History CuteMonsterGirl / VideoGames

* Every character that isn't the PlayerCharacter [[spoiler:or Chara, the other fallen human]] in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' is a monster, and while their designs vary, this trope is generally in effect for monsters of both genders, particularly for major characters. Undyne is basically a female human with scales, fangs, and a few fins (she also has an EyepatchOfPower and a long red ponytail) and Dr. Alphys is a dorky, anime-obsessed bipedal yellow lizard with NerdGlasses and a LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine. Muffet is a spider-girl who resembles a bluish-purple-skinned humanoid girl in a Victorian tea-party outfit with extra limbs, eyes, and CuteLittleFangs. On the male side we have Papyrus, a goofy skeleton dressed in an elaborate costume, and his lackadaisical brother Sans. Both Toriel and [[spoiler:Asgore]] are older than usual for this trope--both are basically middle-aged--but resemble tall goat-like humanoids with friendly faces and white fur, and both have their fans in-universe and out. Mettaton seems to defy this, as despite being the underground's closest thing to a sex symbol he's just a boxy robot who is little more than a [=TV=] screen on a wheel, [[spoiler: but his alternate forms are androgynous robo-{{Bishonen}}s]].

*** Downplayed with Mipha from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''. In contrast to the fish-like AnimalEyes and ScaryTeeth of the other Zora, her eyes and mouth are more human-like, but she otherwise exhibits the same bestial SharkMan attributes of the others. Her brother Sidon is considered a ChickMagnet in-universe ([[BaraGenre and]] [[PerverseSexualLust out]]) despite being even more shark-like than the other Zora.

** ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'' has [[ExpositionFairy Goombario]], a Goomba with a cap and whose CuteLittleFangs are replaced with molars, and [[CuteGhostGirl Lady Bow]], a female Boo who's a bit snobbish (her basic attack is a repetition of slaps) but as cute as regular Boos.
** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' has [[TheSmartGal Goombella]], a Goomba student with an archeologist helmet and a single fang, and [[DarkIsNotEvil Vivian]], a LivingShadow with a [[CuteWitch funny witch hat]] who starts as the TokenGoodTeammate of the villains and who's abused by her elder sister Beldam, who helps Mario [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe after he helps her avoiding a punishment]], and [[HeelFaceTurn who ends up joining him for good when he's at his lowest point]].

** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' has [[TheSmartGal Goombella]], a Goomba student with an archeologist helmet and a single fang,
** The most prominent examples are the {{Exposition Fair|y}}ies Goombario and Goombella (two Goombas with funny hats and whose CuteLittleFangs, and [[DarkIsNotEvil Vivian]], a LivingShadow with a [[CuteWitch funny witch hat]] who starts as the TokenGoodTeammate of the villains and who's abused by her elder sister Beldam, who helps Mario [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe after he helps her avoiding a punishment]], and [[HeelFaceTurn who ends up joining him for good when he's at his lowest point]].

*** Ruto, the Princess of the Zora, grows into this after the TimeSkip in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''. Compare [[https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Princess_Ruto her]] appearance [[TheUlgyGuysHotDaughter with that of her]] [[https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/King_Zora_XVI father's]]. Granted, the majority of the Zora in ''Ocarina'' aren't exactly ugly, with the other males having visible pecs and the females having NonMammalMammaries, but Ruto stands out by being one of the few without a large head-tail or eyes that are entirely blue (the only other Zora in ''Ocarina'' to also fit that bill is her father).

*** Downplayed with Mipha from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''. In contrast to the fish-like AnimalEyes and ScaryTeeth of the other Zora, her eyes and mouth are more human-like, but she otherwise exhibits the same bestial SharkMan attributes of the others. Her brother Sidon is considered a ChickMagnet in-universe ([[{{Bara}} and]] [[PerverseSexualLust out]]) despite being even more shark-like than the other Zora.

** When not under Zant's curse, regular twilight citizens aren't so much ugly as featureless. Even with that curse which shrank and deformed her, Midna is essentially a cute fairy woman with a big head, CuteLittleFangs and a weird skin-tone.

