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This is present in most [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness|unrealistic]] fictional genres, including [[Science Fiction]] (or, rather [[Space Opera]]), fantasy, horror, etc. In reality, many closely related Earth species share over 99% of their DNA, but cannot produce viable offspring. This makes it extremely unlikely that creatures of different planets would be able to interbreed, but then again, [[Mars Needs Women|Mars does need women]].

 

 

Rarely does either species [[Maligned Mixed Marriage|accept the mixed marriage]], much less said hybrid, though. After all, [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]

If the hybrid is a positive character, it connects the audience with them, giving them familiar characteristics and a closer point-of-view into the otherwise alien culture, or else, an "outsider" character for protagonists to befriend... or at the very least, they'll have the power to fight one-half of their heritage, almost certainly if that [[Dhampyr|one-half is vampire]].

 

 

If the hybrid is a negative character, this will make their inhumanity more personal. They might be a [[Tragic Mulatto]], representing what prejudice on both species' part can produce. For extra angst, the character's conception might have been [[Child of Rape|less-than-consensual]].

In mythology and folklore, this is known as a "liminal being", like Merlin or centaurs.

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Silver Diamond]]'' has Chigusa: half-man, half-plant. Which apparently makes you damn near immortal. {{spoiler|Apparently, it's a family trait of the Senroh clan, earning them the title of Immortal Monsters.}}

* The Arume in ''[[Blue Drop]]'' regularly have offspring with earth women - which takes some help from technology, since they are [[One-Gender Race|all female themselves]].

* The series ''Otome Yōkai Zakuro'' is set during the Westernization of an alternate Japan, where humans and spirits (yōkai) coexist. To solve the problems that arise between the two, human lieutenants are partnered with half-spirit girls to form the Ministry of Spirit Affairs.

* In the manga/anime ''[[Claymore]]'', the heroes are a sect of all female half-human, half-''youma'' who hunt full ''youma'', although {{spoiler|the main heroine Clare is actually only a quarter youma}}. A fallen Claymore warrior is called an "Awakened One" and is far ''more'' powerful than a pure-blooded ''youma''.

** A Claymore warrior is somewhat different from other half-breeds in that they are born human and become half-''youma'' by {{spoiler|having ''youma'' flesh implanted into their body. Claire is a quarter ''youma'' because she requested to have a certain Claymore's flesh used instead, }}. This turns out to be a critical plot point because {{spoiler|quarter-''youma'' are physically weaker but have a far greater degree of control over their abilities and are more likely to survive [[Power Incontinence]]}}.

* Gohan, Trunks, Goten and Bra from ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' were half-Saiyans, an alien race. Apparently, humans and Saiyans are the same species, because they're capable of producing fertile offspring: Gohan has a quarter-Saiyan daughter named Pan, and Pan has at least one child and one grandson.

** Furthermore, in Dragonball Z, Saiyans are capable of rapid gains in strength, and the ability to transform into special forms such as the Oozaru (giant ape) or the Super Saiyan (a golden haired warrior of incredible power), while humans take much longer to train up to the same power levels. However, while pureblooded Saiyans have thus far only ever achieved the level of Super Saiyan as adults, all of the male hybrids gained power extremely rapidly and attained the form as children, and Gohan was the first character ever to reach the level of Ascended Saiyan and by the end of the series was the most powerful (unfused) being in the universe by a long shot.

*** The clones are incidentally usually called Silpelits, rather than Diclonius, for extra confusion.

* In the anime ''[[Gall Force]]'', the Hybrid between the all-female Solonoids and the monstrous Paranoids turned out to be a human male. The ''[[Adam and Eve Plot|first one]]'', at that.

* ''[[Inuyasha]]'':

** Inuyasha is half-dog-[[Youkai]] and has a mixture of dog and human traits. He's basically human in appearance but has dog fangs, [[Eyes of Gold|golden youkai eyes]] and claws. His sense of hearing and smell is very much sharper than a humans. However, he lacks his full-blooded youkai brother's strength and his senses are duller than his brother's as well. However, being the son of a [[Up to Eleven|dai]]youkai means he's much stronger than ordinary (and even strong) youkai even if he's not a physical match for his daiyoukai brother. He's also inherited some magical abilities from his father's side. However, along with this, he has one night a month when he's forced to [[Brought Down to Normal|transform into a human]] and if his life is in grave danger, a [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] takes over where his youkai blood takes dominance over his mind and body, although even in that state he doesn't transform into a [[Canis Major|dog]] the way a full-blooded dog youkai can.

* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Kaworu Nagisa is strongly implied to be {{spoiler|a result of an experiment where an unidentified human donor's DNA "dove" into Adam. (The technobabble almost sounds like a euphemism for insemination.)}} Whether he is actually a {{spoiler|half-Angel/half-Lilin hybrid who for some reason looks human, or a straight-up clone of the genetic donor,}} is unknown.

** Rei Ayanami has {{spoiler|a connection to Lilith}}, as well, but printed sources only say that {{spoiler|she is a clone of Yui and contains Lilith's soul}}. The idea that she is {{spoiler|a genetic hybrid, or some such,}} remains strictly within the realm of fanon.

* Both Averted & Justified in [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s ''Phoenix'' series, where there is only one species capable of breeding with others, the Moopies, who are able to do this due to [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]] (which is a completely different scientific impossibility, but what the hey).

* {{spoiler|Rue}} from ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' has been raised on {{spoiler|the Raven's blood}}, and it's implied that it's made her a sort of hybrid.

* In the manga/anime ''[[Saiyuki]]'', humans and demons may interbreed, but the offspring are discovered to be infertile.

* ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'' is certainly full of these, usually Zentraedi/Human hybrids. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that the entire premise of the show is that Zentraedi and humans are two genetically modified offshoots of the same species.

** In ''Macross 7'', we meet Mylene, the series' [[Genki Girl]], who is naturally also a hybrid (Komillia's little sister, at that). In fact, when they discover an ancient ([[Ragnarok Proofing|yet remarkably still functional]]) ruin, it's Mylene's hybrid nature that unlocks the final chamber, allowing the ruin's computer to see that the different races had stopped fighting and even had children together.

** In [[The Movie]] to the same series, we meet Mylene's ''other'' older sister Emillia, though their relation is only confirmed by a few seconds of dialogue.

** It's one theory on Kid's heritage that he's got a human mother and [[Divine Parentage|death-god father]]. Depends on how you interpret the Sanzu Lines issue in the manga.

*** That theory has been killed dead as of the latest manga chapters, where it's revealed that Kid is actually {{spoiler|a split-off piece of Shinigami-sama}}

** Mayumi is also a half-demon.

* Everyone except the hero in ''[[Utawarerumono]]'' has a varying combination of wings, long furry ears, and tails. It is revealed in the end that {{spoiler|they're all descendants of genetically engineered research experiments who escaped shortly before [[All There in the Manual|the end of mankind]]. Despite having only minimal animal features, they were on the level of lab rats and even dissected for research.}}

* [[Vampire Hunter D]] has D. A [[Dhampir]] created by Dracula himself after something like 5,000 years of trying.

* [[Dragon Half]] has the heroine Mink, whose mother was a dragon and whose father was a (human) dragon hunter. And Princess Vina whose father was a king, and whose mother was a slime (similar to those in [[Dragon Quest]])

* The [[Karin|Karin manga]]: {{spoiler|Yuriya is a half-vampire, half-human. She isn't affected by vampire weaknesses (i.e. sunlight, the smell of garlic, etc.). Unfortunately, she also has to drink blood, and she doesn't have any vampire ''powers'', either. She's also completely sterile. Karin and Kenta's daughter, Kanon, is the same deal.}}

** {{spoiler|actually Kanon can be debated because Karin's parents mentioned that she had become like a normal human so isn't it possible for her child to be normal?(since Kanon doesn't seem to have any vampiric tendencies at all unlike Yuriya}}

*** {{spoiler|The key phrase here being "like a normal human" as she still has her fangs and her powers are more likely dormant rather than her DNA completely changing into another species.}}

* The heroine Chisaya from [[Onikirisama No Hakoirimusume]] is half-human and half-yokai, with a giant [[Kitsune]] as a mother.

* This seems to happen a lot in [[One Piece]]. There are several variations between common species, including but not limited to; Humans, [[Fish People|Mermen, Fishmen,]] and Giants.

* In ''[[Nagasarete Airantou]]'', we have [[Who Is This Guy Again?|Michiru]].

** Her father is human while her mother is a [[Youkai|Yuki-onna]].

* According to ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', Mewtwo was partially augmented with human DNA.

