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| 18 | ->''"An especially enjoyable biological howler was the notion, common on pulp magazine covers, that aliens would lust after human women, especially if partially unclad, this being on par with men lusting after squids."'' |
| 19 | -->-- '''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction''' (1995 edition) entry on ''Scientific Errors'' |
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| 21 | Apparently, the hottest thing in the Multiverse, above even the CuteMonsterGirl and GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe, is the Human Female. This is one of the reasons humans think AliensAreBastards. |
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| 23 | Sooner or later, no matter what the species looks like, you'll find a sample of the male that prefers human girls. It can be an alien, a swamp monster, a robot, a NonHumanSidekick, or even a [[Franchise/KingKong giant gorilla]]. (Sometimes it WasOnceAMan, which makes the attraction less implausible.) Note that this is usually played straight, while the inverse is [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe almost]] always played for laughs. Also, the male non-human is far more likely to actually get the human girl. |
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| 25 | Biologically, this is completely insane. [[FridgeLogic Imagine]] a human in the real world [[{{Squick}} falling in love with a squid]][[note]][[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} Inklings]] don't count, but given most of the squids you'll see hanging around are teenagers, that's [[PaedoHunt morally wrong for a different reason.]][[/note]] and you'll see why. Of course, squids don't have that kind of complexity, which may be the difference here — you can't see past their looks to their "nice personality". But MostWritersAreHuman and [[MostWritersAreMale Male]]. It's more plausible with RubberForeheadAliens and other HumanoidAliens, however, since they look enough like humans and vice versa for there to be an attraction. Regardless, this often results in [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Human Hybrids]]. This, however, is equally biologically insane; you'd have a better chance getting knocked up by a ''tree'', since you and the tree are at least ''from the same planet''. Then again, having HumanAliens and RubberForeheadAliens is just as big a case of ArtisticLicenseBiology to begin with, so interbreeding with humans wouldn't be too big a leap from there. |
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| 27 | Named after the infamous 1967 BMovie ''Film/MarsNeedsWomen''. That this trope was popularized in [=1950s=] and [='60s=] monster movies is no coincidence. Considering the racial context of the time, this trope is [[UnfortunateImplications a close cousin]] to the antiquated belief that {{Scary Black M|an}}en are always [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt trying to steal white women]]. Which is itself a variation on the [[OlderThanDirt ancient tribal warfare]] trope of "They're invading, and they want [[EntitledToHaveYou our women/men]]!" While that version is a DiscreditedTrope, the more general "non-humanoid character attracted to a girl" is not. |
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| 29 | Very rarely, the species either culturally values the idea of human slave concubines, or is so sterile or depopulated that this is [[OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace the only means they have of avoiding extinction]]. |
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| 31 | On the rare occasions that Venus Needs Men, the Venusians will almost always be [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe sexy, scantily clad, and conforming to local norms of beauty]] (unless the joke is that they're {{abhorrent admirer}}s to human men). But it's not always desirable, as there are ''lots'' of examples in fiction where female aliens just ConceiveAndKill, instead of kidnapping. |
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| 33 | Compare BoldlyComing, FaceFullOfAlienWingWong, InterspeciesRomance, and MonsterMisogyny. Contrast with HumansAreUgly. See also BeastAndBeauty and TouchOfTheMonster (for how this is typically shown in a movie poster). |
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| 36 | !!Examples: |
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| 39 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 40 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXEbohjrx9Q This advert]] for Gallagher's 2000 (a strip club) shows aliens picking up an ad for it and liking what they see. |
| 41 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIaLoKU80nE In this Old Spice ad,]] an android uses Old Spice products to attract human women. |
| 42 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8ZObOhIMOw This particular Mike's Hard Lemonade ad.]] Alien warriors parachute into a grocery store parking lot and begin abducting the women. The men's response is to... go get the drink being advertised (the aliens then steal ''that'', too). |
| 43 | [[/folder]] |
| 44 | |
| 45 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 46 | * In ''Anime/AquarionEvol'', the humans of Altair Kai use their [[AlienAbduction Abductors]] to kidnap Vegan females. [[spoiler:They do so in hopes of avoiding extinction, because an illness known as the Curse of Eve has wiped out all the females on their planet.]] |
| 47 | * ''Manga/AoiHouse'' features a panty-obsessed (presumably non-sapient) hamster. |
| 48 | * ''Manga/BlueDrop'': |
| 49 | ** It is indicated that the Arume want to conquer Earth since the fact that [[OneGenderRace they only consist of women]] causes troubles for them in the long run, despite their technical prowess. Still they chase earth ''women'' and even interbreed with them. Obviously, old habits are hard to break. |
| 50 | ** The second series, ''Manga/BlueDrop: Tenshi no Bokura'', explains [[spoiler:that at least one of the reasons for the invasion of Earth was that in the past the male Arume visited Earth, crossbred, and left their DNA behind in the human genome. They were trying to recover the male Arume that had died out long ago by breeding with human ''men'', making it somewhat a gender inversion -- except that at least some of the now female only Arume seem to like the whole lesbian status quo a bit too much and violently oppose attempts to restore the male Arume]]. To summarize, Mars ''needs'' men, but it ''wants'' women. |
| 51 | ** It also shows them more or less raising human girls to be sex slaves, with nightly orgies in their all-girls schools. This can come off as [[FanDisservice nightmarish]] even to the GirlOnGirlIsHot crowd. |
| 52 | * In Creator/OsamuTezuka[='=]s ''Cleopatra (1970)'', the perverted leopard Lupa tries multiple times to mate with Cleopatra and Lybia who are both human. |
| 53 | * ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': Mimi, a conventionally attractive human girl, has a tendency of being hit on by creatures that one would not expect to have any interest in an upright primate, such as the sluglike Numemon, the [[ToiletHumour living turd]] Sukamon and the ratlike Chuumon. |
| 54 | * ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Discussed in the Saiyan Saga. When they see [[HybridPower how powerful Saiyan-human hybrids like Gohan are]], Nappa suggests to Vegeta that they conquer the Earth, then mate with the human women to breed a race of powerful warriors who he calls "Super Saiyans".[[note]]Not the legendary warrior, he means superpowerful Saiyans.[[/note]] Vegeta shoots the idea down on the grounds that [[PragmaticVillainy it would be stupid to breed a race of warriors that would one day be more powerful than they are]]. Ironically, two sagas later, Vegeta eventually marries one himself and eventually has two very powerful hybrid children. |
| 55 | * In ''Anime/GenmaWars'', human girls are highly sought by the Genma since we occasionally see a few taking them as concubines. The [[EvilOverlord Maoh King]], the demonic ruler of Earth, regularly orders his servants to bring him women and girls so he can mate with them [[SerialRapist whether they like it or not]], much to his [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen wife Parome's]] [[WomanScorned irritation]]. Its later revealed that [[spoiler:this is part of an SuperBreedingProgram to produce greater and even more powerful Genma to provoke never-ending conflict on Earth because DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans]]. |
| 56 | * ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughSpace'' has the pairing of Akiha, a human girl, and Leopard, a MasterComputer with a superiority complex. They're close to having BelligerentSexualTension in execution. |
| 57 | * Similarly to ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughSpace'' (it's by the same studio), Imber, a 50-ton HumongousMecha in ''Anime/IdolmasterXenoglossia'', is deeply in love with Haruka, who is both a human girl and his pilot. Haruka is in love with him too, so this goes both ways. |
| 58 | * In ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'', [[OneGenderRace all goblins are male]] so they kidnap females, mostly elves and humans, in order to breed and they keep them alive until they can no longer give birth any more. |
| 59 | * In ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' and its sequel ''Anime/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon'', demons and half-demons have a general contempt for humans, yet numerous demon and half-demon characters are attracted to one of them, including Inu no Taishō, Inuyasha, Kouga, and eventually [[spoiler: Sesshomaru]]. |
| 60 | * Part Three of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has Forever the Orangutan (who wearing a Captain's uniform and smokes a pipe) looking at a "Playboy-esque" magazine, making gross eyes at human girl, and generally acting like a dirty old man. Indeed, several real-life native cultures have stories about apes, and there are less exaggerated stories of orangutans habituated or raised by humans getting unusually handsy. |
| 61 | * Kir on ''Manga/KingOfBanditJing'', who hits on every single GirlOfTheWeek, and was constantly rebuffed. Oddly enough, this seemed to be more about his personality and choice of words, and not the fact that he's a ''bird''. |
| 62 | * In ''Anime/KujibikiUnbalance'', the alien males all look like tiny little green things while the women are all beautiful well-developed women. According to the show, the females find the males really attractive. |
| 63 | * In ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess2016'', King Bulblin has a VillainousCrush on the human Ilia despite being an orc-like creature. |
| 64 | * ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': |
| 65 | ** WeaselMascot Chamo shows a rather healthy appreciation for the female form. This is one reason readers are confused whether he was [[ForcedTransformation a human turned into an ermine]], or an ermine (spirit) to begin with. |
| 66 | ** As Asuna fight some demons, they're pleased to discover that she's [[GoingCommando not wearing panties]] (While Asuna herself was immune to a petrification spell she got hit with earlier, [[ClothingDamage her outfit wasn't so lucky]]). Asuna [[DefeatByModesty doesn't take it so well.]] |
| 67 | * ''Manga/OutlawStar'' has the Silgrians, a race of bird-like people that ''as a whole'', seem to like humans ''way'' too much. They were just one of the only species that were really accepting of humans. A really friendly bunch them, albeit a bit too friendly. |
| 68 | * The same thing happened in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' except with the male Armie/Do-chan, who was just a huge pervert. It would rather become a skin-tight suit of PoweredArmor (that [[TransformationSequence ripped its owner's clothing to shreds while doing so, natch]]) than do anything sexual ''to'' them. It even rejected female Ranma when "she" got too aggressive. |
| 69 | * ''Literature/ReMonster'' has a similar set-up. Although female goblins exist, males have a higher conception rate with human women and will kidnap them for breeding purposes. |
| 70 | * ''Manga/SgtFrog'': The small froglike alien Giroro has a crush on human Natsumi that borders on obsession at times. In a reversal of this trope, {{human alien|s}} Angol Moa has a crush on Keroro. |
| 71 | * More Equal Opportunity: Ryo-Ohki from ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' seems to like Tenchi as much as the girls in the [[UnwantedHarem harem]] do. Of course, she also happens to have a CuteMonsterGirl form, too. |
