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7	->''"Half-Vampire, half-Lycan... but stronger than ''both''!"''
8	-->-- '''Singe''', ''Film/Underworld2003''
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10	There are downsides to mixed heritage. It's rather [[HalfBreedAngst lonely not fully belonging]] to the societies of either parent, even if there isn't [[HalfBreedDiscrimination active discrimination]] against what you are. However, if one or both sides of the family have some special power or supernatural trait, there may be a bonus to being a half-breed: a powerball in the SuperpowerLottery.
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12	Blame PowersAsPrograms or LegoGenetics, but any power possessed, even latently, by a parent, will always be passed on to their offspring, and the presence of a different strain on the other side of the family will only serve to amplify it. This is especially true if the powers are complementary in some way, but even if they are opposite: if someone with [[PlayingWithFire fire powers]] marries AnIcePerson, their kid may well have both sets or even an amalgamated access to PureEnergy, a living YinYangBomb.
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14	You might expect this to be less the case with HalfHumanHybrids or other combinations of the supernormal and the mundane, but this is not always so. Often as not, the mundane side will leave all of the powers intact, but mitigate any weaknesses, quite likely resulting in OneHeroHoldTheWeaksauce. The {{Dhampyr}} is perhaps the ultimate example of this.
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16	It's usually the RuleOfCool in action, but also TruthInTelevision to some extent. Mixing genes that don't normally mix can have unpredictable results. A good example is the liger — mating a male lion to a female tiger produces offspring that grow to be far larger than either parent.
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18	Other than reproduction, this kind of advantageous combination can result from a FusionDance. A HybridMonster might be bred specifically to take advantage of this trope. If a character manifests their power by accident, they may learn that they were a HybridAllAlong. Contrast AllGenesAreCodominant, in which special traits are exactly half-inherited by the offspring, and HybridOverkillAvoidance, if the writer goes out of the way to minimize the probability of this happening. Also Contrast HybridsAreACrapshoot, where being a hybrid makes someone less powerful rather than more. MixedAncestryIsAttractive might be the case if they are perceived as attractive instead of being powerful. May occur as part of a HybridizationPlot. See also LamarckWasRight.
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20	See Website/TheOtherWiki's pages on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/heterosis heterosis ("hybrid vigor")]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterozygote_advantage heterozygous advantage]] for some information on the real-life equivalent.
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27	* ''Manga/{{Beastars}}'':
28	** Legosi is 3/4 wolf and 1/4 Komodo dragon. He inherited the wolf's super senses and the Komodo dragon's monstrous strength and immunity to poison.
29	** Melon gets this as an EleventhHourSuperpower. He's a gazelle/leopard hybrid who inherited precisely none of his mother's leopard strength, but still proves to be incredibly dangerous by having the gazelle's agility and charisma in spades. Right before his final confrontation with Legosi, his mother's side starts to express itself a lot more forcefully, and he suddenly gains like 30 kg of pure muscle.
30	* Hybrids in ''Manga/BlackClover'' can be born with two magic attributes, in contrast to most mages unless they have undergone experimentation or are devil hosts. Charmy has Cotton and Food Magic thanks to being half-dwarf.
31	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
32	** Ichigo is the offspring of a human and a shinigami. Thanks to the quirks of his parentage, he therefore possesses all the known power types in his world. Ginjou does claim Ichigo is not the first human/shinigami offspring to exist. [[spoiler:His mother was an Echt Quincy whose soul was affected forever by one of Aizen's Hollow experiments, and to save her life, his father underwent a procedure to change him from a pure shinigami into a shinigami/human hybrid. As such, Ichigo was born with Quincy, Hollow, Human (Fullbringer) and Shinigami power, all of which have awakened at different speeds throughout the events of the series.]]
33	** When a person survives a Hollow attack, they are left with a residual taint of the Hollow's powers in their body. This is then passed on to an unborn child via the mother. The child is permanently affected by this, resulting in the birth of a Fullbringer: a human being with Hollow-originated powers and the ability to manipulate the souls of matter (whether living or inanimate) to achieve all sorts of power effects and outcomes.
34	** This is also the premise behind Visoreds and Arrancar. The former are Shinigami who have acquired Hollow powers through artificial means, while the latters are Hollows who have literally broken their Masks in order to regain Human forms and Shinigami-like power.
35	* ''Manga/DragonBall'':
36	** Saiyan-Earthling hybrids have far more inherent power than pure members of either race. The effect seems to get stronger with successive generations. At age five, Gohan could flatten mountains and stagger [[BigBad Freeza]] if he got angry enough. Around the same age, Goten and Trunks could go Super Saiyan without even trying. At age one, Pan learns to fly by herself. There's some variation too- WordOfGod confirms that hybrids born without tails (Goten, Trunks, and Pan) are stronger than those born with tails (Gohan). However, an important downside for all the hybrids compared to pure-blooded Saiyans is that hybrids do not [[BloodKnight lust for battle]], so they do not naturally develop their inherent fighting powers as much as pure Saiyans do.
37	** Cell was created using DNA from Saiyans, Namekians, and... [[NoNameGiven Freeza's race]]. As a result, he inherits the Namekians' [[HealingFactor ability to regenerate]], the Saiyans' [[CameBackStrong ability to gain power boosts after recovering from near-death]], and Freeza's ability to remain alive [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace without air]] and [[WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody with most of his body missing]]. Which means that when he self-destructs and takes Kaio's planet with him (he intended to do that to Earth, but Goku teleported him away at the last second), he manages to survive, regenerate FromASingleCell, and come back even more powerful than before. Possibly justified as Cell is a genetically-engineered superweapon, but it's still a ridiculous example.
38	* Invoked in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': after a MassSuperEmpoweringEvent, some people deliberately sought partners whose Quirks complemented their own in an attempt to create an even stronger child. The example we see in the story is Shoto Todoroki, whose father Endeavor arranged a marriage with a particular woman in order to combine his [[PlayingWithFire fire powers]] with her [[AnIcePerson ice powers]] and have an offspring with both. As one might expect, the kind of man who would make such a cold decision proves a pretty undesirable father and husband. Partially subverted with Shoto's older brothers and sister, who didn’t end up with half fire and half ice Quirks. In addition, some parents' quirks can combine to make entirely new powers, such as a nitros + glycerine pairing resulting in Bakugo's explosion Quirk.
39	* This trope is the entire basis of Rikuo and Rihan's ability, ''Matoi'', in ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan''. Being part human, they can be possessed by their youkai subordinates but because they're also part youkai they have the ability to control the "fear" aura of the one possessing them, resulting in a FusionDance type situation.
40	* One-eyed ghouls in ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' are rumored to be the result of matings between a male ghoul and a female human, and far more powerful than a full-blooded ghoul due to hybrid vigor. Ken Kaneki is an artificially created hybrid, and proves to be exceptionally powerful once he actually begins using his abilities. The only other case on record, the legendary [[HeroKiller One-Eyed Owl]] [[spoiler:(a.k.a. Eto Yoshimura/Sen Takatsuki)]], is believed to be the most powerful ghoul [[HunterOfMonsters CCG]] has ever encountered.
41	* ''Anime/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon'': Inuyasha and Kagome's daughter Moroha has both demonic power inherited from her paternal grandfather and sacred power inherited from her mother.
42	* [[spoiler:Yusuke]] of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' is revealed to be the descendant of a very powerful demon who had fallen in love with a human. After his demon genes become active, he gains the ability to use both Demon Energy and his original human-based Spirit Energy, eventually creating something akin to Sensui's Sacred Energy by [[YinYangBomb combining the two]].
