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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[The Slayers
** It's translated "blow demon" in the novels, if that helps any. It's a [http://kanzaka.wikia.com/wiki/Blow_demon some sort of a gremlin creature], per ''Encyclopedia Slayers'', which was used because it's magically stronger than a human, much like golem was added for physical might.
*** Also, [[Word of God]] states that Blow Demons aren't Mazoku any more than a Black Dragon is one of the Shinzoku.
* Ichigo from ''[[Bleach]]'' was already a [[Half-Human Hybrid]], as the result of a [[Ghost Shipping|ghost-human romance]]. Then he got both hollow and Shinigami powers, which made him into a human/ghost/hollow mix. {{Spoiler|It gets more complicated when it's discovered that the human part was actually Quincy, so he actually is some sort of Quincy/human/ghost/hollow mix.}}
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* One of the races in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' is mongrelfolk, which is exactly what it sounds like, descended from slaves of pretty much every human, demihuman, and humanoid race. (Depictions of them in 2nd edition with tentacles or lobster claws have been [[Canon Discontinuity|quietly ignored]].) They range from being able to pass for human to incredibly twisted wretches, though most are pretty much decent people [[Dark Is Not Evil|regardless of appearance]].
** Thanks to the proliferation of creature templates in 3rd edition, it was possible to start with a half-orc or half-elf character and slap on template after template, including half-dragon, half-fiend, half-celestial, half-elemental, and half-troll, to get an impossibly mixed up character with incredible powers ([[Glass Cannon|but only one hit die]]).
** And, of course, occasional breakouts of unintentional comedy horror, especially when [[Mary Sue]]s, elves and crossbreeds are [http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5812&whichpage=33#133428 mixed together]:
{{quote|... the morass of “special” elf crossbreeds that gamers were at the time submitting to [[Dragon (magazine)|The Dragon]] […] as articles promoting their own elf subraces that had daily racial spells plus gold-flecked eyes that could shoot firebeams, or daily racial spells plus silver-flecked eyes that could shoot lightning bolts, and (my personal favourite) the elves that shat sapphires (talk about a personal neverending money source; the writer seemed to have no idea that if such crossbreeds grew numerous, the value of sapphires would […] }}
== Video Games ==
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