Interspecies Romance / Comic Books

Interspecies Romance in Comic Books.

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The DCU

• Superman:
  • Lois Lane and Clark Kent are probably the most famous example of interpecies romance (even though he's a Human Alien Kryptonians were, up until 2016, biologically different enough from humans that they and humans couldn't reproduce).
  • In Krypton No More, Superman wonders whether he can have a relationship with a human woman despite being an alien outcast.
  • Superman also had a relationship with Wonder Woman in the Kingdom Come mini-series and in the New 52.
  • DC once printed an Elseworld story (back when they were still called "Imaginary Stories") where Lois Lane had been killed after Superman settled down and had a daughter with her. At one point, he created a robot duplicate of her, which proved to be all too lifelike. Apparently, the Uncanny Valley doesn't faze some people.
• The eventual romance and implied sexual relationship between Jimmy Olsen (human, with some plot-related variations) and the Forager (really hot female purple-skinned alien bounty hunter humanoid INSECT) in Countdown to Final Crisis.
• Toyed with in Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Strikes Again, where Hal Jordan whose control over his powers now renders him virtually omnipotent, has left Earth and is now living on Mars, where he lives a happy, wholesome family life with his wife and son. Unlike most examples of this trope, the Martians are not rendered physically attractive or appealing in any way; Hal Jordan instead uses his power to make himself a Martian, completely capable of maintaining the form indefinitely, as well as capable of breeding with other Martians, and is extremely reluctant to return to Earth after receiving Batman's transmission, until his wife urges him to help his own people. He only reverts back to his human form after he has already left Mars, and is quick to return as soon as his business on Earth has been finished which involved him multiplying his size to that of many times the Earth, able to grasp the entire planet in his fist, crushing Lex Luthor's planet wide multi-trillion dollar WMD satellite network while leaving the planet itself unharmed.
• Doom Patrol villain the Brain (a disembodied human brain) is in a relationship with Monsieur Mallah (a genetically altered super intelligent gorilla). Disturbingly, back in the day, readers found their relationship controversial not because of the fact that it's a case of bestiality, but because they are the same gender.
• Green Lantern:
  • John Stewart married Katma Tui (alien) and hadlong-standing relationships with Merayn Dethalis and Yrra Cynril (both also alien).
  • The Green Lantern Corps seems rife with this. Hal Jordan and Arisia, Kyle Rayner and Soranik Natu, and when you bear in mind that nearly every member of the Corps is a different species, when relationships between members of the Corps were banned over 200 resigned in protest.
• Legion of Super-Heroes: there are a lot of interspecies romances in the Legion; some of the more notable are Brainiac 5(Coluan)/Supergirl (Kryptonian), Colossal Boy (Human)/Yera (Durlan).
  • Just about all major cast relationships are Cross-species; the Legion is compromised of tons of different species hanging out together 24/7, almost all raised with no species boundaries whatsoever.
  • Despite their xenophobic culture Daxamites—like Valor—as a race are a result of this, they're the descendants of Kryptonian colonists who intermarried with the local race of Daxam which is now extinct.
• Mossy earth elemental Swamp Thing and his human wife Abigail Arcane. Played with considering the nearby town finds out and convicts her of bestiality. Abby flees to Gotham City where the police hold her, causing Swamp Thing to go ballistic to free her. Batman finally talks the Mayor into giving in considering that if he wants to hold Abby for having a relationship outside their species, then he'd better arrest half the superhero community.
• Supergirl:
  • Since Kryptonians are all but extinct, this is the only kind of romance Kara can have unless she is willing to commit incest. Among her first boyfriends were Dick Malverne (a human), Brainiac 5 (a green-skinned Coluan), and Jerro (an Atlantean merboy).
  • "The Super-Steed of Steel": Biron, a centaur turned into a horse (called Comet by Supergirl) develops a crush on Kara, who never becomes aware of his feelings.
  • Supergirl (2005): In addition to Brainiac 5, she had a quasi-romantic friendship with Captain Boomerang (human) and a short-lived relationship with Apokolips native Power Boy. And had a crush on Dick Grayson.
  • In the Red Daughter of Krypton story arc, Red Lanterns Rankorr—a human—and Bleez—a winged, blue-skinned alien.
  • Subverted in Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl. Most people think Supergirl and Lex Luthor are together, but their relationship isn't romantic at all (and non-existent after the events of this story).
