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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]] ==
* ''[[Asobi ni Iku yo!]]'': Boy meets [[Catgirl]] Alien, knows a [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half Alien]].
* ''[[Baccano!]]'': Boy meets [[Immortality|immortal]], [[Oblivious to Love|borderline]]-[[Asexuality|asexual]] [[Our Homunculi Are Different|homunculus]].
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* ''[[Yumekui Merry]]'': Boy meets Dream Demon.
▲== Fan Fiction ==
* 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 Flip]]ped in ''Shadows Of The Past'' as {{spoiler|Will mentions how he showed Sarah what he really was}} when they were dating.
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲== 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 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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* [[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 the Real Monsters|impossible for humans not to hate and fear werewolves]].}}
* [[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]]ped [[King Arthur]]}}. Boy meets superpowered magus. Boy meets {{spoiler|corrupted Holy Grail}}.
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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.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
▲== Web Original ==
* ''[[Dept Heaven Apocrypha]]'': Girl meets demon.
* ''[[Kumiko the Demon Girl]]'': Boy meets [[Horny Devils|Succubus]].
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