Cute Monster Girl / Video Games

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Cute Monster Girls in video games.

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• A lot of the user generated prompts in AI Dungeon 2 involve cute monster girls. Frequently in less than wholesome contexts.
• Bayonetta:
  • Most angels in both games range from looking fairly humanoid to just downright weird. Then there are the Joys, which are shaped like buxom women in helmets with shape-changing weapons in the place of hands and feet and are pretty much naked aside from a gold chain worn like a thong. They are a form of Elite Mook that apparently transcended having one definite physical form, and they are intentionally mimicking the deliberate Ms. Fanservice heroine since they're supposed to be mirror-enemies to her.
  • Demons are usually either giant beasts (mostly seen with Bayonetta's summons in both games) or some oddly-"robotic" creatures in contrast with the "marble statue" appearance of the angels (mostly seen with the enemies in the sequel). Compared to them, the demons Bayonetta and Jeanne's pacts are with look more humanoid: they're large, have unusual skin tones, but still appear as attractive women. Then there's Alraune, who just resembles a gray-skinned woman in a flower-themed dress and some sort of large helmet obscuring her upper head.
• There are three female Splicer bodytypes in BioShock: Ladysmith, Rosebud, and Baby Jane. All male Splicers are uniformly hideous, warped and disfigured by overuse of ADAM. As for the females, there are two aversions and a straight example. The aversions are Ladysmith (an older woman in fancy clothes, her face skeletal and distorted) and Rosebud (modeled after Rosie the Riveter, but with a garish, disgusting tumor growing out of her forehead). Baby Jane, meanwhile, hasn't physically mutated at all — her only modifications are some scars and makeup. Sadly, though, ADAM has had its usual effects on her mind...
• Boktai:
  • Sabata, being a Half-Human Hybrid like his brother Django, was infused with dark matter which makes his non-human attributes stand out. Unlike his brother who looks entirely human (at least until he becomes a vampire, see below), Sabata has purple hair, odd facial markings, bright red eyes, and fangs and is quite attractive in spite of (or because of) it.
  • Black Django — the hero's vampiric form — has pointed ears, fangs, blue skin, and bat wings... making him a Cute Monster Boy.
  • A number of the Immortals are quite attractive as well. If we're counting human forms Duneyyr and Dvalinn are quite good looking until they morph into a giant moth and octopus, respectively. Durathor is gorgeous even in her monstrous form being a Plant Person with spiked vines for arms, and Carmilla's monstrous form is a Gorgeous Gorgon through and through. On the males' side, the Count has glowing red eyes and blue skin but is built like a space shuttle and a sharp dresser, and Ratatosk is a Bishōnen with blue skin who's pretty easy on the eyes as well.
• Brawl Stars:
  • Emz is a pretty teenage mummy zombie, helped by the fact her face and body are only slightly covered by her bandages. She's definitely got a more young, hip, and attractive look compared to her male comrades Mortis and Frank.
  • Willow is a cute fish-like Swamp Monster, though she actually Hates Being Called Cute.
• Quite a few characters from the Breath of Fire series:
  • Most notably Deis from the first game, Katt from the second game, Momo from the third game and Ursula from the fourth game. Male members of the Blacksmith Clan are hulking minotaur-like strongmen, yet their women look like ordinary humans with horns. Although apparently the women are just as strong, despite this...
  • The harpies that attack Ryu and Bow in Breath of Fire II are apparently quite attractive, at least as far as one can tell from the pixelated graphics, and they in turn find Ryu to be quite attractive as well. Unfortunately this just makes them want to eat him, and they even waste a turn attacking each other bickering over it since they'd much rather eat Ryu than the anthropomorphic dog.
• Many of the monsters in the Castlevania games, such as the Succubus, and the Perspherone, a demonic maid who happens to know Kung-Fu. Laura, the vampire child from Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, especially in the Reverie DLC, where she and Gabriel form a strong bond.
• Cthylla in Chaos Code, if one can look past her shark-like dentition and penchant for blowing venomous ink in her opponents' faces.
• Genovefa in Child of Light is a Fish Person with green skin and small fin-like protrusions spouting from her ears and tail. Contrast with Robert (a bipedal mouse), Oengus (a hulking armor-clad bear-goat-thing), and Golem (a big jagged rock Golem).
• Female vampires, demonesses, cyborg girls, and catgirls are very common in the City of Heroes/City of Villains games. The character creator includes options such as horns, pointy ears, tails, hooved/clawed feet, etc. Even one of the NPC heroines is a catgirl. Also applies to NPC enemies. Most of the various demons the you can fight are grotesque monsters, except for the succubi.
• Coffee Talk takes place in a Fantasy Kitchen Sink version of Seattle, and all of the female characters (apart from the lone human, Freya) qualify as this in some way or another. Among the cast, there's Lua the succubus, Rachel the nekomimi, Aqua the mermaid, and Myrtle the half-orc.
• Corruption of Laetitia: The factions the player can recruit include slimes (the stronger of which look like humanoid girls), Girtablilu, Harpies, and Alraune. The latter three groups have only girls.
• Cala Maria in Cuphead is a gigantic mermaid with octopus as hair that looks very adorable... And then she turns into a gorgon halfway through your boss-fight. She still qualifies as a Gorgeous Gorgon since, while she doesn't look as cute as before, she is far from horrifying.
• The rather grotesque-looking siren boss in Darkest Dungeon will appear as a naked and beautiful monster girl when she enthralls a party member, but this trope is decidedly very much averted otherwise.
