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[[File:Did_You_Just_Romance_Cthulu_9226.jpg|frame|Horrifically adorable.]]
{{quote|''"I'm an intelligent woman. I know the difference between reality and my own dark fantasies. But I thrill at the idea of being taken by a great tentacled beast. My heart races as I imagine my frail and delicate body being controlled, being used by a force too powerful for me to deny. To feel helpless, vulnerable, it scares me yet it excites me. My body aches with desire as I imagine myself being forced to surrender in the most intimate of ways. Can this be so wrong?"''|Kiki, ''[[
This is what happens when you make love ([[Have a Gay Old Time|in]] [[Love Tropes|either]] [[Sex Tropes|sense]] of that phrase) with an [[Eldritch Abomination]]. <ref>Or a [[Starfish Alien]] doing a passable imitation of one.</ref>
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Tentacles are a frequent feature. Can be played for sheer [[Squick]], horror, [[Playing to The Fetishes|fetish appeal]], [[Played for Laughs|laughs]] or all of the above at the same time.
See also [[Evil Is Sexy]], this trope's partial [[Super-Trope]] <ref>[[Evil Is Sexy]] applies to humans as well, and, well, not all [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]] are evil</ref>, [[Did We Just Have Tea
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* The entire premise of the [[Nyarko San]] media franchise.
* Would [[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]] count? {{spoiler|The girl is a [[Reality Warper|reality warping]] [[Humanoid Abomination]] who has the hots for the (normal) boy, and there are some arcs focused on trying to prevent her from [[Locked Out of the Loop|unknowingly]] re-writing the universe.}}
** Or at least, that's how we think it is. {{spoiler|A very common fan theory is that the "normal" boy is the actual [[Humanoid Abomination]] [[Tomato in
** And he has a friend who lusts after one alien, then dates another one for a few months.
* The [[Hentai]] one-shot ''Fiend Without A Face'' is about a girl's loving cohabitation relationship with a... '''thing''' that looks like a five-foot tall penis with dozens of smaller penises and tentacles all over its body. Played for d'awwwwwww.
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* In ''[[Tsukihime]]'', the protagonist, Tohno Shiki, has the option of falling in love with the "True Ancestor" of the series' "Vampires", Arcueid Brunestud. Considered an abomination even among her own kind for her monstrous power.
** It should be noted that, from her point of view, ''Shiki's'' the Cthulhu of their relationship, what with him being a natural-born killer of non-humans like herself and his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception meaning that his mind is on the same wavelength as ''death itself.'' And considering that the other bearers of those eyes in the Nasuverse are a Celtic God who can make you die with a glance and the living embodiment of Akasha, she's got a good point.
* [[Tenchi Muyo!]], Works both ways, with Tsunami, Washu and Tokimi ''supposedly'' being the omnipotent beings that created ''everything.'' They're after Tenchi who is an '''[[Inverted Trope|even more]]''' [[Fridge Brilliance|omnipotent]] being than they are.
* [[Bakemonogatari
* The [[OAV]] of ''[[El
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[
* In ''[[Dagon]]'', the protagonist has dreams about swimming undersea with a beautiful mermaid. Later, he actually meets her, but resists her attempt at seduction {{spoiler|when he finds out that she has tentacles instead of legs.}} Later on, she turns out {{spoiler|to be his sister, and also his destined bride.}}[[hottip:*:While featuring a village full of otherworldly interbreeding, this one gets super-bonus-points for [[The Shadow Over Innsmouth
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[
** Oh, and it's hinted at that her elderly father was acting as the, er, ''vessel'' for Yog at the time.
* Likewise, several [[Cthulhu Mythos]] tales deal with this:
** Michael Shea's "Fat Face" involves a woman who becomes interested in a rather large, but kindly man. {{spoiler|It's not a man, and it doesn't end well.}}
** Played with Ramsey Campbell's "The Faces At Pine Dunes". The protagonist and his girlfriend is investigate his parents' strange behavior. {{spoiler|1=His father is a Human/[[Eldritch Abomination]] hybrid, and so is the protagonist.}}
* "The Dunwich Horror" was inspired by Arthur Machen's ''[[
* Done as part of a [[Deal
** [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CvgEnPIYQ_U/TL7T2mAtBHI/AAAAAAAAAIs/qRu7hZJaKTk/s1600/barney_stinson.jpg Challenge Accepted]!
* [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Star Wars]] [[
* The entire point of the [[Light Novels]] ''[[Nyarko San]]'', except that it's the Cthulhu-side person herself who initiates the relationship to the human protagonist (to varying degree of success). And no, it's not nasty... most of the time.
