Cute Monster Girl

aka: Monster Girl

Clockwise from upper left: White Chain, Mantis, Rei, Lua, Marina, and Genovefa.

"Some girls like to dress like a witch
Some girls like to dress like a queen
Best way a girl can dress for me
Is in a goblin suit (they look so cute...)"

— Frank Zappa, "Goblin Girl"

Any "exotic" being (alien, monster, robot, demon, ghost, etc.) bearing a strong resemblance to a conventionally attractive human female, sometimes when there is no reason for her to appear that way.

This trope comes in several varieties:

1. Sexy Dimorphism, in which the female members of a nonhuman species are much more attractive/less monstrous – i.e. more human looking – than the males;
2. A "cute" female version of a previously-existing, not originally attractive monster, such as a Gorgeous Gorgon;
3. A Half-Human Hybrid of a monster that happens to be female, and cute;
4. Anomalous among her people, despised or considered a freak, but a knockout by human conventions of beauty.
5. The "monsters" in question looking near-human, e.g. Rubber-Forehead Aliens.

A function of Men Are Generic, Women Are Special, specifically the idea that male monsters can look... well... monstrous, but female monsters need things to differentiate them from the male monsters and make them recognizably female to the audience (and by "recognizably female" we usually mean "clean, slim, and attractive."). When the Male Gaze gets involved this results in common design features for female characters in other contexts, like Hartman Hips, Non-Mammal Mammaries, long hair, and Tertiary Sexual Characteristics like dresses or make-up (or bits of anatomy designed to look like a dress or make-up), even if it would make no sense for such a creature to have these features. While this is often done for purposes of Fanservice it can also be for What Measure Is a Non-Human? reasons, as the audience is more likely to sympathise with a Monster Girl who looks more human than one who looks more monstrous. Conversely it can be done for Grotesque Cute reasons, contrasting the monstrous and cute side, especially if they still act like the monster they're based on — villainous CMGs in particular are very likely to be Literal Man Eaters.

Female One Gender Races are typically these. Although very rare in works targeted towards men, the Spear Counterpart Cute Monster Guy, is quite common in Shōjo, Josei, Boys' Love, Otome Games and other media marketed to women. The most common example is vampires. However, younger variants of the traditional definition of "cute" (i.e. children) for both genders are a bit more common. Assume that if there is a Monster Mash, the few female member(s) will be Cute Monster Girls. May involve Stripperiffic designs. If there's more than one of them, they'll often have remarkably similar builds.

This character type can also be used as a basis for studying social differences and similar themes, since monster girls are pretty, cute and different at the same time to attract a wide audience and detail problems arising from differences.

Subtrope of Monstrous Humanoid and Cute Monster. Related to Moe Anthropomorphism and Gijinka in Fan Art circles. Often subject to Fantastic Arousal. Compare Cute Alien Girl, Cute Eldritch Abomination Girl, Cute Humanoid Animal Girl, Cute Ghost Girl, Attractive Zombie, Fem Bot, Gorgeous Gorgon, Hot as Hell, Robot Girl, Seductive Mummy, and Slime Girl. Related to You Sexy Beast, although males are the more common recipient of that. Also related is Giant Woman, since the majority of giantesses are portrayed as sexually attractive. See also Boy Meets Ghoul.

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Examples:

• Anime & Manga
• Video Games

Advertising

• For the 2023 Halloween season, the General Mills Monster Cereals introduced their sixth monster: a green zombie girl named Carmella Creeper, who happens to be Franken-Berry's cousin.

Comic Books

• Avengers: The Initiative: Komodo got her powers by stealing Curt Connors' Lizard formula. But whereas the Lizard is a hulking, almost crocodilian monster with thick scales and an elongated reptilian head, Komodo just looks like an otherwise attractive girl who happens to have smooth green skin, pointy ears, Non-Mammal Mammaries, reptilian eyes, claws, and a tail.
• Fantastic Four: The Skrulls would often fit, with the males being bug eyed and inhuman, while their princess was quite fetching, and bereft of the Skrull chin ripple. Later artworks shows the males as more human-looking, and the females having unusually large eyes (but there was still some gap in attractiveness). Since they're a whole species of shapeshifters though, they can look however they want, and as Runaways shows they can even switch genders at will.
• Freaks' Squeele: Chance, a nice spontaneous and somehow clumsy college girl ...Oh, and she has horns and bat wings.
• Galacta: Daughter of Galactus: Gali, or Galacta, daughter of Galactus. She appears to be an attractive human woman, and cares a lot more about the lives of "lesser" beings than her father. Unfortunately, she still has to deal with a very strong Horror Hunger.
• Gold Digger: The comic goes both ways; cute monster girls along with cute monster guys.
• The Incredible Hercules: Delphyne Gorgon is a Cute Gorgon. She even wears a skimpy Goth-styled schoolgirl uniform.
• The Incredible Hulk: While the regular Hulk is generally seen as a berserk, hideously muscular, unintelligent monster when in Hulk form, She-Hulk is just a somewhat larger, stronger, greener version of her human counterpart. Originally, the explanation was that an individual mutated by gamma rays subconsciously determines their transformed appearance; the Hulk transforms into a hulking angry brute because of Bruce Banner's repressed anger, the Abomination transforms into a hideous freak due to his inner self-loathing, and She-Hulk transforms into an Amazonian Beauty because of her subconscious desire to look like the ideal woman.
  • Though, it gets occasionally subverted from time to time with She-Hulk (always temporarily) gaining an uglier, more monstrous form. One such occurrence was during Avengers Disassembled after she lost control of herself as a result of the Scarlet Witch's manipulations. The Avengers (Jason Aaron) has She-Hulk in a more muscular ogress form, but Jen’s face is still pretty comely.
  • Betty Ross' original gamma mutate form, the Harpy, was basically Betty Ross-as-She-Hulk with the wings and legs of a giant bird. Her Red She-Hulk form is a crimson-skinned Amazonian Beauty. Sadly, her Red Harpy form is mostly plain hideous... although when she’s not enraged she can come off as a downplayed Gorgeous Gorgon. She’s still attractive enough as Red Harpy for Joe Fixit (one of Bruce’s split personality personas) to willingly sleep with her.
  • Gamma Corps: Black were a trio of gamma mutate female soldiers literally created as replicas of existing gamma mutates; Aberration to Abomination, Morass to Glop, and Axon to Zzax. Whilst less human-looking than She-Hulk, they were all very attractive, especially compared to earlier villainous female gamma mutates like Abominatrix or Adrenazon. Sadly, they only appeared in Incredible Hulk #601 and were all killed off in that same issue.
• Invincible: Monster Girl is a heroine who transforms into a monstrous form. While the monster transformation isn't exactly cute, the actual girl who is really older than she appears is.
• Ironwood: Fantasia Faust, from the erotic fantasy comic, started out as a very bulky non-gendered iron golem designed to kill fae. Then her creator figured that the golem would be more effective if he made it really attractive and disguised the fact that it was made of iron. Then, once the fae were dealt with, he realized he had a super-strong, super-sexy non-human babe hanging around, and decided to explore a few fetishes of his.
• Isabellae from Europe Comics and brought to North America by Darkhorse Comics has a Spear Counterpart. In this comic, druid rebels summon up the Eldritch Abomination Bres. Bres is the son of the Tuatha de Danaan goddess Eriu and Elatha, king of the monstrous Fomorians. While not depicted, the comic described Elatha as having a dark beauty which is why Eriu fell for him. Their son Bres looks like a handsome man barring some tentacles from his back, 6 ears shaped like small feathered wings and clawed hoofs for feet. In contrast, the rest of the Fomorians are various monstrosities, with one example being a barely-humanoid cyclopean blob with tentacles.
• Lady Death: Lady Deaths's villain Purgatori is a rather unique creature: a vampire distantly descended by fallen angels. She has a demonic appearance with crimson skin, horns and wing, but she still looks extremely gorgeous and tends to dress in Stripperiffic outfits.
• Magic Trixie: The titular character is a little witch girl, Loupie is a little werewolf girl, Nefi is a little mummy girl, and one of the vampire twins is a little girl.
• Requiem Vampire Knight: The comic features plenty, given that most residents in Résurrection are reincarnated monsters the most attractive people would qualify as this trope: Most female vampires tended to be very fanservicey despite their rather fearsome appearance due to battle tattoos applied to their bodies, female lamias tend to be very attractive for tortured spirits and some Leopard Women are shown as part of harems. The biggest one would be Queen Perfidia of the Dystopians, an arguable example since she is more scary-looking than gorgeous, though she has a far more human-like appearance than the rest of her race, who all look like humanoid dinosaurs.
• Scott Pilgrim: Matthew Patel's demon hipster chicks.
• Star Wars: The Star Wars: Legacy comics have made almost a running gag of "prettying up" females of various alien races - Darth Maladi and Kee are good examples, and contrast Nakia, a female Anzat, with a typical male example◊ of the same species (at least her husband wasn't exactly ugly either). There's also a quite good-looking male Twi'lek (compared to the films, anyway) like Shado.
• Sub-Mariner: Lampshaded in an issue of Namor the Sub-Mariner, where all the women are akin to Green-Skinned Space Babe while all Atlantean males are blue brutes, except for Prince Namor.

• Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose: The comic has many appearing throughout the series.
• Teen Titans:
  • Deliberately invoked with Miss Martian. Although she's genuinely female, as a White Martian, her true form is a ravenously carnivorous, xenophobic, insanely hostile creature considered an ugly monster even by Green Martians (who are pretty weird-looking themselves). It was implied in one issue that if she ever lost control and reverted to her true form, she'd be powerful enough to slaughter her teammates in a matter of minutes, and crazy enough that she'd try to do so. However, in addition to sealing off her malevolent instincts behind a psychic block, she uses her Voluntary Shapeshifting power to appear as a more successful and feminine take on "Uncle John's" human form. The result is a cute, perky, teenage Green-Skinned Space Babe, in contrast to J'onn J'onzz's appearance as a rather craggy-featured bald-headed green-skinned body builder.
  • Kid Devil is a Spear Counterpart case of this trope; he's a lean-yet-muscular teenage demon, with a handsome and very human-like face, looks mostly normal apart from the skin color, and goes around shirtless most of the time.
• Transformers: Any time you see a fembot, it's a safe bet she'll look like a robotic swimsuit model, while male transformers look as bulky and blocky as you'd expect. (Strika from Animated is an exception.)
• Valhalla: in one story, the jotun Tjasse bemoans the fact that his daughter Skade is so ugly that it is impossible to find a suitor for her. On the second page of his complaints, she turns around and we see her face, revealing that she may be ugly to a jotun but fairly good-looking to a god or human. Her usual countenance is still too severe for her to be called cute, until she is (literally) swept off her feet and has a silly, cute, enamoured grin take over her face.
• Wonder Woman:
  • Wonder Woman (1942): In the Silver Age Wonder Girl had two Pretty Boy monster boys vying for her romantic attention; Ronno the Merman and "Wingo", a male harpy.
  • Wonder Woman (1987): While Ferdinand's very bull-like head means he's not conventionally attractive to humans his body is that of a tall muscular man and he's a good conversationalist and master chef with a gentle soul who will go to far lengths to protect those he loves. This gets him plenty of human admirers, and a loving girlfriend despite his discomfort with his appearance.
• X-Men: Common in various comics, especially Generation X; most of the more monstrous mutations will be male, while the women are always sexy.
  • Beauty Equals Goodness is often going on there. For example, when she first showed up, Marrow had bones sticking out all over, including on her face. Later, she joined the X-Men, and it wasn't long before she was made more attractive, with most of the protrusions gone and those that remained looking like they could merely be part of her costume (her prettification at least wasn't overnight for no reason other than being one of the good guys, story-wise). There are other examples, but she's probably the most obvious.
  • The resident girl werewolf - Wolfsbane - is a bit of an inversion, having gone from having a odd/cute 'wolfweregirl' transitional form, to a 'The Howling'-style monstrous appearance.
  • In X-Men Forever, a mishap causes Rogue and Nightcrawler to permanently exchange power sets, resulting in Nightcrawler becoming a human-looking Life Drinker and Rogue to become a (very cute) female blue demon.
  • Nightcrawler, Depending on the Artist, can be a fuzzy pretty boy with Cute Little Fangs.
  • Jubilee becomes this after being turned into a vampire. Her appearances in X-23's solo title under artist Sana Takeda placed extra emphasis on the "cute".
• Lots and lots of them in XXXenophile.