• Dark Souls has a few of these, most notably Priscilla the Crossbreed, a 20 foot tall giant Mystical White Haired girl who happens to be half dragon. Quelaag and her sister are beautiful women with horrible lava spiders for lower bodies.
• In Darkstalkers, any female character that's not Baby Bonnie Hood (Morrigan, Lilith, Felicia, Q-Bee) qualifies, but the winner is Hsien-Ko, a Chinese Vampire. Q-Bee is probably the most horrible, as while her race act like normal bees, they've developed one evolutionary trait to help them hunt their prey: their eyes. Those gigantic bulbs on her head? Those are her real eyes. The ones on the front of her face are there to trick people into thinking she's a dimwitted chick. This is why her fighting pose is animated so her head looks like it's pointing down, her actual eyes are completely focused on her prey.
• Dark Sun: Shattered Lands has a cute portrait of a Tari (rat) girl, who you need to rescue in an early sidequest.
• Dead or Alive: Ayane's signature burning red eyes and lavender hair color are telltale signs of having inherited Raidou's cursed blood at birth. Taken further in Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, where she gets a succubus costume as one of her Halloween outfits.
• Demon's Souls has The Fool's Idol, which looks like a pretty doll with four arms. While this can make her look cute, it also emphasises her unnatural nature.
• Disgaea:
  • Most monsters are male, with the most obvious exceptions being the Succubus and the Nekomata, which are all female.
  • The "standard" demon race of the Netherworld have females of several different body types, like valkyries, healers and magic knights (all of them cute).
  • Disgaea 2 introduces the Flora Beast (something similar to a Nymph). Ironically enough, this example is inverted.
  • Raspberyl is a Fun Size Cute Monster Girl.
  • Disgaea 4 has Desco, the Netherworld's most adorable Eldritch Abomination.
  • Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness introduced Sea Angels, with Rainier being a much bustier version.
  • Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance pulls a three-fer: for the generic units, you can obtain Fairies and Nine-Tailed Foxes, with Izuna being a storyline variant. As far as party members go, there is Usalia, a were-rabbit demon.
  • Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny introduces Evileyes, a bovine monster unit with huge horns and equally huge chests, and they tend to have docile, Shrinking Violet personalities. They get their name from the magical eyes they have on their palms.
• In Divinity: Dragon Commander, two of the four princesses you can marry in the game fit this trope:
  • The lizard princess Camilla who looks distinctly human-like◊ in contrast to other lizard characters and is rather busty and curvy.
  • The undead princess Ophelia is initially a walking skeleton, but if you pursue a romance with her, she will have her soul transferred to a new body of your choice: either a human female, a vampire or a flesh golem, and all of them are topless with her hair covering her breasts.
• Downfall, a rather hefty Game Mod for Slay the Spire, features unlockable Moe Anthropomorphism costumes for The Guardian, The Snecko, The Slimeboss, and the Hexaghost. ^note There's also a Moe Anthropomorphism costume of The Champ, but The Champ is a Badass Normal to begin with, so it doesn't count.
• In Dragon Ball Online and Dragon Ball Xenoverse, female Majins look more like Distaff Counterparts to Super Buu: they are slimmer, have feminine features, and more humanoid faces compared to the males of their race, who are large and rotund with more cartoonish faces. Justified in-universe as Majin Buu having created the first female Majin after being inspired by a dirty book.
• Dragon's Crown has harpies and vampires, who look cute but are lethal predators who feed on human victims, as well as a friendly mermaid and fairy.
• DragonFable has ice and water elves, which have sharp, Snape-y faces for the males. Granted, we only see male ice elves, but female water elves are spotted here and there. Unlike the males, they have the same faces as humans, aside from their coral-like horns. (Interestingly enough, wind, wood and dark elves all have human-like faces, though all of them have glowing eyes.)
• Dragon Quest has the Succubat class of monsters which weaponize this. They attack by showing off their breasts and trying to lure males off with them. They're utterly adorable, especially the Vampire Succubats that have the most "human" complexion out of all of them.
• The Shura in Dream of Mirror Online fit — the males are big hulking walls of flesh, with short, fleshy tails, and a (fleshy) horn on their forehead. The females are cat girls.
• Earthworm Jim: Jim's girlfriend, Princess What's-Her-Name, who is big-eyed, wasp-waisted (and an insect, haha), and extremely well proportioned. However, she's considered hideously deformed on her homeworld. Her sister, Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-Filled, Malformed Slug-For-A-Butt, who looks something like a giant termite queen, is the pinnacle of beauty to her people.
• Eastern Exorcist, with it's wuxia-fantasy setting, have cute hulijing girls throughout the story. From Xiaoyu, who looks like a spunky, adorable teenage girl (save for her fox-ears) to Xiahou-xue, one of the two player-characters, who's a half-hulijing with well-defined facial features.
• EXTRAPOWER: Attack of Darkforce has cute lobster and cute octopus girls in the undersea realm of Deep Heaven. The demon girls Nemuri and Rem in EXTRAPOWER: Star Resistance and devil Coma in EXTRAPOWER: Giant Fist also count.
• Many enemies in Final Fantasy play this straight, avert or subvert this. The exact specifications vary from game to game, ranging from monsters with female body parts to highly-feminine monsters to monsters that look exactly like humans with maybe one or two monster features. For example, the recurring Lamia enemies are usually snakes with female torsos and faces, can serve as temptresses such as the Lamia Queen from II, and in IV have their rears showing through their snake skin. Since a full analysis is unfeasible, this section will single out specific examples.