| 72 | ** Fuku the cabbit from ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'' doesn't have a CuteMonsterGirl form, though, and the series is rather unequivocal about numbering her in the UnwantedHarem during the big wedding sequence. It's a little disturbing watching everyone talk about it so cheerfully... (Washuu did mention earlier that she'd get one eventually -- it is still weird, though.) |
| 73 | * ''Manga/TerraforMars'': The Martian [[OneGenderRace cavemen]] roaches are known to gang up on human women and... [[SubvertedTrope rip them apart]] for no real reason if there's no other threats to deal with. However, an organization called We Are The Cosmos feeds them information on how to fight the Annex I squad and how to pilot the Bugs I ship for an invasion of Earth. With their support, the roach leader known as the Invoker oversees an underground laboratory where humans are bred for experimentation. Only then, out of a morbid GoalOrientedEvolution mindset, do the roaches force humans to bear HalfHumanHybrids with the same OmnicidalManiac behaviour as them. |
| 74 | * ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'': Hooguro has a thing for human women, in spite of being a member of the AntiHumanAlliance, Aogiri Tree. |
| 75 | * ''Manga/XxxHolic'': Watanuki has something about him that draws supernatural creatures dangerously close to him. While most of them just want to eat him (there was a massive scramble just for his ''eye''), there are some like the Zashiki-warashi and ''especially'' Mugetsu who want him in ''that'' way. |
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| 78 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 79 | * Rather frighteningly and repeatedly mentioned (though not shown) in the second arc of ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' -- the Blue, an alien race who came to a parallel Earth and began interbreeding with humans centuries ago, eventually took over the planet and turned China, among other places, into a rape camp to try and father more offspring, because they actually did need women. Then they try to expand their territory into the Authority's Earth. This is a mistake. |
| 80 | * Fone Bone of Jeff Smith's ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', one of a race of short, bald, cartoony, big-nosed, bone-white creatures that resemble nothing so much as animated blobs of marshmallow, develops a crush on the [[MsFanservice thoroughly human]] woman Thorn. Thankfully, or sadly, it never goes anywhere. It is hinted that Fone Bone gets into "girl problems" back in Boneville often so it isn't just Thorn. |
| 81 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'', Emp is captured by a galactic "Pimpotron" who is going to kidnap her for "erotiservitude." [[spoiler: She is discarded because her butt is outside the required size range... a definite proof that bureaucracy is bad in bed.]] He says that this was the fate of UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart as well. |
| 82 | * Fred Perry's ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' once again plays Equal Opportunity with this trope: When the villain Fauntleroy acquires powerful [[EmpathicWeapon living armor]], he discovers that the armor in question is not only ''female'', but pretty damn horny, too. She's just as likely to ''hump'' his shoulder as she is to sit on it. |
| 83 | * In one issue of ''Franchise/GreenLantern Corps'' (pre-Parallax), a huge fleet of ship appears in the skies of the severely overpopulated world of Malthus, which is under the protection of Guy Gardner. |
| 84 | --> "People of Malthus! Our world was devastated in the Crisis, and your ability to breed is legendary! Palomaris needs women!"[softreturn] |
| 85 | ** Guy destroys the entire fleet. The entire ''unarmed'' fleet. They'd apparently come looking for volunteers. |
| 86 | * ''ComicBook/HackSlash'': The Old Gods cannot create, only corrupt and destroy. They need virgin human females to propagate their species. This is what they use the virgins that [=SixSixx=] provides them through the VirginSacrifice that his part of his DealWithTheDevil. |
| 87 | * In the erotic comic ''ComicBook/{{Ironwood}}'', dragons are all male, or more precisely asexual in their natural forms and shapeshift into human males in order to seduce human women for the perpetuation of the species. Apparently they enjoy this so much, the rest of their time is mostly spent hunting down most dragon-offspring they can find to prevent extreme overpopulation. |
| 88 | * Very oddly played with in a classic ''[[ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck Uncle Scrooge]]'' comic. He got in a fight with the post office about them delivering someone else's mail to him by mistake, and the postmaster general just gave him his job to shut him up. ([[FridgeLogic Why the head of a multi-fantasticalillion dollar global empire would accept a public services job is never explained]]). He finds the job simple enough, until he gets a letter from a 10 foot tall teenager to be delivered to the world authority on Venus. On his second trip (he accidentally went to Mars on his first -- no-one let the irony escape him), he arrives to and finds that the planet is inhabited exclusively by 10 foot tall teenage girls (Mars, on the other hand, being occupied by scaly green winged letterboxes). |
| 89 | * Subverted in the ''Film/MarsAttacks'' Creator/ImageComics, where a Martian scientist overseeing the forced insemination of a captured superheroine is disgusted that there were volunteers for such "bestiality" and skeptical that it will [[NoBiochemicalBarriers actually produce functional hybrids]]. |
| 90 | * Given an amusing nod in ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'''s "ComicBook/UltimateGalactusTrilogy" series; Hawkeye, Iron Man and a few others have sneaked onboard a (alien) Kree ship, being aided by Mar-Vell, a Kree DefectorFromDecadence. Hawkeye easily kills a group of guards, to Mar-Vell's annoyance: |
| 91 | --> '''Mar-Vell:''' Remind me again why I defected?\ |
| 92 | '''Iron Man:''' Was it human girls? |
| 93 | * ''ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight'': One of Hybrid's goals is to create more Dire-wraith hybrids like himself by establishing rape camps with mutant women. In his debut, he tries to kidnap Shadowcat during the confusion of the ComicBook/XMen's fight with Rom. In a later story, Hybrid's alliance with a group of female mutant villains is undone when the hero reveals that Hybrid plans to turn them into breeding stock. In ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'', he's expanded his field of interest by planning to use ''all'' of the girls for his sick purposes. |
| 94 | * A story in Warren Publishing's 1984 magazine features this trope in the story "Scourge from the Spaceways", where it is revealed that females are unique to humanity. As a result, an interstellar war is triggered as the entire universe fights over Earth's women. |
| 95 | * In the first volume of the series ''ComicBook/{{Sillage}}'', human woman Nävis' beauty is appreciated by one of the aliens she's come into contact with. She is the first and only human they've ever seen. |
| 96 | * ''ComicBook/StreetFighterVsDarkstalkers'': In one short story, [[VideoGame/StreetFighterV Laura Matsuda]] is kidnapped by [[FishPeople fish man]] [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Rikuo]] to create a whole new kingdom with their offspring after she challenges him to a fight and gets defeated. She doesn't mind it very much, due to finding him [[RunningGag "curiously attractive for a fish man"]]. |
| 97 | * Inverted in ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'' where the female lead is an Martian whose love interest is a human (albeit a [[AmbiguouslyHuman very unusual one]]) and ''she'' is the one coveted by aliens of different species (some normally [[AbsoluteXenophobe so xenophobic they would consider her a beast]]). It's worth pointing out she looks [[HumanAliens significantly human]] and is extremely attractive by our standards. This trope is subverted in the crossover with ComicBook/{{Barbarella}} where she is caught by a giant alien squid (who goes as far as wrapping his tentacles around her body) and fears that it will turn her into a broodmother. Turns out the monster is friendly and as Barbarella points out, they don't have the necessary reproductory systems for this trope. |
| 98 | [[/folder]] |
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| 100 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 101 | * Alien Prince Grulleo from ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10223400/1/To-Love-DEATH To-Love-Death]]'' wants to marry princess Lala, too bad he doesn't take kindly to rejection. |
| 102 | * Played with in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2093421/9/Tales_of_Minako_and_Hotaru this]] fanfic, where it becomes "Venus Needs Women!" |
| 103 | * Nearly every ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'', or [[{{Crossover}} combination thereof]] {{fanfiction}} that has [[RuleThirtyFour romance as on of its main genre-slots]] has a human female shacking up with a Predator male or occasionally an Alien male, resulting in some [[{{Squick}} truly disturbing]] and sometimes arousing love scenes. |
| 104 | * The Kirby fanfic series ''Fanfic/LibraAndGemini'' has Fecto Elfilis falling in love with Vesa Krasniqi, a human test subject who befriended them in Lab Discovera. |
| 105 | * The ''MLP'' fanfic "I Dream of Luna" has nearly every single pony in the story chasing after a man named Anonymous. |
| 106 | ** In fact, although his role in stories can vary wildly from this to AbhorrentAdmirer or even HumanoidAbomination, stories on 4Chan's /mlp/ board have had pretty much every mare (and most of the ''[[StupidSexyFlanders stallions]]'') finding themselves unbelievably attracted to "Anon" who's often completely oblivious to it. |
| 107 | * In the ZeeRust future of ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace'' women are actually choosing to emigrate to Mars [[JobStealingRobot because they're unemployed]] due to their husbands preferring {{SexBot}}s and {{Robot Maid}}s. This is causing tension between the two worlds because female Martians are angry at the [[ForeignFanservice competition]] while male humans believe thanks to unimaginative sci-fi movies that "aliens had nothing better to do than conquer planets and impregnate their women with carnivorous offspring." As a result Martian investigator [=TuMok=] has to team up with Captain Proton to investigate when a Film/RobotMonster starts abducting women for real. The trope is lampshaded in "Village of the Spammed". |
| 108 | -->"Has your husband replaced you with Robo-Bimbo?" asked a handsome Martian [[AdvertOverloadedFuture holo-projected across the entire hemisphere]]. "Tired of Earthmen with their puny mental powers? Well don't despair because Mars Needs Women!" |
| 109 | * ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager'' is ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' rewritten as a 1950's sci-fi pulp, so this trope inevitably comes up. |
| 110 | ** Played for laughs when a flashback shows [=TuV'k=] as a FormerTeenRebel on Mars, lusting after a [[PlanetTerra Terran]] student and wearing a [[HoverBike floaterbike]] jacket emblazoned with the words ''Mars Needs Women''. |
| 111 | ** Played for drama when the Caretaker has a young Terran girl [[AndIMustScream kept in suspended animation]] in a [[PeopleJars People Jar]], and demands another Terran female "of fertile age" in payment for sending ''Voyager'' back to Earth. Captain Janeway's response is to MercyKill the girl on the spot. [[spoiler:Unfortunately that means she has to hand herself over to the Caretaker in exchange to get her crew home.]] |
| 112 | * A possibility hinted at by ''Fanfic/SignsOfSnow'', in which Andoria is currently living a fertility crisis because of their BizarreAlienSexes -- they need four people of a different gender each and to wait for the incubating one to be fertile before trying for a kid. As shown by Lily Evans, a human female is fertile every month and easily can serve as the surrogate. |
| 113 | * Gender-flipped in ''Fanfic/TeenTitansTokyo''; Blackfire, a [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Tamaranean girl]], is sexually attracted to the human boy Ranma Saotome. The fact he's [[UnwantedHarem currently engaged to two other girls]] doesn't dissuade her from planning to seduce him -- if anything, she revels in the implicit challenge. |
| 114 | * ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Everything, male or female, seems to find Haara a desirable sex partner. So far she's been intimate with [[SuccubuiAndIncubi multiple demons]], a dragon, a [[FrogMen bullywug]], a [[NaughtyTentacles tentacle monster]], a water elemental, and most of the playable races in D&D. |
| 115 | [[/folder]] |
| 116 | |
| 117 | [[folder:Film — Animated]] |