Fan Works

• There's an entire subgenre of global Fan Art involving giving monsters from various sources the Cute Monster Girl treatment. It's not uncommon for them to also be shown "doing their thing", in order to bring the Grotesque Cute. The most famous of these is the Monster Girl Encyclopedia from Japan.
• In Akatsuki Kitten: Phoenix Corporation Overhaul, Diamond (and supposedly the other Agents as well) can grow non-human features, in her case devilish horns, slit red eyes, a devil's tail, large, dark red bat wings, Cute Little Fangs and all. Depending on how she's feeling, she can either make the fangs and wings enormous and eyes glowing enough to terrify a veteran demon-fighter, or she can shrink down the wings and fangs, make the eyes her normal brown, and just look adorable. Even if her arm is shoved through a man's chest and her face is covered in blood and a mad smile.
• Anonymoose's Monster Girl Saga, being based on Monster Girl Encyclopedia, naturally has many of these. The main character Laven has a Battle Harem comprising (at the time of writing) a Salamander, an Anubis, a Wyvern, a Mantis and a Baphomet.
• In The Bridge, Irys the Hyper Gyaos gets a human-like form upon entering the Equestria Girls world; having pronounced fangs, extremely pale skin; and all of her old powers. The bubbly goofball Megalon's EG World form arguably is a gender inverted example. Aria Blaze's Kaizer Ghidorah based Super Mode counts as well.
• Light, Darkness and Paradox has plenty, being a crossover with Monster Girl Quest. The most prominent monsters are Alice (outwardly a Lamia, though her exact biology is more complicated) and Lime (a Slime Girl).
• In The Loud Awakening, all Loud Sisters sans Lily (who avoided that fate) and Lisa are transformed into monster girls; hybrid forms of cryptids and mythical beasts attuned to their powers. This also inspired their codenames. Lucy is more Creepy Cute, however.
• The Moemon Game Mod for Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. Your Mons become, well, Moe Mons. Oh god, they're Moe.
• My Abominable Monster Classmates Can't Be This Cute! features a Grimmified Team RWBY who are attracted on some level to Jaune Arc.
• In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom there are cute monster ponies. There exist the same kinds of things found in the Monster Girl Encyclopedia like slimes and mermaids (seaponies), with moth ponies and bat ponies being quite popular (the latter became canon at around the same time the fans were making it up), and some truly strange creations like tatzlponies^note A hybrid of a pony and that massive worm thing from "Three's A Crowd" and (take a breath) a sentient hive-mind mass of tentacles that have infested a pony costume because they are lonely.
• The MLP Loops: Queen Chrysalis lampshades this when explaining how difficult it is for her to gather the love that her children need to survive.
  Chrysalis: I am beautiful and hideous, and my children do not share my beauty.
• When Nintendo announced New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe and the inclusion of Toadette and her exclusive Super Crown Power-Up which allows her to take on a form resembling Princess Peach (dubbed Peachette), fans started thinking about what would have happened if the Super Crown worked on Bowser. It is this idea that gave birth to the massively popular Bowsette — part Peach, part Bowser, all monster girl.
• The Pokemon Gijinka Project, in the same vein as Moemon.
• Fans of Star vs. the Forces of Evil have created the "MonStar" AU, where a benevolent Toffee married Star's mother. Star mostly looks the same build wise, but also have a mouth full of razor sharp teeth (which turns into Cute Little Fangs when her mouth is closed), gray skin, a tail, her mother's hair color, and a much darker color palette on her clothes.
• Raised by Jägers: By Mechanicsburg standards, Ducky's torture scars and the resulting new cybernetics are considered cute.
  Footnote: Though in most parts of Europa, obvious signs of experimentation or of being a construct could mark a person as undesirable and put them at risk of being persecuted, in Mechanicsburg these same things tended to be taken as a sign of the Master's favor, and thus highly desirable. Aesthetics did tend to run contrary to most of Europa in Mechanicsburg.
• In Resonance Days, all of the Witches killed revert to a synthesis of their Human and Witch form. Sayaka is a mermaid for example.
• Sword and Claw has relatively few despite being a Monster Girl Encyclopedia fanfic, because it takes place back when the monster girls were just conventional monsters that attack and eat humans. Even most of the humanoid ones aren't described as being conventionally attractive, with the sole exception being the succubi.
• Teen Titans Tokyo has literally three quarters of the titular team fall under this trope.
  • Blackfire is a sexy teenage girl with orange skin and purple eyes & hair.
  • Nabiki Tendo is a Were Dragon whose alternate form is basically herself with a tail, wings and claws.
  • Shampoo is a seven foot tall cowgirl (as in a girl with a cow's ears, tail and horns, like a cow version of a Cat Girl) with a third eye in her forehead, fangs and claws.
• Travels Through Azeroth and Outland plays with this trope in the character of Daj'yah. Daj'yah is a troll described as being mildly attractive by human standards (she probably has the "cutefase" appearance seen on many female troll avatars in-game). Unfortunately for her, other trolls think she's hideous because of this.
• The Kaiju Girls of Daikaiju Academy, part of Twisted Kaiju Theater.
• The Tyrant and the Hero, being a Monster Girl Quest fanfic, revolves around these. One of the two main characters is a monster girl, although she prefers to go around in a human form.
• The first original crewmember in Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse is a tiger shark-featured wotan named Miriam. Despite being over 4 meters all with a "strongfat" build, a mouth full of razor sharp fangs, weirdly colored skin, gills, fins and a tail, none of these features are regarded as deracting from her fundamental appearance as a very voluptuous and beautiful young girl.
  • After eating the Rabbit-Rabbit Devil Fruit, Shampoo spends all of her time in her "demibeast" form, which is basically a Cat Girl crossed with a literal Bunny Girl, giving her "cabbit" ears and a puffy rabbit's tail on an otherwise cute human body. Her "hybrid" form gives her paw-like hands and digitigrade legs with clawed, rabbit-like feet.
  • Penelope laFloo, an archaelogist who hires herself onto the Kamikaze Pirates, turns out to be a Mink with the features of a skunk, though she initially disguises herself as a human. Whilst her unmasked appearance hasn't been heavily detailed yet, she's noted to be very buxom, and Harumi thinks she looks beautiful, especially her stunning blue eyes. Though it bears noting that Harumi is dating the aforementioned Miriam and can be safely assumed to Has a Type.

Films — Animation

• Angelina Jolie as Grendel's Mother in the 2007 film Beowulf (she has high heels... and doesn't wear shoes), though it's implied to be Shapeshifting: reflected bits of her true form are visible during her time with Grendel, and a keen observer will see her posing as a part of her treasure-hoard when Beowulf first comes to confront her, looking like a very fishy, naga sort of creature.
• Emily, the Corpse Bride, is quite fetching, considering she has been dead for a bit of time when she finally emerges following Victor's accidental proposal. Piss her off, though, and those same cute features can quickly turn to Nightmare Fuel.
• Mavis Dracula in Hotel Transylvania, a vampire girl with a pixie haircut and Cute Little Fangs. Winnie is a Werewolf pup and, until the sequels, is the only girl among her 300 brothers. Bride of Frankenstein Eunice Stein isn't a bad looker, despite being a mess of stitched-up corpses, and has Hartman Hips.
• Eva from Igor, even though she was made to look monstrous and be evil, she still has a very pretty look.
• Celia from Monsters, Inc.. Monsters University meanwhile splits this trope down the middle: Claire Wheeler and the MU sororities, especially Python Nu Kappa and Slugma Slugma Kappa sisters, do have their "cute side". Although, like the Eta Hiss Hiss sisters being split down in the middle (although they prove to be more "monstrous" than "cute" because they WANT it that way), PNK and EEK show their scary sides as determined in the Scare Games. Dean Hardscrabble herself does not exactly have a "cute" side, but she is considered to be quite beautiful despite her terrifying appearance. Female monsters in both films prove to be mostly a mix of both, despite completely differed from humans. Then again, EVERY monster girl introduced into the films is pretty gorgeous, just look at Brynn Larson and even Sonia Lewis.
• Ginormica from Monsters vs. Aliens. Your basic white-haired girl, super-economy size.
• My Little Pony: Equestria Girls has the monstrous forms of Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle, Gloriosa Daisy, and Juniper Montage from the series, with Juniper's form being Hollywood Homely at absolute rock-bottom worst.
• Sally the rag doll, from The Nightmare Before Christmas is very pretty despite being covered in stitches with blue skin with a Glasgow Grin.
• The titular Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is this, in both humanoid and kraken forms. It doesn't help that she's also a Cute Clumsy Girl sometimes.
• All of the students at Miss Grimwood's in Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School qualify as this. Tanis gets a special mention, being the youngest of them.
• Fiona of Shrek is still fairly pretty for an ogress, despite indulging in the usual icky ogre habits.
• White Snake:
  • Blanca and Verta's half-snake forms are just as beautiful as their fully human forms, being gorgeous women with serpentine lower bodies, slit-pupiled eyes, Femme Fatalons on their hands and scales decorating parts of their faces.
  • The fox spirit is a rather odd example, looking entirely human (if strangely erotic) save for the fox head behind her human head.
  • The fox spirit's workers include a bunch of dragonfly women who help harvest essence and make magic weapons. They normally appear as attractive fairy-sized women with dragonfly wings and dragonfly lower bodies, but can increase their body size and use their tongues for a Kiss of Death style draining (though it doesn't result in death).

