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* Various female demons in ''LightNovel/MaoyuuMaouYuusha''. Most notable is Grand Princess Fire Dragon, who is herself an attractive rather petite woman with only token nonhuman features; her father is a ten-foot-tall barely-anthropomorphic dragon-man. Maou might technically count, though she doesn't appear to be anything other than completely human most of the time.

* ''Film/{{Penelope}}'': Penelope herself. Though she is cursed with the "face of a pig", she really just has a pig nose and easily hidden pig ears. Though there are a few characters who run in horror, she's actually quite cute, something that's unsurprising considering she's basically Creator/ChristinaRicci with a snout. A few characters even mention how mostly normal she looks. [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out that accepting herself as she is, pig nose and all, is the key to breaking the curse.]]

* ''Love At First Sight'' centers around Sachi Usui, a shy and physically-battered cyclops who suffers from bullying.

** The Deer Woman (based on Native American mythos) at the begining was kinda cute if you don't notice that her long skirt concealed deer legs. To bad she had already murdered 7 men before being made a [[OffWithHerHead foot shorter]].
** Once Katie is changed, she is a cute litte [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] after her bite.

* ''Webcomic/TheNoordegraafFiles'' has Akila, who looks sort of like a cute swamp creature with spiky blue hair and breasts. However, calling her anything alluding to the fact that she looks like a fish-person is bound to get her very angry. She also grows tentacles on occasion. Sirens (the bird kind) and other monsters -- humans are also in the comic's universe, but haven't appeared.

* The webcomic [[http://kukuruyo.com/comic/0-monster-girls-on-tour-cover/ "Monster Girls on Tour."]] has a wide cast of this creatures, with a Salamander as the main one.

* '''Webcomic/BowsetteSaga'' has JustForFun/{{Bowsette}} herself, of course, but more of these keep popping up as the series progresses. In particular, chapter 4 begins after Bowsette accidentally overloads the Super Crown and causes it to explode into a sparkly aura that seems to have turned Bowsette's ''entire army'' into cute monster girls like her.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}'' is guilty of this one. Gumby has roughly the same slab-shaped body as his father, but his mother has a round head with blonde hair on a body that has breasts. [[PantslessMalesFullyDressedFemales And she wears clothes]]. She's not cute by the standards of most entries on this page, but she's far more human-shaped than the rest of her family.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresofBillyAndMandy'' has two male examples:

** The [[HalfHumanHybrid half-merrow]] [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Isma]] was born this way. And she also qualifies for this trope.

* Niche from ''Manga/LetterBee'', as while her cuteness depends on who you ask, she certainly fills the monster and girl roles. And then there's [[spoiler:Niche's sister]]...

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has Evangeline, half of [[MagicalLand Magicus Mundus]], most prominently Fate's underlings, and Setsuna, a half-tengu and self-proclaimed monster ([[FreakinessShame not that anybody cares]]). And it appears [[spoiler:[[CuteMute Zazie]]]] is actually a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent mazoku]].

* The ''VideoGame/{{Moemon}}'' GameMod for ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen]]''. Your {{Mons}} become, well, {{Moe}} Mons. And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp7xhLxTs68 oh god]], [[MoeAnthropomorphism they're Moe]].

* In ''Film/Venom2018'', [[spoiler:Eddie's love interest Ann quickly bonds with the symbiote and becoming She-Venom. And unlike her male counterpart, she has a very shapely and voluptuous figure instead of a bulky one when Eddie turns into Venom]].

* From the ''Literature/SeekersOfTruth'', Natalie Beckett aka Golem. Fairly attractive if you can ignore the stone skin. And apparently her boyfriend, Timothy Landerman aka Echidna, can. It helps that he's a venomous lobster-man.

* The German booklet series ''Maddrax'' has the mendrites. They are [[HalfHumanHybrid hybrids]] of [[FishPeople hydrites]] and humans. And female mendrites also qualify for this trope. They look almost human, but also have some fish body parts.

