History Main / WhatMeasureIsAHumanoid

%%* Chibi-Usa and Pegasus/Helios from ''Franchise/SailorMoon''.
%%** Also, Luna and Kakeru from same.

** Inuyasha being a half youkai, had a human mother and a {{youkai}} father.
** While 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 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.

* Franchise/XMen: 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.

** It was definitely about scale, as "Cat of the Curse People" has human woman/male werepanther sex.

* Jim Butcher's ''[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Fool Moon]]'', in covering the range of OurWerewolvesAreDifferent, includes wolfweres (wolves that can take human form rather than the other way around). And one of them has a romantic relationship with a human who's cursed to turn into a wolf.

* Numerous relationships between humans and aliens on ''Franchise/StarTrek.'' Captain Kirk was famous for [[strike:fucking aliens]] "coming where no man has gone before".
** And copied on AffectionateParody ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' with "Jane Doe", who is actually a tentacle monster.
* Odo and Kira on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.

* The Doctor and Rose in ''Series/DoctorWho'', as well as the Doctor's numerous other flirtations with humans. Only Donna seems to have a problem with the whole 900-year-old alien thing.

* Similar to ''The Last Unicorn'' example above, ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' has [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]] ending up with a crush on a human named Flash Sentry after she goes through a magic mirror and ends up in an AlternateUniverse where all the characters are human. Interestingly, there's a pony!Flash Sentry, but there's barely any interaction between them.

This is where there's something romantic going on between a human and something that, for whatever reason, looks equally human but is actually nonhuman (LittleBitBeastly,[[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]], or [[LegoGenetics genetic engineering]]). The romance element can be anything from subtext to full blown relationships, and for some reason are never treated as if there's any reason why they should be {{squick}}y at all. In fact, in some cases, they actually come across as sweet and touching, and the dominant thought on the reader's mind is usually "awww," which probably wouldn't be the case if the nonhuman in question wasn't usually humanoid in appearance.

---> "You see, a yennork would go off and be a human or be a wolf but they'd still be carrying the werewolf...blood, and then they'd marry and have children...or pups...and, well, that's where the fairy-tale monsters come from. People with a ''bit'' of wolf and wolves with that extra capacity for violence that is so very human." She sighed, and glanced momentarily at Gavin.

This is where there's something romantic going on between a human and something that, for whatever reason, looks equally human but is actually nonhuman (not PettingZooPeople, just a nonhuman that spends most of the time [[VoluntaryShapeshifting looking human]]). The romance element can be anything from subtext to full blown relationships, and for some reason are never treated as if there's any reason why they should be {{squick}}y at all. In fact, in some cases, they actually come across as sweet and touching, and the dominant thought on the reader's mind is usually "awww," which probably wouldn't be the case if the nonhuman in question wasn't usually human-shaped.

See also some cases of InterspeciesRomance, {{Robosexual}}.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' did this right from the pilot. Between them the Halliwells have dated and in some cases married demons, half-demons, warlocks, angels, ghosts and god only knows what else.

!!Examples:

--> "You see, a yennork would go off and be a human or be a wolf but they'd still be carrying the werewolf...blood, and then they'd marry and have children...or pups...and, well, that's where the fairy-tale monsters come from. People with a ''bit'' of wolf and wolves with that extra capacity for violence that is so very human." She sighed, and glanced momentarily at Gavin.

--> '''Pheobe:''' "...which means I'm dating a warlock."
--> '''Paige:''' "Been there, done that."

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* Fox maidens, usually malicious (EverythingsFoxierWithFoxes) 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.

* Sora of ''VisualNovel/{{Ever17}}'' 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.

* Since familiars in ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' were originally animals such as cats or wolves, any case where a familiar exhibits feelings for a human and vice versa falls under this, such as the HoYay between [[WolfMan Arf]] and Fate, or [[CatGirl Lotte Lieze]] [[CoveredInKisses showing much affection towards]] Chrono.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': Finn is the only for-sure human in the world at the moment and lusted after by a whole harem of weird princesses. However, the only ones for whom serious romantic interest has been brought up are Bubblegum (candy person), Marceline (vampire/demon/human), and Flame Princess (fire person).