  • In Many Happy Returns, human Supergirl Linda Danvers and Silver Age Superman fall in love and get married.
• Teen Titans:
  • Nightwing and the human/alien Koriandr of Tamaran, aka Starfire, in at least one continuity of The DCU, to the point that they're probably the second most famous example in comics after Superman and Lois Lane. She was the first of his girlfriends that he was quite blatantly implied to have had sex with, they've been engaged at least once, and they were even almost married once—as in, the only reason they aren't husband and wife is because fellow Titan Raven attacked the ceremony and killed the minister before he could complete it. Though they have drifted apart in modern continuity, both still remember and occasionally flirt with each other over their former connection. Convergence took it a step further; their Pre-Crisis counterparts never broke up and got married instead, and despite some difficulties, the two are still very much in love.
  • Same goes for their fellow Titans, Beast Boy/Changeling (whatever he wants to be) and Raven (half demon.)
  • There are other Titan couples as well, such as Superboy (human/alien hybrid) and Wonder Girl (demigod).
• Several show up in Superboy and the Ravers:
  • The human Lindsay Wah is dating the extraterrestrial 12th Knight.
  • After the human Hero comes out he starts dating the extraterrestrial Fish Person Leander.
  • The extraterrestrial vampire Pyra starts dating the human Byron Stark.
• In Super Sons Annual #1, Streaky the Super-Cat is implied to have a crush on Krypto the Superdog.
• In Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Snagglepuss's male lover is human, as was Huckleberry Hound's. (Their wives are the same species as themselves.) In addition, it turns out Snagglepuss's father is human. His mother is briefly shown in a photograph as a Funny Animal mountain lion, like her son.
• Wonder Woman:
  • Diana's traditional love interest, and in several continuities her Happily Married husband and the father of her daughter, is the human Steve Trevor while Diana is an Amazon demigod.
  • Wonder Woman (1942): Diana never actually dates either of them but throughout the Silver Age Ronno the Merman and "Wingo" the male harpy were infatuated with her and spend pretty much all of their time vying for her attention. She did go on a couple of idividual dates with each though, such as being Ronno's date to a dance.
  • Wonder Woman (1987): While Diana was an ambassador for Themyscira, one of those working with her was Ferdinand, a Supreme Chef minotaur (or as he called himself, a kith-o-taur), who develops an attraction towards a human scientist named Leslie Anderson (who was helping Wonder Woman's enemy Silver Swan become a normal human again as per Diana's request). Leslie develops feelings for Ferdinand as well, but for some time both are unable to express it, leading to Ferdinand believing she feels no attraction towards him due to being a different species, but eventually they do officially become a couple.

Marvel Universe

• A notable storyline in The Avengers had Mantis (human) married to a telepathic alien tree.
• The Kree superhero Captain Marvel loved many a Green-Skinned Space Babe, which is why all three of his children were hybrids—Genis and Phyla (Kree/Eternal) and Theodore "Teddy" Altman (Kree/Skrull).
  • Teddy/Hulkling is married to fellow superhero Billy Kaplan/Wiccan, a mutant^note Billy is also the son of the Scarlet Witch, who was also married to a nonmutant.
  • Phyla and her human girlfriend Moondragon.
  • The Captain Marvel of the Ultimate Marvel universe is also an example, as he started a relation with Carol Danvers (a military woman with no powers in that universe).
• Deadpool was briefly married to an alien woman named Orksa who resembled an anthropomorphic yellow hippopotamus. They divorced on good terms so she could be with someone who loved her more than he did. Both her previous husband and her next one also appeared to be different species than her. He later got married to a Succubus named Shiklah, who though she can appear mostly human, is actually a huge purple demon. Deadpool met her when Dracula hired Deadpool to bring her to him for their arranged marriage.
• In Fantastic Four, Johnny Storm and his former wife Lyja. Johnny had thought that she was human when he married her—she's a Skrull. In the Marvel Comics 2 Universe they are still married and have a son, Torus.
• Rocket Raccoon (take a wild guess what he is) and quite a wide variety of alien species. In his original mini-series, his girlfriend was Lylla (anthropomorphic otter). In his 2014 series he has been shown to have a brief relationship with Princess Lynx (alien, cat-girl). In the 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy annual, Rocket is shown to have 3 sons (which he insists are nephews) whose mother is clearly some sort of blue skinned alien.
