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* She offers him to [[Viral Transformation|make him just like her]] and he agrees (very common for vampires);
** Occasionally, this is done to save his life via an [[Emergency Transformation]]; the relationship [[I Love You, Vampire Son|may]] or [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad|may not]] survive this act.
** Alternately, he manages to purify her, assuming her condition is reversible and [[Cursed with Awesome|seen as bad]]. A [[Cute Ghost Girl]] might find [[An Astral Projection, Not a Ghost|her body in coma state in hospital]]. God may "punish" an angel by turning her into mundane human.
* One of them just [[Wangst|can't get over it]] and breaks up.
[[Gender Flip
If they stay together, [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]] may result.
Obviously involves [[Interspecies Romance]]. May be a case of [[Magical Girlfriend]] or even [[Action Girlfriend]]. A common trope in [[Paranormal Romance]] but it appears in other genres as well.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[FLCL]]'': Boy meets a girl who eventually turns out to be an alien. Alien seduces boy, uses him, then tosses him away.▼
* ''[[
* ''[[Baccano!]]'': Boy meets [[Immortality|immortal]], [[Oblivious to Love|borderline]]-[[Asexuality|asexual]] [[Our Homunculi Are Different|homunculus]].
* ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'': Girl meets demon.
* ''[[Dragon Crisis]]'': Boy meets Dragons and a [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half-wolf girl]].▼
* From ''[[Vampire Knight]]'', we have Yuki, a human, falling in love with the vampire Kaname. {{spoiler|But then we find out that Yuki is actually a vampire as well.}} All the students at the Night School are secretly vampires.▼
* ''[[Dragonaut: The Resonance]]'': Boy meets giant, alien dragon.▼
* ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' has an inversion (mermaid meets boy), {{spoiler|which is later subverted as the boy isn't entirely human either; they are allowed to remain together.}} The other members of the [[Power Trio]], also mermaids, get human love interests as well; the manga makes it more clear that they'll probably end up [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] because of this, but the anime ends on a happier note. Finally, the series' backstory includes other stories of boy-meets-mermaid played straight; one is a legend with an ambiguous ending, but the other... [[Star-Crossed Lovers|didn't]] [[Love Makes You Evil|end]] [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|well]].▼
* ''[[Eureka Seven]]'': Boy meets alien.
▲** ''[[Blue Submarine No. 6]]'' Man meets mermaid/catgirl hybrid with similarly ambiguous bittersweet ending.
▲* ''[[FLCL]]'': Boy meets a girl who eventually turns out to be an alien. Alien seduces boy, uses him, then tosses him away.
* ''[[Fractale]]'': Boy meets Doppel and a {{spoiler|clone}}.▼
* ''[[Fruits Basket]]''. Girl meets boy(s) who turn out to have a secret, magical association with the signs of the Chinese Zodiac, and turn into total animals whenever they're hugged by a member of the opposite sex.▼
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'': Boy meets [[Unwanted Harem|all]] [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|of the above]].
▲* ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' has an inversion (mermaid meets boy), {{spoiler|which is later subverted as the boy isn't entirely human either; they are allowed to remain together.}} The other members of the [[Power Trio]], also mermaids, get human love interests as well; the manga makes it more clear that they'll probably end up [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] because of this, but the anime ends on a happier note. Finally, the series' backstory includes other stories of boy-meets-mermaid played straight; one is a legend with an ambiguous ending, but the other... [[Star-Crossed Lovers|didn't]] [[Love Makes You Evil|end]] [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|well]].
* ''[[Otome Youkai Zakuro]]'': Men meet [[Half-Human Hybrid|Hanyou Girls]]
* ''[[Tasogare Otome
▲* From ''[[Vampire Knight]]'', we have Yuki, a human, falling in love with the vampire Kaname. {{spoiler|But then we find out that Yuki is actually a vampire as well.}} All the students at the Night School are secretly vampires.