** Yeto of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' is a [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti big, hulking yeti]] with a face that one would expect a yeti to have. His wife Yeta, on the other hand, is a walking ball of fur (or clothes, it's hard to tell) with a much cuter face. [[spoiler:At least when she's not possessed by the dungeon boss, then her face [[NightmareFace goes all scary-like]]...]]
** The eponymous Twilight Princess: regular twilight citizens aren't so much ugly as featureless (most of them being black mannequin-like when not under Zant's curse), she's absolutely ''gorgeous'' and looks mostly like a woman with a weird skin-tone.
** The Zoras are an odd case in ''Twilight Princess''. Most of them look the same, with no sexual dimorphism and being ''very'' androgynous. Some of them wear fish-like helmets, but their real faces are rather human. The Zora Queen Rutela, on the other hand, is much more human-like, with a distinct bust and something hairlike on her head.
** Ruto, the Princess of the Zora, grows into this after the TimeSkip in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''. Compare [[https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Princess_Ruto her]] appearance with that of her [[https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/King_Zora_XVI father's]]. Granted, the majority of the Zora in ''Ocarina'' aren't exactly ugly, with the other males having visible pecs and the females having NonMammalMammaries, but Ruto stands out by being one of the few without a large head-tail or eyes that are entirely blue (the only other Zora in ''Ocarina'' to also fit that bill is her father).
** It's a recurring element with the Zora across the series. In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'', the Zora once again have their much uglier [[Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon Gillman]]-esque "River Zora" looks from the earlier 2D games, but their Queen Oren looks like an attractive woman with a few River Zora attributes.
** Downplayed with Mipha from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''. In contrast to the fish-like AnimalEyes and ScaryTeeth of the other Zora, her eyes and mouth are more human-like, but she otherwise exhibits the same bestial SharkMan attributes of the others. Her brother Sidon is considered a ChickMagnet in-universe despite being even more shark-like than the other Zora. He is also something of a ChickMagnet out of universe.

** Mileena started off as subversion of this as she's mostly human-looking but has a gruesome set of [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily teeth]] thanks to her shared Tarkatan DNA which made her quite the ButterFace in the eyes of many players. ''However'' ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' changes her face giving her human lips and only her cheeks are toothy which causing players to note how beautiful she was. Fanart especially had a field-day with her makeover [[https://orig00.deviantart.net/7310/f/2015/106/d/2/mileena___request___by_esther_fan_world-d8ps505.jpg (wow)]].
** [[InsectQueen D'vorah]] from [=MKX=] would seem like she would count, but her personality and behavior just makes her gross and disturbing. Even her [[https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/mkwikia/images/0/02/D%27Vorah_MKX_ending_2015-04-15_15-20-48.png/revision/latest?cb=20150416012233 babies]] aren't really cute (mostly because they're bursting out from Shinnok's stomach.

* From the ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' series, Ayane has a succubus costume in ''Dead or Alive 5: Last Round''.

** The Brothel for Slaking Intellectual Lusts, where you find Fall-From-Grace, is full of these. It is, after all, still a whorehouse in Sigil, even if it offers strictly non-physical intimacies. There's Marissa the {{medusa}}, the extremely voluptuous "planetouched" Kesai-Serris [[note]] she's a half-[[MageSpecies Night Hag]] tiefling: her dad was a Cambion, a half-demon, mom was Ravel Puzzlewell the Night Hag[[/note]], Kimasxi Adder-Tongue the tiefling (though a scruffy and abrasive one, kept on as a sort of verbal dominatrix), and Dolora the [[RobotGirl very well-built golem]], most obviously, but it can be inferred most (or all) of the other six prostitutes are inhuman as well.

** Sheeva. She's a Shokkan: a ProudWarriorRace of [[StatuesqueStunner tall]], [[AmazonianBeauty muscular]], [[MultiArmedAndDangerous four-armed]] humanoids. But compared to her male counterparts Goro and Kintaro, Sheeva is relatively shorter and thinner in build and gets more attention from the fans than one would think. The one exception is ''VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon'', where she is considerably bulkier, which is fitting since she serves as the sub-boss for the female-only arcade ladder. When she returns in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' however, she's slender again. In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', she regains ''some'' bulk, but we finally see average Shokan as well, and the men are actually closer to ''her'' size than to Goro and Kintaro, who were monstrously huge even by Shokan standards.

