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| 9 | ->''"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?"'' |
| 10 | -->-- '''Kiki''', ''Webcomic/GhastlysGhastlyComic'' |
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| 12 | This is what happens when you make love (in either sense of that phrase) with an EldritchAbomination, or a StarfishAlien doing a passable imitation of one. [[NaughtyTentacles Tentacles are a frequent feature.]] Can be played for sheer {{Squick}}, [[PlayedForHorror horror]], {{fanservice}}, [[PlayedForLaughs laughs]], or all of the above at the same time. In LovecraftLite works, they may well be an AdorableAbomination with genuine romantic chemistry with their mortal partner. In {{Cosmic Horror Stor|y}}ies, expect a lot more rapey or crazy cultist vibes to this trope. |
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| 14 | Might lead to {{Fetus|Terrible}}[=/=]EnfantTerrible. A common origin for the AntiAntichrist, able to switch sides as a representation of the human side, but just as likely to become a monster. |
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| 16 | Subtrope of UnequalPairing and InterspeciesRomance. Compare and contrast DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu, MarsNeedsWomen, BoldlyComing, and DivineDate. |
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| 19 | !!Examples |
| 20 | |
| 21 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 22 | |
| 23 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 24 | * In ''Manga/CrimsonSpell'', Prince Haldrigue is possessed by the King of Hell himself. Said King of Hell has lost all interest in wreaking havoc due to having fallen in love with Haldrigue's boyfriend, the mage Havi. |
| 25 | * The {{O|riginalVideoAnimation}}VA of ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld''. The Demon God destroyed the {{Precursors}}, brought ruin upon the land, and threatened to do the same to present-day El Hazard. Then she and the hero fell in love... |
| 26 | * In ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', the protagonist Mahiro did this by accident, having a certain ''je ne sais quoi'' that made Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos fall in LoveBeforeFirstSight with him. Most guys would kill to have a beautiful {{Otaku}} girlfriend who [[LovableSexManiac wants to have sex at every opportunity]],[[note]]something Nyarko [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] whenever he rejects her advances,[[/note]] but as a [[AscendedFanboy fan]] of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, Mahiro is horrified because he's well aware that Nyarlathotep has 999 other forms, most of which could destroy his sanity if he so much as caught a glimpse of them (and also just plain finds her [[ManicPixieDreamGirl personality]] annoying). Later novels show that Mahiro's warming to the idea, with outright confirmation by a third party that he ''is'' in love with Nyarko, even if [[CanNotSpitItOut he's not willing to admit it yet]]. [[spoiler:The series ends with them consummating their relationship, and Mahiro's screams imply that it's either horrifically painful, or Nyarko is just that enthusiastic in bed.]] |
| 27 | * ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'' has Ponyo's human father and sea goddess mother. Granmammare is the personification of the sea and all life therein. Even though she can take the form of a somewhat normal-sized human, it's still quite a lopsided match. |
| 28 | * Chiho Sasaki from ''Literature/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'' has this as her ultimate goal, although it's currently one-sided (Maou likes her as a friend and subordinate, but he isn't interested in a relationship). Maou might not be the biblical Satan, but he's still the king of demons and capable of attacks so powerful that the aftereffects are visible from orbit. The funny part is that being let in on the {{Masquerade}} was a relief to her since it meant that Emi wasn't his jealous ex-girlfriend. |
| 29 | * ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'' features a dubiously consensual one between fourteen year old [[spoiler:Yuna and the WorldTree, Shinju-sama]]. She must marry it and [[spoiler:more-or-less die or the world will end]]. |
| 30 | * This is the central premise of the manga [[https://mangastream.stream/ano-hito-no-i-ni-wa-boku-ga-tarinai ''Ano Hito no I ni wa Boku ga Tarinai'']] (''Her Appetite's Too Big for Me Alone''). Schoolboy meets sweet-but-gluttonous EldritchAbomination, they fall in love, and he joins her on her quest to consume other Eldritch Abominations. |
| 31 | * ''Manga/TheElderSisterLikeOne'' features a boy accidentally summoning Shub-Niggurath and [[DealWithTheDevil being offered a wish]]. Desperately lonely, he asks her to be his big sister, kicking off a [[LovecraftLite rather touching slice of life]] story... in [[SelfCensoredRelease the safe-for-work manga version]]. Their later relationship as portrayed in the original hentai doujins is a lot more [[BoldlyComing physical]] in nature. |
| 32 | [[/folder]] |
| 33 | |
| 34 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 35 | * ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFiendshipIsMagic #1'' reveals that [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic King Sombra]] is actually an EldritchAbomination LivingShadow from AnotherDimension... and once fell in love with a normal Unicorn mare. [[spoiler:It didn't end well for either of them.]] |
| 36 | ** However, both of them eventually return in ''Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue34To37'' and even manage to invoke [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding]]. |
| 37 | * In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' comics, Dawn infamously does just this in cover art. |
| 38 | * In the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' comics, Angel gets up to this with Illyria in Season 11. Then it's revealed in Season 12 that she still has access to her original form. |
| 39 | * Averted in ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', where the [[GodOfEvil Demon lord Trigon]] mated with human female Arella Roth. He raped her, mating only so she could give him a child that would serve as his portal to the real world, and she almost committed suicide after the act. The child grew up to become the [[DarkIsNotEvil superheroine Raven]], who then [[AntiAntiChrist focused on preventing her father from succeeding]]. Trigon himself is the offspring of TheDevil and a human woman (in AnotherDimension). |
| 40 | * Played straight, however, in the DC AlternateUniverse ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'', in which Trigon is an [[AdaptationalHeroism entirely good]] NatureSpirit and his relationship with Raven's mother was consensual and loving. |
| 41 | * Any of Dream's various romances in ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' could be construed as this; Dream's AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder, and since all of his seen relationships have been with human-looking women, they presumably see him (and, one assumes, ''feel'' him) as the handsome human man the reader sees. However, given his age, power, and nature as an AnthropomorphicPersonification this trope is applicable even with the goddess Calliope simply because his power is so far beyond hers, let alone the purely human Nada. Gods come from the minds of humanity and fade when humanity forgets them; the Endless simply ''are''. |