* In ''[[Saint Beast]]'', brothers Kira and Maya are half-angel (their father) and half-human (their mother) and suffer [[Fantastic Racism]] as a result.

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers]]: The Initiative'' has Trauma, the son of {{spoiler|the demon lord Nightmare}} and a human woman.

* In ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]'', the platinum dragon D'bra is actually a hybrid between two differing tribes of dragons, platinum on her mother's side and iron on her father's. This is notable as full dragons are rare enough between two partners of the same tribe (most eggs hatch into less drakes or wyrms), and hybrids are thus extremely powerful. However, not only are they extremely rare (six have been recorded in the entirety of draconic history), but also card carrying demonstrations that [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]. D'bra's own explosive temper is a considerable worry to the other dragons who are afraid of her snapping like all the others.

** Also in ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]'' one of the three Diggers sisters, Brianna Diggers, is a half-werecheetah half-human. Any questions on how that could happen genetically are neatly bypassed by her being the combination of her two other sisters via a combination of a magic curse and [[Mad Scientist|mad science]] (the werecheetah and human siblings being sisters in the first place by the simpler mechanism of adoption).

** More recently, it has been revealed that the Diggers sisters' father is also a hybrid - his father was human, but his mother was a living alien (albeit of Terran origin) supercomputer with a humanoid body. Ah, love... Anyway, while the Diggers sisters' ''mother'' is unquestionably human, she ''is'' from another planet and ''her'' parents are also from two completely different cultures. One might theorize a strong genetic resistance against inbreeding...

*** {{spoiler|In addition said feline humanoid (Kryn) is actually another type of humanoid entirely (Gaoblin) that ages ago killed off and replaced four separate races (Kryn, Elves, Trolls and Atlanteans) as a way of hiding from the universe who wanted them dead for their service to the [[Cosmic Horror|Dynasty]]. AND he's been bonded with several highly powerful artifacts. So he's an alien with an outer shell of DNA from another race and who knows what else affecting his gene pool. The world's resident gene-expert says that the husband's DNA is probably the most complex he's ever seen.}}

* Jack of Hearts, a [[Marvel Comics]] superhero, was half-human, half-Contraxian (his powers had little or nothing to do with that, it was a [[Freak Lab Accident]]).

** Many other Titans are half-human/half-non-human as well.

** Mar-Vell's ''other'' kid, {{spoiler|Hulkling of the [[Young Avengers]]}}, is his son by a Skrull princess. As one can imagine, the news of this has not gone over well with either the Kree or Skrulls. Also, note that Captain Marvel never met any of his children: {{spoiler|Hulkling}} was kept by the Skrulls, and Genis and Phyla were created using his DNA after his death.

*** The Kree most likely wanted to kill him (the Kree have been known to put people on death row just for sleeping with a Skrull); the Skrulls on the other hand {{spoiler|see him as [[The Messiah]]}}.

** Another cross between human-offshoots is Maelstrom, an Inhuman/Deviant cross. His son Ransak is a one-quarter Inhuman, three-quarters Deviant.

** Still another example, the Ritter twins are Eternal/Deviant hybrids.

* Adam X the [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|X-treme]], part of the Summers' [[Tangled Family Tree]], is half-human, half-Sh'iar.

* In ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'', Genesis is the offspring of an angel and a demon.

** Unless Xavin gives himself a female shape but certain male... parts...

** However, many post-Crisis stories portrayed a human/kryptonian hybrid as impossible. One of the reasons is that if a solar powered Kryptonian mated with a human female-the force of the ejaculation would act like a shot gun... in the middle of the woman's body. And its further elaborated with kryptonian and human DNA not being compatible.

*** The "too-powerful-ejaculation" theory has '''''never''''' appeared in a comic book; it's from a short story (print only) by [[Larry Niven]] called ''Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex.'' It is in no way any sort of comic book canon, and probably shouldn't be mentioned here. As for post-Crisis continuity and genetic incompatibility... that was ''how many'' Crises ago!?

* Tigra of [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]] is a human woman turned half-tiger thanks to magic. And ''then'' she... {{spoiler|went and got knocked up by a Skrull pretending to be Henry Pym. Which I suppose makes her child half-Skrull, one-quarter human and one-quarter magic tiger.}}

** According to the more recent Avengers Academy, the disguise was so good that the {{spoiler|Skrull imposter only gave Hank Pym's DNA, so the child is three-quarters human, one-quarter magic tiger.}}

* Parodied in ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'', where Roxanne is described as being "half-ninja".

* Prior to the DC reboot, Cassie Sandsmark aka [[Wonder Woman|Wonder Girl]] was the half-human half-Olympian daughter of Zeus. After the DC reboot, {{spoiler|this applies to [[Wonder Woman]] herself.}}

* Jimmy Marks aka Hybrid, the son of a human woman and a [[ROM Spaceknight|Dire Wraith]]. Recently appeared in ''Avengers Academy''. Don't worry, he's not as bad as a typical member of his father's race. {{spoiler|He's worse.}}

 

 

** Don't forget the [[Crack Pairing|Kyon/Ryoko]] ones!

** I ''have'' to ask this: Do interfaces have, you know... parts?

*** Of course. They're biologically perfectly human. Making a copy of an existing template is simpler than making something entirely new, and non-human physical traits like that could potentially arouse unwanted suspicion.

 

== Film ==

** Even worse, the gangster Pizza the Hutt is described as ''half-man, half pizza''. So ''that's'' how those [[Pizza Boy Special Delivery]] scenes really end...

* Partially [[Justified Trope]] in ''[[Species]]''. {{spoiler|While alien/human hybrids are created through [[Hand Waving]], most of them have extremely unstable biochemistry that results in their early deaths.}}

*** Also, the half-human hybrids Sill and Eve are healthy. {{spoiler|It's only the ''three-quarters human'' children of [[The Virus]] infected astronaut in ''Species II'' who are sickly and (apparently) sterile}}. Which means the whole thing makes even less sense. Not to mention it retroactively ruins the entire premise of the first two films, though the idea that a species with a starting population of one or two individuals could outbreed the six billion humans on Earth is fairly silly to begin with (realistically we'd just absorb them in a few generations, or they'd quickly become ridiculously inbred).

*** Oddly enough, inbreeding doesn't actually cause direct problems, or cause mutation or anything like that. It just increases the chance of already existing genetic "defects" (color-blindness for example) popping up. There is a small chance that no genetic problems would occur and a decent chance that those that do pop up would only be minor, if the two original beings have no expressed problems of their own. Not accounting for mutations, which always have the same chance of occurring, no matter what, of course. God I love biology.

** In Sturla Gunnarsson's ''Beowulf & Grendel'' (2005), Grendel is referred to as a [[All Trolls Are Different|troll]] but his mother is some sort of sea creature. {{spoiler|His son with Selma is this trope played straight.}}

* B-movie ''Arachnid'' has a gigantic alien spider giving birth to all kinds of other huge bugs. Sometimes it is required to lay the eggs inside a human. We never get any clue exactly what, if anything, it was mating with.

* ''Percy Jackson And The Olympians: The Lightning Thief'' postulates that the Roman and Greek gods are still around, and have been mating with humans a ''lot'' , with hundreds of demi-gods sprinkled through human society. Some of them know their parentage, some don't.

* In ''[[Splice]]'', two married scientists pioneer a new technology to 'plug and play' any number of different animal's DNA together to produce new unique organisms. They decide to take the next step and insert human DNA into the mix. That worked out about as well as you would expect.

 

== Literature ==

* Averted in [[Poul Anderson]]'s short story, ''[[The High Crusade]],''which includes an instance of the humans finding one or more [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|green-haired, feathery-antennae'd space babes]]. In the words of the narrator, "Nor was there any possibility of issue between [the Space Babe's] species and our own." Nevertheless, he indicates that the complications didn't stand in the way of [[Interspecies Romance]].

** Though being a priest, he does worry that "the prohibitions of Leviticus might apply," i.e. that it counts as the sin of coupling with beasts.

** In cases where the two species involved are otherwise physically... ''incompatible'', love springs have an inherent magic that overrules the laws of biology, allowing for even more bizarre blendings. When the two species are simply too different to coexist in a single form, they become were-creatures, able to transform from the one species to the other.

** And some totally non-human examples:

** Jara Hamee and his daughter Toby (named for Tobias) are descended from an Andalite female who married a Hork-Bajir, though, again, she used morphing technology to actually become a Hork-Bajir.

* In Patricia Briggs' Hurog novels half the cast have a dragon ancestor several generations back.