▲* ''[[Dragon Crisis]]'': Boy meets Dragons and a [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half-wolf girl]].
* ''[[Yumekui Merry]]'': Boy meets Dream Demon.
▲* [[Fruits Basket]]. Girl meets boy(s) who turn to have a secret, magical association with the signs of the Chinese Zodiac, and turn into total animals whenever they're hugged by a member of the opposite sex.
▲* [[Fractale]]: Boy meets Doppel and a {{spoiler|clone}}.
▲* [[Dragonaut: The Resonance]]: Boy meets giant, alien dragon.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* Novembersmith's RPS fan-novel [[The Anatomy of a Fall]] has boy meets ghost, with a fairly beautiful [[The Reveal|reveal]] around the middle of the fic.
* [[Gender
== [[Film]] ==
* Original ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]'': Boy meets vampire {{spoiler|and turns into a [[Fur Against Fang|werewolf]] himself}}.
* The ''[[Tales from the Darkside]]'' movie has a [[Downer Ending]] version of this. Guy finds out his wife is a gargoyle, after telling the tale of seeing one once, and promising never to speak of it.
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* ''[[The Deaths of Ian Stone]]'' has a peculiar relationship to this trope. In the very beginning, everyone in the setting seems clearly human or clearly inhuman. {{spoiler|The second iteration of the main character's [[Dream Within a Dream]] reveals that his secondary love interest is both [[Eldritch Abomination|completely inhuman]] and willing to kill him if he finds out about it. A later iteration reveals that [[Tomato in the Mirror|he's inhuman too]], albeit with [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]. Unlike most examples, this isn't about the human primary love interest learning to accept him--rather, he learns to think and feel like a human.}}
* ''[[Galaxy Quest]]''. Fred Kwan and Lailari, who he thinks is a [[Human Alien]]. He's quite wrong. [[Nightmare Fetishist|But he doesn't care]].
* ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]'' gender flips and deconstructs this with alien Thomas Jerome Newton and his Earthly mistress Mary-Lou. They actually consummate their relationship before he reveals his true, [[Rubber Forehead Alien]] form to her. Once he does, their already-troubled relationship is only further
* [[The Bermuda Depths]]: Magnus and Jennie, servant of a sea demon.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* There's a Japanese myth about [[Youkai|Yuki-Onna]], with the same plot as the ''[[Tales from the Darkside]]'' movie above.▼
* [[Older Than Print]]: [[Kitsune]] are subject to this trope. ''Kitsune''-wives usually left when their true nature was exposed, but in at least one tale, the husband called after her, reassuring her of welcome, so she returned, but only at night.▼
* The Selkie myths of Ireland, almost exactly the same as the kitsune-wives, but the men capture the women by hiding the pelts that let them turn back into seals.▼
* The Huldra women of Norwegian folklore become mortal and gain souls when they are married to a man. However, they still keep their magic and freakish strength, much to the peril of unfaithful husbands.▼
* Subverted in an Arab folktale. A daughter of a ''ghoul'' (human-eating monster) winds up with some of its magical powers. She nearly gets married to a prince except for the presence of another girl. She throws herself into an oven and reforms, leaving fresh bread ready in the oven to start a welcoming feast for the prince. The other girl claims similar abilities, throws herself into the oven, and burns to death.▼
▲== Literature ==
* ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'': Girl meets vampire.
* [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]'s ''The Wild One'': Boy meets {{spoiler|werelynx}}.
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* All [[The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries]], where girl meets vampire, werewolf, were-tiger, etc.
* [[Let the Right One In]]: as with the movie, a young boy meets a strange girl, and an innocent childhood romance develops, before he discovers that she's a bloodthirsty vampire.
* [[Blood and Chocolate]]: Boy meets werewolf. One of the more [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|cynical]] cases, as {{spoiler|not only does their relationship [[Star-Crossed Lovers|not work out]], it's implied that it's [[Humans Are
* [[Light Novel]] [[
* [[Harlan Ellison]] has a short story called "She's A Young Thing And Cannot Leave Her Mother" where boy meets {{spoiler|cave-dwelling mutant cannibal descendant of Sawney Beane}} (a.k.a. "Camilla").
