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Half Human Hybrids in Western Animation.

  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The Distant Finale implies that Meatwad has two half-human, half-meatball children with a human woman.
  • Atomic Betty has Betty's grandmother Beatrixo and great aunt Auntie Matter, both the offspring of a human and an alien. Auntie Matter got all their dad's traits (namely the Power of the Void). This also makes Betty and her mom part alien, but like Beatrixo, they lack any alien traits.
  • Back to the Future: The Animated Series: In "My Pop's an Alien", while they're still thinking Doc might be an extraterrestrial, Jules and Verne gleefully talk about the possibilities inherent in their being half-alien.
  • In Ben 10 it's revealed that humanity's superpower is universal genetic compatibility with sapient lifeforms (with Humans Are Diplomats being a Required Secondary Power), and a significant amount of the human race carries some alien ancestry.
    • Ben 10: Alien Force has Ben training a band of kids with powers similar to his original aliens (or at least he SHOULD be training them, but the animators don't seem to want to have to draw massive amounts of cast members each episode, so the status quo of three is maintained) to fight the alien Big Bad. Interestingly, these kids are all hybrids of aliens of varying species and children of Plumbers (who have all been given badges that act as tracking devices, making them easy to find), which makes you wonder if an interest in alien reproduction is a requirement to join the Plumbers... And the fact that a human shouldn't even be able to touch an alien made of lava can be handwaved with the use of alien technology, should any fan get a case of Fridge Logic.
      • Manny is half-Tetramand (Fourarms' species), Helen is half-Kineceleran (XLR8's species), and Alan is half-Pyronite (Heatblast's species). While Alan can switch between his human and alien forms, Manny and Helen stay looking like Kineceleran and Tetramand. Omniverse retcons this. They weren't born hybrids; they were ordinary human kids who had their DNA mixed with aliens.
    • Ben and Gwen's grandmother was an Anodite, making them only three quarters human.
      • Ben, Gwen, and her brother Ken are a headache to think about. The Anodite are energy beings, and therefore don't have genetics as such. It's implied that Grandma made a human form. If she made it genetically Terran Human, that means the kids are genetically full human, but still one fourth alien. Yeeeah. However, enough Anodite nature can be handed down for that to be the reason why Gwen can perform magic. Given that Anodites are made of magic, quite literally A Wizard Did It.
    • Kevin. Until Omniverse retcons that; Osmosians aren't aliens, they're just humans with powers, Kevin's being absorption. Basically, he's just a mutant ...which is what his original creator had planned before the alien retcon! Presumably this means the same project is responsible for Aggregor and his own origin is a false memory, just like Max's memories of Kevin's father. Also, his special ability allowed the conspiracy to create the others. So if a hybrid between a human and a lava alien that a human shouldn't be able to get near, let alone mate with, seems impossible, that's because it is and their original origin is a big fat lie.
  • Danny Phantom is half ghost. So are Vlad Masters and Danielle Phantom. No breeding between ghosts and humans was involved: the former two were both results of Freak Lab Accidents, and the latter was cloned.
  • DC Animated Universe:
    • Two examples in Batman: The Animated Series— Kirk Langstrom and his wife at different times both became Man-Bat, and in the episode "Tyger, Tyger", Catwoman is abducted and transformed into a big cat hybrid to become the mate of a lab-created cat man (who presumably has human DNA and may also qualify for this trope).
    • Rex Stewart aka Warhawk, the son of Green Lantern John Stewart and Hawkgirl Shayera Hol.
      Static: Shayera was one cranky pregnant lady. Although to be fair, if I'd laid an egg that size...
  • Disenchantment:
    • Princess Bean's half-brother Derek is half-Dankmirian, born from King Zog's second marriage to Oona. While she has some Bizarre Alien Biology and her people's typical stoicism, Derek mostly just seems like a normal kid with blue skin.
    • Bean's friend Elfo is not fully elf due to his father's predilection for tall women. The identity of Elfo's mother is kept a secret until season 4 where it's revealed that she's an ogre.
