History Main / NonHumanLoverReveal

* In ''Literature/{{Cinder}}'', the cyborg Cinder falls in love with the human Prince Kai, but at the ball is revealed to be a cyborg [[spoiler: and a member of a race of people living on the moon called Lunar.]]

* OlderThanPrint: {{Kitsune}} are subject to this trope. ''Kitsune''-wives usually left when their true nature was exposed, but in at least one tale, the husband called after her, reassuring her of welcome, so she returned, but only at night.

%%* ''Roleplay/DeptHeavenApocrypha'': Girl meets demon.

* ''{{Series/Bewitched}}''; Darrin Stephens learns his wife Samantha is a witch while on their honeymoon, forming the central conflict between her witch side and his desire to live without magic.

** [[MageSpecies Warlocks]] are born after a demon has sex with a human. Human parents ([[HumanMomNonHumanDad almost always women]]) realize much later that they were intimate with a demon because their child has clear non-human characteristics. Many demons can change their shape so that they are mistaken for humans. However, some cannot, and the result is [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction much more terrible]].

* In ''{{Film/Halloweentown}} III,'' Dylan (a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]] [[WitchSpecies warlock]] who DoesNotLikeMagic) gets involved with a girl [[PairTheSmartOnes just as dorky as he is]], only to find out she's a furry pink [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]] wearing a costume. He reacts badly, tries to apologize, only for ''her'' to respond that he looks weird and ugly to her too. By the end of the movie they've made up and are about to have their big kiss...but she suddenly backs out of it, he acts relieved, and they agree that they're BetterAsFriends.

** [[WitchSpecies Warlocks]] are born after a demon has sex with a human. Human parents ([[HumanMomNonHumanDad almost always women]]) realize much later that they were intimate with a demon because their child has clear non-human characteristics. Many demons can change their shape so that they are mistaken for humans. However, some cannot, and the result is [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction much more terrible]].

%%* Retroactive example: ''Anime/DragonballZ'': woman learns her husband is an alien. He didn't know either until his brother showed up. Although he was pretty obviously not a ''human'' from the beginning, as he had a tail and turned into a giant ape under the light of the full moon. We just didn't know he was an ''alien.''

* The ''Film/TalesFromTheDarksideTheMovie'' movie has a DownerEnding version of this. An Artist down on his luck sees a horrible Gargoyle slaughtering a friend of his. The Gargoyle promises to let him live if he never, ever, EVER!!! tell another living soul about this and he agree. And then all of a sudden his entire life has an upswing. That very night he meets and fall in love with a mysterious woman who loves him back. She mentions she knows a famous gallery owner willing to give his art a chance... cut to ten years later. He is a famous artist, they have two lovely children their love is greater than ever but he is constantly burdened by the horrible secret he carries within him, the ONE thing he hasn’t shared with her— and you can probably see where this is going....

* ''Film/TheDeathsOfIanStone'' has a peculiar relationship to this trope. In the very beginning, everyone in the setting seems clearly human or clearly inhuman. [[spoiler:The second iteration of the main character's DreamWithinADream reveals that his secondary love interest is both [[EldritchAbomination completely inhuman]] and willing to kill him if he finds out about it. A later iteration reveals that [[TomatoInTheMirror he's inhuman too]], albeit with LaserGuidedAmnesia. Unlike most examples, this isn't about the human primary love interest learning to accept him--rather, he learns to think and feel like a human.]]

* There's a Myth/{{Japanese myth|ology}} about [[{{Youkai}} Yuki-Onna]], which plot was used for the ''Film/TalesFromTheDarksideTheMovie'' mentioned above.

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%%* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': Boy meets [[UnwantedHarem all]] [[FantasyKitchenSink of the above]].

%%* ''Manga/YumekuiMerry'': Boy meets Dream Demon.

%%* Novembersmith's RPS fan-novel FanFic/TheAnatomyOfAFall has boy meets ghost, with a fairly beautiful [[TheReveal reveal]] around the middle of the fic.
* GenderFlipped in 'Shadows Of The Past' as [[spoiler:Will mentions how he showed Sarah what he really was]] when they were dating.

* GenderFlipped in ''FanFic/RedLightning'' when Double-D is forced to reveal he's a [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Super-Psycho]] to Marie after Conner accidentally outs him.
* GenderFlipped in ''FanFic/SonOfTheDesert'' Hohenheim tells Trisha of his true nature [[spoiler: as an immortal]] the night before they get married. Trisha takes it rather well after her shock over his [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld actual age.]]
* In ''FanFic/OriginStory'', Louise originally thinks that Alex is a mutant, just like Louise. When Louise finds out that Alex is actually from another dimension, she freaks out, but gets over it. By the time that Louise finds out that Alex is not only from another dimension, but is from an alien planet in another dimension, Louise is so far beyond shockable that she almost yawns at the news.
* Downplayed in ''FanFic/TheGirlFromWhirlpool'' in regards to [[SealedInAPersonShapedCan Kushina]]. It ended up costing her her first boyfriend, but Minato took it far better (despite nearly being killed as a direct result of the reveal).

* This is one of the possible endings in the InteractiveFiction game ''Afflicted'', where you are a restaurant inspector [[spoiler: who stumbles across a feud between vampires]]. After the player [[spoiler: reassembles Sofia's body, he can agree to be turned into a vampire himself;]] if you simply leave Nikolai's Bar afterwards, [[spoiler: Sofia ends up moving in with you]].
%%* ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword]]'': Boy meets [[spoiler:dragon]].