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46	* ''ComicBook/BeastWarsUprising'': In the backstory, there were the Triple-Threat Masters, a combination of Headmaster, Targetmaster and Powermaster. As a fusion of four different beings, three of them living {{Amplifier Artifact}}s, the Triple-Threat Masters were essentially invincible. However, there was the severe drawback of depleting the lifespan of anyone who underwent the process. Only two existed; Galvatron and Optimus Prime.
47	* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Greldinard is actually a human baby adopted by an orc shamaness, who then merged him with her dead orc baby to create a true hybrid. Dinard inherited human intelligence and orc strength, allowing him to rise to become supreme king of the orcs before he joined Haazheel's army.
48	* ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'': Magnus, an alternate son of Magneto and Rogue, has the power of magnetism from his father, and a variation of his mother's deadly touch; in this case skin to skin contact will cause the victim to turn to pure metal.
49	* In ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'', the platinum dragon D'bra is actually a hybrid between two differing tribes of dragons, platinum on her mother's side and iron on her father's. This is notable as full dragons are rare enough between two partners of the same tribe (most eggs hatch into less drakes or wyrms), and hybrids are thus extremely powerful. However, not only are they extremely rare (six have been recorded in the entirety of draconic history), but also card-carrying demonstrations that WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity. D'bra's own explosive temper is a considerable worry to the other dragons who are afraid of her snapping like all the others.
50	* ''ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight'': Hybrid is half human, half Dire Wraith... and all evil, having a particularly {{Squick}}y obsession with [[MarsNeedsWomen collecting superpowered women to bear his children]]. Not only can he shape-shift like a Wraith, but he's an ''incredibly'' powerful psychic, enough to prove a problem for a young ComicBook/XMan (who's arguably the most powerful psychic in the Marvel Universe). Oh, and his [[VoluntaryShapeshifting true form]] is even more hideous than a normal Wraith's. The most tragic thing? His Wraith father was a DefectorFromDecadence and pretty much the only sympathetic Wraith we ever met - Hybrid himself was UsedToBeASweetKid until he was found and corrupted by other Wraiths.
51	* ''ComicBook/SupermanRebirth'': Batman speculates that [[Characters/SupermanJonathanSamuelKent Jonathan Samuel Kent]] has the potential to be even more powerful than his father Superman due to his unique human-kryptonian nature.
52	* ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'': The Witchblade is a living weapon that has been used by females, and some males, over the generations. It was the offspring of the Darkness and Angelus. It has the power to create a blade, fire energy beams, create wings for flight, and can cover the host in body armor, most of the time. It also doesn't have any of its parents' weaknesses; The Darkness can't function in light, while the Angelus can't fight in the dark.
53	* ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'': Ruby Summers, the daughter of Scott Summers and Emma Frost from a BadFuture, has her dad's EyeBeams, and her mother's jewel form, only instead of turning to diamond, she turns to ruby quartz (the only thing that can control Cyclops's optic blast). The only downside is her powers are weaker than her dad's, needing to recharge.
54	* ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'': Teddy Altman is half Skrull and half Kree, inheriting both super strength and shapeshifting/healing factor. The Skrull half also comes with an immunity to mutagenic gases that can mutate Kree.
55	* The French comic ''Zombillenium'' (about monsters running their horror-themed amusement park) has a new employee get repeatedly bitten by a werewolf and a vampire due to each being short-staffed in their department. This ends up turning him into a BigRedDevil and the park's newest attraction.
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59	* ''Fanfic/TheBridgeMLP'':
60	** Mothra Lea is the daughter of the Mothra before her and Battra (Mothras normally reproduce asexually and Battra normally reincarnates). She has the abilities of both of her parents and is more powerful than either of them.
61	** Kaiser Ghidorah is portrayed a hybrid of Xilian and King Ghidorah's genes. Already an incredibly powerful kaiju, it's implied he's potentially more powerful than a super charged Grand King Ghidorah [[spoiler:and is one of only two beings so far that has the BigBad [[PhysicalGod Bagan]] concerned]]. Unfortunately, he's a bloodthirsty sociopath...
62	* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' suggests that this will be the case with Harry. Thanks to his parentage (James was Thor), not only will he have the advantage of being a living magical reactor that all Asgardians do and develop his father's SuperStrength, he's also a relative of Jean Grey on his mother's side and inherited the vast psychic powers which, on top of everything else, will be stronger in that he can channel more energy. Unfortunately, it's more a case of BlessedWithSuck. The SuperStrength comes through only in intermittent bursts meaning that he lives in mortal fear of shaking someone's hand and [[{{Fingore}} squashing it]], the PsychicPowers come through violently, are initially dangerously uncontrollable and nearly get him, Ron and Hermione killed, and WordOfGod says that he'll never be as strong as Jean is (on the other hand, as WordOfGod also admits, this is not saying much) and he lacks the skills and abilities to use those powers effectively. Oh, and Dr. [=McCoy=] theorises that the steady altering of his body and brain chemistry by his Asgardian genes could mean that his PsychicPowers will eventually short-circuit his brain.
63	* Inverted in ''Fanfic/CuckooBird''. Izuku is half-puca and half-elf, but his powers (i.e., some VoluntaryShapeshifting, DreamingOfThingsToCome, and {{Glamour}}) are extremely limited compared to a pure-blooded elf like Beck, who can effortlessly teleport and make things appear out of thin air.
64	* In ''Fanfic/EquestriaAcrossTheMultiverse'', it's revealed [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales Bright Glow and her sisters]] are Pegasi/Celestial Pony (a race of benevolent alien ponies) hybrids, specifically [[LightEmUp Solar Sailers]]. This allows them to combine the magics of their parents into unique abilities neither have, such as making ball lightning that can serve as a combination flashbang and ShockAndAwe attack. Dazzleglow ''ascended'', making her a hybrid of an Alicorn and the Celestial equivalent.
65	* ''Fanfic/HalfPastAdventure'': Rather than a unique ability (a "pup power", as [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Steve Wolfhard]] likes to call them), Robin appears to have all the powers of a shapeshifter mixed with all the problems of a rainicorn, albeit both to a far more limited degree -- zhe can't get larger than zhir normal form, and zhe has trouble projecting light out past zhir own body.
66	* The "Let's make Franchise/{{Touhou\|Project}} kids" [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/323?page=1 meme]] churns out kids with characteristics (appearance, clothes, powers and personality) of both parents. As ''Touhou'' characters cover damn near every slot in the SuperpowerLottery (in addition to flight and BulletHell as standard), this ends up creating drunkards who can create portals to anywhere, a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} with power over ice and nukes, a girl throwing out {{Kamehame Hadoken}}s at supersonic speeds...
67	* Not a 'power' per se, but in the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5368569/1/Offensive-Care Offensive Care]]'', the discovery that Chip and Dale share an unusual anomaly in their blood (despite the fact that they aren't biologically related) leads to Dale working out that he and Chip retain some fragments of mouse DNA from the time the team got 'mixed up' in "A Fly in the Ointment", with the long-term result that Dale and Gadget are compatible enough to have children despite being different species.