** Handwaved in that {{spoiler|dragons can assume human form.}}

* There are a few examples of hybrids in Terry Brooks' ''[[Shannara]]'' books (the Urda, for example, are Troll/Gnome hybrids). Justified, in one sense, by the fact that dwarves, gnomes, and trolls are simply different subspecies of human mutated by the apocalypse. Less explicable is how humans can interbreed with elves, who are just fae ''evolved'' into humanoids...

* [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'' has Taura, who's a genetically engineered remnant of a [[Super Soldier]] project, with horse genes somewhere in there ([[Lego Genetics|among others]]). She's friendly, cheerful and her favourite colour is [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy|pink]], but she's also eight feet tall and looks quite a lot like a werewolf. People tend to misjudge her on these grounds.

* [[John Carter of Mars]], the hero of [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' ''A Princess of Mars'' and subsequent books, had two children with Dejah Thoris, a red Martian princess. Martians lay eggs. Go figure. Then again, John Carter may not be human; he says he is very old and can recall no childhood. There is no mention of the other human/Martian couple in the series (Ulysses Paxton/Valla Dia) having children.

** Made even stranger because it's strongly implied the various Barsoomian [[Human Aliens]] can't even fully interbreed with ''each other''; In ''The Gods Of Mars'' the White Martians try to expand their gene pool with outbreeding, and get a bunch of pitiful monstrosities that are kept hidden away.

* In [[David Eddings]]' ''The Dreamers'' series, That-Called-The-Vlagh (or just 'The Vlagh) is a giant female insect who creates thousands and thousands of eggs, and whenever she sees a characteristic she likes, she mixes and matches animals with the characteristics she likes... creating the craziest creatures ever. But very, very, deadly.

* Damsel of Austin Grossman's ''[[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]'' is not the actual child, but the genetic combination of her father's DNA and that of the [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]] he fell in love with. This is actually addressed with Damsel confessing that the combination isn't stable and she is constantly sick because of it.

** Justified in ''[[Dark Lord of Derkholm]]'' in which Derk is a magician specialising in genetics and creates griffin children using his and his wife's DNA as well as cat and eagle DNA. However, it is implied that Derks' griffin children will have no problem having children with the "real" griffins that turn up in the second book (well their Dad can help them out).

** In ''[[The Magids|Deep Secret]]'' a couple of {{spoiler|centaur}} characters have human fathers. It's pointed out that it has to be that way round because a hybrid foetus would be too big for a human woman to carry.

** The mysterious gualdians of ''A Sudden Wild Magic''. It's not very clear ''how'' they're not human, but they consider humans to be a different species and prefer not to interbreed, although it's definitely possible and humans often consider it desirable (to the extent of having very nasty plans for a captured gualdian).

** [[Your Mileage May Vary]] - Lovecraft's racism was rather open and casual (and not atypical for the time). Those stories involve humans interbreeding with {{spoiler|[[Eldritch Abominations]], [[Fish People]], and gorillas}}, respectively, so "unnatural" might stand to reason.

*** The extremeness and breadth of Lovecraft's racism actually was pretty extreme, even for the time, and he maintained it until the day he died, despite [[Science Marches On|science marching on]]. And it doesn't take a genius to recognize a subtext of miscegenation in his writings involving [[Half Human Hybrids]]. The problem is not that he presented breeding with a gorilla or a "frog-fish" to be unnatural, the problem is that there was an unspoken component (you know, [[Subtext]]) that breeding with a non-white race is also unnatural, because they are no more human than a gorilla.

** In Robert Bloch's [[Cthulhu Mythos]] story "The Brood Of Bubastis", he takes this trope [[Up to Eleven]], with an ancient Egyptian cult that'd managed to bring their animal-headed deities into being ''in the flesh'', [[But You Screw One Goat!|by quite primitive methods]].

* Averted entirely in [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s ''Freedom's Landing'' series. There's only one species humanoid enough to be attractive to humans, and it's outright stated that they can't have children together. The children the heroine and her love have are from affairs on her part and a previous marriage on his, both with their own species.

** Don't forget Nahuel, who is also a [[Dhampyr]] and {{spoiler|is the main factor in halting combat with the Big Bad}}

** This one might be considered an aversion since vampires are not actually a "species". ''All'' vampires were humans once, and have simply been transformed into a post-human state. It is only the fact that female vampires cannot successfully become pregnant that prevents them from procreating as a separate species. But since they were all human at one time, and have merely been altered via supernatural means, there is no genetic reason that they could not breed with other humans, with the supernatural aspect simply "infecting" the resulting progeny much the same was as it is spread from vampires to other humans to create more vampires.

* In Eric Nylund's ''A Pawn's Dream'', all the Dreamers are half (or less) human, as a child born of two Dreamers is incredibly powerful and therefore forbidden, as it would disrupt the balance of power. In this case the intermarrying isn't very far fetched, as the only differences from regular humans are the existence in both worlds and the ability to use magic.

* James Patterson's ''[[Maximum Ride]]''. Six kids with wings and the ability to fly hundreds of kilometres. On top of that, one six-year-old can also breathe underwater, speak to fish, change her appearance at will and read and control minds.

** All of the members of the "Flock" have powers not related to birds at all, with the possible exception of Max with her super speed. Apparently she's part falcon.

*** ''Maximum Ride'' came from James Patterson's earlier novels ''When The Wind Blows'' and ''The Lake House'', also featuring flying kids. However, they are slightly creepier. This Max lays eggs.

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in [[H. Beam Piper]]'s short story ''When In The Course''. One human female character is reminded several times throughout the story that, even though the inhabitants of Freya appear human, the two races "started in two different puddles of living slime, seven hundred light-years apart." At the end of the story, she announces that she's pregnant by a Freyan.

** Only the first two are definitely hybrids; werewolves are made by 'infecting' people, and centaurs and merpeople are traditionally species unto themselves. What, you took the term [[Fantastic Slurs|half-breed]] literally? The characters who use it probably don't care much about [[Did Not Do the Research|accuracy]].

*** The half-goblin example is also definitely hybrid, at least according to [[Word of God]].

* Played with in Brian Ruckley's "The Godless World" series. The world in question contains 4 sentient species (previously 5, before the [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolf race]] got wiped out). Of these only two are humanoid, the Huanin (humans) and Kyrinin (elves, but not as long-lived, wise or peaceful as elves tend to be.). The two races can interbreed, but the offspring, called Na'Kyrim, are always sterile and generally conform to real-life hybridization in terms of appearance and shared traits. They also develop a form of magic, known as the "Shared", which {{spoiler|given the primary way to become a powerful user of it, tends to cause a great deal of mistrust in the average person. By the way things are looking by the end of the second book, they are very, very justified.}}

* In Christopher Stasheff's ''Warlock'' books, Gwendylon Gallowglass of Gramarye is one-quarter elven (and her children are one-eighth). This is weirder than usual, because on Gramarye elves were originally an alien fungus [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|shaped by the beliefs]] of humans with [[Psychic Powers]].

** The Uruk-hai engineered by Saruman are implied to be made of orc and human stock.

* S.L. Viehl is fond of this trope. Humans can interbreed with all kinds of freaky aliens—from [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|blue-skinned humanoids]], to avians, to something that [[Starfish Aliens|looks like a human-sized three-way hybrid of a mudpuppy, a catfish, and a lamprey]]. The [[Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrid|aforementioned blue people seem to be able to hybridize]] with even ''more'' races... including some that are ''really'' bizarre.

* [[Our Dragons Are Different|Anthrozils]] in ''[[Dragons in Our Midst]]''.

* Hybrids ("breeds") are so common in Glen Cook's ''Garrett P.I.'' fantasy series, they sometimes outnumber the human characters. Exempting non-humans from military conscription, then inviting them in to work while your human subjects are off fighting a hundred-year war, can have unintended consequences...

* Human/fairy hybrids appear prominently in ''Goblin Moon'' and ''The Gnome's Engine''. They are prone to psychological instability and have unique responses to emotional stress, a fact which is central to the plot. A mixed dwarf/human marriage is also mentioned, although it's unstated whether children are expected to follow.

** A straight example would be {{spoiler|Tristran himself, as his father was mortal and his mother was a fairy.}}

** The [[Film of the Book]], however, ends with mention of Tristan (different spelling) and Yvaine's children and grandchildren.

* In Iain M.Banks ''Culture'' novels, Culture citizens have 'genofixing,' one result of which is that they can reproduce with other species (if desired, as other modifications allow the whole pregnancy cycle to be averted, paused indefinitely or aborted at will). Its immediate usefulness is in allowing the many similar but unrelated pan-human species to interbreed, but this being the Culture, plenty of people take it to [[Boldly Coming|more exotic extremes.]]