  • On an episode of The Fairly OddParents! where Timmy wishes the world were like a comic book, Francis becomes a half bull monster the Bull-E. In another episode, Vicky becomes a harpy.
  • In Futurama, Kif has (accidental) half-(mutant) human/half-Amphibiosan children with Leela. No, Leela didn't get pregnant. Also Amy is considered their "True" mother by Kif's society as to them the origin of the DNA matters little. His people are a single sexed but bi-gendered species able to reproduce via any physical contact with their skin and another source of DNA, even casual contact with a location someone has touched recently (a Toilet Seat is cited, playing off the old joke). However the ablity to do so is brought on only by intense feelings of love, and the person who brought on those feelings is considered the true parent regardless of the origin of the DNA. Leela giving Kif her DNA was accidental, she grabbed his hand during an emergency to save his life after his glove had come off.
  • In Gargoyles, Dr. Savarius tried to create hybrids with the same abilities as gargoyles. To do that, he injected human test subjects with the DNA of jungle cats, bats and electric eels. Later, Thailog has him create Delilah by combining DNA from Demona and Elisa.
    • Averted, however, in a human/gargoyle relationship, which cannot normally produce children. (Note that gargoyles lay eggs.) Word of God does leave some room open for magical and/or scientific advancements in that area, though. Goliath and Elisa apparently adopt a human son at some point, however, as that kid's descendant would have been a main character in a proposed Spin-Off.
    • Fox, on the other hand, is a straight version, with a human father who unwittingly married a Child of Oberon (or ex-wife of Oberon, as the case may be). By extension this makes her son Alexander magical as well.
    • Word of God also says that Oberon himself had at least two children with human women: Merlin and the changeling boy from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Being magical shapeshifters, the Children of Oberon can mate with just about anything. The New Olympians are also descended from the Children's sports with both humans and animals.
  • Gravity Falls has the Manotaurs, who are, by their own words, "half-man, half-taur". They look mostly like humanoid bulls and are all male, emphasizing their masculinity.
  • Irwin from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy may seem like an ordinary Black and Nerdy loser, but later episodes have revealed that his mother was a mummy and his paternal grandfather was Dracula himself. This doesn't become obvious though until the movie Underfist where he gains closer connections to his undead bloodlines.
    • Nergal Jr. is half-human and half-demon, being the son of Billy's Aunt Sis and Nergal, a demon from The Center of the Earth.
  • In He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) and She-Ra: Princess of Power, both title characters were half-Eternian and half-Earthling, since Queen Marlena was an astronaut from Earth.
  • Invasion America: David Carter is half-human on his mother's side, and half-Tyrusian on his father's side, the alien ruler of the planet Tyrus. David doesn't find out about this from his mother Rita until long after his father Cale had to leave to deal with a civil war.
  • Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: Kipo Oak discovers that she's one on her 13th birthday. She has initially has no control over it, but parts of her will transform during stressful situations to give her night vision or enhanced strength and speed. Her father later explains that he and her mother messed with her DNA during the embryonic state to imbue her with these abilities, and that she was raised in a burrow precisely because of her tendency to involuntarily transform as an infant. As the series progressed, she gains the ability to fully transform into a giant jaguar, then even further into a Mega-Jaguar.
  • Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire: Manzo, the protagonist of "Mkhuzi: the Spirit Racer", is a human-alien hybrid. He can partially shapeshift, which provides a boost in facing the dreaded racer Ogun.
  • In The Legend of Korra, we find out that spirits can do a version without reproduction. They possess a human, and the human takes on some of the spirit's traits, which remain once the spirit leaves. If the spirit doesn't leave, the human dies. During the Harmonic Convergence, however, a spirit can permanently fuse with a human without hurting them. This is the source of the Avatars: They are humans fused with the light spirit Raava. The (internal) mutations this causes is what allows them to bend all four elements. In the season 2 finale, not only does Unalaq become a Dark Avatar by mirroring the process with Raava's opposite Vaatu, but Raava is ripped from Korra, reduced to her bare essence (destroying the essences of the previous Avatars in the process) and imprisoned within "Unavaatu". However, Korra remains a human/light spirit hybrid, and retains her bending abilities.
