39,327
edits
What Measure Is a Humanoid?: Difference between revisions
update links
m (clean up) |
(update links) |
||
Line 7:
== 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]]''.
* ''[[Ranma ½]]'', with the Musk Dynasty, who turned animals into women using the Springs in order to have children with them.
* ''[[Angel Tales]]'' (Tenshi no Shippo).
Line 16:
* Chibi-Usa and Pegasus/Helios from ''[[Sailor Moon]]''.
** Also, Luna and Kakeru from same.
* There are the homunculi from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''.
* [[Inuyasha]], being a half youkai, had a human mother and a youkai father.
** Although not canonically a relationship, the Sesshoumaru and Rin shippers that read into subtexts fit this trope. Despite that Rin is only the [[Morality Pet]] in the series. Also note that during his introduction (that took three episodes), Sesshoumaru transformed into a giant dog that Inuyasha said was his true form. Also, with Myouga pointing out that their father used illusions or spells to appear human...yeah it's really a support of [[Squick|Giant Dog on Little Human Chew Toy]] if you discount the human transformation.
* Since familiars in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' were originally animals such as cats or wolves, pretty much any case where a familiar exhibits feelings for a human and vice versa falls under this, such as the [[Les Yay]] between [[Wolf Man|Arf]] and Fate, or [[Catgirl|Lotte Lieze]] [[Covered in Kisses|showing much affection towards]] Chrono.
* The anime [[Soul Eater]] features weapons such as scythes, swords and guns that have humanoid forms. And can go so far as to be able to reproduce with humans. Maka, one of the main characters, is a progeny of a human/weapon relationship. Does not apply at all for the weapons. They are all humans, they are just humans who have special powers. Although this may somewhat apply with the witches, they may be immortal therefore not human, and it does apply with Blair the cat.
** Also applies to the shinigami, who are not human, but in Kid's case just look as though they are (not so much for Shinigami, but if Mosquito is to be believed he either can do or has done in the past).
* In ''[[The Twelve Kingdoms]]'' (both anime and novel) there's a fair bit of subtext between Rakushun and Youko...and Rakushun is basically a giant, vaguely humanoid rat (he's pretty much just a rodent of unusually large size that can stand on his hind legs) who can turn into a human at will, though he prefers his rat form. There's also a not-so-implied unrequited love between the former Queen of Kei and Keiki, the shape-shifting Unicorn...and then there are in turn shippers who swear by a [[Keikix Youko]] coupling. (Personally, this troper has never seen the chemistry, but there have certainly been less likely couplings.)
Line 41:
* Jim Butcher's ''[[The Dresden Files|Fool Moon]]'', in covering the range of [[Our Werewolves Are Different]], includes wolfweres (wolves that can take human form rather than the other way around).
* Poledra in the ''[[Belgariad]]''. She's a wolf, who takes the form of a human because she loves Belgarath, a human who can take the form of a wolf. And, no, we don't get any explanation for why she is the only wolf known able to do this and live for thousands of years. Her expressions on the subject, irritating as they are ("what is time to a wolf?" Screw you), seem to imply they all could.
** Another likely explanation is that wolves, like humans, have the potential to become sorcerers, who get functional immortality and [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]] as inherent abilities. Poledra is either the only wolf to really get the hang of her powers, or the only one to actually take an interest in human affairs.
* There's another example from the [[Tortall Universe|Trickster duology]] written by [[Tamora Pierce]] - Nawat is a crow who becomes human after falling in love with the protagonist. At first he continues to act somewhat like a crow, but she doesn't start to return his affections until some time later, once he's started to act more human.
* [[Terry Pratchett]], of course, plays with this in [[Discworld]].
** Ludmilla Cake and Lupin in ''[[Discworld/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]''. She's a human who turns into a [[Wolf Man|Wolf Woman]] at full moon. He's a wolf who turns humanoid at full moon. They apparently have a relationship for one week a month, and the rest of the time Lupin is kind of Ludmilla's mother's pet dog. Which is a lot [[squick]]ier written like that than it was in the book...
Line 69:
** 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.
Line 78:
* 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.
** Ryu in ''[[Breath of Fire]] 2'' is the son of a dragon and a human man.
* {{spoiler|Makoto, one of the girls Yuuichi can fall in love with}} in ''[[Kanon]]'' is actually a fox.
** Similarly, {{spoiler|Shima}} in ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'', the lover of {{spoiler|Misae}} who turned out to be {{spoiler|a cat whom she would later take in}}. Both are played with as much [[Tear Jerker]] potential as possible.
* A robot falls in love with the protagonist of [[Da Capo]] in one of the extra two routes. Apparently this sort of thing is intended to happen as she apparently has a hymen to break and gets pleasure from sex. But um until that point in the story...
* 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.
Line 98:
[[Category:Animal Anthropomorphism Tropes]]
[[Category:What Measure Is A Humanoid]]
[[Category:What Measure Is an Index?]]
[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
| |||