* [[Isaac Asimov]]'s 'Tweenies' short stories features Martian-Human hybrids. There most noticable features are large white mohican crests and high intelligence. They are outcasts of both species. In the stories a sympathetic human ends up looking after several Tweenies, later becoming a small commune. Once older, they leave Earth to have adventures colonising Venus.

* [[Michael Crichton]]'s ''[[Next]]'' has Dave, the son of a researcher who manipulated his DNA and a chimpanzee's donated cells. He displays both human and monkey aspects, especially in personality, where he ''flings poo.'' It's also implied, that, playing with the theme of genetic engineering gone insane and that people never expect problems with their newfangled tech, he's aging rapidly.

*** Subverted in Jadis/the White Witch's case, as she only ''pretended'' to be part human to assert her claim to the throne. Her non-giant blood is actually ''genie'' (jinn), not human.

* {{spoiler|Mordred}} in the final volume of Stephen King's [[The Dark Tower]] is the child of {{spoiler|two full-blooded humans, one demon elemental who was turned human by [[Magitek]], and one [[Physical God]] who had at least one human ancestor and may be as much as half-human.}} [[It's a Long Story]].

** Also in ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series, the Can-Toi, or the "low men" are half-human, half-taheen.

** One of the early [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] books has a crossbreed mechanic whose parentage is also never described, who admits to Han Solo that he's not wholly of either species and is relieved when Han is okay with that.

** The [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] is filled with hybrids, due to the large number of "[[Human Aliens|Near-Human]]" races, which aren't so much alien species as subspecies of humanity that descended from early space explorers who were cut off from the original human homeworlds thousands of years earlier, only to be rediscovered later. How far they diverge from regular humans varies; some just have [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|different skin colors]], while others have more extreme differences (the Miraluka, for example, have no eyes and see using [[The Force]] instead). On the other hand, species that ''aren't'' Near-Humans explicitly cannot interbreed with humans, no matter how human-like they appear to be.

* An interesting example occurs in [[The Godless World Trilogy]]. The na'kyrim are the offspring of a Kyrinin and a Hunin. They cannot reproduce but they do gain access to the Shared, which appears to be something magical. Na'kyrim can communicate with other na'kyrim through it. It can also be used to control the minds of others, plant suggestions, or see the truth. There are legends quoted that ancient na'kyrim could perform magic and even conpletely repair their bodies.

* ''[[The Halfblood Chronicles]]'' by [[Mercedes Lackey]] and [[Andre Norton]] focus mainly on characters who are the results of elven lords impregnating their human slaves. The half-bloods/wizards are implied to be infertile, though it's never directly stated. The wizards find and save new half-bloods in order to perpetuate themselves as a society; they are never seen to have children of their own loins.

* The ''Bedlam's Bard'' series by [[Mercedes Lackey]] (and varying co-authors) has half-human, half-elven characters, but also states that the species are not cross-fertile unless deliberate actions are taken to make them so. One plotline in one of the books is Beth and Kory searching for a means to accomplish this without resorting to the means used by Perenor to father Ria (Which involved forcibly draining other humans of magic - with frequently lethal consequences).

* ''[[Kingdom Keepers]]'' has fairlies, which are human and fairy offspring.

* Though hybrids have yet to appear prominently in [[Discworld]], it's mentioned a couple of times that humans with dwarf or elf blood exist. Nanny Ogg is the most prominent human character with a trace of dwarf blood, which may explain her short stature and hard-headed ability to survive ballistic farmhouses. It's also mentioned that humans can interbreed with werewolves, with unpredictable results, and at least one major character is a demigod.

* In Kit Whitfield's ''In Great Waters'' all the royal houses of Europe (except Switzerland which is landlocked) have [[Our Mermaids Are Different|Deepman]] blood. Any hybrid not of royal blood is termed a Bastard and summarily executed, usually by burning. All hybrids have small, needle like teeth, black eyes with no white, clawed and webbed fingers and "legs" that are actually bifurcated tails which force them to use canes to walk. Because of inbreeding royals sometimes exibit other Deepman traits like bioluminescent blue skin (rare even among Deepmen) like Anne or tails that are whole down to the knees like Philip.

"As like as son to father," she answered, and hesitantly: "If the mind could conceive of the offspring of a union of divinity with humanity, it would picture that youth. The gods of old times mated sometimes with mortal women, our legends tell us."'' }}

** In "The Scarlet Citadel," the alleged [[Backstory]] of Tsotha-lanti

* Meredith Gentry, in the series of the same name by Laurell K. Hamilton, is Unseelie Sidhe on her father's side and (I believe) human, brownie, and Seelie Sidhe on her mother's. In fact, about half the cast are hybrids, half-human or otherwise. This is to say nothing of her kids...

* The D'Artigo sisters of Yasmine Galenorn's Otherworld series have a human mother and a fae father. Aditionally, Delilah was born with the powers of a werecat, and Menolly was turned into a vampire. Camille is a Moon Witch, but that's not exactly a species designation. Aditionally, it would seem that interbreeding is reasonably common since "ordinary" humans are referred to as FBH's. (Full Blood Humans)

* Half-Elves form a whole race in [[Chronicles of the Emerged World]], while true elves aren't really present but said to be extinct. {{spoiler|Also the [[Big Bad]] is part Half-Elf and part Human.}}

* Hemi From [[Un Lun Dun]]. He's half ghost, although it's implied that it's extremely rare, and frowned upon by ghosts and humans, for such a pairing to occur.

* ''[[Fablehaven]]'' has Kendra who is part human,part fairy. Curiously this was because fairies [[It Makes Sense in Context|kissed her]]

* Apparently, a human can produce viable offspring with anything in Jane Gaskell's ''[[Atlan]]'' series. The invader from the first novel, ''The Serpent'', is the product of a reptile mother and a human father, and later impregnates the heroine, Cija. In the fourth installment, ''The City'', a red ape breeds with Cija, {{spoiler|but her mother urges her to abort the resulting fetus}}.

* In Jacqueline Carey's ''The Sundering'', Ushahin Dreamspinner (one of [[Big Bad|Satoris's]] three [[The Dragon|lieutenants]] is half-human, half-Ellylon.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

*** Hybrids apparently have a much harder time dealing with their dual heritage than most of their friends and colleagues.

** Sarek rejected Spock for choosing to join Starfleet rather than the Vulcan Science Academy. [["Well Done, Son" Guy|They make up later]]. (If Sarek had actually had issues with humans, he wouldn't have married Amanda ''or'' had Spock.)

** Ensign Tarses (introduced as part-human, part-Vulcan) is the accidental victim of a witch-hunt on board the ''Enterprise''. Hounded by the over-zealous persecutor for a sabotage conspiracy, it ends up being revealed that the secret he's hiding has nothing to do with the sabotage. He lied to Star Fleet about his heritage to avoid persecution in the first place: his heritage isn't Vulcan, it's Romulan.

** Aside from the Nazi-esque "pure demons" The Scourge, who claimed not to be hybrids, but weren't any more powerful or less humanoid than other demons.

** Connor is an interesting case. Both of his parents are vampires (who normally can't have kids, but [[A Wizard Did It|there was magic involved]]), but he seems human at first, though it's later revealed that he's part demon.

** Or {{spoiler|Cordelia}}, who starts out perfectly human but then gets "part demon" sort of [[Lego Genetics|magically grafted into her DNA]]. Assuming demons ''have'' DNA.

** There is also some debate over whether the statement was ''intended'' to be true, within the context of the movie...etc, etc....!

** Likewise, "Gridlock" included a cat man (supposedly evolved from humans) having children with a human women. They looked exactly like normal kittens.

*** [[Expanded Universe]] sources claim that the cat people evolved entirely independently of humans, on a different planet in a different galaxy, and just happen to be genetically compatible with humans (the offspring always being the species of the father).

** "Evolution of the Daleks" is probably the most extreme example. {{spoiler|Not only does Dalek Sec fuse himself with Mr. Diagoras to become a Human/Dalek hybrid, the "new Daleks" in the same episode, while looking human, are in fact humans whose DNA was replaced with a mixture of Dalek and ''Time Lord'' DNA. The latter was "accidentally" added into the mixture due to the Doctor's intervention and a [[Lightning Can Do Anything|very convenient lightning strike]].}}

** King Peladon, ruler of the planet Peladon, in ''The Curse of Peladon'' was half-Pel and half-human. His mother was a human princess. He later had a daughter, Queen Thalira. It's unknown who her mother was.