| 42 | * ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' is the son of a human witch/nun and a demon Prince of Sheol. After he had been conceived, Hellboy did not exist in the real world but was considered to be "a power waiting to be born." Some 300 years later he was summoned to earth as an infant and grew up to be the AntiAntiChrist. His parents really seemed to like each other even though his mother did not want to be the demon's bride at first. |
| 43 | * ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk and [[EldritchAbomination Umar]] once had a fling, [[BlackComedyRape if you can call it that]]. Then [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/prev_img.php?pid=9307&pg=3 she came back for seconds.]] |
| 44 | * ''ComicBook/EarthX'' posits that ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} was in love with the Phoenix Force rather than ComicBook/JeanGrey, which eventually resulted in her leaving him. There were probably other factors in their relationship breaking down however, such as the death of Professor X and Jean losing her telepathy which, given Scott’s poor social skills, would have severely hampered their ability to communicate. If you want to be shallow about it, the Phoenix Force takes the form of Jean as a gorgeous, physically perfect twenty-something while the actual Jean is middle-aged and has put on a lot of weight. |
| 45 | * Duncan's mom in ''ComicBook/{{Firebreather}}''. The first thing most people think when they show Duncan's [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction monstrous, 100-story-tall father]] is "How did that ''work''?" Duncan, however, [[ParentalSexualitySquick does]] ''[[ParentalSexualitySquick not]]'' [[ParentalSexualitySquick want to know]]. |
| 46 | * Nova, a former Herald of ComicBook/{{Galactus}} (not to be confused with [[ComicBook/{{Nova}} Richard Rider or Sam Alexander]]) had a crush on the PlanetEater. Unsurprisingly, it went nowhere. |
| 47 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Monstress}}'', it eventually turns out that the [[EldritchAbomination Monstra]] inside [[SharingABody Maika]] had once been in a relationship with an Arcanic. This Arcanic turns out to have been the Shaman Empress, and that the [[BadassFamily Halfwolf]] line descends from her, with the Monstra passed down through the bloodline. |
| 48 | [[/folder]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 51 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' fanfiction ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4061688/7/Feel_Good_Hit_of_the_Summer Feel Good Hit of the Summer]]'' had a character forced to do this to Ganondorf. |
| 52 | * In ''[[Fanfic/TheLifeIsAGameMultiverse Naruto: life is a Game]]'' when Naruto faces the Shinigami, he uses his dōjutsu to [[spoiler: suggest that ''she'' become female and join his harem.]] |
| 53 | * ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/9672/near-death-experience Near Death Experience]]'' is all about the protagonist having... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a near death experience]] before falling in love with the GrimReaper. |
| 54 | * ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fics: |
| 55 | ** ''Manga/MaidensIllusionaryFuneral'' depicts Yukari as a nightmarish void of darkness and eyes that is simply [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith masquerading in a human shape]], and has her develop a tragic, doomed romance with Yuyuko, who is (mostly) human at the time. |
| 56 | ** Played for horror in ''Fanfic/ImperfectMetamorphosis'' with [[HumanoidAbomination Yuuka]]'s [[DepravedBisexual "affections"]] towards Team 9 and several other characters. |
| 57 | * In the ''Anime/KillLaKill'' fic ''Fanfic/AMinorMiscalculation'', it's established that [[spoiler: [[BigBad Ragyo]]'s one true love is [[MonsterProgenitor the Original Life Fiber]], which she also worships and considers herself unworthy to touch. Her [[ParentalIncest sexual abuse]] of Satsuki and Nui is at least partly fueled by this.]] This is ''not at all'' portrayed sympathetically or romantically. |
| 58 | * In the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/CrucibleMassEffect Crucible]]'', there were two couples that, thanks to the non-mortal partner, also turn into two cases of EternalLove. The first happened in the ancient time, a turian named Makern married Herz who is a living incarnation of the star Trebia (yes, that star of the Trebia system). They had 4 sons who created the four big clans of the North (one of which is the Vakarian). |
| 59 | ** Later, it's revealed that there was a human woman who married Sam [[spoiler: Shepard]], who actually was Death that was temporarily sealed into a human form by Herz. They had only one child, [[spoiler: Jane]] before Sam died and returned to his true form but he later came back to take his wife's soul with him. |
| 60 | * Any [[Website/FourChan greentext]] written by a "[[PeripheryDemographic Brogre]]" will inevitably feature an eldritch version of Franchise/{{Shrek}} who, upon being summoned by children's prayers, shows up to gruesomely kill nonbelievers. These stories also always feature "shrexual" encounters between Shrek and his faithful underage worshipers. If you're ''[[SchmuckBait really]]'' curious, you can read some [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shrek-is-love-shrek-is-life here]], but be warned: these greentexts are ''definitely'' NotSafeForWork (and probably not safe for sanity either). |
| 61 | -->[[MemeticMutation Shrek is love, Shrek is life]] |
| 62 | * Website/{{Tumblr}}'s answer to the Brogres is the fan community dedicated to Pennywise, the eldritch MonsterClown from Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{It}}'', as depicted by Creator/BillSkarsgard in [[Film/It2017 the 2017 film adaptation]]. There's a ''[[RuleThirtyFour lot]]'' of Pennywise smut on Tumblr, as satirized in [[https://mooneie.tumblr.com/post/165815482669/new-member this]] (safe for work) cartoon. |
| 63 | * In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' fanfic ''Fanfic/WalkingInCircles'', we have Evelyn, a human mage and Solas, an Elven God. Solas fears the day she knows who and what he is but has tried to accept the fact that she may leave him upon knowing the truth. [[spoiler:She doesn’t care, in fact, it just makes her more worried ''for'' him, not ''of'' him]]. She does admit that it's pretty foolish for her to do so but she just can't bring herself to care. |
| 64 | * The ''{{WebAnimation/RWBY}}'' AlternateUniverse story by [[https://www.patreon.com/Coeur Coeur Al'Aran]] ''Fanfic/WhiteSheepRWBY'' is more or less a world where the main protagonist Jaune Arc is the son of the HumanoidAbomination Salem and his human Huntsman father, after she found out that she quite enjoyed their first time. |
| 65 | * In the ''Series/{{House}}'' fanfic "Invasion of the Cuddy Snatchers" House finds out he's been having sex with a shape-shifting alien who had been pretending to be Cuddy (and whose true form is never actually revealed); however, his reaction is "I've been having sex with an alien? Cool." |
| 66 | * In ''Fanfic/OurEternityTogether'', Mystic's the target of the Cursed God's affections. The Cursed God is an eldritch abomination. The exact reasons as to why seem to vary throughout the series. |
| 67 | * ''Fanfic/HarryAndTheShipgirls'': |
| 68 | ** Gregory Goyle is currently in a relationship with Brigita Dunsany, a shoggoth. |
| 69 | ** Harry's great-great-grandfather, Ian Potter, got into relationships with multiple {{Yokai}}. |
