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** The 649 Pocket Monsters are divided into 15 "egg groups" based loosely on biological niches, such as "Bug," "Mineral," or "Fairy." Almost all Pokémon belong to at least one grouping; male and female monsters that share a group can breed, regardless of relative size or form, and the only Pokémon not in an egg group are "baby" Pokémon, most legendary Pokémon, and three others, two of which (Nidorina and Nidoqueen) seem to be only due to a bug that was maintained for the sake of continuity, with the last being Unown. The resulting baby will normally be of the mother's species, but may inherit moves from the father. The shapeshifting Pokémon Ditto is a special case, as it has no gender but it can breed with anyone to produce a new baby of the other Pokémon, allowing you to (for instance) get eggs from non-gendered or [[OneGenderRace male-only]] Pokémon.

* ''SpiceAndWolf'' carefully dances around this issue; [[CuteMonsterGirl Holo]] only transforms three times (once only her arm), and the first two times Lawrence is initially afraid of her, but by the third time he seems to have become comfortable with her [[BigBadassWolf wolf form]]. However, all of their [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming tender]] [[WillTheyOrWontThey moments]] come when she's in her LittleBitBeastly "human" form.

** If Changelings are anything like [[Webcomic/SchlockMercenary Amorphs]] that could result in a [[NaughtyTentacles relatively simple birth]] on [[MisterSeahorse either partner]] for [[GenderBlendingTropes so many reasons]].

* ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'': DoubleSubverted. There are three civilized races in the setting; Humans, [[PettingZooPeople Keidran, and Basitin]]. As far as anyone knows, breeding between the races is impossible. ''Until'' Flora, the human main human character's keidran wife, somehow becomes pregnant with his child. It's implied this is because of divine intervention, though it's unclear whether the powers-that-be enabled it to happen, or were preventing it in the first place.

* The early ''DragonQuestMonsters'' games are the lords of this trope. While monsters are grouped into families based on type, any matchup will succeed as long as the prospective parents are of opposite genders. Dragons and birds, undead and plants, slimes and animated objects, and the offspring will nearly always be something other than either of its parents. On top of that, the child will have the potential to learn all powers of its species, all powers of both parents' species, and any powers either parent knew at the time of conception, allowing for some truly evil twinking.
** The latest entry in the series, ''DragonQuestMonsters: Joker'', seems to solve the problem. Instead of each monster being male or female, they can be Positive, Negative, or Neutral, and the process is known as Synthesis. Synthesis requires a positive and negative monster, with a neutral monster substitutable for both (However, you CANNOT synthesize two neutral monsters.) Imagine the two monsters you pick being pureed in a blender, then having the concoction froze into a new monster. This could explain why you lose your monsters after synthesis.

** The Minotaur was born of this sort of a union. King Minos angered the sea god Poseidon by refusing to sacrifice a bull (given to him by Poseidon for that very purpose), so Poseidon caused his wife Queen Pasiphae to fall in love with that same bull. She asked Daedalus to help her, so he built her a hollow wooden device that looked like a cow and enabled her to go tryst with her beloved. Don't think too hard about the mechanics of this.

* In a nod the "The Dunwich Horror", [[Literature/TheLaundrySeries Jennifer Morgue]] brings us human/Deep One hybrids. The deep ones themselves are alien fishmen, but some of the human hybrids can be startling attractive (which helps when breeding with humans, of course), and the protagonist muses that he now understands why some people take to [[FetishFuel solo nude snorkelling off secluded beaches...]]
** Reference is made to the rather fishy-looking and ugly residents of Dunwich from the original story, and they are implied to be a particularly in-bred group, and would look pretty peculiar even in the absense of Deep One genes.

*** Mr. Welch, of "ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG" fame, apparently uses this to imply that elves are easy.

** In ShinMegamiTenseiImagine it's explained further, the demons lose their physical forms and their Magnetite (Energy) is fused to create a new form.

** Played for laughs after Grunt's loyalty mission if you kill the thresher maw. EDI mentions that the feat has sprouted several breeding requests for Grunt, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny and one for Shepard]](which happens regardless of the player's gender).
*** Bear in mind that everybody on that planet is, like Grunt, a Krogan. Your average Krogan looks like [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100322235545/masseffect/images/5/5e/Kroganconcept.png this]].

** Also, a [=FemShep=] who has romanced Garrus since VideoGame/MassEffect2 can get a dialogue scene near the end in which he mentions finding out "what a turian-human baby looks like."

* Averted in the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' game lines, which actually had rather extensive [=FAQs=] in some of the supplementary books about what happened if various supernatural monsters got it on. Their solution? While most everything was human enough to mate, the powers you got were a spiritual rather than genetic thing, and the rules of spiritual inheritance were such that you could not have a "mixed soul". The result tended to be that the offspring would be one kind of monster without any real bennies from the other parent. (The writers of those books really hated mummified Vampire/Werewolves with Changeling powers and Mage spells, and went out of their way to keep them out of the game), although such "crossbreeding power" was hinted at in earlier editions.

* An issue from AlanMoore's run on SwampThing has a humungous technoorganic LivingShip using Swampy genetic material to create half plant/half machine hybrids.

* One script of ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' has this ending for Fred and Laliari. Thankfully this was not shown. (Laliari is a Thermian, a species of StarfishAliens who look like an octopus eating a squid. She uses a hologram to "dress up" as human, but apparently ''[[NaughtyTentacles takes it off to have sex]]''. "[[{{Squick}} Ohhhh that's not right]]" indeed!)

* There exists a Chronicles of Narnia fanfic in which there were [[NauseaFuel many not-oblique-enough references]] made to Ettins (akin to extremely large orcs) who abducted humans (men, surprisingly) [[NightmareFuel in order to produce magically-viable offspring]], since generations of [[FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother inbreeding]] and [[BrotherSisterIncest incest]] had destroyed the health of the Ettin line. The abducted humans usually didn't survive much past the experience.

* In ''KevinAndKell'', it seems that even being of the same taxonomic order or class is not necessary for successful cross-species matings. The fox/wolf cross (Rudy) almost seems ordinary when seen with the rabbit/wolf cross (Coney), the wolf/sheep cross (Corrie), the fennec fox/formerly human rabbit cross (Francis), or the tortoise/weasel cross (not named in the strip, to the best of this editor's recall).