* Half-human hybrids were one of the threats in ''[[The X-Files]]''. (most notably the alien hybrids and the [[Nuclear Nasty|Flukeman]])

** In both cases, the groundwork was laid by extremely sophisticated biotechnology effectively [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|indistinguishable from magic]] (see [[Clarke's Third Law]]) and far beyond the biotech capabilities demonstrated elsewhere. {{spoiler|Delenn used a Chrysalis device to become a human/Minbari hybrid, later having a son, David, with John Sheridan. Jeffrey Sinclair/Valen travelled back in time and became mostly Minbari using the device, later having many Minbari descendants - including Delenn. Not many people can say they were friends with their own multigreat-grandfather.}}

** However, G'Kar specifically mentions that a direct mating with human telepath, Lyta Alexander, could be used to reintroduce the telepath gene into the Narn species with the aid of genetic engineering. Narns are marsupials, by the way. Of course this could just be written of as G'Kar being a bit pervy, particularly in the pilot where he was portrayed as a villain. However, it is mentioned again near the end of the series.

* The existence of Cylon/human hybrid children is a central plot point of the rebooted ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'': There has been only one recorded case of a Cylon-Human hybrid. The other turned out to be a subversion, as although we were led to believe Nicholas Tyrol was one of these, turns out the mother had been with another man around the same time she got together with her eventual husband.

** The Finale reveals that {{spoiler|Hera is the Mitochondrial Eve, and thus a common ancestor of all modern humans. In addition, Baltar and Cottle discussed [[Boldly Coming|interbreeding with the natives]] of the second (our) Earth. This means that modern humans are actually a mix of Cylons and two types of human, while what the Colonials would call pure humanity is extinct.}}

** But also played perfectly straight as well, with D'Argo's son Jothee, and {{spoiler|John and Aeryn's baby}}.

**** It is revealed in the ongoing comic series (the ''D'Argo's Trial'' storyline) that Jothee's conception required assistance from an expert doctor.

*** It is rather ironic that Sebaceans, with their emphasis on genetic purity, were the only race that was shown to have hybrids with more than one species.

** Another straight example: John was the only one who could have a child with a Sebacean princess whose genes were poisoned.

*** And for the record, in the same episode it was revealed that Luxans (D'Argo) and Nebari (Chiana) are not compatible.

** Aeryn also technically qualifies, due to a [[Mad Scientist]]'s experiment she ended up gaining some Pilot DNA.

* Evie from ''[[Out of This World]]'' derives her powers from her Antarian father.

*** Actually, the wraith were caused by half a million years of the bugs feeding and connecting to humans, to the point where they started to become just one creature.

** Michael is a case of [[Unstable Genetic Code]] resulting from the Atlantis team's experiment at suppressing the bug genes of a Wraith. He's not so much half-Wraith as Not So Wraithy.

** In one episode, Sandoval is revealed to be dying and requiring a transplant from a close relative. Unfortunately, his parents are dead (supposedly, killed by Zo'or when he leveled Sandoval's home island), and he has no children (none that he knows of, at least). Liam secretly donates the required materials for his genetic father, which brings to question why the doctor who tested the sample never commented on the triple-helix DNA, and why a proper doctor would even inject that into a human.

* Averted on ''Monsterquest'', where believers in the [[Monster of the Week]] occasionally claim to have found bones, hair, or living examples of this trope. To date, genetic or medical analysis has always concluded these either come from humans with physical abnormalities, or from known misidentified animals.

* Wataru Kurenai from ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'' is {{spoiler|later revealed to be the result of his human father winning over his Fangire mother. Although Wataru's heritage was hinted early on whenever he transforms into the titular Rider by Kivat.}}

* ''[[The Fallen]]'' miniseries is all about the Nephilim, the offspring of [[Fallen Angel|fallen angels]] and human females. The main character is a [[Chosen One|special kind]] of Nephilim known as the Redeemer, who can send repentant fallen angels back to Heaven. All Nephilim are orphans, as their fathers either don't know about them or don't care, while their mothers die at childbirth. While there are female angels, it appears they cannot get pregnant from a human male. Nephilim have some of the powers of angels, including wings, ability to speak and understand any language (including animals), and pyrokinesis (such as throwing fireballs and creating flaming swords). Like the fallen angels, the Nephilim are being hunted by the Powers, a group of non-fallen angels, who see them as abominations. A small group of humans also knows of their existence and wishes to use the Redeemer to get to Heaven.

* Mel in the series "Tracker" finds out she is part Cirronian in the series' next-to-last episode.

** Which is strange, given that Cirronians are [[Energy Beings]].

* The four "pod squad" characters in [[Roswell]]; Max, Michael, Tess and Isabel. And their "dupes", Rath, Zan, Lonnie and Ava.

* The Chicken Lady in ''[[The Kids in The Hall]]''.

** An then, Piper (witch) and Leo's (whitelighter) kids.

*** It is strongly implied that Whitelighters are all "ascended" former humans who either lived a life of service and self-sacrifice or died saving someone, so it doesn't seem exceptionally unreasonable that a magically enhanced ''ex''-human might be able to sire children with a magical ''"regular"'' human. Still doesn't explain Cole though.

* a variant in ''Tracker'': Mel was one quarter Cirronian, with her grandmother being human and her grandfather being Cirronian.

 

 

== Music ==

* The [[Mercedes Lackey]] song "[http://www.lackey.de/valdemar-songs-mis-comception.htm Mis-Conception]" is about a...somewhat drastic...instance of this.

 

 

== Mythology and Religion ==

* Other mythologies such as Greek are filled with the half-human children of gods and monsters as well. Zeus being particularly infamous, with upwards of 30 noted hybrids by mortal women, several of his hybrids ascending to the pantheon, such as Heracles and Dionysus. Even Judeo-Christian legend has Lilith's demonic children and the nephilim, the result of "unauthorized" human/angel relations.

** Of course, presumably, if you were a god, you could use some miracle to make it work out between yourself an a mortal, meaning that as silly as it sounds, this might actually be justified.

** Both Loki and Thor from [[Norse Mythology|Old Norse religion]] are half-Aesir half-Jotun hybrids - Loki on his father's side, Thor on his mother's.

*** Loki is full Jotun. His parents are the Jotuns Laufey and Farbauti. Odin himself is half-Jotun and half-Aesir...his father Bor was Aesir but his mother Bestla was a frost giant. Thus making Thor three quarters Jotun and one-quarter Aesir. Loki's children Narvi and Vali born of the Goddess Sigyn would qualify as half-Jotun and half-Aesir. Magni, Thor's son with the giantess Jarnsaxa would be seven eighths Jotun and one eighth Aesir.

* [[King Arthur|Merlin]] is traditionally depicted as the son of a woman (sometimes a witch, occasionally a nun) and an incubus. [[Distaff Counterpart|Or, sometimes, a man and a succubus]]. This is often given as an explanation for his magical and prophetic abilities. Modern interpretations of the legends vary significantly on Merlin's parentage.

** ... And if you want to go back to the source material with the myth of Myddrin and his sister, it's implied that they both have 'magical' heritage. However, the emphasis is more on Myddrin's far-reaching Sight than anything else.

* In Greek Mythology, the minotaur is of course one of these. The minotaur's origin is rather convoluted. The King of Crete asked Poseidon for something marvelous he would then sacrifice to the sea god; Poseidon sends a magnificent white bull. It's so awesome a bull that the king didn't want to actually sacrifice it, and instead offered one of his own bulls. Naturally, Poseidon was annoyed, so he caused the queen to fall in love with the bull, have sex with it, and get pregnant by it. The offspring? The Minotaur.

* A minor figure in the mythology of The Church of the Sub-Genius is Saint Oliver the Humanzee, who even has his own feast day. There really was a chimp named Oliver who was suspected of being a Humanzee, but DNA tests eventually revealed he was just a funny looking chimp.

* In some cultures in South America, there are tales of half-dolphin half-humans (the river dolphins, botos, can turn into people who almost always wear white hats) who end up with blow holes on their heads and pink-white skin.

** Arguably the basis for the Nephilim in [[Hand of Mercy]] though interestingly the human-angel hybrids don't get any powers or advantages. Instead, they get horrific bone deformities, since the bones of angels are light as chalk in order to aid flight.

* [[Celtic Mythology|Celtic hero Cu Chulainn]] was the son of a mortal woman and Lugh the Long Handed of the Tuatha Dé Danann, who passed down most of his [[The Ace|Ace]]-like qualities to the child in question. Of course, since Lugh himself was also half Fomorian ([[The Old Gods|a race of primordial monsters that preceded the Tuatha Dé Danann]]), Cu Chulainn also inherited something from ''them'' as well - namely, [[Super-Powered Evil Side|the tendency to transform into a hideous, bloodthirsty abomination unable to distinguish friend from foe]].

