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|'''[[Frank Zappa]]''', ''Goblin Girl''}}

 

 

This trope comes in several varieties:

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Mink from ''[[Dragon Half]]'', though granted, she's [[Half-Human Hybrid|half human]] herself; her mother is a dragon. Her mother is usually [[Shape Shifter|transformed]] into a humanoid form but tends to break it when she becomes angry.

** There is also a half-dragon Mink in the webcomic ''Darken''. Pretty, too.

* The series ''[[Petopeto San]]'' is entirely devoted to the concept of cute monster girls (some of which are [[Half-Human Hybrid|half human]]).

* Hazuki from ''[[Tsukuyomi Moon Phase]]''. Anyone unfamiliar with the story and character would NEVER assume she's a monster! The opening theme doesn't help.

* The title character of ''[[Karin]]'' (a.k.a, "Chibi Vampire")

** Let's not forget the earlier Angewomon, LadyDevimon, Lilymon and Rosemon. The [[Bishonen Line]] means most female Digimon are gonna end up like this at some point.

** However, if you want to keep the ‘monster’ in monster girl, you want the villainous Ranamon. Green, covered with seashell-themed, uh, head-things, and cute as a button. Her Beast Spirit form, Calmaramon, is much more monstrous, with a giant squidlike body beneath the humanoid portion. Though it wasn't used that way, you get the feeling the designer had in mind hapless victims approaching a "woman" in the water, and then out comes Cthulhu's little sister to '''kill you to death'''.

* Though the Zentradi from ''[[Macross]]'' and ''[[Robotech]]'' are [[Human Aliens]], the males range in appearance from ugly to average to handsome, with the occasional odd skin tone and/or cybernetic aspect, while the female Zentradi are always depicted as beautiful. The Zentradi designs in [[The Movie]], ''Do You Remember Love?'', are probably the strongest examples of this trope.

* Tons of them in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', especially during the tournament which features a cat-girl announcer and a dragon-girl referee. There are Monster Boys too, (Yoko) Kurama probably being the main one.

* Niche from ''[[Letter Bee]]'', as while her cuteness depends on who you ask, she certainly fills the monster and girl roles. And then there's {{spoiler|Niche's sister}}...

* {{spoiler|Miiru}} from the second volume of ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''. She is actually {{spoiler|a servant of Tenkou who became such because she and her brother were killed for [[Brother-Sister Incest|incest]] and wanted Tenkou's help to find a place where they could be happy}}. In the manga, her shadow is shown as a demon.

* Shia, from ''Pita-Ten'', is a demon/demon's apprentice (depending on whether you're reading the manga or watching the anime,) but she looks completely human and is also very, very, very cute. The males in canon all fawn for her and many develop actual feelings for her, as well. Although, another demon is also shown, Klaus, and he's also cute in a shoujo kind of way, himself.

* ''[[Ragnarok the Animation]]'' has Maya make friends with an "Alice" (a high-level humanoid monster). This is the impetus for explaining her [[Dark and Troubled Past]].

* The Seedrians from the third season of ''[[Sonic X]]'' are like this. The males are monsters that transform into Godzila-like creatures (and later become [[Transformers|Decepticon-like]] robots...for reasons that aren't thoroughly explained...), but the females are cute plant-girls, and Tails falls in love with one named Cosmo.

* Yuki-Onna/Tsurara from ''[[Nurarihyon no Mago]]''.

* ''[[Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?]]'' virtually every female introduced except Haruna a [[Magical Girl]] and the [[Those Two Girls|two girls]] who are [[Muggle]]s.

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose]]'' has many appearing throughout the series.

* ''[[Invincible]]'' has a heroine who transforms into a monstrous form. While the monster transformation isn't exactly cute, the actual girl {{spoiler|who is really older than she appears}} is

 

== Fan Works ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowsette Bowsette], a fan-made [[Distaff Counterpart]] of Bowser who became popular after the [[Memetic Mutation]] of a comic.

** Not to mention [https://kotaku.com/after-bowsette-fans-go-wild-for-boosette-1829322662 Boosette], a similar formula applied to King Boo, although some artists like to give her a lolling, Boo-like tongue and/or a [[Game Face]] that isn't all-too cute.