| 118 | * One of the short stories in ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'' centers around a Pentagon secretary being abducted by aliens and the sex robot that falls in love with her. Judging from the following quote, this trope is pretty common in that 'verse: |
| 119 | -->'''Edsel:''' Whoa, typical robot. First Earth chick we see in ten years, and he's gotta make a play for her. |
| 120 | * This trope forms the basis of ''WesternAnimation/MarsNeedsMoms''. Referenced right in the title. Though in this case it's their ability to raise children, rather than conceive them, that matters to the Martians. |
| 121 | * In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', it's mentioned that Link abducted 250 co-eds before he was eventually caught. |
| 122 | * Jiminy Cricket of ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' seems to have a fascination with human-ish women: from fairies to marionettes to music box ornaments shaped like 'em, but he is [[FullyDressedCartoonAnimal pretty damn human-ish himself]], to the point of not even being immediately recognizable as any sort of anthropomorphic insect. |
| 123 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'', Bowser is a Koopa (a kind of turtle) whose attraction to Peach, a human, is more than a little creepy not only because of their differing species but also because of the fact that he wants to force her to marry him. This is dialed up in the Japanese version, where he explicitly states that he wants to marry her so she'll bear his children. |
| 124 | * Against her will, WesternAnimation/{{Thumbelina|1994}} is very popular with other species. |
| 125 | [[/folder]] |
| 126 | |
| 127 | [[folder:Film — Live-Action]] |
| 128 | * ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' also inverts the trope, as Terl agrees that he thinks Johnny's mate is "the most repulsive female I've ever seen," which is odd, because the only differences between [[HumanAliens Psychlos]] and humans are [[LargeAndInCharge height]], [[FemmeFatalons fingers]], [[BizarreAlienBiology tongue]], and [[AlienHair dreads.]] |
| 129 | * The whole premise of 1986's ''Film/{{Breeders|1986}}''. Exploitation at it's sleaziest. |
| 130 | * ''Film/TheBrainFromPlanetArous'': Justified -- Gor, possessing a human body, wants to get horizontal with his host's fiancée because he wants to indulge ''all'' the possible senses; being a disembodied brain, having ''any'' sensation at all is a novelty. |
| 131 | * Gillman in ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' kidnaps human women twice because, as the LastOfHisKind, he's pretty lonely. Thankfully it never goes past {{The Scream}}ing stage once they're rescued. |
| 132 | * This trope is played straight in ''Film/{{Dagon}}'', which is a loose retelling of ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth'' set in the present day, and with the sleazy angle of this trope heavily emphasized over the relatively chaste source material. |
| 133 | * Creator/DeanKoontz's ''Film/DemonSeed'', a film about Proteus Four, a MasterComputer, imprisoning a woman in her home so that she can bear his child/avatar. In the film he does this only through necessity, while in the book he confesses to being in love with her. |
| 134 | * ''Film/EarthGirlsAreEasy'' is a comedy based on this trope. When the three furry aliens are given a makeover, however, they resemble date-worthy guys -- where in star Julie Brown's original '50s-esque song, the alien is slimy, bug-eyed, and looks "like a cross between Series/{{Flipper}} and Alan Thicke". |
| 135 | * In ''Film/TheEroticRitesOfFrankenstein'', Cagliostro’s plan for the Monster is to send him out to capture the most beautiful virgins across the land. From there Cagliostro will take the best parts of each woman and piece them together to create the perfect female specimen. Once the perfect woman is complete, Cagliostro will force her to mate with Frankenstein’s Monster to create a super race. |
| 136 | * ''Film/GalaxyQuest'': Parodied in a DeletedScene. When Jason Nesmith and Gwen [=DeMarco=] are attempting to shut down the reactor, they are held up by two of Sarris' men. One of them is strangely attracted to Gwen, which disgusts the other one, who claims that he'd sooner mate with an animal. ("Yes... I ''know''.") Gwen is disgusted by the first one's attraction -- and pissed off at the second one's insult, so she makes the ship's computer squash them underneath a blast door. In that deleted scene, she shows off [[{{Fanservice}} her cleavage]] to [[ShowSomeLeg distract]] one of them. |
| 137 | * The [[{{Golem}} Golem of Prague]] in the silent movie ''Film/TheGolem'' temporarily shows a fascination with his creator's [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter beautiful daughter]] Miriam, though he soon loses interest. |
| 138 | * ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'': Gender inverted. Greta, a female gremlin, develops a crush on Forster, a male human, and eventually marries him. That said, Forster is only ''initially'' repulsed by Greta and, in the end when she approaches him in the dress, he basically shrugs "why not?" and goes with it. |
| 139 | * ''Film/HalfHuman'': The snowman abducts a female researcher near the end of the film. This is ''not'' PlayedForLaughs; the other characters realize that, having [[spoiler:just lost his child]], the snowman ''wants to father a child'', regardless of the woman's opinion on the matter. |
| 140 | * ''Film/{{Horrific}}'': In ''Terror Vision'', the giant eye comes from a parthenogenic race. However, because it crossed into our dimension through a male host, it now needs human females to propagate its race. |
| 141 | * ''Film/HowardTheDuck'', as in the comic, establishes Howard and Bev as a romantic couple. |
| 142 | * ''Film/IMarriedAMonsterFromOuterSpace'' is a 1958 SF movie where aliens are replacing human men in a desperate attempt to perpetuate the species as [[{{Gendercide}} their females all died out]]. One of the aliens (the husband of the protagonist) does say that they've been working on making interbreeding possible. ''[=IMaMFOS=]'' is also rare in that the aliens are rather sympathetic, especially as compared to the {{Jerkass}} local guys who keep refusing to marry their girlfriends, preferring to spend all their time drinking and whoring... though they have ''also'' kidnapped various women's husbands to breed with their wives and are much poorer partners than those they replace. |
| 143 | * ''Film/KingKong1933'' is, of course, one of the most famous examples of this. "'Twas beauty that killed the beast." It's ambiguous how much of Kong's interest in Ann is sexual, though. The [[Film/KingKong2005 2005 version]], for example, plays the whole thing very chastely - more like the relationship between the sign-language gorilla Koko and her pet kittens. |
| 144 | * In ''Film/KissMeQuick'', Sterilox is sent to Earth to secure a perfect specimen of womanhood who can be used to engender a servant race for the Buttless Galaxy. |
| 145 | * The Beast in ''Film/{{Krull}}'', a giant, reptilian monster, has conquered many worlds but wishes to be wed to the human princess Lyssa. |
| 146 | * ''Film/MarsAttacks'': While they are not really interested in mating with Earth women, the Martians do show perverted sides to them. The leader enjoys porn magazines like Playboy, and they spy on a couple having sex. |
| 147 | * ''Film/MarsNeedsWomen'', starring former [[Series/TheMickeyMouseClub Mouseketeer]] Tommy Kirk and Creator/YvonneCraig, is the {{Trope Namer|s}}. Thanks to a recession in the Y chromosome, Martian men outnumber Martian women 100-to-1, so an expedition is sent to Earth to abduct five women and turn them into {{Human Popsicle}}s for transport back to Mars as {{Breeding Slave}}s. Given that the Martians are HumanAliens it's more plausible than usual, and if they had just made a public appeal for female volunteers to immigrate to their planet the whole thing would have gone more smoothly. |
| 148 | * ''Film/MenInBlack'' has some fun with this when the bug-alien kidnaps the DamselInDistress and drags her into his spaceship... because he [[ImAHumanitarian might need a snack on the way back to his planet!]] |
| 149 | ** ''Film/MenInBlackInternational'' plays it straight but makes it gender-inverted, as to make fun of Creator/ChrisHemsworth (who plays Agent H)'s reputation as a heartthrob. At the beginning of the film he sleeps with a reptilian-looking woman, then is fawned upon a female alien MIB agent with psychic powers and is revealed to have been in a relationship with an intergalactic arms dealer, who looks like a human woman but with three arms and weird hair coloring. |
| 150 | * ''Film/NightCallerFromOuterSpace'' (aka ''Blood Beast from Outer Space'') is a 1965 British film based on Frank Crisp's novel ''The Night Callers''. The aliens abduct teenage girls who respond to an advert in a bikini magazine would you believe, though the atmosphere of the film is ''Series/{{Quatermass}}'' rather than sexploitation. |
| 151 | * ''Film/{{Progeny}}'' has a setup like this, though making use of the more common reports of artificial insemination via alien technology. [[spoiler: Which is then horribly subverted when it's revealed this is just AFormYouAreComfortableWith, the entire "ship" is one creature.]] |
| 152 | * The famously awful BMovie ''Film/RobotMonster'' actually acknowledges the weirdness of this trope -- Ro-Man's attraction to the human girl Alice shocks him, and he spends much of the film trying to work out why he feels that way. When he fails to understand it, and his master orders him to kill Alice, Ro-Man's mind falls apart, and he is reduced to [[MadnessMantra constantly muttering "I must... but I cannot..."]] |
| 153 | * In ''Film/{{Rubber}}'', [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a living car tire with deadly psychic powers]] comes to have a strange obsession with an attractive female motorist. At one point the police have her chastise the tire for "his" sexual fixation. |
| 154 | * In ''Film/ScarecrowSlayer'', Dave's soul is sucked into the body of a demonic scarecrow when he is shot and killed. The Scarecrow then kidnaps Dave's girlfriend Mary, planning to transform her into a scarecrow and make her his bride. |
| 155 | * Creator/GuillermoDelToro made ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'' to deconstruct this trope, as he said he saw the ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' as a kid and felt sorry for the creature. Thus in his movie (which is almost an unofficial sequel) the attraction is mutual -- although [[spoiler: there are hints that the heroine might [[AmbiguouslyHuman not be fully human herself]].]] |
| 156 | * In ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', Barf, the half man, half dog "I'm my own best friend", seems to like human women. But then that's not really surprising, as he appears 99% human, and we all know dogs hump people's legs anyway. |
| 157 | * ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'': |
| 158 | ** Subverted in one example: |
| 159 | --->'''Lursa:''' Human females are so ''repulsive''! |
| 160 | ** Although when Soran punches one of the Klingon sisters for nearly getting him killed, she jokingly suggests that he may have been initiating a courtship. |
| 161 | * ''Film/StarTrek2009'': |
| 162 | ** Played straight and inverted. Kirk was seen in bed with a GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe and said to have not-even-human''oid'' conquests under his belt. |
| 163 | ** There's also Spock's human mother and alien father, although Vulcans are [[HumanAliens basically just humans with pointy ears]] anyway. |
| 164 | * Jabba the Hutt's apparent sexual desire to chain scantily-clad human and [[RubberForeheadAliens humanoid]] females to him, as seen in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. |
| 165 | ** The ExpandedUniverse has an [[GenderInvertedTrope inversion]], however. Female Twi'leks are considered sexually attractive to males of most humanoid species -- especially human men. Zeltrons are less famously so, but those who know of them tend to think they're even better, partially due to their use of pheromones and a more humanlike skin tone. Twi'lek girls, in fact, frequently find themselves on the wrong end of this trope despite not being human. Everyone in the ''Star Wars'' galaxy needs Twi'lek women. |
| 166 | ** The EU also establishes that Jabba keeps the dancers in order to show 'lesser' species that he can have what they want, even when he doesn't want them himself. There's also speculation that he really ''is'' interested in them... and this suspicion makes other Hutts view him as being a sexual deviant. |
| 167 | ** Played for laughs in one episode of ''The Clone Wars'', where a group of Hutts are enjoying a performance by a group of Twi'lek dancers... but the headliner (and only one shown to have had an actual relationship with a Hutt) is Sy Snootles, who is only vaguely humanoid. |
