History Main / AttractiveBentSpecies

** One episode in fact was centered around Ben having an UnwantedHarem consisting of Princess Attea pining for his Bullfrag form as a consort, and another Tetramand (this one also a princess) seeking to court Fourarms while at the same time a villainess who can [[TheBeastmaster command cats]] has control over him in his Rath form. The former two being warrior princesses they quickly come to blows over the right to have him.

* In the [[PictureBooks picture book]] "The Great White Man Eating Shark", a boy named Norvin who had already greatly resembled a shark, starts putting on a fake dorsal fin and [[ThreateningShark pretends to be a shark so he could scare people out of the water]] of a crowded beach so he could swim freely back and fourth without bumping into anyone. For a while his plan works, until an actual female shark swims alongside him and says "You are the shark of my dreams, marry me at once or I'll lose my temper and bite you"; so Norvin darts back to land, reveals his scheme to everyone and chooses not to go swimming again for quite some time.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': In "Severe Eggs and Pains", Ripper convinces Zee to [[AnimalDisguise dress up as a cassowary]] to distract a nesting mother while Ripper takes one of its eggs. The cassowary falls in love with Zee.

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* Comet the Super-Horse from ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' is a centaur turned horse. He's in love with Supergirl herself, and occasionally dated her while in human form.
** Even better, back in [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks the Silver Age]] once [[IntrepidReporter Lois Lane]] was [[ForcedTransformation turned into a mare]] with the full roster of Kryptonian powers. Since Superman is obviously out of her league now, [[InsaneTrollLogic she decides she'll just have to become Comet's mate instead!]]

* ''FanFic/TheDresdenFillies'': When Twilight turns Harry into a unicorn in the second book, his unicorn form turns out to be an absolute stunner, to the point where he cannot go out in Ponyville without being swarmed by adoring mares. He's not sure whether this just means that his features happen to match equine standards of attractiveness when mapped onto a unicorn, or whether Twilight has a crush on him and her feelings leaked into the spell.
* ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'' (''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' WesternAnimation, [[{{Series}} TV Series]], and ComicBooks.): [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], but Starfire from WesternAnimation/TeenTitans admits that Danny's ghost form reminds her of her fellow Tamaranians. She likely finds him attractive in this form.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiesInDisguise'', Suave Superspy Lance Sterling is transformed into a Pigeon by Walter Beckett, the Socially Inept Scientific Genius who designs his gadgets, in order to give him “The most perfect form a spy can take”. Lance hates his new form enough already, but Walter’s pet pigeon Lovey finds it very attractive & Lance finds himself having to fend off her advances.

* Several variation of the Russian folk joke about the UsefulNotes/RedOctober military commander Vasily Chapaev involve him and his orderly spying on the White Guards in the skin of a cow. Chapaev is in the back, and the orderly is in the front. First the Whites offer some hay for the "cow" to eat, and Chapaev forces the orderly to eat hay. Then the Whites bring in a bull, and now it's the orderly's time to gloat...

* Interestingly used in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book ''The Fifth Elephant'', as Angua the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] has Gavin, an actual wolf, as an ex-boyfriend. Since werewolves are a species on the Disc, rather than a curse, it's strongly implied that this shouldn't be considered any odder than having a "[[InsistentTerminology dwarf]]" as a current boyfriend.

* An owl on Owl, in ''Literature/OwlInLove'' by Patrice Kindl.

* While it has some elements of BlackComedyRape, to the extent he chose to do it, [[Myth/NorseMythology Loki]] is famous for changing into a mare to seduce a horse.
* And then there's the various creatures (and objects) that Zeus transformed into when seducing mortal women.
* The Childe Ballad ''The Two Magicians'' combines this trope with ShapeshifterShowdown. The male character basically makes sexual advances towards the female one in all of the forms they turn into, both animals and [[SerialEscalation inanimate objects]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'': At one point, Ben meets a group of alien heroes, among which is a female Tetramand, the species of his "Fourarms" form. She is clearly attracted to "Fourarms", and while disappointed to find he's really a 10-year-old human, is eager to see him transform into Fourarms again.

* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Captain Ginyu accidentally does a [[FreakyFridayFlip body swap]] with a frog. One of the first thing that happens to him when left to his own devices is a female frog having the hots for him. She chases Ginyu for the rest of the series -- interestingly enough, following Ginyu to different planets when needed.

* In one episode of ''Anime/PokemonChronicles'', Cassidy and Butch wear realistic Pokemon disguises during of one of their heists. Cassidy's Nidoqueen disguise backfires when they run into a Nidoking who tries to court her, and thinks she's just playing hard to get when she refuses his advances.

