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14	->''"-- ef Lavinny's boy looked like his pa, he wouldn't look like nothin' ye expeck."''
15	-->-- '''Wizard Whateley''', ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror''
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17	The results of an InterspeciesRomance and/or LegoGenetics.
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19	This is present in most unrealistic fictional genres (i.e. fantasy, horror, SpaceOpera). In reality, many closely related Earth species share over 99% of their DNA, but cannot produce viable offspring. This makes it extremely unlikely that creatures of different planets would be able to interbreed -- but then again, [[MarsNeedsWomen Mars does need women]].
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21	In fictionland, human beings can conceive children with any intelligent species in existence. [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demons]], [[OurElvesAreDifferent elves]], aliens, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], you name it — not only will a human [[BoldlyComing sleep with it]], they'll engender children. The mother is in a majority of cases the human, with the non-human [[LineageComesFromTheFather father providing the powers]]. If they are not physically viable, rest assured there are scientists somewhere who will fiddle with DNA until a hybrid is created. They'll do it even if there's no reason to think the creature should have DNA in the first place. That's ''Earth's'' solution for storing your genome. It requires a lot of supporting stuff in the cells, and not even everything on Earth uses it. Thankfully, the RuleOfCool and RuleOfSexy let us mix it up with whatever the GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe's ancestors evolved to store ''their'' genomes in. Good thing there are NoBiochemicalBarriers! And if you can't find a scientist to do it for you, you're in luck. AWizardDidIt is just as handy a HandWave.
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23	Rarely does either species [[MalignedMixedMarriage accept the mixed marriage]], much less said [[HalfBreedDiscrimination hybrid]], though. After all, WhatMeasureIsANonHuman — and the hybrid's very existence is proof of a lack of SpeciesLoyalty.
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25	Sometimes a particular type of hybrid becomes common enough that they can stop relying on their parent races to make new members and [[TrueBreedingHybrid just mate with each other to sustain their own race]].
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27	If the hybrid is a positive character, it connects the audience with them, giving them familiar characteristics and a closer point-of-view into the otherwise alien culture, or else, an "outsider" character for protagonists to befriend... or at the very least, they'll have the power to fight one-half of their heritage, almost certainly if that [[{{Dhampyr}} one-half is vampire]].
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29	Positive characters also tend to pick up [[HybridPower all the advantages and powers of their component races with no disadvantages or weaknesses]]. A half-vampire might pick up SuperStrength and VoluntaryShapeshifting [[OneHeroHoldTheWeaksauce without having a weakness to sunlight or a thirst for blood,]] for example, or a half-elf gets magic and an extended lifespan (funny, that). Being a Half-Human Hybrid is almost always a plus for protagonists, although the characters [[CursedWithAwesome usually don't think so]]. Frequently it's because of [[FreakinessShame self-image issues]], possibly due to people getting freaked out at them having {{horn\|edHumanoid}}s and hooves or the like. [[CuteMonsterGirl Females tend to be luckier in this regard]] than males, due to being seen as an exotic beauty.
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31	If the hybrid is a negative character, this will make their inhumanity more personal. They might have suffered HalfBreedDiscrimination, representing what prejudice on both species' part can produce. For extra angst, the character's conception might have been [[ChildByRape less-than-consensual]].
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33	The concept as a whole, thanks to AWizardDidIt, tends to fly better in supernatural settings -- when it comes to, say, demons, who can say it ''wouldn't'' work that way? It's not like we can do a DNA test on the Prince of Darkness. [[ScienceMarchesOn Yet]]. In mythology and folklore, this is known as a "liminal being", like Merlin (who in some stories is half-demon) or centaurs. Also in mythology, for hybrids who are half human/half god, see SemiDivine, and {{Nephilim}}, which are commonly portrayed as angel or demon/human hybrids.
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35	Subtropes:
36	* {{Dhampyr}}: Half vampire/half human hybrids.
37	* HumanDemonHybrid: Half human/half demon hybrids.
38	* {{Nephilim}}: Half human/half angel hybrids.
39	* SemiDivine: Half human/half god hybrids.
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41
42	For those people who ''[[{{Shapeshifting}} turn into]]'' hybrids, see {{Animorphism}} and MixAndMatchCritter. A character born human but changed to be part-nonhuman later on would be an ArtificialHybrid. If the character was already a different non-human species, or gets hybridized a second time, they become a HybridMonster.