68	* ''Fanfic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': [[spoiler:Page Turner is the tenth in her line to be a mix of unicorn and changeling, and refers to herself as a halfling or halfbreed after it comes out, though the exact percentage isn't certain at this point (her maternal ancestors have alternated between mating with full unicorns or full changelings ever since Lamella Armor the First was born to a unicorn and changeling pair). This mixed blood allows she and other changeling hybrids like her to gain Cutie Marks, and also renders them immune to the effects of the changeling detector lights.]]
69	* ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'':
70	** The SuperSoldier project that created [[BigBad General-Admiral Makarov]] invoked this by creating unicorn/deer hybrids, with Makarov being the only surviving and most successful one. [[spoiler:It turns out that this is a complete lie: while the experiment ''did'' happen, it was an utter failure as genetics don't work that way. Makarov's powers [[EldritchAbomination are something else entirely]].]]
71	** Demi Gods have some unique powers due to their hybrid nature. While full Gods can be detected, Demi-Gods' mortal halves hide their divine half (which seems to be why Fluttercruel has gone mostly unnoticed as being one, even to beings that can sense she's in there). While full deities either need to cause a large distortion or create an Avatar to manifest into the mortal world, Demi-Gods have the ability to go back and forth between the mortal and spirit worlds at will. [[spoiler:These abilities are why in LooseCanon (and later AscendedCanon), Venus helps a pegasus named Lovestruck merge with the Shadow of Existence of her demi-god son Cupid to become a Demi-God herself: it makes her rather ideal for rescuing ponies cause in Discord's endgame because she can use her full Demi-God power to protect ponies without being detected and can flee into the spirit world for quick escapes.]]
72	* ''Fanfic/TheTwilightMan'': Zigzagged when it comes to hybrids of daymen (normal humans) and nightmen ([[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency the Pillar Men's race]]), nicknamed twilight men. The rare cases of first-generation hybrids that survive their pregnancy like [[spoiler:Mary Joestar nee Holloway]], are born sickly and usually die young. But if they live long enough to have children, [[UnevenHybrid their descendants]] will not only have the strength and vitality of the nightmen but also the ability to walk under the sun and use the ripple. This is why [[spoiler:Jonathan Joestar]], who is one-fourth nightman, is exceptionally strong as both a human and a ripple user.
73	* ''Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil'': In ''The Stronger Evil'', it's established that since Drago is a [[HalfHumanHybrid dragon/human hybrid]] -- specifically one born from [[spoiler:[[YinYangBomb a merged pair of Others]]]] -- he's more capable of absorbing and using the Demon Sorcerer chi than anyone else, as his already balanced chi can take it without being warped or overwhelmed. He's also immune against spells that should ward off beings who are fully composed of dark chi.
74	* ''Fanfic/TriptychContinuum'' has the hybrids, created by investing an unborn pony foal with essence taken from a pony of a different tribe. The process infuses the hybrids with an incredible vitality, allowing them to survive delivery complications that would have been lethal to an unaltered foal, and hybrids will often later manifest [[WrongContextMagic powers well outside the normal scope of their tribe's magic]].
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78	* ''Film/BladeTrilogy'': The eponymous Blade is a "[[DaywalkingVampire daywalker]]", a [[{{Dhampyr}} half-vampire]] who explicitly has all of their strengths and none of their weaknesses.
79	* In ''Film/HangmansCurse'', [[spoiler:the spiders somehow keep both the size of the wolf spiders and the deadly venom of the brown recluse and are stated as getting larger and more prolific with each generation]].
80	* ''Film/LittleNicky'': Nicky, being the offspring of Satan and an angel, can perform both good and evil miracles, and can even get into Heaven with a sufficiently good deed.
81	* In ''Film/SkyHigh2005'', the protagonist thinks he's powerless because his abilities are rather late to bloom. Turns out he gets both his dad's brute strength and his mom's flight (at different times), making him a FlyingBrick.
82	* The overarching story arc of the ''Film/Underworld2003'' series is pretty much driven by this trope, though only the fourth movie features a child inheriting both parents' powers -- other hybridization instances are carried out via vampiric blood absorption/transmission. While originally hybrids are thought to be hard to create, and a lot of research went into finding one way it may be possible, the series features the following examples:
83	** Michael Corvin becomes a werewolf-vampire hybrid by getting subsequently bitten by [[spoiler:Lucien, a werewolf, and Selene, a vampire]], but only because [[spoiler:he is a human descendant of the first immortal Alexander Corvinus, carrying the genetic mutation that allowed for the original strains of the immortal virus to be created]].
84	** Marcus [[spoiler:the first vampire]] becomes one in the second movie, [[spoiler:by drinking werewolf blood]].
85	** Selene becomes a [[spoiler:vampire-Immortal hybrid (among other things, rendering her immune to sunlight) by drinking Alexander Corvinus' blood]] in the second movie.
86	** The fourth movie reveals that [[spoiler:Selene and Michael's daughter inherited both her dad's werewolf strength and her mom's vampiric abilities. Since most of Selene's pregnancy occurred after she became an immortal, it is likely that Eve inherited immortality, as well, making her a ''triple'' hybrid]].
87	** The third film proves the possibility of [[spoiler:a vampire-werewolf hybrid child by ''birth.'' Sonja, a vampire and Viktor's daughter, is pregnant by Lucien, the above-mentioned werewolf]]. We never learn of the attributes of this particular hybrid, though, [[spoiler:because Viktor kills Sonja long before it can be born]].
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91	* In the second ''Literature/ApprenticeAdept'' triogy, Flach is half-human/half-unicorn (Unicorns in this universe being {{Voluntary Shapeshifter}}s who can take human form). The increased magical potential from his human father gives him shapeshifting abilities above and beyond any other unicorn's. Most unicorns take years to master one (usually, but not always, human) or two alternate forms. We see five year-old Flach use three (human, vampire bat, wolf) at an age where most unicorn foals haven't even tried one yet.
92	* ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'':
93	** Demigods in ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' are often chosen by the gods to do their work because being half-god and half-mortal, they straddle both worlds and can go places and do things that either mortals or gods cannot. Downplayed in that they also have combined weaknesses to balance out the powers; for example, half-bloods can be KilledOffForReal using Celestial bronze, something that neither gods (who can't die) nor fully mortal humans (who are immune to magical weapons) can do. This is largely from a social standpoint. Demigods are much less powerful and much more vulnerable than Gods are, but they are allowed to interfere where Gods can't because they're exempt from divine penalty for doing so and mortals can freely observe them. Gods aren't allowed to directly mess with each other, or present themselves to the mortal public, but demigods are allowed to do both at their own peril.
94	** ''Literature/DemigodsAndMagicians'' establishes this for Greco-Egyptian mythology between its components. Hybridized Greek and Egyptian magic can draw power from and freely travel through both mythological worlds. This means Greco-Egyptian god Serapis can NoSell magic from any single mythos, and absorb power from them to the point he can bring both pantheons to heel and potentially TakeOverTheWorld. He can [[TakesOneToKillOne only be affected]] by similarly hybridized magic, like an Egyptian Magician using magic Greek artifacts or a Greek demigod being a WillingChanneler to an Egyptian god.
95	* In the ''Celestial Wars'' setting, celestials draw their power from mortal belief. Within their own realm, a celestial who is worshipped as a god has whatever powers (and whatever flaws) their mortal worshippers believe they have, but the instant they step outside their own realm they lose everything except their innate celestial abilities. Celestial-human hybrids, however, can believe in ''themselves'' and carry their power with them into foreign realms. [[BlessedWithSuck For this reason, almost all celestial pantheons consider hybrids too dangerous to let live, and will murder any they find on sight]].