* The HGame series ''Monster Girl Quest'' is filled with these. They are actually all a nation of different OneGenderRace monsters who rely on human males to reproduce [[EroticEating and as a]] [[ImAHumanitarian food source]]. They range from this to [[BodyHorror downright]] [[NightmareFuel terrifying]].

* ''VideoGame/CoffeeTalk'' takes place in a FantasyKitchenSink version of Seattle, and all of the female characters (apart from the lone human, Freya) qualify as this in some way or another. Among the cast, there's [[NiceGirl Lua]] the [[HornyDevils succubus]], [[IdolSinger Rachel]] the ''[[CatGirl nekomimi]]'', [[{{Meganekko}} Aqua]] the [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaid]], and [[AmazonianBeauty Myrtle]] the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent half-orc]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'', any female character that's not Baby Bonnie Hood ([[HornyDevils Morrigan, Lilith]], [[CatGirl Felicia]], [[BeePeople Q-Bee]]) qualifies, but the winner is Hsien-Ko, a ChineseVampire. Q-Bee is probably the most horrible, as while her race act like normal bees, they've developed one evolutionary trait to help them hunt their prey: their eyes. Those gigantic bulbs on her head? ''Those are her real eyes''. The ones on the front of her face are there to trick people into thinking she's a dimwitted chick. This is why her fighting pose is animated so her head looks like it's pointing down, her actual eyes are completely focused on her prey.

** Most monsters are male, with the most obvious exceptions being the [[HornyDevils Succubus]] and the [[CatGirl Nekomata]], which are [[OneGenderRace all female]].

** Arue's old boss, Nocticula, the [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils demon lord of darkness and lust]] and [[HornyDevils queen of all succubi]]. Even with the PointyEars, bat wings, and lava hooves, she's very beautiful.

** On the villains' side of things Minagho the [[HornyDevils lilitu]] is attractive enough to be TheVamp even in her horned, eyeless true form.

** A number of odd {{N|onPlayerCharacter}}PCs can be added to your party. Only two are female, and both of them are conventionally very attractive, with some add-ons (a tail in the case of Annah and wings in the case of Fall-From-Grace). With Grace it's expected; she ''is'' a [[HornyDevils succubus]]. However, Annah is a tiefling; that is, someone descended from a fiendish grandparent (possibly with a few "greats" thrown in), and most fiends in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', even female ones, aren't very attractive. Annah also wears a leather version of a [[ChainmailBikini Breast Plate]], including hooker boots. The PC can [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on this by suggesting she strip it down further, adding a few more slashes, to distract her marks. She gets flustered by this remark, and he comments he thought that's what it was for in the first place. She claims she gets hot, and "suspects it's the fiend blood in me".

* ''[[VideoGame/Lineage2 Lineage II: The Chaotic Throne]]'': Male dwarves look like their counterparts in ''[=WoW=]'' and similar games... but ''female'' dwarves look like baby-faced teenage jockettes, scaled down to size. (They also narrowly skirt the UncannyValley.)

** The Forsaken, with the obvious exception of their queen [[MsFanservice Sylvanas Windrunner]], somewhat downplay this. While female Forsaken do look less ugly than their male counterpart, they still have the same decaying parts and somewhat hunchback stance, their chest is ''much'' less pronounced than for other races, and they overall tend to inspire more UncannyValley rather than Fetish Fuel, since making zombies sexy would be too weird even for ''World of Warcraft''.

** The [[ChestMonster Mimicutie]] is pretty much a parody of this. Instead of the classic hinged lid with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily, they stand up on [[ShesGotLegs shapely legs]] and start [[KickChick kicking]].