%%* ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'': Girl meets [[spoiler:cat with [[FakeMemories memories]] and [[DeadPersonImpersonation appearance]] of his dead owner.]]

%%* ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' takes this to a comparative extreme: boy meets [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep]].

* ''Anime/EurekaSeven'': [[spoiler:Eureka is actually a HumanAlien. Renton finds out late in the series, by which point he doesn't care, even after she starts [[ButYourWingsAreBeautiful changing.]]]]

* In ''Franchise/TheShadowhunterChronicles'':
** [[WitchSpecies warlocks]] are born after a demon has sex with a human. Human parents ([[HumanMomNonHumanDad almost always women]]) realize much later that they were intimate with a demon because their child has clear non-human characteristics. Many demons can change their shape so that they are mistaken for humans. However, some cannot, and the result is [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction much more terrible]].

* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', it's GenderFlipped.

* In ''Franchise/TheShadowhunterChronicles'' [[WitchSpecies warlocks]] are born after a demon has sex with a human. Human parents ([[HumanMomNonHumanDad almost always women]]) realize much later that they were intimate with a demon because their child has clear non-human characteristics. Many demons can change their shape so that they are mistaken for humans. However, some cannot, and the result is [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction much more terrible]].

* ''Series/BeingHumanUK'' has werewolf George fall in love with regular human Nina.
** In Season 2, ghost Annie goes on a date with human Saul [[spoiler: Except he's not so normal himself...]], and seemed to have feeling towards normal human Hugh. Also vampire Mitchell is falling for regular human Lucy.

* Parodied by a ShowWithinAShow soap opera in ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', wherein a woman confesses to her lover that she is not what she appears, revealing herself to be a giant dalmatian. In another episode, Johnny goes on a date with a deer. No, not a humanoid deer, part-deer human, anything like that - an actual, albeit talking, deer. In another episode, Johnny goes on a date with a woman who turns out to be a werewolf, and he's actually desperate enough to try to make it work, until he discovers she's hiding an even worse secret.

* One of them just [[{{Wangst}} can't get over it]] and breaks up.

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%%* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': Boy meets superpowered ghost of [[spoiler:{{Gender Flip}}ped KingArthur]]. Boy meets superpowered magus. Boy meets [[spoiler:corrupted Holy Grail]].

%%* ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'': Boy meets [[spoiler:flesh-eating EldritchAbomination]].
%%* ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'': Boy meets [[spoiler:fox he [[PetBabyWildAnimal used to keep as a pet when he was younger]].]]

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%%* ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance]]'': Boy meets cat(girl) in his backstory. [[spoiler:They break up before the game starts.]]

* Teddie's crush on Labrys in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4 Arena}}'' inverts this. He meets her thinking she was a normal human girl, feeling ashamed of his own [[PinocchioSyndrome non human nature]] when it is revealed to her soon after. The eventual reveal that she isn't human either, but an amnesiac [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots battle android]] only makes him ''more'' enthusiastic about winning her for himself, if anything.

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* ''Series/NightGallery'', a show famous for its twist endings, liked this one.
%%** "The Phantom Farmhouse": she's [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot a werewolf who's actually a ghost]].
%%** "Lindemann's Catch": she's a mermaid.
%%** "The Girl With the Hungry Eyes": she's a psychic vampire.
%%** "Death on a Barge": she's a regular vampire.
* Isabel in ''Series/{{Roswell}}'' married Jesse Ramirez, who was human, but he didn't find out Isabel was an alien until later in season 3.

* The main character of ''Series/{{Moonlight}}'' was turned into a vampire by his wife on their wedding night, who forgot to [[IHateYouVampireDad run it by him first]] before doing so.
* ''Series/TrueBlood'' has Tara and Sam, human meets shifter.
* ''Series/BeingHumanUK'' has werewolf George fall in love with regular human Nina.
** In Season 2, ghost Annie goes on a date with human Saul [[spoiler: Except he's not so normal himself...]], and seemed to have feeling towards normal human Hugh. Also vampire Mitchell is falling for regular human Lucy.
%%* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' '[[Franchise/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.

* ''Series/{{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.
* On Series/TheVampireDiaries, Elena unexpectedly meets Stefan and feels an instant connection with him in season one. However, Stefan is hiding a deep, dark secret: he is a century old vampire. As Stefan and Elena fall harder for each other, Elena eventually discovers that Stefan is a vampire.

* Red's backstory in the first season of Series/OnceUponATime includes this. [[spoiler:Her boyfriend didn't know he was dating a werewolf. Course, Red didn't know that either, and, thinking it's he who is the wolf, ties him up before the change can take him. Then she turns into the wolf and kills him. Oops.]]
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Unicorn and the Wasp," the Unicorn refers to the nickname of a jewel thief. The Wasp refers to either Lady Eddison's former lover, who appears only in flashback, who initially appeared human but then revealed himself as a member of an alien race that resembles giant wasps, or [[spoiler: the child they conceived together, who's also able to take human form, though he became a priest and thus never had a lover to reveal himself to]].

* In ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' episode "First Anniversary", two aliens are stranded on Earth use their power to fool people's senses in order to pass as human. Specifically, as [[UglyGuyHotWife very pretty human women who act romantically interested in some rather plain-looking men]]. Unfortunately, people tend to become resistant to their power after about a year or so, and the men who marry them tend to GoMadFromTheRevelation after seeing their true appearances. (In an aversion of TakeOurWordForIt, when they let down their disguise, it's on-screen - and they really are horrifying.)