| 70 | ** The Potters have their own version of ''Literature/TheTalesOfBeedleTheBard'', and their copy of the Tale of the Three Brothers indicates that Ignotus Peverell and Death were lovers instead of the friends that the more commonly used version depicted them as. |
| 71 | [[/folder]] |
| 72 | |
| 73 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 74 | * In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTeenTitans'' Raven's mother was part of a cult that summoned a demon, Trigon. She immediately proceeded to have sex with Trigon, (he was in human form at the time; at least, he was when they started) which led to Raven's birth. |
| 75 | [[/folder]] |
| 76 | |
| 77 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 78 | * In ''Film/{{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 [[BrotherSisterIncest his sister, and also his destined bride.]] ]] While featuring a village full of otherworldly interbreeding, this one gets super-bonus-points for being based (albeit very loosely) on [[Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth a Lovecraft story.]] |
| 79 | * In ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', Davy Jones fell in love with Calypso, the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the sea. He hates and loves her due to her fickle nature, which leads him to cut out his own heart to escape the conflicting emotions. Sao Feng aspired to this trope, having fallen in love with the sea and thus Calypso. |
| 80 | * The film ''Film/{{Spring}}'' can be considered a Lovecraftian romantic comedy, as weird as it sounds. The plot is about a guy that travels to Italy to forget the TraumaCongaLine he was going through and then falls in love with a gorgeous Italian girl...that's secretly an EldritchAbomination who has been alive since the Roman empire. |
| 81 | * In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', Peter Quill discovers that he's the offspring of a human and [[spoiler: Ego the Living Planet]], who conceived him in a humanoid body with his mother. He also learns that he's [[spoiler: the first such offspring of a union who also developed a spark of Celestial power, with all of the other offspring of such unions not having that power and ending up being killed by Ego]], and that [[spoiler: his mother's cancer]] was caused by [[spoiler: Ego]] when he realized [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove he was falling in love with Peter's mother]] and that [[LoveIsAWeakness these feelings were endangering his grand plan]]. |
| 82 | * ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'' can be read this way, as the movie's romantic hero may well be one of the [[FishPeople Deep Ones]] from Lovecraft's own ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth''. The film itself has the characters speculating that [[DivineDate he's an actual god]], despite his present wretched state. |
| 83 | [[/folder]] |
| 84 | |
| 85 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 86 | * Franchise/CthulhuMythos: |
| 87 | ** "Literature/TheDunwichHorror". [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yog-Sothoth Yog-Sothoth]] has sex with a human woman and produces the offspring who will be known as Wilbur Whateley. It's hinted that her elderly father was acting as the, er, ''vessel'' for Yog at the time. |
| 88 | ** 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.]] |
| 89 | ** Played with Ramsey Campbell's "The Faces At Pine Dunes". The protagonist and his girlfriend investigate his parents' strange behavior. [[spoiler: His father is a Human[=/=]EldritchAbomination hybrid, and so is the protagonist.]] |
| 90 | ** PlayedForLaughs in Creator/EstherFriesner's "The Beau and the Beast". TheProtagonist is supposed to be sacrificed to [[InsistentTerminology Lord]] Cthulhu but instead they run away to Gretna Green to get married. |
| 91 | * "The Dunwich Horror" was inspired by Arthur Machen's ''Literature/TheGreatGodPan'', which also features sex (or ''some'' kind of mating) between a human woman and an EldritchAbomination. The resulting daughter is an eerily beautiful HumanoidAbomination whose unspeakable acts (strongly implied to be sexual in nature) lead to madness and suicide. |
| 92 | * Done as part of a DealWithTheDevil in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' [[spoiler:when Harry takes up the mantle of the Winter Knight. Harry states that it wasn't sex, no matter what it looked like. You can't have sex with a hurricane, or make love to a storm.]] Nonetheless, he is still incredibly embarrassed when he realizes that [[spoiler:Queen Mab essentially transmitted the entire act to every water surface in all of the lands Winter.]] |
| 93 | * In the ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' story ''The Scarlet Citadel'', it is mentioned that the evil sorcerer Tsotha-Lanti is the offspring of a dancing girl from Shadizar who slept too close to some haunted ruins and awoke in the grasp of a black demon. From that unholy union, Tsotha-Lanti was born. |
| 94 | * ''Franchise/{{Star Wars|ExpandedUniverse}}: Literature/FateOfTheJedi'': Luke has an ''encounter'' with [[SealedEvilInACan Abeloth]]. [[spoiler:She ''impersonates each of his previous girlfriends'' and then [[{{Yandere}} sets out to kill the ones that are still alive]]]]. Loving a Skywalker can be so complicated. |
| 95 | * ''Literature/InheritanceTrilogy'' has a romance between the human Yeine, and the god Nahadoth, the firstborn of the Three Gods. Nahadoth is not described as a human with powers (like some mythologies do) but as something entirely different than humans, with its own unfathomable motives. And yes, it includes (consensual) NaughtyTentacles. |
| 96 | * Appears in several works by Creator/NeilGaiman: |
| 97 | ** In ''Literature/AmericanGods'' Shadow, the main character, catches the smitten eye of the Egyptian Cat Goddess, Bastet. It doesn't amount to much more than a one-night stand and some minor flirting though. [[spoiler:The implications of the trope are minimized when you learn that Shadow is in fact Baldr.]] |
| 98 | ** "Literature/AStudyInEmerald" has Queen Victoria (reimagined as an EldritchAbomination) and her human "consort" Prince Albert. Also Prince Franz Drago of Bohemia (another EldritchAbomination) is said to have frequented brothels, and he ends up dying after [[spoiler:Sherlock Holmes lures him to his death with the offer of a virgin kidnapped from a convent.]] |
| 99 | ** In "Literature/HowToTalkToGirlsAtParties" the narrator ends up at the wrong party with his friend, flirts with girls who turn out to be {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of planets, and is almost consumed by hearing a song from one of them. His friend tries to make out with a ''sun'' and inadvertently pisses her off, and the narrator never hears from him again. |
| 100 | ** In ''Literature/TheOceanAtTheEndOfTheLane'' an EldritchAbomination disguised as a human woman seduces and makes love with [[spoiler: the narrator's father]]. |
| 101 | * ''Literature/{{Awoken}}'', a work that revels in [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerating]] the tropes found in ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]''-like teen ParanormalRomance, has its ordinary female protagonist fall in love with ''Cthulhu''. A Cthulhu who can take on the form of a gorgeous teenage boy, but still an amoral and murderous Cthulhu. |