96	* ''Literature/ADealWithADemon'': The offspring of humans and demons are granted immense magical ability and power. It's for this reason that Sol asks the Bargainer Demon Azazel for a human bride, as their child can be very helpful in keeping his people safe in the future.
97	* In ''Literature/TheHalfbloodChronicles'', the titular halfbloods (half-human/half-elf) have both the magic abilities of elves and PsychicPowers (namely {{Telepathy}} and [[MindOverMatter Telekinesis]]) of humans.
98	* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' universe, many half-blood wizards like Harry Potter, Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, and Lord Voldemort become known for their particularly potent powers. Muggle-born wizards are also a type of hybrid, albeit more diluted, and many of them are shown to be extremely talented. The irony of course is that Magical Society is highly discriminatory against half-blood and muggle-born wizards despite many being more powerful than purebloods (who on top of being weaker are also highly inbred). Pure-Blooded wizards make up only 10% of the magical population. So statistically, there will probably be more wizards of all levels among mixed and muggle-born.
99	* ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' has a number of hybrids through the story, both naturally born and artificially created, and in this story human ancestry actually comes with its own inherent power benefits. While angels and devils possess a wide range of magical powers, only humans can be born with the power of Sacred Gears, all of which have the potential of outstripping even the strongest pureblood. For example, Issei combines the magical potential of an artificially empowered devil with the human-born draconic power of Boosted Gear, while his rival Vali goes further by being a natural HumanDemonHybrid descended from the immensely powerful Lucifer and possessing the rivalling draconic Divine Dividing, both cases resulting in them possessing greater potential than any pureblood demon or angel.
100	* In one of the ''Literature/ImmortalsAfterDark'' books, the female protagonist is a vampire/phantom hybrid. Vampires can teleport and gain people's memories and abilities by drinking their blood, but are vulnerable to burning up in sunlight. Phantoms have telekinesis and the handy ability to go insubstantial, whereupon they can't be killed. The hybrid in question has all of these strengths ''and'' doesn't burn in the sun. The protagonist couple from one book, a demon and Valkyrie, appear in later books having had twin girls. Demons can teleport only with training, and Valkyries can't teleport at all, but their daughters can teleport from infancy.
101	* In ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'', there are two hereditary magic systems: Allomancy allows the user to ingest certain metals and "burn" them in their stomach to gain certain powers, and Feruchemy uses the same metals as storage devices, sacrificing attributes like strength and health and putting them into the metal to retrieve later. In the second era, the two bloodlines have mixed to create Twinborn, who can use one Allomantic metal and one Feruchemical metal. Depending on which two metals they have, they'll gain access to a unique "resonance" between the two powers (for example, Wax can use Allomantic steel to telekinetically push on metal and Feruchemical iron to store his weight; the two combined allows him to constantly press his weight against every nearby metal object, which makes bullets less accurate when shot at him). Having both powers for the same metal doesn't grant a resonance, but instead an ability called Compounding; by Allomantically burning your Feruchemical storages, instead of the normal Allomantic effect you get back the Feruchemical attribute stored in the metal, multiplied by ten. That can be immeidately stored again and potentially burned again for a hundred times the initial investment, creating an infinite loop that generates an endless supply of your Feruchemical attribute. Miles Hundredlives, a gold Compounder, demonstrates his [[HealingFactor infinite health]] by regenerating from shotgun blasts to the face and dynamite exploding while he was holding it.
102	* ''Literature/NightHuntress'': Main character Cat is a {{Dhampyr}}. When the first book starts, she's said to be weaker than a new vampire, but after a few weeks of TrainingFromHell, her strength increases dramatically, and Bones once states that she is a master vampire who happens to have a pulse. On a couple of occasions, she briefly manifests the ability to fly, something that takes vampires decades or centuries to become strong enough to do, and she's in her late twenties. When Cat becomes a full vampire, her strength increases a good deal further, and she drinks undead blood instead of human, temporarily gaining any special abilities possessed by whoever she drinks from.
103	* ''Literature/RedMoonRisingMoore'': Danny is a half-vampyre and half-werewulf, though he's had genetic treatments to suppress his wulf side. Eventually it emerges, and he finds that [[spoiler:he doesn't bleed as much as a normal vampire, has heightened senses at all times, and can withstand sunlight due to both his hybrid status and his incomplete gene treatments]].
104	* ''Literature/TheShadowhunterChronicles'':
105	** Jonathan Morgenstern is a Shadowhunter who was fed demonic blood when he was still in his mother's womb. It gifted him superhuman strength and speed, even without the aid of runes, and immunity to most angelic weapons.
106	** There are the half-faeries, children of the Fair Folk and humans. But with them it depends on whether to grow up among humans or in the faerie kingdom. Half-fairies that have grown among mankind hardly differ from humans except that they have some "elvish" facial features and body traits, and sometimes also one or two special powers. Half-fairies, however, who grow up in the fairy kingdom, qualify themselves completely for this trope. They can be as powerful as pure [[TheFairFolk fairies]], but have less weaknesses. [[ColdIron Cold iron]] is painful to them, but they are much less harmful than pure fairies. Pure fairies can not lie, but must always tell the truth, but half-fairies can lie like everyone else.
107	** Tessa Gray is the only known child of a demon and a Shadowhunter, which is normally impossible because the mix of angelic and demonic blood will kill a baby before it's even born. She has traits of a warlock in that she is immortal and has high affinity for magic, but she lacks the nonhuman mark that signifies a warlock, such as horns and multicolored skins, and can have children, something that cannot be said for other warlocks. However, her children do not inherit her immortality.
108	** Ash Morgernstern is the child of Jonathan, a half-Shadowhunter half-demon, and the Seelie Queen. He is a CharmPerson, capable of making people care for him.
109	* ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'': The child of the dragons [[spoiler:Temeraire and Iskierka]] inherits the former's SuperScream and the latter's fiery BreathWeapon and can [[AbilityMixing combine the two]] into an even more deadly attack. She develops these abilities far faster than her parents, grows faster than them, and shows [[WiseBeyondTheirYears exceptional intelligence and cunning]] even as a hatchling.
110	* In ''Literature/ThereWasNoSecretEvilFightingOrganization'', esper children meld their parents' powers. Rin, being the daughter of a telekinetic and someone who can stop time, can move time back or forward within a given radius.
111	* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'':
112	** ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': This is one hypothetical explanation mentioned for the new breeds of Orcs commanded by Saruman, though a detailed, canonical explanation is never given. (Note that the images from the [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings film]] of Uruk-hai being "birthed" from gelatinous sacs don't appear in the book.) It's speculated that the wizard may have cross-bred Orcs and humans, resulting in creatures that are larger and stronger than Orcs and are not bothered by sunlight. In some cases, they may even be able to pass as human, as with the sinister stranger the Hobbits saw in Bree, who "looked more than half like a Goblin".
113	** ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'': The offspring of Beren [a Man] and Lúthien [an Elf with Maiar heredity] have the ability to choose which race they belong to, which determines their ultimate fate. Even if they choose the human side, they can expect to live [[LongLived hundreds of years]].[[note]]When Aragorn first meets Frodo in Bree, he's nearly ''ninety'', but by that time the Elven/Maiar blood is pretty dilute; he "only" lives another 120 years after the War of the Ring.[[/note]]
114	* In ''Literature/WingsOfFire'', the abilities of hybrids between different tribes of dragon vary. Darkstalker, an [=IceWing=]/[=NightWing=] hybrid, has their animus and psychic powers. [[spoiler:Sunny]]'s [=SandWing=]/[=NightWing=] heritage cancels itself out; her scales are a bright gold color unusual in both tribes and she was born without a [=SandWing=] tail barb.
