History Main / WhatMeasureIsAHumanoid

* This was more or less the entire premise of ''GuruGuruPonChan''.

* There are the homunculi from ''FullmetalAlchemist''.
* [[InuYasha 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 {{MoralityPet}} 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.

* The anime [[SoulEater 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.

* In ''[[TheTwelveKingdoms 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 KeikixYouko coupling. (Personally, this troper has never seen the chemistry, but there have certainly been less likely couplings.)

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** Another likely explanation is that wolves, like humans, have the potential to become sorcerers, who get functional immortality and VoluntaryShapeshifting 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 [[TortallUniverse Trickster duology]] written by TamoraPierce - 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.
* TerryPratchett, of course, plays with this in {{Discworld}}.

** 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}} 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 [[TheFairFolk Fairie Queen]] that goes much, much further from the typical form factor ''trying'' to {{squick}} her out.

* TankGirl gives us the relationship between the heroine and her [[KangaroosRepresentAustralia mutant kangaroo boyfriend]] Booga. He behaves pretty much like any human, and the issue of their InterspeciesRomance is rarely discussed.

** The same goes for Fou-Lu, the [[BigBad main antagonist]] of ''BreathOfFire'' 4, where there is a side story that shows a human girl falling in love with him. He's also a dragon.
** Ryu in ''BreathOfFire 2'' is the son of a dragon and a human man.

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* Inverted in BeautyAndTheBeast, although that one still gets lots of d'awwww....

* Numerous relationships between humans and aliens on ''StarTrek.'' Captain Kirk was famous for [[strike:fucking aliens]] "[[strike:going]] coming where no man has gone before".

** And copied on AffectionateParody ''GalaxyQuest'' with "Jane Doe", who is actually a tentacle monster.

* TankGirl gives us the relationship between the heroine and her [[EverythingsBetterWithKangaroos mutant kangaroo boyfriend]] Booga. He behaves pretty much like any human, and the issue of their InterspeciesRomance is rarely discussed.

* Fox maidens, usually malicious (EverythingsFoxierWithFoxes) are common in Chinese 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 KnightTemplar 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.
* This troper once heard of a South American legend about river dolphins that change into men so they can seduce women. Unexplained pregnancies? Hey, blame the dolphins. Who else could be responsible?

* Zeus in the Greek Myths, often changed into animals and seduced women, making this one of TheOldestOnesInTheBook. These relationships often produced children who were killed by his wife, Hera.
** For that matter, 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.''

* Pretty much all the relationships between owners and their persocoms in ''{{Chobits}}''.

* Chibi-Usa and Pegasus/Helios from ''SailorMoon''.

** Similarly, [[spoiler:Shima]] in ''{{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 TearJerker potential as possible.

* ''TheLastUnicorn'' is fully sentient in her original form, so it may not fully count. But in a poignant scene there's still a slight moment of {{squick}}/hilarity when Lir, who's in love with her as a human finds out who she really is and says "Unicorn, mermaid, sorceress, no name you could give her would surprise or frighten me. I love whom I love." Schmendrick says "Well, that's a very nice sentiment, but when I turn her back into her proper shape..." and Lir just repeats stonily: "I LOVE WHOM I LOVE."

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** For that matter, 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''.

* ''AdventureTime''. The fact that Finn is the ONLY seeming human in the world at the moment, coupled with that he's lusted after by a whole harem of weird princesses. Most notable relationships he's been associated with is him and Bubblegum (candy person) and Marceline (vampire/demon/human), though.

* Both subverted and played straight in {{Farscape}}. John's dad tells Aeryn outright that he isn't bothered by her relationship with John since he doesn't think of her as an alien. However, in the TV program they intercept from Earth later, there is quite a lot of debate over whether or not Aeryn is pregnant with John's child and how {{Squick}}y it would be if she was.

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* Anyone person that's in love with a werewolf in the {{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.

* Inverted in BeautyAndTheBeast, although that one still gets lots of d'awwww....

* 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.

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* Human girls being attracted to Vash from ''Trigun''. He's a [[spoiler: "plant" and isn't even the same species as them]], but that doesn't seem to deter them very much (mostly because they're unlikely to find out, what with one thing and another).

* It's very easy to forget that the lead OfficialCouple of the ''CodexAlera'' is technically an InterspeciesRomance, since Marat pretty much resemble humans with white hair, slanted eyes, and a higher body temperature.

*''BattlestarGalactica'' has more than a few [[strike:Humans frakking Toasters]] human-Cylon relationships.

**On the same note, HumanAlien Starfire and Nightwing in the TeenTitans, and several {{Green Lantern}}s.

* In TeenTitans, Starfire is an alien and Raven is half-demon. This doesn't stop Star from being in a relationship with Robin, or Raven from being shipped with other members of the Titans.