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[[File:SkittyLurvesWailord.jpg|link=Pokémon|frame|[[Cuteness Proximity|D'aww, they're so cute togeth]]--''[[Fridge Horror|Waaaaait a minute...]]'']]
[[
The usual intermediary step between an [[Interspecies Romance]] and a [[Mix and
▲The usual intermediary step between an [[Interspecies Romance]] and a [[Mix and Match Critter|Mix-And-Match Critter]].
In [[Video Games]] where you [[Gotta Catch Them All]], and where "them" are [[Mons]], often the only way to acquire every last critter in the game is to, well, breed them.
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This may involve somewhat conventional animal husbandry, or stranger things, but the important thing is that there are not always reasonable limits on what can be bred to what.
''[[Pokémon]]'' provides an [[Exaggerated Trope|extreme]] example
In a broader sense, this may apply to any work of fiction in which two grossly dissimilar species are somehow capable of interbreeding. This pretty much misses the point of the term "species", which is supposed to indicate ''which'' animals can breed successfully in the first place.
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If the result of this unholy union isn't a [[Half-Human Hybrid]] or some variety of [[Mix and Match Critter]], then [[Gender Equals Breed]] may very well apply, with the offspring being strictly one of its parent species.
Still, as strange as this may seem, there ARE species in the real world which display
The unintentional (or intentional) ability to produce this phenomenon is attributed to [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]].
{{noreallife|sorry, we have to impose Wikipedia's "reliable sources" rule on this one.}}
{{examples}}
== [[Advertising]] ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ6j7fGPtDE This ad] for lubricant gel.
* An older ad for Red bull had a (male) dauchsund followed by a (female) dalmation, and a trail of half-breed puppies, the dauchsund then illustrates [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n-1eOyoo5o how he made it work].
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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** Let's not forget Princess Vina. When you're tired of looking at her humany cuteness, drop a heavy weight on her and go “Aw!” over her slime-moldy cuteness.
** Both of those involved shapeshifting from a non-human into a human form. Vina was born as a slimemold, she had to learn magic to change into something humanoid.
* ''[[One Piece]]'',
**
** There's also {{spoiler|[[Our Mermaids Are Different|Princess Shirahoshi]]}}, who even as a baby looked about 10 times as big as her mother.
** {{spoiler|Canonical couple version of this trope: King Neptune, the father of Shirahoshi, was big enough to hold said giant baby in his arms like she was normal sized. Which means his wife Queen Otohime is...much, much smaller than him...}}
*** That's totally ignoring the whole [[Mermaid Problem]]. This is at least partially justified if they, uhm, reproduce like fish. But that giant baby had to come from somewhere, and Queen Otohime is a ''goldfish'' mermaid.
** Big Mom, the antagonist of the Whole Cake Island Arc, has been married ''43 times'', and at least seven of her ex-husbands were not human. However the one that most fits this Trope is her 41st, who was a dwarf. Now, dwarves are, on average, only slightly bigger than mice, a normal human being to them a giant, and Big Mom is ''not'' a "normal" human, she is about 29 feet tall, making her the larger than any other character who is still considered human, so exactly how this could have happened is a mystery. This unnamed dwarf did, however, sire one child, Normanda, and given what we know about her [[One-Scene Wonder| (which isn't much)]] she seems similar to typical dwarves appearance- and personality-wise.
* ''[[Basquash]]'' teases a coupling between Sela and Naviga. The problem is that Sela is a moderately-sized (albeit thin) human woman and Navi is a [[Gentle Giant|friendly, twenty-foot tall giant]]. Considering Sela goes on and on about getting the "genes" from the best Basquasher around, and Navi is pretty damn good, well... [[MST3K Mantra|try not to think about it too hard]].
* ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'' carefully dances around this issue; [[Cute Monster Girl|Holo]] only transforms three times (once only her arm), and the first two times Lawrence is initially afraid of her, but by the third time he seems to have become comfortable with her [[Big Badass Wolf|wolf form]]. However, all of their [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|tender]] [[Will They or Won't They?|moments]] come when she's in her [[Little Bit Beastly]] "human" form.
==
* ''[[Cerebus]]'' the Aardvark got it on with a human woman and had a mostly-human child. Apparently all the dominant aardvark traits manifest in the toes.
* The article [http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex] details just why [[Superman]] can/should not reproduce with human ladies. Of course, given how often his powers change, this probably won't be what stops Superman and Lois from having children.
* In a ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'' sidestory comic, some really, ''really'' stupid aliens visit Earth and force a man to [[Mate or Die]] with a chicken in order to study human reproduction (they thought the chicken was a human female... Did we mention they were really stupid?). The result are freakish half-human half-chicken hybrids, with the details of their conception and gestation being blessedly skipped over by the story.
* They were brainwashed, of course, but during the ''Atlantis Attacks'' storyline, the [[The Dragon| Deviant Ghaur]] used the Mark of Set to place seven heroines — [[She-Hulk]], [[Storm]], [[Cloak and Dagger| Dagger]], the [[The Avengers| Scarlet Witch]], [[X-Factor| Marvel Girl]], the [[The Fantastic Four| Invisible Woman]], and [[The Defenders| Andromeda]] — under his control into a group called the Brides of Set, under the pretense that they would mate with Set and produce offspring. This never actually happened (Set was slain before it could), but seeing as Set is [[Eldritch Abomination| a titanic snake-god with seven heads]], the gods only know how it would have been done.