| 168 | * ''Film/TerrorFromTheYear5000'' features a human female from a post-apocalyptic world going back in time to find an uncontaminated man to bring back to her own time for breeding purposes. Radiation has made the human race pretty ugly by the year 5000, so the female has to disguise her appearance by [[{{Squick}} ripping the face off of a nurse and wearing it over her own.]] |
| 169 | * ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' has Wheelie describe Mikaela Banes as "hot" and he even attempts to hump her leg later in the film. The film takes this trope one step further, too, as Wheelie is not only an alien from another planet, but also a {{mechanical lifeform|s}}. |
| 170 | * ''Film/WhatPlanetAreYouFrom'' has a OneGenderRace of HumanAliens who decide to get to Earth in order to impregnate a woman and bring the child back to their planet. |
| 171 | * The 1908 silent film ''When the Man in the Moon Seeks a Wife'' by the Clarendon Company was probably the first example of this in alien form, making the filmed version OlderThanTheyThink. |
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| 175 | * E.E. Knight's ''Literature/AgeOfFire'' novel series has (male) Western dragons who find the scent and shape of human females alluring, seeing it as a strange compulsion whose farthest extent is apparently the source of the devouring-maidens myth, or, alternatively, keeping a bunch of hot female human servants around. |
| 176 | * Creator/IsaacAsimov: |
| 177 | ** "Literature/TheAuthorsOrdeal": The girl is lusted after by the aliens because she is conventionally beautiful. The poem points out that this needs to be glossed over before [[FridgeLogic the audience realizes that the aliens wouldn't care]] about her appearance. |
| 178 | ---> "Just the same you go fast till this section is passed so the reader won't raise any ruction, When recalling the foe are all reptiles and so have no interest in human seduction." |
| 179 | ** Dr Asimov plays with this idea in his short story written for ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' magazine, originally tilted "Playboy and the Slime God" but then in anthology form renamed "Literature/WhatIsThisThingCalledLove" The slimey aliens are very weirded out by the whole sexual reproduction thing, and for research purposes, abduct a human man and woman (both married to others) to test this out. While there is no chance of interspecies coupling here, Asimov himself described that he was skewering this trope by showing how ridiculous it is to assume that aliens would have any interest in having sex with human women. |
| 180 | * Artist Cireulo's coffee-table ''Book of the Dragon'' conceives dragons as a species where females are extremely rare and beautiful female humanoids often become favoured servants and a source of companionship. Not to {{squick}} levels, though it's mentioned that a maiden sent to be devoured by a Water Dragon has often become the "Queen of his heart" instead. |
| 181 | * In Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''Literature/TheMonsterMen'', Number One abducts Virginia. To be sure, they were attempts to create actual men. |
| 182 | ** Likewise, in his ''Literature/TheLandThatTimeForgot'', the Weiroo tribe are an all-male race of {{Winged Humanoid}}s with PsychicPowers who reproduce by forcing themselves upon the women of the Ga-Lu tribe, who are the most conventionally human-like (and thus attractive) of the HumanSubspecies that populate Caprona. |
| 183 | ** Zigzagged in the ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars '' series. Red, White, Black, and Yellow Martians are all {{human aliens}}, and the idea of them becoming attracted to each other -- or, indeed, to humans -- is presented as pretty normal. Indeed, Carter -- a human -- marries the Red princess Dejah Thoris and they even manage to have [[HalfHumanHybrids children]]. The one exception to this are the thoroughly-alien Green Martians, who are said to generally be disinterested in sex, beyond the perpetuation of their own species. It's therefore presented as ''really weird'' -- though [[DamselInDistress narratively kind of inevitable]] -- when the villainous Green chief Tal Hajus develops a rather rapey interest in Dejah Thoris. |
| 184 | * In David Gerrold's ''Chess With a Dragon'', the Earth is horrendously in debt to a galactic information-brokerage, and its leaders are desperate to find a way to pay it off. Unfortunately, other alien races will only assume Earth's debt in return for either [[PlanetLooters strip-mining rights to the planet]], or for millions of humans as slaves/food/hosts. One of the offers considered is a deal to hand over a mere several thousand humans, for payments that will significantly reduce Earth's debt ... but these aliens only want females. The aliens in question aren't exclusively interested in ''human'' females: it's the same deal they offer to any sentient race that meets certain physiological parameters. [[spoiler: The Earth's leadership turned this one down, and opted not to ask why the women were needed.]] |
| 185 | * Justified in Brave Free Men by Jack Vance. It turns out that the alien Roguskhoi who rape human women and then leave them sterile once the new Roguskhoi is born were genetically engineered this way with the intention of ending the human race for their creators. And who are their creators? Figuring that one out and then going to the home planet of these creators in order to deal with them is completely the subject of the sequel. |
| 186 | * ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'': |
| 187 | ** In Creator/RobertEHoward's story "Literature/BlackColossus", the EldritchAbomination wants the princess. Then again, it WasOnceAMan. |
| 188 | --->''"But thou shalt be my queen, oh princess! I will teach thee the ancient forgotten ways of pleasure. We—" Before the stream of cosmic obscenity which poured from the shadowy colossus, Yasmela cringed and writhed as if from a whip that flayed her dainty bare flesh.'' |
| 189 | ** In "Shadows in the Moonlight", Conan deduced the gray ape-man attacked out of lust for Olivia. |
| 190 | * Averted in one of the ''Literature/DominicFlandry'' stories. A young woman wonders if a male nonhuman who has been very attentive to her is romantically interested in her; she then scolds herself for silliness, reminding herself how completely unattractive she must look from his viewpoint. |
| 191 | * The draconians of the ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' universe originally had their female members remain unhatched, leading to a JustifiedTrope where they are attracted to female elves and humans as substitutes. However, when encountering female draconians in the book ''Draconian Measures'' a group of male draconians has a member who comments that female draconians would be no fun because, as he tells his fellows, "Hugging them would be just like hugging one of you guys!" |
| 192 | * Subverted in Joe Haldeman's novel ''Literature/TheForeverWar''; a MindProbe produced by the Earth military portrays Tauren soldiers raping human women with gigantic purple members, an entirely fanciful depiction as at the time the film is made nobody on Earth has the slightest idea what a Tauren looks like, in order to get the human soldiers angry enough to kill. The hero is aware that it is totally false but his subconscious makes his teeth start grinding in readiness to KILL! [[spoiler:Ultimately they turn out to be an androgynous clone species who have no interest in human women.]] |
| 193 | * ''Literature/GaeaTrilogy'': Fat Fred, the Gaean "[[WingedHumanoid angel]]" from ''Wizard''. His nickname stems not from his appearance, but from the fact that he's a bit of a ChubbyChaser. And as angels have next to no body fat (in order to be able to fly), even a fairly slim human woman is just his type by angelic standards. |
| 194 | * Probably ''the'' UrExample is ''A Honeymoon in Space'' (also known as ''Stories of Other Worlds'') by George Griffith, published in ''1901''. The Martians are a cold-blooded humanoid species practically devoid of emotions, but Lilla Zaidie (the lady on the eponymous honeymoon) is so strikingly beautiful they immediately go crazy with lust and try to kidnap her. |
| 195 | * Gender-reversed in Gary Ghislain's amusing YA novel ''Literature/HowIStoleJohnnyDeppsAlienGirlfriend''. Inhabitants of the [[AmazonBrigade all-female planet Vahalal]] periodically dispatch a beautiful/formidable 'Traveler' to Earth to bring back a male 'Chosen One', [[SexSlave with or without his consent]]. The title reveals [[Creator/JohnnyDepp who]] the latest Traveler has set her sights on... |
| 196 | * Inverted in ''Literature/TheInvertedWorld''. The human inhabitants of the City, due to a highly-skewed gender ratio, realize that the only way to keep the City's population up is to interbreed with the (apparently human) natives of the strange world they're trapped in. They thus begin bringing native women to the City to bear children -- willingly or otherwise. |
| 197 | * Creator/RobertSilverberg's "Ishmael In Love" is told from the perspective of a superintelligent dolphin in love with his trainer. Unlike most examples of this trope, he's actually surprised by this attraction and considers it unusual. |
| 198 | * Explored in ''Literature/LilithsBrood'': Mars needs 'everybody.' Specifically, gene trader aliens who travel throughout the universe mixing their DNA with other species in order to create new, stronger breeds. In a twist, this makes them value life so much that they can't leave self-destructive humanity alone, even if it's what the humans want. Much of the conflict comes from humans being less than thrilled with this. |
| 199 | * Comes up a few times in the works of Creator/HPLovecraft. Generally, he has little interest in talking about the sex act itself, and is more interested in the idea of HalfHumanHybrids. |
| 200 | ** In ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth'', the [[FishPeople Deep Ones]] -- male ''and'' female -- are very eager to reproduce with humans. At the end, [[spoiler: the narrator realizes he is descended from such a pairing himself, and fully embraces his Deep One heritage and decides to go live with them in the ocean.]] |
| 201 | ** ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror'' has Yog-Sothoth, an alien god monster, impregnating a human woman, though it seems unlikely there was ever any kind of sexual attraction involved on either end. |
| 202 | * GenderFlipped in ''Literature/TheOccupationSaga''. Most aliens in the galaxy have many more females than males ([[ExoticExtendedMarriage polygyny is common]] even though most of them are matriarchal), and most of them find human males equivalently attractive to males of their own species. Couple that with the fact that the most likely alien a human will encounter is an off-duty Shil'vati soldier who is at most a couple years out of school, and a lot of BoldlyComing happens. |
| 203 | * ''Literature/{{Quozl}}'' has the alien settler species of the story, whom believe in frequent sex as a legitimate way of blowing off steam, find Humans quite attractive in an exotic way. Considering most Humans find the rabbit-like aliens quite cute looking, the feeling is usually mutual. |
| 204 | * In ''Raiders from the Rings'' by Alan E. Nourse, radiation in space destroys sperm with X chromosomes, so Spacers can only have male children. After a war between the Earth and the Spacers, Earth cuts off emigration, so if the Spacers don't want to die out, they have to periodically raid the Earth and kidnap brides for themselves. Keep in mind that the Spacers are fully human, so their attraction to human females is understandable. There is a very good scene where one of the captured women, who has up to this point resisted the abduction, is startled into understanding and almost sympathizing with it. |
| 205 | * Treated quite soberly and gender-flipped in "Literature/ARoseForEcclesiastes", in which all male Martians and most females have become sterile, not long before humans visit their world. Unusual in that the female who has an affair with a human linguist didn't realize he could impregnate her, and because her lover then has to talk the other Martians out of their prior resignation to extinction. How often does Mars have to be ''convinced'' it needs women/men? [[note]] She knew/believed she would get pregnant, based on an ancient Martian prophecy describing how someone who met the description of her accomplishments (something about mastering "the 1,000 dances") would get pregnant by a man from Earth (who would convince the Martians to live) and thus save their species. She just hoped it wasn't true because she didn't love him back (but did her duty for her people) and, like most of the Martians, was resigned to the extinction of her people[[/note]] |