Films — Live-Action

• The eponymous character in Bride of Frankenstein certainly counts, being played by the gorgeous Elsa Lanchester. Although she only gets a few minutes of screen time, she's memorable enough to become one of the most famous Universal monsters.
• The 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans has Medusa as an extremely attractive woman, even when using her power. Helped by the fact she's played by Nanalia Vodianova.
• The Shadow over Innsmouth-based B-Movie Dagon throws in a Deep One Cute Monster Girl by way of Our Mermaids Are Different. They still get to play the initial reveal of her monstrous, octopoid features for horror somehow. This trope allows the movie to play a romantic angle on the original Tomato in the Mirror ending, giving it minor justification.
• Dark Angel: The Ascent: Even in her demonic form (pretty much what you'd expect: bat wings, claws, and horns), Veronica is rather cute.
• The ghost in Dead Friend (aka The Ghost) was pretty cute, despite the rotting clothes and waterlogged hair/skin. At least, she was cute before she died.
• The eponymous character of Dead Girl is pretty good-looking... although probably not dating material, given everything that happens after she's found.
• Greta, the female gremlin from Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Technically, not a girl, since gremlins reproduce asexually, but looks and behaves like one. Resulted from gremlins playing in a genetics lab. So cute, that authors did not kill her with the rest of the gremlins.
• Played for Laughs with Mantis in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 who is downright adorable at best and Ugly Cute at absolute worst, and looks almost completely human save for antennae and slightly inhuman eyes, yet Drax continuously goes off about how hideously ugly, repulsive, and monstrous she looks every single time they speak.
• In The Howling (1981), the werewolves are giant, long-snouted and frightening, but when the heroine Karen turns into one, she's cute, fluffy and much shorter. According to Rob Bottin, Karen's werewolf form looks softer and less threatening to show her resistance to being a monster.
• A rare male example comes up in Labyrinth. All the goblins are diminutive, monstrous creatures with wart infested skin and bizarre bone structures... except for their king, Jareth, who just looks like David Bowie with make up on (and very very tight pants).
• The females of Chaka's people in Land of the Lost might qualify. The males look like they do in the series (i.e., like humanoid chimps). The females are Nubile Savages.
• Abby from Let Me In also qualifies for this.
• In Let the Right One In, Eli fits this trope, though it isn't clear whether she's a victim of her circumstances or deliberately exploiting it to get new Renfields.
• In the fifties film The Mole People, a girl named Adad was born to a race of subterranean albinos, but has none of their features, and thus is hated and shunned by her folk. One of the archaeologists falls madly for her and promises to help her escape this hell with them. Sadly Adad is killed by a falling pillar moments after she sees the surface world for the first time.
• The Mummy (2017) has Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella), who's very pretty...once she devours enough lifeforce, that is.
• Penelope (2006): Penelope herself. Though she is cursed with the "face of a pig", she really just has a pig nose and easily hidden pig ears. Though there are a few characters who run in horror, she's actually quite cute, something that's unsurprising considering she's basically Christina Ricci with a snout. A few characters even mention how mostly normal she looks. In the end, it turns out that accepting herself as she is, pig nose and all, is the key to breaking the curse.
• A thoroughly creepy version of this trope arises in Planet of the Apes (2001). All of the characters playing apes were made to look like gorillas, chimps, etc. Helena Bonham Carter, on the other hand, looked... well, like Helena Bonham Carter in chimp make-up, eyeshadow, and lipstick. She and the other female chimps (including one played by Tim Burton's ladyfriend Lisa Marie) even had humanlike eyebrows, which was thoroughly bizarre to see on a chimpanzee face. Contributing to the weirdness of the situation, she spent the entire movie flirting with the male human lead, and then he kisses her at the end!
• Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) in Poor Things is a Flesh Golem who looks like... well, Emma Stone in Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette mode, in the grand tradition of the Bride of Frankenstein. It's justified in that she was made of one woman's resurrected body, with the only new addition being that woman's unborn baby's brain in place of her own.
• Zombie Julie (Melinda Clarke) in Return of the Living Dead 3 still looks pretty cute even after she impales most of her body with metal spikes and glass shards to stave off the pain of undeath.
• In Species, Sil is still pretty hot in her alien form. The creature designers specifically wanted her to still be beautiful as an alien.
• Dren in Splice. The Fetish Fuel angle to her is played up to the hilt.
• In Venom (2018), Eddie's love interest Ann bonds with the symbiote and briefly becomes She-Venom. Unlike her male counterpart, she has a very shapely and voluptuous figure instead of a bulky one like Eddie-Venom does.
• VHS: While she's still undeniably creepy both in her human and bat/vampire/nymphomaniac thing form, Lily (from the "Amateur Night" segment) fits this trope.
• Garona of Warcraft (2016). She's a literal Green-Skinned Space Babe with small orc-like tusks, and fairly beautiful by human standards.
• X-Men: First Class: The scaly and blue-skinned Raven Darkholme as a little girl is absolutely adorable when Charles Xavier first meets her, and he treats her like a friend right away.

Literature

• SF&F artists and illustrators love the concept. This may reflect the contents of the books they illustrate or not. Examples include (some NSFW due to naked breasts):
  • Boris Vallejo◊.
  • Fredrik K T Andersson.
  • Julie Bell.
  • Luis Royo.
  • Rowena Morrill.
• In The Adventures of Stefón Rudel, Dinochen is an alien that looks like a little elephant walking upright with four arms.
• Beesong Chronicles: Yonra, the God of Chaos, goes to quite a lot of trouble to evolve the Giant Bee monsters into the apis demihuman race simply because he really wants bee girls. They end up as lithe, attractive humanoid women (and extremely attractive men) with antennae and sleek black armor. An elf especially wonders why a non-mammal species that is primarily sexless needs breasts.
  Yonra: The world's gotten too boring, so I want a new species. Nothing that will break the balance that you so desperately adore, but something interesting. What I want is—
  Demask: Bee-girls?
  [beat]
  Yonra: Yes, bee-girls. And bee-boys, but considering bees, they probably won't be as common.
• Junapur, in Cerberon, is described as quite beautiful despite her various nonhuman traits and imposing Amazon physique.
• Serendipity Sargasso, the siren secretary in the Monster Mash neo-noir City of Devils and Fifty Feet of Trouble is pretty darn cute. Assuming she doesn't smile. Jane Stitch, the meat golem of the third book in the series, Wolfman Confidential, also qualifies.
• In Codex Alera, Her Imperial Bugginess the Vord Queen tries, but mostly just manages to give everyone the creeps by combining a "green Kitai with long hair" look with a few too many insectile features and a frightening lack of understanding of human emotion.
• Discworld:
  • Female Igors, known as Igorinas, are every bit as svelte and beautiful as their male counterparts are deformed, hunchbacked, and misshapen. Handwaved by the fact that Igors of both sexes are crazy-talented at all forms of surgery, including cosmetic, and as Igors are devoted followers of "tradithion" it is probably that male Igors remain ugly because male assistants to Mad Scientists are supposed to be ugly, just as female assistants are meant to be beautiful. Most Igorinas have one visible stitchmark, just to show they're Igors, but it looks more like a beauty-mark or elaborate makeup. There is only one subversion in Monstrous Regiment with well, Igor, a Sweet Polly Oliver who has used the abovementioned surgery skills to resemble a male Igor, and keeps her hair in her pack. Not as a keepsake, but so she can stitch it back on later.
  • Male trolls, especially as drawn by Paul Kidby, resemble vaguely humanoid piles of rocks. Female trolls, most notably Kidby's version of Ruby, resemble human women made of stone (although more Big Beautiful Woman than "cute"). There's one male exception (Chrysophrase, who looks much more human than, say, Detritus) and a female exception in, again, Monstrous Regiment with Carborundum/Jade, who is described in the book as an absolutely classic (male) troll, and appears as such on Kidby's cover. She later explains "I'm nat'rally craggy. I don't see why I should polish", implying that, like the Igors, the difference between male and female trolls is an artificial one.
• In The Dresden Files most of the female inhuman monsters Harry encounters are extraordinarily beautiful but equally scary, and many of them have, literally, wanted to eat him. It's mentioned in Skin Games that this is why he and Binder are instinctively leery about Ascher's advances. Ascher is Lasciel's new host at the time, making their caution completely justified.
• Celty from Durarara!! is a Dullahan that looks like a beautiful, though deathly pale, woman from the neck down. From the neck up? Well, she has no head. When we do finally see her head, it's that of a cute, auburn-haired girl — A far cry from the hideous, rotten-fleshed heads of the Dullahan of Celtic legend.
• The dragon Sylphid from The Familiar of Zero can change her shape. Her human form looks like an ordinary girl with blue hair.
• The Forsaken Children has several monster girls in it, most notably Mary, the undine changeling (who's described as being both piscine and voluptuous).
• Mayu of Good Luck! Ninomiya-kun. For a succubus, she's cute, busty, and Does Not Like Men. She's training to work on the last part, though. Later, her friend and love rival Reika is revealed to be a succubus as well, albeit without the Androphobia, instead having a healthy dose of Cannot Spit It Out.
• Most of the girls in Seanan McGuire's InCryptid novels, starting with the Gorgons, and going on to the female Bogeymen, the Wadjet...
  • A bogeyman girl child of around first grade age appears in the short story "Sleepover", all the cuter because she's doing the "wear Mommy's makeup" thing.
• The animal people in Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? could qualify, but they're not actually considered monsters in universe. However, the Xenos (sapient versions of otherwise unthinking monsters) are. A Draconic Humanoid with an unusually human appearance ends up becoming a part of Bell's harem... and by extension, gets Bell into a lot of hot water, as Xenos suffer from Fantastic Racism thanks to the perception that they must be Always Chaotic Evil.
• In Charles Stross's novel The Jennifer Morgue, we meet Ramona Random, a Deep One hybrid who's knock-out gorgeous even after she drops her glamour. It's mentioned in the story that Deep One hybrids generally tend to be very attractive, as this aids in achieving their design purpose of serving as effective ambassadors to the surface world.
• Various female demons in Maoyu. Most notable is Grand Princess Fire Dragon, who is herself an attractive rather petite woman with only token nonhuman features; her father is a ten-foot-tall barely-anthropomorphic dragon-man. Maou might technically count, though she doesn't appear to be anything other than completely human most of the time (the horns she has as demon lord are actually a removable headdress).
• More Information Than You Require features a Cute Monster Girl mole-man as part of a Beethoven Was an Alien Spy gag. She's this universe's version of Sally Hemings.
• The female warlocks in The Mortal Instruments and The Dark Artifices see very often like this. They warlocks look so like normal girls, just that they have physical characteristics that show their demonic relatives, as horns, hooves, wings, claws or tails.
• Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures series includes a dimension called Trollia where the males are all hulking monsters and the females are all drop-dead sexy. The explanation: The males are Trolls, and the females are Trollops.
• The German booklet series Maddrax has the mendrites. They are hybrids of hydrites and humans. Female mendrites also qualify for this trope. They look almost human, but also have some fish body parts.
• This is the point of the Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! series, with bonus Did You Just Romance Cthulhu? levels. All the Eldritch Abominations appear in completely humanoid (and rather cute) forms, but the most diabetes-inducingly cute character (Hastur) is a boy.
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians
  • Several nymphs look like ordinary girls, but have unusual haircuts. They are also described as exceptionally pretty.
  • There's also the dracaenae, the serpent women who, once you get past the snake tails in place of legs and the vertical pupils, are in fact very beautiful.
• Re:Zero:
  • Emilia from is a beautiful half-elf with silver-white hair and pointed ears. Subaru thinks she is the prettiest girl he has ever met.
  • Ram and Rem are two oni. Neither of them are visually different from humans, except that they have red (Ram) or blue (Rem) eyes and hair. And when they fight, a big horn grows on their foreheads.
  • Frederica is a quarter of an animal person, and because of this she has sharp fangs in her mouth. Subaru thinks she'd be a really pretty woman if it weren't for those fangs. Plus, she can turn into a giant panther too.
• The Rising of the Shield Hero:
  • Raphtalia is a pretty, feminine demi-human. The only thing that differentiates demi-humans from humans are their ears and tail, of a tanuki in Raphtalia's case.
  • Filo, who belongs to a breed of magical birds, is also added later. However, she has a human form in which she looks like a young girl with blonde hair, blue eyes and two white wings.
• From the Seekers of Truth, Natalie Beckett aka Golem. Fairly attractive if you can ignore the stone skin. Apparently her boyfriend, Timothy Landerman aka Echidna, can. It helps that he's a venomous lobster-man.
• Sandman Slim has Candy, who is probably the bubbliest and most cheerful character in the series, despite being a vampire-esque killing machine called a Jade. Aside from a few slip ups, she's trying to cut back.
• So, I Can't Play H!: All three of the shinigami females look human, until they assume their true forms. Though they still look mostly human afterward.
  • Lisara: gains a small pair of bat wings that extend from the sides of her head and her irises change from red, to amber.
  • Ilia's fang enlarges slightly and a short gold and black horn grows from the center of her forehead.
  • Quele's is the simplest transformation. She only grows a short pair of black horns on her head, which curve backward.
• So I'm a Spider, So What?: Four of the Reincarnators were reborn as monsters rather than humans or elves. Of these, Sophia is the only one who was born a humanoid (being a vampire), and grew up to be very beautiful. The others all eventually either gained the ability to assume a human-like shape (Feirune, a lesser dragon), or evolved into a humanoid form (Wrath, a goblin), and all of them are at least moderately good-looking.
  • The last one and the protagonist, "Kumoko", explicitly made it her goal to eventually achieve the Arachne evolution in order to gain the ability to communicate through speech. The result is a monstrous spider lower body (complete with massive scythe-like arms) with the upper body of a beautiful woman sticking out of its head. The human torso's appearance carries over post-apotheosis into an eventual full-fledged human appearance (with the ability to freely switch between the Arachne and human forms), with the catch that a few traits of her previous monster bodies also carried over; namely, her coloration and her spider eyes, rendering her a super pale white-haired woman wearing pure white clothes with red eyes which have four pupils per eyeball.
• WIEDERGEBURT: Legend of the Reincarnated Warrior: Eryk's harem member Lin is a lamia, with the torso of an attractive Bedouin-looking woman that transitions to a several-meter-long snake body below the hips.
• In Piers Anthony's Xanth novels, female goblins are described as being far more attractive than male goblins. On the other hand, male harpies are handsome while the females are almost always ugly. A war was nearly started once when a female goblin and male harpy figured this out and started dating. Way far back in history, a war was started when the harpy males preferred the goblin females. Female harpies get unusually ugly when they have to mate with humans and vultures to reproduce their species, and all harpies produced by crossing harpies with humans or vultures are female, and so the cycle became vicious on several levels. It probably took Time Travel to fix that mess.