* The example with Set becomes a little stranger when you consider Yith, a character who first appeared in ''Spider-Man, Quality of Life'', who is Set's descendant. While Set's actual offspring and grandchildren tended to be abominations like himself (members of the family line include [[Classical Mythology| Echidna, Typhoon, and Cetus]], according to most sources) Yith seems mostly human, resembling a human woman with a long, snake-like tail instead of legs and reptilian eyes. Exactly where her family lost most of the "monster genes" over the centuries and how it happened isn't known.
* ''[[Fire Breather]]'' stars the offspring of a pairing between a human woman and a giant dragon, which resulted in a scaled, orange skinned, four-fingered, but essentially human-looking offspring. She tried to explain how this happened, but we don't know because her son [[Too Much Information|covered his ears.]] Apparently it was quite simple.
* The minor Marvel character Epsilon Red is only able to survive in a vacuum. Shaky science, but fair enough so far. In a flashback (set well after he was turned from an ordinary human into a spaceman), his wife is shown to be pregnant. Think about that for a moment.
* ''[[Nodwick]]'' also made fun of squeamishness about orcs being so not [[Bishounen]], in [http://comic.nodwick.com/?comic=2008-08-18 Anserinian royals] arc:
{{quote|'''Eddie''': This is eighteen different flavors of ''disgusting''.
'''Bertha''': What can I say? I dig ''brutish guys'' in ''leather!''}}
* There has been at least one ''[[Star Trek:
▲== Fan Fiction ==
** If Changelings are anything like [[Schlock Mercenary
▲* There has been at least one ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'' fan fic where Odo and Nerys not only have intimate contact but their union produces an offspring.
* There exists a ''[[Chronicles of Narnia]]'' fanfic in which there were [[Nausea Fuel|many not-oblique-enough references]] made to Ettins (akin to extremely large orcs) who abducted humans (men, surprisingly) [[Nightmare Fuel|in order to produce magically-viable offspring]], since generations of [[Father, I Want to Marry My Brother|inbreeding]] and [[Brother-Sister Incest|incest]] had destroyed the health of the Ettin line. The abducted humans usually didn't survive much past the experience.▼
▲** If Changelings are anything like [[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Amorphs]] that could result in a [[Naughty Tentacles|relatively simple birth]] on [[Mister Seahorse|either partner]] for [[Gender Blending Tropes|so many reasons]].
* In the course of the ''[[Undocumented Features]]'' story ''[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/FI/JPARK/flt-compiled.html Friends Like These]'' we discover that [[Godzilla]] and [[Mothra]] had a child together...
▲* There exists a Chronicles of Narnia fanfic in which there were [[Nausea Fuel|many not-oblique-enough references]] made to Ettins (akin to extremely large orcs) who abducted humans (men, surprisingly) [[Nightmare Fuel|in order to produce magically-viable offspring]], since generations of [[Father, I Want to Marry My Brother|inbreeding]] and [[Brother-Sister Incest|incest]] had destroyed the health of the Ettin line. The abducted humans usually didn't survive much past the experience.
== Film ==
* One script of ''[[
* In the sequel to ''[[Hellboy (
* In ''[[
** Also the boss of the theater (a walrus) is having an affair with his secretary (a cat). On screen.
* ''[[Shrek]] 2'', at the very end, shows Dragon and Donkey's offspring. According to the action figures, they're called "Dronkeys". They're pretty strange-looking, too. Amusingly enough, the gag started life when the first movie came out, as a short comic in a Mad Magazine. The animators probably thought [[Sure Why Not|"Why the hell not?"]]
** "Look at all our little mutant babies!"
* ''[[The Golden Child]]'' has Kala, a female human/dragon hybrid, one of whose ancestors was supposedly [[Squick|raped by a dragon]].
* Interspecies prostitution in ''[[District 9]]''. [[All There in the Manual|Apparently]], The Prawns are hermaphroditic, and have organs for both options. Brainbleach, anyone?
* Referenced in ''[[The Lion King|The Lion King 1½]]'', where Timon proposes to Shenzi ({{spoiler|to stall for time}}).
{{quote|
'''Shenzi''': (pending several seconds of shocked horror from both sides) I don't think so!
'''Timon''': Shenzi Marie, please. I know what you're thinking: "We're too different." "It'll never work." "[[Mix-and-Match Critters|What will the children look like]]?"
'''Shenzi:''' [[This Is Wrong
'''Timon:''' Listen to me! The problems of a couple of wacky kids like us don't amount to hill of termites in this nutty circle-of-life thing. And so I ask you: If not now, when? If not me, who? I'm lonely... }}
** Given how real-life Hyenas work, he'd be in for a surprise...
* In [[Ralph Bakshi]]'s ''[[Wizards]]'', Elinore is a human size half-human/half-fairy. Her mother was a fairy. Ouch.
== Literature ==
* In Glen Cook's "[[Garrett
* In the ''[[
* In ''[[Harry Potter (
** In the Potterverse, cross-species breeding is strictly monitored by the Ministry of Magic, and experimental cross-breeding without Ministry supervision is a criminal offense.
