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In fiction, human beings can conceive children with any intelligent species in existence. Demons, elves, aliens, vampires, you name it -- not only will a human [[Anything That Moves|sleep with it]], they'll engender children. [[Human Mom Nonhuman Dad|The mother is in a majority of cases the human.]] If they are not physically viable, rest assured there are scientists somewhere who will fiddle with DNA until a hybrid is created. They'll do it if there's no reason to think the creature should have DNA in the first place. That's ''earth's'' solution for storing your genome. It requires a lot of supporting stuff in the cells, and not even everything on earth uses it. Thankfully, the [[Rule of Cool]] and [[Rule of Sexy]] let us mix it up with whatever the [[Green Skinned Space Babe]]'s ancestors evolved to store ''their'' genomes in. Good thing there are [[No Biochemical Barriers]]! And if you can't find a scientist to do it for you, you're in luck. [[A Wizard Did It]] is just as handy a [[Hand Wave]].

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

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* 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]].

** 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.

** The original was baby Komillia (literally, "little Millia", after one of her mother's [[Spell My Name With an S|various romanized name spellings]]).

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

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

* Yet another Marvel example is Prince Namor, the [[Sub Mariner]], a human/[[Fish People|Atlantean]] [[Half Human Hybrid|hybrid]] with a touch of [[Mutant]] thrown for good measure.

* The [[Mega Crossover]] [[Halloween World (Fanfic)|Halloween World]] and various side stories thereof are awash with [[Half Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]] of one sort or another, some of them distinctly unlikely, plus numerous half anything but human hybrids and outright [[Heinz Hybrid|Heinz Hybrids]]. Justified in that magic in this verse has a tendency to get out of hand and a few people rather foolishly cast love/lust/fertilty spells that got ''really'' out of control.

* Averted in [[Chocobo Nights (Fanfic)|Chocobo Nights]]: the baby Tifa gives birth to is apparently a purebred chocobo. Its only mammal characteristic is that it attempts to suckle. [[But You Screw One Goat|Yeah, it's]] [[Your Mileage May Vary|that kind of fic.]]

* In Roger Avary's film adaptation of ''[[Beowulf (Film)|Beowulf]]'', Grendel is a [[Half Human Hybrid]]. He may be sterile (given his apparent lack of reproductive organs), and though it may just be because he's a monster he gives a good impression of being sickly. He's hideously deformed, has what appears to be a nasty skin condition, and is sometimes heard whimpering as if in pain (though that's probably just because loud noises irritate his [[Achilles Heel|super-sensitive ear]]). The dragon at the end of the film is also a [[Half Human Hybrid]], {{spoiler|born of a mating between Beowulf and Grendel's mother}}. This is also very much unlike [[Beowulf (Literature)|the original poem]], where no human ancestry was suggested for Grendel except that he was a distant descendant of Cain.

* 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]].

* [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[Xanth (Literature)|Xanth]]'' series, filled with [[Interspecies Romance]] (including much [[Love Potion]]-induced "[[Unfortunate Implications|romance]]") as it is, has a number of [[Half Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]]; such hybrids are ''always'' fertile, and in some cases entire new races are created this way. It can be taken to ridiculous extents, such as a character who is 1/2 brassy 1/4 human 1/8 ogre and 1/8 nymph.

* [[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.

* 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.

** In ''House of Many Ways'', the insectoid lubbocks reproduce by laying eggs in humans. If the victim is male and doesn't have the eggs surgically removed, he will die, and the resulting offspring is another lubbock. If the victim is female, the victim will usually die in childbirth, and the resulting offspring will be a lubbockin (a [[Half Human Hybrid]] that can interbreed with humans).

** 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]].

** This is more a case of [[Lego Genetics]] than [[Half Human Hybrid]], since the kids were all created by lab experiments and claim to be only 2% bird (as if that made any more sense).

* [[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.

* 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.

* When the [[Evilutionary Biologist|Evilutionary Biologists]] in [[Jack Chalker|Jack Chalker's]] ''[[The Moreau Factor]]'' crack the secret of [[Involuntary Transformation]], what's the first thing they do? Turn their lab staff into sexy [[Half Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]], of course. Being Chalker, the new designs combine roughly equal measures of utilitarianism and [[Fetish Fuel]]; unlike most Chalker the [[Fetish Fuel]] aspects are deliberately lampshaded as being caused by the effect of the [[Power Perversion Potential]] on the scientists.

* Both protagonists of the ''Saga of the Noble Dead'' series are [[Half Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]]. [[Action Girl|Magiere]] is a dhampir whose birth was only possible because an [[Evil Sorcerer]] intervened (and it took him years to get the spell right). [[Troubled but Cute|Leesil]] is a half-elf, born the usual way.

* {{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.}} [[Its a Long Story]].