115	* Uniquely among the MixAndMatchCritters of the ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' series, the mating of any centaur with any non-avian winged creature (such as a Pegasus or a hippogriff) results in a winged centaur (also known as "alicentaurs"). In addition to the size, strength and intellect of the centaur side and the wings of the non-centaur, winged centaurs have a shared magic talent: The ability to [[GravityMaster make things progressively lighter]] with a flick of their tails, which allows their massive centaur bodies to fly.
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119	* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
120	** Connor is the {{Dhampyr}} version -- he has the strength and enhanced senses of the vampire with none of the drawbacks. However, he is not as resistant as a vampire. Because his body is alive and not undead, he can come to harm, for example by modern firearms.
121	** The half-demons Nash and Pearl say that demons are strong but also archaic, while humans are modern, but also weak. They believe that they are the new evolution of demons and humans alike, because they combine the best of both species in themselves. The veracity of their claim is questionable, given a number of demons have adapted perfectly well to modern society. Something similar was claimed by Adam, who was an artificially created [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot hybrid of humans, demons, and machinery.]]
122	* In ''Series/Charmed1998'', a common witch power is telekinesis and a common power for [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Whitelighters]] is a kind of FlashyTeleportation called "orbing". Paige, Chris and Wyatt are all half-witch, half-whitelighter, and therefore have a mixture of powers inherited from both sides. Paige and Wyatt have a combined "orb-telekinesis" where using telekinesis manifests like orbing. However, Chris has the witch form of telekinesis, which allows him to hide his witch-heritage until he's ready to reveal it because he can use his whitelighter powers without it looking "witchy". While whitelighters can be frozen by witch-magic, the trio are as immune to this power as any witch; they can also cast spells like a witch, orb up to the Elders like a whitelighter, and take responsibility for nurturing charges like a whitelighter and protecting innocents like a witch.
123	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]", [[spoiler:the Doctor undergoes a "biological meta-crisis" in which he uses regeneration energy to form a clone which has some of Donna's personality]]. More importantly, the same process gives Donna the Doctor's mental prowess, which, combined with her "gut instinct" as a human, makes her a hypergenius capable of things even the Doctor would never think to do. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:the human-Time Lord meta-crisis proves to be unstable, and would kill her if she didn't have her [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory erased]]]].
124	* Inverted in ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' by [[MagnificentBastard Scorpius]], the offspring of a Sebacean and a Scarran. He inherited both the Scarran bodily trait of massive internal heat generation, and the Sebacean inability to regulate body temperature easily -- requiring him to use cooling rods inserted in his head to survive, which created a certain vulnerability. Other than that, however, he's quite badass, both physically and mentally. His hybrid physiology does allow him to distinguish heat signatures, however, which allows him to distinguish species and tell when someone is lying.
125	* ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'': The title character, Wataru Kurenai, whose Fangire side allows him to become Kiva and his human side prevents him from feeling the urge to drain human life energy. However, the fact that he is only half-Fangire also prevents him from being able to utilize the full power of Kiva. This is illustrated by the chains binding his Rider form. Furthermore, his human blood keeps his Fangire form in line. And if let loose, Wataru becomes more or less an animal as shown in #39 and #40.
126	* ''Series/MakoMermaidsAnH2OAdventure'': As a human girl enchanted to become a mermaid when wet, Evie is described as a "half mermaid" by other characters. Functionally, she's indistinguishable from natural-born mermaids who enchant themselves to have legs when they're dry. The sole exception is that she lacks the mystical connection to the Moon Pool that the natural-born mermaids have, meaning if the Moon Pool is compromised in any way, she's the only one unaffected.
127	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
128	** Jesse TheAntichrist is the offspring of a human and a demon, and for some reason possesses immensely powerful RealityWarper abilities that neither parent had.
129	** Jane the {{Nephilim}} is physically stronger than Castiel or Metatron and tosses them around in the fight.
130	** Jack is stated to have the potential to become even stronger, being the son of an Archangel (Lucifer, no less) and a human. Tellingly, he manages to overpower Michael, supposedly the strongest Archangel. [[spoiler:However, Lucifer then steals Jack's grace, giving himself enough of a power boost that he could ''wipe out the entire universe'' single-handedly.]]
131	* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'':
132	** Werewolf-vampire hybrids are stronger, faster, and have better senses than ordinary vampires and werewolves, and become even more powerful under the full moon. They are also immune to vampire and werewolf weaknesses like sunlight and silver, possess the same venomous bite for vampires as a normal werewolf, and unlike normal werewolves can transform into their wolf form at will.
133	** Vampire-witch hybrids were originally thought impossible due to the rules of nature; a witch that becomes a vampire loses her connection to nature, and thus her witch powers. However, a group of mutated witches called "Siphoners" had the ability to drain magic from any source to power their own, and because the rules of nature didn't take their [[WrongContextMagic brand of magic]] into account, they retain this ability after transitioning into a vampire. Afterwards, a Siphoner could feed off the same vampire magic that makes them immortal to cast spells. These Vampire-witch hybrids can also walk in the sunlight without harm, and even cure themselves of werewolf's venom by draining the magic out of it.
134	** Witch-werewolf hybrids possess all the abilities of a normal werewolf while retaining their spell-casting powers. They also lose the weakness to silver a normal werewolf possesses.
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138	* This is generally how hybrid races work in the wide multiverse of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
139	** Half-orcs are traditionally characterized as slightly weaker than pureblooded orcs, but still notably stronger than baseline humans, and far more intellectually adept and magically inclined -- not so much because they are exceptionally gifted in those areas compared to humans, but because orcs are typically so inherently bad. Various settings have even had orc tribes that deliberately encouraged breeding half-orcs in order to have a smarter, more disciplined warrior caste, and/or to produce more orcish spellcasters. Orogs, a NonHumanHumanoidHybrid of orc and ogre, are typically characterized as being stronger and ''smarter'' than either of their basic race -- although, ironically, they have a counterpart called the Ogrillon which is pure DumbMuscle.
140	** The relatively obscure half-ogre is essentially the half-orc taken up a notch. In 3rd edition, the obscure ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' monster called the Verbeeg returned as a half-ogre which favored its human side; they were smaller and weaker than normal half-ogres, but much smarter.
141	** Half-elves are typically portrayed as combining the best traits of elfin and human, with human innovation, hardiness and purposefulness married to elven grace, longevity, magical affinity and foresight. From 3rd edition onwards, they also began to be portrayed as naturally diplomatic, as their innate ability to walk the lines between elven and human mentality made them naturally flexible and good at seeing the perspectives of other people.
142	** In older editions of the game, it was implied if not outright stated that the [[{{Hobbits}} halfling]] subraces of Stout and Tallfellow were respectively the result of crossbreeding between Hairfoots (the base halfling strain) and dwarves or elves. Whilst retaining all of the natural abilities of the halfling, stout halflings have dwarf-like constitutions, making them hardier and more resistant to poison, whilst tallfellows have elf-like longevity, stealth, and SuperSenses.
143	** The [[Literature/{{Dragonlance}} Krynnish]] half-goblin is explicitly described as melding the best traits of both its parent races, which creates a confident, outgoing, natural leaders and diplomats.