Live-Action TV

• In Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Raina gains bright gold eyes, a beak-like nose, Pointed Ears and sharp thorns on (and inside) her body after undergoing Terrigenisis. She first perceives it as Body Horror, but as she grows more confident, she begins to own her new look.
• Little Ghoul on Beetleborgs was a variation of the theme, "cute" in the same way an eight-year-old little girl (although a rather precocious one) was cute. However, the reason she kept her face hidden behind her hood was because it was so incredibly terrifying that no-one could bear to look at it.
• Buffyverse, Joss Whedon being Joss Whedon this trope happens more often in both Buffy and Angel. Though to his credit, hideous monster girls are more common.
  • Anya despite having a pretty hideous demon-half◊ is still gorgeous as human, Xander loved her deeply despite his bad experiences with female demons prior.
  • The female Oracle from Angel.
  • Illyria from Angel. An Eldritch Abomination trapped in a human corpse, her only non-human attributes (physically, at least) are blue lines on her face and blue streaks in her hair.
  • The female half-demon Pearl (from the comics) also looks like this. She a little looks elvish. But still she is very vicious.
• Doctor Who:
  • Eldrad's female form in "The Hand of Fear".
  • As of the Matt Smith era, the female Silurians are this. Though they hide their features with more reptilian masks.
• Eureeka's Castle: The titular sorceress Eureeka is this due to her horns and being a Cute Witch at the same time.
• Farscape: War Minister Ahkna is noticeably more attractive and shorter than the rest of the Scarran species; most of whom that have been seen are male (we think). She's still quite reptilian, but it's a smoother, sleeker, sexier kind of reptilian than most Scarrans we've seen. The Scarran Emperor looks similar to Ahkna (though not nearly as short), and the "We're So Screwed" arc makes it explicit that Scarrans have different castes, and based on diet. Eating a rare flower (which grows commonly on Earth, to our hero's dismay once he learns how important it is) makes Scarrans more intelligent, and coincidentally look more human.
• Good Omens (2019):
  • Crowley is a male (usually) example, although he might be a little old to be called "cute." (David Tennant was in his late forties at the time of filming, and Crowley is older than humanity.) The other humanoid demons are very grimy-looking and usually have some obvious animalistic or monstrous features, such as Hastur, Ligur, and Beelzebub's Head Pets or Dagon's facial scales and Scary Teeth. As well as being the only minion of Hell who seems familiar with the concept of soap, Crowley dresses stylishly and looks like a reasonably attractive auburn-haired human with a mild case of Villainous Cheekbones, yellow snake eyes, and black feathered wings.
  • Lord Beelzebub is a borderline example. "Scruffy Impoverished Patrician who may◊ or may not◊ be covered with disfiguring insect bites" isn't most people's idea of a beautiful demoness, but is still much more attractive than the more common depictions of the Lord of the Flies as a Big Red Devil or giant fly monster.
• In Grimm, the various Wesen races all have an alternative form, called a woge. Some, like Rosalie (a Fuchsbau, or fox girl), fit this trope. Others, like the Hexenbiest, don't.
• In Lexx, Zev Bellringer, part cluster lizard, part love slave.
• Marilyn Munster in The Munsters. Unlike the other members of the family, she looks like a normal — and beautiful — human girl (although the other members of the family see her as ugly). She nonetheless shares some of the other members' inhuman qualities, such as a very low body temperature.
• The Outer Limits (1995): In the episode "Quality of Mercy", a captured Space Cadet is being forcibly transformed by her alien captors into one of their own against her will. The slow alterations they implement don't change her outward beauty much, and her cellmate, Major John Stokes, falls in love with her. This was part of their plan all along, since she's actually one of the aliens sent to spy on him to obtain valuable military information.
• Of Power Rangers series, every season has one except Zeo, Mystic Force, and every season after RPM — which all still have attractive female villains, just of the rubber suit variety. There are even a few Monsters of the Week who might qualify, such as Icy Angel, but they tended to be rare.
  • Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Scorpina]] is an attractive young woman in gold armor normally, but when gigantified looks like a horrible, lizard-faced scorpion monster.
  • Archerina, wife of Prince Gasket, is a very pretty robot girl. She's also manipulative and uses her magic love arrows to turn her opponents on each other.
  • Vypra looks like a beautiful woman in demonic armor more than a demon. She's also the only one to look mostly human out of her show's antagonists.
  • Itassis, the only female of the Ten Terrors, is a pretty, sphinx-like monster who ends up turning good and being one of the few to survive the series. Serpentina, a Monster of the Week, similarly has has some appealing features but in contrast is vile inside. Necrolai isn't so pretty, but she too reforms and reverts to a human form.
  • Dayu looks like she might be quite the looker under that squid-like helmet. Unless it's actually her head.
  • Levira has one of the less monstrous designs for her series. She doesn't last, though. Similarly, Metal Alice is on the more human-like and alluring side. She doesn't last, either.
  • Poisandra thinks she is, but her cuteness is skin-deep. Less cute than she thinks, what with the zipper mouth and creepy mask on her heart. The series also has a Cute Monster Boy in Heckyll.
• In one Saturday Night Live sketch, girls at a slumber party accidentally summon Satan's daughter with a Ouija board. She's played by Melissa Villaseñor, so naturally this trope is in effect.
• Seigi No Symbol Condorman has Red Bat. Unlike the other Monster Clan executives, Red Bat is played by a human actress in makeup in her monster form, instead of a person in a rubber suit.
• Zoe and Rosita from Sesame Street are both very adorable and young monsters. Justified given the show's target demographic.
• Stargate Atlantis: Elia, the Wraith girl from the episode "Instinct". The unsettling appearance of the life-sucking bug-human hybrid girl can't hide Jewel Staite underneath the facial prosthetics. Her caretaker originally decided to raise her as his daughter because he couldn't bring himself to kill her.
• Star Trek:
  • Though most Borg of any sex don't look particularly appealing, the Borg queen is decidedly sexier looking than any of her drones. Also, Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager is quite attractive but only once most of her more Borg-like physical attributes are removed via surgery. Even when Seven is still fully Borg, she has noticeable... implants. Apparently, breasts are not irrelevant, despite the existence of Borg maturation chambers.
  • Also from Star Trek: Voyager, the Vidiians suffer from a disfiguring disease called the Phage, but strangely the Doctor's love interest Denara Pel from "Lifesigns" and "Resolutions" still retains some of her facial good looks, at least more so than any other Vidiian we see.
  • In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Rosanna De Soto's Klingon character had much less pronounced brow ridges than most of the male Klingons. But then, so did Christopher Plummer.
  • Klingons fall into this trope even in Star Trek: The Original Series. In the episode "Day of the Dove", we get to see both Klingon men and women. The men all have brutish expressions concealed under thick Brownface makeup while the women have spray on tans, and garish blue eye shadow. The retconned explanation for the more humanoid Klingons is that they were engineered to look like humans for easier interaction, so it'd be logical for the females to be attractive to humans.
  • This can actually be considered the norm for most Star Trek aliens, with exceptions being rare enough to be noteworthy. They are almost always attractive by human standards. Female humans ALSO meet this trope for alien species. If most humans would find a particular human woman attractive, odds are most alien males will as well.
• Supernatural:
  • Though they all look human, the male reapers usually look like balding old people that can keel over anytime, while female reapers are all at least conventionally attractive. The first time we see a female reaper it resembles a shade with wild hair. It then disguises itself as a conventional human to interact with Dean and later outright says that a reaper is seen however the reaper chooses to be perceived.
  • Demons possess humans in order to walk the earth, and the two most prominent female demons Meg and Ruby possess attractive, female vessels during most, but not all, of their appearances. Lilith amps up the creepy by often choosing little girl vessels and behaving like a little girl, even in an attractive adult female vessel. However, as Dean gets closer to going to Hell, he can see their real faces and comments on how ugly demons are. Castiel can also see their true faces, but this doesn't stop him from developing a big crush on Meg.
  • Amy the kitsune epitomizes this. She's a cute teenager and a beautiful adult, and Sam is very attracted to her.
• A common trope with Super Sentai villainesses. The majority of villain teams are 3-4 male People in Rubber Suits and one hot (and very human) villainess whose monster-ness clearly appears to be worn and not integral.
  • Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger has Lamie, the only member of Bandora's crew (besides Bandora herself) who looks fully human. Unlike Bandora, Lamie is an attractive young woman and the wife of Grifforzer.
  • Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger has Candelilla. Despite being a person in a rubber suit like the other Debo Knights, she plays it completely straight and is much more human-like than her fellow generals, complete with a cutesy and friendly personality. She also has an attractive human form.
• Pretty much every werewolf (male and female) in Teen Wolf. Even when they transform, they look essentially the same besides the addition of claws, fangs, and glowing eyes. This extends beyond the werewolves as well. It's hard to think of any monster girl on the show that isn't cute.
• The Torchwood episode "Cyberwoman" features a "sexy" half-transformed Cyberwoman, even though the Cybermen in Doctor Who, whether constructed from men or women, look exactly the same. For this reason, the episode is somewhat infamous.
• Wizards of Waverly Place:
  • Frankie Stein, who's a cute, if very tall, girl with a rubber forehead attachment.
  • Alex and Harper when they're pretending to be werewolves in "Meet the Werewolves".
• Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: Already Herodot said Herc and Echidna made hot love (the series version isn't very cute though). So it's not surprising her daughter, the She-Demon has a crush on him too. (He doesn't fall for her charms - a snake tail isn't a turn on for anybody^{[citation needed]} - and things go rapidly downhill.)