  • Recurring summon Shiva is often depicted as a graceful and well-formed female with a pretty face with her body covered by nothing but ribbons or growths of ice. She also has blue skin and lips, due to being An Ice Person, and often has other body features to betray her monstrous nature, although she is more of a goddess in most games.
  • Ditto for Siren, though she doesn't appear in as many games. Her FF8 incarnation is the straightest example. She is a beautiful woman with strategically placed feathers on her body, and bird wings coming out of her head.
  • Terra of Final Fantasy VI is a half-human and half-Esper, and was pointedly not this in her original game, her Esper form was emphasized to be feral and monstrous and it terrified people - not that this would stop some fans from finding her attractive. Then Dissidia came along and look at her now◊. While that is a valid interpretation of her in-game sprites from FF6◊, bear in mind that this◊ was the original character design. The fanservice carried back to the smartphone and Steam ports - this◊ was her original character portrait in her Esper form, while this◊ is her smartphone portrait, and her sprite◊ is much more shapely than before.
  • Jenova from Final Fantasy VII is a subversion. At first glance, she appears to be an attractive blue skinned woman, but a closer inspection reveals hideous aspects such as an eye for a nipple, a bizarre umbilical cord leading to an external heart like organ and a corpse like appearance.
  • The Cloud of Darkness, originally from Final Fantasy III and appearing in both Dissidia and Final Fantasy XIV, is a Made of Evil Eldritch Abomination who wants to engulf the world in darkness and is an eternal entity unable to ever be destroyed, only defeated and put to sleep until it rises again. Despite this it chooses to appear as a shapely female in the games are as follows: FF3◊ FF3DS◊ Dissidia◊ FFXIV◊. The games state that as a force of nature it has no true form and has no gender. The reason for this in FFIII and FFXIV seems to be to paradoxically emphasise its bizarre eldritch nature, with XIV in particular being particularly monstrous.
  • The Nymphs from Final Fantasy IX. They have completely humanoid (and scantily clad) bodies, simply with what looks like grass and leaves for hair. The villainous ones have purple skin while the good ones have green skin but they're still pretty hot.
  • The Vieras and the Grias from games set in Ivalice. The Viera are tall, ebony-skinned warrior women with bunny ears and Stripperiffic clothing, and the Gria are incredibly cute female dragon-like humanoids with wings and horns. The Seeq avert this: the few female Seeq NPCs look almost identical to male Seeq.
  • The two female Espers in Final Fantasy XII. Shemhazai's face is not visible, but she does have a scantily clad fanservice-y body. Ultima is also quite attractive if one ignores her teal skin.
  • The females of the dragon-like Au Ra race in Final Fantasy XIV possess horns in place of ears, tails, and patches of scales scattered about their otherwise human-looking bodies. Their petite builds push them more towards the "cute" side of the attractiveness spectrum, being the smallest of all the races (Aside from the Lalafell), but their males are quite the opposite.
• Fire Emblem:
  • In Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, most of the Dragon shapeshifters known as Manaketes are unattractive Old Men with Fangs, inhuman skintone, Claws, and leathery Wings. However one of the playable Manaketes, Tiki, merely looks like a little girl with Pointy Ears, sometimes with feathery wings. Xane, a Manakete Male, who lost his dragon form, also fits as a rare aversion as he looks like an ordinary human Bishōnen, being one of the only Male Manaketes to be young or attractive.
  • Half Manakete Siblings Ninian and Nils in Blazing Blade; Ninian is beautiful and ethereal, while Nils fits the "cute child growing into a handsome young man" role.
  • While the Laguz females in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn are quite attractive, the males are just as commonly attractive as well.
  • The aforementioned Tiki returns in Fire Emblem: Awakening, and is joined by fellow Manakete and expy of her past self, Nowi, as well as Nowi's daughter Nah, and Morgan if the male Avatar marries any of the three. The game also introduced Taguel, which are heavily based on the beast Laguz. Panne, the first playable Taguel, fits this, and so does Morgan if a male Avatar marries Panne. Yarne is a Cute Monster Boy, and so is Morgan if a female Avatar marries him. Manakete Morgan, however, can only be female, fitting this trope. The only Male Dragon tribe member in the game, Grima, is monstrous, and never assumes a humanoid form.
  • Five characters fall under this trope in Fire Emblem Fates. The first and second of which are the playable Avatar (especially if female) and Kana (especially if female, which requires the Avatar to be Male), similar to the manakete in that they are half dragon. Another dragon named Lilith appears. The three of them look very different from how usual dragons do. The remaining two are Selkie and Velouria (along with their fathers), each exclusive to Hoshido and Nohr (respectively) and both being available in the third path.
• Fishing Vacation: Horribly subverted with Sedna, an ocean goddess from Inuit mythology, who looks more like a Wicked Witch with her messy hair, noseless face, wide wrinkled Slasher Smile, thin clawed fingers and sunken, glowing eyes. Makes one wonder if your friend's uncle really fell in love with her to begin with, or if she put him under a spell.
• Played straight in Gears of War 2 to the surprise of everyone (including Delta squad, Cole saying: "I thought she was supposed to be butt ugly."), with the Locust Queen, who appears almost exactly like a human woman (albeit wearing a squid on her back and a kinda grey skin tone). It turns out Myrrah actually is a mutated human.
• Gems of War: The Djinn◊ who looks like a human female.
• Golden Sun:
  • The Fire Clan are mostly human-looking with some draconic traits, such as scales, colorful skin, equally colorful hair, and Pointy Ears. But then there's Karst, who pairs all of that with the appearance of a cute teenager and a black leather micromini.