• The comic Howard the Duck had Howard (intelligent talking duck from an alternate reality) and Beverly (human). This was played way too straight in the movie.
• The Incredible Hulk: The Hulk (gamma-irradiated human) with Jarella (from K'ai) and Caiera (Shadow Person). He had two sons from his relationship with Caiera.
• Namor (human/Atlantean hybrid) married Green-Skinned Space Babe Marrina, but also found time to pursue the human (and all-too-married) Invisible Woman.
  • Namor and that lake-monster queen from Tabula Rasa
    Hope: Ick! Ick! Ick!
    Namor: You are only showing your parochialism and prejudice. She is a dignified queen of a noble people. Namor is nothing if not cosmopolitan in his tastes.
    • On a more amusing note, he then immediately, and surprisingly gently, turns down Hope's nascent interest, because she's a teenager. Cosmopolitan Namor may be, but Everyone Has Standards.
  • Also, there's been flirting and suggestions of future hookups between Namor and Hepzibah (an alien skunk woman. Well originally a skunk woman; a lot of artists these days tend to draw her as a Cat Girl or even just a palette-swapped human, but whatever).
  • Atlanteans in the MU are a branch of the human race, so this would me more like interSUBspecies romance.
  • Namor, as implied above, is the result of one of these pairings: human father and Atlantean mother. His cousin Namora has a human mother and Atlantean father. As they're effectively the only members of their kind, most any romance they pursue (aside from each other) qualifies.
• Nova (human) and Green-Skinned Space Babe (literally) Gamora, in Annihilation. Before (and after) Gamora, Rider was with Namorita (Atlantian Mutant/Clone). Namorita's metamorphosis into Kymera (much less human looking form, resulting from her ancient Atlantean DNA) didn't ruin this relationship.
• Rom: Spaceknight was in love with the Terran Brandy. On the plus side, Rom is a Galadorian, basically a branch of the human race. On the minus side, he'd been cyborged into an all-covering suit of plandanium armor. On the plus side, it was theoretically possible for him to become a normal man again. Still, whether Rom and Brandy count as an interspecies liaison is a judgement call.
• Karolina (Majesdanian) and Xavin (Skrull) in Runaways. When Xavin was Put on a Bus, Karolina and Julie Power (human) started going out.
• Scarlet Witch (mutant) was married to the android The Vision for many years. Her brother Quicksilver married the Inhuman princess Crystal.
  • The former might not be an example, since the Vision might have been designed to be compatible. Is an artificial person of human design a different species? As for Crystal and Pietro, the Inhumans and mutants are two branches of one breed anyway, so that doesn't really fit the trope.
  • Later, Crystal was remarried to Ronan the Accuser (Kree).
• Spider-Ham, being set in an Anthropomorphic Animal Adaptation of the Marvel Universe, had several examples of relationships happening between separate species.
  • Spider-Ham himself is a spider who mutated into the form of an anthropomorphic pig and has pursued relationships with a bat named Batty Brant, a water buffalo named Mary Jane Waterbuffalo, a catfish vigilante known as the Black Catfish, and a crane named Mary Crane Watsow, the last one he even ends up marrying and having a daughter with.
  • One of the back-up stories in Peter Porker: The Spectacular Spider-Ham showed this continuities' counterparts of Ant-Man and the Wasp (who were Happily Married at the time) as an ant named Ant-Ant and a rabbit named Waspbunny.
  • The third issue of What The—?! had a spoof of Kraven's Last Hunt where Spider-Ham demanded his own graphic novel, only to be vexed by a story where Mary Jane Waterbuffalo leaves him to get married with Raven the Hunter.
• Spider-Man: Peter Parker is a man who is transformed via a radioactive spider-bite into an enhanced human being and an entirely new kind of species, and Peter exclusively dates human women. Most notably, his relationship with Mary Jane Watson has led in Spider-Island to her acquiring immunity from the virus of the story that gives everyone in New York spider-powers, because as Reed Richards put it, she and Peter had a long sexual relationship that gave her an immunity. Averted in Spider-Man: Reign an AU story where MJ dies after contracting STD from Peter's radioactive body fluids.
• Werewolf by Night's Jack Russell (a werewolf) has had several long term relationships with human women.