Magazines

• Animage's tribute to Tadao Nagahama depicts Prince Heinel as a violent warmonger Alien Prince, like he is in canon...except he's small, chibi-fied and looks Moe as hell.
  • In the same issue, Katherine, who's an alien nobless like Heinel, is portrayed as a cute chibi cheering him on while wearing a gorgeous, excessively detailed white Fairytale Wedding Dress.
  • Jangal is of the Gonk variety, being a red-skinned horned alien. He's depicted in the same Moe style as Heinel and Katherine, and Megumi standing next to him with flowers implies some sort of friendship between them.
• OUT: Charkin, Garuda, Heinel and Richter in canon are inhuman aliens that desire the bloodshed of the human race. The June 1981 issue makes them all chibis, with Charkin being depicted holding a teddy bear, Garuda depicted playing with a plushie of Miia, Heinel being depicted cuddling a pillow and Richter being depicted reading a book.

Music

• Darkest of the Hillside Thickets has "The Innsmouth Look," which describes how the singer falls in love with a Deep One girl. The "Innsmouth Look" from the short story refers to the residents of Innsmouth's pale/greenish damp skin, bug eyes, and lipless mouths. He considers the patches of scales to be especially fetching.
• For Finnish monster rock band Lordi, their first pianist, Enary, was a blonde valkyrie who was still gorgeous despite having an extra mouth. They've since averted it with their new pianist, Awa, a ghostly witch who's as creepy as they come (although still arguably cuter than most of the male monsters.)
• The Eels song My Beloved Monster, best known from the first Shrek movie, is most likely describing one of these. The title sort of gives it away.
• Frank Zappa's "Goblin Girl," which provides the page quote.
• In the music video for Ninja Sex Party's "Rhinoceratops Vs. Superpuma," Superpuma is a kaiju-sized Cat Girl in a Spy Catsuit.
• The titular Martian Girl from The Aquabats! song of the same name is a beautiful Green-Skinned Space Babe with a nasty set of razor-sharp teeth who loves to eat raw meat. The singer even shows concern over her potentially eating him due to her appetite for human meat in particular, but she spares him and flies off after giving him one last kiss.
• Princess from "Princess♂" and "Mister Jewel Box" by TOPHAMHAT-KYO of FAKE TYPE. is a beautiful, eerie-looking girl who turns out to be a demon who loves to seduce men and force them to fight each other in a lust-induced rage.
• Jazmin Bean is non-binary, but seems to be going for this look, minus the “girl” part.
• Ne-Yo’s ''Beautiful Monster”, at least from a literal interpretation.

Myths & Religion

• In at least one source of Classical Mythology (The Metamorphoses), female centaurs are described as being quite comely.
• The Asura in Hindu Mythology and Buddhist myth: all the males are ugly and all the females are beautiful. Both are very violent.
• Norse Mythology:
  • The jotuns (giants) were typically pretty butt-ugly, but the female jotuns were comely enough that a lot of the Aesir married one (or nine...). Loki is somewhat an exception to this rule, being handsome despite giant ancestry (it's not clear whether he is a full or half giant). He's also a shapeshifting trickster god, so who knows what he really looks like, and his children were mostly horrible monsters.
  • Huldra, nymphs with cow or fox tails (and optionally hollow backs, like a tree trunk), especially since they're usually considered to be female trolls.
  • Valkyries (like gorgons) are female creatures that were originally hideous but later on became to be known as incredibly beautiful maidens sought after by many a Norse hero (despite the fact that they weren't actually human). Also they're really only "beasts" depending on your interpretation of their title: Choosers of the Slain.
• Mermaids can be this depending on which myth you follow.
• Male oni in Japanese mythology were ugly brutes and Always Chaotic Evil, but female oni tended to be very beautiful and sometimes married particularly brave and heroic men.

Podcasts

• Season 4 of Dice Funk has Algernon Sharp, a pretty medusa boy who dresses in a flashy display of fashion. His eyes can't petrify you because he takes medication to prevent it, it's that kind of world.
• The Jade Regent Campaign from RPGMP3 features a character called Misty the Succubus. Misty is a bubbly, bouncy, charmingly naïve teenage girl. She also happens to be a demonic Succubus from the deepest pits of the Abyss, who enjoys long walks on the beaches by the lakes of fire and brimstone, and occasionally starts singing while disemboweling people with her claws. She's really a very nice person, once you get to know her.

Roleplay

• Bay 12 Monster Girls is essentially an entire world of them. So is its sequel.
• Towergirls has a cast full of these.

Tabletop Games

• In Changeling: The Lost a woman who has become a draconic Fairest is this by default, as Fairest are "the fairest of them all", and draconics have aspects of the Great Beasts of Faerie, such as dragons.
• Dungeons & Dragons:
  • Medusas, unsurprisingly, zigzag depending on the edition. Those in 1st edition were horribly ugly, 2nd edition made them very comely if you could look past the snake hair (without being Taken for Granite), 3rd edition kept the comely bodies but the effect was somewhat marred by the scales and a face that looked like a cross between a viper and a hag, and 4th edition seems to go for a middle-of-the-road approach. Pathfinder, meanwhile, takes the "playmate with mildly scaly skin and snakes for hair" road. D&D also features a gender flipped version — there are indeed male Medusas, called "Maedar", but apart from being bald, they're actually pretty handsome. This is the only way they differ from normal humans in 2e and 3e, and 4e's versions are scaly like their ladyfolk, so for them the baldness isn't that bad).
  • The Fiendish Codex: Hordes of the Abyss introduces Obyriths, outrageously bizarre demons (as opposed to the more humanoid Tanar'ri) whose forms exude such a primal wrongness that looking at them can do permanent damage to your mind. Their queen has a "soft, feminine form," though it would be hard to describe her as cute, but then you find out that that's just the veil surrounding her, which formed because the plane of ultimate, horrible madness that spawned her refuses to accept that she is real. If looking at her true form doesn't simply kill you, it's because your brain didn't register what she looked like in the first place. If you die from it and get resurrected, you don't remember what you saw.
  • Pathfinder's driders (spider-centaurs) are sexually dimorphic. The females look like beautiful drow women from the waist up (except for the fangs), and their black widow-like lower bodies have a certain elegant sleekness. The males have bulkier and more arachnid features.
    • The Kytons, a race of sadomasochistic evil outsiders known as "Chain Devils", were traditionally portrayed as humans wrapped up like mummies in so many layers of chains that nothing can be seen. The Kyton in the Pathfinder Bestiary? Is depicted as a shapely, blue-and-purple-skinned yellow-eyed woman who wears nothing but chains wrapped around her body to just barely hide her face, nipples and loins, leaving the rest of her largely bare. True, her body is also covered in dozens of fine scars, but these are subtle and don't really detract from her general attractiveness. Definitely a case of the cute monster girl still acting monstrous, however, as the racial profile as sadomasochistic kidnappers and hedonists remains pretty much identical to earlier editions.
  • Eberron: Justified with the fey. While they follow many traditional elemental or natural themes, what makes them distinct from actual elemental or plant monsters is that they are stories. A dryad is not merely a female treant (treants are typically described without gender pronouns), but the mortal idea of a plant spirit — and therefore far more traditionally attractive than the treant, which is basically just a walking tree. Non-fey almost never conform to human beauty standards, even the humanoid ones.
  • All editions of the game are chock full of these, including gender-inverted versions. The odds of a Cute Monster Girl or Guy rise exponentially if that creature is being portrayed sympathetically. Tieflings are descended from fiendish creatures and often play this trope straight. Genasi and the various races like them are touched by elemental blood and often depicted as quite attractive. An occasional handsome or Nubile Savage half-orc or even full orc will not surprise players. Then there are the not-that-monstrous sorts like tritons, merfolk, various nymphs, fae, giants, and so on, all of whom have a decent chance to be attractive in human eyes. In short, Beauty Equals Goodness is frequently, but not always, in effect. Evil races get their chances, such as various yuan-ti creations of serpent people. Even demons and devils get in on it. Most versions are horrific, but those specifically intent on seduction and temptation are frequently beautiful. For a broad enough definition of "Monster," so do the celestial races, as they usually represent angels or even good takes on The Fair Folk (pre-4th Eladrin and Pathfinder's Azata).
  • The Elemental Weirds are a race of Elemental Embodiments who appear as beautiful women. They're also known for their skills as seers, with each of the breeds — air, earth, fire and water are the main ones, with the 3e sourcebook "Frostburn" adding separate ice and snow — having a different specialty. Weirdly, they begin their lives as something that more closely resembles a giant snake made of elemental matter, but transform into their beautiful humanoid woman form as they mature.
• GURPS Technomancer: The setting forgos the Standard Fantasy Races in favor of various Half-Human Hybrids, including Snake People, Harpies, and Spider People. Notably all come in both male and female.
• Malifaux gives us the Neverborn, a literal race of Nightmares, including Pandora and Lilith, the latter described as "the very image of woman that creation intended, the beautiful vision that haunts the dreams of men", the former only being on the verge of adulthood.
• In Maid RPG, due to the rather random nature of the character generation system, it is very likely that at least one of your maids is gonna end up as one from the start.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!:
  • Fabled Krus, who also appears to be a Shrinking Violet.
  • Traptrix archetype visually resemble young girls in their own artworks, but based on the artwork of Traptrix Trap Hole Nightmare, they are either vicious creatures in disguise, or they play bait to trap prey for their "pets"

Theatre

• Kate Monster from Avenue Q was going to have a lot of fuzz, similar to Trekkie Monster, but was shaved before production so she would look better with a male (and human) love interest.
• Peer Gynt meets and falls in lust with a beautiful maiden who turns out to be the daughter of the troll king.
• Magda in Tanz Der Vampire becomes a gorgeous vampiress after she's bitten (though some actresses in the part do subvert this by applying some rather distorted makeup after she's been turned). In addition, sometimes female chorus vampires fall into this as well. Sarah is one by the end of the show, without exception between actresses. Herbert's a rather cute monster boy.
• The Tsukiuta and Tsukipro stage plays feature the Yōkai AU setting, where all the idols are Cute Monster Boys. Rui is a cute Karakasa, Kai and Tsubasa are cute (or hot) tengu, Hajime and Shun are cute kitsune (who may also be gods of life and death), Ichiru and Issei are kamaitachi, Rikka is a (male) Yuki Onna, and so on. Three of the stage plays featured this setting. Kurenai Enishi also featured original tengu characters, but they appeared more or less human. Only Hajime and Shun had monster attributes in that production.