* In Piers Anthony's ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' novels, female goblins are described as being far more attractive than male goblins. On the other hand, male harpies are handsome while the females are almost always ugly. A war was nearly started once when a female goblin and male harpy figured this out and started dating. And way far back in history, a war ''was'' started when the harpy males preferred the goblin females. Female harpies get unusually ugly when they have to mate with humans and vultures to reproduce their species, and ''all'' harpies produced by crossing harpies with humans or vultures are female, and so the cycle became vicious on several levels. It probably took TimeTravel to fix that mess.

** [[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge Poisandra]] ''thinks'' she is, but her cuteness is skin-deep. And less cute than she thinks, what with the zipper mouth and creepy mask on her heart. Her Japanese counterpart Candelila plays it completely straight, complete with a human form. The series also has a Cute Monster Boy in Heckyll.

* The Asura in Myth/HinduMythology and Buddhist myth: all the males are ugly and all the females are beautiful. And both are very violent.

* ''Roleplay/Bay12MonsterGirls'' is essentially an entire world of them. And so is its [[Roleplay/Bay12MonsterGirlsV2 sequel.]]

** ''The Fiendish Codex: Hordes of the Abyss'' introduces Obyriths, outrageously bizarre demons (as opposed to the more humanoid Tanar'ri) whose forms exude such a primal ''[[EldritchAbomination wrongness]]'' that looking at them can do permanent damage to your mind. Their queen has a "soft, feminine form," though it would be hard to describe her as cute, but then you find out that that's just the veil surrounding her, which formed because the plane of ultimate, horrible madness that spawned her ''refuses to accept that she is real''. If looking at her true form doesn't simply kill you, it is because [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm your brain didn't register what she looked like in the first place]]. And if you die from it and get resurrected, you don't remember what you saw.

** All editions of the game are chock full of these, including gender-inverted versions. The odds of a Cute Monster Girl or Guy rise exponentially if that creature is being portrayed sympathetically. Tieflings are descended from fiendish creatures and often play this trope straight. Genasi and the various races like them are touched by elemental blood and often depicted as quite attractive. An occasional handsome or NubileSavage half-orc or even full orc will not surprise players. And then there are the not-that-monstrous sorts like tritons, merfolk, various nymphs, fae, giants, and so on, all of whom have a decent chance to be attractive in human eyes. In short, BeautyEqualsGoodness is frequently, but not always, in effect. Evil races get their chances, such as various yuan-ti creations of serpent people. Even demons and devils get in on it. Most versions are horrific, but [[HornyDevils those specifically intent on seduction and temptation]] are frequently beautiful. And for a broad enough definition of "Monster," so do the celestial races, as they usually represent angels or even good takes on TheFairFolk (pre-4th Eladrin and Pathfinder's Azata).

* ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' has this title for a reason. The comic centers on a [[AllGhoulsSchool monster highschool]], and so far, with the exception of a pair of lizard boys, they are all cute monster girls (and boys). And if the cast isn't enough, there are more of them in flashbacks -- [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/double_pepperoni_with_sausage hilariously cute snake-girls]] and so on.

* ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'' has both Marena (Lunar TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}, 'foxy', and arguably the MsFanservice of the strip) and Secret (''Abyssal'' Exalted, but undeniably cute). And if a GeniusDitz robotic mad scientist who [[spoiler:can turn into a giant robot cat]] is more your thing, there's always Elegant Nova of Progression.

* ''Webcomic/TheNoordegraafFiles'' has Akila, who looks sort of like a cute swamp creature with spiky blue hair. And breasts. However, calling her anything alluding to the fact that she looks like a fish-person is bound to get her very angry. She also grows tentacles on occasion. Sirens (the bird kind) and other monster -- humans are also in the comic's universe, but haven't appeared.

** Subverted and parodied in with a female Lizardfolk prostitute. At first she appears to look much more human than a typical member of her species, with blonde hair and NonMammalMammaries. But it turns out these are a wig and implants, which she got to attract more business. Without them she'd look just like a standard Lizardfolk. (And the other lizardfolk hooker is disgusted by her.)