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44	Not to be confused with LittleBitBeastly and BeastMan, for characters that look like this trope but are actually a fantastical or extraterrestrial species that ([[InexplicableCulturalTies for some reason]]) [[HumanAliens looks a lot like us]] with some added fur, ears, or a tail.
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46	See also InterspeciesRomance. A common result of a FantasticRomance and a HybridizationPlot. May lead to {{Uneven Hybrid}}s or {{Heinz Hybrid}}s, if the family tree does not end with them. An inter-species humanoid hybrid that averts the "half human" part is a NonHumanHumanoidHybrid. If the non-human parent is from an AlwaysChaoticEvil race, this trope may result from the human being RaisedByOrcs.
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49	!!Example subpages:
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51	[[index]]
52	* HalfHumanHybrid/AnimeAndManga
53	* HalfHumanHybrid/ComicBooks
54	* HalfHumanHybrid/FanWorks
55	* [[HalfHumanHybrid/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
56	* HalfHumanHybrid/{{Literature}}
57	* HalfHumanHybrid/LiveActionTV
58	* HalfHumanHybrid/MythologyAndReligion
59	* HalfHumanHybrid/TabletopGames
60	* HalfHumanHybrid/VideoGames
61	* HalfHumanHybrid/{{Webcomics}}
62	* HalfHumanHybrid/WesternAnimation
63	[[/index]]
64
65	!!Other examples:
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67	[[foldercontrol]]
68
69	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
70	* ''Animation/FlowerAngel'': While she doesn't have any features that would immediately tip off an onlooker that she's not fully human, Xia An'an is half-fairy by way of her mother being a fairy.
71	[[/folder]]
72
73	[[folder:Audio Plays]]
74	* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'':
75	** Alex Campbell, from the story "An Earthly Child", was the son of Susan Foreman (the Doctor's Gallifreyan granddaughter) and David Campbell (human). Unusually for this trope, he is almost entirely genetically human [[note]]93% human/7% Gallifreyan[[/note]] and doesn't have the Gallifreyan ability to regenerate.
76	** Ex-companion Franchise/BerniceSummerfield conceived a son with a [[BeastMan Kiloran]] (humanoid with canine overtones) called Adrian Wall while she was possessed by a [[GrandTheftMe soul sucker]] called Avril Fenman. The birth didn't go so well as he was too large to be delivered normally so Benny had to undergo a C-section ''while in a prison cell''. After being saved, he was named Peter Guy Summerfield. Being half Kiloran he looked mostly humanoid but with a few furry patches, dog-ears and a wet nose. He was also stronger than all but the most augmented humans by the time he was eight. This became important when [[spoiler:[[MagnificentBastard Braxiatel]] [[CompellingVoice manipulated/hypnotised]] him into killing Jason]].
77	[[/folder]]
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79	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
80	* ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'': Moon Maid and Junior Tracy's daughter Honeymoon Tracy, who looked perfectly human to start with (to the point that when the Moon People started being downplayed, there was no reason for a new reader to suspect she wasn't). Shortly after the new Moon Maid was introduced, reminding the readers of Honeymoon's origins, her antennae grew in.
81	[[/folder]]
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83	[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
84	* In many variants of tale type ATU 400, "The Quest for the Lost Wife" (mostly known as "Swan Maiden" tales), the human male protagonist marries a maiden that can shapeshift between bird and human forms, or is otherwise a mythical being (like Iranian/Arabic peris, Indian apsaras, Indonesian bidadaris), and she bears him sons. Depending on the region of the tale, this can create friction between his human family and his children (e.g., in some goose wife tales from the Inuit).
85	[[/folder]]
86
87	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
88	* The eponymous ''WesternAnimation/ArloTheAlligatorBoy'' is half-human, half-alligator. His birth father Ansel is half-bird. There's also the reverse merman Marcellus, and the Beast, who's more like a dog-cat-tiger hybrid.
89	* Seriously handled in ''Anime/BagiTheMonsterOfMightyNature'': Bagi is a human/cougar hybrid created in a lab (although she has pink fur). She's somewhat rare in being pretty much human behaviorally as well. She also has psychic powers of hypnosis. [[spoiler:Then without any explanation, at the end of the plot, she inexplicably loses her intelligence and ability to speak and even stops being bipedal.]]
90	* In a {{Cyberpunk}}, non-DNA variant, ''Anime/GhostInTheShell1995'' ends with Kusanagi [[MentalFusion merging with the Puppet Master's formless entity]] to become something else entirely.