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' author George R.R. Martin apparently had the same mechanics-related thoughts. In the far north of Westeros, humans are occasionally abducted by giants. Abducted men have produced half-giants who have since further interbred with humans. The abducted women... don't survive.
* There is a rather horrid image in Sir Thomas Malory's ''[[Le Morte
* In "[[
** For [[Fridge Logic|extra]] [[
* "The Dunwich Horror" is itself a [[Shout-Out]] to [[
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novels the reason for all the [[Mix-and-Match Critters]] in heraldry is because the heralds insist on drawing all the designs from life, and there's not really enough space to keep all the animals, so they get a bit... close.
** ''[[
** It's mentioned in ''[[
* The hero of [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[The War of the Flowers]]'' is shepherded through Faerie by, well, a fairy. Several times people assume they're boyfriend and girlfriend, squicking him out. He later asks how such a relationship would even be possible. The answer? "Surgery." This was a [[Magitek]] universe, so this was not a flippant answer. The surgical/sorcerous procedure which could accomplish the deed was a significant plot point. Eventually, {{spoiler|the tiny fairy does hook up with a much larger character. They have tentative plans for him to have the compatibility surgery, since it's easier going "from large to small". The hero still had trouble processing this information}}.
* One of the books in Mercer Mayer's ''[[Little Critter]]'' series entitled "Just a Little Different" has a character that has a turtle father and rabbit mother.
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** Which he [[Lamarck Was Right|had no part in creating]], one may add. It's supposed to be [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|heartwarming]] [[Poetic Justice]]: Horton did the work, so he ''deserves'' to be the mother, even though that's biologically impossible.
* The issue is raised in ''[[The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass]]'', after Leonard claims that "vquex" is [[Kwyjibo|a valid Scrabble word]], meaning "the product of a giraffe mating with a ferret".
* In one of the books in Christopher Stasheff's ''[[A Wizard in Rhyme]]'' series, the wizard encounters a Dracogriff: the offspring of a male dragon and a female griffin.
* The ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' has Sith alchemy, which explains why so many species are variants of humans (and presumably capable of playing HSOWA straight), as well as why species hold physiological elements of vastly different taxa, e.g. Mon Calamari having elements of both mollusks and arthropods. Or Falleen having elements of both reptiles and mammals. Basically the Sith were really big on HSOWA.
* The half-human, half-bird Quetzals in ''[[Flora Segunda]]'' are said to be the result of human women mating with male eagles. Even in a world with magic, it's hard to figure out how that one would work.
* In Mary Brown's ''Pigs Don't Fly (But Dragons Do)'' the protagonist ends up {{spoiler|making love to a dragon, who to be fair was transformed into a human for a time, but it is later revealed that he was transforming back and forth during their time together}}. This results in {{spoiler|a pair of half-dragon twins being hatched}} by the end of the book ''Draggone's Eg''.
* ''The Golden Flower Pot'' by [[
** His other books had all [[Alchemic Elementals]] trying to know a human closer. And one young man manipulated into unknowingly trying to romance a clockwork automaton.
* ''[[Tales of Kolmar
* In ''Reamker'' (a Cambodian poem based on ''[[
* In the ''[[Merry Gentry]]'' series by Laurell K Hamilton, one of Merry's partners is the son of a female (human-sized) sidhe and a male (doll-sized) pixie. Merry herself also participates in non-reproductive sexual acts with several (doll-sized) demifae.
* Averted in ''[[
▲== Live Action TV ==
* On ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'', Herc and Iolaus befriended a mixed couple consisting of a centaur male and a human female. And they had a son. Who was also a centaur.
** Similarly, in ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', human female Ephiny marries and has a child with Phantes, a centaur male. The child is named Xenan and grows up to be an ally of Xena's.
* In the final episode of ''[[Lexx]]'', the {{spoiler|titular [[Living Ship]], dies of old age, but not before giving birth to a smaller newborn ship}}. The other parent that helped produce the offspring was {{spoiler|a dragonfly. A normal dragonfly from Earth}}. Forget Skitty and Wailord, {{spoiler|inches long insect and Manhattan sized insectoid spaceship}} is ''way'' more bizarre. It helps that {{spoiler|the ship}} is the woman in this situation.
* An episode of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' featured the character Rose dreaming of a peaceful, Utopian future, one where bears would live in harmony with field mice, "But they wouldn't be able to mate or else the field mice would explode."
* In ''[[Eureka]]'', Deputy Andy, an android, has sex with SARAH, the AI of Carter's ''house''. While they could have averted this by just using the finger uplink gag they used in the beginning of the episode ("wrong port"), Andy instead comes walking out of a random door as he zips up his pants. Carter and Jo can only stare in confusion.
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' all but the True demons are apparently partially mortal, and many have inferred this means that there was actual ''breeding'' going on between them. This seems physically problematic. Two True demons have been seen - Olivikan, an enormous armored insectoid snake creature, and Illyria, a massive, taloned, armored creature with, admittedly, tentacles. Nevertheless, how exactly either of them would go about breeding with a human raises a few questions.
