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* Done in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo and the Alien Invaders'' when Shaggy fell in love with a girl who was heavily into '60s culture. [[spoiler:She turned out to be a GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe in disguise (her clothes and mannerisms having been a result of AliensStealCable), and had to leave Earth at the end of the episode.]]

* Parodied by a ShowWithinAShow soap opera in ''JohnnyBravo'', wherein a woman confesses to her lover that she is not what she appears, revealing herself to be a giant dalmation.
** Don't forget the episode that had Johnny going on a date with a deer. No, not a humanoid deer, part-deer human, anything like that - an actual, albeit talking, deer.

* BloodAndChocolate: Boy meets werewolf. One of the more [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism cynical]] cases, as [[spoiler:not only does their relationship [[StarCrossedLovers not work out]], it's implied that it's [[HumansAreBastards impossible for humans not to hate and fear werewolves]].]]

* HarlanEllison has a short story called "She's A Young Thing And Cannot Leave Her Mother" where boy meets [[spoiler:cave-dwelling mutant cannibal descendant of Sawney Beane]] (a.k.a. "Camilla").

* In Philip Jose Farmer ''TheLovers'' a man from an oppressive puritan theocracy meets the girl of his dreams in another planet. Except that she's actually a ''lalitha'' [[spoiler: a highly evolved arthropod]].

** In fairness she did offer to take him with her, although everyone (including her based on her expression) seemed to think him staying was the best decision.

* ''OtomeYoukaiZakuro'': Men meet [[HalfHumanHybrid Hanyou Girls]]

* The ''Series/TalesFromTheDarkside'' movie has a DownerEnding version of this. Guy finds out his wife is a gargoyle, after telling the tale of seeing one once, and promising never to speak of it.

* There's a Japanese myth about [[{{Youkai}} Yuki-Onna]], with the same plot as the ''Series/TalesFromTheDarkside'' movie above.

* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** Subverted with Tara, who thinks ''thinks'' she's a demon and goes to considerable length to prevent Willow from finding out. Turns out she's not; it was just part of her abusive family's "spin to keep the ladies in line".

* LetTheRightOneIn: as with the movie, a young boy meets a strange girl, and an innocent childhood romance develops, before he discovers that she's a bloodthirsty vampire.

* ''LetTheRightOneIn''. A dark puppy-love version. A Boy meets a mysterious girl and makes friends with her, only to discover, later, that she's a vampire responsible for a series local murders.
** The 2010 remake ''Let Me In'' has the same.

Obviously involves InterspeciesRomance. May be a case of MagicalGirlfriend or even ActionGirlfriend. A common trope in ParanormalRomance but it appears in other genres as well.

A subtrope of BoyMeetsGhoul.

* Subverted in ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Tara ''thinks'' she's a demon and goes to considerable length to prevent Willow from finding out. Turns out she's not - it was just part of her abusive family's "spin to keep the ladies in line".
** Played straight in the season one episode ''Teacher's Pet'' where Xander gets a crush on a substitute teacher [[spoiler: she's a giant praying mantis that wants to mate and then eat his head]]
*** And when Buffy discovers that [[spoiler:[[ItWasHisSled Angel is a vampire]]]]
*** And again with Xander when he falls for the ''Inca Mummy Girl''
*** Possibly a third time in season seven when he meets a nice girl who [[spoiler: changes her eye colour and offers him as a sacrifice to open the hellmouth]]
*** While he knew Anya was an ex-vengeance demon at the start of the relationship - it was a while before he discovered what vengeance demons actually look like.

* Literature/{{Discworld}}: [[strike:Dwarf-raised human boy]] tall dwarf meets werewolf.

* ''DragonCrisis'': Boy meets Dragons and a [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-wolf girl]].

* ''{{Charmed}}'': Mid-way through series 1 it's revealed that Piper's (then) boyfriend Leo is not human and that he's a whitelighter. There had been a few [[RunningGag comedic suspicions]] about him prior to the reveal due to Piper's bad luck with men (her boyfriends often ended up being revealed as evil warlocks) but the reveal that he's their guardian angel does come as a shock to all of them. Since whitelighter/witch romances are traditionally forbidden, the couple do spend most of the entire eight seasons struggling to make it work before everything finally works out in the end. Subverted in that whitelighters are actually born human but are transformed into whitelighters and can be turned back into humans if the occasion demands. All three of their children are half-whitelighter, half-witch.

* ''LightNovel/AsobiNiIkuYo'': Boy meets {{cat girl}} Alien, knows a [[HalfHumanHybrid Half Alien]].

* DragonautTheResonance: Boy meets giant, alien dragon.

* GenderFlipped in 'Shadows Of The Past' as [[spoiler:Will mentions how he showed Sarah what he really was]] when they were dating.
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* {{Discworld}}: [[strike:Dwarf-raised human boy]] tall dwarf meets werewolf.
* All {{the Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries}}, where girl meets vampire, werewolf, were-tiger, etc.
* {{Let the Right One In}}: as with the movie, a young boy meets a strange girl, and an innocent childhood romance develops, before he discovers that she's a bloodthirsty vampire.
* {{Blood and Chocolate}}: Boy meets werewolf. One of the more [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism cynical]] cases, as [[spoiler:not only does their relationship [[StarCrossedLovers not work out]], it's implied that it's [[HumansAreBastards impossible for humans not to hate and fear werewolves]].]]

* {{Harlan Ellison}} has a short story called "She's A Young Thing And Cannot Leave Her Mother" where boy meets [[spoiler:cave-dwelling mutant cannibal descendant of Sawney Beane]] (a.k.a. "Camilla").

* ''StarTrek'' '[[TrekVerse verse]]: Boy meets android, or hologram, or Leanansidhe [-IN SPACE-], or astral projection of someone else's subconscious self, or dead {{Redshirt}} with instincts of aliens who resurrected her, or long dead to ''stay'' and the messages to each other are going through a time warp, or woman whose presence will erase bits of your memory relating to her once she's out of sight... the list goes on. The girls' dating lives are no easier, just not featured quite as often.

* ''TrueBlood'' has Tara and Sam, human meets werewolf.

* ''GalaxyQuest''. Fred Kwan and Lailari, who he thinks is a HumanAlien. He's quite wrong. [[NightmareFetishist But he doesn't care]].