** The aforementioned Tiki returns in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', and is joined by manakete and {{expy}}, Nowi and as well as Nowi's daughter Nah, and Morgan with a Manakete. The game also introduced Taguel, [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute which are heavily based on the beast Laguz]], the first playable character in it, Panne fits this and so does Morgan if a male Avatar marries Panne. Yarne is a Cute Monster Boy, and so is Morgan if a female Avatar marries him. Manakete Morgan, however, can only be female, fitting this trope. The only Male Dragon tribe member in the game, Grima, is monstrous, and never assumes a humanoid form.

* Elites (Alien-name Sangheili) from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' are lanky weird looking brown aliens with mandibles, so naturally the females look the same? [[https://img00.deviantart.net/18e4/i/2012/364/c/e/female_sangheili_by_a_zeldafan95-d5ppqev.jpg '''Nope''']].

** We're talking a game set in [[JidaiGeki Feudal Japan]]. [[AsianFoxSpirit Kongiku and Yuzuruha]] are standouts here. Raijin ([[{{Beastess}} who resembles an oni]]) is quite attractive, but her beauty is mostly overshadowed by her brash and aggressive nature (almost to [[TheLadette Ladette]] levels, [[{{Tsundere}} go figure]]). The only times it surfaces is when she's knocked out of the sky (she lands on her rump and takes a moment to tend to her rear in a typical CuteClumsyGirl fashion; notably, her voice raises from sultrily deep and tough to innocuously cute) and briefly after the BossBattle with her when Fujin calms her down. And once you beat her, she is just adorable. More are added for ''Rebirth''; the first main character is Miike, a female [[CatGirl Nekomata]] in the form of her human master Okoi, and the second is Rajyaki, a small Oni girl. Meanwhile, Gonbe is assisted by his wife's still-attractive ghost, while Arashimaru's snake familiar is actually a shapeshifting minor deity out for his blood.

* ''VideoGame/CoffeeTalk'' takes place in a FantasyKitchenSink version of Seattle, and all of the female characters (apart from the lone human, Freya) qualify as this in some way or another. Among the cast, there's [[{{NiceGirl}} Lua]] the [[{{HornyDevils}} succubus]], [[{{IdolSinger}} Rachel]] the ''[[{{CatGirl}} nekomimi]]'', [[{{Meganekko}} Aqua]] the [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaid]], and [[{{AmazonianBeauty}} Myrtle]] the [[{{OurOrcsAreDifferent}} half-orc]].

** In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon]]'', most of the Dragon shapeshifters known as Manaketes are unattractive [[ElderlyImmortal Old Men]] with [[FangsAreEvil Fangs]], inhuman skintone, Claws, and [[WingedHumanoid leathery Wings]]. However one of the playable Manaketes, Tiki, merely looks like a little girl with PointyEars, sometimes with feathery wings. Xane, a Manakete Male, who lost his dragon form, also fits as a rare aversion as he looks like an ordinary human {{Bishonen}}, being one of the only Male Manaketes to be young or attractive.
** Half Manakete Siblings Ninian and Nils in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Blazing Sword]]''; Ninian is beautiful and ethereal, while Nils fits the "cute child growing into a handsome young man" role.
** While the [[LittleBitBeastly Laguz]] females in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius'' are quite attractive, the males [[YouSexyBeast are just as commonly attractive as well]].

* Fayemelina, one of the more notable examples from ''Videogame/MonsterLegends''. She is absolutely gorgeous, and her in-game description even states that she is the "most fun, charming, and beautiful monster of them all".

* ''Videogame/PilgrimRPGMaker'': [[TheDragon Nekaneminorpe]] is a {{cyclops}} girl with cute GirlishPigtails and is relatively benevolent, especially in contrast to [[HumanoidAbomination Master Alice]].

* Eliza in ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' is a female vampire with demon-like characteristics like curved horns, but she is still very pretty, feminine and dorky due to her {{Sleepyhead}} tendencies.