  • Golden Sun: Dark Dawn's beastmen are all quite furry and a bit more animalistic than your average Cat Girl. And then there's Sveta, who is very human-looking, not readily identifiable as anything but "furry" (and her fur is skin-tone!), and very moe. Compare her with her brother, who has a very distinct muzzle (and blue fur, though beastman colors run the gamut). She can enter a more beastly form, which is largely indistinguishable from the werewolf/wolfman monsters (it's also a bit of a Game-Breaker).
• Grandia:
  • From the original Grandia, a character named Milda joins your team. She's an older (beast)woman who, though not necessarily cute, has curves in all the right places and is marred only by having horns, sharp teeth, and a tufted tail. Eventually you reach the village where her tribe lives and get to see the men— all of whom are BIPEDAL COWS.
  • In Grandia II, a large, ugly, male beastman named Marag joins your party early on. This isn't so bad until you visit his village later in the game and find out that, apparently, the rest of his species is comprised of cute and/or hot Cat Girls. Also, if Tio and the remains of her android sisters are any indication, Valmar apparently designed his minions to look like Cute Monster Girls wearing vaguely bee-themed clothes.
• Elites (Alien-name Sangheili) from Halo are lanky weird looking brown aliens with mandibles, so naturally the females look the same? Nope◊.
• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, being a spin-off to World of Warcraft, follows in its parent's tradition of depicting the various female non-humans in its art as cute if not outright sexually attractive. Whilst there are some exceptions (female Worgens like Swift Messenger are usually only distinguishable by Tertiary Sexual Characteristics), in general, the ladies of Hearthstone tend to be cute, curvy, or otherwise visually appealing to straight men. Some of the more notable examples include the Witchwood Piper (a female satyr), the Gnomeferatu (a vampire gnome), and... well, pretty much any female orc or troll.
• The sharply-dressed demon girls of Helltaker (as well as the uniformed Angels) are quite attractive, while the male demons all have a rather skeletal, if hunk-shaped, appearance.
• The House of the Dead EX has Zobiko, a Cute Zombie Girl. She's also one of the main characters.
• Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls is all about this, as one can understand from the title. The protagonist is one of the cutest chimeras ever.
• Kid Icarus:
  • Kid Icarus (1986):
    • Medusa is a cyclops stone head in a wall, but after being damaged enough she turns into a human sized attractive Medusa (her original form according to the story) right before dying. She's even more of this in Kid Icarus: Uprising for 3DS (just look at her◊). Once she's nearly dead, though, she shows her true face, which looks more like her NES incarnation.
    • The Syren enemy, who has full frontal NES nudity. The manual warns not to be caught unaware by her female form, as she is pure evil.
  • Kid Icarus: Uprising: The Mimicutie is a parody of this. Instead of the classic hinged lid with More Teeth than the Osmond Family, they stand up on shapely legs and start kicking.
• In King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride, princess Rosella is transformed into a troll but retains some of her beauty, making her the cutest troll girl around.
• Knights of the Old Republic has Juhani, a Cat Girl who looks... very different from every other Cathar in all of Star Wars. Handwaved later by making Juhani a member of a rare Cathar subspecies, yet the more common version of a female Cathar still look much nicer than the hulking tiger-men that are the males◊.
• Tiamat from La-Mulana. Then she starts kicking your ass, and you somehow stop finding her cute. Then you start kicking her ass, and she gets downright ugly. (In the PC version anyway; in the Wii version all she gets is a scowl.)
• In Legacy of the Wizard: Normally when venturing into a dungeon, coming across a room with nothing but adorable, tiny, pink-hooded cat girls would be a good thing. Not in this game as Mayus want to kill you just like any other monster.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • It's a recurring element with the Zora across the series:
    • Ruto, the Princess of the Zora, grows into this after the Time Skip in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Compare her appearance with that of her father's. Granted, the majority of the Zora in Ocarina aren't exactly ugly, with the other males having visible pecs and the females having Non-Mammal Mammaries, but Ruto stands out by being one of the few without a large head-tail or eyes that are entirely blue (the only other Zora in Ocarina to also fit that bill is her father).
    • The Zoras are an odd case in Twilight Princess. Most of them look the same, with no sexual dimorphism and being very androgynous. Some of them wear fish-like helmets, but their real faces are rather human. The Zora Queen Rutela, on the other hand, is much more human-like, with a distinct bust and something hairlike on her head.
    • In The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, the Zora once again have their much uglier Gillman-esque "River Zora" looks from the earlier 2D games, but their Queen Oren looks like an attractive woman with a few River Zora attributes.
    • Downplayed with Mipha from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. In contrast to the fish-like Animal Eyes and Scary Teeth of the other Zora, her eyes and mouth are more human-like, but she otherwise exhibits the same bestial Shark Man attributes of the others. Her brother Sidon is considered a Chick Magnet in-universe (and out) despite being even more shark-like than the other Zora.
  • Twilight Princess has other examples:
    • Even if Yeto happens to be a friendly guy, his big, hulking yeti stature with a face that one would expect a yeti to have can impress you the first time. His wife Yeta, on the other hand, is a walking ball of fur (or clothes, it's hard to tell) with a much cuter face. At least when she's not possessed by the dungeon boss, then her face goes all scary-like...
    • When not under Zant's curse, regular twilight citizens aren't so much ugly as featureless, their only "monstrous" feature being their Creepily Long Arms. Even with that curse which shrank and deformed her, Midna is essentially a fairy woman with Hartman Hips, and her "monstrous" features (big head, Cute Little Fangs, long arms and weird skin-tone) make her more cute than creepy.
• [adult swim] Flash Game Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars has, well, the lesbian Spider Queen of Mars(it's the lower half that's a spider).
