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* Male members of the Blacksmith Clan in ''BreathOfFire'' are hulking minotaur-like strongmen. Their women look like ordinary humans with horns. Although apparently [[MusclesAreMeaningless the women are just as strong, despite this]]...

* SailorMoon combined this with ProgressivelyPrettier. The Youma and Cardians were, for the most part, fairly monstrous-looking. Droids, Daimons, Lemures and Phages were much more attractive; while there are a ''few'' monstrous ones, they were mostly beautiful women with [[LittleBitBeastly pointed ears and/or oddly colored skin.]]

* This is the point of the ''NyarkoSan'' series. It is, however, something of a subversion, as all the EldritchAbominations appear in completely humanoid (and rather cute) forms.

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* In ''LetTheRightOneIn'', [[UndeadChild Eli]] fits this trope. She's a vampire, who has the appearance of an adorable 12-13 year old girl. Oskar, when he finds out what she is [[spoiler:Is horrified at first, not only over what she is but what she might want from him. However, by the next night he actively invites her into his apartment and is planning on a romantic evening with her...Before his mother unexpectedly comes home, that is]]. When Eli leaves, [[spoiler:after being forced to kill the town drunk who finds her daytime resting place]], Oskar is inconsolable. That makes it all the sweeter when [[spoiler:Eli returns the next night, saves Oskar from the bullies and they proceed to [[FourthDateMarriage leave town]] to both start a new life together.]]
* A [[UncannyValley thoroughly creepy]] version of this trope arises in the 2001 version of ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes''. All of the characters playing apes were made to look like gorillas, chimps, etc. Helena Bonham Carter, on the other hand, looked... well, like Helena Bonham Carter in chimp make-up, eyeshadow, and lipstick. She and the other female chimps (including one played by Tim Burton's ladyfriend Lisa Marie) even had humanlike eyebrows, which was thoroughly bizarre to see on a chimpanzee face. Contributing to the weirdness of the situation, she spent the entire movie flirting with the male ''human'' lead, [[InterspeciesRomance and then he]] [[{{Squick}} kisses her at the end!]]

* ''StarWars''

* Fiona of ''{{Shrek}}'' is still fairly pretty for an ogress, despite indulging in the usual icky ogre habits.
* Ginormica from ''MonstersVsAliens''. Your basic WhiteHairedPrettyGirl, [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever super-economy size]].

* Celia from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''.

* Snapdragon Fahrenheit, along with a number of other students (including a gorgon, a succubus and a Jotun) at the Doc Mars Academy, from Webcomic/HowToRaiseYourTeenageDragon all fall well within this trope.

** Several other Pokemon seem to be this (though again they appear identical regardless of gender), including Ninetales, Mismagius, Mawile, Gothetelle and Froslass. [[OneGenderRace Froslass is only female.]]

* 565-14 in ''Webcomic/AllenTheAlien'' is a cute young alien girl.

* Manga/SankaRea a zombie girl.

** Continued in the author's other work, ''Manga/DeadlineSummonner'' and 12 Beast. The former has [[BattleHarem a diverse harem of ten]] [[OutWithABang who could easily destroy the main character with their affections]]--or accidentally kill him in the crossfire of [[ClingyJealousGirl their fights over who gets to be the "Main" summon.]] The latter has an entire [[UpToEleven ARMY]] of them, though the main character is more of a general than a love interest--to most of them, anyway.

Related to MoeAnthropomorphism and Gijinka in FanArt circles. Often subject to FantasticArousal. Compare [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Cute Alien Girl]], [[HumanoidFemaleAnimal Cute Humanoid]] [[LittleBitBeastly Animal Girl]], and CuteGhostGirl.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fire Emblem|Akaneia}}: Shadow Dragon]]'', most of the Dragon shapeshifters known as Manaketes are unattractive [[ElderlyImmortal Old Men]] with [[FangsAreEvil Fangs]], Claws, and [[WingedHumanoid Wings]]. However one of the playable Manaketes, Tiki, merely looks like a little girl with PointyEars.

* In [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia ''Shadow Dragon'']] most of the Dragon shapeshifters known as Manaketes are unattractive [[ElderlyImmorta Old Menl]] with [[FangsAreEvil Fangs]], Claws, and [[WingedHumanoid Wings]]. However one of the playable Manaketes, Tiki, merely looks like a little girl with PointyEars.

* 565-14 in ''Webcomic/AllenTheAlien'' is a cute young alien girl.

** [[http://schlockmercenary.wikispaces.com/Corporal+Elizabeth Elizabeth]] is 3-meter 820-kilogramm gorilla-like alien. Definitely not "cute". Yet the cover story that a kidnapped rent-a-cop [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-03-30 fell in love with her and took a sudden vacation was not questioned by anybody]].

* The octopus-girl in the ''Culdcept'' manga is somewhere between this and a HumanoidAbomination.

* Himemiko from ''Manga/KamisamaKiss,'' at least when she is in her human form. Her real form is a catfish demon.

* ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'' runs on this. So far there is a lamia, harpy, centaur, slime, dullahan, and mermaid.

* ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'' runs on this. At the time of writing we have a lamia, harpy, centaur, slime, and mermaid.

* In ''FanFic/AkatsukiKittenPhoenixCorporationOverhaul'', Diamond (and supposedly the other Agents as well) can grow non-human features, in her case: [[DevilInPlainSight devilish horns, slit red eyes, a devil's tail, large, dark red bat wings,]] CuteLittleFangs and all. Depending on how she's feeling, she can either make the fangs and wings enormous and eyes glowing enough to terrify a veteran demon-fighter, or she can shrink down the wings and fangs, make the eyes her normal brown, and just look adorable. [[GrotesqueCute even if her arm is shoved through a man's chest and her face is covered in blood and a mad smile.]]

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* Every ''FireEmblem'' game has one of these, though they look [[WingedHumanoid only]] [[LittleBitBeastly slightly]] [[PointyEars inhuman]] at most in their untransformed states. Of the games released in America, there's [[spoiler:Ninian]] in ''FireEmblem'', Myrrh in ''Sacred Stones'', Ena in ''Path of Raidance''/''Radiant Dawn'', and Tiki in ''Shadow Dragon''.
** And those are just the mandatory dragonkin for the series; ''Path of Radiance''/''Radiant Dawn'' also give us Lethe, Lyre, Nailah, Leanne, and Vika, as well as Almedha, an ex-Cute Monster Girl (it's a long story).

* ''{{Spinnerette}}'' gives us Minerva, a {{Stripperiffic}} Cerberus whose three heads offer something for everyone, whether they like their girls sweet, spicy, or {{tsundere}}.