* ''[[The Door Into Fire]]'': Boy meets fire elemental.
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* In Philip Jose Farmer ''[[The Lovers]]'' a man from an oppressive puritan theocracy meets the girl of his dreams in another planet. Except that she's actually a ''lalitha'' {{spoiler|a highly evolved arthropod}}.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Night Gallery]]'', a show famous for its twist endings, liked this one.
** "The Phantom Farmhouse": she's [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|a werewolf who's actually a ghost]].
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* ''[[Charmed]]'': Mid-way through series 1 it's revealed that Piper's (then) boyfriend Leo is not human and that he's a whitelighter. There had been a few [[Running Gag|comedic suspicions]] about him prior to the reveal due to Piper's bad luck with men (her boyfriends often ended up being revealed as evil warlocks) but the reveal that he's their guardian angel does come as a shock to all of them. Since whitelighter/witch romances are traditionally forbidden, the couple do spend most of the entire eight seasons struggling to make it work before everything finally works out in the end. Subverted in that whitelighters are actually born human but are transformed into whitelighters and can be turned back into humans if the occasion demands. All three of their children are half-whitelighter, half-witch.
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
▲* There's a Japanese myth about [[Youkai|Yuki-Onna]], with the same plot as the ''[[Tales from the Darkside]]'' movie above.
▲* [[Older Than Print]]: [[Kitsune]] are subject to this trope. ''Kitsune''-wives usually left when their true nature was exposed, but in at least one tale, the husband called after her, reassuring her of welcome, so she returned, but only at night.
▲* The Selkie myths of Ireland, almost exactly the same as the kitsune-wives, but the men capture the women by hiding the pelts that let them turn back into seals.
▲* The Huldra women of Norwegian folklore become mortal and gain souls when they are married to a man. However, they still keep their magic and freakish strength, much to the peril of unfaithful husbands.
▲* Subverted in an Arab folktale. A daughter of a ''ghoul'' (human-eating monster) winds up with some of its magical powers. She nearly gets married to a prince except for the presence of another girl. She throws herself into an oven and reforms, leaving fresh bread ready in the oven to start a welcoming feast for the prince. The other girl claims similar abilities, throws herself into the oven, and burns to death.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* There was a subplot in the Game Boy Advance RPG ''[[Robopon]] 2'' based around this. You have to round up a group of alien schoolgirls on a field trip from the moon ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) and one of them disguises herself as a human and has a guy fall in love with her. You chase them all over the world map. When she finally admits to him that she's an alien, he says that he'll love her no matter what.
* ''[[Fate/stay night]]'': Boy meets superpowered ghost of {{spoiler|[[Gender Flip
* This is one of the possible endings in the [[Interactive Fiction]] game ''Afflicted'', where you are a restaurant inspector {{spoiler|who stumbles across a feud between vampires}}. After the player {{spoiler|reassembles Sofia's body, he can agree to be turned into a vampire himself;}} if you simply leave Nikolai's Bar afterwards, {{spoiler|Sofia ends up moving in with you}}.
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Blazing Sword'': Boy meets {{spoiler|dragon}}.
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* ''[[Demonbane]]'': Boy meet [[Moe Personification]] of [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|Necronomicon]].
* ''[[Ow, My Sanity]]'', explicitly a deconstruction of the [[Magical Girlfriend]] genre, pairs a human with a [[Humanoid Abomination]]. The strip is ongoing, but it looks like said human is going to get an [[Unwanted Harem]] composed entirely of Lovecraftian monstrosities.
* ''[[
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲== Web Original ==
* ''[[Dept Heaven Apocrypha]]'': Girl meets demon.
* ''[[Kumiko the Demon Girl]]'': Boy meets [[Horny Devils|Succubus]].
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