• Lineage II: The Chaotic Throne: Male dwarves look like their counterparts in WoW and similar games... but female dwarves look like baby-faced teenage jockettes, scaled down to size.
• In Might & Magic VII goblins are available as a Player Character race; both the female ones available for your party and the NPC ones you meet in Deja and the Pit are attractive in their own way.
• The H-Game series Monster Girl Quest is filled with these. They are actually all a nation of different One-Gender Race monsters who rely on human males to reproduce and as a food source. The game does a fair job at toeing the line of this trope, as while many of the monsters are cute, or have cute aspects, many of them are equally monstrous at the same time.
• Fayemelina, one of the more notable examples from Monster Legends. She is absolutely gorgeous, and her in-game description even states that she is the "most fun, charming, and beautiful monster of them all".
• The Pixie species from Monster Rancher is a race of cute, impish girls with demon horns, wings, tails, and Cute Little Fangs. It's implied in some games that they are Always Female, but the names bestowed on some Pixie NPC monsters seems to suggest that there are some males—they just look exactly the same as the females.
• Mortal Kombat:
  • Sheeva. She's a Shokkan: a Proud Warrior Race of tall, muscular, four-armed humanoids. But compared to her male counterparts Goro and Kintaro, Sheeva is relatively shorter and thinner in build and gets more attention from the fans than one would think. The one exception is Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, where she is considerably bulkier, which is fitting since she serves as the sub-boss for the all-women arcade ladder. When she returns in Mortal Kombat 9 however, she's slender again. In Mortal Kombat 11, she regains some bulk, but we finally see average male Shokan as well, who are actually closer to her in size than to Goro and Kintaro, who were monstrously huge even by Shokan standards.
  • Mileena started off as subversion of this, as she's mostly human-looking but with a gruesome set of teeth thanks to her shared Tarkatan DNA, which made her quite the Butter Face in the eyes of many players. However, Mortal Kombat X changes her face, giving her human lips with toothy cheeks, causing players to note how beautiful she was. Fanart especially had a field day with her makeover (wow)◊.
  • D'vorah from MKX would seem like she would count, but her personality and behavior just makes her gross and disturbing. Even her babies aren't really cute (mostly because they're bursting out from Shinnok's stomach.
  • Frost becomes this in Mortal Kombat 11. After taking control of the Cyber Lin Kuei and being cyberized herself, she keeps her head and face intact and her new robot body has feminine curves and breasts. Considering other cyberninjas lose their human appearance entirely, the only in-universe explanation we can think of is vanity and Screw the Rules, I Make Them!.
• Muramasa: The Demon Blade:
  • We're talking a game set in Feudal Japan. Kongiku and Yuzuruha are standouts here. Raijin (who resembles an oni) is quite attractive, but her beauty is mostly overshadowed by her brash and aggressive nature (almost to Ladette levels, go figure). The only times it surfaces is when she's knocked out of the sky (she lands on her rump and takes a moment to tend to her rear in a typical Cute Clumsy Girl fashion; notably, her voice raises from sultrily deep and tough to innocuously cute) and briefly after the Boss Battle with her when Fujin calms her down. And once you beat her, she is just adorable. More are added for Rebirth; the first main character is Miike, a female Nekomata in the form of her human master Okoi, and the second is Rajyaki, a small Oni girl. Meanwhile, Gonbe is assisted by his wife's still-attractive ghost, while Arashimaru's snake familiar is actually a shapeshifting minor deity out for his blood.
  • Gender Flipped with Fujin, a small and adorable imp, not to mention Raijin's more laid-back romantic partner.
• In Neo Steam, the male Beast races are huge hulking wolf-men or bear-men, depending on faction. Their female counter-part race are small, slender, curvy catgirls with cute stubby tails.
• Neverwinter Nights:
  • The tiefling Valen of the Hordes of the Underdark expansion is male example, being uncharacteristically attractive for a fiend.
  • Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer gives us another male example in Gannayev, a Hagspawn, which are male Hag/Human hybrids and typically look something like this◊. Gann, on the hand, looks like this◊. Most people in the fandom adamantly refused to believe that this was the official character portrait of Gann because, really, there was absolutely no justifiable way a Hagspawn could look that pretty until actually playing the game, where it was revealed that his looks resulted from the love his parents had for each other.
  • Neeshka. A tiefling rogue in Neverwinter Nights 2 with horns and (provided the game is updated) a tail. Considered by many fans to be the cutest girl in the game, Neeshka and a male main character is the Fan-Preferred Couple to such an extent that an add-on module has been released to reinstate her as a romance option, after it was cut during development due to time restraints.
• NOISZ: The Noise Beasts occasionally have appearances similar to this when in their own world or purified. NOISZ Beasts also appear as these, at least when transformed.
• Paladins:
  • Willo is a fairy who looks rather inhuman compared to other fairies. She's pink, hairless, and her clothes seem to be merged to her body in some places. Regardless, she is cute, whimsical, and playful, even when she's protecting the forests from modern civilization.
  • Talus is a cute monster boy, with grey skin, wide eyes, horns, Cute Little Fangs, a bull-like tail, a big heart, and an energetic personality. He's a ska'drin, an ancient species of demon-like people who have been oppressed for ages and he strives to proves that his kind are not evil demons that others think they are.
• Ellen and Tammy from Pale Blue. In contrast to most examples however they play much more on the monster aspect.
• The first two Paper Mario games include characters from enemy species who join Mario in his quests, and all of them look cute to various degrees.