* Xan from ''Webcomic/WintersInLavelle'' is a male example of this. Half-deer, part of a species infamous for hating humans and being rather violent, but '''damn''', if he isn't adorable. And despite his usually [[{{Tsundere}} less than kind demeanour]], his occasional sweet moments (almost always with [[HeterosexualLifePartners Rio]]) only serve to emphasise that.

* Plenty of the girls from ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace''. AlphaBitch Brittany has blue skin and six arms but is still pretty cute. {{Dandere}} Violet simply has yellow skin and pink hair. Cindy may have two heads but one of them is very pretty and her body is also quite nice. Lloyd's mother Nora pretty much qualifies for GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe. And one episode has Eddie (the Token Human) falling for a girl who is half-Zebra at the end. Averted with other girls such as Genevieve, Megan, Grace, Charmaine and Mrs Bolts (who is a '''robot''') who have much more alien appearances.

* ''Anime/GhostSweeperMikami'' has main character Okinu, a CuteGhostGirl, as well as the recurring antagonist and {{Ridiculously Human Robot|s}} Maria. [[spoiler:Not to mention what Mikami herself is revealed as]]. The series also has a few recurring characters like Aiko, a {{youkai}} desk and Shouryuuki, a dragon martial-arts trainer.

* ''Anime/GhostSweeperMikami'' has main character Okinu, a CuteGhostGirl, as well as the recurring antagonist and {{Ridiculously Human Robot|s}} Maria. [[spoiler:Not to mention what Mikami herself is revealed as]]. The series also has a few one-shot characters like a {{youkai}} desk and a dragon martial-arts trainer.

** In spite of Starfire's obvious beauty, Ms. Alien Eye-Candy is still a [[SuperStrength superstrong]] alien monster with orange skin who [[FrickinLaserBeams shoots lasers]]. A really beautiful alien monster, but alien monster nonetheless. This is actually brought up whenever she decides to eat (her race eat giant insects and squids and have teeth filed down to points) or hug someone (accompanied by breaking-bone sounds).

* Grace Sciuridae/Shade Tail in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' is a [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetically engineered]] [[ShapeShifter shapeshifting]] assassin created to fight the BigBad Damien. However, she proves to be a pacifist by nature [[UnstoppableRage except under the worst provocation]]. (Her brothers are less human-looking in their hybrid forms, though they can appear human, and quite good-looking, when they choose.) Her male EvilCounterpart from another dimension is much scarier.

* Mink from ''Manga/DragonHalf'', though granted, she's [[HalfHumanHybrid half human]] herself; her mother is a dragon. Her mother is usually [[{{Shapeshifter}} transformed]] into a humanoid form but tends to break it when she becomes angry especially if the object of her rage is her philandering, lecherous, human husband.

* Emily, the ''Film/CorpseBride'', is quite fetching, considering she has been dead for a bit of time when she finally emerges following Victor's [[AccidentalProposal accidental proposal]]. Piss her off, though, and those same cute features can quickly turn to NightmareFuel.

Female {{One Gender Race}}s are typically these. [[AlwaysFemale Although very]] [[MostWritersAreMale rare]], in works targeted towards men, the SpearCounterpart Cute Monster ''Guy'', is quite common in {{Shojo}}, {{Josei}}, BoysLove, {{Otome Game}}s and other media marketed to women. The most commonly known example is [[VampiresAreSexGods vampires]]. However, younger variants of the traditional definition of "cute" (i.e. children) for both genders are a bit more common. Assume that if there is a MonsterMash, the few female member(s) will be Cute Monster Girls. May involve {{Stripperiffic}} designs. If there's more than one of them, they'll often have [[OnlyOneFemaleMold remarkably similar builds.]]