| 102 | * The main premise of ''Literature/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'' is that the main character Kyousuke has managed to attract the attention of [[spoiler:the White Queen, the most powerful being in the setting. It's completely one-sided, as she's a {{Yandere}} EldritchAbomination who considers inflicting suffering on him to be romantic. However, it's later revealed that he originally reciprocated her feelings, and only broke it off with her after a chain of events caused her to become evil]]. |
| 103 | * While not exactly {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'' has a lot of human/AnthropomorphicPersonification pairings: [[spoiler:Time met a man and had a/two son/s--it's complicated]], War and a Valkyrie (in another book we see their children: Fear, Terror, and Clancy), two humans with truly bizarre parentage (one is [[spoiler:the son of a human and Time]], the other is Death's adoptive granddaughter) and a short-lived ShipTease between a man ([[spoiler:well, son of a human and Time, and technically the same as the previous one]]) and an Auditor who incarnated as a female. |
| 104 | * ''Literature/TheOneWhoEatsMonsters'': Ryn is an elder monster from the black places and the Long Ago, a being of wind and shadow, whose claws can kill anything that can die and a few things that cannot, and she ends up falling in love with Naomi Bradford, your average teenage girl. |
| 105 | * Part of the point of the anthology ''Eldritch Embraces'', with some stories about this very subject, and others are about couples in a CosmicHorrorStory setting. The first story in the anthology, "When the Stars Are Right", seems like a normal QueerRomance between the narrator and a Russian man, until it's revealed [[spoiler: the narrator is the Crawling Chaos, Nyarlathotep, in human guise. The story ends with Nyarlathotep bringing his lover back to life after he's sacrificed, and [[WeCanRuleTogether asking his lover to rule earth alongside him, which his lover accepts]].]] |
| 106 | [[/folder]] |
| 107 | |
| 108 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 109 | * In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', only [[WeirdnessMagnet Chloe Sullivan]] could get involved with [[spoiler:''Doomsday''.]] |
| 110 | * Creator/{{Elvira|MistressOfTheDark}} denies that she worships the Devil, but admits that she [[DivineDate dated him once.]] |
| 111 | * While the TARDIS from ''Series/DoctorWho'' is not eldritch in a negative or scary sense, she is undoubtedly one of the most powerful and bizarre entities on the show. She's a pandimensional GeniusLoci in the form of a blue police box with an infinite PocketDimension on the inside, and she exists simultaneously at every point in time and space. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife "The Doctor's Wife"]] (written by Creator/NeilGaiman--see the Literature section above), when she briefly possesses a woman's body and comes face-to-face with the Doctor... epic flirting ensues, with the heavy implication that the Doctor wasn't aware they've always been in a relationship. It doesn't go any further than flirting, though. (At another point in the episode, the TARDIS flirts with [[UnfazedEveryman Rory]].) |
| 112 | -->'''The Doctor:''' Do you have a name?\ |
| 113 | '''Human TARDIS:''' Seven hundred years and finally he asks.\ |
| 114 | '''The Doctor:''' What do I call you?\ |
| 115 | '''Human TARDIS:''' I think you call me... Sexy.\ |
| 116 | '''The Doctor:''' Only when we're alone.\ |
| 117 | '''Human TARDIS:''' We ''are'' alone.\ |
| 118 | '''The Doctor:''' Oh. Come on then, Sexy. |
| 119 | * In ''Series/{{Angel}}'' season 5, ''something'' develops between [[TookALevelInBadass Wesley]] and [[HumanoidAbomination Illyria]], mostly because she reminds him of Fred, and much angst ensues when she impersonates her. It isn't clear until the series finale that [[spoiler:Illyria returned his affections, as evidenced by her compassion and grief at Wesley's death]]. |
| 120 | * In season 11 of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', a spontaneous, quasi-romantic connection develops between Dean and the Darkness, apparently due to the fact that he [[spoiler:was the bearer of the Mark of Cain, the lifting of which unleashed her]]. This leads Dean to have [[UnresolvedSexualTension UST]] with a [[DestroyerDeity primordial force of destruction]] who turns out to be ''[[spoiler:God’s frickin’ sister]]''. Of course, his brother Sam [[InterspeciesRomance has already banged both a demon and a werewolf]] at this point, but that’s relatively mundane for this series. Obviously, she appears to him in the form of a very attractive woman. |
| 121 | ** Dean also had a romance with the FallenAngel Anna, who had an attractive human form but has an EldritchAbomination true form, and he spent twelve seasons generating HoYay with an angel who has a male vessel, Castiel. In fact, his involvement with Amara comes off as a LoveTriangle with Castiel. |
| 122 | [[/folder]] |
| 123 | |
| 124 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 125 | * The song "Width of a Circle" by Music/DavidBowie describes a consensual encounter with some sort of EldritchAbomination. Remember, kids, DrugsAreBad! |
| 126 | * Norm Sherman's "Heartache Over Innsmouth", which is just what it sounds like. |
| 127 | * The music video for "Peacebone" by the experimental rock group Music/AnimalCollective shows a blossoming romance between a human woman and... something else. |
| 128 | * The music video for "Starry Eyed" by Music/EllieGoulding reveals that her boyfriend has a CelestialBody, which certainly explains the fantastical elements in the video. |
| 129 | * Music/LemonDemon's song "No-Eyed Girl" is about falling in love with a girl made of {{Antimatter}} from a realm [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm incomprehensible to humans.]] |
| 130 | -->''Knowing what we know\ |
| 131 | Knowing we do not know\ |
| 132 | This is gonna change our world\ |
| 133 | [[GoMadFromTheRevelation I might go insane]]\ |
| 134 | If I learn your full name\ |
| 135 | If you'd be my no-eyed girl'' |
| 136 | * "Jolene, A Cautionary Tale" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwRVU8YjGH0&list=PL_RYcgJkFA2BXnAlA3RMkuNcM2pVAGl-m&index=44]] by Pip King is a re-imagining of the Music/DollyParton song "Jolene" -- in the original, the singer was begging the beautiful Jolene to not seduce her lover, whereas this version has the singer telling of Jolene's [[HumanoidAbomination captivating beauty,]] horrible eldritch capabilities, and how she's been terrorizing the town with her immense powers. She begs Jolene to not take her man away, presumably to to eat him, and ultimately resolves that if she tries to take him, she'll go after Jolene herself in revenge. In the second installment, "Jolene Part 2 (Take Me Instead)" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RtIP_2H5Gc&list=PL_RYcgJkFA2BXnAlA3RMkuNcM2pVAGl-m&index=45]] we hear the singer again describing Jolene's unfathomable power and bewitching features, and she now asks to be taken in the man's place, but as she begins to wax poetic about how she's been dreaming of "lying bare" beneath her "unblinking, countless eyes" and how she longs to be held in her embrace, she invokes TakeMeInstead verbatim, but only to mean that she now wants Jolene to forget her man because she wants the two of them to be together. |
| 137 | * The FilkSong [[https://youtu.be/ljU3ZWydUG4 "My Apologies To H.P. Lovecraft (I Fucked Cthulhu)"]] is pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin -- the singer picked up the Necronomicon, summoned Cthulhu, and had sex with him. |