144	** The thoul, originally from ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'', is a HeinzHybrid of hobgoblin, troll and ghoul, creating a a creature with the brains of hobgoblin (widely considered the smartest of the goblinoids), the strength and HealingFactor of a troll, and the rending claws and paralytic touch of a ghoul. Ironically, these traits earn them as much resentment from their hobgoblin kin as they do respect, and thouls are [[BullyingADragon typically viciously abused]] by pureblood hobgoblins, even as they are exploited as bodyguards. They later resurfaced in the ''TabletopGame/NentirVale'', where it was expanded that thouls were part of a SuperBreedingProgram; the fact they take more after trolls in temperament than hobgoblins, combined with being very slow-breeding by [[ExplosiveBreeder goblinoid]] standards, makes them arguably a failure. The bullying is also a calculated attempt to brutalize thoul slave-troopers so they will be too scared to use their abilities to rebel.
145	** Half-dragons gain all the inherent powers of their non-draconic parent, most notably the ability to gain class-related skills far faster than the average dragon, but also gain draconic abilities such as increased strength, natural armor, and a draconic breath weapon. This same idea ultimately inspired the concept of half-fey, half-celestials and half-fiends.
146	** In the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'', originally, dwarf women were rarer and more than half of all dwarves were sterile as a result of an ancient dwarven civil war in which the different sides abused a monster called a Deepspawn to produce vast armies of clone soldiers. As a result, less conservative dwarf clans encouraged intermarriage between their dwarves and human, gnomish or halfling spouses (usually dwarf men and non-dwarf women), because whilst the offspring of such unions were functionally identical to dwarves in appearance and abilities, their fertility and likelihood of being born female were both higher. This lore was ultimately retconned out in 3rd edition through an in-universe act of divine intervention called the Thunder Blessing.
147	** The obscure n'djatwa race of ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'' is an unusual hybrid of elf and ogre. As a result, they have elven intelligent, beauty, grace, speed, dexterity and magical proficiency, but ogrish size, strength and hardiness.
148	* In ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'', this happens whenever a player uses Half-Breed with a single race card -- he gets bonuses against anyone that race card gives bonuses against, but doesn't take penalties when fighting monsters who have an advantage over that race.
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152	* Double subverted in ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}''. [[spoiler:Despite being the daughter of an Umbra Witch and a Lumen Sage, Bayonetta only has Umbra Witch powers, but she seems to have inherited both their spiritual power, making a witch far more powerful than a witch mating with a human.]]
153	* In ''VideoGame/{{Boktai}}'', both Sabata and Django are essentially half-immortal on their mother's side and as a result are mostly immune to Klorofolun: while it saps their strength on contact, a normal human would instantly turn undead if they so much as touched it. It's also implied to be the reason Django was able to become a half-vampire (though he ''still'' would have turned completely had they not used the Pile Driver on him first), and the reason why Sabata was able to be imbued with Dark Matter.
154	* ''VideoGame/CoffeeTalk'':
155	** The other half of the Barista's lineage isn't stated, but [[spoiler:being a hybrid with an alien parent technically makes them, as Freya describes it, "a superhero". The end of the game reveals them to have TimeTravel powers, represented by the game's feature to allow you load and replay any day on the calendar after one playthrough.]]
156	** In Episode 2, [[spoiler:Amanda calls the Barista "Café Offspring", to Baileys' confusion. The Barista just exchanges knowing glances with Silver (formerly Neil) as a CallBack to TheReveal in the previous game's stinger. When Baileys leaves the café, he calls the Barista a "guardian angel", and once he's gone, they say to themself, "More like a guardian hive mind".]] [[spoiler:In Silver and Amanda's bad ending, Silver instead assures the Barista that his alien protection organization, S.A.V.E., will do everything they can to protect them from "vanishing". Baileys is still confused, but the Barista refuses to elaborate.]]
157	* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'':
158	** In the classic continuity, Sid in [[Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries the 2007 anime adaptation]], Agnus in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'', and Urizen in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' wonder why Dante is stronger than them, despite all three claiming a difference in power - Sid had absorbed Abigail's power before being defeated, whereas Agnus claims that Dante is "not human", and Urizen had gotten a recent power boost. While Dante never [[https://youtu.be/j7a28MvHXHo?t=5m39s gives Agnus]] a completely straight answer, it pretty much boils down to how Dante not only has the power of demons, but also because he has the [[https://youtu.be/l_TqBlQGxrY?t=3m40s soul of a human]] that makes him more powerful, [[spoiler:which can easily be applied to Nero as well and Vergil later on in ''[=DMC5=]'']]. Director Creator/HidekiKamiya of ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry1 DMC1]]'' has [[https://twitter.com/PG_kamiya/status/375788846467674112 tweeted]] that it's because humans have [[ThePowerOfLove heart]], which demons lack, as well that Dante [[https://twitter.com/pg_kamiya/status/625886255935438848 chooses]] to [[https://twitter.com/pg_kamiya/status/338591830893555713 live as a human]].
159	--->'''Dante to Sid:''' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech It's about souls]]. ... Basically, here's the story, Sid. Someone like you who's let a soul rot can't measure up by just getting some power, not to someone with a real soul. That's not how it works down here.\
160	'''Dante to Agnus:''' You surrendered your humanity. It's that simple.\
161	'''Dante to Urizen:''' It's not about loss... Strength is a choice! Fighting like hell to protect what matters! You threw away everything you ever had! No wonder you have no true power!
162	** This is relevant in the ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'' continuity as well, but with a different context. Being Nephilim, Dante and Vergil's mixed heritage makes them the only ones strong enough to slay Mundus, according to Vergil. And indeed they succeed in their mission. In a minor example, it also makes them immune to Virility's mind controlling properties.
163	* In ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'', all humans on the world of Sanctuary are the descendants of the Nephalem, offspring of renegade angels and demons. The Nephalem had power that potentially far outstrips their parent races, and in fear of them the angels tuned the [[CosmicKeystone Worldstone]] to diminish their power, resulting in the mostly ordinary human race.
164	* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
165	** Averted over the course of a single generation, as interbreeding between the races results in offspring who almost entirely take after the mother. For example, the child of an [[SquishyWizard Altmer]] father and [[ProudWarriorRAce Nord]] mother won't come out as a mixed MagicKnight, but will be [[UnevenHybrid 99.9% Nord]] in appearance and abilities with the the chance of having a slight point to his ears or perhaps a slight change to his complexion.
166	** Over the course of many generations however, this is played straight. For example, the Bretons were born of a [[BreedingSlave eugenics program]] which mated the Direnni Altmer of High Rock with the Nedes, one of Tamriel's indigenous human tribes (or a collective name for those tribes) who are the common ancestors of most of the modern races of men (except for the Redguards). As a result, the Bretons have a greater [[MageSpecies natural magical prowess]] than their fellow races of men, while having [[HumansAreWarriors hardier constitutions]] (especially in terms of inherent magical defenses) than their Altmeri ancestors. The Bretons make for exceptional MageKiller {{Magic Knight}}s. In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', Bretons are practically {{Game Breaker}}s thanks to their racial trait, a 50% resistance to all magic, which can be stacked with a single item which ''also'' grants 50% resistance to magic as well as 35% chance to reflect spells, creating a character who is completely invincible to all magical and elemental attacks.