• X-Factor (2006): Rictor (human mutant) and Shatterstar (alien-ish^note half human mutant, half alternate dimension Artificial Human alien, with a dash of My Own Grandpa).
• X-Men:
  • Professor X and the Shi'ar Empress Lilandra. Made worse by the fact that Lilandra is descended from avian stock, Charles from primate stock. OTOH, the Celestials might have reengineered both breeds to make them compatible. The Shi'ar seem more primate-like than evolution would plausibly manage... certainly, while they do eventually have a child, it's by genetic engineering and artificial gestation than anything 'natural'.
  • For a long time, Dazzler (human mutant) and her husband, Longshot (interdimensional alien). Since their divorce, Longshot seems to have jumped on the Boldly Coming bandwagon of interdimensional relations.
  • Nightcrawler (mutant) and Cerise (Shi'ar).
  • Broo (brood) is in love with Idie (human mutant) and in their first meeting he even proposed to her.
  • Astonishing X-Men: Beast/Brand. Complicated, since he's a human mutant who became more animalistic as he got older and now looks like a giant blue cat, and she looks mostly human and is actually half-alien. Apparently her dad was a huge blue furry thing, which takes it into even more perverted territory.
• One of the most extreme cases in the Marvel Universe was Thena (one of the Eternals) and Kro (one of the Deviants), a true Montague and Capulet romance, seeing as their two races were sworn enemies. He's not the only Deviant she's hooked up with, either.
• In Ziggy Pig - Silly Seal Comics, Silly Seal is married to Roxanne, his sexy supermodel-Nobel Prize-winning Lady in a Power Suit.

Other

• In American Flagg!, one of Raul the (talking) Cat's favorite TV programs is titled "Interspecies Romances".
• Animosity:
  • One of the first demonstrations of animal intelligence on the day of The Wake we see is an orca approaching its trainer during a performance and professing its love to her in front of everyone.
  • It's hinted that Adam's (Human) loyalty to Wintermute (Wolf) was partially out of genuine romantic love for Wintermute, though Adam feared openly showing any kind of affection to Wintermute such as petting her. Wintermute is shown to reciprocate his love over time, by her secret dream/message programmed into Adam's cybernetic Animata upgrades where she rips off her own skin to take her possibly ideal humanoid form, and laments that this was the only way for them to share a true 'kiss'. During their final night together before Wintermute was executed, she calls Adam her 'sweetheart'.
• Astro City has Rex and Natalie of the First Family. He's a giant orange dinosaur monster with rocky scales and the prince of Monstro City; she's an energy being who internalizes her powers to become a Sizeshifter giantess.
  • There's also Duncan Keller, aka the hero Starfighter, who's married to alien empress Illula. They have two children, a son and daughter.
• There's a children's comic called Mr. Badger and Mrs. Fox, it's meant as An Aesop about blended families.
• Pretty much the point of the Barbarella comic strip and carried over, to a lesser extent, in The Movie.
• B.C. has John the tortoise and Dookie Bird, who also had a fling with a pelican at one point.
  • The Anteater also for a while had a female armadillo as a girlfriend.
• Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Cherry, a pig, is married to Howard, an owl.
• Bone has Fone Bone and Thorn; while it's more played as Fone Bone being in love with Thorn, Thorn never says anything about not being in love with him back, and had Fone Bone not decided to go back to Boneville at the end, it is stated that he and Thorn would have ruled the valley as king and queen.
• Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire subverts this.
  • Buck dismisses Louisa, who is human, (albeit of a different sub-species), who has been modified to be irresistible to men as "too skinny". Of course, there's also the small issue that Hoffmanites like Buck, coming from a high-G world, tend to find other humans "too fragile". Meanwhile, the above-mentioned Ms. Louisa Dem Five proudly runs a multi-species brothel...
  • He also, when dropping in on his alien bartender's girlfriend sunbathing in the nude comments that "You aren't compatible with humans! I don't even know which bits I'm supposed to be looking at!" He then gives her some very specific compliments.
• In Circles, there are few repeated species. One exception are Doug, his ex-fiancée and their son, who are all Otters.
• Crusader Adam of Destine (later simply Adam Destine) and the djinn Elalyth, parents of the Destines in ClanDestine.
• The world in the French comic De Cape et de Crocs mixes up humans and Funny Animals, and such romances seem common enough. The two main characters (a wolf and a fox) are in love with human women, while the wolf recounts once how his previous wife was a she-wolf. There is also a dog courting a woman in a flashback story.
