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{{trope}}
A boy meets a [[Magical Girlfriend|girl of his dreams]], falls in love with her, is reciprocated, and all seems shiny... until [[The Reveal]] that the girl isn't quite compatible with him biologically. For example, she is an [[Human Alien|alien]]. Or a [[Cute Ghost Girl|ghost]]. Or a [[Our Demons Are Different|demon]]. Or a [[Big Creepy
* [[The Power of Love]] rules supreme and [[Interspecies Romance]] ensues;
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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
* One of them just [[Wangst|can't get over it]] and breaks up.
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* ''[[FLCL]]'': Boy meets a girl who eventually turns out to be an alien. Alien seduces boy, uses him, then tosses him away.
* ''[[Eureka Seven]]'': Boy meets alien.
* ''[[
* ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'': Girl meets demon.
* 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.
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** ''[[Blue Submarine No. 6]]'' Man meets mermaid/catgirl hybrid with similarly ambiguous bittersweet ending.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'': Boy meets [[Unwanted Harem|all]] [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|of the above]].
* ''[[Asobi
* ''[[Otome Youkai Zakuro]]'': Men meet [[Half-Human Hybrid|Hanyou Girls]]
* ''[[Tasogare Otome X Amnesia]]'': Teiichi doesn't realize Yuuko is a ghost when he first meets her.
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* [[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:
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== Film ==
* Original ''[[Underworld (
* The ''[[Tales
* ''[[Splash]]'': A variation on the classic mermaid-falls-in-love-with-a-human story; she can appear fully human unless she gets wet, which comes as quite a surprise to him the first time it happens.
* ''[[Let the Right One In]]''. A dark puppy-love version. A Boy meets a mysterious girl and makes friends with her, only to discover, later, that she's a vampire responsible for a series local murders.
** The 2010 remake ''Let Me In'' has the same.
* ''[[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 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 damaged -- out of his disguise, he's not capable of lovemaking in the human manner, and she finds him physically hideous anyway. {{spoiler|They ultimately fall out of love with each other.}}
* [[The Bermuda Depths]]: Magnus and Jennie, servant of a sea demon.
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== Folk Lore ==
* There's a Japanese myth about [[Youkai|Yuki-Onna]], with the same plot as the ''[[Tales
* [[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.
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Twilight (
* [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]'s ''The Wild One'': Boy meets {{spoiler|werelynx}}.
* [[Discworld]]: <s>Dwarf-raised human boy</s> tall dwarf meets werewolf.
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** "Death on a Barge": she's a regular vampire.
* Isabel in ''[[Roswell]]'' married Jesse Ramirez, who was human, but he didn't find out Isabel was an alien until later in season 3.
* [[Big Wolf
* The main character of ''[[Moonlight]]'' was turned into a vampire by his wife on their wedding night, who forgot to [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad|run it by him first]] before doing so.
* ''[[True Blood]]'' has Tara and Sam, human meets shifter.
* ''[[
** In Season 2, ghost Annie goes on a date with human Saul {{spoiler|Except he's not so normal himself...}}, and seemed to have feeling towards normal human Hugh. Also vampire Mitchell is falling for regular human Lucy.
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' '[[
* Subverted in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Tara ''thinks'' she's a demon and goes to considerable length to prevent Willow from finding out. Turns out she's not - it was just part of her abusive family's "spin to keep the ladies in line".
** Played straight in the season one episode ''Teacher's Pet'' where Xander gets a crush on a substitute teacher {{spoiler|she's a giant praying mantis that wants to mate and then eat his head}}
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== 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
* 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}}.
** ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Path of Radiance'': Boy meets cat(girl) in his backstory. {{spoiler|They break up before the game starts.}}
* ''[[
* ''[[Disgaea 2 Cursed Memories]]'': Boy meets demon. Turns out to be a non-issue since ''Disgaea 1'' already showed that human/demon [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]] are possible (and for those who haven't played it, a character from that game explains it anyhow). {{spoiler|And it doesn't matter anyway, as boy is a demon too but doesn't realize it}}. Of course, by that point, it's stopped being "boy meets demon" and started being "boy meets {{spoiler|reincarnated God Of All Overlords}}."
* ''[[Demonbane]]'': Boy meet [[Moe Personification]] of [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|Necronomicon]].
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Ow
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