* ''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.

* Since familiars in ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' were originally animals such as cats or wolves, any case where a familiar exhibits feelings for a human and vice versa falls under this, such as the LesYay between [[WolfMan Arf]] and Fate, or [[CatGirl Lotte Lieze]] [[CoveredInKisses showing much affection towards]] Chrono.

* The robots in ''Anime/TimeOfEve'' suffer from this.
* ''LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf'' has this in spades.

* There was possibly one story, KryptoTheSuperdog turned into a human and formed a relationship with a woman.
* There was an ongoing plot involving Comet the Super-Horse. Comet was really a centaur called Biron who'd been cursed so that at any one time he had to be all horse or all man. And had a crush on Supergirl.
** Lesbian Comet is the ComicBook/PostCrisis version, who was a lesbian comedienne who'd combined with a male superhero with horse-DNA to form an [[OurAngelsAreDifferent 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.

* [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} 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.

%%* ''Anime/YesPreCure5''.

* Alan Moore once wrote a story about SwampThing's girlfriend noting that Lois and Superman have essentially the same relationship as they do.

* In ''TheTwelveKingdoms'' (both anime and novel) there's a fair bit of subtext between Rakushun and Youko...and Rakushun is a giant, vaguely humanoid rat (he's 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.

* Happens many times in ''DragonHalf''. Vina's mother (a slime) fell in love with the king (since his dumpy head sort of looked like a slime) and used a potion to turn human... except their daughter was born as a slime too, and then has to use magic to (temporarily) maintain a human form. Rouche the knight meanwhile fell in love with the dragon he was sent to slay, Mana, and eloped with her. (Humorously, although she can turn almost-human, he appears to have fallen for her in her ''dragon'' form...) Mink wants to become human too, even though she's almost completely human except her wings, tail and horns (and super-strength), but this is mainly because her love interest is an overzealous dragon slayer.

* The anime SoulEater 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.

** Lesbian Comet is the PostCrisis version, who was a lesbian comedienne who'd combined with a male superhero with horse-DNA to form an [[OurAngelsAreDifferent 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.

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

* A robot falls in love with the protagonist of DaCapo 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 {{Ever17}} 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.

This is where there's something romantic going on between a human and something that, for whatever reason, looks equally human but is actually nonhuman (not PettingZooPeople, just a nonhuman that spends most of the time [[VoluntaryShapeshifting looking human]]). The romance element can be anything from subtext to full blown relationships, and for some reason are never treated as if there's any reason why they should be {{squick}}y at all. In fact, in some cases, they actually come across as sweet and touching, and the dominant thought on the readers mind is usually "awww," which probably wouldn't be the case if the nonhuman in question wasn't usually human-shaped.

* ''{{Tsukihime}}'': because [[MemeticMutation "a cat is fine, too"]].

* A filler episode of ''TheSlayers'' has a man fall in love with a fish person. They want to find a potion that will 'allow them to live together', thinking this means that it will turn the fish-woman into a human woman. While this is true, it also turns the man into a fish-man. They are perfectly happy with this.

* ''SpiceAndWolf'' has this in spades.

** Another werewolf, Sergeant Angua, has a romantic relationship with Carrot, a human who thinks he's a dwarf. The books mention that relationships between humans and werewolves are usually extremely difficult, but they manage to make it work.

* The robots in ''EveNoJikan'' suffer from this.

* ''AngelTales'' (Tenshi no Shippo).
* ''Anime/YesPreCure5''.

* In ''HannaIsNotABoysName,'' [[JerkassWoobie Veser]] is the HalfHumanHybrid of a human and a selkie (see above). Going by the legend, though, she's not really a willing participant. Veser's ParentalSubstitute was also in love with her. It's a pretty dysfunctional family.
* In ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Princess Voluptua spends most of her time ''looking'' like a very sexy woman, and the UnresolvedSexualTension between her and Bob revolves around the fact that she's actually an absurdly long-lived giant alien ''insect.''

* Manga/InuYasha, being a half youkai, had a human mother and a youkai father.