** 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.

* In [[Robert E Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "Shadows in the Moonlight" [[Dreaming of Times Gone By|Olivia dreams]] of [[Physical God|a godlike being]] arriving to where a partly human, partly godlike being was [[Cold Blooded Torture|tortured to death]], and turning [[Taken for Granite|the torturers to stone]].

** 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.)

** In the new series episode "The Doctor Dances", although no [[Half Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]] appear, it's mentioned that by the 51st century humanity has spread out among the stars, and has apparently had interbred and mixed into with every intelligent species possible. In fact, in about 5 billion years, pure humans are extinct, leaving only hybrids, engineered variants, and so on.

* [[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]].

* ''[[Cthulhu Tech]]'' features both positive and negative examples. Nazzadi, essentially humans engineered to match the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Proud Warrior Race]] [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]] tropes that ended up a bit too good on the Honest [[Warrior Poet]] side of the scale, are essentially recognized and treated as humans by almost all of the New Earth Government. They're genetically similar enough to interbreed with humans. Such hybrids are supposedly treated like anyone else. Outsider Taint is a more [[A Wizard Did It|magical]] sort of hybrid, formed either the [[Squick|natural way]] with The Deep Ones or through the wrong sorcery roll, and are treated a bit less kindly by the NEG--the lightest Outsider Taint makes you [[What Measure Is a Non Human|legally inhuman]]. Of course, since it tends to come with unnatural cravings, [[Red Right Hand|freakish appearances]], and whispers of [[Cosmic Horror|ancient gods]] in the ear, that might be justified.

* Averted for the most part in ''[[Rifts]]''; Dog Boys and their ilk are NOT [[Half Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]]. They look it, and in the hands of lesser players may act it, but they're really just very smart dogs who were raised by humans. Half-breeds are specifically said to be impossible, unless one parent is a God or Demon.

* The Shokan in the ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' series are said to be half-human dragons, despite looking like the long-lost children of the Hindu cosmology's Shiva (which, coincidentally, one of the more popular Shokan is named after). Furthermore, the Shokan Kintaro is also part ''tiger'', thus further muddling the waters of Shokan DNA. (To be fair, though, Kintaro ''was'' originally going to be a simple tiger-man, which would still make him a [[Half Human Hybrid]].)

** In ''[[Fire Emblem Awakening]]'', Nono and Tiki of the [[Our Dragons Are Different|Manakete]] race, and Velvet of the [[Hair Raising Hare|Taguel race]] can each potentially become the wife of one of the human males in the cast, which eventually leads to their half-breed children {{spoiler|from the future}} assisting them.

** 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.

* Youmu Konpaku, a half-''[[Cute Ghost Girl|ghost]]'' ([[Bellisarios Maxim|don't ask]]) bodyguard from the ''[[Touhou]]'' shooting-game series. Youmu is described as "half-human and half-ghost, half-dead and half-alive, half-phantom and half-reality, and altogether [[The Ditz|half-baked]]. Yet she has [[Dual Wielding|two swords]]." The supplemental serial, ''Curiosities of Lotus Asia'', stars the half-youkai Rinnosuke Morichika; however, this latter example is more notable for being the ''only'' [[Canon]] humanoid male (aside from a couple of [[Posthumous Character|Posthumous Characters]] who exist only as names in the backstory) in the entire series, and a [[Non Action Guy]] to boot.

* Aselia expresses a wish to bear Yuuto's child in ''[[Eien no Aselia]],'' however, it's unclear whether spirits can actually bear children at all since they are a [[One Gender Race]] that merely pops into being rather than being born.

* ''[[Dark Souls (Video Game)|Dark Souls]]'' has [http://i.imgur.com/DBkUF.jpg Crossbreed Priscilla], who is half dragon half humanoid of vague origin. She was shunned and hated her entire life for being an "abomination", eventually ending up within a [[Pocket Dimension]] called the Painted World of Ariamas. Interestingly, she is a [[Non Malicious Monster]], and the only boss who doesn't immediately try to murder the player, instead kindly explaining how to escape the Painted World.

* Parodied in ''[[Eight Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'', where the character [[Heinz Hybrid|Ranger]] is half-elf, who is also one-quarter Leifinish. The final quarter is "half-orc". (He is also actually a dual-class character, but both classes are "ranger".)

* ''[[Fetch Quest Saga of the Twelve Artifacts (Webcomic)|Fetch Quest Saga of the Twelve Artifacts]]'' has quite a few---Angels (half-avian), Dragons (half-lizard), Merfolk. There's even a [[Half Human Hybrid]] made by [[Interspecies Romance|mating the Angels and Dragons]] together, though it's very rare for that to happen.

* An episode of ''[[Star Wars the Clone Wars]]'' involved a [[Green Skinned Space Babe|Twi'lek]] woman and her two half-human, half-twi'lek children as major characters, [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|inadvertently validating]] ''decades'' of Star Wars [[Fetish Fuel]].