| 138 | [[/folder]] |
| 139 | |
| 140 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 141 | * In some versions of Myth/ArthurianLegend, Myth/{{Merlin}} was a ChildByRape when a demon (possibly even {{Satan}} himself) defiled a mortal woman. Fortunately, the woman in question had her child baptised as soon as he was born. This cleansed the evil presence from Merlin but still let him keep his nifty magical powers, so he became an AntiAntichrist and decided to help [[Myth/KingArthur some guy]] become the King of UsefulNotes/{{Britain}}. |
| 142 | * Literature/TheBible has the {{Nephilim}}, which are the product of [[HalfHumanHybrid angels falling for and lusting after human women.]] Seems like standard InterspeciesRomance, until you read the Literature/BookOfEzekiel and realize [[AngelicAbomination angels are far from "pretty boys with wings"]] (although they likely took human form during their affairs with mortal women). |
| 143 | [[/folder]] |
| 144 | |
| 145 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 146 | * Taako, an elven wizard from ''Podcast/TheAdventureZone'' ends up in a committed relationship with [[spoiler: Kravitz, AKA the GrimReaper]], an undead being who [[spoiler: has the task of taking wayward souls to the afterlife]], can rip holes in reality, and can turn from a handsome man in a suit into a robed skeleton with glowing, red eyes at will. Taako is very into the latter. |
| 147 | * ''Podcast/AintSlayedNobody'': In the final two episodes, [[spoiler:Kate -- whose mind was swapped with a Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath -- behaves very affectionately towards Johnny, calling him pet names like her "little twig". Johnny even makes a TwerpSweating joke, asking if Kate's mother -- the [[EldritchAbomination Outer God]] Shub-Niggurath -- would approve, but it flies over Kate's tentacles and she bluntly replies that Shub-Niggurath couldn't care less]]. |
| 148 | [[/folder]] |
| 149 | |
| 150 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 151 | * ''Radio/QuietPlease1947'': The most famous episode, "The Thing on the Fourble Board", ends with this, revealing that the narrator's wife "Mike" is actually the EldritchAbomination that he pulled out of the ground. |
| 152 | [[/folder]] |
| 153 | |
| 154 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 155 | * ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'': |
| 156 | ** Yog-Sothoth can mate with human females, creating the Spawn of Yog-Sothoth. |
| 157 | *** Lesser Great Old One Nyogtha can also breed Spawn with humans. |
| 158 | ** ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' campaign. A woman named Hypatia Masters apparently mated with a Great Old One (she became pregnant and had its child). |
| 159 | ** Supplement ''The Fungi from Yuggoth'', adventure "The Thing in the Well". After donning a pair of magical glasses a woman is raped by an other-dimensional monster and becomes pregnant with its child. |
| 160 | ** The ''Cthulhu Now'' adventure "Love's Lonely Children" adventure features a couple who are Y'Golonac cultists. Y'Golonac is the Mythos entity of {{Squick}} incarnate. The husband is possessed and bodily transforms into Y'Golonac, while his wife... worships. [[TheAristocrats And they got their daughter involved in it, too...]] |
| 161 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': |
| 162 | ** In one of the [[FanonDiscontinuity 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. |
| 163 | *** The Ebon Dragon is stated to only have one Jouten because he would [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betray himself]]. The form he uses: [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever A several miles long oriental dragon made of darkness]] |
| 164 | ** 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 (three were normal human children, while the other four shed their mortal bodies when they reached maturity and became living winds like their mother). |
| 165 | ** The god[[GenderBender (dess)]] 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 gods (although Luna, while typically humanoid, [[VoluntaryShapeshifting can take some pretty eldritch forms herself]], so the line between regular romance and romancing Cthulhu is a bit blurred). |
| 166 | ** TheFairFolk are vortices of chaotic energy pretending to be people, and half-fae are a well-established bit of setting lore. |
| 167 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': |
| 168 | ** The "[[EldritchAbomination aberrant]]" [[VillainousLineage bloodline]]—-which eventually turns your character into a HumanoidAbomination-—implies something like this in a [[MageSpecies sorcerer's]] ancestry. |
| 169 | ** The 4th bestiary includes the Spawn of Yog-Sothoth mentioned above as a monster-type and notes that some of Yog-Sothoth's half-mortal children take more after their humanoid parents, becoming aberrant bloodline sorcerers instead. A later adventure gives stats for the Scion of Yog-Sothoth which is like the spawn but can pass for humanoid (assuming they conceal their tentacles). |
| 170 | * This is practically the point of ''TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}'', which has many mechanics for humans mating with demons, abominations, and the like. ''FATAL'' being, well, ''FATAL'', most of these matings are non-consensual. |
| 171 | * In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' this is the standard backstory of half-dragons, half-demons, half-celestials, planetouched and the like. Special credit goes to the Half-Farspawn, birthed when unknowable horrors [[AngelsDevilsAndSquid beyond Good, Evil, and the Multiverse itself]] breach the walls of reality to land some sweet cultist nookie. |
| 172 | * Daemons of Chaos in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' are sentient (and sometimes even sapient) agglomerations of mortal emotion from a parallel dimension known as the Warp, and while their hunger for extreme emotions of their particular aspect means that their interactions with the real world are usually hostile and destructive, there have been some mortals who've been brave or foolish enough to attempt more... cordial relations with them. In particular, the daemons of Slaanesh, the Chaos God of pleasure and excess, are always down for a bit of fun and games, consensual or otherwise, although there's no guarantee that it'll be fun or even physically and mentally survivable for even the toughest, best-prepared, and most open-minded prospective partner. |
| 173 | [[/folder]] |
| 174 | |
| 175 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 176 | * ''Roleplay/TheLightofOurSolus'': The protagonist, Mordin, is the eldritch abomination, and he falls completely head over heels for [[spoiler: Ruby Rose.]] |
| 177 | [[/folder]] |
| 178 | |
| 179 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 180 | * ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'' has Skadi the Corrupting Heart [[spoiler:as a BadFuture Skadi that succumbed to the influence of her Seaborn blood and awakened as the Seaborn God Ishar-mla.]] She is very interested in trying to get [[PlayerCharacter the Doctor]] to join her beneath the sea, and a scenario in "Mizuki & Caerula Arbor" shows [[spoiler:Ishar-mla]] sparing the Doctor due to Skadi's feelings for them. |