  • Max Steel (2013): In season two, Max is revealed to be this, with his mother being human and his father a Human Alien from Tachyon.
  • The Prince of Atlantis: An interesting variation that does not involve breeding between two species; Jaurice starts the show as fully human, but after he dies on the ocean floor and Agata brings him back to life, Agata also attempts to transforms Jaurice into an Atlantean so he can survive underwater. The end result is that Jaurice becomes a human-Atlantean hybrid that can tranform back and forth between a human form and an Atlantean form; above water he looks like his human self, but under water he becomes Atlantean.
  • Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The turtles themselves are an artificial version. Once ordinary turtles, they were infused with human DNA, which granted them humanoid forms when combined with the ooze. Said human DNA came from film star Lou Jitsu, which the turtles are incredibly giddy about...and who turns out to be their adoptive father Splinter, making them biologically related.
  • Samurai Jack: The Daughters of Aku are the daughters the human High Priestess and Aku, a Made of Evil Eldritch Abomination.
  • The Simpsons: One Halloween episode revolves around Maggie's real father being an alien.
  • South Park: Played for Laughs in "Douche and Turd". Members of PETA are shown to have sex with animals (and, judging by dialogue, are expected to and expected to enjoy it). PETA agents will occasionally conceive a human-animal hybrid; one of them, which is part-ostrich, begs for passers-by to kill him (which is also played for laughs).
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks: Implied. Ensign Barnes has a human-sounding surname, and her spots seem less prominent than those of normal Trills.
  • Star Trek: Prodigy: It's eventually revealed that Dal is a human Augment with the DNA of 26 other species mixed in. One episode has him use an implant to activate latent abilities, but the implant malfunctions, causing him to start mutating. Later on, he's able to tap into his latent psychic abilities in order to try to warn Admiral Janeway, only to accidentally swap bodies with her.
  • Star Wars:
  • Steven Universe is a boy with a human father whose mother was one of the Crystal Gems. He looks entirely human, except that he has a gem in his navel which gives him magical powers. This is possible because Gems are shapeshifters, and Word of God is that Steven's mother Rose Quartz grew herself the required sexual organs needed to conceive and carry a child (as Gems have No Biological Sex and do not reproduce naturally). Steven's body clearly contains flesh and blood as opposed to being purely Hard Light like the full Gems, but his Super-Toughness, Super-Strength, limited shapeshifting ability, and ability to fuse with both pure humans and pure Gems shows his Gem heritage is more pronounced than it appears. Also, literally 50% of him is Rose Quartz, since they can't both exist at the same time; she literally had to give up her physical construct and became half of Steven because her gem was necessary to complete his DNA.
  • Superjail!: During the season one finale, the Warden — who has been stuck in an extra-dimensional temporal prison — returns to the titular Superjail to find that the inmates have been forced to rebuild society in his absence. They didn't have any women, so they had to make do with the canary. Earlier in the same episode, it's revealed that the scientists have been trying (with little success) to make these in an effort to create more docile inmates.
    Warden: What has gotten into these inmates?
    Alice: Whole lot of bird dick from the looks of it.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012): April is revealed to be half-human and half-alien.
  • Transformers: Animated: Sari Sumdac is half human and half Transformer, made so when a Protoform scanned a Human who touched it. She's essentially a Maximal with a human as her beast mode.
  • Voltron: Legendary Defender: Keith is revealed to be one of these, with his non-human half being Galra, the alien race Voltron is at war with, though he appears fully human. Naturally, it takes some time for everyone to adjust to this revelation.
  • Winx Club: Roxy is a half fairy; her father is a human, and Queen Morgana is her mother.


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