 

== Film ==

* The eponymous character of ''[[Deadgirl]]'' is pretty good-looking... although probably not dating material, given everything that happens after she's found.

* In the fifties film ''[[The Mole People]]'', a girl named Adad was born to a race of subterranean albinos, but has none of their features, and thus is hated and shunned by her folk. One of the archaeologists falls madly for her and promises to help her escape this hell with them. Sadly [[Downer Ending|Adad is killed by a falling pillar moments after she sees the surface world for the first time]].

 

== Literature ==

* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' books female Igors, known as Igorinas, are every bit as svelte and beautiful as their male counterparts are deformed, hunchbacked, and misshapen. Handwaved by the fact that Igors of both sexes are crazy-talented at all forms of surgery, including plastic, and as Igors are devoted followers of "tradithion" it is probably that male Igors remain ugly because male assistants to [[Mad Scientist]]s are ''supposed'' to be ugly, just as female assistants are meant to be beautiful.

* Asenath Waite from "The Thing on the Doorstep", part of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s fiction, ''might'' qualify, sort of. She's a Deep One hybrid from Innsmouth described as "dark, smallish and very good looking except for over-protuberant eyes." Unlike most of her brethren, she doesn't seem to perpetually smell like fish. The fact that Deep One ancestry often doesn't show up too much until you're 25 to 30 if you're a late-bloomer probably helped her, that and {{spoiler|the fact that her [[Evil Sorcerer]] father probably made arrangements so his [[Body Surf|current host body]] could interact with polite society long enough to find a more suitable one.}}

** The ''Shadow over Innsmouth''-based [[B-Movie]] ''[[Dagon]]'' throws in a Deep One Cute Monster Girl by way of [[Our Mermaids Are Different]]. They still get to play the initial reveal of her monstrous, octopoidal features for Horror somehow. This trope allows the movie to play a {{spoiler|romantic angle on the original [[Tomato in the Mirror]] ending}}, giving it minor justification.

* Used as a major plot device in the [[Neil Gaiman]] short story "Talking to Girls at Parties", where a bunch of attractive adolescent girls turn out to be odd extraterrestrial visitors.

* Subverted in the ''[[Codex Alera]]''. Her Imperial Bugginess the [[Hive Queen|Vord Queen]] ''tries'', but mostly just manages to [[Uncanny Valley|give everyone the creeps]] by combining a "[[Green-Skinned Space Babe|green]] [[White-Haired Pretty Girl|Kitai]] with [[Rapunzel Hair]]" look with a few too many insectile features and a frightening lack of understanding of human emotion.

* ''[[Sandman Slim]]'' has Candy, who is probably the bubbliest and most cheerful character in the series, despite being a [[Our Vampires Are Different|vimpire-esque killing machine called a Jade]]. Aside from a few slip ups, [[Vegetarian Vampire|she's trying to cut back]].

* Junapur, in ''[[Cerberon]]'', is described as quite beautiful despite her various nonhuman traits and imposing Amazon physique.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* Illyria from ''[[Angel]]''. An [[Eldritch Abomination]] trapped in a human corpse, basically her only non-human attributes (physically, at least) are blue lines on her face and blue streaks in her hair.

* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', though they all look human, the male reapers all look like balding old people that can keel over anytime, while female reapers are all at least conventionally attractive.

 

== Music ==

** The supplement ''Elder Evils'' has an inversion with the Hulks of Zoretha. The four female hulks resemble bulky, stony giants of no discernible gender. On the other hand the singular male, while roughly the same twenty feet in height as the female hulks, appears as a slender and beautiful winged humanoid if awakened.

** Medusas, [[Gorgeous Gorgon|unsurprisingly]], [[Zig-Zagging Trope|zigzag]] depending on the edition. Those in 1st edition were horribly ugly, 2nd edition made them very comely if you could look past the snake hair (without being [[Taken for Granite]]), 3rd edition kept the comely bodies but the effect was somewhat marred by the scales [[Butter Face|and a face that looked like a cross beween a viper and a hag]], and 4th edition seems to go for a middle-of-the-road approach. ''[[Pathfinder]]'' (aka [[Fan Nickname|D&D 3.75]]), meanwhile, takes the "playmate with mildly scaly skin and snakes for hair" road.