167	* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
168	** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'' provide players with the ability to pair units in marriage, and allows their offspring to inherit certain skills from their parents, plus letting their base stats be influenced by the stats of the respective parents. Children inherit the Holy Blood of both parents and two parents with minor blood will result in a child with Major, [[spoiler:a fact the BigBad takes advantage of via brainwashing two half-siblings into marrying]].
169	** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' bring back the marriage system, only now the children inherit both parents' class options and stat {{Cap}} modifiers too. Fitting for this trope, the two HalfHumanHybrid kids ([[LittleBitBeastly Yarne]] and [[WereDragon Nah]]) have the potential to become some of the strongest characters in the game.
170	** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'', the offspring of Beorc and Laguz are known as the Branded (from the marks they have somewhere on their bodies, [[MarkOfShame usually kept hidden]]) or Parentless. They often have special abilities, but it's generally considered a great stigma, until ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' when it turns out [[spoiler:the Apostle and Empress of the Begnion Empire is a Branded, the descendant of the Laguz Heron Lehran and the Beorc woman Altina, which enables them to hear the voice of the Goddess Yune]]. Also, aside from Ike's army, most of those unaffected by [[spoiler:Ashera [[TakenForGranite turning the entire population to stone]]]] are Branded [[spoiler:due to her having no idea that they exist]].
171	* A variant in ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games via HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Breeding two mons together produces a mon of the females' species that will learn some of the male's moves, so in theory, the new mon might have some more powerful moves (sometimes at level 5, meaning just-hatched) without any drawbacks except that hatching it takes longer.
172	* In ''VideoGame/SagaFrontier''. Humans increase their stats by [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower developing their bodies and minds through training and battle]], and can learn [[MasterSwordsman Sword]], [[GunFu Gun]] and [[SupernaturalMartialArts Fighting]] skills by using the requisite weapons in combat; they can also use nearly any equipment. By contrast, Mystics grow in power by absorbing monsters into their Mystic Weapons, gaining increases to stats and skills based on the monsters they have in their gear at any point, and many Mystics have equipment slots permanently occupied by mystical armor (which is often less useful than top-tier gear by a long shot); both species can learn Magic. Half-Mystic Asellus normally develops as a human, but can use Mystic Weapons, absorb monsters, and change into a Mystic form to boost her human abilities, yet lacks the problematic Mystic Armor. OneHeroHoldTheWeaksauce doesn't even begin to describe it; this combination possibly makes her the most powerful being in the world, period.
173	* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'', when visiting the Labyrinth of Amala, a Loa comments demons sacrificed their ability to change and grow in exchange for a form of immortality, while humanity kept it at the cost of remaining mortal. He passingly wonders what this means for the PlayerCharacter, the Demi-Fiend, who has the body of a demon and a human heart and soul, thus combining the best attributes of ''both''...
174	* In ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'', Sunburn is a dragon-phoenix, which grants him rare powers like teleportation. This actually turns out to be a mixed blessing, as his abilities make him a target for unscrupulous wizards; part of the reason he joined the Skylanders is for protection.
175	* ''Franchise/StarCraft'':
176	** Two alien races were uplifted by the [[{{Precursors}} Xel'Naga]]: The protoss, who with their powerful bodies and PsychicPowers, are deemed to have "purity of form", and the Zerg, which with their mutative adaptability, HiveMind and resultant singularity of purpose, have "purity of essence". These species are ''supposed'' to meet naturally one day and physically merge to become a new generation of Xel'Naga, with all the power that entails. However, agents of a renegade Xel'Naga interfere to create an artificial hybrid species as EliteMooks [[spoiler:and eventually a CustomBuiltHost]], making monsters that are certainly far stronger than any individual Zerg or Protoss.
177	** [[spoiler:Kerrigan]]'s ultimate form involves combining purity of form and purity of essence with pure Xel'Naga essence, turning them into a Xel'Naga who can kill all of the above.
178	* Half-elves in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' have the [[LongLived longevity]] and magical capabilities of full elves, and one bit of dialogue suggests that crossbreeding with humans made their magic power ''stronger'' than elves'. Most of the notably powerful individuals in the story are half-elves, though that could just because [[TrueBreedingHybrid half-elves have grown to out-populate the full elves]].
179	* In the ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile'' series, mixing Elf and Human is the secret to greater power. While the elves and gods have a ton of power that a human can't hope to match, humans have the ability to grow and change. Lenneth's rebirth in the original's GoldenEnding sees her becoming half-human and becoming the creator goddess.
180	* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'': Half-Homs High Entia, despite their usually smaller [[MercurysWings head wings]] and lack of PointyEars, are just as LongLived and capable of manipulating [[MagicByAnyOtherName ether]] as their pure-blooded cousins. What really sets them apart is [[spoiler:that they are cured of the genetic "curse" that can eventually turn pure High Entia into mindless Telethia]].
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184	* In the ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'', this crops up fairly often, mostly in ''{{VisualNovel/Tsukihime}}'', since it has the most focus on it. Descendants of oni and humans are regularly shown as having supernatural powers that don't seem to originate from either side and the distinct advantage of being solidly grounded in reality, as opposed to regular oni, which are considered to be 'demons,' formless forces of nature with incomprehensible minds, morality, and ''physics'' that are given shape by human thought and aren't good at maintaining physical form (although, oni hybrids also have severe disadvantages that pure oni and pure humans ''don't'', most notably that they are at constant risk of degenerating into feral, animalistic madmen). The powers held by oni hybrids are pretty much random: Akiha has PrehensileHair, the ability to 'Plunder' heat and life force from things simply by looking at them, and an innate ability to create shikigami; SHIKI has his [[DecapitationRequired 'Death Resistive Body']], the ability to heal his own wounds by eating human flesh, and the ability to control, shape, and solidify his shed blood; Kouma has SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, SuperToughness, and pyrokinesis; and Miyako has very mild SuperStrength. The only ability common to all half-breeds is magic resistance, which is apparently simply a natural quality of any human/supernatural creature hybrid.
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188	* ''Barbie The Barbarienne'' has [[PunnyName Kymchi]], an experimental hybrid between magically UnskilledButStrong [[LizardFolk Imps]] and [[OurElvesAreDifferent Elves]] with the result essentially being a [[TheGenieKnowsJackNicholson pop culture-spouting]], [[MostCommonSuperPower big-boobed]], white-haired, [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] Mad Goddess who [[WildCard nobody trusts and everyone fears due to her unpredictability and invincibility]]. In short, [[GoneHorriblyRight the project to harness the power of the imps succeeded]].
189	* ''Webcomic/DemonKingGF'': Zenith is the hybrid daughter of the [[DraconicHumanoid dragonborn]] Alvida and the human Hero, and one comic has her [[WereDragon transform into a dragon]] by complete accident. Considering Alvida was telling her husband how her fellow full-blooded dragonborns had lost that ability 500,000 years ago and how she currently can only make certain parts of her body more draconic, that makes her half-human daughter the first one to fully become a dragon in that time.
190	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
191	** Uryuoms frequently have several parents adding their genes to an egg, as they don't have typical genders. This ultimately results in a character being a hybrid of four different creatures, conserving many of their powers.
192	** Grace is actually an example of this even by Uryuom standards, since two of her DNA sources were Uryuom and lespuko (a non-sapient species related to Uryuoms roughly as gorillas are related to humans). Adding lespuko DNA amplifies Uryuom shapeshifting, including giving Grace the ability to combine traits from different forms.