| 206 | * The almost-human aliens in ''Literature/SagaOfTheExiles'' can't breed with humans, though they enthusiastically have sex with them in every combination. But they use human women as surrogate mothers (their females have trouble carrying a foetus to term on Earth) to the point of wearing them out by constant pregnancies. |
| 207 | * Subverted in ''[[http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/johnson_10_09/ Spar]]'', a 2009 short story by Kij Johnson. After the destruction of her spacecraft, a human woman is trapped in a lifeboat with a {{Starfish Alien|s}} survivor, and they have {{squick}}-inducing sex simply because there's nothing else to do. Worse, she has no means of communicating with the alien, so never discovers if the act has any meaning for it; or even if she's having sex with a sentient alien at all and not just their equivalent of the houseplant. |
| 208 | * The ultimate motivation of [[spoiler:the fairies of Hy Brasil]] in "Literature/TheStonesAreHatching" is to kidnap human women and make them their wives, believing that due to the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI war]] there will be no men left to stop them. |
| 209 | * Inverted in Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Strata}}'', in which male kung, a {{Humanoid Alien|s}} species, are so overwhelmingly sexy to human females that they must sometimes resort to physical force to discourage the more-susceptible women from trying to jump their bones in public. |
| 210 | * Donald Tyson appears to have a fetish for this trope. His work of [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] {{metafiction}}, ''Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred'' necessarily incorporates it when it mentions [[Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth the Deep Ones]] and [[Literature/TheDunwichHorror Yog-Sothoth]], but [[AuthorAppeal he uses it even when it is not part of the original canon]]. For instance, Tyson's Alhazred claims that Nyarlathotep assumes his human form in order to mate with women, that [[Literature/TheShadowOutOfTime the Yithians]] exchanged their minds with men to get at the women on Earth, and that Shub-Niggurath is similar to a hideous alien succubus. |
| 211 | * ''Literature/UniversalMonsters'': In book 5, as in the original film, the Gill Man is searching for a mate. It initially fixates on Rita Crockett, Skylar's older sister, and later tries to abduct Nina. |
| 212 | * In ''Literature/UnlimitedFafnir'', the dragons seek out the (all-female with one exception) [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Ds]] as mates. They have the ability to "mark" Ds, which eventually transforms them into another of their own kind that they can reproduce with. This is because [[spoiler:Vritra, one of the dragons, wants to create dragon-D hybrid offspring, who would eventually be capable of marking and transforming all of humanity into dragons]]. |
| 213 | * Equal Opportunity again: ''The Vanishing'' by Creator/BentleyLittle centers around the modern descendants of 19th-century couplings between humans and a secret race of monsters who, despite being hideous 8 foot tall MixAndMatchCritters who speak in BlackSpeech, have a practically supernatural sexual appeal that makes them irresistible to humans. As a result, they don't need to chase or abduct human women or men; the humans tend to seek them out, usually just for a quickie, but sometimes going on to abandon their families to go live amongst the monsters. |
| 214 | * [[HumanoidAbomination Myrddraal]] in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' have this heavily implied in the text (confirmed by WordOfGod) fetish for kidnapping and raping human women. Logically, this makes little sense -- Myrddraal can't produce viable offspring (the BlackMagic corruption in them is too strong -- on the off chance one ''does'' get its victim pregnant, the child is always stillborn), they don't need to reproduce their race in the first place (they're more like a mutant strain of [[OurOrcsAreDifferent trollocs]] than a viable race in their own right, and new Myrddraal will always be born from the general trolloc population) and there's really nothing innate in them that would cause them to find humans sexually appealing (again, they're an offshoot of trollocs, and WordOfGod is that the only way a trolloc would find a human woman appealing is as [[ImAHumanitarian dinner]]). Because Myrddraal seem to be mostly devoid of any emotion that isn't sadism, the real reason just seems to be [[ForTheEvulz sheer spite]]. |
| 215 | * In ''The Yillian Way'', by John Keith Laumer, the Yill ruler suggests to a human diplomat that they carouse with the handmaidens after political negotiations are over. He's been considerate enough to import some human girls for the purpose, and considers trying one of them. "I fancy an occasional perversion." |
| 216 | * {{Deconstructed}} in James Tiptree Jr.'s "And I Awoke and Found Me Here On the Cold Hill's Side," which proposes that ''Earth'' [[BoldlyComing needs women]]--essentially, the way attraction works in humans (genetic difference being a huge draw to prevent inbreeding) means that attraction to other sapient species is our [[PlanetOfHats Hat]]. Your average human finds your average alien sexually irresistible, while your average alien wants nothing to do with your average human--and the few aliens who ''are'' willing to take humans as lovers are looked down on by their own species as perverts. |
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| 220 | * ''Series/{{Angel}}'': Cordelia gets supernaturally impregnated on 3 different occasions, in the episode 'Expecting' along with a bunch of her friends, all of whom becoming willing demon breeding slaves after being overwhelmed by their maternal instincts. Doyle is half-human/half-demon, never having known his father whilst the character of "Billy" is the product of a human raping a demon. |
| 221 | * ''Series/BabylonFive'': |
| 222 | ** The Narn Ambassador, G'Kar, regularly rents human prostitutes and even attempts to bribe the station's telepath into sleeping with him -- [[BlatantLies for purely reproductive reasons, of course]]. (His species has no telepaths.) It seems to be viewed as a personal fetish of his, though, rather than a normal preference for his species. He also likes Centauri women, who are HumanAliens except for their vastly different sexual organs. |
| 223 | ** Another episode that hilariously parodies this trope is "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E12ActsOfSacrifice Acts of Sacrifice]]" with Susan Ivanova having to deal with [[AssInAmbassador the Lumati ambassador]], whose decision to open relations with Earth is crucial. The thing is, he expects to have sex with her to seal the deal, as [[YourNormalIsOurTaboo sex is considered just a salute in his culture equivalent to shake hands]]. Considering that Lumati are incredibly ugly, Dr. Franklin's advice is "put a pillow on his face and [[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland do it for Babylon 5]]". Despite this, she cleverly [[spoiler:realizes that he has no idea how human sex works, so she tricks him into thinking that they had sex by dancing. Most hilariously even is that the ambassador's servant, who is supposed to be "inferior" to him, does detect the con but says nothing]]. It could be an aversion considering that the Lumati ambassador shows no attraction toward her; it's just business to him. |
| 224 | ** The ''Series/{{Crusade}}'' spinoff revealed that inter-species pornography exists in the setting, and at least one main character has a stash of it. The video the other characters stumble across is noted to involve two species that are physically completely incompatible, but "technology is a wonderful thing". |
| 225 | * ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': |
| 226 | ** If you're an evil race of robots, what's the first thing to do after subjecting humanity to a nuclear apocalypse? Round up the survivors and put them in "farms" to produce your HalfHumanHybrid offspring, of course. While the one we saw was an all-girl institution, WordOfGod has it that there were stud farms as well. |
| 227 | ** And in fact, the only successful union was human male-cylon female. |
| 228 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 229 | ** Parodied in [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion "The Christmas Invasion"]]; the aliens demand our minerals, our cattle, and our women. The reference to women was edited out of the spoken dialogue, but one of the characters has a translator and the text can be seen on its screen. |
| 230 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime "Partners in Crime"]]: Parodied using the two main possible meanings of "mate" as a noun in UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish. The Doctor wants a friend. Donna thinks he means this. |
| 231 | --->''"Well, you're not matin' with me, sunshine!"'' |
| 232 | ** Parodied again in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth "The Stolen Earth"]]. For reference, the invading aliens in question are ''[[AbsoluteXenophobe Daleks]]''. |
| 233 | --->'''Wilf:''' Get back inside, Sylvia! They always go after the women! |
| 234 | ** Inverted in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone "Flesh and Stone"]]; Amy Pond, after an extremely traumatizing ordeal, jumps the Doctor and outright requests GladToBeAliveSex at the very end of the episode. |
| 235 | ** Subverted in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]]. While the aliens are indeed after our women, by their standards, humans look like food. They're actually converting the women into females of their own species to generate a viable gene pool. |
| 236 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]]: Strax is having one of his usual ComedicSociopathy moments. |
| 237 | --->''"This planet is now property of the Sontaran Empire! Surrender your women and intellectuals!"'' |
| 238 | *** Oddly enough, this is subverted on other occaisions, where Strax says human women are ugly. |
| 239 | * PlayedForLaughs while ''not'' gender-inverted in ''Series/TheJulekalender'' when Hansi the Nisse (basically an elf-like creature) becomes infatuated with Gertrud the human. Note that Gertrud is 52 years old (and looks a bit older), while Hansi appears much younger. They're also played by the same actor in the Norwegian version. [[spoiler:Nothing comes of it. Gertrud never even finds out that Hansi exists, let alone that he wants her.]] |
| 240 | * Subverted for laughs on ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''. Aliens had been seen in a neighboring ranch in the Grotto, and as everyone rushes out to look, Otto exclaims, "Be sure not to wave at them! They think your hands are sex organs and you don't want to get into that!" |
| 241 | * Rife in Franchise/TheMuppets, where interspecies dating is the norm. Kermit and Miss Piggy, Gonzo and Camilla, and once, on ''Series/MuppetsTonight!'', even Cindy Crawford and Bobo the Bear. Continued in [[Series/TheMuppets2015 the 2015 series]], which is more adult oriented, and portrays Fozzie's dating a human woman as being like an interracial relationship (complete with disapproving parents who believe negative stereotypes about bears). In addition, Miss Piggy dates human men, Sam has feelings for Janice, Gonzo tries to date a human-looking Muppet (who throws him over for Liam Hemsworth), and Kermit is dating a new character who is another pig (he admits attraction to the species), but also has a crush on Creator/LeaThompson. |
| 242 | * Darulio in ''Series/TheOrville'' is a blue alien who uses the effect that his pheromones have on everyone who touches him to have sex with human woman ''and'' men. |
| 243 | * Parodied by ''Punt and Dennis'', in a sketch where [[ConversationalTroping they explore various science fiction tropes]]. Hugh Dennis plays the alien: |
| 244 | -->''"Our world is dying. A mysterious space virus has wiped out all our females. We wish to take three hundred thousand of your Earth women for ''[leers]'' breeding purposes."'' |
| 245 | * Inverted in an episode of ''Series/RedDwarf'' where a female G.E.L.F marries Lister in exchange for a replacement for Starbug. He runs away out of terror just before the wedding night, thankfully. |
| 246 | * ''Series/{{Sliders}}'': Wade is PutOnABus... to a Kromagg breeding camp. Ewww. The Kromaggs really ''did'' Need Women, as their own females had been rendered infertile by an attack on their homeworld, and since they're hominids, interbreeding isn't nearly as genetically far out as most examples on this page. Even then, the hybrids are implied to be mostly sterile. |