 

** [[Mortasheen]] has an entire class of monsters based on this concept. But, given the nature of the series, you probably won't be surprised to learn that they're Brundlefly-style arthropod-human hybrids of about every notable insect one could think of.

* Series in the fantasy genre descended from Tolkien usually just use "half-elves", with the occasional half-orc, half-dwarf, half-minotaur (minotaurs themselfs in mythology being an example, see above.), etc.

** In addition, "Half-breed" could be both a race and a template. Half-Orc and Half-Elf were races, but Half-Dragon and Half-Fiend were templates that could be added on to any sentient race. Applying one to the other yields results like, "Half-Dragon-Half-Half-Orc". What would ''that'' family reunion be like?

*** Probably because dragons can take any humanoid form so it would depend on what form the dragon was in at the time of the breeding.

** In the ''[[Eberron]]'' campaign setting, half-elves have graduated into being a full-blown "race" in their own right. Their earliest ancestors were human aristocrats and elven opportunists looking for an inheritance from the short-lived humans (not knowing at the time that their species were mutually-fertile). Born into the aristocracy, these half-elves had an easier time marrying their own kind since noble marriages are typically limited to other nobles. Eventually they went on to become a true-breeding race and most modern half-elves are born to half-elven parents, with only a small minority coming from human/elf pairings. They have even developed two [[Power Tattoo|Dragonmarks]], which are generally unique to specific bloodlines within specific races, thus further cementing their perceived status as race unto themselves apart from elves and humans. Half-elves (or Khoravar as they like to call themselves) can still interbreed with humans and elves, as well as with the Kalashtar.

** Averted by [[Ravenloft]]'s "half-Vistani", as Vistani are simply a human ethnic minority, albeit with some unusual supernatural baggage. Averted differently by several [[Ravenloft]] monsters, including red widows and dread doppelgangers, which mate with humans but produce their own kind rather than hybrids.

** 2nd edition [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it with the Mongrelmen, a monster race that's said to be the result of centuries of cross-breeding and tend to have mismatched bits of fur, scales, hide, etc.

** 4th edition half-elves, gain bonuses that correspond to ''neither'' of their parents.

*** Earlier editions also featured the unusual Cambion and Alu-fiend demons, who were the half-human children of incubi and succubi respectively. Interestingly, both had a slim chance of not having the ethics of a [[Complete Monster]], which put them heads and shoulders (morally speaking) over most other fiends.

** Perhaps most disturbingly, the Book of Erotic Fantasy includes a table of crossbreeds, which implies that humans and dragons are the only two species which can have sex with virtually ''anything'' and produce viable offspring.

*** In the third book of ''[[Spelljammer|The Cloakmaster Cycle]]'' one joins the crew and, [[Fun Personified|of course]], [[Hilarity Ensues]]. She "picked up" stuff out of curiosity as kenders do, but wasn't too distracted to remember where and ''put it back'' after examining. All this was pulled so well that instead of being a Sue Bomb she [[Ensemble Darkhorse|ended up praised]] as one of the best sidekicks ever and fan-preferred [[Love Interest]]. Later she was able to concentrate long enough to learn [[Psychic Powers|psionics]] (which in AD&D era implied above-average Intelligence and impressive Wisdom score, whether the teacher is an ancient supra-genius slug or not).

** That said, this trope is averted in Classic D&D, which has races as classes. An elf and a human can certainly start a family with each other if they wish, but the result of their union will be either an elf or a human.

** And then, [[Pathfinder]]. The following is a current (early 2012) list of things which have created bloodlines for sorcerers, meaning your ancestors interbred with them and you were born with innate magic: Aberrant (think Cthulhu Mythos like monsters), Abyssal (Demons or worse), Accursed (Hags), Proteans (chaos spirits), Aquatic (anything from sea elves to deep ones), Arcane (plain ol' [[A Wizard Did It]] - and how!), Boreal (giant & troll kin ala Norse Myth), Celestial (heavenly creatures), Deep Earth (earth spirits), several different kinds of genies and all four Western elemental types, Draconic, Fey, Infernal (Devils), Maestro (some musical monster from trumpet-wielding angels to shoggoths), Orc, Rakshasa (evil spirits of Buddhist myth), Serpentine (your friendly reptoids), Shadow (another dimension), Starsoul (spacefarers), Storm (unknown elemental spirits), [[I Love the Dead|Undead]], and Verdant (plants). It's probably better not to ask how some of those happened. There are even more bloodlines available from third party developers or for characters with unusual archetypes.

*** There's no rule that says such a sorcerer can't also belong to a race which is already a half-human hybrid. A dhampir (half human, half vampire) sorcerer could have an Abyssal bloodline and the half-celestial template. [[Special Snowflake Syndrome]] can really run amok here if a GM allows it to.

** The seventh expansion, ''Even More Good Cards'', gave us the Chimaera and One-Third-Breed cards. Does it make your brain hurt? It should.

*** The [[From a Certain Point of View|One-Third-Breed]] makes [[Insane Troll Logic|some sense]]. Say there's a half-human half-elf who has children with a full dwarf. Then you have a human-elf-dwarf.

** This might be an aversion regarding the Nazzadi hybrids, since Nazzadi are literally humans with very slightly altered DNA. It's similar to two humans with different color skin having kids.

* ''[[Exalted]]'' has lots of these, but with a slight twist: God-Bloods, Fae-Bloods, Demon-Bloods, Beastmen, and Ghost-Bloods are actually significantly ''weaker'' than the "normal" races available for play. They're a step above ordinary humans, sure, but the titular Exalted outclass them by far. [[Squick|Beastmen]], by the way, are exactly what they sound like.

* [[Scion]]: Part of the premise.

** Since Retconned, however. Humans, Eldar, and Tau are humanoid. That's where the biological similarities end.

*** Not necessarily - Xenology has already been partly retconned, and the designers of the new Dark Eldar codex mentioned that among other things, there are legions of Eldar-human hybrids in Conmorragh - it makes sense in context, since it among other things helps counter the Eldar birthrate problem. Dark Eldar, being what they are, don't have qualms against mating with and loving humans.

**** Given that the average Dark Eldar is a [[Complete Monster]] and the remainder are worse than that, "love" likely never enters the picture.

*** Changelings themselves were half-human hybrids, as they were the result of a fae soul merging with a human soul. The Dark Ages book contrasts changeling with fae by showing how... well, off some of the Good People could be.

*** Then there are "L'Enfant Diaboliques", the Lucifuge's [[Evil Counterpart|evil counterparts]] - they're the ones who chose to ''embrace'' their heritage...

 

== Theatre ==

* In [[The Elder Scrolls]] universe, the Bretons are a racial blend of men and Altmer (elves), a result of generations of humans being enslaved by elves. As a result, the Bretons have more skill with magic than any of the other humans races but lack the physical vulnerabilities of the elves.

** Also, Oblivion has a rare example in which a family descended from the union of man and dragon is actually worshipped and glorified; however, it makes perfect sense as the dragon in question is also the god Akatosh, and the current emperor is one of them.

** Similarly, Mileena is a half-Edenian, half-Tarkatan Mutant, though due to her nature as an artificial clone, she could arguably also be considered a [[Biological Mashup]].

** Finally, ''Mortal Kombat Armageddon'' protagonist/antagonist Taven and Daegon are half-Edenian, half God. Technically, Rain is also one, but that goes into [[Retcon]] territory.