* An owl on Owl, in ''Owl in Love'' by Patrice Kindl.

** One episode in fact was centered around Ben having an UnwantedHarem consisting of Princess Attea pining for his Bullfrag form as a consort, and another Tetramand (this one a princess) seeking to court Fourarms while at the same time a villainess who can [[TheBeastmaster command cats]] has control over him in his Rath form. The former two being warrior princesses they quickly come to blows over the right to have him.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "Fry and Leela's Big Fling", Amy has to don a marmoset costume for a delivery to Simian 7 where humans are not allowed. Amy, or "Sparkles", draws the eye of quite a few male monkeys while on the planet.

--->'''Goliath:''' I never realized when you were human, how beautiful you are.\\

When a character shapeshifts into an animal, {{voluntar|yShapeshifting}}ily [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting or otherwise]], or just puts on a very convincing AnimalDisguise, there is a high likelihood that an ''actual'' animal will try to hit on them.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'', a character [[InvoluntaryTransformation involuntarily changed]] from a human to a Welsh Corgi is said, by another canine character, [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/2010/06/14/hot-and-bothered/ to have the potential to "be a real ladykiller"]]. Later, said changed character [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/2010/06/28/that-would-be-weird/ is seen hitting on several female canine characters]], albeit under the influence of [[AlienCatnip orange soda]]. He later inverts this trope when he falls in love with a Siberian husky.

Contrast ShapeshiftingLover, InterspeciesRomance. If an animal hits on an ''inanimate object'', that's AnimalSweetOnObject.

* Inverted in the ''Anime/SailorMoon S'' movie, where talking cat Luna falls in love with a human man. At the end of the movie, Luna is transformed into a human herself, and she kisses him shortly before turning back into a cat.
** Averted in the Manga side-story which was turned into the Movie. In the manga version Luna and Artemis both have human forms, as does their daughter Diana (though she retians her ears and tails). It's eventually revealed they're aliens when a villain from their home planet, who appears human, attacks them.
* In ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'', when Ichigo accidentally turns into a cat, she gets hit on by a very fat AbhorrentAdmirer cat whose lecherous meows are even translated for the reader/viewer. She gets rescued by another more {{Bishonen}}-looking cat, with whom she shares an AccidentalKiss. Partially subverted, considering [[spoiler:the cat is Ryou, who experimented the transformation ray on himself before turning the girls into Mew Mews.]]
* All the ''Anime/WolfsRain'' wolves look quite gorgeous in their human illusions.

* [[DownplayedTrope It doesn't involve]] ''[[DownplayedTrope actual]]'' [[DownplayedTrope species change,]] but ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''' Pepe le Pew's pursuit of a female cat who looks like a skunk following a run-in with some white paint has aspects of this.
* ''WesternAnimation/RubikTheAmazingCube'': In one episode, one of the kids needs to distract his pet dog to reclaim Rubik. [[GenderBender So he gets turned into a female dog]]. He then flirts with his own pet dog, and to his horror finds that [[AttractiveBentGender his own dog gets interested in THAT way.]]

** Even better, back in [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks the Silver Age]] once [[IntrepidReporter Lois Lane]] was [[BalefulPolymorph turned into a mare]] with the full roster of Kryptonian powers. Since Superman is obviously out of her league now, [[InsaneTrollLogic she decides she'll just have to become Comet's mate instead!]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' has Fifi Le Fume, who mistakes both Sylvester {{Expy}} Furball and Wile E. equivalent Calamity for skunks at some point and pursues them.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'': At one point, Ben meets a group of alien heroes, among which is a female Tetraman, the species of his "Fourarms" form. She is clearly attracted to "Fourarms", and while disappointed to find he's really a 10-year-old human, is eager to see him transform into Fourarms again.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'': Ben gets this from Princess Attea when he turns into the incursean (humanoid frog alien) named Bullfrag. To his own displeasure, [[TheMindIsAPlayThingOfTheBody the attraction is mutual when he is Bullfrag]].

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* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'', female squirrels show attraction to Arthur and Merlin while they are transformed.

* Although there was plenty of ShipTease between them in the first season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', it's the episode "The Mirror", where Goliath and Elisa get to see each other as their own species, that their mutual attraction really kicks in.

* Although there was plenty of ShipTease between them in the first season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', it's the episode "The Mirror", where Goliath and Elisa get to see each other as their own species, when their mutual attraction really kicks in.