• Disney Mouse and Duck Comics in general occasionally have mixed-species pairs showing up as background characters in a panel or two.
  • In the Donald Duck comic "The Old Castle's Secret," the jewel thief Diamond Dick claims that he knew about the hidden McDuck treasure because his "third wife was a McDuck on her great grandfather's side." Diamond Dick is a dog. Apparently something... interesting... has been going on in the McDuck family tree.
  • Donald Duck's cousins are both the products of mixed marriages. Gladstone is a duck-goose hybrid, and Fethry is half loon on his mother's side.
• ElfQuest: I'm gonna have to spoiler this whole thing because it involves a major plot revelation. In ancient times Timmain (super-advanced humanoid alien in elf form) shapeshifts into a wolf and mates with the alpha male of a wild pack. result: Timmorn Yellow-Eyes, half-elf, half-wolf and father of the Wolfrider tribe. Many generations later the pure-blooded elf Winnowill views the Wolfriders' origins with disdain, asking the pertinent question: "Do they renew their kinship even now?"
  • This disdain is hypocritical since Winnowill is soon revealed to be the mother of Two-Edge, who is half elf/half troll.
  • There are also some attempted human/elf pairings, which generally go badly because the elves' "bloodfire" is too intense for humans, although centuries after the main storyline the shapeshifting elf Jink enjoys a number of successful partnerships with humans of both sexes. Since she does seem to have a weakness primarily for telepaths, it may be that the elf/human compatibility issue involves a psychic element...that, or she just has worked out the kinks through experience.
• The North Wind and Bigby's mother Winter from Fables. Bigby and Literature/Snow White.
  • Bufkin and Lily Martagon are a unique example. He's a flying monkey and she's a tiny fairy-like Barleycorn Girl. She considered herself his girlfriend, but he didn't reciprocate any romantic feelings due to the species and size barriers. However, in the epilogue of their story, it's revealed that on several occasions throughout their many adventures in Oz, one or both of them were magically transformed into compatible species. During these times, they got married and had many children. At the end of their lives, they were still living together and in a very loving relationship despite being in their original forms.
• Fine Print: Cubi and Cupids are shown in relationships. Meanwhile, Cubi commonly offer to give humans the best sex of their lives, and one is shown doing so.
• Firebreather stars the son of a human woman and a Captain Ersatz version of Marvel Comics villain Fin Fang Foom who fell in love during one of his rampages. The original intention was for him to be a Young Avengers character whose father was Fin Fang Foom, but instead the creator went to Image Comics with the character.
• The Girl from the Sea: Morgan, a human girl, gets into a romance with female selkie Keplie (though she does take human form for most of it).
• Les Légendaires has Gryf, a Jaguarian, being part of a Love Triangle with Shimy, an Elf with Elemental Powers, and Shun-Day, an artificially magically engeneered being created from the arm of a demonical Evil Sorcerer. It also has Dark Jadina, an evil clone of one of the protagonist, being the Dark Mistress of Anathos, a God of Evil;
  • The concept is actually lampshaded in-universe when Shimy asks her mother, Captain Shamira, how she'd react if she was gonna marry a human. Shamira expresses discomfort with the idea, merely answering her daughter to shut up. Ironically, Shamira later has herself a relationship with human king Halan.
• Lobster Random: Lobster is a mechanophile, a (modified, in his case) human who is sexually attracted to robots. Not human-looking robots, either...
• In Monstress, Arcanics can trace their existence to relationships between humans and Ancients that are basically impossible today due to all the Fantastic Racism between the races. It also turns out the Shaman-Empress controlled Zinn not because she had the techno-magical might to order Monstra around, but because they were lovers... at least, that’s how Zinn remembers it.
• Pathfinder: The Official Couple of the main series consists of Kyra, a human cleric of Sarenrae, and Merisiel, an elf rogue. The two admit their feelings to each other at the end of Issue 9.
• Requiem Vampire Knight:
  • While they used to be human and became undead being in the afterlife, the main protagonist Requiem is a vampire while his girlfriend Rebecca is a ghost, and a sexy one at that rather than being scary.
  • Black Sabbat (Vampire) and Aiwass (Lord of Chaos) are an evil example of this trope.