** [[Girls Love|Cthugga x]] [[Brain Bleach|Nyarlathotep!]]
* [[Beowulf
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[
** Actually Wesley subverts this trope. He in no way, shape or form "romances" Illyria. Not once, not ever. He kept her around purely because she reminded him of Fred, and when Illyria tried to get physically intimate with Wesley he rebuffed her. {{spoiler|Only at Wesley's death was he willing to let Illyria pretend to be Fred so he could spend his last moment with his lost love, or a close approximation.}}
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** Supplement ''The Fungi from Yuggoth''. After donning a pair of magical glasses a woman is raped by an other-dimensional monster and becomes pregnant with its child.
** The "Love's Lonely Children" adventure features a couple who are Y'Golonac cultists. Y'Golonac is basically the Mythos entity of [[Squick]] incarnate. The husband is possessed and bodily transforms into Y'Golonac, while his wife... worships. [[The Aristocrats|And they got their daughter involved in it, too...]]
* ''[[
** In one of the [[Fanon Discontinuity|more contested]] passages in the guide for Infernals, it's suggested that new Infernals are passed around the Yozis for... "initiation." The Yozis are crippled godlike entities that take forms such as a city of brass and basalt, a hundred thousand crystalline spheres of fire, and an ever-twisting river. The sheer physics alone... But, for good or ill, the actual process would be a bit less mind-hurting, as the Yozis can create humaniform avatars called jouten. This is not necessarily an improvement.
*** The Ebon Dragon is stated to only have one Jouten [[Genre Savvy|because]] he would [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|betray himself]]. The form he uses: [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|A several miles long oriental dragon made of darkness]]
** The Yozi Adorjan (who mostly appears in the form of an extremely violent wind) also mated with a Solar Exalt (through a dream...) and conceived daughters by him (half of whom were normal human children, the other half shed their mortal bodies when they reached maturity and became sentient winds like their mother).
** The god[[Gender Bender|(des)]] Luna was created (partially) for the purpose of seducing the Primordial Gaia (and fell in love with her instead). Gaia's most commonly seen form is her humanoid jouten, but mentions are made of her other, greater forms, that are vast, primal and slightly terrifying to the other gods (although Luna, while typically humanoid, [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|can take some pretty eldritch forms herself]], so the line between regular romance and romancing Cthulu is a bit blurred).
* The "[[Eldritch Abomination|aberrant]]" bloodline in ''[[
* "Romance" might not be the right word for it, but this is part of the ''graduation ceremony'' for the Drow priestesses of Lolth in the [[Forgotten Realms]]. The joint graduation ceremony between female priestesses and male warriors consists of the two groups engaging in a drug-fueled orgy. One "lucky" priestess mates with a glabrezu -- a four-armed pincered dog-faced demon -- instead of another Drow. It bears mentioning that glabrezu can't shapeshift. This is considered an honor, and the resulting hybrid children (called draegloths) have a special place in Drow society.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Literally in ''[[Cthulhu Saves the World]]'', of course. Umi falls in love with Cthulhu pretty much at first sight, but he considers them "strictly in a rock star-groupie relationship." {{spoiler|By the end though, he comes to return her feelings.}}
* ''[[
* ''[[Demonbane]]'' originated as [[Eroge]] based on [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. The best example is probably when {{spoiler|Nyarlathotep}} has sex with Kuro after he got possessed and transformed into Wilbur Whateley.
* ''[[
* In ''[[The Sims|The Sims 2]]'', Olive Specter canonically had sex with the Grim Reaper (which, incidentally, [[Urban Legend of Zelda|you can't replicate in-game]]) and it's strongly implied that he's the father of her only child (which you actually can, though it requires cheats).
* It's not entirely certain ''what'' the girl in ''Where We Remain'' is, but we know that she's spent a very long time [[Sealed Good in
* In ''[[Persona 3
** While it's not an official social link, a male main character {{spoiler|is asked to show Elizabeth what sex is like}}. The female main character can similarly {{spoiler|win the affection of, and have an [[Optional Sexual Encounter]] with, Elizabeth's younger brother Theodore. It's not clear exactly what Elizabeth and Theodore ''are,'' but whatever they are, it's not human, and as the game's [[Bonus Boss|Bonus Bosses]] they are just as if not more powerful than the abovementioned Ryoji}}.
* In ''[[
* One of the [[Romance Sidequest|potential love interests]] in ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Ow
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' has a hint of this in a TV show actually called [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20021111 "Unholy Concubine Connection"]. (Before that comic, the show showed someone "merely" involved with [[Satan]].)
* In ''[[Grim Tales
* ''[[
* In ''[[Tales Of Gnosis College]]'', Moira's relationship with Howard counts as this. It's rather sweet, arguably.
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