| 247 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 248 | ** Gender-inverted in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E11WinkOfAnEye Wink of an Eye]]": due to living in accelerated time, the Scalosian men were rendered sterile, and the society abducts and accelerates human men in an attempt to keep their species alive. [[spoiler:Kirk is taken but manages to return to normal time when Spock and [=McCoy=] develop an antidote to the condition. Unfortunately, the cure won't work for the Scalosians, and Kirk is forced to quarantine their planet.]] |
| 249 | ** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': |
| 250 | *** Homaged in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E13FarBeyondTheStars Far Beyond the Stars]]", in which Captain Sisko dreams that he (and several other characters from ''Deep Space Nine'') are writers for a 1950s WeirdScience {{pulp|Magazine}} called "Incredible Tales". The illustrator comes in with his latest set of drawings (which the writers have to think up stories for) [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Honeymoon_on_Andoris?file=Honeymoon_on_Andoris.jpg one of which]] shows a Bug-Eyed Monster crawling over an apartment ledge towards a buxom woman sunbathing in a towel. One of the writers, Herbert Rossoff (actually Quark without his makeup), instantly derides the picture as garbage... then quickly says he'll write the story for it. |
| 251 | *** In one of the novels, Quark is persuaded (after much foot-dragging and whining) to hire a Dabo ''boy''. |
| 252 | *** There are a couple of Dabo girls with [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Deep_Space_9_visitors#Yellow_skin_001 non-human facial features]], although they do still have conventionally attractive humanoid figures. |
| 253 | *** The whole thing may say more about Quark's own taste than that of his customers. Indeed, "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E06CaptivePursuit Captive Pursuit]]" opens with one of the Dabo girls having come to Sisko asking for help getting out of a particular clause in the "Ferengi Print" of her contract (and presumably ''all'' the Dabo girl contracts) requiring her to have sex with Quark (heavily implied, but not stated outright -- it's ''Trek'', after all). |
| 254 | *** Standards of beauty/sexy among the station's residents seems to be similar for humans, Bajorans, and a number of other {{Human Alien|s}} races, so Quark's hiring practices may just be him milking the biggest share of his potential customer base. For all we know, he might have some non-humanoid dabos who come in one night a week, to appeal to his more exotic-looking customers. |
| 255 | ** The Ferengi in general show attraction towards humans or Bajoran (who are basically HumanAliens) women. Examples of this include the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E24MenageATroi Ménage à Troi]]" with Deanna Troi's mother Lwaxana kidnapped by a Ferengi for sexual purposes (though one Ferengi is shown to actually [[HumansAreUgly feel disgusted by human women]]). In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', which is the one showing the Ferengi more prominently, Quark, Rom and the Ferengi King, the Grand Nagus, all show attraction to the female humanoid characters such as Major Kira, and in one episode, Nog and Jake date two Bajoran teens. Considering that the few Ferengi women we have seen are not by any means attractive by human standards, these definitely apply to this trope. |
| 256 | ** Cardassians are also shown to be attracted to human and Bajoran women, which in their case has UnfortunateImplications as they occupied Bajor for years. Both ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' and ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' (where the Maquis, a group of anti-Cardassians guerilla fighters of federal species, mostly humans, are part of the crew) mention Cardassians raping women. One of the most critically acclaimed episodes, "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet Duet]]", has Kira mentioning the gang-rapes of Bajoran women in front of their sons as one of the many crimes committed in the Cardassians camps, as one Maquis character in Voyager also has the death of his girlfriend under such circumstances as his DarkAndTroubledPast. Of course, it's possible that some Cardassians do this out of spite using rape more as a form of terror than for pleasure, but is impossible to know. Dukat, on the other hand, is indeed attracted to human women and even seduces and impregnates Bajoran women, although in his case with [[EvenEvilHasStandards consent]] (he has a hybrid Bajoran-Cardassian daughter and also impregnated a married woman when he became the leader of a Bajoran cult). Of course, how strange is this may depend on your opinion, as Cardassians are not as different, and some people may find Cardassian women attractive. |
| 257 | * Gleefully parodied in the ''Series/WaltDisneyPresents'' episode "Mars and Beyond". An evil robot kidnaps the beautiful secretary of a [[ScienceHero pipe-smoking egghead]], who is subjected to a number of bizarre experiments. She [[DamselOutOfDistress eventually manages to escape her captors]] before her boss even notices she's gone. |
| 258 | [[/folder]] |
| 259 | |
| 260 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 261 | * Music/FrankZappa's instrumental track "Manx Needs Women" is a PunBasedTitle, found on the album ''Music/ZappaInNewYork''. The song has a DoubleEntendre in the sense that ''Manx'' are inhabitants of the Isle of Man, thus explaining why they would need women. |
| 262 | * Music/RobZombie's song "Mars Needs Women" [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin is just this]]… But not just normal women. Mars needs angry, red women. |
| 263 | * Peter Wolf's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz78OECC8zU "Mars Needs Women"]] is an AffectionateParody retelling the B-movie's plot. |
| 264 | * The British recording label [[Creator/FourADRecords 4AD]] used a sample from the trailer to the film ''Mars Needs Women'', consisting of the eponymous phrase, in some versions of the seminal 1987 house music song "Pump Up the Volume" by MARRS, a one-off collaboration between Music/ARKane and Colourbox.[[note]]The original UK track didn't include this sample, but its 12-inch remix, which was released to dance clubs worldwide, was the first US version, and became the song's best-known version, did. However, neither the UK nor US radio edits included it.[[/note]] |
| 265 | [[/folder]] |
| 266 | |
| 267 | [[folder:Mythology & Religion]] |
| 268 | * Myth/ClassicalMythology has all manner of male deities, satyrs, centaurs, and demigods falling for and sometimes even raping human women. The reverse was rarer, partly because centaurs and satyrs are {{One Gender Race}}s. Exceptions include the occasional nymph--which we see echoes of in some later (i.e., from TheMiddleAges onward) depictions of TheFairFolk and their [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent nautical cousins]], and in the term "nymphomaniac" for a hypersexual woman--and some versions of the Amazons that had them taking male slaves in order to breed with them. |
| 269 | * Literature/TheBible: |
| 270 | ** It happened after the sons of men had multiplied in those days, that daughters were born to them, elegant and beautiful. And when the angels, the sons of heaven, beheld them, they became enamored of them, saying to each other, "Come, let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children". -- ''From the Apocryphal Book of Enoch.'' |
| 271 | ** And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. -- ''[[Literature/BookOfGenesis Genesis]]'' 6:1-4. (There is some religious debate on whether this is a different version of the above story.) |
| 272 | * The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_dolphin#In_mythology Encantados]] from Brazilian Folklore: magical river dolphins which, at night, become handsome young men and seduce (human) girls. (Anyone who knows enough about bottlenoses can tell you that this depiction of dolphins is [[AccidentallyCorrectWriting slightly more accurate than you'd think.]]) |
| 273 | [[/folder]] |
| 274 | |
| 275 | [[folder:Pinball]] |
| 276 | %%* ''Pinball/AttackFromMars'': Played for laughs. |
| 277 | %%-->'''Woman:''' Get your hands off me, all four of them! |
| 278 | * ''Pinball/RevengeFromMars'': Punned with the mission "Mars Kneads Women". |
| 279 | * ''Pinball/RedAndTedsRoadShow'': Suggested at the start of the AlienInvasion in Seattle: |
| 280 | -->'''Red:''' Hey look Ted, aliens!\ |
| 281 | '''Ted:''' I think they ''like'' ya, Red. |
| 282 | [[/folder]] |
| 283 | |
| 284 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 285 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': |
| 286 | ** Dragons, celestials, and fiends can and do interbreed with just about anybody, but elves and orcs have produced so many hybrids that half-elves and half-orcs are fully established races of their own. The other "half" in those cases is invariably assumed to be human. Elves like humans because their shorter lives make them more outgoing and exciting, and for an elf even a decades-long relationship can be considered a "fling". Orcs often intentionally seek out humans to breed with, as the resulting offspring will be smarter than orcs (if not as strong) and lack their sensitivity to bright light. |
| 287 | ** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': A few dwarf communities have begun (very discreetly) to encourage their young unmarried males to spend a few years living alongside humans, with the very-much-unspoken hope that some will marry human women. Dwarf-kind in the Realms has seen its population in decline for many generations, and the elder dwarves who are subtly promoting this practice hope that such pairings' half-human offspring will breed back into the dwarf population, thus infusing humans' greater fertility into their clans' bloodlines. |
| 288 | * The ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' mission "Clones in Space" features the [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage shmegegi]], except they can't bring themselves to actually follow up on their lust and wind up just reciting tepid poetry instead. |
| 289 | * ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'': Not really Mars, no, they've got their own, but apparently Callisto [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti yetis]] can develop an attraction to beautiful women and handsome men. |
| 290 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Commorragh needs Women. [[DepravedBisexual And Men.]] [[RunningGag And Orks.]] [[OverlyLongGag And Tau. And Kroot.]] [[ExtremeOmnisexual And pretty much any other species that it's possible to rape]] and torture. |
| 291 | [[/folder]] |
| 292 | |
| 293 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 294 | * The entire concept behind the Firenze/Umbridge pairing in ''[[Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical A Very Potter Sequel.]]'' |
| 295 | [[/folder]] |
| 296 | |
| 297 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 298 | * In the second game of the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series, the third case involved an 'assumingly' living puppet that has a romantic obsession with one of the female characters in that particular case... even with intents on marrying her someday. |
| 299 | * ''VideoGame/AHintOfATint'': All of the {{Cute Monster Girl}}s are a female-only OneGenderRace and because of that need human males to mate with. The problem is, there are no humans living in their world, so they use magic to summon men from ours. |
| 300 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', [[spoiler:this is what started off the game's entire plot. The [[EldritchAbomination Great Ones]], perhaps due to their very nature, are unable to have children with each other, and thus yearn for surrogates among humanity]]. |
| 301 | * In ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'', Eddie and his army, Ironheade, befriend and recruit an AmazonBrigade known as the Zaulia. They like to abduct "mates," and have something called "[[DoYouWantToCopulate The Mating Challenge]]" they invite men to. |
| 302 | * Predictably in ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'', as it's a loving send-up and parody of 50's alien invasion flicks, with the player as the alien invader. One of your earliest missions is to kidnap one human female for "testing" purposes, so the aliens can determine if human DNA can solve their cloning problem. The sequel ramps it up by stating your character is the first of these aliens in a very long time to have a, ahem, "package", and he's spent the past decade using it. Later on in the game, it's also established the Furons weren't the ''only'' species to use Earth for "shore leave". |
