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See also [[Evil Is Sexy]], this trope's partial [[Super-Trope]],<ref>[[Evil Is Sexy]] applies to humans as well, and, well, not all [[Eldritch Abomination]]s are evil</ref> [[Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?]], [[Boldly Coming]], and [[Divine Date]].<ref>[[Boldly Coming]] and [[Divine Date]] differ from this in that, normally, the entity being dated in question is not something you'd encounter as an antagonist in a horror story</ref> A subtrope of [[Interspecies Romance]].<ref>And parented by [[Tropes That Will Never Happen (Darth Wiki)|Tropes That Will Never Happen]], of all things (The entry "Did You Just Suck Off Cthulhu?" had enough entries of possible examples that somebody realized it was tropeable)</ref> Might lead to [[Fetus Terrible|Fetus]]/[[Enfant Terrible]]. A common origin for the [[Anti-Anti-Christ]],able to switch sides as a representation of the human side-just as likely to become a [[Complete Monster]] though.

 

 

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== [[Literature]] ==

** Oh, and it's hinted at that her elderly father was acting as the, er, ''vessel'' for Yog at the time.

* Likewise, several [[Cthulhu Mythos]] tales deal with this:

** Played with Ramsey Campbell's "The Faces At Pine Dunes". The protagonist and his girlfriend is investigate his parents' strange behavior. {{spoiler|1=His father is a Human/[[Eldritch Abomination]] hybrid, and so is the protagonist.}}

* "The Dunwich Horror" was inspired by Arthur Machen's ''[[The Great God Pan]]'', which also features sex (or ''some'' kind of mating) between a human woman and an [[Eldritch Abomination]]. The resulting daughter is an eerily beautiful [[Humanoid Abomination]] whose unspeakable acts (strongly implied to be sexual in nature) lead to madness and suicide.

** [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CvgEnPIYQ_U/TL7T2mAtBHI/AAAAAAAAAIs/qRu7hZJaKTk/s1600/barney_stinson.jpg Challenge Accepted]!

* [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Star Wars]] [[Fate of the Jedi]]: Luke has an ''encounter'' with [[Sealed Evil in a Can|Abeloth]]. {{spoiler|She ''impersonates each of his previous girlfriends'' and then [[Yandere|sets out to kill the ones that are still alive]].}} Loving a Skywalker can be so complicated.

* The entire point of the [[Light Novels]] ''[[Nyarko San]]'', except that it's the Cthulhu-side person herself who initiates the relationship to the human protagonist (to varying degree of success). And no, it's not nasty... most of the time.

** [[Girls Love|Cthugga x]] [[Brain Bleach|Nyarlathotep!]]

 

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Angel]]'' has [[Took a Level in Badass|Wesley]] romancing [[Humanoid Abomination|Illyria]] at the end of season 5. [[Played With]] in that they're never 'together,' and it's not clear until the series finale that {{spoiler|Illyria returned his affections, as evidenced by her compassion and grief at Wesley's death}}.

** Actually Wesley subverts this trope. He in no way, shape or form "romances" Illyria. Not once, not ever. He kept her around purely because she reminded him of Fred, and when Illyria tried to get physically intimate with Wesley he rebuffed her. {{spoiler|Only at Wesley's death was he willing to let Illyria pretend to be Fred so he could spend his last moment with his lost love, or a close approximation.}}

 

== [[Music]] ==

* The song "Width of a Circle" by [[David Bowie]] describes a consensual encounter with some sort of [[Eldritch Abomination]]. Remember, kids, [[Drugs Are Bad]]!

* Also Norm Sherman's "Heartache Over Innsmouth", which is just what it sounds like.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* The "[[Eldritch Abomination|aberrant]]" bloodline in ''[[Pathfinder]]''—which eventually turns your character into a [[Humanoid Abomination]]—implies something like this in a [[Witch Species|sorcerer's]] ancestry.

* "Romance" might not be the right word for it, but this is part of the ''graduation ceremony'' for the Drow priestesses of Lolth in the [[Forgotten Realms]]. The joint graduation ceremony between female priestesses and male warriors consists of the two groups engaging in a drug-fueled orgy. One "lucky" priestess mates with a glabrezu—a four-armed pincered dog-faced demon—instead of another Drow. It bears mentioning that glabrezu can't shapeshift. This is considered an honor, and the resulting hybrid children (called draegloths) have a special place in Drow society.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Drowtales]]'' sees Mel'arnach and {{spoiler|the intelligent [[Giant Spider]] Zhor}}. Despite appearing to be an [[Interspecies Romance]], it actually isn't, since {{spoiler|Zhor is a transformed dark elf}}, but due to his appearance it still counts.

* In ''[[Tales Of Gnosis College]]'', Moira's relationship with Howard counts as this. It's rather sweet, arguably.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* In ''[[Tales Of Gnosis College]]'' Moira Weir has a series of encounters that fall into this trope.

* [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/16727562/ /tg/] likes [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/16309898/images/1316145554772.jpg these].

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==