comic centers on a [[All-Ghouls School|monster highschool]], and so far, with the exception of a pair of lizard boys, they are all cute monster girls (and boys). And if the cast isn't enough, there are more of them in flashbacks -- [http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/double_pepperoni_with_sausage hilariously cute snake-girls] and so on.

* ''[[Sinfest]]'' has Baby Blue and Fuchsia. They're Devil Girls (presumably succubi), so there's [[Horny Devils|some]] [[Evil Is Sexy|justification]] for this. Also, their boss is depicted as pretty handsome.

* The title character of ''[[Selkie]]'' has gray skin, flippers, and fangs. [[Homestuck|No horns though]].

* In ''[[Shadowgirls]]'', {{spoiler|Christmas Snow}}'s mother is a female [[Cthulhu Mythos|Deep One]], but not ''nearly'' as grotesque as one of [[H.P. Lovecraft|Lovecraft]]'s originals.

* ''[[Spinnerette]]'' gives us Minerva, a [[Stripperiffic]] [[Hot Amazon]] Cerberus whose three heads offer something for everyone, whether they like their girls sweet, spicy, or [[Tsundere]].

 

== Web Original ==

* The flash cartoon series ''Primal War'' is notorious/loved by teenage boys for its cartoony, monstrous males being drastically different to their more human-like and realistically proportioned females of both the beast and dino races.

* ''[[The Spider Cliff Mysteries]]'': Crystal (demon) and Annabelle (zombie).

* ''[[Felarya]]''. The world is essentially based on this trope. Almost all major characters are Cute Monster Girls - sweet, innocent, [[I Am a Humanitarian|and with an appetite for gulping down humans whole and alive]]. Felaryan Cute Monster Girls range from [[Snake People|nagas]] (giant snake-human hybrids) to [[drider]]s (giant spider-human hybrids), [[Our Mermaids Are Different|mermaids]], slug girls, and even adorable carnivorous fairies. Who, naturally, are [[Everything Trying to Kill You|all trying to eat you]]. Giant ''males'' are presumed to exist, but are rarely seen. Some species are [[One-Gender Race|One Gender Races]].

* ''[[Monster High]]'' has a cast full of Cute Monster Girls (and one boy who both follows and inverts the tradition by being a cute male version of a female monster).

* The waiter-zombie users play as in the iTunes app ''Zombies A La Mode'' is a cross between a rare cute monster ''guy'' and [[Ugly Cute]].

* [http://utau.wikia.com/wiki/Teto_Kasane Teto Kasane] the UTAUloid is a chimera with the appearance of a human girl with bat wings, and is often depicted with [[Cute Little Fangs]] depending on the artist. Depictions showing her wings are exceedingly rare, making this somewhat of an [[Informed Attribute]].

* One Japanese adult anime artist drew a series called ''[[Living With Monster Girls]]''—risque but cute comics featuring the relationships between the identical octoplet human brothers and their monstrous girlfriends, with startling tenderness - a slime-girl, a spider-girl, [[wikipedia:Dullahan|a ghostly knight girl]], a centaur, a minotaur/cow-girl, a mermaid, a snake-girl, and a harpy.

** These are called the [http://kirara--noyume.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-aprils-fool-3.html "My Life With X-chan"] i.e. English: " Living with Monster Girls (Slime-chan, spider-chan, harpy-chan, etc)" series. They were posted anonymously to the [http://monster-girl.homelinux.net Cute Monster Girl fansite] ('''[[Not Safe for Work]]'''). The [http://www.pixiv.net/index.php?id=267014 artist] has mentioned that he is planning on doing 8 of them (for the 8 reoccurring characters on the site and its forums), but recent additions to the lineup of regulars may affect this. Possible future updates include kappa-chan (a water-demoness), invisi-chan (an invisible girl wearing a theater mask, blond wig, and gloves), [[Drider]]-chan (drow/spider "centaur").

 

== Western Animation ==

* Marceline the Vampire Queen from ''[[Adventure Time]]'' may occasionally turn into a giant, monstrous bat or an amorphous mass of tentacles and darkness, but most of the time she's a tall, pale humanlike girl who's as sexy as the show's art style allows for.

* All of the female ''[[Gargoyles]]'' shown in the original TV series are sexy winged humanoids, except for Una, who resembles an anthropomorphic unicorn and is thus still "cute", while male gargoyles have many other types. However, the comic continuation eventually introduced Constance (Coco), a heavy-set female who resembles a wild sow, and Brooklyn's mate at the end of his Timedance, Katana, has a face that includes a beautiful beak.

* In the ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'' series we meet other members of Marvin the Martian's species for the first time. Seems that while the males are short and cartoony the females, particularly Queen Tyr'ahnee are, well, [http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs40/f/2009/010/5/0/Martian_Queen_by_SFToon.png this]. Then again, the male Martian General Z9 is tall and well-built, so it's possible that Marvin is just a midget among his people.

** One episode had the hero crash-land onto a planet made up of attractive bug-like women... until the sun goes down.

** A later episode introduced Cricket, a girl who's still pretty cute despite being green and having spines on her arms. {{spoiler|Later episodes reduce the amount of spines, make her figure fuller, and give her a cuter face.}}

* ''[[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.

** The movie about aliens near Area 51 {{spoiler|has an interesting example: turns out the cute native girl Shaggy had the hots for''(!)'' -and who seemed to share his feelings'''''(!!)'''''- was in fact a real (benevolent) alien; she looked somewhat like a metallic-skinned [[The Greys|Grey alien]], but with an attractive human bodyshape and expressive facial features. You kinda felt sorry that she had to leave Earth (and Shaggy) at the end -presumably never to return.}}

* ''[[Gumby]]'' is guilty of this one. Gumby has roughly the same slab-shaped body as his father, but his mother has a round head with blonde hair on a body that has breasts. [[Pantsless Males, Fully-Dressed Females|And she wears clothes]]. She's not cute by the standards of most entries on this page, but she's far more human-shaped than the rest of her family.

 

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