Toys

• Monster High is Mattel's big hit whose entire line is based off this trope.
• MGA's toyline Novi Stars, though they're technically Cute Alien Girls.

Visual Novels

• There's a massive subgenre of eroge VNs based around romancing (and more) a variety of cute (and sexy) monster girls- lamias, mermaids, centaurs, slime girls etc etc, far more than we could list here.
• Hanyuu from Higurashi: When They Cry has a pair of horns, one of which is slightly chipped. She had the horns back when she was human, hinted to be because of a genetic defect. Her horns were the main reason she was chosen to be a sacrifice.
• Love at First Sight centers around Sachi Usui, a shy and physically-battered cyclops who suffers from bullying. Oddly, the actual nature of her cyclopean form is never even addressed (presumably it's just some kind of natural birth defect, but nobody ever even asks), and it's not even the reason she's being bullied (her bully is just disgusted by her timidity and weakness rather than her appearance).
• From the same creator (Ray-Kbys aka. Freakily Charming), Butterfly Affection is a story where the protagonist finds a bizarre, malformed, feminine creature with a twisted blend of human and insect features lying by the side of the road. He brings it home and looks after it, and it begins to grow into an increasingly human shape, so he names her Ageha. And as she continues to grow and learn and become increasingly human, their relationship takes some interesting turns...
• A third (currently incomplete) game from the same developer, Determinable Unstable, is about a man who meets a horrific lovecraftian monstrosity in the woods which is initially about as far from "cute" as you can imagine- a mess of tentacles, eyeballs, claws, extra mouths studded with jagged teeth and a barely-human face. But when she calms down and adopts a less-threatening form, she becomes surprisingly attractive, and moves in with him to experience a more fulfilling life than wandering around the woods scaring people, possibly even discovering where she comes from. Like Ageha from Butterfly Affection she can pass for human from a distance while wearing a body-covering dress, and unlike Ageha she can also talk normally, although for some reason she calls herself "Fear".
• Sable's Grimoire takes place in a Wizarding School for demihumans, so most of the female students and faculty members fall under this. Sable's circle of friends includes an elf, a half-dragon, a pixie, a mandragora, a rokurokubi, and a spider girl, all of whom are pretty.
• The titular Saya from Saya no Uta is adorable in the eyes of the protagonist, but her true form is implied to be the farthest thing from cute, since any normal person who sees her is driven insane. The only reason the protagonist sees her as attractive is because of an extreme case of agnosia that causes him to see everything as hideous, and the only truly hideous thing in his life as beautiful. The more he falls in love with her, the worse he gets. Not to mention, she may be a cute monster girl, but she is still a monster- i.e. a predatory creature with an alien sense of morality.
• Tsukihime: Akiha is pretty cute, there's Arcueid, and Nanako is a half human half unicorn spirit that's the Moe Anthropomorphism of the Seventh Scripture.

Web Animation

• The flash cartoon series Primal War is notorious/loved by teenage boys for its cartoony, monstrous males being drastically different to their more human-like and realistically proportioned females for both the beast and dino races.
• Satina (Wants a Glass Of Water): Satina herself has basically every personality trait and design feature that you could ever want from the world's cutest demon girl, most notably her astonishingly round head, her bendable-by-emotions horns that are shaped like giant cat ears, her pitifully-yet-adorably tiny wings, her big and pudgy hands, her Cute Little Fangs, her even cuter little feet, her also-extremely-cute little tail, her youthful innocence, and her extremely sweet-and-girly-sounding voice. In fact, her own parents often underestimate how dangerous she actually is due to said ludicrously extreme cuteness of hers.
  • Lucia (Satina's mother) also easily qualifies as an example of the trope, as well as a major Ms. Fanservice of her show; she's basically an incredibly massive grown-up version of her aforementioned daughter, with the surprisingly potent sex appeal to match. Satina's father is such a lucky guy for so many reasons.
• Cordie the spider girl (although she also seems to have features of other arachnids) from CliffSide has four pincers for hands, four spider legs under her dress, can shoot strong web lines, her two large eyes are actually made of bunches of four smaller eyes, she's incredibly naive, and has an enormous crush on Waylon, the shamelessly fraudulent protagonist who she was originally planning on eating. She's adorably cute (most of the time).
  Cordie: I'm going to eat you now. Nom!
• Charlie from Hazbin Hotel is utterly adorable for someone who is suppose to be the princess of Hell. She is constantly smiling and her goal is to redeem sinners so they don't have die to deal with the overpopulation problem.
  • Niffty and Vaggie count as well. Niffty is a constant ball of energy and apologizes when she realizes her views on gender roles could have offended the other girls in the hotel. Vaggie normally isn't cute, but When She Smiles or lightens up (like in this image), she can be as cute as her girlfriend, Charlie.
• Millie from Helluva Boss is a Perky Goth imp, who is almost always smiling and is a devoted wife to her husband, Moxxie.
• hololive's English branch features a shark, a phoenix, a Shinigami, and an Eldritch Abomination.