| 303 | * Played straight in the ''VideoGame/DukeNukem'' game ''Land of the Babes''. Earth has been taken over, all the other men have been killed, and the "human babe" is the hottest commodity in the universe. |
| 304 | ** Also, of the other Duke Nukem games, starting with ''3D''. |
| 305 | ---> "Nobody steals our chicks... and lives." |
| 306 | ** In fact, killing one of the women in 3D results in more enemies spawning. They're serious about getting those women. |
| 307 | ** ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' has Duke himself {{lampshade|Hanging}} the frequency of this trope. |
| 308 | --->"Damn it, why do they always take the hot ones?" |
| 309 | *** In this case, it's horrifyingly played straight: [[spoiler:human women make great alien breeding pods. ''Expendable'' breeding pods. Duke is unable to save any of the women hooked up and raped until their brains turn to mush, including his girlfriends.]] |
| 310 | * ''Exterlien'' is a 1990 PC-98 HGame that revolves around a beauty contest at an amusement park being interrupted by an invasion of [[EldritchAbomination bizarre eldritch monsters]], who proceed to kidnap the women for the "pleasure" of their master Ruzu. Your job, as the protagonist Masato, is to defeat the monsters and rescued the distressed (and half-dressed) damsels. |
| 311 | * The description for the BlobMonster Orthros in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' claims it has "an inordinate Fondness of comely Maidens." Orthros only appears in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' if you have an all-female party. Orthros is an {{Expy}} of the octopus Ultros from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI''. If his battle dialogue is to be believed, the latter is also an example of this trope. |
| 312 | * PlayedForLaughs in ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians''. One of the audio logs you can collect is a love poem from a Sangheilli admirer of a certain female Spartan-IV. Who's the [[SarcasmMode lucky lady]] you ask? [[spoiler:Commander Sarah Palmer]], of course. Doubly hilarious since her voice actress is [[spoiler:Creator/JenniferHale, probably best known for playing female Commander Shepard in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' franchise, whose ability to seduce members of other species has reached MemeticMutation status]]. |
| 313 | * ''VideoGame/InvasionTheAbductors'': Though males and females alike are turned into mutants, the alien lab on board the mothership seems to exclusively be holding women in bikinis. |
| 314 | * Daxter of the ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' series. Although he has the excuse that he used to be human (or [[RubberForeheadAliens the local equivalent thereof]]), he also manages to actually ''get'' a girl during the series, [[spoiler:who eventually gets turned into an Ottsel like him]]. |
| 315 | * In a rare {{Fantasy}} example, the Ruloi from ''VideoGame/LandsOfLore'', who are invaders from another world, kidnap females, although not necessarily humans -- in one cutscene they abduct a [[CatFolk huline woman]]. What exactly they do with them is never explained, although one Ruloi telepathically tells Copper in the third game that "We need vessels." |
| 316 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' depicts Link as a subject of romantic attention from [[FishPeople Zora women]] like [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ruto]] and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Mipha]]. ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle of Ages]]'' depicts Link getting the affections of the Maku Tree, while ''Oracle of Seasons'' lets him go on a date with Rosa of the Subrosians, a race of hooded creatures whose actual appearance is unknown. |
| 317 | * Equal Opportunity again: Ruby, Hiro's sidekick in ''VideoGame/Lunar2EternalBlueComplete'' who looks like a flying cat, happens to have a crush on him. Equally creepy, for those who somehow haven't played the first game, is the fact that the Human character Nall seems to have a crush on ''Ruby''. But as it turns out, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Ruby and Nall are both dragons]]. |
| 318 | * Played with in ''Franchise/MassEffect'': |
| 319 | ** While the PlayerCharacter can pursue many different species who all presumably find Shepard physically attractive, it mostly has to do with the fact that they're [[IfItsYouItsOkay Shepard]], and not due to a specific human fetish. |
| 320 | ** However, human women are still seen as mostly attractive -- rather than on their own merits, it has to do with the fact they resemble the [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe asari]] nearly perfectly. The asari were the first (currently living) species to achieve galactic expansion, and all other species look at them as a symbol of wisdom, power, and beauty. Combine this with the fact asari can mate with ''any'' species, the asari -- and therefore human female -- form is considered a standard of beauty, even for extremely non-human species like the krogan. |
| 321 | ** The asari themselves are this trope, as they can produce an offspring with any other species. Though they can mate with one another, doing so is very taboo, as the resulting offspring have a small chance of manifesting a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent dangerous genetic condition]]. Therefore, most asari tend to seek out partners of a different species since this prevents the condition in question from manifesting. |
| 322 | * In ''VideoGame/ObsCure II'', [[spoiler:Kenny]] undergoes a FaceMonsterTurn due to [[TheCorruption mortifilia infection]] that leads him to kidnap and rape [[spoiler:Amy, impregnating her with a monstrous spawn. [[SecretCircleOfSecrets Delta Theta Gamma]] attempts to take Amy away in order to study her and her offspring, but her ExpressDelivery kills her and her captors. The BolivianArmyEnding has Stan and Shannon, the last surviving protagonists, facing down the monster in question]]. |
| 323 | * ''VideoGame/QuakeII'' has a weird variant: the Strogg are a race of cyborgs who "reproduce" by combining robotics with "spare parts" from conquered races. At one point you find a processing plant where captured humans are ground up, liquefied, etc to make more Strogg parts. |
| 324 | * Pastiched in ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxTheDevilsPlayhouse'', in which the alien gorilla Skun-ka'pe is romantically obsessed with Girl Stinky (who [[spoiler: [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent isn't exactly human]], but appears perfectly human and]] comes from Earth). Skun-ka'pe's whole character is a big ShoutOut to zero-budget [=50s=] sci-fi {{B Movie}}s such as ''Film/RobotMonster'', so everyone's fairly GenreSavvy about this. Also, Girl Stinky is romantically involved with Sal, a ''six foot tall Cockroach''. |
| 325 | * ''VideoGame/StarControl II'' has Admiral [=ZEX=], a hideous tentacle alien whose species, the VUX, finds humans completely repulsive and all except the strongest stomachs amongst them projectile vomit violently as soon as they see one. However, [=ZEX=] is different. He...[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk3i57DCE5o 'enjoys' humans]]. |
| 326 | ** Though in this case his specific obsession is with the male Captain. |
| 327 | ** Heck, at the end of the game, you [[spoiler: wind up marrying a Syreen captain]]. Turns out that Syreen are biologically human; the blue skin and red hair are just racial traits. To this day, nobody knows why humans have two extremely distant homeworlds. |
| 328 | ** Taken one step farther in that the Syreen (the race from which the Captain's future wife comes from) are heavily implied to need men (specifically human men) to keep their race going, since most men were killed when their homeworld was destroyed. The survivors are mostly female because it was mostly the all-female Space Patrol that was off-planet at the time. |
| 329 | * In ''Superfrog'' for the Amiga, Superfrog's girlfriend is a human princess, and at the end of the game [[spoiler:he's not at all pleased when she turns into a fellow frog after he kisses her]]. |
| 330 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': |
| 331 | ** Bowser is a StalkerWithACrush on Peach. Bowser is a giant somewhat-dragon-like tortoise. And it's not just Bowser; a ''computer'' falls for Peach in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''. |
| 332 | ** Also Rosalina from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''. According to her backstory, the main reason why the Lumas (an entire race of star people) kidnapped her is because a young Luma thought that she was its mother, and as a result ''all'' of the younger Lumas wanted her to be their mother too. But then Rosalina discovered that her real family on Earth is now long dead, and as a result she agreed to be the Lumas' mother from then on. |
| 333 | ** Princess Daisy's first and, as far as we know, only abduction was by a literal space alien known as Tatanga in her first appearance in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand''. |
| 334 | * In the ''VideoGame/{{Thera}}'' GameMod for ''VideoGame/MedievalIITotalWar'', the [[TheHorde Uruk Dominion's]] bestial warriors are bred by having their strongest and most capable soldiers breed with captured human women. Apparently, the Uruks and Ly Kans, despite their outwardly monstrous appearances, are genetically similar enough to humans that they can breed true, though [[GenderEqualsBreed male offspring of such a union are always bestial while female offspring are always human]]. |
| 335 | * ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} III: Reign of Chaos'': |
| 336 | ** Subverted where a group of orcs come across quillboars -- a race of bipedal boars that only barely qualify as "anthromorphic" -- and one of them remarks that "at least they're prettier than humans". (It could be said that the Orcs have a somewhat porcine appearance, so...). |
| 337 | ** Warchief Thrall was long believed to be a case of this trope, since his best childhood friend was a human girl the same age as him (a lot of people assume they were more than friends), and he's had a good friendship with Jaina Proudmoore (with whom he's commonly shipped). However, [[WordOfGod Chris Metzen]] has stated that Thrall just plain isn't into human women and married an Orcish woman. |
| 338 | * Averted in ''VideoGame/XCOMUFODefense''. The aliens do kidnap earth women (and animals) but it isn't an act of eroticism -- they simply use them in genetic engineering, both to mix human DNA with the other subject races in their civilisation (to produce even better warriors etc.) and to breed them (note that the woman isn't necessarily alive at the time). In ''VideoGame/XCOMApocalypse'' it's revealed this experimentation resulted in the creation of a new race of HalfHumanHybrids. |
| 339 | * The {{Trope Namer|s}} is given a nod in the twelfth level of ''VideoGame/ZombiesAteMyNeighbors'', titled "Mars Needs Cheerleaders," the character's first encounter with [[GoddamnedBats Martians]] and [[BossBattle their space saucer]]. |
| 340 | |
| 341 | [[/folder]] |
| 342 | |
| 343 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 344 | * In ''VisualNovel/SablesGrimoire'', a few demihuman races are noted to exclusively pursue people outside their own species when it comes to mating or romance. The [[OurPixiesAreDifferent pixies]], for instance, are a OneGenderRace who can only reproduce by mating with the males of other species. SuccubiAndIncubi, meanwhile, view the thought of falling in love with a member of their own race as something repulsive and taboo, and would much rather pursue humans romantically. |
| 345 | [[/folder]] |
| 346 | |
| 347 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 348 | * ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': |
| 349 | ** In the toon [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/datenite.html Date Nite]], The Cheat (a Pikachu-esque SpeechImpairedAnimal) goes on a date with Marzipan (a... human being? Maybe? She's a lot closer to human than The Cheat, anyway). To be fair, Marzipan is the [[TheSmurfettePrinciple only female character]] in the series. Who ''else'' is he going to go out with? |
| 350 | ** Strong Bad is also attracted to humans. |
| 351 | [[/folder]] |
| 352 | |
| 353 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 354 | * ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'' parodies this when [[spoiler:Digger, a wombat, is joining the hyena tribe for complicated reasons]]. One of the (matriarchal) hyenas says "What's she going to do? Move into our huts, eat our food, and seduce our menfolk?" "It could happen..." |
| 355 | * The Demonic Duck from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' is attracted to humans. When the gay character Justin comments on how unnatural this is, the duck replies, "Oh, gee, I don't know. Shouldn't ''you'' be attracted to ''women?''" Justin concedes the point. |