** Not necessarily - vampires for instance were specifically said to be half-human hybrids because the last demon to leave Earth ''infected'' a human with its DNA, thus creating the first vampire (probably a Turok-Han). Other humanoid-ish demons might similarly be the results of viral-infection type "breeding" between true demons and early humans.
* Averted on ''[[Roswell]]'', where a certain type of organism was used to manipulate the human and alien DNA and allow the creation of the human-Antarian hybrid children.
* Implied in ''[[Tracker]]'', given that Mel is revealed to have Cirronian ancestry.
== Music ==
* The novelty song ''Buntz!'' tells of a highly acrobatic tryst between a British ship's-mascot dachshund and a classy female Afghan.
{{quote|
"The famous Marseille Afghan short-legged hound!" }}
* Fatally averted in ''Little Gomez'', in which the randy chihuahua's St. Bernard paramour got bored (and sat down) just a bit too soon.
* The song The Dragon's Lamentable Love, about a woman and a male dragon.
{{quote|
== Newspaper Comics ==▼
* In one ''[[Bloom County]]'' arc, Hodge Podge and Rosebud, respectively a jackrabbit and "[[Mix-and-Match Critters|basselope]]" (basset hound/antelope) had jackabasselope children.▼
== Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends ==
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: Shows up a few times in [[Greek Mythology]]:
** The Minotaur was born of this sort of a union. King Minos angered the sea god Poseidon by refusing to sacrifice a bull (given to him by Poseidon for that very purpose), so Poseidon caused his wife Queen Pasiphae to fall in love with that same bull. She asked Daedalus to help her, so he built her a hollow wooden device that looked like a cow and enabled her to go tryst with her beloved. Don't think too hard about the mechanics of this.
** Zeus, that philanderer of mythological proportions (pun very much intended) often seduced human women in the guise of animals, such as a bull or a swan. [[Squick|Or a shower of gold.]]
** [[Ms. Fanservice|Aphrodite]] who was born out of foam on the waves when
** The origin of the centaurs takes the cake: Ixion was invited to Olympus by Zeus. Zeus created a cloud-woman named Nephele that looked like Hera to trick Ixion. Ixion had sex with Nephele, who gave birth to Centaurus. Centaurus, deformed and outcast, lived alone on Mount Pelion and had mated with the mares that lived there, producing centaurs. And now you know!
* The original Antlion was the child of a male lion and a female ant.
* [[The Bible]] may or may not features this (depending on your interpretation) in the form of the Nephilim. Angelic fathers, human mothers.
* Many American Indian stories feature the resultant monsters of HSOWA as [[Just-So Story|why species exist today]].
* In [[Egyptian Mythology]], there was a minor fertility goddess named Tawaret, who herself was [[Mix-and-Match Critters|a mix-and-match-criiter]] (she was part lioness and part hippo, with some attributes of a human female). And she, being a fertility goddess, was nearly always pregnant...and her consort was Sebek, who took the form of a crocodile. (Who was depicted variously as traveling on her back...or even literally a part of her.) Her [[Darker and Edgier]] [[Expy|inverse]] was the demoness Ammit, who devoured souls deemed "unworthy" when measured against the Feather of Ma'at.
* [[The Four Gods|Genbu]], the Guardian of the North, winter, water, and a minor association with fertility...consists of a giant tortoise having sex with a giant snake. (May or may not be consensual sex, depending on whom you ask.)
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* In one ''[[Bloom County]]'' arc, Hodge Podge and Rosebud, respectively a jackrabbit and "[[Mix-and-Match Critters|basselope]]" (basset hound/antelope) had jackabasselope children.
== Professional Wrestling ==
* The Iron Sheik, gentleman that he is, once related in an interview about how he walked in on Andre the Giant having sex with an normal sized woman. He likened it to a "bear fucking a rabbit, if the rabbit could get on top."
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* From [[Dungeons
** The dragons of ''[[Dungeons
** The increased amounts of splat books have brought increasingly outlandish (and Squicky) variants of the above half-dragon, such as the half-infernal and half-celestial, the half-troll, the half-illithid, and even the half-golem (though the [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong|latter]] [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|two]] have nothing to do with parentage). Most of these, being templates that are applied to other creatures, have far too few limits on what they can be placed on.
** Several editions of the game have talked about the fecundity of goblinoid races, which include goblins, hobgoblins, ogres, and orcs. They could easily interbreed with each other, with humanity, and with several other species. It seems that developing new monsters for the game mostly consists of finding two creatures already in the game and figuring out what happens when they have sex.
** See also the Book of Erotic Fantasy. Yes, it's a real book. (though unofficial) Or "The Complete Guide to Unlawful Carnal knowledge" (includes rules for hybrid children, critical hit rules for [[Groin Attack]] and "Porno periodical for humanoids" treasure tables). Or "Nymphology. Blue Magic." (Mongoose Publishing, Encyclopaedia Arcane series). Invariably contains mix of [[Fetish]] supplements, [[Mix-and-Match Critters]] close-up supplements, things [[You Do NOT Want to Know]] (whoever you are) and lots of jokes.