• In Saga, Alana is a woman from the planet Landfall and has insect-like wings on her shoulders. Marko, her husband is a man from Wreath and has ram-like horns protruding from his head. The Will looks like an ordinary human while his late ex-girlfriend, the Stalk—whose upper-torso resembles that of a blonde, armless and many-eyed woman, has a spider-like body.
• All over the freaking place in Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics). And a future arc, "Mobius: 25 Years Later", suggests they'll have children.
  • It expands to "No Biomechanical Barriers". The same arc suggests Bunnie, who is robotic from the waist down, will have children, too!
    • Actually in certain continuities, Belle and Jacques (Bunnie's kids) could actually be born normally (so to speak) as Bunnie is cured of her robotization...though given that plotline, some fans will likely ignore it.
  • It is averted in the case of the Iron King and Iron Queen, a massive ox-man and ordinary human woman respectively, whose "marriage" is purely an arrangement of political convenience; the writer acknowledged that having a human and animal character wed "might raise some eyebrows".
• Star Wars: The EU comics have their fair share of Interspecies Romance.
  • The downsides to be explored a bit more in others. For instance, one story features a Gotal who enjoys sleeping with members of other species. Or he did, until he slept with a female from a species that eats the male alive after sex.
  • It's taken for granted in the setting that Twi'lek women are desired by males of all species — often due to their "naughty" lekku head-tails, which can be trained to perform sensual functions.
  • One of the comics set during the prequels had a fair bit of Ship Tease between the Kit Fisto the Nautoloan, a grey-skinned aquatic humanoid, and Ayla Secura, a blue-skinned Twi'lek. One thing they do have in common is that both their species have tentacle-like growths on their heads.
  • Knights of the Old Republic: Zayne Carrick (human) and Zareal (Arkanian off-shoot), and Lucien Dray (Human) and Q'Anila (Miraluka). Downplayed in both cases due to Arkanians and Miraluka being Human Aliens.
  • Star Wars: Doctor Aphra: Two semi-recurring characters, Winloss and Nokk, are a married pair of exotic animal hunters. Winloss, the husband, is human; his wife Nokk is a Trandoshan, a reptilian humanoid. Trandoshans, notably, entirely avert tropes such as Non-Mammalian Mammaries — there's nothing beyond her say-so to inform human characters of Nokk's gender.
  • Star Wars: Invasion: It's revealed in the second arc that while King Caled Galfridian is human, his wife Nina is a disguised Yuuzhan Vong. This comes as a considerable surprise to most other characters, but it's strongly implied that Caled had figured it out some time before and loved her anyway.
  • Star Wars: Legacy: The main character Cade Skywalker (a human) is romantically involved with Deliah Blue (a Zeltron, a species of red-skinned Human Aliens).
  • Star Wars: Republic: One of the most prominent romances is between Jedi Masters Tholme (human) and T'ra Saa (Neti). Neti are extremely long lived, shapeshifting plants.
  • X-Wing Rogue Squadron has a romance between a Calamari and a Quarren, two traditionally feuding species from the same world: Romeo and Juliet IN SPACE!, in short. In one arc, it's implied that Janson and Hobbie slept with a pair of Bothans — hairy, dog-headed humanoids.
• Tank Girl: Tank Girl is involved with Booga, the mutant kangaroo. She then cheast on him with her tank.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
  • The Archie-published Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures featured three such relationships. The first two involved mutant turtle Raphael, who became involved with two mutant fox women at different points of his life, and even ended up marrying one of them. On the other hand, there was the relationship between musician Mondo and his girlfriend Candy Fine, which persisted even after Mondo was turned into a mutant gecko.
  • Not to be left behind, the original incarnation of the TMNT has featured two different interspecies romances. The first occurred between Michelangelo and "Seri" (reptilian alien), while the second will occur between Leonardo and human superheroine Radical several years into the series' future.
  • The 2011 IDW comic has a budding romance between the mutant turtle Raphael and an arctic fox mutant named Alopex who worked for Shredder before her Heel–Face Turn.
• Warlord of Mars has it all over the place, but most prominently is the main couple: John Carter (an human from Earth) and Dejah Thoris (Red Martian). Other examples include Thuvia (also a Red Martian) and Phaidor (White Martian) being attracted to Carter, while Salensus Oll (a Yellow Martian) takes all three aforementioned ladies as his concubines, though in his case its more like one-sided perverse lust than true romance.

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