* Even the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series falls into this;

*** It's probably safe to assume that if viera and aegyl can interbreed, so can viera and humes.

** Other than Genis and Raine (who are of elven blood), and Sheena (a far-removed descendant of elves), everyone eventually manages to work around this limitation in some way to use magic anyway. Zelos and Kratos both have [[Magitek]] implants which let them cast spells, whereas Collete, {{spoiler|Kratos, Presea, and Lloyd}} all learn non-traditional magic abilities due to the {{spoiler|Cruxis Crystals slowly turning them into "angels" and/or [[And I Must Scream|eating them from the inside]].}} Regal is the only one that never uses any real magic, as all of his techniques are ki attacks. In the sequel, Marta has far-removed elven ancestors like Sheena, and Emil {{spoiler|is actually a summon spirit.}}

** The party also finds a village with a significant population of halves.

** If you're willing to look past some story difficulties, Nero's a quarter-devil.

* Averted, subverted AND played straight in the 9th and 10th ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' games, the [[Animorphism|Laguz]] can only breed within a tribe (Beast Birds and Dragons) but each can breed with other groups in the tribe(Ravens with Herons, Red Dragons with Black Dragons) but can't breed with other tribes (no Hawk/Dragons), but any of them can breed with <s>humans</s> beorc. It should be noted they play the 'outcast of society part' to a T as well, and that for whatever reason a Laguz that breeds with a Human loses their ability to transform. Branded (as Half-Human/Half-Laguz are known in the games) are outcasts of society and generally pitied or hated (or both). {{spoiler|Turns out that the reasoning behind the hatred towards Branded is entirely false. As Yune (a godly being) explains there was no great god-made edict that everyone thinks there is.}} Notable Branded characters include {{spoiler|Micaiah}}, {{spoiler|whose grandmother was the Apostle of Begnion, who had planned to reveal her Branded status to the nation before she was assassinated}}, {{spoiler|Soren}}, {{spoiler|who is the son of Ashnard and Almedha, a princess of the Dragon Laguz tribe}}, {{spoiler|Stefan}}, {{spoiler|who is heavily implied to be descended from Soan, one of Ashera's three heroes, and lives in a village of branded that he eventually turns into a powerful country that he rules over as king}}, and {{spoiler|Zelgius}}, {{spoiler|whose Branded status is what led him to becoming Sephiran's most trusted servant.}}

** ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' also had a few human-{{spoiler|dragon}} hybrids in the 6th and 7th games: {{spoiler|Sofiya in ''Fuuin no Tsurugi'' and Ninian and Nils in ''Rekka no Ken''.}}

*** Furthermore in the 6th game, depending on your pairing preferences, {{spoiler|Roy can end up three quarters human and one quarter dragon, since Ninian is one of the three main characters that Eliwood can end with.}}

** Not ''entirely'' a myth. Offspring are always asari, but these asari often seem to have traits taken from their fathers. A matriarch you can meet who has a krogan father is gleefully coarse and violent and has had more children than her species normally seem to give birth to. Whether this is due to genetics or being raised is up in the air. Mordin once sings a snippet of a patter song that included the lyrics "[[Mayfly-December Romance|Asari-vorcha offspring have an allergy to dairy]]", implying that there ''is'' some physiological difference.

** The prejudice is also supported by the extremely rare birth of a type of monstrous asari variant from asari/asari mating. This variant kills anyone she mates.

* Samus Aran, the protagonist of the ''[[Metroid]]'' series of videogames, technically qualifies. Though born to human colonists, she was raised by a race of humanoid birds called the Chozo; at the age of three, she was genetically manipulated into a half-Chozo hybrid, to allow her to survive the harsh conditions of the Chozo colony world Zebes. Despite being a hybrid, the changes to her DNA haven't altered her appearance. It's pretty clear she's not entirely human when she can jump twice her own height outside of the Power Suit, though.

** One thing to note, however, is that instead of one body like most hybrids, Youmu's ghost half exists as a ''separate'' entity that follows her around. Kind of like a daemon in ''[[His Dark Materials]]''.

** Backstory also gives us Youki Konpaku, Youmu's half-ghost father. And that just raises further questions.

*** Canonically though, we don't know whether Youki is Youmu's father or not even if they share the same family name. Backstory only mentioned that Youki is Youmu's predecessor and former teacher which means he can be either her father, grand father, or even uncle.

* Laharl of the ''[[Disgaea]]'' series is this. He has a human mother. Beyond a single character noting he is half-human after being told of his mother, no one ever refers to him as anything but a demon.Though being an overlord/prince might have something to with why he always called a demon(or for simplicity's sake). Plus, call him anything else, and he will send you straight to hell.

* A half-sepp, half-human appears in {{spoiler|Endorph's ending}} in ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]''.

** ''Warcraft'' also has half-elves, whose most famous example is the paladin Arator the Redeemer (the half-elven son of Turalyon and Alleria Windrunner).

* Dragonfable from Artix Entertainment gives us Nythera, a half dragon NPC. In a rather hilarious scene in one of her flashback quests, Nythera's parents, a human wizard and a dragon mother are sitting down at dinner. Said dinner is a ''live'' Chickencow (half chicken, half cow), and her mother is in ''dragon'' form about to devour it. Her father sees nothing unusual about this at all.

* Spoofed in ''[[Sam and Max]]'', in which Bosco's avatar in an MMORPG is elf on one half of his body, and human on the other, as seen in the image for this page. Also used straight in a later episode, where Bosco changes time so that he's part cow. Dialogue in this part also implies that Sam and Max are "freakish animal-human hybrids", not just [[Funny Animal|funny animals]].

* The Tohno and Kishima families in [[Tsukihime]] and the supplementary materials like Kagetsu Tohya. Part demon, incidentally. Also Altrouge Brunestud, who is half <s>human</s> Dead Apostle and half True Ancestor. In her case it's not actually entirely clear if True Ancestor's are a genetically different species, however. Or if it was actually a cross breeding, though at least one has been confirmed.

** How so? Sure, Lancer is a bit of a dink, {{spoiler|but he gets a nice role as [[The Lancer]] in UBW}} and he can be an all-around good guy, [[Ensemble Darkhorse|being very popular with the fans]]. Herc is fiercely loyal to Ilya, but without Mad Enhancement, he wouldn't be a Berserker. It's only Gilgamesh who remains a tried and true unrepentant [[Jerkass]], though you could make an exception with his chibified self...

* In the [[Myst]]/[[Uru]] games, the D'ni are capable of interbreeding with humans, despite their far longer lifespans and light-sensitivity. Gehn, a half-human, seems to have lived nearly as long as a full-blooded D'ni (350+ ), whereas his quarter-D'ni son Atrus was an old man before 200. Atrus's children, being 1/8 D'ni, lack the light-sensitivity of their father and grandfather; their potential lifespan is unknown, but longer than a full-blooded human's.

* The main character of ''[[Rune Factory]]'' 3 is a half-Wooly (A sheep-like monster on the game), which leaves [[Squick|some questions about his conception who are best kept alone]]. He can also marry a Mermaid and have 3/4 Fish, 3/4 Sheep and 1/2 human children! He can also pick a {{spoiler|Phoenix}} and have 3/4 Bird, 3/4 Sheep and 1/2 human children!

* In [[Lost Kingdoms]], the Dragonoid and Dragon Knight monsters are half-dragon, half-human. How this works is not entirely certain, as all of the dragons in the game are ''much'' bigger than humans...

* The protagonist of the second ''[[Onimusha]]'', Jubei Yagyu, is part demon (or Oni) by way of his mother, Takajo.

* Despite fitting into the standard Mass Effect-y Star-Trekky milieu, this is happily averted in Sword of the Stars - interbreeding is impossible (obviously with the insect and aquatic races) but refreshingly so with the two ape-based humanoids, the Humans and th Tarka - they can, hypothetically, have intercourse but without offspring due to genetic differences.

* Roddy, the main character of the Playstation sequel to Blaster Master, and his sister Elfie are the offspring of the previous game's protagonist, Jason, and an alien female. However, Eve was a [[Human Alien]] and the two have no discernible features from full humans, unless one counts that nonsense Eve tells Roddy how his alien half makes him more susceptible to evil.

* Expressly [[Defied Trope|defied]], for the most part, in ''[[Rift]]'': No hybrids between races unless planar beings such as [[Elemental Embodiment|shalastir]] (or, by extension, bahmi) are involved.

* The ''[[Shining The Holy Ark]]'' introduces a half dragon hybrid by the name of Basso.

 

== Web Comics ==

* Cade Masters from ''[[Twice Blessed]]'' is 3/4 human, 1/4 elf. (His father was a human and his mother a half-elf).

* Akaino Fenrir, from ''[[Academicon Ex Virtus]]'' As revealed in his character profile, Akaino's parents were a Mage and a Werewolf. Assuming Mages are human, that qualifies him for this trope.

** Also her "brothers" Guineas, Hedge, and [[Gender Bender|Vlad/Vladia]].

* In ''Triquetra Cats'', the Soricha family has an :adopted" sister named Vyolette who is half demon. Vyolette was raised by Ariel Soricha after Ariel was contracted to kill Vyolette's demon father.

* In the webcomic ''Errant Story'', half-elves are often magically powerful, but prone to [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]], provoking a war of near-extermination by the elves in the distant past.

** And the whole reason that the Errants were formed was because it was found that Elves could breed more easily with Humans than with other Elves for some unknown reason. It was only decades later that Errants suddenly started going bad at random.

*** Part of the appeal for a human lover was that elves idolized the concept of losing a lover before you grew tired of each other, so you could remember them for how much you loved them. Humans, with their comparatively short life spans, were very well suited for this.