** While half-fiends alone can border on this Trope, the [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Draegloth Draegoloth] is nearly in a class of its own. This special type of half-fiend is the result of an unholy ritual conducted by a drow priestess where she lets a glabrezu (that would be [https://media-waterdeep.cursecdn.com/avatars/thumbnails/0/337/1000/1000/636252776677682465.jpeg this thing]) have its way with her. Assuming she survives the initial ritual [[Destructo-Nookie| (demons tend to play rough)]], is tough enough to both carry the child to term and survive the birth (most do not) simply being able to bear this child puts her in a privileged status among Lolth's clergy, not to mention the benefits of being mom to a demon that makes an obscenely powerful engine of destruction. ''Volo's Guide to Monsters'' states most who attempt it die, but drow are depraved creatures always trying to win Lolth's favor in their [[Social Darwinist]] society.
** The Book of Erotic Fantasy actually has ''a friggin' TABLE'' for this kind of thing. Complete with cloud giants and 1" tall sprites interbreeding. [[Brain Bleach]] now, please?
** Half-Dragon [http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/shamblingMound.htm Shambling Mound]. '''[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/shamblingMound.htm Half-Dragon Shambling Mound]'''.
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**** An electrum dragon (half-gold, half-silver) would do the same deal... Except not be evil. [[Depraved Homosexual|And pink.]]
** Humans also seem to be able to breed with many things as well. When a Half-X is a race and not a template, the "Half" is assumed to be human.
*** Mr. Welch, of "[[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An
** Green Ronin [[Sourcebook]] "[http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=5836 Bastards and Bloodlines]" contains guidelines for turning anything into a half-template. [http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Atropal_scion Yes,] [http://bransford-collection.blogspot.com/2007/01/wolf-in-sheeps-clothing.html anything.] The cover of this book features a half-illithid drow (with both exposed cleavage and a bare midriff). It includes the half-beholder template. The first three creatures in the book are the Alicorn (Elf/Unicorn), the Aellar (Elf/GIANT EAGLE) and the Blinkling (Halfling/BLINK DOG). It is a very strange book.
** ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has a share of its own.
*** Speaking of dwarfs and elves, [http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Myth_Drannor Myth Drannor] was named so "In deference to a visionary elf of old who found the love in him to marry a dwarf". And yes, in [[Forgotten Realms]] dwarfs of both sexes have beards, elves of both sexes don't. This one isn't too hard to imagine; [[Brain Bleach|unimagining it]] is another question. Elaine Cunningham's take on [[Elves Versus Dwarves|this particular combination]] you may see [http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13887&whichpage=14#351427 here].
*** Of course, the experimentation justification can't be used for the Draegloth, a product of hot Drow priestess on Glabrezu action. What makes this one especially squicky is that Glabrezu are incapable of altering their appearance, meaning that someone had consensual sex with a ''hideous, giant, four-armed, pincered, dog-faced'', unholy abomination of the universe. One of the Drizzt Do'Urden novels actually not-quite-''shows'' this happening. In Menzoberranzan (at least) the 'valedictorian' of each class of priestesses is accorded this 'honour' as part of the graduation festivities; indeed, Drizzt's sister partook of this herself when ''she'' graduated (though thankfully without 'offspring'), and considers "It brought me power" to be justification enough - before, during, ''and'' after. Thoroughly [[Squick
**** They're drow, the only people who find "more power" to be a more thorough justification than Tim Taylor.
**** And the ''[[
*** There's an entire House of Gold Elves who not merely played with this, but had ''crossbreeding program'', so now it consists of Daemonfey (half-fiends) and [http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Fey%27ri Fey-ri] (tieflings). Apparently, old elven villains could be "outbastarded" only in a literal sense... The survivors of House Dlardrageth are balor's daughter Sarya, her son from a vrock Ryvvik, and son of her brother [[Mermaid Problem|and a marilith]] Xhalh. Three other clans of
*** "The Singing Sprite" inn (Secomber) is named after its founder's wife. Because she ''was'' a sprite (as in, [[Fairy Sexy|2' tall winged fairy]]) and habitually sang atop the tables. Granted, that guy, while human, ''was'' [[A Wizard Did It|a wizard]]...
*** There's a half-dragon... [http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=fr/pg20020612a half-remorhaz].
** Traditionally (i.e., before 3rd Edition), humans, orcs, and ogres were all interfertile. Humans mating with either always produced half-orcs or half-ogres (who were themselves fertile with each other and all three species), but orc/ogre pairings had it differently: A female orc mating with a male ogre would produce an "orog", basically a large orc that's smarter than either of its parents, while a female ogre mating with a male orc would produce an "ogrillon", a small ogre that's less intelligent than both parents ''and'' is inexplicably covered in bony nodules that give it an armor bonus; orogs are fertile but ogrillons are not. They dropped these complicated ideas in 3E and made no mention at all of orc/ogre hybrids, but orogs did return in ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' as simply a large subspecies of the main orc race.
*** Even more confusingly, an orog in ''[[Birthright]]'' was just [[Our Orcs Are Different|the setting's equivalent of an orc.]]
** All that was probably the reason for doing away with half-breed templates in 4e. Wizards of the Coast parodied the template system with a fake leaked 4e Character Sheet on April
* Averted in the ''[[
** The [[
* The ''[[Munchkin (
* In ''[[
** The prequel game ''[[Earthdawn]]'' added several decidedly non-human playable species, with interbreeding specifically labeled impossible (short of [[A Wizard Did It]]).