| 356 | * ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'': Parodied [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2100/fc02042.htm here.]] [[spoiler:Actually, the abducted red robot had recorded evidence of a crime, which Sawtooth was recovering for the investigation.]] |
| 357 | * In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' it's been established that Nemesites really ''do'' care mainly about personality over anything else, and so interspecies romances are not that uncommon; Ahem is quick to point out that this fact is also a convenient excuse for arranging otherwise preposterous political marriages. |
| 358 | * Parodied in ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' by referencing ''WesternAnimation/MarsNeedsMoms'', but with [[http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/727 Duke Nukem]] getting on their ship. |
| 359 | * ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'': |
| 360 | ** Inverted in the side-story, [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10082&mpe=1&step=1 The Astonishing Excursions of Helen Narbon & Co.,]] set in the Victorian Era. Chapter Sixteen is in fact titled "Mars Needs Men", and shows that the entire population of Mars is female. We later discover that [[spoiler: they are in fact shape-shifting protoplasmic blobs, taking the form of the only human they've ever met -- Helen Narbon's mother]]. |
| 361 | ** Also Artie, a gerbil, wonders why he's interested in humans. Specifically, male ones. |
| 362 | * Inverted in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Tsukiko is [[ILoveTheDead attracted to the undead]], and in love with [[OurLichesAreDifferent Xykon]]. Xykon's not interested however, as he's "not one of those disgusting biophilliacs". |
| 363 | * ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': |
| 364 | ** Parodied in [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/where-are-the-aliens "Where are the Aliens?",]] where an alien is freaked out by a human's assuming it's come to breed with their women, but even more freaked out that the human would be willing to do such a thing himself. |
| 365 | ---> "That'd be like if ''you'' went to another planet and found a species of sapient alien goats, then decided to have sex with them to see if you'd get hybrid alien-goat-human babies!" |
| 366 | ---> "Take me to the alien sexgoats!" |
| 367 | ** Inverted: In [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/humans-2 this comic]] the alien demands 100,000 humans to be used as breeding mates-but it turns out it was a SecretTestOfCharacter to see if humanity should be condemned (if they had forced the people on the aliens) or invited to join the galactic federation (if they had refused). So the alien is absolutely flummoxed when he finds out that the 100,000 humans ''volunteered'', all of them recruited on fetish boards. In fact, the UN secretary general notes that they had more volunteers than they needed [[spoiler: and the extra panel reveals the secretary general's one of them.]] |
| 368 | * ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': |
| 369 | ** Sergeant Schlock is a Carboscilicate Amorph, who is frequently confused with a pile of crap (much to his annoyance). In addition to him falling in love with the human Admiral Breya Andreyasn, there was also a running joke about him having a ''[[PornStash Sports Lustystrated 1000 Years of Swimsuit Editions]]'' [[PornStash Collection]] in the [[CharacterizationMarchesOn early days of the comic]]. |
| 370 | --->'''Jevee Ceeta:''' The thought of you having romantic feelings towards human females makes me crawl inside, Sergeant.\ |
| 371 | '''Schlock:''' Why? It's very natural and normal.\ |
| 372 | '''Jevee Ceeta:''' I can explain it in two words, and they rhyme with 'Pentacle Rex.' |
| 373 | ** As tends to be the case with this comic, however, it's {{justified|Trope}}. Carboscilicate Amorphs are effectively asexual, and reproduce through a form of mitosis. Through observation, character-traits and parts of the personality of the 'mate' is imprinted on the proto-amorph... and as such, Amorphs are attracted primarily to strong personalities and character-traits, regardless of the physical form. In fact, it turns out that [[spoiler: Schlock's grandmother is a human]]. |
| 374 | * In ''Webcomic/TryingHuman'' TheGreys. It's complicated. |
| 375 | [[/folder]] |
| 376 | |
| 377 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 378 | * This happens a ''lot'' on Literotica. The only version more common than "alien abducts human woman ForScience" is "alien abducts human man [[GenderBender and turns him into a woman]] ForScience" |
| 379 | * Inverted [[http://humoncomics.com/mars-needs-men in this piece of art,]] appropriately named "Mars Needs Men". |
| 380 | * One of the "Monkey News" segments on ''Radio/TheRickyGervaisShow'' involved a chimp named "Ollie" whom the zookeeper took a liking to. Ultimately, he brought the chimp home because it was becoming morose at the zoo, and it wound up making a pass at his wife. [[http://www.pilkipedia.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Oliver_the_Humanzee Apparently at least some of the story was true.]] |
| 381 | * ''Literature/PayMeBug'': {{Discussed|Trope}}, and ultimately {{averted|Trope}}: |
| 382 | --> "It's about time [[BadGuyBar Dyorbid]] actually hired an attractive waitress," Morgan said. Grif laughed.\ |
| 383 | "Well, hold on," Grif said, "let's be fair. The Murdec who worked here a few months back was very attractive... to other Murdecs." |
| 384 | [[/folder]] |
| 385 | |
| 386 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 387 | * Through the various ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' cartoons, many humans have shown attraction to the Chipmunks and the Chipettes. Alvin, Theodore and Brittany especially. Even in ''WesternAnimation/ALVINNNAndTheChipmunks'', where they're the size of normal chipmunks. |
| 388 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' has Klaus the goldfish lusting after Francine Smith. However, he ''was'' human, but had his brain put into a goldfish's body by the CIA because... ya know, it's [[BellisariosMaxim just easier not to explain the whole situation]]. Roger the alien also has a crush on Hayley and/or Francine in one episode. Okay, so [[spoiler:it was just a scam to get a free T-shirt]], but still. [[spoiler:He would later develop a crush on Hayley for real, and got so obsessed with her that he took her hostage and nearly cut her skin off.]] |
| 389 | * WesternAnimation/BugsBunny has an infatuation with human women, a couple of notable examples: Near the end of "Bugs Bunny Rides Again", he fights WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam for a train full of women heading for Miami and after he wins, Bugs waves goodbye to Sam while covered in lipstick. In "WesternAnimation/SlickHare", he avoids WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd, who wants to roast Bugs for a sandwich for Creator/HumphreyBogart, in the end he reveals that he wanted the sandwich for his girlfriend Creator/LaurenBacall, to whom he refers as "Baby"; when Bugs hears this he says, "Anything Baby wants, Baby gets," and Bugs delivers himself on a platter for her while ogling and howling at her. |
| 390 | * ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' lusts after girls a lot, and they're humans more often than not. |
| 391 | * Twilight Sparkle in ''WesternAnimation/EquestriaGirls'' was definitely attracted to Flash Sentry's human counterpart. The {{Fan Fiction}}s and parodies where Twilight had a ''[[InterspeciesRomance thing]]'' for humans immediately followed. |
| 392 | * Brian the dog on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has the hots for Lois, the (human) wife of Peter Griffin. When Peter is thought to have died, Brian and Lois get married, and almost consummate their relationship, until Peter ends up being found. He also has a relationship, and, evidently, quite a lot of sex with [[DumbBlonde Jillian]], and had sex with [[Series/TheHills Lauren Conrad]], which gave her worms as a result. [[MST3KMantra It's probably best not to think too much about that]]. "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS6E11TheFormerLifeOfBrian The Former Life of Brian]]" reveals that he had a son (!) with one of his girlfriends. The son, creepily, appears to be entirely human, and all problematic aspects of his existence are {{hand wave}}d away -- even the most basic ones. |
| 393 | -->'''Stewie:''' But how can your son be 13 when you yourself are only 7?\ |
| 394 | '''Brian:''' Those are dog years.\ |
| 395 | '''Stewie:''' ...[[LampshadeHanging That doesn't make any sense]].\ |
| 396 | '''Brian:''' You know, Stewie, if you don't like it, [[TakeThatAudience go on the Internet and complain]]. |
| 397 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', Bloo becomes temporarily infatuated with Frankie -- as do [[PrecociousCrush Mac]], a teenager, and an imaginary man. |
| 398 | -->'''Mac:''' She's so nice.\ |
| 399 | '''Bloo:''' And hot! |
| 400 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 401 | ** Amy and Kif's romance... but on ''that'' show, nobody seems to give species a second thought in romantic pairings anyway (just as long as you [[FantasticRacism aren't dating a robot]]). |
| 402 | ** Or, conversely, as long as you're not dating a human: "If anyone asks, you're my [[SexualEuphemism debugger]]." |
| 403 | ** In one episode dealing with [[MechanicalEvolution evolving robots]], apparently after 1 billion years of robotic evolutionary history ([[TimeDilation about 2 days]] [[MindScrew for humans]]), robotic Neanderthals thought that, despite humans being made of substances they'd never seen before, Leela and Amy were hot enough to kidnap and make their wives. |
| 404 | ** Subverted with the Miss Universe beauty pageant. Despite having multiple contestants that looked like attractive human females (and even some actual humans!), the winner was a giant paramecium. |
| 405 | * The [[OurGnomesAreWeirder gnomes]] in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' are an [[OneGenderRace all-male]] race that requires a human "queen". Thus, in "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E1TouristTrapped Tourist Trapped]]", they try to force Mabel to [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe marry them]]. |
| 406 | * Inverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' when the title character is abducted by an all-female race of space aliens who then proceed with making him their king. Everything goes fine, until Johnny has them install [[AliensStealCable cable TV]]. The aliens immediately lose interest in him after seeing Creator/MelGibson. |
| 407 | * ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': |
| 408 | ** In the series, Gorilla Grodd is known for his three companions, the hot (and {{Mad|scientist}}) scientist he met on the Internet; Giganta, a size-changing ape-turned-human, and Tala, a witch. He's got taste. |
| 409 | ** Shortly before the end of the last season, J'onn decided to go on hiatus for a while. A few episodes later, as he reappears for the last battle, it's pretty clear that he spent that time living with a middle-aged Chinese woman. |
| 410 | * On one episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Hank Hill goes to swim with a dolphin event, rubs the dolphin's belly, and well... |
| 411 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': In "The Mysterious Mr. Mist", the disembodied Mr. Mist is obsessed with capturing Lois Lane and dragging her back to his subterranean realm to make her his queen. |
| 412 | * Franchise/ScoobyDoo's attraction to Creator/SandyDuncan. |
| 413 | * The page image here comes from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons: WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E4TreehouseOfHorrorIX IX]]'' (during the short "Starship Poopers"). In this (non-canon) origin story for Maggie Simpson, her mother Marge reveals that she was once [[AlienAbduction abducted by the alien Kang]], who tried (and failed) to seduce her with some corny pick-up lines. Marge explains that she tried to resist but powerful mind-confusion techniques were used (when Marge looks away, Kang fired an [[RayGun energy beam]] that caused her to become pregnant with [[HalfHumanHybrid their hybrid baby, Maggie]]). |
| 414 | * There are a [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Robot-fleshling_romance small handful of minor examples]] in ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''. And then there is ''[[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kiss_Players Kiss Players.]]'' |
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