* And then there's ''[[Kevin and Kell]]''. The central family is itself several mixed species, and while the setting has a bias against [[Interspecies Romance|interspecies romances]], it really is more inter-diet relationships (carnivore vs herbivore vs insectivore). As far as strict species goes...

** Rudy Dewclaw: half grey wolf, half red fox. Lives and looks like a wolf.

** Corrie Dewclaw, Rudy's ... cousin, I guess. Half grey wolf, half sheep. Lives and looks like a sheep, but don't get her mad.

*** Yes, she's Rudy's cousin. Corrie's father Ralph and Rudy's mother Kell are brother and sister.

*** Turns out, {{spoiler|he's human, due to Danielle being originally human. Lindesfarne theorizes the same would happen to her children.}}

** And there's some minor mixes, like a half-moth half-firefly who orbits himself, or the illicit baby between a turtle and a weasel. Confused yet?

** There is a bit of a subversion though: as revealed on Lindefarne's blog, {{spoiler|human genes are dominant -- no matter what the offspring of a human or former-human relationship looks like at birth they will always become completely human within a few months}}. This is based off of the discredited theory that people "evolve" from single-celled organisms, to fish, to reptiles, to mammals, to monkeys, and so-forth, ''all while they're still in the womb'', but what the hell, certainly makes for a few interesting plot points.

** Now she's grown wings... but they're hilariously tiny and useless. Her demon mom is embarrassed.

** Also Jyrras, whose father is a pureblood Kangaroo Rat, but his mother is only half that... the ''[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_327.php first]'' half.

* In [[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]], the character of Glon is a (much put-upon) half-human half-orc.

** And there's the unanswered question of what, exactly, Eric IV of Drostardy (half-human/half-halfling) will look like when he grows up.

** Pompey is himself a parody of this trope; apparently in this universe, half elves have ''one'' pointed ear.

** Meanwhile, Roy's mother is [[I Want Grandkids|happily anticipating]] the logical consequences of [[Interspecies Romance|Celia and Roy's romance]].

** A literal-minded orc also lampshades the assumption that "half-X" assumes the other half is human. "Grog half orc. Other half, also orc."

** Enor the bounty hunter is a Half-Dragon Half-Ogre: Half blue dragon, one quarter ogre, one quarter human.

** Most recently, {{spoiler|Girard Draketooth's surname is revealed to have originated from him being the son of a half-dragon. Unfortunately, his dragon grandfather was a Black Dragon of a certain family tree...}}

* Parodied in a [[Sev Trek]] cartoon about what characters might appear in the next [[Star Trek]] series. The winner was: ''a Klingon/tribble hybrid torn by hatred for its two sides and constantly annoyed by questions of how its parents got together to mate.''

* The genetic cocktail that spawned Molly and Galatea in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' did contain some human DNA, albeit not much. In fact, {{spoiler|it was Jean's, making her their biological mother, just "a little bit."}}

* ''[[The Challenges of Zona]]'' has Ginsha, a half human/half [[Lizard Folk|Urrt]] woman. There's also a Snake Clan among the [[Proud Warrior Race|Erogenians]] many of whom have varying degrees of Urrt blood

* [[MSF High]]: Most demi humans are these on varying human to animal ratio's with domestic's being on the human end of the scale and martials being on the animal end.

* In [[Juathuur]], Thoss and Thlassa are half-solluu (fish people) and half-juathuur (humans with powers).

* [[A Magical Roommate]] has an interesting example in the case of X and Alexis. Their mother, who was born a black fairy, shapeshifted to a human form she kept for her pregnancy... well, for the most part. This has made the twins roughly ninety-eight percent human and two percent fairy.

* And parodied in ''[[Ansem Retort]]'', where when Zexion insists that Hercules be one of these, Hercules replies that his top half is centaur and his bottom half is human.

* In ''[[Trying Human]]'', 6 seems to be an artifically engineered human-Grey hybrid. [[Berserk Button|Although...]]

* In ''[[Accidental Centaurs]]'', the two main characters appear to be half-human/half-equine beings.

* Mara from [[Elf Blood]] is half dark elf, half human. According to TKO, there aren't that many half-elves, most likely to do with the hidden nature of the elves.

** Carlita Delacroix is also half-human. Her other half is feline spirit incarnum (fleshy forms of natural spirits).

* In ''[[Wapsi Square]]'', {{spoiler|Shelly is a human/sphinx hybrid. This gives her most of the powers of a sphinx, but with a human lifespan.}}

* ''[[Fans]]!'' deconstructs the trope with Zaha, an engineering student who was merged with her pet cat in a freak accident, and ended up a [[Catgirl]]. She has to take several kinds of medicine daily just so her body can function, and [[I Just Want to Be Normal|longs for humanity]]. {{spoiler|Eventually she exchanges bodies with a member of [[Furry Fandom]], who is thrilled.}}

* One of the main Characters of ''Fungus Grotto'' has ended up in world dominated by faeries, and a scene that was shown with her mother implies that she might be some kind of Human/Fey hybrid

 

== Web Original ==

* There are, in the [[Protectors of the Plot Continuum]], a number of half-human Agents. These come from a great many different continua.

** Especially the ex-sues.

* Shane Myers from [[Strange Little Band]] is half alien, half human but most of his colleagues don't know this. The identity of his alien father is important later in the story.

* Several characters in the fantasy webnovel ''[[Tales of MU]]''. Most notably Mackenzie, a half-demon.

* [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/File:MPost2876-c69b9ff0d2.jpg Yet another joke] on the subject of the other half being ''assumed'' human. Half-elf, yes...

 

 

== Western Animation ==

** Of course ''Gargoyles'' also has an aversion: [[Word of God]] has stated that Goliath and Elisa Maza cannot have children normally (confirmed in the recent comics), which should be obvious given that gargoyles lay eggs and humans give birth live, though allowed that magically or scientifically aided conception might be possible, but Greg Weisman intended to have a series that would involve the descendant of their ''adopted'' (human) son.

** {{spoiler|Fox}}, on the other hand, is a straight version and was "created" the old fashioned way.

* Rex Stewart aka Warhawk, the son of [[Green Lantern]] John Stewart and Hawkgirl Shayera Hol.

** Static: "Shayera was one cranky pregnant lady. Although to be fair, if I'd laid an egg that size..."

** Komillia Jenius from Macross became Dana Sterling, both in her initial appearances during the Macross Saga and in the overwritten ''Robotech'' dub of ''[[Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross]]'', renamed "The Masters Saga". The reason given for her hair changing from blue-green (in the Macross segments) to blonde was the increasing amounts of anti-Zentraedi (and Zentraedi-hybrid, naturally) prejudice in the Armies of the Southern Cross. As a result, Dana dyed her hair to avoid the hassle. As both ''Southern Cross'' and The Masters Saga had a rather anti-alien, xenophobic military as a major plot point, this [[Retcon]] was actually rather well done.

** Near the end of The Masters Saga, Dana has a protoculture-induced vision of a sister she's never known, born to her parents after they left Earth on the SDF-3. In the Robotech novel continuity, this character became Aurora Sterling. In the animated continuity as progressed by ''Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles'', this became hot shot fighter ace Maia Sterling.

** In the "The Next Generation" saga that made up the last third of ''Robotech'', we were treated to Marlene, an amnesiac young woman who was {{spoiler|actually Ariel, the first attempt of the Invid Regis to further evolve her race into human form.}} Furthermore, the Invid prince Corg and Invid Princess Sera are both Invid-human hybrids, due to the Invid Regis's belief in humanity's evolutionary superiority to her own race's original form.

** Ben and Gwen's grandmother was an Anodite, making them only three quarters human.

** {{spoiler|Kevin.}}

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** Earlier in the same episode, it's revealed that the scientists have been trying (with little success) to make these in an effort to create more docile inmates.

** Then again, there are no male fairies, so there may not be such thing as a "half fairy."

** It has to be noted though that no breeding between ghosts and humans was involved: the former two were both results of [[Freak Lab Accident|lab accidents]], and the latter was cloned.

 

== Other ==

 

 

* It's possible that very early in human history, other species of proto-humans (think Neandertals, but not quite) interbred with humans. The human species as we know it eventually out-competed all other variants, though.

** Actually, there is very strong evidence that homo sapiens did mate with Neandertals and a significant portion of non-African people's genomes are of Neandertal origin [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/science/07neanderthal.html\].

* There was a Russian scientist in the early 20th century who attempted to create a Humanzee, but apparently none of his experiments panned out & his funding was eventually cut.

** Interesting that in all accounts of trying to inseminate human women with ape sperm, the ape always happen to die shortly before the scheduled date.

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