* Used to its fullest in the ''[[Talislanta]]'' game-setting with the [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism|Batrean race]], whose females are [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|green-haired space babes]] (except when they're ''[[Flip-Flop of God|blue]]''-haired) with [[Love Is in the Air|seductive pheromones]], and whose males are gangling hairy ogres. Technically also true of the singular race of Gnorls and Weirdlings, although not for the usual reasons: Although Gnorls (the females) look like someone's 80-year-old grandma, that's ''still'' prettier than their male counterparts, the Weirdlings (who look like anorexic Yodas in their skivvies).

* In ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'', a woman who has become a draconic Fairest is this by default, as Fairest are literally "the fairest of them all", and draconics have aspects of the Great Beasts of Faerie, such as [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|dragons]].

* Subverted in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' with Daemonettes of Slaanesh. While considered to be the pinnacle of beauty by anyone who views them, their true appearance is rather nasty (giant claws are a must) and the desire they exude is actually a relatively mild form of [[Mind Rape]].

* ''[[Malifaux]]'' gives us the Neverborn, a literal race of Nightmares, including Pandora and Lilith, the latter described as "the very image of woman that creation intended, the beautiful vision that haunts the dreams of men", the former only being on the verge of adulthood.

 

* Kate Monster from ''[[Avenue Q]]'' was going to have a lot of fuzz, similar to Trekkie Monster, but was shaved before production so she would look better with a male (and human) love interest.

* Magda in ''[[Tanz der Vampire]]'' becomes a gorgeous vampiress after she's bitten (though some actresses in the part do subvert this by applying some rather distorted makeup after she's been turned). In addition, sometimes female chorus vampires fall into this as well. {{spoiler|Sarah is one by the end of the show, without exception between actresses.}}

** Female orcs and trolls have perfect posture compared to their hunched-over male counterparts, with slimmer builds (though female orcs are still relatively muscular) and less pronounced tusks. While the NPC's in the game have a variety of appearances, character creation provides 1 conventionally attractive face option for both, jokingly known as "Cutefase" (sic). The vast majority of female orc/troll player characters have these faces. With orcs, it's particularly bad because they only have one non-barbaric hairstyle as well. Meaning if you want to make a "pretty" orc girl, you ''will'' end up with the same face and hair as everyone else.

** Male Naga are dragon-like snakemen, and females are rather attractive, mildly elven snake women [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous|(with four arms)]].

** Done again in ''Cataclysm'' with female worgen, who have eyeshadow, mascara, and [[Cat Smile]]s. Less obvious with female goblins, but still evident: while they closely resemble their male counterparts, they're still clearly designed to be prettier.

* ''[[StarCraft]]'' has the Zerg Queen of Blades, Sarah Kerrigan. For someone who's been infested by [[The Virus]] she's still smokin' hot.

* The Shura in the free MMO ''[[Dream of Mirror Online]]'' fit - the males are big hulking walls of flesh, with short, fleshy tails, and a (fleshy) horn on their forehead. The females are [[Catgirl|cat girls]].

* The Pixie species from ''[[Monster Rancher]]'' is an entire race of cute, impish girls with demon horns, wings, tails, and [[Cute Little Fangs]]. It's implied in some games that they are [[Always Female]], but the ''names'' bestowed on some Pixie NPC monsters seems to suggest that there are some males—they just look exactly the same as the females.

* Played straight in ''[[Gears of War]] 2'' to the surprise of pretty much everyone (including Delta squad, Cole saying: [[Lampshade Hanging|"I thought she was supposed to be butt ugly."]]), with {{spoiler|the Locust Queen}}, who appears almost exactly like a human woman (albeit wearing a squid on her back and a kinda grey skin tone).

** Similarly, the tiefling Valen of the ''Hordes of the Underdark'' expansion to the original ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' is another male example, being uncharacteristically attractive for a fiend.

