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See also some cases of [[Interspecies Romance]], [[Robosexual]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'' did this a few times, usually more towards the subtext end of the scale.
* This was more or less the entire premise of ''[[Guru Guru Pon Chan]]''.
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* ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'' has this in spades.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* I think{{verify}} that in one story, [[Superman|Krypto The Superdog]] turned into a human and formed a relationship with a woman.▼
* Fox maidens, usually malicious ([[Everythings Foxier With Foxes]]) are common in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean mythology. Several examples are found in ''Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio'' (''Liao Zhai Zhi Yi") by Pu Songling.▼
** Don't remember that, but there definitely was such a plot involving his colleague Comet the Super-Horse. (If I have this right,{{verify}} it turns out that Comet was really a centaur who'd been cursed so that at any one time he had to be all horse or all man. I don't know if that helps, really.)▼
* Rabbit maidens, such as the one in the Cantonese opera ''Tryst with a White Rabbit'', are usually benign.▼
*** As I recall{{verify}} Comet was a lesbian cursed to be a male horse for the rest of her life.▼
* Also celebrated is ''The Legend of the White Snake'': a snake spirit falls in love with the student Xu-Xian. A [[Knight Templar]] type monk called Fa-Hai intervenes, not because she is evil, but simply because she is non-human. Fa-Hai's meddling did more harm than good.▼
*** I don't know about the lesbian part, but Comet did had a relationship. With Supergirl. [[Squick|Yeah]].▼
* In South America there is the legend of the Encantados, pink river dolphins that change into men so they can seduce and/or abduct human women. Unexplained pregnancies? Hey, blame the dolphins. Who ''else'' could be responsible?▼
*** Lesbian Comet is the [[Post-Crisis]] version, who was a lesbian comedienne who'd combined with a male superhero with horse-DNA to form an [[Our Angels Are Different|Earth Angel]] in the same way as [[Supergirl]] combined with Linda Danvers. (S)he could alternate between the two forms. Supergirl was attracted to Comet, but somewhat taken aback by Andi.▼
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: Zeus in the Greek Myths, often changed into animals and seduced women. These relationships often produced children who were harassed or even killed by his wife, Hera. Helen of Troy—the most beautiful woman in the world—is likely half-swan, since that was the form Zeus took when he raped her mother. Some versions of her birth involve her ''hatching from an egg.''▼
* Alan Moore once wrote a story about Swamp Thing's girlfriend noting that Lois and Superman have essentially the same relationship as they do.▼
* Selkies? Swan-maidens?▼
** After she got arrested for "Crimes against nature", leading to Swamp Thing using his plant powers to turn Gotham City into a jungle, Batman pointed this out to the mayor, who panicked and dropped the charges.▼
* Beast's girlfriend left him when he went from blue-hairy-ape-man-thing to blue-hairy-cat-man-thing, because even with all the fantastic racism that was the point that people started comparing their relationship to bestiality.▼
** Later, poor Beast gets feelings for a cat-girl, who actually turned out to be more cat then girl. Seems mutancy is not just restricted to homo sapiens.▼
* ''[[XXXenophile]]'' goes out of its way to transform one housecat into a human before getting him involved with a human woman. This may have been more about scale than anything else, given that the same woman gets involved with a shapechanging [[The Fair Folk|Fairie Queen]] that goes much, much further from the typical form factor ''trying'' to [[Squick]] her out.▼
** This is also the comic which features a human having sex with a centaur several times before the centaur had sex (offscreen) with a horse—the 'curse' of being part horse transferred with sex, so the horse wound up with six legs afterwards.▼
* [[Tank Girl]] gives us the relationship between the heroine and her [[Kangaroos Represent Australia|mutant kangaroo boyfriend]] Booga. He behaves pretty much like any human, and the issue of their [[Interspecies Romance]] is rarely discussed.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
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* Any one person that's in love with a werewolf in the [[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]] universe. Sure, they originally were human so it may be a subversion in that regards, but they're still large wolf like things that don't really look like wolves in the movies.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Numerous relationships between humans and aliens on ''[[Star Trek]].'' Captain Kirk was famous for <s>fucking aliens</s> "<s>going</s> coming where no man has gone before".
** And copied on [[Affectionate Parody]] ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'' with "Jane Doe", who is actually a tentacle monster.
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* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' we have Buffy who has relationships with vampires. And it's an ongoing joke with Xander that demons are attracted to him.