Webcomics

• 565-14 in Allen the Alien is a cute young alien girl, but she is too young to be a Green-Skinned Space Babe.
• In Baskets of Guts most of the female cast are this.
• Bowsette Saga has Bowsette herself, of course, but more of these keep popping up as the series progresses. In particular, chapter 4 begins after Bowsette accidentally overloads the Super Crown and causes it to explode into a sparkly aura that seems to have turned Bowsette's entire army into cute monster girls like her.
• Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire has Hyraxx D'mofiti as well as some of the girls employed at the Velvet Fist.
• The emponymous Deathclaw Desu Ga (a Fallout fan comic) is an adorable, anthropomorphic Albino Deathclaw girl living in Vault 19. The strip makes it clear that she only thinks she's this, and everyone else sees an Albino Deathclaw squeezed into a Vault 19 uniform.
• The demon heroine Raven in Demonology 101 is a cute teenage girl whose only demonic attributes are reddish eyes and oddly shaped ears (in her case Raven is only a half-demon). The other demons portrayed (both male and female) are also fairly human-looking (and usually somewhat attractive).
• Devil's Candy has cute monsters of both genders attending the All-Ghouls School Hemlock Heart Academy.
• DM of the Rings subverts this for laughs: Aragorn assumes that the Ents will be attractive, Dryad-like Plant People and is quite dismayed to meet a craggy old tree with a bearded face instead.
  Aragorn: Oh, like Dryads? Oblivion had Dryads in it... They're like sexy tree ladies.
  Legolas: Sexy? I thought they had leaves for hair. And bark skin.
  Aragorn: Yeah, but they're all chicks. Naked chicks. Leafy, naked tree chicks.
  Gimli: Ye need help, lad. Ye really do.
• Eerie Cuties has this title for a reason. The comic centers on a monster highschool, and so far, with the exception of a pair of lizard boys, they are all cute monster girls (and boys). If the cast isn't enough, there are more of them in flashbacks — hilariously cute snake-girls and so on.
• Grace Sciuridae/Shade Tail in El Goonish Shive is a genetically engineered assassin with Voluntary Shapeshifting, created to fight the Big Bad Damien. However, she proves to be a pacifist by nature except under the worst provocation. (Her brothers are less human-looking in their hybrid forms, though they can appear human, and quite good-looking, when they choose.) Her male Evil Counterpart from another dimension is much scarier.
• Erma is an elementary school aged Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl who (despite a taste for the macabre) is about as cute and precocious as any well-adjusted girl can be at her age.
• In Everyday Heroes, Hornswoggle's wife is much more humanoid than he is. Their kids are somewhere in between.
• Far Out There temporarily turned several female characters into these in order to celebrate Page 666.
• Ambrosia Verdandi from Fetch Quest: Saga of the Twelve Artifacts. She's also a doctor wannabe!
• Artist Fede x Rojas made this (fandubbed) series of strips focusing on a kuchisake-onna finding love. In the first part, she asks a man if he thinks she beautiful, when he says she is, shea reavelas her face, and as she's about to stab him, he tells her that she has beautiful voice. Realizing he's blind, she tries running off embarrased, but he invites her for a cup of coffee. In the second part, he tells her he needs to go back to work after his sabatica ends, and after sharing a kiss, she informs him that she "has a high body count," but he says that he's not one to judge a woman's past.
• Nitrine of Flaky Pastry is a female goblin, who is depicted as a small, cute human-looking young woman with green hair and lips. When the male goblins show up, they tend to be more conventional looking small, green, ugly humanoids.
• Girl Genius got a few:
  • Traveling jager-kin Jenka, who gets a lot cuter once she's dressed for her job as the head of the Mechanicsburg Diplomatic Corps.
  • Mamma Gkika; "cute" and "girl" definitely aren't the words for her, but she fits all the same.
  • The girls working at Mamma Gkika's exploit this trope to the full. Although only two female jagers have been seen in-comic, the girls don fangs, claws and pointed ears to appear like extremely humanoid jagers. Apparently they offer "dinner and a show" (for both the tourists and for the real jagers hiding out in the basement) making the bar a notorious tourist trap, but a later visit to Mamma Gkika's shows that the jager-frau offer a little more than that at certain times of day.
  • Nobody's really sure what the Geisterdamen are, other than creepy, but they're also kinda hot.
  • Ferretina the Evil Weasel Queen from the side-story "Revenge of the Weasel Queen".
  • Maxim and Oggie fall under the heading of Cute Monster Boys.
• Goblins has Saves-a-Fox (admittedly she wears a wig, but still...) and yuan-ti girl Kin. Female Goblins are drawn sexier than their male counterparts in several panels, especially when the male leads are fantasizing.
• Homestuck:
  • The trolls fame have grey skin, orange, sunken eyes, fangs of varying length and horns of varying shape. Apart from that, they don't really look that monstrous. Nepeta, for example, is adorable, even if she does kill wild animals for food with her bare hands and paint the walls of her cave with their blood. The male trolls are all mostly Cute Monster Guys, too. Except maybe Equius.
  • Jade Harley was spliced with a godlike dog, but the doggy features are cosmetic accessories to her big-eyed Moe face, and her plain long hair became a wavy mane.
• One of the primary facets in the mad science comedy The Horrifying Experiments of Dr. Pleasant!. But as the "Schneidecker-Loli principle" clearly states, young females are the easiest to revive.
• Snapdragon Fahrenheit, along with a number of other students (including a gorgon, a succubus and a Jotun) at the Doc Mars Academy from How to Raise Your Teenage Dragon.
• Molly in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! is an extremely cute pink furry monster. Princess Voluptua still manages to be pretty attractive even in her insect form, as well.
• Hala River from Irregular Elis is an alien.
• Keychain of Creation has both Marena (Lunar Exalted, 'foxy', and arguably the Ms. Fanservice of the strip) and Secret (Abyssal Exalted, but undeniably cute). If a Genius Ditz robotic mad scientist who can turn into a giant robot cat is more your thing, there's always Elegant Nova of Progression.
• Benn'Joon of Looking for Group. What exactly Benny's race is is unclear to the point that Richard describes her as "miscellaneous," although she has been on a couple occasions been identified as a troll (whose males, for the record, are green-skinned and generally ugly) and has been regularly called a half-breed. It is later heavily implied that her mother is the quite attractive Elven pirate Captain Tah'Vraay, so Benny appears to be at least part Elf. The markings around her eyes and three-digit hands similar to the Minotaurs hints that she may very well be Krunch's biological daughter.
• Modern MoGal is a Slice of Life Urban Fantasy comic about various species of monster girls (and a few monster boys) going about their everyday lives.
• The unnamed gorgon protagonist in Modest Medusa seems to be a cute and fairly harmless child, without the ability to turn people to stone or the aggression normally associated with the medusa/gorgon type of monster. Instead she's easily distracted and seems to enjoy video games and junk food.
  • It's later revealed that she is the juvenile form of a race of Snake People, who as adults are giant, terrifying snakes. They look like adorable little girls when they're young so people will protect and look after them until they're old enough to fend for themselves.
• All the female cast (and males) from Monsterful. Cute monster girl extras (both young and mature) are everywhere, and cute monster girl celebrity parodies!
• The webcomic "Monster Girls on Tour." has a wide cast of such creatures, with a Salamander as the main one.
• My Impossible Soulmate: Two of Chiaki's classmates in Room P-1 are a cute fish girl named Verity and a cute demon girl named Belial.
• Nast the Enchanter ia a (defunct) interactive webcomic centering around an enchanter framed for stealing the princess' knickers. He tricks a minotaur woman named Valley into breaking him out of jail and they form an adventuring party together. They have since met a King Slime who chose to shape itself into a sexy woman.
• Nerf NOW!! has Cute Zerg Girls. As in, the Zerg from StarCraft.
• The Noordegraaf Files has Akila, who looks sort of like a cute swamp creature with spiky blue hair and breasts. However, calling her anything alluding to the fact that she looks like a fish-person is bound to get her very angry. She also grows tentacles on occasion. Sirens (the bird kind) and other monsters are also featured — humans are also in the comic's universe, but haven't appeared.
• The Order of the Stick:
  • Therkla, a half-orc ninja. While the males of the orcs we see aren't exactly any more ugly, mishapen, or inhuman than the females, this could be a limitation of the art style.
  • Subverted and parodied in with a female Lizardfolk prostitute. At first she appears to look much more human than a typical member of her species, with blonde hair and Non-Mammal Mammaries. But it turns out these are a wig and implants, which she got to attract more business. Without them she'd look just like a standard Lizardfolk. (The other lizardfolk hooker is disgusted by her.)
• Ow, my sanity is about Eldritch Abominations forming an Unwanted Harem around the protagonist, David. All of them take the form of beautiful women or Cute Monster Girls. Notably, the shoggoth manages to look cute even when in its favoured form of a girl with snake-ish mouths for arms!
• Paranormal Mystery Squad:
  • The Deer Woman (based on Native American mythos) at the beginning was kinda cute if you don't notice that her long skirt concealed deer legs. To bad she had already murdered 7 men before being made a foot shorter.
  • Once Katie is changed, she's a cute litte werewolf after her bite.
• Soraya from Poharex combines this with Lizard Folk.
• Most of the coatlaltec girls from Restaurante Macoatl fit this trope, the only trace of them being reptiles are their tails and claws.
• Princess Trollabundine in Realmwalker is a cute troll, with green and pink skin, and a love for flowers, tea parties, dancing... and raw meat.
• Mentioned occasionally in Schlock Mercenary.
  • "You 'member dem comics where da alien girls were all pretty an' stuff?" "Comic book artists don' get out much, I don' think."
  • "Are there aliens in the company? Are any of 'em... you know... hot?"
• All of the main characters in School Bites are cute vampire girls, some going into the catgirl variety.
• The title character of Selkie has gray skin, flippers, and fangs.
• In Shadowgirls, Christmas Snow's mother is a female Deep One, but not nearly as grotesque as one of the originals. This lends a bit of plausibility to the strip showing that she and her human partner conceived her out of mutual love and attraction.
• Sinfest has Baby Blue and Fuchsia. They're Devil Girls (presumably succubi), so there's some justification for this. Also, their boss is depicted as pretty handsome.
• Sluggy Freelance:
  • Parodied in the Years of Yarncraft storyline, especially in this strip.
  • Aylee adopts her forms to defend against specific dangers (such as developing mind-shielding with a telepathic foe around). The current form was taken because she feared what humans would do unless she could fit in among them better. In other words, she (subconsciously) made herself into a Cute Monster Girl to gain acceptance.
• Spinnerette gives us Minerva, a Stripperiffic anthropomorphic Cerberus whose three heads offer something for everyone into anthros, whether they like their girls sweet, spicy, or tsundere. There's also Katt o'Nine Tails (though she's much more slender than curvy, and her usual outfit is about as far from stripperiffic as you can get) and Evil Spinnerette, who started out human but used a ritual to turn herself into a drider.
• The Creo in Terinu start out as petite and cute when they're young, but upon reaching adulthood they gain the same bulky musculature as a male. Ferin does and bucks, on the other hand, retain disturbingly small and cute their entire lives, even as they sported spiky horns and tails.
• Anaak Jahad from Tower of God is a cute specimen from the Lizard Folk.
• Levana, the titular Vampire Girl.
• What's Shakin' has a few, most notably an undead lady Ell and an orc girl Pai.
• White Dark Life has a plethora of these, notably Artemis and Entegra. The timeskip later introduces Damien and Inu, a pair of Cute Monster Boys.
• Xan from Winters In Lavelle is a male example of this. Half-deer, part of a species infamous for hating humans and being rather violent, but damn, if he isn't adorable. Despite his usually less than kind demeanour, his occasional sweet moments (almost always with Rio) only serve to emphasise that.
• The Wotch has Ti'el, a cute green-haired alien with tentacle hands, and Myrrh, Lord Sykos' half-liquid maid. Due to the Shapeshifting that goes on, many characters have been a Cute Monster Girl at least once or twice.
• Aracia Paukoobraznyy from Zoo Academy is a spider Bifera (part human part animal) and she's very cute, despite other characters thinking she's a little scary.

Web Original

• The Lampyrians from Beyond the Impossible. Blue skin, no nose and large bat-like wings. They are exclusively female, live only for two years and are universally considered incredibly attractive.
• Aquaria Innsmouth from Freedom City Play By Post acts like a Cute Monster Girl with a bubbly personality who loves helping people - Subverted in that she looks hideous to Surface eyes.
• Felarya is based on this trope. Almost all major characters are Cute Monster Girls — sweet, innocent, and with an appetite for gulping down humans whole and alive. Felaryan Cute Monster Girls range from nagas (giant snake-human hybrids) to driders (giant spider-human hybrids), mermaids, slug girls, and adorable carnivorous fairies. Who, naturally, are often really, really big and all trying to eat you. Giant males are presumed to exist, but are rarely seen. Some species are One Gender Races.
• The Monster Girl Encyclopedia revolves entirely around this trope (as the name states). A Succubus ascends to the position of Maou the Demon King, falls in love with and corrupts the Hero, and together they try to end the conflict between Man and Monster by transforming all the monsters and demons of the world into half-succubi and turning their increased Hatred and Aggression towards Humans into Lust and Affection. It doesn’t quite go as well as they hoped.
• Mortasheen has Mothstrous, a human-moth hybrid who looks quite cute compared to the other human-insect hybrids called Arthropoids, who are grotesque and Brundlefly-ish in look. Given that Mortasheen's standards of beauty are... different, it's not surprising to learn they consider Mothstrous one of the most hideous and grotesque of all Arthropoids. For comparison's sake, this is one of the Arthropoids they consider "beautiful".
• Teto Kasane the UTAUloid is a chimera with the appearance of a human girl with bat wings, and is often depicted with Cute Little Fangs depending on the artist. Depictions showing her wings are exceedingly rare, making this somewhat of an Informed Attribute.
• The waiter-zombie users play as in the iTunes app Zombies à La Mode is a cross between a rare cute monster guy and Ugly Cute.
• Welcome Home (Clown Illustrations) has Julie Joyful, a "rainbow monster" who looks like an ordinary girl save for her short, candy-corn-colored horns. Her siblings look more monstrous with their colorful skin and longer horns, but still fall more towards the "cute" side of the spectrum... though being Muppets this is to be expected.
• Whateley Universe: Because of the various ways the Exemplar trait can manifest, and the various Body Horror side effects of mutant powers, there are several inhuman-looking students on campus, some of whom are still reasonably attractive nonetheless. Notable instances include Kaiju^note it is specifically stated in-story that Sadhira Patel got this codename from her resemblance to the 'Kaiju Girls' style of Moe Anthropomorphism Fan Art which would give rise to the anime series of the same name a few years after she was introduced, Demona, Diamondback, and Adore. One could argue that the Drow Swarm would count as well, though calling them 'monsters' in front of Jobe Wilkins^note the Mad Scientist responsible for turning herself and the rest into Drow would probably lead to you getting turned into a drider or worse.

Websites

• 4chan, always with infallible taste, brought us (at least) Ebola-Chan, Zika-Chan, Malaria-chan and now Corona-chan. (If you miss Yersinia-Chan, she stars in an old Vampirella story, which goes back, maybe via a detour over Poe to "Frau Pest" from German fairy tales, so it's Older Than They Think. Not even mentioning Mode, see Anime and Manga above.)
• SCP Foundation: While there's no images of her on the website, SCP-811 gives off the feel of this trope due to her simplistic third-person manner of speech and her child-like cheerfulness when she learns new things. It probably also helps that she used to be a human being.
• On Tumblr, one user posted fan art of a gender-swapped Beauty and the Beast and declared this would never happen, that guys would never give an "ugly" girl a chance. Someone who was aware of the Monster Girl Fandom and the Furry Fandom was very quick to point out how wrong she was using this trope.