** Neeshka. A tiefling rogue in ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'' with horns and (provided the game is updated) a tail. Considered by many fans to be the cutest girl in the game, Neeshka and a male main character is the [[Fan-Preferred Couple]] to such an extent that an add-on module has been released to reinstate her as a romance option, after it was cut during development due to time restraints.

** The [[Pig Man|Seeq]] avert this: the couple female Seeq NPCs look almost identical to male Seeq.

* In the first ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' game male Harmonixer Yuri Hyuga transforms into almost completely inhuman monstrosities when he fuses with a monster soul- he'll usually still have 2 arms and 2 legs (usually), but only Seraphic Radiance/Dark Seraphim looks even ''remotely'' human- and it still has eerie pale skin and giant black wings. On the other hand, in ''Shadow Hearts: From the New World'', hot female harmonixer Shania transforms into beautiful non-human creatures which are still ''abundantly'' female and wearing [[Stripperiffic|even less than she usually does]]. Yuri hits the middle ground, however, with his Level 1 Fusions in ''Shadow Hearts: Covenant'', which are generally attractive male non-human creatures wearing less than Yuri usually does.

* In ''[[Grandia II]]'', a large, ugly, ''male'' beastman named Marag joins your party early on. This isn't so bad until you visit his village later in the game and find out that, apparently, the rest of his species is comprised of cute and/or hot [[Catgirl|Cat Girls]].

** Similarly, from the original ''[[Grandia (video game)|Grandia]]'', a character named Milda joins your team. She's an older (beast)woman who, though not necessarily cute, has curves in all the right places and is marred only by having horns, sharp teeth, and a tufted tail. Eventually you reach the village where her tribe lives and get to see the men—all of whom are BIPEDAL COWS.

* ''[[Lust Grimm]]'' has many types of monster girls, all of which are technically succubi (even the ones normally classified as other types, like mermaids).

* Callie and Marie from ''[[Splatoon]]''. They look like [[Adorkable]] teen pop stars (and technically, they ''are'') and it's easy to forget that they're members of a species that evolved from ''squids''.

 

== Web Comics ==

** Female Goblins are drawn sexier than their male counterparts in several panels, especially when the male leads are fantasizing.

* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' parodies this in the Years of Yarncraft storyline, especially in [https://web.archive.org/web/20111225063519/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=080813 this strip].

* [[Discussed Trope|Mentioned occasionally]] in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''.

** [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040916.html "You 'member dem comics where da alien girls were all pretty an' stuff?" "Comic book artists don' get out much, I don' think."]

 

== Web Original ==

* The flash cartoon series ''Primal War'' is notorious/loved by teenage boys for its cartoony, monstrous males being drastically different to their more human-like and realistically proportioned females of both the beast and dino races.

* ''[[The Spider Cliff Mysteries]]'': Crystal (demon) and Annabelle (zombie).

* ''[[Felarya]]''. The world is essentially based on this trope. Almost all major characters are Cute Monster Girls - sweet, innocent, [[I Am a Humanitarian|and with an appetite for gulping down humans whole and alive]]. Felaryan Cute Monster Girls range from [[Snake People|nagas]] (giant snake-human hybrids) to [[drider]]s (giant spider-human hybrids), [[Our Mermaids Are Different|mermaids]], slug girls, and even adorable carnivorous fairies. Who, naturally, are [[Everything Trying to Kill You|all trying to eat you]]. Giant ''males'' are presumed to exist, but are rarely seen. Some species are [[One-Gender Race|One Gender Races]].

* ''[[Pokegirls]]'' is built on this.

* The art gallery of [https://web.archive.org/web/20131024174520/http://andersson.elfwood.com/ Fredrik K T Andersson] has plenty of cute and/or sexy monster girls.

* ''[[Monster High]]'' has a cast full of Cute Monster Girls (and one boy who both follows and inverts the tradition by being a cute male version of a female monster).

* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20120413212104/http://www.neomonsterisland.com/daikaijuacadamy/gallery.html Kaiju Girls], a sub-"series" of [[Twisted Kaiju Theater]] mostly consisting of female anthropomorphised kaiju of varying degrees of Safe-For-Work-ness (mostly Not).

* The waiter-zombie users play as in the iTunes app ''Zombies A La Mode'' is a cross between a rare cute monster ''guy'' and [[Ugly Cute]].