91	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea'': Ariel's daughter Melody is half-human, half-mermaid, and wants to live in the sea, which is the exact opposite of what her mother wanted in the first film. In the end, [[spoiler:she is given the choice to become a full mermaid, gain a tail, and live in the sea, but she declines, [[TakeAThirdOption in order to reunite both halves of her family, and presumably spends the rest of her life switching back and forth from human to mermaid]]]].
92	[[/folder]]
93
94	[[folder:Manhua]]
95	* ''Manhua/RetiredHeroes'': Tifa is half demon, which occasionally gets her glares in the village. However, the fact that her demon mother is one of the town heroes (albeit a surly one) means it doesn't get too bad.
96	[[/folder]]
97
98	[[folder:Music]]
99	* Music/{{Avantasia}}: From the song ''Ghost In The Moon'': "Half human and it's frightening to just guess the other half."
100	* Music/SasakureUK's ''Fukashigi Monoyukasy'': "Myriad of Ages Lullaby" and "A Millennium and the Spiral, For Things that Fall" feature Nagare, who is half-human half-''ayakashi''.
101	[[/folder]]
102
103	[[folder:Podcasts]]
104	* Tuatha from ''Podcast/TheFallenGods'' is a half-elf. Amusingly this means that the party composed of her, human Flint, and elven Solvin, is exactly half-elf and half-human.
105	* The bard Mira Marchand of ''Podcast/TrialsAndTrebuchets'' is a half-elf. other notable half-human hybrids include Mira's three half-elf sisters, the half-elf Elrich Raethran and his daughter Delnys, and the half-orc Kormet.
106	[[/folder]]
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108	[[folder:Print Media]]
109	* Bat Boy, of ''Magazine/WeeklyWorldNews'' fame obviously qualifies.
110	[[/folder]]
111
112	[[folder:Roleplay]]
113	* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', there are half-demons, half-dwarves and half-elves.
114	* Featured in ''Roleplay/OverlordAscendant'', with the main character being revealed to be half-dragon early on. Interestingly, all hybrids, even on two non-human races, have white hair.
115	[[/folder]]
116
117	[[folder:Theatre]]
118	* This was already being parodied by the Victorian period: in Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''Theatre/{{Iolanthe}}'', Strephon is half a fairy, "The upper half, down to the waistcoat", and worriedly ponders what he'll do when his lower half grows old and dies.
119	* ''Theatre/BatBoyTheMusical'', which is based off the Magazine/WeeklyWorldNews story.
120	* Elphaba from ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}''. Since it's shown in the very beginning of the story that her mother (the wife of the Munchkin Governor) was having an affair with a mysterious man who gave her a "green elixir" to drink, and Elphaba was subsequently born less than a year later with green skin, the audience could surmise from early on that her "father" the Governor was not her real dad. (In fact, he likely suspected it himself, as it's implied that this is one of the main reasons he always hated Elphaba.) However, TheReveal at the end of the play proves that she's this: [[spoiler:her mother's mysterious lover, her real father, is in fact the Wizard of Oz himself, a human who originally came to Oz from our world. Elphaba being half-Ozian, half-human, a product of two different worlds, is surmised to be the source of her abnormally strong power]].
121	* ''Theatre/{{Amaluna}}'': Cali, the half-man, half-lizard pet of Miranda.
122	* In ''Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung'' Hagen is half-human and half-Nibelung, being the BastardBastard son of the BigBad Alberich. Apparently this leads to him being [[OlderThanTheyLook older then he looks]].
123	* In ''Theatre/ShrekTheMusical'', [[spoiler:Farquaad is half-dwarf]].
124	* In ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSequel'', it is revealed that [[spoiler: Draco's true biological father is Dobby, the Malfoy's house elf instead of Lucius, born after Narcissa had an affair with him while married to Lucius. This makes Draco half-elf, explaining many of his quirks played for laughs in this musical and its prequel.]]
125	[[/folder]]
126
127	[[folder:Web Original]]
128	%%* Half-Orcen Monk Nazu of the ''Literature/HundredCompanions''.
129	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-748 SCP-748 ("Industrial Dissolution")]]; one of SCP-748's products is the (highly radioactive) meat of a creature that is a hybrid species of human, squid and pig.