  • Paper Mario 64 has Goombario, a Goomba with a cap and whose Cute Little Fangs are replaced with molars, and Lady Bow, a female Boo who's a bit snobbish (her basic attack is a repetition of Bitch Slaps and her victory animation is a silent Noblewoman's Laugh) but still adorable nonetheless for the sole reason she's a Boo.
  • Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has Goombella, a Goomba student with an archeologist helmet and a single fang, and Vivian, a Living Shadow with a funny witch hat who starts as the Token Good Teammate of the villains and who's abused by her elder sister Beldam, who helps Mario after his helps spares her from a punishment, and who ends up joining him for good when he's at his lowest point.
• Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous has a few, some of whom are romanceable:
  • Aspiring Ascended Demon Arueshalae, who is a romanceable companion. She's a reformed succubus who looks just like an attractive young woman with horns and bat wings.
  • Arue's old boss, Nocticula, the demon lord of darkness and lust and queen of all succubi. Even with the Pointy Ears, bat wings, and lava hooves, she's very beautiful.
  • Areelu Vorlesh, Mad Scientist and Hot Witch, was once a human woman who turned herself into a half-succubus.
  • Woljif Jefto, a party member, is a boyishly handsome purple-skinned tiefling rogue with rams' horns and a prehensile tail.
  • Wenduag the mongrelwoman is pretty cute for a blue-skinned spider-cat-subterranean mutant, and romanceable. (In the original AP, she had more insectile features, but the CRPG prettied her up a bit.)
  • Lann the mongrelman might be half-lizard on his left side, but he's an athletically-built Walking Shirtless Scene and the unscaly side of his face is fairly handsome. He's a potential love interest for a female PC.
  • On the villains' side of things Minagho the lilitu is attractive enough to be The Vamp even in her horned, eyeless true form.
• The MMORPG Perfect World has the race called the Untamed. The males are big muscular furries, entirely hairy and with animal heads, and the females slender Cat Girls (or fox-, demon-, etc.), with tails and a second set of ears or something similar on the sides of their heads, but otherwise as humans.
• Phantasy Star has this in spades. PSII had Nei, PSIV had Rika and Demi, and by PSO, Numans were a full-fledged minority within the population of Pioneer 2.
• Pilgrim (RPG Maker): Nekaneminorpe is a cyclops girl with cute Girlish Pigtails and is relatively benevolent, especially in contrast to Master Alice.
• Planescape: Torment:
  • A number of odd NPCs can be added to your party. Only two are female, and both of them are conventionally very attractive, with some add-ons (a tail in the case of Annah and wings in the case of Fall-From-Grace). With Grace it's expected; she is a succubus. However, Annah is a tiefling; that is, someone descended from a fiendish grandparent (possibly with a few "greats" thrown in), and most fiends in Dungeons & Dragons, even female ones, aren't very attractive. Annah also wears a leather version of a Breast Plate, including hooker boots. The PC can hang a lampshade on this by suggesting she strip it down further, adding a few more slashes, to distract her marks. She gets flustered by this remark, and he comments he thought that's what it was for in the first place. She claims she gets hot, and "suspects it's the fiend blood in me".
  • The Brothel of Slaking Intellectual Lusts, where you find Fall-From-Grace, is full of these. It is, after all, still a whorehouse in Sigil, even if it offers strictly non-physical intimacies. There's Marissa the medusa, the extremely voluptuous "planetouched" Kesai-Serris ^note  she's a half-Night Hag tiefling: her dad was a Cambion, a half-demon, mom was Ravel Puzzlewell the Night Hag, Kimasxi Adder-Tongue the tiefling (though a scruffy and abrasive one, kept on as a sort of verbal dominatrix), and Dolora the very well-built golem, most obviously, but it can be inferred most (or all) of the other six prostitutes are inhuman as well.
• Pokémon:
  • Gardevoir and Lopunny, which admittedly look the same regardless if they are male or female. Gardevoir's pre-evolved form, Kirlia, is a Cute Monster Little Girl, and it's pre-pre-evolved form, Ralts, is a Cute Monster Toddler, while Gardevoir also has its male counterpart, Gallade, a cute monster boy.
  • Several other Pokémon seem to be this (though again they appear identical regardless of gender), including Misdreavus, Mismagius, Mawile, Gothitelle and Froslass. Froslass is only female.
  • Bellossom, Roselia, Roserade, Lilligant, Whimsicott and Florges can be seen as Cute Plant Girls, while Leavanny is a Cute Bug Girl.
  • Mythical Pokémon Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, Meloetta, Diancie and Magearna are genderless, but they look feminine, and adorable.
  • By allowing most of its "Cute Monster Girl" mons to be male or female, Pokemon rather subverts this trope. Likewise, musclebound monsters like the Machop and Timburr lines can be either male or female.
  • Pokémon Sun and Moon introduces several cute monster girls.
    • Brionne and Primarina, two very feminine Cute Seal/Mermaid Girls and the evolutions of the Alola Water Starter, Popplio. The catch: they only have a 1 in 8 chance of actually being female.
    • Steenee and Tsareena, the two evolved forms of Bounsweet and the newest line of Cute Plant Girls. All three can only be female.
    • Lurantis is a Cute Plant Girl that is imitating a Cute Bug Girl.
    • Ribombee, Cutiefly's evolution is a Cute Bug/Fairy Girl that looks like it's wearing a scarf.
    • It also provides a particularly weird example in UB-02: Beauty AKA Pheromosa, which is a Cute Alien Cockroach Girl. No, really◊.
    • There's also the two "female" Tapus. Tapu Lele takes on the appearance of a cute, humanoid fairy in a half-shell, while Tapu Fini essentially looks like a mermaid.