* Given that (barring certain Charms) the only way for Lunar [[Exalted]] to produce [[Half-Human Hybrid|beastmen]] is to either have sex with a human while in animal form or sex with an animal in human form, this has probably come up at least once.
** There are implications that Luna and Gaia may involve this. Between the fact that Luna can shapeshift into all manner of forms (some of them truly colossal) and the suggestion that Luna only really gets fulfillment out of their relationship when Gaia's main bodies (some of which can be the size of ''planets'') are around...
** And then of course there is {{spoiler|the Scarlet Empress and the Ebon Dragon.}}
== Video Games ==
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** Also, [http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Crystal/Update%2027/breedinglogcomp.gif this image.]
*** The Let's Play of Mystery Dungeon mentioned above also lampshaded cross-chain breeding explained above. After Jake and Sheldon rescue a Plusle and Minun pair (the latter named Hankosha) and rescuing a Magikarp (who is also named Hankosha), the Magikarp explained the Minun is his great grandson. The author then added:
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* The early ''[[Dragon Quest Monsters]]'' games are the lords of this trope. While monsters are grouped into families based on type, any matchup will succeed as long as the prospective parents are of opposite genders. Dragons and birds, undead and plants, slimes and animated objects, and the offspring will nearly always be something other than either of its parents. On top of that, the child will have the potential to learn all powers of its species, all powers of both parents' species, and any powers either parent knew at the time of conception, allowing for some truly evil twinking.
** The latest entry in the series, ''[[Dragon Quest Monsters]]: Joker'', seems to solve the problem. Instead of each monster being male or female, they can be Positive, Negative, or Neutral, and the process is known as Synthesis. Synthesis requires a positive and negative monster, with a neutral monster substitutable for both (However, you CANNOT synthesize two neutral monsters.) Imagine the two monsters you pick being pureed in a blender, then having the concoction froze into a new monster. This could explain why you lose your monsters after synthesis.
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** In-game texts [[Hand Wave]] unions of different species, with the offspring generally being based off of the race of the mother, though traits from the father can easily be inherited. Bretons (magically-inclined humans), for example, are the result of extensive interbreeding between ancestral elves and their human concubines until the hybrid population eventually crowded the two parent races out of the region.
** ''Oblivion'' even has a character who was the son of an orc and a vampire. The result is a non-vampiric, but ''very'' pale Orc.
** In ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
** And let's not forget Ahnassi, though the relationship is only implied.
** There's also an in-game text titled ''The Lusty Argonian Maid'' which treats the subject from a ... different ... standpoint. (Argonians are humanoid amphibians.)
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*** Morrowind also has an easily missable throw-away line hinting at this trope: there's a town with a strip club/brothel in it, and if you play as a male Khajiit one of the ladies working there will say something like "Not another Khajiit. I'm still smarting from the last one." If you've read the above-mentioned NSFW version of ''The Real Barenziah'', or know much about cat anatomy, you can put two and two together.
* Terra from ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' is a [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-human, half-Esper hybrid]]. Madeline (Madonna in the SNES version) is an ordinary human female who wandered into the Esper World by accident; Maduin is an enormous Gigas/satyr-like Esper who barely looks humanoid. The narrative does away with the particulars by having the same-sized sprites [[G-Rated Sex|perform a sparkly dance]], [[Unusual Euphemism|at the end of which their sparks join together in the shape of a baby]]. Awww.
* Acquiring colored chocobos in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' requires you to breed chocobos you've captured and leveled up. Despite the [[
** And ''[[8-Bit Theater
** This is also pretty much how real specialized breeding works. There's a good reason purebred dogs have so many genetic disorders...
** Forget Chocobos; Hojo tries to breed Aerith and Red XIII together! HSOWA and [[Mate or Die]] in one scene!
* The monsters of ''[[Jade Cocoon]]'' can be merged with one another, creating an interesting [[Biological Mashup]].
* Demons in the ''[[
** As in the [[Dragon Quest Monsters]] example, however, both of the "parent" demons are lost and end up as a part of the resulting demon, who may or may not (depending on the game) end up inheriting bonus stats and/or skills.
** Averted two separate ways in ''Persona'': In the first and second ones (Persona 2 is a dualogy), you simply acquire "cards" (small fragments of energy) from demons, which you then make into Personas. In the third and fourth, the "Personas" are just shards of your personality, not independent lifeforms.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic Adventure]]'' and its sequel both include Chao gardens. Chao may be trained and any two may be crossed, with the usual Lamarckian mechanics coming into play. This doesn't affect anything outside of the garden, though.
** In those versions of the Sonic storyline based on the Saturday morning cartoon continuity, Sonic's girlfriend is the half-squirrel, half-chipmunk Sally Acorn. There have been a fair number of "future" scenes where the two of them are married and have kids.
* The piñatas of ''[[Viva Pinata]]'' could be bred (I'm sorry, ''romanced'') to produce offspring -
** Some of the requirements for the Swanana, which include building it a house, setting up a fountain, and giving it an expensive necklace, led to the remark, "The things I have to do for a pig's trophy wife."
* In the ''[[
* Related to World of Darkness's aversion to this trope, people in ''The Matrix Online'' have roleplayed Exiles which were a mess of hybridization, including a part vampire, part succubus, part Valkyrie mongrel. Might be justified since it's all code in a virtual world.