Web Videos

• Dr. Crafty has Nurse Worse, the lab assistant of the titular doctor. Her design evokes Frankenstein's Monster with stitched green skin and metal bolts on her head and arms, but she's also a Big Beautiful Woman who provides helpful commentary on the process for Dr. Crafty's creations.
• Constantly brought up in CinemaSins whenever he is sinning any of the X-Men films and anyone or anything hints that Mystique is monstrous, unattractive, or would otherwise be unaccepted due to her appearance. Jeremy always points out that even in spite of her blue skin and scales she's very attractive and that she would have no trouble at all being accepted or finding friendship and love if she'd drop the self-pity and quit using it as an excuse to be a villain.
• The cast of VShojo includes a wolf, an artificial intelligence, a demon queen, a lich, a dragon, a robotic alien dragon, and an Eldritch Abomination pretending to be a catgirl.
• Drawtectives has a few. York the orc is considered handsome enough in-universe to have taken up a second career as a runway model between seasons, and NPC Joe Bean is basically just green, fanged Dolly Parton.

Western Animation

• Adventure Time has Princess Bubblegum (a candy person made of gum), Flame Princess (a fire elemental), and Marceline (a shapeshifting vampirised half-demon Half-Human Hybrid). Flame Princess and Princess Bubblegum are the most extreme examples, as the other (mostly male) fire elementals and Candy People look much less humanoid than they do. However, other female characters and creatures are varying flavours of weird; Lumpy Space Princess, for example, is basically a sapient cloud. In the Gender Flip episodes Ice Queen is very much less repulsive than the Ice King, but most likely this is due to her being Ice King's self insert. Due to large cast, there are a few more. However, they're still outnumbered by the weird ones.
• In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Wasp becomes one when she's mutated by Gamma Radiation.
• Attea from Ben 10: Omniverse. In her first appearance back in Alien Force she was an adorable looking (if bratty and insane) frog girl. Then she popped back up in Omniverse looking like this.◊
• Teryx on Dinosaucers is an evolved Archaeopteryx and beautiful in her own way, so much that several members of her species (even the Big Bad of the show) are attracted to her. In one episode it is revealed that she was an actress in a soap opera on her home planet before joining the hero team, and had hordes of admirers.
• Duck Dodgers:
  • It seems that while male Martians are short and cartoony the females, particularly Queen Tyr'ahnee are, well, this◊. Then again, the male Martian General Z9 is tall and well-built, so it's possible that Marvin is just a midget among his people.
  • One episode had the hero crash-land onto a planet made up of attractive bug-like women... until the sun goes down.
• Leela from Futurama, a beautiful one-eyed woman descended from a race inflicted with all kinds of Body Horror, is a particularly justified example: her parents and people are formerly human, subterranean mutants and the fact that she happened to be born looking almost human is why they were able to pass her off as a Human Alien and send her to the surface world for a better life than they could give her. Averted with plenty of underground female mutants though. Such deformities include slimy green skin, vertical mouths, extra arms and tentacles.
• All of the female Gargoyles shown in the original TV series are sexy winged humanoids, except for Una, who resembles an anthropomorphic unicorn and is thus still "cute", while male gargoyles have many other types. However, the comic continuation eventually introduced Constance (Coco), a heavy-set female who resembles a wild sow, and Brooklyn's mate at the end of his Timedance, Katana, has a face that includes a beautiful beak. In "The Mirror", when Puck turned Elisa into a gargoyle, Elisa qualified for this — though Goliath considered her more beautiful as a human.
• Generator Rex has Breach, a pale, four-armed (with the top set of arms being abnormally huge) schoolgirl. A later episode introduced Cricket, a girl who's still pretty cute despite being green and having spines on her arms. Later episodes reduce the amount of spines, make her figure fuller, and give her a cuter face.
• Gravedale High is about a high school of monsters, so some of the monsters are cute teenage girls including Durze (a Gorgon), Blanche (a Zombie) and Cleo (a Mummy).
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy has two male examples:
  • Nergal Jr. has a huge number of fangirls because, while monstrous (and sometimes a Yandere), he is a cute dork.
  • A zig-zagged example would be Irwin; he starts of an ordinary, harmless nerd. He later turns out to be a vampire-mummy and is dorky-cute
• Gumby is guilty of this one. Gumby has roughly the same slab-shaped body as his father, but his mother has a round head with blonde hair on a body that has breasts and she wears clothes. She's not cute by the standards of most entries on this page, but she's far more human-shaped than the rest of her family.
• Saffi from Jimmy Two-Shoes, a one-eyed, orange-skinned demon with a Cute and Psycho personality and a surprisingly shapely figure. Heloise may count, given her Ambiguously Human status, and a few background characters qualify as well.
• Some of the experiments in the Lilo & Stitch franchise are female and somewhat adorable, but none are moreso than Angel (Experiment 624), who is the made-for-destruction mutant alien koala Stitch's girlfriend and Distaff Counterpart. She has pink fur, two long antennae that resemble human hair, an hourglass body, and a white V-shaped patch of white fur on her chest that resembles cleavage (and, fittingly, a pair of angel wings).
• Plenty of the girls from Lloyd in Space. Alpha Bitch Brittany has blue skin and six arms but is still pretty cute. Dandere Violet simply has yellow skin and pink hair. Cindy may have two heads but one of them is very pretty and her body is also quite nice. Lloyd's mother Nora pretty much qualifies for Green-Skinned Space Babe. One episode has Eddie (the Token Human) falling for a girl who is half-Zebra at the end. Averted with other girls such as Genevieve, Megan, Grace, Charmaine and Mrs Bolts (who is a robot) who have much more alien appearances.
• Martin Mystery has Diana becoming a half-lizard girl in the second part of the third season finale. The eponymous character even jokingly compliments that she's only a mini-mutant because her eyes changed and she has a tail.
• The Owl House:
  • This is rather common among they younger female demon population like Luz's classmates at Hexside, although the most prominent example would have to be Vee, a shapeshifting basilisk who ended up accidentally taking over Luz's life while she was in the Demon Realm and eventually becomes her adoptive sister.
  • For a more temporary example, Luz herself briefly becomes a human/titan hybrid in the Grand Finale when the spirit of King's father gives her all of his remaining life force. While there are some obvious non-human attributes (large horns, more pronounced canines, incredibly long and floofy hair, bonelike protrusions all over her body) it's shown that she's still the same lovable dork that the audience had gotten to known over the course of the series underneath.
• Iris from Ruby Gloom is an adorable young cyclops with a Genki Girl personality.
• Sabrina: The Animated Series:
  • The group get sucked into Harvey's comic book world and Sabrina becomes Calamari Queen, who is half girl, half squid and pretty darn cute. She also appears to have been aged a few years judging by her chest area.
  • Grimadonna the vampire superstar from the Netherworld. A sexy humanoid woman just with purple hair, pointy ears, blue skin and fangs.
• Scooby-Doo:
  • Lena Dupree from Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is an... interesting variation. She's certainly cute, and she's certainly a monster, but her monster form itself? NOT. CUTE. They transform twice. The first form is just their normal human forms only with cat ears, teeth, eyes, claws and some fur. Then they transform into horrific monsters. The female zombies from the film are decidedly not cute as well.
  • Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders has the cute native girl Shaggy had the hots for(!) — and who seemed to share his feelings(!!) — who was a real (benevolent) alien; she looked somewhat like a metallic-skinned Grey alien, but with an attractive human bodyshape and expressive facial features.
  • The girls from Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School. They're all the daughters of famous monsters, Sibella for example is Dracula's daughter.
• In Scream Street Cleo the mummy fits this trope, as do "Cute Monster Boys" Resus the vampire (with his Cute Little Fangs) and Luke the werewolf (though not so much when he's in his full wolf form!). Series 2 also adds another cute Frankenstein's monster girl in the form of Six.
• Die Sendung Mit Der Maus has a monster kid writing his mommy a Mother's Day poem. Mommy surely isn't sexually-attractive-cute (still, you can see her teats! Gasp!) but you can safely say she is heartwarming-grotesque-cute.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil:
  • Star looks like a fourteen-year-old girl with heart tattoos on her cheeks. She transformed temporarily into a monstrous butterfly-like form during mewberty, yet still looked adorable despite being terrifying.
  • Hekapoo. She looks like a pale young girl with horns and maybe fur.
  • Tom Lucitor is a male example, an attractive boy with horns, sharp teeth, three eyes and a tail (And Star who is his girlfriend had no idea of that last detail)
  • Meteora Butterfly transforms into a beautiful semi-monster girl of 16 years in the episode Gone Baby Gone.
• Teen Titans (2003):
  • Kitten in the episode "Date with Destiny" looks like a cute, normal human girl. Her father, Killer Moth, appears to be some kind of moth man and her boyfriend, Fang, is a guy with a Giant Spider for a head (not a spider head, a spider). It turns out that Killer Moth is actually a regular guy in a costume, but despite the metallic voice and non-moving mouth you might not realize that just by watching the episode.
  • Among the main characters there's Dark Magical Girl Raven, the daughter of an Eldritch Abomination Physical God and a human (well, Azarathian anyway) woman. Most of the time, she looks like a cute human girl, save for her pale skin and purple eyes and hair (and in their animesque world, it's hard to say just how unusual even some of those traits are). The angrier she gets, though, the more her father's monstrous traits start showing: when she has four glowing red eyes, an elongated body, and is spewing Lovecraftian amounts of darkness tendrils from her cloak, it's time to start running. Fast!
    Dr. Light: It was so... so... dark... Make it stop... Make it stop...
  • Beast Boy covers Cute Monster Boy, with his green skin, Pointy Ears, and Cute Little Fangs.
  • In spite of Starfire's obvious beauty, Ms. Alien Eye-Candy is still a superstrong alien monster with orange skin who shoots lasers. A really beautiful alien monster, but alien monster nonetheless. This is actually brought up whenever she decides to eat (her race eat giant insects and squids and have teeth filed down to points) or hug someone (accompanied by breaking-bone sounds).
• Total Drama: Revenge of the Island contestant Dakota gets exposed to toxic waste and mutates into a huge monster, and her love interest Sam, a nice gamer guy, sees her as this, finding her even more attractive than before.
• Anytime one of the main characters of Totally Spies! is mutated into a half-human, this is the guaranteed outcome. Even as a half-cockroach Alex still manages to be quite cute.
• Ugly Americans: Callie Maggotbone, literally the devils daughter, is almost too human. She probably just would have to saw off her little horns to go as a human.
• When Stella got turned into a monster in the Winx Club episode "Valtor's Mark", she was still pretty cute. A green-skinned, sharp-toothed, amphibious monster girl, with a nice fat layer as well.

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