  • Introduced in Pokémon Sword and Shield are:
    • The Hatenna line, a line of cute witches, which are somewhat of a counterpart to the above-mentioned Ralts line. While Hatenna itself isn’t exactly humanoid, its evolutions, Hattrem and Hatterene, fit the bill despite their personalities.
    • Alcremie, a creature resembling a young girl that appears to be made out of whipped cream. It also fits another trope, given its amorphous body.
  • Pokémon Scarlet and Violet introduced:
    • Ogerpon is a cute and shy Grass-type female-only Legendary based on the villainous Oni/Ogres from the fairytale Momotarō. However, unlike in the source material, Ogerpon is actually the good guy and the "Peach Boy" (Pecharunt) and his animal companions (Okidogi, Munkidori, and Fezandipiti) were the bad guys.

• Primal gives us little Elizabeth in the realm of Aetha since the inhabitants of this realm are all zombies/vampires. She loves to dance and carries a dead rat as if it were a plush toy.
• Queen's Blade video games have Gal Monsters that can be caught and fight for the player.
• The female Satyros from Radiant Historia, especially Aht.
• Ragnarok Online has a lot of these. Some examples: Maya, Moonlight Flower, Loli Ruri, Succubus, Valkyrie, Isis, Alice, Aliza. There are also many male examples.
• The cave goblins of RuneScape are pale-skinned, goggle-eyed, lanky, hairless, low-poly, and strange-looking even by goblin standards. And then there's Zanik, who after her latest graphical update◊ looks like she just stepped out of a Moe anime.
• In Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell, Jezebel is absolutely adorable! Even if she is Satan's daughter.
• In the first Shadow Hearts game male Harmonixer Yuri Hyuga transforms into almost completely inhuman monstrosities when he fuses with a monster soul- he'll usually still have 2 arms and 2 legs (usually), but only Seraphic Radiance/Dark Seraphim looks even remotely human- and it still has eerie pale skin and giant black wings. On the other hand, in Shadow Hearts: From the New World, hot female harmonixer Shania transforms into beautiful non-human creatures which are still abundantly female and wearing even less than she usually does. Yuri hits the middle ground, however, with his Level 1 Fusions in Shadow Hearts: Covenant, which are generally attractive male non-human creatures wearing less than Yuri usually does.
• The default character portraits for Trolls and Orks in Shadowrun Returns include some Cute Monster Girls and Cute Monster Boys, though they run the full range from "cute if you don't mind fangs/horns" to "not conventionally attractive, but still mostly human-looking except for the obvious bits that distinguish them from baseline humans" to "outright monstrous." This is completely in line with the original tabletop lore.
• A large number of the enemies and villains in Shantae are Cute Monster Girls. Among them: Cute Scorpion-Girls, Cute Water Lobster Thing Girls, Cute Snake Girls, and Cute Zombie Girls.
• Shin Megami Tensei:
  • Most, if not all, the female demons and deities, especially Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, as even the ones who are officially supposed to be hideous still manage to look really sexy (with perhaps the only exception definitely being the "Old Hag" type of demoness).
  • Mother Harlot has a pretty nice body. Her face, on the other hand, could use some work.◊
  • The kid-friendly spinoff DemiKids takes this to an utterly ridiculous degree with some of its designs. Some are sort of logical, but others, like the Banshee and Harpy, are a bit of stretch. They even managed to turn Dullahan (a Headless Horseman who rides on a similarly headless horse and functions as an omen of death) into one of them. Take a look.◊
  • Shin Megami Tensei IV uses this for a number of the old standards, but subverts it hard with some of the redesigns, especially for Lilith. You know how Lilith used to look like Gozer with a snake around her neck? Not anymore.
• As the name suggests, the main character of Shirone: The Dragon Girl is a dragon girl named Shirone (a silver one to be exact). She has silver horns, wings and tail, and golden eyes with slit pupils. Other than that, she is your regular kawai anime girl.
• The Dagonian race of Fish People in Skullgirls are often more fish than human looking, but minor character Minette looks like a human girl with a tadpole tail for hair. There's also Squigly, who's remarkably cute for a zombie.
• Smite loves this trope. While male deities can range from human to positively monstrous, many of the female deities are almost universally beautiful women with various costume additions, with a few exceptions. Special mention should be made to Scylla for toying with this trope: she's depicted as a cute little girl in a dress with a mischievous smile...and four horrific dog-headed serpent-tentacles instead of legs!
• StarCraft has the Zerg Queen of Blades, Sarah Kerrigan. For someone who's been infested by The Virus she's still smokin' hot, but much of this is due to Art Evolution. In Brood War's cinematics and menus, Kerrigan looked like this◊ and this◊. Nowadays her appearance is locked onto this◊. It's also lampshaded in-universe that her beautiful human face has mostly been unaffected by infestation, and is another tool she can rely on to distract an enemy if she's ever in close-quarters combat.
  • Kerrigan's appearance is such that she seems attractive, if spiky, from a distance, but her anatomy is sheer Body Horror when seen up close. After Humanity Ensues in StarCraft II, she seeks out a new Zerg form that looks more like a xenomorphic bodysuit.
• Tales Series:
  • Tales of Symphonia has The Mandragora/Alraune enemies, which are just humans with green hair and flowers growing out of their heads. Dawn of the New World makes them look significantly more inhuman, though. Others included the Lamia/Medusas, Harpy/Feather Magics, Amphitra/Mermaid/Sea Horrors, and potentially the angels and summon guardians.