130	* ''TabletopGame/NewVindicators'' has a lot of these running around-the primary source for superpowers comes from being a Neo-Sapien, which are all descended from {{Nephilim}}, who are half human, half fallen angel.
131	* There are, in the ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'', a number of half-human Agents. These come from a great many different continua. Especially the ex-sues.
132	* Shane Myers from ''Literature/StrangeLittleBand'' is half alien, half human but most of his colleagues don't know this. The identity of his alien father is important later in the story.
133	* Several characters in the fantasy webnovel ''Literature/TalesOfMU''. Most notably Mackenzie, a half-demon.
134	* Caleb "Half-Face" from ''Little Lenny Penguin and the Great Red Flood'', tween-turned-[[EldritchAbomination eldritch]].
135	* ''Literature/{{Elcenia}}'': Rhysel is a halfblood, which is an interesting version of this trope. Though ''she'', specifically, is half-elf and half-human, she would have the same characteristics were she 1/256th human or elf, hence "halfblood", since "half-elf" would limit the term to genotype rather than phenotype.
136	* [[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/File:MPost2876-c69b9ff0d2.jpg Yet another joke]] on the subject of the other half being ''assumed'' human. Half-elf, yes...
137	* In ''Literature/TheLayOfPaulTwister'', Sarah is half-human, apparently as the result of a magical curse. The nature of the curse is that ''what the other half is'' varies from one day to the next: she might [[BodyHorror go to sleep as a half-elf and wake up the next day as a half-ogre]], for example.
138	* A complicated version in the French novel "Les Animaux Denaturés", variously translated as "You Shall Know Them", "The Murder of the Missing Link", and "Borderline". A scientific expedition finds a new species of primate called tropis that can be impregnated by both humans and apes. A businessman comes forward to basically enslave them since they're as suitable for hard work as humans, but he wouldn't have to pay them. In order to push the debate further, one of the scientists (artificially) impregnates a female tropi and kills the child, standing trial on whether he killed an animal or committed murder on a human. [[spoiler:It's determined that the tropis are human, foiling the businessman, but as their status was determined after the fact, the scientist can't be retroactively condemned.]]
139	* In ''Literature/ChronoHustle'' it is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:Jack is a Demi-God. His mother was a Goddess, while his father was a Human.]]
140	* ''Blog/LimyaaelsFantasyRants'': Limyaael discusses these in her [[http://limyaael.livejournal.com/152437.html hybrid heroes]] rant.
141	* [[http://blog.shakespearegeek.com/2010/10/twenty-bits-of-shakespeare-trivia-you.html This]] blog post on ''Shakespeare Geek'' claims, [[BlatantLies among other things]], that Shakespeare was half human, half Australian Frilled Lizard.
142	* ''Literature/TheWanderingInn'': Ceria, one of the side characters, is a half-elf, who are despised in some countries.
143	* In ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' Sima Yan is the son of [[EldritchAbomination Sima Zhao]] and the fully human Lady Wang. Besides the freakishly long arms and hair that resembles tentacles, he mostly looks human, although he reverts to his father's language occasionally when upset. His brother You on the other hand looks exactly like any other human.
144	** It's possible but not specified that Sima Zhao himself is this, given that he is supposedly Sima Yi's son and no one questions that in the slightest. However, we are given no information as to how the hell Sima Yi fathered him.
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147	[[folder:Web Videos]]
148	* ''WebVideo/AfterlifeSMP'': A surprisingly large number of origins, especially add-on origins, are referred to as "Half-[X]", indicating this, including the Half-Robot and the Half-Wither. However, the one that takes the cake is the Half-Dragon origin, where the origin description itself says the player was such an origin "be it through a curse or [[InterspeciesRomance a very brave parent]]".
149	* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'':
150	** Vox Machina has three in the main party, all of whom are of the half-elven variety. Vex and Vax are twins born from a union between an elven noble and a human peasant, and Keyleth belongs to a druid tribe comprised of many different races. Not surprising of course, given that this is a D&D campaign.
151	** In the Mighty Nein, Fjord is a half-orc with green skin, yellow eyes, and tusks, orphaned at a young age so he has no memory of his parents. He was self-conscious about this growing up among humans, filing down his tusks so he would stop getting teased for them.
152	* In the sixth episode of ''WebVideo/CrittersANewBinge'', it is revealed that the main character Christopher is the hybrid offspring of his human mother Veronica and the Crite President.
153	[[/folder]]

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