| 181 | * ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' ''II: Project Origin'' [[ItWasHisSled infamously]] has [[spoiler:Alma, being the StalkerWithACrush to tough soldier Sgt. Becket throughout the game, subvert this in the ending when she finally traps him in the Amplifier and ''rapes'' him (possibly using the dead/dying body of Keira Stokes to do the physical part of the deed). One of the scariest and most disturbing moments in a game with a lot of disturbing imagery before.]] |
| 182 | * ''VideoGame/CthulhuSavesTheWorld''. Umi falls in love with Cthulhu 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.]] |
| 183 | * In the good ending of ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 2|Cursed Memories}}'' Adell delivers a [[CooldownHug Cooldown Kiss]] to [[spoiler:Zenon, God of all Overlords.]] It works because their BelligerentSexualTension kept increasing as they traveled together, and it's implied that they eventually made the relationship official. By the time of their cameos in the later games of the franchise, most characters who summon them into the new game [[SickeningSweethearts assume they're married]]. |
| 184 | * ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'': |
| 185 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona3'': |
| 186 | *** In ''[[UpdatedRerelease Portable]]'' on the Female Main Character's route, you're given the chance to initiate a romantic S.Link with [[spoiler:Ryoji Mochizuki, the human form of Nyx Avatar]]. That is, you can make [[spoiler:the personification of Death itself]] fall in love with you. |
| 187 | *** While it's not an official social link, a male main character is asked to show Elizabeth what sex is like during their last outing. The female main character can similarly win the affection of, and have an OptionalSexualEncounter 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 {{Superboss}}es they are just as if not more powerful than the above-mentioned character. |
| 188 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona4'': |
| 189 | *** You can fulfill the requests of the big sister of the aforementioned Elizabeth and Theodore, Margaret. If you do, her comments toward you become more and more flirty and, if you finished them all, she will steal a kiss towards the end of the game and tease you about meeting again in the future. |
| 190 | *** [[spoiler:Marie]] in ''[[UpdatedRerelease Golden]]'' is a bona fide romantic social link and [[spoiler:an alter ego of the Japanese goddess Izanami, the former mate of the Japanese god Izanagi (who, incidentally, is ''your'' alter ego)]]. |
| 191 | * In ''VideoGame/TheBardsTale'', you're unknowingly [[spoiler:setting free (or not) a Demon Queen. You guessed it, Caleigh]]. Though she does keep her promise to you. |
| 192 | * ''Franchise/DragonAge'': |
| 193 | ** One of the [[RomanceSidequest potential love interests]] in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' is an Abomination, a human who has been possessed by spirits/demons. Several characters discuss and lampshade the squickier aspects of the relationship. (This means that every intimate encounter Hawke shares with his/her Abomination LoveInterest is technically a threesome.) |
| 194 | ** PlayedForLaughs in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' when Blackwall asks local Fade expert [[HermitGuru Solas]] if he's ever been intimate with a [[OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous Fade spirit]]. Solas grows flustered and insists that [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial nothing in the Fade is ever simple]], but seeing as he never actually ''denies'' the accusation... |
| 195 | *** A female elven Inquisitor romancing [[spoiler:Solas]] is unwittingly engaging in this, as [[spoiler:he is really Fen'Harel, who can be compared to Loki in his role in elven mythology]]. |
| 196 | * In ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', Adria [[spoiler:conceived Leah with Aidan while he was possessed by Diablo]], and she knew it. ''Adria had consensual sex with [[spoiler:the Lord of Terror''.]] |
| 197 | * ''VideoGame/{{Helltaker}}'' revolves around a man who decides he wants a harem of demon girls and manages to win over several including [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] herself. |
| 198 | * In ''[[VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2 Mask of the Betrayer]]'', you play as a soul-eating abomination whose mere existence poses a threat to those around you. This does not stop you from getting a RomanceSidequest. |
| 199 | * In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', a Male Avatar can marry [[PersonOfMassDestruction Tiki]], who was put to sleep by Naga to keep her from degenerating into madness, which would destroy the world. Furthermore, all of [[spoiler:the Avatar's romance options boil down to "Did You Just Romance The Avatar of Grima?" The latter is downplayed as Avatar is basically a normal human when not [[DemonicPossession possessed]] by Grima]]. |
| 200 | * Justified in the "good" ending of ''VideoGame/{{Eversion}}'': [[spoiler:Princess Nehema is revealed as an EldritchAbomination in the bad ending, but in the good ending Zee Tee is one too.]] |
| 201 | * You can cause this in ''[[VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}} Super Scribblenauts]]'' and ''Scribblenauts Unlimited'' by summoning Romantic Cthulhu and Romantic [Anything Else]. |
| 202 | * In the backstory of ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'', the hero Riggnarok and the Demon Emperor Succoria traveled to the future (Eddie's time). Succoria had a VillainousBSOD when she saw that humanity was the dominant species and the Tainted Coil was extinct, meaning her people were destined to lose. Riggnarok pitied her and decided to care for her instead of slaying her. Eventually, they fell in love. Sadly, Succoria died in childbirth, and Riggnarok raised their son [[spoiler:Eddie Riggs]] by himself. Assuming [[spoiler:Eddie's demonic form]] takes after his mother, Succoria looked every bit as monstrous as the rest of the Tainted Coil when she and Riggnarok kindled a romance. |
| 203 | * [[ZigZaggingTrope Several takes on this]] appear in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII''. The Children of Dark are a group of [[HumanoidAbomination women]] born from the fragments of [[TheCorrupter Manus, Father of the Abyss.]] Their mission is to find great kings, seduce them to become queens, then topple the kingdom from the inside out to help usher in the Age of Dark. One ([[spoiler:Nashandra]]) succeeded and set a plan in motion to extinguish the First Flame so dark could rule forever. Another ([[spoiler:Elana]]) also brought down her kingdom but was content to bide her time and grow stronger. The third ([[spoiler:Nadalia]]) arrived at an already-fallen kingdom whose king had managed to [[{{Pun}} royally]] screw things up all by himself, and [[GoMadFromTheIsolation went mad from her loneliness and failure]], killing herself and leaving pieces of her soul in [[SoulJar various idols]]. The last ([[spoiler:Alsanna]]) truly [[InLoveWithTheMark fell in love with her king]], and [[LoveRedeems decided to pull a]] HeelFaceTurn to help him fight the army of demons his kingdom faced. |
| 204 | * ''VideoGame/AHouseOfManyDoors'' gives you the option to woo a sentient murder of ten million conjoined crows by feeding them the corpse of a god. You can also pursue a romance with an oil rig. |
| 205 | [[/folder]] |
| 206 | |
| 207 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 208 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Cupid}}'': [[spoiler:Guilleme]] turns into a strange demigod monster halfway through sex with [[spoiler:Catherine]]. |