* Half-Ogres from ''[[Arcanum:
** Speaking of exotic tastes, there's a brothel in the game which the player can visit. If you turn down the normal offerings, you can be introduced to Bella. A sheep.
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* One Asari in ''[[Mass Effect]] 2'', a humanlike race which can mate with about anything, mentions a past relationship with an Elcor, an alien race that can be described as an intelligent flat-faced hippopotamus.
** In 3, Liara's father (also Asari) had a child with a hanar, a jellyfish like alien. During [[Show Within a Show|Blasto]], the titular hanar gets some action with an elcor.
* A [[Human Alien|human/human]] example in ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'': [[Villainous Glutton|Krew]], who is so ludicrously huge that he needs a hover chair to move around, [[The Ugly
* In ''[[Princess Maker 2]]'', one of the potential suitors you can get is a dragon. Now, he can at least transform to human for, but the implications are still a little bit uncomfortable.
** So... [http://lparchive.org/Princess-Maker-2/Update%2016/index.html horrible!]
* The ''[[Parappa the Rapper]]'' universe is implied to work this way by [[Word of God]], though the results haven't been hinted at...
* ''[[God of War (
** Still both Chronos and Rhea were reigning Titans/Gods prior to Zeus' times, the game doesn't go far as to say every God/Titan can attain human form and change in size at will, but assuming it follows some aspects quite close to old Greek Mythology texts, Chronos might have had a humanoid form to consummate with Rhea, the same as Rhea might have had a giant form to pack.
* [[Mortal Kombat]] gives us the Shokan, a race of half-human/half-dragon hybrids.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[
** And the less said about the Hot Witch on Dragon-God-King Action that occurred earlier, the better. Notable for horrifying the protagonists, individuals who are most commonly horrifying others with their actions.
** Lich, a animated skeleton, has an apparently human wife and his son Vilbert is a ''vampire''. This is eventually called into question and it's mentioned it involved [[Mind Control]] at some point.
* Averted in a couple of ways in ''[[
* ''[[Chainmail Bikini (
* Lampshaded in ''[[Dan and
** The same kind of explanation is used for half-dragons in ''[[
** Also in ''[[Dan and
* In ''[[Jack (
** The "Case Of The Travelling Corpse" points out that most species prefer to breed/interact within their own species {{spoiler|like the killer}}. Still, crossbreed families are pretty normal. The child of a mammal and an insect usually ends up looking cute, green and mostly non-insect, for example.
** Given the backstory, this becomes more plausible as {{spoiler|all the anthro races were deliberately engineered by humans some time in the past, and are probably human inside with cosmetic changes on the outside}}.
* In ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'', it seems that even being of the same taxonomic order or class is not necessary for successful cross-species matings. The fox/wolf cross (Rudy) almost seems ordinary when seen with the rabbit/wolf cross (Coney), the wolf/sheep cross (Corrie), the fennec fox/formerly human rabbit cross (Francis), or the tortoise/weasel cross (not named in the strip, to the best of this editor's recall).
* ''[[Last
** And then they add WINGS on top of all that.
* Averted in ''[[Tally Road]]''- after several sexual exploits that are plainly cross-species, the first time any sex with like-species individuals occurs, the guy's seen putting on a condom. Apparently cross-species pairings are infertile.
* Averted to a degree in the ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
* One ''[[
** They also contemplated the origin of the legendary Owlbear. When Elan suggested that an owl and a bear mated, Belkar expressed hope that the owl was the male in the relationship, as otherwise certain problems would surely arise.
** #721 reveals Enor the bounty hunter to be a hybrid of a half-ogre and a dragon. As in, half dragon, one quarter human, and one quarter ogre.
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** And don't forget Gren (a goblin) and Bob (a Beholder), how does that even work? I don't wanna know
*** A sketch on the site shows their hypothetical offspring from a scrapped storyline wherein Gren would have a nightmare about her future children. It could charitably be described as [[Ugly Cute]].
* ''[[
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'''Thomas:''' Zoologically speaking, shouldn't this also be impossible?
'''Amy:''' [[Medium Awareness|Well, that's why we have comic strips]]. }}
** But if that wasn't [[Squick|disturbing]] enough already, Tom's lupine father drops this piece of advice for Amy:
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** There is also the side-character, Carly the Chinchilla, who also married a wolf ''much'' taller and broader than her.
** And Sabrina recently started dating a raccoon.
* ''[[
* In ''[[
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== Web Original ==
* The series of artwork (often NSFW) about adventurers [https://web.archive.org/web/20131024174520/http://andersson.elfwood.com/ by Fredrik K.T. Andersson] (author of ''[[Pawn]]'') includes a character [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=483891&page=7#63 best described] as "Bard who knocks up ''[[Anything That Moves|every critter in creation]]''". And is so much surprised by the results one may suspect he was drunk half-blind during most of those encounters. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160329141909/http://
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'''Human Bard''': (lifted off the ground by a happy embrace of "chick" with hooves and spiked tail) uhm... the "naked chick" bit... ? }}
* [[Fauxtivational Poster|Poster]] "[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/File:MPost20495-cb5c3320c7.jpg Bloodlines. Answering the questions you never wanted asked.]", possibly referring to "Bastards and Bloodlines" (see above).