This character type can also be used as a basis for studying discrimination, social differences and similar themes, since monster girls are pretty, cute and different at the same time to attract a wide audience and detail [[FantasticRacism problems arising from differences]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1942}}'': In the Silver Age ComicBook/WonderGirl had two PrettyBoy monster boys vying for her romantic attention; Ronno the Merman and "Wingo", a male harpy.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Because of the various ways the Exemplar trait can manifest, and the various BodyHorror side effects of mutant powers, there are several inhuman-looking students on campus, some of whom are still reasonably attractive nonetheless. Notable instances include {{Kaiju}}[[note]]it is specifically stated in-story that [[BollywoodNerd Sadhira Patel]] got this codename from her resemblance to the 'Kaiju Girls' style of MoeAnthropomorphism FanArt which would give rise to the [[WebAnimation/KaijuGirls anime series of the same name]] a few years after she was introduced[[/note]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} Demona]], [[SnakePerson Diamondback]], and [[HornyDevil Adore]]. One could argue that the Drow Swarm would count as well, though calling them 'monsters' in front of Jobe Wilkins[[note]]the MadScientist responsible for turning [[GenderBender herself]] and the rest into Drow[[/note]] would probably lead to you [[BalefulPolymorph getting turned into]] a {{Drider}} or worse.

* ''WebVideo/DrCrafty'' has Nurse Worse, the lab assistant of the titular doctor. Her design evokes FrankensteinsMonster with stitched green skin and metal bolts on her head and arms, but she's also an {{Adorkable}} BigBeautifulWoman who provides helpful commentary on the process for Dr. Crafty's creations.

** [[HumanoidAbomination Nergal Jr.]] has a ''huge'' number of [[{{Fangirl}} fangirls]] because, while monstrous (and sometimes a {{Yandere}}), he is {{Adorkable}}.
** A zig-zagged example would be [[BlackandNerdy Ir]][[NonActionGuy win]]; he starts of an ordinary, harmless nerd. He later turns out to be a [[HybridMonster vampire-mummy]]. Either way, he's in the same {{Adorkable}} boat as Junior.

A function of MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial, specifically the idea that male monsters can look... well... ''monstrous'', but female monsters need things to differentiate them from the male monsters ''and'' make them recognizably female to the audience (and by "recognizably female" we usually mean "[[BeautyIsNeverTarnished clean]], [[OnlyOneFemaleMold slim, and attractive.]]"). When the MaleGaze gets involved this results in common design features for female characters in other contexts, like HartmanHips, NonMammalMammaries, [[LongHairIsFeminine long hair]], and TertiarySexualCharacteristics like dresses or make-up (or bits of anatomy designed to look like a dress or make-up), even if it would make no sense for such a creature to have these features. While this is often done for purposes of {{Fanservice}} it can also be for WhatMeasureIsANonHuman reasons, as the audience is more likely to sympathise with a Monster Girl who looks more human than one who looks more monstrous. Conversely it can be done for GrotesqueCute reasons, contrasting the monstrous and cute side, especially if they still ''act'' like the monster they're based on -- villainous [=CMGs=] in particular are very likely to be {{Literal Man Eater}}s.

%%* Rayla from ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'' qualifies for it. She is an elf and she has white hair and horns in addition to her pointed ears. Rayla also has a human skin colour, which most elves do not have. All elf girls should play this trope, but so far Rayla is the only one shown.
** Until Season 3. The Elf Janai also counts.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' depicts Mr Mxyzptlk as a short, bald, almost baby-like figure with a distinct slouch whereas his female "friend" (as he spends most of his time ignoring her, it's hard to say what their relationship is exactly), Ms Gsptlsnz is a normal-sized, or even tall, very curvy redhead with a penchant for 1950s-style clothes. Given that the residents of the 5th dimension can choose whatever appearance they want, this is almost certainly deliberate.

* Rayla from ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'' qualifies for it. She is an elf and she has white hair and horns in addition to her pointed ears. Rayla also has a human skin colour, which most elves do not have. All elf girls should play this trope, but so far Rayla is the only one shown.

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' depicts Mr Mxyzptlk as a short, bald, almost baby-like figure with a distinct slouch whereas his female "friend" (as he spends most of his time ignoring her, it's hard to say what their relationship is exactly), Ms Gsptlsnz is a normal-sized, or even tall, very curvy redhead with a penchant for 1950s-style clothes. Given that the residents of the 5th dimension can choose whatever appearance they want, this is almost certainly deliberate.

%% * Charlie from WebAnimation/HazbinHotel