| 209 | * In ''VisualNovel/DraKoi'' the protagonist starts a relationship with a dragon that is along the lines of an eldritch abomination: It casually breaks the laws of physics and is hinted to spread madness. |
| 210 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}}'' has quite a lot of this going around. First, Al Azif, aka the ''Necronomicon'', is romanceable. [[spoiler:The sequel reveals that, in at least one universe, the protagonist and she had children... don't ask how that works.]] One of the main antagonists, Master Therion, is the result of another: [[spoiler:he's the offspring of one of the most powerful sorceresses to ever live... and Yog-Sothoth]]. It is also possible to trigger sex scenes with such beings as Atlach-Nacha, Cthugha, Ithaqua, and [[spoiler:Nyarlathotep]]. |
| 211 | * ''VisualNovel/DoNotTakeThisCatHome'' has a (presumably) non-romantic variant. [[AnimalisticAbomination The Cat]] genuinely loves you, and wants to be with you forever. This doesn't go well for you -- [[spoiler: however much the Cat loves you, it's still a cruel, controlling, obsessive monster, and its "generosity" is essentially constant torture.]] |
| 212 | * ''VisualNovel/MayITakeYourOrder'': Hendrik has been dating the pain-consuming Talaiporia for hundreds of years, with full knowledge that she is an eldritch monster. |
| 213 | * In ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'' the Player Character can unlock a secret ending where they take EldritchAbomination Z'gord to prom, inspiring her to live as a high-school girl named Zoe. The ''Second Term'' DLC adds Zoe as a normal (and often dorky) romantic option. |
| 214 | ** Player character Oz is an AnthropomorphicPersonification of fears and nightmares, so playing any route as him/them is this trope. |
| 215 | * ''VisualNovel/RagingLoop'': The second joke ending (which is only possible to access in NewGamePlus mode) leads to main character Haruaki attempting to romance [[spoiler:the Tsuchigumo of Dreams, a country-sized EldritchAbomination driven by the mind of Rikako Uematsu, for no other reason than for completion's sake and to give Rikako her good ending. While both of them acknowledge the [[BreakingTheFourthWall timeline isn't final]], she nonetheless appreciates the gesture.]] |
| 216 | * ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'' has a particularly disturbing example, as [[spoiler:the story is about the main character (unknowingly) romancing one of these. He suffers from a condition that causes him to view everything as [[SceneryGorn gore-drenched]] {{Eldritch Location}}s and everyone as {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, which is why Saya, who herself is an actual EldritchAbomination, was the only one to look normal in his eyes. It's also an extremely dark example, as his use of Saya as a LivingEmotionalCrutch can eventually cause him to cast aside his humanity and cross the MoralEventHorizon to perform such acts as murder, rape, and cannibalism. Saya, with a [[BlueAndOrangeMorality flimsy grasp on human morality]] and herself possibly suffering from SanitySlippage, makes exactly one attempt to stop his downward spiral by offering him the chance to return to the normal world by curing his condition. If he refuses and vows to stay with her no matter what, she happily helps him along down the slippery slope until he too begins sharing her BlueAndOrangeMorality]]. |
| 217 | * In several routes of ''VisualNovel/SlayThePrincess'', the titular "world-ending" princess can take on more monstrous forms that would befit that otherwise InformedAbility. Despite that, you can still find dialogue options that flirt with her, even if they end up ineffectual. [[spoiler:This trope escalates and also becomes justified when you complete the Shifting Mound, as several reveals turn the game into a love story between two eldritch abominations.]] |
| 218 | * This is the entire premise of ''VisualNovel/SuckerForLove'', in which the player summons dark gods from beyond the veil in order to romance them. |
| 219 | [[/folder]] |
| 220 | |
| 221 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 222 | * In ''WebAnimation/DrCrafty'', this is the relationship between [[MadScientist Crafty]] and [[HumanoidAbomination Sasha]]. [[spoiler: While something happened in their past that resulted in them splitting up, they still have feelings for each other as seen by Crafty reminiscing about Sasha by the ocean, and Sasha having a CrushBlush while watching Crafty's show.]] |
| 223 | * Vaggie from ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'' is a DemonOfHumanOrigin and she is in a relationship with the Princess of Hell, Charlie. Worth noting that Charlie is just about the only person that Vaggie is friendly with. |
| 224 | %%* The twist of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcwswB7Rbbs "Wilhelm Park"]] by redminus. |
| 225 | [[/folder]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 228 | * ''Webcomic/OwMySanity'' combines this with UnwantedHarem. |
| 229 | * ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' has a hint of this in a TV show actually called [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/021110 "Unholy Concubine Connection"]]. (Before that comic, the show showed someone "merely" involved with {{Satan}}.) |
| 230 | * Downplayed in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''. The Immortals usually present themselves as humanoid entities with long ears - no different from elves. [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/2016-06-25 But going by]] [[HumanoidAbomination Pandora's sleeping form, well.]] [[spoiler: Hasn't stopped her from romancing a human and having a son.]] |
| 231 | * In ''Webcomic/GrimTalesFromDownBelow'', it turns out that years after ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', [[TheGrimReaper Grim]] and [[EnfantTerrible Mandy]] married and had two kids. [[spoiler:Though actually the boy is an abortion from an unknown father, and the girl's father is [[HumanoidAbomination Nergal Junior]], as Grim can't actually father new life, because he's ''Death''.]] |
| 232 | * The title character of ''Webcomic/{{Erma}}'''s parents are a normal man and an {{Expy}} of [[Film/TheRing Sadako]]. Erma [[CuteMonsterGirl takes after her mother]]. |
| 233 | * ''Webcomic/DrowTales'': |
| 234 | ** Any drow who has a relationship with a Vel'akar, or a sentient demon from "beyond the veil". [[BigBad Snadhya'rune]] is heavily implied to have had a sexual relationship with her protector twin Khaless[[note]]who was not actually related to her, meaning it wasn't ''technically'' incest[[/note]] before the latter got possessed by one, but it's not certain if their relationship continued after it happened. |
| 235 | ** Chapter 46 [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=10004 gives us the rare sight]] of one Cthulhu ([[spoiler:the aforementioned Khaless]]) romancing another Cthulhu ([[spoiler:Kharla'ggen]]) and the results are pure FanDisservice. |
| 236 | * It's bit more like Cthulhu romancing you, but The Master from ''Webcomic/TheInvitation'' is willing to form romantic and sexual relationships with any mortal that consents. Just beware of [[EldritchTransformation the consequences...]] |
| 237 | * The Lord King[[note]]The Erlkönig[[/note]]/Widow Norrington[[note]]Fully human[[/note]] pairing in ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'' is either this trope or DivineDate depending on what you think about TheFairFolk. The guy also refuses to be categorized by hunting with [[Myth/NorseMythology Odin]] but playing poker with {{Franchise/The Slender Man|Mythos}}. |