193	* Gods in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' cooperated to create the world because they discovered that the more pantheons that are involved in the creation of a thing, the stronger and "more real" it is. Ironically this makes the gods themselves uniquely vulnerable, as they are each formed from only one pantheon. [[spoiler:Following its destruction of the Eastern Pantheon, the Snarl is the only thing in existence created by all four pantheons.]]
194	-->'''Minrah:''' Oh, I get it! [[PhlebotinumAnalogy It's like how mutts are healthier than purebreed dogs!]]
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198	* ''Blog/HamstersParadise'':
199	** Zigzagged and ultimately averted with the dreadmaus. This hybrid of the bear-like red broun and arctic tibear is larger and more aggressive than either parent species, enabling it to successfully compete with them, but is infertile. Since the dreadmaus drove out the other two species but cannot reproduce, all three end up going extinct.
200	** The AlwaysChaoticEvil tundra harmsters deliberately invoke this. After using their more advanced weapons to conquer the other harmster species they decide to crossbreed with them as a way to take their best qualities for themselves, gaining improved stamina and adaptability from the savannah harmsters and increased size and strength from the matriarch harmsters.
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204	* ''Franchise/Ben10'':
205	** Inverted in an episode of [[WesternAnimation/Ben10 the original series]] where the [[TransformationTrinket Omnitrix]] is damaged, causing Ben to assume hybrids of his normal forms. In all cases, these new forms are worse than his normal ones.
206	*** Combining Four Arms (a humanoid with SuperStrength and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin four arms]]) with Stinkfly (a giant insect with wings) resulted in [[UnfortunateNames "Stink Arms"]], a physically weaker version of Four Arms who was too heavy to fly.
207	*** Combining Diamondhead (a warrior with [[SuperToughness diamond-hard skin]] that can be [[SpikeShooter fired in shards]]) with Grey Matter (a midget with SuperIntelligence and WallCrawl powers) resulted in "Diamond Matter", a tiny version of Diamondhead.
208	*** Combining Heatblast (a MagmaMan who is weakened by water) with Ripjaws (a [[FishPeople Fish Man]]) resulted in "[[OxymoronicBeing Heat Jaws]]", which Ben referred to as [[{{Understatement}} "not the best combo"]].
209	** Played with when Kevin is transformed into a ShapeshifterMashup of all of Ben's forms. While none of his powers are as strong as the originals, Ben points out that he can combine them to use strategies that none of his forms could use by themselves (the simplest being that weak versions of SuperStrength, SuperSpeed and SuperToughness equals "one mean punch").
210	** Played straight in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' with two versions:
211	*** A downplayed example is when Ben is bonded with Skurd, a Slimebiote. A unicellular creature, he can take DNA and mix it up. He sticks around with Ben and can combine the DNA of the various aliens Ben has in the Omnitrix to form weapons or extensions for Ben to use while in alien form (including a sword made out of ''Celestialsapien matter'').
212	*** A more direct example and likely inspired by his time with Skurd is with Omniverse's Ben 10,000 who invented the Biomentrix. Two gauntlets that when he smashes together, he can create a powerful hybrid alien. One very notable example was Atomic-X, a fusion of ''Atomix'' and ''Alien X'' (as in the two most powerful aliens in the Omnitrix.) The only downside is that it appears to be somewhat randomized and doesn't "save" any of the transformations.
213	* In ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', it's repeatedly shown that half-dead humans are far more powerful than full ghosts in most cases. Not only can they shift to human to bypass a lot of ghost weaknesses, but when they do this in the Ghost Zone, they [[HumansAreCthulhu basically invert the dynamic]].
214	* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': In the third season, Tom Luctior, long known for being one of the most powerful if not the most powerful demon in existence, is revealed to actually be a half-demon with a Mewman for a father. It's then taken even further by [[spoiler: [[Characters/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilMeteoraButterfly Meteora Butterfly]], daughter of Eclipsa and her monster lover, who is so powerful magically that in the end only Eclipsa, mightiest queen in the Butterfly line, can take her down]]. In the case of the latter, [[spoiler:the High Commission]] explicitly feared their power and stole them away from their parents to suppress it.
215	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
216	** [[Characters/StevenUniverseStevenQuartzUniverse The titular character]] is half-human, half-Gem. At first, the human half mostly just seems to be inconvenient for him, if not ''life-threatening''; Steven's power grew slowly over his life, with some often dangerous PowerIncontinence, and he isn't TheNeedless. But he eventually shows he has a number of additional powers, such as dream-walking (which a full gem would be unlikely to discover because they don't usually sleep), and several episodes suggest that his abilities will grow to become stronger than even his mother's were. The Season 1 finale shows one ''vital'' benefit to having an organic body: [[spoiler:Steven is immune to advanced Gem technology that can instantly destroy the body of a regular gem]]. "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E37AloneTogether Alone Together]]" reveals another ability he has that the other Gems lack: [[spoiler:the ability to fuse with humans in addition to Gems]]. But probably the best thing about being a human/Gem hybrid is that since he was raised among both, he's the only person in the world who can ''easily'' [[TheHeart empathise with and understand both sides]].
217	** [[FusionDance Fusion between Gems]] also has an element of this. Gems of the same type fusing just create a larger version of that gem with no more than the combined strength of their components. Fusions made of different gems become stronger than the sum of their parts, often possessing new abilities as a result of their components' powers working off each other.
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221	* According to an anecdote told variously about Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw and Isadora Duncan/Sandra Bernhardt, UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein and Creator/MarilynMonroe, etc., the woman says to the man, "You are the greatest brain in the world and I have the most beautiful body, so we ought to produce the most perfect child." He responds, "What if the child inherits my beauty and your brains?"[[note]]The joke is better when you're told that Isadora Duncan/Sandra Bernhardt found the reversal distasteful, but Marilyn Monroe thought it was ''hilarious''! [[/note]]
222	* Ligers, the offspring of a male lion and female tiger. They are massive mostly due to a defective growth inhibitor (up to 900 lbs, compared to an average 500 lb tiger) and much more powerful than either parent, while retaining their speed. That said, they are not well-suited for the wild due to their docile behavior. Also, their overabundance of size requires more food and may cause joint problems, though not universally. Male ligers are usually sterile.
223	* Domesticated maize, one of the most widely-grown and productive cereals in the world, was repeatedly back-crossed with its wild ancestor, teosinte, over the course of its history.
224	* Mules tend to be more intelligent than either donkeys or horses, are able to pull and carry a slightly higher percent of their body weight, and have considerably more stamina than either parent.
225	* Likewise, dzos, hybrids of yak and domestic cattle, are larger and stronger than yaks or cattle from the region.
226	* Hybrids are becoming increasingly common in the arctic region, including Grolar Bears (Grizzly + Polar Bear) and Narlugas (Narwal + Beluga Whale), as a result of climate change pushing the animals into different environments. Both of these creatures are better adapted to survive the mixed climate than either of their parent species.
227	* Despite the term "mixed breed," mixed breed dogs (mutts) are not actually this. "Pure breed" dogs are not different species or subspecies, but selected traits. Outside of a few historical working breeds, most pure breed dogs were bred for cosmetic purposes and have a narrow gene pool due to inbreeding. As such, heavily mixed breed dogs are less hybrids and more something closer to the default ''Canis lupus familiaris'', being healthier on average because they have a normalized genetic diversity.
228	* Studies suggest that interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals resulted in a hybrid with all the advantages of the former but superior adaptability and immune system from the latter.
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