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
▲* Fox maidens, usually malicious ([[Everythings Foxier With Foxes]]) are common in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean mythology. Several examples are found in ''Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio'' (''Liao Zhai Zhi Yi") by Pu Songling.
▲* Rabbit maidens, such as the one in the Cantonese opera ''Tryst with a White Rabbit'', are usually benign.
▲* Also celebrated is ''The Legend of the White Snake'': a snake spirit falls in love with the student Xu-Xian. A [[Knight Templar]] type monk called Fa-Hai intervenes, not because she is evil, but simply because she is non-human. Fa-Hai's meddling did more harm than good.
▲* In South America there is the legend of the Encantados, pink river dolphins that change into men so they can seduce and/or abduct human women. Unexplained pregnancies? Hey, blame the dolphins. Who ''else'' could be responsible?
▲* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: Zeus in the Greek Myths, often changed into animals and seduced women. These relationships often produced children who were harassed or even killed by his wife, Hera. Helen of Troy—the most beautiful woman in the world—is likely half-swan, since that was the form Zeus took when he raped her mother. Some versions of her birth involve her ''hatching from an egg.''
▲* Selkies? Swan-maidens?{{verify}}
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▲* I think that in one story, [[Superman|Krypto The Superdog]] turned into a human and formed a relationship with a woman.
▲** Don't remember that, but there definitely was such a plot involving his colleague Comet the Super-Horse. (If I have this right, it turns out that Comet was really a centaur who'd been cursed so that at any one time he had to be all horse or all man. I don't know if that helps, really.)
▲*** As I recall Comet was a lesbian cursed to be a male horse for the rest of her life.
▲*** I don't know about the lesbian part, but Comet did had a relationship. With Supergirl. [[Squick|Yeah]].
▲*** Lesbian Comet is the [[Post-Crisis]] version, who was a lesbian comedienne who'd combined with a male superhero with horse-DNA to form an [[Our Angels Are Different|Earth Angel]] in the same way as [[Supergirl]] combined with Linda Danvers. (S)he could alternate between the two forms. Supergirl was attracted to Comet, but somewhat taken aback by Andi.
▲* Alan Moore once wrote a story about Swamp Thing's girlfriend noting that Lois and Superman have essentially the same relationship as they do.
▲** After she got arrested for "Crimes against nature", leading to Swamp Thing using his plant powers to turn Gotham City into a jungle, Batman pointed this out to the mayor, who panicked and dropped the charges.
▲* Beast's girlfriend left him when he went from blue-hairy-ape-man-thing to blue-hairy-cat-man-thing, because even with all the fantastic racism that was the point that people started comparing their relationship to bestiality.
▲** Later, poor Beast gets feelings for a cat-girl, who actually turned out to be more cat then girl. Seems mutancy is not just restricted to homo sapiens.
▲* ''[[XXXenophile]]'' goes out of its way to transform one housecat into a human before getting him involved with a human woman. This may have been more about scale than anything else, given that the same woman gets involved with a shapechanging [[The Fair Folk|Fairie Queen]] that goes much, much further from the typical form factor ''trying'' to [[Squick]] her out.
▲** This is also the comic which features a human having sex with a centaur several times before the centaur had sex (offscreen) with a horse—the 'curse' of being part horse transferred with sex, so the horse wound up with six legs afterwards.
▲* [[Tank Girl]] gives us the relationship between the heroine and her [[Kangaroos Represent Australia|mutant kangaroo boyfriend]] Booga. He behaves pretty much like any human, and the issue of their [[Interspecies Romance]] is rarely discussed.
* Human girls sometimes show interest in any incarnations of Ryu, the protagonist of the ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' series. The only thing is that his real form is a dragon.
** The same goes for Fou-Lu, the [[Big Bad|main antagonist]] of ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' 4, where there is a side story that shows a human girl falling in love with him. He's also a dragon.
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* Sora of [[Ever 17]] falls in love with Takeshi. While he doesn't really reciprocate, he does find her very beautiful and the characters in story go awww... as well.
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* In ''[[Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name]],'' [[Jerkass Woobie|Veser]] is the [[Half-Human Hybrid]] of a human and a selkie (see above). Going by the legend, though, she's not really a willing participant. Veser's [[Parental Substitute]] was also in love with her. It's a pretty dysfunctional family.
* One subplot in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' explores the nature of goblins relative to other races, and goes into detail in strip 1232, [https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1232.html "Equity Options"].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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