* The ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons]]''. One Halloween episode has Marge falling in love with a Paul Bunyan version of Homer. When Homer questions her about finally consummating their love, Marge states that she'll do it after she finishes taking yoga classes.
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series
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'''Batman''': ...I ''don't'' wanna think about it. }}
* ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
** Though the weirdest has to be Gwen. An energy being? How'd that work? One can only guess it was halfway between the standard fashion and magical creation.
*** Gwen is one relative removed from that lineage. Her father is the son of Max Tennyson and Verdona, her energy-being grandmother. As Verdona demonstrates, she can outright warp reality on a whim. Creating human organs was probably simple. The "spark", as she called it, carried on in her offspring from that point.
**** It gets weirder when you realise that said "spark" won't necceserily 'take'; Besides Verdona, Gwen is the only member of the family with Andonite powers, the rest (including Ben) being merely carriers. Gwen's powers, in essence, are the direct result of an STD (or rather, virus)...
** Not only that, but Ben HSOWA's the entire High Breed ''race'' at one point, injecting DNA from all the other species of the universe into the High Breed.
** It should be noted that interbreeding is primarily a human-on-alien thing, not an alien-on-alien thing. Apparently, it's one of humanity's greatest assets that it can take [[Lamarck Was Right|the best traits of other species]] and add them to its own gene pool.
* ''[[
** CatDog by themselves have to be a case of HSOWA.
* An early episode of ''[[South Park]]'' about genetic engineering was named "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig." [[Exactly What It Says
** Double example: the pig later had children, but the father was actually Mr. Garrison.
** In the commentary, Trey and Matt revealed that the episode was originally going to be called "An Elephant Fucks a Pig", stating (paraphrased) "An elephant does not make love to a pig. They fuck."
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* In the pilot for ''[[Squidbillies]]'', Early Cuyler had romances with his morbidly obese human lover, Krystal, and while he was in prison, she was pregnant with Rusty, who, shortly after his birth, was abandoned in an empty chicken bucket to be raised by Early's sister Lil. 15 years later, Rusty finds Early working on a chain gang and they reunite.
* A series of [[Tex Avery]] cartoons asserted that the car, home and farm "of tomorrow" would include crossbreeds of both living beings and inanimate
* Parodied in the ''[[
** Pearl plays the Trope straight, however, being the daughter of Mr. Krabs and a female whale, meaning her parents are of different Classes of animals. Many fans have half-jokingly suggested Krabs (who has custody) get a paternity test to make sure Pearl is actually his daughter.
* Hot turtle-on-cat action ''in [[Rocko's Modern Life]]''. And one of their offspring was a ''<s>cow</s>'' steer because [[Lamarck Was Right|a steer friend helped hatch the eggs, so one presumably took after him.]] [[MST3K Mantra|Don't worry about it too much]].
* Lampshaded on ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' with the Wuzzles, hybrids of two different animals. A lion rapes a bee just to illustrate the point.
* Gandhi's raisin trip on [[Clone High]]:
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'''Gandhi:''' A hummingbird and a donkey doing it? I hope your mom wasn't the hummingbird. }}
** Not to mention that Geldhemoor later offered to lay Gandhi. Thrice.
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* [[Family Guy|Carter]] thought Brian knocked up his prized greyhound. When the puppies were born, they looked amazingly like Ted Turner...
** Brian did father a perfectly normal human child with Tracy.
* In an episode of ''[[Spider
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== Other Media ==▼
▲== Other ==
* There's a trio of [[Mons]]-based web roleplaying games, unofficially known as the Hidden Crossroads, that use this trope. The first such site alows for any two creatures to breed via a special item; the results are [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]. The other two sites have several different types of [[Mons]] that can only be obtained via breeding, but they're all variants on the same species.
* Pretty much all [[Half-Human Hybrid
** Spock from ''[[Star Trek
*** This is
** [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy]]'':
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"Because I'm not from this planet! Our biochemistry is totally different! He'd have more chance trying to impregnate a native ''plant'' than he would me!"
"And even that would be impossible! I used to do it with fruit all the time and nothing came of it!" }}
* The online Flash incarnation of ''[[You Don't Know Jack]]'' had Nate the Intern {{spoiler|leaving the show to marry Tiny the Elephant at the end of}} [
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'''Nate:''' Yeah, Home Depot. We could really use a ladder.
* On the ''[[Neopets]]'' website, there's even a book that lampshades the oddity of Neopian family lines, such as a Skeith and a Zafara having a Lupe, an Ixi, and a Gelert as their offspring.
** ''[[Neo Quest]] II'' has this with pretty much every NPC that has children. For example, in a village in Chapter 3, one family is made up of an Acara (a cat/goat hybrid) father and a Wocky (fox) mother, who have children who are a Cybunny (rabbit) and an Uni (unicorn).
* The Brobdingnagian Bards song "Do Virgins Taste Better?" wonders why dragons prefer kidnapping virgins to any other kind of person.
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* Two [[Mad Scientist
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"Interesting. But I managed to cross a pig with a letterbox. The result: A piggybank!" }}
* There is a joke about a man who crossed a cockroach with a watermelon - now, there is no bothering with getting the seeds out.
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