* Nearly every single ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' character (and there are a lot) is one of these, with LittleBitBeastly individuals rampant, and some of the most horrendous {{youkai}} appearing [[HumanAliens almost indistinguishable to humans]]. For only some examples, Nitori is supposed to be a {{kappa}}, Aya and Hatate are supposed to be (crow) {{tengu}}, Mamizou is a {{tanuki}}, [[ADogNamedDog Satori]] and Koishi are supposed to be [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satori_%28folklore%29 Satori]], and Yamame is meant to be a GiantSpider, and yet at most they only have one or two features that indicate them as such. The few male characters in the series tend to appear more monstrous (and old), with Genji being a talking turtle and Unzan being a cloud. There are occasional subversions, like Kogasa (a {{karakasa}} who is explicitly ''both'' the girl with the blue dress ''and'' the umbrella she's holding) and the bestial youkai rabbit in one of Maribel's dream-excursions, and very few of them ''act'' cute, most of them being violent bigoted jerks who are not above threatening to [[ToServeMan eat the protagonist]]. Played with by {{Nue}}, who is embarrassed by how unscary her ShapeshifterDefaultForm is and goes to great lengths to hide it.

** Five characters fall under this trope in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates''. The first and second of which are the playable Avatar (especially if female) and Kana (especially if female, which requires the Avatar to be Male), similar to the manakete in that they are half dragon. Another dragon named Lilith appears. The three of them look [[OurDragonsAreDifferent very different]] from how usual dragons do. The remaining two are [[{{Kitsune}} Selkie]] and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Velouria]] (along with their fathers), each exclusive to Hoshido and Nohr (respectively) and both being available in the third path.

** We're talking a game set in [[JidaiGeki Feudal Japan]]. [[{{Kitsune}} Kongiku and Yuzuruha]] are standouts here. Raijin ([[{{Beastess}} who resembles an oni]]) is quite attractive, but her beauty is mostly overshadowed by her brash and aggressive nature (almost to [[TheLadette Ladette]] levels, [[{{Tsundere}} go figure]]). The only times it surfaces is when she's knocked out of the sky (she lands on her rump and takes a moment to tend to her rear in a typical CuteClumsyGirl fashion; notably, her voice raises from sultrily deep and tough to innocuously cute) and briefly after the BossBattle with her when Fujin calms her down. And once you beat her, she is just adorable. More are added for ''Rebirth''; the first main character is Miike, a female [[CatGirl Nekomata]] in the form of her human master Okoi, and the second is Rajyaki, a small Oni girl. Meanwhile, Gonbe is assisted by his wife's still-attractive ghost, while Arashimaru's snake familiar is actually a shapeshifting minor deity out for his blood.

* Nearly every single ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' character ([[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters and there are a lot]]) is one of these, with LittleBitBeastly individuals rampant, and some of the most horrendous {{youkai}} appearing [[HumanAliens almost indistinguishable to humans]]. For only some examples, Nitori is supposed to be a {{kappa}}, Aya and Hatate are supposed to be (crow) {{tengu}}, Mamizou is a {{tanuki}}, [[ADogNamedDog Satori]] and Koishi are supposed to be [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satori_%28folklore%29 Satori]], and Yamame is meant to be a GiantSpider, and yet at most they only have one or two features that indicate them as such. The few male characters in the series tend to appear more monstrous (and old), with Genji being a talking turtle and Unzan being a cloud. There are occasional subversions, like Kogasa (a {{karakasa}} who is explicitly ''both'' the girl with the blue dress ''and'' the umbrella she's holding) and the bestial youkai rabbit in one of Maribel's dream-excursions, and very few of them ''act'' cute, most of them being violent bigoted jerks who are not above threatening to [[ToServeMan eat the protagonist]]. Played with by {{Nue}}, who is embarrassed by how unscary her ShapeshifterDefaultForm is and goes to great lengths to hide it.

** Lann the mongrelman might be [[TwoFaced half-lizard on his left side]], but he's an athletically-built WalkingShirtlessScene and the unscaly side of his face is fairly handsome. He's a potential love interest for female PCs.

* VideoGame/PathfinderWrathOfTheRighteous'' has a few, some of whom are romanceable:

** Lann the mongrelman might be [[TwoFaced half-lizard on his left side]], but he's an athletically-built WalkingShirtlessScene and the unscaly side of his face is fairly handsome. He's romanceable.