| 238 | * ''Webcomic/Persona5AdultConfidantAU'': A [[https://twitter.com/ScruffyTurtles/status/1272018189032009728?t=N_FQ5OB3RQZpZ1oqzkjkOA&s=19 post]] from the [[AprilFoolsDay ASLAU]] shows a teenage [[VideoGame/Persona4 Ryotaro Dojima]] walking to school [[UmbrellaOfTogetherness under the rain with a single umbrella]] with a silver-haired girl that's all but said to be [[spoiler:Izanami, the Goddess of Death and originally the BigBad of ''Persona 4]]''. |
| 239 | * Implied in ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/say-my-name "Say My Name"]], where a woman accidentally says the name of [[WrongNameOutburst her former lover]] (Hziulquoigmnzhah of Cykranosh, the dread spawn of Cxaxukluth) instead of her current lover (John). |
| 240 | -->'''Woman''': [[ImplausibleDeniability It was just a slip of the tongue]]! |
| 241 | * This is the premise of ''Webcomic/EldritchDarling'', showing [[SliceOfLife the life and times]] of Ina, a HumanoidAbomination who falls in love with CJ, an ordinary human woman. |
| 242 | [[/folder]] |
| 243 | |
| 244 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 245 | * ''Literature/BlueCore'': This is the in-universe reaction to the women [[ADungeonIsYou Blue]] has a relationship with. Yes, ''that'' kind of relationship. |
| 246 | %%* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' uses this as one of the potential next Twilight-style monster/teenager romance trends [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-vampire-formula-what-women-see-in-them/ here]]. |
| 247 | %%* [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/16727562/ /tg/]] likes [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/16309898/images/1316145554772.jpg these.]] |
| 248 | * WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick and her sidekicks Nella and Elisa plus a few ghostwriters (under the {{Portmanteau}} pen name JustForFun/SerraElinsen) released a "crowd-sourced" ParanormalRomance novel that they originally described as "''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' with aliens." By incorporating the suggestions of their fans, they eventually make the story about an ordinary teenage girl and a Lovecraftian EldritchAbomination who fall in love. [[http://www.amazon.com/Awoken-Serra-Elinsen/dp/1491268727/r The book is out]] under the name ''[[Literature/ViridianSaga Awoken]]'', and given it goes right with Lovecraftian names such as Cthulhu and Azatoth is apparent that they're going all the way. |
| 249 | * In the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', Sara Waite is a HumanoidAbomination, so anyone she has sex with counts. For that matter, her father Gothmog is by all accounts ''still'' quite popular with the ladies. |
| 250 | %%* Website/{{Tumblr}} user illicticsart has posted pictures of such relationships (with direct image links [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/b220f16ed1da85189616b2c68b545c89/tumblr_p64v8lh0sQ1r663sao1_1280.png here]], [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/fb62906daeab5106f962b74d90dc457e/tumblr_p64v8lh0sQ1r663sao2_1280.png here]], and [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/5ea11bde182fbdb631bc4c8909277f63/tumblr_p64v8lh0sQ1r663sao3_400.png here]]). Another user by the name of spacemarines100 has posted a meme to this effect too ([[https://78.media.tumblr.com/c518aab61f4333a2b09c5f01007207c5/tumblr_ocw7a4HAF91vcaftvo1_1280.png here's]] a direct image link). |
| 251 | [[/folder]] |
| 252 | |
| 253 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 254 | * PlayedForLaughs during one of WebVideo/{{Failboat}}'s livestreams. While fighting [[VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand Chaos Elfilis]], his live chat (playing as Bandana Waddle Dee) attempts to do this and starts hitting on it, much to Failboats's amused shock and confusion. [[RunningGag Chat continues to do this to more Kirby bosses in future streams]]. |
| 255 | -->'''Chat:''' Hey Kirby, is it just me, or is Chaos Elfilis kinda fine tho? Like, hey what you doing Elfilis? Should we get married and lay waste to this forgotten land? |
| 256 | %%* Parodied in one of WebVideo/{{Markiplier}}'s videos of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'', when he pretends to be in love with Springtrap when Springtrap is about to kill him. |
| 257 | %%* One [[AmbiguouslyHuman possible]] intepretation of Cecil and Carlos' relationship in ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale''. [[spoiler: Especially after their marriage]]. |
| 258 | [[/folder]] |
| 259 | |
| 260 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 261 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', Billy's aunt marries Nergal, a tentacle demon from the center of the earth who apparently aimed for [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith a form humans are comfortable with]] and missed. |
| 262 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': Star’s ex-boyfriend Tom, the [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Prince]] of the [[{{Hell}} Underworld]], is the son of a [[TransplantedHumans mewman]] father and demon mother. His mom isn’t a [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus]] or something either, she’s twenty feet tall and looks like a [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Khornate Bloodletter]] in a dress. |
| 263 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS2E3AutoEroticAssimilation Auto Erotic Assimilation]]", Rick has a romance with Unity, an extraterrestrial hivemind. He knows how to get the most from it. |
| 264 | -->'''Rick:''' We need a hang glider, and a [[SexyWhateverOutfit crotchless Uncle Sam costume]], and I want the entire field of your largest stadium covered end to end with naked redheads, and I want the stands packed with [[FreudianExcuse every man that remotely resembles my father]]. |
| 265 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Yivo from "[[Recap/FuturamaM2TheBeastWithABillionBacks The Beast with a Billion Backs]]" is a planet-sized EldritchAbomination from another universe with NoBiologicalSex and covered in tentacles. Shklee (yes, that's the pronoun used to refer to Yivo) has sex with nearly every living being in the universe, dates them all, and invites them to stay with shkler. |
| 266 | * ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'': The big twist in the short "[[Recap/LoveDeathAndRobotsBeyondTheAquilaRift Beyond the Aquila Rift]]" is that [[spoiler:the entire space station is an illusion, and Thom's OldFlame "Greta" is in reality a spider-like {{Starfish Alien|s}}, terrifying in appearance but [[NonMaliciousMonster humanly empathic in nature]]. She caught his ship in her hive by accident and plans to subject him to comforting psychic illusions until he passes away peacefully, as it's all she can do for him.]] |
| 267 | * The DistantFinale of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' strongly implies that Fluttershy, a normal pegasus, and Discord, a [[RealityWarper reality warping]] DimensionLord with BlueAndOrangeMorality, have entered some sort of long-term romantic relationship at some point during the TimeSkip. |
| 268 | [[/folder]] |
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| 271 | -->'''Guard:''' Very well, madam, but that is the aquarium's [[BestialityIsDepraved octopus]], not yours. |
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