* [http://utau.wikia.com/wiki/Teto_Kasane Teto Kasane] the UTAUloid is a chimera with the appearance of a human girl with bat wings, and is often depicted with [[Cute Little Fangs]] depending on the artist. Depictions showing her wings are exceedingly rare, making this somewhat of an [[Informed Attribute]].

** These are called the [http://kirara--noyume.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-aprils-fool-3.html "My Life With X-chan"] i.e. English: " Living with Monster Girls (Slime-chan, spider-chan, harpy-chan, etc)" series. They were posted anonymously to the [http://monster-girl.homelinux.net Cute Monster Girl fansite] ('''[[Not Safe for Work]]'''). The [http://www.pixiv.net/index.php?id=267014 artist] has mentioned that he is planning on doing 8 of them (for the 8 reoccurring characters on the site and its forums), but recent additions to the lineup of regulars may affect this. Possible future updates include kappa-chan (a water-demoness), invisi-chan (an invisible girl wearing a theater mask, blond wig, and gloves), [[Drider]]-chan (drow/spider "centaur").

* There's a short (6-pages or so) hentai work in which the "Cute" Monster Girl's lower half was that of... ''something'' resembling a barnacle(?). She has tentacles and crab claws coming from under her skirt. The same artist (Dowman Sayman) did a manga called ''Toge Toge'', in which the girl has enormous clawed hands and finds a sick teenage boy passed out one day in her neck of the sewer. Things go well until, [[Downer Ending|well]]...

 

== Western Animation ==

* Marceline the Vampire Queen from ''[[Adventure Time]]'' may occasionally turn into a giant, monstrous bat or an amorphous mass of tentacles and darkness, but most of the time she's a tall, pale humanlike girl who's as sexy as the show's art style allows for.

* All of the female ''[[Gargoyles]]'' shown in the original TV series are sexy winged humanoids, except for Una, who resembles an anthropomorphic unicorn and is thus still "cute", while male gargoyles have many other types. However, the comic continuation eventually introduced Constance (Coco), a heavy-set female who resembles a wild sow, and Brooklyn's mate at the end of his Timedance, Katana, has a face that includes a beautiful beak.

* In the ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'' series we meet other members of Marvin the Martian's species for the first time. Seems that while the males are short and cartoony the females, particularly Queen Tyr'ahnee are, well, [http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs40/f/2009/010/5/0/Martian_Queen_by_SFToon.png this]. Then again, the male Martian General Z9 is tall and well-built, so it's possible that Marvin is just a midget among his people.

** One episode had the hero crash-land onto a planet made up of attractive bug-like women... until the sun goes down.

** A later episode introduced Cricket, a girl who's still pretty cute despite being green and having spines on her arms. {{spoiler|Later episodes reduce the amount of spines, make her figure fuller, and give her a cuter face.}}

* ''[[Martin Mystery]]'' has Diana becoming a half-lizard girl in the second part of the third season finale. The eponymous character even jokingly compliments that she's only a mini-mutant because her eyes changed and she has a tail.

* In ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'', Wasp becomes one when she's mutated by Gamma Radiation.

* {{spoiler|Lena Dupree}} from ''[[Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island]]'' is an... interesting variation. She's certainly [[Moe|cute]], and she's certainly a monster, but her monster form itself? NOT. CUTE.

** The movie about aliens near Area 51 {{spoiler|has an interesting example: turns out the cute native girl Shaggy had the hots for''(!)'' -and who seemed to share his feelings'''''(!!)'''''- was in fact a real (benevolent) alien; she looked somewhat like a metallic-skinned [[The Greys|Grey alien]], but with an attractive human bodyshape and expressive facial features. You kinda felt sorry that she had to leave Earth (and Shaggy) at the end -presumably never to return.}}

* ''[[Gumby]]'' is guilty of this one. Gumby has roughly the same slab-shaped body as his father, but his mother has a round head with blonde hair on a body that has breasts. [[Pantsless Males, Fully-Dressed Females|And she wears clothes]]. She's not cute by the standards of most entries on this page, but she's far more human-shaped than the rest of her family.

 

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