  • Fenia from Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World; the best mage monster in the game, talks, and plays this trope perfectly straight.
  • Tales of Rebirth plays this straight and averts it with Hilda, a Gajuma-Huma half-breed. In-universe, Hilda's horns made her appear to be an ugly freak, but anyone can see that Hilda is attractive with or without the horns.
• Eliza in Tekken is a female vampire with demon-like characteristics like curved horns, but she is still very pretty, feminine and dorky due to her Sleepyhead tendencies.
• Nearly every single Touhou Project character (and there are a lot) is one of these, with Little Bit Beastly individuals rampant, and some of the most horrendous youkai appearing almost indistinguishable to humans. For only some examples, Nitori is supposed to be a kappa, Aya and Hatate are supposed to be (crow) tengu, Mamizou is a tanuki, Satori and Koishi are supposed to be Satori, and Yamame is meant to be a Giant Spider, and yet at most they only have one or two features that indicate them as such. The few male characters in the series tend to appear more monstrous (and old), with Genji being a talking turtle and Unzan being a cloud. There are occasional subversions, like Kogasa (a karakasa who is explicitly both the girl with the blue dress and the umbrella she's holding) and the bestial youkai rabbit in one of Maribel's dream-excursions, and very few of them act cute, most of them being violent bigoted jerks who are not above threatening to eat the protagonist. Played with by Nue, who is embarrassed by how unscary her Shapeshifter Default Form is and goes to great lengths to hide it.
• Every character that isn't the Player Character or Chara, the other fallen human in Undertale is a monster, and while their designs vary, this trope is generally in effect for monsters of both genders, particularly for major characters. Undyne is basically a female human with scales, fangs, and a few fins (she also has an Eyepatch of Power and a long red ponytail) and Dr. Alphys is a dorky, anime-obsessed bipedal yellow lizard with Nerd Glasses and a Labcoat of Science and Medicine. Muffet is a spider-girl who resembles a bluish-purple-skinned humanoid girl in a Victorian tea-party outfit with extra limbs, eyes, and Cute Little Fangs. On the male side we have Papyrus, a goofy skeleton dressed in an elaborate costume, and his lackadaisical brother Sans. Both Toriel and Asgore are older than usual for this trope—both are basically middle-aged—but resemble tall goat-like humanoids with friendly faces and white fur, and both have their fans in-universe and out. Mettaton seems to defy this, as despite being the underground's closest thing to a sex symbol he's just a boxy robot who is little more than a TV screen on a wheel, but his alternate forms are androgynous robo-Pretty Boys.
• Pizepi Joren from Wasteland 2 is a young, green-skinned mutant girl and a potential party member. Despite her describing herself as ugly, she looks quite pretty in her in-game model and portrait. Her bright and quirky personality also add to her "cuteness".
• The female Draken of WildStar are, both in-universe and out of it, renowned for their attractive appearance. That they could and probably will murder you in an instant doesn't ruin the attraction one iota—you could even say it helps.
• Witch Hunter Izana: A feature of the setting, called Patirhumans they reproduce by transforming humans. However transformations as fast as Verand's curse allow are unusual in the setting. The majority of transformations in game are Monster-girl transformations, and Sage the moth-girl is one of the primary vendors.
• In World of Warcraft, the female members of "monstrous" races often look like models with paint jobs and funny hairdos. They also tend to be rather well endowed.
  • Females of the minotaur-like Tauren are pretty heavily built, but they're still downright slender compared to the massive bulls.
  • Female orcs and trolls have perfect posture compared to their hunched-over male counterparts, with slimmer builds (though female orcs are still relatively muscular) and less pronounced tusks. Before the Warlords of Draenor model rework, the game provided one conventionally attractive face option for both, jokingly known as "Cutefase" (sic). The vast majority of female orc/troll player characters used said faces (though the NPCs had a variety of faces.)
  • This was initially averted with female tauren and trolls in the beta. Troll women had larger tusks (though still smaller than the men's) and a slouching posture, and tauren women were taller and stockier. Negative feedback from players led to the women—and only the women—of these races being made more attractive by human standards.
  • The Naga, a race of Snake People. The women are slender with noticeably elven facial features (they used to be night elves). The men, however, are bulkier and more bestial in appearance, with fully dragon-like heads. It's also implied that the men are less intelligent as well.
  • Draenei women are approximately half the mass of their male counterparts, their tails and facial tendrils are far more understated, and they lack the men's forehead crests that make the face look less human (trading it out for goat horns that the men lack). On the other hand, they're less human than the male draenei in a sexiness-enhancing way: the males just have a human, straight-backed posture, but the females' hooves are shaped in such a way to give them a "high heels" posture that pushes the chest forward and the hips back. Even in-universe, female draenei are renown for their beauty.
  • The Forsaken, with the obvious exception of their queen Sylvanas Windrunner, somewhat downplay this. While female Forsaken do look less ugly than their male counterpart, they still have the same decaying parts and somewhat hunchback stance, and their chest is much less pronounced than for other races.
  • The Pandaren. Even though both genders are full-figured, the women are attractively curvy, have longer legs, and are overall meant to be as cute as possible, while the men have short, stumpy legs and beer guts. That being said, male Pandaren do have a following among gay male players for understandable reasons.
  • Before their model rework, Female Worgen occupied a weird position where they had supermodel physiques but their face options tended to be rather vicious-looking. Their face options post-rework lean firmly into this trope while their male counterparts run the gamut from ferocious-looking to surprisingly pleasant.
• Kasandra from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a cute female Blade with bestial extremities. Her hands and feet are midnight blue colored and possess sharp claws.

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